Elon Musk Insists He Does Read After Joyce Carol Oates Twitter Beef
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Christmas has come early for Bridget, because Joyce Carol Oates is beefing with Elon Musk on Twitter. Bridget explains to Producer Mike what it's about, why Joyce Carol Oates is one of her all-time problematic faves, and why Elon is now performatively demonstrating his commitment to literacy with insightful takes like "great movie" and ads declaring that he likes to read.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:22.0 | Christmas has come early for me because Joyce Carol Oates, yes, that Joyce Carol Oates, is beefing with Elon Musk on Twitter. |
| 0:30.8 | Mike, I have a real thing with Joyce Carol Oates. Did you know this about me? |
| 0:35.3 | I didn't actually. Merry Christmas. And what's up with |
| 0:40.9 | your thing with Joyce Carol Oates? How do you know her? Why do you like her? Yes, merry, |
| 0:45.1 | happy Joyce Carol Oates beefing with Elon Musk on Twitter to all that celebrate. So yeah, I took a survey |
| 0:51.6 | of Joyce Carol Oates' fiction when I was in grad school. |
| 1:00.7 | I also, independently from that, have followed her pretty closely on social media for some time. So her beefing with Elon Musk, it feels like this is truly my time to shine. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's back up a little bit because we did a whole episode about another one of my favorite Elon Musk beefs. |
| 1:12.3 | Elon Musk's beef with rapper Azalea Banks. That was probably my favorite celebrity feud up until this |
| 1:19.3 | point. Other than perhaps the rapper Ice Tea and Amy Mann, the folk singer, they had a little bit of a |
| 1:26.0 | Twitter beef that I love. But I think the Elon Musk |
| 1:30.4 | of it all kind of illustrates what happens when somebody like Elon Musk comes up against somebody |
| 1:36.2 | that he is just inarguably outmatched by. The Azalea Banks thing was a perfect example of what |
| 1:42.2 | I mean. Elon Musk is an unreliable narrator. Azalea Banks is somebody who will literally say anything about anyone or anything. Elon Musk thinks he's funny, loves to make it seem like everybody thinks he's so funny. Azzalia Banks, even though she is who she is, she is actually funny and can actually destroy somebody with words and can come up |
| 2:03.6 | with an insult like nobody's business. Like she really is, she's, she's a lyricist at the end of the day. |
| 2:09.9 | So, you know, Mike, you know me. You know that I am not somebody who is prone to taking a victory |
| 2:16.1 | laugh when I say something that's |
| 2:17.5 | proven to be 100% correct. |
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