Much has changed in the past six months, and Rome Maynard and Joel Lindstrom are here to talk about it.

• Joel's fear of eyeballs
• Why Joel's sister is now known as Evie from Finland
• Joel gets elected to public office
• Beekeeping
• Rome gets ejected from the office
• Teen drivers

Welcome to the first episode of the If You're Like Me podcast for 2022. In today's episode, we discuss some of our personal highlights from 2021, look ahead to 2022, and talk about snobbery and how pervasive it is in all areas of life, including technology, coffee, and even grocery store deli meat.

Joel also shares his observations from his TikTok experiment--can a non pretty person succeed?

Show notes:

• 1:36 Joel's white truck
• 5:40 Jeff's new guitar
• 6:40 Jeff's musical inspirations
• 11:00 TikTok: the good and the bad
• 21:05 Snobbery and why it is bad
• 22:10 Coffee snobs
• 23:30 Snobs at the supermarket
• 24:30 How to train yourself to drink black coffee
• 28:30 How to train your palate to tolerate food that you don't like
• 29:05 Squash and basil ice cubes
• 31:30 How to identify pilots and IT engineers
• 34:54 Why do hard-core IT engineers use Android?
• 37:50 Phone snobs
• 38:45 Why Jeff despises group messaging
• 40:00 Nostradamus predictions for 2022
• 41:55 Edward Teller and EO Lawrence and the Manhatten Project, lighting the atmosphere on fire
• 45:11 Adult birthdays, and why they are awkward
• 47:20 Why Joel will never throw his wife a surprise party again

 

Happy 2022 to all of our listeners/viewers.

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Join us for our podcast Christmas episode (and our first video episode), drink coffee, watch Mannix with us, and observe the annual miracle of the cream cheese. 1:30 The Grinch 3:00 Santa Conquers the Martians 4:02 Mannix: Death is a minor key 5:57 Anthony Zerbe 6:15 Spider-Man: No way home 15:49 Pranking your kids 21:28 The great cream cheese shortage 22:58 Garth Brooks Silent Night and the miracle of the cream cheese 27:08 Expiration dates 32:00 The mystery of the broken figurine 37:14 Notable deaths 39:53 Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Special 42:00 Little House on the Prairie: the Blizzard 44:37 White Christmas observations Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our listeners/viewers.   Hit the subscribe button or subscribe to the If You're like Me podcast in your favorite audio podcast app: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/09gajvF... If You're Like Me website: https://ifyourelike.me

Topics discussed in today's episode:

• Rocketman parenting advice
• The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• "Hits different"
• Halloween hijinx
• The Invisible Man
• Ohio's curious new license plate

Printers: they look harmless but within them lies misery, pain, suffering, and loss of money. On today's episode, we discuss why printers are evil.

Other topics discussed this week:

• The top Bob's of all time
• Rome's "adopted family"
• Rome rants about Marvel's reboot of Squadron Supreme
• Loki gator
• Geronimo goes to puppy school
• Remembering Richard Donner
• Rome misses his Mountain Dew pager

Welcome to If You're Like Me for July 17, 2021.

In today's episode:

• Golden retrievers
• Rome gets a percolator
• John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed
• Remembering Phil Collins
• Cannon: the killer on the hill
• Happy birthday Heath Florkey

Thanks for listening!

We are back from a ten-month hiatus. Over the past year, there has been much change in our lives. One of the big changes is that we are now neighbors in beautiful Blue Ridge South Carolina.

Topics discussed in today's episode;

• Working from home (still)
• Joel's new house
• The workshop
• Puppy update
• Going to the dump
• Rome's trip to the Superman Museum
• If Superman was from Paducah Kentucky
• Klaatu
• Magenta does not exist 

Thank you for listening!

This week on "If You're Like Me" Joel talks about his approach to eating apples, and why there really is no apple core.

Other topics: being on call late at night, The Price is Right, getting people to pay to make their own food, wearing masks, and the Ninja "Rich Brew" mix.

 

Welcome to another episode of If You're Like Me. On this thrill packed episode, Rome announces his new award for general awesomeness (or at least many years of participation). Also, Joel has discovered a great way to make lawncare more fun: using fire.

Other topics in this week's episode:

• When they make a movie about Covid pandemic
• Missed business opportunities and technologies that they should bring back
• Mannix marathon
• Fun with webcams on work meetings
• Salute to Mr. Coffee and interesting facts about what drip coffee makers have to do with geysers
• Jungle Jim's International Market in Cincinnati OH, and their amazing restrooms
• Santo

Stay safe during your social distancing, and thank you for listening.

"An internal monologue, also called self-talk, inner speech, inner discourse or internal discourse, is a person's inner voice which provides a running verbal monologue of thoughts while they are conscious." Do you have an internal monologue? Rome Maynard does, and the voice in his head makes sarcastic comments that he sometimes cannot repeat. Joel doesn't think he has an internal monologue, at least not every day.

We also discuss typewriter, assembling furniture from boxes, and dressing for success when working from home.