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Co-founder & Co-host, TBPN

We Review ‘You Can See Everything’, Tesla Unveils Rocket Powered-Roadster | Diet TBPN

📅 Oct 16, 2026 TBPN 31 MIN 562 VIEWS 63 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays review the Nathan Fielder film 'You Can See Everything', praising its cinematography and calling it an instant classic. Coogan rates it 10/10 and plans to see it again. They discuss a poll by Liz Wessel of First Round showing 14 of 16 attendees felt more positive about Elizabeth Holmes after the film. Coogan then reveals he put down a $5,000 deposit on a Tesla Roadster but cancelled it after learning production starts in 2028, calling the announcement 'completely insane'. He analyzes the Roadster's cold gas thrusters, potential Nürburgring lap times, and the contrast with Porsche's Mission S, which he expects to deliver by 2028. Coogan details Roadster pricing: $45,000 deposit for the base model, $250,000 total for the thruster version, and unknown invite-only pricing for the flight model. He ends discussing market declines, with the Nasdaq down 2.14%.

Key takeaways

  1. Coogan cancelled his $5,000 Tesla Roadster reservation after learning production starts in 2028, calling the timeline 'completely insane'.
  2. Coogan rates 'You Can See Everything' 10/10 and calls it an instant classic, praising the cinematography as 'masters at work'.
  3. Coogan expects the Porsche Mission S to enter production by end of 2027 with first deliveries in 2028, progressing faster than the Roadster.
  4. Coogan says the Roadster's thruster model requires a $245,000 deposit within 10 days, totaling $250,000, while the flight model is invite-only with unknown pricing.
  5. Coogan believes the Roadster could achieve a sub-five-minute Nürburgring lap using fans and thrusters for downforce, comparing it to a Porsche 919 Evo.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
10 out of 10 Coogan's rating of the film 'You Can See Everything' metric 0:54
14 out of 16 Poll respondents feeling more positive about Elizabeth Holmes after the film metric 4:08
150 Founders, investors, and builders taken to an early screening by Liz Wessel metric 4:08
$5,000 Deposit Coogan put on a Tesla Roadster reservation price 6:26
2028 Start of Tesla Roadster production timeline 6:26
$45,000 Deposit required for the base Tesla Roadster within 10 days price 23:50
$250,000 Total deposit for the Tesla Roadster thruster model price 23:50
2.14% Nasdaq decline on the day of recording metric 27:28
1.09% S&P 500 decline on the day of recording metric 27:28
34% Dow Jones decline on the day of recording metric 27:28

Chapters

  1. 0:00Review of 'You Can See Everything'
  2. 4:08Poll on Elizabeth Holmes
  3. 6:26Tesla Roadster reveal reaction
  4. 10:52Roadster tier list and features
  5. 23:50Roadster pricing and deposits
  6. 27:28Market decline and closing remarks
John Coogan 0:01 ↗
Why do you call it the capital of capital, Jordi? Why? Why do you feel that way? Why do you think that way? We're of course referring to You Can See Everything, the fun Nathan Fielder movie that we saw yesterday, where he always asks the follow-up question, asks why do you feel that way? Why do you say that again and again and again?
Jordi Hays 0:19 ↗
She never hit him with the um, why questions are overdetermined.
John Coogan 0:22 ↗
She should have, she should have hit him with the why questions are overdetermined. That would have been the trump card. That just, yeah, he would have been... Nathan Fielder is this one simple trick.
Jordi Hays 0:33 ↗
He would have been stun locked. Yeah, but a Nathan Fielder PT crossover would be incredible. That's the next movie they got to do. Uh, deep dive in the Antichrist, figuring out all the questions there. That'd be so fun.
John Coogan 0:45 ↗
That is, I think, the only way that you could one up this.
Jordi Hays 0:47 ↗
Yeah. No. So, I mean, it's maybe even too inside baseball, right? Because this was such a big story a decade ago.
John Coogan 0:54 ↗
Yeah. Yeah. Everyone knows and they've seen the show and stuff. But yeah, I mean, I'm pretty much a 10 out of 10 on the movie. I thought it was fantastic. I really, really enjoyed it. Uh, we went with a bunch of folks and thanks to everyone that came out and hung out with us. It was a great time and it had a big impact on us. We ditched the IM. Yeah, we're going to be using these headphones now going forward. We're also going to be shooting like this.
Jordi Hays 1:16 ↗
Yes.
John Coogan 1:17 ↗
Uh, the whole show cinematography was incredible. There's a lot of debate going on in the studio on how much VFX was involved, how much cinematography and actual lighting equipment was involved, because every shot is beautiful. It's perfectly lit and yet they're in these tight spaces, this small beach house in Delmar, and it looks incredible. And my thesis is that just the cameramen are as good at what they do as what Nathan Fielder does. Like they are just experts at their craft. They use the best tools. They got incredible cameras, incredible lenses, and they went in there and they shot it beautifully. Even with some crazy lighting at times, they figured out how to make it amazing. Uh, and maybe there's color grading after the fact, but I was, I'm sort of skeptical of the theory that like before every scene they went and set up a bunch of 10x10 diffusion and shot a bunch of light through. Maybe there's some stuff going on outside pushing through windows, but it seemed pretty natural to me and I think they're just really good at making it look beautiful. But yeah, it was masters. Masters at work.
Jordi Hays 2:20 ↗
Yeah. Across the entire production. Everyone involved, even the A24 people who I think they cast them, they cast actors. Oh, I don't want to spoil anything, but uh, but there's some A24 references that are fun and uh, everything, everything about it is incredible. So, highly recommend going and seeing it. Probably stay spoiler-free if you can because uh, it's a fun wild ride.
John Coogan 2:42 ↗
Yeah. The thing is that I think you could know exactly what happens and it would still be wildly entertaining. Like the whole concept is just so absurd.
Jordi Hays 2:51 ↗
Yeah. It is if you followed Nathan Fielder across his career.
John Coogan 2:55 ↗
Yeah. This makes sense as a natural progression. Totally.
Jordi Hays 2:58 ↗
And yet at the same time, it's unbelievable that all these different pieces came together. And various groups like agreed to do something like this, being uh, Billy and uh, Elizabeth.
John Coogan 3:10 ↗
Yeah. Uh, it is just almost unbelievable.
Jordi Hays 3:13 ↗
Yeah. When the trailer came out, a lot of people were asking like, why would she agree to do this? And I really think it's like serving 11 years in prison. There's nowhere to go but up.
John Coogan 3:22 ↗
Yeah. Your view was like there's no real downside, all upside. And I think people will come away from this generally having a lot more like, regardless of you think she was guilty or not, you're gonna come away, um, you're gonna come away, uh, feeling bad for her and the whole situation, right? The days and days and days of scenes with her and her children, will these shots, these shots, you know, the final shot before prison where she says she does her, you know, pump is pumping breast milk for the children saying like, bring it back.
Jordi Hays 4:04 ↗
Are you guys laughing at the framing or just what Jordi said? I'm so confused.
John Coogan 4:07 ↗
Sorry, it's very distracting.
Jordi Hays 4:08 ↗
Okay, Liz Wessel, Ramp investor over at First Round. Big news from Ramp. Eric Clifton is coming on the show today. Uh, but uh, she took 150 founders, investors, and builders to an early screening of the movie. She polled 16 of them and 14 out of 16 came away saying they are more positive on Liz Holmes. Doesn't mean they're fans, just means that they thought less negatively of her. That sounds like it worked. 14 out of 16. So she took 150 people. Very odd methodology, Liz. I mean, nice, nice that you did this. It's interesting content, but you should have polled all 150. Uh, but instead she polled 16 sort of casually. And she asked them some basic questions. Do you feel better or worse about Elizabeth Holmes after seeing this film? 14 said more positive. Only one said more negative, and one didn't change. But all 16 said they felt more negative about Billy. And there's some other data there that we'll kind of leave. Uh, but you can go check it out. Anyway, uh, don't miss it. Go see it this weekend. Uh, the spoilers are just going to keep, uh, keep trickling out. And uh, it's just fun seeing in a packed theater because everyone's laughing at different moments. Everyone's gasping at different moments. The film was effectively a psychedelic experience.
John Coogan 5:22 ↗
Yeah. In many ways. Yeah. Like it was, it was riveting. It was like, you know, funny at these, the cuts, the production, just so funny. We're dying back. I'm glad we have this tool now. But no, no, I agree with someone just texted me. Apparently, what, what'd they text you? Apparently, my uh, my wonderful wife texted the team telling them the show is messed up. I'm super zoomed in.
Jordi Hays 5:47 ↗
That's hilarious.
John Coogan 5:48 ↗
Uh, I will be going back to see it.
Jordi Hays 5:50 ↗
I'm seeing it tonight again.
John Coogan 5:51 ↗
You are with Em. Amazing. Yeah. Um, very cool. Yeah, we'll be going back as soon as possible. But the whole thing was, um, yeah, completely psychedelic in my experience and just a very... it was kind of strange for me because two hours into the movie, yeah, there was a fire that got started somewhat near my house and so I started getting calls and texts about that and then I ended up kind of like my attention ended up trailing off so I have to go see it again. Um, but uh, really an incredible work of art.
Jordi Hays 6:24 ↗
Yeah, it feels instant classic.
John Coogan 6:26 ↗
Instant classic. Yeah. Very, very fascinating. Uh, well, uh, I think, I think we can zoom out. This is a tool that we can have in the tool chest. We can go back to the normal lighting and the normal level of zoom because I got a big reveal because what am I wearing today? I got the fell for the get award because your boy put down 5,000 hard-earned dollars on a Tesla Roadster reservation two days ago. And uh, I think I got to refund it because the demo is incredible, but it's not starting production until 2028. I was under the assumption that this was the launch of the Roadster, that this was not the reveal, that maybe I just read the tweets wrong and I wasn't dialed in or something, but I thought it was like, okay, this is the start of production. Like they're producing them now, they're going to show what's happening, show the final design, and then be like, yeah, and the people that have been waiting seven years, they're getting theirs next month and then a couple months later. And if you just... going into production. So, so first of all, I'll start by saying absolutely incredible feats, amazing show, absolute cinema. Uh, wonderful that they're doing this. There's a bunch of stuff that I really love about it, but dropping like the car will be going into production in 2028 was just like completely insane. Um, that's how I felt. It was rough. I want a fun Tesla now. Like, like that self-driving car technology is so cool. I just want to know if you gave Tesla four million dollars in 2017. Yeah. And if you had just put that in the S&P, you would be, you would have multiples of that by now. You'd be... um, and then you, there's this big event. The event gets delayed again two weeks and then, yeah, we're making the car, but it's going to be going into production in 2028, which easily means it could be like... could be delayed. It could be, well, no, I just like it could be getting deliveries in the very end of 2028. Yeah, I mean it could start production December 20th, 2028 and that's not a violation. And then production could run for like four years, so if you're later in the queue, it could take a really long time. That happens with special cars all the time. Um, Elite Elite, we lost. But, um, the other thing is that it just felt like they raised the stakes so much by being like, we're going to put cold gas thrusters and rockets on it. It's going to be able to do kickflips. It's like, okay, there's a lot to work through. Yeah. All you had to do is beautiful car that goes fast. Yeah, beautiful car that goes. I was trying to, I was trying to imagine. So, the reason that you do this now, even though the car is not actually ready to announce at all, is pressure from the probably 10,000 plus people that reserved this car a long time ago and it's getting kind of annoying. You feel like I'm not delivering on something that I said. And two, to kind of like make the Tesla SpaceX merger like start to build towards that. I like that thesis, that that feels like why you would do this now. Otherwise, like you don't need to announce a car that you're not making for two years.
Jordi Hays 9:21 ↗
Yeah. When they open the car door for one of the cars because I think some of the cars don't have seats, some of them do. Some of them can be drivable, some of them can just do kickflips. There's a whole variety of products that they're demoing and then they'll bring everything together over the next two years hopefully. But uh, when they open the door and they're like, there's someone inside, it's Spaceman, he's in the spacesuit. It's like, okay, that's a SpaceX product in there as well. It's not just the thrusters. And then I was expecting almost like an Optimus in there, but I forgot that Optimus is technically a Tesla project, not a SpaceX project, but it feels like a SpaceX project now because it's SpaceX AI or SpaceX SI. And so when I think of like robotics and artificial intelligence, I think SpaceX more than Tesla now. So, it's like these companies just are destined to be... the contrast between how incredible like the show and the spectacle was and the demo and the technology with like the delivery from Elon and the two other guys like awkward, like a lot of dead air, the most awkward delivery and so many of these kind of semi-awkward moments.
John Coogan 10:20 ↗
We, we, we got, let's talk about, yeah, let's talk about everything that we love about it. Okay, also predictions because if you remember yesterday on the show, I predicted that it would be able to lift off the ground. I said something like six feet. It clearly does more than six feet. That was my prediction. I did not predict ramps. Jordan said nitro service ramps everywhere. And that's exactly what we got. I mean, it's just one big ramp, but it's effectively ramps everywhere based on, I think this totally counts. Insane that it can go upside down like that. Uh, the McMy Sperling can actually do something similar with just fans.
Jordi Hays 10:52 ↗
Should we do a tier list? I think it's time for a tier list.
John Coogan 10:55 ↗
Okay, I like this. Let's get a tier list going.

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