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Joe is an intelligent person. One of the clear signals of that is that he is willing to bring on experts and ask basic questions without being embarrassed in an

Joe is an intelligent person. One of the clear signals of that is that he is willing to bring on experts and ask basic questions without being embarrassed in an attempt to understand, that also explains why he has such a general audience - for experts its a great venue to break down and think neutrally about their topic, since Joe's main agenda is to learn. As for misinformation, the word you seem to avoid saying - you clearly don't have any problem identifying when Joe is unsure of what he is saying, so I guess you are concerned about what other people are thinking. I'm not sure your speculation about how other people think is grounds for useful feedback. In fact I'm not sure you know much at all 3 episodes in.

hericium 4y ago
When he doesn't understand someone, he enthusiastically agrees. When he's hosting someone with PhD or otherwise smarter than him, he just says "ooooooh" a lot and is overenthusiastic. He doesn't ask smart questions. He asks questions his audience will understand. He was "intelligent" maybe a few times in his life. Those are represented by the third eye on show's emblem/logo.
- stoplying1 4y ago
  It's always something to watch people with certain types of relationships to online celebrities construct this entire illusory, aspirational set of attributes onto their e-celeb and then reverse integrate it as a part of their own internal identity effectively. Resulting in "asking dumb questions and thoughtlessly yielding to the last authority that spoke" being portrayed as some height of intelligence.
  - mattwilsonn888 4y ago
    It might say more how many cognitive assumptions you've built in the minds of people who enjoy a show with a fairly basic citation. How much mental gymnastics do you need to do to figure out why people enjoy hearing basic questions about complicated topics?
- mattwilsonn888 4y ago
  Somehow you seem to think asking questions that confuse people is the most effective way to spread knowledge. It's no surprise someone who implicitly believes learning is privilege for some subset of the population does not enjoy or appreciate the host of a show forcing PhD's (from all viewpoints) to dumb down their points to a general audience. Unless you are an expert in every field of every guest, you have no room to patronize. Joe absolutely asks good questions and and receives and considers contradictory information, as any casual listener knows.

hericium 4y ago

When he doesn't understand someone, he enthusiastically agrees. When he's hosting someone with PhD or otherwise smarter than him, he just says "ooooooh" a lot and is overenthusiastic. He doesn't ask smart questions. He asks questions his audience will understand. He was "intelligent" maybe a few times in his life. Those are represented by the third eye on show's emblem/logo.

stoplying1 4y ago
It's always something to watch people with certain types of relationships to online celebrities construct this entire illusory, aspirational set of attributes onto their e-celeb and then reverse integrate it as a part of their own internal identity effectively. Resulting in "asking dumb questions and thoughtlessly yielding to the last authority that spoke" being portrayed as some height of intelligence.
- mattwilsonn888 4y ago
  It might say more how many cognitive assumptions you've built in the minds of people who enjoy a show with a fairly basic citation. How much mental gymnastics do you need to do to figure out why people enjoy hearing basic questions about complicated topics?
mattwilsonn888 4y ago
Somehow you seem to think asking questions that confuse people is the most effective way to spread knowledge. It's no surprise someone who implicitly believes learning is privilege for some subset of the population does not enjoy or appreciate the host of a show forcing PhD's (from all viewpoints) to dumb down their points to a general audience. Unless you are an expert in every field of every guest, you have no room to patronize. Joe absolutely asks good questions and and receives and considers contradictory information, as any casual listener knows.