Welcome to the Middlebrow Multiverse! A former lawyer and a former news guy bring you witty conversation on the topics that fascinate them and you - from news to culture to parenting to everyday frustrations and victories. Dive in and channel your inner middlebrow.
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Episode 21: Middlebrow Icons - Grammy Awards Hunger Games
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The dudes are joined by special guest Ash Miller as they put the last 14 years of Grammy winners for Best Album into the Hunger Games arena and let them fight it out to the death. Hear what happens to Beck, Taylor Swift, Jon Batiste, Arcade Fire, Billie Eilish, and more in this action-packed and suspense-filled episode. Only one can survive.…
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Episode 20: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Yes of course we can blame Roseanne Barr for that.
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El hombres get back on el microfono to chat about the revolution in soft drink rankings, cold plunges, and epic novels. They provide a battlefield update on the culture wars then round it out with some fuck 'ems and cheers.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 19: Middlebrow News Hound - Asia sounds unhinged right now.
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The lads get back to work, sharing three news items that caught their eye this week: the Gulf States Gone Wild, Asia's autonomous-nation drug cartel, and America is shrinking. Plus a bit of whimsy.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 18: Middlebrow Omnibus Session - LOOSE TAKES
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The guys improvise like jazz musicians and share their loose takes on Kevin Costner's pretend-cowboy act, crows, "homestyle" food, Socrates, and more. They end the episode needing an illustrator for the world's next great graphic novel sensation.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 17: Middlebrow Mailbag - Joe, Matias, and two Colins
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Our revenants return with mailbag follow-ups on Beethoven vs. the Beatles, the correct temperature for coffee, the broad appeal of Philip Roth, and the evolution of the Boy Scouts of America.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 16: Middlebrow Bracketeers - Alcohol is useful for like, half the day.
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The fellas do two speed brackets, facing off concepts, foodstuffs, jail sentences, and geopolitical outcomes, crowning two champions as between pizza, live sports, nice hotels, weddings, donuts, The Wire, non-fiction, and much more. Predictably, hilarity ensues.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 15: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Peanut butter has gone through DRAMATIC change.
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The bros get back to their roots with top threes and fuck 'ems. They address the Japanese vs. German schools of automotive engineering and how they reflect life at large. Danny describes his first YouTube crush and complains about inaccurate euphemisms in dentistry. A good time is had by all.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 14: Middlebrow Omnibus Session - I want to die just like Vito Corleone but with a different full bodied red wine.
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The gents kick up their feet and manifest a good old fashioned BS session in which they each divulge four perfect things (including a $10 bottle of red wine), ponder bullshit jobs, touch on history and techniques of coffee, and generally bloviate with their characteristic wit and candor.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 13: Middlebrow Mailbag - Nam, Colin, and Ash
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The lads dive into the mailbag to answer questions about AI, freeway ne'er-do-wells, and irony. We blame society's ills on finance bros and ponder the definitional contours of middlebrow.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 12: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Maybe people are just that into the stupid Beatles.
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Our champions are back at it with a look at the news. They ponder why Trump and Taylor Swift are so ever-present, when did America hit its peak foreign power, and wow, what a time to be a Gen-Xer. Finally, they discuss a little-known army of smart home products and its nefarious deeds.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 11: Middlebrow Ombudsman's Report (feat. Kate Waldman)
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We get our first report card from our Middlebrow Ombudsman, who is watching out for our dear listeners and making sure Danny and Pete keep their content as middlebrow as possible. What is the definition of middlebrow? And do the lads hit the mark or fuck it up completely?Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 10: Middlebrow Icons - Academy Awards Shark Tank 2001-2010
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The lads splash some cash to determine which of the Oscar Best Picture winners from the 2001-2010 decade is the zenith of middlebrow entertainment. Cash is King as they examine (WITH SPOILERS) Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, Slumdog Mi…
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Episode 9: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Accidental takedown of Left Coast America.
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The guys start off with Danny's top 3 things that have grabbed his attention, then challenge Left Coast conventional wisdom 5 times and round it out with some Fuck 'Ems and Cheers.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 8: Middlebrow Mailbag - Eric, Sam, Fiona, & Kate
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Our heroes dig deep into the mailbag and answer questions about Pete's fancy car, an illicit fireworks show, the numbing sameness and mediocrity of modern life, the illusive concept that is middlebrow, and elite travel status. Ka-chow!Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 7: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Good on you, Canada.
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The fellas discuss peoples' secret beliefs then dive into the news to cover Canada's superpig problem, the return of the secession fantasy, and Harvard's dark web body snatching scandal.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 6: Middlebrow Icons - Pulitzer Squid Game Round 1
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The lads begin their spirited inquest into prize-winning middlebrow culture by sending three of these four Pulitzer Winners for Fiction to a grisly and untimely end: The Shipping News, The Road, American Pastoral, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Only one will survive to advance to the next round.…
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Episode 5: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - Our nation's moral decline encapsulated in statistics, and other fun stories.
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Danny misses a primo opportunity to do something whimsical and instead fumbles up some rather alarming statistics, setting the tone for a darker-than-usual episode. Then the fellas read you the news, including Boeing's problems, the self-taught savant that is decimating the pro bowling circuit, and the sad practical death of cryptids and UFOs. Fina…
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Episode 4: Middlebrow Navel Gazer - We recklessly ponder existential dread without even providing citations.
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In the first installment of this intentionally myopic series, Pete shares the various forms of moral anxiety that accompanied his finger injury, the guys divulge what numbers they track most obsessively, and Pete offers a refreshing tonic to Dad bod shame.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 3: Middlebrow Zeitgeist Monitor - Where are the cable oligopolies of yesteryear?
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The fellas peer at the zeitgeist and assess Taylor Swift as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, the utter chaos that has replaced cable tv, the devolution of tipping culture, and how often we think about the Roman Empire.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 2: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - You can't take a horse to the dump!
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The gents are back with a Top 3 and some Fuck 'ems (and some "Cheers"), providing hot takes on dopamine, the two remaining categories of popular music, the divine nature of citrus libations, the disposal of equine remains, the leaping over of lecterns, and more.Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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Episode 1: Middlebrow Culture Warrior - The Hanging Gardens get hit with a Daisy Cutter cluster bomb.
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In the inaugural outing for the Middlebrow Culture Warrior, the boys discuss Jeeves & Wooster, the highly specific nature of Japanese culture, the latest breakthroughs in group text thread foreign policy, how the Metric System has failed Europe, and more. And we round it out with some "Fuck 'ems."Af Middlebrow Multiverse
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