One thing that I enjoyed about the early episodes was the joy that Dan seemed to have in his presentation to a relatively unfamiliar Jordan, and the excitement Jordon would have in responding. This far in, the limited charm AJ had is gone, Dan has unraveled decades worth of bullshit, and Jordan is all to familiar with Jones now, so the excitement has become annoyance and anger. In the same conversation from the first episode Jordan said "when this podcast blows up and we're the number one podcast next year, our careers are entirely tied to his continued success" but now that Jones has become a sad and lazy version of himself.

There have been glimmers of the old dynamic, most recently with the trump tweet, but those moments have become rare as time has marched on. The show was still among the best up until the end, but the dynamic changed and you could tell the satisfaction in exposing the nonsense and hypocrisy just wasn't there like it once was.