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How to Get Booked on Unexplainable
Unexplainable is a science podcast hosted by Vox with 291 episodes. Your strongest route into Unexplainable starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Topics this show lists for itself
- Science
- Natural Sciences
Read from the show’s own feed on September 12, 2026. These are the words the show uses about itself, not our classification. Pitch in them.
Unexplainable is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Unexplainable is about
Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know…and then keeps on going. The Unexplainable team, Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, and Meradith Hoddinott, tackles scientific mysteries, unanswered questions, and everything we learn diving into the unknown. New episodes Mondays and Wednesdays. From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a few times a week
- Latest episode
- Oct 7, 2026
- Catalogue
- 291 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath)
- What color is a tennis ball?
- The bodies buried in the bog
- What happened to the giant bugs?
- Dark matter and the end of answers
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-10-10.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Unexplainable
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Unexplainable, which publishes a few times a week, currently “How does music move us? (feat. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath)”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Unexplainable.
- 2
Send it to the address Unexplainable publishes
Unexplainable's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Unexplainable's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Unexplainable in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for Unexplainable.
- 3
Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want a researcher or communicator who can make a complex finding clear and vivid. Open with one sentence on why you fit Unexplainable and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Unexplainable, then grade the draft against Unexplainable.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Unexplainable is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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