Elon Musk says a lot of wild things — and somehow we have to believe him
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Fifteen years or so ago, the sportswriter Bill Simmons coined the phrase The Tyson Zone," which refers to a rare situation in which you would believe absolutely anything someone told you about a person. (The stories about Mike Tyson are still horrifying and wild to read about.) It's a high bar to clear because for someone to enter the Tyson Zone, you have to be willing to believe the sentence Did you hear that he ___" no matter how the sentence ends. Charlie Sheen did a stint in the Tyson Zone during his WINNING" 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's editor-in-chief and my boss, flirts with the Tyson...