I WANT to shuffle my podcasts

Hi,
Sometimes I want to listen to only music on iTunes of my iPod - I have lots of playlists that make this easy - so that I can listen to music that fits my mood or a certain genre - iTunes makes this so easy - no problem.
Sometimes I only want to listen to podcasts - again iTunes makes this extremely easy.
Sometimes I want to listen to both music and podcasts, and I want them to play in random order, so that I will never know what is coming up next. I have created a great smart playlist which combines the most recently added, yet to be played podcasts with some of my favorite music. My intention is to have my own itunes "radio" station that continuously serves up great music and talk. iTunes makes this very difficult, because Podcasts are set to skip when shuffle by default, which means I have to individually change that setting on every new podcast that iTunes downloads in order for them to play when shuffling.
Does anyone out there know of a way around this?
Thanks.

This script -> http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=setselectedtracksshuffle
Will turn On or Off the Skip when shuffling box.

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