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Simon and Lee talk about being beginners, selling bones, and the Dao of butchering a cow. They also finally use the word behove.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Simon's apron: https://www.skellis.net/midlifing/apron
• FAST (stroke symptoms): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_(stroke)
• Mnemonic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic
• heart attack symptoms: https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heart_attack.htm
• jointing a chicken (example video): https://youtu.be/ZfBCQ0KdkNo
• Yuk Hui: http://www.digitalmilieu.net/yuk/
• The Dao of butchering a cow: http://philosophyandtechnology.network/605/article-cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics-by-yuk-hui/
• behove: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/behove
• how to pronounce gif: https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/
• Ukrainian poppy seed bread: https://www.toa.st/blogs/magazine/a-recipe-for-ukrainian-poppy-seed-bread-time-to-make

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Lee and Simon talk about flags and t-shirts as absurd shorthands for far more nuanced ideas. Oh, and they talk about the word dude, Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs and a beautiful beautiful hug.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
• mate: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mate
• fella: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fella
• guys: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/guys
• gip: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gip
• Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Ted's_Excellent_Adventure
• fair do's: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fair%20do%27s
• John Carpenter's The Fog (1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog
• Adrienne Barbeau as Stevie Wayne in The Fog: https://youtu.be/L36d7p5TgEI
• Adrienne Barbeau in Creepshow (1982): https://youtu.be/ifNFSHqzQzU
• mendacious: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mendacious
• Claudius (in Hamlet) contracted in one brow of woe: https://abardseyeview.com/and-our-whole-kingdom-to-be-contracted-in-one-brow-of-woe-blogging-hamlet-3/
• Stars and stripes (Old Glory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States
• St George's flag (England): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_England
• Gavin Williamson and dead end degrees: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/gavin-williamson-deadend-courses-nus-b1848461.html
• Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/barbra-streisand-clone-pet-dogs-explained-spd
• Star Wars, The Bad Batch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Bad_Batch
• Six Million Dollar Man (intro): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10emd
• The Bionic Woman (intro): https://youtu.be/qcba-ZgtsT4
• Human cloning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning

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Simon and Lee discuss irrelevance ... and pigs and other mammals.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• A humongous loaf of bread: https://skellis.net/midlifing/humongous
• Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit": https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg
• Nirvana playing "School" at Reading in 1991 (awesome dancing): https://youtu.be/wkr1pK17avQ
• Generation X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
• Generation Y / Millennials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
• Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the ‘Geriatric Millennial’: https://index.medium.com/why-the-hybrid-workforce-of-the-future-depends-on-the-geriatric-millennial-6f9ff4de1d23
• Boomers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
• Galaga video game: https://youtu.be/dvjapcHsqXY
• Defender video game (the person playing this is not very good at the game): https://youtu.be/qq_Zvg9KlII
• Individuation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation
• OK Boomer meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ok-boomer
• NZ member of parliament uses term "OK Boomer":  https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/nov/06/ok-boomer-millennial-mp-responds-to-heckler-in-new-zealand-parliament-video
• Ten facts about pigs: https://www.four-paws.us/campaigns-topics/topics/farm-animals/10-amazing-facts-about-pigs
• Waingawa Freezing works (NZ), AKA Borthwicks: https://tamiro.massey.ac.nz/nodes/view/1648
• PETA: https://www.peta.org/
• Nirvana, "Something in the Way": https://youtu.be/f3Jac3gfMvw
• Intensive farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_farming
• Anthropomorphism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

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Lee and Simon start with Jef's deep sniffs. They then move into a brief career as film reviewers before digging into a conversation about perfectionism, being a fraud and the Pomodoro technique.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• The Truman Show (bumping into the edge of the world): https://youtu.be/Gn5kuDdeGzs
• Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous: https://hyperallergic.com/336146/in-search-of-bas-jan-ader-the-artist-who-disappeared-at-sea/
• Peter Weir (still alive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir
• The Cars That Ate Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars_That_Ate_Paris
• Dead Poets Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society
• Mystic Pizza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Pizza
• Men's friendships, women's friendships and the alleged inferiority of the latter, by Paul H. Wright (1982): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00287670
• The moment when Lee says a word from last week's episode (at 3:08 min): https://www.midlifing.net/1480717/8457491-two-people-monologuing-about-themselves-near-one-another
• Karl Popper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
• Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
• Voltaire, perfect is the enemy of good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
• Baby industrial complex: https://www.salon.com/2006/02/09/spar/
• Good enough versus perfect parenting: https://www.readbrightly.com/good-enough-parent-better-than-perfect/
• Belbin Team Inventory (completer-finisher): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories

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Simon and Lee discuss itchy feet, talking side by side and starting a cult.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• The Year Earth Changed: https://youtu.be/XswV_yqPq28
• Itching, shingles and cerebrospinal fluid (not for the faint-hearted): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch
• New Zealand OE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_experience
• arse-end of the world: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195563160.001.0001/acref-9780195563160-e-47
• rumspringa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
• tourist gaze: https://wallaceandjames.com/term-tourist-gaze-originates-john-urrys-aptly-named-book-tourist-gaze/
• David Koresh and Waco, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh
• Jim Jones and drinking the kool-aid: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/drinking-the-kool-aid-a-survivor-remembers-jim-jones/248723/
• Simon couldn't find that 'research' about perception of greenness of grass – his bad
• Yotam Ottolenghi on Masterclass: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/yotam-ottolenghi-teaches-modern-middle-eastern-cooking/chapters/meet-your-instructor-yotam-ottolenghi
• Apollonia Poilâne: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/apollonia-poilane-teaches-bread-baking
• Yotam's Miso, tomato and oregano pasta: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/apr/17/yotam-ottolenghi-15-minute-lunches-recipes
• baker's percentages: https://www.theperfectloaf.com/reference/introduction-to-bakers-percentages/

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Simon and Lee discuss their shop-owning fantasies and how real they really are. But the conversation jags into death and dying and those four emails you need to get done before your bucket gets kicked.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

Tracking down Ted Lasso's shortbread: http://david-smith.org/blog/2021/04/21/breadcrumbs
Wim Hof breathing technique: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-techniques
snookered: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/snookered
corpse pose (Savasana): https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/beginners/corpse-pose/
$5 ladders to scale Trump's border wall: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/24/donald-trump-border-wall-scaled-ladders
Death Cafe: https://deathcafe.com/
and Death Cafe on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cafe
review of Ontroerend Goed's TM: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/apr/22/tm-review-ontroerend-goed
physical stages of dying: https://dying.lovetoknow.com/Physical_Stages_of_Dying
apocrypha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha

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Lee and Simon meander into a conversation about freedom, vaccinations, not pushing elderly people out of the queue and new memories on your telephone.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Blood clots and vaccines: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pill-blood-clots-vaccine-covid-astrazeneca-b1818613.html
• Freedom march sticker: https://www.skellis.net/midlifing/nite-for-freedo
• Vaccine passports: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/vaccine-passport-travel-holiday-how-to-get-b1818530.html
• raises my hackles: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/raises+my+hackles
• Deborah Hay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Hay
• Boris Johnson, greed and vaccine: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-johnson-gr-idUSKBN2BF307
• Operation Treadstone: https://bourne.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Treadstone
• Operation Blackbriar: https://bourne.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Blackbriar
• Treadstone Season 1: https://www.amazon.com/Treadstone-Season-1/dp/B07YBJJP5F
• Signs on mountain hikes: https://matadornetwork.com/life/9-american-habits-i-lost-when-i-moved-to-germany/
• One of Simon's GoPro experiments in real-time: https://vimeo.com/521478112
• One of Simon's GoPro experiments with a parachute: https://vimeo.com/536408159
• How to make a parachute: https://youtu.be/uA_qzmaDF_8
• New memories on iPhones (and how to turn them off): https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8149762
• Star Spangled Banner sung by Beyoncé: https://youtu.be/OhrrGu2rcZ4
• girt by sea (Advance Australia Fair): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Australia_Fair
• God Defend New Zealand (with all the words): https://youtu.be/mhCgcZ0efAA

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Lee and Simon talk about a different set of neighbours: the ones that sing songs out of tune throughout the night.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

wimple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimple
jaundice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice
egg whites for curly hair: https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/ingredients/136481
Branko on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/brankoofficial
Branko and Anna Moura sing Vinte Vinte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eORRKrcJ8BU
Fadista: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fadista
Fado: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fado#Portuguese
The curse of knowledge (tapping out songs): https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-curse-of-knowledge
The second arrow (Buddhism): https://mindfulnessmeditation.net.au/arrow/
lachrymose: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lachrymose
Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU
Simon couldn't find the name of the artist or the artwork of people singing to Madonna's Papa Don't Preach (not Like A Prayer), but here's a short video instead (shot at Mona, Tasmania 2017): https://vimeo.com/536011836
Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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While doing the dishes Simon sees something he'd rather not and Lee and he end up in a conversation about men, masturbation and misogyny.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Wet rot wood treatment: https://handymantips.org/identify-and-treat-wet-rot/
• Ship of Theseus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
• house flipping: https://investfourmore.com/house-flipping-101/
• bodger: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bodger
• rugged up: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/rugged+up
• un casino (Italian): https://en.bab.la/dictionary/italian-english/un-casino
• Raynaud syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud_syndrome
• George Perec's Life, A User's Manual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life:_A_User%27s_Manual
• tennis court dimensions: https://www.perfect-tennis.com/tennis-court-dimensions/
• incidence of sexting in US: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-seven-teens-are-sexting-new-research-finds/
• revenge porn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn
• Jennifer Lawrence iCloud hacking: https://time.com/3247717/jennifer-lawrence-hacked-icloud-leaked/
• death of Sarah Everard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sarah_Everard
• call-out culture: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/01/call-out-culture-obama-social-media
• morto (Ireland): https://www.dailyedge.ie/irish-slang-2-2158356-Jun2015/
• Cumbrian slang (including ladgeful): https://www.cumbriandictionary.co.uk/

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Last week's episode was only the preamble to a conversation about pleasure. Simon and Lee talk about making things, hedonism, cooking scones and ... incinerating children in a volcano.

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Related links (and necessary corrections):

• Don't Dream It, Be It (Rocky Horror Picture Show): https://youtu.be/8wLArncKxag
• Do what challenges you not what makes you happy: https://rizzarr.com/do-what-challenges-you-not-what-makes-you-happy/
• Donna Haraway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
• Anthropocentrism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism
• Climate science and having children: https://sciencetrends.com/should-stop-having-children-science-climate-statistics-population-growth/
• Rimini Protokoll's win<>win" - "We are the crown of creation": https://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/project/win-win
• Portmanteau: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
• Canguro English -- Banks and bunks: https://overcast.fm/+Lq6JQOhmQ
• Etymology of the word bankrupt: https://www.etymonline.com/word/bankrupt

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