Half My Age

Half My Age

By Andrew Bridges & Lisa Lane FilholmComedySociety & CultureTechnologyPhilosophy
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Half My Age episodes

  • Episode 66: Do You Know That Sheep?

    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)

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 65: Ignited My Phlegm

    SHOW NOTES

    Special 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!)

    54 min
  • Episode 64: In This Case, My Ass is My Nose

    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...)

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 63: Chasing All the Rabbits but Trapping Only Squirrels

    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!

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 62: All We’ve Got is Minutes

    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)

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 61: I’m Not Sick but I’m Not Well

    SHOW NOTES

    Special 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)

    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 60: You Don’t Know Anything About Me

    SHOW NOTES

    Special 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)

    1 hr 3 min
  • Episode 59: Why Wouldn’t You Have an Ulcer?

    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)

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 58: As We’re Watching the World Unravel

    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)

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 57: The Hannibal Lecter of Gutters

    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.)

    1 hr 22 min

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A weekly show in which a 50-year-old child and a 25-year-old adult help each other make sense of the world.