Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Josh Mohr, Seattle-based author of Model Citizen, joined Leah to discuss his new novel Farsickness which he wrote this summer and is illustrated by his daughter Ava. We talk about teachers that change your life, collaborating with your children, making art during the pandemic, and grappling with PTSD.

Buy a copy of Farsickness today

Silly Gooses with Josh Mohr and Ava Mohr at Valencia 826 (look for more workshops this year)

• Show Notes
• Juniper Shelley (father/daughter collab)
• Disney Weddings
• Tom Waits
• Fight Club
• Alice in Wonderland
• Grace Paley
• Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
• Cesar Cruz

Author Chelsea Stickle picked up embroidery as a hobby to channel her rage and has been poking fabric with sharp needles ever since. You can order her newest chapbook Everything's Changing from Thirty West Publishing House - it is a collection of surreal micro-fiction and flash fiction rooted in the chaos of the last few years.

Follow Chelsea online

• ChelseaStickle.com
• Twitter @Chelsea_Stickle
• Everything's Changing
• AITA for falling apart at a dinner party
• Show notes
• Sashiko
• Etsy @GrandmaBeWildin
• Crochet a tiny fox
• Cross stitch fabric
• Morton Salt Spill in Chicago (2014)
• Blackwork Embroidery
• ADHD symptoms in women
• Bias about ADHD leaves many women with a late diagnosis

Chicago-based author Eden Robins is celebrating the launch of her debut novel this week and came on Finding Favorites to discuss her favorite book - The Neverending Story. When Franny Stands Up will be available on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 and is available for pre-order.

Follow Eden Robins online @edenrobins on Twitter and MonkeyThumbs.com

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53:00 We enter Spoiler Country

59:15 Exit Spoiler Country

• Early 2 Bed
• Tuesday Funk
• Anne K Yoder
• Robbie Q Telfer
• Hardback Folio edition of The Neverending Story?
• All editions of The Neverending Story on Amazon
• Neverending Story IMDB
• Save Bell Bowl Prarie
• Good Night, Oscar
• Why birds do what they do

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Eden Robins 00:00

Hi, my name is Eden Robbins, and my favorite thing is the book; ”The Neverending Story”.

Announcer 00:06

Welcome to the Finding Favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.

Leah Jones 00:19

Hello and welcome to Finding Favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. I'm recording this on Saturday night, October 29, 2022. You're listening to it hopefully on Sunday, October 30, 2022. It is the big Halloween going out night in Chicago. And I had all the plans and preparations to hit the legendary Huffine Cooper Halloween party, which if you go back into my archives, I interviewed Cinnamon about how they host that party and everything that goes into it. And it's one of the best events of the year. And I have been getting stronger and stronger, and then today I pushed it too far. I went to Stretchlab in the morning, I went to a Meijer in the suburbs, I walked around the Meijer twice. I came back to the city. At some point, I went to third Coast comics to see my friend Terry, pick up a couple of books. And then I went to Target to get the last thing I needed for my costume. And as I was walking into the Target, I realized I didn't have my can with me, but that tonight was going to be a night where I wasn't going to be able to go up a flight up-stairs. And maybe not even after I found parking, walk to my friend's apartment. So sadly, I am at home editing a podcast. But I mean not sadly, I enjoy editing. I also interviewed Eden today. I'm talking to Eden Robbins about her debut novel, which is available called “When Franny Stands Up”. Cowboys give me scratches. I had some pizza for dinner, I'm drinking a huge water. So I'm just you know, I'm sad. Because I had wanted to go to this party for months and months really, since September 2020. When I was walking in my neighborhood and cross the street that my friends live on and I was like, “Oh no, there's not going to be a Halloween party this year”. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry, to the Huffine Cooper and to Veronica, for not being there tonight. And I know, I haven't done intros for a couple of episodes. Again, just trying to get back into the groove of editing®recording®editing®publishing. I love this podcast and the conversations that lets me have, but the work to get it out is not insignificant. And I started this podcast when I had 10 extra hours a week because I wasn't commuting and I'm commuting at least six hours a week. I'm going out and I'm seeing friends which is wonderful and I'm doing things other than sleep and go for chemotherapy. So I'm so grateful for how busy my life is. But also it eats into my time. What else is happening this week? I'm starting a whole new regimen of medicine. I'm starting Methotrexate which you've seen in the news because it's one of the drugs that women with arthritis couldn't get once Roe was overturned because you can't sustain a pregnancy when you're on Methotrexate, so I started that this week. I started Tamoxifen, which is as I understand it as estrogen pacman. Because my cancer was ER positive, I started daily folic acid, a weekly vitamin D. It just started a lot this we...

Chris Bagg, co-host of Upper Middlebrow, joins Finding Favorites to talk about Dungeons & Dragons and the greater universe of table top role playing games. He shares how he started playing D&D, what he plays now and a brief explanation of why 50,000 D&D players and creators cancelled their memberships.

Keep up with Chris online

• Twitter @chrisbagg
• Instagram @christopherbagg
• ChrisBagg.com/
• Listen to Upper Middlebrow podcast

Show Notes

• One Shot Podcast
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez
• Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook
• The Arrest
• Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus try DND with Brennan Lee Mulligan
• Critical Role
• HASBRO and Wizards of the Coast
• Wizards of the Coast reporting by Linda Codega
• Forged in the Dark
• Eclipse Phase
• Lancer
• Paranoia
• Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

New York-based filmmaker Liz Nord joined Leah to run down a list of documentaries for watching during winter break. Liz also talked to Leah about how she became a documentary filmmaker and obsessed with the art form.

Follow Liz online to find out when her documentary is streaming.

• https://www.liznord.com/
• Instagram @LizFilm

Show Notes

• Music Box Theatre Chicago
• Trembling Before G-d
• Supersize Me
• Street Level TV
• Closed Captions at Sundance Now
• Short of the Week
• Omeleto
• Op Docs
• Albert and David Maysles
• The Truffle Hunters
• The Eagle Huntress
• No Film School interview about The Eagle Huntress
• The Mole Agent
• Bad Axe (shortlisted for Oscars)
• https://www.almaharel.com/film/bombaybeach
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• Summer of Soul

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.

Wash your hands, wear your mask, get your booster and keep enjoying your favorite thing.

Liz Nord Documentaries_mixdown

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SPEAKERS

Announcer, Leah Jones, Liz Nord

Liz Nord 00:00

Hi, my name is Liz Nord, and my Favorite Things are documentary films.

Announcer 00:05

Welcome to the Finding Favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.

Leah Jones 00:18

Hello, and welcome to Finding Favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. And this is the podcast where we learn about people's favorite things without using an algorithm. I'm so excited this afternoon I am with one of my OG go into Israel friends. I'm here today with Liz Nord. She is an Executive Producer, who started in the news and documentaries. She makes documentaries, podcasts, multimedia online content. Most recently, Liz worked at Sundance, and she's here today with us on finding favorites. Liz, how are you?

Liz Nord 00:58

Hi, Leah Jones. I'm so excited to be here.

Leah Jones 01:01

It's so good to be catching up with you. I was so thrilled when you send me your email. I'm like, How have I not had Liz on yet? You had a podcast before almost anyone I knew. And yeah, you I hadn't I didn't ask you to be on. That's on me.

Liz Nord 01:17

Well, yeah. So that your listeners know I literally I asked, I requested to be on the podcast. I'm a fan of both Leah and of the podcast. And I was like, I have favorite things. So here we are.

Leah Jones 01:32

I'm so happy. So we were doing a little catching up before I hit record. And just reflecting a little bit we met in I think the summer of 2007 at a conference in Israel. Is that right? Is it like did you go in 2007?

Liz Nord 01:48

Did you know I think I was like the year after you. It might have been 2008. So it's been a while.

Leah Jones 01:57

And at the time, your documentary age, were you still working on Jericho’s Echo in 2008? Or was it just

Liz Nord 02:05

No it has been out in world, which I think is why I was invited to this conference with Jewish artists and Jewish innovators people creating Jewish things in the world. And my film Jericho’s Echo was not specifically Jewish, but it was about Israeli punk rockers. And so it fit the bill.

Leah Jones 02:27

Yeah. So we met then we see each other at conferences. We see each other at conferences, weddings, funeral when

Liz Nord 02:38

Your dad has art shows in New York.

Leah Jones 02:40

When my dad has art shows in New York. Yes. We've got to get you guys out to...