Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire's political derangement, purchase of Twitter, and role in Trump's second term.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome listeners to episode 112 of Know Your Enemy.
0:04.0	I'm at Sitman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here as always with my great friend, Sam
0:08.0	Heather Bell.
0:08.6	Hey, Sam.
0:09.2	Hello, Matt.
0:10.2	I've been a little under the weather lately.
0:12.3	The purging of Elon Musk from my system did not have the therapeutic effects.
0:17.2	I was hoping, but this is our second episode on Elon Musk. We ended the first one during his first
0:25.1	years in Silicon Valley, the origins of him kind of being financially successful in some of his
0:32.4	personal relationships, the women he's been involved with, his children. And that's where we pick up
0:37.2	with this one,
0:37.8	kind of in the middle of that conversation
0:40.3	about Musk's personal relations.
0:43.2	Yeah, so when we get through this intro,
0:44.7	you're going to hear us just immediately start talking
0:47.2	about his divorce from his first wife,
0:49.2	which plays somewhat of an important role in his life.
0:52.0	And we don't really need to set it up any more than that,
0:54.1	except for that we're going to take you through the rest of this fucking asshole's biography.
0:59.6	And I was really happy that listeners seemed to get a lot out of the first half of this endeavor.
1:04.9	And I will say that I think people will find the analysis that we do,
1:09.2	the sort of summing up and theorizing that we do about his person and the ideologies informing his activities today,
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