Episode 258: Tesla Breaks Website With...Short Shorts??
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk's online troll of short sellers becomes gloriously real, Tesla owners in one Norweigan city are being asked to help solve a crime, Elon's got big plans for Tesla's upcoming Berlin Gigafactory, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Elon Musk's online troll of short sellers becomes gloriously real. |
| 0:09.0 | Tesla owners in one Norwegian city are being asked to help solve a crime. |
| 0:13.6 | Elon's got big plans for Tesla's upcoming Berlin Gigafactory and more. Oh, What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride The Lightning, the weekly Tesla unofficial Podcast, Number 258 for July 12, 2020. |
| 0:46.1 | Days of the Boxer Puppy, chilling out behind me, just hanging out down there. |
| 0:50.3 | I am in an excellent mood this week. |
| 0:51.9 | I hope you are doing well because I got the verdict on the paint |
| 0:56.4 | well the damage to my car that I told you about towards the end of last week's show and as luck |
| 1:02.4 | would have it I am now three for three as far as |
| 1:07.0 | being saved by paint protection film. Thank you to Immaculate Reflections who has my car right now actually. He is going to be doing the restorative paint protection film work. |
| 1:19.0 | The paint is fine underneath I somehow grazed the side of my you know garage door entryway |
| 1:28.8 | opening there just enough where it didn't go all the way through the paint protection film, |
| 1:36.5 | which is very thin. I mean, it's not thick stuff, but it did not go through. |
| 1:41.6 | He peeled it off. In fact, if you want to see the video of the the |
| 1:45.4 | peel back of the film it's on my Instagram I'm the same on Twitter and |
| 1:50.5 | Instagram DMC underscore Ryan |
| 1:54.2 | but I was so relieved because again as I told you last week this was a self-inflicted thing |
| 2:00.1 | I did this to myself and just felt terrible about it. |
| 2:03.2 | So to bring it over there, I've been waiting all week. |
| 2:07.4 | I just been like, okay, is it, I'm not going to find out for a week, here's fingers crossed |
| 2:11.2 | that the paint's okay. And he peeled it back and it was fine it just |
| 2:16.9 | saved me and that's now the third time so the first time was just a fluke something had bounced in the road and hit and cut into the |
| 2:27.8 | the gash the film on the bottom part of my passenger door front passenger door so replace the film all good paint was fine and then when I had parked on the street at one point. For a brief time somebody had gouged |
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