Get ready, baby, it's The Dawn & Drew Show, podcasting from an 1895 farmhouse in southern Wisconsin.
What's today's program? Some talk about a pencil-necked Wal-Marter they call "the Chicken Boy." A visit to the local porn store. And, as always, her confessions of love for former MTV host Adam Curry.
It's the digital world meets Wayne's World (literally: They're in Wayne, Wis.), short audio shows from young marrieds with matching tongue piercings, shows that are delivered right to your MP3 player.
Heavy breathing not what you want to hear while walking the dog?
Then how about Michael Geoghegan's Reel Reviews? Every few days, the Newport Beach, Calif., insurance wholesaler talks for about 10 minutes about another of his favorite flicks from his basement theater as his wife and kids sleep.
Seen lately: The Getaway, The Kid Stays in the Picture and Once Upon a Time in the West.
There's a podcast dedicated to the Seattle Mariners, others about 1970s glitter rock and '80s hair bands, parody podcasts, poetry podcasts and podcasts about podcasts.
So what is podcasting?
The "pod" comes from iPod, Apple's market leader among digital music players. The "casting" comes from broadcasting, which anyone with an Internet connection and a microphone plugged into a computer can do.
And thanks to some clever new software, your computer can now search for these free shows as you sleep, and they're good to go as soon as you sync your MP3 player with it in the morning.
While people have been posting audio diaries or shows on the Internet for years, the technology and talent have combusted this fall in a way that is multiplying the numbers and categories of offerings by the day.
Some are the niche programming of radio veterans frustrated by what they can do at work. Curry has used podcasts to talk about his mother's cancer and his impending move to England - as well as developments in the emerging podcast field and music that's free of licensing restrictions, which he plays as well.
Others are the works of neophytes such as Dawn Micelli, 28, a metal artist, and her husband, Drew Domkus, 33, a computer designer. Or Will Simpson, an Australian computer programmer, whose Daily Photo is a tell-all about his latest shot. Or Geoghegan, 35, who has 871 DVDs in his basement theater and no one to talk to about them.
"Within four to five hours of my first show, I got an e-mail from some guy in Holland," Geoghegan says. "I was sold."
