All right, and joining us now, I want to get him in before Christmas is Eric Peters of

E.P.A.O.com.

And we have so much car talk to talk about.

It truly is amazing.

But I want to begin with something else that you got at your site, Eric.

And that is your story about this abusive relationship we're stuck in with the federal government. Tell us about that. One that we've been in since 1865. That's right, that abusive relationship. If you leave, I'll kill you, as you point out, you know? I use that graphic. It shows Abraham Lincoln and it has that caption, if you try to leave me,

I'll kill you. And I thought that that was very succinct and very apt because it distilled

the whole conflict into that witty little meme. And that's exactly what it was all about.

You know, on the one hand, we have this cognitive dissonance in this country. On the one hand,

kids are taught to revere the founding fathers, the founding fathers who seceded from Great Britain.

That's right.

You said if you leave us, we'll kill you.

They said if you leave us, we'll kill you as well.

But somehow when the southern states wanted to exercise the same prerogative, they felt that they were no longer served by being part of this

union, just as the colonists thought they were no longer being served by being part of the British

union, and they wanted to separate themselves, leave, in other words, from what they considered

to be an abusive relationship.

He did exactly that.

He killed.

What's the estimate?

Something around the order of half a million Americans were killed.

Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting.

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