The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 2 - Childhood)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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00:00 What do listeners think about Elon Musk?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserve any listeners this is chapter two in our deep dive on Elon Musk. |
| 0:05.2 | Let's get into it. What do you say, Roberto? Let's do it. |
| 0:07.5 | This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host Dr Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. My name is Umberto |
| 0:14.0 | Kastagna and I design electric powered candles. I think they call those flashlights. |
| 0:20.8 | So I asked people on YouTube and on Patreon, what do you think of Elon Musk? |
| 0:26.0 | Partially just out of curiosity for myself because I had no idea if people loved him or hate him or what they thought. |
| 0:34.0 | Also I thought it'd be good to start off chapter two with this because I think it's |
| 0:39.7 | illuminating and I selected particular comments that to me represent a lot of people's points of view. |
| 0:48.8 | So this first comment is on YouTube by HB. They say, how do people hype him up so much? |
| 0:57.8 | What does that say about these people? I have a private answer for that, but I'd like to hear Kirk and Berto's answer. |
| 1:04.6 | But I'm guessing Kirk and Berto won't have an extreme point of view because they're too |
| 1:08.7 | differentiated for that. Berto, what do you think? |
| 1:11.6 | I think it's... |
| 1:14.0 | But I mean why do people hype them up so much? Well because first of all we hype up |
| 1:19.8 | all celebrities to start with like celebrities are overhiked to begin with right? |
| 1:25.0 | Let alone when the celebrity in question is trying to build things that all seem |
| 1:32.0 | sci-fi or still seem sci-fi in many cases |
| 1:35.2 | across so many different industries and has appeared in so many different media including |
| 1:39.6 | Marvel movies and all these other things. So yeah that's why people I put up so much. |
| 1:45.0 | Sorry I was just sipping my coffee into the microphone that probably isn't good |
| 1:48.4 | podcasting but that's that's what that is. Tanisha Park on YouTube they say I appreciate Elon's values around free speech. |
| 1:59.2 | A lot of people praise Elon Musk for this. What are they referring to, Berto? |
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