I don't listen to /every/ episode of every podcast as they come out, but my phone's new SD card has more than enough space to just grab 'em all anyway, letting me binge whenever I feel like.

My top recommendations - the ones I /do/ listen to every episode immediately - are The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe; Revolutions; Under the Influence; Decoder Ring Theatre; Welcome to Night Vale; and the top five or six of the 'insight porn' list.

They should all be easy enough to find links to; if they're not, just ask and I'll provide 'em.

• Canada-focused podcasts:
• Canadaland: A bit meta, talking about Canadian media.
• Canadaland's other shows: Commons; Oppo; Cool Mules; Taste Buds; Thunder Bay; The Imposter: Commons and Oppo are about national politics, the others about particular topics
• Ontario Loud; Wag the Doug: Ontario politics
• The Secret Life of Canada
• The House from CBC Radio
• Sandy and Nora talk politics
• Talking Radical Radio

• Law Bytes; The Docket; Lawyered; The McGill Law Journal: All four about Canadian law.

• Ham radio podcasts:

• ARRL The Doctor is In

• ARRL Audio News

• This Week in Amateur Radio

• Sciencey shows:

• Science Friday

• This Week in Science

• Astronomy Cast

• Quirks and Quarks

• Everything Hertz

• Rationalism shows:

• The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: If there's one podcast that started pointing me in the right direction to clear my thought processes, it's this one. Getting a feel for this level of skepticism helped prepare me to get a good foundation for figuring out more difficult truths, and trickier ways of telling truths from falsehoods.

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Goes through the fanfiction HPMOR, and then a few other stories of the same general theme.

• Tsuyoku Naritai!

• The Bayesian Conspiracy

• Rattle Fiction Podcast

• Rationally Writing

• History shows:

• Revolutions: Listen to this one from the beginning. In an engaging and non-boring way, the host covers ten of the most important revolutions in history. A lot of the modern world makes a lot more sense after hearing about the sharp-left-turns events took to get here.

• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

• You Must Remember This

• The Podcast Very Different From Ours: A reading of the book "Law Systems Very Different From Ours", a good resource for anyone who wants to worldbuild a setting that's interesting, self-consistent, and noticeably distinct from the present-day.

• Cautionary Tales

• Music podcasts:

• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast

• Monthly Best of Electro Swing

• "Insight Porn": Each episode is usually a different topic, and after you listen to each one, you have the feeling that you've learned something, even if you forget it all by the time next week's episode rolls around.

• Radiolab

• Freakonomics Radio

• Invisibilia

• 99% Invisible

• Futility Closet

• Reply All

• More or Less: Behind the Statistics

• TED Talks Daily

• Stuff You Should Know; Stuff To Blow Your Mind; Stuff You Missed in History Class; Stuff Mom Never Told You; Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

• Fiction:

• Decoder Ring Theatre: The "Red Panda Adventures" is one of the best pulp-era comic-book universes, bar none. Their other productions aren't too shabby, either.

• Welcome to Night Vale: Hard to give a good description of, but worth listening to from the first episode.

• Hello From The Magic Tavern: Improv fantasy, of the "Yes, and..." worldbuilding style, and a lack of shame that frequently hits NSFW levels.

• PodCastle; PseudoPod; Escape Pod: Regular short stories of fantasy, horror, and science-fiction, respectively.

• Mission to Zyxx: Feels a lot like 'Magic Tavern', except sci-fi.

• Improvised Star Trek

• Clarkesworld Magazine

• Random individual topics:

• FurCast: The only still-running furry podcast I could find.

• Under the Influence: All about the marketing industry, by an ad professional. Much better than that sounds, and a lot of handy lessons about advertising-manipulation tricks to watch out for. Worth hitting the archives for; used to be called 'Age of Persuasion'.

• Savage Lovecast: Relationship and sex advice from Dan Savage.

• Democracy Now! Audio: Daily politics and news.

• Ear Hustle: Describes what life is actually like behind bars.

• Off the Hook; Off the Wall: Produced by 2600, the magazine for white-hat hackers.