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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 288: Special Guest: Marques 'MKBHD' Brownlee

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Top tech YouTuber and Model S owner Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, stops by to talk about his Tesla life as well as the recent Plaid Model S news. The interview starts at the 28:53 mark. Plus: automotive teardown expert Sandy Munro sits down with Elon Musk, a new Tesla Semi prototype is spotted in the wild, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, top tech youtuber and model S owner, Marquez Brownley, aka MKBHD, stops by to talk about his Tesla life as well as the recent Model S. Plaid news.

0:14.7

Plus, automotive tear down expert Sandy Monroe sits down with Elon Musk,

0:19.3

a new Tesla semi-protype is spotted in the wild and more. Greetings friends Ryan McCaffrey hanging out with you alongside D.

0:47.2

the Boxer for episode 288 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla

0:51.4

unofficial podcast this one for February 7th 2021.

0:55.1

It's going to be a fun show. There is a lot of fun stuff.

0:57.8

Stay tuned for the Marquez Brownlee conversation right after the newsblock.

1:02.4

I'll put the time code for that in the

1:04.8

episode description if you'd like to skip right to that if this happens to be your

1:09.5

first episode of the show because you came in to hear the Marquez interview. I hope you'll

1:14.0

stick around maybe come back to the beginning of the episode here because there's

1:17.4

plenty of Tesla news to cover this week including a new Elon interview

1:21.8

which I'll get to momentarily.

1:24.2

In fact, between all the Tesla news this week and the Marquez interview,

1:29.0

there's so much to get to that there will not be time for the Ride the Lightning

1:32.4

hotline this week, but I encourage you,

1:35.2

I invite you, please keep your calls coming. To participate in the Ride the Lighting Hotline,

1:40.4

either record your question, please try to keep it to 90 seconds or less

1:44.0

you can record it on your smartphone's built-in voice recording software and email it to me

1:49.0

at Tesla Podcast at gmail dot com or you can just leave a message on the ride the lightning hotline by calling it toll free anytime

1:58.1

The number is one eight eight eight eight eight five two Also 892.

2:04.0

Also, I should note speaking of callers, the Patreon exclusive bonus mini episode is up for the month of February

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