The Daily Showography of Elon Musk | Sterling K. Brown

A mystery guest will tell us why lawn Musk was sent here from the future and from this is us here to talk about his brand new movie, Starling Cape Brown is joining us on the show. Everybody not right, So let's do this. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. First up, Scotland has just become the first country in the world to make tampons and pads free

to anyone who needs them. Yeah, that's amazing. Period products will now be given away in pharmacies and other public buildings, not to mention there are sheep everywhere in Scotland and those are pretty much just walking tampons, so this is working out. Meanwhile, America will continue its policy, which is that women are welcome to steal all the extra napkins

and Starbucks that they need. Moving on to some other international news, Australia has learned that its former Prime minister had secretly appointed himself to five other government positions without telling anyone. This is such a strange story. Yeah, because because it's one of those scandals that's like, is this a scandal? Not because I'm outraged, but I'm also kind of impressed apologism chose to do extra work and not tell anyone, How dare you? And also I'm voting for

you again. But for real though, that's not how government works, right. Just give yourself a job. You have to earn it by having your dad give you the job. Come on, there's politics here. In sports news. In sports news, the NBA has announced that, for the first time ever, they will not be playing any games on election day and instead will encourage their fans to go and vote. Yeah.

I think that's really good, I will say, or not not to sound cynical, but if the Timberwolves game is what was keeping you from voting, maybe, yeah, I think since there's no games on that night, the ESPN commentators they should cover voting like they cover the NBA. I won't just make it super interesting. Should be like Jeremy Wilkins coming up to the voting boot. Now it's his first season voting, he's really Oh no, he called it outside the bubble. That's gonna that's not gonna scare The

reps are not gonna like it at all. Let's see the replay on that one. John. So, this is a big NBA. And they told all the teams, they said, hey, all the teams in the NBA, you will not be playing basketball on Election Day. And the Knicks were like, oh, no, no problem. We don't play basketball every day. That's just what we we do. Oh. He has some weird celebrity news. Snoop Dogg is launching a breakfast cereal for kids called

Snoop Loops. Yeah, and you know the cereal is gonna be delicious, because no one knows good serial like someone who's permanently high. No one. Also, it's about time we got a chill cereal mascot, you know, I like this. Every every cereal mascot is high energy. They're like coked out. Now we have one who does not give a damn whether or not we eat his cereal. You know, it's just like try it today or don't. I get paid

either way. Bag. By the way, do you ever do you ever think about how Snoop has had one of the most amazing careers of all time, Like this is fantastic, but you have to admit he's really screwed over all the people who started loving him for his rap. You know, I'm glad he's had such a broad career, but you realize they are now parents who are telling their kids are like my favorite gangster rappers, Snoop Dogg, and their kids are like the serial guy Martha Stewart's friend I

loved you were cool dad. Anyway, let's move on to the big story of the day, and it's about climate change. The reason why hot in here is now considered a scientific study. Yes, all over the world governments are steadily taking action to reduce their combon emissions. In fact, just today President Biden signed the biggest climate change law in American history. It's it's that's everything. It it subsidizes electric cause, it funds wind and solar energy, and it changes the

name of summer to extra spring. Hopefully Mother Nature falls for that one. And the reason leaders worldwide have taken these steps is because every day we're seeing what the world could look like if climate change gets out of hand. I mean, just look at what's happening in Vegas. You know, Las Vegas, the city surrounded by deserts that are filled with buried mobsters, that place, well some of those bodies, Oh,

they're about to come floating back to life. Las Vegas is getting pounded with historic flooding in the wettest monsoon season they've seen in a decade. It's hard to tell this is the famous Las Vegas Strip, but that's Caesar's Palace right there, and that is the mirage. It's raining inside Planet Hollywood, pouring through the casino like fixtures holds the right underneath the high roller ferris wheel. The Las Vegas Strip has been swept by flash flooding. This rain

coming down so fast, so heavy. This is video from Las Vegas in a parking garage. It's a downpour right onto the gambling tables. You can see that car struggling to get through the water on a street. Yes, that is a man floating down the Vegas Strip because of the flesh flood waters. That guy's allegend. He's just like, yeah, so you see that Las Vegas, of all places, is getting flooded. And you know who I blame for this? All the bachelor party is going to those strip clubs

being like making rain. Look at what you did. I hope you're happy and rain rain too much. And if there's one thing we can all agree on, people, it's that we don't want casinos to flood alright, because can you imagine how hard it's going to be to evacuate those gamblers. The water level is rising. Yes, we're gonna be drowned any minute, which is just enough time for a couple more rooms. Come on, baby, come on, Daddy

could use someone floaties. Come on. So, yes, Las Vegas has been wetter than a butt crack at soul cycle. But it's not just Vegas. We've seen historic floods recently in St. Louis and Yellowstone in Kentucky. And this is the thing to remember about climate change. It's not just gonna make everything a little bit hotter. All right, It's gonna make all weather more extreme. The hot will get hotter, the wet will get wetter, the wind will get window

the wet will like swap places with the dry. Yeah, and then you you're gonna think that you're talking too hot. But then the heart will pull up its moss, gonna be like, I'm cold, and you'd be like, but we slept together. It's basically science. Are you're wondering, You're like, it's a bit of flooding. Is it that bad? Well? Over in California, things could get even worse than you think.

Now to the new warning on climate change, experts say it's only a matter of time before a megaflood hits California, displacing millions of people. A new study shows that climate change is increasing the likelihood of a cataclysmic flood hitting in the next fifty years. The flood could turn California's lowlands into an inland sea, putting parts of cities such as Sacramento, Fresno, and Los Angeles underwater. It happened Sacramento in eighteen sixty one. This is incredible and I really

didn't know much about this. Only five hundred thousand people lived in the Central Valley. Today it's thirty seven million thirty feet of water in all of Central Valley for weeks, arranged for forty three days, the equivalent of a trillion dollars in today's damage. They say the next one would probably be like a katrine at times five. Oh my god, Katrina times five. I was like, you carry the k that. The point is, it's bad and we can't lose Los Angeles.

And that's where America keeps all of his hot people. You know, also no offense. But if I'm caught in a mega flood the last place and lost people I want to be around. There is a bunch of l A actors. Can you imagine them? It's gonna be like, the flood is wiping away Los Angeles. Okay, I'm gonna try it again, but a little more introspective. The flood

is wiping away Los Angeles, and I never knew my father. Now, if you're thinking, who cares if America's underwater, I'll just escape to Europe, well be my guest, because you're gonna miss the wet when you get there. In the midst of a historic drought, Europes rivers are running dry in Germany, the Rhinos dropped so low some cargo ships can no

longer use it, with devastating effects for Germany's economy. In France, some parts of the Lower can now be crossed on foot, and then the Czech Republic, low water levels have revealed so called hunger stones, rocks carved centuries ago to get future generations a warning of impending famine. One such stone carried a chilling message from the early sixteen hundreds. If you can see me weep? Yeah, yeah, you hear that

right now. Europe's drought is so bad that you can walk across some rivers, which isn't just bad for the economy and the environment, it also puts people like Moses out of a job. Yeah, Like, I know, I won't part the waters that ye man? Yeah whatever man, climate change did this wise, and I get out of the way. I also don't know about you, but that hunger ston't shrieked me out. If you see me weep, that's dramatic. I didn't even know they had emo in the sixteen hundreds.

At the same time, though, you you've got to wonder about the person who decided to make these stones. No, because think about the whole poppy nation was stopping. Right. You've got one guys like I'll venture out to find more food, and other guys like I will russian our current stars. And there's one dude who's like, give me a hammer and a chisel. I'm gonna write a warning to people five years from now. Yeah, there's gonna be a good one. When they see when the water goes down,

they're gonna freak out. Hold on, hold on. And by the way, not all of those hunger stones of that poetic Yeah, that one's really like cryptic has a vibe. Some of those hung hunger stones they just tell you direct, Oh, ship, you got the screw you see my face. That means you're gonna die. Talk, get your offens and know everybody you're gonna die, and you're gonna die, and you're gonna die. Oh you would already looked dead, brother, you already ha ha.

By the way, if somebody sees Stonehead, you tell him he's ship. That dude. Don't be twenty bucks bullshit stone a y'all. Dad, All right, that's what the headlines. Before we go to break, it's time to check in on the weather. Fought about very own fantilic everybody. Yeah, very scarychised soul. What's the weather looking like, Trevor. I do not have time to do the weather today. My plate is full. I got like a million other things to do.

I'm sorry, what wait? Why are you so busy? Well? Look, I really admired what that Australian prime minister did, so I decided to give myself several other jobs here at the show. Okay, but you don't even do the one job I ask you to do, which is the weather. Thanks, But I can assure you that all of these other jobs are extremely important. Like I'm the new unlicensed therapist, I'm the screen time monitor. I'm the dry cleaner. By the way, how's that suit feeling? I made it extra dry?

Is that what that smell is? Wait? Are you on your mark here? Look at me? Okay? Looking care camera? All right? The shot is all wrong. As the camera supervisor, I have a very high standard. I'm gonna have to fix Cara. I got this, I got this, I got it. What you doing? That's defer? DESI? What are you doing? Are DESI? Okay? Now this is good. Trevor. Can you just pop up into the shot. No, I'm not. That's where I'm down. Yeah, no, just pop up into I can't What do you mean, what do you mean I

can't if I pop up? No, this is what you must come down. You have to. Yeah, yeah, I got it. No, no, Desi, Desi, no, no, sorry I lost you, Trevor. Yeah, I could see that. Just this was fun before you Okay, there you go. Can you just say crunched out? Okay, No, don't go. That's a little further, Desme. Just can you just find the frame? I can't do your job too. No, don't. You don't have to find my job, dest Just can you leave it the camera? You know, the camera person

was doing a great job. And then now, Desi, that's the shot. There it is. That's good enough, Desi. But Trevor, no, come on, you didn't even let me tell you about my favorite job. I got a whole other job that I didn't even get to tell you about. What is that? Well? I was also inspired by Scotland, so I appointed myself as the show's Czar of menstrual hygiene. What does that even mean? It means read damon for everyone audience, and oh yeah, he's a people in the face with guy

there gently use light new almost like new. What did you say gently? Usually don't worry about it. You can't just launched temple. You don't, des Ca you call you can't. Also, I'm Trevor noa now, so can you do? You can't beat no, no, no Deslon like everybody like, alright, when we come back, we're gonna figure out. We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna figure became became the way that welcome back to the day to show. Let's talk about

Elon Musk. You know, it feels like every day the richest man in the world isn't the news for something. He's buying Twitter. He's not buying Twitter. He's colonizing Mars, he's reinventing travel, and he's on a strict no Sun diets. The point is he's always doing something. But how did Elon Musk get this way? Well that's the subject of our latest daily show ography. What do you think of when you think of the future? Is it space travel, robots,

trucks with the word cyber and friend of them? Whatever your vision, there is one man working to make it a reality. He's part Thomas Edison, part tireman, part annoying dude in the group chat and is anything but your standard CEO. I changed my title to 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 techno king, but as a joke, and soon we'll

all be it served that, you know. Funny way, because while he may be an eccentric satellite launching terminally on line 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 transforms into an earthlike planet, dropped them nuclear weapons over the polls. 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 mining. Because Africa's resources are like free money for white people. Badly ability in 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 blast Arm, which started his lifelong love of inventing thing 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 a compact computer for three d 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 currents 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 twinies. Sadly,

his new toy wouldn't last long. I didn't really know how to drive for McLaren because it's like a difficult cart a dryer, and I floored it and the lane change on the black wheel Brooks and the costs 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 app your uncle had to use because Benmo and cash app won't work on as Nokia. Must took the money you made from that business and build an empire of cool lash ship rockets, its electric cars, solar farms, artificial intelligence, europe technology, and underground highways, all while dating celebrities and starting a record label to release his own b d M track down a Banker, All

the more impressive considering Must had clearly never heard music before. Yes, Elon Musk refuses to stainless Lane, much like a Tesla on autopilots downward is changing lands by itself. Tesla's groundbreaking cars Looting for Me brought unprecedented power range from sexiness 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 feed nothing like 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. Sh It, it just ran that red light over. In three years, um, the call will be able to take from point to points. Jesus, I think we're basically less than two years away from complete autonomy. Oh shit. We we had that 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 Teslent customer base next year. But Must can't stop drinking big even when he probably should. Oh my god, 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 count the Elon Lusk's McLaren. Must special brand of achievement is one of a totally

normal and healthy fan base around the world. But success didn't come easy. He had to overcome a lot of doubters, starting with himself. I don't want to give the impression that I thought ts there would be successful. From the beginning, I actually thought we would fail. We were only a few days from bankruptcy. It's 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 attitude and billions of dollars in government subsidies. Today Musk isn't merely the richest man in the world. Is net worth is 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 any thing. I went to Russia to look at buying a reposed i CVN, which is a very trip

the experience. Okay, maybe we're a little and he's not just great at making them, he's also an expertence saving it 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 it's literally living in the factory.

Um if these, if those like toxic fumes, I'm breathing them exactly? Does Musk seem like a man who is inhaling toxic fumes? But Elon Musk also understands it all working no play make X as a twelve a dull boy, and like any well adgen the 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 deal spun out of control and crashed into an

em back. But Musk doesn't only use Twitter for funny 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 COVID 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 petal guy. Does civil

discourse even exists? The Elon 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 for robots to cybernetic implants, to AI into space travel two unfettered 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, I think about to hate humanity if you don't like that future. And that's why Elon Musk fruly is a visionary future man runs. Because when we come back, sterling K. Brown will be joining me on the show Don't Go Away, Welcome Back to the Days. So my guests Mike as Emmy winning actor and producer Sterling K. Brown. He's gonna talk about playing a megachurch pasta in his new film Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul, which will be in

fancies and streaming on Peacock September two. Please welcome Starling K Brown, Miss Dublin k Bride, what's going on? Brother on, what's going on? Wow? Man, it's nice to see you. Look you look like you're living your best life. I appreciate it. Feel good. I'm trying to grow my hair out like you see it. It's looking looking like the Black Bonds. Man. Let's let's talk a little bit about about the movie. Let's do it. Um. A lot of people know you from This is Us first of all

before we got into the movie. Congratulations, congratulations on wrapping it up and stuff. Because a lot of people were sad that the show ended, but they appreciate it that it ended well because there's a lot of pressure. You know, people watch Game of Thrones and like what the hell happened? People watch, like, know it can happen, can happen? Happen? Anybody?

You little worry? Did you know it end well? I knew it was gonna end because he had a plan to end it in six seasons all along from the beginning, like the story was complete. He knew where Rebecca was going to be at the hand, like you knew, like there's this whole timeline that he had from the beginning of season one of how things were going to play out. So there was a beginning, middle, and the end that made me feel secure as an actor. Okay, okay, I

like that. And then and then you decided I've done this. I've cried a lot. I've cried a lot. You have a lot of visine up in the your Boy. Yeah, I don't know if it's a viazine. I feel like you can do it. I can do it. No, but I'm saying to get my eyes back clear, get them back. I was like, I just wanted doing people to think that you like faking it. Yeah, it's really um. And then and then this movie, I was like, Wow, starting doing doing comedy now, Okay, no, it's amazing. It's amazing.

I'll tell you why it's amazing. I'll tell you what amazing. Tell you I've been lucky enough to meet you in real life, and you're one of the funniest, most charismatic people I know. But everyone on TV knows you. You you you know, you stoic and you know, and then here you are playing a pasta in I mean, the movie is ridiculous. It's extremely funny. Tell me, tell me how the project came about when someone who came up

to you and said, you know what's starting. I want you to play a pasta of a megachurch that's involved in the scandal and it's trying to bring it all back. Yeah. Yeah, So my manager read it first and then she said, you should check it out. I think it's something you'd like because I also sole variety and doing something completely different than randall right. They did a short you can find a short Hunk for Jesus short on YouTube. So I watched the short and I was like, this ship

is hysterical. I would like to do something hysterical. So then I read the script and it's funny, and it's also deeper than just being funny too, because it's like a critique of the church for people who actually love and grew up in these mega churches, which I did, but also say there's something that can be improved quite possibly definitely, and something's something I always talk about. Anyone

who's grown up in the church knows this. They're there are many aspects of religion that have been abused by certain people for their own games, you know, So my mom would complain about My mom is one of the most religious people I've ever known in my life. I would go to church six or seven times in a weekend and my mom would say, we're not going back to that church. And I'll say why, and she'd be like, why? Why does that pass to have a Ferrari? Now, what's

going on? Where's the ferrari coming from? He doesn't have another job, so where's the ferrari coming from? I don't see anything in the Bible about ferrari's, do you know what I'm saying? And and and so what's what's interesting in this is you're not poking funded religion. You're talking about people who use people's love of religion to make a buck. That's right. I feel like all human institutions are valuable, whether they're secular or non secular. You know

what I'm saying. There's messages that can be gleaned from them that are important. You take the good, you leave the rest. Like you can't find a perfect church, you can't find a perfect government, you know. So that's the way I do. And so my band is more spiritual than religious at this particular time, because I just pick and tooth. My mom praised for my immortal soul because she thinks I'm going, are we cool? That's chick because she loved me. It's a it's a it's a power

it's a power house team. You know, you're playing the pasta. You've got Regina Hole who's playing you know, the first Lady of the church. She is one of the funniest human beings have exist, really is. And then it's produced. I didn't know this, and so it's produced by Daniel Coloya and Jordan's him power house. We got a good thing.

We got a good tinge. It feels good. So so talk me through this because in the click that we're watching that you know you're seeing it, it looks a little bit like a documentary, but the film is is mockumentary style. It's mocumentary style. What happens is the scandal happens before the movie starts, and we're trying to figure

out what the scandal is. The pastor and the First Lady decided to decide to hire a documentary film crew to sort of chart their sentence back to prominence, or so they hope, because the documentary film because was like, all right, I want to see what's going on with these people and what makes them tick, whether they get back to their church or not. Maybe secondary. So what he hopes that the use the documentary for it. How many takes did you did you have to redo because

you were laughing at what Regina was saying. I'm pretty good at not breaking. Really, yeah, I'm pretty good at not breaking. I don't know what it is because, like I feel like when an actor is being funny, I don't want to ruin their take. You understand what I'm saying. So if I break, it's like Nigro, I gotta do this over again. Right. But if you stay in it and just keep the vibe going and feed the more, you never know what kind of like oxygen their fire

needs to like burn even hotter. So that's that's all you're trying to do, is just feed the fire. Okay, okay, So, so do you feel like loud? Do you feel like you have a little bit of like this pasta and you do like, did you pick up some of that that that mega church swag? I would say so a little bit. He likes his clothes. I'm starting to like clothes more. Yeah, yeah, I did. You're funny story. My son growing up in the nineties, I used to sack a lot like size stirs these six, you know shorts,

even though my waist is like a thirty two. My son now when he sees me sagging, he's like, Dad, people can see your under. My son's eleven, people can see your under and literally comes up to me, pulls my pants out and holds them up at their waist. That's crazy. It's a generational it's a generational ship. So now you know, people try to put your boy in like type fit, Like this stuff is type right. Um, but I'm starting to get used to close it fit.

I came home one day after o J and I had like some new clothes and my mama said, well, you're finally wearing clothes that fits your body. I'm selling that. You also have one of the strongest topless games. You take your shirt off in this movie. No, no, no, this is like one of those things where you just have to give the credit. You take your top off in this movie, and you are one of the most ripped,

not just pastas but human beings. I was like, wow, Sterling, you've been you've been, You've been holding out on us. You looking good. I appreciate it. Man. I try to take care of myself That's that's it. You know what I'm saying. I got an eleven year old and a seven year old, and my get My whole plan in life is to be able to play with them as long as I can. I waited a little longer to have these kids. I'm enjoying them so much. They have energy, so you have to have energy to keep up. That's

that's the whole game. Play the man, this gut over here. Thank you so much for joining me on the show again. It great to see you. Such a parting movie. You can't tell everybody man try to copt the film over right back, don't go away? Thank you? So I how about sid when I starting to life? Before we go? Before we go? Remember remember today is poll worker Recruitment Day, and it's especially important this year where poll worker shortages

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