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SpaceX Update - Elon Missing from Starbase · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show.
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  I want to tell you about some major drama that's happening at
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  Star Base right now, because we all know what's happening with
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  Elon Musk, all of his political stuff going on, all of the stuff
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  that's going on with those or whatever.
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  But one of the things that he's been neglecting is SpaceX and
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  being at Star Base. And we've all seen this before.
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  He's done this before. He's done this numerous times
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  where he goes off and does another project.
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  You know, he'll go it go to Tesla for a few months and
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  everybody at Starbase is working hard and they're trying to get
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  the next Starship to launch. And then Elon shows up to give
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  him a little pep talk and then everything seems to be OK.
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  But I want to share with you something that I found on X, and
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  this is telling. This is huge for people at
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  SpaceX. Check this out.
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  So Dylan Small is a person that works at SpaceX, at Starbase.
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  OK, Dylan is part of the team down there, and this is his
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  tweet. The team down at Starbase is
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  giving everything they have, working long hours, pouring
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  themselves into every launch, every milestone.
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  But the atmosphere had shifted. Morale is low, people are burned
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  out and starting to feel like they're being left behind.
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  Your presence used to drive a fire in the team.
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  People were inspired, united and proud to be part of something
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  bigger. Now the energy is fading.
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  People come back and walk, or please come back and walk the
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  floor. Talk to the techs, the welders,
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  the crane OPS, QA, inspectors. Let them see their work matters
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  to you. Remind them what we're building
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  and why. Hear what they have to say and
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  show them that you do care. Everyone still believes in the
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  mission. They need you to help reignite
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  the spark. There are many matters that need
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  your attention to Mars. So directly at Elon Musk.
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  This this tweet was directly at Elon Musk.
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  Dylan is the Space Launch Systems R&D aircraft mechanic at
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  Starbase for SpaceX for Starship.
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  So Dylan is legit. You can see a picture of Dylan
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  at Starship. Listen, Elon Musk has a lot of
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  things going on. We all know what's going on,
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  political stuff going on, and that's all over with.
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  That's all behind of the political stuff.
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  But that was costly to the people that pour their hearts
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  into Starship and pour their hearts into this project that
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  will, according to Elon Musk, keep the light of humanity lit
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  when it doesn't exist here on earth anymore.
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  So what does a good leader do at this point?
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  Do they ignore this person? Do they walk away and let
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  somebody else handle it? This is what Elon responded.
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  I will be there next week. There you go.
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  Everything seems to be OK. And also, Elon will be doing a
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  talk before the next Starship launch, which is going to be
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  somewhere on May 21st, 2025, between 2330 and 134Z.
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  On May 22nd, 2025, rocket launch operations are scheduled to take
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  place near Boca Chica, Texas. So we know somewhere around the
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  21st, 22nd of this month SpaceX will be launching Starship.
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  So around the 19th, 20th, we're going to get a talk from Elon on
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  X from Starbase. He's going to ignite the fire at
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  Starbase again. He's going to lift these people
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  up that feel like they've been beaten down.
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  They're working hard. It's really hot down there.
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  And they put their heart and their soul into this project.
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  And this is years in the making. Some of the peaceful have been
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  here for a decade. They've been here for their
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  whole career. And Elon had a side project with
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  Doge. He left him behind.
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  Let me know what you think about that.
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  You think it's a like a bad move to leave all these people
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  behind? Because getting to Mars for Elon
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  has always been like the top priority.
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  That's always been the thing he's been working on forever.
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  And that was keep the light of consciousness alive, keep it
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  going. And then he got sidetracked by
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  this Doge stuff. I thought he can make a
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  difference. Let me know what you think of
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  the comments down below about him working with Dylan Small and
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  the team over there at Starbase and coming back to say what he
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  needs to say to reignite the fire with all these people.
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  Also, you know what, I was checking out the stats and the
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  back end here on YouTube and I noticed something really weird
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  that around 57% of you are not subscribed to the channel.
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  So that leaves 43% of you that are subscribed.
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  And I want to say thank you to you for doing that.
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  But the 57% of you, most of you also have watched numerous of my
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  videos. So I'm going to make you a
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  promise for the next 10 years. You got me here on YouTube for
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  free. You got 10 years of this and if
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  you like this content, I ask you for one second of your time.
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  That's it. One second for 10 years of mine.
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  Hit the subscribe button, that's it.
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  If you want to give 2 seconds, hit the thumbs up, give a couple
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  more seconds. Leave a comment down below.
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  That's it for engagement. Let's grow this channel
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  together. Let's be this community.
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  But I just asked for one second of your time for 10 years of
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  mine. So let's get back to the Elon
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  stuff. OK, so Elon has a way of dipping
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  out sometimes. He has so many things going on.
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  He may have to work on Cybertruck for a little while.
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  He may have to work on another project for a while, like the
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  Doge stuff. Maybe he has Starbase going on
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  and he can't work on the Tesla stuff.
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  He's a Tesla CEO. People are not happy with him
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  because of all the Doge stuff and all the political stuff.
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  And at one point they were actually thinking about
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  replacing Elon. There were rumors about people
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  replacing Elon at Tesla. They can't really do that at
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  Starbase or with SpaceX because it's a privately held company.
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  They can't really force him out. But Tesla is a different beast
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  because they're publicly traded. They're not privately owned.
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  So they have stock, they have a board.
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  Could they force him out? Not that I know of.
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  Not that I know of. There's a possibility, but I
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  don't think they're going to, especially with where he's at
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  now and where the company is now.
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  But something like SpaceX, if something's happening at SpaceX,
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  I mean it, it seems like the people at SpaceX should be able
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  to reach out to Elon, not an X man.
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  Like somebody should text this guy or like, like directs line
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  of communication. So that's where it all falls
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  apart. There's no Direct Line of
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  communication between Elon and the workers because there's
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  nobody in between. That's talking to the workers
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  and listening. That's the important part.
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  Listen to these people, man. OK?
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  They work for you, but still they're making your vision come
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  to reality. They're working their asses off.
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  They're destroying their lives because they want to make people
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  go to Mars. They want to build this ship and
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  they want to get people to Mars. Get your asses to Mars, but
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  please be nice to people at Star Base.
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  That's what needs to happen. Somebody in the management
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  structure is not doing their job because they're not telling
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  Elon. They're not telling Elon that
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  this stuff needs to be fixed. These people's morale.
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  Think about it. If you are building the ship
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  that's going to send people to Mars, how much confidence would
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  you have in your abilities? You're doing something nobody
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  else is doing. You're like way up here.
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  You're the best of the best, and you still get beaten down.
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  And then you feel like you don't have anybody to talk to that
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  could tell Elon or somebody higher up.
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  So there's a break. There's a break somewhere.
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  There's something that's stopping people from the workers
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  like Dylan here that are working at Starbase.
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  They can't talk to somebody. So there's something going on
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  there that they're not talking about.
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  They don't feel powerful enough in their in their positions
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  where they can talk to somebody a little bit higher up than them
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  and be like, hey man, we're beaten down, we're broken.
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  Or maybe they did and then, you know, all right, going to give
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  this a shot again, lol. Dylan, Dylan says again, why do
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  you have to do it again? Why wasn't it fixed the first
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  time? You know, it seems like this is
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  where either the company can shift from people that love what
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  they do and they absolutely love what they do down there.
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  People love what they do down there.
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  They are the best of in the world at this and they love what
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  they do, but are they willing to make that sacrifice if they're
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  not being treated well? Your presence used to drive a
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  fire in the team. And we all remember this, right?
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  You and me, we, you and me, we remember this Elon, back in the
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  day when he would go on every podcast, every show, every talk
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  that he did was about Starship, everything.
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  It was like Tesla, Starship, etcetera.
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  And the talks that he would give started becoming pretty normal.
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  He would say the same thing every time and it would turn out
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  to be just very standard, you know?
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  And these talks at star base, they need to happen more often
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  just for the team, not us. Like we don't matter really.
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  You know, the team is the those are the people that are going to
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  send people to Mars. So they matter.
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  Talk to them. So let me know what you think in
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  the comments. I'm getting riled up here.
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  I just think people like this don't get don't take advantage
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  of people like Dylan. Dylan, I got your back, bro.
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  I got your back. I'm sure everybody else that's
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  watching this has your back too. We want you to succeed, Dylan.
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  We want the team down there to succeed.
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  So please Elon, go talk to them and rile them up, get them hyped
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  up, give them raises or something.
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  Come on, make them feel important because they are.
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  Give them more money, give them more whatever they need, give
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  them whatever they want. You have all the money.
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  So anyway, let me know what you think.
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  five, so you got me for 10 more. Take care of yourself, See each
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  other. I'll see you in the next one.