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Bubba On the Lake
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In this Episode Bubba sits down with Colonel Jason Benefield US Army retired, to provide and update on the current situation in Iran and to share his thoughts on Memorial Day. Bubba also talks with Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies about some of the upgrades they have made to the Mellow Yellow Studio as well as provides a Tech Update. Bubba also catches up with his son Hunter as they discuss Bubba's recent dream purchase ( or Hunter's )
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This podcast is brought to you in part by Russell Lands Coke Buffalo Wild Wings, Southern Immediate Care Guaranteed Labels, Central State bank, Sunrise Docks, Dr. Thomas Dudney and the Green Monster Fishing Light. Now back to Bubba on the Lake.
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B U double B A on the lake hey, Wishing I could listen to the show every day hey gotta hear what Bubba his buddies gotta say on B U double B A on the lake in the mellow yellow studio putting on a show Betty say what she always on the go we got on a bus sitting that master control don't wanna miss a moment cause Bubba's got the flow B U double B A on a lake hey Wishing not to listen to the show every day hey gotta hear what Bubba and his buddies gotta say on B U double B A on the lake Hey B U. Double B A on the lake hello
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again, friends, neighbors and associates everywhere. Welcome to another edition of Bubba on the Lake. I'm your semi retired, mostly washed up host, formerly of the Rick and Bubba show and now your host right here for Bubba on the Lake, AKA the People's Podcast. We're broadcasting from the Malayala Studio. Our website is Bub on the Lake dot com. Lot of great information there. Several of you have emailed and asked about the kids, what they're doing with Caitlin's new segment that she's doing on a podcast and Hunter's podcast he's doing for the barn. All that information should be up there now and you can get it right there, just clicks away. We try to keep that updated with information. It's not overly fancy. It's just kind of straightforward and that's the way I like it. Just so you can find the information you need and use it however you would see fit. And of course, we have the comment line 308 Big Lake. Don't forget to turn on subscriptions notifications. We don't want you to miss anything from the show. You know, I'm still just amazed at the number of people I run into and they're like, hey, Bubba, how do I get the podcast? And I'm like, seriously, are we, Are we there? Are we still there? I know it's mostly my age, people, I got that. But if you. Most of the phones now, the iPhone, or if you're on one of the other ones, they have a podcast app. You just go to that, do a search for Bub on the Lake and when you find it, go ahead and subscribe or follow or whatever the terminology that they use. And then when a new podcast publishes, it will go right to your phone. And if you have CarPlay or whatever you use in your vehicle, it'll go right through the speaker. So it's just, it's just like automatic. I mean, it's too easy. If you'll just do that subscription or follow or whatever your particular app asks you to do. For Bubba on the Lake, we always tell everybody it's Bubba on the Lake. And we do deal with lake and water issues, but that's not the whole thing. It's kind of a umbrella concept for what we're doing. And we, we cover and talk about a whole lot of other things. And we have some really big plans this summer. It's just now getting warm enough to get out on the water. I do not like riding a boat with a coat or a jacket. That's not my idea of a great time on the water. But it has warmed up this week and we're bumping up in the 90s here where I live. So it's really, really good time to, to get out and get on the water. And we're going to have a lot of fun with that. We have some surprises coming up I think you're going to like if we can pull it off and get it done. And we, we certainly have a great show today, folks. It is a memor. Colonel Jason Benefield will be back. He's going to give us a quick update on the Iran conflict and talk a little bit about Memorial Day. You know, when you really think about what some people have done so that me and you can be here having this conversation, it's mind blowing. It's just mind blowing that people have given their life so that we can have the freedom we have. And we'll celebrate that this weekend. You know, we do get out. We go to ball games, we eat, we cook out, we make homemade ice cream. But I, I would encourage you this weekend just to take a, just a second and pray for those Gold Star families who have lost loved ones and for those people, too. And they have given the ultimate gift for all of us to be able to enjoy the freedom we have. And we will. We will say this later in the podcast, too. As we've said on the radio show for many, many years, freedom is never purchased. It's a lease. It has to be renewed with each generation, the blood of young men and women. And I'm just thankful. I am thankful there are people who are made that way who are willing to give of themselves to, to give us the freedom that we have today. A lot going on here around the Lake on Memorial Day weekend. As you can imagine, I told you, the, the Lands folks, they have Friday on the green this week. They have a big art show going on and let me tell you, people will come from far and wide for that. Baby Betty is a standard feature. There she goes. And you know we're going to get something new to hang on the wall. I have no doubt. So if you're in the area of what they call country crossroads here at Russell Lands, you need to, to come out and check that out. And if you all of the events that Russell sponsors is available, you need to go to the Russelllands.com website. They also have a great app, easy to follow. You can find all the information you need to know about what they're doing here at the lake. Folks, I want to get right into it because we got a busy show. Colonel Jason Benefield is going to be here. Give us an update on Iran and the Memorial Day. Stuart the tech guy is going to be here. Hunter is checking in. And don't, don't tune out too quick. We have a major announcement at the end of the podcast. So it's something that, it's kind of funny how it happened. But anyway you'll, you'll have to tune in to get that. So without further ado, we will take a quick break and we will be back with this edition of Bubba on the Lake.
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Thank you, Bubba. I'm proud to be here.
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Well, quickly, I get asked a lot, what's going on with Iran? We've been in a extended ceasefire, so to speak. I think one of the problems is Trump's having trouble finding somebody to negotiate with because the leadership is a little. A little squirrely over there. But give us your thoughts on where we are and what are we going to see next with this? Because as this extends, it's causing prices on the oil market to stay up, which is causing all of inflation to stay up, which is going to eventually politically hurt the President and his party here at home. When it's over, I think it's going to be beautiful. It'll all fall and get back into place and be better than it ever was. And his visit to China, how does that play in?
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Well, I think the President's being extremely patient with Iran, giving them every opportunity to avoid further destruction and further attacks. But they are willing to let their people suffer. They're willing to suffer economically, and they use the ceasefire to try and reset the battlefield in their favor. He realizes that his visit to China and the other things he's doing around the globe have continued to try and set the conditions to put additional pressure on them. But they are a hard people to deal with because they're not trustworthy. Especially difficult when you're not sure who is in charge.
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Yeah, I think I feel like that we probably will see hostilities come back into play before it's all over, don't you?
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I agree. I think it will have to go kinetic at least one more time before it all gets resolved, because the economic pressure is already maxed out and they do not seem to be reacting to the suffering of their people at all.
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So do you think? I know a lot of people think, hey, while we're giving them a cease fire, they're just reloading, they're just loading everything back up again. And do we In a strange kind of way, allow them to do that so we can see where they're getting it from and where they're putting it at, and then we know where to go after it. Again,
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you are correct. They are not trustworthy. They are trying to reset the battlefield and rearm. But we are gathering intelligence while they're doing that. Just as you said, we can see what they're doing. So our target sets are getting very dialed in as they're doing that. So when we do go kinetic, we will have targets ready to go, and the attacks will be very effective.
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Colonel, while I have you here, Memorial Day weekend is coming up. You know, to a lot of people, it's a long weekend. You go to the lake, you go to the golf, you. You barbecue, you cook out, you make homemade ice cream and all that's great. That's. That's what we do here in America. But it really means a whole lot more. And a lot of times, I'm afraid, we forget exactly the price that this holiday affords us.
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Well, I agree, Bubba. Memorial Day is very important to those of us who have served and have lost comrades over the years. It started out as a tradition after the Civil War on both sides, where folks would go and decorate the graves of those who had passed during the war. So it became an official holiday in 1971. It became the last Monday in May as a repetitive holiday, an annual holiday, and it now honors all those military service members who passed away in wartime or peacetime. But we still recognize the surviving family members of those lost in wars, our Gold Star families. Bubba and I believe those are our true royalty in this country, and we have many in this area. We have McClellan National Cemetery here. And in that cemetery, one of the KIA buried there is from Weaver, Alabama. His name is Specialist James Johnson, and his family keeps his memory alive. He died in Vietnam February 23, 1971, in Rocket Tack in Two Thin Province, while deployed with 101st Airborne Division. But he has an online memorial, and I can tell you he is remembered by Kelly Glass as her favorite uncle. Still to this day, he's buried at Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery in Weaver. And there are many others in our area, Bubba. At our school, Jacksonville State University, the ROTC program has lost nine officers who were killed in action over the years. I want to make mention of each of them quickly. First Lieutenant George William Lott was class of 1950. He was from Crane Hill community in Coleman County. He was reported missing in February 13, 1951, near Hong Song, South Korea. And he Ended up dying in a North Korean POW camp on August 31, 1951, and moving on to the Vietnam conflict. Captain Jerry Wayne McNabb, class of 1959, was from Gadsden. He was survived by his wife Ann and three children. He was a helicopter pilot, a Rotary Wayne Company commander, and was killed in a helicopter crash on June 27, 1966 at Thu Hoi Air Base in South Vietnam. So the next plaque that hangs on the wall in row hall in memory of our KIA is Captain Donald Franklin McMillan, who was commissioned in 1960, 1961. He was actually from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which is the hometown of Fort Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in the 101st Airborne Division. His widow was Tony Stain McMillan. He was killed in action on April 2, 1966, in Plaque Province, South Vietnam. Captain Edward Davis Pierce was commissioned 1962 from Homewood, Alabama. He served as a tactical intelligence staff officer in South Vietnam, a job I once held. He was killed in action March 13, 1966, in Long Con Province, South Vietnam, when his 01 Bird Dog aircraft was shot down near Zoom Lock, Vietnam. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for Valor and a Purple Heart. Captain Richard Charles Miller, commissioned 1965. He was from your hometown, Bubba, from Jacksonville. He was a Ranger quality qualified infantry company commander. Killed in action on September 3, 1969 in Kung Nam Province, South Vietnam. Earned the Silver Star and the Bronze Star. Captain Monkey Davis. Charles Monkey Davis, commissioned September 2, 1966 from Tallahassee, Alabama. He was a standout football player at jsu, went on to serve as a tank unit commander. It was killed in action on October 6, 1967 in Dan Tong Province, South Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Moving to the global war on Terror. Captain Donny Ray belser, commissioned in 2001. He was from Anniston, Alabama. He was survived by his daughter Morgan and his son Miles. He was a member of the 524 transition team from the 1st Infantry Division. He was killed in action February 10, 2007 in Bakuba, Iraq, north of Baghdad. And then Captain Kyle Comfort, commissioned in 2006 as a criminal justice major. He was from your hometown as well, Bubba, from Jacksonville, Alabama. He served as the fire support officer, Company d in a 3rd Battalion of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. He previously had served in Iraq with 101st Airborne Division, 2007 and 8. He was killed in action May 8, 2010 in Helmand Province by an infant improvised explosive device and one kia. I'm going to talk about a little out of order from Vietnam 1st Lt. Grady McBride. Commissioned June 21, 1968. He was from Gadsden. He was from a military family and had an appointment to West Point. But he failed his physical, so he petitioned the army for a waiver and began his career through Jack State, rotc. He was a petroleum product supply officer. He was the XO, the executive officer for 4 to 514 Quartermaster Battalion. He was killed in an enemy attack on A fuel farm, June 5, 1970, in the Binh Dinh Province of Vietnam. He had a daughter named Rachel. And Grady never met Rachel, but she keeps his memory alive to this day. He wrote her a letter after she was born. The day after she was born, when he was notified, he sat down and wrote her a letter. And with her permission, I want to share that letter so people can understand the perspective of the Gold Star families and the degree of the loss. So this is the 19th of March, 1970. My darling daughter, I am writing this letter to you after getting a phone call from the Red Cross. Tell me of your wonderful birthday. I prayed to God that our first child be a daughter. And he blessed your mother and I with you. My precious, I am now far away from you and your mother. I want so badly to see you both, to kiss your mother so sweetly for all her love and kindness, and to hold my little girl in my arms. I want your mother to save this letter for you. I want you to know that I am overwhelmed with a joy beyond words. I am a father, and both wife and baby are fine. One of the truly great joys of mankind. I promise you that I will try my best to be a good father to you, to love you with all my heart. To always be fair, but also be firm, to be willing to always listen to what you have to say and to guide you in a rightful path. Always know that your mother and I love you very much and that I would die for you without question. More than that, I want to live for you, to provide for you and to love you and to take care of you the best I can. May the angels always watch over your mother and you, our precious daughter. Signed, your loving father, from the Charing Valley, South Vietnam. So, Bubba, I think that captures really the impact it has on these families. None of these Kia that I mentioned live to the age of 30 years of age, but they made a huge impact in their years here with us.
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Colonel, how long from the time she was born did he lose his life in action?
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It was about three months. So her birthday is March 18, and he died on June 5. So it was just a few months, so.
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But he got a letter.
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He got a letter to her, and she posted a letter every year on her birthday. So, Bubba. I deployed to combat six times, and when I was on my first deployment, on our way home, my buddy Mike Wisniewski pulled me aside. On the way home, he. He said, jason, there's a good chance your son is not going to recognize you because you've been gone most of his life. He was an infant. So this happened to Mike, and he was trying to prepare me. So when I got home, it made me realize that my worst fear was not death. It was my family forgetting me if I die when my children were young. So I wrote before each deployment, each of my children leather the way Grady wrote to Rachel. So luckily I was able to deliver and read my letters to my children. But Grady was not able to do that. The letter that he wrote when she was born, her mother read to her. But.
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And to complete the story there, my son did remember me, and he lunged into my arms like a medicine ball with arms. So it was a bit of a happy ending there. But it did drive home to me the fact that there were things worse than death. And I wanted to be sure I was remembered. Larry Boggess. 25 years ago, he and I were company commanders in the Geronimos together at Fort Polk. Only for a few months, but we became big buddies right off the bat. When we left the Geronimos, Larry returned to Fort Bragg in the 82nd Airborne Division. His wife, Wesley, and he were graduates of Appalachian State. They had two daughters, Ryan and Ellie. They were an all American family and very obsessed with golfing. Just great people and everybody knows them, love them. 19 years and a few days ago, he was killed in action. Army Major Larry J. Bogges died May 14, 2007. Serving during Operation Enduring Freedom, he was deployed with the famous Fury brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division near the Afghan Pakistan border. During a meeting between the Pakis and the Afghans and Larry's men to do security coordination, one of the Afghan security guards opened fire on Larry's men. Larry put himself between his men and the gunman. He lost his life for it. So I like to always keep in the context of that story. John 15:13. Greater love. Have no man than this. That a man lay down his life for his friends. And Larry did that. He lived a life worth remembering. But when he died, his children were only 4 and 6, and his wife was only 36, with her whole life in front of her. So People would wonder with his children, even remember him. Wesley moved on. She did remarry, but she kept his memory alive with the daughters. And she celebrates his life and legacy and he will never be forgotten. She became very involved in folds of Honor. You may have even seen her in their promotions. And with her permission, I wanted to share her Facebook post from 2023. That was one of the years where Mother's Day and anniversary of his death fell on the same day. So her post went 16 years. 16. Today is going to be a strange day, a day when Mother's Day and 14 may intersect. That strange blend of happiness and sadness we have endured for 16 years is fully on display today. Mamas, we love you. Larry, we love you and miss you terribly. I know this for sure. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. That's First Corinthians 13, 7. Larry, we will see you on the high ground. Until then, we drive on above. I think that's a beautiful tribute to a father lost way too soon. GK Chesterton said that courage is a contradiction in terms of it means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. And Larry Baucus really embodied that. So there's some lives worth remembering on Memorial Day, and I hope everybody can understand what it means to those of us who lost comrades and family members.
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Colonel, thank you for sharing that, because it's easy to say Memorial Day and it's easy to say for people who lost their lives, but they actually have names, they have families, they have kids, they have, you know, wives. And that really puts a face on it. And I appreciate you sharing that. And as you mentioned, I love the Bible verse because that says so much on so many levels. And I know there's been a movement in this country that gold star families, the immediate families, should not pay income tax because they've already paid the ultimate price. And I hope at some point in time we get that passed and done, that those families don't have to do that as a way of saying thank you for already sacrificing one of your own flesh and blood for our country. But I hope everybody remembers while we're out having fun and while we're having a good time, that this freedom that we're enjoying was purchased with a price. And we've said for many, many years, the price of freedom is never paid. It's a lease. It has to be renewed again and again and again with the blood of the young men and women of our country. So I hope that people will remember that. Maybe include them in your prayer over the meal this weekend and keep them on your heart through the whole weekend.
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Yes, sir. And that's the two things I'd ask remember to go. Stars, families, gold star families and what they sacrificed. And second, I love what Captain Miller spoke to Private Ryan in the movie Saving Private, Private Ryan saying, earn this freedom. As you said, it isn't free, so make the most of it. So build families. Love your families. Build your communities and remember their sacrifice when you go vote so their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are free, too.
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Colonel Jason Benefield, thank you very much. Happy Memorial Day weekend to you, sir, and your family. And we're going to remember Memorial Day with our family, too. Thank you for being with us on Bubba on the Lake.
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Thank you, Bubba. Where's Bubba?
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I'll tell you where. He's on the lake.
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Well, he's back. He's in popular demand. Stewart, the tech guy. The titan of tech. Stuart, how are you doing?
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I'm doing great, Bubba. It's good to see you.
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I know you've been very busy.
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Well, today with your stuff.
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I know. Glad to have you in the house today. I had some things that need Straightening out.
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We did. And we got. We got the Internet down at your boat dock. Fly ripping fast.
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Oh, one gig. A gig over at the boat dock.
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Over the air. A gig over the air.
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That is smoking.
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Yep. So we're gonna have to. Gonna have to get at and t to speed us up to see what it can really do.
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I know, I know. It's just faster, faster. More and more in it.
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So I wonder when y' all get out on the la. The boat, you know, way out there, see how far.
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You know. I remember the days that we were so excited to get 56k. Isn't that funny?
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Oh, the one Meg. That was.
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That was what I want Meg.
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When it went one mag. Oh, yeah, the T1. You got your T1.
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You're in there. So, Stuart, you. You're with Surge Technologies in Birmingham, and we're always glad to have you on the show. You're probably best known for going to pick up a cyber truck.
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Yes.
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That we documented here on the show. Do you still. Let's get old business. Do you still like it?
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Oh, I love it. Drive it every day. It's. Especially nowadays. We were just talking before we went on the air. The gas prices making me very happy to own that right now.
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Stuart, I feel like an idiot because I was there. You saw me. I had to check on the desk.
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You had it right there.
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I had to pen in my hand and I bailed out.
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Yep, you did.
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And the last time I filled up my diesel truck, it was. It was already about half full, and it was $160, and I thought, I'm an idiot. I'm a. Yep.
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My truck costs about 17 bucks to fill up some. Yeah.
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Some of y' all quit screaming. You sure are, bubba. Thank you. I appreciate that. So you were. You were. Tell us at this point because you've. You've driven it now for a while. Yep.
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4,500 miles so far.
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What is the best thing about it? The pro. And what is the con?
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The best thing about it is kind of split. It depends on whether you're self driving or manually driving. So if you're self driving, the best thing is that you can just sit back and relax and 280 traffic now. Just a chill session instead of constantly having to fight through it.
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Right.
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The. The best thing when you're manually driving is how fun it is. It is you drove it. The steering makes the whole thing. It's the digital. All steer by wire. It steers and handles like a sports car. And if you. You know, I'VE never owned a car where, you know, some, some, some guy in a straight pipe Mustang pulls up next to you where you. If I want to, I can, I can dust them if I want to. And that's. But the negative, I think if I could pinpoint it is I was complaining a little bit about it earlier when I got here today. It's, I guess what comes with any tech thing, which at the end of the day, you're driving a computer. That's what it is. And software is your biggest annoyance. The current software, which is version as of this recording, 3-1-14, I'm going to be honest, it frankly sucks.
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Now why do you say that? What do you don't like about it?
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So I really liked the version that came before it, that I had before. Version 14 was extremely good. It was very refined. It's what you got to experience. And they like any new update that they try to add a bunch of stuff and they did. They enhanced parking and this avoidance and this logic and all these things. With improvements come rough edges and there's a lot of them to be had. It's had some issues and it's not just me figuring this out. There's people talking about it. It's been well widely reported of version 14:3, 2 having a number of these issues where it will be very hesitant at certain intersections, it won't want to turn into traffic. It's almost like it's scared in some instances. I've had it where it will just if I'll hit start and it won't put itself in drive, it'll just kind of sit there for a minute before it decides it's safe to go. It's just like for some reason with the new update, they've made it too apprehensive and they need to crank up the confidence on the AI, which is quite literally a thing they can do by adjusting the parameters. The good news is last night they actually released 1433, which addresses all this. But it's not come to my truck yet. So I'll report back when I have that.
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So is that scary, do you think? A lot of people who are into the privacy thing, they're concerned that somebody else is controlling their vehicle and they do monitor you, they watch you inside. So yeah, that's true. I mean, what if you, what if you're doing maybe, I don't want to say illegal activity or maybe inappropriate activity for the road? I mean, what do people feel about that? Not that you should be doing that on the road, but I mean what
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the heck, you can't really. So I guess for those who don't know, the internal cabin camera does monitor the inside of the vehicle, but it does not transmit that information out to test the unless there is an incident that requires it.
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Right.
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They could at any point pull that data, should they choose.
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Sure.
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But it doesn't. By default, the driving data that gets uploaded to Tesla servers is external video data, not internal video data. But it does record the inside of the cabin. Is that a privacy violation? That depends on the person. I guarantee whoever's listening to this podcast right now is carrying around a little magic slate in their pocket that is doing exactly that same thing already. So, you know, you don't really have any ground to stand on unless you're holding. Unless you're still carrying around a Nokia flip phone.
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If you don't think that's the case, just for fun, tell somebody that you're thinking about getting a beagle puppy.
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E
Yes.
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And see how many ads you get for beagle. But within hours, yes, it'll cover you up with it. So. So everything comes for pros and cons, but still overall, very pro.
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Best vehicle that exists. I'm pretty convinced there's no. It's not to say it's not. It doesn' do everything perfectly. If you're a long haul, you know, towing person, you'd want a truck like what you've got because you can go probably 5, 600 miles on a full, full set of gas. We have dual tanks in yours.
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No, just normal. Probably I think about 475.
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E
Right. So a huge, a long distance. You can make it mine, you know, 250, 300 depending on how much I charge it.
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A
The weather today is pretty warm. Yes, it's going to be our first 90 degree, great for the truck degree day. How the air conditioner, does that draw more battery, does that kill some of your power or does the heat in
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E
the winter it is a heat pump that they use in the truck. So it's very efficient. The AC uses almost no power overall. In fact, if you go into your energy there's an app and it tells you exactly how much your AC has consumed over your trip and out of it cost me 30, no 27% or 26% somewhere around there to get here today from home and less than 1% was the AC. I checked what I got here. But electric cars in general love hot weather. They really like it because the batteries run best when they're warm. And so in the wintertime we'll see how it's going to be. But typically you lose 20 to 30% of your overall range in the winter.
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A
Right. So what else is going on in tech that everybody needs to know about?
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E
Well, before we jump off of the Tesla topic, I will bring this up. So Tesla has discontinued their first really their most iconic vehicles, which is the Model S and Model X. It's a, it's kind of a pretty big deal because it was, it was the Model S and Model X that
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A
really put EVs on the map.
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E
Well, it made them cool because prior to that you had like the Prius and you had the early Chevy Volt
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A
and the Annex had the Falcon doors that go up. I mean they were very, it was very distinctive when you saw. And it's a little wider car, it's a very sporty looking car, it's a sporty suv.
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E
And of course they're both, you know, the plaid versions of those cars, the ludicrous versions of those cars were just fast as lightning.
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A
Right.
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E
And it took electric cars. I commented on this when, when it happened. It took the EV from being kind of a nerdy, hard to use alternative vehicle to something that was luxurious and cool to own. And without the S and X we wouldn't be where we are today, where EVs are considered to be cool and not just, you know, the green car, the eco car. And so it's pretty big deal that
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A
they've canceled them for those more pricey. Was that a price point deal?
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E
I mean the Model S and the Model X, the counterpart to that is the three and the. Yeah. So the model three is the four door sedan. That's cheaper. The model Y is the four door SUV, that's cheaper. A middle of the road model three will run you about 35 to 40 grand. A middle of the road model Y will run you about 40, 45 grand. Model S and model X 100 to 120. And what are you really getting for that? A lot of luxury kind of sort of stuff, but that's not, that's about it. And you can get performance models of the three and the Y also. They're not as blisteringly fast as the other two, but they're still fast. You don't get the Falcon wing doors with the Y. You don't get the Model S. I
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A
love the Falcon wing doors. Yeah. Being a fat guy, I really like that. Well, also because it's easier to get out.
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E
The front doors too on the X are self presenting so they open and shut robotically. And that's not something The Y has, but there's a reason they canceled them. Sales were not good. They never once thought.
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A
You think the price point on it was a heartbreak for a lot of them.
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E
Oh, for sure. That's the only reason. Because you're not getting that much over the three. Over the three and y and you're spending 2x the money.
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A
What do they have coming out? Surely they have. What's the next gen. They're going to break out.
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E
The next gen is something called Optimus and it's a humanoid robot.
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A
Well, I know that. Is that what they're working on?
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That's the reason they are dedicating the Fremont factory space that produced the X and the S to producing Optimus. They will not be releasing new cars.
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A
Now, Elon says that every home will have a robot in it. Mine will in the near future.
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E
I'm buying one immediately.
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A
Do you remember, you're probably too young, when computers came out and they. Radio Shack was one of the leaders at the time and they said, every home will have a computer in it. And I remember people going, what? I want a computer. I got one of them at work. I don't bring it at home.
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F
Yeah.
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A
And look at us now. Now we're running how many in one
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E
room in here alone? Probably a dozen, two dozen. You know, it's crazy. TRS model 80.
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A
Oh, yeah, yeah. She was a beauty. Old green screen. So what else is going on in tech we need to know about?
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E
Well, so slightly related to Tesla and also just generally AI is the Optimus bot that's replacing the S and the X.
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A
Right.
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Those have not gone into production yet. They're going to. And one of the reasons that they're. One of the things they had to finish first was the development of the chip that's going to run those bots. That is Tesla's 5th gen AI that's called AI5. They taped out that chip about a month ago. The term tape out, you may not recognize the term. It comes from back in the day when you would design your sketch for how your process, your microprocessor is going to look like and put it on tape to send that to the manufacturer. So AI5 has been taped out and it is going to produce about 100 or so. Well, to put it in perspective, what most people understand, it's about 10 times the performance of the current AI4. And they're going to need it to run these bots.
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A
Now, I've seen them running. I mean, they're. The agility that these things have now is Incredible. I mean they can run, they can
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E
do cartwheels, they can, they can dance and move around. They keep them, them, the ones they have in the public eye right now are kind of slow moving. They, you know, keep them, keep them from doing anything wild. And they have specifically said that their production model they're not showing because if they show it, China will copy it.
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A
Right.
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E
So they're going to show it later in the year when it's ready for release. So it's very interesting.
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A
What's it going to cost? What do I get a robot that'll cut my grass.
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E
They're targeting 30 grand. Grand. Between 25 and 30 grand.
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A
And that sounds expensive.
- [40:18]
E
It sounds expensive. But when you're essentially buying a perpetual servant, right. You know, that's not that bad.
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A
What all will it do?
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E
In theory, if it does what they claim it, and that's a whole nother topic.
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A
Right.
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E
It will do anything that a human can do, meaning it will have a GROK powered intelligence that allows it to effectively do whatever task you give it. So you know, technically you could make your, your, your any old car self driving if you had that thing driving,
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A
because it's driving it.
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E
But I think more than likely you'll start to see these things first in fast food joints, in packing, mailing, warehouse jobs, things like that where, so you're,
- [40:59]
A
you're going to go in an Amazon warehouse. They call them something else but you go on Amazon warehouse and you're going to see hundreds of these things. Packing boxes.
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F
Yeah.
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E
You're going to see them rapidly replace humans in that kind of, you know, unskilled labor market first. Which is going to be interesting.
- [41:16]
A
Well back, back to the Tesla self driving for just a minute. Do we have any updated data on wrecks and how the computers are doing versus the humans in driving the.
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E
I haven't seen numbers in the last couple of months, but the March numbers were it's seven times safer than a human. So seven times less accidents per mile driven of self driving versus Well, I
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A
have, I've rode with a few humans and I would much prefer the Tesla. Okay. And some people who rode with me may prefer it.
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E
Unless you're in a parking deck. They still struggle in parking decks, I've noticed.
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A
Well, so do humans.
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E
That's true, that's true.
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A
You know, I can't, I can't ever find how to get out of the things who designed the parking deck. Surely AI could clean that mess up
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E
something or just stop using them completely.
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A
Can we get AI to work on our roads? Design some of our road issues, put
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E
them in, replace all the politicians with AI first. It would do a better job.
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A
Well, we got a stretch of highway here that they was going to have it fixed in six months. We're going on two years. They could have built a friggin cloverleaf by now and still you go up there and it ain't done. I've never seen, I don't know how people keep their jobs really.
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E
That's all corrupt. So this, this could easily go political. This is, this, this tech segment can go political fast if we're not careful.
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A
I really, I don't know how the village has not got torches and got something done on this. You know what I mean? Pitchforks and torches.
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E
It makes you wonder why we haven't
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A
had a tea party in a. I mean, good night. How, how long does it take to fix one little bridge for the love of Pete? You know what I mean?
- [42:50]
E
There's, there's, there's highway sections like that, there's potholes.
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A
People in the highway department to have a job there ought to be embarrassed. They ought to get on TV and apologize.
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E
Same for, same for water by the way. Water and power. And you know, power is not as bad nowadays, but water, any kind of, any kind of like general services like that.
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A
Well, I'll say this, the power company, they, they, they handle things like a 800 pound gorilla. They usually win.
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E
Yeah.
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A
And I don't like that. I don't like any monopoly. But I will say this, they deliver a product and it's there most of the time.
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E
Have you ever considered. So I'm totally not on our plan. Have you ever considered solar?
- [43:30]
A
For what?
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E
For your house? As a, as a backup?
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A
No, I haven't. Well, I have, but I've actually at some point run my ham station off solar stuff. But it just was not cost effective to do the whole thing.
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E
So if I could, because. So the reason I brought this up now.
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A
What I love to have a solar farm and make Alabama Power pay me to have it. Absolutely, absolutely.
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E
So this idea came to me the other day and I was thinking, okay, what if, what if there's a, you know, event, solar flare, whatever it is that, that causes infrastructure limitation or outage. Right, right. Owning an electric vehicle made me wonder, is it. What would it take to be, to be able to generate infinite fuel? Right. If I wanted to, is that possible to do in a reasonable amount of money? And it is. I actually put together just one afternoon just to see how feasible it was for about 8 to $15,000. Depending on what you buy, you could get enough solar panels that fold up and a solar generator big enough that could fit in my truck bed that could generate about 25 kilowatt hours of energy per day. And so that's a full charge of the truck in four days, roughly. So if I'm driving less than 90 miles a day, that's effectively infinite travel mileage.
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A
Right.
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E
Which is kind of cool to think about.
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A
Well, you know, I've always wondered why on any electric car, it's not covered in solar panels.
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E
Not enough.
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A
Well, I know technically, yes, but to me, any is better than none. You're at least putting something back on the pile.
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E
You are. There's a guy on YouTube who lives down in South America who bought a Model X and he actually did that. He converted the whole shell of the car hood and roof and everything to solar cooler. And he uses it to drive because there's almost no charging infrastructure down there. Right. And so he uses it to drive around and it's very, very slow, very slow. You can only go, you know, 20, 30 miles a day.
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A
Well, solar panels, they've come a long way, but they still, we need them to come further.
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E
It's not great.
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A
And the batteries are still. Hold up. How's Tesla salt battery? I mean, I thought they were going to break those babies out before long. Are you familiar with the salt battery?
- [45:51]
E
I know what they are. They haven't. There's nothing beyond prototypes at the moment. The only thing they've got right now with new battery tech is what the semi truck uses, which is the same cell that the cybertruck uses. The Tesla semi was shown off. The production model is finally shown, and it looks like the cells are really, really good. They're not using any breakthrough chemistry, but they're designed to be very long life.
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A
Well, the lithium is the top line right now. Yes, but lithium has a problem.
- [46:18]
E
It does.
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A
It's hot and it burns hot, and there's a limited supply of it. So the idea and what I had heard, what I read on it, was the saltwater battery, or the salt battery was going to be more comparable to our current acid lead batteries. So it wouldn't be as efficient as the, as the lithium, but it would be more like what we've got now. But you have a unlimited supply because of the ocean.
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E
Yeah. I mean, this is something that would be awesome. It kind of makes you think, when you think of technology like that, of, you know, you hear about scientists invents cure for whatever, suddenly wind up dead.
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A
Right, right.
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E
If somebody invents a battery technology that's truly game changing like that, they're going to end up dead because all these other companies that are invested in lithium and whatever else are not going to let them do it.
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A
But don't you think that Elon is big enough now that, that, that if they did it at Tesla, that would be hard to hide?
- [47:15]
E
That yeah, if they did it, it would happen. But if some random person figures it out, they're going to get shut down.
- [47:21]
A
Elon is running behind on our moon lander. We need that for Artemis 3.
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E
We do. I was, you know, I don't know.
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A
I mean, I know he's got a few things on his plate, a handful at the moment. I saw him with Trump in China.
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E
That was so funny. Did you see his clip?
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A
No, I didn't see it, but I saw him get off the plane.
- [47:38]
E
Oh, it was so funny because they're in this big room with all the, all the big CEOs, you got Nvidia Micro, all this. And then they're all like shaking hands and doing interviews. And Elon's just sitting over there in the back and like lean it. You can tell his social battery is just dead, right? And he's just sitting back scrolling Twitter. Somebody walks over, asks for a selfie, he does like a funny face and just like right back on the phone, he's just, he's had enough of it.
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A
I would like to meet him.
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E
You know, I would too. I don't know how that would be doable short of bumping into him somewhere.
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A
Do you think he would be friendly?
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E
I think he would be friendly. I think he probably would be very busy.
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A
Yeah.
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E
And also, from what I understand, he has 24, seven armed security.
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A
Oh, sure he does. Sure he does.
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E
You can't really not so he's, he's made too many enemies.
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A
Well, Stuart, thanks for joining us. Thanks for the update and more importantly, thank you for getting some of my stuff squared away. So my ham radio work like I want it to.
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D
That's right.
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E
You can transmit from anywhere.
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A
That's right. Remote, baby, remote. You know, I would love to do a segment on it. It would be so. It would be so limited, interest wise and understanding wise what we're doing, but it sure is cool.
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E
I'd love to do a segment on you and I'd like to learn, you know, we got to get you, we
- [48:55]
A
got to get you into ham radio. I mean, that's the one missing part. You, you need.
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E
You know what? That would be fun. That's a good idea. Let's do a ham 101.
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A
Okay, let's do a ham. We'll do one.
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E
You know that maybe it would be limited interest, but some folks might learn something.
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A
Well, you know, I've always been very interested about radio waves, RF radio frequencies, how it goes through the air, how it acts different frequencies, what acts on it, what doesn't. So it is an interesting topic and quite frankly, it's made the world a better place.
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E
So anybody can do it.
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A
That's right. That's right. Stuart Rockwell Surge Technologies, Birmingham, Alabama. Stuart is the titan of tech. Stuart, thanks for taking time to be with us here on Bub on the Lake.
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E
Absolutely.
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B
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A
Well, we're back and I'm joined by my favorite son, Hunter Bussey. Hunter, how are you doing sir?
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C
I'm good. I'm hoping I am your favorite son. I'm your only son.
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A
You know. We don't want to split Hairs here, but that is true. And glad that you could join us here in the studio. We're doing a little work, getting ready for the big Memorial Day weekend coming up. Up. And you've been down here, and we've been doing some upgrades on our Internet service here at home with Stuart, the tech guy who you heard just a little while ago. But I. Hunter, I can tell the way that you are walking around, you've got this grin on your face, and you. You're just about to pop to get on here and talk about something. And I told you, I don't know if we need to talk about this yet or not, but you're about to die. Well, to talk about it.
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C
Well, I mean, it was either wait until the embargoes lifted or just go ahead and talk about. And I figured rip it off like a band aid, even though it's not my car. If I were you, I'd be more excited about it. But you're just kind of chill.
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A
Go. Go ahead and tell everybody what you're talking about.
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C
Dad is taking the leap of faith and getting a Model Y, everyone. And it's a work car because the gas prices are so bad and that drive to Jack state is killing him. So he needs a. A work car. And then his fun car is a Jeep. So, I mean, that's not, you know, it's not too bad.
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A
Well, you know, some diversity in our. In our cars will probably help a little bit.
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F
Yeah.
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A
Look, I've wanted a Tesla. I wanted to play with one. I've played with them. I almost got one one time before. So we're just gonna. We're just gonna take the dive and see what happens. And, you know, we. We've got a Boss Motors Jeep that I love. It's my fun vehicle. And we'll continue to be that. And we're just gonna have a little diversity here in our. In. In our. In our carpool. So. But what's funny about. About it, I really hadn't planned on getting a car yesterday.
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C
Oh, no, you did not.
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A
And Stuart was here, and we were doing some upgrades to our access points. So we can now get one gig. Yeah. Wireless.
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C
Yes. Which is much needed.
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A
And also we wanted a directional antenna to throw signal out over our dock. So you told me you went to the dock and we have one gig.
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C
Yes.
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A
On your iPhone Down.
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C
Yes. It's like I'm wired into an ethernet cable on my phone on the dock. You know, Ridiculous.
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A
I'm kind of looking forward to getting in the pontoon again and Going out and seeing how far I can pick it out, because that signal is smoking down that way. It's a directional antenna on the access point. We've got it mounted outside, and it is absolutely smoking.
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C
I know you talked about doing the podcast from the pontoon. We literally could know, no problem. That's ridiculous.
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A
We could be live.
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C
We could.
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A
Yeah, we could. We'll see. See how it goes. We'll. We'll check it out, because Stuart was here. You heard him in our interview earlier here on the podcast from his company in Birmingham. He does a great job and he's. He's knowledgeable. We went to eat after we did all this last night, and it's just so funny. He's probably the closest thing to Mr. Spock that I know because he knows so much about everything.
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C
Yes.
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A
And it's fine. He's right. And it's fun to talk to him about it. I'm a tech guy, a technoid, but he is a whole another level. I mean, he. He knows the decimal point.
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C
You know, you're a geek. He's a geek. I'm a geek. So, like, yesterday was just a geek. A geeky day.
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A
Well, what was funny? We. We did this, upgraded. We were testing everything, and we just sit down and start having a conversation. And before I knew it, we were on the Tesla app picking cars out. And then it's like, I don't know what happened. And we were having a discussion and I sneezed and I ordered a car.
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C
Oh, yeah, yeah. You sneezed.
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A
Yeah.
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E
The.
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C
What made me laugh was you had this checklist of all the, you know, the access points of all the Internet where we had to, you know, what we needed to upgrade, how long it was going to take and everything. And Stuart just was like, boom, boom, boom, art. We're done.
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A
And then, seriously, I thought, because I had. I had one that was a little more complicated, dealing with my ham radio. I had to do some port 40 on one of my new Internet ham radio radio. And I was. I was struggling with it, and I thought, well, this is going to take a little time. And he knocked that thing out. I mean, he. He can type so quick. Oh, I was about to talk quicker than I can pull up web pages.
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C
He types quicker than autofill on an iPhone.
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A
That's actually stupid.
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C
I've never seen anyone type that fast in my life.
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A
It's.
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C
It's crazy.
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A
We're feeling. I mean, I don't know what happened. We. Nowhere on the list had. We had dad order a Tesla no, and what.
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C
And what made me laugh was you had this list. You knew how long it was going to take. Stuart was, like, doubling down every time you said, oh, this is going to take a minute. And he's like, no, it's not. I got this. Okay, we'll see. And then he knocked it out at, you know, a list that you, in your mind probably was like, this is going to take three or four hours maybe, Right? We got it done in an hour and 30 minutes, maybe. That's being nice.
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A
Well, he's quick because he's young and he's flexible, and he's like 8 foot tall, so he can reach things like where I have to get something. I have to go get a ladder, and I'm old and I've got artificial knee. I can't bend and get under things and all that. And he just, like, slides right in there like he's changing tires like a NASCAR crew, and he's done with it. And I'm like, that would have took me an hour to do that. So, like, whenever he was.
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C
When. Because you have to. Whenever. For those that have probably already ordered a Tesla in the past, like, you have to pretty much when you order the car, you have to order the Charger charging station the same day for it to basically be here at the same time. Like, even though I think the charging station will be here later this week, the car is going to take, what, three weeks, according to the.
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A
Well, they said two to three weeks delivery, and you order everything on the app. That's what's so strange. It's a very different deal than what we're used to. When you come to automobiles, it's like grubhub for cars. Yeah. I mean, it's so. But we were just kind of talking about. About the different colors, and we. We were on the app, and before I knew it, I was signed up to get one, and then I sneezed and I ordered it, and I may
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C
or may not have been playing the Palpatine for all my Star wars fans out there, the do it whenever he was. He was trying to contemplate it, but it's just. Yeah, I'm excited. I just. I'm more excited than I think he is because I'm such a geek and just that it's. It's a car, but it's also a.
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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you'll get it passed down to you.
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C
Oh, well, no, I know that's not happening. I'm driving my Bron to The wheels fall off more than likely.
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Well, I know what'll happen is I'll get it and I'll be in enjoying it and Betty will drive it, and then she'll drive it, and then Betty will be driving it all the time.
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C
It'll be. And then you'll somehow end up with a cyber truck.
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I see what you're doing.
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C
I see what you're doing.
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I really wanted the cyber truck. And I know a lot of people think they're ugly. I think they're cool looking.
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I w. I like the interior. I wish they would do. I. I think they look good. I just wish it was a little bit smaller because it looks like a tank. When that thing comes down our driveway, that's already.
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Hunter, do you remember I showed you. There was a TV show when I was a kid and it was this big white arc looking thing and they went through the country after like nuclear war or something.
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C
And it's a TV show from the 60s.
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Yeah, well. And they were. They were reestablishing society.
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Yeah.
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You know, because everything had turned into like pirates, you know? Yeah. And it reminds me of that. What is the name of that show?
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I showed you that and Stuart that, like, last time he was here.
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We did. We looked at it, didn't we?
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Yeah, because it was when we went
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to go pick up the call something arc. What's the name of that show?
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Got me.
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I don't know, but they had a. I think they had a chimpanzee that could talk too. Didn't they have that? Or was that on? Was that on Lost in Space? Am I. Am I mixing?
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You're mixing. You're mixing. Mixing Sci Fi's. But no, I just. It made me laugh because yesterday I was, you know, you called me, me. What, Saturday or Sunday. Hey, I need you to come down and, you know, learn this, you know, help where you can. You know, stuff like that. I'm thinking, okay, yeah, I'll do that. Come back.
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Because you don't know a lot about network architecture.
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No, I know how to reset my modem and wait 30 seconds and plug it back in.
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I mean, but there's more to it.
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I'm a geek, but I like to call it a soft geek. You know what I mean? Like, I. I'm nerdy.
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You got your areas.
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Yeah, I got my areas. And you got other ones where it's like. I don't know about that one. But I. I intended coming down here to learn and watch and help where I could. And then we're sitting down and the dad's like, hey, what do you think of this Model Y? I'm like, you know, you're not. You know, you're not. You're like, they got it.
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I don't know.
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It's just. I don't know. I feel like I'm more excited than you. I really am.
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Well, here. Here. I've learned to temper my excitement over the years because I've seen too many pitfalls happen. So I will be excited, but it'll be. It'll ramp up, like, right at delivery.
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C
Yeah.
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But we'll. We'll see. And we'll get another podcast out. Maybe we can actually do the podcast where we're going this time. Yeah, I wanted to do before.
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Well, you had a sore throat and hoarse voice and everything, because I remember that you. You're looking. You're like, come look at this Model Y. And I'm like, what?
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Well, and we were. We were a little distraught on the culture color. Stuart was telling us he loves the red one.
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C
Yes.
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I kind of wanted the gray one, and Betty liked the white one. And since I was having to do a little bit of negotiating with her on this.
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E
You went white?
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We went with white. Just. And I'm all right with the white. Especially the pearl. It's a pearl white.
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C
Oh, that's.
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F
Yeah.
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C
It'll look.
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And so it kind of glistens a little bit.
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C
I'm more of a fan of, like, darker colors for cars, like my Broncos.
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Now inside, I like light colors because it's so. You know, we live in an area where it's going to be hot nine months out of the year. Yeah.
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C
You don't want to sit on hot lava or the black seat.
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And the Tesla inside, you're very good about being able to clean. At least that's what everybody said. Yeah. We'll see how that works out. But. So we have a future podcast of Bubba goes to get a Tesla. Yeah.
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C
That's going to be fun.
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This. Now, what's going to be real fun is driving it back from wherever it's delivered, either Atlanta, Pensacola, or Chattanooga, I think, too.
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I.
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For some reason, the law, by the way, the laws in our state, we got to change this. They can't sell Tesla in our state because of some outdated.
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C
Archaic from 1937.
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A
Yeah. How ridiculous. We got to fix that. We got service centers here.
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F
Yeah.
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C
There's one in Birmingham.
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They can't sell the Teslas, and we're just missing out on tax dollars, so we need to fix that. I know we have an election this week and that. That's something I'd like to see addressed. You don't hear a lot about it, but I don't think a lot of people know how ridiculous it is.
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C
Yeah.
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I mean, I'm a free enterprise guy. If they will sell cars here, let them sell cars here. I mean, it's all. The consumer wins, you know? Yeah.
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C
But in all seriousness, I'm glad you're getting that, because this is like a dream car for you in a way.
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You know what I mean?
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C
And you joke all the time. You're in the fourth quarter and all this stuff, and it's like, all doom and gloomy.
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I wish I was joking.
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Well, you know what I mean? Well, you know what I mean?
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You got to have fourth quarter mentality, so.
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Yeah.
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C
And see, now we. You got to.
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What is the football team. Fourth quarter.
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Yes, I know.
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C
Hold up their fours. I know. Yeah, I know. We're holding up for fours right now. If you can't see us at home. But the. The trade parade that you've had out in the driveway for months, there's nowhere to park when you get here. It's like, oh, who's here? Oh, no, there's. Those are dad's cars that you have the hunting car.
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A
You have the work car.
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C
And then you have a car that we've been working on, and we can't seem to get it to work. Right.
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A
We've. We have. Now they're all working fine, but we've accumulated cars over time, and we're gonna have to look at what our needs are and where. What we got room. I mean, you're in the fourth quarter. You don't need a car lot out
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C
there, you know, Especially with our driveway situation.
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Yeah, we don't. Our driveway. We don't have a lot of parking.
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E
Especially. Especially people.
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Yeah.
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When people don't know what they're doing when they come here for the first time and it's like Six Flags, as they describe it, going down the driveway, and there's really. If you don't know how to break, and there's really nowhere to go. You're hitting the house. You know what I mean?
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Well, our driveway is so steep, the lds don't even come by. You know what I mean? They just skip. They just go the next house.
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C
And you've resorted to. With the truck backing up the driveway.
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Joking. Don't send me a bunch of emails. I ain't gonna read them.
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C
Oh, gosh. But, yeah, I'm excited, though. I mean, the. Because if, you know if my math is math. And you'll probably get it mid June, so it'll be a good summer trip to go on to wherever we end up picking it up.
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A
Well, I think when they say two to three weeks, it's probably going to be shorter than that because they've really been rolling them out lately and they've streamlined, you know, they've quit production of the X and the S and according to Stewart, they're doing that so they can build robots. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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C
That's the one thing I'm.
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How about when the robot starts driving and it'll drive a regular car and it'll be self care driving.
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C
See, I've seen those tax. Like I saw a video of those self driving taxis that like, I don't know if you saw that. And some of y' all at home have probably seen it. They're listening where they all. For some reason there was a programming error and I don't know if you saw this, but they all went into a rural neighborhood in a culdesac and all parked like there was a party. And they're all blinking, you know, and everything. And everyone's like, where's my taxi? It's halfway across town in someone's neighborhood
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and out the suburbs.
- [65:09]
C
It's like. But it's not perfect. But, but the Tesla technology I think is the, the baseline and everyone else needs to kind of follow that, but
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everybody else is playing catch up.
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C
Yeah, it's gonna, it's gonna be exciting and I, I can't wait. I'm happy for you and you know, it's gonna be, it's gonna be fun to get to do that. It, you know, it's a field trip part two. A Tesla field trip part two.
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I might let you borrow it sometime if you had a hot date or something.
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Thanks, dad.
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C
I appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Yeah, awesome. I E. The Bronco sucks.
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A
No, I didn't say that. You'll want to take it out for a spin.
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C
Well, yeah, of course.
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A
Yeah. Or let it take you out for
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C
a spin whenever I, you know, I was skeptical about Teslas and we had Royce Emerson over here, who he listened to the podcast shout out to Royce Emerson whenever he let us drive his Tesla that time.
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A
I was like, there's a game changer.
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C
Oh crap. I just got gatewayed into the, into
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the world of Tesla. This isn't good.
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C
This isn't good.
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A
Well, we'll have fun with it. And they certainly be a podcast out of it, I'm sure.
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C
Yes.
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A
As we try to do that. But then I got to thinking, hey, I gotta. I gotta drive out of Atlanta with a self driving car, so.
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C
Well, hopefully not. I'm hoping it'll be either Chattanooga or.
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A
Well, like I like Kennesaw. I thought that was a good trip.
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C
I would prefer Kennesaw since we've been there before. That'd be my first choice. Second choice, when Stewart said Pensacola, me and you both lit up like Christmas trees.
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A
Well, you know, Guff coast.
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C
We haven't been to the beach in a while. Now we have really nice. Ever since we had that place that. I'm trying to think. I guess you and mom decided hey, let's part ways with this around Covid. I think the before that was it. Yeah. So yeah. I feel like we haven't been in forever. I know we like visited.
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A
We need to go. We're. We're over to you a visit for sure. But you know we got a lot of water out here.
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C
But until then, bubble on the lake.
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A
All right. So Hunter, thanks. I know you've got places to go. Go ahead and plug, plug, plug away.
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Yeah, I. I'm helping out with a channel called the Barn. For those that follow Auburn. I do a Show with Graham McLean called the Barn Social Hour every Monday through Friday, 7pm Also have my own personal channel. If y' all just want to see me cut up and goof around with friends. That's also an option as well. Just look up my name Hunter Bussy and go subscribe. I'm trying to hit a thousand subs so I can get some monetization going.
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There you go.
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C
We're almost there. We're almost there. We're seven. We're at 720. So we're, you know, a brisk 300 away, folks.
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A
Let's get Hunter over that thousand mark. We need it help dad out here. Got a Tesla to pay for.
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C
Yeah, yeah. Oh man. But yeah, it's. I can't wait for the round two of the Tesla field trip because I know a lot of people like that. You know the documentation of that pass. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. I can't wait.
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Yeah, it'll be interesting for sure. So you're doing a good job also while I have you here, last year during football season we did the tailgate. Tailgate show. Had a lot of fun with that. We're. We're talking about that now. Looking at that and trying to decide if we're going to do that again next year. So drop us an email, let us know if you want us to, to continue doing that. And we, we had a lot of great guests on last year.
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C
Yeah, we did. We did. We, we finished the season off strong with Molly and you know, we're going to try to get some good guests on there, you know, start of the season and it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting. I know there's a lot of drama that's been happening with off season with the expansion with quarterbacks gambling, you know, betting against teams that they play for and stuff like that and people trying to get injunctions for that being like, hey, I still need my eligibility. No, you bet against your own team, buddy.
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A
But what in the world.
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C
It's just, it's going to be interesting. And you know who doesn't love the primetime pickers, you know what I mean? It's the tailgate show for the tailgaters. Come on.
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We had a lot of fun doing it. Hopefully we'll be able to do that again this year and of course always continue. Bubba on the Lake Hunter. Thanks and we will be in touch. Yes sir. You're listening to Bubba.
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All right, folks, that will do it for this edition. What a great podcast. I mean, we covered a lot of topics there it is, the Memorial Day Special. I want to thank Colonel Jason Benefield for being here. I want to thank Stuart Brockwell from Surge Technologies for being here. I appreciate Hunter stepping in. And yeah, you. You heard it right. It looks like we're headed to Tesla City, so we'll get an update on that in the near future. Thank all of you for joining us. We really appreciate it. I hope you'll follow us on all of our social media outlets. Be sure to check subscribe and notifications on all of those. And also on the podcast here itself, broadcasting from the Malayala Studio. It's the little podcast we call Bub on the Lake or a.k.a. the People's Podcast. And we really appreciate everything that you guys have done far as following the podcast. And we have some really exciting shows coming up in the future and we want to thank you for being a part of it. So until next time, a very special Memorial Day thank you to all those Gold Star families and folks who have laid their life down so that we can enjoy the freedom we have today. And we hope that all of you get to enjoy time with your family and a little R and R over the weekend also. So until we sell into port again, remember, God loves you and so do we. And thank you for being part of Bubba on the Lake. This podcast is brought to you in part by Russell Lands Coke Buffalo Wild Wings Southern Immediate Care Guaranteed Labels Central State bank Sunrise Docks Dr. Thomas Dudney and the Green Monster Fishing Line Night
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