Elon Musk Gets Vetted for TikTok While Steve Bannon Seethes
On Monday, Bloomberg News broke the story that Chinese officials were considering allowing Elon Musk to buy TikTok—something that, if it happened, would be earth-shaking for a whole host of reasons (t...
14 Jan 202533min
Elon Picks a Fight with the UK and Gets Imitated By Zuck
For those who haven’t been following Elon Musk’s voluminous and combative X posts about the UK—good for you. It’s a confusing situation where Musk backed and then renounced fellow right-winger Nigel F...
7 Jan 202537min
Elon Musk Is Not Having a Happy New Year
Over the holiday break, Elon Musk was busy making news on X, furiously posting his way into a multipronged fight with ultra-right wing MAGA luminaries Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon about immigration v...
2 Jan 202528min
The Year in Elon, Part Two
As we established in our last podcast—an episode recapping 12 months of ups and downs and ups for the world’s richest man—this was a unique year for Elon Musk. This week, our look back continues—along...
30 Des 202433min
The Year in Elon, Part One
What a year 2024 has been for Elon Musk. From the ups-and-downs of Tesla stock, to his rapid ascent to the top of Republican party politics to various SpaceX wins and losses, it seems like a year that...
20 Des 202436min
Emergency Podcast: Elon Musk is Shutting Down the Government
For the past day or so, Elon Musk has been singularly focused, on X, on one target: funding the US government. He has, basically, single-handedly, killed a bipartisan bill that would keep the federal ...
19 Des 202412min
Musk and Altman Enter 'Post Old Emails' Era of Feud
The simmering feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is boiling again. In the latest round, OpenAI, which is being sued by Musk, uncorked a long post last week that included emails purporting to show t...
17 Des 202434min
Mr. Musk Goes to Washington (and Paris... and Mar-a-lago...)
Elon Musk is frequently on the move, but in his new role as Donald Trump’s wealthiest enforcer, he seems to be everywhere at once. One minute he’s on Capitol Hill with Vivek Ramaswamy pushing his boss...
10 Des 202432min
