Midlifing

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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).

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Gen Z never learned to read cursive: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/gen-z-handwriting-teaching-cursive-history/671246/
• Liz Truss and hitting the ground: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/liz-truss-hit-the-ground_uk_62d81f2ee4b000da23facac2
• BBC local radio interviews with Liz Truss: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/29/disastrous-liz-truss-interviews-bbc-local-radio-packs-punch-analysis
• Being Mortal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Mortal
• Yvon Chouinard and ownership of Patagonia: https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/

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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.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• The comic strip presents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Comic_Strip_Presents..._episodes
• Victoria Wood Things Would Never Have Worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB0yS7eAhRo
• Victoria Wood meta sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGjyD6vO6Y
• Victoria Wood in Marjorie and Joan sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndxG8g6U_0I
• Kath and Kim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kath_&_Kim
• Forced Entertainment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_Entertainment
• Victoria Wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood
• Death of Prince and Bowie: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/79480445/purple-pain-why-the-deaths-of-prince-and-bowie-cut-us-so-deep
• Bob and Lee's PhD: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/parip/PhD_ab_boblee.htm

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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.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• David Beckham queuing to see Queen lying-in-state: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/sep/16/david-beckham-joins-queue-for-queens-lying-in-state-video
• She hulk Deadpool thingy: https://www.gamesradar.com/she-hulk-episode-5-credits-deadpool-thing/
• Bunch of other films that you can look up yourselves.
• Onion article about The Queen's death: https://www.theonion.com/note-do-not-run-until-fucking-queen-is-dead-or-people-1849511595

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Simon and Lee talk about benevolent dictatorships and what they are supposed to be feeling while living in a country in mourning.

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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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCDFNRA-Wo
• Boris Johnson dancing at his wedding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0cViVgWfJQ
• Lars Mikkelsen: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586565/
• William Wycherley's The Country Wife (restoration comedy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Wife
• Uju Anya tweet story: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stefficao/uju-anya-queen-elizabeth-death-tweet-reaction
• Kirkegaard on being pulled between the finite and the infinite: https://bigthink.com/thinking/kierkegaard-finite-infinite-nothingness/
• Boat hits whale in NZ: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62860778
• Benevolent dictatorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship
• António de Oliveira Salazar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_de_Oliveira_Salazar
• Bear Gryll's adventure: https://www.beargryllsadventure.com

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Lee and Simon talk about making and responding to mistakes.

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Lee and Simon talk about dealing with the news (or not dealing with it), enemies and helplessness.

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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.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62687295
• Gene Knudsen Hoffman on the enemy: https://newconversations.net/communication-skills-library-of-articles-and-teaching-materials/gene-knudsen-hoffman-articles/an-enemy-is-one-whose-story-we-have-not-heard/

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Simon and Lee discuss monogamy.

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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.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Gloria & Lil's Cafe: https://www.gloriaandlils.co.uk
• Mika 'Grace Kelly' challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYU3CqoJIx0
• Research on masturbation and shota: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/11/manchester-university-phd-masturbating-to-comics-of-young-boys
• Shota: https://thewordcounter.com/meaning-of-shota/
• Clark Moustakas and loneliness: https://archive.org/details/loneliness00mous
• Fellatio keeps male fruit bats keen: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18077-fellatio-keeps-male-fruit-bats-keen/
• How Gay Dead Duck Sex Was Discovered: https://www.livescience.com/28538-gay-duck-necrophilia.html
• Drag Queen Story Time story: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/11/im-just-trying-to-make-the-world-a-little-brighter-how-the-culture-wars-hijacked-drag-queen-story-hour

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Lee recounts how he went to London to go clubbing and how it filled him with joy.

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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 and here attributed to Crow's Heart: https://mahtobay.com/history/
• TikTok algorithm is pretty basic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfczi2cI6Cs

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Simon and Lee discuss trust, friendship and taste.

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected] 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: https://youtu.be/19IPBCxh9ls

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Get in touch with Lee and Simon at [email protected].

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