Quick Question with Soren and Daniel
Aug 4, 2026 · 54 min · 10 segments
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…
Daniel O'BrienHost
... every once in a while I've come across something that, that I've learned was, uh, owned by a s- uh, a subculture of some kind.
And I don't, I don't know how pervasive is it, it is or if it's, if it's truly just the internet and like the internet people that I hang out with where like you find out like, oh, New Balance is the preferred shoe of white supremacists.
... "Ah, but, but I like some of their shoes." And I, I, I showed up to a work thing with, with, um, uh, a pair of s- uh, s- salmon shorts 'cause it was summer.
And my coworker started joking about like, "Oh, those are the shorts that like you see someone in those shorts, kn- that, those, those are the shorts of the person who says, um, trust the market, the market will correct itself."
... a friend of the show, Ed Wilson, he ordered a hat, a skate hat from a, a company that was similar, Lids adjacent I guess, and they sent him the wrong hat.
They sent him a, a, a hat that just said on it, "Happy Dad," and he was like, "But I'm a dad.
That's perfect." And then he started wearing it 'cause he was like, "I'll wear this instead.
... every once in a while I've come across something that, that I've learned was, uh, owned by a s- uh, a subculture of some kind.
And I don't, I don't know how pervasive is it, it is or if it's, if it's truly just the internet and like the internet people that I hang out with where like you find out like, oh, New Balance is the preferred shoe of white supremacists.
... "Ah, but, but I like some of their shoes." And I, I, I showed up to a work thing with, with, um, uh, a pair of s- uh, s- salmon shorts 'cause it was summer.
And my coworker started joking about like, "Oh, those are the shorts that like you see someone in those shorts, kn- that, those, those are the shorts of the person who says, um, trust the market, the market will correct itself."
... a friend of the show, Ed Wilson, he ordered a hat, a skate hat from a, a company that was similar, Lids adjacent I guess, and they sent him the wrong hat.
They sent him a, a, a hat that just said on it, "Happy Dad," and he was like, "But I'm a dad.
That's perfect." And then he started wearing it 'cause he was like, "I'll wear this instead.
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