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In this episode, Shaikh has had a really hectic work week, and he confesses that music with nonsense lyrics pushes the penmanship. It sparks a conversation about motivation, or Emin (@mrhajiyev) classifies a stimulant. Emin starts on a note of how nothing motivates these days while Shaikh convinces him not to jump off the bridge, and the conversation leaps to how they get through the grind when the going gets tough.

Season 3, Episode 4- “Feels for the Friday”:  In this episode, Shaikh has been partying it up with safety measures in mind for the past two weekends with his age and physical health catching up, he decides to have a conversation about what happens during an ideal weekend. Emin (@mrhajiyev) has been craving for a weekend of lasers and lunacy. Shaikh is going green this weekend with the smoothie life, the bed life, and the book life.

Season 3, Episode 3- “Dreams of my Future”:  In this episode, Shaikh and Emin (@mrhajiyev) take a journey to the past to the career that would have filled them with happiness while emptying their accounts. Emin has always wanted to play the saxophone, but that ended up being a bagpipe dream. Shaikh believes that money lets us have the liberty to pursue out of the box dreams with greater eagerness, and that's why he never put in the time to draw our artistic path.

Season 3, Episode 2-: In this episode, as the duo have been reunited, the only thing that's not coordinated this week is the conversation. Emin (@mrhajiyev) provides a context of what's going on in Thailand with the second wave, while Shaikh is having waves of anxiety from finally interacting with humans. Emin has found Shaikh's soulmate at some corner of Lumpini Park, who he can isolate for months. Shaikh feels like social media is the virus that eats his brain when his feed shows people having mass gatherings.

Season 3, Episode 1: In this episode, Shaikh has finally made his way to Bangkok, so he and Emin (@mrhajiyev) reflect on their perspectives of a new lockdown. Emin finally figures that Shaikh is an introvert as he happily embarked on a self-imposed silence retreat upon arriving to quarantine. While Emin speaks about lockdown effects, Shaikh believes that a little more perspective of how the Rona is making the world go round is just what the universe ordered. 

Season2. Episode 21 - In this episode, Shaikh continued the happy train of thought by explaining his joy from Jesus. He connects happiness with humility and having the perspective to look beyond yourself. Emin (@mrhajiyev) believes that these conversations with a high-being are a self-conscious monologue. They conclude this season’s round-up with holiday wishes, and Shaikh also merriment in Christmas carols while Emin chooses to be a grinch. 

Season2.Episode 19 - In this episode, Shaikh takes a nod from the incomparable Michelle Obama for this week’s definition of happiness with some anecdotal background. Emin (@mrhajiyev) is searching for the meaning of happiness, but it seems just as lost as his centuries-old birth certificate. While we discover that Emin is the real ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ yogi, Shaikh undoubtedly believes there is bliss in your bank balance.

Episode 19- Are we Amigos? Part II: In this episode, Shaikh starts this week’s conversation by applying some of his pharmaceutical background to friendship chemistry. He believes that friends somehow work because of chemistry. Emin (@mrhajiyev) and his Bumble buddy take the next step by meeting during the day time. They both discuss the test of friendship, and Shaikh figures out that Emin’s amigo memories are like his ideal long drives across the midwest- vague AF. The session concludes with a game where you decide who the winner is.

Season 2. Episode 18: The revelation of the now philosophy major, Emin (@mrhajiyev), continues this week with perspectives on friendships. He explained how he downloaded Bumble to make a buddy but mostly found booty. Shaikh has a more minimalist approach to a friendship where less is more and compartmentalization is key. Shaikh also decided that a week of reflection as he turned 32 in isolation would be best for insight purposes. 

In this episode, Emin (@mrhajiyev) elaborates upon his two-day ayahuasca excursion. He describes the visions of the past and prospective future that he had experienced and provides insight for those considering ayahuasca. Shaikh wants to know his overall takeaway from experience, only to be equally disappointed again by Emin’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ explanation of the ordeal. Shaikh figures that his hopes of ayahuasca have been pooped on.