Elon Musk made his fourth look Tuesday on Joe Rogan’s podcast–and didn’t disappoint.
Talking on The Joe Rogan Expertise, the Tesla CEO admitted he nonetheless desires to battle Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, joked about Hamas (“Hummus? Chickpeas? Perhaps we should always lower off chickpea exports”), and spoke in-depth about his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, now X, together with a wild monologue on the woke “thoughts virus” and “zombie apocalypse” it threatens to usher in.
The pair had been consuming a whiskey-colored liquid and smoking cigars throughout their dialog, and donned costumes for the podcast’s Halloween episode.
Musk, sporting a silk scarf round his neck and a protracted jacket, described himself as “half-dressed because the wizard of Australia”—whereas Rogan wore a Puerto Rico baseball jersey and blond wig.
Throughout the practically three-hour episode, Musk mentioned his buy of the social media platform was a “recipe for hassle,” however that he went by with it as a result of he was anxious it was “having a corrosive impact on civilization.”
As proof of the obvious downward spiral Musk cited downtown San Francisco, including “a part of it’s the place it was situated … whereas I feel San Francisco is an attractive metropolis, in case you stroll downtown in San Francisco, proper close to the X headquarters, it’s a zombie apocalypse. I imply it’s tough. It’s loopy. You possibly can’t imagine it till you go there.”
Although he didn’t use the phrase “woke” as he has in previous discussions, Musk mused on the “thoughts virus” he claims is ending civilization.
“They are saying, ‘ Properly what philosophy led to that final result?’ And that philosophy was being piped to Earth,” Musk instructed Rogan.
“So, a philosophy that might be ordinarily fairly area of interest and geographically constrained, in order that the fallout space can be restricted, whereas successfully given an info weapon, info expertise weapon, to propagate what is basically a thoughts virus to the remainder of Earth and the result of that thoughts virus could be very clear in case you stroll across the streets of downtown San Francisco, it’s the finish of civilization.”
To ensure that the virus to propagate, Musk added, “it should suppress opposing view factors.”
Rogan and Musk described it as a “dying cult” and blamed obvious “extinctionists for propagating the extinction of humanity and civilization.”
Musk accused “outdated Twitter” of being “an arm of the federal government,” including the general public continues to be not well-versed on the diploma to which Twitter was like a “state publication.”
He mentioned the previous firm oppressed “any views that might be thought-about center of the street… however actually something on the suitable, I’m not speaking far-right, mildly-right, like Republicans had been suppressed at ten instances the speed of Democrats. That’s as a result of outdated Twitter was essentially managed by the far-left, fully managed by the far-left.
“San Francisco Berkeley is a distinct segment ideology, is there a spot that’s extra far left than San Francisco Berkeley? From their standpoint, all the things is to the suitable… they naturally oppressed something that didn’t agree with their views. That’s why I say it was an unintentional far-left info weapon.
“Silicon Valley… they created an info weapon that was then harnessed by the far left,” Musk mentioned. “All of a sudden the far left are handed a megaphone to Earth, an extremely highly effective expertise weapon.”
Musk mentioned X has made a “shift to the suitable” as a result of “all the things is to the suitable in case you’re far-left,” however mentioned he thought the social media platform was now sat firmly within the middle. He defended permitting terrorist organizations, together with the Taliban, on the platform as a result of X “ought to symbolize the collective acutely aware of humanity.”
It comes as The New York Times reviews a surge of misinformation and hateful speech has proliferated on the positioning since Musk’s takeover, citing analysis performed partly by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and a report from the European Commission.
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk share pizza.
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The pair completed their nearly three-hour chat over pizza whereas discussing the pitfalls of Instagram (“I feel it could actually make you type of depressed”) and whether or not the obvious cage battle with Zuckerberg is ever going to occur.
“I don’t want any time,” Musk mentioned of his preparation. “I’m prepared to do it anytime, anyplace, anyplace on this planet,” Musk said. “Zuck pulled out, he used the pull-method… he accused me of not being severe. I mentioned, ‘Hear, on the finish of the day, I am going to battle you anyplace, any the place, beneath any guidelines.’”
“I don’t assume he ought to battle me… I’m like 50 % heavier than him.”
Musk’s historical past with the podcast dates again to 2018, when he appeared on the present and smoked marijuana with Rogan. He additionally appeared on the present in 2020 and 2021.
