This is the Mountain and Prairie podcast. I'm Ed Robertson. Today's episode is a bit of a

departure from the usual format. I'm resharing a recent conversation I had on my friend

Brendan Leonard's new podcast, My Favorite Things. I'm sure most of a recent conversation I had on my friend Brendan Leonard's new podcast,

My Favorite Things. I'm sure most of y'all are already familiar with Brendan, but for those

of you who aren't, he's an author, illustrator, filmmaker, and the creator of semi-read.

Brendan's new podcast is built around a simple but fascinating premise. Conversations about the books,

films, art, and creative works that have helped shape a person's life and career. In this

conversation, we spend less time on what I do and more time on what's influenced how I think

and live, from Theodore Roosevelt and Sebastian Younger to a Winslow Homer painting

and a movie that's been oddly entertaining and instructive over the years. And I bet y'all

can guess which movie that is. There are already several excellent episodes live

featuring thoughtful, interesting people. And Brendan has created something both entertaining

and instructive with this

podcast. If you enjoy this conversation, I'd encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, explore the

rest of the episodes, and share the show with any of your friends who might enjoy it.

Thanks so much for listening, and here's my appearance on my favorite things.

Ed Robertson, thanks for being here.

Thank you, sir. Can you tell us a little bit about who you are? I'll try. It's very weird, as you know,

but I guess that's why it's interesting. Yeah, my name's Ed Robertson. Anybody who's listening to this probably knows me from my podcast called Mountain and Priory, which I started almost 10 years ago, which is crazy.

That is now my full-time job, which is crazy as well. Everything, all of it's crazy. But I say if things

had gone according to plan A, I would be the best stockbroker at Merrill Lynch.

But I ended up, didn't really like it. I ended up doing a lot of prank phone calls from those fancy phones they have in the office.

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