6 episodes
On Musk with Walter Isaacson Kaleidoscope
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- Society & Culture
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3.5 • 238 Ratings
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What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer of giants: DaVinci, Franklin, Doudna, Jobs...and now Musk, former enfante terrible, rocket launcher, electric car innovator, and Twitter—er, X—disruptor, to put it gently. In this four part series, author Evan Ratliff (Mastermind, Longform Podcast) sits down with Isaacson to draw out the behind-the-scenes stories of this epic biography, and what the writer has learned as an outsider inside Silicon Valley.
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Episode One: Genius
Biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the secrets behind Elon Musk's genius.
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Episode Two: Demons
Biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the secrets behind Elon Musk's demons and his erratic behavior.
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Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes
Biographer Walter Isaacson reveals the his own origins and the way it shaped how he approached Elon Musk's story.
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Episode Four: What is Musk’s Legacy?
Biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the future of Musk's legacy and whether or not he's burning it all down.
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Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
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Introducing: Afghan Star, hosted by John Legend
From the fall of the Taliban until its return, people all over Afghanistan planned their lives around Afghan Star. People would pack into apartments. Villages would hook up generators to a single tv so crowds could watch. New Year’s celebrations would come to a halt, all to watch this one show. Over its 15 seasons, Afghan Star spotlighted an Afghanistan that could be: women singing without hijabs, Afghanistan’s first rapper, people of warring ethnic groups hugging and cheering for each other on stage. And it launched a cultural revolution. This is the story behind it all– from how a ragtag team scrambled to make the show every week, to the dangers they faced for trying to push the country forward. In Afghanistan, a cultural revolution was televised through a musical talent show, and this is its story. Hosted by John Legend.
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Customer Reviews
On Musk - Needed More
Only 4 episodes…? For a 600 page book, Isaacson would be smart and well advised to make this into an ongoing podcast that could cover each chapter. It was good and insightful, but could have been great and enlightening digging deeper into the brilliance of Elon Musk.
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I thought this interview was very good. Thank you for sharing it.
Isaacson was great, but this series was meh
The interviewer seemed to have a bit of an axe to grind but was okay. Isaacson was interesting, insightful and very human. The show was crammed with an absurd number of ads, mostly for other podcasts and the thumbnail art is one of the least flattering portrait shots one could choose for a subject.