The stories are so interesting but the voices used in the sections of dialogue make me cringe. It makes everyone sound like total jerks or total idiots.

Yes FOX is a little right-of-center, but you don’t have to C**P on them for it. As well as openly dissing Donald trump where it was convenient. Stop doing this or I’ll stop listening

Best shout-out ever to Chris’s Burger, La Puente, CA! This place is right across the street from my high school and was a hangout for my friends and I. (class of 1983!). Enjoyable episode that I’ve sent to as many classmates that I could find.

Interesting stories and fairly well researched, but the re-enactments are fan fiction at best. They make everyone seem like petulant children that speak in exposition that is not normal in everyday conversation. These re-enactments make the podcast very bizarre and at times uncomfortable to listen to.

The political bias is really starting to come through and laughable when listening to recent episode that said CNN wanted a balanced presentation of news.

Now that they’re paywalling episodes they’ve lost me

I absolutely love this show. Please keep up the excellent work! The more the better ! :)

I knew a little bit about chatbots and artificial intelligence, and had listened to Season 87 (The Rise of AI) in October 2023, but was unable to quite “fit the pieces together” in my brain at that time. I just recently started listening to Season 93 (Sam Altman & The Battle for OpenAI) and realized I needed to go back to Season 87 and “re-listen,” which then helped me to better understand what was happening with OpenAI in November 2023 and the few months thereafter (Season 93). Thanks so much for your great podcasts and a lot of the backstory of the various companies/topics that are covered — ones that may only be briefly mentioned in the news media/TV. Business Wars is one of my favorite podcasts!

I love this podcast, David brown is a amazing host, less ads than other wondery podcasts I listen to, so that’s a plus, I would like to echo the request for a Trek Vs. Specialized series, as a cyclist, I would absolutely love that.

I love this show but this series has several small mistakes that make me start to question the fact checking behind it. The Quiznos franchisees from Pennsylvania were from Coopersburg, not Cooperstown. And it references a loan from the ‘Small Business Association’ when it’s actually pretty well known that SBA stands for Small Business Administration.

It’s sigma

My boys love it!

Can you guys do a Percy Jackson versus Harry Potter?

I love this podcast! I’ve listened for years!

Would like less language

Nice podcast!

Hi, the only thing that is bad is the language, and the adds are annoying

I would love to see irobot vs dyson

Thanks for doing this series. As a lifelong fan of all brands of 4x4s and a 20 year jeep owner, I’m excited you are telling this story. I write this review to let you know if a little mistake I found at the end of episode 2. The narrator says “Ford vs. Bronco” not “Jeep vs. Bronco”.

Really well researched well told stories that pull you in. The only thing I find a distraction from the story telling is those weird sound effects and voices you add in. They don’t contribute to the story or its comprehension or create any kind of atmosphere, but instead make the wonderful storytelling sound cliched and cheesy.

Love the show, you should do Texas roadhouse versus whoever Texas roadhouse is up against

Big fan of the show, I listen almost every night while cleaning up and packing my kid’s lunches for the next day. I had some requests for new seasons if possible: 1. The War of the currents (Edison vs Westinghouse) 2. Cloud wars (AWS, Google, Microsoft) 3. Autonomous vehicle wars 4. Disney+ vs Netflix 5. Intel vs NVidia vs AMD Thanks!

Great podcast just getting more woke with each season unfortunately.

Could y’all do a series about AT&T vs. Verizon? I think that would be interesting

Why not mention the New York Post

Really enjoyed the toys r us versus kb toys series. Sometimes I wonder how some of the true life events are necessarily fully accurate but it does make it more believable.

You guys should do a space race series, or maybe a Quick trip vs Casey’s gasoline wars.

The writing for this engrossing show is so well done that even those subjects which on the surface sound like they might be a snoozefest end up being just as engrossing as the no-brainers. The narrator’s manner and delivery is perfectly suited to this podcast, and the way it’s produced in a thorough but relatively stripped down manner means it doesn’t get tiresome with bells and whistles. Just really interesting stories / histories of businesses and their fight for supremacy. It’s funny cuz when I put it like that, it DOES sound like it could be dull, but for any intelligent consumer of podcasts, this one is a sure bet!

What a tasteless ending to the Sun sandwich series. I had to turn off the sandwich tasting episode because it was just awful. I don’t care if those two have a podcast or not, they added absolutely nothing to the series.

Brilliant podcast. I really enjoy these! Even the ones I think I won’t like, I always end up learning new things and enjoy the narrator. Great podcast! Wondery has more quality than Netflix and hbo max combined 🫶💪 solid!

Show has turned into nothing but reruns and ads for other Wondery shows

It’s too biased against people who believe that being gay is wrong.

Very well done. The re-enactments are very realistic and believable. The hosts have good pace and voice sounds. David Brown is wonderful!!

On the positive side, the show covers some interesting topics. On the negative side, each episode is thin on content, and is padded it with fictional conversations which sometimes border on insipid. For example, in the second episode about Marvel Comics, there’s a scene in which a couple writers discuss naming a new character which goes something like, “How about Blob, Hunk, hmm.. what about Hulk?” We don’t know verbatim how this conversation actually played out at the time, but it’s a good bet it was nothing like the facile version presented here. Rather than draw this conversation from reliable historical sources, they decided just to make something up, and it ends up sounding like it was written by a third grader. My guess is they wanted to delve into this topic, but did not have enough sources to stretch it out over multiple episodes, so it is stuffed with fictional extra material. Business Wars is advertised as a management podcast, but it does not aim towards management level quality. Also on the negative side, the narrator’s overly folksy style is annoying. It’s a business podcast, not a Cracker Barrel commercial!

I never knew I knew so little!

I like the storytelling but could do without the fake dialogue and bad voice acting. (For goodness sakes, please find a different woman than the one with the nasally voice and vocal fry!)

What can I say, one of the best business history podcasts ever…I always learn so much by listening to each episode. Great content; I love learning about the personality of business leaders and the rise & sometimes fall of businesses.

Just found this series recently and am finding it very interesting. However, it can appear to be a little biased by what it doesn’t ask. How can the show make the safety of Airbnb a major issue and never once present any comparable data for safety in standard hotels? I kept waiting for it and it never came. Looking forward to catching up on the parts episodes!!!

I have learned so much from listening to 3 or 4 seasons of this podcast. Thank you for making this podcast so I can listen to it every day.

i’m 11 years of age and love this

I loved this podcast I do strongly recommend The Ken Coleman Show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you guys or girls get your podcats

Really breaks down each story in a great way

I’m 14 and I love listening to this, because David is such a good story teller and I love the special effects. It’s my favorite story telling podcast around! I love it so much I’ve binged every season! Keep it up!!

Can you guys do athleta vs. lululemon?

I love this. Can you do one with Lululemon vs Athleta? please 🙏

This podcast is great 😀😀😀

This is the best podcast ever

I really like this podcast

I’ve come to this podcast by way of “Flipping the Bird,” which I also enjoyed. Unfortunately, dramatizations that are not comprised of direct quotes weaken the credibility of this series, IMO.

Love BW… but listening to the Tesla season, and if you’re going to have profanity don’t bleep it out. Personally I prefer no language since I like to listen to this in the car with my daughter, but if you’re going to put it in why bleep it? Throws off the listening experience.