Words per episode
Host and guest words spoken, episodes 1–55. Hover a column for detail.
Guest categories
How guests describe themselves on the site (episodes can have several).
Longest conversations
Episode runtime, top 12.
Conversational density
Transcript words against runtime — an episode's distance above or below the guide lines is its overall pace. Caveat: words ÷ runtime conflates real speaking speed with pauses, music, sponsor reads, and untranscribed segments, so read it as density, not articulation rate. Click a dot to open the episode.
All episodes
Every stat in one place — click a column header to sort.
Notes on methodology
All numbers are computed from the full transcripts of the 55 episodes published on dialectic.fm, merged with the podcast RSS feed (publish dates, runtimes). Word and turn counts come from the transcript text; "guest share" is the fraction of words not spoken by Jackson.
Words per minute divides transcript words by total runtime, so it mixes real speaking speed with pauses, music, sponsor reads, and any untranscribed segments — read it as conversational density, not articulation rate.
"Refs" counts entries in each episode's "Links & References" show notes (see the References tab's notes). "Topical range" measures how far an episode's chapters spread in embedding space (see the Map tab's notes).