WEBVTT - The Year in Elon, Part Two 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:09.640 Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:15.600 Well, Elon Musk is. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.439 Now the richest person on the planet. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.600 More than half the satellites in space are owned and 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.639 controlled by one man. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.040 Starting his own artificial intelligence company. Well, he's a legitimate 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:27.800 super genius. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:28.920 I mean legitimate. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:29.480 He says. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.120 He's always voted for Democrats, but this year it will 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.559 be different. He'll vote Republican. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.320 There is a reason the US government is so reliant 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.880 on him. Alon Musk is a scam artist and he's 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:39.560 done nothing. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.880 Anything he does is fascinating the people. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.600 Welcome back to the Elan and Holiday Special. I'm Max Chafkin, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.240 still sitting here in the studio with Bloomberg Elon Musk 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.400 reporter Dana Hall and Bloomberg Big Tech chief Sarah Fryar. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.760 Joining us as well is Ryan Broderick of the excellent 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.720 Garbage Day newsletter. Last week we went through the most 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.880 important stories of the year, and as listeners will remember, well, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.640 I introduced a point system for our Know Your Elon contest. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.720 Now right now here is where the points stand. And 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.679 again we're recording this in mid December. So Dana is 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.880 in the lead with three points. Sarah has two points. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:32.600 And Ryan unfortunately is last with one solitary point, but 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.640 he can make up for it because we are throwing 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.040 ourselves into a new game. Ryan, I hope you're hydrated 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.880 before we start this. But this game is called most 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.120 Interesting of the Year. So as people follow him on 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.160 Elon Musk will know that Elon Musk often comments interesting 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.480 on top of a tweet, and they're off there, sometimes provocative, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.840 there's sometimes I don't know, arguably offensive. They're sometimes funny, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.120 there's sometimes nonsensical. I am going to read you all 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.960 four summaries of posts, and you have to tell me 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:09.359 the one that Elon Musk did not find interesting. Okay, so, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.720 so three of these were interesting and one of them 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:18.880 was not interesting? Okay? Are you all ready? Okay? The 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.360 first post okay, so so Post one argued that quote 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.760 only high t alpha males end quote autists should be 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:34.960 able to vote, okay. Post two was a post promoting 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.040 the opening of a film called Vindicating Trump by the 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:44.119 conservative commentator Denesh Desuza. Post three it was a lengthy 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.600 post This is hundreds of words long by JK Rowling 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.720 laying out her feelings on transidentity. Like I said, it 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.120 goes on and on. It's one of those ones you 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.519 have to click to expand it. It begins I believe 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.440 a woman is a human being who belongs to the 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.600 sex class that produces large gammeetes and goes on from there. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.839 Post four was a series of photos of Jackie Chan, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:10.200 the martial art artist and actor with a Donald Trump haircut. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.160 So four posts, which one of those was not interesting? 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:19.079 According to Elon Musk Sarah Fryar Jackie Chan Ryan. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.080 So, I would have thought Jackie Chan. But I feel 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.720 like you threw it in there because it is real. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.960 I've seen the middle two like in real life. So 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.840 I'm gonna go with the high team mails and autists 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:31.600 for number one. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:36.160 Okay, Dana, You're both wrong, Dana, Wow. Okay, it is 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:43.080 either the the JK Rowling screed or the Denesh jesus 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.000 A film. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.600 I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that an justus 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:46.960 A film. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.120 Oh my god, everyone's wrong. Okay, So this was but 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.640 this is a trick question. But but it's it's really 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.440 important because Elon did not find the rolling post interesting. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.080 She did post it. That's a real post. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.800 Do you find it concerning he act? 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.240 But he actually did he he must have been going 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.400 through a thing where he was worried there was too 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.720 much division on X, because he responded, while I heartily 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.360 agree with your points regarding sex gender, may I suggest 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.480 also posting interesting and positive content on other matters that's 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.839 so good, so debatable? He kind of implied that it 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.520 was interesting, but he he said also that it wasn't interesting. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.240 So I award no points to anyone for that for 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.200 that one, although I do feel like Ryan, You're you're 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.680 remembering the Jackie Chan series has gotta be worth that's 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.280 gotta be worth a sympathy point. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.480 I gotta go outside more often. Yeah, I agree. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.320 All right. Now the second topic here is concerning. Now, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.280 these are four posts that Elon Musk found concerning. And 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.560 once again I am going to read you little excerpts 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.600 of these posts, and you're gonna tell me what did 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.800 not concern Elon Musk. Okay, all right, here's number one. Now, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.599 everyone pay attention. A post claiming that quote it's really 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.360 pointless to even attack Harris. She's just a puppet du jour, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.880 and Biden is a puppet diyere. That's French for yesterday. Two, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.840 an article complaining that signal the encrypted messaging service had 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:19.760 close ties to the US intelligence agencies. Post three was 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:25.320 one warning that rising unemployment and panic job cuts were coming. This, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.240 by the way, it turned out to be false. Post 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.360 four claimed that Google was rigging the twenty twenty four election. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.479 All right, Dana, you tell me which one of those 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.400 was not concerning an Elon. Now remember puppets, the puppet post, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.760 the encrypted messaging, rising unemployment, Google rigging the twenty twenty 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:44.239 four election. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.520 Maybe the puppet post, because that seems like something that 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.680 Elon himself would actually say not be concerned about. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.039 Oh my god, Dana is so good. Elon did not 0:05:54.480 --> 0:06:01.800 did not find it concerning. He said it and two 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.320 points for Dana Hall okay, So so Dan is up 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.799 to five, Ryan is two, Sarah's two. Dana is running 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.520 away with this thing. But Sarah and Ryan, you still 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:09.880 have time. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.719 I'm happy to lose to the masters. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.800 So let's move on to another category. This is the 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.279 portion where we discuss parts of Elon Musk's business empire 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.800 that he is going to look into. Now, you know, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.400 super fans Elon heads will know that people often complain 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.280 to Elon Musk about, you know, various things that are 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.440 going on, and he'll say looking into it, all right. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.080 So now, now three of these are real. One of 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.600 them is not the first one a complaint that he 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.159 banned Luigi Mangioni's Twitter account. This is the alleged United 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.880 Healthcare shooter. Two is a suggestion that the quote deep 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.880 state could be undermined by a new government office that 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.960 would be in charge of declassifying documents. Three is a 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:56.040 report about high levels of absenteeism in Tesla's Berlin gigafactory. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.880 And four is a complaint that Stripe the mobile paint 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:04.159 the payment service was refusing to process payments for libs 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.520 of TikTok, which is a right wing influencer account. So, Sarah, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:12.160 which of these was Elon not looking into number two? Bingo? 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.440 All the rest I have to do with his company 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.160 is and he always says looking into it when it's 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.560 something that he's in charge of. But he's not in 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:19.360 charge of the deep state. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.280 Okay. See, I thought I was gonna fool you because 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.200 he is kind of in charge of the deep state 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.200 now with the DOGE. But no, you're right. That was 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.240 a suggestion by FBI nominee Cash Bettel. Elon said it 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.720 was a good idea, but he is not looking into it. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.080 Oh good, okay, Okay, so that's two points of Sarah. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.600 That means it's five for Dana, four for Sarah, two 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.520 for Ryan. We're gonna have to give Ryan a chance 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.000 to answer first on the next one, just to make 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.880 sure it's fair, because I'm getting some producer complaints in 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.640 my ear about questions of game integrity here. All right, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.040 this is most beautiful. These were posts that Elon Musk 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.120 found beautiful and wrote that this is beautiful. And I 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.240 have four pictures. I'm gonna show you the pictures, Dan 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.920 and Sarah. You should have them ready loaded up. Ryan, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.640 I'm gonna just sort of move my last shot and 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.040 show me you, okay, picture number one, and I'm gonna 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.320 describe it for those who are not on the podcast. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.040 It's okay, I know this one, okay. It's a picture 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.560 of Georgia Maloney and the Prime the Prime Minister of 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.760 Italy and Elon Musk sitting at a dinner looking at 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.320 each other, just with the most I mean, I don't know, Dana, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.400 can you describe it a Morris? 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.760 I mean, they're flirting, there's wine, it's you know, it. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.920 Just it looks like such a good time. All right. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:39.000 That's picture one. Picture two okay, Now it's a selfie 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.320 of a of a gentleman and who you probably don't recognize. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.520 He's sort of wearing a flag pin. I'll tell you 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.080 who he is though. This is a picture of Christopher Maccio, 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.560 who is a classical crossover vocalist known for performing at 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.600 Trump events. I believe that Dana and I saw him 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.280 at Madison Square Garden. I think he made this picture. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.079 He may be at mar A Lago any, Dan, I 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.400 don't know. Do We were kind of walking out? Do 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.840 you remember how how was? How was the vocal stylings 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:07.800 of Christopher Maccio? 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.520 Did he perform? Is he the one who's saying America 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:12.120 the beautiful? 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.880 You know? Honestly, I don't know he's he's he's like 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.800 a Trump World singer, of course that exists. Yes, Okay, now, okay, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.559 so that's two. So Maloney Macchio, Okay, here we go. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.800 Now here's the third one. Okay, So this is a 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.439 an interior. It looks like something out of like Bride's 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.280 magazine or something. It's again, I'm gonna describe it quickly. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.680 It's a sort of a you know, like a sort 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.720 of white all white there, white roses. There's a bed. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.480 It looks like the nicest Airbnb you've ever stayed in. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:43.199 I remember this one. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.160 Yeah, Okay, don't give anything away. I guess you're answering first. Okay, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.040 And here's number four, and again I don't quite know 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.800 how to describe this, but maybe I'll let Ryan do 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:53.640 the honors. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.760 Oh yeah, he So it's like the kind of thing 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.079 you'd see on like Dvian art where it's like a 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.440 beautiful woman back to the point of view of the picture, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.600 hugging like a man in all black chain to the wall. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.679 It's like something like a seventeen year old will put 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.600 on MySpace twenty years ago, and like Elon loves this stuff. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.960 Yeah, it's there. There was a caption which I wanted 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.760 to read. I'd said, I believe in a bond that 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.480 transcends love, a salvation found in each other. All right, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.480 Ryan Broderick, which of the picture which you're saying that 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.640 that was the one that he did not find beautiful? Yeah, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:28.559 I have bad news for. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:29.120 You, man. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:30.560 It was so confident. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.160 It wasn't a selfie of a random man. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.960 I just assume it Okay, here's the thing. That answer 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.720 is wrong. But I feel a little bad because he 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.840 definitely was talking about the music being beautiful. He was 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.720 not saying that the selfie was beautiful. But still, you know, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.760 gotta trip you up. Ok all right, let's give Sarah 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:49.840 a chance to steal. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:56.720 He probably didn't didn't actually say beautiful about his dinner photo. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.719 That is correct, he did not, and he has been 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:05.320 at pains I think to sort of, you know, not 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.800 make it seem like they're definitely in a romantic relationship, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.000 and even may Musk has has chimed in at times. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.760 I ship them, but I understand. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.560 I feel like that was a little tricky and maybe 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.000 perhaps unfair. But nonetheless, Sarah is in the lead, Dana 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.480 has five points, and Ryan is still stuck it at two. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.120 I'll take it. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.080 So now we have another game. This one is called 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.160 No Your Rogan. Okay, So we're gonna play a series 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.280 of clips and you are going to have to this 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.560 is another two pointer. You're gonna have to identify who 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.400 Joe Rogan is talking to in the context of the comments. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.520 And now there are only three choices, and the choices 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:57.600 are Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or Bob Gimlin, who is 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.640 a crypto zoologist. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.200 Someone who studies fantasy beasts and creatures. Yeah right, yeah, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:04.560 I got it. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.920 Now this might be easy because I think some of 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.120 us have listened to some of these episodes. But nonetheless, again, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.400 all right, so let's start with the first clip. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.560 If there was a life on a planet and we 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.440 could introduce our DNA into these lower primates and make 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.520 them more like us, you don't think we would do. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.480 It, Ryan Brodrick, what is the who is he talking to? 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.440 Is he talking to a cryptozoologist, Donald Trump or Elon Musk? 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.160 And what is the context? 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.240 Honestly, it would be so funny if he was talking 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.400 to Trump. It would be so funny if you just 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.120 talk about like making monkey human hybrids with Donald Trump. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.439 I'm gonna say Elon Musk, and I'm gonna say it 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.040 has something to do with like gene splicing or transhumanism, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.440 or like making sort of animal hybrid debt slaves to 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:48.600 work on Mars or something. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.600 All right, let's hear the clip, Mike. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.040 If we had the technology to do what allegedly the 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.360 aliens alledged aliens do, we. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.920 Would beat all sorts of crazy stuff all the time. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.440 I'll just so as you could hear, he's not talking 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.439 to Elon Musk or Donald Trump. He's talking to the 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.880 cryptozoologist about alien tech. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:06.760 Yeah. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.319 Okay, so unfortunately that's another. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.079 I'll take the I'm actually happy to not know what 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:13.320 goes on on that podcast. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.640 Okay, let's immediately go to a new clip. Here's Rogan again. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.400 It cleans your mind, It cleans your mind, Dana Hall, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.640 who is Joe Rogan talking to. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.079 And what is he talking about? 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.559 He's talking to Elon Musk about like eating meat or 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.600 like something consumable. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:32.840 I don't know. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.800 Let's hear the clip. Golf as you get older, there's 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:42.040 something really good about it. And competition with competition concentrations 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.120 a great handicaps for it. All right, So self explanatory, 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.280 Trump talking to Trump about playing golf. All right, here's 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.480 the third clip, video evidence, radar evidence. Okay, Rogan said, 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:58.040 video evidence, Comma, radar evidence. What do you think, Sarah Fryar? 0:13:58.679 --> 0:13:59.240 Is it. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.360 Elon Musk talking about immigration? 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.280 Let's hear the clip. And they said, we saw think, sir, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:08.640 that it's aliens. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.720 Very strange, like a round ball, but it wasn't a 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.160 combat or maybe it was something. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.360 All right, Ryan gets a point there for for chiming 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.200 with aliens. Yes, that's that's Donald Trump and Joe Rogan, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.440 the president elect of the United States and the most 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.560 popular broadcaster in America talking about aliens. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.440 See that's why Rogan is popular. If I got to 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.040 sit down with any president, I'd be like, what's the 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:31.760 deal with aliens? 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.920 And like that's good. That's good radio. You know, that's 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:34.720 good podcasting. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.320 Legit, no joke, You're right, all right, next clip, we 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.160 only have two more. Here's here's the second last clip. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.320 I would be terribly surprised. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:50.320 Cryptozoologist Elon Musk, Donald Trump, And then what is the context? 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:56.840 I would be terribly surprised, Yes, like would it surprise 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:57.960 you to learn that? 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:05.080 Like? Just figure pretty like if someone like I wouldn't 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:10.200 be surprised. Shot in the dark, all right, Yes, indeed 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.000 it was. It was the cryptozoologist talking about the possibility 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.760 that Bigfoot would get hit by the bus. For anyone 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.840 wondering what just happened there, Ryan was, I think on 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.720 his way to getting the answer correctly. I don't know 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.880 if he would have got Bigfoot. But our producers accidentally 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.880 hit the reveal button a little too early. But you 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.840 know what, I think we have to give Ryan credit because, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.400 as I said, it was on the tip of his tongue. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.480 Ryan is up to five points. Now it's six to 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.040 five five. We've got a tight contest here. And the 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.280 last question is going to go to Dana. Here's the clip. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.720 Just the fact that they have the resources to do 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.760 that when they have all the crime that they have. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.640 Dana, who's Joe Rogan talking to and what is talking 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:49.880 to him? 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.680 About Trump? 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.200 And something about immigration? 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.880 Sarah, I'll go to you. Now, think about crime stories 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.760 that that dominated the news over the last two months. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.560 Is it about ballots? 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.480 Just the fact that they have the resources to do 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.000 that when they have all that crime that they have. Okay, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.040 now this is this is a story related to law breaking, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.600 but it's of a specific variety of law and breaking. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.720 It has to do with violating the rules about animals 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.200 at home. Oh wait, he's talking about Excel in the UK. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.480 It peanut the squirrel. He was talking Oh. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:29.560 Peanut does squirrel? 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.600 And who is he talking to? Dan? That's right, Okay, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:35.480 let's hear that one. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.400 Still pretty shoke about the freaking squirrel thing. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:38.440 It's like, yeah, the. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.360 At gunpoint, forced the guy. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.360 To like stay outside his house while they got his 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:45.560 pets and killed them. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.800 Meanwhile, you know, violent felons are running free. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.960 Okay, just to remind listeners, Peanut the squirrel was an illicit, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:59.520 allegedly illicit squirrel owned by a influencer who was, according 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.880 to Elon and many especially on the right, was cruelly 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.080 taken from his home euthanized tested for rabies. This was 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.919 like the It actually might have happened in November, but 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.280 it was like the closest thing we had in twenty 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.040 twenty four to an October surprise that ends the game. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.520 The big winner today is Dana and I believe Ryan 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.880 and Sarah were tied for second, but in my book, 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.760 everybody's a winner. Dana Hall, congratulations, Oh what do I win? 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:26.960 What's the prize? Max? 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.080 Yeah, we discussed that and we haven't figured it out 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.440 all right, So we have one last part of this 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.520 holiday spectacular for you, and it's gonna be predictions. Now 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.640 just to I'm gonna ask all of you to talk 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.879 about what you think is gonna happen. But we're just 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.520 gonna play a little tape of colleagues and friends of 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.200 the show. Talking about like what they see as their 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:53.520 Elon Musk predictions. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.720 I got two predictions for this year for Elon Musk. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.760 The first is that he's gonna fold x social network 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:05.280 formerly known as Twitter into Xai. So it's going to 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.879 be a way for him to basically salvage that you know, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.760 struggling business get investors away out by merging those two companies. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.600 And then second is that we're going to see some 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.680 kind of boys trip with Elon and Donald Trump going 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.880 to visit. I'm going to say, Kim John Noon this year, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.959 I have to just have a hunch that there's going 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.600 to be some very controversial weekend vacation for those guys. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:33.320 My expectation for Elon Musk in twenty twenty five is 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.600 that he will continue to fly out the law on 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:43.800 corporate governance and other issues and believe that you know, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.640 he's somehow special and he won't he doesn't need to 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.080 follow the same rules and customs that you know, the 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.240 little people follow. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.199 My prediction for Doge is that Elon and Vivig are 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.800 going to get nowhere near the two trillion dollars that 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.560 they've proposed to cut unless you stretch the window for 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.600 cutting two trillion dollars to like one hundred years. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:10.199 I guess my big prediction is that we are going 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:14.480 to learn something new on the fertility front. It could 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.639 be more babies that Elon's had. I think the current 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:22.280 number is twelve or thirteen. It could be some sort 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:28.639 of you know place, maybe in Texas. But I think 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:33.120 that we are going to learn more about how Elon 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:38.560 has been personally trying to fill the earth with more children. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:39.840 That is more prediction. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.920 So in twenty twenty five, I'm wondering, will Elon somehow 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.760 you stage to put his thumb on scale to help 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.640 his own companies. There's obvious ones like the FAA could 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.119 really help SpaceX if it wanted to. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.160 But what about the FDA. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.159 Could he use that to somehow really help Neuralink or 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.719 the Department of Chain Insportation to help warn That's what 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:03.639 I'm going to be watching. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.240 Hey, Papadoppolois here, I've got a whole slew of predictions, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.159 praying that at least one of them proves to be correct. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.520 First off, I've got those of the Committee scoring a 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.840 couple big early victories, you know, like permanent daylight savings 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.600 time or something. And then the whole thing fizzling out 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:28.160 pretty badly, sparking curiously a rally in doged the cryptocurrency. Next, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:34.040 I've got the valuations of SpaceX and Tesla converging throughout 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:39.320 the year. Then I've got friend of Pod Kurt Wagner, 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:44.920 breaking down and buying a cyber truck. Lastly, of course, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.400 a horse tip. You know, me being the gambling degenerate 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.639 and all. I've got a cult by the name of 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.000 the Chancer mcpatrick winning the one hundred and fifty first 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:55.439 running of the Kentucky Derby. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:56.640 That's it. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:03.200 I have no idea if that's a real course. All right, 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.720 So that was Kurt Wagner, Jeff Feely, Josh Green, Rayhan Harmancy, 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:12.240 Sarah McBride, and our host, our normal host anyway, David Papadopolis. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.720 All right, Sarah, most plausible least plausible predictions. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.399 That we just hurt Kurt getting a cybertruck. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:27.080 Is that most plausible or the least plausible? 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.360 Well, I think least plausible, But anything is possible. I mean, 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.960 it's definitely possible that dose is gonna fizzle and turn 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.440 into a disaster and not cut the trillions that wants 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:38.879 to cut. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.200 I mean not everyone. So there were some very safe 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.639 there were some very set safe bets here. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.879