It looks like Leo Laporte is too popular for his own good.
Let me explain: Mr Laporte has a podcast along with his blog, and for the (mp3) enclosures that are the podcasts he uses the Coral Content Distribution Network which uses a collection of hosts spread all over the world to make content more easily accessible when the original source is being overrun by the Slashdot or Fark effect.
You may have seen these CCDN URLs before, you can recognise them by the .nyud.net:8090/ in the URL.
This evening I noticed that, while NetNewsWire claimed to have downloaded the latest enclosure (Revenge Of The Scr**n S*v*ers, part 2), the download window indicated that it was a 0 byte download, ditto for his regular podcast. Going to the URL for the enclosure manually I find myself admiring a 403 error, because he’s gone over his hourly quota. Oops.
Some research seems to indicate that the CCDN node should have redirected me to the original source instead of giving me that 403, but perhaps this node was running an old software version? No idea. I’ll try the enclosures again later this evening, hopefully with more luck then. 
Update: It’s still not working and I just noticed this blog entry which indicates something unusual happened and it wasn’t (just) his popularity. 
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