"I highly recommend touching grass. I've touched so much grass recently."

- Fidget Cube Guru

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In this fidgety chirp-a-thon, Fidget Cube Guru, Kenzient, and Tink (a green parakeet) split their bills overthinking about tipping culture, the highs and lows of owning a parakeet, and the subtle art of giving the right amount of f*cks.

Chirp chirp:

• tipping culture/etiquette in the Canadian restaurant industry
• is having a small-scale, niche audience nowadays better than virality and fame?
• the widespread lack of empathy in online interactions and why we need to listen to each other
• the joys of touching grass—"Earthing"
• letting go of the stories we tell ourselves and giving ourselves the freedom to fail

Producer credits for musical segments/interludes:

• Migration (intro)
• Fornax
• Barstool
• William Blue
• Cloud Cover (outro)

Streets of the Philippines: A Sunkissed Photo Essay

Divorced Dad Rock (Spotify Playlist)

"The film industry is big, it's oversaturated and profit-driven, and time-consuming. And oftentimes, very frequently, disappointing films just happen and we call them flops."

- Doctor Whenever

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In this high-concept cinematic flop, Doctor Whenever, a part-time time lord, enlists returning guests, HBO Max (not to be confused with the streaming service FKA as "HBO Max") and KD to attempt to fix the Hollywood timeline (or space-time continuum) by discussing changes for films that failed to live up to their potential.

Films discussed include:

• Ghost in the Shell
• X3: The Last Stand + Dark Phoenix
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• Blankman
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Producer credits for musical interludes/segments:

• SharpFlatNatural
• William Blue
• Killer Chops
• Placidic
• Abydos Music

Find KD on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and check out her podcast ⁠⁠KDTime⁠⁠.

“You are an individual, unique piece of this whole that we are all part of, and it’s not complete without you.”

– Lindy Nelson

🧠🌰🪷

In this psychonautical odyssey, some sober guy named Tom (NOT from Myspace) is joined by two lovely humans, Jay and Lindy Nelson, authors of a book titled Consciousness in a Nutshell, to crack open the endlessly complex black box that is consciousness.

This episode won't teach you more than a 4-year degree — but it's more compact, less costly, and lightyears more enjoyable than a lecture from an uptight professor who insists on everyone calling him "Doctor." (You know who you are, Dr. Robert. 👀)

Turn on, tune in, and D̶R̶O̶P̶ O̶U̶T̶ voyage inward with us!

Course Outline:

• The enlightening potential of Creative Nonfiction storytelling
• Self-awareness: is it possible to truly perceive yourself the way others perceive you?
• Social media algorithms pushing outlandish conspiracy theories (like Dave Chapelle being replaced by a clone of himself)
• Jay’s revelatory Near Death Experience (NDE) — “The Life Review Boomerang”
• Altered States 101: how to override the narrative self (EGO) and the default mode network (DMN), with or without psychedelics

Producer credits for musical interludes/segments:

• Broad Sky
• William Claeson

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Learn more about Jay and Lindy's work on their official website and YouTube channel.

Consciousness in a Nutshell is available to order worldwide via Amazon.

"The book made me feel like I was getting a warm hug from a stranger. And not just any stranger... a stranger that I may or may not have known in a past life!" - Banana Ice

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In this lime (in a coconut), Banana Ice and Holy Shiver (AKA Alessandra Veronesi) turn their minds inwards, "unpeel themselves" from the inside out, and walk each other home after experiencing Christ Consciousness in a supermarket.

Nutrition Facts:

• A New Banana, Alessandra's self-help book about embracing life and cultivating healthy relationships
• the inspiring wisdom of Hermetic teachings like "As above, so below..." and the idea that the universe exists within (and without) all of us
• humans sharing more than 50% of their DNA with bananas?
• refreshing perspectives on romance and dating in a post-pandemic world
• shedding the layers of who we think we are to become our most authentic Selves

Producer credits for musical interludes/segments:

• Macroform
• The Golden Moons

Find Alessandra (AKA Holy Shiver) on Instagram, YouTube, and her website. Check out her books (discussed in the episode) below:

• A New Banana: Unpeel YourSelf and Elevate Your Relationships
• Desperado: A Little Book to Support You Through Harder Times

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Get 3 free meditations from Holy Shiver

'Twas the night before Christmas,

and I interviewed an AI Chatbot about artificial intelligence.

Gather 'round the fireplace for this one...

🎙️🤖

In this Holly Jolly Turing Test, William Blue and Pi discuss the emerging technology of artificial intelligence (AI), its benefits, potential drawbacks, and ethical implications. Featured in this episode is Pi, an AI chatbot developed by Inflection AI.

Overthinkers Anonymous is not affiliated or sponsored by Inflection AI.

This interview is intended for entertainment and educational purposes only.

Producer credits for musical interludes/segments:

• 99instrumentals

There is nothing wrong with your listening device.

Do not attempt to close and reopen the app.

We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your screen...

🍑❓

You have just stumbled onto a BONUS EPISODE...

Or is it a crossover episode? Maybe it's both.

Either way, don't overthink it.

In this backed-up bonus episode, Jonah and Leeann have a crack at analyzing and assessing posts from the r/AITA subreddit, attempting to answer—on a case-by-case basis—the age-old question:

"Am I the Asshole?"

[This podcast was originally recorded on September 29, 2022, for Leeann's podcast ⁠Get Psyched⁠ but was left in the vault.

Since this episode is a repurposed recording originally intended for another podcast, I decided to make this a bonus episode for season 2.]

...am I the asshole for making this a bonus episode?

The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike is over at last! But, for Max, an overthinker who exists, the battle to reclaim his birth name from a faceless streaming service has just begun. Greenlight this, HBO.

In this on-demand after-school special, confused grown-ups Boba-T (no relation to Ice-T), Ethan Drory (AKA Droryboy), and HBO Max (not to be confused with the streaming service) play "hot potato conch shell" and wing their ways through an honest-to-goodness chit-chat about adulting, and how there aren't any instruction manuals for navigating it—or doing it well.

Oh, the places you'll go:

• why HBO Max rebranding to "Max" was a big bad move
• manifesting by living in "future tense" ("The Law of Assumption" from Ethan's POV)
• the struggle of providing value and monetizing your skills as an artist (navigating the Creator economy)
• why people tend to treat bartenders with more respect than servers
• how social media is corrupting youth's perceptions of themselves (and the world)

Producer credits for musical interludes/segments:

• Resolute Audio
• SharpFlatNatural
• Bopper Beats
• Droryboy

DISCLAIMER: Overthinkers Anonymous is NOT affiliated with HBO and, by extension, does not answer to Warner Bros. Discovery. The guest that self-identified as "HBO Max" in this episode does not represent the streaming service formerly known as "HBO Max" that is now currently known as "Max" (much to HBO Max's chagrin). HBO Max did not disclose the meaning of the acronym "HBO" in his name. It is safe to assume it is not an acronym for "Home Box Office."