Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trendo Mechanicus,
Speaker 1: a reference to the name of Elon Musk's secret third
Speaker 1: baby with Brihmes, named Tao Techno Mechanicus. Okay, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am so tired of you, and I'm talking to
Speaker 1: the baby. By the way, shout out Johnny with that title. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Johnny Davis, shout out to you, good friend.
Speaker 2: I'm Jack. That's Miles.
Speaker 1: There's like major Elon Musk story news age. So there's
Speaker 1: there's a new book out from Walter Isaacson, the Steve
Speaker 1: Jobs biographer.
Speaker 2: Who I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Did you know he was the head of Time magazine
Speaker 1: in the nineties. I don't know why I would have
Speaker 1: realized that.
Speaker 3: Who gives a check you didn't keep up with who
Speaker 3: the head of Time magazine was in the nineties.
Speaker 1: He just entered my rankings of the top five heads
Speaker 1: of Time Magazine.
Speaker 2: Over the last fifty years.
Speaker 1: But he was the head of CNN when nine eleven happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: shut out, I mean that's that's not nothing. Yeah, Rhodes scholar.
Speaker 1: I just read a New York Magazine profile of Walter
Speaker 1: Isaacson around his writing of this Elon musk biography managed
Speaker 1: to get through the paragraph where he was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's pretty cool that, like, you know, I
Speaker 1: wrote about one genius, Steve Jobs, and now writing about another.
Speaker 1: And like you can just like see the the box
Speaker 1: of the Walter Isaacson genius box like Steve Jobs, Elon
Speaker 1: Musk other people. I think he's written about jack O. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is why I soon managed not to throw my
Speaker 1: damn magazine across the room. I wasn't included, I hear you,
Speaker 1: but he uh it sounds like it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to I well, one of us will just
Speaker 1: have to read this shit. But it sounds pretty sympathetic
Speaker 1: to Elon Musk. It says his upbringing was brutal because
Speaker 1: his dad was mean to him.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like that's pretty that could be
Speaker 2: pretty objective. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: We've seen how his dad talks about him.
Speaker 1: Sounds pretty sympathetic overall. Like there, so there's this one.
Speaker 1: The big thing that is uh breaking in the past
Speaker 1: couple of days is that, uh there is this like
Speaker 1: big bomb drop detail where he basically said that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk turned off the Internet to prevent a Ukraine attack
Speaker 1: with submarine drones off the Crimean coast. Like basically the
Speaker 1: way it happens to the book is like they are
Speaker 1: about to take out a huge chunk of the Russian
Speaker 1: military and Elon Musk gets cold feet and like turns
Speaker 1: off the starlink Internet to that part of the world,
Speaker 1: and then the submarine drones just like wash harmlessly to
Speaker 1: shore because the Internet got turned off on him, and
Speaker 1: people are like, whoa, that's it's like major military decision
Speaker 1: being made by him. Isaacson is already like, so Elon
Speaker 1: Musk was like, actually, we never gave internet to the
Speaker 1: Crimean coast. They knew that. They basically put the drones
Speaker 1: in place, and then we're like, could you turn on
Speaker 1: the internet, And I reiterated my decision to not turn
Speaker 1: on the internet there.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: It still seems like a big idea or a big deal.
Speaker 1: It still seems like a lot of power concentrated in
Speaker 1: the hands of somebody who seems like a fucked up,
Speaker 1: shitty human being.
Speaker 2: Use Isaacson's words to describe him.
Speaker 1: He is where is it a mercurial man child with
Speaker 1: grandiose ambitions and an ego.
Speaker 2: To match that feels like a New York Times backhander.
Speaker 1: That is actually that's a New York Times summary of
Speaker 1: the book what says about him got it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Like the thing that makes me still want
Speaker 1: to read it is that this like New York Magazine
Speaker 1: profile of Walter Isaacson, like they're just kind of following
Speaker 1: him around New Orleans, where he's from, and they're like,
Speaker 1: he said that there were various times during the two
Speaker 1: years he was writing the book where like Elon Musk
Speaker 1: would just like call him, just pour his like robot
Speaker 1: heart out to him, and Walter Isaacson I had to
Speaker 1: literally fight the urge to say, why are you telling
Speaker 1: me this?
Speaker 3: Holy shit? So I hope that's in the book. Is
Speaker 3: it out? It dropped today? Dropped Tuesday, September twelfth, Okay,
Speaker 3: so we'll see. I'm sure we'll start seeing all the
Speaker 3: snippets soon, enow and we can rub our mits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so we'll see. In this Frickin' Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: I can't even catch a break because he's also in
Speaker 1: the news for violating the FTC privacy orders. According to
Speaker 1: The Washington Post, Elon Musk repeatedly made decisions after his
Speaker 1: take over of Twitter that likely ran a foul of
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty two government order imposing sweeping restrictions on
Speaker 1: the company's data security and privacy practices. So, I don't know, guys,
Speaker 1: seems like a bit of a fuck up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But also lords too much power over large swaths
Speaker 3: of the government the world.
Speaker 1: There are people, there's like huge chunks of the Pentagon
Speaker 1: who are like, I just don't want to make Elon
Speaker 1: mad He's so powerful.
Speaker 2: I need this internet. We need his internet.
Speaker 1: Anyways, let's talk about prayer coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the prayer coach controversy.
Speaker 1: So and Elon Musk of prayer coaching, of bringing prayer
Speaker 1: to the football field.
Speaker 3: This is so, this was one of those Supreme Court
Speaker 3: cases that just further like erodes the you know, or
Speaker 3: just disintegrates the separation of church and state in our
Speaker 3: First Amendment rights.
Speaker 2: His high school.
Speaker 3: Football coach basically like you know, Supreme Court Court ruling
Speaker 3: he won his case where he was saying, like I
Speaker 3: was fired, uh because and I was like put under
Speaker 3: tremendous pressure because I was refused my right to brief
Speaker 3: quiet personal prayer. And like when the Supreme Court heard
Speaker 3: their case, they're like, wow, it just sounds like you
Speaker 3: were being really like you're just doing it privately and
Speaker 3: they were infringing on your rights. But if you actually
Speaker 3: look like, you know, this was one of these things
Speaker 3: where when you looked at all of the evidence, it
Speaker 3: was clear that this guy was not just having hushed prayer.
Speaker 3: Here's like full blown like circles that everyone had to
Speaker 3: like participate in and obviously made like players uncomfortable if
Speaker 3: they weren't you know, Christian or anything like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just as Neil Gorsich in his opinion, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: these are like completely like they're muted and unobtrusive, as
Speaker 3: he says, and like in the dissenting opinion, Sodamayor was
Speaker 3: saying like, yeah, look at the fucking pictures, Like these
Speaker 3: are large, performative like prayer circles.
Speaker 2: These are like, hey, I'm just mumbling stuff. You're like
Speaker 2: screaming out christ.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like and your football cut to like people on
Speaker 1: the grounds like he's like doing laying on of hands
Speaker 1: and people are fit.
Speaker 2: Let me heal you, let me heal you.
Speaker 3: But it seems like that coach really didn't give a
Speaker 3: fuck about anything, including his rights, and that this case
Speaker 3: is similar to others that use like this like exaggerated
Speaker 3: controversy to further again erode our First Amendment right. So
Speaker 3: this guy, coach Kennedy and said quote, appear to have
Speaker 3: little interest in taking back his old job, which is
Speaker 3: supposedly what he was fighting for, because the part of
Speaker 3: this case was like they're like he needs to be reinstated.
Speaker 3: But then he acknowledged that he sold his house and
Speaker 3: moved across the country to Florida.
Speaker 2: With no plans to move back.
Speaker 3: Finally, on Friday, Kennedy returned to coach one football game,
Speaker 3: then he quit. Cool yeah, says he has no evident
Speaker 3: desire to exercise the rights that his lawyers fought for
Speaker 3: over years of litigation. Those lawyers, however, walk away with
Speaker 3: one point seven million in attorney skies paid out by
Speaker 3: the school district. And like, this guy basically moved to
Speaker 3: Florida to become like one of these right wing celebrities
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm prayer coach man and was like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 1: He's a family sized written house. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: mini written house, but yeah, in terms of his celebrity, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what he thinks he is.
Speaker 3: But like a lot of people are comparing this to
Speaker 3: this other case three ZHO three creative that was like,
Speaker 3: you know, used to side with someone who didn't want
Speaker 3: to make a website for like a gay couple, like
Speaker 3: for their wedding. And again, this is like another case
Speaker 3: where this woman was like, man, Colorado's non discrimination law
Speaker 3: would force me to make a wedding website for gay people,
Speaker 3: and that's just against my religious beliefs. And they're like, well,
Speaker 3: did somebody somebody came and told you to make a
Speaker 3: Like what happened? They're like, yeah, yes, Mike and Stuart Miles. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Mike and Stuart. They showed slight interest in maybe making
Speaker 3: a website, Like slight interest was then journalists hunted this down.
Speaker 3: Mike and Stuart do not fucking exist. Yeah, but this
Speaker 3: went all the way to the Supreme Court and they
Speaker 3: ruled in favor of this person. And again it's like
Speaker 3: this is also just kind of like a new way
Speaker 3: that they are using. There, not a new way, but
Speaker 3: like another very maybe underrated way that we were seeing,
Speaker 3: Like these controversies just basically be built from scratch, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then used to test the Supreme Court, who is
Speaker 3: very willing to accommodate that agenda.
Speaker 1: It's so wild that they couldn't find one instance of
Speaker 1: like of a gay couple wanting a homophobic web designer
Speaker 1: to make their fucking wedding web. Like, they couldn't. They
Speaker 1: couldn't come up with one. They had to invent it. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing, they said the woman. They couldn't find one
Speaker 1: person who had been fired for their religious beliefs being
Speaker 1: too conservative and that actually wanted their job back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They's just like, look that the Supreme courts are like, look, man,
Speaker 3: we got this majority. If you just put something in
Speaker 3: front of us that looks like an actual case and
Speaker 3: we'll just fucking we'll ram it through.
Speaker 2: Baby. Is that easy?
Speaker 1: But that's like they you know, they make all these
Speaker 1: high minded arguments, but like it is not like the
Speaker 1: things that they complain that like the liberal elite are
Speaker 1: making them do are not affecting them in any way,
Speaker 1: no other than the way that they like because of
Speaker 1: the narratives that they are telling each other and themselves
Speaker 1: to get themselves like ramped up trans athletes.
Speaker 2: The same thing.
Speaker 1: As Brian pointed out that these are not things that
Speaker 1: are happening. These are stories they're telling themselves to get
Speaker 1: mad and to get to feel like they're persecuted, right, And.
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird.
Speaker 3: It's kind of part and parcel with their religious beliefs
Speaker 3: of telling you spooky ghost stories to keep you in line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and of like they worship a guy who
Speaker 1: was pretty cool secuted and nailed to a cross, and
Speaker 1: so they're like very they really want, really want that
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: To them, like that this will be had.
Speaker 3: She got she got nailed to the website making cross.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: We also found out that that woman's business was also,
Speaker 3: as they had said, quote tenuous roots in reality.
Speaker 1: Ah got nailed to the website making cross.
Speaker 2: You see, it's all of us. We're all none of it.
Speaker 2: Like you can't spell upcau they do. It's not like
Speaker 2: they're not looking.
Speaker 1: They are constantly looking for stories, reasons to be offended.
Speaker 1: They can't find any real one they know they have
Speaker 1: to make. It's so wild to me. Yeah, all America's big.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in America. They there's god
Speaker 1: time something remotely offensive to a conservative person happens. It's
Speaker 1: in the local News, they're going to freak the fuck out.
Speaker 1: They couldn't find one fucking example.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter though, because in the end they're like,
Speaker 3: we don't need to find one, We just need to
Speaker 3: make one up and just brute force this shit through
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: Ye, done, done.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back and speaking of made up people,
Speaker 1: Oh man, maybe I don't know, maybe maybe you know,
Speaker 1: we got Mike and Stewart and now we got Tim
Speaker 1: Scott girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is really so a lot of people
Speaker 3: Republican donors are like, I don't know about Tim Scott.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a wife, you know, like we're all
Speaker 3: we're all about like the family, you know, like we
Speaker 3: don't line up brashlor we want a guy with a
Speaker 3: fucking wife. Uh.
Speaker 2: And he's not married.
Speaker 3: He's fifty seven and he's From what he said, the
Speaker 3: implications are that he lost.
Speaker 2: His virginity at some point. Wait what why?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why are we talking about that third between the ages
Speaker 3: of thirty and forty six? And people were like what
Speaker 3: And then also he's like, yeah, I also got a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: He's started to say recently that he has a girlfriend,
Speaker 3: but a lot of like some journalists went out and
Speaker 3: tried to figure out if Tim Scott actually has a girlfriend,
Speaker 3: because there's no shame, like if you're a fucking virgin whatever.
Speaker 3: But it's interesting, like whatever, maybe pressure he's under to
Speaker 3: maybe present himself as someone who's like no, like I
Speaker 3: might not be I'm on my way to potentially being
Speaker 3: married or whatever whatever is that work here.
Speaker 2: The fact is like a lot of people started looking
Speaker 2: into this.
Speaker 3: And they're like, there's just no evidence to say that this.
Speaker 2: This girlfriend exists.
Speaker 3: And late in late twenty twenty two, his campaign manager
Speaker 3: told the same journalist that his dating life was quote nonexistent.
Speaker 3: Then this may he's like, yeah, I got a girlfriend,
Speaker 3: And then the same journalist started like looking around and
Speaker 3: he said that he quote technically can't verify that she
Speaker 3: exists because like no one and like has agreed to
Speaker 3: share her name or make her available for an interview.
Speaker 3: Six of Scott's friends said they didn't know anything about
Speaker 3: this person, but his campaign manager was recently.
Speaker 2: Like, oh yeah, quote personally hung out with her at
Speaker 2: the zoo.
Speaker 3: And people are like what what okay, Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: And then they like lie being made up by five
Speaker 1: different five year olds, you know, yeah, like just yeah,
Speaker 1: we were hanging out at the zoo, like is this
Speaker 1: a lie being written in mad lib?
Speaker 2: Right exactly?
Speaker 3: And then but every time they pressed Tim Scott about it,
Speaker 3: he's like, I'm not I'm not trying to drag her
Speaker 3: into this, like I'm the politician. And also if I
Speaker 3: don't have like the intentions of marrying her, I don't
Speaker 3: want to put her through that because we don't know
Speaker 3: where this is going. He said that he was set
Speaker 3: up by a church friend and they have gotten dinner before,
Speaker 3: they've played pickleball and used quote a phone app to
Speaker 3: do Bible study together.
Speaker 1: And yes, we did the nast so I don't know.
Speaker 3: We did the nasty three and a half times what
Speaker 3: me and a half?
Speaker 2: So I get that this all started.
Speaker 1: So in the early nineties or early and mid nineties
Speaker 1: when he first ran for city council in Charleston, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He ran as a proud virgin in his thirties, like
Speaker 1: I'm proudly a virgin. And then it feels like he
Speaker 1: feels like his some political handlers, political strategists like told
Speaker 1: him he had to come up off that and like
Speaker 1: or he wasn't going to be considered a serious political candidate, right,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, but he I think he should
Speaker 1: have just stuck with it, stuck with his truth.
Speaker 3: I know some people are like apparently like there's a
Speaker 3: lot of like salacious talk about his sexuality that like
Speaker 3: Republicans have been like whispering around. He Tim Scott himself
Speaker 3: says like he thinks them focusing on the girlfriend or
Speaker 3: whatever is a way to like discredit him for being
Speaker 3: like a black Conservative, and they're they're using that to
Speaker 3: jump on it.
Speaker 2: So it's just it's it all around, folks.
Speaker 1: Right at the end of the day, the Bible is
Speaker 1: very clear abstinence until marriage, not to do so as
Speaker 1: a sin. He told The National Journal in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Well after, right, I'm assuming well after the time span
Speaker 1: that we're talking about here. So finally there is a
Speaker 1: gen Z glossary for gen X managers. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: I pay money to Fortune Magazine for all my always have.
Speaker 2: Dude, this is such an article written for gen X
Speaker 2: managers because you know, we work with the youth mm hm,
Speaker 2: and every now and then I'm like, what's that?
Speaker 3: What that means, but some of these phrases are like
Speaker 3: the way it's framed, or like a lot of gen
Speaker 3: X managers are struggling to communicate with their younger employees.
Speaker 3: It's like corporate jargon is isolating young workers because they
Speaker 3: don't know the meaning of phrases like deep dive.
Speaker 2: I think they do. They know what that is, they
Speaker 2: know what that is. And then they're like, we know
Speaker 2: what sleigh means.
Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, and it goes on to say
Speaker 3: lack of familiarity with gen Z slay could potentially lead
Speaker 3: to misunderstanding. So they're like, you got to know these words,
Speaker 3: but the words they have are like these, Like some
Speaker 3: of the words a highlight are slay.
Speaker 2: I think we all know that. We've been happening since
Speaker 2: millennial Christmas sweaters slay all day.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, okay, yeah, we've we've been appropriating uh phrases
Speaker 3: from drag culture for a long time.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then there's menty B that is jack B.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of stress, a lot of stress out
Speaker 3: here might succumb to a ment B.
Speaker 2: Man, I have to take some alone time just to
Speaker 2: get my mind right. Having a menty B.
Speaker 1: It's giving dental it's giving something like oral B like
Speaker 1: me t oral b uh, you know, treatment, something fun like.
Speaker 2: That, like menta dent. You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, oh I know, menta dent, no mental breakdown.
Speaker 3: I do love this one. I do love ment B.
Speaker 3: That sounds like it's getting it's giving Jack O'Brien. Actually
Speaker 3: it's it's giving me. It feels like this is something
Speaker 3: I may have inspired. Yeah, you definitely. It's it's just
Speaker 3: these like sort of you know, abbreviated ways of saying
Speaker 3: the other one, Kazi Lives Lives.
Speaker 2: I'm not buying. I don't think the cost of living crisis.
Speaker 1: Cost of living crisis is Kazi Lives.
Speaker 3: I've seen it come up and like a lot of
Speaker 3: write ups, but they're write ups that are about gen
Speaker 3: Z and not from gen Z.
Speaker 2: Sure you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's it's also cute. Kasey is a fun
Speaker 1: is a fun little cute name. Yeah, meant Bed is
Speaker 1: a winner. I congratulate you on that one.
Speaker 2: Jen Cardyb's CARDI B Sister meant to be ment you know, yeavular.
Speaker 1: Murdy sue and stuff like that, where it's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: an adorable sounding appreciation of something dark.
Speaker 2: That seems like a euphemism. Yeah, it does about a
Speaker 2: menty be man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, thank you so much Fortune for doing this
Speaker 1: unabashed high quality journalism for us. And you can thank
Speaker 1: us for relaying this absolutely true and important information to
Speaker 1: you by writing giving us a five star review.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you to the Fortune h journalist who spoke with
Speaker 3: their stepchild who's gen Z.
Speaker 2: To try and make this hard real happen.
Speaker 1: All right, well that is going to do it for
Speaker 1: us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow morning with a
Speaker 1: whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind
Speaker 1: to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye m