Two previous test flights
of Elon Musk's star ship prototypes
crash landed, fireballs,
complete Nutter disaster, but
this is the testing phase, so
you can expect that to happen.
But was the third time a charm?
Well, sort of, so yesterday's test
flight was supposed to take off Fly
around and then land upright.
The takeoff and the flying actually
went really well.
Here's the landing.
>> Right here.
The close up shot.
>> Here we go.
>> Come on SN10 >> Come on dude
Do we have a problem?
[CROSSTALK] >> Please.
>> [INAUDIBLE] to the final
[CROSSTALK] >> Is that intentional?
>> My gosh [CROSSTALK]
>> [INAUDIBLE] you can do it.
>> Is it landing?
It did it.
[INAUDIBLE] It's a vertical.
>> Okay, they're really excited,
I gotta say that excitement made me
excited but Cenk wait,
coz we're not done yet,
let me just get to the next video.
>> I know, hold on before we get to
that, I just want to say Look,
I saw that video I did not see
the second video tIll later.
And that's a big part of this story
and I'm going to make it amusingly
and weirdly political.
But before I get to that,
this is the part where I root for
Elon Musk.
That's why we had this legendary
poll on tyt.com Elon Musk, yes or
no, right?
And initially I voted yes.
And it's because he's
an interesting cat, right?
Now, as it turns out,
he's got massive issues.
Months later,
I switched my vote to no,
[LAUGH] right?
And those are mainly political and
ego driven, and selfishness, etc.
But it's hard not to root for
SpaceX.
And so
he's trying something bold and big.
And I gotta say I appreciate it.
So when I saw it stick the landing
I was like, Yes.
Okay, now the rest of the story
>> Right, so,
now we go to the next video.
It's eight minutes later.
And bear in mind like there were no
people around this ship.
Okay, and by the way,
what is this starship?
What's the whole point?
As you guys might know Elon Musk
wants to, Credit situation in which
people can go to and fro Mars,
right?
And so this is the beginning
phases of the that [LAUGH] and
here is what happened to eight
minutes after the video that we
just showed you.
>> Remember the Lakes have built
in crash course so they
have the ability to absorb some
shock like a sort of suspension.
So if it was a slightly >> My god,
there you go.
>> There's your methane leak.
Yes >> [LAUGH] Folks, >> wow.
[LAUGH] And that's why we
weren't running replays.
>> Exactly.
[LAUGH] Someone got that, right?
>> Rightly less a soft landing now.
>> Wow.
>> That was awesome.
[LAUGH] >> Jerk
[LAUGH] >> I gotta say,
people love to watch fire burn.
There's something amazing
about watching things blow up and
then >> There's the added layer of
this thing that looks like a giant
metal penis exploding like that.
Look at it.
>> 100% Are you kidding me?
It already looked phallic.
And then when it misfires like
this, is this an allegory for
Elon Musk?
Is this voting No?
Anyway, so- >> It just reminds me
of what happens in a room
when I walk in.
Just kidding, I'm kidding.
I'm not that full of myself.
[LAUGH] >> Bad thing.
So, I don't know that you want that
as your thing, Anna walks in and
>> That explodes I don't know,
right?
Okay, we're getting past that in
a hurry.
[LAUGH] So, look,
I love the play by play guys
because they're super into it.
So one of my nephews they confused
is an aeronautical engineer, okay.
I'm sorry.
That's so funny aerospace engineer.
If he hears that he's like,
you don't even know what Got it?
Yeah, okay.
It is not high.
But yes,
he's an aerospace engineer.
So of course he gets super
into this right?
And I like that enthusiasm.
I like that passion by anyone about
anything, right?
And this is the thing
that makes us.
But let's note also for the record
that the best part of this story
randomly wound up being NSA to and
fro [LAUGH] What are we at Sentry?
We're going to Mars to and
fro to and fro from us.Anyways,
it also goes to the moon.
Now that sounds fun and super cool.
But now I'm going to
be Debbie Downer a little bit and
go Yeah, but Who's going to get to
go to the moon and Mars?
Ain't going to be you and
me brothers and sisters, okay?
You're going to have to be
incredibly wealthy to take that
flight at once it's finally working
and obviously it isn't working yet.
I have to- but go ahead Anna
[CROSSTALK] >> Is there a future
in which the technology advances to
the point where it could be
accessible to piece?
Some people?
Yeah, I'm sure.
The question is what's the point
of wanting to go to Mars?
Like I think that space exploration
is important I'm
not minimizing that right.
But there's also some concern that
wealthy individuals are desperately
trying to find another place to
live considering that we're
destroying this planet.
So there's that aspect to it.
But also.
I just don't really understand some
people right, and what I mean by
that is I have no interest in going
to Mars like zero percent I have no
interest in going to the moon.
I barely even have an interest in
sitting on a plane going up into
the air,
my life is exciting enough.
I don't want to go to Mars.
I'll look at the pictures.
I'll watch the videos.
Good enough for me.
I remember there was a period
of time where John I Rola,
I think he applied to be the first
group of people who get to travel
to Mars once they get this whole
technology situation figured out.
And I think that's insane.
I think it's crazy.
>> Yeah.
No, it definitely is.
Whatever floats your boat or
in this case, spaceship.
Yeah, for
me I'm profoundly uninterested but
for guys like my nephew and John,
they're like, my God, you guys
are not going to the moon would be
the coolest thing in the world But
Anna it is partly selfish.
So yes, Elon Musk thinks that
the planets going to burn down
which I agree with him on that.
Politically because of climate
change, and
he's trying to get off the planet
literally, he basically believes in
Elysium if you saw that movie where
the rich escape and create an Iran
on a different planet and
maybe they use us,
Surfs down here as we continue to
burn on this planet, but I think he
would be way better suited and
would help himself and us better
if he actually fought climate.
I mean, he's- >> Mm-hm.
>> Put billions into these things,
and he's now I think the second or
first richest man in the world.
Him and Bezos keep switching
positions, and if you're
among the two richest people in
the world, maybe you could do
something about climate change.
Maybe that's the way to go.
>> Yeah.
Cenk, the US tax payer has put
billions into SpaceX, let's not
minimize that either, I mean in
December of last year SpaceX won
another giant government grant.
To the tune of $900 million.
So I don't want to minimize that
because often times when we talk
about companies like SpaceX, it's
talked about as a private company.
And this is what you get from
capitalism, right?
You get innovation but don't
minimize the amount of research and
development money that goes into
companies like SpaceX.
>> Yeah, no, no,
that's a great point.
That's a good political point too.
But none of these
are the political point.
I actually wanted to make a quick
side note before we got
on Tesla is doing something about
climate change.
That's why I think Musk is
a complicated character and not
something that's easily typecast to
the black and white issues.
But you could also do something
political with it.
But the analogy that I wanted to
use a story from one it's a fun and
interesting story in and of itself
and I'm actually rooting for for
it to land, and when it did land,
and it looked
like it was going to survive.
It was amazing and
I was elated by it.
But the the analogy
here is I saw the first video.
I never saw the second video until
we decided we were going to do
a story about it.
And then at that point I
watched it.
And so there's two different
analogies one is this
is kind of how social media works.
That's why the Magga guys only see
Trump's lies and
conservative media.
They literally only see half
the story.
So they don't know that the ship
blew up it just they literally
never saw the video, right,
in that analogy.
So I talked to a couple of Magga
guys recently on the conversation
And they have no idea what
the actual facts are because it was
never in their social media feed.
And then the second analogy is to
the mainstream media.
They will report a lot of times,
and I just saw it in an article
recently the other day,
Medicare for All is going to cost
$32 trillion according this study.
And then they leave out
the second part, which is that
it saves $34 trillion,
according to that same study.
Now, if you only saw the SpaceX
land, you think that's amazing.
If you see it blow up,
you go, not so amazing.
If you only see that Medicare for
All cost $32 trillion, you think,
my God, I hate Medicare for All.
If you see that it actually saves
34 trillion and hence saves
us $2 trillion overall and
covers everybody.
Well then you'd love
Medicare for all.
So.
>> I think it's such a it's such
a good point I100% agree with you.
The way people get their
information is a problem.
Right? And so, I don't think that
most of the people that we disagree
with politically,
necessarily are 100% informed on
what the issues are which is why,
sorry to bring this up again.
I think it's important to make sure
that if the first exposure these
people have to us or
to others on the left is the kind
of rhetoric that we saw for
Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann
regarding Texas, and
withholding the vaccine from Texas
over the actions of Greg Abbott.
That's not going to do much to make
our case, you get what I'm saying.
If you want to win, you have to
have a message that's welcoming and
non judgmental.
Because if you come at them with,
you're a moron and you deserve this
You're not winning over anyone.
And that's where I'm coming from
when I have my commentary in regard
to what Michael Moore and
Keith Olbermann tweeted,
you get what I'm saying?
>> I do and for
those of you not familiar with what
Anna's referring to, she's rubbing
it in on two different debates that
she won in polls that we did.
So don't call them morons and then
today there's a poll on Twitch.
She's winning 60 to 40
on the Obermann and more Tweets but
it's never good enough for Casper.
She's going to come and
move your sofa, your recliner,
she's gotta win.
So she's throwing that in there
gratuitously.
I'm just telling my gesture report
the news, just
telling you what's happening here.
>> I definitely don't care about
winning in bets.
Well, if there's money involved,
I do care about winning bets.
>> Yeah.
But I've got a pretty good
experience in you caring.
>> But I actually care a lot about
winning people over and
getting them on our side.
So we have the people power to
fight back against a broken system.
And, again,
you're just not going to be able to
do that if you're an ..
By the way, it's a critique on my
past rhetoric as well.
Are you kidding me.
I've been pretty vicious
in the past and I'm sure I'm
going to f up again in the future.
But I just want to have more
consciousness about it and
I want to be more strategic in
the way I communicate.
Because I think that you can win
people over.
We're right on the policy issues.
We just need to do a better job
getting the information about those
policy issues to the right people.
And also, tinkering with our
communication style, to be a little
more welcoming to people who
are open to new information.
>> Hashtag Casper for the people.