Hey, it's Michael. This weekend we're bringing you something a little different from our colleagues here at the New York Times.

Today, an interview with Elon Musk, one of the most consequential, complicated and controversial people of our time.

Just a few days ago, Musk sat down with business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin for an interview before a live audience. It's a remarkable conversation.

Sorkin presses Musk on a recent public controversy, but he also explores

Musk's ideas about a variety of topics, freedom of speech, technology,

optimism, aliens, and screen time.

It was all part of a series of live interviews put together by our colleagues at Dealbook, with significant leaders, including Vice President Kamala Harris, and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

If you want to hear them all, you can listen on our NYU audio

app or search Dealbook Summit wherever you get your podcasts. Now here's Andrew Rost-Torkin, in conversation with Elon Musk.

My mind is often feels like a very wild storm.

Is your storm a happy storm?

Yeah. This is Andrew Osorcken with the New York Times and you're listening to the best interviews from our annual Dealbook Summit event recorded live yesterday in New York City. Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for being with us throughout the day and

I couldn't be more pleased to sit with Elon Musk as our final interview of this remarkable time we've all

had together.

He doesn't need much of an introduction, but I want to say a couple things.

He's the richest person in the world. He may very well be the most

consequential individual in the world right now. He runs the most innovative companies in the world, Tesla SpaceX, Starlink, which is part of that.

Neuralink, the boring company X, and his X. AI.

And he's disrupted each of these lanes.

He's moved at breakneck speeds, but he's

faced a storm of controversy in the process.

He joins us today following a visit, as you all know so well.

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