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John and I both prefer to listen to NPR when we are driving anywhere.  This can make road trips (to see his folks, to see my folks, to go to SCA events) interesting since here in the midwest good radio can be hard to come by.  There are a lot of country-western or Jeeeezus! radio stations, however, if that is your thing.  It is not our thing.  (We also have no real interest in getting satellite radio, which would also solve our problem.)

Inevitably, somewhere half-way through a trip to where ever, punching the station seek button on the radio over and over in the hops of finding something worth listening to, one of us will comment on how we should have downloaded a bunch of NPR podcasts for the trip.  We do this every time, and up until the most recent trip, always forgot about the podcasts until we were already in the car, and about half-way to somewhere.

I had resolved that we wouldn’t fall into that trip for the trip to NORAD, and the afternoon we were leaving I emailed John at work to find out his podcast preferences, and then left my office a bit early to download podcasts, pack, and other assorted last-minute chores.

I managed to download 4 Radiolab episodes and 1 Car Talk episode to my iPod before we had to leave.

Radiolab is awesome.

Everyone should listen to Radiolab.

After we got back I downloaded every single Radiolab episode that I could find.  (Warning: the Radiolab download server is about as quick as molasses, so I recommend downloading in the early morning.  It seemed to work best then.)

We have finally gotten into the wide world of podcasts.  I cringe at how long it took us.