Looking for interesting, funny, informative or otherwise good podcasts. Linkies?
Car Talk, of course. Interesting, funny, and informative.
The Bugle (website)
Rachel Maddow (from MSNBC)
Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann (from MSNBC)
The Word Nerds
Friday Night Comedy from the BBC
I get all these for free from iTunes.
I don’t podcast, but I DAR* over 9 hours of NPR each weekend and listen to it through the following week.
Car Talk, Wait Wait, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, World Cafe, the Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle, and Best of This American Life.
*Like DVR, but for audio
Just subscribing to this thread, because I’m also looking for good podcasts.
Nature has a great weekly podcast.
I regularly listen to both Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and This American Life from NPR.
If you like movies, I highly recommend Filmspotting.
On the off chance you want to brush up on your French language skills, Learn French by Podcast is excellent. Radiofrance.fr also has all manner of news, entertainment, and culture podcasts.
How is PHC in podcast? I tried it a while back and was annoyed that the show was cut up and not what one actually heard on the radio. Is that still the case?
Dunno. Like I said, I don’t podcast. I record it off the air direct to MP3.
My version rox. 
I will confess that PHC is the only show I DAR that does regularly suffer from my method. I use HDOgg and have it automatically split files into 60-minute slices, and since PHC regularly overruns their first hour, I wind up with a 1-second or so drop where the slice happens.
This American Life
Radiolab - THIS ONE IS AWESOME. It’s from WNYC and it’s a science-y version of This American Life almost
The Splendid Table
The Moth (open mic stories)
Living on Earth
Sounds Eclectic
On the Media
Fresh Air
Basically I did a search on iTunes for PRI, NPR, WNYC and WHYY podcasts, and found a bunch.
WMMR’S Preston and Steve. It’s a daily morning radio show from Philadelphia. Hilarious and very informative!
Let me be the first to strongly second Radiolab, and I would agree pretty much with the characterization that it has a very similar feel and style to TAL, but where the latter is about people and their stories, Radiolab is about science and discovery. (just something to be aware of: they only do 5 full-length actual episodes per season, (season 5 just began). But in between seasons they release additional shorter tidbits here and there as podcasts, many of which are very good as well).
Check out an episode on their website. (I’d recommend Emergence from season 1, but they really are all great).
Also, Skeptoid is a nice series of 10-12 min. essays each debunking another pseudoscience, urban legend, conspiracy, etc. They’re quite good I think.
I get my podcasts via iTunes.
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (NPR) - weekly, “quiz show”/news/humor
Car Talk (NPR) - weekly, humor/car maintenance
Rachael Maddow’s nightly radio news broadcast (I watch her MSNBC show)
Dan Savage’s Savage Love - weekly, sex/love advice, snarky, sooooooo NSFW
Skepticality - biweekly, skepticism
All Songs Considered (NPR) - weekly, music reviews/samples
Live Concerts from All Songs Considered (NPR)
Second Stage (NPR) - daily, a new song each episode
Talk of the Nation (NPR) - daily, news
Specialty topics:
Spanish lessons: Learn Spanish - Spanish Pod; Learn Spanish with Coffee Break Spanish
Beer brewing, all by The Brewing Network: Brew Strong; The Jamil Show; The Sunday Session (all more or less NSFW)
This American Life
Keith and the Girl
Savage Love with Dan Savage
Distorted View
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
1up Yours Video game podcast
Scam School (video)
Tekzilla (video)
…and lots more
I love podcasts!
For current events:
Mosaic (a video podcast, with clips of news shows in the Middle East)
The World, a coproduction of the BBC, PRI, and WGBH in Boston (that’s exactly how they say it every day; I also listen to their subshow on language, The World in Words)
Worldview, from WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio
The Diane Rehm Show
Science Friday
The Guardian Weekly Podcast
The Economist’s podcasts
Oh, and no, there’s no way I can listen to all of those in one day. So inevitably I am always a little behind on the news.
For fun:
Savage Love
The Bugle (one of the hosts is John Oliver from the Daily Show)
This American Life
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!
The Moth
My big three as far as entertainment value:
**Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast **(mentioned a few times already… good stuff)
**Doug Benson’s “I Love Movies.” **It’s recorded live at the UCB Theatre in LA. A different guest each week (friends of his like Paul F. Tompkins, Sarah Silverman, etc) sits and bullshits about movies.
Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier - SMODCAST - Usually an hour or so of the two of them just bullshitting about anything and everything. It’s hilarious.
If you like sports podcasts:
The BS Report with Bill Simmons (general sports and culture)
The Spurs Show with Phil Cornwell (EPL)
I listen to Mark Kermode’s Film Reviews and Slate’s Political Gabfest regularly. Occasionally I will also listen to Car Talk and Fresh Air.
Yet another Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me pod listener.
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but there are a few I really like that haven’t been.
For grammar Nazis, there’s Grammar Girl and the Grammar Grater. They’re both good; Grammar Girl is more straightforward and Grammar Grater uses experts to explain meaning and usage. Grammar Girl also has a new video podcast, but I haven’t watched it yet.
I also like the KQRS Morning Show podcast from Minneapolis-St. Paul. It’s just a local zoo-type morning show on a classic-rock station, but I listened to them when I lived there, and it’s a truly local show.
Many of these just came from browsing the podcast section of the Zune Marketplace. There’s lots out there to choose from, and if you don’t like something, unsubscribe and find something else.
Robin