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[01:07.700 --> 01:07.900]  All right.
[01:07.900 --> 01:10.500]  Joining us now is somebody who's no stranger to this show.
[01:10.500 --> 01:11.100]  Eric Peters.
[01:11.100 --> 01:12.800]  Always great to have Eric on.
[01:12.800 --> 01:14.900]  I had him on, well, I didn't have him on.
[01:14.900 --> 01:19.900]  I had his article on the same as having Eric on, talking about what
[01:19.900 --> 01:21.000]  was going on in Minnesota.
[01:21.000 --> 01:25.100]  He and I are of the same mind on these different things.
[01:25.100 --> 01:28.500]  So I wanted to get him on to talk about what's going on with cars as
[01:28.500 --> 01:31.700]  well as what's going on with the insanity in this country right now.
[01:32.200 --> 01:33.300]  Thank you for joining us, Eric.
[01:33.800 --> 01:34.700]  Oh, absolutely, David.
[01:34.700 --> 01:35.100]  I bet I do.
[01:35.100 --> 01:35.800]  I get a medal.
[01:37.900 --> 01:40.500]  If you don't give me a medal, there's going to be repercussions.
[01:40.500 --> 01:42.600]  I'm not going to be very peacefully inclined.
[01:43.600 --> 01:46.900]  Somebody put together a clip of him saying, we're not going to have
[01:46.900 --> 01:50.400]  men taking women's medals, you know, about the tranny stuff, right?
[01:51.400 --> 01:54.100]  Then they had a clip of him saying, yeah, she gave me her peace prize.
[01:55.100 --> 01:56.600]  So it truly is amazing.
[01:56.600 --> 02:02.700]  But it was also the intimidation that you see he's able to put on people,
[02:02.700 --> 02:03.900]  foreign and domestic.
[02:04.700 --> 02:08.500]  You know, she has to give him this peace prize because if she doesn't,
[02:08.500 --> 02:09.800]  she's going to be on his bad side.
[02:09.800 --> 02:10.800]  Who knows what he'll do?
[02:12.400 --> 02:17.300]  I think it's kind of interesting that they continue to refuse to say
[02:17.300 --> 02:23.600]  that this guy they kidnapped is actually the head of state.
[02:24.200 --> 02:25.500]  They say he's not legitimate.
[02:25.500 --> 02:27.700]  They had an election and he didn't win the election.
[02:27.700 --> 02:30.700]  And so it's like, okay, well, you know, then you got a couple of people
[02:30.700 --> 02:34.200]  that you got in mind that won the election, right?
[02:34.900 --> 02:38.800]  Machado was the head in the voting.
[02:38.800 --> 02:41.600]  And so she got taken away.
[02:41.600 --> 02:45.400]  She wasn't allowed to stand in the election, but another person, Gonzalez was.
[02:45.800 --> 02:48.800]  And so you would think that if they wanted to support, quote unquote,
[02:48.800 --> 02:52.800]  democracy, that they would put one of the two of them in, but instead
[02:52.800 --> 02:54.900]  they're going to have Marco Rubio be Viceroy.
[02:59.000 --> 03:01.500]  They don't seem to have a problem with the dictator of Ukraine.
[03:02.000 --> 03:05.200]  You know, this guy who canceled elections and continues to be on the
[03:05.200 --> 03:09.000]  receiving end of vast amounts of American material now indirectly,
[03:09.000 --> 03:10.800]  you know, through our proxies in Western Europe.
[03:10.800 --> 03:14.200]  But nonetheless, the, you know, the incongruity of it, the cognitive
[03:14.200 --> 03:16.800]  dissonance of it is just, it's something to behold.
[03:16.800 --> 03:18.100]  It's huge.
[03:18.300 --> 03:19.200]  Yeah, it is.
[03:19.200 --> 03:20.300]  It is the corruption.
[03:20.600 --> 03:24.300]  And, you know, it's funny, even Bill Gates, we had a quote.
[03:24.300 --> 03:27.600]  We played a Bill Gates saying, well, you know, Ukraine has been understood
[03:27.600 --> 03:29.900]  by everybody to be the most corrupt country on earth.
[03:30.600 --> 03:33.800]  It's like, yo, why do you think our politicians are handing them money
[03:33.800 --> 03:35.700]  because they can get it back in the back door?
[03:35.700 --> 03:37.800]  That's a real admission, I think.
[03:38.600 --> 03:38.900]  Sure.
[03:38.900 --> 03:41.700]  And you know, the precedents that are being set right now are going to
[03:41.700 --> 03:43.100]  come back to bite us, I think.
[03:43.100 --> 03:47.400]  And that's one of the most disturbing things about everything that's going on
[03:47.600 --> 03:49.700]  with regard to what's been happening in Minnesota.
[03:49.700 --> 03:53.700]  A lot of these, these conservatives and people who are red hat people
[03:53.700 --> 03:54.600]  are cheering it on.
[03:54.600 --> 03:57.900]  And I wondered to myself how it is that they can believe that the police
[03:57.900 --> 04:00.900]  state that they're cheering isn't going to end up policing them.
[04:01.200 --> 04:03.300]  It's, it's, it's already happened.
[04:03.300 --> 04:06.800]  I mean, we had this back in January six, all the January six stuff, right?
[04:07.000 --> 04:09.600]  We had a lot of people showed up and they were peacefully protesting.
[04:10.000 --> 04:12.600]  You had some people who got violent and it's like, okay, fine.
[04:12.600 --> 04:13.900]  You can punish those people.
[04:14.300 --> 04:19.800]  But even for everybody, even violent people, the, the punishment was
[04:19.800 --> 04:25.600]  extreme, unusual, and, and not valid because of that.
[04:25.600 --> 04:27.700]  But then they had other people who were just there.
[04:27.900 --> 04:29.700]  They were treated like they were violent.
[04:29.700 --> 04:34.000]  And you had a woman who was shot in the head when the police officer
[04:34.000 --> 04:36.900]  was not threatened and got away with it.
[04:36.900 --> 04:40.300]  But, you know, the conservatives who are outraged about that before
[04:40.700 --> 04:43.700]  are now cheering it when it's done against the people that they hate.
[04:44.000 --> 04:44.900]  That's the amazing thing.
[04:45.000 --> 04:45.300]  Yeah.
[04:45.500 --> 04:45.800]  Oh yeah.
[04:45.800 --> 04:49.300]  And it's going to make it very difficult for me to have much sympathy
[04:49.300 --> 04:52.800]  for them when it's their doors that get kicked down the next time around.
[04:53.600 --> 04:56.900]  Maybe they think that Trump is going to be, you know, El Jefe dictator
[04:56.900 --> 04:59.200]  in perpetuity, but the man's almost 80 years old.
[04:59.600 --> 05:02.500]  You know, that's, you know, I suppose you could spend the midterms
[05:02.500 --> 05:05.000]  and I suppose that, you know, we could end up having that American
[05:05.000 --> 05:08.000]  Brezhnev, uh, you know, until, until he's 90.
[05:08.000 --> 05:08.500]  Yeah.
[05:08.700 --> 05:11.500]  Well, you know, I mean, he does have amazing healing capabilities.
[05:11.500 --> 05:14.000]  He got shot in the air and there's no visible sign of it.
[05:14.000 --> 05:19.000]  Uh, you know, either then or now I've been entertaining as I'm out, out
[05:19.000 --> 05:23.000]  in the garage wrenching on my trans am, I think to myself, this is so gratuitous.
[05:23.000 --> 05:26.000]  The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that it's purposeful.
[05:26.100 --> 05:26.300]  Yeah.
[05:26.300 --> 05:31.400]  Like he's deliberately wanting to inflame passions to trigger an event
[05:31.600 --> 05:37.100]  so that then he can claim that there's a necessity for declaring the insurrection
[05:37.100 --> 05:41.000]  act, martial law, whatever it is, uh, getting, getting everything so chaotic
[05:41.100 --> 05:44.000]  that he can assume, you know, actual overt dictatorial powers.
[05:44.000 --> 05:46.400]  He's already the de facto dictator in a lot of ways.
[05:46.800 --> 05:48.200]  He's just declaring anything he does.
[05:48.200 --> 05:49.100]  It's an executive order.
[05:49.100 --> 05:50.500]  Everything's an emergency, right?
[05:51.400 --> 05:53.300]  Literally anything that he, you know, whenever he wants to do
[05:53.300 --> 05:54.400]  something, it's an emergency.
[05:56.100 --> 05:56.700]  Yeah, that's right.
[05:56.700 --> 06:00.600]  It is a, and that is exactly my take on it.
[06:00.600 --> 06:04.400]  We always see things exactly like Eric, you know, I was, I just covered
[06:04.400 --> 06:05.900]  a Wayne Allen route who talked about this.
[06:05.900 --> 06:08.600]  He had some, uh, his memo to Trump.
[06:08.600 --> 06:10.300]  He had like five or six things he wanted to do.
[06:10.600 --> 06:14.300]  One of them was to rename ice nice because that should fix it.
[06:14.400 --> 06:14.700]  Right.
[06:15.200 --> 06:19.000]  Um, but the other thing he said, and he said, and I said this from the very
[06:19.000 --> 06:22.900]  beginning, 90 days ago, and I, I said, yeah, I said the same thing as well.
[06:23.400 --> 06:26.000]  Don't go to the places where you're going to have known conflict.
[06:26.000 --> 06:29.800]  There's, if you want to deport people who are here illegally, uh, you could
[06:29.800 --> 06:34.600]  easily go to the, uh, Republican states and they would help you to do that.
[06:35.100 --> 06:38.500]  Uh, and there's a lot of things that they could do that would not be confrontational.
[06:38.800 --> 06:42.300]  You know, if you're going to have a situation where, uh, governors and
[06:42.300 --> 06:48.000]  attorneys general double down on the massive billions of dollars of fraud,
[06:48.400 --> 06:51.100]  like half of the amount of money that they were spending on daycare and,
[06:51.400 --> 06:55.800]  and, uh, food issues was fraudulent in Minnesota, but you know, they
[06:55.800 --> 06:57.000]  want to protect those people.
[06:58.000 --> 06:59.800]  They want to say that you're not going to investigate them.
[06:59.800 --> 07:03.600]  They actually said the quiet part out loud and Washington state.
[07:04.100 --> 07:08.500]  And so if they're going to aid and a bed, that kind of welfare fraud, you
[07:08.500 --> 07:11.600]  know, there's other things that you could do to the leaders, but instead
[07:11.600 --> 07:13.300]  what they want to do, they want to go door to door.
[07:13.300 --> 07:14.700]  They want to get in people's faces.
[07:14.700 --> 07:17.400]  They want to challenge them to, uh, push them.
[07:17.700 --> 07:21.200]  There was one clip that I played where people had set up a little memorial
[07:21.200 --> 07:23.100]  to the woman who was shot, Renee good.
[07:23.600 --> 07:26.000]  And, uh, there was a big fat cop and he comes over and he starts
[07:26.000 --> 07:28.400]  kicking the stuff and the guy says, what are you doing?
[07:28.400 --> 07:29.800]  You know, and this is a memorial.
[07:29.800 --> 07:33.200]  And, and the guy walks over to him, gets in his face and keeps
[07:33.200 --> 07:36.000]  walking, making him back up and goes back up, back up, back up.
[07:36.000 --> 07:38.700]  And the guy kept backing up and he kept telling them back up, back up.
[07:38.700 --> 07:40.800]  And he's trying to get the guy to shove him.
[07:41.300 --> 07:42.600]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
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[09:21.500 --> 09:25.000]  So that he could get violent with a guy because now he's a threat for
[09:25.000 --> 09:28.400]  his life because the guy resisted this stuff, right?
[09:28.400 --> 09:29.800]  He resisted his bullying.
[09:29.900 --> 09:35.600]  And so that is basically the Trump administration's goal.
[09:35.600 --> 09:39.000]  I think in a nutshell and what Wayne Allen root is a cheerleader
[09:39.000 --> 09:43.400]  for Trump didn't see there's a fact that Trump wants the conflict.
[09:43.400 --> 09:46.300]  I mean, he thrives on this professional wrestling thing.
[09:46.300 --> 09:47.600]  That is his gimmick.
[09:48.000 --> 09:51.900]  That is his, that's his calling card is conflict.
[09:51.900 --> 09:53.100]  He wants conflict everywhere.
[09:53.600 --> 09:53.700]  Yeah.
[09:53.700 --> 09:55.100]  The whole thing is so disingenuous.
[09:55.100 --> 09:55.800]  Here's some math.
[09:56.100 --> 09:58.700]  They claim the administration claims something around the order of
[09:58.700 --> 10:02.800]  75,000 of these illegals have been rounded up and deported thus far.
[10:02.800 --> 10:04.800]  So one year in 75,000.
[10:05.300 --> 10:05.800]  Okay.
[10:06.000 --> 10:08.800]  So if we factor that out over the remaining three years of Trump's
[10:08.800 --> 10:14.300]  president, about 300,000 people now on the low end, we're told that
[10:14.300 --> 10:18.300]  roughly 10 million illegal aliens have come into the country over
[10:18.300 --> 10:20.900]  the course of the Biden second term.
[10:21.100 --> 10:22.900]  So it's, it's a rounding error.
[10:23.200 --> 10:26.400]  It has no meaning, you know, if they, they, they, they round up
[10:26.400 --> 10:29.100]  and deport 300,000 of these people, it means nothing and
[10:29.100 --> 10:30.600]  nothing fundamentally changes.
[10:30.900 --> 10:32.100]  So why are they doing it?
[10:32.100 --> 10:34.700]  And I believe that the reason that they're doing it among other
[10:34.700 --> 10:39.100]  things is to normalize people, normalize the presence of, of
[10:39.100 --> 10:45.000]  military, uh, enforcers on American streets and getting Americans
[10:45.000 --> 10:47.400]  habituated to seeing people literally grabbed.
[10:48.000 --> 10:50.900]  And I'm not, you know, I'm not defending, uh, illegal immigration.
[10:50.900 --> 10:53.300]  I'm saying that there's something unsettling about seeing people
[10:53.500 --> 10:57.500]  grabbed and stuffed into the back of unmarked vehicles and taken away
[10:57.500 --> 11:00.700]  from, you know, who knows what, what, what, you know, it, me, anybody
[11:00.700 --> 11:01.700]  that could happen to anybody.
[11:02.000 --> 11:02.900]  And that's just the point.
[11:02.900 --> 11:04.500]  It's going to happen to everybody.
[11:04.500 --> 11:08.800]  If this is normalized, we used to as a, as a culture having
[11:08.800 --> 11:11.500]  to, you know, stand there with our legs spread at the airport and
[11:11.500 --> 11:16.200]  let some government goon, uh, touch us and, and, and go through our
[11:16.200 --> 11:19.200]  things, you know, in the name of protecting us from the terrorists.
[11:19.500 --> 11:20.800]  This is exactly of a piece.
[11:20.800 --> 11:21.500]  It's the same thing.
[11:21.500 --> 11:24.000]  It's, it's just getting Americans used to something.
[11:24.200 --> 11:26.500]  And once they're used to it, then it will be expanded.
[11:26.800 --> 11:27.700]  You're absolutely right.
[11:27.700 --> 11:28.700]  I, that's what I say to people.
[11:28.700 --> 11:30.000]  I say be very wary.
[11:30.500 --> 11:35.100]  Uh, when the government that has created both parties have created a problem,
[11:35.100 --> 11:37.700]  you know, like the open border immigration thing, I've said for the
[11:37.700 --> 11:40.800]  longest time, it's the welfare magnet, stupid, you know, it's not a wall.
[11:40.800 --> 11:41.400]  It's not anything else.
[11:41.400 --> 11:43.800]  Just stop paying people who come here to live for free.
[11:43.800 --> 11:44.200]  Right.
[11:44.500 --> 11:45.800]  The welfare system is bad enough.
[11:45.800 --> 11:47.500]  We don't need to extend it to the entire world.
[11:47.500 --> 11:50.500]  But, um, you know, when the government creates a problem and
[11:50.500 --> 11:54.100]  lets it fester for a long time, and then they come in with some
[11:54.200 --> 11:58.500]  authoritarian, uh, uh, solution, you know, always be aware.
[11:58.500 --> 12:00.900]  I mean, that is the biggest tell that's out there.
[12:00.900 --> 12:01.300]  Isn't it?
[12:01.900 --> 12:02.400]  Absolutely.
[12:02.400 --> 12:05.800]  And as you say, if they were, if they were being genuine about this, the
[12:05.800 --> 12:10.100]  easiest way to solve the problem, um, is to cut off the benefits to
[12:10.100 --> 12:12.400]  people who want American citizens and not entitled to them.
[12:12.400 --> 12:15.600]  You and I, we go to the pharmacy to get over the counter cough syrup.
[12:15.600 --> 12:16.600]  And we have to present ID.
[12:16.600 --> 12:19.300]  American citizens have to present ID for all sorts of things.
[12:19.600 --> 12:20.100]  Okay.
[12:20.400 --> 12:23.800]  So if somebody applies for government benefits, they should have to produce
[12:23.800 --> 12:28.000]  ID, establishing that they are minimally legal residents, if not citizens
[12:28.000 --> 12:29.500]  in order to access these benefits.
[12:29.700 --> 12:32.700]  And if they can't do that, no benefits, you know, and then, then you
[12:32.700 --> 12:34.200]  get rid of most of the problem.
[12:34.200 --> 12:37.900]  And another thing you could do is, um, do something about these big corporate
[12:37.900 --> 12:43.100]  employers that hire these illegals sanctioned, make them pay for the local
[12:43.100 --> 12:46.500]  services that, you know, that are incurring costs because of all the
[12:46.500 --> 12:48.200]  illegals, find them financially.
[12:48.400 --> 12:50.200]  You don't have to turn America into a police state.
[12:50.200 --> 12:53.000]  You don't have to have a body armored, automatic weapon
[12:53.000 --> 12:54.400]  toting soldiers on streets.
[12:54.400 --> 12:55.100]  It's very simple.
[12:55.100 --> 13:00.700]  Just stop the, as you say, stop the incentivizing, stop offering free things.
[13:01.700 --> 13:04.000]  The people who are here want to work, you know, the productive ones
[13:04.200 --> 13:05.400]  I don't have an issue with that.
[13:05.700 --> 13:09.600]  Um, um, one of my oldest friends is a guy who, you know, has some, has
[13:09.600 --> 13:11.400]  some of these guys working for him.
[13:11.600 --> 13:12.800]  Uh, and they work hard.
[13:12.800 --> 13:13.900]  I don't mind those guys.
[13:13.900 --> 13:15.500]  They're not taking money out of my pocket.
[13:15.700 --> 13:18.900]  You know, I, I don't like, I don't like the leeches and the parasites
[13:18.900 --> 13:22.400]  and, and most people don't and it's reasonable to not like that, but that's
[13:22.400 --> 13:23.700]  what they're manipulating us with.
[13:23.900 --> 13:26.500]  That's what they're using against us to get us to go along with
[13:26.500 --> 13:28.100]  this burgeoning police state.
[13:28.300 --> 13:29.100]  You're absolutely right.
[13:29.100 --> 13:29.300]  Yeah.
[13:29.700 --> 13:34.300]  I have called Donald Trump precedent Trump time, because that
[13:34.300 --> 13:36.000]  seems to be what his role is.
[13:36.200 --> 13:40.400]  Uh, let's set a precedent and we're going to take the gun and do the
[13:40.400 --> 13:41.800]  due process later type of thing.
[13:41.800 --> 13:44.800]  And, you know, we talk about them arresting innocent people.
[13:45.200 --> 13:50.100]  I talked about the, um, I'm sure you saw the situation of the Hamong guy.
[13:50.100 --> 13:51.400]  I think I'm pronouncing that correctly.
[13:51.400 --> 13:57.200]  H M O N G they're from Laos and, uh, they took this 56 year old grandfather,
[13:57.500 --> 14:02.200]  uh, 10 to 15 guys crashed through the house, drug raid style.
[14:02.200 --> 14:02.400]  Okay.
[14:02.400 --> 14:03.500]  This is something straight out.
[14:03.500 --> 14:07.100]  I'm sure you're familiar with Brazil, uh, done by Terry gun.
[14:07.100 --> 14:08.500]  This is straight out of Brazil, right?
[14:09.000 --> 14:12.400]  And, uh, so they're looking for bottle, but they go after Tuttle, right?
[14:12.700 --> 14:14.900]  And, um, they, they kicked the door down.
[14:15.900 --> 14:17.600]  They grabbed this guy sitting in his living room.
[14:17.600 --> 14:19.000]  He's in shorts with no shirt.
[14:19.500 --> 14:23.300]  They drag him out in the 10 degree weather, uh, wearing just
[14:23.300 --> 14:27.400]  Crocs, his shorts and the, and he grabbed the blanket from his five
[14:27.400 --> 14:30.600]  year old grandson before, uh, they took him outside and that's it.
[14:30.600 --> 14:32.500]  You know, that kind of harassment that's happening.
[14:33.000 --> 14:34.500]  He was the wrong guy.
[14:34.600 --> 14:35.800]  He was not the guy they were looking for.
[14:35.800 --> 14:36.700]  They put him in the car.
[14:37.200 --> 14:38.500]  They drive him around for an hour.
[14:38.500 --> 14:40.000]  He keeps telling them I'm an American citizen.
[14:40.000 --> 14:41.800]  And he has been for over 30 some odd years.
[14:41.800 --> 14:43.900]  He's never had any legal issues with anything.
[14:44.500 --> 14:48.600]  And so after they finally check him out, uh, they bring him back and just dump
[14:48.600 --> 14:50.100]  him off like nothing ever happened.
[14:50.100 --> 14:50.400]  Right.
[14:50.600 --> 14:54.300]  And this is exactly what Trump was talking about doing with guns.
[14:54.700 --> 14:56.200]  Take the gun and do the due process.
[14:56.200 --> 14:59.000]  Now they're going to grab the man and do the due process later.
[14:59.200 --> 15:00.800]  It's like, why don't you do an investigation?
[15:00.800 --> 15:02.000]  Why don't you get a search warrant?
[15:02.300 --> 15:03.800]  Why don't you know who you're coming after?
[15:03.800 --> 15:07.800]  But what they did was they backfilled all this stuff with lies from
[15:07.800 --> 15:09.000]  Christine Ohm's department.
[15:09.400 --> 15:15.000]  They had her, uh, secretary come out and, um, say that, uh, well, there were,
[15:15.000 --> 15:18.000]  they were looking for two guys who were convicted sexual predators
[15:18.000 --> 15:19.200]  that were there at that address.
[15:19.600 --> 15:22.600]  And, uh, the family came out and said, no, they don't know anybody.
[15:22.600 --> 15:24.500]  We, we don't know who those guys are.
[15:24.900 --> 15:26.500]  They've never lived here.
[15:26.700 --> 15:28.900]  Uh, we don't know them at all.
[15:28.900 --> 15:31.200]  And, uh, our guy doesn't have any issues with it.
[15:31.600 --> 15:36.600]  And, um, they put out the pictures of these guys and they're young men.
[15:37.000 --> 15:38.400]  This guy's 56 years old.
[15:38.400 --> 15:42.600]  There's absolutely no way that you would mistake this guy for those guys.
[15:42.600 --> 15:45.800]  As everything that they do, Eric is a lie to start with.
[15:45.800 --> 15:48.300]  It's just like Christine Ohm and that Renee Good shooting.
[15:48.300 --> 15:51.500]  The first thing she says, well, they were stuck in the snow and they
[15:51.500 --> 15:53.900]  were attacked by a car and it's like, none of that is true.
[15:54.500 --> 15:54.800]  Right.
[15:55.300 --> 15:56.300]  Everything has been reversed.
[15:56.300 --> 15:59.100]  It used to be that there was the presumption of innocence and that
[15:59.500 --> 16:02.300]  it was understood that it was necessary that the government be hobbled
[16:02.300 --> 16:06.300]  to some degree in terms of what it does to people in order to protect people.
[16:06.600 --> 16:10.000]  You know, now the impetus is, well, everybody's guilty of something.
[16:10.100 --> 16:13.600]  And, you know, it's up to the person who is accosted to establish
[16:13.600 --> 16:14.700]  that they aren't guilty.
[16:15.000 --> 16:15.900]  And this is not new.
[16:15.900 --> 16:19.400]  This is something that has been systematically imposed over a long
[16:19.400 --> 16:20.100]  period of time.
[16:20.300 --> 16:24.200]  I've been ranting for decades now about these sobriety checkpoints.
[16:25.100 --> 16:30.300]  No longer is it a case of you have given a cop probable cause to suspect
[16:30.600 --> 16:33.900]  that you might be drunk driving because you're, you know, you're,
[16:33.900 --> 16:35.000]  you're driving erratically.
[16:35.000 --> 16:36.000]  Let's say you're wandering.
[16:36.900 --> 16:39.500]  Instead, they just set up these drag nets where everybody who just
[16:39.500 --> 16:42.700]  happens to be on that road has given zero probable cause.
[16:42.900 --> 16:46.500]  They have to prove to the satisfaction of the cop that they're not drunk.
[16:46.800 --> 16:48.400]  And how do you prove it in Texas?
[16:48.400 --> 16:50.800]  They had involuntary broad draws.
[16:50.800 --> 16:53.400]  I mean, these are people going to pull you over and they're going
[16:53.400 --> 16:57.600]  to strap you down if you don't want to do it and take blood out of
[16:57.600 --> 16:59.200]  you to prove that you're not drunk.
[16:59.200 --> 17:00.600]  It's like, that's insane.
[17:01.500 --> 17:03.800]  They expect people to form roadside gymnastics.
[17:03.800 --> 17:05.900]  Most people aren't athletes and gymnasts.
[17:06.300 --> 17:08.200]  So, you know, you're pulled, you're out of your car with a light
[17:08.200 --> 17:10.700]  shining in your face and you're supposed to stand on one leg and
[17:10.900 --> 17:12.400]  recite the alphabet backwards.
[17:12.400 --> 17:15.700]  And you know, if they set it up so that it's guaranteed, you're going
[17:15.700 --> 17:18.000]  to, you know, you're going to, you're going to maybe waver a little bit.
[17:18.000 --> 17:21.000]  And then as you say, that becomes the pretext for dragging you to the
[17:21.000 --> 17:23.200]  hospital in a forced blood draw on all of this stuff.
[17:23.500 --> 17:27.400]  And all of it is a complete initiation of the, of the fourth amendment.
[17:27.400 --> 17:29.800]  The fourth amendment says, you know, that you're not supposed to be
[17:29.800 --> 17:33.500]  subjected to search as absent probable cause or a warrant issued by a judge.
[17:33.700 --> 17:35.100]  Nobody cares about that anymore.
[17:35.200 --> 17:35.600]  That's right.
[17:35.900 --> 17:38.300]  If they were to do that to me since my stroke, I would fail.
[17:38.300 --> 17:43.900]  Stand on one leg and whistle Dixie.
[17:43.900 --> 17:45.600]  You know, it's like, I can't do that anymore.
[17:48.100 --> 17:49.600]  So yeah, it's insane.
[17:49.700 --> 17:54.800]  Um, but, uh, you got, uh, a, uh, an article about, uh, tell us a little
[17:54.800 --> 17:58.200]  bit about that, the background of this story where there was a guy who
[17:58.200 --> 17:59.800]  didn't have a tag on his motorcycle.
[18:00.900 --> 18:01.300]  Oh yeah.
[18:01.300 --> 18:02.800]  This is really an appalling story.
[18:02.840 --> 18:07.240]  Um, again, it's another example of the, the escalation that
[18:07.240 --> 18:13.000]  ensues over these trivial, no harm involved to anybody offenses.
[18:13.000 --> 18:14.740]  There's a guy out riding his motorcycle.
[18:14.740 --> 18:16.840]  He's got his girlfriend or wife on the back of the bike.
[18:17.100 --> 18:20.840]  And apparently he didn't have a plate or a valid plate on the bike.
[18:20.840 --> 18:24.840]  And so, uh, you know, a cop rolls in behind him and lights him up
[18:24.840 --> 18:25.780]  and he's going to pull him over.
[18:25.780 --> 18:29.600]  Now, you know, I'm not suggesting that it was right of the guy to take off,
[18:29.600 --> 18:34.100]  but I understand, you know, he's, he's potentially facing, you know, having
[18:34.100 --> 18:37.540]  to pay hundreds of dollars in fines, maybe getting his bike seat.
[18:38.900 --> 18:40.100]  He wasn't speeding or doing anything.
[18:40.100 --> 18:42.000]  He's just out riding his bike anyway.
[18:42.000 --> 18:44.060]  So he takes off and a pursuit ensues.
[18:44.440 --> 18:46.860]  He ends up wrecking and dying.
[18:46.900 --> 18:48.300]  He and his passenger are both killed.
[18:48.300 --> 18:49.640]  They lose control in a corner.
[18:49.940 --> 18:54.940]  Um, and, uh, that's it over, over this sort of nonsense, high speed chase.
[18:55.140 --> 18:58.800]  And, and an additional facet of it is that in the course of pursuing this guy,
[18:58.960 --> 19:03.300]  the cop is driving with extraordinary recklessness on these back country roads.
[19:03.540 --> 19:07.100]  Uh, you know, taking corners, uh, in the opposite lane or halfway in the opposite
[19:07.100 --> 19:10.700]  lane, blind corners, you know, it looks to me to have been 80, 90, a hundred miles
[19:10.700 --> 19:13.440]  an hour on a road with a 35 mile an hour speed limit.
[19:13.440 --> 19:17.240]  At one point he barrels through, uh, this kind of a small town looking thing.
[19:17.500 --> 19:20.000]  And you could just imagine somebody's walking across the street or, you know,
[19:20.000 --> 19:23.500]  they're pulling out from a side road and boom, you know, there's a catastrophic
[19:23.500 --> 19:27.000]  wreck all because this guy just had to catch that guy, uh, you know, on the bike
[19:27.000 --> 19:30.240]  had to get him for, you know, affronting the authority of the state because he
[19:30.400 --> 19:32.200]  wasn't displaying his proper ear tag.
[19:32.340 --> 19:33.140]  Yeah, that's right.
[19:33.400 --> 19:36.860]  And you know, that really does reflect back on this Renee good thing as well,
[19:37.200 --> 19:40.600]  because you look at the situation that's there and I don't really know what's
[19:40.600 --> 19:40.860]  going on.
[19:40.860 --> 19:45.000]  It doesn't appear from the videos that were taken and from the cops own video.
[19:45.260 --> 19:48.640]  It doesn't appear like she's really even panicked or trying to flee.
[19:48.900 --> 19:51.500]  There were people that, you know, one person said, get out of here.
[19:51.500 --> 19:53.840]  The other one says, uh, get out of your car.
[19:53.860 --> 19:58.100]  So there was a little bit of a, perhaps confusion on that part, but even if she
[19:58.100 --> 20:02.600]  was trying to just drive off, there wasn't anything that looked like she was trying
[20:02.600 --> 20:05.440]  to, um, you know, she was moving pretty slowly.
[20:05.800 --> 20:09.900]  And, uh, the fact is that she, she backs up and then turns her wheel immediately.
[20:10.300 --> 20:13.200]  And, um, I looked at that and it's like, all these people saying, well, that shows
[20:13.200 --> 20:14.400]  that she's trying to run him over.
[20:14.800 --> 20:17.200]  It's like, no, she's turning her wheel away from him.
[20:17.500 --> 20:19.340]  It's like, have you ever driven a car?
[20:19.900 --> 20:20.800]  Do you know how this works?
[20:21.040 --> 20:21.900]  A three point turn.
[20:21.900 --> 20:23.260]  Do you understand how that operates?
[20:23.260 --> 20:25.000]  And you can see that's what she's doing there.
[20:25.300 --> 20:29.800]  And then you can see from the cops, uh, perspective of his own footage that he
[20:29.800 --> 20:32.940]  rushes forward and, uh, still he doesn't get hit.
[20:32.940 --> 20:36.000]  And so I think that that was really what was happening with it.
[20:36.000 --> 20:40.200]  But, you know, in terms of the high speed chases, a lot of police departments
[20:40.200 --> 20:41.400]  have said, we're not going to do that.
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[22:22.220 --> 22:24.280]  Because it puts a lot of people's lives at risk.
[22:24.720 --> 22:28.420]  There are a lot of police departments that have said since the early nineties,
[22:28.420 --> 22:32.260]  the New York police department is one of them, that we're not going to fire into a
[22:32.260 --> 22:36.260]  car if somebody doesn't have some kind of weapon that they are firing.
[22:36.260 --> 22:40.280]  You know, we're not going to shoot into a car just to stop the car because number
[22:40.280 --> 22:41.480]  one, you may not hit it.
[22:41.480 --> 22:45.220]  You might not, you know, hit that moving target and you might hit other people,
[22:45.220 --> 22:47.020]  including other cops that are there.
[22:47.020 --> 22:47.420]  Right.
[22:47.780 --> 22:53.020]  And then if you do hit the person, what you wind up with is an unguided
[22:53.020 --> 22:54.060]  missile, right?
[22:54.060 --> 22:55.860]  The driver is not driving anymore.
[22:55.860 --> 22:59.560]  Their foot might mash down on the accelerator, which we saw a little bit of
[22:59.560 --> 23:00.460]  what happened with that.
[23:00.820 --> 23:03.920]  And so all of that makes absolutely no sense.
[23:03.920 --> 23:08.600]  When I was living in Houston, when Karen and I first got married, there was a
[23:08.600 --> 23:13.220]  situation where they had these really huge flyovers and it was a motorcycle
[23:13.220 --> 23:20.420]  cop who pulled over a car and pulled them over like at the top of this large
[23:20.460 --> 23:22.560]  flyover on the curve.
[23:23.160 --> 23:29.860]  And as he's there writing this ticket that is so important, this gasoline
[23:29.860 --> 23:34.260]  fuel tanker comes along and hits them and everybody died.
[23:34.420 --> 23:34.720]  Okay.
[23:34.720 --> 23:37.620]  The cop, the people that were getting the ticket, the person who's driving the
[23:37.620 --> 23:43.600]  truck, everybody dies in this fiery crash and it burned down the concrete
[23:43.600 --> 23:44.660]  flyover that was there.
[23:44.660 --> 23:45.500]  It was so intense.
[23:45.760 --> 23:47.220]  It was amazing to see what happened.
[23:47.420 --> 23:50.820]  All of that was over a ticket, you know, which is where this, this goes back a
[23:50.820 --> 23:55.120]  small, a small thing and they escalate it to that extent, to a deadly extent.
[23:55.620 --> 23:59.460]  In Minneapolis, I think one of the most egregious aspects of that situation was
[23:59.460 --> 24:03.700]  that clearly this woman wasn't some sort of a gun toting felon that just brought
[24:03.700 --> 24:07.660]  to bank, you know, she had been haranguing the ice people, they had her
[24:07.660 --> 24:11.300]  plate, why not, why not just go to her house later?
[24:11.300 --> 24:15.320]  They knew who she was, give her a ticket for obstruction or whatever, you know,
[24:15.360 --> 24:17.360]  whatever charge they want to give her fine.
[24:17.660 --> 24:20.460]  It wasn't necessary to escalate it to the degree that they did.
[24:20.660 --> 24:22.660]  I see it as pretextual murder, frankly.
[24:23.420 --> 24:27.620]  I think that that cop deliberately put himself in a position where he knew he
[24:27.620 --> 24:29.760]  could get bumped by the fender, you know?
[24:29.760 --> 24:32.860]  And at that point he has the justification to unload on her,
[24:32.860 --> 24:33.820]  which is just what he did.
[24:34.860 --> 24:37.320]  Easily stepped out of the way, just let her go, whatever.
[24:37.500 --> 24:41.300]  It's just some lady in a car who was obnoxious to us, you know, we
[24:41.300 --> 24:42.360]  can give her a ticket later.
[24:42.440 --> 24:42.760]  Yeah.
[24:43.100 --> 24:47.500]  And in that context, I see this entire operation in Minneapolis,
[24:47.560 --> 24:51.660]  uh, just like that, except it's Trump who's doing the provocative in your face.
[24:51.660 --> 24:54.700]  Come on, you know, take a swing at me and let's see what happens.
[24:54.700 --> 24:55.000]  Right.
[24:55.300 --> 24:59.040]  The people out there saying F A F O, you know, that's what they want.
[24:59.060 --> 25:00.460]  They want to provoke that.
[25:01.040 --> 25:04.300]  And so he's not just setting precedents.
[25:04.660 --> 25:08.100]  He's out there deliberately provoking things to set precedents.
[25:08.100 --> 25:09.640]  He doesn't have an emergency.
[25:09.640 --> 25:10.560]  He wants to create one.
[25:11.500 --> 25:14.500]  An adult might've said something to the effect of, you know, this is a horrible
[25:14.500 --> 25:18.940]  tragedy and, uh, we're sorry that things spiraled out of control the way that they
[25:18.940 --> 25:23.500]  did instead that there's this, this, this callousness in the way that he responds
[25:23.500 --> 25:27.440]  to these sorts of things, almost believe, you know, she deserved it, you know,
[25:27.440 --> 25:30.540]  that it's a good thing that, that, that an American citizen was shot dead in
[25:30.540 --> 25:31.400]  the street like that.
[25:31.700 --> 25:36.660]  Well, I think it really kicked me off was the response of the MAGA influencers
[25:36.660 --> 25:39.400]  that are out there that are trying to make an excuse for all this stuff.
[25:39.400 --> 25:43.780]  They were even worse than Trump and Kristi Noem and JD Vance and all these
[25:43.780 --> 25:45.140]  other people were commenting on it.
[25:45.500 --> 25:47.080]  Um, one guy had a podcast.
[25:47.080 --> 25:47.900]  I don't remember his name.
[25:47.900 --> 25:51.620]  I played the clip and he said, um, here's what you need to remember.
[25:52.220 --> 25:55.720]  Uh, hands up, show your hands obey commands.
[25:56.140 --> 25:58.060]  That's like, what are you talking about?
[25:58.280 --> 26:02.340]  I mean, is this, is this a police state that you're talking about where I have
[26:02.340 --> 26:07.360]  to always obey the commands of the police and show my hands, I mean, but they have
[26:07.500 --> 26:11.020]  to come up with these little juvenile rhymes like click it or ticket, you know,
[26:11.020 --> 26:13.280]  so show hands obey commands.
[26:13.280 --> 26:15.280]  And it's like, that really set me off.
[26:15.280 --> 26:21.660]  I have read and I have not been able to confirm this, but I think it's true that
[26:21.660 --> 26:26.220]  a lot of police departments send cops over to Israel to be trained by the IDF
[26:27.040 --> 26:33.340]  in these, in these immediate submission tactics that, um, are, um, are imposed
[26:33.340 --> 26:34.600]  upon the Palestinians over there.
[26:34.740 --> 26:39.280]  Even the slightest questioning or sign of resistance, uh, you know, brings
[26:39.280 --> 26:41.580]  down, uh, an extreme response.
[26:42.060 --> 26:45.700]  Uh, I can remember when I was in college back in the eighties, when I'd get
[26:45.700 --> 26:48.320]  pulled over for speeding, it was routine to get out of the car and walk over
[26:48.320 --> 26:53.140]  the cop and, you know, that was common, believe it or not, it's like, yeah.
[26:53.140 --> 26:57.280]  Now, if you step, if I were to get out of my car, you know, it much older me
[26:57.280 --> 27:00.560]  now, uh, you know, to, to get out of the car and the guy wouldn't probably
[27:00.560 --> 27:03.320]  draw a gun and say, scream at me and get on the ground, get on the ground.
[27:04.160 --> 27:04.480]  Yeah.
[27:04.640 --> 27:05.040]  I know.
[27:05.240 --> 27:06.200]  No, no, it's crazy.
[27:06.480 --> 27:06.760]  Yeah.
[27:06.760 --> 27:10.480]  And you're looking at how long is it before, uh, we have the situation of the
[27:10.480 --> 27:16.160]  IDF where they've got this yellow line somewhere in Gaza and, um, people
[27:16.160 --> 27:21.080]  don't even necessarily see it, but if you cross that yellow line, we perceive
[27:21.080 --> 27:25.900]  you as a threat and now we have the, uh, ability and the government will stand
[27:25.900 --> 27:29.560]  behind us, we can kill you right there on the spot because we felt threatened
[27:29.560 --> 27:32.200]  because you crossed that yellow line that you didn't even see.
[27:32.800 --> 27:33.080]  Yeah.
[27:33.320 --> 27:33.520]  Yeah.
[27:33.520 --> 27:37.880]  That makes a lot of sense of respect for life and that, that, again, the
[27:37.880 --> 27:41.360]  callousness and the brutality is something that should be concerning to
[27:41.360 --> 27:45.160]  everybody because once this thing starts to metastasize, you get into a point
[27:45.160 --> 27:49.040]  where life is cheap, you know, and, and you end up in like these, these hard
[27:49.040 --> 27:52.040]  third world countries where people just, you know, you see a dead body in the
[27:52.040 --> 27:54.800]  street, some guy just got shot and everybody just keeps on walking.
[27:55.080 --> 27:56.160]  It becomes commonplace.
[27:56.160 --> 27:59.360]  It becomes nothing to, to even be, to remark about.
[27:59.640 --> 28:02.960]  Well, again, and you look at what precedent Trump is doing when he
[28:02.960 --> 28:07.800]  kidnapped Maduro, the funniest take on all that was, uh, John Stewart, who
[28:07.800 --> 28:10.360]  said, we, we imported this guy.
[28:10.360 --> 28:11.200]  We didn't deport him.
[28:11.200 --> 28:11.960]  We imported him.
[28:14.960 --> 28:19.460]  But, you know, when, when you look at the kidnapping of Maduro, immediately
[28:19.460 --> 28:24.120]  you had people saying, well, you know, we should do the, some Russians were
[28:24.200 --> 28:29.720]  like, um, Alexander Dugan, hardliners were saying, why doesn't Trump do that
[28:29.720 --> 28:34.200]  to Zelensky and then you had the UK defense minister saying, why don't
[28:34.200 --> 28:35.120]  we do that to Putin?
[28:36.240 --> 28:37.400]  Actually, I like to turn that around.
[28:37.400 --> 28:40.200]  How about Putin's on the team of Spetsnaz guys to snatch Trump?
[28:40.640 --> 28:41.160]  Exactly.
[28:41.160 --> 28:45.000]  I mean, it's just, it just starts, it kicks off this domino thing like that.
[28:45.000 --> 28:47.560]  I mean, they always love their domino theories for wars, don't they?
[28:47.920 --> 28:51.440]  But, uh, really what we see is when we see these kinds of criminal acts of
[28:51.440 --> 28:54.360]  aggression, uh, what do you think about Stephen Miller?
[28:54.680 --> 28:58.320]  You know, Stephen Miller's out there saying, uh, well, you know, if you have a
[28:58.360 --> 29:01.440]  territory historically, we've seen that you need to be strong enough to be able
[29:01.440 --> 29:03.840]  to keep that territory or the stronger people just going to take it away from
[29:03.840 --> 29:03.920]  you.
[29:03.920 --> 29:05.720]  Those are the rules under which we operate.
[29:06.320 --> 29:11.000]  And one person said, he seems, he seems psychopathic sociopathic people, like
[29:11.000 --> 29:17.160]  so many associated with Trump, unfortunately seem to be sadistic people,
[29:17.160 --> 29:21.480]  cruel people, you know, including Kristi Noem, who I like to refer to her as
[29:21.480 --> 29:23.680]  the Ilse, the she wolf of the SS.
[29:25.040 --> 29:29.440]  Somebody put out a meme of, uh, Stephen Miller in the Nazi uniform and put,
[29:29.480 --> 29:31.800]  captioned it and said, Pee-wee German.
[29:33.560 --> 29:35.480]  Because that's basically what he's talking about.
[29:35.840 --> 29:41.160]  And, and one person said, well, he just gave, uh, authorization for a bigger guy
[29:41.160 --> 29:43.400]  in his neighborhood to steal everything he's got in his house.
[29:43.400 --> 29:43.720]  Right.
[29:44.360 --> 29:46.160]  I think that's basically what we're talking about.
[29:46.240 --> 29:50.400]  You know, I just take whatever I want and you know that they're making the world a
[29:50.400 --> 29:52.240]  much more dangerous place.
[29:52.240 --> 29:55.200]  Everything they do, they claim is national security.
[29:55.200 --> 29:58.400]  And yet they're threatening our security because they're threatening
[29:58.400 --> 29:59.680]  everybody else's security.
[30:00.720 --> 30:03.520]  They're also styling it a law enforcement, which is an interesting
[30:03.520 --> 30:08.800]  concept, you know, the, the snatch, how does the United States have jurisdiction
[30:08.800 --> 30:10.720]  over Venezuela, legally speaking?
[30:11.120 --> 30:15.680]  And, you know, if, if it does, then why couldn't other countries essentially
[30:15.680 --> 30:16.800]  make the same argument?
[30:16.960 --> 30:20.320]  How about Netanyahu has actually been indicted for something, you know, he's
[30:20.320 --> 30:24.000]  indicted, he's been indicted for war crimes and yet Trump welcomes him,
[30:24.000 --> 30:26.240]  receives him with honors in Washington.
[30:26.240 --> 30:28.800]  He doesn't get, you know, Netanyahu doesn't get arrested.
[30:29.200 --> 30:32.080]  Well, they appeal to the precedent that George H.W.
[30:32.080 --> 30:32.560]  Bush did.
[30:32.560 --> 30:36.000]  He's like, Hey, we went in and we, we got, uh, what was the guy, a strong
[30:36.000 --> 30:37.520]  man, Manuel Noriega.
[30:37.520 --> 30:39.520]  We got Noriega so we can do that again.
[30:39.840 --> 30:41.600]  And that's the danger of these precedents.
[30:41.600 --> 30:44.800]  You know, once somebody does it, you're going to have another president that
[30:44.800 --> 30:48.240]  comes down the line and says, well, so-and-so did it so I can do it as well.
[30:48.800 --> 30:52.240]  I call it what aboutism because every time you point out something that is
[30:52.240 --> 30:57.280]  wrong or criminal about Donald Trump, you always hear the MAGA apologist say,
[30:57.280 --> 31:00.240]  yeah, but what about what Hillary Clinton did, you know, or this or that.
[31:00.240 --> 31:04.480]  So it's always what aboutism as if that somehow excuses it.
[31:06.720 --> 31:09.200]  Again, we're, we're at a point in the history of this country where
[31:09.200 --> 31:10.640]  principles don't matter.
[31:10.640 --> 31:12.960]  Everything's situational, everything's subjective.
[31:12.960 --> 31:16.320]  And ultimately it comes down to which party is in power, which wing of the
[31:16.320 --> 31:18.000]  party is in power.
[31:18.000 --> 31:26.240]  And it just, it reminds me, it's so, so mirror-like of Orwell's 1984, where, you
[31:26.240 --> 31:29.760]  know, he talked about the, he created this wonderful scene where Winston
[31:29.760 --> 31:34.000]  Smith, the character is attending a party rally and the party orator is
[31:34.000 --> 31:36.000]  giving a harangue to the crowd.
[31:36.000 --> 31:39.440]  And somebody walks behind the party order, hands him a piece of paper and
[31:39.440 --> 31:43.040]  immediately the order changes from a rant against the war being, I think, with
[31:43.040 --> 31:46.560]  Eurasia to a war being with East Asia and the crowd.
[31:46.560 --> 31:49.840]  It immediately percolates through the crowd that the political position has
[31:49.840 --> 31:53.680]  changed and they just continue to roar their approval of the diametrically
[31:53.680 --> 31:57.680]  opposed position having understood that, you know, this is the new orthodoxy that
[31:57.680 --> 31:59.200]  has to be, that has to be cheered.
[31:59.200 --> 32:00.400]  Yeah, that's right.
[32:01.040 --> 32:03.760]  Well, while we're talking about orthodoxy that has to be cheered, I mean,
[32:03.760 --> 32:07.760]  that's one of the things about AI and the way that it is going to be used to
[32:07.760 --> 32:11.360]  make people, you know, there was just, they've already started putting out
[32:11.360 --> 32:12.880]  robo-cops in China.
[32:12.880 --> 32:18.640]  For right now, they're just kind of surveillance devices and, you know, meter
[32:18.640 --> 32:22.880]  made safety nannies that are out there nagging people and things like that.
[32:22.880 --> 32:27.360]  But they're making them to look humanoid, actually making biped versions of
[32:27.360 --> 32:29.680]  them now and they can walk from place to place.
[32:30.480 --> 32:33.760]  It's not that much further out that they're going to start replacing these
[32:33.840 --> 32:38.960]  human robots that are dressed up as armed government workers and they're pretty
[32:38.960 --> 32:43.120]  soon they're going to be replaced by the mechanized armed government workers that
[32:43.120 --> 32:43.920]  are out there, I think.
[32:43.920 --> 32:48.400]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one
[32:48.400 --> 32:51.680]  minute and I want you to hear about Alejandra.
[32:51.680 --> 32:56.400]  She lives in a remote community with very few resources and little to no
[32:56.400 --> 32:56.960]  healthcare.
[32:57.520 --> 33:02.880]  So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents have no real options, no doctors in
[33:02.880 --> 33:07.200]  their community and no money for real medical care.
[33:07.200 --> 33:10.080]  By the third day, her body was shutting down.
[33:10.080 --> 33:16.080]  She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom, I can't take the pain anymore.
[33:16.080 --> 33:17.360]  I can't keep going.
[33:17.920 --> 33:23.120]  Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything, but she needed a
[33:23.120 --> 33:28.000]  private hospital and that was impossible for her family to afford.
[33:28.000 --> 33:31.760]  And that is when Compassion International stepped in.
[33:31.840 --> 33:36.960]  Now, through Compassion, Alejandra was treated and against all odds, she
[33:36.960 --> 33:38.160]  survived.
[33:38.160 --> 33:41.520]  She lived because someone just like you took action.
[33:42.160 --> 33:46.560]  Right now, unfortunately, there are children just like Alejandra who won't
[33:46.560 --> 33:49.200]  survive unless someone like you steps in.
[33:49.760 --> 33:54.800]  Compassion International partners with local churches, providing children with
[33:54.800 --> 33:56.560]  the support that they need.
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[34:02.800 --> 34:04.640]  all in Jesus' name.
[34:04.640 --> 34:07.920]  So help a child just like Alejandra today.
[34:08.480 --> 34:10.960]  You can visit Compassion.com.
[34:10.960 --> 34:13.120]  That's Compassion.com.
[34:26.560 --> 34:46.320]  But you got an article about AI along for the ride.
[34:46.320 --> 34:47.280]  Talk a little bit about that.
[34:47.920 --> 34:48.240]  Yeah.
[34:48.240 --> 34:51.040]  Well, it focuses on a new Volvo electric vehicle.
[34:51.040 --> 34:56.480]  I think it's the EX60 and they're incorporating Google's Gemini AI into it.
[34:56.480 --> 35:00.400]  And of course, it's being presented as a helpy, helperson kind of a thing,
[35:00.400 --> 35:03.760]  because, you know, they created this problem of having these touch screen
[35:03.760 --> 35:07.200]  interfaces in the car that make it difficult to control things while you're
[35:07.200 --> 35:08.400]  driving, because it's kind of hard.
[35:09.040 --> 35:09.840]  It's ridiculous.
[35:09.840 --> 35:10.080]  Yeah.
[35:10.720 --> 35:14.720]  So instead of that, now you're going to have a conversation with the Gemini AI
[35:14.720 --> 35:15.920]  and ask it to do things.
[35:16.720 --> 35:20.320]  So if you need the stereo to change its station, it'll do that.
[35:20.960 --> 35:22.160]  It'll do all sorts of things.
[35:22.160 --> 35:24.800]  It can make all sorts of adjustments while you drive.
[35:24.800 --> 35:28.480]  But beyond that, ultimately, what people don't see is that this is going to be
[35:28.480 --> 35:31.440]  used to control us, monitor us and control us.
[35:32.720 --> 35:35.840]  In this case, Volvo is not only incorporating the AI.
[35:35.840 --> 35:40.720]  In addition to that, they are giving their AI access, direct feed access to
[35:40.720 --> 35:42.400]  the cameras that are in the car.
[35:42.400 --> 35:45.520]  You know, about the flock cameras that are being put up all over the country.
[35:45.520 --> 35:45.760]  Yeah.
[35:45.760 --> 35:47.760]  Well, this is the flock that you drive.
[35:47.760 --> 35:51.200]  So, you know, the cameras that are in your car that are sweeping the
[35:51.280 --> 35:56.880]  surroundings feed that data to the AI and then transmit that to the hive mind.
[35:56.880 --> 36:02.000]  And it's a mechanism by which ultimately they will have real time 24 access to all
[36:02.000 --> 36:02.960]  of our movements.
[36:02.960 --> 36:05.520]  They'll be able to know exactly what we're doing all the time.
[36:05.520 --> 36:09.600]  And even creepier than that, a lot of these new cars have cameras inside the car to
[36:09.600 --> 36:12.560]  watch you, which again, they present that as a safety feature.
[36:12.560 --> 36:14.960]  You know, we don't want people to be drowsy behind the wheel.
[36:14.960 --> 36:17.680]  So we're watching, you know, you're watching your eye movements in your face.
[36:17.680 --> 36:21.040]  And, you know, in that way, the park can let you know it's time for a coffee break.
[36:21.040 --> 36:23.120]  It literally says that a little icon will come up.
[36:23.120 --> 36:24.560]  Time for a coffee break.
[36:24.560 --> 36:28.240]  Well, you know, ultimately they'll be able to just shut the thing down.
[36:28.240 --> 36:32.560]  If they decide that, you know, you look angry, you expressed something, you know,
[36:32.560 --> 36:35.840]  politically incorrect about what's going on in Davos, whatever it might be.
[36:35.840 --> 36:37.120]  It's horrible.
[36:37.120 --> 36:38.080]  Let us put up a comment.
[36:38.080 --> 36:40.400]  I said, Gemini, tilt the air vent up.
[36:40.400 --> 36:41.200]  No, a little less.
[36:41.200 --> 36:42.000]  Wait, go back.
[36:42.000 --> 36:42.880]  No, not too far.
[36:43.520 --> 36:44.720]  That's what you're going to wind up doing.
[36:44.720 --> 36:48.320]  Why can't I just have a little mechanical thing that I just reach over with my hand
[36:48.320 --> 36:49.440]  and move it, right?
[36:49.440 --> 36:50.560]  What is the problem with that?
[36:51.200 --> 36:55.440]  Do you remember the reboot of the Battlestar Galactica series that aired back in the early 2000s?
[36:56.160 --> 36:57.120]  No, I never saw that.
[36:57.120 --> 36:57.520]  Yeah.
[36:57.520 --> 36:58.240]  It was really good.
[36:58.240 --> 37:03.520]  One of the interesting things about it was that the ship that survived the Cylon attack,
[37:03.520 --> 37:09.520]  the Cylons are these AI robots into the fleet because the fleet used AI.
[37:09.520 --> 37:11.600]  So, you know, they turned off all of their defenses,
[37:11.600 --> 37:17.120]  except for this one old antique ship that was analog and still had everything hardwired.
[37:17.120 --> 37:20.240]  So that one ship, which was the Galactica managed to escape.
[37:21.200 --> 37:24.000]  And I think there's actually a lot to that.
[37:25.440 --> 37:29.520]  I think that us being connected to what they refer to as the internet of things
[37:29.520 --> 37:30.720]  is going to be our undoing.
[37:30.720 --> 37:36.000]  And I think that it is the smartest, wisest thing we can possibly do to disconnect from all of that.
[37:36.000 --> 37:36.720]  That's right.
[37:36.720 --> 37:38.480]  You know, we're going to have these flock cameras everywhere,
[37:38.480 --> 37:39.760]  have flock cameras in the car.
[37:39.760 --> 37:41.600]  We're going to flock around and find out, aren't we?
[37:43.600 --> 37:49.280]  So yeah, that's been one of my pet peeves about this interface that began with Tesla,
[37:49.280 --> 37:51.440]  where they put that touch screen in the middle,
[37:51.440 --> 37:54.960]  because I guess it's a lot cheaper than making mechanical knobs
[37:54.960 --> 37:56.720]  that are going to last for a while.
[37:56.720 --> 38:01.040]  And, you know, again, even changing the air vents that are there.
[38:01.040 --> 38:04.000]  And it's unnecessarily complicated.
[38:04.000 --> 38:05.360]  It's difficult to use.
[38:05.360 --> 38:06.480]  And isn't it interesting?
[38:06.480 --> 38:08.160]  And I think you and I have talked about this before,
[38:08.800 --> 38:11.760]  the fact that they can do that kind of an interface.
[38:11.760 --> 38:14.880]  And it's very distracting because you're trying to pinch and zoom
[38:14.880 --> 38:16.160]  and there's no tactile feedback.
[38:16.160 --> 38:17.920]  So you got to take your eyes off the road to do it.
[38:18.480 --> 38:23.760]  And yet if you are using a cell phone, they'll give you a ticket.
[38:23.760 --> 38:26.640]  But if you're driving one of these cars, hey, that's all just fine.
[38:26.640 --> 38:27.680]  Not a problem at all.
[38:27.680 --> 38:29.040]  But it is very distracting.
[38:29.040 --> 38:32.080]  I have rented cars that have had that kind of stuff in it.
[38:32.080 --> 38:36.240]  And, you know, it is impossible to do anything while you're driving with them.
[38:36.880 --> 38:41.680]  Even the simplest things, you know, changing the volume of air
[38:41.680 --> 38:45.360]  or the direction of the air or the volume of the radio
[38:45.520 --> 38:46.400]  and that kind of stuff.
[38:46.400 --> 38:48.320]  It makes it impossible to do that.
[38:48.320 --> 38:52.400]  And then they take things like the door handles on the Teslas.
[38:53.520 --> 38:56.720]  We've had a lot of reports about how people have been trapped inside
[38:56.720 --> 38:58.480]  because they have an accident.
[38:58.480 --> 39:01.680]  Now the door handle that's under software control doesn't work anymore.
[39:01.680 --> 39:08.320]  I had a friend who has a Tesla and he got stuck inside of his car
[39:08.320 --> 39:09.520]  for quite some time.
[39:09.520 --> 39:12.480]  Fortunately, he had his phone with him and he could call tech support.
[39:12.480 --> 39:15.760]  But he had to call tech support to get the door open on his car.
[39:15.760 --> 39:17.760]  It's like, this is crazy.
[39:17.760 --> 39:21.520]  Absolutely crazy that we turn our life over to these complicated systems.
[39:21.520 --> 39:23.280]  And I think if you look at the bigger picture,
[39:23.840 --> 39:27.040]  that is kind of what has happened to our entire infrastructure.
[39:27.040 --> 39:32.000]  We are on the cusp of something really, really bad happening to us.
[39:32.000 --> 39:37.280]  And it's such a complicated, interconnected, just in time delivery system
[39:37.280 --> 39:39.920]  that it wouldn't take much to disrupt all this stuff
[39:39.920 --> 39:43.280]  and create total chaos and havoc because the complicated,
[39:43.280 --> 39:46.720]  unnecessarily complicated in many ways, system that we live with.
[39:47.440 --> 39:48.080]  Yeah, I agree.
[39:48.080 --> 39:49.360]  It's gratuitously complex.
[39:49.360 --> 39:51.920]  And by the way, while Tesla was the first to pioneer
[39:52.480 --> 39:57.680]  their flush-mounted door pulls that they extend when you approach the car.
[39:57.680 --> 40:00.160]  And so then you have something to grab to open the door with.
[40:00.800 --> 40:02.960]  The problem is that if there's an electrical failure,
[40:02.960 --> 40:04.800]  then you can't get in the car.
[40:04.800 --> 40:08.400]  And compounding that problem, Teslas have laminated side glass
[40:08.400 --> 40:10.480]  that's very difficult to shatter.
[40:10.480 --> 40:13.760]  So you remember that, I think it was the, what was it?
[40:14.720 --> 40:17.200]  I can't remember the family relation of Mitch McConnell, a woman.
[40:17.200 --> 40:20.400]  She's like some tech lady, big billionaire person.
[40:20.400 --> 40:25.120]  Anyway, she was apparently a little bit drunk and backed her Tesla into a pond.
[40:25.120 --> 40:27.440]  And it was something that was completely survivable.
[40:27.440 --> 40:28.400]  It wasn't a high speed thing.
[40:28.400 --> 40:31.920]  She just rolled backwards into the pond, but they couldn't get her out of the car
[40:31.920 --> 40:35.840]  because the car shorted out in the water and they couldn't get the doors open
[40:35.840 --> 40:37.200]  and they couldn't smash the windows open.
[40:37.280 --> 40:39.520]  So she drowned to death, you know?
[40:39.520 --> 40:41.360]  And again, it's not just Tesla.
[40:41.360 --> 40:44.880]  A number of higher end vehicle manufacturers now are emulating it
[40:44.880 --> 40:47.040]  and they've got the same types of door pulls.
[40:47.040 --> 40:49.680]  And it's totally gratuitous complexity.
[40:49.680 --> 40:53.360]  I'm not, I just don't like technology for its own sake
[40:53.360 --> 40:55.520]  and complexity for its own sake.
[40:55.520 --> 40:56.720]  There's no meaningful improvement.
[40:56.720 --> 40:59.520]  I mean, is it that difficult really to pull a handle?
[41:00.720 --> 41:02.000]  It's geekism, right?
[41:02.000 --> 41:03.600]  It's like, look guys, this is really cool.
[41:03.600 --> 41:04.640]  Look what I can do with this.
[41:04.960 --> 41:07.280]  It's like your science project, right?
[41:07.280 --> 41:09.040]  These systems are fragile.
[41:09.040 --> 41:13.040]  A car is subjected to a lot of environmental harshness.
[41:13.040 --> 41:17.600]  You know, it's hot, it's cold, it gets jostled and bumped.
[41:17.600 --> 41:19.680]  So what works when the thing is new
[41:20.720 --> 41:23.840]  maybe isn't going to work so well when it's eight, nine, 10 years old.
[41:23.840 --> 41:26.480]  You know, there's going to be a failure at some point
[41:26.480 --> 41:27.760]  where it would have happened before.
[41:27.760 --> 41:30.640]  And the failure is going to involve a lot of money and hassle too.
[41:30.640 --> 41:33.520]  You know, because having something simple like a pull, you know?
[41:33.600 --> 41:35.920]  I mean, you know, a monkey could change a door pull
[41:35.920 --> 41:38.320]  with a screwdriver or a few basic handles.
[41:38.320 --> 41:40.400]  But when it's this complicated electronic system
[41:40.400 --> 41:43.360]  and you've got body control modules and computers and all this stuff,
[41:43.360 --> 41:44.800]  you know, now it's something that you end up having
[41:44.800 --> 41:46.720]  to have the thing towed to a dealership for
[41:46.720 --> 41:49.680]  and end up spending, you know, orders of magnitude more money
[41:49.680 --> 41:50.880]  to have the problem fixed.
[41:50.880 --> 41:52.320]  It's just, it's stupid.
[41:53.120 --> 41:56.880]  It's almost a childish fascination with tech for its own sake.
[41:56.880 --> 42:00.000]  Like a seagull that is like dazzled by a piece of tin foil
[42:00.000 --> 42:01.360]  at the beach that keeps pecking at it.
[42:01.360 --> 42:01.860]  Right.
[42:03.120 --> 42:07.120]  Speaking of foolish complications, we've got bricked Porsches.
[42:07.120 --> 42:09.120]  You've got an article about that.
[42:09.120 --> 42:12.480]  I just saw that they'd been doing really well the last couple of years.
[42:12.480 --> 42:14.000]  They'd had very good years.
[42:14.000 --> 42:17.120]  This last year, their sales were flat or declined slightly.
[42:17.920 --> 42:19.840]  Is it because of this or is it something else?
[42:19.840 --> 42:21.520]  What is this about, the bricked ones?
[42:21.520 --> 42:24.720]  Well, this particular thing touches on what we have been talking about.
[42:25.600 --> 42:28.160]  Nominally, it's about their anti-theft system.
[42:28.160 --> 42:30.000]  I think the acronym is VTS.
[42:30.000 --> 42:34.400]  And apparently it's one of these systems where if the hive mind senses
[42:34.400 --> 42:38.800]  that the car hasn't reported in after a while, then it will disable the car
[42:38.800 --> 42:40.480]  because it thinks that the car was stolen.
[42:40.480 --> 42:42.640]  In other words, it's some kind of an anti-theft device.
[42:42.640 --> 42:45.680]  But it points out that the cars can be disabled.
[42:45.680 --> 42:47.920]  All these Porsches in Russia, I should back up.
[42:47.920 --> 42:51.280]  All these Porsche models that are in Russia just don't work anymore.
[42:51.280 --> 42:54.320]  All of a sudden they've been effectively bricked and turned off
[42:54.320 --> 42:58.640]  because a signal was sent out to the cars telling them to shut off.
[42:58.640 --> 42:59.520]  That's the key point.
[42:59.520 --> 43:00.960]  That's the key take-home point.
[43:00.960 --> 43:02.240]  And it's not just Porsches.
[43:02.240 --> 43:04.000]  You and I have discussed this before.
[43:04.000 --> 43:08.800]  Connected vehicles, which means any vehicle that can receive over-the-air updates
[43:08.800 --> 43:11.040]  to the software that runs the computer.
[43:11.040 --> 43:13.360]  These have become essentially standard now.
[43:13.360 --> 43:16.480]  And they have been since around 2015-ish.
[43:16.480 --> 43:20.000]  So for about 10 years now, all the vehicles that have been sold,
[43:20.000 --> 43:22.960]  not just high-end cars like Porsches, are connected.
[43:23.520 --> 43:26.000]  They receive updates over the air.
[43:26.080 --> 43:29.760]  And implicit in that is the ability of an external force,
[43:29.760 --> 43:32.880]  whether it's a hacker, or it could be the government,
[43:32.880 --> 43:34.560]  or it could be the vehicle manufacturer,
[43:34.560 --> 43:37.200]  it could be a variety of different sources,
[43:37.200 --> 43:41.520]  is capable of interfering with the operation of your car and of shutting it down.
[43:41.520 --> 43:42.560]  Another example of it...
[43:42.560 --> 43:45.520]  So let me ask you, is this happening in Russia?
[43:45.520 --> 43:47.760]  Is this happening because Germany doesn't like Russia?
[43:47.760 --> 43:49.520]  So they're disabling Porsches?
[43:49.520 --> 43:50.160]  Well, it could be.
[43:50.160 --> 43:52.000]  One of the theories that's been put forward is that,
[43:52.000 --> 43:54.320]  yeah, it's kind of a punishment to Porsche.
[43:54.320 --> 43:55.040]  And it may well be.
[43:55.600 --> 43:57.360]  It may well be in that particular case.
[43:57.360 --> 44:01.360]  But I think the thing that people listening to us should really take to heart
[44:01.360 --> 44:05.920]  is that if they have a new-ish vehicle, something that's built after 2015 or so,
[44:05.920 --> 44:08.880]  that has this ability to receive over-the-air updates,
[44:08.880 --> 44:14.000]  implicit in that is that somebody else can get into your vehicle and control it.
[44:14.000 --> 44:15.520]  They can turn it off.
[44:15.520 --> 44:17.200]  They can change the parameters.
[44:17.200 --> 44:19.840]  There was an incident several years ago where there was a hurricane.
[44:19.840 --> 44:20.640]  I think it was in Texas.
[44:20.640 --> 44:21.680]  You may remember this.
[44:21.680 --> 44:24.720]  This hurricane was projected to come down to that area.
[44:24.720 --> 44:26.080]  It was supposed to be a bad one.
[44:26.080 --> 44:30.800]  So Elon Musk, in his great beneficence, sent out an over-the-air update
[44:30.800 --> 44:33.360]  that increased the driving range of Teslas,
[44:34.240 --> 44:36.240]  so that people could get out of the way of this hurricane.
[44:36.240 --> 44:37.360]  And he was widely law.
[44:37.360 --> 44:40.000]  So look what a nice guy Elon Musk is.
[44:40.000 --> 44:42.480]  And I think I was maybe the only person who said, well, wait a minute.
[44:42.480 --> 44:43.360]  That's great.
[44:43.360 --> 44:46.400]  If you can increase the range of your car,
[44:46.400 --> 44:49.600]  that means he could also decrease it or give you no range at all.
[44:49.600 --> 44:52.560]  He could just send out an update to turn the car off.
[44:52.640 --> 44:55.200]  And keep in mind, we're dealing with people who might say,
[44:55.200 --> 44:56.560]  oh, there's a climate emergency.
[44:56.560 --> 44:58.320]  We can't have people out there driving.
[44:58.320 --> 45:01.360]  So they just send out the signal and automatically they shut off
[45:01.920 --> 45:04.800]  the great majority of the cars that are out on the roads,
[45:04.800 --> 45:07.120]  because most of the cars that are out on the roads now
[45:07.120 --> 45:09.120]  have this connected technology.
[45:09.120 --> 45:10.480]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[45:10.480 --> 45:13.200]  And I want to be honest with you for a second
[45:13.200 --> 45:16.080]  about how an act of compassion really feels.
[45:16.080 --> 45:19.360]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[45:19.360 --> 45:23.200]  with an amazing organization called Compassion International.
[45:23.200 --> 45:27.120]  Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[45:27.120 --> 45:28.960]  It was a nice idea, sure.
[45:28.960 --> 45:34.240]  But I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as well.
[45:34.880 --> 45:40.080]  I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes,
[45:40.080 --> 45:43.600]  going from starving literally alone on the streets
[45:43.600 --> 45:49.200]  to getting the health care and education she needs to reach her God-given full potential.
[45:49.680 --> 45:52.080]  I got to be a part of that change.
[45:52.080 --> 45:55.840]  And the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her,
[45:55.840 --> 45:57.440]  it illuminates now in me.
[45:58.080 --> 46:00.560]  That is the power of compassion.
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[46:43.840 --> 46:49.760]  Yeah.
[46:49.760 --> 46:51.840]  As a matter of fact, you're talking about a climate emergency.
[46:52.640 --> 47:00.240]  Did you see that Germany just told Toyota that they had to turn off the auto start?
[47:00.240 --> 47:03.680]  So, you know, people start up the car to warm your car up.
[47:03.680 --> 47:04.080]  Yeah, that's right.
[47:04.080 --> 47:07.600]  You start the car early before you get in it so you can de-ice it
[47:07.600 --> 47:09.120]  and warm it up and that type of thing.
[47:09.120 --> 47:13.200]  They said, no, we don't want your internal combustion engines idling needlessly.
[47:13.200 --> 47:18.800]  So, we're going to have to, you know, so Lexus and Toyota just did an
[47:18.800 --> 47:21.920]  over-the-air update to delete the ability to do that.
[47:22.560 --> 47:22.880]  Correct.
[47:22.880 --> 47:23.280]  It's pretty amazing.
[47:23.280 --> 47:24.880]  That just speaks to what we're talking about.
[47:24.880 --> 47:30.320]  They have the capability to control all sorts of things about your car without your consent.
[47:30.320 --> 47:33.440]  And it's a frontal assault against the whole concept of private property.
[47:33.440 --> 47:34.400]  I mean, you bought the thing.
[47:34.400 --> 47:35.520]  It's your property.
[47:35.520 --> 47:36.720]  You supposedly own this.
[47:36.720 --> 47:37.760]  Your name is on the title.
[47:37.760 --> 47:38.720]  You paid for it.
[47:38.800 --> 47:45.920]  And yet this party out there can exert control over what is supposed to be yours.
[47:45.920 --> 47:50.480]  And if somebody else can exert control over the thing, then it really isn't yours, is it?
[47:50.480 --> 47:51.040]  That's right.
[47:51.040 --> 47:51.920]  That's right.
[47:51.920 --> 48:00.000]  And of course, adding to all of this, they're allowing EVs and hybrids to heat up early.
[48:00.560 --> 48:02.400]  They get an exception to all of this stuff.
[48:02.400 --> 48:03.760]  One person said, well, wait a minute.
[48:04.880 --> 48:08.480]  I guess this is because the politicians can't tell the difference between a building and a car.
[48:09.280 --> 48:09.760]  True.
[48:10.480 --> 48:12.480]  So it's like we got both of those.
[48:12.480 --> 48:13.600]  One of them you're allowed to heat.
[48:13.600 --> 48:14.800]  The other one, you're not allowed to heat.
[48:16.240 --> 48:22.480]  Again, it's one of the fatuities that has been a part of this whole EV thing since the get-go.
[48:22.480 --> 48:26.640]  The idea that, well, it's OK to have carbon emissions, as they put it,
[48:26.640 --> 48:33.200]  if they come from some power plant or some centralized location where the power is generated.
[48:33.200 --> 48:37.520]  But it's a bad, bad thing if it comes out of the tailpipe of a car.
[48:37.520 --> 48:42.080]  Even though when you look at it, the amount of CO2 emissions, even if you buy into that whole thing,
[48:42.080 --> 48:48.320]  that emanate from, say, a natural gas-fired utility plant are enormous compared to the
[48:48.320 --> 48:51.120]  trivial amount that comes out of the exhaust pipe of a car.
[48:51.120 --> 48:54.880]  Or something comes out of one of Elon Musk's rockets that are going up.
[48:54.880 --> 48:55.680]  Sure.
[48:55.680 --> 48:59.920]  But it was a few years ago, you and I were talking about this very thing and pointed out that
[49:00.800 --> 49:07.920]  in India, the power plants that were providing power to the grid
[49:08.800 --> 49:12.240]  were so dirty because they were allowed to make them cheap and dirty.
[49:12.240 --> 49:18.800]  The Paris Climate Accord 2015 that allowed India and China to build as many and as dirty
[49:18.800 --> 49:20.960]  of power plants as they wished.
[49:20.960 --> 49:22.800]  No restrictions whatsoever.
[49:22.800 --> 49:30.400]  And so the power grid was powered in India by power plants that were so dirty
[49:30.960 --> 49:37.440]  that if you had a car that was a gasoline engine, you would emit less than they did.
[49:37.440 --> 49:44.240]  If you had a car that got 30 miles per gallon, you would be using less of their measured
[49:44.240 --> 49:49.280]  emissions than if you had an electric vehicle that was charged off of the power grid that was
[49:50.160 --> 49:53.440]  that was sourcing off of these dirty power plants.
[49:53.440 --> 49:57.520]  And so we said, well, maybe what we could do is just put a great big balloon on the
[49:57.520 --> 50:03.520]  back of the tailpipe and just collect all of the gas until it gets really big.
[50:03.520 --> 50:07.600]  And then you have to drive to a location of a power plant and let this thing go.
[50:07.600 --> 50:10.640]  Because it's okay if it goes in the atmosphere at a power plant.
[50:10.640 --> 50:14.720]  It's just not okay coming out of your own tailpipe as you're driving around.
[50:14.720 --> 50:17.040]  It'd be funny if it weren't so stupid, right?
[50:17.040 --> 50:17.680]  Yeah.
[50:17.680 --> 50:20.000]  Yeah, just match their stupidity, I guess.
[50:23.360 --> 50:24.000]  That's amazing.
[50:24.000 --> 50:26.640]  Well, what else is on your radar here?
[50:26.640 --> 50:30.560]  I see that you had an article up about Camaro maybe coming back.
[50:30.560 --> 50:31.520]  What do you think about that?
[50:31.520 --> 50:32.560]  Well, there's a rumor.
[50:32.560 --> 50:34.480]  There's nothing that's been confirmed definitively.
[50:34.480 --> 50:39.680]  But GM's president, Mark Royce, has hinted that they might bring back the Camaro.
[50:39.680 --> 50:42.320]  Now, the Camaro was last available in 2024.
[50:43.120 --> 50:47.040]  Previously, it had been available all the way back to 1967 as kind of a
[50:47.040 --> 50:48.240]  jam version of the Camaro.
[50:48.240 --> 50:49.840]  And it was a hugely successful car.
[50:50.400 --> 50:54.480]  The problem was that over the years, it got progressively more complex and expensive,
[50:54.480 --> 51:00.400]  such that by 2024, even the base Camaro, the least expensive version of it, was nearly $32,000.
[51:01.120 --> 51:02.400]  That's the problem.
[51:02.400 --> 51:04.400]  Some people would say, well, it was an impractical car.
[51:04.400 --> 51:07.360]  It had tight back seats and you didn't have a lot of room in the trunk.
[51:07.360 --> 51:10.080]  Well, that never was a problem for Camaro in its heyday.
[51:10.080 --> 51:11.120]  Identical digging.
[51:11.120 --> 51:13.760]  I know a lot about these generation cars because I've
[51:13.760 --> 51:16.800]  been a fan of them for many years and I've owned a number of them.
[51:17.360 --> 51:19.840]  1978 was the high watermark for Camaro.
[51:19.840 --> 51:24.080]  And during that year, Chevy sold something like 270,000 of them,
[51:24.080 --> 51:26.320]  which is an astoundingly huge number of them.
[51:26.320 --> 51:29.040]  And you and I can remember back in the 70s and 80s, they were everywhere.
[51:30.160 --> 51:31.120]  Just absolutely everywhere.
[51:31.120 --> 51:34.640]  And well, that was because the base Camaro back in 78 was $4,400.
[51:35.520 --> 51:40.160]  And if you plug that number into the government sketchy BLS inflation calculator,
[51:40.160 --> 51:45.200]  which probably is way underestimating it, but anyway, it comes out $22,000.
[51:45.200 --> 51:49.760]  I kind of think if people could buy a Camaro today for $22,000, probably they would.
[51:50.640 --> 51:54.640]  The difficulty is that the typical demographic for that car is mostly young guys.
[51:54.640 --> 51:56.640]  Mostly guys under 35 buy Camaros.
[51:57.600 --> 51:58.640]  It's that kind of a car.
[51:59.200 --> 52:04.560]  The problem is that most young guys don't have $32,000 plus the insurance,
[52:04.560 --> 52:07.280]  plus everything else that goes along with it to buy the car.
[52:07.280 --> 52:10.400]  So it's mostly an older guy's car and you get to be older
[52:10.400 --> 52:12.880]  and it gets to be hard to get into one of these little cars.
[52:12.880 --> 52:16.400]  I can testify to that, yeah.
[52:16.400 --> 52:19.840]  Yeah, you're probably married and you've got kids and it's just not that practical.
[52:19.840 --> 52:24.800]  And unless you're very affluent, you can't afford that second impractical car, the fun car.
[52:25.440 --> 52:26.880]  You have to buy one car.
[52:26.880 --> 52:31.760]  So typically people will buy a crossover or an SUV because it's suitable for a family.
[52:31.760 --> 52:32.960]  It's practical.
[52:32.960 --> 52:36.320]  So that's the reason why Camaro got canceled chiefly.
[52:36.320 --> 52:40.240]  Now what I'd like to see is them try to return to the roots of the car and bring back
[52:40.240 --> 52:42.960]  something that's much less expensive and something that's much more basic.
[52:46.400 --> 52:48.640]  The standard Camaro did not have power windows or locks.
[52:48.640 --> 52:50.480]  It had a manual transmission.
[52:50.480 --> 52:53.360]  It had a 36-cylinder engine and that was just fine.
[52:54.160 --> 52:56.400]  It was a fun, sporty car that was affordable.
[52:57.040 --> 53:00.320]  Now if you look at the base, I don't even know why they use that term anymore,
[53:00.320 --> 53:01.840]  base, the base trim.
[53:01.840 --> 53:05.440]  The base trim has things that would have been considered high-end,
[53:06.080 --> 53:08.800]  luxurious things once upon a time.
[53:08.800 --> 53:13.680]  Everything has power windows, power locks, climate control, power seats, a great stereo.
[53:14.800 --> 53:17.120]  All of those things are nice if you can afford them.
[53:17.120 --> 53:17.840]  That's right, yeah.
[53:17.840 --> 53:20.480]  I had a Mustang, a 68 Mustang.
[53:20.480 --> 53:26.400]  And of course it had the windows were powered by my arm and no air conditioning,
[53:26.400 --> 53:27.600]  no back seat really.
[53:27.600 --> 53:30.480]  I can testify to how small that back seat was.
[53:31.520 --> 53:32.480]  And that wasn't a problem.
[53:32.480 --> 53:33.760]  It's still a very popular car.
[53:34.320 --> 53:35.680]  As a matter of fact, no air conditioning.
[53:35.680 --> 53:41.120]  But even in Florida, they used to have those, you know, the triangle that is part of the,
[53:41.120 --> 53:42.720]  you know, right behind the A-pillar.
[53:42.720 --> 53:44.480]  I don't know what you call that thing.
[53:44.480 --> 53:47.840]  But yeah, I used to be able to open that thing up and I could turn it.
[53:47.840 --> 53:50.160]  And so I would get a massive amount of water.
[53:52.240 --> 53:53.680]  So it was raining, it would be water.
[53:53.680 --> 53:58.640]  But usually it would be wind that's getting dumped into my lap and chest, you know?
[53:58.640 --> 53:59.840]  And that would really keep you cool.
[54:00.320 --> 54:03.680]  The only problem with it was that the control that latched it
[54:03.680 --> 54:05.040]  kept popping off of the glass.
[54:05.040 --> 54:06.480]  They didn't glue it very well.
[54:06.480 --> 54:08.720]  And I had a hard time trying to get it glued back on.
[54:08.720 --> 54:15.280]  But other than that, you know, the thing was very simple and very, very fun to drive, you know?
[54:15.280 --> 54:19.360]  And when I got rid of that, I got a car that was even more simple.
[54:19.360 --> 54:20.960]  And that was the Triumph Spitfire.
[54:20.960 --> 54:23.840]  But it was also mechanically unreliable.
[54:24.400 --> 54:29.840]  It had a lot more things than just the little shutting, the little thing,
[54:29.840 --> 54:32.240]  the little control on the window that popped off.
[54:32.240 --> 54:37.520]  It had a lot of body integrity, as well as engine integrity issues with that thing as well.
[54:37.520 --> 54:42.240]  But, you know, I think there's a lag time.
[54:42.240 --> 54:46.560]  Like everything that's on the market right now is premised on people being able to deal
[54:46.560 --> 54:48.480]  with the cost in terms of the monthly payment.
[54:48.480 --> 54:52.240]  And that did work for a while, but it's not the way it was.
[54:52.240 --> 54:57.600]  You know, the cost of everything else has increased so dramatically over the last several years
[54:57.680 --> 55:03.360]  that it's no longer feasible for most people to go out and pick up a $30,000 or $40,000 car
[55:03.360 --> 55:08.080]  on top of paying twice as much for groceries, on top of paying twice as much for car insurance,
[55:08.080 --> 55:11.040]  you know, rent and everything else that has gone through the roof.
[55:11.040 --> 55:13.120]  So, you know, that's why it's no longer,
[55:13.120 --> 55:16.400]  to use the favorite word of the progressives, sustainable.
[55:16.400 --> 55:20.320]  So if we went back to a situation where certain options were simply a la carte,
[55:20.320 --> 55:23.440]  like they used to be, you know, you get the base car, there it is.
[55:23.440 --> 55:27.040]  You know, you look at the options box and you see how much of power windows cost 300 bucks.
[55:27.120 --> 55:29.360]  Okay, I'll go, I'll buy that.
[55:29.360 --> 55:31.680]  You know, if I can't afford it now, I'm going to skip that this time.
[55:33.280 --> 55:35.840]  I'd like to see things get back to that, you know,
[55:35.840 --> 55:40.080]  so that more and more people could once again afford cars and fun cars.
[55:40.080 --> 55:44.480]  I think it's sad that, you know, most of the fun cars now are very expensive cars.
[55:44.480 --> 55:48.240]  So, you know, only older people and the handful of other people who aren't older
[55:48.240 --> 55:50.480]  and have the money can afford to indulge in them.
[55:50.480 --> 55:53.040]  And that's, you know, that's undermining everything that,
[55:53.040 --> 55:55.200]  that, you know, that I like about cars.
[55:55.200 --> 55:59.440]  The whole point is to have fun while you're driving and to enjoy the freedom of mobility.
[55:59.440 --> 56:01.600]  And, you know, people are being turned off to that,
[56:01.600 --> 56:04.320]  especially the younger generations, because they can't afford it.
[56:04.320 --> 56:07.200]  Well, a good example of that is, a good example is Jeep.
[56:07.200 --> 56:08.880]  Look at what Stellantis has done with it.
[56:08.880 --> 56:13.600]  They've added all the bells and whistles and luxury appointments to the Jeep
[56:13.600 --> 56:16.080]  that now they're not affordable to anybody.
[56:16.080 --> 56:19.680]  They have completely lost sight of what their target audience was.
[56:19.680 --> 56:22.160]  You know, these are people who wanted to grab this thing and go out,
[56:23.040 --> 56:25.040]  you know, in the rough with this stuff.
[56:25.040 --> 56:29.200]  And instead, what they're doing is they're adding everything that they can think of to it.
[56:29.200 --> 56:31.120]  So people can't afford them at all.
[56:31.120 --> 56:32.320]  Well, there's some good news there, though.
[56:32.320 --> 56:37.440]  A couple of days ago, Stellantis, which is the parent company of Jeep and Chrysler and Dodge
[56:37.440 --> 56:41.120]  and Ram Trucks announced that they were, I love the phrase, pulling the plug
[56:41.840 --> 56:44.800]  on their plug-in hybrid versions of Jeep vehicles.
[56:45.600 --> 56:48.240]  They have been trying to sell, if you can imagine it, they tried to sell it.
[56:48.240 --> 56:51.920]  They called it the 4XE version of the Wrangler.
[56:51.920 --> 56:57.920]  And it cost $20,000 more than the Wrangler that didn't have the hybrid drivetrain.
[56:57.920 --> 57:00.560]  And the big sell, according to Jeep, was,
[57:00.560 --> 57:04.000]  hey, you can drive this thing 20 miles on battery power alone.
[57:04.000 --> 57:06.320]  That's worth $20,000 more.
[57:06.320 --> 57:11.840]  I mean, it was, you know, they pushed the price of the thing up to nearly $50,000 for a Wrangler.
[57:11.840 --> 57:12.720]  That's insane.
[57:12.720 --> 57:13.440]  Yeah.
[57:13.440 --> 57:16.320]  Especially because, you know, a lot of people like take this out in the,
[57:16.320 --> 57:17.680]  you know, the Outback or whatever.
[57:17.680 --> 57:23.200]  And that 20 miles of driving without any gasoline doesn't really make any difference
[57:23.200 --> 57:24.880]  because you're going to be going a long way
[57:24.880 --> 57:27.440]  before you get to where you really want to play with the thing, right?
[57:28.160 --> 57:28.880]  Yeah, absolutely.
[57:29.600 --> 57:33.840]  They undermined everything that was the point of owning a Jeep,
[57:33.840 --> 57:36.320]  which is simplicity, ruggedness, durability,
[57:37.200 --> 57:41.280]  and turned it into kind of a rich suburban person's play thing.
[57:41.280 --> 57:44.240]  And the problem with that is there are only so many rich suburban people
[57:44.240 --> 57:46.400]  who want to have like an image of being,
[57:46.400 --> 57:47.920]  hey, I've got a Jeep and I'm rugged.
[57:47.920 --> 57:50.960]  Look at me as, you know, I park it in front of my McMansion.
[57:52.480 --> 57:53.360]  That's right.
[57:53.360 --> 57:54.880]  Honda's killing the motorcycle.
[57:54.880 --> 57:56.240]  I saw that's one of your articles there.
[57:56.240 --> 57:57.040]  What's going on with that?
[57:57.040 --> 57:59.280]  Well, that's a bit much, but I don't like the trend.
[57:59.280 --> 58:01.440]  Yeah, they, you know, and they've done this in the past.
[58:02.880 --> 58:04.480]  They're trying to broaden the market
[58:04.480 --> 58:07.280]  and they're trying to reach the younger demographic in particular
[58:07.280 --> 58:10.640]  by essentially taking the manual transmission out of the equation,
[58:11.280 --> 58:14.560]  which to me, if you do that, it's not a motorcycle anymore.
[58:14.560 --> 58:15.760]  There's a name for what that is.
[58:15.760 --> 58:20.400]  It's a moped or a scooter and you're not, and I'm not, I'm not slamming either.
[58:20.400 --> 58:20.880]  That's right.
[58:22.880 --> 58:24.480]  You know, I don't have an issue with it.
[58:24.480 --> 58:27.280]  They make a lot of sense for a lot of people, but it's not a motorcycle.
[58:28.080 --> 58:30.480]  Motorcycle has a manual transmission.
[58:30.480 --> 58:33.840]  Part of the experience is shifting through the gears yourself
[58:33.840 --> 58:36.800]  and having that additional level of control over the bike
[58:36.800 --> 58:40.080]  that you don't have with, with, you know, a moped or a scooter.
[58:40.080 --> 58:43.440]  And I know, I understand the dynamic, but they, you know, these, these, you know,
[58:43.440 --> 58:47.680]  a lot of the younger generation have never done what you and I did when we were kids,
[58:47.680 --> 58:51.920]  rode dirt bikes, you know, and learned how to ride a bike, riding a dirt bike.
[58:51.920 --> 58:53.280]  They've not done that.
[58:53.280 --> 58:57.600]  So they're trying to get that, that new buyer demographic in
[58:57.600 --> 58:59.680]  because they understand that right now, the majority,
[58:59.680 --> 59:03.440]  the typical buyer of a new motorcycle is a guy our age, you know,
[59:03.440 --> 59:05.840]  and we're not going to be buying many more motorcycles.
[59:07.600 --> 59:08.880]  You know, that's the bottom line.
[59:08.880 --> 59:09.520]  That's right.
[59:09.520 --> 59:12.320]  We know that people are aging out of that market.
[59:12.320 --> 59:15.360]  So, you know, they're, they're trying to get the young crowd in,
[59:15.360 --> 59:20.160]  but I think it's self-defeating to do that because ultimately it really isn't a motorcycle.
[59:20.160 --> 59:23.920]  Yeah, I've never really, I never used, I never rode a motorcycle,
[59:23.920 --> 59:28.080]  but I did enjoy riding a little scooters on the beach in Daytona Beach.
[59:28.720 --> 59:34.480]  I was really upset about the fact that when I took Karen back about a decade ago
[59:34.480 --> 59:37.920]  and we went over to Daytona Beach where my family used to go frequently
[59:37.920 --> 59:41.040]  because there's only about four hours away from where we used to live in Tampa.
[59:41.040 --> 59:45.040]  And they won't even let you on the beach anymore.
[59:45.040 --> 59:46.400]  I mean, you go back and you look at, you know,
[59:46.400 --> 59:51.360]  Daytona 500 really originally was a race that was on the beach.
[59:51.360 --> 59:56.400]  And so, you know, we used to have these little scooters that we could rent,
[59:56.400 --> 59:59.280]  even when I was in junior high school, I did that.
[59:59.280 --> 01:00:02.720]  And, you know, they said, you got to only drive it on the beach
[01:00:02.720 --> 01:00:04.880]  and you can't take it out anywhere else.
[01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:07.360]  And, you know, they would only go like 30 miles an hour.
[01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.320]  It was a lot of fun.
[01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:11.440]  And now you can't drive anything on the beach.
[01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:13.600]  So all that stuff, it's like a ghost town there.
[01:00:13.600 --> 01:00:14.320]  It's amazing.
[01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:16.480]  Everything is closed off.
[01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:17.360]  They had a boardwalk there.
[01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:19.280]  Nobody's allowed to do that anymore.
[01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.160]  And so I've actually even got a bumper that I put up
[01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:25.920]  where I show some clips from back in the 1970s or so
[01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:29.200]  and just crowded with people and cars and all this.
[01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:31.280]  It's teeming with life and with fun.
[01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:36.240]  And then I juxtapose that with what's there now, which is nothing.
[01:00:36.720 --> 01:00:39.680]  Yeah, that's all just government have taken over everything, haven't you?
[01:00:39.680 --> 01:00:40.960]  At least they're trying to.
[01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:42.560]  Now there is some good news and it's ironic.
[01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:48.160]  The Indians have taken over a lot of the classic British brands like Royal Enfield
[01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:53.120]  and they have been bringing back affordable light small bikes.
[01:00:54.720 --> 01:00:56.960]  And they're actually doing quite well with those things
[01:00:56.960 --> 01:00:58.880]  because they're accessible to young people.
[01:01:00.160 --> 01:01:03.280]  Under $10,000 will buy you a very nice Royal Enfield.
[01:01:04.160 --> 01:01:05.680]  Or what's the other one?
[01:01:05.680 --> 01:01:07.440]  I'm having a Biden moment.
[01:01:08.640 --> 01:01:12.000]  The big British brand of bike that's controlled by the Indians.
[01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:13.120]  I can't think of it anyway.
[01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:16.880]  It took the Indians to bring bring motorcycling back.
[01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:19.680]  I guess the Japanese and the Americans are even more guilty of this.
[01:01:19.680 --> 01:01:26.400]  Harley is selling $30,000 bikes to 60-year-old guys with pleated leather chaps.
[01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:31.760]  Yeah, of course, I guess the Indians could get the Indian bike, right?
[01:01:32.560 --> 01:01:33.920]  They haven't bought that one yet, right?
[01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:38.880]  I kind of hope that they do because they might actually bring back something that's elemental.
[01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:42.960]  One time a Harley was like the quintessential bike and an Indian, the same thing.
[01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.880]  It was a frame, a gas tank, and an air-cooled V-twin engine.
[01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:54.560]  And it was specifically designed for lugheads like me to be able to work on them with a crescent wrench.
[01:01:54.560 --> 01:01:57.760]  Now you have to go to the Harley store to get the computer hooked up
[01:01:57.760 --> 01:01:59.440]  and get your accessory flashed.
[01:02:00.080 --> 01:02:04.880]  You know, they've taken up all of the finishing and all of the personalization
[01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:07.040]  that used to be one of the huge appeals of these bikes.
[01:02:07.040 --> 01:02:11.280]  You buy it and then you made it yours by adding stuff to it and customizing it and fiddling with it.
[01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.840]  So your bike was not like everybody else's bike.
[01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:17.120]  Now you got to go to the dealer and pay the Harley tech to do that for you.
[01:02:17.120 --> 01:02:18.560]  That's right, because they've got control.
[01:02:18.560 --> 01:02:20.400]  They really own the thing, not you.
[01:02:21.120 --> 01:02:22.640]  And of course, you and I have talked about that.
[01:02:22.640 --> 01:02:27.280]  The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the fights that were going back and forth
[01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.960]  and still are, I think, with John Deere and telling the farmers,
[01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:34.000]  no, no, no, you can't even buy the part from us and put it in.
[01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.680]  You're going to have to have us put it in so that we can set this up properly.
[01:02:37.680 --> 01:02:39.600]  Otherwise, we'll brick your tractor.
[01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:41.680]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[01:02:41.680 --> 01:02:44.880]  And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute.
[01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:49.120]  And I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion.
[01:02:49.120 --> 01:02:52.320]  We say those words all the time and they sound good.
[01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:53.360]  They feel good.
[01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:54.960]  But here's the truth.
[01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:59.200]  Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action.
[01:02:59.200 --> 01:03:04.240]  And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world
[01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:09.040]  who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn,
[01:03:09.040 --> 01:03:11.520]  or if there's any hope at all.
[01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:15.600]  And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward.
[01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:17.440]  But that child is waiting.
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[01:03:54.080 --> 01:04:21.760]  I'm surprised that there hasn't been a revolt about that.
[01:04:22.240 --> 01:04:23.440]  Well, people are not happy with it.
[01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:24.000]  That's for sure.
[01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:25.920]  They should just stop buying it.
[01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:30.400]  I mean, I personally would never buy something like that that I don't have control over.
[01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.840]  It's just a demeaning thing to think, okay, this item, whatever it may be,
[01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:38.880]  that I've just paid money for that is ostensibly my property.
[01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.240]  Well, somebody else can yank my chain, you know, at their whim.
[01:04:42.240 --> 01:04:46.320]  And I'm holding to them and I have to go beg permission from them
[01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.440]  to be able to use my property that I paid for.
[01:04:49.520 --> 01:04:51.840]  I don't understand people who willingly sign up for that.
[01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:52.560]  That's right.
[01:04:52.560 --> 01:04:55.520]  Well, you know, it kind of goes back to what we were talking about before,
[01:04:55.520 --> 01:05:00.160]  you know, AI on board and the control to be able to remotely alter
[01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:02.480]  or even shut down your car and that type of thing.
[01:05:03.120 --> 01:05:06.960]  The first time I really started thinking about that was with the death of Michael Hastings,
[01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:11.520]  a reporter that I still to this day believe that they killed him
[01:05:11.520 --> 01:05:16.640]  and that they did it with the Mercedes because he was before it all happened,
[01:05:16.640 --> 01:05:18.800]  he had sent out some messages to people saying, you know,
[01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:21.280]  I'm working on this thing and I've got to go into hiding.
[01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:25.120]  And he was looking under his Mercedes that he had
[01:05:25.120 --> 01:05:28.160]  and he'd made comments to the person that he was renting the house from
[01:05:28.160 --> 01:05:31.360]  that he was very worried about what they might do with his car and everything.
[01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:33.440]  When you look at the way the thing crashed,
[01:05:34.080 --> 01:05:38.480]  the engine went down the road in the direction that he was traveling.
[01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:39.440]  It was going very fast.
[01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:42.960]  They got pictures of it going very fast, but of course that could be done remotely.
[01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:46.560]  The engine went down the road in the direction he was traveling,
[01:05:46.560 --> 01:05:53.600]  whereas he went over in the right-hand direction and had a head-on with a tree
[01:05:53.600 --> 01:05:57.040]  that was not, you know, the kind of head-on that you would expect
[01:05:57.040 --> 01:06:00.560]  when there is a lot of speed going on with it.
[01:06:00.560 --> 01:06:02.320]  In other words, it wasn't completely crushed,
[01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:05.440]  but it immediately burst into fire.
[01:06:06.560 --> 01:06:08.240]  All of that I thought was very suspicious,
[01:06:08.240 --> 01:06:13.280]  but we'd already had people who had been part of security saying,
[01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:16.960]  you know, we could use that to assassinate people.
[01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:19.040]  And I think that's what they did.
[01:06:19.040 --> 01:06:20.880]  And that, of course, as you point out,
[01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:23.120]  that's the most radical version of that,
[01:06:23.120 --> 01:06:28.160]  but of course they could also, just like they brick us and shadow ban us on,
[01:06:28.160 --> 01:06:29.040]  you know, we get debanked,
[01:06:29.040 --> 01:06:31.760]  we get shadow banned on social media and other places like that.
[01:06:32.560 --> 01:06:35.600]  They could brick our cars as well for the same types of things.
[01:06:35.600 --> 01:06:37.200]  If they don't like what we're saying.
[01:06:37.200 --> 01:06:40.800]  You know, certainly this is something people I think really ought to be aware of.
[01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:43.760]  A lot of the systems in the car, for example, the accelerator pedal,
[01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:45.280]  are now drive-by-wire.
[01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:46.480]  And what does that mean?
[01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:51.520]  Well, it means you have the illusion that when you push down on the accelerator pedal,
[01:06:51.520 --> 01:06:54.880]  that it's your physical action that's resulting in the engine speeding up
[01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:56.480]  and the car accelerating.
[01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:57.520]  That's not so.
[01:06:57.520 --> 01:07:02.000]  What's happening is that signals data are being sent to the ECU, the engine controller.
[01:07:02.080 --> 01:07:06.400]  And that in turn is telling the computer to increase the engine speed.
[01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:09.680]  So implicit in that is that the engine could be told to speed,
[01:07:09.680 --> 01:07:13.920]  to, you know, to race and rev and make you go barreling down the road.
[01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:17.120]  Now you think, well, then all I have to do is if it's an automatic transmission,
[01:07:17.120 --> 01:07:18.720]  well, I'll just put it in neutral.
[01:07:18.720 --> 01:07:22.240]  Well, the problem there is that the transmission is now drive-by-wire also.
[01:07:22.240 --> 01:07:26.560]  You have the illusion that when you move that selector from park to reverse to neutral and drive,
[01:07:26.560 --> 01:07:28.320]  that you're engaging something mechanically.
[01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:29.120]  You're not.
[01:07:29.120 --> 01:07:32.240]  All you're doing is transmitting data to the computer,
[01:07:32.240 --> 01:07:36.320]  which then puts the transmission into reverse neutral drive and so on.
[01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:37.920]  Well, it stays in drive.
[01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:42.960]  You know, you're trying to frantically put it neutral to get the car also steering.
[01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:46.720]  Now, you know, they have these lane keep assist things with electric assisted power steering
[01:07:46.720 --> 01:07:49.600]  that can exert physical control over your steering.
[01:07:49.600 --> 01:07:50.080]  That's right.
[01:07:50.080 --> 01:07:54.880]  And you know, that could make this car steer violently to the left or violently to the right.
[01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:58.320]  All of these things are now part of the embedded software suite
[01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.880]  of pretty much all the new cars on the market.
[01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:02.080]  I'm leery of that stuff.
[01:08:03.120 --> 01:08:07.760]  I like mechanical things because mechanical things can't be controlled externally.
[01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:08.320]  That's right.
[01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:12.240]  So you got your accelerator, your brake, your transmission, your steering.
[01:08:12.240 --> 01:08:13.840]  All that is by wire.
[01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:14.880]  All that can be controlled.
[01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:20.720]  I remember Rowan Atkinson and he said the modern cars,
[01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:24.080]  he said you don't so much drive them as you manage them, right?
[01:08:25.040 --> 01:08:28.560]  And so he was talking about some of the hypercars that he was able to afford,
[01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:32.880]  but that has now been extended pretty much to everything under this kind of regime
[01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:35.360]  of drive by wire, hasn't it?
[01:08:35.360 --> 01:08:36.080]  Yeah, absolutely.
[01:08:36.080 --> 01:08:40.160]  You know, it's a combination of synergistic things that aren't necessarily all malevolent.
[01:08:40.160 --> 01:08:42.560]  It's a way for the manufacturers to reduce costs.
[01:08:43.440 --> 01:08:45.840]  Rather than when a car comes down the assembly line in the old days,
[01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.680]  they had to have a guy making the fine adjustments to things like a throttle cable.
[01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:52.240]  You know, the throttle cable had to be connected to the engine
[01:08:52.240 --> 01:08:55.280]  and then it had to be routed through the firewall and then it had to be connected
[01:08:55.280 --> 01:08:58.880]  to the pedal and they check the tension on it and make sure everything was working correctly.
[01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:00.800]  Now it's just literally what they say, plug and play.
[01:09:02.480 --> 01:09:05.440]  The whole assembly comes down the line, plug, plug, plug,
[01:09:05.440 --> 01:09:08.400]  and it's cheaper from the standpoint of the manufacturer to do that.
[01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:10.640]  Saves them money, increases their profits.
[01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:16.880]  So it's not all evil, but it's still unfortunate and potentially very dangerous for us all.
[01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:19.680]  And again, to get back to what we were talking about earlier,
[01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:22.240]  it needlessly increases the complexity of the thing.
[01:09:22.240 --> 01:09:26.400]  You know, back in the olden days, like in my Trans Am, if the throttle cable
[01:09:27.120 --> 01:09:30.480]  binds or snaps, I can easily find and fix it.
[01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:33.040]  And a cable is like a $20 part.
[01:09:33.040 --> 01:09:36.720]  Well, you know, if the electronics that control the drive by wire throttle fail,
[01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:39.360]  it's not likely you're going to be able to diagnose it yourself
[01:09:39.360 --> 01:09:41.440]  unless you've got the equipment to do it with.
[01:09:41.440 --> 01:09:45.600]  And it's probably going to entail expensive sensors and computer related stuff
[01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:47.360]  that you're going to have to pay a dealer to fix.
[01:09:47.360 --> 01:09:51.760]  That's right. You have to have entire modules changed out and that type of thing.
[01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:54.480]  Every time we talk about this, I think about
[01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:59.440]  what the guys at Flying Miata were looking at, the various generations.
[01:09:59.440 --> 01:10:04.000]  First generation, it's like, yeah, we can take out the small four-cylinder engine that's in there.
[01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:06.880]  We can put in a big eight-cylinder Corvette engine.
[01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:08.800]  And so it's just kind of a mechanical thing.
[01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:09.840]  Can we squish it in there?
[01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:11.040]  Yeah, we can do that with this one.
[01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:14.480]  But then, you know, and so the first couple of generations, it was like that.
[01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:16.080]  By the time they got to the third generation,
[01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:18.720]  there was a good bit of electronic control.
[01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:20.160]  And so it got a bit complicated.
[01:10:20.160 --> 01:10:24.400]  By the time they got to the fourth generation, however, it took them a very long time.
[01:10:24.400 --> 01:10:30.640]  They had to go hire specialists who could reprogram things because everything was interconnected.
[01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:33.440]  You couldn't just pull the engine out and put another engine in there
[01:10:33.440 --> 01:10:38.160]  because then it broke all these other supporting systems for ventilation and all this.
[01:10:38.160 --> 01:10:41.040]  It was all tied together and it all had to be reprogrammed.
[01:10:41.040 --> 01:10:43.600]  And that's really a good example of what's happening.
[01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:47.920]  You take a very simple sports car like a Miata and you make it complicated like that.
[01:10:48.480 --> 01:10:51.200]  Yeah, and essentially unrepairable except by a technician.
[01:10:51.200 --> 01:10:51.680]  That's right.
[01:10:52.480 --> 01:10:54.320]  I'm doing this project that we were talking about before.
[01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:58.560]  I'm converting my Trans Am from an automatic transmission to a manual transmission.
[01:10:58.560 --> 01:10:59.760]  And it's all mechanical parts.
[01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:01.920]  And as long as everything fits and lines up, it's going to work.
[01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:07.200]  My engine doesn't care whether an automatic transmission or a manual transmission is bolted to it.
[01:11:07.200 --> 01:11:08.720]  It'll work just the same.
[01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:11.840]  But with anything modern, if it was assembled and made at the factory
[01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:15.840]  to have an automatic transmission, if you wanted to put a manual with it,
[01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:21.200]  you'd have to completely change all the computer stuff, reprogram everything to be in congruence.
[01:11:21.200 --> 01:11:24.880]  If you even could do that, it might not be possible to do that.
[01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:26.160]  Yeah, that's right.
[01:11:26.160 --> 01:11:28.640]  Yeah, that's what's happened to everything in our life.
[01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:32.480]  It's gotten hopelessly complicated and needlessly complicated, I would say.
[01:11:32.480 --> 01:11:33.680]  You look at all the things that are out there.
[01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:38.480]  Of course, it's made the guys who are the tech geeks in Silicon Valley, it's made them very, very rich.
[01:11:39.440 --> 01:11:44.800]  But it is much worse even than the planned obsolescence that we've seen for the longest time.
[01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:48.480]  Because what they've done is they've created things that are needlessly complicated,
[01:11:48.480 --> 01:11:53.520]  needlessly expensive, and under their control and continuing to be under their control.
[01:11:54.320 --> 01:11:56.800]  So it's a disturbing trend, isn't it?
[01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:02.400]  But especially when you start to see AI moving its way into cars, I'm sure the geeks thought,
[01:12:02.400 --> 01:12:03.280]  hey, this is going to be great.
[01:12:03.280 --> 01:12:05.360]  We can talk to the car and it can talk back to us.
[01:12:05.360 --> 01:12:07.360]  This is like Knight Rider or something like that.
[01:12:08.320 --> 01:12:09.680]  Without the attractiveness of it.
[01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:14.000]  But it interests me in that it's a sad thing.
[01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:17.040]  People are being alienated from their cars because they don't understand them.
[01:12:17.040 --> 01:12:17.520]  That's right.
[01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:21.760]  Even people who are mechanically inclined, the tradition of the feeling that you got of,
[01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:25.920]  hey, I can fix this, or I'm going to do this to my car.
[01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:26.480]  I can do it.
[01:12:26.480 --> 01:12:27.600]  It's within my skill set.
[01:12:28.320 --> 01:12:34.640]  Now, a car is just a two-ton cell phone and it works and you're happy that it works, I guess,
[01:12:35.280 --> 01:12:39.520]  until it stops working, at which point you feel completely inept and powerless, most people.
[01:12:39.520 --> 01:12:43.520]  And I've got friends who are professional mechanics of 30 years plus standing.
[01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:48.080]  And because they can't afford to pay for the software updates, the proprietary diagnostic
[01:12:48.080 --> 01:12:53.680]  equipment, they can't diagnose and work on a number of new late model vehicles because
[01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:55.840]  they just don't have the necessary equipment.
[01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:57.760]  And again, these are professionally trained people.
[01:12:57.760 --> 01:12:58.480]  They can't do it.
[01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:00.800]  Yeah, it's sad.
[01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:04.320]  And that's really something that we're seeing happening in a lot of different facets of our
[01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:07.360]  life, of our culture that's happening out there.
[01:13:07.360 --> 01:13:09.120]  That's always great talking to you, Eric.
[01:13:09.120 --> 01:13:10.800]  Thank you so much for coming on.
[01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:13.920]  You and I are of the same mind when it comes to this stuff.
[01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:17.040]  And we're seeing some very dangerous precedents that are being put in place.
[01:13:17.040 --> 01:13:19.360]  Hopefully it won't be too long before we talk to each other.
[01:13:19.360 --> 01:13:25.120]  And hopefully next time we talk, there won't be some new war in Greenland or Iran or wherever.
[01:13:25.120 --> 01:13:28.720]  I mean, we've got, orange man is really coveting Greenland, isn't he?
[01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:33.760]  I hope I can get my Trans Am back on the road before the poo hits the fan,
[01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:38.800]  so I can at least go out, you know, running over the zombies with my super T-10 four speed.
[01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:39.360]  There you go.
[01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:40.240]  That'd be great.
[01:13:40.240 --> 01:13:41.200]  Thank you so much.
[01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:41.760]  Have a good day.
[01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:42.320]  Thank you, David.
[01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:53.600]  The common man.
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