podcasts + top gear

Namedrop ho!
TWiT since like episode 4,
Diggnation back when it was new,
Geekdrome back then,
TRS since... fairly early on,
1UP's plethora not nearly long enough,
Indiefeed indie pop off & on,
Just Good Music a rare treat,
Hospital quite the interesting venture,
Scene Unseen for a long while,
Filmspotting for not nearly long enough,
NPR when I have time left over,
etc.

Gotta love those free little snippets of people's lives, common interests spiced with exotic adventures, conversations captured in capsules fired across the tubes to your iTunes, or music you wouldn't have gone & listened to any other way. A endless flow of suggestion and opinion and discovery. Makes me want to pitch in to the fray *sigh* if only I had a magazine, website, or extended cable tv network to get a loyal fan base with beforehand... Wonder what this lil blog can accomplish with my insistent prodding...


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Now call me a bloody anglophile *brushing salt & vinegar potato crisp crumbs off of shirt*, but i'm a bit of a Top Gear addict right now ^^. If anyone has yet to experience the current iteration of the UK auto themed variety/chat/? show, I implore you check it the heck out. Car porn for teh masses. The hosts (who I think are just lucky bastard journalists, not necessarily grease covered engineers?), who are full of snarky british laughs & bubbling chemistry, get to review all the latest supercars, along with the more ordinary and sometimes weird. They also adventure the globe competing in challenges put forth by the truly sadistic unseen "producers." A celebrity (many of whom us yanks won't recognize, though they had mark wahlberg that one time!) is then put behind the wheel of a "reasonably priced car" (my car - the Cheverolet Lacetti aka Suzuki Reno/Forenza aka many other things) to see how they fare on a racetrack. The slick production values of the car reviews which kick off each episode dance across my big, flash monitor & roar through my new Logitech Z4 2.1 speakers. As if I needed another reason to envy those with BBC America in their homes...
The pilot of a US version (starring Adam Carolla and almost Alex Albrecht!) & was funded by NBC, but has since been canned & is now seeking cable distribution I think. It seems an Australian version has just begun so I may check that one out. Recommended for anyone who likes visceral experience, technical impressario, and Monty Python? Great common audience! Great shipping rates on Amazon UK too!