He's alright. Some stuff is hilarious. It really depends on the guests. If he has a comic, musician, or someone middle of the road then it usually delivers. I've gone a way from listening to his more serious guests as they tend to be a little bit over his head and generally take advantage of his lack of knowledge especially if they're pushing an agenda.v He does a good job of doing simplified interviews, but he's shit at asking good questions and tends to take his guests at face value even when they are controversial and non-experts in the field they're promoting. A good example was his most recent interview with Alex Honold. Joe kept insisting that Honold was an expert in everything he did to prep for Free Solo. Alex was like "no Joe, I'm not an expert at nutrition I have a nutritionist", "no Joe I'm not an expert at camera work, but Jimmy Chin is real good". Or the one when he had Jack from Twitter on. He did like zero prep and even his most ardent followers were like WTF mate.
I'll give this one a listen because I've read the book but it's 50/50 whether I make it through the first 30 minutes.