The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW Banning the Car You ALREADY Own

Episode Date: February 15, 2023

They've admitted you will not be able to purchase gas/diesel vehicles in the near future, now they presume to require you to modify cars you own to new standards as a way of de facto confiscation. Eric Peters, EPautos.com joins to talk about liberty and mobilityFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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But anyway, joining us now is Eric Peters, epautos.com. Thank you for coming on, Eric. Oh, thank you for having me, David. And you know, speaking of Boudigay, or however you pronounce it, one of the things that fascinates me about this guy is, and this is characteristic, I think, of the ruling class, their lack of any shame. I mean, I cannot imagine being placed in a position of responsibility in which I had zero competence at all to be there. I would feel like an idiot, and I would want to get out of that and have somebody who actually knew what they were doing in that position well and he is you're right he has

absolutely no shame no concern no shame about his lack of concern you know the day before he made a few comments on twitter about oh yeah we're monitoring the situation he's out there talking about how well we got to have more uh racial set asides when i hand out my hundreds of billions of dollars and yet they won't do anything to fix any real infrastructure that is crumbling. That's part of what's happening with these train derailments. Unless it's electric. The latest news apparently is that Biden wants to erect something like, I think it's half a million electric fast chargers to facilitate the great transition that's underway. Yeah, Bank of America is jumping into that with both feet. They can smell a big subsidy coming.

So they're going to be jumping in and participating in the pork with their stuff. But Ford's having a hard time with all of this electric vehicle. So Tesla has significantly cut their prices to the extent that it has angered a lot of people, but they have such high profit margins. It was amazing. They were still making something like $9,000 per car, where Ford was losing significant amounts of money.

They were losing, the only manufacturers that lost more money than Ford per car, electric car, were the Chinese. Yeah, and Tesla, of course, has that ridiculous market cap. What is it, something like $50 billion? Yeah. It's more than Ford and Toyota combinedota combined i think if memory serves yeah even with a drop yeah yeah so they're in a more they're in a position to self-subsidize if you're like wow i've just had three military jets just fly over my house at a couple hundred feet if you

can make do you hear it yeah i heard that are they looking for a balloon? I have no idea. Maybe I should go look out and see if there's a balloon out. But anyway, the interesting thing about what's happening in the news, Ford has had to halt production and delivery of its F1 Lightning pickup for unspecified problems with the battery. And I suspect it has something to do with the potential for fire, as you and I have talked about before. And that's certainly a problem. But the bigger problem for Ford, you know, vis-a-vis Tesla, is that they have had to raise the price of that truck three times over the course of 12 months, such that it has gone from their originally promised roughly $40,000 entry price point to almost $60,000 as of 2023. And that's a huge problem for the obvious reason,

leaving aside the pros and cons of electric vehicles, most people just cannot afford to spend $60,000 on a vehicle. That's right. Yeah, 3,800 jobs are going for the Ford employees, and it's a big difference from Henry Ford when he said, I want to make sure that my employees can buy my product, that type of thing, right? Zero Hedge had an article that says most people can't afford a shiny new car anymore.

And it's because they have, as you've been talking about this for years, how they are pricing everything out of everybody's reach. They've been doing it with all kinds of emissions and safety mandates and add-ons for years. And now it has just gone exponential with the electric stuff. Yeah, there's multiple layers to this onion. You know, problems that particularly beset the electric car. It's kind of an interesting catch-22 in that you may recall, before all this got rolling, they would say,

well, you know, the EV prices will come down as production increases because it'll scale. Well, what they didn't think about, or at least I don't think they claim they didn't think about, is that increased demand would mean increased demand for the materials that electric batteries are made of, and in particular the lithium and the cobalt. They're essential to lithium-ion batteries. And those materials are in relatively short supply. They're very labor-intensive to get and to manufacture, and that increases costs. So ironically, as the impetus to build more of these EVs has rolled on, the cost of EVs

has gone up. So, you know, I don't know how they're going to reconcile this unless, of course, the objective is, as you and I have thought and discussed, that the object isn't to replace the existing fleet of vehicles with electric vehicles. It's to get most people out of their vehicles. That's right. That's right. That's right. And the other part of it is, is they try to continue to divide us against each other over

slavery 160 years ago. Nobody wants to talk about the current slavery. You know, all of these massive fortunes of the Silicon Valley companies, as well as China, it's all built on slave labor. That was an essential part of the China price was slave labor besides intellectual piracy and other things like that, currency manipulation. Slave labor was a big part of it. Slave labor is a big part of all of these electronic devices because that's where they're getting the cobalt and other minerals like that is from child slave labor and that's whether you're buying a phone or a laptop or a

electric scooter or a car or an 18 wheeler or a bus or any all of these battery things are all built on this slave labor uh factor there it would be far more expensive if they talk about it that's right it would be think about how expensive it would be if they didn't have it subsidized on the front end with slave labor. You're talking about how it's getting up to $60,000 a piece now. What if they actually bought some machinery so the kids didn't have to go in and dig this stuff out by hand? Yeah, and that's probably

why they're not talking about it. And it really is probably the most egregious and the most cruel form of slavery. They literally have children, kids, clawing this stuff out of open pit mines in the so-called Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yeah, that's right. It is truly amazing. Well, they're all feeding at the trough. One of the things I mentioned, Bank of America is going to jump into these charging stations, but they're going to bundle, uh, you know, if they finance your electric car, they're also going

to bundle a system for you to, uh, uh, add some at-home vehicle charging things here. So that's how they're trying to jump into this thing. There's so much money, as I said before, to put an emergency brake on these, uh, trains that are transporting hazardous material that would cost anywhere from a half to $3 billion, depending on who you ask, right? But he's got a budget of $560 billion. He doesn't want to spend anything on that, but he's going to spend it on charging stations and things. Well, we're in the era now in this country of the five-year plan, and that reference

is to the old Soviet Union when the central political apparat would decree how things were going to be done for the next five years. And they didn't allow the market to have the flexibility to deal with changing conditions or unanticipated things that came up. That's why we've got this debacle now with these electric vehicles that have been forced onto the market without any consideration given to how are we going to get the materials that we needed to build these things with and how are we going to make it so that it's

affordable? And then what about all the attendant problems? You know, people talk about the, oh, we'll just build up the charging infrastructure well. Where's the generating capacity going to come from? And how are you going to meter power from the generating point, the utility plant, out into the hinterlands, which you can't do in a way that's analogous to building a gas station out somewhere that's far away from a city? That's right. Yeah yeah that's what they're looking at in places like montana and other places like

you know you're gonna as you pointed out when you did that electric car testing when it was cold in december you could not get the thing to charge you know before for christmas or new year's holiday another person had exactly the same issue imagine if you're out in montana where it is incredibly cold and and there's nothing anywhere around except maybe this electric charger here. So you need it, you pull up there and you can't get to the point where it's going to actually start charging your car. Just can't get it hot enough to start charging the battery. And you have no heat either. I mean, you're going to die out there. That's one of the reasons why they're getting hostile to that and saying, well, we're

not going to allow these things out here. That's right. By the way, I'd like to mention something else that hasn't been covered much as far as this business with the F-150 production stoppage and the price. And it is that the model that costs about $60,000 now is the one that has the lighter capacity 230-mile range battery. If you want the one that can go supposedly 300 miles on a full charge, you have to step up to the XLT trim, and that one starts at about $63,000. And then the cost of the optional battery, because it's an option, is $12,500. So now you're up to about $76,000 to get into the thing. It just keeps going. Yeah, the average price is $65,000, but hey, you want to get an the thing it just keeps going yeah the average price is 65 but hey you want to get a an f-150 electric what is an f-150 uh journal truck i mean that's the highest

selling vehicle out there what does that typically go for in comparison well you can get the okay that'd be the non-electric counterpart is the super crew the base trim uh four-door super crew uh truck and that is about forty thousand dollars and that one will go about 600 miles on the highway yeah yeah amazing well it is uh again it is cars being designed by politicians who don't even have it's not even like they're they're not engineers and they don't know what to do they've got malicious intentions yeah it took me a long time to come around to that conclusion but after a while you point out problems and you make observations and unless they're absolutely just stupid people and while there are some of those there's no way they can't understand the

nature of what it is that they're doing and the consequences that it's having yeah i had a friend who used to say never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence it's like right i don't know were you born yesterday pal right i mean come on one of the tragedies too yeah we used to have a sort of a checks and balances system and that the corporations would push back against some of this you know you had the governing class and the pointy-headed bureaucrats and all of that, and the people particularly in the car industry were people who understood how machinery works and how the economy works, and they would push back. But now you've got these rent-seeking people who might as well be in the government.

They've become indistinguishable from it. They not only amen everything that the government calls for, they even anticipate it and double down on it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I've got a clip that I've been playing this week. Going back to the old days when CBS used to do a You Are There series with Walter Cronkite. I don't know if you remember that or not. But they would actually do American history, and they would do it with respect. And so there's a clip there from the Tea Party where you've got John Hancock talking to the other people.

He goes, you understand what this is about. This is about monopoly. Today, it's about tea. Tomorrow, it'll be about something else, and it will continue. And that's where we are right now. All of this centralization of all decision-making, all this centralization of all economics and everything else, it's all about monopoly.

It's about centralization, control. They called it consolidation. And to them, it was the fundamental evil that had to be avoided because they knew where it led we don't understand that anymore yeah and something else that i harp on a lot because i think it's important is that principles and precedents matter and to that end i wrote something the other day about uh something that popped up in the news which is that the uh uh the regulatory apparatus department ofTSA, is talking about making a retroactive regulation for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles made prior to 2018, which, when they were manufactured, were not required to have a backup buzzer.

You know, they don't make any noise, so the worry is that it's backing up, and somebody who's glued to their cell phone may not be paying attention and might not hear it and get run over. So that was the reason the reg was passed in 2018 and still applies now. But the vehicles prior to that didn't have to have it. So now this really worrisome-to-me business of saying, well, we're going to go ahead and require vehicles made before that to be retrofitted with this equipment sets off alarms for me because why couldn't they, by the same logic,

say that if you have a car that was made before airbags, let's say, or anti-lock brakes, you must get that thing retrofitted in order for it to be legal to use on public roads? Well, and that is exactly the way that they will use it because they want to make sure that people, that they can take our transportation away from us. You know, that'll be the most effective way for them to shut down our cars to say, well, you know, now we're going to make this supply retroactively to all the cars that are out there. And do you realize how much that's going to cost? You know, it's going to cost far more than if they were to do it at the manufacturing process. So people are going to look at this and say, all right, well, you know, that's it.

I'm just going to abandon the car and turn it in for junk, you know, because I can't afford to supply. Yeah. I think it's inevitable. I think that as this proceeds and elaborates, they are going to have to, from their point of view, do something about the alternatives to these electric cars, to the connected cars and the big brother cars, meaning all the vehicles that don't have that stuff. Yeah.

And I think this is one of the ways that they're going to do it. And it's instructive because they've done it before. They won't pass an outright ban. They won they won't say no you can't drive your 1989 pickup anymore they'll say certainly you can drive it provided it meets the standards and then they'll say that you have to have it fitted with this that and the other thing and of course uh even if it's technically feasible to do it it will be economically impossible for most people to do it and that will result in them giving up their vehicles. That's right. Yeah. I think, you know, when we look at this, what do we do to stop this?

I look at what is happening. You've got about 26 states now have said that they're not going to comply with this executive order of gun control outlawing the pistol brace, right? And so they're saying, well, we're just not going to comply with that, not going to do that. Well, it's going to require something like that to stop this gradual infringement and eventual banning of private automobiles. And yet there isn't any organization out there. This is what I think the real problem is, Eric, just kind of brainstorming this. And

maybe you need to put together an organization and do this. You've got Gun Owners of America, you've got the NRA, you've got a lot of these different special interest groups. And I've said that it's far more effective to organize issue by issue in terms of fighting these things than it is to try to get behind a politician or a party because that's like going to the grocery store and you've got basket A and you've got basket B, and they're both filled up with a bunch of stuff. Some of it you like in each of these baskets, but there's a lot of it you really hate,

and that's what you get when you vote in an election. That's it. But you can still come in if you've got a powerful special interest group to focus on one issue like guns. You can still come in and you can effectively steer these garbage shopping carts that are filled with all kinds of stuff that you don't like. You can still steer them with these special interest organizations. And there's nothing like that out there for cars, really. Not yet.

There's a lag time. I've noticed this over the course of my professional life and you probably have too it takes a while for people to understand what's going on and then react to it yeah and i think the first predicate that's necessary uh is for a critical mass of awareness to realize that these people are not uh well intended but misguided but that they are malicious and to proceed from premise, to understand that these people are out literally to get us, they are out to get us. It's not paranoia, it's fact. They are disingenuous, they are malicious people. And then the next step is to decide to say, no, I've been advocating this on an individual level for some time. I've argued

that at the beginning of mass hysteria, if only a third of the population and probably less than that, had just said, you know what, I'm not doing that, period. No discussion. I'm not doing it. I think the masking stuff would have been over very quickly, and it would have been much harder for them to push the vaccines on people, too. You're absolutely right, because as people started to not comply with that, you could see how they pulled back and how they put this on pause, but they've not ended it. I was just talking earlier in the broadcast about the fact that the FDA has now come out and said, we're going to lose the emergency, but that means we're going to continue, even though

we don't have an emergency, we're going to continue the emergency authorization use without an emergency. They're actually bragging about that. They're telling that to our elected representatives who passively sit there and say, oh, okay, whatever you say, you know, they don't even push back against this stuff. That's why I say that. We can't count on them to, so we will have to. You know, they've added the so-called COVID vaccine to the childhood vaccination schedule. So, you know, parents now have the obligation and the power to refuse to have their children injected with this stuff, period, hard stop, end of discussion.

And if that means pulling them out of government schools and schooling them at home, then so be it. Yes, yes. How much more does it take, you know, to get people to get their kids out of school? I just don't understand. I mean, I would have, you know, I passed that threshold about 30 years ago when our kids were young. You know, it's like, no, no more of that. Talk about the article you got about the trap is sprung. Oh, yeah.

Well, you know, you're a fellow gearhead, so you probably be following this as well. Let's set the predicate. They had to do something about diesel engines. This goes back about 10 years ago, just as the electrification thing was getting rolling. And diesels, particularly affordable ones, and specifically the ones that were being sold by Volkswagen, represented an existential threat to the electric car agenda, because here you had a vehicle that would get 55 miles per gallon or even more that could go 700 plus miles, that would last for 300,000 miles, and that would cost you about $23,000, let's say. There is no way that you can make an electric vehicle competitive with that.

So they started to do things, passing regulations to make diesels more expensive to build, more difficult for those who manufactured them to get them through the compliance regime. And one of the ways that they succeeded in doing that was to require, effectively, that diesel engines be fitted with these particulate traps and these DEF urea injection systems, which are a real pain. They add a level of cost to the vehicle, and they make the vehicle less efficient. Fast forward to now, there's almost no diesel power passenger vehicles left in this country that you can buy new. And now they're going to apply the same technique to the remaining gas engines they want to fit them with particulate traps, if you can buy new. And now they're going to apply the same technique to the remaining gas engines they want to fit them with particulate traps,

if you can imagine. And the reason for that, hilariously and pathetically, is because of all the prior regulations that have caused gas engines to produce more soot than they used to via things like high-pressure direct injection, turbocharging little engines, very, very thin viscosity film oils, and so on. Now, it's not a lot of soot.

It's nothing that has any meaningful effect, but they're going to be able to frame it or try to frame it, as they always have framed it, as, oh, we've got a public health crisis. There's too much soot being produced by these cars. We've got to do something about it. And then they'll mandate the particulate traps for cars. Yeah, and it is an absolute lie.

I mean, it's the same type of thing they've been trying to pull in terms of banning barbecue grills, fireplaces. Now they're talking about the gas ranges and everything. And you've got Hochul out there saying, no, we want to just get rid of these things because we don't want to have any gas. Biden tries to make it about health. Oh, we think it's giving kids asthma. Total nonsense in terms of that.

You can smell if the thing is leaking. You know if it's leaking with that. Right. It's not an issue. Common sense tells us that. It's been debunked. That was one study that they ran through. But again, when you talk about they have essentially created,

this is a problem that they created. It's still a very small problem, but they created it. And rather than admit to one mistake and reverse that, they will make a second mistake on top of it because it's all just about whatever justification they can come up with to do what they want. And what they want is to get rid of all internal combustion engines. I think it's pretty amazing when you talk about this fine particulate matter stuff, Eric. One of the things that I was involved in at the time that I began working for InfoWars about 11 years ago was something that was happening in Research Triangle Park at the big EPA factory that's close to where I live. And they were out there running experiments, hooking people up to find particulate matter that was 72 times what they said. Yeah, directly to the tailpipe, I bet.

Yeah, directly to the tailpipe. They took out the carbon monoxide. But the way it was discovered was Steve Malloy, who's running Junkscience.com. He noticed, as he was monitoring their tests and seeing what they were doing, that they had to call ambulances to take people out. And then he found that they were actually screening for people who had heart issues, who had respiratory issues, so they could make this look worse than it was. And at the time, they were talking about getting rid of fireplaces and all the rest of this. Now they've moved on to getting rid of all the gas ranges and all gas furnaces and all the rest of this stuff. It is a complete takedown of everything that we have in society.

And we've got to focus on not even arguing about any of this emission stuff. We need to just shut that down and say, look, we know what you're about. The emission stuff is not a threat to anybody at this point in time. Yeah, and part of the way is to just parse a little bit, not let them get away with what they attempt to get away with and you've heard this line from them they'll say that uh... as an example uh... requiring uh... uh... particular traps be added to a gas powered car will reduce pop on particular missions by fifty percent and that sounds like a huge number of most people

you dig into a little bit what it means is fifty percent a point oh something percent you know it's a tiny tiny little fraction that has no meaning except in terms of this bureaucratic leisure domain. And that is what journalism has failed to explain to people. And if we can correct that, I'm convinced that we can correct the misinformation and misperception that we've got some kind of a problem with the submission stuff, which has been a boogeyman now for 30 years. I agree. Yeah, as a matter of fact, as part of that report, I went to the EPA's website at the time where they talked about fine particulate matter and they showed people and they showed Eric a picture of the smoky mountains.

And they said, here's an example of fine particulate matter. And it's like, are you kidding me? They were called the smoky mouse because it's foggy around here. That was, you know, the Indians were calling it that. That was well before anybody was burning anything other than smoke signals in a small amount. It had absolutely nothing to do with it. And so we made a big deal out of it. They changed their website. But, you know, that's where these people come. They will put out any lie, no matter how absurd, and they don't

bother to try to even back it up with any facts. If we had an operational press in this country, and I'm not disparaging independent journalism because that still is functional, but what's called mainstream corporate journalism has become agitprop, has become co-opted. You know, there's a hilarious video. It's hilarious, and it's also sad and alarming that it's a compilation of a lot of the major news broadcasts with brought to you by Pfizer. In each one, have you seen that? Oh, yeah, I play that here from time to time. And that's the problem. These people now are just puppets.

They are thoroughly controlled. It's no longer even a matter, as in the old days, when there was a bias in the media. You knew that people like Dan Rather were on the left and so on. Now they're just owned. They're completely owned, and they read from a script, and nothing that they say is to be trusted and should always be questioned. That's right. Yeah, they don't even try to hide it anymore. I mean, there was one point in time where they

tried to hide it with Operation Mockingbird. They don't even care anymore. No. And you notice they exert no effort either. This business of that train derailment, how come they didn't send reporters out there to find out what's going on? You know, that actually might take effort and time. Yes, yes. They don't care. They don't care. I mean, it's, you know, they'll go to war in Ukraine to protect their borders, but they don't care about our borders. They don't care about, you know, they want to say, oh, yeah, we care about your health and your safety.

Nothing could be further from the truth. And what we see happening in Ohio makes that very clear. In terms of the way that they control access to places, of course, you've got an article about Google and how they are manipulating the search engine results and how that affects you in particular. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, well, I'm in a kind of a favorable position in that my website is almost entirely supported by individual readers who chip in as they like. So I cannot offend Google and not have to worry about living under a bridge because I've had all my ad revenue pulled. But I still have some legacy Google ads on the site that just have been there forever.

So I get these episodic reports from Google about my monthly traffic. And I caught them in a really, really obvious lie. I had one article in last month. It was, I think, I think it was an electric vehicle article that got something like 40 or 50 thousand views. And they claimed that the total number of views that the entire site had that month was a number that was smaller than that. Now, you know, as you know, and people who come to my site know most of my individual articles, I'm not tooting my horn here. I just want to stay back so people understand. I usually have 1,000 at least and sometimes several thousand page views

for each individual article, and I generally write at least one and sometimes two every day, every week, all month long. So it gives you an idea of the disingenuousness with which Google says your rankings are such and such. And, of course, those rankings are the basis for those who are dependent on Google ad revenue of what Google pays, which is, you know, you might as well go work in a cobalt mine and start clawing stuff out of the side of the wall. Yeah, and that's a key part of the censorship that we're now seeing,

and that is the demonetization. They've got a lot of different ways that they can do that, right? They don't like what you're doing. They demonetize you on YouTube, but then of course they can also, uh, this cabal that is controlling information as they did with me, they demonetize me on PayPal and Venmo five months after the show began. And so there's a lot of different ways that they can do this and they're doing it out in the open, you know, about a year and a half after that, they

started talking about PayPal said, we're going to charge you $2,500 if we think that you put disinformation out there. Then they pulled back when they got a lot of blowback. And then when things quieted down, they put it back in there. First, they came back and they said when they got a lot of complaints about it, they said, oh, we didn't know that was there. It's like, are you kidding me? Come on. Nobody believes that. You ran this through your lawyers.

You put this out with the terms of service and everything, which is generated by your legal department. And so they put out this ridiculous lie. And then when everything calmed down, they put it back in there just to show that they were lying all the time. But this is what is happening across the board, the push to demonetize people to come after us financially, which is one of the reasons why this whole central bank digital currency thing is obviously the ultimate weapon, the singularity, the convergence of their control, I think. Yeah, I was just going to mention that. That is the existential threat. And I think they're biding their time for that because we still have alternatives. If you get demonetized or deplatformed uh... you can pursue options and and continue to function

but if they manage to impose this uh... centrally issued digital currency then they will be able to summarily simply shut off your ability to function economically and uh... that would make it impossible for journalism to be operative for anybody even a private person who's not a journalist, to dare to question or say anything that is contra the narrative for fear of not being able to get food or pay their bills. That's right. You won't be able to get food. You won't be able to get ammunition.

You won't be able to buy a gun. You won't be able to buy a car. They don't like it? No, we're not going to let you do that. And just confiscate whatever they want. It is, as one person said, it is surveillance disguised as money. And, of course, control is a part of that. If there were ever a cause for a modern Tea Party,

I don't mean the Tea Party of the 90s and early 2000s. I'm talking about the Boston-type Tea Party, something along those lines. And I say this with all respect for being cautious and prudent and so on. If there ever were a necessity for such a thing, it is the central bank digital currency. That cannot be allowed to stand. It cannot, yes, absolutely. Let's talk a little bit about how we get back to where we started from.

That's one of your articles this last week. How do we get back? Where do we want to go to? Do we want to go back? Do we want to live like the Amish? That's starting to look more appealing all the time. Well, you know, that's an economic question, but I kind of got to thinking it was a rainy day,

and I was feeling just down about all this stuff that you and I talk about all the time, and it's oppressive. And oftentimes I think many of us will feel somewhat powerless in that, what are we going to do? You know, these entities and these forces that are out there that are constantly doing these things to us. And I got to thinking, well, you know, we can do something as individuals. You and I as individuals can do things within our own lives to set a proper example, for example, to be strong,

to learn how to do things for ourselves, to connect with other people, to do things for the people in our circle, our friends and our families. And I think if we do that, that scales, you know, from the bottom up rather than from the top down. And that's the rest of the article. I agree. Yeah, you say, if we are men, we strive to be gentle men. Talk about that. Yeah, you know, that term has, like so many other words, lost its former and proper definition, just like gay used to mean happy, and now it means something else. A gentleman does not mean somebody who dresses well. You know, it means a man who is in control of himself and is gentle with weaker people and is strong when strength is called for, as to stand up to bullies, for example, as to stand up for what's right. You know,

at the beginning of the whole corona mess, I resolved and I held true to this, to never put on one of those filthy masks, ever, no matter what. No matter what the consequences of that were going to be. And I'm not presenting myself as any kind of hero. And it really didn't take that much to do it. It just took a willingness to stand up and not bow down before social pressure. And it's that sort of thing that we must do if we're going to rebuild our society and everything else that goes along with it.

I like when you're talking about what is a gentle man. I like what you say. He is civilized unless civility is challenged. That's a great way to sum that up. You know, if you as a man see somebody weaker being abused, you should step in and do something about it. Even if it's only to say something, you don't just avert your eyes and walk past it. Yeah. Oh no, you pull out your phone and you take pictures of it so you can get a lot

of views on social media. That's what it's terrible. And, and, you know, that also is a measure of the immaturity and fantalism and narcissism that afflicts so many people. It's not all about you. That's right. You know, it makes me think, um, uh, my son,

Travis loved GA Hinty books. We got the entire series and this is a guy who, uh, you know, lived the latter part of the Victorian England. And so he talks about, uh, some things that were pretty well known historical times in his novels.

And he talks about some other things that are less well known to us, but they would have been known to the people more contemporary, to the people of Victorian times, but not as important to us today. But he had a common thing in all these novels, and that was you always had a young man who was, you saw the story through, right, his eyes. He was the protagonist. And he's on the cusp of manhood. He's like 15 or 16 years old or whatever. And so he gets in a situation where it's like the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD or whatever. And he gets to meet people on both sides of the conflict and all this type of thing. But what was really amazing about it was what you were talking about, the gentleman aspect of it, the civility aspect of thing. But what was really amazing about it was what you were talking about,

you know, the gentleman aspect of it, the civility aspect of it. And what G.A. Hinty was doing was he was showing in this novel a model for behavior for the kids. It has to be taught. It's not natural. What is natural to us is the Lord of the Flies. But you have to teach civility. And if you don't teach civility, you're not going to have civilization. It's just that simple. That's where we are today. It's not an accident that we've got this pervasive incivility, particularly, and I don't want to broad brush it because it's not everybody, but a lot of the younger crowd is shouting, profane, hysterical, cannot deal with a question or an objection to what they feel or what they believe in. You can't present them with, well, why do you feel that way?

What is this all about? They get angry and they start to denounce you. You're a hater. You're a bigot. You're a misogynist and all that sort of thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely true. There's an article that I had today I hadn't gotten to yet, but it was talking about schools in Chicago.

And it was 53 schools where they didn't have a single student who could do math at grade level. And in 30 schools, they didn't have one single student that could read at grade level. And this is what has happened. It is a deliberate dumbing down. And it's not just the reading and writing. What is even more disturbing is that they have dumbed down our civility, our civilization, and to the point that they have made all these kids, as you're talking about, they're so inwardly focused and focused on their feelings and not focused at all on anything that is outside of them, that you can't engage them on things outside of them.

They don't even want to discuss what is right or wrong because they've got their truth and you've got your truth and it's all moral relative to each other. There is no absolute truth except that there is no absolute truth to these kids. So they don't want to debate anything. You can't really talk to them about anything. And if you try to engage them, they just withdraw into this shell that they've got, withdraw into themselves. Yeah, you've got 35-year-old, 12-year-olds.

Yes. Adolescence has been pushed now into the 20s, and adulthood into the 40s. Yes, that's right. Yeah. Try to keep people infantilized all their life. You've got a review of the 2023 Nissan Z. Now, I'm not in the market for a car, but I'd like to hear about this. What was it like?

Well, it's an interesting thing, particularly to people like you and I who really like sports cars, in particular, light ones. Now, what's fascinating to me about the new Z, which, of course, is the latest iteration of Nissan's and formerly Datsun's iconic 240Z sports car, is that this compact size sports car weighs, wait for it, more than 3,500 pounds. Can you believe that? Yeah, bloke.

So they've overcome that to some extent by putting in a 400 horsepower engine. The original, the 1969 240Z, was just fine with 151 horsepower. It wasn't as quick, but it was a lot of fun. It was what a sports car is supposed to be, which is light and agile and flickable, like your Miata. That's what that kind of a car is all about. But what we've got now are these just kind of Frankenstein cars that are contrary to what they have always been.

Nissan has had to try to figure out how to make a sports car still be a sports car, despite all of the weight, which they have really got no choice about, because in order for them to get the car through the regulatory compliance regime, they have to build in a lot of structure. They have to build the whole car around the multiple airbags the thing has, the seats, the dash, everything about the car, and that makes it heavy. So what do they do to counteract that? Well, they put in this twice turbocharged V6 engine that makes 400 horsepower. So it's very quick, but it's also

very heavy. And of course, it's pretty expensive. It's, you know, 35 or about, well, $33,000 to start, probably closer to 40 once you're out the door. Wow. Yeah, that's the thing to me about sports cars. I mean, there's two different ways you can look at it. You can look at something that's just fast, straight line acceleration, a muscle car type of thing. But in terms of a sports car, you're looking for agility. You're looking for something that can change direction very quickly. Like the Lotus where Chapman said you add lightness to it.

Everything he was doing was about stripping stuff out. And I guess, I don't know, I guess Lotus is still selling cars today. It must be kind of comical to see all the stuff that they're mandated to put into their, their car. Well, unfortunately they've gone away completely from Chapman's FOS and they're committed to electrification, big, heavy EVs. Uh, but the good news is you can still get the, uh, you know, the Lotus seven basically in kit form or even fully assembled. There's a number of, uh, aftermarket companies that, that sell that. Yeah. Yeah. The catering. I remember that it was, uh, you know, the Lotus seven basically in kit form or even fully assembled. There's a number of, uh, aftermarket companies that, that sell that. Yeah.

Yeah. The catering. I remember that it was, uh, there was a, uh, top gear episode where they, they had one, uh, group of the guys was building one and he's trying to get it built faster than the other guy could make the journey from a place where he picked it up. Uh, but, uh, yeah, kind of, kind of an interesting thing. Of course you go back to the prisoner, Patrick McGowan. That was the car that, uh, that he was driving.

There was a Lotus seven. Uh, they decided they stopped selling that. And, uh, so they, they gave the license to, uh, cater them and they have been doing that in various forms and they've got a lot of different engine sizes on it. They can get those things can go really, really fast. It's highly configurable and customizable. And isn't it a shame that we haven't got the choices that we once took for granted, where a person who was a purist and just wanted that elemental experience of a car that didn't

even have doors, the original Lotus 7 didn't have that. You just wanted a very extremely light, I think the thing weighed like 1,200 pounds, pure sports car could buy that. And then a person who wanted a gigantic road dreadnought could go out and buy a Rolls Royce or a Cadillac. And there was everything else that was in between. And so each of us could choose something that suited our needs and our wants. And that's what's being taken away from us. Yeah.

And you didn't really need doors with it because it's so low. You just step into it. The hard part was trying to scoot down. As long as you kept moving, the rain wouldn't get you either. That's right. Yeah. I've had that experience. But, yeah, there was a great series of YouTube videos.

I saw one guy has one. He's going through all these different roads in Europe before the pandemic stuff and everything. And he would drive it through the Alps and things like that. And he just sat there real time with a camera know, right over his shoulder and kind of experience it there with him without the G's of course. But, uh, it was, it was a great trip to take that thing. Um, it was a different experience, you know, depending on what you grow, it was totally different. Unlike most modern cars and particularly EVs other than, oh, it's quick. They're all the same. And the experience is the same. This one's got a bigger flat screen than that screen. The screen is over here rather than over there,

but it's just all androgynous and anodyne and the same, and I think that that's deliberate. I think they're doing this to take the passion and the interest and the individuality out of cars so as to make them appliances that are disposable and who cares? You get one because you need to get from A to B, and the next step on that road is, well, why don't we just go ahead and get an app on our phone and we can call up our automated electric car to meet SAC us from A to B.

Yeah, yeah. Or just stay where you are and have a virtual experience, you know. Yeah, that's a meta experience. Exactly. As if you're driving through the Swiss Alps when you're just watching a guy driving through the Swiss Alps. Yeah, that was one thing, you know, for years I had, you're talking about a very elemental experience. That was my Spitfire, my Triumph Spitfire that I had.

Boy, that car was, you know, super, super low. When we drove it out of the car dealer's place and we stopped at a traffic light, Karen was in the car with me and we stopped at the light and this bus comes up and it's really loud. We've got the top down. I look over and I can see everything underneath the bus. It's like, we're so alone underneath of it. That's right. It probably could have.

And so it was really elemental. And even when it would rain and we'd put up the cloth top, you know, the, the rain is beat. You're like in a tent, you know, is, uh, and so it's beating down on you. And it was a blast. I really loved it. Even though, you know, and so it's beating down on you. And it was a blast. I really loved it. Even though, you know, no air conditioning and that kind of stuff, and it'd get pretty hot in Florida. It was still a lot of fun to have that. And I didn't have that for several decades until I went back and got the Miata.

And I realized what I had missed being hermetically sealed in a car, you know, have the top down and you're exposed to the elements, but you're exposed to all the sights and sounds. It's a much more visceral experience as you're moving through the environment with a top down. Some smells good. Some smells bad, you know, skunks, but you know, when you get over, when you go past the skunk is really intense for just one moment, but it doesn't stick around like it does when it gets in your car, you know? So it's kind of a trade off.

It's an inversion of what we're dealing with now in that, nope, you didn't have to drive a car like your Spitfire or a Lotus 7 if that wasn't for you, if that wasn't your bag. You get something that is your bag. Get something that's more isolated from the external world. But now, you know, courtesy of this ruling apparatus, somehow, you know, who knows how this just happened. But over time, we've gotten to this position where there are a handful, relatively speaking, of these regulatory bureaucrats who somehow have got the power to tell us what we're going to be allowed to drive. That's right. Yeah, you go back and you talk about the original 240Z. What a great car that was, you know.

240, 260, they, very, very simple, but, um, you know, it just, it was a very different type of car than anybody had come up with. And, um, you know, it was very successful, but then they got very, very complicated. You got, as we're talking about this, uh, therapy, you've got an article about, uh, some therapy talking about a motorcycle, right? Yeah. Sometimes I have to step away from the keyboard, just as I'm sure you have to step away from the microphone sometimes, and clear my head and do something to just dissipate all of that bad juju. So I had occasion to go out and piddle with one of my motorcycles,

which had locked-up brake calipers. And there's just something for me that's very emotionally gratifying about disassembling a mechanical component that I can have, I can hold in my hands, I can see what's the matter with it, and I can put it back together again. And I find that to be just very fulfilling and gratifying, far much more so than tapping an app and, you know, having some program do something for me. Exactly. Yeah. So passive is so disconnected and it does give you a sense of control to be actually able to do something physically like that. There was a, and you literally are in control.

It's up to me to fix it. I have the power to fix it. Whereas, you know, with a lot of this electronic stuff, particularly the proprietary stuff, even if you had the technical know-how, you can't do it without the say-so permission of the company that has the access to the necessary diagnostic equipment. Yes, yes. Life has become a black box for us. And it's nice to be able to get in and actually do something real.

As a matter of fact, I just saw an interview with a guy who was talking about how important it was and how valuable it could be to get a blue collar degree rather than to get a college degree and you know this is coming right after uh somebody did a survey and they found the vast majority of companies were saying well you don't really need to make a college degree a requirement for this job it's not necessary the kids that are coming out of college now aren't really learning anything this guy was taking the other approach and said he had a welding company, and he said, I teach kids welding. He said it takes six months instead of four years, and when you get out, you will get a job, and the jobs will be between $80,000 and $200,000. He said in his best year, he made $365,000. Yeah, do you remember Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. He talked about this recently. I can't remember which program it was, but I listened to him. thousand dollars you know do you remember mike rowe from dirty jobs yeah yeah oh yeah he talked about this uh recently i can't remember which program it was but i listened to him and he talked about the dearth of people who are willing to do skilled work whether it's welding whether it's electrical work plumbing all of these things because they have been they've been frankly shat upon you know as undignified you know you you know you're a proletariat if you work with your hands as opposed to pushing paper and telling people who work with their hands what to do.

But the fact of the matter is that there are lots of jobs out there like that. And for any kid with some gumption who wants to learn how to actually do something productive, the world is their oyster. And it's not just that right now that is the case. And it's going to be even more so the case because if you have a societal breakdown just because of the complexity, it doesn't have to be a war. It doesn't have to be a lockdown CBDC world. It could just be this complicated, shaky system that we messed with a few years ago that's still reverberating back and forth. It could be just taken down for any reason. But once you do that, if you can do something that is real, you're a value to other people as well as to yourself. And you can find other people like that. And that's going to be the thing that's going to rebuild our society

when it comes crashing down from all this over-complexity and virtuality that is in there. The reality is going to be the people who know how to really do something. That's going to be the people who know how to really do something. That's going to be the key thing. A good axiom is the more that you can do, the less you have to depend. That's right. Yeah. If you want to have independence and liberty, you're going to have to make sure that you have trained yourself in doing some stuff that's real, I think. And that was the old American ideal.

The jack of all trades who knew a lot of things and to a great extent was self-sufficient and didn't have to go hat in hand begging to some central thing to help him with something he couldn't fathom. That's right. Yeah, it was not only the American stereotype, but it's also the American aspiration. I remember going back and seeing the movie Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines. I thought that was a lot of fun. And of course, they've got all these stereotypes of all the different nationalities.

You know, they got the, the German guy out there who's doing the marching, all this stuff and, and very militaristic. But the American guy was this ordinary guy who, who could do anything and was independent because of his skills. And,

and he was different from all the other guys in that, you know, other than that, he's just kind of an ordinary guy, but he had this ability to, um, uh, to fix anything and, you know, and, and, and was just, you know, on his own and on a shoestring, but he was able to fix it. You don't really see that too much anymore, except in a farm areas, you know, where people, because of income and that type of thing, they have to, uh, and a variety of tasks that they're going to do. They have to be a jack of all these different trades, as you pointed out. And they have to have all these different skills so they can remain independent, so they can remain in business. But we don't have that anymore.

We've become highly specialized in one thing and then very dependent upon this complex, just-in-time system of delivery that is just bound to fail. Yeah, this whole thing actually is also universal. We could talk about another facet of it, which is health. The more responsible that we are for our own health in terms of taking care of ourselves, in terms of being careful about what we eat and what we do, the less dependent we are on this corporate monetized medical apparat too, which once again, doesn't have our best interests at heart. Yeah. Yeah.

Even refusing what they believe to be life saving healthcare to people, you know, we'll say the transplants, but it's not just that. As I was talking about that, you know, earlier in the program had an individual say, yeah,

my GP kicked me out because I wasn't vaccinated. So they're going to deny healthcare to people who aren't vaccinated. What's going to be the next thing? You know, your carbon footprint's too high. I'm sure caught the news that they're actually considering making the masking stuff permanent within all health facilities. Yeah. Yeah.

It's crazy. And that's the CDC's continues to push this. You know, Eric, I had back in 2002, there was a study that I found. I think it was the most effective one. There was a study in the 1980s. There's just been a new study, but of course, well, let's get the CDC doesn't want to see it. But I think the best one was the one that came out in 2002 in Australia. And it was, um, a doctor there who had discovered the Parvo virus. And she did a test and she said, the masks don't make any difference. Even in operating, uh, environment, she said after 20 minutes, it gets so saturated with

spittle that you're pushing out particles that are smaller, going to travel farther and stay airborne longer. So it actually is detrimental. We had a German doctor during all of this stuff that showed the opposite. You know, he said, hey, you're going to get loaded up with spittle. And then when you breathe in, you got small particles that are going to go further down in your lungs. So whether you're breathing out or breathing in, they're actually detrimental. Yeah, it's amazing. But it's political. It determines all of these things, isn't it? That's right. It is political. And

they're not going to get rid of the emergency. They're going to keep this thing as long as they can. Anything else is happening with you that's on your radar? Well, I can't think of anything. Oh, yeah, there is one other thing. Well, wait a minute. I hope I'm not being senile here and having a Biden moment. We did talk about the retroactive regulations, didn't we? Yeah, we did. We didn't talk about the fact that it killswitch, right? That they want to retroactivate as a killswitch. Yeah, the killswitch. That was the thing I wanted to touch on briefly, which, you know, Biden has decreed that that will be installed on all 2026 model year vehicles, period.

And the way they're trying to sell it is the usual oily way they try to sell these things, and that, oh, it's going to be a safety boon because it's going to prevent people from driving drunk. And it will do that supposedly by monitoring eye movement. You know, if you're nodding off and so on, then the car will shut itself off or the government can shut it off if they see you careening through the roads drunk and so on. But, you know, the same technology that makes it possible to do that would also make it possible to shut off the car for any reason they like. You know, if you haven't gotten your latest vaccine shot, you're not wearing your face diaper, whatever it is, if you're driving slightly faster than whatever the sign on the road says, that could be used to shut the car off. Or if you brake too quickly or you take the turns too quickly or whatever, anything that

they don't like, they can do it that way. Is that different than this kill switch and the way they're selling it for drunk driving? They were talking about requiring everybody to have a breathalyzer put in the car. Have they now pivoted from that to this kill switch thing? I think they're working on both. Both are similar in that they rely on what's called passive sensing technology. If you get convicted of drunk driving, often they require that your car be fitted with a literal breathalyzer machine that you have to blow into before which the car will actually start.

This is different. The idea was that they would sample your hands by touching the steering wheel or something along those lines. The system would be able to detect the presence of alcohol in your system. But now they're doing it via this other means. A good example, Subaru already has in their car something called EyeSight. And what that is is a system that monitors where your eyes are looking. And if the thing decides that you're not looking where you're supposedly supposed to be looking, it will flash various warnings and try to correct you as you drive. That's the kind of technology that they're going

to use. And of course, the same technology can be used, as you say, if you brake too aggressively, accelerate too aggressively, corner too aggressively for whatever the parameters built into the system are, then the system can decide, oh, you're an unsafe driver and, you know, shut the car off. Maybe they can just give you an electroshock or something like that, you know, like a Milgram experiment. You know, actually, that would be better, in my opinion. This is cloying, insipid, this endless parenting and condescending attitude that you're an absolute moron, and we just have to constantly watch you and correct you for every little thing that you do because we know best. Well, I guess we are morons if we allow them to continue to do this to us. As you were talking about putting in the filter for gasoline engines now after they messed around with diesel,

they've done so many things, as pointed out to make diesel expensive and and of course one of the things that they did years ago i remember we had a diesel car at the time and when we bought the d we got a a used mercedes diesel it was about eight years old when we got it and um and it got great fuel economy and uh had tremendous torque and all the rest of the stuff. And when we bought it, diesel was significantly cheaper than regular gasoline. And then all of a sudden, you just buy Fiat, they jump it up to where it was more expensive than premium, which is where it's remained since then. So they can do that type of thing. They can take away something that is a common part of our culture, the automobile.

They can take it away by a gradual process of infringement. That's one of the reasons why I think they put in the Second Amendment, you will not infringe upon that. They knew they weren't going to just take it away in one fell swoop because it's too broadly held and there were too many people who knew how important it was. But it would be a process of gradual infringement. And that's the way they're taking our ability to travel away from us is by process. Mobility, personal mobility is absolutely critical to being free as a human being. If you can't go where you want to go when you want to go without being controlled and told, no, you may only go this way and you may only go that far, then you're not a free

person anymore. And that is why personal mobility is under attack right now. And especially individual mobility, because they've got, as they've shown, what they're capable of doing with forms of transportation that are under control, like airplane transportation. All kinds of arbitrary rules, they can impose them immediately. We were laughing about it the other day they had uh you know the fbi coming out say we're going to go after radical traditional uh catholics you know and it's like radical traditional so we went back and we played you

know from um uh american carol uh the whole thing about well you got to take off your pants and your underwear because we had the underwear bomber and you got you know and all the rest of stuff that was actually done before the underwear bomber you know they yeah they anticipated all that stuff that is where we are now you know they can concoct any kind of nonsense and they can put us through whatever kind of you know just as you saw in that satire but that's the world we live in now you know we now live in this empirical world yeah they have succeeded to making commercial air travel so miserable that most people want no part of it or they'll suffer through it if they have to.

But it's nothing that people do because they enjoy it anymore. And they're attempting to do the same thing with driving. That's right. That's right. Yeah, I long ago stopped traveling for pleasure on airplanes. And I don't have to do it for business. And once I started all this stuff about, you know, throughout the so-called pandemic, that was the end of it for me.

I don't think I will ever be on a plane again. I can't imagine a circumstance. I'd rather drive across country and take several days to do it than ever to try to go through the TSA nonsense. Yeah. If I want to get orders parked at me, I'll join the army. Exactly. But they're going to, they're working on taking away our transportation.

That's one of the key reasons it's always good to talk to you, because really these are not two separate things. Liberty is tied up with our ability to move. And it's a shame that it was so much of an overreach. I think the founders of this country could never even imagine that it would be something that would be taken away from us. You know, you had Benjamin Rush say, we need to have something in here to protect us against the medical tyranny. And he was right. He anticipated that. But nobody anticipated that they would take away our transportation. And we can now see what has happened with both of those things, can't we? Yep. It's happened incrementally, and it's not going to be done, undone all at once.

We just first have to understand what we're up against, say no, and then push back against it. Well, as Fauci said, before all this stuff happened, you've got to do it with disruption. You've got to do it from the inside, and we've got to do it iteratively. You know, he laid out the plan for us very succinctly there in a little presentation in October 2019, and that's the way they do everything nowadays.

Thank you so much for joining us, Eric. It's always great to talk to you. Likewise, David. Thank you for having me on. Thank you. All right. Have a good day. Thank you.

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