Bloomberg Law - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Very informative, with interesting perspectives on the major legal issues of the day, and I think it’s done so fairly. June Grasso is a phenomenal host; curious and probing, taking the spot of the listener in a way that is just really wonderful. I wish she hosted more podcasts.

As many others have mentioned, the content is great and very informative, however the sound design is terrible. Ads play at 3x the volume of the host and call in guests can barely be heard sometimes. For such a large company this is a shame and easily fixed. I hope they do soon.

These episodes are really digestible, fun, interesting and topical.

My only complaint is the audio. June’s audio is perfectly clear, but the guest audio is often fuzzy and garbled, and at a much different volume than June. So you need to blast it to make out what the guest is saying, but then June is uncomfortably loud. Can’t they hire a mixing person? It feels bizarrely low budget.

This is probably the best podcast available for law. It reaches the best experts around the country for in-depth, comprehensive and yet relatively digestible commentary. But PLEASE ASK THE SOUND ENGINEER to turn down the volume of the sound effects. It’s so loud compared to the voices. Between segments there’s this swoosh sound which makes my ears bleed. Similarly the music at the top is way too loud.

But keep doing your thing substantively, it’s great.

The podcast used to cover interesting legal issues in a neutral way, but that changed dramatically over the last few years. Now, June speaks with guests from a singular viewpoint and covers only political topics. She barely asks questions; instead, she makes breathless statements with which the guests then agree. And on top of that, June offers no insightful analysis. I’m not sure if she’s always been a blind partisan without any real insight on the law, but the last few years have certainly revealed her as such.

This podcast has sound effects that are much louder than the content. In the episode about the EU fight with Hungary and Poland, the “woosh” sound between segments was so loud it hurt my ears. They had the same issue with ads.

That reflects laziness of the producers. It’s easy to equalize the volume.