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[00:00:32] If Liberty means anything at all, it means, hey, we have the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. Lance Miliacho with me, ladies and gentlemen, TheBigMig.com, an award-winning broadcast every weekend on Liberty News Radio for radio. They're also available on Rumble X, Truth Social, YouTube, they're everywhere. Look for The Big Mig. Lance, welcome back, sir. Hey, Sam, good morning, and thanks so very much for having me. Good morning to all the Liberty Roundtable listeners.
[00:01:01] We're here. It's Rise and Grind. You know how we do it on this show. It's always Edge of the Knife, so I'm happy to be here, man. Lots to cover. Amen to that. The internet now torching Ferrari, ladies and gentlemen. They put out a new EV, and everybody's mocking the car. $640,000 EV, and everybody says it looks like trash. I don't even know how to describe it. What do they call this thing, Lance? I think it's called the Luce. Now, doesn't that sound like a cup of coffee?
[00:01:31] I want to get a Luce. You know, it's being compared to a lot of awful things, and I've got to tell you, of all the Ferraris I've ever seen, and they've had some tough ones. The Mondial was never a great car, and there was a couple others that weren't fantastic. This thing is horrendous. Italians are turning over in their grave. The ex-video of Ferrari said that he couldn't even say what he wanted to say because he didn't want to hurt Ferrari.
[00:01:54] And let me tell you, the internet nowadays with AI is especially vicious, and I'm laughing because yesterday, every time I opened the computer looking for news or stories for all of our shows, there was another meme and another meme and another video and another AI meme. Just horrible, horrible. Well, and the problem with this is they're not really even competitive in the market per se. $640,000.
[00:02:24] Now, the Ferrari name means something, but not that much, right? You've got cars that are, what, a third of the cost that are probably better? More than even a third. I think they were comparing it to one of the Tesla. I don't remember if it was the Plaid or the model because they were raving about the 1,038 horsepower the car allegedly has. But the Tesla, the car they compared to has 1,020 horsepower, and it actually had an extra hundred and some odd miles of range on the batteries.
[00:02:53] And that's not even including the Tesla. It's got a new battery technology coming out. And some guy from Apple, some ex-employee, I don't know why they picked him, somebody like that. He designed the interior. And I just, listen, Sam, honestly, I'm ashamed to be Italian right now. The only thing I can do is go to the Ferrari factory in the dead of night and get some pliers and start pulling off the prancing horse because it does not belong on there. They're throwing up some memes now. Here we go. I don't have any. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:03:23] I don't even know how to respond to some of these memes, but, you know, everybody's, you know, relating it to gay and stuff like this. And it has nothing to do with homosexuality. The term now, when something is not likable or not cool or not in or whatever, it's like, hey, that's gay or whatever. It doesn't have anything to do with homosexuals. Folks, learn to separate things. Get intelligence behind you here. We're not mocking anybody. We're just simply saying, hey, it's a derogatory term relating to that's lame. And you can say, well, it shouldn't be.
[00:03:48] And I know you shouldn't say the N word and all that kind of stuff, but I'm just telling you, we've got we've gone too far in our society. Lance is the point. Yeah. And look, he's got one of the memes. We're going to throw it up here in a minute. But of course, you know, guys with cars, you know, they're like, you know, that's one of the things you take a cheap shot at some of these cars like, oh, that's totally gay. And it's not really gay. As you said, Sam is a homosexual, but that's a term. I made a meme where I put the Ferrari ad and I made it like my little pony. And then I made it.
[00:04:14] I made a Dylan Mulvaney meme where he's drinking a Bud Light and I wrapped the new Ferrari in the LGBTQ flag. Again, it wasn't about really taking a shot. It's just that everybody seemed to think that the car was so awful that they were using the term gay, but not in a homosexual way. But of course, it branches over. You know how memes are. Here's one right here. He's throwing it up now.
[00:04:43] Darling, this car doesn't run on electricity. It runs on homosexual energy. So see what they've done here, ladies and gentlemen. We've just got this scenario where we're crossing into this. The question becomes how much of this has to do with homosexuality,
[00:05:03] at least in their minds, the homosexuals, how much it has to do with just guys saying that's gay, that's no good, that's whatever, versus how much of this is used to create the hype that they want, Lance? Well, I don't think this is hype. I think the struggle here is that Jaguar had a really awful campaign that impacted their stock and everything else. And then, of course, the woke ideology that hit Ford. Ford wrapped a Ford truck in the LGBTQ flag.
[00:05:32] Harley Davidson made a mistake. They did the same thing. Then you had Bud Light. So this woke ideology, you know, you take a really strong brand like Ferrari, right? An amazing brand in the exotic world. And you make a horrible marketing mistake. It's the same thing they did at Cracker Barrel. So, you know, it is a colossal misstep is the point. Well, isn't it? You know, I believe it's a true misstep because I think what happens is, you know, and we know how the banking institutions are.
[00:05:58] There's this there's this requirement from the banks of a certain amount of DEI, a certain amount of woke ideology that comes kind of handed down. And I think it's all, you know, in my opinion, it's all part of the big plan. When you see what they're doing over on TikTok, when you see what they're doing in our school system, you know, I almost feel like it's mass grooming, Sam. It is because here's what happens for Ferrari or Jaguar or any of these companies.
[00:06:23] They at some point must give the nod, kiss the ring, kneel at the altar, whatever you want to say. And the question becomes when you're, you know, in charge of like Ferrari or Harley or something like that, you're kind of like, hey, how do I do this in a way that doesn't destroy my brand entirely? But I kind of give the nod or I kind of, you know, pay the piper, whatever you want to call it. And it's the kind of thing where it's like that, where it's how do we save face, but yet give them the nod so that we don't, you know, lose all eventually be destroyed on this altar.
[00:06:52] OK, and so this Ferrari's first kind of EV car, they're trying to give the nod to the EV folks. But now it's turned into a social media firestorm. OK, they've been mocking the design. They've criticized the brand's, you know, whole classic identity over this thing. They've flooded the Internet with viral memes just mocking the thing. But they're trying to save face. Like you've even got Harley now with electric Harleys and stuff. And what do they do then? They make the sound.
[00:07:21] It's like a fake, you know, Harley sound. But yet it runs on electricity and everything. I mean, at some point this turns into like clown show stuff, right? Well, look, look, I was a Harley guy years ago. I used to rode around. I had a lot of friends that were in biker organizations, and I was all around those guys. And I enjoyed the Harley when I had it. But, of course, later on, I recognized the fact that the way people drive had changed dramatically. I had a couple of close calls, and I thought, you know, I like the way my knees and my legs and my back works. I'm going to sell my bike, and that's it. I'm not going to ride bikes anymore.
[00:07:50] But, you know, the thing is, iconic brands, they're iconic for a reason, right? They built that over low longevity. And Ferrari's an iconic brand. Ford Motorcredit, an iconic brand. And even Cracker Barrel. I didn't grow up with Cracker Barrel food. I grew up in New York. Ford Road in the Bronx and then later White Plains, New York, Westchester County. I ate a lot of Italian food. There was a lot of foods I didn't have. I didn't have country food like that. That wasn't really common in New York. There wasn't a country menu. But I love Cracker Barrel.
[00:08:20] I love the country theme. I love the breakfast there. You know, I like their store in the front. And when somebody in, you know, an executive position says, I'm going to make the brand, they're going to get even a new identity. That is just horrible. They should have polled people. And Ferrari should have done the same thing. What do you think of this design? And I think everybody would have just told them the design sucks. So it's the same thing with Cracker Barrel. What do you think about our new store identity? We're going to make it modern. That's not what the food is. It was never a modern food. It was like somebody's grandmother made it, you know?
[00:08:50] I mean, so. It's like taking an old grandpa root beer recipe company and saying, hey, man, we're going to make a new latte root beer. It's like, what? I mean, imagine tomorrow that Coca-Cola decides they're going to change the recipe. And they've tried this, by the way. Yeah. And it didn't work. And the point of the matter is. Don't you got Coke Classic for this very reason? You know. So, you know. Well, yeah, of course you do. But my point is, even the Cracker Barrel logo, when they got rid of the old guy next to the barrel, and we're showing it on screen right now, people flipped out. They didn't want it.
[00:09:18] They wanted to know they could go in there and sit in their rocking chairs while they're waiting for the table. They could play the little peg game while they were waiting for their food. They could look around and see what unique, cool, weird, but funny, but cool stuff they could try, at least taste food-wise, or bring home as a souvenir, or just, man, this is a cool little whatever. And the food was cool. I like the food at Cracker Barrel. I mean, I don't know what it's like now. I don't know if they changed it, but it makes me uneasy because it was always predictable. I used to be on the road a lot. And it's the same thing with Ferrari.
[00:09:46] Listen, I used to be a big, big wholesale car dealer. I used to sell 350 to 500 plus cars a month wholesale. And we got into that. And a lot of exotics, Maseratis and Ferraris and Lamborghinis, because every week they were going up during that time period. But I mean, I was able to drive a lot of the iconic cars. I had some myself. And there's just something about a Ferrari that just reeks of Ferrari. And this car doesn't meet any of that. It's not even close. So what do you think is going to happen?
[00:10:16] Is this the ultimate stumble, or are they going to be able to recover? Look, I think the recovery is going to be tough. I think that they continue. I'm sure they have a lot of R&D in this car. But that side by side with the Tesla, that's 118,000 versus 640,000. The Tesla just crushed it. I mean, because you got longer range. And when you're driving an EV, in my opinion, range is the top priority. Among everything else. Range is the top priority. I'll get into a couple of other top priorities, ladies and gentlemen. We'll do it in a second. We're talking about EVs. He's Lance.
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[00:12:37] Ferrari taking a beating, ladies and gentlemen. And I hate to say it, but justly so. Not because I, you know, want to debate how, you know, technologically advanced it is. They may have some technology behind the scenes that they're not talking about that's really in the vehicle. So they may be able to recover and leapfrog if they've really got real tech behind it. Time will tell if they really do or not. And you mentioned that range is kind of the key of the most important piece of an EV. And I think for success, it's range, it's horsepower, it's torque, it's speed, it's all that kind of stuff, Lance.
[00:13:07] But I want to talk about a couple of other things with EVs that concern me greatly. And I would not get an EV. And the reason that I wouldn't get an EV is because, man, look, if you don't count battery size or, quote, range, you got to think about charging speed, okay? It's one thing to say I got awesome range. My battery lasts forever, but, dude, if I have to stop on the side of the road and wait a day to charge this thing, it doesn't help me, man. I know I can drive 516 miles, and that's incredible.
[00:13:35] But, dude, what happens after that? I got to stay for a couple of days in a hotel? And even now, a lot of the charging stations, you know, they aren't available, you know, as much as you'd like them to be. People are vandalizing them. They had a big problem in California where people were stealing the charging cord because it was copper. And the people that steal and hack copper out of houses and stuff were cutting off the charging cord. So you pull in the charging station, think you're all set, and then there's no way to charge the vehicle. Listen, there is some news on that.
[00:14:02] It looks like Elon Musk has identified a major new battery technology, and he just filed a patent on it. Supposedly high-speed charging and the rest of it, big deal. So, you know, I don't know where that's going to end up or what the end of that's going to be, but it looks pretty good. But, again, I think hydrogen fuel cell is still really the best option moving forward. And there is one last thing. I'm hearing from some doctor friends of mine that they have a thought, again, I'm not enough studies yet,
[00:14:32] that sitting on top of those giant battery packs is causing colon cancer. Well, and that's another problem is that we don't know the health realities for this, not only from a day-to-day being next to it, you know, having it charged near you and this and that. But the other issues, in addition to your health, relating to you being so near these electrical whatever, battery banks, fields, all the different electrical realities.
[00:15:00] But if these things catch on fire, okay, they've resorted to not even trying to put them out. They're just like, hey, let that sucker burn all the way to the ground. It might take three days. Who cares? It'll burn hotter and crazier than ever. It's so crazy we can't even put the thing out. Now, who wants that on your roads? Who wants that to be in when you get in a crash? Not me, Lance. Well, that's the problem with those lithium batteries, right? If you expose them to air, they catch on fire, even if you pull one out of a computer and you throw it into your trash.
[00:15:27] But if you expose them to any salt of any kind, too, then, you know, if you're not careful, that's what fuels the fires, right? No doubt. Absolutely. And the truth of the matter is, you know, if you have to think about that, think about that sitting in your garage. You know, you're right. You got a ball in everybody's garage almost. And you've got how many people live on either coast, both coasts together? Call me. What percent of the country? I'm not buying an EV, Sam. I'm just, I never would. There's no way I'm going to drive one, own one, buy one. I don't want to rent an EV. I'm not interested in any of that.
[00:15:57] What percent of the U.S. population, right, lives on the coast? Gosh, I don't know. I don't know the statistic on that. Because you've got, think about California's got, what, 40 million people? Yeah. Florida's got 25 million people. Okay. And I haven't even begun, right? And that's 65. I mean, it's what percentage of America lives on the coast? And we know that heat and cool, so what percent then lives in cool climates? What percent lives in the interior of the Rocky Mountains or something?
[00:16:26] And heat and cool are disaster for these vehicles, right? Yeah. And I think whether it's hot or cold, doesn't matter. Both just absolutely tanks your range. But then what percent's near seawater and everything else? And you're creating literally a bomb in everybody's garage. You're creating bombs that just drive down the street when they catch on fire. It's like, hey, it's like that fuel tanker we just read about in California. You've got to literally, like, flee the area. All right.
[00:16:53] 40% of the U.S. population lives in coastal counties. That depends on exactly how you define coastal, et cetera. But 40%, okay? And then when you add the cold and the hot climates to that, I mean, you don't, there's no range for these things. They're a fire disaster. Why would we ever even be pursuing this, Lance? I don't know.
[00:17:15] But even the repair bills that we've seen online where you go in, you've got some – and the problem with those cells, those battery cells, they're made up of thousands of little lithium-ion batteries just like you see CR2032s. And they're in big packs of them. And the problem is they sell the battery packs in these major banks. People have been getting these bills where all of a sudden they've got a lake coming on where the batteries are failing. And they're being told, oh, we have to replace the battery bank in your car, and that's going to be $36,000.
[00:17:44] It's not like you go in there and it's a couple grand. Now, there are places that are taking the packs apart, replacing the bad batteries. But it is – look, I think hydrogen fuel cells – But then what's going to happen when we get all these batteries, though? Just where are you going to put them? They can't dispose them, Sam.
[00:18:13] They're just – they're stacking them up in junkyards. They don't even know what to do with them. Okay, and then the other question that I have is, you know, forget the fires. Forget that you're going to get colon cancer. Forget the hot and the cold, so the range tanks. What about just the pure expense of these things? I mean, they say that these cars cost, what, $5,000 to $10,000 more than the average car. Look, when I was a kid, I bought my first car when I got married. 34 years ago, bought my first car for my wife after we got married.
[00:18:40] It was a little teeny geometry, man, three-cylinder proper car, but it was brand new, $5,600. Okay? Wow. And now the average cost of a brand new car is $50,000. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay. A house used to cost less than that, Lance. I mean, my parents bought a brand new Volkswagen Bug, and at that price, it was $9.98 or something. It was under $1,000. And then they bought one of the Volkswagen Squareback wagons when that came out,
[00:19:08] because I remember going to the first McDonald's in New York in the back of that car, you know, back when the McDonald's were chrome on the outside. They were polished. Yeah, man, that was back when you could get a 29-cent cheeseburger, buddy. Yeah, it was a big deal for us to go there. We didn't have a lot of money. I broke – my parents were not very affluent. As a kid, we didn't have a whole lot. So to go to McDonald's was just massive. I'd sit in the back of the wagon, and we'd get the drinks and everything. And, of course, the food tasted amazing back then because it wasn't all this processed GMO. So look, I don't get it. I'm not going to be an EV guy. I'm not an EV supporter.
[00:19:37] You're not going to see me drive in an EV. I wouldn't rent one for myself. I guess if somebody, you know, invited me in for a speaking event or something, and that's the car they got me, I'd be stuck driving it. Well, let me tell you a story. I went to a car – I don't know what you call them. Rental places? Yeah. And I got there, and we were about to get our car, and this lady walks up to us, and she says, hey, listen, I rented an EV, and it's not going to work out so well for me. What do you think if I let you take my EV, and then, you know,
[00:20:05] I could take the other car, and we could do the paperwork with the people? And I'm like, are you kidding me? That was your first mistake. And look, you look for the charging stations. It's kind of like having a vehicle that runs on propane. If you were going to drive across the United States in a vehicle that had propane, you had to do some real planning. You had to make sure that you had to stop for propane because it's not as easy as people think. And I don't think it's any different than these EVs. I mean, look at the charging stations they were supposed to build.
[00:20:33] The Biden administration, billions of dollars just disappeared, and I don't think they built but one charging station or two, and they were supposed to build, I think, 100 of them. And the money just disappeared. Same thing with California. You know what? When you tell me I can't, and then I'll probably still buy used and stick with gas. Well, and that's really the point.
[00:21:00] When you really do an environmental impact study, and this is where I really want to force the people in the news and everybody else to do it, can you really show me that an EV is really better? You can say, well, hey, you got all these cars that have zero emissions or whatever they're supposed to have. But, buddy, by the time you build these batteries and all the technology to make those batteries run and all the different pieces that you, you know, it's out of control. Don't tell me it's really more environmentally friendly. It's not true. Is it a smaller carbon footprint?
[00:21:26] I mean, if you've got these batteries you can't dispose of when the car comes up in five or six or seven years, whenever it starts to fail, what happens then? You know, they always want to talk about it. It's a smaller carbon footprint, Sam. Yeah. I don't believe it. I don't either. I don't believe it. I think it's a sales pitch. So, for me, I'm sticking with gas. And, Sam, don't let me catch you buying the Ferrari. Okay? Don't let me catch you doing that. Yeah. I'm going to hold off for now. But the last thing I have a question for. Yeah.
[00:21:55] You know, there's scales and stuff that, you know, when big rigs go by or whatever, and so they're really heavy. And so they do the scales to say, hey, you know, are you too heavy for this road? Or are you whatever the case may be? And sometimes there's, you know, toll fees that they got to pay and stuff like that to cover some. What about all these EVs? Every EV is way more or way heavier than a regular gas car, right? You know, I actually don't know that statistic. You know, if you say so, I believe it's probably true. Yeah. No, they're heavier. I'd have to kind of get the averages.
[00:22:25] But I have dealt with the battery packs. I have had some vehicles that were hybrids and stuff where I had to, you know, buy used battery packs and all kinds of things to fix stuff. And they are seriously heavy. Now, does that offset not having the engine, the transmission differential? I don't really know. Got to be honest. I don't know about the weights on the EVs. Anyway, all I can say is it's interesting. And then here's the next question. So not only are they heavier on the roads, but you put more and more and more heavy traffic on the roads. You got to build the roads to greater capacity.
[00:22:53] So when they do all these environmental studies and they're like, hey, every gallon creates 887 grams of CO2 or whatever. And this and that. And then they go. But what about just building more roads and roads that can withstand heavier vehicles? Is that, you know, compared to the footprint? Well, look, if we'd stop wasting our money all over the globe doing all kinds of ridiculous things. I mean, our infrastructure needs some serious, serious work here in the United States. Our highways should be expanded.
[00:23:21] There's lots of bridges that were, you know, are not in good shape and they should be repaired and replaced. But look, we, you know, look at Washington, D.C. They keep wasting money. They don't ever stop. You know what I think is interesting? I'm going to make a comment that I've been thinking about for a couple of years now. The self-driving technology is really interesting, right? Because if you're working like we do all the time, if you really could trust the self-driving to get you to a spot, it could be interesting because you could continue to work on your laptop and build out shows and do all kinds of stuff. Just like everybody could work.
[00:23:49] Why is it that self-driving is only committed to the EVs? Why aren't they making any commitment to self-driving gas cars? That's my question. Because they want to force you into EVs because we'll get into this a little bit more, ladies and gentlemen, Sam and Lance. But it has to do with tech, by the way. And they can't control your gas cars. That's why they all wanted to make sure that you didn't have cars that you could work on yourself. And now we've got these electronic transmissions and you can stop an EV in the middle of the road and you're not going anywhere, Lance. We'll talk about it. I'm Sam. He's Lance. The Big Mig, baby.
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