Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  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 Passage - season, one episode 9:26 March 2024: the passage of Kitty Genovese Daily Dad Jokes - 28 March 2024: MLB opening day Breaker Whiskey -  28 March 2024:  One Hundred Seventy Nine Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day -  28 March 2024:   flout Composer’s Datebook -  28 March 2024:   Erich 'Wunderkind' Korngold Consumed -  27 March 2024:  10 The Whispers  StarDate -  27 March 2024:  Struggling Mars  7 Good Minutes -  27 March 2024:  Wellbeing Wednesday: Creating a  Mindful Workspace The Stupid History Minute -  27 March 2024:   Opening Day Daily Tips -  28 March 2024:   A Tip For...Being On Time or Early 7 Good Minutes -  27 March 2024:   Extra - Worrying is like a rocking chair... The Baton - episode 1: 2 January 2019: Prologue [great introduction from Jeff talking about John Williams’ being brought up by his parents,

  What happened? During the time off on Tuesday and Wednesday March the 26th and 27th, there was a fair amount of podcast work done, with Tuesday evening seeing the recording two episodes of Toppermost of the Poppermost with my co-hosts Ed and Kit, looking at the singles charts for the U.K. in April of 1964, and the first of two parts about the same month in the US.  The US is always a longer discussion, because in the US it’s about the “HOT 100”, whereas in the U.K. it’s about the top 50. Well, I say that, but I seem to remember that the charts on the Top of the Pops tv show and the radio were the top 30, until it became about the top forty in the mid to late eighties. I might be wrong, so please let me know if I am.  On Wednesday I recorded three episodes of Pods Like Us, which will have to be rescheduled for release dates, as they were all film related shows, albeit looking at different sides of films, but still film nonetheless.  Those PLU episodes were Piecing It Together, Visuall