Brendan and Mark have questions and thoughts around moderation, and Brendan has questions for Mark on his sleep.

• (00:00) - Stumbling into failure
• (00:07) - Mark is weirdly on his shit
• (00:52) - Brendan is on his shit
• (04:25) - Brendan has thoughts on moderation
• (14:28) - Mark has a pending relevation
• (25:12) - Brendan doesn't trust the messages his body gives him
• (28:09) - Mark tries to grapple with the Three Principles again
• (32:08) - Brendan successfully avoided Creme Eggs
• (38:27) - Mark remembers when the dopamine comes
• (44:04) - Brendan is not going to coach Mark
• (01:00:45) - Mark remembers something useful from a book

• How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion, by David McRaney
• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey

The boys mostly talk about sugar, both in chocolate form a la Easter, and in pill form via placebo.

• (00:00) - The most thing is sugar
• (01:17) - Brendan describes needing a hug
• (03:18) - Mark describes his norming
• (06:10) - Mark mourns a friend
• (10:30) - Brendan and Mark spoil an episode of Black Mirror
• (16:57) - Mark describes a book
• (18:51) - Mark and Brendan appreciate Paul Giamati
• (22:00) - Brendan has gone 40 days without YouTube
• (27:53) - Mark does his easter bit
• (30:24) - Brendan and Mark describe their different easters
• (38:13) - Mark describes his confusion about sales tax
• (40:05) - Mark recounts his encounter with a crackpot
• (01:04:13) - Brendan claps back

• The Holdovers (2023)
• Black Mirror – Eulogy
• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman

Mark and Brendan figure out how to talk to people in real life.

• (00:00) - Is this what normal people do?
• (00:19) - Brendan got a visit from his mom
• (03:00) - Mark dreamt of Brendan
• (06:03) - Brendan went to a trade show
• (27:07) - Mark recounts his public speaking journey
• (45:07) - Mark reckons with his unlikeability as a child
• (56:46) - Mark makes a metaphor
• (59:21) - The pair talk about assertiveness
• (01:00:57) - Brendan overthinks a Reddit conversation
• (01:03:27) - Brendan and Mark talk therapy modes
• (01:06:07) - Mark takes an ADHD tangent
• (01:11:20) - Brendan talks in church
• (01:17:39) - Mark remembers how to talk to strangers
• (01:20:38) - Brendan introduces some new listeners

Mark encourages Brendan to make short-form video... not at all because he has started making his own.

• (00:00) - Y'all are welomed to the show
• (03:42) - Mark wouldn't call a dude "love"
• (05:19) - Mark says "y'all" ironically
• (08:28) - Undo is now monetised
• (17:17) - Brendan's killing it running a meditation group
• (22:25) - David chimes in
• (23:16) - Brendan questions his medium
• (32:55) - Brendan's got moves in the kitchen you haven't even heard of
• (43:18) - Mark reminisces about You Suck at Cooking
• (45:56) - Mark reminisces about The War of the Worlds
• (49:50) - Your One Thing is beckoning
• (52:02) - Brendan remembers why his teachings are his to give
• (54:46) - We have to shift the Peeps

• Get in the comments!
• Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

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!?

• (00:00) - Now I have a bag of pegs
• (00:42) - Dopamine Nation
• (07:52) - Does Mark trust Brendan?
• (19:09) - Mark pokes the bear on aspartame
• (38:47) - Brendan brings up the Potato Famine
• (40:08) - Mark was write about community
• (44:09) - Mark ruins Brendan's apology
• (52:04) - Does food carry a message?
• (01:00:11) - Brendan takes another run at the apology
• (01:04:02) - Brendan unveils his meditation group
• (01:06:06) - Brendan goes back to dodgeball
• (01:09:36) - Brendan tells his joke

• Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken

Brendan and Mark kind of have a fight a little bit. In as much as two enneagram 9s can.

• (00:00) - We're senseless to our selves
• (00:59) - Mark's chat history
• (05:22) - Brendan and the holy trinity
• (13:59) - Mark gets triggered by the word "recover"
• (27:56) - The tug of war
• (38:33) - Another parable of the blind man
• (43:05) - Part 1 of Mark trying to make a short-form video series
• (49:46) - A men's group structure
• (56:13) - Mark wants to open his own beer
• (01:08:33) - Roscoe being a pest

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, by Kristin Neff
• The Magic, by Rhonda Byrne

Our heroes navigate freelancing and money, and Brendan has an update for Mark on fasting, courtesy of everyone's favourite large language model.

• (00:00) - Playing myself at Magic the Gathering
• (00:12) - Brendan consulted ChatGPT on fasting
• (06:16) - The YouTube diet
• (12:31) - The forthcoming men's group
• (14:11) - Make a plan B
• (19:25) - Just exist
• (28:21) - Freelance hubris
• (36:43) - We don't have a template to follow
• (45:31) - Capitalism corner
• (50:07) - What is the authentic self?
• (58:25) - Value-based pricing vs hourly billing
• (01:09:02) - Last week

• Lost Connections, by Johann Hari
• The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida

Brendan's not eating again, and Mark has opinions about education.

• (00:00) - Cheesecake
• (04:46) - Brendan is not eating
• (17:32) - Teaching by experience vs study
• (19:47) - Profit vs compensation
• (28:20) - Study vs experience revisited
• (47:04) - Finding intrinsic confidence in your work
• (01:09:12) - Only Correct

• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, by Clay McLeod Chapman