Elon Musk enjoys world's gentlest softball interview with Marques Brownlee after total meltdown

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has the whole world on his shoulders, but you sure wouldn't know it watching a new interview with popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee.

The 17-minute conversation, supposedly conducted on August 15 and published on Friday, is filled with hot air about traction control, making "products that people love," and the upcoming Tesla Roadster that Brownlee pre-ordered sight unseen.

"I'm a day-one deposit, because I'm that excited," Brownlee, a 24-year-old whose show MKBHD could make up to $99,900 a month according to one estimate, said.

Of course, outside of the chitchat about how to make the nice cars go faster, Musk has spent the last week navigating a series of stranger-than-fiction controversies.  Read more...