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I'm not big on technology.  I have a smart phone, smart TV, but my kids know how to work these tools better than I do :)  Such is life these days.  But I'm always interested in learning more.  I had heard a few friends talking about podcasts and figured out recently that Android phones can listen to podcasts through extra apps (and there was one on my phone already called "Play Music")...when I'd always thought it was an iphone thing!

Travis has been listening to audiobooks a lot since he drives all over for work and it keeps him entertained for the hours he's in a car.  Well, in discovering podcasts, we both are enjoying listening almost every day.

We both love true crime TV.  Dateline.  Those sorts of things.  So the podcast we are both into these days is "Up and Vanished".  You may have already heard about it...like I said, we're slow!  I'd heard of things like Serial and other podcasts like that. But oh-my-goodness, this is an amazing podcast!  I'm on episode 11 right now, so I haven't even gotten through everything.  (Travis is ahead of me.) But I listen to the case evidence and extra bonus material and he only downloads the episodes, so that's in my defense.

I just wanted to encourage other people to find a podcast they enjoy.  As a stay at home mom, I'm not into driving all over by myself like he is, but I listened to it while painting the fireplace bricks, baking some pumpkin muffins for an event tonight, cleaning up the kitchen, sorting/folding laundry...makes the time go faster!  Especially with mindless tasks.

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