Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-07. Transcript available. Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-07. Transcript available. Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer.

Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk

Ha ha ha
Four three two one boom. Thank you. Thanks for doing this man. Really
appreciate it. You're welcome
Very good to meet you. That's nice to meet you too. And thanks for not lighting
this place on fire. You're welcome
That's coming later. How does one just in the middle of doing all the things
you do create cars
Rockets all this stuff you're doing constantly innovating decide to just make a
flamethrower. Where do you have the time for that?
Well, the thing I wouldn't put a lot of time into the flamethrower. This was an
off-the-cuff thing and
So I sort of like it's sort of a sort of a hobby company called the boring
company, which
Started out as a joke
And we decided to make it real
And and dig a tunnel under LA and then dig then people other people asked us to
dig tunnels and so we
Said yes in a few cases
And then and then we have a merchandise section that only has one piece of
merchandise at a time
And we started off with a cap and there was only one thing on it was just
boringcompany.com slash cap or hat that's it
Oh, and then we sold the hats limited limited edition. It just said the boring
company and
And then I'm big fan of Spaceballs the movie and in Spaceballs
Yogurt
goes through the merchandising section and
They have a flamethrower in the merchandising section of Spaceballs
And like the kids love that one
That's the line
When he pulls up the flamethrower, it's like we should do a flamethrower
so we
Does anybody tell you know does anybody go Elon
Maybe for yourself but selling a flamethrower the liabilities all the people
you're selling this device to what kind of unhinged?
People are gonna be buying a flamethrower in the first place. Do we really want
to connect ourselves to all these potential arsonists?
Yeah, it's a terrible idea
I'm by one I don't I said don't buy this flamethrower. Don't buy it
Don't buy it. That's what I said
But still people bought it. Yeah, there's nothing I can do to stop them. It's
you I said don't buy it
It's a bad idea. How many did you make you? It's dangerous. It's got it's wrong
Don't buy it
And still people bought it. I just couldn't stop them. How many did you make?
20,000
And they're all gone in three I think four days, but sold out in four days
Are you gonna do a?
Another run no no, that's it. Yes. Oh, I said we would do 20 that we did 50,000
50,000 hats
at and and
That was a million dollars and it's okay. Well, we'll sell something and
For 10 million and that was 20,000 flamethrowers at $500 each
They went fast
Yeah, how do you have the time to do that though?
I mean I understand that it's not a big deal in terms of all the other things
you do
But how do you have time to do anything? I just I don't understand your time
management skills
I mean I didn't spend much time on this flamethrower
I mean to be totally frank. It's actually just a roofing torch with an air
rifle cover
It's not a real flamethrower
Which is why it says not a flamethrower
That's why we were very clear. This is not actually a flamethrower and and and
it also were told
That various countries would would
Ban shipping of it, but they would not they would ban flamethrowers. So we very
To solve this problem for all the customs agencies. We labeled it not a flamethrower
Did it work is it effective? I I don't know I think so. Yeah so far. Yes now,
but you do said you cannot strip a flamethrower
But you do so many different things forget about the flamethrower
Like how do you do all that other shit?
Like how do you how do you how does one decide to fix LA traffic by drilling
holes in the ground?
And who do you even approach with that like when you have this idea who do you
talk to about that?
I mean, I'm not saying it's gonna be successful or so, right, you know
I know it's like asserting that's gonna be successful, but so far
I've lived in LA for
16 years and the traffic has always been terrible
And so I don't see any other like ideas for improving the traffic
So in desperation, we're going to take a tunnel and maybe that tunnel will be
successful and maybe it won't
I'm I'm listening. Yeah, I'm not trying to convince you it's gonna work and are
the people that you're anyone
But you're you were starting this though. This is actually a project. You're
starting to implement, right? Yeah, I know if we've dug
About a mile it's quite long. It takes a long time to walk it. Yeah
Now when you're doing this what what is the ultimate plan the ultimate plan is
to have these in major cities and anywhere?
There's mass congestion and just try it out in LA first
Yeah, it's it's it's in LA because I mostly live in LA. That's the reason it's
a terrible place to dig tunnels
This is a one of the worst place to dig tunnels because the
There's mostly because of the paperwork people think it's like what about seismic?
It's like actually
Earth tunnels are very safe in earthquakes. Why is that?
Earthquakes are
Earthquakes are essentially a surface phenomenon. It's like like waves on the
ocean. So if you if there's a storm
You want to be on the on in a submarine
Mmm, so being in a tunnel is like being in a submarine now the way the tunnel
is constructed is it's constructed out of these
interlocking segments kind of like a snake
It's sort of like a
snake exoskeleton
with
double seals and so even when the ground moves the it's able to the tunnel
actually is able to shift along with the ground
like an underground snake and
It doesn't crack or break or out or and and and
It's extremely unlikely that both seals would be broken and it's it's it's
capable of taking from
five atmospheres of pressure
it's
waterproof methane proof or gas proof of any kind and
Meets all California seismic requirements
So when you have this idea, who do you bring this to?
I'm not sure what you mean by that well when you you're you're implementing it
So you're digging holes in the ground like you have to bring it to someone that
lets you do it
Yeah, so
There were there were some engineers from spacex
Who were who thought it would be cool to do this?
And the guy who runs it like day to day is Steve Davis. He's
Longtime spacex engineer. He's great
so
Steve was like I
I'd like to help make this happen. I was like cool
so we started off with
Digging a hole in the ground. It's got like a
Permit for a pit big pit and just dug a big pit
And you have to tell them what the pits for or you just say hey, we just want
to dig a hole
Nice fill out this form
That's it
Yeah, it was a pit in our parking lot and but do you have to give them some
sort of a blueprint for your ultimate idea?
And do they have to approve it like how does that work now? We just started off
with a pit? Okay, big pit and
You know, there's not really, you know, don't really
care about the existential nature of a pit you just say like I don't want a pit
right yeah, and
it's a hole in the ground so then
we got the permit for the pit and we dug the pit and
We dug it in like I don't know three days to three days actually like two 48
hours something like that
Because Eric are said he was coming by for the hype - he was going to attend
the Hyperloop competition
which is like a student competition we have for
who can make the fastest part in the Hyperloop and
He was coming this was get the finals are gonna be on Sunday afternoon and
So Eric was coming by on Sunday afternoon. He was like, you know, we should
take this pit and then like show Eric
So we this is like Friday morning and
Then yeah, so it was about a little over 40 hours 40 hours later. We dug the
pit
There's like we're in 24/7 or 24
48 straight hours something like that and dug this big pit and
and
And we're like showed Eric the pit like obviously it's just a pit
But hey, it's hole in the ground is better than no hole in the ground and what
do you tell me about this pit?
I mean you said this is the beginning of this idea. Yes, we're gonna build
tunnels under LA to help funnel traffic better and
They're gonna and they just go okay
That but that we've joked around about this in the podcast before they're like
What other person can go to the people that run the city and go?
Hey, I'm gonna dig some holes on the ground put some tunnels in there and they
go. Oh, yeah
Okay, nothing wrong with a hole in the ground, but it's a people take holes in
the ground all the time
But but my my question is like I know how much time you must be spending on
your Tesla factory
I know how much time you must be spending on SpaceX and yet you still have time
to dig holes
Under the ground in LA and come up with these ideas and then implement them
like I got a million ideas
I'm sure you do there's no shortage of that
Yeah, I just don't know how you manage your time. I don't understand it. It
doesn't seem it doesn't even seem humanly possible
You know, I I do basically I think people like don't totally understand what I
do with my time
They think like I'm a business guy or something like that
Like my Wikipedia page says business magnate. What would you call yourself?
I'm a business magnet
Can someone please change my Wikipedia page to magnet? They'll change it right
now
It's locked so somebody has to be able to unlock it and change it to magnet
someone again. I want to be a magnet
No, I do engineering and you know and manufacturing and that kind of thing that's
like 80% more more of my time
Ideas and then the implementation of those ideas
That's like hardcore engineering like yeah designing things, you know, right?
Structural mechanical electrical software
user interface
Engineering aerospace engineering
But you must understand there's not a whole lot of human beings like you you
know that right?
- you're an odd seems yes to chimps like me
We're all chimps. Yeah, we are we're one notch one notch above a chimp some of
us are a little more confused when I watch you doing all these things
I'm like, how does this motherfucker have all this time and all this energy and
all these ideas and then people just let him do these things
Because I'm an alien. That's what I've speculated. Yes
I'm on record saying this in the past. I wonder it's true
If there was one I was like if there was like maybe an intelligent being that
we created, you know
Like some AI creature that's a superior to people
Maybe you just hang around with us for a little while like you've been doing
and then fix a bunch of shit
Maybe that's the way
I might have some mutation or something like that. You might do you think you
do probably do you wonder like you're around normal people you like hmm
Like what's up with these boring dumb motherfuckers ever not bad for a human
But I think
We'll not be able to hold a candle to AI hmm
You scared the shit out of me when you talk about AI between you and Sam Harris
I don't even consider it until I had a podcast with Sam once. That's right. He
made me shit my pants
Talking about AI I realized like oh, well, this is a genie that once it's out
of the bottle. You're never getting it back in
That's true
There was a video that you tweeted about one of those Boston dynamic robots,
you know, like in the future. It'll be
Moving so fast. You can't see it without a strobe light. Yeah
You could probably do that right now
And no one's really
Paying attention too much other than people like you or people that are really
obsessed with technology
All these things are happening and these robots are and did you see the one
where to be PETA?
Put out a statement that you shouldn't kick robots
It's probably not wise
For retribution there their memories very good. I bet it's really good. It's
really good. I bet it is yes and getting better every day
It's really good. Are you honestly legitimately concerned about this? Are you
is like AI?
One of your main worries in regards to the future?
Yes, it it's less of a worry than it used to be
mostly due to
Taking more of a fatalistic attitude hmm, so you used to have more hope and
You gave up some of it and now you don't worry as much about AI you like this
is just what it is
Yeah, pretty much
Hmm, yes, yes, ye