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🗓️ 18 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Michael? Peter. What do you know about the period of Elon Musk's life starting in 2018? |
| 0:06.0 | All I know is that I appreciate his dedication to setting up a website where everyone says that whites are the master race |
| 0:11.8 | and shows that that's not the case at all. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson part two. |
| 0:30.9 | Part two. Peter's first part two. |
| 0:32.4 | They said that I was constitutionally incapable of doing it. |
| 0:35.9 | And for a very long time, they were right. |
| 0:38.9 | In part one, we centered our discussion around Tesla and SpaceX and some of his like |
| 0:46.9 | offshoot companies. |
| 0:48.3 | And I left it on a cliffhanger. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:50.6 | About 2018. |
| 0:52.4 | What's going to happen? |
| 0:53.0 | Which Walter Isaacson frames as a tumultuous year for Elon Musk. |
| 1:00.1 | And it's really the year where the media's fawning coverage of Elon starts to grind to a halt. |
| 1:09.3 | You can only be a huge piece of shit for like 10 or 15 years before the media really catches on. |
| 1:14.7 | So there was one seminal event that really flipped popular perceptions of Elon on their head. |
| 1:21.4 | The Thai cave incident. |
| 1:23.8 | Petto guy, yes. |
| 1:24.9 | Yes. |
| 1:24.9 | I am going to send you a bit from the book. Also, as soon as you say seminal event, it makes me think we're going to talk about his like 12 kids. I don't like that. Too many seminal events. I don't like that. You said that. That's on you, man. No, no, it's not. I'm blaming you. Don't just hear the word seminal and be like, you know what that made me think of and then blame |
| 1:46.1 | me. |
| 1:47.4 | So Isaacson says, Musk was scrolling through Twitter and stumbled upon a message from an unknown |
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