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Stumbling into failure
Brendan and Mark have questions and thoughts around moderation, and Brendan has questions for Mark on his sleep.LinksHow Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opini...
The most thing is sugar
The boys mostly talk about sugar, both in chocolate form a la Easter, and in pill form via placebo.LinksThe Holdovers (2023)Black Mirror – EulogyWake Up and Open Your ...
Is this what normal people do?
Mark and Brendan figure out how to talk to people in real life.
Get in the comments!
Mark encourages Brendan to make short-form video... not at all because he has started making his own.LinksGet in the comments!Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War o...
Now I have a bag of pegs
Mark opens a can of worms full of aspartame, and Brendan has both joined a dodgeball league and started a meditation circle. Now who's being a productive dynamo!?Links...
We're senseless to our selves
Brendan and Mark kind of have a fight a little bit. In as much as two enneagram 9s can.LinksSelf-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, by Kristin Nef...
Playing myself at Magic the Gathering
Our heroes navigate freelancing and money, and Brendan has an update for Mark on fasting, courtesy of everyone's favourite large language model.LinksLost Connections, ...
Somebody learned something at some point
Brendan's not eating again, and Mark has opinions about education.LinksWake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman
How to pathologise a good time
Mark's vibrating internally but has got some funky stuff cooking, and Brendan still wants Mark to stop using TikTok.LinksCranking, by Merlin MannHard as Nails
They're just trying to have a Tuesday
Brendan's going to church and Mark's starting a choir. No, like, really.LinksThe Problem with Time & Timezones
The sweetest fruit with the bitterest finish
How do you like them apples?LinksThe paradoxical theory of change
No powders
Brendan has an app idea and a new tattoo, and the boys both watched The Menu. And have things to say. (Spoiler: they liked it.)LinksThe Menu (2022)Triangle of Sadness ...
I am more bit than man
Brendan and Mark talk about pain, shame, and programming; Mark does a recce of Brendan's website;
Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
Mark's chair is broken, Brendan is still obsessed with The Cable Guy, and AI always has to have the last word.LinksShell GameGuns Akimbo (2019)Deep Questions with Cal ...
Our pink halves of the drainpipe
Brendan and Mark are back in their respective homes, coming down to earth and discussing music, dancing, numbing, and more.LinksMy Pink Half of the Drainpipe, by the B...
We're just going to be here until I can drive again
Brendan and Mark celebrated Brendan's 40th by being in the same city together yet again. This time it was Brendan's turn to host Mark, and so the pair recount their ad...
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you
Mark is packing to see Brendan who's building a bathroom. Also there's talk of vaccinations, what to do when your friends won't join you on your journey to understand ...
Silent heart shapes
Friend of the show Billie Proffitt joins Brendan and Mark to discuss fasting, the stars, and how our choices affect the outside world (Mark's jury is still out). And t...
Stop doing everything
Mark snet Brendan a photo of himself in the bath... and also had to go to hospital. Meanwhile, Brendan is becoming more comfortable as the face of Godmode – and there'...
Bro.
What tactical deployment of the word "bro" can do for men who need to call out other men. Also, a rundown of Heretic, which the pair saw this week.LinksBrendan’s playl...