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The Friday Council

What started as a tabletop project of regular meeting and conversation, The Friday Council is place of thought, questioning and seeking understanding of the ins and outs of life. Join David, Daniel & Nav as they discuss different topics, current events and navigate modern day living in New Zealand.

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In this episode:

  • Living in a comfortable rut can shrink your worldview
  • Discomfort in relationships
  • Gamifying life and uncomfortable tasks
  • Planning spontaneity
  • Self medicating against discomfort
  • Deep work, deep rest vs little work, little rest
  • Seeking discomfort online
  • The role passion has to play in discomfort
  • Seeking discomfort online
  • Mainstream culture being comfortable

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In this episode:

  • 'Resonating' with role models
  • Controversial role models
  • Being nonchalant about choosing
  • Fraudulent role models
  • Internet role models requiring more trust
  • Parents as role models
  • Cultivating self awareness is key
  • The cultural 'gap' of masculine role models

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In this episode:

  • Public mental health endgame- Feelings and emotions vs mental health- Is just talking more enough?- Expectations of men- Mentor/mentee relationships- Men's attitudes towards professional help- Conceptualizing life trajectories/momentum

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In this episode:

  • Why isn't supplementing testosterone commonplace?- The future of testosterone- Pro's and con's of testosterone consumption- Behavioural consequences- Toxic Masculinity = Toxic testosterone?- Less testosterone = more submission?- Nicotine, vaping, ram raids

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In this episode:- 'Dupe' products and brand loyalty- New Zealand as a brand- Country identities and travel- Monetary inflation- Tax Refunds- Businesses at large scales- Permanent gaps in the market

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In this episode:

  • David's ADHD experience- Feeling defensive about other people's mental accomplishments- Just harden up?- Empathy- Is overpathologisation a social issue?- Increased recognition or increasing disorders?- Drug use and neurotypicality

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In this episode:

  • The school system lacking porn education- Impacts on children and how to teach it- The future of pornography- Porn relating to human fertility rate- Conservatism vs Libertarianism- Age restriction of pornography- Censorship vs freedom- Mental attitudes towards porn

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In this episode:

  • Embracing 'cringe'

  • Lucas' father's golden simple advice

  • Outside opinions, positive and negative

  • Early pickup artist culture

  • Falling role model 'attention spans'

  • Artificial Intelligence and Universal Basic Income

  • Cycling through goals, settings new ones, the in between

  • Parenting, families, and societal expectations

  • Cookie cutter education and self help

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In this episode:

  • Drugs as mitigating factors in crimes
  • Individual cases being made an example of
  • Youth crimes/ram raids
  • The holistic causes of crime
  • Enforcement of laws
  • Serious crimes
  • Institutional racism
  • Different types of murder

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In this episode:

  • 'Bring back bullying'
  • Online activism
  • Feeding the anger-reaction-anger cycle
  • How much a social issue impacts your life
  • The slippery slope argument
  • Are we all in need of a reality check?
  • Life reflects reality back to you regardless
  • Interactions with political adversaries in real life
  • A voting and taxation tangent

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Daniel's crackhead neighbour interaction
  • Drugs as a crutch for vulnerability and connection
  • Being comfortable initiating interaction
  • Context with being vulnerable
  • Risking betrayal
  • Vulnerability and trust as a currency

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Failure to negotiate and missed opportunities
  • 'Yes men', Doormat people taking L's
  • Negotiating non-negotiables
  • The rewards for developing your negotiating skills
  • Holding your own tongue as a form of negotiation
  • Negotiating with your own ego
  • Knowing your reasons giving your negotiations depth

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Is food a medicine?
  • The health star rating system
  • Sugar taxes
  • Condensing all nutrition into one pill
  • Eating as a ritual
  • Limiting food options for beneficiaries?
  • The healthy food is too expensive argument
  • Fasting
  • Listening to the wisdom of the body
  • Diet trends

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In this episode we talk about:

  • When we realised our parents were flawed human beings
  • Adult bad habits becoming engrained
  • The importance of intergenerational relationship
  • How to help children in bad living situations
  • Do different cultural upbringing help or hinder society?
  • Identifying your good and bad traits
  • Improving relationships can start with you

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Focusing on one skill/lesson
  • Making self help specific to you
  • An inch of action is worth a mile of thought
  • Copium. Copes and self owns
  • Are our desires truly our own?
  • Failure is success
  • Mainstream schooling and parenting deficiencies
  • Men's mental health
  • Our low hanging self help fruits

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In this episode we talk about:

  • The urge to intervene in world tragedies
  • Being too empathetic vs too callous to tragedy
  • Government social campaigns
  • Deep internal change 'curing' addictions
  • Drugs, the need for connection
  • Religion
  • Normalized therapy
  • Generational trauma

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In this episode we talk about:

  • 'Proxy' friends, as coined by David
  • Intentionality as an adult
  • Individuating as you age
  • Online relationships, romantic and platonic
  • Smart use of messaging apps
  • Handling break ups responsibly
  • Being consistently yourself across different relationship types
  • Parental relationships and family love
  • Cultural differences in familial relationships

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In this episode we talk about:

  • What are Universities good for now?
  • Authority figures were more ignorant than we realised
  • Great teacher stories
  • Using retrospection intelligently
  • First or early relationship Successes
  • Old people and wisdom from retrospection
  • Seeking out people who have already 'done it'
  • The power of retrospection to extract meta life lessons
  • Lack of open mindedness towards unusual life paths

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Infantalisation of adults
  • Beta male hard-core collectors
  • Societal expectation to become adults
  • Is nostalgia useful?
  • It is easier to copy than to create
  • 20th century consumer culture changes
  • Collecting as an entire personality
  • Fast food and nostalgic marketing
  • Changing attitudes to childishness
  • 'Good times create weak men'

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In this episode we talk about:

  • The difference between great marketing and a scam
  • Large debts/money moves taking time to correct
  • Housing as a human right
  • The over 65's demographic mentalities
  • Facebook marketplace vs trademe
  • Quality of life trends and the wealth gap

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Consistency in the current generation
  • Immigration
  • The expectation gap
  • Society's ideas of success influencing us
  • Pursuing what you love as the ultimate success
  • Retirement is a scam
  • Not knowing what to do with your life
  • Sportspeople as the embodiment of success
  • Making your second nature habits first nature
  • Raising children

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Going cold turkey from addictions
  • Monetary suffering and spending
  • Suffering, pleasure and guilt
  • Clean vs dirty pleasures
  • Working until retirement
  • Putting in work to enjoy 'holidays'
  • Rearing children as the ultimate suffering
  • Teachers pay rates
  • Complaining and negativity
  • Religious texts and self help -
  • 'A Man's Search for Meaning'
  • Living without hope

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In this episode we talk about:

  • We are camping
  • NZ Westgold Butter drama
  • Being proud of buying a premium product
  • Prioritizing the society's most privileged
  • 'What high school did you go to?'
  • Elite/private high schools
  • Being born into ultra wealth
  • Fighting for something
  • Responsibility and meaning
  • Humans at war with aliens
  • Sharing your privilege/knowledge

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In this episode we talk about:

  • A.I. interfering in the legal system
  • A.I. interactions and potential job takeovers
  • Early adoption of new technologies
  • Energy levels depleting as you age - Can A.I. aid us in the future?
  • What is left for humans once A.I is more powerful?
  • A.I and religion
  • How A.I implicates warfare and tactics
  • 'Manufactured cuteness' and eliciting responses from the masses

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Mass Tourism
  • COVID in New Zealand is worse than we are told
  • Talking about age in social situations
  • How easy it is to forget events that have occurred in the past
  • Growing older and living human life extension
  • Monopolies and late stage capitalism
  • The possible rise of underground commerce
  • We are on the brink of WW3
  • Wild and out the gate predictions (take with a grain of salt)

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Apologies, I mistakenly allude in the recording that it is episode 15.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Dealing with the hand you've been given
  • Euthanasia and legal suicide
  • 'Natural' lifespans and living longer
  • Dealing with death
  • Unfair criticism of religiously informed views
  • Our perceptions of time passing
  • Gaining wisdom
  • Learning about death as a child
  • David's therapeutic depression content

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In this episode we talk about:

  • In person vs technological communication
  • Daniel's scum neighbours and 'low bandwidth' communication
  • Generational communication gaps
  • Instant attraction to certain people
  • Dwindling superficial business/consumer interactions
  • Getting more intentional about communication
  • Being conscious of different types of relationships
  • Future 'products' facilitating human relationships

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Emotions and feelings the end of year brings
  • 'Crazy' people
  • Recognizing failure as inevitable
  • Offensive humour and social responses
  • Intent and the power behind language
  • Glorification and platforming of people
  • Masculinity and showing 'weakness'

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Apologies for this episode being uploaded late. I have been away on holiday.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Energy and momentum
  • Beliefs being primary to doing anything
  • The desire to believe
  • Intelligence and introspection
  • Inherent character traits
  • Opinions and 'your truth'
  • Delusions compared to beliefs
  • Emotions and change

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Banks making record profits
  • Profit margins and media slant
  • Attention economy and curating your news
  • Losing feels more bad than winning does good
  • Fear and negativity makes better consumers
  • Physical health is primary to everything
  • Ageing and feeling jaded
  • Act like a child
  • Separating moral 'work' and 'play'
  • Occupying your time with hobbies
  • Planning into the future
  • Changing the scale of problems

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Scam recycling programs
  • First world countries indirectly polluting
  • Dairy farming and rivers
  • Environment vs. human pleasure
  • Generational lifestyle creep
  • Government environmental regulation
  • Infinite growth of a finite planet
  • The Amazon and palm oil
  • Sacrifice for children
  • Relationship sacrifice

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Alcohols unfair advantage in culture
  • The gateway drug argument
  • Attitudes towards trying new drugs
  • Drunk driving
  • Considering other 'substances' as 'drugs'
  • Legalization of all drugs
  • Alcohol and primitive urges
  • Generational attitude changes to alcohol
  • 'Drugs' vs 'Medicine'
  • Education, self medication and harm reduction
  • Ceremonial use of alcohol

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In this episode we talk about:

  • The best algorithms worsening social isolation
  • Monetary influences on algorithms
  • Polarisation and 'boring' centrist content
  • People being blamed for the actions of their followers
  • Choosing to trust a personality for truth
  • Weaponisation of algorithms
  • Shadow work with the help of algorithms
  • Algorithmic lingering
  • Marketing and selling

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**We had a technical difficulty in the middle of the podcast so apologies for the lost flow and tempo.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Misguided resentment to others/disappointment in yourself
  • Valuing your own time
  • Split personalities
  • Lack of education about boundaries
  • Boundaries are an attractive trait
  • Business and political boundaries
  • Utilising technologically enforced boundaries
  • Our boundary related weaknesses

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Disclaimer This recording was particularly conversational and more tangential. 

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Our experiences examples of alone time
  • Avoiding alone time out of habit
  • Setting boundaries to avoid time vampires
  • Importance of environment for alone time
  • Boomers love to 'Go for a walk'
  • Noises, sounds and alone time
  • Bringing the alone time mindset into everyday
  • Gratitude

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In this episode we talk about:

  • What anxiety looks and feels like from an outsiders perspective
  • Body and mind connection
  • Mental health movement co-opted by narcissists
  • Evolutionary explanations
  • Making your emotions your personality
  • Learning with age and managing anxiety
  • Anxiety as a solo battle
  • Nature vs nurture
  • Boundary setting
  • Introverts and extroverts
  • Self betrayal
  • Should you even give anxiety advice?

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Apologies, was a bit under the weather recording this one - *Nav

In this episode we talk about: 

  • Fear as a teacher
  • Fear as a social tool
  • Exposure therapy
  • Modern/ technological fears
  • Building positive narratives from fear
  • Unlearning/ replacing a toxic attitude towards failure
  • How the 'tribe' responds to risk taking individuals
  • Quality friends and family
  • The selfish 'tribe' holding successful individuals back
  • Self love, self care, setting boundaries
  • The toxicity and the fun of 'the boys'

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Parents/family closed mindedness
  • Fake news and falling for fake stories
  • Travel is Daniel's antidote to close mindedness
  • Evolutionary perspectives
  • VR artificially creating novel experiences
  • Open mindedness MUST come before proof or truth
  • Children as our teachers
  • The people you surround yourself with
  • A healthy balance between open and close mindedness on a nation state scale
  • Nation states reflecting their populations level of open mindedness
  • Money and capitalism encouraging open mindedness

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Democracy definitions and impracticalities
  • How people choose who to vote for
  • Political parties taking advantage of the uninformed
  • Our ideal voting ages
  • Swing voters and short sighted policies
  • Wealthy politicians being out of touch
  • Accessibility to knowledge about our democracy
  • Governments taking credit for things outside of their control
  • Why this last election was historic
  • How COVID highlighted our voting behaviours
  • Hypocrisies and contradictions of elites
  • The importance of understanding business basics
  • Meaningless and manipulative numbers

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In this episode we talk about:

  • Late 20's and age related risks
  • Analysis paralysis
  • Strategies to deal with risk taking
  • Delaying risk taking
  • Leaving wealth to your children
  • Practice gratitude
  • Governmental risk taking
  • Middle class consumerism trap
  • Parenting limitations and repeating their lifestyles

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In this episode we talk about:

  • tall poppy syndrome (or lack thereof) in sport
  • the public opinion of New Zealand supermarkets and businesspeople
  • national & racial pride
  • confidence mistaken as arrogance
  • country slogans to foster national attitudes
  • our messages to our 15 year old selves
  • high school culture failing to prepare us

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