Mind of Musk - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 3/18/26
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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George Noory and author Charles Steel discuss Elon Musk and the philosophy that drives him.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from coast-to-coast AM on I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Charles Steele, our special guest, the curious mind of Elon Musk. |
| 0:13.1 | Was it difficult putting the book together, Charles? |
| 0:16.5 | Yes, I would not recommend to anyone that they write a book unless they accept that it might take twice as long as they think to write it. |
| 0:27.1 | It's pretty complimentary to Musk, you know that? |
| 0:30.9 | Well, I've been told that. |
| 0:33.0 | My goal was to set out what he thinks, to put his point of view in his words, and then to let the reader judge for themselves. |
| 0:45.3 | And that's why it's subtitled Nine Ways He Thinks differently. I'm trying to show people that if you step into his shoes, this is how he sees the world. |
| 0:53.3 | I try not to pass heavy judgment on whether that's something that you should try and do or not. |
| 1:00.5 | What happened between President Trump and Elon Musk? |
| 1:03.7 | They seemed to have feuded. |
| 1:06.0 | Musk came in aboard to run Doge, and then they fell apart again. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah. For me, aboard to run doge and then they fell apart again yeah for me there was always an element where it was a bit of a marriage of convenience i think the the role that trump played for musk was to stop |
| 1:24.4 | harris winning that was the principal thing because he felt so strongly on the subject of wokeness and so on. |
| 1:32.9 | They had disagreed on quite a lot of things in the past, from free trade to electorate vehicles. |
| 1:38.0 | I think Musk has said that he didn't believe that the previous election was stolen from Trump. |
| 1:48.4 | So it's not as though they were natural bedfellows. |
| 1:51.8 | However, I think they had quite a good camaraderie. |
| 1:54.9 | They agreed on a lot of stuff. |
| 1:56.7 | There was a mutual fascination. |
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