Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. What do you think of
Speaker 1: when you think of the future. Is it space travel, robots,
Speaker 1: trucks with the word cyber in front of them. Whatever
Speaker 1: your vision, there is one man working to make it
Speaker 1: a reality. East part Thomas Edison, part Tironman, part annoying
Speaker 1: dude in the group chat and is anything but your
Speaker 1: standard CDEO. I changed my tunnel too, too, techno king um.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a formal SEC filing.
Speaker 1: It's I'm legally or whatever techno king um. I just
Speaker 1: did that as kind of like a joke. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: a technic king, but as a joke, and soon we'll
Speaker 1: all be. It serves that, you know, funny way, because
Speaker 1: while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally online
Speaker 1: billionaire who wants to plug people into computers and build
Speaker 1: a best network of underground tunnels, it's not like he's
Speaker 1: some kindness super villain. Eventually you can transform mis into
Speaker 1: an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the pulse.
Speaker 1: Well maybe a little so strappy. Turn on the autopilot,
Speaker 1: but keep your hands on the steering wheel in case
Speaker 1: of pedestrians, because this is the daily shiography of Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Visionary future man. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,
Speaker 1: in earlier nineteen seventy one. His father made a fortune
Speaker 1: in construction and emerald minun Because Africa's resources are like
Speaker 1: free money for white people, bad liability to school, Elon
Speaker 1: overcame many hardships, Although unlike other South African celebrities, he
Speaker 1: didn't make his childhood into a whole thing. By age ten,
Speaker 1: he was learning to program computer. At twelve, he built
Speaker 1: a video game he called Blastar, which started his lifelong
Speaker 1: love of inventing things that already exist. Soon after, he
Speaker 1: left South Africa and made his way to a booming
Speaker 1: Silicon valley, where he launched his first company, ZIP two,
Speaker 1: which he eventually sold the Compact computer for three five
Speaker 1: million dollars. Like so many tech entrepreneurs, he earned his
Speaker 1: unimaginable wealth by doing something invaluable for society. Selling a
Speaker 1: startup you've never heard of to a company that doesn't
Speaker 1: exist anymore, must celebrated by buying himself a million dollars supercar.
Speaker 1: There are sixty two of the parents in the world,
Speaker 1: and I will earn one of them. Yes, Musk was
Speaker 1: so rich he could afford to have a midlife crisis
Speaker 1: while he was still in his twenties. Sadly, his new
Speaker 1: toy wouldn't last. Wrong, I didn't really know how to
Speaker 1: drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult car to drive,
Speaker 1: And I floored it and the lane change on the
Speaker 1: brack wheel, brook News and the cost fund around and
Speaker 1: uh and then we hit the embankment and knocked the
Speaker 1: car into the air, which continued spinning like a discus,
Speaker 1: like three ft in the air. That's right, Musks. McLaren
Speaker 1: crashed worse than dotch coin. After Saturday Night Live. For
Speaker 1: his next act, Must created x dot com, which would
Speaker 1: later become PayPal, the happy your uncle had to use
Speaker 1: because in moo and cash app won't work them as
Speaker 1: a nopia. Must took the money you made from that
Speaker 1: business and build an empire of pool lash ship, rocket ships,
Speaker 1: electric cars, solar farms, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and underground highways,
Speaker 1: all while dating celebrities and starting a record label to
Speaker 1: release his own E d M track Down a Banker.
Speaker 1: All the more impressive considering Must get clearly never heard
Speaker 1: music before. Yes, Elon Musk refuses to stainless lane, much
Speaker 1: like a Tesla on autopilots down or changing lands by itself.
Speaker 1: Tesla's groundbreaking cars looking for speed brought unprecedented power range
Speaker 1: from sexists to electric vehicles, a market previously reserved for
Speaker 1: nerds who cared about the environment. And must even promise
Speaker 1: the dream of full self driving technology and I promised repeatedly.
Speaker 1: I'm confident that in less than a year, uh, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to go from highway on ramp to highway
Speaker 1: exit without touching any control. Fully, shit, it just ran
Speaker 1: that red light. In three years, um, the call will
Speaker 1: be able to take you the grown point to point US.
Speaker 1: I think we're basically less than two years away from
Speaker 1: complete autonomy. Oh shit, we had not across country from
Speaker 1: l A to New York by the end of the
Speaker 1: year fully autonomous. Extremely confident of achieving full autonomy UH
Speaker 1: and and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year.
Speaker 1: But must can't stop drinking big even when he probably should,
Speaker 1: like when SpaceX made history with the world's first reusable
Speaker 1: rocket technology and then use it to launch the first
Speaker 1: car in the space technically the second. If you can
Speaker 1: elon Lusk's McLaren must special brand of achievements one a
Speaker 1: totally normal and healthy fan base around the world. But
Speaker 1: success didn't come easy. You had to overcome a lot
Speaker 1: of doubters, starting with himself. I don't want to give
Speaker 1: the impression that I thought tells they would be successful
Speaker 1: from the beginning. I actually thought we would fail. We
Speaker 1: were only a few days from bankruptcy. It was literally
Speaker 1: two days. It pushed him to the brink. Musk could
Speaker 1: have gone from being a multi billionaire all the way
Speaker 1: down to the very lowest rung of society millionaire. But
Speaker 1: through the years must kept as many ventures going, with
Speaker 1: a little more than his can do added to him
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars in government subsidies. Today Musk isn't
Speaker 1: merely the richest man in the world. Is net worth
Speaker 1: as higher than the GDP of most countries. Should must
Speaker 1: be a country does have a national anthem down. But
Speaker 1: don't worry. It's not like he's got an army or anything.
Speaker 1: I went to Russia to look at buying a reposed
Speaker 1: I c Van, which is a very trip the experience. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe we're a little and he's not just great at
Speaker 1: making money, he's also an experence saving by paying almost
Speaker 1: nothing in taxes for three years and then actually nothing
Speaker 1: in Of course, there's always haters like to nitpick musk
Speaker 1: business methods. There are charges of unreported injuries, excessive hours,
Speaker 1: abusive conditions, injuries on the job, breathing toxic fumes over
Speaker 1: a hundred ambulance calls. I don't think that's correct. I
Speaker 1: mean as literally living in the factory. Um if these,
Speaker 1: if those like toxic ferience, I'm breathing them exactly? Does
Speaker 1: Musk seem like a man who is inhaling toxic fumes?
Speaker 1: But Elon must also understands it all work and no
Speaker 1: play make X As a twelve a dull boy, and
Speaker 1: like any well adjusted person, his favorite pastime is spending
Speaker 1: twelve to fourteen hours a day on Twitter. So it
Speaker 1: made sense when Musk announced that he would buy the
Speaker 1: social media platform, and even more sense when the deals
Speaker 1: spun out of control and crashed into an embankment. But
Speaker 1: Musk doesn't only use Twitter for fun. He uses to
Speaker 1: make the world a better place, or at least promised to.
Speaker 1: It's where he promised to solve world hunger and draftic,
Speaker 1: fight cold and fixed Flint's water and when a Thai
Speaker 1: soccer team was stuck in a cane, Elon even promised
Speaker 1: to rescue those kids from the guy who rescued. That's
Speaker 1: why Musk is such a champion of free speech. If
Speaker 1: you can't randomly accuse someone who was saving people's lives
Speaker 1: of being a peto guy, does civil discourse even exists?
Speaker 1: Lelon Musk is dedicated to building a brighter future for
Speaker 1: old humanity. It's why he backed the most futuristic presidential
Speaker 1: candidate of It's why he's so dedicated to turning every
Speaker 1: aspect of our lives into a platform for his dumb jokes.
Speaker 1: From robots to cybernetic implants, to AI into space travel
Speaker 1: to un entered social media. Elon Musk is building a
Speaker 1: future that humanity only imagined in the movies, and who
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to live there? You basically think about to
Speaker 1: hate humanity if you don't like that future. And that's
Speaker 1: why Elon Musk fruly is a visionary future man. The
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