Sam and Ross Like Things

Sam and Ross Like Things

By Sam Davies & Ross CatrowSociety & Culture
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Sam and Ross Like Things episodes

  • Movies that make me feel terrible & Riding my bike — Episode 28
    Movies that make me feel terrible & Riding my bike — Episode 28
    Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

    Ross likes feeling bad, and Sam loves his two-wheeled steed.

    Show notes
    • My Dad Wrote a Porno
    • Trunk-or-Treat
    • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
    • Oldboy
    • We Need to Talk About Kevin
    • Funny Games
    • August: Osage County
    • The Pianist
    • Spring Breakers
    • Kids
    • Under the Skin
    • Bryan Park
    • Little House Green Grocery
    • Breakaway RVA
    • Anthem Moonlight Ride
    • Nightwing
    • Redistricting Nerds
    • The Hamilton Mixtape
    • 41 min
    • Library cards & Workflow.app — Episode 27
      Library cards & Workflow.app — Episode 27
      Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

      Sam has some library tips and tricks, and Ross automates his life with a nerdy app.

      This episode is sponsored by

      1VA2021 gave us pop filters. Join them on Monday, October 24 at 9:00 PM for a showing of their documentary called Gerryrigged.

      Show notes
      • Artisan Pickle Club
      • Happy Birthday Ralph
      • Ross's Pretzel Recipe (it's really Alton Brown's recipe)
      • Kitchen Aid Spiralizer
      • Regional libraries: Henrico aka Eagleton, Richmond, and Chesterfield
      • workflow.is


      • 35 min
      • Bamboo & Pokémon GO walks with my family — Episode 26
        Bamboo & Pokemon GO Walks with my family — Episode 26
        Sam Davies & Ross Catrow
        Stuff other people like
        • Kat: Blankets, because I haven't gotten to use them all summer
        • Jenny Fisher: Outlander. Book/tv
        • Daniel Warshaw : Marriage; today is my twelfth anniversary with @valerietwarshaw :-)
        • Jeff Mueller: Pumpkin spice. Pumpkin farms. Pumpkin beer. Hay rides. Homemade pancakes.
        • Jason Inofuentes: October baseball
        • shd: Good Morning, RVA longreads with their wide variety of topics. How does Ross find/select them?
        • Matt Fisher: Listening to The Misfits and Boris Pickett non-stop from 10/1 til Halloween day.
        • Robert Sterling: Single serve instant coffee by Café Bustelo
        • Chad Ingold: Portugal. The man
        • Joe Foster: The new Danny Brown record (which Chad says has a song with Portugal. The man)
        • Andy Hunter: Taking pictures with a real camera
        • Sarah SeoYun Choi: Lattes, succulents, book shopping at Chop Suey Books
        • Valerie Catrow: When people admit that they are wrong, GIFs of Winston Bishop, my Black n' Red notebook
        • Kamen Gordon: Postseason baseball
        • Robert Martin: Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, fern bars, Amy Schumer
        • Brandon Wolf: This clown trend
        • Chris Wolf: Turtles
        • Matthew Freeman: A hurricane named after me, and this gloomy weather
        • Andrea Almond: Orange Kittens
        • Phil Williams: Jalapeño margaritas
        • Charles Merritt: Kroger Clicklist
        • Ashley Ray: home-grown tomatoes and pickled corn
        • Johnny Hugel, Jorge Salgado, Chad Brown, Kevin Clay, Lisa Simms, Jenny Fisher, and Ashley Ray: IT Crowd, Luke Cage, and Gilmore Girls on Netflix; Atlanta on FX; Designated Survivor on FOX; Outlander on STARZ, and High Maintenance on HBO.
        • Quick Hits
          • Atomic Robo Kickstarter which is now over, but go support their patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladyne
          • Activity circle sharing
          • GMRVA on Patreon
          • 0 min
          • Fantastic Four & ASMR videos — Episode 25
            Fantastic Four & ASMR videos — Episode 25
            Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

            On this episode, Sam tells us all about Marvel's first real superhero comic and Ross...likes whispering?

            Stuff other people like!
            • Josh Lamm — Audio books narrated by old British men.
            • Max Hepp-Buchanan — Real bagels. Nate's Bagels have been on my mind for the past month. They are good.
            • Richard Hayes — Peter Chang's Noodles & Dumplings
            • Braxton Tindantle — Soft puppy ears.
            • Prabir Mehta — Going to efffffffing bambooooooo!!!!! And Talking about Aladdin!!!!!!
            • Katie Jonesy — I do have a passion for the relaxing British pond filter videos I watch on YouTube. It's time to watch them again, and I could talk about it for days.
            • Valerie a Catrow — Semi-colons
            • Show notes
              • Silver Age of Comics Wikipedia
              • Golden Age Wikipedia
              • Fantastic Four Wikipedia
              • Jim and Pam Halpert




                • The Incredibles
                • Recommendation: Fraction series. Fantastic Four/FF bundle visit Velocity Comics on Broad Street or on Comixology on Amazon
                • Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response: is a euphoric experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine, precipitating relaxation.
                • YouTube channels Ross may or may not subscribe to: fastASMR, SoftAnnaPL, TheWaterwhispers
                • Quick Hits
                  • Machine Era Ti5 Slim Wallet
                  • Canary
                  • X-10)
                  • 37 min
                  • Gardening & "Little Brother" — Episode 24
                    Gardening & Little Brother — Episode 24
                    Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

                    This week Ross likes to putter in the garden, while Sam recommends a YA novel about privacy rights.

                    Follow up
                    • #valwatchesvoyager
                    • Star Trek & Yard beers — Episode 22
                    • _Stranger Things_
                    • Stranger Things Soundtrack
                    • If You Like...Stranger Things playlist
                    • Stuff other people like
                      • Kat — walking barefoot on a freshly steam-cleaned floor
                      • Jeff Green — Turtles
                      • Andrew Hunter — Star Wars: Rebels, Mr. Robot, stroopwafels
                      • Star Wars: Kanan comic
                      • Robert Sterling — Great Lakes Unflavored Beef Gelatin
                      • Chad Ingold — Twitter
                      • Larry Kruger — Board games
                      • Valerie Catrow — Rhea Butcher, making poop jokes with her kid, and her job
                      • Christine Ring — Babies laughing at farts
                      • Wikipedia: Fart
                      • Hayley DeRoche — The Lizard People podcast
                      • Molly Szkotak Hugel — Instagram stories, Kindle Paperwhite, _The Underground Railroad_ by Colson Whitehead
                      • Kindle paper white SARLT episode
                      • Phil Williams — "the new Carly Rae Jepsen jawn," the Cybertronic Spree
                      • Suzanne Hall — Watermelon, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
                      • Jason Inofuentes — Split-flap signs
                      • 30th street station Philadelphia
                      • Kevin Pious — Cortados, beer with watermelon in it
                      • Watermelon wheat
                      • Chairman Brando — Chill Bill, not driving a 21-year-old car
                      • pastense — The new Regina Spektor single
                      • Stuff we like
                        • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
                        • Last frost map
                        • Weather radio & Penzys Spices
                        • Hangover island episode of Front to Back
                        • Download Little Brother
                        • Li'l brudder
                        • Recode by Lawrence Lessig
                        • Life Leave Me Alone
                        • The Business Triangle
                        • Swift Playgrounds
                        • Karel the Robot
                        • Ross's hat
                        • Green Man
                        • 43 min
                        • Weather radio & Penzys Spices — Episode 23
                          Weather radio & Penzys Spices — Episode 23
                          Sam Davies & Ross Catrow
                          Stuff other people like
                          • Tony Scida: Overly-expensive electronics
                          • Richard Hayes & Kristel Poole & Shane Jimison: _Stranger Things_ (Kristel also like NOT dropping my iPhone in a toilet; Shane also liked wireless headphones, yeti coolers, and convention bounces)
                          • Larissa Sheehan: Hokies
                          • Dean Christesen: The Night Of
                          • Valerie Catrow: Babybel Cheese
                          • Chris Bopst: Electric Football, the only football good for RVA
                          • John Reinhold: Stink cheese, beer, and _Preacher_
                          • Robin Harris: Pedicures
                          • Phil Barbato: Making furniture instead of buying it
                          • Blaine Lay: Building a fort with your nieces and nephews, binder clips, going to eat ice cream on vacation, Marty McFly, and RVA Tonight
                          • Maggie Tinsley: My backyard chickens
                            • Sangean CL-100 Table-Top Weather Hazard Alert with AM/FM-RBDS Alarm Clock Radio
                            • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
                            • Specific Area Message Encoding
                            • Radio Broadcast Data System
                            • lightningmaps.org
                            • penzys.com
                            • Advanced pepper
                            • Advanced cinnamon
                            • Sign up to receive Penzys catalog
                            • Kosher flake salt
                            • Vision — Written by Tom King, Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta
                            • 25 min
                            • Star Trek & Yard beers — Episode 22
                              Star Trek & Yard Beers — Episode 22
                              Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

                              This week we have new hardware! Plus Star Trek and yard beers and things other people like!

                              Stuff other people like
                              • Garet Prior — Mid 1990s NBA All Stars
                              • Thad Williams — Mid 80s ACC all-stars
                              • Eva Colen — Polemon Go bringing all sorts of humans together
                              • Chad Brown — Pokemon Go
                              • JR — Voltron
                              • Val — Lacroix pamplemousse
                              • Max Hepp-Buchanan — mid-1980s choose-your-own-adventure/role playing books called _Lone Wolf)_
                              • Tony — The score to the original Maginicifcent Seven
                              • Show notes
                                • Ross has a PO Box!
                                • Ross Catrow!
                                  PO Box 25315
                                  Richmond, VA 23260-5315

                                  • GRTC #37
                                  • Worf
                                  • Here's that dumb Star Wars scene that doesn't actually exist.
                                  • Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

                                  • Benjamin Sisko
                                  • Ross's favorite Star Trek episode (Season 5, Episode 25): _The Inner Light)_
                                  • Sam's favorite Star Trek movie: Wrath of Khan
                                    • Episode 14: Poking at the ground with a stick
                                    • Episode 10: Miller High Life
                                    • Episode 1: The Phantom Tollbooth
                                    • Life Leave Me Alone
                                    • ross.catrow.net, @rosscatrow, Facebook
                                    • samdavies.me, @mrbeefy
                                    • 30 min
                                    • Not taking a shower & taking the bus — Episode 20
                                      Not taking a shower & taking the bus — Episode 20
                                      Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

                                      This week Ross likes not taking a shower (which, does that violate the rules of the show?), and Sam definitely likes taking the bus to work.

                                      • Greater Richmond Transit Company
                                      • @GRTCTransit
                                      • How-To bus tutorial videos
                                      • Richmond Transit Network Plan
                                      • Black magic sandwich wrap things
                                      • Things other people like
                                        • @germerian: Palomino Blackwing 602 ✏️
                                        • @valeriecatrow: Magnolias (they’re so big and sassy), how runners give each other head nods/waves in solidarity, and @nprpolitics
                                        • @mattmoment: first wave Ska music. New Chance the Rapper. Zelda games (for story reasons as well as gameplay reasons).
                                        • @charlestm: I like carrying an extra clean t-shirt in the bag for warm weather. I also like @CheatsMovement and people who use turn signals.
                                        • @jeffmueller: The Oregon coast, Sleepytime Extra tea, Tweetbot, pictures of my kids.
                                        • @karencatrow: Softshell crabs.
                                        • @ploafmaster: Converse's update to the Chuck Taylor shoe, the Chuck II.
                                        • @colorsoloud: proselytizing Hamilton successfully, having my body tattooed, watching baking shows with my kids
                                        • 31 min
                                        • "The Karate Kid" & Buster Keaton — Episode 19
                                          The Karate Kid & Buster Keaton — Episode 19
                                          Sam Davies & Ross Catrow

                                          This week Sam sweeps the leg and loves ​The Karate Kid​, and Ross thinks silent-film star Buster Keaton is just the best.

                                          • Avatar: The Last Airbender
                                          • Triple Crossing RVA
                                          • Detroit Rock Sound / Motor City 5
                                          • Steven Universe
                                          • ​Chess​ soundtrack
                                          • Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was nominated for Best Support Actor Academy Award for his role in ​The Karate Kid?!​
                                          • ​The Karate Kid (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)​
                                          • Buster Keaton
                                          • 1,000 Greatest Films
                                          • ​Birth of a Nation​
                                          • The Art of the Gag
                                          • Ross's Buster Keaton recommendations: ​Steamboat Bill, Jr.​, ​The General​, ​Seven Chances​, ​Sherlock Jr.​, ​The Navigator​
                                          • ​Steamboat Willie​
                                          • Tim's Piques of the Week — Volume 4
                                          • Gboard
                                          • Sam's PO Box:

                                            Sam & Ross Like Things
                                            PO Box 25914
                                            Richmond Virginia, 23260-5914

                                            30 min

                                          About Sam and Ross Like Things

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                                          A show where we talk about things we like, why we like them, and what we like about them.