Elon musk's father, Errol Musk, will not be winning any Father of the Year awards.
And it might be because of the fact that he did a very public interview kind of
berating Elon Musk and making it clear that he's not proud of his own son.
Now this is an interview on the Kyle and Jackie O show.
It took place last weekend, and he went so far as to say Musk might be financially
successful, but I'm not really that proud of him.
Let's watch.
>> There's nothing better than a [CROSSTALK]
>> No, but seriously, Errol,
what does that feel like?
He's your son, and he's worth so much money and created so many things.
>> Pretty impressive, right?
>> And you can't take that away from him.
Are you proud?
>> No. >> Did you ever see that coming?
What?
You're not proud?
>> No, well, I mean,
we are a family that have been doing a lot of things for a long time.
And somebody said we suddenly started doing something.
So we've all been, as a family all doing things from the very beginning.
Elon has in fact sort of over really surpassed the mark and
so on, but I was saying to one of your stations
there that Elon is not as happy as he'd like to be.
He'd like to be where he is now.
He would've liked to have been there five years ago.
>> I don't know Errol, I mean, could it have some,
if he's not as happy as he'd like to be, could it have something to do with
the fact that he has an unbearable father who thinks that nothing is good enough?
I mean, it seems like there's some unresolved childhood trauma here.
I mean, Elon might not admit that, but having a father like that,
like just be just be a decent dad and be like, yeah, I'm proud of my son, move on.
You don't, what was that?
That was terrible, but it gets worse by the way.
Jessica.
>> Yeah, I don't know, I would expect more love from a parent to a child, but
if my child was Elon musk, I don't know.
Also he [CROSSTALK]. >> You've got to
have parents who support you.
You've got to support your kids, even if like you have problems with the way
your kid is behaving, and by the way calling Elon Musk a kid is hilarious, but
you have problems with the way your children are behaving that's fine.
You don't have to air that dirty laundry publicly.
Deal with that internally and just be a decent person publicly.
You get what I'm saying?
>> Yeah, I think it could be like a reverse causality situation
where because his father is this way Elon ended up this way, right?
Like if he had the love and support he needed growing up, maybe he wouldn't
end up being this guy who says he founded a company that he bought, right?
Tesla was founded by Eberhard and Tarpenning and Elon brags that he self
made We know he started his first business with seed money from his father.
He said raising $50 million dollars is a matter of making phone calls.
Everything was handed him for him to get where he is.
And even still Tesla is making the majority of their money,
in the few quarters they were profitable, selling carbon credits, right?
When other companies reduce their emissions or go over their cap for
emissions and Tesla reduces theirs,
Tesla sells theirs to those larger companies, which means the net progress
from having EVs is pretty much zero when you're doing that.
And so the self driving features, the main thing that he's focused on, right?
That's the one thing he says needs to have happen for Tesla to be successful.
He's still pretty far away from that.
He is now being sued by Dogecoin because he said I don't have cash on hand,
all of my money is Tesla and SpaceX stock.
If they went bankrupt, I would go bankrupt as well.
He said that directly.
And then he tweeted all about Dogecoin, made a bunch of money off of it and
now they're suing him for inflating the price of that stock and
using his public presence to do so.
And so maybe it's rooted in childhood trauma and now he's the richest man
on earth and is scamming people and taking a bunch of money from the government.
It's a bad situation,
I agree that all parents should be nice to their kids because look what could happen.
>> Yeah. And and to be clear, if everything you
just said were uttered by his father then I think it would be a little different
because his father didn't have any valid critique which you just shared right now.
It was more of like this, yeah, I mean he did fine, but everyone in our family,
we're all badasses, okay.
We've all been doing things.
That was the point that he was making there.
And it's like a weird, it's almost like there's weird competition going on
within the family, which sounds super toxic and terrible.
And, look, when we really think about people who in this nation's recent history
held positions of power and were incredibly damaging to this country.
People like George W Bush, people like Donald Trump,
they all had daddy issues, all of them, right?
And so if you're gonna make the decision to have kids, please be decent and loving
to your children because who knows what they're going to turn out like if you're
not loving and if you engage in this weird competitiveness with your kids like this.
And if you think that was bad, Errol's got more.
He decided to attack Musk's appearance, which is strange, but let's watch.
>> You've got stage is your life, I mean he's 50 now.
I mean, I still think of him as a little boy.
But he's 50, I mean that's an old man.
So now [CROSSTALK] >> Did you see the photos of him, Errol,
did you see did you see the photos in the other day,
lily white with no shirt on the back of a yacht.
You should've rang him said, brother, son, get a spray tan or something for
Christ's sake.
>> No, no, no, no.
I tell you what, Elon is very well built and he's very, very strongly built.
But he's been eating badly and
I have been telling them to take a sort of supplement I saw that was advertised.
>> I'll tell you what I was watching this program in the States,
it's called the Alex Jones show.
And they sell this product called Mega Hard and I told us, what?
What?
Shut up, shut up, what was that?
I don't, I just, there's no valid criticism there.
I don't care what Elon Musk looks like, but I certainly don't want to hear
his father saying these terrible things about Elon Musk.
His own son's appearance on this show.
Again, if there's valid critique about, alright, there's this issue with Tesla,
there's that issue with what he's doing career wise.
It's still uncomfortable, but at least it's like valid and
interesting critique coming on a program to attack the way your own son
looks is just, I think it's strange and super below the belt.
>> Yeah, I agree.
I'm glad we're having this conversation because I don't think enough people talk
about how someone is raised, right?
And childhood trauma can affect how you move through the world in everyday life,
especially when these people end up becoming very powerful individuals and
how that trauma shows up in their everyday life, in their business decisions,
how they treat employees, how he promises that he wants to get to a renewable energy
future and he's going to save the planet and bring us into this green future and
take us to the moon, etc, right?
He wants to promise a lot.
He has this feeling of like needing validation, needing to make people proud
and ends up really accumulating as much money as he can, right?
A lot of his companies aren't doing that well.
It could be rooted in seeking validation that he clearly wasn't getting from
his father.
And I also want to say that daddy issues thing,
we always hear that daddy issues are going to be a problem for women, right?
It's [CROSSTALK] >> Exactly, exactly.
>> This is what happens when men have daddy issues, far worse.
Far worse. >> Exactly, exactly.
Thank you.
I mean, for
the longest time the phrase daddy issues was just only applied to women.
But look, let's just keep it real okay, having these issues whether you're female,
male, non-binary, it doesn't matter.
It leads to trauma.
It bleeds into adulthood and
a lot of people never get any type of therapy to work through it.
So it goes unresolved.
It manifests in really toxic ways.
And speaking about toxicity, Errol really lives in a massive glass
house here because in my opinion, he's a little bit of a creep.
Okay, he married and had two children with his own stepdaughter,
whom he's known since she was four years old.
So one more clip for you here, He explains why he married his own stepdaughter,
who he's known since she was four years old.
Let's watch.
>> I'm looking online here at you.
What's the story here about the stepdaughter?
Is that's gonna be story.
What's going on there?
>> No, no, no.
I was married to her mother for two years in the 90s.
>> All right, so she's not your kid, obviously.
>> No, no, no, of course not.
No, no. I was married to her mother in
the nineties, early nineties.
And she, those kind of years.
And she, I never saw her after we had lost.
She was actually placed in foster care.
But at any rate, I never saw for many years.
And then about, in about 2014, I think I had seen her maybe around year 2000 and
then in about 2014, she, that's when I of course, she came to phone
me [INAUDIBLE] battling and all that sort of stuff and she she was 30 years old.
She's a lovely girl, and she's really struggling and
she had an eight year old child and and so I said let me let me help.
And so we became friends.
>> And then a romance struck up out of that, that's normal.
That's just, I don't see that weird.
>> Yeah, it's completely normal.
>> I, I, by the way, so he didn't marry the stepdaughter, just the kids.
No, but he was no, no, he was married to the woman he's married to now.
He just said he was married to her mother previously.
And then what?
They divorced and he lost contact with this girl that he's known since she was
four and then later married her because she was in a desperate situation.
What?
But please pass judgment on your son in this radio program.
I'd love to hear it, I guess.
I don't know what to do with that.
I just don't.
>> Yeah, disgusting, disgusting.
And I think this is evidence that maybe his father, Elon's quite messed up.
His father's clearly quite messed up.
And I think the best thing parents can do, right, is take what they've been given in
life, the life that they've been given and how they were raised and
make themselves better so that they raise their kids to be a little better, right?
That's that's the dream.
But going a few generations back, Elon Musk is Afrikaans and
the Afrikaans are the folks who colonized South Africa.
And so I imagine as we trace this family tree back,
it's only going to get more intense.
But I think the beautiful thing is that we all have this obligation and we can all do
this thing where we make ourselves better, we heal from our trauma and we raise our
kids better so that we don't have unhinged billionaires doing stuff like this.
And I think in conclusion to heal everyone from their trauma, we absolutely need
Medicare for all and mental health care so that that can become a reality because I
think in the United States there's a lot of very sick trauma from all of the wars
we've sent veterans to and those come back home and they raise kids, right?
It's everywhere.
And unless we invest in healing, even if we have a progressive tax,
we reduce economic inequality dramatically, we pass massive legislation
to move towards a green future, even with all of that, there will still be people
who are very unwell and that really needs to be addressed and not forgotten.
>> Alright, so quick correction,
Elon Musk's father didn't marry his stepdaughter,
who he knew since she was four years old, he just had kids with her.
Okay, that's it,
he just had kids with his stepdaughter who he has known since she was four years old.
So just wanted to make sure I was clear and
accurate in sharing those details with you.