I just read in the Sunday morning paper about how popular podcats are becoming, and have discovered Lonely Planet's podcast site. However, I am having trouble finding other travel related podcasts. What site do you use?
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Rick Steves has an awesome podcast of his weekly NPR show. Since my local NPR affiliate doesn't carry the program, I download it and listen to it on my iPod.
I think I'm really missing something... I just don't get the excitement over podcasts.
Why not just download the episodes you want to listen to when you feel like listening to them? Having a subscription doesn't get you any more content than you would by downloading items at will, and just opens you up to cluttering your HD and/or audio player, or to wasting your time with episodes that don't interest you.
Okay, okay, maybe having your hard-drive cluttered isn't that big a deal, and maybe having a subscription IS more convenient, but it hardly strikes me as the wondrous revolution that so many people and media outlets make it out to be.
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That said, I'll stop my whining briefly enough to suggest Dispatches. It's not specifically travel related, but discusses stories from around the world (often from "frogotten" places) usually from the perspectives of ordinary people.
For me like Trackington, I enjoy listening to them on my way to uni or work...sometimes you want to listen to something other than music... I also don't think they take up that much space on your MP3, in Itunes you can pick and choose which episodes you want to download so you don't need to listen to any unwanted podcasts.
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