{"id":3483,"date":"2025-03-30T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:01:44","slug":"staggering-stories-podcast-468-toxic-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Stories Podcast #468: Toxic Companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5504\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3483-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast468_31-03-2025.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast468_31-03-2025.mp3\">https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast468_31-03-2025.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast468_31-03-2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringPodcast468_31-03-2025.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 55:32 &#8212; 31.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/Podcast468.jpg\" alt=\"60\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review Doctor Who: Cobwebs (Big Finish) and the 2025 Jodie Whittaker Netflix series Toxic Town, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>01:20 &#8212; Welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong>01:55 &#8211; News:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>02:00 &#8212; Doctor Who: Cut down War Games extended.<\/li>\n<li>03:34 &#8212; Severance: Third season for split brains.<\/li>\n<li>05:11 &#8212; Starship Troopers: Film reboot on the way.<\/li>\n<li>07:12 &#8212; Buffy: New slayer casting call.<\/li>\n<li>08:09 &#8212; Roleplaying: Texas makes it illegal?<\/li>\n<li>10:31 &#8212; Star Wars: Crowd funded film on the failure of Galactic Starcruiser.<\/li>\n<li>12:10 &#8212; Star Trek: DS9 mugs for sale.<\/li>\n<li><strong>14:42 &#8211; Doctor Who: Cobwebs (Big Finish).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>30:07 &#8211; Toxic Town (2025 Netflix series).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>42:15 &#8211; Emails and listener feedback.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>52:22 &#8211; Farewell for this podcast!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>53:07 &#8212; End theme, disclaimer, copyright, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vital Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/\">Staggering Stories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">BBC: Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Severance_(TV_series)\">Wikipedia: Severance (TV series)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starship_Troopers\">Wikipedia: Starship Troopers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer\">Wikipedia: Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rascal.news\/texas-furries-act-tabletop-roleplaying-games-in-schools\/\">Rascal News: A Texas conformity bill could impact tabletop roleplaying games in schools statewide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/\">Star Wars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-death-of-star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-is-becoming-a-documentary-2000579575\">Gizmodo: Halcyon Daze Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Kickstarter documentary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4\">YouTube: Jenny Nicholson &#8211; The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/\">Star Trek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.trekcore.com\/2025\/03\/cherrytree-star-trek-deep-space-nine-raktajino-mug\/\">Trekcore: DS9 style mug<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/releases\/v\/doctor-who-cobwebs-302\">Big Finish: Cobwebs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toxic_Town\">Wikipedia: Toxic Town<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/26860495434\">Facebook: Staggering Stories Group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller review Doctor Who: Cobwebs (Big Finish) and the 2025 Jodie Whittaker Netflix series Toxic Town, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune. 01:20 &#8212; Welcome! 01:55 &#8211; News: 02:00 &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,10,16,6,13,20,183,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","category-podcast","category-review","category-sci-fi","category-staggering-stories","category-staggering-podcast","category-staggering-regular-podcast","category-toxic-town","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}