I get enough tech in my daily life, so I look to podcasts to enrich my life in other dimensions and teach me new things. Here are some of my favorites:
Somebody already mentioned Welcome to Night Vale, which is a serial fiction podcast in the form of public radio news announcements from a town where all the weirdness of the world is true.
Also, there is The Thrilling Adventure Hour. This is a comedic take on old-school radio serials. There are multiple ongoing series within the show. This is a really funny show, with great production values, and some high profile guest stars.
Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc).
But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts.
Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published:
* Do You Link Prince Movies?
* The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons
* Grantland NFL Podcast
* Grantland Pop Culture
* Grantland Sports
* Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin
* Hollywood Prospectus
* Jalen & Jacoby
* Rembert Explains
* Serial
* Startup
* Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew)
* Upvoted by Reddit
* This American Life
And here are the others that I've subscribed to and listen to when I don;t have anything in the "Listen First" feed:
* 1 Day Business Breakthrough (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* 99% Invisible
* Bret Easton Ellis Podcast
* Criminal (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* Deadcast (Sports, from deadspin.com)
* Entreprogrammers (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* Here Be Monsters (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* Kalzumeus Podcast (patio11 & others)
* Mixergy (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* NPR Fresh Air (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* NPR Invisibilia (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* PO'd with Dennis Miller & Adam Carolla (probably going to remove this soon)
* Reply All (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
* Startups for the Rest of Us (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* Adam Carolla Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* Andy Greenwald Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* Dr Drew Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
* WTF w/ Mark Maron (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
* You Made it Weird w/ Pete Holmes (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
If you like horror, you might be interested The NoSleep Podcast: readings of the cream of the crop of short stories from reddit's NoSleep forum. Really good voices and sound design, and it won a Parsec Award for speculative fiction in 2014.
If you like Song Exploder, a friend of mine and I started a music production podcast where we dissect one song each week that you might also like: http://songaweek.net/
* Cooking, food, and molecular gastronomy; Cooking Issues: http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/programs/51-Cooking-Issu...
* Outdoor adventure; Dirtbag Diaries: http://dirtbagdiaries.com
* Music and poetic music breakdown (uniquely well-suited to audio as a medium); Song Exploder: http://songexploder.net
* History; the Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us
* Design; 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org
* Electic subjects: http://loveandradio.org
* RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org
I'd love to find a good fiction podcast, with either short form stories or episodic long form arcs in the fashion of old-school radio shows.