What's going on with Elon Musk?

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Technology, Business

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Search Engine investigates the erratic behavior of the world’s wealthiest man with Hard Fork’s Casey Newton. The three top theories for why Elon Musk has begun to act strangely, including one theory that upset our understanding of reality itself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Search Engine. I'm PJ vote. Each week we try to answer a question we have
0:04.6	about the world, no question too big, no question too small. This week, what's going on
0:10.1	with Elon Musk? That's after a break.
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1:21.7	It's relatively unfashionable to say this right now, but I feel like I remember a time
1:46.2	where most people felt differently about Elon Musk than they do today. Like the same way
1:51.1	there was a version of Donald Trump who was a ridiculous celebrity real estate guy who
1:55.7	could have a cameo in Home Alone 2 without anyone really batting an eye. There was a version
2:00.6	of Elon Musk that preceded this one. A couple versions actually. There was the Elon Musk
2:07.4	who made it big in the first dot com boom before helping to start PayPal.
2:14.4	This is from a news clip of 28 year old Elon. It looks very young. Wearing a brown blazer
2:20.7	that's a couple sizes too big. He's just made $22 million selling his first internet company.
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