Really like the detail. Background info helps understand the wider picture. Very thorough. Thanks for the great work!

Speeding through explaining the information is a disservice to listeners. Dr. GC

“There will be Bananas” has bet the best episode yet!! Keep up the good work! This insightful podcast will help you better understand current events by understanding their historic timeline. Often times we are aware of certain events playing out but do we know why it’s happening in the first place. It’s a fairly new podcast but I love the idea of it and it has the potential to be a great one. Admirable work!!

One of the best podcasts out there. However in the two Iran episodes they rush or assume too much prior knowledge - please do a long explainer on Iran!

It is very smart and intelligent. Gives background on events that I was aware but didn't fully understood. I think it's a must for anyone in in history and also in understanding of the current events. It's helpful that having roots in the middle eastern cultures, they have insights and information not easily found. I highly recommend it.

Been listening for a while and just listened to Marjorie Eaton’s “Everybody Knows Somebody” episode. Intelligently researched and rivetingly told. I felt compelled to comment. It’s highlight out of a podcast with many fantastic episodes. I learn something new every time I listen. Thank you for making this!

Please put out more content!!

Up till today I enjoyed this podcast. Today I listened to a full hour of bashing how bad Soleilmani was with no mention of the good things he did. They, like so much of the recent media want to portray him as pure evil, this is very rarely true of anyone. bottom line at the end of the day our country straight up ASSASSINATED a guy, something that is just lightly glossed over in the episode like it’s completely unimportant that we are ignoring international laws and murdering whoever we feel like.

Great snippets of history that are tied to modern/contemporary events. Gives one a much better understanding or insight into why things are the way they are. And - they’re always intriguing, interesting and sometimes fun!

I ever smoked. Truly the dopest shizz nittle zim zam zop. ABBA zabba your my only friend Best way I ever learned anything. Constantly blowing my goddamn mind over and over like an orgasm.

Thanks for putting together a great podcast. One of the hosts pronounces the words “certain” “Britain” in a way I don’t like, but maybe I’m being weird.

History told with real facts even though it can hurt some feelings. I have learned a lot from this podcast. A must for your podcast library.

I have learned so much about history

A friend suggested this pose Adt and I simply love it. All the topic are so well researched and so unique. Keep the good work.

This is a decent podcast in general, the concept is excellent and I think the hosts have potential. But a change of approach was taken with the podcast talking about the history of the violence against women act, Titled “everybody knows somebody“. It is well researched, and the story is told in an extremely compelling way. While it left me with an understanding of of the past, it was an engaging episode that left me both wanting to know more as well as feeling that I should be doing more. Amazing.

I can’t say enough great things about this podcast. It’s just so insightful & filled with so many interesting topics. The hosts and production crew do such a great job of doing their homework and creating so much interesting content. Thanks for spreading knowledge and sparking interest in topics I’d never consider or bringing light, hard facts and history to conspiracies I thought I was crazy to believe in. It’s all gods baby baby ....✌️✌️✌️✌️

Hard work by talented people, but it definitely spoon-feeds the listener a la Radiolab. I am also unsubbing from all NPR podcasts now that I know they are sponsored by Exxon.

I discovered podcasts through radio lab and it had consistently been my favorite podcast for years. Until now. This is the most informative, entertaining, and eye opening podcast I’ve ever listened to. I hate history, it bores the hell out of me. But this telling of American and world history is unbelievable and always related back to the world we live in now. Impressive beyond imagination and surprisingly unbiased. Factual history instead of the white washed stuff you learn in school.

This is my favorite podcast and I look forward to Thursday for the first time in my life. Thursday can be a cool day now too. Thank you for rehabilitating Thursday for me.

This podcast is a fantastic listen. The information, the sound engineering, and the crew that puts it all together is phenomenal.

I really love the stories told on Throughline, but get bothered by the frequent repeats of old episodes. Would love if Throughline could number their episodes so I could quickly figure out if it’s old. An alternative solution would be to just not fill the feed every week - we understand that good storytelling takes time and you’re not going to have new episodes every week.

I love the content of the podcasts, but what’s with the slight name change of the title and then release it as a “new” episode? Great writing but a little annoying when I think I’m listening to a new episode only to remember five minutes in that I vaguely remember the same thing from months before. “The Moth”, “The Phobeous Cartel”, etc. are all reruns. I would appreciate a heads up that I am listening to an old pod.

I am absolutely and utterly enthralled by this podcast. I am so grateful that this exists in the world. Thank you

This is a fantastic and fascinating show!

Came for Iran explanation staying for all of this moving and digestible content you’ve created here! We all have a better chance to understand the world now and the effects of actions taken by world powers. Thank you. I really love history and this podcast is perfect.

Thank you so much you guys! Growing up in Central America and hearing the stories from my dad who is a photographer and about everything he saw, I was taken back in my mind to those pleases that I have visited. Great work and great job Throughline.

Greta podcast!!! Simple love it ❤️

This program is incredibly well researched & totally engaging. I look forward to every episode!

Really enjoyed the recent episode on how conspiracy theories have shaped our country!

I’m in college and I’ve been trying to get more in touch with world news, but I often find I don’t understand the contextual roots of the problems being dealt with today. This podcast has been excellent at giving me insight for the social and political nuances at work beneath the greater issues. It’s very well done. Thank you to everyone who is contributing!

This podcast sheds a great deal of light on the events and circumstances that shaped The world we live in

Love the in depth reporting

Great podcast with interesting topics. Don’t love the random music undertones intermittently throughout the episodes while people are talking. I find it distracting, but otherwise I love this podcast.

This is the best podcast ever, full of knowledge, history and humor!

There seems to be one commenter who is complaining repeatedly about Rund Abdelfatah’s pronunciation. Her pronunciation is perfectly fine. T-glottalization is prevalent in American English and it's even more intense in many dialects of British English. I have no idea why such an unremarkable thing is rankling that commenter so much, but they need to get a life instead of bizarrely posting nonstop about a nonissue. Geez Louise.

I watch out for this podcast, and I feel very satisfied by every episode.

The truth is enlightening. This is an awesome podcast.

The hosts are excellent and provide a great backstory to current events

I love this podcast - the work that’s put into research and inviting experts to talk is evident throughout. I’m seeing comments about how some words are pronounced. I like hearing different regional and international accents and language construction. Our differences make the world a more interesting and rich experience.

This is one of my favorite podcasts, learning the backstory of current events- I have learned so much that I wish they taught us in school. I believe strongly in the importance of making these histories known. I would love to hear more about SE Asia’s history, the effects of the Vietnam war on the region, etc.

Love this podcast overall. But, in regards to the episode on busing, there was misrepresentation. A Gallup poll in 1973 showed that among African Americans busing as a means of desegregation was only favorable by 9%. You relied heavily on the idea that white people’s racism was the driving force and then played sound bites of the lowest hanging fruit of racist white suburban mothers. You left a myriad of nuances out and only gave a voice to one black mother. By doing this you misrepresented the black community portraying them as defeatists who again got stepped on by whites. The black community deserved better than this.

I love love it! I know it’s petty but my only complaint is that the female host can’t pronounce t in the middle of a word which kind of drives me crazy.

Yuk. The new generation taking over is trying to be Ira Glass, and they fail. Ira Glass didn't and doesn't involve the dribble talk and the phoney laughs. Oh, and let's not leave out the up-speak. This program could be so much better if the delivery was straightforward.

I had been searching for so long for a podcast to get into, and then I found this! Throughline is informative and thought provoking, bringing to light so much forgotten or erased history that is crucial to understanding the current state of the world. I recommend this podcast to everyone I know and am so grateful it exists for the public! Thank you Throughline!

Love the podcast, and side note, Ramtin Arablouei never ceases to amaze me with his apparently endless creativity, talent and energy! I cannot count the number of podcasts I listen to that include credits for his music or a variety of other contributions! The Throughline formula is excellent and each episode is sure to make you appreciate and better understand where we are and how we got here!

Many, many reviews call for a need for this kind of challenging subject matter. But the producers need to listen to reviews to make Throughline a better podcast. Three notes that are repeated in dozens of reviews: 1. Dramatic music is over the top and often unnecessary. 2. Narrators conversations among each other make it seem “high school.” 3. Narrators need to pronounce “T” and “N” in words like Britain, mountain and Manhattan. OxyContin has a ‘T’ in it. Please, please pronounce it correctly! It is very irriTaTing! The seriousness of much of the subject matter doesn’t deserve to be down-graded by the above traits.

Fantastic show with great hosts

This is an incredibly informative podcast with lovely hosts 💗

Great content, but Manhattan and OxyContin have a hard T sound in their correct pronunciation! PLEASE try to say words like these correctly, it’ll make it a lot easier to mentally tune into your otherwise excellent podcasts! As I’m typing this review I hear you say “cer-en” instead of certain!!! C’mon, ya gotta try harder!

I love this podcast and the way it relates history to what is happening today. I am interested in every episode and always learn something new. Small criticism, but I get sick distracted by the female narrator and the way she doesn’t pronounce the “T” in words. I most had to stop listening to the episode where she said “Oxycotton” over and over again. I hate that such a great show can be lessened by this avoidable issue.