Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Darrin Doyle loves going into the recording studio

Darrin Doyle, a Michigan-based author and English professor, loves when he can head into the recording studio with friends or collaborate using Garage Band from home. We talk about his newest novel The Beast in Aisle 34, the bands his been in over the years and what it might be like to record with Pink Floyd.
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Show Notes
Central Michigan University
20x2 Chicago
GLACURH Region
King Tammy
King Tammy on BandCamp
Loop D Loop
Daryl and the Beans
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict
Producing Billie Eilish at home
Kramer at Noise New Jersey
Darrin  0:00  Hello, my name is Darrin Doyle. And my favorite thing is recording music.
Announcer  0:06  Welcome to the Finding Favorites podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones. 

Monica Reida loves Canada‘s own Murdoch Mysteries

Monica Reida, a Wisconsin-based journalist, loves the Murdoch Mysteries. She became a fan of Canadian TV at Michigan State (Go Green, Go White!) when it was included in the residence hall's basic cable package. We talk about copyright laws and intellectual property of podcasts, the Murdoch Mysteries, and Canadian news options.
Keep up with Monica on Twitter, Instagram, Alma and other online publications.
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Show Notes
Broadway Shows
Come From Away
Hamilton
Dear Evan Hansen
Fun Home
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Falsettos
Everything Else
Gideon the 9th
Monica's legal arguments about podcasts
Taking Ivy Seriously by Matthew David Brozik
Slings and Arrows
In the company of women (episode of Murdoch Mysteries)
The final curtain
Midwest Architecture Journeys
CBC's Rosemary Barton dances on the grave of the far right People's Party
CBC The National on YouTube
Instagram account for "Murdoch Mysteries" costume designer
"Murdoch Mysteries" Instagram account, which usually announces international air dates:
 

Trish McDonald is curious about gender norms and longevity

Trish McDonald, a Florida-based author, has done a lot of research about nutrition and longevity, which she shared with Leah this week. We also talk about her RV-lifestyle, tiny homes, and publishing her first book at the age of 77. Paper Bags is now available in digital and paperback through Woodhall Press
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Paper Bags: After thirty-four years of marriage, Kat McNeil flees to a campground in the Florida Keys where she falls for a ramblin' man who's elusive, unavailable, and secretive.Desperate to understand why he avoids her, she becomes a stalker. This deviant behavior unearths a stunning revelation shaking her to the core. Will she run away from something she doesn't understand, or will she embark on a journey of self-discovery and sexual awakening?
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Show Notes
Work Camping Jobs
Gut Balance Revolution
Kombucha at home and Keifer at home
17 Years for evidence to become accepted as standard care
Line dancing for beginners and seniors
Werewolf of London
Caringbridge for Leah's cancer stuff
 
 
 
 
 

Elizabeth Splaine loves opera, writing and getting inside your head

Elizabeth B. Splaine, a Rhode Island-based author, joins us ahead of her Tuesday, October 5th, release date for her novel Swan Song. We talk about her winding paths to performing opera, publishing four novels, and what it means to get inside someone's head. Her historical novel takes places in Germany during Hitler's reign and tells the story of an opera diva who learns that she is Jewish during the Holocaust as she's swept up in a romance with a man eventually known as William Stuart-Houston (Hitler's nephew).
CW: concentration camp, Holocaust, suicide
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Show Notes
Rhode Island Philharmonic School of Music
Rhody Box featuring Swan Song
Brundibár opera
Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Ibram X Kendi
L'esprit de escalier
Online 5959 Event on November 16, 2021
 
 

Author Mike Keren loves cooking shows

Mike Keren, an author and clinical psychologist based in the Poconos, loves cooking shows that teach you something and haven't turned cooking into sport. We talk about Julia Child, the Galloping Gourmet and the Canadian show Wall of Chefs. Mike's first memoir will be published on October 5th and we also talk about caretaking, the AIDS epidemic, COVID and family recipes.
Keep up with Mike online on MikeKeren.com, @MikeKeren4 on Twitter
In “Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir”, author Mike Keren is plunged into a caregiving journey when his loving but difficult parents come to visit and both end up hospitalized over the course of one weekend. Keren had only recently left a career as a psychologist to pursue the world of high finance driven by his perceptions of how difficult it was becoming to deliver quality service in the current profit-driven health care environment. He, along with his life-partner, Tom, had been caregiving Tom’s mom who was undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
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Show Notes
Graphic Medicine
Taking Turns
The Galloping Gourmet
The French Chef (Julia Child)
Jacques Pépin
Top Chef Masters
Wall of Chefs
The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Nadiya Hussain
Mock Chestnut Torte (passover flourless chocolate cake)
Banana Jam
Homecooking Podcast
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Dawn Hogan loves Lego and writing

Dawn Hogan, also known as DW Hogan, is a Hunstville-based author and publishing her first novel on October 5th. We talk about women's access to healthcare, homes for unwed mothers that were common the United States in the 1950-70s, and her family's love affair with Lego sets.
CW: Leah and Dawn talk about coerced adoption, access to abortion, access to birth control and modern searches for biological parents.
Unbroken Bonds by DW Hogan is available on October 5, 2020, in print and digital.
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Show Notes
Visit NASA in Huntsville, Alabama
Concerned United Birth Parents
Inside a home for unwed mothers
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe V Wade
The Girls Who Went Away
Birthright Film
LEGO bookshop
LEGO chess set
LEGO Design software
LEGO Friends
LEGO and gendered toys
Debbie Patrick cross-stitch patterns
NANOWRIMO
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Lee Matthew Goldberg is ready to travel again

Lee Matthew Goldberg, a New York-based author, is ready to pack his bags and leave the country as soon as it's safe. Lee is a prolific author and his eight book Stalker Stalked will be published on Friday, September 17th. Lee hopes to celebrate publication and finishing his draft of the third book in his YA trilogy with travel, travel and more travel. We talk about early trips abroad, travel itineraries and post-COVID travel dreams.
SPOILER ALERT: We talk about White Lotus in depth and spoil everything about it.
In Stalker Stalked, Lexi Mazur is a depressed, alcoholic, pill-popper whose only joy has become her reality TV shows, often fantasizing that the people on TV are a part of her world. After her boyfriend Steve leaves her, she fixates on the show Socialites and its star Magnolia Artois, following every facet of the girl’s life on social media in the hopes of befriending and becoming more like her.
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Show Notes
Pass Over Play
Find Lee's books on Bookshop
Aviva Drescher throws her leg
Barge Lady Cruises
20x2 Chicago
Heathers
The Voyeurs
Michael Mohan
We Summon the Darkness
TPAN Ride for Life
St. Baldrick's
Applied Asthetics
 

Jen Michalski loves abandoned sanitoriums

Jen Michalski, a California-based author, joins us this week to talk about abandoned sanitoriums and state hospitals that can be found east of the Mississippi. Jen has a new novel out through NineStar Press called You'll Be Fine available on Kindle and paperback.
Keep up with Jen online
@MichalskiJen on Twitter and editor of the JMWW weekly digital journal
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Show Notes
Dzanc Books
St. Mary's College (land acknowledgement and slavery history)
Rosewood Center drone tour
Rosewood Center's scandal (adoption to slavery)
WBEZ story about Chicago's Tuberculosis sanitorium
Atlas Obscura Chicago's TB Sanitorium
Kirkbride planned institutions
The Institute (movie)
Danvers State Hospital
Session 9 (movie)
Danvers in pop culture
Housing First public policy Ted Med talk
San Jose abandoned asylum
Funko Hollywood

A light is waiting to carry Greg Lindberg home (to Full House)

Greg Lindberg, co-host of Fresh Questions, Air, shares a Hoosier pride with Leah and loves the ABC TGIF anchor show - Full House. Not to be confused with the reboot, Fuller House. We talk about how Bob Saget got the role of Danny Tanner, the confusing layout of the San Francisco painted lady the family called home, and about working as a corn detassler.
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Show Notes
Indiana Beach
Margo and the Nuclear So & So's
Kurt Vonnegut Library
James Dean and Jim Davis
Full House
Fuller House
The Secret Admirer
The first Danny Tanner
How did Bob Saget get Full House
Leah's breast cancer stuff is on Caring Bridge.

Collecting used vinyl records with Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler, a San Francisco-based author and filmmaker, loves used vinyl and is here to walk us through how to create a music curriculum at your local record store. You can catch his documentary Vinyl Nation at film festivals across the country or hear the Pointer Sisters wafting out of his windows in the Bay Area.
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Show Notes
Kevin Smokler website
Vinyl Nation documentary
Bike Aid
The Vinyl Exam podcast, episode about Headstone & Friends
History of Columbia House
2 Live Crew vs Tipper Gore
Reckless Records
Amoeba Records
Dusty Groove
Rattleback Records
Laurie's Planet of Sound
Tone Vendor