Half My Age

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“I’m talking about the Dude here” (The Big Lebowski)

“You’ll find a way | To make your natural tendencies pay” (You’ll be a dentist!)

An embarrassing overcorrection (“A” versus “An”)

“The glottis is not a speech organ, but the space between the vocal folds.” (Glottal stop)

He’s Still Neutral (99% Invisible episode about the urban Buddha)

Fathead of Mary or Jesus (Customizable!)

Is it magical or annoying? (Mrs. Filholm: The Money Voice)

SHOW NOTES:

Fermenting stuff (Amish Friendship & sourdough breads)

Patience of a grandfather (Jacques Pepin teaches knife skillz)

Cracks Mrs. Filholm up so hard (Salt Bae)

YouTube Rabbit Hole recommendation #1 (French Guy Cooking)

Alton Brown’s science of cooking (Good Eats Reloaded)

YouTube Rabbit Hole recommendation #2 (This Old Tony)

Too soon to be funny (Alzheimer’s Association: Please help how you can.)

SHOW NOTES:

It doesn’t make me feel more employed. (What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles)

Living on honu time (Rare Footage of a Sea Turtle Having a Poo)

Metric versus Imperial (Math is Fun! But is it, tho?)

I just feel like I’m being duped. (Penn and Teller)

“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver

What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles

Do you have the patience to wait
Till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
Till the right action arises by itself?
-Lao Tze

A Lead Belly idiom Goodnight, Irene

How Mrs. Filholm became resentful (Someone to Watch over Me)

Great relationship advice, even for the newly engaged (Rebuilding)

The science of adult attachment (Attached)

SHOW NOTES

An unanswered question from a picture book (Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains?)

The book that “makes marketing easy” (Building a Story Brand)

An explanation for the youths about how research went down back in the day (Microfiche, not Datafiche. Mrs. Filholm mis-spoke. Please forgive her; she is old.)

Help! Mrs. Filholm has fallen and she can’t get up! (Life Alert)

Hunger versus human companionship (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino who edits this podcast and did his best to reduce the ambient noise of the fence being built.

I’m not ashamed of it but there is a place for it. (Comedy Works)

This very sweet, kind, little girl with the dirty mouth (Sarah Silverman)

Finding the funny is sometimes all I have; writing is fun. (Good One: A Podcast About Jokes)

Shoulda, coulda, woulda: Funny was always part of advertising. (A Christmas Story)

It paves my way but it corrodes my soul (Frankly Mister Shankley)

A terribly misguided adolescent (Johnny Paycheck’s Take this Job and Shove It)

Our cold-open inspiration and the 28 mean things Andrew has said (Recordings for Someone)

Generational chart (Gen X Gen Y Gen Z)

We were cynical and lost and smoked a lot of clove cigarettes. (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Copeland)

Guaranteed to drop a hippie. (ViperTek)

Protect your ears, motocylclists! (The Missenden Flyer)

The fancy ladies had owls. (Macrame. It’s back.)

Thursdays are for anxiety. (Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin: Episode 433 “The Muscle of Worry”)

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8 Days at 8,000 Feet (Vail Lacrosse Shootout)

Tights are not pants and leg makeup is exhausting. (Big news on the skort365.com front)

Mrs. Filholm is such an old. (Air pods: so wonderfully Apple-y.)

Baker, Buddha, Sergeant Shultz, and sitting on your hands (Help us find the new role model for parents of 20-somethings!)

Nobody wants to send an email (Half_My_Age_Podcast on Instagram; email us!)

Organizing the larder (Paprika: A recipe management system)

Scratching a food itch (Alex. A French Guy, Cooking.)

Kramer’s stories; Mr. Peterman’s narrative (Requisite Seinfeld pull)

Bringing a taser to the hang (Who wants to experience the Vipertek?)