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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's 29th wedding anniversary, Simon's 40 year high school reunion, reminiscence bump, the consequential things that happen to us when we are young, who we are is context, Lee rodding a drain (in Lisbon), home repairs in another country, Lee still talking about drains, the minds of two men (from a listener), saying gidday to Pete, something about Meta and Instagram and the advertising model, Zuckerberg's Hot or Not, the cultural role in how the advertising model functions, the horror of Instagram's algorithm, pronoia (Fred Goldner), harder to imagine than paranoia, Simon has chocolate in the cupboard (and hasn't eaten it all), strawberries in Lisbon, having glutenous bread sold by a Coeliac.

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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, Simon dancing in Dorset, Helen Poynor, transformative art, Jefrey infected by another dog (Lola), Lee practising looking up, Simon has a moral conundrum about following the wishes of the dead or taking care of the living, giving people the option, Simon's feeling about honouring the wishes of the dead, the emotional intelligence of Lee's dad (Norman), Lee's grandad was a wheelwright, not falling out over a wheelbarrow, sentimentality, being clear or not.

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.

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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, scepticism without an object, anthropogenic climate change, changing your mind, perspectives changing through what we read (or not), Lee's binary nature, dancing the flick switch, changing in time, Lee's beliefs re trans bodies, Derrida (again), post-structuralism, gender performativity, fixed positions, allyship, we are human doings not human beings, being changed by theory, the extent to which education changes or transforms us, beliefs and facts, seatbelt use, cultural change through legislation, theoretical paradigms, overestimating the impact of the academy and conversations that spill out from the academy, Judith Butler and trans bodies, woke narratives, wokeness, not voicing disagreement, arguing doesn't change minds, finding compassion.

Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.

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