My commute is actually relatively short (I take the train into the office). I do listen to stuff in the car — but it’s either NPR news, or audiobooks (and that’s one of the only opportunities I have for either of those, too).

Not enough hours in the day. One of the things noted in the podcast is that we are neither of us the target audience for a podcast.

Another vote from me for keeping the quality up regardless of size. I have never stopped subscribing to a podcast because of its size, but I have stopped downloading poor quality audio podcasts. They’re just too hard to listen to!
These days, 37MB is nothing…my phone has 32GB, my iPod 160GB. Even people with a 1GB mp3 player wouldn’t be losing much with a 50MB podcast.
For purely selfish reasons, I hope you’re going to publish to iTunes. That would most easily lend itself to my current “flow” of subscribing to material and always having the fresh material on me when I need it! Not a mandate (!), just a vote…
Looking forward to listening!

@***Dave – if you have a commute, it’s not that hard. You find enough PodCasts to fill the commuting time. It ends up being like custom radio.

For me, it also helps that my car has an iPod dock, and that I can do the sync at work. It became routine pretty quickly.

It’s so much of a habit for me now that if I forget my iPod, it’s awful when I realize. The commute just drags on.

I can’t wait to hear two of my fave bloggers! Let us know when it lands somewhere.

See, that’s part of what I don’t get about podcasts – the regular download of stuff. Have never quite figured out the habit.

I also say don’t worry about size in regard to your listeners. I download several hour-long-plus PodCasts, and the space they take has never crossed my mind.

If my iPod is running low, I just drop a few I’m no longer interested in.

Look at Robert Llewellyn’s Carpool (highly recommended > llewtube.com) – that’s a half hour video PodCast, and I always find room for that.

I’m just eager to throw it on for my daily commute.

Avocet’s correct – my podcast usually is 30-50mb and is around 20-40 minutes, and that’s at 128mb bitrate. I wouldn’t worry about the size, Les!

Besides, it’s not the size that matters… it’s the content!

I listen to a lot of podcasts. NPR podcasts come in at about 25 MB for a one-hour show. The LotRO Reporter, on the other hand, is 58.8 MB for a 62-minute show. I don’t think you need to worry too much about the file size.