Ding-Dong of the Week

Compared to you, the listener of this podcast, Elon Musk doesn't have a very high tax bill. He got a little defensive about this on Twitter, saying something sort of convoluted about Tesla stock prices, but he might be missing the point. Also! He's planning to accept Bitcoins in exchange for cars once again someday. AND he likes to put video games in cars. 

All that and Jeff Bezos's voice. Do you have any idea what he sounds like? (spoiler: pretty goofy!) You will after you listen to this episode.

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A deep dive into Elon Musk's history with cryptocurrency, and an attempt to understand what he's trying to accomplish by—for instance— tweeting an acrostic that spells "CUM."

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A deep dive into self-driving Teslas and how you probably shouldn't use one. It's not fun to talk about someone dying (you can read about that here), but it's worth noting that the excuses Elon Musk and Tesla give for their fully self-driving cars causing deaths aren't very good.

Also, a little bit more about company towns, in light of the company town Elon appears to be building. 

And a silver medalist who is flamin' hot.

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Freelance journalist Seth Simons visits the Institute of Ding Dong Studies to discuss the comedy stylings of billionaire Elon Musk. For more from Seth, check out his newsletter.

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Why did Elon Musk tweet "Gamestonks"? For that matter, why does he do anything?

Also: Elon's into Bitcoin now, and SpaceX is being investigated by the FAA. 

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Elon Musk fired Tesla's public relations department in October, and replaced it with saying whatever he wants all the time on Twitter. But now he's hiring people to deal to relate, if you will, with members of what you might call "the public" on Twitter.

Also, his common law wife may or may not have given COVID-19 to Dave Chapelle. Also, he wants to dig tunnels under Miami. And his flamethrowers are causing problems for people.

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Elon Musk has more money than you, even if you are Jeff Bezos. Also, he thinks you should use Signal. 

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Elon Musk doesn't care for pronouns, one of the more common parts of speech. Seems like it must make it hard for him to talk. LOL.

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An LA Times story tells the story of an internal whistleblower at Tesla who just wanted to improve the products she was working on, but got fired, and now lives in a personal hell of her former employer’s making.

The silver medal recipient is the only person richer than Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk has won an award this week. No, not The Golden Bell of the Ding-Dong, the award he wins every week here on our show, but an award from a German media conglomerate called Axel Springer. It's called The Axel Springer Award, and if you bet that Elon would say some dumb stuff at the interview the folks at Axel Springer conducted, you're a winner too.

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