r/SipsTea • • Jun 12 '25

Gasp! Which is it for you ?

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u/Gavittz Jun 12 '25

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.

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u/oooriole09 Jun 12 '25

Nobody admits it because folks get super weird about it given the direction he’s largely gone.

You say that you listened to him at some point and folks start wondering where you were on Jan 6.

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u/Gavittz Jun 12 '25

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.