Well, I feel a bit cheaty going into this exercise because I'm already a big fan of podcasts and have been using them for a while now. Right after I got my iPod, my first thought after dreading the tedium of transferring all of my music over to it, was: 'Yay! This American Life podcasts!' Fast forward to now and I'm still very much 'Yay, TAL podcasts!'
Yes, now I can cry in my car to the soothing sounds of Ira Glass' voice at any time I choose!
I don't have to wait until it comes on NPR to get snivelly & weepy!
I think I even added TAL podcasts to my RSS feeds thingy already when we were working on that exercise, so that's done.
I get mine directly from iTunes, personally, but I know that's not the best option for everyone. I'm pretty much a big NPR nerd, but this is especially evident in the podcasts I choose to subscribe to (in addition to TAL), 75% of which are from NPR. Some things don't translate well for me, though, as far as listening to podcasts versus reading books. I downloaded some organic gardening ones but I found that my mind kept drifting and I kept losing my place in what was being said. This is more of an ongoing issue I have with any audiobook, though.
I did peruse podcastalley.com and found some that I might have to try, like some under the 'Food and Drink' category. Instead of weeping in my car to Ira Glass, though, these might make my stomach growl too much...
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Too funny- I have my 'Thing 21' post sitting in 'Edit' mode under the title 'Pod People' with a mention of This American Life as well!
Guess I'll do a little more editing :)
We must be working together too much these days -- we're rubbing off on each other!
Or maybe it's just a mark of our mutual good taste, that we both were set to rave about This American Life. :)
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