Midlifing

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee start with the limits of Government regulation but it turns into a conversation about remembering (and not remembering) people from their past. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): Christchurch mosque shootings (2019): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings Jacinda Ardern resigns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern Billy Joel...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon admit to a serious podcasting mistake and try to course correct. But they go off-track (again), talk about making scones, writing narrative CVs, reflective learning, playing the game of academia, boffins, and how we human beings end up doing the things we do. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original im...

Send us Fan Mail Simon entered a competition and won ... which meant having to collect the prize, and Lee falls into the trap of having an opinion. This episode is really just a recording of two friends having a conversation (unlike the other 114 episodes). They talk about bucket lists, War and Peace, and women falling for the worst guys.  Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --...

Send us Fan Mail I've listened to this episode several times now but I am still not sure what it is about. It starts off wacky that's for sure but then perhaps it becomes about letting go of things, identity, mortality (that old chestnut) and the flexibility of love. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I....

Send us Fan Mail A conversation about pride and getting out of situations that need to be got out of. (It would probably help if you listened to Episode 112 first). --- Related links (and necessary corrections): fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibres: https://www.health.com/fitness/fast-twitch-muscle-fibers Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapte...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about the absurdity and mess of inheritance. --- Related links (and necessary corrections): How rich are you? https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i mātāmua https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/3782 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/photo...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about moments of change in life (and whether we notice them or not). Hot tip: One of them auditioned for RADA (but might not have got in). --- Related links (and necessary corrections): ResDance podcast: https://anchor.fm/gemma-harman RADA: https://www.rada.ac.uk Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . --- The Midlifing logo is adapted from an or...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about their inner voices and whether they think in words or not. Sounds boring but it ain't. Bonus hint for our Patreon subscribers: when you ask someone a question, do not start telling them what they are thinking. --- Related links (and necessary corrections) : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon discuss their rather different approaches to organising their lives (hint: one of them does, the other doesn't). The conversation touches on productivity, discipline, freedom and condensation. --- 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...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss gratitute and the things they are grateful for in 2022. They also want to let you know that the film director Peter Weir is not on Lee's mother's spreadsheet. 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 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...