A show in which a 25-year-old adult and a 50-year-old child help each other make sense of the world
Bridging the intergenerational communication gap, one goofy episode at a time
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Half My Age, a weekly conversation between two unlikely friends, launched in February 2019. Andrew and Mrs. Filholm see things with nearly opposite perspectives, but turn to each other for advice on life’s biggest, smallest, and most absurd challenges.
Andrew Bridges is a 25-year-old data scientist with a finance degree who loves motorcycles, technology and spreadsheets. Lisa Lane Filholm is a 50-year-old writer, former teacher, and performer who loves pottery, toddlers, and telling jokes.
They met 10 years ago when they were student and teacher but they didn’t really care for one another. They eventually became friends, collaborators and counselor-confessors, whose conversations tend to amuse and annoy their family and other friends. A podcast was inevitable.
Each week, they discuss events in their lives, including Mrs. Filholm’s recent divorce, need to make a budget and buy a house, how they’re getting along with their computers, and other issues of adulting. They also get deep about topics that matter (living in hope, calming our brains, making a living, checking our privilege) and other stuff that is purely silly (writing a Dad joke, mitigating stinky feet, building human-sized nests, Andrew’s goal of having a cat with fur) with candor, vulnerability and a sense of humor. They operate with no filter as they help each other make sense of the world; the show is by, for and about adults (warning: explicit content).
The pair are devoted to delivering a quality—if ridiculous—product. An engineer masters each episode and they are vigilant about tending to their website, social media, and schedule. Half My Age is the product of two years’ worth of planning, honing a purpose and understanding the medium. With little fanfare, the show continues to grow an audience as the product gets better and better.
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ABOUT OUR LISTENERS:
Although podcast metrics are infamously enigmatic, we know a few things (so far) about our audience.
Our listeners like our content enough to subscribe. Subscriptions account for 82% of all Half My Age downloads.
Our listeners actually listen. iTunes shows that users average >90% episode completion, meaning that they listen to more than 90% of each episode. They're not tuning out early.
Our listeners have and appreciate nice things. 3/4 of them are listening on Apple devices.
Our audience is concentrated in the United States (97%), but we also have listeners in Egypt, Sweden, the UK, France, and Canada.
Our episodes continue to generate downloads months after they are published, and they will continue to do so in perpetuity.
Andrew Bridges earned his MS (Applied Quantitative Finance) from the University of Denver in 2017. Since then, Andrew served as the Director of Engineering at an artificial intelligence company and now works as a freelance data scientist helping founders prototype their ideas. Andrew lives in the Denver Tech Center with his wonderful girlfriend Delany and their neurotic cat (of Internet fame), Whiskers.
Lisa Lane Filholm is the author of Beyond Mama Bear: How to Survive the Balancing Act of Parenting Teenagers and two children’s books. She is also an announcer, speaker, stand-up comic, and voiceover actor.