I absolutely love the pod however the amount of commercials I just insane, I often lose focus and end up just tuning most of the stories out bc there's so many ads and interruptions it's just overwhelming distracting. Makes it very hard to follow the stories sometimes.

all of the stories are so good. it’s literally addicting. deserves 12 stars. i’ve listened to almost all of the episodes. an everyday listen. also i really like the campfire stories and the multi story episodes. stop hating on him for the ads also— he’s gotta feed his family. js skip palio

He the best I would say at what he does

i like the ones with 3 stories! had to take off a star bc he makes my favorites subscriber only.

Really great stories but the editing is a little iffy sometimes

I have a cardboard follow button and props all because of this show

I could listen him endlessly

Love the show but there is a lot of ads and repeat stories that I also see on YouTube that are claiming to be podcast EXCLUSIVE. So either I’m not understanding what exclusive means or yall think we’re dumb and don’t notice. But I notice

Every time I watch this I find myself triple guessing. This truly is an amazing podcast!

i love it the only podcast i lisen to is yours but ther is like 6 ads befor you hear more

I love it, as the title clearly says.I have to say though some of the episodes are repetitive but it’s not that bad bc there episodes that are harder to get to. And there are way to many adds like i get thru the first ones and he talks about the episode and BOOM there are MORE adds🙄

I want to give 5 stars so bad. Great stories told beautifully, but, it really distracts me for several minutes each time you refer to a boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/significant other as “partner”. That word already means other things and you are helping make it a confusing to people when it’s used properly like with business or police partners, or just black people call each other partner and now it sounds like they are in a sexual relationship because people are normalizing that use for partner. Just stop.

I’ve been listening to Mr Ballen on multiple platforms for quite some time. The quality of the content is wonderful but the presentation over the past year has degraded with the amount of ads and sponsor shout outs severely affecting the audience experience. I understand he wants to push you towards his paid content but I’ve had to unsubscribe due to the lack luster listening experience.

I listen to game theory and this and I guess the murderer is every time PS Bravo wolf not every thing is about politics 3 whole stars because he was sponsored by trump's friend PPS Gfxoxrsitffk I am not hating on you we chill👍 PPPS flowyrgurl why he left out the killers name was to not get sued why would not having the killer’s name benefit him?

Love the pod I think some might be a little fake JK I love all of it keep it up please I need more never give up on this podcast so that said I love what you do keep your dreams👍 spoonoodles out✌️GOODNIGHT EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD NIGHT and everyone should be optimistic tomorrow for the hole day 1000/10 ✌️☮️

I used to really love this show until I research one story because it was in my home town. Doing so I found how he chooses to change the stories for his own gain so much he leaves the actual killer out of it. Totally ridiculous and disappointing. I can understand changing it a little to make it more interesting but leaving out the real killer is just dishonest for his own gain. That is not true crime. That is fiction.

It feels like Mr.Ballen became a sellout. Crazy amount of commercials and even though now he has like 10 producers that shows feel like he just mails it in

most the time I have YouTube and CapCut on downtime so whenever I have the free time, I love to listen to this podcast. I’m all full on murder mystery lover, Mr. Ballin you’ve got me hooked lol love this podcast would rate 10 out of 10😆😆😆😆😆

I love the stories and while The quality has gone down some and some of the stories are not as good, I feel like that’s the publisher’s fault not the team’s. I also found a comment hating on him for “speaking at a 6th grade level” but that doesn’t really matter, it helps people new or not so good at English to understand which I find very thoughtful.

Can you please look up and then listen to how to pronounce names instead of inventing something? Thanks Mister Bay Leen :|

I love it but there’s way to many adds like 5 minutes long I’m not trying to be a hater and he dose a good but it’s ridiculous how many adds and how long they are also the podcast exclusive episodes there also on the yt channel under a different name

Mr. Ballen is the best storyteller and gets me thru all my work days! I pop earbuds in and go into heavy focus mode💪🏻

I like the show, but the embellishments to the story are a bit much and the number of ads recently has caused me to Unfollow

He claimed he’d start adding more shows each week. Unfortunately they’re reruns.

Guys he and his crew have made about 448 episodes of stories Idk why everyone is complaining about repeating what do u expect him to do I'd like to see the haters even try to make a podcast with 448 and come up with new episodes every week and u wanna call it trash but his podcast is five stars and the only five stars u have is the one on ur kindergarten attendance like grow up haters. Also ohhhh scarryyy ads JUST SKIP THEM IF U HATE THEM SO MUCH. Mr. Ballen I think you are doing a great job. u know what ur doing. keep it up 👍

Bro is legit-the absolute BEST storyteller of all time!

Guys. The ads have gotten out of hand, just way way too much. One or two per episode. I really just don’t go for Ballen anymore because they’re every 5-7 minutes now.

Peek I love this podcast

No one else seems to notice that PODCAST EXCLUSIVE episodes are being uploaded to YouTube on almost the same schedule under different titles. I couldn’t care less that you’re uploading to both platforms, it’s just BS that you’re not honest about it. Remove the words “podcast exclusive” from your podcast episodes that say it. I’m sick and tired of seeing a “new” episode loaded to YouTube, only to say “yeah I just heard this one.”

Entertaining content but — if you look up the stories he tells—the stories are not always accurate as he tells them. I miss the ad-free episodes on Amazon Prime. Sirius is a big nope.

Love your pods

The quality of each episode has unfortunately decreased significantly since it changed platforms. The editing is not as thorough. The stories are more random and not as captivating. Bummer.

Totally great stories told in a totally great way. Totally. IYKYK.

At first I really loved binging a lot of the episodes and catching up to current time, but now the amount of “fan favorite” repeats is killer. There is no need to release the same case again with no edits or updates. I feel like the quality of episodes/cases has gone down with the high quantity of content being put out. It’s been said, but to reiterate: quantity does NOT equal quality.

Ay this is just w and I just never know who is the killer or assaulter cuz yes. But if you criticize this you are so mean

Love it! Stumbled upon this gem. Great stories.

Drives me nuts complaining bout ads. Ever heard of skip button? We listen for free so ads feeds podcasters family. U work for nothing?

Love this podcast but I’d rather have less episodes a week then these filler repeat “fan favorites”. It seems to be more and more lately. Quality > Quantity. Despite the repeats it’s still a great pod and he is a very good story teller!

While the delivery and writing have never been great, the show used to cover some interesting true crime stories. Yet it seems the show has devolved into just detailing different ways people have died.

The stories are so bad, and the host speaks at a 6th grade level. I don’t understand why people like this absolute garbage.

Used to love this podcast. But my god, the pacing of the storytelling has become excruciating. Probably due to lack of content, but the narrative just drags on and is repetitive to fill the time.

I truly love his stories I often have no idea who the killer is or what happened buuuuut sometimes the stories get obvious and messy but I couldn’t do any better so not much criticism 5 stars

What is your beef with the follow button??????

He will tell a story that I’ve heard and I won’t realize it until the end. Great story teller

I wuv it!!!!!

So many ads it’s absurd. Stories are great but the build up all leads to an ad

What an amazing storyteller! Mr Ballen can weave a tale with all the requisite suspense, details and intrigue necessary to keep a person rapt with awe - all that’s missing is a crackling fire!

I love this podcast and am so glad I found it. There’s so many interesting stories and the host is great. 👍🏼👍🏼

Great storytelling I been watching his videos on youtube I watch and watch it seems I can not get enough my mom also likes listening to him he has a great storytelling voice his hand movements are also helps bring out the story

I love this podcast. It squarely is on my “never miss” podcast list, so I just wanna be clear that the format of the show and the stories are always great, but the move to Sirius has really sucked. There’s definitely more “fan favorites” a.k.a. just repeats of old content and the move also killed off several of his other shows, which are still owned by Wondery. Not to mention the fact that if I want these without the annoying ads, I now also have to pay for Sirius and because of Mr. Ballen I had fallen in love with Wondery content so now I have two subscriptions I have to pay for when I was getting everything I wanted from Wondery. So all in all, I love this podcast and I hope he’s enjoying his bag because I sure hate that he’s on Sirius now.