WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:09.320 All right, welcome back and joining us now is Eric Peters of ep autos 2 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:15.439 dot com or Eric Peters auto dot com and a lot of things have come 3 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.160 up, a lot of articles and interesting things that he's put on his site 4 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:20.839 since we last talked, and I wanted to talk to him about that, 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.719 but especially interesting to talk to him about all the attention that's been paid to 6 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:33.119 the United Autoworkers strike by politicians. It was Joe Biden who went there. 7 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.520 He actually he aced out Trump and got their first Trump wanted to go at 8 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:41.679 the same time that the debate was happening so he could have a counter programming 9 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.399 of an event. But even during the debate you had Doug Bergham talking about 10 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.240 it as well. So you're you're op ed piece. Thanks for joining us, 11 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.079 Eric, good to have you on. Oh thanks for having me, 12 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:54.159 David. Yeah, and you know it's his credit. Orange Man said the 13 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:58.759 unspeakable thing out loud. Yes, yes, yeah, what is that unspeakable 14 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.520 thing? Well, he talked about how it's not a matter of pay raises, 15 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.159 it's about jobs being disappeared by this electrification agenda, which is what my 16 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.480 article is all about, and that these UAW people had better get hipped to 17 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:14.000 the fact that they're not going to be worrying about cost of living adjustments in 18 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.280 thirty two hour work weeks if this thing proceeds apace, because you only need 19 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:23.719 so many workers to plug in an EV and their jobs are going to be 20 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.239 gone because of that. And the underlying premise of all of this, of 21 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.120 course, is this green agenda. This this idea we're going to decarbonize everything, 22 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.519 and of course we're made of carbon two, so eventually they're going to 23 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.640 decarbonize us. Well, they're talking abot the truth about that, at least, 24 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.840 you know that. Yeah, they're just not telling to the whole truth. 25 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.079 We understand what it's really about. It is about a depopulation agenda. 26 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.719 But yeah, they're going to decarbonize us as well. You know, it's 27 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.400 kind of what this all reminds me of if you're talking about how it's a 28 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:52.319 much simpler manufacturing process. And of course a lot of this is going to 29 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.159 be outsourced. We've already seen companies coming in and saying we're going to build 30 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:00.120 the electric skate. Then you're just going to you know, tack on the 31 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:01.719 body or whatever else that you want to put on it. And of course 32 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:05.680 that doesn't have to be built here. It'll be built on the places where 33 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.000 they've got the minerals, which is in China, of course. But it 34 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:15.879 all this reminds me of the early days of computers, personal computers when you 35 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.960 had IBM and you know, they went out when they jumped in the market. 36 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.919 They got the operating system from Bill Gates who had already stolen it from 37 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:30.120 Digital Research, and then they decided that they would just go with off the 38 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.520 shelf components essentially from Intel, and that opened it up for everybody to start 39 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.840 making these things. And before you knew it, I mean, you even 40 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:42.680 had some American Indian tribes or manufacturing pieces because anybody could put this stuff together. 41 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.520 And that is really kind of what is happening now with the automobile. 42 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.120 It used to be very, very complicated, and it got even more complicated 43 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.039 because of government regulations about emissions and safety and all the rest of the stuff. 44 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:58.639 So that became a big barrier to competition for anybody getting into it. 45 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:01.719 But now they have I've greatly simplified it with these ZV things, and it's 46 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.919 going to be they're gonna everybody's going to be jumping into it. And of 47 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.840 course China's jumping into it in a big way, aren't they. Well, 48 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.639 they're going to be homogenizing it. I published a piece earlier today about what 49 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:15.280 Honda is about to do, which is it's going to release its own battery 50 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.960 powered appliances, beginning in twenty twenty four, with a vehicle called the Prologue 51 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.319 and then an accurate derivation of that called the ZDX. And all they are 52 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.719 are extruded plastic shells with a Honda badge on them, and underneath of them 53 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:35.879 they've got the same GM aultium battery platform that is underneath GM's battery powered appliances. 54 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.159 And so it begs the question of why bother, why even have Hondas 55 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.599 anymore? You know, Honda is a company that made its bones and its 56 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.039 reputation on its engines, you know. And I go through a my article 57 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:49.919 a number of the more famous engines that that Honda had had produced over the 58 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.919 years, including the compound vortex combustion chamber engine that it had in the Civic 59 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.479 back in the seventies that was so efficient that it didn't even need a catalytic 60 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:01.199 converter to meet federal emissions rags. And then then you had models like the 61 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.199 NSX and the S two thousand, which were like IndyCar race cars that you 62 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.599 could drive on the street. They had ten thousand rpm redlines, just's phenomenal 63 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.599 vehicles. Well, they're about to give all that away because who cares. 64 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.720 It's just another battery powered appliance. And it's not just Honda, is all 65 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.360 of them. Essentially, they're trying to become the next tesla. But then 66 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:23.519 everybody's making the same thing. So what's the point and having ten or fifteen 67 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:28.319 different companies all making the same thing. Yeah, they're all just boutique manufacturers. 68 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.600 You know, it's going to be a body by Fisher, you know, 69 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.240 but the same thing underneath all of them. As you point out, 70 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:39.519 they really have had an amazing history. If you stop and think about it, 71 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:41.920 it's kind of like the history of flight, you know, going from 72 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.399 the Right Brothers up to the NSX. You know, it's like the supersonic 73 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.680 transport. Because at the very beginning of this Honda and you know, even 74 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.439 Mazda, Mazda survived, they were just making like farm implements and some very 75 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:59.720 simple motors and stuff. At the end of World War Two they were there 76 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.000 and Roshima, and they survived because they were in the shadow of the nuclear 77 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.759 bomb that happened. They were on the other side of a mountain and so 78 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.560 it didn't blow them away, and they you know, survived that and built 79 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.839 on that. But these a lot of these car companies were just doing lawn 80 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.759 Moore engines, and then they went to motorcycle engines, and then they started 81 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.879 doing small cars, and they started doing very very sophisticated cars. And now 82 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:28.199 everything is going to just be deconstructed and all of that manufacturing expertise is going 83 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.079 to be lost. That's a key thing to me, you know, when 84 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:38.959 they're when Toyota was talking about why they used BMW's model for their new sports 85 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.360 car, they said, well, you know, we'd been making all these 86 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.040 sports cars, but we haven't done any ourselves for a couple of decades, 87 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.160 and we've lost the manufacturing expertise, they said, so we can't do something 88 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.920 like the Miata that's done by Mazda. They've been doing this continuously for you 89 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.839 know, thirty years or so, but we haven't and we've lost that manufacturing 90 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.199 at expertise. So we've got to rely on other people to do that. 91 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.639 And it's going to be lost very very quickly, isn't it. Yeah, 92 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.199 even you think about it too, because Toyota, you know, is one 93 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.519 of the world's largest car companies. It has been the largest car company at 94 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.160 one point or another. And if they haven't got the wherewithall and the resources 95 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.720 to develop their own specific drive treams for a particular vehicle, you know that 96 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.839 there's a problem in the industry generally, and these smaller car companies are not 97 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.600 going to be able to do it at all. That's right. Yeah. 98 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.120 By the way, you know, we look at things that are happening just 99 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.199 from the cyber hacks, talking about what happened with the F thirty five, 100 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:39.319 and the same thing happening with MGM properties in Vegas, and there was Caesar's 101 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.519 Palace was was hacked and they admitted it. But you know, we've had 102 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.240 Toyota, all their manufacturing was shut down a couple of weeks ago, and 103 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:51.120 now the same thing has happened in Volkswagen. They've shut down all of their 104 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:56.240 stuff. All of this electronic stuff is just so vulnerable. It's not just 105 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.480 the batteries, but as they are you know, as we get more and 106 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.199 more into computers, whether you're talking about manufacturing or accounting, or you're talking 107 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:08.240 about the computers that are being deeply embedded in every kind of car. Everything 108 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.040 is becoming incredibly fragile and easily will that word was that? Yeah, two 109 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:16.600 levels of fragility. I was going to use exactly that word. And the 110 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:21.439 other aspect of it is a kind of built in obsolescence in that electronics tend 111 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:25.519 not to age very will. You know. You think about your cell phone 112 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.240 and you buy a new one today, and three years from now, it's 113 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.360 going to seem like a I don't like a Beta max from from back in 114 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.439 the eighties, and it probably won't work at all because they deliberately engineered these 115 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.560 things so that they can't be updated after a certain point, and so their 116 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.519 functionality is diminished. And then the battery stops working in so what do you 117 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:43.600 do. You don't fix it, You throw it away and get another one. 118 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.759 Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's much worse than the planned obsolescence 119 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.160 they used to talk about with cars that you know, people would you know 120 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.920 they'd last epically like three years and people want to get rid of them. 121 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.879 Yeah, but then they stuck around a lot of people kept them and now 122 00:07:55.879 --> 00:08:01.000 they're making them into some very valuable antiques. But you know, it was 123 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.600 a big selling point that I remember in the seventies. Volvo is selling point 124 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.160 was you know, hey, our car's average age of the cars in Sweden 125 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.680 are eleven years, and it's like, well, it's not necessarily because your 126 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.920 Volvos are built so well, it's just because everybody's been made poor by socialism. 127 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:20.360 Well, you know, the interesting thing about the planned obsolescence is that 128 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.399 a lot of people don't understand that that really didn't refer to mechanical obsolescence. 129 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:26.000 It was more about trying to keep up with the joneses. Yes, so 130 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:31.519 for example, General Motors would make the fins bigger one year rather than the 131 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.080 prior years, and the idea was that, you know, you would look 132 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.399 over at your neighbor's driveway and see that his car had bigger fins than yours, 133 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.399 and that would impel you to go down to the dealer and you know, 134 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.799 try to keep up with him by buying whatever the latest is. And 135 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.559 then of course next year the fins got bigger or the grill changed in some 136 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.720 other way. But the vehicles were very sound and you could know you could 137 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.240 keep a fifty five Chevy going for twenty years or longer without that much of 138 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.879 a problem. It was mainly about social posturing rather than quote unquote planned obsolescen 139 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.519 that's right, that's right. Yeah, that's still a lot of them driving 140 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.960 around here, especially in particular weekends that you say, that type of thing 141 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.519 happening. But yeah, they make it bigger, or they had more chrome, 142 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.360 and then next year you've got to have it with less chrome, or 143 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.919 smaller fins or no fins at all. It was it was really about style 144 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.519 and fashion, and that was a big part of why everybody was changing. 145 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.200 Isn't it interesting that now people can't even afford to buy cars, let alone 146 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.440 change them like they would a suit or a tie, because oh, it's 147 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.960 getting so crazy. Gave it. I have this week my test car, 148 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.840 the vehicle that I'm reviewing as the four to Escape. It's a FOURD Escape 149 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.159 and I emphasize that so it's a little crossover suv. The thing's forty seven 150 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:41.200 thousand dollars. Wow. Wow, that's amazing. That truly is amazing. 151 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.360 Well, before we leave the auto workers stuff, right, you had you 152 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.039 know Trump. I thought it was amusing because he goes there for a photo 153 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.120 op. There's a lot of allegations that he had people. He goes to 154 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.039 this this place that is a parts supplier that has one hundred and fifty employees, 155 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.679 and they got five hundred people there and there, and so the question 156 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.639 was, well, you know, obviously the people from outside the company, 157 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.639 but they were holding up UAW signs, and so some of the local press 158 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.000 went around and it's people to know, I'm not part of the union. 159 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.759 I'm just holding a sign here, you know. So they're saying this is 160 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.360 an asteroturv type of thing. But then at the debate, which is why 161 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.080 he was there, he didn't want to go to the debate, you had 162 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.600 Doug Bergham essentially saying the same thing that Trump had been saying, which is 163 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.000 that they're, you know, the auto workers are striking and it needs to 164 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.159 be against the green agenda. And he talks about the very fact that you 165 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.600 know, he says, we're subsidizing the cars, and we're subsidizing a particular 166 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:41.960 kind of car, not every car. We're particularly subsidizing electric vehicles. When 167 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:46.279 China is controlling eighty five percent of the rare earth minerals that are going to 168 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.679 be needed for these things, and so what we're doing is we're putting our 169 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.039 own industry out of business and we're sending it to China. But of course 170 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.039 that's what we've been doing for a long time, isn't it. Eric. 171 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.159 You know, we've been giving them a pass with all this climate stuff, 172 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.200 so they can build as many power for all these as they want, or 173 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:07.240 refineries, and there's no restrictions on how many they build or how dirty they 174 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.480 are. But now it's gotten to the retail level where we say, well, 175 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:15.279 we're just going to send We're going to prohibit prohibit any manufacturing of this 176 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.639 stuff by regulations in the United States. It all must come from China. 177 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.000 Yeah, it's paradoxical, ironical, and it's sad in that these people, 178 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.879 these UW people, do not understand that they're facing an existential threat and in 179 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.559 order for them to combat it, they're going to have to come to grips 180 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.600 with something that's kind of difficult for them, and that they will have to 181 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.759 question this green agenda, which is at the very core of the modern Democrat 182 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.960 Party, which is essentially now a party of the elite left and the working 183 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.519 class people have got to come to understand that that the Democrat Party is the 184 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.120 very thing that it used to accuse the Republican Party of being. It is 185 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.960 the party of rich, arrogant elites who want to inserve and impoverish the working 186 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.080 class. That's right, and the middle class. That's right, that's right. 187 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.120 You know, at the same time he's he's virtually signaling to them. 188 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:09.840 Biden is going there and saying that the UAW should fight for a forty percent 189 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.480 pay raise. And then Elon Musk, who I'm not a big fan of, 190 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:18.600 but Elon Musk gave him a sanity check about that, and you know, 191 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.559 of course that doesn't make any economic sense, he says, So they 192 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.120 want a forty percent pay raise and a thirty two hour work week. It's 193 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.360 a sure way to drive GM Ford and Chrysler bankrupt and the fast lane. 194 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.080 But of course, you know the fact that everything the minerals and all the 195 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.759 restless stuff that they're going to have to use for this is going to be 196 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:43.159 coming from China. That is a super fast lane for bankruptcy of an entire 197 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.879 industry that used to be a cornerstone industry of our prosperity. Because it was 198 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:52.960 a cornerstone of our manufacturing capacity and ability, and we're losing all that ability 199 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:58.360 and capacity, and we're even losing our capacity to generate power. Yeah, 200 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.440 it's it's hard to imagine a worse time time for the UAW to make these 201 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.519 kinds of demands in view of the fact that the affordability of cars has never 202 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.919 been worse, and it's getting worse all the time. And it's not just 203 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.039 the price of the vehicles themselves, which now average fifty thousand dollars that's the 204 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.320 average transaction price of a new car. It's the cost of money. You 205 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.480 know, anybody who's paying any attention knows that interest rates on loans have doubled 206 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.720 or more, and so that makes them even less affordable. And the idea 207 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.440 of that somehow these car companies are going to be able to pay their workers 208 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.679 forty percent more and cut their hours down to a thirty two hour workweek, 209 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.399 and that that's not going to have any effect on the price of vehicles, 210 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.200 and that they're going to somehow continue to make the same money to be able 211 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.840 to pay these workers what they want for doing less work is insane. It's 212 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.559 economically illiterate. Well, I think there's something else involved in that. And 213 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.080 that is the thirty two hour workweek, the four day work week. And 214 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.600 we're seeing a big push on this, not just to the UAW, but 215 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.919 we're seeing a big push on this in multiple different places. They're doing it 216 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:01.360 in the schools. There's a lot of schools that are pushing for a four 217 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.720 day work week. And then what that does is that puts pressure on the 218 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:07.759 parents to push for a four day work week, because that's the point of 219 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.320 the government schools for the most for most people, they use them as daycare, 220 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.919 as childcare, not they don't care if they educate the kids, just 221 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.240 get them out of my hair so I can go to work type of thing. 222 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.600 And so that is they're they're pushing this four day work week. What 223 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.600 do you see behind that push for the four day work week. I talked 224 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.960 about this gesture. I'm curious to see what your take is on Well. 225 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.759 My initial reaction is that they're kind of nudging us towards the state of infantilism 226 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:39.639 and dependency where you get your UBI via your CBD digital token provided you're a 227 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.000 good, socially obedient little drone. That's exactly what we take on it. 228 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.679 Yeah, it's a push to move us to universal basic income, which is 229 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.960 going to also involve CBDC. They want us working from home because you know, 230 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.799 if everybody's a zoom worker, then they can they don't even have to 231 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.840 bring people in from other countries unless they want more social unrest. But you 232 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:01.159 know, they could just you know, have people in India doing the work, 233 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.759 even if it's manual labor, if they got a robot that can be 234 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.320 virtually controlled. So I agree with you. I think that's exactly what this 235 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.519 is. People have been given a taste of being given money without having to 236 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.960 go to work, and so let's keep that momentum going. You know, 237 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.519 Trump kicked that off with a lockdown, So let's keep that going. We'll 238 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.799 go to a thirty two hour work week, and of course, you know, 239 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.679 maybe we'll pay the people less, maybe we'll replace them with foreign workers 240 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.600 who don't actually have to come here. They can stay foreign well. And 241 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.200 there's a level of defeatism among the young in particular, and it's quite understandable. 242 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.320 You know. I wrote an article the other day about what's happening in 243 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.879 the real estate market and how even in my area, the cost of housing 244 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.519 has gotten to the point I live in a rural area. Should I should 245 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.559 predicate that with so it used to be an affordable area, but now houses, 246 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.240 little houses, little eleven hundred square foot houses are selling for three hundred 247 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.120 thousand dollars. And this is an area where the typical individual makes twenty five 248 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.279 thousand dollars. The family income is about forty five thousand dollars. People can't 249 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.480 afford that, let alone, you know, at twenty five year old just 250 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:03.320 coming out of college or whatever, is just trying to build his life and 251 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:04.720 they end up living at home. They just give up, and so they 252 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.759 don't want to have a they're not going to have a car, they're not 253 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.159 going to have a house, They're going to be rendered propetually dependent and playing 254 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.720 games on video station and so why not get their you know, Hubi and 255 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.559 just give up on life and that's what they want. Ultimately, Yeah, 256 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.279 I agree. I think we need to seriously look at defunding the schools because 257 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:22.679 I think that's a big part of this. When I was in Texas, 258 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:27.200 there were entire schools that were basically just people who had come here illegally. 259 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:33.360 And we look at what is happening in Baltimore paying thirty one thousand dollars a 260 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.440 year for the kids, and in forty percent of the schools there's not a 261 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.440 single kid who is proficient in math. And those standards are not very high, 262 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.960 they're very supermarket math, right, yeah, exactly exactly, And so 263 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:48.360 you know, forty percent of them, not forty percent of school is not 264 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.799 a single student can do supermarket math, and we're paying thirty one thousand dollars 265 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.399 a year for that. That kind of you know, you know, the 266 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.519 dreamers coming here. Well, it's destroying the American dream, and it's an 267 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:06.720 incredible burden on everybody, this government, institution of schools, and they're destroying 268 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.440 our society. At the same time, We've got to somehow find a way 269 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:11.880 to shut that thing down. I think we're going to really destroy us economically 270 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:17.240 as well as intellectually and spiritually in every other way that you can measure it. 271 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:22.359 The schools are a dead albatross around the neck of this country. Absolutely 272 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.680 completely agree with that. But I do think that the wheel is turning and 273 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.559 that realization is dawning. To get back to the ev thing, I was 274 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.799 reading something about what's happening in Europe and Germany in particular, and people are 275 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:38.680 not buying these evs, and Mercedes is extremely worried about their business model going 276 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:44.119 forward, having embraced this electrification agenda, and they're basically saying, well, 277 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.880 what are we going to do if people don't buy these things? And that's 278 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.400 happening here as well. You know, all are aware of what's going on 279 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:53.079 with Ford and the debacle of Jim Farley and his embarrassing attempt to drive a 280 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:59.240 lightning across the country and it was an epic fail, and then Grandholm essentially 281 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.359 trying to do the same thing. People are cluing into what's going on. 282 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:03.799 You know, at last, finally it took them a long time, but 283 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.519 I do think the wheel was turning. Yeah, that's true. And you 284 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.559 know the garbage thing that Graholm did the Energy secretary as she decided she's going 285 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:17.440 to take a cross country drive on the evs as well, and you know 286 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:21.599 it may have been to try to highlight oh, well, we got a 287 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:22.839 problem here. So that means we need more money, and we need more 288 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.960 personnel, and we need more infrastructure for this particular thing. I think that's 289 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.880 where our purpose was. The Ford guy was trying to, you know, 290 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.119 show people how it worked. I think her purpose was to show people how 291 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:38.119 it's not working. But they've now launched a probe into her because she was 292 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.359 faking this thing. But of course, you know the probes are going to 293 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:47.640 be nothing other than a dog and pony, you know, show by somebody 294 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.000 in Congress to be able to criticize her and get their face on TV. 295 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:53.400 Nothing has ever done about any of this stuff. They don't pull any of 296 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:59.680 this stuff back. They just continue to go along with what everybody else's is 297 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.039 pushing out there. It's a bipartisan pushing. We need to understand that, 298 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.119 just like in the UK. I was talking earlier about how the Conservatives are 299 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:11.240 pushing through all these mandates to ban gas furnaces and gas stows and to rip 300 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.279 up the gas lines that are buried in the ground. I mean, they're 301 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:18.279 destroying every one of these countries being destroyed by our own governments. Our own 302 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.559 governments are at war with us over this climate mcguffin, just like they were 303 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.839 at war with us over the so called pandemic. Mcguffin. Yeah, And 304 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.799 the key thing here is to simply race the question why why what are we 305 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:36.440 doing this for? Let's talk about this so called climate crisis, which I 306 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.920 like to harp on the fact that they had to change the verbiage. They 307 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.880 have to change the verbiage ever so often because it becomes impossible to continue to 308 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.400 maintain the narrative. You know, Initially they would talk about global warming, 309 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.279 but while the records and the data didn't bear that out, so they had 310 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.920 to shift it around to this climate change, which can encompass anything. And 311 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.640 now instead of talking about carbon dioxide, they're talking about carbon to try and 312 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.480 flim flam people into equating it with some dirty like graphing, you know, 313 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.400 a graph bite. It's just it's so fundamentally oily. And you get back 314 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.559 to this whole business of the schools and the enumeracy. You know, you 315 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.279 ask somebody, well, okay, you want to talk about the climate crisis. 316 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.599 What's the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere of its carbon dioxide right now? 317 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.640 And invariably they have no idea, And when you tell them it's zero point 318 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.319 zero four percent, you know, and then they look at you and then 319 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.960 you say, okay, so you're telling me that some sort of a fractional 320 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:30.880 increase or decrease of that amount is going to have some kind of a crisis 321 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.400 level effect. Yeah, oh yeah, gear in the headlights, yeah, 322 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.160 exactly, Yeah, that does not compute. And there was another piece I 323 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:41.319 just saw. You know, there's about sixteen seventeen hundred scientists who got together 324 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:45.000 and said this is fake. But one of the things that they said, 325 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.440 and again, you know, that doesn't make it true or false because you've 326 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:51.200 got a large number of people, because you've got Nobel Prize winners or whatever. 327 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:52.519 You had a large number of people, and you had several of them, 328 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.599 there were Nobel Prize winners. But the key point was one thing that 329 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.480 a guy said, which is just as important as the minuscule amount of carbon 330 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:04.480 dioxide. And he said, we're being told by the IPCC from the UN, 331 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:10.480 you know, the Inter International Panel on Climate Change or something like that, 332 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:12.519 and they're the ones pushing this stuff for the UN. He said, 333 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:18.839 we're being told that there's a difference in man made versus natural carbon dioxide. 334 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.680 And he goes, please explain to me how you know, when you got 335 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.720 one atom of carbon and two of oxygen, how there's any difference in that. 336 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.240 But they're saying that if it's man made, it's going to be different 337 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.680 because it's going to last four hundreds or thousands of years. As with a 338 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.799 natural stuff it precipitates out in like three years. But the man made stuff 339 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.079 is going to be there forever and it's going to continue to accumulate that. 340 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:44.359 This is utter nonsense, it's totally devoid. Living in idiocracy. We are 341 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.160 we're living in idiocracy. Yeah, all this furry stuff and you know, 342 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.559 the transgender stuff and everything is how they get people there. You know, 343 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.720 everything has got to be subjective, and they're pushing that subjectivity. That two 344 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.559 plus two equals five. That's probably one of the questions on that math tests 345 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:04.440 in Baltimore. But you know it's not even id it's idiocy with a purpose, 346 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.680 and it's an evil purpose. Yes, they have deliberately dumbed down the 347 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.799 populace so that the populace is vulnerable and susceptible to the kind of propaganda that 348 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:17.240 they're peddling and the hysterics that they're peddling. And this is all being done 349 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:22.240 not to save the earth or the environment any of that stuff. It is 350 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.559 about establishing this hierarchical system of control, the technocratic managerial elite at the very 351 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.319 apex of the pyramid, and the rest of us living a very impoverished in 352 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:36.000 surfed lifestyle where we're not allowed to do anything without permission, and we're very 353 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.359 grateful if we've got to see bugs to eat. And that's it. Yeah, 354 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:42.559 that's exactly it. Let's talk about something that is nostalgic and kind of 355 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:47.720 fun. You've got an article here at Pontiac is racist. And earlier in 356 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.759 the program, I had a thing about this guy who's giving up on being 357 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:55.519 a trucker. He's just so frustrated with all the regulations and everything there. 358 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:57.359 But I introduced it with the east bound and down the people could see the 359 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:00.960 plans m there and I said, yeah, r's got one of those in 360 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.680 one the one of the listeners said, yeah, that's the only good trands 361 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.839 out there as a trans am talk about Pontiac being racist, well, any 362 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:12.839 any iconography associated with a Native Americans, American Indians somehow has become racist. 363 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:18.200 We're all familiar with the way the Washington Redskins had to change their name first 364 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:22.640 to the Washington football team and now the Washington Commanders, even though they should 365 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.839 be the the Washington Pilferers or some other such thing like that. Uh. 366 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:32.000 But and it's all being pushed by these these neurotic, woke left people. 367 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:36.240 It's not it's not being pushed by the American Indians themselves, who loved the 368 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:40.599 Redskins because of the positive associations that were conjured by the you know, the 369 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:44.319 image of the noble warrior going out to fight on the field, and the 370 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:47.440 same with Pontiac. It wasn't as though it was some kind of a an 371 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.519 Amos and Andy routine. You know. They used the iconography of Chief Pontiac, 372 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:55.440 who was a figure from the French and Indian War uh to to be 373 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:59.200 the face, if you will, of Pontiac as a brand, to conjure 374 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.440 the noble chief, you know, leading the way. And it was wonderful 375 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:04.759 and people liked it, and it's just a very sad thing. That's a 376 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.640 good thing that Pontiac, I guess, was put out of its misery, 377 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.880 you know, back in when two thousand, I'm trying to remember, I 378 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.200 can't remember exactly, but it's been about ten years since Pontiac got retired. 379 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.480 Because if they were still around today, I'm sure that there would be some 380 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.680 woke left mob demanding that they changed their name to some other thing because somebody 381 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.079 is outraged and offended by the use of the term in the image. Well, 382 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:30.880 it's interesting you have the background of Chief Pontiac, which I didn't know, 383 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.000 you know, but it's very much like you mentioned the French and Indian 384 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.880 War, very much like Last of the Mohicans, you know, James Finn 385 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:44.319 or Cooper. They could have called it the chegun Chuk. That would have 386 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.640 been a bit of a tongue twister. But Pontiac was there. He was 387 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.720 an Indian chief in the Detroit area. Fort Detroit was where he was, 388 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:59.279 and so that was a natural secutor there for people with their in Michigan to 389 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:04.039 name it after this highly regarded Indian chief leader, you know, military leader 390 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.039 who had been allied with the US. But I guess that makes him evil 391 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.720 as well, right, he was allied apparently, So you know, you 392 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.960 had these really cool things associated with Pontiac, the car brand, you know, 393 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.400 in the thirties and the forties, they had the glowing chief hood ornament 394 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:22.400 that was highly stylized and led the wayne, and you had the famous arrowhead 395 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:26.400 and all these other things that were as a matter of fact, that we're 396 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.279 let me let me interject here, because I've got a picture of the head 397 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:37.240 the Pontiac head that and I when I saw your article, it made me 398 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.440 think about my grandfather's car. He had one of these Pontiac chieftains or something 399 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.960 like that. The only thing I remember about the car was this hood ornament 400 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:49.920 that has this like amber head of the Indian, you know, Pontiac. 401 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.279 I thought that was the coolest thing because I was maybe about four or five 402 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:56.119 years old, and it was the only thing I ever remember. But I 403 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.440 never forgot that. I've got a couple of different pictures of it. It's 404 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:03.200 such a cool thing, and it had a lot of chrome holding supporting this 405 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:06.119 head, but then the head was projecting out. This is the way the 406 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.599 car looks. The car was not all that great, but that Indian head 407 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:12.880 that was there was really impressive. And I never forgot that. When I 408 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:15.880 saw this article about pontiacause like, yes, I got to get a picture 409 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.240 of that head. Yeah. Yeah. It's things like that that created this 410 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.480 emotional bond between people in their cars. Might One of my earliest memories of 411 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:30.519 cars is looking underneath the hood of my parents' Oldsmobile ninety eight that they had 412 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.680 back in the seventies, and I looked at this gigantic air cleaner and it 413 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.720 said rocket eighty rocket four fifty five on it, and I remember that to 414 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:40.279 this day, and that was like the first thing I thought, Wow, 415 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:42.079 that's really neat, and I wanted to see what was under the air cleaner, 416 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.960 and you know, look fast forward here I am today. Well, 417 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:48.640 they would even make the tailights and stuff on, like on the Thunderbirds that 418 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.640 make them look like they were rocket turbines or something. Now, yeah, 419 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.440 you could just imagine it coming out of the back, but yeah, it 420 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.160 was. It was a lot of fun. They tried all kinds of things 421 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.799 in terms of styling. Some of them worked, some of them didn't. 422 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.680 You know, some of them look really comical and retrospect, but some of 423 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.839 them still look really cool in retrospect when you look at it. But it 424 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.400 goes beyond that, you know, yeah, go ahead. We had this 425 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:14.839 tremendous variety, which you can see if you go to an old car show 426 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:18.119 today. You know, lines and lines of cars, each one profoundly different 427 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.000 from the one that's sitting next to it. And that's a measure of what 428 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:23.960 we lost. You know, people complain now about how everything looks the same. 429 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.759 And I've got this great graphic of a of a I guess about a 430 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:32.920 dozen different new crossover SUVs of various brands. They're all white, and they 431 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:34.680 all look exactly the same. Well, I mean, and it's true, 432 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.559 but you know, it's going to be even worse than that, to get 433 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.640 back to what we were talking about earlier, when not only do they look 434 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.480 the same, but they literally are the same, and they just have the 435 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:49.400 same electric drivetrains with that that basically homogenized plastic extruded body draped over them with 436 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.000 a different badge, or you can pick whatever color you like. Maybe you 437 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:55.160 won't have to get white. You could get a silver one if you like. 438 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.200 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what we have become now. And 439 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:02.920 I've joked about that. You know this interesting that you know, we used 440 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:07.559 to have cars of all different types of colors. Now everything is black, 441 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:11.599 white, shades of gray with an occasional red. That's basically what you see. 442 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.680 They've got some retro Dodge chargers and stuff that are orange or green or 443 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.200 purple or something like that, but for the most part, it's all, 444 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.559 you know, shades of gray and an occasional red car that's there. I 445 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.160 used to joke, I joked with the kids I said, Yeah, back 446 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:29.880 when I was growing up, TV was black and white, but the cars 447 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:34.680 are technicolor NASCAR. Yeah, it's very Soviet. And I found out something 448 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.559 interesting, by the way, because I've noticed it, you know, you've 449 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.039 noticed that so many other people have noticed, and I got to wondering why, 450 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.920 And in the course of doing a little bit of research about the Carside 451 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:47.599 review, I've discovered that they are now charging a lot of money for other 452 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.440 colors than silver, black and white. You know, like like seven hundred, 453 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.160 twelve hundred dollars to get something other than that in a lot of cases. 454 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:56.920 And so that's white. You see so many cars that are silver, 455 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.079 white and black. Wow. Okay, well, yeah, that makes it 456 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.400 if they're going to make it. Something's part of that. But before we 457 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:06.599 get away from the Indians and everything, I like what you had to say. 458 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:11.079 You know, you said as they purged the Redskins, you say in 459 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.400 your article as if fans of the Redskins were mocking American Indians when they cheered 460 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.200 for the Redskins. Of course they're not. They're seeing them as cool, 461 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.839 you know, like the Vikings or whatever, or raiders or pirates or whatever. 462 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.519 They're not mocking them, you know, and you say, most American 463 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.200 Indians understood the Redskin name and image were meant to honor the bravery and the 464 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.559 spirit of the American Indian warriors in battle. And the Redskins, like any 465 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.200 other professional football team, played to win. They didn't play to mock. 466 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:44.079 And that's the key thing, right that makes it so incredibly stupid about all 467 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.359 this stuff. And yet you see now with Taylor Swift and this football player 468 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.359 that she's dating. I saw an article, because every site that I go 469 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.680 to, they've got something about Taylor Swift and the football player. And so 470 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.960 one of the articles that came up somebody who was saying, well, maybe 471 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:06.680 Taylor Swift can use her influence to get them to stop doing the tomahawk chalk 472 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.640 chop. I's like, why why would you want to stop the tomahawk chalk 473 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.400 in my first place? There? This is all part and parcel of this 474 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.680 effort to just suck the joy out of life completely. We're all supposed to 475 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:25.079 be basically Dodd the proverbial jesuitical hairhirt and flagellate ourselves for existing. Yeah, 476 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.759 yeah, you know, I remember when I was growing up, you know, 477 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:32.880 we had neighborhood schools they're all close together. And the junior high school 478 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.880 the mascot was a warrior, right, so it's like the warriors, and 479 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:38.559 and and then when you go to the high school, which are just a 480 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:45.240 couple of blocks down, that was the chiefs. And that was you know, 481 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.640 something that was had big Indian chief head that was on the outside of 482 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:55.440 the school. They're in Tampa's Chamberlain High School. And even the liberal Democrat 483 00:30:55.559 --> 00:31:00.519 mayor was pushing back on. She went to Chamberlain and she was pushing back 484 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.400 on. She said, you know, they're going to spend like a one 485 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.839 hundred thousand dollars to take this thing down and put some other mask out up 486 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.799 there. She goes, but leave it alone. You know, it was 487 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.759 fine. And she's a you know, a Democrat, liberal, hard left 488 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.680 liberal. But you know, you had you went from being a warrior up 489 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.880 to a chief. And of course in the band, they had the girls 490 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.599 that were dancers. They all had these big chieftain head dresses and stuff. 491 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.279 They call them chief hits. And then that we had drum majors that were 492 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.519 not dressed up in military uniform, but they were old. People would have 493 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:37.640 a fit about this. They were shirtless and before the game they would rub 494 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.640 them down with this stuff called Texas dirt, so they had redskins, and 495 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.440 then they would put war paint over them and they had a head dress that 496 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:45.519 went all the way down to the ground and then they would run around manity. 497 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:48.319 Oh yeah, I mean it would it would be like blackface today, 498 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.920 you know. I mean they would flip out if they saw this. But 499 00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:53.680 it was great. You know, we had the coolest drum majors of any 500 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.279 of the schools that were there. Had a couple of times at one time 501 00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:02.000 stabbed one of the bass drums because they'd run and swoop, but they with 502 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.119 a spear because they had a spear. But it was It was a lot 503 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:07.400 of fun. And then from that, you know, you go from junior 504 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.119 high school warriors to the Chamber in Chiefs and then you would go a lot 505 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:14.960 of them went to FSU, which were the Seminoles, and they tried to 506 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.480 change that mascot, and the Seminole tribe there in Florida said, no, 507 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:21.519 don't do that. We like that. You know, it wasn't just a 508 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.680 generic redskin. It was a specific Indian tribe and they really liked it. 509 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:29.400 They were honored by that. They got it, they understood it. Yeah. 510 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.680 The thing to understand here is these people will never be satisfied and they're 511 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:36.480 not really aggrieved. This is all just a cavalcade of convenience. That's right. 512 00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.920 You placate them with one. We'll defer to you on this, Okay, 513 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.839 we'll take down our mascot, will change our name. It's never enough, 514 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.960 there's always something else, because the whole point of this is to maintain 515 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:51.200 this ongoing sense of aggrievement, that that somebody has been wrong, that somebody's 516 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:54.440 been victimized, and you owe us something because you did this. That's right. 517 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.160 Yeah, And it's it's very much like if you do their their pronouns, 518 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:00.519 they're going to come back at you with something else, you know, 519 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.559 because it's not about any of that stuff. It's about you submitting to them. 520 00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.039 And so if you submit to their pronouns and next thing they're going to 521 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:12.920 have you submitting to the furries or whatever other crazy thing they come up with. 522 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.920 It's about your submission, and it will always be something else, and 523 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:21.799 it's always pushing us further and further away from reality, because that's really the 524 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.440 key thing for them. You know, if you don't know anything, and 525 00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:29.319 if you live in this fantasy world, then you're going to be very easily 526 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:32.559 controlled in a virtual reality or with video games, or with drugs or sex 527 00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:36.880 or whatever it is that they want to throw at you. And actually Uval 528 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.839 Harari has actually taunted people by saying that quiet part out loud. He said, 529 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:45.400 yeah, we're going to control people with drugs and virtual reality and video 530 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.559 games and all the rest of this stuff. Well, they're already doing it. 531 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:52.599 Yeah. You look at you look at teenagers and what are they looking 532 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.279 at? Invariably they're pecking at that stupid phone. Even when they get together, 533 00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:58.039 you watch them, you know, a group of them, instead of 534 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.119 them talking to each other, they're all sitting, they're at the same physical 535 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:05.319 place, but each of them is occupied picking at their individual phone. That's 536 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:07.480 right. Yeah, I think it's funny too as you go through the different 537 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.840 models, you know, in terms of thinking about what they have picked up 538 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.119 with this stuff. The Oldsmobile cutlass. Now there's a pirate thing, you 539 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:21.320 know, Yeah, you know, I guess you know they've they've now got 540 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.840 literal pirates now in Oakland. You know, they had the Oakland Raiders, 541 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:30.800 but now they've got literal pirates who are attacking people in their boats and stealing 542 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:34.119 everything they can and thinking the rest of it, and the police and they 543 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:36.920 say, well, we don't know. That's not our jurisdiction. We can't 544 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.039 do anything about it. It's like that's the buck on stuff like that. 545 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:44.440 Sure, it's a clown show, and it's time for us to pull a 546 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.960 curtain on it and say enough is enough. On so many levels. You 547 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:50.719 know, for example, we we we've gotten to where we are with regard 548 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:52.599 to cars to a great extent because we accepted the premise that, you know, 549 00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.280 there's a pollution problem, there's an emissions problem, and that's that was 550 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:59.519 true at one time. It's not true anymore. And I think the way 551 00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.039 to solve the problem is to demand cost benefit analysis and to say, look, 552 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.599 it's one thing to say a car it needs to have an exhaust scrubber, 553 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.559 a catalytic converter, that maybe it adds three hundred dollars to the price 554 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.880 of the car, but it reduces the harmful pollutions by by fifty percent, 555 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:17.239 really fifty percent, not fifty percent of one percent, as opposed to some 556 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:21.599 new thing that they're going to have to do to a vehicle to achieve a 557 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:27.400 less than less than half a percent difference change in some so called emission at 558 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.000 a cost of fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars. It's absurd. You should 559 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.639 be You should the government, if it's going to have these regulations, ought 560 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.159 to be obliged to establish improve that. Look, first of all, here's 561 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.159 the problem. Secondly, what we're proposing is going to meaningfully improve or meliorate 562 00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.760 that problem at a reasonable cost, and if not, it shouldn't happen. 563 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:50.079 Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I can attest to the fact that, 564 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:52.800 you know, I was driving a convertible back in the nineteen seventies and had 565 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:59.400 a little spitfire, and you know, it was not an uncommon thing at 566 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.079 all. It's actually half of the cars you'd get behind them and it's like 567 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:05.639 whoa, you know, it's just events exhaust coming from them. I still 568 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:12.559 drive convertibles, and my convertible and that never happens anymore. I never smell 569 00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:17.199 anybody's exhaust. It is a non problem. And you know, they're just 570 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:23.719 they're grasping at straws and it's just the metastasizing bureaucracy trying to control and destroy 571 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.719 everything. That's really what we're seeing here. You know, well, they 572 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.719 could never concede that mission accomplished, right, that's right. You know, 573 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:32.840 the ep has been around now for about fifty years, and if they were 574 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.800 to say, well, you know, we did a really good job ninety 575 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.480 nine points something and that's actually the number. Ninety nine points something percent of 576 00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:44.039 what comes out of the exhaust pipe of a new car is water, vapor, 577 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.400 and carbon dioxide, neither of which have any effect on the environment, 578 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.039 and therefore our mission is accomplished. We don't need to worry about this stuff 579 00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:53.039 anymore. They'll never do that because I think how many people are earning their 580 00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.400 living, their livelihood that way, how many lobbyists are involved, how many 581 00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.400 you know, just ripple effects throughout the economy, how many bucks are being 582 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:04.719 made off of these scams. So instead of acknowledging that they fix the problem, 583 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.360 they have to magnify the problem to justify not only what they're doing, 584 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.440 but what they want to do in the future. Yes, and of course 585 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:15.079 now it's stress too that. That's especially true of diesels as well. There 586 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.719 aren't any diesel cars that you smell anymore either. They have taken care of 587 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:22.360 that. Of course, you know they're taking care for the most party, 588 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.599 getting rid of the diesels, but you know they are still out there and 589 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:29.679 you don't smell anything from them either. They're running perfectly clean. They've gone 590 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:34.320 through an incredible amount of expense to clean that up, but it is clean. 591 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.119 And so these are problems that are not problems. And the EPA, 592 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:42.440 which is originally set up to h you know, to protect the environment and 593 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.159 everything, they're just looking for whatever they can do. Now. They're shutting 594 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:50.360 down power plants based on emissions that you can't tell anything about. You know, 595 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:52.440 you drive by these power plants, you're not going to smell anything. 596 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.239 You're not gonna see smoke coming out of them. They're clean. They're not 597 00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:59.360 like the ones in China and India, which they care absolutely nothing about. 598 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:01.559 They never care about it. In their Paris Climate Accord in twenty fifteen, 599 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.679 they said, build as many of these you want, We don't care how 600 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.679 dirty they are. Well, if you're talking about a global problem, then 601 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.480 you would care about that, and some of the true believers did care about 602 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:12.960 that at the time. But they don't care about any of that stuff. 603 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:19.880 They just want to shut everything down and It just amazes me that so many 604 00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:22.599 people cannot see that that is really the true agenda, just to destroy our 605 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:28.639 lives. Before we leave the Pontiac thing, though, you mentioned also the 606 00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:34.039 Firebird being an American Indian mythological figure. Of course you've got the Firebird and 607 00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:36.960 you've got that that figure there. But I just you know, as you're 608 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.039 talking about all this other stuff, it's like, yeah, it really thought 609 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:45.000 about how many different ways Pontiac could tied in the Indian culture into their cars, 610 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.400 and in a very positive way. You know. Everybody liked that, 611 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.480 Yes, and they made some of the most uh, you know, iconic 612 00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:58.440 cars in the history of the automobile. You know, one of the most 613 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.679 obvious ones being the very first muscle car, which was the nineteen sixty four 614 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:06.320 Pontiac Gto. There had been fast cars before that, but there had not 615 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.519 been fast, inexpensive cars. You know. The genius of John Laurian, 616 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.079 who ran the company back then, was to take basically an economy car, 617 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.000 it was the Tempest, and put the big engine from the Bonneville into the 618 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.119 Tempest and sell it for cheap. So now you didn't have to be a 619 00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:22.960 rich old man to have a fast car, and you know, I mean 620 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.280 then think just sold like you know, like like pancakes and boom. Everybody 621 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.320 else wanted to have one too, and so you had this great muscle car 622 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.719 craze. And then of course the government shut that down, but Pontiac still 623 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.960 persevered. You know, through the seventies, the Transam and the Firebird was 624 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.679 one of the most popular cars on the road. Of course, government managed 625 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.119 to kill that off too by forcing Pontiac to stop building its own engines. 626 00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:46.199 So the Transam just became basically a reskinned Camaro and it lingered on for a 627 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:49.599 few more years, but it eventually died, and along with it, so 628 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:53.360 did Pontiac. Yeah. Yeah, you even mentioned the shaker scoop. I 629 00:39:53.400 --> 00:40:00.599 remember those things. I remember that in those cars as well as in Mustangs. 630 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:01.599 That was a lot of fun. You know, a big hole in 631 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.000 the uh in the hood and the and a big scoop coming up to it 632 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:07.960 that you saw the vibration of the indian of the engine in it. It 633 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:13.559 was Yeah. Even better minds got a flapper door, so it's vacuum vacuum 634 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.079 actuated, so as you get on the gas, that door just kind of 635 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:20.599 candle levers open, and you know, then then you hear the quadratet secondaries 636 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:22.880 opening up and it's just the best thing ever. Oh that's great, that's 637 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:29.119 really good. Yeah. You know, we look at this, uh, 638 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:35.199 they just keep moving this, uh this forward. And I guess the question 639 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:36.840 is, you know, what are we gonna do? I guess we've got 640 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.840 to We've got some really good hardware this out there in cars, and I 641 00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:44.639 think really the business of the future is going to be people who can do 642 00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:47.000 repair and people who can make the auto parts, you know, kind of 643 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:51.920 like Jay Leno has. I think going to see repurposing of some of the 644 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:54.199 three D printers and things like that. Perhaps I don't know, But then 645 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:58.440 again, the next part of that is going to be how do we get 646 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.559 the fuel? Are we going to be able to have micro refineries. I'd 647 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.119 like to see that. We've got micro breweries, and we got here in 648 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.840 Tennessee. They made it legal for people have like moonshine type of places. 649 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:15.039 That's really taken over the tourist areas around here. What we need is to 650 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.960 make it legal for people to do their own fuel because they're not kind of 651 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:22.159 build any more refineries at all. You know, sure you know. I 652 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.400 mean, I'm not a big fan of ethanol when it's being forced on us, 653 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.800 and you know the form of the ethanol mandates. However, you know, 654 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:31.880 you can make alcohol out of corn and other such things, and you 655 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:36.719 can easily convert an engine that was designed to run on gasoline to run on 656 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:38.239 alcohol. So that may be something we're going to have to learn to deal 657 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.280 with two in the future. Yeah. Yeah, instead of a still up 658 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.079 in the mountains for moonshine, you have it for fuel for your car, 659 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.119 you know, And then all those things died together. You know, all 660 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:54.360 the bootleg masscar drivers that cut their teeth on running alcohol, maybe they'll do 661 00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:58.599 it in terms of running fuel. Who knows what will happen. You've got 662 00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:01.960 an op ed piece here why I'm a libertarian, you know, I think 663 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.679 it's kind of interesting to look at this, especially in light of the fact 664 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:12.480 that you had RFK Junior makes some overtures to the Libertarian Party, and some 665 00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.920 of the people there at the party talked about that as well. Dennis Cassenter 666 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:16.639 said, no, no, no, no, he's not gonna run as 667 00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:20.840 the third party candidate. He's going to run as a Democrat. I think 668 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:25.039 that's kind of interesting. What do you think in terms of RFK JR. 669 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:29.440 I haven't been involved in the Libertarian Party for about twenty five thirty years, 670 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.960 and you know, I know that when I was there, you know, 671 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.960 they had the leadership was open to anybody, and you know, they would 672 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.239 like to see somebody that was very popular and famous come in because they wanted 673 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:46.039 to get the vote totals. But when I was there, the people and 674 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:51.920 the party, they would be very very factious and doctor naire and if somebody 675 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:53.480 was not touring the line exactly, it's like, no way you're going to 676 00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:58.639 get this nomination. I don't really see that happening from that standpoint, even 677 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:00.840 if he wanted to do it. What do you think, Well, let's 678 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:05.480 see Rfk's first of all, not a libertarian, but then neither is the 679 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:08.800 Libertarian Party at this point anymore. However, I will say this about about 680 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:14.079 RFK JR. I think he's not a psychopath, and you know that carries 681 00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:15.840 a lot of weight with me. And I look at, you know, 682 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:21.719 the Orange man and his pathological narcissism, and I look at that thing that 683 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:25.480 wanders around in front of the teleprompter in DC. Who's even worse and I 684 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:29.920 think to myself, you know, at the bar is now so low. 685 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:34.400 I would just like somebody who isn't completely out of their mind with evil and 686 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.000 who actually speaks in complete sentences and could be reasoned with. And so I 687 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.280 you know, I don't have an issue with RFK. In fact, when 688 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:43.000 I was when I was out running earlier today, I thought to myself, 689 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.679 you know what we were really great is if RFK and and Orange Man got 690 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.480 together and decided that they would each run as an independent and thereby cut out 691 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:53.800 the Republicans and the Democrats, and then we could end the whole sham in 692 00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.880 a really public way. Imagine. Yeah, yeah, because of those political 693 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:02.239 parties that are so corrupt. Can you certainly see that with RFK jor the 694 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.360 way that they play with the rules, And you know, well, you 695 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.559 know, we're going to set the order this year so that it helps our 696 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.719 feeble candidate out front Biden and all the rest of this stuff. And if 697 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:19.039 you campaign in some of these areas early on, then we're going to take 698 00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:21.960 all your votes away from you. Crazy stuff like that. But Trump is 699 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.320 doing the same type of thing. Trump is going his organization is going into 700 00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:32.360 various states and saying it's going to be a winner take all. So if 701 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:36.440 he comes out with you know, fifty and a half percent, he will 702 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.159 get all the delegates instead of a proportionately at it, so that will make 703 00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:43.239 him get past the post faster than anybody else. And of course they can 704 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.800 do this because the parties are making the rules. The parties decide who's going 705 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:52.760 to really to run, and the parties decide who's going to get into debates, 706 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.639 and the parties decide who's going to get on the ballots and all the 707 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:58.360 rest of the stuff. It's one of the reasons why we have no real 708 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:02.559 choices in this because of these corrupt political parties that are controlling everything. Well 709 00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:06.599 sure and on you know, either depending doesn't matter what you're talking about. 710 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.639 The Democrats of the Republicans, these as institutions. They're antithetical to people like 711 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:15.679 Trump, who is not one of the you know, the good old boys 712 00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:19.400 inside the club. And they're antithetical to RFK. You know, the arrogance 713 00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:22.239 of these people on the left who constantly lecture us about our democracy. And 714 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:27.360 they won't even put the senile old telephile in the same room with RFK to 715 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.000 have a debate so much for our democracy, right, Yeah, that's right. 716 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.840 Yeah, well, you know, yeah, the two of them, 717 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.760 the two guys who have been president, do not want to run on their 718 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:39.039 record. That should tell us everything we need to know about this. But 719 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:42.320 you mentioned earlier, you know, he said, yeah, the Libertarians are 720 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.360 not even libertarian, the ones on the top of the ballot. And I 721 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:50.480 was one thing that just absolutely amazed me in twenty twenty was the fact that 722 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:54.039 the Libertarian candidate Joe Jorgenson was out there. She didn't care at all about 723 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:59.280 the lockdowns and the masks and the closures. That was not even an issue 724 00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:00.960 to her. It really was an issue to most of the Libertarians that were 725 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:06.280 running. It was. There was one guy, I think his first name 726 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.920 was Donald but Rainwater was his name. He was in Indiana and he started 727 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:15.239 talking pushing back against all this stuff, and he shot up into double digits, 728 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.039 and so I tried to interview him and he's like, no, no, 729 00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:21.039 I don't want to do any interviews. It's almost like I'm scared him 730 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:23.239 because he was getting up high. I have subsequently, since I had this 731 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.760 program, within this last year, I interviewed him because he's running for something 732 00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:31.519 and he's a very smart guy and he's very libertarian. But you know, 733 00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:37.320 there's I don't know if now he's gotten over the fear that he might get 734 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:43.400 elected. I don't understand how you can be a libertarian without accepting as your 735 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:47.960 foundational principle leaving other people alone periods as a general idea. It's kind of 736 00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:52.039 like claiming that you're a Christian without believing in Jesus. It's just absurd. 737 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.639 Call yourself something else instead of pretending to be what you're not. That's right. 738 00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:59.559 Yeah, And you know, she's still got over one percent, which 739 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:01.760 I remember when I was involved in it, that was everybody was very excited 740 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.519 that there had been I think it was Ed Clark who got one percent of 741 00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:09.440 nineteen eighty or something, and so that had been the benchmark. Even Ron 742 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:14.079 Paul when he ran as a libertarian, I only got about, you know, 743 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:16.519 four hundred thousand votes or something like that. And so, you know, 744 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:22.159 the people are getting are more and more open to a third party. 745 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.920 It's just that the ballots are closed to third parties. Yeah, and the 746 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:29.440 Libertarian Party is about the only party that has the ability to get on the 747 00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.760 ballots because that's what they have been focused on and that's almost exclusively focused on 748 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.760 getting on the ballot, and they've been pretty successful at it. But they 749 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:39.679 have been successful in anything else other than getting on the ballot because it's such 750 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:45.440 a herculean effort, and no other third party can even come close to getting 751 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.199 on the ballot and a number of places. Yeah, that's right. And 752 00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.199 you know, I tend not to look at this as something that ought to 753 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.199 be pursued politically. I look at this as more something that ought to be 754 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.639 pursued intellectually, philosophically, and morally. If we could get enough people to 755 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:02.320 accept the idea, hey, you own you, I own me. Let's 756 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:07.039 agree to deal with each other voluntarily and peacefully. Let's not take each other's 757 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.719 stuff, Let's not try to force other people to do what we want them 758 00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:13.360 to do. Let's live and let live. If we could get back to 759 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.920 that idea, which is a very Christian idea, by the way, to 760 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.880 get back to that, I think that the political stuff would solve itself. 761 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:24.320 Yes yesterday I talked to Connor Boyak, who is the guy who put together 762 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:30.440 the Tuttle Twins, and those books are focused mainly on economics and politics from 763 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:34.800 a libertarian perspective, you know, taking apart socialism anything for as he put 764 00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.960 it, for young elementary school kids and politicians of that mentality, you know, 765 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:42.360 and and so. And one of the first things that he said, 766 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.960 absolutely one hundred percent agree with it. He said, we focus everything on 767 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.559 the presidential race, and we talk about that. There are some you know, 768 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.719 hopefully there's some issues that present themselves because of that, but he said 769 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:55.440 that's the area where we can have the least effect. And so what he's 770 00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:01.760 done besides his books, he's also got an organization there in the state that 771 00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:07.400 works on state level issues, and he's been able to get more than a 772 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.039 hundred laws passed there in the state of Utah that actually increase freedom and free 773 00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.960 markets and things like that. Where he says, you know, when he's 774 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.599 worked with Mike Lea to get Mike Lely elected, and he said, you 775 00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:21.679 know, he said, I'm not saying that he's doing a bad job. 776 00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:25.599 It's just that you can't get really get anything done by getting one senator elected, 777 00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:29.960 and you really can't get anything done by getting a president elected. And 778 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:36.599 neither the people in Congress nor the president really want to go you throw themselves 779 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.880 on the barbed wire and take the hits for this stuff and get it done. 780 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.599 They all want to push this stuff off to the bureaucracy, which is 781 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:47.480 how we got into the situation where the bureaucracy and the judiciary are controlling everything. 782 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.599 They don't want to take any responsibility for anything, so they're more than 783 00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:55.440 happy to abdicate that power to somebody else. Well. Sure, and we've 784 00:49:55.480 --> 00:50:00.840 got this more fundamental problem too. If people thinking that it's okay to vote 785 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:06.599 for or support a politician to get the government to use its power, it's 786 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.000 forced to do things that would be criminal if they did them themselves. Yes, 787 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:15.480 yes, that is exactly the point, yep. And there was an 788 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:22.119 interesting in terms of talking about that. Reason had an interesting take on you 789 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.199 know, Trump went to South Carolina and somebody presented him with a pistol that 790 00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:29.320 had his face card on the handle. Oh I love this, everybody loves 791 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:31.719 it. I've got to buy this. And then his campaign manager said he 792 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:35.119 did buy it. And then people said, well, he's not allowed to 793 00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.480 buy it because he's been indicted for felonies and that's a prohibition, and so 794 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.039 they through all this whole thing. Reason had a good take on it reason 795 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.039 said, well, you know, if you stop and think about this, 796 00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:50.360 that's essentially the same law that Hunter Biden is being accused of, right, 797 00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:54.239 because you got to say I'm not even indicted for a felony, I'm not 798 00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:58.880 a convict, and I'm not indicted. You have to also say I'm not 799 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:01.480 a drug addict and I'm not a user of drugs, and so you know. 800 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:07.000 So, and their point was that a lot of people will excuse it 801 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:09.480 for the guy that they like. The Democrats will excuse this for Hunter, 802 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.239 and the Republicans will excuse it for Trump and say he shouldn't be punished for 803 00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:16.760 any of this stuff. And yet the reality is is that you know, 804 00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:21.400 the law itself is wrong, and the atf itself is wrong. You shouldn't 805 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:25.400 have people for non violent stuff not be able to own a gun or purchase 806 00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:29.639 a gun. Legally, that law in and of itself is wrong, and 807 00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:34.039 yet people will not come together to oppose that from both sides of political spectrum. 808 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.039 Instead, they'll use it as a weapon against the other guy on the 809 00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:40.679 other side. Yeah, and that's a moral failing and it leads you to 810 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.800 be vulnerable. Essentially, this is why we have this sort of given this 811 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.960 hyena tug over a piece of meat at a re election, because you're voting 812 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.000 in the hope that a you'll be able to use the government to force your 813 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.440 neighbor to do what you want him to do, and also so he won't 814 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.079 get the power to do the same to you in return. That's an awful 815 00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:00.719 way to have to live your life. It is, it really is. 816 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:02.840 And you know, like I've said many times when I was trying to explain 817 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.480 libertarianism to people, I would say, well, freedom is one thing you 818 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:09.360 can't have unless you give it to other people, you know, And it's 819 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.199 kind of like, you know, the Golden rule or whatever. There's all 820 00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:16.639 these different ways that you can try to explain it. But today the society 821 00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:20.840 has become so polarized. And that's the thing. The big issue that I 822 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.480 have with Trump is that they've become polarized over him. He's such a polarizing 823 00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:28.760 figure that they're making him a Mason Dixon line of a new civil war. 824 00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:30.639 And that's my real concern about all this stuff. And it's why, you 825 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.280 know, when you look at these all these indictments, obviously they're going way 826 00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:37.519 over the top on him. While they let out of the things go. 827 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:42.880 But we've seen this with the people that he inside it, that in diced 828 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:47.360 and told to come January the sixth, and then abandoned them and left them 829 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:53.920 twisting in the wind. You know, these people have been given extreme punishments 830 00:52:54.280 --> 00:53:00.559 that are way beyond anything that is justified by anything that happened. Joe Bigso 831 00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:04.000 I used to work with seventeen years in prison, and he didn't get violent 832 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:07.039 with anybody. This is absolutely insane, and this is the way they weaponize 833 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:09.559 this system, and they really are trying to push us into a civil war. 834 00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:13.440 I think, yeah, well, and they're getting it closer and closer 835 00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:17.480 all the time. I thought it was noteworthy as we're having these impeachment inquiries 836 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:20.840 in the House, there's virtually no coverage of it on any of the major 837 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:25.239 networks, as opposed to the twenty four seven endless harangues that were occurring whenever 838 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:30.000 Adam Shift would say something about, you know, Russia influence Russia misinformation with 839 00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.480 regard to Trump, and what they're doing by doing that is causing people on 840 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:37.599 Trump's side of the aisle to become absolutely enraged and apoplectic about what's happening to 841 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:40.360 their guy. Yes, they want to stoke it up. And you know, 842 00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.559 and Trump is actually, I think happy to see that happen because he 843 00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:49.039 raises money off of his off of his indictments. I mean, you know, 844 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:52.000 millions of dollars off of these indictments. Every time another one comes. 845 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.320 It is like it's a big fundraising opportunity for him. James Carvill with the 846 00:53:54.320 --> 00:54:00.320 Democrats when they said they're going to begin impeachment hearings of Biden, goes, 847 00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:02.880 I can't believe are good for how do we get this lucky that they're going 848 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:06.559 to impeach Biden because he knows it is going to help him as well. 849 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:09.519 And you're talking about the way the media is skewing this stuff. You know, 850 00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:14.960 five million dollar bribe for Biden and another you know, how they're going 851 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.719 to split this thing up. They've got the emails, they've got this all, 852 00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:23.320 all this stuff memorialized in terms of FBI documents going back to June of 853 00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:28.079 twenty twenty, you know, several months before the election. And so you 854 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.039 know, in the House, they're showing that this is memorialized by the FBI. 855 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:35.920 They're showing emails that they got from Hunter Biden's laptop, and yet all 856 00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:39.239 I hear from the establishment media is well, there's nothing there. There's absolutely 857 00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:42.880 nothing, and it's like, are you kidding me? This? It was 858 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.760 mailed to his house and Anderson Cooper says, well, that doesn't prove anything. 859 00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:52.119 If it doesn't fit, you must have quit. Yeah, that's kind 860 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.920 of like there was a scene from Working Girl where she comes home and she 861 00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:59.239 finds her husband in bed with somebody else and he gets up, he goes, 862 00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:02.159 it's not what you think. It's like, that's what these people are 863 00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.280 doing with Hunter Biden, Yes, and with everything I mean, it's just 864 00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:12.199 beyond the point of absurdity as you see this stuff rolling forward. But it's 865 00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:14.880 always great talking to you, Eric, if we didn't get a chance to 866 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:16.800 get into all your prep stuff, but we pretty much run out of time. 867 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:20.239 I got a couple of comments that I need to read before we do 868 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:22.519 run out of time. But thank you so much for joining us again, 869 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:28.719 folks, if you want great commentary on mobility, which is a foundational thing 870 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:32.920 for liberty but also liberty mobility, and he talks about real cars that you 871 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:37.880 can still kind of afford, and some of them they're starting to get more 872 00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:43.440 and more expensive. But I mean not talking about the hypercars that only the 873 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:49.320 gazillionaires will be able to afford. But again, Eric Peters autos dot com 874 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:53.519 or ep autos dot com. Great place to get information about one of the 875 00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.280 key things that keeps us free, and that is our car. Thank you 876 00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:09.159 so much, appreciate it. Thank you, David. The common Man. 877 00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:16.920 They created common Core and dumbed down our children. They created common Pass to 878 00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.679 track and control us, their Commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing 879 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:30.280 and the communist future. They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated ordinary. 880 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:36.719 But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. 881 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:42.039 That is what we have in common. That is what they want to 882 00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:47.679 take away. Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They 883 00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:53.519 desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us. It's time 884 00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:59.559 to turn that around and expose what they want to hide. Please share the 885 00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:04.599 information and links you'll find at the Davidnightshow dot com. Thank you for listening, 886 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:13.760 Thank you for sharing. 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