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.

Social media ads are often touted as a great way to reach clients but does it work? Mark and Jeff exam the realities of marketing through social media, what it takes to succeed and what success looks like. Many people only do half-hearted efforts on social media and are surprised when it doesn't work. The need to be known, trusted and liked are key factors to leveraging reach through social media

Mark was travelling this week but managed to set up an interview with Sarah DeRemer a dog photographer based out of LA who is also known as dogtographer.la on Instagram. She's an amazing photographer who took the time to sit down with Mark and talk about her photography and her first visit to the Canadian Rockies.

There are polls on just about everything, but how do they work? Why are they correct a certain percentage, 19 times out of 20? What does that mean? Mark and Jeff discuss the foundation of polls and the problems with how polling is conducted. With elections all over the place, what do the polls mean in relation to the elections being conducted? Can we rely upon them?

Mark and Jeff, after episodes exploring different types of AI ask the question, what makes an AI work? When will a computer become sentient? What defines sentience? What are the drawbacks of AI? Lots of interesting questions

There is a new AI product that will take your content and create a podcast from it. Meet Google Notebook LM. It works differently from ChatGPT because it uses the information you upload and becomes an instance expert at your stuff. It even generates a podcast discussing your documents/slides/sound files. Pretty cool stuff