Podcasts
Autosport has a new podcast, which I downloaded last night to listen to on my way to my kart race yesterday morning. I haven’t really been keeping up with my podcasts of late, so I put them on for the journey to and from Whilton Mill. It certainly helped the journey go quickly on the way there and kept me awake on the drive back. I think I’m going to start listening to them more while I’m in the car because it seems like the perfect environment for them and I rarely seem to be able to listen to them any other time. Radio and by extension podcasts seem to work best when you’re doing something that leaves a lot of your brain free for something else, like driving. Listening in work is a bit of a problem because it’s harder to concentrate on the stuff I’m actually paid to do and listen to what someone is saying. Listening at home is hard because I’ve usually got so many jobs to do it’s difficult to sort out the time to do something were I can actually pay attention to the podcast as it plays.
Anyway, the current list of podcasts on my (now 3 year old) iPod are as follows:
- Fighting Talk
- The Now Show
- Autosport
- Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews
- Gareth Jones on Speed
Those seem to suit my tastes, on demand, much better than any radio station could.
The karting itself didn’t go great. I’m not sure where we finished but it wasn’t anywhere worth mentioning. I did qualifying and was 7th when I came in, but then the sun came out and we were pushed down to 19th, which was a bit disappointing. Still, next race in two weeks so a chance to put it right will come soon.
My favourite podcast is The Geoff Show off Virgin Radio, it’s very funny. I often fall asleep laughing to it – not in a sleep clinic way. There is a website you can download old Geoff Show podcasts from – I would highly recommend the 22nd August 2006.
I’d recommend getting Mark & Lard podcasts! Ooh, I wonder if I can get Mark Radcliffe podcasts from Radio 2…