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

Mark's vibrating internally but has got some funky stuff cooking, and Brendan still wants Mark to stop using TikTok.

• (00:00) - Brendan's tree joke
• (00:20) - Manic Mark
• (03:18) - Undo update
• (08:52) - It's all coming together
• (22:17) - Big changes and ADHD
• (25:32) - Pathologising a good time
• (29:59) - r/blocked
• (38:48) - Brendan tries to deprogramme Mark from TikTok again
• (52:18) - Brendan's duck joke

• Cranking, by Merlin Mann
• Hard as Nails

Brendan's going to church and Mark's starting a choir. No, like, really.

Links

• The Problem with Time & Timezones

• (00:00) - They're just trying to have a Tuesday
• (00:12) - Mark's other podcast
• (11:44) - C90 Community Chorus
• (32:52) - Life starts now
• (35:06) - Brendan's going to a church
• (46:56) - God is a woman
• (56:14) - A means of control
• (01:05:52) - 7 days
• (01:08:14) - Timezones

How do you like them apples?

Links

• The paradoxical theory of change