It's ok man, it's not a religion. You can skip those if you don't like them. He's also had James Gosling, Don Knuth (x2), James Keller (x2), Brian Kernighan and a bunch of other legends.
You are right of course, but this whole phenomenon really rubs me the wrong way. There is a whole host of podcasts now that provide a large audience to borderline crackpots. I believe it actually pushes people who are maybe otherwise quite intelligent to adopt such theories, because of the large audience that can now be reached with such stuff. Another good example is Avi Loeb and the Alien-Omuamua theory, explained quite well here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/o1dhlf/comm...
