19-year-old Jack Sweeney created "Elon Jet" in June 2020 to track billionaire private jets using ADS-B Exchange data and custom bots, identifying tail numbers like N628TS for Elon Musk. After Musk offered $5,000 to stop the tracking, Sweeney demanded $50,000 before revealing their DMs, leading to his accounts being blocked despite threats from Musk's team regarding airport staff. Expanding into "Ground Control" and launching merchandise, Sweeney continues monitoring flights for celebrities and political figures while working at Uber Jets, asserting that transparency outweighs potential repercussions from powerful individuals. [Automatically generated summary]
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Tracking Jets and Aviation Secrets00:14:44
Hello.
How old are you?
19.
You're 19.
How the hell is a 19-year-old learned to do all this coding and all this crazy shit, tracking jets and all that?
How did you get interested in this?
I had a little bit of coding experience from school.
You could just start looking stuff up and aviation-related.
I knew about those flight tracking websites and my dad works in aviation.
Aviation industry and so, like I just started during covet, a lot of free time, and I was just looking stuff up and I knew Elon had a jet so I could track him and I just started figuring it all out.
But what gave you the idea like maybe I should track Elon's jet and post it on twitter?
Well, I knew he had one and people like knew it was his plane, but on those like major websites, you can't track his plane because there's these rules like about that certain planes have to be blocked.
And like I was like you know i'm interested in like Tesla and Spacex and him on twitter.
So I was like why not share it to twitter What?
How did you get into aviation?
Were you are you, do you know how to fly planes?
No no, I just find planes and just interesting, and my dad worked, works in aviation.
Oh really, do you ever?
You live in Orlando, so you don't live far from Cape Canaveral.
Do you ever go over there?
Oh yeah yeah, for the launches you do yeah, have you ever met Elon in person?
No no, just the deal.
What do you think he'd say to you if you actually met him?
How do you think that would go down?
I don't know.
I mean he was intrigued like the first.
Like you know, he never really got mad, he just blocked me after the news came out That, like, he offered me $5,000 to take it down.
He blocked you?
Yeah.
On all of his Twitter accounts?
Yeah.
Why do you think he did that?
Because, like, all the news came out that he offered the $5,000 to take it down.
Oh, because you posted the screenshots and stuff?
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
So, how can you walk me through the process of how you actually have?
So, it's a bot you created that posts these tweets whenever his plane takes off.
and is heading somewhere.
Can you explain the process, technically, how does that work?
So all planes have transponders, and they're transmitting their telemetry, which is their altitude and their identifier and their speed and the location.
And there's different, well, one person can get a receiver for $100, and you can receive all the planes and with 100 miles.
But companies and organizations found that if people in different groups around the world, they get those, they can create a world map.
So I get that data from one company called ADSB Exchange.
And then my program reads that data and it looks for the certain planes that I programmed it for landing and takeoff.
And then it'll tweet those to the certain Twitter accounts.
What is it called, ADSB?
Exchange.
Exchange.
It's like flight aware and all those, but they don't block anything.
Is that one of those things that came out after 9-11?
I mean, I think that's why it came out, but yeah, pretty much.
Air traffic controllers still like they only use radar really, and it's kind of better than that because it uses less power and it's just there's.
It's more, there's easier to acquire signal from the planes and there's more data about the planes rather than just radar.
Do you what is like?
What were you thinking when you decided to start posting these things?
And then it's, and then Elon met.
Like how did that go about?
When Elon DM'd you or how did he contact you?
How did you go about contacting?
The first message was, can you, Can you check this down?
It's a security risk.
That's it.
Just like 1 a.m.
Yeah.
And what did you read it?
And then what were you thinking when you read it?
You just instantly responded to him or what?
No, I think I didn't open it because I saw the notification and it was so late.
I just said to my roommate, I was like, oh my God.
You just told him Elon just DM'd you, but you didn't want to open it because you didn't know what you were going to say?
Yeah.
So what did you eventually respond to him with?
Yeah, I think I was in a jokingly manner.
Yeah, I can, but can you increase it to 50 or whatever?
Well, that was further down.
I can't.
You said it's a security risk and you don't remember what your first response was?
No, I can't remember.
But he went on a while and he was asking how it worked and he didn't even know about ADS-B and he thought I was just looking at certain types of planes taking off.
And he was like, no, I can just identify it by your plane's identifier.
By what, like the little license thing on the plane?
Yeah, so the full registration number.
His is November 628 Tango Sierra.
And then that links to a code of the transponder.
And it doesn't, it's always the same.
So everyone can track these things.
Yeah.
That's pretty wild.
I didn't even know that.
And then he was saying how after that, he was like, air traffic control is so primitive.
He said that to you?
Yeah.
And he said, what should I do?
And I told him about this other blocking program, which he has now.
So like the code on his plane, he can change every 60 days.
But I just have to find it every 60 days.
So you told him how he can.
Evade your bot tracker, yeah, and he's now using that, yeah.
But I mean, it's still not foolproof, right?
Yeah, dude, that's pretty wild.
And what did he say?
So you said, Can you increase it to 50?
Can you add a zero to that?
Make it 50,000?
He said, Uh, thinking about it, and then it went on for a while, and uh, like, and then you sold them out.
Message is like, Yeah, there's a reporter talking to me about uh, something else that was going on in the Tesla community, I just was talking to them about it, and then started spreading everywhere.
Really?
Yeah.
At what point did all these news stations start reaching out to you?
When the first article came out and then it started going everywhere all over the news.
When did you first create this?
June 2020.
June of 2020.
And back in December 2020, he actually flew to Hawaii and someone quote tweeted my Elon Jet tweet and then he responded, oh, I'm just meeting Larry Ellison in Hawaii.
Larry Ellison, which is like the CEO of Java or the founder of Java.
Wait, is that right?
Oracle, Oracle.
Oracle?
Yeah.
I don't even know.
What is Oracle?
They make Java.
Oh, okay.
And he was like, I'm just meeting with them for some advice.
People were saying he was on vacation and stuff.
But back then, he didn't seem mad that I was tracking him.
Right.
And you think that he just blocked you on all of your Twitter accounts because you sold him out that he was offering you money.
Yeah.
And then like do you think about like three or four weeks ago, he unblocked Elon Jett.
Probably because he didn't want to seem like he was anti free speech for his whole Twitter stuff recently.
But did he unblock Jack Sweeney, your personal account?
No.
Interesting, man.
What do you think about the whole?
Do you think maybe if you didn't show everybody the screenshots of the DMs, maybe you could have actually made that $50,000?
I don't think so.
No.
At some point, before, he said it didn't feel right to pay to take it down.
It's like that was even before the news came out.
So he didn't feel like it even before then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it is funny how he's, you know, such a big free speech advocate now that he's buying Twitter and he really wants, when it comes to affecting him personally, it's obviously he wants that shit taken down.
Yeah.
Does it make you wonder, like, maybe he's buying fucking Twitter to take you out?
Some people say, I mean, it'd be crazy, but, like, I don't know.
No.
Maybe.
There's always a chance.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Yeah, I always wonder, dude.
I mean, a lot of people talk about, you know, Elon, you know, he's obviously the smartest guy in the fucking world.
He's done more than anybody, he's like a genius.
When it comes to some of the things that he's done and accomplished.
But, you know, is he doing this all for just the better, you know, to better human beings and to better our evolution as a species?
Or is this all just a personal thing to him and he's just like playing it off like he's trying to better humanity?
I mean, I think he's trying to do better.
Like, you know, he wants to go to Mars and stuff.
He's like Teslas and all that.
Did you see that documentary on Netflix about.
Him starting SpaceX.
Isn't that on Disney Plus?
It might be on Disney Plus.
I saw it on Netflix.
I think it just came out recently where it shows like.
There were two on Netflix too that were like the new astronaut, the space flight or whatever.
I feel, I mean, I felt like my initial thoughts on that was like before I watched that documentary, I thought like, wow, this guy is just, you know, some super genius who wants to go to Mars.
But then after watching the documentary, I realized, no, this guy, I mean, I.
This guy's just a fucking entrepreneur who saw an opportunity to make a ton of money because they ended the NASA program, the space shuttle program.
So without him right now, we would have still not been going on our own rockets to the space station.
Right.
Boeing or ULA is supposed to be doing it too right now, but they're always behind.
They're like supposed to be doing what SpaceX is doing too.
Boeing and who?
ULA.
Who?
I don't even know.
United Launch Alliance.
Okay.
Yeah.
So basically, Boeing and ULA are nowhere near.
Space they were having problems they launched it once and then it didn't it had like a timer issue and it didn't reach the space station.
Oh really Wow I mean it's insane how much money he spent you know with the first three rockets that blew up and then running out of money and then trying to borrow money to get the last one to go and it working.
I mean store is fucking mind-blowing Are you are you then recently this morning he was saying stuff about his Twitter acquisition Elon he was tweeting.
Yeah, what did he say this morning?
He said that it's on hold.
Yeah Because of like statistics on the bots or spam, it's only like 3% of users.
Five.
Yeah, he said less.
They said less than 5%.
Yeah.
But what you're doing is a bot.
See, now I don't know if he's talking about like bad bots that he wants to get rid of or good bots.
What kind of bots would he be talking about?
Like, here's my crypto giveaway.
Here's $5,000.
Or like under him, there's like fake Elon Musk.
And they're like, here's my reward to you for being a follower.
Like those are bad bots.
Spam bots.
Yeah.
Okay.
But are those automatic?
Are those like actual humans typing things under fake accounts and like posting them?
I think a lot of those are automated.
Are they really?
Yeah.
See, I don't know.
See, like Twitter introduced like good bots and the automated labels.
Like now I have the automated label on Elon Jet.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Twitter knows there's good bots.
Okay.
So there are bots that could be a good thing.
But does he make a statement that he wants to get rid of all bots in general?
See, I don't know.
He's never really said.
He had that TED talk.
And he was like, you know, we need to get rid of the spam and the bots.
I don't think it would be a smart move for him to buy Twitter and then axe you.
Yeah, no.
And there's other bots besides ElonJet that people use on Twitter that are good.
Like what?
I can't think of one right now, but hold up.
There's one where you can do, I think it's called Explain This Bot.
It's like an AI that if you tag it, it'll reply back with a message of what it thinks the tweet above is.
There's all kinds of cool things like that.
What are you doing?
Anything every day?
Like, are you constantly trying to improve this kind of bot technology that you're doing or find new jets to track?
There's always like fixes I'm doing.
Like, just the other day, there was an issue with the map that was being created.
I fixed that.
But otherwise, it's automated.
What other jets are you tracking?
The Bezos one.
Jeff Bezos.
Bill Gates.
Yeah, and then there's, I have quite a few celebrity ones.
There's a celebrity account.
Air Force One.
You can track Air Force One?
Yeah.
When they have it on, which is most of the time.
Really?
Yeah.
What?
Who else has tried to reach out to you about that?
Oh, Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban?
Yeah.
What did he say to you?
Oh, he wanted it taken down, which I took it down.
I was like, he just messaged me the other day.
Well, it's been going on for a long time, but like you mean he reached out to you a long time ago?
Yeah.
And you guys have been going back and forth ever since?
I took it down.
Explain that story.
How did that start?
Like how he messaged me?
Yeah.
I don't remember how it started, but he messaged me.
And what did he say?
It's pretty much the same thing as Elon, just in a different way.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
How much money did he offer you?
None.
Come on, man.
You can't offer me anything.
Come on.
We know.
We know.
Nobody cares about his account.
It's got like a thousand followers.
Mark Cuban?
No, the tracking account of his.
Oh, his tracking account.
Got you.
So it was like he said I could come out to a Mavs game or whatever.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
Then he was like, oh, you get business advice, which I don't really need, but whatever.
I mean, who would want business advice from Mark Cuban?
Yeah.
So basically, he just reached out and was like, hey, can you take it down?
And I'll give you some tickets to a Mavs game.
I mean, I asked for stuff, but he didn't want to give anything.
Yeah.
Anybody else?
No one else has reached out asking you to take it down?
No.
Well, I mean, the Russian oligarch things, there was some lawyers that were trying to say that their jets weren't related to that person.
But I think they're trying to just hide.
Like they were saying that just to hide.
They were saying that their jets weren't related to that oligarch.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just in hopes that I would take it off.
How?
The Mystery of the Missing Plane00:04:16
Okay, so maybe you already explained this and I missed it, but how do you attach a certain oligarch to a certain jet?
It's like it's who it's registered to.
But what if they don't own it?
A lot of people don't own those jets, right?
Well, yeah, in that case, you don't know.
But these are like registered to their companies or whatever.
It's like Elon Musk is registered to Falcon Landing, which is a subsidiary of SpaceX.
And he's like, even before I started tracking it, people knew it was his plane.
So he has a subcompany under SpaceX that owns planes.
Yeah, so he has two other planes too that like those charter the employees around the SpaceX sites.
Oh, okay.
And like I requested the, you can request like all the registration documents from the FAA.
And like, like it's, I got the document and it shows like where Elon Musk signed and everything.
Really?
Yeah.
That's pretty wild, dude.
Yeah.
What, um, were you tracking, weren't you tracking, uh, Putin's plane?
Yeah.
I mean, it, it's technically his.
It's like all the Russian state VIP planes.
So there's a chance he's on one of them.
But it's just, so there's like a, there's like a whole bunch of planes or whatever that it's a chance.
It's kind of like Air, uh, Air Force One.
They have the two Air Force.
One planes which are VC 25s.
There's two of them.
Yeah.
He's usually the only one that flies on those, but he also might fly in the other 757 planes they have.
So you don't know which one they're on, but I just track have them all on that account.
Now, what is that?
Can you explain with the ASB?
Can you go into more detail on like how that ASB technology works?
Yeah.
And like how did you get a hold of that technology?
So like ADSB.
Oh, ADSB.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's what the transponders.
Put out on the plane and it's like mandated pretty much across the world.
Now yeah, and so it's like it's basically like a radio signal like you receive in your car, like fm or am and like so.
There's equipment that people receive around the world that, and then that basically gets combined into one big text file and I can receive that file from the companies and then my program can look at that.
It's like it'll be one row in the file where it's like the identifier, the speed, the altitude, the Longitude and latitude for the location and all that, then my program, I can tell it what to do with that.
Okay, so your program just picks out a certain line in their code.
Yeah.
And then you have like a fire of the plane that I want.
And that, depending on what that line of code says, that automatically fires off a tweet.
Holy shit.
Yeah, that's ADSB.
What is this colorful picture?
Can you close that little ad, that Hey Dude ad on the bottom?
Yeah, right there.
A click close on the left.
Oh, on the very left.
I'm sorry, top left of the ad.
Of the ad box.
Yeah, right there.
Sorry, I know it's far away.
So, those are all the planes that ADSB is tracking currently.
So, that's live.
This is all the fucking.
Dude, that's insane how many planes are in the sky at one time on top of each other.
Yeah.
But, I mean, they're pretty far away.
It's just that you're from zoomed out.
Oh, yeah.
And they're all at different altitudes.
Yeah, so the color is the altitude.
Oh, the color represents the altitude.
See the bar on the bottom?
Yeah, yeah.
The orange is the lowest.
The pink is the, or the purple is the highest.
Oh, okay.
Dude, that's pretty wild to see how many freaking planes are.
Now, is that worldwide or is that only nationwide?
It's pretty much worldwide.
Wherever there's signal from receivers.
And then there's some people that have satellite dishes and they're receiving some stuff from satellites for stuff across the ocean.
Wow, look at that, dude.
That's so insane.
When did they start doing this?
Do you know?
So, I mean, like, I don't know when ADS-B first came out, but, like, it all started when the Raspberry Pi came out, that miniature computer, and then people were hooking up those SDR receivers.
Global Flight Data Insights00:14:25
They were tuning it to the ADS-B frequency.
Then it, like, started with, like, FlightAware and FlightRadar24.
And then a couple years ago, ADS-B Exchange came out, which was not blocking anybody.
And all those companies like FlightAware and FlightRadar24 have to block stuff because they're also getting data from the FAA.
And they have a contract where it says if you're getting data from us, you have to block these planes that people want blocked.
So, like anybody that owns a plane can tell the FAA they don't want to show up and they're on the thing called LADD, limiting aircraft data displayed.
Don't you feel like you could have got like buddy?
I mean, when Elon hit you up, you could have like became buddies with him.
You could have been like, yo, Elon, let me come hang out with you for the day.
Let me come work for you.
Let me be a programmer at SpaceX or Tesla or something like that.
Don't you let, I mean, didn't you think about that before you thought like you had kind of had two opportunities?
You could say, no, I'm going Elon Jet or bust.
Or I could, you know, play the Elon card and try to become buddy-buddy with him.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if he, like, wants that.
He knows thousands of people.
Yeah, but you got to buy the balls.
Yeah.
You had to buy the balls, you know?
You could have potentially at least, I don't know, would you ever want to work for Elon?
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.
Like SpaceX or Tesla.
Wouldn't that be sick?
Yeah.
But maybe we should send him a DM from the Elon Jet account.
Like, yo, I got a new proposal from you.
Oh, because he's not following you or what?
Yeah.
It still won't let me.
Like, it'll show the old messages, but it's unavailable to send to sender.
You're kind of like the Julian Assange of private jets.
What is the.
Wasn't there some sort of like online community that was sort of like going after you?
Yeah, like the Elon community.
Is it called like Elon Tax Community?
I heard there was something called Elon Tax.
Oh, yeah.
They're.
They're being crazy.
What's the story with those guys?
They were like wanting me to take it down for like, I can't remember what.
But they were like messaging me all the time.
They were just being nuts.
You don't remember what they were saying?
No.
There's been so much news and all that.
Yeah.
Hundreds of people contacting me.
I'm like, I don't need to do any deals or anything.
Like, if I'm going to do a deal, it's going to be with Elon, you know?
Yeah.
Well, who's contacting you every day?
What kind of people?
I mean like news mostly.
Just this like local news?
Yeah, pretty much.
Are you doing every single local news?
No, no.
No?
No.
You got any big like companies coming like trying to sponsor you to do or to hire you or to recruit you or anything like that?
No, not anything big.
Nothing big?
No.
Nothing that you're that you like want to take and run with?
No.
So what the hell do you do every day?
I mean, obviously, you do the interviews and stuff.
Yeah.
Well, I have a part time with Uber Jets.
Uber Jets?
Yeah.
What do you do for them?
Software stuff.
Oh, really?
Tracking.
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
So, Uber, it's like, obviously, it's Uber for Jets.
I didn't even know they had that.
I thought I knew that.
It's not the same company, though.
It's a different company.
Yeah.
Okay.
And what kind of software or engineering and coding are you doing with them?
All kinds of stuff.
Tracking and like how their system works.
It's like, How they're setting up flights for customers.
Yeah.
What do the people at your school think about you?
Do they all know?
So, like, they don't know it's me, but, like, they know.
What do you mean?
How would they not know?
They don't know, like, unless I tell them.
Like, they know the story, but they don't know me.
Really?
Yeah.
Like, they don't see you on TV every fucking day.
No.
That's crazy.
What about your teachers?
No.
Nobody knows.
What kind of classes are you in?
What do you want to school for?
What are you trying to do?
Like, what do you.
Before this all happened, like what was your goal?
I'm in IT.
So you're in IT.
Yeah.
And what would like?
What do you?
What before this thing blew up and went nuclear and was all over the news.
Like what did you think?
Like Jack Sweeney, what do I want to do when I graduate college?
Like what's my kind of software and aviation software?
So this is exactly what you wanted to do.
Yeah yeah, what is your, what is your parents say to you?
What do they say to you about all this?
I think it's pretty cool.
I guess yeah, that's what they say.
That's pretty cool Jack, you know you're famous.
Now what do they give you?
Any advice?
I don't know.
You don't know.
It's just crazy from where it blew up from.
It was just like two years ago.
And then it slowly was growing.
And it was just like at 10,000 and then 80,000.
How many followers does Elon Jet have right now?
Like 460,000, I think.
460,000.
Yeah.
And is it growing significantly every day?
Or is it starting to slow down now?
It blew up again when Elon said he was buying Twitter.
Oh, did it really?
There's people writing articles, Bloomberg and all that.
And they mention you as a potential reason that he might be buying Twitter.
Yeah, and they're like, I just put out a tweet, like, oh no, as a joke.
And there's articles on it.
Kid who's tracking Elon Musk reacts to his Twitter bid.
Oh no.
Oh, that's hilarious, man.
Yeah.
What a crazy situation.
What a crazy thing that you found yourself in.
Did you ever expect it to turn into such a media frenzy like this?
I didn't expect it to keep going.
Because I did the Russian thing and that blew up too.
Who do you want to track next?
I don't know.
Whoever people want me to.
I saw people requesting the Russia and Ukraine stuff for a while for me.
I just kept getting requests for it after they knew about me from Elon Jet.
And then I did it.
And then it started blowing up, and the account grew to like 400,002.
That one.
The oligarch one?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
So you just read all the tweets, all the responses, and just see, like, not everything.
Not everything, but, you know, some of them.
And I saw a lot of those.
Yeah.
Where the hell is Bill Gates flying to?
I don't know.
I don't really pay attention.
You don't even pay attention.
You just bump into Seattle, probably.
Yeah.
Of course.
And same thing with Bezos.
Same thing with Bezos.
Yeah.
Both of them have two planes.
Oh, the funny thing about Gates.
Is his tail numbers are like, uh, 18 or 884 wm and 994 wm and that's like, or it's 887 wm, and so it's William Melenda for the wm and they're like divorced now and the dates are like when they were married and engaged or something.
So the numbers are like 18 or 1997 or 1994, something like that.
That's wild.
He needs to change them now.
Let me ask you this, can you go back and track previous flight logs?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Have you ever thought about Epstein's plane?
Oh, well, there wasn't ADSB back then.
And like this ADSB exchange only had history to like a year ago.
They only started logging.
Oh, fuck, man.
If you could attract Jeffrey Epstein's.
Oh, and Elon's N628TS.
628 is his birthday, and T for Tesla, and S for SpaceX.
So these guys just pick whatever the hell they want for their tail number.
Yeah.
That's pretty fucking wild, man.
That's really cool.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to do next?
Do you want to evolve this into something else?
Or do you want to do more of a website?
More jets.
It's not limited to Twitter.
Yeah, like what is ground control?
How did you come up with that?
I just wanted to put a name under it and a good website for now.
It's definitely a cool name.
It's a sick name.
So you want to have a website or a brand that tracks all these jets?
Yeah, on the website.
Or do you want to do more of providing software or coding, aviation coding products for probably a website.
Just a website that tracks shit.
Yeah.
So like I need like Elon on the website.
So it's like it shows it live or whatever Like you know ADSB exchange it just shows all the planes Nobody knows what it is Nobody knows like what planes they are right.
They just see all this plan all these planes And you want to be able to have like the same thing But like see who's in each plane, yeah, but that could be like dangerous, couldn't it?
I mean, I guess like couldn't these guys get like whacked or something or someone like screwed it's like an enclosed field at the airport.
They're at the FBO and so like even for Elon there's a head of team That's there like preparing like a what team ahead before he even gets there.
What's that mean like before he gets there?
There's a team with a car like a security team.
Yeah.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Yeah And nobody's gonna like shoot down the plane.
That's just crazy some crazy person might you never know dude.
They okay there's like if people wanted to do it, they wouldn't need me.
They could figure it out.
Yeah, Yeah, I guess I see what you're saying.
People, if anyone really wanted to do something that bad, they could go.
They could go find this technology on their own.
I Mean like people like that they're out in the open in like New York, like going to the Met Gala, and they're on the streets exiting.
If there was like a sighting, people could do something too.
Yeah yeah, now is your.
Do you say your dad was a pilot or he's just in aviation?
Uh, he's in aviation, he is.
And does he do this like the same kind of thing?
Uh no, it's different, it's more mechanic related, more okay, so he like works on planes and stuff um, more like uh, maintenance control.
So okay yeah, he like he's on the computer telling what He talks to the pilots and all that and to the actual mechanics on what they should do.
I mean, with his background in aviation and all this stuff, was he at all like, dude, maybe this is a little risky?
No, not at all.
But it gave me the interest because I knew about the planes and I knew about the tracking websites because of him.
So you were in the right place at the right time with the right family history, the right interests.
Yeah.
To be the first person to do some crazy like this.
Yeah, that's pretty sick.
Yeah man, you got to hit up Elon again.
Yeah, if I could, you got to figure out how to do it.
Another funny thing that's uh happened recently is he flew to uh Vancouver for a Ted talk and you know there's people that, of course, work at the airport.
Oh, that recent interview that he just did yeah okay um, his plane was there in Vancouver and there's people that worked at the airport and they took a picture and they're like Tesla fans or whatever, and they tweeted at me and I retweeted it And then like, Elon's team came to whoever the owner was of whoever worked there, and they contacted the person that worked there and they're like, you got to take this down, or whatever.
You can't take pictures.
And they're like, they're threatening to fire him.
The person told me.
The guy that took a picture of his plane?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, usually in those contracts anyway, when you work at like an FBO at an airport, you're not supposed to take pictures anyway.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Especially, yeah, if you're an employee, I see how that could be an issue.
But it just shows that they're like watching my account.
Yeah, he's got a team watching your account, right?
Now, didn't you say something about like some of the people around him were trying to reach out to you to try to convince you to do something so it wasn't him?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So there was like big people in the Twitter community of like Elon and Tesla and SpaceX and they like kept asking me to like take it down even after he blocked me.
They kept asking me and I felt it was kind of suspicious.
People DMing you?
Yeah, that like I knew who they were.
So your idea is that he basically contacted these people and said, hey, convince this guy to take it down so he doesn't can't like sell me out and make it look like I'm trying to do this because I'm trying to push this whole freedom of speech thing and I'm trying to buy Twitter and I'm trying to look like a good guy.
And I don't want to look like a guy who's like, you know, worried about his own his own image.
I mean, it was like people with like probably like a million subscribers or a million, no, I wouldn't say a million followers, but they had a big growth and they were like Twitter Tesla people on Twitter.
Have you ever thought about like expanding this stuff this kind of thing out outside of Twitter to other platforms like I mean I put it on Facebook and Instagram and oh do you really Telegram yeah, what if you did like a live thing on YouTube would you do that like a live YouTube video tracker like a stream on like a YouTube channel yeah,
I could do that that would be sick yeah, you should definitely do that I feel like people like like a website though because then it's like more interactive yeah, but everyone's always on social media websites there they're there already and it's and it's like a It's easier to spread it.
It's way easier to spread it.
I mean, me personally, I don't really like going to personal websites.
If somebody I'm interested in or it's somebody that's doing something cool, if they have a website, I'm more likely to watch a YouTube video about them or check out their Instagram profile than I am to go to their website.
That's just me personally.
But yeah, it's dope that you're doing it on all those other platforms.
I think a live YouTube video would be pretty sick.
Yeah, just got to have a place to stream it 24-7.
Now, can you actually show like a live animation of where the thing's flying?
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Yeah, yeah.
Can you really?
Yeah, from that website?
Yeah.
Do you have merch?
Yeah, I do.
Do you really?
Yeah.
What's your website called again?
groundcontrol.com?
Yeah, but it's like a short version of it.
It's not the full words.
So how do you spell it?
G-R-N-D.
Wait, C-R-N-T.
Just Google it, Jordan.
You'll find it.
Yeah, it's on.
We got to pull it up on here.
I want to see what your merch looks like.
It's Elon Jet stuff, and it's like, I know how high Elon is.
You know, he smoked pot on Joe Rogan's podcast?
Yeah.
I have that picture on there.
Do you really?
On the shirts?
Yeah.
It's on the.
Or you can put elonjet.net, and it'll redirect to it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
We got to get on this.
Elon Jet.
Now, are you piping in the oligarch jets and all that stuff into the same website?
And then you can click store on the top.
Just double click the top bar.
Yeah, there you go.
Click store.
Fly exclusive.
Oh, you got an ad running on there.
Okay.
You're monetizing it.
That's good.
Scroll down.
That's freaking sick.
Are a lot of people buying these shirts?
Back when the news came out, there were some articles that I was making merch then.
See, everything I did.
That hoodie.
I love that hoodie.
Yeah.
So the articles and the newscasters that were interviewing you, they were talking about your merch as well.
Yeah.
Pumping it up.
Ground Control.
GroundControl.net.
That's sick, man.
Yeah.
Super sick.
So are you doing other podcasts too, or is it only mainly like news stations, like TV channels?
There was one from my local town that someone went to my high school that they have kind of like a small one on TikTok, The Wet Slap.
The Wet Slap?
Yeah.
That's his podcast?
Yeah.
And that's the only other like big podcast that you've done?
Yeah.
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Tim Dillon was talking to me.
Tim Dillon was talking to you on Twitter.
Yeah, what did he say?
I think he wanted me to come on.
Why don't you do it?
Yeah, I think I will.
Yeah, I think you should, dude.
That'd be freaking sick.
Yeah, he's a funny motherfucker.
He's a he's really, really popular.
Yeah, what did he ask you?
I think he thought the whole thing was funny and everything, but he was on his tour.
Yeah, so he was busy at the time.
Okay, yeah, I mean, he comes up.
I think he comes to Florida quite a bit.
Are you into he's really big into like crypto and NFTs and shit.
Are you into that as well?
I mean, a little bit, not a crazy amount.
Do you own any NFTs?
No.
No.
But I have crypto.
I was mining.
Oh, you were mining?
Yeah.
Really?
For a while.
How long were you mining?
A couple months, probably like six months.
Mining Ethereum with GPUs or?
I think just I was using NiceHash.
It was easy.
But what kind of computers were you using to mine?
I had two GPUs.
Good computer.
Two GPUs.
270 to 1080.
Okay.
And when did you start doing it?
Back in like October.
Oh, October of last year.
Okay.
Yeah, that's a hard gimmick.
That's a hard gig to do because all the competition with it right now.
And they say that Ethereum's moving to like Ethereum 2.0 where you're not going to be able to mine anymore.
So all the GPUs are becoming worthless.
But before it was like impossible.
I tried doing it too.
You still can't buy them, really?
I mean, they're expensive.
It's crazy still.
Wow.
Yeah, because they were sold out everywhere.
You tried to buy one and it was impossible.
You go to Best Buy, you can't get them.
Whenever they would drop, there'd be a line around the building like twice.
Yeah.
Weird.
Well, brother, I appreciate you coming and doing this, man.
Yeah, thank you.
Anything else we didn't talk about that we should talk about?
Anything we missed that you think is good?
I don't think so.
No?
Tell people again where they can follow your accounts on Twitter and everything.
Yeah, you can find Elon Jett on Twitter, at Elon Jett.
And then my personal is Jack Sweeney, but with an X instead of an A.