
Aug 9 • 15M
15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 1 - Ben Collins, NBC
A Weekly 15 Minute Interview Show
15 Minutes In Hell is a quickfire interview podcast focusing on the big issues in tech and its interaction with society, featuring the smartest people in the industry interviewed by PR CEO and Author Ed Zitron.
Today I’m launching a new podcast called 15 Minutes In Hell — a 15-minute-long interview show featuring interesting people in tech, business, entertainment, sports, and any other area I see fit.
You’ll be able to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, PocketCasts, and Spotify in the coming days. I’ll update this post as and when I get links. In the meantime, you can manually add the feed to your preferred podcast app using this link. If you like the show, please do review it on Apple Podcasts.
Today’s guest is Ben Collins, Senior Reporter at NBC, who you can find on Twitter and Bluesky. We talked about Elon Musk and how Ben manages to keep empathetic while covering the worst people in the world.
15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 1 - Ben Collins, NBC
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I very much agree with Ben’s characterization. I don’t think Musk has the intelligence, the self-awareness, or the emotional maturity to make a complex, calculated decision like pretending to be a right-winger for the sake of business. It’s pretty obvious by now that he’s just a garden-variety fragile-narcissistic grifter with sociopathic tendencies who stumbled into “success” purely on account of luck and being born into enormous generational wealth and who’s driven more by—in Ben’s words—impotent range and spite towards those he perceives as having “wronged” him than anything else…
On the plus side, though, once the global economy starts to head south and it becomes harder and harder for him to hide all the fraudulent account practices and Ponzi schemes he’s no doubt running, it’s only a matter of time before Elon becomes Enron….