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Factually! with Adam Conover

The Tesla protests are working.

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)

Elon’s not invincible, and now we have proof.

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:04.0

So last week, Trump's big billionaire buddy Elon finally fell down the K-hole.

0:10.0

You know, for a while there, it seemed like Elon was on top of the world.

0:13.0

I mean, he's basically the president.

0:15.0

He's firing scientists who are way smarter than he is, and he's deciding whether people live or die,

0:20.9

since hundreds of thousands of people

0:22.8

are literally going to be killed

0:24.4

by Elon's cuts to disease prevention programs.

0:26.6

But hey, Elon don't care.

0:28.3

He's way too busy playing with his favorite chainsaw.

0:31.1

Dude has been living the dream.

0:33.1

But all of a sudden, Tesla stock started dropping,

0:36.6

and protests of Tesla started popping up in Philadelphia, Chicago,

0:40.8

the Bay Area, Florida, Waikiki, New Zealand, and even France,

0:45.5

where an angry Frenchman set a bunch of Tesla's on fire.

0:49.3

Huh, say what you will about the French,

0:51.0

but I guess they really don't like Nazis for some reason.

0:53.9

Even Cheryl Crow announced that she was getting rid of her Tesla.

0:57.0

Yeah, Elon, all she wants to do is dump your shi car.

1:01.0

And yeah, the first cut is the deepest, but I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot more.

1:05.0

Now, I'm not gonna lie, all of this has been pretty satisfying to watch, but it's more than just Schadenfreude. The turn against Tesla in American society is proof that Elon is not invincible, but that, in fact,

1:17.1

he and Trump are extremely vulnerable to public pressure, and it provides a roadmap for

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