Half My Age

Half My Age

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

  • Episode 15: Don’t Make Me Read My Manifesto

    SHOW NOTES:

    How You See Can Set You Free! (Mrs. Filholm wrote a book about it)

    LASIK (The smell of burning cornea)

    Crows (Mrs. Filholm was right about birds)

    Suiticle (Whiskers should be their spokesmodel)

    One mug left! (Email us your profound questions and for the love of God, download the show! [email protected])

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 13: Hitchhiking Barefoot to Budapest

    Contact: [email protected] (Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear us.)

    The blog that became my book (Beyond Mama Bear)

    “How do you like me now, Andrew?” (Guitar Center: The Evil Empire but we’ve got a sweet studio)

    Peter Tosh (Play the conga when it hits ya)

    “My Space Pen is rattling” (But we still love them and it gives us a business idea)

    “The first cut is the deepest” (Two spaces where I only wanted one. Stupid keyboards.)

    Show about nothing (Requisite Seinfeld pull)

    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 12: They’re Asking You How You Are and Then Telling You How You Are

    Andrew and Mrs. Filholm discuss: The rumble of the ‘hood, the art and science of love languages, those godforsaken keyboards, budgeting for a chair, workshopping a joke, and taking into account the experience of other human beings.

    Special thanks to Jonah Mancino who edits this podcast and likes the quality of our sound.

    SHOW NOTES:

    “To whom shall we send these mugs?” (Send your most profound questions to: [email protected].)

    Blue Yeti (The first of our apologies, to pop culture and otherwise)

    Apple Apologizes (100% of the MacBook Pro users in this room are not happy.)

    Love Languages (Because relationships take maintenance)

    Nathan Rabin (Another apology)

    Denver Dumb Friends League (There’s a joke in there somewhere.)

    50 min
  • Episode 11: I Don’t Have Beef with Jesus

    SHOW NOTES:

    Shaggy (The impression Mrs. Filholm does not do on air)

    Blue Yeti (A broken microphone is a bummer.)

    The wiki-link game (Not really at all like the telephone game, nor a choose-your-own-adventure)

    St. John Baptist de la Salle (Pray for us)

    1 hr 2 min
  • Episode 10: The Dollhouse on Shakedown Street

    Contact us! ([email protected])

    “Your kitchen looks good!” (Kitchen Creations: Kim is a professional and an organizing genius. You ladies and your slippers.)

    Informed Daily Delivery (A real cool service from USPS)

    "I'm on no sleep, Jerry!" (Seinfeld Season 8 Episode 8: The Chicken Roaster)

    Baleadas (The comfort food of Honduras)

    Spam Musubi (Childhood/memory food: a recipe you can make at home!)

    Bringing up Bebe (Raising a baby as an American in France: developing the child’s palate)

    Somewhere Else Tomorrow (Just one in the adventure-motorcycle-video genre that inspires Andrew to schedule regular vacations)

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 9A: Jackhammer Needed at Entrance

    Special thanks to Jonah Mancino who edits this podcast and adds the farkle.

    SHOW NOTES:

    Farkle (Function+Sparkle: The boys’ version of a Barbie doll. Not the OED definition)

    Peonies (The biggest, fluffiest flower)

    Squatty Potty (A product Mrs. Filholm endorses; a YouTube ad so weird it may disturb you)

    The Tell-Tale Heart (The sound Mrs. Filholm hears in her headphones)

    RoadsideAmerica.com (Buddhists in Tulsa and whatnot)

    Chris Barbee’s Bowling Ball Yard in Nowata, OK (“Then people seen what I was doing, and the balls starting coming in.”)

    Alzheimer’s Association (Find the hope. Please help if you can.)

    Casey Neistat (Whose YouTube channel is the perfect mix of inspiration and time suck)

    57 min
  • Episode 8: A Broom, a Lawnmower and a Metal Rooster

    SHOW NOTES:

    Roderick on the Line (Our inspiration)

    Skort365 (Tights are not pants, Young Lady)

    The Denver Comedy Scene (So hot right now)

    Skutt Kilns (KM 1018: pulls about 40 amps)

    Shakedown Street (Theme song for the Doll House)

    Grey Gardens (Again: See episode 7)

    “You gotta show up if you wanna be seen” (Again: See episode 7)

    Our podcast family/soap opera/replacement television:

    Roderick on the Line

    Back to Work

    Road Work

    Due by Friday

    Omnibus

    Accidental Tech Podcast

    Is there anybody in there? (Audience Feedback! Email us questions, comments, and unearned praise [email protected])

    BabyFoot: (Challenge! Again: See every prior episode. Enough already?)

    Alzheimer’s Association (Yes, and… it sucks. We live in hope.)

    Tao Te Ching (Do you have the patience to wait ‘tll your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving ‘til the right action arises by itself?)

    Sandwich Generation (a term coined by social worker Dorothy Miller)

    Beyond Mama Bear (Everyone’s a toddler)

    Mary pondered these things and kept them in her heart (Luke 2:19. If it’s good enough for her, Mrs. Filholm can downright take a chill pill.)

    56 min
  • Episode 7: What Is It Like In That Little Brain of Yours?

    SHOW NOTES:

    Drop-the-Spoon Nap (Mrs. Filholm’s version of a nap, supported by Dali, Einstein, and Aristotle)

    “You gotta show up if you wanna be seen” (What it takes to do comedy, courtesy of The Avett Brothers)

    Grey Gardens (In 2010 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".)

    Space Pen (Again: See episode 6)

    Guiry’s (A local treasure for artists of all kinds: “where color comes from”)

    Suitical Recovery Suits (Honestly. This cat.)

    Tao Te Ching (Andrew’s default mode)

    “Get Back” by Ludacris (A mother’s theme song)

    Merlin Mann (The podcasts we like)

    Roderick on the Line

    Back to Work

    Road Work

    Due by Friday

    Omnibus

    Accidental Tech Podcast

    Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

    Four Seinfeld Pulls:

    ”I find tinsel distracting” The Strike

    “Serenity now” The Serenity Now

    “Even Stephen” The Opposite

    An article about Costanza and toilets

    1 hr 3 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.