The Pod Files - Saturday 19 April 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

Sound Strategy - 31 March 2025: *An Introduction with

Lucas Dickey - Gist: DeepCast founder Lucas Dickey discusses the future of podcasting, emphasizing technological innovations, global content discovery, and the powerful intimate connections created between podcast hosts and their audiences along with co-hosts Faybeon Mickens & Allison Melody.

Daily Dad Jokes - 16 March 2025

The Stupid History Minute - 18 April 2025: Arm & Hammer Baking Soda

Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 19 April 2025: fastidious 

Composer’s Datebook - 19 April 2025: Anthony Braxton's operas

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue - Series 81 Episode 5: 10 Jun 2024: The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. On the panel are Fred MacAulay, Milton Jones, Pippa Evans and Rory Bremner with Jack Dee in the umpire's chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. / Producer - Jon Naismith. / A Random production for BBC Radio 4 

Sounds Profitable - 17 April 2025: *Podcast Ad Versatility, CTV Transparency Concerns, & More - Podcasting: The Most Versatile Medium / CTV Advertising Faces a Transparency.

Reckoning, Says Rain's Director Nyurenberg / Meghan Markle is on ShopMy. Is everyone next? 

StarDate - 18 April 2025: Lucy Encounter

The Stupid History Minute - 19 April 2025: Nature Valley Granola Bars 

Podnews - 18 April 2025: *Spotify's Maya Prohovnik: "you're going to be thrilled" - People are spending 44% more time looking at Spotify's app than last year. "The demand for podcast audiences for video is undeniable at this point," says Spotify's Maya Prohovnik in an exclusive interview with the Podnews Weekly Review today. / The Cut covers podcasts being made by tweens. Most shows mentioned in the piece are video only - on Cameo, Instagram, Tikok and YouTube. / Congratulations to Leo Laporte and all at, which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Apr 17. Originally called "Revenge of the Screen Savers", here's episode 1: "a 56kbps MP3Pro file weighing in at around 14MB". 

Daily Dad Jokes - 16 March 2025 [link to my chat with the creator of Daily Dad Jokes and more - Graeme Klass of Klassic Studios] 

Wiser Than Me - 3 April 2024: *Julia Gets Wise with Bonnie Raitt - Today on Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 74-year-old music legend and Grammy Award winner Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie talks to Julia about performing live, the experience of external vs. internal validation, and managing grief. Julia also gets Bonnie thinking about her songwriting in a whole new light. Crying, laughing, raging -- this episode has everything. Plus, Julia discusses the deep emotions tied to meeting your heroes with her 90-year-old mom, Judy.

Why Is Amy In The Bath? - Trailer: 25 January 2025: *Introducing: Why Is Amy In The Bath? - In 2021, two journalists started an investigation to answer what seemed like a simple question: Why does the actor Amy Adams do so many bathing scenes? From the beginning, we suspected a conspiracy - Is Amy, who has never won an Oscar, doing all these bathtub scenes because they offer the opportunity for the kind of dramatic acting that earns the biggest, goldest prizes? This is the story of how Brandon R. Reynolds and Gabby Lombardo opened the tap on the secret history of bathtubs in cinema. They could not imagine what would come bubbling up. / From Grab Bag Collab and Because It's True Productions, the 6-part series "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" looks at the deeper meaning of bathing across 1,500 films. We talk to the writers, actors, and set designers that bring bathing scenes to life onscreen, and the film wonks who will help us unpack the conspiracy. It takes us into some very weird places: wellness and Calgon commercials, hit thriller novels, consumer trends, sex in America, and the way nostalgia traps us in an endless now. Alternately a warm soak and a bracing blast of cold, "Why Is Amy in the Bath?" will leave us all a little cleaner in heart and mind.

7 Good Minutes - 5 April 2025: CONFIDENCE Hack: Wake Up Feeling LIKE A BOSS Every Morning!

A Daily Dose of History - 26 January 2024

5 Minute Mystery - 1 September 2024: *The Mystery of the Roanoke Colony Disappearance - In the first episode of 5 Minute Mysteries, we journey back to the late 16th century to explore one of the most enduring mysteries in American history—the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony. Known as the "Lost Colony," Roanoke was established as England's first permanent settlement in the New World, only to vanish without a trace, leaving behind cryptic clues and countless unanswered questions. Join us as we delve into the theories, from integration with local tribes to more sinister possibilities, and attempt to unravel the enigma of what truly happened to the Roanoke settlers.

7 Good Minutes - 5 April 2025: Extra - Waking up like a boss starts...

Rock n Roll Survivors - season 3 episode 10: 18 April 2025: *The Pleasure Seekers Come Alive and Make Music History in '65

The Slowdown - episode 1131: 3 June 2024: Today's poem is How It Will End by Denise Duhamel.

5 Minute History - season 3 episode 2: 28 April 2020: *The History of Boeing - In the second episode of season three of the 5 Minute History podcast, we take a brief look at the history of America's second-biggest exporter - Boeing.

Sounds Profitable - 18 April 2025: *IAB Upfront

September, Podcast - Advertising's Utility & More - Podcasters Caught in Copyright Crossfire. / The IAB Podcast Upfront Up and Moved / "Live" is thriving in television. 

5 Minute Biography - season 3 episode 3: 15 June 2017: *Waylon Jennings - In the third episode of the third season of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the life of music legend Waylon Jennings.

Daily Life Pro Tips - 2 June 2024 

Comicbook Nation -  season 7 episode 16: 18 April 2025: Kofi, Matt and Janell. Daredevil finale reactions. Fantastic 4 trailer. The return of the series The Last Of Us. Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo. Shawn Levy made Star Wars film has title, star and date. Darth Maul animated series. Other films still apparently happening. Discussion about the Ryan Coogler directed film Sinners. Issue one of the Superior Avengers comic series discussion. Issue one of Ultimate Wolverine comic series discussion. Absolute Flash issue 2 discussion. Wrestlemania 41. Cyberpunk 2077 board game.  Thunderfolk game. 

New Podcasts - 10 April 2025: *The Eisman Playbook - The economy is in the news right now - and The Eisman Playbook is a brand new show with insights, strategies, and perspectives from legendary investor Steve Eisman. Best known for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, Steve brings his sharp analysis and no-nonsense approach to dissecting the markets, global economy, and investment trends shaping the future.

5 Good News Stories - 14 October 2024: *Waylon the Labrador / CPR Training for Soccer Fans / Discovery of Ancient Roman Mosaic / The Return of Caleb the Goat / Beer Spill on Mississippi Highway

New Podcasts - 10 April 2025: *Bone Valley - Bone Valley, the critically acclaimed investigative podcast that exposed one of the most egregious wrongful convictions in recent history, returned for a new season this week. The new season takes the story in a chilling new direction—one that will leave listeners questioning everything they thought they knew about justice.

Daily Disability - 18 February 2025: *February 17: Rene Russo - Today we wish a happy birthday to bipolar American actress and model Rene Russo.

New Podcasts - 10 April 2025: *Voices in the River - How accurate are tarot card reading? In a special episode of Voices in the River, Anna Sale gets to review a tarot card reading prepared for her in 2024 - and to reflect on how her year transpired. "I've never made anything like it, and I'm really proud of it," says the podcast's producer, Theo Balcomb.

Naked Scientists In Short - 9 January 2012: *Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms - This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to Birmingham to find out how the James Bond film Casino Royale and orang-utan conservation are linked; later she meets a scientist from the British Geological Survey to learn which parts of the UK power grid are most at risk during solar storms.

New Podcasts - 10 April 2025: *The David Frum Show is "a new weekly video podcast from The Atlantic hosted by our longtime staff writer, David Frum", and is The Atlantic's first video podcast on YouTube. The first episode includes an interview with Rahm Emanuel about Trump's tariff chaos.

Science Quickly - 18 June 2014: *Plant Spores Hitch Long-Distance Feather Rides - Tiny spores from mosses, algae and lichens can stick in bird feathers, travel from the Arctic to the bottom of South America and grow into whole new specimens. Erika Beras reports

New Podcasts - 10 April 2025: *The Business Of - Podcasting has revolutionised brand marketing - but are you fully leveraging its potential? As the shift moved from traditional broadcast mediums to digital platforms, brands now have direct access to a highly engaged audience. Our Editor, James Cridland, joined the latest episode of The Business Of podcast, to share the strategies on how you can use podcasting to engage your audience on a personal level and grow your brand.

Question of the Week - 16 November 2020: *How many people could share my surname? - Beata asked "If three hundred years ago there was one person with a certain surname, how many people could have their surname today?" Eva Higginbotham got mathematician James Grime to crunch the numbers...

New Podcasts - 11 April 2025: *I Formed A Band - I Formed A Band collects the untold stories of famous musicians - from before they made it big. Hosted by Eddie Argos and Joe Sparrow, the latest episode focuses on Dunstan Bruce, singer from Chumbawamba, about the band's anarchic roots, the band's political activism, and the unexpected journey to their global hit, "Tubthumping." Hopefully we'll hear why he got knocked down, and then got up again, and why you'll never gonna keep him down.

The Harrowing of Minerva Damson - Season 2 Episode 1: 28 September 2022: *Episode Seven: Wolf Trap - Minerva Damson begins her search for the Beast of Gévaudan in Sanctauire à la Grotte, a French village close to the front. Her investigation leads her to an unassuming bookseller, who may have additional insight into the emergence of the Beast. But the thunder of war grows ever nearer, and time is not on Minnie's side...