On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the Model 3 celebrates its third birthday

while also doing exceptionally well in new markets.

Elon Musk gives an update on construction at the Berlin Gigafactory.

Your in-car display will soon be getting a bit more fun and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 261 of

Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for August 2nd, 2020 and August 2nd

means today as the show publishes is the official exact five-year anniversary of this podcast right to the day I published

episode one five years ago August 2nd 2015 so I wanted to say a couple things here. First, whether you've been with me for one episode or

261, I want to thank you so much for taking the time out of your week to listen because as I like to say a lot at the end of the most valuable commodity in my humble opinion so the fact that you would give me an hour or so of it each week really does mean a lot I

sincerely appreciate it. Now I wanted to do a little something to mark the

occasion so here on Patreon I thought I would try something a little new, a little fun, a new permanent thing

and a temporary thing. The new permanent thing is a new pledged here. Currently, $ dollars per month on Patreon gets you early

access to each week's podcast and ten dollars a month gets you the early

access plus the bonus episode every month. So I thought I would

introduce something in between there and I'm going to do a $7 tier called

caller, excuse me caller priority so you'll also get the early access and basically it's

exactly what it says if you decide you want to call into the podcast via the

Ride the Lightning hotline you will get caller priority for that week amongst the many, many

calls that I am fortunate enough to get from the Ride the Lightning audience each week.

I thought that could be a fun thing. And addition to that the temporary portion all August long

anybody who joins me on patreon supports me on patreon a new pledge at that new $7 tier or higher or if you upgrade from where you are now to the $7 tier.

I'm going to do a group Google Hangout call with however many folks that is, whether it's three people or 30 people, maybe for an hour or so.

Figure I'll do that, again, all August long, and then we'll do that Google Hangout in early September,

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