Speed up podcast playback?

I love the feature on the iphone and ipod touch that lets you play back podcasts at 2x speed.
But I don't have either of these, and I don't want to buy them - I have an ipod nano. Is there any way to increase the playback speed on itunes (or any other hack) before syncing with my ipod?
Thanks

I am also looking for a way to do this on my first gen nano. I found a few ways to play on the PC or via re-encoding. Still looking for a more ideal solution.
1. Quicktime can let you speed up podcasts and even videos. Which somehow I cannot find on my new Quicktime 10.
2. VLC can speed up playback too.
3. Speedup and re-encode mp3 using free Audacity
4. Use a paid software Amazing Slow Downer
5. http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com/2006/05/03/fastspokenword/
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