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	using free speech to free minds You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 8th of September, the 8th of September, year of our Lord, 2023.
	Well, today we're going to take a deep look at what is happening with electric vehicles.
	We have a company that is trying to bring to market, actually they have sold some, large electric semis has now had four fires, counting a re-ignition in less than four months at their facility, not counting the other ones. counting a re-ignition in less than four months at their And we see that the German economy is being burned down by green mania.
	We're also going to take a look at what has happened to the supply of opioids now that the U.S. has left Afghanistan.
	Very interesting to see who the biggest drug pusher in the world is.
	Yes, that would be the U.S. government.
	We'll take a look at the pardons and the case to be made for pardons.
	And we're going to also take a look at what happened with Liberty Safe.
	Turning in a customer.
	Absolutely amazing, The Betrayal.
	We'll be right back.
	Well, today, let's begin with what is happening with the American Empire.
	You know, what is it about our unending wars?
	And, of course, the war in Afghanistan was not supposed to end for another 20 years.
	You know, they had all these people say, I don't ever see it ending.
	You had people at the Pentagon during the Trump administration another 20 years and so.
	And as they were thrown out, because Trump never took the forces out of there, as they were thrown out, it took the Taliban only a year to essentially end the drug trade there.
	So now people are concerned about what is going to happen in the United States, as the U.S. government and the CIA have created this war of drugs on the American people.
	You understand what is going on with this.
	They're the ones who are running the drugs.
	And then they create the drug war to destroy the rule of law, to corrupt our police, to militarize our police, and to destroy our rights.
	It's a pretty clever scheme, quite frankly.
	Demonically clever. And so the reality of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan...
	Is that while the American government was there, and I reported on this on a regular basis, it used to be that the Taliban had just about stamped it out.
	And then when the U.S. government came in, they were between 90 and 95 percent of the world's supply coming out of Afghanistan.
	We had Geraldo Rivera in the early days there in the field showing U.S. soldiers guarding the poppy fields.
	It's like, what's going on here?
	Oh, well, we have to do that because that's the way they make their living.
	Well, you know, there's other things that they could do.
	It might be more advantageous to even put them on welfare if you can't get them involved in something constructive.
	But what the Taliban is doing, which I guess the American government never thought of, they're actually shutting down the poppy fields and they're planting wheat and Because with U.S.-led sanctions, the people there are starving.
	That's the American government policy.
	It is amazing how demonic this government has become.
	We have become the Babylon of the world.
	We pump out our sex, our drugs, our war to everybody on earth.
	And so Western sources estimate up to a 99% reduction in some provinces.
	Global heroin supplies are drying up.
	And they fear that this is now going to cause people who they have addicted by the easy access of this stuff, it's going to cause them to turn to fentanyl.
	So there you go.
	I guess we're just playing 4D chess all the time, right?
	It's already been called the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.
	Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country cutting down Afghanistan's poppy fields.
	Why didn't we think of that when we were occupying Afghanistan?
	No, we did the opposite.
	We guarded them. Because, you know, a lot of the people there didn't like that.
	And so we guarded it from the people like this who would have cut down the poppy fields with sticks.
	In April of last year, the ruling Taliban government announced the prohibition of poppy farming, citing both strong religious beliefs and the extremely harmful social costs that heroin and other opioids derive from that have wrought across Afghanistan, let alone America and the rest of the world.
	But again, why did we have this going?
	Well, for the same reason that the British Empire pushed opioids on the Chinese people to subdue them.
	And that's why they have these drugs.
	That's why our government pushes the drugs.
	They're at war with us.
	First, they pushed the drugs on us in a spiritual, medical, psychological war.
	And then they want to actually go to war.
	And it's amazing to me to watch these politicians who will not admit what is really happening, the CIA war on drugs.
	They won't admit to it.
	Instead, you've got politicians like DeSantis and Pence and all the rest of these, Nikki Haley.
	They all want to start a hot war with Mexico now.
	The drug cartels that they created...
	In the same way that alcohol prohibition created Al Capone.
	They created these.
	Except that now it's been going on for over 50 years.
	Far longer than alcohol prohibition.
	Farmers are now planting wheat, helping stave off the worst famine that has been created by U.S. sanctions.
	Six million people are close to starvation in Afghanistan.
	So they're going to grow food instead of drugs.
	And it's kind of interesting the way they did this as well.
	They waited until 2022 if they would have knocked these fields down as they took power, they said.
	It would have caused a backlash.
	People had already put the effort into this.
	They would have been eradicating a crop that the farmers had spent months growing.
	And so they waited.
	They bided their time.
	They told people, if you plant it, we're going to destroy it.
	So they didn't plant it. Kind of the same way that Trump and Biden banned economic activity.
	Same thing that Trump and Biden want to do with, well, actually it's Biden who wants to do it with the electric vehicles.
	Don't build that. We're going to ban it.
	You're going to lose your investment.
	Don't have any power plants.
	China can have power plants. You can't have power plants.
	We'll destroy them. Same type of thing.
	And so while the Taliban is destroying opioids, opium plants, we're destroying our power generation, our power plants.
	What's that going to do to our society?
	Well, we're going to be out there growing wheat by hand before too much longer.
	And we'll be lucky if the federal goons with their army of IRS agents and whatever else, they can probably come up with an army of EPA agents to come out and whack the stuff down.
	So, between 2020 and late 2022...
	The price of opium in local markets rose by as much as 700%.
	Yet, given the Taliban's insistence that they were going to eradicate, few attempted to plant poppies.
	It's kind of the same thing that's happening right now in the automobile industry.
	Germany is on the ropes.
	The green policies are killing them.
	And they know from the recent auto show that China is going to eat their lunch on electric vehicles.
	Everybody knows it. There's no way that European or American manufacturers can compete with them because of their access to lithium and other minerals necessary for this.
	So they're always going to have a cost advantage.
	This whole thing about electric vehicles is to shut down our industry.
	And, of course, at the same time, they're shutting down power plants.
	That's something that has been brought on for the first time by Biden, the Energy Department.
	Granholm, who is running that, must have shut down the power plants.
	But getting back to this, this undermines one of the most fundamental premises behind wars, the alleged association between the Taliban and the drug trade.
	This is the idea that there was a narco-terror nexus, right?
	And that idea that was sold to the American public to justify the Afghanistan War was just as phony as the domino theory that was sold to justify the Vietnam War.
	These people are very clever at coming up with MacGuffins, both lies, to get you to do what they want to do.
	And so...
	This was not terror-funded by narcotics.
	And oh, by the way, these guys who are out there in caves did not fly these planes into the buildings to take them down either.
	All of this is based on a lie.
	Amazing. The reality was that Afghanistan was responsible for a staggering 80-90% of the world's illicit opiate supply while the American government was in charge.
	That's it. Zero when it wasn't there goes up to 90% while we are there.
	It's kind of like the correlation that you see with the deaths from the vaccines, isn't it?
	Gee, I don't know what to make of it.
	Just a coincidence, I guess.
	The U.S. has never really been focused on reducing drug trade in Afghanistan, writes Mint Press, or elsewhere for that matter.
	All the lofty rhetoric aside, the U.S. has been happy to work with drug traffickers if the move would advance certain geopolitical interests.
	And, of course, the CIA in its dark...
	It's dark alliance.
	Gary Webb exposed.
	You know, the whole thing with the Iran-Contra stuff.
	They're happy to work with people that they consider to be terrorists if it can further their geopolitical interests somewhere else.
	You know, all of that stuff was set up by Bill Casey and Reagan.
	We became a leading official in the Reagan administration.
	Somebody who had been around with the CIA even before it was the CIA, going back to World War II when it was the OSS. They called him Wild Bill Casey.
	And as the Iranians took the hostages in Tehran, the American embassy, took them hostage, Bill Casey went there during the election and said, don't release these prisoners until after the election, and we'll make it worth your while.
	And so they sold them the parts that they needed for the U.S. jets that had been sold to the Shah of Iran.
	That whole regime collapsed even though the CIA had trained the Shah's goons, the SAVAK, To be a ruthless, repressive regime, torturing and killing and imprisoning anybody who opposed him.
	We were the ones who were behind him.
	We were the ones who trained the SAVAC, the CIA. And so even as that fell, then you have Bill Casey, former CIA, says, keep them prisoners.
	Keep them prisoners.
	So we make Reagan look good.
	And then the deal they struck was to sell them the spare parts that they needed for their jets, take that money, and pour it into their wars in Central America.
	Needed more money, so they created crack cocaine, sold that into the black communities in California.
	When Gary Webb exposed it with his investigation, Dark Alliance, he won all kinds of journalistic awards.
	And then they hired the LA Times to focus on Gary Webb.
	An ad hominem attack destroyed his reputation, destroyed his career.
	And then he started putting everything back together and said he was not despondent.
	Things were looking very good. Next thing you know, he dies.
	That's the way our government operates.
	Professor Alfred McCoy has written a book, The Politics of Heroin.
	CIA complicity in the global drug trade.
	He said approximately 75% of the planet's illegal opium output was sourced from Afghanistan while we were there.
	The opioid crisis is the worst addiction epidemic in U.S. history.
	The weapons of defense abroad will become tools of tyranny at home, to paraphrase Madison.
	But, of course, they will terrorize us with drug addiction.
	That they push on us as well.
	Whether it's opioids or whether it's crack cocaine.
	Now the crack cocaine, they push that into the black communities in LA. The opioid epidemic has really been pushed into white rural communities where people are in economic despair.
	Rural America has been particularly hard hit.
	74% of farmers have been directly impacted by the opioid epidemic.
	West Virginia and Tennessee are the states most badly hit.
	White Americans are more likely to misuse these types of drugs than other races.
	As Chris Hedges said, this has risen from a decayed world where opportunity, which confers status, self-esteem, and dignity, has dried up for most Americans.
	They are expressions of acute desperation and morbidity.
	What they are is expressions of the futility of materialism and secularism.
	White Americans have bought into the American dream of materialism.
	They have forgotten God.
	And so they value themselves by what they're able to achieve.
	And of course, our government has been focused my entire life on shutting down avenues of success for ordinary people.
	Sawing off the lower rungs of success.
	Forget about trying to start a manufacturing business.
	Forget about trying to continue to run a manufacturing business.
	They continue to add more and more obstacles and regulations and fines for people and every aspect of that.
	And, of course, the final straw that made me want to throw up was to watch Trump finally take away the last thing left to Americans during his lockdown, telling people they were not essential.
	Because I had a service business.
	The only thing that was left to Americans.
	Well, we'll open up a restaurant.
	Or we'll open up a barbershop.
	Or even a nail salon.
	Something, you know. No, can't have that.
	Lemonade stand? Can I do that?
	No, no, you're not essential.
	And so, yeah, just take some drugs.
	Because if you don't have something to hold on to, some foundation in your life that is above and outside of this meager existence, this temporary existence that we have, there is really nothing left for you.
	And the Soviet Union, when Solzhenitsyn was writing, when he said, you know, our problem is that we've forgotten God.
	What did they do? They turned to vodka to drown their sorrows.
	They were essentially living in a kind of prison as they are setting up and have set up here in America in so many different ways.
	How do you transcend this?
	And it's not just for your own personal benefit.
	It can be for your own personal benefit.
	But God does actually bless nations.
	He will bless people who are in captivity.
	And a hopelessly corrupt, tyrannical government like the Soviet Union or the USSA, Soviet States of America.
	He will bless individuals, but he'll actually bless a country as we have seen in our history if enough people turn to him.
	But, you know, you're not going to find that in this article here.
	They'll say, part of the reason U.S. doctors are much more prone to doling out exceptionally strong pain medication is that they were subjected to hyper-aggressive marketing campaign from Purdue Pharma, OxyContin, and other things like that.
	And again, the problem where the addiction comes in, If you've got a painkiller, they've found over and over again that if you give people even things like opioids or strong heroin or cocaine or something like that, if you are in a great deal of pain, it's not addictive.
	The problem is that the physicians, because they're being pushed by Purdue and by the Sackler family and also by Johnson& Johnson, they were actually the ones who were making it.
	For the Sackler family.
	The Sackler family is just drug pushers.
	But when you give somebody something that is way more than they need to cope with the pain, that's when it becomes a problem.
	That's when it becomes addictive.
	I remember when Chris Christie was running in 2015, and he recounted the story of a friend of his, a very successful lawyer, And, you know, married with a family, a very successful, financially successful practice and all the rest of this stuff.
	He injured his back and then got addicted by the doctors to the opioids.
	And it destroyed his practice, destroyed his marriage, and he eventually committed suicide.
	And so Chris Chrissy says, so we can't legalize marijuana.
	It's like, how did he get to that?
	He totally skips over the total non-sequitur to what is going on here.
	Anyway, the Sacklers made out like bandits even after they were able to come in and cut deals, unlike somebody like El Chapo where they come in and confiscate everything that he's got with civil asset and RICO laws.
	The Sacklers were able to come to the table with all these different state attorneys general and negotiate a settlement.
	And they walked away with a tremendous amount of money and everybody said, we were had.
	You know, what do we do? How do we come back at them?
	Well, you know, you already set this up.
	After they paid $6 billion in cash to victims, they still remain one of the world's richest families and have refused to apologize for their role in the addiction.
	The empire of pain, as they put it here, and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths.
	No, the pharmakia will not repent of their murders, will they?
	It was always about money.
	They made the cold calculation that they're going to make money at the expense of people's lives a long time before that, and they hung to that.
	One group disproportionately affected by opioids, interestingly enough, as we have the wars abroad to support our empire, even our drug empire, the people who fight those wars abroad, the military, have become some of the biggest victims of the opioid have become some of the biggest victims of the opioid epidemic because they frequently come back in a great deal of pain.
	And again, they were overprescribed and they get addicted to this.
	According to the National Institute of Health, Fauci's place, veterans are twice as likely to die from overdose than the general population.
	One reason for this is the bureaucracy.
	The VA did a really poor job in the past decades with their pain management, particularly their reliance on opioids.
	And so ex-soldiers who have to cope with chronic pain, brain injuries.
	They said about a quarter of a million veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq have traumatic brain injuries, but added to that are the deep moral injuries that many suffered.
	PTSD and other things like that.
	Joe Biggs that they're going to put in prison essentially for life.
	Two purple hearts.
	One from Iraq, one from Afghanistan.
	You talk about somebody betrayed by his government.
	Idealistic and then betrayed by his government, by Trump, all these people that he put his hope in.
	So sad.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
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	Let's talk a little bit about what happened with Liberty Safe.
	And it also is a part of the January the 6th story.
	They are still arresting people.
	Here we are two and a half years later.
	Yesterday I was on a program and they asked me about, well, what do you think about these guys?
	Enrique Terrio, I mean, he'd been a Fed informant.
	There wasn't any question about it.
	He'd been a Fed informant.
	And I thought it was reasonable that, you know, he certainly looked like it.
	It might have been the case as they made sure that he wasn't even going to be in D.C., but they gave him the stiffest sentence of anybody, even though he wasn't physically there.
	I thought they were removing him because he was an informant, because he had a history of that.
	And, you know, it's interesting that I've not seen Darren Beattie recant any of this stuff.
	Darren Beattie has been, this person's a fed, that person's a fed.
	Look at that. They set this thing.
	And, of course, it was a given.
	That the place is going to be crawling with informants.
	I said that for months.
	I said it that morning, the morning up, on this program.
	It's a matter of record.
	And it's not some kind of a crystal ball.
	It's just, what do they always do?
	Every organization that they want to infiltrate, they typically have people who have some kind of personality or mental issue, and the rest of the organization is the FBI. As agent provocateurs, using these people to create something so they can then look like heroes as they bust this up.
	And so that was a given.
	And so I've said, you know, I thought it was possible that he was, but clearly that doesn't look like the case.
	We still have people who are saying, well, let's see if he actually serves the time.
	Darren Beattie was pointing the finger at Stuart Rhodes and Enrico Terrio at Ray Epps, for example.
	All these different people. Ray Epps has not been charged, but this is a new person that was just charged in this story.
	And why is he doing that?
	Well, because he doesn't want you to see the people who actually made tens to hundreds of millions of dollars running Stop the Steal, Alex and company, and Trump pushing his Save America making $250 million.
	Yeah, they're there because of Ray Epps.
	That's why they went on January the 6th.
	And so, Darren Beattie has still...
	Not said, well, I was wrong.
	I was wrong about Stuart Rhodes.
	I was wrong about Enrico Terrio.
	He's still looking out there for new scapegoats to point the finger at.
	As a matter of fact, when these guys were charged with seditious conspiracy, he said, see, it proves that I was right.
	They are federal informants.
	They will never find them guilty of seditious conspiracy.
	That's a ridiculous charge.
	It's such an overcharge, they'll never find them guilty.
	Well, they did find them guilty.
	It was ridiculous.
	And the sentence that they have been given is ridiculous.
	But let's take a look at this latest one, because this has a couple of different aspects to it.
	This is a person who, for two and a half years, was not charged.
	The FBI then comes to his house to arrest him.
	This is put out by the Hodge twins.
	They said last week a friend of ours was raided by the feds over January the 6th.
	His name is Nathan Hughes and he's from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
	Nate was raided by the FBI and arrested at gunpoint.
	His girlfriend, who had just miscarried, was held at gunpoint and put in handcuffs.
	The FBI turned off his security cameras.
	They unplugged his internet. They flipped his house upside down in a search.
	The feds then called the manufacturer of his Liberty gun safe, and they gave them the passcode to it.
	Whoa, isn't that interesting?
	I was very surprised that there would be a backdoor passcode.
	I mean, we expect this kind of stuff out of computer things, don't we?
	Did you ever suspect that Liberty Safe, one of the big safe companies, would have a backdoor passcode?
	To the safe? I wonder how many other companies do.
	And they're quite willing to give it to the FBI. They did.
	And he says this is all for protesting at the Capitol over two and a half years ago.
	He's being now charged with crimes related to January the 6th.
	He didn't assault anyone.
	He didn't vandalize anything.
	He's now being labeled a domestic terrorist and a traitor to his country.
	By woke leftists and the media.
	Nate is just like us.
	He is an outspoken American patriot.
	He loves freedom, loves his country, and would do anything to preserve our rights.
	And he's been fighting to save our country for years now.
	And so then what about the safe aspect of this?
	I mean, that's one thing that's very troubling, isn't it?
	You know, the fact that here we are two and a half years later.
	They're going to get somebody.
	He wasn't involved in any altercation.
	This is not an insurrection.
	What the feds are doing is an insurrection against the Constitution, against our Bill of Rights.
	The Department of Justice, the Biden administration, is in an insurrection against the rule of law.
	But at worst, this was a riot.
	And somebody who's simply there tangentially doesn't harm anybody.
	Again, the story of these people, one of them in his 50s, two of them in their 70s, asked if they could go into the restroom after everything was opened up and the police are standing there.
	They go in and now they're looking at what is essentially a life sentence for these men in their 70s for being let in by the police.
	How do you even trespass when the police let you in?
	It is absolutely...
	This is an insurrection, folks.
	It's just not the one that they're telling you.
	And when you look at what Liberty Safe did, remember that even Apple, with their iPhones, going back to 2016 with the San Bernardino shooting, the FBI wanted them to open up the phone.
	They said, well, we're not going to do it.
	They hung tough. And they did it again in 2020.
	And Bill Barr...
	I was very upset about that.
	So at least two times that I know of, Apple refused to turn this into them.
	They all figured that they had some kind of a backdoor into it.
	The FBI was able to crack into the San Bernardino killer's iPhone anyway.
	They just want to make it easy for them.
	And we've got to not make things easy for the government.
	It needs to follow the procedures if you don't make it hard for them.
	And, you know, Rudy Giuliani is...
	Experiencing this the hard way.
	He went after organized crime.
	He used RICO. It was his favorite tactic.
	But the problem is that when you get rid of the rule of law and due process, as RICO statutes did, to go after the big guys, guess what, Rudy?
	They come after you for something that really wasn't a crime.
	You set these precedents.
	You get rid of the rule of law so that you can lock up the bad guys.
	Well, guess what? They're going to then lock up good guys as well.
	And so Liberty Safe claimed that they had no knowledge of any of the details surrounding the investigation at the time.
	That the FBI requested a code to get into the safe.
	Now, the FBI had a warrant to search this guy's house.
	But they didn't have a warrant.
	To force Liberty Safe to do it.
	You understand? That's the same situation that Apple was in.
	There was no warrant for Liberty Safe.
	What they did was unwarranted.
	And so, some of the comments about this.
	Enjoy bankruptcy traders.
	I would...
	Just giving you...
	Our company protocol...
	Is to provide access codes to law enforcement if a warrant grants them access to property.
	There you go. None of your stuff, the safe is going to be turned over for any pretense by Liberty Safe if you have that.
	As one person writing about this said in a Western Journal, did consumers even know that Liberty has backdoor access to their safes?
	Again, this is something that I would say, you know, now that we know that about Liberty, you don't do business with them.
	And then you would also want to see in writing that any other safe company doesn't have backdoors into your safe as well.
	Speaking of backdoors into things, the Biden administration has made it very clear that they do not want to have a border.
	Just in case you didn't catch on when they welded open the metal gates at the few places where they have a fence, where they have a barrier there.
	They're now doing this in Texas.
	They're having them remove the floating buoys that they put in the middle of the Rio Grande River.
	And... They took the state of Texas to court, and the judge says, no, you have to get our permission before you can protect the border, and we don't want you to protect the border.
	But the other part of this is that they didn't work anyway.
	They put up...
	It was all symbolic, just like Trump's wall.
	Greg Abbott was doing the same thing.
	I remember a couple of years ago, when everything was breaking down very rapidly, he sent...
	A bunch of state troopers down.
	And they lined their cars up.
	But it was only about a block long.
	What? What was that about?
	And they took pictures of that.
	Like, look, you know, we're barricading the area here.
	And as you saw a zoomed out picture of it, you realize, okay, you know, we got about a block worth of cars at the border.
	The same thing with this floating barrier.
	But, you know, the people who...
	It was at an area where it was kind of deep, and it was a pretty formidable barrier.
	However, they just went around it.
	They went to an area where it was shallow and just walked across.
	I've been to the border of Rio Grande.
	A lot of places, you just walk across.
	As a matter of fact, when Karen and I went down to the Big Bend State Park, we walked around there, and...
	It was strange.
	There were these places where there was a whole bunch of little knick-knacks and stuff.
	And what is this?
	It's like an honor system.
	You know, if you want to buy some of this stuff, you leave the money there.
	But of course, they're watching you across the border as well to make sure you're not going to steal stuff.
	And then as you go further down, they've got some guys that are on the other side of this little river there on the Mexican side, and they're serenading you with their Mexican music, and they've got a tip jar there.
	There's not much of a border there.
	But the real problem is the welfare magnet, right?
	That's the problem. And the fact that Republicans in Florida, as I've said before, want to...
	Make it illegal for us to work, Americans to work, without getting e-verify.
	They want mandatory e-verify.
	We've got to get the permission of Washington to have a job.
	I've got to have Washington verify that I'm a citizen.
	Quite frankly, I think people ought to be able to do work I would not be opposed to a guest-working thing.
	I don't think people ought to have citizens' rights.
	I don't think they ought to be able to vote.
	And I certainly don't think they ought to get welfare.
	I don't think Americans ought to get welfare.
	But Biden is giving, I think the figure was $2,200 to foreigners who come here.
	And people on Social Security get $1,400.
	So what's going on with that?
	Right? It's a massive welfare magnet.
	You come into our country, and you're going to get, you know, going to California, they're going to put you on unemployment immediately, and you start collecting, what was it, like $300 a week or something like that, which is more than they are going to be able to make in the country that they're coming from.
	We're bribing people to come to America, and then we're putting up these little barriers and pretending that, you know, we don't want them to come in.
	And the worst part about it is then they tell Americans, you're going to have to get government permission from Washington, no less, to have a job.
	Yeah, work will be a privilege.
	Welfare is a right, you see.
	And it's a bigger right for people who are not American citizens than it is for American citizens.
	And I don't even see Social Security as welfare.
	When they force you to pay into this all of your life, it's very rare that you're going to get back what you paid into it.
	So I don't even consider that to be welfare.
	The order came as part of a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against Texas arguing that a large part of the state had no right to install structures in federal navigable waterways.
	Governor Abbott announced that he was not asking for permission The anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier, said the district judge.
	Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation's navigable waters.
	Texas is ordered to remove the buoys by September 15th, but Abbott indicated just minutes after the ruling that the state plans to appeal the decision and will continue to use other strategic barriers.
	The floating buoys cover 1,000 feet in the Rio Grande.
	This is such a staged little fight here.
	Well, I'm going to protect those 1,000 feet, and I'm going to show those people in Washington, you know, what this is all about.
	The buoys were put in place around July 10th and stalled just days after four migrants, including an infant, drowned trying to cross the river.
	Well, again, you know, they're welding the gates open.
	The ruling is incorrect, said Abbott.
	It will be overturned on appeal.
	We will continue to utilize every strategy to secure the border, including deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and public safety troopers.
	You know, we'll line up their cars for some photo ops.
	It's strategic barriers.
	It's the magnet.
	It's the magnet. You offer these people way more than they make in their country to just have unemployment, all these benefits.
	You can't stop them with any barriers.
	And I've said this from the very beginning.
	I said Trump's wall, even if he had the ability and the tenacity to get it built, was a fool's errand.
	You can go around it, over it, under it, everywhere that a mouse could go.
	These people, that's why we talk prepositions to the kids when we do it in homeschool.
	You know, it's everywhere a mouse can go.
	People will figure out how to get here if there's enough money pulling them in.
	Stop the welfare program.
	That's the whole basis of this thing anyway.
	The cloud and pivot strategy was let's take this country down with welfare.
	And it's not happening enough with American citizens, so let's bring in everybody in the world, and we'll promise them a free ride, and that will bring down the system, and then we can establish our communism.
	The Texas floating border wall failed to deter migrants.
	More asylum seekers are wading across the shallow waters of the Rio Grande and skirting the 1,000-foot-long chain of buoys.
	What a ridiculous piece of showmanship it is.
	It truly is. But anyway, we got an interesting piece of showmanship happening here in Tennessee.
	If you remember the Tennessee Three, right?
	Took over the state capitol.
	And they actually had something that was far closer to an insurrection there.
	You had three representatives who took over the floor of the capitol.
	You had people who got violent and got in contact with the state legislators, pushing and shoving them, even as they were being guarded by state troopers who did not have armor, Who did not have body armor, and they didn't start attacking the protesters.
	But protesters were pushing and shoving the state troopers, pushing and shoving the state legislators.
	And then you had the Tennessee Three, who took over the floor and refused to leave and had a bullhorn.
	And they had their people up in the balcony, and they just shut the whole thing down.
	Well, two of them were kicked out and immediately reinstated.
	And the one that was not kicked out was the white woman.
	There's two black guys named Justin and a white woman from Knoxville.
	She missed being kicked out by one vote.
	And she's now going to run for Senate.
	And she's made gun control in Tennessee.
	She's made gun control what her campaign is all about.
	I think what she's trying to do is set a new record for the least number of votes of anybody ever in the first Senate you're going to run after this Tennessee insurrection and after this failed special session It was called by Rhino Lee.
	So you got the Tennessee Three and Rhino Lee.
	And they failed to get gun control passed in this special session.
	And so she's going to try to fail up.
	And she's going to run against Marsha Blackburn for Senate.
	In an announcement, in a video, posted her Twitter account, she referred to those who oppose gun control as bullies and cowards.
	Well, that would be the people that she's trying to get their votes from, because most of the people in Tennessee aren't going with any of her gun controls.
	I guess that makes us all bullies and cowards.
	And she claims that she's not a politician in the video, even though she's part of the Tennessee General Assembly.
	She says, those politicians, they don't like me very much.
	And when it's BS, I call it BS. But of course, she spells it out because she's a tough girl.
	She shows you just how tough she is by using profanity.
	Just like Megyn Kelly.
	Megyn Kelly does that now.
	Swearing like a sailor.
	Look at me. I'm tough.
	You know, I can do a man's job and I can swear like a man right there.
	That means I got my street credentials.
	So this is her look at me.
	So she does this announcement, two paragraphs.
	It's all about guns.
	Nothing else. Yeah, it's going to be an interesting campaign to see.
	Meanwhile, as I pointed out, the special session in Tennessee adjourned, and it was a resounding defeat for the Tennessee Three and Rhino Lee.
	I don't know what Lee's going to do after that.
	He just got re-elected in 2022.
	You know, he's got a four-year term, but he can't run for a third term.
	So, you know, if he thinks he's going to run for Senate, good luck with that.
	After coming out for gun control and toll roads, I think we've got you pegged, Governor Lee.
	I think we know what you're all about now.
	And the special session, even as it ended, it erupted into chaos again.
	A lot of people were very concerned because the Marxist left had put out a call for all the Marxists to come to Nashville for the special session.
	And it was called at a time when no other state legislatures were going to be meeting.
	And so if they had shown up, they could have had a big riot there.
	That's what a lot of people were concerned about, pushing against Rhino Lee to not do that, but they did it anyway.
	So at the end of the session, you had a brief physical altercation between one of the two guys that was kicked out for what they did and taking over the floor, Justin Pearson.
	After adjourning the session, the Speaker of the House, Cameron Sexton, left the podium, at which time Justin Pearson approached him while holding a protest sign.
	Pearson appeared to be bumped by Sexton's shoulder as the speaker attempted to pass him, and Pearson was blocked from getting too close to the speaker by a representative who is a former football and baseball player.
	And then they reportedly engaged in a shouting match before they were physically separated.
	So, this is, yeah, interesting.
	But while we're talking about guns, one more thing about guns, not just the gun safes and the wacko left who think they're going to base a campaign on gun control in Tennessee.
	Even one firearm cell...
	Could land you in jail under Biden's new ATF rule.
	This is very serious stuff.
	This is from Gun Owners of America.
	They said, we hate to say that we told you so, but it's official.
	The Justice Department announced a new rule to amend ATF regulations and expand the definition of a firearms dealer to include those who sell even a single firearm.
	Original rumors of the rule suggest that anyone who sold five or more firearms would have to register to get a federal firearms license, an FFL. And that they would have to conduct background checks.
	However, the official version says that selling even one firearm without a license would be illegal.
	They're trying to shut down all transfers of firearms here.
	Those who have sold or even offer to engage in a single transaction could be prosecuted for unlicensed activities.
	And of course, as we reported, the Biden administration...
	Has been actively taking away federal firearm licenses from people for minor technicalities that in the past would have at most resulted in a fine.
	Now it results in you losing your license to be able to sell federal firearms, your federal firearms license.
	So they said this is not all.
	The rule is also full of unclear language that gives the ATF wiggle room to prosecute gun owners as they please.
	Examples of actions that ATF could use to define activity as operating as unlicensed dealer or listed.
	But the ATF notes that the list of examples is not exhaustive.
	Here are some examples, but we're just going to be free to interpret this as we wish in the future.
	So this creates a system where gun owners must prove they're not dealers in order to be able to sell a firearm legally.
	Well, what a web we weave when first we practice to ignore the words in the Constitution that say infringe.
	There is absolutely no authority in the Constitution for the ATF to exist.
	As a matter of fact, they're expressly prohibited by the Second Amendment says you will not infringe on the rights of the people to keep or bear arms.
	That means that you can't create a bureaucracy to infringe on the rights of people to keep and bear arms.
	It's just that simple.
	And if we're going to allow the ATF to exist, this is what you're going to get over and over again.
	Death by a thousand cuts.
	You know, whenever I look...
	The Gadsden flag and the don't tread on me stuff.
	And I know the snake thing for some reason was a, you know, favorite of the founding fathers.
	You know, the snake that was cut into pieces and it was like join or die, you know, and they had the names of the states labeled on them and everything.
	And I was like, I don't know, that's how I envision every snake that I see, chopped into pieces like that.
	And, you know, I don't...
	I don't identify with snakes.
	What I think of the government as is a giant bullet constrictor.
	It's just constantly constricting our rights.
	And every time we, you know, take a breath, it tightens up, right?
	We can't stress this enough.
	The ATF rule says gun owners of America is a direct result of Republican-backed gun control.
	Specifically, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, The Cornyn-Murphy compromise.
	That's Senator Cornyn from Texas with Senator Murphy from New Jersey, Republican-Democrat, coming together in a bipartisan way to violate the Constitution and your God-given rights.
	He and his colleagues, Cornyn and his colleagues, said the act...
	Could be used in, they said we warned him and his colleagues that the act could be used in this exact manner.
	Unfortunately, our warnings fell on deaf ears and the gun control bill became law last year.
	And of course, the rule itself is not about safety.
	It's about building the ATF's illegal firearm registry with a massive digital registry of out-of-business records that GOA, Gun Owners of America, has covered in depth.
	This rule only expands on who is subject to information collection on firearm purchases.
	So, it is truly amazing to watch how this bulk constrictor that we call the federal government continues to constrict us in every way possible.
	Our movements, our business activities, our liberties with everything.
	On Rockfin, General McGuffin.
	Hey, General McGuffin. Thank you very much for the time.
	I appreciate that. Good morning, David.
	Thanks for keeping us up to speed.
	Liberty Safe sounds like it's a three-letter agency venture capital company.
	Gray Key, Celebrite, and Magnet Axiom are what they use to backdoor iPhones since Apple doesn't bend so easily.
	I saw it in a local murder trial.
	There you go. Yeah, there's a way to get in.
	Of course, there's always going to be a way to get into anything electronic.
	It just surprised me that something that's physical, like a safe like that, would have a back door.
	But I don't know.
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	We'll just keep doing this as long as we can.
	I think with artificial intelligence, like I was talking about yesterday, being able to censor things in real time, and of course, AI is going to allow them to, To be far more effective at censoring, and they've been wringing their hands and saying, you know, podcasts are the one thing that we can't censor.
	Well, they're going to be able to do that with artificial intelligence, so we'll just have to see how long it takes them to roll that out.
	Spotify always has banned me, but I'm up pretty much everywhere else.
	Spotify has talked about putting out their censorship surveillance stuff for other people to use, but there's a lot of companies now that are creating it.
	And so, you know, even though they spend billions of dollars and, you know, give people on the left tens of millions of dollars to do their broadcasts, they won't even allow my broadcast to be on their platform.
	So we know what's coming in the long term.
	Let's talk a little bit about the Constitution.
	Two different approaches.
	We have an article talking about how the top law schools are now openly promoting ditching the Constitution.
	And this is...
	Something that was looked at by people who reviewed courses at the top 10 law schools, places like Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, and so forth.
	And these are people who work with the Heritage Foundation.
	And so they went through it and they said, you know, they're not making this hidden anymore.
	They've come out of the closet. For the longest time, you know, these top law schools are going to graduate people, are going to make their way into becoming judges.
	And we've seen activist judges for the longest time shutting down the Constitution and doing other things like that while they pretend that they are, you know, enacting the Constitution.
	And you go back and you look at Roe v.
	Wade. I did not read that for the first time.
	I went back and read the entire decision.
	You know, everybody talks about Roe v.
	Wade. And I would always say, well, it's not the law of the land.
	It's just a Supreme Court decision.
	And the Supreme Court changes its mind all the time about things.
	And, you know, even with Andrew Jackson, they changed their mind within one year.
	And said, you can't relocate the Cherokee.
	And that was a reprehensible policy of Andrew Jackson.
	But he had the authority to do it.
	And when they first gave him the authority, then within a year after they saw what it looked like, they said, you can't do that.
	And he said, well, you've issued your opinion.
	Let's see you enforce it. Bottom line, nobody needed to follow Roe v.
	Wade. And if you look at Roe v.
	Wade, the very beginning of it, the decision says, well, there's all these different things that we could talk about what happens in other countries, and we could talk about the science and medicine behind this, and traditions and cultures, all that kind of stuff.
	But that doesn't really govern what we decide.
	The Constitution governs what we decide with this.
	And then you read the rest of the, that's the last time they refer to the Constitution.
	The rest of the decision is about all the things that they said, well, these are things that could influence our opinion, but we can't go with them.
	And that's what they did. They talked about medical opinion as to viability and all the rest of the stuff.
	And they talked about cultural and religious, well, not religious stuff, but cultural things.
	And what other countries were doing.
	That's what they referenced.
	They didn't reference the Constitution because the Constitution gave them no power to define when life begins.
	And so we've had activist judges who've always said, well, we follow the Constitution.
	That's what we have to do. And then they put out their own personal opinion.
	But now they're actively teaching this in the top law schools.
	They said they're saying that they want to get rid of the Constitution.
	They're making no secret about it.
	Radicalization of law schools is a threat to freedom, they said, not previously encountered in the nation's history.
	Well, actually it has.
	It's just that now they are openly defiant about it.
	For the longest time, it was done by the judges who are typically coming from these top law schools, but now they're openly defiant about it, and they're openly teaching their kids, their students, to do this when they get into practice.
	In fact, some of them are very direct in teaching kids that they need to be revolutionaries according to the courses that these law school students are taking.
	In 2022, Ryan Dorfler and Samuel Moyne, who teach law at Harvard and Yale universities respectively, wrote a New York Times editorial titled, The Constitution is Broken, that's right, and should not be reclaimed.
	That's wrong. They wrote that the struggle over the Constitution has proven to be a dead end for liberals.
	So since we're not getting our way, let's come up with a different form of government.
	How about Marxism?
	That works. That lets us do whatever we want.
	They call the founding document undemocratic.
	Well, they're right about that part of it.
	And inadequate. Well, they're wrong about that.
	They said the Constitution is broken.
	That's right. Should not be reclaimed.
	Wrong. They say it is undemocratic.
	They're right. Because it's about a republic.
	You've got a republic if you can keep it, said the people who are instrumental in putting it together.
	A republic is not a democracy.
	But then they say it's inadequate.
	No, it is adequate.
	And, you know, these people, they said, we need to have the power to make a case for abortion.
	If liberal legislators had the power to make a case for abortion...
	They wouldn't have to bother with the Constitution in order to do that.
	In essence, what they're saying is there was never any authority for us to legalize abortion and to stop states from protecting innocent life.
	They say, you know, we've got to get rid of the Constitution because it's a problem.
	You know, we want to get rid of guns and we want to get rid of babies and stuff like that.
	We need to get rid of the Constitution first.
	The stuff they're teaching now is straight-up Marxist.
	There's a big difference from just 10 years ago, said the people who put this together for Heritage, Mr.
	Von Spakowski and Mr.
	Adams. And they said schools often teach the Constitution as a tool of discrimination and has to be uprooted.
	The idea that the Constitution and the U.S. are hopelessly flawed stems from critical race theory.
	And the concept of promoting social justice.
	Look, folks, there is no such thing.
	Real justice doesn't need any adjectives, right?
	Social justice? No, just justice is what we're looking at.
	And you understand that all this stuff for the 1619 Project, this is essentially a race war against the Founding Fathers, so we can get rid of them.
	Got to accuse them of being racist, racist, racist, so you can get rid of them.
	Yes, to cancel the Founding Fathers.
	The 1619 Project was just best-selling fiction from the New York Times.
	That's all it was. Not true at all.
	Historians laugh at it.
	It's factually incorrect.
	Its conclusions are incorrect.
	The motivations that they put out there are incorrect.
	The ideology upholds the thinking that our Constitution is a patriarchal document.
	Well, that's good, frankly.
	Used to suppress minorities and just about everyone else, they said.
	So they're teaching classes of revolution, right?
	Decentralized resistance, they say.
	Law and inequality.
	These are some of the classes that you can take at Yale.
	Examples of the far-left infiltration of law schools.
	Decentralized resistance class is about social change that results from everyday resistance.
	Accumulating widespread and numerous acts of everyday resistance can precipitate, quote, quasi-revolutionary change.
	Well, again, we can look at what they're doing here, and we can say, this could be true for our side as well, right?
	We can have widespread, numerous acts of ordinary, everyday resistance, you know, like to the mask and things like that, but also to these other aspects, and it can have revolutionary change.
	And that's exactly what we need to do.
	We need to have a radical reinstickment of the Constitution.
	Because it has been ripped out by the roots by these radicals.
	So, they said they literally equate words with violence.
	But look, they don't believe this stuff.
	It's just like, you know, playing the game.
	You know, use my pronouns.
	Okay, well, if you do that, then they're going to find something else to try to dominate you over.
	They don't believe this stuff.
	They're just looking for a rationale to have dictatorial censorship.
	Words are violence, so therefore I can do violence to you because of your words.
	That's what they're saying. They're just tyrants.
	And so, you know, we don't need to be afraid of that.
	The key thing is, is that they're trying to rule us with fear, right?
	But, and you know, there are things to be afraid of.
	What they're doing, though, is they are giving us things to be afraid of that we shouldn't be afraid of.
	We shouldn't be afraid of the pandemic, for example, or climate change and all the rest of this stuff.
	We should be afraid of these people.
	They're the real threat to us.
	So they come up with these phony fears, these paper tigers, to get us all tied up in knots so we don't see the real attacks on us.
	That we should be doing something about.
	Now, the New American takes it the other way.
	They said, here's how we can use nullification to enforce the Constitution.
	Like I was just saying. We need to have a radical reinstatement of the Constitution.
	Well, how do we do it as people?
	Well, we do it by decentralized disobedience and pushing back on this and nullifying it.
	Nullifying it with our state officials.
	As the New American points out, the federal government, including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, has for decades implemented and enforced unconstitutional, increasingly socialist policies.
	These policies and programs have significantly, of course, increased the size of government, pulling our republic away from the Constitution and its founding principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
	However, the situation is not hopeless.
	Because the founders also, by their writings and by example, showed that nullification is another way that we can correct these things.
	Jury nullification, for example, is one of them.
	Nullification is firmly grounded in the text of the U.S. Constitution, specifically Article 6.
	It states,"...this Constitution and the laws of the United States shall be made in pursuance thereof, and shall be the supreme law of the land." Well, that phrase, made in pursuance thereof, implies that laws not in accordance with the Constitution are null and void.
	And that's what the Supreme Court does, saying, but they say that they're the only ones who can make that determination, and that's not true.
	The states, by contrast, retain the vast majority of power, something that James Madison affirmed in Federalist Paper No.
	45, and of course, in the Tenth Amendment.
	In addition to being constitutionally sound, nullification is the rightful remedy, as Jefferson put it, for countering federal government overreach.
	It's been successfully used multiple times throughout U.S. history and is still being used today to push back against federal overreach.
	And one of the best examples of this is what the left has done in terms of nullification of the unconstitutional drug war.
	You had to have a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol.
	You had another one that brought it back, the 18th and the 21st Amendment.
	There's no constitutional amendment to prohibit marijuana or anything else that they prohibit today.
	They claim to have the power to prohibit these things.
	They claim that's based on the Commerce Clause.
	The Commerce Clause.
	Well, the Commerce Clause was there in the 1920s when they said we need to have the 18th Amendment.
	Nobody in the country believed that the Commerce Clause gave them the power to prohibit alcohol.
	No one. That was a lot of trouble for everybody to go through.
	That argument was never brought up by either side.
	And so it clearly is a lie.
	And... And so, you know, when you look at what's happening with the left, where they nullify, and more than half of the states have, nullify what has been put in as a Class 1 drug, Schedule 1 drug, saying that it has absolutely no medical use and it is of the most addictive quality.
	And you've got more than half of the states have nullified that for marijuana.
	And even a big drug warrior like Jeff Sessions, who was Trump's first attorney general, Did not dare to challenge that.
	Because he knew he would lose.
	It's pretty clear cut.
	And so he shied away.
	A lot of this stuff is a bluff.
	A lot of this is a bluff. Just like the so-called Johnson Amendment that supposedly stops conservative churches from talking about politics.
	It was challenged and the IRS backed away.
	It was never an amendment to anything.
	It was Lyndon Johnson...
	Who was criticized by some churches and he went to the IRS and he says, hey, I want you to put this in the rules that they can't talk about politics.
	That's what got amended.
	It wasn't a legislative process.
	It wasn't an amendment to the Constitution.
	He got some bureaucrats to put that in as a law and they called it the Johnson Amendment.
	And then they bullied people with that.
	And then when people stood up and said, that's not going to stand up.
	That's just a bluff.
	And they backed down because it was a bluff.
	In the same way that the war on drugs is a bluff.
	And that Jeff Sessions backed down when it was nullified.
	The John Birch Society has noted more than 80% of federal government is unconstitutional.
	Interestingly enough, they don't want to talk about marijuana laws.
	Look, you don't have to support marijuana use to say that drug prohibition and violating the Constitution is a bad thing.
	And I think it's important for us to understand that because whenever you start talking about nullifying things, the left says, oh, then we're going to have a civil war.
	No, you guys were the ones who have been the most successful at nullifying.
	So I said we need to have comprehensive nullification.
	In other words, and this has been introduced in several states, it was introduced here in Tennessee, to say that the state is going to review, just like people will send cases up to the Supreme Court and have them review for constitutional purposes, the state would do the same thing.
	I fully support that.
	I think that we have divided powers, and the reason that we have divided powers is because any of these powers should be able to nullify a check and a balance.
	If you don't have the possibility of stopping the action of some of these other branches, then how is that a check to what they're doing?
	We have blank checks, and we have a busted bank balance because of that.
	But we have blank checks not just for financial stuff, but we have blank checks for their power.
	And so comprehensive nullification at the state level.
	Model legislation.
	They have links for that at the New American.
	Nullify federal gun control.
	Nullify federalization of local law enforcement.
	Defend the Guard legislation.
	This has been successful in a couple of different states where they have said, you're not going to take the National Guard and send them to a foreign war unless you declare war there.
	Stop unconstitutional federal spending.
	Nullify the unconstitutional and unaccountable federal reserve.
	By the way, by stopping unconstitutional federal spending, they say by passing a State Sovereignty and Federal Tax Funds Act, which would require that all federal taxes are first sent to the state.
	You see, that was one of the key things that changed in all this.
	It used to be that just as the United Nations, a creature of sovereign states, Just as the federal government was a creature of sovereign states, the UN says, well, we'd like to have this amount of money from the US and from this country and that type of thing.
	They have a budget and they want this amount of money from the different states.
	Well, that's the way that the federal government operated until they did the personal income tax.
	They did not have direct taxation of people from the federal government.
	And so as a result, the money was collected by the states.
	Having the states as an intermediary allows them to exercise some financial checks, if you will, counterbalances and that type of thing.
	And we do not want to have the UN, for example, issuing a tax bill to us.
	That, by the way, is really what's going to happen if we go with CBDC. They're going to put out individual carbon taxes and they'll have, with the technology, that will give them the leverage to make that feasible.
	And so they will try that at some point in time.
	But again, take it back to the way the Constitution was set up so there was no direct taxation of citizens.
	Nullify the unconstitutional and accountable Federal Reserve.
	Nullify the World Health Organization.
	There's so many things that we could do in the state legislatures.
	Nullify the federal vaccine mandates.
	Nullify federal election interference in the states.
	Nullify federal agricultural regulations.
	The Prime Act right now that has been put out by Representative Thomas Massey.
	Because right now, even if...
	You have grass-fed beef, and you've got a co-op where people have ownership in these cows.
	Just as I was talking about with the Amish farmer, if you slaughter that cow yourself at the farm, the cow that you own, the USDA comes in as a bunch of thugs and shuts you down, or the federal version of it.
	You have to send it to a USDA meat processing facility.
	Where are they going to top the cow up with corn and who knows what else while they're in the feedlots?
	Because you've got to schedule it way in advance.
	And it allows the government to have centralized control of our food.
	We've got to stop that.
	And so Thomas Massey's Prime Act, and you ought to write your state representatives and tell them to support it, If you want to be able to eat in the future, because that gives them a choke point where they can shut down especially meat, which is on the chopping block, so to speak. They don't want you having meat.
	They want you eating bugs. And so one way they can do that is through their choke points at these USDA slaughterhouses.
	And so the Prime Act would allow people, as long as they're growing and butchering the meat in their state, the federal government should not have any part, any role in that whatsoever.
	And so they go down a couple more things.
	Nullify the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
	Nullify unconstitutional federal court rulings.
	Nullify unconstitutional presidential executive orders.
	Absolutely true.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
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	sense. Common again.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	All right, we're going to talk a little bit about masks and about EVs before we're joined by our guest, Eric Peters, in the third hour.
	But before we do that, I want to talk about schools.
	Tony, who normally comes on on Thursdays, is Tony Arterman, is now on the road, and so he can't do the show today.
	We really do appreciate Tony taking the show last Friday and giving me some time off, Tony and his many guests.
	And, of course, if you want to go to the David Knight Show, to davidknight.gold, that will take you to Tony Arterman's Wise Wolf Gold. Now is a very good time to buy gold. Right now, the fiscal policies that they're pursuing and trying to prop up the dollar is making gold go on sale. They cannot continue this forever. But, again, it's not even trying to time this from a financial standpoint. It
	is important to have something that is going to be outside of their system. Just as yesterday, we had an interesting interview with a very popular economist from Latin America, Axel Kaiser, and a book that he has just translated into English.
	It is the most popular book in Latin America, and it was instrumental in getting Javier Malay coming out in first place in the initial primaries and a good place to win there.
	Someone who is pushing free market economics against socialism.
	And so it's an excellent book, but he was talking about what...
	I wanted to get a sense of what life was like in a country where they had 150% inflation, where people were having to operate in a black market.
	And if you heard that interview, it truly was amazing.
	If you haven't heard it, you need to catch that.
	Talking about how if you stay, even the nice hotels.
	You would pay in cash, and if you wanted to pay in cash, you'd get on the phone and they'd have these people who would show up with this massive box of cash, because you had to have tons of it, at the last minute, and then they would take it in and they had the big cash counters, like you would have at a casino.
	So many people paying cash.
	We need to make sure that we keep that ability alive, cash.
	But also, the ultimate cash is gold, because it has intrinsic value.
	Unlike their Brazilian pesos and the rest of these things, which have, you know, again, it's the literal...
	We'll bear a full of money in order to get something, but they've actually, people, entrepreneurs have set up an entire business to handle these cash transactions.
	To carry this stuff around.
	By the way, Gard is one of the people that Tony had on on Friday.
	And I just wanted to pass this on.
	Please pray for Gard.
	He's having some health challenges with a mold problem in his house that he's trying to get under control.
	And it's been going on for a while, really causing him some problems as I talked to him this week.
	And so please keep him in your prayers.
	Let's talk a little bit about schools.
	When we look at this Gadsden County kid, right, as one headline put it, this teacher's position was historically illiterate and totally preposterous.
	And he was immediately contacted by a couple of different law firms and the school back now, in a way.
	But in a way, they didn't.
	Because they did not do anything to the teacher.
	And as I pointed out, and I haven't seen anybody else say this, this was a charter school.
	And it was a charter school that portrayed itself as having conservative values.
	As a matter of fact, their curriculum is from Hillsdale College.
	It's very traditional.
	You would expect that somebody that is using the Hillsdale curriculum Would understand the history and the reality of what the Gadsden flag was about, and they wouldn't be pushing this as some kind of a racist agenda, that type of thing.
	But it really doesn't matter what the curriculum is.
	It really is the teacher that's there.
	And when you look at these people pulling back, the people running this charter school, they fell back and said, oh, no, we really do support American history and our culture and all the rest of this stuff.
	But that isn't going to happen if you leave that teacher there.
	They have to support it when they hire the teachers, and if the teachers don't support it, they've got to fire the teacher.
	But nothing happened to that teacher.
	That teacher is still there.
	So again, you know, when you fight these battles at the school board, even if you win at the school board level, even if you win at the principal level, the administration level, teachers are going to do what the teachers want to do.
	And we've seen them brag about this.
	On TikTok. You know, this is my class, and I'm going to subvert whatever the state law is, whatever the school board, whatever the principal says.
	I'm going to do what I want to do with these kids, and I can turn them into Marxists if I want to.
	And so the response of the school board system there was basically, well, never mind.
	You know, we'll let him come back in class.
	Let's just leave it at that.
	But the teacher's going to do as she wishes.
	When you look at what some people are saying about, you know, what is happening with this kid, there was an interesting op-ed piece that said, let's not tread on our kids.
	What is it like for him?
	Has this been a pyrrhic victory for him in the way that he's being treated in that school now?
	I mean, he still sits under this amazingly ignorant, politicized teacher.
	Why would you want your kid sitting under an ignorant teacher like that?
	An ignorant, biased teacher like that.
	And then in addition to that, he's now ostracized.
	On the plus side, he's had an opportunity to show his character.
	He wouldn't back down.
	And that's a big victory.
	But in my opinion, in the opinion of the person who wrote this op-ed piece, he needs to take that victory and move on.
	That's a lesson learned.
	Good. You stood up for your values, but you don't have to stay in this institution.
	Leave them behind.
	You've got more important things to do.
	You've got an education to get.
	And so this was from The Federalist, written by Peachy Keenan.
	Don't tread on your own children.
	So the Vanguard School is the type of place that I'd want to send my kids, and yet...
	You know, we see Ms.
	Rodriguez explain to the teacher, his mother, that the flag...
	And it's iconic drawing of the snake rearing up and the words don't tread on me.
	That's from the Revolutionary War.
	And therefore, it symbolizes America's refusal to capitulate to a tyrant.
	Wink, wink. Any tyrants in this room?
	Do you not really understand what this is about?
	Of course, we're not going to back down for this because you're the tyrant in the room now.
	But she said, it can be alarming, Howard, to look around at your K-12 government indoctrination center.
	And notice that half the kids put little rainbow pens and various pride flare on their backpacks, and all the teachers do as well.
	I just like to look at the back of her, that teacher's car, all the bumper stickers on it were like that type of thing.
	Classrooms themselves are transformed into year-round trans-safe spaces online.
	By their genderless, furry teachers.
	It is a small but mighty act of rebellion, therefore, to teach your children to value the symbols and the flags that represent our side.
	The side that likes the weird things like, you know, free speech and representative government and freedom over tyranny.
	After the video came out, the school decreed that actually Jaden, that's the boy's first name, that Jaden was right and the teacher was wrong and he was permitted to return to her class.
	But she's still permitted.
	She doesn't say this, but a teacher is still permitted to run that class.
	How do you think she's going to run that class?
	But a friend of the family posted this tweet in the aftermath.
	It said, quote, Jaden ate lunch alone today.
	Played chess by himself.
	But I told his mom that he's got millions of friends across the country now who are inspired by him.
	Leave a comment to Jaden below and I'll share it with him.
	So Peachy Keenan says, is this good for him?
	Does Jayden's mom want her son to get DMs from millions of adult Twitter random people?
	Or does she want him to be a kid?
	She says, I don't know if his mother's doing this for clout, as rainbow moms do.
	I don't know her motives, and I have no reason to doubt that she's simply standing up for her son and defending his right to free expression.
	But this kind of exposure on social media might feel like the only way that she has to fight back against a system that would clearly crush her son's spirit if it could.
	And often as not, it's the teachers who are bringing their crazy politics into the classroom and not the kids.
	Well, here's how you fight back against the system.
	You abandon it.
	You abandon it.
	As I said before, in North Carolina, the Homeschool Association's newsletter was called the Greenhouse Report.
	Because the idea is that you take your kids and just like a tender plant, you grow it from a seed up to something that can withstand being transplanted outside with the weather and the pests and the animals that are going to be out there.
	That's the way we view raising a child.
	That's my view of it.
	That's the way the homeschoolers viewed it.
	So one way to fight back against them is to raise strong children, not to use them in this war when they're still at a tender age.
	She says, do we really want to put our kids out there as based right-wing activists when they may not really understand that this will stay with them for the rest of their lives?
	We all agree that 10-year-olds cannot possibly consent to transgender medical interventions, but isn't 12 also too young to commit to a lifetime of being a doxxed right-wing activist?
	I don't want my little kids talking about politics at school anymore than they should absolutely have to.
	Doing it at home is fine, but I don't want my 12-year-old forced to defend a position that he may not understand that well yet.
	Yeah, there's a, you know, it's the knowledge that you have and the critical thinking ability that you have in order to be able to debate this stuff.
	Because if you can't debate it, It can be used to destroy their core beliefs.
	I've seen it happen many times.
	She said, literally, the last thing that I would want is for one of my minor children to expose himself publicly as based and red-pilled.
	I still want my kids to have normal childhoods, the apolitical kind.
	Of course, these days, only hardcore domestic extremists would want to give a kid a normal childhood.
	She said, a charter school...
	Staffed with open and unashamed far-left lunatics.
	But hey, they've got the conservative Hillsdale curriculum, right?
	Yeah, this is Colorado.
	You should probably not put your kid out there on the front lines as the sole right-winger in the middle school.
	And it certainly sounds like that's what's happening.
	If he's eating lunch alone, he's being shunned by all the students.
	He's being shunned by the teachers as well.
	She said, I confess that I too want to indoctrinate my offspring.
	I desperately want them to willingly adopt our beliefs, our religious faith, our values.
	But at 12 years old, I'm not sure it's appropriate to encourage your child's activism when he has no allies yet, and then to post it all on Twitter.
	There is no safe space for Jaden and his world.
	The school year has just begun.
	Just begun. Think about that.
	He's going to be fighting this stuff all through the year.
	His mother is busy booking him on TV shows and podcasts, handling requests from the media.
	Will Jaden appear at the next GOP State of the Union address?
	Or maybe he'll be interviewed by Tucker Carlson.
	Yeah, just wait for it.
	Probably will be. After Tucker Carlson is finished with all the tabloid reporting on Obama, I'm sure that he will be looking for Jaden to come on.
	Yeah, the whole saga and the incessant posting of the newest Jaden reaction videos on Twitter makes me uneasy.
	It's the left that has decided to use children as pawns to advance their causes up to and including surgically mutilating their bodies.
	California is now willing to tear apart families that don't support this.
	Ms. Rodriguez, on the other hand, is probably just a patriot raising her child to be like her and just trying to be a good mom.
	But she said any good mom should be defending his right to let his Gadsden flag fly.
	But maybe we can do that without turning our 12-year-olds into social media stars.
	I had this discussion.
	The reason I want to talk about that It's because, you know, we used to have the standard objections when you did homeschooling 30 years ago.
	What about socialization?
	The same people now put masks on kids and make them, you know, stay six feet apart from all the other kids.
	They want to talk about socialization.
	I said, yeah, well, you know, the socialization that we do is kind of different from the Lord of the Flies socialization that they get in the school.
	And you look at what they're up against.
	You know, we also had Christian friends.
	Well, I want to put my kid in school because he needs to be salt and light to the culture outside.
	And it's like, well, yeah, definitely when they're older.
	But again, can they really stand up against this stuff?
	Do you realize that we put them in a classroom situation, you know, like Jaden is right now.
	You are against the authoritative teacher who has control of the classroom.
	Who says when you can speak and when you cannot speak.
	And you're also against your peers.
	In other words, when you go back and you look at the Milgram experiment, we know that two-thirds of the people will do what the person in the authority figure role tells them to do, even if it means harming somebody else or killing somebody else.
	That's what the Milgram experiment was about.
	About two-thirds. And that holds true in every culture, but it's especially true in our culture.
	And then when you look at the ASH experiment, where you're looking at peer pressure, you know, they rigged a thing there to see if everybody gives the wrong answer in a group, will you do the same?
	They found out about two-thirds of people will do that.
	So what happens in a classroom situation is you've got both of these dynamics playing.
	I wonder, you know, what percentage of people will be able to withstand both the authority figure and the peer pressure at the same time.
	Especially as an immature child.
	And she's exactly right.
	We talk about the immaturity of children all the time when it comes to this gender war that's being pushed on them.
	Don't we understand that about the political war that's being pushed on them as well?
	Yeah, we need to fight that.
	But I don't think with our kids.
	Our kids need to be protected while they're tender.
	And that is exactly what a kid is going to be faced with.
	And We don't necessarily need to do an experiment.
	We don't need to repeat the Milgram experiment in conjunction with the Ash experiment because we've got social media.
	And we kind of know what happens because that's what social media has been effectively is a combination of those two experiments.
	Now here's another example.
	This is somebody who won his fight.
	This is Joe Kennedy, the football coach who went out and prayed at the end of the game on the 50-yard line.
	And for that, he got fired.
	He fought the system for eight years.
	He fought them all the way to the Supreme Court, and he won.
	And they put him back in his job at the beginning of the school year.
	And he's just resigned.
	Because as an adult...
	You know, because he fought and because he won, he's getting the same kind of treatment that Jaden Rodriguez is.
	I think it was Rodriguez's last name.
	That Jaden is getting in his school.
	Complete ostracization.
	And so this adult looks at this and says, hey, it's time.
	I won this fight. I'm glad I stood up for my principles.
	Now I'm moving on.
	I had a similar situation with a high schooler who they came after him for having American flags on his pickup truck.
	Like, yeah, I'm going to do that.
	You're not going to stop me. But I'm not hanging around your school.
	I've got an education to get.
	So, you know, he got out of that school and he's homeschooling himself now.
	Coach Joe Kennedy resigned from his position as an assistant football coach at the high school on Wednesday.
	His resignation was effective immediately and cited multiple reasons for his resignation, including taking care of an ailing family member out of state.
	But he said he felt like an outsider after returning.
	He said things were just not the same.
	He fought these people for eight years.
	He won in the Supreme Court.
	They had to put him back in, but they really didn't want him there.
	He says, I believe I can best continue to advocate for constitutional freedom and religious liberty by working from outside the school system, so that is what I will do.
	And let me tell you, that's the best thing you can do for your kids, is to work outside the school system.
	You can try to fix the school system for the kids whose parents won't take them out, but I would not suggest you do that to your kid.
	This guy knows the system.
	He's a teacher. He's an adult, and he can see this.
	He says, And I think that's the case.
	Kind of being disrespected at that school.
	He says, I've demonstrated we must make a stand for what we believe.
	In my case, I made a stand to take a knee.
	And I encourage all Americans to make their own stand for freedom and our right to express our faith as we see fit.
	But I just think that, you know, it goes unsaid that some of these institutions don't need to be supported by us.
	And we do support them. And we do turn our kids over to them to be raised.
	They just had in France a law passed and Jonathan Turley talked about it.
	He said, well, you know, this is we're losing all sense of religious freedom and freedom of speech in the West and France.
	They have been banning one expression of Muslim dress after the other.
	They just passed a law saying that Muslim girls could not wear the headdress that they wear in classes.
	And he said, so what are you going to do?
	You're going to tell Christians that they can't wear a cross?
	You're going to tell a Jewish student that they can't wear a yarmulke or something?
	Look, the Orthodox Jews aren't stupid enough to send their kids to government schools.
	They're going to raise them with their values and their cultures.
	We're the ones who are the suckers with this.
	And let me tell you, this is going to be something that is going to be the case when the Muslims become the majority, and they will become the majority in France.
	I think what is really behind that law, yes, there is no tolerance for free speech in the West anymore, certainly not in France.
	All these secular Marxist governments, like France, despise these fundamental human rights, but there's something else going on.
	I think they don't want to have a visible sign of this, because that's the way they attacked it.
	They said, no visible sign of what your religion is.
	I don't think they want to have pictures of classrooms that are filled with Muslim kids.
	Because then that would push back against their great replacement push.
	And so I think that's what's at the basis of that particular report, that particular law.
	In Chicago, you have the teachers' union president.
	Hates private schools, hates charter schools.
	I'm sure hates homeschool as well.
	But she doesn't put her kid in the government schools.
	She talks about how elitist it is.
	And yet, she sends her kid to a private school that costs about $15,000 a year.
	She said, school choice is the choice of racist.
	It is about segregation.
	And these school vouchers are about racism.
	Maybe what it really is about is that she wants to keep the riffraff out of her private school.
	She can afford, as a teacher union president, she can afford to send her kid to a school that costs $15,000 a year.
	And she doesn't want anybody getting any money so they can make any kind of choices about how they want their kid educated.
	But it doesn't cost anywhere near that to homeschool your kid.
	As a matter of fact, it is a priceless experience that you will always cherish.
	You don't want your kids...
	To be bonded to an institution or to teachers.
	You want them to be bonded to you as parents.
	And you get that with homeschooling.
	And you don't want them to be bonded to their peers in the class instead of to their siblings.
	If you want a family, you got to stop turning your kids over to the government to raise.
	We'll be right back. You're
	listening to The David Knight Show.
	Good morning, everyone.
	Good morning.
	And to all the young leaders who are here and the youngish leaders.
	Good morning to all of you.
	Good morning, my dear.
	Good morning. Good morning.
	I'm here because of you, by the way.
	Who doesn't love a yellow school bus?
	Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus?
	There's something about...
	And most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?
	I don't care how much I pay I want to drive my bus to my baby each day Our electric school bus program really does represent an intersection of all those points.
	I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it On top of the importance of investing in domestic manufacturing.
	New this morning, electric bus and truck maker Proterra says it's seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from a federal court in Delaware.
	The California company is a supplier of buses for transit systems across the nation, including Greenville.
	President Biden took a virtual tour of the Greenville factory in 2021 to highlight electric vehicle makers.
	Oh yeah, yeah, the magic bus.
	I don't care how much it costs, I gotta have that magic bus.
	And of course we've got federal subsidies as well.
	After pouring in all of this money, and John Lissner sent this program to me, this is, again, the EPA, they had the Department of Energy was subsidizing and stuff, putting out grants, but the EPA, putting out a billion a year, last couple of years, They've got a $5 billion pot of money to throw out there.
	Of course, we can't help the people in Hawaii.
	We don't have any money for that.
	Sending our money to Ukraine and to people creating electric buses.
	The Clean School Bus Program.
	I don't know about you, but I haven't been on that many clean school buses.
	What comes out of the tailpipe that makes them dirty?
	But again, you know, these electric school buses are about a million apiece.
	And the EPA had received requests of $4 billion for 12,000 buses, 90% of them EV, and that's about $333,000 apiece, but some of them were about just under a million apiece.
	But even with that, this company, Proterra, went bankrupt.
	Right away, right away, went bankrupt.
	Because, you see, this is what happens when we give money to these green, crony capitalist organizations, just like Solyndra and other things like that.
	It's one of the problems that I had with RFK Jr.'s explanation of his environmentalism.
	He says, well, you know, the reason that we've got fossil fuel stuff out there is because massive subsidies from the government to them.
	You get rid of the subsidies, they'll go away.
	Well, I don't think so.
	I know that if you get rid of the subsidies, these windmill farms and these electric school bus boondoggles and all the rest of the stuff, I know that will go away because it's going away even after they're giving them billions of dollars of subsidies, they're still disappearing, like Solyndra, like Proterra.
	It is absolutely insane.
	But even more insane is the fact that they just keep doubling down on what they want to do.
	Booty Gay, or perhaps we should call him Booty Marx in this particular situation, he has an equity team.
	And they said that private car ownership is racist.
	You know, everything is racist.
	The Founding Fathers are racist.
	Your gas stove is racist.
	Your car is racist.
	Everything is racist. When are we going to just say, you know what, that has no effect on me.
	Just let it roll off of your back like water off the back of a duck.
	If everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
	Understand? I mean, there's real racism out there, but these people cried wolf so much, let's just forget about it anymore.
	I don't really care about any claims about racism, quite frankly.
	They say all cars are bad.
	Buttigieg's been busy allocating tax dollars to a group of, quote, leading experts that he's appointed.
	And they're looking at transportation equity.
	Equity. Several members of Buttigieg's Marxist equity team agree, or argue, rather, that cars cause climate change and promote racism.
	You know, just like overpasses promote racism.
	It was supposed to be a good thing to not have a lot of traffic through a poor neighborhood, but now we've got to tear down the overpasses and we've got to make everybody drive through the poor neighborhood.
	Why? So, earlier this month, He appointed 24 new members to his Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity.
	This was a committee that was created by Obama, and it was shut down by the Trump administration.
	And I gotta say that that was the bright spot of the Trump administration.
	Was the energy policy.
	Scott Pruitt was a good guy.
	Of course, he was hectored out of Washington, D.C. They were coming after him with one claim after the other.
	None of them had any basis.
	But he could say it was just going to be a matter of time before they got something in Washington, D.C. that they could railroad him on in a kangaroo court situation.
	And so without any support from President Trump, he got out of the administration.
	Included on the committee is Andrea Marpolaro Columa, who is a so-called spatial policy scholar.
	That's the title that she has.
	Spatial policy scholar.
	Who says, quote, all cars are bad.
	That's her quote. And she puts it in all uppercase.
	All cars are bad.
	And that includes the electric cars as well.
	Because you see... As the guy who was the CEO of Lyft, he was a former urban planner, and he said, you know, the best invention that mankind has ever come up with is the city.
	The worst invention is the car.
	Why does he say that? Because he's an urban planner, he loves the cities, and he wants to make sure that everybody lives within his little fiefdom, his little bureaucratic fiefdom.
	And the cars, even though this guy is renting people cars, he doesn't want you to get out of the city with that car.
	You know, they hate what they call urban sprawl, what we call suburbs.
	People don't want to live packed into cities.
	And cars gave us that freedom.
	It also gave us freedom to travel without the kind of tyrannical mandates of masks and vaccines and all the rest of the stuff that they took over every other form of transportation with three years ago.
	So they want to shut that down.
	And we need to keep that alive.
	Because that is an essential lifeline to our liberty.
	And if they do this to us again and we don't have cars, it's going to be a lot harder.
	A lot harder. That's why they're coming after them so hard.
	And they don't want you to have all cars are bad.
	The EV cars are bad as well.
	And that's one of the reasons why they're going to shut down the power grid so that you can't charge your car.
	Yeah, we don't have enough for that. We've got to have...
	Save the electricity, the little bit of electricity that we got left.
	We got to have that for heating and cooling our homes or this or that.
	We can't let you be driving around places.
	Come on. You don't need to be moving.
	Another Boutique appointee, a self-described transportation nerd, Veronica Davis, argued that cars perpetrate systemic racism and are the problem.
	And America's transportation system.
	No, they are the solution.
	They are the solution.
	The far more effective solution than all the rest of this stuff.
	My interest in being on the Equity Committee is to raise the question that pushed the Department of Transportation to really think about it.
	What are some equitable, environmentally sustainable, economically beneficial, and feasible alternatives to a policy that is car-centric, she said.
	How can we reimagine the streets to prioritize people instead of cars?
	Well, the problem is people like cars.
	The bureaucrats don't like cars.
	We have to ask the same question.
	What is it that we can do?
	What are some economically beneficial and feasible alternatives to these bureaucrats?
	And having our lives micromanaged by people in Washington being overpaid to destroy our lives.
	How can we create streets that are inclusive of modes other than cars?
	Well, they have done that. Bike lanes that nobody uses.
	She wrote a book and released in July, Inclusive Transportation, a manifesto.
	Marxist. She addressed the healing and the damage that is done by cars.
	She said, This isn't an anti-car propaganda, but vehicles have wreaked havoc on the environment and on communities.
	No. Best thing that we ever had.
	In Boston, they said, we need to make it not only possible, but also preferable for residents to leave traffic and pollution-inducing fossil fuel-powered vehicles behind, says the plan from the city, as they want to push into this C-34 stuff.
	Included in the plan is a call to reduce commuting miles through an increase in remote work and virtual engagements.
	They want you staying home.
	That's what the 15-minute cities are about.
	And the way that the solution to the 15-minute cities is to keep your cars and to keep them with functional fuels, internal combustion.
	The COVID pandemic has highlighted the major opportunities for telework.
	And again, that's something else that RFK Jr.
	said. He said he seconded the motion that, I think it was Forbes or Fortune magazine, two weeks into the two weeks to flatten the curve, and they were concerned that Fauci really meant what he said, that he's going to let people go after two weeks.
	And they said, well, if we let people out after two weeks, we've got to make sure that we don't ramp this up.
	This has been really good for the environment.
	And RFK Jr. said, yes, I second that.
	We want to keep everything shut down.
	For equity committee member Marpillero-Colomina, however, electric vehicles are not the silver bullet, she said.
	If we just replace all the gas-powered cars with EVs, we're going to have many of the same problems that we have with gas-powered cars.
	You see, because this is about your mobility and their ability to control our lives.
	We have to come groveling to them for a hall pass to go anywhere.
	Even within their megacities.
	Well, that's outside your 15-minute zone.
	You can't ride the bus, citizen, because we don't like what you said on social media.
	Your attitude has been noticed, and you will go nowhere.
	Everything will be shut down to you.
	This is what they've been doing in China for a long time with their social credit system.
	This is what this is all about.
	The EPA has never really been about emissions.
	As I've said before, it's about omissions.
	It's not the Environmental Protection Agency.
	It's the Energy Prohibition Agency.
	It is the Everything Prohibition Agency.
	It is the Escape Prohibition Agency.
	You won't be able to escape these people's cities.
	That's what the EPA is about.
	And then it's not just the buses that are failing.
	They're failing in the marketplace.
	Who would have thought that this centrally planned economy that they're trying to build around the transportation industry, who would have thought that that would fail?
	Well, the car dealerships have a glut.
	I've pointed this out before.
	These guys are saying, look, we've got just too much inventory sitting around here.
	They said, typically, we're looking to turn the inventory at least 12 times annually, which means that they need about a 30-day supply of inventory.
	But what's happening is, things have slowed down.
	Instead of a 30-day supply of inventory, they've got a 54-day supply of internal combustion engine cars.
	And the EV inventory is more than twice that.
	They've got about 120 days of inventory for the EVs.
	They need to have 30 days inventory for the stuff that they're selling.
	And they said the problem is that you're just running out of consumers who have enough money to buy the electric vehicles.
	It is also that you've got to have a consumer who not only has a lot of money to buy these cars that are considerably more expensive, at least $10,000 more expensive than the cars that we've been using, and then they have to be risk-tolerant, and they have to be open to changing their lifestyle and reorganizing their lifestyle Around the range and the charging aspects of these EVs.
	And he said, we're just running out of that.
	He says it's grown, but he says we've really kind of hit the ceiling with this because we're running out of those types of people.
	He said, the only Toyotas that I have that are not pre-sold are the electric ones.
	The spectacular growth we've seen over the last few years cannot be sustained.
	It's not possible, he said.
	The further up this growth curve we go, the harder it's going to be to get to the next level.
	And so, as you look at this, we've seen the Ford CEO say, you know, I just took a trip and this thing is unusable.
	We had the guy who took a vacation with his EV and after, with a Ford F-150 Lightning, he said he had to, I'm sorry, that was the CEO of Ford who did that.
	The other guy took a different car, but he said that He took the family on a vacation, and he didn't have much of a range, and whenever he'd find a charging station, he went there, it didn't work.
	He goes to another one, it doesn't work.
	And they're trying to take a family vacation, so he just gets it towed to a car dealership, regular car, internal combustion engine, and he rented that for the rest of the ride.
	And so this person is saying, well, you know, it gets even worse if you want to take a kind of family vacation where you're towing some kind of an RV or something like that.
	He said, have you realized that when you go to these charging stations, they're not drive-through like you can with a gas pump.
	The way they're set up, you have to, every time you want to charge, you've got to decouple your RV and And go to that charging station.
	And because you're pulling the RV, you're going to get very, very limited range.
	So before your 30 to 45 minute wait to recharge every 88 miles, you're going to enjoy unhitching your trailer to charge your EV each time.
	So this is the key thing.
	And then, of course, people are starting to put two and two together and realizing that it's going to cost them about $15,000 to $25,000 to replace the battery pack that's only going to last about 100,000 miles.
	So you can add another 15 to 25 cents per mile on the cost of ownership.
	It's just not making sense for people.
	But again, we don't have a government that cares about that.
	They've got their agenda that they want to shove down our throats.
	And quite frankly, their agenda is to enslave and impoverish us.
	And so these things are perfect for that.
	The Lucid CEO says, well, you know, I know that people got a lot of range anxiety about these EVs.
	But he goes, we're coming up with a car that has a range of 516 miles.
	Well, we've seen that story before as well, where whether it's Ford or Tesla, they overstate the range.
	But $82,400 for this car.
	How many people, even if it had a range of 516 miles, how many people can afford to do that?
	And that's their cheap model.
	The model that they started the car company with at Lucid is $249,000.
	And so we're going to pick this up on the other side of the break with Eric Peters.
	I just wanted to throw in what is happening with the Magic Bus ride and how, you know, they think they all want it, but we don't want it.
	And so we're going to take a quick break, and let's see.
	Oh, okay, we still need to establish it.
	Okay, we're good. All right.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	And we had Eric, but we had a little bit of video issues with it.
	And so we reestablished contact.
	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 snappy.
	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?
	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... That's what he did, the Nürburgring. Yeah, he wanted to stick as, you know, the Porsche had 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.
	That's great. It's obnoxious on so many levels because, well, here's one.
	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 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. There's a technical reason for this.
	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.
	Well, and that's the thing, you know, 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've 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 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 yet we have to shut our clean ones down so they can run their dirty ones.
	And so, you know, they're shutting down.
	Now the EPA is shutting down power plants with emission regulations.
	It's never been done before for that.
	And... There's not going to be any power on the grid for the electric cars.
	As I was saying earlier, Buttigieg's Marxist Committee of Equity Transportation says, we want to get rid of all cars.
	And you and I have said this from the very beginning.
	That's the design. This is just a head fake.
	And it's just boiling the frogs to make us think, well, 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?
	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 if they succeed in forcing these electric vehicles onto everybody, all of a sudden it'll be discovered that they generate not 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, 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 BESS, B-E-S-S. And they have different companies that put this stuff together, but they're basing it off of the Tesla battery package.
	If you recall a couple of years ago, Elon Musk said to this...
	It's a location in 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, 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.
	So if one of them goes bad, the whole thing goes up in flames.
	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 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 they just keep scaling this problem up from the electric scooters in New York that have killed a lot of people with a lot of fires.
	This last year has now become the leading cause of death by fire, these 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, isn't it?
	Yeah, you know, it's interesting to me that there's an element of this 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've told me, you know, I got my insurance bill the other day and I hadn't had a rec or anything or a traffic ticket, but they've increased my premium.
	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.
	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.
	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 were talking about the fires burning down houses and everything, just because they get a little bit of salt water on them.
	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 ERCOT, which is their joke corporation, the Electric Reliability Corporation of Texas.
	So much for reliability when they go to renewables.
	But, you know, they're complaining about their regulation of the battery operators.
	And... 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 and they're going to save us, but you're throwing them under the bus.
	And it's like, it's amazing to see how, you know, well, of course, we now know what Fox is about.
	But, you know, all the mainstream media is a cheerleader in all this, along with the government, of course.
	Sure, and all of this is premised on yet another confected, overwrought, over-exaggerated hysteria.
	That is, this idea that the.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 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 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.
	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.
	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 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. You know, 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.
	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.
	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 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, 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 insurped 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 all of this weekly report that you have at epautos.com about the face masks.
	And now they're trending again.
	Give us your update on the diaper report from your perspective.
	Well, 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 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.
	I mean, it's just...
	I covered that up. 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've 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.
	These things have been done around the world, and they said, you know, with a 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?
	And so Fauci's response to all that was, well, there's other studies, you know, and of course, we're only worried about the individual health.
	We're not worried about the public.
	That may be true. Maybe 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. All of these people are, and they're continuing to push these vaccines, and it's like the incongruity of it.
	You've got people like Dr.
	Jill Biden, and you've got Whoopi Goldberg, and the whole panoply of these people.
	Whoopi cough? 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 don't, you know, there's two possibilities in my mind.
	One of them is that they're faking it because they want 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.
	We've normalized neurosis, hypochondria.
	To the point now where 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!
	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, 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.
	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 cut this Do Not Comply video.
	I can't believe the hypocrisy of this guy.
	And he's doing the same thing that Fauci's doing.
	It's kind of the opposite 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 just made this stuff up on their own.
	I don't know where they came up with this idea of 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 how this happened. Well, doesn't it really just put in stark relief the just astounding, almost unfathomable narcissism of this guy?
	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 apologized and said, look, I was fooled or I made a bad decision, you know, and I am deeply sorry about it and vowed 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.
	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's 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, and all the rest of it.
	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've 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.
	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.
	You know, I share that, and I think it can be understood in the sense that people are desperate to hear anybody who has, you know, 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.
	You know, 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.
	You know, they think, oh, well, you know, this guy is a German patriot.
	He is going to efface the shame of Versailles.
	He's going to, you know, 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.
	But it is as bad or worse with Trump.
	And at the end of the Obama administration, You had Harry Belafonte, a radical leftist all of his life, an activist.
	And he said he was disappointed that Obama hadn't been more radical.
	And he said, I don't know who this guy is.
	We just projected what we wanted onto him.
	And that's what's happening with Trump as well.
	You know, people just projecting that onto him.
	I was on a program yesterday and...
	I was a guest, and they pressed me.
	Who would you support for president?
	I said, look, Reagan said, government's not a solution, government's a problem.
	I said, let's put a finer point on it.
	The presidency is not the solution.
	The presidency 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?
	Hey, okay, it's 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 to have that kind of power.
	We have to pay attention. People tell me that, and say, well, who are you going to vote for?
	So who is running as sheriff?
	Do you know the people that are running for sheriff in your local jurisdiction or mayor or for city council?
	Because 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 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.
	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.
	Everybody does whatever the centralizing authority says.
	You know, who wants to live in the company town where the company tells you, you know, 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 basic income.
	You know, George Gilder calls a 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.
	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 president.
	So, 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, we're getting up close to a civil war for Trump.
	Mike Huckabee said, well, essentially, if Trump doesn't win, this will be the last election that we solve with ballots.
	It'll be with bullets next.
	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.
	Ask Kamenev and Zinoviev.
	Yeah, I see that with the January 6th prisoners.
	It's so sad. 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.
	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.
	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, the 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.
	people.
	They just don't have any sense of the interests of the country and of the people, and let's try to calm down and be reasonable.
	Instead, they keep pushing us, as you say, toward 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 start using fentanyl.
	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 the 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. And if it's Fauci, it's a lying statistic.
	I mean, they're the ones who are killing people with their hospital protocols and 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, you know, that's it, enough.
	If we still had Mike Wallace out there or people like him...
	I know. You just would have, at a certain point, said, this is just not going to fly anymore.
	You're lying. We're not going to entertain your lies any longer.
	You have no credibility.
	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...
	It would turn Fauci into that character that Martin Short had, the sweating, cigarette-smoking guy.
	It's funny you say that, you know? I'll just name Nathan something or the other.
	But, yeah, it was Nathan from or something.
	The interviewers are part of the problem because they go along with it.
	They help to legitimize it.
	They don't just call these people out right then and there and just say, that's enough.
	You're just lying.
	And they won't 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, that control pretty much all of the so-called major media 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...
	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.
	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.
	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 boatbuilder anyway, back in the 60s, 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 Meyer's Manx, which pretty much everybody has seen, even if they don't really know what it is.
	Mm-hmm. 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 crashworthiness, safety, this, that, and everything.
	But it was a fun, simple car.
	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.
	You know, it might as well all come out of the same machine, as opposed to interesting, fun, oddball things like that.
	But 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.
	Yeah, you know, it has stifled competition, entrepreneurship, and it has stifled, cut off the lower rungs of the ladder 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.
	My grandfather, during the Depression, Had like a backyard, you know, patent medicine thing that, you know, they made and they sold it from door to door.
	That'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 just shutting that down.
	It was going to be impossible to do that.
	That's why I went into electrical engineering, because they were shutting that down.
	And I've seen that happen to everything.
	The Meyer-Manks and his entrepreneurism about being able to do that, you can't have 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, the final step was during the COVID lockdowns for Trump to tell all of the people that had service businesses the only thing you're allowed to have anymore.
	You know, the people had restaurants or barbershops.
	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 innovate, but to not build any capital, not to be able to start up a business.
	That's the key thing. It's interesting to speculate to imagine what we might have had.
	If we had a free market.
	Today, imagine somebody decided to build a lightweight vehicle, maybe with a small diesel engine, maybe paired it with a hybrid, sold it for around $10,000, $12,000, and the thing probably got 70 or 80 miles per gallon.
	We have that. The technology is absolutely there.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So you've got a few of these car companies out there, like we've talked about in the past, the Elio.
	Then you've got like the, I think it's called Aptera or something.
	It's a 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.
	And 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 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...
	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.
	Learn some skills. Those are negotiable, right?
	And you need to be able to grow food to some extent.
	Specialize in something that you can then barter with other people, that type of thing.
	But even if you look at...
	Even though we don't have the ability to, let's say, start up a car company or something like that, 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 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, you know, learn how to manufacture parts for cars, people are going to want to try to keep these cars going for a long time that 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 here in Tennessee, they've started...
	You've got this explosion of micro-whiskey refineries or whatever, moonshine stuff, right?
	It 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 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.
	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.
	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'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 really do agree with this fourth turning thing of Strauss and how, you know, they came up with the names for the millennials and everything.
	But they looked at it and they said, we see this cycle of history every four generations.
	And you know, the people who were pushing this stuff against us, the UN, the World Economic Forum, the central banks, they believe that as well.
	That's why they keep coming up with 2030.
	They believe that 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's why these years right now are very, very critical.
	These next seven years are really going to determine what the next 70 are going to look like, I think.
	Right. Yeah, and I think a critical piece of that is helping to unwarp the minds of young people, to teach them objective reality, and to counter-program them, if you will, 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.
	I mean, I really do think that that's a large part of what this transgender stuff is and the furry stuff is.
	You know, they want these kids to withdraw into themselves.
	They want them to live in a fantasy world.
	You've even had... Yuval Harari say, 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 we will run the world.
	Maybe they'll just let us gradually expire.
	Maybe they'll kill us. Who knows?
	But they want people dropped out of society, 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, 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 were in their middle-18s and so on and early 20s.
	Yes.
	Yes. Yes.
	Yes. And, of course, they built models, and AP 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, 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, and they've had that taken away from them.
	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 of your parents basement
	That's right. Yeah. Well, it's, again, you know, 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 nostalgic things like the Myers-Mix thing.
	I 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 know, how different things used to be.
	Literally, you know, here you had a car that had an air-cooled engine, very simple, you know, that was something that, you know, if you had to fix a lawnmower, you could fix the Myers-Manks.
	We don't have anything like that.
	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 2-liter turbocharged engine.
	What doesn't have a 2-liter turbocharged engine?
	Sometimes it taxes all my power to come up with, well, what am I going to write about this thing?
	The last six cars I had had a turbocharged 2.0-liter engine.
	Yeah, that's right. 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 that turbochargers have become almost ubiquitous.
	You know, practically every car on the market now has a turbocharged engine, and 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 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 may be 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.
	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 and Vista recently, which is also a crossover SUV, weighs about 3,200 pounds.
	It comes with a 1.2-liter three-cylinder engine.
	Wow. Wow.
	Also turbocharged.
	Wow. These things are 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. Well, I guess that's about enough to get us to 2030 when they ban them, right?
	Yeah. 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 a 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 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 the clunkers at the time were necessarily all that great and reliable because 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, 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 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, you know, a vehicle that emits 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.
	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.
	I did a report on it, and I think I called it EV for Vendetta.
	But... 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.
	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.
	You know, 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 Buttigieg's committee is saying now.
	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 UK. They 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.
	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 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 gas ranges anymore.
	Whatever. You've 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, you know, get us to, you know, it's like death by a thousand cuts.
	Yep. So one week they ban this appliance.
	Next week they ban 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 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 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, I think it was Lone Star Auto Show in Austin.
	It had to be...
	An American car that was prior to, I think, 1965 or something like that.
	64. They cut it off just before the Mustang came 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.
	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 going to happen in your lifetime?
	Really? And they didn't.
	They really didn't. And they thought it's going to be somebody else's problem, 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, and we don't care 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, 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.
	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, you know.
	Are they going to be able to get their controls in before we see that happening?
	The thing that concerns me, I've been talking about this week, is the utilization of artificial intelligence 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 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, turn the nuclear weapons on us.
	It's the idea that, you know...
	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.
	You know, I think as a society, we made a great mistake in buying into the smartphone.
	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 have to get rid of your cell phone necessarily, but throw it in the drawer.
	And maybe check it at night or check 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 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 what was that, 2013?
	So a decade ago.
	And 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 Spiegel.
	And they had a series of three slides.
	I've shown them to my audience many times, Eric.
	But it says, who would have thought in 1984, and they show the Apple 1984 commercial, next slide, that this would be Big 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 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, 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, a 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, and 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.
	I could stick them all in the back seat.
	There's no seat belts. Everybody survived, fortunately.
	And I remember I had some sisters, but they were a lot older than I was.
	But I remember going with my parents.
	I could just lay across the whole back bench seat and fall asleep.
	That was very nice. It was a problem, you know, only, and here's part of it, you know, the stick shift, the thing that we love.
	I remember I had a friend who had a Chevy, I think it was a Nova, and he had a pretty big engine in it, and he had a stick shift, he had four on the floor, but it was this big, ungangly shifting thing because he had a bench seat there as well.
	And so, you know, for the sports cars, they wanted to go to the bucket seats, and when they first came out with them, They really were like buckets.
	They were like the bucket seats that I had in boats that we had.
	You know, they really were like a bucket.
	They weren't really contoured like seats or anything.
	And so, you know, they started going to that.
	And I think a lot of that was ironically driven by the stick shift to, you know, fit in with the sportiness.
	But yeah, it really was a very practical thing.
	You get a lot of people in there.
	Yeah, 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. One year they had, and we didn't even know it was happening.
	It was maybe about 20 years ago, came here, the boys were still kids.
	And we show up and they had a DeLorean 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 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 them?
	I didn't realize what that was about.
	One Jeep had this giant duck that was strapped to the top of their roof.
	I guess they win the prize for the biggest duck.
	It's hilarious.
	Yeah, it is fun to see the old cars.
	And that is, to some extent, alive in some of the areas.
	But again, we've got to keep these things going.
	We can't let these people ban our lives.
	And that's what this is all about.
	It's about banning everything in our life.
	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 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 to find out about cars, get honest car reviews, real car reviews, and Liberty.
	That's the key thing.
	Thank you so much, Eric.
	And thank you for listening, everyone.
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