Funnel Cake Brain
Humorous and insightful self-improvement podcast focused on addiction, recovery, and self-actualization.
Episodes
10 episodes
#10 Obsession
Carp talks about the nature of obsession, wrangling runaway thoughts, using AI hallucinations as an analogy for our own world building fantasies, and how to properly balance our experience with our thoughts.
#9 AI and the Aporncalypse
Carp talks about making friends with his AI replacement, Porn, giving your browser history to your grandma, and AA.
#8 Limiting Factors
Carp discusses the benefits and power of limitation, the nature of tolerance building, the dopaminergic threshold, the hedonic baseline, and "turning the other cheek". The fear messages we keep getting are getting stronger and the outlook is ge...
#7 (Ruminations) Performative Chameleon
Carp discusses our performative nature, evil, death, and the circle of regressive "why's". He also talks about how everything through a screen is a lie in one way or another, and his attempts to understand the world the "youngin's" are living i...
#6 Confidently Insecure
This episode rounds out the 3 part mini-series of doubt, validation, and confidence. Confidence is broken down into situational confidence and general confidence. In my attempt to define what those two are and how I'm recognizing them in my lif...
#5 Validating My Experience
This episode focuses on the next step after doubt, validation. In this episode (I've been talking about myself in these descriptions in the third person and it's coming off weird, so I'm changing it) I discuss my attempt to move from using exte...
#4 I Doubt It
This episode focuses on the nature of doubt, specifically doubt as it pertains to positive and negative states. Carp also discusses truth vs facts and how those things inform his perspective. With the focus on perspective there is a...
#3 Adjusting to the Disorder
Carp discusses rage-inducing tv mounts, mindsets and expectations that lead to misery, and some of the various diagnoses he's received, namely adjustment disorder, and how working with diagnoses as a tool for improvement rather than a label to ...