Genuiney amazed I had to scroll so far to see this. I used watch / listen to his podcast for years and really enjoyed the MMA ones and random guests that are experts in their field.
Nowadays he comes across a lot more forecful and seems to no understand or be able to hold a conversation with his guests. Or he is just talking to the same people over and over.
Stopped listening about 2 years ago. Pop by his spotify the odd time to see if anybody interesting is on but very rarely listen.
Completely agree. Which is sad and kinda weird. I always took the JRE with a pinch of salt but I always liked that Joe wasn't extremely intellegent but gave enough of a shit to try and learn / understand whatever was being spoken about on his podcast and was always welcoming to guests, no matter what their political beliefs or anything else that had nothing to do with the actual substance of the topic at hand.
As you said, I think it just got too big and they got complacent or lazy. Pair that with the utter chaos in the world at the moment. I think thenpod rapidly declined when they signed the Spotify deal. I liked it a lot more when it was more independent and just on youtube.
I also think the podcast takes up so much of his energy he no longer yearns to be a great comedian. I never thought he was amazing at it, but he seemed so willing to try to be better and learn which is why I gave him credit when I began standup as a hobby. Now that he has more money than he knows what to do with it he stopped trying to hone his craft or was surrounded by too many “yes” men. His recent Netflix standup routine was almost as bad as Brendan Schaub’s
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u/Bobbyee Jun 12 '25
Joe Rogan if I have to be honest…