If you want to see guests arguing with their hosts, well that's a form of entertainment you can get on cable.
Bringing up the same topics is likely because he has so much content that there is going to be repeat work. 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.
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.
Right now the hyper-sensitive, take everything way too seriously, you are either with us or against us zealots are speaking for everyone who considers themselves progressive. It will wane eventually, just like the satanic panic of the 80s. And I say this as a person who considers them self a feminist and hyper progressive.
That being said: I don't like Joe Rogan giving a platform to Alex Jones. I think that man is reprehensible. He is a tragedy exploiting ghoul. He whipped up a fervor around the "sandy hook is a false flag" conspiracy theory, harassed the families of the survivors, and laugh his way all the way to the bank while doing it. Alex Jones is a bad person and has done bad things.