1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: A zone media, this could be a giant disaster. Those 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: were the words that Elon Musk texted biographer Walter Isaacson 3 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: on a Friday evening in September twenty twenty two, claiming 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: that the Ukrainian military was attempting a sneak attack on 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: the Russian naval fleet in Sebastopol. In the annexed region 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: of Crimea must have been providing starlink Internet to the 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: Ukrainian military for months as part of their ongoing conflict 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: against Russia's invasion, and the resourceful Ukrainians began using stalink 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: as a way to remotely control the Kamikazi drones. Musk, 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: having spoken to a Russian ambassador, saw Crimea as a 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: red lion that, when crossed, would escalate the conflict, potentially 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: even provoking a nuclear retaliation, and so he acted disabling 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: or depending on who you ask, refusing to enable starlink 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: access in the Crimea region. When the Ukrainian drones serbs 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: approached their targets, they suddenly stopped communicating with the operators 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: and eventually washed up ashore, harmless and impotent. While the 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: specific details of this episode are hazy, the core truth 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: is unambiguously clear. Elon Musk is a supremely powerful individual 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: and through action or inaction, has the ability to influence 20 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: the outcome of combat operations and the bloodiest war inflicted 21 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: upon Europe in generations. It's a level of power typically 22 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,919 Speaker 1: only reserved for nation state actors, not tech company CEOs. 23 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: Throughout history, we've seen plenty of examples of individuals and 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: companies with outsized country like power and influence. Musk isn't 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: unique in that regard, nor is he the sole cautionary 26 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: tale about why this shouldn't be allowed to happen. As 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: a private individual operating within his capacities as CEO, he's 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: unconstrained by democratic accountability, and as a private businessman he 29 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: has his own conflicts of interest, from Tesla's long history 30 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: of sourcing aluminum from Russian companies to his contacts with 31 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: the highest echelons of Russian leadership, including Vladimir Putin himself. Historically, 32 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: the only real accountability mechanism for people like Muscus to 33 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: be in the media, and yet in this case, the 34 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: media is chosen instead to fate the Elon Musk creation 35 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: myth that he's a trailblazing real life Tony Stark that 36 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: will take humanity to the stars, rather than asking him 37 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: many hard questions of any kind. This situation is the 38 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: product of a media industry dominated by journalists seeking access 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: to popular public figures, pulling their punches in the process. 40 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: The most notable access journalist is Kara Swisher, who spent 41 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: decades covering the tech industry with a pantomime like aggression, 42 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: asking the quote unquote hard questions without ever really pushing 43 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: the level of discover that might make a source un 44 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: willing to participate. Swisher famously, in an interview during the 45 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: All Things Digital conference in twenty ten, convinced Meta CEO 46 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: then called Facebook Mark Zuckerberg to take off his hoodie 47 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: after asking him a challenging question about Facebook's invasion of privacy, 48 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: only to be distracted by the design of the inside 49 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: of what he was wearing, effectively objecting to her own 50 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: line of questioning for endstainment purposes. Eight years later, Swisher 51 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: would interview Zuckerberg about Cambridge Analytica and Russian interference in 52 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen elections, lobbing softball questions like make a 53 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: case for keeping info wars on Facebook and responding to 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: Zuckerberg outright saying he wouldn't ban Holocaust and Sandy Hook 55 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: deniers by asking how it made Zuckerberg feel when people 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: said Facebook killed people Myanmar. The Swisher house style is simple, 57 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: ask a big meeting question, and then failed to interrogate 58 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: a single answer in any way, shape or form. Around 59 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: a month later, Swisher would interview Elon Musk, who at 60 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: that point indid harassment campaigns against reporters, called a man 61 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: saving children a pedophile, and had his companies face multiple 62 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: allegations of sexual harassment and racism. When asked about his 63 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: fights with the press over Twitter must claim that the 64 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, whose Swisher used to work for, outright 65 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: lied about investigation into Tesla's production figures, to which Swisher 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: asked him if he realized the dangers of him saying 67 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: such things about the press and need to help Musk 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: paper over his claims, saying that he quote just doesn't 69 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: like falsehoods. One of the richest and most powerful men 70 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: in the world sat before Swisher, and her interrogation involved 71 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: asking him simple questions about why he was doing things, 72 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: lightly teasing him and saying that he looks and I 73 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: quote rested in calm to be clear, this is an 74 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: ultra powerful billionaire, and this is a was at the 75 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,799 Speaker 1: time enterprising journalist who everyone looked to. In April twenty 76 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: twenty two, the week that Musk announced the Twitter acquisition, 77 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: Swisher gave a strange interview to James D. Walsh of 78 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: The New Yorker, defending Musk, who had of course waived 79 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: du diligence on the acquisition, did not seem to have 80 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: a single clear plan about how he might run the same. 81 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: She claimed that you couldn't pin Musk down, that he 82 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: was quite complex, and that we would be surprised about 83 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: what he likes and doesn't like. Musk, who has invented 84 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: none of the core products that make him rich, is 85 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: a quote visionary that gave Swisher genuine answers and arguably 86 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: the most damning things she could have said, would call 87 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: her back. That was her litmus test that he would 88 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: return her calls. Her ultimate defensive Musk was that and 89 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: I quote inventors were very difficult, problematic people, and the 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: moderation on Twitter was not working at the time of acquisition. 91 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: These are all, of course demonstrably force based on the 92 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: events that followed the growth of hate speech the lack 93 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: of accountability, that biggest face on the platform, and the 94 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: fact that every third post seems to be some kind 95 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: of spambot, either selling t shirts or pornography or cryptocurrency scams. 96 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: Swisher only turned on Musk when he emailed her calling 97 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: her an asshole in November twenty twenty two, including a 98 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: screenshot were according to Swisher, she was actually defending him, 99 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: saying that the US government should pay Elon Musk for starling. 100 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: Since then, Musk has gone from a difficult to pin 101 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: down visionary to carver Swisher calling his social network a 102 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: and this is agonizingly horribly written a thunderdome of toxic asininity. Swisher, 103 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: it appears, only worried about what she'd called Musk's price 104 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: of cocktail of ignorance and big ego until he was 105 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: rude to her. One of the most famous tech journalists 106 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: in the world, who has failed to take any real 107 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: shot at any of the people she's questioned across decades 108 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: of doing this, has now been reduced to making epic 109 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: dunks that sound like a twenty one year old Harry 110 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,679 Speaker 1: Potter fan trying to cast a spell. It's embarrassing. Swisher 111 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: isn't the sole media figure guilty of having treated Elon 112 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: Musk with kid gloves or treating his bloviating with otherwise 113 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: on due credulity. This is a problem that affects almost 114 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: every news outlet and reporter that covers billionaires. The assumption 115 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: is always that billionaires will act with empathy, patience, and grace, 116 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: three things that Musk, Bezo, Zuckerberg, and the Ilk totally lack. 117 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: Failing that, one would suppose they'd act like a normal person, 118 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: a losing proposition. If you've ever read Jeff best as 119 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: his texts, these people are not like us. They do 120 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: not experience human struggle. They don't have bills or bosses 121 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: or fear of anything, let alone authority. Each and every 122 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: billionaire is effectively above the law, and that is the 123 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: place that you must start to understand them. It's deeply frustrating, 124 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: especially when you consider the myriad of opportunities where the 125 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: media could have taken must task and held him accountable. 126 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: Take High Poloop, for example, Musk's concept for a high 127 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: speed mass transit system where pressurized capsules would hurtle between 128 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: cities through vacuum tubes at speeds as fast as seven 129 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty miles an hour. Hyperloop Musk promise would 130 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: allow commuters to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles 131 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: in as little as thirty minutes, and with the network 132 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: powered primarily by solar power, with no real environmental impact. 133 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: If anything, this could have been a much bigger deal 134 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: than Tesla. High speed transit that doesn't burn fossil fuels. 135 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: Could truly have changed the world. So what do you 136 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: think happened? Do you think that must delivered on this 137 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: on this product that helped play a vital role in 138 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: cementing his image as a real life Tony Stark. Not 139 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: only would it be faster and cheaper than anything currently 140 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: in existence, but it'd be greener too. What followed was 141 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: a gushing or at least gredulous flow of media coverage, 142 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: including from The Washington Post and The New York Times, 143 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: both papers of record. It wasn't until the hype gradually 144 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: died down that people began asking serious questions about Hypepoloop's viability. 145 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: An exhaustive report published by the Transportation Research Laboratory earlier 146 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: this year raises serious questions about the feasibility of hyperloop, 147 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to passenger transportation writers, it noted, 148 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: would be exposed to extreme physical and mental stress, with 149 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: the noise, vibrations and rapid acceleration and deceleration inflicting an 150 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: unknowable toll on the human body. Questions about safety still linger. 151 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: And then there's the thorny issue of cost, with high 152 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: bloop requiring an all new infrastructure. Even the shortest routes 153 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: would involve a multi billion dollar upfront investment. These points 154 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: were for the most part, absent entirely from the earliest 155 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: coverage of highperloop. The media also missed the fact that 156 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: hypeloop wasn't even a new idea. In the nineteenth century, 157 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: countless inventors toyed with the notion of an atmospheric railway 158 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: where vehicles traveled through a near vacuum environment on the 159 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: momentum of pressurized air. A small demonstrator route was even 160 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: built by Ismbard Kingdom Brunel, the legendary British engineer who 161 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: designed the first transatlantic steamship. While Highpoloop differdence and meaningful ways, 162 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: it was still, nonetheless, much like many Musk products, a 163 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: derivative of an earlier idea. The boring company Musk's hilariously 164 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: named tunnel. Boring startup earned similar credulous C coverage upon 165 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: its inception, driven in no small part due to Musk's 166 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: decision to raise working capital by selling branded flame throwers 167 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: dubbed the not a flame Thrower to anyone that paid 168 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. This stunt, aside, the Boring Company one 169 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: praise due to its state admission to reduce the cost 170 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: of digging tunnels, which are often an inevitable and expensive 171 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: part of road and mass transportation development like hyperloop. The 172 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: Boring Company fed into the Tony Stark image of a 173 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: billionaire that could, through sheer force of will, change the 174 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: world and fix once intractable problems. I quote Mashable when 175 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: they said, must build machines to travel more efficiently on 176 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: the Earth and above it. So traveling through Earth seems 177 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: within the realm of his capabilities. If anyone can transform 178 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: the seemingly absent minded half joke into world changing technology, 179 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: it's Elon Musk, said The Guardian, and then reality here. 180 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: The Boring Company's first commercial project, a one point seven 181 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: mile tunnel in Las Vegas, where I in fact live, 182 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: wasn't a traditional road tunnel or part of an underground 183 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: metro system. It was in fact far less impressive, a 184 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: single lane loop where human driven tests. There's varied passengers 185 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: between points of interest in the Las Vegas Convention Center 186 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: and where traffic jams are a routine frustration for passengers. 187 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: Other projects in other cities, most notably Chicago and Los Angeles, 188 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: have either been canceled or are on indefinite hiatus. There 189 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: is nothing that the boring company has done. The tunnel 190 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: in Vegas is useless. It's claustrophobic, it's ugly, feels like 191 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: being in an airport lounge, except there's no food. It's strange. 192 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it solves a problem other than 193 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: how can Elon must get more attention, and that really 194 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: is what he craves. Musk's wafer thin skin, his volatility, 195 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: and his propensity to overpromise an under the liver has 196 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: never been a secret. While he's been able with some 197 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: success to obfiscate a misdirect through a well crafted media persona, 198 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: the clues have always been there. Musk's reality distortion field 199 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: goes some way to explaining how he has managed to 200 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 1: amass the extent of the power he has and how 201 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: he cemented himself into our nation's most vital industries like transportation, communications, infrastructure, 202 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: and social media. He has a fairly consistent battle plan. 203 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: He makes a big promise, he delivers enough to make 204 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: the media believe he's for real, and then he relies 205 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: upon the fact that very few parts of the media 206 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: will ever follow up with him. There is no challenging 207 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: Elon Musk in the media. The thinnest amounts of criticism 208 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: are usually met by a horde of crazed tesla fans, 209 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: or at times Elon Musk himself. He's created the paper 210 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: thin media image built on the smallest, thinnest structures of reality. 211 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: He has found a way to manipulate the media using 212 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: his large amounts of power, money, and his few friends. 213 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: Elon mush Usk is a danger to society. He's a 214 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: capricious demagogue, desperate for more power and attention, and he 215 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: will do whatever he wants, whereever he wants, wherever he wants, 216 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: because we are societally unprepared for billionaires. It's no longer healthy, 217 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: or safe or honest to see Elon Musk as a 218 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: dorky charlatan carrying sinks into offices or destroying social networks 219 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: to settle insular beefs Elon Musk is a nation state 220 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: level actor with a net worth larger than the GDP 221 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: of Ukraine. He associates only with equally spurious reactionaries like 222 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: Bill Maher, Ronda Santis, and David Sachs, and he's easily 223 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: influenced by anyone who agrees with his thinly backed beliefs. 224 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: Musk isn't polarizing. He's polarization given life, an empty man 225 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: made of contrarianism and grievances, and he'll happily change the 226 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: world based on his own personal beliefs. As a result 227 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 1: of our market driven government and compliant media, Musk has 228 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: caused and will continue to cause human suffering an actual 229 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: death in his pursuit of fame, power, and capital. It's 230 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: time to stop treating him as just an entrepreneur, an investor, 231 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: an executive, or an industry blow hard. As a result 232 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: of our market driven government and compliant media, Musk has 233 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: caused and will continue to cause human suffering an actual 234 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: death in his pursuit of fame, power and capital. It's 235 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: time to stop treating him as just an entrepreneur, an investor, 236 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: an executive, or an industry blow hard and see him 237 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: as a man who has used his incredible wealth and 238 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: status to twist the world to his petty, ignorant, and 239 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: selfish desires. It's important to realize with complete clarity that 240 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: Musk makes electric cars that are sold around the world 241 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: and sells rockets to NASA. He runs Twitter X or 242 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: whatever it's called these days, one of the largest communication 243 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: networks in the world, and of course Starlink, the satellite 244 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: isp used aroount the world that is specifically marketed to 245 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: places that are otherwise inaccessi to traditional broadband. This is 246 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: not just the goofy redditor posting epic means and saying 247 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: exactly anymore. Elon Musk has chosen to and will continue 248 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: to choose to use his influence over these networks to 249 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: interfere with global events. And because the media and the 250 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: government has been so utterly tepid in their approach to him, 251 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: he's accumulated such power and influence that he is on 252 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: some level unstoppable. Since his acquisition of Twitter in twenty 253 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: twenty two and the subsequent layoffs of six thousand people, 254 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: Musk has revealed to the world his deep seated reactionary 255 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: beliefs and his noxious pathetic victim complex. He has become 256 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: obsessed with the woke mind virus, a term that he 257 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: uses to vaguely refer to everything from progressive education on 258 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: college campuses to San Francisco's growing homeless problem. He's made 259 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: Twitter's bot problem, one that he tried to use to 260 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: cancel the original acquisition, significantly worse, littering replies with bots 261 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: trying to sell you T shirts or make you join 262 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: the latest script ocurrency scam, some of which even include 263 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's face. He took Twitter's verification system, a flawed 264 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: yet workable solution to verifying whether a tweak came from 265 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: the person who actually sent it, and turned it into 266 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: an eight dollars a month's premium account that verifies nothing 267 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: other than whether someone is capable of completing a credit 268 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: card transaction, and by destroying Twitter's trust and safety team, 269 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: Musk has allowed the world's real time communications channel to 270 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: become one rife with racism and other hate speech, leading 271 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: to Fortune five hundred advertisers worrying that the network and 272 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: I quote perpetuates racism, which was raised in a Semaphore 273 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: story from earlier in this year, Musk has shown he 274 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: is more than willing to do things based on not 275 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: what's good for the world, his businesses, or his users, 276 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: but on what will confirm his biases and protect his 277 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: financial interests. As a result of these moronic and malicious choices, 278 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: Twitter's valuation is tanked less than a third of the 279 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: forty four billion dollars he paid for it, losing half 280 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: of their advertising revenue, and changing their name to X, 281 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: which some have argued killed further billions of the original 282 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: company's brand value. Being a selfish, ignorant, and gormous charlatan, 283 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: Musk has now blamed Jewish non profit the Anti Defamation 284 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: League for ruining his company, claiming that the ADL had 285 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: pressured advertisers into killing x slash Twitter. Musk had previously 286 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate, another nonprofit that 287 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: published research showing the growth and hate speech on the platform. 288 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: Musk is now fine with the ADL because they resumed advertising, 289 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: a deeply confused and utterly pointless exercise that only sought 290 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: to further increase bigotry on his website. For all his 291 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: statements around freedom of speech, Musk is the ultimate capitalist dictator, 292 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: willing to use his money to intimidate and censor those 293 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: who dared to criticize him. He's already done so on Twitter, 294 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: banning an account that tracked publicly available records of private 295 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: jet flights centering over four hundred tweets critical of Turkish 296 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: President Urdigan in the week's running up to an election, 297 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: suppressed accounts critical of Indian Prime Minister Nearendra Modi, and 298 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: cut access to links to newsletter platform Substack when they 299 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: launched a network competitive to Twitter. Musk is a propagandis 300 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: willing to work with any fellow reactionaries who feel scorned 301 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: by progressivism, personally helping Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis launch 302 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: his campaign on Twitter and funneling money to alleged sex 303 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 1: trafficker Andrew Tait through Twitter's Creator program. On on Nations roads, 304 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: Muscus created another problem in March twenty twenty three. According 305 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: to The Washington Post, a seventeen year old stepped off 306 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: of a school bus on North Carolina Highway five point 307 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: sixty one. As he stepped off, a Tesla Model Y, 308 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: allegedly with Tesla's autonomous autopilot engaged hit him at forty 309 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: five miles an hour, throwing him into the windshield and 310 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: leaving him lying face down on the pavement. He thankfully survived, 311 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: but broke and fractured his leg in the process. The incident, 312 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still investigating, 313 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: is part of a growing list of victims of Tesla's 314 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: open beta test of quote full self driving, a buggy 315 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: dangerous software available on hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles 316 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: allowing users to let the car drive, which has resulted 317 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: in the deaths of seventeen people and led to seven 318 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty six other injuries and crashes. In theory, 319 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: activating Tesla's full self driving lets your Tesla take the wheel, 320 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: making turns, avoiding other vehicles, maintaining speed, avoiding objects, and 321 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: theoretically helping you arrive safely at your destination. The problem 322 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: is that this has only ever been a beta, meaning 323 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: that every new release involves some sort of new bug, 324 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: such as the one that Electric Car Blog editor Fred 325 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: Lambert claimed tried to kill him in September twenty twenty 326 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: three by trying to veer at highway speed into the 327 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: median strip on the road. One might imagine that such 328 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: a thing is illegal. Effectively unleashing beta software onto the 329 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: world's roads without s efficiently testing it would for any 330 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: normal person lead to imprisonment and a lifetime of fines. Musk, 331 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: thanks to his incredible wealth and power equivalent to that 332 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: of a small nation, has managed to avoid much scrutiny. 333 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: With the occasional government investigations that never seem to go anywhere, 334 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: and despite a well documented culture of racism and sexism, 335 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: very little seems to happen to test the at all. 336 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: This is because our society, in its government, its media, 337 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: and its citizen try, is woefully unprepared to deal with billionaires. 338 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: Musk is able to operate as a noxious, abusive, and 339 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: reckless monster in public, using his companies as vehicles to 340 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: lend himself money and political weapons, with little scrutiny or 341 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: punishment on their own. One might fob off these concerns 342 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: as one time things, but the reality is there's a 343 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: pattern of malicious and capricious acts or one after another, 344 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: again and again, done in broad daylight for all to see. 345 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: Musk has shown he will push whatever on envelope he 346 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: sees fit, and as Ronan Pharaoh's New York magazine piece shows, 347 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: there are very few people in the government, former and 348 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: otherwise anywhere really, not investors, not other members of the 349 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: Silicon Valley elite who are willing or able to get 350 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: in the way. Musk is so unbelievably rich, well connected, 351 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: and powerful that he can push around just about anybody, 352 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: even if they work for the Pentagon. Yet, Musk's desperation 353 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: for attention and adulation mean that he can be pulled 354 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: in any direction that feels like it scorns his critics, 355 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: And when his critics are pretty much anyone who isn't 356 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: a right wing lunatic, it almost guarantees he will continue 357 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: to power around with authoritarian regimes that will influence his 358 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: remarkably malleable brain. The actual solution will be to treat 359 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: Musk as what he is, a dangerous entity with a 360 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: higher GDP than Ukraine and an ego that rivals their 361 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: invaders president regardless of what happened in crimea Musk is 362 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: the ability to know when attacks are happening and influence 363 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: their outcome as a result of his for profit, privately 364 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: held satellite internet communications firm that the US government is 365 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: paying for. Elon Musk is a nation state global threat 366 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: and must be treated as such, he must be treated 367 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: as if he will make decisions based only on what 368 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: he believes will benefit or amuse him. He's the wish 369 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: dot Com version of Bond's earned stavro Blofeld, an offensive, charmless, 370 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: and boorish monster that has successfully bought his way into 371 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: the elite and found that no matter what he does, 372 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: their patience is unlimited and their scruples are few. Musk, 373 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: like another high profile narcissist, the former President Donald Trump, 374 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: routinely finds himself ensnared in litigation, both from regulators and 375 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: private individuals, even though the government never really seems to 376 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: actually do anything to him. The SEC is currently investigating 377 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: Musk for securities violations concerning his acquisition of Twitter. This 378 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: would be his third tryst with the Commission, the first 379 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, the second in twenty nineteen. In both cases, 380 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: very little happen. However, at the same time, he faces 381 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: actions from former employees stiffed on severance pay and from 382 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: those who allege age and gender discrimination with factors in 383 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: their dismissal from Twitter. For Musk, these lawsuits are unlikely 384 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: to be anything other than the minor annoyance rather than 385 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: any kind of existential threat or something that otherwise curbs 386 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: is most egregious of behaviors. There are people who could help. 387 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: There are people that could sway you on Musk. You know, 388 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: people as rich as him, Tim Cook, Mark Benioff, Jeff Bezos, 389 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the world's billionaires feel 390 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: no need to correct Musk's behavior. They don't need to 391 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: interfere or even chide him through his disgraceful acts, because 392 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: doing so would potentially make their actions and wealth more conspicuous, 393 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: which is far more important to protect than free speech 394 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: or human lives. Really, anything that normal people face. They 395 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: they act as if they have civic responsibility. But the 396 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: few people we have that could actually change things, the 397 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: ones with the war chest to box out Musk, blocking 398 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: X from app stores and excluding him from their circles, 399 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: are sitting on their hands. One approach proposed by Stephen 400 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: Feldstein in The Atlantic is to treat Musks businesses as 401 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: they are vital to national security, and as a result, 402 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: take them into public control when necessary. This wouldn't be 403 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: without precedent. The legislation that allows this, the Defense Production Act, 404 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: has been invoked fifty times since its inception, both in 405 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: times of war and civil necessity like the twenty twenty 406 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: two infant formula shortage. While Stalink would remain a privately 407 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: held company, it would be obliged to prioritize the national need. 408 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: Full nationalization, Falsteine noted would also be a possibility if 409 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: Must failed to cooperate. Full nationalization would be a drastic measure. 410 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: But at this point, what other options exist for Elon Musk? 411 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: What other options exist for someone that is so reckless, dangerous, 412 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: so selfish, and so capricious. What options exist to deal 413 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: with someone who has inserted himself into the most vital 414 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 1: aspects of the American economy, making himself billions of dollars 415 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: off of governments, subsidies, and contracts. How the hell do 416 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: you handle someone who has insulated himself from media scrutiny 417 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: despite holding immense nation state power. Musk is not a 418 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: goofy Weirdow or the real life Tony Stark. He's a fragile, 419 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: mean hearted ogre one hell bent on seeing his whims 420 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: brought to life at any cost. The only way to 421 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: write about this man, the only fair coverage of Elon Musk, 422 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: the only clear perception of this man is to frame 423 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: him as a villain, a bigot, a bully, and a crook. 424 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: But what do you do about the man who has everything? 425 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 1: It Could Happen Here as a production of cool Zone Media. 426 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from Coulz zoned Media, visit our website 427 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: coolzonemedia dot com or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, 428 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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