What podcasts do you listen to?

[rocklobster]

I recently started listening to podcasts on my iPod. Which ones do you listen to on a regular basis?
Here's what I listen to:
Old-Time Radio: There's different categories for this series, one for each genre. For someone who really enjoys this stuff, this is great.
Word on Fire: A Catholic priest's sermons.
Doctor Who Audio Dramas: Note to any Who fans out there: This is NOT Big Finish's contribution to the expanded universe. This is a fan-made series, with original companions (except for K-9, who does act somewhat differently from his TV series counterpart. He actually growls). It's actually quite good, although I wish the show actually did a more concentrated effort to bring back missing episodes so I can be more properly introduced to the companions. They get extra points for actually having a mute character, though.
Note: I'd love to listen to CAA's podcasts, but every time I try to download them, it never works.

[MomentOfInertia]

That I actually listen to:[INDENT] Writing Excuses
So good I posted a thread about it:
Here

Decoder Ring Theatre
Actually a few different shows from the same group.
Entertainingly cheesy old-style radio dramas in the superhero and detective genres.
I haven't gotten through half of the archive yet.
I think it's out of Canada.
[/INDENT]That I have not gotten to:[INDENT] The Appendix
Darker Projects: Dark Matter & The Falcon Banner

(this next set are your fault Rock.)
Doctor Who
The Doctor Who Audio Dramas
Doctor Who: Legends of a Time Lord
Doctor Who: Time Tales

Escape Pod
Short scifi stories.
I've actually listened to a few of them, they were pretty good.

Old Time Radio Scifi

The Secret World Chronicles:books 1-4 (not technically a pod cast but that is what itunes filed it under)

Sherlock Holmes Adventures Podcast
Star Trek: Outpost
Star Trek: Pioneers
TGT Webcomics

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Note: I'd love to listen to CAA's podcasts, but every time I try to download them, it never works.

The listing in itunes seems to be defunct, but I haven't had any problems downloading them from here as MP3s and loading them into itunes.

[FllMtl Novelist]

I've heard a couple CAA podcasts and liked them.

Other than that, I keep vaguely up-to-date on Writing Excuses. I really love this show, because it's about writing but doesn't just repeat stuff I already know. XD

[Cognitive Gear]

I mostly just listen to the best radio show currently on:

This American Life. From their "About Us"-

f you've never heard This American Life, our staff's favorites page provides a great introduction to what we do. You might want to start there. After a few episodes, we're sure you'll figure it out. Or, if you're looking for a written introduction, here goes:

One of our problems from the start has been that when we try to describe This American Life in a sentence or two, it just sounds awful. For instance: each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. That doesn't sound like something we'd want to listen to on the radio, and it's our show.

So usually we just say what we're not. We're not a news show or a talk show or a call-in show. We're not really formatted like other radio shows at all. Instead, we do these stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations. Things happen to them. There are funny moments and emotional moments and—hopefully—moments where the people in the story say interesting, surprising things about it all. It has to be surprising. It has to be fun.

Each episode has a theme. That's mostly because a theme makes it seem like there's a reason to sit and listen to a story about a contest where everyone stands around a truck for days until only one person is left on their feet...or a grown man trying to convince a skeptical friend that not only has he heard the world's greatest phone message, but that it's about the Little Mermaid...or a man who's obsessed with Niagara Falls, lives minutes from the Falls, writes and thinks about the Falls all the time, but can't bring himself to actually visit the Falls because, as he says, "they've ruined the Falls." If you're not doing stories about the news, or celebrities, or things people have ever heard of elsewhere, you have to give people a reason to keep listening. The themes make it seem like you should.

We view the show as an experiment. We try things. There was the show where we taped for 24 hours in an all-night restaurant. And the show where we put a band together from musicians' classified ads. And the show where we followed a group of swing voters for months, recording their reactions to everything that happened in the campaign, right up through their final decision. And the show where we had a story for each of the Ten Commmandments. Or the one where our producers all collected stories for a weekend at the same rest stop. We also occasionally do our own versions of stories that are in the news, including award winning economics coverage that spawned another entire program called Planet Money.

We think of the show as journalism. One of the people who helped start the program, Paul Tough, says that what we're doing is applying the tools of journalism to everyday lives, personal lives. Which is true. It's also true that the journalism we do tends to use a lot of the techniques of fiction: scenes and characters and narrative threads.

Meanwhile, the fiction we have on the show functions like journalism: it's fiction that describes what it's like to be here, now, in America. What we like are stories that are both funny and sad. Personal and sort of epic at the same time.

We sometimes think of our program as a documentary show for people who normally hate documentaries. A public radio show for people who don't necessarily care for public radio.

[Sheol777]

Oh there are many...I will list a selection:

Anime:

Anime World Order - THE BEST anime podcast out there. Great reviews of obscure stuff.
ANN Cast - Anime News Networks podcast. Good for industry news.
Fast Karate for the Gentleman - They review bad anime on purpose and are very intelligently funny.
The Ninja Consultant Podcast - Pretty cool, wish they would update more.


Miscellaneous:

This American Life - Well, you all know...
The Classic Tales Podcast - Classic books and stories read in a podcast, for free.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Takes historical facts and times and makes them real and epic.
iFanboy - THE BEST comic book podcast, all the hosts have great personalities.
The Thomas Jefferson Hour - A Jefferson scholar portrays Jefferson and answers modern day questions.
Radiolab - Two guys really interested in science and how it relates to humanity. Not boring at all! Equal parts entertaining and informative.



And of course the best podcast on the internet:

[SIZE="4"][color="Red"]The Gamma Quadrant[/color][/SIZE] - An episodic review of the series Deep Space Nine.

Why is it the best? Because I am on it of course!

[rocklobster]

Just started Pendant Audios podcasts featuring DC Comics superheroes. They're excellent, and unlike Darker Projects, they haven't once gone on hiatus for any of them.

[Edward]

I've heard a couple CAA podcasts and liked them.

Other than that, I keep vaguely up-to-date on Writing Excuses. I really love this show, because it's about writing but doesn't just repeat stuff I already know. XD

I like Writing Excuses too, and I'm not even a writer. It's still interesting to learn about the writing craft from one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson.

[FllMtl Novelist]

I like Writing Excuses too, and I'm not even a writer. It's still interesting to learn about the writing craft from one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson.

Yeah, my brother doesn't write but he enjoys listening, too. Which I think is pretty cool. ^^

[Xeno]

I don't do much on the podcasting thing, but I do try to keep up with Zoltar's Subterranean (it's a 2 hour electronic music showcase show) and Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance Podcast.

[Furen]

CAA Radio is my fav podcast, though skillet's podcast is good too

[rocklobster]

I recently added Catholic Answers's podcast to my queue. It's basically a podcast version of their radio show. Although I think the host tries too hard to be funny, it's pretty good. At least he does a good job of hurrying the callers to get to the point.