Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon
94 statements across 59 episodes · 43 bullish · 17 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Oct 24, 2024 by John Coogan · said 1,814 times in 246 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (703), Jordi Hays (224), Delian Asparouhov (26), Tyler Cosgrove (15), Mike Isaac (13), Shaun Maguire (12), Logan Bartlett (8), Zach Kukoff (7)
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2026 709 mentions in 102 episodes 7 per episode
- Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- 🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN
- Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN
- X’s $1M Sweepstakes, Ben Affleck’s viral take on AI, Elon sues OpenAI for $134B | Diet TBPN
- SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
- 94 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 813 mentions in 119 episodes 7 per episode
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
- Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- 111 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 292 mentions in 25 episodes 12 per episode
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Oct 24, 2024 positive
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Elon Musk Practices Targeted Impact Investing Over Diffuse Non-Profit Philanthropy
“He's doing impact investing, even though, like, some people might not like the impact that he's having. Like, his, he's putting his wealth to work in, like, very specific targeted ways. Essentially, much more than, like, You know, oh, diffusing a billion dolla…”
Nov 6, 2024 neutral
Nov 14, 2024 neutral
Hays: Musk's Political Push Stemmed from Disrespect and Business Scale
“He, everything we just saw over the past however many months was just a reaction to being disrespected. As A person as a businessman, and it was almost a, with his level of ambition, it was a, it was something that he needed to do to reach his full potential b…”
Nov 14, 2024 positive
Hays: Tech Aligned with Republicans Because the Party Became More Pro-Technology
“It became obvious this election cycle that the Republican party was more oriented around technology, right? And big part of that is because some of the biggest donors to the Republican party are technologists, Peter Thiel Elon Musk. And so I think that a lot o…”
Nov 14, 2024 bullish
Nov 15, 2024 bullish
Nov 16, 2024 positive
Coogan: Video game skill predicts founder success, contrasting Musk and SBF
“Many, many cases, and we've talked about this before, but very interesting correlation between the great gamers, Elon, one of the greatest Diablo players of all time, SBF, One of the worst League of Legends players of all time.”
Nov 19, 2024 positive
Coogan: Gwynne Shotwell Is the Crucial Operational Counterweight to Elon Musk
“She's been super critical, took a whole ton of career risks going in super early, and has just
You know, just driven that company and just executed, executed, executed, and just fantastic public speaker, fantastic counterweight to Elon's, you know, experimenta…”
Nov 23, 2024 positive
Nov 23, 2024 positive
Lulu Cheng Meservey's Anti-Woke Substack Recruiting Post Reached 100 Million Views
“Well, it's because they took a very contrarian position on free speech. And Lulu had that insanely viral recruiting post. Do you remember this? She was like when Elon bought Twitter, She said, if you have a problem with Elon bringing free speech to Twitter, do…”
Nov 30, 2024 bullish
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Dec 11, 2024 neutral
Dec 11, 2024 neutral
Dec 12, 2024 bullish
Tesla will soon manufacture and deliver the delayed second-generation Roadster
“I'm also extremely bullish on the Tesla roadster second generation. You get them the allocation. Now I think it's going to happen. It's been way delayed, but Elon is on top of the world. The stock's ripping. He, Knows where the regulation is going. I think he'…”
Jan 8, 2025 bullish
Jan 9, 2025 positive
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Jan 25, 2025 bullish
Hays: Elon Musk's infrastructure track record makes xAI a standout
“The reason to be extra bullish on XAI is that Elon is the only founder mode model, you know, CEO. I don't know if he's actually CEO or, but whatever chairman, at least who has done large scale infrastructure projects over and over and over the factories at Tes…”
Feb 5, 2025 neutral
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Altman: Musk uses lawsuits and takeover bids to slow OpenAI down
“I think he's probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. It's, you know, he's working hard, and he's raised a lot of money for XAI, and they're trying to compete with us from a technological perspective, from you know, getting the produ…”
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2025 neutral
Coogan: Grok 3 adapts opinions to confirm users' existing timeline biases
“It's fine tuning on the person who queries it, their timeline. And so Grok three when Elon prompts it knows Elon doesn't like the information. Let's give him an answer that confirms what he believes. And it's the same thing for Paul Calcraft.”
Feb 19, 2025 bullish
Mar 7, 2025 bullish
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Asparouhov: Biden Admin Rejected Early SpaceX Return Due to Musk's Politics
“What's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner And because it was in the middle of the election cycle, and because Musk was campaigning for Trump, the Biden administration turned down that offer.”
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Maguire: X's infrastructure rebuild is done, visible product progress is imminent
“There's been like a few years of like fixing the foundation of the company and we're starting to enter the era where like the foundation is strong and they get to now like actually build on top of this new strong foundation. And so I think we're going to see i…”
Mar 25, 2025 negative
Meservey: Brands boycotting X over Elon Musk hurt their own balance sheets
“I think there, there's some brands that are like, Boycotting X because of Elon, whatever, but you're just kind of hurting yourself. Like, it's like you're owning your own balance sheet to try to own Elon. You're owning your own cash flow because you're mad at …”
Apr 1, 2025 bearish
Asparouhov: Mediocre Anduril copycats will fail to shift military procurement budgets
“Look, like even Elon isn't able to convince the Air Force that we shouldn't have human rated fighter jets. Like, you think your fucking thing that's like a mediocre copycat of Anderle is somehow going to convince them that they should spend like, you know, mon…”
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Musk made X much better by charging $8 for verification
“Like in, in some sense, Elon has turned X into some, something like that. There are a lot of trolls, a lot of random accounts and all that stuff, but by forcing people to have the blue mark and paying eight dollars a month and all that stuff, I think he's alre…”
Apr 26, 2025
May 31, 2025
Jun 7, 2025 neutral
Asparouhov: Senate Package Restores NASA Funding for SLS Rocket
“It was released that the Senate reconciliation package re-added budget back into NASA, largely for the SLS program, which was basically the program that, you know, sort of Jared and Elon We're, you know, sort of largely advocating to, you know, sort of complet…”
Jun 7, 2025 negative
Jun 7, 2025 bearish
Jul 19, 2025 positive
Hays: Musk's brand legitimizes NSFW AI spending for mainstream users
“The unique thing about this launch is that there has never, you know, clearly many people around the world spend money on OnlyFans or other NSFW content, and, but Elon has never created a product for those type of people. And so I think the sort of latent dema…”
Jul 26, 2025 positive
Coogan: Elon Musk made X a better product by restoring startup speed
“I mean, my take when he bought Twitter and turned it into X was that it was exciting. I thought that he could make it a lot better. He has in many ways made it a better product. We stream on it now and it feels like it's still a vibrant community and there's a…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Elon Musk Eliminated the Research-Product Distinction at xAI
“Elon, as usual, of course, is provoking this question, is, I'm sure you guys talked about, but, you know, he has now, you know, with NXAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Aug 16, 2025 neutral
Sep 6, 2025 neutral
Oct 15, 2025 neutral
Andrew Ross Sorkin Compares 1920s Financier John Raskob To Elon Musk
“John Raskob is Elon Musk. I mean, I got to tell you, John Raskob Created credited General Motors became a amazing investor, then takes all of his winnings, decides to get into politics, a little Elon-like decides to back Al Smith against President Hoover. By t…”
Oct 15, 2025
Modern Celebrity CEO Culture Began With Time Magazine Covers In The 1920s
“This was also a period where all of these guys also became celebrities for the first time that happened in the 19 twenties when, you know, time magazine would put these guys on the cover the same way they'd put Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh on the cover. So …”
Oct 28, 2025
Nov 8, 2025 bullish
Nov 15, 2025 neutral
Coogan: SpaceX moved faster than Blue Origin by prioritizing modular components
“One of the reasons the Blue Origin moved a little bit slower than SpaceX is that they leaned a little bit harder on the exquisite system going really big, and Elon had this idea of, like, let's try and make a whole bunch of small things that we bundle together…”
Nov 19, 2025 positive
Dec 12, 2025 bullish
Dec 12, 2025 bullish
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Jan 8, 2026 neutral
Jan 8, 2026 positive
Jan 8, 2026 bullish
Jan 20, 2026 bearish
Musk Legal Team Seeks $134B in Damages from OpenAI
“It's gonna be a hundred and thirty four billion dollars in damages is what Elon is seeking. Musk's legal team argues that his early funding and involvement materially contributed to OpenAI's rise, which is now valued at five hundred billion, and he wants a sli…”
Jan 20, 2026
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Jan 30, 2026 bullish
Jan 30, 2026 neutral
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Feb 11, 2026 negative
Feb 19, 2026 neutral
Mar 13, 2026 positive
Elon Musk's Twitter Acquisition Created Space for Tech Optimism
“Elon owns Twitter now. It's X. Yeah. Right. Pre post is like a massive difference in the mix of sort of ideas that can get out there. And again, you're allowed to be optimistic about things where maybe before everything had to be negative”
Mar 14, 2026 positive
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
Mar 30, 2026 bearish
Kim: ASML and Applied Materials lack capacity for Elon Musk's TerraFab
“TerraFab, I'm not that optimistic. I mean, it's so hard to do with that. Because TSMC is so short that, you know, Elon needs to find, but even then, like, how are they going to buy, like, semi-cap equipment from ESML and AMAT? Like, there, there's just no capa…”
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Kim: Elon Musk will pitch space-based GPU satellites for SpaceX IPO
“I think Elon's pitch with the SpaceX IPO, and we'll see it in the coming months, is the AI compute, it's gonna be so, there's gonna be so much demand over the next five, 10 years, that you're gonna have to use these SpaceX satellites that have GPUs in them. To…”
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
May 1, 2026 neutral
May 1, 2026 neutral
May 1, 2026
Judge publicly berated a spectator for illegally recording the OpenAI trial
“So one woman in the overflow room who was just not just, it was a civilian going to attend and watch it, Started recording, which is again, against the rules, if not the law in a federal courthouse. So the judge brings her in, and in front of a room of like a …”
May 1, 2026 positive
May 1, 2026 positive
May 1, 2026 neutral
May 1, 2026 neutral
Isaac: Musk leaned into his 'existential' persona on the stand
“Elon, I think from day one, has leaned into the persona of Elon, and just from him being on the stand and saying, I care about humanity, I mean, he says he does whatever he does or doesn't, but like, just leaning into this, like, I'm a world-changing entrepren…”
May 1, 2026 negative
Hays: Musk-OpenAI Infighting Harms Already Negative Public AI Perception
“It's just kind of depressing to see these groups like fighting in this way. When we have so much bigger problem, like we have so many bigger problems as an industry, right? The big problem being like public perception of AI is like already so bad. Like people,…”
May 1, 2026 neutral
Isaac: AI Model Distillation Across Competitors Is an Industry Open Secret
“Elon went out of his way to say, Everyone kind of does this. It's like an open secret in the industry, which I think is like, also kind of true, but that doesn't make it, there's like, it's fraught, I guess is what I would say.”
May 1, 2026
Musk was openly antagonistic during cross-examination by OpenAI's litigation counsel
“Elon went from, like, I am a entrepreneur, sort of like, Rosalie explaining to you what I think the future should look like, and like, very concerned for the future of the human race, to like, openly antagonistic to Savitt's questioning”
May 1, 2026 neutral
Isaac: OpenAI-Musk Trial Courtroom Limits Outlets to One Reserved Seat
“So there are reserved seats in the front row for press, but the issue is only one person per outlet gets it, and we are doing, like, live blogging for, like, the big moments, like, opening statements, and for Elon, and so myself and my colleague Cade came on t…”
May 5, 2026 negative
May 5, 2026 negative
Cohen: Advertisers Conspired Against Twitter Due to Politics, Not Cuts
“What really happened at Twitter was that the advertisers, you know, I don't know what the situation is now, but they pretty much conspired against him, and, you know, it had nothing to do, my understanding is it really had nothing to do with the cost cuts, mor…”
May 29, 2026 positive
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Jul 30, 2026 bearish
Coogan: US humanoid robotics risks failing without massive capital and will
“The American humanoid robotics industry feels much more fragile in the sense that if you don't have this massive hammer of capital and will coming to bear, you could just wind up with it never happening, which I worry about.”
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Aug 12, 2026 neutral
Coogan: $8.5T Acquisition Triggers Full 423M Share Pay Package for Musk
“If that figure reached 8.5 trillion, all 12 tranches Tronches could qualify, putting Musk in line for the full four hundred and twenty three million share award without Tesla ever having to accomplish many of the pay packages operational milestones.”
Aug 12, 2026 neutral
Coogan: Tesla Acquisition Eliminates Musk's Operational Pay Milestones
“If Tesla undergoes a change of control, essentially, if Tesla is acquired, the operational requirements disappear. You no longer have to hit a million robotaxis or a million optimists to unlock those new tranches of stock for Elon. If there's a change of contr…”