Episode 81: A Model S-Driving Hero
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A heroic Model S driver thinks fast to help save a distressed driver from a potential high-speed injury, Elon Musk travels overseas to help launch Tesla in another big market, a unionization effort is brewing at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride to lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | a heroic Model S driver thinks fast to help save a distressed driver from a |
| 0:08.0 | potential high-speed injury. |
| 0:09.8 | Elon Musk travels overseas to help launch Tesla in another big market. |
| 0:13.5 | A unionization effort is brewing at the Tesla factory in Fremont and more. Oh, Howdy friends? Welcome to the 81st episode of Ride the Lighting. It is the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:44.1 | podcast for February 19th, 2017. I'm Ryan McCaffrey and as you can probably |
| 0:49.7 | already tell, I'm not going myself today. My voice is still recovering. I had actual |
| 0:56.7 | honest to goodness viral laryngitis for the first time ever this week which I |
| 1:02.3 | was ultimately ended up making two doctors visits and got some medication and it is finally |
| 1:09.1 | Just good enough to start talking to it. I spent three days silent this week, which for me is a very difficult |
| 1:16.2 | thing to do because I tend to talk a lot as you no doubt already are aware from listening |
| 1:20.8 | to 80 episodes of a one man podcast, but I have to say I'm |
| 1:27.8 | grateful to be back and be on time. I was afraid, you know, the first day it was kind of cute you know I mean because I've |
| 1:35.3 | never lost my voice for more than like a half a day at a time after being sick |
| 1:40.0 | which I was last weekend in fact I got kind got, I started coming down with it right after I recorded the show last week. It just hit me like a, just a sore throat and achy feeling and then I was sort of just, it was a real up and down week and on Tuesday the end of the day |
| 1:56.3 | Tuesday I recorded some stuff at work I did my podcast at I. G.N. and a couple of other |
| 2:01.7 | things and I could feel my voice was kind of rough it was going |
| 2:05.7 | but it actually totally went out on me on Tuesday and at first it was kind of |
| 2:10.3 | adorable I was like oh this is neat I actually I actually, I can't talk. That's cute. But then, when it persisted, I was like, okay, I'm a little worried now. Now, I actually can't talk and then it started to get to a point by Friday where I was like, |
| 2:26.0 | uh, am I going to be able to do the show on time this week? |
| 2:30.0 | And fortunately, as you can tell, just enough of my voice has recovered to get it done just in the nick of time before it would be considered late. |
| 2:39.0 | On that note, I hope that all of you very kind Patreon backers who enjoy the early access to the |
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