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What Next TBD | Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The public’s anger towards Elon Musk and DOGE has found an outlet in the form of Musk’s car company Tesla. How long can the company put up with a sinking reputation and stock price?  Guest: Pranshu Verma, tech reporter for the Washington Post.  Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.3

Hey, everyone. Just a quick heads up that there is some swearing in this episode. Okay, here's the show.

1:11.7

Over the course of two weeks, beginning in late January, a woman named Lucy Grace Nelson

1:17.6

vandalized a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado.

1:21.7

She started by putting a Molotov cocktail near a cyber truck.

1:27.7

It didn't injure anyone, but it did catch fire.

1:31.5

Pronto Verma covers tech for the Washington Post,

1:34.1

and he found Nelson's story in court records.

1:37.4

She then came back another time to spray paint the word Nazi in black

1:43.2

under the dealership's entrance sign.

1:46.5

She then came back again to spray paint the words, fuck Musk, onto the dealership entrance doors.

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