With fall here and winter right around the corner coupled with the early sunsets, my ability to exercise outside has nearly come to a halt.   I’m now in the gym 3+ nights a week on the dreaded stationary bike which is no where near a close second, or even third or fourth to my road bicycle, but I need to keep active.  I’ve kept myself busy with my video iPod and utilizing TvRSS to get caught up on shows and watch them when I want to, but I’m almost out of TV shows and movies now.   Last night I sat down in front of my computer, opened up iTunes and went through their video podcasts, there really didn’t seem to be anything interest to me and the overall selection was slim at best.  Even the audio podcasts don’t seem that interesting anymore and the list is much shorter than I recall.

One audio podcast I downloaded called Tri Talk had potential, since I am still throwing around the idea of doing a triathlon so I downloaded the newest podcast and started to listen last night at the gym.  It was the author saying, in a nutshell, that it was his last podcast and it was a good run but he’s not into doing it anymore.  Great, the one podcast I find is totally useless to me.  The other thing I noticed was most video podcasts aren’t much longer than 3-4 minutes, with the exception of diggnation.  Diggnation tends to be funny, but sometimes I need more to look at and listen to than two guys on a couch talking about websites I can’t easily visit since I’m not in front of a computer.

So, I’d like to ask, what podcasts (audio and / or video) do you subscribe to and why do you like them?  I’m into a vast amount of topics, from gadgets / electronics, photography, current local / world news, cycling, pure entertainment, etc.  Video podcasts are preferred since I’m stuck on the stupid stationary bike for 45-60 minutes at a time but audio ones work great for when I’m on the treadmill and can’t focus on watching the video screen of my iPod.

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