Kamala Harris is a Puppet, Says Elon Musk

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast. This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads that shape SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden. Welcome, USAUSA say all right. Wow, I love it this. It's an it's an honour to be here talking to everyone here and everyone out there. So yeah, I'm, I'm before, before I what, what I actually, what I want to emphasize before anything else is, is as the the sign says, vote early and and

vote, vote now. So you can, you can actually, I looked at the numbers as of yesterday, there's still 40,000 absentee ballots that have been mailed out just in the surrounding counties, just just in the, in the nearby area that have not been that, that have not been handed in. So if you have any friends, family or anyone you know who has an absentee ballot, just hound them relentlessly until they hand it in, because if they don't hand it in, then the vote

doesn't count. It's very straightforward. So, yeah, there's a, there are 40,000 absentee ballots that, that really need to be handed in just in this area. So please, you know, talk to friends and family. Don't get a vote. The other thing is that anyone in Pennsylvania can go to the, the county office on Monday and Tuesday and request a ballot and immediately they're handed in. So I, I, I think probably a lot of people are not aware that you

can actually do this. You don't even need to mail it. It's like, it's kind of weird because it's like cold and absentee ballot, but you're like right there, totally not absent. Can I have an absentee ballot? But you're here, yes, as as strange as that sounds, you can literally go in, request an absentee ballot and even though you're right there, you can hand it in and you did this morning great.

Like like and, and I think some maybe some, some county offices are, are open on the weekend, but they're definitely open on Monday and Tuesday. And then to to add another strange twist, they close on Wednesday. So they're like now what? So you have until just Monday and Tuesday in Pennsylvania to go into the county office, request a ballot and you can, you can hand it in right there. It doesn't even need to go even go in the mail or anything. And that's the best way to do it.

But you, you can use the mail, but you can just do it right in person and then and then, then on, for some reason on Wednesday, you cannot do it anymore until November 5th. So that's does high urgency for Monday and Tuesday. Big deal. So, and and this this is, you know, this is an election that I think, frankly is, is a a fork in the road of, of destiny. You know, it really is. So, you know, it's yeah, it's it's, it's, it's essential.

So, you know, it's like we we need safe cities, secure borders, you know, sensible spending, I mean, basic stuff, you know, and and we, we need to get rid of like the the well, yeah. But I mean, it's like, I always feel like it's bad to like attack Kamala because it's just a puppet, you know? But it's just, you know, it's just the machine. It's just like this this big government machine and there's a puppet. And it's like, no point in being like attacking a puppet.

It's just, you know, it's it's like I was like, you know, I made a joke that was sort of misconstrued that it was like, nobody even bought this to try to kill Kamala. That's pointless. Why? Let's get another puppet. So everyone does. Nobody even bothers. Nobody's even. Nobody's even tried to kill Biden. It's like, doesn't that seem odd? They're trying to kill Trump twice. Yeah, exactly. I mean, listen, if if somebody's already dead, what's the point to try to kill him?

So, you know, he's 1 foot and four toes in the grave. I mean, I saw a weekend at Bernie's and honestly, the corpse had more life than Biden. Like for sure, actually. So you know who is even running the country? Like like, like, like who's in charge? It's confusing. It's, you know, Trump, sure he will be hopefully, but I just sort of wonder like clearly Biden is an accomplice mantis. So who is actually in charge?

The machine? I I think it's just it's just like the big government machine basically is, is what's in charge. It's but it's bizarre, you know? So, yeah, I mean, obviously with, with Trump, the the great thing is that we, we have a real individual who is not beholden to anyone. And that's what scares the machine. And that's why the machine's trying to kill him. Yeah. So, so, yeah. Wild times, man, Wild times.

I mean, I I've had quite a few friends call me and say have you uni shoes should definitely improve your security. I'm like, that's probably a good idea. I'm like, they're like, they're definitely going to try to kill you. I'm like, yeah, that's a good chance though. They might try to do that. Yeah. So yeah, exactly. If they shoot, they better not miss. So I'll find out who was behind him, not just who the gunman

was. So, but it, it, it is, it is crazy to think that, you know, we have a presidential candidate who that they've tried to kill twice in in recent months and they try to get him, you know, with low fare 66 ways to Sunday to try to prevent people from actually voting in a Democratic way. It's it's outrageous really. What are they, you know, what are they afraid of? So, yeah, I think it's it's kind of the truth.

And I'd certainly encourage people, if people haven't seen the the conversation between Joe Rogan and Donald Trump, that was that was super cool. I mean, I think, I think for, for a lot of people, it's like, you know, how do you know, how do you understand somebody like, and, and what they're about, You know, like the, the, the sort of far left press has been going on and on about how like Trump is like Hitler, like Mussolini and

Stalin combined. And you roll them all into one and he's somehow worse than all three of them combined. These are people who have killed 10s of millions of people. And like, something's wrong with the press guys. You know, something is wrong with the press. Journalism is dead. Like what the heck is going on? It's bizarre. Yeah, actually, exactly.

It's like, I mean, I do, I do. I do think like that, that old school journalism, I call it the legacy media because it is kind of legacy media because it is. It is from a time when in order to learn any news, you had to aggregate the news to some central publication. And then then some editor would decide what people should hear. And then they'd print the newspaper with like a lot of a lot of paper, literally, and then distribute that paper. And that's how you learn things.

But you obviously don't need that anymore. You've got the Internet. So anyone can learn anything at any time. Yeah, that's why X is the future. It's, it's where it's citizen journalism, where you hear from the people. It's by the people for the people.

That's what it's all about. I think this is, this is a super, super big deal and it's, and it's absolutely fundamental and transformative that the people actually get to decide the news and the, and, and what the narrative and what matters. And, and that the, the legacy media is basically, you know, controlled by a handful of editors in chief. That's it that they decide what's going to get published.

That's why I really encourage everyone out there to, to, to write stuff on the X platform and you know, other platforms too. But citizen journalism is the future, you know, and that's where you get to hear from actual experts in the field, people who are really who are experts in any given industry. And you get to hear the

rebuttal. So if somebody says something that's, that's wrong or requires more context, people can add that, you know, XX has got community notes, which is great, you know, so take your community notes. I think is got a very good batting average. It's not perfect, but it's got a very good batting average. And, and I, you know, many times I've gotten requests like, can we get rid of this community note? I'm like, no, we cannot, not even a community note on myself.

So with community notes, all the code is open source. All the data is open source. So you can recreate any given community nodes independently. And that transparency is how you know that it's true and it's real and it's honest. So that's, that's, yeah. But, and I think we've got, you know, besides, man, this, the mic feedback's getting a little crazy. So maybe I should, should I go

further back or further forward? Well, there's an X on the floor, I guess I'm guessing that's where I should stand. OK, Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. So, yeah, the landing the the rock ship was pretty cool. That was an amazing thing, so. Yeah, this, this SpaceX team is an incredible team. And it's, it's wild that this giant 250 ton object went to space, came back and was caught by giant meccazilla arms. It's like, you know, it's super

cool. That's the kind of thing that, you know, that I think is, is inspiring and exciting. And, you know, there's a lot of potential. I think we, we can actually build a a permanently occupied science base on the moon. We can build a city on Mars. We can be a multi planet species and out there among the stars. It's very exciting. You know, so I'm, I'm wearing this jacket that was given to me by the Space force. You know, it's got Star Trek Enterprise on it.

You know, it's like Starfleet Academy. We want to make Starfleet Academy real, you know, and, and go out there and visit those star systems eventually and see if there are alien civilizations. Maybe they're alien civilizations that that existed for millions of years and, and we just find the, you know, the ruins of many long dead alien civilizations.

I don't know. Well, they might be, but very interesting to see, you know, because you know, at least according to physics, the universe is 13.8 billion years old and Earth is about four and a half billion years old. So even if you just increment the time counter by a million years, you have to go 3 digits past decimal place, go bloop a million years. And the oldest writing that we've discovered in archaeology is only 5500 years old.

Only for that's nothing. That's a millionth of Earth's existence as it was the first writing. And you really have to add it to the ancient Sumerians. By the way, those are got a lot of firsts. Those ancient Sumerians, they're really knocking out of the park, frankly. You know, we're just, they take clay tablets and everything. It's thankfully they wrote in clay tablets. So it was quite helpful.

I mean, they've even discovered like schoolwork, like where they teach the kids cuneiform on clay tablets. And then there's the teacher correcting the cuneiform in red ink. It's been going on for a while. So yeah, we are a mere 5500 year old civilization, just a baby really, but with a lot of potential.

I think we, you know, we can go out there, we can make life multi planetary, understand the universe, find out what's going on. Maybe the aliens will come visit us. Maybe they are here right now. I don't know. So alien registration card. So yeah, if people do ask me like do I think aliens are amongst I'm like, I haven't seen any.

Yeah, this is this is a legal aliens, but a lot of those but but not I haven't seen any like sort of green aliens with antennas on the head or anything like that. And maybe they are, they're just very subtle, but I haven't seen him so but, but I think we, we, we want to be kind of, we want to be the aliens exploring other galaxies, you know, And, you know, I grew up watching Star Trek and Star Wars was the first movie that I ever saw in a theater and it obviously

affected me a lot. And we just want to have these sort of glorious, amazing, I don't know, space, future real, you know, and. And have exciting, inspiring things that make you glad to wake up when you wake up, the one you're glad to be alive. They have to be these things, you know, life cannot. Yeah. So. Yeah. So. Yeah. Well, I think we can. So that you can travel to Mars roughly every two years. So every 26 months the planets align and you can travel from from Earth to Mars.

And we're actually at a planetary alignment moment right now or in the next few months. And so in roughly 2 years, there will be another planetary alignment. And and that's when we intend to send the first Starship rockets to Mars. Yeah. So that's, I think we can probably send quite a few in two years. And then if those land successfully and we do not increment the crater count in Mars, crater count before and after equals the same, then we

can send people in four years. We will be illegal aliens on Mars. You know, I guess if there's any, you know, if any Martians, maybe they'll make Mars great again. Yeah. You know, Mars, what did have oceans a long time ago, it seems like. Yeah. Like when Mars is a lot hotter, it had a lot what appears to be liquid oceans. And if you want Mars up, it'll have an ocean on about 40% of the Earth's of Mars surface.

So Mars would be about have an ocean, I think almost like a mile deep on 40% of the of the surface if you just warmed it up. So there's a ton of a massive amount of frozen ice on Mars. So yeah, it is kind of Mike Mars great again, because you can warm it up and it can be an Earth like planet. So I think this is actually very important for the long term. The longevity of of consciousness is to be a multi planet species.

It's actually very important. So because there's always some chance that something could happen on Earth that's either, you know, a man made disaster or a natural disaster like the, you know, the meteor that killed dinosaurs. I mean, there have been many mass extinction events in Earth's history. And there will be there will be mass extinction events. Yeah. There's a de facto mass extinction events of, of humans, actually, the the birth rate is plummeting.

So, but the probable lifespan of civilization will be much greater if we are a multi planet species than if we are a single planet species. We don't want to be one of those lame one planet civilizations is what I'm saying. You know, so we want to be a multi planet civilization. And now just, I'm not talking about like a lot of resources, but like, I don't know, 1% of our resources seems like a wise move to be a multi planet species.

And I kind of just ultimately find out what's going on, like visit others, visit other star systems. And and I think one day Mars may actually play a role similar to the role that America has played in saving the world. You know, America saved the world three times last century. That's a big deal. World War 12 and the Cold War. So Earth would be very different if not for for America saving the day three times last century. So, yeah, Amen. Indeed.

So, So I think in the future, Mars, they used to call America the new world, and Mars would be the new, new world and I but actually, you know, planet. So I think, I think one day Mars may save Earth just as America saved the rest of the world. And I think that's a big deal. Yeah. As you can tell, I love space and rockets. Case that wasn't obvious so let's see we can go right into questions and and just just sort of have it. It's always good to have like get the discussion going with

people. So I the lights are very bright in my eyes so I can hardly I can't see what's going on. There's two big lines. OK great. Well, let's see how should we start. OK, go ahead. OK, sure. Hi Elon, my name is Ashley and I'm from Lancaster County and I have a 7 year old son named Daniel. And he made me promise that if I got to talk to you, I had to tell you that he thinks that the cyber truck is the coolest thing that has ever been invented. So he owes me one now for

telling you that. But so my question centers around higher education. So I'm going to age myself a little bit. But 20 years ago, when I graduated high school, I made the decision not to go to college and just to enter in the workforce. And it worked really well for me. But I did get a lot of slack from it from people that thought that that was kind of crazy. And now I've seen, you know, the attitude toward higher education kind of changing and that not being the only model that we have.

So my questions sort of twofold here. So when it comes to like my children, who, you know, will eventually be needing to make that decision, you know, what decision or what, what advice would you give in comparison to like a trade school, higher education or just entering the workforce? And from an employer standpoint in, you know, 10 to 15 years, what do you think employers are going to be looking for from this next generation that will

be entering the workforce? Sure. Well, I, I do think that probably too often people do do a university or college thing for four years and it's unnecessary, You know, it's, and, and then they accrue a lot of debt and it's hard to pay off the debt and, and they often don't learn skills that are very useful. So it's, it's not, you know, I think we should really reconsider whether going to college actually makes sense.

I think it doesn't always. So, you know what I think and, and to also get like, what's the point of, of a, of going to school in general? It's you're supposed to learn useful things. You know, it's improve your understanding of the world and and learn skills that can help you contribute to your fellow human beings. But very often at university does the opposite. In fact, you know, it will propagandize kids and not teach them anything useful and just saddle them with a lot of debt.

So, so I think you know what, what really matters is like, are you doing something useful to help your fellow human beings? Are you contributing more than you take? And if you are, that's a great thing. Though now we are headed into a pretty wild future here with artificial intelligence and robotics. I, I think especially if you, if you look say like 1010 years from now or more that we're going to have, the world's going to look very different. I think it's, it's like 80%

likely to be good. You know, like the glass is 80% full, you know, and, and most likely we'll have, I think we'll probably have a situation which is universal high income, actually not universal basic income, but universal high income and there will be no shortage of goods and services. That is what I think is most likely to occur. And we need to make sure that this AI is and, and these robots

are on the side of humanity. You know, obviously, you know, James Cameron made a, made a couple movies about that. You know, it's, you got to watch what, what you program these robots to do. And you know, the example I've used a few times is, you know, when, when Google Gemini came out, people asked, well, which one's worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war and said, well, misgenerating Caitlyn Jenner is worse.

It's like we've got a problem with this AI And, and even Caitlyn Jenner said, yeah, you should definitely misgender me. That's crazy. So, you know, we don't want to have an AI that's, that concludes that the best way to avoid misgendering is to execute all humans that therefore reducing the probability of misgendering to 0 because there

are no humans. You know, like that's some kind of crazy stuff that that could potentially happen that we want to avoid, which is why I think we, we want to have a maximum truth seeking AI. You know, it's got to be kind of based in a good way and just be an honest and truthful and forthright AI that that's the the best path to safety for artificial intelligence. So. Hi, Elon, I'm Christine. I'm from Lancaster County.

I want to extend a heartfelt welcome from all of us in Lancaster County. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do. My question surrounds government and efficiency. What would be your plan to make government more efficient? Yeah. Well, so I, I think the first of all, we're in terms of people sometimes ask like where would you start with government efficiency? And it's kind of like being in a room where the entire room is targets. And so you can shoot in any direction and not miss.

It's like I just impossible to miss because every direction is a target. So there's no missed possibility. Now we do have a fundamental issue, which is that that the government is spending far much that far, far more than it brings in. And the reality is that all, all government spending is actually taxation. All government spending is

taxation. Sometimes people think some of it is taxation and some of it's not, but it's all taxation because the part that is not covered by by tax revenue becomes inflation. So you're either taxed directly or you're taxed by inflation, but you're but you're for sure taxed and, and, and so all government spending is taxation. So we have to reduce government spending overall like this.

This will be forced upon us in the future because already just the interest payments on the debt are 23% of all federal tax revenue. Just the interest payments, the interest payments now exceed the Defense Department budget, which is a trillion dollars a year. That's a lot of money. So just the interest on the debt is exceeds what we spend on the military, just the interest and that is rising rapidly. So so it it can't be like, you know, we'll we'll trim a little

bit here and there. If that's not going to work there, there have to be quite radical reductions in cost. Yeah. And I think we just need to be, you know, if you know, please Lord drop wins the you know, and, and, and the Department of Government efficiency happens. We, we want, we're going to be very open and transparent and be very clear about this is what we're doing here are the issues.

This is, this is the, the math for what what's being spent and, and what you know, and, and we're going to make it. We're going to make the spending lower. And if, if somebody's got a better idea for how to make the spending lower, we're tell us, but but if we don't, we're going to bankrupt the country. And, and so we got to do something and, and it's got to be like some pretty big moves. Yeah. I'd say like drain, drain the swamps. This is like a there's so many

swamps. It's, it's like, you know, there's so many swamps there's yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just nutty that like there was a massive increase in IRS personnel and, and, and instead of adding people to the Border Patrol, like this is totally backwards. It's it's like, like you can continue to main remain a federal employee, but you have to go, go out the border.

That's your new job. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's like, why are we, why are we spending money and applying resources to oppress the American people while rolling out a red carpet for illegal? So it doesn't make any sense. So. So yeah, it would have to be pretty big. I mean, there's, I actually have tried Googling it and I've asked all the AIS how many, how many

government agencies are there? And even the government doesn't know, OK. And the AIS don't know, like you, they're like, well, it's about 450, but maybe it's 420. I'm like 420. No kidding. That's that's a lot of agencies just at the federal level. I mean, like if you sort of stand back and say, OK, just for a second, like let's say we're starting the country again, how many agencies do we need? Do we need more than 99? Because that's 99's a lot of agencies, you know, like that's,

that's a lot. You know, if you said like does any, how many people even know 99 agencies? I'd say most. I'd say practically no one and knows 19 knows the names of 99 agencies, let alone the 420 or whatever there are. Yeah. So we, we, we have to unwind the situation and, and, and I think, well, I think we're going to do it.

And it's going to unleash a new era of prosperity because people that don't even realize how much they're getting held back by millions of federal regulations, millions literally so. And if it turns out that that that we accidentally got rid of a good regulation, we'll just put it back. Is that easy? I'm Dan from Pennsylvania as well. I am a teacher, public school teacher, and I just bought a Tesla this year and it's been amazing for my one hour commute. Great.

So thank you about that. Cool. Did you try self driving? Yes. Oh my gosh, pretty cool. It it blows like I when I go into the teacher parking lot and I just tried the summon today. Yeah, like, yeah, everybody stalls hit the floor. Yeah, as well. Yeah. So Republicans need to get out the vote. And as the mail in balloting becomes more common, what can I tell my friends about the safety and security of mail in ballots? Yeah, this election and future elections.

And then real quick, also sure. My daughter is is 2. She her name is Isabella. She loves the planets and loves astronomy. Is already and I want to know what I can as a teacher do to help inspire her curiosity for the habits of the stars. Sure. Well, with Missy, with respect to voting, voting integrity, I think probably the best thing to do is to hand it in in person. But you can also mail it in and you can check to see whether your your ballot has been received.

So it is possible to check online or in person to see if your ballot has been received. But I would encourage people to vote early because what can happen is that, you know, November 5th comes around and there's like you got something critical at work or there's like a family emergency or, you know, there's, yeah, some mysterious cybersecurity event that you

never know, might happen. So, you know, anything can crop up on November 5th, whether it's personal or some, you know, there could be some other, some other issue. So it's it's it is best to vote early now. It is very encouraging to see the early vote numbers because if you compare the early vote numbers this year to 2020, there's about AI think the last numbers I saw it's like a 2 to 300,000 voter difference from 2020.

That's a huge that's major because because I I think it was like an 80,000 vote threshold last time. So Biden won ish by by by 80,080 thousand votes. That was the number that was reported. And, and, but the interesting thing is that that the the Delta or early votes is now 200, I think maybe approaching 250 or even 300,000 in better than 2020, which is far in excess of the margin of the 20 of 2020. So Pennsylvania is trending in

the right direction. It's very encouraging, but but there's still a lot of work to do and we don't want to be complacent. So definitely get everyone you know to, to vote. And as I mentioned earlier, people can actually go in, in person on Monday and Tuesday if they're concerned about putting anything in the mail. And, and they can actually get their ballot.

Like even if they don't have the ballot, they can literally go to the, the county office, get the ballot even though it says absentee and then hand it in even though you're not absent. It's weird, but it, it works. But it, it stops working on Wednesday and then the next opportunity is November 5th. So it's kind of quirky, but that's, that's those are the current rules. And then let's see with respect

to your daughter. And, you know, I think in order to inspire, like kids are inspired by real amazing imagery. Like they see something amazing, they see a rocket taking off, a rocket landing or, you know, robots walking around or like cool things, like the stuff that you see in sci-fi movies. And when they see stuff like that, they're, they're, they're inspired automatically. They're inspired because it's because there are real

advancements in technology. And that's, you know, that's, that's, that's what inspires kids because it's because it should, you know, like kids are like a great filter for, for what's awesome. Like you can tell like if a little kid reacts like, wow, that's amazing. And that's like, that's real, you know, So, you know, like kids love the cyber truck and they love rockets, you know, and that's because they have no filter. They just say what they immediately say what they think,

you know? So, yeah. So it's, it's great new rocket technology that allows us to, like I said, go there and be, have a permanent science station on the moon. And not just like it's great that we're into the moon. Yep, 50 plus years ago, but we want to go to the moon and actually have a science base. Like we've got a science base in Antarctica.

Well, we should have a science base on the moon and we should be building a city on Mars. And I actually think it's, it's the, the, the long term future of civilization, I think could be decided by whether or not we, we built a self-sustaining city on Mars. And if we do that, that is the city that would have millions of people. And it would be like, if anybody wants to go to Mars, that they could. And that would be an incredibly exciting, inspiring thing to to, to aspire to go to Mars.

They're like, wow, let's make that real. Yes, let's bring her to Mars. Yeah. If she thinks like, wow, one day I could go to Mars, you know, and, and, and be one of the the Martians. And that would be super awesome. You know, it's, it's wildly you go, it takes six months actually, when you go from Earth to Mars, you're just, you're just travelling across this, this void of nothingness for hundreds of millions of miles until eventually you you reach another planet.

It's kind of incredible to think that that's even possible, but and how amazing would that be? You know, like wow, like that. We want to have a future where life is multiplanetary, where we're advancing rocket technology. And like I said, we're we're Star Trek Starfleet Academy is real. And that's what will inspire your daughter. All right. Hi, Elon. My name is Lauren from Pennsylvania. Thank you for being here.

Thank you for everything you're doing, and congratulations with SpaceX. You and your whole team are absolutely brilliant. I have two specific questions for you, but I was curious because I looked all over on X today and I didn't see anybody who won the $1,000,000 prize. What? Is that given out today? Well, let's see we all we all going to give it out tonight, in fact. So let's is it is to go ahead and do it. Yeah. OK, let's do it. Good timing.

All right, Judy Kimura. Yeah, Judy has no idea by the way, it's just loading now, so, but I think Judy's on her way here. I said Judy had no learnt when you learnt. All right, Well, thank you. All right. I mean, we're, we're trying to get, we're trying to get attention for this very important petition to support the Constitution. And it's, it's, you know, it's, it's like if we, you know, we need the, the right to free speech, we need the right to

bear arms. Otherwise, there is no right to free speech and. Yeah, and, and it's, you know, people sort of wonder why, why didn't, why what's up with the $1,000,000 prizes? I'm like, well, we needed to get the legacy media to talk about it. And, and I, I just knew that they would be like complaining like hell about it. That like for sure complaining on every, every newspaper at every TV station or complaining like like crazy. And I was like, great, that's

going to get the word out. Most welcome. All right. Can you say hi to my son Kaden? And yes, Kaden and Kaylee. Hi, Kaden and Kaylee Hi. All right, Hello. So, yeah, so we're, we're going to be giving out $1,000,000 every day through November 5th. And, and all, all you have to do is sign the petition in support of the 1st and 2nd Amendment. That's it. You don't, you don't even have to vote. It'd be nice if you voted, but you don't have to.

And that to support the basically assigned something you already believe in and you got a chance to win $1,000,000 every day from now through the election. Yeah. Congratulations, Judy. Let me know if you want to share two specific questions for you, Elon. One regarding your concern about the declining birth rate. Yeah, it's a big deal. It is besides us is women having more and more children and since we're the only ones who can give birth, yes, what would you?

I mean, you do need a womb is to need a womb is necessary otherwise you can't have kids currently. It is necessary. What would be your solution? Would you be in favor of creating or supporting an IVF surrogacy program to increase the birth rates? And my second question is about what would you recommend toward the first steps on improving our American educational system? Thank you. Yeah, I mean, in general, like I think we we should really view the the birth rate as like

extremely fundamental crisis. Like it's, it's really shocking how low it, it is. You know, the, the birth rate in America, in the United States has been below replacement rate since I was born roughly, roughly around 1971 or so. That's since then America has been below replacement rate. And, and pretty much every country, it seems, it seems as soon as they reach a certain level of prosperity, the birth

rate drops below replacement. And then I started looking into, well, has this happened before in history? And in fact, it has, it's in, in, in basically every civilization in the past. It's, it's maybe counter intuitive, but the more prosperous that a civilization becomes, the lower the birth rate. So it, it's because you think, well, with prosperity you'd have more resources than you'd have more kids.

Actually, no. The historical fact is that the longer that a civilization has been prosperous, the worse it's birth rate got. And this was an issue even in ancient Rome, like in 50 BC. There's like actually wherever we still have like the Roman laws that were written, they've passed laws to try to improve the birth rate of Roman citizens in 50 BC. So like, basically this is a fundamental civilizational challenge that has been encountered many times before. It's not something that just,

you know, happened recently. It's, it's, it's occurred throughout the cycle of civilizations. And I, I, I don't, I hope we can at least partly reverse it. And I think part of that is at least bringing it to conscious awareness because I, I meet many people who think that there are too many humans on Earth, but this is not true. There aren't enough humans on Earth. In fact, you can fit all the humans on Earth in the city of

New York on one floor. OK, so or, or like if, if you, if you fly across the country and you look down and say if you, if you're, if you had to drop a ball on someone's head, would you succeed? And you would not because the

density of people is very low. There's the, there are actually very few people on Earth. It's only if you live in a very dense city environment that it seems that there are many people that that Earth is densely populated, but it is only densely populated in like .1% of the surface area. So at least want to bring it to conscious awareness so people don't think that Earth is overpopulated when in fact Earth is under populated. That is the truth.

Yeah, yeah. Obligates is, and I are not best friends to say the least. So I don't know. He is, you know, I think there's you can arguably, arguably say like, look that maybe the real distinction is not right or left, but is someone an expansionist or an extinctionist. So he has some issues. This is true. So, but, but like if you say like, like any given civilization, it's, it's not

going to be exactly steady. So it's like they'll so any given civilization is either going to be growing or declining. And so you have to say you can kind of divide any person's actions into are they expansionist or extinctionist? And I mean, obviously I'm super expansionist oriented because I think that's a far more exciting future than going extinct. You know, sounds obvious when you say it like that. So, yeah, So it's just, but I still run into a lot of people who think Earth is

overpopulated. So I'm like kind of hammering this point. We're not overpopulated, we're underpopulated. And you know, so I'm in favor of really, you know, we need to have babies by whatever means, whether it's IBF, surrogacy, whatever the case may be. You know, that can that can certainly help and but we just can't go extinct like with humans need to, you know, I think humanity is great and we should have get bigger. Yeah. We we want to expect.

I think we we should expand the scope and scale of consciousness so we can better understand the nature of the universe. I mean, that's the foundation of my philosophy. Yeah. Make babies great again. Yes. So yeah, hopefully that was that was helpful. So. Yeah. Hi, I'm Mary Ressler and I live in Lancaster, PA. I'm a teacher here.

I've been following you because of your work with World Literacy with X Prize as I was a participant in Barbara Bush X Prize with an app development called Literacy Speedway. But my passion is turning because since COVID, every day in the trenches, in the classroom, I see the effects of mental health on our students. Not only students, but I've seen two of my brothers commit suicide. I've seen my own daughter who wasn't able to get a bed and a

facility and had to wait months. I have seen what's happened to American families because of the mental health crisis and the lack of resources. Our mental health system in

America is broken. And so even though I have a passion for world literacy and always will, I also would like to ask you, because I know of your collaboration, your contacts, contacts with the election, with what the new administration can possibly do, what can you guys do to fix our broken mental health system in America? Sure. Well, I mean I'd be curious to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

I mean, my, my sort of observation is that we do, we over prescribe medication and, and, and, and, but you know, like there's a lot, a lot of regulation, in fact, too much regulation about getting any, any given medication approved. But then after it's approved, there's no follow up to see, hey, did we make a mistake? And then you get, so you get things that are approved and they just go hog wild and, and it's causing a lot of damage. But there's, there's not really

a good revocation capability. So it doesn't make sense. Like there are good drugs that are not being approved and there are bad drugs that have been approved. This is a broken system. We need to fix it. I think very often when, when somebody has committed suicide or if they've essentially if, if, if something's if something as bad has happened, like what were they prescribed, That is an important thing. Do you have any thoughts on this? I do have thoughts on it.

I feel like in the brick and mortar school in the educational setting, not only do the states because I know it's it's education is state dictated even though there's national national Common Core curriculum that there needs to be mental health services embedded into every school at this juncture. There also needs to be facilities in every state, not a six month wait to see psychiatrist as in Pennsylvania at times or a 12 months to get a bed in a mental facility.

The asylums unfortunately weren't the fix years ago in America because they were horrible. But when they were taken away, authority went to the states. Federal money was taken away and now you have outpatient services and there's a lack of prescribers, there's a lack of counselors, there's a need for more. And every day our prison system right now is housing half almost. And I could give you the data to, to you know, they're, they're not there because

they're criminals. They're there because they have mental health issues and it needs fixed. OK. Are there any particular medications you think should be pulled from the market or added to the market? I believe that every child when they're diagnosed with a mental health condition should have there's there is a test for it. There's some kind of tongue tat that that can dictate which medications will work and won't

work for you. However, you have to ask as a parent for that test and I can guarantee from my experience in this with parents working in the school district or just from friends and other associates, most people aren't even aware of it because it's not paid by 4 insurance and most Americans can't afford it. So when things aren't covered under your insurance they're not given. Like a doctor isn't going to prescribe that that is done.

So you have to have the self-awareness and knowledge to go and have that testing done, and most people unfortunately just don't know it even exists. OK, All right. Well, I think this is definitely and and it's something that we need to to figure figure out better. It's, it is clearly, I agree with you that there's, there's a mental health issue and I, I think we need to look at like what, what drugs actually work and, and, and, and what are the

side effects? And, and some of them I, I mean, yeah, I think, I think some of them are, are, are pretty sketch, frankly, that some of the drugs that are, that are prescribed, I mean, some of the stories I've heard about some of the psychiatric meds from people are, are pretty bad. Like it's like the reason they weren't in this, in some cases, the reason they wanted to commit suicide is when they when they took the drugs, not when they didn't take the drugs.

You know, people, people do need to believe in something. And so, you know, I think I think they're probably a nature of hoes of vacuum. So if there is, you know, there's a certainly a strong argument that the decline in religion has has led to people seeking a new religion, essentially secular religion. So that is, you know, Organism is essentially a secular religion, but it's it's believed very fervently. So yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's, it's a strong, strong argument for church.

I agree. So. They need substance. They need natural things. Mother and mother. Oh, that's true. All right. Well, let's see. So. Hi. Hi. Good evening. My name is Janelle. It's nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I wanted to. Actually, first, thank you and probably behalf on everyone here to thank you for creating the pack and the referral opportunity. I think everyone here is grateful. And I saw it as a way to support 2 amendments that I actually care about and don't want to see

go away. And secondly, I saw it as a way that if I could refer my friends, family, and everyone that I could go, I could earn some extra money. My husband and I are actually self funding our own fertility journey. I've got some unexplained infertility. And so that money is going to actually pay our bill next month. And I've always wanted to become a mom. And I have a dream to be a mom and I know one day it will happen. I'm drawn to your population

concerns. I don't know if you've talked to President Trump, but I would love to know if you would consider pack or advocating a grant for fertility to make Americans like myself be able to afford it. And have a baby. Yeah. Well, I, I'm, I'm, I'm super pro baby, so yes, yeah, absolutely. I'm super, super pro baby. So yes, absolutely. Hey Elon, my name is Furman Jones, and I just wanted to start out and say I I really believe in you.

I know everybody in here believes in you for one reason or another, and I'm super thankful to even get to ask you a question. But anyways, I also believe in the Constitution and I also believe in the Bible, and that's what I'm going to ask you about. The Bible says that nobody's perfect, and there's no perfect form of government on this earth because greed is inevitable. It's like Churchill says that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the

other types. But the one government that the Bible does say is perfect is the Kingdom of God. And Isaiah 3322 says the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our king, and the Lord is our our lawmaker. So I feel like so much of your worldview aligns with biblical principles, and we need Christians to vote and see that greed, that communism is the greatest manifestation of evil and greed. And so, yeah, that's my question. How do we get Christians to

vote? And if you have time, what keeps you from believing in the Bible or being more vocal about it? So, yeah, well, it is interesting that actually I was told that a surprisingly small percentage of evangelicals of people that are really strong believers act as it's quite a small percentage that votes. I, I thought and I, I hope I, I Yeah, well, I, that's what I was told anyway. But, but I saw, I certainly hope more, more people, more Christians vote. That would be great.

Please do so. Yeah. I mean, I, so I was, you know, brought up Christian and went to actually somewhat strangely, went to Sunday school and also my, I was sent to a Hebrew preschool. You know, I'm not Jewish, but I was, I don't know, I was just still, I think it was in the neighborhood or something, you know, And so I was like hopping to Gila one day, Jesus is all over the next. And I was like, great.

So you know, so I, you know, I certainly I'm, I'm, I believe in the like the teachings of Christ. I believe, you know, that he's like, I believe in the Christian principles, you know, love thy neighbor. I believe in turn the other cheek, which is very important for to have forgiveness, because if you don't have forgiveness, then you have an endless cycle of retribution. You know, like, you know, I used to think like why would you turn the other cheek? That's ridiculous.

You know, just sponge them. But, and, and I think you do need to actually be strong, like you can't be weak because if somebody's, if you're facing sort of a predatory threat and that threat is stronger than you and that and that threat doesn't believe in Christian values, then you will just get, you

know, executed. I mean, I don't know, but but at a certain point it once you are strong, once you are, once you are strong, you should, you should forgive the the transgressions of, of others, you know, and that this is obviously not something they believe in the Middle East, which is why there's this endless cycle of, of violence, you know. So I really think that, yeah, we should, yeah, should love thy neighbor. And we should forgive and we should, we should be kind and

gentle. So yeah, I believe. I believe in what Jesus. I believe. I believe in what Jesus said. Yeah. So, yeah. Hello, Elon Musk. My name is Grant Naugle. Hi, family. It's really, really good to to meet you. My first question was, do you have an answer to life, the universe and everything? Well, the classic answer is 42 and and 4:20 is just 1040 twos. Interesting. But my real question, yes, sorry.

My real question would be what is the most useful, most powerful piece of advice you have ever received? The most useful piece of advice? Well, that's a tough one. Yes, indeed. Vote Republican.

It's yeah. I mean, this is, this is maybe going to sound like maybe I'd like, I believe in like, like, well, if you study physics, if you, if you study I, I just recommend studying physics, you know, and, and, and, and the, the tools of physics of the, the sort of the, the thinking tools that it's, it's, it's not, it's not just a bunch of, it's what matters is not remembering a bunch of formulas. What matters is the thinking process that led to the

discovery of those formulas. It's sort of critical thinking, first principles analysis, trying to understand what is true at a most fundamental level, and then reasoning up from there and testing your conclusions against the most fundamental truths. In any given arena. This is how you can figure out whether something is more likely to be true or not. And I think it's, it's good to

think in terms of probabilities. So you receive information about a subject that that should change the probability of your conclusion, but but not the certainty of your conclusion. Like so in physics teaches you that you should not be 100% certain that about any given prediction. Now there's some things that are highly likely, but but physics teaches you, you've got to, you've got to assign a probability to something being true. And then as you learn more information, your original

conclusion may be wrong. And then, you know, you should then change your mind based on the new information. I mean, you can think of intelligence kind of as just how good is I think the yeah, probably the right metric for intelligence is the ability to predict, predict the future. If you can predict the future, well, then you're then you're you're as intelligent as you can predict the future.

Well, because if something, if somebody claims, well, this is thing is this this person or, or this AI is very intelligent, like, well, what, how good are its predictions? And if its predictions are not very good, it's not that smart. So, so that's, that's I think the key nature of intelligence.

And if you're trying to decide what to do in the future, it is really it just, it comes down to predicting the future and to break the future, you have to think critically about the past and constantly try to be less wrong. So maybe that would be maybe that would be right up there in terms of best advice. Aspire to be less wrong. Hi, Elon, yes, First off, thank you so much for having us here

today. We always appreciate that we have somebody in in your level of influence that can listen to regular people and then kind of get our voices heard. And it's also not everyday that a person gets to meet their hero and ask them a question. So my main question is since

COVID. The current administration has really put a struggle with small businesses and especially here in PA we've seen a large decline in both the foundation of small business and we. I've personally known several small businesses that have had to close due to increasing

regulation. Taxes. Exactly. It's, it's the, the, the burden of, of excess regulation is very severe and it crushes a lot of small, small companies and it makes big companies operate much, you know, much less efficiently so. So how do you think that we as small business owners and non small business owners can fight against this? And also what can you do as a former small business owner that

you can kind of fight for us? Well, I mean, to your point, I think a dramatic reduction in government spending and government over regulation, like I call it sort of America is getting sort of strangulation by over regulation will unleash in your era of prosperity. Just allow people to do useful and productive things and don't make it a two year permitting nightmare, which is often is, and then burden small businesses with taxes that they can go bankrupt.

So, yeah, it's pretty straightforward. Like I said, it's, it's kind of mind blowing that there are over 400 federal agencies governing our lives. Most of them people have never heard of, but they, they, they do affect your life and on balance negatively. So we just need far fewer agencies and get the government off your back. Yeah. Hi, my name is Mark from Lancaster. Thank you for your time, for the most valuable thing you can give to any organization. So thank you.

Time is through currency. Thank you, Sir. So my question is, my wife is a natural or at least U.S. citizen. She's registered to vote. I. Banked my vote already. I was just wondering if you'd be willing to talk about, I mean we did it the right way, we took years and money and we got her naturalized the right way. If you'd be willing to talk about your experience at all with immigration and also other than secure border, how you see fixing that system?

Yeah, well, since your wife has gone through the process of becoming a citizen and getting green card, you've seen how absurdly slow and arduous it is. So I mean, I think the the general principle that makes sense is the same principle that you'd operate a professional sports team on or a company, which is like, who would you want on your team? And if, if somebody's going to be productive, like productive and honest and a net contributor, and that'd be a

great addition to the team. Welcome aboard. And it should be not a long process because they'll they'll, they'll produce more than they consume. They'll make everyone, everyone's lives better. And so we have this bizarre situation, which is like mind blowing that it is easier to get into this country as a murderer than as a Nobel laureate. Literally.

That's not an exaggeration. Which is like what, you know, it's like, I mean, it's like if like if you have the opportunity to say have like, you know, LeBron James or Steph Curry on your team and you'd be like, yeah, that would make total sense. Our team's going to win. They'll make the whole team better. You know, So we, we, we, we want to actually, we need to have things be what they should, which is that that legal immigration of honest, hard working, talented people is

quick and easy. And coming into the country illegally is hard. That's how it should be. Yeah. So honestly, like, OK, I'd like kind of a crazy idea. This one's going to hit the press, which is like, what if we gave legal immigration job to Chick-fil-A? They are so efficient. They make an amazing chicken sandwich. Their chicken sandwiches are epic and they make a zillion of them and they just get it done. I think we should give the immigration job to Chick-fil-A. They'll crush.

That's going to be a headline Hello Mr. Musk. But honestly, it would be great. Hello Mr. Musk, it's an honor to meet you. So my question is this, and I ask for this as a first time voter, as we know, Trump did not and has not accepted the results of the 2020 election, one which has been called the most secure in the nation's history by the former president's own Department of Homeland Security.

Similarly, similarly, I saw the violent disruption of the electoral vote count on the news during January 6th. So my and I asked this as a first time voter who wants to discern the truth. Sure. What would you say to comfort the concerns of young voters like me who are worried that voting for a second Trump presidency will lead to democratic backsliding? Well, I think that's a fair question, honestly, the I think it is, it is. It is a fair question.

I mean, The thing is that, yeah, like I want to frame this correctly and obviously anything I say the the legacy media is going to take a sound bite out of what I say and, and, and, and misconstrue what I'm saying, which is something they've done with President Trump many times. It is very important. If you if you've heard something bad about President Trump, listen to his whole speech. That's actually very important.

You know, and you know, on January 6th, I mean, his statements on that day, he told people to back down. I mean, he said, he said do not do violence. And then people were like saying, well, that's actually some sort of dog whistle about doing violence. I'm like, what are you supposed to say? You know, he he did actually tell people to, to not not be violent. He recommended that the National Guard be deployed. Nancy Pelosi said no, So he

didn't call for any violence. He didn't call for any violence. Exactly. And if you look at like, while it obviously, you know, I think it was, you know, like the level of disruption was, was high. And I, I don't, I don't know, applaud any, any kind of damage to public property, of course, that you know, but it's, you know, the media tries to characterize January 6th as some, some, some sort of violent insurrection, which is simply not the case.

I mean, that is false. So, you know, I, I, I would take, I think probably what I think is the reasonable middle ground, which is I, I disagree with the level of protest, but I, it is in was in no way of violent insurrection. You know, the the so that's there's got to be a lot of guns for the to be a violent insurrection. And, and, and they were there were a lot of strange things from in terms of voting irregularities that are hard to explain. So what what what it's Yeah.

I mean, there were things that are statistically unlikely when you put it that way. And, and so it, it's not as though the January 6 protesters had that their protests had no merit. They had some merit. I disagree with the, the magnitude of what they did, but I, I, I, but it's, it's not as though there were no issues. There were actually, there were issues.

And, and we have this weird situation in America where it is almost impossible to prove fraud and it because if you've got no voter ID and mail in ballots, how do you, how do you prove fraud? And you know, and, and it does seem more than a little odd that we don't have voter ID. And, and New York could say states like California, which is super majority Democrat, they passed a law banning voter ID in any election whatsoever. Now, how is that supporting

democracy? That's not supporting democracy. I mean, that's insane. Almost every country on earth has voter ID requirements, but we don't Why? And why do the same people that demanded vaccine IDs for you to do anything, all the same ones who say no ID for voting. Someone doesn't add up. It doesn't it doesn't add up. You know, so I, I, I actually think I, I, I mean, my, my, my opinion is that those who, who say Trump is a threat to democracy are themselves the threat to democracy.

I'll tell you what, that was awesome. Conspiracy was theory and now it's the truth. And that's something. Honestly, at this point, at this point, we're running out of conspiracy theories because there's so many of them have come true that, that, that we need, we, we actually need, can someone please come up with some new conspiracies because we're, we're not them. I mean, even the frogs might be real, you know, the frog situation might be real. I don't know.

Right. You know, conspiracy. We're here to help. Yeah, probably heard that. Right, Right. Well, Elon, God bless you. It's very nice to meet you, God. Bless you too. My name's Andrew Morisky, Lancaster, PA native. Yeah, I'm a small business owner of a barbershop 10 minutes down the street, right, called Legacy Barbers. Love to cut your hair sometime? If you will thank you. So I wanted to ask you a question and also encourage you with these few words, Augustine, who was a theologian and a

philosopher, said. You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. And Second Chronicles 7 verse 14 says, If my people who are called by my name should humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land. So I want to encourage you with that brother. Yeah, those are great, great woods.

Great woods. Amen. Amen. And Elon, I'll tell you what, been watching you now for a while, hearing the stuff you say. We need more men like you and this country that do that are not afraid to stand up to the media legacy. They're not afraid to stand up against people who think we're toxic masculinity. We need more men. Yeah, you know this. I've got a great counter argument for toxic masculinity, which is if if masculinity is so toxic, how come the kids that

are messed up don't have dads? Riddle me that. Riddle me that. And some that you said earlier and, and Amen to that. Yeah. And I'm actually going to be a dad February. Congratulations. I'm having a. Baby, wow, thank you Lord, but the tweet that you had not too long ago, it said and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden or Kamala. Yeah, because it's pointless. So, you know, nobody, nobody bother assassinating a public

right? Yeah. You know, when are people going to start seeing that our country is not when they keep saying democracy. It's a constitutional Republic. Would you please make sure, if, if you don't mind, to keep reminding people that we are a Republic. We're free. We're free because of Christ Jesus, and we're free because of the men and women who died and shed blood for this country. That's absolutely yes. Amen, brother. Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

I mean, a lot of people died to make this country what it is today. A lot of people died. Absolutely. Amen. And man, people take it for granted, you know, So. Yeah, well, America PAC is kind of the anti Soros PAC. You know, something's got to be done about it. So it's like, you know, I, I, I don't know what's up with that guy. But honestly, like putting DAS in like, it's like, it's like the Jokers in charge, you know, it's like electing DAS that don't prosecute crime is insane.

It's like literally like Batman, Dark Knight, I mean, like, you know, lock up, lock up the citizens and free the criminals. It's insane. It's happening. Yeah. I mean, like what? This is total madness. So we need to stop that. Yeah. So. Yeah. Well, I think America is great, but we want to be greater and we want to do awesome things. We we want to do. And. And you want to you want to look forward to the future and be inspired and excited about the future.

You know, that's what makes life worth living. Yeah, so all right, into the score of arm wrestling. Oh yeah, arm wrestling. I I have looked, I not not in depth, but I have looked into it and for for a while there, I did like to actually read up on it and, and actually various techniques for how to win at arm wrestling, which is like a lot of it is, you know, get get your angles to yeah, get, yeah, get your whole body into it and, and get your ankles.

So you can actually like if you if you know the techniques and arm wrestling and somebody doesn't, you can actually win against somebody much bigger. Yeah. Well, yeah, no, no, I mean, I, I would challenge Biden, but that would be ridiculous. You know, that would be so unfair. So he can use two. What if he can use his two hands? Yeah, that'd be fine. So thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Make arm wrestling great again. Absolutely. God bless. All right.

Hi, Elon, my name is Molly. I just want to thank you for spending so much time in Pennsylvania. I think what you're doing is amazing and it's making a real impact. So God bless you, and I think you're a natural treasure. Thank you. My main concern is with the national debt, and I know you talked a lot about reducing the spending side, but I was wondering what kind of Trump policies and industries you think will help grow the revenue side?

And along those lines, do you have any plans to bring more Tesla manufacturing back to the US? Well, Tesla actually is a massive manufacturer in the US. In fact, the the biggest factory that's been built in recent years is the Tesla factory in Texas. So that's yeah. And and then there's another big factory in Nevada, so there's Giga Nevada and Giga Texas and maybe someday Giga Pennsylvania, so. And that, that, that would be, that would be super cool.

I'm, I'm, I'm a huge believer in manufacturing. I love manufacturing. I like making things. I've spent a lot of time in the factory walking the floor. I lived in the factory for a while, literally lived in the factory. It was kind of like just kind of like Vegas actually, because I didn't even see the outside, but the lights were always on. But we had some tough times at Tesla. It's really difficult to make any kind of manufacturing company work.

And you know, yeah, Tesla's actually also the biggest manufacturing employer in California still, but the state is not super grateful. So, but, but yeah, I'm a big. So, so we, we do a ton of manufacturing in the US and we, we, we, we keep investing and increasing our manufacturing activity in the US and, and SpaceX also is a massive manufacturer. You know, SpaceX is the biggest manufacturer of rockets and satellites in the world.

And yeah, so and and that's, that's, that's all in the US. So SpaceX manufacturing is all in the US And and Tesla has massive amounts of manufacturing in the US, like giant factories. So I'm a big believer in manufacturing. So it's from, I mean, I do think reform of the tax code, it makes sense because it's extremely complicated and there are too many loopholes. You know, I'm often pitched on these loopholes. That's how I know they exist. And I'm like, that sounds pretty shady.

I don't think we should do that. But like, well, lots of other people are getting away with it. And we're like, yeah, but I still don't think we should do it. Yeah, for us with I'm the largest individual taxpayer in history. So I, I paid $10 billion in tax, over $10 billion in tax. You're welcome. Like I, I sort of thought maybe the IRS would like, you know, send me like a little trophy or something, you know? Yeah. And like one of those like,

doesn't have to be expensive. It could be like, you know, one of those like, like things you get for when kids win a karate competition, like little plastic gold trophy or something like that or a cookie or something. But I don't get anything. I was like, you know, and but I I was happy to pay the taxes. I don't mind. You know, it has a good week this week. Yeah. Stock market's wild, wild sort of roller coaster. You know, I think Warren Buffett's got a good, good, a

lot of good sayings, actually. But one of his sayings, I believe, is like, you know, having a publicly traded company is like having someone stand outside your house and yell house prices all day. And it's still the same house. And you're like, why is this person yelling house prices at me all day long? And that's what it's like being in a publicly traded company. It's just, they just yell stock

prices at you all day long. And it's like, well, it's actually still pretty much the same company as yesterday. So it's it's it's, it's kind of weird being in a publicly traded situation. But anyway, I think we should we should to simplify the tax code, get rid of a lot of exceptions and loopholes and make it easy to fill out taxes. It shouldn't be this like extremely complicated thing. Yeah. But, but overall I think that like if we if we have less federal spending, then there is

less taxation. And so that's, and we, we, we have to reduce federal spending. There's no way to make up for it other than than reducing the federal spending. And as I mentioned earlier, like a very important point that I think is important for people to understand is that all federal spending is taxation because what is not what they don't receive, what federal company doesn't receive in direct revenue, they make up for in inflation. They just print money. So all federal spending is

taxation. Very important principle. Almost nobody, very few people seem to even like, you know, some of these like spend their life in economics. I'll mention to them, hey, all spending, all federal spending is taxation. They're like, first they'll argue with me and they're like, then they'll agree it is because it is either direct tax revenue or it is inflation. All federal spending is taxation. So we must reduce federal spending or we will go bankrupt

as a country, all right. Hey, Yvonne. I'm Chadwick from Westchester, Pennsylvania. I met you last week at. I met you last week at Harrisburg. And since then, I've been prouder than ever to wear my MAGA hat around. You've really inspired me to wear it more and more. And since then, I've had my car slashed with a key, which is fine. Yeah, it's fine. Trump got hit with a bullet in the air, and look at him. He's doing good. So yeah, somebody chased me

around with a shopping cart. What's that? Well, but yeah, that happens. That's just, that's a part of Westchester, PA. It's actually. I mean, I mean, at this point, it's like flying the rebel flag, man. Yeah, you know. Yeah, for real. It's an adventure. Yeah. I've had some people be get mad at me. Yeah, like big time. I do have, I do have a question this time though. I actually, I met somebody on XI do podcasting and I met somebody on X directly through the platform.

I would call him a friend. His name is Derek and he has something called spina bifida. It is spina bifida month right now. So spina bifida awareness month. I wanted to put the awareness out there is that it's a, a spinal, his form was spinal kind of like issues. And he has never been able to walk really never. Wow. I guess not according from what I learned, he's never he hasn't been able to walk like his whole

his whole life. So my question is, like for the disabled community and for people like him, will things like will things like Neuralink help? And also, what will the Trump administration be doing for people who are disabled to help them anything? Well, yeah, so I, I think, I think there actually are a lot of things that like medical devices and drugs that could be approved that are sort of stuck in regulatory molasses.

Like they're just, you know, it's like trying to get anything new approved is like running in molasses with lead shoes. It's really slow. So, you know, a good friend of mine was, was telling me how his mom was diagnosed with, with brain cancer. And the doctor said like, well, that's, that's pretty much game over, you know, and then he talked to, but he's very enterprising guy, so he's going

to take that for an answer. And he asked every smart person he knew, is there anything that that could help cure brain cancer? Turns out there, there's this drug called Welly Rake that was in trials at, at Harvard, I believe. And it, it cured his mom's brain cancer. So, you know, I'm like, well, like how many welly rigs are there out there? Maybe there's a whole bunch of them and, and devices and

everything. And we should, you know, like I said earlier, it's like we need to expedite approval of drugs, Make sure people, you know, if the people are properly informed of the pros and the cons. And then there also needs to be some after approval follow up to say like was something approved that shouldn't have been approved? And, and, or whether it needs to be additional warnings. It's pretty common. It's common sense.

I think, you know, just but like when you're dealing with the government, like common sense is doesn't make sense. Like, you know, common sense just bounces off the government like water off ducks back, you know, I mean, it's like arguing with the DMV. It's impossible. They did put the COVID vaccine quick. Yeah, that was weird. And they made everyone take it, which is messed up. So I don't think people should be forced to take vaccine unless that that against their will.

Both. Hi, Elon. My name is Alex Gamble from Lebanon County. I first want to thank you sincerely for what you're doing. I I think you're an American patriot. Thank you. I really do. I love America. I really do. I mean, I, I listen, I, I love America and, and like, sometimes people say like, that's just jingoistic propaganda. I'm like, I don't care. I love the jingoistic propaganda. It's awesome. You know, it's like, God Bless America. I friggin it's, it's it's amazing.

I agree. Yeah, with with the recent news from Lancaster County discovering 2500 potentially fraudulent voter registration forms, what's your opinion on mail in ballots and if we should get rid of them in the future? I also, I also want to get rid of them in the future. I mean, like mail in ballots are a strange anomaly that got popularized during COVID. But, but really, but like you, you have an obvious recipe for fraud and, and an inability to

prove fraud. If you've got no ID, no voter ID and you've got mail in ballots, right? Like you can't even put a, you can't even like, like, like like many years ago, a friend of mine was telling me how his, his dad actually helped improve democracy in Mexico.

And, and it was by organizing a whole bunch of citizens to just stand outside the the the polling stations or the voting stations with a counter just to count the number of people that went in because obviously if you have more votes than people, something's wrong. Yeah. And and it turned out they had a lot more votes than people. They're like, this is a little strange. So anyway, that that but that that actually helped fix the

situation in Mexico big time. Yeah, but, but, but if you don't, if you've got mail in ballots, you can't count this. Like you don't even know what's going on. I also wanted to ask you a favor. My my son is named Elon. Really. He named him after you. Wow, thanks. He's three. You're an inspiration. And I was hoping to get an autograph from you to give to him when he's older. Well, it's the further.

I can't say no to that. I mean, from one Elon to another, you know, actually, you know, I was actually, I was named after my American great grandfather. I guess it's so I'm like kind of the opposite of Obama. I'm from Africa, named after, named after an American. So, but yeah, it's Johnny. Alan Haldeman was my my great grandfather and that's I was named after his middle name. So I think it was like from Minnesota.

I believe so, yeah. Hey, Elon, my name is Jennifer Lucas. As you can tell, I do not have a Pennsylvania accent, but I do live here. I'm voting legally, I promise. Sure, I believe you. I'm from southern West Virginia. OK. And honestly, I've had a lot of questions on my mind, from education to drug epidemic. It's hit really hard, but one thing that I would really like to ask you about right now is lobbyists. If I buy vote, I go to jail.

They buy votes on the floor, on the voting floor in DC, and that's OK. That is affecting our voice as American citizens. So what can we do to ban lobbyists in DC so we can take our power back? AIPAC OH America Pack. Yeah. I mean, you know, so I was actually part of making a movie called Thank You for smoking. I don't know if anyone's seen that movie, but it's, it's a movie about political corruption and and lot about lobbyists and political corruption. I, you know, it's worth watching.

Thank you for smoking. And you know, that was I'm actually the pilot in the movie in that plane. So it's a very small role, but that movie explores the there's the corruption that exists in DC due to all the lobbying that takes place. And the legislation is primarily written by lobbyists, in fact. And then, you know, Congress basically rubber stamps the what what lobbyists, right?

I think, I think we're probably do need to take a look at what rules make sense because obviously the, the point of the elected, the legislators is to legislate in the interest of the people. And so if there's legislation happening, which is often the case, that is not in the interest of the people, something's wrong.

So, and you do get these like regulatory capture situations where the right, you know, the companies in an industry end up controlling the regulators and preventing new entrants from coming into a market, making it difficult, you know, for new companies to come in anyway. You know, I wanted to make that movie for a reason, which is to highlight that there is a lot of corruption in DC and like to have less of it.

At least it's tough. And, you know, this is also why I think the the big government machine is so against Trump because he, he doesn't, he's not beholden to all of these interests, you know, So he's, he's not, he's not captured essentially, he's not a puppet. So the sort of the big government machine is very worried about electing someone

who's he's not a puppet. So, yeah, I mean, I, I certainly advocate for, you know, better rules that limit the, the power of companies to lobby in, in DC or at the state level for that matter. Yeah, I, I mean, like I for, for Mars, like people sometimes ask me like, well, what if, what kind of system of governments do I think makes sense for Mars?

Like I said, well, that's going to be up to the Martians, you know, But, but, but I would recommend direct democracy, not representative democracy where the people vote directly.

And you know, in the past, before there was before you had like the Internet and electronics, you had to have representative democracy because you couldn't, you couldn't, you had to, just like with the legacy media, you had to collect people's opinion by mail or literally by voice or by letters written with a quill on, you know, and a scroll type of thing, you know, like slow. So you had to have representative democracy. You couldn't have direct

democracy. But my recommendation for Mars would be that the people vote directly for anything and that any given piece of legislation must be short enough to understand. So like, if, if it's, you know, not, not more than 1000 words, maybe 300, the, the longer the legislation is, the worse it gets. And, and we've got legislation that's longer than Lord of the Rings, and they're like, nobody's read it, you know? Thank you for everything that you're doing.

I see you and I see your heart, and I know that you love humanity, not just America. I do everything that you do. It shows you care for everyone deeply. Thank you for that. Thank you. I have a lot of ideas and if you want to hear them sometime we can sit down for dinner. Thank you. All right, Yeah. Hello, Elon. My name is Steven Marshall, so I live in Lancaster County.

It's nice to meet you. You once said in a job interview that when asked what is your biggest weakness, you said honesty, which I find really interesting. And the guy said, well, that's not a weakness. And what I find fascinating is the way you stand up to anybody and speak your mind. And my question is, there's a cost of telling the truth. There's a cost of being honest, yes. And you're not afraid to pay that? Well, hopefully it's not like, fatal, you know? Yeah.

And I think that I'm. Wondering like where that came from in your life because you know, you're an amazing inspiration with everything. Yeah, I can. I can totally tell you. So like what it's, I mean, first of all, you know, like I think I, I, the reason I believe in sort of truth and honesty is because I'm like, I'm trying to understand the universe. I'm trying to understand reality. You know, we're trying to understand like, what's the meaning of life? Like, what are we here for?

Like what's, what's going on? And if you don't aspire to to truth, if you're not like rigorous about truth and honesty, then you're obviously going to live in a diluted world. You won't understand, you won't understand the nature of reality, you won't understand. So I just, I'm just curious and I want to understand the nature of reality. So, and that's requires rigorous adherence to the truth. Also, Ed, thank you.

What I find fascinating, too, is like, you know, for you to stand up and speak the truth about what you feel about Trump, There's so many celebrities that the other side has. And yeah. It's weird that there's so many celebrities, you know, I'm like, like, what are they? What's up with that? Yeah, exactly. You're the you're the only guy with a serious amount of influence that's able to really stand up for Trump.

And I really think that I know people that are like on the fence that are going to Trump because of you. So I think. Right, you are making a massive. Difference in this election like you single handedly and that's an amazing legacy amongst all the other things that you do. So thank you. Well, I, I, I'm trying, I'm trying my best to, to, you know, I want to, I'm trying to make as

big a difference as possible. And yeah, I mean, I, I do think like we, we, we're at a, like I said, a fork in the road of destiny where, you know, like it's. Yeah, it's not clear to me that that there will be elections after this if Trump is not elected. You know, So the, I mean, there's basically, in my opinion, there's massive voter importation to swing states that

is happening right now. If you look at the actual numbers as reported by the Democrat administration, there are triple digit increases in the number of illegals in each swing state. It's 240% was the number I saw in Pennsylvania in three years. And like that's, you know, if the margin of victory is like was 80,000 votes last time, well, what happens if you bring in like 300,000 illegals who are beholden to the Democrat machine and to get a whole bunch of

handouts? And that even though they may socially not be in agreement with the Democrats, their first order priority is bringing friends and family into the country, which will be supported by the Democrats but not by the Republicans. So it's voter importation is what's going on. And it doesn't take much to have the swing states be a permanent deep blue. That's what happened in California.

So like, like I love Reagan, but he did sign in 1986 an amnesty that, you know, sort of illegal alien amnesty that thereafter California, which had been red or a swing state, but primarily red was went blue and then deep blue. And now California passed a law banning voter ID in any election whatsoever, even in a town council. That's what they will do to the whole country.

They the playbook is obvious because we can just look at what they did in California. They're going to do the same thing in Pennsylvania, same thing the whole rest of the country if they can. And Trump is the only chance to

have that not be the case. So, and I'll tell you it's I'll tell you it's even, it's because people like, I think it's going to be worse than California. Because the one thing that keeps California from being even more crazy than it currently is is that people can move to other States and still be in America. But what if you can't move to any other states? It's going to be way worse than California. So it's profound. Yankees. Well, sorry. OK, listen, I like the name, OK?

It's a great name. Sorry, sorry, sorry. What have I done? Hi Elon, my name is David and I am an founder of an e-commerce company here in Lancaster, PA. And I appreciate the one thing that you saying about the IRS being bullying on the American citizens instead of enforcing our border, we're doing that. And I found one problem being a business owner is I have been the subject of recent harassment by the IRS. And I find that being a huge discouragement to entrepreneurship, which is the

American backbone. Sure. And I wanted to know what you what would be one of the number one things you would recommend to the Trump administration about encouraging entrepreneurship and getting young people especially encouraged into starting small businesses to keep our economy, economy flourishing and to keep creating wonderful things like you have done?

Yeah, Well, I mean, it's really, I think, you know, if we can just get the government off people's backs, then you can you can get a tremendous amount done. And you know, it's like just we're over regulating six ways to Sunday as you've experienced yourself. And then even when there's like a little bit of success, then the government comes along and takes the money.

So it's crazy, you know. So just when, when if the founders of the country could see like where we are now, they'd blow their mind, you know, like there was a revolt against the British. I think it was like a 2% tax on tea, like say a 3% tax on tea. And like, they were like, no way. And now it's like, you know, 40%. I mean, it's just like there's new taxes every day. And there's a lot of hidden taxes that you experience as a as a small business owner that

people don't even realize exist. You know, you just sort of come to realize that because the IRS comes after you. But there's there's a ton of taxes that try to sort of mask from the consumers. So we just need smaller government and allow people to produce useful goods and services for their fellow human beings. Yeah, it's straightforward. Hi, Elon, My name is Will King. It's nice to meet you. Welcome to Lancaster. Thank you. I'm a young mechanical engineer.

I'm excited to work on new problems. One of my dreams would be a work for one of your companies. So we'll see where that goes. But question I have is what are your thoughts on tariffs and how do you see tariffs impacting consumer spending and or increasing inflation? And what problems need to be solved for US production to reach a scale and efficiency that would match current outsource production? Like obviously it's, it's no first principle. It's not a first principle

principles problem. We can do it, but what needs to happen to in order for that to? Well, what are your thoughts on the subject? So I think what you were, what you were touching on before a lot of government regulation and taxes, Well, taxes, you know, I don't know where we need to go with that, but I think I love your philosophy of surges in employment and going hardcore. You know, I was reading your autobiography, the other biography, the.

Other biography, Yeah, Yeah. To be clear, this it's a pretty good biography, but it's not, it's not actually what I would have written, right? But what really stood out to me, I was reading about how you wanted to move the servers from Twitter up to Is it in Oregon? And well, yeah, actually there was. Yeah, there were three data centers, but yeah, only two were needed, right? And I was being told it would take like nine months to.

Right. And you showed up with your guys and you're like, hey, let's just do this overnight like Christmas, so. Yeah, just receive, yeah. Cutting down some of those regulations and all this crazy stuff that goes that extends the timeline for a bunch of stuff would really would really help. And that that work ethic. I agree with your 80 hour work principle, work week principle and the hardcore. It's not for everyone.

It's not for everyone, but I think that the principle is really cool and I think we should bring that culture and that mindset down to the 40 hour work week or the 50. I do 50, but you know, work life balance potentially. But I love where you're taking your companies and it's really cool to see. Well, thanks. Thank you. Yeah, go ahead. Hello Elon. Nice to see you here tonight.

So recently I was reading an article on Medium where a Italian researcher named Andrea Rossi was able to demonstrate a new technology that he invented that was able to extend the range of an electric vehicle. It was a technically like a quadricycle, so very low power electric vehicle by 4 times. And after the the full test that it actually increased the battery life of the electric vehicle. And obviously, you know, we don't it's only been

demonstrated once. We don't know if this technology could be replicated, but if it was able to be replicated, would you be interested in implementing this kind of technology into your Tesla vehicles and even possibly the

Starship? Well, I, I wish such a thing were, were, were real, but I do not think that such a thing as real that there is, you know, every industry has a certain amount of, of BS, but the, the battery industry, I think might is a candidate for industry with the most amount of BS. So it's, it's just, there's like electrochemistry is very

difficult. In fact, one of the ways that I will test like the intelligence of an AI system is ask it battery electrochemistry questions and rocket questions and usually comes back with terrible answers. So it's, it's, it's extremely difficult to increase the range, but but the range is already sufficient to fully electrify everything on Earth. So, you know, Teslas have over 300 miles of range and some of them have like 400 miles of range. We can actually make it go

further. It's just that that's like an unnecessary amount of battery for most people because the amount, the amount of range that you need in a battery is about the same amount of range that your bladder has essentially. So if you know, if you start a trip at say 9:00 AM, around noon, you want to probably hit the restroom, take a break, you know, have a bite to eat and you know, so you drive for three hours, maybe 4 hours and then charge the car.

As long as the car is charged by the time you come back from the bathroom and you know, had lunch or whatever, then it long distance trips are no problem. So we're already we're already

there at this point. So, yeah, but but there there is no magical breakthrough the the if other technologies are discovered over the next few years into the near future, would you also be willing to step theoretically could revolutionize electrical vehicles, space travel, you know, exotic propulsion, exotic energy generation techniques. Are you interested in researching those and potentially funding them and contributing to this kind of

research? I do think there is a lot of technology out there that is not really mainstream that it has potential, although it's in a very infantile stage. I think there is potential. I mean, not only, I mean, I'm both Tesla and SpaceX are desperately interested in anything that works. We're not like barring the door, we're like, please, if you've got something that works, tell us about it. Unfortunately, it's rarely the case that it actually works is the issue.

So, you know, for a while there, Tesla, I guess we maybe still do like we're just we'd rate any given, you know, proposed new technology out of 10 where 10 is is incredible. And, you know, one is total, total nonsense. And really nothing got above before. So it's it's just very difficult to do. But if if, and I would encourage anyone to say prove me wrong, please do that. I would like to be proven wrong. That would be awesome. Yeah. But just just compete with Tesla.

That sounds like you're if you know, if, if there's a some technology that has much greater range, I would strongly recommend. They just kick our ass, you know? Yeah. Elon, do you believe that Jesus the Christ is a real person who was crucified and died and is risen, and that God is Jesus? What do you mean by a real person? That he was alive back 2000 years ago. He was the guy who was crucified. OK, cool. Yeah, no, I think there's yeah, I do think that's that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, you get into like these, you know, theocratical debates of the Trinity and but I thought, you know, but yeah, yeah, I think it's real. So. Hi, Elon. That feels very weird to say, but hi, my name is Chris Michaelson. I'm a Lancaster County resident. We're really happy to have you here. Thank you, everybody. Look, I, like many of us here, feel that the very construct, the constitution of our country is at stake during this election. I agree.

I'm a firm believer that those who can should. And I just want to say thank you for being one of the very few powerful members outside of the construct who have the balls to stand up here every day and do what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. All right, There's a macho man's here. Look, President Trump has announced you or has announced that he will appoint you as the head of the efficiency Commission, right?

Right. That's obviously a perfect spot for you, given your historical success running lean and exceptionally profitable businesses. One of my big concerns that extends beyond the disarray of our financial constitution here is the technology attacks that have happened in our country. 2021, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Yeah. 2021, Robin Hood, 7 million users, data stolen, their money held for ransom. 2023, T-Mobile goes down overnight, airport attacks,

airline attacks. Have you spoken to Trump at all regarding your expertise around cybersecurity? Are you going to have any involvement there? If not, do you know who is and do you trust them? And I have one more question. Well, I definitely I certainly don't have all the answers here and and I don't I don't want to tempt fate, but like nobody has successfully hacked SpaceX or Starlink. They've been every day there are thousands of attempts to hack Starlink and no one has

succeeded. Again, I don't want to attempt fate here. So this is not a temp. I'm not saying to hacker groups out there, please hack Starlink like please don't hack Starlink, but but thus far there have been many attempts by individuals and state actors to hack into Starlink and none of them have been successful. So track record thus far is pretty good. No one has successfully hacked into yeah so far so good. You know, don't want to be complacent or anything.

No one has hacked into the Tesla mothership like the the Tesla Core database. Many people have tried to hack into the Tesla core database 0 successes. Yeah, I, I can certainly say like, now, now government computers are not super secure because it's the government, you know, so it's like if you say like, what is an easy thing to hack, I say, well, government computers are an easy thing to hack. So it's not good.

No, I agree. That's why I like, I I'm, you know, I'm like as a hardcore technology guy, I'm saying we should not have voting machines. We should not have computers because they're two subjects took to have being hacked by by and it's like they're subject to being hacked by, you know, and the people protecting these machines don't understand technology and and they could easily be bamboozled. So even with the best of intentions, So.

But it's really hard to bamboozle paper ballots in person with ID, which is obviously how it should be. Yeah, we, we've talked about baseball a couple times tonight. My brother's handicap. Ryan, I love you. I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight. He's a White Sox fan and he is. Just wants to know if you would consider buying them and turning them into a reputable business. Thank you. But I, I, I'm a technology guy, so I'm, I'm just, you know, I got to pick my battles here.

So I'm, I'm just, I try to make technologies that people find useful. So all right. Hi, Eli. My name is Vladimir. I'm an entrepreneur from Reading, PA. I came all the way here to see you because I'm not sure if you're going to make it to Reading, PA. I couldn't wait. Thank you so much for your contributions to the world. Thank you for Tesla, Neurolink, SpaceX X, everything that you're doing is incredible and thank you for stepping up with your leadership to once again try to

take our country back. Thank you. My question to you is regarding artificial intelligence, probably our greatest invention, hopefully not our last invention. You were really on the you were really advocating for basically regulating the advances that we're making on artificial intelligence. How long do you think it would be before we actually reach AGI or artificial general intelligence and artificial

superintelligence? And are you still up for regulating this amazing invention that we've summoned here? Yes. I mean, I do think there should be some regulatory oversight for AI. So, yeah, I mean, it's I kind of view regulators as kind of like the referees in a sports game. You know, if you whether it's baseball, basketball, anything, any given sport, all the teams want to have referees so that, you know, the teams don't break the rules and there's fair play.

So I think there there is a sort of a right number of regulators for any given industry, but there shouldn't be, there shouldn't be too many or too few. Now there's basically no regulators in AI right now. So it's like having a game with no referees. That's, that's, you know, subject to some bad happening. So my recommendation would be to have, yeah, to have an AI Regulatory agency at the federal level.

It should be, you know, not not heavy-handed, it should be, but there shouldn't be nothing in contrast, in other industries where there's excess regulation because these regulatory agencies are just sort of grown over time to the point where there are too many referees on the field. I think the sports analogy makes a lot of sense.

Like you want to have enough referees to have a fair game, but not so many referees that people can't, can't throw a pass on the football field without hitting a ref. You know, that's the, that's the situation we got right now. It's like you're trying to run downfield. Bam, you're just bumping into refs everywhere. So that's that, you know, we got to take some corrective action there. So thank you. Hey, thank you so much for listening today. I really do appreciate your support.

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