Elon Mess: Is Politics wrecking Musk’s life? – Marie Le Conte asks Max Chafkin

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Tell us what you think of The Bunker in our Listener Survey – five respondents will get the Bunker mug or t-shirt of their choice. Things are bad for Elon Musk. From the slow motion car crash at Twitter to his mission to eradicate the woke mind virus. Where did it all go wrong for the Tesla CEO and how has his politics warped his view of the world? Marie Le Conte is joined in The Bunker by tech journalist for Bloomberg and co-host of Elon Inc. Max Chafkin to discuss the divisive politics of the world’s richest man. “Elon Musk is a weird mix of Taylor Swift and Warren Buffet” – Max Chafkin “The Twitter acquisition has been disastrous, not just from a financial standpoint but a personal disaster too.” – Max Chafkin “If you had to come up with his formula for success, over-promising is a huge part of it.” – Max Chafkin Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Marie Le Conte. Producer: Liam Tait and Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:00.0	Hello and I hate Elon Musk. My name is Marie Lacond and I hate Elon Musk. I hate him so much I could spend the rest of this
1:10.5	podcast going on about how much I hate him.
1:13.0	Don't worry, I'm not going to do that.
1:15.0	Instead, I'm joined today by Max Tafkin, a tech reporter at Bloomberg and panelists on
1:19.1	Elon Inc.
1:20.3	a podcast which does what it says on the tin. As much as I enjoy winching and whining about the many ways in which Elon has ruined Twitter,
1:27.0	I thought it would be more interesting to chat to Max about the more general car crash that is Musglife at the moment.
1:32.0	Hi Max.
1:33.0	Hey, how's it going Marie?
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