00:00Look at the books of the gentleman in the leather jacket at the New York Stock Exchange a bit ago,
00:04and that would be Elon Musk. I look at these, Scarlett. Why don't you run through the three
00:11books we've got right now? It's a foundation series by Isaac Asimov. And apparently this is
00:17the book that he put in the red sports car that he shot into space. So he wanted this
00:20to be noted for posterity. If you're of a certain vintage, you dream with Mr. Asimov.
00:26It's a science fiction series. That's what Luigi tells me, our producer.
00:31And his favorite book, by the way. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
00:36This really has a lot about the formulating the right questions. And we know that Elon Musk is a
00:41big thinker type. So I think he said that this had a great influence on him during middle school.
00:46And the third book I just think is so important, folks, and poignant here with the death of
00:51the gentleman from Brown University, Gordon S. Wood. Gordon Wood was our definitive
00:58biographer of Benjamin Franklin. He is the one that brought him to life. And then Walter Isaacson
01:04exploded Benjamin Franklin even more into our consciousness. You see it. There was the TV
01:10series that was out that was so good with... Who played Benjamin Franklin? Do you know?
01:13I can't remember right now. You're the celebrity lodestone. You should know that. It's kind of a
01:17true question. But the answer is that it's a really important statement about America's first
01:24entrepreneur. I'd like the way you put that. Yes. Elon Musk appreciates the profile of Benjamin
01:29Franklin by Walter Isaacson. We know that Elon Musk admires Ben Franklin deeply for his journey from
01:35being an entrepreneur to being an inventor. And that's kind of how Elon Musk sees himself,
01:39along with all the other hats that he wears. Let us know here at Bloomberg Money your thoughts
01:44on books. I think one of the ways we go is just get five books from Scarlett would be a
01:50good angle.
01:51Let's just do one a week. I don't know that I can read five at once.
01:53Who says we have to read them? We can just talk about them. That's the way it is. I'm reading
01:59right
01:59now Valley Nassar on Iran, Iran, Iran, NASR. Francine Lacroix introduced me to him. It is the one volume
02:08on Iran.
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