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He has many personalities and sometimes you're around a really, you know, half-joking guy, or a guy playing, uh, you know, engineering mode, in which he's really good. But there's times he goes into what Claire Boucher, his, uh, occasional girlfriend, known as Grimes, calls "demon mode," and that's when he gets dark.
At the tip of South Texas is Boca Chica, where he has a launch pad for Starship. And one Friday night, at around 10 p.m., he's sort of joking about everything. And then he sees that only two people are working at the pad. It's 10 p.m. on a Friday night. But you can see the dark, and he just explodes. And for about an hour, he's berating people. And then he orders up what he calls a surge. He wants 200 people there by the next day, so they start working. So this pension for drama comes out of the childhood too.