[heyparkerj]

I listened to Joe a lot when I was doing manual labor in 2013-2014ish. Like almost every single episode. I was always able to intake the things I thought were interesting and laugh off stuff I thought was dumb or unconvincing, but I do remember thinking that one day the greater internet will realize that his podcast is littered with content that people could easily misconstrue and start a real uproar about with sufficient motivation. Based on this, I think people shining a light on some of the dumber things that a self proclaimed dumb guy says while recording himself talking for 10 hours a week, and becoming a bit of an internet meme in the process was inevitable - and that's before he started saying whatever the hell he's been saying about vaccines and masks.

[duxup]

I've thought about the balance between "I don't know and I'm going to think out loud here." and doing that as entertainment and ... where that leads to some responsibility for saying some stuff that you really don't know that is dead wrong and ...

I duno. It's a weird world.