I love listening to podcasts, Ive been really getting into them lately, Do you know about podcasts? 
I do.  I subscribe to a few of them.  Which is nice because they automatically download newer episodes for me to listen to.
thats what I love about them. What are the most popular podcasts out that I should check out? 
Feast of Fun is a real popular one based out of Chicago.  It has a number of topics such as comedy, food, news, and trends.
That sounds like a good podcast, I love comedy podcasts it really makes my morning better, Say when exactly was the first ever podcasts?
It really began to get popular with the introduction of broadband and the IPod.  Around 2004 is when it really gained a following
Wow that makes sense, I think I remember apple really pushing podcasts with their ipods. What other cool podcast facts do you know?
at least on a weekly basis.
Precursors.
Before the advent of the World Wide Web, in the 1980s, RCS (Radio Computing Services), provided music and talk-related software to radio stations in a digital format. Before online music digital distribution, the MIDI format as well as the Mbone, Multicast Network was used to distribute audio and video files. The MBone was a multicast network over the Internet used primarily by educational and research institutes, but there were audio talk programs.
Many other jukeboxes
feed, checks it for updates, and downloads any new files in the series. This process can be automated to download new files automatically; thus, it may seem to subscribers as though podcasters broadcast or "push" new episodes to them. Files are stored locally on the user's device, ready for offline use. Many different mobile applications allow people to subscribe and to listen to podcasts. Many of these applications allow users to download podcasts or to stream them on demand as an alternative to downloading. Many podcast players