Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Carolyn loves The Prince of Egypt

Carolyn, a seminary graduate and chaplain, joined Leah to talk about one of her desert island movies - the 1998 animated, movie-musical from Dreamworks: Prince of Egypt. Starring Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, and Ofra Haza, the film covers the Exodus story by focusing on the brotherly relationship between Moses and Ramses.
We talk about how she first found the movie, the pop songs on the soundtrack, and the ideal food for a double-header movie marathon with Jesus Christ Super Star. Carolyn also answers all of Leah's questions about seminary.
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Show Links
StumbleUpon
Blogography Shampoo
Anastasia
Prince of Egypt
The Ten Commandments
Jesus Christ Superstar
Val Kilmer Documentary
Deliver Us
When You Believe, multi-language

Jessica’s journey from Jordan to the Jubilee

Jessica, our intrepid traveling friend, is back with more stories from the road. Since we last talked to Jessica about her 18-month global trip, she has gone on a road trip to Charleston, Savannah and Ashville, then went on a trip abroad to Jordan, Scotland and ended in Londong for the Queen's Jubilee.
We talk about lessons from group tours, exactly what canyoning is and navigating "work from anywhere" without an oven.
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Show Links
Hiking tours in Jordan
Canyoning in Jordan
Heat Stroke treatment
Platinum Jubilee
Highlands 
Great British Bake-Off
God Save the Queen
Outlander

Anna Tarkov loves F1 Racing

Anna Tarkov, podcaster and activist, joined Leah to talk answer the question - why did everyone get into F1 Racing all of the sudden? We go deep on Anna's personal history with sports as an immigrant, Drive to Survive documentaries, and finally spending weekends watching the 20 drivers of F1 racing.
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Show Links
Rise and Fall of Windy Citizen
Drive to Survive on Netflix
Formula One Driving Experience
Formula1.com
Indy Car
Bernie Ecclestone
2022 Rules
Reddit - what is a spec series
$100M Fine
Lewis Hamilton
The Hamilton Commission
Race: Bubba Wallace
 

Tim Barnes loves DVD extras

Writer and comedian Tim Barnes loves behind the scenes documentaries and featurettes that flourished during Peak DVD. We talk about Lord of the Rings, Star Wars Episode 1, and wonder where the good footage has gone.
We also talked about Tim's newest project: Maurice on Mars - an animated short that is being released weekly by Comedy Central on YouTube. Maurice on Mars follows the struggles of Maurice Robinson, a 20-something artist who snuck onto a utopian Martian colony only to realize it’s repeating the same old Earth problems.
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Show links
Regis Philban and Mike Schur
Maurice on Mars
The Martian Chronicles
The Other Foot
Uche Oma
Dwayne Kennedy
 The Beginning
Newcomers Podcast
Ahmed Best
 From Puppets to Pixels 
Blank Check: Spiderman 2 with Chris Gethard
Wonder Showzen
Dick Gregory

Saying Goodbye to Spidey

No guest this week, just the story of how Spidey was the best cat for host Leah Jones for the last 20.5 years. Let's round up to 21 years, shall we?
We'll be back next week with a full episode.
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Rob Schulte loves making comedy recap podcasts

Rob Schulte, a senior podcast producer, loves the art and comedy of making recap podcasts. We talk about his journey from Star Trek and war movie recaps on Max Fun to his current work on Parks & Recollection with Rob Lowe and Alan Yang. Rob shares his dream podcast co-host (calling David Hasselhoff, calling David Hasselhoff), what it's like to ask Ron Howard to fix his microphone, and we share our journeys to the Doughboys fandom.
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Rob's current podcasts and projects
Parks & Recollection and Literally with Rob Lowe
Vanderpump Robs
Passing on the Right audiobook
Other podcasts we talked about
The Greatest Discovery
Friendly Fire
West Wing Weekly
Gilmore Guys
The TV Show Show
Vanderpump Robs
Dead Eyes
Bill and Robs: an excellent adventure (coming soon)
XOXO, Gossip Kings
Doughboys
Your Kickstarter Sucks
How Did This Get Made
 
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Mike Sacks loves the movie Over the Edge

Humorist Mike Sacks loves the movie Over the Edge and had the unique privilege of writing an oral history that led to a DVD re-release with commentary tracks. We discussed the 1979 movie that featured first-time actor Matt Dillon, the DC culture that created Kavanaugh and teen culture in the 70s and 80s.
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Welcome to Woodmont College
Passing on the Right audiobook
Passing on the Right print
I am Super Pumped!!! Let's Do This Shit e-book
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Show Links
Over the Edge IMDB
Over the Edge Oral History, Vice
Over the Edge DVD DVD
All Summer in a Day movie
Heavy Metal Parking Lot Heavy Metal Parking Lot
A description of Cruising the 'Bash and being goth in Terre Haute 
Cruising Rockville Pike
Breaking Away
Steve Martin and Terre Haute
 
Mike Sacks  0:00  Hi, my name is Mike Sacks. I'm a writer, and my favorite thing is being a cool guy. Wait, no, that's my second favorite. My first favorite thing is the movie, 1979, "Over the Edge," starring Matt Dillon.
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Christine Marie Eberle asks, ”what prompts you to prayer?”

Author Christine Marie Eberle joined Leah to discuss her new book Finding God Abiding and how she has built her personal practice of prayer. We dive into the Ignatian traditions, volunteer fire departments, and the Leah shares some ideas from Jewish prayer.
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Instagram
Facebook
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Show Notes
The Jewish prayer that never lets me down
Three ways to pray Ignatian
Ignatian Year
Cause of SIDS discovered

Victor Wishna loves ”Weird Al” Yankovic

Playwright and journalist Victor Wishna loves a lot of things, but agreed to sit down and talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic this week. We also talk about how Leah's Facebook post about getting a Torah from Iowa to Paraguay inspired him to write a two act play - Tree of Life -  which is now competing in the Jewish Plays Project. 
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Show Links
Missouri and Kansas history
Torah scroll makes its way from Iowa to Paraguay
Tree of Life play
Weird Al.com
Weird Al setlist from 1996 at the Filmore Theater
Weird Al in Glen Ellyn
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Has Weird Al been to Israel?
Weird Al and Lin Manuel 
Behind the Music - Weird Al
The Compleat Al

James Ziegenfus loves tracking his hobbies

James Ziegenfus loves riding his bike, baseball, music, travel and ice cream and he's kept a meticulous spreadsheet of data on many of his favorites things. On this episode, Leah and James dive into the decades of data that James has kept about baseball games, live concerts, plane travel and his physical music collection. He shares tips on how to keep quantitative data, using apps to supplement his notes and his new notebook on international ice cream recommendations.
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Bands we talked about
Wren
I Fight Dragon
Wilco
The Fold
Beach House
My Morning Jacket
Orville Peck
The National
Links
Primavera Sound festival 
Menards Candy Aisle
Everything Steven Soderbergh watched and read in 2021
Setlist.fm
FlightRadar24
SeatGuru
Six Flags over Texas
Tableau