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🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Rich Benoit became famous on YouTube rebuilding Teslas. Today he is rebuilding all kinds of cars. He discusses with Karen, Lamont King his love of automobiles. #RichBenoit #Tesla #KarenHunter
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0:00.0 | Let me welcome to the show, somebody who I want to involve in the conversation and other things, |
0:04.4 | because I think he can talk about more than cars. |
0:06.7 | Let me welcome Mr. Rich Benoit. |
0:10.4 | Welcome back. |
0:11.8 | What's that? How are you guys? |
0:14.8 | Rich Lamont, Lamont Rich. |
0:16.9 | We're good. |
0:18.1 | We're good. |
0:20.1 | So Rich has like almost 900,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. |
0:24.0 | I only say that to give Lamont the aspiration and myself, you know, that's what you, |
0:28.8 | that's what you want to get to. |
0:30.5 | And before we get into all kinds of things, cars, when you first started, did you think you were going to have a following? Because |
0:37.9 | Rich's whole claim to fame was like he would take Tesla's and rebuild them. You know, and Tesla was mad about it so he |
0:43.8 | had fights with them because he would take parts from here parts from there things that |
0:47.5 | they junked and then make new Tesla's and they were like hey hey wait a minute |
0:51.4 | wait a minute because he's a, because he's a technologist, |
0:53.3 | he's a computer scientist. |
0:55.2 | I love it. |
0:57.1 | Yeah, no, I never thought I'd have a following at all |
0:59.2 | because if you look at my first videos, |
1:01.3 | it was me just literally taking buckets of water out of the first car that I built |
1:06.2 | and dumping it into the street. So it was my way of documenting what I was doing, and then more and |
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