Jeremy and I were listening on the radio to NPR as usual today. Maybe I'm the only person who has noticed this but the BBC World News thus far in 2006 has been using a lot more people with various accents in the newscast. They had a Scottish reporter embedded in China interviewing people with a translator with a heavy Chinese accent yesterday and today they had plenty of people with heavy Israeli accents. My guess is that someone at the World News decided to make a resolution to include a more worldly sound to the news but the result is that we are having more fun than ever trying to repeat what people say in funny accents as we drive. I think the Scottish reporter said that some number of people had trebled.

Today Jeremy and I had been discussing the surprising lack of an adult related channel on Sirius Satellite radio which surprised both of us. The NPR folks were discussing the rise of the podcast and interviewing Adam Curry who has a new podcast network that is attracting podcasters to leave their day jobs. Among the people they said were successful podcasters were a priest, a stay at home mom, and a guy who talks into a recorder on his way home from work. Jeremy and I may give podcasting a try for fun by recording our conversations in the car. They will likely include such interesting topics like our thirty minutes lost in Burlington looking for the Mexican restaurant as well as the conversation about whether aliens could actually eat us or not based on their biological chemistry including sugars common to our biological evolution. I am certain that the average number of listeners wouldn't get beyond one person per month but boy would it be fun to play with recording equipment and put the recordings on the Internet!