Relationships 101 - #023

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. How happy are you going to be to hear that we have the long-awaited return of Jonny and Yusef from Propane Fitness, and today we are tackling the murky world of relationships. It's gonna be the first in a series, Relationships 101 I wanted to discuss this topic for quite a while, and I finally managed to get hold of the boys as well. I know they have got some really great insights. We have three very contrasting views on relationships, as I'm sure that you can imagine, three very differing life experiences up to now. And yeah, this is beginning to take the Modern Wisdom channel in the direction that I want it to go in. So any feedback that you have, I'd love to hear it, at Chris Willex on Instagram or Twitter, find me on Facebook. Even better than that, I've now started a multi-cam video recording set up at home. What this means is that the YouTube content is super good. Video Guy Dean, who I can't thank enough, has started overlaying a lot of the graphs and the statistics that we refer to during the podcast on the video footage itself. So for an extra level of interaction and obviously to see Jonny's ever-growing top-notch in its full majesty, 1080p, head to YouTube Search Modern Wisdom Podcast. Please press subscribe. Also, in the comments, we can have a discussion and the community can start to build there. The Love Island podcast did super well and there was some really engaging and interesting discussions that went on there. So if you want to connect with some other like-minded individuals who also listen to this content, please head to the YouTube channel. I'd love you to subscribe. It really does help. But here we go, Jonny and Yusef, they're back again.
When we do our first of the Q&A, did you see that there's one question, which wasn't a question, it just said, I wish he lived close enough to me so that I could find him on Tinder in my radius.

**Yusef** (2:27)
You need to expand your radius ultimately.

**Chris Williamson** (2:29)
You know what you need, Tinder Pro.

**Yusef** (2:32)
Or you can just travel around.

**Chris Williamson** (2:33)
Drop yourself, can you? Yeah. So, speaking of Tinder, we are gonna talk about dating advice today. Dating. Dating. It's something that I've been...
Relationships has been a podcast that we wanted to do for ages. And dating advice. Yeah, real long time. Dating advice for me forms a nice foundation for that, because most people will go through the process of dating someone. That kind of... you can take it from the moment that you meet someone that you may fancy, up and to the point at which they become your boyfriend or girlfriend. And there's an awful lot, like that's an area that covers many sins, right? Like from first dates to seeing someone, whatever the fuck that means, to when you define the relationship.

**Jonny** (3:22)
From initial to being exclusive with someone. What I'm talking about, from initial to marriage.

**Chris Williamson** (3:27)
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

**Jonny** (3:29)
I would say, arguably, all of that is technically, in my mind, I know that's ridiculous.

**Chris Williamson** (3:34)
No, no, it's still kind of dating.

**Jonny** (3:35)
Sort of, like, because I think all of it's just arbitrary.

**Chris Williamson** (3:37)
Well, what is a relationship? A relationship is a big old legal kind of thing. You've not litigated yourself into a relationship until you're married, right? Yeah, yeah. So all of this we can try and conceptualise down. So I want you to...

**Yusef** (3:48)
Should we move chronologically, then, from single life all the way up to...

**Chris Williamson** (3:53)
I want to leave single life.

**Jonny** (3:54)
Unlock this and make another fresh note. Maybe it makes me notes.

**Yusef** (3:56)
Sure.

**Jonny** (3:57)
I just want to organise my thoughts. Sorry, I couldn't do it to you, Lame.

**Chris Williamson** (4:01)
Lame. I make notes now. This isn't a Russell Brown thing, but I do actually make notes. So I wanted to...
Posit to you a bunch of things that I've been thinking recently about. What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at?

**Jonny** (4:15)
Just that he's got a...

**Yusef** (4:16)
What's SwiftKey?

**Chris Williamson** (4:18)
Well, just leave him to talk about it.

**Jonny** (4:21)
Oh, no, no. It's that he's got a special keyboard on his phone.

**Chris Williamson** (4:25)
Well, just leave him to talk about it and that we can life-hack it, can't we?

**Jonny** (4:28)
I guess I'm sorry.

**Yusef** (4:30)
In two weeks' time.

**Chris Williamson** (4:31)
Listeners and viewers on the brand new three-camera home YouTube setup, 3D, one, two, Trez. The reason that I may seem a little agitated is that Jonny was 50 minutes late and Yusef was 90 minutes late and we've planned this for two weeks.