SGA

Season 12 of 20 · 2019

Smoke and Steel

A hopping water tower, a broken window, and a cathedral of steel sections.

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Starhopper flies. Cybertruck's window doesn't. Starlink is a string of lights. He baits the chorus. Altman is still almost a friend at dinner. Children stay off camera.

Place
Boca Chica and the demo stage
The work
Starhopper, Cybertruck, Starlink
Pressure
The chorus and his appetite for a fight

18 episodes available · 30:00

  1. 01StarhopperA water tower that hops. It looks like a joke and flies.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  2. 02The Tent Comes DownA symbolic cleanup. The scar remains.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  3. 03PrivacyThe adults acknowledge a growing family and refuse to put any child on camera.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  4. 04The Window BreaksThe truck demo fails in public. He laughs, then does not, then embraces the break.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  5. 05A String of LightsThe first satellites are beautiful and controversial.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  6. 06BaitThe chorus builds him into a sport. He baits them back. Mim says bait is not a strategy.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  7. 07Shanghai SpeedA factory rises fast. Speed as a form of respect.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  8. 08LimitsThe promise of a self-driving future, the grief when it is asked to be perfect. No graphic crash. An engineer tells the truth.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  9. 09Pad FightRivalry with the other sky over who may launch, petty and epic.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  10. 10The Demo Was a DemoSolar roofs lag the stage. An engineer wins against a fantasy schedule.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  11. 11A Pig and a PromiseA neuroscience demo. Wonder, unease, and a medical frame.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  12. 12UnsentLetters to the old friend in the garden of search, never mailed.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  13. 13DinnerAltman and the wizard are almost still allies. They argue about who holds the leash on a new mind.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  14. 14EatKimbal calls a halt. Eat, walk, call your mother. He does one of the three.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  15. 15High BaySections of a starship stack like a sweating cathedral.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  16. 16FenceCal's photographs put people back in front of the steel.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  17. 17Belief SystemThe car company becomes a faith. He enjoys it too much.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  18. 18Not YetThey retire the little hopper. Arthur is a tower of headlines. Mim says ignore him. Not his hour.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra

Cast: Elon Musk, Mim, Franz von Holzhausen, Cal Derner, The Chorus, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, June Okonkwo, Grimes, Kimbal Musk, Bram

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