WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.080 There is always great to have Eric on. We've been 2 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:13.720 talking about Elon Musk and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 3 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.800 and all these other scams for the longest time, and 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:20.440 of courses site ep autos dot com a great site 5 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:23.839 for all things about liberty and mobility because you can't 6 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:26.519 have one without the other, actually, quite frankly, and they're 7 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.800 trying to restrict both of those things free speeches that 8 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.759 they really have. Everybody on both sides are really targeting 9 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.439 free speech. It's truly amazing. But joining us now is Zarak. 10 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:38.159 Peter's good to have you Eric, Thanks for joining us. 11 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:38.399 Thank you. 12 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:40.880 David is exasperating, isn't it to have to just constantly 13 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:42.359 construct the language. 14 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:43.479 I was listening to you. 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:45.439 A little bit before about while we were waiting to 16 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:47.280 go on, and you were talking about this business with 17 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.640 the strike and the unions, and it occurred to me 18 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:51.560 that there's sort of a rough analogy there between the 19 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.039 way we're represented by senators and congressman. 20 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:55.320 Right. 21 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.000 I mean, you don't have the option to say no, 22 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.439 and that based. 23 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.079 An oxymoron, because you know, if you don't have the 24 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.040 proxy power to tell your so called representative do this 25 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.280 and only this and do not do that. And by 26 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:09.079 the way, I only want you to do it. If 27 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:13.000 I say okay, then he's not representing you. He's presuming 28 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.000 to represent you. And that's a distinction and that I 29 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:16.920 think is important to me. 30 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.120 Oh yeah, it's very much like politics. You know. I 31 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.200 didn't have any He never asked me, are you gonna 32 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:24.159 hate down there? You know, you want to change any 33 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.040 of this stuff. I hated the way that they had 34 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.480 this stuff structured. And it wasn't even just the wage levels. 35 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.159 It was also, you know, the ways that they would 36 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.239 have they would mandate how the fees are supposed to 37 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:37.640 be split up within the band, and that's one of 38 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.120 the ways that they would get the band leader who 39 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:43.760 actually owned the band to sign up with the union 40 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.760 because he'd get a double share, you know, and all 41 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.680 of a sudden kinds so they give these little incentives 42 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.879 to people to work with them, to join with them, 43 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.680 and then you either, you know, you either do that 44 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.079 or you can't have a job. And so yeah, it 45 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.280 is a very rigged process that we see with all 46 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:57.799 that stuff. 47 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.079 It's like I'm off youa you know, and and I've 48 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.480 been covering this stuff for thirty years in the car industry. 49 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.000 It's the same thing. I don't necessarily have an issue 50 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.439 with unions per se, provided that they are voluntary. If 51 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.319 you wish to join a union, that's fine, that's your prerogative. 52 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.879 You should certainly have that right. But there's something just 53 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.360 surreal almost about like you said, if you want to 54 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:18.159 have this job, you. 55 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:19.319 Must join this union. 56 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.520 You must hand over money to these people who then 57 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.639 presume to be your representative somehow. I mean, it's doubly 58 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:30.199 obnoxious because they are presuming to represent you and then 59 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.479 they're taking money out of your pocket, and they're using 60 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.360 threats of extortion that if you don't do this, we're 61 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.080 going to you know, we're going to just kick. 62 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:37.960 You out of here, and you're not going to have 63 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:38.360 a job. 64 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.159 That's right. Yeah, we have some right to work states 65 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:44.000 where you are not required to they can't require you 66 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.960 to join the union to have a job. But then 67 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.960 we have some states where that's not there. And in 68 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.159 the situation that I was in in the music union, 69 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:54.159 you were really required to do it because if they 70 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:58.159 didn't hire all union people, then that restaurant or whatever, 71 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.120 that club would get blackballed by the union, and they 72 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.080 couldn't get anyway. So it's this this coersive collectivist thing, 73 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.039 you know, and every level, the way they would twist 74 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.360 people's arms. I really really did hate it. 75 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:13.639 When I started my career back in the print days, 76 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.360 the the people who were in the composing room, which 77 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.919 was the place for back in the day, they would 78 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.479 physically put the pages of the newspaper together. They would 79 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:25.240 the machine would spit out, you're familiar with that. And 80 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:27.120 one time I happened to be down there and I 81 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.800 happened to glance at something on the editorial page of 82 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.479 the dummy that for the morning's paper, and I noticed 83 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.080 that there was something missing, that somehow a sentence had 84 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.400 been cut out. So on my own I went ahead 85 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.639 and spat out the machine a new piece of thing, 86 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:41.439 and I put it in and there was practically a 87 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.759 tactical nuclear explosion that I you know, who was supposed 88 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.960 to be upstairs and the editorial offices had dared to 89 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.800 trespass upon the you know, the fiefdoms of these union people. 90 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.439 I mean, it was a big deal. Oh it was 91 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.599 a huge, big deal. And said, hey, okay, great, thank 92 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:56.800 you for fixing that for us. 93 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.840 Oh yeah, And they do that with conventions still to this. 94 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:01.960 You know, people had come in and they would have 95 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.919 booths to set up. And I've been involved on both 96 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.159 sides of that, both as an attendee of the conventions 97 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.039 and somebody's setting up. You don't do certain things. You 98 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.719 got to wait for the particular union representative to come 99 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.280 there and give you an extension court and you better 100 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.000 not do anything else without calling one of these electrical 101 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:19.160 union representatives. 102 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.120 It weren't so tragic because we're all paying for this. 103 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.399 One of the reasons why the cost that everything is 104 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.199 going through the roof is because you've thought all of 105 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.319 this dead weight and all of this inertia and bureaucracy 106 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.680 that has to be overcome before anything can get done. 107 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.519 Yeah, that's right, Well, it absolutely is crazy. I sent 108 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.600 you this clip of a of a Tesla charging station 109 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.120 that has submerged. They got all these Tesla chargers and 110 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:47.040 they're standing in water, and the caption says, you thought 111 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.240 smoking it the gas pump was risky? You want to go, boy. 112 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.800 We can attack this from so many different angles. One 113 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:56.120 of them is that when those when there's a danger 114 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.879 of a flood, they will shut off the high voltage 115 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.560 electricity to things like the electric chargers because of the 116 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.519 obvious danger that that presents. So now you've got the 117 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.560 problem of well, I've gotten my electric vehicle, how am 118 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.600 I going to get out of the path of the 119 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.720 hurricane before, you know, before. 120 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:10.079 I get killed? 121 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.240 And you can't because they've shut the current off to it. 122 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.720 Oh and if that hasn't happened yet, So you're sitting 123 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.839 there with waiting while the water is rising, rising, rising, 124 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:19.720 you know. And if you wait there too long, then 125 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.639 then your electric car is going to go up and smoke. 126 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:24.360 I just posted an article about it. For all videos 127 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.199 coming out of the areas that were affected by the 128 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.199 aftermath of the hurricane that show electric cars erupting in flames, 129 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.120 there's one in Florida. There's another one that I've got 130 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.160 in the article on the site. And the reason for 131 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.519 that I thought of a really clever at least I 132 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:40.680 thought it was a way to understand this. Do you remember 133 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.120 the original Star Wars where Little destroys the Death Star 134 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.639 by exploiting the Death Star's weakness. There's a ventilation duck 135 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.879 that he fires in the missile and it goes into 136 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.959 the ventilation duck and it goes to the very core of 137 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.279 the dust Star and blows it up. These are kind 138 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:57.079 of like that. They have a vent for that battery 139 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.639 and if the water new fence and gets in there, 140 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.519 then boom, there goes to the death star. 141 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.439 The last thing you hear is are two D two 142 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:13.279 goo and then pop. Yeah, it is it's funny when 143 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:16.720 we look at this stuff, but it absolutely is crazy 144 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.000 and uh and yet you know when you look at this, 145 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.439 one of the things that you talk about all the 146 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.399 time is electric power windows, and it made me think 147 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.120 about this. I've got a friend who's got a Tesla. 148 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.279 He loves it. I've driven the Tesla. I enjoyed driving it. 149 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.639 I wouldn't want to own one because the charging issues, 150 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.560 expense issues and things like that, but I really did 151 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.319 enjoy driving. It was a very different experience because you know, 152 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.800 with a m Mark, with a Miata, it's a momentum car, right, 153 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.759 you don't have a whole lot of horsepower, so you 154 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.839 want to keep that momentum through the curves and all 155 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.680 the rest of the stuff. Right. But with that car, 156 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:51.839 you know, it's just like you step on the gas. 157 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.319 It's like it's like when you would run the electric 158 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:57.600 slot cars. When I was a kid, right, you move 159 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.519 the lever and it's you know, and then when you 160 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.959 pull the level immediately stops. And that's the way this 161 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:03.879 thing is. So it's really kind of a strange thing. 162 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.600 But he got stuck in his Tesla because he couldn't 163 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.000 get the doors to open because everything is under control, 164 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.759 and he was stuck in this car and had to 165 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.120 get had to call Tesla and get them to sign 166 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.600 into his car whatever and fix his car remotely so 167 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.439 he could get out of it. But you know, it's 168 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:24.680 not even that's a worst case scenario. We're talking about 169 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.560 a flood or something like that. Can you imagine, you know, 170 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.279 it gets everything is under software control, all of a sudden, 171 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:31.199 you got some water there. Now the computer's not working, 172 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.480 you can't get out of the door, and then it's 173 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.040 and then even in other cars, not even in a 174 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.759 Tesla or an EV. You've got a situation where now 175 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.480 almost all cars have electric windows. And I think about 176 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.399 that with a fly. Years ago, we used to do 177 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.720 product videos for a company that did promotional products, and 178 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:51.800 it was a very big thing, especially in Europe and Germany. 179 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.600 People would want to have these little things. They would 180 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.439 be like maybe a you know, a bottle opener and 181 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.959 a thing to smash your window, or a flashlight and 182 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:02.720 the thing to smash your window. But it was always 183 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.720 it always had this, you know, pointed metal tip so 184 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.560 you could use it to break the window and get 185 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.639 out in case your car went into water. Because everybody 186 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.720 had electric windows. And it really is crazy when we 187 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.480 make ourselves with the complexity we put ourselves at the 188 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:21.680 mercy of these types of things. You know, I was 189 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.079 It wasn't until my fifth car that I had electric windows. 190 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.759 They were all manual cranks. But now it's standard. Even 191 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:31.879 the cheap cars got electric windows well. 192 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.679 And they've compounded the problem on Tesla. And it's not 193 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.000 just Tesla, some other manufacturers are doing this too. They 194 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:39.759 are laminating the side glass. 195 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:40.440 Now. 196 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.000 You know, we shield glasses laminated because you don't want 197 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.480 the glass to shatter in the event that you have 198 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.120 in accident. The problem is needing side glasses. You can't 199 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.480 break it, you know, now your car. That poor woman 200 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:55.480 what was she use? Sister in law of the Secretary 201 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.840 of Transportation, somebody I remember who it chose, I think 202 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.879 what her name was. This happened a few months ago. 203 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:02.799 She was leading a party. I guess in her tesla, 204 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.240 and she inadvertently backed up into a pond to remember this. 205 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:06.320 She ended up there. 206 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.440 Browning and it was so emotion She would have had 207 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.320 plenty of time to get out of the car ordinarily, 208 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.559 but she couldn't because aid of the windows wouldn't go 209 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.120 down and apparently the side glasses land made so the 210 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:17.399 people who were trying to get her out of there 211 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.759 couldn't smash the glass, and she ended up browning and dying. 212 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.639 Wow, because the door is under software control, that type 213 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.240 of thing. It truly is amazing when we see this 214 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.679 and again as part of the cost that we have 215 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:36.080 to pay because everybody's got the electric windows. It's absolutely insane. 216 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.440 You said there. 217 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.039 I'm sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to make because 218 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.919 I do think it's important. There is a subtle cost 219 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.159 that we're all paying in the form of increased insurance 220 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:46.919 costs for all of this stuff. 221 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:47.039 You know. 222 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.279 And I don't have an issue with somebody who has 223 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.639 the money and wants to go out and buy a 224 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:54.159 fifty thousand or seventy thousand dollars vehicle that has all 225 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.840 of these electronics and power accessories and so on, but 226 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:59.480 they ought to pay the full cost for covering that. 227 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.480 I don't have a vehicle like that, and I don't 228 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.120 see why I ought to help, as they say, shoulder 229 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:04.720 the cost of that. 230 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:05.519 But yet we are. 231 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.919 We're also paying for the costs incurred by all of 232 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.200 these evs and the fires that are happening when an 233 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.399 eed burns down in a garage and takes the house 234 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:13.240 out along with it. 235 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:14.240 Now, not only do. 236 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.639 You have to replace a fifty or sixty thousand dollars 237 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:18.879 electric car, you have to replace a half a million 238 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.799 dollars worth of property damage on top of that. 239 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:24.799 Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely. And when we talk about insurance 240 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.519 companies looking for excuses to raise the rates and everything 241 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.919 the stuff that's I reported on it, but it was 242 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.000 a far more extensive video talking about the way that 243 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:40.320 the car manufacturers have a spot on us in so 244 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:44.159 many different ways, and how they're constantly sending reports to 245 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:46.799 the insurance companies. People are like, how come my insurance 246 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.480 rates doubled and anything. They got to the bottom of it, 247 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.600 and they found that there was this dossier that was 248 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.519 compiled and sent to the insurance company about all this stuff. 249 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.879 And of course the automobile companies are making a lot 250 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:00.960 of money by collecting the data and then selling it 251 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.519 to the insurance companies, and insurance companies can then raise 252 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.519 your rates for any kind of arbitrary thing. Well you 253 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.879 you stop too quickly. Well maybe I stopped quickly because 254 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.039 the car in front of me stopped quickly. You know. 255 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:16.840 It's they don't even they can't even validate the reason 256 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:18.759 for doing this, but they just have to have a pretense. 257 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.360 And so, yeah, the insurance costs are going through the roof. 258 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:25.679 The cars are actually surveillance devices. Now, they're not just 259 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:27.919 as you and I've been talking about for a long time. 260 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.039 It's like a giant smartphone. It's got all these bells 261 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.919 and whistles and gadgets on it and everything. But just 262 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.879 like a smartphone, it's constantly surveilling and reporting on you. 263 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:44.639 And that that also is incredibly disgusting what these people are. 264 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.399 I look at another way too, it's a metric of 265 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:51.039 the decline of civilization. I mean in the sense of civility, 266 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.600 and that there's something really barbarous about your privacy being 267 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.960 invaded in the effrontery and the arrogance of the car 268 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.320 companies that will do that to you, you know, and 269 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:03.440 they do it, and they do it, you know, in 270 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.039 a way that is really greasy, and they don't tell 271 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:08.960 you there's no informed consent. They don't say, hey, by 272 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:12.399 the way, your cars equipped with cameras and microphones, would 273 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.039 you mind, would it be okay with you? You know, 274 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.080 if we if we collected this data because it might 275 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.039 be helpful to us and to you, YadA, YadA, YadA. 276 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:20.159 You don't have that opportunity. 277 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:21.120 They just do it. 278 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.720 I mean, in my mind, no different than somebody just 279 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.039 marching into your house is having to look around, yeah, 280 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.039 you know, just because they can or. 281 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.440 They conceal it. And that's massive terms of service type 282 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.440 of thing, right and change it. You know, by the way, 283 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.440 you didn't notice this, but you clicked okay on this. 284 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:41.039 You've got an article talking about hybrids. Don't buy a hybrid, 285 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.559 you said, And this is the thing that people are 286 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.960 kind of you know, the car companies are really pushing 287 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.799 this because nobody wants to buy a car that they 288 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.120 have to that they only have the option of charging. 289 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.399 It takes a long time, it's expensive, but you know, 290 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:57.000 they're they're moving towards the hybrids because it's like, well, 291 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.120 all right, it's a little bit less. But that's not 292 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.120 going to satisfy the regulators, and only you can down 293 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.480 the road just a little bit, because people will not 294 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:09.200 attack this lie at its foundation, which is the CO 295 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.879 two stuff. Because of that, everybody is trying to ignore 296 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.960 the elephant in the room, the massive lie, and they're 297 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:17.879 trying to comply with it one way or the other 298 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.559 without really rocking the boat. But talk about why you 299 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.279 say hybrids are not a great thing for people. 300 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.200 Well, let's start with what you just said in that essentially, 301 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.120 they're not addressing the fundamental issue. They're hoping that they 302 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.639 can comply their way out of this, like the people 303 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.000 who continue to wear the face masks during the pandemic, 304 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:37.360 which just imply our way out of this. 305 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:37.720 Right. 306 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.120 No, they won't because eventually it's not going to be 307 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.720 good enough, and they'll come up with yet another reason 308 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.720 to outlaw the hybrids. Hybrids and I don't have an 309 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.679 issue with them as such, but they are fundamentally compliance fars. 310 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:49.960 What do I mean by that, Well, they are the 311 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.879 only realistic way to achieve high gas mileage at this 312 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:56.600 point because the government has issued regulations that have increased 313 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.519 the weight of cars to such a degree that it's 314 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.600 almost unbelievable. Compact cars now were typically close to three 315 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:06.519 thousand pounds, and that's the reason why they get, relatively speaking, 316 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.440 pretty poor gas mileage. Most of them get maybe thirty five, 317 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.600 maybe forty miles per gallon on the highway. Maybe that's 318 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.519 pretty awful when you reflect and go back forty years 319 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.440 and find that cars were doing better than that forty 320 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.279 years ago. And the reason they were doing better than 321 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.879 that without all the technology that we have today's because 322 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.120 they were light. Simple. You know, it's just that simple. 323 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:29.799 So hybrids are a way to advertise higher gas knowledge. 324 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:31.840 But of course you're paying for that when you buy 325 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.320 the hybrid. You know, a Toyota Prius starts around twenty 326 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.559 eight thousand bucks, so great, you know, it gets fifty 327 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.720 six miles for gallon, but you're paying ten thousand dollars more, 328 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.399 roughly than you would have to pay for, let's say 329 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.879 an entry level economy car if it were light. And 330 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:49.000 if that entry level economy car got fifty or sixty 331 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.320 miles per gallon, you just saved ten thousand dollars and 332 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:53.720 a lot of money down the road and gas too. 333 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.000 So and the other thing that I get into in 334 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.960 the article is the sort of subtle and hit more 335 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.919 hidden cost in that, just like an electric car, eventually 336 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.480 it will take longer, but eventually the battery in the 337 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.279 electric car is going to wear out, and it's a 338 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:08.960 battery in the hybrid is going to wear out, and 339 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.320 eventually you will have to replace it if you keep 340 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.240 the car beyond the point when that battery is no 341 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.679 longer serviceable, and you're looking at potentially two thousand dollars 342 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.679 for the battery plus the cost of labor. So there 343 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.919 it goes with a resaved in gas right there too. No, 344 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.559 it's just all of this artificiality, all of these these 345 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.960 solutions to problems that are created by government. It's like 346 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.559 that old saw about the guy who breaks your legs 347 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:34.320 and then gives you some crutches so that you can 348 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:35.480 hobble down the road a little bit. 349 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.519 And I think probably a good analogy for the hybrids 350 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.440 is hybrids are like preferred pronouns. 351 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:44.360 Yes, that's a really good rid. 352 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.399 If you play along with it, they're only going to 353 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.399 come up with something else. So just stop it right 354 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.799 now and call it for what it is. It's insanity, 355 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.080 it's lunacy. I'm not playing along with this game. I'm 356 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.960 not playing your preferred hybrid. Your preferred hybrids are your 357 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.440 preferred pronouns either. I love what you put in your 358 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:03.080 article that those who rationalize this loss of time or 359 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.559 range or pick are like the Parsons, the character in 360 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.639 the in Orwell's nineteen eighty four who eagerly tout how 361 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:13.000 Big Brother has increased the chocolate ration while everybody knows 362 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.320 that has actually been reduced. 363 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:18.759 Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it is a 364 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:20.840 form of derangement, you know, I have to deal with 365 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.600 this on an almost the early basis. The evy apologists 366 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.360 say things like, oh, well, I don't have to wait 367 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.799 because I'm at home doing other things all my electric 368 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:30.879 car charges. Well, that's like saying, you know, I've got 369 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:32.879 I've got a contractor. He said he's going to come 370 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.440 sometime between twelve and six today. But I guess I'll 371 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.320 do something else, you know, around the house while I'm 372 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:38.360 waiting for the sky to show. 373 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.320 They're still waiting. 374 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:41.399 I mean, the fact that you're doing something else while 375 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.480 you wait doesn't change the fact that you're waiting. When 376 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.039 you go to the dentist and you're sitting in the 377 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:47.919 waiting room, reading the magazine you're waiting for the dentists. 378 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:48.919 Yeah. 379 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:49.559 Yeah. 380 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.879 When we look at this and where this is all going, 381 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.600 you and I have talked about for the longest time. 382 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:58.759 They're going to get everybody loaded up with evs and 383 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.039 then they're going to shut down power grid. Well, that's 384 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.360 already happening. We've talked about that for years, and now 385 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.039 they're rolling it out. Because now the EPA is setting 386 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.119 its sites on the power companies that can be relied, 387 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:11.839 on the power companies that are cheap, we'll be able 388 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.480 to have some unreliable power that is going to be 389 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.720 four to ten times more expensive than what we're paying 390 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.119 each month. You got one hundred and fifty dollars bill, 391 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.319 how about a fifteen hundred dollars a month bill, Because 392 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.079 that's what you're going to get if we keep going 393 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:30.000 down this road of this renewable grift, and that's what 394 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.799 it is, is nothing other than a grift. You're going 395 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.799 to wind up with something between one thousand and two 396 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.559 thousand dollars every month just for electricity, and you're going 397 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.119 to have brownouts and rationing and all the rest of 398 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.599 the stuff. And they want everybody to put everything on 399 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:44.839 the grid, but they're not going to put their critical 400 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.720 systems on the grid. Their critical systems are artificial intelligence 401 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.359