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

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

Leah's breast cancer stuff is on Caring Bridge.

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.

Follow Kevin, aka @weegee, on Twitter and @smokler Instagram

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Show Notes

• Kevin Smokler website

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

Follow Jo on Instagram for memes and ice cream recommendations @the_ethical_sloth

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Show Notes

• Girls Rock Chicago

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, 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

Song recommendations

• Old Brown Shoe

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...

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)

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

True Crime Podcasts

• Serial

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, 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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Follow @SaulColt on Instagram and Twitter. Listen to his podcast We Now Join the Program Already in Progress.

Show Links

• Famoso in Toronto