Joining us now as Eric Peters always love talking to Eric.

We share a love of cars and a love of liberty.

And that covers a wide range topics.

Eric peters.com is where you'll find a lot of very interesting articles about cars.

And I'm interested, very interested in a couple of things that you've got here.

The anodyne exotic.

I want to get into that.

But before I do, what is breaking on your mind? Because I picked up some of the articles.

It's been, I guess, three or four weeks since we've talked.

And so there's a wealth of things that have happened in the automotive industry.

But what is at the forefront of your mind right now?

Thanks for joining us.

I've been ruminating lately a lot about making do with, again, the things that we used to make do with.

You know, if you're a Gen X person or older, you'll remember a time when it was feasible

for even a high school kid to buy a car using their own money rather than having

their parents buy a car for them.

Yeah.

Because there was a time when you could still buy basic new cars, which made them affordable.

You could buy a car with or without things like air conditioning, power windows, locks, automatic transmissions.

And I'm by no means disparaging any of that. Those things are all very nice, particularly once you get a little older and you like the idea of having an air conditioning system that you can turn on to keep you cool.

But hey, when you're 17 or 18, it's kind of nice to be able to go out and buy a $700 a lobby that lets you

get from A to B, you know, and that's right. And it's one of the reasons why, you know, when we were

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