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[00:00.000 --> 00:11.240]  Welcome back and joining us now is Eric Peters at EricPetersAuto.com and it's always a pleasure
[00:11.240 --> 00:12.240]  to have Eric on.
[00:12.240 --> 00:13.240]  Did I get that right?
[00:13.240 --> 00:14.240]  Is it auto or autos?
[00:14.240 --> 00:15.240]  Autos.
[00:15.240 --> 00:16.240]  This is plural.
[00:16.240 --> 00:17.240]  Plural.
[00:17.240 --> 00:18.240]  Okay.
[00:18.240 --> 00:21.120]  So Eric Peters autos, plural.com.
[00:21.120 --> 00:24.760]  He talks about mobility and lirty and those are a couple of things that we really can't
[00:24.760 --> 00:25.760]  live without.
[00:25.760 --> 00:28.680]  I always enjoy Eric Peters' style of writing.
[00:28.680 --> 00:35.160]  It's very engaging and he's got a lot of memes that he intersperses through, but I love his
[00:35.160 --> 00:36.160]  insights.
[00:36.160 --> 00:37.160]  What's up, Eric?
[00:37.160 --> 00:38.160]  What's on your plate?
[00:38.160 --> 00:39.160]  Well, let's see.
[00:39.160 --> 00:40.160]  Where do we even begin?
[00:40.160 --> 00:41.160]  How about with devolution?
[00:41.160 --> 00:44.720]  That's what I've been preoccupying myself with the last couple of days.
[00:44.720 --> 00:45.960]  Are you familiar with that?
[00:45.960 --> 00:46.960]  What is devolution?
[00:46.960 --> 00:47.960]  No, I'm not.
[00:47.960 --> 00:48.960]  Okay.
[00:48.960 --> 00:54.280]  It is this theory that has been circulating underground amongst the hardcore Trump people
[00:54.280 --> 00:59.400]  that maintains that Trump is actually still the president and control of an operation
[00:59.400 --> 01:05.120]  headed by the military with Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, being the guy
[01:05.120 --> 01:08.680]  who was sort of the second in command lieutenant of Trump.
[01:08.680 --> 01:12.200]  And they're doing all of the, everything that's been going on for the past going on four years
[01:12.200 --> 01:16.760]  has been part of this operation to expose the black hats.
[01:16.760 --> 01:21.360]  That's what they call them and the white hats.
[01:22.080 --> 01:26.120]  Of all people that they would pick to be their, their, their guy, Mark Milley.
[01:26.120 --> 01:27.120]  Come on.
[01:27.120 --> 01:28.120]  It's unbelievable.
[01:28.120 --> 01:29.120]  Yeah.
[01:29.120 --> 01:30.120]  Go ahead.
[01:30.120 --> 01:32.480]  Well, and they say that, you know, that's the evidence that the operation is going on
[01:32.480 --> 01:36.840]  because after all Trump appointed Mark Milley and look, Mark Milley is still there.
[01:36.840 --> 01:38.680]  He hasn't been removed.
[01:38.680 --> 01:44.520]  And so essentially Biden is literally sort of a fictitious front.
[01:44.520 --> 01:46.720]  He's not really in charge of anything.
[01:46.720 --> 01:51.320]  It's all just a gigantic show for our benefit and everything's going to be set a right short
[01:51.880 --> 01:59.240]  when the orange man triumphantly returns with trumpets and Jesus' hand on his shoulder
[01:59.240 --> 02:02.160]  as he re-enters the White House come January.
[02:02.160 --> 02:06.680]  Oh, and a lot of that is, you know, you talk about with Jesus' hand on his shoulder, a
[02:06.680 --> 02:11.040]  lot of that is coming from these faux Christians.
[02:11.040 --> 02:15.680]  Julie Green, you know, and all these people making all these false prophecies and, and
[02:15.680 --> 02:18.440]  they were kept saying, well, he's not leaving, Trump's not leaving.
[02:18.440 --> 02:20.880]  And then when he was gone, well, he'll be coming back.
[02:21.200 --> 02:21.720]  He'll be back.
[02:21.720 --> 02:25.720]  You know, one of my oldest friends, we've known each other since we were kids.
[02:25.720 --> 02:29.280]  And, you know, we used to laugh at the way Clinton manipulated Christians.
[02:29.280 --> 02:33.760]  Bill Clinton clutched that oversized Bible with the gold leaf, you know, Clinton.
[02:33.760 --> 02:36.800]  Oh, look, he really, you know, he's a good man.
[02:36.800 --> 02:38.600]  And we would ridicule people who bought into that.
[02:38.600 --> 02:44.800]  But now somehow these same people see Trump parroting Christian sounds and phrases.
[02:44.800 --> 02:48.520]  And they say, look, he's he's really he's the reincarnation of Cyrus.
[02:48.520 --> 02:49.840]  That's another thing that they say.
[02:49.840 --> 02:55.600]  Oh, yeah, he's he's Cyrus and they've got coins with his his profile.
[02:56.800 --> 02:58.600]  You know, that's supposed to be Cyrus.
[02:58.600 --> 03:04.240]  It's it's as it's as or more insane on the right as all of the stuff that the insanity
[03:04.240 --> 03:08.120]  that we've been dealing with on the left, you know, with regard to all of the sickness,
[03:08.120 --> 03:11.600]  Kabuki and the masks and everything else, they're immune to facts.
[03:11.600 --> 03:12.960]  They're immune to reason.
[03:12.960 --> 03:18.760]  They just have this sort of this messianic religious belief in their secular savior with
[03:18.760 --> 03:19.960]  a spray tan.
[03:19.960 --> 03:23.560]  You know, it really is it really is concerning as a Christian.
[03:23.560 --> 03:27.960]  I hate to see the the ignorance of Christianity, the idolatry.
[03:27.960 --> 03:33.080]  I hate to see the ignorance of politics as well, because these people really don't understand
[03:33.080 --> 03:36.440]  how things work when you talk to them and you say he locked us all down.
[03:36.440 --> 03:38.120]  He did. Oh, no, he didn't do it.
[03:38.120 --> 03:39.560]  It was the bad Democrat governors.
[03:39.560 --> 03:41.640]  It's like, you know, the Republican governors are just as bad.
[03:41.640 --> 03:43.960]  And it was Trump was paying them to do that.
[03:43.960 --> 03:45.640]  It's absolutely insane.
[03:45.640 --> 03:48.680]  But, you know, when you're talking about all of this stuff, we've got arrests that are
[03:48.680 --> 03:49.720]  going on and everything.
[03:49.720 --> 03:54.040]  And somebody sent me an email that was talking about it.
[03:54.040 --> 03:55.000]  I forget the guy's name.
[03:55.000 --> 03:57.560]  I had it and I was trying to find it here.
[03:57.560 --> 04:00.040]  I've had it to talk about it this week.
[04:00.040 --> 04:03.880]  I can't remember the guy's name offhand, but he's putting out this stuff and he's a new
[04:03.880 --> 04:04.040]  guy.
[04:04.040 --> 04:08.360]  It's not Steve Pachynik this time, but it's somebody else who has been in the military
[04:08.360 --> 04:13.080]  side of intelligence, just like Steve Pachynik, just like Mike Flynn and all the rest of the
[04:13.080 --> 04:13.640]  stuff.
[04:13.640 --> 04:18.440]  And he's telling everybody that there's arrests that are going on, like you were just saying.
[04:19.080 --> 04:23.880]  And that's exactly what Steve Pachynik did with a sting two days after the election.
[04:23.880 --> 04:25.400]  He said, we've got 20,000 National Guard.
[04:25.400 --> 04:26.200]  They're out there right now.
[04:26.200 --> 04:27.400]  They're arresting people.
[04:27.400 --> 04:30.040]  And I said, there's absolutely no way that that's possible.
[04:30.040 --> 04:32.520]  You can't do that without people noticing that, number one.
[04:32.520 --> 04:37.960]  Number two, he had this story about how they had set up a blockchain, watermarked the
[04:37.960 --> 04:38.360]  ballots.
[04:38.360 --> 04:41.720]  He just threw every buzzword that he could put in there.
[04:41.720 --> 04:43.000]  And so I started opposing that.
[04:43.000 --> 04:47.720]  That's what got me fired was for opposing that because that was laying the foundation
[04:48.280 --> 04:53.640]  for Alex's Stop the Steal scam, where he ripped people off for unbelievable amounts of money.
[04:53.640 --> 04:56.600]  And also for Trump's Save America thing.
[04:56.600 --> 04:58.680]  And Roger Stone said, this is going to be great.
[04:58.680 --> 05:00.600]  It's going to be like falling off a log to make money.
[05:00.600 --> 05:01.400]  And it was.
[05:01.400 --> 05:05.560]  It was unbelievable how they ripped off their own people and then sent them to January the
[05:05.880 --> 05:12.600]  26th in the false hope that they could actually do something and then abandoned these people.
[05:12.600 --> 05:13.560]  Trump said, I'll meet you there.
[05:13.560 --> 05:14.360]  He walked away.
[05:14.360 --> 05:15.160]  Alex was there.
[05:15.160 --> 05:15.800]  He walked away.
[05:15.800 --> 05:17.320]  He went to the other side of town.
[05:17.320 --> 05:20.120]  Nothing ever was done to help any of these people.
[05:20.120 --> 05:21.880]  They left them twisting in the wind.
[05:21.880 --> 05:23.160]  Will they never learn?
[05:23.160 --> 05:23.960]  It's just amazing.
[05:23.960 --> 05:24.920]  Apparently not.
[05:24.920 --> 05:29.720]  And now I find myself in the very odd position on the one hand of having been excommunicated
[05:29.720 --> 05:35.480]  by people who were on the left for the pandemic, you know, for not playing along with that
[05:35.480 --> 05:36.280]  nonsense.
[05:36.280 --> 05:42.040]  But now people that I've been friends with for many years on the right are casting a
[05:42.040 --> 05:47.080]  suspicious eye at me because I don't buy into all of this Trump stuff and don't worship
[05:47.080 --> 05:47.720]  the orange man.
[05:47.720 --> 05:51.160]  And increasingly, I'm really concerned that they're actually going to let him win and
[05:51.160 --> 05:52.760]  then tank the economy.
[05:52.760 --> 05:59.640]  And then they're going to blame every patriarchal anti-trans misogynistic white male that
[05:59.640 --> 06:02.120]  they can find for all parts of our democracy.
[06:02.760 --> 06:06.360]  Yeah, they'll come for that Kansas City field goal kicker and they'll burn him.
[06:09.480 --> 06:09.880]  It is.
[06:09.880 --> 06:16.600]  But seriously, it is dangerous because, you know, Hillary and I've said this when, you
[06:16.600 --> 06:21.320]  know, when it was all happening in 2020 and when we had the election 2020, I said you
[06:21.320 --> 06:25.560]  would have never ever heard anybody saying that Hillary was really on our side with all
[06:25.560 --> 06:26.040]  this stuff.
[06:26.040 --> 06:26.600]  Right.
[06:26.600 --> 06:30.840]  And it was unnecessary to have Hillary because all the left really wanted this stuff.
[06:30.840 --> 06:33.880]  They love to be given orders and they love to give orders.
[06:33.880 --> 06:36.520]  They just want to find their little niche in the pecking order.
[06:36.520 --> 06:40.120]  And, you know, they can bully people that are underneath them and they love that kind
[06:40.120 --> 06:40.680]  of stuff.
[06:40.680 --> 06:44.840]  And so you didn't need to have Hillary in there to pull this stuff off, but you had
[06:44.840 --> 06:45.800]  Trump in there.
[06:45.800 --> 06:49.400]  And I said, you know, Trump did everything the globalists did at the same time they
[06:49.400 --> 06:50.120]  were doing it.
[06:50.120 --> 06:51.240]  As a matter of fact, he went further.
[06:51.240 --> 06:55.800]  He provided the money for all of this stuff for both the Democrats and Republicans.
[06:55.800 --> 07:00.840]  He provided the money for Pfizer and Moderna to get this stuff and to poison the world.
[07:00.840 --> 07:02.200]  He provided all that stuff.
[07:02.200 --> 07:05.000]  And you had people like Alex saying, well, it's for DHS.
[07:05.000 --> 07:08.440]  And Alex was actually telling people you can take the Trump vaccine.
[07:08.440 --> 07:10.040]  It's different than the Gates vaccine.
[07:10.040 --> 07:11.480]  It's kind of like sugar water.
[07:11.480 --> 07:12.280]  Yeah, that's what it is.
[07:12.280 --> 07:15.080]  It's like sugar water, you know, just making this stuff up.
[07:15.080 --> 07:18.520]  And so, you know, it was more dangerous to have Trump there.
[07:18.520 --> 07:22.120]  They didn't get everybody, but they got more people by having Trump there because they
[07:22.120 --> 07:23.480]  knew they already had the left.
[07:23.480 --> 07:25.560]  But here's the thing that concerns me, Eric.
[07:25.560 --> 07:29.080]  And that is when we're coming up here, what is the other distinguishing thing that we
[07:29.080 --> 07:33.560]  see as you talked about the insanity of the people on the right, just like the insanity
[07:33.560 --> 07:34.440]  of the people on the left?
[07:34.440 --> 07:37.560]  I say, you know, the people on the left, yeah, they got Trump derangement syndrome.
[07:37.560 --> 07:39.080]  They can't stand this guy personally.
[07:39.080 --> 07:40.680]  They hate his very essence, right?
[07:40.680 --> 07:44.200]  But the people on the right, they're operating under the strong delusion.
[07:45.480 --> 07:50.760]  They've created this figure in their own imagination that is nothing at all what Donald Trump is.
[07:50.760 --> 07:53.240]  And so you got the people on the left who are deranged, the people on the right who
[07:53.240 --> 07:54.040]  are delusional.
[07:54.040 --> 07:59.320]  But one thing they both share, and that is they believe that everything needs to be and
[07:59.320 --> 08:02.600]  can be fixed by the right person in Washington.
[08:02.600 --> 08:04.520]  And so they're going to fight over that.
[08:04.520 --> 08:10.840]  We can have a civil war over the Oval Office very easily, you know, whichever side doesn't
[08:10.840 --> 08:11.960]  get its way.
[08:11.960 --> 08:16.920]  And all of this stuff is really setting us up for a civil war for whoever doesn't get
[08:16.920 --> 08:20.200]  their way because they think that all the solutions are in Washington.
[08:20.200 --> 08:26.520]  The only way they're going to get away from a civil war is to convince people that Washington
[08:26.520 --> 08:27.560]  is not where the solution is.
[08:27.560 --> 08:29.880]  The solution is at the local level.
[08:29.880 --> 08:33.480]  The solution is ground up and it's not from top down.
[08:34.040 --> 08:34.360]  Yeah.
[08:34.360 --> 08:39.800]  And it's to purge somehow this authoritarian reflex that has somehow embedded itself in
[08:39.800 --> 08:41.640]  the American psyche on the left and the right.
[08:41.640 --> 08:45.160]  It's free to be told what to do and to tell people what to do.
[08:45.160 --> 08:47.240]  And it afflicts both sides equally.
[08:47.240 --> 08:47.800]  That's right.
[08:47.800 --> 08:48.360]  Yeah.
[08:48.360 --> 08:55.880]  That's the thing that disturbs me so much how I've said the Democrats of my youth have
[08:55.880 --> 09:00.040]  become the communists of my youth and the Republicans have become the Democrats of my
[09:00.040 --> 09:05.000]  youth, you know, and it's just to see the whole country slipping into this authoritarian
[09:05.000 --> 09:08.920]  idolatry that we got to have this leader who's going to save us.
[09:08.920 --> 09:11.560]  And we see elements of it with Elon Musk as well.
[09:11.560 --> 09:14.680]  You know, Elon Musk is going to save them as well.
[09:14.680 --> 09:15.480]  He's on our side.
[09:15.480 --> 09:19.480]  He single-handedly saved free speech and look at the price that he paid, you know,
[09:19.480 --> 09:20.920]  and all the rest of this stuff.
[09:20.920 --> 09:22.600]  I talked about it yesterday, Eric.
[09:22.600 --> 09:24.520]  You know, it's kind of interesting.
[09:24.520 --> 09:31.000]  We had this totally ridiculous and absurd idea being sold by the Democrats that Trump
[09:31.000 --> 09:36.440]  was supporting this video that was out there that talked about a unified Reich, right?
[09:36.440 --> 09:36.840]  Oh, yeah.
[09:36.840 --> 09:38.680]  I couldn't even find that when I looked at it.
[09:38.680 --> 09:44.360]  I had to look at a still frame that somebody had grabbed and then circled it in red.
[09:44.360 --> 09:47.720]  And it was a template that somebody had used and it wasn't the Trump administration.
[09:47.720 --> 09:48.840]  It was totally bogus.
[09:48.840 --> 09:53.000]  But they sat there for two days, you know, debating and wringing their hands over whether
[09:53.000 --> 09:57.000]  or not Trump is trying to establish a fourth Reich or something like that.
[09:57.000 --> 10:04.600]  And then with Trump, they do the same thing with this boilerplate order from the FBI to
[10:04.600 --> 10:07.560]  search Mar-a-Lago and use deadly force as necessary.
[10:07.560 --> 10:12.280]  They never care about deadly force being used against UNI or the general public, right?
[10:12.280 --> 10:15.880]  They don't pay any attention to the fact that this is actually a boilerplate thing
[10:15.880 --> 10:18.200]  that is there and that needs to be shut down.
[10:18.200 --> 10:23.000]  You know, the FBI needs to be, as Steve Friend, I've interviewed him, he's a whistleblower
[10:23.000 --> 10:32.600]  who refused to do a raid that could be lethal against some peaceful January the Sixers.
[10:32.600 --> 10:35.320]  And so, you know, he lost his job there with the FBI.
[10:35.320 --> 10:38.200]  And what he said was, he said, first of all, we need to get rid of the FBI.
[10:38.200 --> 10:40.520]  But he said, if we can't get rid of them, there's no support for that.
[10:40.520 --> 10:44.440]  At least get rid of their weapons and have them go to an area.
[10:44.440 --> 10:46.440]  If they've got some federal laws that they need to be enforced,
[10:46.440 --> 10:51.560]  let them work with local enforcement and decentralize some of this stuff.
[10:52.120 --> 10:54.200]  But that's not the message that anybody's getting.
[10:54.200 --> 10:57.160]  They're not looking at that and saying, yeah, you know, the FBI is out of control.
[10:57.160 --> 10:59.560]  No, it's only if it affects Trump that we care.
[11:00.440 --> 11:03.000]  It's an ideological barking match on both sides.
[11:03.720 --> 11:08.360]  The level of the discourse now appeals to somebody with an IQ of 80,
[11:09.160 --> 11:11.320]  who is in the grip of hysteria.
[11:11.320 --> 11:15.560]  It's really striking when you look at both sides, Trump, Biden, left and right.
[11:15.560 --> 11:19.320]  And if you go back 30 or 40 years and listen to what was typically said
[11:19.320 --> 11:23.560]  at the national level in politics, there was sadism, certainly back then.
[11:23.560 --> 11:27.160]  But the level of discourse was more adult, more reasonable.
[11:27.160 --> 11:30.760]  And generally speaking, they actually talked in complete sentences
[11:30.760 --> 11:33.320]  and formulated their position on policy.
[11:33.320 --> 11:37.400]  It wasn't this derision and name calling, again, at the level
[11:37.720 --> 11:39.560]  of a particularly bright middle schooler.
[11:39.560 --> 11:42.200]  Yeah. Yeah. That's what it's degenerated into.
[11:42.200 --> 11:44.920]  Instead of having debates, which, of course,
[11:44.920 --> 11:48.040]  will never open up the debates to multiple parties or anything.
[11:48.040 --> 11:50.920]  But instead of having debates, we have this reality TV show,
[11:50.920 --> 11:53.240]  where, as you point out, they have this juvenile name calling
[11:53.240 --> 11:56.200]  and lawfare that is happening out there and all the rest of this stuff.
[11:56.200 --> 12:01.880]  The whole point of this New York trial, I think, was just to bring up Trump's sordid past
[12:01.880 --> 12:03.320]  and air his dirty laundry.
[12:03.320 --> 12:05.240]  They don't have any charges there.
[12:05.240 --> 12:10.520]  Their chief witness is an admitted liar on the stand and admitted that he stole money.
[12:11.080 --> 12:15.320]  The whole thing is a joke, but it's gotten everybody glued to this stuff.
[12:15.320 --> 12:17.640]  It's absolutely crazy, isn't it?
[12:17.640 --> 12:20.440]  But there is an upside to it, I think, in that it's revelatory.
[12:20.440 --> 12:23.960]  What's going on now with these lawfare and malicious persecutions of Trump,
[12:25.080 --> 12:27.240]  it's more than just about Trump to me.
[12:27.880 --> 12:32.840]  It has made people aware that what we're dealing with is the exercise of power.
[12:33.080 --> 12:35.400]  Whoever has it can exercise it.
[12:35.400 --> 12:37.640]  There are no limits to the exercise of power.
[12:37.640 --> 12:38.440]  It's arbitrary.
[12:38.440 --> 12:39.240]  It's capricious.
[12:39.800 --> 12:42.520]  It's everything that our country is not supposed to be about,
[12:43.080 --> 12:45.800]  which is you're supposed to be given your fair day in court.
[12:45.800 --> 12:49.320]  The law is supposed to be applied equally to everybody and so on.
[12:50.040 --> 12:51.560]  Obviously, that's not the case.
[12:51.560 --> 12:53.720]  In a way, it's good for people on our side
[12:53.720 --> 12:57.800]  because I think it helps to delegitimize the authoritarian state.
[12:57.800 --> 12:59.080]  Well, you're right.
[12:59.080 --> 13:01.800]  But I think our side is not necessarily the MAGA group
[13:01.800 --> 13:03.400]  because I think the MAGA people are out there is like,
[13:03.400 --> 13:05.960]  yeah, when Trump gets in, he's going to do that to them and worse.
[13:05.960 --> 13:06.600]  Yeah, that's true.
[13:07.640 --> 13:10.280]  Again, Trump is like the Mason-Dixon line.
[13:10.280 --> 13:12.200]  I've called him for the new Civil War
[13:13.000 --> 13:14.920]  because if he gets in, he's going to double down
[13:14.920 --> 13:16.520]  and he's going to do even worse to these people.
[13:16.520 --> 13:19.000]  And his people want it to happen that way, don't they?
[13:19.000 --> 13:22.120]  Well, and he'll not only do it to people on the putative enemies list,
[13:22.120 --> 13:24.440]  the left, they're going to go after people like us too
[13:24.440 --> 13:26.520]  because we don't toe the party line.
[13:27.240 --> 13:27.960]  That's right.
[13:27.960 --> 13:28.600]  That's right.
[13:29.560 --> 13:32.520]  These MAGA people hate me as much as they hate the leftist.
[13:34.440 --> 13:35.800]  I'll be up against the wall as well.
[13:36.840 --> 13:37.400]  That's fine.
[13:37.400 --> 13:38.120]  I don't care.
[13:38.120 --> 13:40.040]  Not changing any of this stuff.
[13:40.040 --> 13:43.000]  Let's talk a little bit about artificial intelligence
[13:43.000 --> 13:45.720]  because you and I have talked so much over the years
[13:47.000 --> 13:48.360]  about what the real goal is.
[13:48.360 --> 13:51.880]  And you and I had this conversation years ago
[13:51.880 --> 13:55.000]  about how, well, you think you're going to be allowed to have electric cars?
[13:55.000 --> 13:55.960]  No, you're not.
[13:55.960 --> 13:57.320]  They're shutting down the grid.
[13:57.880 --> 14:00.200]  They're going to get rid of the internal combustion engines
[14:00.200 --> 14:02.040]  and then they won't allow you to shut your car.
[14:02.040 --> 14:05.240]  As a matter of fact, your car will become a very expensive battery
[14:05.240 --> 14:06.680]  to serve their grid.
[14:06.680 --> 14:09.240]  And now we see this being imposed on people.
[14:09.240 --> 14:11.080]  But I think we had a different turn this week.
[14:11.080 --> 14:17.160]  We have now Altman and it's also come out that some of these other companies
[14:17.160 --> 14:24.280]  are AI companies are out there creating their own power companies.
[14:24.280 --> 14:26.760]  They're going to have their own private grid
[14:26.760 --> 14:31.400]  to run these power-hungry big processors
[14:31.400 --> 14:34.360]  that they have for the large language model things, right?
[14:34.360 --> 14:36.280]  And so they're going to have their own independent power grid.
[14:36.280 --> 14:38.680]  I think the feds will have their own power grid.
[14:38.680 --> 14:40.200]  I think they'll shut us off.
[14:40.200 --> 14:42.120]  But I think they're going to have their own independent power grid
[14:42.120 --> 14:43.240]  and we can see this happening.
[14:43.240 --> 14:44.760]  And when Zero Hedge looks at it, they go,
[14:44.760 --> 14:49.880]  hey, an investment opportunity because this is going to be the next big thing.
[14:49.880 --> 14:51.400]  It's going to be bigger than, you know,
[14:51.400 --> 14:53.400]  you've made a lot of money with artificial intelligence
[14:53.400 --> 14:57.160]  and, of course, Nvidia had their blowout financial report
[14:57.160 --> 15:01.160]  because they're selling the picks and shovels of this new gold rush.
[15:01.160 --> 15:05.640]  They're selling the GPU cards, the super expensive, super fast GPU cards.
[15:06.360 --> 15:08.920]  And everybody was astounded at what they sold.
[15:08.920 --> 15:12.360]  But I said, even better than that, it's the fact that these companies
[15:12.360 --> 15:14.440]  are now getting into their own power grid
[15:14.440 --> 15:17.000]  and we're going to need to have power except we're not going to have access to it.
[15:17.560 --> 15:19.400]  But they're going to get people investing in that.
[15:19.400 --> 15:20.680]  I mean, what do you see this?
[15:21.640 --> 15:23.400]  Are we going to be able to roll that part of it back,
[15:23.400 --> 15:26.360]  you know, the artificial intelligence, which is really fake intelligence?
[15:27.080 --> 15:27.800]  I don't know.
[15:27.800 --> 15:30.120]  You know, I think we're going to have to decentralize and decouple.
[15:30.120 --> 15:31.960]  I see that as probably the only way.
[15:31.960 --> 15:35.560]  As long as we continue to operate within this system
[15:35.560 --> 15:38.760]  that's not of our creation that is under their control,
[15:38.760 --> 15:40.920]  well, we're going to be subservient to their control.
[15:41.800 --> 15:45.800]  I wrote an article the other day that kind of dovetails with this with regard to the EVs.
[15:45.800 --> 15:48.680]  I've been trying to publicize the fact it's not commonly known
[15:49.240 --> 15:54.680]  that to use these EV fast chargers, you have to use credit cards or debit cards.
[15:54.680 --> 15:57.960]  And not only that, you typically have to have an app on your phone
[15:57.960 --> 15:59.080]  in order to be able to use them.
[15:59.080 --> 16:00.280]  So they're cashless.
[16:00.280 --> 16:01.800]  And I find that very interesting.
[16:02.440 --> 16:09.080]  It's another step on the road toward this interlocking spider web of control
[16:09.080 --> 16:11.320]  by exercising control over your finances.
[16:11.320 --> 16:16.920]  You know, it's not just the dissipation of the anonymity that cash provides,
[16:16.920 --> 16:21.000]  but if they have that real-time access to your ability to buy things,
[16:21.000 --> 16:23.400]  they can deny you the right to buy things.
[16:23.400 --> 16:26.520]  They can restrict when you're allowed to charge, how much you're allowed to charge,
[16:26.520 --> 16:28.040]  and what are you going to do about it?
[16:28.040 --> 16:33.240]  I posted a kind of satirical thing that I pulled from the movie Idiocracy,
[16:33.240 --> 16:35.320]  which a lot of people listening will remember.
[16:35.320 --> 16:40.040]  And it opens up with a scene of the guy looking at a Carl's Jr. kiosk.
[16:40.040 --> 16:42.760]  Are you ready for your extra big ass fries?
[16:42.760 --> 16:44.360]  And there's no appealing this machine.
[16:44.360 --> 16:47.480]  It's an AI machine, you know, and you just touch the screen.
[16:47.480 --> 16:52.120]  And maybe this is the AI behind it decides to let you pay for your big ass fries.
[16:52.120 --> 16:54.760]  You can have your fries, but if not, what are you going to do?
[16:54.760 --> 16:56.360]  Smash your fist on the screen.
[16:56.360 --> 16:58.360]  And then the troops come to drag you away.
[16:58.360 --> 17:01.320]  That's the kind of that's the kind of future that they've got in mind for us.
[17:01.320 --> 17:01.880]  Oh, yeah.
[17:01.880 --> 17:02.280]  Yeah.
[17:02.280 --> 17:05.000]  And then, of course, Idiocracy, I guess, didn't see the fact that it's,
[17:05.000 --> 17:06.760]  I'm sorry, you've already had too much of that this week.
[17:07.960 --> 17:09.160]  You've had too much meat.
[17:09.160 --> 17:12.840]  You can't have any more meat because that's what they're trying to shut down.
[17:12.840 --> 17:15.000]  And, of course, you know, just before you came on,
[17:15.000 --> 17:18.760]  I was talking about the fact that Visa is going hard into biometrics now.
[17:19.400 --> 17:20.840]  It is all about the global ID.
[17:20.840 --> 17:23.960]  It is all about putting an ear tag on you.
[17:23.960 --> 17:27.400]  You used to do this during for years during this pandemic stuff.
[17:27.400 --> 17:31.480]  You talked about, you know, putting the ear tag on like a cattle, right?
[17:31.480 --> 17:33.240]  You had pictures where you would do that.
[17:33.240 --> 17:34.680]  I think it's apt, isn't it?
[17:34.680 --> 17:34.920]  Yeah.
[17:34.920 --> 17:38.120]  You know, I think, okay, again, if you take them at their face value,
[17:38.120 --> 17:42.280]  what they say that it's urgently necessary that we transition over to electric vehicles
[17:42.280 --> 17:46.280]  that as many people as possible get rid of the car that they're driving right now
[17:46.280 --> 17:49.000]  that has a gas engine and get an electric car.
[17:49.000 --> 17:52.120]  Why would they want to put obstacles in the way of that?
[17:52.120 --> 17:54.920]  Why would they want to, for example, a lot of older people don't have credit cards.
[17:54.920 --> 17:57.320]  There are people who just prefer to use cash.
[17:57.320 --> 18:00.040]  Why would you want to just essentially ghettoize them
[18:00.040 --> 18:04.840]  and keep them from getting these electric cars that are so necessary?
[18:04.840 --> 18:08.760]  Why would Biden slap 100% tariff on low-cost Chinese cars
[18:09.400 --> 18:13.080]  to bring down the cost so that more people could afford to buy these things?
[18:13.080 --> 18:14.440]  After all, there's a climate crisis.
[18:14.440 --> 18:16.600]  It's an existential crisis, they tell us.
[18:16.600 --> 18:20.360]  Yet somehow it's more important to put a tariff to protect UAW workers
[18:21.240 --> 18:24.520]  than it is to get more EVs into circulation,
[18:24.520 --> 18:26.920]  which tells you really what this agenda is all about.
[18:26.920 --> 18:28.520]  Yeah, yeah, it does.
[18:28.520 --> 18:28.920]  It does.
[18:28.920 --> 18:30.920]  And, you know, you talked about it for the longest time,
[18:32.040 --> 18:35.400]  you know, with the t-shirt that you got about the sheep and the ear tags
[18:35.400 --> 18:36.760]  about the cattle and all this stuff.
[18:36.760 --> 18:38.200]  And it is, you know, they treated us
[18:38.920 --> 18:40.600]  like livestock, like their cattle.
[18:41.240 --> 18:43.240]  But now it is kind of interesting.
[18:43.240 --> 18:50.760]  I look at this as they're trying to morph over bird flu into cattle flu.
[18:50.760 --> 18:53.800]  I'm suspicious that they're going to try to,
[18:53.800 --> 18:55.720]  if they think that they can't inject us,
[18:56.440 --> 19:00.440]  I think they want to inject all of our food and get it into us that way.
[19:00.440 --> 19:02.680]  And then number one, number two,
[19:02.680 --> 19:06.760]  have an excuse to do mass culling of cattle
[19:06.760 --> 19:09.320]  like they've been doing mass culling of birds in the past.
[19:09.320 --> 19:12.040]  Don't you find it interesting that they are checking,
[19:12.680 --> 19:14.520]  going through and looking at milk?
[19:14.520 --> 19:16.680]  They're not looking at chicken eggs.
[19:16.680 --> 19:18.600]  They're looking at milk from cattle.
[19:18.600 --> 19:20.360]  They haven't found any cattle.
[19:20.360 --> 19:23.240]  They found a couple of people who got pink eye
[19:23.240 --> 19:25.160]  and they're trying to make that into bird flu.
[19:25.160 --> 19:26.360]  This is the most ridiculous thing.
[19:26.360 --> 19:31.160]  And yet they've already manufactured 4.8 million doses of bird flu vaccine.
[19:31.800 --> 19:34.040]  I read something the other day, I'm sure you did as well,
[19:34.120 --> 19:35.240]  that they are working on.
[19:35.240 --> 19:40.280]  I may have already designed and gotten ready a vaccine for cattle
[19:40.280 --> 19:41.880]  to deal with methane emissions.
[19:41.880 --> 19:46.440]  And the perfect checks all the boxes where you've got climate.
[19:46.440 --> 19:50.760]  Well, I mean, implicitly in that, if cattle flatulence is the big problem,
[19:50.760 --> 19:51.560]  well, we've got what?
[19:51.560 --> 19:55.880]  Seven billion odd people on this planet who are also producing flatulence.
[19:55.880 --> 19:59.240]  So is it inconceivable that they will then say everybody on the planet
[19:59.240 --> 20:01.480]  has to be vaccinated for that?
[20:01.480 --> 20:03.640]  Because after all, the climate crisis demands it.
[20:03.640 --> 20:08.440]  We've got to do something to prevent this existential crisis from metastasizing.
[20:08.440 --> 20:09.960]  Yeah, we could see that coming, couldn't we?
[20:09.960 --> 20:12.760]  And today, before you came on, I said, look it,
[20:12.760 --> 20:17.960]  we got statements from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and other vaccine companies
[20:17.960 --> 20:21.560]  saying, yes, we will have vaccines for climate change for humans.
[20:24.200 --> 20:25.240]  Can't we just have Beano?
[20:25.800 --> 20:27.240]  They wouldn't let us have ivermectin now.
[20:27.240 --> 20:28.440]  They're not going to let us have Beano.
[20:29.480 --> 20:32.120]  It'd be funny if it weren't so frightening.
[20:32.840 --> 20:36.760]  The last time they framed these shots in the context of public health,
[20:36.760 --> 20:41.160]  well, now they're going to notch it up a little bit and say it's an existential crisis.
[20:41.160 --> 20:43.480]  It's not merely a matter of stopping the spread.
[20:43.480 --> 20:48.040]  If we don't do this, you literally are a threat to humanity, to the planet,
[20:48.040 --> 20:51.080]  if you don't go along with being injected with whatever these drugs are.
[20:51.080 --> 20:51.640]  That's right.
[20:52.840 --> 20:56.040]  Well, you know, you and I have talked about the electric cars for a long time.
[20:56.040 --> 20:58.680]  And I remember we talked about, the first time I talked to you,
[20:58.680 --> 21:00.840]  it was about crony capitalism and Elon Musk.
[21:00.920 --> 21:06.360]  But also, I played a clip today of all the stuff that's gone on with the Cybertruck.
[21:06.360 --> 21:08.280]  It's unbelievable what's happening with that.
[21:08.280 --> 21:15.960]  People, one guy nearly had his finger taken off and they did put carrots in
[21:15.960 --> 21:19.320]  and shut the thing and it just chops the carrots off like it's a knife or something.
[21:19.320 --> 21:19.880]  It's amazing.
[21:19.880 --> 21:23.000]  That's the frunk hood lid that's there.
[21:23.000 --> 21:29.480]  But apart from that, we were laughing about the fact that they talked about
[21:30.440 --> 21:35.960]  electric cars being very quiet and that it might result in more pedestrians being hit.
[21:35.960 --> 21:38.440]  And so they were talking about different sounds they could come up with.
[21:38.440 --> 21:42.520]  I remember somebody came up with it or we just talked about
[21:42.520 --> 21:44.360]  making them sound like the Jetsons car.
[21:44.360 --> 21:46.440]  That sounds like the little tweeting sounds.
[21:46.440 --> 21:47.480]  Yeah, yeah, they will do that.
[21:47.480 --> 21:47.960]  Literally.
[21:47.960 --> 21:48.840]  I think they did.
[21:49.800 --> 21:50.680]  It's embarrassing.
[21:50.680 --> 21:55.800]  I have a hundred thousand something dollar Mercedes electric vehicle that did that.
[21:56.520 --> 22:00.040]  And are we 12 years old again?
[22:01.160 --> 22:05.880]  What grown man or woman wants to drive around in a car that's making cartoon sounds?
[22:08.280 --> 22:11.080]  Can't you at least have a more economical option
[22:11.080 --> 22:13.960]  where you put a playing card and the spokes of the wheel?
[22:15.480 --> 22:16.040]  Exactly.
[22:16.040 --> 22:17.400]  And we were kids when we did that.
[22:17.400 --> 22:18.360]  We were nine years old.
[22:19.480 --> 22:22.600]  Grown adults are doing this and it brings us right back to the opposite.
[22:23.320 --> 22:29.000]  The reduction of the populace to the level of middle schoolers and not bright ones either.
[22:29.000 --> 22:33.000]  Well, and of course, you know, it's desperately needed because now electric
[22:33.000 --> 22:36.040]  cars are twice as likely to hit pedestrians, according to researchers.
[22:36.040 --> 22:38.680]  They've already killed them because of their weight.
[22:39.960 --> 22:40.760]  That's right.
[22:40.760 --> 22:41.880]  Yeah, that's right.
[22:41.880 --> 22:43.640]  Because the way to truly is amazing.
[22:43.640 --> 22:44.920]  And then they had a Google.
[22:46.200 --> 22:51.000]  They ask it questions about blinker fluid and it's giving people
[22:52.760 --> 22:54.200]  ways to change your blinker fluid.
[22:54.920 --> 22:56.200]  It's like your Johnson rod, right?
[23:00.040 --> 23:01.560]  It's completely artificial.
[23:01.560 --> 23:02.760]  This intelligence, isn't it?
[23:03.320 --> 23:05.080]  It's amazing where this stuff is going.
[23:05.080 --> 23:09.160]  And people just follow along as if it's no big deal.
[23:09.880 --> 23:13.640]  You also, I saw your article about the Camaro picked up many different places.
[23:13.640 --> 23:15.720]  Yeah, excellent article about goodbye Camaro.
[23:16.760 --> 23:18.200]  Tell us a little bit about that.
[23:18.200 --> 23:20.200]  Well, the Camaro has been canceled.
[23:20.200 --> 23:22.120]  This will be the final year for the car.
[23:22.120 --> 23:23.720]  And of course, it's an iconic car.
[23:24.520 --> 23:30.760]  It is one of many cars that came out in the wake of the introduction in 1964 of the Mustang,
[23:30.760 --> 23:34.040]  which was one of the most successful cars in the history of the car business.
[23:34.040 --> 23:38.920]  And created that genre of the so-called pony bar named after Mustang being the name for a horse.
[23:39.880 --> 23:42.440]  And all these things proliferated because it was such a great car.
[23:42.440 --> 23:43.560]  It was a great concept.
[23:43.560 --> 23:44.280]  It was fun.
[23:45.000 --> 23:49.400]  It wasn't quite as big and broody as a muscle car, which appealed mostly to younger guys.
[23:49.480 --> 23:54.520]  This was a car that didn't necessarily have to have a V8 and could still be a lot of fun.
[23:54.520 --> 23:56.680]  And these were just very successful cars.
[23:56.680 --> 23:58.200]  And Camaro was a very successful car.
[23:58.200 --> 24:02.600]  And Firebird, which was the sister car of the Camaro for many, many years.
[24:02.600 --> 24:07.960]  But now a combination of forces have made it very difficult to continue to produce these vehicles.
[24:07.960 --> 24:10.440]  Ford is the last one standing again.
[24:11.320 --> 24:15.240]  Dodge had to cancel the Challenger again because it just got to the point where they
[24:15.240 --> 24:20.360]  couldn't continue to build those cars at a price point that made them viable in the marketplace.
[24:20.360 --> 24:22.280]  And it's the same problem with Camaro.
[24:22.280 --> 24:24.840]  Base price now, I think, for the thing is about $35,000.
[24:26.280 --> 24:30.280]  And by the time you get up to the V8 car, now you're pushing $50,000.
[24:30.280 --> 24:31.960]  How many people can afford a car like that?
[24:31.960 --> 24:32.680]  Not many.
[24:32.680 --> 24:33.320]  That's right.
[24:33.320 --> 24:36.840]  Now to GM's credit, I will give them sort of a backhanded compliment.
[24:36.840 --> 24:42.760]  They didn't do what Dodge has done, which was to slap the Camaro name on a device,
[24:42.760 --> 24:46.520]  on a battery-powered contraption and pretend that that's a Camaro.
[24:46.520 --> 24:49.160]  They're letting it walk off the field with some dignity intact.
[24:49.160 --> 24:50.680]  It's just sad to see so.
[24:50.680 --> 24:51.720]  Yeah, that's true.
[24:51.720 --> 24:53.240]  Yeah, I remember the Mustang.
[24:53.240 --> 24:58.680]  Boy, that really was a big deal when I was in school.
[24:58.680 --> 25:05.000]  And of course, I remember my best friends had, their dad had an old at the time.
[25:05.000 --> 25:06.600]  It was like eight years old.
[25:07.560 --> 25:10.680]  The first generation of the Mustang, the really small one.
[25:10.680 --> 25:11.640]  And it was a convertible.
[25:11.640 --> 25:14.520]  And we used to, because it was old at that time, eight years.
[25:14.520 --> 25:17.320]  You didn't typically keep cars for eight years back then, right?
[25:17.880 --> 25:19.560]  They didn't last that long in general.
[25:19.560 --> 25:21.720]  But you know, so it was a beat up car.
[25:21.720 --> 25:23.720]  The bottom of it was even rusted out.
[25:23.720 --> 25:27.720]  So if you're sitting in the back seat, you had to straddle a hole in the,
[25:28.600 --> 25:33.160]  and you're seeing the road going underneath you and everything.
[25:33.160 --> 25:34.040]  But it was a blast.
[25:34.040 --> 25:34.920]  It was a raw experience.
[25:34.920 --> 25:40.680]  I think that's what got me to where I wanted to have a small convertible roadster.
[25:40.680 --> 25:45.560]  So eventually after my first car was a Mustang, it was 68 fastback Mustang.
[25:45.560 --> 25:50.920]  But the next one was a Tramp Spitfire, which was an adventure.
[25:50.920 --> 25:55.240]  But it was, I wanted to get something that was small and convertible like that,
[25:55.240 --> 25:57.560]  because I had so much fun in the Mustang.
[25:57.560 --> 25:59.400]  And we used to do all kinds of stuff with that car.
[25:59.400 --> 26:03.400]  Took it everywhere, beat that thing to death, and it just kept going.
[26:03.400 --> 26:05.160]  But those cars were a lot of fun.
[26:05.160 --> 26:06.440]  And as you pointed out, they were cheap.
[26:06.440 --> 26:07.240]  They were affordable.
[26:08.040 --> 26:10.760]  You know, it could be one that was a couple of years old,
[26:10.760 --> 26:12.360]  could be a starter car for somebody.
[26:13.080 --> 26:15.080]  Yeah, I mean, when I was in high school in the 80s,
[26:15.080 --> 26:18.200]  the parking lot was full of old Mustangs and old Camaros
[26:18.200 --> 26:19.640]  and all kinds of vehicles like that.
[26:19.640 --> 26:20.920]  And these are teenagers.
[26:20.920 --> 26:23.720]  I was one of them, you know, who could afford to have a car like that
[26:24.360 --> 26:28.360]  and afford to put gas in it on a part-time after-school McDonald's job.
[26:28.360 --> 26:28.600]  Yeah.
[26:28.600 --> 26:31.240]  You know, I and my friends all did that.
[26:31.240 --> 26:35.480]  Now, you know, that car is for basically affluent middle-aged and older men,
[26:35.480 --> 26:39.880]  because affluent middle-aged men are the only ones who can afford to spend
[26:39.880 --> 26:43.080]  40,000 bucks on a car plus the insurance,
[26:43.080 --> 26:48.920]  which is just beyond a reason at this point to try to put insurance on a car like that.
[26:49.800 --> 26:51.960]  So they priced themselves out of the market.
[26:51.960 --> 26:54.200]  Yeah, yeah, it is sad to see what's happening.
[26:54.200 --> 26:58.600]  Of course, when you look at insurance, it's not just the cars, it's the houses as well.
[26:58.600 --> 27:01.800]  I mean, look at what they have done in Florida.
[27:01.800 --> 27:04.920]  You know, they've gone in, the insurance industry is going to make people homeless.
[27:05.240 --> 27:08.280]  All these people went in and bought condos a few years ago,
[27:08.280 --> 27:12.040]  and now they've come in with new rules and new inspections and all this kind of stuff.
[27:12.040 --> 27:17.720]  These people are going to, they wound up, they might have spent, you know, $130,000 for their
[27:17.720 --> 27:26.760]  condo and they're getting a $100,000 assessment to have essentially retroactive building codes
[27:26.760 --> 27:27.880]  imposed upon them.
[27:27.880 --> 27:30.680]  And they can't, they're trapped and they can't get rid of this.
[27:30.680 --> 27:32.360]  I mean, it's the most outrageous thing.
[27:32.360 --> 27:36.920]  I don't know, I wonder if DeSantis or Republicans don't do anything about that,
[27:36.920 --> 27:41.560]  or if they're completely captive to this big industry, the insurance industry.
[27:41.560 --> 27:42.520]  Well, they're captive to it.
[27:42.520 --> 27:45.320]  And I think what's ultimately going to happen is people are going to do something about it.
[27:46.200 --> 27:50.920]  With regard to car insurance, I think very close to a point at which people are going to just say,
[27:50.920 --> 27:51.560]  you know what?
[27:51.560 --> 27:52.680]  I'm done paying.
[27:52.680 --> 27:53.720]  Come get me.
[27:53.720 --> 27:57.640]  Per H.L. Mencken, they're going to raise the Jolly Roger and just,
[27:58.520 --> 28:01.480]  we live in a world now where to be a responsible person
[28:01.480 --> 28:06.680]  and to just try to live your life and not cause problems is to be a criminal.
[28:06.680 --> 28:07.880]  So why not embrace it?
[28:07.880 --> 28:10.200]  You know, why not just stop obeying their rules?
[28:10.200 --> 28:11.160]  They don't obey them.
[28:11.160 --> 28:14.440]  You know, they're flooding the country with people who don't have to even show ID.
[28:14.440 --> 28:15.400]  Just come on in.
[28:15.400 --> 28:18.200]  Here's a $10,000 credit card to go ahead and go shopping.
[28:19.240 --> 28:23.480]  If that guy gets into a car without valid license and registration,
[28:23.480 --> 28:25.400]  runs a red light, kills somebody, what are they going to do?
[28:25.400 --> 28:27.880]  They're not going to do anything because they can't get any money out of them.
[28:28.840 --> 28:31.880]  If we don't, if we get caught, we're not wearing our seat belts,
[28:31.880 --> 28:35.080]  they'll probably pull a gun on us and hand us a piece of paper.
[28:35.080 --> 28:38.280]  If we don't pay it, you can bet your bit people are going to find a way to make us pay it.
[28:38.280 --> 28:38.600]  Yeah.
[28:38.600 --> 28:39.400]  Oh, absolutely.
[28:39.400 --> 28:39.800]  Absolutely.
[28:39.800 --> 28:40.520]  That's going to happen.
[28:40.520 --> 28:43.880]  I mean, just look what they just did that call for that tournament.
[28:43.880 --> 28:44.760]  Did you see that?
[28:44.760 --> 28:48.440]  Well, they, the guy who was, they released the video,
[28:48.440 --> 28:52.520]  they thought it vindicated what they were doing and it completely did the opposite.
[28:52.520 --> 28:53.960]  It did not vindicate what they were doing.
[28:54.680 --> 28:56.760]  They've got traffic control cops.
[28:56.760 --> 28:58.360]  They're telling people what they could do.
[28:58.360 --> 29:01.080]  He's a, he was the number one ranked golfer.
[29:01.080 --> 29:04.360]  And so he slowly, really slowly, and you can see the picture,
[29:04.360 --> 29:07.480]  he's got his foot on the brake and he's just creeping at about two miles an hour.
[29:07.480 --> 29:13.000]  And this cop turns around and runs and grabs hold of his car and he stopped right away.
[29:13.000 --> 29:16.760]  But the cop lied and said that he was being drugged by this, this car and everything.
[29:16.760 --> 29:17.800]  They put him in handcuffs.
[29:17.800 --> 29:19.080]  I said, we're going to get him.
[29:19.080 --> 29:20.440]  And then they released this footage.
[29:20.440 --> 29:24.600]  The police department had thinking somehow that it validated their story.
[29:24.600 --> 29:26.920]  It contradicted what they had said about that.
[29:26.920 --> 29:27.800]  It's truly amazing.
[29:28.680 --> 29:30.760]  They're not very bright, which is a good thing.
[29:30.760 --> 29:32.680]  They're very authoritarian, but they're not very bright.
[29:32.680 --> 29:33.720]  And there's an interesting thing too.
[29:33.720 --> 29:36.680]  If you get into the literature about psychopathy, you know,
[29:36.680 --> 29:39.640]  the upside to psychopathy is these people think they're invulnerable.
[29:39.640 --> 29:43.640]  They think that we're so dumb that they can fool us every single time.
[29:43.640 --> 29:46.120]  And that makes them arrogant and that makes them careless.
[29:46.120 --> 29:47.240]  And then they get caught.
[29:47.240 --> 29:48.920]  And that's a very good example of that.
[29:48.920 --> 29:49.800]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[29:50.440 --> 29:52.840]  Well, you know, we were talking about the, the Google,
[29:54.680 --> 29:59.320]  Gemini, which drew all those pictures of re-imagining everybody.
[29:59.320 --> 30:00.600]  A lot of Washington.
[30:00.600 --> 30:01.320]  That's right.
[30:01.320 --> 30:02.360]  Yeah, exactly.
[30:02.360 --> 30:07.880]  You know, reinventing our, our historical figures as all female black and or Asian,
[30:07.880 --> 30:12.280]  you know, those same people who put out the blinker fluid instructions.
[30:12.280 --> 30:19.000]  And we've also now got the godfather of AI saying that there's a consensus
[30:19.000 --> 30:23.720]  with all the experts, Eric, that within just a few years,
[30:24.440 --> 30:26.920]  AI is going to exceed human intelligence.
[30:26.920 --> 30:30.680]  I wonder which group of people they're, they're looking at is that these,
[30:30.680 --> 30:34.600]  these, uh, highly potters and people on the left and right that they're comparing it to,
[30:34.600 --> 30:37.240]  I don't know what, where they come up with something like that.
[30:37.240 --> 30:38.840]  This isn't my area of expertise.
[30:38.840 --> 30:44.040]  So what I'm about to say is my opinion on it, but I feel as though when they talk about AI,
[30:44.040 --> 30:47.160]  all they're really talking about is a highly sophisticated computer
[30:47.160 --> 30:49.160]  that has highly sophisticated programming.
[30:49.160 --> 30:52.120]  But I don't think, I don't believe, at least I hope
[30:52.120 --> 30:57.160]  that it is not possible to create a machine that can truly think in the way that human
[30:57.160 --> 31:02.200]  beings can evaluate external reality and form a judgment.
[31:02.200 --> 31:08.760]  And the judgment, uh, is filtered through, uh, empathy and compassion and reason.
[31:08.760 --> 31:12.920]  And it's not just a cold calculating machine because if I'm wrong about this,
[31:12.920 --> 31:15.320]  we're in real trouble and it's very scary.
[31:15.320 --> 31:19.400]  Well, you know, and I had talked about this earlier this week.
[31:19.400 --> 31:21.880]  There's one guy who did understand what it was.
[31:22.360 --> 31:25.560]  I found when I tried to explain this to people who don't know
[31:26.280 --> 31:29.960]  how artificial intelligence works, he said, I found the best analogy is just to explain it
[31:29.960 --> 31:33.000]  to them and say, you know, how does it answer these questions?
[31:33.000 --> 31:34.920]  It doesn't even know that it's being asked a question.
[31:34.920 --> 31:36.920]  It's just a big matching game.
[31:36.920 --> 31:40.600]  It looks at these different matrices and tries to find the best fit.
[31:40.600 --> 31:44.680]  And he goes, and that's why it can sound and sometimes be really brilliant.
[31:44.680 --> 31:48.920]  And then immediately afterwards, it can hallucinate and do these really strange things
[31:49.000 --> 31:55.320]  because it's just building these matrices and comparing that to what you're asking
[31:55.320 --> 31:57.160]  it for, for the best fit.
[31:57.160 --> 31:58.680]  And that's really the way this stuff works.
[31:58.680 --> 32:00.280]  It's not thinking at all.
[32:00.280 --> 32:02.680]  It doesn't even understand the questions that you're asking it.
[32:02.680 --> 32:05.000]  It's just doing a rough comparisons.
[32:05.000 --> 32:09.480]  But see, that's the thing that makes it so dangerous because it's this matching
[32:09.480 --> 32:15.240]  capability that it's doing is really, I think the core feature of how they want to use it.
[32:15.240 --> 32:21.800]  I think the key use of artificial intelligence is to be able to identify all these biometrics
[32:21.800 --> 32:26.440]  that they got on everybody, to be able to identify us very quickly, to be able to use
[32:26.440 --> 32:29.640]  this in a surveillance context.
[32:29.640 --> 32:33.720]  I think that has always been the core issue of it, especially when you look at the people
[32:33.720 --> 32:36.280]  who have designed and funded this thing.
[32:36.280 --> 32:39.560]  I think it's all about surveillance and I think it's also about propaganda.
[32:39.560 --> 32:44.520]  It's a con game to get people to think that it truly can think that it really is an expert.
[32:44.520 --> 32:46.280]  And look at how easy it was to fool people.
[32:46.280 --> 32:50.760]  I mean, if we could, if people could believe that Fauci was a scientist, I guess they could
[32:50.760 --> 32:52.280]  believe that these machines are thinking.
[32:53.480 --> 32:58.920]  Well, I can speak to in the context of cars, there's a lack of nuance there.
[32:58.920 --> 33:03.960]  And what they really want is sort of a one size fits all solution for everybody that
[33:03.960 --> 33:07.720]  doesn't allow for the exercise of judgment in a particular situation.
[33:07.720 --> 33:12.360]  For example, these new cars that I test drive, they've all got what they call advanced driver
[33:12.360 --> 33:17.400]  assistance technologies that will do things like hit the brakes or try to jerk the car
[33:17.400 --> 33:19.800]  back into the lane.
[33:19.800 --> 33:26.760]  And like you said, they're all predicated on this, this batch of assumptions based on
[33:26.760 --> 33:29.240]  the conditions that they assume when they programmed it.
[33:29.240 --> 33:32.680]  And if something arises that's outside of those parameters, it may not be appropriate
[33:32.680 --> 33:34.360]  or often isn't appropriate.
[33:34.360 --> 33:38.040]  And that's when you realize you're not really dealing with something that thinks it's just
[33:38.040 --> 33:42.120]  something that is reacting within the boundaries of programming.
[33:42.120 --> 33:46.680]  And it might be very sophisticated programming, but it is not genuinely thinking in the way
[33:46.680 --> 33:47.640]  that you and I think.
[33:47.640 --> 33:48.280]  That's right.
[33:48.280 --> 33:49.000]  That's right.
[33:49.000 --> 33:50.280]  I've seen that all my life.
[33:50.280 --> 33:54.840]  You know, I remember when I was in college and we just had these very primitive PCs.
[33:54.840 --> 34:00.200]  Some of them we're building ourselves as kits and we had command line interpreters.
[34:00.200 --> 34:02.920]  There's no graphical user interface, anything like that.
[34:02.920 --> 34:07.240]  And there was a program that was very effective and it just would ask you kind of open-ended
[34:07.240 --> 34:10.200]  questions and give open-ended responses.
[34:10.200 --> 34:12.520]  And it seemed like it was thinking.
[34:12.520 --> 34:17.480]  I mean, it was like you're being psychoanalyzed by some kind of a counselor and you're on
[34:17.480 --> 34:18.200]  the couch or something.
[34:18.200 --> 34:19.480]  Well, how do you feel about that?
[34:19.480 --> 34:22.040]  Well, tell me more about that, you know, that type of stuff.
[34:22.040 --> 34:23.240]  And it could be very effective.
[34:23.240 --> 34:28.120]  And it was laughable because we knew there was just this program that was gaming it.
[34:28.120 --> 34:31.480]  This is just a much more sophisticated version of that.
[34:31.480 --> 34:34.040]  And it's being applied to a lot of different things.
[34:34.040 --> 34:38.360]  I've got a question or a comment for you here on Rock Van from Michelle Obama.
[34:38.360 --> 34:38.760]  Thank you.
[34:39.480 --> 34:41.480]  Because Eric, what's that?
[34:43.480 --> 34:44.200]  Exactly.
[34:45.000 --> 34:46.840]  That's why he's got an N at the end of it.
[34:46.840 --> 34:54.920]  Obama says, Eric, India had a Jetsons looking no frills car that looked to make cars cheap
[34:54.920 --> 34:55.560]  again.
[34:55.560 --> 34:59.720]  When will demand overwhelm and force reasonable practical cars back?
[34:59.720 --> 35:00.200]  What do you think?
[35:01.000 --> 35:05.480]  Well, you got to get the impediment out of the way, which is the federal government.
[35:05.560 --> 35:08.760]  If the federal government weren't there, of course, we'd have access to these things.
[35:09.720 --> 35:15.720]  Even previous to this sponge rush toward electrification, most people have no idea
[35:15.720 --> 35:20.520]  that in other parts of the world, even in Mexico, you can get basic simple little cars,
[35:20.520 --> 35:23.400]  brand new, that are made by all the major manufacturers.
[35:23.400 --> 35:26.440]  They just don't sell them here because they're not allowed to sell them here
[35:26.440 --> 35:30.360]  because the federal government won't permit them to be imported into the country
[35:30.360 --> 35:32.120]  because they don't meet the very latest.
[35:32.120 --> 35:35.560]  There's something called the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, among other things,
[35:36.120 --> 35:39.880]  and then there are emission standards, and so they keep them out of this country.
[35:39.880 --> 35:44.360]  Even to the extent, here's a good example, in New Zealand and Australia,
[35:44.360 --> 35:48.760]  you can buy a brand new V8 powered Toyota Land Cruiser, brand new from Toyota,
[35:48.760 --> 35:50.040]  for about $40,000.
[35:50.040 --> 35:51.800]  That vehicle is not available here.
[35:51.800 --> 35:55.160]  You can get a diesel powered 4Runners in those markets.
[35:55.160 --> 35:59.720]  These are fully modern cars, and this idea that they're somehow unsafe
[36:00.280 --> 36:05.640]  or that they are dirty and producing lots of pollution, it's absurd.
[36:05.640 --> 36:11.320]  It's rent-seeking, it's capture, it's designed to increase the price of vehicles,
[36:11.320 --> 36:14.200]  to price most people out of the market, and unfortunately,
[36:14.200 --> 36:16.840]  the automakers are in collusion with this.
[36:17.480 --> 36:22.760]  They think they can make more money by keeping the lower priced stuff out.
[36:22.760 --> 36:26.200]  There's a reason why you can't buy a small pickup in this country anymore.
[36:26.200 --> 36:29.160]  The closest thing you can come to is the Maverick, which I had a week ago
[36:29.160 --> 36:30.360]  and did a review of.
[36:30.360 --> 36:33.880]  But all the vehicles that you and I can remember from, what, 10, 15 years ago,
[36:33.880 --> 36:36.200]  compact size trucks, why can't you get those anymore?
[36:36.200 --> 36:37.480]  They were immensely popular.
[36:37.480 --> 36:39.240]  They were also very inexpensive.
[36:39.240 --> 36:42.040]  They sold for $13,000, $14,000, brand new.
[36:42.680 --> 36:44.040]  You can't get them anymore because of why?
[36:44.040 --> 36:45.320]  They want to upsell you.
[36:45.320 --> 36:48.440]  They want to sell you a $35,000 midsize truck.
[36:48.440 --> 36:52.760]  By the way, those midsize trucks now, and I'm talking about the current Ford Ranger,
[36:54.280 --> 36:58.440]  the Chevy Colorado, the Toyota Tacoma, if you look at them dimensionally,
[36:58.440 --> 37:02.680]  they are as big or even bigger in some cases than the half ton full size trucks
[37:02.680 --> 37:04.280]  of the nineties and early two thousands.
[37:04.280 --> 37:04.920]  Oh yeah.
[37:04.920 --> 37:05.320]  Oh yeah.
[37:05.320 --> 37:08.920]  They it's amazing how big they've gotten and how high they've gotten, you know,
[37:08.920 --> 37:11.080]  especially when I'm driving around in my little car.
[37:12.760 --> 37:19.400]  I see these cars and the top of the hood or the front of the car is sometimes higher than
[37:19.400 --> 37:21.000]  my height, you know, and it's like, what is it?
[37:21.000 --> 37:24.440]  Everybody wants to drive a semi-trailer, I guess, anymore is what they.
[37:25.960 --> 37:26.840]  I don't get it.
[37:27.240 --> 37:32.280]  When I had the Maverick, it was such a nice and relieving thing to be able to go to Lowe's to
[37:32.280 --> 37:36.840]  get some, I got some, you know, block stones for a tree that we're going to plant.
[37:36.840 --> 37:39.160]  And I didn't have to get on a ladder to put them in the truck.
[37:39.160 --> 37:39.480]  Yeah.
[37:39.480 --> 37:42.200]  And I didn't have to get on the ladder to get them out of the truck.
[37:42.200 --> 37:45.640]  I just put them over the truck and I'm six feet, three inches tall.
[37:45.640 --> 37:50.280]  So I'm taller than probably 95% of the adult men in this country.
[37:50.280 --> 37:54.600]  And these current halftime trucks make me feel like I'm 12 years old again,
[37:54.600 --> 37:56.520]  because they're that big and that high.
[37:56.520 --> 37:58.600]  The bed wall comes up to my chest.
[37:58.600 --> 37:59.160]  It's crazy.
[37:59.160 --> 38:01.640]  It serves no functional purpose at all.
[38:01.640 --> 38:03.640]  It's all about the sort of cod piece strutting.
[38:06.920 --> 38:08.760]  I don't understand the appeal of it at all.
[38:08.760 --> 38:09.800]  That's exactly what happened.
[38:09.800 --> 38:12.200]  I was, we went out and got a, we need to have a pickup truck.
[38:12.200 --> 38:15.400]  And it was like, get a cheap one at an auction.
[38:15.400 --> 38:19.560]  And so they looked at it from a distance.
[38:19.560 --> 38:24.360]  They got there late and my son and my wife did, and they picked up this thing and the
[38:24.360 --> 38:28.760]  people were laughing and they went to pick it up and said, you can't drive that thing.
[38:28.760 --> 38:30.040]  My wife couldn't even get into it.
[38:30.040 --> 38:31.400]  I had a hard time getting into it.
[38:31.400 --> 38:33.720]  You couldn't load anything in the back, just like you're talking about.
[38:33.720 --> 38:34.600]  It was so high.
[38:34.600 --> 38:37.800]  It was, it was a big truck and they had jacked it up and it was an old truck, you know,
[38:37.800 --> 38:41.000]  but they, they had jacked this thing up really high.
[38:41.000 --> 38:43.560]  We wound up reselling that, you know, and getting rid of it.
[38:44.360 --> 38:46.920]  But yeah, it is, it is really crazy.
[38:46.920 --> 38:50.520]  And you know, when you look at what is happening in terms of talking about cheap
[38:50.520 --> 38:54.120]  cars, years ago, we talked about this and you talked about how in France,
[38:54.120 --> 38:58.520]  they had a different, a very cheap, very low power version that was only available
[38:58.520 --> 39:02.840]  to new drivers, you know, and, and I think it was, you know, for entry level.
[39:02.840 --> 39:05.080]  And of course you would never be allowed to have something like that.
[39:05.080 --> 39:08.040]  And it's a big game by putting all this safety stuff on there.
[39:08.040 --> 39:09.880]  It keeps the competition out, doesn't it?
[39:09.880 --> 39:10.280]  Sure.
[39:10.280 --> 39:13.160]  But once again, get back to this EV thing.
[39:13.160 --> 39:18.760]  There are a plethora of city EVs available from various Chinese manufacturers that are
[39:18.760 --> 39:23.800]  priced under $10,000 that would be ideal for people who live in the city, you know,
[39:23.800 --> 39:27.880]  or even for people who are a little bit outside of the city and they don't need a vehicle
[39:27.880 --> 39:32.200]  that has a range greater than a hundred miles and they don't need a vehicle that can travel
[39:32.200 --> 39:36.120]  at 75 miles an hour on the freeway for a couple hundred miles at a time.
[39:36.120 --> 39:39.160]  What they need is just a simple A to B conveyance.
[39:39.160 --> 39:41.880]  Lots of people would really like to have a vehicle like that.
[39:41.880 --> 39:45.720]  And again, if we're facing an existential crisis because the climate is changing,
[39:45.720 --> 39:50.680]  why would you not want to encourage as many of those kinds of vehicles to get into circulation
[39:50.680 --> 39:51.400]  as possible?
[39:51.400 --> 39:54.200]  And the answer is because there isn't an existential crisis.
[39:54.200 --> 39:55.960]  It's just a boogeyman.
[39:55.960 --> 39:57.240]  You know, it's a MacGuffin.
[39:57.240 --> 40:02.040]  It's just another con designed to separate people from their money and their liberty.
[40:02.040 --> 40:07.240]  Yeah. I just saw the article about the big Chinese EV company and they had it,
[40:07.240 --> 40:09.560]  like you're talking about, at one round $10,000.
[40:09.560 --> 40:11.000]  It would only go 80 miles an hour.
[40:11.000 --> 40:11.960]  That was its top speed.
[40:11.960 --> 40:13.560]  It wasn't really super fast.
[40:13.560 --> 40:16.200]  And as you point out, if it is an existential threat,
[40:16.200 --> 40:18.200]  you would want to have those types of vehicles around.
[40:18.200 --> 40:23.720]  But then, of course, that's being done in a country that is allowed to add unbelievable
[40:23.720 --> 40:28.360]  amounts of coal fired power plants that they don't even make an attempt to clean it up.
[40:28.360 --> 40:29.560]  There's no limits on that.
[40:29.560 --> 40:31.320]  Just like there's no limits on power in India.
[40:31.320 --> 40:32.920]  And that's why all the manufacturing is going there.
[40:32.920 --> 40:34.280]  Nobody can compete with them.
[40:34.280 --> 40:38.120]  It's not just a fact of regulations, but you can't compete with them because
[40:38.120 --> 40:39.320]  they have such cheap energy.
[40:39.320 --> 40:41.640]  That's now become another component of the China price.
[40:42.200 --> 40:43.000]  Sure. Absolutely.
[40:45.000 --> 40:46.040]  I'm sorry. Go ahead.
[40:46.040 --> 40:47.560]  I was going to say, we've got another question here.
[40:48.200 --> 40:49.320]  Andromeda One.
[40:49.320 --> 40:53.320]  David, what do you and Eric think of the potential of hydrogen cars?
[40:53.320 --> 40:54.920]  Wishing everybody a great Memorial Day weekend.
[40:54.920 --> 40:56.680]  What do you think about the hydrogen cars?
[40:56.680 --> 41:00.600]  Well, they suffer from some of the same problems that electric cars suffer from.
[41:00.600 --> 41:02.120]  They're very expensive.
[41:02.120 --> 41:06.040]  And you need a whole other infrastructure, I think, to get that to go.
[41:06.040 --> 41:07.160]  Toyota actually has one.
[41:07.160 --> 41:07.800]  It's in production.
[41:07.800 --> 41:09.080]  It's called the Mirai.
[41:09.080 --> 41:11.320]  And it's essentially a Toyota Camry.
[41:11.320 --> 41:14.600]  Same basic car, same basic shape and all of that.
[41:14.600 --> 41:17.240]  And I think its base price is something like $45,000.
[41:17.240 --> 41:18.520]  Might even be $50,000.
[41:18.520 --> 41:21.800]  You can pick up a Camry with a gas engine for $23,000.
[41:21.800 --> 41:24.120]  So it's roughly twice as expensive.
[41:24.120 --> 41:26.440]  And I think the unasked question is why?
[41:27.800 --> 41:32.520]  Why would you go through all these hoops to replace something that works?
[41:32.520 --> 41:36.760]  I think we have to focus on the fact that they're trying to get rid of something that works.
[41:36.760 --> 41:39.000]  Why? Because of a fraudulent reason.
[41:39.000 --> 41:46.360]  This notion somehow that the 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere is CO2.
[41:46.360 --> 41:52.360]  And somehow a fractional increase in that fraction is causing an existential crisis.
[41:53.000 --> 41:54.040]  Who buys that?
[41:54.040 --> 41:57.640]  And only 3% of that 0.4% is man-made, according to them.
[41:58.200 --> 42:02.280]  And so even from their own position, it doesn't make any sense.
[42:02.280 --> 42:07.560]  And I think it is essential for us to debunk that foundational lie.
[42:07.560 --> 42:09.320]  As long as we try to play around with that.
[42:09.320 --> 42:14.760]  And the approach that's been taken by Toyota during the hydrogen car and a lot of these other
[42:14.760 --> 42:18.760]  things is to say, OK, we'll accept your premise that we've got to get rid of CO2.
[42:18.760 --> 42:20.120]  So how do we do that?
[42:20.120 --> 42:23.000]  Well, here's a new technology that's going to have a lot of flaws in it.
[42:23.000 --> 42:24.600]  We don't have the infrastructure to support it.
[42:24.600 --> 42:26.360]  It's going to be incredibly expensive.
[42:26.360 --> 42:31.720]  But let's play this game and pretend that we've got to stop all CO2.
[42:31.720 --> 42:36.520]  We've got to stop it and oppose this notion that we've got to get rid of CO2.
[42:36.520 --> 42:38.200]  Or they're going to destroy everything.
[42:38.200 --> 42:43.080]  They're playing that game now with meat and with milk, as we were talking about earlier.
[42:43.080 --> 42:44.600]  They even did it about rice.
[42:44.600 --> 42:49.400]  I saw this because a lot of the poor countries in the world, they don't have the money
[42:49.400 --> 42:52.280]  and the infrastructure to eat meat or milk.
[42:52.280 --> 42:53.560]  And so they're eating rice.
[42:53.560 --> 42:55.000]  Well, now let's get rid of rice.
[42:55.640 --> 42:59.320]  You have to understand that the fundamental thing about all this environmentalism
[42:59.960 --> 43:01.880]  is not about CO2.
[43:01.880 --> 43:03.400]  It's about depopulation.
[43:03.400 --> 43:05.960]  These people have been about depopulation from the very beginning.
[43:05.960 --> 43:08.200]  The first Earth Day, I was in high school.
[43:08.200 --> 43:11.080]  Paul Ehrlich was out there in front with all this stuff.
[43:11.080 --> 43:13.000]  He was writing about the population bomb.
[43:13.000 --> 43:14.040]  How do we kill more people?
[43:14.040 --> 43:17.080]  How do we get rid of people and all this kind of stuff from the very beginning?
[43:17.080 --> 43:17.800]  That's what it's about.
[43:17.800 --> 43:19.320]  They don't want to get rid of CO2.
[43:19.320 --> 43:20.440]  They want to get rid of people.
[43:20.440 --> 43:21.960]  Absolutely.
[43:21.960 --> 43:26.440]  I think we had a very important lesson during the course of the past four years
[43:26.440 --> 43:27.720]  with regard to the pandemic.
[43:27.720 --> 43:32.120]  And the only way we stopped that was by challenging the underlying narrative.
[43:32.760 --> 43:36.200]  The only thing that stopped the masking and the vaccine
[43:36.200 --> 43:38.120]  was the fact that these things don't work.
[43:39.080 --> 43:43.320]  The disease they're talking about is, for the most part, a trivial threat to most people.
[43:45.000 --> 43:46.440]  It's simply absurd.
[43:48.200 --> 43:50.360]  If you accept their premise and agree with their argument,
[43:50.360 --> 43:51.880]  well, you've lost the argument.
[43:51.880 --> 43:54.760]  All you're going to do at that point is quibble over how you're going to
[43:54.760 --> 43:57.000]  deal with this problem that doesn't really exist.
[44:00.360 --> 44:03.000]  You have an article, I think, on your site about the guy
[44:03.880 --> 44:10.040]  that refused to shut down his gym and, of course, they arrested him in New York.
[44:11.800 --> 44:13.960]  He's absolutely defiant.
[44:13.960 --> 44:17.240]  He said, look, you have to understand nobody is coming to rescue you.
[44:17.240 --> 44:19.000]  You're in this yourself.
[44:19.000 --> 44:20.680]  Raise the black flag.
[44:21.320 --> 44:24.840]  This is the time to take a stand and not to back down.
[44:24.840 --> 44:27.080]  We have to do that even when it comes to this narrative.
[44:27.080 --> 44:31.000]  I know people, oh, you're talking about the elites want to kill everybody.
[44:31.000 --> 44:31.560]  That's right.
[44:32.040 --> 44:34.600]  And that is the truth.
[44:34.600 --> 44:38.680]  And if it's the truth, we can make that case and we can make it very effectively.
[44:38.680 --> 44:41.640]  And we need to make that case effectively to people.
[44:41.640 --> 44:44.200]  And to point out the lies that they have there.
[44:44.200 --> 44:48.120]  It's all based on a bluff, isn't it?
[44:48.120 --> 44:51.160]  Just like it was with the pandemic, same thing with the climate stuff.
[44:51.160 --> 44:52.600]  Oh, I'm not going to show you the data.
[44:52.600 --> 44:53.640]  I'm the scientist.
[44:53.640 --> 44:55.640]  You have to trust me and do what I say.
[44:55.640 --> 44:57.160]  It's always about that bluff.
[44:57.880 --> 44:59.560]  It's also based on maliciousness.
[44:59.560 --> 45:04.040]  And I think that's something that's difficult for most people to get their heads around.
[45:04.040 --> 45:07.560]  Because most people assume that other people are well-intended,
[45:07.560 --> 45:09.480]  even if they're wrong about something.
[45:09.480 --> 45:11.400]  Maybe they have incorrect information.
[45:11.400 --> 45:12.440]  Maybe their assumptions are wrong.
[45:12.440 --> 45:14.280]  But at the end of the day, they're trying to do the right thing.
[45:14.280 --> 45:15.800]  Well, that's not the case with these people.
[45:15.800 --> 45:16.440]  That's right.
[45:16.440 --> 45:20.200]  These people are malicious and you have got to say no firmly to them.
[45:20.200 --> 45:20.680]  Period.
[45:20.680 --> 45:21.080]  That's right.
[45:22.600 --> 45:26.280]  The normal people can't understand how evil these people are.
[45:26.280 --> 45:29.640]  And that's why serial killers are successful.
[45:29.640 --> 45:30.680]  People like Ted Bundy.
[45:30.680 --> 45:32.120]  He's such a nice man.
[45:32.120 --> 45:33.000]  He's very intelligent.
[45:33.000 --> 45:34.280]  He's very attractive.
[45:34.280 --> 45:37.800]  And then, of course, he rapes and murders women one after the other, right?
[45:37.800 --> 45:41.720]  Because he uses that and people project onto others.
[45:41.720 --> 45:43.720]  That's what the big deal is with Trump.
[45:43.720 --> 45:45.880]  Everybody projects what they want him to be.
[45:45.880 --> 45:50.920]  I remember Harry Belafonte said that about Obama.
[45:50.920 --> 45:55.240]  He was on the left and towards the end of the Obama regimes,
[45:55.240 --> 45:57.080]  he said, who is this guy?
[45:57.720 --> 45:59.160]  We thought he was going to do this, this, and this.
[45:59.160 --> 45:59.880]  And he didn't do any of that.
[45:59.880 --> 46:03.160]  He said, we projected what we wanted him to be.
[46:03.160 --> 46:06.360]  We projected that the left did onto Obama.
[46:06.360 --> 46:09.000]  The right is doing exactly the same thing with Trump.
[46:09.000 --> 46:09.800]  Sure.
[46:09.800 --> 46:12.040]  Most people want to assume the best of other people.
[46:12.040 --> 46:15.560]  And most people have a really tough time grappling with evil.
[46:15.560 --> 46:16.680]  And that it does exist.
[46:16.680 --> 46:19.000]  And that it does come in human form sometimes.
[46:19.000 --> 46:19.800]  That's right.
[46:20.200 --> 46:25.960]  One of the things I've talked to people that I think is really an eye-opener,
[46:25.960 --> 46:29.080]  if you stop and think about it, I said, what about Ivermectin?
[46:29.080 --> 46:32.680]  We look at all these different things that were killing people, hospital protocols.
[46:32.680 --> 46:35.400]  And Trump was paying for it and giving hospitals bonuses and everything.
[46:35.400 --> 46:36.840]  He said, what about Ivermectin?
[46:36.840 --> 46:38.920]  Oh, well, Trump tried to tell us about Ivermectin.
[46:38.920 --> 46:39.960]  And look at how they shut him down.
[46:39.960 --> 46:41.800]  It's like, come on, he's president, number one.
[46:41.800 --> 46:45.080]  Number two, look at what he did for ventilators.
[46:45.080 --> 46:47.880]  He took over the car companies and told Ford and GM,
[46:47.880 --> 46:49.400]  you're going to make these ventilators now?
[46:49.400 --> 46:51.400]  The ventilators are killing people.
[46:51.400 --> 46:53.480]  Like 90% of the people who got them died.
[46:54.280 --> 46:56.360]  And then same thing with Remdesivir.
[46:56.360 --> 46:58.200]  I said, he could have done that with Ivermectin.
[46:58.200 --> 47:00.360]  At the very least, he could have said, you're not going to take away
[47:00.360 --> 47:03.000]  people's medical licenses or fire them as a pharmacist
[47:03.000 --> 47:05.000]  because they give people Ivermectin.
[47:05.000 --> 47:07.960]  The second thing he could have done is he could have mass produced it.
[47:07.960 --> 47:10.280]  There was no, nobody owned it.
[47:10.280 --> 47:13.240]  So he could have mass produced that just like he mass produced ventilators
[47:13.240 --> 47:15.720]  or these other things, the vaccines.
[47:15.720 --> 47:17.080]  But he chose not to do any of that.
[47:17.080 --> 47:18.200]  What does that tell you?
[47:18.200 --> 47:19.960]  People need to think about that.
[47:19.960 --> 47:20.600]  It truly is.
[47:20.600 --> 47:24.600]  Well, some of the devolutionists say, well, Trump never forced anybody
[47:24.600 --> 47:25.480]  to take the vaccine.
[47:25.480 --> 47:26.200]  Oh, I heard that.
[47:26.200 --> 47:30.520]  Which is absolutely, except of course, everybody in the military among others.
[47:30.520 --> 47:31.560]  Yeah, yeah.
[47:31.560 --> 47:34.200]  And effectively, everybody else had a bayonet shoved at their back
[47:34.200 --> 47:36.680]  with the choice being give up your livelihood
[47:36.680 --> 47:39.000]  and potentially the ability to feed your family.
[47:39.880 --> 47:41.240]  That's the choice that you've got to make.
[47:41.240 --> 47:44.440]  And there's something else, too, to get back to the sort of blind spot
[47:44.440 --> 47:47.080]  that a lot of Christians putatively have with regard to Trump.
[47:47.160 --> 47:51.400]  It's my understanding that these vaccines in the course of their manufacture
[47:51.400 --> 47:53.160]  make use of aborted fetal tissue.
[47:53.160 --> 47:53.640]  That's right.
[47:53.640 --> 48:00.040]  And somehow it's OK for good godly man Trump to push this concoction
[48:00.040 --> 48:05.320]  that involves the tissue of aborted fetuses on the people.
[48:05.880 --> 48:06.440]  It's amazing.
[48:06.440 --> 48:08.040]  He's never seen the inside of a Bible.
[48:10.840 --> 48:11.640]  It's not a Christian.
[48:12.840 --> 48:14.040]  It's probably a box.
[48:14.040 --> 48:16.120]  Inside of that box is probably that's his Big Mac.
[48:16.120 --> 48:17.400]  That's where he keeps his Big Mac.
[48:18.520 --> 48:18.840]  That's right.
[48:18.840 --> 48:23.080]  He's got his golden slippers and his Trump Bible and all the rest of this stuff.
[48:23.080 --> 48:26.520]  I've got a clip that I play that somebody did the Ten Commandments.
[48:26.520 --> 48:28.600]  You remember a couple of years ago at CPAC,
[48:28.600 --> 48:30.920]  they had that golden Trump idol that was in sneakers.
[48:32.440 --> 48:35.560]  They put a superimposed that with the tracking.
[48:36.120 --> 48:39.480]  So they're carrying around that instead of the golden calf.
[48:41.480 --> 48:43.480]  In my area, there's something called the Trump store.
[48:43.480 --> 48:44.280]  Are you familiar with it?
[48:44.280 --> 48:45.960]  Oh, yeah, we've got a couple of them here.
[48:46.120 --> 48:47.160]  We've got two of them here.
[48:48.920 --> 48:51.800]  I should go in and introduce myself sometime if I want to get beat up.
[48:52.680 --> 48:53.880]  It's surreal.
[48:54.840 --> 49:00.680]  We were at one of them a couple of weeks ago and they had a selection of images,
[49:00.680 --> 49:03.800]  sort of like Catholic or Russian Orthodox iconography.
[49:05.160 --> 49:09.160]  Literally with Jesus behind him or like the Holy Nimbus behind him and stuff.
[49:09.160 --> 49:10.280]  And it's serious.
[49:10.280 --> 49:11.880]  It's not a gag.
[49:11.880 --> 49:13.800]  They actually take this stuff seriously.
[49:13.800 --> 49:14.440]  Oh, yeah.
[49:14.440 --> 49:18.040]  Oh, that's a big part of this Reawaken America tour with Mike Flann and all these other people.
[49:18.040 --> 49:20.760]  I mean, they really do milk that.
[49:20.760 --> 49:26.440]  And the thing is, these people who are going to it, they really are political neophytes.
[49:27.320 --> 49:30.440]  If they are Christians at all, they're new to that.
[49:31.320 --> 49:34.840]  And so they don't really understand either politics or religion,
[49:34.840 --> 49:38.920]  but they've kind of mixed these two things together as part of this big movement.
[49:38.920 --> 49:42.200]  It truly is amazing to watch all this stuff as it rolls out.
[49:42.200 --> 49:44.920]  But it is a very dangerous time that we're in.
[49:44.920 --> 49:49.400]  And I think that we have to do what this guy at the gym did.
[49:49.400 --> 49:52.280]  We have to say, well, they destroy my life, they destroy my life,
[49:52.280 --> 49:54.920]  but it's going to be destroyed if I have to live it on my knees.
[49:54.920 --> 49:57.160]  And I refuse to comply with any of this stuff.
[49:57.160 --> 49:58.600]  Raise a black flag.
[49:58.600 --> 50:01.880]  Do not cooperate with any of this stuff.
[50:01.880 --> 50:05.800]  He said, I knew I would eventually find a judge who would support the Constitution.
[50:05.800 --> 50:10.360]  And so now he's had all 80 charges removed, but he's still got to get his money back on it.
[50:10.360 --> 50:11.800]  But we have to have that kind of attitude.
[50:11.800 --> 50:15.720]  We got to have that kind of attitude when it comes to the narratives about the bird flu,
[50:15.720 --> 50:23.480]  when it comes to the issues of what they're trying to push on us with the CO2 as well.
[50:23.480 --> 50:26.280]  And you know, Eric, I think I've talked about this many times,
[50:26.280 --> 50:29.560]  how this is really the second shooter drop from 9-11,
[50:29.560 --> 50:33.720]  because they had the first germ game two months before 9-11.
[50:33.720 --> 50:37.080]  Then one week after 9-11, they had the anthrax attack.
[50:37.080 --> 50:39.880]  And then two months later, they put out all this model legislation.
[50:39.880 --> 50:45.400]  As everybody's looking at this, how do we get the Congress to do anything to stop this WHO
[50:46.120 --> 50:49.240]  pandemic treaty and the fact that they've got control of us?
[50:49.240 --> 50:51.560]  I think we need to get involved at the local level.
[50:51.560 --> 50:55.240]  I think we need to somehow, on a state-by-state basis,
[50:55.240 --> 50:58.440]  they put out this model legislation to them in 2001.
[50:58.440 --> 51:02.520]  We've got to find out which of those laws were put in in each of our respective states
[51:02.520 --> 51:06.440]  and start trying to find some legislators who will pull this thing apart piece by piece.
[51:06.440 --> 51:08.920]  I think that's about the best thing that we could do at this point,
[51:08.920 --> 51:11.160]  because they're going to try to impose this from the top down.
[51:11.160 --> 51:14.440]  We have to take the legs off of it where the rubber meets the road,
[51:14.440 --> 51:16.120]  and that's at the local and state level, I think.
[51:16.760 --> 51:18.840]  I couldn't agree more. We have to take back our communities.
[51:18.840 --> 51:20.520]  We have to take a page on the left.
[51:22.520 --> 51:26.440]  What's 50, 60 years at least working from the ground up,
[51:26.440 --> 51:31.080]  working from the school boards up, all the way up to the level of the federal government.
[51:31.080 --> 51:33.400]  And they were hugely successful at it.
[51:33.400 --> 51:36.200]  We can do the same, and I think we can be even more successful.
[51:36.200 --> 51:38.920]  The advantage that we have at the local level is that these are our neighbors.
[51:38.920 --> 51:43.160]  These are people that we know and that we can actually have some direct interaction with,
[51:43.160 --> 51:45.800]  whereas it's hopeless to try to do anything with a senator.
[51:45.800 --> 51:47.240]  Two senators in a state.
[51:47.240 --> 51:50.760]  How many millions of people do these people allegedly represent?
[51:50.760 --> 51:51.560]  Good luck.
[51:51.560 --> 51:54.280]  Unless you're Boeing or Raytheon, you're not going to get an audience,
[51:54.280 --> 51:58.600]  much less anything done talking to your senator or calling an 800 number.
[51:58.600 --> 52:01.400]  But you might have some success talking to your neighbor down the road
[52:01.400 --> 52:03.080]  who's a member of the school board, or better yet,
[52:03.080 --> 52:05.000]  why don't you run for the school board yourself?
[52:05.000 --> 52:06.040]  Yes, I agree.
[52:06.040 --> 52:07.240]  Couple of quick things.
[52:07.240 --> 52:09.800]  Thank you on rumble, YJ72.
[52:09.800 --> 52:10.680]  It's a beautiful dog.
[52:10.680 --> 52:12.120]  You showed dogs before you came on.
[52:13.000 --> 52:15.720]  And on Rockford, Michelle Obaman again.
[52:15.720 --> 52:18.520]  Eric, why don't they call buying a truck a mortgage?
[52:19.240 --> 52:22.440]  One cost twice what my dad paid for his house.
[52:23.560 --> 52:24.520]  They ought to.
[52:24.520 --> 52:28.360]  The difference is that a vehicle is a depreciating consumer appliance.
[52:28.360 --> 52:29.640]  It's not an asset.
[52:29.640 --> 52:32.200]  At least when you take out a mortgage on a house,
[52:32.200 --> 52:35.000]  it's sort of a store of value, at least in normal times.
[52:35.000 --> 52:37.480]  And at the end of the day, when you finally do pay off the mortgage,
[52:37.480 --> 52:40.280]  well, you've actually got something that's still worth something.
[52:40.280 --> 52:42.920]  But by and large, when you finance a vehicle,
[52:42.920 --> 52:45.960]  for typically six to seven years now, at the end of that loan term,
[52:45.960 --> 52:49.800]  you've got something that's worth a fraction of what its value was
[52:49.800 --> 52:51.560]  when you drove it off the dealer's lot.
[52:51.560 --> 52:53.800]  It might still be worth 30% what you paid for it.
[52:53.800 --> 52:55.080]  That's what I call a bad deal.
[52:56.200 --> 52:57.880]  Investment, not a good one.
[52:57.880 --> 53:01.160]  And that's especially true of these super expensive electric vehicles.
[53:01.160 --> 53:01.640]  That's the thing.
[53:01.640 --> 53:03.880]  When we're talking about mortgage, what is a mortgage?
[53:03.880 --> 53:07.400]  The root of that is M-O-R-T, which in Latin is death, right?
[53:07.400 --> 53:11.720]  So what you're doing, you're killing off this debt gradually,
[53:11.720 --> 53:13.800]  assuming that there's going to be something of value
[53:13.800 --> 53:16.280]  that's still there after you've killed off the debt.
[53:16.280 --> 53:21.160]  Problem is, with a car, you have this declining asset underneath it,
[53:21.160 --> 53:24.360]  which is maybe dying faster than the mortgage is being killed off.
[53:25.240 --> 53:28.680]  Yeah, and the situation, how they've really painted themselves in the corner,
[53:28.680 --> 53:32.040]  because they've only been able to do this increase
[53:32.040 --> 53:34.120]  in the cost of the typical car
[53:34.120 --> 53:36.440]  by extending out the loan payments to six, seven years,
[53:36.440 --> 53:39.400]  and even longer in some cases with very low interest.
[53:39.400 --> 53:41.880]  But as interest rates have gone up,
[53:41.880 --> 53:45.160]  now you're looking at typical car payments of $600, $700.
[53:45.160 --> 53:49.800]  And for some of the higher-end models, $900, $1000, it's literally a mortgage.
[53:49.800 --> 53:51.960]  People are paying as much on a car payment
[53:51.960 --> 53:55.240]  as people used to pay on their house, and it's just not sustainable.
[53:55.240 --> 53:56.120]  Oh, you're absolutely right.
[53:57.080 --> 53:58.680]  Trump was right about one thing.
[53:58.680 --> 54:02.440]  It's going to be a bloodbath in the automobile industry for sure.
[54:02.440 --> 54:03.800]  Thank you so much for joining us.
[54:03.800 --> 54:07.400]  Eric Peters, ericpetersautos.com.
[54:07.960 --> 54:09.080]  Always great to see what you're doing.
[54:09.080 --> 54:10.760]  Thank you for what you're doing for freedom.
[54:10.760 --> 54:11.720]  I really do appreciate it.
[54:11.720 --> 54:13.080]  Oh, likewise, Steve.
[54:13.080 --> 54:14.280]  We're all on the same team here.
[54:14.280 --> 54:14.780]  Yes.
[54:29.320 --> 54:31.560]  In fact, if you can hear me,
[54:32.520 --> 54:37.880]  that means you're listening to The David Knight Show right now.
[54:38.520 --> 54:40.760]  Yeah, good job.
[54:44.120 --> 54:46.760]  And you want to know something else?
[54:47.560 --> 54:52.600]  You can find all the links to everywhere to watch
[54:52.600 --> 54:57.400]  or listen to the show at thedavidknightshow.com.
[54:58.680 --> 55:00.120]  That's a website.