00:00In this video, I'll share some future Easter eggs to some of the efforts and activities of American businessman Elon
00:08Musk.
00:09You can see these via the 1987 Mel Brooks sci-fi parody, Spaceballs, star John Candy Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman,
00:20Daphne Zuniga, Dave Van Patten, and Joan Rivers.
00:24People will say actually Spaceballs was influential on the naming of the plaid premium model of Tesla's road cars.
00:35The moniker derives from a jump in speed that Lord Helmet and the faux Empire ship switches into to pursue
00:46Lone Star as RV.
00:48But on closer inspection, there's some supportive connections that apparently defy a linear sequence of events.
00:56You are here.
00:57How do you know by viewing Spaceballs in 87 that they may be talking about a future time period when
01:05Elon Musk's companies arose to prominence?
01:10You can see this in a couple different ways.
01:13A real obvious one is by looking at some of the cast after Rick Moranis, for example, who plays Lord
01:20Helmet.
01:21He was also sidekick Lewis in the Ghostbusters horror comedy films directed by Ivan Reitman.
01:28It turns out that President Donald Trump made a cameo in a music video for Ghostbusters 2 in 1989.
01:38Trump later elected in 2016 or re-elected in 2024.
01:47And this also coincides when Mr. Musk's companies, SpaceX, and Tesla were talked about almost daily in the mainstream news
01:56media.
01:57The Tesla company is named for engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, who did a lot of important work around the
02:07turn of the century, 1900.
02:10Totally underrated scientist, one of the greatest creative minds of the last millennium.
02:16If certain people had given him more of an opportunity, we could have been 100 or 200 years ahead technologically.
02:24Among other things, he discovered the application of alternating current, which is the basis for electrical power generation used in
02:35almost everybody's home and office in 2026.
02:39Also created with inventing radio broadcasting.
02:43So there's a great Nikola Tesla link via the cast and production of Spaceballs.
02:49It's through the prolific actor and director Orson Welles.
02:54Welles acted in the 1980 biographical film, The Secret of Nikola Tesla, which dramatizes events in the engineer's life, including
03:04his encounters with inventor Thomas Edison and banker J.P. Morgan.
03:10Others in this cast, Petr Bojevich, Strother Martin, and Oya Kodar.
03:16Now director Mel Brooks hired Welles to narrate his 1981 anthology comedy, History of the World, Part 1.
03:27Many well-known actors in this cast, including Don Deleuze, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Pamela Stevenson, Hugh Hefner, Barry Levinson,
03:37John Hurt, who also cameos in Spaceballs, by the way.
03:41The final acting role of Orson Welles is another link to the Tesla company.
03:48He played the planet-sized robot Unicorn in 1986's animated The Transformers the movie.
03:56Based on the popular toy line, the hero Autobot in Transformers is Optimus Prime, who can change into a big
04:07rig 18-wheeler truck.
04:09Tesla chose to name its humanoid robot Optimus for the Transformers character, announced in 2021.
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