do you listen to podcasts?

All of this media recap madness has me in the mood for just one more round of sharing media I love to consume.  This time:  podcasts!

Do you listen to podcasts?  When they first came out I thought they were just a passing fad, but in the past few years, I have come to almost exclusively listen to podcasts.  Yes, I will occasionally listen to an audiobook, lecture series or sermon, and of course I listen to a lot of music, but when it comes to "talk radio", podcast is my preferred medium.

I can listen to them whenever I want, they update automatically through iTunes and they are great for the commute.  The only downside is that Min and I have nothing to talk about at the end of the day because we've already listened to the same stories.

Me:  "Did you hear about..."
Min:  "Yes, I listened to the podcast"
Me:  <silently eating my dinner>

Here are a few podcasts I enjoy:

Born a little before my time but still well-versed in the pop-culture and sports that were an important part of my childhood, Bill Simmons covers it all in this consistently entertaining podcast.  Possessing a savant-like knowledge of sports and communicating in fluent pop-culture-nese, I am rarely disappointed after a session of the B.S. Report.

Growing up in Canada I was more accustomed to CBC Radio than NPR, but once I discovered these NPR podcasts, I quickly made them a part of my regular talk-radio diet.  NPR Shuffle is a good place to start for a random sampling of news items and stories, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is a fun "game show" based on current news items and often involving celebrity guests, and the Pop Culture Podcast is just what its name suggests.  Left leaning and well-produced, I have really come to appreciate the content that comes out of National Public Radio.

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