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Drive Thru News #52 - The Journey into Cyber Truck Ownership! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  I guess we would be remiss if we didn't talk about Tesla.
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  Oh, didn't we talk about him enough already?
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  Was that the Law and Order music?
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  Yep.
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  What kind of shenanigans is Elon up to this time?
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  Have you noticed that we have begun to really split hairs on Tesla?
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  I remember when it was just, we would be remiss.
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  And then it became Teslagate, and then it became stupid shit that Elon does, and
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  now the Cybertruck has its own segment by itself, because it is a spectacle.
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  Yes.
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  I love how it's all inclusive.
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  It's the car, it's the man, it's the company, just all rolled up into one.
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  There you go, there's their new slogan, the car, the man, the company.
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  Musk.
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  They should just drop Tesla.
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  They should just be Musk.
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  Are you driving?
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  God, I can't even say it.
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  Are you driving your Musk?
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  Yes, I got my Musk.
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  Riding in my Musk.
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  What was the name of that perfume in Anchorman where he was like, Musk.
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  Jaguar bottle.
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  He would open it up and it would like smell like hell.
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  Like that's exactly what I'm thinking here.
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  Sex Panther?
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  Was that what it was?
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  Musk.
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  But before we dig in to the showcase, I have breaking news.
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  I received an email from Tesla.
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  They, uh, hacked your account and have all your personal info.
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  They would like you to reset your password.
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  Yes.
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  There was a security breach and the, no, I'm kidding.
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  We found out a little secret when we were doing a crossover episode.
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  With one of our guests, Elon Musk snort my hundred dollars up his nose.
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  Is that what happened?
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  Well, he must've spent it on something because you didn't get your day
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  one t shirt that you were supposed to get as a reservation holder.
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  Did you get it as a reservation holder or after you place your order?
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  No, you were supposed to get it when you placed your reservation.
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  Oh, I didn't get anything.
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  That's what we were told.
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  Remember, you were all upset about that.
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  It wouldn't fit me now anyway.
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  I don't know what happened to my t shirt.
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  You know what's funny is that t shirt might be worth more than that
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  Cybertruck allotment at this point.
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  If everybody got one and there's like millions of people put
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  in orders for Cybertrucks.
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  Man, those were some expensive t shirts, 100.
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  Where is your order?
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  Have you received Dogecoin?
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  Your limited edition Foundation Series Cybertruck is ready to order.
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  Did you say limited edition?
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  Limited edition Foundation Series.
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  Cybertruck is ready to order.
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  I have been spending all my time literally 24 7 for the last month
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  Trying to cancel my order and and just not having any luck Canceling my order
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  because I got in with my deposit on day one So i'm one of like the first couple
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  hundred as an early reservation holder.
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  You have been invited to order Your foundation series, Cybertruck
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  with early access to delivery.
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  I'm guessing that means 2027, maybe.
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  I don't know.
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  It says further on that they're delivering trucks in California and Texas, and
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  they're delivering as early as 2024.
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  I don't know, whatever.
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  Warm climates.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, we'll get into that.
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  We'll get into that.
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  So yeah, I need to call Tesla and get my a hundred dollars back.
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  That's what's going to happen with that.
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  So let's dive into the showcase.
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  If you haven't been able to tell, we are talking about all things, Cybertruck.
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  That's right.
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  I am so glad you're back.
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  This is going to be a hell of a winter recap.
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  Obviously, congratulations are in order.
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  You had your second son, you know, that's an awesome big event in your
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  life, but maybe not as big as getting the opportunity to pick up this Cybertruck.
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  Yes, yes, yes.
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  So to quote Steven Izzy from our Everything I Learned From Movies
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  episodes, what have we learned about the Cybertruck now that people are
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  taking delivery of these things?
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  We've learned that they're available, but they're not available.
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  Tesla really doesn't want to sell any because they're trying to offer
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  you money to buy another Tesla.
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  So you don't sit around waiting for a cyber truck that may or may not exist.
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  All the ones that are out there running or doing funky things like
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  crashing and weird things like that.
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  All good things.
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  Let's start with this.
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  You've got that email.
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  Does it give you any details?
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  Are you able to go in and maybe spec it out and figure out
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  how much it's going to cost?
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  Because I've heard some rumors about what may be the real price.
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  is for these Cybertrucks.
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  So this one's going to be expensive.
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  Your Cybertruck will be fully optioned.
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  It will include limited edition laser etched badging, premium accessories,
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  charging equipment with PowerShare home backup hardware, all terrain
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  tires, full self driving capability.
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  Wait, all terrain tires?
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  All terrains.
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  She got hung up on all terrain tires?
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  Wait, what do we mean?
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  The tires that can't get up a hill in the woods?
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  Or when there's like snow?
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  Be the ones.
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  I don't know which all terrain tires they are offering, but they're
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  probably not Duratrax, which means they're probably not very good.
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  Don't ruin it for everybody.
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  But here's the part I thought Tanya would have honed in on.
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  Self driving capability.
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  That's what I thought too.
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  She got hung up on these all terrain tires.
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  I wasn't listening Full self driving capability that will need to be
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  recalled before I even take delivery.
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  Yeah, because that's false advertising So maybe I should take
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  this email and just sue tesla.
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  Well, the lawsuit's not over yet That's why that's why they can still use it I
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  guess but still no talk about what it costs Well, I can continue to my account.
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  I haven't logged into this in like three years, four years, maybe five.
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  When was it first announced?
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  Like 15 years ago with that steampunk kind of like cyberpunk.
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  Wasn't it in the year before COVID?
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  The year 2000.
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  And the time before?
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  Yeah, it was like in the before times.
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  Yeah.
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  It was like in the November.
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  BC before COVID.
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  Yeah.
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  Before COVID.
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  I was working at that terrible mortgage company.
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  Oh man, that was a while ago then.
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  Yeah, 2019.
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  Jeez, five years since you put this deposit down.
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  And the one thing that makes your particular deposit special is
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  you actually went full in on the tri motor version of this thing.
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  So it is like the upper echelon of Cybertrucks if it ever comes to fruition.
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  That's why it's the top of the line limited edition.
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  Some or other.
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  Limited to somebody.
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  Limited to my imagination.
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  What I've read is They had all these bargain basement prices.
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  Oh, you can get a cyber truck.
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  It's going to be the cheapest truck in town.
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  Blah, blah, blah.
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  30, 000.
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  You know, all these numbers that you never sure.
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  It's sort of like Christmas time where they double the price and
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  then put it on sale 50 percent off.
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  One of those kinds of deals.
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  But I'm reading over a hundred grand for these things.
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  So the all wheel drive foundation series tri motor.
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  Fully loaded 99, 990 before taxes.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, they lost the tax credit, didn't they?
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  So you can't get that.
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  You can get the cyber beast.
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  I can upgrade if I wanted to, to the cyber beast for 119, 990.
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  Stop playing games.
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  Tesla a hundred thousand dollars or 120, 000 is dropping that 10
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  off does not make it any better.
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  I apparently had very lofty goals for my income when I put the order in
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  on this truck, I will tell you what.
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  But, but let's put that in perspective though.
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  We already know that pickup trucks are expensive to begin with, but
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  how much truck, real truck can you buy for a hundred grand these days?
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  I mean, you can get a fully optioned out.
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  Diesel 3500 dually or something like that.
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  F 250 King Ranch or something like that.
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  Talk about a beast.
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  That's a real beast compared to this thing.
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  And we'll get into more of these specifics of what's working and
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  what's not with the Cybertruck here as we've learned in doing this research.
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  I'm not even done.
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  But wait, there's more!
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  Call now!
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  So yeah, 100, 000 or 120, 000.
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  You can add the range extender for 16, 000.
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  So it's 116, 000 or 136, 000 for any of the tri motor versions.
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  Uh, what percentage APR these days?
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  Car loans are for excellent credits and like the five to 7
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  percent range, something like that, and it only goes up from there.
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  Still a lot.
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  Well, you financed it for 30 years, like a mortgage.
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  I mean, when you're talking six figure cars.
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  So, okay.
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  Yeah.
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  The interest rate would be 6.
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  59%.
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  You can do up to 84 months.
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  With a 4, 500 down payment, your monthly payment for seven years on a truck that
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  probably won't last two years is 1, 500.
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  Tesla not only does their own insurance, but I think they
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  do their own financing too.
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  Well, they also do some other financing.
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  Do you guys remember the Tesla Roadster and the thousand people that put money
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  down on that thing like 10 years ago?
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  If you do the math on that, it's like a cool quarter million
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  dollars they got tax free.
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  What kind of scheme is it?
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  The Like, does it have a name where you get people to put deposits down
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  and you get a million people to put a hundred dollars down and then you
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  use that money to finance yourself and don't give them anything?
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  I believe that's called a sweepstakes.
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  So this is the Tesla model.
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  We've got this great idea.
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  We can't afford to build it, so we're going to sell it now, and then
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  we're going to use the funds from the sale to build it, and then we're
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  going to come up with another idea, and we're going to sell that, we're
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  going to sell the idea, and then use those funds to build this other idea.
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  I figured it out.
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  It's like the Fyre Festival.
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  Everybody putting all this money.
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  Yes, yes.
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  Some people got t shirts.
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  Tesla is the Fyre Festival of the automotive world.
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  I love it.
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  Like Eric said, the Ponzi scheme, all of it's vaporware.
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  So how many Tesla roadsters are going to get built?
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  Do you think, well, the Tesla roadsters are funding the cyber truck.
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  Can you put your deposit down yet?
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  A thousand people or something put down deposits on those things.
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  And how many years ago was that?
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  We're talking about the lasers and the cannons and it's gonna be 0 to 60 in 1.
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  9 seconds.
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  It's gonna be the fastest car to play.
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  Remember that episode we did season one, Brad, like five
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  years ago with Bobby Parks.
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  And he was talking about how they were going to go drag
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  racing with the Tesla Roadster.
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  And I'm like, yeah, okay.
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  I didn't believe it then.
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  And we're all cautiously optimistic, but it's literally been five years.
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  It's never going to happen.
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  Well, we said the same thing about the Cybertruck, so.
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  Yes, but it's also here rife with problems.
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  Yes.
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  So this is the Tesla Roadster Sweepstake and Cybertruck Semi Truck Program.
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  Great, if you order now, we'll throw in A windshield wiper blade.
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  Does it have windshield wipers?
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  Yeah, it's got that one, it's got that one giant windshield wiper.
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  Large one.
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  That wiper blade keeps giving them issues.
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  Something so basic.
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  And remember I said blade, not blades.
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  It's that six foot windshield wiper.
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  They're delaying Cybertruck orders because the windshield wiper doesn't work.
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  Well, it also takes 37 menu clicks to turn it on.
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  They don't want you to use it.
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  That's why it's buried so far down in the menu.
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  Just the supply chain quality issue on the wiper motors.
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  They're failing.
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  Nobody.
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  Well, you have to imagine the torque put on that wiper motor with
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  a single arm that's like six feet long and then the air resistance.
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  How big is that motor that's got to move that thing?
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  I didn't do the engineering calcs.
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  It's a 2.
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  3 liter EcoBoost.
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  Just to move the windshield wiper.
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  It does remind me having seen it in person.
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  If you remember the 190E and some of the other Mercedes of that time period,
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  in like the late 80s, early 90s.
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  Some of them had like that big scissor wiper.
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  Honda Civic had that.
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  Yeah, but they also had a single wiper blade on the Mercedes and it was massive.
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  It worked then, I guess.
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  Okay, so we confirmed that.
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  It has side mirrors now.
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  It doesn't have lasers or sharks with lasers.
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  It kind of looks like a shark toy with lasers on it in a way.
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  We'll talk about the aesthetics here as we go.
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  We already know about the less than 10 microns of panel gap and all that stuff.
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  We've reviewed that in the past.
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  Better than Legos.
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  You know what I'm not seeing?
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  I'm not seeing how to get my 100 back.
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  That's what I'm not seeing.
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  Where's the link for that?
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  You told the ethos, the great wide interwebs.
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  You would give away your Cybertruck allotment for a bucket of chicken.
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  Has anybody taken you up on this yet?
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  I mean, come on, man.
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  No, I've been waiting for Mark Hewitt to give me a call and
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  he just has not reached out.
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  So I don't know what's going on with that.
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  Because he's trying to figure out how to buy Dogecoin because
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  even that doesn't exist anymore.
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  Is your donation to the Tesla Corporation, is that tax
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  deductible on your yearly taxes?
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  It's supposed to be fully refundable.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I, I filed it.
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  I got the tax write off for that back in 2019.
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  I do have a correction to make though breaking news.
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  My foundation series is not the tri motor cyber beast.
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  Oh, it's just dual motor.
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  So the dual motor is a hundred thousand dollars.
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  When the dual motor was supposed to be 80, 000 when they first announced it.
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  Do we have a countdown timer for this like we did with the DeLorean?
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  Remember that?
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  That we need the same thing for you.
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  Oh, the stopwatch was stopped back in 2019 because I'm not actually ever going
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  to pick up one of these fucking things.
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  No, because you want a bucket of chicken for this.
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  Yes, I want a bucket of chicken.
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  I will even take a bucket 2019.
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  You know what?
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  No.
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  I want, when it was first announced, one of the day one Popeye's had that chicken
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  sandwich that was sold out and people were like stabbing each other for them.
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  I want one of those.
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  Give me one of those Popeye's chicken sandwiches and you can have my 100.
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  So you're saying that's worth more than your Cybertruck allotment?
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  I don't Yeah, yes, yes, exactly.
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  Even if you did get your cyber truck, I'm going to convince you to buy this
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  thing by the time it's over, right?
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  This is like our little, what should I buy here?
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  You're not going to convince my wallet to buy it.
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  You only get one car to buy them.
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  It's a cyber truck, but you only get one car to buy it.
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  It's a cyber truck.
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  I guess I'm riding my bicycle cyber bike.
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  Think of the mulch you can haul or you can't haul.
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  Apparently we'll talk about that too.
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  If you did take delivery of this thing, let's say you set up all the
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  financing and you're making your payments and all this kind of stuff.
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  And you could, I got my cyber truck and you decide in three
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  months, you want to get rid of it.
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  There was a bunch of, again, shenanigans are the words I'm going to use here
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  about whether or not you could actually.
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  Unload the car, trade it in, get rid of it, sell it.
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  Were you going to get sued?
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  Aren't you going to get sued?
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  I still don't know the answer to this.
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  I don't know either.
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  I would assume you would get sued, but it depends.
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  I think if you try to flip it for more than you paid, like if I took it to
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  CarMax and said, Hey, will you take this?
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  First of all, they won't take it.
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  But second of all, If CarMax was to take it, I certainly wouldn't get market value.
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  I'd get below market value for it.
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  So I don't think Tesla would have a problem with that.
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  I think they're trying to stop the people that are taking their day
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  one investment and flipping it to somebody else for 150, 000, 200, 000.
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  They just sold one at Mecum and it came in at 105, 000, which
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  is just Barely over sticker.
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  And I'm like, wow.
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  Okay.
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  Which is what I was hoping to do until I couldn't even get it,
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  uh, bought a good chicken for it.
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  You mentioned before that they're offering people a thousand bucks
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  to change their reservations over.
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  Is that in the system?
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  Can you do that now?
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  Can you convert that to a Tesla model three reservation instead?
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  Not anymore.
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  I could only have done that by end of year last year.
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  That's really timely too because they just announced that they're
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  going to be restyling the Model 3.
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  So if you missed that window and said, you know what, the heck with the Cybertruck.
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  I want to get that new Model 3 that's coming out.
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  Now you're sort of stuck.
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  But with, again, what you got, uh, okay.
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  So that's out the window.
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  That's no fun.
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  You can't sell it.
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  You can't get a thousand bucks for it.
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  You can't get the economic rebate from the government for it.
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  The price went up because of inflation from the day they announced it.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  What's he going to do?
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  What are you to do?
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  Well, you're going to buy a bucket of chicken because you're
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  hungry, but nobody's going to give it to you for that cyber trick.
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  A lot.
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  I mean, we've established that I'm going to get my a hundred dollars back
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  and then I'm going to buy a hundred dollars worth of chicken and I'm going
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  to share it with my closest friends.
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  And I think this next article sort of.
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  It's this idea right on the head, which is the cyber truck is just
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  another bloated EV that misses the point of being green transportation.
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  And this is written by like an it blog or whatever.
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  And so they're comparing the cyber truck to the F 1T and all this kind of stuff.
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  I have this like Dodoi moment when I look at this, because it is not functional.
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  And this does give us an opportunity to talk about the aesthetics of the truck.
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  You see the videos like on YouTube and stuff.
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  I don't know what to think.
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  I don't know who to believe when people say, Oh, it's so amazing.
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  It looks so good.
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  What do you consider ugly?
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  Right?
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  I guess I need to phrase it that way because I don't see the beauty.
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  I can understand someone in the art community trying to explain to me why you
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  bism and all the Picasso and the melting clocks and all this stuff is beautiful.
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  Okay, great.
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  But I don't see the beauty in this thing.
• 17:09
  I think beautiful is The wrong word.
• 17:12
  There's nothing beautiful about it.
• 17:14
  There are very few cars these days that are beautiful.
• 17:17
  But why would you buy this thing?
• 17:18
  Is it just ironic?
• 17:20
  Is it like those memes that I don't understand?
• 17:22
  Because in that very peak, it looks like it's got a lot of headroom for the driver.
• 17:27
  That's all I care about.
• 17:28
  Have you seen anybody say that?
• 17:29
  sit in it.
• 17:29
  No.
• 17:30
  It's like a Supra.
• 17:31
  You're on the slope side of the roof.
• 17:33
  So there is no headroom.
• 17:34
  Oh, well, that's dumb.
• 17:35
  It's so weird.
• 17:36
  I don't even know how you see out of these.
• 17:37
  I don't get it.
• 17:38
  And so when you flip it over, you can spin it around when you flip it on the trail.
• 17:43
  So yeah, it's just another bloated truck.
• 17:46
  Evie bloated Evie.
• 17:47
  Yeah.
• 17:47
  Not good as a truck.
• 17:48
  There's not good as an Evie.
• 17:50
  What is it good as?
• 17:51
  Well, I don't know, because let's talk about that all wheel drive system
• 17:54
  and those fabulous all terrain tires that Tanya got so excited about.
• 17:57
  Bye.
• 17:58
  Have you seen these videos of the few Cybertrucks that are out in the snow?
• 18:02
  None, I haven't seen the ones of the snow, but I saw the one that wrecked.
• 18:05
  That was a while ago, but these ones in the snow, I mean, you can see the
• 18:08
  all wheel drive trying to do something.
• 18:10
  There's definitely some latency from front to back, because obviously
• 18:12
  the systems aren't connected.
• 18:13
  It's not like Quattro or like a Jeep or something like that.
• 18:16
  There's no mechanical all wheel drive here.
• 18:18
  It's all digital, right?
• 18:19
  These all terrain tires must be slicks because they don't work.
• 18:22
  And then the hilarious video was over on Jalopnik, and this Cybertruck gets
• 18:26
  pulled out by like a regular F 350.
• 18:29
  Looked like he was just off the showroom, like nothing special.
• 18:32
  It's not like he had a lift kit, you know, 93 inch tires with
• 18:34
  Bigfoot knobs on them or something.
• 18:36
  He just pulled the Cybertruck out.
• 18:37
  And the Cybertruck's not light by any stretch of the imagination, but
• 18:40
  That's something to be said, too.
• 18:41
  You have a heavy vehicle in the snow, it should kind of like, let's say,
• 18:44
  push itself down into the ground.
• 18:46
  If you have decent tires, you should be able to get around, but
• 18:48
  it can't get out of its own way.
• 18:50
  It looks like snow and ice is stuck in the grooves of the tires, so
• 18:53
  basically you've created a slick.
• 18:55
  I'm assuming it doesn't have a low range transfer case?
• 18:59
  Why would it?
• 18:59
  It's all digital, right?
• 19:00
  There's no real all wheel drive system in there.
• 19:03
  I know, I know.
• 19:04
  I bet an Audi could get out of that hole.
• 19:05
  I mean, that second video, Where he's kind of going up the driveway
• 19:09
  backends, like fishtailing and stuff.
• 19:11
  And it's just trying to crab walk its way up to your point.
• 19:14
  I think a Audi could do that.
• 19:17
  My Jeep could definitely do that.
• 19:18
  There's a lot of other four wheel drive vehicles that could do it.
• 19:20
  So you're paying all this extra money for dual motor, tri motor, whatever.
• 19:25
  For what?
• 19:25
  To have a bunch of extra stuff in the rain?
• 19:28
  This thing could be front wheel drive and I guess it'd
• 19:30
  be like the new Aztec, I guess.
• 19:31
  To be fair, a lot of vehicles would get stuck like that, though.
• 19:35
  It depends on how you're driving it.
• 19:36
  It depends on if you've got a low range.
• 19:38
  I think your Jeep's got a four low that you can put it in, which
• 19:40
  is, it's different gearing and changes the power delivery, which is
• 19:45
  necessary in snow and stuff like that.
• 19:46
  You know what?
• 19:47
  This reminds me of on Top Gear, they used to make fun of the BMW X5s.
• 19:50
  Yeah.
• 19:51
  Because the all wheel drive system in those was not very good.
• 19:54
  If they had appropriate tires, or maybe they should put chains on their tires.
• 19:57
  Kind of defeats the purpose, though.
• 19:58
  My truck would probably look like that.
• 20:00
  With an empty bed, with no weight over the rear.
• 20:02
  I guess the battery's in the rear.
• 20:03
  I'm not impressed, though.
• 20:04
  And I don't think a lot of people are.
• 20:06
  And you know what else really isn't impressive?
• 20:08
  We've talked about it many times before, which are these Stupid drag races.
• 20:12
  Tesla versus the world.
• 20:13
  And this latest one is just, I don't even know what to say.
• 20:17
  It's just a spectacle.
• 20:19
  I also heard that it was a complete farce and it's mostly produced and or staged.
• 20:23
  So it's a cyber truck that's trailering a 911.
• 20:27
  Drag racing a 911.
• 20:29
  And what am I supposed to take away from this?
• 20:31
  Who won?
• 20:32
  Well, who do you think won?
• 20:33
  And they were doing a what?
• 20:34
  Quarter mile?
• 20:35
  Quarter mile drag race.
• 20:36
  I would assume an electric vehicle can get up to the quarter mile faster.
• 20:40
  But again, what is the point?
• 20:42
  Who cares?
• 20:43
  It wasn't even a tea can?
• 20:44
  No!
• 20:45
  It was a regular gas 911.
• 20:47
  Both are base level 911 Carreras.
• 20:49
  So no additional power or anything like that.
• 20:51
  It's just a base 911.
• 20:53
  Which is still no slouch.
• 20:55
  It's 350, 400 horsepower in the base level 911.
• 20:58
  So.
• 20:58
  Tesla and Porsche go back and forth all the time with who's better.
• 21:02
  I don't know why.
• 21:03
  Yeah, but you don't see a 911 towing a Model 3 or a take hand towing a Model 3.
• 21:07
  It doesn't make any sense.
• 21:08
  Cayenne.
• 21:09
  So that's what they should have done.
• 21:11
  That's what Porsche needs to come back with, with a
• 21:13
  Cayenne Turbo towing a Model 3.
• 21:15
  And blowing this thing out of the water.
• 21:17
  Publicity stunt for the sake of publicity stunts, to me, it doesn't make any sense.
• 21:21
  It's just another stupid Tesla drag race, as far as I'm concerned.
• 21:24
  Yep.
• 21:24
  No, stupid drag race, But this time, the Tesla loses?
• 21:29
  Loser!
• 21:30
  Loser!
• 21:31
  Was this an off road drag race?
• 21:33
  It was.
• 21:33
  Between an F 150 Lightning and a Cybertruck.
• 21:36
  And the Lightning leaves the Cybertruck in the dust.
• 21:39
  I mean, the sand.
• 21:40
  I was gonna say, he dusted him.
• 21:42
  Yeah, he dusted him good.
• 21:43
  Real good.
• 21:45
  Oh, well, you know, the tires are the problem, the supply chain,
• 21:49
  the manufacturer of the rubber.
• 21:51
  That Tesla got a head start, but that lightning came up quick.
• 21:55
  It just called it a day.
• 21:56
  Maybe it's just the way because when you video wheels and stuff, it almost looks
• 22:01
  like the rear of the F 150 actually locks up and he's just dragging the rear wheel.
• 22:07
  It's the camera.
• 22:08
  I could watch this video all day long and repeat.
• 22:11
  It is just fantastic.
• 22:12
  I love the guy With the American flag, like, yeah,
• 22:16
  yeah, yeah, absolutely love it.
• 22:22
  Oh, that's good stuff.
• 22:23
  Which is a better run company, Tesla or General Motors?
• 22:31
  Notice that there was not a Chevy Silverado in this drag race.
• 22:35
  It was a Ford.
• 22:36
  That is true.
• 22:36
  Now, the more interesting thing.
• 22:38
  So Motor Trends has done a comparison test before you read the answer between the.
• 22:43
  Cybertruck, the Rivian R1T, and the F 150 Lightning.
• 22:48
  Which truck do you think came out on top?
• 22:51
  I'm gonna take a wild stab here.
• 22:53
  And of course they looked at the real world mileage, towing, they
• 22:57
  looked at off road capability.
• 22:59
  Acceleration, they did some like figure eight tests.
• 23:02
  How many Porsches were they towing in this exercise?
• 23:05
  They towed some 3, 200 almost pound camper trailer.
• 23:09
  All right.
• 23:10
  The real question is who comes in second.
• 23:12
  Okay.
• 23:12
  Because we already know who comes in first.
• 23:14
  No, who do you think comes in first?
• 23:16
  Go bottom up.
• 23:17
  Who's number three?
• 23:18
  I think the Lightning is at the bottom.
• 23:19
  Oh, I was going to put the Lightning at top.
• 23:22
  No, we already know the Lightning's second.
• 23:24
  It sucks at towing.
• 23:25
  Like we've seen those real life tests with the guys with the
• 23:28
  campers and all that stuff.
• 23:30
  I think that's at the bottom.
• 23:31
  We haven't seen a real life test with the Cybertruck of the Rivian.
• 23:34
  No, it's towed a 9 11.
• 23:36
  That's all we needed to know.
• 23:37
  It beat a 9 11 towing a 9 11.
• 23:39
  You can tow a 9 11 down a quarter mile, not 300 miles down the interstate.
• 23:43
  How far is your home depot from your house?
• 23:45
  About 4.
• 23:47
  5 miles.
• 23:47
  There you go.
• 23:48
  That's as far as you need to go.
• 23:49
  But then can you shovel mulch over the side?
• 23:51
  You laugh, but in the cargo carrying category, I will say this.
• 23:55
  They commented that the Cybertruck, you can't easily shovel mulch out over the
• 24:00
  side rails, as you can in other trucks.
• 24:02
  Boom, mulch.
• 24:03
  I've never seen anybody shovel mulch out of their truck.
• 24:06
  Is that a thing?
• 24:07
  Like, all these guys with their pristine bed liners.
• 24:09
  I'm like, you buy bag mulch.
• 24:12
  Come on.
• 24:12
  I don't think they actually put mulch in these.
• 24:14
  I think it's just a funny way of saying, like, the way that
• 24:16
  the bed sides are angled.
• 24:18
  It's Not really great for getting stuff out.
• 24:21
  Anyway, so you think number three is the lightning, so
• 24:23
  who do we think is number two?
• 24:24
  I don't want it to be the Rivian.
• 24:26
  Is this one of those, like, it's slanted in favor of the Cybertruck because
• 24:30
  everybody's given it so much grief?
• 24:32
  Who do you think is number two?
• 24:34
  I'm gonna roll hard.
• 24:35
  I'm gonna take a chance.
• 24:36
  And say the Rivian beat the Tesla.
• 24:39
  I have to abstain from voting because I saw the results.
• 24:43
  Oh, dang.
• 24:44
  All right, so what, what happened?
• 24:45
  The Rivian is number one in this comparison, followed by the Cybertruck,
• 24:50
  and then followed by the F 150 Lightning.
• 24:54
  Logic prevails.
• 24:58
  Yes.
• 24:59
  So what I learned from this, just from this opening picture, cause I
• 25:03
  didn't scroll any further than that.
• 25:04
  I didn't realize the headlights are in that gap, which I assume is a panel gap
• 25:10
  between the front nose and whatever that thing they call a bumper is at the bottom.
• 25:14
  Like, so that streak of light across the front, that's a daytime running light.
• 25:19
  Exactly.
• 25:19
  I thought that was the headlights.
• 25:21
  That's probably dumb.
• 25:22
  Oh my god, that makes the truck even stupider.
• 25:25
  So ugly.
• 25:26
  And then, now that I'm scrolling down, this is the first time I've gotten a
• 25:30
  very clear picture of the wiper blade.
• 25:34
  Oh, so speaking of the wiper blade.
• 25:36
  What does that wipe?
• 25:38
  Your ass.
• 25:39
  How does this work?
• 25:40
  I thought it, Brad said it.
• 25:43
  Here you go.
• 25:43
  Commenting on Tesla.
• 25:44
  Tesla presents a curve that's so steep, a new driver venturing into a
• 25:48
  big puddle will learn that with the wheels and windshield so far forward,
• 25:52
  visibility can be completely obscured by the splash of potentially muddy water.
• 25:56
  A terrible time to learn the two step process.
• 25:59
  For activating the Giga Wiper, thumb the tiny button on the steering wheel
• 26:04
  with the windshield washer icon.
• 26:06
  Then look down and choose your wiper setting from a pop up menu on the screen.
• 26:10
  Wow.
• 26:12
  It got really poor marks in terms of like visibility.
• 26:15
  Apparently you can't see out of the thing.
• 26:17
  They summarize it in two words.
• 26:19
  It says further in the article.
• 26:21
  Bunker visibility.
• 26:27
  Oh, this is terrible.
• 26:29
  I also like the other comment in the con column.
• 26:32
  Cosplay quote unquote off road tires.
• 26:34
  Apparently they were horrible.
• 26:36
  They mudded up immediately and it went like spinning and sliding.
• 26:40
  Whereas like the Rivian and the Ford on their like, Whatever normal
• 26:44
  street tires were, it was like, fine.
• 26:46
  And Cooper's that they got, you know, like whatever.
• 26:50
  I also like the borderline dangerous secondary trolls.
• 26:54
  Yeah.
• 26:54
  Like that windshield wiper, like there's a reason why, and it goes
• 26:59
  back to the manufacturers now also backpedaling on the whole infotainment.
• 27:05
  Let's control everything with.
• 27:06
  this big huge iPad in the middle of your console.
• 27:10
  The tactile, the levers behind the steering wheel, knobs that you can
• 27:14
  intuitively just reach for, feel, and you don't have to look at them.
• 27:17
  I shouldn't have to divert my eyes to use my windshield wipers.
• 27:21
  I should just be able to flick.
• 27:23
  They're on.
• 27:24
  Immediately.
• 27:24
  I feel like the Cybertruck is this giant social experiment.
• 27:28
  We're gonna throw the craziest crap at this and then see how people react to it.
• 27:32
  Who's the engineer that said, you know what?
• 27:35
  I'm gonna make the windshield wiper work like this.
• 27:37
  Let's see what they think about.
• 27:38
  Like the whole truck is here.
• 27:40
  Hold my beer.
• 27:40
  Right?
• 27:41
  It makes no sense.
• 27:42
  But again, these are some of the clearest pictures I've gotten of the windshield
• 27:47
  wiper, the side mirrors, the headlights, some other things about the truck.
• 27:50
  And what's also fun about the picture of the Cybertruck just above the pro
• 27:55
  and con column, look how gross that is.
• 27:58
  I just, I I was just like shit.
• 28:02
  Yeah, it looks dirty.
• 28:05
  It's awful.
• 28:06
  Like disgusting.
• 28:08
  It looks like, you know, you haven't washed your car in a
• 28:10
  month and it gets that grime.
• 28:12
  That's like streaking down the sides.
• 28:15
  I'm like, just go look at your stainless steel.
• 28:17
  Appliances in your kitchen, come on.
• 28:19
  And that roof line, I mean, it looks like combination Frank Lloyd
• 28:23
  Wright meets a kindergartner.
• 28:25
  Like, who wants their car to look like a house in profile?
• 28:29
  Like, it doesn't make sense.
• 28:30
  I could make something less angular out of Legos.
• 28:34
  And with better precision, as we know, than this Cybertruck.
• 28:37
  Like, oh God, it's terrible.
• 28:39
  See, it's all misunderstood.
• 28:41
  The problem is the type of stainless steel they have chosen is magnetic,
• 28:46
  has slight magnetism to it.
• 28:47
  Therefore, the metal fallout from everywhere, be it brake dust, Passing
• 28:53
  a railroad track, factories, they're sprinkling little metal pieces that
• 28:58
  are attracted to the stainless steel body panels and then they get attached
• 29:03
  there and that metal is what's rusting.
• 29:06
  Lies.
• 29:07
  Not the actual Cybertruck.
• 29:09
  Yeah, flag on the play.
• 29:10
  I call bullshit.
• 29:11
  So even normal painted cars.
• 29:14
  Have this problem.
• 29:15
  What I call bullshit.
• 29:16
  Cause there's nothing that's attracted to the cyber truck.
• 29:21
  All right.
• 29:21
  Just go get some barkeepers friend and just polish your thing all the time.
• 29:26
  Yeah.
• 29:26
  I guess you can't use like Google on or whatever that the
• 29:29
  bug stuff is to get rid of it.
• 29:31
  We just take this back to basics.
• 29:32
  The whole point of stainless steel is that it's not supposed to rust.
• 29:37
  The fact that it's rusting indicates to me that it's not stainless steel.
• 29:42
  It's the stainless steel itself is not rusting.
• 29:46
  It's the metal that attaches to it.
• 29:47
  There are deposits of metal that are falling onto the stainless
• 29:52
  steel body and getting stuck there.
• 29:55
  And those little pieces of metal are what is rusting and creating
• 29:59
  the little orange flecks everywhere.
• 30:01
  Are we on that game show to tell a lie?
• 30:03
  We're going to tell you three statements.
• 30:05
  Two of these are true.
• 30:06
  Yeah.
• 30:06
  One is a lie.
• 30:07
  Two truths and a lie.
• 30:09
  Yeah, this is like, wait, wait, don't tell me now, right?
• 30:11
  I mean, this is insane.
• 30:12
  Did DeLorean have these problems?
• 30:15
  Apparently they did change their grade of stainless steel at one point to
• 30:20
  make it more repelling, less magnetic.
• 30:23
  I don't know enough about DeLorean's history because I've never heard, but
• 30:27
  again, the community is very small.
• 30:28
  So who's to say?
• 30:29
  So is the Cybertruck community.
• 30:31
  It's getting smaller every day.
• 30:32
  It's getting smaller and smaller.
• 30:35
  Based on precedent, on all the other things we've learned about Tesla, and
• 30:38
  all the other adventures that we've been on through TeslaGate over the years.
• 30:41
  I don't know what to believe.
• 30:43
  Exactly.
• 30:43
  And it will come to pass in several years that It's really actually brushed sheet
• 30:48
  metal posing as stainless steel and the cars are rusting full stop Regardless if
• 30:53
  I paid a hundred thousand dollars for it.
• 30:55
  I don't know put an effing clear coat on the stainless steel You think no,
• 30:59
  you just put a wrap on it defeat the purpose again We're happy to offer you
• 31:03
  that as an extra fee, there must've been something they could have sealed
• 31:07
  the panels with to prevent this, if it's truly the industrial fallout.
• 31:12
  They could have used great stuff because the doors leak
• 31:14
  like every other Tesla does.
• 31:15
  Right.
• 31:16
  The point is more of these issues are coming out.
• 31:18
  Like we've said, it was kind of rushed to production rushed.
• 31:22
  Has it been in product?
• 31:22
  Has it been trying to build for like a decade?
• 31:25
  Wow.
• 31:27
  Rushed.
• 31:30
  We've been rushing it for a decade.
• 31:33
  Two lies and a truth.
• 31:34
  Well, there you go.
• 31:35
  Two truths and a lie.
• 31:37
  That was clearly the truth.
• 31:40
  It's unbelievable as it is.
• 31:42
  No, wait, you have to go back to Brad's foundation edition.
• 31:45
  You haven't talked about the range it's going to get.
• 31:48
  This says all prices are shown without incentives or estimated 8, 400.
• 31:55
  Wait, you're only going to save for seven years?
• 31:58
  You're And then the gas car is, what?
• 32:00
  Yeah, because it says a Cybertruck is 900 estimated electricity per year, versus
• 32:06
  a gasoline car is 2, 100 estimated gas costs at 13, 000 miles, 330 a gallon.
• 32:12
  Okay.
• 32:13
  Okay.
• 32:13
  Let's stop right there.
• 32:14
  20 miles per gallon.
• 32:15
  Hold on.
• 32:15
  Yeah, all that stuff.
• 32:16
  That's great.
• 32:16
  That's well and good.
• 32:17
  But imagine this.
• 32:18
  You fit in a GR Corolla, right?
• 32:20
  I do not have any answer for that.
• 32:23
  They're going to compare it against an F 150, triple duty,
• 32:26
  quad cab, dendonburg, king range.
• 32:31
  Shenanigans.
• 32:32
  Okay.
• 32:32
  But what I'm saying is for the rest of us normal humans, especially.
• 32:35
  Especially those of us that are automotive enthusiasts listening to
• 32:38
  this, the GR series cars are hot.
• 32:40
  Whether you're into the 86 or the super or the Corolla or the Yaris or any of those,
• 32:44
  let's just say Toyota's the place to go if you want a hot hatch or a sports car
• 32:48
  right now from the not American market.
• 32:51
  So let's just say you pick up a Corolla for 40 grand, Cybertruck's a hundred.
• 32:56
  You can't tow anything with either of them.
• 32:58
  You can actually probably get more in the back of that Corolla
• 33:00
  hatchback than the Cybertruck, right?
• 33:02
  How much are you actually spending on gas after seven years on a GR Corolla?
• 33:07
  Even if you bought that special, what is it, the Mitsano edition or whatever that
• 33:11
  thing is that they have, the special one, add another 10 grand to it, you're still
• 33:15
  going to come out on top with a gas car.
• 33:17
  It's sort of like when we would debate diesel versus gas.
• 33:21
  And people were like, I'm not buying a diesel truck because
• 33:24
  there's a 20, 000 tax on it.
• 33:26
  And I'm never going to recoup the amount of diesel because diesel is
• 33:29
  more expensive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all this kind of stuff.
• 33:31
  I'm wondering if this debate about some of these EVs, especially really
• 33:35
  expensive ones like this, kind of come out in the wash in the same way.
• 33:38
  It's diesel versus gas all over again.
• 33:40
  Is it really worth buying the EV?
• 33:42
  When you can buy, let's say a couple year old off lease Mercedes Benz that's
• 33:46
  depreciated, have a really nice car, money left over, how much gas are you
• 33:51
  going to buy in that seven year period?
• 33:53
  Let's say if you own a Mercedes.
• 33:55
  There's a gentleman out there in the world who also, I guess, put
• 33:58
  a day one reservation in and has his foundation edition Cybertruck,
• 34:02
  decided to take it on a 27 hour.
• 34:04
  1, 340 mile road trip from Austin, Texas to California, and he had
• 34:10
  to stop 12 times to recharge it.
• 34:15
  At 30 minutes of charge, that's, wow, an additional six hours.
• 34:20
  I'm assuming you took longer than 27 hours then?
• 34:23
  Yeah, I mean that's like a hundred and eleven miles per chart like
• 34:27
  what yeah, that's not good.
• 34:30
  That is terrible so here it says 318 mile range estimated or 340 mile range
• 34:37
  with the all season tires which are available to purchase So those trucks
• 34:41
  that you saw may not even have the all terrain, they may just have all seasons.
• 34:45
  Oh man.
• 34:45
  Which are not good anyway.
• 34:47
  And also apparently the truck doesn't fit well to the charger, and so it
• 34:52
  basically maxes out the cable length.
• 34:54
  The Tesla chargers barely reach.
• 34:56
  Charge port.
• 34:57
  So you have that to contend with.
• 34:58
  Also, you better back it up real close.
• 35:01
  That's like the people that pull into the gas station on the wrong
• 35:03
  side of the pump and then they're dragging it around the side of their
• 35:06
  car trying to pump it because they don't feel like moving their car.
• 35:09
  Been there, done that.
• 35:10
  And then the towing capacity.
• 35:12
  I thought it was supposed to be over 20, 000 pounds towing.
• 35:14
  It's only 11.
• 35:15
  My current truck gets 9, 900.
• 35:17
  Then there's plenty of other pickups that can do 10, pounds.
• 35:21
  Yeah.
• 35:21
  How about anything?
• 35:22
  Diesel can do easily 15, 20.
• 35:25
  So Brad, do you remember when we gave you the option, you know, when
• 35:28
  you're still trying to sell, well, Oh wait, you are still trying to
• 35:31
  sell your cyber truck allotment.
• 35:32
  When we talked about the Plyber truck, do you remember that one?
• 35:36
  Yes, the one that was built on an MDX.
• 35:39
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:40
  It was quality, right?
• 35:41
  It was, yeah, quality.
• 35:44
  It was Ikea quality.
• 35:45
  Dude, those panel gaps were really, really nice.
• 35:48
  Okay, you remember we've talked before.
• 35:50
  There's been other people that have made cars out of wood, right?
• 35:53
  That guy that, you know, restored his Doshibo out of wood.
• 35:57
  There's a guy that made a Ferrari out of wood.
• 35:59
  And, but there's this dude in Vietnam that seems to just have a real knack
• 36:02
  for building replicas of vehicles.
• 36:04
  He's at it again, and he built a wooden Cybertruck.
• 36:08
  I don't know what it's based on, but he said he was going to send it to Elon
• 36:13
  because quote, I am aware that Tesla has faced its share of challenges in
• 36:18
  bringing the Cybertruck to fruition.
• 36:20
  However, I maintain unwavering faith in your vision and capabilities of Tesla.
• 36:26
  I hope to have the honor of gifting this wooden Cybertruck to you and
• 36:30
  Tesla to wish you and Tesla continued success and to maintain your
• 36:34
  position in the international arena.
• 36:36
  This guy's super nice.
• 36:38
  He spent 15 grand on this thing.
• 36:40
  It looks better than the real thing.
• 36:42
  Oh my God.
• 36:43
  He built a wooden ATV with it.
• 36:45
  Yeah, man.
• 36:46
  Guy's legit.
• 36:47
  It's tube frame.
• 36:48
  This thing's awesome.
• 36:49
  I would pay 15 grand for this as a side by side.
• 36:52
  That's the real Plybertruck right there.
• 36:54
  Here's the deal.
• 36:54
  Elon actually responded to this guy and Tanya, would you like to
• 36:58
  tell the audience what he said?
• 37:00
  He has these eloquent emails that he sent out that have been leaked to the public
• 37:04
  and things like he's, you know, He's got a great way of presenting things.
• 37:06
  He has a way with words.
• 37:08
  I will say that.
• 37:08
  Absolutely.
• 37:09
  Marketing genius.
• 37:10
  So what did he say in response to this gentleman?
• 37:13
  Sure.
• 37:13
  Much appreciated.
• 37:14
  I was surprised you didn't go here, Tanya, but we're gonna go here now
• 37:17
  because his reaction was so benign.
• 37:20
  Sure.
• 37:21
  Much appreciated.
• 37:22
  Because what he should have really said is what he said on Twitter.
• 37:25
  What was that in response to?
• 37:26
  I don't even remember because it could have applied to so many things.
• 37:29
  It was stupid and it went viral.
• 37:31
  I forget what it was and he responded to some It was some interview or
• 37:34
  something and he told the guy to go F himself and I'm just like But it was
• 37:37
  on Twitter, which is a platform that everybody's been bailing ship like
• 37:41
  rats off the Titanic I don't really care, but I thought it was hilarious.
• 37:45
  Go Elon.
• 37:47
  Whoo cares.
• 37:47
  He was responding to advertisers boycotting X That's a good way to get your
• 37:51
  advertisers back X gonna give it to you.
• 37:55
  That's the marketing campaign right there X gonna give it to you X marks the spot
• 37:59
  a man with so many things to say then that's it I mean this guy went out of
• 38:02
  his way to build this beautiful Plymouth truck All jokes aside, it is really nice.
• 38:07
  What he should do is share with Elon Musk, his manufacturing process.
• 38:11
  Cause a hundred days, I feel like that's going to beat cyber truck
• 38:15
  manufacturing in Duluth times.
• 38:18
  It looks really good too.
• 38:20
  I would totally buy it.
• 38:22
  It looks kind of small though, but it looks good.
• 38:24
  I like it.
• 38:24
  I think it's the scale.
• 38:25
  I think it's that it's not stainless steel, that it looks smaller than
• 38:28
  it really is, and because it's not stainless steel, you know
• 38:30
  what else it has going for it?
• 38:31
  No smudge marks and you can clean it with pledge.
• 38:35
  It's a modern day Morgan.
• 38:37
  Lemony fresh.
• 38:38
  Yes, lemony fresh.
• 38:39
  Well, Brad, you know, when you do take delivery of your Cybertruck,
• 38:43
  you're gonna have to celebrate.
• 38:44
  Celebrate my ass.
• 38:46
  I would celebrate with a divorce if I take delivery of this truck.
• 38:49
  You're gonna celebrate something one way or the other.
• 38:51
  So let's just say you need to celebrate with a case.
• 38:55
  of cyber beer.
• 38:56
  Oh my God, the angles on that bottle, right?
• 38:59
  According to this, it says Tesla super fans are complaining about the 150
• 39:05
  cyber beer, calling it hot garbage and posting pictures of rusty bottle caps.
• 39:10
  It does look like complete swill.
• 39:13
  It looks like someone pissed on a bottle.
• 39:14
  Let's say you're partying a little too hard in your garage by yourself.
• 39:19
  Well, then your cyber truck can drive you home.
• 39:20
  Well, yeah, that's true.
• 39:21
  Self driving until it runs into a wall or a fire truck.
• 39:26
  Did you know, if you spill your beer on your cyber truck, you can now get renewed.
• 39:33
  Cyber shield cleaned it up with?
• 39:35
  Wow.
• 39:36
  I mean, I would have just gone with Windex.
• 39:38
  Oh no, stainless steel, barkeeper's friend.
• 39:41
  Yeah, barkeeper's friend.
• 39:42
  That's what you should use on them.
• 39:44
  But no, special cyber shield.
• 39:46
  But the big question is, and this next article had me laughing, and
• 39:49
  I thought of Tanya when I read it.
• 39:51
  Does the cyber shield, which is a cleaning and protective layer, blah,
• 39:54
  blah, blah, all these wonderful heat protection products and chemicals we
• 39:58
  have these days, you know, graphene and carbon ceramic and all this stuff.
• 40:01
  But the question is, does it actually protect against bird shit?
• 40:06
  Because reports are coming in that bird droppings can actually ruin the
• 40:10
  stainless steel finish of the cyber truck.
• 40:12
  So Brad, you had to worry in the past about birds.
• 40:15
  Sitting on a tree ranch and pooping on your golf.
• 40:17
  Now it could burn a hole in the stainless steel of your Cybertruck.
• 40:20
  How did DeLorean get away with it?
• 40:23
  None of them ran.
• 40:23
  They were all parked in garages, I guess.
• 40:25
  See, you answered your own question exactly.
• 40:27
  Well, then you just take it to the factory and have them replace the body panel that
• 40:31
  got damaged for thousands of dollars.
• 40:33
  So what happens in the winter?
• 40:35
  Because obviously there's bird droppings are maybe acidic or whatnot and, you
• 40:41
  know, over time could corrode or oxidize.
• 40:44
  the stainless steel because it's not impermeable to things, but like salt
• 40:48
  is not that good on stainless steel.
• 40:50
  You get that nice crust on the salt on the stainless steel.
• 40:53
  And sometimes in poor quality stainless steel, and you'll see it in like cookware,
• 40:57
  when you throw salt in the water to boil the water for pasta and things like that,
• 41:01
  you can actually Pitting that happens.
• 41:03
  Yeah.
• 41:03
  On the bottom of the pan when you put the salt in at the improper
• 41:06
  time and things like that.
• 41:07
  So in the wintertime, when they've put the brine and all that stuff down on
• 41:10
  the roads and you're driving around and you can't wash the car right away
• 41:14
  'cause it's 17 degrees outside, you're gonna go out and it's gonna be like Fred
• 41:17
  Flintstone and you're gonna be able to see through the doors and the fdo, I
• 41:21
  mean, I said it before people, you have stainless steel appliances in your home,
• 41:26
  the fridge, the stove, the dishwasher.
• 41:28
  You get a drop of water on it, two minutes later, the thing looks
• 41:31
  like you vomited all over it.
• 41:33
  And you're sitting there buffing it every two minutes so that
• 41:35
  it's shiny and nice looking.
• 41:37
  But you have carbon ceramic graphene shield spray on car
• 41:41
  detailers to take care of all that.
• 41:42
  Okay.
• 41:43
  And then when the rock chip hits it and breaks that coating and then the surface
• 41:48
  is exposed, it can start looking like.
• 41:50
  When your wheels pit after a while.
• 41:52
  The cancer that happens on some boot coatings.
• 41:55
  To think that bird droppings could ruin the finish isn't unfathomable.
• 42:00
  That's not unheard of because droppings, if you leave it on a regular painted
• 42:04
  car, will eat through the clear coat after a while and can cause Well, not
• 42:10
  only that, in talking to DeLorean owners and listening to how they do car care
• 42:13
  and stuff, there is a certain way to clean the stainless, and to your point,
• 42:18
  Barkeeper's Friend and some other of these household cleaners is the way to
• 42:21
  go, but you also have to remember that you need to grain the stainless steel.
• 42:25
  No kidding!
• 42:26
  Done in a get swirl on regular paint.
• 42:29
  Now, a Brillo pad, you see what happens if you use, like, even a soft, thing
• 42:33
  sometimes on cookware, God forbid, like you're rubbing it with something that has
• 42:37
  some sort of grit that you don't realize, you're going to have massive swirl marks.
• 42:41
  It's going to look terrible.
• 42:42
  Maybe all our concerns are completely unfounded and
• 42:46
  unwarranted and we just don't know.
• 42:48
  We talked about the Cybertruck and how the stainless steel and care
• 42:52
  and maintenance of all that stuff.
• 42:53
  Tesla is making this move now, and I think it's a cost thing.
• 42:57
  Saving maneuver because painting a car is actually very expensive.
• 43:01
  People are like, ah, just paint the car and, you know, clear coat it.
• 43:03
  So paint shops can cost multiples of millions of dollars to do that.
• 43:08
  And now they're talking about wrapping their cars coming from the factory.
• 43:12
  So you can pick a wrap, you know, whatever style you want, all this kind of thing.
• 43:15
  And reports are coming in that the wrap quality might be as bad as the paint.
• 43:21
  This costs 8, 000 and that's cheaper than a paint job.
• 43:25
  Because if you went to somebody third party and had it painted, I'd think you
• 43:29
  could paint your car for that under that.
• 43:31
  But that's with a team of folks and you got to count the
• 43:33
  labor hours and the prep time.
• 43:34
  Yeah, so on your freaking assembly line, it should be more cost effective.
• 43:39
  It's cheaper to wrap because the one robot can do the whole car in one shot.
• 43:43
  They prime it, wrap it, it's out.
• 43:45
  If you have to do multi stage painting and then the time it takes
• 43:49
  to cure the paint, Clear the paint, buff the paint, finish the paint.
• 43:53
  Man, nowadays they turn around a paint job in like a frickin day.
• 43:57
  And they're terrible.
• 43:58
  If only there was a car manufacturing process that really zeroed in and
• 44:03
  just had this process down of making cars mass produced and painting them
• 44:09
  and getting them through assembly and to the market really quickly.
• 44:13
  Has anybody been able to do that yet?
• 44:15
  Not in a hundred years, my friend.
• 44:17
  Here you go.
• 44:18
  And this article even says you could go to a local body shop who
• 44:21
  could wrap a compact crossover car for size comparison for 3, 500.
• 44:26
  So what are they charging you for eight grand?
• 44:27
  That seems really expensive for what you're getting.
• 44:30
  Cyber wrap.
• 44:31
  I'm sorry.
• 44:32
  Like I'm pretty sure the assembly line paint job would be cheaper.
• 44:35
  But think about it.
• 44:36
  You can get your cyber truck wrapped.
• 44:38
  In a stainless steel wrap, then you don't get the fingerprints on
• 44:42
  it, but it still looks the same.
• 44:43
  Yeah.
• 44:43
  And then apparently people are complaining that there's bubbles and
• 44:46
  like missing pieces to the, to the wrap.
• 44:49
  So the robots need to be Lego robots that can go to 0.
• 44:56
  0000001 micron tolerance when they layer the wrap on your car.
• 44:59
  But think about it this way.
• 45:00
  If you wrap the Cybertruck, it solves the panel gap problem because
• 45:04
  you wrap right up for the gaps.
• 45:06
  And now they're sealed, and it looks like one smooth panel.
• 45:09
  He has solved the problem.
• 45:10
  And then when you open the door, the whole wrap rips apart.
• 45:14
  It looks like the wraps are ripping apart anyway.
• 45:16
  Well, yeah.
• 45:18
  No, no, no.
• 45:18
  It's a distressed look.
• 45:20
  Oh, it's distressed.
• 45:22
  It's patina.
• 45:24
  It's all the rage now.
• 45:25
  It's antiquing.
• 45:27
  I'm going to save my 8, 000.
• 45:29
  I'm going to go to Mako and I'm going to get the 350 on sale holiday paint job.
• 45:36
  God, what a mess.
• 45:37
  I'm not suggesting you go that cheap on your paint job, but there's
• 45:41
  something in between 350 and 8, 000.
• 45:45
  What are we up to next?
• 45:46
  Yeah.
• 45:46
  Tesla raps about his paint job stuff.
• 45:48
  So how about this?
• 45:49
  What about a Cybertruck that's been polished to within an inch of its life?
• 45:53
  Pretty cool.
• 45:54
  Whoever did this, mirror like finish.
• 45:57
  Yeah.
• 45:58
  It's almost camouflage when you look at it.
• 46:00
  So very Wraith, stealth, Knight Rider.
• 46:02
  Is it worth 150, 000?
• 46:04
  Is it worth an extra 50, 000?
• 46:06
  No.
• 46:07
  How dirty does that get?
• 46:09
  I don't even know what to say.
• 46:11
  But that is how people are dealing with these cyber trucks wraps.
• 46:15
  I have seen some black ones cause I guess the raptor or whatever, and they
• 46:19
  do look like the Wraith at that point.
• 46:20
  They're, they're pretty creepy going down the road.
• 46:22
  Yeah.
• 46:23
  I don't think the cyber truck looks good in any color.
• 46:26
  We can paint it blue.
• 46:27
  I mean, you paint yellow or, you know, these M and M colors that exist on, let's
• 46:31
  say the Mopars and the Fords and stuff.
• 46:33
  There's no way the body shape, it just doesn't work.
• 46:36
  It is cool.
• 46:37
  It's different.
• 46:38
  I mean, it is hyper polished.
• 46:39
  It looks like a mirror.
• 46:41
  I don't know that I would want that either.
• 46:43
  Nope.
• 46:44
  Shaq said he needed another car, and what did he buy?
• 46:47
  Cybertruck.
• 46:48
  See, Brad?
• 46:49
  He's another happy Cybertruck owner.
• 46:51
  This is what irritated me.
• 46:52
  However, it's I guess a one of a kind, because it is a carbon fiber Cybertruck.
• 46:58
  So, Mr.
• 46:59
  O'Neil is actually a little bit intelligent, because he went, Eh, I
• 47:03
  don't want this stainless steel trash.
• 47:07
  I will pay quadruple for carbon fiber.
• 47:09
  That's a lot of carbon.
• 47:10
  I don't want to be out here buffing this thing.
• 47:12
  It still weighs 8, 000 pounds instead of 9, 000 pounds though.
• 47:16
  They should have made the cyber truck out of carbon fiber.
• 47:18
  That would have been more cyber.
• 47:20
  That would have been more futuristic to have a street car that wasn't a
• 47:23
  hyper car made out of carbon fiber.
• 47:25
  They could have made it out of Kevlar, so the whole thing was not bulletproof.
• 47:28
  Carbon Kevlar is not new.
• 47:29
  They did that in the 80s on like Audis and Ferraris and stuff.
• 47:32
  Stainless steel ain't new either, so he wasn't going for that.
• 47:36
  No, we'd straight back to the 80s on that too.
• 47:38
  It's still ugly, but I like the red light in the front though.
• 47:40
  I think it looks cool.
• 47:41
  It's murdered out.
• 47:42
  I've seen a cyber truck like this like blacked out in my area.
• 47:45
  Here, the guy wrapped it.
• 47:46
  It's still ugly, but it looks better than the stainless.
• 47:49
  It's better than it was, but it's still polishing a turd.
• 47:52
  We're just not happy.
• 47:53
  We're grumpy curmudgeon screaming at the clouds.
• 47:56
  Everybody's going, you don't understand why the Cybertruck is so awesome.
• 47:59
  It's just as funny as these memes.
• 48:01
  Yeah.
• 48:01
  I think to that point, this is going to be a golden age for our show.
• 48:05
  Cause we can rag on the Cybertruck with all the new articles.
• 48:08
  about how terrible it is for years to come in perpetuity.
• 48:12
  How do you want to give them airtime?
• 48:14
  Well, we're going to do it for the rest of this episode.
• 48:17
  So guess what?
• 48:18
  So I'm reading about bird shit on the cyber truck and next across my desk, I
• 48:22
  get this from the onion, which I know is a farce, but it cracked me up about
• 48:27
  pressure, washing the cyber truck.
• 48:29
  And they basically CGI or AI rendered.
• 48:32
  The Cybertruck just getting obliterated by a power washer,
• 48:36
  and I just thought it was funny.
• 48:38
  The Cybertruck is obviously the new, quote, hotness.
• 48:42
  So it's top of mind, finally after 16, 000 years, it's in production.
• 48:49
  16 minutes after being in production.
• 48:51
  Oh my god.
• 48:52
  It's already recalled.
• 48:55
  Oh my god, this is so fucking stupid.
• 48:59
  And you know, it's like a silly recalled.
• 49:01
  I mean, it's a serious.
• 49:02
  It's a serious thing, but it's also silly at the same time.
• 49:06
  When we've gone through this, we've seen this before.
• 49:09
  It's the reason why all cars now have the little clips on the floor mats, is
• 49:15
  because unfortunately Toyota had to learn this painful lesson of what can happen
• 49:20
  in the footwell if something Lodges and gets the accelerator pedal stuck.
• 49:26
  The car keeps accelerating.
• 49:27
  But Tesla marches to the beat of their own drum.
• 49:30
  Just want to point out the Germans had carpet clips in the 90s.
• 49:33
  It's not new.
• 49:34
  Yes, but it wasn't until there was a problem.
• 49:38
  Yeah, but their carpet, their carpet clips cost 15, 000.
• 49:42
  Well, it's the little nubs.
• 49:43
  Underneath the carpet that have been, you know, solidly holding carpet in place for
• 49:48
  ages bolted in from underneath the car.
• 49:51
  And then the only way to get them out is engine out 100 percent service position
• 49:55
  for your format is engine out in a beetle.
• 49:57
  Yes, everything is out in a beetle.
• 49:59
  Well, the sad thing is, you'd think that the little things like this,
• 50:04
  and this isn't a format issue yet, if this is worse, this is much worse.
• 50:09
  No, this is the accelerator pedal falling off issue.
• 50:12
  Not the whole pedal though, just the cover.
• 50:14
  Just the slide on cover.
• 50:17
  And apparently it's a glue issue.
• 50:19
  The glue, the temperature, I think, something.
• 50:23
  I don't even remember because I don't care.
• 50:25
  They're using Elmer's!
• 50:26
  That's what's wrong.
• 50:28
  Yes.
• 50:29
  They left Home Depot because shit was too expensive.
• 50:31
  They went to Target and bought Elmer's from the school supply section.
• 50:36
  And then they're using that on this pedal.
• 50:38
  It was back to school sales at the beginning of the year.
• 50:42
  It was discount.
• 50:42
  No tax on the glue.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:46
  They bought out the entire like, Southwest region, it literally
• 50:50
  says on the bottle, Elmer's blue, all it's pretty straightforward.
• 50:55
  It glues all right.
• 50:57
  No, not your, whatever this accelerator pedal is even made of.
• 51:01
  I don't even know, probably plastic, maybe a little bit of stainless steel
• 51:05
  left over pieces that they reformed.
• 51:07
  There's no wood in there.
• 51:08
  No wood in this one.
• 51:09
  I know I read somewhere that they were attributing it to in the
• 51:13
  production line, something with the temperature that he said wasn't right.
• 51:17
  And then it didn't set or something.
• 51:20
  So basically when you're mashing down the accelerator pedal, you end up
• 51:24
  sliding the cover off and then it jams into what would be, hold on a second.
• 51:31
  What kind of troglodyte.
• 51:33
  It's pressing the accelerator pedal like Donkey Kong.
• 51:37
  Hey, hey, hey, some of us have big feet and we can't control it.
• 51:42
  No, no, no.
• 51:42
  Okay, because to the point of the Toyota incident, I am using the inappropriate
• 51:48
  rubber floor mats in one of my vehicles.
• 51:50
  Meaning that they don't clip in to the clips, and I am constantly
• 51:55
  actually pulling the format back sometimes while I'm driving, just
• 51:59
  by virtue of my feet being there.
• 52:01
  I'm not even doing anything, but by virtue of my feet being on top of it,
• 52:05
  there's enough I'm not pressing down on it, but it does slide forward constantly.
• 52:10
  So I could see that a loose little bullshit cover on the
• 52:13
  pedal, especially it's the type of pedal that's on the floor.
• 52:16
  Then you kind of have that weird motion of you making your foot go up anyway.
• 52:21
  So.
• 52:21
  I think it would be easy to have that cover come off and then it jams
• 52:25
  into what would be the transmission tunnel if it had one, right?
• 52:29
  So that center console piece like jams in there and it keeps the
• 52:33
  accelerator depressed and somebody apparently had it happen to them and
• 52:37
  they hit a pole with their, allegedly.
• 52:39
  I thought they called that ludicrous mode.
• 52:41
  I don't know if the Cybertruck has ludicrous mode, but that
• 52:44
  was ludicrous to have happened.
• 52:46
  Well, I love the fix.
• 52:47
  Can we get to the fix?
• 52:48
  The fix is on par with everything, right?
• 52:52
  I mean, I personally would love to spend a hundred thousand dollars on a car
• 52:56
  to have the glue not set correctly and then have the fix be a frickin rivet.
• 53:01
  I would like to point out I did research.
• 53:03
  Just like the Model Y, you can go to your local Home Depot, aisle
• 53:08
  13, bay 26, and buy a packet of rivets for like a couple dollars.
• 53:15
  Home Depot!
• 53:16
  Does a rivet work?
• 53:17
  Sure.
• 53:18
  Is it aesthetically pleasing anymore?
• 53:20
  I mean, not to say that it was to begin with without the rivet.
• 53:23
  The rivet could be an improvement.
• 53:25
  I don't know.
• 53:25
  Or for the course of the Cybertruck, but you know.
• 53:27
  You just spent a hundred thousand dollars on a car and
• 53:30
  that's how they're gonna fix it?
• 53:32
  They're just gonna be like, oh yeah.
• 53:34
  I mean, not to open this can of worms again, but this is what I keep saying.
• 53:37
  saying everybody oohs and ahs over these vehicles and the build quality
• 53:42
  is variable from car to car and it is not on par with the hundred year old
• 53:48
  manufacturers pick one chevy ford fiat audi volkswagen porsche it doesn't matter
• 53:54
  let's talk about build quality you can't get these wet jesus So they keep focusing
• 54:00
  on car washes or washing your car.
• 54:02
  But I'm like, so what happens when it rains and the car gets wet?
• 54:07
  It's shorting out the electronics temporarily and you gotta like
• 54:10
  wait hours for it to reboot.
• 54:12
  Doesn't rain that often in California where they build the Cybertruck?
• 54:16
  Well, no, they built it in Austin, didn't they?
• 54:18
  Again, does it rain in Austin?
• 54:20
  Yes, it rains in Texas.
• 54:22
  Lies, lies, fake news.
• 54:25
  In the hill country, actually, where it's quite green, they do get some water.
• 54:29
  Lies!
• 54:30
  And when the hurricanes come through, they get the remnants of the rain from those.
• 54:33
  At any rate, I couldn't find it.
• 54:34
  I thought I saw something going into the whole car wash thing.
• 54:38
  Where it's like, don't, don't take it to the car wash.
• 54:41
  And make sure if you take it to the car wash that it has to be some sort
• 54:44
  of like, no drive mode or something.
• 54:47
  And it basically like, shuts down.
• 54:49
  It like, locks the charge port.
• 54:51
  It disengages.
• 54:51
  It disengages.
• 54:52
  the wipers apparently like what is what what and then it like locks the doors and
• 54:58
  all this stuff and then there's like a roll mode so it's distant i don't i don't
• 55:02
  know anyway but the article was a guy i think who washed out the bed and then
• 55:06
  he ended up like bricking the truck for a while turned back on and i thought i
• 55:12
  saw something going into that Where they showed, I guess water was going under the
• 55:17
  bed somehow and then getting like stuck in frame rails or something like that.
• 55:20
  And then I guess whatever, wiring maybe?
• 55:22
  I don't know.
• 55:22
  Don't quote me.
• 55:23
  I saw it briefly and I didn't, I closed it and I don't remember
• 55:26
  how to find the article again.
• 55:28
  But I'm just like, that's wild.
• 55:30
  You think about it.
• 55:30
  I've seen people wash their trucks with a power washer.
• 55:33
  Why wouldn't you power wash a stainless steel truck?
• 55:36
  Because the people that power wash their regular trucks aren't buying cyber trucks.
• 55:39
  The people that are buying cyber trucks, they're going to take them
• 55:42
  to their car wash down the street.
• 55:44
  They're not going to wash it in their driveway.
• 55:46
  To your point.
• 55:46
  It's like, there's so many other cars on the road that can get wet.
• 55:51
  It's not a problem.
• 55:52
  Like, I think we've figured out how to send a car through a car wash
• 55:56
  and not have it be catastrophic.
• 56:00
  What?
• 56:01
  Again, you spent 100, 000 on a car that.
• 56:04
  You can't get wet.
• 56:06
  You can't drive after midnight.
• 56:07
  Like, oh, is it a gremlin?
• 56:09
  Like, Yeah, you don't, you don't get it wet after midnight.
• 56:14
  And not the AMC.
• 56:15
  Yeah.
• 56:16
  The eighties movie, the gremlin.
• 56:17
  Oh my God.
• 56:18
  Who is taking their cyber truck to the car wash though?
• 56:21
  Because do you just wash stainless steel?
• 56:24
  I thought you just kind of wipe it down with a diaper or something.
• 56:27
  Well, no.
• 56:27
  So if you go on Tesla's website, there's a whole like page scrolling of how
• 56:33
  to clean the exterior of the thing.
• 56:35
  And it's like, don't use this.
• 56:37
  Don't use that.
• 56:38
  Don't do it in the sunlight.
• 56:40
  Don't do it after you've eaten.
• 56:42
  Wait 30 minutes.
• 56:49
  You can only do it on the day of the full moon in Feb, Tober.
• 56:54
  Yeah.
• 56:54
  Like what?
• 56:55
  There's like wild notes in here too.
• 56:57
  And this is.
• 56:57
  From the Tesla website.
• 56:59
  Okay, this is legit stuff.
• 57:01
  Don't use alcohol on the headlights.
• 57:03
  I'm like, why?
• 57:04
  What are the headlights made out of?
• 57:06
  Alcohol evaporates.
• 57:07
  Because your beer will rust the stainless steel.
• 57:09
  Ah, okay.
• 57:10
  Wrong alcohol.
• 57:11
  There was also a thing in here that was like, oh, if I could find it again,
• 57:14
  it was like, yeah, yeah, here it is.
• 57:16
  Do not aim water hoses.
• 57:18
  Okay, so like if you're washing your car and you have the garden hose, right?
• 57:20
  It's like don't aim the water hose directly at the windows.
• 57:24
  Wait, aren't these those indestructible bulletproof things?
• 57:27
  Windows?
• 57:27
  I can't aim a garden hose at?
• 57:31
  Like what?
• 57:32
  Now I don't think it's the glass itself because then it's
• 57:35
  The door or the hood seals.
• 57:37
  I think they leak.
• 57:37
  So don't get it wet, basically.
• 57:40
  There's a higher probability of Apex seals in an RX 7 sealing better than
• 57:46
  those window seals in the Cybertruck.
• 57:49
  Apparently.
• 57:50
  And then it killed me at one of the things, like the recommended way to
• 57:53
  like, to clean the stainless steel.
• 57:55
  Again, this is from Tesla.
• 57:58
  Unreal.
• 57:58
  I know you've written some articles about how to clean your car,
• 58:02
  and we've had the wax people on.
• 58:04
  I feel like even if you're not the most into detailing, you know this.
• 58:10
  And given it's stainless steel, it's said that you use a circular motion.
• 58:15
  And I'm like, Have you ever cleaned a stainless steel pot
• 58:22
  if you have anything abrasive?
• 58:24
  A circular motion.
• 58:26
  Oh my god.
• 58:27
  I mean even on a painted car you don't really want to use a circular motion
• 58:31
  in case there's something gritty there because you will leave swirl marks.
• 58:35
  You always go quote unquote with the grain so it's less noticeable.
• 58:42
  Oh my god.
• 58:44
  Since we're talking about cleaning, I included an additional article here.
• 58:48
  It goes back to the, you know, why the trucks are rusting because it's
• 58:51
  from February and it's not about that.
• 58:53
  I included it because I wanted you guys to see these pictures.
• 58:56
  I don't know if somebody urinated on this vehicle, vomited on this vehicle or what.
• 59:02
  But this is why they look terrible.
• 59:05
  Like all the pictures in this article from Wired, oh my god, this thing looks so bad.
• 59:11
  Awful.
• 59:12
  Oh yeah, no, no, no.
• 59:12
  Absolutely awful.
• 59:13
  It looks like your appliance is in your Like this was the first thing I said.
• 59:17
  Do you not know when you have water splashing like the dishwasher or your
• 59:22
  stove because it happens people you go reach for the towel that's either
• 59:26
  hanging on your dishwasher rack or you know bar or on the stove oven
• 59:30
  door bar water hits the surface and it looks like Garbage after two seconds.
• 59:35
  I will say this.
• 59:36
  Now, this is an argument for something that I just recently tested.
• 59:39
  So if you go back into the April catalog, you'll see that Don from
• 59:42
  Garage Style and I did an episode with Dan Williams from Owner's Pride.
• 59:46
  And their eco wash is designed for low water conditions and all this kind
• 59:53
  of stuff, and I was like, you know, I'm going to try it because until I
• 59:56
  understand it and get a bottle and read it and kind of mess with it, I'm not
• 59:59
  going to really understand how it works.
• 1:00:01
  I tell you what.
• 1:00:02
  I think that soap is perfect for the Cybertruck, and here's why.
• 1:00:06
  I did it on two different vehicles, and I was absolutely astounded by the results.
• 1:00:10
  Literally a cap full, and I'm talking about like a Pepsi bottle cap full that
• 1:00:15
  you would get on like, you know, out of the 7 Eleven case, full of this soap.
• 1:00:18
  to three gallons of water.
• 1:00:20
  Rinse the car if you want.
• 1:00:21
  Don't.
• 1:00:22
  It doesn't matter.
• 1:00:23
  It comes out the same.
• 1:00:24
  I washed our van and I washed the jeep using the eco wash with
• 1:00:29
  only three gallons of water.
• 1:00:30
  I didn't rinse the car before.
• 1:00:32
  Did the whole thing.
• 1:00:33
  Used up all three gallons of water that I had.
• 1:00:35
  Didn't rinse it afterward.
• 1:00:36
  It looked as clean as if I had done it the traditional way or went to the car wash.
• 1:00:40
  Unbelievably good.
• 1:00:42
  One of those things that until I tried it, I wasn't convinced, but in the case
• 1:00:46
  of the Cybertruck, I could see something like EcoWash being perfect for it.
• 1:00:51
  So there is a section on waterless wash.
• 1:00:54
  You got a hand wash using a non ionic pH neutral waterless wash with
• 1:00:59
  a high quality microfiber towel.
• 1:01:01
  It sounds like that waterless shampoo.
• 1:01:03
  And I was thinking the same thing again, three gallons of
• 1:01:06
  water to a cap full of soap.
• 1:01:07
  I did both cars, three gallons a piece.
• 1:01:09
  Transcribed But I was thinking about it.
• 1:01:10
  If you're in a situation in California where water conservation is important,
• 1:01:14
  you know, they have drought conditions.
• 1:01:15
  Don't water your lawn.
• 1:01:16
  Don't use a car wash.
• 1:01:17
  The eco wash is perfect.
• 1:01:19
  But then obviously taking it to the next logical conclusion, if you really can't
• 1:01:23
  get the cyber truck wet, sort of like washing a cat, I suppose this is perfect,
• 1:01:28
  this is something I would recommend in all seriousness to cyber truck owners
• 1:01:33
  to use, I recommend getting rid of the truck, or you could just Spot clean using
• 1:01:39
  a glass cleaner and microfiber cloth.
• 1:01:41
  Spray the glass cleaner and wipe in a zig zag motion.
• 1:01:44
  Oh my god.
• 1:01:46
  Oh my goodness.
• 1:01:48
  Oh.
• 1:01:49
  So many rules with this truck.
• 1:01:50
  It's wild.
• 1:01:51
  And basically, the other rules are immediately clean the surface.
• 1:01:55
  So bird poops on it, pull over.
• 1:01:59
  Get your glass cleaner and zigzag it off.
• 1:02:01
  Don't want to create scratches because it's going to scratch.
• 1:02:04
  Now there is a solution to this problem.
• 1:02:06
  Don't buy cyberpunk.
• 1:02:07
  It's called paint.
• 1:02:07
  It's called the 5, 000 clear coat.
• 1:02:11
  Oh my god.
• 1:02:12
  Why?
• 1:02:12
  It's not standard.
• 1:02:14
  You can't rattle can it?
• 1:02:15
  You could, why not?
• 1:02:16
  You could paint it.
• 1:02:17
  Although.
• 1:02:18
  It might short out.
• 1:02:19
  I don't know what happens with the paint.
• 1:02:22
  Well, I would say paint over the glass to just seal everything in and call it a day.
• 1:02:27
  Prevent any future leaks.
• 1:02:28
  I think the best solution is to trade your Cybertruck in for a Rivian.
• 1:02:32
  A Fisker.
• 1:02:33
  So there's still more Tesla.
• 1:02:34
  This one's even better.
• 1:02:35
  Better.
• 1:02:36
  There's more slus.
• 1:02:37
  Oh, something we haven't talked about much this year at all, because
• 1:02:41
  a cyber truck is without fault.
• 1:02:43
  Oh, it is infallible.
• 1:02:46
  Like anything Elon touches is a turd meets the expectations, is
• 1:02:52
  totally in line with the promises.
• 1:02:54
  I'll say again, a turd works to the utmost degree, like a fricking Swiss timepiece.
• 1:03:00
  That's how well these things work.
• 1:03:01
  So recall.
• 1:03:02
  The windows, right?
• 1:03:03
  Back however many years ago it was now.
• 1:03:06
  The baseball.
• 1:03:08
  Oh, they're, you know, armor plate glass that can withstand
• 1:03:12
  bullets, blah blah blah.
• 1:03:13
  I'll show you by lobbing this baseball at it with my untrained,
• 1:03:18
  unprofessional slow ball.
• 1:03:20
  shatter.
• 1:03:21
  Oh, it was a fluke, it was this and the other, you know, this is still the
• 1:03:25
  prototype, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:03:27
  So then why now that we're in production with 3, 000 of these or
• 1:03:32
  whatever the production rate is?
• 1:03:34
  11, 000 were recalled.
• 1:03:35
  That's right.
• 1:03:36
  We did say it was 11, 000.
• 1:03:38
  So good job.
• 1:03:39
  They're all in the parking lot somewhere.
• 1:03:40
  This is probably going to be another recall.
• 1:03:42
  Maybe, I don't know.
• 1:03:43
  At any rate, some poor individual who spent 100, 000 on this car
• 1:03:47
  left it parked wherever and the impenetrable unsinkable cyber truck,
• 1:03:51
  heard that one before, it's like the Titanic with its shatterproof glass.
• 1:03:55
  The thief rolled up to it, tried back the window a little bit.
• 1:04:00
  Because it's frameless.
• 1:04:01
  I want to point it out.
• 1:04:02
  The door is frameless.
• 1:04:04
  So this would happen with any car with a frameless.
• 1:04:07
  Yes.
• 1:04:07
  So we won't fault the frameless part.
• 1:04:09
  I'm not faulting the frameless part.
• 1:04:11
  It's a lack of notification.
• 1:04:12
  Well, I don't even fault that because honestly, if you jimmy a
• 1:04:15
  little bit, I don't think anyone's cars are that sensitive that.
• 1:04:19
  They're going to sound the alarm yet.
• 1:04:20
  But the shattered window.
• 1:04:22
  Did the window shatter?
• 1:04:23
  Because the window peeled back like an onion layer.
• 1:04:30
  And so people were up in arms about how, to your point, there
• 1:04:33
  was no alarm notification.
• 1:04:35
  I wasn't told my car was being robbed.
• 1:04:37
  The alarm didn't go off.
• 1:04:38
  I'm like, what alarm's going off?
• 1:04:39
  This thing like rolled up like a paper towel.
• 1:04:41
  It didn't even know the window was open.
• 1:04:43
  Where's the sensor?
• 1:04:44
  Suddenly the air current changed into the vehicle, but it was the door wasn't open.
• 1:04:49
  That's the sensor.
• 1:04:49
  I don't know Is it worth saying that the thief was in a Nissan Altima?
• 1:04:53
  Yes.
• 1:04:54
  Are you serious?
• 1:04:55
  Yeah But the picture of this Peeled down window is just wild, wild.
• 1:05:05
  You wouldn't be able to do that on any other.
• 1:05:07
  No.
• 1:05:08
  And I think it has to do with the fact that it's safety glass.
• 1:05:11
  So it has that coating on it.
• 1:05:12
  So it's not supposed to shatter and all that, but in thinking about previous
• 1:05:16
  Tesla's that I've been in, remember, I told you guys that story about when I
• 1:05:18
  was in Tampa and how that Tesla model Y tried to choke me because the door seal
• 1:05:23
  ended up falling on my head as I was getting out and all this kind of thing.
• 1:05:26
  If the seals are that bad on a Cybertruck, and with all those
• 1:05:30
  angles, you don't need a pry bar.
• 1:05:32
  You probably could put your fingers in there and pull the window back.
• 1:05:36
  Probably what he did.
• 1:05:37
  Which is a lot harder to do on other cars, even on a frameless door car,
• 1:05:41
  which we've owned some over the years.
• 1:05:43
  It's pretty tight in there, and usually the window goes up into a cavity.
• 1:05:47
  Yes.
• 1:05:47
  Where it seals inside of that door seal.
• 1:05:50
  Even though it doesn't have a frame to say that the build quality is
• 1:05:54
  maybe not quite where it should be.
• 1:05:56
  And all those weird angles might add an extra layer of, I don't know, weakness
• 1:06:02
  or entry point or attack vector.
• 1:06:04
  We'll call it that, you know, I don't know, but I guess this
• 1:06:07
  guy proved the hypothesis.
• 1:06:09
  Tesla's recall fix is going to be going down to the local Home Depot
• 1:06:13
  and getting some rebar to build a frame for your frameless door.
• 1:06:18
  Just caulk it shut.
• 1:06:19
  Just get a couple of tubes of caulk.
• 1:06:20
  Your answer usually, I would just get some caulk.
• 1:06:22
  I was going to say caulk, but I decided to go with the rebar.
• 1:06:25
  Yeah.
• 1:06:25
  I'd like to spend a hundred thousand dollars on a vehicle
• 1:06:27
  that I can peel the glass back on.
• 1:06:29
  But we've covered all that before.
• 1:06:33
  We actually have new news about the Cybertruck and Tanya, this
• 1:06:38
  one literally blows my mind.
• 1:06:40
  This takes the cake.
• 1:06:41
  Would you like to inform our audience on what this latest development
• 1:06:45
  in Cybertruck nonsense is?
• 1:06:47
  We covered that last time.
• 1:06:48
  I'm talking about the shifter.
• 1:06:50
  Do you guys know where the shifter is?
• 1:06:51
  Oh, I heard it's like in the visor or something.
• 1:06:55
  Yes.
• 1:06:55
  Who designed this thing?
• 1:06:59
  Designed by a crazy person.
• 1:07:01
  Who puts transmission shifter buttons In the sun visor.
• 1:07:05
  Oh, it's in the center.
• 1:07:07
  It's like where your rear view mirror would be.
• 1:07:09
  But the thing is, it's like one of the most highly touched
• 1:07:12
  areas in the car, right?
• 1:07:13
  The sun visor, the rear view mirror, and the steering wheel.
• 1:07:16
  No, this isn't.
• 1:07:17
  If you look at the picture, this isn't a highly touched area because This thing
• 1:07:21
  doesn't have a rear view mirror in it.
• 1:07:23
  Instead of rear view mirror, you have this button panel.
• 1:07:26
  So it's really not a high touch area.
• 1:07:28
  Why would you put it there?
• 1:07:30
  I wouldn't put it there.
• 1:07:30
  I'm not defending its location there, but given what they've removed to place
• 1:07:35
  it there, it actually is not a high touch area, which just goes more to the
• 1:07:40
  shoddy craftsmanship if it falls out without you even needing to touch it.
• 1:07:44
  What I'm talking about in the high touch area, You're constantly moving that visor.
• 1:07:47
  You're messing around with the visor and then your transmission
• 1:07:50
  shifter falls out and stops working.
• 1:07:52
  I mean, who in their right mind thought this was a good idea.
• 1:07:55
  And by the way, the hazard lights are there too.
• 1:07:57
  What about the rear quarter panel?
• 1:07:59
  It just falls off.
• 1:08:00
  Oh man.
• 1:08:01
  I saw that too.
• 1:08:01
  I'm like, what?
• 1:08:02
  And it was just like interior.
• 1:08:04
  It looks like when you take the door card off of an old Volkswagen and you see
• 1:08:09
  the internals of how the window works.
• 1:08:11
  I was like, where's the frame to the back of the truck?
• 1:08:13
  I mean, so did this thing not have to go through an HTSA crash testing?
• 1:08:19
  This is why it's Teslagate.
• 1:08:21
  If you pay enough, If you got enough Elon Musk, which,
• 1:08:25
  which bill is his face on now?
• 1:08:26
  Like the thousand dollar bill?
• 1:08:27
  If you have enough Elon Musk dollars, you can pay this thing through the NTSA.
• 1:08:33
  If this gets hit, it's going to get obliterated by even a small vehicle.
• 1:08:37
  Would you go cross country in a Cybertruck?
• 1:08:40
  No, you wouldn't make it.
• 1:08:41
  You'd get somewhere in the Midwest with a big rainstorm and then you'd
• 1:08:44
  be stranded because the car got wet.
• 1:08:46
  Or because your shifter fell off.
• 1:08:48
  So you're done.
• 1:08:49
  And then you would have hit some place with some sand and
• 1:08:52
  then it would have gotten stuck.
• 1:08:53
  And so you're done again.
• 1:08:55
  What's funny about this is, especially the picture of the fenders and
• 1:08:58
  everything that is now falling off, the gas pedal, the shifter, the fenders.
• 1:09:02
  I mean, God knows what else is going to fall off the Cybertruck.
• 1:09:05
  But it's literally the epitome of the expression, I'm going to drive it.
• 1:09:09
  Yeah.
• 1:09:09
  Until it falls apart around me, but it's brand freaking new There's always
• 1:09:14
  a tesla story that sort of crosses the boundary Between tesla gate and what
• 1:09:19
  we call low e here in the studio or lowered expectations And this one I have
• 1:09:25
  to give a huge shout out to the special guest on the drive thru a ways back
• 1:09:29
  He's been a longtime fan of the show and supporter of breakfix through patreon.
• 1:09:34
  Mr Mark Hewitt brought us this gem of tesla news You can
• 1:09:38
  see Tanya's face right now.
• 1:09:42
  Come on.
• 1:09:43
  It's unfortunate.
• 1:09:48
  It's an unfortunate state of society.
• 1:09:51
  This first article about a driver in a Cybertruck driving like a madman.
• 1:09:55
  With VR or AR goggles on.
• 1:09:59
  First of all, I think it was a stunt.
• 1:10:00
  So, there's that.
• 1:10:01
  The more concerning thing is, don't put this out there in the
• 1:10:05
  world for people to try to go do.
• 1:10:08
  That's the more concerning thing at the moment.
• 1:10:10
  Cause, The Cybertruck doesn't have autopilot, so it's a stunt because
• 1:10:14
  there's no way that it's self driving and he's just not paying attention.
• 1:10:17
  So, boom on that.
• 1:10:18
  But, second of all, don't put this out in the world so people are
• 1:10:22
  like, Oh, I can go do this too!
• 1:10:24
  Or some asshat's gonna go do it in their Tesla, which is another article.
• 1:10:27
  They'll accidentally mow over a woman and her dog, killing them, and then go,
• 1:10:32
  I didn't realize I, uh, ran anybody over.
• 1:10:34
  While they were checking emails on their phone in autopilot, allegedly.
• 1:10:38
  I mean, what a great excuse to like, mow somebody down and be like, Oh shit.
• 1:10:41
  Oh crap.
• 1:10:42
  What do I do?
• 1:10:42
  Oh, you know what?
• 1:10:43
  I was on autopilot.
• 1:10:44
  Like, it's not still your fault, asshole.
• 1:10:45
  And you didn't notice?
• 1:10:47
  Like, supposedly there's some like, street cam that's like, the woman was on your
• 1:10:51
  hood for a hot second, you know, dying.
• 1:10:53
  Like, what the f To Tanya's point, there are no cars in existence
• 1:10:57
  today that have autopilot.
• 1:10:59
  Go read the fine print.
• 1:11:01
  They all say the same shit.
• 1:11:02
  The car does not drive itself.
• 1:11:04
  Don't be fucking delusional.
• 1:11:06
  Mm hmm.
• 1:11:06
  I will say, you missed the point entirely, Tanya.
• 1:11:09
  Nope, she's, she got it.
• 1:11:10
  She good.
• 1:11:11
  The whole thing with the VR goggles is just like when I sit down on my simulator.
• 1:11:17
  I don't need to use my monitors.
• 1:11:18
  I can plug my Oculus or MetaQuest into my sim and play the game through that.
• 1:11:24
  So when you plug your Oculus into the Cybertruck, you don't need a windshield.
• 1:11:28
  Remember I said, we're going to be driving eggs that levitate.
• 1:11:32
  So how do you know where you're going?
• 1:11:34
  Mm hmm.
• 1:11:34
  You put on your VR, AR goggles and it's just like being outside.
• 1:11:38
  Elon Musk was a visionary.
• 1:11:40
  He saw the writing on the wall.
• 1:11:42
  You don't need a windscreen wiper because you're not going to use the windscreen.
• 1:11:46
  You won't know that it's raining.
• 1:11:48
  The laser goes across your meta quest.
• 1:11:50
  They use the same laser from that eye surgery.
• 1:11:54
  They're giving you LASIK from the LASIK.
• 1:11:56
  Yes, LASIK technology.
• 1:11:58
  Then your metaquest that goes across and cleans your windshield.
• 1:12:02
  The simulated rain in your simulated world.
• 1:12:05
  Just like they added simulated rain to iRacing.
• 1:12:07
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:12:08
  See the neural link.
• 1:12:10
  Oh God.
• 1:12:11
  You get the neural link put in you and then that'll connect
• 1:12:15
  you intimately with the car.
• 1:12:17
  Didn't they put the neural chip in somebody's head like Tesla did that?
• 1:12:21
  I think so.
• 1:12:22
  Cannot wait until they have complete cranial meltdown
• 1:12:25
  because I feel like I have that.
• 1:12:27
  Yeah.
• 1:12:27
  When I'm reading these articles, I can only imagine if that thing
• 1:12:31
  self combusts inside your head.
• 1:12:32
  Good night.
• 1:12:33
  They did put it in someone, and allegedly they can move a mouse,
• 1:12:37
  like computer mouse, with their mind.
• 1:12:41
  You know, I think I've got a new invention.
• 1:12:43
  It's called A hand and you put the hand on the mouse and you can move it
• 1:12:48
  without even needing to use your mind.
• 1:12:50
  But you use your mind to move your hand.
• 1:12:52
  You see, it's that telekinesis powers that we have.
• 1:12:56
  I don't, I don't need wireless.
• 1:12:58
  Touch it.
• 1:12:58
  I can push the buttons.
• 1:13:00
  You're not telepathic.
• 1:13:01
  You don't have telekinetic powers.
• 1:13:03
  What the mouse must have a chip in it or something like and you're microwaving like
• 1:13:08
  waves out of your brain to control it.
• 1:13:10
  There is no spoon.
• 1:13:12
  So all you do is tilt your head and that's the mouse.
• 1:13:15
  It's like the old track ball mice.
• 1:13:18
  Go back, go back.
• 1:13:20
  Like night at the Roxbury.
• 1:13:23
  There's already technology like that where your eye movements can be tracked
• 1:13:28
  and so that you could move things on a computer screen in that way.
• 1:13:31
  Right.
• 1:13:32
  I think they've already designed that stuff for people with disabilities.
• 1:13:34
  I don't need to embed a chip in my brain and then all of a sudden have
• 1:13:38
  like, I'm gonna get charged to go to the facilities in my own home or something.
• 1:13:43
  Just imagine how many Camp Lejeune emails you can get straight to your brain.
• 1:13:48
  You can get paywalls.
• 1:13:49
  I need to pay for my subscription to, I don't know, use my brain.
• 1:13:54
  I get like, shut down because my neural Lyn subscription expired.
• 1:13:58
  Like what?
• 1:13:58
  ? Yeah, because you didn't pay your bill . Dear Lord, please start the apocalypse.
• 1:14:03
  Start over.
• 1:14:04
  Wrapping out some Tesla news.
• 1:14:06
  Our favorite internet idiot, WhistleAndDiesel.
• 1:14:08
  I don't even know why we're giving this person any airtime.
• 1:14:12
  We say like, oh, how do these people get murmur?
• 1:14:15
  And then it's people like us that are like helping him.
• 1:14:18
  I don't want to help him.
• 1:14:19
  I'm not going to talk about this.
• 1:14:20
  You can talk about it.
• 1:14:21
  I'm going to stay silent.
• 1:14:21
  All three of our Arbitron rated listeners.
• 1:14:24
  But yeah, I mean, this guy, I bring it up only because he's beaten cars
• 1:14:29
  to death and now he's got his hands.
• 1:14:32
  On a cyber truck.
• 1:14:33
  And so there's no video footage yet, just some pictures on Instagram with
• 1:14:38
  the hype and all this kind of thing.
• 1:14:40
  So I want to see what he does to it.
• 1:14:42
  He's going to explode it because he's probably going to get it
• 1:14:45
  into some like benign accident.
• 1:14:47
  And the thing is just going to like go into a million pieces.
• 1:14:50
  And maybe that's the end of whistling diesel as we know it.
• 1:14:54
  Okay, what would be more interesting is we know how Elon Takes the shit like this.
• 1:15:00
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:15:02
  What is the retribution here?
• 1:15:04
  Because he's not just gonna, like, is he really just gonna sit back?
• 1:15:08
  I don't know.
• 1:15:09
  But if this guy goes and, like, brutalizes his baby Cybertruck here,
• 1:15:15
  Makes a mockery of it, basically, That's a lot different than somebody
• 1:15:19
  trying to give you an artistic tribute.
• 1:15:21
  Yeah, I can't wait.
• 1:15:22
  I'm kind of looking forward to this.
• 1:15:23
  I am too.
• 1:15:24
  Yeah.
• 1:15:25
  For once I hate his stuff in general.
• 1:15:27
  I think he absolutely just abuses cars for all the wrong reasons.
• 1:15:32
  And a lot of the cars are like, man, I would've, I would've driven that.
• 1:15:34
  That's a nice car.
• 1:15:36
  Abusing a Cybertruck.
• 1:15:37
  I want to see how this turns out.
• 1:15:38
  In the one picture, there is a tank in the background.
• 1:15:41
  Oh, dude, this is going to be great.
• 1:15:43
  Bulletproof glass.
• 1:15:44
  How about missile proof glass?
• 1:15:46
  Excellent.
• 1:15:47
  That's probably accurate.
• 1:15:48
  That's going to be awesome.
• 1:15:49
  Now that my expectations are thoroughly lowered, we need to talk about things
• 1:15:54
  that are unfortunately unfortunate.
• 1:15:56
  Look at that.
• 1:15:57
  The first unfortunate thing.
• 1:15:59
  We're right back with the Cybertruck.
• 1:16:01
  I feel like this is, like, serendipitous, though.
• 1:16:04
  No, this is the definition of irony.
• 1:16:06
  Yeah.
• 1:16:06
  The headline alone Explains it.
• 1:16:09
  Okay, Yahoo News reports Tesla Cybertruck hits fire hydrant, catches on fire.
• 1:16:14
  Well, they were already there with the water, so they're good.
• 1:16:16
  Fire hydrant was on the scene.
• 1:16:18
  Fire hydrant was on the scene.
• 1:16:20
  Apparently, he caused the fire.
• 1:16:23
  But also could not put out the fire.
• 1:16:25
  Do you know how much water a fire hydrant puts out?
• 1:16:28
  But that is needed to put out the fire.
• 1:16:30
  Still not enough.
• 1:16:30
  The picture of this thing alone just cracks me up.
• 1:16:34
  How do you hit a fire hydrant?
• 1:16:35
  They're not in the middle of the road.
• 1:16:36
  Supervised full self driving.
• 1:16:40
  It was F U S D.
• 1:16:42
  Yeah.
• 1:16:43
  Unsupervised.
• 1:16:45
  No.
• 1:16:45
  So, so this Cybertruck identified as a fire hose.
• 1:16:49
  God, there were reports this month of other EVs burning to the ground, and
• 1:16:55
  the fires are just unbelievably tragic.
• 1:16:58
  Everyone wants to say, Whoa!
• 1:17:02
  Gasoline, ice, thermal motors catch on fire more than Thermal means fire.
• 1:17:08
  When was the last time, though, sir, that A ice engine that hit
• 1:17:13
  a fire hydrant caught on fire.
• 1:17:15
  I believe the chances of that are one in a trillion.
• 1:17:19
  Unlike the Fast and the Furious movies, generally,
• 1:17:25
  when internal combustion engine operated vehicles strike something, they don't
• 1:17:30
  normally go up in a blaze of glory.
• 1:17:34
  Would have been amazing if that Cybertruck's dashboard lit up
• 1:17:37
  and it said, Danger to Manifold.
• 1:17:40
  I mean, I get, yes, maybe ice do catch on fire more regularly, but it seems
• 1:17:45
  like the difficulty and the severity of some of these electric vehicle fires.
• 1:17:50
  Imagine you're in some big collision and then you're out of it.
• 1:17:53
  You can't even get out of your car or you can't get out of your car
• 1:17:56
  until somebody comes rescues you and then the damn thing ignites.
• 1:18:00
  Would it be fair to say that maybe Knowing what we know, having the safety
• 1:18:04
  gear that we have available to us, that we should wear our Nomex suits
• 1:18:08
  every time we take a ride in a Tesla.
• 1:18:10
  I was just about to say that.
• 1:18:11
  Yep, exactly.
• 1:18:12
  So you can go down the Tesla Cybertruck rabbit hole with this one article.
• 1:18:17
  I don't know if you looked in the middle of the page, but it says man
• 1:18:19
  almost loses a finger to a cyber truck.
• 1:18:21
  Oh, it's the window truck, like.
• 1:18:23
  No, this was the door because of where the door buttons are.
• 1:18:26
  Oh.
• 1:18:27
  So his finger got caught between the rear door and the front door.
• 1:18:30
  He almost lost a finger.
• 1:18:31
  And then the next one out of that is.
• 1:18:33
  Out of control cyber truck crashes into a house.
• 1:18:35
  I think that's the one we talked about.
• 1:18:37
  Yeah.
• 1:18:37
  A while ago.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah.
• 1:18:38
  I just, I, I love it.
• 1:18:39
  I saw one on the highway today, and I've never seen one in traffic and the beltway
• 1:18:44
  six lanes on each side type of deal.
• 1:18:46
  It is massive.
• 1:18:48
  It looks like this lumbering, and I couldn't figure out
• 1:18:50
  where the brake lights were.
• 1:18:51
  You know how we discovered that the headlights are in that gap between
• 1:18:55
  the front fascia and the bumper?
• 1:18:57
  I think the brake lights are in the same place on the back, but every time we
• 1:19:01
  would stop and go in traffic, I didn't.
• 1:19:02
  See that back bar light up.
• 1:19:04
  I think that back bar across the lift gate only comes on at night.
• 1:19:08
  Unless he wasn't using the brakes.
• 1:19:09
  Maybe regenerative braking that you don't have to break in those cars, but
• 1:19:12
  you still have to hit the brake pedal because we're coming to a full stop.
• 1:19:16
  Not if it's full self driving, it's fully aware, identifies as a brake late
• 1:19:22
  or the brake lights just don't work.
• 1:19:23
  I mean, amongst a million other things that don't work on those,
• 1:19:26
  they could have shorted for all we know had brand new temp tags on it.
• 1:19:29
  I will say I see cyber trucks.
• 1:19:31
  All the time.
• 1:19:31
  I see at least one a day.
• 1:19:32
  They're creepy though.
• 1:19:33
  When they come up on you, you're suddenly like, Whoa, what is that?
• 1:19:37
  I hate the fact that they're so popular.
• 1:19:38
  I don't know why I just, they rubbed me the wrong way.
• 1:19:40
  It really upsets me.
• 1:19:41
  Because you didn't get one and you are owed a t shirt.
• 1:19:44
  That's why.
• 1:19:45
  I didn't want one.
• 1:19:45
  Yeah.
• 1:19:46
  I ordered a cyber truck and all I got was this stupid t shirt.
• 1:19:49
  Parentheses.
• 1:19:49
  Thank God.
• 1:19:51
  Thank Elon.
• 1:19:52
  Get it right.
• 1:19:53
  Thank you.
• 1:19:54
  Well, Elon is God.
• 1:19:55
  There you go.
• 1:19:55
  Soon to be, he's gonna be the first trillionaire.
• 1:19:58
  Did you hear that?
• 1:19:58
  It's insane.
• 1:19:59
  Don't even get me started on how stupid people make money.
• 1:20:02
  He's not stupid.
• 1:20:03
  He's very smart.
• 1:20:04
  But he's also stupid.
• 1:20:06
  He's also a horrible human being.
• 1:20:07
  Yes, horrible human beings make a lot of money.
• 1:20:10
  Well, Brad, you're out of luck, man.
• 1:20:12
  You're trying to sell this cyber truck here in the United
• 1:20:15
  States for a bucket of chicken.
• 1:20:16
  And I was thinking, you know what?
• 1:20:17
  Maybe if Americans won't buy.
• 1:20:20
  Your allotment.
• 1:20:20
  You could sell it to somebody overseas.
• 1:20:22
  Maybe somebody in Asia wants it.
• 1:20:24
  Maybe somebody in Europe wants it.
• 1:20:25
  Maybe, maybe.
• 1:20:26
  There's a whole list of reasons why the Cybertruck won't be going to Europe.
• 1:20:31
  Let's face it.
• 1:20:32
  Tanya's mentioned it before.
• 1:20:33
  The overall size of the vehicle.
• 1:20:35
  Shipping it from California to Europe.
• 1:20:38
  There's a lot of obstacles in that.
• 1:20:39
  But if we get lucky, it could get lost at sea on a shipping container ship.
• 1:20:44
  We would lose hundreds of them.
• 1:20:46
  That only happens to Porsches and Lamborghinis.
• 1:20:48
  Getting it through the European version of, like, the DOT and getting
• 1:20:52
  it approved and, you know, safety.
• 1:20:54
  Testing and all that kind of stuff is a lot more strict than
• 1:20:57
  it is over here in a lot of ways.
• 1:20:59
  Granted, they don't have to worry about the emission side because
• 1:21:01
  it's an EV, but do they have the charging network to support it?
• 1:21:04
  You know, all those kinds of things.
• 1:21:06
  Do we have the charging network to support?
• 1:21:07
  Well, I wasn't going to get into that.
• 1:21:10
  Also, there's an issue with the gross vehicle weight
• 1:21:13
  being between eight and nine.
• 1:21:14
  Thousand pounds so four and four and a half tons.
• 1:21:17
  That's also a problem with europe.
• 1:21:19
  It's just too big It's just too heavy the issue that the cyber truck is just
• 1:21:23
  gross regardless of gross vehicle weight It's just gross and that sort of leads
• 1:21:27
  into our final article about the cyber truck elon musk And I quote we dug
• 1:21:32
  our own grave with the cyber truck.
• 1:21:34
  I guess it was shortly after he announced Oh, it's coming in november
• 1:21:37
  and then oh we dug our own grave on this Basically like, yeah, this is a
• 1:21:42
  bad idea, but we're doing it anyway.
• 1:21:44
  What kind of business sense is that though?
• 1:21:47
  And I mean, we're past the point of no return, right?
• 1:21:49
  I guess there's enough people that want this.
• 1:21:51
  It's still a year and a half from being cash positive, he said.
• 1:21:55
  Scaling the production is still a problem.
• 1:21:57
  So to your point, Brad, if you'd actually click yes to that order, it'll be a
• 1:22:01
  couple of years till you see it probably.
• 1:22:02
  If you place that order, how much of a deposit do you have to put down?
• 1:22:06
  When I did the estimator, it was 4, 500.
• 1:22:09
  Do you start paying on it right away?
• 1:22:11
  You haven't taken delivery of your Cybertruck.
• 1:22:13
  You're not going to finalize the loan until there's a VIN number.
• 1:22:15
  Are you sure?
• 1:22:16
  Because they can generate a soft VIN number and reserve it for you and say,
• 1:22:20
  this is going to be your chassis number.
• 1:22:21
  But a bank is not going to fund that loan until there's an actual vehicle.
• 1:22:25
  That they could repossess when you don't pay.
• 1:22:27
  You're using logic, my friend.
• 1:22:29
  You're going to go through the Tesla financing corporation.
• 1:22:32
  Oh, that's right.
• 1:22:33
  That's right.
• 1:22:34
  And they can repossess unicorns and glitter.
• 1:22:37
  It's like software.
• 1:22:38
  I'm going to generate you a license key, but your trial hasn't started yet.
• 1:22:41
  Oh, you mean how they generate stock value?
• 1:22:44
  They'll just generate it out of thin air.
• 1:22:46
  So they're going to allot you your VIN.
• 1:22:48
  You're going to start paying on a truck that you're not
• 1:22:49
  going to receive for two years.
• 1:22:50
  I think this is a good deal.
• 1:22:52
  That means I'm two years into my seven year loan.
• 1:22:55
  And all of a sudden when I get the truck, it's a five year loan.
• 1:22:58
  And don't forget, it's an armed loan, so it's adjustable rate.
• 1:23:02
  So wait a minute, when I buy it at the 100, 000 or whatever, does that mean I
• 1:23:07
  haven't technically driven it off the lot?
• 1:23:09
  But when I actually take possession, does it mean it's worth 30, 000?
• 1:23:13
  Yeah, because you have two years of depreciation.
• 1:23:15
  But not two years of wear and tear.
• 1:23:17
  I would tell you this, if you were in a different state of
• 1:23:19
  life, I'd say send it, man.
• 1:23:21
  Let's make this happen.
• 1:23:22
  You gotta get this Cybertruck.
• 1:23:24
  You It's just gotta happen, right?
• 1:23:25
  Just go for it.
• 1:23:26
  We got a little homework to do here.
• 1:23:27
  I don't think I convinced you properly to buy this truck.
• 1:23:31
  I don't think I could convince anybody to buy this truck, honestly.
• 1:23:33
  I don't think Elon Musk can convince anybody to buy this truck.
• 1:23:37
  What are you talking about?
• 1:23:38
  I don't see why they have volume in production issues.
• 1:23:42
  When there aren't gonna need to make that many, cause not that many
• 1:23:44
  people are gonna take delivery.
• 1:23:46
  Demand is artificially high.
• 1:23:47
  Just like generating those VIN numbers.
• 1:23:49
  Yeah, everybody put in a hundred dollars on a whim.
• 1:23:52
  Cause like, oh, it's a fucking hundred dollars, who cares?
• 1:23:54
  If the truck ends up, you know, shit in the bed, or they never make it or
• 1:23:57
  whatever, I lost a hundred dollars.
• 1:23:59
  Who cares?
• 1:23:59
  Is that how you've rationalized it for yourself?
• 1:24:02
  Have you just said, I've wasted a hundred dollars on a lot of other
• 1:24:05
  things and let it go, or do you think you can get your money back?
• 1:24:08
  Do you think you can unload this cyber truck allotment?
• 1:24:11
  Getting the money back versus unloading the cyber truck
• 1:24:14
  allotment are two different things.
• 1:24:15
  Because when I first signed up for it, it was a refundable deposit.
• 1:24:20
  So I should be able to technically call up Tesla and say, Hey, you know what?
• 1:24:24
  Nevermind.
• 1:24:25
  Can I have my a hundred dollars please?
• 1:24:27
  Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:24:27
  You said call up Tesla.
• 1:24:29
  You could talk to a human.
• 1:24:30
  Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  I'm going to call him up on the cyber webs.
• 1:24:33
  I'm going to use my neural net right to Elon.
• 1:24:36
  And he's going to cut me a check for a hundred dollars minus a
• 1:24:40
  hundred dollars processing fee.
• 1:24:41
  So he's going to mail me a check for like 15 cents.
• 1:24:44
  If nothing else.
• 1:24:45
  They should be paying you interest on the 100.
• 1:24:47
  It should be like a bond.
• 1:24:48
  I was going to say it should be like, yeah, 100 plus 5 percent
• 1:24:52
  interest over five years.
• 1:24:53
  I'll take that.
• 1:24:54
  Exactly.
• 1:24:54
  You loaned the Tesla foundation a hundred bucks.
• 1:24:57
  It was a charitable donation.
• 1:24:59
  You want your money back.
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  I aided in their stock valuation and their inflated cash
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  position and stock valuation.
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  And he took that money and bought X.
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  And I don't mean, I don't mean ecstasy, although he probably bought that too.
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  X, insert variable here, right?
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  I wonder if we're going to look back in 20 years, 30 years, when we're
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  all relaxing on our lazy boys and we're doing drive thru number 537.
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  And we're going to look back and say, do you remember that
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  Bernie Madoff level Ponzi scheme?
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  That was Tesla, which one, which, which story, what specifically
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  is anybody surprised again?
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  Well, let's put a pin in this Tesla talk.
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  Let's put a bird shit in this cyber truck talk.
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  We will come back to the cyber truck.
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  No, please don't.
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  Oh, we will.
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  We will.
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  It's please, please don't.
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