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Sounds Like A Cult

The Cult of Elon Musk

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times described him as “at once a capitalist hero, a glossy magazine celebrity and a bomb-throwing troll.” Multi-billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk, best known for his high-stakes investments in companies from PayPal to Tesla to SpaceX to Neurolink, is seen as not just a businessman to his nearly 90 million Twitter followers, but as a rockstar, influencer, and Christlike savior sent from the heavens to save the world. On the heels of his fancy new purchase of Twitter, Amanda and Isa discuss Musk’s cult charisma, his army of Musketeers, and what his rise to cult-leader-ish power says about our culture at large. Thanks to all our loyal culties who called in to lend their insight to this episode!

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0:00.0

We talk about a lot of really fun subjects on this podcast, but I do think something we always do is kind of slip into a British accent when we feel uncomfortable.

0:07.3

That's so true, babes.

0:09.8

And that's what we're gonna do all week when we're in London town.

0:15.0

Dude, I am so fucking excited. We're doing our first ever London show on Friday, May 26th at 6.30pm, at the Lester Square Theatre in London.

0:26.4

It's going to be fucking lit.

0:28.2

Which by the way, why is Lester Square Theatre spelled like that? That was like like Heistr.

0:32.8

We are so excited for the stamp show.

0:36.3

We're gonna have games. We're gonna have audience participation.

0:39.4

And of course, we're gonna have our juicy analysis while diving into a much requested and never before discussed top secret cult.

0:48.5

You cannot hear this cult subject matter on any episode because it's what we do for our live show, so you really have to be there.

0:55.5

And then meet us after the show by some merch. We're there to chat with you babes.

1:00.5

Tickets are on sale now at SoundsLikeAkult.com and at the link in our IG bio.

1:06.3

Again, that's Friday, May 26th, 2023, aka this year. At 6.30pm, we will see you there at Lester Square Theatre in London.

1:15.2

See you there, babes.

1:16.4

Hey, what's up at Sam in Denver?

1:18.5

And I think that the cultiest thing about Elon Musk is leaning into a misinterpreted fear of the actual purpose of the First Amendment in order to gain public approval to purchase a thought platform.

1:33.4

Hi, I'm Emma from Melbourne, Australia. I think the cultiest thing about Elon Musk is how men just absolutely worship him.

1:42.1

I know so many people in their 20s and 30s that love everything he does on Twitter and all the podcast appearances he makes.

1:52.8

And they don't even necessarily agree with all of his views, but they just love him as like a cult icon.

1:59.8

I think the cultiest thing about Elon Musk is the ways in which he's exalted as this sort of inevitability of positive capitalism.

2:08.2

When in reality, he's little more than the product of nepotism due to his family's participation in toilet admins.

2:19.2

This is Sounds Like a Cult, a show about the modern day cults we all follow.

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