In an article in the "Northern Star," a university student newspaper, reporter Lauren Stott began a lyrical note: "It's every student's dream: Wake up for school, stumble over to the computer, and download the day's class lectures ... then crawl back into bed--iPod in one hand, notebook in the other." The object of the student journalist's enthusiasm was the possibility of having her courses delivered as podcasts, recordings distributed over the Internet and played back on miniature MP3 players. In this article, the author addresses students enthusiasm for downloadable lectures and discusses his move to write a dissenting article in support of real-time, nonvirtual class sessions. He argues that podcasts of university courses are totally bogus and an excuse for lack of commitment from professors and students alike.