{"id":3594,"date":"2026-06-21T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:11:00","slug":"staggering-stories-podcast-500-putting-a-monkey-in-your-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Stories Podcast #500: Putting a Monkey in your iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8201\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3594-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast500_22-06-2026.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast500_22-06-2026.mp3\">https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast500_22-06-2026.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/StaggeringPodcast500_22-06-2026.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringPodcast500_22-06-2026.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:26:56 &#8212; 49.8MB)<\/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\/Podcast500.jpg\" alt=\"60\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jay Doran, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller celebrate 500 podcast episodes and 19 years of this nonsense with their general thoughts on Sci-Fi and being in fandom, 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>01:07 &#8212; Welcome!<\/li>\n<li><strong>02:30 &#8211; News:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>02:37 &#8212; Doctor Who: Christmas is cancelled!.<\/li>\n<li>10:15 &#8212; Stranger Things: First Shadow stage play to close.<\/li>\n<li>11:10 &#8212; Doctor Who: River and Rory team up.<\/li>\n<li>13:29 &#8212; Anthony Head: DEAD!<\/li>\n<li>18:21 &#8212; Only Murders in the Building: London shoot with some familar guest stars.<\/li>\n<li>19:23 &#8212; Stargate: Amazon kill potential revival.<\/li>\n<li><strong>21:07 &#8211; What Sci-Fi and fandom has meant to us.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>64:43 &#8211; Audio Quiz: TV incidental music.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>68:22 &#8211; Emails and listener feedback.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>83:56 &#8211; Farewell for this podcast!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>84:39 &#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\/Stranger_Things:_The_First_Shadow\">Wikipedia: Stranger Things: The First Shadow.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigfinish.com\/ranges\/v\/river-song\">Big Finish: River Song.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Head\">Wikipedia: Anthony Head.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Only_Murders_in_the_Building\">Wikipedia: Only Murders in the Building.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stargate\">Wikipedia: Stargate.<\/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>Adam J Purcell, Andy Simpkins, Fake Keith, Jay Doran, the Real Keith Dunn and Scott Fuller celebrate 500 podcast episodes and 19 years of this nonsense with their general thoughts on Sci-Fi and being in fandom, find some general news and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00:00 &#8211; Intro and theme tune. 01:07 &#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":[23,12,10,16,6,13,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","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\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}