Elon Musk

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Books, Politics, Arts, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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A biography that dares to ask: Is a lifetime of worker abuse and narcissism worth it to experience robot butlers? Where to find us: Our PatreonOur merch!Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources: What Elon Musk Gets Wrong about South AfricaElon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather Elon Musk claims he was once one of the best Quake players aroundWatch Elon Musk Talk About Being an ‘Illegal Immigrant’ in Video From 2013&nb...

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0:00.0	This is like not a bit.
0:01.2	I like genuinely don't have a singer.
0:03.3	The only, the only thing I could come up with is be straight, do grimes.
0:07.7	That's really offensive to straight people.
0:09.4	I feel like, um, by the way, um, the beverage center has maintained some element of meme status.
0:15.9	It's escaped containment.
0:17.3	I have people, I have people posting it at me.
0:20.7	And I'm like, shit. Just photos of beverage centers.
0:24.6	Well, I think that they're trying to make the accurate point that I am a boozy young man.
0:29.4	Well, yeah. I also don't know how many people realize how bougie I can be. Yeah, that's also they
0:33.5	don't know about your sweaters or your watches. They don't know about the sweaters.
0:37.2	They don't know that I'm the light jacket king of New Jersey. And you have a podcast with a gay man who only shops at Goodwill. I feel like we're doing like gender as a social construct. We're combating stereotypes so effectively. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I have one. I haven't. Okay. I finally came up with a singer, Peter. Michael. Peter.
0:55.9	What do you know about Elon Musk?
0:59.9	All I know is that I'm happy to finally have a reason to get a bumper sticker that says,
1:02.2	I made this podcast after Elon went crazy. I'm. This is Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography of Elon Musk.
1:23.5	Do you know anything about Walter Isaacson?
1:25.0	He did the Steve Jobs book, right?
1:26.8	Yeah, he is a journalist, spent many years at Time Magazine, became the CEO and chairman of CNN in 2001 for a bit.
1:36.1	Oh, I didn't know that.
1:36.8	He bopped around after that, but what he's really known for is like these great men biographies.
1:43.4	He wrote one of Kissinger in 1992.
1:46.2	He did Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs.
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