Francis Ellis Interview: The Utah Sorority Blog Controversy

• 1:06:41Francis Ellis wrote a blog joking about a missing Utah sorority woman who was found brutally murdered two hours later, then got fired.
• 1:07:10Tim called Ellis to tell him his life wasn't over after the backlash, comparing himself to Batman putting a coat on a boy's shoulders.
• 1:07:49Tim's strategy: call someone to say it'll be okay, then call six other people to say they're completely finished.
• 1:08:28The Epstein story broke three days after Ellis's incident; if it had come three days before, nobody would have cared about the blog.
• 1:08:49Business Insider tried to run a hit piece on Ellis through a former employee, but killed it after a seven-month delay when the writer couldn't frame him as a right-wing psychopath.
• 1:10:21Ellis went to Harvard while his whole family went to Yale; his grandfather was in Skull and Bones and went to the CIA.
• 1:10:44Tim mocks the arc from CIA founding family to Ellis typing on a keyboard in Hollywood as the end of the American empire.
• 1:11:41Ellis started a tutoring company and called prestigious tutoring agencies posing as a wealthy father to get their rates and techniques.
• 1:12:48Ellis wrote a song about defending marginalized people and becoming a mouthpiece for those who've been abused.
• 1:15:47Tim suggests Ellis visit the murdered girl's family with cameras, apologize for the joke, and try to get them to forgive him on film.
• 1:16:49Tim notes that people found in parks is shocking, and national parks aren't good for anyone.
• 1:17:07Ellis's podcast is called Oops, where people can hire him to roast the dead.

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