The Pod Files - Sunday 22 September 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


The Comfortable Spot - 23 October 2022: *with Becky Holmes - Today my guest is author Becky Holmes. / Becky is an influencer who works tirelessly to expose online perpetrators of romance fraud. / Romance fraud is when somebody uses the ruse of a relationship to extort money. / Through social media Becky publishes her interactions with the perpetrators and exposes their false identities in an effort to raise awareness of this growing problem. I was really happy to have Becky on as a guest to discuss her campaign in detail and also to find out more about her forthcoming book Keanu Reeves Is NOT In Love With You. So I hope you are sitting comfortably and happy to stay with us.


Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 22 September 2024: heinous


Composer’s Datebook - 22 September 2024: Leonardo Balada


StarDate - 21 September 2024: Fall Equinox


The Stupid History Minute - 22 September 2024: Fried Pickles


7 Good Minutes - 20 September: Feel-Good Friday: The Healing Power of Laughter



Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 19 September 2024: *A Tip For...Lessening Your Hustle - Right now everything is a hustle. Your follower count. Your media output. We are taught to constantly look for a side gig. Today's tip? Stop it. Or at least protect your personal time a bit.


New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: *Three years in the making, Cement City is new today from Audacy Podcasts, looking at Donora, Pennsylvania. Donora's population is 4,650. The town has no schools, no banks, no grocery stores, no gas stations. But, for the first time since the steel mill left 50 years ago, something might be moving into town instead of leaving it - and there's an unlikely cast of people who are determined to make it happen.


Audio Poem of the Day - 27 May 2024: I Walked in the House by Catherine Wagner


New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: *From The Atlantic, We Live Here Now is new today. Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober found out that their new neighbors were supporting January 6 insurrectionists. One is Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed in the Capitol building on January 6. Another is the wife of the first person sentenced for crimes related to January 6. / They knocked on their door. We Live Here Now is about what happened next.


7 Good Minutes - 20 September 2024: Extra - Laughter is...


Atlas Obscura - 2 August 2021: *Salton  Sea - The story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles. And then, how that thirst turned toxic.


New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: *Unhinged Collaboration returns for a new season today. The show explores change management for leaders but it does so in a very changed way. The show has cloned one of their hosts with generative Al and they will test out what the twin learns with each new episode.


The Slowdown - episode 1034: 3 January 2024: Today's poem is Cliché by V. Penelope Pelizzon.


New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: *Hosted by Jonquilyn Hill and launching today, Explain It to Me is a weekly call-in show that will further Vox's mission of explaining the world by answering complicated questions from listeners about everything from retirement and why there's so much money in politics to Gen Z's odds of avoiding an apocalypse and why jars are so hard to open.


Womanica - 14 December 2020: Natalia Goncharova


New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: • *From WaitWhat, Pioneers of Al is an ideal companion for the Al-curious and Al-experienced alike - with tools, resources, and informative insights from top minds in the industry to help listeners understand, embrace, and anticipate what's next.


Everything Everywhere Daily - 5 September 2020: *The First Transatlantic Cable - Today the world can communicate with text, images, audio, and video at the speed of light. / Most of this is done via undersea fiber optic cables which connect the various continents to each other. All of this modern long-distance communication has its start with the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The first long-distance submarine communications cable which connected Europe and North America in 1858.



New Podcast Trailers - 18 September 2024: *The Future of Our Former Democracy - From voter disenfranchisement to gerrymandering and income inequality, there's a major underlying issue with American democracy: the polarizing winner-take-all electoral system. The Future of Our Former Democracy explores what it could look like if the United States dismantled their electoral system and rebuilt a proportional representation system instead. It's new today from More Equitable Democracy and LARJ Media. [an incredibly quiet trailer that had to be played at full volume to hear it!] 


5 Good News Stories - 27 March 2024: *A rare Harry Potter book proof copy that sold for over $17,000 due to a misspelling, Christian Bale's initiative to support foster siblings with affordable housing, an overview of the Amache National Historic Site to preserve Japanese American history, a couple converting a school bus into a sustainable mobile home, and a peculiar case of mummified monkeys found in a traveler's luggage.


Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 20 September 2024: A Tip For…Happy Hair


New Podcast Trailers - 19 September 2024: *That was quick - Pager Protocol is new today from Caloroga Shark Media: a "10-part espionage thriller podcast where outdated technology becomes the lynchpin in a plot that could reshape the Middle East." Cofounder John McDermott says the show "combines the speed of Al integration with heart-pounding suspense".


Audio Poem of the Day - 28 May 2024: Midnight by Toni Giselle Stuart


Christmas Stories - 6 December 2021: The Sad Shepherd - Henry van Dyke



Naked Scientists In Short - 15 September 2015: *Age related diseases associated with ‘biological age' - Early intervention is likely to be critical for preventing many age-related diseases; but detecting these diseases at a sufficiently early stage to make a difference is often problematic. Now this may be about to change, because scientists in the UK have identified a molecular signature present in our cells that corresponds to our biological age - in other words, how well "lived in" our bodies are. Joanna Kerr spoke with researcher James Timmons to hear how it works...


Womanica - 15 December 2020: Missouri T.B. Hanna


5 Good News Stories - 29 March 2024: *I missed World Nap Day! / A successful coral reef restoration project in Indonesia, demonstrating a full recovery within four years / A historical note found in Belgium revealing the harsh working conditions of 1940 and offering advice to future generations / Research at Chernobyl showing certain worms' resilience to radiation, contributing to cancer research / And a quirky story about a man in the UK who ordered a bacon roll with 51 slices of bacon, which was so large it was served in a donut box.


The Slowdown - episode 1035: 4 January 2024: Today's poem is The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy. [Thomas Hardy was a phenomenal author of all forms of literature.] 


The Daily Quiz Show - 2 September 2024: General Knowledge


Christmas Everyday - 11 December 2021: Barring Out of Schools - John Ashton



Question of the Week - 5 March 2018: *How does size affect death from falling? - Matt asked how big an animal or human has to be before a fall would kill it. Katie Haylor put this perilous pondering to physicist Stuart Higgins from Imperial College London...


Consider This - 18 September 2024: *Israel rigged pagers and radios to explode across Lebanon - Two unusual attacks against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah come at a time when negotlations over a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have stalled. What could this mean for the region, and the threat of an all-out war?


Radio Headspace - 4 Jan 2021: The Energy Behind our Intentions


Daily Christmas Stories - 6 December 2021: An Old-Time Christmas - Paul Laurence Dunbar


Daily Dad Joke - 22 September 2024: Hobbit Day!


Lord of Adders Black -  season 1 episode 1: 1 June 2024: *Best Fighting Trousers on, Chaps! - Lord of Adders Black: A Blackadder Podcast Episode 1: Best Fighting Trousers On, Chaps! / Welcome to the Lord of Adders Black fan podcast, where Michael and lan will be exploring the universe of cult sitcom Blackadder. / In this introductory episode, we'll be talking about our (cunning) plans for a Blackadder podcast - including regular features, special guests and a generous helping of audio clips from our favourite comedies. And, we hope, yours too. / Most of all, this first episode will be a nostalgic time capsule in which we rediscover the TV comedy we knew and loved as nauseating adolescents over ten thousand miles apart in Melbourne (Michael) and Dublin (lan) and walk a happy mile or two down the winding roads that led us to Blackadder. / Join us for what we are sure will be a fun-packed trip down memory lane - and maybe even an excuse to dust off that DVD box set (and DVD player!) and revisit the series in all its timeless glory.



Daily Shower Thoughts - 14 May 2024


7 Minutes For Yourself - 31 January 2024: Overcome Life's Hurdles: Learn How Strong Discipline Diminishes Fear


Wikipedia Featured Article of the Day - 8 January 2024: Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.


WV Uncommon Place - 19 September 2024: *The Middle - I discuss the Middle Class we never talk about


The Daily Business and Finance Show - 30 April 2024


Toppermost of the Poppermost - [first edit of forthcoming episode September 1964 side C]




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