We've all heard the official medical recommendation that people get 7-9 hours of sleep. But... does anyone get that, really? Most midlife guys, especially parents, are lucky to crack 7. And that's a problem: we're more stressed and less healthy, staring at screens late at night and fretting over our children, mortgages, work duties and everything else. It begs the question: have we just evolved to manage with less sleep, or are we really screwing ourselves over as a generation?

Mike recently had a night out drinking—and felt the ramifications for days afterwards. It got him thinking: are Millennials drinking less, or are we just getting older? He and Andrew dig into some data to figure out the realities of a generation that's more focused on health and less focused on alcohol.

Halloween isn't like the other holidays. You don't have to sit around a dinner table making chitchat with your extended family; you don't have to spend hours preparing a meal and cleaning the house. You can just... relax. Have a drink. Dress up. Go party. Steal your kids' candy. And for those reasons, it's a favorite holiday among Mike and Andrew, who dedicate this episode to spooky movies, best chocolates and past traditions. Trick or treat!

It's a known fact that the older you get, the harder it is to make friends. But what's the reason? Kids taking up all our time? Social habits more concrete? Or just plain laziness? Whatever the reason, it's only getting worse, with increased rates of loneliness and depression. Time to make a change.

Housing has become one of the biggest stressors for midlife guys across the world. Thirty-year mortages and $100,000 down payments feel impossible to reach—and that's after paying $2,000/month in rent for years. How is anyone managing?

Summer's gone, the leaves are falling—and that means an extreme amount of stress on any working midlife dude to race and finish all their work between now and Thanksgiving. Do we ever get a break?

Mike read an article imploring people to shower shortly after working out. Which begs the question: Were people not showering after working out?

Hear his take on that and more on on our second episode, where we dig into gym culture, body image and the effects of social media on all of the above.

For our inaugural episode, we decided: why not talk about milestones? Between kids' birthdays, physical accomplishments and the stages of aging, it seems the milestones pile up more quickly as we get older. In the debut episode of The Midlife Guys, Mike and Andrew chat about kids in breweries, the pains of stretching and the evolution of the midlife crisis.