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Join your favorite long-winded librarians (Adam & Lexi) as they discuss books, movies, authors, legends and more!
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Dec 14, 2019
Dec 14, 2019
32 min
Matt & Annie are back with a holiday themed episode. We talk about our family traditions, things we like about the holidays, and whether or not Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie. We're taking a break for the rest of the year and will be back in January with a new episode. Have a good holiday and new year. See you in 2020!
Trans Siberian Orchestra's Carol of the Bells is our intro for the week and Last Christmas by Wham! closes us out.
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019
43 min
A previously recorded episode where Matt & Annie discuss what they're reading and the fall holidays. Matt talks about his baby on the way.
UPDATE: Checking In has added a new addition: a healthy baby girl!
Oct 17, 2019
Oct 17, 2019
42 min
Annie & I are back to the studio with newest episode. We discuss the things we've been reading and watching. We talk about what the Great American Novel is, David's new Science Fiction book group and the Digital Media Lab. In the second half, we talk about Halloween and the upcoming library programs and events that will be happening.
Books
Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin
My Year of Rest & Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Am the New Black by Tracy Morgan
Movies
Television
Black Mirror
The Last OG
The Barenaked Ladies "Brain Wilson" closes us out for the week.
Oct 3, 2019
Oct 3, 2019
50 min
On this special episode of Checking In Annie and I are on the road with outreach librarian Kathleen. We talk about her role and the services the library offers. Additionally, we talk about the books we've been reading and Grosse pointe architecture.
Sep 19, 2019
Sep 19, 2019
57 min
On this episode of Checking In, Shirley Maylock joins us to discuss being a radio performer on the hit show The Lone Ranger. She talks about her time in radio and growing up in Detroit. She sees podcasting as the radio shows of the present and is surprised in the type of resurgence this form of media has. It's an exciting conversation and we hope you enjoy it.
After the break, Annie & I talk about the things we've been doing and get sidetracked talking about studios teenagers and microbrews. Thanks for listening.
Books:
Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Watching:
27 Dresses
Gilmore Girls
Succession
New Girl
Chef Volume 2
Maren Morris' "Once" closes this weeks episode out.
Sep 5, 2019
Sep 5, 2019
47 min
We are back with another episode of Checking In. Today's episode we will do our usual catching up with the things we've been doing the past couple weeks. After the break we talk about our favorite background TV shows. They're the kind of shows we like on while we're doing other things. We hope you enjoy our picks.
Books:
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV - Warren Littlefield
TV Shows:
Glow, Season 3
New Girl, Season 7
Background TV Shows:
Cheers, Friends, Wings, Frasier (Jim Burrows Universe)
New Girl
Background Movies:
The Love Letter
Carla Bruni's cover of ABBA's The Winner Takes All sends us off for the week. If you have any favorite background shows or would like to send us a question, email us at podcast@grossepointelibrary.org. If we get enough questions we'll do an episode dedicated to those.
Aug 22, 2019
Aug 22, 2019
46 min
Annie & I are back with an episode about going back to school. We reminisce about our days in school and discuss education in general in the year 2019. We also continue to talk about the books, movies, TV shows, and music we've been consuming.
Books
Beautiful Music by James Zadoorian
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
Boom Town by Sam Anderson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Movies
A Star is Born (1937, 1954, 1976, 2018)
TV Shows
Music
Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall closes us out this week. Thanks for listening.
Aug 8, 2019
Aug 8, 2019
41 min
Matt & Annie are back to talk about the great outdoors. First, we talk about the stuff we've been doing the past couple weeks: the books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and video games.
Books:
Doing Harm... - Maya Dusenbury
Gypsy Moth Summer - Julia Fierro
Beautiful Music - Michael Zadoorian
Wheelman: Lance Armstrong... - Reed Albergotti & Vanessa O'Connell
Movies/TV Shows:
Podcasts:
Childish Gambino's "Outside" fittingly closes us out this week. Thanks for listening.
Jul 25, 2019
Jul 25, 2019
48 min
Annie & Matt discuss Stranger Things 3 and our thoughts about the season as a whole. We also talk about the books we're reading and shows we're watching. Continuing our theme of Summer, we talk about activities we did and hope to do before it's over.
*Our Stranger Things 3 Discussion ends at the 13:50 mark if you haven't watched and want to avoid spoilers.*
Things We Talked About:
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Bruce Springsteen's Darkness at the Edge of Town closes us out for the week.
Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019
42 min
This episode of Checking In Annie & Matt have new books they've been reading. In addition to books, some TV watching has taken place. Annie has watched one episode of Stranger Things. One does not simply watch one episode at a time...
Books Discussed
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirsehbaum
Bunny by Mona Awad
Palaces for the People by Eric Klienenberg
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Happy City: Transforming Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Boom-Town by Sam Anderson
Doc Martin watchalikes
Hamis Macbeth
Kingdom
Indian Summers
Annie's Summer Movies
The Great Outdoors
Weekend at Bernie's
What About Bob?
Roxanne
Matt's Summer Movie
Back to the Future AKA the best movie ever made
TV
Right Now: Aziz Ansari Special
The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City" closes us out this week.