The David Knight Show - INTERVIEW Rediscovering the Spirit of Meyers Manx

Episode Date: September 7, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:49 All right, and joining us now is Eric Peters, epautos.com, and we had, Eric, we had a little bit of video issues with it, and so we reestablished contact, and we've got him on with audio. Thanks for joining us, Eric. Always great to talk to you. Oh, likewise, David, and again, I'm sorry about the technical snafu. I hope to share with you my quadrajet model. Next time. Well, I want to see that next time. Yeah. So what's on your mind?
Starting point is 00:01:11 What are you looking at? Well, I was listening to you just a few minutes ago before the snafu happened, and you were talking about some of the issues involving the electric cars. And I have been writing about it. I haven't published it yet, but I've got an article in the works about something that's just illustrative of the old debacle. Tesla has a gigantic supercharger facility called Harris Ranch, and it's outside Colalinga, California. It's roughly about halfway between L.A. and San Francisco.
Starting point is 00:01:40 And they really talk it up because it's got 98 places for EVs to charge. And as it turns out, they have a diesel power generator And they really talk it up because it's got 98 places for EVs to charge. And as it turns out, they have a diesel power generator to provide the electricity to keep the things going. That's what he did at the Nürburgring. He wanted to stick his Porsche head to the electric car, and he wanted to show them his plaid. And so he shipped it over there, and then he put a diesel generator, and everybody around the area was furious at him because, you know, they're all about clean stuff and everything in Germany. So they were furious. So he's got a diesel generator running this thing.
Starting point is 00:02:11 That's great. Yeah, it's obnoxious on so many levels because, well, here's one. Diesel, static diesel generators are not subject to the same ultra-strict emission standards that diesel-powered passenger vehicles are subjected to. So here he is touting his supposedly green, zero-emissions electric cars that are feeding off of, this relatively free-of-any-emissions-controlled diesel generator, and he's helping to push diesel cars that are actually very clean and extremely efficient off the market. It's just, it makes my teeth hurt. It makes me want to grab a bottle of whiskey and just crawl into a corner somewhere sometimes. It's like some old lawnmower that he's got running out there, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:54 There's no amazing proposal. And now there's a technical reason for this. And, you know, you have an electrical engineering background, so you know all about this. It takes an immense amount of electricity to power one of those fast chargers, to get that kind of current going into a single electric vehicle. Now imagine the draw of almost 100 electric vehicles sucking power all at the same time. It's just not there. And that's why he's had to have this backup diesel generator system to make his fraud seem like it works.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Well, and that's the thing. You and I have talked about this for years before they openly talked about it but now they're openly talking about it now we got the epa out there shutting down power plants you know and these are clean power plants they're not like the power plants that china and india is allowed to have with no limitation on the numbers of them but it's just like you're talking about the comparison between a clean uh diesel car and a diesel generator you know that's the comparison between our power plants and china's power plants except it's even greater there and and yet we have to shut our clean ones down so they can run their dirty ones and so um you know they're they're shutting down now the epa is uh shutting down
Starting point is 00:04:00 power plants with emission regulations never been done before for that and um there's not going to be any power on the grid for the electric cars as i was saying earlier booty gaze marxist committee of equity transportation uh says we want to get rid of all cars and you and i have said this from the very beginning that's the design you know this is just a head fake and it's just boiling the frogs to make us think well okay, okay, if we have cleaner engines, okay, they'll let us survive with this. How about if we have hybrids? No, none of that's going to be allowed. You've got to go to an electric vehicle, and then when you get to the electric vehicle, guess what?
Starting point is 00:04:36 There's not going to be anything to power it on the grid, and they're going to say there's no juice left. We've got to have it for heating and cooling, so you can't drive your car. Well, and they're also going to use the same excuse. Right now, they're telling us that because of carbon dioxide, it's necessary to get rid of all gas and diesel-powered vehicles, to get rid of gas-powered stoves and water heaters and things of that nature. Well, what they're going to do
Starting point is 00:04:58 if they succeed in forcing these electric vehicles onto everybody, all of a sudden it'll be discovered that they generate a great deal of emissions in their own right in order to produce the electricity that's necessary to keep these battery packs powered up. And then they'll say, well, now we can't have those because Mother Earth will die if we allow that to happen. And then they'll have achieved their goal of making a car something that only a very,
Starting point is 00:05:22 very few people at the very apex of the pyramid will have the ability to own anymore. And the rest of us will get to live in a 15-minute freedom city and walk or take a bicycle. That's right. And what is now starting to come up, you know, we're seeing this stuff happening in rapid succession. Not only the EPA putting emission rules on this, but it came to my attention here in this area in Tennessee, the tva wants to have these massive tesla battery energy storage sites they call them best b-e-s-s and and they have different
Starting point is 00:05:52 companies that put this stuff together but they're basing it off of the tesla battery package recall a couple of years ago elon musk said uh to uh this uh this uh location in um australia where they're having problems because they had switched over to renewable stuff. He says, I'll fix that for you, and I'll put in this battery pack in, I don't know, 30 days, 90 days, or whatever. If I don't get it put in in that amount of time,
Starting point is 00:06:16 you don't have to pay me. Well, of course, he knew he could get it installed in that amount of time. And then they had a massive fire there. And there's been massive fires with these things. They have like a million batteries in them. And there's been massive fires with these things. They have like a million batteries in them. And so if one of them goes bad, the whole thing goes up in flames.
Starting point is 00:06:36 They've had that happen in California a couple of times, in Australia, in New York several times. And now the TVA wants to start putting that in, not in desert areas like they've been doing in California or Australia, but they want to put it in residential areas that are heavily forested here and you can't control these things but now they just keep scaling this problem up from the uh the the electric scooters in new york that have killed a lot of people with a lot of fires this last year has now become a leading uh cause of death by fire these uh electric scooters but they keep scaling it up all the way to this power grid battery for renewables. And it truly is amazing. There seems to be no end to this insanity. And, of course, the guy who's filling his pockets at every one of these junctures is Elon Musk.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Yeah, you know, it's interesting to me that there's an element of this, of recklessness here. And you see it transcend so many things. The recklessness with which these so-called vaccines were pushed, for example, on people who are the ones who bear the cost of that. And now with these EVs and the fires, which is just one of the many problems that they have, people are getting killed, and more people will be killed. And, of course, ultimately, we are all going to pay for this financially in terms of things like increased insurance costs. I've been getting emails and calls from people, my readers, who have told me, you know, I got my insurance bill the other day and I hadn't had a wreck or anything or a traffic ticket, but they've increased my premium.
Starting point is 00:07:55 And the reason they're doing it, in part, is because of the anticipation of the increased costs of paying out for things like fires. A couple of weeks ago, there was an incident up in New Jersey where a Mercedes EQE EV that wasn't plugged in, it was just parked in this family's garage, it burned down, took the house with it. And so there's a million dollar loss. Who's going to pay for that? Scale that up and think about how we're all going to end up seeing this reflected in what we pay for insurance and so many other things, including our power bill as they increase the demand for the electricity that they're not increasing the generating capacity for. Yeah, yeah, I've got, there's a couple of firemen that go to the church that we go to, and they're saying there's no way that we can put these fires out once they get started.
Starting point is 00:08:35 It's like, well, what do you think is going to happen when you've got one of these BESS systems? You know, you've got a big grid for the battery that is going to be able to charge the grid the grid we have a fire with that what are you going to do with that you can't put this stuff out you know as you're talking about the the fires burning down houses and everything just because they get a little bit of salt water on them uh you know they you know don't park your car inside your house because it could burn it down but as this is all happening eric there's a fox news article saying that in texas the battery operators are criticizing uh ercot which is their joke incorporates the electric reliability corporation
Starting point is 00:09:12 of texas so much for reliability when they go to renewables yeah but you know they're they're complaining about their regulation of the battery operators and um and fox is portraying the battery people as the saviors saviors because they have thrown us under the bus by shutting down the functional fuels i don't call them fossil fuels i call them functional fuels they've shut that down and forced us into this other stuff and so now we've got to have these guys they're going to save us but you're throwing them under the bus and it's like yeah it's amazing to see how you know well of course we now know what fox is about you know, all the mainstream media is a cheerleader in all this, along with the government, of course. Sure.
Starting point is 00:09:50 And all of this is premised on yet another confected, overwrought, over-exaggerated hysteria. That is this idea that the 0.04% of the Earth's environment or air atmosphere that's carbon dioxide, if that's increased by a slight fraction of a percent, somehow the climate is going to change and we're all going to die. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, they just had the, I don't know if you saw the Munich car show there, but there's all these articles coming out from the financial press talking about how it's looking like it's the end of the German automobile industry, even as the German economy is circling the drain because
Starting point is 00:10:26 they're shutting down even nuclear power plants they're starving them they don't have enough energy to run any of their industries that are there and they can't compete with the chinese because the chinese have got supply chain advantage with a cheap batteries and access to materials that they have to buy from the Chinese. So they said there's no way that they can compete with the Chinese. But you're caught in this kind of murder-suicide loop that all of the Western governments are applying to their economies, isn't it? I mean, they really don't care. The automobile industry in Germany is a key part of that economy.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Now the IMF is saying Germany's got the worst economy of any of the countries there, and it's all self-inflicted. Well, it's not that they don't care. It's that they don't care about us. That's right. It's important, I think, to make that distinction. People like Buttigieg and Biden and all the people at the apex of the pyramid, they're not the ones who are going to be freezing in the cold
Starting point is 00:11:21 and worried about what they're going to eat and whether they've got a car that will allow them to go where they want to go. Heck, they're going to have access to private jets as we all know about. It's us. Socialism is always for us, not for them. And people have got to understand that. If they understand that, then everything begins to make sense. That's right. Yeah. They're going to have a complete across the board ban. This is really going to kick in in 2030, but by 2035, it's going to be 100% ban on all internal combustion engines in the EU. And that's basically going to put them out of business. They said we can't compete with the Chinese. This is by design. You know, this is a massive transfer of wealth and power and industrial manufacturing to the Chinese.
Starting point is 00:12:02 They are at war with their own economy. That's why we saw all this stuff happening under, it didn't matter if it was Trump or whether it was Trudeau. It didn't matter what their political philosophies were. They were all at war with us, doing exactly what the World Economic Forum and the UN wanted done, to shut us down. And it really is, they went to war with us, and they're still at war with us.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Yeah, some people aptly call that the uniparty and I agree that there isn't really any meaningful difference between the left and the right and so on and so forth but it's the elitist aspect of this that fascinates me because it's being pushed largely by a leftist philosophy you know that that claims that these things are necessary for the sake of the earth and so on and so forth. But it favors the wealthy. Elon Musk has made billions. And the affluent people who can afford to buy a $100,000 Tesla or even a $50,000 Tesla, and many of them are people who work for the government or make their money via the government,
Starting point is 00:13:00 so they have unlimited access to your wallet and mine to pay for what they want. So, you know, the average person, the average middle class guy, the average working class person is being inserved for the benefit of the rich. It's just the irony of it is astounding to me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talk about the diaper report. This is something that you've had since a weekly report that you have at epautos.com
Starting point is 00:13:23 about the face masks. and now they're trending again give us your update on the diaper report from your perspective well yeah i try to keep this alive because i think it's important it hasn't been beaten back enough it hasn't been rejected enough and it's really important to do that and you know you see that it's been reported that dr jill biden and whoopi Goldberg have tested positive, and they're trying to bring back the masks. And there was an interview. There was a really fascinating interview. It was on CNN. I can't remember
Starting point is 00:13:52 which reporter it was, but he was talking to, and I wish I could do the Fauci imitation, but anyway, he was talking to Fauci. And this CNN reporter actually brought forth, you know, credible points about the masks and how they didn't work, and there was no meaningful difference between population A masked up and population b that wasn't and of course fauci doubled down on it and continued to insist that masks work uh i mean it's it's just i covered that
Starting point is 00:14:15 i played that and you know the amazing thing about it to me eric was the fact that he's so clever and he switched the narrative you know it was always when all this was happening, individual health doesn't matter. We got to look after the public health, right? And so individual health, forget about it. And so he's got this study and that study had, I think it was 78 random control trials. They had just added another 11.
Starting point is 00:14:39 These things have been done around the world. And I said, you know, with a, you know, 95% confidence level, we can say these masks don't do anything. And of course we've known that for a long time. around the world and they said, you know, with a, you know, 95% confidence level, we can say these masks don't do anything. And of course, we've known that for a long time. The only thing that had a question there was how much harm are they doing to people? Yeah. And so Fauci's response to all that was, well, there's other studies, you know, and of course,
Starting point is 00:14:56 we're only worried about the individual health. We're not worried about the, that may be true. Maybe it doesn't help. Well, your whole thing is public health. And so it's, he's such a sleazebag, such a slimy character. It it doesn't help. Well, your whole thing is public health. And so he's such a sleazebag, such a slimy character. It's amazing to me. When you're not weighed down by high interest rates, life lightens up. MBNA TrueLine MasterCards have low interest rates on balance transfers and purchases to give your finances a lift. Find the credit card that's right for you. Visit mbna.ca slash truelinecards.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Give your finances a lift. All of these people are, and they're continuing to push these vaccines. And it's like the incongruity of it. You got people like Dr. Jill Biden, and you got Whoopi Goldberg, and the whole panoply of these people. And you got Whoopi Koff. Yeah, again, I mean, who's getting sick it seems to me anecdotally you know i mean i know a lot of people and the only people that i know who seem to be getting sick are the people who got vaccinated everybody else is fine that's right yeah i i don't you know there's two possibilities in my mind one of them is that uh they're faking it uh because they want
Starting point is 00:16:01 to bring back the face diapers or whatever if they're really sick or they're really testing positive, because we've had a lot of people who have always tested positive because they're magnifying the content of this stuff by 1.1 trillion times, but they might be finding some elements of the spike, which is reproducing and wrecking their body constantly. I don't know what's happening with this. If that's genuine, I think that's what it is. Well, how about we've normalized neurosis, hypochondria,
Starting point is 00:16:32 to the point now where if somebody gets the sniffles, they don't reach for a box of Kleenex, they rush out to get a PCR test, and then they get the positive test and they flip out because, oh my gosh, it's COVID. I've got COVID. I've tested positive. I better put on my mask. I better hide at home.
Starting point is 00:16:46 You know, what I think is interesting is the attempt by the Trump media to try to rehabilitate him. He's going through a very rapid reinvention, just like Fauci is, because up until spring of this year, he was still talking about his vaccine as one of the greatest inventions of mankind.
Starting point is 00:17:06 And nobody else could have done this like I did it because he shut down all the tests, right? He saved millions of lives. I know. He's got murder on it. He's got blood on his hands, quite frankly. But, you know, it took him a while, and he had all these Trump sycophants who absolutely hated the jab.
Starting point is 00:17:27 People like Wayne Allen Root and people like Alex Jones and all the rest of them. You've got to stop talking about this. Everybody hates this. Stop talking about it. So finally he stopped talking about it. And now he's come around with this stuff. Now he does a cut this do not comply video. I can't believe the hypocrisy of this guy.
Starting point is 00:17:44 And he's doing the same thing that fauci's doing it's kind of the opposite of the um of the nuremberg trial where everybody said i was just taking orders what they're saying was i didn't give anybody any orders they'll just made this stuff up on their own i don't know where they came up with this idea doing this stuff yeah we don't know where they came up with this it wasn't me it wasn't fauci telling them what to do and paying them money to do all this stuff i don't know where they came up with this. It wasn't me. It wasn't Fauci telling them what to do and paying them money to do all this stuff. I don't know how this happened. Well, doesn't it really just put in stark relief the just astounding, almost unfathomable narcissism of this guy?
Starting point is 00:18:15 Yeah. You know, he's obviously doing it because he views it as being politically advantageous right now. Because as you say, his base, a lot of people in his base, I know a lot of people who are pro-Trump people, were and are a little bit uneasy about how he behaved during the last year of his presidency in the first year of the so-called pandemic. So, you know, he probably decided, well, I better just say the right things to these boobs so that the boobs will come out and support me. You know, if he'd come out and apologize and said, look, I was fooled or I made a bad decision. You know, and I am deeply sorry about it.
Starting point is 00:18:50 And I vow that that kind of thing is not going to happen again. It would have been different. But the way he did it, it makes it so obvious that it's just another calculated political decision. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it's interesting because, you know, he has DeSantis came out and said, yeah, it was a bad decision. We should not have done that. And then he attacked DeSantis for pushing his vaccine.
Starting point is 00:19:11 And in that attack, he implied that the vaccine killed the person that DeSantis was featuring as receiving the vaccine. The guy died four months later. He was very old, but he died four months later. And so Trump implied that DeSantis pushed his vaccine, and this guy died from it. But there was also an interview with Tudor Dixon, who ran for governor in Michigan against Gretchen Whitmer. And she was saying, well, you know, Biden's got a new vaccine he wants to put out. And he says, this one works. What do you think about that? Well, it needs to be tested.
Starting point is 00:19:44 And all the rest is like, seriously? You're going to say that? And she even came after it and even said, you know, well, we've got all these problems with myocarditis and blood clots and all this other kind of stuff. Do you think? Well, oh, yeah, you know, yeah, we ought to take a look at that at some point. How can you say that at this point in time? And then she finishes up the interview as a sycophant to say, well, we just got to get you back in the White House to save us. You know, I mean, it just makes me want to throw up to see what is happening.
Starting point is 00:20:09 I am as disgusted with the people on the right as I am with the people on the left. It's just amazing to see this stuff. that people are desperate to hear anybody who has potentially going to be or even run for president saying things that even vaguely sound like they might be somewhat oriented toward freedom and liberty. And Trump plays on that very effectively. Hitler played on that very effectively. He would go from town to town, give a different speech, and he would say what people wanted to hear. And they would think they heard something that he didn't actually say. They think, oh, well, this guy is a German patriot.
Starting point is 00:20:50 He is going to efface the shame of Versailles. He's going to help us to recover our national greatness, and Trump is really good at doing a similar kind of shtick. Yeah, yeah, he is. Building a personality cult. I saw that personality cult with Obama. I remember when that was there, and it really concerned me. I thought, wow, the left has really lost its mind. stick yeah yeah he is building a personality cult i i saw that personality cult with obama i remember when that was there and it really concerned me i thought wow the left has really lost its mind but
Starting point is 00:21:09 is as bad or worse with trump and at the end of the obama administration uh you had harry belafonte radical leftist all of his life and activist and he said he was disappointed that obama hadn't been more radical and he said uh i don't know who this guy is we just projected what we wanted on to him and that's what's happening with trump as well you know people just projecting that onto him i i was on a program yesterday um and um as a guest and they pressed me who would you support for president i said look you know reagan said government's not solution government's a problem i said let's put a finer point on it the presidency is not the solution the presidency
Starting point is 00:21:50 is the problem and the idea that we want to have some really good guy who we're going to give all power to and he's going to fix everything it's like has anybody read the lord of the rings do you know how that works out when you put that ring our dictator exactly right we're going to turn into boromir right that power is going to corrupt people we don't want people to have that kind of power the founders didn't want people have that kind of power we have to pay attention when people tell me that i and so well who are you going to vote for and so who is running a sheriff do you know the people who are that are running for sheriff in your local jurisdiction or mayor or for city council because
Starting point is 00:22:25 that's going to make it better or worse for you those people can stand in the gap and we need to take back responsibility for our lives or we're never going to have freedom that's what the founding fathers generation did they took responsibility for their freedom and they organized on a local level to do it themselves they They didn't say, well, let's let John Hancock do it all for us. You know, they didn't say anything. They didn't look at that, but that's our mentality. We have adopted the mentality of the left thinking that government is going to be our savior, specifically the presidency.
Starting point is 00:22:59 And that's what we're looking for. We're looking for government to save us. That is the antithesis of what we should be looking for. I think that centralization, whether it's on the left or the right, is anathema to a free society, to any kind of liberty, because centralization generally ends up being, even with the best of intentions, it's one-size-fits-all. Centralization, you don't get choice, you don't have alternatives.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Everybody does whatever the centralizing authority says. Who wants to live in the company town where the company tells you, this is what you're going to get paid, take it or not, and we're going to pay you in company script, and you're going to go to the company store, and you're only going to be able to buy the goods that we deign to put into the company store. That's the kind of model that we have now. That's right. Yeah, and that's what they want to set up with, with these smart cities and with universal
Starting point is 00:23:44 basic income you know george gilder calls the silicon valley crowd neo-marxist and he's exactly right you know they're buying into this whole idea that there's infinite capacity with their new technologies with genetics robotics artificial intelligence and nano we have infinite capacity that's what karl marx thought with the industrial revolution now of course it wasn't true and it's not true of these people either. They don't have infinite capacity to produce anything that they want. But just like Karl Marx, these neo-Marxists think, well, the only thing we have to solve is how to distribute this infinite material goods. And it's this materialistic approach that they have, which takes away our humanity.
Starting point is 00:24:24 That is really the gutting thing about all of this. But that's where these people are headed, and that's why they are doing the types of things that they're doing. It's why we have to push back at the local level, at the community level, at our family, and all the rest of these things to get out of this. Instead of putting all of our hope on the presidency, you know, it concerns me because I'm increasingly seeing these people who are, you know, kind of elder commentators on regular press. We've seen John Voight say it. Now we've seen Mike Huckabee say this is we're getting up close to a civil war for Trump. You know, Mike Huckabee said, well, you know, essentially, if Trump doesn't win, this will be the last election that we solve with ballots. It'll be with bullets next.
Starting point is 00:25:09 You know, they're talking about civil war, and Trump really is being positioned by both the left and the right as the Mason-Dixon line for a new civil war, I think. No, it's tragic. And there's also, to get back to this business of the neo-Marxists, there's an irony there. I enjoy reading about history, and I enjoy reading particularly about Soviet communism, and particularly the early years of it under Lenin and Stalin. And these neo-Marxists think, in their arrogance, that this Marxist economic system, this top-down centralized system that they want for us isn't going to be also imposed on them. They think they'll be immune from it, that they'll have all the nice things that they have now, which they won't.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Ask Kamenev and Zinoviev, as they were being led down into the cellars of the Ljubljana to get the shot in the back of the head. They said, if only Comrade Stalin knew. Well, Comrade Stalin knew. Ultimately, that's what's going to happen to these people, too. Yeah, I see that with the January 6th protesters. It's so sad.
Starting point is 00:26:04 I know Joe, and I see him there, and he says, well, you know, I just hope that Trump wins because he's going to save us. See, Trump threw you in that position. Trump didn't do anything to pardon you two weeks after that. He doesn't even comment on these excessive prison sentences for these people at what was essentially a riot. And people who were not even at the riot, they're pretending that this is an insurrection. This is nothing at all like that. It's absolutely amazing. But, you know, you talk about how this is going to come around to them.
Starting point is 00:26:31 I've made the same case about Rudy Giuliani, who made his career off of RICO statutes. And now he may go to jail off of RICO statute. You know, when you have an unjust law like that, which fed right into civil asset forfeiture and the rest of these things, it's going to come back and bite you. These people don't realize that they're going to be subjected, as you pointed out, to the same type of system that they're putting in place for us eventually. And in many cases, it's the politicians who are the first ones up against the wall. Yep. They're instinctively authoritarian, and they're instinctively narcissistic and self-absorbed.
Starting point is 00:27:06 They can't step out of themselves and think, well, you know, this might be momentarily convenient for me, you know, to have a Pinochet in charge, let's say, and he'll take my enemy for a helicopter ride. Not understanding that, you know, when things wheel turns and the next time, the guy who's the jefe in charge of the country is going to take you for a helicopter ride. Now, these people are all dangerous people. They just don't have any sense of, you know, the interests of the country and of the people. And, you know, let's try to calm down and be reasonable. Instead, they keep pushing us, as you say, toward, you know, something that could be really horrible, some kind of a civil war, some kind of martial law type situation. Well, I began the program by talking about what's happened in Afghanistan since we pulled out and how the Taliban has now shut down the opium production there. And now people are freaking out and say, well, if we can't get enough opium, people are going to
Starting point is 00:27:52 start using fentanyl. You know, we've been run by a gang of organized crime running this drug war, pumping the drugs around worldwide, while then they use that to escalate their drug war. It's a really brilliant scheme, but it's really devilish in its design. And this is what has been happening with the war on drugs and the rest of the stuff for 50 years or more. And, you know, it's another example of just this criminal empire, which is a criminal enterprise. And it just seems like it never ceases. We shouldn't be surprised if we watch 50 years of the drug war to see what they're going to try to pull on us with these smart cities and 15-minute cities and all the rest of this
Starting point is 00:28:32 stuff, should we? No. You know, the damage that's been wrought is incalculable. The callousness of it, the way these people play with the lives of millions of people, and they just don't care. You know, it brings to mind what Stalin said, that the death of an individual is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. That's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:50 And if it's Fauci, it's a lying statistic. Yeah. They put it out there. I mean, they're the ones who are killing people with their hospital protocols or they're bribing the hospitals to do, but yeah. He's bad enough, but don't you wish that at some point, like that CNN reporter, once Fauci began his speech, be able to you know that's it enough if we still had mike wallace out there or people like him i know you just would have you would have at a certain point said this is just
Starting point is 00:29:14 not going to fly anymore uh you're lying uh we're not going to we're not going to entertain your lives any longer uh you have no credibility you know get out of here we're not interested in talking to you anymore that's what would have happened 34 years ago yeah yeah he would have turned uh he would have turned fauci into that uh character that martin short had uh the sweating cigarette smoking guy it's funny you say that you know what's his name nathan something or the other um but uh yeah it was uh nathan from the problem the interviewers are part of the problem because they go along with it they help to legitimize it they don't just you know call these people out right then and there and and just say that's enough this is this is just lying and they won't
Starting point is 00:29:56 do it and the reason why they won't do it i think is pretty obvious you've got what five or six corporations i think it is the control pretty much all of the so-called major media yeah through their through their advertising and so you know these people are beholden to that because they understand that their employment that their job depends on them not being too abrasive when it comes to these topics that's right yeah and that's only going to get worse as time goes by the controls are getting more and more stringent as they uh you know they've got a new wave of artificial intelligence stasi that's going to be monitoring everything that we say in real time, and I think that's when they're going to start shutting down the podcast. Let's talk about something happy here.
Starting point is 00:30:33 You've got an interesting article about one of my favorite cars when I was growing up, and that was the Dune Buggy, actually specifically the Myers-Manks, which featured in the Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen. Of course, any car that Steve McQueen drove made it cool, you know. But talk a little bit about that car and why you wrote an article about that. Well, it called to mind an era because it was so emblematic of that time. Bruce Meyer was a shipbuilder, a boat builder anyway, back in the 60s,
Starting point is 00:31:02 and he thought it would be fun to take some old VW parts that he had laying around the engine and suspension and so on and build a fiberglass dune buggy body and put that on top of it. And the result is the Meyers-Mex, which pretty much everybody has seen, even if they don't really know what it is. And it's the kind of car that you can't build today and offer for sale because it doesn't meet all of the endless government requirements pertaining to crash worthiness, safety, this, that, and everything. But it was a fun, simple car.
Starting point is 00:31:30 And it was possible to do that in the 60s. And that is a measure of what we've lost in the 50-something years since then. Everything now has to be essentially the same extruded plastic blob. It might as well all come out of the same machine. As opposed to interesting, fun, oddball things like that, that some guy decided, hey, let's try this and see what happens. And people would say, hey, that's cool. I'd like to have one of those too.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Yeah, you know, it has stifled competition, entrepreneurship, and it has stifled, cut off the lower rungs of the ladder for many uh for for americans essentially because the only people who are allowed to make anything are a few big corporations and now those corporations are moving offshore to china i've seen this all my life you know it's um uh my uh my grandfather during the depression had like a backyard um you know patent medicine thing that you know they made and they sold it from door to door that's's how they survived. And it grew with his sons and they made it into a, they grew the product line and then they also started manufacturing for other people as well. But it was pretty clear when I was in high school, it was clear that the federal regulations were
Starting point is 00:32:42 just shutting that down. It was going to be impossible to do. That's why I went into electrical engineering because they were shutting that down and i've seen that happen to everything the meyer makes and and you know his entrepreneurism about being able to do that uh you know you can't have any any car company that comes out now that tries to come up with something new if they're going to try to break in they have to do it as a three-wheel vehicle to try to escape all these massive regulations about airbags and this and that that are on it and so they have shut that kind of stuff down and as i said earlier in the program you know the final step was during the covid lockdowns for trump to tell all of the people that had service businesses the only thing
Starting point is 00:33:20 you're allowed to have anymore you know the people had restaurants or barbershops what you're not essential shut it down you know that's where we are right now they don't want us to have anything or be able to build anything or to be able to uh innovate uh but to not build any capital not to be able to um you know to start up a business that's the key thing it's it's interesting to speculate to imagine what we might have had uh if we had a free market. And today, imagine somebody that decided to build a lightweight vehicle, maybe with a small diesel engine, maybe paired it with a hybrid, built it for around, you know, sold it for around $10,000, $12,000, and the thing probably got 70 or 80 miles per gallon. You know, we have that.
Starting point is 00:34:02 The technology is is absolutely there and the ability is certainly there they're all kinds of people who have the mechanical know-how to put things together the problem is that they don't have the millions of dollars that it takes uh to comply with all these regulations only these gigantic rent-seeking corporations can do that yeah that's right so you've got a few of these uh car companies out there like we've talked about in the past the the Elio. Then you've got like the, I think it's called Aptera or something. Aptera.
Starting point is 00:34:33 Really weird looking thing. It's got solar panels on the top of it, but it had to be a three-wheel vehicle. Even with that, even though it's going to be electric and solar, they still got to go with the three-wheel thing because they're going to shut that down. But they aren't able to really get these things going. None of them have been able to come through, have they? No, because they're caught in a paradox. The three-wheelers in many states are considered to be motorcycles under the law. And so if you have a vehicle that's considered a motorcycle, then you have to wear a helmet. Even if you're inside an enclosed thing, who wants to do that? Nobody. So they're not going to be able to sell that. On the other hand, in order for it to qualify
Starting point is 00:35:03 as a car, then it has to meet all these requirements. And then you're faced with something that's just really expensive and very difficult to produce, much less sell at any kind of a competitive price. And so it just serves to stifle any kind of alternative to these extruded plastic blobs that are coming out of the handful of major car companies that can do it. I agree. Yeah. I look at it and, you know, for the future, you know, what do you tell kids coming up in the future? Well, you need to be able to do as much stuff as you can for yourself. You know, learn some skills. Those are negotiable, right? And you need to be able to grow food to some extent. It specializes in something that you can then barter with other people, that type of thing.
Starting point is 00:35:43 But even if you look at you know even though we don't have the ability to let's say start up a car company or something like that yeah i look at this and it's like if i was younger i think what i would want to do is start working on skills to be able to do car repair uh in the same way that jay leno has done it with his stuff he's got a lot of old vintage cars. Nobody's making the parts for him anymore. So for the longest time, he's been manufacturing his own parts. And if you were to set something up like that and start to learn how to manufacture parts for cars, people are going to want to try to keep these cars going for a long time that
Starting point is 00:36:18 they've got. And it's going to be pretty hard for them to get them out of people's hands. But you're also going to need not only be able to keep these cars going and not only be able to repair cars or you might have maybe you don't do the repair you just make the parts but they're going to have to have fuel as well and so that's going to be something as well i look at this and you know here in tennessee they've started you've got this explosion of um you know micro whiskey refineries or whatever moonshine stuff right used to be you know you had the it was only with beer and now they do it with whiskey and i'm like well you know what they really need to do is whatever tennessee needs to do whatever they need to do to get the feds off
Starting point is 00:36:58 of people's backs so people can make micro refineries to produce fuel i don't want to drink this stuff i want to stick it in my gas tank. Right. I think it would behoove us all to just make provisions for trying to get through the next period, however long that may be. Hopefully, it's not going to be too long. Hopefully, it's not going to be 70 years like it was in the Soviet Union. Maybe we'll be lucky, and it will only be a few years.
Starting point is 00:37:21 But in any event, just do what you can to maintain a decent standard of living and the ability to feed yourself and feed your family. Heck, I mean, if you know how to tune a carburetor, your skills might be in high demand in six months from now. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, when you talk about it, I think, you know, you're right. We might be stuck with this for 70 years if we don't do something critically in the next seven years the next seven years i think are going to determine what the next 70 years are going to look like i i really do agree with this fourth turning thing of strauss and how you know they came up with the
Starting point is 00:37:54 names for the millennials and everything but they looked at it and they said we see the cycle of history every four generations and you know the people who were pushing this stuff against us the un the world economic forum uh the central banks they believe that as well that's why they keep coming up with 2030 they believe that um you know we're we are already in the midst of this economic and even perhaps war cycle that is going to restructure society and that'll be completed by 2030 and they're going to have their new society completed by then and so that going to have their new society completed by then and so that's why these years right now are very very critical these next seven years are
Starting point is 00:38:30 really going to determine what the next 70 are going to look like i think yeah and i think a critical piece of that uh is helping to uh unwarp the minds of young people to uh teach them objective reality and to counter program them if you, from the stuff that's being fed to them. Because that's the tip of the spear. It's young people that are being used to further this Marxist agenda because these kids have absolutely no idea what Marxism will mean until it's too late. That's right. And they're detaching them from reality in so many different ways.
Starting point is 00:39:00 I mean, I really do think that that's a large part of what this transgender stuff is and the furry stuff is. They want these kids to withdraw into themselves they want them to live in a fantasy world you've even had uh uval harari say um we're going to control people with drugs and with video games we're going to get them to drop out of society just withdraw into their little shack and everything and and we will run the world and uh you know just uh you know maybe they'll just let us uh gradually expire maybe they'll kill us who knows but they want people dropped out of society and and that's the way they're doing it that's what they're teaching these kids i think that's why they're pushing this detachment from reality
Starting point is 00:39:39 because they want to put everybody into a virtual reality think about how powerful that's going to be you know? I agree. They've also engendered economic hopelessness in so many of them. You know, I know a number of them because I've got friends who've got kids who are in their mid-late teens and so on and early 20s, and these kids have just given up any hope of owning a car, let alone a house. And a lot of them are just staying at home. And what's the point?
Starting point is 00:40:02 So, you know, they feel that they've been gypped. And, you know, in a sense, they absolutely have been. But their anger and resentment is focused on the wrong object. That's right. That's right. Yeah, it is interesting. You know, years ago when I started looking at the asymmetric warfare centers where they were training to fight in American cities. And, of course, they built models,
Starting point is 00:40:25 and A.P. Hill had a model of a city that they had built. And they're not talking about, you know, the typical type of house-to-house fighting where you've already had the Air Force come in and bomb everything out, and then you're going through these burned-out buildings. No, these were intact cities. And so they had cities, they had rural areas,
Starting point is 00:40:42 they had suburban areas at various bases. And so I was looking at what they were saying, and they said, you know, at the time they're talking about radical Islam. And they said it's not really motivated by religion. They said it's motivated by people. And they said when you look at these people who are leading these terrorist organizations and fighting back against them as they occupied their country, they said they're people who have lost all hope. They don't have any control of their destiny. And they are typically well-educated in their 30s,
Starting point is 00:41:14 and they've had that taken away from them. And that's when they become radicalized, and that's when they start to fight. And then they may add the religious aspect of it as they get into the fight. But they said it's being done by the sense of hopelessness because of our occupation. And that's really what they're engendering here at home, I think. No question about it. You know, what's the point of getting out of bed and working if you feel that you're never going to be able to move out
Starting point is 00:41:39 of your parents' basement? That's right. Yeah. Well, it's, um, again, you know, it's, it's developing the skills and not having that hopelessness, I think is the key thing, but I do enjoy when you go back and you look at the nostalgic things like the, the Myers mix thing always wanted to have one of those dune buggies, you know, when I was a kid, even if you're not a car guy, I think it's worth remembering these things and thinking about, you thinking about how different things used to be. Literally, here you had a car that had an air-cooled engine, very simple. That was something that if you had to fix a lawnmower, you could fix the miller's banks. We don't have anything like that.
Starting point is 00:42:18 The cool, oddball stuff, everything's the same now, irrespective of brand and almost irrespective of price i've got a brand new mercedes glc 300 crossover suv in the driveway right now a test drive and it's got a two liter turbocharged engine what doesn't have a two liter turbocharged engine you know and sometimes it taxes all my power to come up with what am i going to write about this thing you know the last six cars i had had a turbocharged 2.0 liter engine yeah Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And it's going to be even more homogenized when they're all running off an electric skate platform, you know, it really is amazing. But yeah, you mentioned the turbo stuff. Talk about, you've got an article turbo problem. Yeah, well, you know, you may have noticed people listening and watching may have noticed
Starting point is 00:43:03 that turbochargers have become almost ubiquitous. You know, practically every car on the market now has a turbocharged engine. That's historically unprecedented. It was once the case that turbos were largely restricted to high-performance or at least performance cars. And there was a reason for that. They were considered to be power adders, to make more power in an already powerful car. And it was understood that the price that had to be paid for that was probably going to be an engine that didn't last as long because turbocharging
Starting point is 00:43:29 applies pressure to the engine. Cylinder pressure is increased, and that in turn applies pressure to critical parts like piston rings, bearings, and so on. So generally speaking, this turbocharged engine is probably not going to last as long as an engine that maybe not as powerful but isn't turbocharged. Well, so then why are all these engines being turbocharged? The reason is they're all too small, like this Mercedes GLC that I have, which is a pretty big crossover SUV that weighs more than 4,000 pounds. So it's a big, heavy vehicle. If you just put a two-liter, four-cylinder engine in that thing, it's just not going to be able to even move hardly. It's going to have terrible performance.
Starting point is 00:44:05 So they put the turbo on it to wick up the performance. But then the question is, well, why are they doing that? Why don't they just put a V6 in the thing, which is what they used to do? And the reason for that is that a V6 engine will not meet the latest round of federal regulations having to do with gas mileage and having to do with carbon dioxide emissions. And that's why engines are getting smaller and smaller and smaller to the point that they're not even going to be here anymore. I had a Buick Invista recently, which is also a crossover SUV, weighs about 3,200 pounds.
Starting point is 00:44:35 It comes with a 1.2 liter three-cylinder engine. Wow. Wow. Also turbocharged. Wow. You're running 20 plus pounds of boost. And you can imagine what that's going to do to these things and what kind of shape they're going to be in at about 100,000 miles. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:51 Well, I guess that's about enough to get us to 2030 when they ban them, right? Yeah, I think that's actually a calculated decision. They understand that this is a stopgap, that these things, okay, we're going to make these things for now. They'll fall apart. We won't have the problem. I think one of the mopping-up problems they've got is that there's still a lot of vehicles in circulation that were made in the mid-late 90s through the early mid-2000s that can be kept going for 300,000 and 400,000 miles if you want to with a little bit of work and not too much money. That's gone. These new cars are not going to last that long, and they'll
Starting point is 00:45:22 be thrown away, and that's on purpose because then you're going to be presented with the option of getting an electric car or getting a bicycle. Yeah, that's right. And I think that's a big part of what the Cash for Clunkers program was about. Not necessarily that these really, you know, the clunkers at the time were necessarily all that great and reliable, because, you know, the reliability had gotten better. But I think that they wanted to get rid of cars that were not computerized, that were more analog. I think that was really the desire for the cash for clunkers,
Starting point is 00:45:51 to try to get rid of as many thoroughly analog mechanical cars and get to the things that are going to be more complicated and difficult for people to keep running. I think that was the purpose of that. No question about it. And I think they're going to do it again, more than likely. I foresee something like that happening. They're going to say, we've got was the purpose of that. No question about it. And I think they're going to do it again, more than likely. I have to see something like that happening. They're going to say, we've got to get rid of, and they'll use that smear term, clunker, a vehicle that emits
Starting point is 00:46:12 too much carbon dioxide, or they'll say it's not safe because it hasn't got all of the latest advanced driver assistance technology. So here, we'll buy it back from you for $4,000, and you can use that to put a down payment on your $50,000 EV. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It had to do your heart good to see the reaction to Sadiq Khan's ultra-low emission zones and the people cutting down those things. I certainly did enjoy it, I've got to say. They call them Blade Runners.
Starting point is 00:46:38 I did a report on it. I think I called it EV for Vendetta. But it was... You know, the Europeans have got some gumption. Have you been noticing that there's almost no coverage of what's going on in France? I wonder why that is. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:46:51 It is truly amazing. And, you know, we don't see that kind of resistance here in America, sadly. But, you know, they're pushing back on that. They see what this is about now. They see what has happened because they push them further faster as well. They've set up these 15-minute cities, and they're knocking over the bollards that they put there to block off the roads. I mean, you know, for the longest time, they've been attacking the roads. The roads are racist and so forth, and cars are racist is what Boudiguet's committee is saying now.
Starting point is 00:47:20 But, you know, they put roads on diets by putting bike lanes down the sides. They calm them, they say, by putting on the speed bumps. And then they just block them off, you know, in the U.K. Say, now you can't even go to those places anymore. And the people are tearing it down. Well, I think it's because they're just a little bit ahead of us. You know, we were talking earlier about engendering hopelessness. The people over there are at that point.
Starting point is 00:47:43 They're having their livelihoods taken away from them. They've already been herded, most of them, into apartments and condos. They don't get to have single-family homes like we do. And Americans are still enjoying the fumes of the prosperity that this country has historically enjoyed. And it hasn't yet really hit home hard enough. I think as it does, and people are faced with the prospect of freezing in the wintertime because the electricity has been cut off, or they're not allowed to have propane or natural gas anymore, or they're told they're not allowed to have the car anymore unless they get an electric car they can't afford. I think we're going to see something similar to what's happening in Europe happening over here, at least I hope so. Yeah, you know, that's the
Starting point is 00:48:20 thing. People react to this stuff on kind of a piecemeal basis you know they come in and they say well you can't have um gas ranges anymore whatever you got to have electric range and then you can't have this and you can't have that they're doing it bit by bit and people are kind of reacting to that and they do it dribs and drabs because they're trying to uh you know get us to uh it's like death by a thousand cuts yeah so one week they banned this appliance next week, they banned the next appliance. You know, they go after dishwashers after they go after ranges and then they go after the heating and cooling and all the rest of this stuff. And everybody's just, you know, they're not hitting us with all of them at once, but people don't see where this is going and they don't understand
Starting point is 00:48:59 what the overall plan is. And that's really what our job is, is to try to get people to understand where this is all headed i remember years ago i went to uh uh i think it's lone star auto show in austin they had uh it had to be um an american car that was prior to i think 1965 or something like that 64 i think they cut it off just before the mustang came out out. And so you had all these rat rods and all these customized cars and everything. And so you had a lot of car nuts. And it was about a decade ago. I went around and I talked to people.
Starting point is 00:49:32 And I said, so are they going to ban cars? And everybody said, oh, yeah, they're going to eventually ban cars. But it won't happen in my lifetime. Really? You don't think it will? And that was coming from kids who were like 18 or 19 years old, some of them. I said, you don't think it's and and that was coming from kids who were like 18 or 19 years old some of them i said you don't think it's going to happen in your lifetime really and and they didn't they really didn't and they thought it's going to be somebody else's problem
Starting point is 00:49:53 and i'm not going to do anything about it i mean you know we don't really care what happens to our kids anymore uh and we don't care what happens what kind of a society we leave behind us and people who think like that are going to have everything taken away from them right now. And that's what we're seeing right now. But there is a silver lining to this very dark cloud, and it has to do with the mentality of these psychopathic personalities that are behind all of this. They inevitably overreach. They get so arrogant and believe they're almost omnipotent,
Starting point is 00:50:21 that they're almost a deity of some kind, and that we're such stupid sheep that we'll just submit and obey. And they ramp things up and they start to make mistakes. I think the incrementalism that had been so successful for them over the past 50 years has changed. Obviously, we're now seeing almost every week some new piece of insanity comes out, right? You know, whether they're talking about getting rid of our cars or telling us we can't have a gas-powered stove or water heater, and then next week it's going to be something else. And that, I think, is something that people are beginning to notice, and they're beginning to see patterns.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And once you see, I believe, once a person really sees and begins to connect the dots, they can't unsee, and they finally understand. And at that point, I think we're going to have some hope for recovering the situation. Yeah, that's the key thing. And people have to see it before it gets so far along that we can't do anything about it. That's the key thing. And so there's this race. Are they going to be able to get their controls in before we see that happening? is the utilization of artificial intelligence
Starting point is 00:51:25 as a surveillance and control tool and also to weaponize things. You know, there's a lot of talk about how a chat GPT and everything, you know, can do this or that and it hallucinates and it does stupid stuff. But they can very effectively use it as additional eyes and ears and to collate things, you know, to be able to go
Starting point is 00:51:48 through databases of biometric data, but also to use anticipatory intelligence on us. They don't have to have an army of Stasi informants. They can use artificial intelligence for that. That's the thing that really concerns me. I see that ramping up the most rapidly of all the artificial intelligence stuff. It's not the idea that Skynet is going to become self-aware and turn the nuclear weapons on us. It's the idea that these evil people are already in charge. They've now got this army of bots that they can use against us in one way or the other, whether they're not physical or not. Well, our best weapon is just not to use it.
Starting point is 00:52:23 I think as a society, we made a great mistake in buying into the smartphone. You know, I didn't have one five years ago, and I started to think about it and think, you know, this is one of the mechanisms by which they have habituated people to pecking at a screen and not noticing reality and to being programmed by whatever comes across their screen. We don't have to do this. And I'm not saying you don't have to. You have to get rid of your cell phone necessarily, but throw it in the drawer and maybe check it at night or check
Starting point is 00:52:47 it in the morning if you have to make a call, but don't spend hours every day pecking at it and going to social media. Just stop using this stuff. If you stop using it, it doesn't have the kind of power over you that it has right now. That's right. Yeah. I've gotten to the point where I leave mine in an airplane mode most of the time. so i can be pretty late in terms of responding to somebody if they text me but you know there was a when the snowden leaks came out and uh what was that 2013 so a decade ago and um they were kind of releasing the information piecemeal and this was not reported in american press but it was reported by the german paper the the spiegel and they had a series of three slides i've shown them to my audience many times eric but it's it's uh it says who would have thought in 1984 and they show the apple 1984 commercial next slide that this would be big
Starting point is 00:53:33 brother and they show steve jobs holding up the iphone and then the third slide is and that the zombies this is the nsa referring to us the public as zombies that the zombies would line up to pay for it themselves. They show them all in front of an Apple store to get it. That's their attitude towards us and how they use this. They see us as zombies. It's the seductiveness of convenience. So many people are not willing to exert a little bit more effort to do something on their own
Starting point is 00:53:59 when they can tap an app and get what they want right there. Same thing with food. People are used to going to a supermarket that's controlled by a gigantic corporation as opposed to having some chickens or maybe having a garden. The more self-sufficient you are, the more they can't control you. It's a really simple axiom. Yeah, yeah. We're about to run out of time. Before we do, I wanted to talk to you about an article you had at epautos.com, the bench seat. Talk about the bench seat. Well, you know, those of us of a certain vintage will recall there was a time when many vehicles, certainly big family cars and pickup trucks, had a bench seat, which allowed not just three people to sit across,
Starting point is 00:54:35 but, you know, if you had your girlfriend with you, she could sidle up next to you, and it was very nice and very pleasant. And it also made a vehicle more practical. For example, a truck that had a regular cab, if you had a bench seat, you could carry three people in it, driver and two passengers. Now, because everything has bucket seats, you have to get an extended cab or a crew cab to carry the same number of people. It's just one of those things that sort of drifted and went away, and a lot of people miss it, and you wonder, why isn't it here anymore?
Starting point is 00:55:00 I think it has to do with marketing. They figured out, well, we'll sell sportiness. In a sports car, if you've got a Miata, if you've got a Corvette, sure, bucket seats make sense, but they convince people that somehow you're a boring fuddy-duddy if you've got a vehicle with bench seats, even if it makes more sense. That's right. Yeah, it got this bad rap as being this family vehicle, because as you've got pictures there on your article, all the kids piling in, and Karen grew up in a family that had four kids.
Starting point is 00:55:24 They could stick them all in the back seat.'s no seat belts uh everybody survived fortunately you know and and i remember i was you know the i had uh some some sisters but they were a lot older than i was but i remember uh going with my parents i could just lay across the whole back bench seat you know fall asleep that was very nice it was it was a problem you know only and here's part of it you know the stick shift the thing that we love yeah i remember i had a friend who had a uh a chevy um i think it was a nova and and uh he had a pretty big engine in it and he had uh stick shift he had four on the floor but it was this big ungainly shifting thing because he had a bench seat there as well and so you know for the sports cars they
Starting point is 00:56:05 wanted to go to the bucket seats and and when they first came out with them uh they really were like buckets they were like the bucket seats that i had in uh in boats that we had you know they really were like a bucket they weren't really kind of contoured like seats or anything and uh so you know they started going to that i think a lot of that was ironically driven by the stick shift uh to you know fit in with the sportiness but yeah it really was a very practical thing you get a lot of that was ironically driven by the stick shift to fit in with the sportiness. But yeah, it really was a very practical thing. You get a lot of people in there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:30 I just thought it would be interesting retrospectively to go back and look at that because a lot of people, particularly people in their 20s today, have never seen one. It's like, what's that? That's right. That's one of the things I enjoy about this area. They have car groupings and stuff that come in on a regular basis in Pigeon Forge. And people line this six-lane divided highway with all these different vintage cars and stuff, sometimes to show them, sometimes to sell them. And they refurbish these things. And it's a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:57:01 One year they had, and we didn't even know it was happening. It was maybe about 20 years ago, came here that the boys were still kids and um we show up and they had a delorean uh group and i'd never seen a delorean in real life before and the place was filled with them everywhere and it was the coolest thing you know to be able to see that so they do that from time to time they had a a big Jeep convention not too long ago. We figured out what all this thing is about the duck. You know, I was like, why do these people have toy ducks all over there? I didn't realize what that was about.
Starting point is 00:57:33 One Jeep had this giant duck that was strapped to the top of their roof. You know, I guess they win the prize for the biggest duck. But it is fun to see. Yeah, it is fun to see the old cars. And that is, to some extent, you extent, alive in some of the areas, but again, we've got to keep these things going, and we can't let these people ban our lives, and that's what this is all about.
Starting point is 00:57:56 It's about banning everything in our life, and we've just got to say that's enough. It's about taking the fun out of life. Yes, it is. The spontaneity, the individuality, they want us to be drab masses, NPCs, you know, just sort of marching in lockstep to whatever
Starting point is 00:58:09 tune they play. That's right. So we've got to reclaim that. We've got to get back our dune buggies and our rubber duckies. Whatever it takes. Always great talking to you, Eric. Thank you so much. Thank you, David. EPautos.com, a great place for uh to find out
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