Aug. 24, 2024 - The Tucker Carlson Show
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| I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England. | ||
| Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on. | ||
| So we called Elon, can we borrow a Cybertruck, bring it up to Maine for a month or two, do a kind of rural review? | ||
| And Elon said, okay. | ||
| We're just going 104. Probably a little too fast. | ||
| And give it to Patrick Feeney. | ||
| Long haul trucker, a carpenter, fixed diesel engines in the first Gulf War. | ||
| And just turn them loose with this thing. | ||
| We're going up to meet the Irish family. | ||
| It's a big logging company. | ||
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I'm a little embarrassed. | |
| Oh, I live my life in my pickup. | ||
| Would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods? | ||
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I don't know that yet. | |
| Well, this is real. | ||
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Oh, it's done. | |
| They're going to pull us out with a machine. | ||
| Yeah, I love it. | ||
| To let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily, leaving us out, and then we'll hit it harder. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| All right, slow the fuck down a little bit. | ||
| Holy shit, Patrick. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So... | ||
| So the thing about the Cybertruck is, it's a truck. | ||
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It's not just a commute to Midtown vehicle. | |
| The promise of the Cybertruck is that it could replace a pickup truck, a work vehicle. | ||
| So we're testing that. | ||
| We're now on the Maine-New Hampshire border and Western Maine, some of the steepest grades in the whole region. | ||
| And we're going up to meet the Irish family from Rumford, Maine, some big logging company in the area. | ||
| You hunt up here a lot. | ||
| And now it's raining. | ||
| How does this vehicle handle? | ||
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This thing handles great. | |
| It's the best handling vehicle. | ||
| I've got a smoothest ride. | ||
| Yeah, but this is about as demanding a drive as you get on the East Coast of the United States, and it's handling really well. | ||
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We're going 63. We're just, okay, settle down. | |
| I don't encourage passengers to go faster. | ||
| We're just going 104. I don't think of myself as a wuss. | ||
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Probably a little too fast in this weather, but the Cybertruck did it. | |
| I gotta ask, are you embarrassed to drive this around? | ||
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Yes. | |
| It's very embarrassing. | ||
| Is it really? | ||
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Well, not embarrassing. | |
| Like, some people think it's cool, and sometimes, like, I don't want to see that guy. | ||
| All I have to do... | ||
| When somebody has that attitude, let them drive it. | ||
| And it's a total game changer. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| I've been to all 50 states and I can say this is one of the prettiest places in the world. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| Those guys are cutting wood. | ||
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Look at that. | |
| Those are big trees. | ||
| Gentlemen! | ||
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I'm a little embarrassed. | |
| Did you guys have truck envy at all? | ||
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Nice to meet you. | |
| Daddy Sire. | ||
| Nice to meet you. | ||
| I see your name everywhere. | ||
| Nice to meet you. | ||
| Tell us the name of that machine that he's operating. | ||
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That's a forwarder. | |
| Forwarder. | ||
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Forwarder. | |
| Yep. | ||
| And he comes along and he picks up the different sorts. | ||
| And every pile you see here is a different sort of wood. | ||
| That's pulpwood for paper. | ||
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Pulpwood for paper. | |
| Hardwood logs for all different, you know, furniture making. | ||
| I don't think people understand just how much open space there is in northern New England. | ||
| Well, if you've got 1.5 million acres to mess around on, what do you drive? | ||
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Drive this Ford Super Duty. | |
| But I put a lot of miles a day on, so you've got to make sure that everything's reliable and going. | ||
| What do you look for in a truck, since it is the core of your life? | ||
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Room, for one thing. | |
| Room. | ||
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Being able to tow stuff. | |
| I've got fuel tank toolboxes. | ||
| I need something that's going to be able to tow heavy loads also. | ||
| Room, you got the double cab too. | ||
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The back seat is full of junk. | |
| Is that a... | ||
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Yeah, you don't want to open the door. | |
| It's full of junk. | ||
| I gotta look. | ||
| Oh, that's not bad. | ||
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Well, I live my life in my pickup, so... | |
| Have you ever gotten this truck stuck? | ||
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Uh, yes. | |
| Many times. | ||
| Okay, so that's your vehicle. | ||
| The Ford... | ||
| 250 XLT Super Duty, and this is something very different. | ||
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Oh, very different. | |
| When you see this, what do you think? | ||
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Innovation. | |
| Would you drive this? | ||
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Yeah, if it came into a price point that a guy can make it worth. | |
| My biggest thing would be battery life. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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Because yesterday I put just under 400 miles on my pickup. | |
| Today I'm at like 280. So... | ||
| How? | ||
| We got jobs in a lot of different locations, parts runs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You put 400 miles on a truck in one day? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So would you be nervous about taking something like this into the woods? | ||
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I don't know that yet. | |
| Like you roll up in this thing, what's the reception like? | ||
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There'd probably be some goofing because of the looks, but I don't know. | |
| I think if somebody looked it over and see some of the innovation in it. | ||
| But Maine is still a hard place for EV vehicles, for people to get used to that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What road are we going? | ||
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No, we're going to go right there first. | |
| We're going to go see if we can make it into Charlie. | ||
| They probably ought to have these on. | ||
| Hey, I don't think it runs without them. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| Right, that's what I think. | ||
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It won't go 114 without the seatbelt. | |
| It'll only go 105. All right. | ||
| Might want to get around. | ||
| I've never done mud with this, so this is actually a first test, Tucker. | ||
| We have enough machinery to pull it out, I see. | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
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Let's try it and see what it does. | |
| You might want to give us some when you get in this. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| I thought we were going to get stuck for sure. | ||
| Well, that was nothing. | ||
| That was nothing at all. | ||
| I'm telling you, this thing's a... | ||
| What a beast. | ||
| I'm impressed. | ||
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And this is the Snow Machine Trail. | |
| We made it. | ||
| You think of that, Charles? | ||
| Take mine out there. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Take mine out there. | ||
| That's pretty impressive. | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| Everyone thinks of Maine as just like pine trees. | ||
| This is what Maine actually looks like. | ||
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This is what Maine looks like. | |
| It's swampy. | ||
| It's wet. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
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It's a mix of everything. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Can you tell us, for those who aren't familiar with the processor, that's a feller buncher that cuts down the trees and stacks them. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The processor does what? | ||
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The processor will take, he's going to deal in these bundles right here as they sit. | |
| Yep. | ||
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And they're going to take, he's then going to decide if it's a piece of pulp, if it's a piece of logs, what it is, and he's going to cut it into. | |
| Pulp goes to the paper mill, logs go to the sawmill. | ||
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Yep. | |
| This thing just rolled over yesterday? | ||
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On Monday. | |
| Monday. | ||
| It's now Thursday. | ||
| And that's the man who survived. | ||
| Looking pretty happy. | ||
| But the machine doesn't look damaged from rolling around. | ||
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It doesn't hurt anything. | |
| No. | ||
| It could hurt him, though. | ||
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It could hurt him. | |
| Dude, where are you going on Sunday morning? | ||
| Do you know? | ||
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Sunday morning? | |
| You're going to church. | ||
| To thank God for being alive. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| What's the fuel burn on these things? | ||
| We run about 4,000 gallons a week, roughly between every day. | ||
| Can you imagine running all this on electric? | ||
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They're working on it. | |
| I don't know how you do it, but huh? | ||
| Yeah, they got some hybrids. | ||
| That tree's no good, so it's going to go on pulp. | ||
| So he puts it over there in a different pile. | ||
| Tell me why that tree's no good. | ||
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It's dead. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| They won't take a dead log. | ||
| So what direction do we think we want to... | ||
| I would be out of the right. | ||
| I yanked that tree out of the way a little bit. | ||
| But don't worry about... | ||
| There's a guy riding in the back. | ||
| Oh, this is real. | ||
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Uh-oh. | |
| It's done. | ||
| It bursts them back out, maybe. | ||
| We're going to have to hit it harder, but he's riding in the back. | ||
| All right, so let the record reflect that we are stuck momentarily. | ||
| We're fiddling with the computer. | ||
| Well, I'm not. | ||
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Jason is, but anyway. | |
| Now try back. | ||
| Let's try. | ||
| Let's try. | ||
| I wonder if sand would try anything. | ||
| Try next track, sand. | ||
| All right, we have... | ||
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Hold on. | |
| Maybe that goes up really high. | ||
| We've discovered the limit of the Cybertruck. | ||
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Oh, we're going higher. | |
| Yeah, it went higher on extract. | ||
| Let's try backwards. | ||
| I didn't hit it fast enough. | ||
| Ooh, you might make it down. | ||
| Well, that feels good. | ||
| Get it rocking back and forth if you can figure out how to do that. | ||
| I don't know if it will let me. | ||
| Well, it's a pretty good digging machine. | ||
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This is quite a test. | |
| I mean, I don't know any pickup or jeep that would go through this. | ||
| See, now you're defending the Cybertruck again. | ||
| He has this love affair with this Cybertruck. | ||
| No matter how the Cybertruck fucks up, he's like, well, there's a good reason for that. | ||
| I'll take your truck through this. | ||
| See? | ||
| Now he's a Cybertruck. | ||
| Your truck couldn't do this. | ||
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Why isn't it? | |
| I think we're just plain old-fashioned stuff. | ||
| I think we're going to have to hit it harder, but I don't want him in the back if we're going to hit it harder. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Hey, Jake? | ||
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Yep? | |
| You might want to get out because we're going to hit it hard. | ||
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Wow, we're going to get pulled out for us. | |
| We're going to get pulled out for us. | ||
| We're going to get pulled out for us. | ||
| I'm glad we've reached the limit. | ||
| Now we know. | ||
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It's a little slime. | |
| No, we're just slimy. | ||
| Just slimy tiles. | ||
| He get us out and then we'll hit it harder. | ||
| We probably won't make it through that. | ||
| This thing is cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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You like it. | |
| They're going to pull us out with a machine. | ||
| Yeah, I love it. | ||
| What machine? | ||
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The processor. | |
| The processor is going to yaw us out. | ||
| I've become a failure! | ||
| It's so great. | ||
| I love it. | ||
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You ready? | |
| Yep. | ||
| You want to back? | ||
| I'm going to get them all running start. | ||
| Yeah, because I don't know if it's going to let me go here. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Oh, it won't. | ||
| I got it to the floor and it won't let me. | ||
| Just spinning. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's no fun. | ||
| Did it die again? | ||
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No, it's just spinning. | |
| It won't. | ||
| There's no traction. | ||
| No traction at all. | ||
| It doesn't like mud. | ||
| That's the tires. | ||
| Is this what you thought you'd be doing today? | ||
| No, it's so great! | ||
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I love it. | |
| This is awesome. | ||
| So I think it's fair to say we've assembled a jury of men who operate large machines and have spent their lives doing so. | ||
| We've spent a lot of time in the Cybertruck, and now the verdict. | ||
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I was impressed by how it went. | |
| As far as driving the woods roads themselves, it actually handles better than our trucks. | ||
| In the mud didn't do quite as well, but it was to be expected. | ||
| But overall, I was very impressed. | ||
| Would you buy one? | ||
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I think I'd buy it more as a toy than a work truck at this point. | |
| 200 miles doesn't get you to work and back. | ||
| What did you think, Jason? | ||
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I love it. | |
| I'm in the same boat as Dean's at. | ||
| I think that as a toy, it'd be awesome. | ||
| It'd be so much fun. | ||
| 200 to 300 miles doesn't get me around in a day. | ||
| So, Patrick, I doubt... | ||
| I doubt it's even worth asking the question because you're so deeply in love with the vehicle that I found you petting it the other day and you defend it against all criticism. | ||
| You make excuses for it. | ||
| It'll come home drunk and you'll just pretend it's not. | ||
| But what do you think? | ||
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But as far as driving it, it's just fun. | |
| It's like hopping in your golf cart in Florida and pushing in the pedal and going. | ||
| It's that simple to drive. | ||
| I have a golf cart that I use every weekend at my campground. | ||
| I wish it had power like that. | ||
| I wish it could do that. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| It's a fun vehicle. | ||
| I think if you were the carpenter that drove the $100,000 King Ranch Denali and liked that kind of thing, and you worked in town... | ||
| That would suffice you just fine. | ||
| You've got to plug it in at night. | ||
| You can easily drive 200 miles. | ||
| You could probably drive close to 300 miles if you didn't drive like an idiot like I do. | ||
| The only thing I don't know is I don't know how that handled the wintertime up here in Maine. | ||
| 30 below, I don't know what that would do. | ||
| But also, I don't know how my plow would fit on it. | ||
| Well, that's what he was saying. | ||
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The plow is essential for me. | |
| I've got to have the plow. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So he's trying to convince Elon to let him keep it through the winter. | ||
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I want to rig up a plow on it somehow, have my welding guy fabricate some kind of plow. | |
| It's got those tow hooks on the front. | ||
| We could probably rig something up. | ||
| So the Cybertruck's been here four weeks, and I'll just be totally blunt. | ||
| I expected it to become a local laughingstock. | ||
| I expected it to evoke hostility, if not violence. | ||
| From the local population. | ||
| And actually, everyone kind of likes the Cybertruck. | ||
| I'm not just saying that because Elon lent it to us for free. | ||
| That's for real. | ||
| Patrick has fallen head over heels with the machine in a way that's unnatural and creepy. | ||
| But everyone else likes it too. | ||
| Local kids like it. | ||
| And so we thought we had to bring it logging because this is, you know, a wood-based economy. | ||
| And the loggers liked it too. | ||
| So actually, the Cybertruck... | ||
| Like a lot of things in life, I started out wanting to hate it just on principle because it's electric and modern and it has weird lines and no continuous curves in it. | ||
| The whole thing was just offensive to my aesthetic sense. | ||
| But flying colors. |
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