In Which Doug Answers Bob's Question
03/27/07 Filed in: Hogwash
So,
Bob in Louisville asks how I have time to listen to
all those podcasts I wrote about. Well.
I wrote that I subscribe to them, not that I listen to them. But I quibble. It's reasonable to expect that I'd listen to them, since I went to all that trouble to add them to my subscription lists, but the fact is, I download them to give myself the option of listening. And I do eventually listen to most of them. It helps that some of the pod casts (such as The Bitterest Pill, The Jazz Show, and Urban Dharma) are 'cast-as-'cast can, so they're not on a regular schedule. Studio 360, This American Life, and The Science Show are once a week affairs, at about 45 minutes to an hour each. I generally listen to This American Life and Studio 360 the day they show up in my iPod, wherever I happen to be. I listen to The Science Show and Downstage Center on walks through the neighborhood, and The Jazz Show at the gym. I sometimes listen to Urban Dharma as I drift off to sleep, and The Bitterest Pill when I'm driving. Mr Deity is a video-cast, and requires all of about 8 minutes, so I can watch it anytime I'm at the computer.
I've also started downloading NPR's Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, the weekly comic news quiz, and KCRW's The Treatment, critic Elvis Mitchell's conversations with film folk. Again, about 30 to 45 minutes. I have tried listening to Wait,Wait as I'm falling asleep, but my giggling disturbs Jo....
I wrote that I subscribe to them, not that I listen to them. But I quibble. It's reasonable to expect that I'd listen to them, since I went to all that trouble to add them to my subscription lists, but the fact is, I download them to give myself the option of listening. And I do eventually listen to most of them. It helps that some of the pod casts (such as The Bitterest Pill, The Jazz Show, and Urban Dharma) are 'cast-as-'cast can, so they're not on a regular schedule. Studio 360, This American Life, and The Science Show are once a week affairs, at about 45 minutes to an hour each. I generally listen to This American Life and Studio 360 the day they show up in my iPod, wherever I happen to be. I listen to The Science Show and Downstage Center on walks through the neighborhood, and The Jazz Show at the gym. I sometimes listen to Urban Dharma as I drift off to sleep, and The Bitterest Pill when I'm driving. Mr Deity is a video-cast, and requires all of about 8 minutes, so I can watch it anytime I'm at the computer.
I've also started downloading NPR's Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, the weekly comic news quiz, and KCRW's The Treatment, critic Elvis Mitchell's conversations with film folk. Again, about 30 to 45 minutes. I have tried listening to Wait,Wait as I'm falling asleep, but my giggling disturbs Jo....
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