Episode 174: Tesla on 'The Simpsons'
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk discusses his difficult 2018 on HBO, The Simpsons uses a Tesla in a funny bit, Autopilot usage hits a major milestone, Elon offers a potpourri of updates via Twitter, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Elon Musk discusses his difficult 2018 on HBO |
| 0:07.5 | the Simpsons uses Tesla in a bit autopilot usage hits a major milestone, Elon offers a potpourri of updates via Twitter and more. Oh, What's happening Tesla? What's happening, Tesla Friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Un unofficial podcast episode 174. We're into |
| 0:44.9 | December 2018 December 2nd to be specific for this episode. We're heading into the |
| 0:50.4 | final push of Q4. Another vital quarter for Tesla |
| 0:54.4 | as they look to now sustain profitability. |
| 0:57.9 | Daisy the boxer puppy, behind me tonight, |
| 1:01.0 | chewing on a bone back there. |
| 1:02.4 | She's just working on trying to get the |
| 1:03.8 | marrow out of the middle of it. That bone has been well worth the investment. |
| 1:07.6 | This week I'll tell you my car is by far the dirtiest it's ever been and it's been this way for a little while |
| 1:16.3 | we've had a ton of rain over the last week plus here in the Bay Area which has |
| 1:21.0 | been actually great not only with the campfire up north |
| 1:24.8 | and the smoke but just in general you know it is it is time for us to get some weather but |
| 1:29.1 | yeah it's it's still in the forecast so it just hasn't been worth cleaning the car, |
| 1:34.4 | but man, and I'm getting, |
| 1:36.1 | I'm getting annoyed at myself looking at it. |
| 1:39.8 | I am, I think I'm just, I have to clean it this weekend no matter what no better if there's more rain in the forecast |
| 1:46.4 | But yeah, I just got to do it, but I tell you it it doesn't look all that filthy from far away, but up close up close up close it's really bad I got to get all that |
| 1:56.4 | dirt and grime just power washed out of and off of the paint protection film. |
| 2:03.0 | I'll be talking more about my paint protection film later in the show. |
| 2:07.0 | It has not been a great Tesla week for me, my friends. |
| 2:10.0 | Stay tuned for the end of the show for that. |
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