What’s Elon up to? - a podcast by Marketplace

He sells electric cars. He wants to go to Mars. Now he wants to sell … electricity? Yup, Elon Musk wants Tesla to get into the energy business in Texas. We’ll discuss what it all means and how Tesla is making money these days. Plus, a bananas story about misinformation on the internet. And the hosts take a stand on the latest round of our favorite game, Half Full/Half Empty.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “How Should the Fed Deal With Climate Change?” from The New York Times


• “Elon Musk wants to sell Texas Electricity” from Texas Monthly


• “Does Tesla actually want competitors to make electric cars?” from “Marketplace Morning Report”


• “Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of RFK assassination, released by California parole board” from The Washington Post


• “Texans are calling poison control in record numbers after ingesting horse and cow dewormer” from KSAT


• “Florida Judge Throws Out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Order Prohibiting School Mask Mandates” from NPR


• “Academic credentials are a poor measure of talent. So why do businesses keep relying on them?” from Fortune


• “Delta Air Lines’ $200 charge to unvaccinated employees puts penalty power to the test” from “Marketplace Morning Report”


• “Back in name only: Toys R Us brand to reappear in more than 400 Macy’s stores” from “Marketplace”


• “TikTok hits the big time: The MLA Handbook has decided how to cite it in academic works” from Fast Company


• “Elon Musk warned of a ‘Terminator’-like AI apocalypse —now he’s building a Tesla robot” from CNBC


• Pumpkin Spice hard seltzer? 

Read the transcript here.

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