I like this! I think Petersen was basically not cut for fame. It overwhelmed him and he coped with meds and that’s when things went haywire. Like…a big fish, well respected professor at a university? Yeah, that’s a good arena for him. But national personality? I think he maybe underestimated all that entailed and overshot how well he’d respond to it. He is a good speaker. And he started out decently. But once he got into the big leagues shit went haywire

Honestly, Benzos make that stream on consciousness a little too streamy