I caught my first .NET Rocks! show today with Rory Blyth. I knew about the show for a while now and really honestly wanted to be able to catch some shows. The only reason I hadn't was that I work from home, rarely drive anymore, and unlike listening to music while coding, I felt that the interviews would be a distraction to my ability to concentrate on coding. But today I had to put that theory to the test. I mean, after all, it was Rory Blyth!
Its funny, really, that I put off listening to interviews with Don Box, Scoble, Sells, Gentile, Guthrie, Esposito, etcetera, etcetera, but I make sure that I'm going to listen to Rory Blyth and to heck with any coding distractions!
It was a great show, btw, and depending on the type of code-related work you might be doing at the time, it is a-okay to listen to Carl's show and still be productive. You might be distracted afterwards with images of milk shooting out of Bill Gates' nose, but that's another matter.