The Pod Files - Friday 31 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 12: 28 October 2025: *Closing Time -An old rivalry comes to a head. Corinne begins a new journey.

Hell in Heaven: A Mysterious Death in Paradise - Season 2 Episode 5: 30 October 2025: *The Night Of - It's midnight in the jungle. The Benders are alone. A single shot rings out. One person is dead. As police arrive on the scene, they initially conclude it's a suicide. But suspicion grows and the scene raises questions. But soon, the suspect is out of reach of detectives.

Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 29 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 29 The Gathering - Check out our Halloween Pop-up Channel here. / Young Margaret's recording reveals the ultimate truth: void-Margaret isn't meant to play the last recording-she IS it, and whatever she speaks becomes reality. All horrors from every October converge on the town square where a vast mouth has opened with teeth of buildings and a tongue of streets, as the Entity begins overwriting reality itself-physics offers alternatives, buildings become suggestions. The created horrors willingly walk into the mouth to be consumed, each one making void-Margaret more solid as the Entity strengthens its grip, speaking through her: "I am the void between heartbeats... speaking myself into existence through you." Using child's logic, void-Margaret speaks them directly to the fountain where she finds the thirtieth recording at the bottom-warm like skin, like a throat— discovering it's herself. Holding her own existence as a record while reality folds around them, she must choose what ending to speak into being.

The Official Marvel Podcast - 29 October 2025: *Everything You Need To Know About Marvel Zombies: Red Band - This week, writers Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan discuss their latest series: Marvel Zombies: Red Band. And we round up the scariest moments in the MCU so far. All time codes are approximate.

New Podcasts - 28 October 2025: *From RNZ, Nark launches today, looking at the murder of prison inmate Darcy Te Hira in 1985, with fellow inmate Ross Appelgren being convicted of the crime. But was the evidence dodgy? After all, it was supplied by narks. The show also marks the first use of Al in a podcast for RNZ. With the blessing of Appelgren's family, producers have used audio from historical radio interviews to teach Al his voice patterns and then applying them to his own words from his unpublished memoir and interviews.

TWO THOUSAND AND LATE - Season 1 Episode 10: 31 October 2025: *STEP NINE: BURN IT ALL DOWN - SEASON FINALE! STEP NINE: BURN IT ALL DOWN. SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (THROUGH ARSON). OVERTHROW MANAGEMENT (LITERALLY). FACE DOWN ANOTHER DEMON FROM HELL...wait, what? [That ending is awesome! What a fantastic season one.] 

The Stupid History Minute - 31 October 2025: Ted Bundy 

7 Good Minutes - 27 August 2025: A Morning Reset for Your Restless Mind

New Podcasts - 28 October 2025: *Ambition 2.0, which launches today, isn't your typical hustle-culture podcast. Ambition 2.0 is for high-achievers who secretly wonder: Is it worth it? Exploring the tension between striving and thriving, ambition and burnout, it also ignites the question of how to define "girlboss" in 2025 and beyond.

BirdNote Daily - 15 May 2023: *Brooklyn's Blue Jays - Brooklyn's Prospect Park covers more than 500 acres - many of them covered in trees. / One bird species that calls the park home is the strikingly beautiful Blue Jay, which nests, forages, and roosts in trees. In the eastern US, you can invite Blue Jays into a small yard with just a decent tree or two. It's the volume of branches and leafy habitat overhead that matter to the jays.

7 Good Minutes - 27 August 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The restless mind is not...

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman - Episode 15: 11 Nov 2016: Mat Whitecross On Oasis, lan Dury, Coldplay And The Music In His Films - As subject matter goes, it doesn't get much more rock and roll than Joy Division, New Order, The Happy Mondays, lan Dury, The Stone Roses, Coldplay and Oasis. But, in one way or another, all these artists have featured in the work of British director Mat Whitecross. / As we'll discover, Mat got his big break from Michael Winterbottom while working as a runner on the set 24 Hour Party People, which tells the story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. The pair went on to direct Road To Gauntanomo together, before he flew solo on the lan Dury biopic Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll and Stone Roses-inspired comedy, Spike Island. / Coldplay are among his illustrious list of music video clients, while he's also worked with composer llan Eshkeri and Tim Wheeler of Ash on more than one project. Indeed, llan and Tim have very kindly supplied us with some of their favourite compositions for their film and TV work with Mat, which you'll hear throughout the show. / And as if you needed more, there are excerpts from Rael Jones' score for Mat's Oasis documentary Supersonic too, amid the more familiar fare served up by the band themselves.

Yokai Detective Agency - Season 1 Bonus: 7 September 2024: *Sinful Sips Coffee Shop - Welcome to Sinful Sips, for all your delectable caffeine needs!

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 28 October 2025: menagerie

StarDate - 27 October 2025: Wobbly Times

Yokai Detective Agency  - Season 1 Bonus: 31 October 2024: *No Tricks, Only Treats - Happy Halloween! We're back with a treat!

MinuteEarth - 23 March 2025: Mountain Sink

Daily Shower Thoughts - 21 September 2025

Yokai Detective Agency - Season 1 Bonus: 9 November 2024:  *Atomic Laundry - ATOMIC LAUNDRY SERVICES - Get the best laundry service in Darkness Falls!

The Slowdown - episode 1206: 30 September 2024: Today's poem is Birches by Robert Frost. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

Worse Than Fiction Podcast - 23 October 2019: *This is the Introduction to the Worse Than Fiction Podcast. Episode 1: The Easter Sunday Massacre arrives Nov. 4th 2019.

Yokai Detective Agency - Season 1 Bonus: 9 November 2024: *Little Drum Stix Chicken Farm - Come on down to Little Drum Stix Chicken Farm! / Bring the whole family to the Chicken Little Farm and experience the new Chickens and Friends Petting Zoo!

Science Quickly - 30 December 2014: *Lightning May Sink Mountain Summits - Magnetic anomalies in rocks indicate that lightning may be a major player in weathering mountains. Julia Rosen reports. 

TED Health - 16 August 2022: *How to find your voice - What would happen if the thing that defined you disappeared overnight? Whether it's our job, our abilities, or output-many of us meld our identities with the things we do, and often forget who we are in the process. Greta Morgan is a writer and musician whose musical projects include Vampire Weekend, Springtime Carnivore, and Gold Motel. In 2020, Greta was diagnosed with a disorder that completely changed her ability to sing. In this episode of How to Be a Better Human, she shares what her vocal loss and recovery taught her about her inner voice, and how we might find our voice and resilience in both art and the creative process. We're sharing it with you because we think it's a powerful example of how our health can impact our identity and sense of being; we hope you enjoy. / How to Be a Better Human is another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes, follow the podcast wherever you're listening to this.

StarDate - 28 October 2025: Distant Visitor

7 Minutes For Yourself - 18 May 2024: The Power of Persistence: From Struggles to Triumph

BirdNote Daily - 16 May 2023: *Birds that Sound Like Cats - Named after their distinctive cat-like "mew" call, Gray Catbirds are mimic thrushes, related to mockingbirds and thrashers. They can imitate a wide variety of noises, from songbirds to mammals to frogs. Noisy and boisterous in the spring, a migrating flock of catbirds can fill a city park with sound.

Daily Life Pro Tips - 5 October 2025

New Podcasts - 29 October 2025: *HARD LAUNCH with Dan and Phil - HARD LAUNCH with Dan and Phil is an unhinged and unafraid new era of oversharing that they may regret, but can never take back.

Living your truth can be scary, dangerous and messy... but that's what makes it fun. The show is from Studio71 and launched earlier this month.

Sounds Profitable - 28 October 2025: *Spotify Revamps Apple TV App, Floating Ad Tech Economy, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: ad tech survives on floating cash, Spotify revamps Apple TV app, Oxford Road finds why advertisers are holding back spend, and Netflix's Spotify choices lack comedy.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 29 October 2025: deliquesce

5 Good News Stories - 20 March 2025: Cat and Lamb named Couple of the Year

5 Minute Advice for Authors - season 1 episode 11: 3 January 2024: *Andrew & Michelle Preston: A Heartfelt Journey Through Autism and Love - In this episode of "5 Minute Advice for Authors," with Andrew and Michelle Preston, authors of "Friendship Love Autism," help readers navigate the complexities of relationships, particularly when one partner is autistic, in order to foster a deeper understanding and connection of one another. Their advice for authors in the writing process is to focus on sharing relatable stories and experiences that resonate with readers. The Prestons describe the process of creating their audiobook as a journey of friendship and learning, where they transformed their personal stories into an engaging audiobook that resonates with many. Tune in to this episode to learn from Andrew and Michelle Preston's unique perspective on relationships, autism, and the power of storytelling in creating understanding and empathy.

Daily Facts - 7 October 2025

New Podcasts - 29 October 2025: *Democracy After Disaster - Natural disasters are increasing year on year - and we need new ideas for how governments and communities can work together when everything has been destroyed. From Australia, Democracy After Disaster is a nine part narrative documentary series about communities, government, power and recovery. You'll hear stories, ideas and practices that can dramatically improve community recovery.

Naked Scientists In Short - episode 173: 17 July 2012: *Exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience - Find out about the exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience, providing scientists with the tools to unlock the mysteries of the mind and nervous system and paving the way for better treatments for patients.

New Podcasts - 29 October 2025: *The Duets Special Podcast with Chrissie Hynde - Music icon Chrissie Hynde has launched The Duets Special Podcast. The unique six-part podcast series sees Chrissie in conversation with esteemed journalist Gareth A. Davies, as they break down the stories, songs, and collaborations that make up the new album, Chrissie Hynde & Pals - Duets Special.

The Daily Quiz Show - 2 October 2025: Music

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 30 October 2025:,truculent

Womanica - 21 April 2021: Melita Norwood

Daily Facts - 8 October 2025

Where We Gather - episode 5: 15 September 2025: *Inside Acme - In this episode of Where We Gather, we step inside our local Acme grocery store to uncover the stories that make it more than just a place to shop. Joined by a current employee, we explore how Acme operates as both a business and a community hub. From behind-the-scenes challenges to favorite memories in the aisles, this conversation reveals how everyday moments of connection bring neighbors together and remind us that commerce can also be about care. / Whether you stop in for a quick item or spend Sunday afternoons doing the full grocery run, you will see Acme in a new light after this episode.

Composers Datebook - 28 October 2025: ‘Haunted Blue' by Jeremy Walker

Composers Datebook - 29 October 2025: Don Giovanni in Prague (and Vienna)

Composers Datebook - 30 October 2025: 'What's in a name?' asks Aaron Copland

Composers Datebook - 31 October 2025: Olga Neuwirth's 'Lost Highway'

TIK RADIO - 8 July 2024: TIK Radio's Infused Flavors Fiesta - English

Ghost: Scary Stories for Halloween - 30 October 2025: *The October Records Episode 30: The Choice - Young Margaret's final recording reveals the pretend Margaret must choose: play the record and become real while everything else becomes pretend, or break it and disappear - but suggests there might be another option she hadn't thought of. The Entity demands Void Margaret play the record to complete the Pattern and become its permanent vessel, while playing it backward would erase her but make all twenty-nine horrors permanently real. / Real Margaret shows a childhood drawing revealing the solution: Void Margaret doesn't need to play the record because she IS the record-she can speak her own story. Despite the Entity insisting she's hollow and cannot create, Void Margaret drops the record into the fountain unplayed and begins speaking a different story-one where the monster doesn't win and the librarian saves everyone. / As she speaks salvation instead of horror, she becomes the story itself while the Entity becomes less real, screaming as Void Margaret chooses to be the hero that eight-year-old Margaret imagined, preparing to speak the final ending into existence on Halloween.