Which is why I wish they'd podcast it. I'd actually be able to listen, and to skip when it sucks.

And if they podcast it I could listen to the whole show. Our NPR only plays a shortened version. But they're web site says that they are independent of NPR so they have to pay for their own distribution so they have to charge.

They could use This American Life's model. Make only the most recent episode available for free, charge for the catalog, and ask for donations.

They could, but I suspect they don't have the huge listening audience of TAL to be able to put a lot of financial faith in the listening audience (if nothing else TAL is probably making enough off of other revenue streams that it can more easily risk taking a bath for a short period if the experiment doesn't work).


Oh well, my new position at work has eliminated most of podcast listening time anyway. I'm not set up to easily get them onto my iPod so I always listened to them at my desk at work where I had hours on end of uninterrupted time. Don't have that any more.

I have a weekly appointment reminder on my cell phone for Says You so I don't forget to listen. I love that show.