I agree with a lot of what you said, and I most definitely disagree with the shit for brains you replied to. However, to be fair to the podcast, there are a ton of amazing episodes in which scientists or professionals go on and just talk about their field or interests for 3 hours. I like Joe. I also think he is very inconsistent, but he’s not a dummy. I actually admire the fact the he can admit when he’s wrong and change his viewpoints based on the facts and evidence laid out before him. That’s an admirable quality, one that is slowly but surely slipping away from society. Again, he can be very irresponsible and inconsistent, but that doesn’t mean he’s dumb or shouldn’t speak about various topics unrelated to MMA or Comedy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5FOumrXyww&t=380s

This episode, for example, came out 5 days ago. I throughly enjoyed it. Listening to this MIT researcher, Lex Friedman, talk about AI is pretty unbelievable. Sure, these episodes won’t get the attention an Elon Musk smoking weed gets, but there are a ton of episodes just like this and far better. I think when Joe has Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, or Dan Carlin on it will always be a super informative and interesting episode.

Having said all this, I do think Joe is at his best when he talks comedy/MMA with his friends: Ari Shaffir, Joey Diaz, Brenden Schuab, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, etc. Always funny, and as a casual MMA fan I can get on board with any episode in which comedians talks MMA with Joe.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL2Ue7hGa0&t=476s

This game out a little over a week ago. Joe and Ari just bullshit and talk about comedy/MMA. Easy and enjoyable listening.