- Narcissist. - I feel like he's weird.
- Well, I know he's an industrialist.
- He's rich. - He's a nerd.
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- (React) What do you know about Elon Musk?
- Tesla, of course. - I know he owns Tesla.
I know he started Bitcoin. - PayPal and Tesla and SpaceX.
- He's rich and he has Tesla
and comes up with all these crazy ideas.
- He bought Tesla, so he didn't even think of it.
- (React) Do you have any preconceived notions about Elon Musk?
- Narcissist, slightly abusive. - He's a nerd. (laughs)
- Egomaniac. - I feel like he's weird.
Something just seems weird about him sometimes.
I don't know. (chuckles)
- (Elon) So, is that a joint? - Joe Rogan.
- (snickering) - (Elon) Or is it a cigar?
- (Joe) No. - I've tried it way more than once.
- Oh my god. - Joe Rogan is such a turd, though.
- (Elon) Yeah, I think I tried one once.
- And the meme-- the biggest meme right here.
- (React) This single incident caused a large stir,
because Elon Musk has military contracts
and clearance with the US government, which comes with an extremely strict
drug-free policy. So, because of this,
the US military required both Tesla, and, strangely enough, its competitor,
Boeing, to take safety audits and reviews that were estimated
to total 5 million taxpayer dollars. - That's absolutely absurd.
Ridiculous. Nonsen-- there's your tax dollars
at work, friends. Spending by idiots.
- Yeah, it's a [censored] waste of money.
It's like burning our money and all, like...
- Yes, it's so stupid. Weed is not the end all,
be all type of thing. - Genuinely so stupid.
Like, bro, it's legal in a lot of states now,
like medicinally, some places recreationally.
Just chill, bruh. - But I feel like that falls more
on Elon for not remembering and not doing it,
since he-- that is one of his bigger contracts.
But then it also falls on Joe for pushing it.
- If Elon Musk did know about these clearances,
then he does have a responsibility to uphold that.
- (React) And then, does that make the government or Elon Musk
seem a little bit more absurd? - The government definitely,
to me, is way more absurd. Elon, he took a couple of hits,
and he said, "You know, this isn't for me.
I really don't like it."
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- I remember this. - Ohhhh! I remember this!
- I remember hearing about this, but I don't remember seeing it.
- (laughs) I didn't know that. - Why not?
- That's cool.
- This looks like it's photoshopped, like it's a green screen.
- Crazy, though, 'cause what if one day,
all this junk comes down and hits us? (laughs)
Just always launching stuff into orbit.
- (React) So, do you think it's important to create
a self-sustaining base on Mars for human survival?
- We might need it, or we need to get better
at conserving the Earth, 'cause, I mean, yeah,
we want to expand out to other places,
but we should fix where we are. - Why not try it?
You only have one life to live, right?
- Sounds great, but what are we gonna do?
Use it as a base to attack Venus? - He's like, "Oh my god,
clean renewable energy. Earth, let's make her clean."
"Run to Mars while you still can." I'm getting mixed signals, Elon!
- (React) Relatively inspiring the younger generations
when there might not be any hope? - Right. (laughs) Exactly.
- It doesn't move very fast. - (React) Nope.
- Oh, wait, that's all the movement I get?
- Oh, that's so slow! - This seems so hard. Oh my god.
You have to aim so far away. I can't do this.
- This is a horrible game. I hate him.
I used to like the guy or was indifferent.
Now, I hate his guts. What a stupid game.
- Oh, god. Oh, god. People are gonna think
I'm not a gamer, because I'm not doing this right.
- I remember when games weren't much better than this.
- It's like Snake. - (React) Do you think it's impressive
for 1984? - Yup. (laughs) Definitely.
- That's pretty impressive. And that was made by a 12-year-old?
Yeah. Okay. - (React) Right?
- (laughs) - ♪ RIP Harambe ♪
♪ Sippin' on some Bombay ♪
♪ We on our way to heaven ♪ ♪ Amen, amen ♪
♪ RIP Harambe ♪ ♪ Smokin' on some strong ♪
♪ In the gorilla zoo ♪ ♪ And we thinkin' about you ♪
- (React) This was a song Elon dropped on Twitter in 2019.
- I missed this one. - I do not remember that!
- I didn't even know about this. - That's not shocking to me
in the slightest. - (React) Not at all?
- Not even a little bit. - I think the beat goes hard.
- Catchy. (laughs) - But it's a pretty crappy song.
- But, I mean, if this is where he wants to put his efforts,
he has enough money to do whatever he wants.
- Do whatever you want, man. Whatever makes you happy.
- (React) How much money do you think Elon Musk donated
in the first four months of 2021? - I'm gonna guess half a billion.
- I'm gonna say, like, what? A million.
- 50 million. - 20 million.
- A million dollars? - (React) 150 million.
- A hundred and fi-- yooo!
- 150 million. - I'm sure he could give more.
I mean, you're making enough money that you literally couldn't spend
in your lifetime. - You don't have to donate, right?
It's something you do 'cause you want to.
- When you have that type of money and you're rich,
it's not hard to help people, and you should know exactly
what to donate for. You know that there's people
struggling with hunger. You know, there's people
struggling in school, housing. It's very, very simple.
- I don't care how much money he's got.
He's done more than his fair share. - I don't think we should live
in a society where a handful of people hold the wealth of the world.
I think we should've regulated that on a government level.
I don't know. I'm just one person. But I'm not gonna tell him
now that he's earned that how to spend it.
- Whatever he donates can also be a tax write-off,
so he does benefit from sending his money away.
And that is a way for him to spend less on taxes.
- If you are truly worried about the future and think
that we're gonna have to launch ourselves to Mars,
maybe start working on the present moment more.
- (Lesley) He tweeted, quote, "I'm considering taking Tesla private
at 420. Funding secured." - (giggling)
- (Lesley) The SEC disputed that claim and charged him
with securities fraud. - That's so stupid.
- (Lesley) The case was settled with Musk agreeing
that his communications relating to the company,
including Twitter, would be overseen by his board.
- (Elon) I wanna be clear. I do not respect the SEC.
I do not respect them. - (Lesley) But you're abiding
by the settlement, aren't you? - (Elon) Because I respect
the justice system. - Work.
- That's an interesting distinction. He does not respect the SEC,
but he does respect the justice system.
- (React) So, do you think this is market manipulation?
He would be manipulating what the price would get set at
by early investors. - I mean, it's kind of obvious
that he was joking, so I don't think that was intention.
You know what I mean? Like 420... do you not know
what 420 means, guys? Like, really?
And they probably don't, because they're a bunch
of [censored] squares. - I think if you're not a boomer,
you would understand that this is a joke. (chuckles)
- And those people can't be that dumb.
You obviously know what he's referring to.
It's just a play on words, and it's just Twitter.
It's not serious. - And he's not a fan of marijuana,
so I just don't know what to make of this.
- But it's also, like, I get it. They do have to be on him
and be like, "You have to be careful what you say,
because you could really affect the economy."
But I would be sad if I couldn't make jokes ever.
I don't know. That would suck.
- If his woo-hoo times of flippant use and weed
and all that jazz, if it starts costing people
that aren't him money, then we have a problem.
And then it's like the intent versus impact,
that starts coming into play. - (Elon) It's an honor
to be hosting Saturday Night Live. - Ohhh! I heard about this.
- (Elon) I'm actually making history tonight
as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL.
- That's amazing. - Good for you.
- That probably took some courage,
especially being in his position, because being so visible,
one might make an argument that him saying that
might've affected some stock prices. - That's a thing not a lot
of people are gonna wanna share, because it's very close
to them, right? And it's not something
you wanna share to people, because you don't know
how you'll be judged. - But it's really amazing
that he chose to so that he can make other people,
especially the younger generations, feel more comfortable
if they also have Asperger's. - I feel like there's a lot of things
I knew little bits about him, but not fully.
And I think a lot of this cleared that up.
- The one thing that really surprised me was the charities.
I thought that was really great. - The funnest thing I learned
was about him-- that car on its way to Mars.
I love that. I didn't know anything about it,
never heard any-- I knew that he had launched
that thing, but I didn't know that that's what he was doing.
- (React) Do you think Elon Musk could actually be a force for change
as far as interplanetary exploration, green energy?
- Do I think he is or he should be? - (React) Could be.
Could be a force for change.
Do you think he could be? - Oh, totally. Yeah.
- Well, I think the things that he's done have already
been a force for change. - Building tunnels, going to space,
like, I mean, that's pretty crazy. - The way he acts,
the way he does things, the way he has a very straightforward
form of communication, he's literally already doing it.
- I imagine somebody with this guy's drive and intellect is gonna be
contributing a lot to society.
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