 Originally Posted by MinionZombie
Tell 'Em Steve-Dave - my favourite podcast, I'd say. It's some of the Comic Book Men folks, although CBM was the show that resulted from the podcast. The main hosts are Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan, and Brian Quinn. However, the podcast itself certainly isn't CBM. The show has expanded with a wide variety of familiar voices who pop in now and then, creating a sort of 'TESD Town' as they call it. Listeners refer to themselves as "Ants", it has it's own club called The Four Colour Demons, and they've done a variety of video projects from puppet movies to game show specials. Every year they do an epic Xmas special, too. Generally they don't have any specific thing to talk about, just whatever takes their fancy, although there are certain topics that come up now and again that are almost recurring segments, such as: "You Hitlearn Something New Everyday" (weird facts about Hitler) or "Fat News" (new stories about overweight people/events). Their host of characters includes the generally annoying 'Git-Em' who works part-time at the Secret Stash store where they record the podcast, Father Lance (religious dude), Troy (policeman), Sunday Jeff (a co-worker), Ming & Mike (co-workers from CBM), and like five guys named Frank among many others. They're known for their well-meaning but oftentimes compromised endeavours (e.g. projects that go askew), flights of fancy during ad reads) ... it's kinda hard to explain and sum up, but it's the one I dig the most.
SModcast - Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier. It kinda ground to a halt when Mosier was off in France for a good long while making that Grinch movie, but he's back, although it's still a bit sporadic (especially right now with Smitty making the new Jay & Bob movie).
Jay & Silent Bob Get Old - this one is pretty sporadic now, and oftentimes the episodes are recordings of live shows from months ago. It's kinda worn out now, especially with the mind-numbing portions of the show where Kevin Smith repeats the same fucking lines during certain segments of the show (I just fast forward through those bits). However, when Jason Mewes is just allowed to be himself and chat away it's still fun to listen to.
Hollywood Babble-On - Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman's weekly popular culture podcast.
Same. Basically, we could just say the whole smodcast network! I’d also add Fatman-on-Batm...I mean Fatman Beyond.  Smith will never get used to the title change! But that one is near the top of the Smodcast list for me because Marc Bernardin provides a good, more serious balanace fo Smith’s antics.
Your Mom's House - comedians and husband & wife Tom Segura and Christina P. host this. I stumbled across it not too long ago and I've really got into it. They've got a whole host of in-jokes that take a little time understanding (e.g. "low and loose" is a bad thing, "high and tight" is a good thing - it all relates to denim jeans, lol - as well as "Cool Guys" who are anything but, the infamous "Good Morning, Julia" etc). They're on YouTube and it's well worth watching as there is a lot of video that they riff on (weird shit found on the Internet). There's usually a lot of "brown talk" (they're oddly, hilarious obsessed by bowel movements and farts ... which resulted in the "fart mic", which amuses Christina P. to no end). Like with Rogan, it depends on who the guests are, but it's a really enjoyable one. They've got a fantastic audience, as well, known as "The Mommies" who often flood the social media feeds of people thrust into the YMH limelight with numerous in-jokes (Garth Brooks' cringy social media was recently flagged up on the show and the comment feeds have since been inundated with Mommies  ).
I just recently got into that one as well! It took a little while to get a grip on Segura’s sense of humor, even though I’d seen his standup and somewhat regular appearances on Joe Rogan, but after a few episodes - I was IN. The whole McDonald’s sponsorship fiasco was amazing to me! How in the world did McDonalds give them 2.3 million and not know what kind of show it was?!?
The Movies That Made Me - again, an occasional listen. The hosts are Brian Olsen and Joe Dante. It seems that they have finally sorted out their infuriated audio issues and main host Olsen has seemingly learned you need to TALK INTO THE FUCKING MICROPHONE rather than moving around all over and mumbling. They invites guests in the movie biz to talk about their favourite flicks.
Oooh, this is a new one to me! Cheers! I love Dante when he’s on Maltin or Post Mortem, he’s great to listen to!
How Did This Get Made? - it's all about weird, terrible, or batshit crazy movies. A couple of great episode examples would be the ones they did about Face/Off, Sleepaway Camp, and Maximum Overdrive.
Maltin On Movies - famed movie reviewer Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie talk with guests from the world of film & TV.
Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - most of the ruddy show is anything but the interview with the guest, which seems to only take up about 40% of each episode, so it's only an occasional skim through for me. The bulk of the rest is the talk show host chatting with his staff or 'paying off his beach house' with the extensive ad reads. It feels a bit too polished and slick, to be honest, too 'presented', although when they finally get down to just Conan talking with people he's friends with (or wants to be more friendly with) it's quite fun (e.g. the episode with Dana Carvey is hilarious)
I also listen to all those. You had turned me onto How Did This Get Made? sometime last year, and while I enjoy it, more often than not it’s a movie I haven’t seen, so I have to skip it. Recently, at least.
Agreed on Conan. It’s still pretty new, so I’m hoping they can iron out those promotional hindrances. Cut them down a bit. But yeah...I loved the episodes with Carvey, Olyphant, and Goldblum. I think Goldblum’s was last week and as usual, the guy is a strange cookie, but it was funny!
A couple new ones from Ned will be going on my favorites, as well!
MZ took a big chunk of my favorites, so these are the only others springing to mind at the moment...
The Church of What’s Happening Now
With comedian Joey “Coco” Diaz. Basically they just talk about whatever they like. I suppose it really hinges on whether or not you like Diaz’s vulgar “New York-a” style comedy.
Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast
Again, this one probably depends on your opinion of Burr, as the show rarely has guests and it’s just Burr rambling about whatever is on his mind at the moment.
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Their audio engineer needs to sort that shit out. Still, though, it's one of those that I dip in and out of (when there's a guest on that I'm interested in) because I'm a big fan of Joe Dante and Trailers From Hell.
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