The [Editors’s notes] in this interview could take down a herd of elephants.

Another banger from our man Chotiner

Rogan: well I'm just asking questions

Chotiner: as a journalist might

Rogan: i think so

Chotiner: so, in a sense, we are both...

Rogan: oh shit oh shit

If Chotiner wants to interview Joe Rogan, however, I will click on that so fast I will leave a burn mark on the keyboard

funny thing about Chotiner is that like half his interviews are with normal, knowledgeable people who come off fine, but those don’t get any traction because they’re no fun.

the people who we laugh at think they’re part of that first group when they start talking.

I wonder if sometimes Chotiner tries to see what the lowest amount of rope he can get a guy to hang himself with is

is this the first chotiner interview where the subject remains utterly, blissfully obtuse all the way to the end? did spinotti think "nailed it" at the end?

jaw on the floor here:

If I were the Riefenstahl of the Fourth Reich, I simply would not do an interview with Chotiner.

Doing an interview with Chotiner without a lawyer present feels like a Miranda rights violation

do you think chotiner lies in bed at night giggling to himself

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

this is so much like a bluesky chotiner meme interview that i honestly thought it was fake for a minute

I hadn't asked myself the question "what if chotiner got to interview leni riefenstahl?" before now, but I guess it's nice to have an answer regardless

LOL

CHOTINER: Three or four replies down, people say the bit is ‘played out’

YOU: Well, that’s the point, right? It’s self-referential

CHOTINER: Thirteen people agree with you

YOU: I mean- I didn’t post it to go viral. It just made me laugh

CHOTINER: That’s why you retweet it when my articles drop

ME: I knew Pagliacci was a stage name, but the joke didn't work unless I pretended it was his real name.

CHOTINER: So you misrepresented the doctor.

M: Well, I didn't know it would be popular. It was just for our followers.

C: Right. It's okay to lie when it's only close friends.

M: Hold on

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

I hope one day we get a Chotiner interview where the subject fires their publicist in the middle of it

chotiner painting a tunnel onto a wall for a roadrunner

I think it's funny that this interview gave Chotiner a chance to reference this thing he tweeted about 4 years ago

Why people sit down for interviews with Isaac Chotiner:

This is a skeet about Chotiner and it is correct.

Once again, if Isaac Chotiner ever called me for an interview, I'd throw my phone into the ocean and join the witness protection program.

CHOTINER: And you wanted people to take it seriously.

ME: Yes. I have important things to say about this issue.

CHOTINER: But your previous post was about Muppets.

ME: It'd be funny if they did a movie where the only human was Dershowitz.

CHOTINER: (pause) the one from the allegations?

ME: Yeah

"Wake up, babe," my wife said, "new Chotiner homicide just dropped"

imagine seeing Isaac Chotiner come up on your caller ID and actually answering it

one thing that's great about Bluesky is when there's new Chotiner piece we all meet up like fans of a band for a surprise listening party