The Pod Files - Friday 8 August 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 - 7 August 2025: Mendelssohn gets wet and wild


Limelight - 8 August 2025: Central Intelligence: Series 2 Episode 8 - The story of the CIA, told from the inside out by veteran agent Eloise Page. Starring Kim Cattrall, Ed Harris and Johnny Flynn. In Episode 8... A young President takes office, but the shadows of the Cold War are closing in. John F. Kennedy inherits a covert CIA plot to remove Fidel Castro-an operation born under Eisenhower and fuelled by anti-communist zeal. Pressured to act but desperate to avoid open war, Kennedy green-lights a quiet invasion. / What follows is a catastrophic failure on Cuban shores: the Bay of Pigs. In his first major test, Kennedy is pulled into the deep end of Cold War deception-and blood is already in the water.


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 7 August 2025: adjudicate


Rock 'n' Roll Survivors Podcast - season 3 episode 25: 8 August 2025: Full Circle for the Pleasure Seekers


StarDate - 6 August 2025: Summer Triangle


Station 151 - 6 December 2022: Season 1 Episode 2: *Orientation - Having barely survived his journey to Antarctica, Astrophysicist Wayne Robertson is awakened by a strange and unexpected voice in his ear. Wayne struggles through his first day at Station 151, learning that the job he signed up for is very different, and far more dangerous, than he expected.



Composers Datebook - 8 August 2025: Chaminade in America


7 Good Minutes - 27 June 2025: Transform Your Fear of Change Into Your Greatest Strength


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 8 August 2025: winsome


Daily Dad Jokes - 1 June 2025


7 Good Minutes - 27 June 2025: Extra - The river that resists the rocks becomes...


TED Health - 3 May 2022: What's your happiness score? | Dominic Price



StarDate - 7 August 2025: Altair


New Podcasts - 29 July 2025: *The Life Bench - The Life Bench is a new podcast dedicated to a friendship, designed for honest conversations. As teenagers, the host Jake Terry and his best friend would sit for hours on a bench in our village—talking about life, dreams, struggles, and everything in between. They called it The Life Bench. In 2022, his friend passed away from cancer, and Jake tells us that this podcast is for him. Jake's vision is for The Life Bench to become a symbol — a space for reflection, connection, and the kind of conversations that matter. [with what’s going on in my life at the moment, this made for difficult listening.] 


The Stupid History Minute - 6 August 2025: Staley Da Bear 


Daily Dad Jokes - 2 June 2025


Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - Season 2 Episode 191: 7 August 2025: A Tip For More Considerate Decision Making


Get Flushed - Episode 29: 28 November 2020: *Sanitrax - Pete talks with Dave Andres, the then Business Development Manager for Sanitrax in North America. Dave talks about his experience with Sanitrax and the benefits that operators see when they adopt the system.



BirdNote Daily - 7 December 2022: Wing-clapping


Sounds Profitable - 6 August 2025:*From Social Proof to Parasocial Proof: How Podcasts Provide the Scaffolding for Social Campaigns


Science Quickly - 30 September 2014: Sea Garbage Shows Ocean Boundaries


MinuteEarth - 29 January 2025: Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?


Podnews Daily - 6 August 2025: *Apple's "Best So Far" podcasts: in every country


Seaside Pod Review - episode 56: 23 November 2023: intro. Randy has a story to tell. “It’s not a classic anecdote!” probably a silly thing, but I’m listening to this because my mum loves Queen, and it’s a family love of the band for the most part. At this time I’m thinking it might help, although it might still make me sad, because everything seems to be doing at the moment. Can you train a cat? Only work in places that have Prince in their name. Volleyball talk. Kev has been bowling. After this they look listener feedback for the previous episode, where they had looked at the song Stone Cold Crazy. After this they go to the randomly chosen song for this episode, Jesus, the Freddie Mercury written song from the self titled debut album. They give us a quick introduction of the Zoroastrian religion, which Freddie’s parents were. Discussing the pictures of young Queen on the “video they’re watching of the song. Randy drooling over guitars. 


New Podcasts - 3 August 2025: *Simple and Clean: A Kingdom Hearts Podcast - Simple and Clean: A Kingdom Hearts Podcast, a brand-new original series from Multitude launches today. Join hosts Mischa Stanton and Mayanna Berrin (and friends) to talk about Kingdom Hearts, a little video game franchise about really big feelings. They attempt to unravel how this deceptively expansive game series has touched an entire generation of deeply earnest weirdos - and along the way, you may realize that what they're talking about might not be just a video game, but a whole lot more. Never heard of Kingdom Hearts? That's okay! They here to break it down for you, explain why they love it, and hopefully to convince you that this weird little story deserves a place in your heart. Join Mischa and Mayanna as they we discuss the plot, characters, world building, music, fashion, fanbase, and societal impact of a thing that by all means, probably shouldn't even exist. New episodes every Sunday!


The Slowdown - episode 1176: 5 August 2024: Today's poem is Fowl at Large by Sarah Giragosian.


The Stupid History Minute - 8 August 2025: Otto the Orange 


Holidays After Dark - season 4 episode 87: 29 July 2025: Christmas in July 2025: Haunted Holidays - In this episode, Holidays After Dark explores the Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories during Christmas time and uncovers how books like A Christmas Carol helped the practice seep into popular culture all throughout the world.




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