EconTalk: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Often has guests

90% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

73 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Weekly+

1,064 episodes · last 2026-08-31

Language

English (US)

Declared in the feed as en-us.

Where it's from

Outside the UK

The feed declares en-us.

Reach

91

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.

Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, the conflicts and history of the Middle

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

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The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)

This show publishes a contact

We hold the address this show publishes in its own feed. Addresses and drafted pitches are part of a plan. Browsing stays free, and we never send on your behalf.

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