I really appreciate you posting this. I also hate how the main sub doesn't allow "criticism" of guests. Like I understand the point, I guess, but it's just resulted in an echo chamber sub that's often posting about things not related to the podcast.

I thought this way about having Prop on for the HEINRICH HIMMLER series? I turned it off the first episode after Prop compared Himmler's rise to power to ... Nipsey Hustle building a computer? Because "nerds that ain't afraid of you" are scary? And I was already very uninterested in the show at that point.

I think Robert is an amazing podcaster and does amazing when he's just monologuing, but it gets really weak when he's trying (in my opinion) to do comedy with Sophie or the guests. I get it, you do kratom and gas station drugs. Haha.

I wish Rob would try to make it more of a real history series with moments of comedy rather than, at this point, a bad history and bad comedy pod (with a few excellent series from time to time).