- [Dan] The fourth one we've, what?
How are we getting so close right now?
What? Charging needed to get to destination.
Is there anywhere to get a little bit of charge?
- [Security Guard] Unfortunately, negative.
- What would Elon do?
We did find the chargers.
- I don't want you to have range anxiety.
- Maybe the best picture I've ever taken in my life.
♪ Woo ♪
- Welcome back to "WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY."
Today, I am in random, middle-of-nowhere Texas
because I wanna go to Starbase.
I wanna see where Elon Musk builds the giant rockets.
I don't have special access,
so this is going to be the real experience
that you would get if you came down.
The only thing that I do have, that you would not have is,
I kind of have a special tour guide.
This is my friend Anuarbek. (Anuarbek laughing)
(audience clapping) - Hey.
- [Dan] You've seen Anuarbek in tons of our videos before,
whenever I go to Austin, Texas.
You've never been to Starbase.
- I haven't, all of my friends expect me to have been there
and gotten the tour, but. (silly laughing)
- The great thing is, the only other time
I've seen a Tesla rocket was with this guy,
but it was in Florida, and we watched a rocket launch
in the air and then come down and land back on the thing.
- [Anuarbek] Dude, that was pretty cool.
- Was that the only time you've seen a rocket launch?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely.
- The only two times in his life
that he's gonna see a rocket is both with me.
- [Anuarbek] With this guy. - I feel pretty honored
because he gets to do a lot of cool Tesla stuff.
So anyways, we're gonna get on the road.
It's about a 5 1/2 hour drive from Austin, Texas,
to Brownsville, Texas, which is in the southern, southern,
southernmost part of Texas.
Let's get on the road. Let's go find some rockets.
Let's show you Starbase.
(energetic electronic music)
Woo! There goes my hat.
Charging stop number two.
We are getting close. This is a long drive.
If you're planning on coming down, get ready for a long day,
especially if you're driving a Tesla
and have to Supercharge.
Ooh, free mattresses?
What? They're not gonna fit it in that car.
Look at that guy.
He's looking at the mattresses.
Look at him.
(Dan whistling)
Oof. (laughs)
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Like my feet don't work no more ♪
♪ No, no ♪
- It is very hot in Texas right now.
And there's all kinds of fires.
This is the fourth one we've, what?
It's a thing of hay on fire.
There's bales of hay being transported on a giant trailer.
Somehow, that caught on fire.
So the truck unhitched from the trailer and drove away
and just left the flaming hot bales of hay
in the middle of the road.
There's lots of fires.
It's really hot, and it turns out,
it's really, really dry in Texas.
I thought it'd be so humid that I'd barely be able
to breathe outside 'cause it'd be so humid.
But it's actually very dry, and there's a lot of long grass.
(intense electronic music)
Three miles away,
I see the rockets.
Oh my gosh, this is a bucket-list thing to check off.
- [Anuarbek] (laughs) Can't believe, this is so crazy, man.
It is literally, like, on the road.
(laughs) Can't believe, this is so crazy, man.
- This is very sandy.
(Dan and Anuarbek hooting and laughing)
Starbase!
We have, like, two minutes of sunlight.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh, we're driving down this road right now.
I feel like we shouldn't be able to be this close.
I don't even know.
This is private property over here, with this little,
I don't know, what is that house from,
"The Hobbit" or something?
Oh my.
Amazing.
Incredible.
How are we getting so close right now?
What? What?
(Anuarbek laughs)
What is happening?
There's big old rockets just right there,
right in front of us.
Wow.
This does feel like something straight out of a movie,
straight out of "Star Wars," straight out of "Star Trek."
So now we're going to the actual launch site.
That's the production facilities where they make all
of the rockets, but when they take them off,
they do it down here at this next spot that we're going to.
They've taken some off here.
They're now building the thing
to catch the rocket when it lands.
Crazy, they're gonna catch it.
That tall one, they're gonna put right next to this.
There's a base for it, for this framed-up station
that you see, and then they're gonna put one
of these rockets on top of it.
So that looks pretty big,
but once they put the two together,
it's gonna be massive, and it's gonna be amazing.
If they can get that thing to space,
and then the booster come back and land on some ship
out there, and then get this thing to fly off
and do its thing and come back, it's gonna change the game.
It's gonna change the game for everything we know
on Earth about flying rockets.
(infotainment system chiming)
We were a little greedy.
Charging needed to get to destination.
It says we'll have minus 3% when we reach the Supercharger.
Well, they have a wall up.
That's somewhat a security there.
(Anuarbek laughing)
What is that van with all those cameras on it? Weird.
There's some dudes working up there,
a bunch of compressed helium
and different rocket fuel that they need.
And then, right when we drive past it, we're on the beach.
We're, like, literally on the beach.
There's the ocean.
There's the Gulf of Mexico right there.
Sea turtle nesting area.
Don't drive over any sea turtles.
- [Anuarbek] No I won't.
- I already don't use straws for the turtles.
I'm not gonna drive over them. (Anuarbek laughing)
Look at it. (laughs)
This is legitimately a beach right here.
We're on the beach.
There's people that just been out here swimming.
And then there's the rocket where it takes off right there.
Beach, rocket, what a cool spot.
So even if you come all the way down to Boca Chica
just to see the rockets,
bring your swimsuits and go swimming.
This is real life right now, right behind me.
The sun just barely set,
but it has this perfect color gradient on the sky.
We've got our black Tesla just sitting out here.
This is where they take off
and so far have crashed a lot of rockets, right here.
(rocket roaring)
(mouth blowing raspberry) (angelic orchestral music)
Let's see if we can find a charger
down here 'cause we're in trouble.
Looks like there's some kind of, like,
restaurant or meeting space for employees.
There's food trucks.
But it says, "Private property. No trespassing."
Those cheeseburgers look good.
Let's ask this guy. Pull up to this guy.
Hey, do you know,
is there anywhere to get a little bit of charge?
It says if we drive from here to Brownsville,
it'll be minus 3%. (Anuarbek laughs)
And I'm like, if we even got a trickle charge
for like 20 minutes, I think we'd have enough.
- [Security Guard] Unfortunately, negative.
- Just for employees?
- [Security Guard] Only for employees,
and they have that locked down tight.
- Okay, well, thanks for your help.
We'll see if we can make it back, so.
Ugh, okay, we just met a really nice security guard.
And they do have it locked down.
Even though we can get close to things,
there's a lot of security guards here.
And the cafeteria, the food trucks are all
for employees here.
They deliver food throughout the day and night to employees.
And then he says there are a ton
of Tesla chargers here, a ton of them,
but they are all locked down to employees only.
There's no chance that we could use it at all.
So we did find the chargers.
They're behind a fence with security.
We're in the public area right now, I'm pretty sure.
And even if you look in the reverse camera, look at that.
Chargers right there.
Rockets right there.
It's kind of under the fence.
If we grab it and plug it in...
(Anuarbek laughing) I mean, I feel like
the worst thing that could happen is
they tell us to unplug and go.
But other than that, like, do you get a ticket?
There's no sign that says, "No charging here."
What would Elon do? (Anuarbek laughing)
If Elon was here right now,
I feel like Elon would say--
- You know what?
- [Anuarbek] First principles. (laughs)
- I don't want you to have range anxiety.
We're not even using these chargers right here.
We'll give you a couple, like, 20 minutes of charge.
10 minutes? I think I'd take 10 minutes.
- Charger, charger, charger, charger, charger,
all those chargers.
Rocket station, rockets.
Oh, those look beautiful.
This is the public side of the property.
Oh, there's a sign right there.
What does the sign say?
Ooh, the sign says, "anti-drone area."
I do have a drone.
I am not gonna fly it.
(color bars beeping)
Right behind you right now is the RV park
where a lot of the employees stay when they're here
because they work here,
because there's really nothing out here.
Like, what better preparation for being on Mars
than being right here at Starbase in Boca Chica,
where there's nothing around?
This is just like the movies that we watch today.
This is the home base for multi-planetary transportation.
Like, people could be flying to different planets,
different universes from here.
It's possible.
It never would be possible
unless crazy people like Elon took the risk.
The cool thing for me is that,
I've done a few things with NASA before.
We did the NASA Social, where we went out there.
They had us out there for a few days.
It is like a military base when you go on there,
which, I think it is actually military.
They don't let you take photos or videos in certain places.
The security gate to get in there is miles away
from where the actual rockets are,
where they take off or anything.
In fact, even on the bus,
they got mad at me for sitting in somebody's seat.
- I'm gonna make sure he doesn't come back again.
Just don't wanna follow the rules.
- [Dan] I didn't know there was assigned seating.
I mean, there was no-- - No, no, no, no.
- [Dan] It didn't say there was assigned seating.
- You don't understand, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
- It was crazy. I'll link the video down below.
I didn't really outline everything about how bad NASA was
to work with and to be with.
But coming here, it's a different vibe.
It's everything that you expect from Tesla
and the culture that's there,
but it's in this space-rocket company side of it.
And it's just something that comes from Elon.
Nobody is as far along as what Elon Musk has done
here with SpaceX.
It's not even close,
and it's because they're okay with failing at times.
Elon's okay taking risks, and he's good at pushing his team
to get things done, trying new things.
It's kind of a breath of fresh air to come out here
and see what SpaceX is doing,
and to see these rockets and stand less than 100 yards away
from these massive, massive rockets
that will be going up to the space.
It's innovative, and it's changing the world.
And hopefully, this is changing humanity and the universe.
Starbase,
let's go up to it.
Let's see the Starbase.
Oh, it's solar panels on top of it. Smart.
There we are.
This is the S of Starbase.
This is how big these letters are.
They're ginormous, at least six feet tall.
Let me stand by this one.
Can confirm, the Starbase T is taller than six feet.
(wind whistling)
And I hear a weird screaming noise.
What is that screaming noise?
The Night mode on the iPhone is insane.
It's not even edited.
You see stars. You see the moon.
Maybe the best picture I've ever taken in my life.
We need to go charge this car.
And hopefully, we can make it.
♪ Ooh ♪
(Dan grunts)
Good news, everybody.
We have one mile remaining.
We made it. We drove very, very slow.
I can't believe we made it.
It's 10 o'clock at night right now.
We are in this random small town.
SpaceX, you guys are amazing.
Elon, keep doing the work.
We will be back to Starbase someday.
I'd highly, highly recommend
to all of you watching this channel,
if you have a chance to go to Starbase, go check it out.
It's amazing.
All right, we're gonna sit here and charge for like an hour
and then go find a hotel here in Brownsville.
♪ Woo ♪
It's charging at 250 kilowatts, 1,020 miles an hour.
We've already gained 26 miles
in the last, like, five minutes of charging here.
32 miles, it just barely went from 30 to 32,
just like (snaps) that.
Let's see how long it takes
until it goes up to the next one.
34, just like that, 2 miles of range.
That is definitely something that Tesla has
on pretty much every other electric car.
That is some fast charging with these new batteries.
Hi, guys.
- [Anuarbek] Are you on Instagram?
- [Passerby] Am I on Instagram?
- [Anuarbek] Do you do follow on Instagram?
- [Passerby] I do, yeah.
- [Anuarbek] Follow superteslageeks,
and this guy has a YouTube channel called "WHAT'S INSIDE?"
- [Passerby] Okay.
- [Anuarbek] This is one of the biggest YouTubers
in the world. - No, (laughs) no.
- [Passerby] You? - No, no, no.
- [Anuarbek] Yeah, yeah. (Dan laughs)
- [Passerby] Super, it's called--
- [Anuarbek] superteslageeks.
- [Passerby] superteslageeks.
- [Anuarbek] Yeah, I'll follow you back.
(blinker clicking)
- For sale by owner, what? (Anuarbek laughs)
How is that land for sale right there?
We need that land.
- [Anuarbek] I think you need to contact Matt Holm.
- Oh my gosh. (Anuarbek laughing)
- We made it!
Woo! Woo.
- What is that screaming noise? Woo!