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Podcast Discussion

Recently, I have picked up a lot of slack for starting a H@rry Potter Podcast with my husband. I get all kinds of reactions when I tell people I have one. Mostly people look at me with the look reserved for the kid who sat in the back of the classroom trying to do the
Vulcan nerve pinch to his classmates. I don't know if it is because people are dissapointed with my decline from coolness (assuming I EVER had the coolness factor), if they think I must be pathetic, or if they just don't even get the whole podcast concept. I think it is a mixture of all three things. First I explain the concept of podcasts and then I tell them why Greg and I started this H@rry Potter podcast. I still get the looks. It is almost as if people are looking at me and thinking, "I am so much better than you because I DON'T have a H@rry Potter Podcast". This infuriates me.

To paraphrase from the movie, "The American President", For the record, I do have a H@rry Potter Podcast. But the more important question is why don't you?

Is there nothing in your life that you find interesting enough to want to think about and intelligently discuss? Do you not take any enjoyment out of anything that doesn't have to do with your daily life, your family, or your job? Do you look forward to anything besides watching "America's Next Top Model" on TV every week?

Greg and I started the H@rry Potter Prognostications Podcast on a lark. I would listen to some other H@rry Potter Podcasts on my iPod when I was walking to the D.C. Metro from work or while I was cooking, and although I enjoy these podcasts immensely, I thought to myself, "I can do that just as well as those guys." I brought up the idea to Greg who had been wanting to have some kind of regular podcast and he agreed that we could easily fill up 20-30 minutes (and no more than that since we didn't want to drone on and on and on...) of dialogue about one of our favorite book series' from an adult point of view.

We decided that Greg would be the producer of the show, coming up with the content each week for the main discussion segment and eventually booking the guests (which we look forward to doing once we get some name recognition) and I would compile that week's H@rry Potter News and keep up with our website and myspace page. When we do the podcast, I report the news and then the two of us talk about whatever H@rry Potter topic we find interesting enough to discuss, argue about, opine about and cogitate on.

I wanted to start this podcast because I thought it would be a fun idea. I didn't realize that I would look forward to the preparation as well as the in depth look at the H@rry Potter world that I have been privy to. It is a fun and interesting exercise for the mind.

The best part of the podcast is the 30 minutes-1 hour a week that Greg and I set aside for each other to discuss something without children around and without distractions. If this makes me a loser, then I hope to be the queen of the podcast losers!