Best Jon Gregory Podcasts (2025)

PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 65 – Breaking Down The 2026 NTT IndyCar Series Schedule with Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles, and IndyCar President Doug Boles September 23, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin helps break down the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule with the two men who helped put it together, Penske Entertainment President…

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Bonus Episode: Goodwood Revival Wrap Up - and should Jenson Button or Ian Wright appear on our 100th episode?! 15:42

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Send us a text Despite our lack of new content for a month or two, it's been lovely to still have people tuning in and discovering what we are all about. Equally, the recording has continued and there's even been a bit of editing too - Season 7 is in progress! For now though, allow us to entertain you with details of our recent trip to Goodwood Rev…

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Talks to Glenn Fitzgerald about his choice of The Stones of Blood (1/4) 41:50

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Joe meets gorgeous Glenn Fitzgerald in the countryside to have a flask of tea and a sausage sandwich and to chase about with sinister stones...

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Wanna See A Musical with Susan Derry, Matt Conner, & Stephen Gregory Smith (The Turn of the Screw) 23:49

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The Turn of the Screw received its world premiere at Creative Cauldron in 2015, as part of the “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” initiative. This musical adaptation of the Henry James classic ghost story was hailed by critics as “hypnotic and unnerving.” The story follows a governess who takes a position caring for two children on a remote count…

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The Force Continuum of Believing In Yourself w/ Texas A&M Prof Wendi Zimmer 1:13:03

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I feel we are experiencing a schizophrenic time in our culture where we adamantly believe in our opinions and perspectives, but we have very little true belief in ourselves. We are increasingly insecure and fragile and thus offended and threatened by everything. People seem scared of other people and I’m concerned it belies an innate fear of themse…

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Hamster Book Club - The Androids of Tara by David Fisher (featuring David Gillespie-Pratt) 1:19:13

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What has happened to our favourite lines? Fisher rewrites a rewrite and then rewrites Tom Baker's rewrite! But with charming prose, glorious backstory and some brilliant new jokes. A piece of sunshine.

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Discover A New Musical with Barbara Bellman, Emiliano Messiez and Joan Ross Sorkin (Bordello the musical) 32:31

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Inspired by historical events surrounding Raquel Liberman, Bordello is the immigrant story of one heroic Polish woman who is forced into prostitution and risks everything to bring an international Jewish sex-trafficking ring to justice. With a musical palette that includes tango and klezmer, this never-been-told-before tale of love and bravery is s…

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Strictly Come Hamster - 12th Doctor Finale (featuring Joumana, Frazer, Mark & Dan) 2:44:13

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Four huge Peter Capaldi fans assemble to celebrate and cajole the members of the Ham Fam that say nasty things about their favourite and we battle it out through the runners up and winners to find our favourite 12th Doctor story!

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How You Act Trumps All - At Least At First w/ Andy Andrews 1:05:45

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As you know I seldom talk about current events on this podcast. But a few years ago I did address one. It was the 2022 Oscars where actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock. I did not see it and didn’t pay much attention, but then I saw a public statement made by Andy Andrews that caught my attention. I’ve known Andy for some time and had him o…

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Talks to Jack Coyer & Steven B about their choice of The Awakening (2/2) 1:21:04

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is this an atmospheric political statement of the time...or just a load of old tosh? Join Joe, Jack & Steven who investigate...

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Discover A New Musical with Taran Gray and Richard Allen (Freedom Riders The Civil Rights Musical) 19:13

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Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical dramatizes the story of the 1961 Freedom Rides — a series of integrated bus rides through the American South designed to test and defy segregation laws. Facing violent mobs, unjust arrests, and a federal government slow to intervene, these college-age activists changed the course of American history through …

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Heading into the offseason with Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rinus VeeKay, Josef Newgarden, Callum Ilott and Nolan Siegel 43:13

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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 64 – Heading into the offseason with Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rinus VeeKay, Josef Newgarden, Callum Ilott and Nolan Siegel September 16, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty more to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy as IndyCar heads into the offseason with a flurry of big ann…

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Ninja Warrior Wisdom: A High-Performance Event Strategy (ft. Ty Bennett | World-renowned Speaker, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur) 39:18

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GUEST BIO: Ty Bennett, world-renowned speaker, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, redefines leadership and performance. Author of The Power of Storytelling and Partnership Is the New Leadership, he’s addressed 2,000+ audiences worldwide. At 21, he built a $20 million business in 37 countries and now leads Leadership Inc. and the world’s largest …

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Talks to Steven B & Jack Coyer about their choice of The Awakening (1/2) 42:22

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Devils in the church, ghosts in the crypt, demons from the far reaches of space…Joe, Steven and Jack investigate this atmospheric two parter…

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Author of "Elphie" Gregory Maguire 8:27

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"Elphaba becomes more and more relevant sadly, as the decades have gone on." Welcome Gregory Maguire: We’re joined on the Starline by author and dad. You’ve read “Wicked”, “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister” among many other books. His latest is “Elphie”. We welcome Gregory Maguire. Gregory, let’s go Beyond the Mic. What made you go back to the wor…

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Hamster Book Club - Face of the Enemy by David A. McIntee (featuring Luke Sims-Jenkins, Andrew Batty & Jon Arnold) 1:59:54

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Where the book club learns to be REAL MEN! A McIntee love-in as we tackle one of his most celebrated and fun books; a ballsy, continuity filled, characterful piece with the best depiction of the Master in print. Badda-Badda-Badda!

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Just Breathe - Can We Really Alter Our Physical & Mental States By Doing Breathwork w/ Francesca Sipma 1:10:45

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I breathe just to live. I walk to live. I eat, drink, and sleep to live. Is there a benefit to breathing more or differently than necessary? I walk more than necessary for my health and fitness and go so far as to run quite a bit. I don’t eat and drink more for my health but I eat better and drink better. I definitely sleep more than necessary for …

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Discover A New Musical with Michael Levin (Sober Songs A Musical) 32:35

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Set in the basement of a Brooklyn church, SOBER SONGS is a darkly comedic musical that follows six young adults in recovery at a local AA meeting founded by the gruff but loving “Cap.” Blending biting humor, emotional ballads, and sharp dialogue, the show evolves from light and charming to deeply emotional, offering a raw, character-driven, and emo…

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Jon Wolfe: Tequila, Country Roots, and Stories 27:27

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"I think we're missing some stories and story songs... we didn't have to sing about relationships all the time." Welcome Jon Wolfe: We’re joined on the Starline by asinger songwriter and tequila guy who has evolved from his Miami Oklahoma roots and out touring keeping it country. His latest single, which he joined forces with Randy Rogers is “Tequi…

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Art Alexakis from Everclear goes Beyond the Mic 17:53

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"If it's bass drumming, guitars, maybe a keyboard, vocals, it's rock and roll." Welcome Art Alexakis: We’re joined on the Starline by a singer, songwriter and musician. You know him and his band ever since the early 90’s where they have created 11 studio releases, 4 certified Gold or Platinum and more than 8 million records sold. Out on the Sparkle…

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Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (4/4) 37:49

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Joe and Paul are heading for the biggest bang in history! My skystriker!

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Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (3/4) 31:03

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We're down in the caves, bullets are firing, the Cybermen are massacring the Vogans, Sarah is trying to get back to the Beacon, the Doctor is bomb-loaded and Harry Sullivan is very possibly an imbecile! It's all going on!

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Be Our Guest with Lalit Sritara and Taylor Wendell Lozano 25:03

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Lalit Sritara is the first Thai wordsperson in the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and a recipient of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, the Summer Song Theater Festival Artist Development Grant, the TYA/USA Festival and Conference Access for All Support Grant and the Maestra Musical Writers Festival Scholarship. Born in Bangkok…

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The (X) Hamster Files - Squeeze (featuring Agent Morris) 1:01:04

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Responsible for my every nightmare for about a decade - Eugene Victor Tooms! The baby faced, liver eating, body contorting mutant!

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The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It w/ Professor Ethan Kross 1:08:51

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We all know we have an inner voice, whether it speaks out loud, you write letters in your head like I do, or it’s just the constant stream of thoughts and feelings running amok at all times. A frequent directive is to shut the voice up or ignore it. One this is impossible, and two, that voice is there for a reason and the opportunity we all have is…

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Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (2/4) 30:44

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Sarah is infected, trapped with Harry on the planet of gold and the Doctor is sniffing out a traitor with a Cybermat. All the while the Cybermen loom ever closer...

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Talks to Paul Dunn about his choice of Revenge of the Cybermen (1/4) 46:05

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Paul starts his Hamster journey in style as he heads straight for one of the most kicked Tom Baker worries to champion. Hoover attachments at the ready!

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Author David Sheff on "Yoko" 9:29

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"I think it's turning around and I think people are getting it, they're understanding what it was that John wanted people to see when they looked at Yoko, which is what he saw when. Which was this incredible person and this incredible artist." Welcome David Sheff We’re joined on the Starline by a journalist, father and as Sanjay Gupta called him a …

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Unpacking the end of the 2025 INDYCAR Series Season with Scott Dixon, Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Ericsson and much more 45:36

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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 63 – Unpacking the end of the 2025 INDYCAR Series Season with Scott Dixon, Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Ericsson and much more September 9, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy as IndyCar heads into the offseason with a flurry of big announcements. In addition to catching up on a…

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Rob Dunn on “Taste: The Flavor of Life” 9:50

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"Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simpler moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small." Welcome Rob Dunn We’re joined on the Starline by a biologist, writer and professor at North Carolina State University. He’s focused on the biology of daily life. His latest project explores how our …

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Hamster Book Club - The Book of the Still by Paul Ebbs (featuring Mark Donaldson) 1:10:01

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On the Timelash’s Mark Donaldson & I discuss Bollywood, big concepts, romance and an idiosyncratic prose style! Boom Shakalaka!

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Fawning: Our Appeasing & “Protecting” Others Is Hurting Us All w/ Dr. Ingrid Clayton 1:15:22

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We all have a primary pattern of dealing with relational conflict. There are a scant few, in my experience, who do it with health and peace. The rest tend to fall into what psychologists have labeled, Fight, Flight, or Freeze tendencies. I’m not a fighter, and viewed myself as generally freezing in the moment of conflict, masked by thinking I was j…

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Discover a New Musical with Pamela Grayson, Alice Jankell and Aaron Drescher (The Sustain) 45:57

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The Sustain is an intimate musical about love, sex and connection in a senior living facility told through an indie rock score and interwoven stories of its elderly residents, the staff who takes care of them, and the lives they leave behind outside as they start a new chapter in this Encores!-style concert staging. …

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Author Tom Sturges on "Men Explained, Finally" 10:10

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"I ran away in the middle of the night to reclaim my life and reclaim my dignity. That was the greatest challenge I ever faced." Welcome Tom Sturges: We’re joined on the Starline by a music executive, educator, speaker, author, mentor, giver and most importantly dad. He signed Smashing Pumpkins, 50 Cent, the Foo Fighters and more in his career. His…

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Strictly Come Hamster - Season Eight (featuring Toby Hadoke, Luke Molloy & Chris Curtis) 3:08:55

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The Master! Autons! The Master! The Keller Machine! The Master! Axos! The Master! IMC! The Master! Azal! And of course the most important thing of the season - the Master! Also, the true villain of the piece - the Doctor!

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The (X) Hamster Files - Deep Throat (featuring Agent Nathan Bottomley) 53:17

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The second episode of The X-Files comes under examination by the second contributor to this new paranormal Hamster thread...

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Getting What We Expect From Ourselves & How To Expect More w/ Anthony Trucks 1:08:38

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The self-help and personal development world gives primary focus to increasing our performance so we can achieve greater successes in our lives. And it’s true we all are capable of more. Nobody is performing at their max capacity. But we won’t outperform the level of ability we believe about ourselves and all we have to go on is the proof of what w…

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Hamster Book Club - Grave Matter by Justin Richards (featuring Jon Arnold, Luke Sims-Jenkins & Andrew Batty) 2:08:11

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To Dorsill we go, stepping into the past Where zombies roam, with brains their repast, Peri persued, she needs to be fast, Or else death will catch up and forever last...

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Talks to Robert Valentine about his choice of Pyramids of Mars (4/4) 41:42

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Is the last episode of this classic a disappointment or not? Does it become less Hammer horror and more Doctor Who?

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Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden Wins Season Finale in Nashville. Also, Team Penske and Will Power part ways after 17 seasons 48:02

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PIT PASS INDY PRESENTED BY PENSKE TRUCK RENTAL – SEASON 5, EPISODE 62 – Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden Wins Season Finale in Nashville. Also, Team Penske and Will Power part ways after 17 seasons September 2, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy Presented by Penske Truck Rental after the final race of the 2025…

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The Laughter Factor: The Contagious Effect of Fun (ft. Adam Christing | Humorist, Keynote Speaker and Author 39:51

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GUEST BIO: Adam Christing is an award-winning emcee. His warm-hearted humor has delighted over two million people in 49 of the 50 US states. He is the President of CleanComedians.com and a member of Hollywood’s world-famous Magic Castle. Adam has been featured on Entertainment Tonight and over 100 podcasts, TV, and radio programs. Adam’s new book i…

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Kai Beckstrand Winner of American Ninja Warrior 8:30

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"That was probably the most nervous for any race in all my years of competition." Welcome Kai Beckstrand We’re joined on the Starline by the American Ninja Warrior winner, taking out all comers, including his brother on the way to $250,000. We welcome Kai Beckstrand. Kai, let’s go Beyond the Mic. Your road to Ninja Warrior champion started at 12 wh…