Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

The Golden Globes have a Best Podcast now, which leads Daniel and Soren down a familiar path: awards, legitimacy, and how culture decides what counts.

Along the way, they run headfirst into Heated Rivalry—a show that appears to offer exactly one thing, and yet has somehow escaped its niche and entered polite conversation. Parents are recommending it. Everyone is recommending it. No one is being subtle.

Why does some extremely horny media stay contained, while other extremely horny media becomes prestige? And what does that say about taste, awards, and what we’re all suddenly very comfortable talking about?

Also: Traitors. A show for people with no hearts.

00:54 – Welcome Back / Who’s the Real Host?
01:36 – Hypothetical Awards, Hypothetical Fights
03:12 – The Golden Globes Now Have a Podcast Category
04:41 – How Awards Actually Work (Campaigns, Money, Politics)
07:23 – Emmy Swag, Billboards, and the Dropout Problem
09:40 – Why American Dad Never Wins Anything
11:55 – Quick Question: Are You Watching Heated Rivalry?
12:49 – When a Show Breaks Containment
14:24 – Expectation vs. Reality: Is It Even About Hockey?
16:07 – “It’s Just Sex”: The Erotic Fiction Problem
19:22 – Romance Novels and Narrative Foreplay
22:00 – Bad Texting, Bad Dialogue, Bad Screens
26:14 – Why Is Everyone Publicly This Horny?
28:02 – Is This the New Bridgerton?
29:00 – Who Is This Show For?
31:06 – Hockey Bodies, Old Navy Vibes
32:27 – Locker Rooms vs. TV Locker Rooms
35:23 – Pivot: What Is Traitors?
36:39 – How the Game Actually Works
39:26 – Why Normal People Failed Season One
40:50 – The Strategy of Being a Traitor
44:56 – Board Games, Lying, and Emotional Fallout
49:42 – Three-Hour Round Tables (and Crushing Guilt)
51:59 – When Banishing a Faithful Feels Correct Anyway
53:25 – How to Fix Traitors (Among Us, Live Edition)
55:36 – The Conga Line Murder
56:24 – Reality TV Pacing Is Still Brutal
57:53 – Why Heated Rivalry Can Only Be Sex
59:03 – Closing & Thanks

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Daniel is fresh off an infant care class and a CPR certification, which leads to a wide-ranging conversation about how much preparation actually sticks when it matters. He and Soren talk swaddling, baby hygiene, circumcision care, and the unsettling reality that newborns are basically loose bags of milk. From there, things spiral into CPR etiquette, AED myths, corporate training videos, and the strange urge to do crowd work during emergency situations. Along the way, Soren recounts helping a lost child at a holiday light show—and the unexpectedly ambiguous text exchange that followed—while both hosts grapple with the question of when to step in, when to back away, and how anyone is supposed to know what to do in a crisis.

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The guys talk Stranger Things Season 5, do the bleak math of middle-aged drinking, and the perverse little happiness spike that follows a truly harrowing puke. Speaking of puke,  the guys discuss the sacred childhood joy of sick-day daytime TV (Judge Judy supremacy, soap operas as emotional concrete) and finally, Daniel and Soren spiral into TV industry doom: Netflix getting into the podcast game, prestige TV existing only as a side quest for tech companies, and the impossible task of ending a beloved show without stepping on an internet landmine—aka Finale School. 
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Dynamics
02:32 Reflections on Aging and Drinking
05:22 Hangover Remedies and Personal Experiences
08:16 The Nature of Vomiting and Its Aftermath
11:06 Parenting and Children’s Fear of Vomiting
14:00 Nostalgia for Childhood Illness and Daytime TV
17:35 Soap Operas and Acting Experiences
26:28 The Unique Challenges of Soap Opera Acting
33:33 The Evolution of Television and Soap Operas
40:43 The State of Modern Television
51:52 The Art of Writing and Ending a Series
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On this episode, Daniel concludes his year-long feud with a New Jersey restaurant regarding false promises of post-race soup. Meanwhile, Soren gets physically trapped inside the trunk of a Chevy Volt while attempting a battery change in the rain. Plus: The dark science of motivating children with stories about drowning mice, proper running hand placement (T-1000 vs. Potato Chip), and the economic impossibility of fairness in arcade prize redemption.

Chapters: 0:00 - The history of Cracked books (and the one that failed)
04:25 - The Resolution of the Free Soup Saga
5:15 - Motivating children with the "Drowning Mice" experiment
24:00 - Why we look terrible when running
27:50 - Running form: T-1000 vs. Holding a Potato Chip
35:00 - The Arcade Fairness Doctrine (Zootopia 2)
38:30 - The tragedy of the heart bells
47:00 - Soren gets trapped in a Chevy Volt trunk
56:00 - Remembering how to fix cars pre-Internet

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Credits: Hosts: Soren Bowie & Daniel O'Brien
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A listener email from Danielle turns into a full-on behind-the-scenes autopsy of visual gags in adult animation: marquee jokes, fake brand names, book titles, and who actually adds what—writers, artists, animators, or a chaotic mix of everyone. Soren breaks down what tends to be scripted versus what often comes from the production/art side.

Daniel relates it to his own show’s graphics pipeline, including the infamously over-specified “opposite snakes” ordeal on Last Week Tonight. Plus: the American Dad! theme-song detail Danielle noticed—Roger’s intro disguise being pulled from the writer’s prior episode—and why it’s basically a present from the animation team.

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