Elon Musk: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past

Summary

Elon Musk has been a polarizing figure in the tech world with his ventures into space, electric vehicles, and social media. This video takes a closer look at Elon Musk's controversial past and business strategies, revealing a history intertwined with family dramatics, unconventional business practices, and political complexities. Though heralded as a genius by many, this exploration offers a skeptical view of his self-proclaimed image of innovation and success. From his early days in South Africa to his current exploits with SpaceX, Tesla, and his chaotic acquisition of Twitter, the video unfolds a narrative that challenges the widely accepted persona of Musk, instead depicting him as a master of hype yet falling short in substance and ethical leadership.

Highlights

• Explore Elon's rise from a wealthy South African background to the helm of major tech companies. 📈
• Critique of Musk's self-image as a 'genius' versus the reality of his business endeavors. 🤥
• Insight into Musk's controversial family dynamics and their impact on his public image. 🧬
• Analysis of Musk's penchant for making exaggerated claims about his projects' capabilities and timelines. ⏳
• Discussion on the ethical implications of Musk's projects, including Neuralink and SpaceX. 🛸
• Review of the chaotic Twitter takeover and its influence on Musk's reputation. 🐣

Key Takeaways

• Elon Musk's past is filled with controversy, from a tumultuous family background to questionable business ethics. 🚩
• Despite his title as a tech innovator, Musk's ventures often involve drama, unfulfilled promises, and heavy reliance on government contracts. 🤔
• Musk's management of companies like SpaceX and Tesla frequently highlights his erratic behavior and ambitious yet impractical ideas. 🚀
• The acquisition of Twitter illustrated Musk's volatile leadership style, sparking debates on free speech and business competence. 🐦
• Elon Musk's personal life, including his relationships and approach to fatherhood, mirrors his complicated professional persona. 👶
• Musk's approach to technology and its integration into human life raises ethical questions, especially concerning projects like Neuralink. 🧠

Overview

Elon Musk, often viewed as a modern-day visionary, has built an empire across industries like aerospace, automotive, and digital communication. However, this empire is not without its controversies and criticisms. From his auspicious roots in South Africa to becoming one of the most prominent faces in tech today, Musk's journey is filled with complex family dynamics, bold claims, and a sharp focus on maintaining his public persona.

Despite being lauded as a pioneer, Musk's ventures are frequently scrutinized for over-promising results and under-delivering on practical solutions. Companies like SpaceX and Tesla benefit enormously from government funding, yet often face challenges and failures that contrast with the public's expectations of near-perfect innovation. His approach to leadership is as much criticized for its volatility and unconventional tactics as it is admired for its ambitious goals.

Musk's acquisition of Twitter, now rebranded as X.com, exemplifies the turbulent nature of his business strategy. The takeover has raised questions about free speech, corporate responsibility, and Musk's genuine intentions behind his charismatic facade. This event adds to a series of actions that invite both admiration and skepticism, encapsulating the divided public opinion on whether Musk is truly paving the future or merely a savvy marketer of dreams.

Elon Musk: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to another edition of this [ __ ] guy the series where we pick one [ __ ] guy who's making America worse explore why they suck I'm Aron Ryan host of crooked media's hysteria podcast and I'm Alysa Master Monaco the other host of crooked media's hysteria podcast and as you can probably see by our setup we are in person today the most special of treats Alyssa today we're going to dive into one of the best embodiments of the internet adage nothing that only straight men like is cool we will be looking into The Life and Times of the
• 00:30 - 01:00 worst thing to come from South Africa since apartheid a man who despite growing evidence that he's shall we say not in the head space to control space exploration electric vehicle manufacturing Communications or the Biotech Industry is still being trusted with billions in government contracts and essentially being allowed to man The levers of the financial markets all while rage tweeting Fringe conspiracy theories and cozying up to extremists of course this is Elon I never bought into the hype around Elon musk he always
• 01:00 - 01:30 struck me as a weirdo who was more full of [ __ ] than porta potties at the end of the New York City marathon that's pretty full of [ __ ] Elon Musk became one of the richest people in the world by convincing enough people with power that he's a genius but there's no there there he's not a genius he's not a scientist he's not an engineer he's not an innovator he's a bullshitter there are so many instances of Elon exaggerating or Flatout spinning tall tales about his own prowess but that was hard to not turn this video into a sprawling limited
• 01:30 - 02:00 series Allah Shogun but we love a good scam so let's learn about the self-perpetuating scam that is Elon strap in Alyssa I'm ready Elon reev Musk was born on June 28th 1971 to a wealthy family of [ __ ] weirdos in South Africa his mother was a Canadian dietitian and model who has appeared on serial boxes in the cover of Sports Illustrated he has a brother Kimble who was once set up with one of Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriends by Jeffrey EP
• 02:00 - 02:30 himself he's got a sister and a handful of half siblings elon's father Errol a millionaire engineer who claims he's killed a few people was half owner of a Zambian emerald mine in the 1980s he says and eventually fathered two children with his own stepdaughter Jana thus making him his own stepf father-in-law I think um I'm sorry what yes that's right an emerald mine Elon hates this story because he really wants people to believe that he's a self-made guy and not some Lego headed Lord who
• 02:30 - 03:00 grew up in one of the biggest houses in Petoria no no no no no Erin I meant the thing about his stepdaughter oh yeah right I assumed you meant mine yeah in 1979 elon's dad divorced elon's mom may and later married a woman who had two children of her own arrol helped raise them had two kids with her and then had two kids with one of the stepchildren when she was of age and he was old as [ __ ] arol once told an interviewer quote the only thing we are on this Earth for is to reproduce I can see where Elon gets his creepy
• 03:00 - 03:30 reproduction fetish oh we will get to that although to his credit according to Elon biographer Walter Isaacson Elon noticed and disapproved of the suspicious amount of attention his father was paying Jana again his own stepdaughter when she was 15 years old and Errol was 56 Errol insists that he was equally interested in all of his children and stepchildren this video has already accomplished The Impossible Aaron making me feel a little bit bad for Elon Musk Elon was reportedly immedia Jer student in high school but
• 03:30 - 04:00 somehow got high enough grades to get into college in Canada where his mom lived at the time and while he was there he somehow did well enough to transfer to an ivy league university in the United States as musk tells it he received degrees in physics and economics from upen in 1995 and then moved to California because he got into Stanford's PhD program but dropped out after two days to be a full-time business boy Genius when the legend of Elon reports that he was the mental heft behind PayPal Tesla and SpaceX people
• 04:00 - 04:30 just kind of go along with it because the belief that Silicon Valley is teaming with prodigies and Visionaries and not just a bunch of [ __ ] screwing each other over like bankers and sweatpants is Central to justifying the tech sector's very existence first let's get to Elon and PayPal he did not co-found PayPal he started his first company with some help from Daddy sold that company to compact remember compact no don't remember it at all took the money he made from selling it and started a business called x.com Sur you can't mean the social
• 04:30 - 05:00 media website formerly known as Twitter or an early version of Tesla's model X car or the company SpaceX or a site devoted to documenting the lives of one of his multiple children to whom he gave X names boy he loves the letter X yeah it's his favorite letter uh no this was an even earlier company called X can you guess from the name what it did sell erectile dysfunction medicines to impotent men in red States no good guess it was an online bank that somehow offered a product that was less good
• 05:00 - 05:30 than PayPal which I have to admit is an achievement because PayPal sucks point is he named a bank after it because nothing conveys a sense of aboveboard safety and seriousness like a letter often used to denote the presence of a full bush in a film from the 1970s you know they call the inner circle of early PayPal the PayPal Mafia was Elon really anything like a Tony Soprano of online banking he was a Jackie Jr at most once PayPal and ex
• 05:30 - 06:00 merged and x.com like a dutiful wife took PayPal's name musk became CEO because he had the most money but he was so annoying that eventually PayPal founder in Silicon Valley super villain Peter teal found him too irritating to work with and so he quit well the board eventually took Teal's side and ousted musk and replaced him with teal imagine being more off-putting than Peter teal I cannot imagine it musk remained the largest shareholder in PayPal however which ended up translating to a
• 06:00 - 06:30 $165 million windfall when eBay bought the site in 2002 he used that money to start a company called SpaceX sounds like a souvenir boner pill sold in gas stations in Roswell New Mexico from what I can tell it started with a desire to send people to Mars Elon has always dreamed of sending people to Mars Elon and early space Ally Michael Griffin traveled to Russia together to try to convince some Russians to sell them some icbms so that musk could pretend to invent Rockets but the Russians weren't
• 06:30 - 07:00 interested because Elon was not an astronaut nor did he possess any particular expertise about space he was just a guy who liked space a lot undaunted musk used his Paypal money to hire a bunch of people who did know what they were doing spacewise and the company SpaceX blasted off Michael Griffin that name sounds familiar that's because Griffin would go on to be a BFD at Nasa overseeing private partnership programs including something called the commercial orbital transport Services
• 07:00 - 07:30 were cot's program the program was designed to enlist private companies in transporting people in supplies to and from the International Space Station under Griffin only two private companies were selected for the program one of them was SpaceX and thus began a long and fruitful career of SpaceX feeding from the prolific te of Uncle Sam in 2006 SpaceX was awarded a 396 million doll contract from NASA meanwhile SpaceX didn't even have a rocket that worked its Falcon 1 program was sucking ass
• 07:30 - 08:00 unless you think a rocket that explodes can still be counted as a success its first three launches between 2006 in 2008 failed putting the company on the brink of bankruptcy at the same time as Tesla and musk himself in late 2008 but then SpaceX got it on the fourth try and as a prize for his company's one successful launch Elon was given a 1.6 billion NASA contract that December and it all blew up from there both literally and figuratively Aaron I think that when
• 08:00 - 08:30 a SpaceX rocket explodes it's called a rapid unscheduled disassembly when conscious uncoupling goes to space and we shouldn't downplay the fact that the company has seen some success and progress in space exploration is by definition messy but Elon is not making the Rockets he's not an engineer he's simply the guy who benefits the most financially from the work of people who are building the rockets and satellites while rage tweeting about how NPR shouldn't get government money since
• 08:30 - 09:00 2020 at least five of spacex's attempts to launch its Starship into space have ended with the experimental aircraft blowing up SpaceX is now worth more than $36 billion though having received 15.3 billion in government contracts all this time Elon won't stop yammering about sending people to Mars but SpaceX has yet to demonstrate that they're even capable of sending people to the Moon which is a lot closer easier NASA's plan has been to go back to the Moon by the end of 2025 but but if SpaceX can't do
• 09:00 - 09:30 it we can't do it side note about Michael Griffin in 2018 Griffin would go on to be appointed under secretary of defense for research and Engineering under President Donald Trump one of his responsibilities was to award government contracts to build low orbit national security satellites guess which company was one of two to win government contracts to build these starlink satellites I'm going say SpaceX correct and we also have starlings and by extension musk's involvement in the Ukrainian defense against the Russian
• 09:30 - 10:00 invasion launched in early 2022 initially SpaceX was awarded a government contract by the Department of Defense to provide satellite support for communications for Ukrainian civilians and Military entities in their own self-defense but multiple reports have indicated that musk himself has been monkeying around with the satellites interrupting Communications and thwarting attacks the Ukrainian military was attempting to carry out on Russian targets the dods basically had to throw their hands up and be like well they're private company what can you do I don't
• 10:00 - 10:30 know stop giving them contracts let somebody else build the satellites SpaceX entire reason to exist is to guzzle government money think of the SpaceX part of his fortune like a GoFundMe designed to make the worst person you know even richer and you cannot opt out of it it's time to talk about Tesla Tesla the preferred car of some of the biggest [ __ ] you know the company was founded in 2003 by Martin eard and Mark tarpening two actual engineers H Elon invested $6.5
• 10:30 - 11:00 million into early Tesla and became chairman of the company's board and immediately started taking credit for things art and tarping came up with the ideas designed the actual cars got all the companies ducks in a row to revolutionize the electric car market and then as thanks in 2007 musk ran both of them out of the company and started calling himself the founder of Tesla kind of like an invasive species bird who pushes the eggs out of other birds nests to lay their own indeed and then says you invented eggs eggs they're mine
• 11:00 - 11:30 I did it in 2008 musk was forced to step down as chairman of the board of Tesla after falsely promising via tweet natch that he had funding secured to take Tesla private at $420 per share thus artificially inflating the Share value in a way a teenage boy might he was fined $20 million by the SEC over the stunt and he agreed to have a social media minder approve his tweets before sending them how' that go Elon had a wild summer that July Elon had offered to help the cave Rescue of a trapped
• 11:30 - 12:00 youth soccer team in Thailand with a submarine he invented let me remind you Elon Musk is not an engineer nor had his company's made anything designed to operate underwater the actual guy who saved the kids Vernon unsworth insulted musk's silly little idea saying in a TV interview that musk could stick his imaginary submarine up his ass musk responded by tweeting that unsworth who again had just saved a kid soccer team from cave death was a pedo guy ped guy
• 12:00 - 12:30 musk got sued during the trial he claimed that ped guy was a common insult in the English-speaking World literally never heard that one before me neither musk ended up prevailing in that suit but not before wasting a bunch of his time and hours but back to Tesla the company has been in the news for its biggest layoffs ever 14,000 people or 10% of its Workforce were unceremoniously let go over email in mid April but Whispers the industry indicate
• 12:30 - 13:00 that the layoff might actually be much bigger than 10% perhaps even closer to 20% the stock price is absolutely tanking Tesla's total valuation was once a ridiculous $1.3 trillion today that value is down to less than half a billion dollars and dropping that's a stupid amount of money isn't General Motors only worth like 50 billion yeah if Tesla is an autom manufacturer it's value has a long way to fall before it's in line with other auto manufacturers but it also doesn't make sense the stock price has stayed so high amid all of the
• 13:00 - 13:30 company's controversies multiple lawsuits over much of the company's history have accused the company of lying about how much money it's making in order to inflate its stock price Tesla has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the government for a battery swap technology that was never made available to the public and turned out to be a giant scam it's no secret Tesla shitty to its workers fighting unionization efforts here and overseas he's even threatened his own employees on Twitter uh when he should being CEO
• 13:30 - 14:00 like how do you find the time my dude there have been tens of thousands of reports of Teslas being shitty from things as minor as poor quality builds to serious issues like sudden uncontrollable acceleration don't want that in a car faulty braking that's not good either range issues that the company itself has suppressed an operating system that can be hacked and controlled by outside entities batteries that spontaneously light on fire the suspension suddenly collapsing leading to something called wampy Wheels which sounds s like a carnival ride to one
• 14:00 - 14:30 tragic story of a Tesla reversing into a retaining pond with its driver trapped inside and First Responders unable to break in as the woman drowned that woman by the way was Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law and it just happened this year Jesus Christ just you don't want a car to do that no it sounds like they're put together like carnival rides now I've been saying that Elon isn't the one who's actually making the cars because he's not a real engineer and that's true but Tesla more than most companies lives and dies by public perception of Elon
• 14:30 - 15:00 the company is trapped by the innovator cosplay Elon insists on dressing himself in which is why elon's Public Image impacts the price of the company's stock so much exactly the stock market is mostly fueled by wishes and hopes and dreams and if people don't believe in Elon they don't believe in Tesla if Elon is a scam then Tesla is a scam and Elon is real scammy scammy as all this stuff is happening a series of embarrassing public disasters continue to make test look more and more like clown cars back
• 15:00 - 15:30 in December 2023 Tesla issued a recall for an eye watering 2 million 31,2 120 Vehicles after a national highway traffic safety administration investigation found that the auto steer function wasn't safe the Cyber truck long cheerleaded by musk is an ugly clunky embarrassment that has publicly face planted yeah
• 15:30 - 16:00 sure yeah oh well maybe that was a little too hard should we try sry what yeah it didn't go through was a plus side let's try the try that one really okay so oh man it didn't go through yeah yeah all
• 16:00 - 16:30 right B things only went downhill for the Cyber truck from there and it's a good thing too because if it's muddy downhill is the only Direction a cyber truck can go without getting stuck [ __ ] the Cyber truck like many Tesla offerings has experienced delivery delays systemic failures safety issues quality issues and also can't haul [ __ ] its battery doesn't last as long as Tesla sales material promised it would especially in cold weather some observers have pointed out that it seems like Tesla is making consumers pay for
• 16:30 - 17:00 and beta test a product that isn't actually ready for Market the Cyber truck is what you might call a gender affirming car for men who want to prove to the world that they have $100,000 to throw away on the world's shittiest vehicle Tesla recently announced that they halting production of the electric Ford Pinto of our times good night sweet prince and even at its newest and shinest it still looks like the armadillos that Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck drove on the asteroid in Armageddon a movie from 1998 just saying
• 17:00 - 17:30 meanwhile other automakers are getting into the EV game and some of them are bringing cars to Market that are more attractive affordable and have less PR nightmare CEOs than Tesla does all of this has meant that Tesla's market share has diminished and its share price has tanked as its sales and production Outlook has dimmed musk is betting that his company will be able to get out ahead of the autonomous taxi Market something that nobody outside of like 500 people in Pao Alto [ __ ] want plus uh fully self-driving car technology
• 17:30 - 18:00 doesn't exist right it doesn't yeah the technology used to be called fully self-driving or FSD but they got in trouble with Regulators because the technology does not actually work now the tech is being referred to as FSD with supervision still musk is all in on the tech claiming that Tesla owners for the low low price of $99 per month will one day be able to install the software on their cars which can then work as autonomous taxis when the owners aren't using them your car can be your robot sleve I am
• 18:00 - 18:30 not kidding that's part of his business plan Alyssa okay so if you have FSD on your Tesla you still have to pay a subscription to use it [ __ ] that I know the thing about fully autonomous vehicles is that they're another musky and fairy tale Elon has been promising that the fully self-driving technology is right around the corner for so long except if you try to get around that proverbial Corner in a Tesla the car never makes the turn the steering Mel functions next thing you know it you've run head into the broadside of a pizzeria so it also seems like a
• 18:30 - 19:00 terribly stupid idea to reorganize City infrastructure around a massive Fleet of Robo taxis when the roads are already congested and by the way public transportation already exists couldn't we just use all that money that Elon wants to pocket and improve what we already have one would think actually Elon has had it out for public transportation for a long time do you remember the hyperloop a stupider more expensive version of trains the hyperloop is such a moronic idea that it almost pains me to say it out loud back
• 19:00 - 19:30 when Elon was King [ __ ] of [ __ ] Mountain aka before he developed whatever condition it is that makes it impossible for him to not run his big fat mouth all the time Elon quote invented unquote a mass transit system that moves large numbers of passengers through low pressure tubes you mean like the plastic shoots at the drive-through Bank sort of I like that I like that vintage reference except bigger more expensive with magnets and of course requiring massive amounts of money to be funneled to one of Elon musk's companies and once
• 19:30 - 20:00 again so many people fell for it the boring company started as a subsidiary of SpaceX with the stated aim of digging holes for this stupid idea all over the place MIT was investigating getting involved there was talk of building when connecting LA and San Francisco basically under the five if you know California even though we could have just used that money to build a high-speed rail highspeed Rail between LA and San Francisco which is something that people in both cities have wanted for decades I don't understand Elon never really wanted to build Ultra fast
• 20:00 - 20:30 largescale mass transportation he simply wanted to derail discussions of actual High-Speed Rail that actually worked because he owns a car company that depends on people not having comfortable affordable mass transit options available so this whole plan was just to stop public transportation from getting better so he could sell more cars like the bad guy from Who Framed Roger Rabbit exactly like that bad guy now a little over a decade after hyperloop Mania took Silicon Valley by storm all we have to show for it is a puny little tunnel that
• 20:30 - 21:00 connects part of the Las Vegas Convention Center and some plans in other cities that will likely soon quietly disappear from the internet do you dread the annual physical with the guilt tripping lectures like I do more greens choose organic eat five cups of fruits and vegetables a day I admit I could eat better but I don't have time that's why I started taking Field of Greens by Brick House Nutrition Field of Greens is whole organic fruits and vegetables real food not extracts each fruit and vegetable in Field of Greens
• 21:00 - 21:30 was medically chosen for a specific health benefit some support vital organs like heart liver and kidneys While others give your metabolism and immune system a boost I'm so busy and I don't always eat like I should the PowerHouse blend in Field of Greens fills the Gap so I stay energetic focused and healthy and if you don't feel the incredible difference like I did you can return it for a full refund let me get you started with 15% off and free shipping visit fieldof greens.com and use promo code TFG that's promo code TFG at field of greens.com now that he's done his part
• 21:30 - 22:00 to fill the highways and atmosphere with vehicles that sometimes explode and dig Subterranean tunnels to Nowhere musk has moved on to technology meant to be installed directly into the human body if I wouldn't get into one of his driverless taxis why on Earth would I let one of his companies install a chip into my brain the trillion dooll question in 2016 along with a handful of actual scientists musk co-founded neuralink after buying the trademark from the two neuros scientists who had actually founded neuralink the year
• 22:00 - 22:30 prior the company's aim is to produce technology that can be implanted into the human brain neuralink has been under Fire for killing an awful lot of the primates it's been testing on but nevertheless its chip was approved for human trials in 2023 earlier this year musk claimed that a successful human trial had been conducted I have yet to see a single piece of reported media that confirms this claim by somebody who isn't musk himself or someone musk is paying but Elon girl bossed a little too hard when he bought Twitter it really
• 22:30 - 23:00 has been something to watch the whole world get wise to his [ __ ] at the same time enough ink has been spilled about musk's disastrous takeover of Twitter once a flawed but functional Town Square now the social media equivalent of a abandoned Blockbuster video that has been taken over by flee infested raccoons so let's not get bogged down by the details what's most important is that thanks to his pathological desire to force people to like him elan's ineptitude has been on full display calling into question his genius and business accumul in the rest of his portfolio the
• 23:00 - 23:30 acquisition of Twitter was characterized by drama and erratic Behavior by musk in 2022 he first tried a hostile takeover of the company before winning the board's approval but then when he realized that $44 billion he'd offered to pay was way too much for a company that wasn't great at making money he tried to back out the board threatened to sue but musk relented and the shotgun wedding between Elon and Twitter happened in October 2022 Elon financed the deal with some creative leveraging that ended up resulting in him having to sell a bunch of Tesla stock driving the
• 23:30 - 24:00 share price down and thus his overall wealth down Elon it turns out is not good at running Twitter he fired or chased away 80% of the staff likely violating several labor laws and doing so he reinstated several accounts that had been banned for hate speech relaxed rules around anti-trans speech and covid-19 misinformation gave a handful of doofus reporter has access to internal Twitter files plopped his cottage cheese ass into a dust chair and tweeted tweeted as hard as he possibly could and who can forget the blue check
• 24:00 - 24:30 mark Fiasco blue verification check marks were long viewed as a class signifier in Old Twitter which made a lot of people wearing wraparound sunglasses in their user picture angry so Elon got rid of the blue checks the problem is that the checks also verified that people on the site were who they said they were and that so-called official accounts were not Impostors and so in the first days of the program's elimination somebody pretending to be the official account of drug maker Eli Lily declared that in was now free among
• 24:30 - 25:00 other impostor Shenanigans it was actually quite funny that was it was really it was one of the best days in Twitter history it was great bleeding money Elon tried to get Twitter users to pay $8 for the check marks and people were like [ __ ] that you clown so the only people who had blue checks were suspiciously Elon Fanboys and conservative super tweeters who would hassle anybody who complained about the new verification system by accusing them of being too poor or stingy to Fork over 8 to one of the world's richest men I am shocked shocked that trying to use
• 25:00 - 25:30 bullying as a chief sales technique for Twitter's verification program was ineffective in April of this year Twitter quietly restored blue check marks to several journalists and public figures without charging them $8 when several prominent Twitter users started swapping tips on how to hide the dreaded blue check of Shame next to their names Twitter removed their ability to hide the check researchers found that under musk hate speech increased dramatically on the platform anti-semitic speech increased as did propaganda originating from the Islamic State great job Elon
• 25:30 - 26:00 some of the hate speech by the way was Amplified by musk himself like the time he publicly agreed with a tweet alleging that Jewish people hate white people musk responded by revoking access to Twitter's API so now nobody has any idea just how bad things have gotten quantitatively however Alysa there is a workaround you can still tell how bad twitter is gotten by simply looking at it yes and it turns out platforming unbridled free speech with virtually no moderation has meant that since Elon fired or chased out most of Twitter's
• 26:00 - 26:30 Legacy employees the site has also become a Haven for misinformation and child pornography in early April the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they were investigating him for quote flagrant obstruction of Brazilian Justice unquote the chickens have to come home to roost eventually right yeah and I would watch a show called Brazilian Justice it sounds like a lot of fun Twitter put on display how desperate Elon was to have people like him despite his fundamental unlik ability in February 2023 Elon got upset
• 26:30 - 27:00 that not enough people were engaging with his tweets and had some of his internal Engineers investigate what was wrong this story makes me so embarrassed so sad for him one of his Engineers suggested that perhaps public interest in musk himself was waning and so musk fired him a few days later when President Joe Biden's tweets about the Super Bowl got more engagement than elon's Elon demanded the engineers fix it or be fired so they changed the Twitter algorithm so that Reg regular users would be spammed with elon's
• 27:00 - 27:30 tweets magnifying the automatic reach of elon's tweets a thousand times that is the saddest [ __ ] I have ever heard in 2023 via Twitter he accused a young Jewish man named Ben Brody of participating in a Neo-Nazi brawl as an antifa member of a false flag operation Brody wasn't even in the state where the brawl occurred his family claims that musk's amplification of the French conspiracy theory based on nothing had led to massive amounts of harassment and threats and sued musk for a million
• 27:30 - 28:00 dollars musk was deposed in March and it went poorly in the deposition which musk's lawyers unsuccessfully fought to seal musk at one point does not seem to understand what a lawyer does Aaron what about the people who stayed on Twitter even after Elon turned it into a haunted shopping mall well Elon has tried to turn Twitter into a landing pad for media personalities who had been cancelled or in normal English faced conse quences as a result of [ __ ] up
• 28:00 - 28:30 he snatched up Tucker Carlson after Tucker's ouster from Fox News with promises that Tucker could create Twitter exclusive content but the site didn't have the technology to support the sort of thing Tucker wanted to make sounds familiar and former CNN anchor Don Lemon was also invited to elon's Tiki Torch rally only to have his contract canceled days before lemon's show was supposed to debut after an interview lemon conducted with musk went off the rails musk keeps claiming he loves Free Speech but he doesn't like it when people talk [ __ ] about him under
• 28:30 - 29:00 musk's flop sweat soaked Innovation the value of Twitter now x.com the Old Chestnut has fallen an estimated 65% elon's Twitter foibles have exposed him as an emotionally unstable deeply weird clueless phony who believes that acting like an [ __ ] is the same thing as coming up with an idea he's a business bridezilla with an unlimited budget and his employees are just the haest wedding coordinators trying to figure out how to bend reality to bring his ridiculous plans to fruition and when he's confronted on his [ __ ] he throws a fit who can forget this Infamous public
• 29:00 - 29:30 appearance if somebody's going to try to Blackmail me with advertising blackmail with money go [ __ ] yourself go [ __ ] yourself is that clear it's funny he didn't use to seem as unhinged as he does now I know I kind of wonder what it is but there is a working Theory out there andil that theory is it's the drugs according to a Wall Street Journal report from January Elon has been known to dabble in such substances as cocaine
• 29:30 - 30:00 mushrooms LSD ecstasy and ketamine but last I checked most people who go into a khole don't come out the other side of megalomaniac baby and to prove he's cool and tough he smoked weed on The Joe Rogan podcast speaking of babies doesn't he have like a million kids yes Elon Musk has 11 children by three different women he had six children with his first wife Justine Wilson including one set of twins and one set of triplets which were conceived via IV F he has three children with the singer Grimes who you may most
• 30:00 - 30:30 recently remember for turning in one of the worst performances in Coachella history Elon also has twins with an executive from his monkey murdering Enterprise neuralink a fact that came to light through a piece in Time Magazine by Walter isakson news of the twins with the Canadian neuralink executive broke just days before news that he'd had his third baby with Grimes broke boy that was awkward I I've got questions about what's been going on and I don't know for sure that I want the answers in response Elon made a weird joke about
• 30:30 - 31:00 doing his part to repopulate the world but he's long been weirdly obsessed with the birth rate because he said that he's worried there won't be enough people to move to his Mars colony musk has reportedly given $10 million to a population research project in Texas that aims to look into ways to increase the birth rate so Elon wants there to be more people so that he can send them to Mars fine fine go problem that musk's advice that everybody should father as many children as possible is that like
• 31:00 - 31:30 his father who came before him mus kind of sucks at being a dad he is currently being sued over parental rights by his ex Grimes and one of his two oldest children who came out as trans at age 16 openly hates her dad's guts for very understandable reasons he once claimed that the word cisgender was a slur and urged all of his followers on Twitter to watch The Daily wire documentary what is a woman hosted by human skidmark Matt Walsh but maybe the shittiest thing Elon did in the fatherhood Arena was Chang some key details about a tragedy to make
• 31:30 - 32:00 himself sound like a hero elon's oldest son named Nevada died tragically from sudden infant death syndrome when he was only 10 weeks old many years later in 2022 via tweet of course Elon later claimed that the baby had quote died in his arms and that he quote felt his last heartbeat Nevada's mother his ex-wife Justine disagreed tweeting not that it matters to anyone except me because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life but I was the one who was holding him that he would claim that
• 32:00 - 32:30 is just tragically deranged it is absolutely deranged it's like some of the sickest [ __ ] ever and well a year prior Justine had written a Glamour magazine piece called I was a starter wife inside America's messiest divorce that like many firsthand accounts of Elon Musk make him sound like a total [ __ ] dick in that article she wrote Elon had called her open grief over Nevada's death emotionally manipulative emotionally manipulative your child dies her baby died no wonder that marriage like the hyperloop fully self-driving technology the Cyber truck in his
• 32:30 - 33:00 version of Twitter failed woo well that's as good a note to end on as any what's extra crazy to me is that we can laugh at his awkward dancing and make fun of how unfunny he is thanks to the fact that government gives his companies so much money and Tesla stock is such a huge part of the S&P we all kind of own a stake in his clownery nobody should have as much money as Elon Musk has and nobody should have their fingers knuckle deep in that many Industries so important to things like communication transportation and National Security
• 33:00 - 33:30 Alissa I haven't even gotten to the cherry on top in April the same week that Tesla announced record layoffs Elon once again asked the company board to approve a $56 billion pay package for himself that had been rejected by a judge in Delaware over the fact that its exorbitant size represented negligence of his fiduciary duties as CEO sounds reasonable yeah can you imagine can you imagine asking for $ 56 billion after sending so many people out into the street evilest [ __ ] absolutely
• 33:30 - 34:00 not evil [ __ ] the only way that Elon Musk is a true innovator is in his astonishing ability to oversell and underd deliver his career is a series of fanciful unke keepable promises which a gullible media takes at his word but maybe just maybe the jig's finally up wow Elon I feel like we barely scratched the surface so on a scale of one to five weasels where's Elon oh he's got to be a hard five weasel for so many reasons one he's getting rich off our tax money he's
• 34:00 - 34:30 getting rich off our tax money not doing [ __ ] with it being mean to his kids and not even getting to the Moon yeah give me my money back any he ruined Twitter yes I'm going to agree with you okay F oh we're in sync this week I say a hard five weasels for Elon Musk just because he has so much power and he amassed it in a way that I feel like everyone is like oh whoa this guy's in charge of a lot of stuff I don't know if there's a world in which he is is no longer just like the crazy person driving the
• 34:30 - 35:00 economy and that is deeply deeply upsetting Aaron that was a fun one thanks so much for tuning into this edition of this [ __ ] guy if you enjoyed this please like share and subscribe and if you've got ideas for who should be the next subject of this [ __ ] guy leave it in the comments below [Music] [Music]
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