Why hello there, Niners Nation. For about two years now, I've forced you to read my words. I'm not sure how long smileyman has been here, but he as well has done some forcing of his own. Now you get to hear us. This is our first attempt at a Niners Nation podcast. It's something that we're hoping to do about twice a week, with occasional live episodes with reader participation and the like. It's the NN Podcast with J & J, that's: John and James. Some quick notes..

Future iterations will be recorded with much better quality, this first one we actually had issues where he didn't record correctly and then my program crashed, so we had to go re-record a couple things and cut and paste them into it. The sound quality isn't that great, I'm quiet most of the way through and you can hear smileyman breathing, but this is the first of what we hope to be many, many iterations. Next time we're actually recording in such a way as to block all feedback except for a bit of air noise. So stay tuned. Make the jump for more

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As Niners Nation has expanded, one of the next steps I've always had in mind was a podcast. After some discussions, Ninjames has taken the lead on this with smileyman. They've been working out the administrative details and will soon begin producing the podcasts. Now that we're going to be starting this, we need to get some information and ideas from everybody that will be listening.

First and foremost, it'd be nice to have a name other than Niners Nation Podcast. We've come up with some fun names for various features (Golden Nuggets, Prospector's Guide, etc.), and I'm thinking we need something like that for our podcast. So, any ideas for names are welcome.

Second, are there are any particular topics you'd especially like to see covered in this first one, and then going forward? There is plenty to talk about, and I'm sure Ninjames and smileyman can fill the space. However, one of the aspects of a podcast is getting people to listen. So, we want to make sure the discussion points are covering areas in which people are interested. Obviously they'll be covering the draft and the McCloughan departure, but if you have more specific ideas, we'd love to hear them.

Finally, the first podcast will be Ninjames and smileyman. However, it'd be fun to get people on the site joining in. If you'd be interested in joining the in the podcast, let us know. We're thinking it'd be fun to potentially have different co-hosts each time.

The plan for the first podcast is to record it, thus having no interaction outside of Ninjames and smileyman. The reason for that is that it would basically be a dry-run. Depending on how that goes, the plan is to eventually make it a live podcast where people can listen and call/email/IM questions or comments.