As is often the case, he got his ass in a crack exactly because he was very much trying to screw the pooch ... he went out on several dates with the woman who filmed him. I suppose he was trying to impress her with all of his inside knowledge, but he shot off his mouth too much and to the wrong person.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence