He has never claimed to be an expert. He just has conversations with people he finds interesting. That's all he's ever said he wanted to do. He did it for 5 years and made no money off it. That's not an idiot.
And right or wrong on certain topics, he's been absolutely necessary. Especially on Covid. Exposed so many lies.
At 1,000 listeners it’s an awesome hobby. At many millions listening each episode, you have a duty of care to provide disclaimers to the audience. During an interview Joe even acknowledged that he himself does this exact thing of having people on who sound like they are right yet aren’t.
Sure, you get some really good stuff but it comes along at the cost of a lot of bad stuff coming out aswell. Average Joe Pleb takes things at face value so the broader your audience the more you are going to influence the beliefs of the public. If you or I told people we came from Mars we would be laughed at, when Joe does an interview and it’s discussed, people believe it. That’s just reality.
I don’t think Joe realises he is such an important guy now with more power to sway the masses than most media outlets because he comes across as like us 🇺🇸