The Pod Files - Saturday 31 May 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

Eastwood Reloaded - season 1 episode 2: 27 May 2025: *A Fistful Of Dollars - Before Dirty Harry, before the Oscar wins, before he became a Hollywood institution, there was a broke TV actor who took a job in Spain for $15,000. It shouldn't have worked. / Instead, it created the most famous cowboy in the world. / We travel back to 1964 and the unlikely collaboration between Clint Eastwood and 24-year-old Italian director Sergio Leone that revolutionized the Western genre. A Fistful of Dollars wasn't just a movie-it was cinema's first postmodern Western, a film that understood American mythology better than Americans did. / From the iconic poncho to Ennio Morricone's haunting score, we explore how Leone and Eastwood created the Man with No Name—a character who was both completely amoral and utterly compelling, who stripped away everything heroic about Western heroes and left only competence and survival instinct. / This is the story of how a European vision of the American West created a new kind of movie star and changed cinema forever.


Disability Daily Podcast - Episode 87: 27 March 2025: *March 27: Alice Wong, Elsie MacGill & Tashiro Furukawa - Today we celebrate Alice Wong, American disability activist; Canadian polio survivor & engineer Elsie MacGill; & Tashiro Furukawa, Japanese teacher of the deaf & blind.


Composers Datebook - 30 May 2025: Britten's 'War Requiem'


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 30 May 2025: gust


Disability Daily Podcast - Episode 88: 29 March 2025: *March 28: Chelsie Hill - Today we celebrate paraplegic professional wheelchair dancer Chelsie Hill.


The Harrowing of Minerva Damson - 7 August 2023: *Long Shot - The adventure continues. Gabby and Zdravko have escaped the cockatrice with their lives, but their tribulations are far from over. Gabby plots how best to confront the monster next even as everything seems to be working against her, even Zdravko...



StarDate - 29 May 2025: Messier 13


Disability Daily Podcast - Episode 89 29 March 2025: *March 29: Elsie Stecker, Lee Kitchens & Niels Bank-Mikkelsen - Today we celebrate White House Certified Deaf Interpreter Elsie Stecker; Little People of America president Lee Kitchens, & champion of folks with intellectual disabilities, Niels Bank-Mikkelsen!


BirdNote Daily - 24 July 2022: *Playful Keas - Keas are large alpine parrots from New Zealand. Intelligent and social, they have olive-green plumage, a red rump, and a long, curved beak. Keas produce a distinct warbling call, a "play call," that sounds — and functions - much like a human's contagious laughter. / Scientists made recordings of captive Keas making warbling calls, then played them for wild Keas. They began playing harder and even engaged birds that hadn't been playing. / Hearing it seemed to put them in a playful mood, even when they were alone. / More info and transcript at BirdNote.org


Disability Daily Podcast - Episode 90: 30 March 2025: *March 30: Marlee Matlin's Oscar win, Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya & Clifford Beers - Today we celebrate Deaf actor Marlee Matlin's Oscar win, disabled artists Vincent van Gogh & Francisco Goya, and mental health advocate Clifford Beers.



Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - season 2 episode 129: 29 May 2025: *A Tip For Supporting the Arts - Want to experience theater in a unique way while helping artists create something new? / Learn about attending play readings and developmental performances - an affordable way to see fresh works before they hit the main stage. Not only will you get to be part of the creative process, but you'll often have the chance to share feedback directly with the playwright and creative team.


Comicbook Nation - 30 May 2025: Kofi, Janell, and Matt. Starts with a discussion about the season finale for season two of the last of us, which may include spoilers. Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Wars have moved from May to December 2026 and 2027 respectively. Are the Marvel films not taking what they want them to? Smiling Kofi frozen. More chat about the forthcoming Superman film. Absolute Wonder Woman issue 8. Ultimate Spider-Man issue 17. Absolute Martian Manhunter issue 3. Matt quickly shouts out other comics. Kofi saw the film Bring Her Back. Kofi saw Lilo And Stitch. “Marvel Rivals season two point five!” Disney Lorcana Reign of Jafar game. 




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