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Midlifing
By Lee Miller and Simon EllisSociety & Culture
Midlifing episodes
- 110: What does your nose look like when you are baking bread?
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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.
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Related links (and necessary corrections):- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi#Flow
- The Alpinist (review): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/23/the-alpinist-review-nerve-shredding-climbing-doc-marc-andre-leclerc
- Marc-André Leclerc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-André_Leclerc
- VPNs: https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-a-vpn
- Mountaineering or alpinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaineering
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].
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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)28 min - 109: Moist is a perfectly acceptable word
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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.
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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)26 min - 108: Sitting on the toilet crying
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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 [email protected].
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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)30 min - 107: We are just having fun
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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 [email protected].
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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)28 min - 106: A miasma of complications
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After spending a couple of days together Lee and Simon play roses and thorns.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].
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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)28 min - 105: I can see you and I can see you
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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 [email protected].
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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)27 min - 104: An apology in human form
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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 Polynesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_people#Origins_from_Polynesia
- Liza Minnelli sings Cabaret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOamKxW844
- Tim Loughton challenges Suella Braverman on immigration policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zXhR8NVZI
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].
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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)29 min - 103: I don't like literacy
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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)
- Event horizon (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)
- Igor and Moreno: https://igorandmoreno.com
- Karrasekare: https://www.facebook.com/igorxmoreno/posts/pfbid0Hb5smBWiSabZ1KgBZsa8KxgyAqwAnv9ydX3KnELuL478xj6QjyUZV7TBAfH1TRN8l
- Mirto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirto_%28liqueur%29
- Pregaming: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pregame
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].
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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)26 min - 102: A rich rich ragú
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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 [email protected] 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.org/wiki/Priti_Patel
- Ron DeSantis victory speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuvPNfo9BI
- Braverman and tofu-eating wokerati: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/21/suella-braverman-tofu-capital-malton-tofoo
- Night of the Living Dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead
- The Ministry for the Future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
- pay differential (or wage parity or Executive-to-Employee Pay Ratio): https://corporate-rebels.com/ideal-ceo-to-employee-pay-ratio/
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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 [email protected].
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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)29 min - 101: Welcome to 101 everybody
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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 [email protected] or @midlifingpod on Instagram.
Related links (and necessary corrections):- Terrifier 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrifier_2
- Nuoro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuoro
- Dead Calm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Calm_(film)
- BMX Bandits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMX_Bandits_(film)
- the eternal city: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/how-did-rome-become-known-as-the-eternal-city/
- 3 a.m. Eternal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_a.m._Eternal
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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 [email protected].
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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)25 min
About Midlifing
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Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being…
human.