The Pod Files - Monday 27 January 2025

 

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)

Composers Datebook - 27 January 2025: Rorem’s concerto for the English Horn

The Icarus Complex - Season 2 Episode 14: 3 January 2025: Chapter 25 The One with Isabella - Season Two Finale

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 27 January 2025: edify 

StarDate - 26 January 2025: NGC 1502

7 Good Minutes - 22 January 2025: Wellbeing Wednesday: Strategies for Emotional Resilience

SmartLess -6 January 2025: “this is not going to be a cold open, it’s going to be a hot open!” “Welcome to SmartLess.” Chat opening between Jason, Will and Sean. Dinner and Sunday night football with Will’s boys, and movie night. People spitting in public. “Something new in the SmartLess world!” After this catch up chat they are joined by Sean’s surprise guest film, television and general media producer Jason Blum. 

New Podcasts - 21 January 2025: *Our New South returns for a new season today, highlighting the stories, communities and challenges shaping the region, diving into censorship and healthcare, tourism and religion, struggles for rights and resources, and the global reverberations of New South culture.

Podnews Daily - 27 January 2025: *The best podcast hosting company is… - Five make a list from TechRadar / This is sponsored by Central Talent Booking. / Transform Your Podcast Guest Lineup - Central Talent Booking delivers top-tier guests-celebrities, influencers, thought leaders, and compelling experts-to elevate your podcast. Discover more. / Read today's update in full, and subscribe to our newsletter. Find more podcasts from Podnews. / Episode image: Johannes Plenio

7 Good Minutes - 22 January 2025: Extra - Emotional resilience isn't...

New Podcasts - 22 January 2025: *SystemShift - Greenpeace International is launching the third season of the SystemShift podcast today, in partnership with Crowd Network. / SystemShift was created to expose diverse social and economic issues and their link to the climate crisis. Season three will explore how to achieve an economy that works for people and the planet while exploring practical solutions to societal and environmental challenges that can drive systemic change.

New Podcasts - 22 January 2025: *Welcome to MAGAland: Inside Trump's Second 100 Days - The Daily Mail has launched its first US podcast - Welcome to MAGAland: Inside Trump's Second 100 Days. The show is hosted by the Mail's DC Editor, Kelly Laco and NY-based Chief US Reporter, Germania Rodriguez, and promises the gossip; the scandals; the fashion; the family; the accusations; and - of course - the biggest political news stories of the day.

SmartLess Presents ClueLess - 27 January 2025: *Word Workout (w/ Scotty Icenogle) - On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean's husband Scotty Icenogle to take a few reps at Word Workout - each of the words we give you wants to slim down by one letter, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to answer the given clue. Keep track of all discarded letters to defeat the MegaClue! / New episodes every Monday and Thursday. / Puzzles in this episode are by Josh Richmond and Kevin Leman.Script by Elliott Kalan. / Music and sound effects by Devon Torrey Bryant.

New Podcasts - 22 January 2025: *The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson is new from Premiere Networks and iHeartMedia this week. We're promised "unfiltered insights, exclusive interviews, and honest commentary you won't get from the mainstream media", according to the press release. For the record, HeartMedia reaches 9 out of 10 Americans every month with a greater reach than any other US media company: the literal definition of mainstream media.

New Podcasts - 22 January 2025: The subject of LEONARD: Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier, has had his sentence commuted to home confinement. It was one of the last actions of outgoing President Joe Biden. America's longest serving Indigenous political prisoner, he will return to Turtle Mountain Reservation, where he was born,

New Podcasts - 22 January 2025: Making sense of sustainable farming is new from Tortoise in the UK. After a winter of discussion about farming, the series explores how we feed Britain while safeguarding the environment and creating a financially viable future for farmers.

New Podcasts - 24 January 2025: New this week from LAist Studios - LA Made: The Other Moonshot tells the story of three Black aerospace engineers who worked on the Apollo mission in L.A. in the 1960s - despite barely being allowed in the room. It's hosted by Joanne Higgins, whose grandfather was among the group.

New Podcasts - 24 January 2025: Popular movie podcast Unspooled has signed with the Realm podcast network. The show was with Earwolf; and achieves over 12mn monthly downloads.

Phase Hero - 7 January 2025: *Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is finally arriving, meaning it's time to talk with Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. about their returns to the heist world! BD talks with the cast, as well as director Christian Gudegast and producer Tucker Tooley! Den of Thieves might be on its way to making Butler's Nick and Jackson Jr.'s Donnie into characters a franchise can build around. The movie flips the script and forces their characters to work together this time, rather than having them feuding and running from one another as they were throughout the first Den of Thieves movie! This episode of Phase Hero was recorded at the Porsche HQ in Los Angeles!

New Podcasts - 24 January 2025: *From the Airwave Podcast Network: History Tea Time is a history podcast from Lindsay Holiday that spills the tea on history. This weekly show has just released an episode on Louis XIV's Illegitimate Children.

Daily Dad Jokes - 18 January 2025 

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 27 January 2025: *A Tip For Making Spiciness Easier - Sometimes you want to add fresh jalapeño to your dish but you don't have the means. This tip, from a Tippendale who doesn't know they're a Tippendale, will solve the issue.

7 Minutes For Yourself - 23 March 2024: Strategies for Reaching Beyond Your Comfort Zone

The Stupid History Minute - 27 January 2025: The Stupid History of Socks as told by Simon from the podcast Who takes the Socks off? / Please check out his podcast here: https://go.goodpods.com/3K1VfM

The Gerry Anderson PODCAST - pod 346: 27 January 2025: intro. Chat. “Happy birthday Mummy A.” Happy birthday to Richard for Wednesday January 29th. Listener feedback. News. Interview - Richard chats with assistant coordinator for Space Precinct, Sharon Mansfield, who was also previously a script supervisor. Listener feedback. Randomiser - they watch Supercar episode Grounded. Outro. Post show banter. What is Richard doing for his birthday?

On the way home on the two trains and one bus that I use, I listened to some good and not so good songs as research for Toppermost of the Poppermost…