I have to say, I'm really sad to hear you call Jordan, Jesse Go "the worst podcast ever." I've been listening for about a year now and it's consistently one of the funniest shows I listen to. Jesse Thorn (the host of The Sound of Young America, a.k.a. a pretty legitimate broadcaster) and Jordan Morris are extremely smart and funny guys. Their shtick might be hard to pick up on at first (I had a lot of trouble with the first couple of episodes I listened to), but once you start to get into the groove it's fantastic. If you want to give it a second chance, I would recommend the recent episode with Chris Hardwick, the host of G4's Web Soup, a regular on Attack of the Show and one of the funniest/smartest nerds/stand-up comedians around. They are very much on the same wavelength as each other and have some great riffs. There is a reason that Jesse Thorn didn't initially want to release the episode with the Penny Arcade guys: It wasn't very good. He didn't want a poor episode with two standoffish guests who didn't want to join in to give people a bad view of the show, and judging from your reaction, with good reason.
Bobloblaw wrote:I believe the point was with guests the caliber of Mike and Jerry the show hosts should have catered more to whatever style worked for the guests. Even if it means breaking the normal format of the podcast.
I patently disagree. It isn't like Mike and Jerry are these golden gods doing a favor for some no-name podcaster. Jesse Thorn has had FAR bigger guests on his other show, The Sound of Young America. As someone mentioned before, they had Nick Hornby on one episode of JJGo, and he was fantastic. Even though he had a book to promote, he understood that it was a different kind of show, and he played along and let loose like I never expected he could. They were recently on The Adam Carolla Podcast and it was great. All three of them were on the same wavelength and were riffing off one another. If a guest goes on a podcast to find that it isn't what they expect, they could at least try, rather than clamming up and refusing to play along.
Bottom line: Don't judge it by the terrible "lost episode." Go listen to the Chris Hardwick episode instead. It's great.