This was the first podcast I ever listened to. It has stuck with me all these years, for reasons that have continued to surprise me. Amazing work, set the bar so high for everything that came after. The story is one of a kind and made me cheer, laugh and cry the saddest tears for people I didn’t know. It is always on my recommendation list.

Truly remarkable. Has yet to be topped.

I don't know really how to express how much I've enjoyed this series. Not only for the story, but for the way it's told. It's expertly composed into a compelling ride through the life of people living in a world so different from my own. Yet still captures an authentic slice of the human experience. A different team with the same recordings couldn't have created S-Town as the Serial have. Though not the happiest of stories, I feel like my views have been widened and my empathy for other humans deepened for having listened to this series. And for the bad reviews because you have to subscribe to NYT to listen to the whole series, know that it's worth every penny and you're supporting truly talented journalists.

I allowed Brian Reed’s superb podcast to wash over me for a week, chapter by chapter, descending deeper and deeper into the fascinating, tragic, and paradoxical world of John B. By the last chapter, I was profoundly moved, a feeling half ill and sad for a man not known to me personally, and yet his brilliance, profanity, atheism, sexual conflict, and rage against the horrors of modern man imbued his chapter with greatness and one never better portrayed in the contemporary American novel. Like life’s work as a horologist, time ticked by loudly, cruelly, and joyfully for John B. Despite the wrenching emotional pain under wish he labored he delivered a salient message: to cherish the days we have and not to waste them. This was a beautifully crafted tale, delivered with strong emotional heft. Rest in peace, John B.