Want to know how to turn your passion for your fav products into a booming social media account? EV enthusiast Omar Qazi reveals how his fascination with Tesla and the auto industry fueled the creation of one of the most established and informative Tesla fan pages on Twitter.
On this week’s pod episode, I welcome frequent Twitter Spaces speaker, Omar Qazi (aka @wholemarsblog) to chat. He may refer to his account as “part EV news channel, part sh*tty stand-up comedy routine,” but you really can count on him for the best info into the world of technology, EVs, Tesla, and Elon Musk. Starting professionally in software development, Omar got the experience and desire to develop a start-up after working closely on app development with his dad and professor. He said his deep appreciation for start-ups translates into his admiration for Elon Musk and what Tesla is doing in the EV space. Omar began his Twitter account after recognizing that while a lot of name brands share low-quality info with customers – Tesla was breaking the mold as a leader in a rapidly developing world of electric vehicles. Tesla not only offered a great product but was doing something innovative and technologically advanced that even customers weren’t prepared for. After Omar went online to praise his Tesla vehicle purchase, not only were trolls attacking him, but one crazy stalker story crossed his path with the legend himself - Elon Musk. Okay maybe they’re not at best friend status yet, but emailing back and forth is a lot closer than any other Tesla customer gets to the CEO. So definitely join us on this episode of the pod, as Omar and I discuss his background, the EV market, the evolution of Tesla, his relationship with Elon Musk, Tesla haters, his Twitter account, and the power of digital media and the internet.
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On this week’s pod episode, I welcome frequent Twitter Spaces speaker, Omar Qazi (aka @wholemarsblog) to chat. He may refer to his account as “part EV news channel, part sh*tty stand-up comedy routine,” but you really can count on him for the best info into the world of technology, EVs, Tesla, and Elon Musk. Starting professionally in software development, Omar got the experience and desire to develop a start-up after working closely on app development with his dad and professor. He said his deep appreciation for start-ups translates into his admiration for Elon Musk and what Tesla is doing in the EV space. Omar began his Twitter account after recognizing that while a lot of name brands share low-quality info with customers – Tesla was breaking the mold as a leader in a rapidly developing world of electric vehicles. Tesla not only offered a great product but was doing something innovative and technologically advanced that even customers weren’t prepared for. After Omar went online to praise his Tesla vehicle purchase, not only were trolls attacking him, but one crazy stalker story crossed his path with the legend himself - Elon Musk. Okay maybe they’re not at best friend status yet, but emailing back and forth is a lot closer than any other Tesla customer gets to the CEO. So definitely join us on this episode of the pod, as Omar and I discuss his background, the EV market, the evolution of Tesla, his relationship with Elon Musk, Tesla haters, his Twitter account, and the power of digital media and the internet.
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00:00 all these reporters are DMing me like,
00:02 hey, can we get a comment about you running over a kid?
00:05 And can we send one of our reporters
00:07 to watch you run the kid over?
00:09 And it's just crazy.
00:11 So when Dan O'Dowd has millions of dollars
00:13 to spend on an ad, I don't have millions of dollars to spend
00:17 but I can hopefully make the video go viral
00:20 with all this fake outrage.
00:22 And I'm probably gonna give it a really clickbaity title
00:25 like Running Over Kids
00:27 with Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta or something.
00:30 (upbeat music)
00:32 Welcome back to another episode of the Wolf Podcast,
00:41 the world of learning finance, of course.
00:43 I'm your host, Gav Blacksburg,
00:44 as always also known as the Wolf of Twitter Spaces
00:47 @Wolf_Financial on Twitter.
00:49 Today, I bring you a very special guest,
00:51 someone who we've had on Spaces pretty much
00:53 every single week for as long as I can remember.
00:55 And that's because there is always something
00:57 to talk about with this guy, Omar Qazi,
00:59 AKA Homar's Catalog, AKA Homar's Blog,
01:02 a part-time 24-hour news channel,
01:05 EV news channel and slash part TV stand-up comedy routine,
01:10 but always someone with something to say
01:12 in the world of technology, EVs and Elon Musk
01:15 joins us on the pod today.
01:17 Omar, what's going on?
01:17 Thanks for hopping on the pod.
01:19 - Hey man, going good.
01:19 Thanks for having me on.
01:21 - It's a pleasure.
01:21 So, so many people here and they know the name Homar's
01:25 on Twitter, right?
01:26 They see the Mars logo in Spaces.
01:29 They see the comments underneath Elon's posts.
01:31 They see the back and forth, his comments into your posts,
01:33 but I don't know if they really know who you are.
01:36 So I'd love to start with just a little bit about yourself.
01:38 Tell us who are you?
01:39 What's your professional background?
01:41 How did you get to this point?
01:43 - Yeah, well, my name's Omar.
01:45 My professional background's in software.
01:47 So, you know, I've been, I've been working on software
01:51 really since I was pretty young.
01:54 My dad was a structural engineer
01:58 and he was designing buildings to withstand earthquakes.
02:03 And around the time I was born,
02:05 he became a partner at the firm and decided that he wanted
02:09 to write some software for the firm to do their billing
02:13 because the billing department was the biggest department
02:15 in the firm.
02:16 They had to, you know, go try and send bills to everyone,
02:20 try and get paid, or the firm doesn't have any revenue.
02:23 So this billing software that he wrote,
02:26 eventually it became so big,
02:27 they started selling it to other companies that he quit
02:30 and he became the CEO of a software company.
02:33 And so I sort of grew up with him growing this company
02:38 over the years to the point where just actually last year,
02:43 they had an exit.
02:45 They sold about 60% to a private equity firm.
02:50 And so, you know, I kind of grew up helping them,
02:55 setting up servers and stuff, reading his books,
02:58 learning to code.
02:59 And, you know, I just loved software.
03:02 I loved Apple, especially as well.
03:05 You know, got into making iPhone apps, websites,
03:08 all that stuff when I was younger.
03:10 Made some cool, you know, apps
03:12 and started some cool business projects.
03:15 And then when I wanted to go to college, I grew up in LA.
03:19 I wanted to go to Silicon Valley.
03:21 So I applied to schools in Silicon Valley.
03:25 And then I got into one, Santa Clara University.
03:29 I went there.
03:30 And, you know, I really wanted to go start a startup.
03:34 And so freshman year of college,
03:38 I attended a seminar from actually the first teacher
03:42 that I had in college.
03:43 He was my Calculus I professor.
03:45 And his name was Dr. George Moller.
03:48 And he gave us a little presentation in the basement,
03:51 talking about how he had developed a statistical methodology
03:57 for predicting where crimes are likely to occur
04:00 in the future, a place and time,
04:03 and how they'd been trying it
04:04 with the Santa Cruz Police Department.
04:06 And they'd actually seen burglaries go down significantly.
04:13 Since they started implementing the program.
04:16 And he demoed the program for us.
04:17 And the way it worked at the time
04:19 is you took all the crime data from an Excel spreadsheet,
04:22 copy and pasted the spreadsheet
04:24 into a text box on the webpage.
04:27 And the whole algorithm was basically implemented
04:29 in JavaScript.
04:31 It wasn't even hosted on a web server.
04:33 It was just an HTML file that they were emailing around.
04:37 And so I came up to him after the presentation
04:39 and I said, "Hey, you know,
04:41 this is actually a really interesting technology
04:43 that people might wanna use,
04:45 but your interface sucks, right?
04:48 You should have me help you
04:50 create a little bit better interface
04:53 and then make it so people can actually use this."
04:57 So what we did is we developed this data pipe,
05:00 this little software writing in Java
05:02 that could connect directly
05:03 to the police station's database.
05:05 So they didn't have to export an Excel file.
05:07 It just reads directly from where the crimes are saved.
05:11 And it sends that data to our cloud
05:15 and everything's just automatic.
05:16 The police can just see the predictions.
05:18 They can just see the crime data.
05:20 So we ended up starting this company
05:22 and selling the software
05:24 to pretty much a lot of major police departments
05:27 around the world,
05:28 like the Los Angeles Police Department, Seattle, Atlanta,
05:32 lots of police departments were using it.
05:34 And so I worked there for about five years
05:37 and by the time I left,
05:39 we built up a team of around 10 people
05:42 on the technical side,
05:44 in addition to the other parts of the business.
05:47 And at that point after I left,
05:50 then I went and joined my dad's software company.
05:55 And we basically rewrote the entire core product
06:01 from a Windows app,
06:02 like something you install on your Windows computer
06:04 that runs on your computer,
06:06 to a cloud-based service.
06:09 And we completely changed the product,
06:13 had to transition the customers
06:15 to this new cloud-based service,
06:17 modernized the business,
06:19 adopted SaaS pricing,
06:21 which was a lot more beneficial
06:24 in terms of the financials of the business,
06:27 and then exited selling it to a private equity firm.
06:31 I mean, we still actually have, I think,
06:33 a decent stake in it,
06:36 if the private equity firm exits or something,
06:39 then that'll be great.
06:40 But so that was a really good experience too,
06:43 starting a startup,
06:44 looking at maybe a more mature business
06:47 that had a lot of established revenue and profits
06:50 and customers and transitioning that business.
06:53 And so that just happened in the end of last year.
06:57 And so this year I've been kind of on my own,
07:00 doing some things that interest me,
07:02 experimenting with things,
07:04 and trying to write some new apps,
07:08 start a new startup.
07:09 So we've got some ideas we're working on,
07:12 and just really starting to do it seriously now
07:17 for the first time in my life, in my late 20s.
07:20 We've got two people working on this app now,
07:24 and we're having daily development meetings and stuff,
07:26 and really trying to make an app for our friends,
07:30 something that we wanna use.
07:34 And I think it's gonna be pretty exciting.
07:36 I mean, I don't know if it'll work or not,
07:40 but if it doesn't work out for whatever reason,
07:44 I'll just keep making new apps, new software products.
07:49 That's what I really love to do.
07:52 But I mean, this whole kind of thing
07:54 with Tesla and EVs and everything
07:56 just kind of caught me by surprise.
07:59 I never really expected to get into this
08:02 in such a big way,
08:03 or that it would become such a big part of my life.
08:07 My life has been talking to computers, right?
08:09 Sitting alone in a room with a computer
08:11 and typing to the computer.
08:13 Sometimes you have to talk with other developers
08:14 and product managers and stuff,
08:16 but the meat of the task,
08:18 it's really you and the computer one-on-one, right?
08:21 And now for the past few years,
08:24 I've been doing this thing
08:24 where I've been talking to humans,
08:26 and it's a little bit strange,
08:28 but I think I'm discovering kind of
08:32 maybe a different side of myself
08:35 and other things that I'm interested in too.
08:37 So, I mean, I think digital media
08:39 and everything that's happening is just so interesting.
08:43 The internet, it's just so powerful
08:45 giving people access to information
08:47 that can change their life.
08:49 Like this podcast you're doing right here,
08:52 helping people find financial information
08:57 that could change their life really.
08:59 So, it's really interesting,
09:02 but there's also a lot of
09:03 very low quality information out there,
09:06 especially from some of these name brands that you trust.
09:09 Once you kind of start looking into it,
09:11 it's kind of shocking how little they understand
09:14 some of the subject matters they're covering.
09:17 So that's what really drew me into
09:19 trying to cover EVs and autonomy and Tesla
09:24 and get into really this other side of my life,
09:29 which is kind of like,
09:32 I never really took it seriously as a job.
09:35 It's just kind of like a hobby.
09:37 It definitely did get a little bit bigger
09:39 than I could have imagined.
09:40 It was never really a big deal for me.
09:42 - You're not just speaking to one person, right?
09:45 You're speaking to 130,000, right?
09:48 And so that number has swelled.
09:50 There's a lot of people listening.
09:52 There's a lot of people who take a lot of their insight
09:56 into the electric vehicle industry directly from you, right?
09:59 Like you are their line, you are their media,
10:02 not just social media, you are their media.
10:04 For that point, so pull me back to May, 2020,
10:07 you start this account.
10:08 What's the original intent and purpose?
10:10 - Well, it really went a lot further back than that really,
10:15 but essentially what happened
10:18 to make a very long story short is
10:21 there was a short and distort attack on Tesla
10:24 when they launched the Model 3.
10:28 And what happened was Tesla was
10:30 in a very precarious position.
10:32 They had never really made money.
10:37 They'd just been losing money quarter after quarter
10:40 after quarter since they went public
10:41 with maybe a few quarters of exception.
10:44 They were just losing money across their history,
10:47 just massive losses.
10:49 And they had to pour a tremendous amount of capital
10:53 into ramping up the Model 3.
10:54 And in many ways they were wasteful.
10:57 They made mistakes, right?
10:59 Learning to mass produce a car for the first time.
11:02 And a lot of people said, you know what?
11:03 They're not gonna make it.
11:05 They're not gonna make it into mass producing cars.
11:08 Doing a small number of kind of cars at low volume,
11:11 that's one thing.
11:12 Becoming a major volume producer of cars,
11:17 that's a completely different story.
11:19 And this company is going to go bankrupt.
11:21 And that was the narrative they were pushing.
11:24 And so a lot of companies had short bets on Tesla.
11:28 There was also SolarCity,
11:30 which essentially had a liquidity crisis.
11:34 They would essentially give people solar panels
11:37 and make them pay a monthly rate
11:40 that was lower than their current electricity bill.
11:43 But they essentially ran out of cash too.
11:45 And there were some other people shorting SolarCity.
11:49 And they thought that this is for sure gonna go bankrupt.
11:54 You look at the books, there's no way
11:57 they're gonna run out of cash.
11:59 And they got bailed out essentially by Tesla.
12:02 Tesla acquired them.
12:03 And so they were very upset about that.
12:06 So you had a lot of people who were short Tesla
12:08 and SolarCity who were really very upset
12:13 and very energized.
12:14 And they wanted to spread a lot of negative information.
12:19 And this was around the time I got my car.
12:23 And so I just started kind of tweeting and saying,
12:27 hey, this isn't true.
12:29 This isn't what I'm experiencing with my car.
12:32 What I'm experiencing is actually
12:35 one of the best products I've ever used.
12:37 Like this is going to be a hit.
12:39 And of course that turned out to be right,
12:42 but people didn't know it at the time.
12:44 People thought, well, so then they started to attack me.
12:48 And I was posting anonymously,
12:51 but they found out who I was and they doxed me.
12:56 And then they started basically attacking me,
13:01 smearing me.
13:04 So they started a rumor that I wasn't a real Tesla customer.
13:08 I was actually being paid by Elon
13:11 or paid by Tesla to basically deflect
13:15 some of these short attacks or something like that.
13:19 So they said, don't believe this guy.
13:22 He's just working for Tesla.
13:24 And they said that I had some secret partner named Jim.
13:28 And they said that I was a convicted felon, which isn't true.
13:34 And they accused me of possessing child pornography.
13:39 They called the police.
13:41 And when none of that worked,
13:43 and I kept talking about the lies they were doing,
13:47 all of that, they started sending fake copyright notices
13:52 to the Twitter account I was using
13:56 and they got the account suspended.
13:58 So a court later ruled because after all of this happened,
14:05 the guy who was stalking me, Aaron Greenspan,
14:08 he ended up suing me and Elon Musk.
14:10 And for just alleging all this bullshit
14:16 that he works for me or whatever.
14:17 And the judge ruled, hey,
14:18 there's no proof that Elon is paying him.
14:21 It doesn't seem to be true.
14:22 There was no copyright infringement.
14:24 This was actually fair use.
14:26 And in fact, the picture that you claimed was copyrighted
14:29 wasn't even copyrighted.
14:31 You didn't even take it.
14:33 And so it all kind of turned out to be bullshit in court,
14:38 but he's still appealing.
14:39 He's basically like trying to blackmail me
14:42 into not talking about this.
14:45 It's a pretty fucked up situation.
14:47 I think it's cost like around $200,000 to defend
14:52 because he just keeps filing thousands and thousands
14:55 of pages of documents,
14:57 even though it's been dismissed
14:58 and then dismissed with prejudice.
15:00 Now he's appealing to the ninth circuit.
15:02 So he's basically just trying to extort me.
15:06 And he said, well, we can pay,
15:09 you can pay me a fraction of this amount,
15:11 or I'll make you pay several times more
15:15 in legal fees defending against me.
15:17 So these are like really, really nasty people.
15:20 And so that's the story of how the whole Mars account
15:24 got created because the other account
15:27 was suspended because of the copyright thing.
15:32 And so there was actually this guy, Scott Woods,
15:35 I had never met him.
15:36 And he's the one who started the account.
15:39 And he started it to post the fundraiser
15:42 for the legal fees.
15:44 And people donated like $120,000.
15:49 It would have bankrupted me unless random people
15:52 who had seen what had happened,
15:54 who had seen like what my stalker was doing
15:57 and like how he was harassing me.
16:00 And they said, this is fucked up.
16:02 And they basically saved my life.
16:04 I would have gone bankrupt, right?
16:06 You're getting these bills for like $20,000 a month.
16:09 And of those 200,000, like 72,000 still unpaid.
16:14 So that was the original purpose.
16:18 And the legal fundraiser still pinned
16:20 at the top of that account.
16:22 So he started the account and started just tweeting stories
16:25 that I posted for my blog and stuff.
16:27 And then other people started helping out.
16:32 So there was like a team of like three or four people.
16:35 Then eventually I just started writing stuff too
16:38 because everyone was like assuming it was me
16:40 and talking to it too.
16:41 And like Greenspan was telling everyone in court it was me.
16:45 So I said, okay, I can just like, you know,
16:47 tweet or go on Spaces from this account too.
16:49 And basically just all the content that we were writing,
16:53 blog posts, videos, whatever, share it on there,
16:56 give our opinion on stuff, cover the news
17:01 because there's just so much bullshit out there.
17:05 These guys, like people don't realize
17:08 how crazy these people are who are like,
17:11 you know, pushing all this anti Tesla information.
17:14 You wouldn't expect it, right?
17:15 Like you don't have people who are going out
17:17 pushing like tons of anti Apple
17:19 or anti Google information that's not true,
17:23 at least as far as I can tell.
17:25 So it's a little bit unexpected.
17:27 - Right, definitely controversial.
17:28 Okay, yeah, well, that's helpful to have the story.
17:30 That makes a lot of sense to me too,
17:31 because I always wondered why the post
17:34 that's your pin tweet is actually like,
17:36 you know, not first person saying, please support him.
17:40 Right, so I always thought like,
17:42 oh, that's kind of funky.
17:43 - Yeah, that's kind of the backstory.
17:45 So, I mean, Scott kind of created it
17:49 and had a few people kind of join
17:51 to help kind of maintain it.
17:53 But then I kind of just joined too and said, okay,
17:58 you know, this is like a brand, essentially.
18:01 That was like the name of the blog.
18:03 So I had made a blog under that name
18:05 and then he just created a Twitter account for it.
18:08 But yeah, it's kind of a weird story of how it got started.
18:11 It was kind of an accident, right?
18:13 But it ended up just becoming much bigger than,
18:17 you know, I think any of us could have imagined
18:19 certainly Scott or anybody else.
18:21 - Let's talk Elon's involvement in this,
18:24 'cause Elon's also named in the suit, right?
18:28 Did he ever get involved with the actual lawsuit?
18:31 Was that something that he was pulled into?
18:32 And then talking through also just like,
18:34 I know that you've had conversations with Elon.
18:36 Did they start because of this?
18:37 - Yeah.
18:38 - And what that kind of relationship looks like?
18:40 - Yeah, so that's the one good thing
18:42 about this whole crazy stalker situation
18:45 is that I met Elon Musk.
18:47 And, you know, he was like a hero to me.
18:49 I didn't know him before.
18:51 But so, the psycho guy, Greenspan,
18:55 he was emailing me and Elon
18:57 and he was saying, "You have to admit right now
18:59 "that you're paying Omar."
19:02 It was actually because Bloomberg Businessweek
19:05 was interviewing me for a feature about Autopilot.
19:09 And so, I think he got really worried
19:11 about what I was gonna say to the reporter
19:14 about like what he'd been doing.
19:17 You know, he'd been like breaking some laws,
19:18 filing false police reports and stuff.
19:21 Like, you know, I think if someone really looked into it,
19:23 he could probably go to jail.
19:25 But, you know, so I think he kind of got nervous about that.
19:27 So he started threatening us
19:28 and he sent me and Elon an email saying like,
19:32 you know, basically threatening to sue us
19:35 and all this stuff if we don't admit right now
19:39 that I'm actually being paid by Tesla.
19:42 And Elon emailed him back and said,
19:45 "Does the psych ward know that you have a cell phone?"
19:49 And so, you know, so then I'm like, wow, I'm like,
19:53 you know, I'm talking to Elon Musk over email.
19:56 So I was like very surreal at the time
19:58 when I'm doing this Bloomberg interview.
20:00 I'd actually emailed him and said,
20:01 "Hey, Elon, I'm doing this Bloomberg interview
20:03 "on Autopilot."
20:05 And he emailed me back
20:06 and the reporter was trying to get ahold of him
20:08 and he wouldn't respond to the reporter.
20:10 So I said, "Let me help."
20:11 You know, he's like likes on my tweets sometimes or whatever.
20:14 And so I said, "Hey, Elon, we're doing this story."
20:17 And Elon's like, "Be careful.
20:18 "Like these reporters will tell you one thing
20:21 "and they'll just smack you on the head
20:23 "with the real story."
20:24 And sure enough, like the cover of the story
20:27 was like a Tesla crash.
20:28 And it was like, Autopilot could kill you,
20:31 but it could save your life.
20:33 But at the end of the day, like the journalist
20:35 was really good.
20:36 Zach Miter, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
20:38 for his reporting on corporate tax evasion.
20:42 And, you know, he's a really smart guy.
20:44 So he really didn't just write a dumb story like,
20:47 "Oh, Autopilot's gonna kill you."
20:49 They actually included some of the complexity
20:50 of the issue in the article and said,
20:52 "Look, this could save your life."
20:54 Like, yeah, there's a risk, but it's being developed
20:57 because it could be game changing for auto safety.
21:01 So yeah, that was what really pissed him off.
21:05 And so that was kind of how I met Elon.
21:06 And then obviously like being in the lawsuit
21:10 and everything over the years, like,
21:12 I mean, we're not like best friends.
21:14 We don't like hang out, but he knows who I am.
21:18 And that's just kind of crazy.
21:20 It's like, I'll email him sometimes
21:22 and sometimes he doesn't respond,
21:25 but sometimes he'll just respond like two minutes later.
21:27 It's like kind of funny,
21:30 but he does that to a lot of people.
21:32 There's a lot of people who he'll just talk to.
21:34 And I mean, I think that's part of the reason
21:37 why people like him so much is he's very kind of just humble
21:40 and very direct and down to earth with people.
21:44 - Yeah, I think that's definitely a big part of it.
21:46 Assuming, does he follow you?
21:48 - No, actually one time he followed
21:51 one of the other accounts I was running,
21:52 which was called Third Row Tesla.
21:54 We had the Third Row Tesla podcast where we interviewed him.
21:57 And one time he followed it
21:58 while I was like tweeting from the account.
22:00 Others were tweeting from the account too,
22:01 but it was probably mostly me
22:04 in terms of the number of tweets.
22:06 And then he just DM me one time and he said,
22:10 "Hey, sorry, I got to unfollow Third Row Tesla,
22:14 too many tweets."
22:15 And I said, "Yeah, that's okay.
22:17 It's probably for the best."
22:18 'Cause honestly, when he was following the account,
22:22 it was a lot of pressure to not say anything stupid.
22:26 And I just really like shit posting,
22:29 just like really dumb, low quality tweets.
22:32 And you don't want to think that Elon Musk
22:35 is seeing all your shit posts.
22:36 I just tag him in the ones that I think are more relevant.
22:40 And I think that's a good situation.
22:43 - Yeah, strategic tagging for sure.
22:45 That's something that I've seen.
22:47 And he gets back to a lot of it.
22:49 I mean, he definitely is involved with it.
22:51 Okay, I'm curious if you had to like,
22:54 I don't know if you have one,
22:55 but is there a main goal that you have for your Twitter?
22:59 - Wow, that's a good question.
23:00 I mean, I told you the story.
23:02 It was really kind of unplanned,
23:04 but I think the idea is just like,
23:08 this truly comes from the heart for me.
23:13 I do have some Tesla shares,
23:15 but it's not at all a meaningful portion of my net worth.
23:19 If it were to all go to zero tomorrow,
23:21 I wouldn't be happy,
23:22 but it's not gonna really affect my life.
23:25 So this isn't really about like some financial thing to me
23:28 where I think I have to save the company or whatever.
23:32 When I saw this product,
23:34 I mean, it actually came to me in a really tough time
23:37 in my life when I got this Model 3.
23:39 And it's such a good product.
23:42 And there's some technologies in here
23:45 that Tesla's working on
23:46 that are really gonna change the world.
23:49 And that you see the whole industry adopting now.
23:51 You've got electric F-150s, electric Hyundais,
23:55 electric everything, right?
23:57 And everyone's trying to make their cars more digital.
24:01 Software is eating the car.
24:03 Everybody's trying to make their cars more automated.
24:06 I mean, these are the things
24:08 that Tesla has been advancing, clean energy.
24:11 Their goal originally was not
24:14 that they were gonna make millions of electric cars.
24:16 They didn't think that was possible.
24:18 They thought, okay, maybe we can just make everyone realize
24:23 that there is a product to be built here
24:25 and we can convince the industry to change.
24:28 And the industry was actually so slow,
24:30 they actually ended up having to make millions themselves.
24:33 But now everybody's following them.
24:34 They're like, well, shit, we're not gonna get left behind.
24:37 They proved that you can do this
24:38 and you can make a profit doing this.
24:40 And that was huge.
24:42 It's not just their own products,
24:44 but all of the products they've encouraged
24:46 to be brought to market and in renewable energy as well.
24:51 And the fact is there are just enormous forces
24:56 against this stuff.
24:57 With any disruption,
24:58 there's enormous resistance to disruption.
25:02 You've got, of course, the short sellers who we know about.
25:05 They've kind of died down a little bit.
25:08 But you've also got the oil and gas industry.
25:11 I mean, the oil and gas industry
25:14 is essential to running the economy today.
25:17 And I think these guys feel like they kind of got a bad rap
25:21 and it's like, well, what choice do we have?
25:24 Yeah, it may not be sustainable long-term,
25:26 but this is what we've got right now.
25:28 And it feeds a lot of mouths, right?
25:32 A lot of mouths get feed with oil and gas.
25:35 And rightfully so,
25:38 because it's important to our way of life.
25:41 But in a future where maybe oil and gas isn't growing,
25:46 it's shrinking,
25:48 these legacy automakers that are making engines,
25:50 even the auto workers that are making engines,
25:54 there's a lot of resistance
25:55 and a lot of false information out there.
25:58 So that's really the goal of the account
26:00 is just try to get the truth out there.
26:03 Because the truth, I think,
26:04 can help a lot of people if they know it.
26:07 - Okay, yeah, that definitely makes sense.
26:09 Is the account a place that you're looking eventually
26:12 to monetize, like as a source of revenue,
26:15 or is that something you wanna maybe stay away from
26:17 because of everything that's happened in the past?
26:19 - Well, I mean, I don't want it to be something
26:25 that is really for money.
26:30 I mean, there has been some financial benefits.
26:36 Like I said, people have donated over $120,000.
26:40 Some people are super following, paying $3 a month.
26:43 - How many super followers?
26:46 - I think it's around 200.
26:49 So that's like around 600 a month,
26:51 which I really appreciate because, like I said,
26:54 we have like 72,000 in legal bills
26:56 and now we probably have to counter sue this guy
26:59 because he's never gonna stop unless we counter sue him.
27:02 So it's really a shit ton of money to do this.
27:05 And they've really tried to hurt me in a lot of ways.
27:09 So I really appreciate the people that super follow.
27:12 And we use all the money to really pay back the legal bills
27:17 and everything like that.
27:19 But other than that, it's not really something
27:23 that I wanna over monetize.
27:26 I want it to be a resource.
27:28 I want it to be like, if you're buying your first EV,
27:31 whether it's a Porsche or a Tesla or whatever,
27:35 you can come and you can say,
27:37 hey, what kind of charger should I get?
27:42 Or do I need an outlet?
27:44 Or like, what's the deal here?
27:46 And you can come and you can connect with other people
27:49 who can help you get it figured out
27:52 and make it easy for you.
27:54 And okay, well, which Porsche should I get?
27:56 Do I need the long battery or the short battery or whatever?
27:58 How do I pair this?
27:59 How do I use this?
28:01 I mean, it's just so different.
28:02 There's a massive learning curve for these new technologies.
28:06 But once you learn it, you're converted forever.
28:09 You're like, okay, I know how to do it now.
28:11 I've got it set up.
28:12 It's great.
28:13 And that has really just been the most powerful thing
28:16 in switching to EVs, the community.
28:20 EVs are not a new thing.
28:24 This is the third time that they've tried to bring EVs
28:28 to the mass market.
28:29 The first time was in the 1900s.
28:32 It was the internal combustion engine versus electric cars,
28:35 but electric cars lost.
28:37 They didn't have enough range.
28:39 They were actually being seen as cars for women
28:43 because they were kind of easier to ignite,
28:45 whereas the internal combustion engine
28:47 really required a lot of force to get the engine on.
28:50 And so they lost and they died out.
28:53 There were no more electric cars.
28:55 Then with the California zero emissions vehicle mandate,
28:58 you had the GM EV1 come to market
29:01 and customers actually loved it.
29:04 But the problem is GM couldn't produce it profitably.
29:07 So they collected it all and they crushed them.
29:09 They didn't want anybody to remember that car,
29:12 but people remembered.
29:14 And then came Tesla.
29:15 And Tesla said, you know what?
29:17 An electric car isn't just possible.
29:21 It could actually be the best car.
29:23 It could have the fastest acceleration.
29:25 It could have the best experience.
29:27 And we're gonna try and build that.
29:29 We're gonna try and push the state of the art
29:31 forward on cars.
29:33 And it wasn't really until the success and profit
29:36 of the Model 3 that the whole industry started following.
29:41 So yeah, what's different this time is the community.
29:45 It's the internet.
29:47 It's people helping each other,
29:48 answering each other's questions.
29:51 That I think has been really powerful
29:53 in helping the whole movement gain steam.
29:56 And that's what we want to encourage, I guess.
29:59 - What's the best bang for your buck EV out there currently?
30:03 - I would say probably get a Tesla.
30:05 Sometimes some of these-
30:10 - I meant like model.
30:11 - Oh yeah.
30:11 I mean, well, the cheapest ones,
30:12 the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range, it's about 4,700.
30:17 If the tax credit goes through next year,
30:19 you'll be able to get one for $40,000 out the door.
30:22 I'm not 100% sure if it will qualify,
30:25 but if it does, $40,000 out the door,
30:28 the average price of a new vehicle
30:31 this quarter was about $47,000.
30:34 So, I mean, the really good thing about Teslas
30:37 besides not needing fuel is they don't play any tricks.
30:41 The price you order at is the price you get.
30:44 Right now there's a shortage of cars
30:46 and you're seeing dealers just mark their cars
30:48 up through the roof.
30:49 Someone just tried to buy an F-150 Lightning from Ford,
30:52 electric F-150.
30:54 And there was a $37,000 dealer markup on it.
30:58 It's like almost as much as a whole car.
31:00 So you're seeing a lot of crazy things happening.
31:02 And then the other things that Legacy Automotive
31:05 really does is they say, okay, well,
31:07 this car starts at, let's say $40,000, but okay,
31:10 then you're gonna want the navigation package.
31:12 That's another 2,500.
31:15 You're gonna want satellite radio.
31:16 That's another option.
31:18 Oh, and of course you want the heated and cooled seats.
31:20 That's this much.
31:22 And then you're actually paying a lot more.
31:24 So Tesla actually just includes everything standard.
31:27 Even all the hardware you need for the self-drive,
31:29 all standard.
31:30 You get the cheapest car, just the starting price,
31:33 and it actually has everything you need.
31:35 So I would encourage people to look at that.
31:38 - We've talked a few times about how Tesla is,
31:43 it's not a auto company, it's a software company.
31:46 And reality, I'm curious within, you know,
31:51 the hot buzz topics lately, right?
31:52 Web3, the metaverse, other pieces around the internet
31:56 and software and everything.
31:58 Do you see Tesla making further ventures
32:01 into some of these hot topics?
32:02 - Well, Tesla is really focused on transitioning
32:07 the world to sustainable energy.
32:09 You know, that's their goal.
32:11 So anything and everything that can advance that goal,
32:15 they're gonna do it.
32:16 If they have to get into mining, they're gonna do it.
32:19 If they have to get into making seats for cars
32:22 or battery cells or whatever, they're gonna do it.
32:25 And, you know, they have kind of held Bitcoin
32:30 on their balance sheet.
32:31 They have been accepting DoggyCoin
32:35 for some Tesla merch store purchases.
32:38 So they have been dabbling a little bit in, you know,
32:41 crypto, Web3, the distributed internet.
32:44 But of course, famously, Elon said,
32:47 "We're no longer gonna take Bitcoin for Teslas
32:50 "because of the environmental concern."
32:54 So it's really interesting if you think about it,
32:57 what Tesla really is.
33:00 You know, Tesla is a renewable energy company in a way.
33:04 So Tesla, there's a lot of ways to look at Tesla.
33:09 One way to look at them is they're a software company.
33:13 Definitely software is a big part of everything they do.
33:16 Another way to look at them
33:17 is that they're a battery company
33:18 and they make these battery packs for cars,
33:21 but they're also really good to attach to your house
33:24 or to attach to your office or to attach to the grid,
33:27 like a mega pack.
33:28 And they have a really big business
33:29 with these utility scale batteries.
33:32 And so Tesla says what people should do is
33:36 instead of having a natural gas plant
33:38 that's constantly burning natural gas
33:41 and spinning a turbine to produce electricity,
33:44 use solar panels, store the energy from the solar panels
33:48 in a battery pack,
33:50 and then the battery pack runs at night.
33:52 And they say that we can meet all our energy needs
33:57 just doing this.
33:59 And we can keep the natural gas plants off most of the time.
34:02 We can use solar and wind and batteries,
34:05 and we can generate energy in a way that's completely clean.
34:08 So this is really interesting because, you know,
34:12 what is cryptocurrency and the decentralized web
34:15 and Web3 really all about?
34:18 It's about turning energy into money, right?
34:22 So what is the fundamental rate limiter
34:26 on if I wanna go create a Bitcoin?
34:29 It's essentially like an energy competition.
34:33 It's who can put the most energy
34:35 into generating the most hash power
34:39 so that I can mine a block, right?
34:42 You know, I was just in Canada
34:44 and I was looking at these Canadian bills
34:46 and these American bills,
34:47 and I was like, this is such a strange system,
34:50 this paper that we use.
34:53 And I do think there's a good case to be made
34:56 that the future of money is energy.
34:59 But there's a lot of resistance to that
35:01 because if the future of money is energy,
35:05 then that means that, you know,
35:08 there's basically a lot of pollution involved
35:10 in generating that energy.
35:12 And there's some resistance to that.
35:15 But if we have a clean energy economy
35:19 and you can use as much electricity as you want,
35:22 and it's not going to generate a lot of emissions,
35:27 then that kind of argument goes away.
35:30 So I think Tesla has a really interesting role to play there
35:33 in energy and money becoming one,
35:37 energy becoming the future of money.
35:39 And really what's going to be the rate limiter
35:43 in the money production business is energy
35:47 and energy supply.
35:51 So it's really interesting to think about
35:53 how that evolves in the future.
35:55 I mean, right now we use the central bank currencies,
35:58 fiat currencies, and I mean,
36:01 how much time do we spend in spaces talking about the Fed
36:05 and what they're going to do,
36:07 what they think they're going to do?
36:08 Oh, okay, well, inflation's going this way.
36:11 How does this change the Fed's actions?
36:14 Well, what if in the future,
36:16 I'm sure central bank controlled currencies
36:19 will continue to exist,
36:20 but what if in the future there was a medium of exchange
36:24 that was governed by a strict set of rules in the code
36:29 and it was entirely predictable?
36:31 It wasn't up to opinion at all.
36:33 The Fed can't make the wrong decision, mess up.
36:36 They can't be like, oh, inflation's transitory.
36:39 Oops, maybe we should have raised rates
36:40 a little bit earlier.
36:42 You just have something that is, for better or worse,
36:46 completely outlined in code that's distributed
36:50 where there's no central leader,
36:51 but rather random people all over
36:54 just putting energy into the system
36:57 to keep track of everyone's transactions
37:00 on a distributed basis.
37:02 So, you know, I'm on two sides about crypto and Web3.
37:06 I think that some of the critics who say,
37:09 okay, it's kind of a lot of speculation right now.
37:12 Things haven't really formed.
37:13 Things haven't really developed.
37:15 That is true to some extent,
37:17 but there are some really beautiful software breakthroughs
37:22 in crypto and Bitcoin that I think when you look
37:26 over a longer time horizon, like 100 years,
37:30 I would bet on the money of the future
37:34 of 100 years from now looking a lot more like Bitcoin
37:39 than the US dollar.
37:41 And it's also interesting when you think
37:43 about the petrodollar economy
37:45 and how much the US dollar and oil
37:49 have kind of gone hand in hand
37:52 because everyone transacts dollars and oil,
37:54 oil and dollars, that goes back
37:56 into the US financial system.
37:57 What does Saudi Arabia do with those dollars?
37:59 They park it in bonds or whatever, right?
38:02 - Yeah, it does require some giving up of control
38:04 by the central government, right?
38:06 Because right now they have the backing of the army, right?
38:10 They can always just go print more.
38:11 It allows them to not default on debt, right?
38:13 There's a lot of beneficial things for the government
38:15 and not beneficial for the end consumer.
38:17 And of course that's the way many things are.
38:20 Okay, last topic that I want to touch on
38:22 is what we talked about kind of before we started this,
38:25 which was the setup of Tesla autopilot,
38:30 potentially running over children that you're doing.
38:33 Backstory to this being a billionaire
38:35 put out a smear campaign, right?
38:37 Ran a test, published a little ad video on that,
38:40 has been pushing that out.
38:41 You know, people who hate Tesla are backing behind it.
38:44 More of my question here is one,
38:47 what drives you, right?
38:48 When you see something like this,
38:49 you're like, I'm going to mount a full scale assault
38:52 on this dude and how dare you?
38:55 And we are going to prove you wrong.
38:56 Like, where does that come from?
38:57 And then two, you mentioned like
38:59 all these reporters reaching out to you, right?
39:01 Is that something that happens often too?
39:02 Or are you going to reach out to a lot of comment
39:04 or thought on different of these areas?
39:06 So those are two things I'm curious about.
39:08 - Well, you know, I've been using this full self-driving
39:12 beta for two years.
39:14 And I mean, don't get me started
39:18 because I'll talk for an hour just about full self-driving
39:21 and what a big deal it is.
39:23 But I think it's a game changer.
39:26 I think it's going to change the very nature of the economy
39:32 and what it means to do work that you have software
39:35 that can automate such complex tasks
39:37 such as driving successfully.
39:40 And it's just a game changer for safety.
39:44 I mean, I was on the phone on a conference call
39:47 with someone last night and they found out
39:49 that one of their childhood friends had died in a car crash.
39:52 And you could hear the pain in their voice.
39:57 They were just sobbing, they were in shock.
40:00 And this happens millions of times a year.
40:05 This is a technology that if the driver
40:09 isn't paying attention,
40:10 the computer can catch what they miss
40:14 and potentially a vertical collision.
40:16 Even if it doesn't work 100% of the time,
40:20 even if it works only 5% of the time,
40:23 it's worth getting into cars today.
40:27 We can't wait another day for this.
40:29 So this is really important.
40:30 And so I've been using the Full Self Driving beta
40:33 for two years now and it is exceptional
40:38 at spotting pedestrians, including children.
40:40 And I drive around with pedestrians and children
40:45 all the time in San Francisco.
40:46 People are walking across the street, day walking,
40:49 people are walking with their kids.
40:51 It's not uncommon.
40:52 I mean, you can see some of my videos,
40:55 there's tons of people and kids walking around.
40:58 And to the best of my memory,
41:01 it has never tried to run over any kid.
41:04 In fact, it's often good at spotting people I missed.
41:09 I'm like, "Oh, why is it stopping?
41:10 Oh, wow, there's someone crossing in the crosswalk
41:12 that I didn't see."
41:14 So I'm like, "Oh my God, this is so powerful.
41:16 This is gonna stop people from getting hit by a car."
41:19 And here's this guy, Dan O'Dowd,
41:22 he runs a company called Green Hill Software.
41:25 They're a supplier to Mobileye,
41:28 which is a competing ADAS system.
41:30 They're a supplier to, they say,
41:32 most of the legacy auto companies.
41:34 They say they've shipped millions of cars
41:36 powered by their Green Hill Software technology.
41:40 And he's not really forthcoming about the fact
41:42 that he's the CEO of a competing company
41:44 in the automotive supply chain,
41:46 but he ran for Senate to try and ban
41:49 Tesla Full Self-Driving, and he lost.
41:53 And he's been begging them to ban it.
41:54 And they haven't banned it
41:57 because the regulators aren't idiots.
41:59 They understand this is a potential game changer for safety,
42:04 if done safely, if done correctly.
42:07 And they've been working very closely with Tesla,
42:10 even giving them a slap on the wrist sometimes.
42:13 Like for example, Tesla originally programmed their thing
42:16 to only go down to like two, three miles an hour
42:18 at a stop sign, and then kind of roll through it,
42:21 which we call a California stop here.
42:23 And it's a said, "No, no, no, no, no.
42:25 You have to stop to zero."
42:28 And so all the Tesla drivers complain like,
42:29 "Oh my God, now we gotta stop to zero because of NHTSA."
42:33 But they've been working with them on it.
42:34 And so when someone like Dan O'Dowd puts out a video
42:38 and he says that FSD beta runs over children,
42:42 well, it's just not true, okay?
42:46 It doesn't match my experience.
42:48 So if it is true, to whatever extent it's true,
42:51 we're gonna find out, we're gonna document it,
42:53 we're gonna show it, right?
42:55 And if it's not true, we're gonna show that he lied.
42:58 So what I believe really is,
43:03 this is a technology that can actually prevent kids
43:06 from getting hit.
43:08 If there's a kid who runs out into the street,
43:11 and let's say the guy's using his phone or something,
43:14 or he's looking the other way, he's not paying attention,
43:17 this software will stop the car.
43:20 If they're driving manually and a kid runs out,
43:23 it'll sound an alarm immediately.
43:25 Do-do-do-do-do.
43:25 And if needed, it'll forcefully apply the brakes.
43:31 So to run an ad and say, "Hey, this kills people,
43:37 "call on Congress to ban it,"
43:39 the opposite is actually true.
43:42 And really pushing this kind of fake information,
43:46 I think it's very harmful.
43:49 It's like telling people, "Don't wear a seatbelt."
43:54 And you know what, believe it or not,
43:56 there were people like that back then.
43:59 They would run stories,
44:01 because they didn't wanna wear a seatbelt,
44:03 they were just so stupid.
44:05 They said, "You know what, if you do get in a crash,
44:08 "it's actually better to get thrown out of the crash
44:11 "rather than to be stuck inside the car."
44:14 Well, you know what, that turned out to not be true.
44:17 But people still said it when they were debating
44:20 mandating seatbelts and mandating airbags, right?
44:25 And it's the same exact thing with this.
44:27 You have people pushing this fake information
44:30 that is just not rooted in reality.
44:32 So we're just gonna make a response.
44:34 We're not actually going to run over a kid.
44:36 I mean, this is the funny thing about people, okay?
44:39 Nobody wants to run over a kid, okay?
44:41 You think the Tesla team wants any kids to get run over?
44:46 They're doing this because they don't want
44:48 any kids to be run over.
44:50 We don't think they've thought about this.
44:52 Like, don't assume--
44:54 - Elon's got a lot of kids to think of here.
44:56 - Exactly, right?
44:57 Imagine how many kids are running around this car
44:59 constantly of all ages.
45:01 That's a great point.
45:02 But, you know, nobody wants to run over kids, okay?
45:07 They're working really hard to make sure
45:09 that the software is very good.
45:11 And another point I'll stress is,
45:13 it doesn't rely on the software being good.
45:16 If the software fails to detect someone,
45:19 they make sure that the human is watching,
45:22 that they're not using their phone,
45:25 so that they can take over if needed.
45:26 So even if it fails, there's no danger.
45:29 So we're gonna do some tests.
45:31 We have a little dummy to try and recreate what they did.
45:35 We have adults, such as myself.
45:37 I'm gonna run in front of the car, and it's gonna stop.
45:40 And I can say that with confidence,
45:42 having used the beta for two years,
45:44 that I feel no danger turning it on
45:47 and walking in front of it, and it will stop.
45:50 And if not, the human driver will hit the brake,
45:52 or I'll move out of the way.
45:54 So I believe that I'm going to survive this weekend.
45:57 We're gonna do it tomorrow.
45:59 And, you know, the guy who I'm doing it with,
46:03 I've actually made a video with him before,
46:06 where he had one of his employees,
46:08 who's a college-age student, walk across the street
46:11 to test if it would stop, and it stopped.
46:13 He had him crawl across the street
46:15 to test if it would stop, and it stopped.
46:17 He had him put on a chicken suit,
46:19 and then, you know, "Hey, why'd the chicken cross the road?"
46:23 And then it stopped.
46:25 So we've actually done these tests before,
46:26 and nobody actually died.
46:28 And he said, "You know what?
46:29 "I have a five-year-old.
46:31 "We can even show that it works.
46:34 "We're not gonna actually put the five-year-old
46:36 "in front of the car and try and run it over at all, okay?
46:39 "Let me be clear about this."
46:40 Like, we're kind of trying to, like, kind of jokingly,
46:45 like, "Hey, we're gonna run over a kid,"
46:46 because then it's like all this fake social media outrage.
46:49 Like, "Oh my God, how could you run over a kid?"
46:53 And like, "Oh, you're so stupid.
46:54 "Everyone's writing about it.
46:55 "All these reporters are DMing me, like,
46:57 "Hey, can we get a comment about you running over a kid?
47:00 "And can we send one of our reporters
47:02 "to watch you run the kid over?"
47:05 And, you know, it's just crazy.
47:07 So when Dan O'Dowd has millions of dollars
47:10 to spend on an ad, I don't have millions of dollars
47:13 to spend, but I can hopefully make the video go viral
47:16 with all this, like, fake outrage.
47:19 And I'm probably gonna give it a really click-baity title,
47:21 like, "Running over kids with Tesla
47:24 "full self-driving beta," or something.
47:26 But we're not even gonna put the kid
47:29 in front of the car, right?
47:30 This is what people don't understand.
47:32 The system is so good that the kid can be on the lawn
47:37 walking towards the sidewalk, and that's all it'll take
47:40 for the car to stop, right?
47:43 And we can put the kid in front of the car
47:46 without turning it on, and just show
47:49 that the kid is recognized.
47:51 Then when we turn on the ADAS, it should not move
47:54 until the kid gets out of the way.
47:56 So all we're gonna do is demonstrate to people that,
48:00 look, it doesn't run over kids.
48:02 As a matter of fact, it helps prevent people
48:07 of all ages from getting run over.
48:09 - And, I mean, this is really sick, I think.
48:14 The really, like, dark side of capitalism,
48:19 that a competitor can go and lie
48:23 and spend millions of dollars to push these lies
48:26 about a technology that saves people's lives,
48:29 because it's going to hurt their business
48:33 if this changes the paradigm of the software industry.
48:35 Like, you know, to give you some perspective,
48:39 everybody now is like, okay,
48:40 well, we have to match Tesla, right?
48:43 We have to offer the same features Tesla offers.
48:45 So rather than using these integrated systems
48:48 from Green Hill Software,
48:49 which are like small microcontrollers,
48:51 they're like, we need a bigger central computer
48:54 from, like, Nvidia, or from somebody like that, right?
48:59 So, like, for example, Lucid Air, Mercedes EQS,
49:02 they're using the Nvidia computer,
49:04 and they're moving away from the kind of stuff
49:09 that Green Hill Software offers.
49:11 So to kill people for money, I think,
49:15 I mean, okay, maybe that's a little bit strong language,
49:18 but to spread misinformation that's harmful
49:22 and could lead to maybe, you know,
49:24 somebody who would have benefited from this technology,
49:28 they didn't get to because, oh, I heard it kills people.
49:31 It's really shocking how low some of these people will go,
49:36 frankly, and I think that's what the video will show.
49:38 And you know what?
49:39 If it tries to run over the kid,
49:41 we're gonna show that too,
49:42 because if it does, it should be fixed.
49:46 And all they have to do, train it on that,
49:49 send out a software update, and it will be even better.
49:53 So, you know, this is an important part
49:55 of the public discussion,
49:56 and there's a lot of dishonest people.
49:59 You know, some of the LIDAR companies
50:02 were also running similar tests to show, you know,
50:06 oh, are LIDAR solutions better?
50:08 But it's really just competitive smack talk
50:10 at the end of the day.
50:11 They're nervous because nobody has what Tesla has.
50:14 100,000 real people using the software
50:17 all across the country.
50:18 That is so powerful.
50:20 - Yeah, that's awesome.
50:21 I can't get past that title.
50:23 That is so good.
50:23 I'm gonna need to throw a title on this bit
50:26 when I have this podcast.
50:27 Killing, killing, killing, yeah,
50:32 killing kids with Tesla autopilot.
50:33 I'm not gonna get past that.
50:34 That is so good.
50:36 Okay, I love it.
50:38 We're about 50 minutes in.
50:39 I wanna be respectful of your time here.
50:41 I really enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about you,
50:43 which is great, getting some background there.
50:45 Also hearing more about Twitter, Tesla, Elon,
50:48 all these different pieces and how they fit.
50:50 I feel like I have a much better understanding now,
50:52 and I hope that when this goes out,
50:53 your audience gets that too,
50:54 because we talk about some different things
50:56 than we talk about on Spaces.
50:57 So this was really, really good.
50:59 Anything else you'd like to share today?
51:00 Plus, is there any call to action
51:02 that you wanna point people towards?
51:04 Obviously, if people can, they should go
51:06 and click into your pinned tweet
51:07 and donate to the funds to help with those legal bills.
51:10 And of course, they could super follow as well.
51:12 And I think they get a little bit of extra content
51:13 that they super follow too, some fun stuff.
51:16 Anything else you'd like to point people towards?
51:18 - Yeah, so, I mean, definitely appreciate anybody
51:20 who helps support financial aid.
51:22 That really means a lot to me.
51:24 I wish I could say it more.
51:26 But, you know, just check out the videos
51:31 that I'm posting on YouTube,
51:32 Home Wars catalog of this FSD technology.
51:36 I mean, I think this is gonna be completely transformative.
51:38 I think it's gonna affect everything.
51:41 And as an investor, when you're following these things
51:43 in no early, it can be pretty powerful.
51:46 So watch the videos.
51:47 I mean, it's far from perfect.
51:49 It still does try and crash into things,
51:52 make mistakes sometimes.
51:53 But I have to say, it's getting very good.
51:55 Like, oh my God, the last seven or eight drives I've done
52:00 have been perfect.
52:01 No takeover for me.
52:04 So they're really making some serious progress here.
52:07 It may take years, but it's going to be big.
52:10 And if you use this, if you like this stuff,
52:13 you know, write to your Congress people,
52:15 write to regulators, write to NHTSA,
52:18 write to your representatives,
52:20 because the other guys, they're telling people to write
52:23 and complain about these are killing kids.
52:27 So if you've used it, just, you know, it's powerful.
52:31 To get a letter from your constituents and say,
52:32 hey, you know what, I use this.
52:34 I think this is going to be really big for safety.
52:37 I just want you to know that it does make a difference.
52:40 You know, democracy is real and get an EV, I guess,
52:43 or check out an EV.
52:44 You know, a lot of people have kind of these ideas
52:46 about EVs.
52:47 Ah, it wouldn't work for me.
52:48 It wouldn't have enough range.
52:50 Check it out, you know, check out, especially a Tesla
52:54 or there's a lot of good brands out there that aren't Tesla.
52:58 Like, you know, the Porsche Taycan is actually
53:00 outselling the Panamera and the 911.
53:02 That's pretty crazy, I think.
53:04 The electric Porsche is the best selling sedan.
53:07 And, you know, you've got great EVs from Audi.
53:09 The new e-tron GT, I think looks really good.
53:12 Hyundai Kia, they're making really good EVs.
53:15 You got an electric F-150.
53:17 I mean, best selling car in America.
53:19 There's never been more good options
53:21 and you got to check out these cars.
53:23 They're really fun to drive.
53:24 They've got the technology of the future
53:26 and you'll never go back, I don't think, for most people,
53:29 90% plus.
53:31 - You know, I'm just waiting for my full self-driving RV.
53:35 That'd be good.
53:36 Once they get me that full self-driving RV,
53:38 I'm hopping in, touring the country.
53:40 It's going to be a good time.
53:41 - It's coming, I think, it's coming.
53:42 - I love it.
53:43 - You know, they're shipping the semi-truck this year.
53:44 So somebody might be able to turn the semi-truck
53:47 into an autonomous RV, I think.
53:49 - Sounds like a backyard project.
53:52 - All right, man.
53:53 - All right, Omar, this was fantastic.
53:56 Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day
53:58 and letting me meet my audience.
54:00 Once this is up, we'll get a nice click-baity title on it.
54:03 We'll get it out there.
54:03 It'll be really fun.
54:04 - Yeah, man, you know,
54:05 really appreciate everything you're doing.
54:07 You know, you do such a good job running the spaces
54:11 and running this podcast.
54:13 I mean, I would really recommend people check it out.
54:16 Just lots of great content, lots of great speakers.
54:20 I like to come in just to listen sometimes, honestly,
54:23 because it's always entertaining.
54:26 - Thank you, it's become a lifestyle.
54:27 I'll end it with this.
54:29 To anybody that listened, if you made it to the end,
54:32 go ahead and drop me a DM
54:34 at @Wolf_Financial on Twitter.
54:35 Let me know your favorite parts.
54:37 I'll accept it.
54:38 You'll have an open line of communication with me on Twitter.
54:40 We'll have some back and forth.
54:41 If you have any questions or follow-ups
54:43 or questions you want me to ask to Omar,
54:45 if you're unable to reach him or to any of my other guests,
54:47 you can always just shoot me a DM on Twitter.
54:49 My DMs are open, as always.
54:51 Thank you, Omar.
54:52 Thank you to everybody who listened.
54:53 If this is Friday for you, when you hear this,
54:55 have a great weekend.
54:56 If not, have a great week.
54:57 That's all we got.
54:58 I'm gonna go ahead and end it here.
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