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+**Adam Stacoviak:** So what I'm bringing up is this idea that this -- like, you had the Ford Bronco come back, and that was gas-based, not EV-based. But then you have this Scout Motors, which I had no idea about a Scout. So this is all new to me.
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+**Jerod Santo:** No. It's not a Jeep?
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** I don't even know, it's not a Jeep.
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+**Jerod Santo:** It looks like a Jeep.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** It's not a Jeep, though.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Is it because Jeep's just a brand?
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes.
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+**Jerod Santo:** A manufacturer.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** It's got this nostalgia from back in the day...
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+**Jerod Santo:** It's a square SUV... It looks like a Jeep Wrangler.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Okay.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** It looks Bronco-ish too, right?
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+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, yeah.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Wrangler-ish, Bronco-ish... It's got this--
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+**Jerod Santo:** It's a Scout.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** ...this older style to it.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Okay.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm not trying to harp on Scout necessarily, or Scout Motors, but this idea of... This take what was old and modernize it as an EV...
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+**Jerod Santo:** What if we take what's old and make it new again?
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. This idea.
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+**Jerod Santo:** And this is a metaphor for Rails? \[laughs\]
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Sure... Sure... No, but I was just thinking, "Are you down with that?" Are you down with the idea of take the old school and make it new school, and it's EV new school?
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+**Jerod Santo:** If it's well-executed.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Because... Take the same exact concept to movies and I say "No", unless it's well-executed. Then I'll say yes.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Then you'll say yes.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, for sure.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** What's a good, well-executed, since we're going to movies...
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+**Jerod Santo:** Didn't we do this with -- we tried to figure out when we had Emily Freeman and Justin on the show...
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Right.
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+**Jerod Santo:** ...a good remake, or a good reboot. And we decided that Blade Runner was pretty good, and that Dune --
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Dune was good, yeah.
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+**Jerod Santo:** ...was pretty good.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Dune's kind of standalone, though. It's a remake, but it's not --
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+**Jerod Santo:** It's a different version of the same story. They're telling the same story though. It's a reboot.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah, it is a reboot.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Okay. So I'm not against the idea, I'm against the way it's executed poorly. And so if Scout kills it, then I want one.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** You want one.
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+**Jerod Santo:** I do want one. Here's why I want an EV... I hate oil changes. \[laughs\] I hate the complication and the complexity of an internal combustion engine. I like the simplicity and the lack of maintenance on an EV. Now, what I don't like about an EV is there's one giant battery that just goes bad eventually, you know? Or blows up. But what I do like about it is I'm used to taking care of batteries... I feel like I can take care of a battery, better than I can take care of... Ice.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. I drive an F-250, as you know...
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+**Jerod Santo:** That's a large internal combustion engine.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** It's a diesel engine. It's even different than a gas engine.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, it's diesel.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** And it has the requirement of DEF fluid. Are you familiar with DEF fluid?
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+**Jerod Santo:** Say again?
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** DEF fluid?
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+**Jerod Santo:** I think I have some DEF fluid in my ear.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Hello? DEF? Are you making fun of \[00:03:32.15\] on this podcast?
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+**Jerod Santo:** No, I'm making fun of you.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, okay. Gotcha. DEF. I think it stands for...
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+**Jerod Santo:** Oh, DEF Jam Records.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** ...Diesel Exhaust Fluid, I believe... DEF. Acronym.
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+**Jerod Santo:** I will believe you, because I have no way of checking it.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Me neither. I'm believing me as well. I'm not sure.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Anybody with a computer could prove that wrong...
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, so it requires diesel... Some say diesel. Not diesel.
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+**Jerod Santo:** I say diesel.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Diesel. I say diesel, too.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Okay. Why did you call it diesel, then?
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm cool with either, actually. I'm cool with diesel, or diesel.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Or Vin Diesel.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, yeah. Vin Diesel...
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+**Jerod Santo:** I'm cool with either one of those.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** I think he's actually a diesel.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, he's more of a diesel, I think.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** He's the example where it's got to be a Z.
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+**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, I agree.
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+**Adam Stacoviak:** So my vehicle requires diesel, as well as DEF fluid...