I've been toying around with podcasts for the last couple of weeks and, frankly, have become a bit enamored with them. So enamored with them that I thought I might take a shot at doing one myself. So I enlisted the help of Say Anything reader Tom Brusegaard and gave it a shot tonight.

Here are the topics we covered:

1. The UND Fighting Sioux logo controversy.



2. Why North Dakota Governor John Hoeven didn't run for the Senate.



3. The Miers nomination and the effect it has having on the right's base.



4. The avian flu situation and the talk about giving the President power to deploy federal troops domestically.



5. The Iraqi constitution and the media reaction to it.

All in all I think it turned out pretty well. Right at the beginning I had some problems with Tom's audio but a quick volume adjustment on his feed fixed that and the rest turned out pretty well. To avoid long distance charges (Tom lives a few hundred miles away from me) we used Google Talk's call feature to communicate. I wasn't sure how it would work out, but I think it turned out pretty well. Serviceable enough for an amateur attempt anyway.

Here's a link to the podcast.

Post your reactions/opinions below if you'd like.

Update:

It should be noted that during the Native American mascot segment of the podcast I stated that the Illini, the mascot for the University of Illinois, is actually a fictional tribe. I was wrong. A mascot for the University of Illinois called Chief Illiniwek is a fictional figure (there is no historical equivalent), but the Illini tribe actually existed. I got to thinking about that as soon as I got done recording the podcast and looked it up to make sure I wasn't confused. Turns out I was confused, so this is my correction.