As soon as I found out that EWTN's The Journey Home program made available podcasts of the show, I subscribed through iTunes.

Maybe Jeff helped me with the subscription process and maybe he didn't. I can't remember. But I thought that I could catch the show more often through the mp3 medium because I just don't watch much TV.

For months, before the podcasts were available, TiVo recorded the program for me and kept until delete. However, in short order, three or four shows would be stored up and the DVR is first, first, first generation so its capacity is small. Actually, I can't remember how small. We always talk about upgrading to increase capacity. The Journey Home is an hour-long program with about a 2 minute break for announcements, so TiVo saves me no time; it takes an hour to watch the show.

Enter iTunes and podcasts. The annoying thing about the subscription was that new episodes weren't downloading automatically. Jeff told me that I need to have iTunes always running in order for new episodes to download automatically. I didn't subscribe to Fick&Oz at iTunes because I know approximately when their new shows are released each week on their website. But my friend michele at Reformed Chicks Blabbing turned me on to Pastor Shaun's monthly Ordinary Means podcasts and the first one from February made a lot of sense from an ecclesiological perspective.

Theologically, of course, I am not Reformed. I am unable to believe any of Calvin's points. But Pastor Shaun and his colleagues make insightful comments that a PCA Christian listening would appreciate. To them, I recommend his podcasts. For myself, my snobbery is a chronological one: while I may worship in a church building that is younger than I, it would be difficult for me to worship with a Christian church body that is younger than I. By the same token, my hairdresser must be older than me. I'm fussy about things like that.

So, I finally sync'd up my iPod yesterday after downloading the latest episodes of these two podcasts subscriptions and I might listen in the car tomorrow because I need to take my car back in for service. The DVD player isn't working now as a result of last week's service visit! But that's fodder for another post. Long story short, my car service visits always seem to occur in pairs, a week apart, and the kids can't live another day without the DVD player working.

But Jeff still owes me a playlist, "folk and stuff", I think it's called.