1 00:00:08,645 --> 00:00:20,624 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:20,891 --> 00:00:25,760 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:25,829 --> 00:00:30,364 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 4 00:00:30,433 --> 00:00:31,799 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 5 00:00:31,868 --> 00:00:32,600 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 6 00:00:32,669 --> 00:00:33,601 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 7 00:00:33,670 --> 00:00:34,802 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 8 00:00:34,871 --> 00:00:35,603 US. 9 00:00:35,672 --> 00:00:37,004 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 10 00:00:37,073 --> 00:00:38,539 THE HOUSE AUTHORIZED AN 11 00:00:38,608 --> 00:00:39,807 IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, ISRAEL'S 12 00:00:39,876 --> 00:00:41,142 RELENTLESS BOMBING OF GAZA 13 00:00:41,211 --> 00:00:42,777 CONTINUED DESPITE OVERWHELMING 14 00:00:42,846 --> 00:00:44,312 INTERNATIONAL OPPOSITION, AND 15 00:00:44,381 --> 00:00:46,047 RUDY GIULIANI -- AMERICA'S MAYOR 16 00:00:46,116 --> 00:00:48,349 AND HIS COUSIN'S EX-HUSBAND -- 17 00:00:48,418 --> 00:00:49,684 WAS IN COURT OVER HIS DEFAMATION 18 00:00:49,753 --> 00:00:51,419 OF THESE TWO GEORGIA ELECTION 19 00:00:51,488 --> 00:00:51,988 WORKERS. 20 00:00:52,055 --> 00:00:53,988 NOW, GIULIANI'S ALREADY BEEN 21 00:00:54,057 --> 00:00:54,755 FOUND LIABLE -- THIS TRIAL WAS 22 00:00:54,824 --> 00:00:56,290 JUST TO DETERMINE DAMAGES, WHICH 23 00:00:56,359 --> 00:00:59,594 ULTIMATELY CAME TO $148 MILLION. 24 00:00:59,663 --> 00:01:01,963 AND HE FRANKLY DIDN'T HELP 25 00:01:02,032 --> 00:01:02,864 HIMSELF BY SHOWING NO 26 00:01:02,933 --> 00:01:04,265 CONTRITION, AND ACTUALLY 27 00:01:04,334 --> 00:01:05,233 REPEATING HIS CLAIMS OUTSIDE 28 00:01:05,302 --> 00:01:06,400 COURT ON MONDAY. 29 00:01:06,469 --> 00:01:08,269 JUST WATCH AS HIS SPOKESMAN 30 00:01:08,338 --> 00:01:09,771 TRIES TO SHUT HIM DOWN. 31 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,440 >> I TOLD THE TRUTH! 32 00:01:12,509 --> 00:01:13,608 THEY WERE ENGAGED IN CHANGING 33 00:01:13,677 --> 00:01:15,943 VOTES. 34 00:01:16,012 --> 00:01:17,178 >> THERE'S NO PROOF OF THAT. 35 00:01:17,247 --> 00:01:18,079 >> OH, YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT THERE 36 00:01:18,148 --> 00:01:18,248 IS. 37 00:01:18,315 --> 00:01:20,348 STAY TUNED. 38 00:01:20,417 --> 00:01:21,649 >> THE RUDY GIULIANI YOU SEE 39 00:01:21,718 --> 00:01:22,683 TODAY IS THE SAME MAN WHO 40 00:01:22,752 --> 00:01:24,118 CLEANED UP THE STREETS OF 41 00:01:24,187 --> 00:01:26,988 NEW YORK, TOOK DOWN THE MAFIA -- 42 00:01:27,057 --> 00:01:29,390 >> STIPULATION ISN'T PROOF. 43 00:01:29,459 --> 00:01:30,358 >> LET'S GO, WE'RE GOING TO OUR 44 00:01:30,427 --> 00:01:34,495 CAR. 45 00:01:34,564 --> 00:01:34,831 >> John: WOW. 46 00:01:34,898 --> 00:01:35,398 THERE'S SO MUCH THERE THAT'S 47 00:01:35,465 --> 00:01:35,665 PATHETIC. 48 00:01:35,732 --> 00:01:36,297 THAT MAN'S DESPERATELY TRYING TO 49 00:01:36,366 --> 00:01:36,898 COAST OFF THE GUY GIULIANI WAS 50 00:01:36,967 --> 00:01:38,166 20 YEARS AGO. 51 00:01:38,235 --> 00:01:39,367 IT'S THE RARE ATTEMPT TO 52 00:01:39,436 --> 00:01:42,937 "WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S" SOMEONE 53 00:01:43,006 --> 00:01:44,305 WHO IS STILL ALIVE. 54 00:01:44,374 --> 00:01:45,239 ALSO, HE BAILED ON THAT DEFENSE 55 00:01:45,308 --> 00:01:46,174 MID-SENTENCE. 56 00:01:46,243 --> 00:01:47,442 "YEAH, I WAS GONNA GET TO 9/11, 57 00:01:47,511 --> 00:01:48,543 BUT THIS HAS BEEN A DISASTER, 58 00:01:48,612 --> 00:01:49,644 JUST GET IN THE FUCKING CAR, 59 00:01:49,713 --> 00:01:51,479 RUDY." 60 00:01:51,548 --> 00:01:53,948 AND LOOK, MUCH THOUGH I'D LOVE 61 00:01:54,017 --> 00:01:55,116 TO TALK MORE ABOUT GIULIANI -- I 62 00:01:55,185 --> 00:01:56,417 COULD DO 20 MINUTES ON THIS 63 00:01:56,486 --> 00:01:58,853 COURTROOM SKETCH ALONE -- 64 00:01:58,922 --> 00:02:00,054 INSTEAD, WE'RE GOING TO DIVE 65 00:02:00,123 --> 00:02:00,688 STRAIGHT IN WITH OUR MAIN STORY 66 00:02:00,757 --> 00:02:02,356 TONIGHT. 67 00:02:02,425 --> 00:02:04,225 THIS IS OUR FINAL SHOW OF THE 68 00:02:04,294 --> 00:02:05,526 YEAR, SO WE THOUGHT WE'D FOCUS 69 00:02:05,595 --> 00:02:07,528 ON SOMEONE WHO'S HAD A PRETTY 70 00:02:07,597 --> 00:02:09,096 BIG 12 MONTHS -- ELON MUSK. 71 00:02:09,165 --> 00:02:10,665 A MAN WHO CAN PULL OFF PRETTY 72 00:02:10,734 --> 00:02:11,234 MUCH ANY BAD-GUY-IN-A-MOVIE 73 00:02:11,301 --> 00:02:14,302 LOOK. 74 00:02:14,371 --> 00:02:15,570 THERE'S LEX LUTHOR POSING FOR 75 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:16,971 THE COVER OF METROPOLIS MANIACS 76 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,539 MONTHLY, THERE'S "WHY NO MR. 77 00:02:18,608 --> 00:02:20,041 BOND, I AND MY CHILD BRIDE 78 00:02:20,110 --> 00:02:21,109 EXPECT YOU TO DIE," THERE'S "I 79 00:02:21,178 --> 00:02:22,443 JUST BOUGHT YOUR MEDIA COMPANY 80 00:02:22,512 --> 00:02:24,445 AND I'M ABOUT TO STRIP YOU FOR 81 00:02:24,514 --> 00:02:25,746 PARTS," THERE'S "SPACE'S FIRST 82 00:02:25,815 --> 00:02:27,582 RACIST SHERIFF," AND FINALLY, 83 00:02:27,651 --> 00:02:28,483 THE "LESS-FUCKABLE REIMAGINING 84 00:02:28,552 --> 00:02:29,450 OF BILLY ZANE'S CHARACTER IN 85 00:02:29,519 --> 00:02:30,485 TITANIC." 86 00:02:30,554 --> 00:02:34,856 TRULY, THE MAN HAS RANGE. 87 00:02:34,925 --> 00:02:36,324 ELON'S MADE NEWS ALL YEAR, FROM 88 00:02:36,393 --> 00:02:38,392 TEST-LAUNCHING THE MOST POWERFUL 89 00:02:38,461 --> 00:02:40,061 ROCKET EVER BUILT, TO JUST THIS 90 00:02:40,130 --> 00:02:41,429 WEEK, HAVING TO RECALL 91 00:02:41,498 --> 00:02:43,364 2 MILLION CARS DUE TO SAFETY 92 00:02:43,433 --> 00:02:44,999 CONCERNS. 93 00:02:45,068 --> 00:02:47,201 HE EVEN CHALLENGED 94 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:48,536 MARK ZUCKERBERG TO A CAGE FIGHT, 95 00:02:48,605 --> 00:02:50,605 TO WHICH ZUCKERBERG REPLIED 96 00:02:50,674 --> 00:02:52,673 "SEND ME LOCATION," AND MAY I 97 00:02:52,742 --> 00:02:54,142 SUGGEST TO BOTH OF THEM: 98 00:02:54,211 --> 00:02:54,544 INTERIOR VOLCANO. 99 00:02:54,611 --> 00:02:55,111 AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE'S 100 00:02:55,178 --> 00:02:56,210 TWITTER. 101 00:02:56,279 --> 00:02:57,512 HE NOW CALLS IT "X," BUT THE 102 00:02:57,581 --> 00:02:58,014 REST OF US STILL CALL IT 103 00:02:58,081 --> 00:02:59,781 "TWITTER." 104 00:02:59,850 --> 00:03:01,282 HE OFFICIALLY ACQUIRED IT 12 105 00:03:01,351 --> 00:03:02,683 MONTHS AGO, AND SINCE THEN, IT'S 106 00:03:02,752 --> 00:03:04,018 BEEN ONE FIASCO AFTER ANOTHER -- 107 00:03:04,087 --> 00:03:05,319 WITH THE MOST RECENT COMING WHEN 108 00:03:05,388 --> 00:03:06,988 HE TWEETED HIS AGREEMENT WITH 109 00:03:07,057 --> 00:03:08,689 THIS ANTISEMITIC POST, CALLING 110 00:03:08,758 --> 00:03:09,259 THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY 111 00:03:09,326 --> 00:03:12,493 "THE ACTUAL TRUTH." 112 00:03:12,562 --> 00:03:14,061 THAT CAUSED MANY BIG ADVERTISERS 113 00:03:14,130 --> 00:03:15,062 TO FLEE. 114 00:03:15,131 --> 00:03:17,298 AND THEN, IN THE MIDST OF 115 00:03:17,367 --> 00:03:19,133 DENYING ANY ANTISEMITIC INTENT, 116 00:03:19,202 --> 00:03:19,669 ELON DECIDED TO TAUNT THE 117 00:03:19,736 --> 00:03:20,902 SPONSORS WHO HAD LEFT. 118 00:03:20,971 --> 00:03:22,236 >> DON'T ADVERTISE. 119 00:03:22,305 --> 00:03:22,772 >> YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO 120 00:03:22,839 --> 00:03:23,039 ADVERTISE? 121 00:03:23,106 --> 00:03:24,071 >> NO. 122 00:03:24,140 --> 00:03:27,108 >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 123 00:03:27,177 --> 00:03:28,142 >> IF SOMEBODY IS GOING TO TRY 124 00:03:28,211 --> 00:03:29,744 TO BLACKMAIL ME WITH 125 00:03:29,813 --> 00:03:30,344 ADVERTISING, BLACKMAILING WITH 126 00:03:30,413 --> 00:03:31,446 MONEY? 127 00:03:31,515 --> 00:03:36,050 GO FUCK YOURSELF. 128 00:03:36,119 --> 00:03:37,351 >> BUT -- 129 00:03:37,420 --> 00:03:40,721 >> GO FUCK YOURSELF. 130 00:03:40,790 --> 00:03:42,790 IS THAT CLEAR? 131 00:03:42,859 --> 00:03:44,025 I HOPE IT IS. 132 00:03:44,094 --> 00:03:45,359 >> John: WOW. 133 00:03:45,428 --> 00:03:46,727 IT'S HARD TO SAY WHAT'S MOST 134 00:03:46,796 --> 00:03:47,428 EMBARRASSING THERE -- THE FACT 135 00:03:47,497 --> 00:03:48,596 THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN IS 136 00:03:48,665 --> 00:03:49,864 PLAYING THE "YOU'RE NOT BREAKING 137 00:03:49,933 --> 00:03:51,666 UP WITH ME, I'M BREAKING UP WITH 138 00:03:51,735 --> 00:03:53,701 YOU" CARD, OR THAT HE'S DOING IT 139 00:03:53,770 --> 00:03:54,769 TO CONFUSED SILENCE WHILE 140 00:03:54,838 --> 00:03:55,603 WEARING A JACKET FROM 141 00:03:55,672 --> 00:03:56,204 RALPH LAUREN'S MIDLIFE CRISIS 142 00:03:56,273 --> 00:03:58,573 COLLECTION. 143 00:03:58,642 --> 00:03:59,907 HE'S CLEARLY GOING FOR "BAD BOY" 144 00:03:59,976 --> 00:04:01,309 THERE, BUT ENDED UP LOOKING MORE 145 00:04:01,378 --> 00:04:02,043 LIKE RED-PILLED CHIP FROM 146 00:04:02,112 --> 00:04:05,146 "RESCUE RANGERS." 147 00:04:05,215 --> 00:04:07,248 NOW, THAT CLIP ACTUALLY MADE THE 148 00:04:07,317 --> 00:04:08,516 ROUNDS, BUT FOR MY MONEY, THIS 149 00:04:08,585 --> 00:04:09,784 EXCHANGE A FEW SECONDS LATER IS 150 00:04:09,853 --> 00:04:12,220 EVEN BETTER. 151 00:04:12,289 --> 00:04:13,454 >> LOOK, ACTUALLY WHAT -- WHAT 152 00:04:13,523 --> 00:04:15,256 THIS ADVERTISING BOYCOTT IS -- 153 00:04:15,325 --> 00:04:15,890 IS GONNA DO, IT'S GONNA KILL THE 154 00:04:15,959 --> 00:04:20,094 COMPANY. 155 00:04:20,163 --> 00:04:21,929 >> AND DO YOU THINK THAT -- 156 00:04:21,998 --> 00:04:23,364 >> BUT -- AND THE WHOLE WORLD 157 00:04:23,433 --> 00:04:25,366 WILL KNOW THAT THOSE ADVERTISERS 158 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:26,667 KILLED THE COMPANY. 159 00:04:26,736 --> 00:04:27,237 EVERYONE WILL DOCUMENT IT IN 160 00:04:27,304 --> 00:04:29,303 GREAT DETAIL. 161 00:04:29,372 --> 00:04:29,839 >> BUT THERE ARE -- THOSE 162 00:04:29,906 --> 00:04:34,776 ADVERTISERS, I IMAGINE, ARE 163 00:04:34,845 --> 00:04:36,744 GONNA SAY -- THEY'RE GOING TO 164 00:04:36,813 --> 00:04:37,545 SAY, "WE DIDN'T KILL THE 165 00:04:37,614 --> 00:04:37,814 COMPANY." 166 00:04:37,881 --> 00:04:38,114 >> OH, YEAH. 167 00:04:38,181 --> 00:04:38,615 >> THEY'RE GONNA SAY -- 168 00:04:38,682 --> 00:04:39,182 >> TELL IT TO -- TELL IT TO 169 00:04:39,249 --> 00:04:39,482 EARTH. 170 00:04:39,549 --> 00:04:40,081 LET'S SEE HOW EARTH RESPONDS 171 00:04:40,150 --> 00:04:41,215 TO THAT. 172 00:04:41,284 --> 00:04:42,316 >> John: YEAH, TELL IT TO EARTH! 173 00:04:42,385 --> 00:04:42,917 I HONESTLY HOPE HE DOES THAT. 174 00:04:42,986 --> 00:04:43,785 I HOPE HE TRIES TELLING EVERY 175 00:04:43,854 --> 00:04:45,720 LIVING CREATURE ON THE PLANET, 176 00:04:45,789 --> 00:04:47,188 INCLUDING THOSE WEIRD DEEP SEA 177 00:04:47,257 --> 00:04:48,489 FISH, ALL ABOUT HOW ADVERTISER 178 00:04:48,558 --> 00:04:50,191 BOYCOTTS ARE GOING TO KILL 179 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:52,093 TWITTER, JUST SO ONE OF THEM CAN 180 00:04:52,162 --> 00:04:54,562 OPEN ITS OBJECTIVELY HORRIFYING 181 00:04:54,631 --> 00:04:55,897 JAWS AND SAY, "YEAH, MAN, 182 00:04:55,966 --> 00:04:57,899 BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT WEIRD SHIT 183 00:04:57,968 --> 00:04:58,499 ABOUT JEWS. 184 00:04:58,568 --> 00:04:59,600 WE LIVE IN A BLACK VOID AND EVEN 185 00:04:59,669 --> 00:05:00,136 WE UNDERSTAND THE ORDER OF 186 00:05:00,203 --> 00:05:02,270 OPERATIONS HERE." 187 00:05:02,339 --> 00:05:03,838 AND LOOK, I COULD TALK FOR HOURS 188 00:05:03,907 --> 00:05:05,706 ABOUT WHAT ELON'S DONE TO 189 00:05:05,775 --> 00:05:07,008 TWITTER -- MANY IN THE MEDIA DO, 190 00:05:07,077 --> 00:05:08,276 BECAUSE IT'S WHERE THEY SPEND 191 00:05:08,345 --> 00:05:09,577 MOST OF THEIR WORKDAYS. 192 00:05:09,646 --> 00:05:11,345 BUT THE TRUTH IS, IT'S NOT THE 193 00:05:11,414 --> 00:05:12,313 MOST IMPORTANT THING ELON IS IN 194 00:05:12,382 --> 00:05:13,414 CHARGE OF. 195 00:05:13,483 --> 00:05:15,616 IT'S ARGUABLY NOT EVEN THE MOST 196 00:05:15,685 --> 00:05:16,186 IMPORTANT SOCIAL-NETWORKING 197 00:05:16,253 --> 00:05:16,386 SITE. 198 00:05:16,453 --> 00:05:18,019 WE ALL KNOW THE ONLY SOCIAL 199 00:05:18,088 --> 00:05:19,387 MEDIA APP THAT MATTERS THESE 200 00:05:19,456 --> 00:05:20,154 DAYS IS THE COMMENTS SECTION OF 201 00:05:20,223 --> 00:05:23,825 VENMO. 202 00:05:23,894 --> 00:05:26,027 THAT'S WHERE THE REAL DRAMA IS. 203 00:05:26,096 --> 00:05:27,295 BUT WHAT MUSK'S TIME AT TWITTER 204 00:05:27,364 --> 00:05:28,696 HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED IS HOW 205 00:05:28,765 --> 00:05:30,231 MANY PEOPLE PERCEIVE HIM. 206 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:31,799 BECAUSE FOR A LONG TIME, HE WAS 207 00:05:31,868 --> 00:05:33,501 SEEN AS A ONE-OF-A-KIND GENIUS 208 00:05:33,570 --> 00:05:34,936 WHO'D SAVE HUMANITY, AND 209 00:05:35,005 --> 00:05:35,536 DESCRIBED AS A "REAL-LIFE IRON 210 00:05:35,605 --> 00:05:37,171 MAN." 211 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,942 IT'S A COMPARISON THAT HE EVEN 212 00:05:41,011 --> 00:05:41,642 WELCOMED, CAMEOING AS HIMSELF 213 00:05:41,711 --> 00:05:42,112 IN "IRON MAN 2." 214 00:05:42,179 --> 00:05:42,710 ALTHOUGH, I NEVER LIKED THOSE 215 00:05:42,779 --> 00:05:43,778 COMPARISONS. 216 00:05:43,847 --> 00:05:45,179 AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THE 217 00:05:45,248 --> 00:05:47,181 ONLY REAL-LIFE IRON MAN IS 218 00:05:47,250 --> 00:05:49,617 TROY HURCHUBISE, WHO SPENT HIS 219 00:05:49,686 --> 00:05:50,918 LIFE DESIGNING A SUIT OF ARMOR 220 00:05:50,987 --> 00:05:52,053 THAT COULD WITHSTAND A GRIZZLY 221 00:05:52,122 --> 00:05:53,621 BEAR ATTACK, AND WAS KIND ENOUGH 222 00:05:53,690 --> 00:05:55,156 TO FILM THE TESTS. 223 00:05:55,225 --> 00:05:56,457 >> ARE YOU READY, TROY? 224 00:05:56,526 --> 00:05:57,625 >> I'M READY. 225 00:05:57,694 --> 00:06:02,096 >> HERE IT COMES. 226 00:06:02,165 --> 00:06:02,499 [LAUGHTER] 227 00:06:02,566 --> 00:06:04,599 >> John: YES. 228 00:06:04,668 --> 00:06:07,268 THAT IS THE HERO WE DESERVE. 229 00:06:07,337 --> 00:06:08,803 THAT IS MY IRON MAN. 230 00:06:08,872 --> 00:06:11,005 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 231 00:06:11,074 --> 00:06:12,607 STILL, FOR A LONG TIME, ELON'S 232 00:06:12,676 --> 00:06:14,876 PUBLIC IMAGE WAS THAT OF A 233 00:06:14,945 --> 00:06:15,743 MAVERICK CELEBRITY INVENTOR WHO 234 00:06:15,812 --> 00:06:17,011 CUT THROUGH RED TAPE, 235 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:18,179 REVOLUTIONIZED SPACE TRAVEL, AND 236 00:06:18,248 --> 00:06:19,647 MADE ELECTRIC CARS COOL. 237 00:06:19,716 --> 00:06:21,682 AND HE DOES DO A LOT. 238 00:06:21,751 --> 00:06:23,050 IN ADDITION TO TWITTER, HE'S THE 239 00:06:23,119 --> 00:06:24,752 HEAD OF FIVE OTHER COMPANIES: 240 00:06:24,821 --> 00:06:26,187 TESLA, SPACEX, THE BORING 241 00:06:26,256 --> 00:06:28,156 COMPANY, NEURALINK, AND X.AI. 242 00:06:28,225 --> 00:06:29,957 AND THANKS TO THEIR 243 00:06:30,026 --> 00:06:31,325 ROLLERCOASTER FORTUNES, HE CAN 244 00:06:31,394 --> 00:06:32,393 CLAIM THE TWIN DISTINCTIONS OF 245 00:06:32,462 --> 00:06:35,363 BEING BOTH THE RICHEST PERSON IN 246 00:06:35,432 --> 00:06:36,130 THE WORLD AND THE FIRST 247 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:36,964 PERSON EVER TO LOSE $200 BILLION 248 00:06:37,033 --> 00:06:40,368 DOLLARS. 249 00:06:40,437 --> 00:06:41,002 WHICH IS HARD TO WRAP YOUR HEAD 250 00:06:41,071 --> 00:06:41,571 AROUND. 251 00:06:41,638 --> 00:06:42,403 IT'S LIKE HEARING SOMEONE WON A 252 00:06:42,472 --> 00:06:43,237 MARATHON AFTER ACCIDENTALLY 253 00:06:43,306 --> 00:06:47,241 RUNNING 200 MILES IN THE WRONG 254 00:06:47,310 --> 00:06:47,644 DIRECTION. 255 00:06:47,711 --> 00:06:48,643 AND TO HEAR ELON TELL IT, HE'S 256 00:06:48,712 --> 00:06:49,444 BEEN DOING THIS, AT LEAST IN 257 00:06:49,513 --> 00:06:52,413 PART, TO BENEFIT HUMANITY. 258 00:06:52,482 --> 00:06:53,848 HE RECENTLY SAID OF TESLA, "I'VE 259 00:06:53,917 --> 00:06:55,983 DONE MORE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 260 00:06:56,052 --> 00:06:56,784 THAN ANY SINGLE HUMAN ON EARTH" 261 00:06:56,853 --> 00:06:58,519 DEMONSTRATING A PRETTY STRONG 262 00:06:58,588 --> 00:07:00,288 MESSIANIC STREAK. 263 00:07:00,357 --> 00:07:01,823 IN FACT, SAM ALTMAN, THE CEO OF 264 00:07:01,892 --> 00:07:03,357 OPEN AI, WHO'S BOTH WORKED WITH 265 00:07:03,426 --> 00:07:05,159 AND CLASHED WITH MUSK, HAS SAID, 266 00:07:05,228 --> 00:07:06,661 "ELON DESPERATELY WANTS THE 267 00:07:06,730 --> 00:07:07,862 WORLD TO BE SAVED. 268 00:07:07,931 --> 00:07:09,697 BUT ONLY IF HE CAN BE THE ONE TO 269 00:07:09,766 --> 00:07:11,532 SAVE IT." 270 00:07:11,601 --> 00:07:13,468 WHICH IS A PRETTY BIG ASTERISK. 271 00:07:13,537 --> 00:07:15,069 IT'S LIKE JESUS SAYS IN THE BOOK 272 00:07:15,138 --> 00:07:15,670 OF MATTHEW: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, 273 00:07:15,739 --> 00:07:18,473 BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY ME, AND IF 274 00:07:18,542 --> 00:07:19,073 YOU DON'T, FUCK YOU, FIND YOUR 275 00:07:19,142 --> 00:07:22,743 OWN HEAVEN, J-CRIZZLE OUT." 276 00:07:22,812 --> 00:07:23,213 [LAUGHTER] 277 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:23,845 AND I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO 278 00:07:23,914 --> 00:07:26,781 LOVE ELON, AND PEOPLE WHO 279 00:07:26,850 --> 00:07:27,350 UTTERLY HATE HIM, AND THERE 280 00:07:27,417 --> 00:07:29,083 ARE GOING TO BE PARTS OF THIS 281 00:07:29,152 --> 00:07:30,952 PIECE THAT IRRITATE BOTH GROUPS. 282 00:07:31,021 --> 00:07:31,586 THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO WOULD, 283 00:07:31,655 --> 00:07:32,620 UNDERSTANDABLY, RATHER JUST 284 00:07:32,689 --> 00:07:33,821 IGNORE HIM. 285 00:07:33,890 --> 00:07:34,755 BUT AS YOU'LL SEE, WE MIGHT HAVE 286 00:07:34,824 --> 00:07:36,858 PASSED THE POINT WHERE THAT'S AN 287 00:07:36,927 --> 00:07:38,860 OPTION FOR ANY OF US. 288 00:07:38,929 --> 00:07:41,462 SO TONIGHT, LET'S LOOK AT 289 00:07:41,531 --> 00:07:44,599 ELON MUSK, AND LET'S START WITH 290 00:07:44,668 --> 00:07:45,168 HOW HE EARNED HIS "BUSINESS 291 00:07:45,235 --> 00:07:45,602 GENIUS" REPUTATION. 292 00:07:45,669 --> 00:07:46,200 AND I'M GOING TO SKIP OVER THE 293 00:07:46,269 --> 00:07:47,368 EARLY YEARS -- THE GROWING UP IN 294 00:07:47,437 --> 00:07:48,870 APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, THEN 295 00:07:48,939 --> 00:07:49,504 EMIGRATING TO THE U.S. VIA 296 00:07:49,573 --> 00:07:50,538 CANADA DURING HIS COLLEGE YEARS. 297 00:07:50,607 --> 00:07:52,740 YOU CAN READ ANY NUMBER OF BOOKS 298 00:07:52,809 --> 00:07:53,908 ON THAT, OR JUST ASK YOUR NEXT 299 00:07:53,977 --> 00:07:56,210 BUMBLE DATE WHO TURNED UP IN A 300 00:07:56,279 --> 00:07:56,844 FEDORA AND A "RELEASE THE SNYDER 301 00:07:56,913 --> 00:07:58,246 CUT" T-SHIRT, READY TO SPEND THE 302 00:07:58,315 --> 00:08:00,448 ENTIRE NIGHT TALKING ABOUT HIM. 303 00:08:00,517 --> 00:08:02,350 ELON FIRST EARNED HIS FORTUNE 304 00:08:02,419 --> 00:08:03,885 FROM CREATING A COMPANY CALLED 305 00:08:03,954 --> 00:08:05,153 "ZIP TWO" WITH HIS BROTHER, 306 00:08:05,222 --> 00:08:06,587 BEFORE GOING ON TO HELP RUN 307 00:08:06,656 --> 00:08:08,556 PAYPAL ALONGSIDE PETER THIEL. 308 00:08:08,625 --> 00:08:11,192 AND IF I ONLY COULD'VE BEEN A 309 00:08:11,261 --> 00:08:11,594 FLY ON THAT WALL! 310 00:08:11,661 --> 00:08:12,827 I'D HAVE FLOWN INTO A HOT LIGHT 311 00:08:12,896 --> 00:08:14,562 BULB. 312 00:08:14,631 --> 00:08:17,165 HE THEN INVESTED THAT PERSONAL 313 00:08:17,234 --> 00:08:18,332 FORTUNE INTO SPACEX, A COMPANY 314 00:08:18,401 --> 00:08:19,367 THAT WOULD CREATE AND LAUNCH ITS 315 00:08:19,436 --> 00:08:21,469 OWN ROCKETS AND SPACECRAFT. 316 00:08:21,538 --> 00:08:23,938 AND THAT IS A PRETTY GUTSY MOVE, 317 00:08:24,007 --> 00:08:25,206 TO GO FROM AN ONLINE PAYMENT 318 00:08:25,275 --> 00:08:26,140 SYSTEM TO LITERAL ROCKET 319 00:08:26,209 --> 00:08:29,243 SCIENCE. 320 00:08:29,312 --> 00:08:30,244 ALTHOUGH -- AS SOME POINT OUT -- 321 00:08:30,313 --> 00:08:30,845 SPACEX WASN'T EXACTLY STARTING 322 00:08:30,914 --> 00:08:33,114 FROM SQUARE ONE. 323 00:08:33,183 --> 00:08:33,683 >> WHAT SPACEX HAS BEEN VERY 324 00:08:33,750 --> 00:08:34,315 SUCCESSFUL AT IS TAKING 325 00:08:34,384 --> 00:08:36,451 BASICALLY OFF THE SHELF 326 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:37,785 TECHNOLOGY, STUFF THAT WAS 327 00:08:37,854 --> 00:08:39,687 DEVELOPED BY NASA 50 YEARS AGO, 328 00:08:39,756 --> 00:08:43,791 AND STREAMLINING IT. 329 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:45,092 SO IN THAT WAY, HE'S KIND OF 330 00:08:45,161 --> 00:08:45,960 THE HENRY FORD OF -- OF SPACE, 331 00:08:46,029 --> 00:08:46,928 BECAUSE HENRY FORD DIDN'T INVENT 332 00:08:46,997 --> 00:08:47,728 THE AUTOMOBILE. 333 00:08:47,797 --> 00:08:49,063 HE JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE 334 00:08:49,132 --> 00:08:50,398 THE AUTOMOBILE, YOU KNOW, 335 00:08:50,467 --> 00:08:51,933 COMMERCIALLY VIABLE. 336 00:08:52,002 --> 00:08:52,900 >> John: YEAH, LIKE HENRY FORD, 337 00:08:52,969 --> 00:08:54,335 ELON MUSK MANAGED TO BUILD ON 338 00:08:54,404 --> 00:08:55,336 THE TECHNOLOGY THAT OTHERS HAD 339 00:08:55,405 --> 00:08:57,071 INVENTED. 340 00:08:57,140 --> 00:08:58,539 THAT'S NOT THE ONLY WAY HE'S 341 00:08:58,608 --> 00:08:59,574 LIKE HENRY FORD, WHICH YOU'D 342 00:08:59,643 --> 00:09:00,708 KNOW IF YOU'D EVER GOOGLED 343 00:09:00,777 --> 00:09:01,909 EITHER OF THEIR NAMES AND THE 344 00:09:01,978 --> 00:09:02,977 WORD "ANTISEMITISM," BUT LET'S 345 00:09:03,046 --> 00:09:05,746 NOT GET AHEAD OF OURSELVES. 346 00:09:05,815 --> 00:09:07,248 THE POINT IS, MUSK TOOK A BIG 347 00:09:07,317 --> 00:09:07,784 RISK ON STARTING A ROCKET 348 00:09:07,851 --> 00:09:08,883 COMPANY. 349 00:09:08,952 --> 00:09:10,218 WHICH NEARLY DIDN'T WORK. 350 00:09:10,287 --> 00:09:11,652 HIS FIRST THREE ATTEMPTS TO 351 00:09:11,721 --> 00:09:13,354 LAUNCH ONE FAILED, AND THEN HE 352 00:09:13,423 --> 00:09:15,656 MADE A TRULY AUDACIOUS GAMBLE. 353 00:09:15,725 --> 00:09:18,226 >> WHEN YOU HAD THAT THIRD 354 00:09:18,295 --> 00:09:20,828 FAILURE IN A ROW, DID YOU THINK, 355 00:09:20,897 --> 00:09:22,096 "I NEED TO PACK THIS IN?" 356 00:09:22,165 --> 00:09:24,031 >> NEVER. 357 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:25,266 >> WHY NOT? 358 00:09:25,335 --> 00:09:26,634 >> I DON'T EVER GIVE UP. 359 00:09:26,703 --> 00:09:27,935 >> EIGHT WEEKS LATER, MUSK BET 360 00:09:28,004 --> 00:09:31,372 THE COMPANY ON ANOTHER FLIGHT. 361 00:09:31,441 --> 00:09:34,175 >> WE HAVE LIFT-OFF. 362 00:09:34,244 --> 00:09:35,710 >> AND THIS TIME AROUND, 363 00:09:35,779 --> 00:09:36,112 EVERYTHING WORKED. 364 00:09:36,179 --> 00:09:37,445 >> PERFECT. 365 00:09:37,514 --> 00:09:38,312 >> IF THAT FOURTH LAUNCH HADN'T 366 00:09:38,381 --> 00:09:39,781 WORKED, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IT. 367 00:09:39,850 --> 00:09:41,315 WE WOULD HAVE NOT HAD THE 368 00:09:41,384 --> 00:09:43,618 RESOURCES TO MOUNT A FIFTH. 369 00:09:43,687 --> 00:09:44,418 >> YOU COULDN'T HAVE GONE ON AT 370 00:09:44,487 --> 00:09:44,921 THAT POINT? 371 00:09:44,988 --> 00:09:47,121 >> WE -- YES. 372 00:09:47,190 --> 00:09:47,755 DEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN, I THINK, 373 00:09:47,824 --> 00:09:51,159 INEVITABLE. 374 00:09:51,228 --> 00:09:52,059 >> John: THAT IS GENUINELY 375 00:09:52,128 --> 00:09:52,362 IMPRESSIVE. 376 00:09:52,429 --> 00:09:52,960 ALTHOUGH, THERE ARE LESS WEIRD 377 00:09:53,029 --> 00:09:54,695 WAYS TO SAY "WE WOULD HAVE GONE 378 00:09:54,764 --> 00:09:55,596 OUT OF BUSINESS" THAN "DEATH IS 379 00:09:55,665 --> 00:09:57,532 INEVITABLE." 380 00:09:57,601 --> 00:09:58,466 PHRASING MATTERS. 381 00:09:58,535 --> 00:09:59,767 IT'S WHY PEOPLE SAY "WE JUST HAD 382 00:09:59,836 --> 00:10:01,302 A BABY" INSTEAD OF "LISA SHIT 383 00:10:01,371 --> 00:10:05,306 LIFE OUT OF HER HOO-HA." 384 00:10:05,375 --> 00:10:05,940 SAME MEANING, DIFFERENT 385 00:10:06,009 --> 00:10:08,776 FEELING. 386 00:10:08,845 --> 00:10:09,410 AND THAT TREND CONTINUED THROUGH 387 00:10:09,479 --> 00:10:10,778 SPACEX'S SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS -- 388 00:10:10,847 --> 00:10:11,379 SOMETHING THAT, AS THIS FORMER 389 00:10:11,448 --> 00:10:13,080 HEAD OF NASA POINTS OUT, IS NOT 390 00:10:13,149 --> 00:10:15,016 SOMETHING THEY'D EVER BE ABLE TO 391 00:10:15,085 --> 00:10:17,718 GET AWAY WITH. 392 00:10:17,787 --> 00:10:18,886 >> IF WE LOST ROCKETS AT THE 393 00:10:18,955 --> 00:10:21,923 RATE THAT -- THAT ELON MUSK 394 00:10:21,992 --> 00:10:23,491 LOSES HIS BIG STARSHIP, NASA 395 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,660 WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF BUSINESS. 396 00:10:25,729 --> 00:10:26,360 CONGRESS WOULD HAVE SHUT US 397 00:10:26,429 --> 00:10:29,497 DOWN. 398 00:10:29,566 --> 00:10:31,332 IF WE LOST ONE STARSHIP, LET 399 00:10:31,401 --> 00:10:32,467 ALONE SIX OR HOWEVER MANY IT'S 400 00:10:32,536 --> 00:10:32,936 BEEN. 401 00:10:33,003 --> 00:10:34,902 WE CAN'T DO THAT. 402 00:10:34,971 --> 00:10:35,736 >> John: RIGHT, THE U.S. 403 00:10:35,805 --> 00:10:36,571 GOVERNMENT CAN'T WASTE BILLIONS 404 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,439 OF DOLLARS JUST BLOWING THINGS 405 00:10:38,508 --> 00:10:40,007 UP IN THE VAGUE HOPE THAT IT'LL 406 00:10:40,076 --> 00:10:41,242 SOMEHOW TURN INTO A SUCCESS, 407 00:10:41,311 --> 00:10:42,510 UNLESS OF COURSE, THOSE THINGS 408 00:10:42,579 --> 00:10:44,378 ARE IRAQ OR AFGHANISTAN. 409 00:10:44,447 --> 00:10:45,947 SO, SPACEX BEGAN WITH A BIG 410 00:10:46,016 --> 00:10:48,783 GAMBLE, HAD A FLIRTATION WITH 411 00:10:48,852 --> 00:10:49,352 DISASTER, AND THEN BECAME A 412 00:10:49,419 --> 00:10:50,785 MASSIVE SUCCESS. 413 00:10:50,854 --> 00:10:51,819 AND THAT PATTERN PERSISTED WITH 414 00:10:51,888 --> 00:10:53,087 TESLA. 415 00:10:53,156 --> 00:10:54,422 THAT COMPANY WAS FUNDED, IN 416 00:10:54,491 --> 00:10:57,158 PART, BY PRE-SELLING CARS TO 417 00:10:57,227 --> 00:10:58,426 FUTURE OWNERS -- ONLY TO RUN 418 00:10:58,495 --> 00:10:59,494 INTO REPEATED PRODUCTION DELAYS 419 00:10:59,563 --> 00:11:02,230 AND SPIRALING COSTS. 420 00:11:02,299 --> 00:11:02,930 JUST WATCH MUSK AT ONE MEETING 421 00:11:02,999 --> 00:11:04,866 OF THOSE EARLY BUYERS, WHERE HE 422 00:11:04,935 --> 00:11:06,768 TOLD THEM THAT THE PRICE HAD 423 00:11:06,837 --> 00:11:08,269 GONE UP, ON THE CARS THEY'D 424 00:11:08,338 --> 00:11:09,604 ALREADY BOUGHT. 425 00:11:09,673 --> 00:11:10,938 >> WE TOOK FAITH IN YOU, AND NOW 426 00:11:11,007 --> 00:11:12,874 YOU'RE JUST TURNING AROUND AND 427 00:11:12,943 --> 00:11:13,474 CHANGING THE PRICE ON US, NOT 428 00:11:13,543 --> 00:11:16,644 TELLING US, AND THEN WE FIND OUT 429 00:11:16,713 --> 00:11:17,845 ABOUT IT BACKWARDS, AND NOW, 430 00:11:17,914 --> 00:11:18,746 WELL, KIND OF -- EVERYONE'S HURT 431 00:11:18,815 --> 00:11:21,149 BECAUSE WE WEREN'T TOLD. 432 00:11:21,218 --> 00:11:24,051 >> WE CAN'T SELL CARS FOR, YOU 433 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,354 KNOW, LESS THAN THEY COST US TO 434 00:11:26,423 --> 00:11:27,488 PRODUCE. 435 00:11:27,557 --> 00:11:29,290 IF ANYTHING, WHAT WE HAD, MORE 436 00:11:29,359 --> 00:11:30,158 THAN THAT OCCURRED, THEN IT WAS 437 00:11:30,227 --> 00:11:30,593 AN ACCIDENT -- 438 00:11:30,660 --> 00:11:31,926 >> WELL, THAT'S WHY THERE WAS A 439 00:11:31,995 --> 00:11:32,560 BUNCH OF COMMENTS AFTER IT THAT 440 00:11:32,629 --> 00:11:32,829 ALL GOT -- 441 00:11:32,896 --> 00:11:34,629 >> OKAY. 442 00:11:34,698 --> 00:11:35,663 THERE SEEMED TO BE A LITTLE BIT 443 00:11:35,732 --> 00:11:37,965 OF ANGER FROM SOME PEOPLE IN THE 444 00:11:38,034 --> 00:11:39,500 ROOM WHO FELT THAT WE'D KIND OF 445 00:11:39,569 --> 00:11:41,335 DONE A BAIT AND SWITCH. 446 00:11:41,404 --> 00:11:42,937 AND I MEAN, THAT'S SORT OF A 447 00:11:43,006 --> 00:11:44,105 LITTLE BIT TRUE THAT THERE WAS A 448 00:11:44,174 --> 00:11:45,973 BIT OF A BAIT AND SWITCH. 449 00:11:46,042 --> 00:11:48,342 I MEAN, IT'S -- THAT'S, I MEAN, 450 00:11:48,411 --> 00:11:50,745 KIND OF WHAT HAPPENED. 451 00:11:50,814 --> 00:11:52,380 THAT WAS VERY TOUGH. 452 00:11:52,449 --> 00:11:53,548 >> John: YEAH, YOU CAN SEE HOW 453 00:11:53,617 --> 00:11:55,082 BAITING CUSTOMERS WITH ONE PRICE 454 00:11:55,151 --> 00:11:56,484 AND SWITCHING IT FOR ANOTHER 455 00:11:56,553 --> 00:11:56,953 MIGHT BE CONSIDERED A 456 00:11:57,020 --> 00:12:00,154 BAIT-AND-SWITCH. 457 00:12:00,223 --> 00:12:01,255 THERE'S ACTUALLY A GREAT ECON 458 00:12:01,324 --> 00:12:02,490 BOOK ON THE SUBJECT, ENTITLED 459 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,359 "WORDS MEAN WHAT WORDS MEAN." 460 00:12:05,428 --> 00:12:06,594 AND YET, TESLA'S NOW A BIG 461 00:12:06,663 --> 00:12:08,763 SUCCESS, WITH FACTORIES ON THREE 462 00:12:08,832 --> 00:12:09,897 CONTINENTS DELIVERING OVER A 463 00:12:09,966 --> 00:12:11,399 MILLION VEHICLES A YEAR. 464 00:12:11,468 --> 00:12:12,633 MEANWHILE, SPACEX IS CURRENTLY 465 00:12:12,702 --> 00:12:15,002 VALUED AROUND $150 BILLION, 466 00:12:15,071 --> 00:12:15,538 MAKING IT ONE OF THE MOST 467 00:12:15,605 --> 00:12:16,804 VALUABLE PRIVATE COMPANIES IN 468 00:12:16,873 --> 00:12:20,108 THE WORLD. 469 00:12:20,177 --> 00:12:20,908 ALTHOUGH IT'S WORTH NOTING -- 470 00:12:20,977 --> 00:12:21,576 HIS BOLDNESS SOMETIMES COMES 471 00:12:21,645 --> 00:12:22,877 WITH A TENDENCY TO OVERPROMISE, 472 00:12:22,946 --> 00:12:24,545 AND SHOW OFF PRODUCTS LONG 473 00:12:24,614 --> 00:12:26,247 BEFORE THEY'RE READY. 474 00:12:26,316 --> 00:12:27,448 LIKE IN 2019, WHEN MUSK DECIDED 475 00:12:27,517 --> 00:12:28,549 TO DEMONSTRATE HOW 476 00:12:28,618 --> 00:12:30,451 INDESTRUCTIBLE HIS NEW 477 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,153 CYBERTRUCK WAS, BY HAVING ITS 478 00:12:32,222 --> 00:12:33,788 CHIEF DESIGNER CHUCK A STEEL 479 00:12:33,857 --> 00:12:35,556 BALL AT ITS WINDOW. 480 00:12:35,625 --> 00:12:36,591 >> FRANZ, COULD YOU TRY TO BREAK 481 00:12:36,660 --> 00:12:37,026 THIS GLASS, PLEASE? 482 00:12:37,093 --> 00:12:44,093 [CHEERS] 483 00:12:46,770 --> 00:12:47,769 >> YEAH. 484 00:12:47,838 --> 00:12:48,138 >> SURE. 485 00:12:48,205 --> 00:12:50,872 >> YEAH. 486 00:12:50,941 --> 00:12:52,440 >> OH MY FUCKING GOD. 487 00:12:52,509 --> 00:12:55,009 WELL, MAYBE THAT WAS A LITTLE 488 00:12:55,078 --> 00:12:56,344 TOO HARD. 489 00:12:56,413 --> 00:12:57,545 [LAUGHS] 490 00:12:57,614 --> 00:12:58,679 >> John: YEAH, NOT GREAT. 491 00:12:58,748 --> 00:13:01,783 BUT ALSO, KIND OF CHARMING! 492 00:13:01,852 --> 00:13:02,483 I'LL BE HONEST, THERE'S 493 00:13:02,552 --> 00:13:03,317 SOMETHING I KIND OF LIKE ABOUT 494 00:13:03,386 --> 00:13:04,185 THE CYBERTRUCK. 495 00:13:04,254 --> 00:13:05,419 I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO OWN ONE, 496 00:13:05,488 --> 00:13:06,788 OR DRIVE NEAR ONE, IT'S 497 00:13:06,857 --> 00:13:08,289 BASICALLY A 7,000 POUND 498 00:13:08,358 --> 00:13:09,390 SMUSHED-UP REFRIGERATOR MOVING 499 00:13:09,459 --> 00:13:10,491 AT 60 MILES PER HOUR, BEING 500 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:11,526 DRIVEN BY, ODDS ARE, A REAL 501 00:13:11,595 --> 00:13:14,061 PIECE OF SHIT. 502 00:13:14,130 --> 00:13:15,563 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING APPEALING 503 00:13:15,632 --> 00:13:17,431 ABOUT A MAN SO PASSIONATE ABOUT 504 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:18,666 HIS IDEA THAT HE'S WILLING TO 505 00:13:18,735 --> 00:13:19,267 IGNORE QUESTIONS ABOUT 506 00:13:19,336 --> 00:13:20,134 AESTHETICS, PERFORMANCE, 507 00:13:20,203 --> 00:13:21,102 DURABILITY, PRACTICALITY, 508 00:13:21,171 --> 00:13:22,837 SAFETY, AND WHO ON EARTH 509 00:13:22,906 --> 00:13:23,905 ACTUALLY WANTS TO SPEND UP TO 510 00:13:23,974 --> 00:13:30,077 $100,000 TO DRIVE EVERY CHILD'S 511 00:13:30,146 --> 00:13:30,711 FIRST ATTEMPT AT DRAWING A CAR, 512 00:13:30,780 --> 00:13:31,579 AND BUILD IT ANYWAY. 513 00:13:31,648 --> 00:13:32,246 AND THAT'S NOT HIS ONLY 514 00:13:32,315 --> 00:13:33,414 EMBARRASSING PRODUCT LAUNCH. 515 00:13:33,483 --> 00:13:34,282 TWO YEARS AGO, HE INTRODUCED A 516 00:13:34,351 --> 00:13:36,951 TESLA ROBOT BY SHOWCASING A 517 00:13:37,020 --> 00:13:38,619 PROTOTYPE THAT WAS JUST A DANCER 518 00:13:38,688 --> 00:13:41,189 IN A ROBOT BODYSUIT, AND IT WAS 519 00:13:41,258 --> 00:13:43,057 EXACTLY AS DUMB AS THAT SOUNDS. 520 00:13:43,126 --> 00:13:50,267 ♪ ♪ 521 00:13:50,367 --> 00:13:57,367 ♪ ♪ 522 00:13:58,842 --> 00:14:00,608 >> John: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. 523 00:14:00,677 --> 00:14:02,276 APPARENTLY, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO 524 00:14:02,345 --> 00:14:04,245 TO LAUNCH A ROBOTICS COMPANY IS 525 00:14:04,314 --> 00:14:04,879 INVEST IN A SPANDEX BODYSUIT AND 526 00:14:04,948 --> 00:14:07,181 A DANCER. 527 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:08,216 SO WITH THAT IN MIND: BEHOLD MY 528 00:14:08,285 --> 00:14:09,484 NEW CREATION! 529 00:14:09,553 --> 00:14:09,686 ♪ ♪ 530 00:14:09,753 --> 00:14:12,186 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 531 00:14:12,255 --> 00:14:13,621 THE ROBOT RACE IS ON, ELON! 532 00:14:13,690 --> 00:14:15,656 THE RACE IS ON! 533 00:14:15,725 --> 00:14:20,128 LOOK AT HIM GO! 534 00:14:20,197 --> 00:14:20,862 OKAY, OKAY, ENOUGH! 535 00:14:20,931 --> 00:14:22,630 ENOUGH, ENOUGH! 536 00:14:22,699 --> 00:14:23,998 YOU CAN POWER DOWN. 537 00:14:24,067 --> 00:14:29,737 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. 538 00:14:29,806 --> 00:14:31,205 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 539 00:14:31,274 --> 00:14:31,806 BUT LOOK, EMBARRASSING MOMENTS 540 00:14:31,875 --> 00:14:32,375 ASIDE, THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE 541 00:14:32,442 --> 00:14:33,241 ABOUT ELON'S COMPANIES. 542 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:34,809 SPACEX HAS MADE REAL 543 00:14:34,878 --> 00:14:36,144 ACHIEVEMENTS, LIKE REUSABLE 544 00:14:36,213 --> 00:14:37,745 ROCKET TECHNOLOGY AND MAKING 545 00:14:37,814 --> 00:14:38,379 SPACE EASIER AND MORE AFFORDABLE 546 00:14:38,448 --> 00:14:39,781 TO ACCESS. 547 00:14:39,850 --> 00:14:41,349 AND TESLA HAS PUSHED AUTOMAKERS 548 00:14:41,418 --> 00:14:42,984 TO TAKE ELECTRIC CARS SERIOUSLY 549 00:14:43,053 --> 00:14:44,519 IN A WAY THAT WOULD HAVE SEEMED 550 00:14:44,588 --> 00:14:45,653 IMPOSSIBLE 20 YEARS AGO. 551 00:14:45,722 --> 00:14:47,188 BUT AS ONE OF ELON'S CRITICS 552 00:14:47,257 --> 00:14:48,923 POINTS OUT, THERE ARE COSTS TO 553 00:14:48,992 --> 00:14:50,391 THAT PROGRESS THAT OFTEN GET 554 00:14:50,460 --> 00:14:51,626 OVERLOOKED. 555 00:14:51,695 --> 00:14:54,128 >> IS ELON MUSK A NET POSITIVE 556 00:14:54,197 --> 00:14:56,931 FOR SOCIETY? 557 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:57,999 I WOULD ARGUE HE IS. 558 00:14:58,068 --> 00:14:59,433 I THINK THE EV RACE IS A GREAT 559 00:14:59,502 --> 00:15:00,401 THING. 560 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:01,736 SPACE EXPLORATION IS REALLY 561 00:15:01,805 --> 00:15:04,105 HOPEFUL AND JUST KIND OF 562 00:15:04,174 --> 00:15:05,973 INSPIRING. 563 00:15:06,042 --> 00:15:07,475 THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE WORD 564 00:15:07,544 --> 00:15:08,776 NET, AND THAT IS ONCE WE DECIDE 565 00:15:08,845 --> 00:15:10,244 AN INDIVIDUAL OR A COMPANY IS A 566 00:15:10,313 --> 00:15:13,981 NET GOOD FOR SOCIETY, WE DON'T 567 00:15:14,050 --> 00:15:15,450 WANT TO HOLD HIM OR THE COMPANY 568 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:17,218 ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING. 569 00:15:17,287 --> 00:15:18,386 >> John: RIGHT. 570 00:15:18,455 --> 00:15:19,787 EVEN IF YOU THINK ELON IS A 571 00:15:19,856 --> 00:15:22,490 "NET POSITIVE," IT DOESN'T MEAN 572 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:23,758 WE SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT THE HARM 573 00:15:23,827 --> 00:15:24,926 HE'S DOING ALONG THE WAY. 574 00:15:24,995 --> 00:15:26,260 AND LET'S START WITH HIS 575 00:15:26,329 --> 00:15:27,228 EMPLOYEES, MANY OF WHOM HAVE 576 00:15:27,297 --> 00:15:28,729 CALLED ELON A NIGHTMARE TO WORK 577 00:15:28,798 --> 00:15:30,231 FOR. 578 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:30,832 AND NOT JUST AT TWITTER, WHERE 579 00:15:30,901 --> 00:15:31,833 HE FIRED MOST OF THE STAFF AND 580 00:15:31,902 --> 00:15:33,901 ORDERED THE REST TO WORK IN 581 00:15:33,970 --> 00:15:34,471 QUOTE, "EXTREMELY HARDCORE" 582 00:15:34,538 --> 00:15:36,604 MODE. 583 00:15:36,673 --> 00:15:37,605 HE'S BEEN LIKE THIS AT EVERY 584 00:15:37,674 --> 00:15:39,607 COMPANY, AS THIS EARLY 585 00:15:39,676 --> 00:15:41,409 EMPLOYEE AT SPACEX WILL ATTEST. 586 00:15:41,478 --> 00:15:42,944 >> IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL TO HAVE A 587 00:15:43,013 --> 00:15:45,680 PHONE CALL FROM HIM AT 3 IN THE 588 00:15:45,749 --> 00:15:46,314 MORNING ON YOUR CELL PHONE, YOU 589 00:15:46,383 --> 00:15:49,717 BETTER, BY GOD TO HAVE THAT NEXT 590 00:15:49,786 --> 00:15:51,052 TO YOUR BED TO ANSWER. 591 00:15:51,121 --> 00:15:51,919 HE'S JUST GONE INTO YELLING FITS 592 00:15:51,988 --> 00:15:53,654 AGAINST ME AND TELLING ME I'M 593 00:15:53,723 --> 00:15:54,655 STUPID AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M 594 00:15:54,724 --> 00:15:56,958 TALKING ABOUT, AND I'VE SEEN HIM 595 00:15:57,027 --> 00:15:57,592 DO IT TO OTHER VERY INTELLIGENT 596 00:15:57,661 --> 00:15:59,160 PEOPLE. 597 00:15:59,229 --> 00:16:01,028 SO HE'LL DEFINITELY FIND YOUR 598 00:16:01,097 --> 00:16:02,163 WEAKNESS IN YOUR PERSONALITY, IN 599 00:16:02,232 --> 00:16:03,564 YOUR -- IN YOUR CHARACTER, IN 600 00:16:03,633 --> 00:16:05,433 YOUR -- IN YOUR SPIRIT, AND I 601 00:16:05,502 --> 00:16:08,870 WOULDN'T SAY EXPLOIT IT, BUT 602 00:16:08,939 --> 00:16:09,904 YOU'LL -- YOU'LL DEFINITELY 603 00:16:09,973 --> 00:16:11,939 CRACK. 604 00:16:12,008 --> 00:16:12,475 >> John: WELL, THAT SOUNDS 605 00:16:12,542 --> 00:16:13,674 UNPLEASANT! 606 00:16:13,743 --> 00:16:15,610 NOT JUST YOUR BOSS CALLING TO 607 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:16,244 ABUSE YOU, BUT BECAUSE THERE ARE 608 00:16:16,313 --> 00:16:17,979 ONLY TWO REASONS SOMEONE SHOULD 609 00:16:18,048 --> 00:16:19,747 BE CALLING YOU AT 3 IN THE 610 00:16:19,816 --> 00:16:20,915 MORNING AND THEY'RE: BECAUSE A 611 00:16:20,984 --> 00:16:23,217 LOVED ONE IS HAVING AN EMERGENCY 612 00:16:23,286 --> 00:16:23,918 AND NEEDS YOUR HELP OR YOUR 613 00:16:23,987 --> 00:16:26,053 HOUSE IS ON FIRE, AND EVEN 614 00:16:26,122 --> 00:16:26,687 THEN, THAT COULD'VE BEEN A TEXT. 615 00:16:26,756 --> 00:16:28,790 AND THE DAMAGE ISN'T JUST 616 00:16:28,859 --> 00:16:31,325 EMOTIONAL. 617 00:16:31,394 --> 00:16:32,493 WORKERS AT HIS FACTORIES 618 00:16:32,562 --> 00:16:34,295 COMPLAIN OF IMMENSE PRESSURE AND 619 00:16:34,364 --> 00:16:35,296 UNREALISTIC DEADLINES. 620 00:16:35,365 --> 00:16:37,665 A REPORT A FEW YEARS AGO ON HIS 621 00:16:37,734 --> 00:16:38,201 TESLA FACTORY IN FREMONT, 622 00:16:38,268 --> 00:16:39,767 CALIFORNIA FOUND EMPLOYEES 623 00:16:39,836 --> 00:16:41,536 COMPLAINING THAT STYLE AND SPEED 624 00:16:41,605 --> 00:16:42,837 TRUMPED SAFETY, AND THAT WORKERS 625 00:16:42,906 --> 00:16:44,639 THERE HAD BEEN SLICED BY 626 00:16:44,708 --> 00:16:46,240 MACHINERY, CRUSHED BY FORKLIFTS, 627 00:16:46,309 --> 00:16:48,409 BURNED IN ELECTRICAL EXPLOSIONS, 628 00:16:48,478 --> 00:16:50,878 AND SPRAYED WITH MOLTEN METAL. 629 00:16:50,947 --> 00:16:51,746 ONE WORKER CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD 630 00:16:51,815 --> 00:16:53,314 BEEN TOLD ELON DIDN'T WANT 631 00:16:53,383 --> 00:16:58,753 SIGNS, OR ANYTHING YELLOW LIKE 632 00:16:58,822 --> 00:16:59,353 CAUTION TAPE, IN THE FACTORY. 633 00:16:59,422 --> 00:16:59,889 WHICH ISN'T GOOD, BECAUSE 634 00:16:59,956 --> 00:17:00,621 CAUTION TAPE IS IMPORTANT. 635 00:17:00,690 --> 00:17:02,023 IT LETS PEOPLE KNOW SOMETHING 636 00:17:02,092 --> 00:17:02,990 MIGHT BE DANGEROUS AND UNSTABLE, 637 00:17:03,059 --> 00:17:04,091 LIKE A SKULL AND CROSSBONES ON A 638 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,193 BOTTLE OR THIS JACKET ON A 639 00:17:05,262 --> 00:17:08,663 MIDDLE-AGED MAN. 640 00:17:08,732 --> 00:17:09,297 NOW, TESLA DOES DENY THAT -- BUT 641 00:17:09,366 --> 00:17:11,032 ITS CLAIMS ABOUT ITS FACTORIES 642 00:17:11,101 --> 00:17:13,034 CAN BE HARD TO VERIFY. 643 00:17:13,103 --> 00:17:15,203 EVEN WHEN REGULATORS TRY TO GET 644 00:17:15,272 --> 00:17:16,471 INVOLVED AT MUSK'S COMPANIES, 645 00:17:16,540 --> 00:17:17,939 THEY CAN BE STRONGLY RESISTED. 646 00:17:18,008 --> 00:17:18,973 FOR EXAMPLE, HIS NEVADA 647 00:17:19,042 --> 00:17:20,441 GIGAFACTORY AT ONE POINT DENIED 648 00:17:20,510 --> 00:17:21,742 ENTRY TO STATE OSHA INSPECTORS 649 00:17:21,811 --> 00:17:24,245 FOR NEARLY THREE MONTHS. 650 00:17:24,314 --> 00:17:24,681 WHICH IS RIDICULOUS. 651 00:17:24,748 --> 00:17:25,248 THE WORD "GIGAFACTORY" ALONE 652 00:17:25,315 --> 00:17:28,349 SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO WARRANT AN 653 00:17:28,418 --> 00:17:31,319 IMMEDIATE INSPECTION. 654 00:17:31,388 --> 00:17:31,919 BUT IT'S NOT JUST WORKERS WHO 655 00:17:31,988 --> 00:17:32,553 MUSK IS WILLING TO PUT AT RISK. 656 00:17:32,622 --> 00:17:33,022 SOMETIMES IT'S HIS OWN 657 00:17:33,089 --> 00:17:35,089 CUSTOMERS. 658 00:17:35,158 --> 00:17:35,790 HE'S LONG BEEN DEVELOPING 659 00:17:35,859 --> 00:17:36,424 SELF-DRIVING CAR TECHNOLOGY, AND 660 00:17:36,493 --> 00:17:37,825 HAS SOMETIMES KNOWINGLY 661 00:17:37,894 --> 00:17:39,927 EXAGGERATED ITS CAPABILITIES. 662 00:17:39,996 --> 00:17:41,796 THE TWO PIECES OF SOFTWARE 663 00:17:41,865 --> 00:17:44,031 AVAILABLE ARE CALLED "AUTOPILOT 664 00:17:44,100 --> 00:17:44,601 AND FULL SELF-DRIVING," BUT 665 00:17:44,668 --> 00:17:45,633 DESPITE THEIR NAMES, NEITHER 666 00:17:45,702 --> 00:17:46,934 SYSTEM CAN DRIVE A CAR ON ITS 667 00:17:47,003 --> 00:17:49,270 OWN. 668 00:17:49,339 --> 00:17:51,305 YET, IN THIS 2016 AD, IT APPEARS 669 00:17:51,374 --> 00:17:52,140 TO BE DOING JUST THAT -- 670 00:17:52,209 --> 00:17:54,542 AMPLIFIED BY THE INTRODUCTORY 671 00:17:54,611 --> 00:17:55,877 TEXT ELON PERSONALLY ASKED FOR, 672 00:17:55,946 --> 00:17:56,511 WHICH READS "THE CAR IS DRIVING 673 00:17:56,580 --> 00:17:58,246 ITSELF." 674 00:17:58,315 --> 00:18:02,116 BUT THAT WAS EXTREMELY 675 00:18:02,185 --> 00:18:03,217 MISLEADING. 676 00:18:03,286 --> 00:18:03,851 IT WAS DRIVING ALONG A 677 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:04,254 PRE-PLANNED ROUTE. 678 00:18:04,321 --> 00:18:04,852 IT WAS ONLY "SELF-DRIVING" THE 679 00:18:04,921 --> 00:18:05,853 WAY YOUR NANA SELF-DRIVES 680 00:18:05,922 --> 00:18:08,222 HERSELF UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS. 681 00:18:08,291 --> 00:18:09,757 AND TESLA WILL NOTE, THEY TELL 682 00:18:09,826 --> 00:18:10,792 DRIVERS THEY SHOULD KEEP THEIR 683 00:18:10,861 --> 00:18:11,793 HANDS ON THE WHEEL AND TAKE OVER 684 00:18:11,862 --> 00:18:14,595 IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG. 685 00:18:14,664 --> 00:18:16,063 AND I SURE HOPE DRIVERS DO THAT, 686 00:18:16,132 --> 00:18:17,665 BECAUSE HE'S BEEN INVITING THEM 687 00:18:17,734 --> 00:18:19,200 TO TRY OUT "FULL SELF DRIVING" 688 00:18:19,269 --> 00:18:20,701 IN BETA MODE. 689 00:18:20,770 --> 00:18:22,804 BASICALLY, HAVING DRIVERS FIND 690 00:18:22,873 --> 00:18:24,338 THE BUGS IN NEW SOFTWARE, EVEN 691 00:18:24,407 --> 00:18:27,642 ON COMPLICATED CITY STREETS, 692 00:18:27,711 --> 00:18:28,242 AND WITH PREDICTABLE RESULTS. 693 00:18:28,311 --> 00:18:29,477 >> WE'RE GONNA MAKE THIS LEFT 694 00:18:29,546 --> 00:18:32,346 TURN. 695 00:18:32,415 --> 00:18:37,118 AND I'M GETTING HONKED AT. 696 00:18:37,187 --> 00:18:38,886 I JUST -- BUT NOW IT'S JUST TURN 697 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:43,257 RIGHT. 698 00:18:43,326 --> 00:18:44,992 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO LEFT. 699 00:18:45,061 --> 00:18:45,893 >> OGAN IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL 700 00:18:45,962 --> 00:18:46,494 TEST DRIVER, NOR IS HE A TESLA 701 00:18:46,563 --> 00:18:48,563 EMPLOYEE. 702 00:18:48,632 --> 00:18:50,865 INSTEAD, HE'S ONE OF THE OVER 703 00:18:50,934 --> 00:18:52,834 50,000 CUSTOMERS THAT TESLA HAS 704 00:18:52,903 --> 00:18:55,470 ALLOWED TO ACCESS FSD BETA. 705 00:18:55,539 --> 00:18:56,304 >> WE JUST RAN A RED LIGHT. 706 00:18:56,373 --> 00:18:57,839 WE JUST RAN A RED LIGHT. 707 00:18:57,908 --> 00:18:58,840 >> John: THAT IS PRETTY ALARMING 708 00:18:58,909 --> 00:18:59,674 -- ESPECIALLY THE MOMENT WHERE 709 00:18:59,743 --> 00:19:01,375 YOU SEE PEOPLE PUSHING A 710 00:19:01,444 --> 00:19:05,079 STROLLER WAY TOO CLOSE TO THAT 711 00:19:05,148 --> 00:19:05,248 CAR. 712 00:19:05,315 --> 00:19:05,847 BECAUSE EVEN IF TESLA DRIVERS 713 00:19:05,916 --> 00:19:07,315 VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE PART IN THIS 714 00:19:07,384 --> 00:19:08,983 HIGH STAKES EXPERIMENT, THE 715 00:19:09,052 --> 00:19:10,751 PEOPLE AROUND THEM SURE DIDN'T. 716 00:19:10,820 --> 00:19:12,487 NO ONE GOT A PUSH ALERT, SAYING 717 00:19:12,556 --> 00:19:12,889 "HEY, TESLA HERE! 718 00:19:12,956 --> 00:19:14,355 PLEASE CONSENT TO TAKE PART IN 719 00:19:14,424 --> 00:19:15,156 THE BETA TEST THAT IS CURRENTLY 720 00:19:15,225 --> 00:19:16,557 HURTLING TOWARDS YOU. 721 00:19:16,626 --> 00:19:20,128 DO HURRY, TIME IS A FACTOR." 722 00:19:20,197 --> 00:19:21,596 AND MUSK HAS TAKEN A PRETTY 723 00:19:21,665 --> 00:19:22,430 BLITHE ATTITUDE TOWARD 724 00:19:22,499 --> 00:19:23,898 SELF-DRIVING DEATHS. 725 00:19:23,967 --> 00:19:26,100 IN 2016, WHEN CONCERNS WERE 726 00:19:26,169 --> 00:19:27,568 FIRST EMERGING, HE TOLD 727 00:19:27,637 --> 00:19:28,169 REPORTERS THAT "IF THEY WROTE 728 00:19:28,238 --> 00:19:29,837 STORIES THAT DISSUADED PEOPLE 729 00:19:29,906 --> 00:19:30,938 FROM USING AUTONOMOUS DRIVING 730 00:19:31,007 --> 00:19:32,907 SYSTEMS, OR REGULATORS FROM 731 00:19:32,976 --> 00:19:34,108 APPROVING THEM, "THEN THEY WOULD 732 00:19:34,177 --> 00:19:35,777 BE KILLING PEOPLE." 733 00:19:35,846 --> 00:19:36,544 ESSENTIALLY, ARGUING THAT ANY 734 00:19:36,613 --> 00:19:37,478 DEATHS IN THE PRESENT DAY WILL 735 00:19:37,547 --> 00:19:40,481 BE MORE THAN OFFSET BY LIVES 736 00:19:40,550 --> 00:19:41,916 SAVED LATER. 737 00:19:41,985 --> 00:19:42,418 AND JUST THIS WEEK, WHEN 738 00:19:42,485 --> 00:19:43,885 "THE WASHINGTON POST" NOTED 739 00:19:43,954 --> 00:19:44,752 THEY'D TALLIED ABOUT 40 FATAL OR 740 00:19:44,821 --> 00:19:47,622 SERIOUS CRASHES INVOLVING 741 00:19:47,691 --> 00:19:48,158 TESLA'S DRIVER ASSISTANCE 742 00:19:48,225 --> 00:19:49,123 SOFTWARE, TESLA RESPONDED BY 743 00:19:49,192 --> 00:19:50,625 SAYING, "WE BELIEVE IT IS 744 00:19:50,694 --> 00:19:51,926 MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE NOT TO MAKE 745 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:53,427 THESE SYSTEMS AVAILABLE TO A 746 00:19:53,496 --> 00:19:54,228 WIDER SET OF CONSUMERS, GIVEN 747 00:19:54,297 --> 00:19:56,564 THE INCONTROVERTIBLE DATA THAT 748 00:19:56,633 --> 00:19:57,133 SHOWS IT'S SAVING LIVES AND 749 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,233 PREVENTING INJURY." 750 00:19:59,302 --> 00:20:00,968 BUT RATHER THAN PRODUCING THAT 751 00:20:01,037 --> 00:20:01,903 DATA, IT PROMISED "MORE DETAILED 752 00:20:01,972 --> 00:20:03,237 INFORMATION WILL BE PUBLICLY 753 00:20:03,306 --> 00:20:05,173 AVAILABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE." 754 00:20:05,242 --> 00:20:06,240 WHICH, I'M SORRY, IS JUST NOT 755 00:20:06,309 --> 00:20:08,009 DATA BITCH BEHAVIOR. 756 00:20:08,078 --> 00:20:09,477 AND THAT'S COMING FROM TV'S 757 00:20:09,546 --> 00:20:11,179 NUMBER ONE DATA BITCH. 758 00:20:11,248 --> 00:20:12,180 ANYONE WHO COLLECTS 759 00:20:12,249 --> 00:20:13,881 "INCONTROVERTIBLE DATA" WOULD 760 00:20:13,950 --> 00:20:15,783 GIVE YOU A MORE SPECIFIC DATE 761 00:20:15,852 --> 00:20:16,918 THAN "THE NEAR FUTURE." 762 00:20:16,987 --> 00:20:18,619 BECAUSE DATA BITCHES, AS WE ALL 763 00:20:18,688 --> 00:20:22,523 KNOW, ARE ALSO CALENDAR BITCHES. 764 00:20:22,592 --> 00:20:24,926 AND LOOK -- I KNOW MYSELF. 765 00:20:24,995 --> 00:20:26,994 AND LOOK, HISTORY IS LITTERED 766 00:20:27,063 --> 00:20:28,629 WITH TITANS OF BUSINESS WHO WERE 767 00:20:28,698 --> 00:20:30,331 SHITTY OR BROKEN PEOPLE, FROM 768 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,933 THOMAS EDISON THROUGH HENRY FORD 769 00:20:32,002 --> 00:20:33,701 THROUGH STEVE JOBS. 770 00:20:33,770 --> 00:20:34,569 THE DIFFERENCE IS, BY AND LARGE, 771 00:20:34,638 --> 00:20:36,003 THEY DIDN'T OPEN UP THEIR BRAIN 772 00:20:36,072 --> 00:20:37,939 TO LET THE WHOLE WORLD HAVE A 773 00:20:38,008 --> 00:20:38,940 CONSTANT LOOK INSIDE. 774 00:20:39,009 --> 00:20:40,842 BUT ELON DOES, AND THE GLIMPSES 775 00:20:40,911 --> 00:20:42,610 WE GET CAN BE TERRIFYING. 776 00:20:42,679 --> 00:20:43,146 AND THAT BRINGS US BACK TO 777 00:20:43,213 --> 00:20:45,446 TWITTER. 778 00:20:45,515 --> 00:20:46,914 MUSK HAS BEEN A HEAVY USER FOR 779 00:20:46,983 --> 00:20:48,082 YEARS, PUTTING OUT CLASSIC 780 00:20:48,151 --> 00:20:50,618 TWEETS LIKE "I PUT THE ART IN 781 00:20:50,687 --> 00:20:52,787 FART," "69 DAYS AFTER 4/20 AGAIN 782 00:20:52,856 --> 00:20:55,623 HAHA" AND "TECHNICALLY, ALCOHOL 783 00:20:55,692 --> 00:20:57,458 IS A SOLUTION," WHICH 784 00:20:57,527 --> 00:21:00,061 TECHNICALLY, ISN'T A JOKE. 785 00:21:00,130 --> 00:21:00,928 AND HIS BIOGRAPHER WILL TELL YOU 786 00:21:00,997 --> 00:21:02,130 HE'S ADDICTED TO THE APP TO A 787 00:21:02,199 --> 00:21:04,932 GENUINELY PROBLEMATIC EXTENT. 788 00:21:05,001 --> 00:21:08,069 >> ONE DAY HE WAS TRAVELING WITH 789 00:21:08,138 --> 00:21:09,837 A FRIEND, ANTONIO GRACIAS, AND 790 00:21:09,906 --> 00:21:10,638 MUSK HAD KEPT TWEETING LATE AT 791 00:21:10,707 --> 00:21:12,573 NIGHT, DOING THESE RIDICULOUS 792 00:21:12,642 --> 00:21:13,174 TWEETS, SOMETIMES VERY HARMFUL 793 00:21:13,243 --> 00:21:15,710 ONES. 794 00:21:15,779 --> 00:21:16,344 AND SO, THE FRIEND SAID, "LET ME 795 00:21:16,413 --> 00:21:17,145 TAKE YOUR PHONE AND I'M GOING TO 796 00:21:17,214 --> 00:21:18,446 PUT IT IN THE SAFE HERE IN THE 797 00:21:18,515 --> 00:21:19,747 HOTEL ROOM." 798 00:21:19,816 --> 00:21:21,449 FRIEND PUNCHES IN THE CODE AND 799 00:21:21,518 --> 00:21:22,683 HE SAID, "THAT WAY YOU CAN'T USE 800 00:21:22,752 --> 00:21:24,285 IT LATE AT NIGHT." 801 00:21:24,354 --> 00:21:26,020 AT 3 IN THE MORNING, MUSK CALLS 802 00:21:26,089 --> 00:21:27,955 HOTEL SECURITY TO GET HIM TO 803 00:21:28,024 --> 00:21:28,923 OPEN THE SAFE AND HE STARTS 804 00:21:28,992 --> 00:21:31,125 DOING TWEETS. 805 00:21:31,194 --> 00:21:33,127 HE WAS ADDICTED TO TWEETING. 806 00:21:33,196 --> 00:21:34,529 >> John: LOOK, I'M SURE WHEN THE 807 00:21:34,598 --> 00:21:36,264 AVERAGE SECURITY GUARD IS CALLED 808 00:21:36,333 --> 00:21:37,298 UP TO A BILLIONAIRE'S HOTEL ROOM 809 00:21:37,367 --> 00:21:38,599 AT 3:00 A.M., THEY HAVE A LIST 810 00:21:38,668 --> 00:21:39,333 OF THINGS TO EXPECT, AND IT 811 00:21:39,402 --> 00:21:40,234 BEGINS AND ENDS WITH 812 00:21:40,303 --> 00:21:41,736 "DEAD BODY." 813 00:21:41,805 --> 00:21:43,104 SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN A PLEASANT 814 00:21:43,173 --> 00:21:44,906 SURPRISE WHEN HE WHEELED AN 815 00:21:44,975 --> 00:21:46,674 EMPTY GARBAGE BIN INTO THE ROOM 816 00:21:46,743 --> 00:21:47,308 ONLY TO FIND ELON MUSK PUNCHING 817 00:21:47,377 --> 00:21:49,777 RANDOM NUMBERS INTO HIS HOTEL 818 00:21:49,846 --> 00:21:51,879 SAFE BECAUSE HE JUST THOUGHT OF 819 00:21:51,948 --> 00:21:53,114 "I PUT THE ART IN FART" AND THE 820 00:21:53,183 --> 00:21:55,917 WHOLE WORLD SIMPLY HAD TO KNOW. 821 00:21:55,986 --> 00:21:57,618 AND LOOK, ELON'S TWEETS WERE 822 00:21:57,687 --> 00:21:58,286 NEVER THAT GREAT. 823 00:21:58,355 --> 00:21:59,654 NOT LIKE MINE, OF COURSE, WHICH 824 00:21:59,723 --> 00:22:03,157 ARE BANGER AFTER BANGER AFTER 825 00:22:03,226 --> 00:22:05,760 BANGER AFTER CERTIFIED BANGER. 826 00:22:05,829 --> 00:22:07,762 I DON'T MISS. 827 00:22:07,831 --> 00:22:10,298 BUT IN RECENT YEARS, THEY'VE 828 00:22:10,367 --> 00:22:12,033 TAKEN A TURN TOWARD THE NASTY 829 00:22:12,102 --> 00:22:12,602 AND CONSPIRATORIAL, GETTING 830 00:22:12,669 --> 00:22:13,434 INCREASINGLY INTO THE REALM OF 831 00:22:13,503 --> 00:22:14,802 RIGHT-WING TROLLS. 832 00:22:14,871 --> 00:22:17,138 AND MANY POINT TO ONE PARTICULAR 833 00:22:17,207 --> 00:22:19,140 MOMENT AS THE TURNING POINT -- 834 00:22:19,209 --> 00:22:20,741 THE PANDEMIC LOCKDOWNS. 835 00:22:20,810 --> 00:22:22,210 >> IN CALIFORNIA, 40 MILLION 836 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:23,311 RESIDENTS ARE IN LOCKDOWN -- 837 00:22:23,380 --> 00:22:24,712 >> AT THE TIME, THE GOVERNMENT 838 00:22:24,781 --> 00:22:26,047 HAD ORDERED MUSK TO CLOSE HIS 839 00:22:26,116 --> 00:22:28,916 TESLA FACTORIES IN CALIFORNIA. 840 00:22:28,985 --> 00:22:29,884 >> I MEAN, HE WAS PISSED THAT 841 00:22:29,953 --> 00:22:30,485 HIS FACTORIES WERE FORCED TO 842 00:22:30,554 --> 00:22:32,386 CLOSE. 843 00:22:32,455 --> 00:22:33,387 >> YES, ULTIMATELY, YES. 844 00:22:33,456 --> 00:22:34,455 THAT'S THE THING. 845 00:22:34,524 --> 00:22:36,023 HE WANTED THEM THERE AND HE 846 00:22:36,092 --> 00:22:36,459 WANTED THEM WORKING. 847 00:22:36,526 --> 00:22:38,793 HE THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXISTENTIAL 848 00:22:38,862 --> 00:22:41,929 CRISIS IF TESLA DIDN'T SUCCEED. 849 00:22:41,998 --> 00:22:43,498 HE REALLY -- FOR THE WORLD, FOR 850 00:22:43,567 --> 00:22:44,699 ALL OF US. 851 00:22:44,768 --> 00:22:46,167 AND THEN IT GOT WEIRD. 852 00:22:46,236 --> 00:22:47,135 >> FREE AMERICA NOW. 853 00:22:47,204 --> 00:22:48,269 GIVE PEOPLE THEIR FREEDOM BACK! 854 00:22:48,338 --> 00:22:49,103 HOSPITALS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE 855 00:22:49,172 --> 00:22:50,238 BEEN HALF EMPTY THIS WHOLE TIME. 856 00:22:50,307 --> 00:22:50,774 NOW GIVE PEOPLE BACK THEIR 857 00:22:50,841 --> 00:22:52,974 FREEDOM. 858 00:22:53,043 --> 00:22:54,408 >> MUSK TOLD HIS EMPLOYEES THAT 859 00:22:54,477 --> 00:22:56,043 HE INTENDED TO DEFY ORDERS AND 860 00:22:56,112 --> 00:22:57,545 GO TO WORK. 861 00:22:57,614 --> 00:22:58,980 >> CEO ELON MUSK TWEETED, "I 862 00:22:59,049 --> 00:22:59,881 WILL BE ON THE LINE WITH 863 00:22:59,950 --> 00:23:01,549 EVERYONE ELSE. 864 00:23:01,618 --> 00:23:04,051 IF ANYONE IS ARRESTED, I ASK 865 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:05,620 THAT IT ONLY BE ME." 866 00:23:05,689 --> 00:23:06,621 >> John: OKAY, WHAT THAT REALLY 867 00:23:06,690 --> 00:23:08,589 DRIVES HOME IS JUST HOW 868 00:23:08,658 --> 00:23:09,357 DIFFERENT MUSK IS FROM THE REST 869 00:23:09,426 --> 00:23:10,892 OF US, BECAUSE THERE'S "RICH AND 870 00:23:10,961 --> 00:23:11,926 DETACHED," AND THEN THERE'S 871 00:23:11,995 --> 00:23:13,094 "I'VE ASKED THE COPS NOT TO 872 00:23:13,163 --> 00:23:14,629 ARREST ANYONE ELSE SO WE SHOULD 873 00:23:14,698 --> 00:23:16,497 BE GOOD" RICH AND DETACHED. 874 00:23:16,566 --> 00:23:18,766 AND, LOOK, A LOT OF OUR BRAINS 875 00:23:18,835 --> 00:23:20,268 GOT A BIT BROKEN DURING THE 876 00:23:20,337 --> 00:23:20,968 PANDEMIC. 877 00:23:21,037 --> 00:23:22,804 I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT 878 00:23:22,873 --> 00:23:23,671 IT'D BE REALLY COOL IF THE 879 00:23:23,740 --> 00:23:24,539 ENTIRETY OF THE "PANDEMIC 880 00:23:24,608 --> 00:23:26,507 CHAPTER" IN FUTURE HISTORY 881 00:23:26,576 --> 00:23:27,076 TEXTBOOKS SIMPLY READ "WEIRD 882 00:23:27,143 --> 00:23:27,675 TIME, HAD TO BE THERE, WE DID 883 00:23:27,744 --> 00:23:30,344 OUR BEST." 884 00:23:30,413 --> 00:23:31,646 BUT ELON DIDN'T CHANNEL HIS 885 00:23:31,715 --> 00:23:32,947 ANXIETY IN ONE OF THE NORMAL 886 00:23:33,016 --> 00:23:34,081 WAYS LIKE SPRAYING GROCERIES 887 00:23:34,150 --> 00:23:35,349 WITH DISINFECTANT, GETTING 888 00:23:35,418 --> 00:23:37,051 REALLY INTO SOURDOUGH 889 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:38,319 BREAD-BAKING, OR TRACKING DOWN 890 00:23:38,388 --> 00:23:38,953 AND PURCHASING ONE-OF-A-KIND RAT 891 00:23:39,022 --> 00:23:40,154 EROTICA. 892 00:23:40,223 --> 00:23:41,622 YOU KNOW, NORMAL STUFF WE ALL 893 00:23:41,691 --> 00:23:43,458 DID. 894 00:23:43,527 --> 00:23:44,692 INSTEAD, HIS BRAIN BROKE IN THE 895 00:23:44,761 --> 00:23:45,293 DIRECTION OF RIGHT-WINGERS WHO 896 00:23:45,362 --> 00:23:46,861 WERE LOUDLY OPPOSING THE 897 00:23:46,930 --> 00:23:47,829 SHUTDOWNS. 898 00:23:47,898 --> 00:23:49,597 AND ONCE HE STARTED SIDING WITH 899 00:23:49,666 --> 00:23:50,765 THEM OVER THOSE COMPLAINTS, HE 900 00:23:50,834 --> 00:23:52,133 FOUND HIMSELF SYMPATHIZING WITH 901 00:23:52,202 --> 00:23:53,601 THEIR BROADER CONCERNS ABOUT A 902 00:23:53,670 --> 00:23:54,869 "WOKE MIND VIRUS," AND THAT THEY 903 00:23:54,938 --> 00:23:56,337 WERE BEING MOCKED, 904 00:23:56,406 --> 00:23:57,405 SHADOW-BANNED, AND GENERALLY 905 00:23:57,474 --> 00:23:58,873 DISRESPECTED BY TWITTER. 906 00:23:58,942 --> 00:23:59,874 AND SINCE HE WAS ALSO THE 907 00:23:59,943 --> 00:24:00,942 RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, HE 908 00:24:01,011 --> 00:24:02,310 COULD FIX ALL THIS BY SIMPLY 909 00:24:02,379 --> 00:24:04,312 BUYING THE WHOLE THING, WHICH IS 910 00:24:04,381 --> 00:24:05,780 WHAT HE THEN DID. 911 00:24:05,849 --> 00:24:06,814 AND I DON'T HAVE TIME TO RUN 912 00:24:06,883 --> 00:24:08,516 THROUGH EVERY BAD DECISION HE'S 913 00:24:08,585 --> 00:24:09,851 MADE AT TWITTER -- ALTHOUGH, 914 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,885 REAL QUICK: HE CUT ABOUT 80% 915 00:24:10,954 --> 00:24:12,120 OF THE STAFF, DISSOLVED 916 00:24:12,189 --> 00:24:13,221 THE "TRUST AND SAFETY" COUNCIL, 917 00:24:13,290 --> 00:24:14,388 BLEW UP THE VERIFICATION SYSTEM, 918 00:24:14,457 --> 00:24:16,157 EXERCISED THE SAME CENSORSHIP HE 919 00:24:16,226 --> 00:24:17,125 CLAIMED TO BE AGAINST, 920 00:24:17,194 --> 00:24:18,826 REACTIVATED THE ACCOUNTS OF 921 00:24:18,895 --> 00:24:20,461 VARIOUS WHITE SUPREMACISTS, 922 00:24:20,530 --> 00:24:21,095 RELEASED "THE TWITTER FILES" -- 923 00:24:21,164 --> 00:24:22,230 IN WHICH HE BASICALLY MISTOOK 924 00:24:22,299 --> 00:24:23,731 THE EMAILS OF VARIOUS FECKLESS 925 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,899 LEFT-LEANING TECH WEENIES 926 00:24:24,968 --> 00:24:26,334 STRUGGLING WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE 927 00:24:26,403 --> 00:24:28,236 JOB OF CONTENT MODERATION FOR A 928 00:24:28,305 --> 00:24:29,203 VAST ELITE CONSPIRACY TO SILENCE 929 00:24:29,272 --> 00:24:30,304 RIGHT WING DIPSHITS -- CHANGED 930 00:24:30,373 --> 00:24:31,572 THE NAME TO X, PUT A GIGANTIC 931 00:24:31,641 --> 00:24:33,040 "X" ON THE BUILDING WHICH HE 932 00:24:33,109 --> 00:24:34,208 THEN TOOK DOWN, AND, JUST THIS 933 00:24:34,277 --> 00:24:35,576 WEEK, REVERSED HIS EARLIER 934 00:24:35,645 --> 00:24:36,244 DECISION AND LET ALEX JONES BACK 935 00:24:36,313 --> 00:24:37,478 ONTO THE SITE. 936 00:24:37,547 --> 00:24:38,579 A DECISION THAT'S BEEN MET WITH 937 00:24:38,648 --> 00:24:39,614 RESOUNDING PRAISE FROM "BIG LOUD 938 00:24:39,683 --> 00:24:43,417 FUCKS" QUARTERLY. 939 00:24:43,486 --> 00:24:44,552 AND NOTABLY, HIS TIME IN CHARGE 940 00:24:44,621 --> 00:24:45,953 OF TWITTER HAS SEEN A RISE IN 941 00:24:46,022 --> 00:24:48,723 UNPLEASANT RHETORIC FROM MUSK 942 00:24:48,792 --> 00:24:51,225 HIMSELF -- INCLUDING BOOSTING A 943 00:24:51,294 --> 00:24:51,859 TRANSPHOBIC DOCUMENTARY SAYING, 944 00:24:51,928 --> 00:24:53,094 "EVERY PARENT SHOULD WATCH 945 00:24:53,163 --> 00:24:54,328 THIS," RESPONDING "INTERESTING" 946 00:24:54,397 --> 00:24:56,931 TO A TWEET READING, "BLACKS KILL 947 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,800 EACH OTHER. 948 00:24:58,869 --> 00:24:59,467 WHITES KILL THEMSELVES," AND 949 00:24:59,536 --> 00:25:00,334 BOOSTING THIS "OFFICE" MEME 950 00:25:00,403 --> 00:25:01,569 FALSELY IMPLYING THERE HAD BEEN 951 00:25:01,638 --> 00:25:03,871 A COVERUP ABOUT PIZZAGATE. 952 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:05,139 I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE, 953 00:25:05,208 --> 00:25:06,240 BUT IT GENUINELY MAKES ME MISS 954 00:25:06,309 --> 00:25:07,675 THE MAN WHO ONCE POSTED "SEND ME 955 00:25:07,744 --> 00:25:09,343 YOUR DANKEST MEMES" AND THIS 956 00:25:09,412 --> 00:25:10,978 PICTURE OF A TURTLE ON WHEELS 957 00:25:11,047 --> 00:25:12,046 WITH THE MESSAGE, "SCIENCE HAS 958 00:25:12,115 --> 00:25:14,182 GONE TOO FAR." 959 00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:16,083 AND WHILE ELON WILL DISPUTE THAT 960 00:25:16,152 --> 00:25:17,318 THERE'S BEEN A RISE IN HATE 961 00:25:17,387 --> 00:25:18,519 SPEECH ON THE PLATFORM, OR THAT 962 00:25:18,588 --> 00:25:20,054 HE'S PANDERED TO WHITE 963 00:25:20,123 --> 00:25:21,622 NATIONALISTS, YOU KNOW WHO 964 00:25:21,691 --> 00:25:22,690 DISAGREES WITH HIM ON THAT? 965 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:24,759 WHITE NATIONALISTS. 966 00:25:24,828 --> 00:25:25,560 JUST LISTEN TO NICK FUENTES, 967 00:25:25,629 --> 00:25:27,161 TELLING RICHARD SPENCER 968 00:25:27,230 --> 00:25:28,696 EVERYTHING ELON HAS DONE FOR 969 00:25:28,765 --> 00:25:30,064 THEIR MOVEMENT. 970 00:25:30,133 --> 00:25:31,299 >> IT'S ONLY BEEN A YEAR SINCE 971 00:25:31,368 --> 00:25:32,834 MUSK ACQUIRED TWITTER, WHICH IS 972 00:25:32,903 --> 00:25:34,435 NOT REALLY A LONG TIME. 973 00:25:34,504 --> 00:25:35,004 AND THE CHANGES DIDN'T EVEN 974 00:25:35,071 --> 00:25:35,572 BEGIN TO ROLL OUT UNTIL LESS 975 00:25:35,639 --> 00:25:37,004 THAN A YEAR AGO. 976 00:25:37,073 --> 00:25:43,311 AND YET THE CHANGE HAS BEEN 977 00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:43,911 DRAMATIC, HOW MUCH THE WINDOW 978 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:45,179 HAS SHIFTED NOTICEABLY ON ISSUES 979 00:25:45,248 --> 00:25:45,715 LIKE WHITE IDENTITY, WHICH 980 00:25:45,782 --> 00:25:46,481 APPARENTLY IS SUDDENLY 981 00:25:46,550 --> 00:25:47,115 MAINSTREAM. 982 00:25:47,184 --> 00:25:49,317 IT WASN'T FOR A LONG TIME. 983 00:25:49,386 --> 00:25:49,951 IT SEEMED LIKE CHARLIE KIRK SAID 984 00:25:50,020 --> 00:25:51,586 ONE OR TWO THINGS ABOUT IT LAST 985 00:25:51,655 --> 00:25:54,055 YEAR, AND THEN THIS YEAR, NOW 986 00:25:54,124 --> 00:25:54,922 EVERYONE'S A WHITE NATIONALIST. 987 00:25:54,991 --> 00:25:55,556 NOW EVERYONE'S A WHITE 988 00:25:55,625 --> 00:25:57,024 IDENTITARIAN. 989 00:25:57,093 --> 00:25:58,526 YOU OPEN UP ONE OF THE SOCIAL 990 00:25:58,595 --> 00:25:59,260 PLATFORMS. 991 00:25:59,329 --> 00:26:00,695 IT'S SO HOT, IT'S SO FAST. 992 00:26:00,764 --> 00:26:02,330 IT CHANGES PUBLIC OPINION 993 00:26:02,399 --> 00:26:03,831 VIRTUALLY OVERNIGHT, AND -- AND 994 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,033 REALLY IN OUR FAVOR. 995 00:26:06,102 --> 00:26:07,869 >> John: WOW. 996 00:26:07,938 --> 00:26:09,303 ALL OF THAT'S HORRIFYING, BUT 997 00:26:09,372 --> 00:26:10,938 THE USE OF THE TERM "WHITE 998 00:26:11,007 --> 00:26:11,839 IDENTITARIAN," IS JUST NOT 999 00:26:11,908 --> 00:26:13,174 FOOLING ANYONE. 1000 00:26:13,243 --> 00:26:14,342 THAT'S WHAT THE WORD "RACIST" 1001 00:26:14,411 --> 00:26:15,476 WRITES ON A JOB APPLICATION TO 1002 00:26:15,545 --> 00:26:16,811 MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IT WENT TO 1003 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,247 COLLEGE. 1004 00:26:19,316 --> 00:26:20,281 AND THE FACT ELON SEEMS TO BE 1005 00:26:20,350 --> 00:26:21,649 GETTING INCREASINGLY RADICALIZED 1006 00:26:21,718 --> 00:26:26,687 IS A BIG PROBLEM, BECAUSE WE'VE 1007 00:26:26,756 --> 00:26:30,591 PUT A LOT OF POWER INTO HIS 1008 00:26:30,660 --> 00:26:31,492 HANDS -- AND MORE THAN YOU MAY 1009 00:26:31,561 --> 00:26:31,728 REALIZE. 1010 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:32,727 REMEMBER WHEN I SAID NO ONE IS 1011 00:26:32,796 --> 00:26:33,694 TAKING THE BIG SWINGS HE IS? 1012 00:26:33,763 --> 00:26:34,495 THAT INCLUDES THE GOVERNMENT. 1013 00:26:34,564 --> 00:26:35,129 AND OVER THE YEARS, THAT MEANS A 1014 00:26:35,198 --> 00:26:36,464 LOT OF THINGS THIS COUNTRY 1015 00:26:36,533 --> 00:26:38,065 RELIES ON HAVE BEEN OUTSOURCED 1016 00:26:38,134 --> 00:26:39,000 TO MUSK. 1017 00:26:39,069 --> 00:26:40,234 EVERY DAY MUSK'S COMPANIES 1018 00:26:40,303 --> 00:26:40,835 CONTROL MORE OF THE INTERNET, 1019 00:26:40,904 --> 00:26:43,938 POWER GRID, TRANSPORTATION 1020 00:26:44,007 --> 00:26:44,806 SYSTEM, OBJECTS IN ORBIT, THE 1021 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:46,874 NATION'S SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE 1022 00:26:46,943 --> 00:26:47,575 AND ITS ENERGY SUPPLY. 1023 00:26:47,644 --> 00:26:50,478 TO TAKE JUST ONE EXAMPLE: SPACEX 1024 00:26:50,547 --> 00:26:51,779 HAS NOW PUT MORE THAN 4,500 1025 00:26:51,848 --> 00:26:53,448 STARLINK SATELLITES INTO ORBIT, 1026 00:26:53,517 --> 00:26:55,283 MEANING THAT MUSK'S COMPANY NOW 1027 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:56,918 ACCOUNTS FOR OVER HALF OF ALL 1028 00:26:56,987 --> 00:26:58,619 ACTIVE SATELLITES. 1029 00:26:58,688 --> 00:27:00,455 AND THAT PUTS THE U.S. 1030 00:27:00,524 --> 00:27:01,088 GOVERNMENT IN A BIT OF A BIND -- 1031 00:27:01,157 --> 00:27:03,391 JUST WATCH A NATIONAL SECURITY 1032 00:27:03,460 --> 00:27:04,258 COUNCIL SPOKESMAN TRY TO EXPLAIN 1033 00:27:04,327 --> 00:27:05,793 WHY IT WOULDN'T BE ACTING IN 1034 00:27:05,862 --> 00:27:08,129 RESPONSE TO ELON'S BOOSTING OF 1035 00:27:08,198 --> 00:27:09,397 THAT "GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY" 1036 00:27:09,466 --> 00:27:10,598 TWEET. 1037 00:27:10,667 --> 00:27:11,699 >> THERE'S INNOVATION OUT THERE 1038 00:27:11,768 --> 00:27:12,767 IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT WE'D 1039 00:27:12,836 --> 00:27:13,367 BE FOOLISH TO -- TO WALK AWAY 1040 00:27:13,436 --> 00:27:14,168 FROM. 1041 00:27:14,237 --> 00:27:15,803 I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY SPECIFIC 1042 00:27:15,872 --> 00:27:18,372 EFFORTS TO ADDRESS -- TO ADDRESS 1043 00:27:18,441 --> 00:27:21,943 OUR CONCERNS OVER HIS RHETORIC, 1044 00:27:22,012 --> 00:27:24,278 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE 1045 00:27:24,347 --> 00:27:27,148 ACCEPT OR AGREE WITH OR CONDONE 1046 00:27:27,217 --> 00:27:31,986 IN ANY WAY THAT ANTISEMITIC 1047 00:27:32,055 --> 00:27:33,821 RHETORIC THAT HE PUSHED. 1048 00:27:33,890 --> 00:27:35,723 >> John: YEAH, WE'RE NOW AT THE 1049 00:27:35,792 --> 00:27:36,324 POINT WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS 1050 00:27:36,393 --> 00:27:37,592 EXPLICITLY SAYING, "WE'VE CHOSEN 1051 00:27:37,661 --> 00:27:38,826 TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY ON THE 1052 00:27:38,895 --> 00:27:40,027 ANTI-SEMITISM THING," OR AS IT'S 1053 00:27:40,096 --> 00:27:42,130 MORE COMMONLY KNOWN, A DADDY'S 1054 00:27:42,199 --> 00:27:42,699 HOME 2. 1055 00:27:42,766 --> 00:27:43,965 AND THE PROBLEM ISN'T JUST THE 1056 00:27:44,034 --> 00:27:45,433 OPTICS OF HAVING SOMEONE AS 1057 00:27:45,502 --> 00:27:47,835 ERRATIC AS ELON IN CHARGE OF 1058 00:27:47,904 --> 00:27:49,237 HALF THE WORLD'S SATELLITES -- 1059 00:27:49,306 --> 00:27:50,371 HIS OPINIONS CAN CHANGE THE 1060 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,572 SHAPE OF WORLD EVENTS. 1061 00:27:51,641 --> 00:27:53,241 WHEN RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, ONE 1062 00:27:53,310 --> 00:27:54,642 OF THEIR FIRST ACTIONS WAS TO 1063 00:27:54,711 --> 00:27:56,310 SEVER ITS INTERNET ACCESS. 1064 00:27:56,379 --> 00:27:58,880 MUSK, TO HIS CREDIT, AGREED TO 1065 00:27:58,949 --> 00:28:00,281 PROVIDE UKRAINE ACCESS TO HIS 1066 00:28:00,350 --> 00:28:01,215 STARLINK NETWORK, AND DONATED 1067 00:28:01,284 --> 00:28:03,217 HARDWARE, ENABLING THEM TO REACH 1068 00:28:03,286 --> 00:28:04,485 THE INTERNET VIA SATELLITE. 1069 00:28:04,554 --> 00:28:07,688 AND THEY WERE GRATEFUL. 1070 00:28:07,757 --> 00:28:08,289 >> LIEUTENANT TARAS BEREZOVETS 1071 00:28:08,358 --> 00:28:09,390 IS A SPOKESMAN FOR UKRAINE'S 1072 00:28:09,459 --> 00:28:11,626 MILITARY. 1073 00:28:11,695 --> 00:28:12,794 HE TOLD US STARLINK IS CRUCIAL 1074 00:28:12,863 --> 00:28:15,329 FOR COMMANDING TROOPS ON THE 1075 00:28:15,398 --> 00:28:17,331 BATTLEFIELD. 1076 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,232 >> SPACEX, ELON MUSK. 1077 00:28:18,301 --> 00:28:20,134 >> WE'VE BEEN SO GRATEFUL TO 1078 00:28:20,203 --> 00:28:23,871 SPACEX AND TO ELON MUSK. 1079 00:28:23,940 --> 00:28:24,806 WITHOUT STARLINK, NONE OF OUR 1080 00:28:24,875 --> 00:28:25,840 OFFENSIVES WOULD BE SO 1081 00:28:25,909 --> 00:28:27,408 SUCCESSFUL. 1082 00:28:27,477 --> 00:28:28,376 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 1083 00:28:28,445 --> 00:28:30,278 THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY WAS 1084 00:28:30,347 --> 00:28:31,479 GRATEFUL TO SPACEX AND ELON 1085 00:28:31,548 --> 00:28:32,048 MUSK, WHICH IS ONE OF THOSE 1086 00:28:32,115 --> 00:28:33,381 HEADLINES THAT EVEN A FEW YEARS 1087 00:28:33,450 --> 00:28:34,916 AGO WOULD HAVE SOUNDED 1088 00:28:34,985 --> 00:28:37,185 IMPOSSIBLE LIKE PANERA BREAD'S 1089 00:28:37,254 --> 00:28:39,587 LEMONADE LINKED TO SECOND DEATH 1090 00:28:39,656 --> 00:28:40,321 AND HENRY KISSINGER: FINALLY 1091 00:28:40,390 --> 00:28:41,189 DEAD. 1092 00:28:41,258 --> 00:28:43,724 [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 1093 00:28:43,793 --> 00:28:44,358 AND BY THE WAY, I THINK IT'S THE 1094 00:28:44,427 --> 00:28:46,194 LEMONADE THAT GOT HIM. 1095 00:28:46,263 --> 00:28:47,428 BUT AS TIME WENT ON, ELON TOYED 1096 00:28:47,497 --> 00:28:48,729 WITH THE IDEA OF WITHDRAWING 1097 00:28:48,798 --> 00:28:50,498 STARLINK'S SERVICE, COMPLAINING 1098 00:28:50,567 --> 00:28:51,666 THAT THE COST WAS TOO HIGH -- 1099 00:28:51,735 --> 00:28:53,468 EVEN AS HE SEEMED INCREASINGLY 1100 00:28:53,537 --> 00:28:54,335 RUSSIA-FRIENDLY. 1101 00:28:54,404 --> 00:28:55,603 AT ONE POINT, HE SAID RUSSIA 1102 00:28:55,672 --> 00:28:56,971 SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ANNEX 1103 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,773 UKRAINIAN LAND, AND TWEETED A 1104 00:28:58,842 --> 00:28:59,640 PROPOSED PEACE PLAN THAT WOULD 1105 00:28:59,709 --> 00:29:00,775 ESSENTIALLY JUST GIVE RUSSIA 1106 00:29:00,844 --> 00:29:02,443 EVERYTHING THEY WANTED. 1107 00:29:02,512 --> 00:29:04,378 PERHAPS MOST NOTABLY, HE REFUSED 1108 00:29:04,447 --> 00:29:05,413 A UKRAINIAN REQUEST TO ACTIVATE 1109 00:29:05,482 --> 00:29:07,381 STARLINK IN CRIMEA, ENABLING 1110 00:29:07,450 --> 00:29:07,951 THEM TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON 1111 00:29:08,018 --> 00:29:09,717 RUSSIAN SHIPS -- REPORTEDLY 1112 00:29:09,786 --> 00:29:11,152 BECAUSE A RUSSIAN OFFICIAL 1113 00:29:11,221 --> 00:29:13,421 WARNED HIM THAT COULD LEAD TO A 1114 00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:14,355 NUCLEAR RESPONSE. 1115 00:29:14,424 --> 00:29:18,226 AND I GUESS THAT MUST BE TRUE. 1116 00:29:18,295 --> 00:29:18,860 WHAT ARE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS GONNA 1117 00:29:18,929 --> 00:29:19,028 DO? 1118 00:29:19,095 --> 00:29:25,166 LIE TO AN EASILY FLATTERED CEO 1119 00:29:25,235 --> 00:29:26,434 TO GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT? 1120 00:29:26,503 --> 00:29:26,870 NO, I DON'T SEE IT. 1121 00:29:26,937 --> 00:29:27,735 AND LOOK, ELON STILL INSISTS 1122 00:29:27,804 --> 00:29:29,370 THAT HE'S PRO-UKRAINE, AND... 1123 00:29:29,439 --> 00:29:29,572 OKAY. 1124 00:29:29,639 --> 00:29:30,171 BUT U.S. OFFICIALS ARE NOW IN 1125 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:30,805 THE AWKWARD POSITION OF HAVING 1126 00:29:30,874 --> 00:29:32,507 TO DEFER TO HIM ON POLICY. 1127 00:29:32,576 --> 00:29:34,542 ONE PENTAGON SPOKESMAN EVEN SAID 1128 00:29:34,611 --> 00:29:37,011 HE'D LET A REPORTER INTERVIEW AN 1129 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,280 OFFICIAL ONLY IF MUSK GAVE 1130 00:29:39,349 --> 00:29:42,316 PERMISSION, SAYING, "WE'LL TALK 1131 00:29:42,385 --> 00:29:42,886 TO YOU IF ELON WANTS US TO." 1132 00:29:42,953 --> 00:29:45,353 WHICH ISN'T GREAT! 1133 00:29:45,422 --> 00:29:45,953 "BEFORE I RESPOND ON BEHALF OF 1134 00:29:46,022 --> 00:29:46,587 THE MIGHTIEST MILITARY ON EARTH, 1135 00:29:46,656 --> 00:29:47,889 LET ME JUST RUN THIS UP THE 1136 00:29:47,958 --> 00:29:50,024 CHAIN AND MAKE SURE IT'S COOL 1137 00:29:50,093 --> 00:29:51,793 WITH ADMIRAL DANK MEMES 420." 1138 00:29:51,862 --> 00:29:54,095 ELON MUSK COULDN'T HAVE 1139 00:29:54,164 --> 00:29:54,729 HUMILIATED THE PENTAGON ANY MORE 1140 00:29:54,798 --> 00:29:56,297 IF HE HAD OPENED UP HIS OWN 1141 00:29:56,366 --> 00:29:57,698 BUILDING NEXT DOOR CALLED "THE 1142 00:29:57,767 --> 00:29:58,234 HEXAGON: THE PENTAGON THAT 1143 00:29:58,301 --> 00:30:01,469 FUCKS." 1144 00:30:01,538 --> 00:30:03,871 NOW, THE PENTAGON HAS SINCE 1145 00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:04,739 SIGNED A CONTRACT WITH STARLINK 1146 00:30:04,808 --> 00:30:05,440 TO TAKE OVER CERTAIN SERVICES 1147 00:30:05,509 --> 00:30:07,141 AND RELY LESS ON MUSK'S WHIM. 1148 00:30:07,210 --> 00:30:09,076 BUT EVEN ELON'S OWN BIOGRAPHER 1149 00:30:09,145 --> 00:30:10,912 HAS EXPRESSED UNEASE ABOUT HOW 1150 00:30:10,981 --> 00:30:14,782 IMPORTANT HE'S BECOME. 1151 00:30:14,851 --> 00:30:16,117 >> SO HOW DOES ELON FEEL ABOUT 1152 00:30:16,186 --> 00:30:18,453 HAVING THIS MUCH GLOBAL POWER? 1153 00:30:18,522 --> 00:30:20,488 >> YOU KNOW, HE SAYS TO ME, "HOW 1154 00:30:20,557 --> 00:30:21,222 AM I IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS?" 1155 00:30:21,291 --> 00:30:22,323 BUT FRANKLY, HE LOVES IT. 1156 00:30:22,392 --> 00:30:23,391 HE LOVES DRAMA. 1157 00:30:23,460 --> 00:30:25,493 HE LOVES BEING THE EPIC HERO. 1158 00:30:25,562 --> 00:30:26,761 I THINK IT IS A LITTLE BIT 1159 00:30:26,830 --> 00:30:27,728 DANGEROUS, BECAUSE HE LOVES IT 1160 00:30:27,797 --> 00:30:29,297 TOO MUCH. 1161 00:30:29,366 --> 00:30:30,865 >> John: WAIT, HE "LOVES DRAMA?" 1162 00:30:30,934 --> 00:30:33,468 I'M REALLY NOT COMFORTABLE WITH 1163 00:30:33,537 --> 00:30:34,569 ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE 1164 00:30:34,638 --> 00:30:35,736 ON EARTH BEING SUMMED UP THE 1165 00:30:35,805 --> 00:30:36,437 SAME WAY YOU'D DESCRIBE 1166 00:30:36,506 --> 00:30:38,139 ANDY COHEN ON NEW YEAR'S EVE. 1167 00:30:38,208 --> 00:30:40,608 [LAUGHTER] 1168 00:30:40,677 --> 00:30:41,742 LOOK, THE FACT IS, WHETHER WE 1169 00:30:41,811 --> 00:30:43,277 LIKE IT OR NOT, AND THE ANSWER 1170 00:30:43,346 --> 00:30:44,879 IS ABSOLUTELY NOT, A HUGE NUMBER 1171 00:30:44,948 --> 00:30:47,482 OF VERY IMPORTANT THINGS GOING 1172 00:30:47,551 --> 00:30:48,549 FORWARD ARE GOING TO DEPEND ON 1173 00:30:48,618 --> 00:30:50,885 HOW ELON IS FEELING. 1174 00:30:50,954 --> 00:30:52,520 WHICH IS A TERRIFYING THING TO 1175 00:30:52,589 --> 00:30:53,154 SAY ABOUT ANYONE, BUT ESPECIALLY 1176 00:30:53,223 --> 00:30:54,489 THIS GUY. 1177 00:30:54,558 --> 00:30:56,190 SO WHAT CAN BE DONE? 1178 00:30:56,259 --> 00:30:57,158 WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY SIMPLE: WE 1179 00:30:57,227 --> 00:30:58,659 JUST CREATE A ROBUST 1180 00:30:58,728 --> 00:30:59,861 INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMY THAT CAN 1181 00:30:59,930 --> 00:31:00,895 RESIST EASY MONOPOLIZATION BY 1182 00:31:00,964 --> 00:31:03,464 PRIVATE FIRMS HEADED BY 1183 00:31:03,533 --> 00:31:06,367 OVERCONFIDENT BILLIONAIRES, AND 1184 00:31:06,436 --> 00:31:07,502 WE DO IT ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO. 1185 00:31:07,571 --> 00:31:08,936 TWO PROBLEMS WITH THAT: ONE, 1186 00:31:09,005 --> 00:31:10,571 TIME MACHINES DON'T EXIST. 1187 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,006 AND TWO, THE ONLY PERSON WITH 1188 00:31:12,075 --> 00:31:13,274 THE RESOURCES AND AMBITION TO 1189 00:31:13,343 --> 00:31:15,309 BUILD ONE IS THE LAST GUY YOU'D 1190 00:31:15,378 --> 00:31:16,043 WANT TO DO THAT, BECAUSE HE'D 1191 00:31:16,112 --> 00:31:17,378 PROBABLY USE IT TO GO BACK IN 1192 00:31:17,447 --> 00:31:20,381 TIME AND HIGH-FIVE BABY HITLER. 1193 00:31:20,450 --> 00:31:21,849 AND LOOK, I'LL BE HONEST. 1194 00:31:21,918 --> 00:31:23,518 MY FEELINGS ABOUT ELON CHANGED A 1195 00:31:23,587 --> 00:31:24,152 BIT IN THE WRITING OF THIS 1196 00:31:24,221 --> 00:31:25,186 PIECE. 1197 00:31:25,255 --> 00:31:26,988 I'M PROBABLY NOW MORE IMPRESSED 1198 00:31:27,057 --> 00:31:28,656 BY WHAT HE'S DOING, BUT MORE 1199 00:31:28,725 --> 00:31:29,290 WORRIED BY THE FACT HE'S THE ONE 1200 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:32,393 WHO'S BEEN DOING IT. 1201 00:31:32,462 --> 00:31:34,095 BECAUSE HE CULTIVATES AN IMAGE 1202 00:31:34,164 --> 00:31:35,997 THAT HE'S SIMPLY TOO VISIONARY, 1203 00:31:36,066 --> 00:31:37,598 TOO ORIGINAL TO PLAY BY OTHER 1204 00:31:37,667 --> 00:31:38,168 PEOPLE'S RULES, AND HE WAVES 1205 00:31:38,235 --> 00:31:39,233 AWAY THE DAMAGE HE DOES AS THE 1206 00:31:39,302 --> 00:31:40,668 COST OF INNOVATION AND SAVING 1207 00:31:40,737 --> 00:31:42,503 HUMANITY. 1208 00:31:42,572 --> 00:31:43,905 BUT THE TRUTH IS, THAT WAY OF 1209 00:31:43,974 --> 00:31:46,140 THINKING ISN'T REMOTELY 1210 00:31:46,209 --> 00:31:46,576 ORIGINAL. 1211 00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:47,809 WE'VE SEEN IT SO MANY TIMES 1212 00:31:47,878 --> 00:31:48,810 BEFORE. 1213 00:31:48,879 --> 00:31:50,311 THE LEAST SURPRISING THING ON 1214 00:31:50,380 --> 00:31:51,913 EARTH IS A MIDDLE-AGED 1215 00:31:51,982 --> 00:31:53,548 BILLIONAIRE CEO WITH 1216 00:31:53,617 --> 00:31:55,283 SELF-SERVING LIBERTARIAN VIEWS, 1217 00:31:55,352 --> 00:31:56,284 INCREASINGLY RACIST POLITICS, 1218 00:31:56,353 --> 00:31:58,586 AND A MESSIAH COMPLEX. 1219 00:31:58,655 --> 00:32:00,521 AND IT'S LONG PAST TIME HE FACED 1220 00:32:00,590 --> 00:32:02,223 THE KIND OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT 1221 00:32:02,292 --> 00:32:03,991 SHOULD COME WITH THAT -- NOT 1222 00:32:04,060 --> 00:32:04,959 JUST FROM THE ECHO CHAMBER HE 1223 00:32:05,028 --> 00:32:05,893 BOUGHT HIMSELF ONLINE -- BUT 1224 00:32:05,962 --> 00:32:07,728 FROM EVERYONE WHOSE LIVES ARE 1225 00:32:07,797 --> 00:32:08,963 VERY MUCH AFFECTED BY HIM. 1226 00:32:09,032 --> 00:32:10,832 AND I KNOW ELON MIGHT BE UNHAPPY 1227 00:32:10,901 --> 00:32:12,633 WITH THIS PIECE. 1228 00:32:12,702 --> 00:32:14,635 HE MIGHT EVEN PERMANENTLY DELETE 1229 00:32:14,704 --> 00:32:15,703 MY TWITTER ACCOUNT, WHICH IS 1230 00:32:15,772 --> 00:32:17,171 FINE BY ME; AFTER ALL, WHEN THIS 1231 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,006 ABSOLUTE TREASURE IS GONE, 1232 00:32:19,075 --> 00:32:21,843 ELON'S THE ONE WHO WILL HAVE TO 1233 00:32:21,912 --> 00:32:23,878 EXPLAIN WHY TO THE EARTH. 1234 00:32:23,947 --> 00:32:25,079 AND HE MIGHT WELL SAY, HE'S 1235 00:32:25,148 --> 00:32:25,680 SAVING HUMANITY -- WHAT HAVE I 1236 00:32:25,749 --> 00:32:26,249 EVER DONE? 1237 00:32:26,316 --> 00:32:26,716 WHAT INDUSTRIES HAVE I 1238 00:32:26,783 --> 00:32:29,217 REVOLUTIONIZED? 1239 00:32:29,286 --> 00:32:30,518 WELL, I ADMIT, NOTHING YET, BUT 1240 00:32:30,587 --> 00:32:33,287 MAY I REMIND YOU: I'VE ALREADY 1241 00:32:33,356 --> 00:32:34,922 TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TOWARD 1242 00:32:34,991 --> 00:32:35,957 BUILDING A ROBOT EMPIRE. 1243 00:32:36,026 --> 00:32:36,426 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1244 00:32:36,493 --> 00:32:38,192 ♪ ♪ 1245 00:32:38,261 --> 00:32:39,760 BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP YOUR 1246 00:32:39,829 --> 00:32:41,762 METAL GODS! 1247 00:32:41,831 --> 00:32:45,833 BOUNCE, BOUNCE, BOUNCE, BOUNCE! 1248 00:32:45,902 --> 00:32:48,336 AND NOW, THIS. 1249 00:32:48,405 --> 00:32:50,138 >> Announcer: AND NOW, 1250 00:32:50,207 --> 00:32:52,607 PEOPLE ON TV DO NOT UNDERSTAND 1251 00:32:52,676 --> 00:32:54,442 THIS HOLIDAY DESSERT. 1252 00:32:54,511 --> 00:32:55,109 >> I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER 1253 00:32:55,178 --> 00:32:55,678 TASTED FRUIT CAKE. 1254 00:32:55,745 --> 00:32:57,178 >> NO, I HAVEN'T. 1255 00:32:57,247 --> 00:32:58,045 I DID ONCE AND I NEVER WILL 1256 00:32:58,114 --> 00:32:59,447 AGAIN. 1257 00:32:59,516 --> 00:33:00,648 >> THERE YOU GO. 1258 00:33:00,717 --> 00:33:02,150 >> I TRIED THE FRUITCAKE ONCE 1259 00:33:02,219 --> 00:33:04,685 AND I WAS LIKE WHY, WHY? 1260 00:33:04,754 --> 00:33:07,054 I -- I DON'T GET IT. 1261 00:33:07,123 --> 00:33:07,590 >> HAVE YOU EVER HAD GOOD 1262 00:33:07,657 --> 00:33:07,857 FRUITCAKE? 1263 00:33:07,924 --> 00:33:10,725 >> I'VE HEARD THEY EXIST. 1264 00:33:10,794 --> 00:33:11,492 >> THE FRUITCAKE THEY WOULD MAKE 1265 00:33:11,561 --> 00:33:12,794 WOULD LAST UNTIL JULY 4TH. 1266 00:33:12,863 --> 00:33:14,162 >> IT'S A NUCLEAR WAR FOOD. 1267 00:33:14,231 --> 00:33:14,762 I PUT IT IN THE CATEGORY WITH 1268 00:33:14,831 --> 00:33:16,764 TWINKIES. 1269 00:33:16,833 --> 00:33:18,466 IT CAN SURVIVE ANYTHING, AND 1270 00:33:18,535 --> 00:33:19,035 BECAUSE OF THAT I DON'T WANT 1271 00:33:19,102 --> 00:33:20,401 TO EAT IT. 1272 00:33:20,470 --> 00:33:23,838 >> I DON'T KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE 1273 00:33:23,907 --> 00:33:30,907 DO THAT, I THINK THEY DO. 1274 00:33:32,282 --> 00:33:33,347 I THINK THEY NO ONE'S GOING TO 1275 00:33:33,416 --> 00:33:33,583 EAT IT. 1276 00:33:33,650 --> 00:33:34,117 >> HERE'S WHAT YOU DO WITH 1277 00:33:34,184 --> 00:33:34,749 FRUITCAKE, YOU MAKE IT AND THEN 1278 00:33:34,818 --> 00:33:35,285 YOU PUT IT IN THE GARBAGE. 1279 00:33:35,352 --> 00:33:35,819 >> I MEAN, WHO BUYS THAT? 1280 00:33:35,886 --> 00:33:36,417 >> I DON'T KNOW, BUT STOP IT. 1281 00:33:36,486 --> 00:33:37,018 >> WHAT EXACTLY IS POUND CAKE? 1282 00:33:37,087 --> 00:33:37,353 >> DELICIOUS. 1283 00:33:37,420 --> 00:33:38,986 >> REALLY? 1284 00:33:39,055 --> 00:33:41,355 >> WHAT YOU MEAN BY REALLY? 1285 00:33:41,424 --> 00:33:47,995 >> IS THAT ONE WITH THE FRUIT, 1286 00:33:48,064 --> 00:33:48,796 GELLED INSIDE OF IT? 1287 00:33:48,865 --> 00:33:51,132 >> NO, THAT'S FRUITCAKE. 1288 00:33:51,201 --> 00:33:51,634 >> OH, NO, THAT'S TRASH. 1289 00:33:51,701 --> 00:33:52,467 >> John: MOVING ON. 1290 00:33:52,536 --> 00:33:53,501 AS I SAID, THIS IS OUR FINAL 1291 00:33:53,570 --> 00:33:54,135 EPISODE OF THE YEAR, AND WE HAD 1292 00:33:54,204 --> 00:33:55,203 A LOT OF FUN. 1293 00:33:55,272 --> 00:33:57,271 WE TALKED ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM 1294 00:33:57,340 --> 00:33:58,139 DOLLAR STORES TO McKINSEY TO WHY 1295 00:33:58,208 --> 00:33:59,006 RON DeSANTIS SHOULDN'T BE 1296 00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:01,442 PRESIDENT, WHICH SEEMED AT THE 1297 00:34:01,511 --> 00:34:02,110 TIME LIKE AN IMPORTANT THING 1298 00:34:02,179 --> 00:34:04,312 TO DO, ALTHOUGH HE'S NOW MAKING 1299 00:34:04,381 --> 00:34:04,946 THAT ARGUMENT PRETTY EFFECTIVELY 1300 00:34:05,015 --> 00:34:06,047 HIMSELF. 1301 00:34:06,116 --> 00:34:07,148 WE MADE OUR OWN EPISODE OF 1302 00:34:07,217 --> 00:34:08,583 THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE, WHICH 1303 00:34:08,652 --> 00:34:09,584 MEANT OUR STAFF COULD PLAY WITH 1304 00:34:09,653 --> 00:34:11,119 TRAINS FOR A WEEK. 1305 00:34:11,188 --> 00:34:12,153 WANDA JO CAME BACK TO HELP ME 1306 00:34:12,222 --> 00:34:13,020 START A TIMESHARE EXIT COMPANY 1307 00:34:13,089 --> 00:34:14,455 EXIT COMPANY. 1308 00:34:14,524 --> 00:34:18,426 WE HID AN ENTIRE EPISODE ON 1309 00:34:18,495 --> 00:34:19,060 CHUCK E CHEESE INSIDE AN EPISODE 1310 00:34:19,129 --> 00:34:20,394 ABOUT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS -- 1311 00:34:20,463 --> 00:34:21,395 WHICH YOU CAN STILL WATCH AT 1312 00:34:21,464 --> 00:34:23,531 LastSqueakTonight.com. 1313 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:24,966 I SET FIRE TO A LETTUCE FOR 1314 00:34:25,035 --> 00:34:27,168 REASONS I DON'T FULLY REMEMBER. 1315 00:34:27,237 --> 00:34:28,302 WE CHALLENGED AN AUSTIN, TEXAS 1316 00:34:28,371 --> 00:34:29,570 PLUMBING COMPANY TO CREATE AN AD 1317 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,340 BASED ON THE MOVIE "MAGNOLIA" 1318 00:34:32,409 --> 00:34:32,940 AND THEY FUCKING DELIVERED ON 1319 00:34:33,009 --> 00:34:35,143 THAT CHALLENGE. 1320 00:34:35,212 --> 00:34:36,744 AND WE ANNOUNCED PLANS TO STEAL 1321 00:34:36,813 --> 00:34:38,279 THE "STEAMBOAT WILLIE" MICKEY 1322 00:34:38,348 --> 00:34:38,946 MOUSE AHEAD OF HIM ENTERING 1323 00:34:39,015 --> 00:34:41,682 PUBLIC DOMAIN NEXT YEAR, WHICH 1324 00:34:41,751 --> 00:34:44,385 WAS A LITTLE LEGALLY DICEY. 1325 00:34:44,454 --> 00:34:45,286 AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, HEY, 1326 00:34:45,355 --> 00:34:45,722 MICKEY? 1327 00:34:45,789 --> 00:34:46,487 MICKEY? 1328 00:34:46,556 --> 00:34:47,056 >> Mickey: YEAH? 1329 00:34:47,123 --> 00:34:49,957 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1330 00:34:50,026 --> 00:34:50,758 >> John: DID DISNEY EVER SUE US 1331 00:34:50,827 --> 00:34:51,759 OVER THAT? 1332 00:34:51,828 --> 00:34:53,161 >> Mickey: NOPE! 1333 00:34:53,230 --> 00:34:54,195 >> John: SO, SHOULD WE TAKE THAT 1334 00:34:54,264 --> 00:34:55,630 AS A GREEN LIGHT THAT WE CAN DO 1335 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:56,397 WHATEVER WE WANT WITH YOU IN THE 1336 00:34:56,466 --> 00:34:58,900 FUTURE? 1337 00:34:58,969 --> 00:34:59,500 >> Mickey: I DON'T SEE WHY THE 1338 00:34:59,569 --> 00:35:01,068 FUCK NOT! 1339 00:35:01,137 --> 00:35:02,403 >> John: OH, THAT'S GOOD NEWS, 1340 00:35:02,472 --> 00:35:04,071 BUDDY! 1341 00:35:04,140 --> 00:35:06,107 AND OF COURSE, WE ENTERED 1342 00:35:06,176 --> 00:35:07,375 NEW ZEALAND'S BIRD OF THE 1343 00:35:07,444 --> 00:35:08,075 CENTURY CONTEST, AND GOT 1344 00:35:08,144 --> 00:35:10,178 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE 1345 00:35:10,247 --> 00:35:12,046 TO WRITE THE PUTEKETEKE INTO THE 1346 00:35:12,115 --> 00:35:12,615 BIRD HISTORY BOOKS FOREVER. 1347 00:35:12,682 --> 00:35:15,383 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1348 00:35:15,452 --> 00:35:16,017 BY THE WAY, I'M EXCITED TO 1349 00:35:16,086 --> 00:35:17,652 SAY OUR GIANT PUTEKETEKE PUPPET 1350 00:35:17,721 --> 00:35:18,886 IS GOING TO NEW ZEALAND TO BE 1351 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:20,021 PUT ON DISPLAY THERE. 1352 00:35:20,090 --> 00:35:21,355 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YET, 1353 00:35:21,424 --> 00:35:23,491 BUT WE DO KNOW AIR NEW ZEALAND 1354 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,525 HAS OFFERED TO FLY IT FOR FREE. 1355 00:35:24,594 --> 00:35:26,294 SO LET ME JUST APOLOGIZE IN 1356 00:35:26,363 --> 00:35:27,462 ADVANCE TO ALL OF ITS SEATMATES. 1357 00:35:27,531 --> 00:35:29,130 THAT'S GOING TO BE A ROUGH 1358 00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:30,932 FLIGHT FOR ALL OF YOU. 1359 00:35:31,001 --> 00:35:32,099 BUT THIS WAS ALSO A WEIRD YEAR 1360 00:35:32,168 --> 00:35:33,301 FOR US. 1361 00:35:33,370 --> 00:35:34,569 BECAUSE, AS YOU MAY'VE NOTICED, 1362 00:35:34,638 --> 00:35:35,870 WE WERE OFF THE AIR FOR FIVE 1363 00:35:35,939 --> 00:35:38,072 STRAIGHT MONTHS, AS -- FOR 148 1364 00:35:38,141 --> 00:35:40,608 DAYS -- ALL 13 OF OUR WRITERS 1365 00:35:40,677 --> 00:35:43,077 WERE ON STRIKE, AND WE TRULY, 1366 00:35:43,146 --> 00:35:46,080 SINCERELY MISSED EIGHT OF THEM. 1367 00:35:46,149 --> 00:35:48,316 AND WHILE I'M HAPPY THE WRITERS 1368 00:35:48,385 --> 00:35:49,150 GUILD EVENTUALLY GOT A GOOD 1369 00:35:49,219 --> 00:35:49,917 CONTRACT, I'M A LITTLE 1370 00:35:49,986 --> 00:35:50,952 DISAPPOINTED THE STRIKE MEANT WE 1371 00:35:51,021 --> 00:35:51,586 COULDN'T DO SOME OF THE STORIES 1372 00:35:51,655 --> 00:35:52,520 WE'D PLANNED. 1373 00:35:52,589 --> 00:35:53,721 ALTHOUGH, I WILL SAY, IN SOME 1374 00:35:53,790 --> 00:35:54,956 CASES I WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY 1375 00:35:55,025 --> 00:35:56,157 GRATEFUL A STORY DIDN'T RUN. 1376 00:35:56,226 --> 00:35:59,460 LIKE THE ONE WE'D PLANNED FOR 1377 00:35:59,529 --> 00:36:00,094 IN MAY, ABOUT HOW THE FUTURE OF 1378 00:36:00,163 --> 00:36:01,529 PRIVATE UNDERSEA EXPLORATION IS 1379 00:36:01,598 --> 00:36:03,030 THE TITAN SUBMERSIBLE. 1380 00:36:03,099 --> 00:36:03,898 THAT COULD'VE DATED PRETTY 1381 00:36:03,967 --> 00:36:04,699 BADLY, SO I'M GLAD IT DIDN'T 1382 00:36:04,768 --> 00:36:05,933 HAPPEN. 1383 00:36:06,002 --> 00:36:07,068 BUT THERE WERE OTHERS I REALLY 1384 00:36:07,137 --> 00:36:08,503 WISH WE COULD'VE AIRED, LIKE OUR 1385 00:36:08,572 --> 00:36:10,838 PIECE ON PET INSURANCE, OR ELDER 1386 00:36:10,907 --> 00:36:12,106 ABUSE IN DENTISTRY, OR FLOORS. 1387 00:36:12,175 --> 00:36:13,541 THE BUTTS OF HOUSES. 1388 00:36:13,610 --> 00:36:14,575 WE ALL HAVE FLOORS BUT MOST OF 1389 00:36:14,644 --> 00:36:15,543 US THINK ABOUT THEM SO LITTLE 1390 00:36:15,612 --> 00:36:17,445 THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE 1391 00:36:17,514 --> 00:36:17,881 THAT'S NOT A FLOOR. 1392 00:36:17,948 --> 00:36:19,013 THAT'S A CEILING, YOU IDIOTS! 1393 00:36:19,082 --> 00:36:19,847 I GOT YOU! 1394 00:36:19,916 --> 00:36:23,151 I GOT YOU SO GOOD! 1395 00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:24,752 THERE WERE SO MANY STORIES WE 1396 00:36:24,821 --> 00:36:25,486 COULDN'T DO, AND WHILE I CAN'T 1397 00:36:25,555 --> 00:36:26,621 RECAP THEM ALL, I'LL TRY AND 1398 00:36:26,690 --> 00:36:27,588 KNOCK OUT A FEW AS QUICK AS I 1399 00:36:27,657 --> 00:36:28,222 CAN. 1400 00:36:28,291 --> 00:36:30,024 THERE WAS BEE THEFT: BEEHIVES 1401 00:36:30,093 --> 00:36:30,792 HAVE BEEN STOLEN ACROSS THE 1402 00:36:30,861 --> 00:36:31,592 COUNTRY. 1403 00:36:31,661 --> 00:36:32,760 THEY'RE VALUABLE BECAUSE OF HOW 1404 00:36:32,829 --> 00:36:33,594 CRITICAL BEES ARE IN POLLINATING 1405 00:36:33,663 --> 00:36:34,962 CALIFORNIA'S ALMOND CROPS. 1406 00:36:35,031 --> 00:36:35,930 AND THE FACT BEES ARE ALL BUT 1407 00:36:35,999 --> 00:36:37,064 UNTRACEABLE MAKES BEE THEFT A 1408 00:36:37,133 --> 00:36:38,466 LUCRATIVE CRIME. 1409 00:36:38,535 --> 00:36:39,400 THERE WAS DESIGNER DOGS -- WHY 1410 00:36:39,469 --> 00:36:41,068 RICH PEOPLE LIKE MAKING GOLDEN 1411 00:36:41,137 --> 00:36:42,570 RETRIEVERS AND POODLES FUCK. 1412 00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:44,205 THAT ONE WOULD HAVE ENDED WITH A 1413 00:36:44,274 --> 00:36:45,006 LIVE DOG ORGY ON STAGE. 1414 00:36:45,075 --> 00:36:46,641 WE STILL HAD THE ORGY, WE JUST 1415 00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:47,942 DIDN'T DO THE SHOW. 1416 00:36:48,011 --> 00:36:48,943 BLOOD ORANGES. 1417 00:36:49,012 --> 00:36:50,111 SPOILER ALERT: THEY'RE NOT 1418 00:36:50,180 --> 00:36:50,878 CALLED THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR 1419 00:36:50,947 --> 00:36:51,879 INSIDES. 1420 00:36:51,948 --> 00:36:52,847 THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. 1421 00:36:52,916 --> 00:36:54,615 SHE ACTUALLY COUGHED ONCE IN 1422 00:36:54,684 --> 00:36:56,083 1967 AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT 1423 00:36:56,152 --> 00:36:58,319 IT. 1424 00:36:58,388 --> 00:36:59,020 WE HAD A WHOLE STORY ON 1425 00:36:59,089 --> 00:37:00,388 UNILEVER. 1426 00:37:00,457 --> 00:37:02,223 ONE COMPANY MAKES MAYONNAISE, 1427 00:37:02,292 --> 00:37:05,860 Q-TIPS, AND KLONDIKE BARS? 1428 00:37:05,929 --> 00:37:06,429 THAT'S FUCKED UP, PROBABLY. 1429 00:37:06,496 --> 00:37:07,061 HONESTLY, WE NEVER REALLY GOT TO 1430 00:37:07,130 --> 00:37:08,529 THE BOTTOM OF THAT ONE, AND NOW 1431 00:37:08,598 --> 00:37:09,197 WE NEVER WILL. 1432 00:37:09,266 --> 00:37:09,997 AND FINALLY, HEADLIGHTS. 1433 00:37:10,066 --> 00:37:12,033 YOU'RE NOT WRONG, THEY ARE 1434 00:37:12,102 --> 00:37:12,569 ACTUALLY BRIGHTER NOW, FOR 1435 00:37:12,636 --> 00:37:13,367 REASONS INCLUDING THE RISE IN 1436 00:37:13,436 --> 00:37:15,169 THE USE OF BLUER LED LIGHTS AND 1437 00:37:15,238 --> 00:37:16,704 ISSUES WITH HEADLIGHT AIM AND 1438 00:37:16,773 --> 00:37:18,306 ALIGNMENT, ALL OF WHICH MAKES 1439 00:37:18,375 --> 00:37:25,375 EVERYONE DRIVING AT NIGHT FEEL 1440 00:37:25,815 --> 00:37:26,316 AT BEST BLIND AND, AT WORST, 1441 00:37:26,383 --> 00:37:26,716 COMPLETELY INSANE. 1442 00:37:26,783 --> 00:37:27,348 WE PLANNED TO MOTIVATE LAWMAKERS 1443 00:37:27,417 --> 00:37:27,949 TO MOVE FASTER TO ADDRESS THIS 1444 00:37:28,018 --> 00:37:28,583 BY POINTING BLINDING FLOODLIGHTS 1445 00:37:28,652 --> 00:37:29,517 AT CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES, BUT 1446 00:37:29,586 --> 00:37:30,918 WE RAN OUT OF TIME AND MONEY AND 1447 00:37:30,987 --> 00:37:31,886 ALSO, LEGAL FLAGGED THAT MOVE AS 1448 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:32,954 "TERRORISM." 1449 00:37:33,023 --> 00:37:34,355 [LAUGHTER] 1450 00:37:34,424 --> 00:37:36,257 SADLY, NONE OF THOSE STORIES 1451 00:37:36,326 --> 00:37:37,492 WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. 1452 00:37:37,561 --> 00:37:38,027 AND IF YOU'RE THINKING -- 1453 00:37:38,094 --> 00:37:39,026 "COME ON, JOHN, COULDN'T YOU 1454 00:37:39,095 --> 00:37:46,095 JUST DO THEM NEXT SEASON?" 1455 00:37:48,572 --> 00:37:48,972 NO, WE CAN'T, BECAUSE 1456 00:37:49,039 --> 00:37:49,472 UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A 1457 00:37:49,539 --> 00:37:49,939 TRADITION OF SHREDDING 1458 00:37:50,006 --> 00:37:50,538 ALL OUR SCRIPTS AT THE END OF 1459 00:37:50,607 --> 00:37:51,107 EVERY YEAR AND STARTING OVER 1460 00:37:51,174 --> 00:37:51,307 FRESH. 1461 00:37:51,374 --> 00:37:51,875 OUR PROCESS IS OUR PROCESS. 1462 00:37:51,942 --> 00:37:52,807 BUT WITH THAT, THAT'S IT. 1463 00:37:52,876 --> 00:37:53,441 ALL THAT'S LEFT TO DO AT THE END 1464 00:37:53,510 --> 00:37:56,644 OF THIS, OUR TENTH SEASON, IS 1465 00:37:56,713 --> 00:37:58,813 TO SAY GOODBYE TO OUR GIANT 1466 00:37:58,882 --> 00:38:01,015 PUPPET. 1467 00:38:01,084 --> 00:38:04,152 SAFE TRAVELS, MY FRIEND! 1468 00:38:04,221 --> 00:38:04,621 SAFE TRAVELS TO YOU! 1469 00:38:04,688 --> 00:38:05,253 WE'LL MISS YOU, BUT YOU'RE GOING 1470 00:38:05,322 --> 00:38:05,655 WHERE YOU BELONG. 1471 00:38:05,722 --> 00:38:06,254 AND REMEMBER, YOU'LL ALWAYS BE 1472 00:38:06,323 --> 00:38:07,221 NEW ZEALAND'S BIRD OF THE 1473 00:38:07,290 --> 00:38:07,855 CENTURY, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR 1474 00:38:07,924 --> 00:38:09,490 NOT. 1475 00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:12,727 BUT THAT IS IT! 1476 00:38:12,796 --> 00:38:13,327 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE 1477 00:38:13,396 --> 00:38:14,362 FOR WATCHING THIS YEAR! 1478 00:38:14,431 --> 00:38:14,898 THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF FOR 1479 00:38:14,965 --> 00:38:15,530 WORKING SO HARD. 1480 00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:16,631 WE'LL BE BACK NEXT FEBRUARY. 1481 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:17,698 AND WE'LL SEE YOU THEN. 1482 00:38:17,767 --> 00:38:18,633 GOOD NIGHT! 1483 00:38:18,702 --> 00:38:20,134 FLY AWAY! 1484 00:38:20,203 --> 00:38:21,803 FLY AWAY! 1485 00:38:21,872 --> 00:38:22,737 PUTEKETEKE! 1486 00:38:22,806 --> 00:38:23,938 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1487 00:38:24,007 --> 00:38:40,757 ♪ ♪ 1488 00:38:41,558 --> 00:38:42,391 ♪ ♪