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Lois + Jane

Call Your Grandmother

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Comedy, Relationships

51K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Lois and her granddaughter Jane see themselves as basically the same person... with a few generational disagreements! Join them as they discuss blind dates, an encounter with Eleanor Roosevelt, and how reading the obits every morning can actually be a good thing! Plus, hear how their nightly crossword routine and co-writing a book have brought them closer together.

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0:00.0

When Walter Isakson set out to write his biography of Elon Musk, he believed he was taking on a world-changing figure.

0:07.6

That night he was deciding whether or not to allow Starlink to be enabled to allow a sneak attack on Crimea.

0:14.0

What he got was a subject to also soed chaos in conspiracy.

0:17.6

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social

0:22.3

emotional networks.

0:24.0

And when I sat down with Isakson five weeks ago,

0:26.4

he told me how he captured it all.

0:27.9

They had Kansas spray paint,

0:29.6

and they're just putting big axes on machines. And it's almost like kids playing on the

0:34.9

playground just choose them up left right and center and then like Dr Jekyll and

0:39.4

Mr Hyde he doesn't even remember it to Mars, doesn't excuse being a total

0:43.6

But I want the reader to see it in action.

0:47.2

My name is Evan Ratliff, and this is On Musk with Walter Isakson.

0:51.2

Join us in this four-part series as Erskine breaks down how he captured a vivid portrait

0:55.7

of a polarizing genius.

0:57.2

Listen to On Musk on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

1:00.9

podcasts.

1:01.9

Hi, this is Jiselle and Robin,

1:05.0

and we're the host of Reasonably Shady on the Black Effect Podcast Network.

1:10.0

I absolutely love our podcast.

1:13.3

Yes.

1:13.8

It has been so much better than I expected.

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