You should have seen his Lex Fridman interview then where he talks about exactly that and brings up things like the need to kidnap a seal (twice!), strap it to a board, and force it to listen to sonic boom noises to comply with braindeas government environmental regulations.

I can't watch every one of these interviews

Then how did you see enough of what he said to state "Maybe. I don't see Elon saying that much. Mostly it's politically charged crap."?

Because what I do see and hear of him is politically charged crap.