Quick Question with Soren and Daniel
Oct 20, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
Daniel introduces Soren to Year to Beat, a music trivia game that tests their ability to remember when songs came out. After a surprisingly successful round, they try Anthropeum, where Daniel…
Daniel O'BrienHostSoren BowieHost
mean it's it's one of the greatest uh magic tricks that that I feel like only this run of TV shows could have pulled off, but Breaking Bad, that we had all of Breaking Bad, and then you get Better Call Saul as the prequel show, and you meet Kim Wexler, and immediately it's like this is, she is one of the best television characters we've ever met in our entire lives.
And there's so many other characters in Better Call Saul where it's like, Well, we meet him later.
What the fuck? What is the fate of Kim Wexler? It's such a good constant dangling question for the entire run of this
She is somebody who you either know is she's going to die or she's going to be somebody that he's going to ruin his relationship with.
I was also thinking while listening to when you were talking, I was thinking about a thing that I said about how I ruined things for the author because I don't remember what I read and I have to go back and the impact is lost on me.
A very good friend of ours, Anna, that we both used to work with at Demand Media, she has this, I don't know if it's face blindness, but she has some kind of like aphasia thing where she... didn't really clock faces.
And we would run into things where she'd gotten so good at handling it because she'd had it her whole life, but it was very, like, context-based for her.
And, like, she came to my desk one time, and Michael Swain was sitting at my desk, and it was very difficult for her because she... could reliably know that I was there.
And she gets there and she sees Michael and she's like, I don't think that's Daniel.
mean it's it's one of the greatest uh magic tricks that that I feel like only this run of TV shows could have pulled off, but Breaking Bad, that we had all of Breaking Bad, and then you get Better Call Saul as the prequel show, and you meet Kim Wexler, and immediately it's like this is, she is one of the best television characters we've ever met in our entire lives.
And there's so many other characters in Better Call Saul where it's like, Well, we meet him later.
What the fuck? What is the fate of Kim Wexler? It's such a good constant dangling question for the entire run of this
She is somebody who you either know is she's going to die or she's going to be somebody that he's going to ruin his relationship with.
I was also thinking while listening to when you were talking, I was thinking about a thing that I said about how I ruined things for the author because I don't remember what I read and I have to go back and the impact is lost on me.
A very good friend of ours, Anna, that we both used to work with at Demand Media, she has this, I don't know if it's face blindness, but she has some kind of like aphasia thing where she... didn't really clock faces.
And we would run into things where she'd gotten so good at handling it because she'd had it her whole life, but it was very, like, context-based for her.
And, like, she came to my desk one time, and Michael Swain was sitting at my desk, and it was very difficult for her because she... could reliably know that I was there.
And she gets there and she sees Michael and she's like, I don't think that's Daniel.
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