#LondonCalling: Is Elon Musk as talked about in London as in NYC? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 13 September 2023
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#LondonCalling: Is Elon Musk as talked about in London as in NYC? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brutal-youth-and-toxic-love-life-what-we-learnt-from-elon-musk-s-biography-f6knmn3fz
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| 0:35.1 | Listen, CBS, I'm the world, I'm John Badsch with my colleague, Joseph Sternberg and he's |
| 0:38.8 | a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.2 | He's in London. |
| 0:42.2 | He writes political economics. |
| 0:44.3 | The political economics of the moment turn on the personality, the celebrity, of one |
| 0:50.9 | multi-multibillionaire named Elon Musk, who was born a member of the Commonwealth, |
| 0:56.0 | he's South African. Therefore, no threat to be a president of the United States because, |
| 1:01.2 | according to the Constitution, you must be born in the United States here in the 21st century, |
| 1:06.8 | or the 20th century. Now, what we have is Elon Musk's celebrity at the scale in America that I |
| 1:14.1 | can't imagine bigger, because of Tesla, because of SpaceX waiting for the launch, |
| 1:18.8 | because of the boring company, because of experiments he's doing with AI, |
| 1:23.7 | his multiple marriages, his many children from all directions, and his love of the stage. |
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