For all the hard work that went into this podcast, the poor editing really takes away from fully getting into it. Please please I beg you — remove the stock “uplifting” and “spirited” music loops that play and play in the background of important interviews. Overdramatic and cheesy and distracting. It’s insufferable and distracts me completely from the interview — and it’s way too loud. The music loops are literally taken from the YouTube creator stock music library, making it even more recognizable to listeners, which uses tacky short loops designated by “emotion.” Overall, there’s way too much background music for a true crime podcast. The music doesn’t add to the narrative, isn’t selected to match the mood, is overdramatic, changes mid-clip, is too loud, and suddenly cuts-out. I don’t understand why they felt the need to add this music to begin with. Is it to cover up poor audio quality? Who cares. It’s understandable interviews have lower audio quality in this genre — so it’s not needed. The only other qualms I have are the plugs of the play at the beginning of every episode, requiring me to skip a straight 2 minutes when you include the ads and the actual intro… that’s not including the recap of the last episode AND the ad placement mid-sentence or even mid-word. Please be considerate with your ad breaks.

A true patriotic American. May we all follow the example of Reality when we have the opportunity to speak truth to corruption . The real terrorist in this story is that colluding scum trump.

This story is absolutely mind-blowing! Reality Winner is one brave woman and a patriotic hero. I was disappointed when she said that regretted leaking the documents, but I am not in a prison cell facing a vitriolic smear campaign and watching my life collapse. More people need to hear this story. The production could be better. The episodes are very short yet there are far too many ads and an unnecessarily long intro, the actual content feels very rushed, the background music is too obnoxious and does not fit the content, and many parts are repeated over and over. Those things really take away from the story itself which deserves better reporting. I still gave it 5 stars because I want this story to be heard, but the production itself is disappointing.

I really wanted to hear this story, but it is so biased. Quit after the 2nd episode.

To hear Reality Winner in her own voice explain why she did what she did is amazing. The day I first heard the news that a whistleblower had anonymously exposed an NSA report confirming that Trump was lying about Russian hacking I thought that would be the beginning of the end of his reign of terror in the White House. And then it wasn’t. And then the story was just about her unique name—the most Dickensian name possible during the surreal era of the Trump administration. And then crickets. Barely any media coverage at all. This podcast is finally a glimpse of the insight America needed in Summer of 2017. We needed to see clearly that a president was blatantly lying about a national security threat to the integrity of our election system, the foundation of our democracy, in order to dispel any doubt of the legitimacy of his election. We were denied that shared reality (& I’m not just trying to make a cheesy pun here. The US has been divided and almost conquered by a hostile foreign power into 2 camps—one that can’t see how a populist *strong man* is misleading them, and one that is fighting to preserve a semblance of functioning democracy. This podcast has made me aware of the kinds of new legislation we need to demand in regards to updating whistleblower protections for government contractors. Jeff Sessions & his ilk certainly took Obama’s flawed use of espionage laws to the next level of wrong rendering Winner the proverbial “head on a pike” to scare off any other potential whistleblowers. Lt. Col. Alex Vindman was able to utilize a channel of whistleblower procedures which resulted in the 1st impeachment of Trump. I’m only 7 episodes in to this podcast, but I wonder what Reality’s thoughts are on creating whistleblower procedures for government contractor employees. Like Vindman, she may have been called upon to publicly testify to Congress, thus sacrificing the anonymity she desired. But my guess is that she would have utilized such channels had they been available. Anyway, this is really important podcast. Granting clemency and/or a full pardon for Reality Winner is one of my litmus tests for Joe Biden’s administration. After Biden pardons Reality Winner, then the whole world will know the United States values truth above all. Our entire legal system is nothing without truth. Truth is more important than institutionalism.

This Podcast is the worst.

Thank you Reality. You’re extremely brave. I pray my daughters grow up to be like you! Thank you for telling her story.

Every American should take time to listen to the truth about Reality Winner and how 3 administrations placed Protecting Russia before protecting a courageous American. Thank you APPLE PODCAST for airing this!

Reality is a HERO!! BRAVO to this excellent Podcast for sharing this extremely important and urgent story. We’ve all been taught to ‘see something…say something’. Reality did just that. She took action to protect America and has suffered massively as a result. Russian interference in our elections is NOT new news. It was detailed in the Mueller Report!! It’s a FACT. Thank you to Reality for your heroic efforts!! You deeply deserve Clemency and a full Pardon NOW!!!!!!

Trying to make this broken person sound noble. She’s an idiot and the podcast is a poor attempt to tell a story. Don’t waste your time.