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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir. Yes, sir, I've got

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Speaker 1: I've used that on elbows, I've used that, um in

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Speaker 1: place of cover gaskets for differentials. Stuff's amazing. Yeah, I

426
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Speaker 1: can't tell you enough about the Right Stuff from Perma text.

427
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Speaker 1: It just flat out works. And you know, now I will,

428
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Speaker 1: I will do my prep and then I will let

429
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Speaker 1: it cure. I've never I've never tested. You know, the

430
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Speaker 1: bottle says if you can just use it within five minutes.

431
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Speaker 1: I've kind of given it a half hour or forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes to cure until you know, I always put

433
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Speaker 1: a little bit extra on it, so it kind of

434
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Speaker 1: spoonges out. And I know in that piece of extra

435
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Speaker 1: RTV hanging out when I know when it's hard, and

436
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's started to solidify. I know it's okay,

437
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Speaker 1: and then I'll make it wet. But they say you

438
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Speaker 1: can use it almost instantly. It's just great stuff. Second question,

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Speaker 1: they think, second question real quick. So now I have

440
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Speaker 1: a battery parasitic drain. It's around almost and I every

441
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Speaker 1: fuge and every relay in the fuse boxes underneath the season,

442
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Speaker 1: underneath the hood, and it stays there disconnecting. Disconnect the alternator,

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Speaker 1: disconnect the alternatt Yeah, just disconnect the aldator. I should

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Speaker 1: see that. Well, that would be my next that would

445
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Speaker 1: be my next spot because what you're what you're describing

446
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Speaker 1: to me, that's a pretty high draw. Um. You know

447
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Speaker 1: you don't you don't have a thermal imager by chance,

448
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Speaker 1: do you? Sam? But I maybe maybe I'm gonna get one,

449
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe Santa Claus will bring you one.

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Speaker 1: Um did you were you a good boy? Do you

451
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Speaker 1: put it on your wish list? Um? You know, but

452
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Speaker 1: you know there's a there's a good use for a

453
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Speaker 1: thermal imager. Just take the covers off the fuse boxes

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Speaker 1: and just go around the car and shoot the thermal

455
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Speaker 1: imager and see and I'd be I'd be willing to

456
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: bet if that alternator is still going, you're gonna see it.

457
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Speaker 1: You know, it's temperature is going to maintain and go up.

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Speaker 1: But it sounds like it's the next step. I would

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Speaker 1: disconnect the alternator and see if it makes it go away. Excellent,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, good luck to you. You're very welcome. Sam,

461
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: you will bye bye. Um. Basics, man, it's always basics. Uh,

462
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: it's always. It's always back to square one. So let's

463
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Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause, and when we return,

464
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go over to Roger and Virginia. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about electric vehicles. So don't go away. I'm running

466
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Speaker 1: any of The car Doctor will be back right after this.

467
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Speaker 1: Welcome back when I named the car Doctor. Let's get

468
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Speaker 1: over to Roger and Virginia. Roger, welcome to the car Doctor. Sir.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey, Hey, you're going Ron. My name

470
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Speaker 1: is Union, and I've got a question. I ride around

471
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Speaker 1: in the old seventy seven novum and uh seven seven

472
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Speaker 1: l come, so I'm really back in the old times. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but my question, my question was in the path that

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Speaker 1: my question was when you started to show you were

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Speaker 1: talking about a gentleman that had to wait bringing half

476
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Speaker 1: hours because you forgot to um electric car. And my

477
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Speaker 1: question is this, why don't they do Why don't these

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Speaker 1: car manufacturers do like they've done for the last hundred

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Speaker 1: years and incorporate an alternator and the scheme of things

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Speaker 1: so it could charge the battery up. He wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: all these charging stations. Well, you know what you're really

482
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Speaker 1: asking me, and it's a fair question, Roger. What you're

483
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Speaker 1: really asking me about is a perpetual motion machine or

484
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Speaker 1: a perpetual energy machine. And you know the idea that

485
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Speaker 1: we can drive under the battery. Power in the battery

486
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Speaker 1: while it's moving forward will generate electricity via a charging

487
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Speaker 1: system at the whee old regenitor charging. I've asked physicists

488
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Speaker 1: this question and three days later the answer comes out

489
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Speaker 1: because that's how long it takes for him to explain

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Speaker 1: it that it's not possible because of the laws of physics. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think to some degree they could do that. But

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Speaker 1: I will say it like this, if there was a

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Speaker 1: practical way to apply that to current level electric vehicles

494
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Speaker 1: and technology, by now, someone would have done it, and

495
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Speaker 1: they haven't, So I know, it just seems kind of

496
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: silly when I mean, your alternator charges should battery and

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Speaker 1: you know, if your batteries did, they could incorporate some

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Speaker 1: even if they have to reconfigure it. It would seem

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Speaker 1: to me like they could. I don't I'm just guessing,

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Speaker 1: you know, throwing things to you throw stuff against the wall,

501
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: you see, if it's sticks. Sometimes that's how ideas are born, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just thought, I don't know. I

503
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Speaker 1: figured i'd asked the question. You know, hey, listen, I'm

504
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Speaker 1: glad that you did. You know. The part of the

505
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Speaker 1: problem is that the the technology of electrics. I don't

506
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Speaker 1: know if we're told enough as as the public. Okay,

507
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: for example, all right, a thousand pounds Tesla battery has

508
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand cells in it. Those those cells to construct

509
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: that battery, those cells are held together by seven thousand welds.

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Speaker 1: Think about it. That's that's that's that's one heck of

511
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Speaker 1: a construction job. You know. Next week, next week on

512
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Speaker 1: the show, We've got Mark Mills. Mark is a physicist.

513
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Speaker 1: He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and

514
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Speaker 1: he had a very interesting conversation with John Stossel about

515
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Speaker 1: two years ago at ABC regarding electric vehicles and you

516
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Speaker 1: know the future of it and how would it work

517
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Speaker 1: and where will the where will the electricity come from?

518
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Speaker 1: And we were fortunate enough we went out to get

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Speaker 1: him and we got him, and uh, we're gonna sit

520
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: down with him next week. And some of the things

521
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Speaker 1: he's told us in the pre show interview, it just

522
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Speaker 1: blows my mind that, you know, where will it come from,

523
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Speaker 1: the amount of material we have to dig up and

524
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Speaker 1: consume to use a to make a thousand pound battery,

525
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Speaker 1: the the way copper is now going to become an

526
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Speaker 1: endangered species. And he said, and the cold vault. They're

527
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Speaker 1: going to get it from Africa. Well, they're gonna they're

528
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Speaker 1: gonna get it from a bunch of places. But you know,

529
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Speaker 1: I just put an article up on our Facebook page

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Speaker 1: that talks about how they're mining nickel. The mining of

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Speaker 1: nickel is now endangering the rainforest. Oh yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: doubt at all. And I'm asking myself the question, you know,

533
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Speaker 1: and the minds that they're going to have to dig,

534
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Speaker 1: and Marco was going to talk about that next week.

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Speaker 1: You know, the minds that they're gonna have to dig

536
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Speaker 1: to go and excavate the materials that they're gonna need

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Speaker 1: to make the batteries. And I just keep asking myself

538
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Speaker 1: the question, the planet's gonna look like a giant bull

539
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Speaker 1: of Swiss cheese from outer space. We're gonna dig all

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Speaker 1: these holes up to try and save the environment. But

541
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Speaker 1: at the same time, where do we cross the line?

542
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: Where are we ruining the environment? It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the answer. Well, I mean John and

544
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,719
Speaker 1: Indian and they don't they don't care about where they

545
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Speaker 1: get it from there. They're not on board with all

546
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Speaker 1: the you know, with to save the planet thing like uh,

547
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Speaker 1: United States is. But I mean, I don't give me wrong.

548
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Speaker 1: I think we should, you know, take care of our planets.

549
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: But we're when we're the only one that's doing anything,

550
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Speaker 1: do anything, and they're just like full speed ahead. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Roger I think. I think, in

552
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Speaker 1: all fairness, I think a lot of countries are trying

553
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Speaker 1: to do something, but I I just question what are

554
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Speaker 1: we trying to do? What is the end game? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And and when you know, it's sort of like you know,

556
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Speaker 1: I remember in high school the big deal was would

557
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Speaker 1: somebody ever run a three minute mile? And they said no,

558
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Speaker 1: But somebody kept trying. Nobody to date has Nobody to

559
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Speaker 1: date has run a three minute mile. It would be

560
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: a flat out sprint, and it hasn't been done. But

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00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: we keep trying. You know, that's not that difficult of

562
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: a thing to try. We're trying. We're trying to electrify

563
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Speaker 1: a planet. Here, here's one for you. Think about this. Okay,

564
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Speaker 1: let's say the United States is successful and we switched,

565
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: we switched the majority of the fleet over to electric

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Speaker 1: in the next fifteen to twenty years. Oh my god,

567
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Speaker 1: please don't tell me. Well, but let's say it happens.

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Speaker 1: You ever be you ever been to Canada? I can't say, well,

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00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: there's there's remote parts of Canada where you know you're

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Speaker 1: driving alone for hours upon hours upon hours. Where are

571
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: you gonna find it? Where are you gonna find a

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Speaker 1: charging station out in remote parts of Canada or remote

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Speaker 1: parts of Mexico? Are we going to be limited by

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Speaker 1: where we go and how we get there? That's why

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Speaker 1: I say to incorporate and alternated to keep you well, listen,

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Speaker 1: you might have the answer. You know, what if if

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00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: I if I see the press corps, if I see

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Speaker 1: the press corps interviewing Roger from Virginia. Come Monday morning,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna know that it was a result of your

580
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: comments here, because you never know, you just might be right. Brother. Listen,

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00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: if I don't get to talk to you, Roger, you

582
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: have yourself and Mary Christmas in a good, safe New Year,

583
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: and thanks for being part of the Car Doctor family.

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Speaker 1: You'd be well. I'm running Indian the Car Doctor. I'm

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Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away, Welcome back. We're

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Speaker 1: on any of the Car Doctor. Hey Tom, I'm here

587
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: to report you know we actually have listeners to this

588
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: radio show, um in case in case, well I don't.

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00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: It started about twenty minutes ago. Mark Goldberg is a

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00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: regular listener and I recognized the name as he made

591
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Speaker 1: some comments and some some very good contributions and uh

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Speaker 1: with regard to I was talking about the article the

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Speaker 1: the Connecticut UM and NBC News that Connecticut is experiencing

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Speaker 1: or expecting a power grid failure if depending on how

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Speaker 1: bad the winter is up there. And I mentioned the

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Speaker 1: name Dike, but the article didn't say who it was.

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00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: Mark Road and he said, Katie Dikes is in charge

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Speaker 1: of Connecticut Department of Environmental and Energy Protection. She is

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Speaker 1: pushing for electric vehicles and not a fan of gasoline.

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Speaker 1: So you know, just to identify who Katie dikes is, Um,

601
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: we should try and get her on the show and

602
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: get her explanation of how all this is gonna work.

603
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: That would be uh interesting. Maybe somebody in Connecticut knows

604
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: Katie and she'd be willing to come up here and

605
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: talk to us about electric vehicles, and UM, make the

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Speaker 1: case for it. How's it gonna work? And it makes

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Speaker 1: sense if they're they're they're predicting energy an energy problem

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Speaker 1: this winter, so let's go by an electric car. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what Here's here's something I thought about the other

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Speaker 1: day and I got job joggled. This morning. I started

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Speaker 1: the show today with Josh Lang, and I'll finish with

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Speaker 1: Josh Lang. So Josh my my guy at president the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Talk Media, not my guys at the CEO

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Speaker 1: of Talk Media network and who syndicates the show with us,

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Speaker 1: and um, Josh, his wife Cathy purchased a a an

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Speaker 1: electric vehicle and you forgot to charge it. So now

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Speaker 1: they're gonna charge and they can't do their Saturday ERNs.

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Speaker 1: He had texted me we're talking earlier this morning. And

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Speaker 1: I said to myself, So, what happens if you're at

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Speaker 1: on the road and you have to charge that electric vehicle,

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Speaker 1: if you run it down and you're not in a

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Speaker 1: not so good area. I mean, let's face it, there's

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Speaker 1: parts of the country that you don't want to get

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Speaker 1: stuck in. There's there's some tough neighborhoods in the world.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's not hide the fact. How are you

626
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: gonna charge that vehicle sitting there for three hours or

627
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Speaker 1: two hours or twenty minutes or however long it takes.

628
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Speaker 1: Do you become a target? And how are they going

629
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Speaker 1: to work their way around that? And you know, do

630
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Speaker 1: you have to think about your own personal safety? And

631
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Speaker 1: if you're are you gonna have to be you know,

632
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Speaker 1: if you're twenty minutes to a safe charging station, so

633
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Speaker 1: to speak, does that mean you can't I don't know.

634
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Speaker 1: I gasoline is a little more predictable, guest line. You

635
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Speaker 1: can find the gas station, jump in, pump in five

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Speaker 1: doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm maybe I'm crazy. Proved me wrong. Hey listen, don't

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Speaker 1: forget Next week, Mark Mills, the Manhattan Institute will be

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Speaker 1: here to join us, along with a bunch of other surprises.

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Speaker 1: Till then, I'm monating the car Doctor, reminding each and

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Speaker 1: every one of you mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you,