It's finally here! This long-lost episode, being one of the first ever recorded on Two Beers was recorded on multiple microphones and computers (...and multiple programs - hence the time lapses, which we've done our best to cover). In our first recorded discussion, Nye, Sam and Connor talk about the practice of mindfulness and how it has been appropriated into Western culture. 

Mindfulness, originating in Buddhist practices, is now a familiar topic to many people - seeing use across globally recognised businesses, popular phone apps, therapy clinics and even the armed forces. But what exactly is mindfulness? How and when did it get here? In our attempt to answer this question we raise up some of the perceived issues with it, including some more adverse effects and even sinister uses. 

 Tangents available for your leisure include but are not limited to... Yoga, evangelism, "truth", new atheism, the nature of faith, Greek gods, racism, vegans ("eat a pie c*nt") as well as Nazis and other horrible regimes of dialectical materialism. Here is an academic essay which explores the Buddhist nature of modern mindfulness, written by Connor:  https://twobeersuntilphronesis.weebly...