The Science Of How Elon Musk Became A Supervillian

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Can you remember when we all kind of liked Elon Musk? Yeah. Like electric cars, space travel, solar panels.

[00:00:07]Because there was a time, wasn't there, that it felt like he felt like the closest thing that we had to real life Tony Stark.

[00:00:14]>> The determined engineers big dreams transformed three industries. You know, here's an immigrant from South Africa coming to America. Elon Musk is the Tesla man whose developments of electric cars >> lift off >> and space rockets is seeing technology push the boundaries like never before >> cuz the guy was going to save the planet. There was something really ambitiously hopeful about him. We have a very important environmental problem that needs to be addressed which is driven by the the burning of fossil fuels and uh the increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and and global climate change which I think is going to be one of the most significant issues of of the 21st century. But now he's this >> yes >> what happened to him because actually there's an answer like actually there's a scientific answer. The research predicted what would happen to Elon Musk with the kind of precision that would make Tony Stark bobble.

[00:01:12]So, I'm going to start us off on an experiment that looks completely ridiculous. H MUCH LIKE >> YES.

[00:01:19]>> WHAT I WANT YOU TO do is to draw the letter E on your forehead. The capital E on your forehead with a finger. Write it on. Go on, do it.

[00:01:30]Now, which way did you draw it?

[00:01:33]Because if you drew it so that someone looking at you could read it, you're naturally the kind of person that thought about the person opposite you.

[00:01:43]You stepped outside yourself. You took somebody else's perspective. But if you drew that e so only you could read it essentially backwards to everyone else in the room. You didn't. Now researchers at Colombia Business School ran this experiment with two groups of people.

[00:01:59]Group one were asked to recall a moment where they had felt powerful in charge or had authority over someone else. And group two were asked to recall a moment where they felt powerless. Low power people, no trouble. They do it right away. Okay. Yeah. No, I can see what you're thinking. And they reverse orientation. High power people on the right, 40% of them absolutely could not do the task. They're like, "Oh, sorry. I drew it from my perspective again. Let me try one more time. Oh, I did it again." Your brain just from remembering what it felt like to be in charge began to lose its ability to see the world from another person's point of view like that quickly. Cuz your brain is basically a golden retriever, right?

[00:02:39]Somebody throws a ball and in this case the ball is a memory of being important and it immediately forgets there's anyone else in the park and runs over two toddlers. Now imagine what happens with 20 years of being the richest and most powerful private individual in the history of the planet. More than 100 years ago, the historian Henry Adams wrote that power is a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

[00:03:07]And at the time, I'm sure Henry Adams thought he was being poetic. But modern behavioral research actually shows that he was being medical because the last 50 years of neuroscience and psychology has shown us that that power is actually not a metaphor for corruption. It's a toxin like radiation, like lead in the water.

[00:03:26]And the more concentrated the dose, the more power, the more wealth, the longer the exposure, the worse the damage becomes. And that's the science of what happened to Elon Musk because in a way Elon Musk has had the arc of a super villain. You know super villains they all have an origin story and they pretty much well all of them there's a before right they start off good. There's a moment where they were actually recognizably human.

[00:03:57]Magneto survived the Holocaust. Thanos watched his home planet Titan collapse.

[00:04:02]Can I ever see you again?

[00:04:04]>> Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader, was taken from his mother. Voldemort was at an orphanage. Sauron spent three years teaching jewelry metal work to underprivileged hobbits in Middle Earth.

[00:04:15]And Count Dracula organized an annual Transian blood drive for 12 consecutive years. For a super villain, you need a before because without a before, it's not a tragedy. It's just a monster. And with Elon, it's a tragedy, too, because there is a before time.

[00:04:31]>> Elon's mother, May, and Errol, divorced when he was eight. May said she left an abusive relationship. She ran away with the three children, and it was a struggle raising them as a single mom.

[00:04:41]And when money got tight, she fed the kids peanut butter sandwiches and bean soup.

[00:04:45]>> In starting the company, I had nothing.

[00:04:48]I had no income source. So we we found that um an office was actually cheaper than an apartment in Silicon Valley. So we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. Um it was just the nastiest place you can imagine.

[00:05:03]>> And you lived in it too?

[00:05:04]>> And I lived in it too and showered at the YMCA.

[00:05:07]>> Cast your mind back to 2012 2010. He is genuinely not like ironically the most exciting entrepreneur on the planet.

[00:05:14]What we're hoping to do with SpaceX is to push the envelope and provide uh a reason for people to be excited and inspired to be human.

[00:05:21]>> Electric cars at a time when everyone said it was impossible.

[00:05:24]>> You want to do projects that are inspiring and that make people excited about the future. Life's got to be about more than just solving problems. You want to get up in the morning and say, "Yes, I'm looking forward to that thing happening."

[00:05:34]>> Reusable rockets at a time when nobody was doing it and said it was impossible.

[00:05:38]Solar panels at scale when everyone was saying it was impossible. you could have the the the entire country be solar powered or some combination of wind, solar, uh geothermal.

[00:05:48]>> He showed a genuine observable commitment to the idea that the biggest problems facing humanity were worth trying to solve.

[00:05:55]>> Electricity should be very cheap.

[00:05:57]>> There are Australians today wondering if they can even turn on their lights.

[00:06:02]There are Australians today wondering um well, should we go without some food?

[00:06:09]I did not expect that.

[00:06:14]We were quite a >> I don't know if you can remember it, but people loved him like properly loved him. Not not just in a parasocial cultivated kind of marketed way, but in a way like this person actually seems to give a [ __ ] and is doing something extraordinary about it. The E was being drawn the right way round. Now, usually in films where there's a super villain origin story, there's some kind of transformation that's caused by something external, like the accident or the betrayal. But actually in the real world, it's something internal that changes. And that's something for Elon was always going to change given enough power, given enough time. And how do we know that? Well, by looking at brains.

[00:06:56]So a neuroscientist called Siginda Obi at McMaster University put people's heads into a transcranial magnetic simulation machine. Actually, not just their heads, their bodies as well. The bodies were attached. He's not a super villain himself. Okay, it's all right.

[00:07:13]This isn't all about super villains. But he put those people in an MRI and he measured something called mirroring.

[00:07:21]Mirroring is a process by which your brain, when you watch somebody else do a thing, lights up in the same region it would if you were doing it yourself.

[00:07:30]It's a vicarious experience. It's what makes you wse when somebody else cuts their finger. It's what makes your chest tighten at a stranger's funeral. It's it's why you might flinch watching a footballer take a bad tackle when you've never played football in your life and you can't even stand it. You don't imagine yourself playing football, but you imagine the pain. And it is in a very kind of literal kind of brain neurological sense the mechanism through which we feel what other people feel mirroring. And Obie's finding was that when people were primed to feel powerful just primed not actually powerful just asked to remember a moment where they felt like being in charge their mirroring responses dropped like significantly. The neural pathway responsible for feeling what others feel, in his words, became anized.

[00:08:20]Not broken, but anetized by power. Yeah.

[00:08:25]The brain, when you get success and power, essentially goes, "Yeah, uh, well done, mate. You've made it. Listen, I'm going to have to take that empathy off you. Give it. Give me your [ __ ] empathy."

[00:08:38]Just the feeling of power. The feeling obese participants were students.

[00:08:42]They've been powerful for about I don't know 20 minutes. Imagine what happens to that neural pathway after two decades.

[00:08:52]Two decades of being untouchable.

[00:08:54]>> YES.

[00:08:55]>> AND THIS effect has been shown in so many different ways from so many different angles. Take for example Paul Piff at Berkeley who has been running experiments on that for years and has done dozens of studies with thousands of participants. And my favorite my favorite one of this which I do quote time and again because it's so brilliantly clear so getable or grockable as Elon might say and the Robert Highland book stranger in a strange land which is where that term comes from and he never gives credit for I'm sure. Maybe the copyright's out which is probably why he chose it.

[00:09:26]Anyway, Piff and his colleagues set up a rigged game of Monopoly. Right. So one player started with twice as much money and rolled two dice instead of one. They collected double the salary from go. It was a massive structural advantage and it was randomly assigned. The players knew it was random. There was just no skill involved, no merit, just you get more, they get less and go. Then they watched what happened over time over the game.

[00:09:54]>> The rich players leaned back in their chairs. They puffed up. Their voices grew louder. They slammed their tokens down with unnecessary force.

[00:10:05]They started eating more pretzels from the snack bowl casually as though even the food was theirs by right. They began taunting their opponents. It >> was sweet for me on your money. Looks >> like I made some good investments.

[00:10:21]>> When the game ended, researchers asked the winners, "How did you win?" Now, the obvious answer would be because I got lucky. Because of that coin flip?

[00:10:32]Because the game was rigged in my favor.

[00:10:34]But not one rich player said that. Not one. Instead, they told stories about how smart they had played, how their strategy had paid off.

[00:10:44]>> Power doesn't just anthetize your ability to feel what others feel. At the same time, the same process makes you believe that you deserve everything you got. Piff's finding that cuts deepest for me across all those studies with thousands of participants is that there is a clear, consistent, measurable dose response relationship. As wealth and power increase, empathy and compassion go down. I'll repeat it again. As wealth and power increase, empathy and compassion goes down. Repeat it after me. As wealth and power increase, empathy and compassion goes down.

[00:11:19]scientifically as wealth and power.

[00:11:21]Could somebody listen, I very rarely ask this, but if somebody could literally make a a track to that because it just needs to be out there. I mean, I might even put it on a t-shirt. I I've never thought of doing merch, but I do need to find some way to make this channel costneutral. So, so maybe I'll start doing merch or something like that. By the way, if you do want to support this channel, uh I always put a little bit of uh the Patreon or you can just buy me a coffee or something like that if you've found value in the channel or you find this video useful. But anyway, aside um as wealth and power increase, empathy and compassion goes down. But anyway, yeah, I digress. As wealth and power increase, entitlement and self-interest go up. Yeah. Every time. And the science shows it so clearly. That toxin of power and wealth harms both the human beings with it and the human beings they have power over. It should be legislated against, not glorified. I don't understand it. I mean, on the runup to the election, he seems so connected and real and engaged, and now he seems to be acting like a maniac, like he's not doing what he said he'd do, and he doesn't seem connected to the people that he's got power over. What could it be? There's got to be a reason, do you think?

[00:12:39]>> That really is the power paradox um of groups really want socially intelligent leaders. We gain power through what is good in human nature, but regrettably power decreases our social intelligence.

[00:12:53]Uh, and really releases very often what is problematic in human behavior. Um, and a ton of data on those ideas in the power paradox.

[00:13:03]>> So, with that in mind, let's look now at the Elon Musk timeline.

[00:13:07]>> YES.

[00:13:09]Let's watch what Obi and Piff and Galinsky and a dozen other researchers would have predicted and then watch what happened over time. 2012 to roughly 2016, Elon is still largely recognizable as the person from the before times. My interest in the future of humanity is uh I guess as a function of reading a lot of uh sci-fi and philosophy as a kid and just sort of thinking about okay what what's what's important uh to do like why why do anything what's the meaning of life um and you know I came to the conclusion that what we really need to do is um make sure that life continues into the future and in doing so we'll better we'll will be better able to understand the nature of the universe and um and and achieve greater enlightenment.

[00:14:02]>> The mission the language is collaborative the floor sleeping is recent enough to be real. So you know so if I see that well somebody's not doing this and maybe I could be helpful uh then then then I try to do something >> and then power concentrates and the insulation from consequence becomes total and the dose gets higher then what happens >> if if somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising blackmail me with money go yourself but Go [ __ ] yourself.

[00:14:40]Is that clear?

[00:14:42]>> I hope it is.

[00:14:43]>> Take for example in 2018.

[00:14:45]>> The youngster spent 18 days in the dark, dank flooded cave.

[00:14:50]>> When Elon Musk heard that these boys were trapped in the cave, he himself went out to Thailand. This is a tweet from Elon Musk. And he brought with him an experimental submarine, a mini sub he called it. But then the Thai official leading the rescue seemed to perhaps dismiss this rescue suggestion, saying, "Although it's technologically sophisticated, it's not fitting in with our rescue plan." Well, Elon Musk, it would appear from the number and the tone of his tweets, took that a little personally. Let's just pause on the submarine, right? Elon Musk during a live international rescue operation involving 12 trapped children looked at the situation and thought what this needs is a small personal submarine. And he had engineers design one around the clock. But the rescue of the kids it concluded successfully without the need for the submarine. And then 3 days after the boys were out, a cave expert named Vernon Unsworth went on CNN and said just had absolutely no chance of of working. So it wouldn't have gone around corners or rounds, you know, around any obstacles. It wouldn't have made the first 50 m into the cave. Just just a PR stunt, which of course partially it was right. But it is also rude. Fine.

[00:16:08]>> What your thoughts on Elon Musk's idea was >> in sticky submarine where it hurts, >> which is of course rude. But also, he's a sleepd deprived man that has just helped rescue 12 children at the risk of his own life, speaking frankly on television about a submarine that wasn't used and made the rescue more complicated for him. and Elon Musk's response.

[00:16:34]>> Elon Musk accused an organizer of the Thai cave rescue of being a pedophile.

[00:16:39]In a now deleted tweet, the billionaire CEO responded that he would take a prototype of his submarine all the way to the part of the cave where the boys were trapped and wrote, "Sorry pedal guy, you really did ask for it. You perform an act of real heroism in helping to save these kids against all the odds from this appalling situation they were in." And then a billionaire goes on social media and brands you a pedophile. I can't think of anything worse, frankly, or a bigger slap in the face to someone who was doing what you were doing.

[00:17:09]>> He hired a private investigator and paid him £50,000 to find evidence that the man was actually a pedophile. And I can't say this too strongly, the submarine was the wrong shape for the cave. So to be clear, the diver did criticize Elon Musk, but look at the disproportionality of it. That diver got death threats and the general pylon and abuse directed at him online. The most powerful man in the world comes after you and uses his huge reach and voice to try and discredit you because you mocked his unusable submarine idea. A man whose mirroring system is working can't do that. A man who can still draw the E the right way round can't do that. Because a man that can still feel what other people feel, who can still run the simulation of what it's like to be on the receiving end of false public devastating accusation simply doesn't do it. But there are plenty of other examples.

[00:18:06]>> People understand like the homeless thing cuz it it it sort of prays on people's empathy. The homeless industrial complex is is really it's it's it's dark, man. I mean, you see these videos of people that are just shuffling, you know, they're on fentanyl. the you know these sort of charities uh inquiries are they they get money proportionate to the number of homeless people or or number of drug zombies >> right >> so their incentive structure is to maximize the number of drug zombies that's why they don't arrest the drug dealers because if they arrest the drug dealers the drug zombies leave and they would they would stop getting money from the state of California and from from all the charities.

[00:18:42]>> Wait a minute. So So they're in coordination with law enforcement on this?

[00:18:47]So, how do they how do they have those meetings?

[00:18:49]>> They're all in cahoots. So, they they they try to keep the that they try to actually increase because that like like in in some cases like there's it's it's somebody did an analysis. When you add up all the money that's flowing, they're getting close to a million dollars per homeless per per drug zombie. It's like $900,000 something like some crazy amount of money is is is going to these organizations. So, if if so, so so they want to keep people just barely alive.

[00:19:15]they need to keep them in the area so they so they they get the revenue. Uh uh so and so that's why like they don't arrest the drug dealers because otherwise the drug zombies would leave.

[00:19:26]Um and and and and they but but they don't want you have to have too much if they get too much drugs and they then they die. So it's they're kept in this sort of perpetual zone of of being addicted but um but but just just barely alive.

[00:19:46]This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.

[00:19:51]Chainsaw.

[00:19:55]>> Take over Elon. Yes. Take.

[00:19:58]>> For example, even today, Elon, you you you tweeted this thing about George Soros. He said he wants to erode the very fabric of civilization and Soros hates humanity. It puts you in a in the middle of a the partisan divide in the country. It makes you a lightning rod for criticism. I mean, do you like that?

[00:20:26]You know, I'm reminded of uh the scene in The Princess Bride.

[00:20:36]Great movie.

[00:20:37]>> Great movie. um where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, "Offer me money.

[00:20:52]Offer me power.

[00:20:55]I don't care."

[00:20:58]See, you just don't care.

[00:21:05]Now, if what I was talking about was just Elon Musk, it was just a story about one man's unique pathology, it would be interesting. But it isn't just that because the stats are really clear and you can see it from Jeffrey Epstein down like Jeff Bezos.

[00:21:17]>> Everyone working in the warehouse has a GPS system which tracks their every move and whether they're working at the speed Amazon demands.

[00:21:25]>> They were monitored every minute of the day on the performance console.

[00:21:29]uh you could log on at any time and see how many people were picking, packing, and what the rates were. And if their rates weren't up to scratch, you'd have to go and give them a bit of a boost or release them.

[00:21:40]>> By release, he means sack them.

[00:21:43]>> In the issue of um of working conditions, I'm very proud of our working conditions.

[00:21:48]>> They said it's extremely hot in there.

[00:21:51]They said they have had people to pass out because of the extreme hotness in there who get docked. I get Tot for going to the bathroom. Who get docked for going to get going to going to get water if you need water if you have to leave off your station? It's unsafe cuz you consistently working fastpac 10 hours only only two breaks and >> we have very good communications with our employees. So we don't believe that we need a union to be an intermediary between us and our employees. They describe a point system deliberately designed, they believe, to catch them out. Workers get penalized for leaving early, sick, for talking in the aisles, or even spending too long on the toilet.

[00:22:36]Three strikes and you're out.

[00:22:38]>> Bezos built his company from a garage.

[00:22:41]He once understood understood deeply what it means to be uncertain, vulnerable, at the mercy of forces larger than yourself. And he now uses that knowledge not to protect his workers from fear, but to engineer it.

[00:22:56]He didn't forget what fear felt like. He remembers exactly what fear felt like.

[00:23:00]He's just switched it from I don't want people to feel this to h this is useful.

[00:23:07]That's not forgetting your humanity.

[00:23:09]That's filing it under tools because you can't put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You can only see it from your own perspective. One of my favorite examples of this is Google's founding motto. I don't know if you remember this, but it was don't be evil. And they dropped it, which is tantamount to saying, "Oh, maybe we actually uh might need to be a little bit evil, but you know, we don't want to get sued for it." This is our growth curve if we're not evil, but this is our growth curve if we are evil.

[00:23:44]One of the things I really love about the don't be evil motto. It's one of those rules that only needs to exist if evil is actually on the table. Right?

[00:23:53]They put it there. It's there. Like you don't go to a bakery whose motto is don't put glass in the bread. As the power accumulated and the insulation from the effects of their growth grew and got bigger and the people that remembered why the motto existed in the first place stopped being in the rooms.

[00:24:10]those rooms where decisions about what the company was going to be doing next were made.

[00:24:16]It shifted and that's the institutional version of OB's finding. Organizations like individuals can have their mirroring systems aniththetized and you can see it so clearly on the world stage. Putin in power for 25 years. Xi Jinping made himself president for life in 2018. Netanyahu has been in power for years, decades. I think Trump has had power all of his life. Look at the wars happening right now. Look at the leaders prosecuting those wars. Look at how long they've held power. Look at the wealth they accumulated before they even came into that power. The science isn't surprised. The science is just watching the dose response relationship play out at a civilizational scale. And the democratic founders of our nations knew this. And that's what I find extraordinary. The people who designed modern democracy understood all of this actually without a single brain scanner without Obi or Pier Galinsky or any of it. They understood it by looking at history. From watching what unchecked power did to human beings across centuries of recorded civilization, from reading what happened to Caesar, to Cromwell, to every king who outlived their own empathy. The US Constitution doesn't just limit what the president can do. It limits how long a president can do it for. Two terms, eight years.

[00:25:38]That's your dose. Then off your jog. Go home, touch the grass, go to a farmers market, and be confused at the prices of cheese like a normal person. The entire architecture, the checks and balances, the separation of powers, the independent judiciary. It wasn't designed because the founders distrusted any particular person. The founders understood that the office was the problem, not the person. And what's the first thing that a powerful leader does?

[00:26:05]Pinish PP pot Hitler. What do they do?

[00:26:08]They kill the press. They take over the judiciary. They consolidate power as much as possible. They were trying to engineer a radiation shield into the structure of government. And it worked imperfectly, incompletely, with constant pressure against it from people who would prefer no shield. Now ask yourself, where are the radiation shields around the people today with the most power? Where are they? The billionaires, the trillionaires. Where's the term limit on a man who owns the satellites, the cars, the social media platform, and the government contracts at the same time? Where is it? I've looked. I can't find it. What I can find is the same man who owns the satellites also owns the platform where you'd complain about him owning the satellites, which is a level of control or vertical integration that even the people that developed the game Monopoly did not anticipate. But where are the checks? Where are the balances? Well, the checks are going to the pockets of politicians. That's true. And the balances are just spreadsheets because as far as I can see the governments are too frightened to bring in wealth taxes because the billionaires own the newspapers and the biggest companies in the world because the biggest reason not to bring in wealth taxes to put their power in check is threat, right? But the millionaires will leave and they'll crash the economy.

[00:27:29]Lovely economy you got there. Shame if something would uh happen to it. Still, you're not going to tax me, are you? So, uh, don't you worry about it. All my money is in assets. So, uh, you can work away with the income tax as much as you like. But there is a hack because there is a way to make sure that this doesn't happen. How do we hack our own brains to stay grounded when we're in power? Well, there are ways, but they involve accounting for the way that brains change with power, which is reconnecting the brain's empathy circuits.

[00:28:00]Potentially the most emotive example I've heard of this is from a Harvard professor called Roger Fischer. Uh Roger Fischer, you wouldn't know necessarily who he is, but he's a man who helped negotiate the Camp David Peace Accords, which almost almost bought peace in the Middle East. He helped work to dismantle South African's apartheite. He spent his entire career trying to get powerful people to understand the consequences of their decisions. And he published an article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. And he was thinking about nuclear weapons in this case, specifically about the terrifying emotional distance the decision to use them entails, right? So if I push this button, hundreds of thousands of innocent people will die, right? I mean, shouldn't we have a cover for it or something? Yeah. Well, get one.

[00:28:50]And he wrote about how a president sitting in a room full of advisers surrounded by euphemisms and acronyms and management language like SCOP and plan one and alpha line X Y Z and project or and thunder communicate the decision and how those people communicate the decision could authorize the deaths of millions of people in a process that felt in a room like that like an administrative act because it's a button because the problem is the distance between the decision and the consequence and Roger Fischer understood that distance that distance is exactly how power does its damage and he proposed a solution. Take the nuclear launch codes and implant that capsule surgically next to the heart of a young well-paid volunteer. Volunteer is the key word here.

[00:29:48]someone that the president sees every day. So Fischer took this proposal to the Pentagon and their response, "My god, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the president's judgment. He might never push the button."

[00:30:02]Do you think that might be the point?

[00:30:05]The proposal was, "Let's make it feel real." And the objection was, but then it would feel real. Now I'm not I'm not saying that it's the perfect idea by this person about the in the heart of a kind of young person volunteer. But the fact that the objection wasn't with the manner but with the idea itself tells you everything because they're not objecting to the killing. They're objecting to the feeling of the killing.

[00:30:35]We want to do the killing. We just want it to be comfortable. We want to feel about it the way we approve of a planning application. You know, when's that ever gone wrong? But that response from a serious, senior, intelligent person tells you everything that you need to know about unchecked power and what it does to the human brain. They'd already drawn the E the wrong way round, which is the dehumanizing effect of war.

[00:30:58]The distance between pressing the button and the effect that it has. Because Elon Musk really is a super villain. He really is. And it's not because something broken him. It's because the science told us decades ago that that's what would happen to 99% of people, everyone given enough power, given enough time, given enough insulation from the consequences of what you decide. The mirroring goes quiet. Oh no, what's happened? They used to be so reasonable and now they've changed. Oh, what could it be? I tell you what, it's not rocket science. Actually, it's psychological science and the studies are easy to read. So, [ __ ] read them.

[00:31:39]I realized the other day that Elon Musk is Batman. And by that I mean Batman is not a superhero. He's a super villain.

[00:31:46]Right now, cuz I cuz I was thinking, what is Batman? Right? Batman is basically a really rich guy that thinks he's going to solve the whole world's problems by inventing a load of tech.

[00:31:56]Right? You know, oh what? There's a load of problem in Gotham. I I'll build my bat cop to my Batmobile. But Batman never spends one bat scent on the real cause of Gotham's problems. Why is Gotham overrun with crime? The problem's fundamentally economic, isn't it?

[00:32:13]Yeah. Like if Batman really cared about Gotham's pride, like I tell you what, if I had a billion dollars, cuz people say this, I said this to my friend and my friend was like, "No, no, no. Batman's the best superhero and the reason why is because he doesn't have superpowers." I was like, "Fuck off.

[00:32:29]Batman has superpowers. He's the billionaire Bruce Wayne. And being a billionaire is the best superpower you can have. Like if I wake up tomorrow with a different super like if I wake up tomorrow with a genuine superpower, the superpower of flight, right? I get to fly myself to work.

[00:32:50]I mean, I commute.

[00:32:53]If it's not raining, I'm I save 6 on [ __ ] oysters.

[00:32:58]If I wake up tomorrow with a billion dollars, I fly my jet over work bombing the HR department.

[00:33:09]Yeah. Like seriously, you give me a billion dollars, you give me a billion dollars, I can solve crimeing Gotham like that, right? Like Bruce, listen, Batman, whatever you [ __ ] Elon, right? What you do is you go to the most rundown part of Gotham, right? And you open an artisal bakery, uh, escape room, a kombucha brewery, and you let the [ __ ] hipsters drive those criminals out.

[00:33:35]It's It's called gentrification, isn't it, Bruce? Yeah. You know what, Bruce?

[00:33:39]You would have learned that in business school, wouldn't you? If you weren't too busy dressing up in tights and punching them mentally ill.

[00:33:46]You know what? I'm glad your parents are dead. Yeah. I said I am. I'm glad it Who takes an 8-year-old to an opera? Can't stop.

[00:33:54]>> That was great. But you know, you need therapy.