This is NPR...National Public Radio

This past weekend my sister and I found ourselves driving back and forth from New Jersey to North Carolina for about 18 hours altogether. I had a lot of fun visiting family and friends while drinking "Sexual Chocolate" (it's not porn, I promise), but none of it inclined me to blog more than what enabled my sister and I to survive the ridiculous number of hours we were on the road.

Over the past year, I have become addict of National Public Radio (NPR) Podcasts. Once again, I have created my own interest from the interests of my sister. Anyway, we stockpiled numerous episodes from various NPR programs to try and keep ourselves from going crazy during the 18 hours of driving. I'm a big fan of Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Moth, Radio Lab and I just started listening to NPR: Technology Podcast today. After safely arriving back in Jersey, all I wanted to do was to rave about how much I enjoy listening to NPR podcasts and how everyone should do the same.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, these programs are like radio talk shows but what they talk about isn't dumb or stupid like most other things that I find resonating my eardrums now a day. I've learned a lot of different stuff, from recent news to car repair, just from listening to these podcasts during my daily commutes. Some are funny. Some are insightful. Some are tear wrenching. I often find myself saying "WOW!", "NO WAY!" or "WTF!" while listening alone in my car driving through central Jersey. Overall, I enjoy almost every minute of it and I get a little sad at the end of each episode just because I don't want it to ever end.

Enough rambling. If you ever find yourself preparing for a long trip, getting sick of your local DJ's nonsense, or just looking for something good to listen to get a couple NPR podcasts on your iPod or Zune and tune in. Oh yes, they're also free and everyone loves free stuff.