I discovered this podcast when I told my Echo to “play the news.” It quickly became part of my morning routine as I began work each day. They do great job at covering the major news stories and have SMEs or analysts on to enhance the coverage.

Brad, the way I gasped when you said you “taking a few months off”. Anyway, thank you for continuing to be an awesome start to every day!

I’ve listened to this pod on and off for years, and I’ve been in a on period for a while. I didn’t realize how much I enjoy and appreciate the pod until today when it wasn’t in my feed during my normal getting ready time 🥺 is the pod okay? Checking on my strong friends.

Best news podcast, super informative and I love how you break things down and make it easy to understand. And Brad, love your energy - thank you!

I started listening to this Podcast August 2018! Brad and his team do Amazing work. No other News Outlet (podcasts or otherwise) has been as reliable, consistent, and as fun as the Start Here podcast. Looking forward to 7 more years! Buckle in Brad. 🤣 Sorry for taking so long to leave a review/rating. They say you’re friends-for-life after 7 years, so I figured it was time 😭🤣

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3/3/25 Must listen - however… in today’s episode when MTGs boyfriend was called “a reporter” by your correspondent in the episode (question about Zelensky’s attire/lack of suit)… I find this misleading and frankly rude to not reveal who was taunting Zelensky in that moment.

It’s a real shame that a news organization with such great resources produces such a politically biased show. I’ll give one example just from today: the subject was about potential privatization of public buildings and organizations like Amtrak and USPS (a strategy that has been very successful in other countries like Australia and New Zealand). The hosts just scoffed and dismissed the idea out of hand like it was a joke. Would love it if this show actually provided serious thoughtful analysis rather than echo chamber news candy.

I deleted a bunch of other news apps that were extremely biased in their reporting and I gave this podcast a chance, but after the latest Israel humanitarian aid report that was in today’s show, it just goes to show how biased your reporting is. Before it was NO humanitarian aide was going through Gaza, but now it’s just about Israel stopping it. Yet, I haven’t heard unbiased reporting about the performance Hamas was doing with the hostages and forcing living hostages to watch their friends be released. PLEASE report honestly and equally. Enough is enough.

This episode is not ok. Claiming that Zalinsky yelled too is not accurate. This smacks of sucking up to Trump.