Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

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

Jo's journey to loving her fat body

Jo McCawley, a Chicago-based ad tech rockstar, has been on a journey to love her body and joins Leah to talk about falling in love with her fat body after years of dieting and body shaming. We talk about body positivity, body neutrality, the pervasiveness of shame in our culture - particularly for women.
Trigger warning: Dieting, birth trauma, preeclampsia, medical fatphobia
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Show Notes
Girls Rock Chicago
Hello, I'm Fat by Lindy West
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
#Very Fat Very Brave by Nicole Byers
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Maintenance Phase podcast
Day Breaker (sober, morning dance parties)
Preeclampsia information
Tall camping stool for walking tours
Fatness, Motherhood and the medical profession
Jennifer Lee (2020) “You will face discrimination”: Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession, Fat Studies, 9:1, 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1595289
Menopause: A Comic Treatment won the Eisner Award for best comic anthology of 2020! Leah has a story included, illustrated by Cathy Leamy, about going to mikvah before her hysterectomy
 

Nick Krefting loves The Beatles

Nick Krefting, a musician and physics teachers, has loved The Beatles since he was 9 years old. We walk through his introduction to the band, favorite books, favorites albums, documentaries that he taped from TV and how Paul deserves celebration as an artist.
Listen to Nick's music on Spotify or check out his podcast (on hiatus) How Have You Never
Show Notes
The Beatles: A Private View by Robert Freeman
Forest Gump: The Soundtrack
The Compleat Beatles
The Red Album
The Beatles Anthology (TV)
Revolution in the Head by Ian McDonald
Screw it, We're Just Gonna Talk about The Beatles podcast
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (Paul McCartney solo)
Song recommendations
Old Brown Shoe
Here, There, and Everywhere
Baby, You're A Rich Man
 

Kristen Carreon's guide to Dramione Fan Fiction

Kristen Carreon, host of HWY to Hell: A Supernatural Podcast, is our guide to the world of Dramione Fan Fiction. What? Stories written about an alternate universe (AU) where Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger fall in love. Whether is enemies to lovers in an office romance or an AU return to Hogwarts for year 8, Kristen tells us where to go for the best stories.
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Show Links
Mugglenet.com
San Antonio Puffy Tacos
10 places to get puffy tacos
Isolation by Bex-Chan
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
Jason Mantzoukas on Dickinson as a bee
Eisner winner for best anthology of 2020. Menopause: A Comic Treatment
Recommendations
For unrequited love and secret feelings in a co-worker environment, read the Rights and Wrongs Series by lovebitca8 comprised of The Right Thing To Do, All the Wrong Things, and The Auction (dark AU version of the two). Part 1, The Right Thing To Do, can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/25724661?show_comments=true or through the audiobook shared above.
The Right Thing To Do - Chapter 1 - LovesBitca8 - Harry Po...
For a dark Voldemort-wins AU involving slavery and Death Eater Draco, read Manacled by senlinyu: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14454174/chapters/33390198
Manacled - Chapter 1 - senlinyu - Harry Potter - J. K. Row...
 
For a light, hilarious historical rom-com involving a co-worker time travel scenario, read Love and Historical Accidentals by Pacific Rimbaud: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21496525/chapters/51233119
Love and Other Historical Accidents - Chapter 1 - PacificR...
For a slow-burn romance that's more focused on deep character study and grief healing, read Measure of a Man by inadaze22: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26523892/chapters/64648648

Jess loves recommending children's books

Jess Krefting, podcaster (on a break) and BookTok creator, has some books for you to read. We go through her current pile of library books and talk about what's important to her raising a young reader. We also talk about ADHD, hyperfocus on different craft projects, the Doughboys and more.
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Books! Books! Books!
Rick Riordin Presents (fantasy chapter books with POC writers and characters)
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Wrinkle In Time Quintet
It Feels Good to be Yourself
Plenty of Hugs
When Aiden became a brother
All About Families
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
100 Immigrant Women who changed the world
When We Are Kind
Rainbow Boy
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
A Way with Wild Things
ABCs of Black History
Sugar in Milk
 
 
 

Beth Villafranca really enjoys True Crime Podcasts

Beth Villafranca, a Massachusetts-based home healthcare provider, spends her days driving across southeastern Massachusetts and listens to podcasts as she travels from client to client. Today she shares her favorite podcast genre - true crime podcasts that don't exploit the victim's family. We talk about the Doughboys, Weird Al, Hamilton and more.
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Show Links
Turks Seafood
Doughboys KFC2 with hosts of True Crime and Cocktails
The Good Place the Podcast
Who Does a Podcast
Hamilcast
Blue Man Group on Jay Leno, 1992
Buckingham Blues by Weird Al
William Pacholski loves The Great Comet
True Crime Podcasts
Serial
To Live and Die in LA
The Piketon Massacre
True Crime and Cocktails
Teachers Pet and Night Driver hosted by Hedley Thomas
Someone Knows Something
This is Criminal
Dirty John