The Joe Rogan Experience - #1849 - Rich Benoit

Rich Benoit is a car enthusiast, host of the YouTube channel "Rich Rebuilds," and co-founder of The Electrified Garage: an electric vehicle maintenance and repair company. https://www.youtube.com/RichRebuilds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 48m
Broadcast on: 28 Jul 2022
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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. - The Joe Rogan experience. - Shoring my day, Joe Rogan podcast, my night, all day. (dramatic music) - Hello Rich, we'll see you in a while. - It's been a while, man, I've been watching your exploits. - Thank you very much, thank you, thank you, thank you. - How is that a V8 Tesla? - You know what's funny, I brought you something. - Yeah? - I brought you a magazine based on the V8 Tesla, that's for you. - Oh, no shit. - There's no hotel keys in there, so you can't take the whole thing. - Popular mechanics. - Yes, front cover. - Wow. - Thank you, thank you. - Did Tesla reach out, are they still at odds with you? - You know what's funny, I don't even know if they're, they don't really care about me. - They don't, but they did for a while, right? - I think, you know what, they would watch me in silence, and just consciously observe what I do pretty much. - We should just tell everybody why. You were one of the very first guys that-- - That's yours, that's yours. - Oh, thank you. - The very first guys that started working on electric vehicles on Teslas, and as an unauthorized repair person. - Correct, yes. - And then you would also buy scrap Teslas and piece them together at an incredible savings. - Yes, exactly. - And make a fucking awesome car. - Right, but they didn't really like that that much because that really didn't fall in line with their policy on just buying a new damn car. - Right. - You know, like don't hobble together, six different cars just buy one good car from it. - How could they not see that that's cool? That you're, first of all, it's green. - Yes, it's very green, yes, absolutely. - I mean, you're literally recycling broken Teslas, putting them back together again. - Right.

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