SPYCRAFT 101 - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Spyctaft 101 with Justin Black is absolutely fantastic. His straight forward interview style lets his guests tell their stories in great depth and detail. Each episode is entertaining, informative, and always engaging. I’ve been a spy enthusiast since I was a kid and this show is by far the best of its kind. I highly recommend this series. I have enjoyed every single episode and I know you will too.

We learn a lot from this show. It is as if you are in a classroom. It is educative, intuitive, and interesting. It’s guests are knowledgeable and sincere. The host is engaging and attentive. Keep up the good work. We look forward to new episode each time. Appreciate the education. It shows no one is never too old to learn or be taught. 😉

So many wild and unbelievable stories of Cold War era shenanigans! While Justin mostly focuses on WW2 thru the end of the Cold War, he has also made several historical episodes that trace the art of spycraft back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and even to such diverse locations as Northern Ireland, Laos and the Congo. Guests are knowledgeable and informative and offer tremendous insight into the topic at hand. Keep up the excellent job!

I recently found this podcast and was really hopeful because it sounded really really interesting. So far, I have had to stop about half of the episodes in the middle because I just couldn’t listen anymore. The guy who hosts it has a very flat, robotic tone. One episode I terminated this morning was just him reading. I could tell he was reading, and trying to annunciate, but it was halting. It’s hard to listen to somebody just obviously read for 45 minutes. One episode I listened to the other day had a guest on who went into inordinate detail about things that didn’t matter. I don’t generally have attention problems, but at some point, the major plot is lost. again, I think it was that the host just let the guest go on and on, and didn’t try to subtly redirect back to the main storyline. There have been a few episodes that have been really interesting, so I’m going to keep trying.