5. The Smartest Man in the World (AKA the Proopcast): I just discovered this recently and now I'm delighted whenever I see a new one pop up in iTunes. I feel a connection with the way Greg Proops thinks, though he may be a much older gent than I, much stonier, and more metrosexual by an order of magnitude.
4. The Bugle (Audio Newspaper for a Visual World): A regular dose of English wit is a healthy thing.
3. Mysterious Universe. Covering the paranormal from Australia, these guys know how to keep the fun in their stories. They are also neither embarrassingly credulous or dogmatically skeptical. Everybody loves a good campfire story, and every once in a while, one of the stories on this show will send a good shiver up my spine.
2.WTF podcast with Marc Maron. I remembered this guy from Conan in the nineties, and that allowed me to get in early on what is now the comedy "podcast of record," as Ira Glass called it. Foronce, I got in on the ground floor of a pop culture phenomenon. So there.
1.Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Simply the best. Truth is always stranger than fiction. I find the most most absorbing stories are almost always nonfiction.
Some runners-up that might make the list in the future, if any of these start slacking and they pick up their game: Kunstlercast, Paracast, How did this get Made?, Doug Loves Movies, Comedy Death Ray.
Some popular ones that I used to follow avidly, but now I just don't ever want to listen to for some reason: This American Life, Radiolab, Risk.
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