Josh Mohr loves Tom Waits & road trip novels

Ronnie Raviv joined Leah to try and figure out if he has any favorite things. We talk about cocktails, cocktail bars, books, TV, great meals and our friendship origin story. For someone who claims to have no favorite things, there was no lacking in conversation.

Like my beloved Zouks, Ronnie is not on twitter.

Show Notes

• Second City Conservatory
• Quipfire Improv
• Sally Albright
• Chicken Pot Pie origin story
• Mexican Mule
• Journeyman White Whiskey
• Jasper Fforde
• OCD TLV
• Taizu
• Fantastic TLV
• Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
• Blind Barber
• Duck Duck Goat
• Aviary
• Rosemary
• Tango Sur
• Bar Roma
• Frasca
• Monte Verde
• Dear Margaret
• Yom Tov Deli (Tel Aviv)
• Harry's Epic Israel Food Tours
  

Transcript follows

Ronnie Raviv 0:00
Hello, my name is Ronnie Raviv. And I don't think I really have favorite things, but I have a lot of things that I like a lot, and you can hear all about them. In this week's finding favorites.

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Announcer 0:10
Welcome to the findings favorites Podcast where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.

Leah Jones 0:23
Hello, and welcome to finding favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. It's Sunday, August 27. Really a beautiful, perfect day in Chicago after that brutal heatwave earlier in the week. Nice to have the windows open and to eat dinner outside today. Not too much to report other than my shoulder MRI shows a what seems to be a completely boring, small rotator rotator cuff tear. So hopefully, I will have some resolution to my shoulder pain soon. The orthopedist I saw last week said shit your shoulder is jacked. Which I think is sports for let's take this injury seriously. This week on the podcast I am talking with my one of my very dear friends Ronnie Raviv. You have heard about him on the podcast for years because he kept me company during a lot of chemo therapies and steroid Saturdays. We went to Israel on overlapping trips recently, so we just had that fabulous dinner in Tel Aviv. We talked about that a little bit. So I twisted his arm and said, Come be on a podcast. Now he does not listen to podcasts. He's not a he's not into the audio medium of podcasting. So I don't know if he will ever listen to this. But we have a fun conversation. Just sitting around bullshitting on the couch for an hour or so. And hit record. So without further ado, wear your mask. Wash your hands. Get your booster. I know a new booster is coming out soon. So I guess, wear your mask more diligently while you wait for the new booster to be available. And keep enjoying your favorite things.

Leah Jones 2:43
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 and get recommendations without using an algorithm. Today I'm joined a rare in person interview for finding favorites. With my own personal algorithm. You do all the research that wire cutter doesn't do for me. So I don't have to do it. Yeah. What do we just found out recently? You didn't know what wire cutter

Ronnie Raviv 3:08
was? No, I had no idea. You introduced me to wire cutter.

Leah Jones 3:11
Right. So wire cutter is consumer a modern consumer reports. Yeah, basically. And then anytime I need a new phone. You are my Consumer Reports.

Ronnie Raviv 3:23
Yeah, I would just from like the one article that I read or the one article with all the links to the other articles that I read. It it I wouldn't describe it necessarily as the modern consumer reports. I would describe it as the less nerdy Consumer Reports. So let's let's charts and figures and more. Recommendations.

Leah Jones 3:49
Yes.

Ronnie Raviv 3:50
It's a curated fair Consumer Reports.

Leah Jones 3:57
I'm fine with him ...