This week we're talking about ways to bolster your confidence so that you can occupy your rightful place in the world with assertiveness and comfort.

Someone mistakes a hat for a hedgehog, I impersonate a man of the cloth, and we debate the wisdom of taking a cobra to a party and guzzling its venom for kicks.

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This week we're talking about why we have trouble maintaining focus, what it might say about us and how to manage it better.

Martin recalls being waterboarded at the hairdresser and tells us which station he'd choose if he were to name himself after one. 

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This week we're talking about the things we've forgotten that we think we remember even though what we come up with might be a complete fabrication.

A goat is arrested for the theft of a Mazda 323,  some Reading Rock Festival pizza rots Martin's jeans, and I am attacked by malware.

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This week we’re talking about how we can become experts at looking for evidence in support of beliefs we already hold, and the ways it can be destructive.

We also hear about a lady who took her dead hamster on the trip of a lifetime and make a useful addition to our posthumous supergroup.

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This week, I've been in Scotland and so we recorded in a rush without any time to do a proper edit. It's a mark of our "professionalism" that you probably won't tell a difference between this and our other episodes.

We're chatting about platitudes and why they are so unhelpful. There's also all the usual guff. 

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This week we're talking about why people feel the need to embellish the truth and how it often comes from a place of low self-confidence.

We wonder what it would be like to wake up at your own funeral, hear about animals travelling in underwear,  and see the insufferable liar, Jay from The Inbetweeners, in a whole new light.

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This week we're talking about something simple, the meaning of life.

We hear a remarkable excuse for illegal possession of drugs, Martin gets mistaken for a pensioner, we feel grateful for bowel cancer screening, and I recall almost being crushed under a Land Rover.

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This week we're discussing the ways we can harness our inevitable self-talk.

Martin does a survey on anchovies, and a pigeon is held captive for eight months on suspicion of espionage.

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This week, we're talking about why it hurts when someone lets us down, how we can avoid it happening, and what to do if it does.

Other than that, we hear about how speedy cashiers can cause mental health crises, whether or not it's important to be able to shuffle a deck of cards,  and I find out what Martin has in his larder.

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This week we're discussing thinking you know everything already and how that expert mindset can often limit your opportunities to grow intellectually and emotionally.

Martin has a story about confusing an owl with a mushroom, a drunken man gets arrested for impersonating a ghost, and we ponder on the possibility that all the great philosophers were borne out of a time when there wasn't anything to do apart from sitting around thinking about things.

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