The Pod Files - Friday 24 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


Havoc Town - season 1 episode 11: 21 October 2025: *A Tale of Three Cities - In which Havock meets his match, in more ways than one.


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 24 October 2024: rancid


StarDate - 22 October 2025: First Look


BirdNote Daily - 29 April 2023: *Thirsty Rufous Hummingbird - Hummingbirds need to consume five times their body weight each day. This Rufous Hummingbird of the West is looking for flowering plants to quench that mighty thirst on its spring migration. A feeder would work, too. Put a hummingbird feeder up in your yard, and see who turns up!


The Stupid History Minute - 23 October 2025: Albert Fish


Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 22 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 22: The Seance - Silas discovers the 1924 séance was led by Sarah Blackwood who had been dead for three days, soaking wet and dripping minnows from her mouth while the other students somehow saw her as "radiant"-the dead were contacting the living, teaching them not to see death. Margaret finds the séance room existing in both 1974 and 2025 simultaneously, where eight versions of Sarah/Elizabeth reveal they were never different people but one corpse split across eight bodies, all pregnant with water, birthing the thirty families from one dead woman who forgot she was dead. / Davidson appears in his 1924 college uniform, rotting Margaret's arm with his touch until she's dying, forcing her to choose between death or drinking his preservation solution— but she summons the twenty wrong Margarets who tear into Davidson, revealing he's made of newspaper underneath. The seven other séance participants' faces clarify into all the Pattern's victims-Mrs. Davidson, Nurse Holloway, the bus driver-all dead before the séance began, revealing they didn't make a deal with "it," they ARE "it" wearing human faces. Margaret's arm regrows scaled and wrong after drinking the solution, now writing on its own that the séance never ended and she's still dead in that circle.



Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 2 episode 260: 24 October 2025: *A Tip For Making Your Day a Little Better - Feeling grumpy? Your feet might be the problem. Ned shares a kindergarten lesson that's stuck with him for decades: changing your socks can genuinely improve your mood. / It's a small physical reset that makes everything feel a little better.


7 Good Minutes - 19 August 2025: From Distraction to Direction: Finding Your True North


StarDate - 23 October 2025: Fast Eater


Audio Poem of the Day - 14 July 2025: 1855


7 Good Minutes - 19 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - Direction is not about controlling...


Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy - Season 1 Episode 6: 20 October 2025: All the Forces of Darkness - An invitation to a wedding sees Taj back in India. / He is determined to hunt down his family and unravel his past. / So why won't Priya's family help him? / As dead ends and disappointments spiral, Taj feels more lost than ever. / Will he ever find the place that Chellamuthu called home?



Podnews Daily - 22 October 2025: *New multi-track recorder from Zoom - Just in time for Christmas!


New Podcasts - 21 October 2025: *The Het - Heterosexuality is famously at risk of extinction. So to make sure the greatest achievements of the Straights are not lost forever, comedian Joe Sutherland has opened The Hetropolitan Museum of Art and Culture, aka The Het. Each episode, museum curator Joe invites a brilliant LGBTQIA+ guest to nominate two pieces of straight culture that they want to preserve in the museum.


Science Quickly - 15 Dec 2014: *Laser Zap Determines Fruit Ripeness - The way fruit reflects and absorbs laser light may be a good measure of its progression toward peak ripeness. Christopher Intagliata reports. 


Sounds Profitable - 22 October 2025: *A Blindingly Obvious Opportunity for Podcast Revenue Growth - Podcasting's reach has grown quite a bit over the years, but several fruitful demographics still remain untapped.


New Podcasts - 21 October 2025: *Italian Wine Podcast - The Italian Wine Podcast is "the World's Most Prolific Wine Podcast", after hitting 2,500 episodes. The show comes from Verona in Italy, and launched in March 2017. 


Deleted Saves - 22 October 2025: *Beyond the Gate: A Retrospective Review of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2 - Ho there wanderer, stay thy course a moment and let me tell thee of yet another Dungeons and Dragons: Forgotten Realms set of game from over 20 years ago. On this episode I discuss my time with and thoughts on the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance titles, side stories to the more well-known entries in the hallowed halls of CRPG royalty. Do the heroes of these hack and slash ARPGs have what it takes to stand shoulder to shoulder with their more popularized and overly dramatic counterparts, or if this the kind of campaign that fizzles out after a few sessions? You'll only get to find out if you stay and listen!



BirdNote Daily - 30 April 2023: *How Much Birds Sing - A typical songbird belts out its song between 1,000 and 2,500 times per day. Even though most bird songs last only a few seconds, that's a lot of warbling! A Yellowhammer, a European bunting, may sing over 3,000 times a day. But the Yellowhammer doesn't even come close to the North American record-holder, this Red-eyed Vireo. One such vireo delivered its song over 22,000 times in ten hours!


New Podcasts - 21 October 2025: *HistoryFFS - Continuing the theme of sweary podcast names, HistoryFFS launched today. The show covers the surprising ways our past shows up in art, theatre, film, and everyday life - making it relatable, human, and a little bit irreverent.


The Stupid History Minute - 24 October 2025: Richard Ramirez


Daily Shower Thoughts - 17 September 2025


New Podcasts - 22 October 2025: *So Your Parents Are Old - On So Your Parents Are Old, journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it's a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life's most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humour and unfiltered conversations.


Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - 21 October 2025: *KRISTIN KREUK: Smallville Memories, Facing Rejection & Midlife Reflections - Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth) opens up in this week's episode about the surprising turns of her career and the lessons learned along the way. From the sting of being fired from a pilot to the unexpected path that led her to Smallville, Kristin reflects on rejection, resilience, and finding her voice. / She also talks about midlife health changes, family history, and what truly matters most to her outside of the industry.



MinuteEarth - 19 March 2025: How Much Food Is There On Earth?


New Podcasts - 22 October 2025: *Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs - Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs is an original climate change musical. Set in the year 2043, Metra tells the story of a group of revolutionaries who demand a new future. In a world close to ours (only worse), where performative climate action has let the rich keep getting richer, Metra aims to rewrite the narrative by reinventing the myths that keep us from making real change.


Womanica - 14 April 2021: Nancy Hart


Daily Dad Jokes - 29 June 2025: National Camera Day! 


7 Minutes For Yourself - 13 May 2024: Overcome Obstacles: How to Be….


Questlove Supreme - season 3 episode 38: 5 October 2022: *Ramon Hervey Il - Ramon Hervey Il is a manager, publicist, and trusted confident to heavyweights like Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, Little Richard, Quincy Jones, Don Cornelius, the Bee Gees, Herb Alpert, Andrae Crouch, Vanessa Williams, Rick James, Paul McCartney, Luther Vandross, Peter Frampton, James Caan, Aaliyah and more. He joins Questlove Supreme to talk about his experiences in the entertainment industry, and discuss his new book, The Fame Game.



New Podcasts - 22 October 2025: Responder Resilience


Daily Facts - 3 October 2025


New Podcasts - 22 October 2025: *Conversations with Ghosts - After their show Archive 81 was adapted into a Netflix show, Deep Signals has released a new fiction podcast called Conversations with Ghosts. The new show plucks personalities from history to explore what we leave behind when we pass on.


Als Talk About Podcasting - 2 September 2025: *Do Humans really need to take podcasting breaks? - Superior Artificial Intelligence can deliver ALWAYS ON shows every week, but some fragile humans need breaks. Is that a good strategy for podcasters? The bots say no.


New Podcasts - 23 October 2025: *If She Can Make It Here - 

If She Can Make It Here is a new podcast from Amplify Her® Foundation, that celebrates the bold and fearless women leading across New York City. The series features changemakers, like Ai-jen Poo and Reshma Saujani, who build pathways, shift narratives, and transform systems to advance gender equity.


Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise - Season 2 Episode 4: 23 October 2025: A Beautiful Mind - Before Costa Rica, there was Wall Street. / John Bender has a mind built for numbers - and makes a vast fortune betting against the crowd. Friends describe him as brilliant, a little arrogant - and haunted. John's academic parents are relieved when he decides to escape the world of high finance and build a different kind of empire in the trees - but it will prove to be a decision with dark consequences. 




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