Half My Age

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In which Andrew and Aunty Joe discuss tools and projects, the guilt of being lazy, the existential stuff of technology and aging, and following your heart (especially in these weird times).SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.A great YouTube channel for learning about the history of photography (Technology Connections)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.

In which Andrew and Aunty Joe return from their podcasting hiatus.

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.A coloring book for menopausal women (Cheer the F*ck Up)Subscribe! (Half My Age on the YouTube)Will it make me sweat? Will it make me wet? (“Celebrity Hot Tub”)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Cold temps + hot jokes (An almost-out-of-doors comedy show every Friday in Denver)Requisite Seinfeld pulls (Closet Chinese Food; Unwanted Area Code)Buy this hot sauce! (Sonoran Heat Sauce Co.)Like; subscribe; click the bell! (HMA new YouTube footprint)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Golden Boy (Go-to clothing item: Requisite Seinfeld pull)I’ll never have to wipe again (Spoiled: TOTO Washlet Bidet Seat)Laugh so hard it hurts (Weekly comedy show and other stuff)Good for the Brits! (The Great Pottery Throwdown)I don’t wanna be cancelled (Bean Dad)

SHOW NOTESThe return of comedy (Denver-area shows)Mrs. Filholm’s book got shouted out (Is We Dumb? Podcast - also, buy the book!)More funny videos (Laugh Gallery)Give ‘em a little leg; take it right back (The Cosby Show)Suggestive comedy from 1970s England (BritBox)

SHOW NOTESMom got a robe! (Kristen Wiig hosts SNL)Art critique #1 (American Gothic)Art critique #2 (Gifts of the Magi)When comics do art (Laugh Gallery)Kris Kringle + the Classics (Santa Classics)Heat Miser and Snow Miser (The Year Without a Santa Claus)Poisoned by carbs (What a Drag It Is Getting Old)

SHOW NOTESDon’t agitate the baby! (Hobart Stand Mixer)Feats of Strength (Requisite Seinfeld pull)The nastiest of the nastiest Not Safe for Work Livestream: Do not watch! But support comedy. But seriously: Not for the faint-of-heart.)Our method on the microphone’s bangin’ (Bring Da Ruckus)Buy Mrs. Filholm’s books! (Because Teenagers Suck)

SHOW NOTESAn art critique (laugh_gallery on Instagram)

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SHOW NOTESKintsugi: There is a crack in everything; it’s how the light gets in. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi)Wabi-sabi: Imperfect; Impermanent; Incomplete (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi)Is We Dumb: A very funny podcast. With fire stories. (https://iswedumb.com)Schlemiel/Schlimazel: A One-Woman ShowFire Good/Fire Bad: SNL: Frankenstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mawve_3NSj4)

In which Andrew and Mrs. Filholm discuss: Form and function; small-town comedy and self-care, and that pesky thing with feathers that perches in the soul, even during these terrible times.

In which Mrs. Filholm and Andrew discuss: dog cartoons, professional attire, and how Mrs. Filholm was a jerk.SHOW NOTESA dog cartoon (Matt Groening’s Life in Hell)

In which Mrs. Filholm and Andrew discuss: the disgusting word ‘touch’, when jokes fall flat, walking cats on leashes, and assorted recommendations.

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.The SQUIRRELINATOR (https://www.animaltrapsandsupplies.com/products/the-squirrelinator-multi-catch-live-trap.html)Citizen Critic podcast (https://citizencriticpod.com/)Ortega Pickeled Jalapeños (https://amzn.to/3b7ula5)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Mrs. Filholm’s Idea of Heaven (“Burn One with John Prine”)Schlemiel, Schlimazel (Mrs. Filholm gets the soup spilled on her.)A callback to some content that was cut (Dropbox: Smart Sync)A decorating solution: All the art (Netgear Meural)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Donatello, Michelangelo, Rafael *DaVinci didn’t have one*)Comedy Ranch! (Local fans, REPRESENT!)

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.The biggest, baddest Kitchenaid mixer (Andew and Delany’s wedding registry!)Getting good (Friday night comedy showcase at Greg’s Kitchen and Taphouse)

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.It’s everywhere, and Mrs. Filholm thinks about it all the time. (mechanically engineered earth)A story of healing through movement (Ghost Rider by Neil Peart)Bipedalism (Brain evolution, Dementia and whatnot)Karass, Granfalloon, Duprass (What Kurt Vonnegut teaches us about relationships)Un-vitation (Requisite Seinfeld pull)A love song to Andrew’s girl (In My Life)Leslie Knope’s Unity Quilt (Just one idea for the big event)To send Andrew and Delany a message that will make them think of you every day, please email hma@slova.app

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Laughs on Tap (If you’re in Denver you should come!)A British bank is run with precision (A British household requires nothing less)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.New Ghostbusters (Afterlife)And that’s Showbiz, Kid (“Roxie” from Chicago)Scratching me right where I itch (A recent episode of our favorite, Roderick on the Line)

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Denver News. Satirized. (Westish)If you’re in Denver, you’d be crazy not to come. (Laughs on Tap, Friday nights until the Second Shutdown)Road Chops: Nance Pants (The inestimable Nancy Norton!!!!)

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Why Mrs. Filholm knows about it and I don’t (Hydro Dipping)I know all the fruits (Aziz Ansari’s 50 Cent grapefruit joke)Dave Chappelle (The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2020)Live comedy! (Laughs on Tap every Friday in Denver, until further notice, with 6’ distance… weekly link for tix on the FB page for Greg’s Kitchen and Taphouse)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.I don’t think I can shoot a squirrel (Mark Rober’s squirrel obstacle course)Classic Crosman (in pink, duh.)A real targety thing that spins around (Caldwell Resetting Targets with Portable Design and Shooting Spots for Outdoor, Range, Shooting and Hunting)How to be an anti-racist: Black lives matter. (Ibram X. Kendi)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.We get different internets (2020 Disaster Bingo Cards)Ska is my people (Tears of a Clown)She still gives me hope and happiness (Gabriella Bee’s cool vid)"How can people not understand why people are acting the way they are?" (Spike Lee’s 3 Brothers)Watch it: Sickeningly timely. (Do the Right Thing)How to be an anti-racist (Ibram X. Kendi)We have to shut up and listen. (White Folks Guide to Protesting)The very serious function of racism is distraction. (Toni Morrison’s 1975 speech)Racial inequality and incarceration in America (13TH)White people, we gotta talk about it. (Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea)Teenagers suck, across time. (The Accident Hump)Historically volatile (Youth Bulge)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Mark Rober, not Mars Rover (squirrel obstacle course)Where the misnomer originated (Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty)An academic perspective on the not-so-humble brag (Harvard Business School study proves the humblebrag is a useless waste of time)It’s what’s for dinner (Spam™ Musubi)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.The foods of my childhood (L&L Hawaiian Barbeque)Quarantine Blockade (The Vagus Connection)Feasting on Asphalt - https://amzn.to/3bVwpABHot Fuzz - https://amzn.to/2LQIEUsTaking the squirrels to Del Boca Vista (Requisite Seinfeld pull)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Their software is aptly named (Rogue Amoeba and Audio Hijack)The titular sheep (Shaun the Sheep)He wears a mask (Adam Savage on YouTube)You ain’t just pale; you bucket (Buckra)“I guess I’m supposed to be supportive, right?” (Star Wars Alphabet)The Star Wars that people don’t like to talk about (Midi-chlorians, courtesy Wookieepedia)Gilda Radner raised me (SNL broadcast from home)I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form (Shelter from the Storm)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.A real baby, not with LeAnn Grimes (X Æ A-12)You are Bert! (Adventures in sidewalk chalk)The way to do comedy right now (Phone It In Denver Film Festival)There are things about this quarantine that Andrew actually enjoys (As per Roderick on the Line)They probably don’t want stand-up at their opening party (Friend of the Show Flaneur Watches is getting a retail space!)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Real talk, Apocalypse-Style (The Roomba tweet)If you don’t use our affiliate link, we’ll invoice you. (iRobot Roomba 675)Songs to Wear Pants To (Andrew Huang, the YouTube music guy)Before Andrew was born (Waco)Certainly not for everyone but it’s bringing Mrs. Filholm joy (The Las Culturistas podcast)Culture is for me. (Saint Gilda: RIP)Buy Mrs. Filholm’s books and stuff! (Dolla Dolla bill, y’all...)

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Something joyful to say (“Animal Control” Parks and Rec Season 5 Episode 18)Andrew’s lookin’ at TikTok (Dancin’ across the room in a horse head)More prepared to laugh (Roderick on the Line and all the great shows)NPR still comin’ in hot (Tiny Desk Concerts)Energy and healing and chakras and woo-woo things (Reiki)As close as the ground as you can get (Earthing)CLAYCATION!

SHOW NOTES:Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.We’re making a sculptural-looking thing (Spiral minaret: The Great Mosque of Samarra)There will be time, there will be time... (Living the J. Alfred Prufrock life)I did update my website (BeyondMamaBear.com)A show that mostly worked (Socially Distant Mother FaceBook livestream: all the motherhood feels)Trendsetter/Tastemaker (Toto C200 Washlet Electronic Bidet)Bidet life keeps coming up (You Look Nice Today; California King)Those funny, funny video guys (Lonely Sandwich)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.The opposite of war isn’t peace; it’s creation (RENT)And I don’t even own a TV (“Flagpole Sitta”: One of Mrs. Filholm’s favorite songs of all time)The fools get cynical and the world gets silly (Marcus Arelius and the Stoics and the Tim Ferriss Four-Hour Work Week and stuff)Work is prayer; prayer is work (Saint Benedict)Just persevere and stay alive (Reconcilable Differences: Merlin vs. John, who is maybe a Scorpio)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Mrs. Filholm’s inspiration (Banksy: Exit through the Gift Shop)The Bulgarian fabric guy (Christo: Valley Curtain)Where the squirrels live (Box elder)It certainly does suck (Flowbee)It’s a world-wide trend (Doing it for the LOLs)Sneakin’-around clothes (Parks & Recreation: Would Leslie Knope Be My Friend or Enemy?)Prison for sidewalk chalk (Agit-Prop theatre)I wish we could call Kanishka (Likert scale)The day I become a prop comic... (Robot or Not)What a YouTube channel is (The Playlist)Get outta here + squirrel in a front-pack (Requisite Seinfeld pulls 1 + 2)The Water-Skiing Squirrel (Twiggy)Haircut & Eyelash Goalz (The actual Twiggy)I’m still trying to figure out what he does (Roderick on the Line)Too Much Schadenfreude for me (The Tiger King)Soft-core (Orange is the New Black)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.It’s a verb phrase (Waffle stomping: A PSA Regarding Toilet Paper)The Daily from two days ago (“Why the American Approach is Failing”)The history of soda pop (from Stuff You Should Know’s Distraction Playlist)A reckless recommendation (Tiger King)Returning to familiar and comforting things (M*A*S*H)Desperate times=desperate measures. Buy Mrs. Filholm’s shit! (Beyond Mama Bear: books! Audiobook! Hilarious YouTube content!)Photographer/Metal Worker (Gregor Halenda)Roomba Roller Joy (Use this link to get you an iRobot of your very own)Strange days indeed (Nobody Told Me, John Lennon)Do you feel fine? (It’s the end of the world as we know it)Hands-free no toilet paper needed! (Use this link to get you a bidet of your very own)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.This guy is doing God’s work (@MiserlyScoops)You gotta do something (Mrs. Filholm’s brand of slacktivism)Cool hand-washing video (Mark Rober, not Mars Rover)How germs transfer (Glo Germ)A shot into real life (Jimmy Fallon’s post-apocalypse show)There’s nothing like this. (Polio, Flu of 1918)Blame your brain (Misophonia)LOU (Laughter Online University)You’re a cashier! (Requisite Seinfeld pull)Snapchat for the olds (Marco Polo)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Dan Benjamin on the pandemic panic (Road Work with John Roderick)The biological and social aspect of disease (This Podcast will Kill You)Drains properly, like a gentleman (French drains vs. dry wells)Short, terse sentences (The Hemingway App)The Medium is the Message (Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman: Read it!)Our boy John Roderick is on a cruise! (JoCo Cruise)The Great Toilet Paper Wars of 2020 (Get you a bidet. And use this link! Desperate times=Desperate measures.)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.In memory and celebration of Mark Benz, whose presence on the planet will be missed. 1993-2020 #RIPCan we keep him safe? (Mrs. Filholm’s book and life's work)John Roderick did it (Freight hopping)Trimming too much (Coppicing @ The Omnibus)There is nothing inherently wrong with adverbs (Hemingwayapp.com)Live Readings by Local Authors on Motherhood (Listen to Your Mother: April 23 at the Oriental Theatre in Denver)Am I like a nervous bird? (The Power of Now)In every presentation Andrew has ever built for school (The Anvil Transition)An excessively cheerful or optimistic person (Pollyanna)High Hopes (A cool Panic at the Disco song Mrs. Filholm likes)“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” (Emerson? There’s some controversy.)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.It’s a cult (Amway)A podcast about dupes (The Dream)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.A culture-jamming, power-fighting, rule-breaking artist (Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping)Wide lanes, Jerry (Requisite Seinfeld pull)Crying is almost always always out of frustration (Roderick on the Line Episode 371)The Romans built the aqueducts (This Old House episode about ice damming)The recent phenomenon of wig parties (they’re a real thing)Get on the train or you’re stupid: Highly recommended things (Bidet = business + pleasure; Fender Blues Deluxe Harmonica, Key of G; Hohner Harmonica Holder HH01; Beyond Mama Bear, the Audiobook)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Get on the train or you’re stupid: Highly recommended things (Bidet = business + pleasure; Fender Blues Deluxe Harmonica, Key of G; Hohner Harmonica Holder HH01; Beyond Mama Bear, the Audiobook)Andrew’s banking hub (Capital One)Just a living legacy (to the Leader of the Band: Dan Fogelberg)

SHOW NOTESSpecial thanks to Jonah Mancino, who composed the intro/outro music for Half My Age.Maybe it’s trying to tell me it had a bad day (Roomba 675)Get on the train or you’re stupid: Highly recommended things ( Bidet = business + pleasure; Fender Blues Deluxe Harmonica, Key of G; Hohner Harmonica Holder HH01; Beyond Mama Bear, the Audiobook)Like Jerry’s Nana (Requisite Seinfeld pull)Once people get past being freaked out, I think they appreciate me (Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment)It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)Haters Gonna Hate (Shake It Off)

Sucking and blowing, sucking and blowing (Fender Blues Deluxe Harmonica, Key of G)The Official Harmonica Neck Holder of the Half My Age podcast (Hohner Harmonica Holder HH01)Filholm’s bidet with two settings (business and pleasure)Still vacuuming like a snork? Stop being a snork and get a robot! (Roomba 675)Mrs. Filholm’s book read to you by Mrs. Filholm (Beyond Mama Bear, the Audiobook)Your side is less important than my side. (LisaLaneFilholm.com)

SHOW NOTES:Good job, DJ Roomba! (iRobot Roomba 675)A word that sounds a little too clever (inurnment)Dude, this is life-changing: It oscillates AND it pulsates. (Toto C200 Washlet Electronic Bidet)If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Home Edition (Accidental Tech Podcast)Mrs. Filholm’s book read to you by Mrs. Filholm (Beyond Mama Bear, the Audiobook)Your side is less important than my side. (LisaLaneFilholm.com)“Lay it on me, String Bean” (Requisite Seinfeld pull)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who edits this podcast and is part of the merry-making machine.Inscrutable riddles (Buddhist koans)The sound of one hand clapping (The air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow)Robin Williams had it (Lewy Body Dementia)Life is sacred but it’s not gonna get better (Hospice and Palliative Care)Whiskers versus Nando (iRobot Roomba vacuum - use this link!)Mrs. Filholm is a little Bah, Humbug (A new word for the quiver: FAFF)John and Merlin: People suck (The podcast on which our show is kinda modeled)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who edits this podcast and respects copyright.Happy Festivus, Georgie! And Andrew! (Seinfeld S9:E10 and the day we keep holy)She always lands on her feet (The Buttered Cat Paradox)Nando and DJ Roomba (Amazon code for the iRobot)Andrew’s mother did a great job (The Story of Ferdinand)Amazon Associates (Buy the Space Pen here!)If you have the means (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)Bringing choice back (Fetch is not a thing)Star Wars’ newest Klingon (Baby Yoda)The book that launched a one-woman show (Beyond Mama Bear)Customer service (Parks and Recreation)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino, who edits this podcast and feels the bass in his butt.Because of your loud mouth (Love, Gilda)Dude, do you have to use so many cuss words? (The Big Lebowski)Never go with a hippie to a second location. (Carrie Fisher in 30 Rock)Some call me the Gangster of Love (Really love your peaches)Playlist Recommendation #1 (John Lee Hooker on Spotify)Playlist Recommendation #2 (Pink Martini)Can you spare a square? (Requisite Seinfeld pull, lost to time because nothing gold can stay.)Save dat money! (Li’l Dickey)Ferdinand, the new robot family member (Roomba: Use this link to change your life!)

Special thanks to The Master Jonah Mancino, who edits this podcast.Don’t mix concrete with your bare hands! (Portland Cement)The appearance of youth (Baby Foot! For the love of God, sponsor us!)On the air for 40 years (This Old House)I don’t apologize because I still think it’s a joke (Hinge)Thumbs-Up Jesus; Disapproving Mary (Buddy Christ)I realized I’d been had. (Our God is an Awesome God)I questioned it myself but I like it! (Tens machines)It’s a great stocking stuffer (Teenagers Suck)The one day we keep holy (A Festivus for the rest of us!)Feats of Strength (Pringles Ringle Challenge)