Midlifing
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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 280 episodes
Midlifing
Latest Episodes
278: A Wondrous, Wondrous Crying
Simon finds himself crying for multiple things at once. Lee reflects on being largely inoculated from grief since childhood, always the supporter, never quite allowed his own response. An honest conversation about mortality, what we ...
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Episode 278
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26:04
277: We the People Decided to Step Forward
Lee and Simon move from the absurd grind of international transit and the ways money buys freedom from friction into a sharper reflection on systems, meritocracy and the stories we tell about fairness. The episode lands somewhere qui...
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Episode 277
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25:19
276: Dance Like You’ve Got No Hair
Lee and Simon reflect on certainty, persuasion and the strange dead-end of “that’s just a fact,” moving from Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere to questions of shininess, inherited politics and why some surfaces feel impossible to...
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Episode 276
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23:13
275: Probably the Safest Place in the World
Lee and Simon reflect on waking up feeling anxious amid talk of global conflict, distance from home, and the strange experience of feeling both safe and unsettled while travelling. The conversation moves between geopolitical dread an...
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Episode 275
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25:26
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