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t have closed this dealership. There's no trucks, no Toyotas. But I go inside because they're actually open. And it turns out they don't have almost any inventory. And the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets purchased before it arrives at the lot. They can't make them fast enough. So if you want to buy a truck you could buy one that's in the pipeline. But the pipeline ones are al…

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ich weren't that restrictive, give me a call and I'll come right down and buy it. No call. Same when I tried to buy a Ford truck a while ago. They didn't have any I could drive. And I've never owned a truck. I've driven them but I've never owned a truck. And I thought I'm not going to buy a truck I can't even drive one. That's in the same general idea.

So I couldn't buy a truck and I couldn't buy a Ford. I couldn't buy a Toyota. And so there we are anyway. I can see why. And then I thought about the process of negotiating for a car and I thought I would almost rather do anything than spend a whole day negotiating.

Has anybody brought their laptop to a car purchase? Because remember they used to use the trick where they'd say I'll talk to my boss and they'd be gone for an hour. And what they're really trying to do is make you stay there as long as possible so you're too invested in the process to ever say no. That's why they do it. So they're trying to wear you down physically. They're trying to physically exhaust you.

So has anybody brought their laptop and said hey, take your time, I got a lot of work to do, and then just start happily doing your work on your laptop while they think they're sweating you out but you're actually getting a lot of work done? Hey I think I'll send some posts. If you haven't done that yet you need to do it because it ruins their whole game.

Because you know they're back there peeking out to see if you're still there so they can run out. In case you leave they'll run out and grab you and bring you back. So you know they're watching. So just make it look like you're really having a good time on your laptop getting a lot of work done.

Anyway, we hear that the X platform is going to compete with YouTube. So they're going to have a big video platform that will play on some smart TVs. That's the big announcement. And it will look very much like the YouTube interface. So Musk is going big for video, which is the smart play.

There's a little garage startup who has made what would be an $8,000 robot. And they 3D print the parts and they put little motors in it. I think it's called K-Scale Labs. And the funny part is that the founder of this little garage startup, as soon as I saw him talking I said my God that's Elon Musk too. He looks like Elon Musk. He looks like him and talks like him. And then I looked in the comments and somebody else said the same thing. Oh good, I'm not imagining it.

So yeah, there's somebody who reminds you of Elon Musk who just made an $8,000 robot that you could just have running around your house. Now I'm assuming you just load it with one of their AIs. But here's what I would like to suggest. If somebody could tell me who makes the best little motors for robots, because each of the arms and legs of the robot are going to have a number of motors and servos or whatever they're called to activate all the body.

Shouldn't we be investing in little motors that go into robots? Is there a company that owns that like NVIDIA owns the GPUs for AI? Doesn't it seem like that's the shovel investment for the gold rush? Because the robots are going to use a lot of little motors.