Fellow conspiracy realist, friends and neighbors, you got two Ben's.

You get a Matt here.

So shout out to our guest super producer, Ben, the Sleeping Dog Hackett.

Matt, remember when you and I were...

Owners of cars that were old and awesome.

And analog to a great degree.

Oh, man.

So in 2020, amid the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, we got increasingly suspicious,

even more so about the surveillance state.

Car prices were going through the roof.

That continues to be the case.

And cars themselves were changing.

They were not, you know, the old beaters that you and I grew up with.

They were instead and are almost like rolling computers. Oh, yeah, rolling

sensors. It's crazy. All the things new vehicles can sense around them and have an awareness of

and stop your car if you're getting too close, if you're accelerating too fast towards a

wall or another car, the things that it can sense that you're doing with your gas pedal

and your steering wheel, where your hands are, what your eyes are doing?

Yeah, facial recognition, when and where you're going to or from a place, point A to Z, the metadata about it, your car may know more about you than your partner in 2025.

Well, my car, my car knows my fingerprint, Ben, and it won't access my information unless I put my fingerprint in.

And it's not an expensive car, which scares me.

It should.

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