QotD: Can't- (Listen To) Podcasts
Are there any podcasts that you never miss an episode of?
Submitted by Kadeeae.
Unfortunately....there's isn't one I can't miss.
I just don't get podcasts. When I'm listening to something via the laptop, or the ipod...it's music. Maybe something meditative...but I've never been able to listen to someone...well...talking at me. This goes for audio books too. If I'm reading, I'm reading. I love every element of it. The feel of a book in my hands, the quiet place I may choose to do it...it's the scene as much as it is the act.
But back to podcasts. I'm sure they have the potential to be many things. Enlightening. Informative. Amusing. But, I guess I'd rather read someone's insights rather than listen to them. I suppose I like the art of written expression. I suppose it's also because I never cared for radio or DJs, who I always just wanted to shut up and get to the music. I suppose that's why I read NPR rather than listen to it.
If I'm having a conversation, then great. But other than that...the only voices I want chattering in my head (that aren't singing or in some way centering my chi) are my own. Not to mention my rapidly dwindling attention span. But that's another rant, entirely.
My final nit regarding this new stream of whatever is... for every "relevant" podcast out there, there are a hundred more just trying to find another way to hear themselves talk.
Snark concluded. I can be a crabby, self-righteous so and so, huh?
Comments
I thought I was the only one who didn't listen to podcasts. I think my problem is, I am too easily distracted, my brain wanders. I turn on the news radio to listen for traffic or weather, and it will pass me right by as I listen. (of course that's when I'm driving so I could be off cursing at some driver...)
Plus I am not really sure what a podcast is even.
:-X
I don't listen to any podcasts regularly. Some I've liked...
Anyway... YOU... DON'T... LISTEN ... TO.... NPR?
It's worse than I thought.
To never to have heard a David Sedaris piece from his own girlish lisping mouth? Oh you have been missing out.
I'm about with you on books on tape. I'd rather have my own inner voices do the narration (Charmaine is my favorite for the classics). Though again, nobody beats Sedaris. I've downloaded a couple of readings he's done off iTunes. And Carlson's book, "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff" has saved many a commute.
Oh...
and
*slap*
Speaking of audio book, I bought only one audio book, "Men, Love, & Sex: The Complete User's Guide for Women (Unabridged)" and I loved listening to it actually.
I agree with you further on RJs and DJs -- I think their functions are completely otiose and radio and music channels would be largely more pleasant without them. I don't know about the US, but out here most of our RJs are untrained teenagers gabbing on about the most idiotic things.
I laughed out loud. Cheers!
I know I cannot read at all with a TV on in the room. I will read a page and have to re-read it from the top again and still miss the connection of words on page = story in my mind.
I just don't get the big deal about TV, you watch a show and turn it off. I think my family has forgotten how to turn the thing off. Same thing for radio, give me satellite with no commercials and little DJ interference.