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Pushkin Industries and BBC Radio 4
Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket
Elon Musk's visions of the future all stem from the same place: the science-fiction he grew up on. To understand where Musk wants to take the rest of us - with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars, his meme stocks, and tunnels deep beneath the earth — Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore looks at those science fiction stories and helps us understand what Musk missed about them. The Evening Rocket explores Musk's strange new kind of extravagant, extreme capitalism — call it Muskism — where stock prices are driven by earnings, and also by fantasies. Follow along on Twitter...
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Ratings & Reviews
4.0 stars from 164 ratings
Started off quite interesting
Until “anti”-racist diatribe was shoehorned into more or less the entirety of episode 2. So; not really about rockets at all. I’m still inclined to give episode 3 a chance though; there is a lot to hold out for!
Ben Bronx via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 09/17/23
Awfully Biased
I was going to give this a two-star review for clear bias and intentional lack of understanding, but after it delved into straight-up leftist propaganda, I could no longer bring myself to listen to this rubbish.
w0nwec3 via Apple Podcasts · Canada · 10/03/22
Good
But closing comments a bit of a damp squib
ratso rizzini via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 05/20/22
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