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James Smith

James Smith

Author and personal trainer

Oct 21, 2026

6:31
So typically now the people that are attracted to, maybe you can put it in two ways, either Newtonic or working with you directly, what would you say are the main kind of symptoms they might be struggling with? If you're the doctor and they're the patient, what are they struggling with?
6:43
The exact same thing as fitness, actually.
6:44
People know.
6:45
They're not stupid.
6:46
You see a lot of creators online that think their audience are thick.
6:49
Humans are smart.
6:50
And if you're alive today, you've got a lineage of a lot of smart humans that evolved through a lot of difficult things.

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28:06
It feels with New Tonic, it's very easy to say, you and Chris go and sell it, but then where are you getting involved behind the scenes, flavours, business operations?
12:58
Who are they and what are kind of the roles?
13:00
So Luke's my manager.
13:01
He's also, uh, Chris's manager, uh, for all intensive purposes.
13:06
Uh, Sian was running Genflow, so we came together as a four, and we are the shareholders of the business.
13:12
Because we all have our own kind of skill sets where Sian was great with the side of it, whether it be...
13:17
He had a team for everything.
13:18
Paid ads.

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[laughs]
1:32
he continued home and someone to take care of the house charms of music and female chit chat these things good for one's health but terrible loss of time without warning darwin had from the pro marriage column swerved uncontrollably into major anti-marriage factors so major that he underlined it this issue the infringement of marriage on his time especially his work time was addressed at greater length in the appropriate not marry column not marrying he wrote would preserve freedom to go where one likes choice of society and little of it conversation of clever men at clubs not forced to visit relatives and to bend in every trifle to have the expense and anxiety of children perhaps quarreling loss of time cannot read in the evening fatness and idleness anxiety and responsibility less money for books and if many children forced to gain one's bread what an unbelievable example of somebody trying to use those frameworks in order to come up with a big life decision
2:39
Yeah, what I suggest, first point, of course, as I argue, is that if you look at those two columns, it's pretty clear what the right choice is.
2:50
Not enough time to read, do your work, and missing the clever conversation in clubs with men.
2:58
And what do you get in return? Female chit-chat and something that's better than a dog anyhow.
3:02
It's thin soup.
3:05
It's pretty clear that the right choice for Darwin is not to marry.
3:08
And underlying, of course, all that loss of time, I think, is his worry that he will not achieve his scientific legacy.
3:35
Mary, Mary, Mary.
0:15
Talk to me about your relationship with alcohol and how it's changed.
0:18
Yeah.
0:18
So I, um, I pretty much barely drink anymore.
0:22
Um, I used to be...
0:23
I guess that's 'cause of the whole British culture.
0:26
I used to drink numerous times per week, particularly when I was growing up.
0:30
University, then even throughout my 20s, I was very much into my fitness, but at the same time, there was always at least one extremely heavy blowout at the weekend.
2:11
... your days so much, but what else have you learned?
0:15
Talk to me about your relationship with alcohol and how it's changed.
0:18
Yeah.
0:18
So I, um, I pretty much barely drink anymore.
0:22
Um, I used to be...
0:23
I guess that's 'cause it's the whole British culture.
0:26
I used to drink numerous times per week, particularly when I was growing up.
0:30
University, then even throughout my 20s, I was very much into my fitness, but at the same time, there was always at least one extremely heavy blowout at the weekend.
2:11
... your days so much, but what else have you learned?
1:32
he continued home and someone to take care of the house charms of music and female chit chat these things good for one's health but terrible loss of time without warning darwin had from the pro marriage column swerved uncontrollably into major anti-marriage factors so major that he underlined it this issue the infringement of marriage on his time especially his work time was addressed at greater length in the appropriate not marry column not marrying he wrote would preserve freedom to go where one likes choice of society and little of it conversation of clever men at clubs not forced to visit relatives and to bend in every trifle to have the expense and anxiety of children perhaps quarreling loss of time cannot read in the evening fatness and idleness anxiety and responsibility less money for books and if many children forced to gain one's bread what an unbelievable example of somebody trying to use those frameworks in order to come up with a big life decision
2:39
Yeah, what I suggest, first point, of course, as I argue, is that if you look at those two columns, it's pretty clear what the right choice is.
2:50
Not enough time to read, do your work, and missing the clever conversation in clubs with men.
2:58
And what do you get in return? Female chit-chat and something that's better than a dog anyhow.
3:02
It's thin soup.
3:05
It's pretty clear that the right choice for Darwin is not to marry.
3:08
And underlying, of course, all that loss of time, I think, is his worry that he will not achieve his scientific legacy.
3:35
Mary, Mary, Mary.
38:49
So what are you seeing at the moment?
38:51
So obviously we've got the development of the theatre down the road from us.
38:56
So that's definitely having an impact.
39:00
And obviously a lot of people have different views on the theatre, good, bad or otherwise.
39:06
But the factor is...
39:07
It's going ahead, so it's happening.
39:11
For us, with the CBD, we get a little bit frustrated when we start to see lots of people being negative about the south end of town and appreciate we've got quite a number of empty buildings around us.

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49:31
So I get the vibe from you that you are confident, you're optimistic about Timaru, even though there are lots of challenges.
1:32
he continued home and someone to take care of the house charms of music and female chit chat these things good for one's health but terrible loss of time without warning darwin had from the pro marriage column swerved uncontrollably into major anti-marriage factors so major that he underlined it this issue the infringement of marriage on his time especially his work time was addressed at greater length in the appropriate not marry column not marrying he wrote would preserve freedom to go where one likes choice of society and little of it conversation of clever men at clubs not forced to visit relatives and to bend in every trifle to have the expense and anxiety of children perhaps quarreling loss of time cannot read in the evening fatness and idleness anxiety and responsibility less money for books and if many children forced to gain one's bread what an unbelievable example of somebody trying to use those frameworks in order to come up with a big life decision
2:39
Yeah, what I suggest, first point, of course, as I argue, is that if you look at those two columns, it's pretty clear what the right choice is.
2:50
Not enough time to read, do your work, and missing the clever conversation in clubs with men.
2:58
And what do you get in return? Female chit-chat and something that's better than a dog anyhow.
3:02
It's thin soup.
3:05
It's pretty clear that the right choice for Darwin is not to marry.
3:08
And underlying, of course, all that loss of time, I think, is his worry that he will not achieve his scientific legacy.
3:35
Mary, Mary, Mary.
11:26
in barbering but like you said you always wanted to do but i always wanted to do it and it and it do you know what it was something in me going if
11:33
it is what i've got i need to do it now but i've got this opportunity to do it i was made redundant i didn't want to go back into sales I always wanted to be a barber, so let's do it.
11:46
And I managed to do, I think it was a year course, part-time course, and I managed to get it done in six months and get a job in a local barber shop chain called Grade 92.
11:56
Amazing place.
11:58
And so I cut hair for some of the football players in Bournemouth.
12:02
Oh, nice.
12:05
So, yeah, it was a surreal experience.

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Yeah,
9:59
How is this being adopted? How does the in-scene advertising piece become adopted? Is it at the publisher level? Is it streaming apps specifically? Who uses this tech?
10:10
Yeah.
10:10
Yeah.
10:11
Yeah.
10:11
So the great news is everybody's looking for a better way and a better experience.
10:16
And like I said, the point here is to drive better ROAS, whatever the unit may be, and to maximize hours of viewing and reduce drop-off, right? So the good news is on the adoption side, the platforms are all for these new units, right? They're having a hard time chasing the pod and the fill rate piece.
10:35
So they're like, yeah, let's try and figure out what the rate balance is.
13:40
know,
1:13
2023 just tell me what it's like for you though in al-mawassid because i think people in the west perhaps in the uk in the united states may not know that this is normally a kind of a fertile agricultural region relatively small population but very very different to that now
1:35
Absolutely, Adrian.
1:36
Let me try and paint a picture of what al-Mawassi looked like when I first arrived in Gaza back in December of 2023.
1:46
So this is my third time now in Gaza.
1:49
At that time, there were already hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that had been displaced from their homes.
1:57
But al-Mawassi itself was an area in which many people had yet to be forcibly displaced.
2:05
What's happened is that Over the course of the last three years now, Israel has progressively forced the Palestinian people into an ever-shrinking space.

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14:32
yes and i mentioned the israeli elections in october israeli voters will at least have a degree of agency about what happens next they can re-elect netanyahu they can elect one of his rivals of course once elected those The governments will do what they will, but there is at least a role that ordinary Israelis can play, but the people that you're caring for and that you're living amongst, they have no agency in a moment like this.
6:39
Same question to you, but in the context for your battalion.
6:41
took responsibility of the battalion as Torch had already left.
6:44
So I came, much like Sergeant Major Willis, took over at RSOIs where I met our S4, I met our Master Gunner, I met our key players for the battalion, as well as all the soldiers here.
6:53
My first objective was kind of to observe our systems and processes for the battalion, see how we communicate with each other, how the leaders took charge, how the soldiers received the message and then initiated movement on the plan.
7:03
As we got moving forward, before we moved into the box, I brought in all my NCOs and I kind of laid out my expectations for them, which was two things.
7:11
One, I trust you to do the right thing.
7:13
And two, if the bad thing happens, it's your fault.

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14:54
Command Sergeant Major Smith, at the battalion level, same question to you.
22:39
Hold up.
22:39
The other day, I am, I was joking around in a video talking about fighting 90s, and I messaged Mike Thurston as we were recording going, "Send me your blood work," and he sent it within, like, an hour.
23:10
I'm just doing my session.
23:12
Well, you seem a bit defensive, mate.
23:13
That's all.
23:13
You just seem a little bit defensive.
23:15
Did they naturally get his testosterone up to 1,000, mate? Or unnaturally? I'm not saying we should start rumors, but he is on the HMS Good Ship.
0:44
Then we get to see Chris Hemsworth.
0:45
Tour life's hard, man.
0:47
Tour life is very hard.
0:51
And right then, as you can see, 7.30 was the meet time.
0:54
Got an airport to get to, tour to be on.
0:56
No Dean, no Alex, no Chris.
0:58
That just says they don't care.

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[upbeat music]Yeah.
12:09
Today's been a lot of waiting.
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Flight got delayed by four hours.
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Got up early, only had four hours.
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So I was delayed for longer than I slept today.
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So, uh, very good.
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Ooh.
10:48
Second alone.
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13:13
There's been a few break-ins in the area, and because of that, I bought a big black baseball bat the other day, and it lives in my bedroom.
13:20
And I've been laying there at night thinking, "Tonight could be the night," and I'm getting excited.
13:26
[laughing] Imagine they break into my house.
13:29
I probably would let them get in.
5:13
Sometimes they don't have to climb, do they? They come along, say, a piling fence horizontal beam and then they can just walk onto the tree.
5:24
Oh, look, absolutely.
5:26
And indeed, it's any structure above the ground.
5:28
It might be a piccola.
5:30
It might be a roof.
5:31
It might be a fence.
5:33
It might be wires into your property because they will use them as highways as well.

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CathyAUDIENCE
16:34
Yeah.
42:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Super strategized.
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Whereas-Me, I'll do a podcast with my mates and randomly on the way to the podcast buy like a really hot chip and be like, "Oh, who's, who's eating this then?" And, you know, "Oh," like dying from the hot chip.
42:58
To me, that's entertainment.
42:59
Whereas to Chris it might be really asking a very intricate question.
43:03
But where we align so much is we're s- two British guys.
43:08
I hate the term like self-made, but Chris had a podcast that no one listened to for years.

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Mm.
0:28
So, yeah, get your fucking books, buddy.
0:38
I feel like we're slightly disconnected from reality, a lot of people.
0:41
We're almost constantly semi-gaslit by the state of the economy, politics, everything as a nation.
0:48
I always feel like we're never really true in treating ourselves.
0:51
We have to put a certain face on around people, whether you're on the train, you put your feet up in some strange seat, oh fuck, you know, put your feet down, because I'm a polite young man, I don't put my feet on train seats.
1:01
If there was no one there, your fucking foot would be on the seat.
1:03
So everywhere we go through life, we're putting these facades on.
4:16
yeah yeah they're like are you fucking kidding me
22:44
Really? I like
22:45
that one.
22:46
It's hideous.
22:47
And I think that people need to really respect lifting heavy, but let's look at other things apart from adding weight.
22:52
And I get shit whenever I comment on this online.
22:54
I'm like, hey, people go, what do you know? You're fucking small.
22:57
And I'm like, cheers, guys.

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43:57
Is that actually legit?
AlexHOST
28:06
Sure.
28:07
... quite frankly.
28:07
So you're right.
28:08
I mean, uh, rights holders want to get paid.
28:10
Um, they're facing immense pressure.
28:12
Their traditional business models on the internet are collapsing.
28:15
We need a new economic model for the internet around AI.
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