Quick Question Podcast
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Comedy writers making life weirder on purpose.
Quick Question with Soren and Daniel is a conversational comedy show built around two longtime friends calling across coasts. The talk wanders from newborn diapers and Little League to sitcom acting choices, old Cracked memories, strange fitness ads, and whatever odd question can keep the riff moving.
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Quick Question with Soren and Daniel is a comedy conversation show about friendship, writing, parenting, and the stray thoughts that survive long enough to become a bit. The format is simple. Two best friends call each other, ask a question, and follow the answer wherever it goes. That answer might begin with diapers, onesies, and the daily puzzle of dressing a newborn. It might become a sincere tribute to labor and delivery nurses. Then it can snap back into a joke about baby clothing, dad competence, or the private shame of being caught mid-task. The show lives in those turns. It can talk about Little League and old internet jobs in the same breath, because the real subject is often the performance of being an adult while still thinking like a comedy writer. Cracked memories give some episodes an inside-baseball texture, especially when the conversation turns to making videos, workplace expectations, and leaving one creative job for another. Pop culture works as raw material rather than review fodder. A sitcom impression on Shrinking, a framed John Wayne picture, Timothee Chalamet fandom, movie props, or the idea that art became a business can all become excuses to study how people behave. The show also has a skeptical streak. Its episode on weird fitness ads follows the logic of AI-flavored marketing, burner emails, credit-card funnels, and miracle workout promises with amused irritation. The comedy is loose and sometimes blunt, but the structure underneath is recognizable: premise, tangent, escalation, reset, and one more angle. It is not trying to sound polished in the usual interview-show way. Its appeal is the opposite. Quick Question with Soren and Daniel lets the listener hear two writers find the funny part while they are still talking.
Made for: For listeners who like smart, digressive hangout comedy, especially conversations about parenting, writing, internet culture, television, and odd everyday observations. It suits fans of casual shows that still feel shaped by joke instincts.
What sets it apart: The show turns ordinary check-ins into live comedy construction, with the pleasure coming from watching small details get tested, reframed, and sharpened. Its mix of dad-life candor, writer-room rhythm, and old internet-comedy perspective gives it a specific texture.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Soren Bowie and Daniel O'Brien turn personal catch-ups and cultural fixations into observant comedy about taste, work, family, and misplaced certainty.
Quick Question with Soren and Daniel runs on the pleasure of hearing Soren Bowie and Daniel O'Brien think their way from a casual catch-up into a comic premise.
Soren and Daniel turn nine-minute fitness ads and movie scores into arguments you'll happily overhear.
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A skeptical look at a fitness pitch that turns a nine-minute promise into a paywalled funnel.
Quick Question follows Soren and Daniel as they pick apart a fitness pitch built on the promise of nine minutes a day. The path they trace is more telling than comforting: a survey asks about age, sex, prior tai chi, goal, and body type, then the plan stays behind a payment wall…
A funny, specific argument for the power of one unforgettable performance.
Quick Question stays loose and joke-forward while settling on a clear idea: the thrill of noticing when one actor makes a movie feel bigger than itself.
A loose, funny look at how a joke survives the production process.
Quick Question spends most of its time on how jokes get made, not just on the jokes themselves. It lingers on the small domestic tradeoffs behind the recording schedule and on the way writers and graphics team up when a bit has to work on screen as well as in audio.
Peter Sagal leads NPR's live news quiz, pairing celebrity guests with listener call-in games.
Movie mistakes, examined closely and taken sideways.
Starfleet misadventures, made up on the spot from fan titles.
Quick Question with Soren and Daniel examines new fatherhood through improvised songs, diaper changes, baby clothing, gas, and sleep rituals.
Soren and Daniel revisit Cracked.com's years at South by Southwest, including a 2011 sketch show, interactive awards, live gaming, beatboxing, and rap performances in Austin, Texas.
Daniel O'Brien describes the first week with his newborn son, including the umbilical cord stump, hospital nursery, and repeated checks that the baby is breathing.
Comedy writers discuss the oddity of past fandom, like framing a John Wayne portrait, and ponder modern celebrity worship.
Two best friends discuss a scene from the show Shrinking where a character does a credible impression of Jason Segel.
Comedians Daniel O'Brien and Soren discuss whether art was a mistake, blending humor with personal anecdotes.
A podcast episode where the host discusses movie props they would steal, interspersed with an advertisement for Arizona State University's online degree programs.
A woman interviews a shirtless, shredded Asian man about her husband's fitness in an AI ad that looks like a fake podcast.
Daniel and Soren build a list of performances that feel better than the movies around them, starting with Chris Pine in "Smoking Aces" and Toby Kebbell in "RocknRolla." They also compare impressions of Donald Trump, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Gilbert Gottfried, using voices from Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, and Marcelo Hernández as reference points.
["Quick Question with Soren and Daniel asks which movie score can sit beside ordinary songs, and the conversation keeps returning to Hans Zimmer's You're So Cool from True Romance and John Williams as the obvious benchmark.", "Soren and Daniel trace the score talk into City Slickers and a 1536 melody called Gassenhauer, then compare film music to temp tracks and placeholder joke-writing in TV rooms.", "Before the music talk, Soren tells a Fred movie story about David Goodman, Nick Wegner, and a room of comedy writers pitching jokes in the Fred voice.", "The episode also revisits Heated Rivalry, Traitors accents, American Dad table reads, and song-title arguments about Sister Golden Hair, Teenage Wasteland, and Take Five."]
Daniel O'Brien and Soren Bui discuss the trend of podcasts becoming too video-heavy and Daniel's post-workout appearance.
Daniel and Soren discuss the conspiracy theory that free soup is a government plot to control the homeless population.
Soren discovers that Roger's intro disguise is a secret gift from the animators to each writer.
Comedy writers discuss songs that break conventional rules yet become hits.
Jason Pargin joins Quick Question with Soren and Daniel to talk about celebrity worship, TikTok book marketing, and why an autograph can feel like a relic.