The Last Archive Presents: The Evening Rocket
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Last Spring, Jill Lepore made a radio show with the BBC’s Radio 4 called The Evening Rocket, and now Pushkin Industries is releasing that show stateside for the first time. The Evening Rocket is all about Elon Musk, and his strange new kind of capitalism — call it Muskism, extravagant extreme capitalism, extraterrestrial capitalism, where stock prices are driven by earnings, and also by fantasies. The series explores Silicon Valley’s futurism, and how, in Musk’s life, those visions of the future all stem from the same place: the science-fiction he grew up on. To understand where Musk wants to take the rest of us - with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars, his meme stocks, and tunnels deep beneath the earth — Jill Lepore looks at those science fiction stories, and helps us understand what he’s missed about them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi last archival listeners, I want to tell you about another podcast to add to your |
| 0:04.5 | cue. |
| 0:05.5 | The Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:07.3 | Jordan's podcast is aimed at making you a better informed critical thinker, so you |
| 0:10.8 | can come to your own conclusions about what's happening in the world. |
| 0:13.8 | He dives into the minds of fascinating people, from authors and activists, to mobsters, spies, |
| 0:18.6 | and hostage negotiators. |
| 0:20.6 | You might enjoy Jordan's interview with Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens, a |
| 0:25.0 | brief history of humankind, or his recent deep dive into modern flat earth theory, |
| 0:30.0 | and why some still believe the earth is flat, despite thousands of years of evidence to |
| 0:34.2 | the contrary. |
| 0:35.8 | Whether Jordan is conducting an interview or giving advice to a listener, you'll find |
| 0:39.0 | something useful you can apply to your own life in every episode of the Jordan Harbinger |
| 0:42.6 | Show. |
| 0:43.6 | Whether it's asking for advice the right way, or discovering a slight mindset tweak that |
| 0:47.7 | changes how you see the world. |
| 0:50.1 | Search for the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:52.2 | That's H-A-R-B-I-N-G-E-R on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or ever listen to podcasts. |
| 1:00.9 | Pushkin. |
| 1:10.4 | When I was in university, I thought about what would most affect the future of the world, |
| 1:15.3 | and the three areas that it came up with were the internet, sustainable energy, and making |
| 1:19.9 | life multi-planetary. |
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