Welcome back everyone. I am Cass PNC and I'm joined as
usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin.
How are you today? I'm glad to be talking to you
right now. How are you, Cass?
Same. I'm glad to be talking to you.
I have a lot of crazy thoughts swirling around in my head and I
need to spew them out to somebody, maybe to even 30,000
people. So let's go ahead and do it.
Today we're going to be talking about what's called The
Realization and Tesla Q people and Elon Musk haters know
exactly what we're talking about.
Everyone else probably doesn't, and I think a lot of our
listeners probably aren't Elon Musk haters or Tesla Q
individuals. So what is the realization?
Well, the realization is when Elon Musk eventually decides to
wade in and tell you his expertise in your area of
expertise, whatever it may be, you will soon come to the
conclusion that Elon Musk doesn't know what the fuck he's
talking about. And we wanted to talk about
ours. So not like usual, I'm, I'm
actually going to start this one and I'm just going to talk about
my realization very quickly. So my realization happened in
2018. I had long understood that Elon
Musk, like he had always sounded like an idealist to me.
And Tesla obviously had all kinds of issues when it came to,
you know, like the viability of their business, I guess is what
I'll say. But I always thought, OK, well,
Elon Musk isn't necessarily a fraudster or a thief, but one
day he was talking about his tunnels.
And I, I like the idea of like making a faster, more affordable
tunnel. The ideas sounds good if you
don't know anything about how to do tunneling.
So it sounded good to me. And then he went ahead and
started on one of his tunnel projects, the tunnels in Las
Vegas. And I was like, oh, good, great,
this will be good for Las Vegas. Let's see what happens.
And he also started a pilot program in Los Angeles, where I
lived at the time. And he posted one day later
after saying this was going to be mass transit and a great
essentially like a subway. He posted like look at the Tesla
tunnels in Las Vegas and the Tesla tunnels which it became
clear were were called Tesla tunnels because they only were
for Teslas. This was you drive your vehicle
into this tunnel, you go around whatever traffic there may be in
town and you arrive at your location.
So I said, why have affordable mass transit when you can
provide private tunnels for expensive vehicles?
Because I think anyone with a a brain, you don't have to know a
lot about public transportation to be like, oh, this, this is
not mass transit. And he responded to me and said,
not exactly. I'm going to be nice to him and
just think he missed a phrase here.
He said, this is affordable mass transit, but better in that it
takes you where and when you want to go.
It is not mass transit. It is private cars for private
tunnels. And that's when I I realized he
was the monorail guy from The Simpsons and that he was
screwing everyone over. So that was my realization
moment. Bennett, what was your
realization moment? So I remember back in 2016 when
like the Paint It Black video came out, I was legitimately
excited about like Tesla and self driving and things like
that. I was admittedly young.
I was 20 or whatever. More than I can say.
Then there was a series of things that happened over
several years that rapidly moved me from that position.
One of the first things I remember is in 2017, again
related to his mass transit projects.
He pretended he was bidding for some project in Chicago that was
going to run from like the Loop to O'Hare in some freak
freakishly short time. And he said he could build it
for like less than 110th the cost of what anyone else could
estimate for a project like that.
And I'm like, oh, this guy is not actually taking this
seriously. And it especially became clear
he wasn't taking it seriously because it started as a
Hyperloop and then became a Loop that was going to use electric
skates based on Tesla chassis. And then eventually, if this
thing had ever actually happened, it would have devolved
into the Las Vegas tunnels. Then in 2018, Elon Musk made an
impractical vehicle for cave rescue and centered himself in
the middle of an ongoing rescue mission, and upon the conclusion
of that mission, decided to insult one of the people who had
actually put their life on the line to affect the rescue.
I guess it wasn't a slanderous accusation, but it certainly
sounded like 1 to those of us who were listening.
And so that really made me start to go, oh, this guy might also
be a bad person. Like he's not just lying or
ambitious or idealistic or have like a bad view of these things.
This might just be a really, really bad person to.
Be clear, I like I just want to make sure everyone is on the
same page. This is the infamous pedo guy
tweet which is a a cave diver who was in Thailand and an
expert in cave diving went to go save these children like or at
least help and Elon Musk had proposed a very stupid like
solution and so he was an angry little troll.
And then the moment that convinced me Elon Musk was going
to be one of the arch villains of the like era of late stage
capitalism we're in was 2019 Autonomy Day, which is when Elon
Musk announced the Robo Taxi network.
I've done a video on this before, but this was where he
promised if he bought a $35,000 car that in two years was going
to cost $25,000, you could make 30 dollars $30,000 in profit
from operating it while you were sleeping.
And like the implied returns from this type of project were
larger than Madoff's Ponzi, were larger than Charles's Ponzi's
original Ponzi, were like bigger than any other fraud I had ever
looked at or considered. The scale of the lie was so
massive, I went, oh, this guy is going for the high score.
Whenever the next crashes, he wants to be the guy who loses
the most and causes the most devastation.
And like, so 2019 autonomy day is the day where I became
radically like anti Elon because I'm like this guy will say or do
anything if he thinks it'll help him.
And then since then, it's gotten just worse.
Oh yeah, snowballing, for sure. Snowballing.
I mean, he always has something to say about the media and
journalists, something that you and I both know at least
something about. And he clearly doesn't
understand any of that. He certainly doesn't understand
social media. I think that's been proven by
how he's treated his Twitter acquisition.
I also want to just give honorable mentions here while
we're discussing this, because these are individuals we follow.
Who and and one of them even a guest.
But yeah, these are individuals we follow who have who have
exposed Elon and have been doing it since they came to this
realization. And that's a Eric Roche, who
we've had on as a guest to talk about Elon's rockets and how
SpaceX is just treated different than everyone else.
Specifically, if you fail to enforce the regulations against
Elan, all you do is you let Elan keep growing more and more
powerful until eventually he kills all regulations.
Yep. That that was the thesis of that
episode from like a year ago. Right.
And it, yeah, it has proven to be quite accurate.
And then we have Nita Meyer, Eric, Nita Meyer, who I believe
his realization was regarding charging stations.
Battery swaps. Battery swaps.
Tesla qualified for a bunch of extra subsidies by advertising
that they were going to do this new battery swap thing where you
would pull up and in like 3 minutes or 5 minutes or
something was like the promise they would take the entire
battery out of your Tesla, put another one in, and you would be
able to drive away. And there was only ever like 1
station and it only ever processed like one or two cars
or something ridiculous because obviously it wasn't like
economical or practical to take. Like you don't do an engine swap
when you run out of gasoline, right?
And like, I understand the batteries are not the engine,
but like they're this major component of the car.
The batteries are like the largest, most expensive part of
the electric vehicle. And to be clear, China has
actually implemented stuff like this like they have successfully
smaller. Electric vehicles like, not with
the same kind of capacity as Tesla's and without the
batteries being integrated into the body in quite the same way
Model S S were at that point. God forbid America pushes for
smaller electric vehicles that have good range and
capabilities. God forbid we we were to ever do
something like that anyway. So, so yes, China has
implemented that. Obviously Egon never could
possibly do that. And the last one I want to talk
about I think is the one most people are probably familiar
with because it is the most recent I believe.
I mean outside of him completely emulating the government, but
that is something far sillier and stupider, which is.
Quinn 69 TV will will link to the video in the notes in the
show notes. But Quinn 69 TVA YouTube exposed
Elon Musk because he is a Quinn. Quinn is a player of path, Path
of Exile too, and he just, Elon Musk streamed it.
And it was so obvious to him, to Quinn, that Elon Musk was
cheating, was boosting his character with other players,
that he had barely played the game at all.
But here he was trying to show gamers that no, I am.
I'm not only am IA gamer, I'm a pro gamer.
I could be doing this if I wanted to be.
Which is absolute trite fucking nonsense.
Like the amount of hours he would have to put into path, is
it paths of Exile or path, Path of Exile, Path, Path of Exile
too, Is that he he would have to be devoting hundreds of hours.
And then he ultimately admitted that he had not done this.
So yeah, that and that is a your account gets banned for that on
Path of Exile too. So it it was it was clear that
he was a liar and a cheater, and he got exposed just yet again.
And I think the other moment, though, I hope people in the
comments put their own individual moments.
I think the other thing that a lot of people saw was when he
started talking about like, the software architecture of Twitter
was a big one for a lot of people.
Because there were a lot of like, software engineers and
coders who had generically good opinions about Elon broadly just
because of where they existed and the type of work they did.
And then suddenly saw him saying nonsense about how the technical
systems function Well, claiming like he was going to improve it
by taking steps they didn't would make it worse.
And like, Elon's real skills are creating a narrative around a
futuristic sounding technology so he can raise money and
manipulating people so they don't realize that that's all
he's doing. I want to Before we go, I just
want to read one last thing. A friend of ours linked me to a
Bonifer essay and I just want to share this with with our
audience. It's called On Stupidity, and I
think it's really an important essay.
I urge everyone to read it, and I'm just going to read from it
really quickly. Stupidity is a more dangerous
enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil.
It can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force.
Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own
subversion, in that it leaves behind, in human beings at
least, a sense of unease. Against stupidity.
We are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of
force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears.
Facts that contradict 1's prejudgment simply need not be
believed. In such moments, the stupid
person even becomes critical. And when facts are irrefutable,
they are just pushed aside, as inconsequential, as incidental.
In all this, the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious 1,
is utterly self satisfied and being easily irritated becomes
dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a
malicious one. Never again will we try to
persuade the stupid person with reasons for it is senseless and
dangerous. There's a lot more to that
essay, and a lot of it makes what Elon is doing make a lot of
sense. So I, I just want everyone to go
ahead and check that out out if you have an opportunity.
And while you're there, we'll drop a link for Cast Coin.