Elon Musk’s Just-Revealed Texts to His Friend Tell You a Lot About His Character

Oculus founder-turned-defense-contractor Palmer Luckey is opening up about his relationship with mercurial CEO Elon Musk — and about the politically incorrect stuff they discuss. In an appearance on the Wall Street Journal's "What's News" podcast, the intelligence weapons maker said that although he's not quite sure the billionaire considers him a friend, the pair do text each other pretty regularly. Despite both being major donors to president Donald Trump, their most recent text exchange wasn't explicitly political. "The last thing we were talking about was the fact that the Black Eyed Peas' Grammy-winning song, 'Let's Get Retarded,' has been taken off every single music platform," the Hawaiian shirt aficionado recounted, "and replaced with the child-safe version that was for children's sports games, 'Let's Get It Started.'" "So that was the last thing that we were talking about," he continued, "and how it's an example of memory-holding that nobody even really talks about, despit ... Read full article.