The Pod Files - Thursday 23 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 - Season 2 Episode 6: 22 October 2024: *Awakenings - After a terrifying experience with the strange, black substance, Richard becomes increasingly paranoid and violent, accusing Wayne of concealing its origin. Astrid attempts to mediate, but the situation deteriorates further as Doctor Alfieri regains consciousness and attempts to turn them against each other.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 21 October 2025: sedentary

StarDate - 20 October 2025: Eclipsing Binaries

BirdNote Daily - 26 April 2023: *Sean Hill on Nature, Place, and Black Life - Poet Sean Hill performs three poems that encapsulate his dynamic relationship to birds, travel and life as a Black wanderer in the great outdoors. First is The Western Tanager or Why Montana, a villanelle reflecting on why people choose a home. Then, In Houston examines the intimacy of quiet moments and the surprising sounds that can be heard when we really listen. And finally, Silas Fishing 1967 shows how connecting with even small moments in nature can have a transformational effect.

Breaker Whiskey - 22 October 2025: Two Hundred Seventy Four

Gimme Some Truth - Season 5 Episode 5: 10 September 2025: *Pepper War Medals - There is so much to look at on the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that it is easy to miss the sets of six medals that both John and Ringo wore on their colourful military costumes. Join me this week to explore the stories behind these unaccountable artefacts.

Podnews Daily - 21 October 2025: *The first ranker for podcasts where the ads really work - It's based on data from more than a billion dollars of advertising. 

7 Good Minutes - 17 August 2025: Don't Let the Day Decide Who You Are

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 2 episode 256: 21 October 2025: *A Tip For Owning Your Internet Presence Instead of Renting It - Stop giving your traffic away to Linktree and other platforms. When you use link-in-bio services or sell on marketplaces like Etsy, you're sending your followers' clicks to someone else's site. Buy your own domain, build your own simple site, and own your traffic-it helps your SEO, your discoverability, and your independence from corporate platforms.

Sounds Profitable - 20 October 2025: *NRF Projects Healthy Holidays, Research Fuelling Creativity, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: the collaboration that goes into making The Hidden Third, using research as your podcast creative partner, legacy media's dismissive attitude towards content creators might be their downfall, media buyers are anxious about setting 2026 budgets given 2025's volatility, and U.S. consumers expect to spend upwards of $900 on average this holiday shopping season.

7 Good Minutes - 17 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - You are not what happens to you, but...

SEO F**king What - episode 1: 19 October 2025: *SEO is not dead, FFS! -  Welcome to "SEO Fucking What," the podcast that cuts through the bullshit and tells it straight, with no wanky jargon and no panic-peddling. / I'm Nikki, here to help you make damn real money from your website by showing up on Google, not by falling for shiny new courses or scare tactics from so-called LinkedIn gurus. / In today's very first episode, we're tackling the biggest scam floating around the digital marketing scene: the tired claim that "SEO is dead." / So grab your coffee (and maybe cover your ears if you're sensitive to swearing), because we're about to expose the con jobs, give you real tips, and remind you to trust your own data over social media hype. / Join me. Let's keep SEO non-wanky and make it work for your business.

The Stupid History Minute - 21 October 2025: Ed Gein

Womanica - 13 April 2021: Mata Hari

MinuteEarth - 18 March 2025: Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?

Daily Dad Jokes - 29 June 2025 

7 Minutes For Yourself - 12 May 2024: Stop Chasing Dreams, Start Building Habits

TED Health - 2 August 2022: *Racism has a cost for everyone - Racism makes our economy worse -- and not just in ways that harm people of color, says public policy expert Heather C. McGhee.

From her research and travels across the US, McGhee shares startling insights into how racism fuels bad policymaking and drains our economic potential -- and offers a crucial rethink on what we can do to create a more prosperous nation for all. "Our fates are linked," she says. "It costs us so much to remain divided." After the talk, Shoshana sits down with Dr Aletha Maybank -- physician, Chief Health Equity Officer, and Senior Vice President of the American Medical Association -- to discuss how our neighborhoods impact our health.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 22 October 2025: frolic

BirdNote Daily - 27 April 2023: *The Plover and the Hurricane - Piping Plovers are tiny, sand-coloured shorebirds that nest on the beach. They're threatened in much of their range. But plovers have gotten a boost from something rather surprising: hurricanes. Superstorm Sandy left behind plant-free, sandy beaches on barrier islands in New York and New Jersey, which actually offers better camouflage for nesting plovers. Where these hurricane-created habitats were protected, Piping Plovers have boomed.

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast  - episode 256: 14 October 2025: *My Big Loud Italian Christmas: Erica on Family, Food and Finding Joy in Chaos Pt. 3 - Guest: Erica D'Arcangelo, Bestselling Author of A Story About Pizza and My Big Loud Italian Christmas / Topic: How Italian heritage, tradition, and storytelling blend together in food, wine, and family. 

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 2 episode 258: 22 October 2025: *A Tip For Turning Bad Days Around (w/ Amanda B.) - When you're stuck in a funk, think back to someone who showed up for you-a helpful Uber driver, a patient cashier, a colleague who went the extra mile. Write them a review, send a note, or leave a positive comment. It costs nothing, takes seconds, and transtorms two people's days at once.

Composers Datebook - 21 October 2025: Offenbach puts a critic to work

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast - episode 251: 17 October 2025: *Pizza, Wine & Family: Erica's Secret Ingredients for La Dolce Vita Pt. 4 - Guest: Erica D'Arcangelo - Author of A Story About Pizza and My Big Loud Italian Christmas / Topic: The perfect pairing of Italian pizza traditions and heartfelt family gatherings. 

Composers Datebook - 22 October 2025: Musical carpentry?

Music from a Lifetime - Trailer: 30 November 2024: *Trailer: Explaining the "Music from a Lifetime" Podcast Reboot - The trailer for the beginning of this rebooted podcast, titled "The Creation of Me: A Music from a Lifetime Retrospective" / On [in] this short introduction I discuss why there is no longer a "Music from a Lifetime" podcast, and the reasons I have rebooted. I also discuss why this podcast is different from the original, and how you can still get the full podcast experience as it is meant to be, by following along at our Patreon account.

Composers Datebook - 23 October 2025: Night music by Delius and Danielpour

Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 21 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 21: "The Convergence" - All thirty marked families arrive at the library, but they're not separate anymore-they're merging into one impossible body with the Davidsons as a leg with screaming faces in the kneecap, the Pattersons as an arm with children's mouths for fingers, and the congregation twisted into organs that pray and sing. The twenty wrong Margarets melt into this mass as it reaches for Margaret with appendages that shouldn't exist-hands made of tongues, fingers that are entire arms —trying to absorb her as the witness that gives their meat meaning. Father Williams tears through the convergence with his inverted body existing inside and outside simultaneously, revealing the merger is actually digestion-making thirty small pieces into one easy-to-swallow mass-and pulls Margaret free though she leaves layers of skin behind. / At the fountain, the original Sarah Blackwood still stands pregnant after 251 years, offering Margaret a choice: merge with the thirty-family mass to become the Pattern itself, or merge with Sarah to become poison-either way, they're getting eaten. The entire town converges toward the fountain as buildings lean together and drivers fuse with cars, while Margaret realizes she's already split between two convergences, dissolving into the space between choosing.

BirdNote Daily - 28 April 2023: *Delhi's Jain Bird Hospital is Free - At Charity Birds Hospital, a small staff takes care of approximately twenty-six hundred birds at a time, providing antibiotics, medicine, food, and a safe place to rest for injured or sick birds. The hospital is run entirely on donations, mostly from the Jain community, which follows the philosophy,

"live and let live."

The Official Marvel Podcast - 22 October 2025: *Crafting the Chilling Soundscape of Marvel Zombies - This week on The Official Marvel Podcast, we're joined by Supervising Sound Editor Jonathan Greber to explore the sound design behind Marvel Animation's latest project, Marvel Zombies. Plus, we dive into all the spooky-themed content coming to Marvel Games, including Marvel Rivals and Marvel Snap with Phil Cooper and Tom Tao from Marvel Games. 

7 Good Minutes - 18 August 2025: You Deserve a Gentle Morning That Your Heart

Hungry for History with Eva Longoria and Maite Gomez-Rejón - 29 September 2022: Introducing 

Radio Headspace - 30 April 2021: *Waking Up Is Hard To Do - We've all been guilty of hitting the snooze button from time to time. Maintaining a consistent "wake up" schedule can have a positive effect on our morning routine as we prepare for the day ahead.

7 Good Minutes - 18 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The gentleness you show yourself...

Sounds Profitable - 21 October 2025: *IAB Moves Newsfronts, Spooler X Pantheon Media, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: Spooler and Pantheon discuss their collaboration, why Netflix should buy Spotify, a look at audio's discussion during Programmatic 1/0 in New York, what Joining a netowk does (and does not) do for your podcast, and the lAB is moving NewFront 2026 to earlier in the year.

The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 01-04-2025: "Big Foul Sports Teams" w/ Mina Kimes. 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 23 October 2025: litany

Science Quickly - 11 December 2014: *Birds Roost on New Evolutionary Tree - In a massive first-of-its-kind whole-genome analysis involving 48 bird species, researchers have created a new avian evolutionary tree. Steve Mirsky reports. 

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 2 episode 259: 23 October 2025: *A Tip For Coming Home From Traveling - Change your sheets before leaving town— you'll thank yourself when you return. It transforms the chaos of coming home into something genuinely comforting. A small effort before departure becomes a luxurious welcome back.

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast - episode 253: 21 October 2025: *A Story About Pizza: Erica on Family, Flavor, and the Perfect Wine Pairing Pt. 5 - Guest: Erica D'Arcangelo — Author of A Story About Pizza and My Big Loud Italian Christmas / Topics Covered: The origins of A Story About Pizza and its connection to her family's 65-year-old pizzeria. 

The Stupid History Minute - 22 October 2025: Aileen Wuornos

Toppermost of the Poppermost - forthcoming episode July 1965 Side D