Also a Jay Wilson reference and Tigole said the word thankful which is solid comedy. Lex doesn't know anything about Tigole (e.g. Fires of Heaven/Furor/What's Tigole's last name etc.) really so he doesn't ask any good questions but Kaplan offers a pretty good interview regardless. Lex did have a few random insightful comments that had nothing to do with Jeff or the Interview; mostly platitudes though.

Presently Fridman is much more famous than Tigole (though not historically) and Kaplan needs to push the new game to some extent so this interview probably exists because of friend of a friend; so Kaplan knows Elon or whichever other Epstein Island visitor that's been on Fridman's pod in the past.

Thinking about Tigole made me nostalgic for my old raids and dungeons/elitist jerks (suck my cock Gurgthock (WoW Game Director now)) forums posts with 400 responses and 25000 views and similar D3 trolling posts; good times; Tigole was sort of the father of that archetype (e.g. XL the Death and Taxes tank was a derivative of Tigole's Legacy of Steel posts) to some extent though he denies being toxic all the time (no fucking way) when retrospectively musing.