Inside a Tesla Cybertruck; how police dogs find devices; Ballmer's comedian son

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Reporter Kurt Schlosser takes us inside a Tesla Cybertruck, explains what it was like to drive one, and tells us how people reacted to the futuristic vehicle as it debuted on the streets of Seattle.

Also on the show, Kurt shares details from his recent story about Nala, the Seattle Police Department's electronics-detecting police dog, and explains how these law-enforcement K9s are trained to find all sorts of devices.

And in our final segment, we hear a clip from comedian Pete Ballmer, the son of Steve Ballmer, about growing up as one of the kids of the former Microsoft CEO.

With GeekWire's Todd Bishop and Kurt Schlosser.

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0:00.0	Steve Ballmer, his son, Pete, turns out he's a comedian.
0:04.5	I played the mega millions this week.
0:05.8	I think it got up over $1 billion and I spent $2 thinking I could change my kids lives. I could I could turn them into comedians.
0:14.3	Hey everybody welcome to GeekWire I'm G GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop and I'm here with GeekWire reporter Kurt Slosser. It's great to have you here Kurt. Hey Todd good to be here. You and I are steering the ship this week in the absence of our colleague
0:33.9	Taylor Soper and I was like come on in Kurt let's talk because you had a couple of
0:38.2	fascinating stories on the site this week one of which I know you've been
0:41.5	working on for quite a while about a electronic sniffing dog, a police dog that we want to talk about later on.
0:49.0	But first you got to ride in something very different and that was a Tesla cyber truck just
0:57.0	this past week.
0:58.3	It pulled up here at our office in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and it was driven by Javier Larache, the head of AI startup
1:05.6	Hal 9, who was really one of the first people in the city to get this thing.
1:11.1	What is the cyber truck? You're right. It's different. It's Tesla's answer to a
1:16.4	beefier electric vehicle. It serves a audience that I guess wants to go off-road a little bit maybe want something a little more
1:24.4	rugged it doesn't look like your traditional pickup truck but in in all intents and
1:29.2	purposes it's supposed to be a pickup it looks like something out of Blade Runner. You know, when this thing was first
1:34.6	announced four years ago by Tesla and Elon Musk, it was both mocked and sort of revered, you know, kind of like a lot of his stuff is and a lot of the ways that he is.
1:46.7	And when Javier pulled up last Friday to show it off to me and to give me a ride and ultimately let me drive the thing.
1:54.1	I was both intrigued and sort of laughing on the inside.
1:58.4	As I think Javier might have been as well.
2:00.7	The reactions that you got were just stunning and a big part of your story was about how people reacted to it and the quote that really stuck with me after seeing this thing on the road and seeing you drive off with Javier was it looks like a weird
2:15.8	pixelated car like something glitched out in the rendering.
2:20.4	Yeah, the young woman who said that out at Golden Gardens hit the nail on the head.
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