Kimbal Musk
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first heard Mar 2024
last heard Mar 2024
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When you're ready to turn it, turn it around. Don't touch it any other time. But at the end, you take a dab of butter and you crush a clove of garlic. Mm-hmm. You don't even chop it. You just crush the glove and you put the two of them in the pan and you just roll the steak around in the garlic butter. I think that's the one.
Well, I would say there's an Austin way, which is, and actually even Austin would say there's a suburb of Austin way. I think that actually the adventure of food is wonderful. I would absolutely say that Austin is one of the great food cities of America, and barbecue is one of its gifts that it gives the city. But you'll go to one and the other and you'll have a different approach.
And that's the part I love is where there's a real celebration of the artisan. So you might go to one and they have a style that they love and they've been doing it for years. And then you'll go to another and they have a style that they love and they've been doing it for years. And it's not, they're still barbecue, but they're actually different. And it's really beautiful to see that. And that's
I think that's what food culture is. Like it just builds up over time by people who love this style of cooking.
Yeah, they also have like paper towels. Get as messy as you like. And it's a whole roll of paper towels. They don't even give you a napkin.
One of the other things that will happen in a town like Austin is there'll be a barbecue joint that is just legendary, right? And then out of that will come someone who wants to do their own barbecue joint, and they'll take the learning from that barbecue joint. They'll open up a new one, but it won't be the same as the other barbecue joint. Part of it is like, dude, don't just do the same thing.
Do something different. What do you have to say? But also part of it is if you're in the world of food as an art form and you want to go open up another barbecue joint, you kind of want to prove yourself. Like I deserve to have a barbecue joint in this town. I know this is one of the holy grails of barbecue.
And people will follow you like they're following a musician or they're following an artist. And they are excited to... To see what your version is and how well you can pull it off. It's like, it's actually, that's what I love. That's what I mean by like a city with a food culture. Austin has that.
Our restaurant in Boulder, the kitchen, is 20 years old. We're very well known, very well respected, and we do have to live up to the name. I think that our restaurant lives up to its name in not just the food. It's like you walk in and you feel the restaurant, and that is also something we've just done naturally. The space is a 120-year-old building. It used to be a brothel, and it was a
bookstore, like storied history. This was a mining town, right? So back in the 1800s, this was built late 1800s. That sort of Brussels, that was a thing. And so there's an actual tunnel in the basement that goes to the local hotel that would be used for going back and forth between the hotel and the brothel without people knowing.
And the tunnel is now concreted up, but you can go about 20, 30 feet into the tunnel. But you go into the space and it's actually an old space, so you feel like it's been there forever.
Yeah. So 2010, I was 37. I had opened the restaurant in 2004, and I had loved the restaurant world, loved it. But I didn't really want to grow a restaurant company. That wasn't my goal. And so I went back into technology, and I had gone from something that I love to something that I like. For me, it was like chewing sawdust every day.
I just couldn't believe that I had gone from, that had changed my life, I had gone back into technology. And now I do do work in technology and I do love it, but I found a better relationship with it. But I was really, really unhappy. From the outside, I was a sort of CEO of a startup, but from the inside, I was just very unhappy.
And I was in Jackson Hole, and I was doing these very aggressive snowboard runs, and I'm, at the time, a pretty good aggressive snowboarder. And I remember saying to myself, look, I've got kids. I need to chill on this. The next day was Valentine's Day. Tomorrow's Valentine's Day. I'm just going to have a nice day with the family and my wife at the time.
And we went to a children's run to do the inner tube run. And the tubes are small, but everyone uses the same tube. So I'm 6'5", and my kids are 4 years old, and everyone uses the same size tube. It should have been a message to me not to get on this thing.
But I went and got on it, and on the first run, and I went down, and you're going super fast, 35 miles an hour, and a tube hit the braking mats, and it stopped. The tube just stopped where it was. It just threw me. My head was facing downhill, so that's created the wrong center of gravity. So instead of braking, it just threw me. I landed on my head.
My head went into my chest, like compression into my chest. Down like that. I ruptured my spine at C6 and C7. And in like the blink of a second, I was paralyzed. I was like, like, like what? You know, just like impossible to... Impossible to comprehend. And they take me, they put this big thing on my, like, halo on my head, and they take me to the hospital, which was more of a medical clinic.
And I'm just like, what is going on here?
I remember being... So this is one of the things that actually the doctor said caused the most damage was... I was thrown from the tube, and I heard this big crunch sound in my body. And I knew that I was hurt. But I didn't feel any pain. That's also, why wouldn't you feel pain? Because you don't feel pain. And I'm face down on the snow, and the snow is burning my face, because you can't do that.
You need something. And I... found a way to turn myself around so that my face wouldn't be on the ground, but I knew I couldn't move. And that, they said, actually caused more damage than, well, obviously the accident created the opening, but once you move your body, the blood goes into the spinal column at a faster rate, and that is what caused my paralysis. But I remember that, and I...
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