A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail

The History of Rome by Mike Duncan is amazing. It's a decent commitment but once I started I ate it up.

Since no one else has said it... 80 days podcast:

80 Days is a podcast dedicated to exploring little-known countries, territories settlements and cities around the world. We're part history podcast, part geography podcast and part ramble. Each episode, we'll land in a new locale and spend some time discussing the history, geography, culture, sport, religion, industry, pastimes and music of our new location.

For deeply nerdy computer/network/IT/programming: On the Metal

Only 2 seasons, but some great interviews.

If you like space exploration and science, The Planetary Podcast has been going for like 20 years. Tons of amazing interviews with scientists, engineers, astronauts, administrators.

"Tides of History" a mix of scripted episodes and interviews with archeologists and historians.

The Rest is History is a fun history podcast.
I also like Today in History with the Retrospectors.

Definitely not disturbing!

Pendejo Time.

Jake, a recovering cokehead, trauma dumps about his time as a drug addicted fuck up and his dead father while his friend Thomas grunts out his fever fantasies about talking animals while googling different types of dicks.

Scratches the same itch as cumtown.

I like the Triple J Dr. Karl podcast for easy listening. Basically people call the radio and ask science questions.

I like Short History Of…. It’s written well, interesting from the first sentence, and read well. The topics vary widely, so you have plenty to choose from.

Also The Soundtrack Show might be interesting for you, not sure if that fits your needs.

Explore artistic photography - The Candid Frame
Explore the wine industry - I'll Drink to That
Explore good food and cooking well - The Splendid Table

honorable mention:
Stay Tuned with Preet
Beyond Organic Wine Podcast
The Art of Manliness

Not sure if it would appeal or not, but I've spent a good chunk of this year listening to How Other Dads Dad by Hamish Blake, here in Australia. Just a semi-light-hearted look at dadding in the 21st century.

You probably already know about him, but Andrew Huberman is doing an amazing job on bringing science back to the people.

Sleep, motivation, exercise, mental health... everything in the context of neuroscience so you start understanding a bit more everything that happens to you. Protocols to follow, fully explained and backed up by scientific papers, all for the sake of your health. Amazing source of information.

Science and Tech:

1-Stuff you should know. 2-Skeptics guide to the universe. 3-Programming throwdown.

Gaming:

1-Get played. 2-Triple click.

Comedy and movies and music:

1-Comedy bang bang. 2-How did this get made? 3-With Gourley and Rust. 4-Bizarre albums.

Other:

1-Scam goddess. 2-Qanon anonymous.

Helps you sleep:

-Sleep with me.

Pod Yourself A Gun/Pod Yourself the Wire - a rewatch podcast of The Sopranos and The Wire hosted by a pair of comedians and a guest where they go through each show episode by episode.

The Blindboy Podcast. An artist from Limerick delivered a mix of sizzling hot takes on a variety of topics, reads short stories from his books, lives interviews with range of interesting guests, or talks art, psychology, creativity and what not. Can be quite eccentric at times .

I used to love Reply All before Alec Goldman's shenanigans (awful behavior) came to light. So it was a real bright spot for me to find that PJ's pod has almost everything I loved about Reply All. He's willing to pursue things past the point any reasonable person with a job would and I love it. If you want a deep dive about whatever rabbit hole that takes his interest for the episode, it's a great place imo.

Search Engine http://www.pjvogt.com

RSS address: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/search-engine

99% invisible.

The Memory Palace.

The History Listen on ABC Radio National (Aussie)

NOTHING SEXUAL

Go Fact Yourself is my favorite podcast. It's a quiz style podcast where two (usually minor) celebrities come on the show and answer questions about 3 topic they choose for themselves that they are an expert in, but outside their field of work.

It's very interesting to hear these successful people talk about things they're not really known for, like the music they love, or a movie or sometimes niche topics like marathon running.

Now the really interesting part is they bring on special guests who are experts in the chosen topic to award the points. The guests that they get for this are the real treat of the show. First, you have someone showing off about how much they love a topic, then they get someone really involved to give great in depth details! For instance, someones topic was the Evil Dead movies, and the special guest was Bruce Campbell! He was so awesome to hear talking about the movies. The experts are almost always awesome, from movie directors to the songwriters for Frozen, to book writers on the topic, they're almost always amazing to listen to.

There are a couple of other segments of the show that are also well done. There's a "what's the difference" round that always makes me think. Like, what's the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? Or what's the difference between roasting and baking?

The hosts are great fun too. J. Keith is the master of punny segues, and Helen Hong is a pretty good co-host. All in all, highly recommended!

"our fake history" is a pretty good match to what you're describing. It's a relatively light hearted, rigorously researched, history podcast with a focus on misunderstood historical figures and events.

"The plastic plesiosaur podcast" is a really fun podcast more focused on cryptids and pop science.

One of the host to plastic plesiosaur has a YouTube channel called "trey the explainer" which is worth a watch.

And if you like low key, entertaining deep dives into machining or tech, check out "technology connections," "this old Tony," and "tech moan."

Mr. Ballen is good if your into true crime and random medical mysteries.