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[424.92 --> 427.92] I think it's going into the Aver Media thing.
[427.92 --> 430.92] So anyway, here, you, do you want to like walk them through this in the meantime?
[430.92 --> 434.92] Okay, so Ohio, like obviously, I don't know why anyone would think otherwise.
[434.92 --> 437.92] Oh, you just moved the camera.
[437.92 --> 439.92] Oh my god.
[439.92 --> 444.92] Ohio auto dealers are trying to push the bill that will stop Tesla from opening stores
[444.92 --> 447.92] outside of its only two locations in Ohio.
[447.92 --> 451.92] So you don't let them sell directly to the customer.
[451.92 --> 454.92] You're not letting them sell like, oh man.
[454.92 --> 458.92] They're taking legal action against them but it didn't fall in their favor, blah blah blah,
[458.92 --> 462.92] but it might because they're in big pockets and they have tons of money and they're probably
[462.92 --> 463.92] going to push it even more.
[463.92 --> 464.92] They're in big pockets?
[464.92 --> 465.92] Yeah.
[465.92 --> 466.92] Do you even listen to yourself?
[466.92 --> 467.92] Yes.
[467.92 --> 469.92] That wasn't as bad as combing with a brick.
[469.92 --> 471.92] Comb with a brick.
[471.92 --> 472.92] That's fantastic.
[472.92 --> 474.92] Alright, I'm gonna...
[474.92 --> 478.92] I just plugged it into a different capture card because that is how baller we are now.
[478.92 --> 483.92] So a lot of the auto dealers don't want to sell Tesla vehicles but they also don't want
[483.92 --> 486.92] Tesla to be able to sell their own vehicles, which is kind of ridiculous.
[486.92 --> 489.92] I can fully understand the auto dealers not wanting to sell Tesla vehicles because they're
[489.92 --> 492.92] stupid but I can't fully understand them.
[492.92 --> 494.92] Not Tesla vehicles are stupid.
[494.92 --> 496.92] Auto dealers are stupid and we hate them.
[496.92 --> 499.92] But I can't understand they're like, yeah, we don't want to sell them but you can't sell
[499.92 --> 500.92] them either.
[500.92 --> 505.92] I get where they're coming from but that's way worse and should never be allowed to be
[505.92 --> 506.92] a thing.
[506.92 --> 511.92] So basically this just comes down to who's got the deep existing relationship and not
[511.92 --> 516.92] what's actually best for the consumer or best for a free and open market.
[516.92 --> 518.92] I mean, okay, so here.
[518.92 --> 520.92] There's some big problems here.
[520.92 --> 526.92] So we have another article on this that's actually from Jalopnik.com where Patrick George,
[526.92 --> 530.92] the writer there, I'm just gonna go ahead and bring this up on the screen, figures and
[530.92 --> 534.92] this was...so his early estimate when he was just digging into the public record figures
[534.92 --> 540.92] that the Ohio senator behind the new bill, who was the same one who tried to sneak this
[540.92 --> 545.92] into some stupid traffic legislation at some point earlier.
[545.92 --> 554.92] The same guy who's behind it has taken...so he figured $7,500 since 2009 from the Ohio Automobile
[554.92 --> 557.92] Dealers Association Investment Group.
[557.92 --> 561.92] Then, there's an update to the article and it's like, okay, well, it turns out that he got
[561.92 --> 564.92] way more from car dealers than I was able to find.
[564.92 --> 571.92] The Media Tracker reports between 2002 and 2013, Patent received $42,825 from state and
[571.92 --> 576.92] national auto dealership owners, employees and political action committees.
[576.92 --> 579.92] Honestly, I would fully expect it to be more than that too.
[579.92 --> 581.92] It may very well be more than that.
[581.92 --> 582.92] That's what they know of.
[582.92 --> 583.92] Like, come on.
[583.92 --> 586.92] But this is a big fundamental problem.
[586.92 --> 593.92] How can we expect the world to move forward if we just take these existing incumbents who just
[593.92 --> 599.92] have deep pockets to just buy whatever they want and allow them to do this?
[599.92 --> 604.92] Last week, we talked about it and you went slightly on the defensive when saying about
[604.92 --> 607.92] how it takes people a long time to adapt to different things.
[607.92 --> 608.92] Yes.
[608.92 --> 611.92] And like the selling directly from the retailer and all that kind of stuff.
[611.92 --> 612.92] And that kind of makes...
[612.92 --> 613.92] I proposed a compromise!
[613.92 --> 614.92] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[614.92 --> 615.92] Not a banning of it!
[615.92 --> 616.92] I'm not saying that.
[616.92 --> 617.92] Okay, alright.
[617.92 --> 621.92] I'm just saying that was brought up and that's actually kind of interesting and kind of makes sense.
[621.92 --> 624.92] But when people are taking this kind of a stance, that's not really okay.
[624.92 --> 627.92] Okay, so here's a quote from this patent yahoo.
[627.92 --> 634.92] The state legislature years ago recognized having distinct roles for auto manufacturers
[634.92 --> 640.92] and dealers fosters competition in the marketplace and provides consumers with a system of checks
[640.92 --> 646.92] and balances to ensure that warranty and service issues are administered fairly, he said in an email.
[646.92 --> 651.92] Senate Bill 260 simply reinforces a standard set of rules for all manufacturers and dealers to follow,
[651.92 --> 653.92] which benefits both the industry and consumers.
[653.92 --> 660.92] When was the last time anyone, anywhere, had a good experience with a car warranty issue at a dealership?
[660.92 --> 663.92] I would love to hear from you guys!
[663.92 --> 666.92] Hit us up on Twitter if you have had a good...
[666.92 --> 668.92] At Linus Tech on Twitter, right there.
[668.92 --> 675.92] If your manufacturer warranty experience at a dealership was fantastic, all Tesla is asking for is
[675.92 --> 679.92] A, to cut out the middleman, and they're not blameless here, they really are just trying to reduce overhead,
[679.92 --> 681.92] which isn't necessarily bad.
[681.92 --> 688.92] But the other thing that they're asking for is to control the customer's experience because they don't feel like dealerships deliver a great one.
[688.92 --> 694.92] And I forget where the link was last year, but I think it was something like 9% satisfaction polls.
[694.92 --> 697.92] Well, did I tell you, but when I was shopping for my car...
[697.92 --> 698.92] Car salesman or something like that.
[698.92 --> 699.92] No, go ahead.
[699.92 --> 704.92] When I was shopping for my car, I knew the exact model I wanted, and we spent the entire day just going to dealership to dealership to dealership.
[704.92 --> 707.92] I'd walk around for a little bit and then just leave.
[707.92 --> 710.92] And I was like, I just hate these guys.
[710.92 --> 712.92] I'm just like, I can't do it.
[712.92 --> 717.92] I'd get hounded, and then I'd talk to them for a little bit, and then I'd just be like, oh, sorry, just leave.
[717.92 --> 725.92] There's a great episode of Dexter where he kills a car salesman, and the guy just is amazing.
[725.92 --> 733.92] The actor did a really great job of being a car salesman, but the scary part of watching it was the car salesman was exactly like every car salesman I've ever seen.
[733.92 --> 736.92] It's like, oh, you've got a two-year-old son?
[736.92 --> 737.92] So do I.
[737.92 --> 739.92] And I'd be looking at them and I'm like, yeah, you're like 65.
[739.92 --> 740.92] No, you don't.
[740.92 --> 742.92] It's just ridiculous.
[742.92 --> 748.92] Anything to build the relationship with the customer and make them feel comfortable giving them thousands of dollars.
[748.92 --> 750.92] When I was in there, we went with the angle.
[750.92 --> 753.92] I paid for my car, but we went with the angle so that they thought it was my parents.
[753.92 --> 754.92] Right.
[754.92 --> 759.92] So that I could easily be the one actually managing everything, but they were targeting my parents.