There are many ways you can record your podcast. You can podcast from a car, train, semi, closet, a bar, or even walking in your neighborhood, or even a beach.
When you are doing a podcast you do want a quiet room but there are some situations that you may want an ambient noise, noise can be great in the background, but can also can be a distraction, that is if it’s the wrong type of noise, the wrong type of noise can be a hiss,buzz, or popping coming from your microphone. If you’re in your studio, you don’t want to have a lot of noise and most podcasters want it to be really quiet, but if you have any handheld microphone like a Edirol R-09HR High-Resolution WAVE/MP3 Recorder
To start you off I’ll first start talking about recording in a car.
Some podcasters record in their car and due to time constraints they podcast while on your way to work, some even record while they carpool, like Robert Llewellyn’s CarPool Podcasts. I’ve even hear podcasters podcast on there way home from work, or even on your way to the grocery store, the 
possibility’s are endless.
One thing that you will undoubtedly find out when you’re recording in your car is the ambient noise is not really good, and can turn your listeners off. Try it out and see what your listeners say.
You can’t also podcast from your car and not go anywhere just think about it what are you surrounded by? You’re surrounded by pretty much carpet and upholstery, which cuts your noise of your podcast down alot, if you have kids, dog, thin walls, or a bitchy wife 
this is great place to podcast from, very low noise and absorbent materials why not?
Next up is semi-truck; another great way to record a podcast, just think of it as a car… although if you’re driving down the road you may not what to podcast because it is of course really noisy, but if you have some downtime, your truck can be a great place to podcast, the only problem is a lot of trucks have plastic in them, and sound can 
bounce off the walls. To fix this problem you can easily pull the curtain across the cab and speak into the microphone while facing the curtain. What this does is the curtain absorbs the sound waves made by your voice thereby canceling out and won’t reflect back the other walls and back into the microphone.
What you can also do is get your self a dynamic microphone that will cancel out any ambient noise within your podcast.
Who’s in the closet? When you’re looking at a car it’s about the same if you have a walk-in closet you have clothing on the right and left and possibly in front of you, 
now if you sit in the middle of your closet the voice vibrations that is coming out of your mouth will hit the clothing and will be absorbed and not reflect back.
To hinder back to when I talked about the car, sound is being absorbed by almost everything the only problem is the ceiling most ceilings are drywall and bounce sound waves, but it shouldn’t be that bad because once the waves bounces off the ceiling the clothing should cancel any sound waves.
Bars, Pubs, and Restaurants . These public/Privet places are a great place for ambient noise so why not podcast from them? although it can be a little bit noisy at times, but if you record during the day between five and seven 
were pretty quiet and you have a lot of elderly and people getting off from work the best is to have a crowd around 8-10 most places close at around between 10pm to 12am maybe even later. I used to work at a bar and a restaurant that closed around 1 AM. The best time to record in these places are between opening and just before closing those of the great times have podcast because the noise isn’t that high although you might have music in the background and might not be a good thing because of copyright for the music. but hey you can always say you where drunk when you where recording 
Neighborhood walking is a great place to podcast if you have a portable recorder walking in your neighborhood can be an enjoyment in itself if you’re walking to get fit why not walk in podcast to any great ambient noises coming from the birds, crickets, field mice, or raccoons in the background, are all great ambient noises your listens may 
enjoy, the same thing goes for beaches just think of it a stream flowing down some rocks, water rushing to the shoreline! aha sound like I need a vacation… Although podcasting from the beach or somwhere there is dirt can probably causing problems with your sound equipment and may not be a good idea but that is way man invented ziplock bags to put your recorder in
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