ELON MUSK WAS BEATEN WITH SCHOOL BAGS AFTER CLASS AND HIS FATHER ERROL SAW NOTHING WRONG WITH IT... A CRAZY STORY. ELON SPENT 2 WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL the interviewer says it straight: "Elon has always talked about being badly bullied at school" Errol doesn't even pause "no he wasn't. he wasn't bullied at school" "so he's lying when he says that?" and then Errol explains his idea of normal "if you do well, you get beat. they wait for you after school, they hit you with their satchels. that's standard. I don't call that bullying" bullying, in his words, is only when a big kid picks on a small kid who can't defend himself then he tells the story himself a boy in Elon's grade had just lost his father. suicide. the boy was the one who found him Elon, in grade 8, said to that boy: "your father was stupid" Errol's comment on it is the line I can't stop thinking about: "Elon had a tendency to say that. he still does" the boy was much smaller than Elon. he pushed him down two flights of stairs, from the second floor to the ground floor. then ran down after him, found a piece of wood and kept hitting him 2 weeks in the hospital Errol says he went to the police. the police came to the school, the headmaster explained what Elon had said, and they refused to open a case "what Elon said was sufficient cause" that's the father's version, told calmly, decades later Elon's version is different. in his biography the beating is worse, and when he came home his father took the other boy's side and made him stand there while he was called an idiot. Kimbal has said Elon was beaten so badly he was unrecognizable so we have two stories about the same staircase in one, a kid nearly gets killed and nobody protects him in the other, a kid says something cruel and gets what was coming and here's the uncomfortable part: Errol might be right about one thing "he still does" look at grown-up Elon. "go f*** yourself" to advertisers live on stage. calling people idiots on X in front of 200M+ followers. he never lost the habit of saying the one thing you're not supposed to say the difference is that at 14 it cost him two weeks in a hospital bed at 55 it costs him almost nothing. sometimes it even moves the stock the boy who got thrown down the stairs for his mouth grew up and bought the biggest megaphone on earth