Speaker 1: You know, this is an election that I think, frankly
Speaker 1: is is a folk in the road of destiny.
Speaker 2: You know, it really is.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's yeah, it's it's it's it's essential.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's like we need safe cities, secure borders,
Speaker 1: you know, sensible spending, I mean basic stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and and we need to get rid of like the
Speaker 1: well yeah, but I mean it's it's like I always
Speaker 1: feel like it's bad to like attack Kumalo because it's
Speaker 1: just a puppet, you know. But it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a machine. It's just like this this big
Speaker 1: government machine and there's a puppet, and it's like it's
Speaker 1: no point being like attacking the puppet. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like it's like, you know, I made a
Speaker 1: joke that was sort of misconstrued that it was like,
Speaker 1: nobody even bothers to try to kill Comma. That's pointless.
Speaker 1: Why let's get another puppet. So everyone there's nobody even bothers,
Speaker 1: nobody's even nobody's even tried to kill Biden. It's like,
Speaker 1: doesn't that seem odd? They're trying to kill Trump twice exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, if somebody's already dead, what's the going
Speaker 1: to try to kill him? So, uh, you know, he's
Speaker 1: one putting four toes in the grave. I mean I
Speaker 1: saw weekend at Bernie's and honestly the corps had more
Speaker 1: life than Biden. Like actually, so, uh you know, who
Speaker 1: is he even running the country? Like, like like like
Speaker 1: who's in charge? It's confusing? Is you're Trump? Sure he
Speaker 1: will be, hopefully, but I just sort of wonder, like,
Speaker 1: clearly Biden is an accompassmntis so who is actually in
Speaker 1: charge the machine? I I think it's just it's just
Speaker 1: like the big government machine basically is what's in charge?
Speaker 2: It's but it's bizarre, you know.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I mean obviously with with Trump, the
Speaker 1: great thing is that we have a real individual who
Speaker 1: is not beholden to anyone and that's what scares the
Speaker 1: machine and that's why the machine is trying to kill them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, wild times, man, wild times. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: Mean I've had quite a few friends called me and say,
Speaker 1: have you know, you should definitely improve your security. I'm
Speaker 1: like that's probably a good idea. Yeah, I'm like they're
Speaker 1: like they're definitely going to try to kill you. I'm like, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good chance they might try to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly if they shoot, they better not miss, so
Speaker 1: I'll find out who was behind them, not just who
Speaker 1: the gunman was. So, but it is it is crazy
Speaker 1: to think that, uh, you know, we have a presidential
Speaker 1: candidate who that they've tried to kill twice in recent months,
Speaker 1: and they try to get them, you know, with lawfair
Speaker 1: six ways of Sunday to try to prevent people from
Speaker 1: actually voting in a democratic way. It's it's outrageous. Really,
Speaker 1: what are they you know, what are they afraid of?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's it's kind of the truth.
Speaker 1: And I certainly in course people if people haven't seen
Speaker 1: the the conversation between uh jur Organ and Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: that was.
Speaker 2: That was super cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think for for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, it's like, you know, how do you know,
Speaker 1: how do you understand somebody like and what they're about?
Speaker 1: You know, Like the the sort of far left press
Speaker 1: has been going on and on about how like Trump
Speaker 1: is like Hitler, like Mussolini and Stalin combined and you
Speaker 1: rolled them all into one and he's somehow worse than
Speaker 1: all three of them combined. These are people who have
Speaker 1: killed tens of millions of people, and like, something's wrong
Speaker 1: with the press. Guys, you know something is wrong with
Speaker 1: the press. Your journalism is dead. Like what the heck
Speaker 1: is going on?
Speaker 2: It's bizarre.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually exactly, it's like I mean, I do, I do,
Speaker 1: I do think like that, that that old school journalism.
Speaker 1: I call it the legacy media because it is kind
Speaker 1: of legacy media because it is it is from a
Speaker 1: time when in order to learn any news, you had
Speaker 1: to aggregate the news to some central publication and then
Speaker 1: then some editor would decide what people should hear, and
Speaker 1: then the would print the newspaper with like a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of paper literally and then distribute that paper.
Speaker 1: And that's how you learn things. But you obviously don't
Speaker 1: need that anymore. You've got the Internet, so anyone can
Speaker 1: learn anything at any time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I X the future.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's where it's citizen journalism, where you hear
Speaker 1: from the people. It's by the people for the people.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. I think this is this
Speaker 1: this is a super super big deal and it's it's
Speaker 1: absolutely fundamental and transformative that the people actually get to
Speaker 1: decide UH the news and the and and what the
Speaker 1: narrative and what matters and and that the because the
Speaker 1: legacy UH media is basically controlled by a handful of
Speaker 1: editors in chief, that's it. They decide what's going to
Speaker 1: get published. That's why I really encourage everyone out there
Speaker 1: to to write stuff on the X platform and get
Speaker 1: other platforms too. But citizen journalism is the future, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's where you get to hear from actual experts
Speaker 1: in the field, people who are really who are experts
Speaker 1: in any given industry, and you get to hear the rebuttal.
Speaker 1: So if somebody says something that's that's wrong or requires
Speaker 1: more context, people can add that. You know, Exces has
Speaker 1: got community notes, which is great, you know, so take
Speaker 1: your community notes. I think is got a very good
Speaker 1: batting average. It's not perfect, but it's got a very
Speaker 1: good batting average. And I you know, many times I've
Speaker 1: gotten requests like can we get rid of this community note?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, we cannot, not even a community note
Speaker 1: on myself. So with community notes, all the code is
Speaker 1: open source, all the data is open source, so you
Speaker 1: can recreate any given community notes independently, and that transparency
Speaker 1: is how you know that it's true and it's real
Speaker 1: and it's honest. So that's that's yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: we've got you know, besides, man, this this mic feedback
Speaker 1: is getting a little crazy, So maybe I should should
Speaker 1: I go further back or with a pard Well there's
Speaker 1: an X on the floor, I guess, I guess then
Speaker 1: that's where I should stand. Okay, yeah, all right, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: So yeah, the landing of the rock ship was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That was an amazing thing. So yeah, this this space
Speaker 1: X team is an incredible team. And it's wild that
Speaker 1: this giant two hundred fifty ton object went to space,
Speaker 1: came back and was caught by giant Magzilla arms. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's super cool. That's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that it's you know that I think is inspiring and exciting,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of potential. I think
Speaker 1: we can actually build a permanently occupied science base on
Speaker 1: the Moon, we can build a SETI on Mars, we
Speaker 1: can be a multiplanet species and out there among the stars.
Speaker 1: It's very exciting, you know. So I'm wearing this jacket
Speaker 1: that was given to me by the Space Force. You know,
Speaker 1: it's got Star Trek Enterprise on it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like Staffiat Academy. We want to make Staffiat Academy real,
Speaker 1: you know, and go out there and visit other those
Speaker 1: star systems eventually and see if there are alien civilizations.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're alien civilizations that existed for millions of years
Speaker 1: and we just find the you know, the ruins of
Speaker 1: many long dead alien civilizations.
Speaker 2: I don't know, well they might be. It'd be very.
Speaker 1: Interesting to see, you know, because at least according to physics,
Speaker 1: the universe is thirteen point eight billion years old and
Speaker 1: Earth is about four and a half billion years old.
Speaker 1: So even if you just increment the time counter by
Speaker 1: a million years, you have to go three digits past
Speaker 1: decimal place.
Speaker 2: To go blip a million years.
Speaker 1: And the oldest writing that we've discovered in archaeology is
Speaker 1: only fifty five hundred years old. Only that's nothing. That's
Speaker 1: a million of Earth's existence. It was the first writing.
Speaker 1: And you really have to add it to the ancient Samerians,
Speaker 1: by the way, those they got a lot of firsts.
Speaker 1: Those ancient Samerians, they are really knocking out of the park, right,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just take clay tablets and everything. It's
Speaker 1: a thanks thankfully that would in c clay tablets. It
Speaker 1: was quite helpful. I mean they've even discovered like school work,
Speaker 1: like when they teach the kids cuniform on clay tablets
Speaker 1: and then there's the teacher correcting the cuniform in red ink.
Speaker 1: It's been going on for a while.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we are a mere.
Speaker 1: Fifty five hundred year old civilization, just a baby, really,
Speaker 1: but what a lot of potential. I think we you know,
Speaker 1: we can go out there, we can make life multi planetary,
Speaker 1: understand the universe, find out what's going on. Maybe the
Speaker 1: aliens will come visit us. Maybe maybe they are here
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know, so alien registration are so yeah. If
Speaker 2: people do ask me, like do I think aliens are
Speaker 2: amongst I'm like.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's illegal aliens, but a lot of those.
Speaker 1: But but I haven't seen any like sort of green
Speaker 1: aliens with antennas on the head or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And maybe they are, they're just very subtle, but I
Speaker 1: haven't seen them. So, but I think we want to
Speaker 1: be kind of we want to be the aliens exploring
Speaker 1: other galaxies, you know, and you know, I grew up
Speaker 1: watching Star Trek and Star Wars was the first movie
Speaker 1: that I ever saw in a theater, and it obviously
Speaker 1: affected me a lot. And we just want to have
Speaker 1: these sort of glorious, amazing I don't know, space future real,
Speaker 1: you know, and and have exciting, inspiring things that make
Speaker 1: you glad to wake up when you wake up the
Speaker 1: one you're glad to be life. They have to be
Speaker 1: these things, you know, life cannot Yeah, so yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: well I think we can so that you can travel
Speaker 1: to Mars roughly every two years, so every twenty six months,
Speaker 1: the planet's align and you can travel from Earth to Mars.
Speaker 1: And we're actually at a planetary alignment moment right now
Speaker 1: in the next few months, and so in roughly two years,
Speaker 1: there will be another planetary alignment, and that's when we
Speaker 1: intend to send the first starship rockets to Mars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's I think we can probably send quite a
Speaker 1: few in two years. And then if those lands successfully
Speaker 1: and we do not increment the crater count in Mars
Speaker 1: creater count before and after he equals the same, then
Speaker 1: we can send.
Speaker 2: People in four years. Yeah, we will be illegal aliens
Speaker 2: on Mars.
Speaker 1: You know, I guess if there's any you know, if
Speaker 1: any any Martians, maybe they'll make Mars great again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Mars did have oceans a long time ago.
Speaker 1: It's it seems like, yeah, like when Mars is a
Speaker 1: lot hotter, it had what appears to be liquid oceans,
Speaker 1: And if you warmed Mars up, it'd have an ocean
Speaker 1: run about forty percent of the earth of Mars's surface,
Speaker 1: So Mars would be about have an ocean I think,
Speaker 1: almost like a mile deep on forty percent of the
Speaker 1: surface if you just warmed it up. So there's a
Speaker 1: ton of a massive amount of frozen ice on Mars.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it kind of make Mars great again because
Speaker 1: you can warm it up and it can be an
Speaker 1: Earth like planet. So I think that's actually very important
Speaker 1: for the long term, Uh, the longevity of consciousness is
Speaker 1: to be a multiplanet species. It's actually very important. So
Speaker 1: because there's always some chance that something could happen on
Speaker 1: Earth that's either you know, a man made disaster or
Speaker 1: a natural disaster like the you know, the media that
Speaker 1: killed the dinosaurs. I mean, there have been many mass
Speaker 1: extinction events in Earth's history, and there will be there
Speaker 1: will be mass extinction events. Yeah, there is the fact
Speaker 1: a mass extinction event of humans. Actually the birth rate
Speaker 1: is plummeting. So but the probable lifespan of civilization will
Speaker 1: be much greater if we are a multiplanet species than
Speaker 1: if we are single planet species. We don't want to
Speaker 1: be one of those lame one planet civilizations, is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know, so we want to be a
Speaker 1: multiplanet civilization. And you know, just I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: like a lot of resources, like I don't know one percent.
Speaker 2: Of our resources.
Speaker 1: It seems like a wise moved to be a multiplanet species,
Speaker 1: and it kind of just ultimately you find out what's
Speaker 1: going on, like visit other star systems. And I think
Speaker 1: one day Mars may actually play a role similar to
Speaker 1: the role that America has played in saving the world.
Speaker 1: You know, America saved the world three times last century.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal, World War one, two, in the
Speaker 1: Cold War. So Earth would be very different if not
Speaker 1: for America saving the day three times last century.
Speaker 2: So yeah, amen, indeed, so so I think in the future.
Speaker 1: Mars used to call America the new World, and Mars
Speaker 1: would be the new New World. And I but actually,
Speaker 1: you know, planet, so I think I think one day
Speaker 1: Mars may save Earth, just as America saved the rest
Speaker 1: of the world.
Speaker 2: I think that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as you can tell, I love space and rockets,
Speaker 1: in case that wasn't obvious. So let's see, we can
Speaker 1: go right into questions and.
Speaker 2: And just you sort of have it.
Speaker 1: So it's always good to have, like get the discussion.
Speaker 2: Going with people.
Speaker 1: So the lights are very bright in eyes, so I
Speaker 1: can hardly I can't see what's going on. It's two
Speaker 1: big lines. Okay, great, well let's see. How should we start? Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, okay, sure, Hi Elon.
Speaker 3: My name is Ashley and I'm from Lancaster County and
Speaker 3: I have a seven year old son named Daniel, and
Speaker 3: he made me promise that if I got to talk
Speaker 3: to you, I had to tell you that he thinks
Speaker 3: that the cyber truck is the coolest thing that has
Speaker 3: ever been invented.
Speaker 1: So he owes me one now for telling you that.
Speaker 3: But so my question centers around higher education. So I'm
Speaker 3: going to age myself a little bit. But twenty years ago,
Speaker 3: when I graduated high school, I made the decision not
Speaker 3: to go to college and just to enter in the workforce,
Speaker 3: and it worked really well for me, but I did
Speaker 3: get a lot of slack from it from people that
Speaker 3: thought that that was kind of crazy. And now I've seen,
Speaker 3: you know, the attitude toward higher education kind of changing
Speaker 3: and that not being the only model that we have.
Speaker 3: So my question's sort of twofold here. So when it
Speaker 3: comes to like my children, who you know, will eventually
Speaker 3: be needing to make that decision, you know, what decision
Speaker 3: or what what advice would you give in comparison to
Speaker 3: like a trade school, higher education or just entering the workforce.
Speaker 3: And from an employer standpoint point in you know, ten
Speaker 3: to fifteen years, what do you think employers are going
Speaker 3: to be looking for from this next generation that we'll
Speaker 3: be entering the workforce?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Well, I do think that probably.
Speaker 1: Too often people do do a university or college thing
Speaker 1: for four years and it's unnecessary, you know, it's and
Speaker 1: then they accrew a lot of debt and it's hard
Speaker 1: to pay off the debt, and they often don't learn
Speaker 1: skills that are very useful. So it's it's not you know,
Speaker 1: I think we should really reconsider whether going to college
Speaker 1: actually makes sense. I think it doesn't always, So you
Speaker 1: know what I think, and people also forget, like what's
Speaker 1: the point of of going to school in general? It's
Speaker 1: you're supposed to learn useful things, you know, It's you
Speaker 1: improve your understanding of the world and and learn skills
Speaker 1: that can help you contribute to your fallow human beings.
Speaker 1: But very often the university does the opposite. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, it will propagandize kids and not teach them
Speaker 1: anything useful and just saddling with a lot of debt.
Speaker 1: So so I think, you know what, what what really
Speaker 1: matters is like, are you doing something useful to help
Speaker 1: your fellow human beings? Are you contributing more than you take?
Speaker 1: And if you are, that's a great thing. So now
Speaker 1: we are headed into a pretty wild future here with
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and robotics. I think, especially if you if
Speaker 1: you look say like ten ten years from now more
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have the world is gonna look very different.
Speaker 1: I think that's it's like eighty percent likely to be good,
Speaker 1: you know, like the glass is eighty percent full, you know,
Speaker 1: and and most likely will have I think we'll probably
Speaker 1: have a situation which is universal high income, actually not
Speaker 1: universal basic income, but universal high income, and there will
Speaker 1: be no shortage of goods and services.
Speaker 2: That is what I think is most likely to occur.
Speaker 1: And we need to make sure that this AI is
Speaker 1: and these robots are on the side of humanity. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, James Cameron made a made a couple movies
Speaker 1: about that. You know, you gotta watch what your program
Speaker 1: these rob us to do. And you know, the example
Speaker 1: I've used a few times is you know, when when
Speaker 1: Google Gemini came out, Uh, people asked, well, which one's
Speaker 1: worst miss gender and Kaitlyn Jenner or global therm in
Speaker 1: nuclear war and said, well, mis genering Kaitlyn Jenner is worse.
Speaker 1: It's like we've got a problem with the AI. And
Speaker 1: and even Caitlyn Jenner said, yeah, you should definitely miss jener.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: So, you know, we.
Speaker 1: Don't want to have an AIS that concludes that the
Speaker 1: best way to avoid miss gendering is to execute all humans,
Speaker 1: therefore reducing the probability of misgendering to zero because there
Speaker 1: are no humans.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, that's the kind of crazy stuff that that could
Speaker 1: potentially happen that we want to avoid, which is why
Speaker 1: I think we want to have a maximum truth seeking
Speaker 1: AI it's got to be kind of kind of based
Speaker 1: in a good way and just be an honest and.
Speaker 2: Truthful and forthright.
Speaker 1: AI, that's the best path to safety for artificial intelligence.
Speaker 6: Hi, e Line, I'm Christine. I'm from Lancaster County. I
Speaker 6: want to extend a heartfelt welcome from all of us
Speaker 6: in Lancaster County.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for all that you do.
Speaker 6: My question, sir owns government and efficiency. What would be
Speaker 6: your plan to make government more efficient?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so, I think the first of all, in
Speaker 1: terms Ofer's ask, where would you start with government efficiency?
Speaker 1: It's and it's kind of like being in a room
Speaker 1: where the entire room is targets, and so you can
Speaker 1: shoot in any direction and not miss. It's like it's
Speaker 1: just impossible to miss because every direction is a target.
Speaker 1: So it's because it's a normous possibility. Now, we do
Speaker 1: have a fundamental issue, which is that that the government
Speaker 1: is spanning far much that far far more than it
Speaker 1: brings in. And the reality is that all all government
Speaker 1: spending is actually taxation. All government spending is taxation. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people think some of it is taxation and some of
Speaker 1: it's not, but it's all taxation because the part that
Speaker 1: is not covered by tax revenue becomes inflation. So you're
Speaker 1: either taxed directly or you're taxed by inflation. But you're
Speaker 1: but you're off for for sure taxed and and and
Speaker 1: so all gouvernm spending these taxations. So we have to
Speaker 1: reduce cover spending overall like this. This will be forced
Speaker 1: upon us in the future because already just the interest
Speaker 1: payments on the debt are twenty three percent of all
Speaker 1: federal tax revenue.
Speaker 2: Just the interest payments.
Speaker 1: The interest payments now exceed the defense popic budget, which
Speaker 1: is a trillion dollars a year.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: So just the interest on the debt exceeds what we
Speaker 1: spend on the military, just the interest, and that is
Speaker 1: rising rapidly. So so it can't be like, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll trim a little bit here and there. That's
Speaker 1: not going to work. They have to be quite radical
Speaker 1: reductions in costs. Yeah, and I think we just need
Speaker 1: to be you know, if you know of please Lord
Speaker 1: drop wins uh the you know, and and and the
Speaker 1: Duhamony government efficiency happens. We want we're gonna be very
Speaker 1: open and transparent and be very clear about this is
Speaker 1: what we're doing. Here are the issues. This is this
Speaker 1: is the math for what what's being spent and what
Speaker 1: you know, and and we're gonna make it. We're going
Speaker 1: to make the spending lower. And if if somebody's got
Speaker 1: a better idea for how to make the spending.
Speaker 2: Lower, we'll tell us.
Speaker 1: But but if we don't, we're going to bankrupt the country.
Speaker 1: And and so we've got to do something. And it's
Speaker 1: got to be like some pretty big moves. Yeah, I'd say,
Speaker 1: like drain drain the swamps. This is like a there's
Speaker 1: so many swamps. It's like, you know, this is so
Speaker 1: many swamps. There's yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's just
Speaker 1: nutty that like there was a massive increase in I R.
Speaker 1: S personnel and and and instead of adding people to
Speaker 1: the border prot role, like this is totally backwards. It's
Speaker 1: it's like like you can continue to remain a federal employee,
Speaker 1: but you have to go to goud the border. That's
Speaker 1: your new job.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, why are we spending money in applying
Speaker 1: resources to oppress the American people while rolling out a
Speaker 1: red carpet for illegal So it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, it would have to be pretty big.
Speaker 1: I mean there's I actually have tried googling it, and
Speaker 1: I've asked all the AIS how many how many government
Speaker 1: agencies are there?
Speaker 2: And even the government doesn't know, okay, and the AIS
Speaker 2: don't know that.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, it's about four hundred and fifty, but
Speaker 1: maybe it's four hundred and twenty. I'm like four twenty,
Speaker 1: no kidding, that's that's a lot of agencies, just at
Speaker 1: the federal level. I mean, like if you sort of
Speaker 1: stand back and say, okay, just for a second, like
Speaker 1: let's say we're starting the country again, how many agencies
Speaker 1: do we need? Do we need more than ninety nine?
Speaker 1: Because that's ninety nine is a lot of agencies, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: that's that's a lot. You know. If you said, like,
Speaker 1: does any how many people even know at ninety nine agencies,
Speaker 1: I'd say practically no one knows nineteen nine knows the
Speaker 1: names of nineteen nine agencies, let alone the.
Speaker 2: Four hundred and twenty or whatever there are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we have to unwind the situation, and I think, well,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to do it, and it's going
Speaker 1: to unleash a new era of prosperity because people that
Speaker 1: don't even realize how much they're getting held back by
Speaker 1: millions of federal regulations.
Speaker 2: Literally.
Speaker 1: Oh and if it turns out that that that we
Speaker 1: accidentally got rid of a good regulation, we'll just put
Speaker 1: it back. Is that easy?
Speaker 2: Hey, elon, I'm Dan from Pennsylvania as well.
Speaker 7: I am a teacher, public school teacher, and I just
Speaker 7: bought a Tesla this year and it's been amazing for
Speaker 7: my one hour commute.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, thank you about that?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 7: Traditionally, yes, oh my gosh, it blows like when I
Speaker 7: go into the teacher parking lot and I just tried
Speaker 7: to summon today, like yeah, everybody's all hit the floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah as wild. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Republicans need to get out the vote.
Speaker 7: And as the mail in balloting becomes more common, what
Speaker 7: can I tell my friend ends about the safety and
Speaker 7: security of mail in ballots this election and future elections?
Speaker 7: And then real quick, also, sure, my daughter is too.
Speaker 2: Her name is Isabella.
Speaker 7: She loves the planets and loves astronomy, is already and
Speaker 7: I want to know what I can, as a teacher
Speaker 7: do to help inspire her curiosity for the heavens and
Speaker 7: the stars.
Speaker 1: Sure, with respect to voting voting integrity, I think probably
Speaker 1: your best thing to do is to hand it in
Speaker 1: in person, but you can also mail it in and
Speaker 1: you can check to see whether your ballot has been received.
Speaker 1: So it is possible to check online or in person
Speaker 1: to see if your ballot has been received. But I
Speaker 1: would encourage people to vote early because what can happen
Speaker 1: is that, you know, November fifth comes around and there's
Speaker 1: like you've got something critical at work, or there's like
Speaker 1: a family emergency, or you know this, yeah, some mysterious
Speaker 1: cybersecurity event that you never know might happen. So you know,
Speaker 1: anything can crop up on November fifth, whether it's personal
Speaker 1: or some you know, there could be some other, some
Speaker 1: other issue.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it is best to vote early.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: It is very encouraging to see the early vote numbers
Speaker 1: because if you compare the early vote numbers this year
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty, there's about a I think the last
Speaker 1: numbers I saw, it's like a two to three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand vote different from twenty twenty. That's a huge that's
Speaker 1: a major because because I think it was like an
Speaker 1: eighty thousand vote threshold last time.
Speaker 2: So Biden won ish by.
Speaker 1: By by eighty thousand, eighty thousand votes, that was the
Speaker 1: number that was reported. And and but the interesting thing
Speaker 1: is that that the delta votes is now two one
Speaker 1: hundred I think maybe approaching two hundred and fifty or
Speaker 1: even three hundred thousand, better than twenty twenty, which is
Speaker 1: far in excess of the margin of twenty twenty. So
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is trending in the right direction. It's very encouraging,
Speaker 1: but there's still a lot of work to do, and
Speaker 1: we don't want to be complacent. So definitely get everyone
Speaker 1: you know to vote. And as I mentioned earlier, people
Speaker 1: can actually go in person on Monday and Tuesday if
Speaker 1: they're concerned about putting anything in the mail, and they
Speaker 1: can actually get their ballot, Like even if they don't
Speaker 1: have their ballot, they can literally go to the county
Speaker 1: office get the ballot even though it's his absentee, and
Speaker 1: then they handed it even though you're not absent.
Speaker 2: It's weird, but it works.
Speaker 1: But it stops working on Wednesday, and then the next
Speaker 1: up turnity is November fifth, So it's kind of quirky,
Speaker 1: but that's that's those are the current rules. And then
Speaker 1: let's see with respect to your daughter.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think.
Speaker 1: In order to inspire, like, kids are inspired by real
Speaker 1: amazing imagery, Like they see something amazing. They see a
Speaker 1: rocket taking off, a rocket landing, or you know, robots
Speaker 1: walking around or like cool things like the stuff that
Speaker 1: you see in sci fi movies.
Speaker 2: And when they see stuff like.
Speaker 1: That, they're they're they're inspired automatically. They're inspired because it's
Speaker 1: because there are real advancements in technology. And that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's that's what inspires kids because it's
Speaker 1: because it should. You Like, kids are like a great
Speaker 1: filter for for what's awesome. Like you can tell like
Speaker 1: if a little kid reacts like wow, that's amazing, and
Speaker 1: that's like that's real.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: So like kids love the cyberge truck and they love rockets.
Speaker 1: You know that's because they have no filter. They just
Speaker 1: say what they immediately say what they think, you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's great new rocket technology that allows us to
Speaker 1: like said, go there and be have a permanent science
Speaker 1: station on the moon. You're not just like it's great
Speaker 1: that we're into the moon yet fifty plus years ago,
Speaker 1: but we want to go to the Moon and actually
Speaker 1: have a science base, Like, we've got a science base
Speaker 1: in Antarctica, Well, we should have a science base on
Speaker 1: the Moon, and we should be building a city on Mars.
Speaker 1: And I actually think it's it's the long term future
Speaker 1: of civilization. I think could be decided by whether or
Speaker 1: not we build a self sustaining city on Mars. And
Speaker 1: if we do that, that is a city that would
Speaker 1: have millions of people, and it would be like, if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to go to Mars, that they could, and
Speaker 1: that would be an incredibly inspiring thing to to to
Speaker 1: aspire to go to Mars. You're like, wow, let's make
Speaker 1: that reel. Let's bring her to Mars.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's bring it to Mars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if she thinks like, wow, one day I could
Speaker 1: go to Mars, you know, and and and be one
Speaker 1: of the Martians, and that would be.
Speaker 2: Super awesome. I think.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's well, the you go, it takes
Speaker 1: six months.
Speaker 2: Actually, when you go from Earth to Mars, you're just.
Speaker 1: You're just traveling across this this void of nothingness for
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of miles until eventually you reach another planet.
Speaker 1: It's kind of incredible to think that that's even possible.
Speaker 2: But and how amazing would that be?
Speaker 1: You know, like wow, I think that we want to
Speaker 1: have a future where life is multiplanetary, where we're advancing
Speaker 1: rocket technology, and like I said, where Star Trek Starfleet
Speaker 1: Academy is real, and that's what it will inspire your daughter.
Speaker 9: Thank you all right, Hi Elon, My name is Lauren
Speaker 9: from Pennsylvania. Thank you for being here, Thank you for
Speaker 9: everything you're doing, and congratulations with SpaceX. You and your
Speaker 9: whole team are absolutely brilliant. I have two specific questions
Speaker 9: for you. But I was curious because I looked all
Speaker 9: over on X today and I didn't see anybody who
Speaker 9: won the million dollar prize. Oh yes, that gave it
Speaker 9: out today.
Speaker 1: Well let's see. I'm well, we're all going to give
Speaker 1: it out tonight in fact, so let's to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it. Yeah, okay, let's do it. Good timing,
Speaker 1: all right, Judy Kamara, Yeah, Judy has no idea. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's just learning now.
Speaker 3: So okay.
Speaker 2: With I think Judy's on our way here.
Speaker 1: Uh, Like I said, Judy had no learned when you learned?
Speaker 1: All right? Oh?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right. M I mean we're trying to trying to
Speaker 1: get attention for this very important petition to support the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's uh, you know, it's it's like if
Speaker 1: if we you know, we need the rights to pre speech,
Speaker 1: we need the right to be our arms, otherwise there
Speaker 1: is no right to free speech. And yeah, and and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's peoples. I wonder why why didn't
Speaker 1: why what's up with the million dollar prices? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: we needed to get the legacy media to talk about it,
Speaker 1: and and I just knew that they would be like
Speaker 1: complaining like hell about it. That like for sure, complaining
Speaker 1: on every every newspaper, every TV station or complaining like
Speaker 1: like crazy.
Speaker 2: And that's just like great, that's gonna.
Speaker 1: Get the word out. Well it's welcome. Yes, Hi Caden
Speaker 1: and Kayley.
Speaker 2: Hi, all right.
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, so we're gonna be giving out a
Speaker 1: million dollars every day, uh through November fifth. And and
Speaker 1: also all you have to do is sign the petition
Speaker 1: in support of the person and second Amendment.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't even have to vote. Be nice
Speaker 1: if you voted, but you don't have to. And that
Speaker 1: to support the basically sign something you already believe in.
Speaker 1: And uh, you got tested on a million dollars every
Speaker 1: day from now through the election.
Speaker 9: Yeah, congratulations, Judy. Let me know if you want to
Speaker 9: share two specific questions for Elon. One regarding your concern
Speaker 9: about the declining birth rate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 9: It is besides us as women having more and more
Speaker 9: children and since we're the only ones who can give birth.
Speaker 2: Yes, what would you do.
Speaker 1: You do need a womb? Is if a lot is
Speaker 1: to a woman is necessary? Otherwise you can't have kids
Speaker 1: currently it is necessary? Yes, what would be your solution?
Speaker 9: Would you be in favor of creating or supporting an
Speaker 9: IVF cyrocacy program to increase the birth rates? And my
Speaker 9: second question is about what would you recommend towards the
Speaker 9: first steps on improving our American educational system?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Yeah, I mean in general, like I think
Speaker 1: we should really view the birth rate as like an
Speaker 1: extremely fundamental crisis.
Speaker 2: Like it's really shocking how low it is.
Speaker 1: You know, the birth rate in America, in the United
Speaker 1: States has been below replacement rate since I was born,
Speaker 1: roughly roughly around nineteen seventy one or so. That's since then,
Speaker 1: America has been below replacement rate, and pretty much every country,
Speaker 1: it seems as soon as they reach a certain level
Speaker 1: of prosperity, the birth rate drops below replacement. And then
Speaker 1: I started looking into, well, it has this happened before
Speaker 1: in history, and in fact it has. It's in basically
Speaker 1: every civilization in the past. It's maybe intuitive, but the
Speaker 1: more prosperous that a civilization becomes, the lower.
Speaker 2: The birth rate.
Speaker 1: So it's because you think, well, with prosperity, you'd have
Speaker 1: more resources than you'd have more kids. Actually know, the
Speaker 1: historical fact is that the longer that a civilization has
Speaker 1: been prosperous, the worst it's birthrate. God, and that this
Speaker 1: was an issue even in ancient Rome, like in fifty BC.
Speaker 1: There's like actually wherever we still have like the Roman
Speaker 1: laws that were written have passed laws to try to
Speaker 1: improve the birthrate of Roman citizens in fifty BC. So like, basically,
Speaker 1: this is a fundamental civilizational challenge that has been encountered
Speaker 1: many times before. It's not something that just you know,
Speaker 1: happened recently. It's it's it's occurred throughout the cycle of civilizations,
Speaker 1: and I don't I hope we can at least partly
Speaker 1: reverse it. And I think part of that is at
Speaker 1: least bringing it to conscious awareness because I meet many
Speaker 1: people who think that there are too many humans on Earth.
Speaker 2: But this is not true.
Speaker 1: There aren't enough humans on Earth. In fact, you can
Speaker 1: fit all the humans on Earth in the city of
Speaker 1: New York on one floor.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So, or like if you if you fly across the
Speaker 1: country and you look down and say, if you if
Speaker 1: you're if you had to drop a ball in someone's head,
Speaker 1: would you succeed and you would not because the density
Speaker 1: of people is very low. There's there are actually very
Speaker 1: few people on Earth. It's only if you live in
Speaker 1: a very dense city environment that it seems that there
Speaker 1: are many people that that Earth is densely populated, But
Speaker 1: it is only densely populated in zero point one percent.
Speaker 2: Of the surface area.
Speaker 1: So I at least want to bring it to conscious
Speaker 1: awareness so people don't think that Earth is overpopulated when
Speaker 1: in fact Earth is underpopulated.
Speaker 2: That is the true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Obiligates is and I am not best friends
Speaker 1: to say the least, So I don't know he is.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this. You can arguably arguably say, like,
Speaker 1: look that maybe the real distinction is not right or left,
Speaker 1: but is someone an expansionist or an extinctionist, so.
Speaker 2: He has some issues. This is true.
Speaker 1: So but like if you say, like like any given civilization,
Speaker 1: it's it's not going to be exactly steady. So it's
Speaker 1: like they're any given civilization is either going to be
Speaker 1: growing or declining. And so you have to say you
Speaker 1: can kind of divide any person's actions into are they
Speaker 1: expansionist or extinctionist. And I mean, obviously I'm super expansionist
Speaker 1: oriented because I think that's a far more exciting future
Speaker 1: than going extinct. You know, sounds of yes when you
Speaker 1: say it like that. So yeah, So it's just but
Speaker 1: I still run into a lot of people who think
Speaker 1: Earth is overpopulated. So I'm like kind of hammering this point.
Speaker 1: We're not overpopulated, we're underpopulated. And you know, so so
Speaker 1: I'm in the paper of really, you know, we need
Speaker 1: to have babies by whatever means, whether it's ibfs, a legacy,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. You know, that can that
Speaker 1: can certainly help, and but we just can't go extinct,
Speaker 1: like with humans need to you know, I think humanity
Speaker 1: is great and we should have get bigger.
Speaker 2: You know, we want to expand.
Speaker 1: I think we should expand the scope and scale of
Speaker 1: consciousness so we can better understand the nature of the universe.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the foundation of my philosophy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make babies great again.
Speaker 2: Yes, So yeah, hopefully that was helpful.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm high.
Speaker 4: I'm Mary Wrestler and I live in Lancaster, PA. I'm
Speaker 4: a teacher here. I've been following you because of your
Speaker 4: work with World Literacy with X Prize as I was
Speaker 4: a participant in Barbara Bush X Prize with an app
Speaker 4: development called Literacy Speedway. But my passion is turning because
Speaker 4: since COVID, every day in the trenches in the classroom,
Speaker 4: I see the effects of mental health on our students.
Speaker 4: Not only students, but I've seen two of my brothers
Speaker 4: commit suicide. I've seen my own daughter who wasn't able
Speaker 4: to get a bed in a facility and had to
Speaker 4: wait months. I have seen what's happened to American families
Speaker 4: because of the mental health crisis and the lack of resources.
Speaker 4: Our mental health system in America is broken. And so
Speaker 4: even though I have a passion for World Literacy and
Speaker 4: always will, I also would like to ask you, because
Speaker 4: I know of your collaboration, your contacts contacts with the
Speaker 4: election with what the new administration can possibly do. What
Speaker 4: can you guys do to fix our broken mental health
Speaker 4: system in America?
Speaker 1: Sure well, I mean I'd be curious to hear your
Speaker 1: thoughts and suggestions. I mean, my my sort of observation
Speaker 1: is that we do we overprescribe medication and and and
Speaker 1: and that you know, like there's a lot a lot
Speaker 1: of regulation, uh, in fact too much regulation about getting
Speaker 1: any any given medication approved, but then after it's approved,
Speaker 1: there's no follow up to see, hey, did we make
Speaker 1: a mistake. And then you get to get things that
Speaker 1: are approved and they just go hog wild and uh,
Speaker 1: and it's causing a lot of damage. But there's there's
Speaker 1: not really a good revocation capability. So it doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense like there are good drugs that are not being
Speaker 1: approved and they are a bad drugs that have been approved.
Speaker 2: This is a broken system. We need to fix it.
Speaker 1: I think very often when when somebody has commit suicide
Speaker 1: or if they've essentially done, if there's something, if something
Speaker 1: as bad has happened, like what were they prescribed? That
Speaker 1: is an important thing. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Speaker 4: I do have thoughts on it. I feel like in
Speaker 4: the Brooke and mortar school in the educational setting, not
Speaker 4: only to the States, because I know it's it's education
Speaker 4: is stay dictated, even though there's national national common Core
Speaker 4: curriculum that there needs to be mental health services embedded
Speaker 4: into every school at this juncture. There also needs to
Speaker 4: be facilities in every state, not a six month wait
Speaker 4: to say psychiatrists as in Pennsylvania at times, or twelve
Speaker 4: months to get a bed in a mental facility. The asylums,
Speaker 4: unfortunately weren't the fixed years ago in America because they
Speaker 4: were horrible. But when they were taken away, authority went
Speaker 4: to the states, money was taken away, and now you
Speaker 4: have outpatient services and there's a lack of prescribers, there's
Speaker 4: a lack of counselors. There's a need for more and
Speaker 4: every day. Our prison system right now is housing half
Speaker 4: almost And I could give you the data to you know,
Speaker 4: they're not there because they're criminals. They're there because they
Speaker 4: have mental health issues and it needs fixed.
Speaker 1: Okay, are there any particular medications you think should be
Speaker 1: pulled from the market or added to the market.
Speaker 4: I believe that every child, when they're diagnosed with the
Speaker 4: mental health condition, should have There is a test for it.
Speaker 4: There's some kind of tongue tet that can dictate which
Speaker 4: medications will work and won't work for you. However, you
Speaker 4: have to ask as a parent for that test. And
Speaker 4: I can guarantee for my experience in this with parents
Speaker 4: working in the school district or just from friends and
Speaker 4: other associates. Most people aren't aware of it because it's
Speaker 4: not paid by for insurance and most Americans can't afford it.
Speaker 4: So when things aren't covered under your insurance, they're not
Speaker 4: given Like a doctor isn't going to prescribe that that
Speaker 4: is done. So you have to have the self awarence
Speaker 4: and knowledge to go and have that testing done, and
Speaker 4: most people, unfortunately just don't know it even exists.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, I think this is definitely and
Speaker 1: something we need to figure out figure out better. It's
Speaker 1: it is clearly, uh, I agree with you that this
Speaker 1: this this mental health issue, and I think what do
Speaker 1: we need to look at, like what what drugs actually
Speaker 1: work and and and and what other side effects and
Speaker 1: uh and some of them, I mean, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think some of them are are are pretty sketch. Frankly,
Speaker 1: that some of the drugs that are that are prescribed.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of the stories I've heard about some
Speaker 1: of the psych psychic psychiatric meds from people are are
Speaker 1: pretty bad. Like it's like the reason they weren't in
Speaker 1: this in some case, the reason they wanted to commit
Speaker 1: suicide is when they when they took the drugs, not
Speaker 1: when they didn't.
Speaker 2: Take the drugs.
Speaker 1: You know, people people do need to believe in something,
Speaker 1: so you know, I think I think that they're probably
Speaker 1: a nature of ahoorse a vacuum. So if if there is,
Speaker 1: you know, there's certainly a strong argument that the decline
Speaker 1: in religion has has led to people seeking a new religion,
Speaker 1: essentially a secular religion, so that is, you know, Orgalism
Speaker 1: is essentially a secular religion, but it's it's believed very fervently.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's a it's a strong strong
Speaker 1: argument for church.
Speaker 2: I agree. So, well that's true. All right, Well let's
Speaker 2: see so.
Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, good evening. My name is Janell.
Speaker 10: It's nice to meet you. I wanted to actually first
Speaker 10: thank you and probably behalf on everyone here to thank
Speaker 10: you for creating the pack and the referral opportunity. I
Speaker 10: think everyone here is grateful I saw it as a
Speaker 10: way to support two amendments that I actually care about
Speaker 10: and don't want to see go away. And secondly, I
Speaker 10: saw it as a way that if I could refer
Speaker 10: my friend's family and everyone that I could go, I
Speaker 10: could earn some extra money. My husband and I are
Speaker 10: actually self funding our own fertility journey. I've got some
Speaker 10: unexplained infertility and so that money is going to actually
Speaker 10: pay our bill next month. And I've always wanted to
Speaker 10: become a mom and I have a dream to be
Speaker 10: a and I know one day it will happen. I'm
Speaker 10: drawn to your population concerns. I don't know if you've
Speaker 10: talked to President Trump, but I would love to know
Speaker 10: if you would consider pack or advocating a grant for
Speaker 10: fertility to make Americans like myself be able to afford
Speaker 10: it and have a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I'm super pro baby, so yes, yeah, absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: super super super pro baby, so yes absolutely.
Speaker 11: Hey, Elon, my name is Furman Jones, and I just
Speaker 11: wanted to start out and say I really believe in you,
Speaker 11: and I know everybody in here believes in you for
Speaker 11: one reason or another, and I'm super thankful to even
Speaker 11: get to ask you a question. But anyways, I also
Speaker 11: believe in the Constitution, and I'll believe in the Bible,
Speaker 11: and that's what I'm gonna ask you about. Sure, the
Speaker 11: Bible says that nobody's perfect, and there's no perfect form
Speaker 11: of government on this earth because greed is inevitable. It's
Speaker 11: like Churchill says that democracy is the worst form of
Speaker 11: government except for all the other types. Right, But the
Speaker 11: one government that the Bible does say is perfect is
Speaker 11: the Kingdom of God. And Isaiah thirty three twenty two
Speaker 11: says the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our king,
Speaker 11: and the Lord is our our law maker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I feel like so much of your worldview.
Speaker 11: Aligns with Biblical principles, and we need Christians to vote
Speaker 11: and see that greed, that communism is the greatest manifestation
Speaker 11: of evil and greed, and so yeah, that's my question.
Speaker 11: How do we get Christians to vote? And if you
Speaker 11: have time, what keeps you from leaving the Bible or
Speaker 11: being more vocal about it?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it is interesting that actually I was told
Speaker 1: that a surprisingly small percentage of evangelicals, of people that
Speaker 1: are really strong believers, access It's quite a small percentage
Speaker 1: that votes, I thought, and I hope, yeah, well this
Speaker 1: is what I was told. Anyway, I saw I suddenly
Speaker 1: hope more more people, more Christians vote, That would be great,
Speaker 1: please do so yeah, I mean I so I was, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, uh brought.
Speaker 2: Up Christian and uh.
Speaker 1: I went to actually somewhat strangely, went to Sunday school.
Speaker 1: And also I was sent to a Hebrew preschool. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not I'm not Jewish, but I was. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just still I think it was in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: or something, you know. And so I was like hoping
Speaker 1: a gala one day, Jesus is all over the next.
Speaker 1: And I was like, great, So you know, uh, so
Speaker 1: you know, I certainly I'm I'm I believe in the
Speaker 1: like the teachings of Christ. I believe you know that
Speaker 1: He's like I believe in the Christian principles. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: love thy neighbor. I believe in turn the other cheek,
Speaker 1: which is very important for it to have forgiveness, because
Speaker 1: if you don't have forgiveness, then you have an endless
Speaker 1: cycle of recribution, you know. Like you know, I used
Speaker 1: to think, like why would you turn the other cheek?
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Uh, you know, sponge them. But and I
Speaker 1: think you do need to actually be strong, like you
Speaker 1: can't be weak because if somebody's if you're facing sort
Speaker 1: of a predatory threat, uh, and that threat is stronger
Speaker 1: than you and that and then that threat doesn't believe
Speaker 1: in Christian values, then you.
Speaker 2: Will just get you know, executed. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But but at a certain point, once you are strong,
Speaker 1: once you are once you are strong, you should you
Speaker 1: should forgive the transgressions of others, you know. And this
Speaker 1: is obviously not something they believe in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: which is why there's this endless cycle of violent you know.
Speaker 1: So I really think that yeah.
Speaker 2: We should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should love let everyone when we should forgive,
Speaker 1: and we should we should be kind and gentle. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe I believe in what Jesus.
Speaker 2: I believe. I believe in what Jesus said.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Hello Elon Musk. My name is Grant and Agle
Speaker 13: my family. It's really really good to meet you. My
Speaker 13: first question was do you have an answer to life,
Speaker 13: the universe and everything?
Speaker 1: Well, the classic answer is forty two and four twenty
Speaker 1: is just ten forty twos.
Speaker 13: Interesting but my real question, yes, sorry, my real question
Speaker 13: would be what is the most useful, most powerful piece
Speaker 13: of advice you have ever received?
Speaker 2: The most useful piece of advice.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a tough one, huh. Yes, indeed, vote Republican.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah, I mean this is this is maybe
Speaker 1: gonna sound like maybe like I like I believe in
Speaker 1: like like, well, if you study physics, if you if
Speaker 1: you study I just recommend studying physics. Uh uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and and the tools of physics of the
Speaker 1: sort of the thinking tools that it's it's it's not
Speaker 1: it's not just a bunch of it's What matters.
Speaker 2: Is not remembering a bunch of formulas.
Speaker 1: What matters is the thinking process that led to the
Speaker 1: discovery of those formulas. It's sort of critical thinking, first
Speaker 1: principles analysis, trying to understand what is true at the
Speaker 1: most fundamental level and then reasoning up from there and
Speaker 1: testing your conclusions against uh, the most fundamental truths in
Speaker 1: any given arena. This is how you can figure out
Speaker 1: whether something is more likely to be true or not.
Speaker 1: And I think it's it's good to think in terms
Speaker 1: of probabilities. So you receive information about a subject that
Speaker 1: should that should change the probability.
Speaker 2: Of your conclusion, but but not the certainty of your conclusion.
Speaker 1: Like so in physics teaches you that you should not
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent certain that about any given prediction.
Speaker 1: Now there's some things that are highly likely, but but
Speaker 1: physics teaches you you've got to you got to assign
Speaker 1: a probability to something being true, and then as you
Speaker 1: learn more information, your original conclusion may be wrong, and
Speaker 1: then you know you should then change your mind based
Speaker 1: on the new information.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can think of it intelligence kind of
Speaker 2: as just how good is.
Speaker 1: How how how I think that, Yeah, probably the right
Speaker 1: metric for intelligence is the ability to predict predict the future.
Speaker 1: If you can predict the future, well, then you're then
Speaker 1: you're you're you're as intelligent as you can predict the future. Well,
Speaker 1: because if something if somebody claims, well, this is thing,
Speaker 1: is this this person or or the AI is very intelligent, Like, well,
Speaker 1: what how good are are its predictions? And if it's
Speaker 1: predictions are not very good, it's not that smart. So
Speaker 1: that's that's.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think the key nature of intelligence and if you're
Speaker 1: trying to decide what to do in the future, it is.
Speaker 1: Really it just comes down to predicting the future, and
Speaker 1: to break the future you have to think critically about
Speaker 1: the past and constantly try to be less wrong. So
Speaker 1: maybe that would be maybe that would be right up
Speaker 1: there in terms of best advice aspire to be less wrong.
Speaker 2: Hi Elon.
Speaker 15: Yes, First off, thank you so much for having us
Speaker 15: here today. We always appreciate that we have somebody in
Speaker 15: your level of influence that can listen to do regular
Speaker 15: people and kind of get our voices heard. And it's
Speaker 15: also not every day that a person gets to meet
Speaker 15: their hero and ask them a question. So my main
Speaker 15: question is since COVID, the current administration has really put
Speaker 15: a struggle with small businesses, and especially here in PA,
Speaker 15: we've seen a large decline in both the foundation of
Speaker 15: small business and I've personally known several small businesses that
Speaker 15: have had to close due to increasing regulation, taxes, you name.
Speaker 2: It, acts.
Speaker 1: The burden of excess regulation is very severe and it
Speaker 1: crushes a lot of small companies and it makes big
Speaker 1: companies operate much less efficiently.
Speaker 15: So how do you think that we as small business
Speaker 15: owners and non small business owners can fight against this?
Speaker 15: And also what can you do as a former small
Speaker 15: business owner that you can kind of fight for us.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean to your point, I think a dramatic
Speaker 1: reduction in government spending and government overregulation like you call it,
Speaker 1: sort of America is getting sort of strangulation by overregulation
Speaker 1: will unleash in your era of prosperity. It just allow
Speaker 1: people to do useful and productive things and don't make
Speaker 1: it a two year permitting nightmare, which is often is,
Speaker 1: and then burden small businesses with taxes that make them
Speaker 1: go bankrupt.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's kind of mind blowing that there
Speaker 1: are over four hundred federal agencies governing our lives. Most
Speaker 1: of them people have never heard of, but they do
Speaker 1: affect your life and unbalanced negatively. So we just need
Speaker 1: far fewer agencies and get the government off your back. Yeah.
Speaker 16: Hi, my name is Margaret from Lancaster. Thank you for
Speaker 16: your time, for the most valuable thing you can give
Speaker 16: to any organization. So thank you, Thank you, sir. So
Speaker 16: my question is my wife's a natural or at least
Speaker 16: US citizen. She's registered to vote. I banked my vote already.
Speaker 16: I was just wondering if you'd be willing to talk about.
Speaker 16: I mean, we did it the right way. We took
Speaker 16: years and money, and we got her naturalized the right way.
Speaker 16: If you'd be wanting to talk about your experience at
Speaker 16: all with immigration and also other than secure border, how
Speaker 16: you see fixing that system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, since your wife has gone through the.
Speaker 1: Process of becoming a citizen and getting green card, you've
Speaker 1: seen how absurdly slow and arduous it is. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that the general principle that makes sense is
Speaker 1: the same principle that you'd operate a professional sports team
Speaker 1: on or a company, which is like, who would you
Speaker 1: want on your team? And if somebody is going to
Speaker 1: be productive, like productive and honest and a net contributor,
Speaker 1: and that'd be a great addition to.
Speaker 2: The team, welcome aboard.
Speaker 1: It should be not a long process because they'll they'll
Speaker 1: they'll produce more than they consume. They'll make everyone, everyone's
Speaker 1: lives better. And so we have this bizarre situation which
Speaker 1: is like mind blowing that it is easier to get
Speaker 1: into this country as a murderer than as a nobel laureate.
Speaker 2: Literally that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 1: But just like what you know, it's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like if like if if you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to say, have like, uh, you know, Lebron James or
Speaker 1: Steph Curry on your team, and you'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would make total sense. Our team's gonna win. They'll
Speaker 1: make the whole team better, you know.
Speaker 2: So we want to actually.
Speaker 1: We need to have things be what they should, which
Speaker 1: is that legal immigration of honest, hard working, talented people
Speaker 1: is quick and easy and coming into the country illegally
Speaker 1: is hard. That's how it should be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
Speaker 1: Honestly, like, okay, I'd like kind of a crazy idea.
Speaker 1: This is what this one's going to hit the press,
Speaker 1: which is like, what if we gave legal immigration job
Speaker 1: to Chick fil a? They are so efficient, they make
Speaker 1: an amazing chicken sandwich. The chicken sandwiches are epic and
Speaker 1: they make a zillion of them and they just get
Speaker 1: it done. I think we should give the immigration job
Speaker 1: to Chick fil a. They were cross.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a headline.
Speaker 1: Hello mister mus but honestly be great. Hello mister Muscus,
Speaker 1: an honor to meet you.
Speaker 17: So my question is this, and I ask this as
Speaker 17: a first time voter. As we know, Trump did not
Speaker 17: and has not accepted the results of the twenty twenty election,
Speaker 17: one which has been called the most secure in the
Speaker 17: nation's history by the former president's owned Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 1: Similarly, similarly, I.
Speaker 17: Saw the violent disruption of the electoral vote count on
Speaker 17: the news during January sixth.
Speaker 1: So my and I asked this, as a first time voter.
Speaker 17: Who wants to discern the truth, Sure, what would you
Speaker 17: say to comfort the concerns of young voters like me
Speaker 17: who are worried that voting for a second Trump presidency
Speaker 17: will lead to democratic backsliding.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's a fair question. Honestly, the I
Speaker 1: think it is It is a fair question. I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing is that, yeah, like I want to very
Speaker 1: framed this correctly and obviously, anything I say that the
Speaker 1: legacy media is going to take a SoundBite out of
Speaker 1: what I say and miss and misconstrue what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: which is something they've done with President Trump many times.
Speaker 1: It is very important if you've if you've heard something
Speaker 1: bad about President Trump, listen to his whole speech. That's
Speaker 1: actually very important, you know, and uh, you know on
Speaker 1: January sixth, I mean his statements on that day he
Speaker 1: told people to back down. I mean he said he said,
Speaker 1: do not do violence, and then people were like saying, well,
Speaker 1: that's actually some sort of dog whistle about doing violence.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you supposed to say? You know,
Speaker 1: he did actually tell people to to not not be violent.
Speaker 1: He recommended that the National Guard be deployed. Nancy Pelosi said, no,
Speaker 1: I don't, So he didn't call for any violence exactly.
Speaker 1: And if you look at like, while it's obviously you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was you know, and like the level
Speaker 1: of disruption was was high, and I don't I don't
Speaker 1: applaud any any kind of damage to public property, of
Speaker 1: course that you know, but it's you know, the media
Speaker 1: tries to characterize January sixth as some some sort of
Speaker 1: violent insurrection, which.
Speaker 2: Is simply not the case. I mean, that is false.
Speaker 1: So you know, I would take I think probably what
Speaker 1: I think is the reasonable middle ground, which is I
Speaker 1: disagree with the level of protest, but it's isn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't no way of violent insurrection.
Speaker 2: You know that the so that.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a lot of guns for to
Speaker 1: be a violent insurrection, and uh and.
Speaker 2: And and they were.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of strange things from a vote
Speaker 1: in terms of voting irregularities that are hard to explain.
Speaker 5: So, uh, what what what?
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I mean there were things that are statistically unlikely.
Speaker 1: Put that way, and and so it's not as though
Speaker 1: the Janerary six protesters had that their protests had no merit.
Speaker 2: They had some merit.
Speaker 1: I disagree with the magnitude of what they did, but
Speaker 1: I I but it's not as though there were no issues.
Speaker 1: There were actually there were issues. And we have this
Speaker 1: weird situation in America where it is almost impossible to
Speaker 1: prove fraud because if you've got no voter ID and
Speaker 1: mail in ballots, how do you how do you prove fraud?
Speaker 1: And you know, and and it does seem more than
Speaker 1: a little odd that we don't have vote I D
Speaker 1: and New York at say, states like California, which is
Speaker 1: the super majority Democrat, they've passed a law banning voter
Speaker 1: ID in any election whatsoever. Now, how is that supporting democracy?
Speaker 1: That's not supporting democracy? I mean, that's insane. Almost every
Speaker 1: country on Earth has voter ID requirements, but we don't.
Speaker 1: Why and why do the same people that demanded vaccine
Speaker 1: IDs for you to do anything are the same ones
Speaker 1: to say, no idea for voting thumon doesn't add up.
Speaker 2: It doesn't, it doesn't add.
Speaker 1: Up, you know, so I actually think, I mean, my
Speaker 1: my firm opinion is that those who say Trump is
Speaker 1: a threat to democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.
Speaker 1: Make some noise. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: That was awesome.
Speaker 8: Conspiracy was theory and now it's the truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll see you at this point. At this point,
Speaker 1: we're running out of conspiracy theories because there's so many
Speaker 1: of them have come true, right that we need we
Speaker 1: actually need.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 1: Can someone please come up with some new conspiracies.
Speaker 8: Because government's here to help the governments.
Speaker 1: I mean, even the frogs might be real. You know,
Speaker 1: the frog situation might be real. I don't know.
Speaker 8: You know, the government we're here to help.
Speaker 2: Probably heard that, right, right?
Speaker 8: Well, elon, God bless you.
Speaker 2: It's very nice to meet you.
Speaker 8: My name is Andrew Morisky, Lancaster, PA.
Speaker 1: Native.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm a small business owner of a barbershop ten
Speaker 18: minutes down the street called Legacy Barbers.
Speaker 8: Love to cut your hair sometime if you will, thank you.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to.
Speaker 18: Ask you a question and also encourage you with these
Speaker 18: few words. Augustine, who was a theologian and a philosopher, said,
Speaker 18: you have made us for yourself, oh Lord, and our
Speaker 18: heart is restless until it rests in you. And Second
Speaker 18: Chronicle seven, verse fourteen says, if my people who were
Speaker 18: called by my name should humble themselves and pray and
Speaker 18: seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then
Speaker 18: I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their
Speaker 18: sin and heal their land. So I want to encourage
Speaker 18: you with that, brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great woods, great Woods.
Speaker 18: Amen, Amen, and Elon, I'll tell you what I been
Speaker 18: watching you now for a while, hearing the stuff you say.
Speaker 18: We need more men like you in this country that
Speaker 18: do that are not afraid to stand up to the
Speaker 18: media legacy. Yeah, they're not afraid to stand up against
Speaker 18: people who think we're toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1: We need more men. Yeah. You know, I've got a
Speaker 1: great counterargument for toxic masculinity, which is, if masculinity is
Speaker 1: so toxic, how come the kids that are messed up
Speaker 1: don't have dads. Riddle me that, riddled me that.
Speaker 18: And something that you said earlier, and amen to that. Yeah,
Speaker 18: And I'm actually going to be a dad February.
Speaker 2: Congrestulations, I'm having a baby.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you, lord.
Speaker 18: But the tweet that you had not too long ago,
Speaker 18: it said, and no one is even trying to assassinate
Speaker 18: Biden or commanding, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because it's pointless.
Speaker 1: Nobody will bother assassinating a puppet.
Speaker 18: You know, when are people gonna start seeing that our
Speaker 18: country is not when they keep saying democracy, it's a
Speaker 18: constitutional republic. Would you please make sure if you don't mind,
Speaker 18: to keep reminding.
Speaker 8: People that we are a republic. We're free.
Speaker 18: We're free because of Christ Jesus, and we're free because
Speaker 18: of the men and women who died and shed blood
Speaker 18: for this country.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely yes, hey man Brallo, Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people died to make this
Speaker 1: country what it is today. A lot of people died, absolutely,
Speaker 1: man and man, people take it for granted, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well America pack is kind of the Antisaurus pack.
Speaker 1: You know, something's got to be done about it. So
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, you know, I don't know what's up
Speaker 1: with that guy. But honestly, like putting das and like
Speaker 1: it's like it's like the jokers in charge, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like electing das that don't prosecute crime is insane. It's
Speaker 1: like literally like Batman, Dark Knight. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: lock up the lock up the citizens, and free the criminals.
Speaker 1: It's insane, it's happening. Yeah, I mean, like what this
Speaker 1: is total madness.
Speaker 2: So we need to stop that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I.
Speaker 1: Think America is great, but we want to be greater
Speaker 1: and we want to do awesome things. We want to do,
Speaker 1: and you want to you want to look forward to
Speaker 1: the future and be inspired and excited about the future.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what makes life with living no think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, have you.
Speaker 8: Ever looked into the sport of arm wrestling?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm wrestling. Uh, I have looked at not
Speaker 1: not in depth, but I have looked into it and
Speaker 1: for for for a while there, I did like to
Speaker 1: actually read up on it and and actually various techniques
Speaker 1: for how to win at arm wrestling, which is like
Speaker 1: a lot of it is you know, get get your angles, yeah,
Speaker 1: get yeah, get your whole body into it and and
Speaker 1: and get your angles so you can actually like if
Speaker 1: you know the techniques and arm wrestling and somebody doesn't,
Speaker 1: you can actually uh win against somebody much bigger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, no, no, I mean I would challenge Biden,
Speaker 1: but that would be ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You know, that'd be so unfair.
Speaker 12: So you.
Speaker 2: Can use to what if you can use his two hands? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make arm wrestling grant again.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, God bless.
Speaker 5: All right, Hiland, my name is Mollie. I just want
Speaker 5: to thank you for spending so much time in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5: I think what you're doing is amazing and it's making
Speaker 5: a real impact, So God bless you, and I think
Speaker 5: you're a national treasure.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: My main concern is with the national debt, and I
Speaker 5: know you've talked a lot about reducing the spending side,
Speaker 5: but I was wondering what kind of Trump policies and
Speaker 5: industries you think will help grow the revenue side. And
Speaker 5: along those lines, do you have any plans to bring
Speaker 5: more Tesla manufacturing back to the US.
Speaker 1: Well, Tesla actually is a massive manufacturer in the US.
Speaker 1: In fact, the biggest factory that's been built in recent
Speaker 1: years is the Tesla factory in Texas, So.
Speaker 2: That's uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And and then there's another big factory in Nevada,
Speaker 1: So there's gig Nevada, and uh Giga Texas and maybe
Speaker 1: someday Pennsylvania, so that that that would be that would
Speaker 1: be super cool. I'm a huge believer in manufacturing. I
Speaker 1: love manufacturing, like making things. I've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in the factory, walking the floor. I lived in
Speaker 1: the factory for a while, literally lived in the factory.
Speaker 1: Uh it was kind of like it's kind of like
Speaker 1: Vegas actually because I didn't even see the outside, but
Speaker 1: the lights were always on. But we had some tough
Speaker 1: times in Tesla. It's really difficult to make any kind
Speaker 1: of manufacturing company work. And uh, you know, yeah, Testa's
Speaker 1: actually also the biggest manufacturing employer in California still.
Speaker 2: But the state is not super grateful.
Speaker 1: So but but yeah, I'm I'm a big so. So
Speaker 1: we we do a ton of manufacturing in the US.
Speaker 1: Uh and we we we we keep investing and increasing
Speaker 1: our manufacturing activity in the US. And and SpaceX also
Speaker 1: is a massive manufacturer.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: SpaceX is the biggest manufacturer of rockets and satellites in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, so and that's that's that's all in
Speaker 2: the US. So SpaceX manufacturing is all in the US.
Speaker 1: And uh and Tesla has massive amounts of manufacturing in
Speaker 1: the US, like giant factories.
Speaker 2: So I'm a big believer in manufacturing. So it's from
Speaker 2: I mean, I do think a.
Speaker 1: Reform of the tax code it would make sense because
Speaker 1: it's extremely complicated and there are too many loopholes.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm often pitched on these loopholes. That's how I know
Speaker 2: they exist.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that sounds pretty shady. I don't think
Speaker 1: we should do that. We're like, well, lots of other
Speaker 1: people are getting away with it. Well, like yeah, but
Speaker 1: I still don't think we should it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I four is fourth. I'm the the largest individual taxpayer
Speaker 1: in history. So I paid ten billion dollars in tax.
Speaker 1: Over ten billion dollars in tax. We welcome. Like I
Speaker 1: sort of thought maybe the irs would, like, you know,
Speaker 1: send me like a little trophy or something, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: like one of those like doesn't have to be expensive.
Speaker 1: It could be like, you know, one of those like
Speaker 1: like things you get for when kids win a karate competition,
Speaker 1: like little plastic gold trophy or something like that, or
Speaker 1: a cookie or something. But I don't get anything. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, but I was happy to pay
Speaker 1: the taxes. I don't mind, you know, yeah, it's good
Speaker 1: week this week. Yeah, stock markets wild wild, sort of
Speaker 1: roller coaster, you know. I think Warren Buffet's got a
Speaker 1: good good a lot of good sayings actually, But what
Speaker 1: one of his sayings I believe is like, you know,
Speaker 1: having a public traded company is like having someone stand
Speaker 1: outside your house and yell house prices all day and
Speaker 1: it's still the same house, and you're like, why is
Speaker 1: this person yelling house prices at me all day long?
Speaker 1: And that's what it's like. Being in a publicly traded
Speaker 1: company is just they just yelled stock prices at you
Speaker 1: all day long, and it's like, well, it's actually still
Speaker 1: pretty much the same company as yesterday.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's it's kind of weird being in
Speaker 2: a publicly traded situation.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I think we should we should simplify the
Speaker 1: tax code, get rid of a lot of exceptions and loopholes,
Speaker 1: and make it easy to fill out taxes. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: be this like extremely complicated thing. Yeah, but but overall
Speaker 1: I think that like if we if we have less
Speaker 1: federal spending, then there's less taxation, and so that's and
Speaker 1: we we we have to reduce federal spending. There's no
Speaker 1: way to make up for it other than than reducing
Speaker 1: the federal spending. And as I mentioned earlier, like a
Speaker 1: very important point that I think is important for people
Speaker 1: to understand is that all federal spending is taxation. Because
Speaker 1: what is not what they don't receive, what the federal
Speaker 1: company doesn't receive in direct revenue, they make up for
Speaker 1: in inflation. They just print money. So all federal spending
Speaker 1: is taxation. Very important principle. Almost no, very few people
Speaker 1: seem to time even like, you know, somebody's like spend
Speaker 1: their life in economics. I'll mention to them, hey, all spending,
Speaker 1: all federal spending is taxation. They're like, first they'll argue
Speaker 1: with me, and they're like, then they will agree it
Speaker 1: is because it is either direct tax revenue or it
Speaker 1: is inflation. All federal spending is taxation. So we must
Speaker 1: reduce federal spending or we will go bankrupt as a country.
Speaker 20: All right, Hey, Yvonne, I'm Chadwick from Westchester, Pennsylvania. I
Speaker 20: met you asked week I met you asked week it Harrisburg,
Speaker 20: And since then I've been prouder than ever to wear
Speaker 20: my maga hat around. You've really inspired me to wear
Speaker 20: it more and more. And since then, I've had my
Speaker 20: car slashed with a key. Really fine, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 20: Trump got hit with a bullet in the air, and
Speaker 20: look at him, he's doing good. So uh yeah, somebody
Speaker 20: chased me around with the shopping cart. Well, yeah, it happens.
Speaker 20: That's just that's a part of Westchester.
Speaker 1: It's well, honestly, I mean at this point, it's like
Speaker 1: flying the rebel flag man, you know. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: mag It's an adventure. Yeah. I've had some people get
Speaker 1: mad at me. Yeah, just like big time. I do
Speaker 1: have I do have a question this time though.
Speaker 8: I actually I met somebody on X.
Speaker 20: I do podcasting, and I met somebody on X directly
Speaker 20: through the platform. I would call him a friend. His
Speaker 20: name is Derek, and he has something called spina bifida.
Speaker 20: Yeah it is spina biffit a month right now, So
Speaker 20: spina biffit of Awareness Month. I wanted to put the
Speaker 20: aware to out there is that it's a spinal he's
Speaker 20: form with some spinal kind of like issues and he's
Speaker 20: never been able to walk and really never well well
Speaker 20: I guess not according from what I learned, and he's
Speaker 20: never he hasn't been able to walk like his whole
Speaker 20: his whole life. So my question is, like, for the
Speaker 20: disabled community and for people like him, will things like
Speaker 20: will things like neuralink help? And also what will the
Speaker 20: Trump administration be doing for people who are disabled to
Speaker 20: help them anything?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I think I think there actually are a lot of
Speaker 1: things that like medical devices and drugs that could be
Speaker 1: approved that are sort of stuck in regulatory molasses, like
Speaker 1: they're just you know, it's like trying to get anything
Speaker 1: new approved is like running in molasses with lead shoes.
Speaker 2: It's really slow.
Speaker 1: So, you know, a good friend of mine was telling
Speaker 1: me how his mom was diagnosed with brain cancer and
Speaker 1: not the doctor said like, well, that's that's pretty much
Speaker 1: this game over, you know, and then he talked to
Speaker 1: but he's very enterprising guy, so he didn't take that
Speaker 1: for an answer, and he asked every smart person he knew,
Speaker 1: is there anything that that could help cure brain cancer.
Speaker 1: Turns out there there's a drug called welly Rig that
Speaker 1: was in trials at Harvard, I believe, and.
Speaker 2: It cured his mom's brain cancer.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm like, well, like, how many wellie,
Speaker 1: rigs are there out there, maybe there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of them and and devices and everything, and we should
Speaker 1: you know, like I said earlier, it's like we need
Speaker 1: to expedite approval of drugs, make sure people, you know,
Speaker 1: that people are properly informed of the pros and the
Speaker 1: cons and then there also needs to be some after
Speaker 1: approval follow up to say like was something approved that
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been approved, or whether it needs to be
Speaker 1: additional warnings.
Speaker 2: It's pretty common.
Speaker 1: It's common sense, I think, you know, just but like
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with the government, like common sense, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense, like you know, common sense just bounces
Speaker 1: off the government like water off ducks back, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like arguing with the d m V.
Speaker 1: That's impossible. They did put the COVID vaccine quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was weird and they made everyone take it, which
Speaker 1: is messed up. So I don't think people should be
Speaker 1: forced to ta vaccine unless that against their will.
Speaker 14: But hi, Elon, my name is Alex Gambell from Lebanon County.
Speaker 14: I first want to thank you sincerely for what you're doing.
Speaker 14: I think you're an American patriot. I really do I
Speaker 14: love America?
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen, I love America. And like sometimes
Speaker 1: people say, like, that's just jinguistic propaganda. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't care. I love the jinguistic propaganda. It's awesome. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like, God bless America. I've freakin it's it's it's amazing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I agree. Yeah with the recent news from Lancaster
Speaker 14: County discovering twenty five hundred potentially fraudulent other registration forms.
Speaker 14: What's your opinion or mail in ballots and if we
Speaker 14: should get rid of them in the future.
Speaker 1: I also, I also want to get rid of them
Speaker 1: in the future. I mean, like mail in ballots are
Speaker 1: a strange normally that got popularized during COVID, but but really,
Speaker 1: but like you have an obvious recipe for fraud and
Speaker 1: and and an inability to prove fraud if you've got
Speaker 1: no ID, no gooter ID, and you've got mail in ballots,
Speaker 1: like you can't even put your and even like like
Speaker 1: like like many years ago, a friend of mine was
Speaker 1: telling me how his his dad actually helped improve democracy
Speaker 1: in Mexico, and it was by organizing a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of citizens to just stand outside the falling stations of
Speaker 1: the voting stations with a counter, just to count the
Speaker 1: number of people that went in, because obviously if you
Speaker 1: have more votes than people, something's wrong. Yeah, And and
Speaker 1: it turned out they had a lot more votes than people.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, this is a little strange. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that that but that that actually helped fix the situation
Speaker 1: in Mexico big time.
Speaker 10: Ye.
Speaker 1: But but but if you don't, if you've got mail
Speaker 1: in ballots, you can't count this, like you don't even
Speaker 1: know what's going on. I also wanted to uh ask
Speaker 1: you a favor. My my son is named Elon.
Speaker 2: Really we named them after you.
Speaker 1: Wow, he's three.
Speaker 14: You're an inspiration and I was hoping to get an
Speaker 14: all the graph from you to give to him when
Speaker 14: he's older.
Speaker 1: The further, I.
Speaker 2: Can't say no to that.
Speaker 1: I mean, from one Elon to another.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know I was actually I was named after
Speaker 1: my American great grandfather. I guess it's so I'm like
Speaker 1: kind of the opposite of Obama. I'm from Africa, named
Speaker 1: after named after an American. So but yeah, Johnny Alon
Speaker 1: Haldeman was my great grandfather, and that's I was named
Speaker 1: after his middle name, So I think it was like
Speaker 1: from Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Hey, elon, Yeah, my name is Jennifer Lucas. As
Speaker 21: you can tell, I do not have a Pennsylvania accident,
Speaker 21: but I do live here. I'm voting legally, I promise.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 21: I believe I'm from southern West Virginia. Okay, And honestly,
Speaker 21: I've had a lot of questions on my mind, from
Speaker 21: education to drug epidemic. It's hit really hard. But one
Speaker 21: thing that I would really like to ask you about
Speaker 21: right now is lobbyists.
Speaker 1: If I buy vote, I go to jail.
Speaker 21: They buy votes on the floor, on the voting floor
Speaker 21: in DC, and that's okay. That is affecting our voice
Speaker 21: as American citizens. So what can we do to ban
Speaker 21: lobbyists in DC so we can take our power back?
Speaker 1: A pac America pack? Yeah, I mean, you know, so,
Speaker 1: I was actually part of making a movie cold, thank
Speaker 1: You for Smoking.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone has seen.
Speaker 1: That movie, but it's it's a movie about political corruption
Speaker 1: and about lobbyists and political corruption.
Speaker 2: You know, it's worth watching Thank You for Smoking.
Speaker 1: And you know that was I'm actually the pilot in
Speaker 1: the movie in that plane so it's a very small role,
Speaker 1: but that movie explores the the corruption that exists in
Speaker 1: d C due to all the lobbying that takes place,
Speaker 1: and the legislation is primarily written by lobbyists impacted and
Speaker 1: then you know Congress basically Robert stamps the what what lobbyists?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I think I think we probably do need to take
Speaker 1: a look at what rules make sense, because obviously the
Speaker 1: the point of the elected legislators is to legislate in
Speaker 1: the interest of the people. And so if this legislation
Speaker 1: have which is often the case, that is not in
Speaker 1: there of the people, something's wrong. So and you do
Speaker 1: get these like regulatory capture situations where there, you know,
Speaker 1: the companies in an industry end up controlling the regulators.
Speaker 2: And preventing new entrants.
Speaker 1: From from coming into a market, making it difficult for
Speaker 1: new companies to come in.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to make that movie for a reason,
Speaker 1: which is too highlight that there is a lot of
Speaker 1: corruption in in d C.
Speaker 2: And I would like to have less of it at least.
Speaker 1: It's it's tough. And you know, this is also why
Speaker 1: I think the the big government machine is so against
Speaker 1: Trump because he doesn't. He's not beholden to all of
Speaker 1: these interests, you know, So he's not he's not capture. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he's not a puppet. So the sort of the big
Speaker 1: government machine is very worried about electing someone who's who's
Speaker 1: not a puppet. So yeah, I mean, I certainly advocate
Speaker 1: for you know, better rules that limit the power of
Speaker 1: companies to lobby in d C.
Speaker 2: Or at the state level for that matter. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: like I.
Speaker 1: For for Mars. Like people sometimes asking me, like, well,
Speaker 1: what kind of system of governments do I think makes
Speaker 1: sense for Mars. I'm like, I said, well, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be up to the Martians, you know. But but but
Speaker 1: I would recommend direct democracy, not representative democracy.
Speaker 2: Where the people vote directly.
Speaker 1: And you know, in the past, before there was electric
Speaker 1: before you had like the internet and electronics, you had
Speaker 1: to have representative democracy because you couldn't.
Speaker 2: You couldn't.
Speaker 1: You had to just like with the legacy media, you
Speaker 1: had to collect people's opinion by mail or literally by
Speaker 1: voice or by letters written with a quill on you
Speaker 1: know and a scroll type of thing, you know, like slow,
Speaker 1: So you had to have representative democracy. You couldn't have
Speaker 1: direct democracy. But my recommendation for mars would be that
Speaker 1: the people vote directly for anything, and that any given
Speaker 1: piece of legislation must be short enough to understand. So
Speaker 1: like if it's you know, not more than a thousand words,
Speaker 1: maybe three hundred, the longer the legislation is the worst
Speaker 1: it gets. And we've got legislation that's longer than Lord
Speaker 1: of the Rings, and like nobody's read it, you know,
Speaker 1: and really quick.
Speaker 21: I just wanted to say thank you for everything that
Speaker 21: you're doing. I see you, and I see your heart,
Speaker 21: and I know that you love humanity, not just America.
Speaker 21: I do everything that you do. It shows you care
Speaker 21: for everyone deeply. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 8: I have a lot of ideas and if you want.
Speaker 21: To hear them sometime we can sit down for dinner.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 12: All right, Hello, Elon. My name is Stephen Marsha, so
Speaker 12: I live in Lancaster County. It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 12: You once said in a job interview that when when
Speaker 12: asked what is your biggest weakness, you said honesty, which
Speaker 12: I find really interesting. And the guy said, well, that's
Speaker 12: not a weakness, and what I find fascinating is the
Speaker 12: way you stand up to anybody and speak your mind.
Speaker 12: And my question is there's a cost of telling the truth.
Speaker 12: There's a cost of being honest, Yes, and you're not
Speaker 12: afraid to pay that.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully it's not like fatal, you know.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And I think that I'm wondering, like where that
Speaker 12: came from in your life, because you know, you're an
Speaker 12: amazing inspiration with everything I.
Speaker 1: Can, I can totally tell you, so, like it's I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, like I think, I I
Speaker 1: I aspire to be honest, but I'm also sometimes wrong.
Speaker 1: So obviously you know it can be right all the time.
Speaker 1: So and I do believe in and like you know,
Speaker 1: one should stand to be corrected. And the reason I
Speaker 1: believe in sort of truth and honesty is because I'm
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to understand the universe. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: understand reality. You know, we're trying to understand like what's
Speaker 1: the meaning of life?
Speaker 2: Like what are we here for? Like what's what's going on?
Speaker 1: And if you don't aspired to truth, if you're not
Speaker 1: like rigorous about truth and honesty, then you're obviously going
Speaker 1: to live in a deluded world. You want understand, you
Speaker 1: want understand the nature of reality. You want to understand.
Speaker 1: So I just I'm just curious and I want to
Speaker 1: understand the nature of reality. So that's requires rigorous adherence
Speaker 1: to the truth.
Speaker 12: Also, add thank you. What I find fascinating too is like,
Speaker 12: you know, for you to stand up and speak the
Speaker 12: truth about what you feel about Trump. There's so many
Speaker 12: celebrities on the other side has.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's weird that there's so many celebrities, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, what did they what's up with that?
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, You're You're the only guy with a serious
Speaker 12: amount of influence that's able to really stand up for Trump.
Speaker 12: And I really think that I know people that are
Speaker 12: like on the fence that are going to Trump because
Speaker 12: of you. So I think, right you are making a
Speaker 12: massive difference in this election, like you single handedly, and
Speaker 12: that's an amazing legacy amongst all the other things that
Speaker 12: you do.
Speaker 2: So thank you. Well, I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying my best to to you know, I want to.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make as big a difference as possible.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I mean I do think like we're
Speaker 1: at a like I said, folk in the road of
Speaker 1: destiny where you know, like it's yeah, it's not clear
Speaker 1: to me that that that there will be elections after
Speaker 1: this if Trump is not elected, you know, so the
Speaker 1: I mean, there's basically, in my opinion, there's massive voter
Speaker 1: importation to swing states that is happening right now. If
Speaker 1: you look at the actual numbers as reported by the
Speaker 1: Democrat administration, there are triple digit increases in the number
Speaker 1: of illegals in each swing state. It's two d and
Speaker 1: forty percent with the number I sworre in Pennsylvania in three.
Speaker 2: Years and like that.
Speaker 1: That's you know, if the margin of victory is, like
Speaker 1: was eighty thousand votes last time, Well, what happens if
Speaker 1: you bring in like three hundred thousand illegals who are
Speaker 1: beholden to the Democrat machine and get a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of handouts, and even though they may socially not be
Speaker 1: in agreement with the Democrats, their order priority is bringing
Speaker 1: Princeton family into the country, which will be supported by
Speaker 1: the Democrats but not by the Republicans. So its voter
Speaker 1: importation is what's going on. And it doesn't take much
Speaker 1: to have the swing states be a permanent deep blue.
Speaker 1: That's what happened in California. So like, I love Reagan,
Speaker 1: but he did sign in nineteen eighty six an amnesty
Speaker 1: that you know, it's sort of legal alien amnesty. That
Speaker 1: thereafter California, which had been red or a swing state
Speaker 1: but primarily read was, went blue and then deep blue,
Speaker 1: and now California passed the law banning voter ID in
Speaker 1: any election whatsoever, even in a town council. That's what
Speaker 1: they will do to the whole country. They the playbook
Speaker 1: is obvious because we could.
Speaker 2: Just look at what they did California.
Speaker 1: They're going to do the same thing in Pennsylvania, same
Speaker 1: thing the whole rest of the country if they can.
Speaker 2: And Trump is the only chance to have that not
Speaker 2: be the case.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you it's I'll tell you it's even
Speaker 1: it's people like I think it's gonna be worse than
Speaker 1: California because the one thing that keeps California from being
Speaker 1: even more crazy than it currently is is that people
Speaker 1: can move to other states and still be in America.
Speaker 1: But what if you can't move to any other states,
Speaker 1: it's going to be way worse in California. So it's profound.
Speaker 2: Yankee.
Speaker 1: Well sorry, okay, listen, I like the name. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a great name. Sorry, sorry, sorry, what have I done?
Speaker 2: Hiylan?
Speaker 22: My name is David and I am an founder of
Speaker 22: an e commerce company here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And I
Speaker 22: appreciate the one thing that you're saying about the I
Speaker 22: R S being bullying amid the American citizens. Instead of
Speaker 22: enforcing our border, we're doing that. And I found one
Speaker 22: problem being a business owner is I have been the
Speaker 22: subject of recent harassment by the I R S and
Speaker 22: I find that being a huge discouragement to entrepreneurship, which
Speaker 22: is the American backbone. And I wanted to know what
Speaker 22: you would be one of the number one things you
Speaker 22: would recommend to the Trump administration about encouraging entrepreneurship and
Speaker 22: getting young people, especially encouraged into starting small businesses to
Speaker 22: keep our economy economy flourishing, and to keep creating wonderful
Speaker 22: things like you have done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean said, it's really I think, you know,
Speaker 1: if we can just get the government off people's backs,
Speaker 1: then you can you can get a tremendous amount done.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like just we're over regulating six
Speaker 1: ways of Sunday as you've experienced yourself. And then even
Speaker 1: when there's like a little bit of success, then the
Speaker 1: government comes along and takes the money.
Speaker 2: So it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You know. So just when when if the founders of
Speaker 1: the country could see like where we are now, they'd
Speaker 1: blow their mind, you know, Like there was a revolt
Speaker 1: against the British. I think it was like a two
Speaker 1: percent tax on tea, like say a three percent tax
Speaker 1: on tea of like they're like no way, and now
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, forty percent. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: like there's new taxes every day, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of hidden taxes that you experience as a as a
Speaker 1: small business own that people don't even realize exist. You know,
Speaker 1: you did sort of come to realize that because IRS
Speaker 1: comes after you. But there's a ton of taxes that
Speaker 1: try to sort of mask from the consumers.
Speaker 2: So we just need smaller government.
Speaker 1: And allow people to produce useful goods and services for
Speaker 1: their fairly human beings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's straightforward.
Speaker 1: Hi Elon, my name is Will King. It's nice to
Speaker 1: meet you.
Speaker 23: Welcome to Lancaster.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 23: I'm a young mechanical engineer. I'm excited to work on
Speaker 23: new problems. One of my dreams would be to work
Speaker 23: for one of your companies, So we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 23: But the question I have is what are your thoughts
Speaker 23: on tariffs and how do you see tariffs impacting consumer
Speaker 23: spending or increasing inflation? And what problems to be solved
Speaker 23: for US production to reach a scale and efficiency that
Speaker 23: would match current outsource production. Like obviously it's it's no
Speaker 23: first principle it's not a first principal principles problem.
Speaker 1: We can do it, but what needs to happen in
Speaker 1: order for that to.
Speaker 2: Well, what are your thoughts on the subject?
Speaker 23: So I think what you were, what you were touching
Speaker 23: on before, a lot of government uh regulation and uh taxes,
Speaker 23: well taxes, you know, I don't know where we need
Speaker 23: to go with that, but I think, uh, I love
Speaker 23: your philosophy of surges in the employment and going hardcore.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 23: I was reading your autobiography, the other biography biography, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 23: be clear, it's it's it's a pretty good biography, but
Speaker 23: it's not it's not actually what I would have written, right,
Speaker 23: But what really stopped to me I was reading about
Speaker 23: how you wanted to move the servers from Twitter up
Speaker 23: to is it an organ And well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, actually there was yeah, there were three data centers,
Speaker 1: but only two were needed.
Speaker 2: And uh, I was being told it would take like
Speaker 2: nine months to write.
Speaker 23: And you showed up with your guys and you're like, hey,
Speaker 23: let's just do this over.
Speaker 1: Night like Christmas. So I think, yeah, we'll see if Yeah.
Speaker 23: Cutting cutting down some of those regulations and all this
Speaker 23: crazy stuff that goes that extends the timeline for a
Speaker 23: bunch of stuff would really would really help, and that
Speaker 23: that worth worth ethic, work ethic. I agree with your
Speaker 23: eighty hour work principal work week principle and the hardcore.
Speaker 2: It's not for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's not for everyone, but I think.
Speaker 23: The principle is really cool, and I think we should
Speaker 23: bring that culture and that mindset down of the forty.
Speaker 1: Hour work week or the fifty.
Speaker 23: I do fifty, but you know, work life balance potentially.
Speaker 23: But I love where you're taking your companies and it's
Speaker 23: it's really cool to see.
Speaker 19: Well, thanks, thank you, Yeah, go ahead, Hello Elan, nice
Speaker 19: to see you here tonight. So recently I was reading
Speaker 19: an article on medium where a Italian researcher named Andrea
Speaker 19: Rossi was able to demonstrate a new technology that he
Speaker 19: invented that was able to extend the range.
Speaker 1: Of an electric vehicle.
Speaker 19: It was a technically like a quadricycle, so a very
Speaker 19: low power electric vehicle by four times, and after the
Speaker 19: full test that it actually increased the battery life of
Speaker 19: the electric vehicle. And obviously, you know, we don't it's
Speaker 19: only been demonstrated once. We don't know if this technology
Speaker 19: could be replicated. But if it was able to be replicated,
Speaker 19: would you be interested in implementing this kind of technology
Speaker 19: into your TESTA vehicles and even possibly the starship?
Speaker 1: Well, I wish such a thing were real, but I
Speaker 1: do not think that such a thing as real. That
Speaker 1: there is you know, every industry has a certain amount
Speaker 1: of BS, but the battery industry, I think might is
Speaker 1: a candidate for industry with the most amount of BS.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just there's like electric chemistry is very difficult.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of the ways that I will test
Speaker 1: like the intelligence of an AI system is ask a
Speaker 1: battery electroc chemistry questions and rocket questions and usually comes
Speaker 1: back with terrible answers. So it's it's it's it's extremely
Speaker 1: difficult to increase the range, but the range is already
Speaker 1: sufficient to fully electrify everything on Earth. So you know,
Speaker 1: tails us have over three hundred miles of range, and
Speaker 1: some of them have like four hundred miles of range.
Speaker 1: We could actually make it go further. It's just that
Speaker 1: that's like an unnecessary amount of battery for most people
Speaker 1: because the amount of the amount of range that you
Speaker 1: need in a battery is about the same amount of
Speaker 1: range that your bladder has. Essentially, So if you know,
Speaker 1: if you start a trip at say nine am, around noon,
Speaker 1: you want to probably hit the restroom, take a break,
Speaker 1: you know, have a bite to eat, and you know,
Speaker 1: so you drive for three hours, maybe four hours, and
Speaker 1: then charge the car.
Speaker 2: As long as the car is charged.
Speaker 1: By the time you come back from the bathroom and
Speaker 1: have you know, had lunch or whatever. Then at long
Speaker 1: distance trips are no problems that we're already we're already
Speaker 1: there at this point.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but but there is no magical breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Would you also be.
Speaker 19: Willing if other technologies are discovered over the next few
Speaker 19: years into the near future, would you also be willing
Speaker 19: to that theoretically could revolutionize electrical vehicles, space travel. You know,
Speaker 19: exotic propulsion, exotic energy generation techniques. Are you interested in
Speaker 19: researching those and potentially funding them and contributing to this
Speaker 19: kind of research. I do think there is a lot
Speaker 19: of technology out there that is not really mainstream that
Speaker 19: it has potential, although it's in a very infantile stage.
Speaker 1: I think there is potential. I mean not only I
Speaker 1: mean I'm both Tales and SpaceX are desperately interested in
Speaker 1: anything that works. We're not like barring the door. We're like, please,
Speaker 1: if you've got something that works, tell us about it. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's rarely the case that it actually works, is the issue.
Speaker 1: So you know, for a while there, Tesla, I guess
Speaker 1: maybe still do like we're just would rate any given
Speaker 1: you know, proposed new technology out of ten, where ten
Speaker 1: is is incredible and you know one is total total nonsense,
Speaker 1: and really nothing got above a four. So it's it's
Speaker 1: just very difficult to do. But if if and I
Speaker 1: would encourage anyone to say, prove me wrong, please do that.
Speaker 1: I would like to be proven wrong. That would be awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, but just just compete with Tesla. That sounds
Speaker 1: like you're great. If you know, if there's a some
Speaker 1: technology that has much greater range, I would strongly recommend
Speaker 1: they just kick our ass.
Speaker 24: You know, Yeah, Elon, Do you believe that Jesus the
Speaker 24: Christ is a real person who was crucified and died
Speaker 24: and has risen and that God is Jesus.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by a real person that he.
Speaker 24: Was alive back two thousand years ago and he was
Speaker 24: the guy who was crucified?
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2: Think there's yeah, I do think that's that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you get into like these you know, uh,
Speaker 1: theocratical debates of the Trinity, and but I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I think it's real.
Speaker 25: Sou by Elon. That feels very weird to say. But Hi,
Speaker 25: my name is Chris Michaelson. I'm a Lancaster County resident.
Speaker 25: We're really happy to have you here.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody.
Speaker 25: Look, I, like many of us here, feel that the
Speaker 25: very construct, the constitution of our country is at stake
Speaker 25: during this election. I'm a firm believer that those who
Speaker 25: can should and I just want to say thank you
Speaker 25: for being one of the very few powerful members outside
Speaker 25: of the Construct who have the balls to stand up
Speaker 25: here every.
Speaker 2: Day and do what you're doing. Big dude, thank you.
Speaker 8: Thanks. All right, there's a macho man's here.
Speaker 25: Look, President Trump has announced you or has announced that
Speaker 25: he will appoint you as the.
Speaker 2: Head of the Efficiency Commission.
Speaker 25: Right, that's obviously a perfect spot for you, given your
Speaker 25: historical success running lean and exceptionally profitable businesses. One of
Speaker 25: my big concerns that extends beyond the disarray of our
Speaker 25: financial constitution here is the technology attacks that have happened
Speaker 25: in our country. Twenty twenty one, the Colonial pipeline ransomware attack. Yeah,
Speaker 25: twenty twenty one, robin Hood seven million users, data stolen,
Speaker 25: their money held for ransom. Twenty twenty three, T Mobile
Speaker 25: goes down overnight, airport attacks, airline attacks. Have you spoken
Speaker 25: to Trump at all regarding your expertise around cybersecurity? Are
Speaker 25: you going to have any involvement there? If not, do
Speaker 25: you know who is and do you trust them? And
Speaker 25: I have one more question, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I certainly don't have all the answers here, and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to tempt fate. But like
Speaker 1: nobody has successfully hacked SpaceX or starlink, and they've been
Speaker 1: every day, there are thousands of attempts to hack starlink
Speaker 1: and no one has succeeded.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't want to tempt fate here.
Speaker 1: So this is not a tempt saying to hacker groups
Speaker 1: out there, please hack starlink, like please don't hack starlink.
Speaker 1: But but thus far there have been many attempts by
Speaker 1: individuals and state actors to hack into starlink and none
Speaker 1: of them have been successful. So track recle it thus
Speaker 1: far is pretty good. No one has successfully hacked into Yeah,
Speaker 1: so far, so good. You know, don't want to be
Speaker 1: complacent or anything. No one has hacked into the tel mothership,
Speaker 1: like the the Tesla Core database. Many people have tried
Speaker 1: to hack into the tel Core database, zero successes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can certainly say like, now, government computers are not
Speaker 1: super secure because it's the government, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: like if you say, like, what is an easy thing
Speaker 1: to hack? As the government computers are easy thing to hack.
Speaker 2: So it's not good. No, I agree.
Speaker 1: That's why I like, I'm you know, I'm like, as
Speaker 1: a hardcore technology guy, I'm saying we should not have
Speaker 1: voting machines, we should not have computers.
Speaker 2: Because that are two.
Speaker 1: Subject being hacked by by and it's like the subject
Speaker 1: is being hacked by, you know, and the people protecting
Speaker 1: these machines don't understand technology, and they could easily be bamboozled.
Speaker 1: So even with the best of intentions. So but it's
Speaker 1: really hard to bamboozle paper ballots person with ID, which
Speaker 1: is obviously how it should be. Yeah.
Speaker 25: We we've talked about baseball a couple of times. Tonight,
Speaker 25: my brother's handicapped. Ryan.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 25: I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight. He's a
Speaker 25: White Sox fan and he just wants to know if
Speaker 25: you would consider buying them and turning them to a
Speaker 25: reputable business.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: But I'm in technology guys, so I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I got to pick my battles here, so I'm just
Speaker 1: I just try to make technologies that you will find useful.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 26: All right, Hi Eli, my name is Vladimir. I'm an
Speaker 26: entrepreneur from Reading, Pennsylvania. I came all the way here
Speaker 26: to see you because I'm not sure if you're going
Speaker 26: to make it to read in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait.
Speaker 26: Thank you so much for your contributions to the world.
Speaker 26: Thank you for Tesla Neurallink, SpaceX X. Everything that you're
Speaker 26: doing is incredible, and thank you for stepping up with
Speaker 26: your leadership to once again how to take our country back.
Speaker 26: It's my question to you, is regarding artificial intelligence probably
Speaker 26: our greatest invention, hopefully not or last invention you were
Speaker 26: really on the you were really advocating for basically regulating
Speaker 26: the advances that we're making on artificial intelligence. How long
Speaker 26: do you think it would be before we actually reach
Speaker 26: AGI or artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence? And
Speaker 26: are you still up for regulating this amazing invention that
Speaker 26: we've summoned here?
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean I do think there should be some
Speaker 1: regulatory oversight for AI. So yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of your regulators is kind of like the referees
Speaker 1: in a sports game. You know, whether it's baseball, basketball, anything,
Speaker 1: any given sport. Uh, all the teams want to have
Speaker 1: referees so that you know, the teams don't break the
Speaker 1: rules and there's fair play.
Speaker 2: So I think there there is a sort of a
Speaker 2: right number of regulators.
Speaker 1: For any given industry, but there shouldn't be There shouldn't
Speaker 1: be too many or too few. Now there's basically no
Speaker 1: regulators in AI right now. So it's like having a
Speaker 1: game with no referees. That's that's you know, subject to
Speaker 1: something bad happening. So my recommendation would be to have
Speaker 1: uh yeah, to have an AI regulatory agency at the
Speaker 1: federal level. It should be you know, not not heavy handed.
Speaker 1: It should be, but there shouldn't be nothing. In contrast
Speaker 1: in other industries where where there's excess regulation because these
Speaker 1: regulatory agencies are just sort of grown over time to
Speaker 1: the point where there are too many referees on the field.
Speaker 2: I think the sports analogy makes.
Speaker 1: A lot of sense, like you want to have enough
Speaker 1: referees to have a fair game, but not so many
Speaker 1: referees that people can't can't throw a pass on the
Speaker 1: football field without hitting.
Speaker 2: A ref you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's the situation we got right now. It's like
Speaker 1: you're trying to run downfield bam, you're just rub bumping
Speaker 1: into the refs everywhere. So that's that, you know, we've
Speaker 1: got to take some correct action there.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 27: All right, Elon Musk, it's a pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 27: This should be sponsored by doctor Schulz. I don't know
Speaker 27: how your few are doing it right now. I just
Speaker 27: want to say thank you for being here tonight.
Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here with you.
Speaker 27: I actually have been waiting for almost a decade to
Speaker 27: talk with you and ask you a few questions. All right,
Speaker 27: First one, I want to just break right into business.
Speaker 27: A friend of mine is building the world's brightest light
Speaker 27: in the world, powered completely by renewable and Teslas solar panels,
Speaker 27: and we want to know if you'll turn it on
Speaker 27: for us. It's been cleared, it's in Texas, the FAA
Speaker 27: approved it. Will you turn it on for us?
Speaker 1: Potentially?
Speaker 2: Possibly?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: When you say right us light, like, what do you mean?
Speaker 27: Right than the Luxer? It'll have the International Space Station
Speaker 27: and you can illuminate it at night.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yeah, you can light up the.
Speaker 27: Whole Grand Canyon as well. That's what the engineers say.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the hell of a light? Okay, it is sure.
Speaker 27: Test the solar panels too, so okay, great, that sounds good. Secondly,
Speaker 27: we've heard a lot of prayers tonight. I just want
Speaker 27: to say a quick prayer for you and ask everybody
Speaker 27: to join me and just put your hands up and
Speaker 27: let's pray that God protects this man here. He's risking
Speaker 27: his life, his family, and his future for people here
Speaker 27: in a country who he believes in.
Speaker 1: And we believe in you, Elon, and thank you.
Speaker 27: Thank you for everything you're doing, and we ask God
Speaker 27: that he protects you and keeps you safe in your
Speaker 27: journey in protecting us in our country.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 27: Okay, So my question, my real question, is you've done
Speaker 27: a ton of things. You've literally enabled mankind to live
Speaker 27: amongst the stars.
Speaker 2: Well, not yet, but we're almost.
Speaker 1: We're getting there, yes, and I can. I want to
Speaker 1: nerd out with you all day on this.
Speaker 27: Yeah, the NASA has been you know, tauted that the
Speaker 27: fuel of the stars is hydrogen. I know, I know,
Speaker 27: before you kill me, you're not a huge fan of hydrogen,
Speaker 27: and I understand it has its flaws, but we do
Speaker 27: have some incredible successes. And my question is for you,
Speaker 27: if I were able to help you and provide you
Speaker 27: with the right people and resources, would you be down
Speaker 27: to basically involve yourself with us and help save our planet.
Speaker 1: Well, I do have seventeen jobs and with the Department
Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency at eighteen, so you know, I have
Speaker 1: to be cautious about taking on additional responsibility because it's
Speaker 1: just physically impossible. But yeah, I mean, the biggest source
Speaker 1: of energy by far is the sun, So nothing even
Speaker 1: comes close to the Sun in terms of energy output.
Speaker 1: The Sun converts before million tons of master energy per second,
Speaker 1: and it's been doing that for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and we'll do that for many, many billions of years
Speaker 1: to come. So one of the ways you can think
Speaker 1: of it, the progress of any given civilization is on
Speaker 1: the Kardashev scale, and so just simple way of thinking
Speaker 1: about it is your Kottashev level one. If you've honessed
Speaker 1: all the power of a planet, you're two. If you've
Speaker 1: honessed all the power of a solar system, and you're three.
Speaker 1: If you've honessed the power of a galaxy. We're very
Speaker 1: far from three, it's safe to say, but even from one.
Speaker 1: So when you think in Kodashev terms, it becomes very
Speaker 1: obvious that the Sun is overwhelmingly the source of energy,
Speaker 1: and everything else is tiny potato, tiny, tiny, tiny potato.
Speaker 1: But hey, well, tiny potatoes wire fine for now. But
Speaker 1: the Sun is overwhelmingly the big potato, the human potato.
Speaker 1: So it's really harnessing the power of the Sun that
Speaker 1: will lead us to the stars.
Speaker 28: Hi hi Elon Dave from Lancaster County. First, thank you
Speaker 28: so much for all the insight this evening and thought
Speaker 28: provoking conversation.
Speaker 2: Two questions.
Speaker 28: One with slightly more than nine days until the election,
Speaker 28: what would you recommends a thirty second pitch to convince
Speaker 28: somebody not to believe what they're seeing on CBS, NBC
Speaker 28: and ABC.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: I've got a great solution for that, which is send
Speaker 1: them links to videos and information on the X platform.
Speaker 2: So if they say that, you know, Trump loves Nazis,
Speaker 2: for example.
Speaker 1: Like well, actually here's the whole speech where he categorically
Speaker 1: condemns Nazis, and yet the Democrats keep claiming that he
Speaker 1: loves Nazis even though he specifically said he condemns in
Speaker 1: the strongest possible terms. Uh, they still perpetuate to find
Speaker 1: people hoax. You know, it's pretty insane. So for any
Speaker 1: given thing that somebody says, well Trump is this all that,
Speaker 1: just send them the actual speech. That's that's the antidote.
Speaker 1: Send them what he actually said, thank you, And then
Speaker 1: the second part X platform actually has that, so you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the best way. Y.
Speaker 29: Hey, elon, John Scott, your old classmate from U Penn says, Hi, okay, cool,
Speaker 29: thanks for a great earnings call. On Wednesday, welcome. My
Speaker 29: name is Raphael Aziz. I'm a Coptic Orthodox Christian immigrant
Speaker 29: from Alexandria, Egypt. I have lived through religious persecution before,
Speaker 29: and I believe that the liberal and the woke movement
Speaker 29: is a religious persecution today. It is anti Christian and
Speaker 29: quite honestly anti religion. You have posted on x that
Speaker 29: unless there is more bravery to stand up for what
Speaker 29: is fair and right, Christianity will perish. My question to you,
Speaker 29: Elon Musk, is very simple. Will you stand with the
Speaker 29: Coptic Christian community, our brothers and sisters, the Catholic and Christians,
Speaker 29: and the Protestant Evangelicals against the liberal movement that is
Speaker 29: trying to destroy Christianity and religion in America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm against I'm against
Speaker 1: the work work religion is is fundamentally an extinctionist belief system.
Speaker 1: It's an extinctionist belief system. And I think we want
Speaker 1: to we want to be expansionists. We want to expand
Speaker 1: to the stars, we want to grow as a civilization.
Speaker 2: We don't want to go extinct. And so yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Absolutely support the Coptic Christians and like, I mean, really,
Speaker 1: anyone who's like expansionists, who's whose believes in a future
Speaker 1: that is better than the past, that in a future
Speaker 1: where we grow.
Speaker 2: I massively support that.
Speaker 24: So all right, yeah, hi Elon, I'm Jeremy and I'm
Speaker 24: from Earth, more specifically Bowmansville.
Speaker 1: But my question is address one astronomical unit.
Speaker 24: Can you give some insight into your decision making process
Speaker 24: and worldview? I mean, I have a lot of respect
Speaker 24: for what you've been able to accomplish so far, and
Speaker 24: you have a huge vision for what you want to
Speaker 24: accomplish so yet. And in that way, there's a crossover
Speaker 24: between the areas that you're a subject expert in and politics.
Speaker 24: So if you have some insight into how you make
Speaker 24: decisions in your worldview, then that enables us all to
Speaker 24: trust you across a larger amount of issues.
Speaker 1: Sure. Well, you know, I'm a big believer in physics,
Speaker 1: you know, which is like basically, if if you like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I sort of say, like, you know, everything
Speaker 1: everything else is a recommendation pretty much, but physics is
Speaker 1: the law. Like, if you break physics, you're gonna it's
Speaker 1: not gonna. The rocket will explode and the car will
Speaker 1: not work. So you have to adhere to physics in
Speaker 1: order to make cars that work, and to make rockets
Speaker 1: that work, in order to make space.
Speaker 2: Internet that works.
Speaker 1: You you, because if you're wrong, then reality is a
Speaker 1: very harsh judge.
Speaker 2: Reality is merciless.
Speaker 1: If you make advice that doesn't work, that that violates physics,
Speaker 1: it simply doesn't work, and then you'll think rocket blows
Speaker 1: up in the satellites don't work and the car's break.
Speaker 1: So you either you either if you make technology, you
Speaker 1: either have a rigorous you.
Speaker 5: You you.
Speaker 1: Have to in order to make technology work, you must
Speaker 1: have extremely rigorous pursuit of the truth because otherwise reality
Speaker 1: will bite you in the as big time.
Speaker 30: Yeah, So all right, Hi, thank you for taking the
Speaker 30: time to be with us today. My name is Justin Henson,
Speaker 30: also Lancaster County native. My generation is inheriting housing shortage
Speaker 30: and we're statistically less likely to take blue collar jobs. Obviously,
Speaker 30: declining birth rates been discussed. There's not going to be
Speaker 30: as many people to even fill blue collar jobs. What
Speaker 30: do you think the solution is to the current housing
Speaker 30: crisis that we're having in this country. In terms of pricing,
Speaker 30: it seems like my generation is getting priced out of homes,
Speaker 30: but also balancing the equity that people who currently own
Speaker 30: their homes have and obviously not wanting to destroy that
Speaker 30: as well.
Speaker 2: What do you see there to be a solution to
Speaker 2: that problem?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the risk of being repetitive. I think
Speaker 1: regulation is a strangling progress. And there's so many regulations.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't even like modify your kitchen or
Speaker 1: you know, add add something to your house without getting
Speaker 1: Azillian permits. So if we get if we reduce regulation,
Speaker 1: you reduce the cost of new houses. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's you know, if I know there's like
Speaker 1: many small business owners and and builders in this audience,
Speaker 1: and and who are listening, and anyone who has tried
Speaker 1: to build things, whether it's you know, build build, build
Speaker 1: a house, or do anything, build a business, you realize
Speaker 1: just how much of a government burden there is. It's
Speaker 1: it's massive, and uh there's a state burden as well
Speaker 1: as a federal burden. But we can at least do
Speaker 1: something about the federal burden, and then you know that
Speaker 1: that's you know, at least we could we don't have
Speaker 1: to have like four hundred and how many agencies there are.
Speaker 2: This is so crazy, you know, more I like, I'd
Speaker 2: like to know if this is there.
Speaker 1: I've been this on a single member of Congress that
Speaker 1: can name two hundred agencies, I'll be surprised.
Speaker 2: So, how many agencies do we need? Ninety nine?
Speaker 1: That sounds like a lot. That sounds plan I need
Speaker 1: to cover the basis? How many bases do we need
Speaker 1: to cover? Anyway, it's a ninety nine basis sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot. So anyway, I think we could just get
Speaker 1: the governor of people's backs. Would be a bigger improvement
Speaker 1: in the quality of life and cost of housing.
Speaker 2: And everything else. So, yes, Elon was going on big Dog. Hey,
Speaker 2: how's it going.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: My name is Nathan, I'm from Columbia.
Speaker 1: Anyways, so.
Speaker 12: I was gonna ask how do it feel to be
Speaker 12: the richest man in the world, and also kind of
Speaker 12: get a picture with you real quick.
Speaker 1: Well, we're on TV right now, so I think I
Speaker 1: think actually we're we're both last streaming right now, and
Speaker 1: I think probably to millions of people actually, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so millions people. I think millions of people will actually
Speaker 1: see us. We're now on screen for millions of people.
Speaker 1: In terms of how does it feel, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a strange thing because I guess, like I'm
Speaker 1: still very much like a technologist who, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I just work a lot, you know, and then my
Speaker 1: recreational activity is hanging out with friends and family and
Speaker 1: playing video games, which is yeah, exactly, I played video
Speaker 1: game Dablo out of the video games, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't I don't have like any yachts
Speaker 1: or holiday homes or anything. So I guess if I
Speaker 1: was to maybe live a more hedonistic life and you know,
Speaker 1: had like yachts and islands or something like that, then
Speaker 1: I would make more I got out of a movie
Speaker 1: that every more. I don't know, but that's not my
Speaker 1: idea of fun though, because I like, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting. If I got sitting the beach, then I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is boring. I know what I'm I supposed to
Speaker 1: do now, you know. So I just like building things,
Speaker 1: and I like being being productive and doing useful things
Speaker 1: and making cool products, and that's it pretty much. I mean,
Speaker 1: I also to like hanging out with friends and family
Speaker 1: and stuff. But uh, you know, I'm not like saying,
Speaker 1: how can I sort of well, ither I get you
Speaker 1: out or anything like, I don't have a boat or
Speaker 1: anything like that. So yeah, of course I still love it.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right, I do have boats.
Speaker 2: What are you talking force, Yes, there's a boat.
Speaker 1: We SpaceX has these ships that are for the rocket
Speaker 1: lands on. You know, so I guess technically I do
Speaker 1: own boats. Yeah, I stand corrected, Thank you. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: I should like go sort of sailing around in one
Speaker 1: of them or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Hi Elon. My name is Bruce.
Speaker 31: I'm a voter here in Pennsylvania and it's really it
Speaker 31: is an honor to meet you. You've been a very
Speaker 31: strong inspiration for me and my family and all my friends,
Speaker 31: so God bless you for that.
Speaker 1: Have a question right now about Latin America.
Speaker 31: You've obviously met President Naibukeleva Salvador, who has done.
Speaker 1: An incredible job.
Speaker 2: He really has.
Speaker 1: He's a very smart guy. Oh absolutely, absolutely, Like it's like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we had a long conversation about many subjects.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, he's really sharp guy. Absolutely.
Speaker 31: So following on that, what would you advocate for in
Speaker 31: a second Trump administration to incentivize states like Mexico, Ecuador
Speaker 31: and others into strengthening their policies on policing and economic
Speaker 31: opportunities to stem the tide of illegal migration to the
Speaker 31: US southern border.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah. Well, I mean, if there's prosperity in
Speaker 1: those countries, then I think there would obviously be less
Speaker 1: of a forcing function for legal migration. It's it's pretty tough,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, and there's some lessons to be
Speaker 1: learned there, Like when when Travis came to power in Venezuela,
Speaker 1: one of the first things he did was take the
Speaker 1: guns away from people, so he basically banned private gun
Speaker 1: ownership under the guise of, you know, safety. And then
Speaker 1: Maduro when he had the election recently, he lost by
Speaker 1: a landslide and just ignored the election, and the people
Speaker 1: protested when they got shot, they couldn't defend themselves. That's
Speaker 1: why I need the Second Amendment. It's a critical thing.