[@ChrisWillx] Tour Diary: Australia, Beers & Chris Hemsworth.

Link: https://youtu.be/V5d0x3wTR84

Duration: 37 min

Short Summary

Chris Williamson reflects on day 700 of his Australian tour, having performed three shows across Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide in four days before arriving in Perth with just 18 hours before his next performance. The comedian and podcaster—who has appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast four times and reached #8 on the Spotify worldwide charts—discusses his core philosophy that the purpose of winning any game is to become free of it, while revealing his chronic self-doubt and ongoing evolution as a performer who reshapes material nightly based on audience response.

Key Quotes

1. "The only reason, the only reason to win the game is to be free of it." (00:10:00)
2. "I'm the [__] poster child for self-doubt. I'm just chronically uncertain. Am I doing this right? Is this correct? Do people care? Should I keep going?" (00:03:03)
3. "if you constantly try and live in what's called the gap, not the gain, like how far you are from where you want to be as opposed to how far you have come. I don't think that it's the optimal way to motivate yourself." (00:04:03)
4. "be gentle with yourself. Try and be patient with yourself. Give yourself spaciousness. Keep going, but keep going at a pace that's sustainable." (00:09:00)
5. "curiosity is the closest thing I can give you. Just follow my curiosity." (00:28:08)

Detailed Summary

Tour Milestones and Logistics

• Chris Williamson is on day 700 of his tour, which has included shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth.
• Three Australian cities (Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane) were completed in 48 hours, with a 4.5-hour flight to Perth and 5-hour flight back to Brisbane.
• The team landed in Perth with only 18 hours before their next show, and Chris had only slept approximately 5 hours.
• This was Chris's first time performing in Adelaide and his first live event in three years where he chose to drink alcohol during the performance.

Performance Philosophy and Material Development

• The core thesis of Chris's live show is that the only reason to win the game is to be free of it—winning so you don't need to play anymore.
• Chris is adjusting his show format each night based on audience response—putting new material in and taking old material out—constantly course-correcting.
• He describes the touring life as analogous to writing three new songs weekly that aren't album-worthy but must be published, contrasting with music audiences who want classic hits.
• Last night's show was described as "one of the best shows I've ever done" after repeatedly reshaping and rejigging the material until getting the flow right.
• Each night feels like improving 15% with spicy jokes and heavy topics.

Identity and Self-Perception Concepts

• Chris introduced the framework of "living in the gap versus the gain"—focusing on how far you are from goals versus how far you've come—and argued this approach eventually runs out of motivational fuel.
• Chris discussed Mark Manson's concept of "identity dysmorphia," where one's identity lags behind actual reality by one to two years, using the example of an ex-overweight person still seeing their former self in the mirror.
• Chris describes having an enormous amount of self-doubt requiring massive offsetting to feel like he has succeeded, and says he'll only feel like "the person who went on Joe Rogan" in about two years.

Personal Struggles and Background

• Chris acknowledges he is a "poster child for self-doubt" and describes being "chronically uncertain," questioning whether he's doing things correctly.
• Chris has had cancer twice and beat it both times.
• He adopted microphone technique advice from a Comedy Without Errors channel video, which suggested holding the mic more relaxed indicates a more relaxed performer.

Industry Observations and Future Plans

• Joe Rogan's technique: "spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down"—establishing care before making spicy jokes about heavy topics to avoid sounding mean.
• Chris prefers shorter sprints and loose principles over long-term goals because results for outliers are unpredictable and options aren't foreseeable.
• Curiosity is Chris's guiding north star; he follows what interests him rather than planning long-term.
• A new studio is being launched with the first episode on Monday; new tech is being learned while editing on a different time zone during tour.
• Seven episodes were filmed in 4 days before leaving for the tour due to inability to take more than 3-4 weeks off.

Emotional Vulnerability and Masculinity

• The world doesn't reward men for connecting with their emotions, making emotional vulnerability feel like a step backward.
• Chris suggests men seeking emotional connection should do an intense retreat with breath work and meditation, then find a group of supportive men.
• Australia has "tall poppy syndrome" with a reflex desire among British and Australian men to dismiss emotional openness as gay.

Full Transcript

Show transcript

The only reason, the only reason to win
the game is to be free of it.
>> Sorry, James. I remember my first
helicopter.
>> Three shows in three cities in 4 days.
And I'm still working the show out. Then
we get to see Chris Hwood.
>> Tour life hard. Tool life is very hard.
>> And right then, as you can see, 7:30 was
the meet time. Got an airport to get to
tour to be on. No Dean, no Alex, no
Chris. That just says they don't care.
>> Stop it.
>> This is lovely. Adelaide's nice.
>> Oh,
>> Adelaide. I'm inside of you.
>> Adelaide has more restaurants per any
other Australian city.
I don't know what to do with my hands.
>> Uh, just think we are Newtonless today,
which is a fantastic use case for the
focus pouches.
>> Arrived in Adelaide with no new tonic.
>> Look at what you've done.
>> Changed changed a lot. Changed a lot
tonight. Just wanting to see if this
works better. Similar show, different
order. New stuff in, old stuff out.
Might as well do it in front of a
thousand people. Why not? You know,
makes total sense. Also, every time you
do an event, you get a feel for stuff,
but you're like, "Oh, that did better
than I thought. Oh, that did worse than
I thought." So, you you're always just
course correcting. There's a principle
that is the nucleus to Chris's live
show. And it's a principle that will
stay with people for a long time.
>> Is the principle you?
>> No, no, no. For me, I've just come out,
soften the crowd up, give people a
laugh.
>> You do soften everybody in the
>> People are People have spent a bit of
money to come see Chris. They get their
money's worth before he's come out.
THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.
WE GOT THREE shows in three cities in
four days. We got travel days in between
each of them. Then we get to see Chris
Hemsworth.
So the show's changed again from the
first two nights. This is the third
night. So from a production standpoint,
we just need to make sure that we are in
the right place at the right time. What
we capture tonight is a different
format. So it's like starting again.
It's a it's an age old question, right?
Like how much am I supposed to burn the
candle at both ends versus kind of
optimize for longer term? But I do think
that you can do both. I think that you
can swing not from like absolute
hedonism, right? You don't need to be
James Smith 2016. Yeah. But you can do,
okay, I'm going to say yes to more
adventures. All of the adventuring and
things that you're going to do, they
don't necessarily need to be bad for
your health, right? Like, you can do
things that actually make you feel more
regulated and expand your ability to
enjoy life. If nothing else, you won't
regret the break because it will teach
you the very important lesson of what
it's like to not always be working. By
the way, this is the first time tonight
is a completely new show. the same
lessons, the same central thesis, but a
completely new show to the one I've done
for the last two nights. So, you guys
will get to see something fresh.
I'm the [ __ ] poster child for
self-doubt.
I'm just chronically uncertain. Am I
doing this right? Is this correct? Do
people care? Should I keep going?
>> Should people pursue a
reach? Should people pursue a goal which
is probably beyond their reach? I mean,
there's that aim for the stars and if
you miss, you'll land on the moon thing.
I get the sense that if you constantly
try and live in what's called the gap,
not the gain, like how far you are from
where you want to be as opposed to how
far you have come. I don't think that
it's the optimal way to motivate
yourself. So when it comes to should we
set goals that are greater than those
that we can achieve, you can do it for a
while, eventually you'll run out of gas.
You will know, oh [ __ ] this isn't
motivating me to go and do the thing
anymore. Yes, it's setting my sights
unbelievably high, but at least in my
experience, my friends that have set
their sights at a level where they
actually allow themselves to [ __ ]
celebrate when it happens, their
motivation keeps on going. Right? You
composite an ideal.
You compare yourself to the ideal.
You find yourself lacking.
Then you get to the ideal and you
[ __ ] move it again.
That is not the way that you motivate
yourself. Yes, it's how you get from
this lampost to that lampost to the next
one when you're running a marathon. But
if you only had a sports coach that
identified when you [ __ ] up, I don't
think that you'd be particularly
motivated. I don't think that this is
the way that goals should work either.
So, can you set unrealistic, insanely
high goals? Yes, you can. But
eventually, you're going to have to feel
like you arrive, or else you're just
permanently going to be living in sort
of successful misery, and that doesn't
sound very fun. So, I would advise
against it. All right, Adelaide, thank
you so [ __ ] much for tonight. You
guys absolutely rule. I love you all.
It's the first time I've been here, and
I can't wait to come back. for me and
James. Good night.
>> I think you could probably just make the
whole thing shortly. You
>> changed a lot. I mean,
>> [ __ ] changed a lot.
>> Yeah, a lot of changes obviously um from
last night to tonight.
>> Did you prefer the this night?
>> Difficult to say. I definitely I think
the start is nice and the end if I cook
a little bit is nice because there's a
little bit more it's a bit more
uplifting. I think what I need to do is
just throw some more [ __ ] videos.
Like it's still very somber and serious.
>> All right, I think I've got it.
I think I've worked out what I need to
change.
All right, we've landed in Perth. We
have 18 hours here.
Small sweet delicate
used to be dying. I got a bad
I got a bad
drive home.
Show life's hot, man.
frozen mango daffrey or a panada. Oh
well,
>> now it's a party. Okay,
you know what? I'm 26 in. I'm already
feel like I'm having a little gamble.
We need eight more as fast as possible.
Oh yeah. Cheers. Can we help
this? I got a back
still
close to the window. I got to
Hello.
>> Hey. Hey. How you doing?
>> How are we?
>> [ __ ] me. This is really You're really on
top of the mate. 22. Hey. Hey. Hey. 1 2
3 4 5 6. So, I watched this channel
called Comedy Without Errors. And in it,
he talks about miccraft. And this big
bit, this whole video that he does about
miccraft, he talks about the more
relaxed you hold the mic, the more
relaxed you are as a performer. I
noticed last night there was a point
where I was [ __ ] death gripping this
thing. It's like, "Hey, hey, hey,
>> why don't we calm down?" And then we can
Yeah. Exactly. Going to Texas by Big
>> Dude, this is [ __ ] D.
>> Unreal.
>> Did I encounter much self-doubt and what
did I do to get over it? Yes. There's
this idea from Mark Manson called
identity dysmorphia. I named it. He came
up with it. I named it which was which
was the important bit. He says identity
lags reality by one to two years. Kind
of like looking in the mirror as an
ex-fat person having lost weight and
still seeing the fat person in the
mirror. I I think that identity lags
reality by one to two years in that same
sort of way. For me, I'm only just now
being the person that went on Joe
Rogan's podcast for the first time. as
someone that's been on four times and is
got to number eight in the world on the
Spotify charts last year and in two
years time I'll be like, "Oh, I'm number
eight in the world." The other thing to
consider is it's taken this long, which
is almost an indication of how just how
big my self-doubt has been. Like there
just such an unreasonable dosage of
offsetting that in order for me to feel
like I've made it. So if you're the sort
of person that comes to these kinds of
events, you're thoughtful, you're
reflective, you're introspective. Again,
like I could have just the whole advice
is like be gentle with yourself. Try and
be patient with yourself. Give yourself
spaciousness. Keep going, but keep going
at a pace that's sustainable. Like
that's it. That's that's the answer to
everything so far.
>> Yeah. This is James. Say hello, James.
>> How's everyone
just
>> a lot of the show tonight? You know,
I've changed. This is the first time
that I'm doing this show. You did a
different show in Sydney, in Melbourne,
in Adelaide, and now tonight, too. And
I'm trying to tune it appropriately. But
really, what I'm saying to people is I
want you to try and end some worlds. I
want you to try and achieve the things,
and I don't want to suck the oxygen out
of your fuel source, but the things that
you want to achieve are going to be
empty, and they're going to be
unsatisfactory when you get there. Now,
I don't want you to stop. I still want
you to go and do the thing, but the only
reason the only reason to win the game
is to be free of it. It's the only
reason to be to win the game so that you
don't need to play it anymore. That's
literally it.
>> What do we got here, sir?
>> Um, booze. Chris gave me a mango daquiri
earlier. Now, let's get lit.
>> There is a serious chance of slurring
tonight.
Smells a little boozy going. Yeah, Chris
is hiccoping.
>> And then
don't worry.
>> Yeah, you
>> Q&A. Hold on one sec.
Uh, which side is um Stewart on? This
side.
>> I'm feeling a bit drunk. I don't know
which side to go to.
Good evening, Perth. So, some of you
might have remembered me from Chris's
last tour, but most of you might be
thinking, "Who the [ __ ] is this guy? Why
is there a BTech Chris Williamson on
stage with much worse hairline?"
Now, I'm here really to test your
temperature. And I've got a good feeling
about tonight.
You seem like a good crowd. You seem
kind of relaxed. You got that Perth vibe
to you. And I will say this, honestly,
professionally, I've never seen so many
Fitbirds.
>> So, for that reason, this is the first
event in 3 years while I'm drinking.
Absolutely no idea when he's done with
his set. Absolutely no idea.
What do you think the answers are to the
current crisis of men?
>> What do I think the answers are to the
current crisis of men? Is Hustlers
University an answer?
I don't know whether you've seen, but I
had Louis Thuru on the podcast and I
managed to unite the feminists and the
manosphere in agreeing for once. They
realized that the worst part of the
Louis Thuru documentary was him coming
on my podcast.
Both sides had a massive problem with
what I'd said despite the fact that they
fundamentally disagree with each other.
And I think that just explains how
perverted the conversations got that
both extremes don't represent most
people in the bell curve of the middle.
It seems to me that there is a huge
cohort of people who are appearing to do
good while actually doing bad. And I
have no [ __ ] desire to be associated
with any of them. The only time that you
ever get this much flack is when you're
directly over the target. So, I'm not
going to stop talking about it, no
matter what people say.
>> What's the most profound experience of
your life?
>> Oh, [ __ ] hell.
>> What's the most profound experience of
my life? The first time I got a [ __ ]
it made my ears ring.
Chasing the dragon ever since.
Yeah, it was brilliant. Learned more
things than when I watched the podcast
24 hours a day. Weird to see him in
person, but he's just feels like very
genuine like like you would meet him in
the crowd.
>> Mate, I'm ready for uh I'm ready for the
[ __ ] casino, mate. Dude. Yes. Thanks
for shining a light on the struggles of
men's and men and boys, bro.
>> You've been my hero for like 5 years,
bro. My life since I was like 17.
>> The fact that you're listening to this
[ __ ] at your age is like I just [ __ ]
wish that
>> changed my whole life. The only reason
why I have the such a high quality
relationship with my partner is because
of you. Um why I got young young mentors
and why I didn't have a father figure
was because of you. And you you just
>> ever since when I was in high school, I
felt so lost.
>> It was your podcast, man. I'm so proud
of you.
>> No, thank you for being you.
>> I loved it. It was mix of humor as well
as like getting to the point. I found
that he definitely was like working the
room really well.
>> It was awesome. There's everything that
we've absorbed over the years and it's
pushed into one very very concise thing.
Makes you think hard. The cutting of
humor here through helps a lot with that
cuz you get in deep in with things as
well. but stopping to like pull back to
laugh for a second before going through
like thinking about whatever deep deep
life thing from there and it's just like
it's a good balance with that I think.
>> Thank you for everything.
>> I got you, man. I got you. Keep going.
>> Thank you so much for having such a
profound effect on my life over the past
few years. It's been amazing. Yeah, I'm
18 and you've helped me so much. I just
want to be quick. You've just made me
feel less alone and that's the greatest
gift.
Oh yeah.
>> Yay.
>> So beautiful.
>> I got water.
>> Yeah. Waters are in the car.
>> No, that's okay.
>> I'm going to take this to the casino.
This this casino
>> gaff with the casino.
>> How you feeling?
>> Good. The show went well. Very well.
>> You seem very relaxed.
>> Yeah.
>> Crowd seemed very well paced for Monday
as well.
>> That flight today, even though I changed
it in between each show and Oz, that
flight today just finally [ __ ] got
it. And then yeah, to get standing O on
a Monday night and [ __ ] P.
I knew that there was something up with
it. I just didn't know what it was. I'm
glad I'm really glad that it didn't let
up on keeping on changing it and
changing it and changing it. It's nice
to have finally got that flow right. I
feel really good.
>> Feel really good.
>> You still want to change stuff tomorrow.
You [ __ ]
>> There's still
change.
>> All right. All right.
>> We'll see.
I love that you know the [ __ ] lyrics
the merch I went when we [ __ ]
>> when we [ __ ] [ __ ]
was like CHRIS
>> when we f [ __ ] right
>> I'll pop down to five
>> dude I'm [ __ ] I'm so tired
I love it.
>> So, actually, this is Chris practicing
his uh welcome to the crowd. So, when he
enters the stage, as you'll see,
>> slept 5 hours. Buddy has no idea what
time it is, but last night's [ __ ]
amazing. One of the best shows I've ever
done. It was so [ __ ] good. Why?
>> So, I worked really hard on it. I know.
Just keep poking poking and reshaping it
and rejigging it and then we got it
right. Now it's like, oh, now we've got
a [ __ ] show. This is a really, really
good show. So, given that people like
the first three and then last night felt
like another step up,
pretty good sign. Been in Perth for 18
hours, another 4 and 1/2 hour flight, 5
hour flight back to Brisbane.
Day 700 of tour. Everybody hates each
other. Go [ __ ] this world.
>> Rather than moan into Chris's face, I'm
finding more ways to rack up hotel room
bills. I had the best massage of my life
the other day. Uh and then today I took
a few alcoholic beverages out the mini
bar down the sink. Just fill up the bath
with Johnny Walker Black Label and leave
the empty bottles in the room.
>> I do appreciate the fact that you don't
let anyone off the hook with being late.
I do appreciate it. Keeps us all
disciplined. It's good. Sorry. speaking
to Chris Hemsworth. I was organizing the
helicopter trip that I've got you to go
to on uh on Thursday.
>> Is that an acceptable excuse?
>> Can we get booze on the plane?
>> What's up with you today?
>> Sensing morale low.
>> I thought of you and my worst brings out
the best. I got a bad feeling about
this. I got a bad feeling about it.
Coming over, but it never was enough. I
thought doing my worst makes the best. I
got a bad feeling about this. I got a
bad feeling about Hey. Hey. Come here.
Come here. [ __ ] sick of carrying the
morale of this team.
>> I'm absolutely sick of it. Biggest load
of [ __ ] I've ever heard. I kept on
ordering more and more sparkling wine.
Every time that Luke woke up, there was
another glass of sparkling wine
>> for him.
>> But it never was enough. I thought my
worst.
I got to
>> Well, where's that [ __ ] thingy?
>> It's on the other side,
>> James.
>> Yeah, I'm doing it.
>> You're not doing seven.
>> HOW DO I LEAVE? HELP me low.
>> Speak English.
>> Oh no.
>> You dog. You [ __ ] dog.
>> Oh, last one to get the dicks out. Okay.
Get out. Get out. Everyone out.
>> Evacuate.
>> They're willingly going back.
Ain't no sunshine.
>> It's a really [ __ ] high city.
>> Absolutely. Thank you. You're a legend.
Cheers, mate.
>> Have a good day, brother. Cheers.
>> Wow, that was a [ __ ] hidden run. That
was an absolute hidden run.
Any time she goes away.
Wonder this time where she's gone.
>> Hey, this place rules so good.
>> Wonder if she's gone.
>> Sweet beautiful creature.
>> Hello.
>> Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
And this house just ain't no home any
time she goes away.
And I know I know I know I know I know I
know I know I know I know I know I know
>> it's not very nice
make it better.
>> No makes it what?
>> Ah this was the first city that we were
at last time. We landed in Brisbane 2
years ago and all we did was live here
for three full days. Work, pool, work,
gym, work, sauna, food, home, get up, do
the same thing again.
>> [ __ ] fire's hard.
>> There's sort of some physics to doing
the live shows. And um I remember I was
sat watching Rogan in the Vulcan in
Austin and I was next to Mark Norand and
it was so [ __ ] cool. It was like
having someone that's an expert in
sports explaining what the play was that
the teams were doing. So Joe said this
line something like you know I love my
wife. She's my favorite person in the
world. He leaned over and he said to
spoonful of sugar to make the medicine
go down. It's like huh. And then he goes
into this big diet tribe about he sort
of takes the piss out of his wife. He
says something where you know he's at
odds with his wife. And that always
stuck with me that if you're going to
say something that's funny and mean but
done with love, you have to have
something that shows you're a nice
person and you really care about this
person and you're empathetic and all the
rest of it because otherwise it just
sounds mean. Even if it's not and even
if you're not,
>> you have to do it. And I think that
altogether, if you've got really [ __ ]
spicy jokes and a heavy topic that comes
after and not much not enough
self-deprecation and not enough uplift
throughout and just chill levity, it's
just too much. It's It's good, but it's
a existential hammer blow. It's a
full-on mallet and like each night I
feel like I'm getting 15% better.
Remembering we've already done four or
five tours, right, across different
continents with a previous show, but
this is the first time that I've done a
second show. See what tonight's got in
store. Brisbane. Go on me, okay? It's my
last city in all of Australia.
Oh, [ __ ] This is what real man looks
like. All right.
>> We've obviously built this new studio
and then we are launching first episode
of the new studio on Monday. It's
Wednesday at the moment. a lot of new
tech that we don't know how to use and
are learning how to use. Got to
>> edit on a completely different time zone
and do it all while on tour. Pray for
me, please. Thank you.
>> How has tour been in hours as far as
like lots of flying? Like you're not
driving obviously?
>> Yeah, [ __ ] ton of flying, dude. I mean,
we did Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane in 48
hours.
>> Sick.
>> Is this a world tour? This is we we just
have to chop them together. I couldn't
take enough time off from the show to do
more than probably about 3 weeks, three
to four. I mean, in order to be able to
come out here, I did seven episodes in 4
days before I left
>> just so that I could get out here.
>> I can't like I just can't imagine.
>> Yeah, it's awesome. It's like a totally
different world. It's not like we spend
lots of time in studio, but it's really
curious to me because it's like same but
different
>> you two. You do lots of studio time and
we do that thing that's just different.
>> The the touring thing is relatively new
and what it would be like would be if
you only wrote music but never got to
play it live.
>> Yeah.
>> And you had to write three new songs and
publish them a week. They could afford
they weren't like album worthy. They
weren't going to be like massive events
but you had to put put out three a week.
That would be what it would be like. And
it's it's just so strange that uh you
know people will go and see the Killers
or yourself and they want to hear the
big hits. That's to hear it again.
That's almost better. I want to hear the
old stuff more than I want to hear the
new stuff. But if I say the same story
on a different podcast, that's
frustrating. And like
>> it's so funny cuz yeah, music it's like
if you just played your like hit songs
like you they thank you like
I don't want to hear the new stuff. [ __ ]
off with your new stuff.
>> I want the 15 years ago stuff. Lock in.
Have a sick show.
>> Got a quick question. Um, so what like
what would you say your kind of north
star that guides you in life is? I'm not
sure if you've had one for 20 years or
10 years or 10 months.
>> I've always been really bad with
long-term goals, at least in my
experience, when things go really well
or if you're a hard worker, if you're an
outlier, which you are because you come
to see me on a [ __ ] Wednesday
evening. It's not a normal thing to do.
The results that you get will be so
unpredictable that you're not going to
be able to work out what the optionality
will open up for you in future. In any
case, I had no idea if you would say 10
years ago, what you going to do? like
live in America, do a podcast, like do
tour live book deal, like none of those
things were even on the table. So, um,
shorter sprints for me and principles
are a little better, but even those are
relatively loose. I like learning. I'm
curious about a lot of different things.
I've managed to find a way to basically
monetize asking interesting people
questions that I care about. But for me,
all I've done is just, it's curiosity is
the closest thing I can give you. Just
follow my curiosity. What am I
interested in?
Connecting with feelings.
>> Where are you from, sir? Take a guess.
Can I phone a friend?
Uh uh uh I I'm terrified of doing
whatever the equivalent of misgendering
is, but for race
as a guy, especially speaking as a man,
pose-wise, there is not much room for
guys to connect with their emotions. I
think that there is a [ __ ] awesome
revolution sitting below whatever that
surface thing happening on the internet
is. I get the sense that most of the
guys who are in the room tonight are a
part of the deeper thoughts than the
shallower ones. Problem is that the
world doesn't really reward you for
connecting with your emotions. Can't
flex it anywhere. And in order for you
to go for where you are now, she's
probably a super competent, active, high
agency, self-determining person to
embrace your feelings. What is an
evolution into a better version of you
feels like a devolution back to the
version of you that you used to be where
you were taken advantage of by your
emotions. Then you learn to suppress
them. Work hard. Push through. Don't
listen to it. Chocolate.
Save the cookie. And then you have to
try and undo
all of that. Keep the hard work bit and
feel the feeling bit. cracking the
[ __ ] shell of whatever it is that
most guys have got going on. Like
competent enough to get [ __ ] done, but
deep enough to realize that they want to
feel it.
That requires uh
it be like trying to do surgery on
yourself. It's probably a bad idea and
you should get an expert in. So I uh
I would say
do an intense retreat after you've done
a little bit of self. You've probably
done a breath work and meditation.
You've done the level zero stuff. I
wouldn't jump to Iawaska. I don't think
that's how you go and do it. And I'm
from Austin, Texas. That's like [ __ ]
city of Iawaska.
Intense retreat and find some guys
around you that want to go on the
journey too. Like you need dudes that
when you are struggling and you open up
about your emotions, they
they hold that space because if you've
got I mean Australia's got the tall
puppy syndrome thing, right? Like the
the reflex desire of every British and
Australian guy to go gay.
I I actually think it's sort of gifted
at birth,
genetically inherited. Um,
that's what school was. That's what a
lot of your 20ies was. But like at some
point we're going to grow up and that
group of people are going to fall away.
So you need to find a group of guys that
need other
I loved it. The flow was just even
better. It was amazing.
>> I was at your headlining show in
Brisbane 18 months ago.
>> Yes.
>> And since then, I said to my mates that
night, I'm going to [ __ ] do the
thing. Since then, I've blown up on
social media. I'm about to move to
London the summer manager.
>> Let's [ __ ] go, dude. Yes.
>> Help me start a business and run a
marathon. Thanks, man.
>> Helped you start a business and run a
marathon.
>> What's next?
>> Didn't expect a stab in the heart, but
thank you.
>> I cast a heart like you wouldn't
believe. Cancer, that's gone. I've had
that twice and I beat it both and you're
a big inspiration.
>> Stuff's life changing, man. Seriously,
>> this your birthday? Cool,
>> dude. Happy [ __ ] birthday. Who knew
you'd spend your birthday thinking so
much about Matthew McConnA's dick? That
wasn't on
>> Two more days. I've got a little bit of
time. I'm going to fly up to Byron and
hang with Chris Hems tomorrow. So,
that'll be fun.
What?
>> I'm not talking about what?
>> Meeting Chris Hems off. Some of the
scenes you can't jinx
>> because if you get excited about it,
there'll be a storm. Chris is very good
at playing it. Cool. I've seen him
opposite Matthew McConnA with a resting
heart rate at 44. Turn. It's probably
his most impressive feature. Jordan
Peterson, Sam Harris,
>> hearing show on the outside of skill.
>> Yeah, but there's not even a sweat.
>> We're going to go hang out with a
friend. I've got a friend lives in
Byron. Lovely guy. And um we've sort of
been flirting online for a little while
and I thought it'd be nice to go see
him. Yeah, I'm not that far away, but
it's it's a bit of a drive, bit of a
trek. I thought we we could we could
take a mode of transportation that's a
little quicker, like getting in a tuk
tuk through through downtown Thailand or
something to go and just see a friend
for a coffee. So essentially, that's
what we're doing today. It's Chris
Hemsworth. It's Chris Hemsworth in a
helicopter. That's what it is.
>> Is it worth
me?
had enough to feed the hungry. I'm tired
and I felt for a while.
Even got my drink in.
>> Sorry, James. I remember my first
helicopter.
This could be my chance to say goodbye.
At last, it's finally over. Couldn't
take this down.
It wasn't what I planned to be. Now I'm
ready to be brave.
So here I am. It's in my head.
So here I am.
Think you're pretty when I'm standing
top the bride that's will take your hand
and pick you up and keep you there
tonight
again I will take you there take a dance
night away dance away
so here I am it's in my
Everyone
dog sunset pool snakes.
What else is there?
>> I will be back there. Yeah.
Here I am.
I promise I will take you there as long.
Here I am.
I promise I will take you there.
That's actually impressive. It's quite
enough to actually revitalized. Two days
off. Two full days off. Feel fantastic.
I I hit my stride, dude. The the
difference between the first three shows
and the last two has just been I found
that unlock. It made everything else
feel lighter because as fun as it is to
be on tour, I'm here to give a good show
to everyone and to feel like I'm
performing well and to be confident in
how the night's going to go. And um
yeah, it it it's been a real change of a
real change of energy.
I got tons of great feedback from Sydney
and Melbourne and Adelaide. So, thank
you to everybody that did that. It was
really [ __ ] awesome. And um that was
the just the little thing that was
missing. So it's been a good run. I've
loved being in Brisbane. But we've got
48 hours in a brand new country, two
shows, Christ Church in Oakland, then a
9-hour flight to Bali,
all in the space of a single weekend. So
see you then.