Happy 250th America! Silicon Valley Front Row Joins the Redwood City July 4th Parade

Welcome to July 4th and welcome to another episode of Silicon Valley Front Row. This is Steve, I'm David. Today we're in Redwood City for a 4th of July parade. Yeah, we're actually, Epoch Times is actually part of the parade with this car right here. We're about to start and we're gonna check out a few other participants. All right, so we're gonna check out some of these cars that are in the parade. This is a really nice color. Nice. What year? 1949. 1949 Chevrolet. I love the safety. What year is it? Wow, nice car. Happy 4th of July. What is it? It's a 1965 Impala Supersport. Did you have to restore it or you got it? I'm actually still in the process of restoring. I've been working with the mechanical issues first. Fixing it from the inside out, little by little. So as you can see, it still has like little details. Yeah, yeah. That need to be taken care of. But it runs good, right? You drove it here, yeah. Yeah, that's the first thing you got to take care of. Yeah. Yeah, that's an important part of the engine and all that. Then you make it look pretty. That's a nice car. Hey, so what do you have here? This is a 1952 Styline Deluxe. It's got a lot of miles. I bought it in 2010. I could take it on the freeway about probably 65, 70 miles an hour. So what do we got? What do you have here? We have a 1940 Chevy Master 85. 1940? 1940. Wow. Canadian made. Wow. Yeah. Well, this beats the record, all of these. You're the oldest one. It's pretty old, this car, yeah. Very vintage. How many miles do you know? It's, yeah, 64,000. That's really low. Yeah, it's really low, yeah. And this is the last but not least. Lady Liberty, too. Whose car is it? Is it your car? What is it? 1929 Ford. I think this is the oldest car we saw so far. Yes. Possibly. I've had it for 10 years. Yeah, what made you get it? I'm in the classic cars. A car like this, older, there's barely any shocks on it. You know, it's a bumpy ride because it's so old. There's no cushion. So you don't want to bump and you always hurt your back or whatever. So do you go on the freeway? No, no, never on the freeway. This car is so light, you never take it on the freeway. Yeah, and then over speed bumps, you just go really slow. Real slow, yeah. How fast do you usually go normally? 35. Okay, so in roads, all the way? 35, all the way down El Camino. When you ride it, I mean, do people always wave at you? Oh yeah, they wave, they honk at you, you honk back. Can you tell us really quick, what do we have here? What's that? What do we have here? This is a 1960 Corvette and this is Doc. Hey, happy 4th of July. You too. Nice ride. What year is this? 71. What made you get this car? Always wanted one since I was a kid. It's definitely the best. This looks really cool. Could you tell us about the car? Sure. I actually am the owner of TPS Motorsports, so I've been doing this for 18 years. What year and how many miles? This is a 2020 Corvette C8. It has about 38,000 miles, so it gets driven a lot. So I own a company that modifies and upgrades Corvettes and Mustangs and a lot of domestic muscle cars, Toyota trucks and SUVs. So we're based in Santa Clara. Our office is in Santa Clara. We're in Santa Clara. He's actually donated a car to you guys before. Thank you. Appreciate it. We'll come visit you. Yeah, no problem. What brings you here? We are all Redwood City natives. We love playing music. We want to bring music to the community. I love the epic times. Hopped out the plane at LAX with the dream record again. Welcome to the land of fame access. Where am I going to fit in? Jumped in the cab, here I am for the first time. Look to my right and I see the Hollywood sign. This is all so crazy. Everybody seems so famous. My tongue is turning and I'm feeling kind of homesick. Too much pressure and I'm nervous. That's when the taxi man turned on the radio and the DJ's song was on. Can you tell us what do we have here? This is a 1944 World War II army duck. Carries supplies from the ship to shore. Still runs pretty good. Yeah, we rebuilt it. We spent three years rebuilding everything. Wow. How did you get your hands on this? It's a long story. And here's the Falun Dafa meditation group celebrating the 250th. Yeah, representing freedom. And then we have a very peaceful music. Yeah, let's see if there's someone to talk to here. Well, we're celebrating the 250th birthday of America. The symbol of freedom to the whole world. And of course, who doesn't want freedom, right? Except you know who, CCP, right? So anyway, a lot of these people here, they actually escaped from CCP in China, right? And of course, they enjoy this once in a year event. You will never miss it, right? Will you miss it? I won't. So we are very glad to have the freedom of America to celebrate freedom of belief and celebrate our practice, who are freely practice over here. And I really appreciate the freedom America has given us. And definitely, we won't miss this opportunity. Tell us a little bit, what's going on right now? Is it like a meditation? What's going on? What's happening? So they are demonstrating the exercise of Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa has five sets of exercises. They are demonstrating, I think they're number two over there. And in China, they did a survey in Beijing of 10,000 practitioners. The improvement in health rate is over 97%, 98%. Yeah, that survey was done in 1998. So almost everyone who practiced this, they experienced improvements in health, physically and mentally. And I personally benefit from this practice a lot. More people to know about this, the practice is all free for everyone. That's nothing to lose. Yeah, what do you get to gain, right? You have to pay for a gym ticket, right? But over here, you don't have to pay any money. What do you have to lose? Yeah, what do you have to lose? If you have open-minded, you will gain a lot. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Where is the music going from? This one. So we're following this song. I interviewed the guy who plays this song. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He was on my program a few months ago. What program is that? Bay Area Innovators. Oh, okay. If you look it up, look it up. It's under Epoch TV. Epoch TV, okay. Epoch, E-P-O-C-H, like Epoch Times. Thank you. Happy 4th of July. Happy 4th of July, you guys. Thank you. Happy 4th of July. Happy 4th. Great. How you doing? I love that horn. Happy 4th of July. I'm happy 4th. Happy 4th. I got various horns. Happy 4th. Happy 4th, buddy. Yes. How are you? I'm doing good. Good to see you here. Good to see you, too. Yeah, what brings you here and tell us about your car, too? You want to buy it? Potentially. Good. So we're just about to get on the main strip of the parade. Epoch Times. This is independent newspaper and digital news organizations dedicated to fact-based journalism. Thank you for watching another episode. We hope it was entertaining. A lot to see here at the parade. What does this anniversary mean to you? Like a quarter millennia. Do you want to say what it means to you or no? Okay. All right.