(upbeat music)
- Welcome to sunny California,
this is San Diego, Coronado Island,
one of my favorite places,
And today,
Lincoln and I are in town
for a different event,
and we had about five hours,
so we called our friend, Ben.
We're like hey, wanna go golfing?
And he doesn't golf that
often, but he's all sure,
let's do it.
- He's really good.
Just saying.
- Yeah, it turns out we're
like 3 or 4 holes in,
and you're really good.
- [Ben] Well yeah.
I mean, I'm just trying
to hustle you guys.
We'll start playing for
money here pretty soon.
You know.
- I wanted to take the chance
while we have a Tesla expert,
to ask him a few questions about
the current state of Tesla,
or about his Teslas.
Everything's on the table.
- [Ben] Okay.
- So we're going to ask some questions.
He has no idea what the questions are.
So throughout the round, it's
question time about Tesla.
(upbeat music)
- What's the club selection here?
- Nine iron.
- Nine iron 145.
- I hit it good.
- Nice.
How about you?
What's your club?
- Sand wedge.
- Oh the muscles.
You see these muscles?
That's crossfit-surfer right there.
- We have Ben getting the
Samsung, 960 frames per second,
slo-mo shot.
Let's see how that looks.
Going left a little bit.
It's weird 'cause we're
playing at sea elevation.
Like literally, the sea is right there,
and yet our ball is going
just as far as it does up in
Saint George, Utah.
- No, it's going further.
- Yeah, it's going further.
I'm really confused.
I thought that it was
supposed to go not as far.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, golf is going well.
We're playing fast.
This guy doesn't keep score for himself.
He refuses.
But he's playing pretty well.
You've missed a few.
I got one on where you
like, hit the green box.
- Oh yeah.
- Birdie!
- Question number one
for our Tesla expert,
What do you think about Elon Musk,
saying that he's not
doing a refresh in July,
as everybody was reporting?
- That's a good one.
I'm excited about it because
I really love the interior.
I think that he said
something about minor changes,
and that if that...
That would be enough for me,
because there's a lot of
things in there that are just a
little bit bezely,
and a little bit 2008, 2009 design-wise.
But, overall I think the car's fantastic.
So I'm good with it really.
- I feel like the Model S
is the one where it's like,
I feel like there should
be some sort of redesign,
because it's been around since 2012, 2013.
The same car.
It still looks good I think.
- Mhm.
- But you've got the E-Tron.
You've got Mercedes.
You've got all these companies
coming out with these cars.
Porsche Taycan.
- Mhm.
- And then we still have the S-Class.
Do you think it's good enough as it is?
Or does it need some
sort of exterior refresh?
To compete.
- Exterior-wise it could get
a little bit more aggressive.
But again, that's like
a small, minor thing.
It's not like a major overhaul.
So I think that, you know,
just little refinements,
maybe on the front
facia, or on the bumper,
could really go a long way.
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- What's the shot here
with the tree in your way?
- I'm gonna hit five iron, really low.
- Five iron low.
Oh!
You did it.
You hit it low.
- Oh, it was right at
the hole for a minute.
You see how much it bent?
It bent around the entire tree.
- Bent it like Beckham.
- Yeah, look.
There's the pin too.
- Do you know who Beckham is?
- Um.
Isn't he like....
he's the one that made
the really cool catch.
Odell Beckham.
- Oh. Yeah that's not the
'bend it like it' though.
That's a soccer player.
Bend it like Beckham.
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Okay Lincoln.
This is Lincoln's five iron,
under the tree, back in his
stance, and look at that.
Almost pin high.
That's a good shot buddy.
- Get down.
- Woo, almost knocked it down.
Good shot.
Eighth pole, it's the first
time we've seen the driver.
Why don't you hit driver more often?
- I'm just out of control with it.
It's just all over the place.
So, I'd rather just have a good time.
Just keep the balls, keep the game going.
- I was thinking it probably
had something to do with data
and numbers.
If you follow the data,
your mind will flow.
Wait, what is it?
If you follow the data,
your mind will open?
- If you free the data,
your mind will follow.
- Free the data, your mind will follow.
Wait, your mind will...
I totally blew it.
He says that at the end of every video,
and I blew it.
Okay, if you had sell all
of your Teslas right now,
and you couldn't buy an electric car,
what would be your daily
driver for you and Jenny?
- That's a hard one.
We had a Acura SUV before
we got Jenny's Tesla,
and I had a Honda Accord.
Probably some sort of Acura.
I like Acura cars.
- Okay, I like Hondas.
I'd probably go for an Accord for sure.
- Yeah, something economical.
You know?
Something.
I don't really...
It's a funny thing, I never
really cared about cars.
I didn't like cars at all.
And so, until Teslas came out.
And then I really wanted one.
So...
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- All right, Ben.
What is your favorite Tesla?
- Model S.
- Model S?
- Yeah.
- How many Model S' do you own?
- Zero.
(laughter)
- What's wrong with you?
- I sold it!
- I know, but, are you planning
on getting another one?
Is that why you sold it?
- I would like a new one, yeah.
- Par Five.
Ben with the long drive.
Going for the hole.
He's got four iron in his hands.
- [Lincoln] Five iron.
- Five iron.
- Can't hit 'em all straight.
(laughter)
- It went straight, it just went...
- It went straight, just went left.
- Straight Left.
- All right, last green of the day.
We're all on here for Birdie Put.
Birdie Put, some of us Par Put.
So it's a par five.
I like ending on a par five,
makes you feel better about
yourself when you have a chance
for Birdie at the end.
Wow look at this car.
Oh that's pretty.
That is a pretty looking car.
Look at those carbon fiber seats.
Give us the uh, cliff notes version.
Tell us about your car.
- P90D, 2016, with ludicrous.
When I got it, it had
under 1,000 miles on it,
and I got like a screaming deal on it.
Unplugged performance.
Did all this work on it.
- I love the back bumper,
- Yeah.
- how it looks like the bat-mobile.
- Yeah, and the front has it.
Carbon fiber seats on the inside,
carbon fiber trim.
Basically everywhere.
- What's its name?
- Exmakina.
Yeah, I'm a fan of Auto Pilot One.
I think it's more reliable than...
- Oh wow.
- Than the newer versions.
- I didn't know that.
- Yeah, I just had car
with Auto Pilot Three,
or Hardware Three,
and it felt like it was really
trying to guess when someone
was going to cut in front of you.
So it had this like,
just hesitation to it.
It was just... uh.
- Let's see uh,
what does he watch?
He watches, he listens
to Joe Rogan Experience.
That's what you listen to.
Nice.
Oh these are the nice seats,
with the cooling in 'em.
- Yeah, built in cooling.
- You are lucky.
Oh, these seats are nice.
Those are nice.
If you can ever get the air-cooled seats,
make sure you do it.
And other than what's inside,
and what's inside family,
and other than Teslanomics,
what is the top channel,
that if they release a video about Tesla,
that you're going to watch?
- You know, um, there's a guy.
His channel name is I-one Tesla.
And I think he's done a
really cool job of just like,
coming up with creative ways
to do stuff with Teslas.
Like, he took the wood
trim inside of his model 3,
and he's a carpenter,
so he sanded it down and stained it.
- Whoa.
- Yeah, and it's just
like really interesting,
and kind of cool stuff.
So I like people that are doing
things that are maybe a bit
different than just regurgitating,
you know, the main news talking points.
- Yeah that makes sense.
Okay, so what's next for Teslanomics?
- You know, I want to
talk about energy more.
I wanna do stories about
how people are, uh,
going, you know, to switching
to renewable energies,
and what that's doing for
their communities and stuff.
So, some really cool stuff.
- Okay, I like it.
Renewable energy.
He lives in California,
so he can actually get Tesla
Power walls, and solar.
So that's really nice and convenient.
I'd love to learn more about that too.
Anyways, so there's a
random golf-interview,
about Tesla video.
Super random. Let us know what you think.
Was this really a weird format
for an interview of somebody?
Yeah let us know what you
think about this video,
and um, that was really
fun hanging out with Ben,
going golfing.
He took time away from his family today,
just to hang out with us last minute.
Just called him this morning so,
we had blast, and uh yeah, that's it.
Lincoln, final words.
- That was fun.
- Perfect, exactly.
- Hey Lincoln?
- Yeah?
- One word to describe
your golf round today.
- Eight over.
- That's two words.
- No
- I said one word.
- No, that's a number.
One of those two words is numbers.
One word.
