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Wheels & Currents
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Wheels & Currents dives into the excitement of summer road trips and the importance of vehicle maintenance. Host Dave Palach shares recent experiences from local car shows, emphasizing the community spirit and charity events. The episode also discusses the growing trend of families converting vans into camper vehicles for budget-friendly adventures. A lively debate unfolds around Tesla's decision to open its supercharging network to other manufacturers, exploring the implications for Tesla owners and the electric vehicle market. Listeners are encouraged to share their road trip plans and car maintenance tips.
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summer road trips
vehicle maintenance
car shows
community events
van conversions
Tesla supercharging
electric vehicles
family projects
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Davy Pe hanging out with Camera Chaos and Nate VB. It is a great
day for a car show. It's a great day for a radio show.
It depends on where you are. I don't know. I always say that
and people are like, hey, man, don't you realize I'm listening like, you know, Oklahoma and it's raining here, and I'm like, oh, well, sorry, about your luck. No, I'm kidding. I
realize that you guys listen from all over the place and we appreciate it.
But I'm sometimes excited because sometimes the weather is good and sometimes it's not.
You don't know, you always gotta watch weather like here, you never know.
Like we'll start the show and the weather's good, then all a sudden, I'll step out of the studio and it's rain. Everybody's like, um,
we're not paying attention to weather. I'm like, well, it's like
I'm watching the weather forecast like I'm on the show. Yeah, but as
a real person, it's like I get up in the morning and it's the weather's good. And also that changes. So as a real person that lives
in Virginia, everybody knows the weather changes like every act. It does,
it really really does. But if the weather is bad, then it's just
means it's just a good day for a radio show, and you just hop inside your car and listen to the radio show on any of the podcast features you want or internet radio course, or you're sitting in a comfy chair.
You make yourself a little, you know, a little drink your drinking, and then you know you'll tune in and have a good time with us.
So either way, Hey, so if you guys didn't know and you didn't catch up with us last week and was a blast. We had a really
really good time, went over to Chesapeak Cars and Coffee here locally, had a good time. And then Sunday we loaded up again and did a complete
rewind and ended up over at another car shover at Landstown and common of phrasing money for Danielle for cancer and then even stacked on top we doubled down and did the light show over there at night, which was a really cool experience.
So yeah, we were very very busy. Meant a lot of new
people again amazing me. Time and time again we end up meeting new friends,
hung out with old friends, had a really good time. A big
shout out to Mark Evans, you know doctor Mark and one oh six one and your Coastal Virginia Auto Show. Yeah said so, a big shout.
Great event out there, Car Club Council, Hampton Rose, hecat Honeys was out there, soft new vendors out there, were hanging out, met some cool people and will definitely be reaching out to them. So yeah, like
I said, it was a good show, raised a bunch of good money for everybody and for the cause, which is great. I love it,
very humble, Thank you very much for everybody that came out and attended to that and hung out with us and heard. They're like, oh heard you're
gonna be out here when kame saw you, so yes, once again, great, great event. You guys know, we love getting involved in a
lot of different charity events. So you guys got going on this week?
Nothing much, nothing much. It looks like it's gonna be a summer week.
As you guys know, it is rolling into vacation weekend. I'm excited.
Hello, helloo, just give you a little bit of teaser what I'm planning to go in there, and then I'm just going to show up, take lots of picture, taking lots of pictures. We are going on a
little venture. Hopefully we'll see some cool cars in the island and if I
will tag in with you guys. Unless you guys know what I see,
it should be a good time. With that being the case, I thought
it was time to start talking about kids are out of school. It is
road trip time. So where you going? Yeah, I wonder where everybody's
going. To be heading out to where you guys got planned. Hopefully you
guys plan on packing up the car and seeing a little bit of venture.
But you know it's that time to start talking about it. I tell you
guys all the time, it's time to get the cars in and get them service and start checking them over. As the months start to heat up,
you guys are starting to fail me a little bit. So as I kind
of start talking everybody, you know, I'm making the rounds like always do, checking in with some of our friends that own repair shops and stuff, and cars are failing for some of the dumbest stuff. I mean just literally
some of the dumbest things cars are in the repair shop for that are just oversights. I mean, so if you're taking your car in regularly for oil
changes and just getting the tires rotated. By the way, camera's up again,
I can't believe it's already back around again. Since well, we had
to take up road trips, uh for hunter and stuff. So I think
that's the reason why we got those miles wrecked up on it pretty quick.
But it just went off at dinged and told me that my local car dealership informed me through its messenger service connected to the car. I love smart car
systems. That is due for its oil change and I was like, really,
I got you know, here's one of the things though, I did.
I tell you guys that about the tire that I thought was making a noise and I took it in and I had it looked at and then they said it was nothing. I said, it was nothing, and it still
makeing it's making Did I had its balance? I had everything on the camera
tucks I know, yeah, yeah, so I gotta take that pack and that a whole another story. But the car and truck are both doing the
same thing. So it's when you get up over seventy five miles now and
somebody's gonna go hire you up over seventy five miles an hour because if you believe it or not, in some places, you were right at eighty in certain states and that's a reason why maybe you don't know that, um and we've been traveling in some of those states. So when you're cruising around,
it starts to get this weird vibrations. I don't think that every single place.
If you and if you didn't know, there's a difference. When there's
a balance, there's balancing, and there's speed balancing, and I don't think every single repair shop has the capability to speed balance, and I think that's what my problem is. Either the wheel has a slight bend in it.
From what I told you, we hit that pothole on one of the last road trips, second to last road trip. We hit a pothole, and
I think it either put a slight bend in the wheel, and that's what I'm feeling at a higher rate of speed. And I think that when they
balance, they don't speed balance, they're just balancing them. So that's the
reason why they don't see anything wrong with it. And then I feel it
when I get up to seventy five eighty miles an hour, I start to feel it in the car because that car road smooth as can be. At
those speeds, you felt nothing, and now I feel it. So I
know I know what I know because I know so like I said, it just brings me around. You know what I do know is was visiting some
of the shops that a lot of these cars are in because like for belts and for hoses and all kinds of stuff. We just had that little warm
up, that little bitty warm up of temperature and already cars are failing for like some of the dumbest stuff. I see a lot of batteries that we're
in the car. Cars we're in for batteries. Just that little yeah,
because we had that warm up and then we had that drop back down in temperature again, and that's just enough. If you have a battery, it's
getting ready to be right on the edge to take to take it over the and make it a battery not want to work. So it tells me you
guys aren't listening because I keep on telling you guys, make sure you take your cars in and make sure you're keeping up with service and stuff like that.
And it's the little things I know that we fall into that rut all the time of we don't really think I tell you guys this, and I knew you guys are tiring here to it, but we do. We fall
into the rut of not paying attention to our car until we turn the key and then it doesn't work or something that doesn't or it leaves us, something breaks as you're driving on the way to work, and we push it off until we really need it right right right. Well, you know we've we've
all done it. We've all done everybody's done it. You've done it,
Yeah, done it? Saying I have a magic I have a magic chicken
chicken. Wait, wait, let's break it. You got a magic chicken
engine. It's been a day. Okay, he's a magic check engine light
that just keeps going away like his camera's got like the He'll he's like, dad, I got check ins, Like you're gonna need to come check it, and then we'll go. We'll start the car and it won't be on,
and then I'll run it's not leaving a code. I'll run it and
then it won't be a code. I know what it is, keep telling
him the same time. It's the same thing. It it's gonna be a
catalytic uh related, It's no two censor or something like that. I know
it is. I just know that's what the problem is. But it won't
be on for a while, and then we'll come on and then we'll go to scan it and it's not there, and so I know that's what it is. But like I said, we all push things off. Okay,
I'm not saying that we don't. We all, we all do. But
there's nothing worse than going and on your way to work and something simple that you could have prevented or because you put off and then here's what happens.
So we're really good at this. And I'm not chastising anybody because we all
like to said, we all do it. I'm just I think it's horrible
to have your day ruined. Let's just say you're trying to get home from
work because you want to take Billy to baseball or you know, Johnny to soccer or Susie to dance class. You name it, insert it here,
and you break down and now you're late doing that or whatever it is because the last time the car was in they told you, you know, hey, it looks like it's time for a belt. You need a belt,
and you're like, no, I'm not gonna do that. Rather because you
didn't believe him, because sometimes that's what it is, or you just didn't have the money to do it, or you decide to put it off for because of time, whatever it may be, and now you are sitting on the side of the road because you just avoid doing that maintenance and you put it off too long, you avoided it, you declined it, you didn't believe it, whatever it is, and here you are downside the road.
Now you need a tow truck that takes some more time of something maybe could have been taken shots right shop is clot whatever it is. Now now you're
without that car. Right now, you're without that car for a longer period
of time. Something probably could have been taken care of, Like I said,
three thirty minutes, forty minutes, whatever it is, or why the car was there that last time. So just kind of keep that in mind,
because like I said, I see cars are in for really silly things and they break their breakdowns. So then we're not talking about some of our
maintenance. They're coming on the tow truck over something silly. And then when
I get to talking about it, they're like, it was here last time, and I told me he'd need the last time they and they declined it.
And now here it is, and he came in on tow trucks.
And now if you didn't have tri blaze, it's a toe bill. It's
you know, it's it's that, it's money that could have been saved.
The money's tied right now. Hey, we're all watching the comedy, we're
watching our pennies. I get it. I'm watching it too, so there's
a lot that kind of falls into that. And so as we're kind of
looking at that, tires, tires seemed to be the really big thing.
I'm gonna go to my man miss or tire over here, because he knows all about putting tires on his car over and over again. Is that right,
Cameron? I know some nice tires in my car, but it's probably
time for a tire. Okay, But how many times did you before you
learned your tire lesson? How many times did you put tires on your car
over and over? How many times did you smoke through tires? Um?
Well, my tires were special ordered, and it came to a point where the shop just would special order them because they knew I was coming to pick them up the next week. Cameron went through tires quicker than anybody I've ever
met in my life because he just didn't respect the value of tires. This
is earlier, and I respect the value. I just loved, okay,
my tires, Yeah right, yeah, I loved bringing through tires now.
Nathaniel. Nathaniel went through some tires only because of the camera. He decided
to run on his cred decision. I made a decision. Decision. Yeah,
so he ran a room. Did he call us? And he's like,
you had to blow out because because the camera you're running because I had to come save you. Yeah. So, but tires are another thing.
There's you know, I can't when I sit and I talk with shops a lot of times, I can't count how many times the conversation falls into it.
Was in here last time for an oil change and I said, hey, I told him they were really gonna need to set of tires, and we didn't do anything. And now it's you know, it's blown out or
whatever. Now we're in a the car's in a breakdown consion. When we
didn't breakdown condition means I told you we neglect it, not to do it, and now the cars is at a state of failure where it came in a truck or something like that because we didn't come right. So just always
kind of keep that in mind, guys, because you know, I understand there's people have fear of garages a lot of time. Oh they're just trying
to get my pocket or whatever it is. And and trust me, I
get it, I really do get it. But that's not always the case
when it comes to garages. That's why always tell you find a garage that
you like, make sure that you build a relationship with them before you need them. So you were in a want situation, not always a need situation,
and you know who you're dealing with. It's just you're you were in
a better position when you know that, when you know the people before, or you were in a gotta have something situation. That's anything in life.
But auto garage is a really good position. And I always tell you obviously
I'd love for you to use the NAP Auto Garages that we're partner up with NAPA BDG Group because you know, these are family own garages here in your local area. If you're listening anywhere else you are, there's napad G garages
everywhere across the United States that you can find out about. Just look them
up like some other family own garages. It's a really good program. I
believe in it because I like to give money back into all of your setups that are people, and you know you have it's really good program. You
know, you guys know that you know there's I don't talk about anything that I don't believe in, So obviously that's what I like you to do, but I say, keep yourself from getting yourself into that situation. I tell
my kids the same thing. I mean, there's no difference. And you
know, the guys will tell you, you know, take your car someplaces you feel comfortable, and they've partnered up with Napple Garages several times. Even
though we can do our own work right here in our own garages, we have our own lives and stuff like that, but if we're too busy and we can't get to it, that's where our vehicles go to. Because sometimes
time is money and you're like, I'm just gonna drop it off and let them, especially if they got the tools already. Yeah, exactly. So,
like I said, just kind of keep that in mind. Like I
said, with the road trips coming up and stuff like that, you know you want to be prepared. But I'm curely curious where you guys are going
to be heading too, what you guys are up to and where you want to go, And if you have any suggestions or someplaces maybe we haven't heard of. You wanna tell us someplace cool? Hey man, send us in
the message, tell us about it. Texas. I'm curious what you guys
are gonna be up to, and there's a reason for it. There's a
new trend that's starting to kind of comeround. I want to say it's new
new, but it's gaining a lot of speed in households with families as projects.
I gotta take a quick commercial break break, and when we come back, we're gonna dive into it. Hold tight and I'll talk to you soon.
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Now back to your host Dave Palatch Hey, guys, welcome back.
Hey, So, if you're with us. In the first segment, we
were talking about doing a little bit of road tripping and generally think that road tripping is like one of the best things you can do. I told you
guys for a while that one on my bucket lists is to take I think probably I keep on extending it out and I think shorter, and I go forward and I go backwards, and I go forward and I go backwards.
So I think that maybe a month, maybe I'm wrong, Like get an RV and get it. I want to get like a chain RV, so
like I have my own RV, you guys get your own RV, and then like maybe I get some friends and may get their RV and we just dixie chain like across the country and go hit like every single cool hot spot.
I've talked about this. Will you guys heard me up on the show.
It comes up a lot because I just think it'd be cool to do.
Like I said, I always say I want to do like the biggest ball of yarn. You've heard me say this. I think this comes up
at least once a month because I just keep talking about it. But if
we do that, I'm taking the Tesla semi truck body and then putting an RV on that so it can follow you guys. So, like I said,
I always thought it'd be kind of cool just to just to do it, like with a bunch of friends, get everybody together and everybody just get Like you guys obviously don't need a huge one, like if you guys went just right to like you guys need a smaller one. Obviously with me down
and Hunter iverything, I didn't need a little bigger one and stuff like that.
And then if we had friends, they can get whatever size they need, but everybody get them and then just go cruise in and go see every single thing that there is, right, So I just think it would be cool to do that and go and then go up through Canada and go up to Alaska and do all that kind of suff just go see everything. I
think you could probably do it maybe all, like maybe in a month if you if you went and saw it all, you know what I mean.
Maybe you need a little longer. I don't know. Depends on just how
plan it long when you plan on stain like go up through Yellowstone and go do all that stuff. Right. So with that being something I'm interested in,
there is a movement and it's like I said, you see there's a lot of videos out there keep on popping. There's a lot of companies if
you look, there's tons and tons of videos out there are popping it up where people are making like conversion. You see him like doing the old schoolie
buses, and you see people doing like sprinter vans and stuff like that.
Well, now it's a lot of like people that are graduating now are like going and creating camper vans. Right, Okay, so you're tiny homes basically
on wheels. I saw a guy, Um, sorry, I take a
sup of my drink. So I saw a guy he took a toy to
pickup truck and he converted a toy a pickup truck and put like a little camper home on the back, and there's like a whole video of him building it. Um. But now you're getting families, so the like the the
ups swing and things, or families are building them like kind of like you'reing the winter and they're building like van doing build out the bands so they can because ARV's are just getting to be for some average families. And I would
say there's a lot of people out there. Can I got friends that have
like taj Maha, don't aren't going to do on our regular basis, right, it's a little overkill. Okay it is. But for instance, you
have three kids, you don't have you know, just overly dispendable income.
But you want to do something as a cool project with your kids, and you want to and you want a little bit of that lifestyle. You can
go buy a van and you could deck it out. You can gut that
van and you can do a project and you can build it up. You
can you know, lay down a wood base and do floors, and you can put cabinets in it, and you can put sync and there's you can buy these water tanks for him. Now you can buy all that stuff now
with you having the conventional you know, we were talking about a little warmer top. If you only put that pan on it, it only warms that
pan. Yeah, you can like touch the burner and it won't burn your
hand. And those are like one hundred dollars and stuff, you know,
and they were plugging and now having you know the you know, the converters that you can run now that you know run power and you have a little easier than a couple of years ago. Oh yeah, there's a lot more
people there are living on the road. Yeah, yeah, it is,
so you understand, you know, I mean, it's like portable water heaters.
Now you got showers all Rounsons solar can do area, Like my buddy built one. And he has a rod that's on the side of his UH
van that they built. And they got a little canopy that pulls out and
locks down and that's their sitting area. But the cool thing about their sitting
area is he's got a little rod on the back that pulls out and clicks and it comes out, and it's a little curt and shower curtain that goes around in the school. And then he has a nozzle that sticks out and
he just clicks this little bar and it gives a shower. And it's on
a I thought, he said, fifty gallon water tank that's hidden inside the van. That's water and it has a little heater that's in the tank that
heats the water up that runs off the battery. And then and they just
go and they stand out. They stand inside the shower curtain. He's got
a little bamboo floor like a little square that he sets down. They stand
down the bamboo so their feet don't get muddy, right, and they can shower right there underneath there, and they have water. They can shower all
out there. Why they're you know, and they built it and it's just
this little thing. It's just for him. I think he's got two kids,
him his wife and two kids and stuff and they all fit. I
mean, it's it's cool as could be. I think he's got maybe like
fifteen thousand dollars total in this thing. It's not bad, which is not
bad. It takes them where they want to go. But families are starting
to build these things, and I'm like, and I'm off for me being a carcraft or guys and being into like hot rod and stuff like that.
Okay, so it's not a hot rod, but it is a project that you built in your garage with your kids and the creativity and it's cool and it's they're they're getting steam. A lot of people are starting to build him.
And I'm like, so I went down the rabbit hole, like I told you, guys that do all the time. I start looking, I'm
like, there's so many things that you can buy now to like build these things that people are like and they have this and they have that, and it's cheap, like really really cheap to buy the stuff like they have pre made, like cabinet thing like would slide perfectly in. You just bolted down.
It's pre made and like it's like going to the whole or not even made for that vehicle, just made for any vehicle and you just kind of custom make it. But like it's prefab and you just buy it and you
bolted in and there it is. So you have like the countertop and the
sink and it fits much like you see in the storage units too, like they go like the couches that fold up you can store right right right right, the drawers that you know, all fold into each other. Well,
they had they had this one thing I saw. It was plans that showed
you how to have like a bed in the back of a van. And
then it slides up and it clicks and you don't even realize the beds there.
So you have it's just about to say, so basically what it is, it's like a chair and then like where their table is. But then
the table goes into the wall and like basically slides up and then he's able to pull the bed out basically where the seating is and it comes down from the wall and uses the other chairs to create like a big bed. It
was it was cool and pretty interesting. They had it were the back with
the backdoors. If you had like a van, you open up the back
doors and things slide out and click and it makes an outside kitchen, you know. And I was just like, how cool is that. It's just
had a lot of cool all hidden in the bed frame. Yeah, like
it was. Things are just really cool. And I was just like,
and I started thing. I was like, you know, if you got
young kids, and how I'm always like, man, spend time with your kids. Spend time with your kids. Spend time with your kids. I'm
sure. Here's the reason why I say spend time with your kids. If
you guys think that I am kidding and this isn't a go off the thing or pack yourself on the back or anything like that, you can ask my kids anytime, grab a story from your childhood that you spend time. We
spend time, and they can grab tons of stories because we just did everything together. I mean that's we did so many things together. They can grab
stories over and over and over again. It's important to build that base and
stuff like that. Build cars together, building race cars together. Yeah right,
we have stories after stories, It's important to build that base. I
believe it is. I could be wrong, but it's just I think that
so any family it's going to go grab a van and decide to build it so then go travel or during the summertime or even spring break or whatever, and so like that, it's the coolest thing. And that's probably the reason
why you're seeing them more of this grab speed because they can do it on such a budget and then have something so cool to go used during the summertime.
And he said, I just I thought it was interesting. I gotta
tell you guys, you know, I go down the rabbit hole quite a bit. As I see things, I'm like, oh, let me just
check this out and see what's available. Like I said, I thought I
thought it was funny. It was like a home depot of things, full
of well you grab this, and we'll grab you one of these and one of these and give two of those and the time you know, you're all set. Yeah, before you know, it's just matter of clicking it all
together and it's then just kind of laying it out in your vehicle. Another
thing I saw it was really big is I don't know if I could go that route so much, but maybe if it was just like I was thinking, like if you're going like the NASCAR races or something like that, because then it's where my mind went. People are grabbing old U hauls and converting
old U hauls into little like campers and stuff like that to use out like races and things like that and stuff like that, and I was like, that's kind of cool because then you go to the race and you just pop it open and you have this this little kitchen that pulls out and you have a little sitting area and then stuff like that was neat the hit Way they laid it out and you can buy old U hauls for like next to nothing, and I was just like, well, that's pretty smart. And guys,
are you know, getting rid of the U haul paint on them and getting them cool paint and putting you know, putting back the simulator wheels on them and stuff like that. They had nice chrome simulator wheels on them and
kind of give them a little bit more of a suspension so they weren't sitting up high. They'll lower them down a little bit and they look nice.
When they were done. I was like, well, there you go.
There's a good use of an old U haul. Smart. Yeah. Like
I said, I mean, any project's cool to me. I'll tell you
guys over and over again, I don't care what kind of vehicle it is.
As long as you're building something cool, or you have a neat idea or whatever like that, I can appreciate for what it is. If you
guys ever been to any of the car shows that we've ever gone to, and we've done judging at how many times that we've not picked like the prettiest and shiniest car at a car show. We picked like the most creative car
sometimes of the car show, because we makes sense what it is what they built. People are like, oh, well, I thought you were gonna
pick that Ferrari over there. I'm like, you would have thought I had
to picked that Ferrari over there, but I did, and I picked the one over here. This guy's got this rat rod and every single thing on
that car has been touched, and I appreciate that. I like the Ferrari,
don't be wrong, but the custom exhaust engine. Like everything this guy
did over here, he physically had a hand build like himself in his garage.
And although the Ferrari's cool and it's really neat it's done too right.
It's got a set of wheels on it, and everything else as store bought for the most part. I mean, this guy had to build this stuff,
and that makes more sense to me. And I like that a lot
better for what it is. I don't know, I mean, like I
said, call it for what it is. Anybody's building anything in the garage
I think is just neat. I like shiny stuff too, don't me wrong.
I've owned a lot of knife shiny stuff in my lifetime. Well,
when you gotta ask yourself like can I do this right? And you're like,
m that's that's you know, they did something right, right right?
If I could ask could I could I have built that? Right there?
Like there was there was one out them. The guy had some um little
figurines in front of his vehicle this last car show we're at, and he had a hand build those figurings. Did you see that one you're talking about
the python one? Yeah? Yah, yeah, Yeah. I was really
cool. I really enjoyed looking at that and I was like, and you
realize the work that went into some of that stuff, and I was just like, that's cool because the guy did it. And if you ever seen
it by us. We got this guy Mac and he's got a minivan,
and you know, you don't see a whole lot of minivans at car shows, but as minivan is different. It's like a I think this is a
dodgement. It's a Dodge minivan and it's purple, and it's got all kinds
of just stuff done to it. But he's proud of his minivan because he's
done all that stuff to his minivan. You know, right, it's not
what you don't want to see at the car show because it's just a Dodge minivan, but it's a Dodge minivan that he's customized, he's made family.
I'll enjoy it, right, He's made it his own and I think it's cool. Like every time I see it, I appreciate it for what it
is. But it's not what you see in a normal car show. But
guess what, he's out doing his thing and that's what makes it cool.
So next time you got a car show and you're looking around and you see something that's just a little bit off the wall different, take a closer look.
You might respect it for a little bit more than what it is and the time they have in it. So no, guys, let me take
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to your host, Dave Palach. Hey, guys, welcome back. So
here's the funny funny. So we talked about a little bit of different things
today. You know, I like to mix it up a little bit.
You know, we've talked a lot of stuff when it comes to Tesla.
And I'll be the first one to tell you guys that, you know, over the years, we've caught a lot of heat when it comes to Tesla.
Biggest reason is everybody's like, oh, you're you're a Tesla fan, You're a Tesla boy, You're a Tesla. You call me Tesla whatever you
want. It's not that I'm a huge Tesla fan. I support Tesla in
the movement that they have paused for all of us over all these years.
Without Tesla, we sure enough would not be where we are to say, we would probably just be scratching the surface. Still, yeah, we would
be one hundred percent would be not where we are. Every single manufacturer should
one percent thank Tesla for where we are today because they would not be where they are without Tesla. And that's just that's just truth. It's just it's
an honest truth to what it is. Okay, now, we've joked a
lot of things about when it comes to Tesla. God knows we're still waiting
for ours. I believe he just got held up with the delivery of our
Tesla's here to the studio any day they should show up. I guess,
I don't know. That's what do we believe because the biggest supporter of we've
been as much beating up as we've taken from everybody in our emails and all that kind of stuff over the years for supporting them, even when everybody was you know, everybody's on the high of Oh I love Tesla, and then all of a sudden they're like, oh, Tesla, this I've never gone up and out on that. I've always just said, look, there's obviously
a reason for it to move forward. A smart man doesn't make decisions unless
there's a really good reason. He's not just going to trash everything unless there's
not a good reason to move forward. If that makes sense. Okay,
So you follow me where I'm at on that. So with that being said,
this is a decision that I kind of wonder a little bit, and there has to be a good reason for it. Now I know that Tesla's
is continuously continuously partying up with other manufacturers. I've always said that, I
think Tesla could have made and still could make a lot of more money than they make. But obviously they're not in it for the money. Else they
would make different decisions if they just took their technology and sold it off to the other manufacturers and just did that and let them take that technology, put another cars and let them run with it. Okay, but you have to
remember, like I told you, Tesla is not a car company. They've
never been a car company. They are a technology company, and they're using
us, as to a certain degree, as the guinea pigs to pull the more information back. So they can use that to create which is brilliant idea.
That's just the way I view it. I'm sure I'm seeing some Probably
there's probably some flaws. I'm I thinking that I'm not on the smartest level
to understands as Elon Musk is, But as I look at some of his actions, that's the only thing that makes sense to me as I review it completely. Okay, this is one I don't understand fully, but there has
to be some reason for it. So if you've guy's been following the news,
you know that Tesla has decided to open up their supercharging to every single like what GM and Ford manufacturers, Right, it's just those two second Okay.
So, and you have a lot of Tesla people that are mad, and I kind of understand to a certain degree, a certain degree why they're upset. Up until this point, you have been part of the upper echelon
private club of Tesla as long as you have a Tesla. That's kind of
part of the fun of it. It really is. I'm not that is,
yeah, But at the same time, it's like Tesla, You're right.
When Tesla started, You're absolutely right, like everybody should have only been able to use Tesla chargers to charge Teslas. But that's where now though,
you're right, but now we're in the point that Tesla overruns the electric market that it's a good point that we should start sharing them. They own how
much percent of the electric chargers in the world. They own a lot of
them, A lot of them. I mean, twelve thousand superchargers, twelve
thousand Tesla chargers, okay, twelve thousand, okay, and what's other people at I'm I'm guessing probably two thousand at the twelve thousand superchargers is a lot of superchargers, though, and we know that, we know, like I told you guys, if you've been keeping up with it, and I try to keep up with that a lot the best I can. They're building those
superstations that everybody keeps on selling less pictures of where they're like a hundred pumps of superstations. I call them pumps, but I'm sure there's another name they
have for them. But they look like gas pumps. But they're just there's
a hunter of them stacked up at these big, huge charging stations are built.
I know there's one in Texas being built. Somebody, somebody a picture
of that one and stuff. So there's these big, huge infrastructures being built.
So with that being the case, you have these things that are being put together. But like I said, when you signed up for the whole
Tesla, and that's just talking with Tesla owners, there's exclusivestivity that people have that come with owning a Tesla that they like that I bought into having a Tesla. I'm part of this special private club of Tesla. We have our
own chargers, we have our own this. I got my own Tesla hat,
I got my Tesla shirt. You know what I mean. Like,
there is a Tesla club. It's just it. It means something to these
people. So I understand a little bit where that comes from. They're like,
okay, so now I'm not part of the private club. Anybody gets
to be part of the Tesla club and use my private charger and stuff.
You understand what I'm saying. You get what I'm putting together. I understand
where you're coming from. And I'm looking at the maps right now. So
basically when they ran the report, I'm guessing back in twenty one was what two years ago, Tesla had over fifteen thousand chargers while electric America had only twenty two hundred, and then you had Evie Go, which when they asked it was thirteen thousand, nine hundred and three. But on their website they
when they say eight hundred right, Okay, So it's like Tesla is dominating the market. They should share the power. So you what about Okay?
So I understand you say they just share the power, but what about the people that join the people part of that private I'm Tesla. You can't touch
my Tesla stuff. There's my toys you can do that, you can do
that. Let's say you have to go for why don't you charge the other
people that don't drive a Tesla a Tesla fee? And no, you're missing
the point. You're completely missing where you're No, you're not because you're like,
why don't we charge it? I, as a customer, bought my
Tesla oat. That was in the beginning. It's not in the beginning.
You sold me the idea of that. Okay, would you be more comfortable
if we did half just Tesla chargers and then half Tesla. I'm not happy
of anything. What I'm saying. Just understand what I'm saying to you.
I'm not happy of anything you sold me the idea of Tesla. I still
have that I've supported and I bought into it, and you sold me the idea of Tesla that we're Tesla Tesla. I have Tesla stuff that's for Tesla
and Tesla. That's almost like selling me a charger for Apple, and now
tell me that that charges a Samsung and everything else, which you know is never gonna happen. It's the same thing, guys, This is exactly the
same thing I buy. I bought into the Apple. No, so I'll
go with your Apple explanation, right, us, So we're going back to a right, So you got a kind of think like so when Tesla first started, right and stuff, and when Apple first started, they had their kind of own charger wise, right, and as we progress through the years and stuff, we're trying to make a standard for everybody. But Apple's never
going to do that. But they have they have Apples, that little Apple.
So I'm I'm so Apple, right, you know, change their charger like three different times, kind of making it more user friendly to use across all their platforms wise as well as you know, connecting to any breakwise right as well as a agreement just went down with the UK, because the UK decided that they wanted to have you know, Askable's chargers for everybody wise, so not everybody's buying all these different chargers. So beginning I think in like
what twenty twenty four, they gotta start putting chargers USBC chargers because that's the the charger they did. They deemed that was you know, accessible for everybody
wise. So it's kind of like what Tesla's doing. Right. So it's
like, imagine you're driving down the road, right and you're running out of gas and stuff. How mad would you be? It's kind of like when
you're like going down you see different gas stations and stuff. Imagine that you
pull up and you can't charge on this charger because you don't own that brand.
Okay, and you gotta gotta go down the road and look for it.
Got charger? Okay, I got you. I understand what you're saying.
Now let me give it to you in a different way. Okay.
Imagine you bought Apples, Apple Phone all all your life. Apple. I'm
not picking on you. I'm just using you an example because I like your
products. Imagine all your life you bought Apple. You open up to the
Apple phone. It's Apple all the time, Apple branding, Apple Everything,
it's Apple. It's exclusivity is Apple because I'm an Apple guy, right right,
I love Apple Man. Here's my Apple thing. We I wait in
a line every single year for the brand new Apple thing for ten thousand people stand in line to buy a sixteen hundred dollar phone, right right. That
happens over and over again, right hold on, hold on camera because we're gonna see we're going this. I already know where you're going. And then
one day I stand in line for six hours and I grab my Apple box and I open it up and inside is a Tokashiba phone with an Apple, with an Apple and an Apple box. Well you mean so you mean you
mean a different charger, but everything is. It's just different because everybody gets
to have this because the phone hasn't changed, the card hasn't changed, just every the way you're charging, just everything inside. It's different because we want
everybody to have access to the same thing. That's what it is. It's
only changing the course you now, everything's just gonna be the same, so everybody has same access. The product isn't the same. You're not changing,
You're not They're not changing the car. They're just saying that, hey,
as before we go on commercial break, right, and so let me I see this right, So if I was going to tell you that, hey, I can charge your phone three to four times faster or your car if we just change the charger. And so it's not gonna be Apple product.
You know what's not gonna happen right in the seconds. You're not gonna change
your mind before the commercial break. Let me take a curcial break. We'll
jump back into it. You guys, hold tight, you ain't heard the
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Dave Palach. Hey, guys, welcome back. So if you didn't
key in on the excitement this last segment, we're not done with it yet.
So during the commercial break, I think I forgot an analogy that does fit and work. We'll all agree that this analogy works, but in my
a little bit, this this analogy. We agree the analogy works, but
it gives all of us a piece a way to explain it in our own in our own does Okay. So here's the deal, you guys. Like
I said, once again, you guys know that that I like Tesla, and that's the reason why I'm having this argument because it just I feel that everybody who bought a Tesla bought into that that exclusive, rusive club right of Tesla, because that's what you're you were buying. You were buying that school.
Wait, look, everybody I know it has a Tesla. It feels
there. There isn't one person I know that has a Tesla that hasn't said
to me, you have you seen my Tesla? Everybody's asking that question because
it's a Tesla, Dude. It's a cool car for every capability that it
has. Of course you're gonna ask me have I seen your Tesla? And
my answers you just gonna be well, no, it's just like the last one I saw. You know, Let's take a look, you know,
I mean, unless you show it to me just yesterday. And then I'm
like, well you dude, yeah, you just show it to me yesterday.
What's wrong with you? Have you seen Luca? Have you Have you
seen my niece on you? I said, yeah, that show you picture.
I went to the air I was at the airport. There was one
sitting right there at the door, like the first time I'd seen one other than and when we were in Vegas, like just in a while, sitting at an airport, you know what I mean. It was just sitting.
I was like, Oh, we haven't heard Yeah, you don't hear you just don't. You don't hear them as often as I thought you would buy
now, you know what I mean. Great cars though, if you've never
seen a Lucid, absolutely suggest you get up close to one very cool car as well. And everybody's like, oh, that's you're a Tesla guy.
I am, But once again, I'm gonna tell you guys, Luci Boats is one of those companies that are building something. They were trying to do
what Tesla did, and you know, it's good for competition. Everything's good
for competition when it comes to something that people that are in the same space.
I just believe that. Anyway, here's the way to settle this argument
that I think imagine because of the fact that you know, now you're gonna let them have access to Tesla and every and then they reminded me, they're like, and forget you know, people have been selling aftermarket adaptions to the charger clips so you can plug in a different place. Well, I understand
that, I get that, but that's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about it's a company. We're talking about a company openly going okay,
use my chargers now for GM you can just plug into our chargers, which then takes away from that private club of being part of that Tesla.
So that's that's what people are griping about, and I understand where they're at it. Imagine that you own a Laborghini and you bought a Laborghini for everything
that it is. It's a Laborghini. God, it's a Laborhini, for
God's sakes. I mean, give me a coon toosh any day. By
the way. I say that, but I probably would have to just stare
at it because I've driven one and they're they're not the most pleasant thing to drive. They had anyway beside the point getting off track. So let's just
say you had a Laborghine and you bought it because it is a Laborghinie.
That's the reason why you bought the car. And then you find out the
next day that you paid all this money for a Laborghini, and you think you're part of this exclusive club of having a cool Laborghini. And then you
find out that Hondai got the rights to put the body of a Laborghini on a Hondai at a Hondai price and set up, and then now they're gonna drive around Laborghie. What did I know? What you said? Hold on
very similar. I get it. That's why I said, that's your explanation
kind of things. But now that you think you're a part of the Laborghini
club, and now the guy pulls up next to you and he looks like exactly like a Laborghini. We pulls it like, except underneath his is the
Hondai and you're no longer part of the same club. He's got his own
little Honday club. But he looks just like you. You would be upset
too, because you're like, okay, well, now I'm not part of that exclusive club anymore, because nobody really can tell the difference other than the fact unless we sit out and we have a conversation about it. Well,
not when somebody pulls up to use the Tesla pumper. You gotta wait now
behind the guys in the GM and the guys in the FORD because he's at the superstation. When you thought you were part of the exclusive Tesla club,
I mean, yeah, but you're still a Tesla. You're not, are
you are? But you've lost that exclusivity to the point where you were buying
into the whole idea of just being So you already answered on commercial break, how about you, Nathaniel, would you think it's fair if the manufacturers said, yes, we're going to share all of our um chargers. Give me
one second. So I'm talking to cameras, camera, and I are talking
us of like int Care. I looked out camera and I realized that the
screens are freezing care Care lost all his tracks. So anyway, where are
you saying? They're caring cameras like hold on him? Trying to do my
job talking at the same time. I don't know if I could do all
that all right? So we're good. Um, you said, imagine hold
on, Nathaniel, So yeah, imagine if all the manufacturers came out and they said, if you use the respected manufacturer charger, you pay let's just say regular gas price right right now. If you went to a outsource just
like the ATMs, do they charge a three dollar convenient fee? You know,
why can't there's superchargers do that? You know, that would keep the
traffic away a little bag. I got it. But here's but then the
people that were in a pinch and needed to use a charger because they only have ten miles, and now they have to go to their respective manufacturer.
You know, all this stuff that everybody's been You want me to tell you what the problem is with that thought. Here's the problem with that thought.
I get what you're saying, and I've let you speak and I've been silent because I understand what your thought is. The problem with your thought, Cameron,
is is very simple. You're thinking from the business owner's side, not
from the guys who bought the Tesla's who bought into the idea of Tesla.
Every answer that both of you guys have given me to a certain degree is from the business owner side of making money. No, it's not not mine.
Maybe car one. But you know, my argument was on basically comparing
like right gas the the side that the side that I'm on is the guy who owns a Tesla who bought into the idea of I'm buying exclusively owning a Tesla. The answer you hold on, the answer you're giving me from his
solving the problem from a business owner's perspective of well, we'll just raise the prices and then hold you that's a bad idea. Okay, just you under
stand I'm talking about. Here's another because that's a business. Here's another idea,
not the guy who let's who decided to buy a Tesla. Let's give
you guys exclusive again, but still share the chargers. Would you guys be
down if you could reserve the charger, if you knew you needed a charge and you need it to and you could hit reserve and now you have fifteen minutes to get that charge or whatever. Times a certain point, the minute
that it came up for conversation, and people who drive Tesla's start having conversations and then weighing in on it, and now we're talking about it. The
damage to a certain point, for certain people, it's not fair. Some
people don't care, but there's certain people who do the Damna story don't.
Once it becomes common, I think it's okay. Ideah, I think you
guys are graping on it a little too hard. I'm not graping on it.
I'm discussed what people out there discussing right Well, I think they're graping on it a little too hard because at a certain point, it's like, like I was saying, like the gas stations, it is like, you know, seven eleven can't just carry premium and everybody else just carry regular in mid grade. It has kind of be even on all the boards. So
it's like giving a fair share to other electric cars, especially if teslas, you're doing a fair share. You're giving a fair share. It doesn't nobody
thought was already THEIRS, and now you're taking it from It doesn't change the tesla. You're just changing who can charge their vehicle and where. You're not
changing. And the tests of people believed that that was THEIRS, well it's
not. You took something from them away from them. That's what they believe,
right because and and they're right though, because that was THEIRS. It
really though nobody else was up to speed, and that was theirs, right, and you took it and gave it away, and you didn't ask now right, you probably didn't need to, But as far as they're concerned, you did. It was theirs. You took. You went into their sandbox,
took their toys and went, well, here, why don't you play with why don't you play with these guys toys? Why they're not looking now?
So they went and they came back the next day and went, well, who the hell took my dump truck? And then you see the kid
over at GM's playing with the with the guy's dump truck, and he's like, that's my dump truck. And then you got Tesla going, don't you
don't there's nothing to see here that isn't your dump truck. I mean,
that's what happened. That's literally that's what happened. That's that's that's what happened
to them. So you can understand a little bit of degree why they're upset.
Right, They just went home for the day for recess and came back and the next recess somebody had all their toys out of their sandbox and was playing with him because that was their toys. I can see it, I
can understand it. I think it's a little I think it's best for before
olds. It probably is because of infrastructure. So I understand why Tesla decided
to do it. Like I said, I know how to look both sides
of things that understand that. I believe a lot of decisions Tesla has made
has been the right decision moving forward. A lot of times I've been stuck
in the middle of these arguments through all these years. Why I support Tesla,
I'm like, look, let's step back and think they're very smart.
I think Ian has made a lot of great decisions when people have argued with them, just like this point right here, and it's always moved forward and usually comes out to where he's The decisions he's made has been the right decisions at the end, and he usually the ones sitting there laughing about it.
Let's be honest. That usually happens, guys. So but this one right
here, I gotta say that I do understand where they're coming from. In
the end result, will this be the right decision? Maybe for the stockholders
problem, Maybe it will be somehow in the end, somehow this may pan out and be one a really good decision. But the people who just bought
the cars because they think they were buying into something that's exclusive, I can understand where they're coming. All a lot of them are coming from there.
I have another thing, all right, you take all the chargers. Let's
say you go to one lot and they have ten chargers. Okay, a
lot happens if we took seven of those chargers painted them all like in the charge is a different color. No, I'm not painting the chargers to paint
the parking spots all read right, and with the Tesla logo. And then
you make this I know they can do it where you can program it where that charger can only charge Tesla's unless the other manufact make the other manufacturers wait, you know where they have to wait for those three extra spots to come available. And then you still have your set seven where you know you can
come with Tesla's cool. Cool? Would you? How about that you still
have your search spots. But hear what you're saying. You're opening the Tesla
market. Just I hear what you're saying. So what Cameron is suggesting is
you're the guy that came to my house and stole my bike, took a cheer house and spray painted it with a rattlecan the color that you chose to and then try to tell me it wasn't my bike. That's what Cameron just
did. You came to my house, told bike bike spray painted with spray
paint, and then said it's your bike because you spray painted. But you
were told me I can go borrow the bike, right, I'm just telling that's all you did. It's still my bike, buddy. I don't care
what color you spray paint. You stole my bike, it's still my bike.
It doesn't matter what color you spray paint. You stole my bike.
I've given you the bike anytime you want, Yeah, any time you want to look your own, your own. You stole my bike, spray painted
the color and tried tell me it wasn't my bike just because you changed the handlebars on. I didn't take the food bike. I just took a wheel,
all right, like or not even a wheel. You're never gonna come
in. You're not gonna convince me. You're not gonna convince them. They
know you took something from them that they valued. I understand, but go
to a Tesla charger right now, and are they all fool No, you guys, you can give you and you can't find one right on something.
Okay, He's like, I don't put you on the other day, I was like, you can open up a whole. I told him we were
walking out a wall. I'm like, you can open up a hole other
wahwa right next door and it'd still be packed. But he's not wrong though,
I'm not like, like, I don't I don't know what they They injected our wall wall into something and it's it's packed all the time. Now,
keep in mind our wah wah is the last wah whah before anything as you go out of town. But still like it's crazy. But yeah,
business, yeah, yeah that we just mention those stations are full. Yeah,
can I get my check now? I had to say it five times
in an episode. I think I took care of it. I'm kidding,
but it seriously, it's full all the time. The charging stations are full
and there's people waiting in line to get charged. So we know that the
infrastructure is changing and we need more and obviously that's the reason why maybe this is coming about, because there's a lot more cars getting online. They're not
just Tesla, and we don't have the country's not ready for it. And
Tesla is the only one that's been gearing up and nobody else has been.
So I understand how this all plays out. I just say, I can
understand why there's mad people out there. It just so happens to be the
Tesla. If it wasn't if it was Tesla, let me ask you a
question. If it wasn't Tesla and GM was, it would be GM people.
Let me ask you a whole other question. Sure, but it relates
to this. Do you think them doing this is now going to make it
where no other competitor can now come bigger than them because they now are opening up their charges that everybody's gonna want to support a Tesla. I wish I
could answer that. Time is gonna tell I wish I could answer that and
tell you how it is. I just know that the country is not ready
for what's coming as we move forward, and I think that Tesla has jumped in to try to help solve a problem and maybe cause just a little bit of backlash on themselves as they try. As they are truly trying to solve
a problem, that's how I see it. That's my final answer. I
think I think they did so. Um. Like I said, I think
that he has foresight way ahead of a lot of things, and people aren't seeing it that way. We debated it the best we could hear at the
table. I think you did a pretty good job of tearing it apart.
But at the end of the day, we'll see that. No, guys,
it's Saturday. Enjoy your guys as Saturday Sunday is right around the corner.
Make sure that you do unplug, spend some time with your kids.
Make sure you take their cell phones away from hid them and the couch.
Christians put them in the fish tank. I don't know, do something.
Just make sure that you spend some time with him. Light up the barbecue,
have a fireplace and board games. Do it all. Remember this is
a little vacation time for me, so I will be enjoying my vacation.
So I see you guys next time. I said, I'll tune with you
guys and let you guys know how it goes. Maybe I see some cool
cars and I'll let you guys know. On that note, we're gonna go
ahead and get out here. We'll talk to you soon. Guys, Jre
your weekend, Dre your weekend. We're out of here later
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