Life Hacks 108 - #075

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, podcast people, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. Today, it is the return of Life Hacks. I am incredibly excited to drop this episode today, not least because it features Jonny and Yusef from propanefitness.com, but also because it is brought to you by The 6 Minute Diary. Very kindly, the guys from Your Best Self who make The 6 Minute Diary have given me two to give away for free. All you need to do is leave a review on iTunes. I'm gonna guess that might be where you're listening. If not, grab someone's MacBook, jump on and leave us a review. And I'll go through and choose two people to win one at random. So shout out to The 6 Minute Diary for that. Onto today's episode. It is monstrous. We go through how whitening your teeth can be an instant upgrade in attractiveness, how to automate tracking your weight, YouTube hacks, how to find the best meal in a restaurant when you're abroad, how to ensure that you're not being snided with your bills by companies who do phone contracts and utility contracts and all of that good stuff. As per usual, all of the products that we talk about will be in the show notes below. And if you follow those links onto Amazon, you will be supporting the podcast at no extra cost to yourself. But for now, it is life hacks time. Bring it on Jonny and Yusef. Let's go.

**Yusef** (1:34)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.

**Chris Williamson** (1:36)
I'm joined by Jonny Yusef from propanefitness.com, and it's Lifehacks108, big one. Thank you very much to The Protein Works for sponsoring the last episode. If you want to grab any of the products that we mentioned in that episode, it is in the show notes below. And today, the lovely people from Your Best Self are giving away two 6 Minute Diaries. You'll have heard us speak about The 6 Minute Diary before. You'll have heard us speak about them before. If you want to get into journaling or you already do it and you want to level it up, or you've already got The 6 Minute Diary and you just want a new one, there's two of them available here, one in blue and one in pink, and we're going to give those away.

**Jonny** (2:13)
I didn't know they had came in colors.

**Yusef** (2:14)
Well, to the lucky boy and girl who...

**Jonny** (2:16)
Why do I have to go and go then?

**Chris Williamson** (2:17)
I might switch it around. If you want to enter, all that you need to do is leave a review on iTunes. I'm not going to say that it has to be five stars because I'm pretty certain that's against their terms of service.
But yeah, I mean, let's be realistic here. If you leave a one star, it's going to be less likely that you're going to get the diary, but you don't have to leave. You can leave whatever you want. Head on to iTunes and leave a review on the Modern Wisdom podcast. And if you are listening on any other device, go on a MacBook, borrow someone else's MacBook, log in on iTunes. Sort it out. Sort your life out, yeah. We'll be giving away something on the next one. Maybe something that's on Stitcher or whatever people on Android use. So yeah, we also said that we were going to choose a winner from last time for 150 pounds of Protein Works. And I think it needs to be Daz Charles, otherwise known as Darren Morley on YouTube, who suggested the Aldi Low Fat Ready Meal range. And most ready meals are really crap. I tried these out and I have to say, very impressed.

**Jonny** (3:28)
Really?

**Chris Williamson** (3:28)
Fantastic.

**Yusef** (3:28)
I'm so glad Aldi have got on the-

**Chris Williamson** (3:30)
I think he actually sent in some suggestions of which ones he liked the most.

**Jonny** (3:37)
Yeah, I remember seeing that. There was three in the comment.

**Chris Williamson** (3:39)
Five bean chili, sweet potato curry and Moroccan vegetable stew. He also suggested microdosing LSD, which-

**Yusef** (3:48)
Terrible idea.

**Chris Williamson** (3:50)
What was it that you said? It's the equivalent of eating some nuts and bolts in an effort to try and up your iron content.

**Yusef** (3:56)
Yeah, it's exactly that. It's such a sledgehammer of a thing to do.

**Chris Williamson** (4:00)
To take a little bit off.

**Yusef** (4:01)
I know it's really popular and fancy in Silicon Valley, the same way that avocado is good for the gym and stuff.
But it is a very powerful, potentially destabilizing molecule that we don't- hasn't really been rigorously tested with people. At least caffeine, you know what you're getting. Ultimately, the people say that they take their microdose and it has a similar effect to caffeine, so just-