Life Hacks 103 - #011

**Chris Williamson** (0:01)
Hi, there. This week, it's another Lifehacks episode. Jonny and Yusef from Propane Fitness are joining me as we originally intended to do a podcast about relationships, and we didn't even get around to the topic. So after an hour of us all chatting shit, we decided to just do a Lifehacks episode. Relationships will be coming up, and I might actually, if enough people are interested, I might just post the hour and a bit of what we ended up talking about, because it was actually pretty funny. Undirectional, but quite interesting.
Coming up soon, I've got Corey Allen from the Astral Hustle podcast, also the creator of Release Into Now, which is my favorite guided meditation. I'm actually sitting down with him tomorrow, and I'm going to be going through from beginning to developing your practice in meditation, how mindfulness can be for everybody. I'm also sitting down with Quinn Hennock from Juggernaut Training Systems to go through some mobility myths and work out, to try and cut through some of the bullshit about what mobility, stability and flexibility mean in a performance perspective. And I've managed to get Johan Hari, author of Lost Connections, recently on Joe Rogan's podcast, and an absolute intellectual monster. I managed to get him to say yes to come on. So I can't wait to sit down with these guys, feeling really fortunate. But before that, obviously, biggest guests that I could have, Jonny and Yusef from Propane Fitness.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:37)
Let's go.

**Yusef** (1:39)
Excellent. You can go there with your laptop.

**Chris Williamson** (1:42)
What makes me laugh about that continental place is the fact that it's the quietest bar in all of Newcastle. That's both in terms of customers and volume coming out of the speakers.

**Yusef** (1:51)
It's surprisingly quiet for customers.

**Chris Williamson** (1:53)
Yeah. And through the back is a room which is even more private and quiet.

**Jonny** (1:59)
Yeah. It's almost eerie.

**Chris Williamson** (2:02)
What's this graveyard room at the back for?

**Jonny** (2:05)
Whose idea was it to put this here? Why is it still here? How is this place in any moment?

**Chris Williamson** (2:10)
Why are the desks laid out like a 1940s exam hall?

**Jonny** (2:13)
And why do they only hire Spanish people?

**Chris Williamson** (2:16)
It's called continental, isn't it?

**Yusef** (2:18)
So they have to make it authentic, but they give you little bits of steak or whatever as well.

**Chris Williamson** (2:22)
I've never had bits of steak, I just have things that kill him.

**Yusef** (2:25)
Oh yeah, peanuts. They give you like little meatballs, often pork or peanuts, actually.

**Chris Williamson** (2:31)
Okay, so they're either sacrilege or fatal to people in our friendship group.

**Yusef** (2:36)
They're kuffar, aren't they?

**Chris Williamson** (2:37)
So they're kuffar. Anyway, life hacks. We're gonna do life hacks one of three. Jonny is delirious after a day of playing golf.

**Yusef** (2:49)
Life hacks one of three.

**Chris Williamson** (3:05)
Would you believe it, of all of the things that you do, all of the things that you put your body through, it's 25 to 11, and you're wrecked off swinging around. I mean, what's a golf club wearing? Oh, that's not hard. Three kilos? That's not hard. It's the walking. Yeah, it was the list.

**Jonny** (3:24)
It is the list, it's the nepa, the neepa.

**Yusef** (3:29)
So many terms for it. You saw the guy in the news recently who was given pregabalin for pain and claimed that it made him gay. And then his dad stepped into the newspapers and said, he's always liked boys, so what's pregabalin?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:45)
Yeah, what is pregabalin?

**Yusef** (3:47)
Just a painkiller for neuropathic pain. But like, I mean, definitely is not listed on the side effects that it makes you gay. There is no question that, well, unless he is the first recorded case of it. But then I love how his dad was like, no, no, no, guys, come on, stop messing around.

**Chris Williamson** (4:03)
He's always like, you've had a large round all week. Shut up, dad.
On the topic of people being scared straight or scared gay, we did Mrs. Empress this week, where two of our event managers dressed up as women for charity, Men's Prostate Cancer, raised money for that. Mental amount of money raised, like five grand raised in the night, which was awesome. And we've got a guy who works for us who's gay. And upon seeing one of our event managers come out dressed as a woman, he said that he'd been scared straight. He said, I don't like boys anymore. So, you know, all these pray the gay away camps in America, we don't need them, scare them straight.