Podracer did build and run once on installation and did download files I was able to listen to using mocp but that was a once in a lifetime event. Two days beyond April 30, 2006 and no evidence of successful downloads can be found in 2006-05-01 or 2006-05-02 under the pdcasts directory in my home directory and this was after installing that crontab line in my crontab and enabling the user account to run crontab jobs by adding that account to /etc/cron.allow.