confident you can keep it, then you want everybody to build out the industry so that they're building chargers that you can use. You know, in the perfect world, Ford would make a charging station that a Tesla can use. That's going to be way better for Tesla users than for Ford users. I mean, it's probably going to work both ways. You know, Tesla has opened up to other cars charging. So yes, having some kind of voluntary standards for some of this stuff probably makes the industry better. I mean, just knowing how to do a better technology and probably makes gas cars last less long.

You know, if the net effect of all this is that, well, let me, I'm a perfect example. I am currently in the sort of general stage of looking for a new vehicle right now. And so I've got to make the choice of electric versus non-electric car. I was sure that by the time I made this choice it would be an easy choice. I thought that by the time I had to get another vehicle, you know, several years ago I got a gas vehicle and I thought that my next vehicle would be electric for sure, if not fully self-driving. But now when I look at it I think, you know what? Yeah, you know what is my biggest psychological block? And maybe this is useful for Tesla.

I have this issue where if somebody doesn't personally show me how to use a Tesla charging station, I will never buy a Tesla. Does anybody have that? And this is a defect. It's a defect in my personality. If a human doesn't drive me there in their own Tesla while I'm in the passenger seat and say, watch how easy this is. You know, you just wait in this line, you plug this in here and you just sit here for 20 minutes. If nobody shows it to me in person, I'm never going to buy that car. Do you know why? And again, this is purely irrational. This is a defect in me. So you don't have to say, what's wrong with you Scott? You can just acknowledge that I say this is a defect.

It's the same reason I don't use car washes at gas stations. I wrote about this. Because if I don't know exactly how to use the car wash, the one you drive through yourself, I'm afraid that I'll get stuck in the car wash and they'll have to like dismantle the entire car wash to get me out. And it'll be on the front page of the news. Cartoonist drives car backwards into car wash. Idiot doesn't know the first thing about washing cars. So obvious they should have gone in forward. How did he think it should go in backwards? What was he thinking? Dumbest cartoonist in the world. No wonder he was canceled. Like that's what goes through my mind.

And I have the same feeling about the car charging station. I feel like I would get in the wrong line, as if there are wrong lines. I don't even know if there is a right line and a wrong line. I would get in the wrong line. I'd get to the front, find out that I had the wrong nozzle for charging my car, but I'd be trapped there so there wouldn't be a way to turn around. And everybody behind me would be honking at me and laughing. Now nothing like that's going to happen, right? Well it's not a nozzle, I know. But it's funnier to say nozzle. Nozzle is just a funny word. Can you agree with me on that? Nozzle is a funny word. That's all. So I do use it out of context because it's a funny word. So why don't you get your nozzle out of my business? See, it works in every context. Will you keep your nozzle out of my business? Yeah, it's a great word. You should use it anyway.

So if I were Tesla, I would make a little video that shows somebody pulling up and very easily charging their car and then showing how many charging stations there are in my area so I can say, oh, I'm never going to run out. And also, what do you do when you run out of electricity? I'm guessing there's somebody like a Tesla person with a truck who drives up and charges your car for you. You don't tow it, right? Just some Tesla facility of some kind comes and charges you up, right? Now those are the things I don't know. And if I saw really just a 30-second video, 30 seconds is all I need. Drive up, take it out, stick it in, you're good. Here's all the charging stations. If you run out of charge, here's the truck that comes and gets you. Like 30 seconds and I'd be all good psychologically. But psychologically I can't get past that barrier. Does anybody else have this? I'm just trying to find out how unusual I am. Does anybody else have the same thing I'm talking about? Okay, bunch of yeses on Locals. There's lots of yeses.

Now here's another industry where I have the same problem. Here's two other businesses that I would have the same problem. Number one, if you had never gotten a professional massage and you didn't know somebody to talk to who did it all the time, would you sign up for one? I wouldn't. I would never sign up for a professional massage if I'd never talked in person to somebody who did it a lot and really could walk you through, you know, what's awkward and what's normal and how much of your clothes do you take off and where do they touch you and do you talk to them, how do you tip, like all that. It would just be too awkward. I wouldn't do it. Now luckily I've passed through that barrier.

Here's another one. I would love to take a yoga class. Now I did a little yoga in college in a class once and I liked it. Here's why I don't go. Do I need to bring like my own little mat? And what happens if I don't understand all the language like everybody else in the class? What happens if they say all right, downward dog, and I'm like I don't know what that is. Do I just watch? Is that enough? Will they tease me if I can't keep up? What happens if I can't keep up? All right. So I just have a bunch of questions, right? And it prevents me from ever signing up for a class. Plus I never have them in the afternoon when I'm available. But that's another thing.

All right. There's this big box that's your doctor now. You can walk into a big box and they put the big boxes, they call them pods, but it's just a big box and it'll be in a mall. They've got a few. They're actually real. These are being rolled out now. So there's one, let's see, it's called CarePod. And so do-it-yourself health clinic in a box. And you walk into one of these CarePods and it might be in your mall or some central place, but it could be just like a kiosk in a mall. And you could go in and it will scan your whole body. Apparently you could just stand up like an airport scanner and it just scans you. Doesn't that seem dangerous? How in the world can they scan you when you're just standing there? If you go to an MRI you've got to do all these, you know, and you can't have infinite x-rays. So I don't know how any of that works.

But they also have a way you can draw your own blood for a blood test. Now don't you wonder how that works? I thought, how in the world do they have a robot that puts a needle in? Turns out there's no needle. They can draw blood without a needle. Did you know that? They apparently, this is existing technology, they put a little suction cup on your arm or wherever you put it and it just sucks. And it can't get much blood because it's sucking through and there's no wound, there's no hole. It just starts sucking it directly out of your arm. And if it sucks hard enough it can get blood. So it takes about four minutes but it will just suck the blood right out of your arm like a leech. Isn't that cool? It's kind of cool.

But anyway, so and that's not all it can do. It can do a bunch of things, check your heart, etc. So I'm pretty sure. And then there are doctors that you can call for telehealth. So you can get a doctor on video to work with your other issues. Very good.

All right. That should take a dent out of, see I think where we're going on inflation is we'll get to the point where the normal things we have to do are much cheaper. You know, I harp on this all the time but I think the process of getting food from a farm into your mouth is so amazingly inefficient because of all the transportation and rules and everything that eventually you're going to have a little food growing operation connected to your house. So your own food costs will be maybe 20% of what they would have been otherwise. But also these advances in health care, I think you're going to make health care 20% of what it could be. I think people will still pay for the full service one if they can afford it, but there'll be a whole bunch of people who go for the one that's 20% of the cost and gets you almost as good. You know, maybe 95% as good as an expensive full service model. A lot of people are going to take that, especially younger people.

Nuclear energy is still surging, at least in interest if not building. 20 plus countries have signed a declaration to triple nuclear capacity. So nuclear is now fully absolved of all this bad reputation. You know, I'll tell you, I feel great satisfaction that I was one of a number of people who for the last seven years or so have been just hammeri