Watch Elon Musk Squirm Over His Taxes on ‘The Bernie Sanders Experience’

Stand-up comic and podcaster Joe Rogan has invited his justifiable share of controversy over the previous few years, however regardless of all that (or possibly due to it) he’s additionally managed to take a seat repeatedly throughout from a few of the greatest names in science, leisure, and politics. Possibly the 2 most dynamically opposed friends Rogan has ever welcomed on his present are Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and world’s richest man Elon Musk. But what should you might lower out Rogan totally and have the 2 icons of recent U.S. capitalism scrap in opposition to one another? Well, of us, behold “The Bernie Sanders Experience.”

Created by editor and video producer Justin T. Brown, the clip makes use of mash-ups of each Sanders’ and Musk’s appearances on Rogan’s podcast and subverts them into its personal convincing three-and-a-half-minute function with Sanders’ enjoying the position of host.

The remarkably well-edited video begins off with the now timeless clip of Musk taking a hit of a blunt on the unique Joe Rogan Experience in 2018 (Tesla’s inventory value took a hit of its personal the next day).

Sufficiently stoned, Musk then receives a short crash course on rising US earnings inequity, the place, as Sanders places it, over the past 30 years the highest 1% has seen a $21,000,000,000,000 enhance of their wealth whereas the underside half has skilled a $900,000,000,000 decline. Looking off within the distance, Musk merely responds, “Hmm, that’s strange…”

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When interviewer Sanders goes on to ask Musk how he would enhance the typical U.S. employee’s residing situations, Musk emphatically brings up his, to this point underwhelming, grand plan to dig tunnels beneath main cities. When Sanders radically suggests big holes gained’t truly meaningfully enhance peoples’ well-being, Musk lays down the final word trump card.

“A hole in the ground is better than no hole in the ground!” Right.

Possibly the most effective a part of the complete video is watching Sanders grill Musk over his notoriously negligible tax funds.

“Pay your taxes,” Sanders begs, “That’s what I want you to do right now.” After some all too plausible uncomfortable laughs, Musk responds, “No, definitely not.” When Sanders suggests the working class might arise and threaten the billionaire’s wealth Musk seems flummoxed, “This is crazy, stop bothering me!”

Brown’s hilarious alternate actuality attracts upon a lineage of different “what if” JRE podcast mashups with one of many higher ones being this interview of Joe Rogan interviewing one other model of himself.

The Sanders and Musk parody particularly stands out although as a result of it appears to play out nearly precisely the way you’d think about, with Time’s Person of the Year showing utterly out of contact with the realities of on a regular basis individuals and Sanders passionately, however pointlessly, talking to a really costly brick wall.