This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise.
As with the Exhibit H Twitter text message release, there are a lot of articles that quote bits of this, but the articles generally missing a lot of what happened and often paint a misleading picture of happened and the entire thing is short enough that you might as well watch or read it instead of reading someone's misleading summary. In general, the media seems to want to paint a highly unflattering picture of Elon, resulting in articles and virtual tweets that are factually incorrect. For example, it's been widely incorrectly reported that, during the "I'm rich, bitch" part, horns were played to drown out the crowd's booing of Elon, but the horn sounds were played when the previous person said the same thing, which was the most cheered statement that was recorded. The sounds are much weaker when Elon says "I'm rich, bitch" and can't be heard clearly, but it sounds like a mix of booing and cheering. It was probably the most positive crowd response that Elon got from anything and it seems inaccurate in at least two ways to say that horns were played to drown out the booing Elon was receiving. On the other hand, even though the media has tried to paint as negative a picture of Elon as possible, it's done quite a poor job and a boring, accurate, accounting of what happened in many of other sections are much less flattering than the misleading summaries that are being passed around.
- Video 1
- Dave: Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world.
- Crowd: [mixed cheering, clapping, and boos; boos drown out cheering and clapping after a couple of seconds and continue into next statements]
- Dave: Cheers and boos, I say
- Crowd: [brief laugh, boos continue to drown out other crowd noise]
- Dave: Elon
- Crowd: [booing continues]
- Elon: Hey Dave
- Crowd: [booing intensifies]
- Elon: [unintelligible over booing]
- Dave: Controversy, buddy.
- Crowd: [booing continues; some cheering can be heard]
- Elon: Weren't expecting this, were ya?
- Dave: It sounds like some of them people you fired are in the audience.
- Crowd: [laughs, some clapping can be heard]
- Elon: [laughs]
- Crowd: [booing resumes]
- Dave: Hey, wait a minute. Those of you booing
- Crowd: [booing intensifies]
- Dave: Tough [unintelligible due to booing] sounds like
- Elon: [unintelligible due to being immediately cut off by Dave]
- Dave: You know there's one thing. All those people are booing. I'm just. I'm just pointing out the obvious. They have terrible seats. [unintelligible due to crowd noise]
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Dave: All coming from wayyy up there [unintelligible] last minute non-[unintelligible] n*****. Booo. Booooooo.
- Crowd: [quiets down]
- Dave: Listen.
- Crowd: [booing resumes]
- Dave: Whatever. Look motherfuckas. This n**** is not even trying to die on earth
- Crowd: [laughter mixed with booing, laughter louder than boos]
- Dave: His whole business model is fuck earth I'm leaving anyway
- Crowd: [weak laughter, weak mixed sounds]
- Dave: Do all you want. Take me with you n**** I'm going to Mars
- Crowd: [laughter]
- Dave: Whatever kind of pussy they got up there, that's what we'll be doin
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Dave: [laughs] Anti-gravity titty bars. Follow your dreams bitch and the money just flow all over the room
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Elon: [laughs]
- Crowd: [continued laughter drowned out by resumed booing; some cheering can be heard]
- Elon: Thanks for, uhh, thanks for having me on stage.
- Dave: Are you kidding. I wouldn't miss this opportunity.
- Elon: [unintelligible, cut off by crowd laughter]
- Crowd: [laughter]
- Elon: [unintelligible, cut off by crowd laughter]
- Dave: The first comedy club on Mars that should be my [pause for crowd laughter] a deal's a deal, Musk.
- Crowd: [weak laughter and cheering]
- Elon: [unintelligible], yeah
- Dave: You n***** can boo all you want. This n**** gave me a jet pack last Christmas
- Crowd: [laughter]
- Dave: Fly right past your house. They can boo these nuts [unintelligible due to laughter at this line]
- Dave: That's how we like to chill, we do all the shit
- Crowd: [weak laughter, shifting to crowd talking]
- Elon: [Elon shifts, as if to address crowd]
- Crowd: [booing resumes]
- Elon: Dave, what should I say?
- Crowd: [booing intensifies]
- Dave: Don't say nothin. It'll only spoil the moment. Do you hear that sound Elon? That's the sound of pending civil unrest.
- Crowd: [weak laughter, some booing can initially be heard; booing intensifies until Dave cuts it off with his next line]
- Dave: I can't wait to see which story you decimate next motherfucka [unintelligible] you shut the fuck up with your boos. There's something better that you can do. Booing is not the best thing that you can do. Try it n****. Make it what you want it to be. I am your ally. I wish everybody in this auditorium peace and the joy of feeling free and your pursuit of happiness make you happy. Amen. Thank you very much San Francisco. No city on earth has ever been kind to me. Thank you. Good night.
- Dave: [unintelligible] as you can. It's funnier when you say it. Are you ready? Say this [unintelligible] you say. Go ahead.
- Crowd: [weak laugther]
- Maybe Chris Rock?: I'm rich bitch
- Crowd: [loud cheers, loud horn from stage can be heard as well]
- Unknown: Wait wait wait wait [hands mic to Elon]
- Crowd: [laughter]
- Elon: [poses]
- Crowd: [laughter, booing starts to be heard over laughter]
- Elon: I'm rich bitch
- Crowd: [some sound, hard to hear over horns from stage followed by music from the DJ drowning out the crowd; sounds like some booing and some cheering]
- Dave: Talib Kweli my good friend [crowd cheers] is currently banned from Twitter.
- Crowd: [laughter]
- Dave: He goes home to [unintelligible], Kweli. [hands mic to Elon]
- Elon: Ahh waa. Twitter cu-customer service right here.
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Elon: We'll get right on that.
- Crowd: [weak booing, gets stronger over time through next statement, until cut off by Dave]
- Elon: Dave, you should be on Twitter.
- Dave: If you. Let me tell you something. Wait. Radio, where's your phone?
- Dave: Listen. Years ago, this is true, I'll tell you two quick Twitter stories then we'll go home.
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Dave: Years ago, I went to love on the Twitter. I put my name in, and it said that you can't use famous people's names.
- Crowd: [weak laughter]
- Dave: And that my name was already in use, it's true.
- Dave: So I look online to see who's using my name and it turns out it was a fake Dave Chappelle. And I was like, what the fuck? And I started to shut him down, but I read the n***** tweets. And this is shocking. This motherfucker, Elon, was hilarious.
- Crowd: [weak laughter, someone yells out "damn right"]
- Dave: So I figured, you know what, I'm gonna let him drop. And everybody will think I'm saying all this funny shit, and I don't even have to say this stuff. And it was great. Every morning I wake up and get some coffee and laugh at fake Dave Chappelle's tweets.
- Dave: But then
- Crowd: [loud sounds, can hear someone say "whoa"]
- Dave: [blocks stage light with hand so he can see into the crowd, looks into crowd] Fight. Will you cut that shit out, you anti-[unintelligible; lots of people are reporting this as facist, which is plausible, making the statement about "anti-facists"] n*****?
- Crowd: [loud sounds, can hear some jeers and boos]