Mark and Jeff discuss the facets that form the foundation of a friendship and how that works as you age as well as what the differences are between acquantances, casual friends, close friends and long term friends. As usual, they also discuss what they learned this week and what media they are consuming

In this episode, Mark and Jeff discuss the decision making process for evaluating when the time has come to let your dog pass. It all flows from quality of life issues. Mark and Jeff discuss what has happened in the past in their experiences and what values should dictate your approach to helping understand when it is time to let go. Often a dog's suffering is related to late decisions and the desire to keep the dog going for personal reasons rather than the dog's quality of life.

Our political landscape is incredibly fractured and the recent US election has left many people not understanding what is going on and for many on the losing side there is a lot of grief over the results from the election. In this episode, we talk about the Overton window, what it is and what is means, as well as how to deal with loss (political or otherwise). Loss is a big thing that people can get over but there are some simple steps to help you find a way to move forward.