Waymos make bad neighbors (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends)

0:15what up nerds jared here just when you thought we were done shipping shows from all things open 2024 we're releasing this 35-ish minute impromptu conversation with Adam and I for Changelog++ ears only. It's better. However, I did pull out a few minutes for the public feed because everyone should have the opportunity and privilege to suffer through that Rails joke that I make.

0:47So what I'm bringing up is this idea that like this, like you had the four Bronco come back and that was gas-based, not EV-based. But then you have this Scout Motors, which I had no idea about a Scout. No. This is all new to me. It's not a Jeep? I don't even know. It's not a Jeep. It looks like a Jeep. It's not a Jeep, though. Is it because Jeep's just a brand? Yes. A manufacturer. It's got this nostalgia from back in the day. It's a square SUV. It looks like a Jeep Wrangler. Yeah. Okay. It looks Bronco-ish, too, right? Yeah, yeah. Wrangler-ish, Bronco-ish. It's got this older style to it. Okay.

1:21I'm not trying to harp on Scout necessarily or Scout Motors, but this idea of this take what was old and modernize it as an EV. What if we take what's old and make it new again? Yeah, this idea. And this is a metaphor for rails? Sure. Sure. No, but I was just like thinking, are you down with that? You know, are you down with like take the old school and make it new school and it's EV new school? If it's well executed. Yeah. Because you take the same exact concept to movies, and I say, no, unless it's well executed. Then I'll say yes. Then you'll say yes. Yeah, for sure. What's a good well executed, since we're going to movies?

2:00Didn't we do this with, we tried to figure out when we had Emily Freeman and Justin on the show. Right. A good remake, or a good reboot. Yeah, a good reboot. And we decided that Blade Runner was pretty good, and that Dune. Dune was good, yeah. It was pretty good. So, yeah, I mean, if you're going to do it. Dune's kind of standalone, though. It's a remake, but it's not. It's a different version of the same story. They're telling the same story, though. It's a reboot. Yeah, it is a reboot. Okay. So I'm not against the idea. I'm against the way it's executed poorly. And so if Scout kills it, then I want one.

2:35You want one. I do want one. Here's why I want an EV. I hate oil changes. i hate the complication and the complexity of a internal combustion engine i like the simplicity and the lack of maintenance on an ev now what i don't like about an ev is this one giant battery that just goes bad eventually you know or blows up but what i do like about it is i'm used to taking care of batteries i feel like i can take care of a battery better than i can take care of a ice. Yeah. I drive an F-250, as you know. That's a large internal combustion engine. It's a diesel engine. It's even different than a gas engine.

3:21Yeah, it's diesel. And it has the requirement of DEF fluid. Are you familiar with DEF fluid? Say again? DEF fluid? I think I have some DEF fluid in my ear. Are you making fun of DEF people? On this podcast? No, I'm making fun of you. Oh, okay. Gotcha. DEF. I think it stands for diesel exhaust fluid. Okay. I believe DEF acronym. I will believe you because I have no way of checking it. Me either. I'm believing me as well. Okay. I'm not sure. Anybody with a computer could prove that wrong. Well, so it requires diesel. Engine. Some say diesel. Not diesel. Diesel. I say diesel. I say diesel too. Okay.

4:03Why do you call it diesel then? I'm cool with either actually. I'm cool with diesel or diesel. Vin diesel or Vin diesel. Oh, yeah. Vin Diesel. I'm cool with you. I think he's actually a diesel. Yeah, he's more of a diesel. He's the example where it's got to be a Z. Yeah, I agree. So I require, my vehicle requires diesel as well as def fluid.

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