Half My Age

SHOW NOTES

Vipertek (Feel like a badass for only $20!)

Hot town, summer in the city (How swamp coolers work)

How my Dings Are Going (Slack: a messaging app for teens)

Help Mrs. Filholm think about kid dance or the Chernobyl show (Email us!)

LED vs. OLED: None more black (iPhone XR)

Apple is a pleasure for creatives. Microsoft Windows Version History

A special team for pro products (WWDC)

Estate Map (Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home)

Special thanks to Jonah Mancino who edits this podcast with an entrepreneurial spirit, and to BergDen Data Consulting who helps us solve interesting puzzles.

The Total Hilarity of Father’s Day (Alzheimer’s Association: Please help how you can.)

When Worlds Collide (Relationship George vs. Independent George: Requisite Seinfeld pull)

Is it OK to shoot people with BB guns? (Email us!)

Something’s Shakin’ on Shakedown Street (Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart)

The Disconnect Between News and Reality (Bill Gates. Respect.)

Role Model of the Week: The *Hero* English Teacher (Beyond Mama Bear)

Her Voice is Full of Money (lisalanefilholm.com)

In memoriam: Our classmate and student Megan Haarberg, a bright but too-brief light on the planet. If you’re feeling depressed or want to talk to someone, here are some resources. Please stay.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1800-273-8255 (1800-273-TALK) The Crisis

Text Line 7 Cups of Tea (an anonymous, 24-hour chat with trained professionals)

Depression Tribe (a site with blogs, forums, and news)

Rainbow Kitten Surprise (An amazing show)

Hall of Mirrors (Versailles, The Dollhouse and otherwise)

House of Mirrors (A former brothel in lower downtown Denver)

Flâneur Watches (We wish our podcast would go viral like the Timex Q.)

Vexillology and Maritime Signal Flags (and also semaphore)

Role Model of the Week: Private Investigator (Beyond Mama Bear: How to Survive the Balancing Act of Parenting Teenagers)

Hercule Poirot (Andrew’s favorite P.I.)

Too Soon?: (Rudy Guiliani on SNL; Gilbert Gottfried at the Friars Club)

Disasters in the U.S. by Death Toll (Mr. Data Scientist thinks he can measure this ish.)

Chernobyl (Virtual watching partners please apply to: [email protected])

My Favorite Murder and Omnibus! (Two podcasts we like)

Flâneur Watches (Rare, vintage, mechanical, and awesome.)

Colorado Rebuilders (Thanks for doing Andrew a solid and saving Mrs. Filholm’s actual life.)

Seattle is Dying (Feedback from a former addict: Respect.)

You’re Wrong About (Homelessness and so many other things: a good podcast)

Role Model of the Week (Boundaries save teenagers--and all of us--from ourselves. Soldier on!)

Send Rafikki a get-well message! (We’d love to hear from y’all)

Flâneur Watches (Time keeps on slippin’ but a good watch is the bomb.)

Estate map of the Dollhouse on Shakedown Street (Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home)

Monty Hall Problem (Andrew’s incitement of a Reddit war)

Burglar Bars (Kinda stylish)

You’re a Tree (Parenting role model of the week: Don’t bite the crazy bait!)

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition (“We’re always quick to forget just how weird things are.”)

Rafiki broke her foot! (Send get-well emails to [email protected])

You Don’t Need Therapy; You Need Life Alert (The shower might be the death of Mrs. Filholm)

Flâneur Watches (Our sponsor, on the hunt for Andrew’s new watch)

Role Model of the Week (Mother Falcon knows what’s up.)

You’re Wrong About (Homelessness and so many other things: a good podcast)

Seattle is Dying (Definitely 2019)

Anthony Bourdain (A fight with addiction)

A Cabbage Patch Doll/Tickle Me Elmo Situation (The Q Timex)

“As I rained down blows upon him” (A Festivus for the rest of us)

Garbage Keyboards (Apple is “fixing” them.)

Baby Foot (Andrew modelling for them is Mrs. Filholm’s dream come true.)

Flâneur Watches (Buy, sell, and trade your timeless timepieces.)

[email protected] (Drop us a note.)

Baby Foot (Again: to keep our foot-fetish audience engaged)

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (How long, how long must we sing this song?)

National Coalition for the Homeless (Give them homes.)

Running underground with the moles (Harvey Danger, again.)

Mama Bear hibernates. Let’s not do that. (Beyond Mama Bear: How to Survive the Balancing Act of Parenting Teenagers)

Mowing down every obstacle in a kid’s way (It’s a lawnmower, not a steamroller.)

Teenagers are mentally ill. (The early warning signs check out.)

The Accident Hump (Teenage boys are dumb and reckless.)

Youth Bulge (“A demographic bomb”)

SHOW NOTES:

flâneurwatches.com (It’s the best time to sponsor this podcast!)

Denver Initiative 300 (Effort to end camping ban fails by a wide margin)

Initiated Ordinance 301 (Denver votes on whether to decriminalize “magic mushrooms”)

The Colorado Sun (Shout out to our new news outlet; coverage of the recent tragedy)

SHOW NOTES:

Everyone’s Upstairs Neighbor (Tap dancing lessons on the sixth floor and whatnot)

Dongle t-shirt (Women’s Large; if it’s a men’s-cut beefy tee she doesn’t even want it.)

Baby Foot (Summer’s a-comin’)

Somewhere That’s Green (Vintage-y and cute, that electric lawnmower)

Scissor Lift Steve (It could have been Mrs. Filholm but Howard was driving)

Official USTime App (For precision timing and race announcing)

Flâneur Watches (Our first sponsor, you guys! Check. Them. Out.)

flâ·neur (a totally hipster cool word: “an idle man about town”)

Swatch (Affordable farkle)

”The sea was angry that day, my friends” (Paddle boarding and requisite Seinfeld pull)

Do the Right Thing (A good movie, sort of)

The Green Book (Another good movie, sort of)

Ted Danson in Blackface (The Omnibus: An encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories preserved as a time capsule for future generations.)

From Blackface to Blackfishing (Ever find yourself in a conversation about race and identity where you just get...stuck? Code Switch can help.)

The Green Book (A great movie)

Do the Right Thing (Also a great movie)