How Many Ads Are in Busted Open? We Measured 30 Episodes
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The median episode of Busted Open carries 5.3 minutes of ads. That’s 15.0% of its runtime, measured across the 30 episodes we’ve cleaned through ZeroAds.
Busted Open is SiriusXM’s daily pro wrestling talk show, with Dave LaGreca and a rotating cast of wrestling veterans. When someone adds it to ZeroAds, our pipeline cuts the ad segments out of each episode’s audio and logs every cut with timestamps. This page is that log, added up. Snapshot: episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026.
What we measured
Section titled “What we measured”| Busted Open | |
|---|---|
| Episodes measured | 30 |
| Median ad time per episode | 5.3 minutes |
| Median ad share of runtime | 15.0% |
| Typical episode length | about 34 minutes |
| Total ad time cut | 2.6 hours |
A typical episode runs about 34 minutes, and the median episode carries 5.3 minutes of advertising. Across all 30 measured episodes, the ads add up to 2.6 hours.
How Busted Open compares to other podcasts
Section titled “How Busted Open compares to other podcasts”Across every show we measured this window, the median episode is 9.8% ads, about 4 minutes. Busted Open runs about half again above that; roughly one minute in seven is advertising. The full distribution and the heaviest shows we measure are in our August 2026 podcast ad study.
About the show itself: ads are how Busted Open gets made, and this page is a measurement, not a complaint. We’re building revenue sharing so the shows our subscribers listen to most will get paid from subscription money.
How to listen to Busted Open without the ads
Section titled “How to listen to Busted Open without the ads”ZeroAds serves Busted Open back to you as a clean private feed. You keep the app you already use: the feed works in any podcast app that accepts a custom RSS URL, which is most of them. (Spotify and Amazon Music don’t accept custom feeds.)
- Sign up at zeroads.ai. Your first 5 episodes are free, so you can hear a cleaned episode of Busted Open before paying anything.
- Add Busted Open and play your free episodes in the ZeroAds app.
- Subscribe to get your personal ad-free RSS URL and add it to your podcast app.
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Questions
Section titled “Questions”How many ads does Busted Open have? In our measurements (30 episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026), the median episode of Busted Open carried 5.3 minutes of ads, 15.0% of its runtime.
How do I listen to Busted Open without ads? ZeroAds cuts the ads out of each episode and serves Busted Open as a clean private RSS feed for the app you already use, any app that accepts a custom RSS URL. Spotify and Amazon Music don’t take custom feeds. The first 5 episodes are free.
Will my episodes have the same ads you measured? Probably not exactly. Most podcast ads are inserted at download time, so your copy of an episode can carry different ads than the copy we processed. The pattern holds; the exact minutes vary.
Are these numbers exact? Close, not exact. We test the detector against hand-labeled episodes: it catches about 97-98% of labeled ad time, and about 85% of every second it cuts lands on labeled ad time, with most of the remainder on the edges of those same ads. Treat each figure as carrying a few percent of measurement error.
Measured from the 30 episodes of Busted Open processed through ZeroAds from July 16 to August 5, 2026. Ads are inserted dynamically, so your copies may differ. Full methodology in the study.