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The Pod Files - Monday 14 July 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 The Gerry Anderson Podcast - episode 367: 14 July 2025: Jamie and Chris are joined by guest, tv presenter Matt Richardson, to watch the Fireball XL5 episode Trial By Robot, Matt’s first experience of the show. “Trial by Chat GPT.” I thought that this episode of Fireball XL5. I saw repeats of it in the latex I wasn’t sure of the series, but looking back I think it was cool. I was comparing it to everything I had seen from the Anderverse at that time, which would be Thunderbirds, Stingray, Space 1999, and The Protectors.  Composers Datebook -  14 July 2025:  'La Marseillaise' by Lambert Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day -  14 July 2025:  nuance StarDate -  13 July 2025:  Brightest Star? SmartLess Presents ClueLess - episode 64: 14 July 2025:  Monkey In The Middle (w/ Carrie Aizley) 1001 Album ...

The Pod Files - Sunday 13 July 2025

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  Through the night I kept popping onto Greatest Hits Radio to listen to bits of the original Live Aid from exactly 40 years ago that day. I think I have mentioned that I missed almost all of the event itself on that day forty years ago, instead deciding to go into town as a fourteen year old (for another four months) getting away from the horror of the school I’d been sent to (a lot of us were sexually abused by the school principal), and I always regretted making the choice to miss such an important event.  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 Acting President - episode 8: 1 June 2025: Final Act [so, that was the final episode of this story, and a very rewarding finish. It is as well. A great narrative throughout from start to finish, and a nice choice of AI voice for it. I could actually see them transferring this to film or TV.    Well done to John a...