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[00:56.160 --> 01:11.600]  All right. Joining us now is somebody who's no stranger to this show. Eric Peters, always great
[01:11.600 --> 01:15.760]  to have Eric on. I had him on, well, I didn't have him on. I had his article on,
[01:16.880 --> 01:23.120]  the same as having Eric on, talking about what was going on in Minnesota. He and I are of the same
[01:23.120 --> 01:28.240]  mind on these different things. So I wanted to get him on to talk about what's going on with cars
[01:28.240 --> 01:32.960]  as well as what's going on with the insanity in this country right now. Thank you for joining us,
[01:32.960 --> 01:39.200]  Eric. Oh, absolutely, David. But do I get a medal? I need a medal. If you don't give me a medal,
[01:39.200 --> 01:42.400]  there's going to be repercussions. I'm not going to be very peacefully inclined.
[01:43.440 --> 01:48.240]  Somebody put together a clip of him saying, we're not going to have men taking women's medals,
[01:48.880 --> 01:53.520]  about the tranny stuff, right? And then they had a clip of him saying, yeah, she gave me her Peace
[01:53.520 --> 02:02.240]  Prize. So it truly is amazing. And it was also the intimidation that you see he's able to put on
[02:02.240 --> 02:08.400]  people, foreign and domestic. She has to give him this Peace Prize, because if she doesn't,
[02:08.400 --> 02:14.000]  she's going to be on his bad side. Who knows what he'll do? I think it's kind of interesting that
[02:14.000 --> 02:23.440]  they continue to refuse to say that this guy they kidnapped is actually the head of state.
[02:24.080 --> 02:27.600]  They say he's not legitimate. They had an election and he didn't win the election.
[02:27.600 --> 02:32.720]  And so it's like, okay, well, you know, then you got a couple of people that you got in mind
[02:32.720 --> 02:41.600]  that won the election, right? Machado was ahead in the voting. And so she got taken away. She
[02:41.600 --> 02:46.560]  wasn't allowed to stand in the election, but another person, Gonzalez was. And so you would
[02:46.560 --> 02:51.520]  think that if they wanted to support quote unquote democracy, that they would put one of the two of
[02:51.520 --> 02:59.600]  them in. But instead they're going to have Marco Rubio be Viceroy. They don't seem to have a
[02:59.600 --> 03:05.040]  problem with the dictator of Ukraine. This guy who canceled elections and continues to be on
[03:05.040 --> 03:10.080]  the receiving end of vast amounts of American material now indirectly through our proxies in
[03:10.080 --> 03:15.600]  Western Europe. But nonetheless, the incongruity of it, the cognitive dissonance of it is just,
[03:15.600 --> 03:21.680]  it's something to behold. It's huge. Yeah, it is. It is the corruption. And you know, it's funny,
[03:21.680 --> 03:27.040]  even Bill Gates, we had a quote we played of Bill Gates saying, well, you know, Ukraine has been
[03:27.040 --> 03:31.280]  understood by everybody to be the most corrupt country on earth. It's like, you know, why do
[03:31.280 --> 03:35.600]  you think our politicians are handing them money? Because they can get it back in the back door.
[03:35.600 --> 03:41.200]  That's a real admission, I think. Sure. And you know, the precedents that are being set right now
[03:41.200 --> 03:46.240]  are going to come back to bite us, I think. And that's one of the most disturbing things about
[03:46.240 --> 03:50.880]  everything that's going on with regard to what's been happening in Minnesota. A lot of these
[03:50.880 --> 03:55.840]  conservatives and people who are red hat people are cheering it on. And I wondered to myself
[03:55.840 --> 03:59.840]  how it is that they can believe that the police state that they're cheering isn't going to end up
[03:59.840 --> 04:06.080]  policing them. It's already happened. I mean, we had this back in January 6, all the January 6
[04:06.080 --> 04:10.400]  stuff, right? We had a lot of people showed up and they were peacefully protesting. You had some
[04:10.400 --> 04:15.680]  people who got violent and it's like, okay, fine, you can punish those people. But even for everybody,
[04:15.680 --> 04:25.760]  even violent people, the punishment was extreme, unusual, and not valid because of that. But then
[04:25.760 --> 04:30.480]  they had other people who were just there. They were treated like they were violent. And you had
[04:30.480 --> 04:36.880]  a woman who was shot in the head when the police officer was not threatened and got away with it.
[04:36.880 --> 04:42.320]  But the conservatives who were outraged about that before are now cheering it when it's done
[04:42.320 --> 04:46.080]  against the people that they hate. That's the amazing thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it's going
[04:46.080 --> 04:51.280]  to make it very difficult for me to have much sympathy for them when it's the doors that get
[04:51.280 --> 04:56.800]  kicked down the next time around. Maybe they think that Trump is going to be El Jefe dictator
[04:56.800 --> 05:02.560]  in perpetuity, but the man's almost 80 years old. I suppose you could spend the midterms and I
[05:02.560 --> 05:08.800]  suppose that we could end up having an American Brezhnev until he's 90. Maybe. Yeah. Well,
[05:08.800 --> 05:12.800]  you know, I mean, he does have amazing healing capabilities. He got shot in the air and there's
[05:12.800 --> 05:18.720]  no visible sign of it, either then or now. Here's a dark thought that I've been entertaining as I'm
[05:18.720 --> 05:23.040]  out in the garage wrenching on my trans am. I think to myself, this is so gratuitous. The
[05:23.040 --> 05:28.320]  only explanation that makes any sense to me is that it's purposeful. Like he's deliberately
[05:28.320 --> 05:35.600]  wanting to inflame passions to trigger an event so that then he can claim that there's a necessity
[05:35.600 --> 05:40.960]  for declaring the insurrection act, martial law, whatever it is, getting everything so chaotic
[05:40.960 --> 05:45.600]  that he can assume actual overt dictatorial powers. He's already the de facto dictator
[05:45.600 --> 05:49.520]  in a lot of ways. He's just declaring anything he does. It's an executive order. Everything's
[05:49.520 --> 05:53.200]  an emergency, right? Oh yeah. Literally anything that he, you know, whenever he wants to do
[05:53.200 --> 06:01.200]  something, it's an emergency. Yeah, that's right. And that is exactly my take on it. We always see
[06:01.200 --> 06:06.080]  things exactly alike, Eric. You know, I was, I just covered Wayne Alan Ruth, who talked about this. He
[06:06.080 --> 06:11.440]  had some, his memo to Trump, he had like five or six things he wanted to do. One of them was to
[06:11.440 --> 06:18.000]  rename ICE nice because that should fix it, right? But the other thing he said, he said,
[06:18.000 --> 06:22.560]  and I said this from the very beginning, 90 days ago. And I said, yeah, I said the same thing as
[06:22.560 --> 06:27.040]  well. Don't go to the places where you're going to have known conflict. There's, if you want to
[06:27.040 --> 06:33.760]  deport people who are illegally, you could easily go to the Republican states and they would help
[06:33.760 --> 06:38.640]  you to do that. And there's a lot of things that they could do that would not be confrontational.
[06:38.640 --> 06:44.560]  You know, if you're going to have a situation where governors and attorneys general double down
[06:44.560 --> 06:49.920]  on the massive billions of dollars of fraud, like half of the amount of money that they were
[06:49.920 --> 06:56.400]  spending on daycare and food issues was fraudulent in Minnesota. But, you know, they want to protect
[06:56.400 --> 07:00.560]  those people. They want to say that you're not going to investigate them. They actually said the
[07:00.560 --> 07:07.520]  quiet part out loud in Washington state. And so if they're going to aid and abed that kind of
[07:07.520 --> 07:11.520]  welfare fraud, you know, there's other things that you could do to the leaders. But instead,
[07:11.520 --> 07:15.440]  what they want to do, they want to go door to door. They want to get in people's faces. They want to
[07:15.440 --> 07:20.560]  challenge them to push them. There was one clip that I played where people had set up a little
[07:20.560 --> 07:25.600]  memorial to the woman who was shot, Renee Good. And there was a big fat cop and he comes over and
[07:25.600 --> 07:29.200]  he starts kicking the stuff. And the guy says, what are you doing? You know, and this is a
[07:29.200 --> 07:34.640]  memorial. And the guy walks over to him, gets in his face and keeps walking, making him back up,
[07:34.640 --> 07:38.480]  goes back up, back up, back up. And the guy kept backing up and he kept telling him back up, back
[07:38.480 --> 07:43.440]  up. And he's trying to get the guy to shove him. It's Bretzky. I don't know how they let me on this
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[08:42.000 --> 08:46.160]  So that he could get violent with a guy because now he's a threat for his life
[08:46.800 --> 08:52.720]  because the guy resisted this stuff, right? He resisted his bullying. And so that is basically
[08:53.280 --> 08:59.040]  the Trump administration's goal, I think, in a nutshell. And what Wayne Allen route as a
[08:59.040 --> 09:05.040]  cheerleader for Trump didn't see is the fact that Trump wants the conflict. I mean, he thrives on
[09:05.040 --> 09:13.200]  this professional wrestling thing. That is his gimmick. That's his calling card. He wants conflict
[09:13.200 --> 09:17.920]  everywhere. The whole thing is so disingenuous. Here's some math. They claim, the administration
[09:17.920 --> 09:22.800]  claims something around the order of 75,000 of these illegals have been rounded up and deported
[09:22.800 --> 09:28.880]  thus far. So one year in 75,000. Okay. So if we factor that out over the remaining three years
[09:28.880 --> 09:34.320]  of Trump's presidency, that amounts to what? About 300,000 people. Now on the low end, we're
[09:34.320 --> 09:39.840]  told that roughly 10 million illegal aliens have come into the country over the course of the Biden
[09:40.720 --> 09:48.240]  second term. So it's a rounding error. It has no meaning. If they round up and deport 300,000 of
[09:48.240 --> 09:52.560]  these people, it means nothing. And nothing fundamentally changes. So why are they doing it?
[09:52.560 --> 09:57.120]  And I believe that the reason that they're doing it, among other things, is to normalize people,
[09:57.120 --> 10:06.160]  normalize the presence of military forces on American streets and getting Americans habituated
[10:06.160 --> 10:11.840]  to seeing people literally grabbed. And I'm not defending illegal immigration. I'm saying that
[10:11.840 --> 10:16.160]  there's something unsettling about seeing people grabbed and stuffed into the back of unmarked
[10:16.160 --> 10:21.440]  vehicles and taken away from, you know, who knows what, what, what, you know, anybody that could
[10:21.440 --> 10:25.600]  happen to anybody. And that's just the point. It's going to happen to everybody. If this is
[10:25.600 --> 10:31.200]  normalized, we used to as a culture, having to, you know, stand there with our legs spread at
[10:31.200 --> 10:37.840]  the airport and let some government goon touch us and go through our things, you know, in the name
[10:37.840 --> 10:42.400]  of protecting us from the terrorists. This is exactly of a piece. It's the same thing. It's,
[10:42.480 --> 10:47.360]  it's just getting Americans used to something. And once they're used to it, then it will be expanded.
[10:47.360 --> 10:52.160]  You're absolutely right. That's what I say to people is to be very wary. When the government
[10:52.160 --> 10:57.600]  that has created both parties have created a problem, you know, like the open border immigration
[10:57.600 --> 11:01.360]  thing, I've said for the longest time, it's the welfare magnet, stupid, you know, it's not a wall.
[11:01.360 --> 11:05.600]  It's not anything else. Just stop paying people who come here to live for free, right? The welfare
[11:05.600 --> 11:09.600]  system is bad enough. We don't need to extend it to the entire world. But, you know, when the
[11:09.600 --> 11:14.720]  government creates a problem and lets it fester for a long time, and then they come in with some
[11:14.720 --> 11:21.520]  authoritarian solution, you know, always be aware. I mean, that is the biggest tell that's out there,
[11:21.520 --> 11:26.240]  isn't it? Absolutely. And as you say, if they were, if they were being genuine about this,
[11:26.240 --> 11:31.760]  the easiest way to solve the problem is to cut off the benefits to people who are American
[11:31.760 --> 11:35.600]  citizens and not entitled to them. You and I, we go to the pharmacy to get over-the-counter
[11:35.600 --> 11:39.680]  cough syrup and we have to present ID. American citizens have to present ID for all sorts of
[11:39.680 --> 11:44.720]  things. Okay. So if somebody applies for government benefits, they should have to produce ID,
[11:44.720 --> 11:49.440]  establishing that they are minimally legal residents, if not citizens, in order to access
[11:49.440 --> 11:54.000]  these benefits. And if they can't do that, no benefits, you know, and then you get rid of
[11:54.000 --> 11:58.560]  most of the problem. And another thing you could do is do something about these big corporate
[11:58.560 --> 12:04.560]  employers that hire these illegals, sanction them, make them pay for the local services
[12:04.560 --> 12:08.960]  that, you know, that are incurring costs because of all the illegals, find them financially.
[12:08.960 --> 12:12.880]  You don't have to turn America into a police state. You don't have to have body armored,
[12:12.880 --> 12:18.080]  automatic weapon toting soldiers on streets. It's very simple. Just stop the, as you say,
[12:18.080 --> 12:23.600]  stop the incentivizing, stop offering free things. And then the people who are here want to work,
[12:23.600 --> 12:28.560]  you know, the productive ones. I don't have an issue with that. One of my oldest friends is a
[12:28.560 --> 12:34.160]  guy who, you know, has some of these guys working for him and they work hard. I don't mind those
[12:34.160 --> 12:38.960]  guys. They're not taking money out of my pocket. You know, I don't like the leeches and the
[12:38.960 --> 12:43.040]  parasites. And most people don't. And it's reasonable to not like that, but that's what
[12:43.040 --> 12:47.520]  they're manipulating us with. That's what they're using against us to get us to go along with this
[12:47.520 --> 12:53.120]  burgeoning police state. You're absolutely right. Yeah. I have called Donald Trump precedent Trump
[12:53.120 --> 12:59.520]  for all this time because that seems to be what his role is. Let's set a precedent and we're going
[12:59.520 --> 13:03.920]  to take the gun and do the due process later type of thing. And, you know, we talk about them
[13:03.920 --> 13:10.640]  arresting innocent people. I talked about the, I'm sure you saw the situation of the Hamong guy.
[13:10.640 --> 13:17.040]  I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. H-M-O-N-G. They're from Laos and they took this 56 year old
[13:17.040 --> 13:23.680]  grandfather, 10 to 15 guys crashed through the house, drug raid style. Okay. This is something
[13:23.680 --> 13:28.320]  straight out of, I'm sure you're familiar with Brazil, done by Terry Gunn. This is straight out
[13:28.320 --> 13:34.560]  of Brazil, right? And so they're looking for bottle, but they go after Tuttle, right? And they
[13:34.560 --> 13:39.600]  kick the door down. They grabbed this guy sitting in his living room. He's in shorts with no shirt.
[13:40.160 --> 13:46.640]  They drag him out in the 10 degree weather, wearing just Crocs, his shorts, and he grabbed
[13:46.640 --> 13:51.120]  the blanket from his five year old grandson before they took him outside. And that's it,
[13:51.120 --> 13:56.080]  you know, that kind of harassment that's happening. He was the wrong guy. He was not the guy they were
[13:56.080 --> 13:59.600]  looking for. They put him in the car. They drive him around for an hour. He keeps telling them,
[13:59.600 --> 14:03.840]  I'm an American citizen. He has been for over 30 some odd years. He's never had any legal issues
[14:03.840 --> 14:09.440]  with anything. And so after they finally check him out, they bring him back and just dump him off,
[14:09.440 --> 14:14.400]  like nothing ever happened, right? And this is exactly what Trump was talking about doing with
[14:14.400 --> 14:18.720]  guns. Take the gun and do the due process. Now they're going to grab the man and do the due
[14:18.720 --> 14:22.880]  process later. It's like, why don't you do an investigation? Why don't you get a search warrant?
[14:22.880 --> 14:26.880]  Why don't you know who you're coming after? But what they did was they backfilled all this stuff
[14:27.440 --> 14:34.560]  with lies from Christine Ohm's department. They had her secretary come out and say that,
[14:34.560 --> 14:39.120]  well, they were looking for two guys who were convicted sexual predators that were there at
[14:39.120 --> 14:44.160]  that address. And the family came out and said, no, they don't know anybody. We don't know who
[14:44.160 --> 14:51.200]  those guys are. They've never lived here. We don't know them at all. And our guy doesn't have any
[14:51.200 --> 14:58.640]  issues with it. And they put out the pictures of these guys and they're young men. This guy's 56
[14:58.640 --> 15:04.160]  years old. There's absolutely no way that you would mistake this guy for those guys. Everything
[15:04.160 --> 15:08.560]  that they do, Eric, is a lie to start with. It's just like Christine Ohm and that Renee Good
[15:08.560 --> 15:13.120]  shooting. The first thing she says, well, they were stuck in the snow and they were attacked by a car.
[15:13.120 --> 15:17.440]  And it's like, none of that is true. Right. Everything has been reversed. It used to be that
[15:17.440 --> 15:22.880]  there was the presumption of innocence and that it was necessary that the government be hobbled
[15:22.880 --> 15:29.040]  to some degree in terms of what it does to people in order to protect people. Now the impetus is,
[15:29.040 --> 15:34.320]  well, everybody's guilty of something. And it's up to the person who is accosted to establish that
[15:34.320 --> 15:39.360]  they aren't guilty. And this is not new. This is something that has been systematically imposed
[15:39.360 --> 15:44.720]  over a long period of time. I've been ranting for decades now about these sobriety checkpoints.
[15:45.680 --> 15:52.320]  No longer is it a case of you have given a cop probable cause to suspect that you might be
[15:52.320 --> 15:57.840]  drunk driving because you're driving erratically, let's say you're wandering. Instead,
[15:57.840 --> 16:02.160]  they just set up these dragnets where everybody who just happens to be on that road has given
[16:02.160 --> 16:07.280]  zero probable cause. They have to prove to the satisfaction of the cop that they're not drunk.
[16:07.280 --> 16:12.080]  And how do you prove it? In Texas, they had involuntary broad draws. I mean, these are
[16:12.080 --> 16:17.280]  people going to pull you over and they're going to strap you down if you don't want to do it and
[16:17.280 --> 16:21.120]  take blood out of you to prove that you're not drunk. It's like, that's insane.
[16:22.080 --> 16:26.800]  They expect people to form roadside gymnastics. Most people aren't athletes and gymnasts.
[16:26.800 --> 16:30.560]  So you're out of your car with a light shining in your face and you're supposed to stand on
[16:30.560 --> 16:35.920]  one leg and recite the alphabet backwards. And if they set it up so that it's guaranteed,
[16:35.920 --> 16:40.880]  you're going to maybe waver a little bit. And then as you say, that becomes the pretext for
[16:40.880 --> 16:45.760]  dragging you to the hospital in a forced blood draw and all of this stuff. And all of it is a
[16:45.760 --> 16:50.160]  complete initiation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment says that you're not supposed
[16:50.160 --> 16:54.880]  to be subjected to search as absent probable cause or a warrant issued by a judge. Nobody cares
[16:54.880 --> 16:58.720]  about that anymore. That's right. If they were to do that to me since my stroke, I would fail.
[17:00.880 --> 17:06.080]  Stand on one leg and whistle Dixie. It's like, I can't do that anymore.
[17:06.960 --> 17:15.840]  So yeah, it's insane. But you got an article about a, tell us a little bit about that,
[17:15.840 --> 17:20.320]  the background of this story where there was a guy who didn't have a tag on his motorcycle.
[17:21.360 --> 17:27.600]  Oh yeah. This is really an appalling story. Again, it's another example of the escalation
[17:27.600 --> 17:34.640]  that ensues over these trivial, no harm involved to anybody offenses. There's a guy out riding his
[17:34.640 --> 17:38.560]  motorcycle. He's got his girlfriend or wife on the back of the bike. And apparently he didn't
[17:38.560 --> 17:45.440]  have a plate or a valid plate on the bike. And so a cop rolls in behind him and lights him up and
[17:45.440 --> 17:50.480]  he's going to pull him over. Now, I'm not suggesting that it was right of the guy to take off, but I
[17:50.480 --> 17:57.360]  understand. He's potentially facing, having to pay hundreds of dollars in fines, maybe getting his
[17:57.360 --> 18:03.200]  bike seized. He wasn't speeding or doing anything. He's just out riding his bike. Anyway, so he takes
[18:03.200 --> 18:08.800]  off and a pursuit ensues. He ends up wrecking and dying. He and his passenger are both killed.
[18:08.800 --> 18:15.680]  They lose control in a corner. And that's it. Over this sort of nonsense, high speed chase.
[18:15.680 --> 18:20.400]  And an additional facet of it is that in the course of pursuing this guy, the cop is driving
[18:20.400 --> 18:26.400]  with extraordinary recklessness on these back country roads, taking corners in the opposite
[18:26.400 --> 18:30.720]  lane or halfway in the opposite lane, blind corners. It looks to me to have been 80, 90,
[18:30.800 --> 18:35.520]  100 miles an hour on a road with a 35 mile an hour speed limit. At one point he barrels through
[18:36.080 --> 18:39.920]  this kind of a small town looking thing. And you could just imagine if somebody's walking across
[18:39.920 --> 18:44.320]  the street or they're pulling out from a side road and boom, there's a catastrophic wreck.
[18:44.320 --> 18:49.200]  All because this guy just had to catch that guy on the bike, had to get him for affronting
[18:49.200 --> 18:52.960]  the authority of the state because he wasn't displaying his proper ear tag.
[18:52.960 --> 18:57.760]  Yep. That's right. And that really does reflect back on this Renee Good thing as well,
[18:57.760 --> 19:01.520]  because you look at the situation that's there and I don't really know what's going on. It
[19:01.520 --> 19:06.720]  doesn't appear from the videos that were taken and from the cops own video. It doesn't appear
[19:06.720 --> 19:10.800]  like she's really even panicked or trying to flee. There were people that, you know,
[19:10.800 --> 19:15.520]  one person said, get out of here. The other one says, get out of your car. So there was a little
[19:15.520 --> 19:20.080]  bit of perhaps confusion on that part. But even if she was trying to just drive off,
[19:20.640 --> 19:26.400]  there wasn't anything that looked like she was trying to, you know, she was moving pretty slowly.
[19:26.400 --> 19:32.160]  And the fact is that she backs up and then turns her wheel immediately. And I looked at that and
[19:32.160 --> 19:35.760]  it's like all these people saying, well, that shows that she's trying to run him over. It's like,
[19:35.760 --> 19:39.760]  no, she's turning her wheel away from him. It's like, have you ever driven a car?
[19:40.480 --> 19:44.240]  Do you know how this works? A three point turn. Do you understand how that operates? And you can
[19:44.240 --> 19:50.000]  see that's what she's doing there. And then you can see from the cops perspective of his own footage
[19:50.000 --> 19:55.680]  that he rushes forward and still he doesn't get hit. And so I think that that was really
[19:55.680 --> 19:58.720]  what was happening with it. But, you know, in terms of the high speed chases,
[19:59.280 --> 20:01.920]  a lot of police departments have said, we're not going to do that.
[20:02.560 --> 20:06.240]  It's bretsky. I don't know how they let me on this podcast, but while I'm here, I might as
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[20:20.880 --> 20:25.760]  that's a hell of a deal for all you 10 gallon hatwares down there in Texas.
[20:50.880 --> 21:08.080]  Because it puts a lot of people's lives at risk. There are a lot of police departments that have
[21:08.080 --> 21:12.320]  said since the early nineties and New York police departments, one of them, that we're not going to
[21:12.320 --> 21:17.600]  fire into a car. If somebody doesn't have some kind of weapon that they are firing, you know,
[21:17.600 --> 21:22.640]  we're not going to shoot into a car just to stop the car because number one, you may not hit it.
[21:22.640 --> 21:27.920]  You might not hit that moving target. You might hit other people, including other cops that are
[21:27.920 --> 21:34.960]  there. Right. And then if you do hit the person, what you wind up with is an unguided missile.
[21:34.960 --> 21:39.600]  Right. The driver is not driving anymore. Their foot might mash down on the accelerator,
[21:39.600 --> 21:44.640]  which we saw a little bit of what happened with that. And so all of that makes absolutely
[21:44.640 --> 21:50.320]  no sense. When I was living in Houston, when Karen and I first got married, there was a situation
[21:50.320 --> 21:55.520]  where they had these really huge flyovers and there was a motorcycle cop who pulled over
[21:56.640 --> 22:03.600]  a car and pulled them over like at the top of this large flyover on the curve.
[22:04.320 --> 22:12.400]  And as he's there riding this ticket that is so important, this gasoline fuel tanker comes along
[22:12.400 --> 22:17.840]  and hits them and everybody died. Okay. The cop, the people that were getting the ticket,
[22:17.840 --> 22:23.440]  the person who's driving the truck, everybody dies in this fiery crash and it burned down the
[22:24.160 --> 22:28.640]  concrete flyover that was there. It was so intense. It was amazing to see what happened.
[22:28.640 --> 22:32.720]  All of that was over a ticket, you know, which is where this, this goes back a small,
[22:32.720 --> 22:36.240]  a small thing and they escalated to that extent, to a deadly extent.
[22:36.960 --> 22:41.600]  In Minneapolis, I think one of the most egregious aspects of that situation was that clearly this
[22:41.600 --> 22:47.200]  woman wasn't some sort of a gun toting felon that just robbed a bank. She had been haranguing the
[22:47.200 --> 22:53.280]  ICE people. They had her plate. Why not just go to her house later? They knew who she was.
[22:54.080 --> 22:59.120]  Give her a ticket for obstruction or whatever charge they want to give her. Fine. It wasn't
[22:59.120 --> 23:03.760]  necessary to escalate it to the degree that they did. I see it as pretextual murder, frankly.
[23:04.560 --> 23:08.560]  I think that that cop deliberately put himself in a position where he knew
[23:08.640 --> 23:13.760]  he could get bumped by the fender, you know, and at that point he has the justification to unload
[23:13.760 --> 23:18.800]  on her, which is just what he did. Easily stepped out of the way. Just let her go. Whatever. It's
[23:18.800 --> 23:23.680]  just some lady in a car who was obnoxious to us. You know, we can give her a ticket later.
[23:23.680 --> 23:30.000]  Yeah. And in that context, I see this entire operation in Minneapolis just like that,
[23:30.000 --> 23:34.720]  except it's Trump who's doing the provocative in your face. Come on, you know, take a swing at me
[23:34.720 --> 23:39.920]  and let's see what happens, right? The people out there saying FAFO, you know, that's what they
[23:39.920 --> 23:46.480]  want. They want to provoke that. And so he's not just setting precedents. He's out there
[23:46.480 --> 23:51.520]  deliberately provoking things to set precedents. He doesn't have an emergency. He wants to create
[23:51.520 --> 23:56.320]  one. An adult might've said something to the effect of, you know, this is a horrible tragedy
[23:56.320 --> 24:01.680]  and we're sorry that things spiraled out of control the way that they did. Instead that
[24:01.680 --> 24:05.680]  there's this, this, this callousness in the way that he responds to these sorts of things.
[24:05.680 --> 24:11.600]  Yeah. She deserved it. You know, it's a good thing that an American citizen was shot dead
[24:11.600 --> 24:16.320]  in the street like that. Well, the thing that really ticked me off was the response of the
[24:16.320 --> 24:20.480]  MAGA influencers that are out there that are trying to make an excuse for all this stuff.
[24:20.480 --> 24:25.360]  They were even worse than Trump and Kristi Noem and JD Vance and all these other people who
[24:25.360 --> 24:30.240]  were commenting on it. One guy had a podcast. I don't remember his name. I played the clip
[24:30.320 --> 24:37.200]  and he said, um, here's what you need to remember. Uh, hands up, show your hands, obey commands.
[24:37.200 --> 24:42.560]  That's like, what are you talking about? I mean, is this, is this a police state that you're
[24:42.560 --> 24:48.080]  talking about where I have to always obey the commands of the police and show my hands? I mean,
[24:48.080 --> 24:53.120]  but they have to come up with these little juvenile rhymes like click it or ticket, you know, so show
[24:53.120 --> 25:00.080]  hands obey commands. And it's like, that really set me off. I have read and I have
[25:00.080 --> 25:04.160]  not been able to confirm this, but I think it's true that a lot of police departments
[25:04.160 --> 25:10.800]  send cops over to Israel to be trained by the IDF in these, in these, uh, immediate submission
[25:11.440 --> 25:16.960]  tactics that, um, are, um, are imposed upon the Palestinians over there where even the slightest
[25:16.960 --> 25:22.560]  questioning or sign of resistance, uh, you know, brings down an extreme response.
[25:23.440 --> 25:27.680]  I can remember when I was in college back in the eighties, when I'd get pulled over for speeding,
[25:27.680 --> 25:32.160]  it was routine to get out of the car and walk over the cop and, you know, that was common,
[25:32.160 --> 25:36.640]  believe it or not. No, it's like, yeah. Now if you step, if I were to get out of my car,
[25:36.640 --> 25:41.680]  you know, it much older me now, uh, you know, to, to get out of the car and the guy would probably
[25:41.680 --> 25:46.720]  draw a gun and say, scream at me and get on the ground, get on the ground now. Yeah. I don't know.
[25:46.720 --> 25:52.320]  It's crazy. Yeah. When you look at how long is it before, uh, we have the situation of the IDF where
[25:52.320 --> 25:58.800]  they've got this yellow line somewhere in Gaza and, um, people don't even necessarily see it.
[25:59.360 --> 26:06.320]  But if you cross that yellow line, we perceive you as a threat and now we have the ability and the
[26:06.320 --> 26:10.720]  government will stand behind us. We can kill you right there on the spot because we felt threatened
[26:10.720 --> 26:15.280]  because you crossed that yellow line that you didn't even see. Yeah. Yeah. That makes a lot of
[26:15.280 --> 26:21.600]  sense of respect for life. And that, that again, the callousness and the brutality is something
[26:21.600 --> 26:25.760]  that should be concerning to everybody because once this thing starts to metastasize, you get
[26:25.760 --> 26:30.400]  into a point where life is cheap, you know, and, and you end up in like these, these hard third
[26:30.400 --> 26:34.240]  world countries where people just, you know, you see a dead body in the street. Some guy just got
[26:34.240 --> 26:38.720]  shot and everybody just keeps on walking. It becomes commonplace. It becomes nothing to, to even
[26:39.280 --> 26:44.960]  be, to remark about. Well, again, and you look at what president Trump is doing when he kidnapped
[26:44.960 --> 26:49.600]  Maduro. I thought the funniest take on all that was, uh, John Stewart, who said,
[26:49.600 --> 26:53.920]  we, we imported this guy. We didn't deport him. We imported him. That's hilarious.
[26:56.160 --> 27:02.080]  But you know, when, when you look at the kidnapping of Maduro, immediately you had people saying,
[27:02.080 --> 27:08.880]  well, you know, we should do the, some Russians were like, um, Alexander Dugan, hardliners were
[27:08.880 --> 27:14.880]  saying, why doesn't Trump do that to Zelensky? And then you had the UK defense minister saying,
[27:14.960 --> 27:19.120]  why don't we do that to Putin? Actually, I like to turn that around. How about Putin's
[27:19.120 --> 27:24.000]  send a team of Spetsnaz guys to snatch Trump? Exactly. I mean, it's just, it just starts,
[27:24.000 --> 27:28.320]  it kicks off this domino thing like that. I mean, they always love their domino theories for wars,
[27:28.320 --> 27:33.120]  don't they? But, uh, really what we see is when we see these kinds of criminal acts of aggression.
[27:33.920 --> 27:38.400]  What do you think about Stephen Miller? You know, Stephen Miller's out there saying, uh, well, you
[27:38.400 --> 27:42.560]  know, if you have a territory, historically we've seen that you need to be strong enough to be able
[27:42.560 --> 27:45.360]  to keep that territory or the stronger people just going to take it away from you. Those are
[27:45.360 --> 27:50.880]  the rules under which we operate. And one person said, he seems pretty, he seems psychopathic,
[27:50.880 --> 27:58.320]  sociopathic people, like so many associated with Trump, unfortunately seem to be sadistic people,
[27:58.320 --> 28:03.360]  cruel people, you know, including Kristi Noem, who I like, I like her to her as this Ilza,
[28:03.360 --> 28:10.640]  the she wolf of the SS. Somebody put out a meme of, uh, Stephen Miller in the Nazi uniform and
[28:10.640 --> 28:17.280]  captioned it and said, Pee Wee German. Because that's basically what he's talking about. And,
[28:17.280 --> 28:22.960]  and one person said, well, he just gave, uh, authorization for a bigger guy in his neighborhood
[28:22.960 --> 28:27.360]  to steal everything he's got in his house, right? I think that's basically what we're talking about,
[28:27.360 --> 28:32.400]  you know, just take whatever I want. And, you know, that they're making the world a much
[28:32.400 --> 28:37.120]  more dangerous place. Everything they do, they claim as national security. And yet
[28:37.120 --> 28:40.880]  they're threatening our security because they're threatening everybody else's security.
[28:41.840 --> 28:45.680]  They're also styling it, uh, law enforcement, which is an interesting concept, you know,
[28:45.680 --> 28:52.320]  the snatch. How does the United States have jurisdiction over Venezuela, legally speaking?
[28:52.320 --> 28:58.160]  And, you know, if, if it does, then why couldn't other countries essentially make the same argument?
[28:58.160 --> 29:02.400]  How about Netanyahu has actually been indicted for something, you know, he's indicted, he's been
[29:02.480 --> 29:07.520]  indicted for war crimes. And yet Trump welcomes him, receives him with honors in Washington.
[29:07.520 --> 29:12.080]  He doesn't get, you know, Netanyahu doesn't get arrested. Well, they appeal to the precedent
[29:12.080 --> 29:16.800]  that George H. W. Bush did. He's like, Hey, we went in and we, we got, uh, what was the guy?
[29:16.800 --> 29:22.080]  A strong man, Manuel Noriega. We got Noriega. So we can do that again. And that's the danger
[29:22.080 --> 29:25.920]  of these precedents. You know, once somebody does it, you're going to have another president
[29:25.920 --> 29:30.560]  that comes down the line and says, well, so-and-so did it. So I can do it as well. I call it,
[29:30.560 --> 29:35.120]  what about-ism because every time you point out something that is wrong or criminal about
[29:35.120 --> 29:40.320]  Donald Trump, you always hear the MAGA apologist say, yeah, but what about what Hillary Clinton
[29:40.320 --> 29:45.760]  did? You know, or this or that. So it's always what about-ism as if that somehow excuses it.
[29:48.000 --> 29:51.840]  Again, we're, we're at a point in the history of this country where principles don't matter.
[29:51.840 --> 29:56.160]  Everything's situational, everything's subjective. And ultimately it comes down to which party is
[29:56.160 --> 30:03.760]  in power, which wing of the party is in power. And it just, it reminds me, it, it's so, so
[30:03.760 --> 30:09.280]  mirror-like of, uh, Orwell's 80, 1984, where, you know, he talked about the, he, he created
[30:09.280 --> 30:14.240]  this wonderful scene where Winston Smith, the character is attending a party rally and the,
[30:14.240 --> 30:19.520]  the party order is giving a harangue to the crowd. And somebody walks behind the party order,
[30:19.520 --> 30:23.840]  hands him a piece of paper and immediately the order changes from a rant against the war being,
[30:23.840 --> 30:28.480]  I think, with Eurasia to a war being, uh, with East Asia and the crowd, it immediately
[30:28.480 --> 30:32.400]  percolates through the crowd that the political position has changed and they just continue to
[30:32.400 --> 30:37.680]  roar their approval of the diametrically opposed position. Having understood that, you know, this
[30:37.680 --> 30:42.800]  is the new orthodoxy that has to be, that has to be cheered. Yeah, that's right. Well, while we're
[30:42.800 --> 30:46.880]  talking about orthodoxy that has to be cheered, I mean, that's one of the things about AI and the
[30:46.880 --> 30:51.840]  way that it is going to be used to make people, you know, there was just, uh, uh, they've already
[30:51.840 --> 30:56.880]  started putting out robocops in China for right now. They're just kind of surveillance devices
[30:57.440 --> 31:03.600]  and, um, you know, uh, meter made, uh, safety nannies that are out there nagging people and
[31:03.600 --> 31:08.640]  things like that, but they're making them to look, uh, humanoid, actually making biped versions of
[31:08.640 --> 31:14.000]  them now and they can walk from place to place. Uh, it's not that much further out that they're
[31:14.000 --> 31:18.800]  going to start replacing these human robots that are dressed up as, uh, armed government workers
[31:18.880 --> 31:23.840]  and they're pretty soon they're going to be replaced by the mechanized armed government
[31:23.840 --> 31:27.920]  workers that are out there. I think what's going on in Texas. It's bluff here. Are you sick and
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[32:28.560 --> 32:33.520]  Talk a little bit about that. Yeah. Well, it focuses on a new Volvo electric vehicle. I think
[32:33.520 --> 32:39.600]  it's the X 60 and they're incorporating Google's Gemini AI into it. And of course it's being
[32:39.600 --> 32:45.040]  presented as a helpy helperson kind of a thing because, you know, they created this problem of
[32:45.120 --> 32:49.280]  having these touch screen interfaces in the car that make it difficult to control things while
[32:49.280 --> 32:54.480]  you're driving because it's kind of hard to track it. So instead of that, now you're going to have
[32:54.480 --> 33:01.600]  a conversation with the Gemini AI and ask it to do things. So if you need the stereo to change its
[33:01.600 --> 33:06.000]  station, it'll do that. It'll do all sorts of things. It can make all sorts of adjustments
[33:06.000 --> 33:10.960]  while you drive. But beyond that, ultimately what people don't see is that this is going to be used
[33:10.960 --> 33:18.240]  to control us, monitor us and control us. In this case, Volvo is not only incorporating the AI. In
[33:18.240 --> 33:24.080]  addition to that, they are giving their AI access, direct feed access to the cameras that are in the
[33:24.080 --> 33:28.640]  car. You know about the flock cameras that are being put up all over the country. Well, this is
[33:28.640 --> 33:33.520]  flock that you drive. So, you know, the cameras that are in your car that are sweeping the
[33:33.520 --> 33:39.760]  surroundings, feed that data to the AI and then transmit that to the hive mind. And it's a
[33:39.760 --> 33:45.280]  mechanism by which ultimately they will have real-time 24 access to all of our movements.
[33:45.280 --> 33:49.280]  They'll be able to know exactly what we're doing all the time. And even creepier than that,
[33:49.280 --> 33:53.760]  a lot of these new cars have cameras inside the car to watch you, which again, they present that
[33:53.760 --> 33:57.600]  as a safety feature. You know, we don't want people to be drowsy behind the wheel. So we're
[33:57.600 --> 34:01.520]  watching, you know, you're watching your eye movements and your face and that way the car
[34:01.520 --> 34:05.440]  can let you know it's time for a coffee break. It literally says that a little icon will come up,
[34:05.440 --> 34:10.080]  time for a coffee break. Well, you know, ultimately they'll be able to just shut the
[34:10.080 --> 34:14.560]  thing down. If they decide that, you know, you look angry, you expressed something,
[34:14.560 --> 34:18.160]  you know, politically incorrect about what's going on in Davos, whatever it might be.
[34:19.440 --> 34:23.840]  When it's put up a comment, it's like, Gemini, tilt the air vent up. No, a little less. Wait,
[34:23.840 --> 34:30.160]  go back. No, not too far. Why can't I just have a little mechanical thing that I just reach over
[34:30.160 --> 34:34.480]  with my hand and move it? Right. What is the problem with that? Do you remember the reboot
[34:34.480 --> 34:39.440]  of the Battlestar Galactica series that aired back in the early 2000s? No, I never saw that.
[34:39.440 --> 34:44.800]  Yeah. It was really good. One of the interesting things about it was that the ship that survived
[34:44.800 --> 34:50.480]  the Cylon attack, the Cylons are these AI robots, they got back into the fleet because the fleet
[34:50.480 --> 34:55.920]  used AI. So, you know, they turned off all of their defenses except for this one old antique ship that
[34:55.920 --> 35:01.600]  was analog and still had everything hardwired. So that one ship, which was the Galactica managed
[35:01.600 --> 35:08.560]  to escape. And that was the premise. And I think there's actually a lot to that. I think that us
[35:08.560 --> 35:13.040]  being connected to what they refer to as the Internet of Things is going to be our undoing.
[35:13.040 --> 35:18.320]  And I think that it is the smartest, wisest thing we can possibly do to disconnect from all of that.
[35:18.320 --> 35:21.760]  That's right. We're going to have these flock cameras everywhere and have flock cameras in
[35:21.760 --> 35:28.000]  the car. We're going to flock around and find out, aren't we? Right. So yeah, that's been one of my
[35:28.000 --> 35:33.360]  pet peeves about this interface that began with Tesla, where they put that touch screen in the
[35:33.360 --> 35:38.080]  middle, because I guess it's a lot cheaper than making mechanical knobs that are going to last
[35:38.080 --> 35:45.360]  for a while. And, you know, again, even changing the air vents that are there. And it's unnecessarily
[35:45.360 --> 35:49.680]  complicated. It's difficult to use. And isn't it interesting? And I think you and I have talked
[35:49.680 --> 35:55.120]  about this before, the fact that they can do that kind of an interface. And it's very distracting
[35:55.120 --> 35:58.960]  because you're trying to pinch and zoom and there's no tactile feedback. So you got to take
[35:58.960 --> 36:06.080]  your eyes off the road to do it. And yet if you are using a cell phone, they'll give you a ticket.
[36:06.080 --> 36:10.160]  But if you're driving one of these cars, hey, that's all just fine. Not a problem at all. But
[36:10.160 --> 36:15.600]  it is very distracting. I have rented cars that have had that kind of stuff in it. And, you know,
[36:15.600 --> 36:20.560]  it is impossible to do anything while you're driving with them. Even the simplest things,
[36:20.640 --> 36:26.080]  you know, changing the volume of air or the direction of the air or the volume of the
[36:27.360 --> 36:31.760]  radio and that kind of stuff. It makes it impossible to do that. And then they take
[36:31.760 --> 36:37.600]  things like the door handles on the Teslas. You know, we've had a lot of reports about how
[36:37.600 --> 36:42.240]  people have been trapped inside because they have an accident. Now, the door handle that's
[36:42.240 --> 36:48.640]  under software control doesn't work anymore. I had a friend who has a Tesla and he got stuck
[36:49.360 --> 36:53.280]  inside of his car for quite some time. Fortunately, he had his phone with him and
[36:53.280 --> 36:58.080]  he could call tech support. But he had to call tech support to get the door open on his car.
[36:58.080 --> 37:03.760]  It's like, this is crazy. Absolutely crazy that we turn our life over to these complicated systems.
[37:03.760 --> 37:08.160]  And I think if you look at the bigger picture, that is kind of what has happened to our entire
[37:08.160 --> 37:15.920]  infrastructure. We are on the cusp of something really, really bad happening to us. And it's such
[37:15.920 --> 37:20.960]  a complicated, interconnected, just-in-time delivery system that it wouldn't take much
[37:20.960 --> 37:25.600]  to disrupt all this stuff and create total chaos and havoc because the complicated,
[37:25.600 --> 37:29.040]  unnecessarily complicated in many ways, system that we live with.
[37:29.760 --> 37:34.160]  Yeah, I agree. It's gratuitously complex. And by the way, while Tesla was the first to pioneer
[37:34.800 --> 37:40.640]  their flush-mounted door pulls that they extend when you approach the car. And so then you have
[37:40.640 --> 37:45.280]  something to grab to open the door with. The problem is that if there's an electrical failure,
[37:46.080 --> 37:48.400]  you can't get in the car. And compounding that problem,
[37:49.040 --> 37:54.800]  Teslas have laminated side glass that's very difficult to shatter. So you remember that,
[37:54.800 --> 37:59.520]  I think it was the, what was it? I can't remember the family relation of Mitch McConnell, a woman,
[37:59.520 --> 38:05.440]  she's like some tech lady, big billionaire person. Anyway, she was apparently a little bit drunk and
[38:05.440 --> 38:10.320]  backed her Tesla into a pond. And it was something that was completely survivable. It wasn't a high
[38:10.320 --> 38:14.240]  speed thing. She just rolled backwards into the pond, but they couldn't get her out of the car
[38:14.240 --> 38:18.560]  because the car shorted out in the water and they couldn't get the doors open and they couldn't
[38:18.560 --> 38:24.480]  smash the windows open. So she drowned to death. And again, it's not just Tesla, a number of higher
[38:24.480 --> 38:29.280]  end vehicle manufacturers now are emulating it and they've got the same types of door pulls.
[38:29.280 --> 38:36.080]  And it's totally gratuitous complexity. I'm not, I just don't like technology for its own sake and
[38:36.080 --> 38:40.800]  complexity for its own sake. There's no meaningful improvement. I mean, is it that difficult really
[38:40.800 --> 38:45.760]  to pull a handle? It's, it's, it's geekism, right? It's like, look guys, this is really
[38:45.760 --> 38:53.120]  cool. Look what I can do with this. These systems are fragile. You know, a car is subjected to a lot
[38:53.120 --> 39:00.160]  of environmental harshness. You know, it's, it's hot, it's cold. It gets jostled and bumped. So
[39:00.160 --> 39:05.040]  what works when the thing is new, maybe isn't going to work so well when it's eight, nine,
[39:05.040 --> 39:09.360]  10 years old. You know, there's going to be a failure at some point where it would have
[39:09.360 --> 39:12.880]  happened before. And the failure is going to involve a lot of money and hassle too,
[39:12.880 --> 39:16.800]  you know, because having something simple, like a pull, you know, I mean, you know,
[39:16.800 --> 39:20.560]  a monkey could change a door pole with a screwdriver or a few basic hands.
[39:20.560 --> 39:24.720]  But when it's this complicated electronic system and you've got body control modules and computers
[39:24.720 --> 39:27.840]  and all this stuff, you know, now it's something that you end up having to have the thing towed
[39:27.840 --> 39:32.240]  to a dealership for and end up spending, you know, orders of magnitude, more money to have
[39:32.240 --> 39:38.480]  the problem fixed. It's just, it's stupid. It's, it's almost a childish fascination with tech for
[39:38.480 --> 39:43.040]  its own sake, like a seagull that is like dazzled by a piece of tinfoil at the beach that keeps
[39:43.040 --> 39:50.960]  pecking at it. Speaking of foolish complications, we've got bricked Porsches. You've got an article
[39:50.960 --> 39:55.360]  about that. And I just saw that they'd been doing really well last couple of years. They'd had very
[39:55.360 --> 40:01.280]  good years. This last year, their sales were flat or declined slightly. Is it because of this or
[40:01.280 --> 40:05.440]  is it something else? What, what is this about the bricked ones? Well, this particular thing touches
[40:05.440 --> 40:10.560]  on what we have been talking about. Nominally, it's, it's about their anti-theft system. I think
[40:10.560 --> 40:16.800]  the acronym is VTS. And apparently it's one of these systems where if the hive mind senses that
[40:16.800 --> 40:22.000]  the car hasn't reported in after a while, then it will disable the car because it thinks that the
[40:22.000 --> 40:26.560]  car was stolen. In other words, it's some kind of an anti-theft device, but it points out that the
[40:26.560 --> 40:30.880]  cars can be disabled. All these, all these Porsches in Russia, I should back up all these Porsche
[40:30.960 --> 40:35.680]  models that are in Russia, just don't work anymore. All of a sudden they've been effectively
[40:35.680 --> 40:40.960]  bricked and turned off because a signal was sent out to the cars telling them to shut off.
[40:40.960 --> 40:44.800]  That's the key point. That's the key take home point. And it's not just Porsches. You and I
[40:44.800 --> 40:50.000]  have discussed this before connected vehicles, which means any vehicle that can receive over
[40:50.000 --> 40:55.440]  the air updates to the software that runs the computer. These have become essentially standard
[40:55.440 --> 41:00.640]  now. And they have been since around 200, 2015 ish. So, you know, for about 10 years now,
[41:00.640 --> 41:05.600]  and all the vehicles that have been sold, not just high end cars like Porsches are connected,
[41:05.600 --> 41:11.680]  you know, they receive updates over the air and implicit in that is the ability of an external
[41:11.680 --> 41:16.880]  force, whether it's a hacker or it could be the government or it could be the vehicle manufacturer,
[41:16.880 --> 41:22.000]  it could be a variety of different sources is capable of interfering with the operation of
[41:22.000 --> 41:27.840]  your car and shutting it down. Another example of it. Let me ask you, is this happening in Russia?
[41:27.840 --> 41:31.840]  Is this happening because Germany doesn't like Russia? So they're disabling Porsches?
[41:31.840 --> 41:35.520]  Well, it could be one of the theories that's been put forward is that, yeah, it's kind of a punishment
[41:36.080 --> 41:40.720]  to Porsche. And it may well be, it may well be in that particular case. But I think the thing that
[41:40.720 --> 41:45.680]  people listening to us should really take to heart is that if they have a new ish vehicle,
[41:45.680 --> 41:51.200]  something that's built after 2015 or so that has this ability to receive over the air updates,
[41:51.200 --> 41:57.120]  implicit in that is that somebody else can get into your vehicle and control it. They can turn
[41:57.120 --> 42:01.600]  it off. They can, they can change the parameters. There was an incident several years ago where
[42:01.600 --> 42:05.280]  there was a hurricane. I think it was in Texas. You may remember this. This hurricane was projected
[42:05.280 --> 42:09.760]  to come down, you know, come down into that area. It was supposed to be a bad one. So Elon Musk and
[42:09.760 --> 42:15.920]  his great beneficence sent out an over the air update that increased the driving range of Teslas,
[42:15.920 --> 42:19.360]  you know, to get, so that people could get out of the way of this hurricane. And he was widely
[42:19.360 --> 42:24.080]  law. Look what a nice guy Elon Musk is. And I think I was maybe the only person to go,
[42:24.080 --> 42:29.680]  wait a minute. That's great. If you can increase the range of your car, that means he could also
[42:29.680 --> 42:35.040]  decrease it or give you no range at all. He could just start an update to turn the car off. And,
[42:35.040 --> 42:38.800]  you know, keep in mind, we're dealing with people who might say, Oh, there's a climate emergency.
[42:38.800 --> 42:43.200]  We can't have people out there driving. So they just send out the signal and automatically they
[42:43.200 --> 42:48.000]  shut off the great majority of the cars that are out and out on the roads, because most of the cars
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[43:50.400 --> 43:54.160]  Play responsibly. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, you're talking about a climate emergency.
[43:54.960 --> 44:03.360]  Did you see that Germany just told Toyota that they had to turn off the auto start so people
[44:03.360 --> 44:07.520]  start up their car? Oh yeah, to warm your car up. Yeah. That's right. You start the car early
[44:07.520 --> 44:11.760]  before you get in it so you can de-ice it and warm it up and that type of thing. They said,
[44:11.760 --> 44:17.520]  no, we don't want your internal combustion engines idling needlessly. So we're going to have to,
[44:18.400 --> 44:24.240]  so Lexus and Toyota just did an over the air update to delete the ability to do that.
[44:24.880 --> 44:27.920]  Correct. It's pretty amazing. And that just speaks to what we're talking about. They have
[44:27.920 --> 44:32.640]  the capability to control all sorts of things about your car without your consent.
[44:32.640 --> 44:36.000]  And it's a frontal assault against the whole concept of private property. I mean,
[44:36.000 --> 44:40.080]  you bought the thing. It's your property. You supposedly own this. Your name is on the title.
[44:40.080 --> 44:46.160]  You paid for it. And yet this external third party, this party out there can exert control
[44:46.160 --> 44:50.320]  over what is supposed to be yours. And if somebody else can exert control over
[44:50.960 --> 44:54.800]  the thing, then it really isn't yours, is it? That's right. That's right. And of course,
[44:54.800 --> 45:03.760]  adding to all of this, they're allowing EVs and hybrids to heat up early. They get an exception
[45:03.760 --> 45:08.800]  to all of this stuff. One person said, well, wait a minute. I guess this is because the politicians
[45:08.800 --> 45:14.800]  can't tell the difference between a building and a car. So, you know, it's like we got both of those.
[45:14.800 --> 45:17.120]  One of them you're allowed to heat, the other one you're not allowed to heat.
[45:18.560 --> 45:24.800]  Again, it's one of the fatuities that has been a part of this whole EV thing since the get go.
[45:24.800 --> 45:30.080]  The idea that, well, it's okay to have carbon emissions, as they put it, if they come from some
[45:30.880 --> 45:36.880]  power plant or some centralized location where the power is generated. But it's a bad, bad thing
[45:37.680 --> 45:42.800]  if it comes out of the tailpipe of a car. Even though you look at it, the amount of CO2 emissions,
[45:42.800 --> 45:48.480]  even if you buy into that whole thing, that emanate from, say, a natural gas-fired utility
[45:48.480 --> 45:53.520]  plant are enormous compared to the trivial amount that comes out of the exhaust pipe of a car.
[45:53.520 --> 45:59.280]  Or something comes out of one of Elon Musk's rockets that are going out. But it was a few
[45:59.280 --> 46:04.240]  years ago, you and I were talking about this very thing and pointed out that in India, the
[46:07.040 --> 46:13.360]  power plants that were providing power to the grid were so dirty because they were allowed to
[46:13.360 --> 46:18.960]  make them cheap and dirty. You know, the Paris Climate Accord 2015 that allowed India and China
[46:18.960 --> 46:25.120]  to build as many and as dirty a power plants as they wished. No restrictions whatsoever.
[46:25.760 --> 46:34.480]  The power grid was powered in India by power plants that were so dirty that if you had a car
[46:34.480 --> 46:42.400]  that was a gasoline engine, you would emit less than they did. If you had a car that got 30 miles
[46:42.400 --> 46:48.160]  per gallon, you would be using less of their measured emissions than if you had an electric
[46:48.160 --> 46:55.760]  vehicle that was charged off of the power grid that was sourcing off of these dirty power plants.
[46:55.760 --> 47:00.240]  And so we said, well, maybe what we could do is just put a great big balloon on the back of the
[47:00.240 --> 47:07.120]  tailpipe and just collect all of the gas until it gets really big. And then you have to drive
[47:07.120 --> 47:11.520]  to a location of a power plant and let this thing go. Because it's okay if it goes in the
[47:11.520 --> 47:16.400]  atmosphere at a power plant. It's just not okay coming out of your own tailpipe as you're driving
[47:17.040 --> 47:21.440]  around. It'd be funny if it weren't so stupid, right? Yeah. Yeah. But you don't just match their
[47:21.440 --> 47:29.680]  stupidity, I guess. That's amazing. Well, what else is on your radar here? I see that you had
[47:29.680 --> 47:35.040]  an article up about Camaro maybe coming back. What do you think? Well, there's a rumor. There's
[47:35.040 --> 47:40.880]  nothing that's been confirmed definitively. But GM's President Mark Royce has hinted that they
[47:40.880 --> 47:44.640]  might bring back the Camaro. Now, the Camaro was last available in 2024.
[47:45.440 --> 47:50.560]  Previously, it had been available all the way back to 1967 as kind of a jam version of the Camaro.
[47:50.560 --> 47:55.040]  And it was a hugely successful car. The problem was that over the years, it got progressively
[47:55.040 --> 48:01.120]  more complex and expensive such that by 2024, even the base Camaro, the least expensive version
[48:01.120 --> 48:06.720]  of it was nearly $32,000. That's the problem. Some people would say, well, it was an impractical car.
[48:06.720 --> 48:10.480]  It had tight back seats and you didn't have a lot of room in the trunk. Well, that never was a
[48:10.480 --> 48:15.360]  problem for Camaro in its heyday. I did a little digging. I know a lot about these generation cars
[48:15.360 --> 48:20.640]  because I've been a fan of them for many years and I've owned a number of them. Well, 1978 was the
[48:20.640 --> 48:26.560]  high watermark for Camaro. And during that year, Chevy sold something like 270,000 of them, which
[48:26.560 --> 48:30.720]  is an astoundingly huge number of them. And you and I can remember back in the 70s and 80s,
[48:30.720 --> 48:35.520]  they were everywhere. Just absolutely everywhere. And well, that was because the base Camaro back
[48:35.600 --> 48:42.480]  in 78 was $4,400. And if you plug that number into the government sketchy BLS inflation calculator,
[48:42.480 --> 48:48.320]  which probably is way underestimating it, but anyway, it comes out $22,000. I kind of think
[48:48.320 --> 48:54.080]  if people could buy a Camaro today for $22,000, probably they would. The difficulty is that the
[48:54.080 --> 49:00.320]  typical demographic for that car is mostly young guys. Mostly guys under 35 buy Camaros. It's that
[49:00.320 --> 49:06.880]  kind of a car. The problem is that most young guys don't have $32,000 plus the insurance,
[49:06.880 --> 49:11.120]  plus everything else that goes along with it, to buy the car. So it's mostly an older guy's car.
[49:11.120 --> 49:15.200]  And you get to be older and it gets to be hard to get into one of these little cars.
[49:15.200 --> 49:22.880]  And you can probably be married and you've got kids and it's just not that practical. And unless
[49:22.880 --> 49:28.640]  you're very affluent, you can't afford that second impractical car, the fun car. You have to buy one
[49:28.640 --> 49:34.080]  car. So typically people will buy a crossover or an SUV because it's suitable for a family.
[49:34.080 --> 49:39.760]  It's practical. So that's the reason why Camaro got canceled chiefly. Now what I'd like to see
[49:39.760 --> 49:44.000]  is them try to return to the roots of the car and bring back something that's much less expensive
[49:44.000 --> 49:49.920]  and something that's much more basic. In 78, the Camaro, the standard Camaro did not have
[49:49.920 --> 49:54.800]  power windows or locks. It had a manual transmission. It had a 36 cylinder engine,
[49:54.800 --> 50:01.200]  and that was just fine. It was a fun, sporty car that was affordable. Now if you look at the base,
[50:01.200 --> 50:06.400]  I don't even know why they use that term anymore, base, the base trim. The base trim has things that
[50:06.400 --> 50:11.760]  would have been considered high-end, luxurious things once upon a time. Everything has power
[50:11.760 --> 50:17.200]  windows, power locks, climate control, power seats, a great stereo, cruise control, and all
[50:17.200 --> 50:22.800]  of those things are nice if you can afford them. That's right. Yeah. I had a Mustang, a 68 Mustang,
[50:22.800 --> 50:28.720]  and of course it had the windows were powered by my arm, you know, and no air conditioning,
[50:28.720 --> 50:34.800]  no back seat really. I can testify to how small that back seat was, and that wasn't a problem.
[50:34.800 --> 50:39.040]  It's still a very popular car. As a matter of fact, no air conditioning, but even in Florida,
[50:39.040 --> 50:44.240]  they used to have those, you know, the triangle that is part of the, you know, right behind the
[50:44.240 --> 50:48.880]  A pillar. I don't know what you call that thing, but yeah, it used to be able to open that thing up
[50:48.880 --> 50:55.920]  and I could turn it, and so I would get a massive amount of water. It would be water,
[50:55.920 --> 51:01.360]  but usually it would be wind that's getting dumped into my lap and chest, you know, and that would
[51:01.360 --> 51:06.640]  really keep you cool. The only problem with it was that the control that latched it kept popping
[51:06.640 --> 51:10.800]  off of the glass. They didn't glue it very well, and I had a hard time trying to get it glued back
[51:10.800 --> 51:17.600]  on, but other than that, you know, the thing was very simple and very fun to drive, you know,
[51:17.600 --> 51:22.720]  and when I got rid of that, I got a car that was even more simple, and that was the Triumph
[51:22.720 --> 51:29.520]  Spitfire, but it was also mechanically unreliable. It had a lot more things than just the little
[51:30.800 --> 51:34.560]  shutting, the little thing, the little control on the window that popped off.
[51:34.560 --> 51:39.760]  It had a lot of body integrity as well as engine integrity issues with that thing as well.
[51:39.760 --> 51:45.200]  Exactly as far as personality, but you know, I think there's a lag time. Like everything that's
[51:45.200 --> 51:50.000]  on the market right now is premised on people being able to deal with the cost in terms of
[51:50.000 --> 51:54.880]  the monthly payment, and that did work for a while, but it's not the way it was. You know,
[51:54.880 --> 52:00.160]  the cost of everything else has increased so dramatically over the last several years that
[52:00.160 --> 52:06.160]  it's no longer feasible for most people to go out and pick up a $30,000 or $40,000 car on top of
[52:06.160 --> 52:10.800]  paying twice as much for groceries, on top of paying twice as much for car insurance, you know,
[52:10.800 --> 52:15.440]  rent, and everything else that has gone through the roof. So, you know, that's why it's no longer
[52:15.440 --> 52:20.800]  to use the favorite word of the progressives, sustainable. So if we went back to a situation
[52:20.800 --> 52:25.120]  where certain options were simply a la carte like they used to be, you know, you get the base car,
[52:25.120 --> 52:28.800]  there it is, you know, you look at the options box and you see how much if power windows cost
[52:28.800 --> 52:33.520]  300 bucks, okay, I'll go, I'll buy that. You know, if I can't afford it now, I'm going to skip that
[52:33.520 --> 52:39.520]  this time. I'd like to see things get back to that, you know, so that more and more people could
[52:39.520 --> 52:45.120]  once again afford cars and fun cars. I think it's sad that, you know, most of the fun cars now
[52:45.120 --> 52:50.000]  are very expensive cars. So, you know, only older people and the handful of other people who aren't
[52:50.000 --> 52:53.840]  older and have the money can afford to indulge in them. And that's, you know, that's, that's
[52:53.840 --> 52:58.960]  undermining everything that, that, you know, that I like about cars. The whole point is to have fun
[52:58.960 --> 53:03.520]  while you're driving and to enjoy the freedom of mobility. And, you know, people are being turned
[53:03.520 --> 53:07.520]  off to that, especially the younger generations because they can't afford it. Well, a good example
[53:07.520 --> 53:12.320]  of that is a good example is Jeep. Look at what Stellantis has done with it. They've added all the
[53:12.320 --> 53:18.400]  bells and whistles and luxury appointments to the Jeep that now they're not affordable to anybody.
[53:18.400 --> 53:22.720]  They have completely lost sight of what their target audience was. You know, these are people
[53:22.720 --> 53:28.400]  who wanted to grab this thing and go out, you know, in the rough with this stuff. And instead,
[53:28.400 --> 53:32.240]  what they're doing is they're adding everything that they can think of to it. So people can't
[53:32.240 --> 53:36.880]  afford them at all. Well, there's some good news there though. A couple of days ago, Stellantis,
[53:36.880 --> 53:41.760]  which is the parent company of Jeep and Chrysler and Dodge and Ram trucks announced that they were,
[53:41.760 --> 53:47.120]  I love the phrase pulling the plug on their plug-in hybrid versions of Jeep vehicles.
[53:47.920 --> 53:52.080]  They had been trying to sell, if you can imagine it, they tried to sell it. They called it the 4XE
[53:52.800 --> 53:58.960]  version of the Wrangler and it cost $20,000 more than the Wrangler that didn't have the
[53:58.960 --> 54:04.800]  hybrid drivetrain. And the big sell according to Jeep was, Hey, you can drive this thing 20 miles
[54:04.800 --> 54:10.400]  on battery power alone. That's worth $20,000 more. I mean, it was, you know, they pushed the
[54:10.400 --> 54:16.240]  price of the thing up to nearly $50,000 for a Wrangler. That's insane. Yeah. Especially
[54:16.240 --> 54:20.160]  because, you know, a lot of people like take this out in the, you know, the outback or whatever and
[54:21.280 --> 54:25.680]  that 20 miles of driving without any gasoline doesn't really make any difference because
[54:25.680 --> 54:29.600]  you're going to be going a long way before you get to where you really want to play with the thing.
[54:30.480 --> 54:37.120]  Yeah, absolutely. They underbind everything that was the point of owning a Jeep, which is simplicity,
[54:37.120 --> 54:43.840]  ruggedness, durability, and turned it into kind of a rich suburban person's play thing. And the
[54:43.840 --> 54:48.400]  problem with that is there are only so many rich suburban people who want to have like an image of
[54:48.400 --> 54:52.720]  being, Hey, I've got a Jeep and I'm rugged. Look at me. As you know, I park it in front of my
[54:52.720 --> 54:58.800]  McMansion. That's right. Honda's killing the motorcycle. That's one of your articles. What's
[54:58.800 --> 55:02.640]  going on with that? Well, that's a bit much, but I don't like the trend. Yeah. They, you know,
[55:02.640 --> 55:07.600]  and they've done this in the past. They're trying to broaden the market and they're trying to reach
[55:07.600 --> 55:12.960]  the younger demographic in particular by essentially taking the manual transmission out of the equation,
[55:13.600 --> 55:17.680]  which to me, if you do that, it's not a motorcycle anymore. There's a name for what
[55:17.680 --> 55:23.040]  that is. It's a moped or a scooter. And you're not, I'm not, I'm not slamming either of those.
[55:25.200 --> 55:28.400]  You know, I don't have an issue with it. They make a lot of sense for a lot of people,
[55:28.400 --> 55:34.160]  but it's not a motorcycle. Motorcycle has a manual transmission. Part of the experience
[55:34.160 --> 55:39.120]  is shifting through the gears yourself and having that additional level of control over the bike
[55:39.120 --> 55:44.400]  that you don't have with, with, you know, a moped or a scooter. And I know, I understand the dynamic
[55:44.400 --> 55:47.520]  that they, you know, these, these, you know, a lot of the younger generation have never
[55:48.080 --> 55:53.120]  done what you and I did when we were kids, rode dirt bikes, you know, and learned how to ride a
[55:53.120 --> 55:58.400]  bike, riding a dirt bike. They've not done that. So they're trying to get that, that new buyer
[55:58.400 --> 56:03.120]  demographic in because they understand that right now the majority, the typical buyer of a new
[56:03.120 --> 56:08.160]  motorcycle is a guy our age, you know, and we're not going to be buying many more motorcycles.
[56:09.920 --> 56:14.640]  You know, that's the bottom line. They know that people are aging out of that market.
[56:14.640 --> 56:18.960]  So, you know, they're, they're trying to get the young crowd in, but I think it's self-defeating
[56:19.600 --> 56:22.480]  to do that because ultimately it really isn't a motorcycle.
[56:22.480 --> 56:27.840]  Yeah, I've never really, I never used, I never rode a motorcycle, but I did enjoy riding a
[56:27.840 --> 56:34.240]  little scooters on the beach in Daytona Beach. I was really upset about the fact that when I
[56:34.240 --> 56:39.600]  took Karen back about a decade ago, and we went over to Daytona Beach where my family used to
[56:39.600 --> 56:43.600]  go frequently because it's only about four hours away from where we used to live in Tampa. And
[56:45.120 --> 56:48.720]  they won't even let you on the beach anymore. I mean, you go back and you look at, you know,
[56:48.720 --> 56:55.120]  Daytona 500 really originally was a race that was on the beach. And so, you know, we used to
[56:55.120 --> 57:01.600]  have these little scooters that we could rent. Even when I was in junior high school, I did that.
[57:01.600 --> 57:06.400]  And, you know, they said you got to only drive it on the beach and you can't take it out
[57:06.400 --> 57:11.280]  anywhere else. And, you know, they would only go like 30 miles an hour. It was a lot of fun. And
[57:11.280 --> 57:16.080]  now you can't drive anything from the beach. So all that stuff, it's like a ghost town there. It's
[57:16.080 --> 57:20.720]  amazing. Everything is closed off. They had a boardwalk there. Nobody's allowed to do that
[57:20.720 --> 57:26.480]  anymore. And so I've actually even got a bumper that I put up where I show some clips from back
[57:26.480 --> 57:32.400]  in the 1970s or so and just crowded with people and cars and all this, you know, it's teeming with
[57:32.400 --> 57:38.560]  life and with fun. And then I juxtapose that with what's there now, which is nothing.
[57:38.560 --> 57:39.200]  And that's all just government.
[57:39.200 --> 57:41.920]  Yeah, the South Pacific nannies have taken over everything, haven't they?
[57:41.920 --> 57:42.080]  Yeah.
[57:42.080 --> 57:44.960]  At least they're trying to. Now, there is some good news and it's ironic.
[57:46.160 --> 57:50.560]  The Indians have taken over a lot of the classic British brands like Royal Enfield,
[57:51.440 --> 57:58.240]  and they have been bringing back affordable, light, small bikes. And they're actually doing
[57:58.240 --> 58:03.840]  quite well with those things because they're accessible to young people. Under $10,000 will
[58:03.840 --> 58:09.760]  buy you a very nice Royal Enfield. Oreo, what's the other one? I'm having a Biden moment,
[58:10.960 --> 58:15.920]  the big British brand of bike that's controlled by the Indians. I can't think of it anyway.
[58:16.160 --> 58:19.200]  It took the Indians to bring bring motorcycling back.
[58:19.200 --> 58:22.640]  I guess the Japanese and the Americans are even more guilty of this. Harley,
[58:22.640 --> 58:28.400]  you know, is selling $30,000 bikes to, you know, to 60 year old guys with pleated leather leather
[58:28.400 --> 58:35.280]  chaps. Yeah, of course, I guess the Indians could get the Indian bike, right? But they haven't
[58:35.280 --> 58:39.200]  bought that one yet, right? So I kind of hope that they do because they might actually bring
[58:39.200 --> 58:44.160]  back something that's elemental. You know, one time Harley was like the the quintessential bike
[58:44.160 --> 58:49.520]  in Indian, the same thing. It was a frame, a gas tank, you know, and an air cooled V twin engine.
[58:49.520 --> 58:54.800]  Yeah. And it was specifically designed for, you know, lug heads like me, you know, to be able
[58:54.800 --> 58:58.880]  to work on them with a crescent wrench. You know, now you have to go to the Harley store to get the
[58:58.880 --> 59:04.720]  computer hooked up and get your accessory flashed. You know, it's it's they've taken up all of the
[59:04.720 --> 59:09.520]  finishing and all of the personalization that used to be one of the huge appeals of these bikes. You
[59:09.520 --> 59:13.600]  buy it and then you made it yours by adding stuff to it and customizing it and fiddling with it.
[59:13.600 --> 59:18.080]  So your bike was not like everybody else's bike. Now you got to go to the dealer and pay the Harley
[59:18.080 --> 59:22.320]  Tech to do that for you. That's right, because they've got control. They really own the thing,
[59:22.320 --> 59:27.600]  not you. And of course, you and I have talked about that. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
[59:27.600 --> 59:32.800]  and the fights that were going back and forth and still are, I think with John Deere and telling
[59:32.800 --> 59:36.800]  the farmers, no, no, no, you can't even buy the part from us and put it in. You're going to have
[59:36.800 --> 59:41.920]  to have us put it in so that we can set this up properly. Otherwise, we'll brick your tractor.
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[01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:47.520]  I'm surprised that there hasn't been a revolt about that. Well, people are not happy with it.
[01:00:47.520 --> 01:00:52.400]  That's for sure. They should just stop buying it. I mean, I personally would never buy something
[01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:58.640]  like that. I don't have control over it. It's just a demeaning thing to think, okay, this item,
[01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:03.440]  whatever it may be that I've just paid money for that is ostensibly my property. Well, somebody
[01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:08.560]  else can yank my chain, you know, at their whim and I'm holding to them and I have to go beg
[01:01:08.560 --> 01:01:14.640]  permission from them to be able to use my property that I paid for. I don't understand people who
[01:01:14.640 --> 01:01:18.720]  willingly sign up for that. That's right. Well, you know, it kind of goes back to what we were
[01:01:18.720 --> 01:01:24.640]  talking about before, you know, AI on board and the control to be able to remotely alter or even
[01:01:24.640 --> 01:01:29.120]  shut down your car and that type of thing. The first time I really started thinking about that
[01:01:29.120 --> 01:01:35.360]  was with the death of Michael Hastings, a reporter that I still to this day believe that they killed
[01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:41.520]  him and that they did it with the Mercedes because he was, before it all happened, he had sent out
[01:01:41.520 --> 01:01:44.560]  some messages to people saying, you know, I'm working on this thing and I've got to go into
[01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:51.120]  hiding. And he was looking under his Mercedes that he had and he'd made comments to the person that
[01:01:51.120 --> 01:01:55.120]  he was renting the house from, that he was very worried about what they might do with his car and
[01:01:55.120 --> 01:02:00.960]  everything. When you look at the way the thing crashed, the engine went down the road in the
[01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:04.960]  direction that he was traveling. It was going very fast. They got pictures of it going very fast,
[01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:09.840]  but of course that could be done remotely. And the engine went down the road in the direction
[01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:16.400]  he was traveling, whereas he went over in the right-hand direction and had a head-on with a
[01:02:17.200 --> 01:02:24.080]  tree that was not, you know, the kind of head-on that you would expect when there is a lot of speed
[01:02:24.080 --> 01:02:28.560]  going on with it. In other words, it wasn't completely crushed, but it immediately burst
[01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:34.400]  into fire. And all of that I thought was very suspicious, but, you know, we'd already had
[01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:41.040]  people who'd been part of security saying, you know, we could use that to assassinate people.
[01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:45.520]  And I think that's what they did. And that, of course, as you point out, you know, that's
[01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:51.120]  the most radical version of that, but of course they could also, just like they brick us and shadow
[01:02:51.120 --> 01:02:55.600]  ban us on, you know, we get debanked, we get shadow banned on social media and other places like
[01:02:55.600 --> 01:03:00.560]  that. They could brick our cars as well for the same types of things if they don't like what we're
[01:03:00.560 --> 01:03:04.880]  saying. You know, certainly this is something people I think really ought to be aware of.
[01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:09.360]  A lot of the systems in the car, for example, the accelerator pedal are now drive by wire.
[01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:14.240]  And what does that mean? Well, it means you have the illusion that when you push down on the
[01:03:14.240 --> 01:03:19.440]  accelerator pedal, that it's your physical action that's resulting in the engine speeding up and the
[01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:24.880]  car accelerating. That's not so. What's happening is that signals data are being sent to the ECU,
[01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:30.480]  the engine controller, and that in turn is telling the computer to increase the engine speed.
[01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:36.480]  So implicit in that is that the engine could be told to speed, you know, to race and rev and make
[01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:40.720]  you go barreling down the road. Now you think, well, then all I have to do is if it's an automatic
[01:03:40.720 --> 01:03:44.480]  transmission, well, I'll just put it in neutral. Well, the problem there is that the transmission
[01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:49.200]  is now drive by wire also. You have the illusion that when you move that selector from park to
[01:03:49.200 --> 01:03:53.200]  reverse to neutral and drive, that you're engaging something mechanically. You're not.
[01:03:53.200 --> 01:03:58.480]  All you're doing is transmitting data to the computer, which then puts the transmission into
[01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:03.680]  reverse neutral drive and so on. Well, it stays in drive. You know, you're trying to frantically
[01:04:03.680 --> 01:04:08.640]  put it neutral to get the car. Yeah. Also steering now, you know, they have these lane keep assist
[01:04:08.640 --> 01:04:13.680]  things with electric assisted power steering that can exert physical control over your steering.
[01:04:13.680 --> 01:04:18.240]  That's right. And, you know, that could make this car steer violently to the left or violently to
[01:04:18.240 --> 01:04:23.360]  the right. All of these things are now part of the embedded software suite of pretty much all
[01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:29.280]  the new cars on the market. I'm leery of that stuff. I like mechanical things because mechanical
[01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:34.320]  things can't be controlled externally. That's right. So you got your accelerator, your brake,
[01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:39.520]  your transmission, your steering, all that is by wire. All that can be controlled. I remember
[01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:47.600]  Rowan Atkinson and he said the modern cars, he said, you don't so much drive them as you manage
[01:04:47.600 --> 01:04:53.040]  them, right? And so he was talking about some of the hypercars that he was able to afford, but
[01:04:53.040 --> 01:04:58.480]  that has now been extended pretty much to everything under this kind of regime of drive by wire,
[01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:02.800]  hasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's a combination of synergistic things that aren't
[01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:07.600]  necessarily all malevolent. It's a way for the manufacturers to reduce costs. You know, it's
[01:05:07.600 --> 01:05:11.280]  rather than when a car comes down the assembly line in the old days, they had to have a guy
[01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:14.720]  making the fine adjustments to things like a throttle cable. You know, the throttle cable
[01:05:14.720 --> 01:05:18.560]  had to be connected to the engine and then it had to be routed through the firewall and then it had
[01:05:18.560 --> 01:05:22.080]  to be connected to the pedal. And they checked the tension on it and made sure everything was
[01:05:22.080 --> 01:05:27.040]  working correctly. Now it's just literally what they say, plug and play. You know, the whole
[01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:31.200]  assembly comes down the line, plug, plug, plug. And it's cheaper from the standpoint of the
[01:05:31.200 --> 01:05:36.080]  manufacturer to do that, saves them money, increases their profits. So it's not all evil,
[01:05:36.080 --> 01:05:41.120]  but it's still, you know, it's still unfortunate and potentially very dangerous for us all. And
[01:05:41.120 --> 01:05:45.920]  again, to get back to what we were talking about earlier, it needlessly increases the complexity
[01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:50.480]  of the thing. You know, back in the olden days, like in my Trans Am, if the throttle cable
[01:05:51.200 --> 01:05:57.760]  binds or snaps, I can easily find and fix it. And a cable is like a $20 part. Well, you know,
[01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:01.760]  if the electronics that control the drive-by-wire throttle fail, it's not likely you're going to be
[01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:06.080]  able to diagnose it yourself unless you've got the equipment to do it with. And it's probably
[01:06:06.080 --> 01:06:11.040]  going to entail expensive sensors and computer-related stuff that you're going to have to pay a dealer to
[01:06:11.040 --> 01:06:15.840]  fix. That's right. You're going to have to have entire modules changed out and that type of thing.
[01:06:16.640 --> 01:06:22.320]  Every time we talk about this, I think about what the guys at Flying Miata were looking at,
[01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:26.080]  the various generations. You know, the first generation, it's like, yeah, we can take out the
[01:06:26.640 --> 01:06:30.960]  small four-cylinder engine that's in there. We can put in a big eight-cylinder Corvette engine.
[01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:34.880]  And so it's just kind of a mechanical thing. Can we squish it in there? Yeah, we can do that with
[01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:38.800]  this one. But then, you know, and so the first couple of generations, it was like that. By the
[01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:43.520]  time they got to the third generation, there was a good bit of electronic control and so it got a
[01:06:43.520 --> 01:06:48.480]  bit complicated. By the time they got to the fourth generation, however, it took them a very long time.
[01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:54.800]  They had to go hire specialists who could reprogram things because everything was interconnected. You
[01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:59.040]  couldn't just pull the engine out and put another engine in there because then it broke all these
[01:06:59.040 --> 01:07:04.240]  other supporting systems for ventilation and all this. It was all tied together and it all had to
[01:07:04.240 --> 01:07:08.640]  be reprogrammed. And that's really a good example of what's happening. You take a very
[01:07:08.640 --> 01:07:13.360]  simple sports car like a Miata and you make it complicated like that. Yeah, and essentially
[01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:17.360]  unrepairable except by a technician. That's right. You know, like I'm doing this project
[01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:21.440]  that we were talking about before. I'm converting my Trans Am from an automatic transmission to a
[01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:25.440]  manual transmission and it's all mechanical parts. And as long as everything fits and lines up,
[01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:30.320]  it's going to work. My engine doesn't care whether an automatic transmission or a manual transmission
[01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:35.360]  is bolted to it. It'll work just the same. But with anything modern, if it was assembled and made
[01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:40.320]  at the factory to have an automatic transmission, if you wanted to put a manual with it, you'd have
[01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:45.760]  to completely change all the computer stuff, reprogram everything to be in congruence. If you
[01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:51.280]  even could do that, it might not be possible to do that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what's
[01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:55.680]  happened to everything in our life. It's gotten hopelessly complicated and needlessly complicated,
[01:07:55.680 --> 01:07:59.280]  I would say. You look at all the things that are out there. Of course, it's made the guys who are
[01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:06.000]  the tech geeks in Silicon Valley, it's made them very, very rich. But it is much worse even than
[01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:10.400]  the planned obsolescence that we've seen for the longest time. Because what they've done is they've
[01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:16.000]  created things that are needlessly complicated, needlessly expensive, and under their control
[01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:22.320]  and continuing to be under their control. So it's a disturbing trend, isn't it? And especially when
[01:08:22.320 --> 01:08:27.200]  you start to see AI moving its way into cars, I'm sure the geeks thought, hey, this is going to be
[01:08:27.200 --> 01:08:31.120]  great. We can talk to the car and it can talk back to us. This is like Knight Rider or something
[01:08:31.120 --> 01:08:36.400]  like that. Without the attractiveness of it. You know, there's a logical aspect of it that interests
[01:08:36.400 --> 01:08:40.400]  me in that it's a sad thing. People are being alienated from their cars because they don't
[01:08:40.400 --> 01:08:44.480]  understand them. That's right. Even people who are mechanically inclined, you know, the tradition of
[01:08:44.480 --> 01:08:50.560]  the feeling that you got of, hey, I can fix this, or I'm going to do this to my car. I can do it.
[01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:57.360]  It's within my skill set. Now, you know, a car is just a two-ton cell phone. And it works and
[01:08:57.360 --> 01:09:01.360]  you're happy that it works, I guess, you know, until it stops working, at which point you feel
[01:09:01.360 --> 01:09:06.240]  completely inept and powerless, most people. I've got friends who are professional mechanics of 30
[01:09:06.240 --> 01:09:11.440]  years plus standing. And because they can't afford to pay for the software updates, the proprietary
[01:09:11.440 --> 01:09:17.760]  diagnostic equipment, they can't diagnose and work on a number of new late model vehicles because
[01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:21.840]  they just don't have the necessary equipment. And again, these are professionally trained people.
[01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:26.880]  They can't do it. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad. And that's really something that we're seeing happening
[01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:31.440]  in a lot of different facets of our life, of our culture that's happening out there.
[01:09:31.440 --> 01:09:36.560]  That's always great talking to you, Eric. Thank you so much for coming on. You and I are of the
[01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:40.080]  same mind when it comes to this stuff. And we're seeing some very dangerous precedents that are
[01:09:40.080 --> 01:09:43.840]  being put in place. Hopefully, it won't be too long before we talk to each other. And hopefully,
[01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:50.000]  next time we talk, there won't be some new war in Greenland or Iran or wherever. I mean, we've got
[01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:55.840]  Orange Man is really coveting Greenland, isn't he? I hope I can get my Trans Am back on the road
[01:09:55.840 --> 01:10:01.360]  before the poo hits the fan so I can at least go out, you know, running over the zombies with my
[01:10:01.360 --> 01:10:06.400]  super T10 four speed. There you go. That'd be great. Thank you so much. Have a good day. Thank you, David.
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