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On with Kara Swisher

Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

Society & Culture

4.23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This Labor Day, we are re airing a fan-favorite episode about, who else, Elon Musk and Kara Swisher. Nayeema interviews Kara — who’s covered Musk since the late 90s. We’ll unpack how Elon became Elon, why Kara came to believe he was one of the greatest visionaries in Silicon Valley, when exactly she soured on him — and why she still holds out some hope. If you’re not sick of Elon by the end of this episode, you may also want to listen to our conversations with Elon biographer Walter Isaacson, former Twitter employee Yoel Roth and journalists Bill Cohan and Ronan Farrow.  You can find Kara and Nayeema on Instagram/Threads @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.1

I hope everyone's having a nice long weekend.

0:39.6

Today, we're playing you an episode

0:41.0

where I talk about my long history covering Elon Musk

0:43.9

and when and why my perspective on him changed drastically.

0:48.7

Naima interviewed me about all this back in November

0:51.3

before Twitter was X

0:52.6

and back when Elon was in his hiring and blue check-changing frenzy.

0:57.0

But it still holds up very well, as you'll see.

1:00.0

Have a listen.

1:03.6

So, Kara, there is an avalanche of news coming out of Twitter right now,

1:07.2

and so what we'd like to do today is to pull back out of the news

1:10.1

and interview you

1:11.2

to help make sense of Elon because you've had this unique 20-year reporting relationship with Elon and

1:18.7

lots of long interviews with him over a decade. Yeah. I mean, I've known him for a long time. I actually,

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