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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23312785\/elon-musk-manchester-united-wyoming-tweet<\/a>
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Fifteen years or so ago, the sportswriter Bill Simmons coined the phrase \u201cThe Tyson Zone<\/a>,\u201d which refers to a rare situation in which you would believe absolutely anything someone told you about a person. (The stories about Mike Tyson<\/a> are still horrifying and wild to read about.) It\u2019s a high bar to clear because for someone to enter the Tyson Zone, you have to be willing to believe the sentence \u201cDid you hear that he ___\u201d no matter how the sentence ends. Charlie Sheen did a stint in the Tyson Zone during his \u201cWINNING\u201d era. Lindsay Lohan was there for a while. Dennis Rodman married himself and then went to North Korea and practically built a house in the Tyson Zone. Nilay Patel, The Verge\u2019s<\/em> editor-in-chief and my boss, flirts with the Tyson Zone on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk is currently living large in the Tyson Zone. We should rename it the Elon Zone, honestly. Is there anything you wouldn\u2019t <\/em>believe he said or did? The man has more money than some countries, more Twitter followers than the Kardashians, and a 13-year-old boy\u2019s sense of humor.<\/p>\n