Zoe Schiffer

They have these hardcore legal teams.

All of the executives are expected to testify.

They've already been in court.

And then to give you a little bit of background on just how ridiculous it has already been, like Elon Musk was promoting a New Yorker profile about Sam Altman that alleged he had kind of this history of being a bit

deceptive, duplicitous.

He was actually boosting that post on X ahead of the trial.

Sam Altman was, like, hitting back.

Another key moment that I thought was really funny was when one of the lawyers' microphones was, like, going in and out, and the judge says, completely deadpan, yeah, we're funded by the federal government, which I felt like was a dig right to Elon Musk and Doge.

My favorite part, Paresh didn't say this verbatim, but the lengths that Elon Musk went to to make Sam Altman seem like a little nobody in this opening monologue were so funny.

He was like, he was a random investor I barely knew, basically implying that Elon made him who he is today.

I thought that was silly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Another thing that came up on day one of the trial, and this was something Maxwell Zeff wrote about for Wired, was that jury selection was a little bit difficult because people do have such strong priors about both of these men.

Like, they are national, internationally famous.

It's very difficult to find someone who doesn't have a preconceived idea about Elon Musk.

And in fact, there were a couple people who were ultimately picked who did have preconceived ideas, but ultimately were able to say, like, look, I can put this aside and, like, do my civic duty.

We're in the land of the like vintage Tesla bumper stickers.

You cannot find a Tesla in Berkeley, California, in Oakland, California, that just does not have a bumper sticker on it that says, I bought this before Elon went crazy.

They're everywhere.