The Pod Files - Friday 8 November 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) 


Limelight : Central Intelligence - Episode 9: 8 November 2024: *In Episode 9, when news starts to trickle through that the coup in Iran has failed, the ClA's man on the ground, Kim Roosevelt (Rob Benedict), goes rogue to try to turn things around.


Beatles Books - 18 October 2024: *Yvonne Innes ‘Dip My Brain In Joy' - I'm joined for this bonus, mini episode by Yvonne Innes to discuss her biography of her husband, Neil Innes. / In my view, Neil was one of the largest contributors to British culture of the last 50 years, and is beloved to all Beatle fans as co creator of The Rutles. Yvonne's book is full of humour and love and tells her husband's remarkable life story with all the insight you'd expect.


Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 7 November 2024: dedication


Composer’s Datebook - 7 November 2024: Stravinsky in C Major


StarDate - 6 November 2024: Keeping It Going


The Icarus Complex - Season 1 Episode 11: 29 October 2024: Chapter 11 ‘Bootylicious, Booze and Brawls' - Season One Finale



Daily Dad Jokes - 31 October 2024 


7 Good Minutes - 2 November 2024: Embracing Change with a Positive Attitude


The Stupid History Minute - 7 November 2024: San Diego


Podnews - 7 November 2024: *Podcast ads are "too difficult to buy" - And new FTC rules / This is sponsored by CoHost. Looking for better podcast insights? CoHost has you covered with insights into download sources, audience demographics, listener behavior, and more. Sign up today for a free trial. / Read today's update in full, and subscribe to our newsletter. Find more podcasts from Podnews. / Episode image: James Cridland


7 Good Minutes - 2 November 2024: Extra - A positive attitude is...


The Slowdown - episode 1051: 29 January 2024: Today's poem is Venus's Flytraps by Yusef Komunyakaa.



Daily Dad Jokes - 31 October 2024: Halloween 


7 Good Minutes - 3 November • 7 min left

Reflective Sunday: The Role of Mindfulness in Personal Growth


The Stupid History Minute - 8 November 2024: Tampa


Sounds Profitable - 7 November 2024: *Asking Tough Brand Safety Qs, Defining Creator vs. Influencer, & More - Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: the ad industry redefines influencing, big questions in brand safety, and The Podscape opens submissions. / Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.


7 Good Minutes - 3 November 2024: *Extra - Mindfulness 


The Rise of King Asilas - 10 February 2023 • S6 E82 • 24 min left • B Episode 82: All is Fair in Love and Turmoil



Composers Datebook - 8 November 2024: Stomping with David Schiff


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day- 8 November 2024: feign


StarDate - 7 November 2024: The Big Freeze


Womanica - 22 April 2024: Barbara Newhall Follett


Daily Facts - 31 March 2024


Toppermost - final edit for October 1964 side D 



New Podcast Trailers - 6 November 2024: *Hidden Mentality is hosted by Rishi Kurada, a college student at NYU, navigating the uncertainty of figuring out what to do in life, with a focus on self-development. The podcast has a new trailer, and delves into the essential life lessons that aren't often taught in the classroom.


5 Good News Stories - 3 May 2024: *Highlights include Mike, the alligator trapper, capturing an eight-foot alligator barefoot and showcasing it to a cheering crowd. The script humorously touches on 'savage seagulls' in Britain, forming gangs and causing chaos, with characters like Bugsy Seagull and Steven Seagull. Another story involves a Nigerian chess champion, Tunde, who broke the world record for the longest chess marathon by playing for 60 hours in Times Square, raising $22,000 in the process. Additionally, an infamous 'rat hole' in a Chicago sidewalk, which became a local spectacle, was removed, illustrating community and government response to viral social media. / The episode also discusses a peculiar incident where over 50,000 bees were found in a toddler's bedroom wall, turning a nightmare into a real-life 'monster' scenario. / Johnny Mac addresses a negative review about the ad ratio on his podcast.


New Podcast Trailers - 7 November 2024: *The Road to Joni reaches its season finale today, on Joni Mitchell's 81st birthday. The series has included interviews with artists and some non-musicians about their own roads to Joni Mitchell, where that road has led them, and how they see Joni's artistic road as an influence on music and culture as we know it today. Host Carmel Holt has been driving a branded Rivian R1S, the show's sponsors, on a cross-country road trip.


Grammar Girl - 17 September 2015: *Amused or Bemused. Being Bilingual. Positive Anymore - Bilingual: http://bit.ly/1K09Lf2 / Positive 'Anymore': http://bit.ly/1W4tWHe


New Podcast Trailers - 8 November 2024: *Game Changers is new from the UK's National Lottery, and will feature the stories of ordinary people who do extraordinary things with the help of National Lottery funding over the last 30 years with some special guest appearances. It's hosted by Olympian and broadcaster Aimee Fuller.


The Puzzler - 14 October 2024: "Adam Ruins Aphorisms" wI Adam Conover 



Audio Poem of the Day - 24 June 2024: Doxorubicin: Infusion by Laura Paul Watson


Naked Scientists In Short - 18 January 2016: *New Leukaemia Therapy - Leukaemia is a cancer of the white blood cells that normally fight infection. About one person in every 200 will develop the disease, a common form of which is called AML, or acute myeloid leukemia. At the moment it tends to have a relatively poor prognosis and over the past 40 years there have been relatively few new treatments for the disease. / A bone marrow transplant is often the only chance an individual has. But this week an international team of scientists led by researchers in the UK announced the discovery of a new way to control the disease by blocking the signals that drive the growth..


7 Minutes For Yourself - 15 February 2024: Redefining Victory: Why Accepting Defeat is Essential for Winners


The Daily Quiz Show - 22 September 2024: Science and Nature 


Question of the Week - 29 October 2018: *How do wombats produce cube-shaped poo? - Poo comes in many shapes and sizes. We are used to seeing it on the street or accidentally stepping in different forms including tubes from dogs, pellets from rabbits or big splats from cows, but I have never come across cubic poo. Tamsin Bell asked Dr Louise Gentle from Nottingham trent University to help us out with this stinker. 


The Gerry Anderson Podcast - intro. A numb bum episode. News. Interview - Richard Chatsworth the cartoonist Nigel Parkinson. Listener feedback. Randomiser - Space Precinct episode Takeover. Maryam D’abo. Clive Merrison. Dolby surround sound. Outro. Post show banter. Discussion about background characters in prosthetics and the grumble factor.  




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Pod Files - Monday 26 May 2025

Image
  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 Monsters Sharks and Dinosaurs - 25 May 2025: *Bizarro - Imagine this: You're walking down a Metropolis street when the ground trembles beneath your feet. People point skyward, initially with hope - assuming Superman has arrived to save the day from whatever danger approaches. But their expressions quickly shift to confusion, then horror. / The figure descending from the clouds resembles Superman, but something is terribly wrong. His face is chalky white and cracked like dried mud. His costume is a backward, disheveled version of the iconic suit, the S-shield reversed and distorted. His movements are jerky and unpredictable, like a marionette with tangled strings. / This isn't the Man of Steel - it's his twisted doppelgänger, Bizarro. / "Me am Bizarro! Me here to save day by destroying everything!" he announces in...
Read more

A Passage of Time

Image
  Sunday August 10th 2025 -  I got in from the Saturday night shift at twenty past five, and drifted to sleep a little after six in the morning.  A minute or so after ten in the morning, I woke up for the toilet and looked at my phone. I noticed that I had missed phone calls and messages from my aunties Carol and Ann, as well as a fairly recent message from my younger brother James. They were all asking me to contact them.  I had a feeling that I knew what it was, but I didn’t want to believe it. I messaged my younger brother James, who then rang to tell me that Mum had passed away sometime around 7:30 in the morning.  I messaged someone at work about it, who let a Director know. I misunderstood a message telling me to talk to Wayne in the office on the Monday morning, so got ready for work at the usual time, and showed up at the office at 4:40pm for the five o’clock start, to find that Andy had come in to cover for me, and was told that I was also covered for t...
Read more

The Pod Files - Friday 26 September 2025

Image
  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 Rock n Roll Survivors - season 3 episode 30:  12 September 2025:  Making Waves in  Miami [ that guy who wrote the article was a bit creepy with the things that he said.]  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 24 September 2025: brandish Composers Datebook - 24 September 2025: Pendercki's Symphony No. 6 How to Make Money - 25 September 2025: The Rise of Remote Work and Digital Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Income Opportunities in the New Economy [another Inception Point AI show, and another that is so obviously AI created, with sound glitches, stammering, and occasional non-secateurs.]  BirdNote Daily - 9 Mar 2023: *The Delightfully Odd Magellanic Plover -  The Magellanic Plover is known for being a bit of an oddball. These shorebirds have a round body like a dove and even feed their young with milk produc...
Read more