The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW De-Digitizing Your Car (and Life)

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie Joining us now is Eric Peters, epautos.com. One of my favorite sites because Eric covers things that are dear to my heart. Liberty and freedom of transportation, private cars and things like that. He's got great reviews, but he also, you can't do anything today without getting involved in politics because politics has intruded itself in every aspect of our life.

And it is overriding our car decisions left and right. They're redesigning the cars left and right out of these, um, out of Congress and other places. Uh, but thank you for joining us here. Oh, you bet. Uh, I'm standing here by my propane gas heater doing the Davos shuffle. That might've been a little bit too far for Biden, you know, as he, as he came out and, and, and the justification that he had for it was complete nonsense. This whole thing about childhood asthma seriously come on you know when the gas is leaking because they put some you know stinky gas in there so that it has a smell and it's not leaking it's being burned it's ridiculous you know but it's of a piece isn't it you know that we've talked about how they want to push everything into a

single centralized source of energy that is electricity They want you to drive an electric car. They want you to have an electric heat pump in your house. And the reason for that is obvious because then they have absolute control over everything that keeps you alive, your ability to stay warm, your ability to cook, to cool your food, and, of course, to drive. That's what this is fundamentally all about. That's right. And Kathy Hochul in New York

was upfront about it. And so have the regulators and the, you know, the eco-dictators in the UK and other places. They said, look, we're doing this to satisfy the climate gods. Biden came up with this bogus nonsense about asthma. And I think it's because he's trying to navigate as to how legally he's going to use some bureaucratic organization underneath him to ban this but kathy hokal said no we're just going to ban space heaters from all the buildings and um you know they they had this in and put this in a couple of years ago saying you're not going to build any new uh construction uh residential is going to start at such and such a point we're going to give you another couple years to phase

it out for commercial but you're not going to be allowed to have any gas space heating. And then at the last minute, Kathy Hochul stuck in her thing into that same bill saying, we're going to cut off gas ranges and the rest of the stuff. And the chefs at the restaurants are like, no, you're not. That's going to put us out of business. And so they jumped the shark on that. They went a little bit too far with their bands too quickly. And that's a good thing to see people finally waking up to what is happening with this. It is. I think perhaps a lot of people are beginning to discern the common thread here, which has nothing to do with climate change. That's just the excuse to drag us back to a

feudal state of the Middle Ages, where you had a pyramidal society with the lords and the priests at the very top. And today's priests, of course, are those who are promulgating this whole climate change religion. And everybody else is impoverished and underneath the foot of the lords and the priests. That is kind of a snapshot of what these Davos people would like to see happen. And they made it pretty clear in their last big confab that was in Egypt, COP 27. They even created these little phony green tablets like the Ten Commandments, and they had ten environmentalist commandments. And they go up this little mountain, and they look back at where the conference was, and they said, that's not good enough. And they destroy the tablets.

I mean, it's just the whole thing is just a mockery. It's an imitation. But it's good to see them going too far on this. And you got an article about adaptable vehicles, and I want to talk about that. But before we do, just as we were talking off air when you got on, you said you had some idea as to what is going on with Biden. It looks like the establishment has turned on him, doesn't it? It smells like it. You know, I've got a pretty good detector for this sort of thing. And the same organs that were vehemently behind him when it came to anything, whatever indefensible thing he did, they would find a way to defend it.

Well, now all of a sudden we've got these documents that supposedly were being stored in his garage at his Delaware house. And they're actually taking umbrage about that there are negative stories about this rule how irresponsible how could this be and that suggests to me that maybe they're trying to figure out a way to dot uh... the geriatric kid sniffer uh... it you know it because they have a real problem on their hands what are they going to do the the next election is only a little bit more than two years away now at this point and i think he's a liability becoming a liability for a variety of factors and maybe if they can push him out of the way then we get kamala harris

as the the new president and perhaps she's going to then appoint somebody like gavin newsom as her vice president and voila there we go instant you know instant american trudeau uh come 2024 yeah i just don't know how they think they're going to do much better with Lala Harris. I mean, she's not, she's not senile, but she can't complete a, a, you know, a sentence or a thought. Uh, she's, Oh, isn't that something? But when I look at this, Eric, I talked about this yesterday or the day before I said, um, you look at David as yesterday, cause we're only on Tuesday. It seems like a week is going by. I did a midnight show last night, so I lost track of which day we're on. But David Gergen, one of the mouthpieces, certainly for CNN, but he's been on both sides of the establishment for many years.

He was working with Republicans from Nixon and Reagan and everything. But he worked with Clinton and the rest of them, and they've got the knives out for Biden. And I think one of the things that's key that I talked about, Sue, what you think about this, I said, you know, it's come out that they knew about Biden's documents at least a couple of weeks before the election. Now, they would keep that quiet because they didn't want to affect the election, but they also knew about it well before they did the Trump raid. And I think that's even more significant. I question as I looked at that, because I don't think there's really anything in terms of the documents with Trump. They talk about a pardon for Roger Stone or something, but the documents that Biden has could be pretty

significant because of the Iran documents and because of Ukraine. There's the connections that Biden and Hunter had in Ukraine and the corruption, but also the coup that happened there. And also what happened during the Obama administration with Iran. They had this bizarre thing where they're sending a plane with all this foreign currency because they were prohibited from doing that to pay them off and to ransom some people. So there's a lot of stuff there. So maybe I looked at this. I thought, well, maybe they made that raid against Trump.

They don't need any more things to come after Trump. They got so many different ones that they can't close a deal on any of those. This isn't going to help them. But maybe the more significant thing is of Biden. And maybe this is a two for one. And maybe the attack on Mar-a-Lago really was to come after Biden. I don't know. I'm kind of a deep conspiracy theorist. I see this as a two-for-one. Given that anything is possible, you know, anything literally is possible these days. There's nothing that restrains these people. I certainly think that that's a

plausible scenario. And as a legal matter, you know, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been given to understand that in Trump's case, he is the former president, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been given to understand that in Trump's case, he is the former president, and there's a different standard there for the president to have hold of certain documents, whereas a lot of these documents, apparently, that Biden had date back to when he was the vice president and did not have legal authority to do what he did. So, you know, we're going to see, I guess, over the next couple of days, weeks, what happens. That's right. Yeah, the Democrats want to get rid of Trump. Most Republicans do as well.

But the Democrats, it looks like now, want to get rid of Biden because, as you pointed out, this is a lot more serious. There are more serious documents involved. And he was just the vice president. He wasn't the president. So this is potentially a lot more serious. I think it is killing two birds with one national security. And here's the other thing, Eric. Yeah. Is anybody bringing up the Hillary Clinton, Clinton emails.com? Nobody's still talking about that. That's a big, you know, the dog that did

not bark, you know, why, if we're going to get ourselves all worked up about Biden and Trump, why are we not talking about Hillary here with all this? Well, of course, because again, it's cognitive dissonance. The apparat, just like in 1984 when the party orator shifts gears in mid-speech. Eurasia is the enemy one moment, and then it's East Asia the next minute. And the crowd, like a bunch of trained SEALs, just claps their approbation. That's what happens these days. That's right. That's right.

Well, let's talk about if Davos gets his way. Let's talk about adaptable vehicles. I think it's a great article. Tell people what you're talking about here. Yeah, well, we all know what's happening with regard to new cars and this push toward electrification and the fact that most late model cars are very, very difficult to do anything other than basic maintenance on because of all the electronics.

And when those parts no longer become available or they're discontinued, you've got a problem. You know, we were given a kind of preview of this during these supply chain interruptions that have happened over the course of the, air fingers quotes, pandemic. So when something goes wrong with these electronic systems, you have a car that's useless. It doesn't work, and you have no way to fix it because the parts are specific to that vehicle, and you have to have that particular part in order for it to work. And in some cases, you have to have a dealer program the part in order for the vehicle to work. Well, with older but not ancient vehicles, I've got an 02 Nissan Frontier pickup.

They have electronic fuel injection, but that's the only really electronic thing that they have. The rest of the vehicle, remarkably, is still essentially a mechanical device, very similar to the vehicles that were made 30, 40 years ago. And it's not too difficult, if you wanted to, to replace the electronic fuel injection. All the sensors in the computer with a simpler mechanical fuel delivery system, meaning a straightforward intake manifold and a carburetor, and then you don't have to worry about any of that. I've got an old muscle car. It's almost 50 years old. It still has its original carburetor, and it's easy for me to take it down and rebuild it, fix it, whatever. And even if I had to replace the whole thing, it's only a $500 part,

brand new, and I'll never have to do that probably. So that's a growth industry for somebody to offer that service for people. Well, it is. And the is something that we may want to... That's a growth industry for somebody to offer that service for people. Well, it is. And the point is that when we get to a scenario like in Cuba, where parts aren't available, but we want to be able to continue to move, it behooves us to figure out a way to keep our vehicles going. And this is one way to do that. If you have a relatively modern vehicle like my O2 Frontier, you can retrofit and adapt

these simpler, more DIY-friendly components to it and be able to continue to drive it, whereas with the newer stuff, everything is completely electronicized. Everything. You can't do anything to these vehicles anymore. So it's just a thought that it might be a good thing to consider doing that or getting a vehicle like that that you could do that with, given the way things are rolling. Yeah, and I could see that, you know, some new technology kind of coming to the rescue with that. Remember, we have Jay Leno in his garage. He got a lot of really, really old classic cars that nobody's making parts for anymore.

And when they would want to replace it, some of these things, they would 3D print. I can imagine that you could probably have um, have, uh, situations where people put up 3d printed files and sell them to you or even offer them for free for various car parts that are no longer around. I could definitely see that happening, but you're right. When we, you and I talked about this years ago, when they started coming after. Uh, John Deere, uh, farmers are used to fixing their equipment. That's one of the ways that they survive is by being self-reliant and being able to do things on their own instead of having to pay everybody for every service. But John Deere started shutting that down. GM was shutting that down, making things inaccessible under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or something like that. You know, we're saying, well, we always. Your licensee. That's right.

We always own the computer code. And you better not replace that or modify that. And if you were even to buy the part, you couldn't install it without having some John Deere dealer that was going to specifically program it and enable it for you. So they wanted to essentially turn you into renters forever, never owning anything. And you pay for it, but you never really own it. They retain ownership of that. And so that's been there in a lot of different ways. Yeah. And they're actually elaborating the principle more and more. Some of the features that you used to buy when you got a car, for example, you know, I'd like to have heated

seats or a heated steering wheel. And, paid for that option, and it was yours. You owned the car, and that was it. Now they're selling these things on a subscription basis. So the system is in the vehicle when you buy it, but it's only enabled if you sign up for a monthly or a yearly subscription. And if you don't continue to pay them, then the heated seats don't work anymore, and you never truly own the heated seats. Isn't it great?

Yeah. It just keeps metastasizing, doesn't it? It truly is amazing. And, you know, when you look at the complexity of these different cars, having a Miata, I was amused to look at what a company called Flying Miata would do. They would stuff V8 engines in the little Miatas and stuff, right? You know about them. Well, you know, they did that just fine. The first couple of generations, you know, and they do a new Miata about every 10 years

or whatever. Um, but, um, the first couple of generations, they were able to put that in there with no problem at all. Then when they get to the third generation, it got kind of complicated because now all of a sudden there's a lot of electronic things that are, um, interconnected and they had to get a consultant to come in and, you know, made a bit of an issue, even though they had more room under the hood, it became a very complicated thing because the electronics. And then when they came out with

the fourth generation a few years ago, and they wanted to drop a V8 engine into that, they said they nearly couldn't do it. They had, they hired a whole bunch of different consultants because they had on the bus, they had everything was interconnected, whether you're talking about, you know, every system, emergency systems and driver assistance systems that were there, as well as the heater and the radio, you know, all these things were interconnected. It's not just the drivetrain. Late model vehicles have things called body control modules,

which govern the operation of things like the power windows. And they won't work. You know, if you take the electronics out for one thing, then nothing else works. So you essentially would have to gut the entire vehicle and then re-engineer it from the ground up. And yeah, it can be done, but it's prohibitively expensive. And essentially nobody's going to do that, except for perhaps a handful of very affluent people. So, you know, it's alarmingitively expensive and and essentially nobody's going to do that except for perhaps a handful of very affluent people so you know it's it's alarming to me has an enthusiast is somebody who likes to be able to work on my own vehicles what they have done now uh... to just make these things essentially tablets on wheels or cell

phones on wheels and not just electric cars it's regular cars too they're not serviceable they work great usually when you buy them there isn't that you know you just going you don't really have to do anything to them in terms of maintenance but then eventually you get to this point where cars too. They're not serviceable. They work great. Usually when you buy them, you just go and you don't really have to do anything to them in terms of maintenance. But then eventually you get to this point where things start to go wrong. And when they do go wrong, forget about it. You're not going to be able to do anything about it yourself. And nobody else may be able to either because the parts may not be available. Yeah. This year they went back to the Consumer

Electronics Show and we talked about it a couple of years ago before the quote-unquote pandemic. And the kind of stuff that you're seeing there now, oh, look, BMW's got a car that changes colors all the time. It's like, well, how much does that cost to fix if you get a ding at the supermarket? I mean, none of this stuff is practical, but it is all electronics. And you've got Sony coming out with their car in conjunction with, I think it was Honda or something. And, you know, they're putting together a car because it really has now become a kind of a mobile boom box. And with many other types of things, it's really a piece of consumer electronics. That's why they've dominated the show for the last two that they've had over the last four years. They've only had two shows, but the last two of them they've had that way.

But when we look at getting our independence, i like what you were talking about in terms of de-electronification of a car whatever if that's a word yeah yeah de-electronization i know i come up with these neologisms to try to convey the point maybe they're a little bit awkward sometimes yeah i think we're going to have to think of how we are going to do our own fuel as well. I talked about this on the show. I said, you know, I've seen for years they have micro breweries, right? And somehow they were able to get out of the clutches of the ATF. And around here, it's something that's just happened in the last few years.

They would say, well, you can do beer and it can't have a high alcohol content or whatever. But around here, something happened. And I don't know what the legal basis of it is. I haven't looked at that, but there are just tons. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to €10

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Bet responsibly. 18 plus gamblingcare.ie. Of what they call moonshine places. So these are like a microbrewery except they're doing hard liquor and so if you can do something like that there's got to be some way that we could do micro refineries you know where we could produce fuel of some sort it's it's that's basically grain alcohol yeah essentially that's what we're talking about ethanol ethanol is alcohol and you can make it from corn and you can make it from a lot of other materials that people can grow on their own. You may not be able to make massive quantities of it, but in a pinch, you could probably make enough to, for example, run a generator, run your power equipment, run your vehicle if need be.

You know, converting an older vehicle that doesn't have electronics, it has a carburetor, to alcohol is a fairly straightforward process. process you just have to get alcohol compatible gaskets and so on and then increase the you know up jet it to make to make to compensate for the leaner fuel mixture that alcohol will give you but it's a pretty straightforward process and people have done it for decades yeah yeah we've talked about you know greasels people converting their diesel runoff of animal oil and things like that and and so that's been around for a while, but you know, even Porsche came out with an e-fuels, uh, said, what was it? They turned, um, CO2 into, um, uh, or methane or something like that into a liquid that could be burned without any adjustment to the engine, but they're

going to do it in a very, very special way. That's going to be super expensive. I guess maybe because it's got to be done in this little bespoke factory that is uh down in the tip of south america and a place where there's constant wind and it's going to be green because they're going to power the plant that makes this stuff from wind power all this other kind but you don't need that i mean you know you could uh yeah that's just the take-home point. The reason why we have been continuing to rely on gas and diesel is because it's easy and it's efficient. It makes it feasible for average people to drive. And that's exactly why the Davos crowd doesn't like it and is pushing us into these Rube Goldberg-esque schemes and these expensive alternatives that are really not feasible for most people.

Yeah, that's right. When we talk about, you've got another article, everything except cars. Talk about how the car companies have reimagined themselves. Well, you know, there's a phrase that the Marxists have called the long march through the institutions. And you know that they've marched through the institutions when general motors which at one time was synonymous with american capitalism now is more interested in selling this this woke agenda you go to the main

corporate news page which you'd think would be devoted to hate this is what cars were working on uh... you know you didn't and things of that nature instead you find things about diversity, equity, inclusion, citizenship, all these sorts of things. And I took a few snapshots from their site, and then I linked to a few other things and pointed out that this is probably why General Motors has about a 16% market share today

as opposed to the 28% of the entire North American market that Chevrolet Division by itself had in 1968. Wow. Well, that's exactly what Klaus Schwab would approve of, though. This is ESG. We don't care about manufacturing anything. We don't care about making a profit. We want to tow the line for whatever the government agenda is or whatever the global agenda is.

And they are right there towing the line. They were repurposed during the so-called pandemic. Oh, we're going to make you into ventilator manufacturers, you know, along with Ford. But this is what Mary Barra has been all about, isn't it? Yeah. Keep in mind that for people at her level, and I think her annual compensation package is something on the order of $20 million annually. You know, she's essentially part of the Davos crowd. And these people are essentially possessed of unlimited means.

And they know that for them and their class, none of this matters because they will be able to afford the ultra expensive, hand-built probably vehicles that the elites will tootle around in. Just like Stalin didn't worry about driving a car or having a car. He always had a car. You know, it's about making sure that the rest of the Soviet people didn't have a car. That's right. Yeah, I liked what somebody said about Davos.

They called them the gold-collar workers. That's brilliant, yeah. They're not blue-collar or white-collar. They're gold-collar because they are so separated from the rest of us. So, Elitist, I like what you put in your article here. Nowadays, companies do these things, but they're secondary and tertiary, the manufacturing things, to such things as people, safety, diversity, equity, inclusion, and wait for it, citizenship.

Is this a seventh grade civics class made with the Boy Scouts? Whoops, these aren't Boy Scouts. It's GM today. That pretty much sums it up, Eric. Yeah, you know, I learned about citizenship when I was in the Boy Scouts. I didn't think you'd have to learn about that when you go to work for a car company. Yeah, but, you know, that's what they want, and that's part of their transformation of society. That's why we need to be looking at how we're going to retrofit our cars so they don't take us all the way back into the Middle Ages.

Maybe we just go back to the 1950s, you know. That'd be good enough. Yeah, not so bad. You know, I've written repeatedly and spoken a number of times about the issue of secession, and I think really probably the best way to think of that is on an individual level, meaning that we each decide to simply opt out and we secede. We stop doing business with, we stop associating with these people, these organizations, all of that, and we create our own alternative system. And that is something that is within our grasp and something that is achievable as opposed to the far more difficult thing of politically separating, say, one state from the rest of the union and so on. That's right. Yeah, nullification was a while I would describe that.

Did you say, well, we're not going to do that? You've got a situation, as I was talking about earlier in the show, you're now up to 80 out of 102 counties in Illinois where the sheriff's has said, we're not going to enforce this new gun control regulation. That's the appropriate path. And I've been saying, and we saw this all through this lockdown pandemic, that local officials could make things a lot better or they could make things a lot worse than even what they were trying to do at the state level. We've had situations in some states where you had governors fighting aggressive tyrants, public health officials and so forth in some locations. Or you've had situations where they stood for the freedom of the people against an invasive governor like Gretchen Whitmer or Pritzker or something like that. So it really is at the local level.

And they've understood this all along. They would always say, the UN would say, think globally, act locally. Well, we need to understand what their plans are. We need to defeat them locally. And that's one of the reasons why on their agenda this year, the World Economic Forum, Davos, has an agenda on how to accomplish these things at the local level. They're going to try to bring in all these different mayors and bureaucrats at the local level to enforce this stuff. There's a stat, I think, that is on our side. As I understand it,

roughly about one to three percent, depending on whose numbers you go by, of the population would be diagnosed as psychopathic or extremely narcissistic, sociopathic-type personalities. And that's a good thing, because it means most people are decent people. They might get bamboozled, they might be confused, but most people, after a while, their conscience starts to work on them. And I'm speaking here to your point about these local sheriffs and so on, saying, you know, I'm not comfortable with this, I'm not going to enforce these laws. They're wrong.

Yes. I think we're beginning to see the wheel turn in that direction. The people are saying, you know, what happened during the air fingers quote pandemic, this was despicable and awful. And I feel, I feel gross that I had anything to do with it and it's time to stop. And if that continues to happen, and I think that it will, things are going to get better. You know, we were all impatient for things to get better, but the Titanic doesn't turn on a dime. We just have to keep on plugging away and doing what we're doing. It took the other side 50 years to get us to where we are now. That's right.

Yeah, there's a lot of inertia. But, you know, once you wake up the sleeping giant, it's going to, you know, we're going to stomp them into fine pieces, you know, once it happens. But I think part of the dynamic that's there with the local sheriffs, and I saw this in the early days of the pandemic as I talked to a local pastor, and he said, yeah, Pritzker in Illinois is threatening to shut us down. But the sheriff has got the cars protecting our church here because we all know each other. We've lived here for years.

We've gone to school together. He's got deputies that go to this church. That's the issue. When these people get to the state level or to the federal level, they're so far removed from you that you're nothing more than a statistic. You're an abstraction. But when it's at the local level, if you get out, and this is why they want to isolate everybody with social distancing and having us work through their digital portals and their metaverse and all the rest of the stuff. If they can do that and if they can break the relationship that people have in a community successfully, they've got us. We have to fight what they're doing. They want to, they're talking about digitalization of everything.

That's a buzzword for Davos this year. They want to digitize us because they want to isolate us. We want to have a real world where we are involved with real people who live in our area. And if we have that kind of connection, then they lose their control over us. They do. There's accountability and it's key. And I think that we've lived now for quite some time in what I consider to be an unnatural environment. This, as you say, this sort of alienating mass society in which you are just a widget, a one or a zero, and you don't know these forces that have control over you. They don't care about you. It's a machine.

And I think to the extent that we can get back to a decentralized system, which is what the founders of the country had in mind, where for the most part the things that on, go on at the community level. And as you say, with people that you've grown up with, went to school with, that you know and vice versa. And that is how you maintain a healthy society. And to the extent that we can get back to that, the better things are going to be. Yeah, I think our society, part of the problem is our societies have, have gotten too big to be

representative and to have that kind of accountability. You look at what was originally, um, you know, the original design, the constitution was to limit, uh, the number of people represented by a representative to 30,000 or 50,000. Well, you know, we got away from that almost immediately. And then, uh, we had them fix the number of representatives. And so now one congressman is representing maybe 750,000 to 800,000. I don't know what the latest one is, but it had already been up to 750,000 rather than 50,000. And so these people, even the congressional level, they are too far distant from us. And I've said for the longest time, if we went back to that approach and limit it to 30 or 50,000 people, you'd wind up with several thousand congressional representatives,

and we would have a truly representative body. And people say, well, they couldn't all meet in one place. That's right. They would have to stay at home. And that would be something that would be a good thing to have on Zoom, right? And you could do that. And that possibility has been there for quite a while, but everybody has now lived that and is currently living that. Certainly we should enforce that on them to have that kind of accountability, but it is that distance from us. You see these people go native, and that is, I think, the biggest threat to all of us is that you break that connection to each other,

whether it's your congressional representative or just people in your own neighborhood. Yeah, anything that tends to diffuse authority is beneficial. That would be the first response I have. And the second is I've always kind of been uncomfortable with the word representative as it applies in a political context. If I have somebody represent me, that means they do exactly what I tell them to do. For example, my lawyer, he's my representative. He does what I tell him to do.

If he doesn't do it, I can fire him. It's nonsense to characterize these politicians as representatives because they do whatever they're going to do. And maybe sometimes their interests will jive with what yours are, but they don't represent you in any etymologically honest way. Yeah, Congress is a better description because they're cons, right? Yeah, right. But I think George Santos is the exhibit A of that. He's a living joke every day. It's a new thing that's thrown out there.

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a choice. Maybe for Senate, it's every six years, right? So every two, four, six years, you get to vote. And what you get is a basket of things. And it would be as if you went to the grocery store, and you know, you can call them up, and you can give them an order, and they'll fill as if you went to uh the grocery store and you know you can call them up and you can give them an order and they'll fill the stuff up and you just go by and pick it up you know some people do that uh but imagine that um uh everything was that way you

couldn't go through the aisles and pick out what you wanted and get exactly what you wanted you would go and you would get uh either you get this basket a and it's got these things in it, or you get basket B. You know where I'm going with this. You get a lot of stuff put in your basket that you don't want. And that's the problem with all these politicians and these political parties. It's a basket case of stuff and lots of stuff you don't want. That's well said. And there's also a moral aspect of it that makes a person uneasy, or at least it makes me uneasy, in

that on the one hand, you might like A, B, and C of what a given representative says that he's going to do, but on the other hand, there's G, E, and F that you don't like. So you have this uncomfortable balance. With Trump, it's a really good example. Okay, some of his policies might have been appealing, And yeah, I think I can go for that. But then there are these other things that he does that, you know, I really am uncomfortable with and want no part of. And you're placed in this position of having to vote, as they say, for the lesser of two evils. And the result of that is that we end up with something that's evil.

Yeah, that's right. Speaking of that, you've got an article, Mercenarism, a picture of Glenn Beckman. You'll know all about that and sean hannity right there yeah talk a little bit about the that article well i it was prompted by an explosion of outrage i i was uh making my daily trek downtown from where i live and hit the gym and it's about now it's about a half hour away and the duration of the trip i'm just listening to an infomercial on uh you know on i think it was xm serious one twenty five their political channel one of the political channels and it's gotten so bad you know you want on the

one hand to get some of this information out there but as the late comedian bill hicks put it you know everything they say is suspect because they're constantly trying to sell you something and it's not as if there's a separation you know hey here's a word from our sponsors in the middle of a monologue. They will start trying to hawk something to you. The actual, the host of the show will start trying to sell you something. So, you know, it seems to me like that's all they're doing. It's, it's just about selling, you know, guys like, like, like Hannity and Beck, these guys are multimillionaires. Why do they have to continue to do that? I just, I'd love to have the question answered if I'm them and I'm in their position and they have to continue to do that i i just i'd love to have the question answered if i'm them

and i'm in their position and they come to the the studio or whatever the radio station comes to me and says we'd like you to read this ad no i'm not going to read that ad you're welcome to put the ad on my show you know and that's fine but i'm not going to read the stinking thing and if you don't like it go pound sand i've been there yeah i Like some of the Insta-hard or whatever. It's like, I'm not selling. No, and to be clear, I understand the necessity of earning a living, and I understand that people in the media, I'm one of them, you have to have sponsors and so on.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Back in the print days, we would have articles, news articles on a page, and then maybe on the top right corner there'd be an ad for something. And that's fine because there was a clear separation between the news or the opinion and the ad that was important because it it let people realize that what you were saying in the news article or the opinion piece wasn't trying to sell them something that's right yeah well the problem i have with it you know is when you're selling something that's bogus or if you start slanting the news in order to you know help your sponsor as fox news has done on these pharmaceuticals

and vaccines quite obviously you know pushing back you by pfizer yeah that's right they don't want you to see some of the stuff why because they are brought to you by pfizer these keys these guys are getting tens of millions of dollars why Why? Because they're sponsored by Pfizer, throwing money at everybody about this kind of stuff. But yeah, you're right. Sometimes they will say, well, you know, we have to do this. It's necessary. It's the cost of doing business. No, it's not.

You know, there's the example of Joe Rogan, who's a guy who has a microphone in a studio, and he does his show, and he has a tremendous audience. And sure, he has sponsors, but he doesn't try to sell you gold or dog-chewy treats in the course of his conversations with people. And it just shows that it can be done. They just don't want to do it, and they're really undermining, I think, our cause. People on our side of the fence, meaning the pro-liberty movement, generally speaking, I think has got to be very careful about not doing anything at all

that can be used against us in the sense of portraying us as in it just to cash in and make money like the Republican Party. Send in your $50 now to join the Republican caucus and all that kind of thing. It's got to stop. Well, you know, you mentioned Joe Rogan and Spotify that sponsors him and pays him tens of millions of dollars here is the one podcast that will not carry my program. I have been kicked off of them, uh, when I was at InfoWars and then, you know, when I started my own thing, I thought, well, maybe they'll do it now. And, you know, I go to a, um, uh, I upload to one spot, you know, like to Spreaker right now, and it pushes it out to all the different ones. And, um, and so we did that

and, and I was there for a couple of months and then they shut it down and then we changed, um, and wouldn't give me an explanation. And so then we changed to another host and, uh, it started putting the stuff out and, um, they pumped it out to Spotify as a default thing. So I thought, well, let's just see what happens with it. And I actually got a call from a Spotify rep said, we'd like to monetize your podcast and put some stuff on there. And I said, great. But are you sure? Am I okay with you guys?

And while we were still talking about it, that took a couple of weeks, they shut me down again. And, uh, so, you know, they, they, and they have, I found out that they have a, uh, a piece of technology that they want to sell to all the other podcasts, which will identify, uh, naughty speech like mine and shut it down. You know that they're, so they, they have developed the tools to do that. That's why they're the only ones doing it. But this may metastasize other people. They may sell it to other people and shut down your podcast because, you know, I had – we had another one that contacted us and said, well, I would like to carry your show and, you know, looking at the downloads and all this other kind of stuff.

And so I said, okay, that's fine. But, you know, they specialize in this diversity, equity, inclusive thing. So I thought they wouldn't find anything. Finally, they, they found somebody that said, well, we think we found a good sponsor for you. They did like, uh, uh, uh, storable food or something like that. And I said, yeah, I don't, you know, that would be a good fit for us. But I said, but there's a caveat here.

They don't want you to say anything about guns. I said, well, that's not going to happen, you know? So, I mean, it's that type of thing. If you go down the list, you know, there's absolutely no way that I'm going to get too many sponsors. We did find that, you know, we can get some on Spreaker, but that's basically, we still essentially run the way that you run your operation, which is just by voluntary donations. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's actually a really good alternative. And it speaks to, it gets back to this issue of decentralization that we were talking about. You know, all of the

people who donate are individuals, and they decide on their own, I don't push or pressure anybody. If they like what I do, you know, they can throw me a couple of bucks, and that's it. And that makes it impossible for any one of them to in any way threaten my ability to say what I want to say, whether it's on the radio or whether it's in my articles. And I think that's ultimately the way going forward for people in the media on our side of the aisle. That's right. Yeah.

I, you know, people sometimes get really upset with me. I've listened to you for years and I really don't like what you had to say about this, or you didn't cover this. I'm not going to listen anymore. It's like, well, fine, but I'm not going to tailor what I have to say to somebody who's angry with me. Cause I've already been there. That was my entire job, and I let that go because I wasn't going to tailor what I was

going to say about the election nonsense and the lockdown nonsense and your non-essential and the warp speed stuff. I wasn't going to tailor it to any of that and tell people that Trump was playing 4D chess. It's like, forget about it. I'm not doing it. Right. And from the standpoint of a listener uh why would you want that why would you want to listen to somebody that you know

is going to uh is going to flinch and duck the minute somebody complains about what he had to say i want to hear what he has to say and i'll make up my own mind and everybody else should do the same i've told the story many times about when uh in college uh time and news week you know they were the objective news reportedly, right? But they weren't. They were owned. They were pushing the party line from the CIA, Operation Mockingbird type of stuff. They would cover the same topics and they would have the same approach to it.

But I preferred to get my information from opinion journals. And they would be hardcore about their opinions. So I would go to a conservative one. I would look at National Review and I'd look at The Nation, for example. You know, Nation and National Review because they sound alike. I'd talk about that. But I had a lot of them that I looked at because I wanted them to talk about the issue from their perspective. Whether I agreed with it or not, I would get different.

And so I wanted to have that debate. I wanted the differences in opinion instead of this homogenized establishment problem that was being fed to everybody, which I could even see at that age that it was nothing but propaganda. Sure. How else do you get to the truth other than by sifting through a lot of information? Yeah, that's right.

Which is what they don't want you to do anymore. And they've got the tools to basically shut it down. You know, the podcasts are one of the few things out there that is still available because, you know, even if you go on radio, you've got to find sponsors who are going to be okay with what you have to say. But the podcasts are the one thing that's out there right now, and they haven't figured out a way to censor it. But I think Spotify's got that tool, and it's's going to be a matter of time before they run it.

Well, have you been looking into Substacks? Yes, yes, and I should be doing more on Substack. I don't really want to engage with social media, but I think Substack would be a good alternative to that. Yeah, I've begun to. I don't, by any means, know a whole lot about it. But from what I gather, it is another decentralized venue, a way for you to, as they say, get've begun to. I don't, by any means, know a whole lot about it. But from what I gather, it is another decentralized venue, a way for you to, as they say, get the word out and not be beholden to anybody. And, you know, it's fine.

It goes out to Twitter. It goes out to Facebook. But if they cut it off, so what? It's going out to other people. That's the beauty of this. Unless they really go full authoritarian, as long as we still have the ability to communicate and to disseminate, we'll find lateral moves to get around them. And ultimately, I'm confident that we're going to win

if that proves to be the case. Well, you know, the thing about Substack, they've already been attacked a couple of years ago, and they held firm on that. And so they've got a commitment to free speech under the current management. That could change at any point in time, but at the current time, they've got a commitment to free speech. You can actually get notification out to people when you do a new article. It'd be a very good fit for you. But I've also looked at it in terms of, we've got a three-hour program here. So what I do is I typically will create an outline that gives people an idea of what I'm talking about every five to 10 minutes. So they can kind of jump into the program and look at it. And some of the video hosts that we have, but I also put it up for the podcast.

Some of the video hosts, you can click on the time code that I have there, and it'll take you to that spot in the video. But that would be a good fit for me, I think, to put that on Substack. I've been thinking about putting that up, putting a link to the video as well as that, because that gets to be very long, and that gets swallowed by some of the podcast places. So if people were to find that, that might be a good fit for us. But it would be a very good fit for you because it's oriented towards articles. Yep. One of the great ironies, I think, of our time is that the left, the old left,

and we're here about the old right, well, now we've got the old left, used to warn about what would happen when corporations owned the media and corporations were powerful enough to control the government. And now it's the left that is championing all of those things. That's right. Yeah. Just like the left loves the FBI now, you know, when the FBI used to have their co-intel programs and they were shutting down people on the left, left and right. And, and, uh, not left and right, but they're just shutting down the left. But now that they have joined the left, uh, the left is cheering them on. We saw the same thing with the conservatives, you know, it's just the pendulum party. It's just swinging from one, uh, you know,

the bureaucrats are, are going from one political orientation to another one. But they've always been authoritarian. You've always had J. Edgar Hoover. I had a guy send me a thing. He's an FBI agent, and he wrote a book about what has happened to the FBI. He thinks it was really good until just the last couple of years. He was like, are you kidding me? You know, J. Edgar Hoover's name is on the building.

What was J. Edgar Hoover about? You had Republican and Democrat presidents saying he's got blackmail files on everybody in Washington. And he did. When he died, he had his secretary going in and destroying all this stuff. Yeah, absolutely. It goes all the way back to the beginning of a lot of these authoritarian things, when he first came to power in the Palmer raids under Woodrow Wilson. That's where he cut his teeth, and he was a horrible authoritarian propagandist, blackmailer, criminal his entire life. This whole organization has been tainted,

but only now do the conservatives see it because they're the target now. I think part of that has to do with the general American embrace of the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism, and to get away from that and to get back to a principled outlook where fair play matters, honesty matters, words matter, they have definitions, all of that sort of a thing, that's how we combat this ultimately. Not say, well, you know, this suits us now and we can leverage and maneuver this to our benefit. Rather, let's just do what's right. Let's do what's

decent. Let's behave. Let's do what's decent. Let's behave. Let's not be tricky. You know, there is an appeal to that, I think. And the more that we talk about that, I think the better things will be. Yeah, I agree. Let's talk about cars because you do do car reviews. We always talk about politics.

Oh, yeah. You got a review of the 2023 Chevy Blazer, a practical car that people can get. Tell people what you think about that. Well, what I think, among other things, is it's one of the few vehicles in its class that you can still get with a V6 without a turbo, and it's only a $500 option, and it's available on all except the base trims. And that's, you know, it's kind of sad, the commentary, when you think that, you know, that's something to champion, because if you went back just a few years, a vehicle of that type, a 4,000-pound-ish SUV kind of vehicle, it would have come standard with a V6. But because of the Davos crowd, that's going away,

and you have these little four-cylinder engines, often turbocharged, often paired with a hybrid electric drivetrain, and so on and so forth. Would I still like to have the old Blazer? You remember the old Blazer that had a V8 and was a real 4x4? Sure. But this is still a good family vehicle, and it's not priced absurdly. It's about $35,000 to start. And by the way, I'm working on an article.

Did you know what the average transaction price for a new car was in 2022? What's that? $48,000. No, you're kidding me. Yeah. No, I was bored by that. People can tell you and I haven't found that out, too. We haven't been in the market for quite a while, have we?

Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, and then I looked into it a little further because I remembered, you know, I thought, wait, wait, that's not right. And sure enough, you know, if you go back about two, three years, it was between 32 and 35. So we've seen this enormous uptick in the cost of vehicles. And part of that has to do with inflation. Part of that has to do with this electrification, people buying these electric cars, almost all of which start around $50,000. Well, of course, we've also had a big back and forth backlash and whiplash and everything in the supply chains.

It's wreaked havoc. It looks like CarMax and Carvana, is it? They may be going out of business because, you know, first you had shortages of new cars, even if you could afford them. And then the price of used cars shot straight up. And so, you know, CarMax and other companies like that are buying these used cars. And then the market just fell out. The price dropped for the used cars and they're stuck with these cars that they paid too much

for. Yeah, they bought high and now they're selling low. But to get back to the Blazer, you know, if you're in the market for a family kind of a vehicle, much as I have issues with General Motors as a company, it's a good vehicle, particularly with the V6. I would encourage people to avoid these little turbocharged four-cylinder engines because they're just not that durable. A V6 without a turbo that has adequate displacement, adequate power, that isn't under a lot of stress all the time. If you want a long-haul vehicle that's not going to cost you a fortune

after the warranty runs out, that's what you ought to be looking for, in my opinion. Yeah, and I remember a few years ago you found an electric car that you liked, the Chevy Volt, because it had a generator that was charging things. I just saw this last Friday that Mazda said, yeah, we're going to bring back the MX-30, which was essentially the same thing. They had a generator on the car that could charge the batteries.

But they only sold just over 500 of those in the US. And they were all sold in California. And then they shut the thing down. And then there was talk that they were going to come back and make the generator the rotary engine and it could be really small and compact and lightweight and everybody got, well, that's going to be cool. But it looks like they're going to do the same thing again. It looks like they're maybe not even bring it to the U.S. What is going on with that? Because I don't understand. Some people are saying, well, this looks like this was designed

for regulatory compliance and yet the regulators don't want any emissions. That's essentially what killed the vote, right? Yeah. Yeah. Even though these things are immensely practical and eliminate all of the functional problems with electric cars, you don't have to worry about plugging in. You don't have to worry about running out of range. You can just get in and drive it because if the battery runs low, the onboard gas generator engine will fire up and it will produce electricity and you just keep on going. But politically, the problem is that it's not quite a zero emissions vehicle. And, you know, it emits 0.00 whatever the percentage is more of whatever the anathema products are. And we just can't have that.

And so that's why it's difficult for them to invest and commit to producing a vehicle that has already been outlawed effectively in California, Washington State, Oregon. A number of these states have said that only zero-emissions vehicles may be sold after, what is it, 2030, 2035. And even if this vehicle emits essentially nothing, it's still not technically a zero-emissions vehicle, and so they are precluded from selling it in those markets. And that's huge. What are you going to build a vehicle for that you're not legally able to sell?

Yeah, they went from cheering the Previa, which is a hybrid, to, oh, we're not going to even allow those now. But what I don't understand about it is this has been known about the Chevy Volt. Why would they redesign yet another car? I mean, I don't understand why they would even come up with a Mazda MX-30 with a rotary engine in it if they're not going to sell it and if it's going to be banned in various places because, you know, it's not a zero emission car. Do you have any idea why they're doing that? Yeah, I do. Actually, I think that Toyota and Mazda, those two in particular, they're hedging their bets. Akio Toyota, who's the head of the company, has publicly come out and kind of said that these electric cars are maybe not really the future. And I think they're investing in this sort of technology because they know that this thing is going to face plant.

And when it does, they're going to be in a really good position to offer vehicles that actually meet consumers' needs and which people can afford to buy. And I think, yeah, you're right. Toyota, Mazda, I would include in that Porsche because Porsche is talking about the e-fuels and everything. They understand it's not going to be practical to charge everybody through the centrally controlled grid. There's not going to be sufficient capacity. Everybody can see that as they're struggling to try to heat their homes in Europe. And so they know that there's no future in that. But then again, you've got this chicken and egg thing. As long as they play along with this narrative that we've got to have zero emissions, they're basically cutting themselves off of the

past. That's the key thing. You do it. I do it all the time. Everybody's got to oppose this fundamental thing that we got to minimize emissions. Forget about that. That's not about emissions. It's about omissions. They want to omit all of this stuff out of your, it's as phony as that. Well, we're going to give kids asthma. They've got gas ranges. Give me a break. Yeah. Well, and I'm very careful to make the distinction between emissions as most people, when they hear that word, what they think about are things that result in air pollution. That's right. That cause smog. That's right. Those emissions are a non-issue anymore, and they have been since the 90s.

New cars emit hardly any of those emissions. But it's been reframed such that carbon dioxide now is the emission that they mean when they use that word. And so, therefore, the way to address that is to challenge this climate change religion thing that they're trying to create the new narrative around. It's as specious as the air fingers quote pandemic. It's the same sort of trickery. And once we do that, then we win. That's right. That's right.

Yeah, I worked with a guy who had spent 30 years with the EPA. He started with the EPA. He started with the EPA, and he started with the EPA as the EPA was being formed. And it was all in the early days. It was all about air pollution and water pollution and things like that, and he was all on board with that. But then it turned into this green climate agenda, and he was not on board with that. He retired, and he started opposing them.

And that's where I got involved in an organization that I was doing some videos for them. But that, that is the pivot that they made. You know, they started out by saying, we're going to have to have a super fund to clean up these polluted rivers and the dirty air.

And that was fine. But you know, they, they used that to get their nose under the tent, and then you had mission creep, which is what bureaucracy is always doing. People's reasonable concerns against them, of a piece with the pandemic. Nobody wanted to see mass death, and so they manipulated people on that basis. But this whole thing with carbon dioxide, it's of a piece with masks work, and these

drugs that aren't vaccines being pushed down people's throats. It's important to just challenge the fundamental premise and not argue with them on the accepted premise that, oh, there's a great pandemic afoot. Oh, grow. We've got to wear masks. Got to get vaccines. Same thing with this climate change shibboleth. That has to be challenged.

I point out to people, do you know what the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is? It's carbon dioxide. Most of them have no idea. And I point out it's 0.04%. Yeah, that's right. And then you're going to tell me that somehow by eliminating motor vehicles, engine vehicles, you're going to reduce that by a fraction of that fraction of a percent,

and somehow that is going to avert catastrophic climate change. Yeah, we understand what the agenda is. It's always been, whether it's going to be global freezing, global warming, or pandemic, they always wanted to do the same thing, which tells you that all three of them are phony. The fact that they hide their data and they won't debate you, they try to censor you, that has always been the continuing thing. Oh, you're a climate denier.

Well, you've got to be shut down. Then we saw it with the pandemic. People, I think, are starting, hopefully, to understand that this is just a narrative tactic. It's just tyranny. But while we're talking about the price of cars, you've got another article, Default Tsunami. Talk about that. It's not just the CarMax who are buying high and selling low. Talk about what happens to individuals. Yeah, well, another interesting figure that I came up upon the other day was that as of last year, about 20% of all the new car loans issued were for a record seven years long. And a significant portion of those were issued for used car loans, if you can imagine

that. So somebody who's bought an already depreciated car for a seven-year car loan, and what's going to happen, of course, is that these vehicles are not going to be worth continuing to make payments on and a lot of people are you're going to just decide they don't want to order they can't because they haven't got the means to do it anymore and we're already seeing the canaries in the coal mine chirping about this for a lot of a lot of evidence out there uh... the defaults on new and used car loans are rising and so a lot of these vehicles are going to just be

dumped on the market and that is going to press the price of vehicles, which is good news for anybody who's in the market or going to be in the market for a vehicle. The prices are going to come down soon. Yeah. Talk about the canary in the coal mine. The canaries are not laying any eggs, but the chickens aren't laying too many either for a lot of different reasons. Right. Supply chain things. Tell us a little bit about how your chickens are coming along, because you're working in that area too,

not just getting the electronics out of the car so that you can keep the thing going, but you're also working on chickens and ducks, I think. Yeah, you know, every once in a while I do something right. And one of those things was to build my coop and to get myself a flock of chicken and ducks. And I say I pat myself on the back for it. I was at the grocery store the other day, and it's probably the same where you are, and a dozen eggs is now about seven bucks. Yes, yes, that's right. If you can find them. So yeah, I get a nice discount because all I have to do is go out and pick them up

from the birds, which is wonderful. And of course, nutritionally, they're a lot better, and there's all of that argument. But really, the fundamental point here, I think anybody who's not concerned about the prospect of food either becoming unaffordable or unavailable is living in a fantasy world, and they really need to face up to the fact that not only do these people want to take away our mobility, they want to take away our ability to eat. And it's really important to figure out ways

to make sure that we don't starve, and this is one of the ways that I'm doing that. You know, I was looking at articles covering Davos and opinion pieces, and I came across one where the guy says, well, you know, I'm not a conspiracy theorist and this isn't a conspiracy. It's out in the open. It's like, well, I don't know that a conspiracy has to be secret, but what is in the open? And they're telling everybody about it. They don't want you to have any meat or dairy. You've got an organization called C40 that's got almost a hundred cities, large cities involved in it. They don't want you to have any meat or dairy. You've got an organization called C40 that's got almost 100 cities, large cities involved in it.

They don't want you to have more than three articles of clothing per year. You can take a flight once every three years, but not more than 1,000 miles. And on and on, ban all automobiles and all the rest of this stuff. So it is an amazingly detailed authoritarian vision of a dystopian medieval society. So we're going to have to do this stuff on our own. And if we don't get the public to wake up as to what is behind this and realize what a lie is being sold to us, we're going to be in that basket. And I think one of the key ways that they're going to push this, and I think it's going to happen pretty soon, maybe this year, is going to be CBDC. We're going to see so much stuff like that where they can control

and track everything that you do everywhere. And they'll limit you to the number of eggs if you don't have chickens. That's exactly what they're doing. Yeah, I'm absolutely terrified of that. I hope that there is enough awareness of the danger of that percolating out there that that ends up getting stopped in its tracks because that really could be the end of any semblance of freedom of action that we have short of going completely amateur or off the grid. That's right. Before we run out of time, tell us how you secured your chickens because we haven't done that since we moved and we lost two flocks in Texas to coyotes and aerial predators and stuff. So how do you secure them?

Well, nothing's perfect. But what I have is a high-fenced-in run area that I keep them in for whenever I'm not around to supervise. Otherwise, I let them out in free range. Now, at night, they go back in to an enclosed coop that's locked, and it's a heavy-built structure. So anything short of a big bear would have trouble getting in that. And I also have an electric fence around the perimeter of my run. It's not absolutely perfect. Death can come from above. There are still hawks and eagles and things of that nature.

So the best that you can do really is to reduce the prospect of losing your flock. This is part of what farm life is like, and most people have forgotten it. Me too, you know, and I'm, so I'm relearning it. This is what we're all going to have to relearn. That's right. Yeah. We lost our flocks in the middle of the day. We let them free range during the day. We lost one flock that way, but, uh, you know, we've had coyotes attack and we've had hawks attack and we got a ton of hawks, uh, out here in Tennessee where we are. Uh, so yeah, that is the, that is a that is a struggle trying to keep these things alive. But it is going to be a struggle for us to try to navigate through this continuing. We got the supply chain after they threw the wrench in it.

I mean, it's just bouncing back and forth and breaking in all these different places. And part of it, a big part of this disappearance of the eggs, a lot of people who are egg farmers in the egg industry are saying a lot of it is the supply chain. Can't get feed to them, can't get the other stuff out there. There's so many things that they've broken. Thank you for joining us. Eric Peters, EP Autos, always a great site to see what is going on politically, with liberty, and with transportation.

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