Agreed. I listened to one of their interviews on Rogan and couldn’t stand it after half an hour. It’s good to be smart but but it seems a bad character trait to be convinced of your own brilliance.
Neither did I. He seemed quite patient explaining everything. Maybe it's his brother?
To my ears, Brett talks with the cadence of a man who believes that the thing he's going to say in the following sentence is profound. It might be unintentional on his part, but that's what I hear. Tone and cadence matter in audio formats.
he talks the way he talks. Theatrics probably come from lecturing experience
That’s the impression I got too. Probably a matter of taste.