All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. How the State Created Elon Musk Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat. Bridget Todd Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next Nate Silver: The Smoothest Brain On The Internet Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: How the State Created Elon Musk https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/tesla-clean-credits-trump https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/tesla-racked-up-greenhouse-emissions-credits-2023-other-automakers-lagged-2024-11-25/ https://www.aol.com/report-says-elon-musks-businesses-170042735.html? https://archive.is/QyXuK https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/wealthy-americans-fuel-half-of-us-economy-consumer-spending Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/ https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388516/dl?inline https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-education-accessible-and-ending-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-in-schools/ https://forward.com/fast-forward/689866/biden-team-resolves-its-final-title-vi-antisemitism-and-anti-arab-cases/ https://theintercept.com/2025/02/15/columbia-alumni-israel-whatsapp-deport-gaza-protesters/ https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1898908955675357314?s=46&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1897776709778211044 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782 https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/can-trump-deport-a-green-card-holding-pro-hamas-columbia-grad/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/10/11/cornell-international-grad-student-says-he-wont-be-deported Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum-levies-imports-europe-china-uk-japan-rcna195810 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/china-tariffs-us.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-beijing-trump-npc-xi-trade-growth-defense-nato-communist-tariffs-rcna195271 https://fortune.com/2025/03/11/goldman-sachs-chief-economist-downgrades-entire-us-economy-trump-tariffs-markets/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trade-tensions-china-canada-retaliate-us-tariffs-rcna194645 https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/1067709/us-stocks-downgraded-by-investment-banks-amid-pause-on-us-exceptionalism-1067709.html https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-tariffs-stock-musk-business-8a5f28d9bb16e0b8a924d99ead0907fa https://apnews.com/article/trump-eu-tariffs-countermeasures-806a3b9bcc9cd4e45817e672d95f0070 https://fortune.com/asia/2025/03/11/citi-downgrades-us-upgrades-china-trump-recession/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: How did the American state create Elon Musk?
Yes. But then you forgot about it in the very long time they took to pick us up. I completely forgot about it. And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time.
He said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting.
And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big?
She had inexplicable feelings. It is a human being that can't explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating everything. The Hunt.
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Everything from grief to heartbreak, career burnout, anxiety, all of the things that you would only talk about with your closest friends.
I spent the majority of my teenage years and my twenties just feeling absolutely terrified.
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Chapter 2: What is the impact of Tesla's carbon credits?
But he's going to argue that, you know, we're going to see how well this co-presidency goes, but he's probably a pretty smart guy to get all of this stuff done, right?
Yeah, and he's also saying, well, like, maybe Twitter won't be profitable, but we'll see how, you know, he could probably profit from being the de facto chief of staff. Not a word from Nate about, like, Yeah, but he's just, like, they're just breaking the law. So why aren't we including in our canny businessmen guys that get rich selling, like, shitloads of heroin for the cartels?
Because, yes, if you are breaking the law, sometimes that goes well for you financially. Well, Walter White may have done some bad things, but... But you can't deny he was a brilliant meth cook, you know? Yeah. But I don't care what Elon's SAT score is, 1400 according to Isaacson. He's clearly some sort of outlier in many ways people would associate with intelligence, probably even a genius.
And yet, first off, it becomes clear through this that Nate does not consider a 1400 to be an impressive SAT score and would normally be judgmental of someone who had an SAT score of 1400 if it weren't for all of Elon's other genius accomplishments.
And yet, when my partner and I were heading to dinner the other day and we saw some tweet that Elon sent, I forget which one because he tweets so much, we were both like, man, he's such a dumbass. Yes, someone can be both a genius and a dumbass. Welcome to what I call spiky intelligence. Here we go.
This gets to like the core of what's annoying about Nate is his need to, he's one of these guys, you know what it is? He's an intellectual enclosureist, right? Where he's not confident to be like, everyone is very aware of the fact that no one is good at everything.
and that people have holes in their competence, and that there are like brilliant surgeons who are bad fathers or whatever, because there are different kinds of intelligence. This is like a broadly common understanding. Nate has to give it a name so that he can sell his book. So he gives it the name. It's like an intellectual, no, it's my idea.
I'm the one who came up with the concept that smart people can be dumbasses. Stop it, Nate. It's annoying.
Capital S, capital I, registered trademark spiky intelligence, yeah. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What role does neoliberalism play in today's economy?
He went from an ex-con to a literary darling almost overnight. He was instantly a celebrity.
He was an adrenaline junkie, and he was the star of the show.
Go-Boy is the gritty true story of how one man fought his way out of some of the darkest places imaginable.
I had a knife go in my stomach, puncture my spleen, break my ribs. I had my guts all in my hands.
only to find himself back where he started.
Roger's saying is, I've never hurt anybody but myself. And I said, oh, you're so wrong. You're so wrong on that one, Roger.
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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a show about things falling apart. I'm Garrison Davis, and I'm joined today by a special guest host, Bridget Todd. Welcome back to the show.
Thank you so much for having me. I am completely excited to be here. I am a listener of the show, so it feels like getting to be on a show that I actually freak out too often.
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