Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, Tesla quietly moves into the Middle East.

The company is skipping a major auto show, and if you're a great software coder,

I'll tell you how you can meet Elon Musk.

Here we go. Greetings and salutations. Welcome to episode 19 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors

Unofficial Podcast. My name is a somewhat ill Ryan McCaprey. I've got the

flu or something terrible today. So if I sound awful, I do apologize. I know last week I had a little bit of a cold going on. It has morphed into something far worse today, unfortunately, and my microphone is still not back from repair but

sounded like this the replacement the stitch together

Replacement I've got here is working out all right but in any case hope you're having a better day than I am I trust you are

Not too much going on in the world of Tesla this week. I want to start off by talking about

Just a fun little story. It's, I was on my,

on my way to an appointment with my four-year-old

and you know I just had, I was on the freeway

and I had my hands sort of on the bottom of the wheel and from the

backseat my kid asks daddy is the is the car driving itself because she'd heard

me talk about autopilot before and I had to explain to her that no only

Tesla's can do that and she said when you get a Tesla will it drive itself and I said

yes absolutely it will and I said well do said, well do you want to go see a Tesla? And she said, and she said, yeah. So on the way back from the appointment, we went and stopped at the, there's actually, we passed passed by that's the Berlin game

Tesla store here in the San Francisco Bay Area and it's funny we went in and

and she was she was fascinated by it actually I have to give her credit like she knows she's asked a lot of questions she knows there's no engine she knows its battery she knows it plugs in like like later that day we got home and I said somehow charging came up and I asked her,

do you know where the Tesla plugs in when we were standing outside of the car and

she went over to the side of the

tail light and pointed to the right spot so I was proud of her for that but yeah we

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