The Pod Files - Monday 13 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
Station 151 - 8 October 2024: Season 2 Episode 4: *Revelation - After listening to Richard's story, Wayne is forced to reckon with the true nature of his reality. Attempting to clear his head, Wayne leaves the station and falls under the influence of the mysterious creature, Spegg. / Astrid is forced to make a difficult decision to save him.
Podcasting Insights - 11 October 2025: *Slopcasting! Inception Point Al's Efficiency Kills Intimacy (and podcasts) - Al makes it easy to ship more... of nothing. / Here's why "slop-casting" is flattening audio and how to outplay it with Voice, Value, and Vulnerability. / Bonus: suggestion for a simple A/B experiment you can do today to audit your soul in the feed.
Sounds Profitable - 10 October 2025: *Recapping Advertising Week NYC, Spotify's in ChatGPT, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: what happened at Advertising Week New York, Tom Webster talks parasocial relationships with podcast Al ads, Spotify is now integrated into ChatGPT queries, and an interview with Greg Glenday.
Ghost: Scary Stories - 12 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 12: The Pattern - Silas maps every incident across Millbrook and discovers they form an ancient symbol—not random points but thirty teeth in a vast mouth about to open. The Pattern is actually a drain, designed to pull everything down into what's been waiting beneath Miller's Lake, growing stronger with each fifty-year feeding. Margaret's investigation of the town square fountain becomes a nightmare when another version of herself from 1974 emerges and pulls her down through impossible depths to reveal the truth: the Pattern is the living anatomy of something that existed before land rose from the waters. The Blackwood family aren't witnesses but antibodies, ensuring the feeding happens on schedule, because the alternative is the entire continent returning to primordial ocean. Margaret discovers the list of thirty names for 2025's sacrifice—and her name is number thirty. The horrifying choice becomes clear: thirty souls or seven billion, and every Blackwood before her who looked for another way has failed.
SmartLess Presents ClueLess - episode 77: 13,October 2025: *National Pasta Month (Mini Episode) - On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) are boiling over to tell you all about National Pasta Month! That's right, October is the month to celebrate pasta, and you can expect a quiz about food mascots, fun facts about pasta names, and a mini-game called Pasta, Italian Inventor, Or Active Volcano, which is almost painfully self-explanatory. / Puzzles in this episode are by Brock Mahan. / Script by Elliott Kalan.
Escaping Denver - season 5 episode 10: 13 October 2025: The End - For better or worse, this is what Noah and Sara have been working towards. / A war centuries in the making is at Noah and Sara's feet, can they finally defeat The Collective? [I usually don’t listen to final episodes of shows straightaway, especially ones that I’ve listened to and really loved unequivocally since the beginning. I have spoken with the two creators of this show, Mike and Brady, on pods like us before, and they are great guys, an incredibly creative. With this episode they have pulled off something amazing, because it is a perfect ending, where something happens towards the end, that I was a bit worried about, but by the time of the actual ending of the episode, it’s nice, because it leaves the listener with the ability to decide what happens next in the story, now that they are passed this adventure, or are they?]
7 Good Minutes - 8 August 2025: Start with Gratitude, Not Pressure
MinuteEarth - 10 March 2025: Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - 13 September 2021: *Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum - This museum's buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
7 Good Minutes - 8 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The heart that begins each day with...
The Tom Petty Project- season 9 episode 22: 24 January 2024: presented by Kev Brown as always. Starts with him catching up with listeners, after he was poorly the week before, and unable to podcast. After this there is listener feedback about the previous episode’s song Out In The Cold. After this he talks about the song You And I Will Meet Again. Mike (guitar) and Benmont (organ) taking turns at soloing on a song for the first time.
Good Enough Gorgeous - episode 1: 12 October 2025: *Sky Beneath The Surface - Guest: Artist Sydney McKenna / Description: Starting messy beats, staying stuck. Painter Sydney McKenna and Host Akela Collins unpack perfectionism, private process, and why making art off-camera can be the bravest choice. Grab links below. / If you've been waiting for perfect conditions, this conversation is your nudge to start. Akela sits down with Florida painter Sydney McKenna to explore creating without an audience-making for love, not likes. We dig into the psychology of perfectionism (fear under the surface), the difference between expression and performance, and how "happy accidents" and patience shape living, luminous skies on canvas. Sydney shares how growing up pre-social media forged discipline, why early praise can freeze growth, and why emotion-not precision-makes work resonate. We close with a reminder that your art is real, even if no one sees it. [from what I’ve seen, this show has episodes that are short chats, which are interesting and non-intrusive while also being very positive. This is episode one, which I thought was very good. The guest of this episode is an artist. There was some great advice that anyone could use. She creates art because she loves it, and not for the finance or praise. It’s cathartic, and helps her to relax. Start from there, and let that be your reason.]
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 13 October 2025: penultimate
Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 2 episode 246: 13 October 2025: *A Tip For Keeping Your Cheese Fresh - Stop wrapping your cheese in plastic-it's suffocating it. Cheese needs to breathe to stay fresh and avoid excess moisture that causes mold. Switch to parchment or wax paper for longer-lasting, better-quality cheese.
StarDate - 12 October 2025: Moon and Companions
Audio Poem of the Day - 4 July 2025: Infanta Marina by Wallace Stevens
Grumble Goat - episode 215: 11 August 2025: Coffee Snobs - In humankinds modern, late-stage-capitalistic world, one of the most celebrated luxuries is Flavor. Chefs and Sommeliers are world renowned celebrities. The spicy Scoville-covered-chicken enhanced interrogations called 'Hot Ones' is not only legal under the Geneva Conventions, but popular entertainment. For thousands of years, salt, spices, teas, and flavors have caused wars, slave-trade, and the fall of dynasties. But, now, in the days of the Coca-Cola Freestyle machine, where 165 flavors are the touch-of-a-button away, people still grapple over flavor. / When Sumatran Arabica and Ecuadorian Robusta are on the same shelf as Celsius, how can either be the finer? Wake up with Veronique and Mat to the vibrant, robust odor or Coffee Snobs! [this time Veronique moans about coffee snobs, but at the same time admits that she hates instant coffee. A train and ferry journey. “Use your sense of smell!” Fair trade, wokeness, “it’s fine!”]
Daily Dad Jokes - 22 June 2025: National Kissing Day!
Science Quickly - 26 Nov 2014: *Scientific American's 1930 Football Study Found Little Actual Action - The Wall Street Journal found in 2010 that an NFL game has just 11 minutes of actual action. Eight decades earlier, Scientific American found just about the same thing.
Womanica - 7 April 2021: Pauline Cushman
5 Good News Stories - 27 February 2025: Taylor Swift's Victory Pop Tarts
TWO THOUSAND AND LATE - Season 1 Episode 7: 13,October 2025: *1.07 STEP SIX: EAT AN ENTIRE CASSEROLE - Have a weird unsettling dream that your demon watches like its favorite TV show, comfort a coworker, and then fail to help another because everything is futile. Have a total meltdown!
The Daily Quiz Show - 26 September 2025: Geography
The Slowdown - episode 1198: 18 September 2024: Today's poem is The Big People by César Vallejo, translated by James Wright.
7 Minutes For Yourself - 6 May 2024: How Strategic Planning Can Transform Your Life
Daily Facts - 28 September 2025
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman - Episode 12: 21 October 2016: *Director Ron Howard on the Music in His Films - From child star to Academy Award winning director, Ron Howard has always made it his business to entertain. / And entertain us he has - from A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and Frost / Nixon to his most recent offerings - the Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week and Dan Brown thriller Inferno. / But whereas Edith's previous guest Andrea Arnold prefers to accompany her films with source music, Ron is a particular fan of score, and has, accordingly, collaborated with some of the finest cinematic composers of recent times, including James Horner, Thomas Newman, John Williams and Hans Zimmer. We'll hear plenty more about the director's admiration for that venerable bunch during the course of our conversation, as well as excerpts from the work they produced for his movies. / Ron also reflects on his time as an actor, and has a most amusing anecdote about Michael Jackson!
Podnews Daily - 13 October 2025: *OMG, the last WTF drops today - With a very special repeat guest [spoiler alert]
MinuteEarth - 11 March 2025: Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?
7 Good Minutes - 9 August 2025: Release the Need to Rush
The Podcast Top 5 - season 1 episode 34: 13 October 2025: YouTube Listeners vs. Watchers, Podhome Launches, and Why First
Impressions Matter - On this week's episode of The Podcast Top 5 hosted by Emily Soule, we uncover fresh insights from Sounds Profitable showing that nearly half of YouTube podcast users actually listen more than they watch-while Spotify audiences lean the other way. Emily also spotlights the launch of Podhome, a new app with transcripts, chapters, and live podcast features, plus key takeaways from The Podcast Study: Growth on why the first 60 seconds of your show can make or break your audience. And don't miss the gear news: RODE's new Wireless Micro receiver is simplifying life for creators. Finally, Emily highlights The Huberman Lab Podcast, a must-listen for anyone looking to optimize their brain and body.
TED Health - 14 July 2022: *From Revisionist History: Way to Go, Ohio - We're sharing a bonus episode from our friends at Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell's podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm's obsessed with experiments - natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this preview, you'll hear about a mysterious and disfiguring disease that plagued parts of the world in the last century. No one could find a remedy, until a doctor in Ohio conducted a controversial experiment and finally found a cure...with an everyday condiment.
BirdNote Daily - 12 April 2023: *Stefania Gomez: Swifts - Each September, thousands of Vaux's Swifts roost in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a stopover on their southern migration. Crowds gather every night to watch the spectacle. As a celebration of Poetry Month in the US, we offer this poem, Swifts, by Stefania Gomez.
The Afternoon Tune - 9 October 2025: *Annoyingly Whimsical | A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Movie Review - Annoyingly Whimsical | A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Movie Review. Hello, tune squad! On this episode of The Afternoon Tune, Josh gives a solo review for the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.
Into The Podverse - 4 June 2025: *Watch Out for the Podcast Invite Scam - Scammers are targeting podcasters and content creators with fake interview invites. In this quick episode, I break down how they trick you into giving up control of your Facebook page and how to avoid it. / Learn how to: Spot fake invites / Protect your social media / Stay one step ahead.
7 Good Minutes - 9 August 2025; 7 Good Minutes: Extra - True speed comes not from...
MinuteEarth - 12 March 2025: Why Do Birds Migrate Like This?
Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy - Season 1 Episode 5: 13 October 2025: *More Precious Than Jewels - Taj's teenage years become difficult, until the LDS church sends him on a mission to London, England. / When he arrives he gets a massive wake up call about who he really is and where he belongs. / He returns home when a beautiful Indian girl called Priya walks into his life. / He has no idea that she holds the key to something far more important than his heart when she finds his old cassette tape.
BirdNote Daily - 13 April 2023: *Magpies Help Each Other Remove Tracking Devices - Tracking birds can be tricky — even with GPS technology. Around 70% of bird species are just too small to carry a GPS battery. But recently, Australian scientists developed GPS trackers that looked like little backpacks, weighed less than a gram, could charge wirelessly and could be quickly released with a magnet. When the researchers tested the trackers on Australian Magpies, though, the birds managed to pinpoint a tiny weak spot in the backpack and helped each other peck the trackers off. This showed evidence of altruism, a rare behavior among birds.
Daily Dad Jokes - 23 June 2025
Science Quickly - 2 December 2014: *Big Apple's Insects Eat Streets Clean - Researchers working in New York City found that hungry urban arthropods help dispose of tons of edible trash. Allie Wilkinson reports
Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 13 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 13: The Mine - The Mitchell Mine, sealed since a 1947 collapse that killed seventeen miners, begins calling out current residents' names in voices that shouldn't exist. When rescuers pull Thomas Mitchell up from thirty feet of water after twenty-seven years, he begins to dissolve in the air while his skin screams from every pore, warning that they're digging to where the Pattern begins. Margaret descends through impossible depths to find the missing thirty-seven townspeople fused together into grotesque configurations, mining with tools made of compressed water while their bodies adapt with migrated eyes and new gills. At ninety feet down-deeper than the mine ever went-she discovers the breakthrough to the original lake, which isn't water but a living stomach organ containing everyone who's ever drowned in Millbrook, conscious and happy to be part of its digestive system. The thirteenth point marks where humans are revealed to be food that's been seasoning itself for 251 years, while Margaret's hands begin developing webbing and her eyes loosen, ready to migrate.
The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 21 March 2025: "Vogue, Vowels, and Hugh Jackman" w/A.J. & Greg
The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 24 March 2025: "Earbuses" w/ John Hodgman
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