Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Emily Drake loves Cozy Games

Emily Drake, host of the podcast Who's Missing, loves a cozy game. Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Cozy Cafe and more! We talk about parallel play, building relationships and so much more.
 
Email a 1-5 minute audio clip to Leah by December 25th to be included in the Best of 2023 show! What did you love in 2023? email your clip to findingfavoritespodcast@gmail.com
Follow Emily online
Instagram @emdrake
Who's Missing Podcast
Show Links
Stardew Valley
Cozy Grove
Animal Crossing
Triple Match 3D
Merge Mansion
Get Played episode "Now That's What I Call Video Game Music: Cozy Edition"
Finding Favorites episode "Keidra Chaney loves #KPopDollstagram"
The Deep Dive
Doughboys
How Did This Get Made
Greens, Beans, Potatoes, Tomatoes
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Finding Favorites is edited and mixed by Rob Abrazado. Follow Finding Favorites on Instagram at @FindingFavsPod and leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts, GoodPods or Spotify.
Thank you to Chris and Jesse at Upper Middlebrow for the shoutout!

Thanksgiving Interlude and Upper Middlebrow trailer

It's a thanksgiving interlude with a few updates of what Leah's been up to and the trailer for season 2 of Upper Middlebrow Podcast.
 
Stand Up Comedy
Nicole Byer
Kyle Kinane
Samantha Bee
Broadway Stuff
Beetlejuice
What a Wonderful World
Here We Are
The Lehman Trilogy
Company
Podcast Stuff
How Did This Get Made live shows
Welcome to Rob Abrazado
Upper Middlebrow trailer
Send your "Best of 2023" audio clip to findingfavoritespodcast@gmail.com
Bring Them Home: Stories of hostages from October 7
 

Evonne Marzouk returns (and loves writing)

Evonne Marzouk returned to the podcast to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of her debut novel The Prophetess. We talk about the process of finding an audience, her lifelong love of writing, and processing difficult times through writing.
We talk about donations for pre-orders, but her publisher has extended the donations through the end of the war, G-d willing, soon.
Donations are being made to Leket.
Keep up with Evonne online: Substack
Evonne on Substack
Instagram @heroinewhisperer
Facebook @HeroineWhisperer
Order The Prophetess in paperback
EvonneMarzouk.com
Uplifting People and Planet: Eighteen Essential Jewish Lessons on the Environment
Special thank you to Rob Abrazado who joined the Finding Favorites team as an editor and sound mixer.

Author Holly Wendt loves cycling of all sorts

Pensylvania-based author and professor Holly M. Wendt joined Leah to talk about their love of all things cycling - from professional races to riding long distances, Holly loves all things two-wheeled. Their debut novel Heading North will be available on November 8th and you can order it today.
HollyMWendt.com
Instagram @hmwendt
Twitter @hmwendt
Heading North
 
Show Notes
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
End Papers
The Art of Fielding
The Cactus League
The Desert Sky Before Us
Indian Horse
Tour de Fleece
Seagull Century
Bike Rally (Toronto to Montreal)
Wild Horses
Sepp Kuss (Durango, Colorado)
Domestique
Tim Declercq
Farm to Fork

Bee Vargas loves Powerlifting

Bee Vargas, AKA the reigning Ms. Illinois, loves power lifting and joined Leah to talk about her journey to embracing her larger body in and out of the gym. Whether its rooftop yoga, crushing dead lifts or representing Illinois at the national level, Bee is a delight.
Follow Bee online
https://www.instagram.com/thatbeeword/
https://www.instagram.com/allbodiesaregymbodies/ 
https://www.tiktok.com/@thatbeeword
 
Show Notes
https://www.swipefatpodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/well_rounded.wellness/
https://blog.nasm.org/powerlifting-for-women
https://lipsticklifters.com/articles/female-powerlifters/
https://www.socalpowerlifting.net/post/how-do-powerlifting-meets-work
https://www.northamericabeautypageant.com/divisions/
https://www.thewrpf.com/

Joel Haber loves Shabbat stews (rerelease)

Donate to American Friends of Magen David Adom
 
Jerusalem-based tour guide Joel Haber joined Leah to talk about Shabbat Stews ahead of the release of his ebook Chulent & Hamin: The Ultimate Jewish Comfort Food. There is so much more to Chulent than beans and meat!
Follow Joel on Instagram and his blog Taste of Jew.
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Show links
The Red Lady
Free Shabbat Stew Cookbook by Joel Haber
Machne Yehuda market
Gil Marks obituary
Ishtabach in Jerusalem
Shamburak
Birateinu
Beermiscuous in Chicago
Cardoon
Come for Cholent
Come for Cholent Again
 

Taylore and Michael love making movies

Taylore Nicholl and Michael Lester, a pair of independent filmmakers from Texas, joined Leah to talk about their love of film, making films, and dream projects.
Follow the pair online
Support Taylore and Michael on Patreon 
Carry On (Taylore's first movie)
@taylorenicholl on Instagram
What We Become  
Tik Tok @mediocre_michael
Show Notes
Duo of Greenville filmmakers
Jackass
The Disney Vault
Ira Glass, The Gap 
Danny McBride on Armchair Expert
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Little Miss Sunshine
500 Days of Summer
Garden State
Lost in Translation
Away We Go
Leah Jones - Piper Cub pilot
Hello, My Baby
Pretty Like Me

Jesse Dukes wrestles with Jimmy Buffett

Jesse Dukes, co-host of Upper Middlebrow, returns to Finding Favorites to wrestle with Jimmy Buffett's legacy. We talk about internal rhymes, lifestyle brands, and songs with more meaning on the tenth listen than on the first.
Keep up with Jesse online
Upper Middlebrow Podcast 
JesseDukes.com
Show Notes
Neuromancer
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
The Space Between Worlds
Jimmy Buffet - Songs you don’t know by heart
JimmyBuffett.com 
MBMBAM and Jimmy Buffett 
Escape to Margaritaville 
Red Headed Stranger
Internal rhyme
Best rhymes in Hamilton 
 The melancholy of margaritaville
Eater review of Margaritaville in NYC 
NY Times Jimmy Buffett does not live the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle
Steve O interview
Delaney Buffett
Go Cubs Go
Cowboy in the Jungle

Josh Mohr loves Tom Waits & road trip novels

Josh Mohr, Seattle-based author of Model Citizen, joined Leah to discuss his new novel Farsickness which he wrote this summer and is illustrated by his daughter Ava. We talk about teachers that change your life, collaborating with your children, making art during the pandemic, and grappling with PTSD.
 
Buy a copy of Farsickness today
Silly Gooses with Josh Mohr and Ava Mohr at Valencia 826 (look for more workshops this year)
Show Notes
Juniper Shelley (father/daughter collab)
Disney Weddings
Tom Waits
Fight Club
Alice in Wonderland
Grace Paley
Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
Cesar Cruz

Ronnie Raviv only dabbles

Ronnie Raviv joined Leah to try and figure out if he has any favorite things. We talk about cocktails, cocktail bars, books, TV, great meals and our friendship origin story. For someone who claims to have no favorite things, there was no lacking in conversation.
Like my beloved Zouks, Ronnie is not on twitter.
Show Notes
Second City Conservatory 
Quipfire Improv 
Sally Albright
Chicken Pot Pie origin story 
Mexican Mule
Journeyman White Whiskey
Jasper Fforde 
OCD TLV
Taizu 
Fantastic TLV 
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Blind Barber
Duck Duck Goat
Aviary
Rosemary
Tango Sur
Bar Roma
Frasca
Monte Verde
Dear Margaret 
Yom Tov Deli (Tel Aviv)
Harry's Epic Israel Food Tours
Transcript follows
Ronnie Raviv  0:00  Hello, my name is Ronnie Raviv. And I don't think I really have favorite things, but I have a lot of things that I like a lot, and you can hear all about them. In this week's finding favorites.