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What Now? with Trevor Noah

The Elon Effect

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Spotify Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk is officially beefing with the Brazilian government and of course Trevor, Christiana, and Josh have lots to say about it. In the wake of the X ban, they discuss how Elon’s past circumstances color his world view, the phenomena of powerful white men who feel powerless, and whether Elon deserves, dare they say it, some empathy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Christiana, quick tip for you that I've learned.

0:03.0

If you have a very traditional parent who hates therapy or psychology,

0:07.0

a trick is to just switch it into Bible talk.

0:11.0

So just say like, instead of saying like you have issues or you have childhood

0:14.2

traumas just be like, they are demons. They are demons from your past. They are demons you have inherited

0:21.5

from your grandmother. When you were very poor there was a demon of

0:25.3

poverty that came in

0:26.5

generation of courses no that I promise you now I'm gonna do it I'm gonna

0:30.9

do I'm gonna get out my ego and be like to my dad I just believe we have a

0:34.4

generational spiritual curse that a witch in the village put on us and maybe you'll be like

0:40.7

okay I want to hear more about this.

0:43.3

Also, if you need any quotes, very few,

0:46.6

very, very few Christians have read Ephesians.

0:49.6

Oh, man.

0:50.4

You get a gospel raw, people are gonna be be like I don't think Jesus said that you hit him with Ephesians and they're like probably I don't know

0:58.3

This is how we commit

1:02.3

You're listening to what now? The podcast where I chat to interesting people

1:06.8

about the conversations taking over our world. Today on the podcast we're

1:12.0

talking about the owner of X, the artist formerly known as

1:15.6

Twitter.

1:16.6

He's also the owner of SpaceX and Starlink and one of the weirdest people on the planet.

1:21.1

Yes, Elon Musk, who has not just red-pulled himself on the very platform he owns,

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