🎧 2025 Week 48 Audio Journal

No practice has inspired me to try more things, be more attentive, and practice listening more than keeping notes on my day.

Welcome to my audio journal—a daily space where I reflect on what I’ve been hearing and learning through podcasts, audiobooks, and music. I pay attention to the ideas, emotions, and voices that stick with me, capturing them in the moment before they fade. This is more than a habit—it’s how I move through the world as an audionaut.

Being an audionaut means treating listening as an active, meaningful practice. Journaling helps me slow down, track what’s shaping me, and stay curious. These aren’t reviews—they’re reflections, insights, and sometimes just little echoes I don’t want to lose.

If this kind of intentional listening speaks to you, you’ll probably enjoy my podcast, Two Steps with Stephen Henning, where I think out loud about the stuff that matters. And maybe this will invite you to become an audionaut too—to really listen to the sounds that move you, and respond with something honest.

Monday - Dec 1, 2025

Podcasts

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Power Ranking Players We're NOT Thankful For

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Week 13 Preview

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Week 13 Recap

• NPRs UpFirst - 26 Nov 2025

• NPRs UpFirst - 27 Nov 2025

• NPRs UpFirst - 28 Nov 2025

• NPRs UpFirst - 29 Nov 2025

• NPRs UpFirst - 1 Dec 2025

• Critical Role - Fireside Chat LIVE with Liam O'Brien

• Are We There Yet? - "Rocket Dreams" chronicles trillion-dollar commerical space race

• BirdNote - Why Do Birds Flick Their Tails?

• Learning How To See - Loving People Who Oppose Our Values with Cassidy Hall

• Wonderful! - Required for Show Choir

• Before Breakfast - What do you want to be grateful for?

• BirdNote - A Grandchild's Song for Robins

• Jordan Jesse Go! - The Last Fanta Girl, with Solomon Georgio

• Before Breakfast - Shop more mindfully

• BirdNote - Sparrow Loves Birds

• MTPR - Heritage Center's immersive exhibits go deep ino Montana history

• BirdNote - The Birds of Yoga

• Philosophize This! - Romeo and Juliet-William Shakespeare

• Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts - Bombs, Bootlaces and Winter Orchids

• Star Trails - How to Build a Time Machine

• BirdNote - Costa Rica Pulses with Life

• Strangers on a Bench - A Letter To My Mum

• Gumshoes & Dragons - Coroner's Report #9

• Before Breakfast - The secret to sticking with things

• BirdNote - Jane Kim and the Wall of Birds

Tuesday - Dec 2, 2025

Podcasts

• My Brother, My Brother & Me - A Safe Space to Hurt Travis's Feelings

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Seaon-on-the-Line Week 14 Waivers

• BirdNote - The Gyrfalcon-A Circumpolar Raptor

• Before Breakfast - You get to choose

• NPRs UpFirst - 2 Dec 2025

• The Wild - How our planet came to life with Ferris Jabr

• MTPR - Montana's 2026 congressional races take shape

• Worlds Beyond Number - Fireside Chat: Fiasco! A Deep Dive into GM-less Gameplay

• MTPR - Educators say new standardized test results don't tell the whole story

Music

• My Lofi playlist

Audiobooks

• The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

• Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Misc

• Voxers from Alex

Wednesday - Dec 3, 2025

Podcasts

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Overtime Trust Draft

• MTPR - State selects Laurel for new mental health facility

• MTPR - Gallatin County tracks measles exposure across 22 locations

• BirdNote - Common Potoo: Branch or Bird?

• NPRs UpFirst - 3 Dec 2025

• 6 Figure Creative - Why You Keep Struggling with Feast or Famine (and How to Fix It for Good)

• Are We There Yet? - Starliner's next move and a deep dive into Gemini program

• Dear Hank & John - Curt's Fleas

• Twenty Thousand Hertz - The Sound of Fallout: From Iconic Games to Prestige TV

• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - Earthquake

• Wonderful! - Ba-ba-ba-ba-basketball

• Hey Riddle Riddle - I want to say Cookie Wolf?

Music

• My Lofi playlist

• JAMS playlist

Audiobooks

• The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

• Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Thursday - Dec 4, 2025

Podcasts

• BirdNote - Protecting the Madagascar Fish-Eagle

• Before Breakfast - Ask who needs to be involved

• NPRs UpFirst - 4 Dec 2025

• MTPR - What's the history of abortion access in Montana?

• Learning How To See - Learning How to Hold Space for Others with Cindy Lee

• Hello from the Magic Tavern - Behind the Tavern: End of Season 2

• MTPR - Feds promise aid to ag industry squeezed by rising costs, market changes

• Jordan Jesse Go! - High Value Treat, with Allie Goertz

• The Adventure Zone - Royale Episode 14

• RobCast - Pete Rollins at The Art Center

Audiobooks

• The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

• Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

• Leave It Be by Alan Watts

What Made Me Cry

• The Office BFFs book

• Video of dogs loving their people

Friday - Dec 5, 2025

Podcasts

• MTPR - Belgrade woman pleads guilty to harboring people in the country illegally

• BirdNote - Double-jointed Hawks and Convergent Evolution

• Before Breakfast - Make your own birthday fun

• NPRs UpFirst - 5 Dec 2025

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - Week 14 Preview

• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - We Made It Weird 234

• dharmapunxnyc - The Holidays: From Sometimes Just Surviving to Thriving

Audiobooks

• Leave It Be by Alan Watts

What Made Me Cry

• Couples therapy

• Snow Bear short film... for 30 solid minutes of weeping. It was about so much more, as it tends to be

Sunday - Dec 7, 2025

Music

• Wicked Film Soundtrack, Parts 1 & 2

What Made Me Cry

• For Good song from Wicked soundtrack