NEW YORK – Earnings calls are typically a pretty dull affair in which analysts get to ask questions about the company’s business and performance. But not for Elon Musk.

The CEO of Tesla hosted the company’s latest earnings call Wednesday in which he brushed analysts off, told them their questions were boring, and spent a significant amount of time fielding questions from a guy with a YouTube channel.

Tesla burned through $700 million in cash last quarter, according to its financials, but its production woes appear to be easing.

Musk is known for his quirks, but investors appeared to be put off. Tesla shares were down nearly 5% during after-hours trading, despite posting better-than-expected earnings results.

Here are the five strangest moments from the call.

1. ‘Excuse me. Next. ‘

Part way through the Q&A session, an analyst from Bernstein was in a back-and-forth with Deepak Ahuja, Tesla’s chief financial officer, about capital expenditures.

But Musk interrupted.

“Excuse me. Next. Boring, bonehead questions are not cool. Next?” he said.

2. ‘We’re gonna go to YouTube’

After the awkward dressing down of one analyst, Musk quickly shut down the next guy.

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An analyst from RBC Capital Markets posed a question about reservations for the Model 3, Tesla’s first mass-market car that’s proven wildly popular but has been plagued by production issues.

But after a long pause, Musk refused to answer.

“We’re gonna go to YouTube. Sorry. These questions are so dry. They’re killing me,” he said.

What exactly Musk meant by “go to YouTube” wasn’t at all clear. But then the floor was given to Galileo Russell, host of the “CEO Based Investing” YouTube channel, which has a modest 1,100 subscribers.

His videos include one entitled “10 Reasons I (and You) Should Buy A Tesla Model 3 and 3 Reasons I (and You) Wouldn’t.”

3. YouTuber asks a dozen questions

Russell, egged on by Musk, asked about a dozen questions and stayed locked in conversation with Musk and the other Tesla executives for over 20 minutes.

Among the topics they discussed:

  • Tesla’s self-driving ride-sharing efforts. Musk said Tesla is “well positioned” to have “millions, really tens of millions” of shared autonomous electric vehicles on the road. When it’ll come on the market depends on regulatory approval. But Musk says the tech will be fully developed “by end of next year.”
  • The Model Y. Musk said he expects production of Tesla’s yet-to-be-unveiled crossover Model Y to begin in “early 2020” and it won’t be built in the Fremont factory.

“Thanks for the great questions,” Musk said at the end of their exchange.

4. ‘Incredibly irresponsible’

Musk has gone on similar tirades about the press in the past, and on Wednesday he admonished journalists who have covered Tesla crashes in which the vehicle had the Autopilot feature engaged.

“It’s really incredibly irresponsible of any journalists with integrity to write an article that would lead people to believe that autonomy is less safe,” Musk said, according to a rough transcript of the call. “Because people might actually turn it off, and then die.”

“So, anyway, I’m very upset by this,” he added

Tesla’s Autopilot feature is not fully autonomous. It handles some driving functions, but not all, and drivers are expected to stay engaged when the feature is activated. A government report from January 2017 found that Autopilot reduced crash rates for Tesla by 40%.

  • 5. ‘Moats are lame’

Russel, the YouTuber, asked why Musk would want to allow other car brands to use Tesla’s Supercharger stations, which the company has installed all over the country.

“I’m just wondering why that isn’t a moat,” he said, according to the rough transcript. “The charging infrastructure you guys have built would take years and millions of dollars for another brand to replicate, so I’m just curious about the strategic thinking behind opening that up versus keeping it closed.”

Musk responded, “I think moats are lame.”

“If your only defense against invading armies is a moat, you will not last long,” he said.

The financials

Meanwhile, about the earnings …

Filings show Tesla’s money stockpile shrank from $3.4 billion to $2.7 billion the first three months of the year.

Investors expected Tesla to eat through significant cash as the company doubled down on solving a string of manufacturing issues that have plagued the Model 3. That’s Tesla’s first mass market car with a starting sticker price of $35,000, and it’s success is considered key to the company’s business model.

Tesla said it hit a production rate of 2,270 Model 3’s per week in April, and it was able to churn out 2,000 or more cars for three straight weeks – finally reaching a milestone it hoped to hit last year.

Musk made a renewed commitment earlier this year to getting production back on track. He said recently that he occasionally sleeps on the factory floor.

“It looks like Elon’s all-nighters at the factory are paying off, because Tesla seems to be finally getting some momentum,” Jessica Caldwell, executive director of industry analysis at Edmunds, said in a statement Wednesday.

Musk said during a conference call with investors that Tesla should start making 3,000 per week in the next three months.

But if more manufacturing hangups are in store for Tesla, the company could be headed for a cash crunch.

The company is facing $1 billion worth of bond payments that will come due over the next year, including $230 million due in November and $920 million next March.

In March, Moody’s downgraded its debt deeper into junk bond status and warned more downgrades could be coming. Standard & Poor’s also has warned of the possibility of a downgrade.

Bloomberg has been tracking production by continuously monitoring the issuance of vehicle identification numbers issued by the NTSB. At the end of last quarter, it estimated Tesla was making about 1,000 a week, a big jump from the fourth quarter but less than half the 2,500 a week target that Tesla hoped to hit by the end of 2017.