WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:09.960 Now let's bring in our guest. He is none other than Eric Peters of 2 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.679 Eric Peters Autos, and he is a very decent man for coming in the 3 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.679 way he has. Eric, Welcome and happy New Year. I'm so glad 4 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.800 that I get to see you. And I apologized for messing up on the 5 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:26.519 link earlier and even night. It's okay. At least we were able to 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.679 fix it between ourselves, unlike that Dodge Dark that I had to deal with 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:35.840 last week. Tell people what you experienced. This is beautiful. Oh, 8 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:39.000 it was incredible. Okay, So you know the test car, the car 9 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.079 that I was test driving for purposes of reviewing last week, was a brand 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.079 new twenty twenty four Dodge Dart. First couple of days went fine. The 11 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.560 third day I went out to drive it and it wouldn't start. You pushed 12 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.679 the star's button and the headlights flashed, and so my immediate instinctual response was, 13 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.600 Okay, probably has a dead and or weak battery. So I'll go 14 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.439 to my toolbox. I get out the old multimeter and I checked the battery 15 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.359 and sure enough, it's down to nine volts for whatever reason. Now it's 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:04.519 a brand new car, you think it has a brand new battery. Why 17 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.159 is the battery low? But in any event, the battery is low. 18 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.560 And typically with modern computer controlled cars, if the computer doesn't sense twelve volts 19 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.599 at the battery, sometimes it won't even try to start because the fuel injection 20 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:22.239 won't work without full voltage. So at any rate, I did what you 21 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.120 know a few years ago would have been the reasonable thing to do, which 22 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.599 is to charge up the battery. So I hooked it up to my trickle 23 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:32.319 charger, and in the process I disconnected And this is going to become important. 24 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:36.959 I disconnected the negative cable. Okay, Then when I charged up the 25 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.400 battery, it was showing twelve volts. I put the negative cable back on 26 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:46.359 the battery and the car went persserk lights flashing, alarms clanging, all the 27 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:52.400 lights on the interior dashboard flashing on and off. Apparently it has some kind 28 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.640 of cataleptic response to any interruption of its voltage. Now, initially I thought, 29 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.439 okay, I just need to know the secret process. Sometimes you have 30 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:01.840 like on the key you can push the lock, unlock the panic button in 31 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.200 a certain sequence to get the alarm to shut off. I tied that to 32 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:09.240 no avail. It would not work, could not find any procedure in the 33 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:15.000 owner's manual or anywhere else. So I called up the press Fleet company, 34 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:19.680 which then in turn called up Dodge Engineering, you know, to try to 35 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.520 figure out what was wrong with the This is directly in communication with the manufacturer. 36 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.800 And long story short that once the vehicle has this interruption of current, 37 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.120 you lose. You can't fix it. You have to have it dragged to 38 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:37.479 the dealer to get them to I guess, reboot the computer. And you 39 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.000 have to have specialized equipment in order to do that. So word to the 40 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.039 wise, you know, do not disconnect the battery of a modern computer controlled 41 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.080 car unless you're ready for some pretty serious for your percussions. And then I 42 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.479 found out something even more interesting. And I did not know this. You 43 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.400 know, you have to keep up with things, and even I sometimes don't 44 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.159 keep up with things. So why did the battery have less than twelve volts 45 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.960 current to begin new car? New battery? Well, it turns out that 46 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.840 the culprit was probably the second battery. Uh huh. This is not an 47 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.879 electric car, but nonetheless it had two batteries. The main twelve volt starter 48 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:15.120 battery that we're all familiar with that starts the engine when you push the button 49 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.080 or turn the key. But in addition to that, these new cars that 50 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:23.800 have automated stop start technology as they market it, the acronym being s ASS 51 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:30.240 have a secondary battery that is designed to operate with that system. Because of 52 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.560 those you know, those repeated stop start cycles. You know that that's hard 53 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.319 on a battery, right. The understanding of the thing is that you know 54 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:42.159 if that is going to create a power draw. So if that draws enough 55 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.159 power from the battery and the battery hasn't had enough time to recharge from driving, 56 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.159 you might see this reduction in the battery the nin starter batteries voltage and 57 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.919 then could put the car doesn't work. And then when that happens, if 58 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.479 you do something like pull the take the cables off the battery, then you 59 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.879 have to have a car dragged to a dealer to get it fixed. That's 60 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.360 progress for you. Huh oh man, I have to. I want to 61 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:11.120 show people the website, uh, because I love this. We're speaking with 62 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.319 Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos. Folks, It's Eric Peters Autos dot com. 63 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.839 I'm Gardner Goldsmith Filion for David Knight and Eric Peters is with us, 64 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:23.800 and you had it had to be dragged. When my computer crashes, I 65 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.680 called dose techies and you talk. This is an update, a final report 66 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.279 about the issue experience with a new car twenty twenty four Dodge Hornet. I 67 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:38.120 was test driving. Just a dead battery, just ridiculous, unbelievable, And 68 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.720 as you say, the car had to be flatbedded to the dealer to deal 69 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.279 with it. And that's one of the things when I read your articles. 70 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:51.639 You have this sly sense of humor about all the absurdities that you see in 71 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.399 these designs. Eric, you have talked before about the scene and the unseen 72 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.079 and economics. Well here's a really good example of that. Now, what 73 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.959 does the benefit to you and I are anybody who buys one of these cars? 74 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.319 Does the car start any better with all of this technology? I mean 75 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.800 I can get into my twenty two year old truck, you know, and 76 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:14.720 I turned the key and the engine starts. You know, it doesn't start 77 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.720 any in any way that's inferior to the way the new car starts, And 78 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.879 in many ways it's superior because if it doesn't start, I can disconnect your 79 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.839 battery. I can put a new battery in and the car will start. 80 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.519 I don't have to call a tow truck or roadside assistance to have the thing 81 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.720 drag to a dealership. To have something that's profoundly simple, you know, 82 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:36.000 like changing a battery handled all a dealership at one hundred dollars an hour. 83 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.079 Yeah, I agree with you. And you know it's interesting, Eric, 84 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:46.480 you talk about complex integration versus simple integration. And in many in many cases, 85 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.439 when you get complex integration, sometimes you get better efficiency that sort of 86 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:55.800 thing. But to repair something, you want simple integration. You want to 87 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.800 be able to take the pieces out, replace the pieces, get pieces without 88 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:03.160 having to wait a month to get a piece in, and not have it 89 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:11.000 be done through algorithms, every part of which has its own piece, because 90 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.480 there's no way you could do enough research to really even understand how to make 91 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.759 it work. And that's where they're going all the time. And there's another 92 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.240 aspect to this too, you know, it's the question big which is, 93 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.399 well, why what? What is the reason for all of this? And 94 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.040 the only reason for it, again is the unseen hand of government, of 95 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.360 the regulatory apparat The only reason that almost all new cars have that ass system 96 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.879 I mentioned earlier, The automated stop start. I don't know whether you've driven 97 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.879 a late model car, but what happens you come to a traffic light. 98 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.560 Let's say the light's are read, the engine shuts off automatically, you know, 99 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.160 and then when you put your foot take your foot off of the brake 100 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:48.560 and put your foot on the gas pedal, then the engine restarts. So 101 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:53.879 in the course of your morning commute, the engine might stop start a dozen 102 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:58.959 times or more, okay, and nobody wants that. Who wants to have 103 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.319 that? Chuk? You know, when the and as a slight delay, 104 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.279 you know, in between light turns green and instead of just you know, 105 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.680 going, you have to wait that little moment for the engine to start before 106 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.319 the car can go. Nobody wants this. Nobody in the market asked for 107 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.519 this. So why do we have it? Why is it not only in 108 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.279 cars, but it's standard in cars. It's not like it's an option. 109 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.120 Oh, I think that's a great idea. I think I'll check that box 110 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.639 because I want a car to do that. The only reason it's the new 111 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:28.879 cars is because of the pressure that is being brought to bear on the manufacturers 112 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:34.439 of vehicles to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. As they market that as they prop 113 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.519 the anti because you know, because when the engine is not running, you 114 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.480 know, you shut the car off at a traffic light. It's not about 115 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.319 saving gas. This gas savings is trivial, but the idea is that if 116 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.600 the engine shuts off at a traffic light, then you know, it's at 117 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.759 that moment a zero emissions in terms of carbon dioxide vehicle. So that's one 118 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.879 of the effects of the regulatory apparat that you and I get to feel and 119 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:03.360 pay for. Wow, you know, Eric, I got the opportunity to 120 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:09.680 tell people a little bit about something that Al Gore is involved with and he 121 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:15.959 is, he's part of and in fact he's connected with Google on this thing 122 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.759 called Trace that he puts seed money into this. Google puts seed money into 123 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:26.959 this. It is an online system to collect data that now is there's a 124 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.079 corporation and a number of corporations, but there's one I wrote about this from 125 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:35.799 our CTV. There's one that has been using basically spyplanes and they want to 126 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:43.600 get up with the EPA's help up in the satellites to use camera technology and 127 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.879 infrared to be able to detect emissions coming from virtually anything and then report it 128 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:56.279 to the EPA, and then the EPA without any trial, without any jurisprudence 129 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.720 in any way whatsoever or due process. We'll just find people for the emissions. 130 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:05.639 And they keep using this canard of the so called climate, the carbon 131 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.879 so called emissions. And as you said, they don't just talk about carbon 132 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.360 dioxide. They try to make it sound like soot, like oh, it's 133 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.279 carbon that's going out there, like this is going to destroy the La Basin 134 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.840 which they cleaned up a long time ago. You know, it's just ridiculous 135 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:26.519 to see this. And they keep putting these electronic devices in the cars that 136 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.559 will measure our output, that will report back. And this is the way 137 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.320 that they're going. And I drew this up on the screen. People could 138 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.320 see me drawing this up. If you could tell us, could you tell 139 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.399 us a little bit about a preview of things to come? This article over 140 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.159 here, and I want to show this on the website, a preview of 141 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:48.240 things to come at Eric petersautos dot com. Yeah, that's not so much 142 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.279 with regard to emissions as they put it. This has to do with behavior. 143 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:58.240 It has to do with the pending Come twenty twenty six federal requirement that 144 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.879 cars have technol embedded in them to deal with impaired driving, you know, 145 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.679 and again it's this sleight of hand, it's this verbiage. In fact, 146 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.519 if you dig into it, it's not that they're going after it's so called 147 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.360 drunk drivers. And never mind whether you've actually been convicted of drunk driving. 148 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.159 They're just going to say that everybody's presumed to be a drunk driver. In 149 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:24.279 fact, it's about measuring what they call driver performance. That's the actual terminology 150 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.240 that's used. So what does that mean, Well, it means that any 151 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:31.159 performance that falls outside of the parameters that they consider to be acceptable, so 152 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.320 driving faster than the speed limits, so you know, whether you're looking at 153 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:37.360 the thing that they want you to look at. I was test driving another 154 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.399 car that has elements of this technology. That's something people ought to know is 155 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:46.360 that the cars that are already in production and that have been in production for 156 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.960 the past several years already have some of the bits and pieces of this technology 157 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:56.200 embedded in them. For example, this thing called a browsy driver monitor. 158 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.360 Essentially, the car is looking at your eyes and if it thinks that you're 159 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:07.120 not looking straight ahead at all times, this box pops up in the gauge 160 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.240 cluster that says, you know, driver in attention, detected, or pay 161 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.120 more attention, or stop for a coffee break or something like that. Now, 162 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:16.759 I ride motorcycles, and one of the reasons that I'm still alive in 163 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:22.320 talking to you right now is that I maintain awareness of what's going on around 164 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.919 me, not just tumnel vision of what's in front of me. So I'll 165 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:28.759 glance still left, and I'll glance to the right, and I'll look in 166 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.080 my review mirror or you know, look, I'm just trying to keep aware 167 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.320 of what's around you, right right. That's kept me from wrecking a car 168 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:41.679 too. But yet when I drive these cars, I get this constant cereal 169 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.080 pop up about how I'm drowsy and distracted because my eyes are not looking tumbel 170 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.600 visions straight ahead. Now. As annoying as that is, what's going to 171 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.039 happen come twenty twenty six and going forward is that, in addition to annoying 172 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.039 you, it's going to punish you. And that punishment will probably come in 173 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.759 one of two forms. Either of the car itself will somehow deactivate, or 174 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:03.679 maybe it will go into gimp mode and you'll be limping along the side of 175 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.639 the road at five miles an hour or more. Probably because the car is 176 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:11.440 connected and it's connected to the government, the insurance mafia. You will get 177 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.399 hit with a fine or a done every time you do something that falls outside 178 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.840 of the parameters of what they say is safe driving. And we've seen previously 179 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.360 this with the insurance companies that will say that we'll give you a just kind 180 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.519 of if you plug this little jungle into your obed port in the car. 181 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.519 You know, and what they're doing is every single time that you change lanes 182 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:35.200 too abruptly, you accelerate to aggressively, things of that nature, you find 183 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.279 that your insurance premium has gone up. That's the model. That's what they're 184 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.120 going to do. It doesn't matter that you don't wreck, that you never 185 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:45.039 have an accident, that you have a perfect driving record. I've got a 186 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.919 thirty year record of not having wrecked a car. As you know, they'll 187 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.799 say, they'll say, or your habits show that you're unsafe and so we 188 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.879 have to raise your rates accordingly. You know, it reminds me of in 189 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:03.639 a way, it reminds me of the taken to assert extremes Brazil and you 190 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.960 know by Terry gillian what a brilliant, brilliant film, just you know how 191 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:16.360 they controlled the heating systems and it shows the ninja black market heating AAV repair 192 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.960 man coming in in the middle of the night to repair the guy's heating system 193 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.240 because it won't stop. And it's all run by some interior organization. And 194 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.960 I worked at the New Hampshire Community College system for a while and in the 195 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.519 springtime, you know, you're coming from the colder days, but you can 196 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:39.480 get some warmer days, and so you want to be able to definitely regulate 197 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:41.000 that temperature because it's going to get too hot for the students. They're going 198 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.679 to get tired. And it was just incredibly hot. And I asked someone 199 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.679 else, I said, where's the thermostat? Why can't we do something? 200 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.320 And they said, oh, no, the temperature for this building. I 201 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.960 said yeah. They said that's controlled from the central building in the capital of 202 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.840 the state and conquered New Hampshire, thirty five miles away. And I was 203 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.720 like, what this, Yeah, we can't control the temperature in this building. 204 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.519 I was like, that is Terry Gilliamville. That's insane. And to 205 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.919 bring it back home when you have a person a person sort of thing. 206 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.080 My dad and I were driving along. My dad was driving once. Eric, 207 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.120 you remind me of a little little anecdote from from my childhood and my 208 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.720 dad. You know, we're on these really bad roads and he would dodge 209 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:28.240 potholes to save the undercarriage of the Toyota. You know, for a while 210 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.000 we had a renault at the torsion bar suspension that was very interesting. And 211 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.000 so, you know, he would dodge the potholes, make it sort of 212 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.240 a game. He gets pulled over and then he says, uh, sir, 213 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.120 I noticed you were driving erratically. And he says, he goes, 214 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.919 have you been drinking? And I'm I'm with the guy I was like. 215 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.000 My dad says, no, you know, I was just dodging the potholes. 216 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.600 And then the police officer, to his credit, said oh, I'm 217 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.200 so sorry. I'm so sorry about that. Yeah, the roads are terrible. 218 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.080 I'm really sorry about that, and then he went on his way. 219 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:05.519 You've got to system now that is building up all these errors within programming and 220 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.399 systems permanently attached to the cars. You can't get rid of these things. 221 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.919 Yes, it's all you know, the story that you just told very similar. 222 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.120 In my area, the roads are often terrible. I live in a 223 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.159 rural area, so it's common for people to straddle the center line because that 224 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.360 way, you know, you don't hit these bumps all the time and destroy 225 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.000 the undercarriage of your car and your suspension, your tires. But the technology 226 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.200 is one size fits all, you know, and it's the size of the 227 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.600 government says that you'll fit into period, you know. And it's part of 228 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.519 this effort to manage and control and micro control absolutely everything that we do. 229 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.039 I was listening to a new story of the day that bears on this. 230 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.600 It had something to do with North Korea, and the North Korean government has 231 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.639 issued its plan, you know, for the next year apparently, and that's 232 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.559 what we're talking about. There's always a central plan, controlled by central planners. 233 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.639 You and I apparently are unfit to plan our own affairs. Everybody, 234 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.840 you know, mass has to be has to be sort of compressed together and 235 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.960 then sluiced and directed in a path that is decided by the central planners. 236 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:12.759 And nobody seems to ever question, well, who are these people? I 237 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:18.679 mean, how is it that these people somehow have acquired the power and in 238 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.320 some sense you know, the moral acquiescence of people that Okay, yeah, 239 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:25.360 sure, you know. I'm here just to do what you tell me to 240 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.440 do, and I'm waiting tell me what to do, tell me how to 241 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:32.360 behave. It's amazing. I'm so glad you brought up the Seinfeld thing. 242 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:34.519 That was one of the one of the things I picked up from Gilbert Godfried 243 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.960 because he used to do a terrific Seinfeld impression and he was the first person 244 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.279 I ever I ever heard do these Seinfeld Who are these people? You know? 245 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:47.720 It's the classic Seinfeld Seinfeld line. And Eric, I want to mention 246 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:49.679 kudos to you also, by the way, for putting the picture of the 247 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:55.279 Kawisaki over there. You mentioned you ride bikes, and when I was a 248 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.639 kid, it was hondas and kawisaki motorbikes, you know, out there in 249 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:03.879 the dirt and each other around and stuff, and my friends had those things. 250 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.799 I was always on the back dragging my sneakers, putting up dust, 251 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.559 dust and stuff so the guys behind us couldn't see. I was like, 252 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.279 we're getting chased by the cops. Come on, you know. We would 253 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.160 have races and stuff and it was a lot of fun. And also on 254 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.960 this subject, you know, you talk about the drowsy driver thing and stuff 255 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.440 you mentioned here. Eric over at Eric peters ATTO's Everybody and follow him at 256 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:32.759 Libertarian car G Libertarian car g on Twitter slash x. You mentioned here you 257 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:34.039 say about two thirds of the way down. You say, for instance, 258 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.559 almost all cars sold in twenty twenty three and twenty four have a system that 259 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:44.599 can tell whether you have used a turn signal before making a lane change. 260 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:49.119 That will proceed to correct your attempt to change lanes if you haven't signal first, 261 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.960 by electronically trying to steer the car back into the lane you're trying to 262 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.200 leave for the one adjacent. And I think you and David had touched on 263 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.319 this. It is just scary to think about. And then with these speed 264 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:06.880 controller things that they're going to put on various trucks that they want to have, 265 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.000 that's going to be even more dangerous because trucks are going to be side 266 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:15.200 by side with each other and they're not They're going to have a really hard 267 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.799 time passing each other. There's two aspects to this that I think are interesting. 268 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.279 The first one is just the mindlessness of it. Instead of being mindful 269 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.839 you know, some people think, well, you should signal every time you 270 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:27.960 turn, but that is mindless. I think it's far more. I think 271 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.480 it's more beneficial in sound to be aware of your driving environment. If there 272 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.039 is a car you know, you're driving forward, there's a car up ahead 273 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:37.960 or adjacent to you, of course it makes sense to signal your intentions. 274 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.440 But it makes no sense at all to signal your intentions if you're clearly the 275 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.359 only car on the road and you're out in the middle of nowhere, just 276 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.359 because you're supposed to Pavlovian style, like a dog, be trained to do 277 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.880 this, this signaling, and that somehow, you know, alleviates you the 278 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.799 responsibility of being aware of your driving environment. There's that aspect of it, 279 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:02.319 and there's another aspect of it, and it's it goes to these unanticipated consequences 280 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:06.400 that these central planners always neglect to plan for. It's all well and good 281 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.920 to turn your signal when you have a planned a lane change, you want 282 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.480 a plan to move into the next line. What if a kid runs out 283 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.519 in front of your car, an unplanned event, you know, and you 284 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.640 move the steering wheel to get out of this, to not hit the kid, 285 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.039 but now the car is trying to fight you to get back in the 286 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.440 lane that you're trying to steer out of. And I'm amazed that there hasn't 287 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:26.799 been more mayhem caused by this. You know, I'm a man and I've 288 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.720 got decent hand strength, but I could just see an older person, let's 289 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.720 say, or a woman with small hands, you know, holding that steering 290 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.119 wheel and all of a sudden, steering wheel jerks, and if you've experienced 291 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.279 it, that's what it feels like. The steering wheel will jerk in the 292 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:44.920 opposite direction and it can be really unnerving and unsettling. And it's exactly the 293 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.880 sort of thing that they used to teach kids not to do in Drivers D 294 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:49.640 they would tell, you know, if a wheel drops off, like if 295 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.839 you're driving down the road and the right side wheel drops off the road and 296 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:56.720 you know, the car will feel like it's going to go off road. 297 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.839 The last thing you want to do is jerk the wheel hard. You want 298 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:03.400 to try to maintain the car's directional stability and ease back into the road. 299 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.880 Well, this this countermands all of that, and it's being done by electronics 300 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:12.559 and programming. It's unbelievable. You know, Eric, you bring up so 301 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:18.319 many good points and I don't know how you know. I asked you once 302 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:26.240 before. You write so much and they're always fascinating, fascinating topics. And 303 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:32.279 how often do you shoot video? Do you think each week? Because now 304 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.519 you're providing video and people can find you on Rumble as well, tell people 305 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:37.799 how they can find you on Rumble, and you often embed these videos inside 306 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.279 your articles, right, you know, I'm embarrassedudent. I don't really know 307 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.160 what my handle is. I think it might be ethyologist on rumbled. But 308 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.720 if you go to most of my articles, there'll be a video in it, 309 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.200 and you can you can find it that way. But I try to 310 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.839 do a video of every new car that I test drive, and I often 311 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.160 do monologues while I'm driving a car about things that seem to me to be 312 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.400 important to talk about. Well, how about what we hit on this one? 313 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.960 Eric, this is another good one. Automotive dissonance. And you have 314 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:08.559 the picture of the woman with the Pinto. Keep off my rear. I'm 315 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:15.160 explosive, great Michigan license plate car probably built in Michigan, the Pinto. 316 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:22.880 The Pinto became, of course anonymous with rear rear engine explosion, our rear 317 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:27.079 rear gas tank explosion, and can you give people some information about that and 318 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:33.759 why it comes to mind when you're thinking about evs nowadays. Sure, Well, 319 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:36.480 there was a big hulla baloo back in the seventies. Ford made the 320 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.440 Pinto, which was an economy car, and they made millions of these things. 321 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.279 Well, the initial run of them had a poorly designed gas tank filler 322 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:49.000 neck. The fillert the filler on the car was mounted on the side of 323 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.200 the car and then it went to the gas tank, which was you know, 324 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.680 inside behind the backseat area underneath the car. Anyway, if the car 325 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.319 was hit very hard in the rear, the impact could hear the filler neck 326 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:04.200 away from the tank and that could cause gas to spill out, and if 327 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.400 there was a spark resulting from say metal to metal contact, that could trigger 328 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:11.599 a fire. And there was a recall when there was a big hullabaloo about 329 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.480 that, even though relatively speaking, millions of Pintos a handful of fires, 330 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.480 and it wasn't an inherent defect. It was just a not particularly good design 331 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.039 which was corrected and once it was corrected, it was no longer a problem. 332 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:26.720 So we've got that on the one hand, and then we juxtapose that 333 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.119 with these evs that can catch fire just sitting still, not being hit, 334 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:34.680 parked outside, parked in your garage, on a container ship. And that's 335 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:41.240 because there is an inherent built in problem with lithium ion batteries that can't be 336 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:47.720 fixed. They have an inherent built in tendency to automatically spontaneously combust. The 337 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.160 difference with the Pinto was you had to have a spark in addition to the 338 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.720 gas leaking in order for there to be a fire, and you had to 339 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:57.960 have an outside physical force, such as an impact, in order to trigger 340 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:03.119 that cascading chain of events. So it was rather improbable that you were going 341 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.319 to be burned to death in a penzil very very slight chance of that if 342 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.759 I am, I mistaken Eric. And because I was small when they did 343 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.279 these things, I think they had some of this on NBC News. Didn't 344 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:21.680 they have to put flares into the back of was it the Pinto or was 345 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:26.000 it a different car to actually making the bus it on camera? They tried 346 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.240 to do something that there was something called GM pickups I believe, with what 347 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.839 was called the side saddle fuel tank was mounted in a particular part of the 348 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.240 frame that where it was vulnerable to impact. The problem was they were trying 349 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.440 to create this gore story and they would keep hitting the thing and it wouldn't 350 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.319 blow up, so they actually had to put a flare there to cause the 351 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.119 fire. And that's the point. Gasoline is combustible, but it's actually unlikely 352 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.519 to burn if you can just spill it and pour it on the ground. 353 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:53.079 Every one of us has done that. When you go to a gas station, 354 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:57.319 you fill your car up, and sometimes when you pull the filler out, 355 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:00.920 there's some gas that drifts. It almost never catches fire because you have 356 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.319 to have a spark, so you almost have to be deliberately stupid in order 357 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:07.599 for there to be a gas fire. With these evs. On other hand, 358 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.759 you can be the most responsible person in the world. You drive your 359 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.839 EV home and you park it in your driveway or in your garage, and 360 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:22.599 it just spontaneously catches fire and you linked to a story from Eric Peters Auto's 361 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.559 dot com everybody you link to a story from Automotive News from April twenty eighth, 362 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:33.440 Kurt nagel Wright's main headline vehicle that caught fire at Chrysler Tech Center was 363 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:41.119 EV prototype and then the subhead EV related fires have erupted at two of the 364 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:47.839 Detroit three automakers in recent weeks. GM's Factory zero reported a fire last week. 365 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:49.680 And this is one of the things that, in addition to the weight 366 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:55.400 factor, inside public garages now or even private garages, if they don't handle 367 00:24:55.440 --> 00:25:00.839 these things properly, I'm very worried about parking even in any incl closed area 368 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:06.920 or nearby outside any eb because they could just start up and just burst into 369 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:11.359 flames. Yeah, the these aren't just prototypes either, a couple of because 370 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:12.400 it was a month, maybe two, three months, I lose track of 371 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:18.400 time. Uh, some forward lightnings that had been held at a storage lot 372 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:21.160 after they left the assembly line. In other words, these were finished vehicles. 373 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.119 These were ready to be shipped out to dealers. There was a fire 374 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:26.880 there. You know, this is not an uncommon occurrence, and it will 375 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.720 become a more common occurrence because of compounding factors. You know, an electric 376 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:34.799 vehicle doesn't just catch fire potentially when it's sitting still, if it's struck. 377 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.720 You know, if the battery case is damaged and damages the battery, that 378 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:42.000 can cause a fire. If and I went to this in my article, 379 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:45.640 if it gets wet a particularly with salt water, you know, as in 380 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.720 the aftermath of a flood, as in Florida, the number of because the 381 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:53.200 salt water gets into the there's a vent on top of the battery. Ye 382 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:59.680 the water gets into that vent. That salt water then causes the thermal runaway 383 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:03.039 to s circuit and the thing goes up in smoke, you know. And 384 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.880 we haven't even gotten into the effect of time and mileage and use you know, 385 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.599 over time. This is a car. It's not something actually that sits 386 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:12.319 at a desk at home, you know, like a laptop or a computer. 387 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:15.480 This is a car that is subjected to extremes of heat and cold. 388 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.640 It hits potholes, you know, and it wears out over time. So 389 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.319 we can expect to see even more of these cars. And to the point 390 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.920 of the article, it's just it's interesting because it points out the motives of 391 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.279 the government and it's feigned concern for our safety. You know, this is 392 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:37.200 a demonstrable inherent risk that cannot be corrected, at least not without changing fundamentally 393 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.039 the type of battery chemistry that's used in electric vehicles. It cannot be dealt 394 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:44.559 with it. It is going to inhere in the vehicle, and it's a 395 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.720 risk that the government is imposing on you by force, Whereas in the case 396 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.759 of this Pinto, you know, where there's a very slight risk potentially if 397 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.240 a series of events happened that the car might catch fire, if you got 398 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.680 hit behind from behind it, you know, by somebody driving very fast. 399 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:02.799 There was a huge you and cry and we must recall all these Pintos. 400 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:04.440 You know, there was a massive class action lawsuit. But in this case, 401 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:07.640 apparently, don't worry about it. It's fine, everything's good. I 402 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:12.079 love your line here. But no Pinto ever caught fire while parked, right, 403 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.680 and yeah, you nail it, Eric. And you know, the 404 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:23.079 thing that really gets me is that so many journalists are willing to cover up 405 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.920 this stuff. Like we saw that report from Automotive News and they tried to 406 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:33.119 stress that they were there were prototypes. Well this is not necessarily the case. 407 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.960 As you say, this is happening all over the place. And that 408 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:38.640 point that you bring up is the wear and tear. We're just as you 409 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:41.880 say, we're just talking about potholes. Eventually, they are going to be 410 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:47.599 cracks that appear, and condensation is going to get inside those systems, and 411 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:52.680 once that condensation gets in there, those batteries are gone and the fires, 412 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.599 the fire potential just skyrockets. As you said, you know, with the 413 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.160 salt water they came into Florida during some of the herd canes into Georgia as 414 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:04.240 well. Just terrible, terrible stuff that people saw. They can't put these 415 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:10.160 fires out. They it's just it's insane. It's absolutely we're underwater. I 416 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:11.559 think I've got some videos in that article where you can see, I mean 417 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.960 literally the car like somebody was trying to back up their boat I guess at 418 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.599 a at a boat ramp and lost control of the car goes in the water. 419 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.200 I think it was a Tesla Model Wide along with the gull wings. 420 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:27.079 Anyway, it is completely submerged and it's still on fire. Unbelievable. Here's 421 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.240 let's uh, let's do this here and we'll see there might be an ad 422 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.200 that pops up. This is one of many videos that is embedded in this 423 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.880 piece at Eric Peters autos dot com. And Eric, thanks again, I 424 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:42.039 really appreciate it. You're you're a trooper and uh, you know seeing that 425 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:45.599 email that doesn't have the link in it and saying how am I going to 426 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.079 get on the show. Well, maybe it's like magic. We'll have the 427 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.480 pixie dust just like the Uh, well, we'll use carbon and that will 428 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.079 do it. Right. But let's yeah, let's show this one. There 429 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:57.319 might be an ad but we'll see. Take a look at this right here. 430 00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:03.200 This is why state and locals are warning you not to drive electric vehicles 431 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:07.799 impacted by storm surge and to park it away from your home. And this 432 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.720 is what's left of an electric car that ignited as is being towed in Panela's 433 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.759 park today. Fire crew said it was parked in a lot that was flooded 434 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:21.599 during Hurricane Italia. Ten Tampa Bay Anchor Josha Doors verifies what makes evs and 435 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:27.119 saltwater such a dangerous combination. These electric vehicles when they get saltwater intrusion, 436 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.799 can catch on fire and those are very difficult fires to put out. That 437 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:36.440 was Governor Desantras's warning just days ago ahead of Hurricane Adalia, and several local 438 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.839 agencies have issued similar warnings here like this one. So let's verify what makes 439 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:45.519 electric vehicles so vulnerable to not just flood water, but salt water. Here 440 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.279 are our sources, including FEMA, the US Fire Administration, and the National 441 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:55.839 Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to NITZA, residual salt within an EV's lithium 442 00:29:55.880 --> 00:30:00.400 ion battery or battery components can form conductive bridges that can lead to short circuit 443 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:06.079 and self heating of the battery, causing a fire. But when a damaged 444 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:11.000 lithium ion battery can ignite, that varies widely. After Hurricane Eden last year, 445 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.039 there were at least a dozen reports of evs that had been submerged or 446 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:21.559 partially submerged in saltwater, igniting weeks after the fact. And considering Florida now 447 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.680 has these second most registered evs in the country, it is becoming a growing 448 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:30.160 concern for first responders because these fires they also burn a lot hotter. Traditional 449 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:36.200 car fires burn around fifteen hundred degrees, where an electric vehicle battery fire can 450 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.160 burn close to five thousand degrees. With your verify, I'm Josh said, 451 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.440 or all right, Josh, that's really good information there. If you see 452 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:47.400 something you'd like as to verify, you can email your questions to us Verify. 453 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:52.000 How about they verify the fact that most everybody should know that ions are 454 00:30:52.039 --> 00:31:00.960 involved with the conduction of electricscy It's like, oh salt, duh. They 455 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.279 need somebody to you know, I should I shouldn't say that. You know. 456 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.519 Maybe some people are young people just learning about the conductivity of salt water, 457 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:14.559 but I mean plase salt ions. There you go. There's another aspect 458 00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:17.319 of this too, and it's another one of these evy catch twenty two's. 459 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:19.200 I harp on this a lot because I think it's important to harp on it. 460 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.920 In order to make an ev practical at all, you have to use 461 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.039 these so called fast chargers. You know, otherwise you're literally going to spend 462 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.400 all day waiting for the thing to recover any kind of a charge. Well, 463 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.160 the fast charger increases the fire rist because you're talking about conduiting an enormous 464 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:40.359 amount of voltage into this battery, and that creates heat in the process, 465 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:44.400 and that's why these things often catch fire while they are hooked up to these 466 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.079 fast chargers. And then there's another issue. In order to limit or mitigate 467 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.799 the potential fire damage, you can only charge one of these things up to 468 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.039 eighty percent of its capacity at a fast charger, and they never tell you 469 00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.359 that. They never explain that. They always talk about the fast Oh you 470 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.480 can be on your way in thirty minutes. Well yeah maybe, but you'll 471 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.559 be twenty percent shy of a full tank. So I mean, you know, 472 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.240 it's like, so you already start out with not much range in one 473 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:14.480 of these things. Now you get twenty percent less range, and so now 474 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.240 you're gonna have to fast charge again and more regularly. You see how the 475 00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:22.880 cycle works. Yeah, yeah, the risk of fire. And also you 476 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:28.440 increase the you decrease the life of the battery by subjecting it to constant heavy 477 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.799 discharging and then fast charging cycles. And that's not my opinion. You can 478 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:35.880 actually read that, in fact, in my latest article from a Tesla. 479 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:37.920 It's right there on the screen. Car tells you, you know, avoid 480 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:47.880 depleting the battery excessively and avoid subjecting it to repeated fast charging sessions. Man, 481 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:54.720 this is just incredible. And you've got this. I love this January 482 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.039 first, what a way to start the year. Check it out. Would 483 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:04.440 you buy this car? And you have the clip there thirty two percent of 484 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.920 range lost in seven years? You say. A man buys a Tesla and 485 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.240 says, we never get what was promised, we get way less. He 486 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:17.599 refers to the range advertised by the manufacturer of his battery powered device, a 487 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:24.480 twenty seventeen Model X. Tesla's advertising has proved seriously false. He did not 488 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:29.119 get what he paid for. In other words, Yet the man is not 489 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:35.880 angry that he has arguably been what's the appropriate phrase ripped off by Tesla? 490 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:40.000 How would you describe it? If the vehicle you bought was advertised as being 491 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:45.720 capable of taking you forty miles on a gallon of gas and it only went 492 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.200 thirty two miles, or about twenty percent less than advertised. How dare you 493 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:55.079 deal with math? This is the typical disparity in advertising versus actual range when 494 00:33:55.079 --> 00:34:00.839 it comes to battery powered vehicles. So let's talk about this Hunt class action 495 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.599 suit. Eric. Yeah, that goes back a few years ago and Hunday 496 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.839 had some advertising where it touted that its vehicles I think it was its entire 497 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:10.880 lineup got better than forty miles per gallon, And there was some quibbling in 498 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.159 there. It wasn't maybe perhaps as accurate because they were referring to the highway 499 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.880 rather than the city number, and they were I guess the implication was that 500 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.119 they averaged forty miles an hour, when in fact they really didn't. They 501 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.320 averaged I don't know, thirty two something like that. Anyway, it was. 502 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:29.760 It was a difference that was far less significant than the disparity in the 503 00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:34.599 EV between the touted range and the actual range that you get. And there 504 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:38.440 was there was a recall and a massive lawsuit directed against Hundai because people were 505 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:42.639 angry. Understandably, you know, you buy the vehicle and it says it 506 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.719 can do this, and the government affirms that it can do this, and 507 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:46.599 then you buy it and you find out, well, no, it can't. 508 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.639 And maybe part of the reason you bought it was because you expected it 509 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:52.039 to do what they said it was going to do and it didn't. But 510 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.000 somehow evs get it pass it. You know, everybody concedes this point. 511 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:59.599 Now, you know that the EV, even under the ideal circumstances, typically 512 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:04.199 will get ten to twenty percent less range than what is indicated. And if 513 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.000 the conditions are anything less than optimal, if it's very cold out, if 514 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.519 it's very hot out, and you know you're using accessories and that the thermal 515 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:15.079 management system is having to try to keep the battery warm or try to prevent 516 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.360 it from getting too hot. And if you drive any faster than a crawl, 517 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.719 basically you know, gimp it along, you know, like you have 518 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.360 an eggshell egg the accelerator pedal, your range will be much less than that. 519 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:30.719 And somehow there isn't a class action lawsuit. Somehow it's apologized for and 520 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.519 rationalized. This whole article. I mean, it took me a few hours 521 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.239 to even be able to prepare to write for it, because I was just 522 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.960 so brain numbed by this guy. This guy did a video in which he 523 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:44.360 talked about the fact that his vehicle that he bought, his twenty seventeen Tesla, 524 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.880 that he bought after seven years, it now gets thirty two percent less 525 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:51.480 range than it did when it was new, and he estimates at its value, 526 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.960 he paid one hundred thousand dollars for this thing and now he estimates it's 527 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.119 worth about twenty five thousand dollars. And you know, you'd think he would 528 00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:00.000 be like, you know, I really feel stupid having bought this vehicle. 529 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.079 I would never buy another vehicle like this. Instead, he goes on and 530 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.400 on about how wonderful it is and how he's ready to buy another one, 531 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.199 and it reminds the people they continue to catch COVID, but they keep getting 532 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:19.760 their boosters. Yes, exactly, exactly. My brain hurts thinking about this 533 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:25.000 mindset. You just got punched in the face. Why are you continuing to 534 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:30.639 put your face in front of the fists punch back? For God's sake, 535 00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:37.239 It's just insane. The whole thing. At least rhetorically address the problems, 536 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:42.639 address reality. It's a new year. Let's start off with a new year's 537 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:46.159 resolution. Don't be a dupe? How about that. I've been trying to 538 00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:50.079 plumb this, and I think like, in the case of this individual, 539 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.039 clearly he's very affluent. If you look at some of his other videos, 540 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.119 he talks about selling one of his houses, and if you look at the 541 00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.920 house, the house looks like it's got to be at least a couple million 542 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.119 dollars. And he seems like he's not a bad guy. From what I 543 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.119 can tell, he seems like he's a nice enough guy. But I think 544 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.320 this this let them eat cake aspect of people who are very, very affluent. 545 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:10.599 You know, if you're somebody who lives in a million dollar house, 546 00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.480 you can afford a toy like one hundred thousand dollars electric car, right, 547 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:19.039 you know, he probably has multiple cars. He probably has other cars that 548 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.679 aren't electric. And maybe for them it just doesn't register, you know, 549 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:27.719 like they live in this entirely different economic realm and world than we do, 550 00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.000 and for them, you know, maybe this is Oh, it's just fun. 551 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.599 It's great, you know, just like having my This guy's got a 552 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.039 you know, some kind of like Olympic style swimming pool in his backyard too. 553 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:45.199 Doesn't everybody have one of those? Oh man, it's just unbelievable. 554 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:51.880 It's absolutely crazy. Boy. Eric, Look, as we as we start 555 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.679 off the new year, I want to welcome people to go to Eric peters 556 00:37:54.719 --> 00:38:00.960 Otto's dot com and I want to just ask you a little bit more on 557 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.360 the abstract sort of thing. You know, as I was closing off that 558 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:08.559 segment about Israel Gaza, you know, very very brutal information, and of 559 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.159 course we're all implicated in this, I brought up some philosophy, you know, 560 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.480 like I was in the lecture hall and I was, you know, 561 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.199 hanging out with the students. Okay, let one of the students get up 562 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:21.320 there, you know, do their comments, and we'll take some comments from 563 00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.360 the rock Finn Chat that sort of thing. And I talked about how John 564 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:30.199 Locke used to, you know, he made up his so called natural rights 565 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:34.119 argument, which really was just a beard to hide what he really was doing, 566 00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:37.679 which was, I'm going to force the state and the majority rule or 567 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.639 whatever, the constitutional representative democracy sort of thing, whatever it is, the 568 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:46.760 state is going to impose its will on you. It's not real self governance, 569 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.480 which is you governing yourself and coming up with your own arrangements. You 570 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:55.280 will be excluded if you're a jerk. You'll be sued in private adjudication systems 571 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:58.840 that sort of thing if you're a jerk, and no one will want to 572 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.400 deal with you, just like the British common law system was it was operated. 573 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:07.239 But this idea that Locke had when he said, man in the state 574 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:14.400 of nature is just can't trust each other, and men will be in perpetual 575 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:20.639 states of war, and when a man initiates a state of war against you, 576 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:22.840 you have the right to defend yourself, that sort of thing. And 577 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:31.119 so he said states are instituted among men, as Jefferson paraphrased as if all 578 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:35.480 the men agree, So now the state is legitimate. For the guy who 579 00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.800 didn't like Hey, I don't want to be part of your club. No, 580 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.079 sorry, we have welcomed you into our club. Now pay your dues. 581 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.840 I don't want this. We're protecting you. No, you're forcing me 582 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.280 to pay for something I don't want. What if I don't want it? 583 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:51.320 In this much, you know this sort of thing. Notice language, They 584 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.079 used that term instituted, as if it's just sort of a happenstance. Yes, 585 00:39:55.039 --> 00:40:00.920 it's imposed, it is. Yes, yes, again the lowery use 586 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:06.480 of language rather than using the They use the passive voice rather than the active 587 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:09.960 voice, which is, governments are imposed on people. That is the only 588 00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.960 way a government exists is by imposing on someone. And so what I think 589 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:22.599 is interesting is, as I mentioned earlier, philosophically, logically, in any 590 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.920 word, in any sort of way that someone can look at it. The 591 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:30.199 government itself, which is purported to stop this state of war of man against 592 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:35.199 man, which might not exist if we're actually able to leave each other alone. 593 00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.079 And if someone does do that, then we can create our own private 594 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:42.639 systems of protection to say, Okay, I'm going to work with this group 595 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.639 of people voluntarily to protect ourselves. The state says, no, you can't 596 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:50.559 do that, yourself all the way you want to do it, because we're 597 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.079 going to extract a certain portion of your money to give you protection. So 598 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:59.559 really the state is the state of war, and it is perpetual war against 599 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:01.000 you. And if you don't like it, just try not paying for it. 600 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:05.440 Sometime you'll find out what the war is. And this goes towards the 601 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:10.400 roads. This goes towards all the ways they keep metastasizing this cancer of the 602 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.440 state making decisions for us about the products we're going to buy, whether their 603 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:19.800 appliances or cars or anything. And I have an article from MRCTV that's coming 604 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:27.000 out today about the new mountain of announcements of appliance regulations that the Department of 605 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.159 Energy. Jennifer Grand Holmes Gang, which of course she made a bunch of 606 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.280 money off of that company, Protera, when they gave her stock options. 607 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.440 They brought her back, they brought her onto the board. After she was 608 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.559 governor of Michigan, she got about six million dollars to go to Protera that 609 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.719 was given a GM from the Feds during the Obama administration. That went to 610 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.280 Protera. Then pro Tara brought her on their board after she left the governorship 611 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:54.000 and then when she left the board, they gave her stock options that she 612 00:41:54.079 --> 00:42:00.280 traded in just a few months before they announced bankruptcy, so she made almost 613 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.199 two million dollars and she's still the head of this unconstitutional Department of Energy. 614 00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:08.599 It's mind blowing, it's absolutely flabbergasting. But they do all these things, 615 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:14.960 they take away our opportunities, and yet people use this soft language and they 616 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.440 don't say, what's going on. You're being ripped off and it's a state 617 00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:22.360 of war against you, and it always. As an anarchist, voluntarist, 618 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:27.199 libertarian Christian, I have to say, the state is always at war with 619 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.119 people, and they have to recognize this. I hope they will. Well, 620 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:35.079 not only are they is it at war, but it's institutionalized and legalized. 621 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.719 And that's an important point to make, in that you don't have a 622 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:43.239 right in this paradigm to defend yourself against the defradations of the state that is 623 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.480 defined as criminal somehow if you simply wish to be left alone. There's also 624 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:51.960 another aspect that I think is interesting, and it's this utopian press premise that 625 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:55.840 the status will bring out. They'll he'll point to the supposed brutish state of 626 00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:59.559 nature. If we didn't have government, while people would be at each other's 627 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.800 throats, there would be chaos. Everybody would be would be trying to take 628 00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:07.400 everybody else's things and killing Rubert and so on. But at least you can 629 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:13.119 defend yourself, first of all. And secondly, I think you you know 630 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:17.800 you would have you wouldn't have this institutionalized, systematized violence that we're stuck with. 631 00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.239 Now. Yeah, there might be some violence, but it wouldn't be 632 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.440 a structure that you have to count how to. And if you don't count 633 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.239 how to it, then somehow, by some weird leisure remain you're the criminal. 634 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:34.280 You know, I my stuff. You know, I could prevent somebody 635 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.679 else from taking what I've earned. It's mine, and that makes me a 636 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.639 criminal somehow, And you know, Eric, it also goes towards the platonic 637 00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:46.559 idiocy of who watches the watchers? You know, if you are incapable of 638 00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:53.639 making legitimate decisions about yourself, and only the state has legitimate power for the 639 00:43:53.719 --> 00:44:00.679 policing and things like that, then how can the state derive legitimacy from supposedly 640 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:07.719 deriving its power from people who inherently individually are illegitimate in making their own decisions. 641 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:12.719 Sure, so it makes us censorious, you know, and that now 642 00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.079 you're thinking, and that's dangerous. And the other thing is we've got that, 643 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:20.159 you know, just on a purely practical level, we have got the 644 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.079 I mean, it's inarguable how incompetent these people are, you know, who 645 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:30.880 presume to assume the power to manage us on the premise that we are too 646 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:37.199 ignorant and selfish and shortsighted and so on to competently handle our own affairs as 647 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:39.000 if they are. Look at the mess that they have made of the world, 648 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.119 of everything, you know, the catastrophic mess that they've made of everything. 649 00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:45.679 I don't think we could possibly do any worse. In fact, that's 650 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:47.639 literally true, you and I as individuals, even if we were of the 651 00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.599 worst sort imaginable, there's only so much damage that you and I can do 652 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.559 as an individual. A state, on the other hand, can damage tens 653 00:44:55.599 --> 00:45:00.719 of millions, if not hundreds of millions of lives. Absolutely, the adoption 654 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:05.679 of this legal authority is just it's ridiculous. And I do want to bring 655 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:08.159 up again some people, and many libertarians will do this. They'll say, 656 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:12.719 well, there's no constitutional authority for that, and I just have to remind 657 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.079 people I never signed the constitution. It has no authority over me. And 658 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:22.280 it's an absolutely important point. It's a philosophical moral point to stress Eric on 659 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.280 that point. This is something I was going to bring up later in the 660 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.599 program, but it actually has something to do with on the road again. 661 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:32.320 And since we're here on the first of the year twenty twenty four with Eric 662 00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:37.360 Peters, everybody on the David Knight Show before we turn to the Rock fin 663 00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.039 and Rumble questions and we are streaming on Rumble, which is great. I 664 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:45.639 did a double check while we were doing a few things here. I want 665 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:47.639 to bring this up if I can. Eric. This is a piece that 666 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:52.000 I have over at my Sunday News Assembly on Substack. Oh take it. 667 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.440 Yeah. We got the prisoner declared on mutual of course, because he just 668 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:02.199 wanted to be left alone. He wouldn't count to what the government on the 669 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:07.960 island demanded of him. But in this Sunday News Assembly I have a piece 670 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.360 that at first blush might strike some people as being very obvious. Well, 671 00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:19.400 you know, clearly some ne'ir Dwells who got involved with sabotage. They messed 672 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.880 around with. As you can see is probably some light streaming on my face 673 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.239 here as I get it up on the screen. They messed around with a 674 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:30.039 road sign that how dare you mess around with a road sign? Those are 675 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:36.239 things out there for public information about you know, driving and things that need 676 00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:38.880 to be used. That sort of thing. Drivers need to get this information. 677 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:45.400 It's very important. But what I pointed out here was it actually opens 678 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:51.960 up a thought process to something that's much bigger. And I think this is 679 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:57.679 down towards the end of my sub stack. It's number twenty two. In 680 00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.199 fact, I thought we only had twenty one stories publicized of this. Twenty 681 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:06.400 one stories, twenty one jump Street. But here it is. It says 682 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:13.400 after hate group's message appeared on roadside sign, city says it won't tolerate bigotry 683 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:17.679 and hatred. So evidently they're called the Patriot Front and they were, you 684 00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:22.920 know, putting up finest Patriotfront dot us. I was unaware of the Patriot 685 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.920 Front. Maybe I had heard about them somewhere, Maybe a news story or 686 00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:29.840 two might have mentioned the Patriot Front. I don't know. I just don't 687 00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:35.519 know about them. The message was just I guess just the Patriot Front. 688 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:40.159 It wasn't something that was necessarily offensive to people. But again, offence is 689 00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.159 in the eye of the beholder, just like boot beauty is like the Twilight 690 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:51.239 Zone episode which they shot with such incredible alacrity. But as I brought this 691 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:52.719 up, I'd like to read this to you. This sort of paraphrases things 692 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:57.320 in a nice quick bundle. I said, finally, we have this a 693 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:01.199 story that, beneath the surface asks many questions about how it's at all possible 694 00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:07.039 to operate state run systems. If, as the Anti Defamation League claims, 695 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.840 and of course they often claim things that aren't true. If as the ADEL 696 00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:15.400 claims, this is offensive to some this organization, Yet people have a supposed 697 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:21.440 right to freedom of speech in an abstract sense. We'll get to the constitutional 698 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:27.599 level in a moment someday. Then how can the state run system take money 699 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:32.519 from all these people of various feelings and opinions, cut out the free speech 700 00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.519 of some in this public, tax funded system, and still claim that it 701 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.519 allows for free speech. This sign is funded with tax cash, So why 702 00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:47.760 can't everyone who wants to use the tax funded sign say that he or she 703 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:53.239 has a claim on what the sign will say, perhaps no one can be 704 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:59.239 excluded from such a system if, of course they're paying taxes. Of course 705 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:04.239 the government will try to restrict and it runs into arguments from people as to 706 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:10.119 how the government property will actually be run. This sign, regardless of its 707 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:15.840 original intent for highway use, is a perfect example of the ethical problem the 708 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:21.639 state creates. And it's unmanageable, it's intractable. It's what do you think 709 00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:23.360 about that? Well as Well said, and it also goes in the opposite 710 00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:28.800 direction, and that you know, we're forced to provide funds for the propagation 711 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:34.960 I'm paraphrasing Jefferson here of ideas that we find repellent. And I can think 712 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.719 a few things that are more tyrannical than that. You know, we're taxed 713 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:42.119 to provide, for example, the government school books that present a point of 714 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:44.719 view that we may not like. And you know, it's even more just 715 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.119 now that they've come out with this this like the LBGTQ plus stuff, the 716 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:53.480 propagandization of children about sexual topics and schools. If you're, for example, 717 00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:58.159 troubled by abortion, you know you're compelled to help finance these things through the 718 00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:01.440 taxes that you pay. Right and absolutely right, worse in a way, 719 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:06.400 in my opinion, than being denied an opportunity to express your point of view 720 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:08.880 being made to pay for it. Absolutely. You know, Eric, the 721 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:13.719 thing that struck struck me when I was I'm maybe eleven years old. I 722 00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:15.760 was starting to get aware of this stuff, and I would say, why 723 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:22.599 is it that people are getting upset about the minutia of the overall thing that 724 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:25.639 should be upsetting them, the fact that they're getting their money taken from them 725 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:30.679 to be pulled into this system. Why isn't that the first primufage a blush 726 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.519 of offense? And you don't need to go any further than that, you 727 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.880 know, I mean, it's simple, I think probably because the system has 728 00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.480 been designed in such a way as to prevent that question from even a rising. 729 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:47.639 You know, you ask that snatches kids up by march at kindergarten age, 730 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.199 and you know, as a Jesuit would say, you know, give 731 00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:52.199 me, you know, give me a kid for the first ten years. 732 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:54.960 I think it is, and he'll be mine for life. You know, 733 00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:59.840 if you can, you can stymy the development of the critical faculty. You 734 00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:01.519 know, back in the olden days, the Romans talked about the trivium you 735 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:07.360 know, which was teaching a child to think, to have that critical ability, 736 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.519 that capacity to reason, and then you teach them particular things, but 737 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:14.880 first you teach them how to think, not what to think. The government 738 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:19.480 system is exactly the opposite. It imparts what to think, not how to 739 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.840 think, and a lot of people, I think just they developed this habit 740 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.519 of rote, you know, because that's what the system encourages. You were 741 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:31.360 expected to assimilate certain information that's provided to you and then you regurgitate this information 742 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.079 and that's how you get good grades. Right, So, yeah, you 743 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.199 proceed along with the path and you go even to the point where you get 744 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:42.960 to college, and even in highly specialized academic disciplines. It's not that these 745 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.519 are dumb people. They're just trained, almost like a seal, to be 746 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:52.280 very good at assimilating information and regurgitating information, not necessarily to think. You 747 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:55.480 know, a really good example of this during the event that was called the 748 00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:00.000 pandemic. You had medical doctors, and these are obviously not dumb people. 749 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.159 You know, you can't be a dummy and get through medical school. But 750 00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:06.519 still, you know, the critical faculty seem to have been short circuited. 751 00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:12.159 They were unable to evaluate the information and then respond to it in a way 752 00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:16.000 that contradicted what they had been told. Is the dogma that they must repeat. 753 00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:22.519 I flashed that photograph of our friend who seems to be very happy getting 754 00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:27.440 ripped off and of course being fooled into the climate canard, I think, 755 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:32.079 And you know, Eric, it's it's really cool. When I was in 756 00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:36.639 touch with Travis and David and so on, and David gave me a ring 757 00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:38.519 last night and wasn't able to connect and texted me and you know, was 758 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:43.719 thanking me doing the show and everything. I'm just so grateful over the past 759 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:45.440 year. And I actually hadn't planned to bring this up, but I was 760 00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:49.880 just realizing, like, wow, it's been a year. It's been absolutely 761 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.920 awesome to chat with you. And the work you do at Eric Peters Daughter's 762 00:52:54.079 --> 00:53:00.559 is just it's fun, and it's also really really informative and absolutely breaking breakneck 763 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:06.440 pace breaking news. And of course I hope people will check out what they 764 00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:09.679 can buy at Eric Peters Autos to lend you a hand, and they can 765 00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:14.039 always, you know, submit a donation that sort of thing. You do 766 00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:17.760 great great stuff, and they can find you at Libertarian car g on X 767 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:22.679 and let's go back to the website and show that off again real quick, 768 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.280 and then I'll give you a little something for the new year again from Willie 769 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:30.599 to say farewell. There's our friend having a great time in his car. 770 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.360 And if they go down a little further on the website, they'll see some 771 00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:38.320 of the great items that they can get at the store right there at the 772 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:45.559 BA Cap great stuff. I love it and I've got a black one, 773 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:50.440 but I want to get the gray one. Got to get them, got 774 00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:52.760 to get them, Eric, awesome stuff. So Eric, as we go, 775 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:55.880 any final thoughts for the new year, and you know the David Knight, 776 00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.599 David Knight team and audience and stuff like that, and I'll turn to 777 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.119 rock fin get any questions you want in for Eric, or compliments to Eric, 778 00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:07.440 anything like that. Let me know. Harps is watching from Australia, 779 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:12.559 of course, where the roads are straight and flat in most areas unless you're 780 00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.840 out maybe in Toowoomba or something like that. But Harp's nice to have you 781 00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:20.480 there. Little John is there as well, and yeah, feel free to 782 00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:22.840 put your comments in there. Jason Barcas says, when you are not wearing 783 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:28.199 a Trivium T shirt, yes, is there a band named Trivium? I 784 00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:31.880 wonder if there is one. Yeah, we'll find out. But yeah, 785 00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:36.199 the Trivium. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because I was gonna teach 786 00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:39.800 with a private school this winter but ended up not doing that, taking little 787 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:44.239 time to take take away from teaching. And one of the key things for 788 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:50.280 them is teaching of the trivium. It's absolutely essential. And there's no possible 789 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:54.679 way that even a public school system can approach teaching the trivium because they have 790 00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:59.880 seized the opportunity of the parents to pull away from what is important for this 791 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:04.519 student, so that the public school system is always deciding for people and then 792 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:08.119 immediately removes the ability to be able to teach people how to think. It's 793 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:15.840 it's pretty scary stuff and harp says nice s k s Eric, Oh, 794 00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:22.320 yeah, he recognized it. Mine's a check model. Actually, you might 795 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:28.800 see the grenade launcher attachment on it. Yeah, let's put you in the 796 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:30.960 full screen there, Hold on a second, I'm gonna put you in the 797 00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:39.400 full screen. Okay, and you see. Okay, let's see if I 798 00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:45.880 can help. Let's see how's that. Oh, now I'm gonna get slatted 799 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:52.440 for sure, Probably that's the this is the grenade attachment that that came with 800 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:55.880 these. I do not have a grenade to go with it, though, 801 00:55:57.079 --> 00:56:08.840 and it's it's chiefly for display purposes only. Hey, guard me. Still 802 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:20.039 there, Jason would like to know Eric what your daily driver is. Okay, 803 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:23.559 Well, I have several. I've got two thousand and two Nissan Frontier 804 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:30.440 pickup, which I scheme and love very much because it does not have any 805 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:35.039 advanced driver assistance technology. And when I need to replace the battery, I 806 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.719 don't need to have a flatbed and do a dealer to get it done either. 807 00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:42.039 Yeah. I've also got a bunch of motorcycles, and when the weather's 808 00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:44.880 nice, I have my own muscle car that I take out every once in 809 00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:47.320 a while, the Great Pumpkin, my seventy six Ponty Act trans am. 810 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.360 That's awesome. That is awesome. You know. I think about some of 811 00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.440 those cars, the muscle cars and stuff, and that gets me thinking about, 812 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:58.599 you know, cars that I might have seen in Canniball run or that 813 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:00.199 sort of thing. And then you always, you always hear about the General 814 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:06.119 Lee. I wonder how many copies of the General Lee they had, you 815 00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.280 know, because they were always pulling stunts and if some of them, I 816 00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:14.480 mean they just they bashed those things up so much. It was absolutely crazy. 817 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:20.119 You know, most part people know about this. They trashed an astounding 818 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:23.000 number of sixty nine Dodge Chargers because you know, every time you watch the 819 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.320 car jump, you know, you could see they cut the scene when the 820 00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:31.119 car lands because that's the frame bent. And it's tragic the way they destroyed 821 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:32.960 those cars. But you know, back in the day, you know when 822 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.079 they the Duke's Hazard was what I think it came out in like nineteen seventy 823 00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.440 nine, I guess yeah. I think at that time the charger was just 824 00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:45.280 an old car, right, I mean, it wasn't this highly desirable relic 825 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:50.480 of the beforetime that it is. Unfortunately those cars are gone. And the 826 00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:54.679 same with Smoking the Bandit. They trashed a bunch of transcends in filming that 827 00:57:54.880 --> 00:58:01.679 the famous jump over the pond that was the end of that transnd. It's 828 00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:07.360 crazy, It's absolutely crazy. All I can think of is, you know, 829 00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:09.559 watching stunts when I was a kid, wanting to be a stunt driver, 830 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:15.559 glad that I'm not a stunt driver, and just loving watching you know, 831 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:19.639 bash up derby things, and as you mentioned that charger, you know, 832 00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:22.880 the charger by that time, most of the chargers that were around were 833 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:25.760 you know, seven ten years old. They were beater cars, and they 834 00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:30.360 weren't considered, as you say, the highly collectible before times vehicles. And 835 00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:34.599 I love watching those things now. And I never even watched that show when 836 00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.000 I was a kid because we couldn't get CBS in on the on the antennas 837 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:40.639 very well, was always you know, the ant parade, so we couldn't 838 00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:44.800 see anything, you know, and one of the one of the aspects of 839 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:46.719 it we all know about this. It's really just despicable, is the way 840 00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:51.480 the left has tried to frame the show The Dukes of Haazard, of somehow 841 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:58.559 being a racist show because the car had the Confederate battle flag on the roof, 842 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.719 and of course it was the farest thing from that, but they try 843 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:05.280 to they try to make that association. It's very important for them to do 844 00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:08.000 that because if the topic gets discussed at any depth, you find out that 845 00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:12.800 what the states of the Southern Confederacy were trying to do is essentially the same 846 00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:17.119 thing that the American colonies did do successfully, which was to secede from a 847 00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:21.280 union that they didn't want to be part of. Oh, now, come 848 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.239 on, what are you talking about. It's government by the people, for 849 00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:27.840 the people, and of the people. It's not in any way imposed. 850 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:31.199 It's we and you will be part of it. Actually, one of my 851 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:37.119 favorite articles by the great writer and with hl Menkin is one. It's a 852 00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:42.360 very short article that he in which he dissects the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln 853 00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:46.800 and he describes it and un paraphrasing here as one of the most stupendous pieces 854 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:51.599 of poetry and dissembling that has ever been produced ever, you know. And 855 00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:55.000 when she talks about the people of the people, by the people, and 856 00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:59.199 for the people, shall not perish from this earth. I mean, the 857 00:59:59.199 --> 01:00:02.599 whole point this water that occurred was to do exactly the opposite, to prevent 858 01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:07.159 the states of the Southern Confederacy from establishing a government of their people by their 859 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:12.920 people. Perfectly stated. That is so true. Eric, And as a 860 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:19.039 guy who had to play Abraham Lincoln in fourth grade and recite the Gettysburg Address 861 01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:22.159 on the bi centennial, I don't know how many times for different audiences all 862 01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:25.400 around the town, and I had and in fact it's funny that I have. 863 01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:31.599 I had a hat similar to this, similar to this hat. I 864 01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:37.960 had my stove pipe hat, and I think this is the this is the 865 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.519 way that it goes. And I had a fake beard that looped around my 866 01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:45.639 ears with elastic bands and it went down like this. And I had to 867 01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:50.119 do that stupid address over and over and over again because I was the tall 868 01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:53.639 kid. You know, it's some interesting stuff about Lincoln. Hitler admired him 869 01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:59.159 greatly. Yes, if you read there's a section in Moncamp where Hitler talks 870 01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:05.679 about link and how he consolidated the central government of the United States and turned 871 01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:09.280 what had been largely independent states in the old school sense, as in independent 872 01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:15.840 countries into essentially administrative districts controlled by a centralized authority, which is exactly what 873 01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:21.360 he did, Yes, exactly exactly. And now David is the one who 874 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:24.400 brought it up to my attention about how Italy, which had been you know, 875 01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:30.000 city states for so so long around that same time, so consolidation into 876 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:32.719 the nation state. All around the world, there was this tendency to see 877 01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:40.400 things consolidating into the nation states and the growth of these larger hegemonic areas, 878 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.599 and we can see this now. And you know, my brother went to 879 01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:47.960 Washington and Lee University for law school, and it was until he was there 880 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.480 he had not been aware of the sense of the people in the South and 881 01:01:52.519 --> 01:02:00.519 how they really understand that their push for independence was utterly crushed by a monic, 882 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:04.719 evil person named Abraham Lincoln. And that really opens a lot of eyes 883 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.920 when you find out. And again I'll recommend Tom de Lorenzo's book The Real 884 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:12.440 Lincoln. Anybody who's interested in this topic should read. He's written several books 885 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:16.119 on the topic and he's a fantastic scholar, and in addition to that, 886 01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:22.079 he's a great storyteller too. Oh yeah, this is really really top shelf 887 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:25.320 and it's a good read as well as being an educational read. Absolutely well, 888 01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:29.960 Eric, thank you so much, Happy New Year, and thanks again 889 01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:32.719 coming in a little bit after time that was promised. I'm glad we were 890 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:37.880 able to bring you in. It's so great to have you here. I'm 891 01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:42.960 delighted to present something born from my love for music and the Christmas season. 892 01:02:44.679 --> 01:02:47.800 Christmas Night is a perfect companiment for anything from family gatherings. The moment is 893 01:02:47.840 --> 01:03:00.119 a peaceful reflection. I help us to provide a fresh ta to the soundtrack 894 01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:13.000 of Christmas. This collection of twenty instrumental songs brings new life to timeless Christmas 895 01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:43.320 classics with original orchestrations alongside lesser known, yet equally enchanting carols. For the 896 01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.400 listeners of The David Knight Show, this is more than music. It's part 897 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:52.800 of our shared journey. Christmas Night is available at the Davidnightshow dot com. 898 01:03:52.920 --> 01:04:05.440 May it bring a little extra joy and peace to your Christmas season. Thank 899 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:10.960 you for your unwavering support and for joining me in this new musical adventure. 900 01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:17.960 Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good Christmas Night.