re: Chris Hardwick #metooed in a big way.

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I genuinely feel bad for the dude. What he's going through is bullshite.

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Agreed.

I'll admit a bias. I'm a fan of the podcast and have been since the very beginning. I'm not really a fan of his standup, or his other hosting things and honestly, he's the least funny thing on his own podcast (I prefer Matt and Jonah back when they were there every episode) but I still listen to most episodes. And from having listened to it for years I found it nearly impossible to believe that he was really talented enough to pretend that hard to be someone he wasn't for that many hours.

We're not talking about an actor you see in some movies who's reading other people's words, or athletes you really don't know...but a guy who has talked for hours and hours in large part about himself. You'd have to be an incredible actor to pretend that hard for that long.

Reading his break-up text read nearly word for word what I'd expect the guy to write. For all the money and fame inside he still thinks of himself as some bullied geek who's lucky to get the girl. You could see where he was genuinely hurt by the whole thing.

Only other thing, he says in the letter that he'd never talk bad about her on the podcast. From my memory, he kept his word. I honestly don't remember him really ever bringing it up afterwards. She claims he did it on stage at a convention, but if that were true I'm pretty sure we'd have seen 17 different angles of it from nerds in the crowd filing it.

This entire thing is sort of feeling like our grapes and if not made up out of whole cloth, incredibly exaggerated. Hopefully between his outright denial and this release his version gets some traction.