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Elon Musk Weekly News Update: Tesla, SpaceX, X, Neuralink, and More · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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  the critical crossroads that shape SpaceX, Tesla, X, The
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  Boring Company, and Neuralink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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  Elon Musk's social media platform X has introduced
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  private likes for all users, expanding a feature once
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  exclusive to X Premium subscribers.
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  This change aims to boost user privacy and genuine engagement
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  by concealing the identities of users who like posts Now.
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  The move was confirmed by X owner Elon Musk, showing the
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  desire to let users like content without fearing backlash.
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  Now the private likes feature is explained by XS Director of
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  Engineering is designed to protect users public image and
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  encourage engagement with diverse content without
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  judgment. Users will still see who liked
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  their posts and the total like count, but others will not see
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  this information for the moving away from public like counts as
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  a measure of social approval. Now, the update to private Likes
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  is part of a broader push by X to enhance user privacy and
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  foster a safer, more inclusive online environment, according to
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  X. And by removing the pressure to
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  conform to public opinion, X hopes to promote more authentic
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  interactions on the platform. This change will also see the
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  removal of the Likes tab from user profiles.
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  Now, X's engineering team announced the feature, stating
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  it would better protect users privacy.
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  Users will still be able to see their own liked posts, and the
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  author of a post can see who liked it.
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  Metrics such as like counts will continue to appear under
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  notifications. Maintaining a balance between
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  privacy and feedback on content popularity and the introduction
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  of private likes follows a recent policy update by X
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  concerning adult content. The platform now allows
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  consensually produced and distributed adult content,
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  provided it is properly labeled and not prominently displayed.
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  This policy reflects X's belief in the autonomy of adults to
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  engage with and create content reflecting their own sexual
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  beliefs and experiences. Now, however, X maintains strict
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  prohibitions against non consensual, exploitative or
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  harmful pornographic content and bans the use of adult content
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  for profile pictures, banners and other publicly visible
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  areas. These regulations aim to ensure
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  that while adult content is permitted, it does not
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  compromise user safety or violate community standards.
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  Now, as of Wednesday, private Likes feature has been
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  implemented with the Likes tab no longer visible when viewing
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  other users profiles. The change was announced through
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  an update on X and a pop up notification encouraging users
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  to engage more, suggesting that liking more posts will improve
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  their For You feed. Now, this privacy feature was
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  initially introduced for X Premium subscribers in
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  September, allowing users to hide their Likes tab.
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  This option provided users with greater control over their
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  activity visibility, aligning with the broader trend of
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  prioritizing user privacy on social media platforms.
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  And the removal of the Likes tab from public view addresses
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  privacy concerns, especially considering past incidents where
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  public figures liked content led to controversies.
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  For instance, in 2017, Ted Cruz, the senator from the US, liked a
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  sexually explicit tweet causing a public relations issues that
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  was later attributed to a staffer.
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  Sounds like a politician, doesn't it?
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  Let's blame it on somebody else. That's my thoughts on this one.
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  It's it's kind of funny though, if you ask me.
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  Now, by making likes, Private X aims to reduce some public
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  mishaps and the necessity for disclaimers like likes and
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  retweets aren't endorsements in user BIOS.
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  This measure ensures that users, especially public figures, can
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  interact with content without fearing unwanted scrutiny.
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  Now, the shift of private likes is part of a series of changes
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  introduced by Elon Musk since acquiring the platform in 2022.
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  These changes include the launch of a paid subscription tier,
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  offering features like more direct messages in the coveted
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  blue check mark. Musk's tenure has seen
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  significant policy adjustments aimed at refining user
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  experience on the platform. Now, the broader context of
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  these changes include a move towards enhancing user
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  engagement by reducing performative behaviors.
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  By making likes on X private, it encourages users to interact
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  with content they actually enjoy, free from external
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  judgement, which may contribute to a more positive and authentic
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  user experience. Now, the policy updates here and
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  the feature introductions are a concerted effort by X to balance
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  user privacy with engagement. And while users can still gauge
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  the popularity of their posts through likes counts, the
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  emphasis on privacy ensures that this feedback does not come at
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  the cost of personal exposure or public scrutiny.
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  The changes are also indicative of X's evolving approach to
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  content moderation and user interaction, seeking to create a
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  platform where users feel safe and comfortable expressing
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  themselves no matter how they want to do it.
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  This includes accommodating diverse forms of content while
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  maintaining strict guidelines to prevent abuse and exploitation.
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  Now the decision to allow adult content with stringent rules on
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  its display and distribution. It demonstrates XS commitment to
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  respecting user autonomy while safeguarding the own community.
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  It's a nuanced approach that seeks to support free expression
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  within a framework that prioritizes safety and
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  responsibility going forward. Today's episode revolves around
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  the $56 billion compensation package for Elon Musk as the CEO
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  of Tesla. Now, Tesla investors are poised
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  to vote on this pay package. This is the company's proposed
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  relocation from Delaware to Texas.
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  And at an important shareholder meeting this week, analysts warn
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  at the risk that Musk could leave Tesla to focus on other
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  ventures such as his AI startup XAI, social media platform X.
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  And that is if the pay package is rejected.
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  Remember, this is the largest pay package for any CEO anytime,
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  ever in the history of humanity. The voting on Musk's
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  controversial pay package is set to conclude on Thursday, with
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  major consequences for both Musk and Tesla.
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  And over recent weeks, Musk has actively campaigned to persuade
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  shareholders to reinstate his nearly $50 billion pay package,
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  which the Delaware judge who voided it described as the
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  largest ever observed in public markets.
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  Now, Tesla released a video featuring Optimus, which is Elon
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  Musk and Tesla's humanoid robot, instructing shareholders on how
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  to cast their ballots. Voters were offered a chance to
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  win a Musk escorted tour of Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin,
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  and Musk has been vocal on XS social media platform about the
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  vote, predicting a win and claiming the public sentiment in
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  is unequivocally supportive. Now, as the vote approaches, the
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  outcome remains uncertain. Major shareholders are divided
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  on whether Musk, often seen as a distracted leader, deserves such
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  a substantial reward. The final decision may rest on
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  individual investors, many of whom are drawn to Musk's public
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  persona as a genius. Now.
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  The vote has broad implications for Tesla, though, which has
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  faced challenges such as weak sales, global competition and
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  mass layoffs. And Musk has indicated he might
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  leave Tesla if the pay package is denied, potentially pursuing
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  advanced technology projects elsewhere.
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  He's threatening people. And if approved, Musk would gain
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  more control over Tesla's board through stock options.
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  Now, Tesla Chairperson Robin Denholm has urged investors to
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  support Musk, emphasizing his unique contributions to the
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  company. He said Elon's unique
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  contributions have built Tesla from a company that was in 2018
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  a loss making ambitious company with significant hurdles and
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  challenges to overcome into what it is today, a company that is
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  literally changing the world. However, critics like New York
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  City Comptroller Brad Lander argue that the package is
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  unreasonable given Tesla's struggles and Musk's divided
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  focus among various ventures. He said we need a full time CEO
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  who's focused on growing the company and producing great
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  shareholder returns, not allowing for a distraction or
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  chasing shiny new objects. Now.
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  In 2018, a majority of Tesla shareholders approved Musk
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  compensation package worth $56 billion in stock options instead
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  of a salary. This propelled Musk to become
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  the world's richest person, funding his ventures into space,
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  brain digitization and acquiring Twitter's de facto town square.
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  However, some shareholders sued, claiming the process was
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  improper. Now, earlier this year, a
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  Delaware judge invalidated the pay package, calling it an
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  unfathomable sum and noting that it was approved by a board
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  filled with Musk's friends and a former divorce lawyer.
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  The board now asked shareholders to restore the package, which
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  would increase Musk's voting power to nearly 25% and
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  authorized Tesla's corporate move to the state of Texas.
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  Now the votes outcome is uncertain, with some key
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  investors opposing the package and others remaining silent.
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  Major institutional investors like Vanguard Group, BlackRock
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  and State Street Corp holding about 17% of Tesla stock
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  collectively, have not publicly declared their positions.
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  None responded to our requests for comment at this point.
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  Now about 40% of Tesla stock is held by non institutional
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  investors, including individual retail investors.
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  And many are Musk supporters, such as billionaire Ron Baron,
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  who called Musk indispensable to Tesla and asserted that his
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  compensation should reflect that fact, He said Our answer is
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  clear, loud and unequivocable. Tesla is better with Elon.
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  Tesla is Elon. That's what Ron Baron said.
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  Yet some investors have become delusioned with Musk amid
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  Tesla's performance struggles. Leo Coogan, one of Tesla's
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  largest individual shareholders, stated the that he'd vote
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  against the proposal, saying enough is enough.
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  A coalition of seven large institutional investors,
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  including the New York City Comptroller and Amalgamated
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  Bank, has urged shareholders to reject the package, setting a
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  material governance failure. Now, proxy advisory firm ISS
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  criticized the package as excessive despite Tesla's
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  success, doubting it would increase Musk's focus at Tesla
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  at all. Marcy Frost, CEO of the
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  California Public Employees Retirement System, representing
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  2.2 million public workers, also plans to vote against the
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  package, as it did back in 2018 as well.
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  Now, Frost said that the decision wasn't personal, but
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  about ensuring returns for shareholders of Tesla.
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  Frost also said. It's really important then as a
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  shareholder that we get the return on the capital that were
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  allocated to these public companies.
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  James Park, who was a UCLA School of Law professor,
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  indicated a vote for the proposal would signal
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  shareholders desire from Musk's continued involvement, while a
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  Novo would reflect dissatisfaction within its
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  leadership. Now Denims later highlighted
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  Musk's role in Tesla's growth over the past six years and
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  stressed the importance of the pay package by retaining his
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  attention and motivation, she wrote.
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  If Tesla is to retain Elon's attention and motivate him to
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  continue to devote his time, energy, ambition and vision to
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  deliver comparable results in the future, he must stand by our
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  deal now. In January, Musk tweeted about
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  his need for more control over Tesla.
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  He said. I am uncomfortable growing Tesla
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  to be a leader in AI and robotics without having about
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  25% voting control. Enough to be influential but not
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  so much that I can't be overturned.
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  Both Musk and Tesla decided to decline for comment on this
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  matter to us today. Now this vote occurs as Tesla
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  grapples with a significant drop in stock value, having lost more
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  than 30% since the year's start. The company reported a 55%
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  plunge in first quarter profits in April due to slowing sales
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  and to ease investors worries, Musk promised to launch a fully
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  autonomous robo taxi by August, a timeline which is met with
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  skepticism considering full self driving isn't quite a thing yet
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  now. Park noted that the current
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  economic backdrop would influence voters decisions.
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  He suggested that some retail investors dedicated to Musk
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  might overlook recent events and vote in favor of the package,
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  while others might be disillusioned by Tesla's recent
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  performance. Analyst Adam Jonas warned that
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  rejecting Musk's pay package could slow down Tesla's AI
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  efforts. Some investors are willing to
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  take that risk. Nell Minow, vice chair of Value
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  Edge Advisors, donated most of her Tesla stock to charity after
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  voting against the pay package. She criticized Tesla's corporate
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  governance, saying there's no way you can consider this board
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  independent. If he doesn't have enough of an
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  incentive from his current holdings, then I don't know if
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  this gigantic amount of money would make a difference.
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  Kevin Smith, who's and software engineer with a few Tesla
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  shares, was frustrated and he said it seems to be a symbolic
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  gesture against the court. So my symbolic vote is no.
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  This vote will determine Musk's future role at Tesla and could
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  influence the company's direction amid ongoing
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  challenges. Though investors must weigh
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  Musk's potential departure against his leadership
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  contributions and Tesla's needs. The decision will shape Tesla's
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  path forward in the competitive EV market and AI in the future.
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  Like as we have noticed from Elon lately, he has been stating
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  that if you think Tesla is a car company, you've got it all
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  wrong. Tesla's a technology company
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  that just so happens to build the best car and they're making
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  AI, they're making robots, solar roofs, power everything.
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  So without Elon at the helm to lead things, where would the
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  company go? That's where I'm going to give
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  my thoughts on this now. I'm a person that doesn't like
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  corporate green. I don't like billionaires that
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  don't give back. Elon has given back numerous
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  times. He pays his taxes, things like
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  that. He's doing OK.
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  Well in that regard. In my opinion, he's doing all
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  right now. I'm a big fan of SpaceX.
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  If you haven't noticed, I love talking about SpaceX and
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  Starship. It's one of the things that I
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  really enjoy doing. I know he focuses a lot of time
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  at SpaceX due to the Starship program, but he did put some
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  people in place there to take over when he's not available.
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  So Gwynn Shotwell, of course, and Kathy Leaders, like Kathy
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  Leaders is one of the people that used to run the human Space
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  Flight for NASA and now she runs the Starship factory down in
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  Texas. So he put some leaders in place
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  to take over the things that he used to do.
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  He basically helped build that factory from the ground up down
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  in South Texas. Now, Elon does have people at
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  Tesla that work really closely with him and do jobs that he
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  doesn't do, but he's the visionary.
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  So think about that. I'm I'm a big supporter of the
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  things that Elon wants to get done.
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  Build robots, build a rocket, then go to Mars.
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  The Boring Company is very cool. I think it's a really cool idea
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  to have tunnels where there's congested traffic or where you
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  just need to go a couple miles and you don't want to sit at red
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  lights for a while or you don't want to get an Uber or whatever.
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  Just go into the tunnel. That's really neat.
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  The cyber truck's pretty cool. I really enjoy all the Tesla
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  vehicles. They're very fun to drive.
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  I've driven them, driven them Model S and a few others.
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  But if, if it seems like in this regard, and I want to know about
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  this in the comments, it seems like Elon is threatening
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  shareholders almost. I wouldn't say blackmailing
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  them, but he he said that if he doesn't have 25% of the company,
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  his heart's not in it anymore. He just can't get up in the
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  morning to go to work. He expressed that there were,
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  you know, if he doesn't have 25% voting control, He said, I'm
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  uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI and robotics
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  without having 25% voting control, enough to be
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  influential, but not so much that I can't be overturned.
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  So 25% of Tesla is going to make him a lot of money in the future
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  and he made the company so it could be controlled by the
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  shareholders. And if he has 25% control, they
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  could overturn him if enough people vote against him.
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  And it's just like his pay package.
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  Now, do I think that the pay package is legit 2018?
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  Now, you got to remember the board of directors at that time
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  were basically Elon's friends. You know, I'm just going to put
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  it straight out there. His brother, his friends, people
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  he was very close with were on the board at that point.
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  In 2018, they came up with this package.
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  So Elon would stay the visionary and he would stay with the
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  company. And at that point, it seemed
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  like a great idea because SpaceX was growing, Tesla was growing,
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  other companies were growing. And at this point, he needed to
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  have control over Tesla. He needed to make money.
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  And since he wanted to make some more money, he wanted us more
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  control in the future. Billions of dollars, 10s of
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  billions of dollars in the future.
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  It makes sense, $56 billion is a lot of money.
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  But they didn't know it was going to grow to this point.
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  And he did everything he needed to do in order to get that pay
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  package. And if the board of directors
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  said that it was OK and the other members thought it was all
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  right, I don't see why he shouldn't have the money.
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  So some people have commented on this channel about that.
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  I'm something I got. I got this crazy comment the
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  other day from somebody and say that I said that I'm a left wing
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  Democrat shill or something with the mind virus or something.
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  Dude, I'm going to say this straight up to you, whoever read
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  the account. I read it and I laughed at you.
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  You're spitting out this rhetoric.
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  That's weird. I just tell you how it's going.
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  What's going on, by the way? I'm being honest with you guys.
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  I know I'm like, if you, if you listen to this podcast, I don't
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  usually go off on tangents like this.
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  I usually read the news to you and I tell you what's going on
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  and then I log off. And then we can go out about our
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  days, right? About 10 minutes of Elon Musk
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  news. But the fact is you have to look
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  at all points of data for things like this, and I skewed towards
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  both sides on this one. It's a really tough decision
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  because the guy did everything he was supposed to do.
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  He hit all the numbers he was supposed to hit.
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  And if you don't pay the guy for doing his job, then what kind of
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  message does that send? I don't know.
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  Do you think he's worth $56 billion?
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  Is that is that too much money for one person to have?
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  And also if he's saying that he has, if he the 25% influence on
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  Tesla and if he doesn't get it, well, I can't, I can't keep
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  doing my job. That seems kind of weird to me.
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  I want to know what you think in the comments.
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  If you're on Spotify, please hit the follow button and leave a
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  comment down below. Or any other podcast platform
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  that you can leave comments on, including YouTube.
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  Please let me know what you think about this because this is
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  a weird, it's a, it's a tough one.
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  And we're going to know on Thursday what's happening to
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  Elon and his control. And if he doesn't get the 25%
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  control and if they don't give him the pay package and if they
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  don't move to Texas, he's going to flip out 100%.
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  Elon's going to flip out. We'll hear about it on X.
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  He's going to throw a tantrum sometimes.
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  Elon goes a little bit wild. He's a genius.
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  He's an absolute genius and I will never take that away from
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  him. He's done incredible work so far
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  and he has incredible ideas. But I believe if he doesn't get
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  what he wants, it's kind of going to be like a spoiled brat,
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  you know? And I wouldn't understand why if
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  he doesn't have 25% voting control of his company that he
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  was, he helped start and helped grow to what it is now.
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  I can understand where he's coming from.
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  I can understand why if he doesn't get his money, I can
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  understand where he's coming from because don't mess with
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  somebody's money and don't mess with somebody's company or their
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  family. And those two things, the
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  company and the money, everyone's messing with him
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  right now. So if he doesn't get his 25%, I
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  think we're going to hear about it pretty, pretty legit on X
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  after this. So again, let me know in the
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  comments. I appreciate everybody sticking
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  with me on this one. I'm going to do more of these
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  podcasts where I speak my mind a little bit more.
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  I think it's important that we all have a conversation here and
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  then we're all part of this together, this whole show.
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  So I'm going to continue doing the news for you.
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  I won't be slanted with it. I lean middle, I'm right in the
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  middle. I look at all the data.
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  Sometimes some of these things are, you know, some of the news
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  is a little bit off. You know, it's it try to do it
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  right down the middle and sometimes it's a little bit
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  left, sometimes a little right, whatever.
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  Try to do it as center as possible.
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  But I thought it was funny that somebody said I have a mind
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  virus like that's that's a weird thing to say a mind virus.
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  Oh my God. Anyway, thank you.
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  The guy who said this a mind virus.
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  I know you still listen so you know who you are and I'm not
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  laughing at you, but maybe you're the one with the mind
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  virus. I'm just joking.
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  I really, I really do wish you the best and I'll catch you guys
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  in the next one. Take care of yourselves and each
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  other and make sure to subscribe to the show if you haven't
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  already on whatever podcast platform you're on right now.
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  And on this episode, we're going to be talking about Starship,
• 22:50
  IFT 4, IFT 5, possibly IFT 6, but mainly we're going to be
• 22:56
  talking about an environmental group that's going to be
• 23:00
  possibly contesting Starbase down in Texas.
• 23:04
  Could they be canceling Starship launches in Texas?
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  We're gonna take a look at that in a second.
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  But let's first talk about IFT 4 and IFT 5.
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  IFT 4 went off without a hitch, almost.
• 23:18
  There's a little bit of a hitch. The landing of the booster was
• 23:22
  great. The way that the ship came back
• 23:25
  into the atmosphere looked great, but there were some heat
• 23:29
  tile adjustments that need to be made for IFT 5.
• 23:33
  And Elon Musk has talked about this a little bit.
• 23:37
  He said that the new heat tiles for IFT 5 will be a little bit
• 23:42
  better, be able to reduce the friction, reduce the heat on the
• 23:45
  ship. And also they're going to be
• 23:47
  putting like a secondary layer, like a secondary skin underneath
• 23:51
  those tiles. So if there's any sort of
• 23:55
  leakage from the plasma that goes through those tiles and
• 23:58
  hits the actual ship, there can be another material there that
• 24:01
  will hopefully stop it from rupturing the stainless steel
• 24:05
  construction of the ship fuselage.
• 24:08
  Not only that, they're going to take a look at the hinges, where
• 24:11
  the wings and the hinges of the ship itself connect, and they're
• 24:16
  going to be making some adjustments to those.
• 24:18
  Because as you can see from the footage from IFT 4, when it
• 24:22
  comes back into the atmosphere, that's kind of where things went
• 24:25
  bad, but it made it, so it's OK, right?
• 24:28
  But they're trying to get this perfect.
• 24:30
  So when they put people in this, it's going to be a whole
• 24:35
  complete safe ship. And they need to put Starship in
• 24:39
  this category of safe for people because they need to send it to
• 24:44
  the moon for the Artemis program, Artemis 3 in
• 24:46
  particular. And of course, SpaceX thinks
• 24:50
  they're going to be able to do it in a few years.
• 24:53
  But experts around the globe have said numerous times it's
• 24:56
  probably going to be 20-30. And not just because of
• 24:59
  Starship, but because of NASA and also Axiom putting
• 25:03
  everything together and making sure that all the Is are dotted,
• 25:08
  all the TS are crossed before they actually launch to the
• 25:10
  moon. It's a big undertaking.
• 25:12
  You can't just stick somebody in a rocket and hope it works.
• 25:14
  You have to make sure that it's completely safe.
• 25:17
  And if it's not completely safe, they have to not do it.
• 25:20
  So there, there was a little margin for error, but this is
• 25:24
  going to be a margin that SpaceX doesn't want to deal with.
• 25:28
  So they're going to get this right in the next few flights
• 25:31
  for the ship. Now, Elon also mentioned
• 25:34
  something about landing the booster back at Starbase instead
• 25:40
  of in the Gulf of Mexico. Did they get enough data?
• 25:44
  Elon mentioned this in a in a post that he had on X the other
• 25:48
  day. He did a live stream and he was
• 25:50
  watching some games, watching some stuff and he just talked
• 25:52
  started talking about Starship. Basically.
• 25:54
  He talked about will they be catching IFT 5 and he said they
• 25:58
  don't quite have enough data yet to see if they're going to catch
• 26:01
  this thing, but there's a possibility that they still
• 26:04
  will. So what Elon was saying, he got
• 26:07
  excited after IFT 4 landed, after everything looked great.
• 26:11
  He's like we're going to try to lot.
• 26:12
  We're trying to catch it in IFT 5.
• 26:14
  Everybody blew up. I went nuts.
• 26:16
  I was like, no, this can't happen.
• 26:18
  Like you're going to ruin everything.
• 26:20
  Can't do it. I freaked out.
• 26:21
  So I have T5 Elon's like if we have enough data that supports
• 26:26
  that we can actually land this thing, we're going to do it.
• 26:29
  So on the way back to the landing, the, the explosive
• 26:35
  mechanism that destroys the booster on its way back down to
• 26:39
  Earth gets saved, right? So at some time during the
• 26:44
  flight, it gets saved. So will they be able to change
• 26:48
  that? Will the FAA be able to change
• 26:50
  that before this next flight? Will they have to make, they
• 26:55
  have to make sure that they destroy the the booster if they
• 26:58
  get enough data that says it might not make it back or they
• 27:02
  might do a landing in the Gulf of Mexico again.
• 27:05
  So we're going to see that's where we're at right now.
• 27:07
  We're going to see if we're going to wait and see what Elon
• 27:10
  and SpaceX say. But Elon said they're gonna try
• 27:13
  to launch this thing in July. How could they launch this in
• 27:18
  July? Like within a month?
• 27:20
  The turn around could be pretty quick if I mean, if that's the
• 27:23
  case, if he thinks, but he's also said that in the past,
• 27:25
  right? So Elon has said that in the
• 27:27
  past that they're going to launch this thing in a month,
• 27:30
  which of course they they've never done before.
• 27:33
  So could this be the first time that they do a one month turn
• 27:36
  around for Starship? That's another thing we have to
• 27:39
  think about. One month turn around for
• 27:41
  Starship would be incredible. They have other boosters ready,
• 27:45
  they have a ship ready. They've done some testing
• 27:47
  already, but they haven't done final testing.
• 27:49
  They haven't done a final stack, they haven't done AD stack, they
• 27:52
  haven't checked all the ground systems again, they're just
• 27:54
  getting over IFT 4. They haven't even moved
• 27:57
  everything to the pad yet and it's been a few days.
• 28:00
  So what's happening? You know, if it were going to be
• 28:04
  in a month, they would have that stuff down there already and
• 28:06
  starting the testing out. So I don't think they're going
• 28:10
  to make it in the month. I think they're going to be
• 28:12
  close. If they, if they can figure it
• 28:14
  out really quick. They have to pour through a
• 28:16
  bunch of data. They have to talk to the FAA to
• 28:18
  get another license. You know, the, the incident
• 28:21
  report for IFT 3 was kind of it was pushed aside for the flight.
• 28:28
  Why are they going to be doing that for FT42 probably and IFT 5
• 28:32
  as well? So we're going to see what
• 28:35
  happens with that. Right now it's a waiting game.
• 28:38
  As much as everybody's excited about a July flight, I don't
• 28:41
  think it's going to happen. I think we're going to be
• 28:43
  getting like, you know, maybe, you know, maybe not an early
• 28:47
  July flight, but maybe like a late July flight.
• 28:50
  I think that might happen. So not quite a month, a little
• 28:52
  bit over a month, I should say. So like a month and three weeks
• 28:56
  or something like that. Could be the next flight of
• 28:59
  Starship or a little bit longer. It could be two months, they
• 29:01
  might have a lot of work to do and they might have to change
• 29:04
  some things. So not only do they have the
• 29:07
  hardware right, So we see the hardware testing on the outside,
• 29:11
  we see the booster blast for the for the tests.
• 29:17
  We also see the ship blast for the test.
• 29:20
  You know, they check all the engines, make sure everything
• 29:22
  works, make sure the ground systems work.
• 29:23
  They cryogenically cool it, they make sure all of that hardware
• 29:27
  works. But when you are inside of the
• 29:31
  ship, there's electronics. And within those electronics
• 29:36
  there's code. You know, the code that runs it.
• 29:39
  It's important. And if something is a little bit
• 29:42
  off, they might have to recode a bunch of stuff.
• 29:45
  And sure, code is a little bit faster than building a rocket,
• 29:48
  of course, but they got a debug code.
• 29:52
  You have to test it, you have to QA it.
• 29:54
  There's all sorts of steps that you have to do in order to make
• 29:58
  sure that the code works properly every single time.
• 30:01
  So you don't get spaghetti code, which is kind of a, it's a code
• 30:05
  word for just a bunch of garbage code in there that nobody really
• 30:08
  wants or uses anymore. Yeah, I got to have clean code.
• 30:12
  So every single flight they probably look at the code and
• 30:15
  go, how can we improve? You know, if they're not doing
• 30:18
  that, then I don't see, you know, why did they, why they,
• 30:21
  why wouldn't they do that? They have to do that every
• 30:23
  flight. How can we make the code better
• 30:26
  to make things more efficient? We don't want to use as many
• 30:29
  lines of code, you know, we want to use as few lines of code as
• 30:32
  possible. The best part is no part, right?
• 30:36
  So IFT 5, possibly late July, that's what I'm guessing.
• 30:41
  Let me know in the comments what you think, what you think about
• 30:43
  that. I think late July, good estimate
• 30:46
  for IFT 5 flight, maybe early July too, or early August.
• 30:52
  So that'll be a hot one. That'll be really hot 1.
• 30:55
  So I also want to talk to you about this.
• 30:59
  There's another thing. Starship launch damage, shore
• 31:03
  bird nests, environmental survey finds.
• 31:07
  OK, so we've had some stuff like this before, right?
• 31:10
  Environmentalists love to hate on Starship and the surrounding
• 31:15
  area because it's a protected environmental zone.
• 31:20
  It's a protected beach. It's a, they're in a protected
• 31:23
  area, this giant rocket factory and giant rockets are in a
• 31:27
  protected area. So wildlife here is very
• 31:31
  precious. Now piping plovers and turtles
• 31:35
  and things like that are protected species.
• 31:38
  Now here, I'm going to zoom in a little bit for you so you can
• 31:41
  see some of this text said last week, launch of Starship from
• 31:46
  South Texas damaged or destroyed numerous shore bird nests in the
• 31:51
  area surrounding the private space company's launch
• 31:53
  facilities, according to a new report that also noted other
• 31:57
  environmental damages. The nonprofit Coastal Band Bays
• 32:01
  and Estuaries Program said its survey found that each of nine
• 32:06
  nests it monitored South of the launchpad had missing and broken
• 32:11
  eggs after Thursday morning's launch.
• 32:16
  OK, ongoing here. What's they say down here?
• 32:20
  Ongoing and annual monitoring. A Boca Chigari has documented
• 32:23
  shifts and overall reductions in shore bird nesting activity in
• 32:28
  recent years since rocket testing and launch activity
• 32:31
  began. OK, so they do surveys around
• 32:34
  the Texas Parks and Wildlife Area where SpaceX is planted,
• 32:41
  where they where they have all of their facilities.
• 32:44
  This is what the environmentalists and the
• 32:47
  environmental studies are going to be looking to do possibly in
• 32:52
  the future. So if they can show enough
• 32:54
  evidence that SpaceX is damaging endangered species under the
• 33:00
  Endangered Species Act, some populations of snow plovers are
• 33:05
  considered a near threatened species.
• 33:10
  The Texas population is not among them, but the Snowy and
• 33:12
  Wilson's plovers are, however, considered species of greatest
• 33:16
  conservation need under the state Wild Wildlife Action Plan
• 33:21
  monitored by the Texas Park and Wildlife Department.
• 33:24
  OK, So what does that mean? It means there's really
• 33:27
  endangered species near Starbase.
• 33:30
  And if SpaceX destroys any of their habitats, they could be at
• 33:34
  fault and environmental groups could sue them.
• 33:38
  They could go to court for this. Could they possibly halt
• 33:43
  Starship operations and launches from Starbase until SpaceX
• 33:50
  figures this out? And how to protect these
• 33:52
  animals? The answer is probably they've
• 33:57
  done it before. Remember when they had the
• 33:59
  environmental study a little while ago and it took them
• 34:02
  months and months to figure this out?
• 34:04
  So Elon and company, along with the government, came to a
• 34:10
  conclusion that they didn't really damage anything
• 34:13
  environmentally, so they had to put in some measures to protect
• 34:17
  it so they didn't damage it in the future.
• 34:20
  And that's kind of where we're at with these in their
• 34:23
  environmental or endangered species.
• 34:25
  Here is if they can prove enough that SpaceX is destroying these
• 34:31
  species of birds and becoming a detriment to them, they could
• 34:36
  possibly halt production of Starships and halt launches of
• 34:41
  Starbase while there's another environmental review.
• 34:44
  Could this happen if there's enough evidence?
• 34:49
  I believe it could. I believe it could because if
• 34:53
  and they already did an environmental review.
• 34:54
  But it's not unheard of to do numerous environmental reviews
• 34:58
  if there's more evidence shown. It's not.
• 35:02
  It's not like court. You don't go to court and, you
• 35:05
  know, say if you did a crime, they're like, Oh yeah, you, you
• 35:08
  got off, you know, like, cool, you're not guilty.
• 35:12
  OK, so then you then you're free, right?
• 35:14
  The court said you're free, but there's more evidence because
• 35:17
  this is an ongoing thing. So they said at the time SpaceX
• 35:23
  had altered a wild or a habitat on a Wildlife Refuge.
• 35:29
  So if they're building a case here with, if they can do
• 35:33
  hundreds of, if they could show hundreds of pieces of evidence
• 35:39
  for this, could they halt Starbase for a little while?
• 35:45
  SpaceX, as you can see, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in
• 35:48
  Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department
• 35:51
  did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
• 35:53
  Of course they wouldn't. This could be a big deal.
• 35:57
  Could be a big deal if they, if they're shown to destroy some
• 35:59
  endangered species, either A, they would just pay a fine,
• 36:03
  which is probably going to be the case.
• 36:05
  Probably going to pay a fine to be like, oh man, we didn't know.
• 36:07
  We didn't know this was going to happen.
• 36:11
  Or if they do it enough, they pay a bunch of fines, which you
• 36:15
  know, they should pay for what they did wrong.
• 36:17
  Of course, everybody should. That's the right thing to do.
• 36:21
  But if they really destroy some stuff and then these habitats
• 36:26
  and these birds never come back and SpaceX is at fault.
• 36:32
  Look, I'm with you. I understand we need to go to
• 36:34
  Mars, right? We need to go to Mars.
• 36:36
  And I, I want us to go to Mars, but we only live on Earth,
• 36:43
  right? We live on Earth.
• 36:45
  We should protect it and take care of it.
• 36:47
  This is our home. We don't live on Mars yet.
• 36:50
  So at least protect this stuff. And I, I think what was what
• 36:53
  would actually happen is the Department of Wildlife in the
• 36:59
  Texas Parks Wildlife Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and
• 37:02
  SpaceX. But I'll come to a conclusion of
• 37:04
  how to protect these, these species and what can SpaceX do
• 37:09
  even more than they've already done to protect these species.
• 37:12
  And I think that's the case. What would happen here as
• 37:15
  opposed to them shutting down operations unless it's really
• 37:19
  bad. If it's really bad, then SpaceX
• 37:24
  could do something. You know, it could be, could be
• 37:27
  something really bad. So we'll see.
• 37:30
  We'll see in the, that's pretty much where we're at right now.
• 37:31
  We'll see what happens, see if there's any sort of if there's
• 37:35
  any sort of Wildlife Conservation department and
• 37:42
  these environmentalist groups, if they talk to each other and
• 37:45
  if there's a lawsuit, we'll see. But I'm excited for IFT 5
• 37:50
  because it's not going to happen before IFT 5.
• 37:52
  I'm excited for IFT 5I. I would love for them to catch
• 37:56
  the booster, but I don't think it's going to happen.
• 37:58
  I don't think it's, I don't think it's worth it.
• 38:00
  It's not worth it for SpaceX to do that.
• 38:02
  So I don't think IFT 5 is going to be a catch.
• 38:05
  I think IFT 6 is going to be a catch.
• 38:07
  Maybe after seven, maybe they're going to wait a little bit,
• 38:11
  which they probably should. Hey, thank you so much for
• 38:25
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• 38:27
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• 38:29
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• 38:32
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• 38:45
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• 38:51
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• 38:53
  And I'll see you tomorrow. Let's talk about Starship.
• 39:01
  Let's talk about New Glenn, and let's talk about ula as well for
• 39:07
  a national security space launch phase three launch services
• 39:12
  program. OK, that's a lot.
• 39:15
  Wow. OK.
• 39:16
  So we know that SpaceX works with the Department of Defense,
• 39:20
  and we also know the Blue Origin hasn't launched New Glen yet.
• 39:24
  So those are the two things we have to think about today.
• 39:26
  SpaceX works with the Department of Defense, with Falcon 9,
• 39:29
  Falcon Heavy, and they also work with NASA and other firms around
• 39:34
  the world. Blue Origin sends people to
• 39:38
  space to do what some would call a carnival ride.
• 39:44
  You go up, you come back down. I think it's pretty cool though.
• 39:46
  Right now the the Blue Origin launcher that sends people to
• 39:50
  space sent Captain Kirk to space.
• 39:52
  I mean, come on, you can't just be a hater on that.
• 39:56
  That's pretty cool. But New Glen, their giant
• 39:58
  massive rocket, hasn't launched yet.
• 40:01
  Why did they get these contracts?
• 40:03
  How do they get this contract, and what does this mean for
• 40:07
  SpaceX in the overall scheme of things?
• 40:11
  This contract is coming up $5.6 billion / 5 years from fiscal
• 40:16
  year 2025 to 2029. They'll compete for at least 30
• 40:21
  NSSL Lane One missions, which launch up to two years in
• 40:27
  advance. So let's talk about Blue Origin
• 40:29
  first. Blue Origin, who is founded by
• 40:32
  Jeff Bezos, the Amazon guy, is selected for the first time to
• 40:36
  launch national security satellites under the NSSL
• 40:40
  program. The only rocket that they have
• 40:42
  that can do this is New Glen, which hasn't launched yet.
• 40:44
  We they haven't even test fired the thing.
• 40:47
  Now heavy lift reusable rocket is expected to attempt its first
• 40:50
  orbital flight later this year. Could this be possible?
• 40:56
  Could we see a New Glen flight? I think it would be freaking
• 40:59
  awesome if we saw a New Glen flight.
• 41:01
  Let me go down to the comments. If you support Blue Origin and
• 41:05
  their gigantic massive New Glen rocket, it's not as big a
• 41:08
  Starship. Mind you not, I don't think it's
• 41:10
  as cool as Starship. But because it's all hidden in
• 41:13
  secret, we don't really know what's going on with New Glen
• 41:16
  until Blue Origin releases something.
• 41:20
  It's not like SpaceX where you can drive down Hwy. 4, literally
• 41:23
  parking the side of the road, like across the road from it,
• 41:25
  take a couple pictures or like to stand there and hang out and
• 41:28
  notice how huge this thing is. You can't do that with New Glen.
• 41:31
  It's all in secret. But they receive $5 million for
• 41:35
  initial capabilities assessment and nearly $18 million for early
• 41:40
  integration studies for New Glen, their initial capabilities
• 41:44
  assessment. What can it do?
• 41:46
  What can the blue origin rocket do?
• 41:49
  How much can it hold early integration studies for new
• 41:52
  glance? So they get 50 or 5,5,000,000
• 41:55
  and 18,000,000 for both of those things.
• 41:57
  Just it's kind of like a study like, hey, early integration
• 42:00
  studies like how can this how does this thing work?
• 42:03
  How will it work for the Department of Defense?
• 42:06
  Like that's a bunch of money. And then phase three, this is
• 42:11
  how the program structure and lay details.
• 42:13
  I'm going to read this off to you because it's hard for me to
• 42:16
  remember all this stuff. It's divided into two lanes.
• 42:19
  Lane one is for less demanding low earth orbit launches and
• 42:23
  lane 2 for heavy lift rockets capable of delivering payloads
• 42:27
  to 9 reference orbits. So SpaceX has Falcon Heavy, it's
• 42:33
  their heavy lift rocket. And then Jeff Bezos with New
• 42:36
  Glen, that's their heavy lift rocket.
• 42:39
  Lane one contracts are confirmed for Blue Origin, SpaceX and ula
• 42:43
  with no other launch providers meeting the criteria.
• 42:46
  Lane two providers will be selected later this year with up
• 42:49
  to three contracts awarded for high performance launch systems.
• 42:53
  So lane 2 heavy lift rockets, SpaceX is more than likely going
• 42:57
  to get it with Falcon Heavy. Not quite Starship yet because I
• 43:01
  don't know if the, I don't know if the Department of Defense
• 43:03
  really is into, I know they're into Starship, but I don't know
• 43:07
  if they're ready for a Starship launch yet.
• 43:09
  And Joey Roulette, we're going to talk about that in a minute
• 43:12
  too. Joey Roulette had some
• 43:15
  information about this on X as well.
• 43:17
  I'll talk about that in a little bit.
• 43:19
  Now the competition. Space Force aims to increase
• 43:22
  competition and drive down launch costs, which is a great
• 43:24
  thing for SpaceX while maintaining assured access to
• 43:28
  space through redundant capabilities.
• 43:31
  Do it through ula do it through Blue Origin, do it through
• 43:35
  SpaceX. You have three different things.
• 43:37
  You can launch with three different launch providers.
• 43:39
  So it's going to be redundant. They can always get something to
• 43:42
  orbit or beyond on wrap. Opportunities will be available
• 43:45
  early year to allow new providers and systems to enter
• 43:48
  the competition. So if anybody else out there has
• 43:51
  a heavy lift rocket or rocket that can suffice what the
• 43:57
  Department of Defense needs, sure, throw your hat in the
• 44:01
  ring. Go for it early year every year
• 44:04
  to allow new providers to and systems to enter the
• 44:07
  competition. Potential new entrance for lane
• 44:09
  one include Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Firefly
• 44:12
  Aerospace and they're all, they all have like medium lift
• 44:16
  rockets right now or they're developing them.
• 44:19
  So the task orders, task order number one in phase three, lane
• 44:23
  1 includes 7 launches for the Space Development Agency and one
• 44:27
  for National Reconnaissance Office.
• 44:30
  SpaceX and ula as incumbent phase two providers will each
• 44:34
  receive 1.5 million. It's not that much money for
• 44:37
  these mega mega corporations. Only launch providers who have
• 44:43
  completed a successful orbital launch prior to the proposal due
• 44:46
  date can be in for task orders. So why are they using Starship
• 44:52
  right now? They don't really need to.
• 44:53
  They have fucking heavy. Starship isn't proven yet.
• 44:57
  Could they do? Could they do it by then?
• 45:00
  Yeah, of course. And also, if they do it with
• 45:04
  Falcon Heavy this year, they could always bid for the
• 45:07
  Starship on next year's program. So Blue Origin looks like they
• 45:13
  have the confidence of the Department of Defense, which is
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  great because we need competition.
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  Not only do does Blue Origin compete with Starship, but
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  they're going to be competing with these giant contracts, with
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  these giant contracts. SpaceX wants that money.
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  So they're going to make Starship better, faster, a
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  bigger, cheaper also ula going to do the same thing actually
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  ula is kind of old space, right? So Ula does things the old way
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  where they have a fixed way of doing things.
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  And the rocket doesn't change until later.
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  I mean, it will change later on. They will have their blocks for
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  this rocket, but it's not clear exactly when that'll happen.
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  Also, it's not really clear when Starship will make it to orbit
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  and complete a full orbit, but I'm hoping it's by the end of
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  this year. That would be great.
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  I'm assuming that it will be by the end of this year.
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  They'll they'll complete a full orbit and they'll possibly get
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  some Starlinks into into orbit while they're up there and
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  hopefully they'll catch a booster.
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  And I don't think, I don't think, you know, IFT 5's going
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  to be the booster catch. I think IFT 6 or 7's going to be
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  the booster catch. I'm still optimistic.
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  You know, I'm not a pessimist about this thing.
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  I'm just being realistic. So I think somebody left a
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  comment in on the last video that I was pessimistic about
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  this stuff. I'm, I'm just being realistic,
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  man. You know, with the, with the
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  booster catch for Starship, it's just a little bit dangerous, you
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  know, and I'm optimistic about Starship.
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  I want it to work very well. I want it to work perfectly.
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  But sometimes you got to be realist, you know, IFT 5, if
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  everything looks great, go for it.
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  Go for it. But you know, it seems like the
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  Department of Defense really likes Blue Origin in this case.
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  And Space Force plans to select lane two providers this fall.
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  And it they said the government intends to award up to three
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  contracts for the NSSL phase three lane two launch launch
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  service procurement lane two providers this fall.
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  Could that be Starship possibly, possibly.
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  That's a heavy lift 1. So it's either going to be
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  Falcon Heavy or Starship. If they can show that they can
• 47:30
  get to orbit, SpaceX has to make some sort of some sort of door,
• 47:36
  some sort of hatch for their satellites to come out because I
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  don't think they're ready for they're not ready for the
• 47:42
  clamshell quite yet. You know, how want the, the
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  clamshell with the, the nose of the Starship opening up like
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  this and then the, the satellites come out.
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  I don't think they're ready for that yet.
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  They could do a hatch of some sort.
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  They did the the Starlink hatch, which seemed to be OK, seemed to
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  work all right. As far as we know is that they
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  said it was a successful test. So yes, it was successful.
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  Was a little bit janky and little, you know, and, you know,
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  probably a couple seconds worth of closing the doors little
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  janky, but you know, it's their first try and it's a Starship so
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  it's huge. It's massive.
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  So The thing is, Starship may get this contract.
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  Falcon Heavy more than likely like that's reliable.
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  It's proven. If SpaceX wants to go the proven
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  route for this one, I would say just get the contract, take that
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  money. Because if you can demonstrate
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  for the Department of Defense that you can do these things
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  again and again with Falcon Heavy, of course, use that as a
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  heavy lift rocket. It's not a super heavy lift
• 48:43
  rocket like Starship. And I don't think they're going
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  to need a Starship for what the Department of Defense, US Space
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  Force needs for this launch. So why would you use the
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  Starship if you don't need it? Let me know in the comments down
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  below what you think they're gonna do.
• 48:59
  Joey Roulette, I'm gonna read you some of his tweets.
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  So he just goes over Space Force awarded Blue Origin 5 million to
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  conduct da, da, da. And then so he says, Joey says
• 49:13
  SpaceX pitch Starship, Blue Origin pitch New Glen Ula pitch
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  Vulcan. Then he goes on to say, I've
• 49:20
  asked SSE if Starship was admitted to lane one.
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  They said yes. But I don't think that's
• 49:26
  correct. SpaceX got 1.5 million for a
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  well understood system, which obviously wouldn't be Starship,
• 49:32
  it would be Falcon. And it's highly doubtful
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  Starship would be operational by December.
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  So fully operational by December.
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  He said it's highly doubtful. I think there's a possibility
• 49:46
  it's possible SpaceX pitch Starship for lane one
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  independent of Falcon because why not?
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  And SSC only chose its Falcon bid, but that's not confirmed.
• 49:56
  I don't know waiting SSC to clarify, but it certainly seems
• 50:00
  obvious Falcon is the one. And then Nick Proxima said, hey,
• 50:05
  hi Joey. Where exactly does it say what
• 50:08
  each vehicle was pitched? Just trying to phrase this the
• 50:10
  best of my ability. Thank you.
• 50:12
  And then Joey said Space Force confirmed to him, as did the
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  company's execs exec SpaceX. And then he said, I don't think
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  it's Starship. So interesting that it's not
• 50:25
  Starship when New Glen is launching too.
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  So Joey's very reputable about this stuff.
• 50:30
  So it's it's kind of a little bit weird, but also you got to
• 50:34
  understand it. This is a business like they
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  don't do this to show off Starship.
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  They do this to win contracts. They do this for billions of
• 50:40
  dollars. So if they have a rocket that
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  can already do that, use the rocket that's already there.
• 50:46
  Use the Falcon Heavy for now until you get your Starship
• 50:49
  ready. And then when starship's ready,
• 50:51
  start launching. It's not like they lost a race
• 50:53
  or anything like that. They're here to win money and
• 50:57
  they're winning money with Falcon Heavy because they have a
• 50:58
  reliable rocket that already works.
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  Unlike Blue Origin who has, you know, their has their tourism
• 51:07
  rocket, which takes people up to space.
• 51:09
  They float back down. It's all good.
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  It's fun. It's pretty cool.
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  It's actually it's actually really cool.
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  I like that the rocket idea for Blue Origin.
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  I would love to do it someday. So there you have it.
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  That's what we know so far. Starship isn't going to be
• 51:25
  launching these as far as we know.
• 51:26
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