Episode 988: The Technological versus The TechIllogical
Air Date: October 28, 2026 | Host: Bob Metz
Clip (The Jetsons S01E04 The Space Car):
Hi, Mr. Orbit. We're finally going to get a new car.
New car. Ha ha ha ha! The way they build 'em today, you're lucky to get two million miles out of one. Come into the storeroom, honey. I got just the car for you.
I'll drive, dear.
Ah, thanks, honey, but some other time, huh?
Please, I've got my learner's permit with me.
Alright, okay, honey, but take it easy. Remember, the life you save may be your husband's.
You know, George, the controls look different.
Ah, sure, honey, sure they do. Now, just be calm and press that little one on the left. It activates the horizontal power cluster.
I know, George.
Not that one, the left one! Uh-oh!
Poor Jetson. She's learning to drive, and he's learning what fear is.
Level off! Level off!
You don't have to tell me, George. The other morning when I was out shopping with Grace.
Oh, my! Oh, my! Right turn! Right turn!
Well, you know how she is at the wheel. Oh my! I forgot the Jupiter Avenue turn-off. Why must husbands always make fun of their wives driving?
It helps to hold down the panic!
Well, if that's the way you feel about it, here, you take over.
Ah! Thanks, honey.
Alright, alright, you pull over to the nearest roof.
You let me handle this, Jane. Don't say a word.
Alright, alright, let me see your license.
Sure, officer. But what was I doing?
Only 2500 in a 1250 zone.
Why, that's impossible!
Jane, please! She's kind of upset, officer. Sir, sir.
Never mind. You can tell it to the judge.
Bob Metz:
Welcome everyone. It is Wednesday, October 28th, 2026. I'm Bob Metz, and this is Just Right. Broadcasting around the world and online. Join us for an hour of discussion that's not right wing. It's just right.
Flying cars have long been a cartoon in science fiction fantasy. But when a fantasy like that suddenly becomes reality, the question begs asking, how was this made possible? And the answer is surprisingly simple and easily understood and remembered, especially after you hear what we have in store for you today. Following on the heels of last week's broadcast about Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged, for us, the timing of Elon Musk's demonstration of his quote unquote flying car could not have been better.
Because this was a living real life demonstration of a John Galt who has emerged from Galt's Gulch and visually delivered his own version of Galt's speech in a way that few could ignore. And apparently, and much to my very pleasant surprise, I was not alone in perceiving this connection, as we shall discover right after our reminder that you can write us at feedback@justrightmedia.org. Hear us on WBCQ and on Channel 292 Shortwave. Follow and like us on your favorite podcast platform, and visit us at justrightmedia.org where you can access all of our social media links, archived broadcasts, and the support button that makes it easy for you to support the show. Because as always, your financial support is appreciated and is what makes this show possible.
You know, it's remarkable how a simple technological demonstration, I mean simple in terms of it being a demonstration, not necessarily simple on the tech side, but how this has set into motion a cultural, political, and philosophical debate, once again, which we could categorize as being between the left and the right. For me, the most significant thing about Musk's demonstration was what it symbolized to each side of the political polarity, offering those of us on the right yet another opportunity to expose the irrationality and hatred of those on the left. And yes, I do mean outright hatred. I mean, you couldn't pick a more innocuous and friendly event, like an unprecedented flying car demonstration that you'd think would be appreciated and admired by all, and still, an army on the left goes out of its way to denounce both the invention and its creator, Elon Musk.
We'll have some fun with exposing, denouncing and ridiculing that group as our show progresses later today. But first, picking up on our broadcast last week regarding Ayn Rand and the theme of her novel, Atlas Shrugged, here is a remarkable reaction to Elon Musk and his flying car as posted to X.com on the same day of Musk's demonstration by Brivael Le Pogam. And I quote,
"In 1957, a Russian immigrant published a novel of more than a thousand pages built around one question. What happens if the people who make the world run simply stop? Its title is Atlas Shrugged. In France, it's called La Grève, The Strike. It wasn't even translated into French until 2011. That tells you something. This morning I think Elon Musk wrote the sequel.
"Ayn Rand was born Alyssa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. As a teenager, she watched Bolshevik soldiers walk into her father's pharmacy and seize it in the name of the people. Her family lost everything, not to a competitor, to a committee. She fled to America in 1926 and spent the rest of her life writing about one distinction, those who create and those who seize.
"In Atlas Shrugged, America was sliding into decline, not because of war, but because of rules. Year after year, a growing class of bureaucrats, regulators, and planners decides that production must be controlled, shared fairly, and frozen. They never build anything. They issue directives. The worst one freezes every worker in his job and forces every inventor to hand over his patents for the public good. And one by one, the people who make the country run start disappearing. The best engineers, the industrialists, the inventors. An oil man sets his own wells on fire before vanishing, and the whole country keeps repeating a question it doesn't understand. Who is John Galt?
"John Galt is the man behind the disappearances. He has convinced the creators to go on strike. They withdraw to a hidden valley in the Colorado Mountains, where everyone keeps what they make and trades freely, and they let the world find out what it looks like without them. The lights go out in New York. The gray men are left alone with their directives and discover that a directive has never produced a single kilowatt.
"The strike wasn't about money. It was about consent. Rand's insight is that the system that captures the creators runs on their cooperation. It needs them to keep producing so it has something to redistribute. The bureaucrat is a parasite who needs a host. Remove the host, and he's exposed as what he always was. Useless.
"This morning, Musk announced that next year he will give one of his own SpaceX shares to every kid in America, quote unquote the first of many. And here's what's fascinating. It's the strike. Run in reverse. Rand's creators withdrew. Musk stays. He keeps building rockets, satellites, AI. But instead of walking away from the system, he walks around it. The value goes straight from the builder to the citizen. No ministry, no agency, no committee in the middle.
"Rand had to make the creators disappear to prove the bureaucrats were useless. Musk doesn't need to disappear. He just needs to stop routing value through them. Same result. The gray men are left standing in the middle of a pipe nobody uses anymore.
"Rand's strike has a flaw her critics never stop pointing out that ordinary people are left behind. The creators retreat to their valley. The rest of the country sits in the dark. Musk's version fixes that. He isn't taking the creators out of the world. He's bringing the world into the valley. Every kid in America becomes a shareholder in the machine, not a spectator of the strike, a participant.
"That's the alliance being formed right now, builders and citizens, directly, with nothing in between, and the only people who lose that deal are the ones who never built anything.
"Why now, and not in 1957? In Rand's time, the strike was a fantasy. You couldn't produce at scale without the state's permission, and you couldn't reach every citizen without its pipes. In 2026, one founder can build rockets, run a global network from orbit, and pledge equity to seventy-three million children in a single post. AI will soon do in seconds what a ministry does in years. The tools of the strike finally exist, and they don't require anyone to leave.
"For seventy years, who is John Galt was a shrug, a way of saying nothing can be done. In the book, the strike ends when the creators decide the road is clear and walk back into the world to rebuild it. That's the scene we are watching. Not a man leaving, a man coming back with a gift for every child.
"The gray men are about to discover what Rand promised them 70 years ago, a world that no longer needs them."
End quote.
And of course, Ayn Rand was perhaps best known for her advocacy of capitalism, which was the first economic system that popped into the mind of Ben Shapiro as he reacted to the flying car, which we shall hear on this side of our upcoming bumper. And on the return side, both America's Glenn Beck and the UK's Jake Monroe in their own independent podcast of October 16 and 17 zeroed in on the cultural significance of Elon's flying car.
So without much further ado, the next voice you will hear is that of Elon Musk himself, as presented in Ben Shapiro's October 16 podcast.
Clip (Ben Shapiro, October 16 2026):
Elon Musk: You're going to see the results of what happens when you have a collaboration with the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company. And this is the culmination of incredible work by Tesla and SpaceX engineers working closely together to make something that you haven't seen in any movie. That's better than any James Bond car. Better than, well, I don't know. I've never seen anything like this. So when I suggested this to the team, I thought, am I crazy? Maybe. Maybe a little bit.
Ben Shapiro: And the answer is a little bit crazy, is what gets things done here in America. Now, what Elon was doing here is what markets do with everything. Free markets. They make things cooler and cheaper and better. And sure, you're not going to be driving one of these around on the road, because frankly, what would you do with it? Right? You're stuck in traffic, you hit the button, and suddenly your coffee is all over your face.
But what exactly is the purpose of this? Number one, it's an engineering flex, right? It shows what science can do. And two, Elon is making the case in physical form that Tesla and SpaceX should be brought together as a company. That's something that Elon has been promoting.
But what makes all of this possible? Free available pools of capital in a deregulated economy. That's what distinguishes American markets from Europe. Those enormous, ready pools of capital. Elon is using those pools of capital to do awesome and cool things. And it's not evil materialism that robs your soul to say that this is cool. I've noticed many of the same people who are out there saying that capitalism is somehow emptying of the human soul, are out there celebrating the coolness of this. Because guess what? Saying it's cool for a car to fly doesn't make you an evil materialist, it makes you a human.
Meanwhile, the left, of course, is attacking Elon. They've been attacking Elon for years here. Do you remember when AOC said that Elon was unintelligent? AOC is one of the dumber politicians on planet Earth. Here she was insulting Elon Musk.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen, or witnessed. Which, you can probably even glean that from watching these people on TV.
Ben Shapiro: She's not the only one. Ro Khanna, a person who is worth what, 250 million dollars because of familial wealth, I believe. He says that Elon is bad because he's not giving his money to build libraries. Like for because we need libraries. I promise you that the world is not in dire need of more libraries as much as it is in need of massive innovation.
Ro Khanna: It's this lack of social obligation. I was in New York, I saw the Rockefeller Center, whatever else you think of about Rockefeller. He funded the university I went to, University of Chicago. He funded all of these public libraries and museums, so did Carnegie.
Unknown Speaker: Believed in giving something like 6% of his income to charity from an early age.
Ro Khanna: I didn't know that. And you look at his plaque that was in the sort of Rockefeller Center, and he talks about how he's just a custodian of the money and he really will be judged by his public impact. And you don't have today's founders creating libraries and universities. I mean, they're trying for their own immortality. They're trying to get to Mars. There's not a sense that they need to care about what happens in Lordstown, Ohio.
Ben Shapiro: Again, all of this is ridiculous. It turns out that it helps people in Lordstown, Ohio, innovation, economic growth, new and better products and services for cheaper. The stuff capitalism does.
It turns out that Elon is keeping tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people employed. He is ensuring that tons of people get better products. He's ensuring safety, by the way. There are always these stories that are attempting to undermine innovation by suggesting, for example, oh, a full self-drive went wrong somewhere. Let me explain. Human driving is so much worse than full self-drive, it is not even close.
Technology is amazing. It's great. And by the way, if everybody were on full self-drive, we would be saving something like 50,000 lives a year in the United States. But naturally have complete useless people like Senator Elizabeth Warren, who by the way is very wealthy because she owns a bunch of rental properties in Oklahoma. She's out there suggesting that the only reason that Elon is wealthy is because the economy is rigged. Well, maybe he's wealthy because he has founded several extraordinarily successful companies. That would be the big thing.
Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren: Elon Musk has more money and more wealth than anyone in human history. I want to be clear. This is not just some fluke. It is a feature of a rigged economy. Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill cut health care for millions of Americans to give guys like Elon bigger tax breaks.
Ben Shapiro: No, that's actually not what happened. But in any case, this is all just a case that is being made by like the Elizabeth Warrens and the Ro Khannas and the AOCs for gigantic wealth seizures with the idea that the government's gonna do a better job with that money than anybody else, which is a lie. It's not true. It's not true.
California right now is considering Proposition 40. Proposition 40 is a gigantic wealth tax. The Wall Street Journal writes "its premise is that any and all private wealth constitutes an illegitimate diversion of resources away from the state. This is foreign to America's political tradition, in which property rights are a foundation of our liberty. The tax is entirely redistributive and punitive. And in this regard, it's philosophical radicalness is underappreciated."
But that's the entire premise. Again, the premise for all these people is that somehow wealth confiscated from the people who create and innovate is better in the hands of the government. And it's not true.
Clip (Glenn Beck, October 16 2026):
Glenn Beck: Yesterday, Elon Musk came out and said, Yeah, I decided to combine the car company with SpaceX, and here's what we have. And it's now driving up a straight wall and now upside down. And then flies exactly like Marty McFly's DeLorean. I mean, that is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. And now in slow motion, it shows. Isn't that the flying DeLorean? Jason, Ricky?
It's absolutely incredible. It's one of the most incredible things.
Wow. So as it's driving up, it starts, like a normal car, and then it drives up this curve, and it's now vertical. It's not horizontal. And it's driving like at 25 miles an hour, and it's driving vertical. And then it comes up to the top and it runs out of road, and it looks like it's free-falling and spinning down, and the jets are actually controlling it to level it out and then land the car. It's unbelievable.
I just love Elon Musk. I love, I think he is the most amazing man alive today. He is Nikolai Tesla. Elon Musk is the guy with the ideas. Elon Musk is the guy who's saying, no, this is the way we do it. SpaceX is his. The car company is his. And he said, I decided to put these two together, and I went to them and I said, Let's make a flying car. And he said, it might be because I'm crazy. But no, it's because I think Elon Musk is the quintessential American dreamer. I haven't seen an American dreamer like this.
You know what the difference is with America and all other countries? All other countries, and we were becoming like this until him. All other countries tell you no, there are limits. You can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this. Elon Musk says, why not? And he does it. And even in the intro, when he's saying this may not work. And so he does it anyway.
There's nobody that takes these kinds of risks. And that's what Americans were. We were risk takers.
I think he is one of the most important human beings on the planet today because of what he's done for liberty, for the republic, for freedom, for free speech, for believing in no boundaries again. That was the thing about America. We didn't believe in boundaries.
I mean, I guess it's just like the eight-year-old kid in me that is so excited about this, but I just I'm so excited that we're inventing again. I'm so excited that we're exploring again, that we're doing these amazing things. This is what America is.
Clip (Jake Munro, October 17 2026):
Jake Munro: They will stare you dead in the eyes and say that white people have no culture. And then, meanwhile, white people kick flip in a fucking car over other cars. Why? Because we fucking can. That is white culture. That is white excellence. Why? Because we can. Shout out to America for being needlessly epic.
Elon Musk has released, just unveiled the new Tesla model. I think it's called the Roadster, I think it's called. Aside from the practicality of this, like how could this possibly be applied, right? What's the practical application of these things? And I was curious as well, I looked it up. And apparently there is no plan for this to be used on the streets.
Why can it do that? Why did it do that? Why is this a demonstration? Because this is America and this is white culture. Simple as that. You've got these low IQ dips that will stare you straight in the eyes and say, white people have no culture with their stupid accents. Man, white people ain't got no culture. They ain't got no culture. They will stare you dead in the eyes and say that white people have no culture. And then, meanwhile, white people kick flipping a car over other cars. Why? Because we can. That is white culture. That is white excellence. Why? Because we can.
So this Tesla car that we're seeing doing flips and driving upside down is not to be used on the road. Cannot be used on the road. Which begs the question, what's the point? To which the answer is fuck you. Because we can. America, baby. White America. Why? Because we can.
So the key pressurized system is a high pressure storage of gas. It's carbon fiber overwrapped pressure vessels, or what they refer to as COPVs. Not very interesting. However, it is nitrogen. It's compressed nitrogen. Now, the question I had was, okay, so once you've used all the compressed nitrogen gas, and you've gone through it, what happens then? Well, apparently, the car can repuff itself. It actually uses ambient air to repressurize these gas canisters, apparently. Which is the most insane technology I've ever heard in my fucking life.
What has Elon Musk been talking to that gave him the keys to this level of technology?
Bob Metz:
That's a great question, and believe it or not, there is a great answer. It's not about who or what Elon Musk has been talking to, but more about who and what must stop listening to or talking to. Get a load of this October 14 X post shared by Larry Elder, and I quote,
Larry Elder: "A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described his first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life. At NASA, a design change required three meetings, two committees, a review board, and six to eighteen months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said, if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday.
"He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
"Within six months, he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last five years at NASA. Not because he was working harder, because the time between having an idea and testing it collapsed from months to hours. The same brain, the same knowledge, a different operating system.
"He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor Engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
"He told an interviewer, I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way. The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. Same engineer produces 10 times more at SpaceX than NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work."
End quote.
Or in other words, NASA had a completely different culture than that of SpaceX. And I can speak from years of experience that committees are simply incapable of doing anything a competent individual can do. And when there is a committee that has produced some kind of measurable result, it's always the result of one or two people on that committee doing all the work. Never about a collective or group effort doing the work. If anything, the collective generally hinders the individual, and this seems to be a psychological pattern of human interaction that encompasses much more than simple electoral politics.
But isn't it fascinating how Musk's flying car demo caused such powerful reactions, all essentially centered on some cultural value or identity? And it's always some kind of conflict between the collective and the individual.
But returning our attention to SpaceX and Elon Musk coming up next, two Canadian podcasters who seem to appreciate American culture more than America's left do, with Matt Ross on this side of the bumper once again zeroing in on the cultural identity issue. While on the return side of the bumper, Paul Chato does his own version of the lefties losing it by sarcastically sharing various social media posts made by quote unquote some of the douchebags reacting to the event.
And while you're listening to these various negative reactions to Musk's invention, see if you can spot what almost every one of them has in common.
Clip (Matt Ross, October 18 2026):
Matt Ross: I've been watching some pretty cool videos lately that have been pretty inspiring, so I wanted to talk about some more positive stuff today. There's a lot of good things happening in the world that I think it's important for me to point out.
I hear a lot of people talking about how people like myself and Europeans that came to Canada and America, became Canadian and American, that we have no culture, and then I watch a guy like Elon Musk kick flipping a car over a car, and I see the future happening right now, and I see just how cool that is, and you try, you have to sit here and tell me that we don't have any culture.
When you look at exactly what America has accomplished in the last 250 years, and you look at the reason why people like Elon Musk thrive in places like America because America really wants the individual to do well. They're set up in a system where they encourage people to pursue their passions in life, pursue what makes them happy, and the actual laws, the Constitution are set up with freedom of speech and freedom of expression and freedom to defend yourself, are set up in a way that also encourages people to actually go for it, to actually strive to become the best version of themselves that they possibly can be.
And you see that in so many different realms and places. And it's not just the big events like Elon Musk doing a kickflip in a car over a car. and seeing just how cool innovation can be. I know there's a lot of good and bad things about innovation, but just like any tool, things can be used for good and they can be used for bad.
Like, okay, so we have no culture, fair enough. I can live with your assessment there, but Canada or Europe or Africa or the Middle East. I would like to see you create a car that could do a kick flip over another car. What are you doing that's so great and so innovative? And what are some of the cool things that are happening in your country?
When you think about how cool America has been and is, you have to think about all the different innovations that we've gotten from America, and it starts all the way back with Henry Ford. That was one of the first major changes in the world. Creating the Model T and having the line created so it can build a car for every American. And as far back as you go, you can see all these great Americans and great American innovation, and how they've always constantly been pushing things forward and have been constantly changing what's going on in the world.
And the other thing is America's also been a haven. Now, this can be a good thing and a bad thing, but there was this really great story I heard of this lady from Iran. And it starts off very sad, but it ends pretty damn happy. Basically, what happened when she was 14 years old, her dad sold her as a bride to an older gentleman, 45 or 55 years old. And she was like, What's going on here? Why do I have to do this? And her grandmother, who actually experienced Iran before the revolution, knew this was wrong and smuggled her out of Iran.
She went to America, started a new life, became an apostate, and basically has spent the rest of her life thanking and loving America and warning America against the dangers of the philosophy and the ideology she came from in Iran.
And you see this type of story all the time. More recently, I talked about this French dude who became a tech billionaire, talking about how if it wasn't for America and for him getting to San Francisco and being able to apply the American principles to his own life and strive and believe that you can build yourself up from nothing and go for it. He wouldn't be where he is. And he's out here trying to warn America and Americans against the dangers of socialism and communism because he comes from France, and we all see what's happening in that country right now. France is burning because it's been enriched by multiculturalism.
And you see story after story after story about somebody coming from another country coming to America, wanting to be American, and being able to find a new life and a new lease on life. And there's so many stories like that. Obviously, there's many stories of people that's coming over and just to mooch on America. I don't appreciate that at all, and I don't appreciate that in Canada at all either.
Canada used to have a similar vibe to America Where people thought they could come to Canada and build up a beautiful life and build yourself up from the bottom, and that's kind of disappeared in Canada. We no longer really have that dream in Canada anymore because it's been stripped away through taxation, through the deletion and erasure of our history, through us being told to be ashamed of what we've come from and what our ancestors did, and for us to be apologists and apologize to people all the time.
And of course, what are you gonna do when you're like, okay, so Canada's not working for me, they don't really have the same principles as me. They don't want to strive like I want to strive. Well, who does want to strive like I want to strive? Who does have the principles that I appreciate? And then they look no further than their neighbor in America, and they see that there's a country over there that are willing to help them become the best version of themselves that they possibly can. And how do you know that? Because Americans and America has done it for centuries.
We are all influenced by America, and the whole world still is influenced by America. A lot of people have forgotten that the reason why there is so many great things and greatness in America is because of the principles it stands on, and without those principles that they defend with their second amendment, you wouldn't see the amount of greatness that you do, and that's why you don't see in Canada, you don't see people creating even a car. We don't even have a Canadian car that's been built.
Clip (Call Me Chato, October 16 2026):
Paul Chato: I'm sure you've now all seen this clip. I mean, about a million times, but I can't get enough of it. What an insane show. Elon claimed it was a flying car, it's actually more like a leaping car. Did it need to do that flippity do part in the air? No, but come on, it was awesome.
No way is this thing legal, though. Elon said that he's going to sell variations of it, and if someone has their own landing strip at home, well, you can have a lot of fun with the kids with this.
But that's not what I wanted to talk about. There are implications to building this amazing car. It will prevent the poor from getting food. It will end the building of affordable housing. All global ecological initiatives will be officially cancelled. It will endanger hundreds of species on the brink of extinction.
Is all that a fair trade for this car? Fuck yeah!
Mere moments after this car was unveiled, the fun suckers hit social media. Here's a sampling of some of the douchebags. Dr. Andreas Krieg wrote, or some foreigner, "The US increasingly epitomizes hypercapitalist showmanship, a circus of clowns selling spectacle as innovation with little added value to humanity. Europe still has a sense of class, engineering with purpose, creating things people actually want, need, and can use. Spectacle versus substance."
You cruel bastard. The Tesla, leaping rocket roadster, has got nothing on your brand new revealed Citroën C2V. Wow. That's hot.
"People literally just want to be able to afford to eat, heat their homes. Nobody wants this." Says Amy, Queen of Aerobics. Maybe you should check if your tight gym shorts are going up your butt crack. Is this all you've got, Scotty? People just want health care. "This would make a great ambulance, you moron!"
Alfredo gave us. "In what scenario, as just necessary."
What's with all you cocked guys? Necessary is not the point. It never is. We make stupid shit because it's cool. You should be ashamed to be a guy.
Jean Francois Garripe said, "I hate to be the Parti Pupare, but people will die from Zeis."
Hey, Frenchie! You might want to put out all those fires out, burning Paris down started by illegal immigrants first.
Colin sort of liked it, "But I'm saying I don't understand why. What problem is that solving?"
You're the problem it's solving, Colin. Deathly dull twats like you.
"Oh, this guy has enough money to end world hunger. But instead of doing that, he makes flying cars. Priorities," says Sajota.
Young Zoomer gave us "How does help the average American struggling to make ends meet. Does this owe anything to help bring down the cost of living or increase stagnant wages? I could not possibly care less about that retarded piece of flying metal."
Hey, Elon was just going to build a plant near you, but not after this. Keep your stagnant wages.
Tean Belgijch wrote, "This might rank as the most useless invention in the history of capitalism."
I dunno, but your Turkish seasoned lamb intestines are right up there.
Martin DeLang from the Netherlands wrote, "This is a toy. There is truly zero added value to it."
Yeah, that's the point, Dyke Plugger.
"This is ridiculous. Are people going to want to do barrel rolls in cars? Will white vapor annoy all the other drivers in cars? Why is this cool? I don't get it. It seems frivolous, like something from an eight-year-old mind."
Eight-year-old minds have imagination, Sam. Something you never had.
At Introvert Kurt gave us this. "That would be way more impressive to me. Clean water. Accessible worldwide. Reliable affordable electricity. Cleaner industrial production, deployable disaster and emergency response, but enjoy your new party trick."
Sorry, Kurt, but at first I thought your R was an N.
What would we do without Robert Red Ford? "This shit will never fly with any consumer. That is another gimmick like the SpaceX flamethrower. This guy is totally unhinged and has too much money on his hands. The world is totally fucked."
Sounds like you're not into exploring space, Robert. Try the one between your ears.
Oh, Mikhail, so nice of you to contribute. "Hot wheels for fascists."
As a Russian, you should know fascists.
Feisty Claire wrote, "If you see a flying car and your first thought isn't, we could have solved homelessness with the money it took to make this. You are an evil person." Actually, Claire, my first thought reading this was you're an evil bitch.
Paul Saladino, MD, will finish things off. "I don't want flying cars. I want rivers and oceans I can swim in with friends. I want food that isn't full of toxic chemicals and clean soil to grow it in. I want raw nature and wilderness and places on the earth I can get lost without seeing another human. I want air that isn't geo-engineered and polluted. Science is cool, technology advancement is cool, but I don't think this makes us happier as humans."
Bob Metz:
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So did you spot the commonalities to all of Musk's detractors? For starters, there's the self-centeredness where they always insist that they be the beneficiaries of anything created by others.
And there's an inability to comprehend the process of creation. To the left, the world operates on a fixed pie theory. They have no sense of life, just a sense of death and despair, and that's why they display envy and jealousy all the time.
And I had a chuckle when I heard the comment, why is this cool? I don't get it. It seems frivolous, like something from an eight-year-old mind. Because talk about a coincidence. Remember Glenn Beck earlier. It's like the eight-year-old kid in me excited about us inventing and exploring again. And as Paul Chato put it, eight-year-old minds have imagination, Sam, something you never had.
But I think the comment that most got my attention was this one. "I don't want flying cars. I want rivers and oceans I can swim in with friends. I want food that isn't full of toxic chemicals. I want raw nature and wilderness and places on the earth I can get lost without seeing another human. I want air that isn't geo-engineered and polluted. Science is cool and knowledge and advancement is cool, but I don't think this makes us happier as humans." Well, you know what? This person is a very sad person. And he said it's cool, but I don't think this makes us happier as humans. Then based on what emotion or value did he think it was cool? It made me and many of the other voices we've heard today happier. What's wrong with this person? I guarantee you that even if one of his wishes came true, he wouldn't be any happier as a human. Because like all lefties, he doesn't care about any of the causes he pretends to.
"I want, I want, I want, never shall I create or give or help." And the sheer hatred we see expressed is a self-hatred being projected on to others.
And to those who say no added value? Well, value to whom? To them, of course.
But for Musk, the entertainment and response value alone must be worth millions. You couldn't buy more effective advertising for your brand, no matter what it is.
Now add to those sad comments a few of the ones we heard earlier by the likes of AOC, Ro Khanna, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, that Musk is unintelligent and lacks a social obligation or giving to charity, despite his having already given millions to charities and has planned to give every child in America one share of SpaceX, or that Musk has more money and wealth than anyone in human history because of a rigged economy, give me a break. These are not the sad people like the others. These are the power mongers who appeal to the sad losers, offering them a platform through which to introduce force and coercion as the means of redistributing the created wealth of others. And if you think that this is taking the significance of the whole flying car demonstration to ridiculous heights, think again.
On this side of the upcoming bumper featuring Dave Rubin, and on the return side featuring Glenn Beck, both zero in on the explicit plan by the Democrats and their supporters to put Elon Musk in jail for inventing the things he does and to put constraints on those who dare to create things without their permission. You just can't make this kind of evil stuff up.
Clip (The Rubin Report, October 21 2026):
Dave Rubin: Elon Musk did an interview with Walter Isaacson. You may know that name because he's the one that wrote the biography. What was it a year or two ago? But Elon revealed that when three people were killed in Austin not too long ago, I think it was a year or two ago, that the person who killed the three people was an ex-Tesla employee who was a Muslim who was upset that someone stepped on his prayer rug. Take a look.
Elon Musk: We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay, so she wasn't expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory, she accidentally stepped on his prayer rug and he assaulted her. Violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that. And then a few months later, he went and killed three students in the bar in downtown Austin. Now, I think we shouldn't let people like that into the country. Do you?
Dave Rubin: But what Elon did there, that pregnant pause where it almost seemed like the screen froze for a second. And then in essence said, I don't think people like this should be in the country, that is the real issue we are coming up against.
Elon Musk: Well, what I'm saying, I think is simply logically consistent, which is that if there's a culture that has diametrically opposed views to our culture. And that's, you could take Islam. So it's not that, of course, there are many people who've, Muslims who are quite reasonable. But there are some who are not. Unless you're filtering for jihadis, you're going to get jihadis. And they're going to do jihad and kill people. In Israel, they understand this quite well. They've obviously this lesson has been reinforced with a lot of attacks. The neighboring countries many times in Israel, many times have tried to annihilate Israel. Several times. Not once, multiple times. And so, in Israel, they realize, if you let in the people that into Israel that want to kill Israelis, they will do so. So they're quite pragmatic about this, and they try to make sure that doesn't happen.
Dave Rubin: In essence, what he's saying is there's some really bad people out there. We've likely let them into our country, and unless we're gonna have this conversation seriously and really think about what are we doing, we will end up handing the country to people who have nothing in common with us, who would gladly subjugate us and probably much worse than that.
Of course, by saying sort of common sense things like that, he draws the ire of all of the terrible people on the left. One of them is New York Times Kara Swisher, and here she is, and she would just be so happy if somebody couldn't, couldn't we have just got Kamala Harris because we would have jailed that pesky Elon Musk.
Kara Swisher: If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him, even matter how rich he is. There were all these agencies, some of which he put a knife in and killed in the Doge, many of whom are investigating him. He stopped like a half a dozen investigations of his various companies.
So they're gonna start investigating. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list. Donald Trump obviously is at the top and his family. But Elon Musk is right up there for that.
And you have to, he knows what's coming. Like he's not stupid. Like of all the many things you can say about him, he has a very big sense of fate. And I think that it's coming for him and real hard.
Dave Rubin: But that's what they are all about. They, we played you the video of twice in the last couple of days of Elissa Slotkin, former CIA now in Michigan, talking about how she wants to put the threat out there for young people to not work in this administration. These are dangerous authoritarian ideas.
And then Swisher just magically drags Elon into it. Well, Elon should be investigated as well. Again, this is the guy who has quadriplegics playing chess with their mind because of a technology that he invented. He is the guy with the electric cars, he is the guy that is sending us into space, and then literally they send the rockets back and they get caught by these robotic arms, freaking the most amazing thing you've ever seen.
He's the guy who last week just showed us the new roadster that at least can fly for at least five seconds, and we will see what all the applications of that are.
But yes, we should jail him. Okay, you nutbags.
And speaking of nutbags, here is the librarian from hell, Elizabeth Warren, the, well, the Native American librarian from hell, and she doesn't like him very much either.
Unknown Speaker: First get your take about who you believe is responsible for this the disruptions of what is the military version, the encrypted version of Starlink that Ukraine uses.
Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren: Well, partly we'd like to know exactly who is responsible for what happened. If it is one man, Elon Musk, who is dictating our foreign policy, then he puts the United States at enormous risk.
We need a democratic majority in the House and the Senate so that we can actually put some constraints on Donald Trump so that we can investigate and get to the bottom of this. Two more years of an unconstrained Donald Trump and two more years of an Elon Musk who does whatever he wants to do, that's gonna be an America that's gonna have a hard time surviving.
Dave Rubin: Actually, that's the America that I want to live in. Then Elon Musk, you want to stop him from innovating and everything else.
Elon Musk is not dictating foreign policy with Starlink. Yes, we use Starlink, and he's made it clear it can only be used for defensive, not offensive purposes, but he's not dictating foreign policy, but everything. If you create, they want to do it. not just that they want to destroy. Some people create, some people destroy, but if you create, they want to destroy you.
Clip (Glenn Beck, October 22 2026):
Glenn Beck: Politico ran a story earlier this week that reads like honestly, like a line from a mob movie. Democrats were coming for Elon Musk. That we're coming for you Elon. Not a hearing, not a subpoena, a plan.
Now, according to multiple reports, multiple House committees are already gaming out how each one gets a piece of him if the Democrats win the gavels in November. We are in for a wild ride.
Okay, so here's what they want. Oversight wants DOGE. Foreign affairs wants Starlink in Ukraine. And foreign affairs also wants the end of USAID. They are, I'm telling you, they're coming with a vengeance.
Now, the last one isn't even a contract. Now, others want his NASA contracts. One congressman from Texas said they should absolutely investigate the money he is spending on Republican candidates. Of course they want that.
Now, this one is a campaign check. Supporting the candidates you believe in is free speech and free association. It has been legal every day of your life since the founding of this country. The moment a check to the other party becomes a line item in an investigation, no investigation is ever, ever about what a man did. It's about whose side he's on.
Then Kara Swisher. Love that swisher. Hey, swish this way, Kara. She went on a podcast and she said out loud what the memo was too polite to say. Under Kamala Harris, she said, Elon Musk might be in jail right now.
So wait, before the USAID stuff, before the NASA stuff, before Ukraine, before any of this, he would have been in jail. He knows what's coming. He knows he's on the top of everybody's list. And she added that it wouldn't be because Harris had some avenging fury, but because there are questions around his companies. The order gives it away. Jail first, questions second.
Notice he'd be in jail today, most likely. Because we have questions. It should be we have questions. And if those questions are not answered or answered in a way where we can prove that something has happened that is illegal, he'd be in jail today.
Just so you know, America. Look at they have destroyed our heroes. They have destroyed our way of life. They have tried to take our capitalist system and flush it down the toilet. And believe me, they are telling you now.
For 25 years I've been telling you guys these are Marxists that want to fundamentally transform the capitalist state of America into a Marxist utopia, and everyone said I was crazy. Everyone said I was a mean bad man for saying it, and they are now telling you if they get into office, that is their plan.
This is not about just politics. They need to take the guy who took a rocket that lands on its tail out of science fiction and put it on a weekly schedule. They need to put that guy in jail. They need to jail the guy whose company now carries most of what America sends into orbit, who got our astronauts to the space station when we were buying seats from Russia. A guy who went and rescued because Boeing put people in space in something so flawed and so decrepit that we couldn't get them back home. He sent his people out to go get them.
It's a guy who put the internet in a Ukrainian trench, a hurricane shelter, a ranch house, a guy who dragged the entire car industry into building electric, whether it wanted it or not.
This is a guy who did more for the greenies than anybody else. Here's a guy who bought Twitter, opened the files on what our own government had been asking to bury.
They're not putting him away for politics. They are putting him away because he is the greatest inventor and entrepreneur in my lifetime.
Bob Metz:
Well, if there's one thing the collectivists hate, it's individualists. And in particular, single individuals who alone can accomplish more than a million bureaucrats who serve no productive function. Small wonder bureaucrats and politicians particularly hate industrialists. As Dave Rubin warned, "If you create, they want to destroy you." Or Glenn Beck. "They're not putting Musk away for politics, but because he's the greatest inventor and entrepreneur."
Which brings us full circle back to the author of Atlas Shrugged, who wrote in her nonfiction, The New Left, The Anti-Industrial Revolution under her essay The Age of Envy. And I have to tell you, this is a very haunting and prophetic description of the left. And I quote,
"The haters are in control of our culture and are in the open. They have dropped the pretense of such covers as God, the people, the future, or even love. They proclaim pure hatred of the good, of man, of reason, of values, of existence, in classrooms, in drawing rooms, in public halls, in theaters, in books, in paintings, in the streets, by land, by sea, by air, and through the gutter.
"Their general headquarters is in the field of education, which they control. Progressive schools are manufacturing haters wholesale. The hordes they have produced are roaming the land, proclaiming the rule of the quote unquote now, which is the confession of an arrested perceptual mentality that cannot project the future, cannot hold a theory, a purpose, or a value, and can do nothing but hate and destroy.
"This is the invasion of Western civilization by psychoepistemological barbarians. They howl and brandish the tag of liberation. What they demand is liberation from reality. It is as simple and open as that.
"What is the weapon one needs to fight such an enemy? For once it is I who will say that love is the answer. Love in the actual meaning of the word, which is the opposite of the meaning they give it.
"Love is a response to values, love of the good for being the good. If you hold on to the vision of any value you love, your mind, your work, your wife or husband, or your child, and remember that that is what the enemy is after. Your shudder of rebellion will give you the moral fire, the courage, and the intransigence needed in this battle.
"What fuel can support one's fire? Love for man at his highest potential."
End quote.
And that was written in 1971 about the nature of the left 55 years ago, and is as true today as it was then and long before.
So let's hope the next 55 years will be a celebration of the culture of love, to put it in Rand's words, which clearly means reversing our direction from left to right, an objective that we shall continue to endorse when you join us again next week, as we continue our journey in the right direction, and until then, be right, stay right, do right, act right, think right, and be right back here. We shall see you then.
Clip (The Jetsons S01E04 - The Space Car):
Alright, and just in time is the place.
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And I'm still in neutral. Now, hang on, folks, while I demonstrate our new retro brakes. I'm heading straight for that asteroid. Whoops! Sorry! You folks should have had your seatbelts fastened.
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He means we'll take it.