People Who Were On the Flight Logs

I’m glad y’all are having this conversation because I’m in the same boat. I’ve watched many of his podcasts, but I specifically only watch guests I’m interested in already: musicians, certain comedians/celebrities, and people like Elon Musk. And in what I’ve seen, he never said much that stood out as controversial.

It makes me sad that he has this huge platform and is saying the shit he is saying. But I also think if you take someone with zero journalistic boundaries, someone who talks a lot about his distaste for cancel culture, someone who is a huge libertarian, and have him get drunk and high with people with strong opinions and have 3 hour stream of consciousness conversations - you’ll have snippets of controversy to put together in a video.

HOWEVER - that old clip of Planet of the Apes is inexcusable. And without context behind him saying that word so many times, it seems inexcusable too. He’s probably the kind of person who if in the context of talking about people using the word will just say it instead of saying “n word” because he thinks his intent isn’t malicious. Similarly to how Louis CK used to do in his standup often and seem to get away with it.