Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

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.
Listen to Kristen on HWY to Hell and follow ETL Echo Audio Books on Instagram @etl.echo.audiobooks
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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.
Follow Jess as @Reading_with_E on Instagram and TikTok or listen to the archives of How Have You Never?!
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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
 
 

Jocelyn Geboy loves talking about candy

Jocelyn Geboy, a Chicago-based writer, storyteller and Tik Tok creator, loves getting people talking about candy. She's found that asking people "red vines or twizzlers" can start the group down an hour-long winding road of nostalgia and light conversation. People might get wound up, but they won't get angry or have an existential crisis.
Follow Jocelyn online - she's @smussyolay on Tik Tok, Twitter and Instagram
Show Links
Whozeewhatzit vs Watchamacallit
Licorice Tubes
Reese's Take5
Charleston Chew
The mammogram is included in the Affordable Care Act and should be covered by your health insurance. Go get one.

Saul Colt will travel for collectibles

Saul Colt, the smartest man in the world and founder of Idea Integration Company, loves cooking videos and hunting collectibles. In this episode we talk about his COVID cooking inspirations and his favorite flea markets and shops for finding nostalgic collectibles. Funko Pops, Pee Wee Playhouse items, custom sneakers or Be@rbricks - Saul wants to see it all.
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Show Links
Famoso in Toronto
Canter's Deli
The Griddle Cafe
Claire Saffitz Dessert Person
Sam The Cooking Guy
Frank and Son Show
Bodega in Boston
Big Fun Toy Store in Cleveland
Dave's Quality Meats in NYC
Red Sovine - Teddy Bear and Large Marge
Ecentrik 1
Jollibee Funko Pop
 

Max Pacheco: lost Disney film hunter

Max Pacheco, amateur Disney historian, Twitch streamer and podcast actor, claims that he has the most obscure Disney digital collection in the world and challenges other Disney collectors to prove him wrong. Leah and Max talk about his hunt for copies of 30 Disney movies from the 70s and 80s that seem lost to time.
Show Links
Sporadic Phantom
Jess Lambert: Every Disney Movie Ever
Max and Jess talk about The Whiz Kid and the Mystery of Riverton
Max is looking for...
The Track of the African Bongo
Trail of Danger
Shadow of Fear
The Secret of Lost Valley
Strange Companions
U.S. Marshalls: Waco and Reinhardt, AKA Line of Duty (UK)
Meet the Munceys
FOUND: The Absent Minded Professor: Trading Places
Just Perfect
FOUND: Spies (1993) On loan from the director of Spies
FOUND: The Barefoot Executive (remake, 1995)
Ladies and the Champ
ETA
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Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Eisner nominated)
The Wrong Mans
Kurt Russell is a Disney legend
Blank Check Podcast
Halloween is Grinch Night

Learning from legendary hostess, Cinnamon Cooper

Cinnamon Cooper, a Chicago-based writer and crafter, is known among our friends for being an excellent host. In this episode she talks about how she learned to host dinner parties, soup nights and her epic Halloween bash. She is the author of the Everything Cast Iron Cookbook, which is still in print and an outstanding guide to cooking with cast iron.
Includes a clip from Brandy Agerbeck's episode and a voice memo from Jacqui Cheng
Follow Cinnamon online @cinnachick on Twitter and Instagram and buy her bags at Poise.cc
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Show links
HuffenCooper Halloween 2010 photos and 2012 Photos
The Jiffy Pope
Jacqui and Jenni - the year with two Bjorks
The Card Sharks got Smarter (Ramsin Canon) and me as NasCarmen Miranda
Cinnamon's legendary Tomato Soup recipe
Six Toed cats in Key West
What is Juneteenth?
Hungry Cat Daily
Jewish-ish Podcast
 
Cinnamon  0:00  Hi, my name is Cinnamon Cooper and my favorite thing is throwing Halloween parties.
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Dave Coustan plays the trumpet

Dave Coustan, an Atlanta-based podcast producer and marketing strategist, picked up trumpet for the first time at the age of 39... because why not? We talk about what made him start playing trumpet as an adult, a 5-hour lesson in Portland from David Monette, and how he became a podcast producer at I Heart Radio.
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Show Links
Atlanta Local Food Initiative
Hrishikesh Hirway on Inside Voices with Kevin T. Porter
Stuff You Missed in History Class with Tracy Wilson
Stuff You Should Know
Wendy L. Klein, Berklee College of Music (Dave's childhood flute teacher)
Brass Instrument Workshop
Joe Gransden
Monette Trumpets
Dave Monette on Craft In America
Dan Harmon Story Cycle
XOXO Fest in Portland
Dave's 2008 SXSW business card