believe in wireless. He needs to see it. Boom and we're live. What's up Rich? How are you man?

What's popping baby? Thanks for doing this. I really appreciate it.

Thank you for having me on this show man. Well I read about you, fellow Boston native, and I read about your Tesla journey, and I was like, this is a

fucking interesting story. This guy buys a broken Tesla, and then you couldn't get parts for it anywhere.

So what had happened to the car?

Had been in an accident?

No, so I met the previous owner and he actually, I think it was during Hurricane Sandy.

He thought that he goes, wait a minute that

water level seems low enough to me to drive through it and he decided driving through

the water I think it got up to like the almost like the B pillar. Oh no.

to like where his neck is yeah. Christ. Yeah, I know right so he thought he could fight the water he lost obviously and

It was just underwater and I'm like you know what I got to try this thing and so what would Tesla do in that situation if he wanted to bring it back to them

They would have to rebuild the entire car they wouldn't even do it because at that point

Once anything liquid you know any kind of like water intrusion happens at an

EV, they just write the whole car off. Insurance companies just like, we're not

going to deal with this. Too risky. Too risky. Not worth it.

Were you aware of the Fisker dilemma at Hurricane Sandy when they had the fiskers that were parked at the

it was like at a some sort of a dock where they brought them off the ship they all exploded

yeah the all burned the ship they all exploded yeah

the water level rose right the water got into them they just went off and

the fucking fireworks the whole bunch of them yeah look use a video of it

you can watch the video of the fucking blowing up. So as the water level rose in the hurt,

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