March 28, 2025 • 26 mins
Gary and Shannon kick off the show with a recap of the Dodgers' recent game against the Detroit Tigers. They then discuss the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, which has resulted in significant casualties and damage. The conversation shifts to the lockdown at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas following reports of an active shooter. Additionally, they share insights on Vice President Vance's trip to Greenland, highlighting intriguing facts about the region. The hour wraps up with a discussion on the 'Tesla Takedown' protest aimed at impacting Tesla's stock price.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. I mean, does it get
better than Ice Cube driving into the stadium and then
having the two walk off guys from the World Series
at count Yeah, play a little pitch and catch.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, come on, And you know I loved about Detroit.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I love that some guy, and this is why Detroit
should be taken seriously, I mean among other.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
City or the team.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The team.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, there was a couple guys that watched that whole
thing from the dugout, didn't bother them at all. Thought
it was cool, soaking it in, soaking in the championship.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is what it feels like. I love that.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I've never been a fan of those gold lettered jerseys
for the World Series champion. You know, the next year
they get to play in the I've've always hated that
they could do something else it would be and they
look great, they look awful, They're just anyway. That's my story,
but that's the coolest one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Luckily, I come to you for fashion.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I know you you're welcome, but it is one of
the coolest things that they do is the opening day
has always been fun. It's always been one of those
great to see what each team is going to do
and how they do it, and then you know, next
week there's a whole another series of home openers for
teams that are on the road this week and all
that stuff. So it's very fun. Do you see each
you row throughout a first pitch in Seattle? I heard
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about it through it like eighty nine miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Wow, it was really good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Fifty eight? Really something like that?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
My God, get so quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The biggest story that we're talking about throughout the day
to day outside of Greenland is going to be in
me and Mark there is Give me this Robin, give
me this computer over here, I got the little thing
I was going to play.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
In Mandola, these monks watched as a large building collapse
right in front of them. The earthquake also damaged parts
of the cities.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is awful, right, one hundred and forty four people killed.
But I will say that speaks to the power of
being a Buddhist. Listen to their reaction.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh, just to watch this building collapse?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, I mean Deborah Mark's reaction to me via text
at six point thirty was stronger than that. No kidding,
by the way, she texted me the news item and
I wrote back, I know, Deborah, I thought of you
immediately when I saw this.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Right, she didn't feel the earthquake, she just knew that
there was a big earthquake.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, but how funny that she passed on that news
item to me.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
As of right now, news services there in Me and
Mar and in Thailand neighboring Thailand have said that it's
expected about one hundred and forty four people in both countries,
most of those in Me and Mar. This woman actually again,
Me and Mar and Thailand are right next to each other.
This woman in Bangkok, an American, has lived there for
twenty eight years and says that this was reminiscent of
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the earthquake that caused the tsunami back in two thousand
and four.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
This is not the first time that the building has.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Built an earthquake.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
In two thousand and four, when the tsunami and the
earthquake happened in Sumatra, the building shape immensely for almost
thirty minutes, and then it had cracked in the walls.
But never like this people.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So the thing about Bangkok, it sits on a river delta,
and that opening shot of the Hangover Part three is
exactly what Bangkok looks and feels like in real life.
It's built on top of itself. I mean, I'm surprised
there's not more damage. We're hearing about this one building
over and over again, and it's awful, and one hundred
and forty four people, like we said, have been killed.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But I'm surprised there's not even more damage.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
When you think about how things are just built on
top of each other in a shoddy fashion.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It is going to be This, unfortunately, is one of
those stories where as we go through the four hours
of this show that death toll is going to go
up significantly. The US Geological Survey had estimated that it
will probably be into the thousands before the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
This is coming out of Wichita Falls, an Air Force
base in Texas on lockdown for a possible active shooter.
Shepherd Air Force Base confirm the reports online the Air
Force and in a statement that sweeps in the area
are being conducted. This is just northwest of Dallas there.
Like I said, in Wichita Falls, Texas, So we'll stay
on top of that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Hey it's Friday, so with all that other stuff going on,
we're still going to have some fun today. We will
be doing what you learned this week on The Gary
and Channon Show. You can always leave us a talkback message.
That is, when you're listening on the app, you just
hit that little button. It sends us a message. Just
tell us what you learn some of the fun facts
that maybe you learned about the world or about us.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Speaking about fun facts, we're about yourself.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I mean sometimes people learn about themselves when they hear
us talk about things.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay, like what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, maybe they think to themselves, you know what? I
do like pickles.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Have we mentioned pickles this week?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But again I don't know what goes on in people's minds.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I love pickles. What a fun, low calorie snack? Are
they low calorie?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I find? I assume so it's a vegetable at its base,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
What kind of pickles do you like? Do you like
sweet pickles? Do you like?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I like my buddy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
When I was in the junior high in high school,
a friend who lived with his grandmother and his grandmother
used to make pickles, and they were spicy, and I'd
never had spicy pickles before.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We would always go into his There was a shed
in Grandma's backyard where she would store these jars of pickles.
I guarantee they were not up to snuff in terms
of healthcare, course, but they.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Were the best.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Those are the best pickles, the flavors the back of
the barn or the shed.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He always used to black market pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Eat a pickle, and then he would drink part of
the brine, the juice that the pickles were in, which
I never did because that was even more spicy.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Really healthy for you. It'll get you going. A lot
of athletes drink pickle juice, So I've heard that. Yeah,
you should try it. Okay, what else went on in
Grandma's shed?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Gary and Shannon will continue? What is this show?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Greenland? The trip is on what you can expect? And
if we're gonna, if we're gonna acquire this land, we
should learn more about it, should we not?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Have you ever heard of seal soup?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Maybe you know it as suicide.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I prefer seal soup.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
See could you imagine eating a seal? A little baby
seal in a soup. That's what they eat there in
that soup. They also eat whale and polar bear and
musk musk ox.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What's a musk ox? These are like live off the
land people, guys. There's not a lot of not a
lot of vegetable gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Not a lot of processed food. It's not a lot
of nacho cheese doritos.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well ten years ago when we first talked about Donald
Trump coming down that escalator and I did something like
you got to reach out and pull it in like
I did that with my hand, quoting Jim Harbaugh, you
would have looked at me with pots.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You would have been like, what are you doing? What
are you talking about? And now you just don't even r.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh, honey, I've given up on that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now you just have accepted crazy town.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yes, because if I pushed back too much, you'll start
lighting things on fire. I've seen that happen. We don't
need fire today. I mean, fire is never bad, but
we don't need it today.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But you know what I mean, like somebody to take control.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, and if you look at the guy who is
at the top of that party.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You've got.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You've got Gavin Newsom who's trying, but he doesn't have
the support nationally. You've got a guy like Jos Shapiro
out in Pennsylvania who appears to be a more intellectual
and more natural Gavin Newsom, but still has some of
those political stances that aren't going to fly in mid America.
Do you say that Hakem Jeffries, as the minority leader
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in the House, is has anywhere near the name recognition
that would be necessary. He just hasn't been in Congress
long enough to get that sort of notoriety. And then
everybody else is five million years old and there's no energy?
Is it Barack Obama? It could be, but why would
he want to do that job again? And I don't
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mean the job of president, but the job of leading
the party, especially when it's a fractured.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Delighted have you seen speaking of the leader of the party?
I mean the last power player that we talked about
that was really the undoing after George Colony's op ed
of Joe Biden was Nancy Pelosi. Where the hell has
Nancy Pelosi been? If she's the king maker. She has
been oddly absent from public.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
View there is Well, I think part of what the
problem with the finding a leader for the party is
who all these because it's such a factioned group, you know,
there's so many smaller factions within the party they're willing
to tear down. Whoever raises their hand, whoever sticks their
head up first, is the one who's going to get
it chopped off. And Nancy Pelosi was near the top
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the whole time. But now they don't want somebody who's old. Yeah,
because they've run it. They ran into that with Joe
Biden and they don't want to repeat that mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
A couple questions, who is they?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And the second follow up question is who's more powerful
than Nancy Pelosi to make that decision?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, I don't know. That's again that goes into the
It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Like the question we had towards the end of Joe
Biden's presidency that we asked repeatedly on.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
The show, who's actually in charge?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Who's in charge of the country right now? And it's
not us trying to be cute, who is in charge?
Who is the puppet master in Washington? Because it wasn't
Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Even if he was in each one of the important meetings,
there's somebody sitting right next to him who's probably the
one who has the largest influence on some of those decisions.
Vice President JD. Vance and his wife Usha Vance are
in Greenland. They have landed and they are at the
American military base there. They are, among other things, talking
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about how we love Greenland, we like Greenland, we want
to be friends with Greenland, and at some point, according
to Donald Trump, we want to take over Greenland.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
If we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security.
If you look at the ships outside of Greenland, China, Russia, places.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That we have to be there.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
If we're not there, we can't have national or international security.
So I view it from a security standpoint, we have
to be there.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We do have a footprint in Greenland. We have for
some time. Right now, we have the Space Force Base
at Patific in Greenland, Department of Defense's northernmost military installation.
That is the home to Space Forces eight hundred and
twenty first Space Base Group. They do missile warning, missile defense,
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and space surveillance operations. It seems like a very cold outpost,
but very important outpost. We have been there for a
very long time. Think about nineteen fifty three, the Cold
War was heating up. The United States had set its
sight on a settlement more than seven hundred miles north
of the Arctic Circle. One hundred and sixteen civilians that
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lived in that area of Greenland would have to go
because we wanted to expand our Air Force base at
the time to defense, to defend against Soviet missiles. There
was also an anecdotal story about American officials who had
gone door to door in Greenland to try to find
somebody there who would be willing to host the Vice
Price and his wife and perhaps National Security Advisor Mike
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Waltz just for a quick just for a quick bowl
of seal soup and photo handshake and just like, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
From And they said, we saw what happened at the
donut shop.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't want that weirdness in my house.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, we'll eat our seal soup in silence. Everybody said, no, yeah,
it's not going over well.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, first of all, the people of Greenland are not
the Kardashians. They don't want photo ops. They don't want
the public to be looking at them. They live off
the late eighty percent of Greenland as ice. They eat
seals for crying out loud. Well, I mean this is
there are no roads in Greenland. They don't want publicity,
they don't want attention. They are the anti Instagram generation.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
When a great percentage of your day is dedicated to
simply staying alive, right, you don't care about photo opportunities. Now,
we don't have to worry about keeping ourselves alive every
day where if we go outside it's dangerous or any Do.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You think the Canadians pride themselves on not being an American.
You're not going to find a place that's more Unamerican
than Greenland.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I mean, you could make the argument for China when
it comes to freedom, but in terms of like stuff
to do and stimulation and all the vain, narcissistic tendencies
we have, Greenland has none of that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They have their own.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a very strong sense of independence, yes, like we
would like Americans would, but they do it in a
very reserved way.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right, At some point, I want to tell you the
story about Eric the Red, the Viking that founded Greenland's
first European settlement.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, throughout the show today, we should perhaps do Greenland
fun facts, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love a Viking story, don't you. It's also it
always comes with murder. Murder, Yeah, give me that. Get
that away from I'm tired of looking at that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Do better? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I said, stupid?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Oh stupid, he said, do better.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
No, I would never say that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Uh, there's supposed to be nationwide and potentially worldwide protests
tomorrow out in front of Tesla dealerships. You guys, you're
doing nothing. You're doing nothing to change anyone's mind about
driving a Testy.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This goes back to the transgender Shay's lounges on the
deck of the Titanic.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What do you You're picking the wrong fights.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And furthermore, this is a vehicle that is saving the planet.
One of the major tenants of the Democratic Party is
conservation and.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Respecting the earth.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And even die on a different hill other than the
electric car hill.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Even if Elon Musk lost all of that company ceased
operations today, he'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Stop, be okay, get.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Out of the Nissan leaf that you championed all those
years ago and realize he's done it correctly and disagree
with him, make a case out of disagreeing with him politically,
but on the other hand, realizing that he does good
for the planet.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Listening to Chevy Bolt Driver, I mean, the leaf.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was really the worst, and the volts also bad. He
really did it right the first time.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
The remarks that the Vice President is making at that
Space Force base, will we may bring some of them to.
I don't think he's gonna unveil anything significant, but if
there's anything, we'll definitely bring it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
To It's the minerals.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Really.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Trump has talked about the US forming some sort of
control over the mineral rich territory of Greenland, obviously an
ally a NATO member as well. There has been a
lot of pushback and you wonder, you wonder often what
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the Viking who founded Greenland would think.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Who is the Viking that founded green.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Eric the Red is his name? A Norse explorer?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
What have gone for Jeffrey the Green Do you know who.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
His son was? Thor hir doll leif ericson? Okay, not
fun yeah, explorers.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The apple doesn't fall far from the explorer tree. Eric
the Red Do you want to know how he earned
that name?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Red Hair?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, red Hair, red Beard, although some say it's because
he murdered several of his neighbors after he was exiled
from Greenland to Iceland.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Like the Red wedding from the Game of Thrones, she
wasn't actually didn't have anything to do with red.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was all about the blood.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Eric the Red was born in Norway in nine fifty.
He was the son of thorvald Oswaldsen. He was banished
from Norway for admitting acts of manslaughter, just the way
the Sun would later be banished from Greenland for killing.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And in the family there killing, exploring all of it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
One noble pursuit and one not so noble pursuit, the killing,
and then the exploring.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Three sons and a daughter. One of the sons Leif Ericksson.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What was the daughter's name.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The daughter's name was Friedas My grandmother's name was Frida. Yeah,
she was a pretty big deal. She was prominent in
the north exploration of North America. She was an early
colonist of Vinland. Where's that Vinland? I'm so glad you asked.
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Vinland or Wynland was an area of coastal North America
explored by the Vikings five centuries before good Old Christopher Columbus.
Huh Newfoundland, oh way north, northern tip of it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The they like the colder parts.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It sounds like, Okay, they like the colder parts.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
It sounds like It's not like they went to South
Carolina in August.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They were a new family.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Good time, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
If you got nothing on the calendar tomorrow, you might
want to go protest outside of a Tesla dealership.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
We'll talk about that we come back.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Since Tesla the carmaker has become a lightning rod for
violent attacks and vandalism, more than two hundred protesters scheduled
to take place tomorrow during what organizers are calling a
global Day of action, part of a campaign called Tesla Takedown.
They're hoping that they can put a dent, perhaps in
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elon Musk. They want to hurt sales. They want the
stock price of Tesla to go down. They've set a
goal of five hundred demonstrations worldwide, although though it's not
clear that they're going to meet that.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Guess how can you tell people not to protest. The
point of protesting is.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
To get the word out.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
And guess what you guys are talking about it. They
got the word out and their protest seems to be
working so far. Just let people do what they want
to do.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Man, I never tell people not to protest. I just
want you to know I said this. Let me dumb
it down because I've said it to my kids. I
have no problem with you protesting. It's one of the
great things that you could do in this country that
you can't do in other parts.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Of the world.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But you better know what you're talking about, and you
better be able to when that TV camera or radio
reporter comes to you and interviews you. You better be
able to articulate why it is that you're standing out
in front of a fully legitimate business like that and protesting.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Count I've covered countless protests and that's never the case.
Just so you know, Union's bus in mass people the protests.
My issue with Democrats protesting TESLA and I understand that
it's bigger than that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's about Doze and it's about.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Federal workers losing their jobs, and I understand that, and
I understand that I have no frame of reference personally
for that. I can understand it's a very terrifying place
to be when your job is hanging in the balance.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Absolutely, But if.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're just protesting Tesla for the sake of Elon Musk
running it, and you're a Democrat and you're somebody who
supports the party to the point of protest, then you're
also somebody who supports the electric car movement and moving
away from fossil fuels and all the big trucks like
the one I drive like, then then support that the
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then so then that's the hypocrisy that drives me crazy
in Washington. In one hand saying save the planet, go electric,
and on the other hand, you're trying to burn down
a Tesla dealership. I can't handle the hypocrisy, and that's
my issue.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Just take the burbank, the Tesla store, the Tearn burbank,
and if you look at if you went through and
were to interviewed, pick the one that's closest to you.
I don't care. I'm just using that one because it's here.
Interview the people who are working for Tesla, the people
who five years ago ten years ago thought they were
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going to change the planet ecologically speaking, they're going to
change the planet because they were working for a new
kind of a car company, and car company that doesn't
rely on fossil fuels, a car company that is going
to revolutionize the way we think about transportation and think
about the planet. At the same time, those people who
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still work in these stores will be affected by you
protesting the guy. If you went through true the private
lives of all of the CEOs or owners or whatever
of the car companies around the world, and then tried
to tell me that each one of those individual people
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are all church going, zero problems. Family guys, you know,
no skeletons in their closet. You're being completely ridiculous. Hypocritical
is a word that you've used. You're being hypocritical. This
is not something that hurts Elon Musk. Elon Musk has said, listen,
you guys can protest me all you want. This isn't
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what's gonna You're not hurting me. You're going to hurt
the dealers, the employees, the stockholders, the people who drive
Tesla's who have no rip. Two ways about it about
the politics of the guy who owned the company.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
You're great, wrong is being done to the people of
Tesla and to our customers. Tela's peaceful company that has
made great cars, great products, that's all it's done. Hasn't
harmed anyone, and yet people are committing violence. They're firebombing
tesl dealerships, They're shooting guns into stores. Hey, the threatening people.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
What's happening. It seems to me is.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
They're being fed propaganda by the far left.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And they believe it. It's really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You're right. Most heads of company are not likable people.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
They're probably made of money, and with being made of
money comes a lot of the devil's playground, so to speak.
And if they are protesting Doge and all the federal
workers being cut, that's easier for me to swallow than
Elon Musk is a bad guy or Tesla is a
bad product. There's a guy, Matthew Hillary's forty seven. He
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began selling Tesla themed bumper stickers in January online demand,
he said, took off stickers from his business offer slogans
like I bought this before Elon went crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I've seen that on a test.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yes, Elon was always crazy, it's how he came up
with Tesla.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Here's the other one, elon chets at video games, he
says Matthew Hiller does. After two years of fairly average sales,
things began to pick up. Now the business is raking
in about forty five hundred dollars in sales per day
on anti musk merch In the past month, sales from
Amazon alone are about ninety grand.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's just Amazon.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That's before sales from eBay and Etsy are added in.
And that's where he first started eBay and Etsy.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And this guy says, I made the decision not to
support this guy and thought that there had to be
more people watching this unfold, like me, who had already
bought a Tesla and wanted to distance themselves from him.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Here's here's something to point out.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Though he's not selling his car, he's just adding a
bumper sticker to it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And to me, that's that's fine.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's also disingenuous, like if you I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Bothered by someone saying I being a sticker on their Tesla,
saying I bought this before he went crazier. This this
car is not an endorsement because.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You shouldn't buy the car as an endorsement, and you
shouldn't think of it a product as an endorsement.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Of a political party. Well, that goes back to our point.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
If you're gonna look at everybody who leads a company
and their politics and what they believe in, You're gonna
stop wearing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're gonna stop eating a lot of stuff. You're gonna
stop driving a lot of stuff. If you're basing your.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Consumption of things, whether it's clothes or vehicles or foods,
based off somebody's political beliefs or their job.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Right, Okay, So I want to use two examples to
prove the power of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The corporation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
So we do that when we come back, of course,
but there are two examples that I can think of.
You're not more powerful than Tesla. You're gonna make an impact,
yes you are, you have right, but you're not more
powerful than a giant corporation like that when the product
is desired by people.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. I mean, does it get
better than Ice Cube driving into the stadium and then
having the two walk off guys from the World Series
at count Yeah, play a little pitch and catch.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I mean, come on, And you know I loved about Detroit.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I love that some guy, and this is why Detroit
should be taken seriously, I mean among other.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
City or the team.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The team.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, there was a couple guys that watched that whole
thing from the dugout, didn't bother them at all. Thought
it was cool, soaking it in, soaking in the championship.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is what it feels like. I love that.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I've never been a fan of those gold lettered jerseys
for the World Series champion. You know, the next year
they get to play in the I've've always hated that
they could do something else it would be and they
look great, they look awful, They're just anyway. That's my story,
but that's the coolest one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Luckily, I come to you for fashion.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I know you you're welcome, but it is one of
the coolest things that they do is the opening day
has always been fun. It's always been one of those
great to see what each team is going to do
and how they do it, and then you know, next
week there's a whole another series of home openers for
teams that are on the road this week and all
that stuff. So it's very fun. Do you see each
you row throughout a first pitch in Seattle? I heard
(01:22):
about it through it like eighty nine miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Wow, it was really good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Fifty eight? Really something like that?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
My God, get so quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The biggest story that we're talking about throughout the day
to day outside of Greenland is going to be in
me and Mark there is Give me this Robin, give
me this computer over here, I got the little thing
I was going to play.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
In Mandola, these monks watched as a large building collapse
right in front of them. The earthquake also damaged parts
of the cities.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is awful, right, one hundred and forty four people killed.
But I will say that speaks to the power of
being a Buddhist. Listen to their reaction.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh, just to watch this building collapse?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, I mean Deborah Mark's reaction to me via text
at six point thirty was stronger than that. No kidding,
by the way, she texted me the news item and
I wrote back, I know, Deborah, I thought of you
immediately when I saw this.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Right, she didn't feel the earthquake, she just knew that
there was a big earthquake.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, but how funny that she passed on that news
item to me.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
As of right now, news services there in Me and
Mar and in Thailand neighboring Thailand have said that it's
expected about one hundred and forty four people in both countries,
most of those in Me and Mar. This woman actually again,
Me and Mar and Thailand are right next to each other.
This woman in Bangkok, an American, has lived there for
twenty eight years and says that this was reminiscent of
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the earthquake that caused the tsunami back in two thousand
and four.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
This is not the first time that the building has.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Built an earthquake.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
In two thousand and four, when the tsunami and the
earthquake happened in Sumatra, the building shape immensely for almost
thirty minutes, and then it had cracked in the walls.
But never like this people.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So the thing about Bangkok, it sits on a river delta,
and that opening shot of the Hangover Part three is
exactly what Bangkok looks and feels like in real life.
It's built on top of itself. I mean, I'm surprised
there's not more damage. We're hearing about this one building
over and over again, and it's awful, and one hundred
and forty four people, like we said, have been killed.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But I'm surprised there's not even more damage.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
When you think about how things are just built on
top of each other in a shoddy fashion.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
It is going to be This, unfortunately, is one of
those stories where as we go through the four hours
of this show that death toll is going to go
up significantly. The US Geological Survey had estimated that it
will probably be into the thousands before the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
This is coming out of Wichita Falls, an Air Force
base in Texas on lockdown for a possible active shooter.
Shepherd Air Force Base confirm the reports online the Air
Force and in a statement that sweeps in the area
are being conducted. This is just northwest of Dallas there.
Like I said, in Wichita Falls, Texas, So we'll stay
on top of that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Hey it's Friday, so with all that other stuff going on,
we're still going to have some fun today. We will
be doing what you learned this week on The Gary
and Channon Show. You can always leave us a talkback message.
That is, when you're listening on the app, you just
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tell us what you learn some of the fun facts
that maybe you learned about the world or about us.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Speaking about fun facts, we're about yourself.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I mean sometimes people learn about themselves when they hear
us talk about things.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay, like what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, maybe they think to themselves, you know what? I
do like pickles.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Have we mentioned pickles this week?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But again I don't know what goes on in people's minds.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I love pickles. What a fun, low calorie snack? Are
they low calorie?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I find? I assume so it's a vegetable at its base,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
What kind of pickles do you like? Do you like
sweet pickles? Do you like?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I like my buddy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
When I was in the junior high in high school,
a friend who lived with his grandmother and his grandmother
used to make pickles, and they were spicy, and I'd
never had spicy pickles before.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We would always go into his There was a shed
in Grandma's backyard where she would store these jars of pickles.
I guarantee they were not up to snuff in terms
of healthcare, course, but they.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Were the best.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Those are the best pickles, the flavors the back of
the barn or the shed.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He always used to black market pickles.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Eat a pickle, and then he would drink part of
the brine, the juice that the pickles were in, which
I never did because that was even more spicy.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Really healthy for you. It'll get you going. A lot
of athletes drink pickle juice, So I've heard that. Yeah,
you should try it. Okay, what else went on in
Grandma's shed?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Gary and Shannon will continue? What is this show?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Greenland? The trip is on what you can expect? And
if we're gonna, if we're gonna acquire this land, we
should learn more about it, should we not?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Have you ever heard of seal soup?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Maybe you know it as suicide.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I prefer seal soup.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
See could you imagine eating a seal? A little baby
seal in a soup. That's what they eat there in
that soup. They also eat whale and polar bear and
musk musk ox.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What's a musk ox? These are like live off the
land people, guys. There's not a lot of not a
lot of vegetable gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Not a lot of processed food. It's not a lot
of nacho cheese doritos.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well ten years ago when we first talked about Donald
Trump coming down that escalator and I did something like
you got to reach out and pull it in like
I did that with my hand, quoting Jim Harbaugh, you
would have looked at me with pots.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You would have been like, what are you doing? What
are you talking about? And now you just don't even r.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh, honey, I've given up on that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now you just have accepted crazy town.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yes, because if I pushed back too much, you'll start
lighting things on fire. I've seen that happen. We don't
need fire today. I mean, fire is never bad, but
we don't need it today.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But you know what I mean, like somebody to take control.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, and if you look at the guy who is
at the top of that party.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You've got.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You've got Gavin Newsom who's trying, but he doesn't have
the support nationally. You've got a guy like Jos Shapiro
out in Pennsylvania who appears to be a more intellectual
and more natural Gavin Newsom, but still has some of
those political stances that aren't going to fly in mid America.
Do you say that Hakem Jeffries, as the minority leader
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in the House, is has anywhere near the name recognition
that would be necessary. He just hasn't been in Congress
long enough to get that sort of notoriety. And then
everybody else is five million years old and there's no energy?
Is it Barack Obama? It could be, but why would
he want to do that job again? And I don't
(08:35):
mean the job of president, but the job of leading
the party, especially when it's a fractured.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Delighted have you seen speaking of the leader of the party?
I mean the last power player that we talked about
that was really the undoing after George Colony's op ed
of Joe Biden was Nancy Pelosi. Where the hell has
Nancy Pelosi been? If she's the king maker. She has
been oddly absent from public.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
View there is Well, I think part of what the
problem with the finding a leader for the party is
who all these because it's such a factioned group, you know,
there's so many smaller factions within the party they're willing
to tear down. Whoever raises their hand, whoever sticks their
head up first, is the one who's going to get
it chopped off. And Nancy Pelosi was near the top
(09:22):
the whole time. But now they don't want somebody who's old. Yeah,
because they've run it. They ran into that with Joe
Biden and they don't want to repeat that mistake.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
A couple questions, who is they?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And the second follow up question is who's more powerful
than Nancy Pelosi to make that decision?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, I don't know. That's again that goes into the
It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Like the question we had towards the end of Joe
Biden's presidency that we asked repeatedly on.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
The show, who's actually in charge?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Who's in charge of the country right now? And it's
not us trying to be cute, who is in charge?
Who is the puppet master in Washington? Because it wasn't
Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Even if he was in each one of the important meetings,
there's somebody sitting right next to him who's probably the
one who has the largest influence on some of those decisions.
Vice President JD. Vance and his wife Usha Vance are
in Greenland. They have landed and they are at the
American military base there. They are, among other things, talking
(10:25):
about how we love Greenland, we like Greenland, we want
to be friends with Greenland, and at some point, according
to Donald Trump, we want to take over Greenland.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
If we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security.
If you look at the ships outside of Greenland, China, Russia, places.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That we have to be there.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
If we're not there, we can't have national or international security.
So I view it from a security standpoint, we have
to be there.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We do have a footprint in Greenland. We have for
some time. Right now, we have the Space Force Base
at Patific in Greenland, Department of Defense's northernmost military installation.
That is the home to Space Forces eight hundred and
twenty first Space Base Group. They do missile warning, missile defense,
(11:17):
and space surveillance operations. It seems like a very cold outpost,
but very important outpost. We have been there for a
very long time. Think about nineteen fifty three, the Cold
War was heating up. The United States had set its
sight on a settlement more than seven hundred miles north
of the Arctic Circle. One hundred and sixteen civilians that
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lived in that area of Greenland would have to go
because we wanted to expand our Air Force base at
the time to defense, to defend against Soviet missiles. There
was also an anecdotal story about American officials who had
gone door to door in Greenland to try to find
somebody there who would be willing to host the Vice
Price and his wife and perhaps National Security Advisor Mike
(12:03):
Waltz just for a quick just for a quick bowl
of seal soup and photo handshake and just like, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
From And they said, we saw what happened at the
donut shop.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I don't want that weirdness in my house.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, we'll eat our seal soup in silence. Everybody said, no, yeah,
it's not going over well.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, first of all, the people of Greenland are not
the Kardashians. They don't want photo ops. They don't want
the public to be looking at them. They live off
the late eighty percent of Greenland as ice. They eat
seals for crying out loud. Well, I mean this is
there are no roads in Greenland. They don't want publicity,
they don't want attention. They are the anti Instagram generation.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
When a great percentage of your day is dedicated to
simply staying alive, right, you don't care about photo opportunities. Now,
we don't have to worry about keeping ourselves alive every
day where if we go outside it's dangerous or any Do.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You think the Canadians pride themselves on not being an American.
You're not going to find a place that's more Unamerican
than Greenland.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Probably.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I mean, you could make the argument for China when
it comes to freedom, but in terms of like stuff
to do and stimulation and all the vain, narcissistic tendencies
we have, Greenland has none of that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They have their own.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a very strong sense of independence, yes, like we
would like Americans would, but they do it in a
very reserved way.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Right, At some point, I want to tell you the
story about Eric the Red, the Viking that founded Greenland's
first European settlement.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Well, throughout the show today, we should perhaps do Greenland
fun facts, right.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I love a Viking story, don't you. It's also it
always comes with murder. Murder, Yeah, give me that. Get
that away from I'm tired of looking at that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Do better? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I said, stupid?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Oh stupid, he said, do better.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
No, I would never say that.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Uh, there's supposed to be nationwide and potentially worldwide protests
tomorrow out in front of Tesla dealerships. You guys, you're
doing nothing. You're doing nothing to change anyone's mind about
driving a Testy.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This goes back to the transgender Shay's lounges on the
deck of the Titanic.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What do you You're picking the wrong fights.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And furthermore, this is a vehicle that is saving the planet.
One of the major tenants of the Democratic Party is
conservation and.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Respecting the earth.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And even die on a different hill other than the
electric car hill.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Even if Elon Musk lost all of that company ceased
operations today, he'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Stop, be okay, get.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Out of the Nissan leaf that you championed all those
years ago and realize he's done it correctly and disagree
with him, make a case out of disagreeing with him politically,
but on the other hand, realizing that he does good
for the planet.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Listening to Chevy Bolt Driver, I mean, the leaf.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was really the worst, and the volts also bad. He
really did it right the first time.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
The remarks that the Vice President is making at that
Space Force base, will we may bring some of them to.
I don't think he's gonna unveil anything significant, but if
there's anything, we'll definitely bring it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
To It's the minerals.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Really.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Trump has talked about the US forming some sort of
control over the mineral rich territory of Greenland, obviously an
ally a NATO member as well. There has been a
lot of pushback and you wonder, you wonder often what
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the Viking who founded Greenland would think.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Who is the Viking that founded green.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Eric the Red is his name? A Norse explorer?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
What have gone for Jeffrey the Green Do you know who.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
His son was? Thor hir doll leif ericson? Okay, not
fun yeah, explorers.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The apple doesn't fall far from the explorer tree. Eric
the Red Do you want to know how he earned
that name?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Red Hair?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, red Hair, red Beard, although some say it's because
he murdered several of his neighbors after he was exiled
from Greenland to Iceland.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Like the Red wedding from the Game of Thrones, she
wasn't actually didn't have anything to do with red.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was all about the blood.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Eric the Red was born in Norway in nine fifty.
He was the son of thorvald Oswaldsen. He was banished
from Norway for admitting acts of manslaughter, just the way
the Sun would later be banished from Greenland for killing.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And in the family there killing, exploring all of it.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
One noble pursuit and one not so noble pursuit, the killing,
and then the exploring.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Three sons and a daughter. One of the sons Leif Ericksson.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What was the daughter's name.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The daughter's name was Friedas My grandmother's name was Frida. Yeah,
she was a pretty big deal. She was prominent in
the north exploration of North America. She was an early
colonist of Vinland. Where's that Vinland? I'm so glad you asked.
(17:48):
Vinland or Wynland was an area of coastal North America
explored by the Vikings five centuries before good Old Christopher Columbus.
Huh Newfoundland, oh way north, northern tip of it.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The they like the colder parts.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
It sounds like, Okay, they like the colder parts.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
It sounds like It's not like they went to South
Carolina in August.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They were a new family.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Good time, all right.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
If you got nothing on the calendar tomorrow, you might
want to go protest outside of a Tesla dealership.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
We'll talk about that we come back.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Since Tesla the carmaker has become a lightning rod for
violent attacks and vandalism, more than two hundred protesters scheduled
to take place tomorrow during what organizers are calling a
global Day of action, part of a campaign called Tesla Takedown.
They're hoping that they can put a dent, perhaps in
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elon Musk. They want to hurt sales. They want the
stock price of Tesla to go down. They've set a
goal of five hundred demonstrations worldwide, although though it's not
clear that they're going to meet that.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Guess how can you tell people not to protest. The
point of protesting is.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
To get the word out.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
And guess what you guys are talking about it. They
got the word out and their protest seems to be
working so far. Just let people do what they want
to do.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Man, I never tell people not to protest. I just
want you to know I said this. Let me dumb
it down because I've said it to my kids. I
have no problem with you protesting. It's one of the
great things that you could do in this country that
you can't do in other parts.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Of the world.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
But you better know what you're talking about, and you
better be able to when that TV camera or radio
reporter comes to you and interviews you. You better be
able to articulate why it is that you're standing out
in front of a fully legitimate business like that and protesting.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Count I've covered countless protests and that's never the case.
Just so you know, Union's bus in mass people the protests.
My issue with Democrats protesting TESLA and I understand that
it's bigger than that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's about Doze and it's about.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Federal workers losing their jobs, and I understand that, and
I understand that I have no frame of reference personally
for that. I can understand it's a very terrifying place
to be when your job is hanging in the balance.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Absolutely, But if.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You're just protesting Tesla for the sake of Elon Musk
running it, and you're a Democrat and you're somebody who
supports the party to the point of protest, then you're
also somebody who supports the electric car movement and moving
away from fossil fuels and all the big trucks like
the one I drive like, then then support that the
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then so then that's the hypocrisy that drives me crazy
in Washington. In one hand saying save the planet, go electric,
and on the other hand, you're trying to burn down
a Tesla dealership. I can't handle the hypocrisy, and that's
my issue.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Just take the burbank, the Tesla store, the Tearn burbank,
and if you look at if you went through and
were to interviewed, pick the one that's closest to you.
I don't care. I'm just using that one because it's here.
Interview the people who are working for Tesla, the people
who five years ago ten years ago thought they were
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going to change the planet ecologically speaking, they're going to
change the planet because they were working for a new
kind of a car company, and car company that doesn't
rely on fossil fuels, a car company that is going
to revolutionize the way we think about transportation and think
about the planet. At the same time, those people who
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still work in these stores will be affected by you
protesting the guy. If you went through true the private
lives of all of the CEOs or owners or whatever
of the car companies around the world, and then tried
to tell me that each one of those individual people
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are all church going, zero problems. Family guys, you know,
no skeletons in their closet. You're being completely ridiculous. Hypocritical
is a word that you've used. You're being hypocritical. This
is not something that hurts Elon Musk. Elon Musk has said, listen,
you guys can protest me all you want. This isn't
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what's gonna You're not hurting me. You're going to hurt
the dealers, the employees, the stockholders, the people who drive
Tesla's who have no rip. Two ways about it about
the politics of the guy who owned the company.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
You're great, wrong is being done to the people of
Tesla and to our customers. Tela's peaceful company that has
made great cars, great products, that's all it's done. Hasn't
harmed anyone, and yet people are committing violence. They're firebombing
tesl dealerships, They're shooting guns into stores. Hey, the threatening people.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
What's happening. It seems to me is.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
They're being fed propaganda by the far left.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
And they believe it. It's really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You're right. Most heads of company are not likable people.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
They're probably made of money, and with being made of
money comes a lot of the devil's playground, so to speak.
And if they are protesting Doge and all the federal
workers being cut, that's easier for me to swallow than
Elon Musk is a bad guy or Tesla is a
bad product. There's a guy, Matthew Hillary's forty seven. He
(23:47):
began selling Tesla themed bumper stickers in January online demand,
he said, took off stickers from his business offer slogans
like I bought this before Elon went crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I've seen that on a test.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yes, Elon was always crazy, it's how he came up
with Tesla.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Here's the other one, elon chets at video games, he
says Matthew Hiller does. After two years of fairly average sales,
things began to pick up. Now the business is raking
in about forty five hundred dollars in sales per day
on anti musk merch In the past month, sales from
Amazon alone are about ninety grand.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's just Amazon.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That's before sales from eBay and Etsy are added in.
And that's where he first started eBay and Etsy.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And this guy says, I made the decision not to
support this guy and thought that there had to be
more people watching this unfold, like me, who had already
bought a Tesla and wanted to distance themselves from him.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Here's here's something to point out.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Though he's not selling his car, he's just adding a
bumper sticker to it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
And to me, that's that's fine.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's also disingenuous, like if you I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Bothered by someone saying I being a sticker on their Tesla,
saying I bought this before he went crazier. This this
car is not an endorsement because.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You shouldn't buy the car as an endorsement, and you
shouldn't think of it a product as an endorsement.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Of a political party. Well, that goes back to our point.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
If you're gonna look at everybody who leads a company
and their politics and what they believe in, You're gonna
stop wearing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You're gonna stop eating a lot of stuff. You're gonna
stop driving a lot of stuff. If you're basing your.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Consumption of things, whether it's clothes or vehicles or foods,
based off somebody's political beliefs or their job.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Right, Okay, So I want to use two examples to
prove the power of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The corporation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
So we do that when we come back, of course,
but there are two examples that I can think of.
You're not more powerful than Tesla. You're gonna make an impact,
yes you are, you have right, but you're not more
powerful than a giant corporation like that when the product
is desired by people.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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