You're listening to Comedy Central. What do you think of when you think of the future. Is it space travel, robots, trucks with the word cyber in front of them. Whatever your vision, there is one man working to make it a reality. East part Thomas Edison, part Tironman, part annoying dude in the group chat and is anything but your standard CDEO. I changed my tunnel too, too, techno king um. And by the way, this is a formal SEC filing. It's I'm legally or whatever techno king um. I just
did that as kind of like a joke. Yes, he's a technic king, but as a joke, and soon we'll all be. It serves that, you know, funny way, because while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally online billionaire who wants to plug people into computers and build a best network of underground tunnels, it's not like he's some kindness super villain. Eventually you can transform mis into an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the pulse.
Well maybe a little so strappy. Turn on the autopilot, but keep your hands on the steering wheel in case of pedestrians, because this is the daily shiography of Elon Musk. Visionary future man. Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa,
in earlier nineteen seventy one. His father made a fortune in construction and emerald minun Because Africa's resources are like free money for white people, bad liability to school, Elon overcame many hardships, Although unlike other South African celebrities, he didn't make his childhood into a whole thing. By age ten, he was learning to program computer. At twelve, he built a video game he called Blastar, which started his lifelong
love of inventing things that already exist. Soon after, he left South Africa and made his way to a booming Silicon valley, where he launched his first company, ZIP two, which he eventually sold the Compact computer for three five million dollars. Like so many tech entrepreneurs, he earned his unimaginable wealth by doing something invaluable for society. Selling a startup you've never heard of to a company that doesn't exist anymore, must celebrated by buying himself a million dollars supercar.
There are sixty two of the parents in the world, and I will earn one of them. Yes, Musk was so rich he could afford to have a midlife crisis while he was still in his twenties. Sadly, his new
toy wouldn't last. Wrong, I didn't really know how to drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult car to drive, And I floored it and the lane change on the brack wheel, brook News and the cost fund around and uh and then we hit the embankment and knocked the car into the air, which continued spinning like a discus, like three ft in the air. That's right, Musks. McLaren
crashed worse than dotch coin. After Saturday Night Live. For his next act, Must created x dot com, which would later become PayPal, the happy your uncle had to use because in moo and cash app won't work them as
a nopia. Must took the money you made from that business and build an empire of pool lash ship, rocket ships, electric cars, solar farms, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and underground highways, all while dating celebrities and starting a record label to release his own E d M track Down a Banker. All the more impressive considering Must get clearly never heard music before. Yes, Elon Musk refuses to stainless lane, much like a Tesla on autopilots down or changing lands by itself.
Tesla's groundbreaking cars looking for speed brought unprecedented power range from sexists to electric vehicles, a market previously reserved for nerds who cared about the environment. And must even promise the dream of full self driving technology and I promised repeatedly. I'm confident that in less than a year, uh, you'll be able to go from highway on ramp to highway exit without touching any control. Fully, shit, it just ran
that red light. In three years, um, the call will be able to take you the grown point to point US. I think we're basically less than two years away from complete autonomy. Oh shit, we had not across country from l A to New York by the end of the year fully autonomous. Extremely confident of achieving full autonomy UH and and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year.
But must can't stop drinking big even when he probably should, like when SpaceX made history with the world's first reusable rocket technology and then use it to launch the first car in the space technically the second. If you can elon Lusk's McLaren must special brand of achievements one a totally normal and healthy fan base around the world. But success didn't come easy. You had to overcome a lot
of doubters, starting with himself. I don't want to give the impression that I thought tells they would be successful from the beginning. I actually thought we would fail. We were only a few days from bankruptcy. It was literally two days. It pushed him to the brink. Musk could have gone from being a multi billionaire all the way down to the very lowest rung of society millionaire. But through the years must kept as many ventures going, with a little more than his can do added to him
and billions of dollars in government subsidies. Today Musk isn't merely the richest man in the world. Is net worth as higher than the GDP of most countries. Should must be a country does have a national anthem down. But don't worry. It's not like he's got an army or anything. I went to Russia to look at buying a reposed
I c Van, which is a very trip the experience. Okay, maybe we're a little and he's not just great at making money, he's also an experence saving by paying almost nothing in taxes for three years and then actually nothing in Of course, there's always haters like to nitpick musk business methods. There are charges of unreported injuries, excessive hours, abusive conditions, injuries on the job, breathing toxic fumes over a hundred ambulance calls. I don't think that's correct. I
mean as literally living in the factory. Um if these, if those like toxic ferience, I'm breathing them exactly? Does Musk seem like a man who is inhaling toxic fumes? But Elon must also understands it all work and no play make X As a twelve a dull boy, and like any well adjusted person, his favorite pastime is spending twelve to fourteen hours a day on Twitter. So it made sense when Musk announced that he would buy the social media platform, and even more sense when the deals
spun out of control and crashed into an embankment. But Musk doesn't only use Twitter for fun. He uses to make the world a better place, or at least promised to. It's where he promised to solve world hunger and draftic, fight cold and fixed Flint's water and when a Thai soccer team was stuck in a cane, Elon even promised to rescue those kids from the guy who rescued. That's
why Musk is such a champion of free speech. If you can't randomly accuse someone who was saving people's lives of being a peto guy, does civil discourse even exists? Lelon Musk is dedicated to building a brighter future for old humanity. It's why he backed the most futuristic presidential candidate of It's why he's so dedicated to turning every aspect of our lives into a platform for his dumb jokes. From robots to cybernetic implants, to AI into space travel
to un entered social media. Elon Musk is building a future that humanity only imagined in the movies, and who wouldn't want to live there? You basically think about to hate humanity if you don't like that future. And that's why Elon Musk fruly is a visionary future man. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ears editions. Subscribe to The Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast