#1601 - Brian Redban

Oh, hello. Nice outfit you're wearing.

Hey, awesome outfit for you.

Yeah, we're burritos and Jamie's in the Matrix.

Jamie, what do you do? Look at that.

That is preposterous. Show them the pants. It's a full thing. Where would. Where was one get something like this?

The Internet.

What do you mean? Oh, must be.

Yeah.

You didn't go to a store and shop? What's the company?

It's called dumb.

Good. But isn't it supposed to have numbers? Does it have numbers? It does, yeah. Oh, those aren't numbers. Yeah.

I mean, if you look close, you can.

Okay.

Because it's, like, officially licensed, I think.

Official.

Official.

They just pushed that movie back. The new one.

They push everything back. They're pushing the James Bond one back forever. Because they think that theaters are coming back. No, like, theaters are. That's over. That's over.

Especially since it's so much nicer. They kind of fuck themselves with, like, wonder Woman and all these movies, like, soul that have been coming out at the same time. It's so nice and easy. Just watch it at your house.

Yeah. You don't have to listen to people talk and hear people on their phones and see people texting. The light flashes in front of you. Yeah. All the weirdness of movie. Know, I have a friend who always brings a gun to the movie theater. I go, really? He goes, yeah. He goes, that one time that it happened in Colorado. I'm like, fuck that. That's never happened to me. Like, think about how many times people go to the movies and how rarely people get shot at the movie theater. It's, like, one of the safest places. But that one time, it's just like, he just keeps a gun everywhere.

It's funny, after that last shooting, you know how you make reservations in a movie theater? How you can pick your seats? I noticed the next day, I went to a theater near theater that there was a shooting, and I looked at the reservations, and it was all around the exits, like, instead of the middle.

Weird. There hasn't been any mass shootings since COVID right? Have there?

No, there hasn't.

But what's a mass shooting? Right? More than two people, right? Yeah, but there hasn't been, like, school shootings, like, the big ones. There hasn't been, like, what has there?

I don't think so.

The problem is we get so numb to it. Like, it might have happened and. Yeah, oh, salute. Cheers. Cheers. Adult beverage. Some whiskey. So how's it been moving here, budy?

It's great, man. Took the trip, had the car drive me the whole way here, which was interesting.

Did you do that?

Yeah, I had to take driving a Tesla from Los Angeles to Austin. That's an experience because you have to charge, and it takes a lot longer.

Does it get hairy, like, when you look at your mileage and you try to figure out what the supercharger is?

No, it's pretty nice because it does route. It. It tells you, like, hey, you better go here. You'll have so and so much time left. There was one time where I got a little nervous just because there was a big traffic jam and stuff.

But what's the lowest you ever got?

I think, like, nothing crazy. Like 510 pitch. No, 10%, something like that.

Okay, that's not bad.

But driving the whole way there, and it drove the whole way here, and that was so much easier. The first night, I drove 20 hours straight because I wasn't driving. It was driving. I was just bored. I went through every single podcast.

You drove 20 hours straight. How did you stay awake?

A lot of coffee, a lot of Red Bull.

Didn't take, like, what is that stuff? Is it provigil? Is that modafinol? Yeah. I always confuse that with Viagra. What's that?

That's a different time of the day.

What happens? You take the two of them together. Hey, what is the Viagra stuff called?

Provigil?

Viagra. No, but it's a provigil, and modafinil is the. What's the real version?

There's a thing. It's like sedafinil or something like that. There's like a. Yeah, there's a thing, like the active ingredient.

The brand name of modafinil is Providol.

Right. But what is the actual chemical in Viagra? That's what I confuse. I confuse the two of them sometimes.

Just look at your prescription bottle right there.

Yeah. Just look at the one that's in.

Your pants, in your matrix pocket.

What I took this morning was called Syldenophil.

Syldenophil, okay. Yeah, there you go.

No, it was pretty easy. I don't sleep as that much. I can stay up pretty late already. And what was cool is every time you charge, you have to sit there for, like, 25 minutes, 30 minutes. So you kind of go outside.

What does that give you? 80%?

Yeah, it usually takes you up to 80%, because when you're charging a Tesla, the first half of the battery charges way faster than the second half. So kind of just like, it's faster to do it that way. But I mean, there was a lot of stops and it kind of made it easier because you were stopping so much. Because usually when you're on a road trip, you're driving like five, 6 hours until you get empty on a gas tank. But I loved it, man. It was great. It almost killed me once. But other than that, a semi was getting into my lane and it over exaggerated, overcorrected. So I did one of those. But the car handled it pretty self. I didn't spin out where I think if it was a normal car, I would have flipped.

Well, you have the x and so does Jamie. And the best thing about that one is the center of gravity is amazing. Like, they don'tip. Over. You ever seen those things where they hit them?

Yeah, it's too.

And they. They just go, dude, don't they just come right back? It's amazing.

There's a really cool website called wham bam. Tesla cam or something like that. And it's such a great idea. It's just people sending all their Tesla cam videos of all the accidents and stuff. It's amazing. Some of the videos you watch. You're so safe in a Tesla, especially the know.

Is that the best one for safety?

I think so. I think because it's just so big and heavy. Do you see there's some pictures that came out today of the new s?

No.

Oh, God, it's so sexy.

Came out today. Is it the plaid one?

The pictures, like some spy cam pictures came out today. And the new design looks so amazing.

Is it the plaid one?

They don't know yet, because supposedly there was plaid and a new refresh of the X and the S. And it might be the plaid or it might be the new refresh, but they've stopped production of the X and the S for like 14 days. And supposedly they're going to see a refresh on both of them. A lot of people are thinking the X is going to take away the doors and the Falcon wing doors.

Yeah, but those are dope.

They're so great.

They shouldn't take that away.

I love that.

Were you there when Tiffany Haddish had it dancing in the parking lot?

That's why I bought my car. You know, that happened that night. I went home, I'm like, I'm getting one. And I did my dumb shit where I was drunk, and I'm like, I'm just going to get a loan. And I bought it that night, next day, I woke up. I'm like, no, I didn't.

But you love.

Yeah.

Yeah, I love mine. It's the dopest car. Like, every other car is dumb. Yeah, that's just the reality of it. I mean, I still love cars. I love little cars. I love trucks. I love cars. I'm an automobile enthusiast. But the reality is the Tesla is the best car. It's just the best. I haven't driven the Porsche Tycan, but I heard that's the shit, too. There was a review today or an article where it beat a Porsche GT three and a turbo in some sort of a race, which is just bananas for this electric car can beat, like, their best performance cars.

Yeah, but no matter how hard they try or Ford tries with their electric cars, they're never going to have that supercharger network.

Yeah, that looks like a regular one.

Wait, no, that's not the picture I saw. I don't think.

What's the difference?

I don't know if that's the same picture I saw. Well, maybe it is. See how the sides are kind of, like, bulgy? Yeah. Or they kind of go indented or a little.

Yeah. What it looks like. Well, it looks like the fender flares.

Are bulged, which means a new end back.

Also, the thing about the plaid is the plaid has wider tires, and I think it has more battery life, too, right?

Absolutely.

But that was the thing about the truck. Like, the truck can go to 500 miles. That's going to fix a lot of shit. As soon as you can do that. Like, 300 miles is like. And the Porsche, I don't think even gets 250.

Right? And like I was saying, there's no supercharger network for all these cars.

Right?

That was one thing. I could never have done that with a Ford or a Porsche from the LA all the way here. It would have taken me, like, a week.

I think there actually is a supercharger network for regular electric cars. I just don't think it's the same setup. I don't know. I don't know how it is.

It's not the same speed. And they're almost impossible to find where, really, Tesla has made it. So there's stops everywhere. So they know if you're driving from LA to Austin, there's, like, a path you can.

Oh, so it tells you. So if you put Austin as your navigation destination, it'll say, okay, Brian, you got to stop here. You got to stop here.

Takes you right there.

Unless big brother knows that you're going there. And then they wait for you, right.

About this convertible conversion of.

Is that real?

Yeah. There's a company in, I think, san Francisco that you can pay. It's like $30,000, and they'll convert any Tesla into a convertible. And it could either be automatic convertible, or, like, a hard top. They just pull off type.

Well, you know what's dope is that they took a four door and they turned it into a two door, too. Wow, that's pretty fresh.

I bet that shit leaks, though, first rainstorm.

You think so?

Well, any of those aftermarket things are probably good for, like, a year or two.

Well, the real issue is the stability of the chassis. Like, the way the car is designed. It's not designed to be a convertible. That's one of the things they did with the new Corvette, is that they designed it to be a convertible