Podcasts by Ding-Dong of the Week

Elon Musk Doesn't Pay All That Much in Taxes from 2021-06-14T23:23:43

Compared to you, the listener of this podcast, Elon Musk doesn't have a very high tax bill. He got a little defensive about this on Twitter, saying something sort of convoluted about Tesla stock...

Elon Musk and His Whole Cryptocurrency Deal from 2021-06-06T23:55:48

A deep dive into Elon Musk's history with cryptocurrency, and an attempt to understand what he's trying to accomplish by—for instance— tweeting an acrostic that spells "CUM."

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Elon Musk's Autopilot Caused(?) Another Deadly Car Crash from 2021-05-20T00:00:47

A deep dive into self-driving Teslas and how you probably shouldn't use one. It's not fun to talk about someone dying (Listen

Elon Musk Hosts SNL (with Seth Simons) from 2021-05-11T04:37:59

Freelance journalist Seth Simons visits the Institute of Ding Dong Studies to discuss the comedy stylings of billionaire Elon Musk. For more from Seth, check out Listen

Elon Musk's Role in This Whole Gamestonks Thing from 2021-02-02T01:42:08

Why did Elon Musk tweet "Gamestonks"? For that matter, why does he do anything?

Also: Elon's into Bitcoin now, and SpaceX is being investigated by the FAA. 

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Elon Musk Is Hiring People to Deal with Twitter for Him from 2021-01-23T02:05:35

Elon Musk fired Tesla's public relations department in October, and replaced it with saying whatever he wants all the time on Twitter. But now he's hiring people to d...

Elon Musk Has a Great Deal of Money from 2021-01-12T00:13:52

Elon Musk has more money than you, even if you are Jeff Bezos. Also, he thinks you should use Signal. 

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Elon Musk's Immunity from Actual Criticism from 2020-12-18T19:48:11

Elon Musk doesn't care for pronouns, one of the more common parts of speech. Seems like it must make it hard for him to talk. LOL.

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Elon Musk's Former SpaceX Employee's Arbitration Nightmare from 2020-12-14T19:00:25

An LA Times story tells the story of an internal whistleblower at Tesla who just wanted to improve the products she was working on, but got fired, and now lives in a personal hell of ...

Elon Musk Wins a German Billionaire Award from 2020-12-07T22:25:36

Elon Musk has won an award this week. No, not The Golden Bell of the Ding-Dong, the award he wins every week here on our show, but an award from a German media conglomerate called Axe...

Elon Musk's Weird Fantasy of a Doomed Mars Colony from 2020-11-21T01:19:05

Elon Musk elaborated a little about his Mars plans, and they sound less good than ever. Also, he had COVID during a momentous week for his company, which is kinda funny.

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Elon Musk Almost Certainly Has COVID from 2020-11-14T00:08:05

Elon Musk took a COVID test, and then three more. Does he have the potentially lethal "COVID Fever" everyone's been talking about lately? Probably!

Elon was also the subject of a Vanity F...

Elon Musk Calls His Bully a "Chad" from 2020-11-06T22:18:16

It's election week. Joe Biden looks to b...

Elon Musk's Unregulated Martian Business Environment from 2020-10-30T21:11:15

In the fine print of the terms of service for Elon Musk's new internet service provider, SpaceX revealed Elon's plan for a lawless corporate utopia on Mars. It sounds bad in our opinion!

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Elon Musk Narrowly Defeats Rudy Giuliani from 2020-10-24T01:02:32

It’s a big week for ding-dongs in America, and many, many ding-dongs show up on this episode. But the winner is Elon Musk. Elon has announced that Teslas can now drive themselves, exc...

Elon Musk's Sense of Humor and US Military Contracts from 2020-10-16T20:45:03

This week, Elon Musk wasn't very funny, even though he tried to be funny. Also he's contributing a lot to the US war machine.

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Elon Musk's Company Town in Texas from 2020-10-09T23:13:29

This week the Ding-Dong is Elon Reeve Musk, a famous business tycoon from South Africa who is building a company town in Texas on top of an existing community. As you might expect, he'd like the...

Elon Musk's Freewheeling New York Times Interview from 2020-10-02T23:27:39

Tech billionaire Elon Musk talked to Kara Swisher for a long time this week about life, the universe and everything. The conversation touched on AI, cars, Trump, and Musk's admiration for noted ...

Elon Musk's Disappointing Battery Day from 2020-09-25T20:04:03

This week's Ding-Dong is billionaire Elon Musk! Elon's announcement of new battery technology was a pretty big letdown, and the idea to Tom Cruise in space (which, to be fair, probably wan't his...

Elon Musk Promising a Whole House HEPA Filter from 2020-09-19T01:41:13

It's Elon Musk again! He uses news events to make headlines by promising things that never materialize—in this case it was the West Coast wildfires. And he doesn't seem to have a good...

Elon Musk Calling Robert Reich a "Modern Day Moron" from 2020-09-10T23:00:46

Elon Musk scores the rare "Double Ding-Dong" with his second appearance in a row. How's he treating his employees? It's a matter of some controversy. Is he giving away his money? That's also up ...

Elon Musk's Neuralink and the the Tesla stock split from 2020-09-04T15:49:56

Episode #1

In our inaugural episode the Ding-Dong of the week is someone you may have heard of: Elon Musk, the famous tech billionaire known for having a public pers...