The Pod Files - Friday 5 April 2024

 

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) 

Mortalverse - 1 September 2023: *Nightwing: Year One PART 3 "A Name for Myself"

Mortalverse - 8 September 2023: *Nightwing: Year One PART 4 “The Gauntlet"

Mortalverse - 15 September 2023: *Nightwing: Year One PART 5 "Birds of a Feather" [a superbly written, produced, and voiced audio drama, based on the DC comics property. Nice atmosphere, sounds, and pacing. After this I will listen to another DC related property that they have fan fiction-ed, before checking out something different from their feed on Monday night, before I speak with Matt from Mortalverse this coming Wednesday.] 

Daily Dad Jokes - 5 April 2024 

Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 5 April 2024 : meticulous 

Breaker Whiskey - 4 April 2024: One Hundred Eighty Four 

Daily Dad Jokes - 5 April 2024: First Contact Day 

New Podcast Trailers - 5 April 2024: *Trap Street - Happy "National Read A Road Map Day", no, really. Trap Street is a new mystery fiction podcast, about maps, cartography, and the future of the entire human race. It's new from the creators of Strange Air.

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 5 April 2024: A Tip For… Long-term Paint Memory 

StarDate - 4 April 2024: Eclipse Legends 

The Stupid History Minute - 5 April 2024: QWERTY Keyboard

Breaker Whiskey - 5 April 2024: One Hundred Eighty Five 

Daily Dad Jokes - 5 April 2024: a trailer for Graeme’s show Technically Speaking 

7 Good Minutes - 5 April 2024: Feel-Good Friday: Finding Happiness in Simple Pleasures

Everything Phil Collins - 5 April 2024: *The Future of Everything Phil Collins! - Here's an update on our YouTube channel...

Technically Speaking - 19 September 2023: Welcome to Technically Speaking [I was curious after hearing the surprise season two trailer in the Daily Dad Jokes feed] 

7 Good Minutes - 5 April 2024: Extra - Enjoy the little things in life; For one day...

Sounds Profitable - 3 April 2024: *As of an hour ago, Sounds Profitable’s latest study, The Ad Bargain, is live. / YouTube and X emerge as leaders for social media advertising attention / Where and how Gen Alpha consumes content: From YouTube to Netflix to Roblox / Why performance marketers are shifting their priorities to build the brand / The New York Times will soon offer narrated versions of most article via automated voice. / Sources tell Bloomberg Spotify is adding new tiers to Spotify Premium and raising prices in several markets. / Jon Stewart claims Apple stopped him interviewing FTC Chair on his podcast / Two of LiSTNR’s podcasts have been nominated for New York Festivals Radio Awards. / The 2024 US ad market is projected to hit $369 billion, in part due to political ad revenue. 

Radio Headspace - 29 September 2020: *Radio Headspace Rewind: Is It Possible to Be Happy Right Now? - If you're re-examining your life right now, you're not alone. We're taking stock of what we like and what we would like to change. But with change, no matter how positive, can often come fear. Fear of not knowing what the end result will be. This week, try to maintain a spirit of exploration. Try something new for the sake of doing it, not to reach a final outcome.

The Daily Quiz Show - 5 April 2024: Geography 

7 Minutes For yourself - 24 October 2023: Find the Right Words: The Art of Articulating Your Thoughts Quickly

Podnews - 3 April 2024: *The Webby Awards has announced the nominees for the twenty-eighth annual awards. / In Sweden, Podspace is now the second largest podcast platform and ad network. / Google Podcasts is now said to have closed in the US (it’s still available in every other country, with no closure date yet). / On Apr 9, Spotify will add audiobooks for Spotify Premium users in Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. / SiriusXM has signed-up Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty for a rewatch podcast of Suits. / Stephanie Kuo has been named VP of Content at PRX, helping to lead both podcast and radio broadcast content strategy. / The Board of Governors have been announced for The Podcast Academy. 

The Daily Business and Finance Show - 19 January 2024 

Phase Zero - season 4 episode 14: 3 April 2024: BD, Jenna, Aaron and Jamie. Sam Raimi talked about not being asked by Marvel to direct either Secret Wars or Spider-Man 4. “Godzilla is old as crap!” Concept art for Madame Web featuring Tom Holland Spider-Man (which wasn’t used obviously). Jim Viscardi joins the conversation on his birthday (happy birthday Jim, and good luck in your new job with Image Comics) to announce leaving Comicbook to the new job. Spider Within available on YouTube for free from Sony Pictures. Robert Pattinson, according to Aaron, can now get away with going out in a sweatsuit. Kirsten Dunst. Florence Pugh posted a video from the set of Thunderbolts. “Phases don’t mean shit!” Kristen Stewart asked about the MCU. Finn Jones Instagram post. Set photos from Daredevil Born Again show Jon Bernthal as The Punisher alongside Charlie Cox as Daredevil. The question about Mike Colter. Talk about the latest episode of X-Men ‘97. Jamie has watched 190 films so far this year! Wow, I’ve watched four or five. 

5 Good News Stories - 2 January 2023: *A woman finds a message in a bottle and shares it with her son...who knows the guy! / Plus, fundraising for an 82 year old working at Wal-Mart to pay medical bills.

Question of the Week - 23 February 2015: *Why Do I Urinate More in the Cold? - Have you ever noticed that you urinate more frequently in cold weather? Why does this happen?

Christmas Everyday - 5 April 2024: Christmas Trees by Robert Frost 

5 Good News Stories - 5 January 2023: *A man ran 365 marathons in 2022. / A woman tried 365 new tasks in 2022...some of them are quite, um, fun / A woman keeps her heart in a drawer! / A boy draws hair on his baby brother.

Naked Scientists In Short - 16 January 2015: *Geese fly over the Himalayas like a roller coaster - Bar-headed geese reach altitudes of several thousand meters in their annual migration across the world's highest mountain range. A new study shows that they have a peculiar way to save energy on this long journey, as Khalil Thirlaway finds out from Dr. Charles Bishop of Bangor University.

TED Health - 28 March 2023: *How to do laundry when you're depressed - Ever had a hard time doing daily household tasks -- cooking, cleaning, laundry -- and felt like a terrible person for struggling in the first place? Therapist KC Davis is here to flip that negative internalized script with a simple yet perspective-shifting fact that may change your approach to life. Learn a gentler, more practical approach to mental health as Davis shares hard-won wisdom and helpful shortcuts on how to get by when you feel like you've barely got it together.

Wikipedia Featured Article of the Day - 13 November 2023: Fuzuli (poet) 

Composer’s Datebook - 5 April 2024: Lou Harrison conducts an

Ives premiere

A Daily Dose of History - 29 June 2023

The Slowdown - episode 868: 2 May 2023: Today’s poem is The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer.

The Most Influential People in the World - 11 May 2023: *Mastermind of Renaissance: Filippo Brunelleschi

Hawkbinge - 5 April 2024: Andy, Matt and Joe are together to get a first response to new Hawkwind album "Stories From Time And Space". Williams Orbit was supposed to produce this, but ended up not doing. An interesting thing is that the last episode of this show that I heard was where they were doing a review of another album that came out, which I thought was a previous album, but I think it was the album before that, this is getting a bit long. Anyway, it was through a review of another album which they were a bit 50-50 on, and they were questioning that one about the running order of the songs. Will I listen to the album? You are damn right I will, because it’s Hawkwind! The original space rockers. 

Daily shower thoughts - 22 January 2024

The Pirate of Prague - Trailer: 6 November 2023: *Introducing The Pirate of Prague - A charming young Czech promises staggering returns. An entire country's oil industry is up for grabs. America's top investors want in. Sounds too good to be true? Damn right it is. / This is a story of private jets, $20,000 dinners, and suitcases stuffed with cash. It's also a tale about the collapse of communism, the free-for-all that followed, and the birth of the oligarchs. And it's a story of plain-old human greed...of just how far the rich may go to get even richer. Viktor Kozený smooth-talked his super-wealthy Aspen neighbors and a Wall Street titan into investing huge sums of cash to snap up Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company...

Daily Facts - 22 December 2023

Sounds Profitable - 4 April 2024: *Five Things to Know About The Ad Bargain / Podcast advertising: Guidelines for optimal impact / More than half of US TV watchers are cordless, according to report / Spreaker explains the process of rebuilding their web experience with PHP and Serverless. / Spotify Unveils Live Experiences, a product to allow brand integration with live events hosted by Spotify (including podcast-focused ones) / Audible and Amazon MGM Studios have made a pact to develop TV adaptations of several Audible Original podcasts. / The Media Leader has asked several industry professionals to answer the question “How can audio get a bigger share in the media plan?” / Christian Luiga has been named Spotify’s new Chief Financial Officer. / Tech Solutions Veteran Charlie Smith Joins Frequency as Technical Account Manager

Mind The Gap - 17 December 2023: *Introducing...Mind The Gap - Take an incredible journey Underground with host Tim Dunn, as he explores the amazing world of the London Tube, to celebrate its 160th Anniversary. Travelling to stations across the capital, Tim meets guests including Rylan Clark, Amy Lamé, Wayne Hemingway and designers and engineers from TfL, who reveal the passion, love, and incredible stories behind the world's oldest underground network

Consider This - 4 April 2024: *Bird flu has spread to cows. And now a human has contracted the virus from an infected cow. What kind of risk does this virus pose to people, and are we prepared to treat it?

The Daily Poem - 23 June 2023: *Unclaimed Heart of Home: A Poem of Belonging and Longing - Today's poem is about Belonging in the style of Simon Armitage. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

Murder 101 - Trailer: 3 January 2024: [no details given] 

The Rise and Fall of Frankie Rose - Trailer: 6 February 2024: *Introducing: The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke - Ruby Franke, a Utah mom turned YouTube “momfluencer" who amassed 2.6 million subscribers, was known for her strict disciplinarian parenting style. But authorities now say that her "tough love" was actually child abuse. Ruby Franke's son escaped from the Utah home of her self-help business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt. The boy was reportedly starved and tied up with duct tape along with his 10 year old sister. As law enforcement dug deeper, they uncovered injuries, torture, and emotional harm inflicted by both Franke and Hildebrandt. Law&Crime takes you behind the scenes, from Ruby and Jodi's path to internet stardom, to the investigation that brought them down. / 

This 7-part series releases weekly on Mondays exclusively on Wondery+. [hmm, I don’t have Wondery+, and can’t afford subscriptions]

Podnews - 4 April 2024: *Podcast Movement has announced a set of meetups - in Las Vegas on Apr 15, as well as May meetups in Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, and a June meetup in Orlando. / In Chicago, WBEZ is to lay off 14 staff, in part resulting in a reduction of its podcasting unit. It will stop making what it calls its “non-newsroom” shows, including Nerdette and When Magic Happens. / In the Netherlands, research company Kantar has published research on “optimal impact” from podcast advertising. The company suggests that you don’t need to advertise on a large number of episodes to get results. / Berlin Podcast Week has been announced for Sep 10-15. / Realm is partnering with the Austin Film Festival to sponsor its 2024 Fiction Podcast competition. / An email you’ve probably already seen: “On April 13, starting at 6:00 am PDT, Apple Podcasts Connect will be unavailable for up to two hours.” (That link will convert the time to where you are.) / Apple exerted editorial control over Jon Stewart’s podcast, he claimed on The Daily Show on Monday. / Audioboost, an Italian audio tool that turns web pages into audio, saw a doubling of its network in 2023, the company says. It’s also seen growth in its collaboration with branded podcast company Podcastory. / Sharing podcast episodes is weird, writes Juha-Matti Santala. Who wants to point them towards episodes.fm, a service that gives links to share individual episodes? / You’ll never guess the podcast app the New York Post recommends as a replacement to Google Podcasts… until you realise the entire article is tagged with affiliate links. [A message to James - well done on your German, you are doing very well!] 

British Scandal - Trailer: 19 April 2021: *Introducing British Scandal - In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. / British scandals change the course of history. / They bring down governments, overthrow the rich and cause the mighty to fall. Some are about sex, others about money. In the end, they're all about power. / But often at the heart of a scandal, there are ordinary human stories, stories of those caught up in the swirl of outrage. / Who was really to blame for what happened? / Why did they do it? And when all is said and done, did anything really change?

Inside Of You - 2 April 2024: *Edward Furlong (The Terminator, American History X) joins us this week to share his journey with addiction and the rock-bottom he hit that allowed him to get clean and rediscover the joys of a sober life. Edward shares fond memories with cast and crew while filming The Terminator franchise - all the while, acknowledging how he took it for granted in his youth. We also talked about going from teenage heartthrob to parent of a teenager, breaking the chain of generational trauma, and what Edward still wants to prove to himself.