Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 11-9: Have You Noticed The Elon Hit Jobs Are Ramping Up?
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Welcome back from the weekend. I hope it was an
- 0:05Speaker 1: awesome one. Question for you. Have you noticed a different
- 0:08Speaker 1: tone in a lot of the media that's fed to you?
- 0:11Speaker 1: In your news feed, across your desk, people, things they're
- 0:13Speaker 1: talking about, all this other stuff. Not just the stuff
- 0:15Speaker 1: about the midterms, although it's involved, you know. Obviously, politics
- 0:19Speaker 1: is dominating the headlines these days. Now, there's a definite
- 0:22Speaker 1: tone in it that, you know where I'm going with this.
- 0:24Speaker 1: There's a definite coordinated message about the takedowns. Takedowns of
- 0:29Speaker 1: people that were you know, being called high and mighty
- 0:32Speaker 1: just a few years ago and the takedowns and attack
- 0:34Speaker 1: and let's look back and let's be, and they're all
- 0:36Speaker 1: saying the same thing at the same time about these
- 0:38Speaker 1: particular people and leaders in American society, right? Which is
- 0:41Speaker 1: the telltale sign. It's coordinated, right? Let's look back at
- 0:45Speaker 1: these past few years and realize where our mistakes were
- 0:48Speaker 1: and all of the mainstreams are saying it. So target
- 0:51Speaker 1: number one, as you can imagine, that would make sense
- 0:53Speaker 1: would be who? The richest guy in the world. So
- 0:58Speaker 1: many coordinated articles out there about Elon Musk and the
- 1:01Speaker 1: coordinated takedown. It's clear to me, and you can have
- 1:04Speaker 1: your own opinion on this, obviously. I just want you
- 1:06Speaker 1: to ask questions. The takedown or attempted takedown of Elon
- 1:11Speaker 1: is obviously happening right now. And the key marker in
- 1:14Speaker 1: this whole thing and the catalyst has been the end
- 1:17Speaker 1: of Cybertruck. Now, Elon Musk has been completely above board
- 1:23Speaker 1: about explaining why they're ending production of the Cybertruck, which
- 1:27Speaker 1: you may or may not like, but they're using this
- 1:29Speaker 1: as the catalyst to say See? It was all a failure. Okay. Well,
- 1:35Speaker 1: let's just play a little game. Whether or not you personally,
- 1:39Speaker 1: and this is, I guess, the big takeaway. You've got
- 1:41Speaker 1: to get personal opinions out of this, what you think
- 1:44Speaker 1: of somebody. Taking personal opinions aside, where would we be
- 1:49Speaker 1: and what would we not have if Elon Musk stopped working?
- 1:54Speaker 1: Just took his trillions, because he's a trillionaire now, and said,
- 1:57Speaker 1: I'm done. Everybody's just so ungrateful. I'm not even going
- 2:01Speaker 1: to try anymore. I'm just going to make money. I'm
- 2:02Speaker 1: going to sit back and live off the stock, and
- 2:04Speaker 1: that's it. What would not be here? It's a fascinating discussion.
- 2:07Speaker 1: I'm definitely not the only one asking that question, but
- 2:09Speaker 1: when you start to sit back and realize what could
- 2:13Speaker 1: be going away, it's kind of fascinating. Anyway, we'll get
- 2:16Speaker 1: to it. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you. Always
- 2:18Speaker 1: pay attention to where the hit jobs are and what
- 2:21Speaker 1: your mindset is about it. Wicked Radio, 8 a.m.-ish, Eastern Time,
- 2:25Speaker 1: Monday through Friday on X and YouTube and Facebook. The
- 2:27Speaker 1: replay is always there, which is where most of you
- 2:29Speaker 1: find it. But if you haven't found the audio podcast,
- 2:31Speaker 1: that's there as well. Thanks for being here. Appreciate you
- 2:33Speaker 1: so much. All right, let's kick off with the Cybertruck news.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Let's go to Elon himself. And then this kicked off
- 2:38Speaker 1: all the media hit jobs, right? Elon's on X, which
- 2:42Speaker 1: he owns. We'll get to that in a second about
- 2:44Speaker 1: the free speech element of this entire thing. The Cybertruck
- 2:47Speaker 1: order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try
- 2:49Speaker 1: to make as many possible before shutting down the line
- 2:53Speaker 1: in about eight months. And this is where the industrialist
- 2:56Speaker 1: writers and then the, you know, Mainstreams all went, whoa,
- 3:00Speaker 1: big failure for Elon. Was it? I was trying to
- 3:03Speaker 1: tell you something different. But I'll return a deposit for
- 3:06Speaker 1: a lot of people. This is not a case of
- 3:08Speaker 1: Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by the legacy media. Well,
- 3:12Speaker 1: there we go right there. But rather the opportunity cost
- 3:15Speaker 1: of the complexity of Cybertruck vastly outweighed by the value
- 3:18Speaker 1: of incremental cyber cab production. So cyber cab, automated cab
- 3:23Speaker 1: in various cities throughout the He's said it before over
- 3:26Speaker 1: the past like six, eight months, that's just going to explode.
- 3:28Speaker 1: And it's going to, again, with innovators, change society and
- 3:33Speaker 1: how we do things. It happens so rapidly. And yet
- 3:37Speaker 1: at the same time, we get used to so much
- 3:39Speaker 1: change so often that we tend to forget what would
- 3:42Speaker 1: happen if he wasn't there. All right. Well, what would
- 3:46Speaker 1: we not have if Elon just decided to sit on
- 3:49Speaker 1: his money and his money stacks? I'll give you a
- 3:52Speaker 1: little personal perspective. We used to joke all the time.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Before we really knew Elon as Elon, before he was,
- 3:58Speaker 1: I mean, not just an innovator, but also somebody that
- 4:02Speaker 1: was in the news all the time, but you never
- 4:05Speaker 1: really knew where he sat on different things. We used
- 4:08Speaker 1: to joke all the time back in radio world, radio life,
- 4:12Speaker 1: about Jeff Bezos and Elon. It's like, we used to
- 4:16Speaker 1: joke at the time. They're going to battle it out
- 4:17Speaker 1: in space like Avengers, you know, eventually sometime. Who will
- 4:20Speaker 1: be the leader of humanity? And you better hope that
- 4:22Speaker 1: one of them is on the good side of humanity. Well,
- 4:27Speaker 1: objectively speaking, I think I would have a tough time
- 4:29Speaker 1: trying to make an argument that Elon is some sort
- 4:31Speaker 1: of an evil character because a lot of this stuff,
- 4:34Speaker 1: as he said, is for the betterment of humanity. What
- 4:37Speaker 1: wouldn't be there, though? What wouldn't be there? Well, this
- 4:40Speaker 1: platform right now, most of you find it on X.
- 4:41Speaker 1: This wouldn't be here because Twitter was objectively This is
- 4:46Speaker 1: the God's honest truth, was an absolute censorship machine, canceling
- 4:52Speaker 1: people left and right. The truth was not getting out,
- 4:55Speaker 1: and it is now. A massive change over the last three,
- 4:57Speaker 1: four years. It just is. A lot of arguments back
- 5:00Speaker 1: and forth. You may not like it. You may say, oh,
- 5:03Speaker 1: it's the worst of social media. But it is, the
- 5:05Speaker 1: best we have right now, the public forum for discussion.
- 5:09Speaker 1: It is. And that wouldn't happen unless Elon bought Twitter
- 5:12Speaker 1: and turned it into X, because it was... Do you
- 5:15Speaker 1: remember the Twitter files and what they found out who
- 5:16Speaker 1: was actually running that company? It wasn't private investors. It
- 5:22Speaker 1: was people in the intelligence community. Anyway, that's a different story.
- 5:25Speaker 1: How about SpaceX and its effect on NASA? I can
- 5:29Speaker 1: tell you NASA would be gone. It would exist. They
- 5:33Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing anything what they're doing right now. In
- 5:36Speaker 1: the space coast of Florida, if you're familiar with it,
- 5:39Speaker 1: before SpaceX came into being, and brought public-private investment in
- 5:44Speaker 1: a lot of these projects that we see happening right now,
- 5:46Speaker 1: which are great. Look at the Artemis mission. You may
- 5:49Speaker 1: think it's silly, but it's inexpensive, and it is. But
- 5:53Speaker 1: it's brought so much industry to that area and technology
- 5:57Speaker 1: and other subdivision technologies throughout the world. The space coast
- 6:01Speaker 1: of Florida was dead. You could buy an oceanfront condo
- 6:05Speaker 1: for about $ 30, 000 15 years ago. It was dead, and
- 6:08Speaker 1: now it's booming. Same thing with Silicon Valley and SpaceX Tesla,
- 6:14Speaker 1: which they developed. That as well. But other things would
- 6:16Speaker 1: not be here, and we tend to forget about it.
- 6:18Speaker 1: This is why the innovators you have to protect. Whether
- 6:21Speaker 1: or not you like them personally, you've got to put
- 6:23Speaker 1: your feelings aside. Bill Ackman, big hedge fund guy. Nobody's
- 6:28Speaker 1: going to say that he's a dumb guy, right? He
- 6:30Speaker 1: made a great point in an interview over the weekend,
- 6:32Speaker 1: countering all this attack stuff on Elon. This is what
- 6:35Speaker 1: he said. Stop for a second and think about what
- 6:38Speaker 1: would happen if an innovator like Elon, whether you like
- 6:41Speaker 1: him or not, just stopped.
- 6:42Speaker 2: The most productive people in society often end up being
- 6:46Speaker 2: nominally the wealthiest. But you don't want to discourage people.
- 6:53Speaker 2: If Elon Musk had stopped working, we would only have Tesla.
- 6:56Speaker 2: We wouldn't have SpaceX. We wouldn't have the boring company.
- 6:58Speaker 2: We wouldn't have Neuralink. A technology that may enable my
- 7:02Speaker 2: daughter to see again.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Or speak again.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Okay. These are people that.
- 7:06Speaker 2: We should treasure, people we should applaud.
- 7:09Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Neuralink, a company that has already helped paraplegics walk. This
- 7:16Speaker 1: is a pet project of Elon's and his technology company.
- 7:19Speaker 1: It doesn't get publicized all that much. And this year,
- 7:22Speaker 1: they are projected to help some fully blind people see.
- 7:26Speaker 1: That's not like sci-fi technology. They're going to put Neuralink
- 7:29Speaker 1: chips into some blind people and help them see. Again,
- 7:34Speaker 1: the attack jobs in the media never talk about that
- 7:38Speaker 1: stuff that benefits humanity. You may not like Elon Musk.
- 7:40Speaker 1: You may not like that he has a bunch of
- 7:42Speaker 1: kids with a bunch of different women, and there's no
- 7:44Speaker 1: way he can be an actual father to all those
- 7:47Speaker 1: people and be in their lives all the time. You
- 7:49Speaker 1: may not like that. You may hate the fact that
- 7:52Speaker 1: he actually did work with the Trump administration. Remember Doge?
- 7:55Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 7:56Speaker 1: What was so bad about it? Oh, yeah, he... He
- 7:58Speaker 1: tried to help and put together a team to uncover
- 8:02Speaker 1: all the fraud and corruption in these non-government organizations. That's right.
- 8:06Speaker 1: So you hate him for that? Was that it? Was
- 8:08Speaker 1: that the part? And let's not forget, too, that so
- 8:11Speaker 1: many of the people who are cheering on these hit
- 8:13Speaker 1: jobs against Elon Musk loved him before the Trump involvement.
- 8:17Speaker 1: He got involved with Trump because as a maker, remember this,
- 8:21Speaker 1: as a maker of electric cars, the Biden administration had
- 8:26Speaker 1: a big gathering of of all the big car makers,
- 8:29Speaker 1: to talk about ramping up production of electric vehicles. And
- 8:34Speaker 1: didn't invite Tesla. Let's bring in all the car manufacturers,
- 8:41Speaker 1: but let's not invite the leading maker of electric vehicles. Personally,
- 8:46Speaker 1: I think that was the one that set him over
- 8:47Speaker 1: the edge, anyway, to get involved with Trump and realize
- 8:50Speaker 1: all the corruption that was happening there before. There was that.
- 8:54Speaker 1: But manufacturing. How about this now? And nobody ever talks
- 8:57Speaker 1: about this. And we're going to get to the Rolling
- 8:58Speaker 1: Stone hit job on Cybertruck here in a second. How
- 9:01Speaker 1: about this one? Something they never usually tell you, but
- 9:05Speaker 1: the investors always talk about it. Now, this is a guy,
- 9:08Speaker 1: Barron is his last name, another hedge fund guy. You
- 9:11Speaker 1: hear a lot from the hedge fund guys like Bill
- 9:13Speaker 1: Ackman and this guy because they're involved day to day
- 9:17Speaker 1: on where the money is going, investments and infrastructure and
- 9:19Speaker 1: all that good stuff. He makes a point that nobody
- 9:21Speaker 1: else wants to talk about. And he did it on
- 9:23Speaker 1: a mainstream network before they tried to cut him off
- 9:25Speaker 1: about American manufacturing. Nobody ever talks about it. Nobody ever
- 9:29Speaker 1: talks about bringing American manufacturing from overseas and building it
- 9:33Speaker 1: here and creating jobs. He did.
- 9:35Speaker 3: But he has been responsible for reindustrializing, for the impetus
- 9:40Speaker 3: to reindustrialize our country. And so it would be a
- 9:42Speaker 3: bad thing if we were in America reliant on silicon
- 9:48Speaker 3: only coming from Taiwan. And so here... He's probably the
- 9:53Speaker 3: only person in this country who is able to build
- 9:57Speaker 3: things at scale at attractive prices. Only one. So can
- 10:02Speaker 3: you think of another name, another person who can build?
- 10:05Speaker 3: So here he's talking about building a terra fab. You're
- 10:10Speaker 3: talking about Elon now.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Yes, I'm talking about Elon there. Whole interview, five minutes in,
- 10:15Speaker 1: he's talking to Elon. There's the host on CNBC, by
- 10:17Speaker 1: the way. Oh, you're talking about Elon. Let's move on
- 10:19Speaker 1: to something else. Right. So here's the hit jobs. They
- 10:22Speaker 1: need a catalyst. They were waiting for this one. Oh,
- 10:25Speaker 1: they waited for it. And again, watch out for propaganda.
- 10:27Speaker 1: And the telltale sign is when people write the same
- 10:30Speaker 1: thing at the same time, saying it just about the
- 10:34Speaker 1: same way, you know it's a hit job and it's propaganda.
- 10:38Speaker 1: So here's the rolling. I gave you the information about
- 10:41Speaker 1: Cybertruck ramping down production here pretty soon, which was apparently
- 10:44Speaker 1: the plan because they wanted to go to cyber cabs. Well,
- 10:48Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. Remember Rolling Stone? How irrelevant have they become? Anyway,
- 10:53Speaker 1: they took upon themselves to get a big article. And
- 10:56Speaker 1: they got a lot of play off this entire thing
- 10:59Speaker 1: because of how they did it. Most of that play
- 11:02Speaker 1: is comments in this section. I jumped into this too
- 11:05Speaker 1: because it was just so ridiculous. Because they were so
- 11:08Speaker 1: critical of it. Here it is.
- 11:11Speaker 3: Ready?
- 11:12Speaker 1: The Rolling Stone article on Tesla ramping down production of Cybertruck.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Here are some of the lines from the article and
- 11:19Speaker 1: the headlines. Good riddance to the Cybertruck, the chariot of
- 11:24Speaker 1: the dumbest gods. See, this is a little bit new
- 11:29Speaker 1: because even the people that used to love Elon, oh,
- 11:32Speaker 1: save us, Elon. That was like an internet theme. You know,
- 11:36Speaker 1: they turned against him and they said, he's gone crazy.
- 11:39Speaker 1: Now they're just saying he's dumb. This is new for
- 11:41Speaker 1: even them. Here's the guy I wrote about. Oh, I
- 11:44Speaker 1: guess this is the author of the op-ed in Rolling Stone.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Wrote about the Cybertruck. the dumbest symbol of what I
- 11:51Speaker 1: hope goes down as a short and brutish era of
- 11:53Speaker 1: American society. Here's another quote from the Rolling Stone article,
- 12:01Speaker 1: one of the hit jobs this past week on Elon Musk.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Maybe someday we'll see the Cybertruck as a relic of
- 12:06Speaker 1: a dark period in our past and not the dire
- 12:10Speaker 1: potent of the even more broken future down the road.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Wow.
- 12:16Speaker 1: See, here's another stark contrast, because you've got people like
- 12:19Speaker 1: Elon who look to... And again, take what you personally
- 12:22Speaker 1: think of Elon Musk out of the conversation for a
- 12:24Speaker 1: second and just look at the progress and the production
- 12:26Speaker 1: of what we wouldn't have, which we just talked about,
- 12:28Speaker 1: if he just decided to sit on his millions and
- 12:30Speaker 1: go away. He's always been hopeful about humanity. He says
- 12:35Speaker 1: with SpaceX and the whole thing about going to Mars
- 12:37Speaker 1: and working with the Artemis thing and working with NASA
- 12:40Speaker 1: and that public-private partnership, says to save humanity down the road.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Because people like Elon... pretty sure don't sleep. They just
- 12:48Speaker 1: think about what's going on down. It would tend to,
- 12:52Speaker 1: you know, make sense that a billion years, a million
- 12:55Speaker 1: years down the road, humanity's not going to, the sun
- 12:57Speaker 1: is going to burn out at some point. So he
- 12:59Speaker 1: wants to make us interplanetary. This is the dark future
- 13:02Speaker 1: that the writer on the Rolling Stone is talking about. Ah, okay.
- 13:07Speaker 1: And again, I go back to what he was before
- 13:10Speaker 1: he got involved with Doge and the Trump administration. He
- 13:14Speaker 1: was the hero of the left. He just was. Remember that?
- 13:16Speaker 1: And you might have seen this too. I see this
- 13:18Speaker 1: all the time now on bumper stickers of people who
- 13:20Speaker 1: are driving Teslas. It's a thing. I bought this Tesla
- 13:24Speaker 1: before Elon went crazy. What's the crazy part? Like trying
- 13:29Speaker 1: to bust up corruption and expose it in government? Making
- 13:33Speaker 1: humanity interplanetary? Neuralink? Helping paraplegics walk and blind people see?
- 13:41Speaker 1: bringing American manufacturing to our shores. Is that the crazy part?
- 13:44Speaker 1: Because I'm not exactly getting the crazy thing. And look
- 13:47Speaker 1: to see the hit jobs now that came out this
- 13:49Speaker 1: past weekend in all the different mainstream outlets, like the
- 13:52Speaker 1: little Rolling Stone thing as they try to become relevant again,
- 13:55Speaker 1: and all the media hit jobs on the mainstream, like CNBC,
- 13:58Speaker 1: and all of a sudden Elon's the bad guy. It
- 14:00Speaker 1: was a failed era. You know what they're not talking about,
- 14:04Speaker 1: even on the financial shows? How profitable Cybertruck was and
- 14:08Speaker 1: still is. But they see more of a profit going
- 14:11Speaker 1: to CyberCab is the difference there. It's just amazing. So
- 14:15Speaker 1: all of these things that we just mentioned that wouldn't
- 14:17Speaker 1: be there if the guy just stopped working, even if
- 14:19Speaker 1: you don't like him personally. And then one more element
- 14:21Speaker 1: in this entire thing. The whole fear. Many of these,
- 14:25Speaker 1: isn't it interesting? Many of these mainstream media outlets doing
- 14:27Speaker 1: the hit jobs on an innovator like Elon Musk. They
- 14:30Speaker 1: were the same ones telling you that AI is going
- 14:32Speaker 1: to kill you. Isn't that interesting? But again, the same
- 14:36Speaker 1: people who said it was a dark, a dark and
- 14:38Speaker 1: failed era. Hopefully that's coming to an end. Dark and failed?
- 14:43Speaker 1: He's one of the few people that says AI technology
- 14:47Speaker 1: is going to improve lives. Said this recently.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Superintelligence will saturate all human needs by far. There will
- 14:54Speaker 4: be universal high income, universal extremely high income, universal medical
- 15:01Speaker 4: care that is better than the best medical care available
- 15:04Speaker 4: on Earth today. Where you could wish for a castle...
- 15:10Speaker 4: or whatever you want, basically. And the digital superintelligence can
- 15:17Speaker 4: make it for you as a side project.
- 15:19Speaker 1: But that's a dark vision of the future. And someone
- 15:22Speaker 1: out there right now is saying the exact same thing.
- 15:24Speaker 1: I can hear you saying it in my head. But
- 15:27Speaker 1: he wants to be the one controlling it. Really? Because
- 15:30Speaker 1: he was the guy who pushed back against OpenAI Company
- 15:34Speaker 1: and said, hey... You're the ones who want to limit
- 15:38Speaker 1: this thing and censor it. You want to be the
- 15:40Speaker 1: ones who put the safeguard on it. And you better
- 15:43Speaker 1: do this the right way. That's a dark future. So again,
- 15:48Speaker 1: it's like all innovators in the past. Go past a while.
- 15:50Speaker 1: You know, I don't think personally a lot of people
- 15:52Speaker 1: these days would like Henry Ford or Thomas Edison. Tesla himself, actually.
- 15:58Speaker 1: I don't think personally you would really like them. They're
- 16:00Speaker 1: just of a different mindset and they're a different breed.
- 16:03Speaker 3: But.
- 16:04Speaker 1: Don't be so foolish as to believe these hit jobs
- 16:06Speaker 1: and think that that's not by design. Think about where
- 16:11Speaker 1: we would be if those innovators weren't there bringing us
- 16:13Speaker 1: things like this. That's my two cents. You got to
- 16:17Speaker 1: look at them a completely different way. And if you
- 16:19Speaker 1: want to, be judge and jury then. Say, I'm not
- 16:21Speaker 1: sure about that Elon guy or these other people or
- 16:23Speaker 1: these other innovators. I don't think I like them personally.
- 16:27Speaker 3: All right.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Now weigh it. What's the good and what's the bad
- 16:30Speaker 1: they brought us? But I'm telling you, if that guy
- 16:33Speaker 1: just stopped working and sat on his millions, I think
- 16:37Speaker 1: they actually would be a darker world that they're talking about.
- 16:40Speaker 1: But anyways, that's my two cents. My takeaway is just
- 16:44Speaker 1: watch out for the hit jobs that are on people
- 16:45Speaker 1: like that. There's a reason why it's happening now. Thanks
- 16:48Speaker 1: for hanging out with me. I hope it was a
- 16:49Speaker 1: great weekend. It's going to be a wicked awesome Monday.
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