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>>colinp+(OP)
What I've figured out works wonderfully for me is to turn on an agri-commodities podcast where the most exciting news is something like the US soybean production unexpectedly falling 30% over the past 6 months.

Note ofcourse that for this to work, you need to be, like me, nowhere remotely interested in grain yields or commodity trading or work in related fields. I don't live in the US either. Nor do I have any business there. To put things in perspective, after listening to the podcast I had to Google why the world would possibly need so much soy sauce and only then discovered what a vital role soybean plays in the world economy.

I haven't found anything as soporific as listening to detailed stats on bushels of corn and tonnage of wheat presented by people who are earnestly interested in this. Played at 50% volume.

>>hannof+lP
I’m convinced that the genre of boring Podcasts for sleeping is a large but undefined market. I listen to “in our time” and “The Guardian Long Reads” and “conversations with Tyler”.

The content has to be not so boring it’s annoying, but slow paced and open ended enough that I can fall asleep. Audio books fiction or otherwise, don’t do it for me, I guess I’m too invested and end up following along.

I’ll take any recommendations!

>>stream+OS1
Not sure it totally fits the bill for you but for me “The Science of Everything” by James Fodor does the trick. The variety of topics plus his generally soothing voice might work?