Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We’re talking about Elon – again – but this time we're looking at the big picture: the tech titan’s “unprecedented power” over our the federal government and national security, as encapsulated in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ronan Farrow's latest New Yorker profile. William Cohan, a financial journalist and founding partner of Puck News, also joins to break down the varying fortunes of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, and the sustainability of those companies under a leader that is ambitious, but capricious. Stay til the end to hear Kara tell Nayeema why, despite his shenanigans, she still has empathy for Elon Musk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:10.6	For once, Elon is right.
0:12.3	There is no good social media platform, I pretty much only his.
0:16.7	Not kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher and I'm Neymaraza and
0:21.5	Elon is, yeah, he said that there is no more great social network though.
0:25.2	He's trying his very best, he said, and he's starting by what taking away the block feature.
0:29.2	He's very best to rune one that was okay, it was pretty good, your favorite one, what do
0:33.3	you mean okay?
0:34.3	Yeah, it's my favorite, it's my favorite, it had a lot of problems.
0:37.1	It had pre-Elon problems and it will have post-Elon problems.
0:40.6	Unfortunately, we don't have a block feature for Elon on this podcast because we're talking
0:44.0	about him again.
0:45.0	Yeah, we are because we have to because actually there's been one of the things I'm very
0:49.5	heartened about is we're not talking about stupid things like his idiotic tweets or
0:53.1	cage matches or whatever.
0:54.6	But we're talking about a real thing which is the national security threats and the social
0:58.5	security issues around his ownership of key parts of our world, our infrastructure,
1:05.5	including charging, including space, including drones, and including Starlink which is the
1:11.6	way people in Ukraine are using to wage the war there, the communication system.
1:17.6	And so I think it's more important to talk about that and it's on the occasion of an
1:20.4	article by Ronan Faroe about focused in on this which I think is the most important thing
1:25.0	people should be talking about.
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