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10-16: Tesla Made A Flying Car. Will We Ever Be Able To Own One? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: If you're anywhere close to my age, like mid-50s, well,
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  Speaker 1: I would say adult age, you know the saying and
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  Speaker 1: the joke. It's become like an internet meme. Whenever something
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  Speaker 1: insignificant happens, this always pops up because it goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the science fiction stuff we grew up on. We
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  Speaker 1: were promised flying cars by now, and we actually were.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that? They predicted that we would have flying cars
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  Speaker 1: by the year at least 2000, right? And then that's
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  Speaker 1: being generous. And it was always a funny thing. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where are my flying cars? That's not it.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the Future had flying cars. Where is all this? Well, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we have them now. And it happened last night at
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  Speaker 1: the Tesla SpaceX facility where Elon Musk and his SpaceX team,
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  Speaker 1: Tesla team mostly, displayed in kind of like a performative
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  Speaker 1: stunt a flying roadster at the new roadster model reveal.
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  Speaker 1: And this goes back to an age thing, too, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think younger people, like kids my age in their 20s,
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  Speaker 1: are not so much into this. But we, me, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up in, like, the stunt exhibition era. It's like
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in Evil Knievel. Like, it was a
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  Speaker 1: big thing. He's going to jump. He's going to jump
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  Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace, these kinds of things. I think Elon's of
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  Speaker 1: the same mindset. Don't just talk about it. Like, show
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  Speaker 1: it in an awesome, entertaining display. That's just the way
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  Speaker 1: we work. That's the way I work. And they did it.
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  Speaker 1: And this thing last night came out of nowhere. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Tesla and SpaceX geeks knew about this. It was
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  Speaker 1: much publicized. As we're about to find out here, he's
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  Speaker 1: been talking about doing this for years, and they laughed
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  Speaker 1: at him. He was dead serious that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to make a flying car. But the reaction from this
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  Speaker 1: thing last night, I was just at home watching. I
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  Speaker 1: had that Dodgers-Brewers game on in the background. My wife
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  Speaker 1: was next to me. We're watching something like this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting alert after alert after alert from people like politicians, entertainers,
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  Speaker 1: sports anchor, everybody in society saw this clip of what
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  Speaker 1: happened at the Tesla plant in Texas last night. And
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  Speaker 1: the reaction was basically the same thing. Wow, what just happened?
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  Speaker 1: That's how you make an impact. But here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: And I was all set to come on here and
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  Speaker 1: talk about something else and say, it's like, do we
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  Speaker 1: have flying cars now? Well, the answer, we already do.
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  Speaker 1: We just proved that you can actually do it in
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  Speaker 1: an early version of this thing. Being a consumer nation,
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  Speaker 1: as we are, I think the next logical question is this.
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  Speaker 1: Will we actually be able to buy one? Let's find out.
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  Speaker 1: This was unbelievable. Fun thing to talk about on a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not politics. Well, a little bit is. You can't
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  Speaker 1: avoid that crap, but we'll get into it. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: finding the Wicked Radio live stream Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Eastern time on X and YouTube and Facebook. Replay is
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  Speaker 1: always on there, too. And the audio podcast. Thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for the follows and shares on the audio podcast,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you like to get those. uploaded every single day
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  Speaker 1: shortly after the live stream. All right, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to describe exactly what happened here. I'll
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  Speaker 1: play the video, and you audio listeners, I know I'll
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  Speaker 1: do my best to try to describe this. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear, like, a lot of engines and rockets and
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  Speaker 1: cheers in the background. I'll try to describe what it is. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this was at the SpaceX Texas plant last night, the
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  Speaker 1: new reveal for the Tesla Roadster, the very expensive, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: model of the Tesla version, which looks really cool, and
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  Speaker 1: he did a bunch of different things. zero to 60,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was 0.81 seconds. That's big. Did
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  Speaker 1: a kickflip over a bunch of cars, flew, did a halfpipe.
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  Speaker 1: Things we didn't think were possible. So here it was.
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  Speaker 1: I'll try my best to describe what was going on here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so it's just coming on off the ramp
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  Speaker 1: as it went upside down for a couple of seconds.
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  Speaker 1: But then the big thing happened. This is what caught
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  Speaker 1: everybody's attention. off the ramp rockets came down it landed
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  Speaker 1: now we have a flying car it happened he actually
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  Speaker 1: did it wasn't just that though like i said they
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  Speaker 1: did the kickflip after that they did the zero to
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  Speaker 1: 60 display which i think they said was the fastest
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  Speaker 1: tesla they've ever made whatever to you know show the
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  Speaker 1: speed again this is all A big display and a
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  Speaker 1: stunt kind of thing, which is how you get attention
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  Speaker 1: for different things. The guy's a marketer as well. But
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  Speaker 1: then he did another thing. This was fascinating. He had this.
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  Speaker 1: I have one more little thing. Should we do it? Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do the last thing.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the last thing.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the Roadster. From a still position, and
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  Speaker 1: it just launched straight up into the air, flipped, and
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  Speaker 1: then landed right back down again. We have flying cars.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. The best thing to me, though, was
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  Speaker 1: the reaction from all these different people, like I said.
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  Speaker 1: Very prominent people. Well, big names. Everybody from entrepreneurs, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: were all over this thing. But I saw entertainers. I
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  Speaker 1: saw a couple of rock stars go, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: what just happened? And then you had this. I thought
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  Speaker 1: this was fascinating. One of the guys that was really
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  Speaker 1: into this was Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. He
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  Speaker 1: could not stop talking about it. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: side note, he's been a lot of fun since he's
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  Speaker 1: like looking for his next thing. He seems a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more freer. He's making comments on sports and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of different things. He was very much into this.
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  Speaker 1: So he had this thread of a conversation. This is
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  Speaker 1: just one example of a prominent name that was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fascinated by this. Somebody finally got to his comments,
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Florida, and said, okay, but will it
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  Speaker 1: be street legal in Florida? Ha ha, funny, funny. In
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  Speaker 1: a dead serious tone and manner, this is what Governor
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  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis, this is how we responded to this rando
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  Speaker 1: on X last night. We will make sure it's legal.
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  Speaker 1: At a minimum, could be used to leapfrog golf carts
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  Speaker 1: in the villages. Area of central Florida where they have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of golf carts and very old people and, well, whatever. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so there you go. So the reaction has been amazing
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  Speaker 1: to this. It's actually happened. And we get to this question. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: This was an amazing thing. Is it a one-off? Is
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  Speaker 1: it actually going to happen? Are you really just showing
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  Speaker 1: off the technology of SpaceX combined with Tesla to show
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  Speaker 1: what can happen? I think it's something more than that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something way more than that. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to go back to a little bit of history here.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to a little bit of history of what
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  Speaker 1: Elon's been talking about. And I had to look this up,
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  Speaker 1: but Everybody's reposting it as well. As far back as 2018,
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  Speaker 1: the first time anybody can figure out that Elon talked
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  Speaker 1: about flying cars. Again, this is of that generation where
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  Speaker 1: we grew up on, you know, promise of technology, which
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  Speaker 1: obviously inspired him. As far back as 2018 was the
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  Speaker 1: earliest evidence people can find of him talking about this
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  Speaker 1: out loud on some podcasts. He talked way back when,
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  Speaker 1: way back then he was on a Joe Rogan podcast
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  Speaker 1: where he said, no, I'm dead serious. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And Joe was laughing at him because it
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  Speaker 1: sounds ridiculous at the time. He says, no, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to build this thing. Here's another tweet at the time
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  Speaker 1: before we bought Twitter and turned it into X where
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  Speaker 1: people said to him about the flying car issue, the
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  Speaker 1: crazy thing is I think you're serious or you're not
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  Speaker 1: kidding about this. And he says in this response, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: We'll use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high
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  Speaker 1: pressure air in a composite overwrapped pressure vessel in place
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  Speaker 1: of the two rear seats he said this on january
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  Speaker 1: 9th 2019 he was dead serious about this and making
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  Speaker 1: it happen and he did but let's go back something
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  Speaker 1: else here this goes back to our question again this
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  Speaker 1: is all we're concerned about right we've already leapfrogged that
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  Speaker 1: do we have flying cars we'll prove that you can
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  Speaker 1: actually do it do practical practically speaking would we ever
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  Speaker 1: be able to buy one in the consumer market Well,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go to this for a second. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the wrap-up from Tesla itself and what they did last night, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Then I'll get the really important part, okay? The 2026
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  Speaker 1: Roadster reveal, SpaceX Texas site. We've gone over this. The
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  Speaker 1: car launch, high air mid-flip, coal gas thrusters. Did that,
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  Speaker 1: just like he promised. Land amid smoke after an upside-down
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  Speaker 1: ramp drive with suction fans. All that, we've talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: The next-gen Roadster SpaceX sourced thrusters for jumps and rotation, plus...
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  Speaker 1: Underbody fans generating 2G downforce. It's more than what most
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  Speaker 1: people can handle, actually. And acceleration claims are 0 to
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  Speaker 1: 60 in as little as 0.81 seconds. That's incredible. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to see what else they described here. Production
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  Speaker 1: is targeted for 2028 with tiered trims including... I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on. Let me read that again. I'm sorry, what?
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  Speaker 1: Production is targeted for 2028... That means they're going to
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  Speaker 1: produce this, obviously at a very high cost for the consumer,
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  Speaker 1: for the mass market. As dead serious as Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: was of making a flying car, okay, that part of
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  Speaker 1: it's done. Is this going to be available to the
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  Speaker 1: mass public? Tesla's own description, production will begin. That means
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  Speaker 1: mass production for people to buy, if you can afford it,
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  Speaker 1: we probably can't yet, in 2028. Yes, we have flying cars.
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  Speaker 1: There's your answer. Now, do I want most drivers I
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  Speaker 1: look out my window and see driving these things?
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: We can't even get people to use turn signals these days.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to have the ability to use thrusters
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  Speaker 1: to leapfrog things and they're going to be bumping into
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  Speaker 1: each other in the roads. That's a whole problem. But
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  Speaker 1: you gotta look past all that stuff and just take
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  Speaker 1: this for what it is an amazing technological development in
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  Speaker 1: society if we go back to what we were promised
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  Speaker 1: as kids flying cars well we got them now okay
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  Speaker 1: will we ever have them yes we will because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to start to mass produce these things so there
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  Speaker 1: you go the takeaway uh It's amazing what's possible when
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  Speaker 1: somebody like that is absolutely determined to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's incredible. It's an incredible thing. It really is. Should
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  Speaker 1: be inspired by this kind of stuff. And it sounds
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  Speaker 1: a little corny. It's a little bit hyperbolic. You got
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  Speaker 1: to realize how future kids, little geniuses out there are
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  Speaker 1: inspired by this kind of stuff. They've seen the SpaceX development,
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  Speaker 1: landing rockets, recycling rockets, plans to go to Mars, all
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  Speaker 1: that good stuff. And now they see this back on
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  Speaker 1: earth in Texas at the Tesla plant. This is inspiring
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  Speaker 1: the young engineers and to futurists and people who want
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  Speaker 1: to make society better. That's probably the biggest takeaway of
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  Speaker 1: all on this kind of thing. It's cool for us
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  Speaker 1: to see and to be able to imagine to have
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  Speaker 1: something like this in our driveway or garage someday in
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  Speaker 1: a flying car. But what it means actually to society
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  Speaker 1: to actually propel forward like this. It's really an incredible thing.
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  Speaker 1: As cool as that was, and I'll wrap it up
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  Speaker 1: with this before we all go off into the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling inspired. As cool as that was, and it was great,
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  Speaker 1: and as entertaining for me it was to sit back,
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  Speaker 1: mostly on X, and read the reactions of this one
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  Speaker 1: event from so many different random people, like Ron DeSantis
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  Speaker 1: or famous sports writers that just happened to catch this,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, my God. As great as that was,
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  Speaker 1: this was the most entertaining part of the entire thing
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  Speaker 1: for me. By the time this happened, two hours after
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  Speaker 1: last night this was revealed to the world, The geniuses
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  Speaker 1: on social media looked back at Elon Musk's biggest critics
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  Speaker 1: and memed, mocked the hell out of them. And it
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  Speaker 1: was brilliant. You know who I'm talking about. Here's three
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  Speaker 1: winners right here. This was the first meme instantly coming out.
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  Speaker 1: I've just got to play it for you. Here's AOC
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  Speaker 1: with the background of the flying car. This is what
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  Speaker 1: she had to say about Elon. The takeaway? Okay. Dumb
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  Speaker 1: people always call smart people dumb.
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  Speaker 2: This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
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  Speaker 2: I have ever met or seen or witnessed.
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  Speaker 1: This is a visual for you audio only listeners, but
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  Speaker 1: in the background is the actual flying car and the
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  Speaker 1: background as she's saying that with her in the forefront. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not stop there. Let's go back. And people were
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  Speaker 1: really quick to repost this. Jasmine Crockett, a representative from Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Here's this genius talking about an actual.
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  Speaker 2: Level of incompetence is almost like incomprehensible.
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  Speaker 1: It is so bad.
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  Speaker 2: And when you bring up the idiot known as Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: He is not only, like, very sinister and has no
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  Speaker 2: idea of what he's doing, and people are like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: he absolutely knows, because he's the richest man in the world. Like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he knows how to hire smart people, but don't conflate them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm getting such a kick out of that.
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  Speaker 1: And they put together the memes, and this thing is
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  Speaker 1: going viral of, again... the Tesla doing tricks and jumps
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  Speaker 1: and flying in the background while she's saying that. But
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't even the best one of all, of re-earthing,
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  Speaker 1: regurgitating all the stupid comments from these people. Let's wrap
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  Speaker 1: it up with this one. Here's somebody else that's been
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  Speaker 1: in the news this week. Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Here were her comments that people are reposting about.
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  Speaker 2: The retirement thing for um air traffic controllers is is
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  Speaker 2: also again it just shows how much he doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: i know people talk about him as as a genius
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  Speaker 2: but to me i i i i think he's probably
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  Speaker 2: one of the dumbest luckiest people um to to exist
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  Speaker 2: uh on on this um earth how.
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  Speaker 1: You looking now side note has anybody had a worse
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  Speaker 1: week than ilan omar from the beginning of the week
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  Speaker 1: of her house getting raided, and now this, looking like
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  Speaker 1: an absolute dope criticizing Elon Musk. Oh, it's amazing. What
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  Speaker 1: a great Friday show. That's fantastic. What a great thing
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Are we ever going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to own one of these flying cars? Yeah, absolutely. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a stretch, and I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of rich people that can't drive that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: want owning them, but still, let's take it for what
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  Speaker 1: it is, an amazing achievement for humanity. Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Make it a wicked awesome weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: Be inspired. Talk to you Monday.