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Factually! with Adam Conover

Elon Musk Killed Free Speech

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)

Elon Musk is not a champion of free speech, and never has been. Here's why.

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0:00.0

This is a HeadGum Podcast.

0:03.0

So Elon Musk has been having a bad couple weeks.

0:08.0

He just held his hotly anticipated Wii Robot event.

0:11.0

Yes, that is actually what he called it and somehow the whole

0:14.8

thing was even faker than the Will Smith movie he ripped off. Not only were the

0:18.9

designs of Elon's cyber cab, Robovan and Robot directly lifted from a mediocre 20-year-old

0:25.4

sci-fi movie, the Cyber Cab didn't even get a demo on public streets.

0:30.2

Instead, it drove around the fake streets of the Warner Brothers movie Backlot.

0:35.8

And when Elon announced the release date, even he didn't sound so sure about it.

0:40.4

Well, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames.

0:43.0

But in 2026, so yeah, before 2027, let me put it that way.

0:53.0

Why does Elon sound like a teenager lying about when he'll get a school project done?

0:57.0

Oh, I'll get it done on Thursday, definitely before the weekend.

1:00.0

And did you hear Elon's own fans booing him?

1:02.9

When even you're sick of fans think you're full of shit,

1:05.1

you really have a problem.

1:06.5

But, you know, the stupidest and fakest part

1:09.3

of this entire demo was Elon's little robot buddies.

1:13.0

So you can have your own personal R2D2C3PO.

1:18.0

This would cost something like, I don't know, 20,000, $30,000.

1:22.0

Probably less than a car.

1:23.8

It'll be able to do anything you want,

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