WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.800 Well, my first guest as I come back, so happy 2 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:13.320 to be back, and my first guest is Eric Peters, 3 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.559 somebody I really respect, who really gets it, who's been 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:18.839 on the side of liberty and freedom for a very 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.359 long time, and he's been on my side as well. 6 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.559 Really to appreciate his offers of help when I was 7 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:27.280 in the hospital. It's great to have you on, Eric, 8 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:28.079 Thank you for coming. 9 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.079 It's a privilesion and honor, and I'm so happy to 10 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:32.119 see you back in a settle. 11 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:34.359 Well, thank you, thank you, and thank you for your 12 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:39.359 offers even to give blood. As I said yesterday, let's 13 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:41.240 talk a little bit about what is happening right now. 14 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.359 I was looking at your diaper report and I was thinking, 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.359 you know, it's interesting here we are five years later 16 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:50.280 and you started the diaper report making fun of the 17 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.960 people who are wearing, you know, the diapers on their faces. 18 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.479 And yet as you point out, that is still going on. 19 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.479 You know what's happening. We've got Trump back. Oh wait 20 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.840 a minute, he was the one who was there when 21 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.400 they did the diaper stuff, right. 22 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.239 Right, Well, I think because it never really got curate, 23 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:07.599 did it. 24 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:08.280 That's right now? 25 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.280 The report focused on what's going on in Honduras. Apparently 26 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:16.840 the Honduran health Minister has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in 27 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.079 pretty much all public areas again. And I just thought 28 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:21.920 to myself, oh my gosh, it's kind of early, but 29 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.480 I need a drink. Here we go again. And then 30 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.400 I thought, well, okay, maybe it's just Honduras, but you know, 31 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.239 it really isn't. Every time I go somewhere, whether it's 32 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.040 Low's or the supermarket or any place here in the 33 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.680 United States, at least in my part of Virginia, it's 34 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.640 ninety nine point nine percent certain that I'm going to 35 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.840 see at least one person still wearing a mask. Oh yeah, 36 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.959 And that's an indication of just how effective they were 37 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:51.319 in pathologizing in ptsding people. And I guess, you know, 38 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.959 the underlying point that I wanted to make in that 39 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.359 article is that all that's happened is that this psychosis 40 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.560 has sort of waned a little bit. It hasn't gone away. 41 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.359 It's certainly hasn't been cured, I don't think. And it 42 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.680 hasn't been cured because it hasn't been forcefully repudiated. We 43 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:10.919 haven't had any kind of official announcement by the authorities. Hey, 44 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:13.879 we aired this was wrong and foolish and we shouldn't 45 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:14.360 have done this. 46 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.360 It'll never admit to that, will they. 47 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:17.439 I'll never admit to that. 48 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.080 We'll make two mistakes rather than never admit to one. 49 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:21.719 You know, when I was in the hospital, they had 50 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.120 to sign up saying you need to wear a mask. 51 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.039 And what I looked at it, It's like if you've 52 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.120 been around anybody exposed to measles, you know that's the 53 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.240 new thing. Isn't it interesting how we were We had 54 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.919 all this press hype about oh, we got an epidemic 55 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.960 in Texas and blah blah blah. They misattributed to death 56 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:41.360 there to measles, and and they're telling everybody it's the 57 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:45.639 most contagious disease ever. Well, the peers have just died off, 58 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:48.520 even according to their narrative, if you believe them, it 59 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:50.919 just just disappeared to don't hear anything more about it. 60 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.439 But they do have the signs up at a hospital 61 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:56.360 in Tennessee. Because I had a couple of measle cases 62 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.280 in Texas. I mean, that is absolutely nothing, but which 63 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:02.680 he Yeah. 64 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.719 We're still expected as a society to pretend that there's 65 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:09.400 nothing abnormal about people walking around wearing these masks, you know, 66 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:11.800 And I'm not trying to be mean. I understand that 67 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.120 the people who are wearing the masks genuinely probably believe 68 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.879 that they are effective, you know, and they're great, and 69 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.000 they think that if I do this, I'm not going 70 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.400 to catch a sickness. So I don't intend to disparage 71 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.280 those people. The point is they do still believe, and 72 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.759 the point is we are expected to go along with 73 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.960 that belief. And it's an adharant belief. You know, if 74 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:35.000 you had somebody in your family, remember the old Bugs 75 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.919 Money cartoon where the crazy guy thinks he's Napoleon, you know, 76 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.400 and he addresses up like Napoleon and where's the hat 77 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:44.520 and he demands to be called emperor. Now, if you 78 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.599 had somebody in your family who started wearing Napoleonic outfits 79 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.319 and demanding to be called the emperor, you know, you 80 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.039 could be kind, you don't want to hurt their feelings, 81 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.439 and you could address them as the Emperor. But you're 82 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.000 not really helping them. You're not doing them any favors. 83 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.919 All you're doing is enabling their mental illness. 84 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:01.919 Well, you know, it has a lot of parallels to 85 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.639 a lot of things that are going on in a society. Right, 86 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.159 everybody's got their own truth, and we don't have any 87 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:10.000 objective standard of truth. It's just like what this person thinks, 88 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.280 and you know, it's their felt experience and so forth. 89 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.919 We see the same thing with pronouns and gender imagination, right, yes, 90 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.920 and so it feeds into all of that stuff, and 91 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.240 so we're supposed to play along. That's part of the 92 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.879 way that I think that they have silence stuffs. Well, 93 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.279 I can't criticize their mask fantasies anymore that I can 94 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.680 criticize somebody's gender fantasies. We've got to get away from 95 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.680 the objected realities here. And I've said for the longest time, 96 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.360 even if you go through their science of virology, you know, 97 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:42.680 it's kind of like watching a bad sci fi movie 98 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.959 or a bad superhero movie. They create a universe, right, 99 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.439 and you expect them then to abide by the rules 100 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.600 of whatever that universe is or that particular character. And 101 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.959 so if they start just you know, they create this 102 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.480 fictional world, and if they don't abide by it, then 103 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.360 you have to called bs on that. Yet, you know, 104 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:04.920 they create this fictional world, which you know as I've 105 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.800 looked at this. I've talked to doctor Sam Bailey and 106 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.319 her husband, also a physician, both of them physicians in 107 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.519 New Zealand, and they looked at research is done by 108 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.319 Christine Massey going around asking all these public health officials 109 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.360 have you is said the virus? And she talked over 110 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:24.240 two hundred of them. Nobody did it. As a matter 111 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:26.319 of fact, some of them starts saying, we never do that. 112 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.439 It's like, wait a minute, if you don't do that, 113 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.519 what are you doing from a scientific standpoint? And so 114 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.240 what they pointed out was is that whether or not 115 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.879 viruses even exist is in question, but certainly what is 116 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.120 not in question is that it's none of this is 117 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.800 scientifically proven. If you leak at the PCR test, none 118 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.720 of it is consistent with their fictional world. 119 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.959 Absolutely. And there's another aspect of this that I think 120 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.759 bears discussing, which is that no one has been held accountable, Yeah, 121 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:57.959 for the extraordinary psychological, social and economic damage that was 122 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.240 over the course of that pandemic. And again, it's not 123 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.240 about retribution, it's about justice, and it's about putting this 124 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.560 behind us by holding to account the people who did 125 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.120 this to us. Yeah, it's impetive that that be done. 126 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:12.519 And if that isn't done, then they can get away 127 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.639 with acting like you know, they were somehow kind of 128 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.839 in the right. You know that it wasn't really wrong 129 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.240 what they did. You know, you wouldn't in any other case, 130 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.439 if somebody had committed a serial murder, you wouldn't just 131 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:24.839 stop talking about it. You wouldn't let the serial murder 132 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.279 go on about his business. That person has to be 133 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.399 brought to trial, has to be held accountable. 134 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.920 That's right, medical martial law unconstitutionally imposed. And we let 135 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.040 that go, We forget it. We just move on. Now 136 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.920 everything is great because Trump's back again, the guy who 137 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.120 did it. And what is he doing. He's making up 138 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.879 one emergency after the other to rule by executive order, 139 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.759 and so there's a real issue with that. Of course, 140 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.079 the very first thing that he did when he came 141 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.360 back was to set up Stargate with his crony capitalists 142 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:58.399 and billionaire friends to push mRNA combined with artificial intelligence. 143 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.759 So now we're going to add AI into the mix 144 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:05.040 of nonsense that is here. And you know, there's nothing 145 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.839 from RFK Junior to stop this. They're not banning the RNA, 146 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.040 They no longer recommend it for some groups of people, 147 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.800 but they're not banning this thing. And every week we 148 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.519 see more studies coming out talking about death and disability 149 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.600 of people who took that jab, and yet they're not 150 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.839 banning this. Under any other circumstances it ought to be banned, 151 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.360 and of course RFK Junior is just letting this go. 152 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.959 As a matter of fact, they also approved yet another 153 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.560 m RNA in the meantime, and the Trump administration is 154 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:42.800 really doubling down on DNA and m RNA research, just 155 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.120 like they are with AI, as he did this first 156 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.000 day in office. 157 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.639 Yeah, I think that that RFK is kind of the 158 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.079 beard of the Trump administration. Yeah, they bring him forward. 159 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.399 I think he seems to be a genuine person, not perfect. 160 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:57.360 I disagree with him on a number of things, but 161 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.399 I think he's well meant and I think that's why 162 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.120 they brought him a board, because a lot of people 163 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.920 do respect him and believe that he's legitimate on those issues. 164 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.439 So it makes it more difficult to, you know, pin 165 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.680 the tale on the appropriate donkey, which is Trump. 166 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.800 Well, what he said, uh, And of course Tulcia Gabbard 167 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.800 said as well, we're here to restore trust in the institutions. 168 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:21.240 I'm here to destroy trust and institutions. That's my life 169 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:25.480 mission is to destroy blind trust and government and there 170 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:29.480 and constitutional institutions. But that's what they're trying to restore, 171 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:32.480 and so that's why they use people like RFK Junior 172 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.279 and Telsa Gabbard who have, as you point out, they 173 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.000 have this certain public perception, whether or not it's deserved, 174 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.600 they have that perception. They're trading off of it to 175 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.360 try to restore confidence. Well, they kind of blew up 176 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.080 in their face with Mangino and Cash, didn't it. 177 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:48.919 If you pop that injury, which I'm sure you did. 178 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.519 Ngino and Patel looked like somebody was holding a conditor. 179 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.600 That's when they came up. You know, everything that has 180 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.600 been happening over the course of the last four or 181 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.080 five weeks makes me feel like I'm in a surface funhouse. 182 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:01.759 Yeah. 183 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.799 All of the populist, nationalist things that Trump ran on 184 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:07.039 have just been cast by the wayside. I have some 185 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.320 red hat friends and I asked them, would you have 186 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.240 voted for Trump if if he had campaigned on imposing 187 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:18.039 real ID, continuing the aid to Ukraine, and pushing an 188 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:23.240 AI technocratic surveillance state, i'll a palenteer and instituting some 189 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.919 form of digital currency via the so called Genius Act. 190 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.559 And yet, if you're likal how he did his first term, 191 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:33.919 none of that stuff is a stretch. It was kind 192 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.919 of predictable that he's going to go in that direction. 193 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:40.159 You know, he is basically, how do I put this politely, 194 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:44.240 he is the servant, we'll say, of the deep state. 195 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.639 And you can see this and everything to happen the 196 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.919 first term. He's throwing everything against the wall, isn't he 197 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:57.080 to try to distract from the Epstein thing? And you 198 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:58.799 know some people even saying, oh, now we need to 199 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.440 go investigate genas pots Like whence't you ask Trump why 200 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.360 he made her his head of the CIA after she 201 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.080 was the one who produced the lies and Trump said, 202 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.519 we relied into the Iraq war. Well, she's the one 203 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.480 who did it with the illegal torture and he put 204 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.440 her in charge of the CIA. Incurse, she was right 205 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.720 at the epicenter of London and Langley axis where they 206 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.159 were doing this Russia Gate stuff. I'm so sick of rejigate. 207 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:24.840 I got sick of that from the day beginning. 208 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.039 There's one oh, Yeah, of course it's it's now Trump's 209 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.200 look a squirrel, Obama. It's now not locked it's lock 210 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.159 him up. They're going to do any such. 211 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:35.960 Thing that's right. 212 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:37.919 But you know, there is a sulp applying to this 213 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.600 dark cloud of I think now, I hope, I'm I hope, 214 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.679 I'm not think Pollyanna is here. But my sense of 215 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:47.799 it is that that Trump's bizarre and corner brat behavior 216 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:51.200 over the last several weeks on the Epstein stuff has 217 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.879 kind of given us our peek behind the curtain, you know, 218 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:55.519 and the Wizard of Oz when they finally pulled the 219 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.960 curtain back. Yeah, and we see that it's not that 220 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.720 the Democrats the Republicans, it's them. They're all like, the 221 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.960 whole the thing is fundamentally unreformable. They'll run by a. 222 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.279 Mafia, I agree, A disgusting, a disgusting cohort of people 223 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.879 who are engaged in not just grift and draft, but 224 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.799 some of the most sordid and reprehensible things you could 225 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.000 possibly imagine. 226 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:18.840 And I think that's part of what you're trying to 227 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:23.279 do with Glaine Maxwell in terms of I think he 228 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:29.480 wants to bring in Clinton and try to revive the partisanship, 229 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.919 at least for his people. There. You and I going 230 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.559 to look at this and say, yeah, they're all part 231 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.919 of the same lub. You know, Clinton was partying with 232 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.519 Trump and vice versa. They're going into the same Jeffrey 233 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.960 Epstein parties and you know, jeez at his wedding and 234 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.720 so forth and so on. But you know, we'll look 235 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.320 at that and say, yeah, so just one big eyes 236 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.120 wide shut party. But he will look at and say, yeah, 237 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:52.679 the Clinton's, we need to lock them up. 238 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.519 That movie, for people who are not aware of it, it 239 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:59.080 was Stanley Kubrick's last movie. Yeah, and I think that 240 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.159 he deliberately wanted to give us a peek inside that world. 241 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:04.720 Watch that movie if you haven't seen it, and you 242 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:06.879 can kind of get a sense of what's going on here. 243 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.240 And it helps to understand like Trump's disingenuous assertion that well, 244 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.039 if they had anything on me in the last four years, 245 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.240 they would have, well, they wouldn't have, because it's like 246 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.480 it's mutually a sure destruction. Yeah, they're guilty and they 247 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.600 know it. And so you know they know that if 248 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.440 I say something about you, you're going to say something 249 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.559 about me. And we both go down the flames. Yeah, 250 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.360 so don't say anything. 251 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:29.720 And we'll get more to that too, is my fact. 252 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.480 You got an article about that and a little bit 253 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.600 of a clip of eyes wide shut, you get people 254 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.480 an idea of that. But before we do that, I 255 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:38.720 wanted to talk a little bit about cars. You've got 256 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.159 a funny article kick me about that and talking about 257 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.879 I guess one of your favorite cars is you've also 258 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:49.240 got to review the vw I D Buzz And I 259 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.360 thought that was kind of an interesting name for a 260 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:55.080 car and the age of surveillance, the vw I D. 261 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.519 It could be the name of another the next Samsung 262 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.639 generation phone. It's like all of they've succeeded in in 263 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.759 turning things that used to have emotional appeal into these cold, distant, 264 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.679 remote whole cares. Why wouldn't they come up like the 265 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.519 old microbus that was a cool name microbus, you know, 266 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:16.559 and affectionately known as the hippie. Then you know that 267 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:18.320 it was just kind of it was cute and it 268 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.159 was fun, and that thing is the antithesis of everything 269 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.279 that the old microbus. 270 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:25.039 Was, and that kind of might fit that kind of 271 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.960 a name if you call it a microbus, because it 272 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:29.919 is a device now that would kind of fit. 273 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.240 To get back to what you were talking about, you know, 274 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.279 I was so frustrated with the IV buzz. I was 275 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:37.200 only able when they sent it to me. I was 276 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.720 only able to drive it twice because they didn't include 277 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.720 a charge cord. If you could believe that, really it's 278 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.799 extra cost. So this is a vehicle that starts at 279 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.360 sixty thousand dollars and if you want to have the 280 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.759 home charge cord you have to pay. You have to 281 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.240 be almost seven hundred dollars extra for it. So I 282 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.679 wasn't included in the press car alone that they sent me, 283 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.679 which is even more crazy because I'm a journalist. 284 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.279 So that's like batteries not included, except they put the 285 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:04.240 batteries in, but no way to charge the batteries. 286 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.559 So that essentially forced me because what am I going 287 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:08.039 to do? I can't charge it at home now, which 288 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:09.720 is like the main thing they try to sell you 289 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.000 the EV with. Well, you have the convenience of being 290 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.279 able to charge it at home, but now I don't 291 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.639 even I'm not even able to do that, so you're 292 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.600 forced them to rely on this sketchy network of so 293 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.799 called fast chargers. Well, I drove into town and I 294 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.600 went to the first place in my area where there 295 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.720 are fast chargers and it's completely offline. They're like doing 296 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:30.120 some construction to it. So that didn't you know, that 297 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.480 didn't work. So now I'm sweating and nervously iving how 298 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.519 much rains have I got left, And I think, okay, 299 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.039 I can probably make it to the other one that's 300 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.799 on the other side of town. So I drive to 301 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.720 that one, and that one's working, but it won't accept 302 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.320 my credit card or any of them. I tried six 303 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.559 different credit cards I had to get the app. In 304 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:51.360 other words, they put access to my phone and access 305 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.440 to my bank account basically my debit accounts in order 306 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.679 to you know, charge me for the service, and I'm 307 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.759 not willing to do that. I'm not willing to let 308 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.159 this this this creepy third party entity that I don't know. 309 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.559 These people, I don't want them having access to my phone. 310 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.879 So long story short, I wasn't able to charge it, 311 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.399 so I limped it home at low speed and it 312 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:12.279 became a six thousand pounds not a joke, curb weight, 313 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.759 six thousand pounds wow. Deadly For the next five days 314 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:17.759 until they came to pick the thing up. I left 315 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.879 just enough charging it so the poor guy, you know, 316 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.840 the delivery guy, can pick it up and get it. 317 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:24.000 You can deal with it. Then it's not my problem anymore. 318 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.240 With all these electric vehicles weighing so much money, weighing 319 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:31.039 so much in terms of wait, it's going to tear 320 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:32.639 up the roads, and of course they're not going to 321 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.080 replace them either. So it does a couple of things 322 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.480 for the elites. They don't want us to own private cars, 323 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.000 and they don't want to maintain the roads obviously, so 324 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.919 now they've got these heavy evs to destroy the roads 325 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:46.480 for him. At the same time, you had that same 326 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.519 problem when you were test driving the Mercedes and you 327 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:53.360 had an article about how they pulled your credentials with 328 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:56.600 your press credentials with Mercedes after you gave them an 329 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.840 honesty view of what was like to have range, panic 330 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:01.320 and all the rest of stuff and not be able 331 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:04.559 to get where you wanted to go with Mercedes in 332 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.360 a very cold streak back in December of twenty twenty three, 333 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:09.919 I think it was yep. 334 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.360 Yeah, it was very interesting because I've been doing what 335 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.360 I've been doing for a very long time, and I 336 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.799 had been getting regular press car deliveries from Mercedes for 337 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.559 more than twenty five years, and they never had a 338 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:24.799 problem before with anything with anything that I've written or 339 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.039 anything at all like that. And I wasn't gratuitous. I 340 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.840 didn't insert my personal dislike of evs, which I'm quite 341 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.960 open about. I find them to be just lacking anything 342 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:38.080 that makes a vehicle appealing. Now that's just my personal preference, 343 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.759 and I don't bring that into the car reviews. What 344 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:43.039 I did bring into the car review was that, you know, 345 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.240 I attempted to use their Equs, which was one hundred 346 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:51.000 and twelve thousand dollars electric luxury sedan, to visit my mom, 347 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.159 who lives fifty miles away in Bedford, Virginia. Fifty miles. Now. 348 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.200 It happened that it was in December of twenty three 349 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:58.919 and it was very cold. If you remember that month, 350 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.120 I remember that. Yeah, it was a bad cold snap. 351 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.960 So by the time I got down to Roanoke, which 352 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.319 is the closest city to where I live, I looked 353 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.440 at the range and boy, the range wasn't so hot anymore, 354 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:10.319 and I thought, you know, it might be smart. Dawn 355 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.119 and I were looking at the temperature and it's about 356 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:14.799 you know, thirteen degrees outside, and I'm thinking, I don't 357 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:16.519 want to be caught, you know, on the side of 358 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.440 the road with it being thirteen degrees outside, so maybe 359 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.319 we should just stop and put some charge in the thing. 360 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.680 So again, same problem. The first place wouldn't work at all. 361 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.440 The second place, Dawn put the app on her phone 362 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.920 and we were able to hook up the charger, but 363 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.599 after sitting there for forty minutes, we barely got enough 364 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.000 charge to make it home. Yeah, you know, and put 365 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.720 the cash on it. By that time, I thought, I'm 366 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.440 just not going to risk driving this thing a significant 367 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.720 distance away from home and being stuck on the side 368 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:44.559 of the road with it. 369 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.759 It's deficult to charge them when the weather gets really 370 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:47.440 cold like that. 371 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.359 Yeah, it's much harder because you know, and not only 372 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.519 the battery in the car is trying to keep the 373 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.119 battery warm because it's that cold outside, and that uses. 374 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.279 Anybody who has a heat pump or tries to use 375 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.200 like one of those you know, hot wire portable electric 376 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.799 heaters knows they burn a lot of energy to try 377 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.880 to keep you warm. So I just wrote about that, 378 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:07.680 and I wrote specifically, you know, your clientele, the people 379 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.599 you're trying to sell this car to This is one 380 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.319 hundred and twelve thousand dollars car. These are affluent people. 381 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.599 Affluent people pay to not have hassles. Yeah, you know, 382 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.640 affluent people pay to be able to do the things 383 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.640 that we can't do. And I thought, my god, I 384 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.839 could get in my twenty four year old truck and 385 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.240 easily drive to Bedford with the heat blasting. I'm not 386 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.480 worried about it because it's not gonna, you know, leave 387 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:29.160 me by the side of the road dead. And that's 388 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.119 that's ridiculous, even even a virtue signaling a leftist who 389 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:35.960 has one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars to spend isn't 390 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.720 going to put up with that. I thought that that 391 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.000 was a very fair and objective thing to say. 392 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:41.200 And now you have been vindicated. 393 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:44.039 Yes, oh yeah, that's the. 394 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.359 Elite people don't want the hassles are buying that thing, 395 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:47.319 and they're not buying it. 396 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.440 So Mercedes pr gave me this stuff about how you know, 397 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.039 I'm now out of their delivery area, which is nonsense. 398 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:55.799 I know that that's I mean, I happen to have 399 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.920 people who do what I do that I know who 400 00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:59.759 are still getting the cars you know, who are as 401 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.240