Okay, so I listen to a lot of podcasts. As a kept man (heh), doing tasks that require use of my hands but little mental flexing gives me plenty of time to spend separating the wheat from the chaff.
I download them with the open-source Juice podcast receiver, then play them on my Sansa e250 MP3 player using the Rockbox open-source MP3 player firmware. All these things are highly recommended, as they are made of awesome.
While not an exhaustive list, these are some of the favorites that get listened all the way through, every time.
Gaming Podcasts
CAGCast: The CheapAssGamer.com podcast, hosted by site owner CheapyD and faithful sidekick Wombat, is probably composed of 50% game content and 50% random randomness. The best thing about the podcast is the friendship of its two hosts, revealed in their ability to talk about anything and everthing going on in their lives without embarassment. Updated once per week.
Rebel FM: A gaming podcast hosted by the people who made the 1UP FM podcast so much fun. They generally stick close to gaming, with occasional divergences to discuss alaming events in the neighborhood they record in, dating advice for lovelorn geeks, and current music.
Gamers With Jobs: Shawn "Certis" Andrich focuses with laserlike precision on discussing gaming topics with a regular crew of folks from GWJ. Very rarely does "what I had for lunch today" content make it to air. They also regularly include a guest from the industry, making for some interesting interplay as they banter about the work they're doing and other games they're playing at the moment.
Geekbox: The brainchild of former GFW Live/LAN Party reluctant participant Ryan Scott is an equal mix of gaming content and Lost/Burn Notice/comics/etc. pop chattery. The fact that the host is clearly such a quiet guy IRL is really endearing, and it's nice to listen to a group that's actually enthusiastic about the PC as a gaming platform.
Downloadable Content, the Penny Arcade podcast: Though only sporadically updated as their writing schedule allows, it's always a lot of fun listen to Jerry Holkins (Tycho) and Mike Krahulik (Gabe) as they discuss possible topics for cartoons and fearlessly diss/praise their current gaming obsessions. They also have two series of Dungeons and Dragons games recorded as podcasts by Wizards of the Coast. Featuring PvP author Scott Kurtz and omnipresent entity Will Wheaton, their irrevent take on their characters and the fantasy world is drop-head hilarious.
Other Podcasts
Hardcore History: Host Dan Carlin, a history buff, gives an interesting perspective on the major events in history. Rather than a dry, scholarly tone, he makes his enthusiasm clear in both the random subjects that he finds fascinating (everything to what it must have been like to face one of Hannibal's elephants in battle, to the possibility that John F. Kenney was heavily medicated throughout the bulk of his presidency) and his willingness to speculate in interesting directions.
SModCast: Bizarre name, great podcast. The name is made up out of the names of its two main contributors, Kevin Smith of film director fame, and his friend/producer Scott Mosher. Illicit substances are freely ingested as they move from one bizarre subject to another. If you've ever watched one of the An Evening With Kevin Smith DVDs, you know what an engaging guy Smith is, and the podcast format allows him free reign to talk about whatever weirdness is currently engaging his consciousness.
The Bugle: "Audio Newspaper for a Visual World!" is the bold proclamation at the beginning of each episode, and indicates the level of snark contained therein. Featuring John Oliver (aka "that British guy on The Daily Show") and humorist Andy Saltzman, they move swiftly through the events of the day, making merciless fun of every one. Both of them are incredibly smart, funny guys, and this is one of the few podcasts to make me collapse helplessly in a storm of LOLs.
You Look Nice Today: As a "Journal of Emotional Health", it fails miserably. As a platform for four very odd, funny men to take subject in very odd, funny directions, though, it works perfectly. They generally take one concept, often an idea to present to make money for the podcast from a potential sponsor, and take it to the most bizarre extreme.
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