Midlifing

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon forget that this is the 2022 Christmas episode until just the end. They talk about empathy, standard deviations, free speech and Lee not being very well-adjusted. Note: The civil rights person Bono was talking to was Harry Belafonte! Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://ww...

Send us Fan Mail After spending a couple of days together Lee and Simon play roses and thorns. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee break their duck in order to create an event horizon. They also talk about the term 'well-adjusted'. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

Send us Fan Mail Simon has a musical adventure and he and Lee get serious about immigration, political binaries and the mess of racist tropes served algorithmically. [Apologies for Simon's crap audio]. Related links (and necessary corrections): Eddie Redmayne in Cabaret: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/dec/13/cabaret-review-eddie-redmayne-playhouse-theatre Māori migration from Polynesi...

Send us Fan Mail Simon finds a small glass for some mirto, Lee pregames, and they end up in a conversation about being young and the blank page (courtesy of Bruce Springsteen). Warning: it all gets quite silly. Related links (and necessary corrections): Marjorie Taylor Greene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene Pontypool (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_(film) Even...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon discuss the abstraction of languages, the courage of migrants, and the mangle of wokeness. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Lusophone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusophone Suella Braverman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Braverman Priti Patel: https://en.wikipedia....

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon are back (due to popular demand; well, not really, more like out of a habit they couldn't quite break). They catch up all over the place and also talk about making big changes later in life. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Terrifier 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te...

Send us Fan Mail In this bumper episode Lee and Simon talk through what they've learned (about each) over the last 99 episodes (plus a few other things). Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Gen Z never learned to read cursive: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/gen-z-handwriting-teach...

Send us Fan Mail Things get a little strange this week. It carries on from Episode 98 in a conversation about comedy and class, but the best bits don't even belong to Lee and Simon. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): The comic strip presents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Comic_Strip_Prese...

Send us Fan Mail In an attempt to reach brand new levels of banality, Lee and Simon talk about nothing in particular (but different than the week before) before trying to remember Natalie Portman's name and a bunch of other film things. They end up in a conversation about taste and just how personal it really is. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instag...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about benevolent dictatorships and what they are supposed to be feeling while living in a country in mourning. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-XwhH-_lVc Theresa May dancing queen: https://ww...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about making and responding to mistakes. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0) Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an origi...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about dealing with the news (or not dealing with it), enemies and helplessness. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Psilocybin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin Fantastic Fungi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Fungi France - friend or foe: https://www.bbc....

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss monogamy. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0) Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https:...

Send us Fan Mail Simon briefly talks about having to talk about how good he is, before they both fearlessly (or perhaps fearfully) dip their toes into one instance of the culture war. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Gloria & Lil's Cafe: https://www.gloriaandlils.co.uk Mika 'Grace Kelly&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Lee recounts how he went to London to go clubbing and how it filled him with joy. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Branko: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=branko+lisboa The Jazz Cafe London: https://thejazzcafelondon.com Quote by Maximilian (1843) as cited by Levi-Strauss an...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss trust, friendship and taste. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): David Whyte's Consolations: https://davidwhyte.com/pages/consolations Magnetic fridge poetry: https://boredhumans.com/fridge_poetry.php UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett discussing men's mental health:...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of a two-part conversation about encountering aspects of ourselves we don't like or understand, gossip, ruining dinner parties, and parental interventions. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): Quote about gossip: Graeber and Wengrow describe "extremely human activiti...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee pootle around and end up in a two-part conversation about encountering those parts of ourselves we don't like or understand, gossip, ruining dinner parties, and parental interventions. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): 1755 Lisbon earthquake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon discuss a situation in which Simon's nephew Finn responds to a homophobic statement. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): UK Equality Act (2010): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_2010 Owen Jones "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class" (review): h...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon address the question, "Who are you?". Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections): There are none! --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0) Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@mi...

Send us Fan Mail It's embarrassing, but Simon and Lee start with toilet and work related issues before eventually getting to the heart of things (You'll need to be patient with them). Where often they respond to things that are going on, or talk about things they do, in this two-parter they address the question, "Who are you?". Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing....

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon lean warily into a discussion about art (and shit poetry). Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links: Palm Treo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo Nena 99 Luftballoons: https://www.nena.de/de/discografie/99-luftballons-0 Marco Ranieri: http://marcoranieri.org/about-Marco-Ranieri Carl Andre's pile of...

Send us Fan Mail  This week Lee and Simon talk about creativity, making things and understanding their experiences of generosity in different places in the world. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0) Get in touch with...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of a 2 part episode. Lee and Simon respond to some contrasting feedback from Episode 81 and get even further into the weeds of men, women and control. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0) Get i...