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Elon Musk's New Power Play: DOGE · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads, the
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Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neurolink.
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I'm your host, Will Walden. Hey, so I've been thinking about
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Elon's recent moves with Tesla. What do you make of the $25,000
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car that they're talking about? And could that be the
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breakthrough moment that everyone's been waiting for?
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So let's talk about Elon Musk in Washington.
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First, though, he's reached unprecedented levels as Tesla's
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stock price soars 80% since early November, solidifying his
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position as the world's wealthiest individual.
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Now is a 13% stake in Tesla, and it's grown substantially, coming
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after his strategic investment over $250 million in support of
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Donald Trump's campaign. The relationship between Musk
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and the president-elect has become so close that some people
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have started referring to him as the Co president, marking a new
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chapter in this political spectrum.
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Here, the Department of Government Efficiency has
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appointed Musk as Co lead, tasking him with finalizing
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federal spending patterns in identifying areas for potential
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cost reduction. The new role positions him to
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shape policy decisions that could benefit the EV industry
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while working toward the administration's goal of
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reducing federal spending by around $2 trillion.
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Now. This appointment demonstrates
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the administration's trust in Musk's abilities to balance
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public sector efficiency with private sector innovation.
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Now, Teslas current market position presents both
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challenges and opportunities for the automaker.
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Sales data through November shows varying performance across
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global markets, with U.S. sales projected to reach 633,000
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units, representing 4% of the total car market.
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Now, the company maintains its leadership position in the EV
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sector, controlling nearly half of all EV sales in the United
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States, despite increased competition from traditional
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automakers. Now, the European Union market
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has presented specific challenges for Tesla, with sales
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dropping 15% through November compared to the previous year,
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totalling 211,000 vehicles. Similar patterns have emerged in
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China too, where local competitors like BYD have
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intensified their market presence.
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These numbers come during a period of overall growth in the
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global EV market, which saw a 25% increase through November,
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according to Row Motion Research data.
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Now, Wall Street analysts have focused their attention on
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Tesla's advancements in autonomous driving tech, though,
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viewing it as a key factor in the company's future success.
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Now this is combined with Musk's political strength, his
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connections has has all contributed to investor
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confidence. Despite current sales
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challenges, the market appears to be pricing in the potential
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for regulatory changes that could accelerate the deployment
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of self driving vehicles. And also, the introducing of the
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Cyber truck has added a unique element to Tesla's product
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lineup with 28,000 units sold through September, according to
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Cox data. And the distinctive stainless
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steel vehicle starts at around $80,000.
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And it's also become the best selling electric pickup in the
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United States, though its sales volume remains significantly
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below that of the Model Y, Tesla's primary revenue
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generator. The Cyber Trucks market
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performance provides insights in a Tesla's ability to create new
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vehicle categories when they want to and add them to their
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existing product lines. Now, Keith or Kenneth Boyer,
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who's the author of the electric vehicle Revolution 5 Visionaries
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leading the Charge, said the shift in Musk's operational
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focus compared to that of 2018, when he personally oversaw the
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model three production challenges.
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And the analysis suggests that Musk's current attention spans
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multiple ventures. So X, he has SpaceX governmental
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responsibilities, he has Neurolink, Boring Company,
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Tesla, and it presents a different leadership approach
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from his earlier hands on manufacturing involvement, the
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anticipated $25,000 Tesla model, his captured investor interest
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as a potential catalyst for market expansion to battle.
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Rd. Research President Ben Rose
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projects strong market performance for Tesla shares,
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setting the responsibility of reaching new customer segments
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through more affordable pricing in the near future.
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Now, the current Model 3, which is around $42,500 before
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incentives, leaves room for a lower priced entry point that
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could attract price sensitive consumers.
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Not everybody has around $50,000 to spend on a vehicle and most
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people are looking for a, you know, a a fairly decent budget
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car like a 20,000 to 25,000 vehicle.
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So if Tesla can hit that $25,000 mark with pretty decent
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features, I think they're going to have a, a, a killer here.
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They have a, a hit on their hands.
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Now the used test. The market data from CarGurus
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reveals strong demand for an affordable electric vehicle.
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So Model Threes are priced around $25,000, and as they show
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up, they quickly turn over, let's people buy them up.
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And according to Kevin Roberts, the site's director of economic
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and market intelligence, price reduction correlates directly
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with increased consumer interest, suggesting potential
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success for a lower priced new Tesla model.
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So if you get a Tesla Model 3 from three years ago, it's still
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a great vehicle. And if you pay $25,000 for that
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Gray vehicle, is that going to be better than the new $25,000
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Tesla that they're going to be introducing?
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It's going to be interesting to see what kind of features.
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It hasn't really, really piqued my interest.
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Well, the self driving taxi market represents another area
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of potential growth for Tesla, with companies like Waymo
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already operating driverless services in several U.S. cities.
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Waymo's expansion at Atlanta, Miami and Austin demonstrates
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the growing acceptance of autonomous transportation
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services. While extensive testing
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continues in the Chinese market, Tesla's position in this sector
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could benefit from regulatory changes under the new
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administration. So Tesla's stock performance
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correlates strongly with public perception of Musk's leadership
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capabilities. The connection between corporate
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value and executive reputation shows that it's important for
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Musk's strategic decisions in determining Tesla's market
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position. People invest in Tesla because
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they want to invest in Elon Musk's ideas now.
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Federal tax credits currently provide up to $7500 incentives
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for Tesla purchases, though these benefits may face revision
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under the incoming administration.
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Potential changes to these incentives could affect Tesla's
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sales strategy and pricing structure, particularly as the
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company considers introducing more affordable models.
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Now, will this also put Elon Musk and Trump in a battle?
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We'll have to find out when this actually happens, how mad Elon's
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going to get. How many posts he's going to do
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on X and how many posts will the president-elect Donald Trump do
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on his true social platform about this?
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And are they going to be warring?
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We're not sure. And will Elon get kicked off the
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doge? I don't know.
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It's a it's a toss up at this point.
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We have no idea. But it looks like
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president-elect Trump is OK with electric vehicles.
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So we might see some of these incentives continue.
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And the global electric vehicle market continues to evolve,
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though with Tesla maintaining its position as an industry
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leader despite increased competition.
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The company's ability to innovate across multiple price
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points and vehicle categories demonstrates its adaptability in
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a changing market environment. The combination of technological
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advancement and strategic leadership positions Tesla for
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continued growth for the foreseeable future.
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The development of Tesla's charging network infrastructure
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is also another strategic advantage, providing customers
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with reliable access to charging stations across multiple
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continents. This established network
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differentiates Tesla from competitors who rely on 3rd
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party charging solutions. Most of those charging solutions
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are not that good, and offering a more integrated ownership
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experience for Tesla owners and Tesla customers is what the
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Tesla's charging network is all about.
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So let's digging a little bit of SpaceX here.
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Spacex's success as the federal government's primary rocket
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contractor has also enhanced Musk's credibility in both the
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private and the public sectors. The track record of delivering
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complex technological solutions on a massive scale supports
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investor confidence in Tesla's ability to achieve its
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autonomous driving and manufacturing.
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Kohl's Now X provides him with a direct channel to communicate
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with customers and investors, though he's remained notably
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reserved about specific plans for Tesla's future product
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lineup. And this communication strategy
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is a departure from previous product launches, where he
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shared some detailed information and got kind of, you know,
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pinged for it. So let's move over to some
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SpaceX. And I want to do a little bit of
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news here, but I also want to give you some insight about
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Starbase from my own experience. If you're not familiar with what
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I did at Star Base, I spent about a year embedded covering
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Star Base. I'm a Elon Musk fan and all of
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his companies. So when I made the choice to
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move the Star Base and cover the building of the initial full
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stack Starship rocket, it was an easy choice for me.
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I came from the Northeast. I was living in Vermont and I
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moved to Star Base because I saw this amazing technological feat
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that Elon and his crew were building on the tip of Texas.
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So it was my duty to show that to the world.
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And I spent about, like I said, about a year down there covering
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that story. And I was on the road, the side
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of the road, Hwy. 4:00 every single day.
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It was 104° some days. Some days it was.
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I was drenched in rain. There were floods.
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There were hurricanes. The weather was sometimes
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brutal, sometimes beautiful. I spent my Christmas Day there.
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I spent my New Year's Eve there. I spent a lot of time at
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Starbase covering this magnificent giant rocket and the
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upcoming flight in the early weeks of January, January 10th
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possibly. We're going to see this launch
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and it's going to be amazing. It's going to be similar to the
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last flight, but that's going to usher in a new era of Starship
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because it's going to be the next block of the Starship and
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they have some new heat tiles on it.
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It's going to be more equipped for returns to Earth at a higher
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pressure and a higher temperature, higher speed too,
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and kind of the speeds that they'll be getting if they're
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sending things to orbit, you know, if they're sending
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satellites to orbit. But I want to go back to some of
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my experiences to Starbase. And I think this is, it's pretty
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cool to hear about this stuff if you've never been to Starbase
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before because it is a brutal place.
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First, let me tell you about Brownsville.
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Brownsville is a border town. It's right on the border of
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Mexico. There's a lot of illegal
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immigration that happens in this area.
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A lot of crime. It's a very a lot of crime
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before SpaceX and their crew got there.
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It's cleaned up a little bit since then there and there was
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one of the most impoverished places in the United States.
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If you're going to move someplace and you want a better
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life, you know, if you want something with a higher wage
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and, you know, don't get me wrong, Brownsville's amazing.
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It's a great city and the people there were wonderful, but if
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you're looking for kind of a higher end life, you don't want
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to move to Brownsville. And like I said, I loved it
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there. I I thought it was real great.
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It was really fun. I met some really great people.
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I was friends with some SpaceX engineers.
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They were my neighbors and I just had a great time there.
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So one of the things that I, I like to talk about are the
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positives when I was there, because like I said, I met some
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really great people. Two of my neighbors were SpaceX
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engineers. I would have barbecues with
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them. I'd invite them over for drinks
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and for dinners we'd we'd all eat together, them and their
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families. And we talked about SpaceX.
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We just talked about regular life stuff.
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It's just like people are pretty normal.
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The engineers of SpaceX are just normal people, but they have
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really cool jobs. They also get paid a lot of
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money compared to the other people that work in the area.
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Brownsville, like I said, it's a border town.
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There's not much going on. And also it's about 250,000
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people, I think like a quarter million people in the
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surrounding area of Brownsville. A lot of people, it's kind of
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congested, but they have every like kind of every normal city
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problem, you know, a little bit extra traffic, some places, lot
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of crime. For instance, the I would go to
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a a park every day and I'd work out, I'd go for runs and there
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was a track that would go that would, that went around one of
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the facilities. It was like a walking track and
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it's pretty big. Yeah, it's about a three mile
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track. He goes around the whole
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facility. And little did I know, but this
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is where the, the, I don't know, a mafia, some sort of gang, I
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don't know, I don't know what to call it, but that's where they
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would take people and kill them. It's pretty brutal, man.
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And I didn't know that, but one day I was out there and it was,
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I think it was about two in the afternoon and it was about 75°
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beautiful day. I did my walk and then I left.
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I saw cop cars coming my way. There was a bunch of cop cars
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coming that way. And then I learned later that
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night that somebody had been murdered on the trail that I was
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walking on like 5 minutes after I left, and they found the
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people that did it. It was some some gangsters, some
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mob, mob people. I'm not sure who they were, but
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they found the people. They found them actually like at
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the scene, like they tried to run away.
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They couldn't get away because the cops were there so fast.
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I didn't even know. Now, those are the kind of
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things that happened at Brownsville.
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But like I said before, a lot of wonderful, great things happened
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in Brownsville too. People are wonderful.
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They're really sweet, they're really nice and the area is
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desolate. It's in a subtropical zone.
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So really, really hot in the summer, in the fall, winter,
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spring, bad storms happen, floods, hurricanes, things like
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that. And it's also just to it's, it's
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really hot there because it's really hot.
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I, I wasn't used to it. I was from Vermont at the time.
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I came from snow that the day that I left Vermont, I wasn't, I
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was in upstate New York at that point.
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And the day that I left it was, I think it was 40°F.
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And when I got to Brownsville it was 102° at 8:00 at night.
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It was a 20 hour drive. I drove all the way there.
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So now we want to jump a little bit to what it's like to be at
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the Star Base facility with Space XS Starship.
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And as it's being built, like I'm seeing everything be the
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infrastructure, the rocket, seeing new people join up.
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Starbase wasn't really a thing. I mean it was like it's just
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starting to become Starbase. It's a it was kind of a smaller
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facility. It had the the high Bay and the
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mid Bay and it had a few tents that people were building things
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in. But it's nothing like it is now
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and nothing like it's going to be in the next 5 years.
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So they're going to be cranking out these rockets.
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When I was there, they only had one rocket and one stackable
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rocket, and they couldn't even fly with the engines on this
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rocket because they weren't that good.
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So the time that I was there, I thought they were going to
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launch in September because Elon kept hinting.
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This is what Elon does, right? We all know this.
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Elon hints at some things, so he's like, yeah, like looking
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good. Like, you know, nudge, nudge,
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nudge. Look at the the Starship is
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going to be stacked by September 10th or whatever.
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It wasn't stacked at that point, and it's stacked in February,
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February, I think it was February 10th at a stacked of
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that year or the next year, because I got there because I
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thought this thing was going to stack.
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I thought they were going to fly it that year.
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Regulatory stuff was still work being worked on, but it looked
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like they had a clean, clear path to flight.
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And the way that SpaceX does things is they, as Silicon
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Valley companies do, as we've all heard, move fast and break
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things, right? So that's how SpaceX does
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things. First principles, take
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everything away, strip everything away, just give
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thing, give it the necessary parts and then fly it.
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But that didn't happen. And then in February, of course,
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they stacked it up and then they destacked it, and then they
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didn't fly it. So my time at Star Base at that
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point was almost over and I was enjoying myself.
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It's like a tropical Wonderland down there.
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There's amazing wildlife. You can see different people
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everyday. I met some amazing people that I
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still keep in touch with. I don't live there now.
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I used you know, I, I moved away from there, but I met some
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wonderful people that I still keep in contact with on the
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daily. You can check out our Discord
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and there's a discord in the description or show notes down
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below. And I'm starting up a discord
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for this channel for the Elon show.
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But we had a discord for our space news pod show, which is
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the show on YouTube that got this all started.
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And that was how I communicated with people and I still
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communicate with people through Discord.
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People that I've met and also the engineers at Starbase that I
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met. I still communicate with them
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through Discord. I can't tell anybody who they
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are or what usernames they have, mainly because they don't want
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to be outed. They told me they don't want
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anybody to know who they are. So I have to keep it a secret.
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But if you want to join our Eland Show Discord, there's a
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link in the show notes or description below.
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Now let's get back to one of the fun things that happened to me
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there. I wouldn't say it was fun.
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It's really scary. So I at that point, at that
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point I had this giant lens for my camera and I had the cinema
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camera, a black magic cinema camera that I was using to shoot
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all the video. 6K, amazing footage of this amazing rocket
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that was being built. Wonderful times.
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I was having enough time in my life filming this rocket and
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getting all these angles that I thought were really cool.
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People were enjoying the live streams on the YouTube channel
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and you know, it was one night kind of late.
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It was dark, about 10:00 at night.
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I was down there a little bit later than normal.
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I usually go home about 8:00 and then I edit videos for the
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YouTube channel and then I'll post him up the next day.
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So at about 8:30, something like that, it's kind of winding down
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and wrapping up and I was getting some B roll footage for
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the channel and a gentleman came up to me and started talking to
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me about the Starship. And I gladly helped him
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understand what it was and how it will affect humanity, how
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this type of ship can send people to Mars.
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And I said in a couple years, which of course we all thought
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it was going to be in a couple years, except for Eric Berger,
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who who knows? You know, Eric Berger's that
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guy. He has had a long tradition of
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Space Flight journalism. So he knows that it's going to
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take not two or three years, it's going to take 10 years to
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get it to Mars capabilities, which he's kind of right.
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It should be around 10 years before this thing goes to goes
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to Mars from its inception since the first build, I should say.
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So the, the gentleman that was talking to me about this, I
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noticed that he was acting, he was a little sketchy.
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You know, when those people, have you ever met one of those
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people that you're just hanging out with them and they keep
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moving a little bit. They start like this, move their
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bodies around a little bit and not in a good way.
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And I didn't like a man. I'm just like my tense or
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whatever. And I'm just like trying to
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stretch or whatever because I've been on my feet all day and I've
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been really, I'm really tired. I just want to move around a
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little bit, not that kind of way.
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It was like reaching into his pockets, you know, touching his
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leg kind of like, you know, like just kind of twitchy, you know,
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those kind of people. He was that kind of guy.
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So I was talking to him and being nice to him being, you
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know, being that he was there from someplace else and he came
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in with a friend and he said he was going to camp on the beach
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that night, which is totally OK down there.
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And the beach is only about a mile away from the rocket.
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So it's a really fun place to camp.
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And he started getting like a little bit closer, like into,
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you know, how when you're out in the wild, there's some people
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that just want to get really close to you, want to like talk
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up in your face when what you want them to be is like at least
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an arm length away, at least that's pretty normal for people.
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But an arm like maybe more, you know, and then you can talk
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comfortably and nobody has, you know, weird things going on.
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So he was about half of an hour length away from me at that
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point. He kept moving in a little bit.
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So then he started asking me about my camera.
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And that's when I, the, the red light started flashing in my
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head. I was like, OK, this guy is
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thinking about something that he shouldn't be thinking about.
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So I've got to wrap this up real quick.
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I, I talked to the guy for about 10 minutes and I noticed it
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about the 8 minute mark. He was super sketchy.
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So and I was like trying to trying to buy some time so I
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could get out of the situation, trying to figure out my next
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move, which was get my camera in the car and get me in the car
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and get out of there. We were right across from the
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SpaceX facility. Luckily there was a security
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guard there who could watch everything.
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And you know, this guy reached into his pocket and he slowly
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started pulling something out. Looked like a wooden handled
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knife of some sort. That's all I could see is like a
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wood handle and a little bit of metal.
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So what I did was said, hey man, it's been great talking to you.
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I got to go. So instead of putting my camera
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in my camera bag, it was still attached to my lens.
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The lens is $1000, the camera's $3000, the tripod is $500.00.
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So I had about $4000 worth of gear in my hands at that point.
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And I had like a streaming rig and all this other stuff.
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So there's probably $5000 worth of gear right there in front of
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this guy between me and him. So I I grabbed all of it at once
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and like it was a Symphony of movement.
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I unbuckled all the straps that were on it.
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I turned all the knobs to put everything in his place.
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I threw it in my car, slammed the door, jumped in my front
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seat, locked the door, turned the key, and started driving
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away. I was going to get stabbed at
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Starbase. This guy was going to steal all
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of my stuff. He's going to steal $5000 worth
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of my camera gear. I don't know why, You know, the
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guy probably needed money. He didn't seem like he was here
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legally. And that happens down to
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Starbase a lot, as we were on the border of Mexico.
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You can get to Starbase. You don't have to stop at the
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Border Patrol station on the way to Starbase.
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But if you're going back to Brownsville from Starbase, you
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have to stop at the Border Patrol.
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So I think this guy was kind of stuck at Starbase and he needed
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money to get himself out of there and he was just a super
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sketchy person. I've only met 2 super sketchy
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people there and I've met a real wild.
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There's a lot of wild people to go there though, Lot of wild
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people. Another one, I can tell this
26:16
story a little bit quicker, but there was a time when I was
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filming the the first stack of Starship in February.
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I think it was February. I'm not 100% sure I'll have to
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like look at the the logs that I have, but I think it's February.
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But there was a woman in her van.
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I parked my car right behind her van.
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I live stream from there every day.
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You're allowed to park on the side of the street there on the
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side of the road, wherever you can park your car.
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It's totally legal in Texas. You can do whatever you want to.
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So she was parked, her van was parked there.
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I parked probably like a car and a half away from her, behind
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her. And I got my camera gear out and
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I set it up like I normally do every single day.
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And she got out of her van and she told me to move my car.
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So I said, oh, I'm just going to film this for like 10 minutes
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and then I'll, I'll just leave you alone.
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I have the footage of it somewhere.
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I have the audio of it somewhere, but it's not clean
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audio so I can't really post it. It's horrible audio because I
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she wasn't nowhere near my microphone so you could just
27:21
kind of hear her barely in the background.
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And I have to, I would have to really mess with the audio and
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it would still sound really bad. So she told me that I have to
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leave because her friends are coming and they're going to park
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behind her. And I said OK, cool.
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I'm going to be about 10 minutes.
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I have to get this B roll footage then I'll leave you
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alone. So I was going to get the nose
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cone. I was going to get where the
27:43
ship and the booster attached together, and it was a far shot
27:48
and it looked really great. So I was like, I'm going to stay
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here, I'm going to do this. And then there was an audible
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FU. Unless you went back into her
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van. She was red in the face.
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She was a mad, real mad that I wouldn't move.
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And I was like, OK, that's cool. And then she had some words with
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me. She kept yelling out of her
28:12
window at me. And I'm like, just like, whoa,
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what's going on here? So after that situation kind of
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like died down a little bit, I, I picked up my camera and I
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moved it back about two car spaces from there.
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So I'm about 3 1/2 to four car spaces away from her.
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At that point, I picked up all my gear, moved it back there,
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moved my car back. I started filming again.
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She got out of her car again, out of her van.
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They told me, called me every name that you could think of,
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everything imaginable. No, I didn't do anything.
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I didn't do anything to her. I would just kind of sat there
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and I was like, wow, what's going on?
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Typically, you know, she typically most people are nice
28:56
there, but she must have been having a real bad day or
29:00
something. I don't know what, I don't know
29:01
what the deal was, but those are the only two times that I could
29:05
think of that were like real nasty.
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The funny thing is, right after she yelled at me, a wonderful
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couple from the Northeast drove in.
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I think they're from Maine or Rhode Island or something, but
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they drove all the way there. But they weren't there to see
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the rocket. They were there to see the
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wildlife. It's a wildlife preserve.
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And there's some like some weird birds that they really love.
29:29
They're like some birds you can't see or find anyplace else
29:32
in the United States. So they drove down for the
29:36
birds. They didn't even know the SpaceX
29:38
was down there. They didn't even know there was
29:39
a giant rocket down there. But she didn't say anything to
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them. They pulled up behind her and
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then she eventually pulled off and went someplace else.
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But it was I told them about her.
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I was like, hey, you guys might not want to park there.
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She might get out and yell at you.
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And then she was like, she was swearing at us as she left, but
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we were just kind of like, whoa, what just happened there?
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So there's, there's all kinds of different people there, but I've
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met some, like I said before, I met some wonderful people that I
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still keep in contact with there from there, some photographers,
30:12
some videographers, some film makers, some producers.
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And there's, you know, there's some beef between some of the
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YouTube channels that got like, it's a silly beef.
30:25
The big YouTube channel, we all, everybody knows them.
30:29
There's some beef between the big YouTube channel, the big
30:32
streaming YouTube channel in the local boys, which the local
30:36
boys, they were there first, you know, they started it all.
30:40
There were a few people there before, you know who you know,
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But it's like, it's a turf war, like it's silly.
30:46
Doesn't make any sense. There's enough room for
30:47
everybody to for everybody to have a piece of the pie.
30:51
And it just happens that one of them is better at business than
30:56
the other. The other one was kind of
30:57
hobbyist who had and they took us seriously though.
31:00
So I'm not going to discount what they've done.
31:03
But in the realm of business, they didn't do business well.
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And that's where it was separate from the other channel.
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I'm not going to name any channels.
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You'll figure it out yourself if you really want to.
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But basically the biggest Space Flight channel on YouTube other
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than the everyday astronaut, the the biggest streaming at
31:23
Starbase YouTube channel and this other streaming at Starbase
31:27
channel. For a while there, they had some
31:30
beef and some other Youtubers had some beef too.
31:33
It was kind of funny because everybody wanted their piece of
31:36
the pie, man. And I was just there for their
31:38
good times. I was there to make friends.
31:40
I was there to hang out and I was there to enjoy myself with
31:43
the company of other people that are fans of Elon.
31:46
And I hope you're you know, if you're still listening to this,
31:49
I hope you get something out of the story.
31:51
As in, please go to Starbase. If you go to Starbase, pack some
31:56
water, a lot of water in your trunk, pack some snacks because
31:59
there's no facilities anywhere, and go to the bathroom before
32:02
you leave your house to go down there because there's no
32:05
bathrooms. So yeah, take a take a little
32:10
trip there if you can. It's amazing place to be and
32:13
you'll be shocked at how big the rocket is in real life.
32:17
It's absolutely massive. It's so, so large compared to
32:22
anything other than a 40 story building that you've ever seen
32:25
and it's a rocket that they've launched this thing into space.
32:28
It's gigantic. You can get 100 yards from this
32:31
thing, couple 100 yards I should say, but you can get so close.
32:35
You can it's like touching it almost.
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It feels like you're right underneath it.
32:39
It's so huge. You can walk right up to the
32:43
fence. You can park your car on the
32:45
other side of the road. You can hang out there all day.
32:47
You want just watch the rocket. It's so cool.
32:51
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