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All right and joining us now.
It's always a pleasure to talk to Eric

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Peters as Eric Peters autos dot com
a lot of great articles about liberty,

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about politics, and also about cars
and mobility, because that is a big

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part of our liberty, is that
mobility, and so he covers that and

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he does actual real car reviews.
I mean not just the hypercars it costs

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millions and millions of dollars, but
real cars that are out there, and

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so it's always a pleasure to have
Eric on. Thank you for joining us,

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Eric, Oh, thank you,
David. I'd like to know the

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first before we get going, have
you got your golden shoes on? I

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passed on that. I did a
thing. I came in with golden slippers,

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you know, while they were showing
the things, you know, the

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old the old miners stune and yeah, I thought you liked that, and

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that's something you know next maybe you
know, when he mandates masks again,

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we can all make them out of
gold. I'm sure that info Wars will

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probably do that and sell it.
Surprised, Okay, so we had,

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like I called it yesterday stupor Tuesday. You had to be in a stupor

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to show up to vote. When
this is a North Korean style election,

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you got one person on the ballot
essentially. You know, Nicky Haley was

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there. She doesn't even want to
show her face now she's embarsed herself so

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badly with all this stuff. It
was so good in that. I mean,

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you know, I find Nicki Haley
to be almost as repellent as the

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Orange Man. So it was already
happy to see her exit stage left.

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That's right. Oh, I was
very concerned when she jumped into the race

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that she is a dangerous demagogue.
I thought it was really funny when she

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was trying to, you know,
endear herself to the people in New Hampshire,

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she started criticizing the people in South
Carolina as a bunch of knuckle dragging

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racist who had elected her twice to
governorship. And I thought, next,

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the next one she's got to do, and she's got to go to these

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people she just accused of being a
backward racist. The fascinating thing about Haley

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to me is that, you know, sensibly we are supposed to have representatives

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in our democracy, right, meaning
you know, essensibly people who have been

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approved of by at least a putative
majority of the voters. Well, this

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woman has been repudiated by by just
astounding the pseudonomous margins of contempt, and

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she won't get the hint. You
know until today, you know, we

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don't want you. Nobody wants you
literally go away. That she has the

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arrogance in the infrontary to countermand to
clearly express will of the people and say

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no, no, you're gonna have
me regardless. I'm gonna just I'm gonna

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I'm going to force myself upon you
because you know I'm the right person for

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the job. Well, you know, she's got all these donors. And

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I remember when I was working with
the Libertarian Party, the first thing they

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would ask, if you've got an
interview with some reporter, so what is

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your campaign budget? Now? There
was how much money you're going to spend

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advertising with us? Right? And
so she's got lots of money to throw

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at people. So that makes her
a legitimate candidate because she's already been bought.

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Uh, yes, exactly. I
called her as a new grade.

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Somebody came up with this. I
wish I could remember who it was.

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It was during the pandemic air fakers
quotes when they said, you know,

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we really ought to have some kind
of a law regulation that requires people like

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Fauci and people like Haley to do
kind of like the NASCAR drivers do,

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and we're the patches of their sponsors
on chests. Yeah, they'd have to

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get bigger suits. I think.
Yeah. I called her Nooki Haley because

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you never saw like Lindsay Graham,
she never saw worship And like, what

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is it about South Carolina? I
have asked that question. I've had people

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in South Carolina respond and say,
you know, it's the party. It's

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not the rank and file Republicans in
South Carolina. We don't like these people

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anymore than you do. It's the
party that's got control of it. And

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you know that's the real issue,
isn't it with our elections when everybody was

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complaining about what Trump did in terms
of locking everybody down and said, Okay,

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now you're going to vote by mail, and then he had the audacity

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to complain about the results that he
got. You know, we all knew

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that. But I said, if
you want to talk about election corruption,

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talk about ballot access, you know, because that's where the corruption begins.

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Right there. They're going to say, nobody gets on the ballot unless they

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are part of these two parties,
and then they can control very easily within

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their party who gets on the ballot. So they make sure that it's only

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going to be people who are the
establishment, and that's what we're always going

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to have as long as we've got
that duopoly running all of that stuff.

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But of course, what's changed in
all of that this time around is the

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fact that the Democrats are no longer
happy with a duopoly. They've got to

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have a monopoly, and so they
want to get the Orange man off the

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ballot. And now everybody has discovered
ballot access. What a surprise. But

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they're not talking about doing any reform
for anybody other than Trump, are they.

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No. And it's necessary to maintain
the illusion of consent. They had

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elections in the Soviet Union under Stalin
because again they had to create this fiction

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that somehow he had been approved of
by the majority of the people in the

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Soviet Union. So in number of
other countries they require people to vote.

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Why is that? Why would they
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require the illusion of consent. And
that's why, you know, we look

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at Super two and they've got for
Biden or he's got no opposition at all.

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They made sure in Florida, you
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the people who are going to run
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said no, we're only going to
have Biden, not and the political party

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has the power to do that kind
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have a Stalin esque election. And
you've got all CNN and Fox News are

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all treating this as if there was
some kind of a serious election. There's

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no debates, there's no discussion about
issues. It's simply about a personalities and

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it's about law fair and all the
rest of this stuff nothing at all about

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issues, and there's never none of
the above. Yes, you know,

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if we had that option in the
election, then we would have elections because

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then a majority of people could say, you know, both of these two

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candidates, that the major parties are
despicable and I want nothing to do with

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either of them. So none of
the above, and if seventy or even

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sixty percent of the people had checked
none of the above, okay, well

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we have to somehow figure something else
out and at least get less loathsome candidates

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out there that could perhaps at least
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of the people. But in our
democracy, we can't have that option game.

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We no. Well, there was
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ones, and that got a substantial
number of votes. And I guess when

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people saw uncommitted on there, I
guess they thought that was a description of

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all the candidates. They aren't committed
to anything except to themselves, you know,

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they don't have any commitments, no
principles, nothing, you know.

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It's we were talking a little bit
about my article on the subject of voting.

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It's such a tough nut, you
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I like to think of principal libertarian, I understand and I have great sympathy

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for the argument that voting in any
context is almost as it's kind of a

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dirty act. You know, you're
endorsing this system in a way, right,

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helping to legitimize it. But then
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we're all under duress. It's not
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It's not as though we can say, you know, I want nothing to

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do with this and have that vote
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it wrong to use the voter?
See the vote? I'll put it that

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way as a kind of a measure, you know, in the sense,

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if I vote for more freedom to
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the vote of the neighbor down the
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And I don't think that's necessarily a
bad thing. And I also don't think

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it's necessarily incongruent with continuing to advocate
for the ideal for the best. You

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know, you hope for the best, you want the best, you never

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cease advocating for the best. But
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you can to make things a little
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a libertarian apposite in this case,
I don't know. I think it's firmly

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cemented on the point, but you
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I don't know what to do.
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both is not necessarily an unreasonable thing. Well, you know, what I've

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been trying to tell people is forget
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the presidency. I say forget about
Senate and Congress, but pay very much

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attention, a great deal of attention
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level. Because you can have a
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Soros has been doing that by pouring
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pouring a lot of money into local
district attorney races. And look at how

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he has been able to affect change
in California. Destroying it of course,

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but that's his purpose. You know, Soros is about chaos and so you

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know, but he's been very effective
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you have to understand that's really genius
because you're going to have so much more

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effect at the local level. First
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maybe even just a few hundred people
who vote in some aspect of it,

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as opposed to one of hundreds of
millions of people who may vote in

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an election. And you know,
so anything that you do, whether it's

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your vote, or whether it's working
for a candidate, or whether it is

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you know, supporting a candidate financially
or something, any of that is going

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to have a lot more effect.
And as we saw in twenty twenty,

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these people have a lot more effect
on your life even than the governor or

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the president or certainly the Congress,
because they can make things a lot better

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or even a lot worse depending on
that. So I think there's a real

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strong case to be made still for
being involved in local elections. Maybe you

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know, in your local elections still
don't have a good candidate, but you've

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got a better chance of trying to
get somebody in there as a good local

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candidate for local election than you do
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the federal And yet we have all
of our attention is upside down, and

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it's that way because the national press
has pushed us to do that. The

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government has pushed us do that because
they know that that is futile. Really,

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you know, that whole boat voting
thing is futile. And you know

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when we talk about voting, going
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that was always what we did.
We always focused and spend all our

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time trying to get ballot access,
and then they wouldn't let us into the

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debates, even after we jump through
extra hoops. But they were expert at

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getting on the ballot. And so
now you've got RFK Junior who's looking at

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this and saying, well, you
know, these people, they know how

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to get on the ballot. That's
thing they can accomplish. Maybe I can

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get a spot on the ball.
What do you think about that? What

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do you think about RFK Junior running
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let's let's I guess I won't talk
about two things. First, I

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think your initial point is very well
said, and we'll put You know,

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the left understands that they have been
working at the local level and from the

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local level up in the past fifty
years. You know, the termites burrowing

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into a tree and people haven't noticed
it until boom, all of a sudden.

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It seems that the authoritarian left controls
the entire country and everything. You

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know, so certainly we can take
a page from their playbook and do the

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same thing. You know, as
you say, in your local community,

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not only are the numbers smaller,
but you know these people. You know,

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you will never know your congressman or
your senator, let alone the president.

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You know, this might be the
guy who lives down the road,

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and you might have known this guy
for the last twenty years. So you

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can approach that person and talk to
them, and there's that human connection that

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it simply doesn't exist when we're talking
about national level politics. So there's that

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point as far as our f K
Junior. You know, aspects of RFK

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Junior that I don't like, but
there are many aspects of him that I

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do like, chief of which he
seems to be a sane person. He

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seems to be a sane, intelligent
person, a person that you can have

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a conversation with. You know,
I think he's taken a number of stands

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that are very positive, particularly with
regard to the menacing influence of big corporations

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and particularly of these pharmaceutical corporations over
the government, over the country. And

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yeah, by any hooker crook,
I'd like to see him get on the

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ballot however he can do. It
would be great, obviously, and interestingly

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to me, the Democrat Party has
repudiated the scion of the Kennedy family of

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all people, you know, they
despise him, and they despise him because

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he's kind of an honest leftist,
you know, in that he actually does

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believe in free speech, He actually
does believe in the traditional core Democrat liberal

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ideas of the sixties, and that
kind of makes him a right winger by

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today's standards. Yeah, you know, when he first announced, I said,

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well, I really like what he
has had had to say about the

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COVID vaccine and some of the other
things like that, but he has made

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it clear that he and his family
are all vaccinated, and you know,

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tried to carve this out and I
think is a little bit too clever by

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half, and it kind of,
you know, eroded my trust of what

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he was actually saying by saying,
well, I just want to have you

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know, clean vaccines and say vaccines. I'm not against vaccines and all the

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rest of the stuff. I am
against vaccines, and you know, for

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all of these reasons. And I
would have thought that he would say that.

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he has always been a die hard
climate mcguffin guy. Yes, and you

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know the comment that he made,
and nobody called him on it for the

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longest time, and he wouldn't come
on my show even to talk about his

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book, which the one that he
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it was you know, he talked
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of the book, he talked about
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the foundation where they practiced. It
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goes back to Dark Winter two months
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something that was rehearsed. He talked
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I wanted to talk to him about
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booked it and then he canceled at
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I don't know. He doesn't like
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back from it. I when he
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him, you know, with all
the censorship stuff that he had, He's

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had some great things to say about
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yet he was calling for censorship when
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jail the people who were skeptics of
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walk that back, but I remember
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he walked it back, he gave
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terms of walking it back. What
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the corporation. No, you don't
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it three hots and a cot.
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and nobody pushed him on that,
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go on to say, I would
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I agree that we have these corporations
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you know, the banks, like
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or HSBC that's got this long criminal
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given a death sentence, but instead
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but now since it's happened to me, I don't support that anymore because I've

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learned from it. Nobody wants to
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who's at least kind of an operational
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to we've literally got this this this
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with teleprompter are right on the money
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sloganeering demagogue on the other side,
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a not particularly bright eight year old
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who just wants to have somebody who
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paragraph that seems intelligible, you know, finds RFK mentally appealing despite all of

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these issues that he has. And
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keep him out of the debates.
Even if he gets on with the Libertarian

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Party, and they're pretty good at
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the debates. And as I said, you know, from the very beginning,

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I said, it'll be interesting.
I said, I don't support him,

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but it'll be It would be great
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we could finally have somebody talking about
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dynamics you know, of having Eric, of having three different candidates up there,

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then you can't do this thing.
Well, this guy is evil and

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I'm you know, not as bad
as he is. And and the fact

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that he wants to talk about issues
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one of the reasons why they'll do
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the debates. They will not allow
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so long by the two parties and
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So we're not really going to have
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is an interesting, interesting idea.
You got another article anticipating government. Tell

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us a little bit about that.
What do you anticipate government doing? And

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yeah, well, you know,
I've been involved in the car business now

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for writing about the car industry and
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thirty years, so I've acquired some
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first began covering the industry back in
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car industry was still kind of oppositionally
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when the government would come out with
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of this being the original airbag mandate. When that first came out and I

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was privy to this, you know, I was involved in this at the

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time in the sense that I covered
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who were involved in it. The
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speak with the regulators, admits it, and they told them, look,

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you know, these airbags that you're
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potentially dangerous. They're going to hurt
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Here's why. And it presented them
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facts. Didn't matter. The government
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so I think the lesson that they
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go along and get along. And
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have they ceased fighting anything the regulatory
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now. And a good way to
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market right now. We hear about
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twenty twenty six, about the kill
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necessary to make that happen. Almost
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before the mandate came down from the
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the auto industry anticipated it and they
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well, you know this is going
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it. Let's just go ahead and
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people for it, and potentially we
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way or another via a system.
So now they've become even worse than the

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government in a sense, and that
they're looking around for all the ways that

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they can come up with things that
they know the regulatory apparat will like that

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they can then force you and I
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a new car. Oh yeah,
And it's very much like the ESG stuff,

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right. These people want to not
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from a financial standpoint, but they
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the government. And that's one of
the key things I think. You know,

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when we look at Reason and Cato
Institute, when they're looking at censorship.

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arguments both Florida and Texas had put
in some restrictions for social media companies about

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censorship, and the way Reason looked
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idea that, well, you can't
censor these private companies. They said,

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you know, there's this idea from
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the government can do nothing right,
just the opposite of what the left is

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about, that government can do nothing
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But what both of them miss is
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That's what you're talking about. The
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is a kind of fascism. We
have this you know, crony carapitalism that's

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running out there and esg you know, which is okay. So if we're

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in the environment and for societal governance, we're all going to corporate you cooperate,

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and we're going to run this stuff
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that's a large part of it.
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they want the concession. When they
stop selling cars and they're selling mobility,

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they want the government to give them, you know, make them one of

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the approved rental ride places. Well, libertarians who defend the corporate privilege in

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the context of free markets fascinates me
because corporations are subgovernment. Yes, they're

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really government chartered enterprises that are given
special legal privileges that individuals don't have,

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while at the same time also being
imported the same protections legally that a human

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individual would have. So it's a
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you know, somehow these corporations are
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I think it's less fascistic than Soviet
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know, the Soviet Union, you
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had, you had the big state
industries that operated in tandem with the state,

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you know, to produce whatever they
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going to be out there, whatever
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This EV thing is an excellent case
in point. There is no market for

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these things, no significant market.
There would be no evs except perhaps very

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very small niche products, you know, literally a handful, maybe a few

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hundred of them built in total,
if it were not for this Soviet cooperation

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between the regulatory state and the corporate
state, you know, the corporations that

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are in bed with this. And
I'm getting a little bit of shat and

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floyd a satisfaction out of the collapse
of the EV market, such as I'm

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enjoying these tremendously, you know,
as the whole thing comes apart, and

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I drew up parallel with what happened
with these vaccines, that beautiful vaccines that

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Trump gave us. It's following that
same trajectory. You know, they pushed

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They know, they used terms that
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They prevented people from knowing the facts, the truth. But you know,

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inevitably the truth does come out,
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to come out, after a while, it kind of takes on a sort

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of kinetic energy into the critical mass
moment where all of a sudden, it

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just kind of people get it.
This is a bad idea. I'm not

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going to have anything to do with
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has had to stop shipping the twenty
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fifty because there are so many twenty
twenty three Lightnings just sitting around on dealers

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lots that they can't get rid of
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to slash prices on it's ariyah ev. It's why all the other manufacturers are

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flailing about crying to figure out,
what are we going to do? We

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hugged the tar baby. How do
we get how do we get out of

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the tar baby? As it braes? I love to Yeah, you call

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a polestar polecat. And there's CEO
out there was taunting the marketplace, saying

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people are just afraid to change.
It's like, we don't want your product.

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Don't you get it? I mean, you know, it's like,

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you know, I'm going to tell
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you need to go out there and
buy it. And if you don't,

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you're a scaredy cat. You know. It's like, oh really. I

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got until back and forth on my
site with somebody who took issue with an

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article that I'd written about the EV's
and said something to the effect about,

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you know, you're defending obsolete technology, and you know I was able to

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dive on that with both feet.
Yeah, obsolete technology. Actually, it's

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the EV that's the obsolete technology,
and it was to clear it obsolete one

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hundred years ago by the free market
when we still had one, because one

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hundred years ago, combustion engine cars
proved themselves to be the superior alternative,

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and that's why evs stopped being made
one hundred years ago, and the only

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reason they're being made now is because
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That's right. Yeah, everybody got
all excited about that documentary. Whatever happened

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to the electric car? Well,
now you know I drove that. I

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drove the GM EV one back in
the ninth riving cars back then, so

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you know I can I can give
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It's the same thing thirty years,
you know, thirty years in the review

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it was the same thing. It
was limited range, high cost, and

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all the hassles you know of having
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Nothing has significantly improved other than well
they've managed to get more power into

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the battery somehow, and you know
that the electric motors are stronger than they

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were. So that's why they constantly
talk about how quick and you know,

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speedy these things are, and you
know the thing about that, But I

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point out to EV people, you
know, how long do you think it's

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going to be if you're you know, if this thing does succeed and they

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managed to make, you know,
make the EV the dominant vehicle on the

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road, do you think a point's
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they're going to say, now,
we can't allow these ludicrously speedy vehicles to

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be loosed on the public roads.
And then they're going to install speed limitters.

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They're already talking about that. Oh
yeah, all happened then is you'll

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be driving around in your eighty thousand
dollars EV that's limited to the same speed

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that an eighty six UGO GV was
capable of. I'm looking forward to that.

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It'll be like the little golf cart
that everybody was riding around in the

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prisoner in the village, right,
That's that's basically the mode of transportation.

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roadster out. It's going to do zero

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to sixty and one second. Uh. I don't know if my heart could

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stand that kind of acceleration. But
as what's the point of that, As

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you point out, they're not gonna
let people do that. There's speed bumps

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and all the rest of this stuff, and the camera is everywhere, speed

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cameras, speed bumps. They're not
gonna allow that. Not only what's the

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you know, what's the point of
it? After a while, it's just

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boring because it's all the same.
There's no variety here. You know,

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it's it's just okay, it's really
quick, but whoop do you do?

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You know? I put something up
on the site this morning about this new

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battery power charger that that Dodge just
revealed the replacement for them EV eight power

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charger and Challenger, and again it's
it's it's just this kind of embarrassing confession

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in that they're trying so hard to
give people what they want by giving people

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something that's different than what they want. This is it looks like a muscle

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car. They call it a muscle
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car sounds. They have some kind
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reproduces the sound of a beam engine
and it gets better. It even shakes

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and vibrates, you know, to
give you the fake impression that you've got

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an engine under it. And I'm
thinking to myself, I mean, nobody

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who wants a muscle car wants that. So what are they trying to do

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here? Yeah? Yeah, I
guess I could put a fake scoop in

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00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:33.680
it so you can have a shaker
hood and all that. One of my

408
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:36.200
readers, and I wish I had
thought it was, because it's absolutely brilliant

409
00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:37.200
I had to like sit and laugh
about it for a few minutes, and

410
00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.799
they said, you know, what
they should do is come up with the

411
00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:42.880
sound of gas pumping at these electric
fast chargers. You can listen to it

412
00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:47.400
for like the gas the gas and
air fingers quotes flowing from the forty five

413
00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.400
minutes while you wait to get a
partial charge. Well, at least it

414
00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:56.359
now really does match the name.
It's now become a charger because and you're

415
00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:00.559
going to be spend spen most of
your time at the charger with your charger

416
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.680
trying to get this thing if you
even can during the winter. I mean,

417
00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.359
that's the funny thing about it.
Really now is literally a charger after

418
00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.359
all these years. It's such a
tragic thing. You know. Then they

419
00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:12.759
have tried very hard, and it's
a good looking car in my opinion.

420
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:17.000
You know, it's it's not that
it's ugly, it's just that it's stupid.

421
00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:19.039
What's the point of this? And
you know, of course they've been

422
00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:22.079
developing it for the last couple of
years, and so in the interval the

423
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.759
truth has leaped out about EV's and
you know, now people know, you

424
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.039
know, and this is going to
in my opinion, this is this is

425
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.319
going to be it for Dodge.
I think this is going to kill them.

426
00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.440
Wow. Well, you know,
you go back and you look at

427
00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:34.920
the first ties and that he's got
this one that does zero to sixty and

428
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.480
one second he says. Now,
go back and you look at the first

429
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.279
roadster that they came out with.
And I remember when top Gear and Jeremy

430
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.279
Clarkson out there, they tried to
take it around the track, but immediately

431
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:48.680
it ran out of juice, you
know, because they were really slamming the

432
00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:53.039
thing, and you know, and
and and he just went off on him.

433
00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.240
They charged they came after him for
slander, defamation or something like that,

434
00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.319
didn't they by doy you you reminded
you some that bears on that.

435
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.880
So guess how much this charge of
the electric charger ways? Oh how much?

436
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.440
Just shive three tons before you get
in, before you get in?

437
00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:11.240
Yeah, and record today with the
way, the general way to the public

438
00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.559
that pays now. Interestingly enough,
that's why it's not particularly fast. They

439
00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.359
talk about how quick it is,
but its top speed is only one hundred

440
00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:19.319
and thirty four miles an hour,
which is you know, that's kind of

441
00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:23.839
pathetic. Last summer I got to
drive the last of the Challenger Hellcats,

442
00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.359
the Black Ghost Edition, I think
would more than two hundred miles an hour.

443
00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.880
And because it didn't work three tons
as you know, you know,

444
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.960
the faster you go, you need
more and more power to continue to push

445
00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.359
through the wind and get that thing, get that thing going. So you've

446
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.119
got to vehicle that isn't particularly fast, and if you were to drive it

447
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:42.359
even even partially that fast, you
get out on the highway and drive that

448
00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:45.440
battery powered device at eighty miles an
hour, let's say, which isn't that

449
00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.480
fast. I mean most freeway traffic
now is moving at seventy seventy five miles

450
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.839
an hour. Your range is going
to take a dump, you know,

451
00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:55.480
and then you're going to be listening
to the fake sounds of gas pumping at

452
00:27:55.480 --> 00:28:00.440
the fast charger for half a day, right that trap? Or is this

453
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:02.799
thing up? Well? You know, the weight is a big issue,

454
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.119
and of course they can't get around
the laws of thermodynamics and physics with the

455
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.720
weight, and so it affects everything. It affects your performance in terms of

456
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:15.319
anything other than straight line acceleration.
That's the key thing that I like.

457
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.519
I like to have a light car. You know, that was the big

458
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.200
appealing thing about Lotus. You know, all his slogan was to add lightness

459
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.200
and so, you know, minimize
the weight. And now they've just completely

460
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.200
lost that to the extent that this
study that was done a couple of years

461
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.039
ago. Wall Street journalists pulled it
out said, because of the weight,

462
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.720
you're going through more break generating more
brake dust and wearing your breaks down,

463
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.119
wearing your tires out, and all
this other kind of stuff, So you

464
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.240
think about those things as emissions.
Their response, their only response was well,

465
00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.119
okay, yeah, but maybe it
doesn't weigh that much more than an

466
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:51.880
suv or whatever. But they're talking
about electrifying everything, and so they're talking

467
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:56.640
about electrifying the SUVs, they're talking
about electrifying the semi trailers and everything.

468
00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.359
So everything gets more, gets heavier, and they're not even talking about what

469
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.880
happens to our roads, what happens
to parking garages that are going to have

470
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.880
to be redesigned, and all the
rest of the stuff. None of it

471
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:11.000
makes any sense except you and I
know and talked about this for years that

472
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:14.640
the end game for all of this, this mcguffin, they've got one thing

473
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.640
that they want, and that is
to essentially take away all private transportation.

474
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.200
That's the end game. Sure,
that's why all these evs get a pass

475
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.200
on so many fronts and business.
With the weight, you know, there's

476
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.119
another thing that starts with W and
it's waste, you know, all of

477
00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:33.599
that weight. Think about all the
materials that go into a three ton vehicle

478
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.799
like this, this device that Dodge
just put out, you know, and

479
00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:40.960
the raw materials that have to be
pulled out of the earth and then manufacture,

480
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.599
refined, processed, what have you
into this vehicle. I've read studies

481
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:49.319
that indicate that the typical EV consumes
twice as much raw materials and energy as

482
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:55.160
a comparable, otherwise comparable gas engine
car. It's disgusting. And they're also

483
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.640
energy hogs, you know. Think
about how much electricity it takes to rocket

484
00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:02.079
one of these things to six see
in two or three seconds or whatever it

485
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:04.160
is, and card around the three
tons. Meanwhile, you know, and

486
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.319
they have the audacity, you know, it's a preeing as being green,

487
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.319
you know, and it's just an
astounding thing. And I think it relies

488
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.960
chiefly on this orchestrated campaign of preventing
people from knowing the truth. You know,

489
00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:18.920
I tell people when I talk to
them, just random people about did

490
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.559
you know that as for example,
this charge weighs nearly three tons, you

491
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.240
know, you know there was itways
nearly as much this passenger car. As

492
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:27.160
you know, you look at the
silhouette. It's not that big of a

493
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.720
car. It's slightly bigger than a
Toyota Avalon, let's say, but it

494
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:37.039
has a curve weight that's comparable to
a current fifteen hundred Chevy Duly pickup truck.

495
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.920
It's crazy, yeah, And as
you point out, it's the energy.

496
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.359
It's the energy. However, you
you've got something that is really heavy

497
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:49.119
and you're going to hurtle it down
the road at this ludicrous speed, and

498
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:52.039
yet look at the amount of energy
that's going to be consumed. Where's that

499
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.160
going to come from? The EPA
is out there shutting down power plants,

500
00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:59.799
just like they want to shut down
people turbo charging their cars. It's absolutely

501
00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:04.240
say. But we were talking earlier
about the similarity between what was happening with

502
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:07.359
the COVID stuff and I talk about
as being a mcguffin. You know,

503
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.079
they'll sell you some kind of you
know, a maltice falcon or something right.

504
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.000
But they've got this end. The
end of it is already in mind,

505
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.079
and ultimately, when you get all
the way to the end, it's

506
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:22.079
about taking everything away from you,
locking you down with surveillance and control.

507
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:29.799
But just like it was with this
supposed pandemic, this supposed climate change thing,

508
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.839
they've got one solution that you're allowed
to have and even when people come

509
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.759
up with a different solution, they
won't allow it. And so it's kind

510
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:40.160
of interesting to see what is happening
in that regard. I think with Toyota,

511
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:44.079
because Toyota has kind of gone their
own way. They've tried now a

512
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:48.240
couple of different approaches. It's kind
of like when people offered ivermectin and zinc

513
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.920
and or HCQ and zinc or ivermectin. And it's going to be interesting to

514
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:57.200
see if these dictators are going to
allow that they've got a couple of different

515
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.119
solutions. They say, well,
why don't we do an electric car that

516
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.200
is hydrogen fuel based, or why
don't we have in the latest one is

517
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:08.119
to come out and say, well, we're going to scoop up CO two,

518
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.599
We're going to separate as the car
is moving along going to scoop up

519
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.359
the scoop up the co two.
We're going to extract that, We're going

520
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:19.559
to liquefy that and turn it into
an e fuel. I wonder if they're

521
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.480
going to let them do that.
What's going to be their rationale to say,

522
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.279
no, you can't do that that
engineering solution. Yeah, I'm very

523
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:30.200
happy the direction that Toyota has decided
to pursue because I considered Toyota to be

524
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:32.960
kind of analogus to Florida during the
height of the pandemic. Yeah, you

525
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.640
know, you break the narrative by
showing alternative that's more effective and reasonable,

526
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.599
and that helps to bring sanity back
to the table. So, you know,

527
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:46.039
they had been very suit in not
buying into this whole EV juggernaut.

528
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.720
They'd committed heavily to hybrids, which
make all kinds of sense. I have

529
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:53.119
no problem with hybrids leeting aside the
whole climate change mcguffin. There's nothing wrong

530
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:57.000
with the Toyota Prius that can get
to sixty and six seconds and gives you

531
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:00.079
close to sixty months per gallon.
That's excellent. I think that's great,

532
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:06.240
a very useful and practical car.
And so they focus on making vehicles like

533
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.000
that, and without really saying it
out loud, they're just kind of like,

534
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:10.759
Okay, we're going to continue to
make vehicles people want, and we'll

535
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:14.799
let the chips fall where they win
and let our rivals go out of business.

536
00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:16.720
I think ultimately is what's going to
happen here. Yes, yes,

537
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:20.359
yeah, it'll be interesting because you
know if they push back against that.

538
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.519
One of the things during this pandemic
and we're getting up to the four year

539
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:27.519
anniversary this thing, one of the
things was that you saw a lot of

540
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:31.400
people who had been in the medical
field and as they you know, they're

541
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:35.000
they're sold this agenda, Oh we
got a pandemic, you know, in

542
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.559
this new novel pandemic, And they
said, oh, okay, they believe

543
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.000
them. And then they said,
but why don't we do this instead,

544
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:44.599
because what you're talking about doing,
you know, this might work better.

545
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.720
That's I don't think going to work. And they immediately get shut down.

546
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:51.079
And then they realized, wait a
minute, there's something else happening here.

547
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:52.559
And then eventually they wake up to
the fact that it's not even really a

548
00:33:52.599 --> 00:34:00.720
pandemic. That might be the best
possible outcome to this. Go down to

549
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.680
the same path. You have the
engineers that Toyota as they prove to people

550
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.199
that that their real concern was never
about CO two or anything else like that,

551
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:13.599
it was always just about control because
they won't accept these other alternatives.

552
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:17.800
And these other alternatives that Toyota is
coming up with are unacceptable to them because

553
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.559
they have to have you charging something
off of their power grid as they're shutting

554
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:28.079
the power grid down exactly. And
you know, by the ways in this,

555
00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.719
I think speaks to the broader point. You know, they're not even

556
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:37.159
allowing the affordable like in city kind
of city suburban small evs that are available

557
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:39.000
in China into this country. Now
we're in a climate crisis. When you

558
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:42.760
want people to you know, by
whatever means, necessarily this is a good

559
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:46.159
basic transportation device. Lots of people
can afford an eight or nine thousand dollars

560
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.400
you know, city car. But
they won't allow that. That's fascinating to

561
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:52.119
me. Why won't they do it? You know, they talk about,

562
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.599
well they don't meet current federal shaft
guidelines. Well wait a minute, you're

563
00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:59.519
telling me there's an existential threat,
the climate is in crisis, and we're

564
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:02.920
all going to you know, unless
we reduce our carbon footprint. And yet

565
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.039
you know you're talking about well,
you know, if you drive this thing,

566
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.079
if you have an accident, if
you get hit a certainle, you

567
00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:15.119
might get hurt. That somehow takes
more priority over this supposed existential crisis.

568
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:17.719
It doesn't compute. It just does
not make any sense until you realize that,

569
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:22.519
yeah, the end goal is not
about climate change. It's about it's

570
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.440
about impoverishing all of us and controlling
all of us. That is the endpoint

571
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:30.320
of all of this. That's right. And a lot of the climate alarmists

572
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.079
who believe all of this stuff,
when you had the Paris Climate Accord,

573
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:38.079
which is a treaty, when that
was self ratified by John Kerrey, and

574
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.639
the Republicans let him get away with
that ruse, and Trump did throughout his

575
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:45.920
administration as well. But you know, when they came up with this climate,

576
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.960
this Paris climate thing, the people
who really believed in that were outraged.

577
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.840
They that, how can you allow
the two biggest countries, China and

578
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:57.920
India to continue with this? And
so it exposed to them the fact that

579
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:01.960
they're not talking about gbal climate change
due to CO two. They're not concerned

580
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:07.760
about that at all. This is
really simply about uh, redistributing wealth.

581
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.840
Uh you know, from from these
the countries where it is right now,

582
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.039
the United States, Europe and things
that too, China, because these people

583
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.239
have gotten in on the ground floor
with these uh, these these communist thugs

584
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.880
who are running their economy. There, Yeah, a good way. When

585
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.559
you hear the word carbon being bandied
abouted by these people, just think of

586
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:30.119
energy. What we want to do
is impose energy scarcity, which you know

587
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.719
is a way of calling population.
At the end of the day, you

588
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.840
know, if you can't eat,
if you can't heap warm, you know,

589
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:42.039
that is ultimately going to have health
consequences. And that's ultimately what they

590
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.519
want. That's the end game.
And it's I think it's difficult for most

591
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.719
people to imagine because it really is. It's incredibly malicious. It's unbelievably dark.

592
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.079
You know, it's kind of like
I'm sure that the people who are

593
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:55.400
lining up for the box cars,
you know, to be transported to the

594
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.639
East to be resettled a difficulty believe
that they were actually being put onto a

595
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:04.800
box car and you know, being
sent off to their doom. But the

596
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.719
situation, I think is quite comparable. Yeah, normal people always underestimate the

597
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:14.519
evil of these psychopaths, and they
also underestimate their technology that they've got as

598
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:20.719
well. You have an article we
probably have about a year and it goes

599
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:27.079
down the professional wrestling game, which
is really appropriate. Now, what tell

600
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.840
us a little bit about that?
But what do you think is going to

601
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.960
happen in the interim? Well,
it was kind of a thought of exneriment,

602
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.159
you know, I'm just kind of
trying to play out our game as

603
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.239
they put at these various scenarios.
And one certain scenario that comes to mind

604
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:44.119
in this opera buffet or WWE wrestling
match that we have between the Orange Man

605
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:47.599
and the Senile Man, is that
they actually are going to let the Orange

606
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.159
Man win and then they're going to
tank the economy and then there's going to

607
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.199
be some other awful thing that goes
on so that they can pin the tail

608
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.719
on the Orange donkey and not just
on him. Then they'll be able to

609
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:04.519
frame as look at all these awful
white nationalists, MAGA supporting people who brought

610
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:08.039
this terrible, terrible man into office, and we have got to do something

611
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:12.199
about that. And we all know
what they're going to do. About that.

612
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.000
So that's one of the things that
concerns me. Now. The only

613
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.159
silver lining to that dark cloud is
we have about a year to prepare and

614
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.920
get ready, you know, considered
a gift of time to shore things up

615
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.840
in your personal oh boy, is
to get ready for what's probably come in

616
00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:29.800
Well, I agree, Yeah.
The question is, you know, is

617
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:31.599
Biden going to get desperate enough to
win that he's going to pull something in

618
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:36.239
the election year, because and I've
said this to people, I said,

619
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:39.320
that's a possibility. But the other
part of it is is that once you

620
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:45.119
know, if Trump gets in or
if Biden gets reelected, they're definitely going

621
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.760
to pull something next year. I
absolutely believe that. And one of the

622
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.599
reasons I believe it, Eric is
because of this Fourth Turning thing in the

623
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.079
timeframe they all keep talking about twenty
thirty. Everything is twenty thirty. That's

624
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:59.079
when they want to have their new
society in And they all talk about millennials

625
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:01.960
and all of these other labels that
Strauss and Howe used when they talked about

626
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:06.679
the Fourth Turning and about generations.
But they don't want to talk about the

627
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.880
other part of it. But they
do talk about these dates and so I

628
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.000
think they're very well aware of that, and they want to exploit that,

629
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:16.079
and they're going to have to get
all of that done in the next presidential

630
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.519
term is when this is all going
to go through. Let me read you

631
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:22.639
a couple of comments here from people
Amos Pool, thank you very much for

632
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:28.239
the tippy s that I picked up
a low mileage nineteen ninety seven Mustang Cobra

633
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.760
manual transmission, fun to drive,
no computer BS. Tried the sixty seven,

634
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.039
which is a more beautiful classic,
but it was like driving a truck,

635
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:39.719
not easy smooth drive. As a
matter of fact, I had a

636
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:43.920
sixty eight Mustang, and I know
exactly what you're talking about. I made

637
00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:47.000
the mistake of changing the steering wheel, making it even smaller and putting bigger

638
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:53.480
times on it something wasn't already handling
very well and really ruined it. Mentioning

639
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:57.920
while you have eric on love his
perspective on that, what do you think

640
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.519
about that ninety seven Mustang COVID loved
the car, you know, I got

641
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.960
to drive that when it was new, and one of those striking things about

642
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.159
it to me is that, Okay, nineteen ninety seven, how long ago

643
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.039
is that? Thirty years almost right, Yeah, and how much has improved

644
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:10.920
since then? You know, I
have a twenty two year old truck and

645
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:14.639
I get it and I turned the
key. It's electronically fuel injected. It

646
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:19.880
starts immediately. Its driveability is better
than the new cars because it doesn't have

647
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:23.320
all of this additional complexity that's built
into it. So what have we gotten?

648
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:27.639
What is improved? And you know, that's a fascinating thing to me.

649
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:29.880
It used to be that there was
this linear progression. You know,

650
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:32.079
the reason that people bought new cars
every few years was because the new car

651
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.800
was better. It offered things,
you know, that were advantageous relative to

652
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:39.639
the old car. You went from
six volts to twelve volts. You went

653
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.519
from bias apply to radial tires,
transmissions without overdrive to the transmission with overdrive,

654
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:49.239
car breaks to fuel injection. All
of these things were good and beneficial.

655
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:52.719
Now people are realizing all I'm getting
with the new car is the sticker

656
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:59.079
shock. I'm getting this expensive,
overteched thing that is controlling me and parenting

657
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:02.400
me and data mind me that I
don't even potentially own me because like somebody

658
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:06.519
just shut it off remotely. So
you know, what do you get.

659
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:09.559
I mean, that's a metric that
things have have not really progressed much in

660
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.559
any meaningfully good way since the nineties. And of course that sticker shock is

661
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.320
almost like the Milgrim experiment, you
know. But you know, even before

662
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.039
that, I remember when I was
growing up as a kid, and I

663
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:23.519
wasn't paying attention to performance, but
they weren't either. It was all about

664
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:28.039
styling. And one comment here from
a Birdhouse Blue says, I can't even

665
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.239
tell them making the model of today's
cars because they all look so much alike.

666
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.599
They didn't even bother did look at
anything. And they're all the same

667
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.400
color. Essentially, they are all
some you know, shade of gray.

668
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:42.199
I think it's great, Well,
there's a white or silver or green.

669
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.320
I found that invertly. I found
out why that is because I wondered about

670
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.400
that. I thought, how comes
why is it so many people are choosing

671
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.239
to buy a vehicle that looks like
a refrigerator. And the reason why,

672
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:54.239
combing through some of the paperwork that
I get with the new vehicles that I

673
00:41:54.320 --> 00:42:00.039
test drive, is that the manufacturers
are now charging extra for the colors I

674
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.360
want to get, you know,
I want to get something other than white.

675
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.719
Silver or black, you're going to
end up paying eight hundred dollars more.

676
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:07.400
And so a lot of people are
just skipping that. As far as

677
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.079
why they all look the same,
it's because the government is designing cars now,

678
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.199
not the manufacturer. The regulations now
have set forth effectively a template.

679
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.480
People who follow masscar racing will know
what I'm talking about, Like there's literally

680
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.320
a template that the car has to
fit in order for it's qualified to be

681
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:27.519
on the track. And in fact, the regulations have done just the same

682
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.639
with car design. They have to
meet these same standards for things like bumper

683
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:35.719
impact, side impact and so on, and that necessarily winnows and funnels the

684
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.159
design down to this basic blob shape
that you're seeing everywhere, this crossover blob

685
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.079
shape. And I've got to I
occasionally put up a picture on the site

686
00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:45.679
that shows it's got to be at
least a dozen different makes and models of

687
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:50.199
crossover that all look the same,
and you just can't tell what they are

688
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.920
unless you can find the badge somewhere. That's an interesting insight because it is

689
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.360
like masscar. When I talk about
the colors of the cars, I kind

690
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.239
of joke, I said, you
know, back in the fifties, the

691
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:05.280
TVs were on black and white and
the cars were in technicolor. And now

692
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.199
it's just the opposite the way around, except that you have to just like

693
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:10.760
you had to pasture to get a
color TV in the sixties when it came

694
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.679
around, you got to pasture to
get a color car. So, yeah,

695
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:17.320
it's dreary, and again again to
put it as sark relief, if

696
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.360
you go to it, it's getting
to be spring and summer. Go to

697
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.119
a car show, you know,
an old car show, and just look

698
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:28.199
at the profusion of difference, the
wild styling that that used to be common.

699
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.239
You know, even among economy cars. I saw these quirky little things

700
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.239
that they would do with them that
you never see anymore. They're all just

701
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.159
the same. And you know,
that's just taking all the emotion and passion

702
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:38.320
out of cars, because, like
I say, it literally is an appliance.

703
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.480
Now it's like you're buying it.
Yeah, And I remember, you

704
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:45.199
know, as a kid, it
was always an interesting thing that the use

705
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.480
of chrome and the use of fins
and some of the stuff was really hideous

706
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.960
and some of it was like really
cool, and it was always so what

707
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:53.920
are they going to do? Next. I mean, and they were trying

708
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.719
all kinds of stuff, you know, and then in the you know,

709
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:01.440
late sixties and early seventies, it
became about improvements to performance and stuff like

710
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:04.199
that. But when I was a
kid, it was all about appearance.

711
00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:07.360
And as a kid you could certainly, you know, appreciate that and understand

712
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:12.360
that. But again today it's just
like you point out, it's the government

713
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.519
designing cars, and we're winding up
with is a lot of lot of is

714
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.000
just like the straight up. And
it's happened too that it's interesting to me,

715
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.360
is in the luxury car segment,
because of the regulations, they are

716
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.360
now the same extruded plastic blobs that
the inexpensive cars are used to be.

717
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.360
That if you bought a high end
car luxury part had a beautiful chrome,

718
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:35.079
you know, multiplate chrome, and
it had real metal finishes on the inside.

719
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.880
It's like that. Now I was
driving the Antivity and I looked at

720
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.280
it. I happened to be near
a New land Rover, and adjacent to

721
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.519
the New land Rover was a Honda
CRV. I mean, not much difference

722
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:47.400
between the two. They both had
these they called them fascias. In these

723
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.679
plastic, huge bulbous kind of oprah
winfree looking rear end treatments and the same

724
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.239
on the front, plastic everywhere.
You know, you get inside the vehicle,

725
00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.920
even a six figure car like you
know, Mercedes. You get into

726
00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:01.440
a six figure Mercedes and what do
you see? You see it? Cheap

727
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:06.039
made in China, LCD touch screen, you know, and six or seven

728
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:08.480
years ago. Yeah, that was
kind of provocative because nobody else had that

729
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:12.960
back then. Now everybody has it. You get into a twenty thousand dollars

730
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.199
Hyundai r Kia and it too has
a big touch screen. So what are

731
00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:19.840
you doing for your you know,
you're getting for one hundred thousand dollars,

732
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.840
you're getting a big plastic three pointed
star in your grill. Yeah, that's

733
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.320
right. And I really hate those
touchscreens because you know, it takes your

734
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.320
eye off there. All these people
say, well, it's distracted driving.

735
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:31.519
We're going to give you a fine
if you're using a cell phone. It's

736
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:35.760
like, there's nothing more distracting than
trying to use a touch screen as you're

737
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.880
bumping around and trying to drive and
you got to stare at this thing.

738
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.559
It's just it's the worst thing because
you know, if you've got a you

739
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.440
know, the old style cars,
you had something that was tactile. You

740
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:47.239
know, once you located where that
knob was, you could twist it while

741
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:52.239
you're paying attention to your driving.
It is a really dangerous and distracting idea,

742
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.239
and yet the government is pretty much
mandating that while it is punishing people

743
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:00.360
for doing the same thing with their
phone. Well, and the reason doing

744
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:01.760
that is because again, the long
term agenda is for you to not be

745
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:05.599
a driver, for you to be
a passenger, and then it won't matter.

746
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.599
And then you know, you've got
to keep the passenger busy. Right,

747
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:08.920
So now he's got the touch screen
to play with, you know,

748
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.400
while he's being transported from me to
be assuming of course he has a good

749
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:16.880
social credit scorre. You've got an
article talking about good social credit score.

750
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:21.480
You got an article bought life,
or you you chime in on what happened

751
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:23.079
with Jem and I this last week. Give us your take on that.

752
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:27.880
Well, it was interesting and I
don't know whether you've experienced this, but

753
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.960
I've spoken with a number of other
people who who write and have had,

754
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.039
for want of a better order,
bought attack. You write an article that

755
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.079
challenges a narrative, whatever it might
be, whether it has to do with

756
00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:45.239
the vaccines or the electric cars,
or Orange Man or whatever. And in

757
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.320
your comments section of your website you'll
get these They have a weird cadence,

758
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:53.360
a strange mannerism, an odd way
of putting things that just kind of recites

759
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:57.679
narrative talking points. And it's I'm
convinced it's a bot. I mean,

760
00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.519
I may be getting a paranoid,
but I don't believe. I think that

761
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:04.239
these are these are ais that are
sent out there kind of like in the

762
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.639
new movie and those little the little
things would be out there spinning around and

763
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.960
trying to get at and I think, no discord, you know, and

764
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.400
they're trying to break up the conversation
on the facts to present these these these

765
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:20.239
narrative points to view. You can
still identify them. I think just by

766
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:24.159
the again, the awkwardisms and the
incongruities that you'll see that a normal human

767
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.880
being wouldn't speak that way at least
I don't think so. Yeah. And

768
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.119
of course, you know when you
look at Jim and I and I talked

769
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:36.920
about this last week, Matt Taibi
said, as everybody was talking about this

770
00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:39.800
ridiculous, you know, cultural misappropriation. I guess we could call it,

771
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:45.800
you know when they say show me
an American revolutionary soldier or somebody from seventeenth

772
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.280
century Scotland and it would make them
black or Asian or whatever. So he

773
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.360
said, he said, I looked
at the text thing and he and he

774
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.119
asked it to tell him something you
know about about Trump or about Biden.

775
00:47:58.119 --> 00:47:59.679
It wouldn't talk about them. So
I said, you know, tell me

776
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.920
something about me, you know about
Matt Tyve. And so it came and

777
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.519
made up all this stuff and it
was all really negative and said, oh,

778
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:12.440
yeah, he's he's had a lot
of complaints about his accuracy, and

779
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:19.320
it cited a lot of made up
articles and then started cross referencing these made

780
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.760
up articles. I mean, it
was literally automated defamation. And I've seen

781
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:29.159
this from somebody else early on,
which chat gpt from open AI. It

782
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:34.679
was a politician who was running,
and open AI came back and made up

783
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.079
a bunch of defamatory stuff about him
as well. And their excuse of all

784
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.559
this stuff as well, it's just
in his early stages. And you agreed

785
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:45.000
when you started to use this that
it might have some issues and everything,

786
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.239
so we can say whatever we want
to about you. We can make up

787
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.199
all kinds of detailed stuff. And
that's the key thing about it. It's

788
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.480
so detailed now that and it's getting
better at all this stuff. So if

789
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.280
it is pots out there, and
if they are putting stuff out like that,

790
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:04.599
it's detailed enough so that it is
believable. And people will look at

791
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:08.320
this and if they see it as
a comment on a website, but even

792
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:12.679
if they see it and know that
it's coming from one of these AI chat

793
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:16.000
programs that are prone to hallucinating,
they're going to be inclined to believe it

794
00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:19.960
because a it's like a computer print
out. It's like these computer models that

795
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.840
they have about climate change or about
the pandemic or whatever. Everybody is literally

796
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:28.639
this is the scary thing. Is
literally what Oral described in nineteen eighty four

797
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:30.679
when the past was rewritten. You
know, everything that's online they have.

798
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:36.039
If they managed to control everything that's
online, they could literally erase the past

799
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:37.400
and create a new past. And
so I think the lesson here, and

800
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.039
I've been doing this myself for many
years. It's imperative that we have physical,

801
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.320
hard copy proof of the history of
the past, including things like books

802
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:51.239
are now being rewritten so that we
can show what they actually did say as

803
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:53.440
opposed to what they're telling us they
say. Now, yes, oh absolutely,

804
00:49:53.519 --> 00:49:55.320
yeah, you got to keep that
as a record. As a matter

805
00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:01.480
of fact. You know, that's
you know, when we look at manuals

806
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:07.880
that we're going to have in order
to you know, be able to survive

807
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.719
when things get really bad. Civil
Defense Manual dot com. He only puts

808
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:14.559
it out in paper and everything.
And by the way, we've got some

809
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:16.760
other comments here Narrow Away, Narrowgate
Ministry is good to see you again,

810
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:21.559
he says. What I find remarkable
is the ev bikes are catching fire as

811
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:23.719
well. People aren't being told about
it. In New York City fire Department

812
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.960
has had three times of fire calls
already this year then last because of ev

813
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bike fires. Yeah. I talked
about that a couple of days ago.

814
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Just in a couple of months,
they have surpassed what they used to have

815
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in a year. People are dying
business, you know. They tremendous number

816
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of fires, and it's all of
these different battery things. As they scale

817
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the thing up, it gets even
worse. They got two thousand of these

818
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e buses, these electric buses in
the UK, they're like a ticking going

819
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They're going from four hundred to eight
hundred volt architecture. Now, if you

820
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can imagine the potential fire rust is
involved in that, and what about if

821
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it saves even well the time,
you know, and apparently again another example,

822
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:05.760
it doesn't seem to matter in this
case. You know, the people

823
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are being killed by these things.
Yeah, that's right. Uh, yes,

824
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.639
the staring girl says, right,
Eric, I have a gray Honda

825
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:20.199
CRV because I would have had to
go up to the next level above ex

826
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if I bought a blue one.
That's what they do with the color stuff.

827
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:28.559
My son says, So, I
guess with these chargers they can make

828
00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.639
the noise, they can make it
shake. The only thing missing now is

829
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:35.960
they need to have a gasoline flavored
vape spewing out the back. You know,

830
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.440
maybe while you're charging your charger,
they can give you the gasoline smell.

831
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:43.559
Do you remember the smallophone that they'll
probably come up with that too,

832
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.880
exactly Well, the probably will have
the canned air, you know, the

833
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.639
Perry air that you had in spaceballs, that they had you could open that.

834
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.559
I find this also incredibly depressing.
You know, it was interesting back

835
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.239
in when was it like ninety nine
or ninety eight, whenever the original Matrix

836
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:01.320
came out, and you saw all
these people who were sort of like a

837
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:06.360
fetus embedded in a pod, you
know, and they were fed artificial reality

838
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:08.719
and in their minds they thought they
were living their lives, and you know,

839
00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.719
you thought, wow, that's a
really horrific concept and it is becoming

840
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:16.159
the reality is this is a u
all Noah Harari vision for our future?

841
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:20.440
Oh yeah? Or they what was
at Wally where they had all the fat

842
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:24.199
people and you know, being unlike
the cruise ship space thing? Was that

843
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:28.039
Wally? And I think it was
Wally? Yeah, yeah, I look

844
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.199
at that and it's like, wow, these they really predicted us pretty well.

845
00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:32.239
They kind of like the Simpsons.
They know what the future is going

846
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:37.360
to be like and they put it
in their cartoons. So yeah, it's

847
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:39.599
a couple of other things here before
we run out of time here. O

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En sixty one, thank you very
much for a tip and the compliment.

849
00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:47.360
I appreciate that. And Owen sixty
one also said, I found the donation

850
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key on Rumble, So that's good. Folks. They take a look and

851
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if you need any help, it
can show you where that is and we

852
00:52:55.360 --> 00:53:02.199
would appreciate that. So you've also
you you've talked about manual transmissions. What

853
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:06.920
is the state of manual transmissions now
and why do they matter? And I

854
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:08.239
think that they do. But what
is a state of it right now?

855
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:12.760
Well, the state of it is
that they are making something of a comeback

856
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:16.360
in some segments. Toyota has brought
out once again Toyota a number of new

857
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:22.159
models, including the Corolla GR I
think it is with a manual transmission,

858
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:25.440
and I think BMW is going to
offer the manual Indo Z four, which

859
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:31.039
had previously been automatic only. But
the overall trend is for automatic only,

860
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:35.360
and I think it's pernicious. It's
not just because I'm an enthusiast and I

861
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:40.960
enjoy driving cars with manual transmissions.
I believe it's really important that people learn

862
00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:45.360
to drive and have a sense of
themselves in relation to the vehicle. And

863
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.880
if I had a kid and I
was teaching that kid how to drive,

864
00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:52.239
I would teach the kid how to
drive on a manual car because it focuses

865
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.760
them that's right, the driving,
and that develops a habit and a skill

866
00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:59.719
set that takes you through life and
makes you a better driver going down the

867
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.840
road, even if you don't drive
a manual car going forward. Yeah,

868
00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:07.800
but you know, the reason that
the automatics are becoming so dominant is simply

869
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:09.920
because they can be programmed. You
know, once again back to the government.

870
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.239
You can't program a manual transmission.
You can program an automatic and electronically

871
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:20.800
controlled automatic transmission. And that matters
because all these manufacturers have to comply with

872
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:23.840
these tests that the government sets forth. So they set them up to shift

873
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:29.239
a certain way and at a certain
time to optimize things like fuel economy and

874
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:32.400
to reduce emissions. And there you
go, and that's why automatics have become

875
00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:37.960
ubiquitous now all but yeah, it's
a way of cheating on the test,

876
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:39.079
except oh, they don't like it
when you cheat on them. All they

877
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:43.559
do in some cases not they if
you go in the direction they wanted.

878
00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:47.639
Just had a listener who was talking
about that the other day, did the

879
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:51.679
same thing with their kid as you're
just talking about, same thing I did

880
00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.159
with my child, And I said, you know, I'll help you if

881
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:58.719
you get a manual transmission, And
he said, you want them to drive

882
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:00.599
that because it does focus the more
and he says, of course, they

883
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:06.280
also can't have the phone in their
hand while they do this manual transition,

884
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.679
so it's got a lot of real
benefits there. But I always always love

885
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:15.679
the manual personally because it is such
a more engaging process. And I find

886
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:19.679
that I don't I'm not I'm personally
don't believe I'm as good and as attentive

887
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:24.199
a driver when I am driving an
automatic as I am when I'm driving a

888
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:28.119
manual, because you don't have to
be that's right, you know, when

889
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:30.000
you have, of course, you
kind of have to look down the road

890
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:32.679
and anticipate, you know, the
changing in traffic conditions and how you're going

891
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:36.440
to respond to that. In your
mind, the gears are turning, you

892
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:38.039
know, and well you're deciding which
gear are going to be in, what

893
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:40.000
gear you're going to be in next, and so on. Worse with you

894
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:44.519
and I'm automatic, you're just goin
to zone out and listen to Well,

895
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:47.880
we're all going to have to get
manual control of our government and our society.

896
00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:51.159
We're going to have to get it
in gear pretty soon because time is

897
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:53.719
running out. Thank you so much
for joining us, Eric Peters at Eric

898
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:58.239
Petersauto dot com. Thank you very
much, Thank you, David, Thank

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you. Have good day. The
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900
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902
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:32.360
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904
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have in common. That is what
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905
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