Transcript of Joe Rogan - Elon Musk Explains his Flamethrower Idea
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0:00- one boom thank you thanks for doing0:03this man really appreciate it0:05hey welcome very good to meet you nice0:06to meet you too and thanks for not0:07lighting this place on fire you're0:09welcome0:10later how does one just in the middle of0:13doing all the things you do create cars0:16rockets all the stuff you're doing0:19constantly innovating decide to just0:22make flamethrower where have the time0:24for that well the flame I wouldn't put a0:27lot of time into the flamethrower the is0:30an off-the-cuff thing and so we're sort0:35of like it's sort of a sort of a hobby0:37company called the boring company which0:40started out as a joke0:43and we decided to make it real and and0:47take a tunnel under la and then they0:50then people other people asked us to dig0:52tunnels and so we said yes in a few0:56cases no event and then and then we have0:58a merchandise section that only has one1:00piece of merchandise at a time and we1:04started off with a cap and there was1:06only one thing on it was just boring1:08company.com slash cap or hat that's it1:12and then we sold the hats a little bit1:15limited edition I just said the boring1:17company and then I'm big fan of1:21Spaceballs the movie and in Spaceballs1:25yogurt goes through the merchandising1:28section and they have a flamethrower in1:32the merchandising section of space bulls1:36and eat like the kids love that one1:39best line when he pulls up the claim1:42throw it's like we should do a1:44flamethrower so we does anybody tell you1:48know does anybody go Elon maybe for1:52yourself but selling a flamethrower the1:55liabilities all the people you're1:57selling this device to what kind of1:59unhinged people are gonna be buying a2:01flamethrower in the first place do we2:02really want to connect ourselves to all2:04these potential arsonists yeah it's a2:07terrible idea to buy one look I said2:11don't buy this flamethrower2:14don't buy it that's what I said but2:16still people bought it yeah there's2:18nothing I can do to stop them2:20it's building awesome I said don't buy2:22it it's a bad idea how many did you make2:24you what it's dangerous it's got it's2:28wrong don't buy it2:30still people bought it I just couldn't2:33stop them how many did you make twenty2:35thousand and they're all gone in three I2:41think four days but it sold out in four2:43days are you gonna do a another run no2:48no that's it2:49yes well I said we would do twenty that2:52we did fifty thousand 50 thousand hats2:56at and and that was a million dollars3:00and I thought ok we'll we'll sell3:03something and have for 10 million and3:05that was twenty thousand flamethrowers3:07at five hundred dollars each they went3:12fast how do you have the time to do that3:16though I mean I understand that it's not3:18a big deal in terms of all the other3:20things you do but how do you have time3:21to do anything I just I don't understand3:23your time management skills I mean it3:27didn't spend much time on this3:29flamethrower I mean to be totally Frank3:31it's actually just a roofing torch with3:33an air rifle cover it's not a real3:36flamethrower which is why it says not a3:39flamethrower that's why we were very3:41clear this is not actually a3:43flamethrower and and and it also we were3:45told that various countries would would3:47ban shipping of it but they would not3:50they would ban flamethrowers so we very3:52to solve this problem for all the3:55customs agencies we labeled it not a3:57flamethrower did work is it effective I4:00don't know I think so yeah
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