The Pod Files - Friday September 22 2023

 

The ‘casts -

(Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember

Stew World Order - (0:50) Episode 77: 22 September 2023: [drive in to work listening] Stew is joined by Neal from the podcast We Needed Roads to look at the film Constantine starring Keanu Reeves, based on a DC comic book series. Rachel Weisz, Tilda Swinton, Djimon Honslou (?), and more.  Having Gavin Rossdale in the film, but not using any songs by the group Bush. 

Daily Dad Jokes - (0:07) 21 September 2023 

Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - (0:02) 22 September 2023: mesmerised 

Composer’s Datebook - (0:02) 22 September 2023: Garcia’s Requiem 

Breaker Whiskey - (0:04) Season 1, Episode 44: 21 September 2023: Forty-Four 

Bill Reads Bad Reviews - (0:16) 22 September 22 2023: “Bill returns and funny podcast memories.” Bill is back with an unscripted talk about the show and what he’s been up to while he’s been away. “Doing something different!” Bill and his wife Madison have been on a great road trip. He’s thinking of a side series, looking at Bill Talk, and other title potentials. The World According To Bill perhaps? Started in a guest house with no internet or lighting. Uploading shows via a hot spot - been there, done that! I Am Legend recording that didn’t record. Low hum of a hard drive in the background in an episode. Recording in a closet that could only fit a stool, mic and a laptop. Bill is six foot two, which makes him 7 inches taller than me! “The podcast bromance the world didn’t even know it needed…” 

Daily Dad Jokes - (0:14) 21 September 2023: World Gratitude Day 

Create Magic - (0:09) Episode 425: 7 June 2023: “Weird Delaware: Apporting Wooden Weirdo Chickens - This is the most personal case of high strangeness I've covered in this series on the small wonder. The other day I came out to the garage and found some mysterious wooden chickens painted all black and lined up in front of the garage door and still don't know who left them there. Maybe they apported from another dimension, maybe it was a friendly neighbor clearing out the garage. Either way it’s weird and wonderful. Hope y'all enjoy the day!” 

Daily Shower Thoughts - (0:07) 19 August 223: entertainment 

This Goose Is Cooked - (0:10) 20 September 2023: We review the book "Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are you Waking Up?" by Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson.

Breaker Whiskey - (0:02) season 1 episode 45: 22 September 2023: Forty-Five

Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities - (0:10) 11 April 2019 : “It’s Alive - Some human accomplishments are frightening, and others are hilarious. I hope you don't mind if the tour guide shows you one of each today as you pass through the Cabinet.”

StarDate - (0:02) 30 August 2023: “Blue Moon - The full Moon has a case of the blues tonight — it’s known as a Blue Moon. There’s a passel of blue moon definitions. The phrase “once in a blue moon” is applied to something that happens rarely. In the calendar, a Blue Moon can be the 13th full Moon in a year, or the third of four full Moons in a calendar season. Today, Blue Moon usually refers to a second full Moon in a calendar month. And that’s what we get tonight. There’s a slight difference between the Moon’s cycle of phases and the length of a month. A lunar cycle averages 29 and a half days. So in a month that has 30 days, a full Moon on the first of the month can be followed by another on the 30th. Months with 31 days can have full Moons on the 1st or 2nd, and again on the 30th or 31st…” 

Daily Facts - (0:07) 27 July 2023

Womanica - (0:08) 26 February 2020: “Warriors: Sojourner Truth.” 

Wikipedia - (0:03) 10 July 2023: Pasqua Rosé 

7 Good Minutes - (0:08) 10 September 2023: Transform your life with proven success habits  

Everything Everywhere Daily - (0:13) 6 August 2020: “The original Dow Jones companies - For many people, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the measure of the health of the overall stock market. In reality, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is really just the performance of a collection of 30 blue-chip stocks. The index was created in 1896 and back then there were only 12 stocks in the index, and most of them are no longer household names.” 

StarDate - (0:02) 31 august 2023: “Hercules A - A supermassive black hole can be a powerhouse. Its gravity pulls in huge amounts of gas and dust, forming a superhot disk around the black hole. And magnetic fields within the disk can fire out “jets” of gas at almost the speed of light. Some of the more impressive jets are in Hercules A — a giant galaxy that’s more than two billion light-years away. It’s in the constellation Hercules, which is high in the sky at nightfall. Jets fire out of the middle of the galaxy, in opposite directions. From end to end, they span more than a million and a half light-years…” 

7 Minutes For Yourself - (0:05) 9 March 2023: everyday strategies for living a better life - 

Question of the Week - (0:07) 19 March 2012: “Can You Catch Cancer? - Could you get cancer from someone else? Tasmanian devils can catch cancer transmitted through biting. Are there instances of cancers being transmitted this way in humans? Can you catch cancer through a blood transfusion? Plus we ask, why is there not an upper absolute in the temperature scale...... Like this podcast?” 

Atlas Obscura - (0:12) 1 JUNE 2021: “Clausland Mountain Tunnels - Under the forests of Nyack, New York lays a series of dark and decrepit tunnels with militaristic roots but now attract graffiti artists and plenty of teen lore.” 

7 Good Minutes - (0:02) 10 September 2023: One of the major keys to success is to stop being distracted by things that have nothing to do with your goals.

Phase Zero - (0:59) season 3 episode 38: 20 September 2023: Brandon, Jenna, Aaron and Logan. Spider-Man 2 game. Major announcement about the show changing to 2 episodes per week. Vanity Fair report about the budget for The Marvels. Chris Evans commenting again about Captain America. Werewolf By Night being rereleased but in colour. Daredevil’s ex-Netflix showrunner talks negatively about the Disney series that’s coming. A Lego Avengers film on Disney Plus. BREAK. Interview with Yuri Lowenthal to talk Playstation's Spider-Man 2. “19 inches of Adam?” Brandon’s hall of fame of voices. 

[forthcoming episode of Pods Like Us] 

Daily Dad Jokes - (0:07) 22 September 2023 

Barmy Dale - (0:30) season 1 episodes 1-5: “Barmy Dale follows the hilarious antics of the residents in the fictional Derbyshire town of the same name. The first episode of Barmy Dale was broadcast on BBCRadio Derby in 2020 as five 6 minute episodes. Here we bring those first five episodes together as one. Barmy Dale has been nominated for several awards including Best Podcast at the World Wide Comedy Awards. It is listened to by an enthusiastic podcast audience and on multiple local radio stations in the UK. Barmy Dale is written by Martin Skellern and Stuart Wheeldon.” 

StarDate - (0:02) 1 September 2023: “September - It looks like Roman calendar makers just ran out of gas. They named the first eight months of the year for gods and goddesses, or for emperors with godly ambitions. But after that, all they could come up with were numbers indicating a month's position in the year. September, for example, means "seventh month." We know that Star Date listeners are pretty bright, so you've no doubt noticed that September is actually the ninth month of the year. But in the original Roman calendar, the year began in March, and lasted only 10 months. January and February were added later. In other cultures, the calendar year began at different times. In Egypt, for example, it started in July, when Sirius returned to view in the morning sky.” 

Quick Fire Science - (0:04) 17 October 2013: “Invasive Species - It's official: the UK has a slug problem. This week, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich asked the public for help to help them track down the Spanish slug, a rapidly reproducing invasive species that eats crops and is not deterred by slug pellets. Here's your quick fire science on invasive species, with Matt Burnett and Simon Bishop.” 

Daily Life Pro Tips - (0:08) 11 August 2023 

Fans On The Run - 23 September 2023: “It's time for a very, very special episode of Fans On The Run. Special guest co-host, Piers Hemmingsen, joins me in sitting down for a rare podcast interview with the celebrated, bestselling author behind the 1968 authorized biography of The Beatles, Hunter Davies OBE. This episode is not one you'll want to miss!” [Their guest, Hunter Davies, is the only author to have written a biography that’s fully authorised about The Beatles. Getting the book past Queenie Epstein. Book tour of the US. Paul McCartney‘s swimming costume.]