Are Elon Musk’s days in the Trump administration numbered?
That’s just one of the burning questions tackled on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. Co-hosts Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles dived into the topic with The Daily Beast’s executive editor Hugh Dougherty, speculating on the future for Musk—who has seen a $100 billion plunge in his net worth since December—and the president’s bromance.
“That spat with Marco Rubio seems to have marked possibly the high point of Elon Musk’s power,” Dougherty said, reflecting on last week’s Oval Office clash between him and the embattled Secretary of State, while Coles argued Trump is keeping Musk around to do the “dirty work.”
Also in the episode, comedian Iliza Shlesinger joined the pod to discuss her new stand-up special, A Different Animal, which premiered earlier this week on Prime Video.
Shlesinger told Coles and Bee that she never intended to create comedy with a feminist message—it happened naturally. “I didn’t think anything that I was saying about women and the way we should feel and standing up for women, I didn’t think what I was saying was new information,” she explained.
The comedian then called out the double standards women face when asserting themselves. To hear more about her take on balancing career and kids, embracing “ugliness” in comedy, and getting in shape after giving birth, listen along to this week’s podcast in full.
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