I could only make it about 20 minutes in before I got tired of Elmo’s trying to stammer out excuses for his words and actions in a way that he thinks won’t make him look like a racist shithead.
My two takeaways are that I now believe him when he says he’s autistic, and that this interview probably would’ve gone better if he had been high on K that afternoon.
I was brave (and bored) enough to watch the whole thing.
It did not go well for Musk, at all. I felt that Lemon should have been more agressive in many respects, but he got his answers, then switched topic.
The answers were not pretty, and certainly not for Musk.
I kind of wish Lemon had humiliated him, ended the interview with Musk in tears, on the floor, in a ball in the corner, but that would be unkind. A man-child, is, after all, part child.
I think the simplest explanation was that since he was sponsoring Lemon’s show, Musk thought Lemon would ask him softball questions and puff up him and is platform. I mean who actively tries to humiliate their boss on the first day on the job?
Of course Lemon saw the purpose of the interview, as demonstrating his independence and demonstrating in stark terms the supposed free-speech ideal of X. As it turned out this was based on faulty assumptions, that Musk actually believed in free speech.
“Whether you’re headed to work, the mall, or just cruising, the Cybertruck’s impenetrable steel body will fully protect your tender feelings while literally everybody* has a good laugh at your expense.”
I hope you weren’t planning on needing your fingers after you get your cybertruck. Demonstration of how safe and effective trunk closing is at ~2:03 using carrots. Four of them.
Elon is like a robot or something in that interview. I just love that you can peel your carrots on the door, but eek, I predict at least one lawsuit for chopped off fingers someday.