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Ep. 4225 Japan's Kei Trucks Are TAKING OVER Rural America!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley, join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if I told you one of the most fascinating rebellions taking place in rural America today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't roaring down the road in some enormous pickup?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But rattling across the countryside in a tiny Japanese truck that looks almost like a toy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Across the American countryside, farmers, contractors, homesteaders, and small business owners are buying 25-year-old Japanese mini trucks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: with steering wheels on the wrong side and engine smaller than many motorcycles and beds barely two feet off the ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But this is about far more than an unusual automated craze.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Stick to me the very end of this video because we're going to see why these tiny trucks are becoming so popular, why some states are trying to keep them off the road, and why the smallest truck in America may be carrying one of the biggest civilization messages of our time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your Patre Professor, bringing you a front row seat to the civilizational transformations remaking our world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The little vehicles you're looking at are cold K trucks, Japan's smallest class of four-wheel vehicle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: K literally means mini or micro in Japanese.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They could be no longer than about 11 feet, no wider than five, with an engine no larger than 660 cubic centimeters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were designed not as luxury objects, but as working tools for Japan's farms, construction sites, mountain roads and villages, and now they're finding an astonishing second life in America, particularly rural America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One Pennsylvania dealer told NHK, that's Japan's BBC, that they imported 15 to 20 K trucks every month and sold around 300 in just the last three years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says a typical truck cost between
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, $68,000 gets roughly 40 miles per gallon and offers four wheel drive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By contrast, a new American pickup can easily cause like 60 grand at least.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And amazingly, the bed of a k-truck can be about the same length as out of a massive heavy-duty ramp.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but it sits around waist-type and all three sides fold down for easy loading.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why the buyers are not merely collectors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're practical, they're farmers, they're contractors, they're land scalpers, shopkeepers, tradesmen, and this is where the story gets much bigger than the truck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For generations, the American pickup represented independence, a practical machine that a farmer builder mechanic could use, understand, modify and repair.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the work truck has increasingly become a luxury product.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Larger, more computerized, more expensive, and more dependent on dealership servicing and expertise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Large pickups remain essential for towing and highway travel and heavy payloads for sure, but for simply carrying fence posts across the field
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  [SPEAKER_00]: hauling feed between barns or transporting tools down narrow orchard rose, bigger may simply mean more expensive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The K-truck exposes the difference between technology as a tool and technology as a system of dependency.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's small enough to fit the place, simple enough to repair, affordable enough to own, and adaptable enough to become whatever its owner needs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some enthusiasts have even fitted them with tracks to cross snow and ice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is technology on a human scale, machinery serving the family and farm, rather than forcing them to reorganize around the machine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that is where we're finding
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  [SPEAKER_00]: with rural America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two conservative civilizations with similar wants and needs were finding an extraordinary civilizational meeting place with this wonderfully built micro-truck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to build a future for our families.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not simply to react to the changes happening around us, but to take advantage of them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the most remarkable opportunities I'm seeing right now without question is artificial intelligence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: AI.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know when you hear that a lot of people say, yeah, Steve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A.I.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a tech person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know the first thing about A.I.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's precise of why I wanted to share this with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A good friend of our show, co-author of one of my books, Joseph Aaron, has been doing something extraordinary with his family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He made a commitment that every member of his household would learn how to use A.I.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to build their own income strain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So his 18-year-old son, his 16-year-old son, his 21-year-old daughter,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and is wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not computer scientists.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're a family learning how to use these new tools to create real businesses and open up new possibilities for their future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what makes us so exciting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: AI is changing the amount of time
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and technical experience it takes to get certain kinds of businesses off the ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Work that once required a whole team can now, in many cases, be handled with tools that ordinary people can learn to use.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Joseph and his kids are now inviting you to see how they're doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're hosting a completely free
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  [SPEAKER_00]: five-day live experience on Zoom, where they'll walk you through the process of building an AI-sisted income stream of your own.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You'll get to see the tools, learn the steps, and work alongside them as they show you what's possible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our team attended their previous event and I got to tell you, I was absolutely impressed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We watched people who had never used AI before begin putting together business ideas and systems
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  [SPEAKER_00]: possible to have imagined just a few years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And here's something else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We shared this event with you guys a couple of months back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the response was tremendous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm delighted to tell you that Joseph and his family are opening it up again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to be a programmer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to have years of business experience.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You do need to be willing to learn, you know, put in the work and discover how these tools can help you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Click the link below and register for Joseph Aaron's free five day live Zoom experience.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Come see what he and his family have built and learn how you can begin building something of your own.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Click on that link below right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a beautiful civilizational convergence taking place here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The K truck emerged from Japan's own history of limits, limited post-war wealth, limited fuel, limited space, narrow roads, small farms, mountainous terrain, but those limitations generated extraordinary ingenuity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Japanese manufacturers learn to place maximum usefulness inside minimum dimensions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the result became part of rural Japan, loading vegetables before sunrise, winding through rice patties, and serving villages for decades.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what did rural Americans see in it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they sold something profoundly familiar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They saw theft, they saw durability, they saw mechanical competence, independence, and respect for the land.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In Japan, the K-Track expresses discipline ingenuity within limits.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In America, it expresses the freedom to own, modify, and repair the tool yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These are distinct civilizational traditions, but they converge around a shared rural ethic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: use what works, waste is little as possible, and never confuse ostentation with usefulness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the stories conservative in the deepest sense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Conservatism is not opposition to technology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's opposition to technologies that uproot people, destroy local knowledge, and make families dependent on systems they can't control.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good technology strengthens inherited ways of life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The K-Truck represents what economists EF Schumacher called technology with a human face, proportion to the person, task, and place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that human scale now faces a regulatory battle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Federal rules generally allow foreign vehicles at least 25 years old to be imported without meeting current American safety standards, but every state decides where they can be registered for public roads.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The safety concerns are real, and many older K trucks lack modern airbags and crash protection, and nobody should mistake a farm vehicle for an interstate cruiser for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But sensible restrictions, like local roads, inspections, insurance, and no interstate use, that could easily protect the public without outlawing a useful machine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Owners are now calling legislators and winning new registration pathways state by state.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that may be the greatest significance of all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: rule Americans are not waiting for a corporation or federal agency to tell them what progress looks like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They found a tool that serves their way of life, imported it, repaired it, modified it, and organized it locally to defend it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is not globalism, which standardized everything in this one-size-fits-all pre-fabricated mold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: this is civilizational exchange.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A machine born from Japan's landscape, finding a new home in rural America, exchange without a razor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Cooperation without homogenization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The K-truck was born from constraint, but it gave ordinary people greater independence, and American farmers are recognizing the same possibility.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not rejecting the future, they're rejecting a future that's forgotten its purpose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Genuine progress does not always mean making everything bigger, costly, or more complicated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it means recovering the proper scale of things, making technology serve our families, communities, land, traditions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why this tiny Japanese truck carries such an enormous message.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a Japanese lesson, an American instinct, and perhaps a glimpse of the human scale civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now struggling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To be reborn.
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