Try out some noise cancelling headphones.

I'm on the android bandwagon over here (solely because of the 9mm headphone jack on the Note).I'd love to hear an episode on the duplex project.

You are being very generous here, a discount doesn't solve their problem, if you were going to do anything you'd buy noise cancelling headphones, but in reality construction on stairways, roads, landscaping, pools etc. just happens and there isn't anything anyone can do to stop it.

I got a cable for my phone that plugs into the AUX port in my car stereo and to the headphone jack on my phone. 

I have alot of at work (since I sit at a computer all day) to plug in the headphones and listen to anything online.

I get the idea of "tuning in", but it hurts my ears because I'm usually listening to the casts with headphones and the sharp static bites right into my eardrums.I want to absorb every bit of information during the podcasts and recently I've just started each session annoyed and agitated by that intro.If the static can't be taken out for something better, can we at least have the intro play at a softer volume in relation to the rest of the podcast?

Brandon Turner thanks for the reply I am in the process of reading the UBG and I listen to the podcasts while at work in my headphones it's really great stuff.

Put some headphones on and Give it a shot..http://www.youtube.com/watch?

I would on my headphones and walk around the block for 45-60 minutes each time.

Have a quiet work area and just put some headphones in and focus.