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Elon Musk goes off deep end. Moves SpaceX to Texas · Elon Musk Podcast

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All right, Elon, we knew it was coming.
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We knew the SpaceX would eventually move some operations,
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more operations, regular operations, not just Star Base
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and Starship operations down to the Brownsville area.
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We knew that was going to happen.
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The headquarters are being built there at Star Base.
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We know that Brownsville is a place where SpaceX employees
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already live. Now, this is a thing that's
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happening right now, and I'm going to show you what I'm
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talking about right now. And this is I don't even care
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who posted this, it's Libs of TikTok.
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Gavin Newsom aside, AB1955 today, which ban schools from
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making rules requiring parental parental notification if a child
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identifies as transgendered. Get your kids out of public
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schools, Elon down here, double exclamation points and then some
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garbage political stuff underneath that you don't even
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don't care about. OK, right.
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We care about Space Flight on this channel.
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But this guy Jason at Jason says so.
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The state is apparent in California now.
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Gavin Newsom question mark. Elon says a lot of families and
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companies will move out of California because of this law.
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Who would want to risk the state taking away their kids?
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OK, so that's Elon's reply. Do you think, how many people do
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you think will move out of California because of this?
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Families and companies will move out of California due to this?
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I'm not sure. Eli doesn't know either.
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So he's just talking smack. A lot of families and companies
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a lot when they say a lot, there's just a general idea in
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their head that like some people are going to move, right?
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No matter whenever some somebody says like a lot of things are
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going to happen or I heard from a guy, you know, you know,
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that's what it's just a whatever, you know, it's, it's
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their ideology. It's it's the way that they
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think. A lot of families are going to
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move, man, Dude, people are talking, people are saying a lot
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of families are going to move. Now, I'm not shitting on Elon.
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I'm not shitting on Elon. I just think that sometimes his
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ideas and his ideals get in the way of companies.
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So how does this affect SpaceX? You might ask yourself, why does
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this? Why does this affect SpaceX?
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And how is this the last straw? This is the last straw.
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Because of this law and many others that preceded it
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attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move
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its HQ, its headquarters, from Hawthorne, CA to Starbase,
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Texas. OK, so Elon also says right
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below here he replies himself, I did not make it clear to
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Governor Newsom about a year ago.
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I did make it clear that laws of this nature wood forest families
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and companies to leave California to protect their
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children. OK, let's fix this microphone
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while we're at it. Every astronaut says this mean
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there will be no facilities in Hawthorne.
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Does Falcon 9 Mission Control in production move dragon
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production or what does moving actually look like?
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Wonder if there will be a big population increase in the RGV.
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Well, we don't know. We don't know what this looks
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like. Elon hasn't said anything about
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it. He just said he's moving
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everybody out of California. He's moving in the company out
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of California to Texas. So what we know right now, as of
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right now, a few out like one hour since he posted this stuff,
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is that some stuff is going to move to Texas.
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And I'm going to tell you something.
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I lived in Brownsville for almost a year, for about a year
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and I came from a place that was, is a a nicely populated
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small town, rural in the middle of nowhere.
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And when I went to Brownsville, it's like 250,000 people, a
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quarter million people. Not a big deal.
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But if you're coming from LA, which has millions of people,
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all the infrastructure you'll ever need, everything, shopping,
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high end stuff, whatever you want, right?
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You're not going to get the same stuff in Brownsville.
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You're just not the place isn't up to par with anything close to
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LA or any like there's the I mean, OK, so let me let me back
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up. And I'm not shitting on
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Brownsville either. I'm going to say Brownsville was
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a really great city to live in when I live there.
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Right in the people there were excellent.
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The people were great and I love them all.
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They were really great people in the RGV.
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Really cool place. But it's no LA, man.
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If you grew up in LA, you were accustomed to a certain kind of
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lifestyle, something a little bit more high end, something
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more, a little bit more polished than what you would get in
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Brownsville. Brownsville is pretty rough,
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man. Like here's an example I used to
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go to, it's like a like a stadium, like a park kind of
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place. And every morning I would go for
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a walk before I went to Star base, I would go for a walk for
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about 1/4 of a mile to in a mile, depending on the day and
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how freaking hot it was because it's extremely hot in
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Brownsville. That's another thing that people
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don't understand. It's like 100 plus degrees.
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It's different heat than in Los Angeles.
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Brownsville heat is humid. Los Angeles heat, not as much.
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But another thing is, man, the trail that I walked on, numerous
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people got murdered on it over time.
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I went for a walk in the morning one morning and then I heard on
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the news later, some guy got stabbed on the trail like 20
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minutes after I was there. Happens in LA too, right?
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But you're really close to the border.
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There's a lot of other activity going on down there, really
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close to, you know, the Rio Grande.
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There's, there's a lot of stuff going on in Brownsville making
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it like one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
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And LA, I mean, it's not as dangerous as Brownsville.
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Brownsville is pretty sketchy. So that being said, a lot of
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people that are familiar with LA in like the nice things of LA,
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they're not going to leave. There's no way they're going to
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leave. Elon says that like this law is
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forcing people out. I don't think a lot of people
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will leave because of this. I I mean, there might be a, a
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little exodus, but dude, if you're going to take people to
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Texas, take them to Austin, like that's closer to what people in
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LA like, you know, it's a little bit more culture, a little bit
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more upscale, a little bit more modern.
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Like, dude, the downtown of Brownsville is charming as it
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is. The place is from like the
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1800s. It's it's like, it's nothing
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like LA. So this is all about moving the
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people, the right people, to the right place to do the right job.
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Now, The thing is, they're probably not going to move
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production facilities to Starbase right away.
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They might eventually, but there's not a lot of room down
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there. And SpaceX doesn't have permits
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to build anymore that we know of because they'd have to build a
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giant production facility for the Falcon 9 stuff.
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Though Elon is thinking ahead, of course, that Falcon Nine will
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be replaced by the Falcon, or not by the Falcon, by the
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Starship. But will it all be replaced by
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the Starship? The answer is maybe, eventually.
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But why would they send a Starship to some sort of space
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station like the Twenty 30s? You know is when we're going to
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get new space stations, the other space station is going to
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deorbit, and up until then the Falcon 9 needs to be a thing.
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So even if Starship is fully operational by the time the
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space station is deorbited, they're still going to use
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Falcon 9 to send people to and from the space station.
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Things like that. Certain orbits where you don't
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need a giant Starship to launch your satellite or your cargo,
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whatever it is, and a Falcon 9 does it for a fraction of the
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cost and quicker turn around. You're just going to use a
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Falcon 9. There's going to be an array.
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It's kind of a quiver, right? Like you have a bunch of
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different tools in your tool belt and a bunch of different
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arrows in your quiver to choose from.
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So SpaceX, if they move the facilities of Falcon 9 to
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Brownsville, they're going to lose a lot of people.
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Like Elon is saying that California's going to lose a lot
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of people. If they move everything,
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including production, to Brownsville, they're going to
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lose a lot of people. And I know for a fact I have a
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lot of friends in LA, lot of friends in that culture.
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Nobody wants to move to Brownsville.
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None of my friends. My friends went to Brownsville.
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They're like, dude, we got the beach, we got the sun, we got
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this cool lifestyle, all these fancy restaurants and stuff.
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Like you have a certain kind of lifestyle.
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You make a lot of money doing whatever you do, like the SpaceX
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engineers. And then you say like, dude,
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you're going to move to literally the middle of nowhere.
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The closest town is like 30 minutes away.
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And some people will like it, of course, but some people
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definitely won't. Some people will be like, hey,
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I'm going to stay in Lai. Don't know what you guys are
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doing, but I'm going to find different job.
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I'm going to go work at Blue Origin or something.
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I don't know. Maybe they're going to, maybe
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they're going to, we're going to tech start up.
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I don't know. But The thing is Elon always
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kind of lets his emotions go right.
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So I don't want to crap on the guy.
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He's he's got his problems, got his things going on and there
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are people from both sides that are going to move and change and
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whatever. But is it really, Is this the
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last straw, Elon? Is this the last straw?
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Let's see the last straw because of this law.
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He's always so like, I don't know.
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I don't know. There's something about Elon
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that's just like, he's so dramatic, right?
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He's so dramatic about everything.
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This is the last straw. He's typing furiously as he's on
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the toilet, pressing his thumbs as hard as you can into his
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phone. Because of this law that many
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others that preceded it, attacking both families and
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companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, CA to
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Starbase, Texas. Then he rent, you know, he does
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a rant on X and then that's it. Then we all speculate about
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what's going to happen. And then that's, you know, and
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then we figure out like, oh, it's not that big of a deal
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because there's going to be a few people that move from the HQ
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to Starbase to do procedural stuff, to do work on the the
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office stuff. Maybe not the engineers, maybe
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not the people that actually make the Rockets or maybe not
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the rocket facility. Maybe the people that keep the
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people together. Maybe those are the people that
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will be moving from Hawthorne to Texas.
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But even those people, like your whole family's there, man.
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Like you're going to uproot your whole family.
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Like what if you grew up? What if you grew up in LA?
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All these people grew up in LA, have generations of people
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there. You have your grandma, grandpa,
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you know, maybe great grandma, grandpa and your family, your
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own personal family. Do you want your kid going to
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school in another state? Some of them will.
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Some of them like, dude, why would you move your family to
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Brownsville for a job unless you're getting like a huge
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raise? I mean that that could be a
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thing too. Maybe Elon's like, hey, if you
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moved to Brownsville, we're going to give you a raise.
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I don't think you would do that because Elon's pretty, you know,
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he's like, hey, if you don't want to work for me, that's
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cool. Fine, see you later.
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But I don't know. I'm, I'm kind of talking freely
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here. So I want to know what you think
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in the comments down below, of course.
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And I want to know what you think about this.
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I mean, this law is is controversial to say the least.
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A lot of people are on either side are like, yeah, this is
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great. And the other people are like,
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yeah, this is the horrible. So I don't like I'm not in
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California, so I don't really have an opinion on it.
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And I wouldn't share that opinion with you anyway because
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this is a Space Flight channel. But I can't share my opinion on
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is Elon going wild again and moving everybody like he did
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with Tesla, which probably a good move.
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People like Austin, but do they like Brownsville?
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I mean, unless they build Brownsville up like crazy.
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Oh, man, I'm not just, I'm not shitting on Brownsville.
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I'm just saying that like it's not the best city.
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Like especially if you're from like San Diego or LA or
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something like that. And like you got all the, they
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got all the things. You're not going to move to the
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middle of the fucking desert and like like a wetland desert, like
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you're not going to do it. Like it's not.
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It doesn't seem like a great place to raise a family either.
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The crime rate. Let me see what the crime rate
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is in Brownsville. I'm just ranting here, so please
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bear with me. Crime rate Brownsville, TX and
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Elon and company, like I've got to give them their credit,
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right? The crime rate in Brownsville
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probably went down since they moved there.
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Since they moved everything there.
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Let's see, safest Brownsville neighborhoods.
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Let's see where was I compared to Yeah, Brownsville, TX.
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It's OK, Let's see how dangerous is Brownsville, TX.
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It's like super dangerous. Crime in Brownsville is
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considerably higher than the national average across all
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communities in America, from the largest to smallest.
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Although at 21 crimes per 1000 residents, not among the
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communities with the very highest crime rate.
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Has a pretty high crime rate though, higher than the national
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average. Would you want to do that?
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OK, let's see. Let's Los Angeles.
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How dangerous is Los Angeles? Los Angeles study place LA at #5
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of the safest large cities in the US.
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What, what top five? And I know there's stuff that
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happens in LA, right? Like crazy stuff happens in LA
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all the time. I was reported to be the theft
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in LA. So theft is the most frequent
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crime and violent crimes are reportedly on the decline.
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So if you live in the LA area, it's like #5 safest place.
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That's great. That's awesome.
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You're not going to get much safer than that.
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And Brownsville, TX, yeah. So it seems like 23 crimes per
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1000 people. So yeah.
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But it has a similarly, it has a lower rate of crime that's
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similarly size metro areas. It's an 8.5 out of 10.
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So the violent crime is higher than the national average.
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It's rate of property crime was lower than the national rate.
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Yeah. So it seems like Brownsville is
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more violent than LA and LA is pretty safe.
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So that's a little, I did a little look up for you.
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So it also seems like Brownsville is cool.
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Man, I love my time there. I'm not shitting on Brownsville,
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just saying like the people that live in LA right now and they're
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like, yo, I got it made. Like I can go to the beach in
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the morning, could drive out to Big Bear and go snowboarding.
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And then you know what, before, like after the sun goes down,
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let's go to a skate park. Could do all three board sports
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in one day. Not only that, there's
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everything else you'd ever want in the LA area.
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So if you're going to move from LA to Brownsville, I mean, and
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I'm just saying this from like a personal perspective of the
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people, not the engineers or not the engineering with the Rockets
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and things like that. This is about the people because
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at the end of the day, the Rockets don't make themselves.
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And there's no way that Tesla bots and the optimist bots will
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be making any rockets anytime soon.
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So these people are what produce the real great rockets at
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SpaceX. But it worked for Tesla.
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That's an Austin though. So do you want it like, and it's
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also like the gut, you know, the heart of the people that's in
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this. If you want to get people to
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Mars, like you got to do everything it takes, right?
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And your family has to be on board with them.
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Sensible questions, things like that.
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Like you got to think about the the questions like what is your
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family going to do? What if like when you go to
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Brownsville, what are the schools like?
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A lot of these people, you know, they might be young, but they
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also have startup families, they have small families.
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So how are the schools? What's the crime rate?
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What's the infrastructure like? I know like dude, downtown
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Brownsville was a mess when I was there.
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It was a mess. The roads were garbage.
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A lot of roads in Brownsville. I would, I'd have to drive
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around a lot to film at Starbase and I had to go pick up
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equipment and I have to, you know, I did other things too.
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So I lived a life in Brownsville.
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And tell you what, man, the infrastructure there not that
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great. The roads kind of suck.
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The roads down to Starbase, they're not as bad now, but they
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were horrible when I was there. But the infrastructure could get
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better if they bring in more people, more wealthy people that
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are just going to complain that the infrastructure sucks.
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They're driving the Tesla, they blow out a tire, they're going
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to say they're going to talk to the mayor and be like, yo, fix
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your roads. We don't pay all these, you
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know, all, all the fees and things.
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So you have crappy roads, but there's there's a lot to think
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about if you're somebody that works at SpaceX right now and
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like Eli just going like, all right, that's it.
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We're we're moving. Like, come on, dude.
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Can you really do that to like thousands of employees?
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I guess Elon Kim, he can do whatever he wants.
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He's the he's the guy privately owned company.
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He can move it whenever he wants to.
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Will people be happy? I don't know.
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Will it, you know, will it be OK if SpaceX is going to be fine?
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SpaceX is going to be fine. They'll find more engineers.
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If the engineers don't want to move down there, they're going
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to find more people in the office that just don't care and
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they want to move to Brownsville or they want a new life.
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So they moved to Brownsville. So it's up to it's up to the
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people really. So let me know in the comments
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