I haven't watched the podcast for too long so I'm new, but when I compare the older episodes to newer ones...the difference is stark. I believe Ethan Klein stated that Howard Stern was an inspiration. I can get that...I grew up with Stern. He was hilarious and turned out to be a pretty good interviewer/host, especially as he got older. If you want to take influence from Stern...then do something interesting.

Someone made a comment about how it feels like listening to a lunch table of high school bullies and yeah that's pretty accurate. If you want to be like Stern, broaden your content. Interview people. Have guests. Do fun episodes, skits and remotes. Talk about interesting topics going on unrelated to mainstream pop/internet culture or shitty political takes. Just...do something interesting. I'd rather watch 3 hours of them eating fast food and ranking it as opposed to 3 hours of middle aged millennials talk shit about each other because there is some ongoing internet feud between them. Who gives a shit?

I get he has children and everything so time is limited, but despite that they could still do episodes that are more interesting than 2-3 hours of Ethan talking shit about people online, Dan nodding his head and the rest of the crew periodically unmuting themselves to say "yeah...heh" just so they can keep their jobs. YouTube is a brand new, perpetually evolving environment and unless they can keep up, they'll become irrelevant and lose their careers.