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Audience Interest
- science news
- critical thinking
Podcast Focus
- latest science news
- critical thinking skills
Publishing Consistency
- weekly episodes
- 21 years active
Platform Reach
- available on multiple platforms
- website for direct access
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 32 chart positions in 32 markets.
By chart position
- 🇨🇦CA · Science#20300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Science#24100K to 300K
- 🇺🇸US · Science#37100K to 300K
- 🇲🇽MX · Science#7410K to 30K
- 🇮🇳IN · Science#8510K to 30K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
321K to 1.0M🎙 ~2x weekly·915 episodes·Last published 4d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
642K to 2.1M🇨🇦48%🇦🇺14%🇺🇸14%+29 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
193K to 625K
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 7/25/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026 | Live From Madison Wisconsin; Amending the Constitution; News Items: Believing in the Supernatural, Desalinating Water, Superheavy Cosmic Rays, AI Designed Bioweapons; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/18/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026 | Live from Seattle; Theaters vs Home Streaming; News Items: The Enshittification of Academic Publishing, Ending Forever Plastic, Reanalysis of Type Ia Supernova, Manipulating Gravitational Waves; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/11/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 2026 | Special Guest: David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Two States of Water; News Items: Using AI To Detect AI Cheating, Teens Using AI Chatbots, NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method, SETI Partly Explains Fermi; Skeptical Philosophy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 7/4/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 2026 | Back to Basics: Scientific Skepticism; News Items: Synthetic Cells, Trust in Science, Geothermal Update, Solar Corona Heating; Quickie with Cara: Radiation Eating Fungus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Responses to Evan; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/27/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 2026 | Evan Leaves SGU; News Items: Paying attention, How Queen Bees are Made, Canceling Wind, Goodbye International Space Station, US Military Restores Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 2026 | Guests George Hrab and Andrea Jones Rooy; SGU Down Under; News Items: Donut Lab Battery Follow up, Fungal Superhighway, Echochambers and Radicalization, Payam Method, Strength Training and Longevity; Who's That Noisy; ADIct game; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026 | Quickie with Steve: Ebola Update; News Items: Ben Franklin's Anti-Counterfeiting Innovations, Mars Maven, Human Cooperation, Pre Cambrian Animal Senses, Peudoscience Protection Bill; Your Questions and E-mails: Sucking, Audio Cables; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 6/6/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 2026 | Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; Quickie with Bob: Meteor over New England; News Items: While House Proposal on Science Funding, Medical Aid in Dying, AI Attention, Expensive Audio Cables; The Science of Survivor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/30/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 2026 | I Learned Today: How Toilets Flush; News Items: Autism Clinics, Errors in Climate Change Database, Weekly Exercise, Why Birds Fear Women, Latest Ebola Outbreak; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/23/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026 | News Items: Sleep and Aging, Mental Number Maps, Digital Privacy, ArXiv Bans AI Produced Work, T-Rex Leather; Who's That Noisy; Obsoletely; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
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| 5/16/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 2026 | News Items: The Interstitium and Acupuncture, Climate Change Food Insecurity, Neanderthal Dentistry, Tiny Robots, More UFO Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Consciousness; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/9/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026 | Interview with Philosopher David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Exotic Matter; News Items: When Are Screening Tests Necessary, Dawkins Writes LLMs are Conscious, Iron Flow Batteries, Haunting with Friends; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 5/2/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 2026 | Back to Basics: Pareidolia and Apophenia; News Items: Smart Watch Health Metric Errors, Space Debris Hitting the Moon, Evolvable AI, Merging Quazars, Longevity Escape Velocity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Hype; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1085 - Apr 25 2026 | What's the Word: Cryptomnesia; News Items: Belief in Unproven Health Claims, Regenerating Limbs, Suicide Hotline Seems to Work, Why is Rubber Strong; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mythos Follow Up, Americans' Knowledge of Mexico; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 4/18/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026 | News Items: Artemis Recap, AI Biology Research, AI Security Disruption, Superconductivity Breakthrough, Red Light Therapy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mach, Missing and Dead Scientists; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 4/11/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1083 - Apr 11 2026 | Dumbest Thing of the Week: Waffle House Teleportation; News Items: Artemis II Heat Shield, Fairness in the Brain, Genetic Engineering Humans, Self-Healing Composite; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 4/4/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1082 - Apr 4 2026 | Quickie with Bob: Transporting Antimatter; News Items: Artemis II Launches, Can AI Predict Science Replication, Smart Drugs, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, Underwater Fairy Circles; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 3/28/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 2026 | Back To Basics: Confirmation Bias; News Items: NASA Announces New Moon Plans, The Limits of Cloning, Giant Insects, Pushing Exorcism, Update on 3I-Atlas; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 3/21/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1080 - Mar 21 2026 | Interview with Professor Kristian Andersen; Update on Conspiracy Teacher; News Items: Cannabis Review, AI Agents Breaks Out Of Testing Area, Life On Exomoons, Man Producing Carbon Fiber, Bigfoot Hoax Revealed; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 3/14/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1079 - Mar 14 2026 | Back to Basics: Fundamental Attribution Error; News Items: Improved Photosynthesis, Birth of a Magnetar, US Bioweapons Research, False Health Information from Chatbots; Your Questions and E-mails: Consistency; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 3/7/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1078 - Mar 7 2026 | Quickie with Bob: Thatcher Effect; News Items: Lunar Chickpeas, Sea Level Rise, Latest Study Shows Reiki Does Not Work, Brain Cells Playing Doom; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Glyphosate Safety; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 2/28/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1077 - Feb 28 2026 | Swindler's List: Tax Fraud; News Items: Universal Nasal Respiratory Vaccine, Origins of COVID, Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel, Birding Brain Boost; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Starting A Skeptical Group; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 2/21/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1076 - Feb 21 2026 | News Items: Banana Resistance to Fungal Disease, Drug Advertising, AI Powered Prosthetics, Laser Written Glass Storage, UFO Balloons; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mental Illness and Culpability; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 2/14/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1075 - Feb 14 2026 | Quickie with Evan: Erich von Däniken dies at 90; News Items: Review of ADHD Treatment, Religious Nones, EPA Ends Endangerment Ruling, The Physics of the Quintuple Jump, Crotchgate; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on the yellow sun, The Turkey Illusion; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | The Skeptics Guide #1074 - Feb 7 2026 | Quickie with Bob: The Death of 8k TV; News Items: Faith-Based Addiction Programs, Noise and Sleep, A Fully Renewable Grid, Moltbook for AI Agents Only; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections; Science or Fiction | — | ||||||
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What the show covers
- latest science news
- critical thinking skills
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Audience interests
- science news
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Platform reach
- available on multiple platforms
- website for direct access
- growing audience base
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Publishing consistency
- weekly episodes
- 21 years active
- over 900 episodes
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Chart history for The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Peaked at #19 in Finland, currently #19 in Finland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| Canada | — | #20 | #20 | — |
| South Africa | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Australia | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| HK | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| IS | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| United States | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| IL | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| ID | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| AE | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| GR | — | #67 | #67 | — |
| Ireland | — | #69 | #69 | — |
| KE | — | #69 | #69 | — |
| AR | — | #72 | #72 | — |
| Mexico | — | #74 | #74 | — |
| SG | — | #83 | #83 | — |
| CL | — | #84 | #84 | — |
| India | — | #85 | #85 | — |
| PH | — | #98 | #98 | — |
Chart Positions
32 placements across 32 markets.
Chart Positions
32 placements across 32 markets.