Jon Favreau

Yes.

No, exactly.

So I am not surprised that you've said some stupid and offensive things.

I'm even less surprised that you've said stuff that sounds even worse when it's clipped out of context.

Here's what I'm wondering.

As you've grown your audience and influence and as you've gotten more directly involved in electoral politics, do you feel a responsibility to choose your words more carefully or at least in ways that are less likely to be misconstrued?

Like, that's simple.

And I have experienced this myself, and have thought about it over the last couple weeks, because I'm like,

If I did not know you, if I hadn't interviewed you before, if I hadn't familiarized myself with your content, which I came to probably later than most, and I just read the coverage of the last couple of weeks, I would be like, oh yeah, he's a fucking asshole.

Yeah.

To be fair, I am.

I am an asshole.

Yeah, but you're an asshole, I think, in different ways than you are being portrayed.

Yeah.

Well, it's less the main words, right?

At least for me, because I was looking through the hit list, which I want to get into here.

All right.

Or at least some of them.

Because there's some where I'm like, that was clearly taken out of context, whatever.

There's some where I think the underlying point is still worth-