The Pod Files - Sunday 12 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 - 10 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 10: The School Bus - Margaret reminds us why she must play only one recording per day-attempting two caused her to exist in multiple Octobers simultaneously, nearly drowning her in air turned to water. Bus 47 departs with twenty-three children but arrives empty, though parents see their children through the windows, waving from seats they never leave. / Driver Janet Foster reveals the horrifying truth: every October's children from 1824 onward occupy the same seats, stacked across time, while the bus drives both on Route 9 and along the bottom of Miller's Lake simultaneously. The children are attending the deep school, learning to breathe water and speak in currents. The ninth point is marked as the school bus becomes a transport between states of being, delivering children to lessons in drowning from teachers that were never human.

Ri's Records - 12 October 2025: So What: Why Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" Will Live On Forever [Ri looks at one of my favourite albums of all time. The greatest jazz album of all time. When I was younger I would often put the album on to calm me, in order to help me sleep when I was going through things.] 


Daily Facts - 27 September 2025


Station 151 - Season 2, Episode 3: 1 October 2025: *Stasis - Following another near blackout, Wayne dodges Astrid's questions while he and Richard work to secure Buzz in the stasis chamber. Tensions mount, however, as Wayne accuses Richard of sabotaging the array, forcing Richard to come clean about his true purpose at Station 151.


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 12 October 2025: imprimatur


Where We Gather - [Spotify] Episode 2: 26 July 2025: *One Free Donut at a Time - In this recent episode of Where We Gather, Abby interviews an endearing icon of the Dunkin' in Allendale, as we learn her story as a well-loved local figure. We appreciate their work from coffee and donut distribution, but more importantly, how the staff makes the community feels through joy and kindness. She engages in simple yet powerful greetings and the much appreciated free donut which resonates deeply and makes her a fixture of her patrons' daily routines. We learn the family origins and the family stories alongside the deeper motivations that fuel her daily kindness. This episode demonstrates that impact can come in many different forms, and as a society, we are all the more heightened when someone chooses to be a presence.



Composers Datebook - 12 October 2025: Columbus Day music


I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue - series 1 episode 5: 9 May 1972: Greengrocers Ball


TIK RADIO - episode 32: 23 July 2024: Generosity 


Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise - Episode 2: 9 October 2025: *Trouble in the Valley - Dark forces gather as the Benders' presence grows more controversial. The couple's jungle fortress stands apart from everything around it - lavish, secretive and utterly out of place. / Neighbours speculate. Resentments stir. / Mystics speak of a curse. Behind the gates, the atmosphere shifts as the couple's physical and mental health start to decline.


StarDate - 11 October 2025: Lucky Stars

Counterbalance - Season 1 Episode 9: 15 February 20253: *Stone Serpent - Arepanuka - 100th day of Bakkos, 5th year of the Var, 101st Generation Spirit behaviour becomes odder with every league Raka, Lyn and Malaki get closer to the tangleweave. Facing an earthshatting turn of events, Lyn proves herself to be as indestructable as onyx.



MinuteEarth - 9 March 2025: Tongue Tanning


Daily Life Pro Tips - 25 September 2025


Science Quickly - 25 November 2014: *Looking Back on 40 Years of Lucy - Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson's first glimpse of Lucy came on November 24, 1974. 


The Slowdown - episode 1197: 17 September 2024: Today's poem is March, the Garden by Chera Hammons. 


The Daily Poem - 20 September 2025: *The Muse of Harlem: Ruby's

Unyielding Dance Through Shadows and Light - Today's poem is about Happiness in the style of Langston Hughes. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. 


Comicbook Nation - season 7 episode 40: 10 October 2025: Kofi, Matt, Evan and Janell presenting. Matt’s choice of comics this week from their sponsors Global Comix are the Witcher series of books. First up they discussed the New York Comic-con. Trailer for Game of Thrones: night of the seven kingdoms. Trailer for Predator Badlands. Trailer for Mercy. Trailer

For season three of Primal. Trailer for The Mighty Nine series. Marvel have announced a lot. Death Spiral book. Reactions to the film Tron Ares. Reactions to the last episode of Peacemaker season two. Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My other half is watching this show, and is wondering if it’s completely true. She also says that it’s uncomfortable. New comic DC KO. Absolute Batman issue 13. Marvel Knights Punisher comic. Evan recommends My Hero Academia. 



BirdNote Daily - 8 April 2023: *Cuckoos: Tent Caterpillar Birds - One of two species of cuckoos in North America, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, pictured here, lives in broadleaf forests throughout the East and riparian stands in the Southwest. / They were common breeding birds in the Pacific Northwest as late as the 1920s, but then they disappeared. The Black-billed Cuckoo is a more northerly species that lives in dense woodland, even conifer forests. / Cuckoos perch quietly and scan their surroundings for food. Hairy tent caterpillars, shunned by most birds, are often on their meal ticket.


Podnews Daily - 10 October 2025: *The ad-free shows in Apple Podcasts; who pays? - It's not who you think it might be


5 Good News Stories - 25 February 2025: Caption Glasses, Rescued Turtle, Legal Rights for a Mountain, Homeless Veterans, and a Mistaken Death


Womanica - 6 April 2025: Belle Boyd


The Stupid History Minute - 12 October 2025: Robert Pickton


Ghost Scary: Stories for Halloween - 11 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 11: The Substitute - Miss Holloway died three days ago in a car accident, but she's teaching her third-grade class anyway-the children won't look directly at her because she "hurts to see." When students make contact with her, their skin becomes waterlogged and begins sloughing off, while she teaches impossible lessons where every answer involves drowning. Margaret discovers Room 237 shouldn't exist in a school with only 200 rooms, yet finds Miss Holloway there with half her face missing —not injured but erased-revealing her drowned body still belted in a submerged car. / The most horrifying revelation comes when the children show Margaret a mirror: she's been at the bottom of Miller's Lake since playing the first recording, and everything since has been her dying brain trying to make sense of drowning. The tenth point is marked as Margaret realizes she's still in that classroom, teaching with a face that's no longer her own, while her real body discovers scales growing beneath translucent skin.



Audio Poem of the Day - episode 1851: 3 July 2025: Interlude by Denise Leto 


7 Good Minutes - 7 August 2025: Reset Your Mind in Just One Minute


Question of the Week - episode 529: 1 September 2023: *Could you time travel to before the Big Bang? - James Tytko took this cosmic conundrum on with the help of Toby Wiseman, theoretical physicist from Imperial College London...


Daily Dad Jokes - 22 June 2025


7 Good Minutes - 7 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - In the space between one breath and the...


Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - season 2 episode 10: 29 May 2024: *Julia Gets Wise with Gloria Steinem - In this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 90-year-old author and revolutionary Gloria Steinem. The two delve into Gloria's remarkable journey as a pioneering feminist and discuss joining the army of gray-haired women who will take over the world. Gloria also gives Julia THE most incredible advice for aging without shame.

Plus, Julia's mom, Judy, recounts her early ambitions in acting and her initial reservations about working outside the home.



BirdNote Daily - 9 April 2023: *Nest Building - Want to try building a nest? Consider this... / An average American Robin weighs less than three ounces. An average person weighs 170 pounds, or 1,000 times as much as a robin. A robin's nest, made of grass and mud, weighs about seven ounces, so yours will weigh 450 pounds. You'll need to collect about 350 strands of grass, each about four feet long. / And don't forget the mud: 150 pounds of it. / You have five days to complete the job. That's 300 mouthfuls of mud.


Naked Scientists In Short - episode 169: 5 July 2012: *Urban heat, ancient cave art, bold birds - This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how urban heat islands will alter under climate change, and how these changes might affect your health, as well as our railways, roads and energy supplies. Also: why Europe's oldest cave art might not have been painted by humans at all.


The Afternoon Tune - 12 October 2025: *What We Want from The Simpsons 2 - What We Want from The Simpsons 2. Hello, tune squad! On this episode of The Afternoon Tune, Josh and Neal go over what they want most from a Simpsons movie sequel.


Who Was She? - season 1 episode 1: 25 January 2021: *She Who Hopes - The first episode on Lidia Zamenhof will focus on why and how her father invented the language Esperanto which would change not only her life but the world.


The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 19 March 2025: "Sabia Mania" w/ Joe Sabia


The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 20 March 2025: "Giving T.Hanks" w/ Peter Gordon








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