Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

Daniel enjoys his first boys’ night in fifteen months, only to relearn a lesson he already knows: three beers is the right amount. Soren recalls wandering into a stranger’s party and waking up locked in a bathroom. The guys compare the indignities of getting older, from stubborn injuries to the impossibility of recovering from a hangover while parenting. Plus, why Daniel is perpetually sick and ho...

Daniel mourns the loss of a beloved bit after a new ferry terminal prevents him from shouting embarrassing encouragement at his wife. Then Soren admits he’s taken some unusually big swings in his latest script, prompting the guys to compare the strange jokes they couldn’t believe survived — including Daniel’s extremely long fantasy about living nude and wet inside an egg. They also discover the ho...

Daniel and Soren build their own baseball teams, beginning with the Albuquerque Weird Ants and eventually creating Potatoes, a frazzled mascot who sheds potatoes, carries backups in a briefcase, and never quite gets the win. Soon they’re designing stadium traditions and wondering why mascots don’t engage in more psychological warfare against opposing teams.  Along the way, Daniel makes his case fo...

Soren finds a lost wallet and decides to personally return it to its owner, only to discover an adult human tooth hiding behind the ID. His good deed quickly becomes a mystery when the owner refuses to explain the tooth — and Soren absolutely refuses to stop asking. Daniel tries to convince him that sometimes being a good Samaritan means knowing when to leave. Follow the guys on Bluesky! https://b...

Daniel heads to the Emmys expecting five uninterrupted hours of bad movies, only to discover his “janky flight” has no in-flight entertainment. Things improve in Los Angeles when he finally experiences the privilege of losing an Emmy — leaving him free to enjoy the ceremony, celebrate everyone else, and end the night eating Del Taco in bed while watching Big Daddy. We want to thank Mint Mobile for...

Daniel and Soren imagine the deeply glamorous riders they’d demand if anyone actually needed them for a weekend. Daniel wants a 10 a.m. beef stick, while Soren makes the case for a Payday as an any-meal candy bar. Eventually, their ideal accommodations expand to mysterious party mixes — just don’t insult Soren with something as pedestrian as Chex Mix. Thanks to ASPCA for sponsoring this episode. T...

Daniel spends a peaceful morning fishing while two strangers loudly debate California infrastructure and the WNBA, leaving him to wonder whether it’s worth arguing when everyone is trapped on the same boat. Soren has confrontation problems of his own — including apologizing for something he didn’t do at Whole Foods and accidentally discovering that shouting “mango” at strangers does not always mea...

Soren finally makes it to the mysterious mining claim his family has owned for decades, bringing his son along for a character-building trip through the Colorado mountains. They find the land and solve an old family mystery—then Soren’s boots fall apart five miles from camp. The boys also debate what to do with 3.2 acres they can’t build on, eventually landing on a surprisingly lovely solution: gi...

Daniel discovers that the Cracked archive is disappearing, which sends the guys back through the internet they grew up with and the strange problem of preserving something that was never built to last. Soren argues that younger people should reclaim the abandoned corners of the web, while Daniel has another idea—treat the internet like a dead mall, get a churro somewhere else, and maybe pave the w...

Soren argues for giving Macklemore one more chance as Daniel recounts the strongly worded daycare letter that ended with his son perched on a throne while a teacher blew bubbles at the king. Along the way, they compare embarrassing phases, protective parenting, and the strange freedom of becoming the annoying parents. We want to thank Mint Mobile for supporting this episode. Make the switch at htt...

A million dollars to read an audiobook sounds easy until Soren leaves out one crucial detail. Daniel tries to draw the line between commitment to the text and commitment to staying out of trouble, while both of them wonder if there’s such a thing as the wrong narrator. The boys end the discussion by arguing over whether listening to a book counts as reading it. Thanks to ASPCA for sponsoring this...

Daniel shares the emotional whiplash of daycare drop-offs before Soren pitches a Christmas movie where Santa spends eternity exploring an empty world. From Bobby’s World to dating Santa Claus, the second half turns into an unexpectedly detailed Hollywood development meeting. Follow the guys on Bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/danielobrien.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/sorenbowie.bsky.socia...

Soren and Daniel discover that old writing can be harder to revisit than create, from unpublished novels to long-forgotten job packets. Then Soren shares his newest obsession: airport theft videos, where stolen sunglasses, impossible excuses, and “But I have a flight” somehow become endlessly entertaining. Thanks to ASPCA for sponsoring this episode. To explore coverage, visit http://SPCApetinsura...

Soren is convinced he could get a stranger to hand over $100, while Daniel insists $20 and a fake microphone are all you need. The guys workshop increasingly elaborate scams, debate the right amount of gratitude after lending someone money, and discover that sleeping outside is much less peaceful once the sprinklers, rooster, and mystery bites show up—all of which somehow still earns Soren the bra...

Daniel gets back from Italy with an alarming report on the state of America Versus Italy, a country that not only believes in clear allergen labels, but also bottle caps which remain physically connected to the bottle. Plus, the guys compare notes on having a good baby on a plane, the quiet realization you just aren’t going to see Project Hail Mary I guess, and what happens when you put a bunch of...

Daniel's brushing up on his Italian and looking for shortcuts, so he and Soren nail down exactly which phrases he's most likely to need on vacation in Italy with a newborn. And speaking of newborns, newborn prospector Soren Bowie shares an incredible story of love, family, and brotherhood involving his late father, who, it turns out, has left his sons a piece of mystery land deep in the Colorado w...

After a brief stretch on podcast etiquette — the wrong ways to listen to them, the hard part of explaining this one — the episode settles into its actual purpose: Daniel telling Soren to stop, basically. In a sorta Tarantino of last week's update, Soren explains and defends his ongoing plan to hide bottles of Just Ice Tea around a Whole Foods so tomorrow’s lunch will be cold, which Daniel correctl...

The guys do a heat check on owning your own printer, then talk data-driven reunion tours for millennial bands, Bo Burnham vs. Mr. Beast, and the 70’s as the bleakest decade on film. Plus, what Google AI got wrong about the Tony Awards and why Soren stands by scattering hidden iced teas throughout a Whole Foods.  Thanks to ASPCA for sponsoring this episode. To explore coverage, visit ASPCApetinsura...

Soren returns from a rainy, kid-free trip to New Jersey with a suspiciously deep knowledge of the state bird, state flower, state animal, state dinosaur, and possibly every other official state object. Elsewhere, the guys discuss the futility of arguing politics on Nextdoor, the spiritual menace of squirrels, whether birds in your eaves count as tenants, skunks as pets and/or chemical weapons, rac...

Daniel and Soren discuss stolen jokes, Gordon Ramsay’s many forms, and the cursed experience of being photographed by someone who loves you at the exact wrong angle. Then they spiral into body-image math, shirtless Jeff Bezos, Ryan Gosling’s unfair torso, and whether time travel would actually fix anything besides your ability to gamble on basketball. Thanks to Mint Mobile for sponsoring this epis...

Daniel reveals that one of Soren’s forgotten novelty songs has become part of his son’s bedtime rotation, which somehow leads to a long conversation about sitcom logic, student council politics, famous people they went to school with, and the absolutely deranged social etiquette of high school and college. Topics include: Friends, Jersey Shore, theater kids, network procedurals, dorm room diplomac...

The guys talk The Running Man specifically, Stephen King broadly, and shows they've noticed that seem to be catering to distracted audiences before diving in to a titular quick question about their favorite portrayls of good marriages in film and TV.  Thanks to Mint Mobile. Make the switch! MINTMOBILE.com/QQ Thanks to Keeper. Get 60% off personal and family plans at Keepersecurity.com/QQ.  Follow...

Daniel outlines the sleep-deprived realities of early fatherhood, prompting a discussion on parental anxiety and intrusive worst-case scenario thoughts. Soren recounts his history of furnishing apartments with items found on the street before detailing his recent domestic upgrades. The episode's Quick Question asks: What is the most overdue improvement in your life right now? Additional topics inc...

A New York Times crossword puzzle was accidentally unsolvable, which raises an important question: when something doesn’t make sense, is it broken, or are you just dumb? Soren and Daniel talk puzzles (both kinds), people who follow rules vs. people who look for loopholes, and why car horns should probably be illegal or at least--lest we be branded authoritarian--exhaustible. Then later, would you...

Daniel starts out impossibly sweaty, which leads to a story about meeting his girlfriend’s entire family for the first time, hiding in the basement, and realizing he may be remembered forever as “that crazy sweaty guy.” From there, he and Soren debate the greatest cast shows ever, argue for Mad Men, The Wire, and Frasier, and swap audition horror stories, tech avails, and the perfect origin of Cli...