I don't know if something's wrong with me, or that I'm getting irritated more easily now, but recently I've noticed I cannot really listen to Rogan
much. In the past he seemed like this smart guy, but now when he has some guest that is not dumb, Rogan just seems bewildered every third smart sentence.
A lot of times he will just stare and not even blink, some people are saying he is such a good listener, moderates the discussion perfectly etc., but you can tell that a lot of times he is just trying to understand what he guests are saying. Granted that a lot of his guests are fucking smart, but Joe does that blank stare a lot.
Another thing that I've noticed is that he is just repeating a lot of what the guests say, just paraphrasing, like he is trying to say something for the sake of saying something.
And he will freakin repeat some really BASIC ideas like 5 times, paraphrasing and asking the same questions over and over again, like old people tend to do.
At one point when he was interviewing Musk the second time I was like "I'm not sure if I can handle watching that further". It was so cringy, seeing Musk visibly be like "Yyy, Joe, I've answered this question like 3 times already, it's a simple concept, why do you have to waste my time asking the same fucking question?", time that could have been spent on asking a lot better questions and different ones as well. I'm not even sure he asked him 1 space question for the whole 3h. Maybe one or two.
Now I'm watching the Matthew McConaughey podcast and I'm not even 20 minutes in and he is just asking 5 questions around the same topic and repeating what Matthew just said.
"I drink water"
Joe "Yea, drinking water is such an important part of life"
"I exercise"
Joe "Yeah, exercising is such an important part of life, I cannot stress that enough"
"I write everything I need to do, like take duce" (joking)
"OH really?? Do you really write down you need to take a duce?

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Jesus Christ, it's unbearable sometimes.
He does have good moments of course and interesting guests, but he is definitely on the decline, unless he has always been like that and I just hasn't noticed because, admittedly, I'm not watching too much of Joe's podcasts. I watch some of them, based on who is invited.