Secret Phone Notes

Ready to play roulette with your notes app? We scroll, we stop, we reveal. What we discover is what we discuss –– film reccs to situation-ship break-up texts. Oh, and hi. I am Barry and you are very welcome. New episodes every Tuesday.

Secret Phone Notes is a comedy podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Secret Phone Notes, a comedy show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #18

  Ep 17: Molly's Secret Phone Notes / Dirty Girl Fridays, Mongolian massage, dreamy Sligo

  Aug 10, 202657 minS1

  Episode 17 and I'm joined by Molly Keane : 00:25 — Intro / meet Molly / Sligo, photography, trail running, sourdough donut discourse 03:22 — Note 1: Barry / Something overheard on the Crete flight home between a creepy guy and his seat partner 12:44 — Note 2: Molly / Oldest note: a shopping list that reveals a decision she made about herself → Dirty Girl Fridays → pineapple pizza → candied pineapple toasty on the Tour de Mont Blanc 27:05 — Note 3: Molly / A dream from April 2022 involving someone unlikely being fearless → recurring childhood nightmare → Tenet, Inception, and why Molly is a serial rewatcher of Little Miss Sunshine 36:40 — Note 4: Molly / A New Year's Eve note that asks one big question and leaves it completely blank → Paris Marathon , strength training, running podcast recs 44:45 — The Mongolian massage: a forty-five minute education, a gas station inflatable man, a lit rollie, and €50 Barry didn't see coming 51:37 — Mongolian throat singing, Tilly the dog's review of it, and Barry's DART claim that didn't survive five seconds of scrutiny Molly is a photographer, trail runner, and all-round outdoor enthusiast based in Sligo . But that's only a small portion of our convo. We'd met exactly once before this. You can find Molly at @mollykeane_photo on Instagram and @molly_wanders on TikTok, where she documents everything about the northwest of Ireland with her rescue dog, Tilly, and her wonderful fiance Garth. We cover...A note I took on the flight home from Crete that I probably shouldn't publish but absolutely am. Molly's oldest note — a shopping list from 2021 that brings us onto Monty Python. A dream she wrote down in April 2022, which opens up into a proper conversation about recurring nightmares, Christopher Nolan, and Little Miss Sunshine. And a single question jotted down on New Year's Eve with absolutely zero follow-up — which then leads to the most honest conversation about marathon training , patience, and why runners hate hearing about strength training. That bit was written by AI. So sue me. It's really late. And then at the end, because we went about twenty minutes over and I couldn't stop myself, I told Molly about the time I booked a Mongolian massage in Berlin through ClassPass. Forty-five minutes of massage history. A scarecrow. A gas station inflatable man. A lit rollie. A calcium deficit diagnosis. And a €50 surcharge on what I thought was a free session. I don't have many regrets in life, but. The podcast's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secretphonenotes/ My website + contact: https://barrytaylor.co/ Cheers!

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  Episode #17

  Ep 16: Daniel's Secret Phone Notes / 4,200 (!), the SNL of sustainability, Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Jul 27, 202654 minS1

  This week Barry is joined by Danny , an Ecuadorian musician-turned-entrepreneur based in Guayaquil, Ecuador for a roulette through his notes apps. Daniel spent eight years as a musician in Germany, fronting Ponte Pilas . Now he's back in Ecuador running Pulso Verde , a sustainability startup that communicates climate action through comedy and sketches - their self-declared moonshot: to become the SNL of sustainability . They get into the challenge of building a green business in a country where sustainability is, in Daniel's words, still in nappies, and what it actually looks like when individual impact becomes measurable. Also: a 2014 note about an album cover involving two blocks of ice, a one-line note on human conviction that doubles as a perfect summary of climate inaction and gastritis pizza relapses, the Ecuadorian expression "el mundo de los sin zapatos" (the world of the shoeless), the Philip Seymour Hoffman hair-pulling story from the set of The Master , Jake Gyllenhaal's eyebrows in Nightcrawler , and Barry's 35 before 35 list. (I'm sorry, AI summarised this. I am too too tired). 00:23 — Introduction 04:57 — Note 1: Barry / Camino hiking shopping list → peach loops, sweaty Camembert, and morale management on long trails 11:06 — Note 2: Daniel / oldest note (2014, Bremen) → "You and I, we're gonna live some more" → Ponte Pilas origin, music background, parents who wanted to be musicians ~18:00 — Note 3: Daniel / "El mundo de los sin zapatos" → creativity and discipline → the Berlin park "temple" → Bismillah album, Peter Kat Recording Company 31:31 — Note 4: Daniel / "The condemnation is that we know what to do and we don't do it" → sustainability parallels → gastritis and the pizza relapse 36:09 — Pulso Verde deep dive: the SNL of sustainability, the talk show, team of 13, no greenwashing 41:01 — The man who brought his reusable cup / what measurable impact actually feels like 43:37 — The Studio (Seth Rogen) / Hollywood making fun of Hollywood / the actors who said no and are now calling back 45:10 — Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and the hair-pulling story / Jesse Plemons / Jake Gyllenhaal's eyebrows in Nightcrawler 50:20 — Barry's 35 before 35 list / acting class as the litmus test of fear / sign-off / "el mundo de los sin zapatos" Practicing your Spanish? Listen here: Pulso Verde: https://www.instagram.com/pulso__verde/?hl=en Pulshow: https://www.instagram.com/pulshowww/?hl=en More episodes etc: Secret Phone Notes: https://www.instagram.com/secretphonenotes/?hl=en

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  Episode #16

  Ep 15: Sara's Secret Phone Notes / Grandma's IRA medals, Abbey Road sessions, Japan at Christmas

  Jul 20, 20261h 2mS1

  This week Barry is joined by Sara Louise — Sydney-based brand strategist, singer, musician, and author — for a roulette through her notes app. In the last thirteen months, Sara has recorded an album at Abbey Road Studios , written and released her debut single "Buen Hombre", and self-published May the Road Rise, a book tracing her Irish family roots back to the Cork flying columns and the War of Independence. Her grandmother was a member of Cumann na mBan, awarded IRA medals, and was involved in printing illegal propaganda with Erskine Childers in a cottage outside Kilnamatra, Macroom. Also: working in Tokyo and why KFC is Japan's Christmas tradition , singing "My Way" in Spanish at a Bolivian celebration of life , Barry's overheard Bray prom conversation that doubled as a commentary on Ireland's cocaine statistics , and what it means to carry your grandmother's DNA a hundred years after she left Cork. Links: https://www.saralouise.me/ https://barrytaylor.co/ https://www.instagram.com/secretphonenotes/ Email: barrytaylor1993@gmail.com 00:00 — Intro / meet Sara 04:57 — GUEST RANDOM NOTE 08:18 — Japan: KFC Christmas and NYE traditions: Shinto New Year, Yoroshiku Negaishimasu 14:14 — RANDOM HOST NOTE: Ireland's cocaine stats → Jameson whiskey → the Boston deathbed story 22:51 — GUEST RANDOM NOTE singing at a Bolivian funeral → Irish songs and grief → dream of singing in Irish 37:54 — GUEST RANDOM NOTE Coke for Vinnie → Sri Lankan food in the Hunter Valley → what is jaggery 46:17 — Irish family history: the flying columns, 8th Battalion, Cork ambush sites 52:20 — Cumann na mBan → grandma's IRA medals 56:41 — Erskine Childers, illegal propaganda, TB, and leaving Cork in 1925 1:00:09 — Wrap-up: May the Road Rise book, the album

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  Episode #15

  Ep14: Niamh's Secret Phone Notes / Oklahoma storm chasing, shooting boygenius, queer representation

  Jul 6, 202656 minS1

  This week I sit down with Niamh Barry a Cork-born, Dublin-based photographer and documentary filmmaker and we roulette her phone notes app. Niamh's debut documentary Something in the Air , officially selected for Galway Film Fleadh 2026 and GazeFest, follows Raychel Sanner, a storm chaser and trans woman living between Oklahoma and New Mexico. Just last month it won Best Short Documentary at the BAFTA-qualifying Manchester Film Festival. https://www.filmsomethingintheair.com/donate https://www.niamh-barry.com/189a7061fd-content We get into Tornado Alley, anti-trans legislation, what surprised Niamh about the LGBT community in Oklahoma, and what it took to finally photograph boygenius, including a last-minute visa scramble and a flight to Philadelphia. Amongst other things, we kick off with Barry's (me, host) (not Niamh) awkward opener involving a dermatology appointment and the SH:24 free STI testing service (get checked, folks). Chapter list is below. as well as other links! Chapter list: 00:00 – Welcome & introducing photographer and filmmaker Niamh Barry 03:40 - FIRST HOST NOTE (RANDOM) 04:20 – An awkward first phone note: skin checks, STI tests & Irish healthcare 09:40 - FIRST GUEST NOTE (RANDOM) 10:20 – The notes behind working with Irish band Sprints 15:45 – Flying to Philadelphia to photograph Boygenius 20:45 – Queer representation in music photography 24:45 – SECOND GUEST NOTE (RANDOM) 26:20 – Making Something in the Air 30:10 – Storm chasing, Oklahoma & meeting Raychel 33:45 – What Hollywood gets wrong about tornadoes 36:50 – Will & Harper , empathy & travelling across America 44:00 - THIRD GUEST NOTE (RANDOM) 44:50 – The Irish Photography Prize & photographing community 50:30 – Barry's accidental photography exhibition 55:20 – Wrap-up Social links: https://www.instagram.com/narryphotographyvids/ https://www.instagram.com/secretphonenotes/ Thanks!

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  Episode #14

  Ep 13: Chris's Secret Phone Notes / Biomimicry, Irish polar bears, Tom Crean

  Jun 30, 202651 minS1

  Ready to roulette a stranger's notes app ? Today I'm joined by Chris Barrett, an adventurer who is known for sharing stories of Irish and Arctic nature. He's also a woodworker, conservationist, designer, and many other things. He's worth a listen. It's one of my fave chats so far. Anyway, let's see what we find in his notes app. Secret Phone Notes Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/secretphonenotes/ Chris Barrett's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chris_barrett_photo/ Rough overview and chapter list below: A citizen science Arctic expedition off Svalbard, a year bike packing through Patagonia, Bolivia's salt flats and the Atacama Desert, and a near-miss on Bolivia's death road all come up through the notes. So does an autonomous fertilizer ball, a gecko-inspired glove built for his college thesis, and the Trinity College research linking polar bears back to the Irish brown bear. Plus: Tom Crean, translucent polar bear fur, and why biomimicry has 3.5 billion years of R&D behind it. 00:00 – Welcome & introducing Chris Barrett 01:20 – RANDOM HOST NOTE 02:00 – Colour blindness, whiskey ads & Coca-Cola myths 04:50 – Coca leaves, altitude sickness & hiking in Peru 06:50 – Bikepacking Patagonia, Bolivia & traveling light 09:15 – The Pacific Crest Trail & ultralight hiking culture 12:30 – RANDOM GUEST NOTE: the autonomous fertiliser ball 16:55 – Nature restoration, farming & rural Ireland 20:05 – Biomimicry: how nature inspires better design 24:55 – Gecko gloves, shark skin & everyday invention 28:10 – RANDOM GUEST NOTE 31:20 – Cycling the Bolivian salt flats & drunken drivers 36:20 – RANDOM GUEST NOTE Boxing inventions → Arctic photography 37:30 – Polar bears, climate change & photographing the Arctic 41:55 – Svalbard expeditions & a life-long obsession with the poles 44:20 – Tom Crean, Shackleton & Ireland's greatest explorer 48:35 – Wrap-up Thank you for listening!

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