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Ding-Dong of the Week

The show where we dig through the news for the biggest chowderhead of the past seven days, and award them a prize.

Philosophy News Science Technology News Commentary Finance Tech
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
45 minutes
Episodes
22
Years Active
2020 - 2021
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Elon Musk Doesn't Pay All That Much in Taxes

Elon Musk Doesn't Pay All That Much in Taxes

Compared to you, the listener of this podcast, Elon Musk doesn't have a very high tax bill. He got a little defensive about this on Twitter, saying something sort of convoluted about Tesla stock pric…

00:52:49  |   Mon 14 Jun 2021
Elon Musk and His Whole Cryptocurrency Deal

Elon Musk and His Whole Cryptocurrency Deal

A deep dive into Elon Musk's history with cryptocurrency, and an attempt to understand what he's trying to accomplish by—for instance— tweeting an acrostic that spells "CUM."

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01:27:37  |   Sun 06 Jun 2021
Elon Musk's Autopilot Caused(?) Another Deadly Car Crash

Elon Musk's Autopilot Caused(?) Another Deadly Car Crash

A deep dive into self-driving Teslas and how you probably shouldn't use one. It's not fun to talk about someone dying (you can read about that here), but it's worth noting that the excuses Elon Musk …

00:43:32  |   Thu 20 May 2021
Elon Musk Hosts SNL (with Seth Simons)

Elon Musk Hosts SNL (with Seth Simons)

Freelance journalist Seth Simons visits the Institute of Ding Dong Studies to discuss the comedy stylings of billionaire Elon Musk. For more from Seth, check out his newsletter.

 

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00:49:42  |   Tue 11 May 2021
Elon Musk's Role in This Whole Gamestonks Thing

Elon Musk's Role in This Whole Gamestonks Thing

Why did Elon Musk tweet "Gamestonks"? For that matter, why does he do anything?

Also: Elon's into Bitcoin now, and SpaceX is being investigated by the FAA. 

Music credit: Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacL…

00:41:49  |   Tue 02 Feb 2021
Elon Musk Is Hiring People to Deal with Twitter for Him

Elon Musk Is Hiring People to Deal with Twitter for Him

Elon Musk fired Tesla's public relations department in October, and replaced it with saying whatever he wants all the time on Twitter. But now he's hiring people to deal to relate, if you will, with …

00:56:53  |   Sat 23 Jan 2021
Elon Musk Has a Great Deal of Money

Elon Musk Has a Great Deal of Money

Elon Musk has more money than you, even if you are Jeff Bezos. Also, he thinks you should use Signal. 

Music credit: Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacLeod License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.…

00:47:07  |   Tue 12 Jan 2021
Elon Musk's Immunity from Actual Criticism

Elon Musk's Immunity from Actual Criticism

Elon Musk doesn't care for pronouns, one of the more common parts of speech. Seems like it must make it hard for him to talk. LOL.

Music credit: Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacLeod License: http://creati…

00:34:59  |   Fri 18 Dec 2020
Elon Musk's Former SpaceX Employee's Arbitration Nightmare

Elon Musk's Former SpaceX Employee's Arbitration Nightmare

An LA Times story tells the story of an internal whistleblower at Tesla who just wanted to improve the products she was working on, but got fired, and now lives in a personal hell of her former emplo…

00:38:39  |   Mon 14 Dec 2020
Elon Musk Wins a German Billionaire Award

Elon Musk Wins a German Billionaire Award

Elon Musk has won an award this week. No, not The Golden Bell of the Ding-Dong, the award he wins every week here on our show, but an award from a German media conglomerate called Axel Springer. It's…

00:47:34  |   Mon 07 Dec 2020
Elon Musk's Weird Fantasy of a Doomed Mars Colony

Elon Musk's Weird Fantasy of a Doomed Mars Colony

Elon Musk elaborated a little about his Mars plans, and they sound less good than ever. Also, he had COVID during a momentous week for his company, which is kinda funny.

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00:49:55  |   Sat 21 Nov 2020
Elon Musk Almost Certainly Has COVID

Elon Musk Almost Certainly Has COVID

Elon Musk took a COVID test, and then three more. Does he have the potentially lethal "COVID Fever" everyone's been talking about lately? Probably!

Elon was also the subject of a Vanity Fair profile …

00:45:59  |   Sat 14 Nov 2020
Elon Musk Calls His Bully a

Elon Musk Calls His Bully a "Chad"

It's election week. Joe Biden looks to be the winner, but Elon Musk was elected to four more years of being Ding-Dong of the Week! He got bullied online, and then whined that the person making fun o…

00:23:41  |   Fri 06 Nov 2020
Elon Musk's Unregulated Martian Business Environment

Elon Musk's Unregulated Martian Business Environment

In the fine print of the terms of service for Elon Musk's new internet service provider, SpaceX revealed Elon's plan for a lawless corporate utopia on Mars. It sounds bad in our opinion!

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00:37:11  |   Fri 30 Oct 2020
Elon Musk Narrowly Defeats Rudy Giuliani

Elon Musk Narrowly Defeats Rudy Giuliani

It’s a big week for ding-dongs in America, and many, many ding-dongs show up on this episode. But the winner is Elon Musk. Elon has announced that Teslas can now drive themselves, except for a very, …

00:40:11  |   Sat 24 Oct 2020
Elon Musk's Sense of Humor and US Military Contracts

Elon Musk's Sense of Humor and US Military Contracts

This week, Elon Musk wasn't very funny, even though he tried to be funny. Also he's contributing a lot to the US war machine.

Music credit: Frogs Legs Rag by Kevin MacLeod License: http://creativecom…

00:29:49  |   Fri 16 Oct 2020
Elon Musk's Company Town in Texas

Elon Musk's Company Town in Texas

This week the Ding-Dong is Elon Reeve Musk, a famous business tycoon from South Africa who is building a company town in Texas on top of an existing community. As you might expect, he'd like the peop…

00:34:39  |   Fri 09 Oct 2020
Elon Musk's Freewheeling New York Times Interview

Elon Musk's Freewheeling New York Times Interview

Tech billionaire Elon Musk talked to Kara Swisher for a long time this week about life, the universe and everything. The conversation touched on AI, cars, Trump, and Musk's admiration for noted philo…

00:56:19  |   Fri 02 Oct 2020
Elon Musk's Disappointing Battery Day

Elon Musk's Disappointing Battery Day

This week's Ding-Dong is billionaire Elon Musk! Elon's announcement of new battery technology was a pretty big letdown, and the idea to Tom Cruise in space (which, to be fair, probably wan't his idea…

00:45:41  |   Fri 25 Sep 2020
Elon Musk Promising a Whole House HEPA Filter

Elon Musk Promising a Whole House HEPA Filter

It's Elon Musk again! He uses news events to make headlines by promising things that never materialize—in this case it was the West Coast wildfires. And he doesn't seem to have a good rebuttal to a t…

00:41:46  |   Sat 19 Sep 2020
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