Elon Musk Becoming the First Trillionaire

Happy Friday Slate Stirers, this is off the record. our bonus episode exclusively for Slate Blus subscribers. So to those of you in our very special club Today, I am joined by one of my favorite colleagues, Slate's very ownish P. Hi Dish Hello, Lizzie. I'm always happy to be here. I love seeing you here. Last Friday, Mary and I did this and the thing I wanted to talk about was the Nicks fan, you know, my M're Muslim, my bagel j. Yeah. Christian, do youor are Nixon four U Nix in five, but you know, here we are. very excited. and how he was maybe a cowchie. plant Yeah Kowsi native And like I think he was genuine, but then Kowshi was there to capitalize on the moment. Right. because they definitely sponsored that little robot dog thing that everyone play with. And then I'm sure they also employed some clippers to, you know go ahead. There many there's like the clipper economy is totally fasinating to me. watch you been like fanning out. Oh yeah. o yeah. I was at my You were out on Saturday? Yeah, yeah. I was at my friend's place. She projected it on like a the wall, like in her backyard, bunch of us were watching. and then yeah, this is in around your neighborhood actually. And we didn't know whether people would be like up and about, you know, because kids. but Yes my neighborhood has a lot of families. Yeah. but we were out there and people people were out, you know, and the ves were so good. Like people were just like clapping for like every sanitation truck coming around. they would grab the Nick flag and it was I saw some people like helping another worker with like their trash bags. like I've just never seen the city so like Pure joy. I know. Nhing else. Look, New Yorkers can be annoying when we talk about our city so much, but I do have to say right now, there is an extraordinary feeling of delight around the city. I went up onto my roof when The Nicks won the championship and from my roof, know you can see basically down to the Brooklyn waterfront. you could see fireworks and people were cheering. It was really great I could talk to you about the Ns all day long, but that is not why I brought you into the studio. So we are here Once again, to talk about the thing, the person that you and I seem to always talk about, Elon Musk Since SpaceX IPOed, he is now the richest man in the world by Quite a bit. He is now a trillionaire which is A hard thing to imagine and also hard to imagine that if you yourself were a trillionaire, you would not just log off forever Yeah. And yet. Elon has done the opposite of logging off Initing I don't know if that's too strong a word. anti immigration riot in a foreign country. She's definitely cheering them mon Absolutely. Deinitely a trick All right, that's it for now. If you want to hear the rest of the episode, the way to do it is to subscribe to slate plus. Just head on over to slate dot com slash what next plus to sign up.