Inside The Liver King's Lie - More Plates More Dates - #561

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Derek from More Plates, More Dates. He's a YouTuber, founder of Gorilla Mind, and a fitness expert. The Liver King has seen one of the fastest rises to internet fame ever, documenting his ancestral lifestyle generated millions of followers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for his businesses. But it turns out that the physique he displayed in his content was built on massive amounts of performance enhancing drugs. Despite him denying it on many occasions. Expect to learn what Derek thinks of the Liver King's apology video, just how extreme the number of drugs he was taking were, whether there is more information still to come out, the risks for anyone taking TRT, Derek's thoughts on NoFap, how to develop confidence when approaching someone you like, and much more. This has been one of the wildest things to see from a front row seat. Zach, my housemate, has been involved in the production and is in the video. The Liver King lie and watching it unfold over the last few days has been kind of like being in the eye of a storm. So much interesting insights today around the dangers of audience capture, of commercial capitalism run wild. It's really, really cool. I very, very much hope that you enjoy this one. Before I get on to other news, I am flying to New York tomorrow to film a full-length podcast episode with Andrew Schultz, one of the hottest and fastest growing comedians on the planet. Video guy Dean is flying out from the UK and I'm taking the entire film crew up to New York to record this with Andrew. It has been many months in the making and I'm finally getting to sit down with him. I absolutely can't wait for this and it is going live one week today. So it's live next Monday. And the only way that you can ensure that you're not going to miss it when it goes up is to press the subscribe button. 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