Hyperloop
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Oct 29, 2026
Kara SwisherHOST
Kevin, to what extent do both these moves a distraction on Musk's part? And what's the endgame? And also, who is he fooling?
Catherine RampellGUEST
Well, he's always got these stunts that he does, right? That he was going to have the Hyperloop.
Catherine RampellGUEST
He always promises some whiz-bang new invention, some innovation.
Catherine RampellGUEST
And sometimes he delivers on something impressive.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
A lie.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
He said Hyperloop was going to revolutionize, you know, how to get from point A to point B. It's going to, you know, supersede trains and all this other stuff.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
Turns out that was a lie.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
The Hyperloop was a fucking joke.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
It was a fucking joke.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
The Tesla Roadster that he announced in 2017 lied about that.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
But there are times where you realize that something is a public good.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
I mean, I think the case in point and may sound controversial is this Hyperloop idea.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
It's so large and it takes so much time and there's so much policy, governmental support that almost reminds me of public infrastructure.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
And if something's truly public infrastructure, then it's good to clear the blur, as it says, and be clear to saying, don't do that.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
So the nuance there is it's nationally critical, but it's public good, which means it's supposed to be free or mostly free or subsidized.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
And it's nationally critical, but so important that it's not for public.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
So let's say the Hyperloop or mass transit train, bullet trains, that is a public good.
Vishesh RajaramGUEST
I mean, I would be very uncomfortable to invest in a startup that's building a bullet train or a Hyperloop port, quite frankly.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
out of here, bro.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
Just like everything else, like the frigging Hyperloop, right? Yeah.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
All right.
speaker_11UNKNOWN
Wake me up from the
Doug GordonHOST
He said it's something we can do in our lifetimes.
Doug GordonHOST
Then, of course, there's the Hyperloop.
Doug GordonHOST
Back in 2021, we did an episode on the Las Vegas Loop that was promised to be, you know, the sealed vacuum tube Hyperloop.
Doug GordonHOST
We know now, of course, that it's Teslas driven by humans in death trap tunnels with no emergency exits or ventilation or anything.
Doug GordonHOST
And that Hyperloop in Vegas was reported on credulously back in 2015.
Doug GordonHOST
So we did the episode in 2021 when it finally debuted.
Doug GordonHOST
But as early as 2015, people were saying this was going to be a thing.
Doug GordonHOST
And cities were talking to Elon Musk about building Hyperloops from, say, their airport to their downtown.
Mike DeHaanHOST
that was some of the other stuff.
Mike DeHaanHOST
Like the Hyperloop or things that he was talking about.
Mike DeHaanHOST
Or he's going to do like the train from San Francisco to LA or something that he was talking about.
Mike DeHaanHOST
I don't know.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, boring company.
speaker_1HOST
No, no, no. What's the name of that thing? Hyperloop.
The RevolutionaryHOST
Hyperloop.
The RevolutionaryHOST
You need a Hyperloop between Dallas and Austin.
The RevolutionaryHOST
He's talked about this
speaker_1HOST
for 15 years.
The RevolutionaryHOST
And it was the Simpsons monorail guy.
The RevolutionaryHOST
A monorail, because...
Dirk HobbsHOST
It's a good evening of socializing, networking down in southeast Colorado.
Dirk HobbsHOST
We had SwissPod CEO up in here a couple of weeks ago, Dennis Tudor, and he was talking about what they're doing down there with that Hyperloop.
Dirk HobbsHOST
And that is some really cool technology happening down there at the old chemical depot.
Dirk HobbsHOST
Anyway, those are the big things that are happening around the region.
Elaine BurkeGUEST
He hasn't talked about that.
Elaine BurkeGUEST
He hasn't even been involved in the Hyperloop project, I don't think, in many, many years.
Elaine BurkeGUEST
They were up to a point doing tests where a lot of like student engineering teams would try to build a capsule that would be able to withstand being pushed through a vacuum at speed like that and not kill people inside it.
Elaine BurkeGUEST
And I don't even know if those competitions even happen anymore.
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