List Envy – Details, episodes & analysis

We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants. And there are no more impressive shoulders to stand on than the great physicists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This week, Mark is in conversation with author and teacher Katherine Benfante, to determine who wins physics.

• (00:00) - We need physics!
• (00:32) - Introduction
• (02:37) - Katherine’s pick: Sir Isaac Newton
• (05:01) - Mark’s pick: Joseph Swan
• (07:29) - Katherine’s pick: James Clerk Maxwell
• (13:53) - Mark’s pick: William Shockley
• (15:41) - Katherine’s pick: Ernest Rutherford
• (19:13) - Mark’s pick: Heinrich Hertz
• (21:22) - Katherine’s pick: Albert Einstein
• (25:23) - Mark’s pick: Guglielmo Marconi
• (28:12) - Katherine’s pick: Stephen Hawking
• (33:26) - Mark’s pick: Alexander Graham Bell
• (37:04) - Midamble
• (40:01) - Building the final list
• (42:59) - Honourable mentions
• (43:46) - Katherine’s p ick: Sir Isaac Newton
• (46:40) - Scattered

Find Katherine via her website, buy her book Scattered on Amazon, or follow her on Twitter.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hands up who overthinks stuff? Did you really put your hand up? Is anyone else putting theirs up? Did you put yours up too quickly? Maybe you were too slow? And what is a hand meant to do once it’s up in the air, anyway? I mean, we’re always being told to wave them like we just don’t care… how does a person do that?

And breathe.

Kim Witten helps people turn their overthinking into expert thinking, and she joins Mark to build a top-5 list of ways to tame the gremlins in our brain.

• (00:00) - You are in charge
• (00:40) - Introduction
• (01:21) - Why the brain?
• (03:30) - The vice of advice
• (06:13) - Kim’s pick: Make a top-5 list of you
• (11:33) - Mark’s pick: Walk for a 10-song playlist
• (15:06) - Kim’s pick: Get some perspective
• (18:52) - Mark’s pick: Occupy your chimp
• (22:26) - Kim’s pick: Treat feelings as feedback
• (25:20) - Mark’s pick: Make the right thing the easy thing
• (28:28) - Kim’s pick: Get stuff out of your head
• (32:04) - Mark’s pick: Dance like nobody’s watching
• (34:33) - Kim’s pick: Be like Alice
• (39:00) - Mark’s pick: Meditate for 15 minutes
• (45:31) - Midamble
• (46:42) - Building the final list
• (48:00) - Honourable mentions
• (54:01) - Hold That Thought

Find Kim via her website, and make sure to sign up for her newsletter to keep the journey of gremlin-taming going.

PS: Mark doesn’t usually have coaches or coachy-type conversations on this podcast. But Kim’s one of the good’ns, and what she has to say is sound.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just like every brand has a visual logo, every accomplished brand has an audio – or sonic – logo too. Everything from the Netflix “tudum” to the noise your computer makes when it starts up… even the cap on the bottle of soda; it’s all been designed to be memorable.

Professional voice actor Jodi Krangle joins Mark to discuss all things sonic branding, and to pick their combined top 5 list of sonic logos.

• (00:00) - Your kettle has a sonic brand
• (00:30) - Introduction
• (00:53) - Why is audio branding important?
• (03:01) - Jodi’s pick: Intel
• (06:31) - Mark’s pick: Sega
• (09:00) - Jodi’s pick: McDonald’s
• (12:16) - Mark’s pick: KFC
• (13:14) - Jodi’s pick: Netflix
• (15:08) - Mark’s pick: macOS startup chime
• (17:53) - Jodi’s pick: State Farm
• (19:37) - Mark’s pick: Cadbury
• (21:34) - Jodi’s pick: Renault
• (23:55) - Mark’s pick: Xbox 360
• (26:21) - Midamble
• (28:47) - Building the final list
• (29:46) - Honourable mentions
• (33:47) - Making people pay attention
• (36:48) - Pearl and Dean
• (37:47) - The Audio Branding podcast

Listen to the Audio Branding podcast, and book Jodi for your next project.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where can you go to get a goodnight kiss, see a big wienie, and drink your way around the world? Why, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom of course!

This week, Mark is joined by Disney turbo-enthusiast James Smith, to create the definitive list of things you can do in the happiest place on earth.

• (00:00) - Cold open
• (00:14) - Introduction
• (01:42) - The changing parks
• (03:16) - James’s pick: The Haunted Mansion
• (08:21) - Mark’s pick: Space Mountain
• (14:55) - James’s pick: Pirates of the Caribbean
• (19:33) - Mark’s pick: Evening fireworks
• (22:48) - James’s pick: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
• (25:17) - Drink your way through Disney World
• (26:38) - Mark’s pick: Cinderella Castle
• (31:59) - James’s pick: Peter Pan’s Flight
• (35:21) - Mark’s pick: Parades
• (39:34) - James’s pick: Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover
• (42:37) - Mark’s pick: Jungle cruise
• (45:31) - A brief sitdown
• (46:25) - The Big Minute
• (48:28) - Building the final list
• (51:11) - Honourable mentions
• (53:02) - Disney Facts and Figment

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If they don’t leave you humming to yourself during your midnight pee, then they don’t qualify.

Standup comic Luke Gallacher joins Mark to discuss films that give them the absolute ick, and put them in the correct order.

• (00:00) - We don’t want famous people in our horrors
• (00:12) - It begins
• (01:26) - In this house we do horror
• (02:46) - Luke’s pick: Nightmare on Elm Street
• (05:18) - Mark’s pick: Midsommar
• (07:46) - Luke’s pick: Paranormal Activity
• (10:11) - Mark’s pick: the Babadook
• (13:17) - Luke’s pick: Hereditary
• (17:50) - Mark’s pick: A Clockwork Orange
• (19:21) - Luke’s pick: Smile
• (24:42) - Mark’s pick: The Blair Witch Project
• (29:50) - Luke’s pick: The Conjuring
• (32:07) - Luke’s pick: The Witch
• (33:02) - Mark’s pick: Mama
• (35:13) - You can open your eyes now
• (37:22) - Get List Envy +
• (38:52) - Coming up
• (39:37) - Building the final list
• (42:04) - Honourable mentions
• (45:26) - The end…?

Find Luke at a comedy venue near you. If there’s an open mic or a competition, chances are he’ll be there.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Let’s get away to this old European castle”, he said. “It’ll be romantic”, he said. Then you find your husband’s EVP meter in your carry-on luggage and you remember you married a writer of real-life ghost stories.

John Olson, author of the Stranger Bridgerland book series joins Mark to discuss places that will creep you the hell out.

• (00:00) - The Stair Monster
• (00:07) - Introduction
• (00:53) - The 100 Year-old House
• (04:03) - The Man in the Hat
• (05:03) - Where is the evidence?
• (06:38) - John’s pick: the Queen Mary
• (10:32) - Mark’s pick: 284 Green Street
• (12:29) - John’s pick: The Stanley Hotel, Colorado
• (16:15) - Mark’s pick: The Catacombs underneath Paris
• (19:04) - John’s pick: Pavaglia
• (21:19) - Mark’s pick: Aokigahara
• (24:06) - John’s pick: Waverly Hills Sanatorium
• (26:44) - Mark’s pick: Zvíkov Castle, Czech Republic
• (28:21) - John’s pick: The Bigelow Hotel, Ogden
• (31:02) - Midamble
• (32:36) - Get List Envy +
• (34:22) - Coming up
• (35:11) - Building the final list
• (36:16) - Honourable mentions
• (36:55) - Stranger Bridgerland

Discover Stranger Bridgerland online and follow John on TikTok.

The Stranger Bridgerland podcast

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve got some half-priced cracked ice, codpieces, yellow coats and goldfish shoals nibbling at toes. That can mean only one thing – your podcast app is on the blink again.

Jon Bounds rejoins Mark to discuss their top-5 80s sitcoms from the UK. There is a very long long-list.

• (00:00) - Jon moved Dead Elvis
• (00:07) - Introduction
• (00:53) - What makes a sitcom?
• (02:27) - Jon’s pick: Only Fools and Horses
• (07:19) - Mark’s pick: The Young Ones
• (11:29) - Jon’s pick: Hi-de-Hi
• (15:08) - Mark’s pick: Blackadder
• (21:15) - Jon’s pick: Yes Minister
• (26:49) - Mark’s pick: Red Dwarf
• (31:15) - Jon’s pick: Colin’s Sandwich
• (33:54) - Mark’s pick: Auf Wiedersehen Pet
• (37:27) - You have been watching
• (38:18) - Get List Envy +
• (40:10) - Coming up
• (41:19) - Building the final list
• (43:06) - Honourable mentions
• (47:18) - Trigger’s Broom

Keep up with Jon via his website, and to know when his new podcast Trigger’s Broom drops.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sequins, ethnic-sounding instruments, scantily-clad androgynous gimps, wolves in tailored suits. It’s here. It’s Eurovision. Get used to it.

Cat Turner joins Mark to sift through all 37 Eurovision 2024 semifinalists to discover which are objectively the best 5.

• (00:00) - Who chooses hockey over Eurovision?
• (00:08) - Introduction
• (02:00) - Memories of Eurovision past
• (04:28) - How Mark got Eurovision wrong
• (05:13) - Cat’s pick: Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim
• (07:36) - Mark’s pick: Aiko - Pedestal
• (10:26) - Cat’s pick: Joost Klein - Europapa
• (12:39) - Mark’s pick: Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue
• (14:22) - Sweden don’t want to host again
• (15:25) - Cat’s pick: 5Minust x Puuluup - (Nendest) Narkootikumidest ei Tea Me
• (18:24) - Mark’s pick: Nemo - The Code
• (21:17) - Cat’s pick: Electric Fields - One Milkali (One Blood)
• (22:57) - Mark’s pick: Ladaniva - Jako
• (25:05) - Cat’s pick: Olly Alexander - Dizzy
• (27:23) - Mark’s pick: Windows95man - No Rules!
• (29:51) - Vote now!
• (30:41) - Get List Envy +
• (31:43) - Coming up
• (33:00) - Building the final list
• (33:57) - Honourable mentions
• (36:32) - See you at the finals

Hear the full playlist on YouTube

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Those “You had to be there” moments; the jokes that made you cry but you can no longer remember; the savage putdown of the ambitious heckler. These are the moments that distinguish live comedy from what you can get on Netflix.

This week, new standup Dave Bond joins Mark to discuss their top-5 British standups you can currently see live… and simply must!

• (00:00) - A first
• (00:08) - Introduction
• (00:55) - Make ‘em laugh
• (03:55) - Dave’s pick: Peter Kay
• (08:01) - Mark’s pick: Daniel Kitson
• (10:25) - Dave’s pick: Jimmy Carr
• (13:58) - Mark’s pick: Sarah Millican
• (17:27) - Dave’s pick: Neil Delamere
• (19:55) - Mark’s pick: Ross Noble
• (23:03) - Dave’s pick: James Cook
• (24:05) - Mark’s pick: Nina Conti
• (27:13) - Dave’s pick: Greg Davies
• (28:41) - Intermission
• (31:52) - Get List Envy +
• (33:10) - Coming up
• (34:50) - Building the final list
• (38:44) - Honourable mentions
• (41:48) - More of Dave Bond

Watch Dave’s first piece of standup

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone’s pretty, everyone eventually gets down to it, no-one throws up, and occasionally steam comes out of someone’s ears. Is there more to cute Korean dramas than this?

Turns out yes, yes there is, as positive psychologist and K-drama stan Anya Pearse explains.

• (00:00) - A lot of thought wente into this
• (00:11) - Introduction
• (00:57) - What makes K-dramas different?
• (04:39) - Anya’s pick: Extraordinary Attorney Woo
• (09:02) - Mark’s pick: I am Not a Robot
• (12:50) - Anya’s pick: Are You Human?
• (16:21) - Mark’s pick: Strong Girl Bong-soon
• (22:03) - Anya’s pick: Navillera
• (25:58) - Mark’s pick: Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
• (30:10) - Anya’s pick: Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung
• (34:13) - Mark’s pick: It’s OK Not to be OK
• (38:27) - Anya’s pick: 100 Days My Prince
• (40:42) - Mark’s pick: Queen of Tears
• (42:31) - We’re on a break!
• (44:24) - Get List Envy +
• (45:37) - Back to the show
• (45:46) - Building the final list
• (46:45) - Honourable mentions
• (47:40) - Strong female leads need not apply

If this episode has made you happy and you want to keep feeling happy, Anya’s Unlocking Happiness online summit is available to watch for free.

Take my domain knowledge quiz
Find out if your knowledge and experience can get you paid or put you on-stage.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.