
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
You could be in New Zealand or you could be around the corner
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Lee Miller and Simon Ellis
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Episode 40
Lee and Simon have a hypothetical and very real conversation about being with loved ones.
Recorded 1 August 2021.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
Related links (and necessary corrections):
- Latin in UK schools (a few of them): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jul/31/latin-introduced-40-state-secondaries-england
- Dawn Butler thrown out of chamber for calling UK PM a liar: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57927398
- A Few Good Men (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men
- A Few Good Men (play): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men_(play)
- The Good Fight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Fight
- The Good Wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Wife
- Teevee snacks: https://theaustralianfoodshop.com/product/original-chocolate-teevee-snacks-175g/
- Servo: http://www.slang.com.au/s/servo/
- Marshmallow test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzppzOGJv8Y
- delayed gratification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification
- Quantity of carbon produced in flight from London to Wellington: 5.57 metric tons of CO2e (estimated at https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx)
- Visualising a metric a ton of CO2: https://www.conservationmagazine.org/2013/06/visualizing-carbon/
- Phantom phone vibrations: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130701-why-you-feel-phantom-phone-calls
- Akram Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akram_Khan_(dancer)
- Smooth Criminal: https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4
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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)