Sunday Nice Things: Heart Trouble

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our friends at Tink Media and the Resonate Podcast Festival have launched something called Pitch Party—a brilliant idea that gives independent audio creators a place to share their podcast pilots with real listeners. This week’s pilot, Heart Trouble, is a haunting and beautiful piece of storytelling. It begins when country radio DJ Sid Wood dies suddenly in 1987. Decades later, his daughter finds a box of old cassette tapes and hears her father’s voice for the first time. That discovery sends her on a cross-country journey through the Midwest and the American South—from honky-tonk bars to the Grand Ole Opry—to uncover who her father was, and what his life (and his music) meant. Listen to more of Pitch Party here. Join our newsletter community here. ORDER EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:28.0	Thanks, Canva.
0:30.8	Hey all, Joe here and welcome to Sunday Nice Things.
0:34.9	All of you know that I believe two things are true. One, there's too much content
0:40.1	in the world generally. And two, I think that more really good podcasts should be produced.
0:47.9	And I think it's really hard for that to happen. My friends over at Tink Media are doing something
0:51.9	very cool right now with a show called Pitch Party.
0:55.6	It's from Resonate Podcast Festival and Tink.
0:58.8	And each episode of Pitch Party actually features a different podcast pilot from an independent producer.
1:04.4	I love this. I love it so much.
1:07.4	It gives exposure to independent producers and also lets listeners hear new voices, which I think is
1:12.8	really freaking important. Today's episode is from a show called Heart Trouble. And here's the
1:18.0	description. Country Radio DJ Sid Wood died of a sudden heart attack in July of 1987 as he was
1:25.0	about to go on air. Years later, his daughter Caitlin accidentally stumbles
1:29.5	upon his unfamiliar voice in a box of old cassette tapes. The sound of Sid's ghost spurs Caitlin
1:36.2	on a cross-country journey through the Midwest and American South, from small-town honky-tunk bars
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