How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind virus — and it wasn’t that long ago. As recently as 2018, Elon was boasting about Tesla scoring a 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index and telling anyone who was bothered by that to “not buy our car.” So what happened? Today, Ryan Mac and Kate Conger, authors of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, unpack Elon’s personal and political midlife crisis — and the price we pay for it. Support me + listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mattbernstein Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes: www.factormeals.com/fruity50 Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at www.blueland.com/fruity. Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Actually, wait, can I show you guys one more thing before we start recording? I was really taken this
0:04.0	morning. Did you guys see the Gwen Stefani prayer app advertisement? That sounds like a charades.
0:10.2	It's a very 20-24 sentence. Just speaking of like pipelines, can I show you this?
0:16.7	The season has always been my favorite time of the year. It's the season that we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord.
0:22.6	This year, I'm excited to share that I've partnered with this amazing prayer meditation and music app called Hallow,
0:28.6	on their 25-day prayer challenge leading up to Christmas called Advent Pray 25.
0:34.6	Join me in millions of other Christians around the world
0:38.0	as we celebrate together the truth
0:39.7	that God so loved the world
0:41.6	that he gave us his only son.
0:44.3	Download Hallow and join me in praying every day.
0:47.8	God bless.
0:48.9	You know what the funny thing about that app is?
0:50.7	It's backed by Peter Thiel.
0:52.3	It's backed by...
0:53.0	It's H-A-L-O-O-W right that's the app yeah
0:57.6	H-A-L-O-W Peter Teal funded my app I mean this does kind of tie into our episode not that
1:09.5	Elon Musk was ever like an icon of culture for gays or anybody else, but like, you just, you die young or live long enough to see your faves start shilling weird shit.
1:20.7	She's from Orange County, though, right? So like, she's all, there's always been.
1:24.9	She's always been kind of on, but I wonder how much of that is the, what's that guy that she's married to, Blake Shelton.
1:30.6	Yeah.
1:31.4	I wonder how much is the Blake Shelton prayer influence.
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