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In a Guest DJ Project first, we took a field trip to the SpaceX headquarters to visit with CEO Elon Musk as the company prepares to launch an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station in 2012. Elon shares his favorite song to whistle, the Andrea Bocelli track that reminds him the world is a beautiful place and shows his sense of humor with a pick by Monty Python. Elon is also the CEO of Tesla Motors and one of the creators of Pay Pal.
For More: http://www.spacex.com/
Tracks
Fly Me To the Moon - Frank Sinatra
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
America., {expletive} Yeah! -Team America World Police
Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
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In a Guest DJ Project first, we took a field trip to the SpaceX headquarters to visit with CEO Elon Musk as the company prepares to launch an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station in 2012. Elon shares his favorite song to whistle, the Andrea Bocelli track that reminds him the world is a beautiful place and shows his sense of humor with a pick by Monty Python. Elon is also the CEO of Tesla Motors and one of the creators of Pay Pal.
For More: http://www.spacex.com/
Tracks
Fly Me To the Moon - Frank Sinatra
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
America., {expletive} Yeah! -Team America World Police
Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Transcript
Raul Campos: Hey, I’m Raul Campos from KCRW and I’m here with entrepreneur Elon Musk; best known for co-founding PayPal as well as CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Today, we are here to talk about songs that have inspired him over the years as part of KCRW’s Guest DJ Project. Elon, thank you for inviting us here to SpaceX. This is really, really cool.
Elon Musk: Absolutely. Thanks for having me on the show.
RC: “Fly Me To The Moon”…
EM: (Laughter) That’s the obvious one.
RC: (Laughs) The obvious one. Explain a little bit, why Frank Sinatra?
EM: I like the sense of possibility and it’s really inspiring. And I’d really like to fly to the moon. (Laughter)
RC: Well, I’m sure that’s going to happen pretty soon!
EM: Yeah, absolutely. You know, obviously I own a space company, I’m going to tend to like something that involves flying to the moon. You hear this song an...
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Host: Raul Campos
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