James Cridland

@james.crid.land

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Passionate about audio. Lives in Brisbane. Podnews Editor - @podnews.net for headlines and more. I’m also on the fediverse - @james@bne.social I am currently in "follow back" mode. https://podnews.net • https://james.cridland.net

A Count Binface t-shirt, saying “Clean up Clacton”
An email announcing National Motivation & Inspiration Day on Jan 2.
Two bad apostrophes
A note saying that they have to keep my data for the next ten years.
An Apple Watch, highlighting a complication showing the percentage charge of my car battery, and whether it was charging or not.
A king parrot, with a green body and a bright red belly.
Satirical news podcast The Bugle, celebrating its eighteenth birthday, has announced two live shows. The show is hosted by Andy Zaltzman in London, so it’s only natural that the show will, um, travel 10,200 miles to Brisbane on Dec 2 and even further to Melbourne on Dec 22. The Brisbane show is a ten-minute bus trip from Podnews’s HQ, so you can be sure that we’ve just bought tickets and will not be putting them “IN THE BIN!”
Text saying: Magellan AI has released its list of top podcast advertisers for September 2025. The top of the list is a company called Washable Sofas, which spent more than $7.3mn. We’ve been told we mustn’t make a JD Vance joke here, so we won’t.
A water dragon - a foot long green lizard, sits next to the pool
A jacaranda tree with purple leaves, all over the ground below
A panel with four white men called Jeff. One is called Geoff, to be fair.
A transcript of K&J’s show, from an official ACMA document
The stage for PodSummit YYC 2025
An angry-looking sign reading: Please do not jump or horseplay in elevator to avoid system failure and hefty fines that will be billed to your guest room. Thank you.
Some deer, eating the grass in front of a large white building with a logo on it
A screenshot of an email with the word "newsletter" spelt incorrectly
An email from someone trying to get their erectile dysfunction "cure" doctor onto my podcast (which is a three-minute show for the podcast industry), claiming they've carefully reviewed my podcast.
Sunset with a tree and some birds silhouetted
A hotel room key, for room number 612