Oct 15, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 12 segments
On today's episode, James, Glenn, and Dwayne get ready for tonight's Tesla reveal at 7:55. Is that a nod to 1955 and Back to the Future? Glenn predicts two Roadsters, one of them a flying car, and…
Elon Musk, you know, yeah, I, I drove, we drove all the way to Henderson and back today, you know, up from Ruston, and I don't feel tired a bit.
It sounds like we're, we just wanna report on him, but he, he's got so many things going.
Um, you know, getting frequencies and that, and competing directly with the, the big s- big cellphone people, and he's, he's launching rockets and landing them back in their ... [laughs] How much time does that save, that kind of stuff? And then he's got self-driving train containers that Glen wants to talk about, and-
Well, actually, it was engineers that started the startup
Okay.
Dwayne, you wanna go?
All right.
Can, can I re- try to relate something that's gonna seem off the wall unrelated, but this is how my mind has worked for the past 20 years, or I should say probably 30, 35 years.
Ethernet switches started out being just repeaters.
We had this thick net, thin net, coaxial cable, and those square waves would shoot around between computers, hosts, and stuff.
And, um, it would just repeat the signal so that it can go longer.
Mm-hmm.
And then we had these twisted pair ethernet switches that would have multiple ports so that you can do, like, these giant phone plugs, and use, like, phone type cable, plug it in, and all your computers would be in a different port, but they were still dumb repeaters.
Mm-hmm.
And then they, later they got changed into what was called, like, bridges, which was a smart repeater, and then they got changed into switches.
So when this magic word switch came around in the late '90s when internet started being pervasive, and we started getting a little bit of direct connectivity instead of dial-up internet, when things were speeding up, technology was developing, the internet was getting to where we're kind of- Kind of resembles what we have today, it's just today it's just so much more faster.
Um, but this word switch meant something.
The bridges worked off of software deciding which port needed which packets of information, which data.
Elon Musk, you know, yeah, I, I drove, we drove all the way to Henderson and back today, you know, up from Ruston, and I don't feel tired a bit.
It sounds like we're, we just wanna report on him, but he, he's got so many things going.
Um, you know, getting frequencies and that, and competing directly with the, the big s- big cellphone people, and he's, he's launching rockets and landing them back in their ... [laughs] How much time does that save, that kind of stuff? And then he's got self-driving train containers that Glen wants to talk about, and-
Well, actually, it was engineers that started the startup
Okay.
Dwayne, you wanna go?
All right.
Can, can I re- try to relate something that's gonna seem off the wall unrelated, but this is how my mind has worked for the past 20 years, or I should say probably 30, 35 years.
Ethernet switches started out being just repeaters.
We had this thick net, thin net, coaxial cable, and those square waves would shoot around between computers, hosts, and stuff.
And, um, it would just repeat the signal so that it can go longer.
Mm-hmm.
And then we had these twisted pair ethernet switches that would have multiple ports so that you can do, like, these giant phone plugs, and use, like, phone type cable, plug it in, and all your computers would be in a different port, but they were still dumb repeaters.
Mm-hmm.
And then they, later they got changed into what was called, like, bridges, which was a smart repeater, and then they got changed into switches.
So when this magic word switch came around in the late '90s when internet started being pervasive, and we started getting a little bit of direct connectivity instead of dial-up internet, when things were speeding up, technology was developing, the internet was getting to where we're kind of- Kind of resembles what we have today, it's just today it's just so much more faster.
Um, but this word switch meant something.
The bridges worked off of software deciding which port needed which packets of information, which data.
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