As TIME announces Elon Musk as its pick for 2021 Person of the Year, we look at the SpaceX founder's ideology and outlook on the future, as well as perspectives on the controversial billionaire's achievements.

This week, as tornadoes ravage parts of the Blue Grass State and the Omicron variant makes its way across the UK and other parts of the world, we look at the recent surprise announcement by a longtime Fox News anchor that he is leaving... and the even more surprising revelation about where he is headed. Then turning our attention to TIME Magazine's announcement that SpaceX founder Elon Musk is its pick for 2021 Person of the Year, we look at the billionaire's accomplishments, along with where he sees humanity headed in the decades ahead. This, along with why some pundits are saying they want Musk to be more outspoken about politics and economics... all on this edition of Middle Theory.

Elon Musk image by Steve Jurvetson, CC 2.0 (Flicker).

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SHOW NOTES

* PICKED UP BY PUTIN: Putin reveals his life as a cabbie
* TWISTERS: Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens
* LETHAL IN LONDON: Britain Reports World's First Confirmed Death From Heavily Mutated Omicron Variant
* TEN TOO MANY: Man gets vaccinated up to 10 times in a single day
* WALLACE WALKS: Chris Wallace's Fox News Departure Shocks Twitter
* "Shellshocked" colleagues by jumping to CNN
* MUSK OF THE YEAR: Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021 | Time
* Elon Musk named Time's 2021 'Person of the Year'
* Excerpts From Elon Musk's 2021 Person of the Year Interview
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