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- 🇳🇬NG · Business#953K to 10K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Business#147500 to 3K
- 🇮🇩ID · Business#151500 to 3K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
2.8K to 11K🎙 Weekly cadence·8 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
4K to 16K🇳🇬63%🇳🇿19%🇮🇩19% - Active Followers
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1.2K to 4.8K
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Episode 8: The Terminator
Mar 30, 2025
27m 47s
Episode 7: Body Snatchers
Mar 30, 2025
27m 24s
Episode 6: Baby X
Mar 29, 2025
27m 52s
Episode 5: The Dogefather
Mar 29, 2025
27m 53s
Episode 4: Iron Man
Mar 28, 2025
27m 57s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/30/25 |  Episode 8: The Terminator | Elon Musk has claimed that AI is humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Paradoxically, Musk is also working to create artificial intelligence. Why? Jill Lepore tours through a century of imagined robot rebellions, and argues that these stories are never only about robots. So what’s Elon Musk really afraid of when he wrings his hands over AI? In this final episode, Lepore argues that while Musk may be a visionary, “every piece of Muskism has origins in a future foretold in science fiction, long, long ago, as a cautionary tale.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 27m 47s | |
| 3/30/25 |  Episode 7: Body Snatchers | In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wanted to own the social media network, Musk talked a lot about something he called the “woke mind virus.” Where does the idea of a mind virus come from? Jill Lepore looks to Cold War science fiction and the recently uncovered writings of Elon Musk’s grandfather in South Africa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 27m 24s | |
| 3/29/25 |  Episode 6: Baby X | The science fiction that Silicon Valley techno-billionaires like Elon Musk adore concerns gleaming futures in which fantastically powerful, immensely rich men colonize other planets. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at some of the science fiction that’s usually left out of this vision — science fiction by and about women.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 27m 52s | |
| 3/29/25 |  Episode 5: The Dogefather | In 2021, Elon Musk started calling himself The Dogefather to signal his support for Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a joke meme about a dog. That dog is now wagging the tail of the world’s economy. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency craze through the lens of some very old science fiction. Like everything else about Muskism that purports to be futuristic, this idea is a relic, whose history serves as a warning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 27m 53s | |
| 3/28/25 |  Episode 4: Iron Man | In 2008 Tesla Motors launched its first car, the completely electric Roadster. Tesla was a great story — something genuinely new, an engineering marvel. Musk became a media darling, on the cover of countless magazines under headlines like ‘Elon Musk, AKA Tony Stark, Wants to Save the World’. Within the logic of Muskism, talking about saving the world was a business strategy, a way to sell cars without ads. Why did so many people buy what Musk was selling?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 27m 57s | |
| 3/28/25 |  Episode 3: Planet B | Elon Musk is a rocket man. He wants humans to become ‘a multi-planetary species’ and talks about establishing human settlements on Mars. As President Trump talks up the Mars program while dismantling aid initiatives around the globe, Jill Lepore traces how Silicon Valley's existential catastrophism led to Musk’s extraterrestrial vision of capitalism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 28m 26s | |
| 3/27/25 |  Episode 2: Dimension X | Elon Musk is reinventing himself as a kingmaker for the United States and the world. He wants to shape the future. But in this episode, Jill Lepore goes back to his past — to his childhood, his strange family history, and his fascination with Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 28m 00s | |
| 3/27/25 |  Episode 1: The Dark Knight | Elon Musk’s origin story keeps changing. First, he was Tony Stark, or Iron Man. Not too long ago, he compared himself to Batman. Arguments started online over whether or not Musk is a real-life Bruce Wayne. In this episode, Jill Lepore looks at the original ‘Caped Crusader’, created back in 1939. Batman’s origin story is bound up with fascism. And every time Musk is compared to Batman it raises a very old question about the Dark Knight: is Batman fighting fascism, or is Batman — a brooding, fabulously wealthy vigilante — somehow, himself a fascist?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 28m 01s |
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.