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Elon is MAD. SpaceX Starship HLS Update. Uncensored. Jim Bridenstine lobbies against Elon and SpaceX · Elon Musk Podcast

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  This person was a shithead trying to intimidate me out of
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  the scene. Little did they know I didn't
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  care who they were. All I care about is that you're
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  being a shithead. And of course, because they have
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  a vested interest in finances. But you have to admit, he did a
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  great job for what he did at NASA.
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  But now he's a paid lobbyist. When you get done with the
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  government role, you become a lobbyist.
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  You make a bunch of money. Jim is trying to get that extra
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  something, something in his bank account by getting these
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  companies money. Everybody, including this person
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  in front of me, was learning about Starship.
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  So they didn't know anything either.
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  So nobody really knew. Like we knew stuff.
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  We didn't know everything, right?
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  Jim Bridenstein, which we all used to love as the NASA
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  administrator. But he seemed like a nice guy,
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  seemed like a good guy. But he's also a politician,
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  right? So he does things that
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  politicians do. Of course, they have interest in
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  money. We have to talk about something
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  really important today. There's some just bad things
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  happening on the Internet when it comes to spaceflight and
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  people involved in this industry.
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  Somebody who I would call a colleague is going to be
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  mentioned a little bit later. But also we have to talk about
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  something that is really interesting here.
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  Reported by Jeff Faust Spacexes Kiko Donchev says at the
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  Economist Space Summit this morning that the company's goal
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  for 2025 is around 170. Falcon 9 launches now the second
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  part, it's currently 140, but the second part, he adds, the
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  1st V3 Starship could take place as soon as January.
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  A booster will be rolling out to the pad for tests in days to
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  weeks. That's number one.
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  That's number one. That's really cool.
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  So we have about a month and a half, maybe a little bit more,
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  maybe two months, maybe 3 months, depending on how much
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  work they get done in the next 60 to 90 days.
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  When version 3 Starship will be launching from Starbase Texas.
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  Now, of course, can't wait to go to the moon.
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  Gwynne Shotwell, she rarely tweets, but when she does, it's
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  interesting. It's very interesting.
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  She just mentioned I can't wait to go to the moon.
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  Of course, we all want to go to the moon.
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  We all want SpaceX to go to the moon.
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  We want them to launch a Starship to the moon.
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  Now, will they do that or will they not do that?
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  Depending on what's going on and depending, of course, on what
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  NASA decides is the best option for people to go to the moon, to
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  the moon and beyond. SpaceX is at a inflection point,
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  as humidity is. They posted this the other day.
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  You've heard all about it. Probably.
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  Everything about Starship and the HLS mission is in this page
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  on the SpaceX website. It's in the updates page, so go
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  check it out. They have some interiors, which
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  is really cool. This is really interesting to me
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  interiors 3D printer, the Lander they have some this is this is
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  actually really interesting. This one right here notice the
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  UI for this really interesting. You can see up here in the top
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  right the ships, the thrusters at the bottom of the engines.
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  And I'm not sure exactly what this other stuff is at this
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  point. It looks like altimeters and
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  like live screen of what's going on outside of the rocket as
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  they're touching down on the moon surface.
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  That's what it looks like. And Next up we have some actual,
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  actual drama. OK, So this is what this is.
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  This is crazy. OK, SpaceX rarely post things
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  like this, but when they do, they have some, they have some
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  real actual data to back this up.
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  So I'm going to take this as a truth from SpaceX.
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  And we all know Elon Musk is a hype man, right?
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  He wants to hype things up. He wants to get all the money
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  for SpaceX so SpaceX can continue doing their job, which
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  is getting people to Mars. That's what they want to do.
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  Eventually, we want to get people to Mars.
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  And that's exactly SpaceX has intended to do since its
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  inception. Now, there's been Jim
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  Bridenstine, which we all used to love as the NASA
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  administrator. Not everybody, just some people.
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  But he seemed like a nice guy, seemed like a good guy.
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  But he's also a politician, right?
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  So he does things that politicians do.
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  SpaceX tweeted this the other day.
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  Like many Americans, we are thankful for Mr. Bridenstine's
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  service. Land leading NASA at one point.
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  He deserves credit for spearheading the creation of the
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  Artemis program. And this is where it gets juicy.
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  That's where it gets nasty. After departing NASA, he created
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  a lobbying firm called the Artemis Group, representing a
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  host of aerospace company vying for NASA business.
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  OK. Mr. Brianstein's current
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  campaign against Starship is either misguided or
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  intentionally misleading. SpaceX was selected to design
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  and develop a human Lander system for Artemis along with
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  Blue Origin Dynetics during Mr. Breinstein's tenure at NASA.
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  Starship was then selected by NASA, etcetera, etcetera.
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  So we all know that part since to select.
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  Starship was confirmed repeatedly following protest in
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  litigation from companies not selected, which delayed the
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  start of work on the contract for many months.
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  They have all the backup. They have all the data.
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  Now this is where it gets a little bit more juicy.
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  Mr. Breinstein's recent musings promoting a new landing system,
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  going so far as to invoke the Defense Production Act, are
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  being misreported as though they were the unbiased thoughts of a
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  former NASA Edmond. They are not.
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  They say these not unbiased. OK so to be clear, he is a paid
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  lobbyist. He is representing his clients
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  interests and his comments should be seen for what they
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  are. A paid lobbyist effort to secure
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  billions of dollars more in government funding for its
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  clients were already years late and billions of dollars over
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  budget. Throw in massive shade to Blue
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  Origin, throwing massive shade to the whole Space Flight
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  industry because Elon says this is Elon.
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  I'm sure Elon approved this. A paid lobbyist effort to secure
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  billions more in government funding for his clients were
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  already years late and billions of dollars over budget throwing
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  shades straight at him, right. So that's the juicy bits from
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  SpaceX. It's that's incredible that they
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  would call out Mr. Bridenstine like that say that he is a
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  lobbyist, which he is his lobbyist, but they're saying of
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  course he's doing this for nefarious reasons, nefarious for
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  the truth bomb by SpaceX here. He's representing his clients.
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  Interest in his comments should be seen for what they are, a
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  paid lobbyist effort. Secure buildings follow the
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  money. That's all I'm saying.
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  Everybody has interest in something if it makes them
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  money. Breidenstein is a politician
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  first and foremost, Jim, and we had some tweets back and forth
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  back in the day, but you have to admit he did a great job for
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  what he did at NASA. But now he's a paid lobbyist.
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  When you get done with the government role, you become a
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  lobbyist. You make a bunch of money.
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  Jim is trying to get that extra something, something in his bank
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  account by getting these companies money, getting the
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  billions of dollars in NASA funding.
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  So if SpaceX doesn't get the contract, who gets the contract?
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  The other billionaire. Why doesn't Jeff Bezos just fund
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  Blue Origin with his own money? He has enough money to fund it
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  forever. He doesn't need this NASA money.
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  He can just do it. I don't get it.
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  I don't get it. He can.
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  And I know he takes money out of his Amazon funds, you know, his
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  affiliate links. No, the money that he gets from
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  the stock for Amazon, like he makes money all the time.
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  He makes billions of dollars. He's worth billions and billions
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  of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  Blue Origin doesn't need government money.
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  They're running it like a business.
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  I know business can't be charities, people.
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  We all know that, you know that I know that businesses can't be
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  charities. But somebody like Jeff Bezos,
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  who literally has infinite money, found the infinite money
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  glitch. Him and Elon both have infinite
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  money. Elon is funding SpaceX.
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  Elon is going after those government contracts.
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  Of course, of course they do, because they have to also pay
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  the people that work there. But if you have infinite money,
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  why do you jam some of that money into the coffers of Blue
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  Origin? A little bit more, Jeffy.
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  And then don't try to take these government contracts away from
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  SpaceX. Just land the Lander on your
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  own. If you think you can beat
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  SpaceX, go for it. You know, SpaceX got the
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  contract. Who cares?
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  Build the Lander, you know, get customers for your Lander.
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  Send it on a rocket, whether it's yours or procure that from
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  somebody else. You have enough money to do
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  that. If you, if it's a competition,
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  show SpaceX that you're better than them.
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  And if Bridenstine is trying to make money for that client,
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  maybe not Jeff particularly or Blue Origin, but other companies
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  as well. If he's doing lobbyist kind of
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  work so he can procure money for these companies.
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  If it's Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, come on, man, come on, you got
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  the money, just do it. If you're going to be the first
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  person to send a private Lander to the moon and also your own
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  cargo that could change humanity, why aren't you just
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  doing that? I never understood that.
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  But if you're a lobbyist, like Brian said, he's lobbyists and
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  also politicians, Most of them, most of that I've ever met in my
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  in my career as a Space Flight and independent journalist,
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  every lobbyist that I've ever met you spoke with.
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  Of course they have interest in money.
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  That's how they make their money.
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  They're a lobbyist. You know, they don't, they don't
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  need, they don't need to do this lobbying thing just because it's
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  fun. They do it because it's a job
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  and it pays them a lot of money, like millions of dollars worth
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  of money, not just a regular salary.
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  Like we don't see that kind of money ever.
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  Like there's no way, there's no way you're going to see
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  $1,000,000. But if you're a lobbyist like
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  Bridenstine, you're not thinking of this as being fair and
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  balanced sort of competition here.
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  What you're thinking of this as, how much money can I make first
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  and foremost, how am I going to make that money?
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  And then when you figure out a plan to make that money, you
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  have to, of course, say it out loud because that's what people
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  are paying you to do. They're paying you to say it out
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  loud. Now, there's one more thing that
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  I have to talk about. And before I do that, it, this
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  is super juicy and like really nasty too, by the way.
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  The next one's really juicy and nasty and it's really
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  disgusting. But before I do that, I'm going
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  to ask you for one second of your time.
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  I've been an independent journalist for the last six or
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  seven years on this channel podcasting at the Elon Musk
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  Podcast, which is a daily podcast about Elon Musk and all
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  of his companies, news, reviews, etcetera.
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  So please take a second hit the subscribe button down below.
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  That's all I ask from you and I will gladly do the next 10 years
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  of the show for free for you. So the next part, it's really
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  nasty. I want, I want you to know and I
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  have to read this. So I put on my spectacles.
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  Really nasty. This is a tweet from Felix from
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  what? From what about it?
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  Friend of the show as a crater of what about it?
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  Since 2019, I've seen the online space grow challenging,
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  especially in the Space Flight community.
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  A recent post directed at me with false claims alleging
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  violence and suggesting physical harm stands out as a troubling
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  example personal for me. But it's also call for the
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  community to step up and oppose this kind of behavior.
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  So we're, you know, we can read the whole tweet, but it would
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  take a long time. You can go back and check it
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  out. It's on Felix.
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  I'll put a link to it in the description, but look at this
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  post. This nasty nasty human being,
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  What about it deserves to be castrated and hanged by his legs
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  as a punishment for the shit he's been doing to the community
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  since 2023. Obviously I said he's just going
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  to hate my friend. We put ourselves in the public
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  so we can provide inspiration and sometimes the trolls come
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  out in full force. FM not worth our time.
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  You're doing great work, please don't let this discourage you.
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  Now let me preface this with what about It And Felix are a
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  juggernaut in this space. They're huge channel.
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  Felix has been at this for a long time.
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  Felix is a master of his craft. He does great things on his
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  channel, producing and making good content so the normal
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  person can enjoy it. If you're a normal person and
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  you're looking for NASA news or SpaceX news, you have an
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  entertaining host who's excited about what he does, telling you
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  about SpaceX, Starship, telling you about HLS, telling you about
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  NASA, just explaining things in a way that other people can't
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  do. And for that, I applaud Felix.
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  Now, some people are purists, right?
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  And they don't like that Felix gets 300,400 thousand millions
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  of views per video. I don't care how many views Alex
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  or Felix gets. What I care about is that he
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  presents the news in a way that is truthful and honorable.
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  And he does that for the most part.
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  Is there click bait? Yes, 100%.
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  But we're on YouTube. Like, that's what I don't think
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  people understand. You're on YouTube, so you got to
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  do things to make your channel get the views so you can
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  continue doing this as a job. You know, I never really cared
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  about that. I made thumbnails because I made
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  thumbnails. I this has always been a hobby
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  of mine and I really love spaceflight.
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  So I've never really cared about going down that path.
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  I did like a little click baity things, but it's not like crazy.
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  But what Felix does isn't also wild.
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  He doesn't do wild things. He's just a guy that likes
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  spaceflight, right? So why would anybody want to say
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  that? So right here is where it really
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  matters. The Space Flight community,
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  which I cherish for as Curiosity, is deeply divided.
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  I've had restless nights in question might approach a
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  struggle. I know other creators you very
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  likely know share. This isn't how it should be and
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  it's up to us to change the tone.
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  So this person that message Alex or Felix, sorry, I I'm thinking
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  about somebody else while I'm saying this message Felix while
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  thinking about those horrible things is not the normal Space
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  Flight nerd that we're all friends with, right?
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  That Space Flight nerd that we love and cherish is one of our
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  friends. Not this person that did this,
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  but like the other friends that we have, the Space Flight nerds
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  that we that we love and cherish, our friends, our peers,
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  the people that want to see launches happened.
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  The people that want to see Falcon Nines fly.
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  They want to see starships land on the moon and Mars.
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  They also want to see the SLS go to the moon and to further
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  destinations. They want to see other countries
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  succeed. And that's where we're at right
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  now. How do we as a community come
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  together and banish this idiot from our community?
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  You just ignore them. That's the best way to do it.
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  Ignore them, block them, ban them from your channel, whatever
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  you got to do. Just don't interact with them.
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  They're a troll. They're like a nasty person, you
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  know, just a piece of shit. That's it.
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  This is a piece of shit. And they did this to Felix
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  because they can. It's social media.
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  You can do whatever you want. Now, if you were going to do
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  that to somebody on social media, of course it should be
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  reported. You know, if that happened to
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  me, I'd be like this guy's, you know, this person's trying to
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  intimidate me by physical violence.
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  Please look into this. And of course it's on X, so they
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  don't care. And that's a horrible thing
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  anyway. Every creator risks facing such
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  hostility, or even small repeated criticisms build a
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  tough burden. And it's not enough to ignore
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  it. But at the same time, look man,
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  I'm going to tell you a story. And this is a thing that I've
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  talked about a few times on this channel.
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  So I want to revisit this. There's two stories, but I'm
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  going to revisit one of them for you.
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  And the hostility that Felix is seeing on the Internet actually
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  exists in real life. No one's going to say that to
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  your face, Of course, like this person is a loser.
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  And of course they're going to say the things that they say
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  online because it's easy and they're safe, right?
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  But I had an incident when I was at Starbase and I was filming
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  late at night. Maybe not late, it's like 7:00
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  at night, but the sun was going down.
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  It was winter time and I was filming next to Hwy. 4, next to
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  the Starship, and somebody came up to me and asked me if I'm
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  will. And I said yeah, how's it going?
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  And they said, hey, I've seen your channel before.
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  I said how cool, thank you know, thanks for watching, man.
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  And they said I don't like the way basically like told me I
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  don't like the way you do things because you don't know enough.
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  I said well, yeah, I mean, I was like, I'm just learning as I go.
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  That's basically what I told him.
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  I was like, I'm just learning as I go, man.
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  I'm just like you, like I'm learning as I go.
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  Everybody else has to. This is at the very beginning of
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  Starship and star base. So I was on the side of the
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  road. It was like a still 100° out.
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  It's like 7 whatever o'clock 7/30 8:00 at night.
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  And when they said that to me, I was like, you know what, you're
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  right, I don't know enough. And I'm that's why I'm learning.
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  And then they said some of your they didn't say anything like
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  with Felix. So I'm not going to compare
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  myself to Felix and what this incident's like, but this stuff
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  does happen in real life. And when they said that to me,
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  they also had this look on their face.
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  They were like, they were like, who do you think you are, right?
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  I was like, I don't know, I'm just a guy.
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  I'm just a guy. I'm doing my thing.
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  I love Space Flight, I love rockets, and I think it's so
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  cool and I'm very blessed to be at Star Base right now doing my
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  thing, filming and also doing live streams from the side of
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  the road so everyone can see how cool Starship is.
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  They went on and on about how I don't know about the heat shield
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  that they're building. They weren't.
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  The heat shield wasn't even done yet.
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  Like they've never flown the ship before.
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  They've never. They were like 6 months away
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  from flying the Starship. So everybody, including this
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  person in front of me was learning about starships.
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  So they didn't know anything either.
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  So nobody really knew it. Like we knew stuff, but we
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  didn't know everything, right? So I knew what I knew.
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  They knew what they knew. Maybe they knew, maybe they had
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  a background in, you know, spaceflight or some sort of
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  flight, but I was just a fan. And by the time I get done
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  talking with them, they had ripped me apart.
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  And I sat there and talked with them for about 10 minutes.
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  I was being very rational. They were ripping me apart like
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  why are you, why are you using a 200 millimeter lens on my
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  camera? So they were talking about
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  camera gear, but they were also talking about how I didn't know
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  about spaceflight. And I was like, well, This is
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  why I use the camera that I do. This is why I use the gear that
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  I do, and the reason why I live stream from here is because I
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  think people should know about this.
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  So it was some drama. The person was visibly pissed
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  off. Like not even like a little bit
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  upset at all. They were pissed off.
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  They were in my face, like yelling at me the whole time.
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  And I'm trying to downplay it because I don't care about this
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  person. They're just some idiot, right?
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  Come to find out after all of this, and here's the twist, they
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  were from another spaceflight channel, a huge spaceflight
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  channel, and they decided it was their duty to tell me how to do
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  what I was doing. And I agreed with them at some
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  of the things. I was like, look, man, I could
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  probably use a bigger lens, but I don't have money to buy a
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  bigger lens. You know, I could be using a
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  different whatever, but I didn't have the means to do that.
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  I was just barely scraping by it at that point.
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  So I was doing what I could do. And of course, like, I don't
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  care about this person. I know who they are now.
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  I I've seen them in the community and what they were
• 19:21
  trying to do is intimidate me to leave star base.
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  So them and their channel didn't have competition back then
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  because there were only a few of us doing that back then, right?
• 19:31
  It was me and like a few other bigger channels, Jessica Kirsch
• 19:36
  and a couple other people back in the day doing this.
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  And because it was such a small all community down there,
• 19:44
  there's not many people. Not many people down there,
• 19:47
  dude. Like, I'm not going to figure
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  out who you are. Coffee.
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  It's a pretty cool Tumblr, by the way.
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  Anyway, the whole story turned into giant drama behind the
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  scenes. I called the person out.
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  I said, hey, why are you being this way?
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  Like, what do you care? I'm just some guy.
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  I'm not taking massive amounts of views from you.
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  I was getting like. 3040 thousand views per per stream,
• 20:11
  mind you. And I was making good money
• 20:12
  doing streaming. Not like good, not good money.
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  I was just saying like I'd make money to like pay rent and get
• 20:17
  gas money to get down to Starbase.
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  And they're like, I was like, yeah, I'm making enough money to
• 20:21
  survive. And that was it, you know, And I
• 20:22
  had people that were supporting me on Patreon and that was
• 20:25
  really wonderful. But thing is, this person was a
• 20:29
  shithead straight up trying to intimidate me out of the scene.
• 20:33
  Little do they know, I didn't care who they were.
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  I didn't care. I was like, look, bro, I don't
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  care if you're a photographer, I don't care if you're a
• 20:42
  videographer. All I care about is that you're
• 20:44
  being a shithead. And that was it.
• 20:46
  I was like, and for my, for the most part, I kept it cool.
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  I was like, all right, dude, cool, you just go do your thing.
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  Just leave me alone. I'm just trying to do my thing.
• 20:54
  And of course, because they have a vested interest in finances,
• 20:59
  they need to make money for their channel and their friends
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  channel and the conglomerate that they had.
• 21:05
  There was, of course, something behind it all.
• 21:09
  So you look to the money, of course, behind everything that
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  somebody's doing. Jim Bridenstine, look to the
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  money with with Jimmy Jam over there.
• 21:19
  I've always had good things to say about Jim.
• 21:20
  But now I think he's kind of, you know, I don't know, he's
• 21:23
  probably a great guy, but he's just trying to fend for himself
• 21:26
  and make as much money as he can while he's here, you know,
• 21:29
  making money for his family. And that's what you do.
• 21:31
  And as a grown up, that's what you do.
• 21:32
  You make money for your family so your kid can go to college,
• 21:35
  you can buy a better house. So you're not like it.
• 21:37
  I'm sure Jim isn't hard up for money, but if you can make as a,
• 21:42
  you know, as somebody who's going to lobby for Blue Origin
• 21:45
  or Boeing or something, they're going to pay millions of dollars
• 21:49
  to do that. Millions of dollars every single
• 21:51
  year and by you doing the the least amount of work, I'm not
• 21:55
  saying Jim doesn't work, but I'm just saying like you're going to
• 21:58
  lobby. So you're basically going to put
• 22:00
  ideas out there. You're going to be a content
• 22:02
  creator literally, but you're going to put the content in
• 22:05
  front of people who matter in Washington, not on YouTube.
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  But when you trace it back to the beginning, it all goes back
• 22:13
  to money. So Jimmy Jam Bridensten, not my,
• 22:17
  my friend Jimmy Jam, but Jimmy Jam the other Jimmy Jam the the
• 22:21
  other guy, he is not the best for SpaceX right now is SpaceX
• 22:26
  can land this and they have an idea of how to do this as a
• 22:31
  simpler approach, right? They have a simpler approach.
• 22:34
  According to space News, simplified approach.
• 22:36
  They've they've done a new approach this the moon and
• 22:40
  before here we go. So this is the whole approach.
• 22:43
  They have plenty of things that they can do in order to make it
• 22:46
  easier for them to dock. They make it easier for them to
• 22:50
  go to the moon, for them to land on the moon.
• 22:53
  Not a bunch of transports, just refueling in orbit.
• 22:57
  Not 20 times like some NASA officials have said.
• 23:01
  Anywhere between 10 and 20 is what people think.
• 23:04
  But we don't know yet. We don't know Elon and his crew
• 23:07
  over here at SpaceX. And I'm going to do it in like
• 23:09
  maybe 5 * 5 refill tankers. And that's one of the things,
• 23:14
  right? And this is new footage that
• 23:15
  SpaceX has released. But this whole blog post shows
• 23:20
  all the ways that they're going to make it to the moon in a
• 23:23
  cheaper fashion, like an easier way.
• 23:25
  So my understanding is SpaceX was thinking 15, the 10 to 15
• 23:32
  tankers to begin with. What happened between Jim
• 23:36
  Bridenstine and this post, this blog post?
• 23:40
  When did this all happen? When was the engineering going
• 23:42
  to be laid out for the normal person?
• 23:45
  So this is damage control from SpaceX.
• 23:48
  NASA selected Starship in 2021 to serve as the Lander for
• 23:51
  Artemis return to humans and then the the selection was made
• 23:55
  through fair and open communication with which
• 23:58
  determined the SpaceX bid utilizing Starship had the
• 24:01
  highest technical in management ratings while being the lowest
• 24:04
  cost by a wide margin. Yeah.
• 24:06
  So they this is where they state their case.
• 24:09
  They're sending it to the public.
• 24:10
  Look at all these M dashes by the way, did AI write this?
• 24:13
  No, I'm sure they didn't. Sure AI didn't because there's
• 24:16
  only two M dashes two or three, but the other ones for boil off.
• 24:21
  But they're calling Jim out. They're saying look man, you are
• 24:26
  owned by Washington now you've always been owned by Washington.
• 24:31
  That's where the money goes right into your pocket, Jim.
• 24:34
  So I want, I want you to think about this the next time Elon
• 24:39
  Musk goes on a little rant and he says something about the
• 24:42
  government or Washington or something like that.
• 24:44
  I think about where that other person's money comes from.
• 24:47
  Think about Elon's interests as well, because Elon is always
• 24:51
  interested in padding Elon's pocket and also his company's
• 24:55
  pocket. He wants to keep his money in
• 24:57
  his companies of course he doesn't want to spend extra
• 24:59
  money or have other people beat him to the punch.
• 25:03
  He doesn't want other people to get to the moon before him
• 25:05
  because he'd look like a loser after beating his chest for so
• 25:09
  long. The SpaceX is the best what a
• 25:10
  small company like Blue Origin might beat him there doesn't
• 25:13
  want that either. So that all being said let me
• 25:17
  know in the comments. But you 2 are I got to say it,
• 25:20
  right? Let me know in the comments.
• 25:22
  Let me know the comments what you think.
• 25:23
  I want to know what you feel about this because it is an
• 25:26
  intense situation between Elon, SpaceX, Jim Bridenstine,
• 25:31
  Washington DC. But now that we have somebody
• 25:34
  else who's an Elon ally as the head of NASA, I mean, I think
• 25:38
  things are going to be a lot smoother.