Elon Musk
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He directs operations across aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, and artificial intelligence venture xAI. Widely recognized as one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Musk also co-founded Neuralink and OpenAI, founded The Boring Company, and acquired social media platform X.
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Elon Musk: Space will be cheapest location for AI compute in 2-3 years
“The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years. Maybe three. Three at the latest.”
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Who brings them up most John Coogan 703Jordi Hays 224Delian Asparouhov 26Tyler Cosgrove 15Mike Isaac 13Shaun Maguire 12Logan Bartlett 8Zach Kukoff 7
Statements about Elon Musk, by other people (91)
Trump: Musk Opposed Spending Bill Because EV Mandates Were Cut
“All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair.”
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.”
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…”
Altman: Musk operates from personal insecurity and is not happy
“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy. Do you feel better? I do, actually. I don't think he's, like, a happy person. I do feel for him.”
Altman: OpenAI and its mission are not for sale
“OpenAI is not for sale. The OpenAI mission is not for sale.”
Hays: Elon Musk's lunar mass driver keynote is an IPO pump
“But still, this seems like a, just kind of a blatant sci-fi pump going into the IPO.”
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
Trump: Musk will criticize me personally next
“He hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next.”
Handmer: Musk's Government Efficiency Work Will Be a Massive US Net Positive
“I think ultimately, I think history will show this is going to be a massive net positive for United States. You know, obviously there's going to be some mistakes and some struggles and pain along the way.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Hays: Sequoia Will Make Money on Its X Investment in 10 Years
“I would be willing to bet my house that they'll make money on this investment in 10 years.”
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…”
Elon Musk's Memphis AI cluster operates at 11% utilization, wasting $12 billion
“In fact, Elon's like got 500,000 GBP hundreds in Memphis. And running an 11% MFU and less than 60% node allocation. I mean, this is twelve billion dollars of compute being wasted.”
Elon Musk and Ari Emanuel submitted a bid to buy OpenAI
“Musk made a bid with Ari Emanuel and some other companies. That's right, to buy the whole company.”
Isaac: Burchall Testified Musk's OpenAI Bid Aimed to Establish Valuation
“Burchall in court was saying this was us trying to sort of establish a pricing mechanism to like value the actual entity itself”
Isaac: Courtroom vibe over facts benefits Elon Musk against OpenAI
“Just, it makes the dynamic of the facts don't necessarily always matter, but the vibe can really matter, which I think is a benefit for Elon, honestly.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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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 →
Played on the show (3)
Episodes where a recording of Elon Musk was played rather than Elon taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
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| Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBP | Jan 23, 2026 | 9s | clip played |
| Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN | Nov 19, 2025 | 21s | clip played |
| Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN | Nov 8, 2025 | 18s | clip played |