
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.
Midlifing
Dialling down the coolness
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Lee Miller and Simon Ellis
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Episode 28
Simon and Lee discuss irrelevance ... and pigs and other mammals.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
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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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.
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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)