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Explain It to Me

Can Elon Musk save Tesla from himself?

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt talk about the potential meltdown of one of America’s most important entrepreneurs. References and further reading: Emily Stewart's piece on Elon Musk smoking pot  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, there's a weird echo.

0:02.0

Yeah, whoa, that's so creepy.

0:04.0

Yeah, it's a little bit futuristic.

0:06.0

I guess appropriate for Tesla.

0:08.8

Oh, hello, we're good.

0:10.3

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:23.3

Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds

0:25.9

on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:27.6

I'm Matthew Glacias.

0:28.5

She was Jane Kostin, Dara Lind, and we are going to, um,

0:32.0

I don't know, politics is a little bit on break,

0:34.6

and we're waiting for the storm.

0:36.2

We don't really know what's happening with hurricanes.

0:38.4

And we want to talk about Elon Musk,

0:40.7

an interesting character, frequently in the news,

0:43.6

intersecting with a lot of important issues,

0:46.3

and seemingly melting down a little bit lately.

0:50.2

Yeah, and it's funny because there is, like,

0:53.8

the interesting news that was gif-able,

0:56.3

and then there's the actual interesting news

0:58.2

that was less gif-able.

0:59.4

So on September 7th, he smoked a blunt,

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