Quick Question with Soren and Daniel

Quick Question Podcast

Quick Question with Soren and Daniel is a comedy podcast from the former editors of Cracked.com Soren Bowie and Daniel O’Brien. With new episodes every week, join Soren and Daniel in answering life’s deep and also probably shallow questions.

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Tuesday · 50 min
Camping Builds Character | Ep. 345
Soren finally makes it to the mysterious mining claim his family has owned for decades, bringing his son along for a character-building trip through the Colorado mountains. They find the land and solve an old family mystery—then Soren’s boots fall...
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August 18 · 47 min
Don’t Go on the Internet | Ep. 344
Daniel discovers that the Cracked archive is disappearing, which sends the guys back through the internet they grew up with and the strange problem of preserving something that was never built to last. Soren argues that younger people should reclaim...
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August 11 · 53 min
Blow Bubbles at the King | Ep. 343
Soren argues for giving Macklemore one more chance as Daniel recounts the strongly worded daycare letter that ended with his son perched on a throne while a teacher blew bubbles at the king. Along the way, they compare embarrassing phases, protective...
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August 4 · 54 min
The Wrong Narrator | Ep. 342
A million dollars to read an audiobook sounds easy until Soren leaves out one crucial detail. Daniel tries to draw the line between commitment to the text and commitment to staying out of trouble, while both of them wonder if there’s such a thing as...
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July 28 · 55 min
Soren’s World | Ep. 341
Daniel shares the emotional whiplash of daycare drop-offs before Soren pitches a Christmas movie where Santa spends eternity exploring an empty world. From Bobby’s World to dating Santa Claus, the second half turns into an unexpectedly detailed...
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July 21 · 48 min
Stealing at the Airport | Ep. 340
Soren and Daniel discover that old writing can be harder to revisit than create, from unpublished novels to long-forgotten job packets. Then Soren shares his newest obsession: airport theft videos, where stolen sunglasses, impossible excuses, and “But...
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July 14 · 50 min
Card-Carrying Victim | Ep. 339
Soren is convinced he could get a stranger to hand over $100, while Daniel insists $20 and a fake microphone are all you need. The guys workshop increasingly elaborate scams, debate the right amount of gratitude after lending someone money, and...
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July 1 · 57 min
Ours Was The Good Baby | Ep. 338
Daniel gets back from Italy with an alarming report on the state of America Versus Italy, a country that not only believes in clear allergen labels, but also bottle caps which remain physically connected to the bottle. Plus, the guys compare notes on...
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June 23 · 50 min
Soren's Got a Mining Claim? | Ep. 337
Daniel's brushing up on his Italian and looking for shortcuts, so he and Soren nail down exactly which phrases he's most likely to need on vacation in Italy with a newborn. And speaking of newborns, newborn prospector Soren Bowie shares an incredible...
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June 16 · 49 min
Extra Bonus Soren Iced Teas | Quick Question. Ep 336
After a brief stretch on podcast etiquette — the wrong ways to listen to them, the hard part of explaining this one — the episode settles into its actual purpose: Daniel telling Soren to stop, basically. In a sorta Tarantino of last week's update,...
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June 9 · 59 min
The Sneaky Wheel Gets The Tea | Ep. 335
The guys do a heat check on owning your own printer, then talk data-driven reunion tours for millennial bands, Bo Burnham vs. Mr. Beast, and the 70’s as the bleakest decade on film. Plus, what Google AI got wrong about the Tony Awards and why Soren...
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June 5 · 56 min
America’s Gotta Water Her Garden State | Quick Question Ep. 334
Soren returns from a rainy, kid-free trip to New Jersey with a suspiciously deep knowledge of the state bird, state flower, state animal, state dinosaur, and possibly every other official state object. Elsewhere, the guys discuss the futility of...
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May 26 · 59 min
Ryan Gosling's Impossible Stomach | Ep. 333
Daniel and Soren discuss stolen jokes, Gordon Ramsay’s many forms, and the cursed experience of being photographed by someone who loves you at the exact wrong angle. Then they spiral into body-image math, shirtless Jeff Bezos, Ryan Gosling’s unfair...
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May 19 · 47 min
Nobody Taught Us the Rules | Ep. 332
Daniel reveals that one of Soren’s forgotten novelty songs has become part of his son’s bedtime rotation, which somehow leads to a long conversation about sitcom logic, student council politics, famous people they went to school with, and the...
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May 12 · 1 hr 1 min
Lethally, Domestically Hot | Ep. 331
The guys talk The Running Man specifically, Stephen King broadly, and shows they've noticed that seem to be catering to distracted audiences before diving in to a titular quick question about their favorite portrayls of good marriages in film and TV. ...
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May 5 · 1 hr 1 min
"Imagine the Worst Thing" | Quick Question Ep. 330
Daniel outlines the sleep-deprived realities of early fatherhood, prompting a discussion on parental anxiety and intrusive worst-case scenario thoughts. Soren recounts his history of furnishing apartments with items found on the street before...
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April 28 · 57 min
The NYT Crossword Broke People | Ep. 329
A New York Times crossword puzzle was accidentally unsolvable, which raises an important question: when something doesn’t make sense, is it broken, or are you just dumb? Soren and Daniel talk puzzles (both kinds), people who follow rules vs. people...
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April 21 · 58 min
Sweaty Guy In The Basement | Ep. 328
Daniel starts out impossibly sweaty, which leads to a story about meeting his girlfriend’s entire family for the first time, hiding in the basement, and realizing he may be remembered forever as “that crazy sweaty guy.” From there, he and Soren debate...
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April 15 · 53 min
I Change All the Diapers | Ep. 327
Soren and Daniel try to figure out whether freestyle rap is magic or just practice and since DOB is in his new father era, the guys talk at length about improvised diaper songs, long haul commitments to incorrect lullabies, and the fundamental design...
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April 7 · 1 hr 5 min
Brick By South By | Ep. 326
Daniel finds out that Cracked is “going to South by Southwest for the first time,” which would be exciting if they hadn’t already gone… a lot. The guys revisit some sxsw memories and try to piece together how Cracked actually fell apart—touching on...
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