A star is born | Elon's Spies Ep4

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

Tortoise Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election, he told an adoring crowd that "a star is born". He was referring to Elon Musk.

After months of reporting on the billionaire's use of private investigators, Alexi asks whether the insights he gained from that investigation reveal how Musk will operate in his new political era, and what that means for everything in his orbit.

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Reported and produced by: Alexi Mostrous, Gary Marshall, Matt Russell & Patricia Clarke

Sound design: Bart Warshaw

Original Music: Tom Kinsella

Podcast artwork: Jon Hill

Executive producer: Basia Cummings

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Bashar here, and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you.
0:05.4	It's five years since we made our first ever podcast.
0:09.0	Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here.
0:12.8	Bashar, do you want to start?
0:13.7	That was the beginning of our weekly investigative show, the Slow Newscast.
0:17.3	And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then, what we care about
0:22.0	hasn't changed, because we still investigate injustices. I was personally very struck by the
0:29.0	strength of your reporting, with the evidence in your reporting. We tell gripping stories with a
0:33.6	human heart. It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story, filled with death, lies and witness protection programs.
0:41.4	But still, it's a love story.
0:43.9	Since those early days, we've won landmark legal battles.
0:47.8	Hello.
0:48.3	I thought you'd like to know we've got the judgment.
0:50.8	It's going to be published.
0:53.0	Oh my God.
0:54.0	You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus InVit. it's going to be published. Oh my God.
0:58.9	You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus Investigates.
1:03.0	What I uncover is a global game of cat and mouse.
1:05.0	A catch-me-if-you-can.
1:06.9	And we've grown.
1:10.7	Hello, I'm Tominy and this is The Sense Maker from Tortus. On Tortus news, you can find
1:12.3	our daily and weekly shows that help make sense of the world. From Tortus, welcome to the news
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