Huge fan of Avery Trufelman's Articles of Interest (https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-inter

Huge fan of Avery Trufelman's Articles of Interest (https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest). She used to be a correspondent on 99% Invisible and originally developed the series as a subsection of 99PI. She also briefly worked on a podcast called "Nice Try!" in the same vein: deeply exploring weird facets of the world around us. Articles of Interest does that, but for clothes, and the latest season has been especially interesting to me as it dives into the history of US colleges and their influence on fashion. Well produced content, very talk-radio-y, Avery really sticks to a narrative. I also recently discovered Switched on Pop, a brilliant podcast that digs deep into pop songs from the last few decades, dissecting why they're catchy, why they work... and why they sometimes don't. If you're a Taylor Swift fan, their Taylor Swift episodes are especially fun. More conversational production, but still well cut.