Patton Oswalt

It took me so, so long to separate myself from, oh, my God, if I have this thought, then that must be who I am. No, you're allowed any thought. You know, that's the thing. And again, so many great works. Do you think Thomas Harris created one of the most horrifying serial killers ever, fake, but still horrifying, Hannibal Lecter. But when he thought of him, was he like, do I want to kill people?

It took me so, so long to separate myself from, oh, my God, if I have this thought, then that must be who I am. No, you're allowed any thought. You know, that's the thing. And again, so many great works. Do you think Thomas Harris created one of the most horrifying serial killers ever, fake, but still horrifying, Hannibal Lecter. But when he thought of him, was he like, do I want to kill people?

No, but your mind is allowed to imagine horrible things without it being you. I mean, that's the basis of all creativity. But so many people, and I think we've been so poisoned with social media, which is like everything that you tweet, that's who you are. Or if you retweet it, that's who you are. People forget at the very beginning of especially Twitter,

No, but your mind is allowed to imagine horrible things without it being you. I mean, that's the basis of all creativity. But so many people, and I think we've been so poisoned with social media, which is like everything that you tweet, that's who you are. Or if you retweet it, that's who you are. People forget at the very beginning of especially Twitter,

You could retweet somebody saying something ridiculous. And it was understood that you're just holding this up like, can you fucking believe this? You weren't endorsing it. And then somewhere along the line, it shifted. And people are like, you are obviously, that's how you feel.

You could retweet somebody saying something ridiculous. And it was understood that you're just holding this up like, can you fucking believe this? You weren't endorsing it. And then somewhere along the line, it shifted. And people are like, you are obviously, that's how you feel.

So, and I got in some trouble with that because there was a guy, I think his name is like Steve Saylor, total white supremacist dude. And he said something about like... something like political correctness is a war on noticing. Like something, it was so ridiculous. And I just tweeted that, but it was, I was still in the mind of like, look at this fucking idiot.

So, and I got in some trouble with that because there was a guy, I think his name is like Steve Saylor, total white supremacist dude. And he said something about like... something like political correctness is a war on noticing. Like something, it was so ridiculous. And I just tweeted that, but it was, I was still in the mind of like, look at this fucking idiot.

And then people were like, oh, so I guess you, you know, so like, oh. something shifted and I didn't realize I was too slow to see that, you know, you can't do, we were, look, we were way too slow to see that the pointing out racism by being ironically racist or being like, that doesn't work anymore. There's no, there's no abstract thought left in anybody.

And then people were like, oh, so I guess you, you know, so like, oh. something shifted and I didn't realize I was too slow to see that, you know, you can't do, we were, look, we were way too slow to see that the pointing out racism by being ironically racist or being like, that doesn't work anymore. There's no, there's no abstract thought left in anybody.

So you have to actually either point out that something sucks, but you can't personify it the way that like a Ricky Gervais or an Albert Brooks used to do, or even a Don Rickles used

So you have to actually either point out that something sucks, but you can't personify it the way that like a Ricky Gervais or an Albert Brooks used to do, or even a Don Rickles used

you know i think the people when people forget about don rickles it was so brilliant about him and he never explained it because he didn't have to was he's a jewish guy in showbiz he has seen racism you can't even imagine so he would always personify the worst of these people that he saw, but he didn't bother to add that, and you know this is terrible.

you know i think the people when people forget about don rickles it was so brilliant about him and he never explained it because he didn't have to was he's a jewish guy in showbiz he has seen racism you can't even imagine so he would always personify the worst of these people that he saw, but he didn't bother to add that, and you know this is terrible.

He would just say that with the assumption that, you know this, I'm saying the dumbest shit imaginable, and also this guy never wins. He always loses. He always gets the, people get the better of me. That's what I'm making fun of here.

He would just say that with the assumption that, you know this, I'm saying the dumbest shit imaginable, and also this guy never wins. He always loses. He always gets the, people get the better of me. That's what I'm making fun of here.

You know, but and then things again, we lost abstract thought and then near the end of their lives, people like Joan Rivers, who laid across the fucking barbed wire for people to cross and get to do dangerous comedy, started attacking her. It's like she did that. She's the one did. Anyway, sorry. Man, we went way off topic. We were talking about dolphin fishing. What are we talking about?

You know, but and then things again, we lost abstract thought and then near the end of their lives, people like Joan Rivers, who laid across the fucking barbed wire for people to cross and get to do dangerous comedy, started attacking her. It's like she did that. She's the one did. Anyway, sorry. Man, we went way off topic. We were talking about dolphin fishing. What are we talking about?

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