I have a confession: I don’t particularly like Podcasts.

You could blame it on the fact that I was raised on TV, not the radio. Or you could blame it on the fact that the few I have listened to were so poorly done, so amateurish, and just so lame that they soured me on the genre.

Disclaimer: I’m sure that there must be some really good ones out there, I just quit looking.

It’s not that I don’t want to listen to someone talk about something I am interested in, it’s that I don’t have the patience to search through the poorly produced, unentertaining drivel while I search for the sonic gems. There…I said it!

Well, I finally found one that I like: The Cell Phone Junkie!

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I got an email from the show’s host and producer, Mickey Papillon. It read, “I wanted to let you know about my site and weekly podcast that I feel compliments the stuff that you do very nicely.  The site is http://www.thecellphonejunkie.com/ and the show is called, you guessed it, The Cell Phone Junkie.  My passion and focus is on the mobile phone industry, so there is obviously an overlap a little bit with the items you talk about and the phone stuff I cover.  I am on show #23 right now and have a ton of fun doing it!  Give it a listen when you have a chance sometime and let me know what you think!”

So I listened, and I like it!

Mickey has a voice that doesn’t grate on me (important!!), and I didn’t hear a single awkward “uhhh” or otherwise uncomfortable silence during the show.

Instead, I heard him and a guest having what sounded like a comfortable conversation between friends as they followed a list of topics and gave entertaining banter about their thoughts on the subject matter.

So there’s my podcast recommendation for the day (week/month…).

Do you have a favorite? I’d love to hear about it…I might even give it your suggestion a try. ;-)