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The John Johnston Lounge
Welcome to The John Johnston Lounge, your daily reality check on tech oligarchs, corporate overreach, and the true state of the market. Host John Johnston (JJ) delivers sharp analysis exposing the friction behind the headlines: billionaire legal threats, Silicon Valley power grabs, AI bubble economics, and corporate stunts. Cutting through PR spin, JJ holds Big Tech accountable, focusing on figures like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. Zero sycophancy. Just…
Episodes
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Tesla Robotaxi 'Expansion': Pre-Earnings Smoke & Mirrors
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Tesla is supposedly expanding it’s unsupervised robotaxis to two new cities in Texas (Dallas and Houston), and more in…
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Why The AI Backlash Turned Violent: Sam Altman Attacked
John Johnston (JJ) discusses the ramifications of the recent attacks on AI tech billionaire Sam Altman and others, and why AI is facing a growing public…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Fraud Deposition Was A Trainwreck (Footage)
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some video clips from Elon Musk’s revealing deposition from the Twitter fraud case, in which Elon was found by a jury to have…
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SpaceX IPO: Elon Musk is Preying on His ‘Elon-gelicals’
John Johnston (JJ) responds to an Atlantic article about the upcoming SpaceX IPO, that asserts that Elon Musk is banking on his “Elongelical fanboys” to make…
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Mark Zuckerberg Wasted $88B on His Pathetic Metaverse
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to part of a Patrick Boyle video, in which he chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg spent $88 Billion on Meta’s failed Metaverse. We also…
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Sam Altman: Silicon Valley’s Greatest Grift? (Ed Zitron Reaction)
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some of a recent interview with Ed Zitron, who thinks that OpenAI’s Sam Altman “is an historic con artist”, and the the AI boom is…
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Politics: Trump’s Obsession with Autocrat Viktor Orbán Explained
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to authoritarian expert Anne Applebaum, who discusses with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller how the Trump administration has been copying the…
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SpaceX IPO Valuation Hype: Elon’s Ultimate Reality Distortion?
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to a Bloomberg opinion piece, in which Max Chafkin asserts that the upcoming SpaceX IPO is Elon Musk’s most audacious product launch…
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They REALLY Want SpaceX Starship to be a War Machine
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship could in the future be used to launch powerful munitions into orbit, to be deployed quickly…
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OpenAI Buys Sam Altman’s Favorite Tech Podcast for Huge Price
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the astonishing news that OpenAI has acquired TBPN tech podcast for “low hundreds of millions” of dollars, supposedly to…
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OpenAI Insiders: Sam Altman's an Untrustworthy Sociopath
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how new interviews and closely guarded documents about the head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, have shed light on “persistent doubts”…
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Why Bank Analysts Warn of 60% Tesla Stock Collapse
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that multiple investment banking analysts are predicting as much as 60% downside for Tesla stock, after the Q1 2026…
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Biggest Money Grab Ever? Elon’s SpaceX Files To Go Public
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has filed to go public ahead of AI rivals, with an IPO that is poised to be one of the biggest…
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Stop Believing AI Hype (Elon Taught Them Everything)
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Silicon Valley AI CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have been making some grand claims and…
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Why the AI Boom is Smoke and Mirrors
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest AI boom or bubble news. JJ reacts to an Ed Zitron interview from The Tech Report, in which Ed discusses how AI data…
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How Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Is Reclaiming "Woke Mind Virus"
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged trans daughter, has turned Elon’s anti-trans comment into a fundraiser for…
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Elon Musk's Double Blow: Chauffeur “Robotaxi” & X Lawsuit Fail
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that the California regulator says that Tesla’s “Robotaxis” are not yet operating as an autonomous vehicle service, and…
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Zuckerberg’s $379M Disaster: A Jury Just Broke Meta
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has just been handed a couple of devastating courtroom defeats, involving the company…
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It’s Official: Elon Musk Must Face DOGE 'Power Overreach' Lawsuit
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that a judge has ruled that Tesla CEO Elon Musk must face a lawsuit alleging power overreach, when Elon was a Trump…
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Is Iran War The Pin That Pricks The AI Bubble?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the view that the Iran War could derail the AI boom or AI bubble. Part of the view, from Tej Parikh of the Financial Times, is…
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Elon Musk's $25B ‘Desperate’ Terafab, $2.6B Court Loss & FSD Crisis
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Tesla and SpaceX have announced a $25 billion chip factory, but it could be evidence of desperation from Elon…
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The AI Bust is Coming: Is A Recession Inevitable?
John Johnston (JJ) delves into the current AI boom, or is it an AI bubble? We look at how various people are saying so, from AI sector insiders to economists…
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Tesla FSD: The Deadly Trap of ‘Almost Perfect’ Tech
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how a new article from a former Uber self-driving chief details how his Tesla crashed while on FSD (Supervised). He says…
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‘Elon-gelical’ Tesla Influencers Leaving The Cult
John Johnston (JJ) responds to a new article from Wired, The Tesla Influencers Leaving the ‘Cult’, which touches on many of the central topics of The John…
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Tesla’s Unsupervised Robotaxi: Was Elon Musk Wrong or Lying?
John Johnston (JJ) asks the question, prompted by AI research expert Yann LeCun, has Elon Musk just been wrong about getting Tesla’s Robotaxi to become fully…
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The Dark Truth About Palantir’s New AI Assassin
John Johnston (JJ) delves more into the AI company Palantir, which has extensive government contracts, including military, and not only in the United States…
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Elon Musk Admits xAI ‘Not Built Right’ After Tesla Just Invested
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk has admitted that his artificial intelligence company xAI was “not built right” and needs to be rebuilt from the…
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Palantir Chief Psycho Says Quiet Part Out Loud
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Palantir CEO Alex Karp has made a shocking confession about AI technology disrupting democratic power. He’s saying the quiet…
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Is Tesla’s Unsupervised Robotaxi Plan Failing Miserably?
John Johnston (JJ) updates how Elon Musk’s Tesla unsupervised robotaxi roll-out is progressing, and it’s not looking great. There still only seems to be one…
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Joe Rogan on Trump’s Iran War: His Base Feels “Betrayed”
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Joe Rogan is implying that Trump has “betrayed” his base by going to war with Iran, after campaigning on ending wars and…
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Elon Musk's DOGE Goons Under Fire: Data Theft, Depositions, Lawsuits
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that an whistleblower has claimed that an ex-employee of Elon Musk’s DOGE says he took Social Security data, and then…
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Christian Nationalists Think Iran is Holy War for ‘Armageddon’
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how some politically influential and powerful U.S. Christian Nationalists believe that the Iran war is part of God’s plan that…
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Elon Musk Moves For Twitter Fraud Mistrial Because He’s Too Hated
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk’s legal team has filed a motion for mistrial in the Twitter securities fraud class action lawsuit in San…
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Iran War: Oil Hits $100! How High Will It Go?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that U.S. oil prices have spiked above $100 a barrel, an ominous sign of how the conflict with Iran is sending…
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Elon’s ‘Intelligence’ Test Backfires: He Failed
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk equates intelligence with the ability to correctly predict the future; but as we see in this episode, he has a…
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Did U.S. Just Get Into A FOREVER WAR in Iran?
Related episodes: Prediction: US Defeat in Iran War Will Pop AI Bubble https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IdsB0PeURDU7nyDC8BMI3 Jennifer Welch: The Palantir…
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Is Elon Musk's Tesla Tunnel Loop A Scam? Nashville Thinks So!
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Nashville seems to be largely opposed to Elon Musk’s Boring Company Tesla Loop tunnel plan for the city, with no proof after…
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Prediction: US Defeat in Iran War Will Pop AI Bubble
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Professor Jiang is predicting that the US will lose the war in Iran, and that it will also end up bursting the AI bubble and…
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Elon Musk's SpaceX $1.75T IPO: ‘Lottery Ticket With Better Branding’
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how fund manager George Noble is questioning the massive target valuation of Elon Musk’s upcoming SpaceX IPO. We also look at…
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Elon Musk's xAI Slop Machine: Erasing Tesla's Sustainability Legacy
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk is erasing Tesla’s legacy of good climate impact work with xAI, seemingly to generate a large amount of…
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How 'Elongelical' Influencer Accidentally Predicted Robotaxi Fail
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how one of the “Elongelical” Tesla influencers, Whole Mars Catalog, by his own recorded words, must be disappointed by Tesla’s…
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Elon’s “Thinly Disguised Fraud”: $1.25T SpaceX-xAI Merger
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Yanis Varoufakis writes that the recent merger of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI, is part of a financial market too eager to buy…
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How This Guy Bet Against Elon Musk and Easily Won BIG!
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that a Washington DC tax nerd bet his life savings against Elon Musk in prediction markets and won big. It was a very…
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Kyle Kulinski Humiliates Joe Rogan For His “Tepid Little Criticisms”
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to a recent Kyle Kulinski video, in which he torches Joe Rogan for his “tepid little criticisms” of the current administration…
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Scam? STILL Only One Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down news about Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi roll-out in Austin, Texas. The third-party Robotaxi Tracker shows there are currently…
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AI Bubble: Is OpenAI Cooked? Walls Are Closing In
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the massive flow of funding money OpenAI desperately needs to survive may be starting to dry up. Could OpenAI be in a far…
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It’s All Falling Apart For Elon Musk, Tesla & SpaceX
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how, from various different perspectives, things seem to be continuing to fall apart for Elon Musk, Tesla, and even SpaceX. We…
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Jennifer Welch: The Palantir Psychos Are Worse Than You Think
John Johnston (JJ) reacts to a video from Jennifer Welch of the I’ve Had It Podcast, in which Jennifer is highly critical of the anti-democractic…
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Why It’s Time To Ditch Elon Musk’s Companies
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the boycott of Tesla products, that started about a year ago, seems to be having an impact, with Tesla car sales continuing…
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AI Bubble BIG SHORT: Michael Burry’s Palantir Stock Short (PLTR)
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the investing world drama unfolding because famous “Big Short” investor Michael Burry is currently shorting the stock of AI…
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Elon Musk's Divisive Opinions Are Destroying Tesla’s Brand
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how there is growing criticism that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s divisive public opinions are seriously harming Tesla’s brand, and…
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Tesla Robotaxi Slow Progress: $1.5T Red Flag For Investors?
John Johnston (JJ) provides an update of Tesla’s autonomous or Unsupervised Robotaxi roll-out, a few weeks after the first one was spotted in Austin Texas. So…
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Weekly Lounge: Tesla’s China Sales Crash, SpaceX Moon City Skepticism, Kimbal Musk-Epstein Link
Join John Johnston (JJ) for the Weekly Lounge, a compilation of the week's daily episodes of The John Johnston Lounge. Below are the individual episode titles…
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Tesla Sales in China COLLAPSE 45% Year-Over-Year!
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Tesla sales in China have crashed 45% year-over-year in January, to the lowest in three years. In further bad news…
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Why Elon Musk's Tesla & xAI Exec Staff Exit in Droves
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk’s xAI, now owned by SpaceX, has lost a second cofounder in 2 days, as well as other staff. Tesla has…
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Does The Kimbal Musk Epstein Link Threaten Tesla?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Elon Musk’s brother, and fellow Tesla Board of Directors member, Kimbal Musk is attempting to counter a Guardian article…
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Elon Musk’s ‘Self-Growing Moon City’: Anyone Still Believe Him?
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news and reactions about Elon Musk saying SpaceX will attempt to build a “self-growing” city on the Moon within the next 10…
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Elon Musk Finally Admits Massive Delay to SpaceX Mars Missions
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the Elon Musk and SpaceX news that Elon has announced SpaceX is delaying Mars missions plans by years, to shift focus to Moon…
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Weekly Lounge: Elon Musk’s Epstein Connection, X Office Raid, Tesla’s UK Sales Drop, xAI Bailout
Join John Johnston (JJ) for the Weekly Lounge, a compilation of the week's episodes of The John Johnston Lounge. Below are the individual episode titles and…
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Tick-Tock: Elon Musk Inflicts MORE Tesla Brand Damage
John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how CEO Elon Musk is continuing to inflict more brand damage on Tesla, and SpaceX, as more comes to light about his questionable…