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life all right so theoretically we're live are we I can't tell I hate flying in the dark like this are we live I think we're live cool hi everyone welcome to a very unusual livestream here in the parking lot at Linus Media Group so we've hauled our whole setup outside you want to show port Anthony sitting sitting sitting in the parking lot here we've got a we've got a you know we've got a spot for him with his ups and is mixer and stream PC and all that good stuff and Cleve green yeah we know we know okay there was a whole thing so the purpose of this livestream is twofold one is we have gotten a lot of questions including one of our neighbors here in the business complex where our offices who literally walked up to us while we were preparing to do this live stream and goes hey so yeah I was wondering you know like I saw your car was pink and all that but then one day you drove up and it was like covered and all this stuff what happened with that so purpose number one of the live stream is to finally answer once and for all for all of those who don't know what the heck happened to my car and purpose number two was actually to do a test of our simultaneous live-streaming we've set up an rtmp server here in our server room and the idea is that it's going to we're gonna push to that at a very high quality encoding bitrate then that is gonna take it and it's gonna push to youtube and twitch separately at least that was the theory if that had worked we would have gone live at exactly 3:30 instead of 3:30 4:00 so it's not working yet we aren't sure exactly why we've had tests running all week and it was just fine and then of course the second you go to try and actually do something it completely falls apart so what happened with my car well the as the saga goes I bought a 2003 Honda Civic for eleven thousand dollars back above must have been about 1011 years ago now and I went with this car because it was pretty much the best kilometers left on it per dollar that I could find on the market so it only had about forty forty-five thousand clicks on it even though it was actually about four or five years old at that time it was just eleven grand but the guy was getting rid of it because his lease was up and he had the option to buy it out but he didn't want it something something something anyway we also I think statute of limitations is up so I can admit that he gifted it to me so I actually did not pay tax on that purchase that was that was a long time ago good luck going after me for that anyway so it was a really really good deal and I I have I have driven it whether sort of I liked it or not ever since then now a lot of people wonder you know you're a youtuber you know with that YouTube money what kind of what kind of car do you drive so I don't think I've ever actually done like a proper tour of my car so it's got a lot of features you know the horn it's got the windows windows that go like this not like this you know windows like this okay the doors don't lock so if you actually ever did see my car in a parking lot somewhere I would appreciate if you didn't but um the odds of you being able to just open up the door and go go into it are 100% because and I can I can explain why I was actually broken into a couple times probably about must have been about seven eight years back and what they did was they they broke my my door locks so these are just for decoration now my keys don't work in these in these door locks anymore and while I could have the thing rekey then all of a sudden I have to carry around two keys one for the ignition and one for the doors and so it was a similar story on the other side and then because this is such a basic car this is the base based basic estrada l' of the honda civic from that year it doesn't even have keyholes for the back so there is there's I can lock the car because I could go like this oh wow you can see stuck that is full of glitter glue so I could lock it but I wouldn't be able to unlock it so the only way to get back inside my car in the event that it's locked and I have had to do this is to open up the trunk see it's really easy to find the the key hole for the trunk you just look for one of the blue paint splotches and then just kind of yeah there see that one so I've actually had to do this before what I would crawl in from the back here and then there's a safety catch for the here we go for the seats to push them down and then I can crawl back into the car cuz I lent it to my sister and she didn't realize that you can't you can't lock it and so she locked it when she parked it for me and I had to pull one of these Oh in order to get back into the driver's seat now there's some other really basic stuff about my car it's a manual transmission but I actually really like that that's that's one of the only redeeming features because as you can see it's got lots of places for buttons but it doesn't actually have any buttons to go there you know see here's another here's another empty button that that doesn't do anything I don't even have air conditioning although I did upgrade my deck as you can see I've done a tremendous job of peeling back some of the paint so I can at least tell what radio station I'm listening to yeah that's a CD CD CD deck right there with aux-in that's beautiful my wife got that for me that was actually a gift so here's what here's what happened right so then it was painted by by Nick by the one and only Nick Evie actually it was painted originally by the whole team as part of the office break-in prank so I I got everyone away from the office so we could break so we could paint the car and then we staged a break-in at the office while they were there so that went up over on channel super fun and then the one and only Nick Evie you did up the see this is pink now but it used to be orange yeah there we go did up the orange rims with the green racing stripes and so it got to the point that it was such a ridiculous meme that I figured ok LTX this year so that's the convention that we did back and I want to say July those LTX in July you guys think so I think it was in July so we decided as like totally last-minute thing literally the night before we decided this we were gonna get some art supplies so Nick light was legitimately out buying glitter paint markers all that kind of crazy stuff oh yeah this is the one the morning of LTX and then he brought it down there we put out some tarps and we decided kind of a fun event would be giving people an opportunity to leave their mark on my car indelibly forever as sort of a like you know they were here kind of thing the only issue is that people got a little bit carried away so you can see everything from the outside to the inside to even under the hood got painted or glittered or glued like someone even took the battery connector off painted the battery terminal and then put it back on maybe they were trying to do me a favor and make me think that my car was dead so that I would finally get around to replacing it but true to form I spent about two three hours after LTX cleaning off my windshield cleaning off the rest of my wooden look at this someone painted this timing belt I don't actually know if that's a timing belt it's definitely a belt so I'm gonna I don't I don't I'm not much of a car guy but I'll get to that later that's actually an important aspect of this stream so if someone actually painted that so anyway I cleaned off to the greatest extent that I could some of the windows and I didn't entirely do my best I guess I could have chipped away a little of this and I've been driving it but the issue here is that while I am mostly okay with driving this there are some things that have been kind of issues so with the amount of glitter glue that got dumped onto my seats can you hear that like they're actually quite crunchy and it's not very comfortable so that's a bit of a problem and then because there's so much glitter in my car it kind of gets everywhere so you can see here that I had to take James somewhere for a shoot and he actually insisted on bringing a tablecloth into my car and putting it on the seat so that he didn't have to touch it my wife my wife went to a business meeting must have been yeah earlier this week I think on Monday and she rolls up she's like three minutes late so she's not like super late or anything it's not the end of the world but she's a couple minutes late which is already bad manners everyone else is in like suits and she pulls up she's in her yoga pants she walks out of this car and she's just like this is this is ridiculous like we can't we can't we can't do this anymore so the hidden purpose of this dream now that I've explained exactly what happened to my car like I couldn't I couldn't even get the back clean like look at this there's so much like confetti and stuff on here it's like it's like a pollution hazard like it's ridiculous so the hidden purpose of this stream is a couple of things number one is I am ready to reveal the replacement for the Lambo I bought a new car today number two actually have multiple hidden purposes to this stream number two is I would like to hear from you guys what should we do with the Lambo we've got a few options there's a local shooting range that we could take it to and we could just take the whole team out there record a channel super fun and shoot the crap out of it you know ten points if you can break a window 30 points if you can knock off a mirror all that kind of fun stuff so that's an option another option is there's the place down in like Vegas or something I think I forget exactly where it is but it probably would be Vegas where you can hire an Abrams tank and you can drive over a car of your choice with the tank so that might be kind of a fun option I've had a lot of people ask why don't you why don't you sell it or why don't you donate as a charity or something like that and the reason that I wouldn't want to do that is I actually have legitimate safety concerns about driving this vehicle so for years now it's had one here on this other side two three at least three I thought there were four a couple of them might have joined here's oh yeah four it's had four cracks and or deep chips in the windshield each of which individually would be enough to disqualify this from being safely driven on the road because it does affect the structural integrity of the vehicle especially if it were to be hit from the front and the cost of replacing a windshield on a vehicle like this is vastly greater than the actual cost of the vehicle itself so I couldn't in good conscience provide this vehicle to someone especially with the amount of work that would be required to get it street-legal that's something I'm actually a little disappointed in our community about we had like two rules rule number one was have fun rule number two was keep it street-legal and we ended up with some we ended up with some cuss words we ended up with most of the windows like most of the windows looked basically like this this is one that I didn't bother to clean and then the back the the front windshield was probably a little better than this but not as dissimilar as you might hope all these lights had to be had to be scraped off that took that took quite a while although it was easier before the paint was totally dry that's another thing that was kind of my tipping point was I I accidentally left my window open like just a sliver so a little bit of water dripped in and some of it got on this like this goop Daan glue that someone put here on the door handle and it kind of went wet again because of the water and I got it all over my hands and I was like you know what this is this is just kind of my limit so so right so back to ulterior ulterior motive of the stream number whatever it was oh yeah sure hit me with a super jet another $50 $50 super chat Wow yeah what to say hi hi Cleve Greene it's ok because you love the channel what's ok just everything's ok oh that we relate ah yes ok Kris Bennett says don't buy a Tesla well the decision sort of already made that the car has been sitting just out of frame this entire time so I guess we'll see what else you got warning twitch has an exclusivity clause knots okay we'll be fine yeah don't worry about it if twitch kicks us off then twitch kicks us off like whatever it's fine Scott Scott trainer alright so everyone super chats and not super chats oh there's a train whatever that's like the excitement train everybody get on board so I bought a whole it's mmm the what effect oh nothing we can do about that now should be fine now we're going the other way so why did I buy a Chevy Volt I'm sure a lot of you are kind of wondering because that wasn't one of the cars that I was talking about it's definitely not the most exciting car in the world by a longshot but here's the reason so something that probably I hope a lot of you know is that while I am a tech guy I had a lot of people say well you're a tech guy just get a Tesla and I was like oh yeah I mean they're basically rolling computers which is pretty cool there are some there are some issues with sort of Tesla in general I'm not a huge fan of what they're doing in terms of right to repair access to replacement parts honestly though when it comes to just picking the product I want and and then using it and enjoying it that's not the kind of thing that I'm typically gonna like make a stand about you know oh you guys don't provide tools to third-party repair centers I'm you know I wouldn't even consider you but it was definitely a factor I don't think that I'm ready for all-electric yet so I do have an all gas vehicle I also have a 2016 Honda Odyssey minivan so that's our sort of you know family family wagon but and so I did consider all electric but I just I'm not sure from ready to make the plunge and some of the plug-in hybrids these days one of the ones I was looking at was the Honda clarity and this was one of the other ones I ended up looking at have make a pretty compelling case for me in particular so I live about 20 kilometers from work so as long as I get a car that even once you factor in you don't have to really worry about cell degradation because the way that they configure these things there is so much extra battery capacity in them that they've built in like a good five to ten years depending on the manufacturer sort of exactly what it is but they've built in a good 5 to 10 years of battery degradation so just grab more reserve battery life and start presenting it to you they never let you fill it all the way like I think this one is something like 75% to 30% is all it really allows you to do it doesn't even let you charge it all the way and that's best for the health of the car and that's something that we actually talked about in a recent video where we said that you need to stop or stop charging your phone overnight you guys can check that out same basic principles so worrying about battery degradation isn't really a huge thing until after I think it's like 10 years with this one but you do have to account for cold weather so this one does I think it's something like a 50 mile range so that works that doesn't like what's 75 or 80 kilometers or something like that whatever that converts to I think it's about 80 85 kilometers under sort of EPA rated conditions and so for me in the cold where you're gonna probably take a 30% hit that means that I'll be able to get to work I could do a short errand and then I could get back from work all on battery without burning gas and the only time I'll really burn gas is if I need to drive down to Richmond for for badminton or something like that all of that while I'm still getting the benefit of a gasoline engine so it doesn't have some of the sex appeal of some of the OL electrics where you can 0 to 60 in 5 seconds or you know you can well you never have to visit a gas station ever again but for me I'll be driving it all-electric probably a good 80 to 85 percent of the time so that on top of incentives that you can get for installing electric charges Chargers at work so we're gonna install some electric Chargers here at the office Brandon's gonna be pretty happy so late means that I can start charging up at work where the company pays for charging for some reason I'm sure they're gonna find a way around that at some point figure out that people are going to be abusing the heck out of Chargers at their offices or at malls or whatever else the case may be on I'm sure they're gonna make some progress there because there's taxation implications right if someone's actually getting all of their fuel from a charger at work after it once it gets over I think it's like a couple hundred dollars it becomes a taxable benefit anyway that's that's all like sort of corporate management speak that you guys probably don't really care about but some anyway I'll be taking advantage of that for now so I'll be charging it up at work and I don't know what else can I really tell you guys about it I stuck with my mo which is as you can see this is not a brand new car I actually in my life have only bought a brand spanking new car one time that was the minivan and that was because I planned to drive that thing for 10 to 15 years and minivans because there's such a commodity item like nobody buys a minivan on an impulse because they're like passionate about minivans and I'm sure someone did but for the most part no one does that so they tend to follow pretty much a formula for pricing where however much usable life is left on it as some kind of function of how old it is is the price so a new one actually ended up being a better deal than a fairly recent used one whereas for the most part that's not the case so one of these this is an LT 2017 so the current equivalent it's got leather seats and the bose sound upgrade but nothing else no other extras so one of these would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of around 40 I want to say 41 or 42 thousand Canadian dollars plus that stupid fee that the dealerships charge use like five six hundred sometimes as much as $1,000 depending where you go so Plus that fee plus taxes so this one has 29,000 kilometers on it so that would be what about 20,000 miles and it cost me thirty one thousand plus the six hundred bucks for the fee so basically I saved about ten thousand dollars a quarter of the price of the car and the way that I calculated I figure any car consumer grade vehicle has probably a usable lifespan of about two hundred thousand to two hundred like two hundred and forty thousand kilometers before you start getting into ok time for a new transmission although I don't know it only has one gear ratio I don't know exactly how that works in here but time for a new transmission time to start actually replacing some significant things and your upkeep cost starts to become noticeable and you have to be taking it into the shop more frequently or repairing it sidelining it more frequently so the way that I see it I've still got a good it's only used up maybe what one seventh to one eighth of its usable life but I got a quarter of the price off so I don't know you guys want to see the inside did you wanted me to open up the other door you can poke your head in that way let's do that what's that yeah sure you can hit me with two yep all right so this was a purely pragmatic decision this was sort of the most electric car I could get for the least amount of money overall actually especially I heard people talk about how Tesla's don't have amazing interiors for the price that you pay and I but I'd never really like side by side compared them riding around and Brendan's Model X it doesn't feel like you know that's a car that's you know three times I would pay three times as much for that interior finish like honestly it's like fine and okay do you want any with those super shots now Daniel Warren votes for the tank all right Daniel duly noted see Bart interesting propositions so see Bart wants us to do the shooting range first then the tank okay I actually we could do that but I think there's an issue and that's that we would probably want to drive it down to Vegas for the tank and I don't think it would be street-legal anymore once we everyone had their add their way with it with with a rifle word or tan gun or whatever the case may be we could drive it there then shoot it then run it over with a tank that's not a bad option then we could just tow it from the shooting range to the to the desert all right hit me with one more leo says painted pink okay so actually I'm glad you mentioned that all right so right interior so I don't have OnStar or whatever so the built in navigation doesn't work that's kind of annoying you you how do you say okay regenerative braking so I like that there's different modes for regenerative braking and anyway all of this all of this actually got me thinking you know we have not done a particularly amazing job of addressing the car technology segment over the years and part of the reason has been that engaging with car brands has been I'm not going to name any names because some of them have actually been great some of them have been really good among the best brands we've ever dealt with and some of the others have been just an absolute nightmare to deal with and that's one of the reasons that we really haven't approached doing car videos from sort of a technological standpoint because I think it is something that our viewers would like and feel free to let us know in the comments if you agree or if you disagree and it is something that I think we'd have a lot of fun doing and honestly I actually had a blast shopping for this car generally speaking I don't really like shopping but you know there was there were so many different things to consider so many speeds and feeds so many trim models so many different things about the shopping experience Chevy's shopping experience I mean I went to a couple different dealers one where I was looking at a new one and then one where they had this one can can be all over the place one of them was great and actually didn't end up being the one that I bought from because they only had new cars and one of them was absolutely terrible like it was really annoying it was classic car salesman with the whole stupid like well you know check that price with my manager and then they come back and they give you a different one you get like the sales sheet has like seven lines on it before the final price because it's just designed to do this stupid back and forth and I'm kind of sitting here going stop wasting my time just just tell me the price of the vehicle so there's a lot of things that from sort of just like a general consumer buying a car standpoint that don't get covered and we hate dealing with car brands so it led me to an interesting conclusion and the reason that I don't plan to paint this car pink I think we should start doing car reviews but we should do them in a really different way so some of you will remember this back when back when we originally started doing phone videos I think I've probably told you guys this but I had never actually purchased a smartphone in my life I had only ever been issued them through work and I wasn't really a smartphone guy so the way that I really approached it rather than knowing all the right benchmarks to run and and all the different sort of software settings and and features to look for I just would use them I just start using them and I'd go well here's some things I liked here some things I didn't and I made a lot of mistakes along the way but I also think it gave our phone videos sort of a unique perspective and what I got to thinking was well this was a lot of fun shopping for this car and I hate dealing with car manufacturers but I would like to do car videos so maybe what we should do is we should approach them really differently I'm not gonna try to pretend to be a car expert but what I'll do is I'm gonna buy this car I'm gonna drive it for a month so you guys can expect in about a month to six weeks time to see a video on the Chevy Volt the 2017 model is very similar to the 2018 so there's not not a huge difference there to speak of so it'll be it'll be about this car and then what I think we're gonna do if we can figure it out from a taxation standpoint is we are going to sell this car immediately we might even have a link so we just have a link under the video where people can see the listing yeah then someone in our community can buy it maybe we could do like an exclusive merchandise thing we could do like a like a plaque you could get a plaque with it that has like like a golden album kind of like a CD and it could be like the LTTE drivers CD and you could be an ltte driver get it because drivers anyway well we'll figure out some way to make it kind of special and so someone can buy the car the know exactly where it came from and who owned it and then we'll let the community vote and they can tell us what they want to see next there's some really interesting stuff coming in Haeundae just announced something I know Jaguar has the eyepiece coming yeah yeah the kkona yeah who's that is that Hyundai yeah so Hyundai has that coming so anyway let me know in the comments on this video what you guys think and I guess I guess that's pretty much it that's the purpose of the stream that's what happened to my car and this is this is it this is it this is rippln blam bow the plates are off baby plates are off no no it's day it's just gonna stay here until we shoot it up or blow it up or drive over it with the tank or whatever the case may be it's done that's it it's actually it's been kind of uh that's been kind of bittersweet actually because this car has gotten me to many many places over many many years and like I said I'm not really a car guy but I'm 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gonna lose probably a good 10% of the roof space to that and then the other issue is that we live in the Pacific Northwest so you only really get four to five months a year of real bona fide sunlight and that tends to make it pretty difficult to offset the cost what I actually want to do if anyone out there like works closely with a solar installer or solar panel supplier or something like that is I'd love to work something out where we do like a bunch of content around it like what I what I really want to do what we've been trying to do since we moved in here is whole building solar solar panel setup so where we actually get the whole company and we try to do it ourselves and kind of bungle our way through it like a whole room water cooling like vlog style I think would be a really fun way to to really talk about the real life challenges of getting a solar panel installation going so I think something like that would be fun just for those who are messaging about it already don't worry we're not gonna actually like hook up high voltage lines ourselves we like have an electrician who's cool and will come in and like help us with that stuff don't worry okay what else you got Ryan says keep it blue yeah I was kind of thinking maybe like like if we do something with vinyl then that doesn't affect whoever gets it next right so we could just do like like ltte orange racing stripes up it or something like that like that'd be pretty cool josh says hood is a set piece for Rancho huh probably not we're probably gonna do an show inside because it's gonna be it's we have enough challenges to solve before when show today with this dual streaming thing anything else okay one more gareth says thermite plus Lambo yeah hydraulic press Channel hmm now that's an interesting one I don't even think it would fit in there press I've seen that channel alright see you guys go ahead and cut me how do we do for