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Kamala Harris is a Puppet, Says Elon Musk · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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  the critical crossroads that shape SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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  Boring Company, and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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  Welcome, USAUSA say all right. Wow, I love it this.
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  It's an it's an honour to be here talking to everyone here
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  and everyone out there. So yeah, I'm, I'm before, before
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  I what, what I actually, what I want to emphasize before
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  anything else is, is as the the sign says, vote early and and
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  vote, vote now. So you can, you can actually, I
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  looked at the numbers as of yesterday, there's still 40,000
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  absentee ballots that have been mailed out just in the
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  surrounding counties, just just in the, in the nearby area that
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  have not been that, that have not been handed in.
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  So if you have any friends, family or anyone you know who
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  has an absentee ballot, just hound them relentlessly until
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  they hand it in, because if they don't hand it in, then the vote
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  doesn't count. It's very straightforward.
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  So, yeah, there's a, there are 40,000 absentee ballots that,
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  that really need to be handed in just in this area.
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  So please, you know, talk to friends and family.
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  Don't get a vote. The other thing is that anyone
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  in Pennsylvania can go to the, the county office on Monday and
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  Tuesday and request a ballot and immediately they're handed in.
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  So I, I, I think probably a lot of people are not aware that you
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  can actually do this. You don't even need to mail it.
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  It's like, it's kind of weird because it's like cold and
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  absentee ballot, but you're like right there, totally not absent.
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  Can I have an absentee ballot? But you're here, yes, as as
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  strange as that sounds, you can literally go in, request an
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  absentee ballot and even though you're right there, you can hand
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  it in and you did this morning great.
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  Like like and, and I think some maybe some, some county offices
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  are, are open on the weekend, but they're definitely open on
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  Monday and Tuesday. And then to to add another
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  strange twist, they close on Wednesday.
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  So they're like now what? So you have until just Monday
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  and Tuesday in Pennsylvania to go into the county office,
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  request a ballot and you can, you can hand it in right there.
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  It doesn't even need to go even go in the mail or anything.
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  And that's the best way to do it.
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  But you, you can use the mail, but you can just do it right in
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  person and then and then, then on, for some reason on
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  Wednesday, you cannot do it anymore until November 5th.
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  So that's does high urgency for Monday and Tuesday.
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  Big deal. So, and and this this is, you
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  know, this is an election that I think, frankly is, is a a fork
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  in the road of, of destiny. You know, it really is.
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  So, you know, it's yeah, it's it's, it's, it's essential.
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  So, you know, it's like we we need safe cities, secure
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  borders, you know, sensible spending, I mean, basic stuff,
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  you know, and and we, we need to get rid of like the the well,
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  yeah. But I mean, it's like, I always
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  feel like it's bad to like attack Kamala because it's just
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  a puppet, you know? But it's just, you know, it's
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  just the machine. It's just like this this big
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  government machine and there's a puppet.
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  And it's like, no point in being like attacking a puppet.
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  It's just, you know, it's it's like I was like, you know, I
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  made a joke that was sort of misconstrued that it was like,
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  nobody even bought this to try to kill Kamala.
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  That's pointless. Why?
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  Let's get another puppet. So everyone does.
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  Nobody even bothers. Nobody's even.
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  Nobody's even tried to kill Biden.
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  It's like, doesn't that seem odd?
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  They're trying to kill Trump twice.
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  Yeah, exactly. I mean, listen, if if somebody's
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  already dead, what's the point to try to kill him?
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  So, you know, he's 1 foot and four toes in the grave.
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  I mean, I saw a weekend at Bernie's and honestly, the
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  corpse had more life than Biden. Like for sure, actually.
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  So you know who is even running the country?
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  Like like, like, like who's in charge?
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  It's confusing. It's, you know, Trump, sure he
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  will be hopefully, but I just sort of wonder like clearly
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  Biden is an accomplice mantis. So who is actually in charge?
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  The machine? I I think it's just it's just
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  like the big government machine basically is, is what's in
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  charge. It's but it's bizarre, you know?
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  So, yeah, I mean, obviously with, with Trump, the the great
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  thing is that we, we have a real individual who is not beholden
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  to anyone. And that's what scares the
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  machine. And that's why the machine's
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  trying to kill him. Yeah.
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  So, so, yeah. Wild times, man, Wild times.
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  I mean, I I've had quite a few friends call me and say have you
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  uni shoes should definitely improve your security.
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  I'm like, that's probably a good idea.
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  I'm like, they're like, they're definitely going to try to kill
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  you. I'm like, yeah, that's a good
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  chance though. They might try to do that.
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  Yeah. So yeah, exactly.
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  If they shoot, they better not miss.
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  So I'll find out who was behind him, not just who the gunman
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  was. So, but it, it, it is, it is
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  crazy to think that, you know, we have a presidential candidate
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  who that they've tried to kill twice in in recent months and
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  they try to get him, you know, with low fare 66 ways to Sunday
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  to try to prevent people from actually voting in a Democratic
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  way. It's it's outrageous really.
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  What are they, you know, what are they afraid of?
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  So, yeah, I think it's it's kind of the truth.
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  And I'd certainly encourage people, if people haven't seen
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  the the conversation between Joe Rogan and Donald Trump, that was
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  that was super cool. I mean, I think, I think for,
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  for a lot of people, it's like, you know, how do you know, how
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  do you understand somebody like, and, and what they're about, You
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  know, like the, the, the sort of far left press has been going on
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  and on about how like Trump is like Hitler, like Mussolini and
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  Stalin combined. And you roll them all into one
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  and he's somehow worse than all three of them combined.
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  These are people who have killed 10s of millions of people.
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  And like, something's wrong with the press guys.
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  You know, something is wrong with the press.
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  Journalism is dead. Like what the heck is going on?
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  It's bizarre. Yeah, actually, exactly.
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  It's like, I mean, I do, I do. I do think like that, that old
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  school journalism, I call it the legacy media because it is kind
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  of legacy media because it is. It is from a time when in order
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  to learn any news, you had to aggregate the news to some
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  central publication. And then then some editor would
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  decide what people should hear. And then they'd print the
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  newspaper with like a lot of a lot of paper, literally, and
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  then distribute that paper. And that's how you learn things.
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  But you obviously don't need that anymore.
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  You've got the Internet. So anyone can learn anything at
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  any time. Yeah, that's why X is the
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  future. It's, it's where it's citizen
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  journalism, where you hear from the people.
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  It's by the people for the people.
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  That's what it's all about. I think this is, this is a
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  super, super big deal and it's, and it's absolutely fundamental
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  and transformative that the people actually get to decide
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  the news and the, and, and what the narrative and what matters.
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  And, and that the, the legacy media is basically, you know,
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  controlled by a handful of editors in chief.
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  That's it that they decide what's going to get published.
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  That's why I really encourage everyone out there to, to, to
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  write stuff on the X platform and you know, other platforms
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  too. But citizen journalism is the
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  future, you know, and that's where you get to hear from
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  actual experts in the field, people who are really who are
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  experts in any given industry. And you get to hear the
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  rebuttal. So if somebody says something
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  that's, that's wrong or requires more context, people can add
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  that, you know, XX has got community notes, which is great,
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  you know, so take your community notes.
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  I think is got a very good batting average.
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  It's not perfect, but it's got a very good batting average.
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  And, and I, you know, many times I've gotten requests like, can
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  we get rid of this community note?
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  I'm like, no, we cannot, not even a community note on myself.
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  So with community notes, all the code is open source.
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  All the data is open source. So you can recreate any given
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  community nodes independently. And that transparency is how you
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  know that it's true and it's real and it's honest.
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  So that's, that's, yeah. But, and I think we've got, you
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  know, besides, man, this, the mic feedback's getting a little
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  crazy. So maybe I should, should I go
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  further back or further forward? Well, there's an X on the floor,
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  I guess I'm guessing that's where I should stand.
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  OK, Yeah. All right.
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  All right. Yeah.
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  So, yeah, the landing the the rock ship was pretty cool.
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  That was an amazing thing, so. Yeah, this, this SpaceX team is
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  an incredible team. And it's, it's wild that this
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  giant 250 ton object went to space, came back and was caught
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  by giant meccazilla arms. It's like, you know, it's super
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  cool. That's the kind of thing that,
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  you know, that I think is, is inspiring and exciting.
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  And, you know, there's a lot of potential.
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  I think we, we can actually build a a permanently occupied
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  science base on the moon. We can build a city on Mars.
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  We can be a multi planet species and out there among the stars.
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  It's very exciting. You know, so I'm, I'm wearing
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  this jacket that was given to me by the Space force.
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  You know, it's got Star Trek Enterprise on it.
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  You know, it's like Starfleet Academy.
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  We want to make Starfleet Academy real, you know, and, and
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  go out there and visit those star systems eventually and see
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  if there are alien civilizations.
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  Maybe they're alien civilizations that that existed
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  for millions of years and, and we just find the, you know, the
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  ruins of many long dead alien civilizations.
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  I don't know. Well, they might be, but very
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  interesting to see, you know, because you know, at least
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  according to physics, the universe is 13.8 billion years
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  old and Earth is about four and a half billion years old.
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  So even if you just increment the time counter by a million
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  years, you have to go 3 digits past decimal place, go bloop a
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  million years. And the oldest writing that
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  we've discovered in archaeology is only 5500 years old.
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  Only for that's nothing. That's a millionth of Earth's
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  existence as it was the first writing.
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  And you really have to add it to the ancient Sumerians.
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  By the way, those are got a lot of firsts.
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  Those ancient Sumerians, they're really knocking out of the park,
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  frankly. You know, we're just, they take
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  clay tablets and everything. It's thankfully they wrote in
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  clay tablets. So it was quite helpful.
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  I mean, they've even discovered like schoolwork, like where they
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  teach the kids cuneiform on clay tablets.
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  And then there's the teacher correcting the cuneiform in red
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  ink. It's been going on for a while.
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  So yeah, we are a mere 5500 year old civilization, just a baby
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  really, but with a lot of potential.
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  I think we, you know, we can go out there, we can make life
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  multi planetary, understand the universe, find out what's going
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  on. Maybe the aliens will come visit
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  us. Maybe they are here right now.
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  I don't know. So alien registration card.
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  So yeah, if people do ask me like do I think aliens are
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  amongst I'm like, I haven't seen any.
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  Yeah, this is this is a legal aliens, but a lot of those but
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  but not I haven't seen any like sort of green aliens with
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  antennas on the head or anything like that.
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  And maybe they are, they're just very subtle, but I haven't seen
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  him so but, but I think we, we, we want to be kind of, we want
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  to be the aliens exploring other galaxies, you know, And, you
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  know, I grew up watching Star Trek and Star Wars was the first
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  movie that I ever saw in a theater and it obviously
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  affected me a lot. And we just want to have these
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  sort of glorious, amazing, I don't know, space, future real,
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  you know, and. And have exciting, inspiring
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  things that make you glad to wake up when you wake up, the
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  one you're glad to be alive. They have to be these things,
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  you know, life cannot. Yeah.
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  So. Yeah.
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  So. Yeah.
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  Well, I think we can. So that you can travel to Mars
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  roughly every two years. So every 26 months the planets
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  align and you can travel from from Earth to Mars.
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  And we're actually at a planetary alignment moment right
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  now or in the next few months. And so in roughly 2 years, there
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  will be another planetary alignment.
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  And and that's when we intend to send the first Starship rockets
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  to Mars. Yeah.
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  So that's, I think we can probably send quite a few in two
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  years. And then if those land
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  successfully and we do not increment the crater count in
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  Mars, crater count before and after equals the same, then we
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  can send people in four years. We will be illegal aliens on
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  Mars. You know, I guess if there's
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  any, you know, if any Martians, maybe they'll make Mars great
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  again. Yeah.
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  You know, Mars, what did have oceans a long time ago, it seems
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  like. Yeah.
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  Like when Mars is a lot hotter, it had a lot what appears to be
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  liquid oceans. And if you want Mars up, it'll
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  have an ocean on about 40% of the Earth's of Mars surface.
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  So Mars would be about have an ocean, I think almost like a
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  mile deep on 40% of the of the surface if you just warmed it
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  up. So there's a ton of a massive
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  amount of frozen ice on Mars. So yeah, it is kind of Mike Mars
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  great again, because you can warm it up and it can be an
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  Earth like planet. So I think this is actually very
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  important for the long term. The longevity of of
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  consciousness is to be a multi planet species.
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  It's actually very important. So because there's always some
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  chance that something could happen on Earth that's either,
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  you know, a man made disaster or a natural disaster like the, you
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  know, the meteor that killed dinosaurs.
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  I mean, there have been many mass extinction events in
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  Earth's history. And there will be there will be
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  mass extinction events. Yeah.
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  There's a de facto mass extinction events of, of humans,
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  actually, the the birth rate is plummeting.
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  So, but the probable lifespan of civilization will be much
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  greater if we are a multi planet species than if we are a single
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  planet species. We don't want to be one of those
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  lame one planet civilizations is what I'm saying.
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  You know, so we want to be a multi planet civilization.
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  And now just, I'm not talking about like a lot of resources,
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  but like, I don't know, 1% of our resources seems like a wise
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  move to be a multi planet species.
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  And I kind of just ultimately find out what's going on, like
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  visit others, visit other star systems.
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  And and I think one day Mars may actually play a role similar to
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  the role that America has played in saving the world.
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  You know, America saved the world three times last century.
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  That's a big deal. World War 12 and the Cold War.
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  So Earth would be very different if not for for America saving
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  the day three times last century.
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  So, yeah, Amen. Indeed.
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  So, So I think in the future, Mars, they used to call America
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  the new world, and Mars would be the new, new world and I but
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  actually, you know, planet. So I think, I think one day Mars
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  may save Earth just as America saved the rest of the world.
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  And I think that's a big deal. Yeah.
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  As you can tell, I love space and rockets.
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  Case that wasn't obvious so let's see we can go right into
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  questions and and just just sort of have it.
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  It's always good to have like get the discussion going with
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  people. So I the lights are very bright
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  in my eyes so I can hardly I can't see what's going on.
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  There's two big lines. OK great.
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  Well, let's see how should we start.
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  OK, go ahead. OK, sure.
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  Hi Elon, my name is Ashley and I'm from Lancaster County and I
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  have a 7 year old son named Daniel.
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  And he made me promise that if I got to talk to you, I had to
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  tell you that he thinks that the cyber truck is the coolest thing
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  that has ever been invented. So he owes me one now for
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  telling you that. But so my question centers
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  around higher education. So I'm going to age myself a
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  little bit. But 20 years ago, when I
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  graduated high school, I made the decision not to go to
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  college and just to enter in the workforce.
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  And it worked really well for me.
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  But I did get a lot of slack from it from people that thought
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  that that was kind of crazy. And now I've seen, you know, the
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  attitude toward higher education kind of changing and that not
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  being the only model that we have.
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  So my questions sort of twofold here.
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  So when it comes to like my children, who, you know, will
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  eventually be needing to make that decision, you know, what
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  decision or what, what advice would you give in comparison to
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  like a trade school, higher education or just entering the
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  workforce? And from an employer standpoint
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  in, you know, 10 to 15 years, what do you think employers are
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  going to be looking for from this next generation that will
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  be entering the workforce? Sure.
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  Well, I, I do think that probably too often people do do
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  a university or college thing for four years and it's
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  unnecessary, You know, it's, and, and then they accrue a lot
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  of debt and it's hard to pay off the debt and, and they often
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  don't learn skills that are very useful.
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  So it's, it's not, you know, I think we should really
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  reconsider whether going to college actually makes sense.
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  I think it doesn't always. So, you know what I think and,
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  and to also get like, what's the point of, of a, of going to
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  school in general? It's you're supposed to learn
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  useful things. You know, it's improve your
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  understanding of the world and and learn skills that can help
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  you contribute to your fellow human beings.
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  But very often at university does the opposite.
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  In fact, you know, it will propagandize kids and not teach
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  them anything useful and just saddle them with a lot of debt.
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  So, so I think you know what, what really matters is like, are
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  you doing something useful to help your fellow human beings?
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  Are you contributing more than you take?
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  And if you are, that's a great thing.
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  Though now we are headed into a pretty wild future here with
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  artificial intelligence and robotics.
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  I, I think especially if you, if you look say like 1010 years
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  from now or more that we're going to have, the world's going
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  to look very different. I think it's, it's like 80%
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  likely to be good. You know, like the glass is 80%
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  full, you know, and, and most likely we'll have, I think we'll
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  probably have a situation which is universal high income,
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  actually not universal basic income, but universal high
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  income and there will be no shortage of goods and services.
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  That is what I think is most likely to occur.
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  And we need to make sure that this AI is and, and these robots
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  are on the side of humanity. You know, obviously, you know,
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  James Cameron made a, made a couple movies about that.
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  You know, it's, you got to watch what, what you program these
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  robots to do. And you know, the example I've
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  used a few times is, you know, when, when Google Gemini came
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  out, people asked, well, which one's worse, misgendering
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  Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war and said,
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  well, misgenerating Caitlyn Jenner is worse.
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  It's like we've got a problem with this AI And, and even
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  Caitlyn Jenner said, yeah, you should definitely misgender me.
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  That's crazy. So, you know, we don't want to
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  have an AI that's, that concludes that the best way to
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  avoid misgendering is to execute all humans that therefore
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  reducing the probability of misgendering to 0 because there
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  are no humans. You know, like that's some kind
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  of crazy stuff that that could potentially happen that we want
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  to avoid, which is why I think we, we want to have a maximum
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  truth seeking AI. You know, it's got to be kind of
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  based in a good way and just be an honest and truthful and
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  forthright AI that that's the the best path to safety for
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  artificial intelligence. So.
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  Hi, Elon, I'm Christine. I'm from Lancaster County.
• 25:44
  I want to extend a heartfelt welcome from all of us in
• 25:48
  Lancaster County. Thank you.
• 25:56
  Thank you for all that you do. My question surrounds government
• 26:00
  and efficiency. What would be your plan to make
• 26:04
  government more efficient? Yeah.
• 26:07
  Well, so I, I think the first of all, we're in terms of people
• 26:12
  sometimes ask like where would you start with government
• 26:16
  efficiency? And it's kind of like being in a
• 26:17
  room where the entire room is targets.
• 26:20
  And so you can shoot in any direction and not miss.
• 26:25
  It's like I just impossible to miss because every direction is
• 26:28
  a target. So there's no missed
• 26:30
  possibility. Now we do have a fundamental
• 26:34
  issue, which is that that the government is spending far much
• 26:36
  that far, far more than it brings in.
• 26:39
  And the reality is that all, all government spending is actually
• 26:43
  taxation. All government spending is
• 26:44
  taxation. Sometimes people think some of
• 26:46
  it is taxation and some of it's not, but it's all taxation
• 26:49
  because the part that is not covered by by tax revenue
• 26:52
  becomes inflation. So you're either taxed directly
• 26:57
  or you're taxed by inflation, but you're but you're for sure
• 27:01
  taxed and, and, and so all government spending is taxation.
• 27:05
  So we have to reduce government spending overall like this.
• 27:09
  This will be forced upon us in the future because already just
• 27:15
  the interest payments on the debt are 23% of all federal tax
• 27:19
  revenue. Just the interest payments, the
• 27:21
  interest payments now exceed the Defense Department budget, which
• 27:24
  is a trillion dollars a year. That's a lot of money.
• 27:26
  So just the interest on the debt is exceeds what we spend on the
• 27:31
  military, just the interest and that is rising rapidly.
• 27:36
  So so it it can't be like, you know, we'll we'll trim a little
• 27:40
  bit here and there. If that's not going to work
• 27:43
  there, there have to be quite radical reductions in cost.
• 27:46
  Yeah. And I think we just need to be,
• 27:56
  you know, if you know, please Lord drop wins the you know,
• 28:05
  and, and, and the Department of Government efficiency happens.
• 28:08
  We, we want, we're going to be very open and transparent and be
• 28:12
  very clear about this is what we're doing here are the issues.
• 28:15
  This is, this is the, the math for what what's being spent and,
• 28:20
  and what you know, and, and we're going to make it.
• 28:23
  We're going to make the spending lower.
• 28:24
  And if, if somebody's got a better idea for how to make the
• 28:27
  spending lower, we're tell us, but but if we don't, we're going
• 28:30
  to bankrupt the country. And, and so we got to do
• 28:32
  something and, and it's got to be like some pretty big moves.
• 28:38
  Yeah. I'd say like drain, drain the
• 28:42
  swamps. This is like a there's so many
• 28:45
  swamps. It's, it's like, you know,
• 28:48
  there's so many swamps there's yeah, yeah.
• 28:52
  I mean, it's just nutty that like there was a massive
• 28:54
  increase in IRS personnel and, and, and instead of adding
• 28:58
  people to the Border Patrol, like this is totally backwards.
• 29:03
  It's it's like, like you can continue to main remain a
• 29:06
  federal employee, but you have to go, go out the border.
• 29:09
  That's your new job. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's
• 29:14
  like, why are we, why are we spending money and applying
• 29:17
  resources to oppress the American people while rolling
• 29:20
  out a red carpet for illegal? So it doesn't make any sense.
• 29:24
  So. So yeah, it would have to be
• 29:34
  pretty big. I mean, there's, I actually have
• 29:37
  tried Googling it and I've asked all the AIS how many, how many
• 29:42
  government agencies are there? And even the government doesn't
• 29:47
  know, OK. And the AIS don't know, like
• 29:49
  you, they're like, well, it's about 450, but maybe it's 420.
• 29:55
  I'm like 420. No kidding.
• 29:59
  That's that's a lot of agencies just at the federal level.
• 30:03
  I mean, like if you sort of stand back and say, OK, just for
• 30:06
  a second, like let's say we're starting the country again, how
• 30:09
  many agencies do we need? Do we need more than 99?
• 30:14
  Because that's 99's a lot of agencies, you know, like that's,
• 30:17
  that's a lot. You know, if you said like does
• 30:21
  any, how many people even know 99 agencies?
• 30:25
  I'd say most. I'd say practically no one and
• 30:29
  knows 19 knows the names of 99 agencies, let alone the 420 or
• 30:34
  whatever there are. Yeah.
• 30:38
  So we, we, we have to unwind the situation and, and, and I think,
• 30:45
  well, I think we're going to do it.
• 30:46
  And it's going to unleash a new era of prosperity because people
• 30:52
  that don't even realize how much they're getting held back by
• 30:57
  millions of federal regulations, millions literally so.
• 31:09
  And if it turns out that that that we accidentally got rid of
• 31:11
  a good regulation, we'll just put it back.
• 31:15
  Is that easy? I'm Dan from Pennsylvania as
• 31:26
  well. I am a teacher, public school
• 31:29
  teacher, and I just bought a Tesla this year and it's been
• 31:32
  amazing for my one hour commute. Great.
• 31:34
  So thank you about that. Cool.
• 31:37
  Did you try self driving? Yes.
• 31:39
  Oh my gosh, pretty cool. It it blows like I when I go
• 31:43
  into the teacher parking lot and I just tried the summon today.
• 31:45
  Yeah, like, yeah, everybody stalls hit the floor.
• 31:50
  Yeah, as well. Yeah.
• 31:52
  So Republicans need to get out the vote.
• 31:55
  And as the mail in balloting becomes more common, what can I
• 31:59
  tell my friends about the safety and security of mail in ballots?
• 32:02
  Yeah, this election and future elections.
• 32:06
  And then real quick, also sure. My daughter is is 2.
• 32:11
  She her name is Isabella. She loves the planets and loves
• 32:15
  astronomy. Is already and I want to know
• 32:18
  what I can as a teacher do to help inspire her curiosity for
• 32:24
  the habits of the stars. Sure.
• 32:28
  Well, with Missy, with respect to voting, voting integrity, I
• 32:33
  think probably the best thing to do is to hand it in in person.
• 32:37
  But you can also mail it in and you can check to see whether
• 32:40
  your your ballot has been received.
• 32:41
  So it is possible to check online or in person to see if
• 32:45
  your ballot has been received. But I would encourage people to
• 32:48
  vote early because what can happen is that, you know,
• 32:51
  November 5th comes around and there's like you got something
• 32:54
  critical at work or there's like a family emergency or, you know,
• 32:59
  there's, yeah, some mysterious cybersecurity event that you
• 33:03
  never know, might happen. So, you know, anything can crop
• 33:08
  up on November 5th, whether it's personal or some, you know,
• 33:12
  there could be some other, some other issue.
• 33:14
  So it's it's it is best to vote early now.
• 33:17
  It is very encouraging to see the early vote numbers because
• 33:21
  if you compare the early vote numbers this year to 2020,
• 33:25
  there's about AI think the last numbers I saw it's like a 2 to
• 33:28
  300,000 voter difference from 2020.
• 33:33
  That's a huge that's major because because I I think it was
• 33:37
  like an 80,000 vote threshold last time.
• 33:41
  So Biden won ish by by by 80,080 thousand votes.
• 33:51
  That was the number that was reported.
• 33:53
  And, and, but the interesting thing is that that the the Delta
• 33:59
  or early votes is now 200, I think maybe approaching 250 or
• 34:04
  even 300,000 in better than 2020, which is far in excess of
• 34:11
  the margin of the 20 of 2020. So Pennsylvania is trending in
• 34:16
  the right direction. It's very encouraging, but but
• 34:27
  there's still a lot of work to do and we don't want to be
• 34:29
  complacent. So definitely get everyone you
• 34:34
  know to, to vote. And as I mentioned earlier,
• 34:38
  people can actually go in, in person on Monday and Tuesday if
• 34:41
  they're concerned about putting anything in the mail.
• 34:44
  And, and they can actually get their ballot.
• 34:46
  Like even if they don't have the ballot, they can literally go to
• 34:48
  the, the county office, get the ballot even though it says
• 34:51
  absentee and then hand it in even though you're not absent.
• 34:54
  It's weird, but it, it works. But it, it stops working on
• 34:58
  Wednesday and then the next opportunity is November 5th.
• 35:01
  So it's kind of quirky, but that's, that's those are the
• 35:04
  current rules. And then let's see with respect
• 35:08
  to your daughter. And, you know, I think in order
• 35:13
  to inspire, like kids are inspired by real amazing
• 35:17
  imagery. Like they see something amazing,
• 35:20
  they see a rocket taking off, a rocket landing or, you know,
• 35:24
  robots walking around or like cool things, like the stuff that
• 35:27
  you see in sci-fi movies. And when they see stuff like
• 35:32
  that, they're, they're, they're inspired automatically.
• 35:35
  They're inspired because it's because there are real
• 35:37
  advancements in technology. And that's, you know, that's,
• 35:42
  that's, that's what inspires kids because it's because it
• 35:44
  should, you know, like kids are like a great filter for, for
• 35:49
  what's awesome. Like you can tell like if a
• 35:51
  little kid reacts like, wow, that's amazing.
• 35:54
  And that's like, that's real, you know, So, you know, like
• 35:59
  kids love the cyber truck and they love rockets, you know, and
• 36:04
  that's because they have no filter.
• 36:06
  They just say what they immediately say what they think,
• 36:09
  you know? So, yeah.
• 36:13
  So it's, it's great new rocket technology that allows us to,
• 36:19
  like I said, go there and be, have a permanent science station
• 36:23
  on the moon. And not just like it's great
• 36:26
  that we're into the moon. Yep, 50 plus years ago, but we
• 36:30
  want to go to the moon and actually have a science base.
• 36:32
  Like we've got a science base in Antarctica.
• 36:34
  Well, we should have a science base on the moon and we should
• 36:37
  be building a city on Mars. And I actually think it's, it's
• 36:41
  the, the, the long term future of civilization, I think could
• 36:45
  be decided by whether or not we, we built a self-sustaining city
• 36:49
  on Mars. And if we do that, that is the
• 36:52
  city that would have millions of people.
• 36:54
  And it would be like, if anybody wants to go to Mars, that they
• 36:57
  could. And that would be an incredibly
• 36:59
  exciting, inspiring thing to to, to aspire to go to Mars.
• 37:02
  They're like, wow, let's make that real.
• 37:07
  Yes, let's bring her to Mars. Yeah.
• 37:09
  If she thinks like, wow, one day I could go to Mars, you know,
• 37:12
  and, and, and be one of the the Martians.
• 37:14
  And that would be super awesome. You know, it's, it's wildly you
• 37:22
  go, it takes six months actually, when you go from Earth
• 37:25
  to Mars, you're just, you're just travelling across this,
• 37:27
  this void of nothingness for hundreds of millions of miles
• 37:33
  until eventually you you reach another planet.
• 37:39
  It's kind of incredible to think that that's even possible, but
• 37:42
  and how amazing would that be? You know, like wow, like that.
• 37:47
  We want to have a future where life is multiplanetary, where
• 37:50
  we're advancing rocket technology.
• 37:53
  And like I said, we're we're Star Trek Starfleet Academy is
• 37:56
  real. And that's what will inspire
• 37:59
  your daughter. All right.
• 38:08
  Hi, Elon. My name is Lauren from
• 38:10
  Pennsylvania. Thank you for being here.
• 38:11
  Thank you for everything you're doing, and congratulations with
• 38:14
  SpaceX. You and your whole team are
• 38:16
  absolutely brilliant. I have two specific questions
• 38:18
  for you, but I was curious because I looked all over on X
• 38:21
  today and I didn't see anybody who won the $1,000,000 prize.
• 38:25
  What? Is that given out today?
• 38:27
  Well, let's see we all we all going to give it out tonight, in
• 38:31
  fact. So let's is it is to go ahead
• 38:36
  and do it. Yeah.
• 38:36
  OK, let's do it. Good timing.
• 38:40
  All right, Judy Kimura. Yeah, Judy has no idea by the
• 38:57
  way, it's just loading now, so, but I think Judy's on her way
• 39:13
  here. I said Judy had no learnt when
• 39:18
  you learnt. All right, Well, thank you.
• 39:30
  All right. I mean, we're, we're trying to
• 39:42
  get, we're trying to get attention for this very
• 39:43
  important petition to support the Constitution.
• 39:46
  And it's, it's, you know, it's, it's like if we, you know, we
• 39:51
  need the, the right to free speech, we need the right to
• 39:54
  bear arms. Otherwise, there is no right to
• 39:55
  free speech and. Yeah, and, and it's, you know,
• 40:07
  people sort of wonder why, why didn't, why what's up with the
• 40:09
  $1,000,000 prizes? I'm like, well, we needed to get
• 40:11
  the legacy media to talk about it.
• 40:14
  And, and I, I just knew that they would be like complaining
• 40:17
  like hell about it. That like for sure complaining
• 40:22
  on every, every newspaper at every TV station or complaining
• 40:25
  like like crazy. And I was like, great, that's
• 40:27
  going to get the word out. Most welcome.
• 40:31
  All right. Can you say hi to my son Kaden?
• 40:34
  And yes, Kaden and Kaylee. Hi, Kaden and Kaylee Hi.
• 40:41
  All right, Hello. So, yeah, so we're, we're going
• 40:57
  to be giving out $1,000,000 every day through November 5th.
• 41:02
  And, and all, all you have to do is sign the petition in support
• 41:06
  of the 1st and 2nd Amendment. That's it.
• 41:08
  You don't, you don't even have to vote.
• 41:10
  It'd be nice if you voted, but you don't have to.
• 41:13
  And that to support the basically assigned something you
• 41:15
  already believe in and you got a chance to win $1,000,000 every
• 41:18
  day from now through the election.
• 41:20
  Yeah. Congratulations, Judy.
• 41:30
  Let me know if you want to share two specific questions for you,
• 41:36
  Elon. One regarding your concern about
• 41:37
  the declining birth rate. Yeah, it's a big deal.
• 41:40
  It is besides us is women having more and more children and since
• 41:45
  we're the only ones who can give birth, yes, what would you?
• 41:49
  I mean, you do need a womb is to need a womb is necessary
• 41:55
  otherwise you can't have kids currently.
• 41:57
  It is necessary. What would be your solution?
• 42:02
  Would you be in favor of creating or supporting an IVF
• 42:05
  surrogacy program to increase the birth rates?
• 42:08
  And my second question is about what would you recommend toward
• 42:12
  the first steps on improving our American educational system?
• 42:15
  Thank you. Yeah, I mean, in general, like I
• 42:17
  think we we should really view the the birth rate as like
• 42:21
  extremely fundamental crisis. Like it's, it's really shocking
• 42:25
  how low it, it is. You know, the, the birth rate in
• 42:29
  America, in the United States has been below replacement rate
• 42:32
  since I was born roughly, roughly around 1971 or so.
• 42:37
  That's since then America has been below replacement rate.
• 42:40
  And, and pretty much every country, it seems, it seems as
• 42:43
  soon as they reach a certain level of prosperity, the birth
• 42:45
  rate drops below replacement. And then I started looking into,
• 42:50
  well, has this happened before in history?
• 42:52
  And in fact, it has, it's in, in, in basically every
• 42:55
  civilization in the past. It's, it's maybe counter
• 42:59
  intuitive, but the more prosperous that a civilization
• 43:02
  becomes, the lower the birth rate.
• 43:05
  So it, it's because you think, well, with prosperity you'd have
• 43:09
  more resources than you'd have more kids.
• 43:11
  Actually, no. The historical fact is that the
• 43:15
  longer that a civilization has been prosperous, the worse it's
• 43:19
  birth rate got. And this was an issue even in
• 43:23
  ancient Rome, like in 50 BC. There's like actually wherever
• 43:27
  we still have like the Roman laws that were written, they've
• 43:30
  passed laws to try to improve the birth rate of Roman citizens
• 43:34
  in 50 BC. So like, basically this is a
• 43:39
  fundamental civilizational challenge that has been
• 43:42
  encountered many times before. It's not something that just,
• 43:46
  you know, happened recently. It's, it's, it's occurred
• 43:49
  throughout the cycle of civilizations.
• 43:52
  And I, I, I don't, I hope we can at least partly reverse it.
• 43:58
  And I think part of that is at least bringing it to conscious
• 44:01
  awareness because I, I meet many people who think that there are
• 44:04
  too many humans on Earth, but this is not true.
• 44:07
  There aren't enough humans on Earth.
• 44:10
  In fact, you can fit all the humans on Earth in the city of
• 44:13
  New York on one floor. OK, so or, or like if, if you,
• 44:20
  if you fly across the country and you look down and say if
• 44:23
  you, if you're, if you had to drop a ball on someone's head,
• 44:26
  would you succeed? And you would not because the
• 44:31
  density of people is very low. There's the, there are actually
• 44:35
  very few people on Earth. It's only if you live in a very
• 44:38
  dense city environment that it seems that there are many people
• 44:42
  that that Earth is densely populated, but it is only
• 44:45
  densely populated in like .1% of the surface area.
• 44:49
  So at least want to bring it to conscious awareness so people
• 44:54
  don't think that Earth is overpopulated when in fact Earth
• 44:57
  is under populated. That is the truth.
• 45:00
  Yeah, yeah. Obligates is, and I are not best
• 45:04
  friends to say the least. So I don't know.
• 45:07
  He is, you know, I think there's you can arguably, arguably say
• 45:13
  like, look that maybe the real distinction is not right or
• 45:17
  left, but is someone an expansionist or an
• 45:20
  extinctionist. So he has some issues.
• 45:25
  This is true. So, but, but like if you say
• 45:31
  like, like any given civilization, it's, it's not
• 45:33
  going to be exactly steady. So it's like they'll so any
• 45:37
  given civilization is either going to be growing or
• 45:40
  declining. And so you have to say you can
• 45:43
  kind of divide any person's actions into are they
• 45:46
  expansionist or extinctionist? And I mean, obviously I'm super
• 45:51
  expansionist oriented because I think that's a far more exciting
• 45:54
  future than going extinct. You know, sounds obvious when
• 46:00
  you say it like that. So, yeah, So it's just, but I
• 46:08
  still run into a lot of people who think Earth is
• 46:10
  overpopulated. So I'm like kind of hammering
• 46:12
  this point. We're not overpopulated, we're
• 46:14
  underpopulated. And you know, so I'm in favor of
• 46:20
  really, you know, we need to have babies by whatever means,
• 46:25
  whether it's IBF, surrogacy, whatever the case may be.
• 46:30
  You know, that can that can certainly help and but we just
• 46:34
  can't go extinct like with humans need to, you know, I
• 46:38
  think humanity is great and we should have get bigger.
• 46:42
  Yeah. We we want to expect.
• 46:43
  I think we we should expand the scope and scale of consciousness
• 46:46
  so we can better understand the nature of the universe.
• 46:49
  I mean, that's the foundation of my philosophy.
• 46:52
  Yeah. Make babies great again.
• 46:54
  Yes. So yeah, hopefully that was that
• 47:01
  was helpful. So.
• 47:04
  Yeah. Hi, I'm Mary Ressler and I live
• 47:07
  in Lancaster, PA. I'm a teacher here.
• 47:09
  I've been following you because of your work with World Literacy
• 47:13
  with X Prize as I was a participant in Barbara Bush X
• 47:16
  Prize with an app development called Literacy Speedway.
• 47:19
  But my passion is turning because since COVID, every day
• 47:22
  in the trenches, in the classroom, I see the effects of
• 47:25
  mental health on our students. Not only students, but I've seen
• 47:29
  two of my brothers commit suicide.
• 47:31
  I've seen my own daughter who wasn't able to get a bed and a
• 47:35
  facility and had to wait months. I have seen what's happened to
• 47:39
  American families because of the mental health crisis and the
• 47:42
  lack of resources. Our mental health system in
• 47:45
  America is broken. And so even though I have a
• 47:48
  passion for world literacy and always will, I also would like
• 47:53
  to ask you, because I know of your collaboration, your
• 47:56
  contacts, contacts with the election, with what the new
• 48:01
  administration can possibly do, what can you guys do to fix our
• 48:05
  broken mental health system in America?
• 48:08
  Sure. Well, I mean I'd be curious to
• 48:16
  hear your thoughts and suggestions.
• 48:19
  I mean, my, my sort of observation is that we do, we
• 48:23
  over prescribe medication and, and, and, and, but you know,
• 48:32
  like there's a lot, a lot of regulation, in fact, too much
• 48:36
  regulation about getting any, any given medication approved.
• 48:39
  But then after it's approved, there's no follow up to see,
• 48:43
  hey, did we make a mistake? And then you get, so you get
• 48:46
  things that are approved and they just go hog wild and, and
• 48:50
  it's causing a lot of damage. But there's, there's not really
• 48:52
  a good revocation capability. So it doesn't make sense.
• 48:56
  Like there are good drugs that are not being approved and there
• 48:59
  are bad drugs that have been approved.
• 49:00
  This is a broken system. We need to fix it.
• 49:04
  I think very often when, when somebody has committed suicide
• 49:07
  or if they've essentially if, if, if something's if something
• 49:13
  as bad has happened, like what were they prescribed, That is an
• 49:17
  important thing. Do you have any thoughts on
• 49:19
  this? I do have thoughts on it.
• 49:22
  I feel like in the brick and mortar school in the educational
• 49:25
  setting, not only do the states because I know it's it's
• 49:29
  education is state dictated even though there's national national
• 49:32
  Common Core curriculum that there needs to be mental health
• 49:36
  services embedded into every school at this juncture.
• 49:40
  There also needs to be facilities in every state, not a
• 49:43
  six month wait to see psychiatrist as in Pennsylvania
• 49:46
  at times or a 12 months to get a bed in a mental facility.
• 49:51
  The asylums unfortunately weren't the fix years ago in
• 49:54
  America because they were horrible.
• 49:56
  But when they were taken away, authority went to the states.
• 49:59
  Federal money was taken away and now you have outpatient services
• 50:03
  and there's a lack of prescribers, there's a lack of
• 50:07
  counselors, there's a need for more.
• 50:11
  And every day our prison system right now is housing half
• 50:15
  almost. And I could give you the data
• 50:17
  to, to you know, they're, they're not there because
• 50:21
  they're criminals. They're there because they have
• 50:23
  mental health issues and it needs fixed.
• 50:29
  OK. Are there any particular
• 50:31
  medications you think should be pulled from the market or added
• 50:33
  to the market? I believe that every child when
• 50:36
  they're diagnosed with a mental health condition should have
• 50:39
  there's there is a test for it. There's some kind of tongue tat
• 50:42
  that that can dictate which medications will work and won't
• 50:46
  work for you. However, you have to ask as a
• 50:49
  parent for that test and I can guarantee from my experience in
• 50:53
  this with parents working in the school district or just from
• 50:56
  friends and other associates, most people aren't even aware of
• 51:00
  it because it's not paid by 4 insurance and most Americans
• 51:03
  can't afford it. So when things aren't covered
• 51:08
  under your insurance they're not given.
• 51:11
  Like a doctor isn't going to prescribe that that is done.
• 51:14
  So you have to have the self-awareness and knowledge to
• 51:18
  go and have that testing done, and most people unfortunately
• 51:22
  just don't know it even exists. OK, All right.
• 51:26
  Well, I think this is definitely and and it's something that we
• 51:28
  need to to figure figure out better.
• 51:32
  It's, it is clearly, I agree with you that there's, there's a
• 51:36
  mental health issue and I, I think we need to look at like
• 51:40
  what, what drugs actually work and, and, and, and what are the
• 51:45
  side effects? And, and some of them I, I mean,
• 51:50
  yeah, I think, I think some of them are, are, are pretty
• 51:52
  sketch, frankly, that some of the drugs that are, that are
• 51:55
  prescribed, I mean, some of the stories I've heard about some of
• 51:58
  the psychiatric meds from people are, are pretty bad.
• 52:03
  Like it's like the reason they weren't in this, in some cases,
• 52:07
  the reason they wanted to commit suicide is when they when they
• 52:09
  took the drugs, not when they didn't take the drugs.
• 52:12
  You know, people, people do need to believe in something.
• 52:18
  And so, you know, I think I think they're probably a nature
• 52:22
  of hoes of vacuum. So if there is, you know,
• 52:25
  there's a certainly a strong argument that the decline in
• 52:28
  religion has has led to people seeking a new religion,
• 52:32
  essentially secular religion. So that is, you know, Organism
• 52:42
  is essentially a secular religion, but it's it's believed
• 52:46
  very fervently. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:57
  It's it's, it's a strong, strong argument for church.
• 52:59
  I agree. So.
• 53:11
  They need substance. They need natural things.
• 53:16
  Mother and mother. Oh, that's true.
• 53:18
  All right. Well, let's see.
• 53:19
  So. Hi.
• 53:22
  Hi. Good evening.
• 53:23
  My name is Janelle. It's nice to meet you.
• 53:24
  Nice to meet you. I wanted to.
• 53:26
  Actually, first, thank you and probably behalf on everyone here
• 53:29
  to thank you for creating the pack and the referral
• 53:32
  opportunity. I think everyone here is
• 53:34
  grateful. And I saw it as a way to support
• 53:37
  2 amendments that I actually care about and don't want to see
• 53:39
  go away. And secondly, I saw it as a way
• 53:42
  that if I could refer my friends, family, and everyone
• 53:44
  that I could go, I could earn some extra money.
• 53:47
  My husband and I are actually self funding our own fertility
• 53:50
  journey. I've got some unexplained
• 53:51
  infertility. And so that money is going to
• 53:54
  actually pay our bill next month.
• 53:56
  And I've always wanted to become a mom.
• 53:58
  And I have a dream to be a mom and I know one day it will
• 54:00
  happen. I'm drawn to your population
• 54:02
  concerns. I don't know if you've talked to
• 54:04
  President Trump, but I would love to know if you would
• 54:08
  consider pack or advocating a grant for fertility to make
• 54:11
  Americans like myself be able to afford it.
• 54:13
  And have a baby. Yeah.
• 54:16
  Well, I, I'm, I'm, I'm super pro baby, so yes, yeah, absolutely.
• 54:22
  I'm super, super pro baby. So yes, absolutely.
• 54:30
  Hey Elon, my name is Furman Jones, and I just wanted to
• 54:34
  start out and say I I really believe in you.
• 54:37
  I know everybody in here believes in you for one reason
• 54:40
  or another, and I'm super thankful to even get to ask you
• 54:43
  a question. But anyways, I also believe in
• 54:46
  the Constitution and I also believe in the Bible, and that's
• 54:51
  what I'm going to ask you about. The Bible says that nobody's
• 54:54
  perfect, and there's no perfect form of government on this earth
• 54:57
  because greed is inevitable. It's like Churchill says that
• 55:02
  democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the
• 55:05
  other types. But the one government that the
• 55:08
  Bible does say is perfect is the Kingdom of God.
• 55:10
  And Isaiah 3322 says the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our king,
• 55:15
  and the Lord is our our lawmaker.
• 55:18
  So I feel like so much of your worldview aligns with biblical
• 55:23
  principles, and we need Christians to vote and see that
• 55:26
  greed, that communism is the greatest manifestation of evil
• 55:29
  and greed. And so, yeah, that's my
• 55:31
  question. How do we get Christians to
• 55:32
  vote? And if you have time, what keeps
• 55:35
  you from believing in the Bible or being more vocal about it?
• 55:38
  So, yeah, well, it is interesting that actually I was
• 55:42
  told that a surprisingly small percentage of evangelicals of
• 55:47
  people that are really strong believers act as it's quite a
• 55:51
  small percentage that votes. I, I thought and I, I hope I, I
• 55:56
  Yeah, well, I, that's what I was told anyway.
• 55:59
  But, but I saw, I certainly hope more, more people, more
• 56:02
  Christians vote. That would be great.
• 56:05
  Please do so. Yeah.
• 56:08
  I mean, I, so I was, you know, brought up Christian and went to
• 56:16
  actually somewhat strangely, went to Sunday school and also
• 56:20
  my, I was sent to a Hebrew preschool.
• 56:23
  You know, I'm not Jewish, but I was, I don't know, I was just
• 56:27
  still, I think it was in the neighborhood or something, you
• 56:30
  know, And so I was like hopping to Gila one day, Jesus is all
• 56:36
  over the next. And I was like, great.
• 56:40
  So you know, so I, you know, I certainly I'm, I'm, I believe in
• 56:49
  the like the teachings of Christ.
• 56:50
  I believe, you know, that he's like, I believe in the Christian
• 56:55
  principles, you know, love thy neighbor.
• 56:59
  I believe in turn the other cheek, which is very important
• 57:02
  for to have forgiveness, because if you don't have forgiveness,
• 57:06
  then you have an endless cycle of retribution.
• 57:09
  You know, like, you know, I used to think like why would you turn
• 57:13
  the other cheek? That's ridiculous.
• 57:15
  You know, just sponge them. But, and, and I think you do
• 57:21
  need to actually be strong, like you can't be weak because if
• 57:23
  somebody's, if you're facing sort of a predatory threat and
• 57:29
  that threat is stronger than you and that and that threat doesn't
• 57:33
  believe in Christian values, then you will just get, you
• 57:36
  know, executed. I mean, I don't know, but but at
• 57:39
  a certain point it once you are strong, once you are, once you
• 57:45
  are strong, you should, you should forgive the the
• 57:48
  transgressions of, of others, you know, and that this is
• 57:53
  obviously not something they believe in the Middle East,
• 57:56
  which is why there's this endless cycle of, of violence,
• 58:01
  you know. So I really think that, yeah, we
• 58:07
  should, yeah, should love thy neighbor.
• 58:11
  And we should forgive and we should, we should be kind and
• 58:16
  gentle. So yeah, I believe.
• 58:25
  I believe in what Jesus. I believe.
• 58:27
  I believe in what Jesus said. Yeah.
• 58:28
  So, yeah. Hello, Elon Musk.
• 58:32
  My name is Grant Naugle. Hi, family.
• 58:34
  It's really, really good to to meet you.
• 58:38
  My first question was, do you have an answer to life, the
• 58:43
  universe and everything? Well, the classic answer is 42
• 58:50
  and and 4:20 is just 1040 twos. Interesting.
• 58:57
  But my real question, yes, sorry.
• 58:59
  My real question would be what is the most useful, most
• 59:04
  powerful piece of advice you have ever received?
• 59:08
  The most useful piece of advice? Well, that's a tough one.
• 59:22
  Yes, indeed. Vote Republican.
• 59:29
  It's yeah. I mean, this is, this is maybe
• 59:45
  going to sound like maybe I'd like, I believe in like, like,
• 59:48
  well, if you study physics, if you, if you study I, I just
• 59:54
  recommend studying physics, you know, and, and, and, and the,
• 1:00:00
  the tools of physics of the, the sort of the, the thinking tools
• 1:00:05
  that it's, it's, it's not, it's not just a bunch of, it's what
• 1:00:09
  matters is not remembering a bunch of formulas.
• 1:00:12
  What matters is the thinking process that led to the
• 1:00:17
  discovery of those formulas. It's sort of critical thinking,
• 1:00:24
  first principles analysis, trying to understand what is
• 1:00:29
  true at a most fundamental level, and then reasoning up
• 1:00:33
  from there and testing your conclusions against the most
• 1:00:38
  fundamental truths. In any given arena.
• 1:00:41
  This is how you can figure out whether something is more likely
• 1:00:44
  to be true or not. And I think it's, it's good to
• 1:00:46
  think in terms of probabilities. So you receive information about
• 1:00:50
  a subject that that should change the probability of your
• 1:00:55
  conclusion, but but not the certainty of your conclusion.
• 1:00:58
  Like so in physics teaches you that you should not be 100%
• 1:01:03
  certain that about any given prediction.
• 1:01:08
  Now there's some things that are highly likely, but but physics
• 1:01:12
  teaches you, you've got to, you've got to assign a
• 1:01:16
  probability to something being true.
• 1:01:18
  And then as you learn more information, your original
• 1:01:21
  conclusion may be wrong. And then, you know, you should
• 1:01:25
  then change your mind based on the new information.
• 1:01:32
  I mean, you can think of intelligence kind of as just how
• 1:01:37
  good is I think the yeah, probably the right metric for
• 1:01:43
  intelligence is the ability to predict, predict the future.
• 1:01:46
  If you can predict the future, well, then you're then you're
• 1:01:50
  you're as intelligent as you can predict the future.
• 1:01:53
  Well, because if something, if somebody claims, well, this is
• 1:01:56
  thing is this this person or, or this AI is very intelligent,
• 1:02:01
  like, well, what, how good are its predictions?
• 1:02:03
  And if its predictions are not very good, it's not that smart.
• 1:02:06
  So, so that's, that's I think the key nature of intelligence.
• 1:02:14
  And if you're trying to decide what to do in the future, it is
• 1:02:19
  really it just, it comes down to predicting the future and to
• 1:02:22
  break the future, you have to think critically about the past
• 1:02:29
  and constantly try to be less wrong.
• 1:02:32
  So maybe that would be maybe that would be right up there in
• 1:02:36
  terms of best advice. Aspire to be less wrong.
• 1:02:49
  Hi, Elon, yes, First off, thank you so much for having us here
• 1:02:54
  today. We always appreciate that we
• 1:02:56
  have somebody in in your level of influence that can listen to
• 1:03:00
  regular people and then kind of get our voices heard.
• 1:03:03
  And it's also not everyday that a person gets to meet their hero
• 1:03:06
  and ask them a question. So my main question is since
• 1:03:11
  COVID. The current administration has
• 1:03:14
  really put a struggle with small businesses and especially here
• 1:03:18
  in PA we've seen a large decline in both the foundation of small
• 1:03:22
  business and we. I've personally known several
• 1:03:24
  small businesses that have had to close due to increasing
• 1:03:27
  regulation. Taxes.
• 1:03:29
  Exactly. It's, it's the, the, the burden
• 1:03:31
  of, of excess regulation is very severe and it crushes a lot of
• 1:03:36
  small, small companies and it makes big companies operate
• 1:03:40
  much, you know, much less efficiently so.
• 1:03:43
  So how do you think that we as small business owners and non
• 1:03:47
  small business owners can fight against this?
• 1:03:51
  And also what can you do as a former small business owner that
• 1:03:55
  you can kind of fight for us? Well, I mean, to your point, I
• 1:04:00
  think a dramatic reduction in government spending and
• 1:04:05
  government over regulation, like I call it sort of America is
• 1:04:09
  getting sort of strangulation by over regulation will unleash in
• 1:04:14
  your era of prosperity. Just allow people to do useful
• 1:04:18
  and productive things and don't make it a two year permitting
• 1:04:21
  nightmare, which is often is, and then burden small businesses
• 1:04:26
  with taxes that they can go bankrupt.
• 1:04:29
  So, yeah, it's pretty straightforward.
• 1:04:36
  Like I said, it's, it's kind of mind blowing that there are over
• 1:04:38
  400 federal agencies governing our lives.
• 1:04:43
  Most of them people have never heard of, but they, they, they
• 1:04:46
  do affect your life and on balance negatively.
• 1:04:51
  So we just need far fewer agencies and get the government
• 1:04:56
  off your back. Yeah.
• 1:05:04
  Hi, my name is Mark from Lancaster.
• 1:05:06
  Thank you for your time, for the most valuable thing you can give
• 1:05:08
  to any organization. So thank you.
• 1:05:10
  Time is through currency. Thank you, Sir.
• 1:05:13
  So my question is, my wife is a natural or at least U.S.
• 1:05:15
  citizen. She's registered to vote.
• 1:05:17
  I. Banked my vote already.
• 1:05:19
  I was just wondering if you'd be willing to talk about, I mean we
• 1:05:21
  did it the right way, we took years and money and we got her
• 1:05:24
  naturalized the right way. If you'd be willing to talk
• 1:05:27
  about your experience at all with immigration and also other
• 1:05:30
  than secure border, how you see fixing that system?
• 1:05:33
  Yeah, well, since your wife has gone through the process of
• 1:05:38
  becoming a citizen and getting green card, you've seen how
• 1:05:43
  absurdly slow and arduous it is. So I mean, I think the the
• 1:05:49
  general principle that makes sense is the same principle that
• 1:05:53
  you'd operate a professional sports team on or a company,
• 1:05:56
  which is like, who would you want on your team?
• 1:05:59
  And if, if somebody's going to be productive, like productive
• 1:06:02
  and honest and a net contributor, and that'd be a
• 1:06:06
  great addition to the team. Welcome aboard.
• 1:06:08
  And it should be not a long process because they'll they'll,
• 1:06:11
  they'll produce more than they consume.
• 1:06:14
  They'll make everyone, everyone's lives better.
• 1:06:16
  And so we have this bizarre situation, which is like mind
• 1:06:21
  blowing that it is easier to get into this country as a murderer
• 1:06:27
  than as a Nobel laureate. Literally.
• 1:06:31
  That's not an exaggeration. Which is like what, you know,
• 1:06:36
  it's like, I mean, it's like if like if you have the opportunity
• 1:06:40
  to say have like, you know, LeBron James or Steph Curry on
• 1:06:45
  your team and you'd be like, yeah, that would make total
• 1:06:48
  sense. Our team's going to win.
• 1:06:50
  They'll make the whole team better.
• 1:06:51
  You know, So we, we, we, we want to actually, we need to have
• 1:06:57
  things be what they should, which is that that legal
• 1:07:01
  immigration of honest, hard working, talented people is
• 1:07:05
  quick and easy. And coming into the country
• 1:07:08
  illegally is hard. That's how it should be.
• 1:07:21
  Yeah. So honestly, like, OK, I'd like
• 1:07:25
  kind of a crazy idea. This one's going to hit the
• 1:07:27
  press, which is like, what if we gave legal immigration job to
• 1:07:32
  Chick-fil-A? They are so efficient.
• 1:07:38
  They make an amazing chicken sandwich.
• 1:07:40
  Their chicken sandwiches are epic and they make a zillion of
• 1:07:43
  them and they just get it done. I think we should give the
• 1:07:47
  immigration job to Chick-fil-A. They'll crush.
• 1:07:54
  That's going to be a headline Hello Mr. Musk.
• 1:07:59
  But honestly, it would be great. Hello Mr. Musk, it's an honor to
• 1:08:02
  meet you. So my question is this, and I
• 1:08:04
  ask for this as a first time voter, as we know, Trump did not
• 1:08:08
  and has not accepted the results of the 2020 election, one which
• 1:08:12
  has been called the most secure in the nation's history by the
• 1:08:14
  former president's own Department of Homeland Security.
• 1:08:19
  Similarly, similarly, I saw the violent disruption of the
• 1:08:24
  electoral vote count on the news during January 6th.
• 1:08:29
  So my and I asked this as a first time voter who wants to
• 1:08:32
  discern the truth. Sure.
• 1:08:34
  What would you say to comfort the concerns of young voters
• 1:08:37
  like me who are worried that voting for a second Trump
• 1:08:40
  presidency will lead to democratic backsliding?
• 1:08:46
  Well, I think that's a fair question, honestly, the I think
• 1:08:51
  it is, it is. It is a fair question.
• 1:08:53
  I mean, The thing is that, yeah, like I want to frame this
• 1:09:05
  correctly and obviously anything I say the the legacy media is
• 1:09:08
  going to take a sound bite out of what I say and, and, and, and
• 1:09:12
  misconstrue what I'm saying, which is something they've done
• 1:09:15
  with President Trump many times. It is very important.
• 1:09:18
  If you if you've heard something bad about President Trump,
• 1:09:21
  listen to his whole speech. That's actually very important.
• 1:09:26
  You know, and you know, on January 6th, I mean, his
• 1:09:33
  statements on that day, he told people to back down.
• 1:09:37
  I mean, he said, he said do not do violence.
• 1:09:39
  And then people were like saying, well, that's actually
• 1:09:41
  some sort of dog whistle about doing violence.
• 1:09:44
  I'm like, what are you supposed to say?
• 1:09:46
  You know, he he did actually tell people to, to not not be
• 1:09:50
  violent. He recommended that the National
• 1:09:53
  Guard be deployed. Nancy Pelosi said no, So he
• 1:09:58
  didn't call for any violence. He didn't call for any violence.
• 1:10:04
  Exactly. And if you look at like, while
• 1:10:07
  it obviously, you know, I think it was, you know, like the level
• 1:10:12
  of disruption was, was high. And I, I don't, I don't know,
• 1:10:16
  applaud any, any kind of damage to public property, of course,
• 1:10:21
  that you know, but it's, you know, the media tries to
• 1:10:26
  characterize January 6th as some, some, some sort of violent
• 1:10:29
  insurrection, which is simply not the case.
• 1:10:32
  I mean, that is false. So, you know, I, I, I would
• 1:10:43
  take, I think probably what I think is the reasonable middle
• 1:10:46
  ground, which is I, I disagree with the level of protest, but
• 1:10:49
  I, it is in was in no way of violent insurrection.
• 1:10:52
  You know, the the so that's there's got to be a lot of guns
• 1:10:57
  for the to be a violent insurrection.
• 1:11:00
  And, and, and they were there were a lot of strange things
• 1:11:06
  from in terms of voting irregularities that are hard to
• 1:11:10
  explain. So what what what it's Yeah.
• 1:11:17
  I mean, there were things that are statistically unlikely when
• 1:11:22
  you put it that way. And, and so it, it's not as
• 1:11:28
  though the January 6 protesters had that their protests had no
• 1:11:31
  merit. They had some merit.
• 1:11:33
  I disagree with the, the magnitude of what they did, but
• 1:11:36
  I, I, I, but it's, it's not as though there were no issues.
• 1:11:40
  There were actually, there were issues.
• 1:11:43
  And, and we have this weird situation in America where it is
• 1:11:47
  almost impossible to prove fraud and it because if you've got no
• 1:11:52
  voter ID and mail in ballots, how do you, how do you prove
• 1:11:57
  fraud? And you know, and, and it does
• 1:12:03
  seem more than a little odd that we don't have voter ID.
• 1:12:08
  And, and New York could say states like California, which is
• 1:12:11
  super majority Democrat, they passed a law banning voter ID in
• 1:12:15
  any election whatsoever. Now, how is that supporting
• 1:12:19
  democracy? That's not supporting democracy.
• 1:12:28
  I mean, that's insane. Almost every country on earth
• 1:12:31
  has voter ID requirements, but we don't Why?
• 1:12:34
  And why do the same people that demanded vaccine IDs for you to
• 1:12:38
  do anything, all the same ones who say no ID for voting.
• 1:12:44
  Someone doesn't add up. It doesn't it doesn't add up.
• 1:12:47
  You know, so I, I, I actually think I, I, I mean, my, my, my
• 1:12:55
  opinion is that those who, who say Trump is a threat to
• 1:12:58
  democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.
• 1:13:17
  I'll tell you what, that was awesome.
• 1:13:20
  Conspiracy was theory and now it's the truth.
• 1:13:23
  And that's something. Honestly, at this point, at this
• 1:13:25
  point, we're running out of conspiracy theories because
• 1:13:27
  there's so many of them have come true that, that, that we
• 1:13:31
  need, we, we actually need, can someone please come up with some
• 1:13:35
  new conspiracies because we're, we're not them.
• 1:13:38
  I mean, even the frogs might be real, you know, the frog
• 1:13:43
  situation might be real. I don't know.
• 1:13:44
  Right. You know, conspiracy.
• 1:13:48
  We're here to help. Yeah, probably heard that.
• 1:13:50
  Right, Right. Well, Elon, God bless you.
• 1:13:52
  It's very nice to meet you, God. Bless you too.
• 1:13:54
  My name's Andrew Morisky, Lancaster, PA native.
• 1:13:59
  Yeah, I'm a small business owner of a barbershop 10 minutes down
• 1:14:03
  the street, right, called Legacy Barbers.
• 1:14:05
  Love to cut your hair sometime? If you will thank you.
• 1:14:09
  So I wanted to ask you a question and also encourage you
• 1:14:14
  with these few words, Augustine, who was a theologian and a
• 1:14:20
  philosopher, said. You have made us for yourself, O
• 1:14:23
  Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
• 1:14:29
  And Second Chronicles 7 verse 14 says, If my people who are
• 1:14:34
  called by my name should humble themselves and pray and seek my
• 1:14:39
  face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
• 1:14:44
  heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
• 1:14:48
  So I want to encourage you with that brother.
• 1:14:50
  Yeah, those are great, great woods.
• 1:14:54
  Great woods. Amen.
• 1:14:55
  Amen. And Elon, I'll tell you what,
• 1:15:00
  been watching you now for a while, hearing the stuff you
• 1:15:03
  say. We need more men like you and
• 1:15:05
  this country that do that are not afraid to stand up to the
• 1:15:11
  media legacy. They're not afraid to stand up
• 1:15:15
  against people who think we're toxic masculinity.
• 1:15:21
  We need more men. Yeah, you know this.
• 1:15:24
  I've got a great counter argument for toxic masculinity,
• 1:15:27
  which is if if masculinity is so toxic, how come the kids that
• 1:15:31
  are messed up don't have dads? Riddle me that.
• 1:15:38
  Riddle me that. And some that you said earlier
• 1:15:42
  and, and Amen to that. Yeah.
• 1:15:44
  And I'm actually going to be a dad February.
• 1:15:46
  Congratulations. I'm having a.
• 1:15:47
  Baby, wow, thank you Lord, but the tweet that you had not too
• 1:15:54
  long ago, it said and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden
• 1:15:58
  or Kamala. Yeah, because it's pointless.
• 1:16:02
  So, you know, nobody, nobody bother assassinating a public
• 1:16:06
  right? Yeah.
• 1:16:07
  You know, when are people going to start seeing that our country
• 1:16:13
  is not when they keep saying democracy.
• 1:16:15
  It's a constitutional Republic. Would you please make sure, if,
• 1:16:21
  if you don't mind, to keep reminding people that we are a
• 1:16:25
  Republic. We're free.
• 1:16:26
  We're free because of Christ Jesus, and we're free because of
• 1:16:30
  the men and women who died and shed blood for this country.
• 1:16:34
  That's absolutely yes. Amen, brother.
• 1:16:42
  Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
• 1:16:48
  I mean, a lot of people died to make this country what it is
• 1:16:50
  today. A lot of people died.
• 1:16:53
  Absolutely. Amen.
• 1:16:54
  And man, people take it for granted, you know, So.
• 1:17:03
  Yeah, well, America PAC is kind of the anti Soros PAC.
• 1:17:06
  You know, something's got to be done about it.
• 1:17:09
  So it's like, you know, I, I, I don't know what's up with that
• 1:17:13
  guy. But honestly, like putting DAS
• 1:17:15
  in like, it's like, it's like the Jokers in charge, you know,
• 1:17:21
  it's like electing DAS that don't prosecute crime is insane.
• 1:17:24
  It's like literally like Batman, Dark Knight, I mean, like, you
• 1:17:27
  know, lock up, lock up the citizens and free the criminals.
• 1:17:32
  It's insane. It's happening.
• 1:17:36
  Yeah. I mean, like what?
• 1:17:37
  This is total madness. So we need to stop that.
• 1:17:43
  Yeah. So.
• 1:17:46
  Yeah. Well, I think America is great,
• 1:17:48
  but we want to be greater and we want to do awesome things.
• 1:17:53
  We we want to do. And.
• 1:17:54
  And you want to you want to look forward to the future and be
• 1:17:56
  inspired and excited about the future.
• 1:17:59
  You know, that's what makes life worth living.
• 1:18:02
  Yeah, so all right, into the score of arm wrestling.
• 1:18:10
  Oh yeah, arm wrestling. I I have looked, I not not in
• 1:18:13
  depth, but I have looked into it and for for a while there, I did
• 1:18:19
  like to actually read up on it and, and actually various
• 1:18:21
  techniques for how to win at arm wrestling, which is like a lot
• 1:18:23
  of it is, you know, get get your angles to yeah, get, yeah, get
• 1:18:28
  your whole body into it and, and get your ankles.
• 1:18:30
  So you can actually like if you if you know the techniques and
• 1:18:33
  arm wrestling and somebody doesn't, you can actually win
• 1:18:36
  against somebody much bigger. Yeah.
• 1:18:41
  Well, yeah, no, no, I mean, I, I would challenge Biden, but that
• 1:18:48
  would be ridiculous. You know, that would be so
• 1:18:50
  unfair. So he can use two.
• 1:18:54
  What if he can use his two hands?
• 1:18:56
  Yeah, that'd be fine. So thank you.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:19:03
  Make arm wrestling great again. Absolutely.
• 1:19:06
  God bless. All right.
• 1:19:10
  Hi, Elon, my name is Molly. I just want to thank you for
• 1:19:13
  spending so much time in Pennsylvania.
• 1:19:15
  I think what you're doing is amazing and it's making a real
• 1:19:17
  impact. So God bless you, and I think
• 1:19:20
  you're a natural treasure. Thank you.
• 1:19:26
  My main concern is with the national debt, and I know you
• 1:19:30
  talked a lot about reducing the spending side, but I was
• 1:19:34
  wondering what kind of Trump policies and industries you
• 1:19:37
  think will help grow the revenue side?
• 1:19:39
  And along those lines, do you have any plans to bring more
• 1:19:41
  Tesla manufacturing back to the US?
• 1:19:45
  Well, Tesla actually is a massive manufacturer in the US.
• 1:19:48
  In fact, the the biggest factory that's been built in recent
• 1:19:52
  years is the Tesla factory in Texas.
• 1:19:56
  So that's yeah. And and then there's another big
• 1:20:02
  factory in Nevada, so there's Giga Nevada and Giga Texas and
• 1:20:07
  maybe someday Giga Pennsylvania, so.
• 1:20:13
  And that, that, that would be, that would be super cool.
• 1:20:15
  I'm, I'm, I'm a huge believer in manufacturing.
• 1:20:17
  I love manufacturing. I like making things.
• 1:20:19
  I've spent a lot of time in the factory walking the floor.
• 1:20:24
  I lived in the factory for a while, literally lived in the
• 1:20:27
  factory. It was kind of like just kind of
• 1:20:31
  like Vegas actually, because I didn't even see the outside, but
• 1:20:34
  the lights were always on. But we had some tough times at
• 1:20:39
  Tesla. It's really difficult to make
• 1:20:41
  any kind of manufacturing company work.
• 1:20:45
  And you know, yeah, Tesla's actually also the biggest
• 1:20:50
  manufacturing employer in California still, but the state
• 1:20:54
  is not super grateful. So, but, but yeah, I'm a big.
• 1:20:59
  So, so we, we do a ton of manufacturing in the US and we,
• 1:21:03
  we, we, we keep investing and increasing our manufacturing
• 1:21:07
  activity in the US and, and SpaceX also is a massive
• 1:21:10
  manufacturer. You know, SpaceX is the biggest
• 1:21:13
  manufacturer of rockets and satellites in the world.
• 1:21:16
  And yeah, so and and that's, that's, that's all in the US.
• 1:21:21
  So SpaceX manufacturing is all in the US And and Tesla has
• 1:21:27
  massive amounts of manufacturing in the US, like giant factories.
• 1:21:31
  So I'm a big believer in manufacturing.
• 1:21:34
  So it's from, I mean, I do think reform of the tax code, it makes
• 1:21:41
  sense because it's extremely complicated and there are too
• 1:21:44
  many loopholes. You know, I'm often pitched on
• 1:21:48
  these loopholes. That's how I know they exist.
• 1:21:51
  And I'm like, that sounds pretty shady.
• 1:21:54
  I don't think we should do that. But like, well, lots of other
• 1:21:56
  people are getting away with it. And we're like, yeah, but I
• 1:21:58
  still don't think we should do it.
• 1:22:01
  Yeah, for us with I'm the largest individual taxpayer in
• 1:22:05
  history. So I, I paid $10 billion in tax,
• 1:22:09
  over $10 billion in tax. You're welcome.
• 1:22:13
  Like I, I sort of thought maybe the IRS would like, you know,
• 1:22:17
  send me like a little trophy or something, you know?
• 1:22:20
  Yeah. And like one of those like,
• 1:22:21
  doesn't have to be expensive. It could be like, you know, one
• 1:22:23
  of those like, like things you get for when kids win a karate
• 1:22:25
  competition, like little plastic gold trophy or something like
• 1:22:29
  that or a cookie or something. But I don't get anything.
• 1:22:32
  I was like, you know, and but I I was happy to pay the taxes.
• 1:22:37
  I don't mind. You know, it has a good week
• 1:22:41
  this week. Yeah.
• 1:22:42
  Stock market's wild, wild sort of roller coaster.
• 1:22:48
  You know, I think Warren Buffett's got a good, good, a
• 1:22:51
  lot of good sayings, actually. But one of his sayings, I
• 1:22:53
  believe, is like, you know, having a publicly traded company
• 1:22:56
  is like having someone stand outside your house and yell
• 1:22:59
  house prices all day. And it's still the same house.
• 1:23:03
  And you're like, why is this person yelling house prices at
• 1:23:05
  me all day long? And that's what it's like being
• 1:23:09
  in a publicly traded company. It's just, they just yell stock
• 1:23:13
  prices at you all day long. And it's like, well, it's
• 1:23:15
  actually still pretty much the same company as yesterday.
• 1:23:19
  So it's it's it's, it's kind of weird being in a publicly traded
• 1:23:24
  situation. But anyway, I think we should we
• 1:23:27
  should to simplify the tax code, get rid of a lot of exceptions
• 1:23:32
  and loopholes and make it easy to fill out taxes.
• 1:23:35
  It shouldn't be this like extremely complicated thing.
• 1:23:39
  Yeah. But, but overall I think that
• 1:23:45
  like if we if we have less federal spending, then there is
• 1:23:48
  less taxation. And so that's, and we, we, we
• 1:23:52
  have to reduce federal spending. There's no way to make up for it
• 1:23:56
  other than than reducing the federal spending.
• 1:23:59
  And as I mentioned earlier, like a very important point that I
• 1:24:02
  think is important for people to understand is that all federal
• 1:24:05
  spending is taxation because what is not what they don't
• 1:24:10
  receive, what federal company doesn't receive in direct
• 1:24:12
  revenue, they make up for in inflation.
• 1:24:15
  They just print money. So all federal spending is
• 1:24:18
  taxation. Very important principle.
• 1:24:20
  Almost nobody, very few people seem to even like, you know,
• 1:24:24
  some of these like spend their life in economics.
• 1:24:26
  I'll mention to them, hey, all spending, all federal spending
• 1:24:29
  is taxation. They're like, first they'll
• 1:24:31
  argue with me and they're like, then they'll agree it is because
• 1:24:35
  it is either direct tax revenue or it is inflation.
• 1:24:38
  All federal spending is taxation.
• 1:24:41
  So we must reduce federal spending or we will go bankrupt
• 1:24:44
  as a country, all right. Hey, Yvonne.
• 1:24:53
  I'm Chadwick from Westchester, Pennsylvania.
• 1:24:55
  I met you last week at. I met you last week at
• 1:24:59
  Harrisburg. And since then, I've been
• 1:25:01
  prouder than ever to wear my MAGA hat around.
• 1:25:03
  You've really inspired me to wear it more and more.
• 1:25:06
  And since then, I've had my car slashed with a key, which is
• 1:25:09
  fine. Yeah, it's fine.
• 1:25:10
  Trump got hit with a bullet in the air, and look at him.
• 1:25:13
  He's doing good. So yeah, somebody chased me
• 1:25:17
  around with a shopping cart. What's that?
• 1:25:19
  Well, but yeah, that happens. That's just, that's a part of
• 1:25:21
  Westchester, PA. It's actually.
• 1:25:22
  I mean, I mean, at this point, it's like flying the rebel flag,
• 1:25:27
  man. Yeah, you know.
• 1:25:29
  Yeah, for real. It's an adventure.
• 1:25:34
  Yeah. I've had some people be get mad
• 1:25:37
  at me. Yeah, like big time.
• 1:25:41
  I do have, I do have a question this time though.
• 1:25:43
  I actually, I met somebody on XI do podcasting and I met somebody
• 1:25:47
  on X directly through the platform.
• 1:25:49
  I would call him a friend. His name is Derek and he has
• 1:25:52
  something called spina bifida. It is spina bifida month right
• 1:25:56
  now. So spina bifida awareness month.
• 1:25:58
  I wanted to put the awareness out there is that it's a, a
• 1:26:01
  spinal, his form was spinal kind of like issues.
• 1:26:05
  And he has never been able to walk really never.
• 1:26:08
  Wow. I guess not according from what
• 1:26:11
  I learned, he's never he hasn't been able to walk like his whole
• 1:26:14
  his whole life. So my question is, like for the
• 1:26:17
  disabled community and for people like him, will things
• 1:26:22
  like will things like Neuralink help?
• 1:26:24
  And also, what will the Trump administration be doing for
• 1:26:28
  people who are disabled to help them anything?
• 1:26:32
  Well, yeah, so I, I think, I think there actually are a lot
• 1:26:36
  of things that like medical devices and drugs that could be
• 1:26:41
  approved that are sort of stuck in regulatory molasses.
• 1:26:45
  Like they're just, you know, it's like trying to get anything
• 1:26:48
  new approved is like running in molasses with lead shoes.
• 1:26:53
  It's really slow. So, you know, a good friend of
• 1:26:57
  mine was, was telling me how his mom was diagnosed with, with
• 1:27:01
  brain cancer. And the doctor said like, well,
• 1:27:04
  that's, that's pretty much game over, you know, and then he
• 1:27:08
  talked to, but he's very enterprising guy, so he's going
• 1:27:12
  to take that for an answer. And he asked every smart person
• 1:27:16
  he knew, is there anything that that could help cure brain
• 1:27:19
  cancer? Turns out there, there's this
• 1:27:21
  drug called Welly Rake that was in trials at, at Harvard, I
• 1:27:24
  believe. And it, it cured his mom's brain
• 1:27:28
  cancer. So, you know, I'm like, well,
• 1:27:33
  like how many welly rigs are there out there?
• 1:27:36
  Maybe there's a whole bunch of them and, and devices and
• 1:27:39
  everything. And we should, you know, like I
• 1:27:41
  said earlier, it's like we need to expedite approval of drugs,
• 1:27:44
  Make sure people, you know, if the people are properly informed
• 1:27:47
  of the pros and the cons. And then there also needs to be
• 1:27:50
  some after approval follow up to say like was something approved
• 1:27:54
  that shouldn't have been approved?
• 1:27:56
  And, and, or whether it needs to be additional warnings.
• 1:28:01
  It's pretty common. It's common sense.
• 1:28:03
  I think, you know, just but like when you're dealing with the
• 1:28:06
  government, like common sense is doesn't make sense.
• 1:28:09
  Like, you know, common sense just bounces off the government
• 1:28:13
  like water off ducks back, you know, I mean, it's like arguing
• 1:28:16
  with the DMV. It's impossible.
• 1:28:23
  They did put the COVID vaccine quick.
• 1:28:25
  Yeah, that was weird. And they made everyone take it,
• 1:28:30
  which is messed up. So I don't think people should
• 1:28:32
  be forced to take vaccine unless that that against their will.
• 1:28:37
  Both. Hi, Elon.
• 1:28:44
  My name is Alex Gamble from Lebanon County.
• 1:28:48
  I first want to thank you sincerely for what you're doing.
• 1:28:52
  I I think you're an American patriot.
• 1:28:55
  Thank you. I really do.
• 1:28:57
  I love America. I really do.
• 1:28:58
  I mean, I, I listen, I, I love America and, and like, sometimes
• 1:29:04
  people say like, that's just jingoistic propaganda.
• 1:29:06
  I'm like, I don't care. I love the jingoistic
• 1:29:09
  propaganda. It's awesome.
• 1:29:11
  You know, it's like, God Bless America.
• 1:29:15
  I friggin it's, it's it's amazing.
• 1:29:18
  I agree. Yeah, with with the recent news
• 1:29:21
  from Lancaster County discovering 2500 potentially
• 1:29:26
  fraudulent voter registration forms, what's your opinion on
• 1:29:31
  mail in ballots and if we should get rid of them in the future?
• 1:29:36
  I also, I also want to get rid of them in the future.
• 1:29:39
  I mean, like mail in ballots are a strange anomaly that got
• 1:29:43
  popularized during COVID. But, but really, but like you,
• 1:29:47
  you have an obvious recipe for fraud and, and an inability to
• 1:29:53
  prove fraud. If you've got no ID, no voter ID
• 1:29:56
  and you've got mail in ballots, right?
• 1:29:58
  Like you can't even put a, you can't even like, like, like like
• 1:30:02
  many years ago, a friend of mine was telling me how his, his dad
• 1:30:05
  actually helped improve democracy in Mexico.
• 1:30:09
  And, and it was by organizing a whole bunch of citizens to just
• 1:30:12
  stand outside the the the polling stations or the voting
• 1:30:16
  stations with a counter just to count the number of people that
• 1:30:19
  went in because obviously if you have more votes than people,
• 1:30:23
  something's wrong. Yeah.
• 1:30:24
  And and it turned out they had a lot more votes than people.
• 1:30:27
  They're like, this is a little strange.
• 1:30:30
  So anyway, that that but that that actually helped fix the
• 1:30:32
  situation in Mexico big time. Yeah, but, but, but if you
• 1:30:36
  don't, if you've got mail in ballots, you can't count this.
• 1:30:40
  Like you don't even know what's going on.
• 1:30:42
  I also wanted to ask you a favor.
• 1:30:47
  My my son is named Elon. Really.
• 1:30:51
  He named him after you. Wow, thanks.
• 1:30:53
  He's three. You're an inspiration.
• 1:30:56
  And I was hoping to get an autograph from you to give to
• 1:31:00
  him when he's older. Well, it's the further.
• 1:31:02
  I can't say no to that. I mean, from one Elon to
• 1:31:08
  another, you know, actually, you know, I was actually, I was
• 1:31:13
  named after my American great grandfather.
• 1:31:16
  I guess it's so I'm like kind of the opposite of Obama.
• 1:31:20
  I'm from Africa, named after, named after an American.
• 1:31:26
  So, but yeah, it's Johnny. Alan Haldeman was my my great
• 1:31:30
  grandfather and that's I was named after his middle name.
• 1:31:32
  So I think it was like from Minnesota.
• 1:31:35
  I believe so, yeah. Hey, Elon, my name is Jennifer
• 1:31:43
  Lucas. As you can tell, I do not have a
• 1:31:46
  Pennsylvania accent, but I do live here.
• 1:31:48
  I'm voting legally, I promise. Sure, I believe you.
• 1:31:52
  I'm from southern West Virginia. OK.
• 1:31:55
  And honestly, I've had a lot of questions on my mind, from
• 1:32:00
  education to drug epidemic. It's hit really hard, but one
• 1:32:08
  thing that I would really like to ask you about right now is
• 1:32:11
  lobbyists. If I buy vote, I go to jail.
• 1:32:15
  They buy votes on the floor, on the voting floor in DC, and
• 1:32:19
  that's OK. That is affecting our voice as
• 1:32:24
  American citizens. So what can we do to ban
• 1:32:29
  lobbyists in DC so we can take our power back?
• 1:32:40
  AIPAC OH America Pack. Yeah.
• 1:32:46
  I mean, you know, so I was actually part of making a movie
• 1:32:49
  called Thank You for smoking. I don't know if anyone's seen
• 1:32:52
  that movie, but it's, it's a movie about political corruption
• 1:32:59
  and and lot about lobbyists and political corruption.
• 1:33:03
  I, you know, it's worth watching.
• 1:33:06
  Thank you for smoking. And you know, that was I'm
• 1:33:14
  actually the pilot in the movie in that plane.
• 1:33:18
  So it's a very small role, but that movie explores the there's
• 1:33:27
  the corruption that exists in DC due to all the lobbying that
• 1:33:30
  takes place. And the legislation is primarily
• 1:33:33
  written by lobbyists, in fact. And then, you know, Congress
• 1:33:36
  basically rubber stamps the what what lobbyists, right?
• 1:33:43
  I think, I think we're probably do need to take a look at what
• 1:33:46
  rules make sense because obviously the, the point of the
• 1:33:52
  elected, the legislators is to legislate in the interest of the
• 1:33:56
  people. And so if there's legislation
• 1:33:59
  happening, which is often the case, that is not in the
• 1:34:03
  interest of the people, something's wrong.
• 1:34:06
  So, and you do get these like regulatory capture situations
• 1:34:10
  where the right, you know, the companies in an industry end up
• 1:34:15
  controlling the regulators and preventing new entrants from
• 1:34:21
  coming into a market, making it difficult, you know, for new
• 1:34:24
  companies to come in anyway. You know, I wanted to make that
• 1:34:29
  movie for a reason, which is to highlight that there is a lot of
• 1:34:34
  corruption in DC and like to have less of it.
• 1:34:39
  At least it's tough. And, you know, this is also why
• 1:34:47
  I think the the big government machine is so against Trump
• 1:34:52
  because he, he doesn't, he's not beholden to all of these
• 1:34:55
  interests, you know, So he's, he's not, he's not captured
• 1:34:59
  essentially, he's not a puppet. So the sort of the big
• 1:35:05
  government machine is very worried about electing someone
• 1:35:09
  who's he's not a puppet. So, yeah, I mean, I, I certainly
• 1:35:17
  advocate for, you know, better rules that limit the, the power
• 1:35:21
  of companies to lobby in, in DC or at the state level for that
• 1:35:26
  matter. Yeah, I, I mean, like I for, for
• 1:35:36
  Mars, like people sometimes ask me like, well, what if, what
• 1:35:38
  kind of system of governments do I think makes sense for Mars?
• 1:35:42
  Like I said, well, that's going to be up to the Martians, you
• 1:35:43
  know, But, but, but I would recommend direct democracy, not
• 1:35:51
  representative democracy where the people vote directly.
• 1:35:56
  And you know, in the past, before there was before you had
• 1:36:00
  like the Internet and electronics, you had to have
• 1:36:02
  representative democracy because you couldn't, you couldn't, you
• 1:36:05
  had to, just like with the legacy media, you had to collect
• 1:36:08
  people's opinion by mail or literally by voice or by letters
• 1:36:14
  written with a quill on, you know, and a scroll type of
• 1:36:19
  thing, you know, like slow. So you had to have
• 1:36:22
  representative democracy. You couldn't have direct
• 1:36:24
  democracy. But my recommendation for Mars
• 1:36:27
  would be that the people vote directly for anything and that
• 1:36:30
  any given piece of legislation must be short enough to
• 1:36:32
  understand. So like, if, if it's, you know,
• 1:36:36
  not, not more than 1000 words, maybe 300, the, the longer the
• 1:36:40
  legislation is, the worse it gets.
• 1:36:42
  And, and we've got legislation that's longer than Lord of the
• 1:36:44
  Rings, and they're like, nobody's read it, you know?
• 1:36:50
  Thank you for everything that you're doing.
• 1:36:52
  I see you and I see your heart, and I know that you love
• 1:36:56
  humanity, not just America. I do everything that you do.
• 1:36:59
  It shows you care for everyone deeply.
• 1:37:02
  Thank you for that. Thank you.
• 1:37:05
  I have a lot of ideas and if you want to hear them sometime we
• 1:37:11
  can sit down for dinner. Thank you.
• 1:37:15
  All right, Yeah. Hello, Elon.
• 1:37:19
  My name is Steven Marshall, so I live in Lancaster County.
• 1:37:21
  It's nice to meet you. You once said in a job interview
• 1:37:24
  that when asked what is your biggest weakness, you said
• 1:37:28
  honesty, which I find really interesting.
• 1:37:31
  And the guy said, well, that's not a weakness.
• 1:37:33
  And what I find fascinating is the way you stand up to anybody
• 1:37:38
  and speak your mind. And my question is, there's a
• 1:37:41
  cost of telling the truth. There's a cost of being honest,
• 1:37:44
  yes. And you're not afraid to pay
• 1:37:45
  that? Well, hopefully it's not like,
• 1:37:47
  fatal, you know? Yeah.
• 1:37:50
  And I think that I'm. Wondering like where that came
• 1:37:54
  from in your life because you know, you're an amazing
• 1:37:56
  inspiration with everything. Yeah, I can.
• 1:37:57
  I can totally tell you. So like what it's, I mean, first
• 1:38:02
  of all, you know, like I think I, I,
• 1:38:22
  the reason I believe in sort of truth and honesty is because I'm
• 1:38:25
  like, I'm trying to understand the universe.
• 1:38:28
  I'm trying to understand reality.
• 1:38:30
  You know, we're trying to understand like, what's the
• 1:38:33
  meaning of life? Like, what are we here for?
• 1:38:35
  Like what's, what's going on? And if you don't aspire to to
• 1:38:42
  truth, if you're not like rigorous about truth and
• 1:38:44
  honesty, then you're obviously going to live in a diluted
• 1:38:46
  world. You won't understand, you won't
• 1:38:49
  understand the nature of reality, you won't understand.
• 1:38:52
  So I just, I'm just curious and I want to understand the nature
• 1:38:56
  of reality. So, and that's requires rigorous
• 1:39:01
  adherence to the truth. Also, Ed, thank you.
• 1:39:07
  What I find fascinating, too, is like, you know, for you to stand
• 1:39:12
  up and speak the truth about what you feel about Trump,
• 1:39:14
  There's so many celebrities that the other side has.
• 1:39:17
  And yeah. It's weird that there's so many
• 1:39:19
  celebrities, you know, I'm like, like, what are they?
• 1:39:23
  What's up with that? Yeah, exactly.
• 1:39:25
  You're the you're the only guy with a serious amount of
• 1:39:28
  influence that's able to really stand up for Trump.
• 1:39:29
  And I really think that I know people that are like on the
• 1:39:33
  fence that are going to Trump because of you.
• 1:39:35
  So I think. Right, you are making a massive.
• 1:39:39
  Difference in this election like you single handedly and that's
• 1:39:41
  an amazing legacy amongst all the other things that you do.
• 1:39:44
  So thank you. Well, I, I, I'm trying, I'm
• 1:39:47
  trying my best to, to, you know, I want to, I'm trying to make as
• 1:39:51
  big a difference as possible. And yeah, I mean, I, I do think
• 1:39:57
  like we, we, we're at a, like I said, a fork in the road of
• 1:40:00
  destiny where, you know, like it's.
• 1:40:07
  Yeah, it's not clear to me that that there will be elections
• 1:40:11
  after this if Trump is not elected.
• 1:40:14
  You know, So the, I mean, there's basically, in my
• 1:40:18
  opinion, there's massive voter importation to swing states that
• 1:40:24
  is happening right now. If you look at the actual
• 1:40:26
  numbers as reported by the Democrat administration, there
• 1:40:30
  are triple digit increases in the number of illegals in each
• 1:40:33
  swing state. It's 240% was the number I saw
• 1:40:37
  in Pennsylvania in three years. And like that's, you know, if
• 1:40:42
  the margin of victory is like was 80,000 votes last time,
• 1:40:45
  well, what happens if you bring in like 300,000 illegals who are
• 1:40:49
  beholden to the Democrat machine and to get a whole bunch of
• 1:40:52
  handouts? And that even though they may
• 1:40:55
  socially not be in agreement with the Democrats, their first
• 1:40:59
  order priority is bringing friends and family into the
• 1:41:01
  country, which will be supported by the Democrats but not by the
• 1:41:04
  Republicans. So it's voter importation is
• 1:41:07
  what's going on. And it doesn't take much to have
• 1:41:12
  the swing states be a permanent deep blue.
• 1:41:14
  That's what happened in California.
• 1:41:17
  So like, like I love Reagan, but he did sign in 1986 an amnesty
• 1:41:23
  that, you know, sort of illegal alien amnesty that thereafter
• 1:41:27
  California, which had been red or a swing state, but primarily
• 1:41:31
  red was went blue and then deep blue.
• 1:41:35
  And now California passed a law banning voter ID in any election
• 1:41:40
  whatsoever, even in a town council.
• 1:41:44
  That's what they will do to the whole country.
• 1:41:48
  They the playbook is obvious because we can just look at what
• 1:41:53
  they did in California. They're going to do the same
• 1:41:55
  thing in Pennsylvania, same thing the whole rest of the
• 1:41:58
  country if they can. And Trump is the only chance to
• 1:42:03
  have that not be the case. So, and I'll tell you it's I'll
• 1:42:14
  tell you it's even, it's because people like, I think it's going
• 1:42:18
  to be worse than California. Because the one thing that keeps
• 1:42:21
  California from being even more crazy than it currently is is
• 1:42:24
  that people can move to other States and still be in America.
• 1:42:28
  But what if you can't move to any other states?
• 1:42:31
  It's going to be way worse than California.
• 1:42:33
  So it's profound. Yankees.
• 1:42:43
  Well, sorry. OK, listen, I like the name, OK?
• 1:42:47
  It's a great name. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
• 1:42:56
  What have I done? Hi Elon, my name is David and I
• 1:43:02
  am an founder of an e-commerce company here in Lancaster, PA.
• 1:43:07
  And I appreciate the one thing that you saying about the IRS
• 1:43:13
  being bullying on the American citizens instead of enforcing
• 1:43:19
  our border, we're doing that. And I found one problem being a
• 1:43:25
  business owner is I have been the subject of recent harassment
• 1:43:31
  by the IRS. And I find that being a huge
• 1:43:36
  discouragement to entrepreneurship, which is the
• 1:43:40
  American backbone. Sure.
• 1:43:42
  And I wanted to know what you what would be one of the number
• 1:43:47
  one things you would recommend to the Trump administration
• 1:43:50
  about encouraging entrepreneurship and getting
• 1:43:54
  young people especially encouraged into starting small
• 1:43:58
  businesses to keep our economy, economy flourishing and to keep
• 1:44:03
  creating wonderful things like you have done?
• 1:44:07
  Yeah, Well, I mean, it's really, I think, you know, if we can
• 1:44:13
  just get the government off people's backs, then you can you
• 1:44:18
  can get a tremendous amount done.
• 1:44:20
  And you know, it's like just we're over regulating six ways
• 1:44:25
  to Sunday as you've experienced yourself.
• 1:44:27
  And then even when there's like a little bit of success, then
• 1:44:29
  the government comes along and takes the money.
• 1:44:31
  So it's crazy, you know. So just when, when if the
• 1:44:36
  founders of the country could see like where we are now,
• 1:44:39
  they'd blow their mind, you know, like there was a revolt
• 1:44:43
  against the British. I think it was like a 2% tax on
• 1:44:45
  tea, like say a 3% tax on tea. And like, they were like, no
• 1:44:49
  way. And now it's like, you know,
• 1:44:52
  40%. I mean, it's just like there's
• 1:44:54
  new taxes every day. And there's a lot of hidden
• 1:44:57
  taxes that you experience as a as a small business owner that
• 1:45:00
  people don't even realize exist. You know, you just sort of come
• 1:45:02
  to realize that because the IRS comes after you.
• 1:45:04
  But there's there's a ton of taxes that try to sort of mask
• 1:45:07
  from the consumers. So we just need smaller
• 1:45:10
  government and allow people to produce useful goods and
• 1:45:14
  services for their fellow human beings.
• 1:45:17
  Yeah, it's straightforward. Hi, Elon, My name is Will King.
• 1:45:25
  It's nice to meet you. Welcome to Lancaster.
• 1:45:27
  Thank you. I'm a young mechanical engineer.
• 1:45:29
  I'm excited to work on new problems.
• 1:45:31
  One of my dreams would be a work for one of your companies.
• 1:45:33
  So we'll see where that goes. But question I have is what are
• 1:45:36
  your thoughts on tariffs and how do you see tariffs impacting
• 1:45:40
  consumer spending and or increasing inflation?
• 1:45:42
  And what problems need to be solved for US production to
• 1:45:45
  reach a scale and efficiency that would match current
• 1:45:48
  outsource production? Like obviously it's, it's no
• 1:45:50
  first principle. It's not a first principle
• 1:45:52
  principles problem. We can do it, but what needs to
• 1:45:55
  happen to in order for that to? Well, what are your thoughts on
• 1:46:00
  the subject? So I think what you were, what
• 1:46:05
  you were touching on before a lot of government regulation and
• 1:46:10
  taxes, Well, taxes, you know, I don't know where we need to go
• 1:46:14
  with that, but I think I love your philosophy of surges in
• 1:46:20
  employment and going hardcore. You know, I was reading your
• 1:46:25
  autobiography, the other biography, the.
• 1:46:27
  Other biography, Yeah, Yeah. To be clear, this it's a pretty
• 1:46:30
  good biography, but it's not, it's not actually what I would
• 1:46:32
  have written, right? But what really stood out to me,
• 1:46:34
  I was reading about how you wanted to move the servers from
• 1:46:39
  Twitter up to Is it in Oregon? And well, yeah, actually there
• 1:46:43
  was. Yeah, there were three data
• 1:46:45
  centers, but yeah, only two were needed, right?
• 1:46:48
  And I was being told it would take like nine months to.
• 1:46:51
  Right. And you showed up with your guys
• 1:46:53
  and you're like, hey, let's just do this overnight like
• 1:46:55
  Christmas, so. Yeah, just receive, yeah.
• 1:46:57
  Cutting down some of those regulations and all this crazy
• 1:47:01
  stuff that goes that extends the timeline for a bunch of stuff
• 1:47:06
  would really would really help. And that that work ethic.
• 1:47:10
  I agree with your 80 hour work principle, work week principle
• 1:47:13
  and the hardcore. It's not for everyone.
• 1:47:15
  It's not for everyone, but I think that the principle is
• 1:47:17
  really cool and I think we should bring that culture and
• 1:47:21
  that mindset down to the 40 hour work week or the 50.
• 1:47:24
  I do 50, but you know, work life balance potentially.
• 1:47:26
  But I love where you're taking your companies and it's really
• 1:47:30
  cool to see. Well, thanks.
• 1:47:32
  Thank you. Yeah, go ahead.
• 1:47:38
  Hello Elon. Nice to see you here tonight.
• 1:47:40
  So recently I was reading an article on Medium where a
• 1:47:44
  Italian researcher named Andrea Rossi was able to demonstrate a
• 1:47:49
  new technology that he invented that was able to extend the
• 1:47:53
  range of an electric vehicle. It was a technically like a
• 1:47:56
  quadricycle, so very low power electric vehicle by 4 times.
• 1:48:00
  And after the the full test that it actually increased the
• 1:48:04
  battery life of the electric vehicle.
• 1:48:06
  And obviously, you know, we don't it's only been
• 1:48:09
  demonstrated once. We don't know if this technology
• 1:48:11
  could be replicated, but if it was able to be replicated, would
• 1:48:14
  you be interested in implementing this kind of
• 1:48:16
  technology into your Tesla vehicles and even possibly the
• 1:48:18
  Starship? Well, I, I wish such a thing
• 1:48:22
  were, were, were real, but I do not think that such a thing as
• 1:48:26
  real that there is, you know, every industry has a certain
• 1:48:31
  amount of, of BS, but the, the battery industry, I think might
• 1:48:37
  is a candidate for industry with the most amount of BS.
• 1:48:42
  So it's, it's just, there's like electrochemistry is very
• 1:48:45
  difficult. In fact, one of the ways that I
• 1:48:48
  will test like the intelligence of an AI system is ask it
• 1:48:51
  battery electrochemistry questions and rocket questions
• 1:48:54
  and usually comes back with terrible answers.
• 1:48:58
  So it's, it's, it's extremely difficult to increase the range,
• 1:49:03
  but but the range is already sufficient to fully electrify
• 1:49:06
  everything on Earth. So, you know, Teslas have over
• 1:49:10
  300 miles of range and some of them have like 400 miles of
• 1:49:13
  range. We can actually make it go
• 1:49:14
  further. It's just that that's like an
• 1:49:17
  unnecessary amount of battery for most people because the
• 1:49:21
  amount, the amount of range that you need in a battery is about
• 1:49:24
  the same amount of range that your bladder has essentially.
• 1:49:28
  So if you know, if you start a trip at say 9:00 AM, around
• 1:49:32
  noon, you want to probably hit the restroom, take a break, you
• 1:49:37
  know, have a bite to eat and you know, so you drive for three
• 1:49:42
  hours, maybe 4 hours and then charge the car.
• 1:49:44
  As long as the car is charged by the time you come back from the
• 1:49:47
  bathroom and you know, had lunch or whatever, then it long
• 1:49:51
  distance trips are no problem. So we're already we're already
• 1:49:53
  there at this point. So, yeah, but but there there is
• 1:50:00
  no magical breakthrough the the if other technologies are
• 1:50:06
  discovered over the next few years into the near future,
• 1:50:09
  would you also be willing to step theoretically could
• 1:50:11
  revolutionize electrical vehicles, space travel, you
• 1:50:15
  know, exotic propulsion, exotic energy generation techniques.
• 1:50:18
  Are you interested in researching those and
• 1:50:21
  potentially funding them and contributing to this kind of
• 1:50:23
  research? I do think there is a lot of
• 1:50:25
  technology out there that is not really mainstream that it has
• 1:50:29
  potential, although it's in a very infantile stage.
• 1:50:31
  I think there is potential. I mean, not only, I mean, I'm
• 1:50:37
  both Tesla and SpaceX are desperately interested in
• 1:50:40
  anything that works. We're not like barring the door,
• 1:50:45
  we're like, please, if you've got something that works, tell
• 1:50:49
  us about it. Unfortunately, it's rarely the
• 1:50:53
  case that it actually works is the issue.
• 1:50:56
  So, you know, for a while there, Tesla, I guess we maybe still do
• 1:51:01
  like we're just we'd rate any given, you know, proposed new
• 1:51:04
  technology out of 10 where 10 is is incredible.
• 1:51:09
  And, you know, one is total, total nonsense.
• 1:51:13
  And really nothing got above before.
• 1:51:16
  So it's it's just very difficult to do.
• 1:51:19
  But if if, and I would encourage anyone to say prove me wrong,
• 1:51:24
  please do that. I would like to be proven wrong.
• 1:51:27
  That would be awesome. Yeah.
• 1:51:31
  But just just compete with Tesla.
• 1:51:34
  That sounds like you're if you know, if, if there's a some
• 1:51:38
  technology that has much greater range, I would strongly
• 1:51:40
  recommend. They just kick our ass, you
• 1:51:42
  know? Yeah.
• 1:51:47
  Elon, do you believe that Jesus the Christ is a real person who
• 1:51:52
  was crucified and died and is risen, and that God is Jesus?
• 1:52:05
  What do you mean by a real person?
• 1:52:07
  That he was alive back 2000 years ago.
• 1:52:10
  He was the guy who was crucified.
• 1:52:11
  OK, cool. Yeah, no, I think there's yeah,
• 1:52:13
  I do think that's that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:52:22
  I mean, you get into like these, you know, theocratical debates
• 1:52:28
  of the Trinity and but I thought, you know, but yeah,
• 1:52:31
  yeah, I think it's real. So.
• 1:52:34
  Hi, Elon. That feels very weird to say,
• 1:52:37
  but hi, my name is Chris Michaelson.
• 1:52:39
  I'm a Lancaster County resident. We're really happy to have you
• 1:52:43
  here. Thank you, everybody.
• 1:52:46
  Look, I, like many of us here, feel that the very construct,
• 1:52:51
  the constitution of our country is at stake during this
• 1:52:54
  election. I agree.
• 1:52:56
  I'm a firm believer that those who can should.
• 1:52:59
  And I just want to say thank you for being one of the very few
• 1:53:02
  powerful members outside of the construct who have the balls to
• 1:53:06
  stand up here every day and do what you're doing.
• 1:53:08
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:53:15
  Thanks. All right, There's a macho man's
• 1:53:21
  here. Look, President Trump has
• 1:53:23
  announced you or has announced that he will appoint you as the
• 1:53:27
  head of the efficiency Commission, right?
• 1:53:29
  Right. That's obviously a perfect spot
• 1:53:30
  for you, given your historical success running lean and
• 1:53:33
  exceptionally profitable businesses.
• 1:53:35
  One of my big concerns that extends beyond the disarray of
• 1:53:39
  our financial constitution here is the technology attacks that
• 1:53:44
  have happened in our country. 2021, the Colonial Pipeline
• 1:53:47
  ransomware attack. Yeah. 2021, Robin Hood, 7
• 1:53:50
  million users, data stolen, their money held for ransom.
• 1:53:53
  2023, T-Mobile goes down overnight, airport attacks,
• 1:53:58
  airline attacks. Have you spoken to Trump at all
• 1:54:01
  regarding your expertise around cybersecurity?
• 1:54:04
  Are you going to have any involvement there?
• 1:54:05
  If not, do you know who is and do you trust them?
• 1:54:08
  And I have one more question. Well, I definitely I certainly
• 1:54:12
  don't have all the answers here and and I don't I don't want to
• 1:54:15
  tempt fate, but like nobody has successfully hacked SpaceX or
• 1:54:20
  Starlink. They've been every day there are
• 1:54:23
  thousands of attempts to hack Starlink and no one has
• 1:54:26
  succeeded. Again, I don't want to attempt
• 1:54:29
  fate here. So this is not a temp.
• 1:54:31
  I'm not saying to hacker groups out there, please hack Starlink
• 1:54:34
  like please don't hack Starlink, but but thus far there have been
• 1:54:39
  many attempts by individuals and state actors to hack into
• 1:54:44
  Starlink and none of them have been successful.
• 1:54:46
  So track record thus far is pretty good.
• 1:54:50
  No one has successfully hacked into yeah so far so good.
• 1:54:54
  You know, don't want to be complacent or anything.
• 1:54:57
  No one has hacked into the Tesla mothership like the the Tesla
• 1:55:01
  Core database. Many people have tried to hack
• 1:55:04
  into the Tesla core database 0 successes.
• 1:55:08
  Yeah, I, I can certainly say like, now, now government
• 1:55:13
  computers are not super secure because it's the government, you
• 1:55:17
  know, so it's like if you say like, what is an easy thing to
• 1:55:23
  hack, I say, well, government computers are an easy thing to
• 1:55:25
  hack. So it's not good.
• 1:55:28
  No, I agree. That's why I like, I I'm, you
• 1:55:31
  know, I'm like as a hardcore technology guy, I'm saying we
• 1:55:35
  should not have voting machines. We should not have computers
• 1:55:39
  because they're two subjects took to have being hacked by by
• 1:55:42
  and it's like they're subject to being hacked by, you know, and
• 1:55:47
  the people protecting these machines don't understand
• 1:55:49
  technology and and they could easily be bamboozled.
• 1:55:52
  So even with the best of intentions, So.
• 1:55:55
  But it's really hard to bamboozle paper ballots in
• 1:55:59
  person with ID, which is obviously how it should be.
• 1:56:04
  Yeah, we, we've talked about baseball a couple times tonight.
• 1:56:07
  My brother's handicap. Ryan, I love you.
• 1:56:10
  I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight.
• 1:56:12
  He's a White Sox fan and he is. Just wants to know if you would
• 1:56:15
  consider buying them and turning them into a reputable business.
• 1:56:17
  Thank you. But I, I, I'm a technology guy,
• 1:56:22
  so I'm, I'm just, you know, I got to pick my battles here.
• 1:56:28
  So I'm, I'm just, I try to make technologies that people find
• 1:56:32
  useful. So all right.
• 1:56:38
  Hi, Eli. My name is Vladimir.
• 1:56:39
  I'm an entrepreneur from Reading, PA.
• 1:56:41
  I came all the way here to see you because I'm not sure if
• 1:56:43
  you're going to make it to Reading, PA.
• 1:56:46
  I couldn't wait. Thank you so much for your
• 1:56:48
  contributions to the world. Thank you for Tesla, Neurolink,
• 1:56:52
  SpaceX X, everything that you're doing is incredible and thank
• 1:56:56
  you for stepping up with your leadership to once again try to
• 1:56:59
  take our country back. Thank you.
• 1:57:02
  My question to you is regarding artificial intelligence,
• 1:57:07
  probably our greatest invention, hopefully not our last
• 1:57:09
  invention. You were really on the you were
• 1:57:13
  really advocating for basically regulating the advances that
• 1:57:18
  we're making on artificial intelligence.
• 1:57:20
  How long do you think it would be before we actually reach AGI
• 1:57:25
  or artificial general intelligence and artificial
• 1:57:28
  superintelligence? And are you still up for
• 1:57:31
  regulating this amazing invention that we've summoned
• 1:57:35
  here? Yes.
• 1:57:38
  I mean, I do think there should be some regulatory oversight for
• 1:57:42
  AI. So, yeah, I mean, it's I kind of
• 1:57:48
  view regulators as kind of like the referees in a sports game.
• 1:57:52
  You know, if you whether it's baseball, basketball, anything,
• 1:57:55
  any given sport, all the teams want to have referees so that,
• 1:58:02
  you know, the teams don't break the rules and there's fair play.
• 1:58:06
  So I think there there is a sort of a right number of regulators
• 1:58:09
  for any given industry, but there shouldn't be, there
• 1:58:12
  shouldn't be too many or too few.
• 1:58:14
  Now there's basically no regulators in AI right now.
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  So it's like having a game with no referees.
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  That's, that's, you know, subject to some bad happening.
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  So my recommendation would be to have, yeah, to have an AI
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  Regulatory agency at the federal level.
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  It should be, you know, not not heavy-handed, it should be, but
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  there shouldn't be nothing in contrast, in other industries
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  where there's excess regulation because these regulatory
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  agencies are just sort of grown over time to the point where
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  there are too many referees on the field.
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  I think the sports analogy makes a lot of sense.
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  Like you want to have enough referees to have a fair game,
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  but not so many referees that people can't, can't throw a pass
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  on the football field without hitting a ref.
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  You know, that's the, that's the situation we got right now.
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  It's like you're trying to run downfield.
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  Bam, you're just bumping into refs everywhere.
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  So that's that, you know, we got to take some corrective action
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  there. So thank you.
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