Elon Musk Really Wants Nathan Fielder to Like Him

If you benefit from the cringe comedy stylings of grasp manipulator and Canadian enterprise college graduate Nathan Fielder, know that you’re not alone. In truth, you’re in firm with everybody’s favourite richest man on Earth. Elon Musk additionally apparently feels a deep connection to Fielder’s off-kilter humor, and is certain that he may/ought to/could be pals with the humorous man.

The Tesla CEO first invited the previous Nathan For You host to lunch at SpaceX in 2016, in keeping with a report from The New York Times. And he continued to incorporate Fielder on celebration visitor lists for years after, in an try to aggressively foster friendship with the comic, wrote the Times. In every interplay, “the famous businessman invited the famous fake businessman to his parties and would strain to make the deadpan Canadian laugh.”

An unnamed comedy author informed the Times that “Mr. Musk has a deep-seated need to be recognized as funny.” Which is… relatable, if a bit unhappy. Especially when contemplating that this is what we’re working with.

Maybe as an alternative of his arms, tweets, and texts, Musk needs to be placing a bit extra time into his tight 5 (you already know, rehearsing). And, if he transitioned to stand-up over company trolling, perhaps I’d get to spend much less time writing about him (fingers crossed).

Unfortunately, the Fielder friendship bid is way from the one attention-grabbing tidbit to emerge from the Tuesday NYT article. Musk is reportedly additionally desirous to curry favor with fellow-billionaire Peter Thiel, former PayPal lawyer Rebecca Eisenberg informed The Times. After Musk butt his method right into a dialog between her and Thiel at a celebration, Eisenberg famous that “It seemed like Peter was the dominant dog, and Elon was trying to impress him.” The supply of her perception? Eisenberg’s expertise and observations elevating “two teenagers and four pets.”

Further, Times author Joseph Bernstein, provided extra context for the much-discussed photograph of Musk with Jeffrey Epstein confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Musk has beforehand denied any relationship with Maxwell, claiming that they’ve by no means spoken and that she merely “photobombed” him, according to Snopes. However, Bernstein says totally different, based mostly on data from an unnamed supply.

From The Times:

According to a Vanity Fair employees member on the time who stood subsequent to Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Musk and shared contemporaneous notes with The Times, the pair chatted. Ms. Maxwell requested Mr. Musk if there have been a method to take away oneself from the web and inspired Mr. Musk to destroy the web; Mr. Musk demurred. Ms. Maxwell then requested Mr. Musk why aliens hadn’t but made contact with humanity, to which Mr. Musk replied that each one civilizations ultimately finish — together with Maxwell’s hypothetical alien one — and raised the chance that people reside in a simulation.

Among Musk’s different associates: Joe Rogan, Burning Man attendees, and a bunch of different very wealthy, center aged investor dweebs who he reportedly discusses each enterprise and World War II fighter planes with.

And, when he’s not having conversations your dad may take pleasure in, Musk has allegedly additionally participated in different social actions. One celebration visitor informed The Times that they noticed the SpaceX CEO cozy up in a “cuddle puddle,” outlined by NYT as “a form of typically nonsexual group snuggling that is popular in the Bay Area.” So, if nothing else—no less than this deep dive into the world’s richest man’s social life gave us that sentence, within the paper of document.