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The Pod Files - Sunday 1 June 2025

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  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes BirdNote Daily - 25 July 2022: *BirdNoir: The One That Got Away - In this episode, the Private Eye tells his saddest story: his nemesis bird. That's what birders call a species that keeps giving you the slip. His nemesis is the Painted Bunting, a colorful gem of a bird. When word of the species being spotted nearby reaches the PI, he rushes off to see it, hoping to end his struggle to see the bird at last... / More info and transcript at BirdNote.org 7 Good Minutes - 9 May 2025: Unlock Your Potential: Harness Positive Visualization to Achieve Your Dreams! The Joel Martin Mastery Podcast - episode 16: 10 February 2021: *20 Questions To A Better You - On today's episode of the Joel Martin Mastery podcast I share a questionnaire that I print every year that includes 20 questions to help you become a better you. Science Quickly - ...
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The Pod Files - Monday 2 June 2025

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  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes Podnews Daily - 30 May 2025: *Spotify adds podcast discovery to the Home Screen - Spotify launched enhanced podcast discovery tools to its app, including recommendations on the home screen "for users who love podcasts". It's unclear how the recommendations are chosen. The company has also added a threaded view to its proprietary comments, and a new "following" view within the app. / Sports betting website FanDuel was the #1 podcast advertiser in April, says Magellan Al. Corporate advertising for Google makes it to #13, the highest spend increase last month. / The Independent Podcast Forum, planned for Jun 16, has been postponed. Monsters Sharks and Dinosaurs - 1 June 2025: *Doomsday - Power up your panic for a scientific analysis of Marvel's mechanical menace: The Doomsday Man. We'll calculate the energ...
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The Pod Files - Saturday 31 May 2025

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  The ‘casts - (Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember (Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes Eastwood Reloaded - season 1 episode 2: 27 May 2025: *A Fistful Of Dollars - Before Dirty Harry, before the Oscar wins, before he became a Hollywood institution, there was a broke TV actor who took a job in Spain for $15,000. It shouldn't have worked. / Instead, it created the most famous cowboy in the world. / We travel back to 1964 and the unlikely collaboration between Clint Eastwood and 24-year-old Italian director Sergio Leone that revolutionized the Western genre. A Fistful of Dollars wasn't just a movie-it was cinema's first postmodern Western, a film that understood American mythology better than Americans did. / From the iconic poncho to Ennio Morricone's haunting score, we explore how Leone and Eastwood created the Man with No Name—a character who was both completely amoral and utterly compelling, who strippe...
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