Elon Musk's Flame Thrower Moment - JRE Toons

How does one just in the middle of doing all the things you do decide to just make a flamethrower? Where do you have the time for that? Well, we didn't put a lot of time into the flamethrower. This was an off-the-cuff thing. So we have sort of a hobby company called The Boring Company, which started out as a joke, and we decided to make it real and dig a tunnel under L.A. And then we have a merchandise section that only has one piece of merchandise at a time. And we started off with a cap. And then, I'm a big fan of Space Bowls, the movie. And in Space Bowls, Yogurt goes through the merchandising section, and they have a flamethrower in the merchandising section. And like the kids love that one. That's the line. When he pulls out the flamethrower, it's like, we should do a flamethrower. Does anybody tell you no? Does anybody go, Elon? Maybe for yourself, but selling a flamethrower, the liabilities, all the people you're selling this device to, what kind of unhinged people are going to be buying a flamethrower in the first place? Do we really want to connect ourselves to all these potential arsonists? Yeah, it's a terrible idea. Terrible. I shouldn't buy one. I said, don't buy this flamethrower. Don't buy it. Don't buy it. That's what I said. But still, people bought it. There's nothing I can do to stop them. You built it. They will come. I said, don't buy it. It's a bad idea. How many did you make? It's dangerous. It's wrong. Don't buy it. Still, people bought it. I couldn't stop them. How many did you make? 20,000. And they're all gone. It sold out in four days. Are you going to do another run? No. No, that's it. Yes. We did 50,000 hats and that was a million dollars. And they thought, OK, we'll sell something for 10 million. And that was 20,000 flamethrowers at $500 each. They went fast. Boom. Thank you. Thanks for doing this, man. Really appreciate it. You're welcome. Thanks for not lighting this place on fire. You're welcome. That's coming later.