Episode 88: The Dunk Tank: Elon Musk

CW: Children Stuck In Caves, Apartheid 

Sometimes there are people out there we love to hate. Elon Musk is one of them. So-called developer of exploding rockets, speeding death traps, and online banking, Musk has really screwed the pooch with media relations. Which is astounding, considering he owns a huge chunk of social media now. So, what the hell is this guy’s problem?

Let’s start at the beginning, and that’s South Africa. Musk was born and raised in Apartheid Era South Africa. So let’s learn what that means.

This article is good as it objectively looks at good things, bad things, and ugly things about Elon’s life and just lays it all out there. It’ll tell you about the cool things the man’s done and the really shitty things too.

I promised I would link this article about Musk’s Tesla coup and takeover, and here it is. Musk was in no way the founder of Tesla or inventor of Tesla. He bought it. Here’s an article detailing that.

We talked about a couple of theories for why Musk is the way he is. One is his use of Ketamine. So I’m linking to this article about how Ketamine works on your brain.

And finally here we learn about the simulation theory. It’s exactly what it sounds like, but if you want to read a real peer reviewed article in a real scientific journal, here you go.

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