Posts by Joel Lindstrom

Consulting Principal for Hitachi Solutions, Stephanie's husband, father of two.

January 3, 2022 by Joel Lindstrom

2022: Snobs, predictions, and TikTok

Podcast, Snobbery, TikTok, trucks
Coffee, Dave Matthews, Dodge Ram, Guitar, Manhatttan Project, Nostradamus, TikTok
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Welcome to the first episode of the If You’re Like Me podcast for 2022. In today’s episode, we discuss some of our personal highlights from 2021, look ahead to 2022, and talk about snobbery and how pervasive it is in all areas of life, including technology, coffee, and even grocery store deli meat.

Joel also shares his observations from his TikTok experiment–can a non pretty person succeed?

Show notes:

1:36 Joel’s white truck
5:40 Jeff’s new guitar
6:40 Jeff’s musical inspirations
11:00 TikTok: the good and the bad
21:05 Snobbery and why it is bad
22:10 Coffee snobs
23:30 Snobs at the supermarket
24:30 How to train yourself to drink black coffee
28:30 How to train your palate to tolerate food that you don’t like
29:05 Squash and basil ice cubes
31:30 How to identify pilots and IT engineers
34:54 Why do hard-core IT engineers use Android?
37:50 Phone snobs
38:45 Why Jeff despises group messaging
40:00 Nostradamus predictions for 2022
41:55 Edward Teller and EO Lawrence and the Manhatten Project, lighting the atmosphere on fire
45:11 Adult birthdays, and why they are awkward
47:20 Why Joel will never throw his wife a surprise party again

Happy 2022 to all of our listeners/viewers.

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December 19, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom

Christmas 2021: Spider-Man and Christmas Movies

Join us for our podcast Christmas episode (and our first video episode), drink coffee, watch Mannix with us, and observe the annual miracle of the cream cheese.

1:30 The Grinch
3:00 Santa Conquers the Martians
4:02 Mannix: Death is a minor key
5:57 Anthony Zerbe
6:15 Spider-Man: No way home
15:49 Pranking your kids
21:28 The great cream cheese shortage
22:58 Garth Brooks Silent Night and the miracle of the cream cheese
27:08 Expiration dates
32:00 The mystery of the broken figurine
37:14 Notable deaths
39:53 Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Special
42:00 Little House on the Prairie: the Blizzard
44:37 White Christmas observations Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our listeners/viewers.

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November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom

This episode hits different

Happy November! We are back with a new episode.

Topics discussed in today’s episode:

Rocketman parenting advice
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
“Hits different”
Halloween hijinx
The Invisible Man
Ohio’s curious new license plate

August 5, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom

Printers are evil

Of all of the home electronic devices ever created, the most nefarious is the printer. All printers, no matter the type or brand, are out to take our money and only give us pain and suffering. There is no good printer, only varying degrees of worse. “I’m sorry, I can’t print black and white because you are out of blue.”

In this episode of “If you’re like me,” Joel and Rome talk about printers and the following other topics:

The top Bob’s of all time
Rome’s “adopted family”
Rome rants about Marvel’s reboot of Squadron Supreme
Loki gator
Geronimo goes to puppy school
Remembering Richard Donner
Rome misses his Mountain Dew pager

July 17, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom

Rome reacts to Alles Gute zum Geburtstag

Welcome to If You’re Like Me for July 17, 2021. Today, Rome and Joel catch up about Joel’s new dog, reaction videos, and the problem with Twitter.

In today’s episode:

Golden retrievers
Rome gets a percolator
John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed
Remembering Phil Collins
Cannon: the killer on the hill
Happy birthday Heath Florkey

Thanks for listening!

April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 by Joel Lindstrom

We are the leading podcast in Blue Ridge

It’s been ten months since our last episode. With all of the change in the world (and our busy schedules resulting from it), we have not been able to get together. But with Joel’s recent move, we are now neighbors in beautiful Blue Ridge South Carolina. This makes If You’re Like Me the leading podcast in Blue Ridge!

Topics discussed in this episode:

Working from home (still)
Joel’s new house
The workshop
Puppy update
Going to the dump
Rome’s trip to the Superman Museum
If Superman was from Paducah Kentucky
Klaatu
Magenta does not exist

Thank you for listening!

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 by Joel Lindstrom

How to eat an apple

This week on “If You’re Like Me,” Joel talks about his approach to eating apples, and why there really is no apple core.

Other topics: being on call late at night, The Price is Right, getting people to pay to make their own food, wearing masks, and the Ninja “Rich Brew” mix.

May 24, 2020 by Joel Lindstrom

Award-Winning Rome and Flame Weeding

Welcome to another episode of If You’re Like Me. On this thrill packed episode, Rome announces his new award for general awesomeness (or at least many years of participation). Also, Joel has discovered a great way to make lawncare more fun: using fire.

Inner Monologue says we are turning into Rome

In these days of quarantine, we are all turning into Rome–listening to old music and staying home.

“An internal monologue, also called self-talk, inner speech, inner discourse or internal discourse, is a person’s inner voice which provides a running verbal monologue of thoughts while they are conscious.” Do you have an internal monologue? Rome Maynard does, and the voice in his head makes sarcastic comments that he sometimes cannot repeat. Joel doesn’t think he has an internal monologue, at least not every day.

We also discuss typewriter, assembling furniture from boxes, and dressing for success when working from home.

Rome talks about a silent German film called Die Große Wette. Does it still exist?

March 22, 2020 by Joel Lindstrom

Social distancing and the Andromeda Strain (1971)

We are social distancing at If You’re Like Me, but that’s ok, we’ve been socially distancing and not watching sports for years.

On today’s episode we talk about how life has changed under covid-19, working from home, Rome’s new puppy, and the death of Kenny Rogers.

We also watch the 1971 classic The Andromeda Strain, directed by Robert Wise. You can watch it with us–just pause the podcast and restart it after the movie is done.

We hope everybody stays safe in these unusual times. Thanks for listening.

February 16, 2020 by Joel Lindstrom

Ahoy, it’s Smallcreep’s Day

Today Rome is excited because it is Smallcreep’s Day, a holiday that, as far as our researchers could determine, is only celebrated at Rome’s house. Listen to find out more about what Smallcreep’s Day is, and why you should join the celebration.

S02E01: I am Lindstorm!

It’s 2020 and season 2 of If You’re Like Me! as we get ready to start our sixth year of podcasting, we catch up on what has been happening since last season:

Joel’s new name
Rome goes to the ballet
Ken Jennings wins the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time tournament
New coffee making system
Short haircuts
Mute yourself during conference calls

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December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 by Joel Lindstrom

Disney+ and whimsy with Shawn and Jim

Filling in for Rome Maynard this week are Shawn Tabor and Jim Lomas, and this week we are all about Disney+. If you aren’t watching The Mandalorian, you should be, and we talk about some of the other great discoveries we have made in the content on Disney+.

50 Years of Rome

This is a very special episode of if You’re Like Me, as it is Rome’s 50th birthday and Halloween. We have all of our favorites, including circus peanuts, candy corn, and internationally renowned safety expert Scott Barr.

Topics in this episode:

Safety
Quality
Halloween costumes
Enneagram
Personal Kanban
Toy robots
Green tea
Coffee
What happens if you don’t eat your Halloween candy in a timely manner