I’ve decided to get serious about my consumption of podcasts. I gave up TV all together just after the Super Bowl (in February 2009) and I’ve gotten most of my information through blogs via RSS feeds and links from good people I’m following on Twitter.
While I love getting information this way, it limits me in a couple of ways. I can’t do this stuff easily while walking around or exercising (and I really need to start exercising). And I can’t do it easily while in the car (and I spend more than an hour a day in my car).
This weekend, I fixed my car stereo auxiliary cord (actually, the guys at Car Toys did) and I bought and installed a windshield mount iPhone holder (WindowSeat by Griffin). I’ve tested it out and it works very well.
Now I have to get a pair of excellent iPhone earbuds that I can stand to have in my ears for an hour or two at a time. The goal is to be able to take a long walk with my dog while listening to Leo Laporte’s two-hour “The Tech Guy” podcast.
Maybe once I can commit to a regular long walk, I can start the “Couch to 5K” program iPhone app that I’ve heard so many good things about.
Anyway, if you have any suggestions for good podcasts (I’m looking at you Matt Whiting and Jeremy Meyers), please let me know in the comments.
Nice setup! Does that work for you to take calls over the stereo as well?
In terms of podcasts, I wholeheartedly recommend Dan Carlin’s “Common Sense.” Seems like something you would especially enjoy.
I’m not sure if it will work for calls. I know I can get the phone audio through my car speakers, but I’m not so sure about the mic. I might have to put it on speakerphone for that to work, but that would probably make the call sound like crap for the other person. Also, I’m not sure if the phone audio would work properly over the car speakers if I had it on speakerphone.
We’ll have to try it out. Call me tonight while I’m on my way home.
kevin pollak’s chat show, kcrw’s ‘the treatment’, the sound of young america, jordan jesse go, the bugle are all ones i subscribe to.
Thanks Jeremy!
Very nice. I do something similar, but more for audio podcasts and audiobooks while I drive anywhere. My setup isn’t anywhere as fancy as yours though.