2022
Everyone wants to know who Elon Musk really is.
There are clues to be found in his family history.
Whilst his mother, Maye, is often at his side,
he is never seen with his father.
Who has stayed in South Africa.
Something to steal things with,
go to, some place and break the lock.
My name is Errol Graham Musk, I'm Elon's father.
I've had to do a lot of repairs on this car,
it takes months to do this woodwork
as you have to it a spray at a time and let it dry.
At a time let it dry.
My relationship with Elon is very much the same
as my relationship I had with my father.
We mostly communicate on email, I
haven't spoken to him for quite a long time.
In 2017, Elon gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine.
He said about his father,
"Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of,
he has done."
You have to be a bit of a nut case really you know.
When a gang of intruders broke into Errol's house,
he killed three of them.
He was charged with murder but pleaded self-defense
and was not convicted.
My daughter and I were attacked there by gang.
They fired 52 shots at me and I fired two shots at them.
I was using a magnum, so one shot killed two people.
And the second shot, he died from a shot to the groin.
I was charged with murder but at the inquest I did get annoyed
when they said to me, "Couldn't you have used less violence?"
And then I said in the inquest in the court I said,
"Well you know, I only fired two shots. They fired 52."
So, you know, it was silly...
"Can't you use less violence?" Well, yeah, I don't know...
But it's terrible, I'm not happy with that, I'm not proud of it.
I didn't expect it, I didn't ask for it. But that's what happened.
But I was in the military in South Africa,
so my advice is, don't tangle with guys
who were in the military in South Africa.
Elon Musk is the richest man who has lived
but says he doesn't own a house.
He's little different than lot of other people.
It truly embodies big thinking and risk taking.
With a few taps from his fingers, global markets can crash and soar.
CEO Elon Musk creating chaos with a single tweet.
Bizarre shook confidence.
He is creating a chip that can be put into our brains.
-Yeah. -To a chip and a bunch of tiny wires.
Right now, he's building rockets that could take a 100 people to Mars.
His power and wealth continue to grow.
No one on earth is doing more to change the world.
Come on over, man.
Why and why would you want to talk to me?
Because you are the dude my friend. You are the dude.
THIS IS ELON MUSK'S STORY
He's done things that no other country can do.
It's quite magnificent.
-You're his mum and his greatest champion. -Yes.
EX-WIVES FAMILY FRIENDS ENEMIES
He's so dangerous. Completely, totally irresponsible.
It's not as much fun being me as you think. I'm not sure I want to be me.
SHOULD WE CELEBRATE HIS ACHIEVEMENTS?
It seems strange to be handing it
all over to private enterprise
but I guess I'm kind of stuck in the past.
OR BE FRIGHTENED BY HIS POWER?
-Unstable, reckless. -I'm just being me.
THE ELON MUSK SHOW
TRUMP TOWER
2016
In 2016, a new president has just been elected.
Elon will now need to work with a new government
when delivering on his multi-billion dollar SpaceX contracts.
I'm Safra Catz, I am the CEO of Oracle.
I'm actually privileged and honored to even be here.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon dot com.
Super excited about the possibilities
this could be innovation of this administration.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.
Building rockets and cars and solar stuff in the US.
I'm excited about expanding our manufacturing footprint in the US.
I just want to thank everybody, this is a truly amazing group of people.
I wanna add that I am here to help you folks do well.
There is nobody like you in the world, in the world.
There is nobody like the people in this room.
Elon, move it away.
Elon Musk is going big.
His profile is growing with millions of Twitter followers.
He is expanding his business empire with wildly ambitious companies,
designed to shape our future.
Shrouded in secrecy up until now this is Elon Musk's pet project.
the goal is to solve the problem of the chronic traffic congestion.
Either we try something new
or we will be stuck in traffic hell for rest of our lives.
Elon Musk is looking to get inside your head.
His Neuroscience startup Neuralink
aims to implant chips in the human brain to combat various diseases.
Basically, an effort for man to merge with machine in a healthy way.
To beat machines you basically have to merge with machines.
Most likely, yes.
Perhaps his biggest call is building one of the worlds largest factories
in the middle of the Nevada desert.
The Gigafactory will supply the ever-growing fleet of Tesla cars
with lithium-ion batteries.
He needs to convince 20 thousand people
to come to the desert and join the electric car company.
The hope for the Gigafactory was that
we were going to finally solve the market
problem of not being able to produce
or secure enough lithium-ion batteries.
So it really was a survival mechanism.
He announced to the world, as it's occurring to him,
we need to build biggest battery factory the world's ever seen,
if our own forecast is true, we won't have enough batteries
even if we took all that are made by everyone.
Eventually all cars will be electric with zero exception.
It will be companies like Tesla
and individuals like Elon Musk who lead that charge.
Need to encourage and find people and celebrate their existence
because that's the only hope we have for the future of the planet.
Welcome everyone to the Gigafactory launch party.
I hope you're having a good time.
I love you, Elon!
You're my hero!
I want you to have a great time tonight. This is meant...
To work at Tesla, I think you really need to be inspired
by more than just the job that you're doing on a day-to-day basis
but why they're doing it, those are the people
that are called to the mission
and will stay with the company and help it to succeed.
I think you will find that the majority of people
who worked definitely at Tesla
and I would assume at Space X, he asks us to do the impossible.
But it's only unattainable until you attain it, right?
Hopefully people will buy into it and start to believe.
-And... -We believe!
Change the world!
We're only able to do this because of you guys,
so without you this could not be possible
I want to thank you very much.
All of our secrets are right here.
I mean, it was a crazy sort of upwards trajectory
from nothing to everything.
It felt like being on a rocket.
We were being invited places and I remember we were...
We were at a party and actually I think I sat next to Bill Clinton.
Elon said the great thing about being famous
is when you sit next to somebody you don't know at party,
they think bad conversation is their fault
that is sort of what happens.
Everyone sort of listens to everything he says.
And I've had people say to me, oh, I met Elon
you know and he, you know, I could tell he was a genius
because he seemed incredibly distracted
and he was clearly thinking great things.
I'd be thinking, I know he probably just didn't like you
or he was probably bored.
I'd text Elon and, "Met so and so"
and he would be like, "Yeah, really boring."
Do that thing, Dad.
Talulah and Elon married in 2010, they then divorced and re-married.
Now in 2016 things are once again rocky
and they will divorce for a second time later in the year.
I found LA really tough from the moment I landed there.
It was an incredible culture shock and I just wanted to come home.
Yeah and I kept trying to come home
but then also I do really love Elon as well and...
So, you know, it took quite a few years of us figuring that out.
He could kind of see the way the world was going
in a way I just did not understand.
And I love having that perspective
and I am grateful for that, every part of that.
I hope he gets humanity to Mars
because I think that is his reason for being, more than any other.
There are really two fundamental paths.
One path is we stay on earth forever.
And then there will be some eventual extinction event.
The alternative is to become a multi planet species. That's what we want.
Of all of Elon's dreams, building a colony on Mars is the biggest.
Should Elon make it, he plans to set off a series of nuclear explosions.
Vaporizing the ice caps and heating the red plant.
In an effort to make it more habitable for humans and plants.
Mars especially in the beginning will not be luxurious.
It will be dangerous, cramped, difficult, hard work.
But it will be glorious!
Elon has bought part of a village called Boca Chica,
next to the Gulf of Mexico.
He is buying the residents out of their homes
and creating a base to build his spaceships.
The plan is for a mission to Mars in 2029.
I can't take a selfie!
I must actually work, if I do one selfie, I must do many selfies.
This is the problem.
In order to be fair, If I do a selfie,
then I get trapped in selfie land.
What are the plans for coming months?
You from the news? Oh, okay, cool.
Well, as you can see we're building a production facility here,
a real production facility.
Can you tell us a little bit about what you're building?
A spaceship.
Please join me in welcoming Elon Musk!
What I want to try and achieve here is to make Mars seems possible
and make it seem something we can do in our lifetimes.
And that you can go.
This is to give you a sense of size. It's quite big.
But it kind of needs to be about this size
because in order to fit 100 people
or there abouts in the pressurized section, plus carry the luggage
and all of the unpressurized cargo, to build propellant plants
and build everything from iron foundries to pizza joints,
to you name it, we need to carry a lot of cargo.
Elon's plan is to send thousands of spaceships to Mars
in order to build a new civilization.
In order to build a self-sustaining city,
its needs to be a million people or something like that.
If moving to Mars costs, $100,000 dollars,
then I think almost anyone can work
and save up and eventually be able to go to Mars if they want to.
If you look at who the most famous human being
in all of human history is.
I can tell you who that is but I can't tell you what their name is
I can't tell you what sex the person is but I can tell you
it's going to be the first human born on another planet like Mars right,
so this vision is what drives Elon.
FEBRUARY 2018
There are a number of steps on the road to Mars,
the first is a successful launch of the Falcon Heavy.
This will demonstrate that a significant payload
can be launched into earths orbit.
You are looking at a live view of the Falcon Heavy.
Yes, the Falcon Heavy.
Falcon Heavy is essentially three Falcon Nine rockets
all strapped together
which means it can carry much larger payloads not only to Earth orbit
but to the Moon and Mars as well.
Okay, everything's great guys, party time.
It must be experienced live. I can't...
It's just...
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
You see them both light up?
That's unreal!
Once the rockets have lifted the Falcon Heavyinto orbit,
they then detach themselves and land back on earth.
When the Falcon Heavy is in orbit,
it's then able to release the cherry red Tesla
which is heading towards Mars.
It's kind of silly and fun
but that's silly and fun things are important.
I mean, it's still tripping me out. I'm tripping balls here.
For Elon's final trick,
he successfully lands the two falcon rockets.
And the falcons have landed.
Well, you have to give him credit.
He is one of our great geniuses, so we have to protect them.
We have to protect Thomas Edison
and we have to protect all of these people
that came up originally with the lightbulb
and the wheel and all of these things
and he is one of our very smart people
and we want to cherish those people,
that's very important but he's done a very good job.
The success and showmanship of this rocket launch
only adds to Elon's public profile.
For many he is turning in to a real-life superhero.
It's a long way from where it started.
In 1970's South Africa in a city called Pretoria.
South Africa was a bit of rapscallion setup, you know.
Getting knocked about was pretty normal.
If you did well in at school,
they would wait for you at the exit at the school
and pommel you with their bags.
And if you call that bullying, we had a lot of that.
Elon was a good reader very early on.
Elon was keen about reading about Napoleon, about Alexander the Great
and he even had a copy of Napoleons last will and testament
which was in French.
People would say to him, are you reading that big thick book,
some idiot would say to him and Elon would say, "What are you stupid?
"You think I'm just looking at the pictures or what?"
So, you know... But he liked to be with the adults in company.
If other kids were running around playing,
he would like to sit with adults.
He was told, why don't you play with children?
He'd say, "I'd rather sit with adults."
This engine was used for many, many cars from about 1968 to 1986.
I had a lot of nice cars during Elon's youth.
Porsche and Mercedes,
Ferrari and Maserati.
He was interested in taking doors apart and that stuff.
Because sometimes you had to fix something and he would do it.
He would open it up for himself for me.
I wouldn't say he was the best mechanic.
Most amateur mechanics are a little bit ham handed
but he would certainly try.
He was definitely not a boring child.
Tesla has launched the Roadster and the model S but for eclectic cars
to take over, the more affordable model 3 needs to be a success.
The scaling of the company was a challenge
and Elon definitely had a handful of people that he trusted
and he put in place in charge of the Gigafactory and design and etcetera.
There was so much on his plate that he couldn't be because
he liked to be very involved in lot of the details
but that way of working was starting to fracture.
Tesla reporting first quarter results,
we can't call them earnings because it's a loss.
This is 15-year-old company that genuinely risks
running out of cash in 2018.
APRIL 2018
As well as production issues, there are also cash flow issues.
Investors are starting to get nervous.
There were things that would come out of his mouth
and words that he would say to people that
under any amount of stress were not okay.
He was more erratic.
I can count three times that he got really upset with me.
And the last time, he was yelling at me
about a mistake that someone on my team made.
And he was really angry.
And there was a disconnect.
I wasn't seeing Elon. I was seeing this person
being overtaken by this anger.
And it was so bizarre. In kind of the blink of an eye,
I saw him snap out of it and recognize that it was me.
And it was fine and he apologized to me the next day.
But it was in that moment that I decided, I've hit my limit.
And it is time to go.
As the CEO of Tesla,
every quarter Elon is asked questions by Wall Street investors.
In May 2018, he is irritated by their questions.
So where specifically will you be in terms of Musk:
Next, next.
Boring, bonehead questions are not cool. Next.
We have no interest in satisfying the desires of day traders,
like I couldn't care less, please sell our stock and don't buy it.
If people are concerned they shouldn't buy our stock.
JMP says it's bizarre. RBC says the call shook confidence.
This is not okay because if you stripped away Tesla
and you didn't know who the CEO was you would come away
from conference call, most people would at least
and say company is not run properly.
This company just cost us two billion dollars in market cap
because of what the CEO did.
The pressure on Elon Musk continues to mount.
There are problems on the factory floor.
Whistle blowers from his Giga factory contact journalists with information.
Am I wrinkly?
Linette Lopez breaks the story.
The first piece I wrote about Tesla was in the spring of 2018
and it was called, "Elon Musk Doesn't Care About You".
It was shortly after Elon Musk had sat on a earnings call
and insulted a bunch of the investment bankers
trying to ask questions about the company.
Digging even deeper, there were many environmental violations
which was crazy considering that this guy was trying to save the planet.
And I just realized Elon's project is Elon and it's not about anyone else.
A secret whistleblower approaches Linette
to discuss the waste issues within Tesla.
As he was working in the factory,
he saw all the waste, all the incompetence.
It was a whole mess.
He emailed Elon Musk
and said, "Look, our manufacturing process is so disjointed.
Elon did respond to that email
and say, "Yes, at Tesla, we need to lower our scrap count.
This is crucial."
And that's when I realized how damaging
what I had written actually was.
Linette publishes an article based on confidential documents leaked to her
by the whistle blower, reporting that 40 percent of the raw materials
used to produce the batteries needed to be scrapped or reworked.
Automakers around the world have really minimal scrap.
And here was Tesla, its share price beating all these legacy automakers.
And they waste hundreds of millions of dollars on waste.
That, to me, was also something investors should know.
It's not something you see every day,
well-known CEO calling out reporter publicly
but that's exactly what happened
last week when Tesla founder, Elon Musk
criticized Business Insider's Linette Lopez
over her coverage of the company.
Linette Lopez is with us in studio today.
This all started because Musk took issue with a story
that you posted on Business Insider on June 4th.
What my reporting indicates is that the mission of Tesla
is not really quite in line with the manufacturing of Tesla.
And after that article, that's when Elon started harassing me on Twitter.
All of his fans are stalking me and making fun of me.
And pretty soon after that, he started looking into the person
who might be feeding me this information.
After some internal investigations the whistle blower is located.
It's a worker on the assembly line called Martin Tripp.
Leaking internal documents to the press is in breach of his contract
and he is fired.
But the after effects of the spat still rumble on.
At one point, the Nevada police are called
and are told Martin is on his way to the Gigafactory with a gun.
You're not under arrest, just checking you for weapons, okay?
-You don't have any guns on you? -No, no.
Do you mind if I just pat you down real quick.
How did this get so blown outta...
I was whistleblowing about all the waste and...
There's like 732 cars that have problems with the cells.
They keep saying that I'm stealing data still and I'm not that smart.
Gotcha, well, don't worry.
We just to find out what's going on because everybody...
He tells such big lies.
For Martin, this situation was a disaster. It upended his home life.
He couldn't work for a very long time.
Elon did what he did to Martin to make sure everyone at Tesla
understood the consequences of speaking to the press.
TRIPP WAS NOT CARRYING GUN WHEN POLICE STOPPED HIM.
POLICE NEVER FOUND OUT WHO MADE FALSE TIP.
Two weeks later, Elon will once again find himself
in the middle of a news story.
But this time it's an event on the other side of the world.
As water continued to rise, equipment for a serious diving operation
was transferred by hand and by hoist deep into the cave.
JULY 2018
In the Tham Luang cave in Northern Thailand,
12 boys and their football coach are trapped.
The world becomes gripped by the story
waiting to see if they can be rescued alive.
But it remains unclear how they're going to get the children out.
Without the boys needing to use scuba equipment.
Despite the mounting issues for Elon,
he decides to allocate some of his engineers to build a mini submarine
that he believes can save the stranded children.
Elon flies to Thailand to talk to the Thai rescue team
and deliver his mini submarine.
But as he arrives, the rescue is already under way.
The 13 trapped people are successfully rescued.
British cave diver Vernon Unsworth,
is at the heart of the rescue and is unimpressed by Elon's submarine.
The submarine I believe was about 5 foot 6 long, rigid,
so it wouldn't have gone around corners, or around any obstacles.
It wouldn't have made the first 50 meters into the cave
from the dive start point.
Just a PR stunt.
Irritated by the rescuer's comments, Elon takes to Twitter...
When Elon tweets, he just goes what's in his mind at the moment.
MAYE MUSK ELON'S MOTHER
Yeah.
Some I understand and some I don't.
When Twitter first started, I used to call it naughty Twitter fingers.
Because I'd be like, please don't, stop,
there's no need to do that, don't do that.
Three days later, Elon returns to Twitter and apologizes
but for Vernon the damage has already been done.
Vern Unsworth, a hero of the rescue,
should have been enjoying morning's cave cleansing ceremony.
Instead, he was fuming.
It's not finished.
What is your sense of this trial as it begins?
How has it damaged you?
Vernon decides to sue Elon.
18 months later they face each other in court.
What is expected to be a fiery trial,
pitting the richest man in Los Angeles
against a British cave expert. Now did Elon Musk
imply Vernon Unsworth was a Pedophile?
And did he take quote
"reasonable care to determine whether that was true
before he said it" Jury's going to have to decide that.
Elon Musk was described as in court as a billionaire bully
but the jury saw it differently.
The jury said the tweet was an insult, not an accusation.
Vernon went toe to toe with a billionaire bully.
Not many people have the courage to do that.
It's a combination of, he doesn't realize
quite what the impact of his words
are going to be in a lot of cases.
And in a lot of other cases, I just don't think he cares.
-How is Mr. Musk with the decision? -Everyone is well. Thank you all.
ELON WINS ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE
THAT WHAT HE CLAIMED ABOUT VERNON WAS TRUE
That is why he's so dangerous on Twitter
because he's a powerful person who is completely, totally irresponsible.
Elon's Twitter account is now one of the biggest in the world.
He has 22 million followers.
Check, check one, two, three.
On August the 7th,
he sends a tweet saying that he is thinking of taking Tesla private
by buying out other share holders, this inflates Tesla's stock price.
Good evening, everybody thanks for joining us,
here is Stephine Bacon and Stephen Peakin co directors of enforcement.
They'll deliver remarks and will take questions, I'll hand it over.
We start with the Tweet heard around the world.
CEO Elon Musk creating chaos with single tweet
which led to the stock soaring
and then being halted and the soaring once again.
Today the SEC filed securities for our charges against Elon Musk
the chairman and CEO of Tesla motors
stemming from his August 7th, 2018,
statements disseminated over Twitter that
he was considering taking Tesla private.
I see a smile, do you want to say something?
-Do you want to say something? -What about the SEC?
After the courtcase, Elon agrees to settle.
There is a 20 million dollar fine, he steps down as the chairman of Tesla
and agrees to have his tweets checked before they are sent.
Thank you very much.
Have you had any of your tweets censored since the settlement?
-No. -None.
Someone has to read them before they go out?
-No. -So your tweets are not supervised?
The only tweets that would have to say, reviewed,
would be if a tweet had a probability of causing a movement in the stock.
But how do they know if it's going to move the market
if they're not reading all of them, before you send them?
Well, I guess we might make some mistakes, who knows?
-Are you serious? -Nobody's perfect.
I want to be clear, I do not respect the SEC.
I do not respect them.
One of the things about Elon Musk
is that he hates when other people win.
And he hates when people... more than anything,
I think, he hates when people bet against him.
It's like a real thing for him.
I think that what Elon realized
after his 420 tweet was, "I got to be careful.
I don't need to cause this havoc and this mayhem
"but at the same time, they can't stop me."
There was a tweet afterwards where he said
that he had a new acronym for what the SEC, stood for.
It was Suck Elon's, yeah.
He really likes to fuck with them.
That's the most powerful person in the world right there.
It was definitely a defining moment for Elon and I think after that,
he was just over it all. He was just done with it.
That was it, he started doing whatever he really wanted to.
Billionaire Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame
like we've never seen him before.
Smoking pot on YouTube.
SEPTEMBER 2018
So is that a joint?
Or is it a cigar?
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is the subject of a new controversy
after he appeared to smoke marijuana during a podcast interview.
-Billionaire, Tesla head Elon Musk. -What is he up to?
We know what he's up to.
Once again seeming to dare people to call him out.
I think the concern is his ego.
Why did he make himself you know smoking pot with Joe Rogan
that he tried to make mini submarine to save those boys in Thailand.
Stop making yourself the news!
Ladies and gentleme...
With the noise growing around Elon's behavior,
Elon decides to go on one of the biggest shows on American TV,
to reveal something about himself that he has not mentioned before.
Thank you, thank you very much.
It's an honor to be hosting. I am making history tonight
as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL.
I would not call it Asperger's chronic,
I'd call it Asperger's acute.
Or at least the first to admit it.
Once we get our mind on something, we tend to not stop.
Not you can't sleep but you wake up, you go to bed with it in your head
and you wake up with it in your head.
You focus on it entirely, continually,
to the point that you might forget to eat.
Not ever, you know you can't get the person to say, look, quit.
Quit now. Quit now. Stop this.
It's a kind of passion or something that
possesses you to just keep on trying,
keep on trying.
After his divorce from Talulah Riley, Elon dates Amber Heard.
But in 2018 he appears at the MET Gala with Grimes,
an electro-pop artist.
Elon Musk and Grimes met in the modern way through Twitter.
They both made similar nerdy joke
about a scary AI theory of the future called Roko's basilisk
which I don't really even get
and that her interests are all the same as his,
her music is very technologically orientated
she makes everything digitally.
If I could be the fly on the wall
in any relationship that we know in this world.
From the moment they got together
I was always like, god I would love to be in a room with them.
Grimes and Elon have had two children together.
Exa Dark Sideræl and X æ a-xii.
She told me repeatedly
that Musk has this theory of her that she's not real,
that she's a simulation who was created by him
and exists in his cerebral cortex as sort of the perfect companion for him
which sounds little crazy
and maybe even a little creepy, except she agrees with it.
She said she does feel like in some way,
she's like this simulation who is perfectly created for him.
I think Elon is busier than I have ever been.
And even when I'm with him, I don't see him much
unless I sit in the back of the meetings
but then a wife or girlfriend doesn't have that.
So, they really don't see that much if him at all.
LAUNCH AMERICA
LAUNCHING AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS
ON AMERICAN ROCKETS
FROM AMERICAN SOIL
MAY 2020
These are steps to a new era of space flight and this is the rocket
but by Space X, a company about to make history
by carrying people into space.
And there they are NASA Astronauts.
Doug on the left, Bob on the right.
Now they are getting into the Tesla model X that's going to take them
to the launch pad, strapped into their seats.
And those falcon wing doors are closing. Super sleek.
With the imminent launch of the Crewed Dragon space-craft,
President Trump has flown in to witness a day of national importance.
I want to say this is a very exciting day for our country.
I thank Elon for, who has been a friend of mine for a long time,
somebody I have great respect for but this is 24/7 for you.
You're always thinking about this,
you're thinking about other things too. But this has been your baby.
I told my team this is not simply top priority, this is the only priority.
That's great.
T-minus 15 seconds.
This will be the first time private company has attempted
to transport astronauts into space.
Elon will be fulfilling his contract with the US government and NASA.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one, zero. Ignition.
Lift off of the Falcon 9 Crew Dragon.
Go Nasa, go SpaceX, God speed Bob and Doug!
Flying crew on board dragon and Falcon 9 and look at them go!
He's one of our great brains and we like great brains.
Elon's done a fantastic job.
And this is just the beginning, they're going to Mars.
And I think anyone of you that was an inspiration
to see what we just saw.
Right now, everything continuing to look good.
Well, everyone. Welcome aboard Dragon.
My name is Doug, next to me is Bob, you probably know him.
We have Bob Benkin from SpaceX demo two mission,
entering the international space station.
I will tell you the whole world saw this mission
and we are so, so proud of everything you have done for our country
and in fact to inspire the world.
We sure appreciate that, sir,
it has obviously been out honor to be just a small part of this.
We need to give credit to Space X.
We are just really glad to be on board this magnificent complex.
2021
Three, two, one, ignition
Starship is the tallest and most powerful launch vehicle, ever built.
6 minutes 10 seconds to the flight, we're down...
It is designed to be fully re-usable.
...vertical and transition to one engine for the landing burn.
Landing the 100 ton spacecraft proves challenging.
But on the 5th attempt, the engineers at SpaceX crack it.
Starship is the spacecraft
that will fulfill Elon's ultimate dream of flying to Mars.
So this is the most inspiring thing I have ever seen.
We're faced with a choice which future do you want.
Do you want the future where we're space faring civilization
and are in many worlds? And are out there amongst the stars,
or one where we are forever confined to Earth and I say it is the first.
He wants to be known as the greatest engineer
that we have seen in our lifetimes.
He genuinely wants to move humankind forward
and he wants us to challenge ourselves.
That is a more exciting future for humankind
from his standpoint than one where we are forever anchored to Earth.
There is no question he'll go to Mars.
Why he's doing the Boring Company?
It's going to send one up there
he can bore underground, you can have some shade.
Why think he's doing electric? Because you can use solar in Mars
and you can solar to battery, battery to vehicle, battery to home.
Why do you think he's doing that? Because you got to have that.
You can't go up there and plug something in.
There's a much bigger picture
in Elon's mind than what mere mortals are aware of today.
But when you step back and you look at it,
some way or another it all goes together.
Let's make this real, let's make this real!
And I have also learnt and I think a lot of people have learnt
that if he says that he can do it, don't discount Elon,
don't say no to Elon, you are going to lose, you're going to lose.
2022
We know how the media treats you...
-So, well! -Yeah.
I don't have a question for you today,
I just want to say on behalf of my six-year-old at home, Kyler Scott,
who's watching right now who thinks you're awesome as well,
thank you for making the world a better place.
Thank you.
In the summer of 2022, Elon has over a 100 million followers on Twitter.
I think Tesla would continue to do very well
even if I were kidnapped by aliens.
Or went back to my home planet maybe?
Population of Mars is still zero people!
Elon! When are you taking us to space? We are waiting.
He is now the richest man in the world
and has become a divisive character,
many believe he should spend his billions
helping to solve the problems on earth.
You're asking those billionaires who are going to space,
the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to help...
Every four seconds someone is dying out there from hunger related causes.
Wake up, smell the coffee and help!
The days when these guys not only get to rake it all in
but rub everyone else's nose in it while they head off into outer space
while they declare they did this all on their own
while they were subsidized by the federal government
and subsided by every waitress
and by every public-school teacher who paid their taxes. This is wrong!
Elon is really dedicated to saving this planet.
I'm happy to say that SpaceX and Tesla
are in the hands of my brilliant son.
Well, genius son. We admire him for that.
We don't want to be him because with those companies
he gets a lot of hate.
Stop being mean to him! I hate it when the media are mean to him!
Why didn't you use the money
to do something for charity, philanthropy,
more good with that money.
I do a lot of things, philanthropically.
He gets up every morning thinking what can I do for humanity today?
How can I do something that will be impactful to humanity of the future?
That's what he is focused on.
Elon is not going to buy Twitter. Oh, he's got himself a mess.
He said the other day, "I have never voted for a Republican",
I said, "I didn't know that", he said that he voted for me.
So he is another bullshit artist.
But he's not going to be buying it, he's not going to be buying it.
He might later, who the hell knows what's going to happen.
Everything about Elon is a contradiction.
There's this incredible inventor
and then there's this person who makes
some pretty silly business decisions.
Elon and these... a lot of these tech guys,
are just casting themselves as heroes in their favorite sci-fi novels.
A lot of those books are dark
because they're about a hero who saves the world from dystopia.
Of course, if you're going to be that hero, dystopia has to exist first.
I do have some dark dreams
I don't know why I've always had those from when I was a kid.
Vivid dreams that are often scary.
In Elon's mind, that dystopia is coming and they want to be that hero.
And the work that they do is to aggrandize that vision.
It's not about you or me
it's not about the truth of what's going to happen to our planet.
It's just really a monument to their childhood.
He learned everything about Tesla, Einstein.
He has learned everything that they knew
and he's trying to take it to the next level.
So, I think he's the closest thing that we have
to that kind of a figure in our day and age
and I think by the time he is done building his legacy
it will be unquestionable that he is a accumulation
of Einstein, Tesla and Rockefeller.
When you set out to do something incredibly hard,
there are going to be a lot of hard days that go along with that.
Okay, thank you!
You Tweeted that you are building
a tunnel under Washington DC, why?
What is it? Well, it's a secret plot just between us.
There are part of him you'll never know,
how did he get so strong willed.
I would say without a doubt that he is genuine.
There is not a shred of doubt,
there isn't ulterior motive or a secret greedy
You know I'm gonna have my volcano island...like no!
He leads with his heart on his sleeve in a very honest,
I would say in an almost overly honest
projection of both opportunity and risk.
We're all going to die someday.
And if you're going to pick some place to die, then why not Mars.
2029?
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