Opening monologue (10/16/26)

It's the end of Back to the Future, a movie that I was, I think, a senior in high school when that movie came out, and last night it came true. Now, welcome to the show. Please come inside. I thought the new Tesla Roadster demo with Elon Musk yesterday was AI. I sat there like a dog trying to understand words, you know, tilting my head to the right and to the left and to the left and the right. And I see this beautiful Tesla Roadster go up to this hot wheels, you know, the loop with the hot wheels. It was a half loop, right? So this car goes up the loop and then flies and flips over, and these jets pop out, and it lands on the ground. And then they show the Roadster driving at three cars like it's like Evel Knievel, but no ramp, but no ramp. And all of a sudden, the car leaps into the air, flies over, and then lands on the other side. And I'm like, this is AI. This is AI. There is no way that this actually happened. And then I realized it actually freaking happened. It's real. Since we knew the car was going to fly, since we knew Roadster was going to fly, we looked for some inspiration about flying. And we thought we would lean into the most badass stuff out there, SR-71, cars that transform. And that led us to the new Roadster. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's a flying car. It is a freaking flying car. Oh, my God. Here is Elon Musk yesterday. I'll save it. Listen to Elon Musk. We had the rockets we borrowed from SpaceX Technology. You talked about the carbon overlay. This is one of his engineers. Pressure vessels. I just want to tell everyone, because I'm a spec guy, there's two of them in the car. they are a total of 600 liters about 250 kilos of air and we have 10 nozzles to do all that work it's using an advanced ultra high pressure air tank so the car can recharge its air tank so it's not like you need special propellant or anything like that it literally is just going to pop itself up and be able to do these maneuvers whenever you'd like it's um it's real it's real but it gets even better because they decided to see how fast it can go from zero to 60 um you you might want to sit down for this well while we're getting the live time uh you know i will say this elon mentioned the rocket thrusters you can see that the thrust is exiting the back of the four thrusters faster than the speed of sound so you see the mach diamonds it actually creates over 80 kilonewtons of thrust that is more than 1.21 gigawatts yeah i mean there's that there are cars no and then there's one car that has mach diamonds listen ah there you go there you go 0.81 seconds there we go did you did you just hear that it went from 0 to 60 in 0.81 seconds now for those of you who are democrats or Kamala Harris or AOC uh that means uh eight tenths of one second which is if you divided a second into 10 parts then in eight of those so it went from zero to 60 this fast there you go oh my god in heaven oh my lord oh my lord the times we live in my do you ever stop wondering because if you if you do then just sit down i mean Bernie Sanders wants to stop AI okay if Bernie Sanders couldn't create Chitty Chitty Bang Bang all right Elon Musk just his company is flying a thousand rockets a year into space he is connecting the world with uh with his satellites he is uh making it so people with ALS can talk in their real voice to their loved ones he is going to make lame people walk i'm not meaning to make it sound like Christ or anything but those who can't walk walk those who can't see see those who can't hear hear he is developing a device that connects to your optic nerve you don't even need eyes so it will connect to your optic nerve and you'll be able to see not only like you see but also in infrared and all sorts of other ways you'll be able to see like the Terminator or not the Terminator the Predator when the Predator's looking in the woods there and looking for the you know the the warm bodies to you know whatever i don't want to go all dark on this but that's what he's doing oh and then he's also going to uh let the hearing or the the deaf hear yeah and and did i just mention that his car just went from zero to 60 in eight tenths of a second well while we're getting the live time uh i want to hear it again i will say this i want to hear it again Elon mentioned the rocket thrusters you can see that the thrust is exiting the back of the four thrusters faster than speed of sound so you see the mock diamonds it actually creates over 80 kilonewtons of thrust i don't even know i mean there's there are cars no and then there's one car that has mock diamonds ah there you go there you go 0.81 seconds there we go i uh you know we we we lose um when we were so bogged down on our daily issues and our daily problems um and and sometimes for some reason people go through life and they become numb to uh going wow and seeing things and going wow i've never i've never stopped doing that i see penny on the sidewalk i stop and pick it up when i in the morning i go out and i feed the birds in my parking garage i know i shouldn't but i just glory it's just glorious to see them every day and and you know there's going to be a point in your life i'm talking to like gen z and people who are younger than me that you're gonna you're gonna wake up at my age and you're gonna see all of the technology that has come in your lifetime. I remember I used to look at my grandmother, my grandmother, who was old enough to be my great-grandmother, and my dad, who was old enough to be my grandfather. She was born in 1890-ish. She saw the Titanic sink. She was in her teens, well, close to it anyway. Then she saw flight. Then she saw the telephone. Well, yeah, no, telephone came after. But anyway, she saw All of these things happened. Flight, landing on the moon, John Glenn before that, and then before she passed. She passed in like late, like just before 1984. So she didn't get to see smartphone and all the other things because when she died, the bag phone, if you were lucky, you could have a bag phone. And usually it was just like the company car would have a bag phone and that was it. There were no cell phones for anybody else. And if there were, they were the size of World War II walkie-talkies. Now, this is my wheelhouse, right? Because when I was born, you know, computers were meant for NASA. You know, IBM made supercomputers the size of, you know, massive rooms of computers that did almost no computing. NASA had giant rooms of computers to launch to the moon. And right now, the technology is in your phone. And right now, I have the Library of Alexandria in the palm of my hand times 100 billion. Anything I want to know is right here. Any movie I want to watch, any TV clip I want to watch, any piece of history I want to see that has been covered, I can see here, I can see here, I can talk to someone on the other side of the planet, and it doesn't cost any money! I can text my best friend in Japan any time I want, my God! And the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party had nothing to say about this man. Here is Gavin Newsom, about a year ago, talking about Elon Musk. Elon Musk, one of the great disappointments. He is going to allow the greatest angle in, I think, one of the most significant angles in the next decade, is ceding the EV space to China. Elon was the one accelerating that. Now he's put the brakes on his own innovation. Wow, was he ever frickin' so wrong in his life? Rob Carson Show.