Great thread, podcasts are my SHIT. Literally anytime I'm travelling, walking anywhere, doing housework, cooking or in the shower I'm listening to podcasts.
There have been some great ones mentioned so far. Here's what I'm listening to at the moment;
Video Games- P.S I love you (Playstation centric Kinda Funny 'cast and one of the best games podcasts IMHO)
-Kinda Funny Gamescast
-Podcast Beyond (IGN's Playstation Podcast)
-Podcast Unlocked (IGN's X-Box podcast)
-Gamescoop (IGN again, general gaming and industry
-IGN UK Podcast (Used to be very funny and obviously unmonitored but it has slowly become more homogenized. Still worth a listen).
-Ultima Final Fantasy (This is the only video-games podcast I listen to infrequently, good for a bit of nerdery every now and then. All the other pod listed above are weekly and I don't miss an episode, this one I dip in and out of).
TV Shows/ Movies-Bald Move Network-
http://baldmove.com/These guys (Jim and A.Ron) do some quality, well researched and hilarious shows about Loads of tv shows. They are two likeable, intelligent and funny men who used to podcast on the side but as their shows grew in popularity they now do it full time. Meaning consistent output of a high standard.
They have a
Bald Movies podcast feed and have covered some good some bad films so far inc. The Shining, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, The Force Awakens, Fight Club. You're talking about 1-2 hours about each film. Pick a film you like from the feed and give them a try.
As far as their TV show coverage goes, they do
The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, True Detective. That's not to say they LOVE the shows, they have a distinctly love-hate waxing and wanning relationship with TWD in particular.
-The Empire movie magazine podcast is fairly good too.
Comedy- Plumbing The Death Star - Two / three Australians with a fantastic sense of humor disect and discuss various aspects of pop-culture such as Star Wars, Back To The Future, Batman and other comics. The list goes on. They don't take themselves too seriously and have some quality moments of comedy gold as well as being somewhat thought-provoking at times. Just to give you an example, some of the episode titles:
Is Being a Werewolf a Hassle?
How Would You Survive the Game of Thrones?
Which Super Smash Bro would Make the Best Step Dad All-Stars Edition?
How Would Spiderman deal with being middle-aged?
Which is the worst fictional afterlife?
The concerns of fictional HR departments.
Why was The Matrix Programmed poorly?
Is Doc Brown an Idiot?
There were a whole series of Harry Potter episodes too which are fantastic - Why hasn't Hogwarts been shut down yet? The Ethical Dilemas of Azkaban.
These guys constantly have me in fits of laughter. They have another comedy podcast about basically any topic called
Shut Up a Second. I'd recommend these podcasts to anyone, even if you don't find it as funny as I do, you should get a few laughs. They are both explicit, not that they use swearing for laughs but rather that seems to just be a main part of their regular vocab.
General/Misc-Song Exploder (Discussions about songs, how they were made, often with interviews with the artists eg: Bjork, KT Tunstall, Harry Gregson- Williams re: The Martian)
-The Shetler Show (good long-form interviews)
-Stuff You Should Know
-Stuff They Don't Want You To Know (By the same guys as SYSN, sceptical and intersting discussion and info about conspiracy topics, alchemy, Serial killers, What happens when we die? etc etc)
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We're Alive - well produced and acted radio-drama set in a zombie apocalypse. It's broken up into seasons, currently there are 48 episodes split over 3 seasons, each episode (bar finales) being around 20 minutes so if you get hooked there is loads to enjoy.
Oh, and serial + 99% Invisible too.