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Elon Musk's Starbase sees major Milestone and Booster 7 to Launch Site · Elon Musk Podcast

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Clark tacular. Thank you so much for the Super
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Chat. That's I am Joy.
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Thank you so much. You helping support the show, of
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course. So you get a round of applause.
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Thank you so much for all of your help.
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Thank you so much, joy. Really do appreciate everybody's
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help out there. Everybody stop from buying
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hanging out. Can be starting up in a minute
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here. Got a few announcements to make
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it. Got a few things to talk about.
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Starship Starbase possible future of Starbase in the near
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future. So we talked about that a little
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bit. The new Milestone has been met
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for Starbase, which is really cool, and let's just do this.
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Just jump in man. Let's do this.
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Let's do this. Hey, everybody.
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Hey welcome. Welcome to the show.
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I got to get situated here. Welcome everybody.
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It is right now. I'm in Brownsville Texas about
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20 miles. Away from Starbase.
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Welcome on this Friday. It is 91 degrees here with
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humidity, that makes it feel like 104 degrees.
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So anybody that's out there right now at Starbase is a
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champ, anybody that's filming out there right now is a champ I
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had other stuff going on today, I wish I would have went down
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there to see the booster seven thing this morning at other
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stuff going on this morning. Little let's do the let's get
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this out of the way in the beginning because I just sort of
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sort of talked about it. So this morning I was working.
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I have a job. Now, I don't just rely on
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YouTube for for money, so that's kind of nice.
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This depending on, you know, the month that like I'm going to be
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straight up with you guys depending on the month in
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depending on like how many people watch videos.
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Those or whatever like it's not reliable, YouTube can't be your
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only source of income less, you're making tons and tons of
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views which I don't. So I had to go find myself a
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job. So anybody that supported the
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show through super chats, super stickers, GoFundMe patreon,
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memberships, things like that. You have helped me get to this
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point, but I felt like that it wasn't.
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It wasn't a sustainable. Model going forward.
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So I had to get a job. So I have a cool job,
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everything's all good. So, the schedule might change a
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little bit. That's kind of what happened
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today. Schedules a little bit later
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than normal. Usually do it at about noon.
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CST, so today, moved it back a little bit, had some stuff to
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do, right, still figure it out. I just started so figuring out
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like timeframes and schedules and stuff like that.
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It also, I have a very sad thing and it's very emotional for me.
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So if If I if I have to pause or like anything like that just
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please let me let me just finish that stuff up.
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I got some news last week. Ish, you know, really not like
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not really surprising news because I knew it was going to
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come eventually but my, my dad isn't doing too great in New
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York, right? So I want to spend with, I want
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to sit, I want to spend some time with him, right?
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So Oh, this might be his last summer.
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So I'm going to spend my summer with my dad in New York and I
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have to leave Brownsville just temporarily.
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Okay. So that's real tough.
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That's like thank you for hanging out with me for that.
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It's really really hard for me because I want to stay here and
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continue doing this but family comes first Right the dude that
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made me the guy my dad you know like it's possible.
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I this is last summer it's possible right.
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So I gotta go so at the end this month, I got a chick, I gotta
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take off, I gotta leave Brownsville, which is really,
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really sad for me because I a lot of people Help me out to get
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down here and getting down here was one of like the coolest
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things I've ever freaking done in my life.
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Like just seeing Starbase for the first time in knowing that
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like, you know, knowing that I'm going to see this rocket in like
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going around Highway 4 and then seeing High Bay for the first
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time ago I'm like, what the hell is this?
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Like what is my life like, this is my life now.
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How cool is my life? Like that's what I had to say.
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The last like nine months of my life like how cool is my life
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the last month or so I've had the deal with, you know, like a
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tree kind of structuring the show and stuff.
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Because I knew that this is, this a possible outcome and I
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couldn't go down to Starbase every day and some people were
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asking me, like, dude, why are you down there every day?
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Why are you streaming for us everyday?
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A Starbase and one of them was because of all this stuff, one
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of them is because like, dude, I got to get a job like this, like
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stream. And for Starbase doesn't make
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you any money unless people don't eat huge amounts of money,
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right? So like if you're making fifty
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bucks in tips, right? So save you.
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Make 50 bucks and super chats. Every day, I'm going to be
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straight up with you guys like 50 bucks and super chats every
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day equals to be about $39, you know.
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So 39 dollars a day if you make 50 bucks and super chats, Like
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that's not going to pay you anything like that's barely
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paying for your car payment for the year or for the month.
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So it's like car payment and insurance and then you get rent
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on top of that to any got utilities and got your phone
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bill. All that stuff.
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So I was like I gotta get a job. Like I'm gonna live this life as
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much as I can. I'm going to have some fun and
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enjoy myself but like streaming a Starbase every day like you
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would have to do it like Jessica cursed style it do like nine to
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ten hour days. And like I physically can't do
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it. Like she's a beast.
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She's a trooper in the best kind of way like she does it.
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The like, she's so dedicated to it.
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I really do admire her her gumption to be down there that
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long and it's it's tough dude, it is is a tough gig like If you
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have to stand on your feet for 9 hours, a day, that's one thing.
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But then you stand on your feet 9 hours, a day in, it's 90
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degrees outside. Dude, you're getting wrecked
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like I went outside today. Like, every morning, I go out
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and I do like a, like a walk around the neighborhood or
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whatever. And this morning, I got out and
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I was like but it just killed me like that.
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It was, it was burning my skin. It was so hot like it.
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I just felt like I was like, uh, like this.
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Just hurts to be out here, man. So Texas is no joke.
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So anybody Out there that does all that stuff all the time, mad
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props, like 100% you deserve all the props.
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So I don't want to take anything away from those people.
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I want to give them everything. Like they deserve way more
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credit than what they're getting.
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Like they deserve all the money they deserve.
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All of the accolades, they deserve everything because
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they're putting everything on the line to be out there every
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single day. And I appreciate all of you
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said, To me the best wishes and everything.
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Like, that's very, very, very sweet of you.
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So thank you, everybody. In check who's super nice?
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Like, you guys are awesome. So, thank you.
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Joy said, weather starting to warm up.
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Stay cool. Yeah, that's what I'm talking
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about. It's super hot here.
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It's ridiculously hot Bill. Lemon says, are we going to
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launch today? No, unfortunately.
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Now it speaking of that, speaking of hot, I get a Take
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this off because like I said, it's 90 something out degrees
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here, and I've been an air conditioned apartment, but it's
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still like, I got to get comfy day job is the way to go.
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Yeah, Greg I agree. It's it's I tried, you know, the
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YouTube thing 100%. I'm not quitting YouTube.
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Like that's that be silly. Like I've been doing it for
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three and a half years, there's no way I'm quitting I'm going to
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continue doing the show but I have to do it from someplace.
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Cells. That's it because that not that
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big of a deal. It sucks, it's emotional but
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it's something like, dude, I did some cool stuff like I'm super
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pumped, I'm super excited that I got to do this stuff.
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So going back there, hanging with my dad.
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He needs me. My family needs me.
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Yeah, so I got it. I got to go back, man.
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What are you waiting on? Go be with your dad, Bill.
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I'm doing it. I'm doing it as fast as I can.
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For real, there is Logistics, you know to get everything ready
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to go. I'm about 45% packed.
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I figured that out today. Like I was doing, I was kind of
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doing the math in my head. I was like, how do I, how do I
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do this? You know, like what is my,
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what's my Tetris situation in my car?
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You know, like you have to always whatever you move, you
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always have to Tetris everything into your car and I was like,
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what do I need? What do I need?
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because I don't have much, you know, I came down here not much
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and then I move it back with that much and yeah, I just
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getting to that point like, 45%, I could probably leave next
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week, which would probably be the best option at this point.
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Just take off and And get out of here and get myself a little bit
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of room. Like because it's like a
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five-day drive, like a 45-day drive.
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So getting back there, it's gonna take a little while.
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Not as much content is going to happen on the channel or I might
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make some cool content in between now and then and post it
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up a little bit later but it won't be like day of.
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Or am I just do stuff on the road like do stuff with my
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phone, which might be kind of cool which might be a nice
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distraction from the road so that might be cool.
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Let's see here. I'm so sorry.
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Will Shasta? Thank you so much Greg.
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Thanks again, thanks for all that, man.
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Hans, welcome, get her subscriber.
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Numbers are low Greg. Yeah.
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Jessica needs like 100,000 subscribers and I don't know
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what it is, like, I don't know why people aren't subscribing to
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her. It is a, it's a weird thing to,
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for if you only do live stuff, she does a lot of Life stuff.
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And it's a weird thing, like, if you do a lot of live stuff, but
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you don't have like, Regular cut into like digestible content.
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It's almost it's like I don't know if the algorithm doesn't
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like that or what the deal is but I think YouTube is kind of
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weird about that. So I'm not sure because they're
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not like, they're not really fond of Life stuff and I'd love
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to do live stuff but in she's working on that too.
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She's she does a lot of other stuff too.
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So I don't want to take that away from either because he does
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do, you know, katsampis not live.
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So yeah, I hope I hope I hope she hoped They figure it out
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like I want her to be super successful.
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I want to make a bunch of money and like live in comfort in live
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in you know, be very happy. So everybody else down here to
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this doing that stuff like not just her but everybody else is
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doing it. Like it's a hobby you know a lot
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of YouTube stuff is a hobby for a lot of people but if you're if
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you're making enough to survive, it's a job.
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But then if you're not making enough to survive, it's a hobby,
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you know, and they have to kind of think about that stuff.
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Hi. It's Jacques, You're great.
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And please continue to look forward to your future
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contribution to this next evolution of space.
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All the best. Thank you so much, Jack.
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I appreciate that, man. That does mean a lot to.
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You think, August or September for the launch.
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Hmm. It's going to be it's going to
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be a while. I think it's going to be a
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little bit. I think you're pretty close.
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Greg Smith says, 45% very specific.
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Yeah. My my packing I'm just kind of
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like what do I have left to do? Right have one.
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I know I have one suitcase to do, right?
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Like one big suitcase video and I know I have like I have a TV
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and I have to do something with that.
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So that's like a big part of it, it's either.
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I give that away to my neighbor and just be like, see you later,
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you know, or I take it with me. Problem is the thing is huge and
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I can't really fit, I mean I can fit in my car.
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It's right over there, it's a big old TV.
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I got it on sale at Target right when I got down here but it's
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like it's a big boy. So you know, where do you fit
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it? And also my computer desk and
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stuff like that. I'm just going to buy a new
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desk. When I get up there in this
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chair. I might I might either give this
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chair away or I don't want to buy a new one when I get up
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there because it's a, it's like an extra 300 bucks or whatever.
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And that's a lot of money so yeah, I don't know.
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Figure it out. Like that's the tetris part
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problem that I was talking about.
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It's like I'm probably 45 percent done packed, you know,
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and then if I get the rest of it like kind of figured out that.
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Yeah. So I just want to put that out
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there at the beginning. So we got it out there.
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It's been kind of Weighing on me for the last couple days and
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been thinking about a lot, you know, like how do I, how do I do
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the whole like to? I do like a bigot.
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Announcement video or whatever, but like, the live stuff you
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guys are always here for me. So I felt it was proper and
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necessary for me to tell you guys first because you guys are
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always here for the live stuff and always interact, and helping
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out. And jock, says, do what you need
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for your fam, return? When you can't, we all we will
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all miss you. Cheers, thanks, man.
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Yeah, it'll be. I think it'll be all good, you
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know. Like it's going to be a tough,
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tough go sometimes. You know, like, getting back
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there to is brutal, like driving down.
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Here is brutal. It's like a four-day Drive, 458
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Drive. Yeah, it's a tough.
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It's a tough drive. And it's like so fits through
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beautiful, beautiful places. But, like, 10 hours a day, you
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know, like you can do eight hours a day, but then you're,
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you know, you're another day in a hotel.
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So it's like you get, you get bored, you get worn out.
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It's I'm a road warrior and I love it, so it's pretty
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physically brutal. Mike Maxie says, Hi, Will so
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you're making the move back home?
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Yes, yes. I am.
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I'm figuring it all out. I'm figuring all.
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I was kind of, like, I was on the fence because I was like,
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look, man, my dad is. I talk to him all the time.
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I talked to him just yesterday and he seems like he's cool.
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But then I talked to my brother and They're gonna talk to my
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sister a couple days ago. She's like yeah, the dudes, not
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doing too well, you know, like he's doing okay, but he's 82,
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you know, when you're 82 and things start going downhill,
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they go downhill really fast. So I'm like those might be it's
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a great time for me to reassess things too.
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So go back there, hang out with my family, figure out what I
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want to do. Do I want to go back to don't
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want to go down to Florida next, there might be kind of cool too
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because of SpaceX starts launch and Starships from Florida in
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the Cadence of the launches is incredible.
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Plus there will be SLS launches, there'll be Dragon launches,
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like, how, like, I'm excited about launches, you know, like,
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that's what I've always. Always been excited about is the
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launch and seeing the the development of things is pretty
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cool too, but the launches are going to be sweet.
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That's like you imagine seeing a Starship launch.
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It's going to be wild. It's gonna be insane.
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Yeah, it's going to be crazy. Dan says, I honestly think
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booster 7 is ship 24, might launch by June or July.
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Well, there's a little bit of Is little bit of update for you
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here. Check this out.
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Check this out. This is the loop as always the
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permitting dashboard for the Starship, super heavy vehicle
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program is SpaceX Boca Chica site in Cameron County, Texas.
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So there's the FAA has to approve SpaceX to launch here in
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Boca Chica and they have to go through other agencies
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Department of Commerce. Noah Department of interior fish
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and wildlife service. Yeah.
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It's a, it's a, it's a bunch of people working together to get
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this done, but we are really close to the end of this thing.
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So there's there's a few other things we have to talk about to.
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There's a, there's a piper Bird that's kind of being sort of
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pushed back a little bit. The, it's an endangered species,
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and SpaceX is activities at Starbase or kind of the
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population is dwindling due to that.
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So the FAA has to take that in consideration as well and we'll
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see what happens with that. That in the next you know, few
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weeks after this cool thing, happened section, 106, review
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happened and it is complete right here.
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Look at this guy 106 review. The date was and 855 complete.
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It is complete. Holy cow.
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Space baller. Thank you so much for the Super
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Chat. Do you get any holy cow?
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We got to give you some Starships here.
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Hold on. Can't turn these on for you.
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There you go. Space baller.
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I thought it was a five-day drive to get out of Texas.
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It's pretty much. Well, it pretty much is like,
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Texas is huge. Thank you for that Super Chat.
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We're going to get into the 106 review in just a second and I
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got a I got a couple notes. I got to look at here for this
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because let's see here. It took down some notes earlier
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so about what this does and the 106 review is for the Well,
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historic preservation act so that's basically all the.
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So there's a lot of Civil War battles that happened down here,
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local historic sites to happen down here that are that are near
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Starbase, right? So as you're coming in to
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Starbase, thank you again for the super chassis can turn those
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off though. So as you're coming in to
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Starbase the there's there's historical sites, all down
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highway four others, at least two or three, Three on the way
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down highway for that. I can remember.
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I know there's a there's like a bigger pull off.
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On the right hand side about halfway down highway for and I
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think there's another one down there too.
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I can't remember exactly where it is and then there's one right
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next to Starbase like, literally as like, right by the launch
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site like like 100 yards away from launch site like not too
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far like as in I have filmed from there and I felt like all
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these Starbase trucks. You know like the wind of the
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Starbase trucks passing by me. It's right on the Side of
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highway for. So you can park on the side of
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the road at this historic site, and literally walk 100 yards
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across the road in your like, diagonal in your on Star base
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property or on SpaceX property. The the the cool thing is
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there's a lot of people that visit there.
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A lot of people that are into Heritage and you know into
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history and stuff like that. So that's pretty neat.
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I see people I see all sorts of different people down there.
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It's so this is kind of cool that this is actually you know
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like this is part of the history of Texas and I don't like right
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or wrong. I don't know like whatever
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whatever. Like whoever's in the the site
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of the battle or whatever the Civil War stuff.
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It's like who cares? If you're into that stuff, your
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You're into history, you're into history, that's it right?
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So you want to go down there if you want to check it out but you
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want to make sure that it's safe, right?
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And apparently this is what the 106 FAA thing was for write the
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essay section 106 review. It's a the National Historic
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preservation act part of the assessment.
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That was evaluated for evaluating the proposed changes
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in terms of the impact on local historic sites.
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It was the last consultation that was pending in a means of
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the Eis is almost finished. So There's a possibility.
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This thing actually gets done by the end of this month, but they
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have to assess. If there's any risk for damage
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to these landmarks, right? They have kind of like a
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historical and, and I wouldn't say it's like a gravestone, but
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it's very similar to that kind of historic kind of Monument.
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It's sort of, sort of, sort of grapes.
23:41
Tony. I don't know how to say it, but
23:43
it's a stone little Monument there on the side of the road.
23:49
As always, like flags and stuff all over it.
23:51
People put flowers on it, things like that.
23:53
But if something were to happen to a booster or a ship during
23:56
launch or Landing, could this Historic Site be impacted, could
24:03
some shrapnel from, you know, a booster or a ship fly out onto
24:09
this historic site and damage it somehow.
24:12
And if it does, what does SpaceX do to fix that problem, right?
24:16
So that's what the 106 is about. That was done today.
24:21
So that was that's all done. Michael Baylor, chimed in to on
24:25
Twitter here. From next space flight section,
24:30
106 review for Starship from Boca Chica is complete.
24:33
The FAA appears to be on track to release the environmental
24:36
assessment by the end of the month.
24:38
So this doesn't mean that the they made it through the
24:42
environmental assessment yet. They're, they're one step
24:44
closer, and it doesn't mean that they're approved yet.
24:47
So, It's a possibility. They completed the assessment
24:53
doesn't mean that they have, you know, they have a go for this,
24:58
they could still have a no-go for this so we'll see what
25:01
happens in the next few weeks because the 106 review, its it
25:06
was the last one and then we have, you know, by the end of
25:11
the month we have yeah the end a 5:30 so 560, everything's done.
25:18
Right then the environmental assessment.
25:21
That's the last one by 5:30 you know, final final Final then
25:26
we'll know by the end of this month, if Starship will be able
25:29
to launch from Starbase and I really hope it does.
25:32
If it doesn't, well, it looks like SpaceX will probably move
25:37
everything to Florida. You know, they'll still be
25:40
building here. They'll still be doing R&D here.
25:41
They'll still be doing everything to test starships and
25:46
stuff here but the environmental assessment Aunt, may possibly
25:50
not allow them to launch from Boca Chica Texas.
25:53
And there was, there's a There's an endangered.
25:59
Bird is well, I got to show you this thing too and that's it's
26:02
kind of a thing, right? That I want to show you guys
26:05
because I think it's important that every sort of topic is
26:10
covered here because we all want it.
26:12
Like we all want SpaceX to to launch this thing, right?
26:15
We all wanted to launch, but it's an environmental assessment
26:20
and I got to show you guys this. I'll read you guys awesome.
26:23
This is from Fortune. I saw this found this article
26:26
habitat of an endangered bird found only.
26:28
Only on North American, coastlines Could Fall by half.
26:33
Near SpaceX is Texas, rocket site, if it is expanded putting
26:37
the plant enlargement in question.
26:39
So SpaceX is Rocky so right now Boca Chica Starbase.
26:43
If they want to make it bigger, it's possible that these birds
26:47
can be taken out a little bit by half the expansion.
26:53
So it goes on to say, especially Elon musk's SpaceX starter,
26:57
Starship launch site in Boca Chica Texas, which is yet to get
27:00
approval for the FAA Authority or It has come under scrutiny
27:03
over its possible impact on the critical habitat the piping
27:07
plover bird piping plover. Whose population in the area has
27:12
fallen by half since spacex's arrival in endangered species.
27:18
Population has been cut in half because of SpaceX so could that
27:24
hinder spacex's ability to get through the FAA, environmental
27:29
assessment, there's a possibility as well as the
27:33
impact it could have on the nearby habitats of the red.
27:36
Not burden to breeds of Wildcat oscillates and I don't know how
27:40
to say that word Jaguar, Jaguar run this, I've never seen that
27:44
word before my life, according to documents for the US fish and
27:46
wildlife service. So It looks like there are some
27:50
endangered species and some other species that are
27:54
threatened by SpaceX being at Starbase and there's
27:57
documentation for it. So not only is SpaceX doing
28:03
rocket stuff, but they're also possibly hurting Wildlife, this
28:08
there already that's been there for a long time, you know.
28:11
So there's a There's a possibility that the
28:17
environmental assessment doesn't go through.
28:20
You know, they may look at this and go like look, man, we have
28:22
to protect these animals. We have the tech, protect these
28:24
birds, and we have to protect Deborah Halls.
28:27
Super Chat. Thanks Debs appreciate that KJ.
28:31
Love the birds. Yeah, I see all sorts of birds.
28:34
When I go down there, I see all sorts of wildlife want to go
28:36
down there. It's, it's a whole different
28:38
environment than what I'm used to.
28:41
The just I don't even know dozens of birds every time we go
28:46
down dozens of birds and I don't know if I've ever seen a piping
28:51
plover has that was killed I don't even know what that is.
28:54
They was it called, piping plover, Plover plumber Plover.
29:00
Is it pronounced lover like lover, Plover, Plover, whose
29:05
population of the area Fallen by half since SpaceX is arrival,
29:08
which is really sad if you think about it.
29:10
I mean, if you, if you really look into it, Yes, I came in
29:14
these birds have been there for a while.
29:17
This is there. This is their home.
29:18
You know, that's where they hang out and then SpaceX came in and
29:22
kind of took over and did its thing, you know, it's a critical
29:26
habitat. So we'll SpaceX be able to push
29:31
through this environmental assessment due, to something
29:34
like this. Like, is this part of it?
29:36
But not only, this. This is only one document that's
29:38
been released. Are there other documents that
29:40
will be released released? About this that say, like
29:44
there's horrible more horrible. Things in Space X is doing a
29:46
Starbase. And my do I love SpaceX?
29:49
I think they're doing great work.
29:51
But the fish and wildlife and the conservationists things like
29:58
that they're doing, you know, in their field.
30:01
They're doing the same thing, like they're doing what they're
30:03
supposed to be doing. So it's going to be a, it's
30:06
going to be a toss-up if SpaceX actually gets through this,
30:10
which is going to be kind of. Yeah, it's got to be a
30:13
nail-biter, until the very end. I guess who could predict that
30:18
the bird wasn't on honest demise anyway, right.
30:21
Yeah. Then like, you don't know if
30:24
SpaceX caused it, if there's any proof this fake sex cause this,
30:28
or if it was just on its way out.
30:30
Anyway, like you were saying Tom, you know, it's, it's It's
30:36
sad, you know, that something like that.
30:38
Could happen, but we don't know. The reason why it's happening,
30:41
is it because SpaceX or is it just because of natural stuff
30:44
that's happening down there at Starbase in the Starbase area.
30:48
Michael Maxie says, it's similar to a Sandpiper.
30:51
Okay. Okay.
30:53
Could they, can they put a fishing net around Starbase?
30:57
Like to catch fish or two. Catch birds, I don't know.
31:05
I mean, I guess they could. I mean, technically they could,
31:07
they could build a rocket that can go to Mars.
31:09
So I think they could technically, I don't know why
31:12
they would put a fishing net around there though.
31:16
That seems right. I don't know why.
31:19
But there's this another thing that I want to talk to you guys
31:22
about to. So what do you think?
31:24
Like, do you think they're going to be able to launch this thing?
31:27
I don't know. I don't know, but I want to, I
31:30
want to say thanks to Deb's again for the Super Chat.
31:35
I got one more thing for you. Do have to take off, hold on one
31:40
second. Let's get this going.
31:42
There's a couple things actually.
31:44
There's some testing boosters. I haven't actually got down to
31:47
the to the launch site today and it is on the pad.
31:52
It's on the orbital flight path. Yeah.
31:54
Orbital flight pad and it's possible that we get some
31:59
testing next week. So check this out because we got
32:03
some closures coming up. Possibly Monday, Tuesday, and
32:10
Wednesday will be get some testing from booster 7.
32:16
So Monday. The 9th possible closure from 10
32:20
a.m. to 10 p.m. usually. That means there's some sort of
32:22
testing going on with something. If 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. that's a
32:25
whole Dane 12 hours, Tuesday, same thing. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
32:30
possible, closure, Wednesday, same thing, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
32:34
possible closure. What does this mean?
32:36
They're going to close it? Now, there's only possibility
32:39
that they do. They might have to do some stuff
32:40
over the weekend, get the get the booster prepped, get
32:44
everything ready to get it all hooked up, get it hooked up to
32:46
the pipes, you know. All the all the tubes is I like
32:49
to say and all the all the electromechanical things that
32:52
have to go into it in order to do probably going to do another
32:55
pressure test, probably going to do another cryo test.
32:58
The downcomer pipe has supposedly been fixed.
33:01
We will see. I mean that's what's going to
33:03
happen in the next week we're going See if it can withstand
33:07
the pressure and do a full load test of all the stuff.
33:11
And if that's the case, if that's going to happen and that
33:14
goes through and environmental assessment goes through in the
33:19
next 20 ish days, then we might see a static fire of booster
33:24
seven in the next, you know, 2025 days, something like that.
33:28
So that's going to be incredibly cool ship, 24, still being
33:33
built. Not quite right again, the move
33:36
that down to the the launch site, they're going to have to
33:39
do all sorts of testing on it. They're going to have to do cryo
33:42
test, they're going to have to do pressure test.
33:44
They're going to have to do, Raptor tests.
33:47
Eventually few less sucker up, get it.
33:50
Ready to fly, there you have to do a fit test as well.
33:53
So they're going to have to stack it on top.
33:55
So they're going to do another stack.
33:56
Just like they did in February and March of this year, they're
33:59
going to do a stack of ship on top of a booster.
34:01
It's going to be a beautiful. I've seen two of them.
34:04
And it's absolutely gorgeous. It's absolutely stunning to see
34:08
that thing live, so they're going to have to do that in
34:12
order to do a full flight. So it's going to take a little
34:14
while before they get this thing ready.
34:16
So I'm guessing. let's see since it's Mets.
34:26
And it's probably going to be about 20, know where the end of
34:29
the month. I'll have the hopefully, get the
34:31
stuff done. So let's just do a little bit of
34:33
math, mid-june start doing some booster, you know, or some some
34:40
some ship testing. July, August.
34:47
I'm think I'm thinking August or September for a flight.
34:50
So who said that earlier in chat too?
34:53
By the way. you said earlier, I know, somebody said that earlier
35:04
Let's see who said that. Somebody said earlier that there
35:06
that they said it was like August or September.
35:09
Yeah, I can't find it in chat but oh yeah they're go 11 Sons
35:14
August or September the launch. I'm right there with you.
35:19
I'm right there with you. A booster 7 does not have its
35:22
Raptors. Yeah, but we're just waiting on
35:25
all that stuff too. Like all the other Hardware has
35:26
to come in. They have to then they have to
35:28
ship it back to the Bay put those on or they can proud.
35:32
Maybe do it at the it's a launch site will see but yeah the
35:39
possibility that we get a launch, I'm guessing August or
35:42
September, I wish it were. I wish things went faster.
35:45
I really do because I was down here in September.
35:48
Her and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna see a launch in September,
35:51
right? I got down here, September 11th,
35:53
like first day in, in town was the tenth and then on the 11th
35:56
day went to Starbase and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna see you
35:59
launched. Like mid-september.
36:00
Maybe maybe if they push it back October.
36:06
Yeah, right. It's gonna be a whole year.
36:10
Yeah. So, You know, it's like it's
36:15
not, you know, I'm kind of hoping that it happens sooner
36:20
than later, but I'm not expecting it.
36:22
Like we shouldn't expect a launch until September.
36:25
It's like you'd want to kind of plan for the worst but hope for
36:29
the best for this thing it's just like SLS you know like you
36:32
plan for the worst but you hope for the best you like maybe it's
36:35
going to launch sometime this year.
36:39
And then if it launches like early or like, you know, June is
36:44
when the next launch window opens.
36:47
I believe. I think it's John or something
36:50
like that, June, or July. I can't remember, but August,
36:54
probably september/october SLS. So if SLS launches, I'm hoping
36:58
to get down to Florida to see that.
37:00
I've already worked it out with my new boss.
37:01
I was like, look, man, I got these two launches SLS and I
37:05
guess Starship launch. So I got take work.
37:08
I get take time off work and they were like cool, man.
37:11
All right, let's do it. It's a just to kind of give you
37:17
guys perspective that it's a company that I used to work for
37:20
and accompanies really cool. The boss man to CEOs, super
37:24
cool. I had a run-in like, I've been
37:26
looking for jobs for a while now.
37:28
And it was the it was, it was a, it was a tough, there was a
37:36
tough one, but it was it turned out for the best.
37:38
So I had I had a job interview. This is totally off topic but I
37:42
think it's funny at a job interview with a guy who was a
37:45
CEO of a company and the beginning of the interview
37:49
interview was cool. The guy was nice.
37:51
He was a little bit late as five minutes late, and when you're
37:54
doing a job interview in, you're the person that's being
37:56
interviewed. You expect the person that's
37:58
interviewing you to be on time because you're on time and they
38:01
keep you waiting, right? So, you're like, oh man.
38:04
So like, I'm just like hanging out waiting in the zoom call.
38:08
All and guy shows up. We talked about, you know, hey
38:13
man, how's it going? Hope you're doing great, and I'm
38:15
just talking like, I normally talk like a normal person and
38:19
the guys kind of like, taken aback by it.
38:20
He's like, why are you like talking like a like a candidate,
38:25
you know, like, why are you talking like, you need this job?
38:28
And it's because I like whatever I just talk like me and so I was
38:35
talking to this guy and we were talking about you know, like
38:37
life and stuff. It was weird.
38:38
It was a weirdest conversation like weirdest job interview
38:41
ever. I was talking to him about How
38:45
he's super tired, all the time, and how his his life is like
38:49
stuck in his office all the time and he's the CEO of a company,
38:52
right? I'm not a, I'm not a therapist,
38:55
right? This dude's talking to me about
38:58
his life and I don't care. Like, I don't care about you
39:03
like I just want this job, man. I need to get paid brother, like
39:07
I don't care that you're always in your freaking office, 100% of
39:11
the time, any never get to see the light of day.
39:13
And you don't, Get to go outside and you don't have a vacation.
39:16
I don't care what I want to know is so I asked the guy.
39:20
He said he works 14 hour days every day, right?
39:24
You said he works for ten hour days every day and I was like,
39:25
Hey, do you expect your employees to work 14-hour days
39:29
as well? Simple question.
39:32
Does he expect his employees to work the same hours that he
39:36
does, right? And he said, I expect my
39:41
employees to work hard. but I thought, I took me a second.
39:47
I was like, so. So do you expect your employees
39:51
to work 14-hour days like you do?
39:54
I asked him again? The same question he could have
39:56
just said, yes or no easy, easy answer.
40:00
He said he looked right at me like stared into my stared into
40:03
my soul and said I expect my employees to work hard.
40:09
Like kind of like you don't. Don't you dare talk to me like
40:14
that CEO. He's son of a bitch, right?
40:18
So I'm like no you don't get to do that to me, I didn't see that
40:21
but I was like, I was like, okay, so what you're telling me
40:24
is in this is this is very close to what I said.
40:27
So you're telling me is because you're the CEO, you get to you
40:31
work, you work really hard, right?
40:33
But you in the employees, we talked about this earlier.
40:37
We talked about the employees not Ting shares of the company
40:41
and I was like, okay, cool. So you have S start up.
40:44
So I was like, okay, so first 10 people usually get some shares,
40:48
right is either worked out in the deal.
40:50
Worked out later. Startup Tech startup, right?
40:54
So you got shares, dude's got shares.
40:57
So I was like, so the, the workers don't get any any
41:03
shares. So it's like, okay.
41:05
So the workers don't get any shares they get paid, right?
41:09
Around salary. So you get x amount of dollars
41:11
per year. So if you want them to work
41:14
14-hour days in a normal work, our your work day is like eight
41:18
hours. Do you pay them overtime?
41:22
And I just can't kind of set there and I waited for him to
41:24
answer it and answer was like. So you're expecting your
41:27
employees to work overtime. 14-hour days, it's seven extra
41:31
hours per day, that they should be not at the office, they
41:35
should be outside. They should be enjoying
41:37
themselves with their family and their kids and their A friends
41:40
enjoying the weather, doing sports doing activities, living
41:44
life, the work-life balance thing as like so.
41:48
But then, but you, you're going to cash out when you get
41:53
acquired because that's what most tech companies, do they get
41:56
acquired make for a lot of money and that you cash out.
42:01
So your 14-hour days are worth it.
42:03
And then when you get equi hired from this new company, in the
42:07
new company fires, all the employees from your company,
42:12
right? So what happens to those people?
42:15
They spent those 14 hours every day for like five years busting
42:20
their asses to get to make you rich.
42:24
And I said, all this stuff to the guy is like to make you rich
42:26
because you got a golden parachute, all these 14-hour
42:29
days, you do, if you cash out, you make that money.
42:34
And the guy was just like Like what?
42:38
Like I just, I realized like, I called his bluff.
42:42
I'm like, no, dude, you don't treat your employees like that.
42:44
So, I called his bluff and I said that it is, this is kept
42:47
totally off topic. A hundred percent off topic, but
42:49
I thought it was funny and because I was job hunting, and
42:52
we talked about that earlier. And so I said, look, I'm not
42:57
interested in new job. I hope you, I hope you get some
43:01
help and you go outside in. You kind of step away, you know,
43:05
for what you're doing and realize what you're doing.
43:07
Doing and I really hope sometime you get to see your kid again
43:12
and enjoy some time with them, have a great day not interested
43:16
in, then I hung up on him. What's like okay, that sucked
43:22
what a horrible interview. Right.
43:24
And then like instantly this all ties into the beginning of the
43:28
of the of the show to and then like instantly I was like, man
43:32
what a, what a jerk, you know, I have others words that I want to
43:36
call him, but but for YouTube, I'm not going to So I typed to
43:42
my old boss, I was like hey, you know, there's some weird stuff
43:45
going on with my resume right now, is it cool if I dislike
43:49
move some stuff around? Because I was working for the
43:50
guy for basically five years and I took like, a couple months to
43:53
do a side project like I dislike Try to say I worked for you for
43:58
five years and the guys like yeah that sounds cool.
44:02
You looking for work and I said I was like, yeah, just looking
44:05
around, you know, I'm just trying to find some places place
44:08
to work and this is like I'm laughing because this last
44:10
interview it was because it's hilarious that that dude was
44:12
such a dork. And so the guys like oh yeah,
44:16
you know, what's your availability?
44:18
And I was like, I don't know what you get.
44:20
I was like, you know, part-time full-time, whatever it is like
44:24
cool. All right, you want a job.
44:26
I was like 100% And then he's like, all right, cool, you can
44:30
start on Monday. So that was a job interview went
44:35
from like the literally worst job interview ever where I had
44:39
to tell the CEO to get a life to like I just call that dude out,
44:43
I didn't care like, who is this guy?
44:45
I don't know who he is to to like, literally the guy that I
44:51
really enjoy working for like, it's a really cool job.
44:55
I love it. It's a coding job.
44:56
So I'm Going back to what I love and what I know and then it's
45:00
going to help me fund at the channel even more, you know?
45:04
So that's the that's part of it as like, I got to get a job so I
45:07
can help fund these trips to SLS, Dragon launches, Starship,
45:15
launches all this stuff. So, it's all working out.
45:17
Like, it's not perfect, in nothing, like, you got to make
45:21
changes. So, You know, it's a still talk.
45:25
I'm still thinking about that CEO guy.
45:27
I'm like, dude, what Thomas, like, whatever, whatever, dude.
45:33
So there's a lot of like there's a lot of other space reporters.
45:37
You know, that are reporting. They'll never talk like this to
45:40
you. So I appreciate you stopping by
45:42
and hanging out and having going to have to learn this
45:44
conversation with me. Because, you know, these are the
45:48
things that that I love to talk about, you know, sometimes the
45:51
it goes off the rails. Al's it's more of a podcast in a
45:54
them, a new show, the name pod is in the in the title for a
45:58
reason because you can just ramble about stuff sometimes if
46:00
you want to. But I do actually have to go.
46:05
I have to have to go do a bunch of packing and stuff.
46:08
I'm trying to get up to 48% tonight.
46:10
Backing who called me called me up for the exact 45% earlier,
46:16
Greg Smith. Thank you for calling me out on
46:17
that, 45% and try to get to 48 percent.
46:21
Deb said, can we get to 100 likes were 83, thank you
46:25
everybody who's like this 83 likes like I really am.
46:32
And I'm going to be totally honest with you guys and totally
46:34
Earnest with you because there's a lot, there's a lot of stuff
46:38
going on. And I want to say that like I
46:41
really love you guys and I really do appreciate all of your
46:45
support. Like I literally couldn't do
46:47
this without you guys and I'll wear my heart on my sleeve.
46:52
You know. I'm not going to be the, I'm not
46:55
going to wear a tie. I'm not going to be like the
46:56
newscaster guy. Just be a normal person that you
46:59
can talk to about space stuff. If so, I really do appreciate
47:02
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super quick. It only takes a second and it
47:10
really does help the show. You know.
47:11
Like you don't understand how much YouTube loves that kind of
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stuff like, interactions. They absolutely loved it.
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So I couldn't do this without you.
47:20
So, thank you so much for all of your support going to look at.
47:23
Who did what today? Deb's.
47:25
Thanks for the 10. Space baller.
47:27
Thanks for the 20 enjoy. Thanks.
47:30
For the 20. Super chance the weekend a
47:32
subsidy? I don't think we got any
47:33
substrate. I probably scared everybody off.
47:37
Probably like talking about these.
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See the CEO, the CEO guy and everyone's like, hmm.
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I don't know about this guy. I don't know if I want to
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subdue. This guy.
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He looks kind of sketchy looking to yell at me too.
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Oh, my God, where it's sixty or ninety eight likes right now.
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Thank you so much, everybody. You are amazing.
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So thanks everybody for all of your support.
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Of course, if you can hit the sub button, hit the like button
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where it 99 likes. One more, one more like who's it
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going to be? We'll see Stargazer, welcome
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back. Welcome.
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I'm back. Deb's you called them out?
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You called everybody out your like can we get 100 likes?
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But that's why you're important. Oh, gee Deb's.
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No g-dubs, thank you so much. Everybody powdered one we did
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103. There we go.
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All right, straight. Can what's up?
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Yeah, I got to take off, guys. Thank you.
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Everybody thanks Deb space baller, and joy for the super
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chats. Today, we want to help out make
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sure to sub to the channel. I'm going to be here all the
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time. You know, I'm still doing the
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show. I didn't quit or anything like
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that. So the schedule is going to me.
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Change a little bit but I kind of worked it into my new deal
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that I can do these shows still. So just kind of figuring out
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timing because it's crazy right now, like trying to get to 48
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percent packing tonight. It's kind of crazy.
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And then I'll probably try to get to 60 percent this weekend.
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Then keep moving on forward, like little by little.
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So, thank you so much to everybody.
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You guys are awesome new Subs. Who do we got today?
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We got Muhammad, we get, let's see.
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Jeff, we get get Duke Carey Eric, Tim Paul Darren to Tom's,
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we gotta run as well. Thank you so much everybody for
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the new subs and that's it. Thanks for buying shirts to
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Starship shirts.com, if you want Starbase themed apparel.
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So boosters things like that, check them out, star ship
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shirts.com, you can help out like that, helps out with budget
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for traveling to Launches. So, we'll see.
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We'll see what's up. So, thank you everybody for a
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for, are on the coffee mug. There's a coffee mug on the
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merchandise. Oh, that's not good.
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I'll look into that. Go to Starship shirts.com.
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It's not a mug. We don't have mugs yet, but
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we'll work on. Those will get some bugs in
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there for you. The really cool designs.
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Perpetual nerd, what's up? I'm just leaving actually so a
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not on for more than like a couple more seconds.
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So yeah. So that's you just missed
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everything I do. I'm super proud of this to, this
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is really cool. This is really cool.
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I'm very happy about this Neil and I have been building this
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for awhile, Starship shirts, and Neil and Michael and Buzz
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Starbase. Look at this shirt Man, Neil
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design. This thing this is cool Starbase
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Boca Chica Texas, So cool. I got to get down there and I
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got to get down to Starbase a couple more times before I
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leave. You could be cool like this guy.
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Be like, hey, what's up, pulling your hat down a little bit or
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whatever he's doing. I don't know what he's doing
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with all of his bracelets. Cool dude though.
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We got more, we get women's men's shirts.
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We have unisex shirts. Mars, sweet Mars.
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This is cool. Like this is a like Neil is such
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a great designer, Mars sweet. Mars, it's like home sweet home.
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So cool Ad Astra cool. Look at that.
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Looks like a Starship Max Q. It's an updated Max Q design.
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With a little rocket for the queue.
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So cool. Anyway I got to take off guys.
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So I'm going to say thank you. For your support.
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Thank you everybody for the like stood 112 likes.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hi, from London, Mike, what's
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up? You will be back here and Texas
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beef or even a nice Michael awesome.
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All right, take care. Everybody, please tell someone
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you love them. You never know.
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So thank you. And I will see you next time.
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Monday, space news pod, take care.