Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Adal Rifai loves Chicago restaurants (guest host Shai Korman)

Adal Rifai, a legendary Chicago-based podcaster, loves Chicago restaurants and joined guest host Shai Korman to give recommendations. Adal is Chunt on Hello from the Magic Tavern, hosts Hey Riddle Riddle and Siblings Peculiar. Shai is joining us from the Friday Night Movie Podcast.
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Hello from the Magic Tavern 
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Twitter @adalrifai 
Chicago Food Tour
Percolator
June Bug
Galit
Au cheval burger
Community on Milwaukee
Chicago Diner
Taste Of Lebanon
JP Grazianos
Alinia
Girl and the Goat
 
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Filmmaker Erika Valenciana with guest host Amy Güth

Erika Valenciana, a Chicago-based filmmaker, loves making her own clothes. She joins guest host Amy Güth to talk about documentary films, sewing and more. Catch up with Erika in Mexico City in March for the premier of her documentary La Mitad del Mundo!
Follow Erika on Instagram and online with Diverse Voices in Docs, Stowe Story Labs. Erika and Magdelena Hernandez "La Mitad del Mundo" documentary film is going to premiere at Lit Luz in March
Amy is the host of Unconventional with Amy Güth and Crain's Daily Gist. She also produces cultural events at 5959 in Chicago. Follow Amy on Instagram for yoga writing prompts and subscribe to her weekly email newsletter.
 
Show Notes
"Brewer" and "Birder By The Lake" are both not yet available online, both are in-progress
Anu Rana, producer of "Brewer" film
Mitch Wenkus, cinematographer of "Birder by the Lake" film
Professor Valerie Frizzle, PhD
Threadbare
TV Host wears same suit
Barack Obama wore the same tuxedo for 8 years, nobody noticed
Successful people wear the same clothes every day
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Scott “ToyGuru” Neitlich loves Toys with guest host Shai Korman

Scott “ToyGuru” Neitlich knows and loves toys. If you look around your house, you might have some that he helped bring into the world. Guest host Shai Korman sat down with Scott to learn more about his career, philosophy and why he loves Arbor Day so much.
Shai brings over the Friday Night Movie Podcast signature game Buy, Rent, Meh for some tough choices.
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Keep up with Scott "ToyGuru" Neitlich on YouTube, Twitter and Spector Creative
 
Show Notes
Interview with Scott about Masters of the Universe
Staction Figures and Masters of the Universe
Star Wars: The Power of the Force 1985 Toy Line
Star Wars Vintage Collection
New HeMan on Netflix
He-Man Wikipedia
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Vicki Güth loves gardening with Guest Host Amy Güth

Vicki Güth is an avid gardener who loves growing her own food. She's also guest host Amy Güth's mother. This week they got on the phone to talk in depth about gardening and more.
Amy is the host of Unconventional with Amy Güth and Crain's Daily Gist. She also produces cultural events at 5959 in Chicago. Follow Amy on Instagram for yoga writing prompts and subscribe to her weekly email newsletter.
Show Notes
Quarterboards.com
Quarterboards and More on Etsy
Quarterboards for a Cause
Master Gardeners at the Chattanooga Zoo
Food, Inc documentary
What to plant with marigolds (companion planting)
Roses Love Garlic and Carrots Love Tomatoes
Dr. Earth natural garden products
Wild Ones Native Plants org
Crabtree Farms
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Best of 2021 - A Call In Show

To close out 2021, I asked friends to send me voice memos about their favorite things in 2021. This clip show is made up of those voice memos covering all things personal, pop culture and professional. You've met most of the guests before and everyone is bringing a new favorite thing or an exciting update to their episode!
Act 1
Shai and Lily from Friday Night Movie Podcast (Cats, Cereal)
Monica Reida (Murdoch Mysteries)
Steve Higgins (Doctor Who)
Max Pacheco (The most complete Disney library)
Act 2
Terry Gant, Third Coast Comics (League of Superheroes)
Ry Jones
Rachel
Rocco Cataldo, Potenza Productions
Veronica Arreola, Femist Agenda (Women's Sports)
Amy Guth, Daily Gist
Act 3
Scott Smith, host of Frunchroom (The West Wing)
Jocelyn Geboy, cohost of Candy Chat Chicago (Avett Brothers, Candy)
Keidra C, The Learned FanGirl (KPopDollstagram)
Dave Coustan (trumpet)
Ezra Butler, artist (Andy Warhol)
Recommended stuff
Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll
Dopesick
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Succession
AEW Wrestling
Maid
Working Moms
I'm Sorry
The Other Two
Owl House, Disney+
Couer de Pirate album
Formula 1 Racing
Magic the Gathering
Olde Style - Dmitry Samarov
The Radical King - MLK
Family Properties
8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Encanto
Taylor Swift
Sarah Dodge - bread in Atlanta
Buying season tickets to see Women's Sports
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Rachel Swanson - Embodied Yoga

Rachel Swanson, a Chicago-based creativity coach and yoga instructor, takes us with her on her journey from "weird yoga" to trauma-informed yoga certification. We talk about post-partum depression, Kundalini yoga, body neutrality, and creative classrooms. 
This is a special Christmas Eve release (because you have a long drive ahead or a chill day without any new podcasts).
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Show Notes
Rachel Swanson Coaching
Kundalini yoga
Vinyasa yoga
Trauma informed yoga
“Whatever is accessible in your body today”
@tiffanycroww on Tik Tok
Abuse in kundalini yoga
Feetup
Jessamyn Stanley
Virgie Tovar 
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Rachel  0:00  Hello, my name is Rachel Swanson. And my favorite thing is doing embodied yoga practice.
Announcer  0:08  Welcome to the Finding Favorites Podcast, where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.
Leah Jones  0:20  Welcome to Finding Favorites. This is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things and we get recommendations without using an algorithm. Tonight, it's a late night. It's not late, it's just *dark* like it's super late. It is 8:30 on a Monday and I'm like it's midnight, we're cozy. I'm here tonight with Rachel Swanson. She's a creativity coach, she works on Creative Technology Solutions. She works with schools and businesses to develop high impact uses of technology and helps people be more creative, efficient, meaningful work. She does one-on-one coaching, creativity jams, visual storytelling. We were introduced by my friend Amy Guth, which means that Rachel is a good person from the get-go. Rachel, how are you doing tonight?
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Cameron MacKenzie‘s Intro to Dreams

Cameron MacKenzie, a Virginia-based professor and author, loves to use dream interpretation to teach his students how to understand poetry. We talked about Freudian and Jungian interpretation, Joseph interpretating the Pharaoh's dreams, and Black Elk Speaks. Cameron's new book River Weather: Stories is now available through Alternating Current Press.
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Show Links
Kevin T. Porter's Sorkin supercuts: First, Second and Third.
Alice Munro (Nobel Prize winning author)
The Red Book by Carl Jung
Freud Dream Interpretation
Irma's Injection
Black Elk Speaks
 
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Hailey Dezort loves purple ink and fountain pens

Hailey Dezort, a Chicago-based book publicist, is here to share her love of fountain pens. We talk about stationary stores, pen conventions, pen after dark sessions, and where to get special inks. We also chat about her newfound love of comic books!
Follow Hailey on Youtube and Instagram: Chi Comic Girl YouTube, Chi Comic Girl Instagram and Ephemeral Lines on Instagram
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Show Links
Pilsen Community Books
Open Books
Chicago Green Theater Alliance
Kaweco Classic Sport
Chicago Pen Show
Mont Blanc Marilyn Monroe Muses
DC Pen Show 2018 Recap (to get a feel for pen shows)
Cosmo Air Light notebook
Midori
Atlas Stationers in Chicago
Pelikan Souveran M405
Platinum Preppy
Egyptomania - Mont Blanc
Norsemen
Fountain Pen Hospital in NYC
Lamy Safari Fountain Pens
Goulet Pens
 
Hailey  0:00  Hi, my name is Hailey. And my favorite thing is fountain pens.
Announcer  0:05  Welcome to the finding favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.

Taylore Nicholl is an Armchair Expert Expert

Taylore Nicholl, host of the podcast Extra... Ordinary, loves the podcast Armchair Expert and is here with an introduction to the popular interview show hosted by Dax Shepard. Taylore talks about how she started with an interview with Mae Whitman (one of Dax's co-stars on Parenthood) and eventually found herself in a green room at the Ellen Show with Dax!
We talk about childhood trauma, finding father figures through podcasting, the important research around ACES, and Taylore's love of all things theater, drama and Ben Platt. (Happy birthday, Taylore!)
Show Links
Extra... Ordinary Podcast
@TayloreNicholl on Instagram and Twitter
Armchair Expert: Nadine Burke Harris
The ArmCherry Companion
Arm Cherry Direct and Arm Cherry Direct linktree
Newcomers
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Patty Morrissey love thrift stores AND decluttering

Patty Morrissey, a New York-based coach and master Kon Mari consultant, loves to go thrifting on Long Island. She grew up thrifting and garage sale-ing with her grandparents and still goes to the same shops today. She's also a Kon Mari consulant and coach who knows a thing or two about how to help people find what sparks joy. (In fact, she's in my house helping me organize during the pandemic thaw).
Keep up with Patty on Instagram as @pattymorrissey and @clearcultivate, then head over to her website to learn about Cultivate Club for 2022
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Show Links
Wild Chicago
Mac N Cheese Productions 
Holiday House
Rosie's Vintage Store
Disney Bound
Fringe Co Caftan
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