{"id":3548,"date":"2026-01-04T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:14:40","slug":"staggering-stories-podcast-488-fishy-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Stories Podcast #488: Fishy Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_29\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3548-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast488_05-01-2026.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast488_05-01-2026.mp3\">https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast488_05-01-2026.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast488_05-01-2026.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringPodcast488_05-01-2026.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:14:10 &#8212; 42.5MB)<\/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\/Podcast488.jpg\" alt=\"60\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>01:00 &#8212; Welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong>02:04 &#8211; News:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>02:18 &#8212; Doctor Who: New production team announced.<\/li>\n<li>05:22 &#8212; Star Trek: Strange new Bones and Sulu.<\/li>\n<li>07:18 &#8212; Gil Gerard: DEAD!<\/li>\n<li>10:24 &#8212; Amanda Brotchie: DEAD!<\/li>\n<li><strong>12:06 &#8211; Annual Predictions:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>12:34 &#8212; 2025 Predictions.<\/li>\n<li>15:40 &#8212; 2026 Predictions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>24:44 &#8211; The War Between the Land and the Sea: episode 5.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>39:22 &#8211; Hopes and Dreams:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>39:36 &#8212; 2025 Hopes and Dreams.<\/li>\n<li>43:19 &#8212; 2026 Hopes and Dreams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>47:31 &#8211; Audio quiz: Sci-fi TV themes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>53:07 &#8211; Fears:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>53:10 &#8212; 2025 Fears.<\/li>\n<li>55:41 &#8212; 2026 Fears.<\/li>\n<li><strong>61:21 &#8211; Emails and listener feedback.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>70:03 &#8211; Farewell for this podcast!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>70:41 &#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=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/\">Star Trek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gil_Gerard\">Wikipedia: Gil Gerard<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amanda_Brotchie\">Wikipedia: Amanda Brotchie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_War_Between_the_Land_and_the_Sea\">Wikipedia: The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stranger_Things\">Wikipedia: Stranger Things<\/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: 00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune. 01:00 &#8212; Welcome! 02:04 &#8211; News: 02:18 &#8212; Doctor Who: New production team announced. 05:22 &#8212; Star Trek: Strange new Bones and Sulu. 07:18 &#8212; Gil Gerard: DEAD! 10:24 &#8212; Amanda Brotchie: DEAD! 12:06 &#8211; Annual Predictions: 12:34 &#8212; 2025 Predictions. 15:40 &#8212; 2026 Predictions. 24:44 &#8211; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,10,16,6,13,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","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-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}