Eric's Getting Married

This week's "Who Said It" is a bold prediction about cars as appreciating assets — and once you hear what happened to the Dutch company that bet their entire business on that prediction, the quote lands exactly as hard as it should.

Tesla is basically flat after the Cybercab launch disappointed everyone who showed up with expectations, but don't worry — they're offering businesses a chance to buy in on the robotaxi dream themselves. We revisit a promise that's been made every year since 2020 and let the audience keep score. SpaceX keeps climbing for reasons nobody can identify, including apparently ARK Invest, who just bought stock in a company that competes directly with SpaceX.

It's marriage week for one of your hosts — congratulations are in order and we promise we kept it moving anyway.

Peace talks are happening, which is to say Kushkof visited Moscow first, listened to Putin's wish list, then swung by Kyiv where the Ukrainian delegation had prepared a very specific gift for them. The Kremlin says it's "too early" to discuss a venue for face-to-face talks, Putin says he has no hostilities toward Europe, and Germany just formally blamed Russia for a drone found at one of their airports with a faulty detonator. Meanwhile the Russian military had a very expensive week in the Kursk region and a Major General who allegedly masterminded a strike on a children's hospital found out that some things follow you regardless of how far from the front line you are.

Mamdani showed up to 9/11 week and the city lost its mind — we walk through who's offended, what they said, what Mamdani actually said back, and what Trump was doing on September 11th 2001 when he got on the phone and noticed something about his real estate portfolio. The video making the rounds about cleanup volunteers gets a fact check.

LG's smart TVs are listening with the screen off, storing everything locally, and uploading it when the internet comes back — and the company president's quote about who actually owns your television is one of the most honest things a corporate executive has ever said on camera. The Republican midterm convention in Dallas is giving away free tickets two days out and Eric is getting married this week, so we note the scheduling conflict and let the audience decide which event history will remember. And Elon's super PAC just entered a Texas race where the opponent is outraising their guy by more than four to one — we explain the ad they're running and why a basketball drag queen is apparently central to the strategy.