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<v Speaker 1>All right, joining us now is somebody who's no stranger

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<v Speaker 1>to this show. Eric Peters. Always great to have Eric on.

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<v Speaker 1>I had him on, Well, I didn't have him on,

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<v Speaker 1>I had his article on. I'm just saying as having

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<v Speaker 1>Eric on talking about what was going on in Minnesota,

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<v Speaker 1>he and I are of the same mind all these

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<v Speaker 1>different things, and so I wanted to get him on

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about what's going on with cars as well

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<v Speaker 1>as what's going on with the insanity in this country

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<v Speaker 1>right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you for joining us, Eric.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, absolutely, David, But I do I get him medal?

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<v Speaker 3>If you don't give me a medal, there's going to

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<v Speaker 3>be repercussions. I'm not fine.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, somebody put together a clip of him saying, we're

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<v Speaker 1>not going to have men taking women's medals, you know

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<v Speaker 1>about the training stuff, right, and then they had a

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<v Speaker 1>clip of him saying, yeah, she gave me a peace prize.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh so it truly is amazing, But it was also

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<v Speaker 1>the intimidation that you he's able to put on people

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<v Speaker 1>foreign and domestic. You know, she has to give him

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<v Speaker 1>this peace prize because if she doesn't, she's going to

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<v Speaker 1>be in a bad side. Who knows what he'll do.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's kind of interesting that they continue to

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<v Speaker 1>refuse to say that the sky they kidnapped is actually

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<v Speaker 1>the head of state. They say he's not legitimate. They

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<v Speaker 1>had an election and he didn't win the election, and

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<v Speaker 1>so it's like, okay, well, you know, then you've got

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of people that you got in mind that

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<v Speaker 1>won the election. Right, Machado was ahead in the voting,

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<v Speaker 1>and so she got taken away. She wasn't allowed to

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<v Speaker 1>stand in the election, but another person, Gonzalez was, And

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<v Speaker 1>so you would think that if they wanted to support

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<v Speaker 1>quote unquote democracy, that they would put one of the

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<v Speaker 1>two of them in. But instead they're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>Marco Rubio b viceroy.

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you something.

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<v Speaker 3>They don't seem to have a problem with the dictator

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<v Speaker 3>of Ukraine. You know, there's this guy who canceled elections

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<v Speaker 3>and continues to be on the receiving end of vast

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<v Speaker 3>amounts of American material, now indirectly, you know, through our

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<v Speaker 3>proxies in Western Europe. But nonetheless, the you know, the

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<v Speaker 3>incongruity of it, the cognitive dissonance of it is just

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<v Speaker 3>it's something told. It's huge, Yeah, it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the corruption. And you know it's funny even

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Gates.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>We had a Globe play that Bill Gates saying, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Ukraine has been understood by by to be

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<v Speaker 1>the most corrupt country on earth. It's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>why do you think our politicians are handling the money

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<v Speaker 1>because they can get it back in the back door.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a real admission, I think.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure. And you know, the precedents that are being set

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<v Speaker 3>right now are going to come back to bite us,

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<v Speaker 3>I think. And that's one of the most disturbing things

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<v Speaker 3>about everything that's going on with regard to what's been

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<v Speaker 3>happening in Minnesota. A lot of these these conservatives and

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<v Speaker 3>people who are red hat people or are cheering it on,

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<v Speaker 3>and I wonder to myself how it is that they

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<v Speaker 3>can believe that the police state that they're cheering isn't

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<v Speaker 3>going to end up police them.

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<v Speaker 2>Already happened.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, we had this back in January sixth, all

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<v Speaker 1>the January six stuff, right, We've had a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people shut up and they were peacefully protesting. You had

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<v Speaker 1>some people got violent, and it's like, okay, fine, you

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<v Speaker 1>can punish those people. But even for everybody, even violent people,

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<v Speaker 1>the punishment was extreme, unusual and not valid because of that.

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<v Speaker 1>But then they had other people who were just there,

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<v Speaker 1>they were treated like they were violent, and you had

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<v Speaker 1>a woman who was shot in the head when the

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<v Speaker 1>police officer was not threatened and got away with it.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Conservatives who are outraged about that before are now cheering

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<v Speaker 1>it when it's done against the people that they hate.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the amazing thing.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, oh yeah, and it's going to make it very

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<v Speaker 3>difficult for me to have much sympathy for them get

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<v Speaker 3>kicked down the next time around. Yes, wow, Maybe they

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<v Speaker 3>think that Trump is going to be you know, l

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<v Speaker 3>hef a dictator in perpetuity. But the man's almost eighty

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<v Speaker 3>years old. That's you know, I supposed to spend the midterms,

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<v Speaker 3>and I suppose that, you know, we could end up

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<v Speaker 3>having an American Brezhnev. Uh, you know, until until he's ninety.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe, well, you know what I mean. He does have

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<v Speaker 1>amazing healing capabilities. You got shot in the air and

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<v Speaker 1>there's no visible sign of it. Uh, Either then or

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<v Speaker 1>now here's a that.

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<v Speaker 3>I've been entertaining as my mouth out in the garage,

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<v Speaker 3>wrenching on my trans am. I think to myself, this

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<v Speaker 3>is so gratuitous. The only explanation that makes any sense

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<v Speaker 3>to me is that it's purposeful, Like he's differently deliberately

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<v Speaker 3>wanting to inflame passions to trigger an event so that

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<v Speaker 3>then he can claim that there's a necessity for declaring

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<v Speaker 3>the Insurrection Act, martial law, whatever it is, getting getting

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<v Speaker 3>everything so chaotic that he can assume, you know, actual

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<v Speaker 3>overt dictatorial powers. He's already the de facto dictator in

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of ways. You know, he's just declaring anything

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<v Speaker 3>he does, it's an executive order. Everything's an emergency. Right.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, literally, anything that he you knowever he wants

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<v Speaker 3>to do something, it's an emergency.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right.

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<v Speaker 1>And is uh And that is exactly my take it.

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<v Speaker 1>We always see things exactly like Eric.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I was.

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<v Speaker 1>I just covered Wayne Allen Root who talked about this.

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<v Speaker 1>He had some his memo to Trump. He had like

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<v Speaker 1>five or six things he wanted to do. One of

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<v Speaker 1>them was to rename Ice nice because that should fix it, right.

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<v Speaker 1>But the other thing he said, he said, and I

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<v Speaker 1>said this from the very beginning ninety days ago. And

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<v Speaker 1>I said, yeah, I said the same thing as well,

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<v Speaker 1>don't go to the places where you're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>known conflict. There's if you want to deport people here

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<v Speaker 1>hell illegally, you could easily go to the Republican states

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<v Speaker 1>and they would help you to do that. And there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of things that they could do that would

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<v Speaker 1>not be confrontational. You know, if you're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>a situation where governors and attorneys general doubled down on

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<v Speaker 1>the massive billions of dollars of fraud, like half of

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<v Speaker 1>the amount of money that they were spending on daycare

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<v Speaker 1>and food issues was fraudulent in Minnesota, but you know

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<v Speaker 1>they want to protect those people. I want to say

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<v Speaker 1>that you're not going to investigate them, actually said the

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<v Speaker 1>quiet part out loud in Washington State. And so if

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<v Speaker 1>they're going to aid in a bed that kind of

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<v Speaker 1>welfare fraud, you know, there's other things that you could

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<v Speaker 1>do to the leaders. But instead what they want to do,

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<v Speaker 1>they want to go door to door. They want to

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<v Speaker 1>get in people's faces, they want to challenge them, to

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<v Speaker 1>push them. There was one clip that I played where

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<v Speaker 1>people had set up a little memorial to the woman

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<v Speaker 1>who was shot Rene Good, and there was a big

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<v Speaker 1>fat cop and he comes over and he starts kicking

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<v Speaker 1>the stuff and the guy says, what are you doing?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, and this is a memorial And the guy

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<v Speaker 1>walks over to him, gets in his face and keeps walking,

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<v Speaker 1>making him back up and goes back up, back up,

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<v Speaker 1>back up. The guy kept backing up, and he kept

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<v Speaker 1>telling him back up, back up, And he's trying to

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<v Speaker 1>get violent with a guy because now he's in threat

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<v Speaker 1>for his life because the guy resisted this stuff, right,

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<v Speaker 1>he resisted his bullying. And so that is basically the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump administration's goal, I think in a nutshell. And what

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne Allen Rude, as a cheerleader for Trump, didn't see

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<v Speaker 1>as a fact that Trump wants the conflict. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>he thrives on this professional wrestling thing. That is his gimmick,

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<v Speaker 1>that's his calling card, is conflict. He wants conflict everywhere.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the whole thing is so disingenuous. Here's some math.

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<v Speaker 3>They claim. The administration claims something around the order of

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<v Speaker 3>seventy five thousand of these illegals have been rounded up

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<v Speaker 3>and deported thus far, So one year in seventy five thousand. Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>so if we factor that out over the remaining three

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<v Speaker 3>years of Trump's presidence now squat about three hundred thousand people.

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<v Speaker 3>Now on the low end, we're told that roughly ten

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<v Speaker 3>million illegal aliens have come into the country over the

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<v Speaker 3>course of the Biden second term. So it's a rounding error.

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<v Speaker 3>It has no meaning. You know, if they round up

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<v Speaker 3>into port three hundred thousand of these people, it means nothing,

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<v Speaker 3>and nothing fundamentally changes. So why are they doing it?

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<v Speaker 3>And I believe that the reason that they're doing it,

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<v Speaker 3>among other things, is to normalize people, normalize the presence

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<v Speaker 3>of military uhla enforcers on American streets and getting Americans

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<v Speaker 3>habituated to seeing people literally grabbed. And I'm not you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not defending illegal immigration. I'm saying that there's something

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<v Speaker 3>unsettling about seeing people grabbed and stuffed into the back

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<v Speaker 3>of unmarked vehicles. Yeah, and taken away from you know,

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<v Speaker 3>who knows what what what? You know, me anybody? That

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<v Speaker 3>could happen to anybody, And that's just the point. It's

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<v Speaker 3>going to happen to everybody if this is normalized. We've

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<v Speaker 3>got used to as a culture having to, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>stand there with our legs spread at the airport and

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<v Speaker 3>let some government goon touch us and go through our things,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, in the name of protecting us from the terrorists.

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<v Speaker 3>This is exactly of a piece. It's the same thing.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's just getting Americans used to something, and once

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<v Speaker 3>they're used to it, then it will be expanded.

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<v Speaker 2>You're absolutely right.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I say to people, say, be very wary

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<v Speaker 1>when the government that has created both parties have created

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<v Speaker 1>a problem, you know, like the open border immigration thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, for the longest time, it's the welfare magnet. Stupid.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it's not a wall, it's not anything else.

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<v Speaker 1>Just stop paying people who come here to live for free.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>The welfare system is bad enough. We don't need to

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<v Speaker 1>extend it to the entire world. But you know, when

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<v Speaker 1>the government creates a problem and let's at fester for

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<v Speaker 1>a long time and then they come in with some

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<v Speaker 1>authoritarian solution, you know, always be aware. I mean, that

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<v Speaker 1>is the biggest talbot's out there, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely And as you say, if they were, if they

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<v Speaker 3>were being genuine about this, the easiest way to solve

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<v Speaker 3>the problem is to cut off the benefits to people

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<v Speaker 3>who want American citizens and not entitled to them. You

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<v Speaker 3>and I we go to the pharmacy to get over

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<v Speaker 3>the counter coff serve and we have to present idea.

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<v Speaker 3>American citizens have to present id for all sorts of things.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, that's right.

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<v Speaker 3>So if somebody applies for government benefits, they should have

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<v Speaker 3>to produce idea establishing that they are minimally legal residents,

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<v Speaker 3>if not citizens, in order to access these benefits. And

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<v Speaker 3>if they can't do that, no benefits, you know, and

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<v Speaker 3>then you get rid of most of the problem. And

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<v Speaker 3>another thing you could do is do something about these

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<v Speaker 3>big corporate employers that hire these illegals. Sanctions, make them

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<v Speaker 3>pay for the local services that you know that are

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<v Speaker 3>incurring costs because of all the illegals find them Financially.

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<v Speaker 3>You don't have to turn America into a police state.

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<v Speaker 3>You don't have to have body armored automatic weapons holding

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<v Speaker 3>soldiers on streets. It's very simple. Just stop the as

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<v Speaker 3>you say, stop the incentivizing, stop offering free things. The

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<v Speaker 3>people who are here want to work, you know, the

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<v Speaker 3>of my oldest friends is a guy who you know,

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<v Speaker 3>work hard. I don't mind those guys. They're not taking

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<v Speaker 3>money out of my pocket. You know, I don't like

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<v Speaker 3>I don't like the leeches and the parasites, and most

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<v Speaker 3>people don't. And it's reasonable to not like that. But

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<v Speaker 3>that's what they're manipulating us with. That's what they're using

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<v Speaker 2>You're absolutely right.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have called Donald Trump precedent Trump for this

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<v Speaker 1>let's set a precedent and we're going to take the

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<v Speaker 1>They're from Laos and they took this fifty six year

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<v Speaker 1>drug rade style. Okay, this is something straight out I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure you're familiar with Brazil, done by Terry Gunn. This

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<v Speaker 1>is straight out of Brazil, right, And so they're looking

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<v Speaker 1>for buddle, but they go after tuttle, right, and they

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<v Speaker 1>kicked the door down. They grabbed this guy. He's sitting

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<v Speaker 1>They drag him out in the ten degree weather wearing

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<v Speaker 1>And that's it, you know, that kind of harassment that

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<v Speaker 1>the guy they were looking for. They put him in

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<v Speaker 1>the car, They drive him around for an hour. He

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<v Speaker 1>keeps telling him I'm an American citizens, been for over

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<v Speaker 1>thirty some odd years. He's never had any legal issues

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<v Speaker 1>with anything. And so after they finally check him out,

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<v Speaker 1>nothing ever happened. Right, And this is exactly what Trump

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<v Speaker 1>do the due process. Now they're going to grab the

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<v Speaker 1>man and do the due process later. It's like, why

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<v Speaker 1>don't you do an investigation, Why don't you get a

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<v Speaker 1>search warrant, Why don't you know who you're coming after?

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<v Speaker 1>But what they did was they backfilled all this stuff

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<v Speaker 1>with lies from Christie Omes department. They had her secretary

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<v Speaker 1>come out and say that well, they were looking for

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<v Speaker 1>two guys who were convicted sexual predators that were there

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<v Speaker 1>at that address. And the family came out and said, no,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't know anybody. We don't know who those guys are.

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<v Speaker 1>They've never lived here, we don't know them at all.

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<v Speaker 1>And our guy doesn't have any issues with it. And

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<v Speaker 1>they put out the pictures of these guys and they're

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<v Speaker 1>young men. This guy is fifty six years old. There's

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely no way that you would mistake this guy for

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<v Speaker 1>those guys. Everything that they do, Eric is a lie

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<v Speaker 1>to start with it. It's just like Christine home and that

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<v Speaker 1>Renee Good shooting. The first thing she says, well, they

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<v Speaker 3>Right, everything has been reversed. It used to be that

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<v Speaker 3>there was the presumption of innocence and that it was

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<v Speaker 3>understood that it was necessary that the government hobbled to

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<v Speaker 3>in order to protect people. You know, now the impetus

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<v Speaker 3>as well. Everybody's guilty of something, and you know it's

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<v Speaker 3>up to the person who is accosted to establish that

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<v Speaker 3>they aren't guilty, and this is not This is something

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<v Speaker 3>that has been systematically imposed over a long period of time.

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<v Speaker 3>I've been ranting for decades now about these sobriety checkpoints.

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<v Speaker 3>No longer is it a case of you have given

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<v Speaker 3>a cop probable cause to suspect that you might be

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<v Speaker 3>drunk driving because you're you know, you're you're driving erradically,

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<v Speaker 3>let's say you're wandering public. Instead, they just set up

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<v Speaker 3>these drag nets where everybody just happens to be on

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<v Speaker 3>that road has given zero probable calls. They have to

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<v Speaker 3>prove to the satisfaction of the cop that they're not drunk.

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<v Speaker 1>And how do you approve it? In Texas they had

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<v Speaker 1>involuntary blood draws. I mean, these are people going to

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<v Speaker 1>down if you don't want to do it, and take

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<v Speaker 1>blood out of you to prove that you're not drunk.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like that they.

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<v Speaker 3>Expect people to form roadside gymnastics. Most people aren't athletes

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<v Speaker 3>and gymnasts. So you know you're pulling, You're out of

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<v Speaker 3>your car with a light shining in your face, and

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<v Speaker 3>you're supposed to stand on one leg and recite the

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<v Speaker 3>alphabet backwards, and you know, if you if they set

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<v Speaker 3>it up something guaranteed, you're gonna you know, you're gonna

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<v Speaker 3>you're going to maybe waivered a little bit. And then

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<v Speaker 3>as you say, that becomes the pretext for dragging you

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<v Speaker 3>to the hospital and a forced blood draw. On all

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<v Speaker 3>of this stuff, but all is a complete vitiation of

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<v Speaker 3>the of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment says, you

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<v Speaker 3>know that you're not supposed to be subjected to search

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<v Speaker 3>as absent probable cause or a warrant issue by a judge.

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<v Speaker 3>Nobody cares about that anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. They were to do that to me since

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<v Speaker 2>my stroke, I would fail.

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<v Speaker 1>Stand on one leg and yeah, whistle Dixie.

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<v Speaker 2>You know it's like I can't do that anymore. So, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's insane.

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<v Speaker 1>But you got a an article about a tell us

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit about that. The background of this story

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<v Speaker 1>where there was a guy who didn't have a tag

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, this is really an appalling story. Again, it's

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<v Speaker 3>another example of the escalation that ensues over these trivial,

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<v Speaker 3>batantic no harm involved in anybody of fences. There's a

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<v Speaker 3>wife on the back of the bike, and apparently he

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<v Speaker 3>and so you know, a coppy rolls in behind him

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<v Speaker 3>and lights him up and he's going to pull him over. Now,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I'm not suggesting that it was right of

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<v Speaker 3>the guy to take off, but I understand. Yeah, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>he's potentially facing you know, having to pay hundreds of

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<v Speaker 3>he wasn't speeding or doing anything out riding his bike anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>So he takes off in a pursuit ensues, he ends

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<v Speaker 3>up wrecking and dying. He and his passenger are both killed.

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<v Speaker 3>They lose control in a corner and that's it over

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<v Speaker 3>over this sort of nonsense I speak chase. And an

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<v Speaker 3>additional facet of it is that in the course of

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<v Speaker 3>pursuing this guy, the cop is driving with extraordinary recklessness

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<v Speaker 3>on these back country roads, you know, taking corners in

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<v Speaker 3>the opposite lane or halfway in the opposite lane, blind corners.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. It looks to me to have been eighty

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<v Speaker 3>ninety one hundred miles an hour on a road with

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<v Speaker 3>he barrows through this kind of a small town looking thing,

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<v Speaker 3>and you could just imagine if somebody's walking across the

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<v Speaker 3>street or you know, they're pulling out from a side

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<v Speaker 3>road and boom, you know, there's a catastrophic wreck, all

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<v Speaker 3>because this guy just had to catch that guy you

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<v Speaker 3>know on the bike, had to get him for you know,

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<v Speaker 3>affronting the authority of the state because he wasn't displaying

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<v Speaker 3>his proper ear tag.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right, And you know that really does reflect

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<v Speaker 1>back on this renee Good thing as well, because you

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<v Speaker 1>look at the situation that's there and I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>what's going on. It doesn't appear from the videos that

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<v Speaker 1>were taken and from the cops own video, it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>appear like she's really even panicked or trying to flee.

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<v Speaker 1>There were people that, you know, one person said get

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<v Speaker 1>out of here, the other one says, get out of

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<v Speaker 1>your car, So there was a little bit of perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>confusion on that part. But even if she was trying

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<v Speaker 1>to just drive off, there wasn't anything that looked like

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<v Speaker 1>she was trying to you know, she was moving pretty slowly,

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<v Speaker 1>and the fact is that she backs up and then

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<v Speaker 1>turns her wheel immediately. And I looked at that and

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<v Speaker 1>it's like all these people saying, well, that shows that

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<v Speaker 1>she's trying to run him over. It's like, no, she's

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<v Speaker 1>turning her wheel away from him. It's like, have you

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<v Speaker 1>ever driven a car now this works a three point turn?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you understand how that operates? And you can see

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<v Speaker 1>that's what she's doing there. And then you can see

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<v Speaker 1>from the cops perspective of his own footage that he

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<v Speaker 1>rushes forward and still he doesn't get hit. And so

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<v Speaker 1>I think that that was really what was happening with it.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, in terms of the high speed chases,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of police departments I said, we're not going

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<v Speaker 1>to do that because it puts a lot of people's

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<v Speaker 1>lives at risk. There are a lot of police departments

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<v Speaker 1>that have said since the early nineties, the New York

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<v Speaker 1>Police Department is one of them, that we're not going

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<v Speaker 1>to fire into a car if somebody doesn't have some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of weapon that they are firing. You know, we're

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<v Speaker 1>not going to shoot into a car just to stop

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<v Speaker 1>the car, because number one, you may not hit it.

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<v Speaker 1>You might not you know, hit that moving target, and

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<v Speaker 1>you might hit other people, including other cops that are there, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and then if you do hit the person, what you

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<v Speaker 1>wind up with is an unguided missile. Right, the driver

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<v Speaker 1>is not driving anymore, the might mash down on the accelerator,

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<v Speaker 1>which we saw a little bit of what happened with that,

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<v Speaker 1>and so all of that makes absolutely no sense. When

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<v Speaker 1>I was living in Houston when Karen and I first

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<v Speaker 1>got married, there was a situation where they had these

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<v Speaker 1>really huge flyovers and there was a motorcycle cop who

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<v Speaker 1>pulled over a car and pull them over like at

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<v Speaker 1>the top of this large arg flyover on the curve.

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<v Speaker 1>And as he's there writing this ticket that is so important,

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<v Speaker 1>this gasoline fuel tanker comes along and hits them and

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<v Speaker 1>everybody died, Okay, the cop, the people that were getting

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<v Speaker 1>the ticket, the person who's driving the truck. Everybody dies

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<v Speaker 1>in this fiery crash and it burned down the concrete

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<v Speaker 1>flyover that was there, so intense it was amazing to

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<v Speaker 1>see what happened. All that was over a ticket, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>which is where this goes back a small a small thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and they escalated to that extent, to a deadly extent

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<v Speaker 3>I think one of the most egregious aspects of that

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<v Speaker 3>situation was that clearly this woman wasn't some sort of

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<v Speaker 3>gun toting felon that just dropped a bank, right, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>she had been haranguing the Ice people. They had her plate.

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<v Speaker 3>Why not why not just go to her house later

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<v Speaker 3>they knew who she was, give her a ticket for

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<v Speaker 3>obstruction or whatever, you know, whatever charge they want to

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<v Speaker 3>give her. Fine, it wasn't necessary to escalate it to

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<v Speaker 3>the degree that they I see this protextual murder. Frankly,

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<v Speaker 3>I think that that cop deliberately put himself in a

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<v Speaker 3>you know, and at that point he has the justification

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<v Speaker 3>to unload on her, which is just what he did.

421
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<v Speaker 3>I agree, easily stepped out of the way, just let

422
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<v Speaker 3>her go whatever. It's just some lady in a car

423
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<v Speaker 3>who was obnoxious to us. You know, we can give

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<v Speaker 3>her a ticket later.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And in that context, I see this entire operation

426
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<v Speaker 1>in Minneapolis just like that, except it's Trump who's doing

427
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<v Speaker 1>the provocative. In your face, come on, you know, take

428
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<v Speaker 1>a swing at me and let's see what happens. Right,

429
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<v Speaker 1>the people out there saying fafo. You know, that's what

430
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<v Speaker 1>they want. They want to provoke that. And so he's

431
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<v Speaker 1>not just setting precedents. He's out there deliberately provoking things

432
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<v Speaker 1>to set precedents. He doesn't have an emergency, he wants

433
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<v Speaker 1>to create one.

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<v Speaker 3>An adult might have said something to the effective, you know,

435
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<v Speaker 3>this is a horrible tragedy and we're sorry that things

436
00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:59.359
<v Speaker 3>spiraled out of control the way that they did. Yeah,

437
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<v Speaker 3>said that there's this this this callousness in the way

438
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<v Speaker 3>that he responds to these sorts of things. YEA almost

439
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<v Speaker 3>believe you know, she deserved it. You know, it's a

440
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<v Speaker 3>good thing that an American citizen was shot dead in

441
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<v Speaker 3>the street like that.

442
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<v Speaker 1>Well, the thing that really ticked me off was the

443
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<v Speaker 1>response of the MAGA influencers that are out there that

444
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<v Speaker 1>are trying to make an excuse for all this stuff.

445
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<v Speaker 1>They were even worse than Trump and Christy Nome and

446
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<v Speaker 1>jd Vance and all these other people who are commenting

447
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<v Speaker 1>on it. One guy had a podcast I don't remember

448
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<v Speaker 1>his name. I played the clip and he said, here's

449
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<v Speaker 1>what you need to remember. Hands up, show your hands,

450
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<v Speaker 1>obey commands. It's like, what are you talking about Is

451
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<v Speaker 1>this a police state that you're talking about where I

452
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<v Speaker 1>have to always obey the commands of the police and

453
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<v Speaker 1>show my hands, but they have to come up with

454
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<v Speaker 1>these little juvenile rhymes like clicket or ticket, you know,

455
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<v Speaker 1>so show hands, obey commands, and it's like that really

456
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<v Speaker 1>set me off.

457
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<v Speaker 3>I have read and I have not been able to

458
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<v Speaker 3>confirm this. I think it's true that a lot of

459
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<v Speaker 3>police departments send cops over to Israel to be trained

460
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<v Speaker 3>by the IDF in these in these immediate submission tactics

461
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<v Speaker 3>that are are imposed upon the Palestinians over there were

462
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<v Speaker 3>even the slightest questioning or sign of resistance, you know,

463
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<v Speaker 3>it brings down an extreme response. I can remember when

464
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<v Speaker 3>I was in college back in the eighties, when I'd

465
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<v Speaker 3>get pulled over for speeding. It was routine to get

466
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<v Speaker 3>out of the car and walk over the cop. And

467
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<v Speaker 3>you know, yeah that was common. Believer, I get in

468
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<v Speaker 3>the car.

469
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<v Speaker 2>Now it's like, yeah, yeah, now if you step.

470
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<v Speaker 3>If I were to get out of my car, you know,

471
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<v Speaker 3>it's much older me now, you know, to get out

472
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<v Speaker 3>of the car and the guy would probably draw a

473
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<v Speaker 3>gun and say scream at me and get on the ground.

474
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<v Speaker 3>Get on the ground now.

475
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<v Speaker 2>Now, Yeah, I know it's crazy.

476
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, when you look at how long is it before

477
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<v Speaker 1>we have the situation of the IDF where they've got

478
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<v Speaker 1>this yellow line somewhere in Gaza and people don't even

479
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<v Speaker 1>necessarily see it. But if you cross that yellow line,

480
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<v Speaker 1>we perceive you as a threat.

481
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<v Speaker 2>And now we have.

482
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<v Speaker 1>The ability and the government will stand behind us, we

483
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<v Speaker 1>can kill you right there on the spot because we

484
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<v Speaker 1>felt threatened because you crossed that yellow line that you

485
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<v Speaker 1>didn't even see.

486
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

487
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that makes a honest respect for life, and that again,

488
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<v Speaker 3>the callousness and the brutality is something that should be

489
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<v Speaker 3>concerning to everybody. This thing starts to metastasize. You get

490
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<v Speaker 3>into a point where life is cheap, you know, and

491
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<v Speaker 3>you end up liking these these hard for the world

492
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<v Speaker 3>countries where people just you know, you see a dead

493
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<v Speaker 3>body in the streets, some guy just got shot, and

494
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<v Speaker 3>everybody just keeps on walking. It becomes commonplace, it becomes

495
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<v Speaker 3>nothing to even be to remark about.

496
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<v Speaker 1>Well again, and you look at what President Trump is

497
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<v Speaker 1>doing when he kidnapped Maduro. The funniest take on all

498
00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:50.119
<v Speaker 1>that was John Stewart, who said, we imported this guy.

499
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<v Speaker 2>We didn't deport him, we imported him.

500
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<v Speaker 3>That's hilarious.

501
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<v Speaker 1>But you know when when you look at the kidnapping Maduro,

502
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<v Speaker 1>immediately you had people saying, well, you know, we should

503
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<v Speaker 1>do that. Some Russians were like Alexander Dugan. Hardliners were saying,

504
00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.000
<v Speaker 1>why doesn't Trump do that to Zelensky? And then you

505
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<v Speaker 1>had the UK Defense minister saying, why don't we do

506
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<v Speaker 1>that to Putin?

507
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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I like to turn that around. How about

508
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<v Speaker 3>Putin's on the team of spetsnats guys to snatch Trump exactly.

509
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<v Speaker 1>I mean it's just it just starts, it kicks off

510
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<v Speaker 1>this domino thing like that. I mean, they always love

511
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<v Speaker 1>their domino theories for wars, don't they. But really, what

512
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<v Speaker 1>we see is when we see these kind of criminal

513
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<v Speaker 1>acts of aggression. What do you think about Steven Miller?

514
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<v Speaker 1>You know, Steven Miller's out there saying, well, you know,

515
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<v Speaker 1>if you have a territory, historically we've seen that you

516
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<v Speaker 1>need to be strong enough to be able to keep

517
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<v Speaker 1>that territory or the stronger people just gonna take it

518
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<v Speaker 1>away from you. Those are the rules under which we operate.

519
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<v Speaker 1>And one person said.

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<v Speaker 3>He seems psychopathic sociopathic people like so many associated with

521
00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.640
<v Speaker 3>Trump unfortunately seem to be that's right, sadistic people, cruel people,

522
00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.279
<v Speaker 3>so including christ you know them who I I like

523
00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:03.759
<v Speaker 3>her as the Ilsa, the she wolf of the SS.

524
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<v Speaker 1>Somebody put out a meme of Stephen Miller in the

525
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<v Speaker 1>Nazi uniform and captioned it and said, pee wee German, Yes,

526
00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:17.279
<v Speaker 1>because that's basically what he's talking about. And one person said, well,

527
00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:21.119
<v Speaker 1>he just gave authorization for a bigger guy in his

528
00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:23.480
<v Speaker 1>neighborhood to steal everything he's got in his house, right,

529
00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.680
<v Speaker 1>that's basically what we're talking about. You know, just take

530
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<v Speaker 1>whatever I want. And you know that they're making the

531
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<v Speaker 1>world a much more dangerous place. Everything they do they

532
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<v Speaker 1>claim is national security, and yet they're threatening our security

533
00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:39.480
<v Speaker 1>because they're threatening everybody else's security.

534
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<v Speaker 3>They're also styling it a law enforcement which is an

535
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<v Speaker 3>interesting concept, you know, the snash How does the United

536
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<v Speaker 3>States have jurisdiction over Venezuela legally speaking? And you know,

537
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<v Speaker 3>if if it does, then why couldn't other countries essentially

538
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<v Speaker 3>make the same argument? How about net and Yahoo has

539
00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:00.680
<v Speaker 3>actually been indicted for something, you know, he's he's indicted

540
00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:03.880
<v Speaker 3>He's been indicted for war crimes, and yet Trump welcomes him,

541
00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.079
<v Speaker 3>receives him with honors. In Washington, he doesn't get you know,

542
00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:08.640
<v Speaker 3>net and Yahoo doesn't get arrested.

543
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<v Speaker 1>Well, they appeal to the president that George H. W.

544
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<v Speaker 1>Bush Dad, He's like, hey, we went in and we

545
00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.240
<v Speaker 1>we got was a strong married Manuel Noriego. We got Noriega.

546
00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:20.640
<v Speaker 1>So we can do that again. And that's the danger

547
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:23.279
<v Speaker 1>of these precedents. You know, once somebody does it, you're

548
00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:25.400
<v Speaker 1>going to have another president that comes down the line

549
00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:27.319
<v Speaker 1>and says, well, so and so did it, so I

550
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.000
<v Speaker 1>can do it as well. I call it what about ism,

551
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.319
<v Speaker 1>because every time you point out something that is wrong

552
00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:36.000
<v Speaker 1>or criminal about Donald Trump, you always hear the maga

553
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:38.960
<v Speaker 1>apologists say yeah, but what about what Hillary Clinton?

554
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<v Speaker 3>Did you know?

555
00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:40.039
<v Speaker 2>Or this or that?

556
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<v Speaker 1>So it's always what about ism, as if that somehow

557
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<v Speaker 1>excuses it.

558
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<v Speaker 3>Again, we're at a point in the history of this

559
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.960
<v Speaker 3>country where principles don't matter. Everything's situational, everything's subjective, and

560
00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:55.079
<v Speaker 3>ultimately it comes down to which party is in power,

561
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<v Speaker 3>which wing of the party is in power. And it

562
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<v Speaker 3>just it reminds me it's so so mirror like of

563
00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:07.440
<v Speaker 3>Oral nineteen eighty four, where you know, he talked about

564
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<v Speaker 3>that he created this wonderful scene where Winston Smith, the

565
00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:13.720
<v Speaker 3>character is attending a party rally and the party order

566
00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:16.960
<v Speaker 3>is giving a harangue to the crowd, and somebody walks

567
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.160
<v Speaker 3>behind the party order hands them a piece of paper

568
00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:22.039
<v Speaker 3>and immediately the order changes from a rant against the

569
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.279
<v Speaker 3>war being I think with Eurasia to a war being

570
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.799
<v Speaker 3>with East Asia, and the crowd it immediately parpolates through

571
00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.359
<v Speaker 3>the crowd that the political position has changed, and they

572
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<v Speaker 3>just continue to roar their approval of the diametrically opposed position,

573
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.359
<v Speaker 3>having understood that, you know, this is the new orthodoxy

574
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:39.079
<v Speaker 3>that that has to be cheered.

575
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right. Well, while we're talking about orthodoxy that

576
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:44.160
<v Speaker 1>has to be chaired. I mean that's one of the

577
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:46.400
<v Speaker 1>things about AI in the way that it is going

578
00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:48.720
<v Speaker 1>to be used to make people. You know, there was

579
00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.880
<v Speaker 1>just they've already started putting out robocops in China for

580
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:57.240
<v Speaker 1>right now. They're just kind of surveillance devices and you

581
00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:01.799
<v Speaker 1>know meter maid safety nannies that are out there nagging

582
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:05.440
<v Speaker 1>people things like that, but they're making them to look humanoid,

583
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.359
<v Speaker 1>actually making biped versions of them. Now and they can

584
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:12.079
<v Speaker 1>walk from place to place. It's not that much further

585
00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:14.519
<v Speaker 1>out that they're going to start replacing these human robots

586
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:18.440
<v Speaker 1>that are dressed up as armed government workers, and they're

587
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.519
<v Speaker 1>pretty soon they're going to be replaced by the mechanized

588
00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:24.200
<v Speaker 1>armed government workers that are out there, I think. But

589
00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:26.440
<v Speaker 1>you've got an article about AI along for the ride.

590
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.400
<v Speaker 1>Talk a little bit about that.

591
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Well, it focuses on a new Volvo electric vehicle.

592
00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.640
<v Speaker 3>I think it's the EX sixty and they're incorporating Google's

593
00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:38.039
<v Speaker 3>Gemini AI into it, and of course it's being presented

594
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<v Speaker 3>as a helpy helperson kind of a thing because they

595
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.599
<v Speaker 3>created this problem of having these touchscreen interfaces in the

596
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:47.599
<v Speaker 3>car that make it difficult to control things while you're driving,

597
00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:48.359
<v Speaker 3>because it's kind.

598
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:49.839
<v Speaker 2>Of hard to it's right of those.

599
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.359
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So instead of that, now you're going to have

600
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.559
<v Speaker 3>a conversation with the Gemini AI and ask it to

601
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:59.359
<v Speaker 3>do things. So if you need the stereo to change

602
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.039
<v Speaker 3>its station, it'll do that. It'll do all sorts of

603
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.559
<v Speaker 3>things that can make all sorts of adjustments while you drive.

604
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:07.759
<v Speaker 3>But beyond that, ultimately, what people don't see is that

605
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:10.759
<v Speaker 3>this is going to be used to control us, monitor us,

606
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:14.680
<v Speaker 3>and control us. In this case, Volvo is not only

607
00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:18.319
<v Speaker 3>incorporating the AI. In addition to that, they are giving

608
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.559
<v Speaker 3>their AI access direct feed access to the cameras that

609
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:23.920
<v Speaker 3>are in the car. You know about the flock cameras

610
00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.799
<v Speaker 3>that are being put up all over the country, flock

611
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.440
<v Speaker 3>that you drive, so you know, the cameras that are

612
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.200
<v Speaker 3>in your car that are sweeping the surroundings. Feed that

613
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:35.880
<v Speaker 3>data to the AI and then transmit that to the

614
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.920
<v Speaker 3>hive mind. And it's a mechanism by which ultimately they

615
00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.279
<v Speaker 3>will have real time twenty four access to all of

616
00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:44.559
<v Speaker 3>our movements. They'll be able to know exactly what we're

617
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.240
<v Speaker 3>doing all the time. And even creepier than that, a

618
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:49.559
<v Speaker 3>lot of these new cars have cameras inside the car

619
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:51.880
<v Speaker 3>to watch you, which again they present that as a

620
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:53.799
<v Speaker 3>safety feature. You know, we don't want people to be

621
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<v Speaker 3>browsing behind the wheel, so we're watching you know, you're

622
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.079
<v Speaker 3>watching your eye movements in your face, and in that way,

623
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:00.599
<v Speaker 3>the park can let you know it's time for a

624
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:02.880
<v Speaker 3>coffee break. It literally says that a little icon will

625
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:05.279
<v Speaker 3>come up time for a coffee break. Well, you know,

626
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:08.359
<v Speaker 3>ultimately they'll be able to just shut the thing down

627
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.079
<v Speaker 3>if they decide you look angry. You expressed it expresses something,

628
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.160
<v Speaker 3>you know, politically incorrect about what's going on in Davos,

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<v Speaker 3>whatever it might be.

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<v Speaker 1>Lands for a comment, is that Jem and I tilt

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<v Speaker 1>the air vent up now a little less?

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<v Speaker 2>Wait, go back? No, not too far.

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<v Speaker 1>Why can't I just have a little mechanical thing that

634
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<v Speaker 1>I just reach over with my hand to move it right?

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<v Speaker 2>What is the problem with the end of this?

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<v Speaker 3>Do you remember the reboot of the Battlestar Galactica series

637
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<v Speaker 3>that aired back in the early two thousands.

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<v Speaker 2>M No, I never saw that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was really good. One of the one of

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<v Speaker 3>the interesting things about it was that the ship that

641
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<v Speaker 3>survived the Cylon attack, the Silons are these AI robots.

642
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<v Speaker 3>They know that into the fleet because the fleet used AI,

643
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:51.759
<v Speaker 3>so you know, they turned off all of their defenses

644
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.480
<v Speaker 3>except for this one old antique ship that was analog

645
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:58.440
<v Speaker 3>and still had everything hardwired. So that one ship, which

646
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<v Speaker 3>was the Galactica, managed to escape and that and you know,

647
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<v Speaker 3>I think there's there's actually a lot to that, you know.

648
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.359
<v Speaker 3>I just I think that us being connected to what

649
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:10.039
<v Speaker 3>they refer to as the Internet of Things is going

650
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:11.960
<v Speaker 3>to be our undoing and I think that it is.

651
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<v Speaker 3>It is the smartest, wisest thing we can possibly do

652
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:16.240
<v Speaker 3>to disconnect from all of that.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we're going to have these flock cameras everywhere. I

655
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.640
<v Speaker 1>have flock cameras in the car. We're going to flock

656
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<v Speaker 1>around and find out, aren't we.

657
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<v Speaker 2>Right.

658
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:27.079
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, that's been one of my pet peas about

659
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.160
<v Speaker 1>this interface that began with Tesla where they put that

660
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.960
<v Speaker 1>touch screen in the middle, because I guess it's a

661
00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:35.640
<v Speaker 1>lot cheaper than making mechanical knobs that are going to

662
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:39.440
<v Speaker 1>last for a while, and you know, again even changing

663
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:43.960
<v Speaker 1>the air vents that are there, and it's unnecessarily complicated.

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<v Speaker 1>It's difficult to use, and isn't it interesting? And I

665
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.079
<v Speaker 1>think you and I have talked about this before the

666
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:51.400
<v Speaker 1>fact that they can do that kind of an interface,

667
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:54.640
<v Speaker 1>And it's very distracting because you're trying to pinch and

668
00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:56.720
<v Speaker 1>zoom and there's no tactile feedback, so you got to

669
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.240
<v Speaker 1>take your eyes off the road to do it. And

670
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.839
<v Speaker 1>yet if you are using a cell phone, they'll give

671
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.720
<v Speaker 1>you a ticket. But if you're driving one of these cars, hey,

672
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:07.960
<v Speaker 1>that's all just fine. Not a problem at all, but

673
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.519
<v Speaker 1>it is very distracting. I have rented cars that have

674
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:13.359
<v Speaker 1>had that kind of stuff in it, and you know,

675
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.480
<v Speaker 1>it is impossible to do anything while you're driving with them,

676
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.079
<v Speaker 1>even the simplest things, you know, changing the volume of

677
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.759
<v Speaker 1>air or the direction of the air, the volume of

678
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:26.640
<v Speaker 1>the radio or in that kind of stuff is it

679
00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:29.599
<v Speaker 1>makes it impossible to do that. And then they take

680
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:33.720
<v Speaker 1>things like the door handles on the Tesla's you know,

681
00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:35.799
<v Speaker 1>we've had a lot of reports about how people have

682
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:39.119
<v Speaker 1>been trapped inside because they have an accident. Now the

683
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:41.960
<v Speaker 1>door handled that's under software control doesn't work anymore. I

684
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:46.200
<v Speaker 1>had a friend who has a Tesla and he got

685
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.640
<v Speaker 1>stuck inside of his car for quite some time. Had

686
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:51.599
<v Speaker 1>fortunately had his phone with him and he could call

687
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.119
<v Speaker 1>tech support, but he had to call tech support to

688
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:56.720
<v Speaker 1>get the door open on his car. It's like, this

689
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.960
<v Speaker 1>is crazy, absolutely crazy that we turn our life over

690
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.400
<v Speaker 1>to these complicated systems. And I think if you look

691
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.240
<v Speaker 1>at the bigger picture, that's kind of what has happened

692
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.759
<v Speaker 1>to our entire infrastructure. We are on the cusp of

693
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:13.839
<v Speaker 1>something really really bad happening to us, and it's such

694
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.599
<v Speaker 1>a complicated, interconnected, just in time delivery system, that it

695
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.519
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't take much to disrupt all this stuff and create

696
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:24.799
<v Speaker 1>total chaos and havoc because the complicated, necessarily complicated in

697
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:26.920
<v Speaker 1>many ways system that we live with.

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<v Speaker 3>Yep, I agree, it's gratuitously complex. And by the way,

699
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:33.279
<v Speaker 3>while Tesla was the first to pioneer those their flush

700
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.519
<v Speaker 3>mounted door polls that they extend when you approach the

701
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:39.559
<v Speaker 3>car and so then you have something to grab to

702
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:42.000
<v Speaker 3>open the door with the problem is that if there's

703
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.960
<v Speaker 3>an electrical failure, then you can't get in the car.

704
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:48.799
<v Speaker 3>And compounding that problem, Tesla's have laminated side glass that's

705
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:53.000
<v Speaker 3>very difficult to shatter. So you remember that, I think

706
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<v Speaker 3>it was what was it the I can't remember the

707
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:58.119
<v Speaker 3>family relation of Mitch McConnell. A woman. She's like some

708
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:01.799
<v Speaker 3>tech lady, big billionaire person. Anyway, you know, she was

709
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.319
<v Speaker 3>apparently a little bit drunk and backed her Tesla into

710
00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:06.720
<v Speaker 3>a pond and it was it was something that was

711
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.920
<v Speaker 3>completely survivable. It wasn't a high speed thing. She just

712
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:11.599
<v Speaker 3>rolled backwards into the pond. But they couldn't get her

713
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:13.480
<v Speaker 3>out of the car because the car shorted out in

714
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:16.079
<v Speaker 3>the water and they couldn't get the doors open, and

715
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:18.360
<v Speaker 3>they couldn't smash the windows open, so she drowned to death,

716
00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:21.440
<v Speaker 3>you know, and and and again. It's not just Tesla.

717
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:25.039
<v Speaker 3>A number of higher end vehicle manufacturers now are emulating it,

718
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.280
<v Speaker 3>and they've got the same types of door pulls. And

719
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:31.599
<v Speaker 3>it's totally gratuitous complexity. I'm not I just don't like

720
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.480
<v Speaker 3>technology for its own sake, and complexity for its own sake.

721
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.440
<v Speaker 3>There's no meaningful improvement. I mean, isn't that difficult really

722
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:41.000
<v Speaker 3>to pull a handle? It's it's it's.

723
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:43.840
<v Speaker 1>It's geekis right. It's like, look guys, this is really cool.

724
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:44.800
<v Speaker 1>Look what I can do with this.

725
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:49.679
<v Speaker 3>That these systems are fragile. You know, a car is

726
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:53.599
<v Speaker 3>subjected to a lot of environmental harshness. You know, it's

727
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:57.599
<v Speaker 3>it's hot, it's cold. Uh, it gets jostled and bumped.

728
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.400
<v Speaker 3>So what works when the thing is new, maybe isn't

729
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.079
<v Speaker 3>going to work so well when it's eight, nine, ten

730
00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:05.480
<v Speaker 3>years old. You know, there's going to be a failure

731
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.960
<v Speaker 3>at some point where it would have happened before. And

732
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:09.639
<v Speaker 3>the failure is going to involve a lot of money

733
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.039
<v Speaker 3>and hassle too. You know, having something simple like a

734
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.280
<v Speaker 3>pull you know. I mean, you know, a monkey could

735
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:18.079
<v Speaker 3>change a door poll with a screwdriver f basic handle.

736
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.960
<v Speaker 3>But when it's this complicated electronic system and you've got

737
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.719
<v Speaker 3>body control modules and computers and all this stuff, you know,

738
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:25.199
<v Speaker 3>now it's something that you end up having to have

739
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:27.360
<v Speaker 3>the thing towed to a dealership for and end up

740
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.039
<v Speaker 3>spending orders of magnitude more money to have the problem fixed.

741
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.800
<v Speaker 3>It's just it's stupid. It's almost a childish fascination with

742
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.480
<v Speaker 3>tech for its own sake, like a seagull that is

743
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:40.559
<v Speaker 3>like dazzled by a piece of tinfoil at the beach

744
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:41.599
<v Speaker 3>that keeps pecking at it.

745
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.519
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of foolish complications, that we've got bricked porsches. You've

746
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:50.280
<v Speaker 1>got an article about that. And I just saw that

747
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.719
<v Speaker 1>they've been doing really well last couple of years. I

748
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.599
<v Speaker 1>had very good years. This last year their sales were

749
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.159
<v Speaker 1>flat or declined slightly. Is it because of this or

750
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:01.679
<v Speaker 1>is it something else? What is this about the brick points?

751
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:04.159
<v Speaker 3>Well, this particular thing touches on what we have been

752
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:08.360
<v Speaker 3>talking about. Nominally, it's about their anti theft system. I

753
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:11.280
<v Speaker 3>think the acronym is VTS, and apparently it's one of

754
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.840
<v Speaker 3>these systems where if the hive mined senses that the

755
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.599
<v Speaker 3>car hasn't reported in after a while, then it will

756
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.599
<v Speaker 3>disable the car because it thinks that the car was stolen.

757
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.480
<v Speaker 3>In other words, it's some kind of an anti theft device,

758
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.760
<v Speaker 3>but it points out that the cars can be disabled.

759
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:28.239
<v Speaker 3>All these Porsches in Russia, I should back up, All

760
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.400
<v Speaker 3>these Porsche models that are in Russia just don't work anymore.

761
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:34.239
<v Speaker 3>All of a sudden, they've been effectively bricked and turned

762
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.360
<v Speaker 3>off because a signal was sent out to the cars

763
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.880
<v Speaker 3>telling them to shut off. That's the key point. That's

764
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.400
<v Speaker 3>the key take home point. And it's not just Porsches.

765
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.440
<v Speaker 3>You and I have discussed this before. Connected vehicles, which

766
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:48.840
<v Speaker 3>means any vehicle that can receive over the air updates

767
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:52.079
<v Speaker 3>to the software that runs the computer. These have become

768
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.920
<v Speaker 3>essentially standard now, and they have been since around two

769
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:57.800
<v Speaker 3>hundred and twenty fifteen ish, so you know, for about

770
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.000
<v Speaker 3>ten years now, all the vehicles that have been sold,

771
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:03.679
<v Speaker 3>not just high end cars like Porsches, are connected. You know,

772
00:37:03.719 --> 00:37:07.559
<v Speaker 3>they receive updates over the air, and implicit in that

773
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.719
<v Speaker 3>is the ability of an external force, whether it's a

774
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:13.440
<v Speaker 3>hacker or it could be the government or it could

775
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.079
<v Speaker 3>be the vehicle manufacturer, It could be a variety of

776
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.880
<v Speaker 3>different sources. Is capable of interfering with the operation of

777
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:23.360
<v Speaker 3>your car and of shutting it down. Another example of it, let.

778
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.920
<v Speaker 1>Me ask you, is this happening in Russia. Is this

779
00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:29.280
<v Speaker 1>happening because Germany doesn't like Russia so they're disabling porsches?

780
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.239
<v Speaker 3>Well, it could be. One of the theories that's been

781
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:33.440
<v Speaker 3>put forward is that, yeah, it's kind of a punishment,

782
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.639
<v Speaker 3>and it may well be. It may well be in

783
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.920
<v Speaker 3>that particular case. But I think the thing that people

784
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.800
<v Speaker 3>listening to us should really take to heart is that

785
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:44.559
<v Speaker 3>if they have a newish vehicle, something that's built after

786
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:48.000
<v Speaker 3>twenty fifteen or so, that has this ability to receive

787
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.199
<v Speaker 3>over the air updates, implicit in that is that somebody

788
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.320
<v Speaker 3>else can get into your vehicle and control it. They

789
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.559
<v Speaker 3>can turn it off, they can change the parameters. There

790
00:37:57.599 --> 00:37:59.719
<v Speaker 3>was an incident several years ago where there was a

791
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.119
<v Speaker 3>hurt and I think it was in Texas. You may

792
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:04.119
<v Speaker 3>remember this. This hurricane was projected to come down, you know,

793
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:05.480
<v Speaker 3>come down into that area. It was supposed to be

794
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:08.639
<v Speaker 3>a bad one. So Elon Musk and his great beneficence

795
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.000
<v Speaker 3>sent out an over the air update that increased the

796
00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:14.639
<v Speaker 3>driving range of Tesla's you know, to get so that

797
00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:16.440
<v Speaker 3>people could get out of the way of this hurricane.

798
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:18.679
<v Speaker 3>And he was widely lost. Look what he managed. What

799
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:20.679
<v Speaker 3>a nice guy, Elon Musk is And I think I

800
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.519
<v Speaker 3>was maybe the only person who said, well, wait a minute,

801
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.360
<v Speaker 3>that's great. You know, if you can increase the range

802
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.159
<v Speaker 3>of your car, that means he could also decrease it

803
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:30.280
<v Speaker 3>or give you no range at all. He could just

804
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:32.880
<v Speaker 3>set out an update to turn the car off. And

805
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:34.559
<v Speaker 3>you know, keep in mind, we're dealing with people who

806
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.159
<v Speaker 3>might say, oh, there's a climate emergency, we can't have

807
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.480
<v Speaker 3>people out there driving. So they just send out the

808
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.280
<v Speaker 3>signal and automatically they shut off the great majority of

809
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.239
<v Speaker 3>the cars that are out out on the roads because

810
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:46.760
<v Speaker 3>most of the cars that are out on the roads

811
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:48.960
<v Speaker 3>now have this connected technology.

812
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:51.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as a matter of fact're talking about a climate emergency.

813
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:57.519
<v Speaker 1>They did you see that. Germany just told Toyota that

814
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.320
<v Speaker 1>they had to turn off the auto starts.

815
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:03.119
<v Speaker 2>So you know, people start up the car to warm

816
00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:03.559
<v Speaker 2>your car up.

817
00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:05.719
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you start the car early before you get

818
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:08.280
<v Speaker 1>in it so you can de ice it and warm

819
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:09.639
<v Speaker 1>it up, and that type of thing that, No, we

820
00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:14.320
<v Speaker 1>don't want your internal combustion engines idling needlessly, so we're

821
00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:18.119
<v Speaker 1>going to have to you know, so Lexus and Toyota

822
00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:20.920
<v Speaker 1>just did an over the air update to delete The

823
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.159
<v Speaker 1>ability to do that pretty imaginately.

824
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:26.400
<v Speaker 3>Speaks to what we're talking about. They have the capability

825
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:29.480
<v Speaker 3>to control all sorts of things about your car without

826
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:32.000
<v Speaker 3>your consent, and it's a frontal assault against the whole

827
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.280
<v Speaker 3>concept of private property. I mean, you bought it's your property.

828
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:37.719
<v Speaker 3>You you supposedly own this, your name is on the title,

829
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:41.039
<v Speaker 3>you paid for it. And yet this external third part

830
00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:44.239
<v Speaker 3>of this party out there can exert control over what

831
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.920
<v Speaker 3>is supposed to be yours. And if somebody else can

832
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.320
<v Speaker 3>exert control over the thing, then it really isn't yours, isn't.

833
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:51.519
<v Speaker 2>That's right, that's right.

834
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:54.800
<v Speaker 1>And of course, adding to all of this, they're allowing

835
00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:00.280
<v Speaker 1>evs and hybrids to to heat up early. You know,

836
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.599
<v Speaker 1>they get an exception to all of this stuff. One

837
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:05.400
<v Speaker 1>person said, well, wait a minute, I guess this is

838
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.920
<v Speaker 1>because the politicians can't tell the difference between a building

839
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:08.360
<v Speaker 1>and a car.

840
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:11.320
<v Speaker 2>Sure, so you know, it's.

841
00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:12.920
<v Speaker 1>Like we got both of those one of them you

842
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:14.519
<v Speaker 1>are allowed to heat. The other one you're not allowed

843
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:14.840
<v Speaker 1>to heat.

844
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:17.760
<v Speaker 3>Well, it's one again. It's one of the fatuities that

845
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:21.920
<v Speaker 3>has been a part of this whole evy thing since

846
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:24.320
<v Speaker 3>the get go, the idea that, well, it's okay to

847
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.159
<v Speaker 3>have carbon emissions, as they put it, if they come

848
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.159
<v Speaker 3>from some a power plant, you know, or some some

849
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:33.960
<v Speaker 3>centralized location where the power is generated. But it's a bad,

850
00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:36.199
<v Speaker 3>bad thing, you know, if it comes out of the

851
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:38.719
<v Speaker 3>tailpipe of a car. Even though you look at it,

852
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.039
<v Speaker 3>the amount of CO two emissions, even if you buy

853
00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:44.360
<v Speaker 3>into that whole thing that emanate from say, uh, you know,

854
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:48.719
<v Speaker 3>a natural gas fire utility plan, are enormous. The trivial

855
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:50.599
<v Speaker 3>amount that comes out of the exhaust pipe of a.

856
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.719
<v Speaker 1>Car or something comes out of one of Elon Musk's rockets.

857
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:57.679
<v Speaker 1>Going sure, But it was a few years ago you

858
00:40:57.679 --> 00:40:59.519
<v Speaker 1>and I were talking about this very thing and pointed

859
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:05.360
<v Speaker 1>out that in India the fuel the power plants that

860
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:09.039
<v Speaker 1>were fueling that were providing power to the grid were

861
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:11.159
<v Speaker 1>so dirty because they could they were allowed to make

862
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:13.480
<v Speaker 1>them cheap and dirty. You know, the Paris Climate Corp

863
00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:17.320
<v Speaker 1>Twenty fifteen that allowed India and China to build as

864
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:20.480
<v Speaker 1>many and as dirty of power plants as they wished,

865
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:26.119
<v Speaker 1>no restrictions whatsoever. And so the power grid was powered

866
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.159
<v Speaker 1>in India by power plants that were so dirty that

867
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:34.440
<v Speaker 1>if you had a car that was gasoline engine, you

868
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.960
<v Speaker 1>would emit less than they did. If you had a

869
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.719
<v Speaker 1>car that got thirty miles per gallon, you would be

870
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.360
<v Speaker 1>using less of their measured emissions than if you had

871
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:48.440
<v Speaker 1>an electric vehicle that was charged off of the power

872
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:52.880
<v Speaker 1>grid that was that was sourcing off of these dirty

873
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.079
<v Speaker 1>power plants. And so we said, well, maybe what we

874
00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:57.360
<v Speaker 1>could do is just put a great, big balloon on

875
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:01.960
<v Speaker 1>the back of the tailpipe and just collect all of

876
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.840
<v Speaker 1>the gas until it gets really big, and then you

877
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:06.280
<v Speaker 1>have to drive to a location of a power plant

878
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.760
<v Speaker 1>and let this thing go, because it's okay if it

879
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.960
<v Speaker 1>goes in the atmosphere at a power plant. It's just

880
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.800
<v Speaker 1>not okay coming out of your own tailpipe as you're trying.

881
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.000
<v Speaker 3>It'd be funny if it weren't so stupid, right.

882
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, Well you don't just match their stupidity. I

883
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:26.639
<v Speaker 1>guess that's amazing. Well, what else is on your radar here?

884
00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:29.239
<v Speaker 1>I see that you had an article up about Camaro

885
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:30.239
<v Speaker 1>maybe coming back.

886
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:33.239
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, here's that. Well, there's a rumor. There's nothing that's

887
00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:36.920
<v Speaker 3>been confirmed definitively, but GM's president Mark Royce has hinted

888
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.920
<v Speaker 3>that they might bring back the Camaro and noo. The

889
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:43.760
<v Speaker 3>Camaro was last available in twenty twenty four. Previously, it

890
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.039
<v Speaker 3>had been available all the way back to nineteen sixty

891
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:48.159
<v Speaker 3>seven as kind of a GM version of the Camaro,

892
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:51.159
<v Speaker 3>and it was a hugely successful car. The problem was

893
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:54.440
<v Speaker 3>that over the years it got progressively more complex and expensive,

894
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:57.599
<v Speaker 3>such that by twenty twenty four, even the base Camaro,

895
00:42:57.719 --> 00:42:59.960
<v Speaker 3>the least expensive version of it, was nearly thirty two

896
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:03.360
<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars. That's the problem. You know, some people would say, well,

897
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:05.360
<v Speaker 3>it was an impractical car. It had tight back seats

898
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.000
<v Speaker 3>and you know, you didn't have a lot of room

899
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.000
<v Speaker 3>in the trunk. Well, that never was a problem for Camaro,

900
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.559
<v Speaker 3>and it's heyday. I did digging. I know a lot

901
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:14.639
<v Speaker 3>about these generation cars because I've been a fan of

902
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:17.239
<v Speaker 3>them for many years and I've owned a number of them. Well,

903
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:19.519
<v Speaker 3>nineteen seventy eight was the high water mark for Camaro,

904
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.559
<v Speaker 3>and during that year, Chevy sold something like two hundred

905
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.440
<v Speaker 3>and seventy thousand of them, which is an astoundingly huge

906
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:27.480
<v Speaker 3>number of them. And you and I can remember back

907
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.159
<v Speaker 3>in the seventies and eighties they were everywhere, oh yeah,

908
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.639
<v Speaker 3>just absolutely everywhere. And well that was because the base

909
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:35.280
<v Speaker 3>Camaro back in seventy eight was forty four hundred dollars

910
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.199
<v Speaker 3>and if you plug that number into the you know,

911
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:41.199
<v Speaker 3>the government sketchy BLS inflation calculator, which probably is way

912
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:45.000
<v Speaker 3>underestimating it, but anyway, it comes out twenty two thousand dollars.

913
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:46.960
<v Speaker 3>I kind of think if people could buy a Camaro

914
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:50.559
<v Speaker 3>today for twenty two thousand dollars, probably they would. You know.

915
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:53.239
<v Speaker 3>The difficulty is that the typical demographic for that car

916
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:56.719
<v Speaker 3>is mostly young guys, mostly guys under thirty five by Camaros.

917
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:58.719
<v Speaker 3>That's you know, that's it's that kind of a car.

918
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.840
<v Speaker 3>The problem is that that most young guys don't have

919
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.360
<v Speaker 3>thirty two thousand dollars plus the insurance, plus everything else

920
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.400
<v Speaker 3>that goes along with it to buy the car. So

921
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:09.440
<v Speaker 3>it's mostly an older guys car. And you know, you

922
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:11.400
<v Speaker 3>get to be older and it gets to be hard

923
00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:13.960
<v Speaker 3>to get into one of these little cars and unpleasant.

924
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:18.519
<v Speaker 3>You probably yeah, yeah, you're probably married and you got kids,

925
00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:21.360
<v Speaker 3>and it's just not that practical. And unless you're very affluent,

926
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.880
<v Speaker 3>you can't afford that second impractical car, the fun car.

927
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:27.519
<v Speaker 3>You know, you have to buy one car. So typically

928
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.039
<v Speaker 3>people will buy a crossover or an suv because it's

929
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:33.079
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's suitable for a family, it's practical. So

930
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.559
<v Speaker 3>that's the reason why Camaro got canceled chiefly. Now, what

931
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:38.519
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to see is them try to return to

932
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:40.679
<v Speaker 3>the roots of the car and bring back something that's

933
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:43.800
<v Speaker 3>much less expensive and something that's much more basic. You know,

934
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:47.119
<v Speaker 3>set me eate the Camaro. It didn't have the standard Camaro,

935
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:49.039
<v Speaker 3>did not have power windows or locks. It had a

936
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.559
<v Speaker 3>manual transmission. It had a thirty six cylinder engine, and

937
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.239
<v Speaker 3>that's just fine. You know. It was a fun, sporty

938
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.079
<v Speaker 3>car that was affordable. Now, if you look at like

939
00:44:58.119 --> 00:44:59.760
<v Speaker 3>the base, I don't even know whether the use that

940
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.760
<v Speaker 3>term or base, the bass trim. The bass trim has

941
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:06.800
<v Speaker 3>has things that would have been considered high end, luxurious

942
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.480
<v Speaker 3>things once upon a time. Everything has power windows, power locks,

943
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.119
<v Speaker 3>climate control, power seats, a great stereo, cruised All those

944
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.039
<v Speaker 3>things are nice if you can afford them.

945
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:17.480
<v Speaker 2>That's right.

946
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:20.599
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I had a Mustang, a sixty eight Mustang, and

947
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.800
<v Speaker 1>of course it had the windows were powered by my army,

948
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:27.559
<v Speaker 1>you know, and no air conditioning, no back seat. Really,

949
00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.440
<v Speaker 1>I can testify to how small that back seat was,

950
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:33.519
<v Speaker 1>and that wasn't a problem. It's still a very popular

951
00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:35.760
<v Speaker 1>car as a matter of fact. No air conditioning. But

952
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:38.280
<v Speaker 1>even in Florida, they used to have those you know,

953
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.559
<v Speaker 1>the triangle that is part of the you know, right

954
00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:43.559
<v Speaker 1>behind the eight pillar. I don't know what you call

955
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.519
<v Speaker 1>that thing, but yeah, I used to be able to

956
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:47.920
<v Speaker 1>open that thing up and I could turn it and

957
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:49.880
<v Speaker 1>so I would get a massive amount of.

958
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:51.280
<v Speaker 2>Water, water.

959
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:52.840
<v Speaker 3>Raining.

960
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.400
<v Speaker 1>It would be water, but usually it would be when

961
00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:58.280
<v Speaker 1>that's getting dumped into my lap and chest, you know,

962
00:45:58.639 --> 00:45:59.880
<v Speaker 1>and that would really keep you cool.

963
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:00.320
<v Speaker 2>Problem.

964
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.840
<v Speaker 1>The only problem with it was that the control that

965
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:05.480
<v Speaker 1>latched it kept popping off of the glass. They didn't

966
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:07.760
<v Speaker 1>very well and I had a hard time trying to

967
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.360
<v Speaker 1>get it glued back on. But other than that, you know,

968
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:14.960
<v Speaker 1>the thing was very simple and very very fun to drive,

969
00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:17.079
<v Speaker 1>you know. And when I got rid of that, I

970
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:19.639
<v Speaker 1>got a car that was even more simple, and that

971
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:23.840
<v Speaker 1>was the Triumph Spitfire. But it was also mechanically unreliable.

972
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:28.920
<v Speaker 1>It had a lot more things than just the little shutting,

973
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:31.320
<v Speaker 1>the little thing, the little control on the window that

974
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:34.400
<v Speaker 1>popped off. It had a lot of body integrity as

975
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.440
<v Speaker 1>well as engine integrity issues with that thing as well.

976
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:41.679
<v Speaker 3>But personality. But you know, I think that's right. There's

977
00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:43.599
<v Speaker 3>a lag time. Like everything that's on the market right

978
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.719
<v Speaker 3>now is premised on people being able to deal with

979
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:48.880
<v Speaker 3>the cost in terms of the monthly payment, and that

980
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.719
<v Speaker 3>that did work for a while, but it's not the

981
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:53.840
<v Speaker 3>way it was. You know, the cost of everything else

982
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:57.800
<v Speaker 3>has increased so dramatically over the last several years that

983
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.719
<v Speaker 3>it's no longer feasible for most people to go out

984
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:03.199
<v Speaker 3>and pick up a thirty or forty thousand dollars car

985
00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.840
<v Speaker 3>on top of paying twice as much for groceries, on

986
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:08.760
<v Speaker 3>top of twice as much for car insurance, you know, rent,

987
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:11.159
<v Speaker 3>and everything else that has gone through the roof. So

988
00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:13.559
<v Speaker 3>you know, that's why it's no longer to use the

989
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.360
<v Speaker 3>favorite word of the progress is sustainable. So if we

990
00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:19.760
<v Speaker 3>went back to a situation where certain options were simply

991
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:21.519
<v Speaker 3>a la cart like they used to be, you know,

992
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:23.280
<v Speaker 3>you know, you get the base car there it is.

993
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:24.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, you look at the options box and you

994
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.320
<v Speaker 3>see how much if power windows cost three hundred bucks, Okay,

995
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:29.920
<v Speaker 3>I'll go, I'll buy that, you know, if I can

996
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:31.719
<v Speaker 3>afford it. Now I'm going to skip that this time.

997
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:34.280
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to see I'd like to see things get

998
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:36.599
<v Speaker 3>back to that, you know, so that more and more

999
00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:40.199
<v Speaker 3>people could once again afford cars and fun cars. I

1000
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:41.880
<v Speaker 3>think it's sad that, you know, most of the fun

1001
00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:45.440
<v Speaker 3>cars now are very expensive cars. So you know, only

1002
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.639
<v Speaker 3>older people in the handful of other people who aren't

1003
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:50.480
<v Speaker 3>older and have the money, can afford to indulge in them.

1004
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:53.199
<v Speaker 3>And that's, you know, that's that's undermining everything that that

1005
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:55.880
<v Speaker 3>you know that I like about cars. The whole point

1006
00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.280
<v Speaker 3>is to have fun while you're driving and to enjoy

1007
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.920
<v Speaker 3>the freedom of mobility. And you know, people are being

1008
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:03.320
<v Speaker 3>turned off to that, especially to younger generations, because they

1009
00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:04.039
<v Speaker 3>can't afford it.

1010
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.480
<v Speaker 1>Well, a good example of that is a good example

1011
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:08.840
<v Speaker 1>is Jeep. Look at what Stillantis has done with it.

1012
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:12.840
<v Speaker 1>They've added all the bells and whistles and luxury appointments

1013
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:16.039
<v Speaker 1>to the Jeep that now they're not affordable to anybody.

1014
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:19.679
<v Speaker 1>They have completely lost sight of what their target audience was.

1015
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:21.400
<v Speaker 1>You know, these are people who wanted to grab this

1016
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.440
<v Speaker 1>thing and go out, you know, in the rough with

1017
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:27.440
<v Speaker 1>this stuff, and instead, what they're doing is they're adding

1018
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:29.599
<v Speaker 1>everything that they can think of to it, so people

1019
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:30.679
<v Speaker 1>can't afford them at all.

1020
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:33.159
<v Speaker 3>Well, there's some good news there though. A couple of

1021
00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:36.079
<v Speaker 3>days ago, Stillantis, which is the parent company of Jeep

1022
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.400
<v Speaker 3>and chrysand Dodge and Ram Trucks, announced that they were

1023
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:42.519
<v Speaker 3>I love the phrase pulling the plug on their plug

1024
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.320
<v Speaker 3>in hybrid versions of Jeep vehicles they have been trying

1025
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:47.880
<v Speaker 3>to sell, if you can imagine it, they tried to

1026
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.000
<v Speaker 3>sell it. They called it the four XE version of

1027
00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.119
<v Speaker 3>the Rank and it costs US twenty thousand dollars more

1028
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:58.039
<v Speaker 3>than the Rangers didn't have the hybrid drive train. And

1029
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.119
<v Speaker 3>the big cell, according to Jeep, was hey, you can

1030
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.199
<v Speaker 3>drive this thing twenty miles on battery power alone. That's

1031
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.599
<v Speaker 3>worth twenty thousand dollars more. I mean, you know, they

1032
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.800
<v Speaker 3>pushed the price of the thing up to nearly fifty

1033
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:11.639
<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars for a wrangler.

1034
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:12.559
<v Speaker 2>That's insane.

1035
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:14.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, especially because you know a lot of people I

1036
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.599
<v Speaker 1>take this out and you know, the out back or whatever,

1037
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.079
<v Speaker 1>and that twenty miles of driving without any gasoline doesn't

1038
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:24.000
<v Speaker 1>really make any difference because you're going to be going

1039
00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:26.039
<v Speaker 1>a long way before you get to where you really

1040
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:27.679
<v Speaker 1>want to play with the thing, right.

1041
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:32.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, absolutely. They undermined everything that was the point of

1042
00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:37.599
<v Speaker 3>vating the jeep, which is simplicity, ruggedness, durability, and turned

1043
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:41.360
<v Speaker 3>it into kind of a rich suburban person's plaything. And

1044
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:42.880
<v Speaker 3>the problem with that is there are only so many

1045
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.760
<v Speaker 3>rich suburban people who want to have like an image

1046
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:47.960
<v Speaker 3>of being, Hey, I've got a jeep and I'm rugged.

1047
00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:50.199
<v Speaker 3>Look at me, as you know, I parked in front

1048
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:51.000
<v Speaker 3>of my McMansion.

1049
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:55.639
<v Speaker 1>That's right handas killing the motorcycle said, that's one of

1050
00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:57.039
<v Speaker 1>your articles there, what's going on with that?

1051
00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.519
<v Speaker 3>Well, that's a bit much, But I don't like the trend. Yeah,

1052
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.440
<v Speaker 3>they you know, and they've done this in the past.

1053
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:05.039
<v Speaker 3>They're trying to broaden the market, and they're trying to

1054
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:08.760
<v Speaker 3>reach the younger demographic in particular by essentially taking the

1055
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:12.760
<v Speaker 3>manual transmission out of the equation, which to me, if

1056
00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:14.800
<v Speaker 3>you do that, it's not a motorcycle anymore. There's a

1057
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:17.199
<v Speaker 3>name for what that is. It's a moped or a scooter,

1058
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:20.400
<v Speaker 3>and you're not. I'm not. I'm not slamming either of

1059
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:24.320
<v Speaker 3>you know, I don't have an issue with it. This

1060
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:26.119
<v Speaker 3>they make a lot of sense for a lot of people,

1061
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:30.360
<v Speaker 3>but it's not a motorcycle. Motorcycle has a manual transmission.

1062
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:33.599
<v Speaker 3>Part of the experience is shifting through the gears yourself

1063
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:36.440
<v Speaker 3>and having that additional level of control over the bike

1064
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.079
<v Speaker 3>that you don't have with with you know, a moped

1065
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:42.079
<v Speaker 3>or a scooter. And I know, I understand the dynamic

1066
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:43.679
<v Speaker 3>that they you know, these these you know, a lot

1067
00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.719
<v Speaker 3>of the younger generation have never done what you and

1068
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:48.800
<v Speaker 3>I did when we were kids, rode dirt bikes, you know,

1069
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:51.920
<v Speaker 3>and learned how to ride a bike, riding a dirt bike.

1070
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:55.000
<v Speaker 3>They've not done that. So they're trying to get that

1071
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.119
<v Speaker 3>that new buyer demographic in because they understand that right now,

1072
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.519
<v Speaker 3>the majority of the typic buyer of a new motorcycle

1073
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:04.199
<v Speaker 3>is a guy our age, you know, and we're not

1074
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:08.159
<v Speaker 3>going to be buying any more motorcycles, you know, that's

1075
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.960
<v Speaker 3>the bottom line. We know that that people are aging

1076
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.159
<v Speaker 3>out of that market, so you know, they're they're trying

1077
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:15.920
<v Speaker 3>to get the young crowd in but I think it's

1078
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.119
<v Speaker 3>self defeating to do that because ultimately it really isn't

1079
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:19.840
<v Speaker 3>a motorcycle.

1080
00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:23.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've never really I never used I never rode

1081
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:26.320
<v Speaker 1>a motorcycle, but I did enjoy riding a little scooters

1082
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:30.719
<v Speaker 1>on the beach in Daytona Beach. I was really upset

1083
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:33.039
<v Speaker 1>about the fact that when I took Careen back about

1084
00:51:33.079 --> 00:51:36.119
<v Speaker 1>a decade ago and we went over to Daytona Beach,

1085
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.400
<v Speaker 1>where my family used to go frequently because there's only

1086
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:39.960
<v Speaker 1>about four hours away from where we used to live

1087
00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:44.000
<v Speaker 1>in Tampa, and they won't even let you on the

1088
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.039
<v Speaker 1>beach anymore. I mean you go back and you look

1089
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:49.519
<v Speaker 1>at you know, Daytona five hundred really originally was a

1090
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.199
<v Speaker 1>race that was on the beach, and so you know,

1091
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.239
<v Speaker 1>we used to have these little little scooters that we

1092
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.320
<v Speaker 1>could could rent. Even when I was in junior high school,

1093
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:00.880
<v Speaker 1>I did that, and you know, they said you got

1094
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:03.159
<v Speaker 1>to only drive it on the beach and you can't

1095
00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:06.119
<v Speaker 1>take it out anywhere else, and you know, they would

1096
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:07.280
<v Speaker 1>only go like thirty miles an hour.

1097
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:08.079
<v Speaker 2>It was a lot of fun.

1098
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:11.519
<v Speaker 1>And now you can't drive anything on the beach, so

1099
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:14.280
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff, it's like a ghost town there. It's amazing.

1100
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:17.719
<v Speaker 1>Everything is closed off. They had a boardwalk there. Nobody's

1101
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:20.559
<v Speaker 1>allowed to do that anymore. And so I've actually even

1102
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:22.719
<v Speaker 1>got a bumper that I put up where I show

1103
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.800
<v Speaker 1>some clips from back in the nineteen seventies or so

1104
00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:28.920
<v Speaker 1>and just crowded with people and cars and all this

1105
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.519
<v Speaker 1>teeming with life and with fun. And then I juxtaposed

1106
00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:37.119
<v Speaker 1>that with what's there now, which is nothing. Yeah, that's

1107
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:38.239
<v Speaker 1>all just government.

1108
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:41.079
<v Speaker 3>And have taken over everything happened, Yeah, trying to now.

1109
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:44.519
<v Speaker 3>There is some good news, and it's ironic. The Indians

1110
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.159
<v Speaker 3>have taken over a lot of the classic British brands

1111
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:51.719
<v Speaker 3>like Royal Enfield, and they have been bringing back affordable

1112
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:56.480
<v Speaker 3>light small bikes and they're actually doing quite well with

1113
00:52:56.519 --> 00:53:00.599
<v Speaker 3>those things because they're accessible to young people. Under ten

1114
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:04.920
<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars will buy you a very nice Royal Endfield Oreo.

1115
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.440
<v Speaker 3>What's the other one? I can't I'm having an abiden moment.

1116
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:11.920
<v Speaker 3>The big British brand of bike that's controlled by the Indians.

1117
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:14.719
<v Speaker 3>I can't think of it. Anyway, it took the Indians

1118
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:18.119
<v Speaker 3>to bring bring motorcycling back. I guess the Japanese and

1119
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:20.519
<v Speaker 3>the Americans are even more guilty of this Harley. You know,

1120
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.639
<v Speaker 3>it's selling thirty dollars bikes to you know, to sixty

1121
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:26.440
<v Speaker 3>year old guys with pleated leather chaps.

1122
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:30.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, of course, I guess the Indians could get the

1123
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.960
<v Speaker 1>Indian bike, right, But they haven't bought that one yet, right,

1124
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:35.519
<v Speaker 1>So I hope.

1125
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.440
<v Speaker 3>That they do because they might actually bring back something

1126
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:40.239
<v Speaker 3>that's elemental. You know, one time, Harley was like the

1127
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.239
<v Speaker 3>quintessential bike and an Indian the same thing. It was

1128
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:45.760
<v Speaker 3>a frame, a gas tank, you know, and an air

1129
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:49.440
<v Speaker 3>cool v twin engine. Yeah, and it was specifically designed

1130
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:52.320
<v Speaker 3>for you know, lugheads like me, you know, to be

1131
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:54.519
<v Speaker 3>able to work on them with a crescent wrench. You know.

1132
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:56.199
<v Speaker 3>Now you have to go to the Harley store to

1133
00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:59.400
<v Speaker 3>get the computer hooked up and get your accessory flashed.

1134
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:03.320
<v Speaker 3>You know. It's it's they've taken all the finishing and

1135
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:05.840
<v Speaker 3>all the personalization that used to be one of the

1136
00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:08.000
<v Speaker 3>huge appeals of these bikes. You bought it and then

1137
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:09.679
<v Speaker 3>you made it yours by adding stuff to it and

1138
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:12.159
<v Speaker 3>customizing it and fiddling with it, so your bike was

1139
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:14.480
<v Speaker 3>not like everybody else's bike. Now you've got to go

1140
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:16.280
<v Speaker 3>to the dealer and pay the Harley Tech to do

1141
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:16.800
<v Speaker 3>that for you.

1142
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:19.599
<v Speaker 1>That's right, because they've got control. They really own the thing,

1143
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.119
<v Speaker 1>not you. And of course you and I have talked

1144
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:26.159
<v Speaker 1>about that, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the fights

1145
00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:28.079
<v Speaker 1>that were going back and forth and still are. I

1146
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.400
<v Speaker 1>think with John Deere and telling the farmers, no, no, no,

1147
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:33.559
<v Speaker 1>you can't even buy the part from us and put

1148
00:54:33.599 --> 00:54:35.400
<v Speaker 1>it in. You're going to have to have us put

1149
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:37.639
<v Speaker 1>it in so that we can set this up properly,

1150
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:39.519
<v Speaker 1>otherwise we'll break your tractor.

1151
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:43.480
<v Speaker 3>I'm surprised that there hasn't been a revolt about that.

1152
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:46.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, people are not happy with it, that's for sure.

1153
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:48.760
<v Speaker 3>They should just stop buying it. I mean, I personally

1154
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:52.719
<v Speaker 3>would never buy something like that I don't have control over. Yeah,

1155
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.480
<v Speaker 3>it's just a demeaning thing to think, Okay, this item,

1156
00:54:56.519 --> 00:54:59.000
<v Speaker 3>whatever it may be, that I've just paid money for,

1157
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:01.639
<v Speaker 3>that is a sensible my property. Well, somebody else can

1158
00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:04.719
<v Speaker 3>yank my chain, you know, at their whim, and I'm

1159
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:06.920
<v Speaker 3>holding to them and I have to go beg permission

1160
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:10.440
<v Speaker 3>from them to be able to use my property that

1161
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:13.159
<v Speaker 3>I paid for. I don't understand people who willingly sign

1162
00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:14.280
<v Speaker 3>up for that that's right.

1163
00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:16.400
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, it kind of goes back to what

1164
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:18.719
<v Speaker 1>we were talking about before. You know, AI on board

1165
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:22.199
<v Speaker 1>and they controlled to be able to remotely alter or

1166
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.400
<v Speaker 1>even shut down your car and that type of thing.

1167
00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:27.199
<v Speaker 1>The first time I really started thinking about that was

1168
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:31.599
<v Speaker 1>with the death of Michael Hastings, reporter that I still

1169
00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:33.639
<v Speaker 1>to this day believed that they killed him and that

1170
00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:36.119
<v Speaker 1>they did it with the Mercedes because he was he

1171
00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:39.519
<v Speaker 1>was before it all happened. He had sent out some

1172
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:41.400
<v Speaker 1>messages to people saying, you know, I'm working on this

1173
00:55:41.400 --> 00:55:43.599
<v Speaker 1>thing and I've got to go into hiding, and he

1174
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:47.440
<v Speaker 1>was looking under his Mercedes that he had, and he'd

1175
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:49.679
<v Speaker 1>made comments to the person that he was renting the

1176
00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:52.079
<v Speaker 1>house from that he was very worried about what they

1177
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:53.719
<v Speaker 1>might do with this car and everything. We look at

1178
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:58.159
<v Speaker 1>the way the thing crashed. The engine went down the

1179
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.519
<v Speaker 1>road in the direction that he was try traveling. It

1180
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:02.400
<v Speaker 1>was going very fast. They got pictures of it going

1181
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:04.320
<v Speaker 1>very fast, but of course that could be done remotely.

1182
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.679
<v Speaker 1>And the engine went down the road in the direction

1183
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:09.719
<v Speaker 1>he was traveling, whereas he went over in the right

1184
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:15.320
<v Speaker 1>hand direction and had a head on with a tree

1185
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:18.159
<v Speaker 1>that was not you know, the kind of head on

1186
00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:20.519
<v Speaker 1>that you would expect when there is a lot of

1187
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:24.239
<v Speaker 1>speed going on. In other words, it wasn't completely crushed,

1188
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:28.960
<v Speaker 1>but it immediately burst into fire and all that I

1189
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.239
<v Speaker 1>thought was very suspicious. But you know, we'd already had

1190
00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:35.800
<v Speaker 1>people who have been part of security saying, yeah, we

1191
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:40.280
<v Speaker 1>could use that to assassinate people, and I think that's

1192
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:42.599
<v Speaker 1>what they did, and that, of course, as you point out,

1193
00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.159
<v Speaker 1>you know, that's the most radical version of that. But

1194
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:47.960
<v Speaker 1>of course they could also just like they brick us

1195
00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:50.960
<v Speaker 1>and shadow ban us on you know, we get de banked,

1196
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:53.320
<v Speaker 1>we get shadow banded on social media and other places

1197
00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:56.519
<v Speaker 1>like that, they could brick our cars as well for

1198
00:56:56.599 --> 00:56:57.559
<v Speaker 1>the same types of things.

1199
00:56:57.559 --> 00:57:00.000
<v Speaker 3>If they don't like what we're saying. You know, certainly

1200
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:01.800
<v Speaker 3>this is something people I think really ought to be

1201
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.159
<v Speaker 3>aware of. A lot of the systems in the car.

1202
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:06.800
<v Speaker 3>For example, the accelerator pedal are now drive by wire.

1203
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:09.960
<v Speaker 3>And what does that mean. Well, it means you have

1204
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:12.760
<v Speaker 3>the illusion that when you push down on the accelerator

1205
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.920
<v Speaker 3>pedal that it's your physical action that's resulting in the

1206
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:19.000
<v Speaker 3>engine speeding up and the car accelerating. That's not so.

1207
00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:22.079
<v Speaker 3>What's happening is that signals data are being sent to

1208
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:25.039
<v Speaker 3>the ECU, the engine controller, and that in turn is

1209
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:29.039
<v Speaker 3>telling the computer to increase the engine speed. So implicit

1210
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:31.400
<v Speaker 3>in that is that the engine could be told to speed,

1211
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:35.480
<v Speaker 3>to race and rev and make you go barreling down

1212
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:37.320
<v Speaker 3>the road. Now you think, well, then all I have

1213
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:39.400
<v Speaker 3>to do is if it's an automatic transmission, well I'll

1214
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:41.599
<v Speaker 3>just put it in neutral. Well, the problem there is

1215
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:44.280
<v Speaker 3>that the transmission is now drive by wire. Also, you

1216
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.639
<v Speaker 3>have the illusion that when you move that selector from

1217
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:49.320
<v Speaker 3>park to reverse to neutral and drive, that you're engaging

1218
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:53.119
<v Speaker 3>something mechanically. You're not. All you're doing is transmitting data

1219
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:57.119
<v Speaker 3>to the computer, which then puts the transmission into reverse, neutral,

1220
00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:59.519
<v Speaker 3>drive and so on. Well, if it stays in drive,

1221
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.480
<v Speaker 3>you're trying to frantically put it neutral to get the

1222
00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:05.800
<v Speaker 3>car also steering. Now, you know they have these lane

1223
00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:09.000
<v Speaker 3>keep assist things with electric assisted power steering that can

1224
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:12.440
<v Speaker 3>exert physical control over your steering. That's right, And you

1225
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:14.800
<v Speaker 3>know that could make this car steer violently to the

1226
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.559
<v Speaker 3>left or violently to the right. All of these things

1227
00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:20.800
<v Speaker 3>are now part of the embedded software suite of pretty

1228
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.400
<v Speaker 3>much all the new cars on the market. I'm leary

1229
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:27.480
<v Speaker 3>of that stuff. I like mechanical things because mechanical things

1230
00:58:27.760 --> 00:58:29.159
<v Speaker 3>can't be controlled externally.

1231
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:33.480
<v Speaker 1>That's right. So you got your accelerator, your break, your transmission,

1232
00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:36.199
<v Speaker 1>you're steering. All that is by wire, all that can

1233
00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:42.000
<v Speaker 1>be controlled. I remember Ron Atkinson and he said the

1234
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.559
<v Speaker 1>modern cars, he said, you don't so much drive them

1235
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:47.840
<v Speaker 1>as you manage them, right, And so he was talking

1236
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:50.480
<v Speaker 1>about some of the hypercars that he was able to afford.

1237
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:53.119
<v Speaker 1>But that has now been extended pretty much to everything

1238
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:56.719
<v Speaker 1>under this kind of regime of drive by wire, hasn't it.

1239
00:58:57.280 --> 00:58:59.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Absolutely. You know, it's a combination of synergistic things

1240
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:02.519
<v Speaker 3>that aren't necessarily all the level and it's a way

1241
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:05.800
<v Speaker 3>for the manufacturers to reduce costs, you know, rather than

1242
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:07.400
<v Speaker 3>when a car comes down the assembly line. In the

1243
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:09.519
<v Speaker 3>old days, they had to have a guy making the

1244
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:11.840
<v Speaker 3>fine adjustments to things like a throttle cable. You know,

1245
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:14.239
<v Speaker 3>the throttle had to be connected to the engine, and

1246
00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:16.079
<v Speaker 3>then it had to be routed through the firewall, and

1247
00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:18.159
<v Speaker 3>then it had to be connected to the pedal and

1248
00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:19.840
<v Speaker 3>they check the tension on it and make sure everything

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<v Speaker 3>was working correctly. Now it's just literally what they say,

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00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:25.719
<v Speaker 3>plug and play. You know, the whole assembly comes down

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00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:28.360
<v Speaker 3>the line plug plug plug, and it's cheaper from the

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00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.079
<v Speaker 3>standpoint of the manufacturer to do that, saves them money,

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<v Speaker 3>increases their profits. So it's not all evil, but it's

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<v Speaker 3>still you know, it's still unfortunate and potentially very dangerous

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<v Speaker 3>for us all and again, to get back to what

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00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:43.760
<v Speaker 3>we were talking about earlier, it needlessly increases the complexity

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00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:45.519
<v Speaker 3>of the thing. You know, back in the old days,

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<v Speaker 3>like in my trans am, I if the throttle cable

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<v Speaker 3>lines or snaps, I can easily find and fix it,

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<v Speaker 3>and a cable is like a twenty dollars part. Well,

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00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:57.559
<v Speaker 3>you know, if the electronics that control the drive by

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<v Speaker 3>wire throttle fail, it's not likely you're going to be

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<v Speaker 3>able to die diagnose it yourself unless you've got the

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<v Speaker 3>equipment to do it with. And it's probably going to

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<v Speaker 3>entail expensive sensors and computer related stuff that you're going

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<v Speaker 3>to have to pay a dealer to fix.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right, You've got to have entire modules changed out

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<v Speaker 1>and that type of thing. I you know, every time

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<v Speaker 1>we talk about this, I think about what the guys

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<v Speaker 1>at Flying the Auto were looking at the various generations,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the first generation, it's like, yeah, we can

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<v Speaker 1>take out the small four cylinder engine that's in there.

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<v Speaker 1>We can put in a big eight cylinder corvette engine,

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<v Speaker 1>and so it's just kind of a mechanical thing. Can

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<v Speaker 1>we squish it in there? Yeah, we can do that

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<v Speaker 1>with this. But then, you know, and so the first

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<v Speaker 1>couple of generations it was like that. By the time

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<v Speaker 1>they got to the third generation, there was a good

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<v Speaker 1>bit of electronic control, and so it got a bit complicated.

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<v Speaker 1>By the time they got to the fourth generation, however,

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<v Speaker 1>it took them a very long time. They had to

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<v Speaker 1>go hire specialists who could reprogram things because everything was interconnected.

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01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:54.800
<v Speaker 1>You couldn't just pull the engine out and put another

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01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:57.119
<v Speaker 1>engine in there, because then it broke all these other

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01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.320
<v Speaker 1>supporting systems for ventilation and all this other It was

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01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:03.000
<v Speaker 1>all tied together, and it all had to be reprogrammed.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's really a good example what's happening. You take

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01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:08.440
<v Speaker 1>a very simple sports car like a Miata, and you

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01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:09.960
<v Speaker 1>make it complicated like that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and essentially unrepairable except by a technician.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I'm doing this project we were talking about before.

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01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:19.360
<v Speaker 3>I'm converting much transim from an automatic transmission to a

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01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.039
<v Speaker 3>manual transmission, and it's all mechanical parts and as long

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01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:23.920
<v Speaker 3>as everything fits and lines up, it's going to work.

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<v Speaker 3>My engine doesn't care whether an automatic transmission or a

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01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.280
<v Speaker 3>manual transmission is bolted to it. It'll work just the same.

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<v Speaker 3>But with anything modern, if it was assembled and made

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01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:36.079
<v Speaker 3>at the factory to have an automatic transmission, if you

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01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:38.320
<v Speaker 3>wanted to put a manual with it, you'd have to

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<v Speaker 3>completely change all the computer stuff, reprogram everything to be incongruence.

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<v Speaker 3>If you even could do that, it might be possible

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<v Speaker 3>to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what's happened to everything in

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01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:53.519
<v Speaker 1>our life. It's gotten hopelessly complicated and needlessly complicated. I

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01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:55.360
<v Speaker 1>would say, you look at all the things that are

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<v Speaker 1>out there. Of course, it's made the guys who are

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<v Speaker 1>the tech geeks and Silicon Valley's made them very, very rich.

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<v Speaker 1>But it is much worse even than the planned obsolescence

1310
01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.760
<v Speaker 1>that we've seen for longest time, because what they've done

1311
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:11.559
<v Speaker 1>is they've created things that are needlessly complicated, needlessly expensive,

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<v Speaker 1>and under their control and continuing to be under their control.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's a it's a disturbing trend. Isn't it. But

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<v Speaker 1>especially when you start to see AI moving its way

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<v Speaker 1>into cars, I'm sure the geeks thought, hey, this is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be great. We can talk to the car

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<v Speaker 1>and it can talk back to us. This is like

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<v Speaker 1>night Rider or something like that.

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<v Speaker 3>That's uh, without the attractiveness of it, you know, well,

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<v Speaker 3>there's lots that interests me in that. It's a sad thing.

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<v Speaker 3>People are being alienated from their cars because they don't

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<v Speaker 3>understand them. That's right, people or mechanically inclined, you know,

1323
01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:43.960
<v Speaker 3>the tradition of the feeling that you got of hey,

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<v Speaker 3>I can fix this, or I'm going to do this

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01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:48.920
<v Speaker 3>to my car. I can do it. It's within my

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01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:52.159
<v Speaker 3>skill set. Now, you know, it's a car is just

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<v Speaker 3>a two ton cell phone and it works, and you're

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<v Speaker 3>happy that it works, I guess, you know, until it

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01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.679
<v Speaker 3>stops working, at which point you feel completely inept and powerless.

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<v Speaker 3>Most people, and I've got friends who are professional mechanics

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01:03:03.800 --> 01:03:06.599
<v Speaker 3>of thirty years plus standing, and because they can't afford

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01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:10.440
<v Speaker 3>to pay for the software updates, the proprietary diagnostic equipment,

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01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:14.199
<v Speaker 3>they can't diagnose and work on a number of new

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01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.719
<v Speaker 3>late model vehicles because they just don't have the necessary equipment,

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01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.440
<v Speaker 3>and again, these are professionally trained people. They can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, said, And that's really something that we're seeing

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<v Speaker 1>happening in a lot of different facets of our life,

1338
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<v Speaker 1>of our culture. That's happening out there. It's always great

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<v Speaker 1>talking to you, Eric, Thank you so much for coming on.

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<v Speaker 1>You and I are of the same mind when it

1341
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:37.320
<v Speaker 1>comes to this stuff, and we're seeing some very dangerous

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01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.960
<v Speaker 1>precedents that are being put in place. Hopefully it won't

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01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:41.400
<v Speaker 1>be too long before we talk to each other, and

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully next time we talk there won't be some new

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01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:47.559
<v Speaker 1>war in Greenland or ran or wherever. I mean, we've

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01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:50.559
<v Speaker 1>got Orange. Man is really coveting Greenland, isn't he.

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<v Speaker 3>I hope I can get my trans am back on

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01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:55.760
<v Speaker 3>the road before every before the poo hits the fans,

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01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.400
<v Speaker 3>so I can at least go out running over the

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01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:00.599
<v Speaker 3>zombies with my super T ten four speed.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go, that'd be great. Thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 2>Have a good day.

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<v Speaker 1>The common man. They created common Core and dumbed down

1354
01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:24.840
<v Speaker 1>our children. They created common Past track and control us.

1355
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:29.039
<v Speaker 1>They're Commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing

1356
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:34.599
<v Speaker 1>and the communist future. They see the common man as simple,

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01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:40.000
<v Speaker 1>unsophisticated ordinary. But each of us has worth and dignity

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<v Speaker 1>created in the image of God. That is what we

1359
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<v Speaker 1>have in common. That is what they want to take away.

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<v Speaker 1>Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They desire

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01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:58.400
<v Speaker 1>to know everything about us, while they hide everything from us.

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<v Speaker 1>It's time to turn that around and expose what they

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