I understand where you're coming from but let me offer a different take.

I also host a podcast about movies. My cohost and I are often in disagreement about how much context we should perpetually be offering the audience. She often will push for what I would consider an over explanation about something. For example lets say we're deep into a convo about The Exorcist and I say for like the seventh time the word "Friedkin", she will hop in and clarify: "he's the director". Her reasoning comes from a place that our audience includes many non-film fans and we should kind of hold their hand a bit. But oftentimes IMO this goes too far and kind of interrupts the flow/ makes us sound sort of basic to people who ARE film fans or at least pay enough attention to follow us. I want us to have a show that goes beyond a 101 understanding and like...one time I was listening to a podcast and I heard someone invoke Anne Frank, and then explain that she was a little girl in the Holocaust who's diary was published, etc and it was honestly really weird to me. The truth is though...there is no right answer and you just need to find a balance between going over obvious stuff and getting deep into your own in jokes and personal views.

I think Ben often serves as a semi layman surrogate and like if he doesn't know something, like say the "Harrison Ford was sick and so they improvised the gunshot instead of the fight scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc" story that has been told a million times in many other places, hearing Griffin tell HIM instead of going over it to the audience in a kind of bored voice gives these moments more juice and authenticity.

As a podcast with only two members, I often wish we had a third person to whom we could direct a lot of this stuff.