Episode 277: Tesla Joins the S&P 500
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tesla is finally added to the S&P 500 on the stock market, and the stock reacted to that very well. Plus: Elon Musk is hyped up about Tesla's big holiday software update, the cheapest Model 3 appears to have gone away, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.5 | Tesla is finally added to the S&P 500 on the stock market |
| 0:07.5 | and the stock reacted to that very well. |
| 0:10.5 | Plus, Elon Musk is hyped up about Tesla's big holiday software update. |
| 0:15.0 | The cheapest Model 3 appears to have gone away and more. The What's happening, |
| 0:42.7 | happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 277 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast for November 22nd, |
| 0:48.3 | 2020. To my left on the couch, Daisy the Boxer who I have to say I'm a little worried about the poor pup. |
| 0:54.0 | She's been coughing for the last 24 hours now. At first I thought well she's just got |
| 0:58.9 | something caught in her throat a little bit, but now it's something else. |
| 1:03.7 | So if you hear that in the background, if you hear her kind of cough a little bit, |
| 1:08.2 | that's what it is. |
| 1:09.1 | And I'm just gonna keep an eye on her for the weekend. |
| 1:11.3 | And if it continues, I will try to get her to the vet early next week so hopefully |
| 1:16.7 | she's going to be okay. Real quick I wanted to say don't forget that all new Patreon supporters at the $5 sport tier or hire |
| 1:27.8 | get a one-time group Google Hangout with me and your fellow ride the lighting listeners. |
| 1:33.0 | Meanwhile, the maximum plaid-tier folks, |
| 1:35.5 | they are always invited. |
| 1:36.7 | And the next one, because I've been getting asked, |
| 1:39.0 | the next one is scheduled for Sunday, December 6th at noon Pacific time. |
| 1:45.0 | That's 3 PM Eastern. |
| 1:47.0 | So if you, I'll tell you more about the Patreon |
| 1:49.7 | at the end of the show as usual, |
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