The John Johnston Lounge

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Tesla sales in the UK have plunged in January, which makes for a dismal year-over-year number, as rival BYD pulls well ahead. There is increasing intense electric vehicle completion, but it also could have a lot to do with the public’s view of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Tesla Earnings: Falling Revenue, ’Invests’ in Elon Musk's xAI Money Furnace https://op...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that the X offices in Paris have been raided by the prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences. Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to hearings. The UK has also announced at probe into Elon Musk’s Grok AI, over its potentially harmful image and video content creation. Spanish Prime Minister Pe...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk has merged SpaceX with xAI, which includes social media platform X within it. Is this mega-deal a bailout of xAI, and what does it mean for Tesla and Tesla shareholders? After the acquisition, xAI plans to launch a massive AI satellite constellation, with as many as one million satellites, aiming to be an AI data center in space. Is this merge...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the news that Elon Musk is trying to defend and deflect from newly released emails within the Epstein Files, which appear to show that Elon was actively wanting to visit Epstein’s island, and asking which day there would be the “Wildest Party”.  Previously, Elon has said that he refused Epstein’s invitations, but the emails seem to clearly contradict that. JJ also lo...

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 links: Did Elon Lie About Unsupervised Robotaxis Starting in Austin? https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mmzCXDv7S7KfRm9GrqqAc AI Bubble: Is OpenAI Going Broke? https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xPM7mmWrmDHcRmdytpEoq Tesla: “The Biggest Bubb...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in merger talks with his artificial intelligence company xAI, and Elon is also considering merging Tesla with SpaceX, ahead of a planned IPO of SpaceX. This news comes on the heels of the latest Tesla Earnings, in which it was revealed that 2025 saw a profit fall of 46%, and Tesla is ditching its Tesla Model S and Model X lines, sup...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest news about the Tesla Q4 and Full Year Earnings Update, including that Tesla is investing $2 Billion in Elon Musk’s OpenAI competitor xAI. Tesla is also discontinuing its Model X and Model X vehicles lines as it pivots to robotics and autonomous robotaxis. However, Tesla’s “unsupervised” robotaxis seem to have vanished from Austin streets, after the pre-ear...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down why a veteran fund manager is saying that Tesla is the biggest single stock bubble of all time. Another high profile investor involved in “The Big Short” is saying that Tesla is the ”poster child” for overvalued stocks. At the same time, Tesla car sales have been declining for about two years, as EV competition has become increasingly intense, and Elon Must has conti...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how Sam Altman’s OpenAI is burning billions per month, and has around $1.4 trillion in commitments, but with only 5% of users actually paying. Is the “last resort” business model of inserting advertising becoming the only way it can survive, and would that be enough? Is this a sign that large cracks in AI company finances are appearing, and also in the AI technology...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest Tesla and Elon Musk news, including that Tesla may have moved the “safety monitor” to a chase car for it’s first “unsupervised” robotaxis in Austin, as Elon Musk touts the new development. However, a Tesla influencer spent most of the weekend trying to find one of the new unsupervised Tesla robotaxis and couldn’t find one in operation. Tesla has also cut s...

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 links, and recent Weekly Lounge links too, if you want to catch up on them: Tesla Optimus in Shambles as Boston Dynamics Hires Fleeing Lead https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JPjILEYPqo5hz3odX7Gc3 The Tech Billionaires’ Plan To Replace You...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down how the world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, has been attacking Jennifer Welch from the popular podcast I’ve Had It, and Jennifer has been clapping back, hard. JJ reacts to a video Welch made about Elon’s toxic behavior and attitude towards her and others. Related episodes: BUSTED: Trump Admin Concedes Elon's DOGE May Have Stolen Data https://open.spotify.com/e...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the Elon Musk and DOGE news that the Trump administration is conceding that DOGE team members led by Elon Musk may have misused Social Security data . Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, and had been sharing it via third party servers. Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were also se...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the Tesla and Elon Musk news that Waymo founder John Krafcik is saying the Tesla’s Full Self Driving Supervised (FSD) has a “bad case of myopia”, and he doesn’t think the current hardware will get Tesla to “super-human driving” capabilities. In addition, JJ provides an update on Tesla’s dismal Cybertruck sales numbers, Tesla’s mission change to “Amazing Abundance” fr...

John Johnston (JJ) reacts to some of a recent video by well known tech journalist Taylor Lorenz, in which she details how tech billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen and others, are planning for an AI future in which humans don’t exist. The way that they see it, and desire it,, their post-human tech future will be dominated by artific...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest Elon Musk and Tesla news, including that Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics has hired Tesl’a former head of Optimus, after he said he was leaving Tesla to spend more time with family. Elon has also said the Tesla is “almost done” with its A15 chip design, six months after saying it was already finished. Tesla is also ending its direct sales of FSD software, amid sp...

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 links. Recent Weekly Lounge episodes:  Slow Joe Rogan is Waking Up to Harsh Reality https://open.spotify.com/episode/0H7F4FIPxQCqBzKlBm9Iba Elon Musk's Grok AI Scandal: Ashley St Clair Speaks Out (Taylor Lorenz Reaction)  https://open....

John Johnston (JJ) reacts to what popular podcaster Joe Rogan has been saying about what’s been happening recently in Minneapolis with the ICE presence and actions in the community. Joe does not like what he’s seeing at all, but is still sitting on the fence on some issues. Is Joe Rogan starting to pull back from his MAGA support? Related episodes: Joe Rogan’s Embarrassing Tech Billionaire Worship...

ohn Johnston (JJ) reacts to part of a recent interview tech journalist Taylor Lorenz had with Ashley St Clair, about Ashley’s horrific experiences with Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok, specifically it’s new image-generating abilities and the nonconsensual content it has been generating to do with her and many others. Ashley has been increasingly outspoken in her criticism of Elon Musk’s X platform’s hand...

John Johnston (JJ) reacts to Kyle Kulinski’s commentary and political analysis of Elon Musk’s current rhetoric on the social media platform Elon owns: X. Kyle shows how Elon has been becoming more and more obviously far-right in his political rhetoric. Related episodes: "Elongelical" Tesla Influencers Have Lost Their Minds (It's getting weird) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sENslM...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the latest Elon Musk, Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX news, including that Tesla sales in Europe are continuing to fall. Does this mean Tesla Gigafactory Berlin’s days are numbered? Elon’s xAI company is burning staggering amounts of money by the month, while it talks about building AI for Tesla’s Optimus; “safe unsupervised” FSD still looks at least 6 months away, and more n...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down what one of Elon Musk’s most loyal “Elongelical” Tesla influencers is saying about one of Elon’s wildest predictions for the future of technology and society. We also look at some of Elon’s predictions over the past year that didn’t come true, and one that did.  Related episodes: Elon Musk’s Tesla Predictions Fall Way Short Again https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GLw...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down the growing alliance between some tech billionaires and “theocracy bros”, referencing their desire for network states or freedom cities, and the anti-democratic influence of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin and others on US government figures such as JD Vance and Trump himself. Related episodes: Peter Thiel Calls Pope ‘The Antichrist’: JD Vance’s Palantir Proble...

John Johnston (JJ) breaks down Elon Musk’s top predictions for Tesla for 2025 that have not come true. We also look at other related Tesla and Elon news, including the new lower sales estimates for the final quarter of the year, and what Elon and some critics are currently saying about Tesla’s outlook.  Related episodes: Tesla Optimus Hilariously Collapses! Is Elon Faking Autonomy? https://open.sp...

John Johnston (JJ) reacts to an interview between comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and the All-In Podcast “Besties” at a live event. Hinchcliffe get’s defensive about his involvement with the Rogansphere comedy scent in Austin, after all the recent criticism of it from other comedians and podcasters. Related episodes: Rogansphere Collapsing as Comedians Brutally Roast It  https://open.spotify.com/episode...