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In an interruption to our usual programming we take a brief break from the Noble Eightfold Path for this episode to describe our rediciculous weekend of great majesty which included a Manowar gig, a Hare Krsna street festival and a discussion on William Blake's imagination. Did we stay in a magical hotel? Did more than two great things happen in 1980? Is it OK to be entirely unironic about silly things in order to make life worthwhile? How important is community to heavy metal warrior brothers? How can you comprehend the Hindu juggernaut?! Are we just cultural voyeurs? Is psychological transference just magic in disguise? Have we lost our enchantment so much that we can no longer see? Oh, and we make a classic Fugazi/William Blake comparison.

Scandinavian travel stories, Midsommer without any of the deaths the movie promised, Siobhan's wallet goes in a poo-ey toilet bin, Dave gets in a tree, meditation helps with stressful situations, vapid expanses of nothing, pub culture vs "getting in the water" culture (whatever that is), a Pee Wee Herman documentary goes all meta, Satre is a pillock, the perpetuating machine of misery, nightmare plane journeys, silence is better than racket, circular behavioural patterns and some surprisingly hard takes on psychology.

The beauties and tragedies of little foxes. Joy loves company. Don't Forget We're Here Forever. Finding our way out of bullshit via Buddhism. More meditation talk. Don't be a massive fascist. Acknowledge and learn from other people's views, particularly if you disagree with them. Knowing what you don't know and that you don’t know.

Meditation practice (again), savouring the old instead of looking for the shiny new, learning through repetition, mayonnaise flavoured crisps would be shit, Shelter have been wonderful for many decades, Noisy Mothers was an excellent telly programme, creating a healthy salience landscape, but mostly this episode is, and I mean this in the most technical of ways, bullshit.Nothing to do with this episode but listen to Rocket From The Crypt.

This episode, we return again to our experiences on our recent silent retreat but this time with an emphasis on the subject of renunciation. What can we get from going without unimportant things in order to get all the stuff that might lead us to finding meaning in a meaningless world?! And that's not all, of course, because we go off piste a lot... Going for a walk is special! Music is special! Not doing the things you want is special! You, the listener, are special! FOMO is a death cult! Enjoy.Nothing to do with the episode but go and listen to Morphine.

On this episode we're discussing whether faith can solve our crisis of meaning after hearing two much more intelligent people discussing the same topic. But that's not all, problematic people follow us everywhere we go! Disturbed are YOUR favourite new band! AI Jesus! Deep conversations are important! Grappling over THE big existential questions! We're recording this episode just before going on a 10 day silent retreat so I think we're feeling even deeper than usual! Good luck with that dear listener, good luck!

This episode we're discussing Christine Rosen's excellent new book "The Extinction Of Experience" as well as our need for space, mind wandering and the importance of boredom. It’s a bit of a heavy episode but don’t fret, we also start beef with both the DVLA and Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch so there’s fun to be had.

It's a new year and we owe you some Christmas cheer after missing an episode over the festive period so here it is! We treat you with some fun poo stories, we give you live updates about a man with a big pipe outside the window, we successfully time travel and we chat about the positives and negatives of making new year's resolutions. We're off social media now so if you're listening then you've stumbled across us by magic, celebrate yourself.