The Pod Files - Friday 17 October 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

Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 15 October 2025: *The October Records Episode) 15: The Detective - Detective Ryan Morrison hasn't slept for forty-eight hours because when he closes his eyes he becomes someone else, looking out through drowned eyes-his investigation reveals he's not a descendant but the same detective dying and being reborn every fifty years, investigating his own murder. Margaret finds him fragmented into multiple versions of himself in his office, each investigating different timelines, as he demonstrates his condition by shooting himself repeatedly while new versions remain standing. The Morrisons aren't a family but iterations of the same person, and they've discovered the Pattern's origin: in 1774, a pregnant Blackwood woman was murdered by hunger given form, bursting into thirty infants who became Millbrook's founding families. The most horrifying revelation comes when all versions of Ryan die simultaneously to reveal the truth-Margaret isn't just a Blackwood descendant but IS Sarah Blackwood, the original murdered woman, investigating her own death that created the Pattern 251 years ago and will happen again in sixteen days.

Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 17 October 2025: kibosh [it sounds like this was recorded using the built-in laptop microphone as opposed to the usual microphone, because the voice sounds distant. I know that it isn’t correct because the show music came was the same level as usual.] 

StarDate - 16 October 2025: Xi Persei

Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - 14 October 2025: Michael chats with the actress Emily Deschanel. Daughter of a cinematographer and an actress. Her sister is the actress and singer Zooey Deschanel. Emily is Dyslexic with ADHD. 

The Stupid History Minute - 17 October 2025: Harold Shipman 

Bob Dylan: Album By Album - season 8 episode 7: 9 May 2023: starts with Ben apologising for the episode being late, since his son (Isaac) was born that week. This is the third part of Ben’s look at the album, bringing it all back home. The song Outlaw Blues, which fits with Bob’s own thing of playing an outlaw. Nod to Sonny BOY Williamson’s song Nine Below Zero, among many others. Outtake song California mentioned that shares some lyrics with this. First recorded on January 13th 1965 in Columbia studio A. Another song not included was I’ll Keep It with Mine, which Judy Collins released a version of in 1965. He tried to record himself multiple times over a few years, but never got a version to make it onto an album. More songs from the same sessions mentioned. Trouble with the song Back Onto the Road Again. Finally got it on take twelve. It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleeding. Mr Tambourine Man proved problematic as well. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue in one take. If You Gotta Go Go Now fried and failed. Tries to re-record it with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (minus Eric Clapton) it at Levy’s Recording Studio in London, which didn’t work. Two other takes tried and failed. 

BirdNote Daily - 17 April 2023: *Great-tailed Grackle - Great-tailed Grackles live up to their name. / The glossy black males trail their long, V-shaped tails behind them as they fly, almost like a plane towing a banner ad. And while not quite as flashy, the brown-feathered females have impressively long tails, too. Also known as the Mexican Grackle, this species lives in all sorts of habitats from the northern coasts of South America to the western U.S. Their ability to live in both cities and farmland has helped Great-tailed Grackles expand as far north as lowa.

7 Good Minutes - 11 August 2025: Find Your Purpose Before You Take Action

New Podcasts - 14 October 2025: *Darren Palmer's Almost Home - Darren Palmer's Almost Home is brand new from MIK MADE this month - featuring one of Australia's most renowned and influential interior designers. You missed Myf Warhurst last week, but the show's guests today for the second episode are Tiktok darlings, the Aussie design team Josh & Matt. It's available in both audio and video.

Podnews Daily - 15 October 2025: *Spotify-owned podcasts to be on Netflix - And they're coming off YouTube. 

7 Good Minutes - 11 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The most powerful step you...

Add to Playlist - 25 March 2022: *Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Joe Stilgoe round off the latest playlist - Vocalist, cellist and composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson, and pianist and performer Joe Stilgoe, help Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye complete the series. / A feminist anthem and a heart-warming classic rub up against some very high bpm as they round off this playlist of 40 tracks. / Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye / Producer Jerome Weatherald / The five tracks in this week's playlist: ‘I'm a Woman’ by Koko Taylor, ‘9 to 5’ by Dolly Parton, ‘The Typewriter’ by Leroy Anderson, ‘Original Nuttah’ by UK Apache and Shy FX, and ‘God Only Knows’ by The Beach Boys. 

MinuteEarth - 13 March 2025: A Disease's Guide to World Domination

7 Minutes For Yourself - 8 May 2024: From procrastinator to powerhouse: The ultimate guide to guilt-free success.

New Podcasts - 15 October 2025: *Dances For Buildings with Emily Dust - Dances For Buildings explores DJ life and club culture. Du, broadcaster and curator Emily Dust speaks with the world's most vital Dus about how, where and why they play. / Now into its second season, you'll hear intimate conversations about everything from burnout to global migration to motherhood. / This week's episode features BBC presenter and grime legend DJ Target.

Sounds Profitable - 15 October 2025: *Measurement's Upfront Moment, $1,600 Netflix Subscribers, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: Measurement is having a moment at IAB Upfronts, MrBeast launches clipping company, the divide with content creators and Al, Netflix's $1,600 subscribers, SSRS acquires Edison Research.

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast - Episode 250: 7 October 2025: *Pizza & Wine: The Timeless Duo That Brings People Together Pt. 2 - Erica, creator of A Story About Pizza. / Together they explore the heritage and comfort behind two timeless staples — pizza and wine. Erica shares how family recipes, ovens, and traditions shaped her passion for pizza, while Forrest highlights the ways wine completes the experience and elevates everyday meals into lasting memories. From funny family moments to practical pairing insights, this episode celebrates the simple joys of food, storytelling, and gathering around the table.

TED Health - 19 July 2022: *The breakthrough science of mRNA medicine - The secret behind medicine that uses messenger RNA (or mRNA) is that it "teaches" our bodies how to fight diseases on our own, leading to groundbreaking treatments for COVID-19 and, potentially one day, cancer, the flu and other ailments that have haunted humanity for millennia. RNA researcher Melissa J. Moore -- Moderna's chief scientific officer and one of the many people responsible for the rapid creation and deployment of their COVID-19 vaccine --takes us down to the molecular level, unraveling how mRNA helps our bodies' proteins maintain health, prevent disease and correct errors in our genetic code. "We have entered an entirely new era of medicine," Moore says. Stay tuned after the talk to hear from the hosts of the popular podcast Unbiased Science, Dr. Jessica Steier and Dr. Andrea Love, in conversation with our host Shoshana on what they think the end of the pandemic could actually look like.

New Podcasts - 15 October 2025: *Tribute Band Sessions - From Pantheon Media and new today - Tribute Band Sessions looks at a billion-dollar corner of the live music industry that rarely gets mainstream attention — until now. / Expect exclusive interviews with acts like Get The Led Out, Dark Star Orchestra, leading Taylor Swift tribute performers, and a spotlight on The Australian Pink Floyd Show.

Sounds Profitable - 16 October 2025: *What Makes Armchair Expert a Great Podcast - A breakdown of the simple psychology behind

Dax Shepard's interview style. / Written and narrated by Tom Webster. / Edited by Bryan Barletta and Gavin Gaddis. / Audio editing by Gavin Gaddis.

BirdNote Daily - 18 April 2023: *Spring Migration Across the Globe - Each spring, millions of birds head north. / From Ecuador, beautiful Scarlet Tanagers fly to the eastern US and Canada, many traversing the Gulf of Mexico, an arduous journey. Across much of southern Europe, Common Nightingales - small thrushes with russet feathers - are arriving, having traveled northward from Africa across immense deserts. / In northern Asia, petite songbirds known as Siberian Rubythroats - like this one

— are arriving en masse, some winging their way across the South China Sea from the Philippines, others over the mountains from Thailand.

5 Good News Stories - 2 March 2025: Comfort TV, Pink Pigeons, Heroic Rescue, and Unique Side Hustles

Podnews Daily - 16 October 2025: *400 UK audio businesses ask for recognition - AudioUK exposes a real expression of unity. 

Daily Facts - 29 September 2025

New Podcasts - 15 October 2025: *Answer for It! - _New with Airwave:_ Ever wonder why barber shops have that striped pole out front? What does it mean? Is it a warning? We don't know.

But we will pretend to know, on Answer for it!

- the podcast where trivia meets comedy, facts meet improv, and where fumbling the answer for laughs is both an art and a science.

Womanica - 8 April 2021: Andrée de Jongh

Science Quickly 3 December 2014: *Poorer Kids May Be Too Respectful at School- Working-class kids ask for help from teachers less often and less aggressively than do their middle-class counterparts. 

Sounds Profitable - 16 October 2025: *Advertising to Advertisers, The Ringer soóN Samsung TVs, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: Spotify launches first FAST channel, ICE ads keep appearing on incongruous content in streaming services, advertisers advertise to advertisers at AWNY, an op-ed on South African podcast advertising, and the Signal Awards winners are now live.

New Podcasts - 15 October 2025: *A View From A Bridge - With over 150 million views and 570,000 followers on Instagram alone, A View From A Bridge is one of the most watched storytelling platforms. Now, for the first time, audiences can hear the extended cut behind each interviewee's story in the brand-new A View From A Bridge podcast, launching on 15th October 2025. Each episode of A View From A Bridge brings together four to five different voices recorded outdoors on bridges across the world, offering a poetic glimpse into a person's life, story or opinion presented as a stream of consciousness. The result is a beautiful, thought-provoking mosaic of thematically curated episodes. From famous musicians to strangers passing by, every guest offers their view on life, love, loss, and everything in between.

Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 16 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 16 The Witness - Check out our Halloween Pop-up Channel here. / Eight-year-old Emily Patterson, sole unchanged survivor of the Hendricks house incident, has been drawing the same prophetic scene for fifty-one years-thirty figures surrounding Millbrook on Halloween as the town drowns, with a faceless woman at the center who Emily says "hasn't decided which face to wear yet." Living frozen at age eight in a psychiatric facility since 1974, Emily reveals the shocking truth through her drawings: Margaret is Sarah Blackwood reincarnated, trying for the sixth time to solve her own murder from 1774, when Mayor Davidson-still alive and unchanged after 251 years-killed her to steal her pregnancy. The thirty founding families are actually IT's hybrid offspring born from Sarah's corpse, and Davidson has been feeding them back to their father every fifty years to maintain his immortality. Emily ages fifty-one years in seconds as Davidson arrives to silence her, the psychiatric facility sinking into the earth as Margaret flees with drawings showing she must give birth to thirty human babies on Halloween to break the cycle-but Davidson has already left her the same knife that's killed her five times before.

Audio Poem of the Day - Episode 1856: 8 July 2025: *Bitch Is a Word I Hear A Lot by Kim Parko

Daily Life Pro Tips - 26 September 2025

5 Minute Chef - 13 January 2025: *Uluru Sunset Smoothie - Experience the colors of the Australian outback in a glass as Chef Tony crafts a layered smoothie inspired by Uluru's famous sunset. Using native ingredients like desert lime and Davidson plums, this episode brings the heart of Australia to your blender, complete with Tony's entertaining outback adventures.

The Slowdown - episode 1200: 20 September 2024: Today's poem is Lying My Head Off by Cate Marvin.

BirdNote Daily - 19 April 2023: *Raising the World's Deadliest Bird - You might think the first bird species that humans raised in captivity would be a relatively small one, like a chicken. But evidence suggests that people in New Guinea reared the cassowary, often called the world's deadliest bird, as much as 18,000 years ago, long before the domestication of chickens.

The remains of cassowary eggs and bones at archaeological sites in New Guinea indicate that people gathered the eggs, possibly allowing the more mature eggs to hatch into chicks.

Grammar Girl - episode 500: 21 Jan 2016: Redundancy. Letters of Recommendation.

Audio Poem of the Day - 9 July 2025: Star Dust by John Pidgeon (read by Barbara Rosenblatt). 

Radio Headspace - 28 April 2021: *DND My Sleep - Oftentimes we bring our devices and technology into the space we deem for rest. / Technology can be beneficial, however most times our tech hinders the effectiveness of our sleep.

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man - Trailer: *Introducing Fela Kuti: Fear No Man - Follow Fela Kuti: Fear No Man on Audible or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Daily Poem - 21 September 2025: *The Alchemist's Heart and the Maiden's Gift: A Tapestry of Silent Communion - Today's poem is about Gratitude in the style of Rabindranath Tagore. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. 

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - Season 2 Episode 255: 17 October 2025: *A Tip For Never Forgetting Your Laundry - Leave your laundry room light on when you start a load—it's a visual reminder to move clothes to the dryer. This simple adjustment prevents mildew, saves time, and eliminates the frustration of rewashing forgotten loads. A game-changer for anyone who's ever left wet clothes sitting overnight.

DASH - 10 September 2021: Season 1 Episode 10: *Dash Season 1: The Case of the Mysterious Zita Makara Chapter 8 - Dash is forced into a confrontation as an ancient evil awakens. / Content: Murder, alcohol and cigarette consumption.