Uber, Facebook, and Elon Musk Seek Image Repair | Damage Control (Ep. 473)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Ringer’s Kate Knibbs and Justin Charity unpack the complicated politics and relationship between pop musician Grimes and tech billionaire Elon Musk (1:50), and then analyze the recent television ad campaigns from Facebook and Uber that vaguely acknowledge each company’s recent scandals and promise to be better (13:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, before we get started, I just want to tell you about a couple different things
0:04.7	happening at the ringer.
0:06.3	Yesterday, Justin Charity, my co-host, was on Micah Peter's new podcast on Shuffle.
0:13.2	It's a music podcast and it is released on Wednesdays and the newest episode is about Janet
0:19.4	Jackson's legacy and Meek Mill's life after prison.
0:22.8	You should definitely check it out.
0:24.9	And if you want to go to the ringer.com, I wrote a story yesterday.
0:29.9	It's a Q&A with Wall Street Journal reporter John Kerry-Rue, who just wrote a book called
0:34.3	Bad Blood.
0:35.3	It's a really, really fascinating account of Theranos, the blood testing startup that
0:43.1	went horribly awry and had a really great conversation with him, so you should read
0:47.8	it.
0:48.8	And now on to Damage Control.
0:54.9	I'm Justin Charity.
1:04.9	I'm Kate Nibbs.
1:05.9	Welcome to Damage Control on the channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,
1:11.2	excites, and divides us in popular culture.
1:14.5	This week we're talking about Facebook, Uber, and their recent cryptic TV advertisements
1:21.4	to achieve to be part of their respective apology tours.
1:24.9	But first we're talking about the weirdest celebrity couple of 2018, which is saying a
1:30.6	lot.
1:31.6	Elon Musk and Grimes.
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