The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW Eric Peters: Affordable Truck — One More Thing Govt Doesn't Want You to Have

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 all right welcome back and joining us now is eric peters of ericpetersautos.com and i saw eric's article about a thirteen thousand dollar toyota pickup you can't buy here and that got my attention that got picked up in a lot of different places i saw that article a lot of different places but again if you go to ericpetersautos.com you're going to find a lot of articles there about mobility about freedom uh excellent site excellent site thank you for joining us there oh thank you for having me on again david i appreciate it oh thank you yeah let's talk about this uh what is this thirteen thousand dollar toyota pickup well it's called the hylux champ and it's available pretty much everywhere except here uh which which is a really interesting thing.
Starting point is 00:00:46 And unlike the Kei, or I always mispronounce it, Kei, I have difficulty with that word, the little vehicles that you and I have talked about before that are available in Japan. Oh, you're not talking about the Kia. You're talking about something. Yeah, they're essentially little box cars that you've probably seen if you looked at the Japanese market. This is a no-frills derivation of the Hilux that is available in Japan and other markets. It's a midsize, not a compact. It's a midsize pickup truck, and it's designed with the ethos of simplicity and affordability in mind. It starts at $13,000, available with a diesel diesel engine comes standard with a manual transmission and Toyota very thoughtfully arranges it so that it's got
Starting point is 00:01:27 the ability to be configured any way you'd like it. It's designed to have a box put on the back, a state kit, whatever you'd like. If you want to turn it into an RV and that'll put you in touch with third-party suppliers. But the take-home point is this is something that starts at $13,000. You can't buy a little car in this country anymore for anywhere near $13,000. No longer truck. And so why aren't we allowed to have it? It's not because it's unsafe. And it's certainly not because it pollutes. The thing actually meets the current Euro tier five specifications, which are pretty stringent. It just doesn't quite meet the latest Biden imposed emissions requirements in this country.
Starting point is 00:02:06 So, you know, it's not about safety and it's not about emissions. What it's about fundamentally, in my view, is to deny people access to an affordable vehicle so that they do not have the ability to accumulate capital. That is to have wealth and money so that they are not dependent. That's the key. They want us all living hand to mouth and paycheck to paycheck. And that's why you're not allowed to have this vehicle, which most people aren't even aware exists. Yeah. And I think that's really the point of the income tax at this point. Obviously, they don't care about deficits. I've mentioned this many times. And we're going to add another trillion dollars to the deficit every 100 days. They obviously don't care about it. If you look at their modern monetary theory it's keynesian economics on steroids they really don't care about
Starting point is 00:02:50 deficits so why uh have an income tax it's to kneecap us just as you talked about same way as it's right there in the communist manifesto you know effectively it's the abolition of private property you know if you want to go out a little bit farther afield this is the the true purpose of the the tax on real estate on your home and your land. So that even if you pay it off, that is, even if you pay the lender or the previous owner for it in full, you'll never truly own it because you're constantly having to pay what amounts to rent to the government. They call it a property tax. It's essentially rent. So as to preclude the possibility of your ever having meaningful ownership, meaning this is mine and nobody can just take it from me if I don't pay them It's essentially rent so as to preclude the possibility of your ever having meaningful ownership.
Starting point is 00:03:25 I mean, this is mine, and nobody can just take it from me if I don't pay them for the privilege of being allowed to remain on the land. Absolutely right. Yeah, you know, when I saw that it was a Toyota Hilux, that got my attention because I remember Top Gear, and they had an toyota hilux pickup truck that was not available in the u.s at that point in time either it was a diesel and it was so incredibly reliable they did an episode where they tried to destroy this thing and they couldn't destroy it and so after they had beat this thing to death they wound up eventually putting it in their studio like hanging it from the ceiling it's kind of a monument to its ability to withstand all this stuff great car and not ever available in the united states yeah for people who don't realize well a version of it
Starting point is 00:04:13 is available you can get a tacoma or four in the united states it's essentially the same vehicle but you can only get it with u.s configured drive frames which precludes the diesel engine and the manual transmission that's available in all these other markets and also the stripped down version of it which is what the champ is which is designed again to be what trucks used to be there was a time you and i are old enough to remember when trucks cost less than cars when they were the affordable alternative to cars now it's exactly the reverse you know i get so depressed when i get a new half-ton truck to test drive because on the low end you know the entry-level trim 1500 series half-ton truck typically costs around forty something thousand dollars by the time you add four-wheel drive and
Starting point is 00:04:56 a few other essential options and you're looking at fifty thousand dollars for a half-ton truck you know it's no wonder everybody's broke it's insane it is it absolutely is but you got to work around and about how somebody can get a hylux tell us about that it's immigration on four wheels that's your article it's more of a suggestion you know i like so many people am really getting tired of on the one hand this idea that we uh can't control the border and that anybody who'd like to come into the united states from wherever can just essentially walk into the United States because they're being encouraged to come to the United States. Now on a human level, I don't fault those people. They're trying to better themselves materially, but why can't the same apply to Americans? Uh, you could go across the
Starting point is 00:05:36 border in New Mexico. And I've got an article about this along with some links and some pictures where you can buy a brand new vehicle for $10,000. You know, a nice little economy car. There are all sorts of vehicles you can buy south of the border. I suggest that all Americans who need an affordable car maybe take a little trip down south of the border and buy themselves a car over there and then just drive it back. Can you imagine if thousands, let alone tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of us did exactly that?
Starting point is 00:06:01 I mean, let's have an open border. You know, the problem is we have an open border, right but just for one side not for americans and and i think it's time that we push back against that that's right yeah it's america last uh everything for everybody first but not anything for us and so yeah it is kind of interesting what you're talking about there kind of reminds me the old joke about the guy who uh every day he would uh cross the border and border guards were suspicious of him they thought he was up to something they'd always search him they couldn't figure out what it was that he's smuggling in uh until they finally realized that what he was smuggling
Starting point is 00:06:32 in was a bicycle that he was riding you know exactly right yeah you know you and i have talked for a long time about what the long-term game is for trying to get everything on the grid uh we we knew for a long time that they're going to put everything on the grid all the cars on the grid and we could see that they were shutting the grid down now that's become a reality with the epa and its new rules and all these other things that are out there they put out new rules uh for emissions for cars they put out new rules coming out of the department of transportation about fuel economy just ratcheting it up massively uh that was kind of in reaction i guess to uh the the reports that consumers didn't want uh biden's mandated evs and all the rest of stuff but
Starting point is 00:07:19 now the epa is putting emission controls on the power plants to shut them down. And you and I saw that a long time ago. We said, yeah, they're going to force everything on the grid, but they're also shutting the grid down. And so what they want to do is they want to shut down all of our transportation. That's been the case for the longest time, hasn't it? It's a constant whack-a-mole, shuck-and-jive kind of operation. They won't come out forthrightly and say, well, we are going to outlaw cars with gas engines or diesel engines. What
Starting point is 00:07:45 they'll do is impose regulations that are essentially impossible to comply with, which is what they've done. Now, that brings up something interesting, which I'm sure you've been following. It's a recent Supreme Court decision, the vernacular, the Chevron decision, about the powers of the regulatory apparat, which is what we're dealing with in this country. The regulatory apparat has become kind of the fourth branch of government. It operates as a de facto legislature. It has legislative powers for all practical purposes. And that was the gist of what was being examined by the court. And the court, ostensibly, is going to rein that in. The problem is that instead of having the regulatory apparat decide the extent of its own powers, now it's going to be the courts.
Starting point is 00:08:26 And essentially it's the same thing because, you know, the courts, especially at the higher level, these are not elected judges. They're appointed judges. And so we're going to have rule by decree from the judiciary now rather than from the regulatory apparatus. But having said that, I do think it's good in the sense that, once again, awareness is dawning about the nature of the situation. People are beginning to ask, who are these people? Who are these regulators that somehow have acquired the power to tell me what I'm allowed to buy? You know, who are going to make these cost-benefit and risk-reward decisions on my behalf as if I'm some sort of an idiot child, and I can't do that for myself. I think that's beginning to percolate upward, and I think that's a very healthy and very positive thing.
Starting point is 00:09:11 I've said for the longest time, you know, what we have here with the bureaucracy is ruled by the bureaucracy. We had a revolution because they didn't want taxation without representation. I said what we've got now is taxation and regulation without representation. I said, what we've got now is taxation and regulation without representation. But as you point out, if the courts are going to do it, we still going to have regulation without representation. We're still going to have politically appointed people. And so, you know, it's it's essentially going to be the same. Now, there may be some differences, these unconstitutional regulatory alphabet agencies that are out there they're operating in their own uh interest in terms of trying to create a regulatory empire and so there might be a little bit of a balance on it but it still isn't the system that we need this reform
Starting point is 00:09:54 really does need to come from congress but both congress and even the president have abdicated a lot of their powers to these regulatory agencies or to the courts they don't really want to deal with it it's like uh trump and daca that was going to be a messy thing to try to figure out who they're going to deport and all the rest of the stuff and so he just kicked it over the supreme court and they said no you can't you can't get rid of obama's executive order says oh i don't have to do anything at all then so you know they use it as an excuse and so does congress that's why nancy pelosi said we'll have to pass it to find out what's in it sure but you know the broader implication here is i think that the legitimacy of the regulatory apparat uh is beginning to be eroded um for many many years
Starting point is 00:10:35 for decades we've lived with it we've put up with it because incrementally one at a time considered in isolation these impositions were were annoying, but not an existential threat. But now collectively, cumulatively, we've arrived at a point where we're dealing with an existential threat to our way of life as a result of this. And it's beginning to dawn on people. I talk to people about vehicles all the time, and I say, why in the world does it cost $50,000 to buy a pickup truck? Why can't I get a family car for $25,000 anymore? What happened to V8 engines? What happened to V6 engines?
Starting point is 00:11:11 You know, they're starting to figure it out. And, you know, if we can just buy enough time, God willing, you know, for enough people to begin to realize this, I think we stand a chance of putting a stop to it, I hope. Yeah, I hope so. Well, you know, as we look at this, and you and I have been talking about how they're overloading the grid at the same time they're trying to deconstruct the grid and people have talked about the fact that the biden administration said we're going to spend eight billion dollars on building charging stations because that's everybody's big objection you know half the people all seven of them yeah that's exactly and so now there's an article out here three out of four
Starting point is 00:11:47 ev charging developers say they can't get enough electricity for their stations they've already shut down i mean they're choking off our grid very very quickly even to the extent that you now have these um these heavy electricity users like the large language models that they're using to train the AI and stuff like that. They're saying, we're going to get into the power business. We're going to start making small nuclear power stations. So people are seeing what is happening now. And even Gates and the rest of these people are now jumping onto that. They see that as a big moneymaker for them.
Starting point is 00:12:21 So as they shut down our affordable energy they're going to have probably a lot more expensive energy and it's going to be a smaller amount and it's going to be tightly controlled by them and prioritized for their use for artificial intelligence is going to be about surveillance and it's going to be used uh for the surveillance state as well they'll get first dibs on all the electricity sure inevitably this Inevitably, this is going to result in a winnowing down of affordable power for most people, which is ultimately what the point of all of this is. There was a very, very interesting exchange, if you want to back this, between Thomas Massey and our friend Pete Buttigieg, the current Secretary of Transportation. Massey's background is in electrical engineering, so he knows what
Starting point is 00:13:03 he's talking about. And he started querying Buttigieg about the power load and the demand that would potentially be imposed by the replacement one-for-one of the current vehicle fleet with electric vehicles. And it's just the infrastructure is not there, and the infrastructure will never be there, at least not without an effort that is almost inconceivable in terms of what it would cost. They know this. They're well aware of this. It's the point of all of this. They know that, for example, to provide the electricity at a large truck stop, let's say a highway truck stop that would serve over-the-road trucks, big rigs, commercial trucks, you'd need to have the generating capacity that would be comparable to that, which you need to provide electricity to a small town. Where's it going to come from? And they know they're not idiots. They're evil, but they're generally not idiots.
Starting point is 00:13:53 And they are perfectly aware of that. And their hope is that people, generally speaking, who don't have a lot of knowledge about electricity and engineering and so on, are going to be too distracted by various other things to even think about this very much until it's too late to do anything about it well i agree absolutely and you know as we as we look at the um uh it's not it's not just the electricity there's not enough electricity but there's also not enough lithium there's not enough cobalt there's not enough of these uh things that they need to make the batteries and other stuff like that there was an article i covered yesterday talking about lithium and they said even though they can mine it it's a very environmentally polluting uh you know really awful process that is there destroys everything around it and uh even though there's a lot of lithium in Australia, and I think it was South America, almost all the processing is done in China.
Starting point is 00:14:50 And why is that? Well, because they've got almost all the affordable energy. So all manufacturing is shutting down and going to China because they're allowed to build as many coal plants as they want without any pollution controls whatsoever. It's actually, that's one of the most absurd things about this whole climate alarmism is the Paris Climate Accord that allows that from China and from India. You know, part of this is the shifting of wealth away from the West.
Starting point is 00:15:17 That's exactly, yeah. And interestingly, to get back to this stuff with Toyota and the Hilux Champ, the Toyota, I can't remember the guy's name, but the representative who gave the presentation when the vehicle was revealed to the public, you know, talked about how in the developing world, this is a way for people to get a leg up, you know, to get their first vehicle for small businesses to develop wealth. And you never hear that in this country anymore, ever in a commercial from a vehicle manufacturer. You know, it's all about this political stuff. It's never about, hey, this is, you know, this is going to save you money. This is going to this is going to improve your life. It's all this political stuff. And there's a reason for their gaslighting us. Like somehow it's terrible for a young person to want to improve their material well-being and get into
Starting point is 00:16:03 a position where perhaps they'll be able to get married and afford to have a family they don't want that for us that's right yeah it's allowed for other people in other countries to improve their life but for us we have to they have to destroy our standard of living uh and it's never been more clear uh you know when you look at um what happened in kenya uh they had riots there because massive new tax structure. And it was all justified by the IMF telling them, first of all, the IMF got them in debt with a lot of stuff. And then the globalists come in and start dictating an environmental and ecological agenda to them. And it was focusing on plastics. But it's not going to be limited of course to one
Starting point is 00:16:46 developing country like kenya and of course they had riots in the street they chased the people out of the parliament building they set it on fire the police were shooting live ammunition and killing people in the streets and this was all over an environmental tax on plastics and now what they're saying children's health defense says here come the lawsuits plastic manufacturers could be held legally liable for pollution which is exactly the globalist plan in kenya here it'll be done with lawsuits instead of with taxes i guess maybe the taxes will come later no actually i believe there is a case afoot that intends to do exactly that, to attempt to apply the same case law that was used to go after the cigarette manufacturers, to go after the oil companies. You know, their products are hazardous.
Starting point is 00:17:37 They're creating a problem of the commons and pollution, and it has to be addressed in that. I mean, they're absolutely desperate desperate they have to do this they have to shut it down and they have to shut it down urgently because people are beginning to reject it i came across a really interesting stat the other day did we lose did we lose david no no i'm here i'm here sorry okay i came across a very interesting um piece of information the other day about ev ownership first-time ev buyers uh roughly half of them something in the 43 range have decided that they don't want an ev anymore and they've traded in their ev to get something that isn't an ev go ahead sorry they've traded in their ev to get something that's not an ev and you know that
Starting point is 00:18:24 essentially that's all of the early adopters the people who get something that's not an ev and you know that essentially that's all of the early adopters the people who really were interested in having an ev pretty much have already bought one the rest of us want no part of it the whole thing is completely imploding and you know if they don't do something very quickly it's going to be irrecoverable for them i think yeah yeah exactly and as this is happening and the people who went out and adopted them a lot of them want to go back with their next car they want to go back to uh uh having a car yeah there's a i wanted i was i was telling travis you thought we'd lost connection i was telling him i want to pull up this next article about uh the old ad that you had about car painting but uh you know the people who have adopted it uh don't like the charging issue and everything.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Again, $8 billion and they get seven or eight charging stations. What's some of the perks of being affluent? Why do people who have the means fly first class? It's hard to get a bigger seat, obviously. But I think the main reason is you don't have to stand in the cattle queue. You get to board first. You get to board faster. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:23 That's the perk of having money so even leftists even the woke people when they buy one of these evs and they find they're going to end up having to sit at a sheets for a half an hour you know when when you and i in the proletariat you know i can fuel up my 22 year old truck and be out of there in two or three minutes that kind of annoys them they don't they don't like that so even they've had enough of this but i think you know it shows that the they will subordinate everything our liberties practical use of a device and everything they'll support it to their desire to centrally control and ration everything that's why only thing that is allowed is an electric car that is battery operated and charges over a very long time off the grid it could have an electric car that was hydrogen operated and charges over a very long time off the grid.
Starting point is 00:20:05 It could have an electric car that was hydrogen or a lot of other technologies that they could work on. And yet that would have a situation where they couldn't track everything that easily. And so I think that's a big part of it. But even with that, you know, the people who have the cars, they want to, I think about half of them want to get rid of them because of the charging issues, the availability, as well as the amount of time that takes. Yeah, I mean, it's immensely inconvenient. I, you know, I have driven dozens of EVs and every single time I get one to test drive, I have to go through this rigmarole of constantly thinking
Starting point is 00:20:39 about, okay, how much, how much charge have I got left? And of course, that's not even accurate. You have to guess because it depends on the weather. It depends on how you drive. All these factors that are largely out of your control. So you always have to put a cushion of about 20% into whatever that range says it is because what it actually is is probably going to be different.
Starting point is 00:20:57 And then you have to think, okay, have I got time to sit around at that fast charger downtown? Or, all right, I'll bring it home. Hopefully I'll get home. And I guess I'll drive it the day after because i'll leave it on the hook up for a day and then i can probably drive it it's ridiculous you know just as opposed to being able to just say okay i need to go get something at the store i'm just going to jump in my truck and go get something at the store yeah yeah they're always needlessly complicating our lives
Starting point is 00:21:20 and and of course um destroying the value of our our money i saw this article at your site i'll paint any car any color for just 29.95 and i saw that remember earl shy i don't i don't remember that but uh you don't remember earl shy no i don't i don't remember him all those commercials they were so obnoxious but they were because they were so obnoxious they were they were really memorable he was sort of this like almost quasi sleazy pitch man and I've got some of the old commercials linked in the article if anybody who's listening to this would like to see it yeah you got one from 19. they were pretty shoddy you know they would paint right over your emblems and and and all I think but you know 29.95 and and i had a the standing joke was you know
Starting point is 00:22:06 don't slam your door too hard because the paint will fall off afterwards but the take-home point was that you used to be able to get your car painted for very little money and if you were a little bit industrious if you did the prep work the paint actually wasn't that bad the reason it was so cheap is that they did almost no prep work you know they didn't do any body they didn't sand the car they didn't tape the car work. They didn't sand the car. They didn't tape the car. I did this myself back in the day. If you took your car, sanded it, and masked off things, and, you know, took the trim off, and took it down there ready to paint, and then they sprayed it for you, the end result was actually pretty nice.
Starting point is 00:22:39 And, you know, you could do that on a college kid budget. That's what I did back in the day that's all gone now because the cost of just running a paint shop and complying once again with all the regulatory rigmarole that you have to comply with in order to be in business the osha stuff the epa stuff and then the paint a gallon of paint now on the low end one gallon of paint automotive paint is something like a hundred bucks and some of the you know some of the colors can be three hundred dollars for a gallon of paint. And that's not counting all the other supplies and materials you need.
Starting point is 00:23:09 So that's one of the reasons why insurance costs are so high. You get into a fender bender now, and what used to be a couple hundred bucks to put some paint on the car is now potentially $3,000 to paint the car. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. And as you point out, ramping that up from 1969 when it was 29 you said adjusted for inflation be about 300 today uh but that's still dropping the bucket because there's so much regulation for this stuff and they're just you know trying to shut everything in our lives down that that is absolutely what i call them not climate alarmist uh you know i've
Starting point is 00:23:43 talked about how the mcguffin that got different uh uh scary things that uh we're supposed to be afraid of so we shut things down but it really is nihilism i think it's not even alarmism it's just nihilism they want zero everything well it's nihilism i think for the useful idiots who bought into this and don't understand what's in store for them but i think there's something much more malicious at the higher levels there's a oh yeah there's there's a sadism and there's a contempt for peach uh it's a kind of a death cult you know they want us gone they despise us they consider themselves to be superior beings and and we're cattle to be exposed we're in their way they don't like the fact that what they consider to be their resources are being trampled upon by us.
Starting point is 00:24:30 They would like to have the open spaces, the parks to themselves. They would like to not have to see us when they go out on the roads. That's what's driving a lot of this. That's right. Yeah, depopulation. That has been at the heart of the environmental and climate movement from the very beginning, is depopulation. They really do despise other people. I think Gates is probably more obvious than any one of these other ones.
Starting point is 00:24:53 And, of course, I love, you see it from time to time, the meme where he's going to one of these hearings about antitrust early on when he's still pretty young. And as he's walking up for the hearing, somebody runs around and hits him in the face with a pie. And it says, this is the moment at which Bill Gates decided that he's going to destroy all mankind. But you know, I'm glad you brought that up because younger viewers, younger people who are listening to this may not remember.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Gates got into a lot of trouble back in the 90s for his unsavory business practices. And he had to do some whitewashing. You know, he consulted with some PR people and he became a philanthropist instead of a greed head cr rich guy who just wants to make sure people get vaccinated and have access to clean water and all of these other things. He's a really, really nefarious character. If you look at his background a little bit, and I know you have, you'll know all about that. Yeah. And you look at, he also positioned Microsoft, which is under threat of being broken up. He also positioned that as a
Starting point is 00:26:05 partner to darpa they have been partnering with them when you look at news guard election guard and so many different other things they have the coalition for content providence and authentication to identify every single thing that we create whether it is a a single uh a picture a still picture or it's an article or it's video or it's audio they want to mark everything and tag everything so they can increase their censorship and of course they seem to always come to microsoft to put together these coalitions to be the lead and all of it and i think that goes back to his antitrust hearings as well yeah absolutely and another thing about microsoft he was not the one, he was one of the ones who developed that business model of not owning things.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Remember when you used to be able to buy software in the box and once you bought it, it was your software. You got a disk and it was yours and maybe it got outdated after a few years, but nonetheless, it was yours and you could transfer it to another computer. You could give it to your kid or whatever and then they could use it.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Instead, you now buy a license to use the software for a period of time and you have to continue to pay if you want to be able to use it and that that that business model now is being elaborated generally this is the business model that the car industry wants to use going forward they don't want to sell you a car anymore they want to sell you transportation as a service and they want you making payments in perpetuity you never pay anything off you just pay to use the vehicle that's right yeah yeah you'll own nothing and you'll eat the bugs or you'll eat the plastic you know now they want us to eat plastic that's the latest thing out of DARPA they want a edible plastic you know but let's switch to politics you know we had this uh you got an article, Big Mike is coming.
Starting point is 00:27:46 Somebody's coming. Yeah. I mean, what a ridiculous election cycle this is. They're not even pretending to have any kind of election. It's obviously a selection. We've had the lawfare against Trump. We've had both Trump and Biden skate through this whole process without having to do a debate with any competitors within their party. They haven't even been nominated yet. Now they've got this early debate that's all there.
Starting point is 00:28:09 All of it is highly suspicious. And all of this, I think, I keep telling everybody, telling my audience, stop focusing on what's happening in Washington. Start focusing on what's happening locally. And I said, this just really underscores how hopelessly corrupt this all is. What's your take on things that have happened? Well, I've got several takes, but you know, there's one, and this is maybe a hopeful take,
Starting point is 00:28:31 if it's, albeit a cynical take, as Don and I were watching that debate, I thought to myself, you know, at least, thank God, we've got these two clowns put forward as contenders for the office, because they are clowns and it's laughable. And when we can laugh, we're a little bit better off than we would be if we had something deadly serious to worry about, like a Stalin, let's say, who isn't the least bit funny, you know,
Starting point is 00:28:55 and was smart and cold and calculated. I'd far rather have the boofed buffoon on the one hand, and then the senile grifter on the other hand because it helps to delegitimize the authority of the federal apparatus it makes them look ridiculous because they are ridiculous and i think that benefits us yeah i agree i talked uh this week i talked yesterday as a matter of fact uh about brezhnev um people in russia said that he had a stroke about six years before he died. And the last six years, he was just kind of, you know, weekend with Vlad type of thing, or weekend with Brezhnev, where they prop this guy up. And it's really the calculating people
Starting point is 00:29:36 around him, the small group of people, the cabal that's running the country. I think that's what we're seeing now with Biden, for sure uh and and you know the problem is when you got everything highly centralized as in the soviet union or as in washington today you can have these people uh the way mcgregor put it colonel mcgregor he said it's become very clear that the leader of this country is unelected and we're not really sure who they are it's the people who are back around biden who are actually running the country and i think that is part of it that's very concerning we don't know who these people are these faceless individuals back there maybe it's the cia maybe it's the people in his uh staff that are running the country uh but either way we're not
Starting point is 00:30:18 allowed to see who the real leader is but we can see what the product of it is well i agree and i'll make another remark. Of course, I was young back when Brezhnev was still around, but I have some memories of Brezhnev and the old Soviet ruling clack. And my sense of Brezhnev, and especially having read about Brezhnev, he was just kind of a genial hack. I don't think Brezhnev was a sociopath in the way that Biden is and the way that the people who run the regime in this country are. They were just sort of an ossified ruling clack. What we're dealing with now is something I think that's infinitely worse than what the
Starting point is 00:30:55 Soviet people had to deal with back in the day. I agree. Yeah, at least Brezhnev liked Westerns. The Rifleman was his favorite Western. Biden would want to take the gun away from the Rifleman. Right. Right. I think Brezhnev had a sense of humor. You know, he wasn't a completely joyless, awful human being, as opposed to what this Biden creature is. Yeah. Whatever's left of him.
Starting point is 00:31:17 You've run, since all this COVID stuff has happened, and you talk a lot about the Gesundheit Führers and boys, that's not a great way to describe these people but you also have uh the diaper report at eric piazzotto's uh and and you got one for yesterday here where do you see the uh the the diaper thing uh coming back uh with with uh bird flu i mean we i said earlier we got robert redfield who's running around he wants to be the chicken little of the bird flu pandemic. He's trying to hype this fear everywhere he goes. What do you see in your diaper report? Give us an update. Well, let's see.
Starting point is 00:31:52 The pathological hypochondria that was instilled in the population four years ago has not been cured. There are still a lot of very pathological, traumatized people out there. I see people still wearing masks you know not the majority by any means but i still regularly see people wearing masks and i don't think most of them are doing it for political reasons i think they're genuinely terrified yeah it reminds me of that movie that had bruce willis in it i can't remember what that little kid says i see dead people everywhere yes i see dead people brain dead people everywhere with the mask on so there's that but the thing that i wrote about the other day has to do with a good friend of mine
Starting point is 00:32:29 this is a guy that i've known for 20 years he and i work out sometimes together and he's a nurse and he just guess what got covered or at least they say that he got covered anyway he's very ill right now he's bedridden right now. He's a big strapping guy. He got vaccinated because he was given that Hobson's choice during the pandemic of, hey, you want to keep your job, you got to get vaccinated. And he's a single dad. He's got a teenage daughter and he felt compelled to keep his job. And I'm not going to condemn him for that. I understand the pressure that he was under, but it just infuriates and saddens me it's not just him by the way he and i've talked over the last couple of days pretty much the entire floor of people that he works with they're out with this this illness
Starting point is 00:33:15 now really this i didn't get the shot and i'm fine i've had no problems this guy you know he gets the shot and he's sick. And I know so many people who have gotten the shot who are perpetually getting sick and not just getting a cold, but getting really sick, like bedridden, incapacitated, sick, not just sniffles and, oh, I don't feel so good today, but badly sick. And, you know, I don't know whether it has been established as a fact yet, but there is the assertion. and i think it's not an unreasonable one that these shots have damaged compromised these people's immune systems to such an extent that a they're more likely to get sick and when they do get sick they get much sicker than they otherwise would have oh yeah and
Starting point is 00:33:55 then of course it's um the fact that we now have as a regular feature of childhood heart attacks uh this is something we never had before never Never had to have kids have an EKG before they could participate in sports. That's what I think is such a damning indictment of both Trump and Biden. Something like that. But, you know, you're talking about your friend there who
Starting point is 00:34:17 had to get the shot. And, of course, we understand that coercion. People really don't understand the mechanism. You know, when I talk to Trump supporters, they really don't understand how the coercion was going to run out through the employers if you do business with washington you're going to have to get your people uh shot and that's what they were doing especially to the hospitals trump had given them such largesse through these bonuses for identifying people as covid for putting them on ventilators and so forth, giving them a 20% bonus for everything they did. And then Biden comes along and he says, if you don't get your staff vaccinated, we're
Starting point is 00:34:52 going to not only take away all those bonuses that you got through CMS, but we're going to take away Medicare and Medicaid. People don't realize how they used Trump and Biden, whoever it is that's controlling the country, they use Trump and Biden as a one is is controlling the country they use trump and biden as a one-step two-step thing left right to control people and then to uh you know if you had this all done under one person uh then they could take all the blame but this allows them to distribute the blame it allows each party to have plausible deniability and that's what they're using with all this stuff and you know this gets back to what you and i were talking about a little while ago with your part to
Starting point is 00:35:27 the uh the federal elections and the government in general and the way that we can defend ourselves against this is to be independent of them to the extent that it's possible i was fortunate you were probably in the same position uh when all this occurred to be self-employed you know i didn't have a boss telling me look if you want to continue to work self-employed you know i didn't have a boss telling me look if you want to continue to work and get a paycheck you're going to get this jab you know uh my friend unfortunately was in a different position so i encourage everybody listening to us right now to think about that very seriously and think about figuring out a way to earn a living that doesn't put you at the mercy of these corporations which are then beholden to the government or might as well be the government
Starting point is 00:36:06 that can just dictate to you what to do because, you know, the choices, all right, I'm going to either obey or I'm going to lose everything. I'm going to lose my home. I'm going to lose my ability to feed my family. You know, these are choices that most people, you know, will end up having to bow to because they're not going to put their kids out on the street. That's right. And it's kind of like before you came on, I was talking about homesteading, you know, will end up having to bow to because they're not going to put their kids out on the street. That's right. And it's kind of like before you came on, I was talking about homesteading, you know, putting up something there so that you can at least eat,
Starting point is 00:36:31 having some kind of a place that is not super expensive so that you can keep your roof over your head. Different things like that can help to take away some of that coercive pressure that they put on people. Earlier in the program, Eric, I talked about a woman who got fired from blue cross blue shield here in tennessee and because she wouldn't take the jab she didn't even have a job where she met with anybody for a year and a half she'd been working at home and so forth but even before that she didn't come in contact with people and so they required to do it she had religious objections to it. And she just won $700,000 in a lawsuit against them. And I've seen a lot of these types of things. I've talked to a lot of people who went to the mat for this, got fired, and started their own business and had a successful business.
Starting point is 00:37:18 So there are things that people can do. We understand what the coercion is, and we understand that kind of coercion is going to come again for people with a lot of things. And I think the other part of it is, just like you're talking about your nurse friend, Karen, my wife, talked to someone in a store who was clerking in the store, and her husband had just died. She said from COVID. And so Karen said, did he get the vaccine? And she said, yes. Can you believe it? And he got blood clots all in his legs.
Starting point is 00:37:48 She thinks that COVID gave him the blood clots. She doesn't understand. They've done such a good job of censorship and propaganda that people are attributing all this stuff to COVID rather than to the shots. No, it is a crime that's unparalleled as far as i can tell you have to go back to the stalin era and the old soviet union to come up with something that's comparable to this you know it's not just the body count it's the way they have psychologically assaulted people uh to make people feel both a combination of afraid and guilty you remember granny might die you know make people who
Starting point is 00:38:26 had questions about whether i should put on this mask and whether i should stay home and whether i should get this vaccine well if you don't do that you know you're going to kill granny what a wild despicable thing to do to people yeah oh i agree i agree and it makes me concerned when i see how rigged and manipulated this whole process is i'm looking at this and saying, so are they going to come back again with another pandemic or something similar to that? And are they going to use Trump to to get people to go along with it as they did in 2020? A lot of people were told, hey, it's 40 chess. They thought Trump was going to take care of it. They might have trusted him.
Starting point is 00:39:00 You know, they take their guard down. Just like when you look at gun purchases, when you get a republican who's friendly to gun ownership and they think they stop buying guns when you get a democrat this and they start buying guns it takes their guard down and so perhaps they do want to put trump in for what they've got planned coming up for the next four i think they do for two reasons two reasons uh and they're both really really daunting the one is that his base the conservatives and in particular the nominal christians are going to fall for this i think yeah uh who better to get us into a war you know onward christian soldiers in the middle east or ukraine you know rally around
Starting point is 00:39:35 the flag support the troops uh trump could very much do that and the other thing is that he could be positioned uh you know wwe style as the fall guy for what they've got planned let him let him get elected let all of the maga you know right-wing people dance in the streets then crater the economy and then blame everything on the free market no no we've just got to get this under control you know we've got to have some sort of a centrally planned system where wise experts are in control of things so that this doesn't happen again that's right yeah january the 6th on a full national level was what that would be yeah and and it's and it's so frustrating we talk about how effective their propaganda was
Starting point is 00:40:15 it's so frustrating to see so many it's now become a mainstream media narrative to say that everybody was killed because of this engineered virus out of a lab it was never that i was always worried about gain of function stuff i always opposed it going back 2014 and i pointed out in december 2019 hey where they say that they got the bat soup and all the rest of the stuff of that marketplace i said that's their only biosafety level four lab and all of china is right there so maybe that's what's happening but early on in january you could see that they were faking it and it lined up with all of their germ games that they had so i i didn't believe that i thought that was pushing fear on the conservative side but
Starting point is 00:40:56 now the mainstream media has adopted that and they're using that gain of function engineered virus thing to keep people believing that there really is a threat out there. There wasn't a threat. Everybody was killed. The people that were killed were killed by the ventilators and the medical protocols and the remdesivir and the do-not-resuscitate orders. And they were killed by the vaccines. And yet you've got now the mainstream media and the alternative conservative media are all pushing this lab leak thing, and they won't do anything to shut any of it down. That's another sign that it's a lie, I think.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Yeah, it's all orchestrated. And speaking of that, you know, when I was watching the debate to get back to that again, I was struck by how civil and temperate the usually rabid toward trump or toward any republican candidate moderators were very very interesting and in the wake of what happened with biden all of a sudden now these same people who are telling us how uh you know how how mentally acute biden is and how in control biden is have completely turned around on him and you know it summons in my mind this vision of an aquarium with two piranhas uh sort of in the side by side looking at each other you can see their eyes and as soon as one of them notices that the other one's a little bit a little bit weak you know it immediately becomes a chum fest and they just chew them apart you know it's obvious they've
Starting point is 00:42:18 decided that biden's got to go and now the question is well what's going to come next yeah yeah the other thing you could see in that debate, you know, was by cutting off the microphones, that kind of tamed Trump a little bit. The moderators, as you pointed out. But then the fact that they would leave the guys in a two-up picture, right? So that you see when the other guy is talking, you would see him. And Biden was just all over the place, looking around like he didn't even know where he was. I said, when we were watching, I said, I think he's going to wander off the stage like he did at the g7 and i think that was something that was deliberately done to make him look stupid john
Starting point is 00:42:54 stewart even ran a clip of that and for his audience he said you think it's bad when he talked look at what he was doing when he wasn't talking and and they pretend that they didn't know anything about it you know anderson cooper is talking't talking. And they pretend that they didn't know anything about it. You know, Anderson Cooper is talking to Lala Harris and saying, well, didn't you know you were there? And it's like, doesn't Anderson Cooper know? I mean, where's his discernment? Everybody else knew. Why are they pretending that they didn't know all this stuff?
Starting point is 00:43:17 They all know. You know, I'm conflicted. On the one hand, on a human level, you know, I think I may have mentioned to you privately, my mom has dementia or Alzheimer's, whichever it is. So I've been dealing with that for the last three years. And so I've become quite acquainted with the signs of it and the expression on the face, for example. And I see that in Biden. And on a human level, I feel bad for the guy. You know, my God, what sort of a person his wife would put her husband up for public ridicule like that, to make him look
Starting point is 00:43:46 like a fool in front of the entire country. And the answer, of course, is because she likes to be president as much as he does. But on the other hand, he's such a despicable human being that it's very difficult for me to feel bad for the guy. I'll never forget the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas. And I was listening to it we were driving through the blue ridge parkway uh going up to visit relatives up north and um i was listening to that and i remember biden going nuts about clarence thomas supporting the idea of natural rights and it's like what this guy doesn't even support natural rights biden has been one of the most authoritarian totalitarian individuals ever out there.
Starting point is 00:44:28 Incredibly corrupt, always hating the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, even the very concept of natural rights. So, yeah, he is a despicable person. But again, he's not the one who's running the country. Somebody behind the screen has got a Wizard of Oz there that is pulling all the levers of the great and powerful biden uh that is up there on a human level you know he's dealing with his son and his son's issues issues with addiction well uh when was it back in the mid 90s i think when he was one of the principles behind the drug reform legislation which threw people into federal prison for a minimum of five years i think it was
Starting point is 00:45:05 for possessing an amount of a controlled substance that was about the same amount that that his son has and you would think that if he had any humanity in him now that he's experienced this within his own family with his son he would have some regrets about having condemned people who had substance abuse issues to federal prison for years for the same thing that his son is dealing with. There's no recognition of that in that man at all. Of course, now he doesn't recognize anything at all anyway. Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah, I had the same situation with my mother.
Starting point is 00:45:34 It was dementia that was induced from a medical procedure, gave her a stroke. But still, same type of thing. You couldn't tell the difference if she had alzheimer and same type of uh things that you see with biden so it is uh it is a sad situation uh as i've said if we live long enough probably all of us are going to have that to some degree or the other but it's it's um they're using him uh they're using him as a weekend at bernie uh totem you know so they can uh carry on their uh their game behind the scenes i think it's uh they may not be able to carry it forward though for uh the duration of this year through the election you know it seems
Starting point is 00:46:17 to be that they are in kind of a panic mode they're talking about this openly about uh figuring out some way to get him to step aside voluntarily or otherwise but then the question becomes who are they going to replace him with they put themselves in a real quandary yeah you know they've got a a roster of extremely unappealing people to select from gavin newsom hillary clinton michelle obama and they have to deal with kamala harris and they have to deal with the conflict in their own base between a white heterosexual guy who's a scumbag, but Gavin Newsom is a white heterosexual rich guy. They're going to use him to replace a strong black woman? That's going to cause quite an uproar within the ranks of the Democratic Party.
Starting point is 00:46:59 And meanwhile, Orange Man potentially is going to go to Rikers Island in a week, right? Yeah. And so, you know, some have said, and I don't disagree with this, that it's very possible that the two nominal putative candidates for president will not be the ones that are on the ballot in November, that we might end up with somebody like Nikki Haley versus somebody like Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama, a.k.a. Big Mike. Well, you know, going back to the lockdown stuff, you know, back in October 2019, Fauci was asking one of these meetings, played a lot for my audience. They said, you know, how do you get everybody in the world to take an untested vaccine?
Starting point is 00:47:39 He said, well, you do it from the inside, you do it with disruption, and you do it iteratively. And we're seeing that applied into the political sphere as well. You've got a civil war in the Republican Party over Trump. You've got a civil war in the Democrat Party now over Biden. How are they going to replace him? Who are they going to replace him with? Are they going to replace him? And so it's just chaos everywhere, I think, is really what they're after.
Starting point is 00:48:02 It goes back to the old program get smart you know you just got the bad guys this is one of the foundational operative principles of the left in particular that's right uh that chaos is how you acquire power most people want calm they want stability they want predictability uh you know they want to get up in the morning and not have to worry about the golden board descending on their house they want to be able to go to work uh they want their routines this is just a normal human thing and when that is denied them well their instinct is please let's end the chaos what can we do to end the chaos and of course the left has the answer for that yeah that's right everything they do whether it's the open borders
Starting point is 00:48:44 or any of this stuff is all designed for chaos uh you know one of the things i think about what biden is uh always he's always looking to ban something he and his uh bureaucratic regime you got an article uh another in the department of what we're not allowed to uh have what what is that oh i think that's what we were talking about earlier, which is that $13,000 Toyota truck. Yeah. You know, and it's not just that $13,000 truck. There's a whole array of vehicles like that, that we are not allowed to have. And by the way, something that we're not allowed to have, which I think the people who are listening to this, who buy into the climate change narrative ought to take into account, we're not allowed to have affordable electric cars either. There is a plethora of affordable electric cars available in other
Starting point is 00:49:29 parts of the world. I'm talking about vehicles that cost less than $10,000. They may not be vehicles that do zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds, but they can get you from A to B, particularly if you're in the city. So why is it if there's this existential crisis, and it's so important that people get into electric vehicles, that they're not doing everything possible to see to you're in the city so why is it if there's this existential crisis and it's so important that people get into electric vehicles that they're not doing everything possible to see to it that these very affordable vehicles are available to americans i think the answer to that tells us a lot about the truth of the climate change chivalrous oh yeah yeah and of course i know that as well you know these guys they got into an argument that's the point at which i stopped
Starting point is 00:50:04 watching the debate where they started arguing about their relative golf scores oh my gosh i know i just i wanted i was hitting myself in the head when that was happening i was trying to coach trump i was seeing myself why can't he say something like you know the question isn't uh is is whether a person has has has you know the mental sharpness and focus and the physical stamina to do this job, not whether he can hit a golf ball. That's right. Yeah, he could have said, I'm able to answer your questions. Why don't you ask that to him? That's perfect.
Starting point is 00:50:36 But, you know, Babylon B said maybe the rematch with them will be held at a golf course, you know, where they can compete against each other. But one of the things that my brother-in-law pointed out, he said, you know, Biden is bragging about the fact that he had a six handicap. I don't play golf, so I didn't know. But he said, you know, if you've got a six handicap, it means the guy's playing golf every day as vice president, right? That's probably true. He may not have gotten it down to a six handicap, but he probably did play golf every day. And he probably did putter around in a cheap electric golf cart uh so why can't they
Starting point is 00:51:10 give us at least something like that right uh but it's about taking away all of our our transportation isn't it sure well why can't we go full wwe trump should have pulled out one of those folding chairs remember from back in the day when paul put that on the iron sheet and just hit biden over the head with it that's right yeah that's that's exactly what it is let's talk a little bit about the um what you said in terms of intended acceleration you know we had uh you referenced oh yeah you said uh we had uh the audis that supposedly had unintended acceleration but now we got um the the tesla vehicles and and tesla drive by wire i mean there's all kinds of issues i i don't know if you saw it or not uh the um the the lag uh in terms of the drive by the steering wheel
Starting point is 00:51:53 on the side and you know you turn it and yes and you can see in the in the frame they've got the steering wheel being turned and you can see the the tire and there's quite a bit of lag in that as well uh but you're talking about the acceleration aspect of it well yeah you and i can see the tire and there's quite a bit of lag in that as well but you're talking about the acceleration aspect of it well yeah you and i can remember boy we're getting old aren't we go back go back to the 80s and there was this big brouhaha about something that they they called unintended acceleration had to do with audi vehicles and uh there was this assertion made that these audis would just run amok people claimed that no matter how hard they pushed on the brake their car would just keep on going and go right through the wall
Starting point is 00:52:30 well what happened it turned out was that people weren't used to european car pedal placement back in those days the pedal placement typically was higher up and the pedals were smaller so inadvertently they didn't realize what they were doing they were in fact pushing on the gas pedal and hence the car accelerated. But, you know, it may not have been intended, but it wasn't the car's fault. It was the driver's fault. They were dealing with something entirely different because these cars are all, as you say, drive by wire. So there was an incident last week with a guy had been waiting for a long time to collect his Tesla Cybertruck,
Starting point is 00:53:02 and he was so happy when he finally got the thing that he decided to film himself driving it. So he put up his camera, he gets in his Cybertruck and he drives down the road while the thing runs amok. And he is actually trying to break it. He is trying to slow the thing down, but it won't. You know, he's leaving greasy tire marks down the road before you hear the sound of him running into a house. And that's how it stopped. The difference is that back in the day, you know, know audis like all cars up until drive by wire had a physical cable the cable connected the gas pedal to the throttle whether it was carburetor or the fuel injection system so that when you push down on that accelerator pedal you were operating a mechanical linkage back and forth and sure sometimes it might get stuck but you know you could reach down if you
Starting point is 00:53:44 were agile enough pull that thing back up or Or in a worst case scenario, you could put the transmission, if it's an automatic, in neutral. And again, back then there were still cable connections between the gear selector and the transmission. So you could disconnect it. And with the ignition, you could turn the ignition off. Again, there were multiple ways to prevent the vehicle from running amok. Now, everything is computer controlled. There is a simulation of control. You think that you're controlling the throttle. You're not. A computer is. A computer registers the deflection when you push down on the gas pedal, and that gets translated into how much the engine, or in the case of an electric vehicle, how fast the motor should turn. When you move the selector from park to drive, you're not doing anything.
Starting point is 00:54:25 The computer is. The computer is the thing that's putting the transmission into that particular range. And in the case of the Cybertruck with that electric steering, you're not steering it. The computer is. So what happens when that glitches, when it doesn't work? Well, all of a sudden you realize, I've got no control.
Starting point is 00:54:40 You know, this has happened in aviation too. You probably are well aware of this. You know, they put in these drive-by-wire controls on some airplanes, and there was this big incident with an Airbus. The pilot was pulling back on the yoke because, oh, my God, the ground's coming up. I'm going to hit the trees. The airplane decided to countermand and didn't want to let the pilot do what he wanted to do. The thing went into the trees and killed everybody. Well, that's what happened with the 737 MAX as well. Yes. to the trees and killed everybody well that's what happened with the 737 max as well yes same
Starting point is 00:55:05 type of thing i remember rowan atkinson uh the comedian mr bean uh of course he's getting made a lot of money now but he was by training before he became a comedian he was an electrical engineer and but he's uh very rich so he's able to afford these hyper cars and stuff and he said you don't so much drive these cars anymore as you manage them. You give a general input to it, and it figures out how it's going to accomplish that. And that's really what's happening with a lot of the drive-by-wire. Now, I saw with a Cybertruck, I saw a picture of one of them where the physical pedal got stuck, like over on the carpet side or something. Was that what happened with this one, or was it a software issue, or do they know yet? I think it was a software issue.
Starting point is 00:55:49 And in any case, it was it a software issue or do they know yet i think it was a software issue and in any case you know it is inherently a software issue and if this is happening with new vehicles and this cyber truck incident is by no means isolated this this stuff happens pretty regularly if it happens with a brand new vehicle you know it's just come off the line and and ostensibly everything is working as it ought to these are all new components new connections what happens after five ten years you know after being jostled out on the road, after being exposed to various duty cycles, hot and cold and all of that connections fray, things start to not work that well anymore. You know, these things are all ticking time on, I wouldn't get in one, you know, I wouldn't go down in one of these things because you don't have any control over it. I've had things happen to me.
Starting point is 00:56:25 I was driving a few years ago. I was driving a car that had drive-by-wire and had advanced emergency braking in it, and it just decided to stop itself in the middle of the road. It glitched. It was a brand-new vehicle. It stopped in the middle of the road. Nothing I could do. It didn't matter how hard I pushed on the gas pedal.
Starting point is 00:56:41 The thing had decided that there was an object in the road. Maybe it saw a ghost. Maybe it saw a a shadow i don't know what happened never did find out but the point is it stopped in the middle of the road and if there had been a tractor trailer coming behind me that would have been it we wouldn't be having this interview oh yeah yeah and uh you know especially if it did that on the interstate uh somewhere do an emergency stop and then just stay there i had a situation and that's going to happen. You know, the Biden regime has now mandated that I think by 2029, all new vehicles have got to have this advanced emergency braking that will operate at speeds up to 90 miles an hour. And then the manufacturers, the car companies are finally saying, we can't do
Starting point is 00:57:18 this. This is going to be a huge problem. If we're forced to do this, the technology is not going to work. We're going to have a lot of the kinds of problems that you and i are just talking about right now well you remember uh that lady who was killed uh she was jaywalking she was homeless and pushing a cart and stuff and there was a woman who was supposed to be in the driverless uber and she's playing right and um uh in that particular situation they said oh well you know she wasn't paying attention she should have been paying attention and then they said well she wouldn't have been able to do anything because if you look at the forward camera you can see this lady came from out of the dark and they said yeah but these cars have got lidar in them so they would have seen this happen and they should have
Starting point is 00:57:57 put on the emergency brake and the response was well the emergency brake stuff is going off all the time so we disconnected it so you know i'm not gonna have this strong emergency braking thing that's gonna be gonna be another level of complexity when i first got my mustang as my first car and i put i thought it was a great idea to put this decorative pedal on it because i was just 16 years old oh i remember someone that looks like a foot maybe yeah exactly like a surfer foot right so i put it on there and and i'm on the interstate and i wanted to pass this car on the right and there was a um there was a flyover that was coming up on the right had a pretty sharp turn and uh so i stepped on it to get past them got into that lane and then i take my foot off and it got stuck on the carpet and this thing is still accelerating
Starting point is 00:58:45 you know it's like what do i do now and i i uh fortunately thought oh i'll put it in in a neutral because it was an automatic i i shoved it in a neutral and so the thing was revving really high but is able to get me get the the speed down but you know if it was a drive by wire and something like that happens i mean there's not anything you can do right and here's a point i wanted to make too with regard to these lidar and radar systems and i've personally experienced this so i can attest to it um you know when it's foggy out or when it's snowed or we've had ice and the camera's view is obscured the systems don't work so what's the implication what do you think these control freaks are going to do they're going to say whenever it rains whenever it snows whenever it's foggy, whenever they want to, they'll say it's not safe.
Starting point is 00:59:27 We're having a lockdown. We're not going to let people get out. It sounds ridiculous, but I believe that they're going to do that. I can see it. I can see it coming. And I can say just as we've talked about as they shut down the grid and the power capacity and everything and they push people to get the cars, they're going to tell them, there's not enough electricity for you to drive your car today. But we will, however, be needing to use that as a battery backup for the grid. We've talked about that for the longest time.
Starting point is 00:59:54 So, you know, it's a very subversive agenda. They want to create chaos, take everything from us by creating the chaos. And it's just amazing to see how this is playing out. And I think we're going to see this really, really accelerating because they've only got a couple of years before their magic date of 2030, where they want to have all this stuff accomplished. There's synergies at work. It's all coming together. And for good or for bad, hopefully for better, this I do think is going to get resolved within the next, probably within the next year or two. Well, we've seen some real hopeful signs. I just think, is going to get resolved probably within the next year or two.
Starting point is 01:00:25 Well, we've seen some real hopeful signs. I just think that as people wake up and start to push back, they're going to take us to war. That's what Gerald Slinty always says. Always great talking to you, Eric. Thank you so much again, everybody. That's ericpetersautos.com. Everything about mobility and liberty you'll find there and really great insights from Eric Peters. Very entertaining to read as well. Thank you so muchic thank you david i'm grateful thank you you too
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