Elon Musk Part 2
12/18/20251 hr 31 min
The boys continue their discussion of Walter Isaacson's "Elon Musk." This is the part where Elon loses his mind.
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- From self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to Team Trump and DeSantis: Elon Musk’s curious politics revealed
- The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom
- Elon Musk biographer admits suggestion SpaceX head blocked Ukraine drone attack was wrong
- Elon Musk's Daughter on Dad's Biography: 'Sad Excuse for a Puff Piece'
- Character Limit
- Twitter fulfilling more government censorship requests under Musk
- Elon Musk booed for nearly 5 minutes straight at Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco
- New CNN Chief Trying to Please GOP Elite
- Research finds more than 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 if USAID defunding continues, including more than 4 million children under five
- What the data says about Social Security
- Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data
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First 90 secondsPeter Shamshiri· Host0:00
Michael.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:00
Peter.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:01
What do you know about the period of Elon Musk's life starting in 2018?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:06
All I know is that I appreciate his dedication to setting up a website where everyone says that whites are the master race, and shows that that's not the case at all.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:15
(upbeat music) Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, part two.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:30
Part two. Peter's first part two.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:32
They said that I was constitutionally incapable of doing it. (laughs) And for a very long time, they were right. (laughs) In, in part one, we centered our discussion around Tesla and SpaceX, and some of his like offshoot companies.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:48
Mm-hmm.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:48
And I left it on a cliffhanger- Oh, yeah. ... about 2018- What's gonna happen? ... which Walter Isaacson frames as a tumultuous year for Elon Musk.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:00
Mm.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:00
And it's really the year where the media's fawning coverage of Elon starts to grind to a halt.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:09
You can only be a huge piece of shit for like 10 or 15 years before the media really catches on.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:14
So there was one seminal event that really flipped popular perceptions of Elon on their head.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:21
Hm.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:21
The Thai cave incident.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:23
Pedo guy, yes.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:25
Yes. I am going to send you a bit from the book.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:27
Also, as soon as you say seminal event, it makes