Interview subjects are interesting. However, I wish Mr. Ritholtz would listen more and stop inserting himself into the discussions. Yeah, he is well-informed and well connected. But I don’t care about his erudition; I care about what his guests have to say.

I’ve been listening to Barry on CNBC and Bloomberg in the past decades. He is an entertaining and knowledgeable speaker, and interviewer. I have a degree in Finance and have worked in the financial field for 3 decades. I trust Barry as a credible source who finds other good sources to interview.

If everything is fascinating then nothing is fascinating. Seems disingenuous to say it to everyone about everything.

Fascinating

The episode with Torsten Slok was great!

Knack for the Obvious. Ted gets an A+ for elocution a polite gentleman C - for information.

Every episode is based off a liberal point of view.

Suggest letting guests do more of the talking. Great show and guests otherwise.

Once again, what could have been a far more interesting interview was greatly diminished by Barry’s infatuation with the sound of his own voice. Let the guests finish their thoughts.

To the host, stop talking so much. Ed Hyman is such a brilliant and humble guest and the interruptions diminish the interview

Most of the guest and host have a left wing political view. DEI, ESG. Garbage. It’s funny to hear the episode on stock pickings and the guest says Buffet isn’t a good stock picker, he then says retail investors shouldn’t buy individual stocks. They should just buy s/p 500 index. His clients should listen to this message, take their money out of his fund and put it in the index.

Sometimes extremely insightful conversations. Sometimes he and his guests go far to deep into rabbit holes on topics of little interest to listeners (I.e. people’s personal history). Host MUST STOP SAYING “THAT’S INTERESTING” EVERY TIME THE GUEST MAKES A STATEMENT!

I love Barry’s take. Really interesting.

Went to listen to my first episode but it’s a paid episode! Yes, fees do a matter in a time of financial difficulties for many Americans!

Please stop saying “huh, hmm, that’s interesting” after every response. Ur killing me!

Great guests, great questions.

Too political.

I tried this podcast and made it through an episode and a half. The host comes across as a know it all and constantly interrupts. The worst was listening to Bethany McLean start desperately trying to talk over him, raise her voice, and talk faster to try to make her points. It’s clearly more than just a problem with women guests, but it certainly reads as familiarly sexist to women used to fighting to be heard. I can’t listen to this.

The host talks more than the guest. Very annoying.Poor Michael Lewis. Always interrupted.

The guests are interesting but continuously cut off

Great guests but host talks too much.

Very high-quality guest roster. I have particularly enjoyed the female guests (just finished Ilana Weinstein). These are the best of the best business minds and it's educational to hear how eloquently they are able to express complex ideas. Sure, Barry is a bit self-assured, but I like him and he's very knowledgeable. He's "likable enough," to borrow Obama's ol' zinger.

Why have a guest if you constantly interrupt? Let Gretchen Morrison talk about her book her experience from before you were born

Love the guests Barry has and the topics.

Hard pass couldn’t even finish the episode

Can you bring Jerry Parker on the show?

This is a pretty good podcast. Lots of interesting guests, lots of interesting topics. Host has a tendency to talk over the top of his guests though.

Excellent and very interesting

Loud awful ads out of nowhere. 5 minutes of ads for every 10 minutes of content interspersed throughout.

Show gets some greats guests, super interesting topics, but cannot stand Barry. That guy is rude and pompous. He interrupts almost every single guests to interject with his own thoughts and opinions. I don’t care what Barry thinks and I hate how he’s always trying to finding other people’s sentences. Shut up, Barry, and let your guests talk. His “very interesting” replies are so insincere. Please fire Barry and find a new, polite host.

Barry please stop interrupting the guests… this used to be one of my favorite podcasts however the constant interrupting / lack of thought provoking questions has made even having the best guests hard to listen to.

Ads are out of hand everywhere. The upside is that i have gone back to listening to more music and less podcasts. Music is better for the soul anyway.

Way too many ads.

That’s fascinating. Great guests.

A previous commenter pointed it out and now I’m amazed at how often this phrase is uttered. Anyone else think it’s weird Barry spends 3-4 mins introducing the podcast guess twice every episode?

Once upon a time this was a 5-star podcast, but the frequency of mid-pod ads is shocking and unparalleled

I’ve been a fan for a long time. This is probably the first podcast I’ve subscribed to over the years. However, most of the podcasts are getting longer with either too many commercials or too much fluff. The number of commercials interrupting interesting conversations is getting irritating. I never minded the biographical information at the beginning and the shtick at the end but combined with the number of commercials, I find myself fast forwarding all too often.

Love this podcast and the guests they bring. But the ads are annoying and each episode has 5 segments of unannounced, loud ads. Also the sound engineering is poor - breathing and the noise level varies throughout the episode.

Constant interruption from host. Incredibly frequent response from host that guest’s comment was “really interesting” or “fascinating”. Lack of institutional knowledge required to ask a follow up question. Opening intro seems to be done on the fly with no prep at all. And can every guest be “extra special”?

Interviews are intelligent and thought-provoking, but recent trend of lots more ads intrusively and recklessly placed has REALLY lowered the pleasure of listening. Most recent episode (equity strategist Adam Parker), with very interesting opinions about the stock market, was delivered OVER A MONTH after recording, rendering the opinions outdated and less useful. Bloomberg should use the money from all these jarring ads for better audio production (more careful ad placement with transitions in and out; faster program delivery).

Does Barry Ritholz have ANYTHING to say besides, “Huh, very interesting.” after his guests answer one of his questions?

Each chapter is too long. Always over an hour. Who has time?

Good show, good host, credible guests, interesting topics. The extra loud advertisements ruined it. They were sudden and extra loud. Very startling and unpleasant.

Barry’s fantastic but like the prior reviewer noted wth is up with the noise blast of the commercials. Barry do something about this, listen to these with headset and you’ll hear what we mean. Otherwise this would be a 5. The content is perfect including the deviations into whatever. People who don’t get that have obviously never had a conversation with a person.

Great content but very poor control with sound control. The main radio podcast is always recorded at a higher volume level. The podcast only Portion at a lower volume. Impossible to listen to part 2 with background noise even with the volume on high. In addition, the volume goes up and down within each segment. I subscribe to 8 podcasts. This is the only one with this problem. It’s not my device or my hearing! Also - the advertisements come on VERY LOUD.

Listened to the podcast because I was interested in Barry’s guest, but have to say that the distraction of the host’s constant breathing into his microphone for the entire interview was nearly unbearable. Bro, mute.

I like the show in general. But the loud advertisement starts without warning and it is potentially dangerous to the ears as we listen using headset. I would suggest to add a sound or tone before starting the advertisement and this way we can reduce the volume before the loud advertisement starts. Thanks.

Love the show. Great guests, and Barry is knowledgeable and asks great questions, even if they’re tough. He pushes back on weak or unsatisfying responses. My only gripe with the show is that you can tell virtually every guest is a student of How to Win Friends and Influence People. The number of times they say Barry’s name drives me crazy!

#cancelbusinessinsider

Barry brings on fascinating guests and has interesting and insightful conversations with them. This would be a 5-star podcast but the audio mixing and commercials are awful. I swear the audio engineer just sneezes and puts in the ads anywhere. It comes off as amateur and distracts from the conversation.