Smarty Pants

Stephanie Bastek

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Booking Overview

A biweekly interview and ideas podcast covering literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs, with external guests typically including authors, historians, researchers, scientists, and cultural critics discussing new books or original work. Agencies could credibly pitch book authors, academics, subject-matter experts, and public-intellectual voices with distinctive research or cultural analysis; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 346

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Stephanie Bastek - Host and interviewer covering literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs for The American Scholar.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Published authors, historians, researchers, scientists, critics, and other subject-matter experts with substantive work in the humanities, sciences, arts, or public affairs.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Original research, Established criticism or journalism, Recognized expertise in a specialized subject

Recent Guest Discussions

Adrian Tinniswood - The History, Decline, Preservation, And Continuing Relevance Of English Country Houses.

Jennie Durant - Pollinator Decline, Threats To Honeybees, Sustainable Food Systems, And Solutions For Protecting Bees.

A. D. Jameson - The Rise Of Geek Culture, Changing Demographics In Fandom, And Sexism In Gaming.

Recent Topics

Literature, Art, History, Science, Public Affairs

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Smarty Pants
:

To the Manor Born

July 10, 2026

The English country house has been on the brink of ruination since at least the start of World War I—or perhaps the first chug of the Industrial Revolution—or was it the end of serfdom …? Propping up this dying, decadent institution has been a favored pastime of preservationists, architecture buffs, and earls for about as long as the institution has been around. In his new book, Noble Ambitions, historian Adrian Tinniswood peels back the wallpaper to show how these ancestral piles survived bo...

The Industrial Revolution of Bees

June 26, 2026

It’s Pollinator Week, and the bugs need us more than ever. Not just bees: butterflies, moths, wasps, flies, beetles, midges, hummingbirds … Around 90 percent of the world's flowering plants and 75 percent of our major food crops rely on pollinators, and they’re dying. Nowhere is insect decline more intimately entwined with our own than with honeybees, 2.7 million colonies of which are hauled around the country to pollinate American crops—most often, California almond trees. Since 2012, Jennie...

The Geek Squad

June 12, 2026

Were you a geek? A nerd? Did you play Magic: The Gathering, paint Warhammer miniatures, learn to speak Klingon or Elvish, or memorize whole scenes from Star Trek? If so, then good news: it might have taken a few broken eyeglasses and shoves in high school, but geek culture has finally triumphed. Dragons are cool, Star Wars has never had more fans, and everyone is geeking out over the latest sci-fi release on Netflix. How did this happen? And how have the changing demographics of geekdom affec...

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