Monday, April 10, 2006

The Ricky Gervais Show Podcast

Part of the appeal of having an iPod (or any digital audio player for that matter) is listening to podcasts or radio shows, whenever you want. There are a lot of podcasts available over the Internet. You can get NBA daily recaps and updates, Vintage ToonCasts (which include nostalgic Superman cartoons) and various other TV show and Music news updates. Most of them are free while some are on a paid subscription basis (which I think automatically classifies them as audiobooks instead). One of the most famous podcast series is The Ricky Gervais Show.

I'd rather not repeat whatever's in the Wikipedia article so I'll just say that I find this show really funny and really insane at the same time. It's not so much a radio show as it is usapang lasing. I understand though that the humor (sorry, humour) is not for everyone.

Unfortunately, the producers of the show have decided to stop the free distribution of the podcast. Due to its popularity, they've decided to capitalize on the tremendous demand for the podcast and distribute them on a paid basis from Audible.com.

Of course, there's still P2P networks. This show deserves to be heard by everyone.

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