Interview radio with odd-news aftershocks.
The Stuph File Program moves from book conversations and public-interest interviews into odd-news reports, recurring comic bits, and station-break radio texture. Its range can run from bird conservation and online safety to school corruption, shopping carts, pickleball fights, and puns.
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The Stuph File Program is a radio-style interview and odd-news program with a deliberately crowded shelf of subjects. It sounds built for listeners who enjoy being surprised every few minutes. The show commonly opens with a lineup of guests, then threads interviews through book talk, public issues, cultural curiosities, and strange reports from real life. Peter Anthony Holder is the constant named presence in the introductions, giving the program a familiar broadcast frame even when the subjects swing sharply. A conservation conversation with Scott Weidensaul can sit near a segment about an intoxicated airport runway intruder. A discussion with Karen Horwitz about school-system corruption and missed media literacy can share space with hailstorm car protection, Patreon housekeeping, and later guest slots. Jocelyn King's account of cyber criminals, home security compromise, financial loss, and personal fallout gives the show room for serious warning. Minutes later, the same overall format can make way for a historical murder mystery, weird history, or a sharp odd-news aside. That range is the point. The program treats authors as gateways into many worlds: speculative fiction, medical drama, dad jokes, politics, mental health care, aviation history, and online safety all appear in the recent run. The odd-news material is often brisk and skeptical. It notices foolishness, danger, bureaucracy, and bad judgment, then tags the story with a punchline or a raised eyebrow. Regular features such as Sir Dudley's Poetry Corner, morning shower thoughts, and idiot-of-the-day segments give the show repeatable landmarks. The pacing feels closer to independent radio than a tightly produced narrative podcast. Segments arrive, stack up, and move on. Some conversations carry clear public-interest weight, including homelessness assumptions, cybercrime, school corruption, compassionate mental health care, and the treatment of women in earlier airline culture. Others simply enjoy language, absurdity, or the strange choices people make under pressure. The tone can be earnest, dry, playful, and blunt in the same episode. It is best understood as a cabinet of interviews and reported curiosities rather than a single-subject series. For PlayNext listeners, the hook is discovery itself: a show where a serious author, a peculiar headline, and a recurring comic corner can all plausibly belong together.
Made for: Best for listeners who like classic radio pacing, author interviews, public-interest conversations, and strange real-world stories in one feed. It suits curiosity-driven listening more than single-topic deep focus.
What sets it apart: Its signature is the collision of earnest interviews with recurring comic features and odd-news reports. Few shows place bird conservation, cybercrime, school corruption, shopping-cart psychology, and Sir Dudley-style closing bits in the same recognizable format.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Peter Anthony Holder makes institutional incentives and creative-business tradeoffs accessible through author interviews, operating detail and a brisk radio-magazine format.
Peter Anthony Holder runs The Stuph File Program like a radio magazine, moving between author conversations, institutional questions and odd-news interludes sharpened by dry commentary.
A bird-conservation interview can hand you off to drunk-horse news before you find the dial.
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Scott's bird conservation argument anchors an episode of Scottish storytelling, weird history and odd news.
Scott gives this wide-ranging episode its clearest idea: birds can tell us something about the planet's health. Their diversity, wide reach and long migrations make their well-being a useful signal.
Karen Horwitz's warning about schools shares the program with interviews, poetry, and a Florida man's hailstorm predicament.
Karen Horwitz brings the most pointed argument to this edition. A teacher and whistleblower, she says corruption in schools leads to incompetence, then turns to media literacy lessons that children were not really taught.
A retired surgeon discusses medical training amid Peter Anthony Holder's odd news.
Dr. Alan Saxon, a retired general surgeon, discusses Training in Charity, his medical drama novel set in the real hospital where he trained. The hospital serves indigent patients, and Saxon argues that students can learn from the people and surroundings as well as from their…
Dusty Rhodes's challenge to ageism gives this mix of human stories and odd news its strongest moment.
Barbara "Dusty" Rhodes gives this episode its most memorable moment. Peter Anthony Holder introduces Elaine Rock, author of Dusty Rhodes, and recounts a press conference where reporters faced eight stewardesses and were asked to identify which were over 32. They could not.
Rob Kernock says the national Republican committee discouraged potential donors during his Texas congressional campaign.
Rob Kernock remembers a Texas congressional campaign in which money was scarce and help from the National Republican Congressional Committee was scarcer. He says prospective donors contacted the national party and were told not to give because he could not win.
Michael Gerber reflects on ten years of The American Bystander as a niche humor magazine.
On The Stuff File Program, Peter Anthony Holder catches up with Michael Gerber, editor, publisher, and co-founder of The American Bystander, a decade after their earlier conversation. Gerber thought the humor magazine would either grow much bigger or close.
Education politics, with history in the room.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Host Peter Anthony Holder interviews author David Tereschuk about his quest to find his father and Vita Bybee about her musical-inspired cookbook.
Peter Anthony Holder interviews Lane Igoudin about adopting from foster care, Matt Drago about his film Somewhere in Montana, and Annie Korzen.
Peter Anthony Holder interviews Aaron Smith about his book on disabled sideshow performers and Joshua Bronfman about his baby sound machine invention.
Interviews with author/illustrator Joey Spiotto about his book 'Klingon Next Door' and entrepreneur Wayne Elliott about the ship recycling business.
Interviews with a dyslexia professor and a thriller author about undiagnosed dyslexia and a novel involving hate groups.
Scott Weidensaul says birds are about 11,000 vertebrate species and calls them ecological canaries because migration timing tracks climate change and insect abundance.
The Stuff File Program #0868 opens with Donald Gorski, the Wisconsin man who has eaten Big Macs twice daily since May 1972 and calls McDonald's Big Arch Burger "underwhelming." Karen Horwitz, an award-winning Chicago schoolteacher and whistleblower, says school corruption, intimidation, and weak media literacy have been eroding schools and democracy for decades.
Peter Anthony Holder interviews Mitra Manesh about her book on attention and technology addiction, and Lauren C.
This episode of the Stuff File program features interviews with Jocelyn King on cyber security and Dwayne Brenna on his murder mystery novel set in 1883 Saskatchewan.
Peter Anthony Holder interviews Mark Leslie about his dad joke book, Hannah B.
The Stuff File Program #0864 opens with three author interviews and a run of odd news stories, including a taxi assault in Fuentirola, Spain, and a Florida jail trustee who allegedly entered a portable toilet during a barbecue assignment.
The Stuph File Program #0863 pairs Elaine Rock, author of Dusty Rhodes, with Ellen Bassack, co-author of Between Two Worlds, around two women tied to civil rights and mental health care.
Rob Kernock says his 2008 congressional run in central Texas was blocked by the NRCC, which told donors "don't waste your money" while he was "being outspent 300 to 1." Nzondi describes Death Con as "a con on a cruise ship," where teenage grave-raisers use necromancy for police cases, families, and "necrotainment." Katie Law says Call Me Lawless began when her then-boyfriend told her, "Why don't you write a book?" and she started writing on her iPad.
Michael Gerber says The American Bystander has lasted 10 years by staying “super lean,” leaning on reader support, and publishing the kind of literary humor he wants to run.