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Sounds Like A Cult

By Amanda Montell & Isa Medina

The Cult of Elon Musk

S2 E14


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Published May 03, 2022 5:00am

The New York Times described him as โ€œat once a capitalist hero, a glossy magazine celebrity and a bomb-throwing troll.โ€ Multi-billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk, best known for his high-stakes investments in companies from PayPal to Tesla to SpaceX to Neurolink, is seen as not just a businessman to his nearly 90 million Twitter followers, but as a rockstar, influencer, and Christlike savior sent from the heavens to save the world. On the heels of his fancy new purchase of Twitter, Amanda and Isa discuss Muskโ€™s cult charisma, his army of Musketeers, and what his rise to cult-leader-ish power says a...

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