Barn Talk - Barn Talk Hot Topics: Tesla Stock Plummets, Twitter Files & Cold Fusion Energy

Episode Date: December 30, 2022

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And if you guys want to submit questions for a Barn Talk Q&A episode, you can submit them at barn talk show at gmail.com. And that's where we can get your questions and we'll answer them on our Q&A episodes. But yeah, like Dad was saying, this is going to be a hot topics episode. so it's it's going to be less about politics and more i don't think as much doom and gloom either no i think i think there's some upside here so um i'm looking forward to get it into it dad definitely probably knows a lot more about this stuff uh than i do i know i know a good i know i know the the headlines in a little bit but i think he really knows the nitty-gritty detail so he might do a lot more talking than i do in this one but hey that's all right that's all right with me but

here he's going to give you a good old market update because we haven't had one of those in a hot minute. So take it away. We're going to do a vast and wide market update. I would say next week probably be a Q&A. We haven't done a Q&A for a while. So we'll probably... I don't know. I think next week we'll probably do a guest.

We got one in the oven. Are we going to tell people who... Nope. All right. It's going to be a secret. We're actually ahead of the game. We've got some stuff in the oven. Stuff in the oven ready to go.

So anyway. But submit your question. because a Q&A will be coming soon. Market update. Corn today, 674, and I think that's the close. I got a text message from Katz Green. Shout out to Katz Green, Washington, Iowa. That's who we get our prices from for the Barn Talk Market Update. They, Eddieville sent out a bid for the first half of January. They're paying 704 for the first half of January. So closed today, 674, so they must need a little corn down in Eddieville. Beans 1482, and I forgot to look and see what the price was at the river. Weat 774. Hogs $91, Cattle 157, oil 78, 2828. Gold is $1,812. And I haven't, I want to say it's worked its way up.

I want to say that I should have looked back, but it might have been about $1,600 earlier in the year. silver's actually worked up quite a bit 2375 and I think for the year silver is up like 4% which you'd say well 4%'s not very good but when you consider that the S&P 500 is down like what 30% and Tesla's down 60% I don't know 4% pretty good if you would have thrown all your money in that

Bitcoin it's just muddling through 16,600 Ethereum 1197. So Cardano, Cardano has gotten the crap whipped out of it, 25 cents. That is the lowest it's been in quite a while. And Tesla, $113 last time I looked. That was not the close. It has been on, it's just been getting beat and beat bad. Yeah, I think everybody understands, well, everybody that pays attention to Tesla,

which if you pay attention to the stock market, you probably see a Tesla article every day. But it's going down, and I think everybody knows it's going down. But for us, I look at that as like just a late Black Friday sale. I know. You know, right?

And it's, hey, this is not financial advice, but hey, Black Friday, if you're looking to buy some cheap stocks because there's a lot out there that are good, but Tesla's one of those that, you know, we guys all know when you listen to the show. We think it's got a lot of potential. And really,

it's in the tank and institutional investors are, you know, shitting on it. But why are they shitting on it? Why is the price so low, Dad? What, what's the deal? What's gone on? What's gone so wrong that it deserves this drastic decline? Yeah. So I think there's, I think there's a few things. If you look at the ownership of Tesla compared to other tech stocks and other stocks in its market cap, the percentage of stock owned by funds and institutional investors is a lot lower than other stocks, say Google or Apple or something like that. And that's because even though they're in a much better financial situation than, say, a GM or a Ford, or even a lot of tech companies,

because they have virtually no debt. They have really good operating margins. I mean, their gross automotive margin is like 18%. And you compare that with somebody like Ford whose operating margin might be 4%. I don't know if it even, like for this year, for the year end in 22, I'd be surprised if they actually end up with even 4%.

But you have a, you have a, you don't have a, the demand for the stock that you do with some tech stocks because institutions have stayed away from it. And part of that is because they don't understand it, which you might say, how is that true? Because it's been around so long now that everybody should have it figured out. But Wall Street has a weird, they have a weird history with companies that don't fit the mold. And there's still a lot of companies that they look at Tesla. as an automotive company when in reality it's a software company. It's a tech company. And the auto business in general has had a tough time. And then there's a lot of concern about China and about the

demand for cars within China, which obviously that has been hurt because the Chinese economy is shit. Dog shit. But I think what people don't understand. understand is every car that they make in China is going to get sold. If the auto market in China deteriorates, they will just export those cars because currently they're taking a lot of that to Europe because the plant in Germany is not anywhere near full capacity. And let's face it, with that's another problem that they have because you build a plant in china and now then China has had incredible problems because of the COVID lockdown. So you build a plant in Germany, the center of the European automotive world, and then energy prices go through the roof

because Russia decides to invade Ukraine and the economy's trash and energy prices are through the roof. So now then that looks like that may be a tough road. I think all of those things together plus Elon spending what looks like a good amount of time on Twitter to the public eye, probably pisses them off and takes the price down a little bit too. Yeah, because conventional wisdom, wouldn't you say, you know, when we think about companies out there like, Lockheed Martin. Like, you wouldn't think about, you wouldn't think about the guy that runs like Lockheed Martin

running Ford too. Mm-hmm. And so when you think about Elon's running SpaceX, running Tesla, running the boring company, and now running Twitter. Is Starlink part of SpaceX? Yeah, Starlink is part of SpaceX.

Now, he has incredible people, that are running those businesses. He is the CEO, but... He's got good boards. He's got really good people. And one thing that we all should have learned from Twitter is he looks at not only he, but his team, and let's not forget, he has an amazing team

because you can't do what he does without that. But at Twitter, I don't really know what the headcount was, when he went there, but he has cut a tremendous amount of overhead out of that company and actually improved the features of the app. So his ability to multitask is, I would say, kind of unheard of in the corporate world, but I think that's a dig to him.

I think that's one of the things that makes people nervous. Well, it's just like everything. When people see something new, they're not all, not a ton of people are always ready to just jump on it. And I mean, Tesla is new and innovative and everything they do. Elon is a one-of-a-kind guy. And it's just like totally new to the world. It's totally new to how to people. And so yeah, I think a lot of traditional guys that are in Wall Street, don't get that. Yeah. Don't you think it's interesting, too, that Elon is today hated.

I'd say in hated is a strong word, but I think it's proven itself out. He is hated, feared, ridiculed by the left, by the woke part of the left. By the media. But isn't it ironic that you've got the guy. that jump started the electric, restarted the EV revolution in the world, and was held up by the environmentalists and the people that were pushing the Green New Deal,

Tesla was like the darling of that, and they all loved him. Then he buys Twitter, and his mantra of free speech and getting rid of the corruption and exposing, if anybody's heard, you know, seen any of the Twitter files, and we're going to talk about that a little bit. So these far lefters... You're either all in or you're not.

Yeah. That's how it goes with them. Blood is just shooting out of their eyes because it's like he's turned to the dark side, you know. And I think that's hurt the stock too because you just have... Basically, at the end of the day, the biggest thing working against Tesla stock is uncertainty. It's not the fundamentals.

So talk about the fundamentals a little bit because you have them written down here. If you look on paper, the stock should not be down. No, it should not. It seems like it's all the bullshit around the stock and the guy running it that makes the stock going down. It's on paper, the company running, it shouldn't be down. Yeah. But it is. Their margins are best in class.

So their PE ratio, think about this. What is PE? So price to earnings. So in other words, the price of one share of stock, what the in total number of shares divided by the amount of earnings. So in other words, a lot of these tech companies would have a PE that's over 100. So in other words, you're paying, you're paying one share of stock, you're paying over 100. I don't know how to put that to where it sounds right.

Their P.E. is over 100. And when Tesla's share price was, say it was $300 a share, well, their P.E was, actually, it was even higher than that. It was $580 a share before the split or more than that. Today, it's like 19. Well, that's the same price to earnings ratio as a company like Hershey's Chocolate or General Mills or PepsiCo. So a traditional consumer stock that's very stable,

but has very limited growth, it's very consistent. They have a very low P.E. Traditional tech stocks have a high P.E. Because you're paying a premium for what future growth looks like. And Tesla's outlook for future growth hasn't changed any. and their profit margin hasn't changed any. So their deliveries in the third quarter were off a little bit

because of the lockdowns in China and problems with, I wouldn't say they're really demand problems. I would say it's more logistic problems and people actually being able to get out to buy a vehicle. And if you're in lockdown, you don't need a car. And if you're thinking about buying a car,

but yet you're uncertain as to whether you're even going to have a job to go to, you're probably not going to buy a car. Well, if they change your COVID status to red, you don't own anything. Right. Going into a pod. Yeah. So there's a lot of things that was out of their control on that,

but still, their sales held up really, really well. So the fundamentals of the company hasn't changed. It's really, and then you've got macro. And macro is, when I say macro, I mean the stock market in general, tech stocks specifically have been beaten terrible. Whether you're talking about Google, whether you're talking about meta, any of these tech stocks have been beaten down hard through this too. I mean, the whole stock market's down. If you take out oil and gas companies, I think Occidental Petroleum is the best performing stock this year in the, in the, um, and P-500. So anyway, long story short, well, I want to run through them. I want to run through them.

So margin is more than two times the competition. Yeah. So when you talk about, when you talk about all other auto companies, traditional, whether it's Toyota Ford GM, their margin on the vehicles they sell, very unusual for them to have a margin more than, let's give them the benefit of the out and maybe say 6%. Tesla's margin is 18%. So that means that they can sell way fewer

cars and make more money. And if you look at last year, when we ended up last year, Tesla was within Tesla was within a few hundred million dollars of

having the same actually I think it was much closer than that. of having the same amount of profit as what Ford had over a much, much smaller gross sales number. In other words, they didn't sell near as many cars for near as much money, but they made way more money per car than what Ford did. So at the end of the day, their profit was almost the same.

And here's another interesting fact that people need to understand. we've talked about this before. You take a company like Ford, and I don't mean to bag on Ford because I think that they get it better than GM does. I think GM is probably, if I had to pick one company that I think is probably headed for bankruptcy and another government bailout,

it's GM, because Mary Barra is one of the worst CEOs. She's terrible, and she doesn't know what the hell she's doing, my personal opinion, but you take a company like Ford, if you take out the money they make off the Ford F-150, they lose money. In other words, their profit is totally hitched to the sale of half-ton pickups. And if they don't have that income, they lose money on everything else. The Mustang Mach E that competes with the Model 3, they lose money on every one of those they sell. The F-150 Lightning, which they're selling is a great vehicle well done for them can't get any their production is low on it

but their margin on that is not very good it's not near as good as what tesla makes on the vehicles they sell so all of these all these all these legacy automakers have a real problem because as they transition they're going from the vehicles that they make the most money on GM being the same way They make a lot of money on pickups. They make a lot of money on Suburans and Tahos. They do not make money on the Chevy Bolt. They do not make money on their hybrids because their cost of production,

the cost of the batteries, the cost of the labor to do it. It's all high. No debt. They got no debt. They're making money when others are burning cash and they don't have much profit. It's just kind of what you're talking about right there.

They're going to have to make, they're going to have to convince you to buy more F-150s so they can turn around and take that money into production of EVs and probably going to have to take some debt to do the same thing to get the production going. And none of the EVs right now are making them money. And the cost of that debt. Yep. Interest is going up.

So if you got debt on the production of trying to make electric vehicles, if you're Ford or GM, your interest just went up. So, yeah, Tesla's running with no debt. Yeah, they're running on cash. And I think that's one of the biggest stories in 23, depending on how long this interest rate hike. We seem to have a Fed that is very determined to absolutely kill inflation no matter what. So if you're a company and you're running on debt and you're having to borrow money, the cost of doing that, we've run 15 years on basically no cost. You could borrow money for nothing, very close to nothing. Now it's costing something

and it's costing more every Fed meeting it's costing more. So I think that's going to be a big problem for them going forward. What else? Semi is real. It's profitable. Got 35 already running at PepsiCo, 100 plus coming in 23. Yeah. Their margin on that semi is probably, it could be over 20%.

And it's one of those things. They just have to weigh out the benefit, the benefit of selling those versus selling more cars because the drawback to the semi is every semi you manufacture those packs are so big that you're taking battery supply

that you could be making cars with. And I don't know what the ratio is. The battery pack on one semi might be like four or five model threes. So you got to weigh that all out. Can they make more money selling five cars versus one semi. Right. But at the end of the day, they're dedicated to it because of all the emissions that get put out worldwide, it's something like only, and I could get this wrong, so do your own

research, but just for argument's sake, let's say that the percentage of vehicles on the road, 20% of the vehicles are heavy trucks, and they create 40% of the emissions. So it's, and it's, and it It might be smaller than that. It might be 15%. I can't remember exactly. But it's the percentage of vehicles of heavy trucks versus the amount of emissions is big. And that's why they're committed to doing the semi.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Theaters Friday. Yeah, those are pretty much all the fundamentals you got. I mean, we talked about China and it's trash-ass economy. All the other legacy autos, they're, doing exactly what we said, trying to convince you to buy the gas combustion engine vehicles to turn around and take that money for production of EVs and they're losing their ass doing it. I think, yeah, it's like you said. I think Ford is definitely in the right direction, BMW. But GM, you see commercials a GM and what they're coming out, EV-wise.

They don't even put a fucking date on when you're able to order one. It's just all promotion. It's all brand. And it's like everybody, I, like I will watch a, we'll be watching a game and the Chevy something will come up. And it's an EV. I can't remember. I think it was the Silverado. I don't know if they're coming out with a Chevy Silverado EV version.

But everyone's like, oh, look at that. Tesla's fucked. Tesla's fucked. And then I'm like, just wait. Let's see when they're coming. And you, and they gets the end of the commercial and it, nothing. Delivery date. Nothing.

There's not one. There's not even one. There's not even one. It's like, yeah, because they're not even close to getting that out. There's not even close. Yeah, and I think one more thing I'll kind of end on the Tesla bit is the speed of, the speed of iteration or the speed of change at which they engineer and improve their product

is something that the rest of the automotive industry, has no, like they have, they know nothing of doing it that way. So their product is improved constantly. And most of the improvement comes through software. Some of it is hardware. So starting in January, Model 3 and Model Y, and I think the model S and X have already made this change, but the actual master computer, the full self-driving computer that pretty much runs the car, starting in January, those cars have a new chip. And it's a faster chip, and it gives them faster compute times, all that. But that's really one of the first, like, things that they've done that hasn't been an

that they can just do with a software update. And the rest of the automotive world, they are, not only are they far behind, but they're not catching up. They're probably falling back further. And decisions that they make are having real impact on the speed in which they are falling behind.

And the best example I can give you with that is Volkswagen. Volkswagen abandoned their ID3 platform. they're not going to expand that. And the one guy within Volkswagen that was their CEO, they fired him because he was pushing them to change faster than what the rest of the board wanted to change. So rather than take a hard look at themselves and say, you know, what do we have to do to be competitive?

They said, let's get rid of him. So yeah, overall, what do you feel about the Tesla stock? are you worried? Are you looking forward to the future? Is it going to turn around? What are you, what's your thoughts on that? So I never looked at the money that I invested in Tesla as something that I was going to get out before I was old. like I look at Tesla as at some point, some point far in the future, I'm going to have a really big nest egg sitting there if I need it. So I think the stock trade sideways at these levels, does it go below 100? I'd be very surprised.

I think it would take a real big miss at the end of 22 when they report their numbers for the stock to break below 100. And if it did, I would probably shake the cushions and the floor mats out of my Jeep and go buy whatever I could buy. Because on Christmas Day, we were all sitting around the table and I had everybody write down what their stock prediction was for 1225 of 23. And I don't remember what everybody's was, but they were all fairly close. they were all within the $500, $600 range.

And if I had to say, I would say that I believe that a year from now, Tesla stock, a lot of people had a $300 price target for Tesla. And that doesn't take an account, them solving full self-driving, and it doesn't take an account them actually getting cyber truck, which is their pickup, launched in 2023. and I think both of those things are going to happen. What's your prediction? 585.

I believe the stock could easily be $585. It could be $600 by the end of the year. Will it be? It could be 300. But I can guarantee you by the end of 23, it won't be 100. It won't be where it is now. It's going to be higher. And I think it'll take us until the first quarter of 24 before we're really out of this recession.

but I think the recovery in Tesla will start well before that. Yeah, and I think all this bullshit about just Elon and all the stuff we were talking about before the fundamentals. Like, if you guys heard us, the fundamentals of the business, they're profitable, they're making twice as much margin as their competitors. You know, they're way ahead of all the competition. Like, the fundamentals of the business are great. And they're not just a car company. We just talked about all the fundamentals of the car.

side. They got AI. They're collecting all that data. They're trying to develop and perfect full self-driving. They got the Tesla bot. I mean, they're doing Tesla semi, the megapacks, the charging. They're going to own the charging network. I mean, I don't want to go down that rabbit hole. But just know when you think and you see all these articles coming out about how Tesla is shit and this and this and that. And all they talk about is the automotive side of the business. And they don't say anything about any of the other stuff. They're fucking crazy for calling an automotive company. It's not an automotive company. It's those traditional people on Wall Street that are scrutinizing that specific stock. And let's be honest, some of those people on Wall Street probably have vested interest in

big oil and gas and legacy auto. I mean, they've been around for a while, right? And so obviously, if they're heavily invested in Legacy Auto, they don't really want to see Tesla succeed. But, I mean, that's just me with my tinfoil hat on. No, you're 100% right. And Tesla has traditionally been one of the most shorted stocks on Wall Street, and it's heavily shorted right now. In other words, people betting the price is going to go down. So there's a lot of people that profit.

I mean, it's like the Chicago Board of Trade. There's people profit both ways, whether it's going up or down, And right now there's a lot of people that are profiting from the stock moving down. And that's just how it goes. But I think the fundamentals over time will win out. And part of that is going to be the Twitter thing is going to go away. That's going to get settled. Yeah.

In fact, I think he's, you know, he's trying to find a new CEO. He's going to step down as a CEO of Twitter. That's what it's looking like. And he's going to move back over to Tesla, focus more. Yeah, he's going to go full time into Tesla and kind of do what he was doing before Twitter. And I think that's good. So that's kind of a good tie-in to our next subject, which is Twitter. And, you know, I'll give Elon so much credit for, you know, every time that he's got a thought that's really important for Twitter to be more successful, he always puts it out on Twitter to ask people.

And like, he straight up asked people, who should I appoint as the new CEO of Twitter? And Lex Friedman commented and said he would do it. Mr. Beast commented and said he would do it, which, If Beast or Beast didn't become the CEO, I think he could add a lot of value to how that platform should work. Because, I mean, he's the king of content on YouTube. And he's probably the most viral influencer in the entire planet. So he's got some insight that would be, I think, could be awesome for Twitter, at least be on the board.

But, yeah, if you've been paying attention at all to Twitter, which I highly might recommend you, if you haven't, you should, you should look at the Twitter files because it was an absolute dumpster fire shit show whatever you want to call it Elon it's still going on still releasing more and more files of all the corruption

that was behind Twitter and Elon is just trying to show people what was actually happening behind the scenes because he has said that the only way we can move forward is to show people what happened in the past behind the scenes and if we want a true transparent platform and truly free of speech, we got to show people our mistake. And government was heavenly involved in so much of it. CIA, FBI, censoring certain people, censoring one side of the aisle more than the other conservatives,

shadow banning people without them even knowing, fed sending certain content to Twitter for them to censor or block or take off the platform. Twitter people thinking that they got the big swinging, swinging their cock around and saying, well, we can ban the president of the United States. We could probably do it again if we needed to. I mean, the list goes on and on. There's stuff about COVID on there. There's stuff about storm in the capital. There's stuff on there about the election in 2020. I mean, there's so much shit. Hunter Biden is on there. So if you haven't, go check that out because that is the real shit. That is the proof of, hey, the government is censoring and colluding with big tech to take away our rights. I mean, that's straight up proof that that is happening and was happening on Twitter, but is happening not only on Twitter. That's one example. If you think that that's not happening on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, you'd be fucking lying to yourself because it definitely.

is. But I'm just glad it's all coming out. I think Elon has done a phenomenal job of turning Twitter around. I'm kind of sad to see him go if he has to go back to Tesla just because he's done so much, so early in just owning it for the better that it kind of sucks. But he isn't going to pick some shitty CEO either to run it. I trust that he'll have somebody step up that that can kind of collude with him and do better. But yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just an absolute shit show on there. He will not be, he will not be absent. No.

You know, he's got a great team in place. So I highly recommend any of you that, you know, obviously if you're hearing this, you listen to podcasts. I would highly recommend all-in podcast. That is a great show. And I was just listening to their year-end. And David Sacks that is on that, he was actually calling in, or he was at Twitter headquarters doing the podcast. He's one of the four guys on it.

And Elon stopped by while he was there. So they were asking him his thoughts. And to your point, they asked him. they asked him whether what the biggest surprise was as they got into this or if he was surprised at all because basically everything that we we all speculated was happening at these big tech companies was happening and then some and one of the examples that he gave was that one thing that surprised him was the fact that there were so many former FBI and Department of Justice people working at Twitter

that they had their own Slack chat group within the company. And when they, when he assumed control and they had to start cutting employees, they had to be extremely careful because they were afraid of how much information would be bleached, as he called it, off the servers, if they weren't really careful about how they got rid of people, because, like, they seriously, there was talk within the team that he brought in there, whether or not they had thought far enough ahead that there was a poison pill, as they call it,

within the software running the servers that they could crash the whole system. It's kind of like shredded files. Yeah, exactly. Just on a database. Yeah. But he said what was surprising is it had gone on for so long that really there was like this, there was this arrogance about the employee base that were the woke. And really they were still the minority, but they were in a lot of positions where they could

manipulate accounts and do all that. and it was just a lot of arrogance that they didn't really think that they were touchable. They thought they were untouchable. And I thought another really good point that he brought up is a lot of features have been added Twitter since they took over and one of them is showing your view count, which is like what you get on YouTube. You know, you can see how many people have seen that. and Elon said that he really can't take credit for a lot of the features that they've added because a lot of that was already, already, had already been done.

Programmers had already proposed making a lot of these changes, but they were shut down by management because the number one priority was to show daily active users. they didn't care about adding features. They cared about getting the maximum number of people, whether they were fake, whether they were bots, whether they were made up. The goal was to show the maximum number of active daily users, even if that number was fake.

Which is mind-blowing to me. It just sometimes you really think, you think people that work at these big companies are fucking smart. But then, And they are. But there's a perfect example of, well, don't you think if you add features that entice people to want to stay on the platform or use the platform more often, that you'll get more active fucking users as a result of that? But they are trying to take the easy way.

I mean, good God. I don't know. I'm no, I'm no big tech expert by any means. But it's just like, yeah, adding a view count, I feel like that was something that's so easy. and really nice, I use the Twitter platform now and you can see all the views somebody has on their tweet. That's a really small and cool feature that they added that entices me to, you know, want to use a platform more. It's just more analytical and I think everybody's kind of addicted to data nowadays. So, yeah.

Yeah, I, it's kind of what you were saying. I think Elon is kind of public enemy number one now because he is showing all this. corruption and he's kind of i mean i don't think he's to don't think he's to don't trump's level of uh getting scrutinized in the media yet or if he ever will be but you know they got to find a new enemy to go after and he seems to be the target because i think a lot of organizations big tech companies just i don't know i think a lot of corporations are scared at him because he knows shit i think big tech is scared of him other social media companies are scared to him because he's showing all this

I think the woke left is scared of him because he is not what they thought he was. And, wow, somebody could have some left-leaning opinions, but also some right-leaning opinions too. Well, he must be a fucking alien. I mean, they really make it seem like it's so crazy that Elon is a little bit left and a little bit right. Oh, it almost seems like he's probably in the middle like most Americans are. And they want to paint that as a bad thing, but it's actually an awesome thing if you ask me. and one thing that we we haven't really touched on and this wasn't even in my notes and i i think it's interesting to say i'll say this i started working on this outline like two weeks ago um because

we weren't sure when we were going to do it and that at that time uh another thing that had driven down tesla stock was Elon had to sell shares because the cash burn at Tesla was so great and you had advertisers leaving. If you remember, there was companies saying that they weren't going to advertise on Twitter. On Twitter. And there was even a, there was a rumor that Apple was going to take Twitter off of its app store, which then that didn't turn out to be true. And I mean, I don't know how true it was up until the point when Elon called Tim Cook's bluff or however you want to interpret that. But since that time, this story has really evolved. and Twitter's average daily viewer count is the highest it's ever been.

It has gone up dramatically. Yeah. Who could believe that? Who could have believed that? They're adding more features and look what's happening. Yeah. And Elon said on all in that the cash burn is manageable now and Tesla is not in,

not headed for bankruptcy. Like it's stable, it's growing, they think they've got it going. And his speed of innovation and his speed of cutting out the problems, cutting out the cancer and eliminating what, eliminating what doesn't need to be there is really something that a lot of other CEOs in the tech world,

you're going to see them start to emulate that because I was listened to a guy the other day and he was saying, you know, one of the problems in tech is that so many of these companies, when they're growing rapidly, they feel like the way to exponential growth is to get more people.

And so as soon as you can afford to add a person to take this load off of somebody so they can do more, you hire them, and you hire them, and you hire them. And you can do that until you get to the point that you find yourself like meta was, like Facebook, where you've got so many people. You're at a scale where it doesn't require,

like you get to where you were trying to go. I guess you get capped. Right. Like Facebook got capped. Yeah. And so you might not have the same problems that you did have when you were going, scaling, you know? Yeah. So those people are just kind of like, fuck, Twitter.

There's people doing you. yoga. Right. So Elon, they asked him about the decisions as far as cut in the number of employees, and he kind of threw it back to him, and he said, well, think about Twitter as a running software system. He said, if we weren't going to add any features, how many people do you think it would actually take to keep the servers running and to have somebody at customer service replying to problems and fixing bugs. And they all sat there and they said probably a few hundred. And he's like, exactly. And Twitter was, what was it? 8,000 people? I don't know. I thought it was like 1,800, but I could be way off. Oh, I don't know. I have no idea.

I can't remember. Whatever the number was. It was a larger number than that, though. It was in the thousands. It was huge compared to what was actually needed for that. Now, that's not to say you don't need all the programmers and the people to try to make it better. But he said their policy when they went in was they wanted to keep everybody that was necessary and everybody that was exceptional. And if you weren't those two things, then you were expendable. And that is a big butt hurt to the woke people. Well, you know, nobody, because everybody is exceptional. Everybody gets a participation trophy, everybody's needed.

The only problem is... That isn't the reality of business. It's not. And that was that idea that everybody was needed, the same, a winner, whether you did your job or not or whether you just hung out

at a snack bar all day, that was perpetuated. The culture was that we're just getting by and that everybody's good and, you know, whatever. Not going to add new features, you know, just bullshit. Yeah.

Yeah. just sounds like it was terribly ran terrible yeah it really was and the corruption was insane uh talk a little bit about we we went over the view count but what that's done to certain oh yeah uh companies on the twitter platform like wall street journal for example yeah so um david sax was talking about this on the all end that he had a tweet the other day that he put out and the view count he looked at the view count on it and I don't remember what it was, but then he went to the New York Times and looked at their tweet history

and realized that their view count since that has been added is like nowhere near what their subscriber count is. And they asked Elon about that, and they already knew the answer, but the answer is that so many of these media outlets, they were perpetuating the problem because they were buying subscribers, or followers.

So basically when you looked at CNN or you looked at the New York Times or somebody, or even Fox News, all of these traditional media companies, they were, they're part of the problem because they were buying fake followers. Fake followers to inflate their audience. And they didn't show a view count back then.

So they would put out a tweet, and everybody would be like, oh, these guys, they know what they're talking about. And like, I think Twitter is one of those things, one of those platforms, like, I think it's the only platform where the engagement on tweets, like I just saw one that had a 1.2 million views on it, but it could only get 2,000 likes, you know? It got 1.2 million. A tweet could get 1.2 million views on it, but it only gets like 1,500 or 2,000 likes.

It's really not like that on TikTok. You know, if a video on TikTok gets 2 million views, you're looking at like, 10s, 10s, thousand to 100,000 you know, you're looking at a good amount of likes.

Twitter, it's, it's so different. Yeah. And so I feel like they felt like they'd get away with that, but now it's kind of biting them. Yeah, now it's out there.

Yeah. And his point was that you have so many, the people are going to realize now, like Paul, he was talking about politicians, politicians are going to realize that they can get better

penetration and more people, they can get their message out to more people by just putting it out themselves on Twitter rather than going through a news outlet because they're going to realize and they are realizing people don't trust these media outlets. I don't care if you're Fox or CNN. People don't trust them. So if Mitt Romney randomly, so if Mitt Romney wants to say something, he's probably going to get more views and more people to hear what he says by him just tweeting it than having a news conference and having it put out by CNN or Fox News.

I don't know why they don't do that anyway. I mean, I wouldn't trust those. I wouldn't trust the media if I was a politician worth a shit. Unless I was in bed with them and they were paying me and they were leaning my way, then maybe. That doesn't happen. Yeah, I don't know. The tinfoil hats.

Here we go again. A feature that's coming to Twitter that they talked about, it's going to probably come sometime in January, which I think is great, is they're going to... So one of the things they've added is the blue checkmark where you can verify that you are basically who you say you are as a person. But they're going to start a verification

that if you are somebody that tweets out and you say that you work for this will do farm, you can be verified that you actually do. Like if you're tweeting and saying Disney this and Disney that and you're saying that and it just says, I work for Disney in my bio, but you're not verified.

People are going to know, well, you're probably full of shit. You're full of shit. You don't actually work for Disney. And they're going to have that for, and just like take like music artists. Which will be awesome because you can read in comments. Like, let's just take one example of that. Let's take one example of that.

you could relate it to the ag world. People saying, people saying, if we put out a video about us working in the hog barns, and then you have somebody that says, well, these pigs need to be raised outside. I was a farmer and I worked on a farm

for this many years and they were so much better on pasture. And then you go to their profile and it just says, I worked on a farm and it doesn't verify who they were. That's nice that you can be able to say, well, yeah, that person's totally full of shit. They have no,

they have no credibility and they have no idea what the hell they're talking about. They're from Miami and they work for, They're just, yeah, right. Oh, I really dated myself here. Yeah, but so, no, that's cool. I like that feature a lot, but I was just saying we can relate it. Yeah.

So I think at the end of the day, um, one big takeaway, I hope all of you get from this and go do your own research, listen to some of these people. Read the Twitter files that have been released. Please read the Twitter files if you have it. You really do. And if it's too confusing, because I know I was reading it and I had to read it a few times to really get what's actually some of the files are you know they're complicated and you just really don't know the context go watch people break them down and they break them down in a really concise way that you can understand it all over youtube and probably some on tictock or wherever you want to watch videos

go check out breakdowns of each individual twitter file when it drops because that that helps out a lot to know what's actually going on in them but yeah please check those out every single one of you should it's very important it's our fucking rights. Yeah. They were getting taken away and they probably still are on all other platforms. That's my other point. So read those, understand what they were doing, but then know that this wasn't, I don't

care if Twitter was the easiest place for the FBI, CIA, to infiltrate. It wasn't the only one. There is no way that it was the only one. This is going on. And it's like we say, do your own research, and don't trust what I tell you, but don't trust what media tells you. Don't trust what you heard in a story on Instagram because- Don't read the fucking headline. That's all you think is.

Everybody is an expert. And everybody will tell you it's this and this and this. And you got to figure it out for yourself. but know that there's shady shits going on. Yeah, for sure, for sure. All right, well, that's going to wrap up to Twitter. So we got one more, it's kind of a more positive note. And I don't think we've got really very much doom and gloom today.

I feel good about Twitter. I feel good about Tesla where it's heading. It's on sale. It's a fire sale. I feel good about Twitter. I think that they're the best platform freedom of speech-wise. even though Elon might be leaving, I still feel good about it. So I feel good there.

But this is something that's really great and could be amazing for the world. So talk about it a little bit because you know the whole story. I'm going to say this, though, if any of you are curious as to what's going to be on upcoming episodes of the podcast, one new feature that I'm doing because I've gotten on Twitter and I really enjoy it is I'm going to do like, whenever we sit down to do an episode, I'm going to do a little bit, a little video on Twitter talking about who our guest is, what we're going to talk about, what we're shooting that week. So, Barn Talk show on Twitter. It's either Barn Talk or Barn Talk show. I think it's at, yeah, I think it's just at Barn Talk. It's at Barn Talk on Twitter. If you want

to go follow us on Twitter, guys. Follow us on Twitter. There you go. It's the up and coming. You can check out all of our likes and what we're talking about on there. So yeah, I'm letting and dad run the Twitter because I'm trying to post on all the other ones and I'm like, you got to run the Twitter. So if you want to talk to Torque directly, DM them on Twitter at Barn Talk and you can. There you go. Yeah. You might get a reply. Yeah, might not. Maybe. So this kind of got brushed over, I feel like, partially because it's over all of our heads and partially because with all the negative news and the war in Ukraine and the Twitter files and just politics in general, it kind of got shoved to the back page, but I think it was on December the 5th.

I got a look. Yeah, on December 5th, these researchers at, so I get the name right, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used 192 lasers pointed at a pencil eraser-sized cylinder that contained hydrogen encased in diamond. And what they did is, they shot all those lasers at one time, which probably used a shitload of power, but the result of that, and you can explain it with some really big words, but the result of that was that the reaction that took place, which basically was like a controlled nuclear explosion. So kind of the difference between like a nuclear bomb and nuclear fuel,

fusion is a bomb takes place. If you drop a nuke, there's no, it's not held in anything, and fusion, it's held within a tight cylinder where it can't get away. So you harness that power. And that's what they did. And the power that it created, the energy that it created, because energy and power, not necessarily, they're not the same thing, was greater than the energy it took to make that happen. And I wouldn't say that this is a breakthrough because they've known for a long time that this was possible. They just didn't know how to make it happen. And this happened on a very, like I said, it was the size of, you know, the tip of your finger. And so the amount of energy that was produced, not that great, but it was greater than what was used. So the, the amount of energy,

ramifications for that is cold fusion and the potential what that can lead to is basically unlimited low-cost power for the entire world and you might you know think well you're off your rocker but it is clean, it is renewable, and it's repeatable, and you don't have to, unlike fuel that when you burn it, it is gone, you know, unlike coal that you dig out of the ground or oil that you pump out of the ground, and unlike, you know, sun and wind that don't happen all the time, cold fusion, using hydrogen is sustainable, repeatable. Not much resources needed. No.

It is literally the kind of stuff that if you take it to its logical conclusion, everything would run on electricity. So you talk about electric vehicles, you would still use electric vehicles. And the reason is because you could produce energy at such a cheap rate that pretty much everything would just run on electricity. The internal combustion engine just couldn't compete because it can't be efficient enough. And the cost of energy would...

I mean, it just, the market would decide. Right. It'd be stupid. It'd make so much more sense to drive an EV versus using fuel. And you'll heat your house with electricity. You won't heat your house with natural gas or LP, just because electricity is, would be so plentiful and so cheap that that's what you'd go. And if you take the technology far enough, you can shrink the size of the generator, the size of the reactor, the size of the reactor,

to where, you know, when it comes to shipping, you would just have a reactor upon a ship. I mean, much like today, you know, the Air Force, the Air Force carriers, they're nuclear power. They have a reactor, and that's what they run on. That's how they stay out to see. for as long as they do because they don't have to be constantly refueled. Same thing, only you would have a cold fusion reactor. And this is the stuff that sci-fi is built of. I mean, this is what we grew up on. Back to the future, maybe.

Yeah, this is Captain Kirk telling Scotty to, you know, give her all she's got because that fusion reactor is what will eventually power Starship. when Elon talks about Starship, today, you've got 35 Raptor engines that are burning oxygen and methane. Well, you'll eliminate all that. And if you can harness cold fusion, now that's a ways off, but you can generate that much power to where you don't need to burn that. And so this is the first time that we've ever done this as humans, has got it to work? It's the first time that they've ever done it where they got more energy out of it than what it took to make it happen.

Okay. So they've been able to do it. I mean, it's been able to be done. And this actually happens, like when a nuclear bomb goes off, this fusion happens. Obviously, more energy goes out when a fucking nuke hits.

But the thing is, it's not contained. Right. It's not contained, and it's not sustainable, and it's very, very dangerous and all that. what they did is they did it in a controlled environment where that energy that was released, they could channel that. So in other words, if you can perfect it at scale, you would have a nuclear reaction going off and you would channel all that power, all that energy to drive a turbine.

But then that energy that released is not radioactive or anything like that. to where it's clean. And, I mean, the, kind of getting off in the weeds and... I don't think so. I think it's a great... I think it'd be great.

I think everybody in the world would love to have cheap, clean energy. I don't... If you got a problem with that, I mean, what's wrong with you? I mean, I know everybody likes to roll coal on motherfuckers, and, you know, it's great, but you can still do that.

Yeah. You know, but hell, you know, if you want to power your house, if you do it the cheapest and cleanest way you can, why wouldn't you? I mean, I think what's so interesting about this development to me is it just, it just reminds me.

And you've, this is a thought that I've had a lot and I've talked about it on here, that my view of the future is, I just see one, on one hand, it can be so unbelievably amazing. amazing because if you take if you take cold fusion to where power

is plentiful, cheap, low cost clean clean technology the power of robotics the power of AI to where your daily tasks you do not have to do all the bullshit all the bullshit that you hate creativity within the world

will grow exponential exponentially and so many of the dangerous jobs, and let's face it, some of the most dangerous jobs in the world is getting energy out of the ground in various ways, creating energy. That's some of the most dangerous jobs. You eliminate all that. But then on the other hand, you think about that,

if you think of all the people who don't really want the world to have cheap, clean, sustainable, cheap, like there's a big group of people that don't like anything that starts with cheap, because they can't profit from it. And so then you have to ask yourself, you know, which way are we going to go? Because the one way really is freedom to be creative, freedom to live your best life. Best for the human experience. Right.

Could be the greatest, most efficient, happiest. I mean, if you really don't have to do all the bullshit that you hate doing every day and you could just do it, what you want to do every single day of your life with the people you want to do it with, wouldn't you be the happiest you probably ever could be? Probably. I mean, it could go that way where it's the best human experience ever in history. And then the other way is China. Control. There's technology that's controlling everything you do, the programmable digital currency. You know, the countries that don't want Bitcoin, don't want Ethereum, don't want crypto, they want their own dollar digital.

digital dollar that they can program, control, shut you off, keep you from buying what you want to buy, and then... Building robots that are cops. Yeah, that control. So it's, I think they call that a dytopian view or something like that. At some point, well, I shouldn't say at some point, every day these competing views are being fought out or being developed. And it's just a question. as to who we're going to let make decisions over the human race as to what direction we go. And I think the other thing that's really important, and this goes to, we're not going to really get into this today, but something that we talked about is OpenAI, what's Chat, GTP.

Yeah, Chat, GPT, yep. And what that is, is it's an OpenAI platform where you, can just ask it a question. It talks back. And it talks back to you. Answers your question. And it's the fastest growing platform that has ever been created. It got to 100,000.

I don't know. I'm not going to say it because I don't know the number. It is the fastest. It's faster to Angry Birds, faster in Pinterest, faster than Instagram. 30 days. It got to 100,000 subscribers. No, it's I think it's million. I think it's like 100 million. 10 million. I know it was in 30 days. Yeah. It's the fastest it's ever

grown. I don't know what the metric was. But Yeah, it's like, if you don't, if you haven't checked that out yet, you should go check it out, watch a video on it because like everybody, yeah, we can't go down this rabble hole. But pretty much you could say, make me a, make me a report about World War II or make me an essay about World War II. But Domit Donald's. dumb it down a little bit. And it will print out an essay. And then you can, you look at that and say, okay, do it, but give it a darker viewpoint. And it would do it. And it prints out a new essay, a different version of that essay. So what I'm telling you is those two, when we talk about those two different futures, the one thing you can't say, which is our most human reaction, is to say that's not going to happen and I don't want that to happen.

Or I don't want to think about it. And I don't want to think about it because it's going to happen. It's just a matter of which way it's going to go and the amount of time. And I always make the comment on some of this stuff that we talk about. I'm like, well, I think I'll safely arrive at death's door before I have to make that decision. I don't know, Dad. think that I will. I think it's coming in your lifetime.

So, I think it is coming in your lifetime. Yep. There's no doubt in my mind that Cold Fusion, uh, AI, I think some level of robotics. Oh,

Tesla bot's going to be, I mean, guys, you got to think about how, how technology is advanced. It just gets faster. Or eight, the more tools we create,

it makes us, it gives us the opportunity to create more tools faster. And like, the development of robotics, the development of AI, since we've created the internet, since we've created a database and these platforms and these companies, they're taking in all this data from consumer behavior, you know, it's just making everything faster. And so, yeah, you're 50, you're in your 50s now, but you got 50 more years to go, buddy.

So, oh, yeah. I would say, I don't think you're, I don't think you're going to miss it. but I don't think you'll see the downfall of the human race. You know, I don't think you'd see that. I might see that. Well, yeah, because you got, you could get half the people end up, if you had your kid watch the movie Wally, where everybody's, you know, floating around in these chambers

and, you know, not doing anything. You know, half the people could end up doing that getting their universal basic income checks, and then the other half could be figuring out a way to, you know, siphon off everybody else's universal basic income check. So who knows what we're going to Mars. Who knows what we'll be doing. Yeah. I mean, the possibilities are endless. We'll be farming on fucking Mars. But one thing is true. Change is coming. Well, change is constant. It just is. And I think it's really interesting. And change is happening more often nowadays. But more drastic too.

The advancements are just more and more drastic. You know, like Grandpa lived to be 99. Yep. Wrote a horse to school. He saw some amazing innovations. But like the talk of going from for you, the computer, the internet, the iPhone, social media, crypto, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars.

Like, this is, I mean, truly, you might see back to future. You saw that movie when you were a kid or a teenager. And it might be even more advancing than that movie was. I mean, it's just like... I have a copy of all the sports statistics back to 1945, just in case... Time travel happens. Yeah, because you can go bet. You betcha.

I'm going to clean up, so just know. You got that. I got it. I got it. All right. Well, I think that's going to conclude it, guys. You know, all these topics that we talked about today, I think, are fairly positive. I'm happy with, I'm happy where Tesla could go.

I'm happy where Twitter is. I'm happy that we're making advancements for the human race, making things better, that, you know, the media doesn't really want to cover. the happy stuff, but this is a happy topic that I think or it's just a good thing for the human race. I mean, Cold Fusion is a good thing for the human race, and you know, they don't really like talking about that, but

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he drinks that shit like it's nothing. Because nobody could function. No, no way. So anyway, I think it, I don't know if they're still producing or not. It was kind of a one-off deal and I saw it and I got a bottle for Sawyer and I figured we'd try it today. There's no age statement on it. My feeling is that it might not be like. Yeah, I was going to ask you, what do you expect it? Well, I've read the reviews and they aren't bad, but this might be a deal where neither one of us might have the most smoothest look when we take it. This might be shot-worthy whiskey, maybe. I don't know, but anyway. We'll give it a whiff.

Oh, it's, it smells really good. Yeah, it smells smooth. I'm going to, I feel like it's going to burn. I think it's going to hit me instantly. That's my prediction. Well, before we're going to toast a little, we're going to have a little toast because this is the last show of 2022, but we've got some people we need to thank. All right. So we need to thank Kiowa.

Yes. Shout out to Kywa Keith. Kiowa is our editor that breaks down all of the podcasts into clips that we post on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube shorts, all that. Kyla is the man that gets all that shit done for us and we could not have grown this thing to where we're at today without him. Shout out to my girlfriend Kat. We recently brought her on, I don't know, it's probably been two, three months ago. And she started, she learned how to edit the podcast and she actually learned how to edit the, this will do farm YouTube videos.

And that's helped us out tremendously on being more consistent for you guys. So shout out to you, Kat. Couldn't do it without you. Shout out to my brother Clay. He just recently came on and he's helping us out and he's already helped us out tremendously. Even within, I don't know, a month of coming on, he's helped us get some guests on. And so that's been really nice. Shout out to Tork for being an awesome co-host.

I wouldn't have had it any other way. I wouldn't want to do a podcast with anybody else. And I think our dynamic is fucking awesome and it's one of a kind. It's one of a kind. Shout out to the Lawrence Whistler for building this fucking barn that we're sitting in here today because without him, this podcast would never existed and a lot of shit wouldn't have existed without him. So just being just glad to just glad that we're doing it. And I'm, I'm happy that you guys find what we say to be valuable in whatever way it's valuable to you. And I almost fucking forgot the most important part, you guys. Shout out to you. Shout out to

you guys. Thank you for all of your support throughout this year. And I hope that you guys continue on with us into 2023. Yeah, because none of this would be possible without you guys, but without everybody else that works behind the scenes. So, yeah, just grateful for every single person that's involved and every single one of you guys that checks us out and listens to us or watches us and supports us. So is that a good, is that a good toe? You pretty much hijacked my toast. Good job. Well, you can, you got the, you're the best one-liner guy that I know.

So what's a good one-liner? I think at the end of the day, we're going to drink to Legacy because that's what we're building right here. Yeah, that's right. To Legacy. Holy shit. Ooh. Yeah, that ain't good. That's not good.

I do not recommend. That is a strong finish. Holy shit. That's strong, no matter. That's strong. a strong start. Not good flavor. I don't like the flavor at all.

I would say that that, but don't you feel like that is what prohibition whiskey would taste? Oh yeah. I bet it did. I bet it did. Oh my gosh. It's got, it's, it had more flavor than what I thought it would have. I don't like the, I didn't like the flavor. But it's a very strong quick finish.

Hits you right away. The warp is already washing over me. I can feel it in my cheeks. I forgot. I can't remember what's the pre. Is it 92 proof? I think it's 92 proof is what it is. Yep, 90 proof.

92 proof Irish whiskey. No age statement on it. Well, Tommy Shelby can take it better than I can, but that motherfucker is a savage, so I wouldn't expect anything less from him. But yeah, thank you to all of you guys. Seriously, we really do appreciate every single one of you guys that tune into the show. And we're really excited for what 2023 is going to bring for us,

who we're going to bring on, what we're going to talk about. I think it's going to be, I think it could be the best year yet. I really think we've built some really foundational years. We kind of got a system in place now. We got the people behind us now to really crank some shit out and do a lot of good. So we just got to execute. Yep. And we can do that most days. Yep. That's right. Yeah, and if you haven't checked out Peaky Blinders yet, highly recommend that show on Netflix. It's so underrated,

and everybody says they can't make it through the first episode, but just get through the first episode, and I promise you, I think this crowd, the people that listen to this podcast, would really like Peaky Blinders. Yeah. It's great. So that's all we got for you guys today.

Shitty whiskey, wouldn't recommend, but great topics. Hope you guys got some value out of it. If you did, please pay the fee, share the show. get some merch if you want at this will do co.com. I'll have it in the show notes if you're listening or the description if you're watching on YouTube. Submit your questions at barn talk show at gmail.com. Q&A is coming. So the questions that we get in recent, those will probably be on the next Q&A episode we do. So without further ado, we'll see you guys back here next week for another

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