Episode 150: Roadster's SpaceX Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Tesla makes the difficult choice to lay off 9% of its workforce, Elon Musk details the next-gen Roadster's unbelievable SpaceX option package, Immaculate Reflections' Jeff McGoveran stops by to talk about detailing and paint protection, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Tesla makes the difficult choice to lay off 9% of its workforce. |
| 0:07.7 | Elon Musk details the next generation Tesla Roadster's unbelievable SpaceX option package, Immaculate Reflections Jeff McGovern stops |
| 0:16.7 | by to talk about detailing and pain protection and more. The Welcome friends to the 150th episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:46.2 | Podcast for June 17th, 2018. I'm Ryan McCaffray next to a napping days of the boxer puppy coming to you here on Friday afternoon. |
| 0:56.3 | Yes, afternoon not evening for once. Maybe that means I'll have a little more energy than usual, |
| 1:01.2 | although hopefully energy is not normally an issue for me, but what is an issue for me is still hearing. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh boy, again, having never suffered from a bad ear infection before, |
| 1:12.0 | I'm, boy, I'm still like I don't know half or so |
| 1:17.0 | capacity out of that left ear and I already feel like I'm either talking too loud or not, I don't know, I feel like I'm still off, |
| 1:26.1 | still a little strange. And going down to a convention in Los Angeles, you know, |
| 1:31.0 | a there in back flight, plus a lot of loud noises probably didn't help |
| 1:36.2 | things but in any case I did have a good time at the Electronic Entertainment |
| 1:40.4 | Expo otherwise known as E3 got to catch up with a lot of people, |
| 1:45.3 | see a lot of great video games, |
| 1:47.0 | man, the video game industry is just, |
| 1:50.0 | it's just always, always hopping with something new and something cool. |
| 1:54.0 | I even met a listener down there. |
| 1:56.5 | Patreon producer Michael Callahan connected with him. |
| 2:00.0 | He was in the area. |
| 2:01.0 | It was great to, it's always fun for me to meet listeners in person |
| 2:04.9 | because it sort of reassures me that I'm not alone, |
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