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He is a good host. The hate he gets is from bringing up the same topics over and over and hosting unlikable people. Bringing up the same topics is likely becau

• bartread 7y ago
  > The hate he gets is from bringing up the same topics over and over and hosting unlikable people. I think this is it. I'm a semi-regular listener, and think Joe is generally a great host, but too much of his podcast becomes like inhaling car exhaust fumes due to the nuttiness of some of the guests. > Bringing on guests that many other shows wouldn't have has resulted in him being called being a mouthpiece for the alt-right. I've heard him called a gateway into the alt right. Which I think is unfair because he tends to host people from across the political spectrum. I mean there are the extreme examples, like Alex Jones, but there are also plenty of at least vaguely sane people who lean right. And then, for every one of them, you'll find a Bernie Sanders, or a Jon Ronson coming on. There are a lot (or at least it feels that way) of conspiracy theory/UFO-nut guests, but that stuff can be fascinating (to a point) regardless of whether or not you actually buy into it. With that said I do have to be in the right kind of mood otherwise the slew of bullshit these people spew will simply infuriate, rather than entertain, me.