Monday 19 January 2026
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
Enzology - Season 1 Episode 6: 4 October 2012: *True Colours (1979-1980) - The band base themselves in Australia again and nearly break up due to bad debts. A successful tour re-balances the books, as does the huge radio hit 'I Got You' and album True Colours. The Enz simultaneously hit the charts in the UK and US and begin recording the follow-up album, Waiata. / Songs in this episode include 'I Got You', ‘Poor Boy', 'Hard Act To Follow', 'History Never Repeats' plus rare demos of '! Hope I Never', 'Shark Attack' and other rarities. / Album Trivia: True Colours:
• On the back cover of the LP, a credit says "No thanks to Wayne." At parties and record company dos, "Is Wayne coming?" was code for "Let's get this person out of here, he's a dickhead."
• Split Enz were the first Australasian band to release a full-length home video cassette. Split Enz Live In Concert was videotaped in January 1980. The rare Enz song 'Outer Mongolia' was performed but wasn't included on the video. The Beta and VHS videos are next to impossible to find nowadays.
•For the A&M release of True Colours, geometric patterns were finely etched onto the surface of the vinyl. These shapes would be projected around the room when a light was shone on the spinning record. Laser-etching was initially developed to stop counterfeiting.
• The U.S. edition of the LP swapped the first two tracks around. 'I Got You was the hit of the day, so the record company insisted that it begin the album.
• ‘Missing Person' was originally considered by the band to be top-of-the-A-list single material. 'I Got You' was on the B list. Nigel: "We never had a clue 'til we finished the record."
• ‘I Hope I Never' was remixed for its Australian single release and featured more prominent percussion.
• ‘Poor Boy', 'Nobody Takes Me Seriously' and 'What's the Matter With You?' were released as singles in the Northern hemisphere, but not in Australia and New Zealand.
• Eddie Rayner's synth melody at the ending of 'I Wouldn't Dream Of It' was borrowed from the early Split Enz instrumental called 'The Instrumental'.
• Neil Finn on True Colours: "We went through a period where we shunned it 'cause it was so successful. We were sick of playing it. But it's a fantastic record. Lean and tight, energetic and up.
• Good songwriting and I love the sound of it now. I don't know if anyone else feels the same way about True Colours.
• There's a tendency for bands to turn on the record that makes you successful and regard it as a curse, but now I think it was a blessing in every respect."
BirdNote Daily - 23 August 2023: *Southern Lapwings Defend Their Nest - Nature educator Johanne Ryan shares her observations of Southern Lapwings, shorebirds that make their nests on the ground in open areas and vigorously defend them. If a potential predator approaches, the parent will sound a piercing alarm call. If that doesn't work, the lapwing will charge the opponent, using a secret weapon - sharp, bony spurs on the bird's "wrists."
Daily Dad Jokes - 4 August 2025: International Beer Day
New Podcasts - 15 January 2026: *Gaylinn has joined Ireland's HeadStuff podcast network, and starts a new season next week. The show is bilingual (English/ Gaeilge), and examines na rudaí is measa, is aistí, agus is iontaí about life as we know it. / Gaelige - the Irish gaelic language - is taught in schools and has 1.8 million speakers (though less than 200,000 speak it 'very well').
DASH - Season 1 Episode 27: 9 January 2025: *Dash, An Interlude: The Case of the Ghost and the Hidden Tomb Chapter 3 - A new mini-series that is both a prologue to Season 1 and a bridge into Season 2. / Chapter 3: The Tomb / Johnny Plinketts, "Plink" begins to recount his exploration into the ruins of an ancient pyramid. But have the dangers of the past come back to haunt him in his present?
Odd One Out - 13 January 2026: Tesla Model S or Honda Civic?
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 19 January 2026: ephemeral
7 Good Minutes - 1 November 2025: *Create Your Sacred Morning Mantra: Words That Transform Your Day - Learn to create a deeply personal morning mantra that becomes your daily anchor and source of strength. Discover how the right words, spoken with intention, can transform your entire day from the moment you wake.
StarDate - 18 January 2026: 40 Eridani
The Stupid History Minute - 19 January 2026: *The Hockey Stick - Guest Host: Kurt Sasso - The Stupid History of the Hockey Stick with Guest Host: Kurt Sasso from Two Geeks Talking.
7 Good Minutes - 1 November 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The words you choose to... In today's 7 Good Minutes: Extra segment, we delve into how your chosen morning words become the sacred thread weaving meaning through your entire day. Reflect on the power you hold each dawn to consciously choose the quality that will run through all your experiences.
Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware - episode 237: 7 March 2025: More Sin 2 - Queer Disco Compilation - Today's exceptionally danceable Electronically Yours episode features an in depth discussion with Mark Wood (Demon Records) and author lan Wade about their new 5 CD + 4 LP boxsets, featuring the best queer club classics 1980-1989. / Across five individually themed discs, the deluxe CD set presents 53 original extended versions, including many hard-to-find remixes, encompassing full-length High Energy, House, Diva, Pop, Europop and Alternative eighties classics from the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, Sylvester, Eartha Kitt, Divine, New Order, Hazell Dean, Laura Branigan and many more. Highlights include the hard-to-find 12" version of Village People's 'Can't Stop The Music' plus the rarely-compiled underground club anthems 'Pistol In My Pocket' by Lana Pellay and 'After The Rainbow' by Joanne Daniëls. / Not only were the '80s queer clubs where you were most likely to hear the latest groundbreaking developments in dance music (for example, house music would quietly flourish and innovate on the scene before busting overground and achieving near ubiquity as the decade progressed), there was also a heck of a lot of diversity on offer. / Ladies and gentlemen - It's time to give in to sin - More Sin 2...
BirdNote Daily - 24 August 2023: *Do Crows Sing? - It's been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. / They're common, easy to see, and even easier to hear. But crow voices are complicated. Altogether, crows may use 30 sound elements in different combinations, and one of the most intriguing is their song. / Unlike many birds, crows don't sing loudly to attract mates from a distance. Instead they sing softly — and at close range - during courtship, with a mix of soft cooing, rattles, growls, bowing movements, and mutual nuzzling.
5 Good News Stories - 15 June 2025: *A 75 Year Old Message In A Bottle - Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories from around the world. In Poland, a love letter from 1959 was discovered by two boys, sparking a search for its origins. In Texas, a prom was organized for a high school senior recovering from back surgery. Zookeepers successfully hand-reared an endangered northern rockhopper penguin chick named Noisy. In North Carolina, Marine rescuers cleared over 1.5 pounds of barnacles from a stranded green sea turtle. Lastly, in Norway, a man woke up to find a cargo ship had run aground in his yard, narrowly missing his house. The episode also includes information on how to listen to the program without interruptions.
New Podcasts - 15 January 2026: *Becoming Flame: Where Sensuality, Sovereignty, and Sacred Power Ignite - This is for the woman who has risen from the fire and wants to build the big beautiful empire of her wildest dreams on top of those ashes. You know you are not here to heal quietly, stay small or keep silent. You are here to burn, to create anew, to feel deeply, and to rise in the truth beneath your ashes. You are ready to live your biggest life and fullest potential. No more second guessing. No more playing by the rules of someone else's game. Every Friday, Becoming Flame with Kait Tregenza opens portals into a bigger purposeful life lived in feminine alchemy, erotic intelligent creation, somatic connection, and sovereignty. For living as the woman you came here to be asks you to return to the womb, the body and the truth of you, step into your highest identity, with a nervous system re-patterned to receive it and hold a big life. If you feel it is time to remember and return to the woman your body has been asking you to remember and you're ready to quantum leap to become your truest self, then this podcast is for you.
Daily Facts - 13 November 2025
MinuteEarth - 11 May 2025: Sex Ratios
7 Minutes For Yourself - 30 June 2024: *How Less Stuff Equals More Happiness - Dive into the science behind how minimizing clutter can lead to enhanced well-being and reduced stress levels. / Gain practical insights on downsizing your possessions for a more fulfilling life. / Curious about how less stuff equals more happiness? Listen to today's episode and embark on a journey towards greater inner peace.
Science Quickly - 20 Mar 2015: *Teotihuacán's Social Tensions Contributed to Its Fall - The decline and abandonment of the Mexican metropolis may have been hastened by infighting among different cultural and socioeconomic groups. Cynthia Graber reports.
Womanica - 25 June 2021: Pat Parker
The Daily Poem - 25 October 2025: The Enigma's Unveiling: The Maiden's Dance with Curiosity's Flame - Today's poem is about Surprise in the style of Marianne Moore. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios.
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily - episode 1249: 28 November 2024: Today's poem is Farmers' Market by Molly Fisk.
The Afternoon Tune - 18 January 2026: *THE MASTERMIND Movie Review. In today's video, I'm reviewing The Mastermind (2025), the heist drama written and directed by Kelly Reichardt and starring Josh O'Connor. / Set in 1970s Massachusetts, the film follows an unemployed carpenter who believes he has the perfect plan to steal four paintings from a suburban museum. But as the plan unfolds, the movie becomes less about the heist and more about ego, ambition, and quiet unraveling. / I break down Josh O'Connor's performance, Reichardt's restrained take on the genre, and whether this slow-burn, character-driven approach works for heist fans.
The Calm Christmas Podcast with Beth Kempton - Season 5 Episode 7: 23 December 2025: Home for Christmas Driving - There is a moment of silence that occurs every year somewhere between the dawn of Christmas Eve and the setting of the sun on Christmas Day itself. A moment we all have experienced at least once in our lives, maybe more than once. It can silence a great city like London or New York, and it can bring stillness to our hearts, whoever and wherever we may be. That moment of silence is unlike any other. It offers the promise of new beginnings, of the clean slate of New Year, and it incorporates the breathless expectancy of Christmas Night itself, when a familiar figure enters our lives and changes them briefly. - The Winter Solstice by John Matthews / Welcome to Christmas Eve Eve and to Season Five, Episode Seven, Driving Home for Christmas. To me that feeling of expectation on the cusp of Christmas is about the feeling of time folding in on itself as all past Christmases and hopes for future Christmases collapse into a single moment on the cusp of Christmas itself and anything - even magical things - seem possible. This cosy episode includes:
• Christmas Eve traditions from listeners around the world
• A special memory of the Budapest Christmas Market
• Thoughts about gathering
• Taking a moment for gratitude
• Giving ourselves grace
• A delicious mocktail recipe
• The simplest Christmas craft project
• A special Christmas story
• Our final get ahead tips
• A Christmas message for vou
Eras Phil Collins - 19 January 2026; *Episode 2: Can You Feel It? - It's the dawn of the 1980s, and Phil's life has been thrown into turmoil by the breakdown of his marriage - but amidst the heartbreak, he finds a new drive to create. / Zoe Ball follows Phil Collins as he steps away from Genesis and makes his first, unforgettable statement as a solo artist. The album - and a certain drum fill in its opening track - propel Phil to the status of Britain's most unassuming popstar. With it comes his first taste of both the highs and lows of so much exposure. Opportunities to work with his heroes, Eric Clapton and Robert Plant, come knocking - but then so do the bad reviews... / Will the madness get to Mr. Everyman's head?
New Podcasts - 16 January 2026: Light in the Battle: Autism, Single Motherhood and Trauma Recovery - In Light in the Battle this week, you'll hear about 6 steps to think about to break a trauma bond after living in chaos. Narcissistic abuse tends to create chronically-high levels of stress hormones in the brain, and you'll learn practical suggestions to normalize them.
Audio Poem of the Day - 12 October 2025: My Chiziiness
Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You - season 3 episode 36: 19 January 2026: *A Tip For Coffee With Less Dishes - Pour cream into your empty mug first, then add coffee-the pouring motion mixes everything without a spoon. It's faster, cleaner, and one less thing to wash. A tiny shift that makes your morning routine smoother.
TED Health - 7 May 2024: *The science of laughter - Isn't it odd that, when something's funny, you might show your teeth, change your breathing, become weak and achy in some places, and maybe even cry? In other words, why do we do this bizarre thing that is laughter? Since there's no archaeological record of laughter, it's impossible to say exactly how and why it evolved, but scientists have some theories. Sasha Winkler digs into the reflex. This TED-Ed lesson was directed by Hanna Rybak, narrated by Susan Zimmerman and the music is by Jarrett Farkas.
Audio Poem of the Day - episode 1950: 13 October 2026: [untitled] By Kate Asche.
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities - episode 175: 25 February 2020: *Living Nightmare - A dream too hard to believe, and a real-life person who was a bit of a nightmare. Both tales are on display today in the Cabinet.
BirdNote Daily - 25 August 2023: *Arizona Woodpecker and the Sierra Madre - Found in the Sierra Madre, the Arizona Woodpecker has a special connection to the mountain range. Sharing mid-elevation pine and oaks with fellow border straddlers, these small brown birds with white and brown cheeks stand out from other Woodpeckers with their heavily marked white underparts. / Uniquely, they forage by flying to the base of a tree and then spiraling up the trunk. And in courtship, the male turns himself into a paper airplane, holding his wings steady and gliding toward his mate.
7 Good Minutes - 2 November 2025: *Start Strong: Setting Clear Daily Intentions That Actually Work - Transform your days by learning to set clear, meaningful intentions that guide your choices and actions. Discover how this simple morning practice can create profound shifts in how you experience and navigate your life.
Odd One Out - 14 January 2026: Dribble or Home run?
The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 12 June 2025: "Waiter, There's a Bee in my Beef" w/ Zane Jacobs
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