Reading to my kids & Home automation — Episode 37
Show notes
- Music by Matt Fisher
- Lock the Taskbar
- Owly
- Johnny Boo
- Wee Free Men
- HomeKit
- Infomocracy
- "Lay Your Head Down" by Mary Lambert
Doing my taxes & Blue Apron — Episode 35
Show notes
- Library cards & Workflow.app — Episode 27
- "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter
- If you'd like to try Blue Apron, email Ross and he'll send you an invite (which earns him $10).
Super heavy death black metal & Having a trash can with wheels — Episode 32
- RES. 2016-R092 (PDF)
- Mayor Stoney's initial draft of the Education Compact (PDF)
- Green Lantern Emotional Spectrum
- Movies that make me feel terrible & Riding my bike — Episode 28
- The Hillman Group Powdered Graphite Lubricant
- GTD Podcast Episode #3 - David Allen Guides You Through a Mind Sweep
- Ross's Buff
- Gambit)
They Might Be Giants "Flood" & Local politics — Episode 31
Sam likes a classic 90s album, and Ross likes playing the game!
- Omnifocus — Episode 30
- Bamboo & Pokémon GO walks with my family — Episode 26
- @TrumpDraws
- Two People #28 — Barbara Given
- My remarks to the Virginia House of Delegates Constitutional Subcommittee in favor of redistricting reform (as prepared)
- 6,500 kids singing "Birdhouse" in Your Soul_
- Sasha dances to "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" on Bunheads
- 1984 Kids Incorporated Theme Song
- Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's
Bill and Ted movies & Year-old egg nog — Episode 29
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- How to use the GRTC bike rack video
- My Dad Wrote a Porno
- MeowMeowBeanz
- EXCLUSIVE: Keanu Reeves Dishes on 'Bill & Ted 3,' Says It's Going to Be 'Bodacious' and 'Excellent'
- Shibboleth
- Egg nog recipe
- Thoughts on egg nog / food safety
- T-1000
- Hellboy Library Edition
Movies that make me feel terrible & Riding my bike — Episode 28
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
Library cards & Workflow.app — Episode 27
Sam has some library tips and tricks, and Ross automates his life with a nerdy app.
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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
Bamboo & Pokémon GO walks with my family — Episode 26
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
Fantastic Four & ASMR videos — Episode 25
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
- 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
Gardening & "Little Brother" — Episode 24
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
Weather radio & Penzys Spices — Episode 23
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
Star Trek & Yard beers — Episode 22
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
Hamilton & A longass boring public meeting — Episode 21
This week Sam likes...Hamilton! Ross likes public meetings, but seriously. HAMILTON.
Not taking a shower & taking the bus — Episode 20
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
"The Karate Kid" & Buster Keaton — Episode 19
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