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This programme contains
some strong language.
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Everyone wants to know
who Elon Musk really is.
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There are clues to be found
in his family history.
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Whilst his mother, May, is often
at his side, he is never seen
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with his father,
who has stayed in South Africa.
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Something to steal things with.
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Go to some place
and break their lock!
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My name is Errol Graham Musk.
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I'm Elon's father.
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I've had to do a lot of repairs
on this car.
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It takes months to do this wood work
because you have to spray a time,
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let it dry, a time.
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Let it dry.
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My relationship with Elon
is very much the same
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as my relationship
I had with my father.
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We mostly communicate on email.
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I haven't spoken to them
for quite a long time.
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In 2017, Elon gave an interview
to Rolling Stone magazine.
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He said about his father...
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You have to be a bit of a nutcase,
really, you know?
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When a gang of intruders
broke into Errol's house,
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he killed three of them.
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He was charged with murder
but pleaded self-defence,
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and was not convicted.
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My daughter and I were attacked
there by a gang.
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They fired 52 shots at me,
and I fired two shots at them.
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I was using a Magnum.
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One shot killed two people.
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And the second shot, he died
from the shot to the groin.
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I was charged with murder,
but at the inquest I did get annoyed
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when they said to me, "couldn't
you have used less violence?"
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And then I said in the court,
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I said, "well, you know,
I only fired two shots, you know.
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"They fired 52."
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So, you know, it was silly.
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"Can't you use less violence?"
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Well, I don't know.
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But it's terrible.
I'm not happy with that.
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I'm not proud of it.
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I didn't expect it.
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I didn't ask for it.
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But that's what happened.
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But I was in the military
in South Africa.
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So my advice is, don't tangle
with guys who are in the military
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in South Africa!
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Elon Musk is the richest man
who has ever lived
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but says he doesn't own a house.
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He's a little different
than a lot of other people.
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He truly embodies big thinking
and risk taking.
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With a few taps from his fingers,
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global markets can crash and soar.
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CEO Elon Musk creating chaos
with a single tweet.
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It's bizarre, shook confidence.
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He's probably sleep deprived.
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This company is not run properly.
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He is creating a chip
that can be put into our brains.
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Yeah, a chip and a bunch
of tiny wires.
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And it would do what,
could you input?
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Could you download Jim?
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Yes.
What?
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And right now, he's building rockets
that could take 100 people to Mars.
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His power and wealth
continue to grow.
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No-one on Earth is doing more
to change the world.
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Come on over, man.
Why?
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Why would you want to talk to me?
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Because you...
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Dude, my friend, you are the dude.
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He's done things that
no other country can do.
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It's quite magnificent.
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You're Elon's mum? Yes.
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And his greatest champion? Yes.
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He's so dangerous.
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Completely, totally irresponsible.
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It's not as much fun being me
as you'd think.
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I'm not sure I want to be me.
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It seems a little strange to be
handing it all over to private
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enterprise, but I guess I'm
kind of stuck in the past, huh?
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Unstable, reckless.
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I'm just being me.
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In 2016, a new president
has just been elected.
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Ginni Rometty, the CEO of IBM...
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Elon will now need to work
with a new government
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when delivering on his multibillion
dollar SpaceX contracts.
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Well, I just want
to thank everybody.
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This is a truly amazing
group of people.
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I want to add that I'm here
to help you folks do well.
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There's nobody like you
in the world.
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In the world, there's nobody like
the people in this room.
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Elon, how about a wave?
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Elon Musk is going big.
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His profile is growing with millions
of Twitter followers.
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And he's expanding his business
empire
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with wildly ambitious companies,
designed to shape our future.
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Shrouded in secrecy up until now,
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this is Elon Musk's pet project.
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The goal is to solve the problem
of chronic traffic congestion.
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Either we try something new
or we will be stuck in traffic hell
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for the rest of our lives.
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Elon Musk is looking to get
inside your head.
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His neuroscience startup, Neuralink,
aims to implant chips in the human
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brain to combat various diseases.
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Basically an effort for man to merge
with machine in a healthy way? Yes.
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To beat machines, you basically
have to merge with machines?
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Most likely, yes.
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But perhaps his biggest call
is building one of the world's
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largest factories in the middle
of the Nevada desert.
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The Gigafactory will supply the ever
growing fleet of Tesla cars
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with lithium ion batteries.
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He needs to convince 20,000 people
to come to the desert
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and join the electric car company.
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The hope for the Gigafactory was
that we were going to finally
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solve the market problem of not
being able to produce or secure
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enough lithium ion batteries,
right?
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So it really was
a survival mechanism.
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Announced to the world,
like, as it's occurring to him,
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that we need to build
the biggest battery factory
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the world has ever seen.
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Because if our own forecast is true,
we won't have enough batteries,
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even if we took all that are
being made by everyone.
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Eventually all cars will be
electric, with zero exception.
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It will be companies like Tesla
and individuals like Elon Musk
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who lead that charge.
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We need to encourage and find
more people like that and celebrate
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their existence on this planet,
because that's the only hope
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we have for the future
of the planet.
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I want to welcome everyone
to the Gigafactory launch party.
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I hope you have a good time!
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Listen, I really want you
to have a great time tonight.
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To work at Tesla,
I think you really need
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to be inspired
by more than just the job
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that they're doing
on a day to day basis.
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But why they're doing it,
those are the people that are called
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to the mission and will stay
with the company
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and help it to succeed.
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I think you'll find the majority
of people that have worked
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definitely at Tesla and I would
assume probably at SpaceX to say
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like, he asks us
to do the impossible,
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but it's only unattainable
until you attain it, right?
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Hopefully people will
buy into it and...
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And, you know, start to believe
and...
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But thanks.
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You know, we're only able to do this
because of you guys.
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So it's without, without you,
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this could not be possible.
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So I just want to say
thank you very much.
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I mean, all of our secrets
are right here!
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I mean, it was a crazy, crazy
sort of upwards trajectory
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from nothing to everything.
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It felt like being on a rocket.
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You know, we were being
invited places.
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And I remember we were,
you know, we were at a party,
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and then actually at that dinner,
I think I sat next to Bill Clinton.
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And Elon said, "the great
thing about being famous is
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"that when you sit next to somebody
you don't know a dinner party,
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"they think the bad conversation
is their fault"
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because that is
sort of what happens now.
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Everyone sort of listens
to everything he says.
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And I've had people say to me,
"Oh, I met Elon and, you know,
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"and you know, I could tell
he was a genius because he seemed
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"incredibly distracted and he was
clearly thinking great things."
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And I'd be thinking, really?
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He probably just didn't like
you or was probably a bit bored.
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And then I'd text Elon and be like,
"just met so-and-so"
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and he'd be like,
"Oh, yeah, really boring."
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Do that thing, Dad.
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Talulah and Elon married in 2010.
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They then divorced and remarried.
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Now in 2016, things are once again
rocky and they will divorce
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for a second time later in the year.
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I found LA really tough
from the moment I landed there.
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It was an incredible culture shock.
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But I just wanted to come home.
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Yeah, and I kept trying
to come home.
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But then also, I do really love
Elon as well.
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And so, you know, it took quite
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a few years of us figuring that out.
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But I mean, I think he could
kind of see the way the world
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was going in a way
I just did not understand.
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And I love having that perspective.
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And I'm grateful for that,
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that whole,
for every part of that.
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I hope he gets humanity to Mars,
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because I think that is his reason
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for being more than any other.
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There are really
two fundamental paths.
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One path is we stay
on Earth forever.
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And then there will be some
eventual extinction event.
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The alternative is to become
a multi-planet species.
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That's what we want.
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Of all of Elon's dreams, building
a colony on Mars is the biggest.
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Should Elon make it,
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he plans to set off a series
of nuclear explosions.
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Vaporising the ice caps
and heating the red planet,
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in an effort to make it more
habitable for humans and plants.
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Mars, especially in the beginning,
will not be luxurious.
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It will be dangerous,
cramped.
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Difficult, hard work.
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But it will be glorious.
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Elon has bought part of
a village called Boca Chica
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next to the Gulf of Mexico.
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He is buying the residents
out of their homes and creating
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a base to build his spaceships.
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The plan is for a mission
to Mars in 2029.
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I can't do the selfie.
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If I do it, I must actually work.
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If I do one selfie,
then I must do many selfies.
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This is the problem.
Nourish me fit.
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Then I get in, selfie...
I'm trapped in selfie land.
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What are the plans in coming months?
Why are you here?
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Are you from, like, the news?
Local media. OK, cool.
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Well, well, obviously, as you can
see, we're building a production
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facility here,
a real production facility.
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Can you tell us a little bit
about what you're building,
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just in basic terms?
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A spaceship.
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Please join me in welcoming
Elon Musk.
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What I really want to try to achieve
here is to make Mars the impossible.
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Make it seem as though
it's something that we can do
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in our lifetimes.
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And that you can go.
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This is to give you a sense of size.
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It's quite big!
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But it kind of needs to be about
this size because in order to fit
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100 people or thereabouts
in the pressurised section,
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plus carry the luggage and all
of the unpressurized cargo
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to build propellant plants and build
everything from iron foundries
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to pizza joints to
you name it in the...
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But we need carry a lot of cargo.
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Elon's plan is to send thousands
of spaceships to Mars
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in order to build
a new civilisation.
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In order to build
a self-sustaining city,
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it needs to be a million people
or something like that.
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If moving to Mars costs $100,000,
then I think, you know,
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almost anyone can work and save up
and eventually be able to go to Mars
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if they want.
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If you look at who
the most famous human being
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in all of human history is,
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I can tell you who that is,
but I can't tell you
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what their name is.
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I can't tell you what sex
the person is.
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But I can tell you it's going to be
the first human born on another
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planet like Mars, right?
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So this vision is what drives Elon.
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There are a number of steps
on the road to Mars.
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The first is a successful
launch of the Falcon Heavy.
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This will demonstrate
that a significant payload
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can be launched into Earth's orbit.
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You are looking at a live view
of the Falcon Heavy.
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Yes, the Falcon Heavy.
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Falcon heavy is essentially
three Falcon 9 rockets,
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all strapped together,
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which means it can carry
much larger payloads not only
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to Earth orbit, but to the moon
and Mars as well.
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OK, everything's great, guys.
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OK, party times.
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It must be experienced live.
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I can't...
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Hey, it's just, yeah!
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Ten, nine, eight, seven,
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six, five, four, three, two, one.
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You see them both light up?
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What?
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That's unreal!
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Once the rockets have lifted
the Falcon Heavy into orbit,
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they then detach themselves
and land back on Earth.
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When the Falcon Heavy is in orbit,
it's then able to release
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the cherry red Tesla,
which is heading towards Mars.
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# Look at those cavemen go
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# It's the freakiest show
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# Take a look at the lawman
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# Beating up the wrong guy
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# Oh, man, wonder
if he'll ever know...#
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Star booster and boost off...
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Centre court beat back on shutdown.
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I mean, it's kind of silly and fun,
but, you know, silly, fun things
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are important and
it's still tripping me out.
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I mean, I'm tripping bulls here!
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They're looking to be on track
towards the respective landings...
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for Elon's final trick,
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he successfully lands
the two Falcon rockets.
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And the Falcons have landed!
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You have to give him credit.
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He's one of our great geniuses,
and we have to protect our genius.
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You know, we have to protect
Thomas Edison and we have to protect
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all of these people that came up
with originally the light bulb
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and the wheel and
all of these things.
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And he's one of our
very smart people.
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And we want to we want
to cherish those people.
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That's very important.
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But he's done a very good job.
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The success and showmanship
of this rocket launch
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only adds to Elon's public profile.
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For many, he is turning
into a real life superhero.
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It's a long way from
where it started.
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In 1970, South Africa,
in a city called Pretoria.
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South Africa was a bit of a
rapscallion set-up, you know?
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Getting knocked about
was pretty normal.
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I mean, if you did well at school,
they would wait for you
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at the exit of the school
and pummel you with a bag.
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So, I mean, if you call that
bullying, we had a lot of that.
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Elon was a good reader very early
on, Elon was very keen on reading
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about Napoleon, about Alexander
the Great, and he would,
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he even had a copy of Napoleon's
last will and testament,
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which is in French.
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People would say to him,
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"are you reading that big,
thick book, little boy?"
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some idiot would say to him
and Elon would say,
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"What, are you stupid?
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"You think I'm just looking
at the pictures or what?"
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So, you know.
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But he liked to be with the adults
in company.
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So if the other kids
were running around, playing,
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he would like to sit
with the adults.
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He was often told, "why don't you go
and play with the children?"
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And he'd say, "no, I'd rather
sit here with the adults."
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This engine was used for many, many
cars from about 1968 to 1986.
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I had a lot of nice cars
during Elon's youth.
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Porsche and Mercedes,
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Ferrari and Maserati.
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He was always interested in taking
the doors apart and all that sort
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of stuff, because sometimes
you had to fix something
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and he would do it.
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He would open it up himself for me.
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I wouldn't say he was
the best mechanic,
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you know, most amateur mechanics
are a little bit ham-handed.
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But he would certainly try.
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He was definitely
not a boring child.
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Not a boring child.
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Tesla has launched
the Roadster and the Model S,
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but for electric cars to take over,
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the more affordable Model 3
needs to be a success.
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The scaling of the company
was a challenge, and Elon definitely
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had a handful of people
that he trusted and he put
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in place in charge
of the Gigafactory
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and design and etc.
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There was so much on his plate
that he couldn't be,
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because he liked to be very involved
in a lot of the details.
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But that kind of way of working
was starting to fracture.
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Breaking news, Tesla reporting
first quarter results.
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We can't call them earnings
because it's a loss.
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This is a 15-year-old company
that could genuinely risk
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running out of cash in 2018.
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As well as production issues,
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there are also cash flow issues.
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Investors are starting
to get nervous.
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There were things that would come
out of his mouth.
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And words that he would say
to people that,
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under any amount of stress,
were not OK.
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He was more erratic.
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I can count three times
that he got really upset with me.
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And the last time he was yelling
at me about a mistake that someone
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on my team made,
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and he was...
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really angry
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and there was a disconnect.
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I wasn't seeing Elon.
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I was seeing this person
being overtaken by this anger.
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It was so bizarre and
kind of, the blink of an eye,
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I saw him snap out of it
and recognise that it was me
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and it was fine.
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And he apologised to me
the next day.
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But it was in that moment
that I decided,
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I've hit my limit,
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and it is time to go.
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As the CEO of Tesla,
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every quarter, Elon is asked
questions by Wall Street investors.
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In May 2018,
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he is irritated by their questions.
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JPM says it's bizarre.
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RBC says the call shook confidence.
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This is not OK.
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If you stripped away Tesla
and you didn't know who the CEO was,
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you would come away
from this conference call,
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most people would at least, and say
this company is not run properly.
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This company just cost us
$2 billion in market cap
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because of what the CEO did.
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The pressure on Elon Musk
continues to mount.
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There are problems
on the factory floor.
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Whistle-blowers from his
Gigafactory
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contact journalists
with information.
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Am I wrinkly?
Am I?
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Linette Lopez breaks the story.
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The first piece I wrote about Tesla
was in the spring of 2018
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and it was called "Elon Musk
Doesn't Care About You".
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It was shortly after Elon Musk
had sat on a earnings call
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and insulted a bunch
of the investment bankers
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trying to ask questions
about the company.
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Digging even deeper,
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there were many environmental
violations, which was crazy
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considering that this guy
was trying to save the planet.
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And I just realised,
Elon's project is Elon
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and it's not about anyone else.
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A secret whistle-blower
approaches Linette
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to discuss the waste issues
within Tesla.
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As he was working in the factory,
he saw all the waste,
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all the incompetence.
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It was a whole mess.
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He emailed Elon Musk and said,
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"look, our manufacturing process
is so disjointed."
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And Elon did respond
to that email and say,
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"yes, at Tesla, we need
to lower our scrap count,
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"this is crucial."
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And that's when I realised
how damaging
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what I had written actually was.
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Linette publishes an article based
on confidential documents,
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leaked to her by the
whistle-blower,
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reporting that 40%
of the raw materials used
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to produce the batteries needed
to be scrapped or reworked.
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Auto-makers around the world
have really minimal scrap.
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And here was Tesla, its share price
beating all these legacy auto-makers
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and they waste hundreds
of millions of dollars on waste.
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That, to me, was also something
investors should know.
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Well, it's not something
you see every day.
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A well known CEO calling
out a reporter publicly.
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But that's exactly what happened
last week when Tesla founder
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Elon Musk criticised
Business Insider's Linette Lopez
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over her coverage of the company.
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Linette Lopez is with us
in studio today.
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This all started because Musk took
issue with a story that you posted
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on Business Insider on 4 June.
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What my reporting indicates is
that the mission of Tesla is not
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really quite in line with
the manufacturing of Tesla,
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which is to say...
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After that article,
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that's when Elon started
harassing me on Twitter.
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All of his fans are stalking me
and making fun of me.
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Pretty soon after that, he started
looking into the person
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who might be feeding me
this information.
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After some internal investigations,
the whistle-blower is located.
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It's a worker on the assembly line
called Martin Tripp.
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Leaking internal documents
to the press is in breach
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of his contract and he is fired.
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But the after effects of the spat
still rumble on.
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At one point, the Nevada police
are called and are told
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Martin is on his way to the
Gigafactory with a gun.
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Put your hands behind your back,
you're not under arrest.
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Just checking you for weapons, OK?
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You don't have any guns on you?
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Mind if I just pat you down real
quick?
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Yeah, well, don't worry.
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We just want to find out
what's going on,
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because everybody...
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For Martin, this situation
was a disaster.
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It upended his home life.
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He couldn't work for
a very long time.
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Elon did what he did to Martin
to make sure that everyone at Tesla
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understood the consequences
of speaking to the press.
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Two weeks later,
Elon will once again
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find himself in the middle
of a news story.
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But, this time, it's an event
on the other side of the world.
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Because the water
continued to rise,
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the equipment for a serious diving
operation was transferred by hand
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and by hoist deep into the cave.
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In the Tham Luang Cave
in northern Thailand,
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12 boys and their football
coach are trapped.
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The world becomes gripped
by the story,
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waiting to see if they can be
rescued alive.
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But it remains unclear
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how they're going to get
the children out
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without the boys needing
to use scuba equipment.
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Despite the mounting issues
for Elon,
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he decides to allocate some
of his engineers
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to build a mini submarine that he
believes
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can save the stranded children.
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All right. Let's pull him
all the way out.
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Elon flies to Thailand to talk
to the Thai rescue team
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and deliver his mini submarine.
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But as he arrives, the rescue
is already under way.
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The 13 trapped people
are successfully rescued.
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British cave diver Vernon Unsworth
is at the heart of the rescue
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and is unimpressed by Elon's
submarine.
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The submarine, I believe,
was about 5'6" long, rigid,
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so it wouldn't have gone
round corners
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or round, you know, round any
obstacles.
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It wouldn't have made the first
50 metres into the cave
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from the dive start point.
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Just a PR stunt.
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Irritated by the rescuer's comments
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Elon takes to Twitter.
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I think, when Elon tweets,
he just goes
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what's in his mind at the moment.
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Yeah, some I understand
and some I don't.
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When Twitter first started, I used
to call it "naughty Twitter fingers"
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because I'd be like, "Please don't,
like, stop, like, don't...
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"There's no need to do that.
Don't do that."
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Three days later, Elon returns
to Twitter and apologises.
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But for Vernon, the damage
has already been done.
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Vern Unsworth,
the hero of the rescue,
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should have been enjoying
490
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,920
this morning's cave cleansing
ceremony.
491
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,440
Instead, he was fuming.
492
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,760
It's not finished.
493
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,560
What is your sense
of this trial as it begins?
494
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,320
We got to get in the courtroom.
495
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,880
How has it damaged you?
496
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,920
Vernon decides to sue Elon.
497
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,160
18 months later, they face
each other in court.
498
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,360
What is expected to be a
fiery trial,
499
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,240
pitting the richest man in
Los Angeles
500
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,040
against a British cave expert.
501
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,840
Now, did Elon Musk imply
Vernon Unsworth was a paedophile
502
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,960
and did he take,
"reasonable care to determine
503
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,800
"whether that was true
before he said it?"
504
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,680
Jury's going to have to decide that.
505
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,400
Elon Musk was described in court
as a "billionaire bully",
506
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,600
but the jury saw it differently.
507
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,080
They said the tweet was an insult,
but not an accusation.
508
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,640
Vernon went toe-to-toe
with a billionaire bully.
509
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,760
Not many people have the courage
to do that.
510
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:40,760
It's a combination of he doesn't
realise quite what the impact
511
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,120
of his words are going to be
in a lot of cases
512
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,200
and in a lot of other cases,
513
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,240
I just don't think he cares.
514
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,320
How is Mr Musk with the
decision?
515
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,160
Everyone is well. Thank you, all.
516
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,640
That is why he's so dangerous
on Twitter,
517
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,680
because he's a powerful person
518
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,240
who is completely, totally
irresponsible.
519
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,000
Elon's Twitter account is now one
of the biggest in the world.
520
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,120
He has 22 million followers.
521
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,880
Check, check, one, two, three.
522
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,320
Test, one, two, three.
523
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,440
On August the seventh,
he sends a tweet
524
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,640
saying that he is thinking of taking
Tesla private
525
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,880
by buying out other shareholders.
526
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,240
This inflates Tesla's stock price.
Good evening, everybody.
527
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:33,880
Thanks for joining us.
528
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,080
Here is Stephanie Avakian
and Stephen Peikin,
529
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,400
co-directors of enforcement.
530
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,000
They'll deliver opening remarks
and then take a few questions.
531
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,240
So I'll hand it over.
532
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,120
We start with the tweet heard
round the world,
533
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,520
or at least around Wall Street.
534
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,840
CEO Elon Musk creating chaos
with a single tweet
535
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,640
which led to the stock soaring
and then being halted
536
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,720
and then soaring once again.
537
00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:57,000
Today, the SEC filed securities
fraud charges against Elon Musk,
538
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,080
the chairman and CEO of
Tesla Motors,
539
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,280
stemming from his August seventh,
2018 statements
540
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,600
disseminated over Twitter
that he was considering
541
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,800
taking Tesla private.
542
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,720
I see a smile,
do you want to say something?
543
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,440
Do you want to say something?
544
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,800
What about the SEC?
545
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,080
After the court case,
Elon agrees to settle.
546
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,720
There is a $20 million fine.
547
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,000
He steps down as the chairman
of Tesla
548
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,400
and agrees to have his tweets
checked before they are sent.
549
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,560
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
550
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,040
Have you had any of your tweets
censored since the settlement?
551
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,360
No. None?
552
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,880
Does someone have to read
them before they go out?
553
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,040
No.
554
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,680
So your tweets are not supervised.
555
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,640
The only tweets that would
have to be, say, reviewed
556
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,480
would be if a tweet
had a probability
557
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,040
of causing movement in the stock.
558
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,320
But how do they know if it's going
to move the market
559
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,920
if they're not reading all of them
before you send them?
560
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,320
I guess we might make some mistakes.
561
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,960
Who knows?
562
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,120
Are you serious?
563
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,000
Nobody's perfect.
564
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,600
HE LAUGHS
565
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:09,640
Look at you.
566
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,200
I... I... I want to be clear.
567
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,200
I do not respect the SEC.
568
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,800
I do not respect them.
569
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,600
One of the things about Elon Musk
is that he hates
570
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,200
when other people win.
571
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,600
He hates when people...
572
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,520
More than anything, I think, he
hates when people bet against him.
573
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,120
I think that's like
a real thing for him.
574
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,640
I think that what Elon realised
575
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,680
after his 420 tweet was,
576
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,200
"OK, I got to be careful, like,
I don't need to cause this havoc
577
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,600
"and this mayhem, but at the same
time, like, they can't stop me."
578
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,200
There was a tweet afterwards
where he said
579
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,600
that he had a new acronym
for what the SEC stood for.
580
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,040
It was "Suck Elon's..."
581
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,520
Yeah.
582
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,240
He really likes to fuck with them.
583
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,360
That's the most powerful person
in the world right there.
584
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,000
But it was definitely a defining
moment for Elon.
585
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,160
And I think, after that,
he was kind of just over it all.
586
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,600
He was just done with it
and that was it.
587
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,920
He just started doing whatever
he really wanted to.
588
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,840
Billionaire Elon Musk of Tesla
and SpaceX fame
589
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,800
like we've never seen him before -
smoking pot on YouTube.
590
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:31,880
So is that a joint?
591
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,360
Or is it a cigar?
592
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,600
No. OK.
593
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,840
It's marijuana inside of tobacco.
It's weed.
594
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,240
OK, so it's like posh pot,
tobacco pot.
595
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,520
You never had that?
Yeah, I think I tried one once.
596
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,560
Come on, man.
597
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,680
You probably can't because
stockholders, right?
598
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,680
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the subject
of a new controversy
599
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,120
after he appeared to smoke marijuana
during a podcast interview.
600
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,360
Billionaire Tesla head Elon Musk.
601
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,960
What is he up to?
602
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,360
We know what he's up to.
603
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,120
Once again, seeming to dare
people to call him out.
604
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,880
I think the concern is his ego.
605
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,480
Why did he make himself, you know,
smoking pot with Joe Rogan,
606
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,560
the fact that he tried to make
a mini submarine
607
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,320
to save those boys in Thailand.
608
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,200
Stop making yourself the news.
609
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,200
With the noise growing around
Elon's behaviour,
610
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,120
Elon decides to go on one of the
biggest shows on American TV
611
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,920
to reveal something about himself
that he has not mentioned before.
612
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,000
Thank you very much.
613
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,880
It's an honour to be hosting
Saturday Night Live.
614
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,200
I mean that.
615
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,960
Sometimes, after I say
something, I have to say,
616
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,840
"I mean that".
LAUGHTER
617
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,960
So people really know that
I mean it.
618
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,680
That's because I don't always
619
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,920
have a lot of intonation or
variation in how I speak.
620
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,280
Which I'm told
makes for great comedy.
621
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,600
I'm actually making history tonight
as the first person
622
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,480
with Asperger's to host SNL...
623
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,640
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
624
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,360
I would not call it Asperger's
chronic.
625
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,280
I'd call it Asperger's acute.
626
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,560
..or at least the first to admit it.
627
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,480
Once we sort of get our mind
on something,
628
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,280
we tend to not stop.
629
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,520
Not so much, you can't sleep,
630
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,160
but you wake up, you go to bed
with it in your head,
631
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,360
you wake up with it in your head.
632
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,680
You focus on it entirely,
continually,
633
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,800
to the point that you might forget
to eat
634
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,960
and not ever...
635
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,440
You know, you can't get the person
to say,
636
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,440
"Look, quit, quit now, quit now,
stop this."
637
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,800
You know, it's a kind of passion
638
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,920
or something that possesses you
to just keep on trying.
639
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:00,960
Keep on trying.
640
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,080
After his divorce from
Talulah Riley,
641
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,240
Elon dates Amber Heard.
642
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,440
Elon, right here!
643
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:16,000
But in 2018, he appears
at the Met Gala with Grimes,
644
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,720
an electro pop artist.
645
00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:21,080
Over the shoulder!
646
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Elon Musk and Grimes met
in the modern way through Twitter.
647
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:32,400
They both made a similar nerdy joke
about a scary AI theory
648
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,880
of the future called
Roko's Basilisk,
649
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,400
which I don't really even get.
650
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,000
And that her interests
are all the same as his.
651
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,520
And that her music is very
technologically oriented.
652
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,800
I think for me to even spend
more than 20 minutes on something,
653
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,200
I have to get to that place
where I'm like, "Ooh, I feel it."
654
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,600
Like, I might sit down, like,
on a day that I'm going to write
655
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,960
and just do, like, start a beat.
Oh, I hate it. Throw it out.
656
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,200
Start a beat. Oh, I hate it.
Throw it out. Start a beat...
657
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,920
And then, finally, like,
something...
658
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,640
You know, just pressing enough
buttons, enough keys, like, you...
659
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,080
I hear something and I'm like,
"OK, I could loop that."
660
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:07,800
And that could be, you know...
661
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,760
I'm fascinated by their
relationship.
662
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:16,000
If I could be the fly on the wall
in any relationship
663
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
that we know in this world,
664
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000
from the moment they got together,
I was always like,
665
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,680
"Oh, God, I would love to be
in the room with them."
666
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,920
Grimes and Elon have had two
children together -
667
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,880
Exa Dark Siderael and X AE A-XII.
668
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,920
Hi!
669
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,560
Hey! Hi!
670
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,880
# ..like Lucifer
671
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,840
# I can't beat God
672
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,880
# I fall like Lucifer... #
673
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,200
She told me repeatedly that Musk
has this theory of her
674
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,240
that she's not real,
675
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,800
that she's a simulation
who was created by him
676
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,400
and exists in his cerebral cortex
677
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,600
as sort of the perfect companion
for him,
678
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,000
which sounds a little crazy
and maybe even a little creepy,
679
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,600
except she agrees with it.
680
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,080
She said that she does feel
like in some way
681
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,080
she's like this simulation
who is perfectly created for him.
682
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:27,520
I think Elon is busier
than I've ever been.
683
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,640
And even when I'm with him,
684
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:34,040
I don't see him much unless I sit
in the back of the meetings.
685
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,960
But then a wife or girlfriend
doesn't have that,
686
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,200
and so they really don't see him
much at all.
687
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,680
These are steps towards a new era
of space flight.
688
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,480
And this is the rocket built
by SpaceX,
689
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,720
a company about to make history by
carrying people into space.
690
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:11,880
And there they are, NASA astronauts.
691
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:15,600
Doug on the left.
692
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:16,800
Bob on the right.
693
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,160
APPLAUSE
694
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,320
Now they are getting into
the Tesla Model X
695
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,160
that's going to take them
to the launchpad,
696
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,480
being strapped
into their seats.
697
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,240
And those Falcon wing doors
are closing. Super sleek.
698
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,920
With the imminent launch
of the crewed Dragon spacecraft,
699
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,560
President Trump has flown in
700
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,760
to witness a day of national
importance.
701
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,200
SIRENS WAIL
702
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,520
I just want to say, this is
a very exciting day for our country.
703
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,360
I want to thank Elon who's been a
friend of mine for a long time,
704
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,640
somebody I have great respect for.
705
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,920
But this is 24/7 for you.
You're always thinking about this.
706
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,920
You're thinking about other
things, too.
707
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,040
You have plenty to think about.
But this has been your baby.
708
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,040
In fact, I've told my team it's not
simply the top priority,
709
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,280
it's the only priority.
710
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,880
That's great.
711
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,560
15 seconds.
712
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,040
This will be the first time
a private company has attempted
713
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,240
to transport astronauts into space.
714
00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:34,320
Elon will be fulfilling his contract
with the US Government and NASA.
715
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,760
Ten, nine, eight,
716
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,640
seven, six, five,
717
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:46,280
four, three, two, one, zero.
718
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,040
Ignition.
719
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,920
LOUD ROARING
720
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,880
Liftoff of the Falcon 9
and Crew Dragon.
721
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,120
Go, NASA, go SpaceX!
722
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,240
Godspeed, Bob and Doug!
723
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,160
CHEERING
724
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,000
Flying crew on board
Dragon and Falcon 9.
725
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,200
And look at them go!
726
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,360
He's one of our great brains.
727
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:12,960
We like great brains.
728
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,600
And Elon's done a fantastic job,
and this is just the beginning.
729
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,560
They're going to Mars, and I think
any one of you would say
730
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,000
that was an inspiration
to see what we just saw.
731
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,160
Right now, everything continuing
to look good.
732
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,400
Well, everyone, welcome
aboard Dragon.
733
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:35,800
My name is Doug.
734
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,320
Next to me is Bob.
735
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,000
You probably know him.
736
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,240
We have Bob Behnken from
SpaceX Demo-2 Mission entering
737
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:46,960
the International Space Station.
738
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,680
Followed by Doug Hurley.
739
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,280
I will tell you,
740
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:02,960
the whole world saw this mission.
741
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,920
And we are so, so proud
of everything you have done
742
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,800
for our country, and, in fact,
to inspire the world.
743
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,600
We sure appreciate that, sir.
744
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,280
It's obviously been our honour
to be just a small part of this.
745
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,040
We have to give credit to SpaceX.
746
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,920
We're just really glad to be on
board this magnificent complex.
747
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,720
Three, two, one.
748
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:40,760
Ignition.
749
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,880
LOUD ROARING
750
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:55,560
Starship is the tallest and most
powerful launch vehicle ever built.
751
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,360
6 minutes, 10 seconds into flight,
we're down beneath one and a half...
752
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,480
It is designed to be fully reusable.
753
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,280
Flip the vehicle vertical,
then transition to one engine
754
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,680
for the landing burn.
755
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:16,480
Landing the 100-tonne spacecraft
proves challenging.
756
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,720
EXPLOSION
757
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,160
But, on the fifth attempt,
the engineers at SpaceX crack it.
758
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,000
Starship is the spacecraft
759
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,880
that will fulfil Elon's ultimate
dream of flying to Mars.
760
00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:01,600
So this is, I think,
761
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,480
the most inspiring thing
that I've ever seen.
762
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:11,480
We're faced with a choice.
763
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,160
Which future do you want?
764
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,320
Do you want the future where
765
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,000
we become a space-faring
civilisation
766
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,480
and are in many worlds and out
there among the stars,
767
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,640
or one where we are forever confined
to Earth?
768
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,320
And I say it is the first.
769
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,280
He wants to be known as the greatest
engineer
770
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,360
that we have seen in our lifetimes.
771
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,760
He genuinely wants to move
humankind forward
772
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,440
and he wants us to challenge
ourselves.
773
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,960
That is a more exciting future
for humankind from his standpoint,
774
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,120
than one where we are forever
anchored to Earth.
775
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,200
No question, he's going to go
to Mars.
776
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,120
Why do you think he's doing
The Boring Company?
777
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,120
He's going to send one up there
778
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,320
so he can bore underground
and you can have some shade.
779
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,440
He's... Why do you think he's doing
electric?
780
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,280
Because you can use solar up there
in Mars
781
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,320
and you can solar to battery,
battery to vehicle, battery to home.
782
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,080
Why do you think he's doing that?
783
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:14,720
Because you've got to have that.
784
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:17,920
You can't go up there
and plug something in.
785
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,680
There's a much bigger picture
in Elon's mind
786
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,920
than what mere mortals
are aware of today.
787
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,160
But when you step back
and you look at it,
788
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:32,440
some way or another,
it all goes together.
789
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,080
Let's make this real.
790
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,520
Let's make this real!
791
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,720
CHEERING
792
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:46,960
And I've also learned, and I think
a lot of people have learned,
793
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,880
if he says it's like, he can do it,
he's probably, you know,
794
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,280
don't discount Elon.
Don't say no to Elon.
795
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:53,760
You know, he's...
796
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,360
You're going to lose.
797
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,000
You're going to lose.
798
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,200
We all know how the media
treats you... So well.
799
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,440
Yeah.
800
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,880
So I don't have a question
for you today.
801
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,160
I just want to say, on behalf
of my six-year-old at home,
802
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,120
Kyler Scott, that's watching
right now,
803
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,080
who thinks you're awesome as well,
804
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,240
thank you for making the world
a better place.
805
00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,640
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
806
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,160
Thank you.
807
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,520
In the summer of 2022,
808
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,920
Elon has over 100 million
followers on Twitter.
809
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,320
I think Tesla, you know, would
continue to do very well
810
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,160
even if I was kidnapped by aliens.
811
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,960
Or went back to my home planet,
maybe.
812
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,000
LAUGHTER
813
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:56,560
Elon!
814
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,520
When are you taking us to space?
815
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,400
Real soon. Real soon?
816
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,040
How soon?
817
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,440
He's now the richest man
in the world
818
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,400
and has become a divisive character.
819
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,120
Many believe he should spend
his billions
820
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,680
helping to solve the problems on
Earth.
821
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,760
You're asking those billionaires
who are going to space,
822
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,560
the likes of Elon Musk
and Jeff Bezos, to help.
823
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,800
Every four seconds someone's dying
out there
824
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,280
from hunger-related causes.
825
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,480
Wake up, smell the coffee, and help!
826
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:34,040
The days when these guys not only
get to rake it all in,
827
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,840
but then rub everybody else's nose
in it
828
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,400
while they head off into outer
space
829
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,360
and declare how they did this all
on their own.
830
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,000
When they were subsidised
by the federal government
831
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,000
and subsidised by every waitress
and by every public school teacher
832
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,480
who paid their taxes.
833
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:52,520
This is wrong.
834
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,960
Elon is really dedicated
to saving this planet.
835
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,640
I'm happy to say that SpaceX
and Tesla on the hands
836
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,480
of my brilliant son,
837
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,920
well, genius son, we admire him
for that,
838
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,080
we don't want to be him.
839
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:23,800
Because, with those companies,
he gets a lot of hate.
840
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,960
Stop being mean to him!
841
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,760
I hate it when
the media are mean to him.
842
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,840
Why didn't you use the money
to do something for charity?
843
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,240
Philanthropy.
844
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:36,520
More good with that money.
845
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,240
Well, I do do a lot of things
philanthropically... Yes.
846
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:44,680
..and really, you know, my
companies are intended to do good
847
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,240
for the future of humanity
with the Tesla trying to accelerate
848
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:51,000
the advent of sustainable transport
and energy.
849
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,160
He gets up every morning thinking,
"What can I do for humanity today?
850
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,760
"How can I do something
that will be impactful
851
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:00,920
"to humanity of the future?"
852
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,960
That's what he...
That's what he's focused on.
853
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,960
I told him not to take on the world
and the universe,
854
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,480
and he didn't listen.
855
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,080
Elon...
856
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,920
Elon is not going to buy Twitter.
857
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,680
He's got himself a mess.
858
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,080
You know, he said the other day,
859
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:19,800
"Oh, I've never voted for
a Republican."
860
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,360
I said, "I didn't know that."
He told me he voted for me.
861
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,440
So he's another bullshit artist,
but he's not going to be buying it.
862
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,520
He's not going to be buying it,
although he might later.
863
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,360
Who the hell knows what's
going to happen?
864
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,160
Everything about Elon is
a contradiction.
865
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,640
There's this incredible inventor,
866
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,480
and then there's this person
867
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,840
who makes some pretty silly
business decisions.
868
00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:51,480
Elon and a lot of these tech guys
869
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,080
are just casting themselves
870
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:57,200
as heroes in their favourite
sci-fi novels.
871
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,760
A lot of those books are dark.
872
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:05,280
They're about a hero who saves
the world from dystopia.
873
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,000
Of course, if you're going
to be that hero,
874
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,760
dystopia has to exist first.
875
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,000
I do have some dark dreams.
876
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:14,840
I don't know why.
877
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,520
I've always had those
from when I was a kid.
878
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,720
Vivid dreams, which are often scary.
879
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,360
In Elon's mind that dystopia
is coming
880
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,000
and they want to be that hero.
881
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,720
And the work that they do
is to aggrandise that vision.
882
00:55:33,720 --> 00:55:36,640
It's not about you or me,
and it's not even about the truth
883
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,760
of what's going to happen
to our planet.
884
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,800
It's just really a monument
to their childhood.
885
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,440
He learned everything about Tesla,
886
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,760
Einstein, like, he has learned
everything that they knew.
887
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,000
And he's trying to take it
to the next level.
888
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,600
So I think he is the closest thing
that we have
889
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,360
to that kind of a figure
in our day and age.
890
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,760
And I think, by the time
he is done building his legacy,
891
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,880
it will be unquestionable
that he is a combination
892
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,200
of Einstein, Tesla and Rockefeller.
893
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,000
When you set out to do something
incredibly hard,
894
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,440
there's going to be, like, a lot of
hard days that go along with that.
895
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,680
OK, thank you.
896
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:26,880
You tweeted that
you are building a tunnel
897
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,400
under Washington DC.
898
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,000
Why?
899
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,480
What is it?
900
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,640
Well, it's a secret plot... OK.
..just between us.
901
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,680
There's parts of him
that you'll never know.
902
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,080
Like, what motivates him?
How did he get so strong of will?
903
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,800
But what I can say without a doubt
is he's genuine.
904
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,920
There is not a shred of doubt
in my mind.
905
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,400
There isn't an ulterior motive
or a secret greedy bah-ha-ha!
906
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,240
You know, I'm going to have my,
you know,
907
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:53,200
volcano island and do whatever.
908
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,200
Like, no, he leads with his heart
on his sleeve
909
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:02,760
in a very honest, I would say,
almost overly honest projection
910
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,400
of both opportunity and risk.
911
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,200
We're all going to die someday.
912
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,600
And if you're going to pick
someplace to die, then why not Mars?
913
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,680
EXPLOSION
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