August 20, 2022 • 8 mins
Elon Musk: part Thomas Edison, part Iron-Man, part annoying dude in the group chat. He's eccentric, terminally online, but also anything but the standard CEO. This is "The Daily Showography of Elon Musk."
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. What do you think of
when you think of the future. Is it space travel, robots,
trucks with the word cyber in front of them. Whatever
your vision, there is one man working to make it
a reality. East part Thomas Edison, part Tironman, part annoying
(00:24):
dude in the group chat and is anything but your
standard CDEO. I changed my tunnel too, too, techno king um.
And by the way, this is a formal SEC filing.
It's I'm legally or whatever techno king um. I just
did that as kind of like a joke. Yes, he's
a technic king, but as a joke, and soon we'll
(00:46):
all be. It serves that, you know, funny way, because
while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally online
billionaire who wants to plug people into computers and build
a best network of underground tunnels, it's not like he's
some kindness super villain. Eventually you can transform mis into
an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the pulse.
(01:07):
Well maybe a little so strappy. Turn on the autopilot,
but keep your hands on the steering wheel in case
of pedestrians, because this is the daily shiography of Elon Musk.
Visionary future man. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,
in earlier nineteen seventy one. His father made a fortune
(01:29):
in construction and emerald minun Because Africa's resources are like
free money for white people, bad liability to school, Elon
overcame many hardships, Although unlike other South African celebrities, he
didn't make his childhood into a whole thing. By age ten,
he was learning to program computer. At twelve, he built
a video game he called Blastar, which started his lifelong
(01:52):
love of inventing things that already exist. Soon after, he
left South Africa and made his way to a booming
Silicon valley, where he launched his first company, ZIP two,
which he eventually sold the Compact computer for three five
million dollars. Like so many tech entrepreneurs, he earned his
unimaginable wealth by doing something invaluable for society. Selling a
(02:12):
startup you've never heard of to a company that doesn't
exist anymore, must celebrated by buying himself a million dollars supercar.
There are sixty two of the parents in the world,
and I will earn one of them. Yes, Musk was
so rich he could afford to have a midlife crisis
while he was still in his twenties. Sadly, his new
toy wouldn't last. Wrong, I didn't really know how to
(02:33):
drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult car to drive,
And I floored it and the lane change on the
brack wheel, brook News and the cost fund around and
uh and then we hit the embankment and knocked the
car into the air, which continued spinning like a discus,
like three ft in the air. That's right, Musks. McLaren
crashed worse than dotch coin. After Saturday Night Live. For
(02:54):
his next act, Must created x dot com, which would
later become PayPal, the happy your uncle had to use
because in moo and cash app won't work them as
a nopia. Must took the money you made from that
business and build an empire of pool lash ship, rocket ships,
electric cars, solar farms, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and underground highways,
all while dating celebrities and starting a record label to
(03:16):
release his own E d M track Down a Banker.
All the more impressive considering Must get clearly never heard
music before. Yes, Elon Musk refuses to stainless lane, much
like a Tesla on autopilots down or changing lands by itself.
(03:38):
Tesla's groundbreaking cars looking for speed brought unprecedented power range
from sexists to electric vehicles, a market previously reserved for
nerds who cared about the environment. And must even promise
the dream of full self driving technology and I promised repeatedly.
(03:58):
I'm confident that in less than a year, uh, you'll
be able to go from highway on ramp to highway
exit without touching any control. Fully, shit, it just ran
that red light. In three years, um, the call will
be able to take you the grown point to point US.
(04:19):
I think we're basically less than two years away from
complete autonomy. Oh shit, we had not across country from
l A to New York by the end of the
year fully autonomous. Extremely confident of achieving full autonomy UH
and and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year.
(04:42):
But must can't stop drinking big even when he probably should,
like when SpaceX made history with the world's first reusable
rocket technology and then use it to launch the first
car in the space technically the second. If you can
elon Lusk's McLaren must special brand of achievements one a
totally normal and healthy fan base around the world. But
(05:04):
success didn't come easy. You had to overcome a lot
of doubters, starting with himself. I don't want to give
the impression that I thought tells they would be successful
from the beginning. I actually thought we would fail. We
were only a few days from bankruptcy. It was literally
two days. It pushed him to the brink. Musk could
have gone from being a multi billionaire all the way
down to the very lowest rung of society millionaire. But
(05:27):
through the years must kept as many ventures going, with
a little more than his can do added to him
and billions of dollars in government subsidies. Today Musk isn't
merely the richest man in the world. Is net worth
as higher than the GDP of most countries. Should must
be a country does have a national anthem down. But
(05:51):
don't worry. It's not like he's got an army or anything.
I went to Russia to look at buying a reposed
I c Van, which is a very trip the experience. Okay,
maybe we're a little and he's not just great at
making money, he's also an experence saving by paying almost
nothing in taxes for three years and then actually nothing
(06:11):
in Of course, there's always haters like to nitpick musk
business methods. There are charges of unreported injuries, excessive hours,
abusive conditions, injuries on the job, breathing toxic fumes over
a hundred ambulance calls. I don't think that's correct. I
(06:32):
mean as literally living in the factory. Um if these,
if those like toxic ferience, I'm breathing them exactly? Does
Musk seem like a man who is inhaling toxic fumes?
But Elon must also understands it all work and no
play make X As a twelve a dull boy, and
like any well adjusted person, his favorite pastime is spending
(06:55):
twelve to fourteen hours a day on Twitter. So it
made sense when Musk announced that he would buy the
social media platform, and even more sense when the deals
spun out of control and crashed into an embankment. But
Musk doesn't only use Twitter for fun. He uses to
make the world a better place, or at least promised to.
It's where he promised to solve world hunger and draftic,
(07:16):
fight cold and fixed Flint's water and when a Thai
soccer team was stuck in a cane, Elon even promised
to rescue those kids from the guy who rescued. That's
why Musk is such a champion of free speech. If
you can't randomly accuse someone who was saving people's lives
of being a peto guy, does civil discourse even exists?
(07:38):
Lelon Musk is dedicated to building a brighter future for
old humanity. It's why he backed the most futuristic presidential
candidate of It's why he's so dedicated to turning every
aspect of our lives into a platform for his dumb jokes.
From robots to cybernetic implants, to AI into space travel
(07:59):
to un entered social media. Elon Musk is building a
future that humanity only imagined in the movies, and who
wouldn't want to live there? You basically think about to
hate humanity if you don't like that future. And that's
why Elon Musk fruly is a visionary future man. The
(08:19):
Daily Show with Trevor Noah ears editions. Subscribe to The
Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and stream full
episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy
Central podcast
You're listening to Comedy Central. What do you think of
when you think of the future. Is it space travel, robots,
trucks with the word cyber in front of them. Whatever
your vision, there is one man working to make it
a reality. East part Thomas Edison, part Tironman, part annoying
(00:24):
dude in the group chat and is anything but your
standard CDEO. I changed my tunnel too, too, techno king um.
And by the way, this is a formal SEC filing.
It's I'm legally or whatever techno king um. I just
did that as kind of like a joke. Yes, he's
a technic king, but as a joke, and soon we'll
(00:46):
all be. It serves that, you know, funny way, because
while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally online
billionaire who wants to plug people into computers and build
a best network of underground tunnels, it's not like he's
some kindness super villain. Eventually you can transform mis into
an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the pulse.
(01:07):
Well maybe a little so strappy. Turn on the autopilot,
but keep your hands on the steering wheel in case
of pedestrians, because this is the daily shiography of Elon Musk.
Visionary future man. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,
in earlier nineteen seventy one. His father made a fortune
(01:29):
in construction and emerald minun Because Africa's resources are like
free money for white people, bad liability to school, Elon
overcame many hardships, Although unlike other South African celebrities, he
didn't make his childhood into a whole thing. By age ten,
he was learning to program computer. At twelve, he built
a video game he called Blastar, which started his lifelong
(01:52):
love of inventing things that already exist. Soon after, he
left South Africa and made his way to a booming
Silicon valley, where he launched his first company, ZIP two,
which he eventually sold the Compact computer for three five
million dollars. Like so many tech entrepreneurs, he earned his
unimaginable wealth by doing something invaluable for society. Selling a
(02:12):
startup you've never heard of to a company that doesn't
exist anymore, must celebrated by buying himself a million dollars supercar.
There are sixty two of the parents in the world,
and I will earn one of them. Yes, Musk was
so rich he could afford to have a midlife crisis
while he was still in his twenties. Sadly, his new
toy wouldn't last. Wrong, I didn't really know how to
(02:33):
drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult car to drive,
And I floored it and the lane change on the
brack wheel, brook News and the cost fund around and
uh and then we hit the embankment and knocked the
car into the air, which continued spinning like a discus,
like three ft in the air. That's right, Musks. McLaren
crashed worse than dotch coin. After Saturday Night Live. For
(02:54):
his next act, Must created x dot com, which would
later become PayPal, the happy your uncle had to use
because in moo and cash app won't work them as
a nopia. Must took the money you made from that
business and build an empire of pool lash ship, rocket ships,
electric cars, solar farms, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and underground highways,
all while dating celebrities and starting a record label to
(03:16):
release his own E d M track Down a Banker.
All the more impressive considering Must get clearly never heard
music before. Yes, Elon Musk refuses to stainless lane, much
like a Tesla on autopilots down or changing lands by itself.
(03:38):
Tesla's groundbreaking cars looking for speed brought unprecedented power range
from sexists to electric vehicles, a market previously reserved for
nerds who cared about the environment. And must even promise
the dream of full self driving technology and I promised repeatedly.
(03:58):
I'm confident that in less than a year, uh, you'll
be able to go from highway on ramp to highway
exit without touching any control. Fully, shit, it just ran
that red light. In three years, um, the call will
be able to take you the grown point to point US.
(04:19):
I think we're basically less than two years away from
complete autonomy. Oh shit, we had not across country from
l A to New York by the end of the
year fully autonomous. Extremely confident of achieving full autonomy UH
and and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year.
(04:42):
But must can't stop drinking big even when he probably should,
like when SpaceX made history with the world's first reusable
rocket technology and then use it to launch the first
car in the space technically the second. If you can
elon Lusk's McLaren must special brand of achievements one a
totally normal and healthy fan base around the world. But
(05:04):
success didn't come easy. You had to overcome a lot
of doubters, starting with himself. I don't want to give
the impression that I thought tells they would be successful
from the beginning. I actually thought we would fail. We
were only a few days from bankruptcy. It was literally
two days. It pushed him to the brink. Musk could
have gone from being a multi billionaire all the way
down to the very lowest rung of society millionaire. But
(05:27):
through the years must kept as many ventures going, with
a little more than his can do added to him
and billions of dollars in government subsidies. Today Musk isn't
merely the richest man in the world. Is net worth
as higher than the GDP of most countries. Should must
be a country does have a national anthem down. But
(05:51):
don't worry. It's not like he's got an army or anything.
I went to Russia to look at buying a reposed
I c Van, which is a very trip the experience. Okay,
maybe we're a little and he's not just great at
making money, he's also an experence saving by paying almost
nothing in taxes for three years and then actually nothing
(06:11):
in Of course, there's always haters like to nitpick musk
business methods. There are charges of unreported injuries, excessive hours,
abusive conditions, injuries on the job, breathing toxic fumes over
a hundred ambulance calls. I don't think that's correct. I
(06:32):
mean as literally living in the factory. Um if these,
if those like toxic ferience, I'm breathing them exactly? Does
Musk seem like a man who is inhaling toxic fumes?
But Elon must also understands it all work and no
play make X As a twelve a dull boy, and
like any well adjusted person, his favorite pastime is spending
(06:55):
twelve to fourteen hours a day on Twitter. So it
made sense when Musk announced that he would buy the
social media platform, and even more sense when the deals
spun out of control and crashed into an embankment. But
Musk doesn't only use Twitter for fun. He uses to
make the world a better place, or at least promised to.
It's where he promised to solve world hunger and draftic,
(07:16):
fight cold and fixed Flint's water and when a Thai
soccer team was stuck in a cane, Elon even promised
to rescue those kids from the guy who rescued. That's
why Musk is such a champion of free speech. If
you can't randomly accuse someone who was saving people's lives
of being a peto guy, does civil discourse even exists?
(07:38):
Lelon Musk is dedicated to building a brighter future for
old humanity. It's why he backed the most futuristic presidential
candidate of It's why he's so dedicated to turning every
aspect of our lives into a platform for his dumb jokes.
From robots to cybernetic implants, to AI into space travel
(07:59):
to un entered social media. Elon Musk is building a
future that humanity only imagined in the movies, and who
wouldn't want to live there? You basically think about to
hate humanity if you don't like that future. And that's
why Elon Musk fruly is a visionary future man. The
(08:19):
Daily Show with Trevor Noah ears editions. Subscribe to The
Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and stream full
episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy
Central podcast
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