Minion Death Cult - #700 Batteries just blown up by itself. Try not to drive them to reduce risks. Simple. w/Aaron Thorpe (preview)
Aired: 2025-03-27
Duration: 07:04


=== Why Cars Keep Blowing Up (07:04) ===

[00:00:00]  I know exactly what you're talking about, man.
[00:00:01]  I don't want to run in too long because I could talk about this shit all day, but Wayne Barlow, actually, he's known for doing these extraterrestrial, I guess it's called speculative evolution, you know?
[00:00:12]  Yeah. How, you know, animals and organisms would look like, you know, into the far future on Earth or how alien species would look.
[00:00:20]  And I just remember as a kid, and he also did a lot of dinosaur illustrations in the 90s.
[00:00:24]  I have, Ani got me his guide to extraterrestrials.
[00:00:27]  Yes, that's the one I'm talking about.
[00:00:28]  Dude, I remember flipping through that as a kid where I was in the 90s where I was sitting in the shaft of a sunbeam on this carpeted floor in the library and just flipping through it until my dad came and picked me up instead of doing homework.
[00:00:40]  I don't know.
[00:00:42]  Nostalgia can be very whitewashed and insidious, but I don't know.
[00:00:47]  I like art, man.
[00:00:48]  Art's good.
[00:00:49]  Art is good.
[00:00:50]  Most of the nostalgic fascism I think comes from Commercial advertisements.
[00:00:57]  So, I don't think that, you know, I think we're safe, like, looking at actual art.
[00:01:01]  You know, I think we're fine.
[00:01:03]  Yeah, so I don't know.
[00:01:04]  Just, I want to, yeah, start off this episode.
[00:01:08]  As we know, supposed acts of terrorism and vandalism and just, you know, scary acts of violence against...
[00:01:16]  Tesla's, Tesla dealerships, people are leaving me notes on Tesla drivers' cars.
[00:01:22]  I just saw Larry Elder post about a note his friend got on his car that was like a pre-printed Tesla's, like anti-Tesla's fake ticket that was like, you are guilty of increased racism.
[00:01:36]  You are a Nazi.
[00:01:37]  Like, just, like, key a swastika into, like, their car door or something like that.
[00:01:42]  Driving fascist in a Lib Dem zone.
[00:01:45]  I find it a little suspicious that we have the man, the bureaucrat, the billionaire...
[00:02:00]  Next to our president, dismantling the government, getting to decide that anyone who doesn't like his cars are terrorists.
[00:02:08]  And then suddenly we have seemingly real acts of arson and terror happening across the country.
[00:02:16]  While this administration is, like, renditioning people to El Salvadorian prisons and other detention centers without trial, without even consideration for legal status or evidence or anything like that.
[00:02:30]  And I just want to say, you know, I don't like to toot my own horn too often, but I was calling this false flag shit back on March 18th.
[00:02:43]  KWTX on Facebook posted, Tesla vehicles targeted, set on fire at Service Center.
[00:02:49]  And the comments are all, of course, like, we need to kill Democrats.
[00:02:54]  But I keenly observed that somebody might have an interest in these cars burning, and I did post, false flag!
[00:03:03]  Follow the plan!
[00:03:05]  Study the comments!
[00:03:07]  And this is the comment that I want...
[00:03:09]  Us to study was from Thien who says, Batteries just blown up by itself.
[00:03:15]  Try not to drive them to reduce risks.
[00:03:18]  Simple. So this is just a car that's going to sit in your driveway, like the same way that I have this Star Trek ship that someone sent me from Twitter, but it's just a model sitting on my chest of drawers.
[00:03:31]  You want it to just sit in your driveway, just like a material object that you can marvel over, but not actually use for the purpose that it's made for.
[00:03:43]  Sure, yeah.
[00:03:44]  Ultimate lawn sign.
[00:03:45]  Let's spend $10,000 on a car that we will not drive or how much ever they cost.
[00:03:51]  $100,000.
[00:03:53]  Yeah, $100,000.
[00:03:54]  That was wild.
[00:03:56]  Actually, the Cybertruck, people don't know this, it's only $10,000 and it's totally modular.
[00:04:04]  It's their answer to the Toyota truck that America won't let us have.
[00:04:09]  Over here.
[00:04:10]  No, yeah, absolutely.
[00:04:11]  I would say that, yeah, the Cybertruck is definitely like...
[00:04:14]  We were just talking about this last night because there's an author who's like a local author, and maybe I'll ask Ani to see if she wants me to censor this, but there's a local author who writes, I guess, middling fiction that's not that great to begin with.
[00:04:29]  But she also, or they, I think it's a woman, also drive a cyber truck.
[00:04:34]  And so, somebody was, like, asking Ani about, like, do you recommend this book or this book?
[00:04:39]  And Ani was like, well, I didn't really like that author.
[00:04:42]  Also, she drives a cyber truck.
[00:04:44]  And the woman was like, thank you, and put it back immediately.
[00:04:48]  Because it's such a signifier.
[00:04:50]  Like, even before the political stuff, it's such a signifier for, like, desperation.
[00:04:57]  Pure, raw desperation for attention or to be cool or something like that.
[00:05:03]  I know people point this out a lot, but have you ever seen a passenger?
[00:05:06]  I've seen a couple of Cybertrucks, but I've never seen in my neighborhood, actually, which is always appalling because, I mean, these are jokes that people have made already, but truly, it does look, because it is so angular, because it just looks so much unlike any other car,
[00:05:22]  which... You know what I mean?
[00:05:52]  It looks like one of the tanks I controlled on the first generation Mac computer game.
[00:05:58]  That grid work tank program that came with it.
[00:06:03]  That's what it looks like.
[00:06:05]  Getting back to this comment, people forget these fucking cars just blow up.
[00:06:11]  They just do that.
[00:06:12]  It's just something they do.
[00:06:14]  And sometimes they blow up after...
[00:06:16]  Shutting down in the middle of the freeway at 3 a.m., and your lights don't turn on, and you can't turn your hazards, and you can't get out of the car, and then it blows up.
[00:06:23]  And it's in the middle of the freeway, and you can't do that.
[00:06:26]  Did you guys hear about, I think it was, I mean, because there are so many malfunctions with these cars, design flaws, but I think there was one where, like, the rubberized covering over the gas pedal, I think, I think it would slip off or something like that.
[00:06:43]  And it would catch under the gas pedal.
[00:06:46]  So you would be trying to hit brake and you wouldn't be able to do that because the gas pedal would still engage.
[00:06:52]  I mean, we're not even just talking about blowing up.
[00:06:55]  I'm talking about you look at the shit in the rust.
[00:06:56]  You know what I mean?
[00:06:57]  This is a car that is not designed for use, actually.
[00:07:00]  No, exactly.
[00:07:02]  It's safer to just not have one.