He's got good guests and conversations that can be fairly interesting and informative vs the bland, generic shit you hear on CNN or Oprah. He's had some interesting guests like Matt Taibbi, Steven Pinker, Jocko Willink, Peter Attia, Snoop Dogg, Chuck Palahniuk, Sanjay Gupta, Josh Dubin, Bert Kreischer, Bret Weinstein, Rhonda Patrick, Neill Blomkamp, Lex Fridman, Andrew Huberman, Michael Pollan, Quentin Tarantino, David Sinclair, Kyle Kulinski, David Lee Roth, Neil de Grasse, Russell Peters, Dave Chappelle, Action Bronson, Alex Honnold, Marcus Luttrell, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Elon Musk, Ali Siddiq, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, Ira Glasser, Lawrence Wright, Bill Burr, Matthew Yglesias, Mike Judge, Nick Christakis, Mike Baker, Tristan Harris, Gad Saad, Glenn Greenwald, Kanye West, Matthew McConaughey, Edward Snowden, Mike Tyson, David Blaine, Oliver Stone, Bob Saget, Jon Stewart, Krystal & Saagar, Stephen Dubner, Brian Greene, Mike Baker, Bill Maher, Robert Downey Jr, Pavel Tsatsouline, Firas Zahabi, Malcolm Gladwell, Edward Norton, Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, Maynard James Keenan, Cornel West, Naval Ravikant, Wiz Kahlifa, Laird Hamilton, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Jesselnik, Russell Brand, Gabby Reece, Lennox Lewis, Jack Dorsey, Andrew Yang, Sam Harris, Killer Mike, Sir Roger Penrose etc in the last 2 years alone. Plenty of interesting guests/conversations/nuggets of wisdom to draw off those 3+hours conversations with each guest.
I don't even think he's particularly bright, nor insightful as a host but somehow his show works - for the most part.
I wholeheartedly disagree with his vaccine stance, but people have a right to have conversations you may disagree about. Science is changing, evolving, imperfect, and the process of scientific discovery hardly linear. Which is perfectly fine. Scientists disagree all the time, so bring on the debate.
This whole backlash is frustration that we're 2 years into Covid with no end in sight - and the realization that lockdowns might have been all for naught.
