Podbit · Fin vs History
Errol Musk defends having a child with his stepdaughter, claims two-thirds of the world has a marriageable age of 12, and responds to every challenge with 'you may think so'. This is not satire — it's the real clip, and it's extraordinary.
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Ostensibly connecting Richard Keys' toxic dad energy to a 'final boss level', the hosts play a clip captioned 'Elon Musk on having a child with his stepdaughter' — a real interview with Errol Musk, Elon's father. Errol describes his 30-year-old stepdaughter visiting, showing him an ultrasound (which he initially calls a mammogram), and calmly defending the relationship with a series of increasingly jaw-dropping statements. When challenged that a marriageable age of 12 is wrong, he responds, 'Well, you may think so.' Fin and Horatio break down his philosophical pillars — 'one woman's another woman', the idea that his ex-wife's new partner is somehow the real offence, and the baffling invocation of child marriage statistics. The hosts agree that Keys is blown out of the water, and 'you may think so' becomes the episode's running catchphrase for serene, unearned certainty.
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