While I love econtalk and listen to it every week - I'm actually a bit surprised that it's this podcast that made it to the front page. To me it felt a bit meandering and russ really seems to struggle at points in keeping the conversation going.

Some of the recent podcasts that I thought were much more deserving of front page-hood:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/02/cowen_on_the_gr.htm... http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/deer_on_autism.html

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/hanson_on_the_t.htm...

These three were incredibly thought provoking and still have my mind in a flurry. Check them out if you haven't.