Lee and Simon muse on the strangeness of plastic-covered furniture and saving things for best, linking it to habits of consumerism and care.

Lee and Simon discuss how their understanding of success has changed, from youthful drive and ambition to the satisfaction of doing things well.

Lee and Simon discuss podcast recording quirks, Italian language and food, the difficulty of finding good restaurants in Rome, and the virtues of immigrant-run eateries. They detour into cocktail adventures, running habits, architect...

Lee and Simon reflect warmly and self-critically on moments of unintended unkindness, exploring how irony, tone, and long-honed habits can cause harm even when the intention is to connect. They discuss the complexities of authenticit...

Lee and Simon navigate tech issues, family estrangement, censorship, and a terrible Wimbledon defeat.

Simon and Lee swap stories about how AI makes writing easier and helps smooth out prickly emails, even if they feel a bit uneasy about it all. They also talk a bit about underpants, academic jargon, and the oddities of midlife.

Lee and Simon discuss whether they’re in a second act or nearing the end of their working lives. They reflect on legacy, how little most of us are remembered, and how not having children changes that.

Simon reflects on feeling in and out of control while managing tinnitus; Lee discusses boxers, rewilding sleep, and lime wall repairs.

Simon shares a new tinnitus struggle; Lee discusses scones; both reflect on midlife pride, sleep, and renovation woes.

Lee and Simon go from jam donut focaccia to knitting mistakes, obscure theatre shows to random celebrity run-ins – just the regular midlifing drift.

Lee and Simon talk about high school reunions before Simon launches a broadside against Meta (and gets a little hot under the collar) and then they finish with a quick chat about pronoia. Things covered: Bob and Lee'...

Lee and Simon talk about a moral conundrum: whether we ought to follow the wishes of the dead or that we owe more to those who remain alive.  Things covered: video calls and the future, Blake and Jerusalem, Simo...

Lee and Simon talk about changing their minds about things that matter, and finding compassion.Things covered: scent update and the feeling of clean fresh skin, schoolboy French, 'believing' in climate change, sceptic...

Lee and Simon discuss scent profiles and the ways bodies smell. Things covered: jam donut focaccia, waking up early, cli-fi (climate fiction), The Deluge by Stephen Markley, description of a suicide bomber's body (fr...

Lee and Simon discuss furniture and curated maximalism (obviously Lee does most of the talking here), and chronic pain.Things covered: the excitement of countdowns, Lee goes to a wine festival, how many Beatles are l...

Simon and Lee talk about metaphors and the tragedy of how poetry is taught, before discussing three truisms from Anthony de Mello.Things covered: the bell is tolling, true words said in jest, many a slip between cup ...

Simon and Lee talk about things they love.Things covered: back in Blighty, the nature of home, putting down roots, having multiple passports (Jason Bourne), freedivers, things we love, what Lee is wearing (again), bei...

Simon and Lee discuss the way age starts not to manner (as we get older), the absurdity of reducing friction in our lives, and then have a quick conversation about Adolescence. Things covered: Buona Pasqua, Lee's raw early ...

Simon reports in (once again) from Sardegna while attempting to buy a kitchen and the question of consent raises its head again. Lee and Simon also discuss Simon's lack of sartorial elegance. Things covered: marb...

Simon reports in from Sardegna before Lee and he veer off into talking about what draws us to snake oil. Things covered: Getting the sound right while recording in a 'cathedral', flight delay, the mundanity of ow...

Simon and Lee don't talk about Adolescene (yet), spend way too long discussing Reacher (again), before discussing whether we become kinder with age. Things covered: Lee guesses Adolescence, finishing off the Reacher ...

Simon and Lee talk about the relevance and irrelevance of age as precipitated by a Simple Minds song.  Things covered: Opening a can of beer, being taken out for lunch by a former PhD student, Noble Rot (Lambs C...

Simon almost got hit by a hearse and as a consequence Lee and Simon discuss the nature of stress.  Things covered: Taking risks on a bike, where humans feel stress, noticing being stressed, degrees of stress, th...

Lee and Simon talk about things that bother them about themselves and learning to live with them. Things covered: Apple iCloud shared accounts and how shit they are, a ladybird backflip a la Jackie Chan, ladybugs, sp...

Lee and Simon talk about things in life that are abstract and concrete, some things about Lee's knitting, freedom of thought and action, being happy in difficult times.Things covered: Being homeowners, sliding doors, ...