The Pod Files - Sunday 1 June 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


BirdNote Daily - 25 July 2022: *BirdNoir: The One That Got Away - In this episode, the Private Eye tells his saddest story: his nemesis bird. That's what birders call a species that keeps giving you the slip. His nemesis is the Painted Bunting, a colorful gem of a bird. When word of the species being spotted nearby reaches the PI, he rushes off to see it, hoping to end his struggle to see the bird at last... / More info and transcript at BirdNote.org


7 Good Minutes - 9 May 2025: Unlock Your Potential: Harness Positive Visualization to Achieve Your Dreams!


The Joel Martin Mastery Podcast - episode 16: 10 February 2021: *20 Questions To A Better You - On today's episode of the Joel Martin Mastery podcast I share a questionnaire that I print every year that includes 20 questions to help you become a better you.


Science Quickly - 5 August 2014: *Spider's Scat Disguise May Be Its Salvation - Masquerading as a bird turd appears to protect certain arachnids from getting eaten by wasps. Karen Hopkin reports


Womanica - 4 March 2021: Madeline McWhinney Dale In


Rock n Roll Book and Documentary Reviews - episode 5: This is not a rock and roll book, this is not a rock and roll documentary, and this is not a rock and roll movie. But it's so rock and roll I just had to do a show on it.



7 Good Minutes - 9 May 2025: *Extra - Positive visualization unlocks your potential by


I’m sorry I Haven’t A Clue - old episode 


The Stupid History Minute - 29 May 2025: floss


The Daily Quiz Show - 2 January 2025: Geography 


MinuteEarth - 23 December 2024: *How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been? - To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life / "Big 5": The five biggest mass extinction events since the Cambrian explosion of Life 550 million years ago / Biodiversity Crisis: Like a mass extinction, a biodiversity crisis is a marked depletion in diversity in the fossil record. Some scientists prefer to call the late-Devonian extinction a "biodiversity crisis" because a lack of speciation contributed to the loss in diversity just as much as extinction did. / Diversity curve: A line chart that shows the diversity of life (usually by genera, but sometimes by species or family) over time Lagerstatte: a deposit of sedimentary rock that contains a profound number of fossils, often with excellent preservation Shareholder Quorum Subsampling: A statistical method that corrects for some of the biases in the fossil record, allowing scientists to generate more accurate diversity curves


TED Health - 30 November 2021: *Could you recover from illness... using your own stem cells? - What if diseases could be treated with a patient's own cells, precisely and on demand? / Biotech entrepreneur Nabiha Saklayen explains how we could harness advances in biology, machine learning and lasers to create personalized stem cell banks -- and develop medicine uniquely designed for each of our bodies.



Daily Shower Thoughts - 23 July 2024


The Slowdown - episode 1146: 24 June 2024: Today's poem is Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong.


Daily Life Pro Tips - 17 June 2024


5 Good News Stories - 18 November 2024: *Introduction and Gratitude / The End of a 31-Year Treasure Hunt / Record-Breaking Egg Drop / Ancient Seed Sprouts New Life / The Great Cheese Heist / Bizarre Wedding Reception


The Daily Business & Finance Show - 11 August 2023


Eastwood Reloaded - season 1 episode 3: 31 May 2025: *Play Misty For Me - What happens when the man who's always in control becomes the victim? Eight months before Dirty Harry made him an icon, Clint Eastwood took his biggest risk—directing himself in a psychological thriller that flipped his screen image completely. / Play Misty for Me was more than Eastwood's directorial debut—it was his declaration of independence from typecasting and audience expectations. As late-night radio DJ Dave Garver, Eastwood played vulnerability without sacrificing his essential toughness, creating a character who was competent in his professional life but utterly unprepared for the obsessed fan who wouldn't take no for an answer. / We explore how this small, personal film shot in Carmel established the themes that would drive Eastwood's entire directing career: the relationship between isolation and vulnerability, the way violence enters ordinary lives, and the understanding that control is always an illusion. Plus, Jessica Walter's genuinely terrifying performance as cinema's most disturbing stalker. / This is the film that proved Clint Eastwood was more than just a man with a gun—and the beginning of a directing career that would span five decades.



Composers Datebook - 31 May 2025: Peter Sellars and John Adams


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 31 May 2025: opportune


StarDate - 30 May 2025: Lost Moon


Daily Dad Jokes - 20 April 2025


BirdNote Daily - 26 July 2022: *Making Birding Spots More Accessible - Freya McGregor is the coordinator of Birdability, an organization that works to make birding more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. She says that one of the big challenges is that different parts of accessible design don't get connected — for example, when a paved trail for wheelchair users has info signs placed too from the trail to read. Designing parks with accessibility in mind from the parking lot and all along the trail can help make outdoor experiences for people with disabilities more self-directed and independent. Learn more about Birdability on the Bring Birds Back podcast.

More info and transcript at BirdNote.org


Toppermost of the Poppermost - forthcoming episode 


Literally! With Rob Lowe - Episode 53: 3 June 2021: *JB Smoove: Tilt Game - In which Rob and comedian/actor JB Smoove talk about JB's new podcast May I Elaborate? / Daily Wisdom From JB Smoove, then discuss Pop Tarts and Cheetos, New York sports, time travel, and how you can tell when Larry David is happy. Plus: Rob answers a question about centerfolds in the LoweDown Line.



Podnews Daily - 29 May 2025: *Acast has launched its first Al-powered tool (that's Acast Intelligence to you): Smart Recommendations, an Al-powered podcast ad planner. / In the UK, the BBC has announced a partnership with the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield, to run a weekend of free shows in early July. / We may have an end to Kast Media's bankruptcy proceedings, which we've been covering for over a year.


Wikipedia Featured Article of the Day - 25 March 2024: 1876 Scotland v Wales football match


Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - season 2 episode 130: 30 May 2025: A Tip For Learning From Books -  Arielle shares a fascinating dual tip about accessing free audiobooks through Spotify Premium and the surprising historical impact of tuberculosis. Through John Green's book 

"Everything is Tuberculosis," we learn how this disease influenced modern design, including the creation of Adirondack chairs.

Plus, discover why understanding tuberculosis's history will change how you see everyday objects.


Sounds Profitable - 29 May 2025: *Podcast Ads Addressing Demographics, Spotify Ups Discovery, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: Tom Webster talks about the lack of a gender gap in podcast advertising recall, Spotify adds new discovery features for podcasts, Nielsen has their new annual marketing report, Horizon Media is opening up a public RFP, and Netflix has teamed up with BBC Studios for a new comedy podcast hosted by Jimmy Carr.


New Podcasts - 27 May 2025: *Concealed with Art Simone - Concealed with Art Simone returns for a new season today - back on the case at her crime-solving best. Art welcomes a seemingly ordinary guest—until their secret life comes to light. She poses three revealing questions to uncover their hidden truth - and, once the secret is out, the guest shares all the juicy details about their secret persona, leaving listeners shocked—and eager for more.


SmartLess Presents ClueLess - episode 57: 29 May 2025: *Bizarro Movie Guide (w/Jeff Max) - On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean's good friend Jeff Max to flip through the pages of the Bizarro Movie Guide! A copy of the TV listings has fallen into Elliott's possession from an alternate universe where things are pretty opposite, can you make heads or tails of the titles in their Comedy Movies section, and translate them back into our world? Keep track of your answers, you'll need them to solve the MegaClue!




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