Joe Rogan - Elon Musk Explains his Flamethrower Idea

- one boom thank you thanks for doing this man really appreciate it hey welcome very good to meet you nice to meet you too and thanks for not lighting this place on fire you're welcome later how does one just in the middle of doing all the things you do create cars rockets all the stuff you're doing constantly innovating decide to just make flamethrower where have the time for that well the flame I wouldn't put a lot of time into the flamethrower the is an off-the-cuff thing and so we're sort of like it's sort of a sort of a hobby company called the boring company which started out as a joke and we decided to make it real and and take a tunnel under la and then they then people other people asked us to dig tunnels and so we said yes in a few cases no event and then and then we have a merchandise section that only has one piece of merchandise at a time and we started off with a cap and there was only one thing on it was just boring company.com slash cap or hat that's it and then we sold the hats a little bit limited edition I just said the boring company and then I'm big fan of Spaceballs the movie and in Spaceballs yogurt goes through the merchandising section and they have a flamethrower in the merchandising section of space bulls and eat like the kids love that one best line when he pulls up the claim throw it's like we should do a flamethrower so we does anybody tell you know does anybody go Elon maybe for yourself but selling a flamethrower the liabilities all the people you're selling this device to what kind of unhinged people are gonna be buying a flamethrower in the first place do we really want to connect ourselves to all these potential arsonists yeah it's a terrible idea to buy one look I said don't buy this flamethrower don't buy it that's what I said but still people bought it yeah there's nothing I can do to stop them it's building awesome I said don't buy it it's a bad idea how many did you make you what it's dangerous it's got it's wrong don't buy it still people bought it I just couldn't stop them how many did you make twenty thousand and they're all gone in three I think four days but it sold out in four days are you gonna do a another run no no that's it yes well I said we would do twenty that we did fifty thousand 50 thousand hats at and and that was a million dollars and I thought ok we'll we'll sell something and have for 10 million and that was twenty thousand flamethrowers at five hundred dollars each they went fast how do you have the time to do that though I mean I understand that it's not a big deal in terms of all the other things you do but how do you have time to do anything I just I don't understand your time management skills I mean it didn't spend much time on this flamethrower I mean to be totally Frank it's actually just a roofing torch with an air rifle cover it's not a real flamethrower which is why it says not a flamethrower that's why we were very clear this is not actually a flamethrower and and and it also we were told that various countries would would ban shipping of it but they would not they would ban flamethrowers so we very to solve this problem for all the customs agencies we labeled it not a flamethrower did work is it effective I don't know I think so yeah

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Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 06 2018