Article: Podcasts picking up, but who's listening?

Byline: Curtis Krueger

Jan. 9--John Lutz runs his U-Haul business out of a modular trailer in southern Pasco County.

But when he's not renting trucks and selling propane, the 47-year-old businessman slips into a lunch room-turned-studio and becomes "Screamin' Sam," a comic who does a tribute show to the late comedian Sam Kinison. Live from his U-Haul studio, he can reach a national audience.

Lutz and friend James Worley "podcast" their shows -- they record them, put them on a Web site, and allow the public to download them free onto iPods, MP3 players or computers.

"I can reach people all over the world from the computer," said Lutz ...

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