Updating Podcasts Only?

i have about 30GB of music in iTunes so I made a small playlist for my nano, but now i can't get my podcasts to update onto the nano. i've played around with the settings and preferences, but i keep getting the "there is not enough space on this nano to update" warning. how does this work. if i dump a bunch of the songs from the playlist will i then be able to update my podcasts? i hope this question is clear. i'm not a newbie when it comes to macs, i just cannot figure this one out.

Odds are pretty good that you have to reduce the size of the music playlist in order to get the podcasts to load onto your iPod. I have had to do this a couple of times with my nano.
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