The Pod Files - Friday 20 December 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)


Batman Unburied: Fallen City - episode 4: 26 November 2024: The Labyrinth 


The Rise of King Asilas - Episode 89: 10 November 2023: 1 Peter 2:8


New Podcasts - 16 December 2024: *Céline: Understood - From CBC, Understood is an anthology podcast that takes you out of the daily news cycle and inside the events, people, and cultural moments you want to know more about - from crypto, to the Prime Minister of India, to Céline Dion. CBC is currently accepting pitches for the show.


Composers Datebook - 18 December 2024: Quincy Jones and 'The Color Purple'


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 18 December 2024: qualm


StarDate - 17 December 2024: Moon and Mars


Audio Poem of the Day - 14 July 2024: Hood Aesthetic by Amy Alvarez


Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 18 December 2024: A Tip For Regulating your Apartment's Temperature - It's Guest Tip Wednesday! Welcome back to the podcast this month's guest tipper Edward Miskie! If you live in a building with steam / forced air heat, this tip could be for you!


Sounds Profitable - 17 December 2024: *Influencer Agencies Managing Talent, Podcast Listing Invoices, & More - Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: YouTube's opt-in Al training feature, Italian company sends spurious invoices for podcast listings, and influencer agencies are dipping their toes into talent management. / Here's something different: a podcast *campaign* to keep people home for the holidays! So many people are one crisis away from becoming unhoused, like Keoni Washington, a young boxer who lost his mom to COVID and had to provide for his brothers. / The podcast Sharing Stories gives a window into their lives and how one-time rental assistance helped them through a tough stretch. They're encouraging other podcasts (like yours!) to spread the word about rental assistance this season -- like by running a "PSA" in place of an ad. More info here! / Find links to every article mentioned and subscribe for the newsletter version at Sounds Profitable


Daily Dad Jokes - 2 December 2024


New Podcasts - 18 December 2024: *Practical Stoicism - Practical Stoicism has been acquired by Evergreen Podcasts. The podcast joined the Evergreen Podcasts slate this January; now the show is owned by Evergreen, and Tanner Campbell will be employed by Evergreen to host and produce the podcast.


Podnews Daily - 18 December 2024: *Tuneln tunes out: layoffs and outdated data - The company isn't updating new shows, and has undergone cuts / This is sponsored by Understood, from CBC. / From CBC, Understood goes deep on the current events, people, and cultural moments shaping society. Seasons span four episodes, hosted by journalists with an existing expertise on the story. Now accepting pitches. / Read today's update in full, and subscribe to our newsletter. Find more podcasts from Podnews. / Episode image: Tamim Arafat



Audio Poem of the Day - 15 July 2024: Oread by H.D. / Read by Alexandra Merritt Mathews


New Podcasts - 18 December 2024: *Say What You Mean with Aida Rodriguez - Say What You Mean with Aida Rodriguez has joined the fwd. network. The show explores the power of words—and the moments when people wish they had spoken up but were stifled by fear or uncertainty. Rodriguez is a writer and commentator.


The Stupid History Minute - 18 December 2024: It's the most wonderful time of the year


5 Good News Stories - 15 June 2024: *Lost Letters from WWI / Guinness World Record: Thumbtack Challenge / Bear in the Fridge / The Environmental Impact of Bison /A Teacher's Lasting Legacy / Conclusion and Subscription Info


New Podcasts - 19 December 2024: *The Moment - A new podcast focusing on Canadian business, The Moment, has been announced by Quill and Canadian Business. The new podcast series that brings listeners inside the pivotal moments that define the journeys of Canada's most innovative founders and entrepreneurs - and will be hosted by Fatima Zaidi and Jason Maghanoy. It starts next month.


The Slowdown - Episode 1066: 4 March 2024: Casual Labor by Sandy Solomon



Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 19 December 2024: A Tip For Creating the Career You Want - Today's tip is a mindset tip from Arielle about how to approach your future goals.


New Podcasts - 19 December 2024: *Seacoast Stories - The New Hampshire podcast Seacoast Stories now has a beer named after it. Loaded Question Brewing of Portsmouth NH has made an 6.8% West Coast IPA in collaboration with the podcast. We're told it's a clean IPA bursting with notes of orange, papaya and grapefruit, balanced with a touch of dankness and caramel, but we'll only really know if they send us some.


Question of the Week - 4 March 2019: Effect of ethanol on brain?


Womanica - 18 January 2021: Harriet Jacobs

 

New Podcasts - 19 December 2024: *Rolling With The Punches - How important are English football clubs to the communities they serve? Rolling With The Punches looks at Ipswich Town FC, a football club worth over 200 million pounds, suddenly back in the Premier League, and with owners keen to capitalise on the momentum built over the last three years.


Deleted Saves - 4 December 2024: *Bio-Sphere: a Retrospective Review of the Games of BioWare - On this episode, I delve into my time and history with some of BioWare's best known and most beloved titles, to see where I stand on them, and where I stand now having experienced them. Will they come out well and stand the test of time, and am I still a fan after all these years? Give this a listen to know more.



Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 20 December 2024: *A Tip For Using Up Your Airline Miles - It can take a lot of accrued airline points to earn a free flight. Today's tip from Ned is about you can do with smaller amounts of points.


Composers Datebook - 19 December 2024: Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms'


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 19 December 2024: requite


StarDate - 18 December 2024: Martian Evening


Audio Poem of the Day - 16 July 2024: Black Flowers by Norma Cole


Naked Scientists In Short - 9 March 2011: Carbon capture and storage, floods, CryoSat-2 - This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how carbon capture and storage works and why it's here to stay, the effect of floodplains on water pollution, and how exactly do you measure the thickness of polar ice from space? A pub isn't an obvious place for a discussion about taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in rocks deep underground, but the venue for this week's Planet Earth Podcast isn't any old pub. This pub is set into the sandstone rock in the centre of Nottingham and is the perfect place to demonstrate exactly how the technology works.



The Stupid History Minute - 19 December 2024: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree


Sounds Profitable - 18 December 2024: *IAB Solicits Podcast Best Practices, On Air Fest 2025 Grows, & More - Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: On Air Fest grows ever-larger for 2025, James Cridland examines Tuneln's layoffs and cost-cutting, the IAB collects examples of best practices in podcasting, AdExchanger talks tired trends of 2024 advertising, and principal-based media buying is growing more popular. / Here's something different: a podcast *campaign* to keep people home for the holidays! So many people are one crisis away from becoming unhoused, like Keoni Washington, a young boxer who lost his mom to COVID and had to provide for his brothers. / The podcast Sharing Stories gives a window into their lives and how one-time rental assistance helped them through a tough stretch. They're encouraging other podcasts (like yours!) to spread the word about rental assistance this season -- like by running a "PSA" in place of an ad. More info here! / For links to every article covered, catch the newsletter version of the episode here on Sounds Profitable.


Audio Poem of the Day - Episode 1,603: 17 July 2024: For the Taking by Sophie Cabot Black


Radio Headspace - 27 January 2021: Paralyzing Stress


Daily Dad Jokes - 1 December 2024


The Official Marvel Podcast - 18 December 2024: *A Holiday Extravaganza from The Official Marvel Podcast! - Welcome back to the show! This week we're joined by Marvel Comics President and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort to discuss an important piece of Marvel holiday art by Jack Kirby, we catch up with Valentina Allegra de Fontaine's journey to Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, and take a look back at the comic book history of Winter Soldier!



Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 20 December 2024: beatific


Composers Datebook - 20 December 2024: Harbison’s Great American Opera?


StarDate - 19 December 2024: Moon and Regulus


Podnews Daily - 19 December 2024: *Global size of the podcast market - The size of the podcast market has increased, according to new estimates / This is sponsored by Understood, from CBC. / From CBC, Understood goes deep on the current events, people, and cultural moments shaping society. Seasons span four episodes, hosted by journalists with an existing expertise on the story. Now accepting pitches. / Read today's update in full, and subscribe to our newsletter. Find more podcasts from Podnews. / Episode image: Aaron Lefler


The Stupid History Minute - 20 December 2024: Jingle Bell Rock 


Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware - 13 September 2024: *Grace Sands - Today's exciting episode of Electronically Yours features DJ, producer and label head Grace Sands. Grace brings a queer take on deep house from her DIY Sound System roots, free parties and worldwide travels in the partnership Digs & Woosh. Since 1991, they helped to define the deep house sound, the same year the collective made friends with Jose Padilla in Ibiza successfully playing Amnesia, Pacha, Space Terrace & Eden. Digs & Woosh were two of 'only a few people who could actually play the Cafe Del Mar sunset'. / Ladies and gentlemen, meet the utterly unique Grace Sands...



5 Good News Stories 2024 - 17 June 2024: *Tom's Lifetime Companion Pass with United Airlines / The Benefits and Perks of Tom's Pass / Tom's Celebrity Encounters and Milestones / The Cognitive Benefits of Reading / Kamata Ranch Land Easement / 

03:53 Puxatawney Phil's Growing Family / Drumheller's Dinosaur Costume Record Attempt / Conclusion and How to Support the Show


7 Good Minutes - 13 December 2024: The Joy of Mindful Walking


Sounds Profitable - 19 December 2024: *Preserving Spoken Word, Canadian Podcasting Charts, & More - For the final Download daily upload of 2024, here's what you need to know: Tom Webster talks the most important thing podcasting should talk about next year, more brands are using influencer creative in programmatic ads, Right Side Up has predictions for next year, a look back at this year's big ticket podcast deals, and Triton Digital's Canadian podcast ranker. / Find links to every article mentioned today at Sounds Profitable.


Radio Headspace - 28 January 2021:,Meditation Can Be Done Anywhere


Daily Dad Jokes - 3 December 2024


Feedback with Earbuds - 14 March 2021: presented by Arielle Nissenblatt. The theme is ‘Inside The Creative Musical Mind’, with podcasts chosen by Dana Roger from The Pitch List podcast. Their show choices are Switched On Pop, Song Chronicles with Louise Goffin, Dolly Parton’s America, Pitch List. C and Tiny Desk. The spotlight pick is Shortwave. Following this, Arielle has a chat with Jay Connor. 


7 Good Minutes - 13 December 2024: Extra - In the quiet rhythm of mindful walking...


5 Good News Stories - 19 June 2024: *The case of the Too Spicy Ramen Noodles - In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five entertaining stories: a potential monkey sighting in Illinois, a world record for moving water by hand, 23 sets of twins graduating from a Massachusetts middle school, an 85-year-old DJ rocking Warsaw, and a recall of overly spicy South Korean ramen noodles in Denmark. Tune in for a mix of humorous and interesting news highlights.


Womanica - 19 January 2021: Harper Lee


Daily Dad Jokes - 4 December 2024: National Dice Day! 


5 Good News Stories - 21 June 2024: *Introduction: Is a Taco a Sandwich? / Snake on a Train: Japan's Commuter Chaos / Cockatiel Rescue: Firefighters to the Rescue / Messi the TSA Dog Retires / Historic Weathervane Returns to Vermont / Judge Rules: Tacos are (SPOILER)


Season's Eatings - 25 November 2024: *Cozonac - This holiday treat is usually enjoyed during Easter and other celebrations, but it is common for the Christmas season. When baked, it resembles a lovely head of braided hair. The most common filings are walnuts, but you can find now with almost any type of filling and flavour. We're exploring the history and origins of cozonac. / Website: https://www.seasonseatingspodcast.com / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seasonseatingspodcast 



The Stupid History Minute - 20 January 2024: The Can Opener 


Everything Everywhere Daily - 22 December 2020: Episode 169: *Why is Christmas on December 25? - Every year, people around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25. In many countries, it is the biggest single holiday of the year. Why is it celebrated on December 25? Is there any historical basis for this date and if not, then why do we celebrate it on this date? Learn more about why we celebrate Christmas when we do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


Christmas Stories - 6 December 2021: A Letter From Santa Claus


Short Wave - 22 October 2019: *Finally, An All-Female Spacewalk - NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first all-female spacewalk last week. The historic moment came 35 years after Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to spacewalk. We hear from Koch, Meir, and Sullivan. And former NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan tells us why she says this moment is long overdue. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia.

Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.


Merry Christmas: Daily Christmas Stories - 18 December 2024: *Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Church


Beyond+ - 15 October 2024: Episode 3: *Ashley Rose Murphy, Ordinary Can Be Extraordinary - In this episode, Eric talks to Ashley Rose Murphy a young woman living with HIV in Canada. Most people who meet Ashley Rose today would be surprised to learn that only a few years ago she was one of the most prominent HIV activists in Canada. She shares about her journey to activism and why she has stepped back from public speaking to reclaim an ordinary life and build a future on her own terms.



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