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company and for years you've been trying to find your lane.
You've been really nailing that brand. You don't worry so
much about the others. You're really trying to You're really
trying to.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Own your lane.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You think of you think of some big brands out there,
and you go, okay, Taco Bell is gonna own the cheap,
fast Mexican food lane.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Now they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the
big ones.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Right, So imagine that you own that lane and you
own it hard.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's owners came
out and said, you know what, we don't really like
Mexican food. We want to support all of the non
Mexican food things out there. In fact, we're really gonna
start pushing sushi. Probably not great for Taco Bell's brand.
Should something like that happen, right, Is that fair to
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say if all of a sudden, the owner of Taco
Bell came out and said, my food is great, but
also I'm gonna put all of my effort into pushing sushi,
probably not gonna be really good for Taco Bell, especially
if part of the push for sushi is to limit
things like I don't know, for holes. That's basically what's
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happening when you look at what's going on in DC,
which is why we're seeing the stock prices and the
sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's being protested as
people are upset with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They're taking it out in his business.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
They can't protest Starlink because it's tough to get protesters
in space A lot of people would like to, it's
very difficult to protest some of the other stuff the SpaceX.
But what they can do is they can show up
but Tesla's showrooms and start protesting.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
There are about two hundred people lined up here along
Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Showroom by the way, NBCLA.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars
and stock. Now, these protests are happening all over the area.
We also saw one in Glendale held by the same group.
They were holding signs and encouraging drivers to hank and
support as they went by. The group. Rally for Democracy
is organizing these protests. This movement is in response to
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Elon musks position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll
in the Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking
place around the world, which started back into February.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
What I don't understand, I just I get it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We have turned vehicles and this is one of the
things that makes in the American car culture so great
is that vehicles are part of our identity.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone,
and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're
attracted to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a
mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers
in the back window, we assume that you are a
family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted
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pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious.
If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we
assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If
you drive a subar ru, we assume that you eat
granola and you support LGBTQIA initiatives, right, and you probably
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want to coexist sticker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Elon's pivot to Maga.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to
stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
They would never do that because they know they're lane.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Elon's pivot is the worst marketing pivot ever. It's worse
than when Coke did the whole New Coke thing back
in the eighties. It is the worst ever. And so
that's why last week you saw President Trump with Elon
on the on the lawn at the White House. Come
on down to Crazy. Don's use Tesla lot. We got
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Tesla's they're they're great. Tesla cars and Tesla cyber truck.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're great.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You should buy one today to support Elon, and not
buying one should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal
and un American.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel
Culture and bud Light, but not Elon. Buy is cyber
truck today, maybe delivered soon, unless it's not. Because also
in the news, el On Musk's Tesla has been forced
to halt sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep
falling off. Yeah, customers that are posting on the Cyber
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Truck Owners Club website as well as on Twitter, they
say that the deliveries are on hold.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The website electric.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim
and panels flying off.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The supposedly bulletproof electric truck.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now, imagine if you have spent the last few years
saying that electric vehicles and the push to electric use
is bad for the country, and you've been saying that
we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy
one of those golf carts, and you've been taking this
tack for years, and then all of a sudden you're
told up everything you've been led to believe in the
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Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy the evs.
You should buy them because it's the American thing to do.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Also, they're one hundred grand who's doing that? Who has
the extra one hundred thives.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's one thing if you want to show your support
by buying a red hat that cost you twenty five bucks.
Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred
thousand dollars to somebody in the middle of Arkansas to
buy a truck whose parts fall off to replace their
lifted f one fifty to get stuck in the mud
without a charger nearby for one hundred grand. I don't
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see that making up for the damage that musk is
doing to the brand. It's just not happening. Take a
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According to the mayor and the LA Police Department Chief,
you are safer.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Than you have been in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Their Karen bass LAPD Chief Jim McDonald pulling a news
conference yesterday and they say you are safer and you
can thank us for that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You're welcome from our friends at ABC seven.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Homicides were down fourteen percent, with forty seven less people
killed in the city of Los Angeles be.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Forty seven fewer people killed, but go.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
On in twenty twenty four compared to twenty twenty three.
There was also a nineteen percent decrease when it comes
to shooting victims felony hit and runs also saw a
drop of just over six percent. Despite the progress, local
leaders acknowledge there is more work to be done.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Any crime is unacceptable to us, and we know that
everyone standing here today knows that we must continue to
approach this issue with urgency and precision.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, urgency and precision. Oh, she's saying some really important
stuff there.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's the kind of thing that gives you insight, not
platitudes and talking points. Thank goodness, we've got specificity from
the mayor who says crime bad.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
We don't like crime, We should uncrime.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
The mayor and police chief acknowledge at street racing is
still a problem that they're actively trying to combat. Another
issue they're dealing with hiring more police officers to join
the force. As far as how twenty twenty five is
looking in terms of crime, here's a police chief himself.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
So far this year we've seen a reduction in all
major crime categories compared to the same time last year.
We're optimistic that we can continue on the trend that
we're seeing. But right now we're in a good spot and.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Moving forward, to Chief McDonald says, a big focus again
is on building that trust with the community so they
can feel comfortable coming to police officers and speaking with
them openly and building that relationship. Another focus, of course.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sounds like a lot of community policing nonsense to me.
The last thing we want to do is the community
trusting their cops.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What's next, All.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Of a sudden, politicians are bad guys now, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Another focus, of course, on a staffing and keeping the
community safe, reporting live and boil heights on that ABC seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I wouldness thank you so much. I appreciate that. So
what do we have?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They claim homicides are down fourteen percent. Now listen, relax,
I'm gonna tell you why I'm skeptical here. Homicides on
fourteen percent last year compared with twenty twenty three, fewer
people being hit by gunfire. Well, that seems positive. I
hate the idea that we just have random people being
hit by gunfire. Anyway, sitting in police officials say that
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this is all there. Listen, this is our doing. But
as we know, any crime is bad, and we're still
going to press forward with urgency and a sense of
duty and blah blah blah blah blah. They're also all
excited about taking guns off the streets, including seventy six
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one hundred firearms from last year. They said that ten
percent of those are all ghost guns. Oh, you're gonna
don't know how you stop that. All you can do
is take them. Oh you're gonna stop people from putting
them together. Shootings down, they say, almost twenty percent from
last year. Uh, they're being proactive. With more words from
your corporate bingo card. Here's the problem is that the
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data that we're getting is for the last year, which
is fine. The department, though, switch the way they count crime.
There's there's the trouble that we're having. So as with anything,
if all of a sudden you change your well, i'm
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not gonna say accounting procedures, but if you change the
way that you're tracking things, you may see a change.
If if and I'm trying to think of an example here,
if all of a sudden, you go from using miles
two kilometers, all of a sudden, your car is gonna
look like it's traveled a lot further because the numbers
have changed. The numbers have changed, but what those numbers
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reflect are different. So even LAPD officials they did it,
they had small print. While they were taking credit, patting
themselves on the back. They said, also, year over year
comparisons are nearly impossible for certain types of crimes since
the department switched to a new record keeping system this year,
So they don't really know, they say, we don't really
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know if this is true. We don't really know if
this is accurate. Even by our own admission, we're not sure.
But based on what we have right now, we're just
gonna take credit anyway, because politicians and why wouldn't you
just take credit.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
While you could. So that's what's happening. Just the same.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If there is any truth to what they're saying, that's great.
We like to feel a little bit safer. The trouble is,
we don't know if there's truth to what they're saying, because,
by their own admission, the data is being counted differently,
and they say, it's nearly impossible.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
To keep track of So.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Why are you out and touting your own accomplishments, because
why wouldn't you be That's what being a politician.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is all about.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh, that's right, And people don't like Bass right now
because she was out of the country when the fires hit,
and then she blamed not knowing wind. So she's trying
to try to she's trying to put some wins in
her column, but it's not really working out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's not going great.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
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This week there was a much as a number of
code talkers disappeared from military websites. The history of the
code Talkers, which used to be on the Department of
Defense website, vanished. If you're unfamiliar to the code talkers,
especially the Navajo code talkers who the most famous. All
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the code talkers were used throughout history Chalk, Taus, Comanche, Navajo, others.
But the Navajo code talkers basically developed a code in
World War Two using their own language that the Germans
couldn't decipher. They couldn't get to it. Now, if you'll recall,
the Germans were very very good. Listen, I'm getting old,
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and I realized about the time I hit forty. Suddenly
all those World War Two documentaries on the History Channel
became fascinating to me. You'll recall the Germans of World
War Two were very very good at their codes, at
disguising their messages. We couldn't break it. In fact, it
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was only after the development of the Enigma machine that
we were able to do. So it was basically the
first computer. We allowed for the machine to UH to
decipher it. Because the Germans had a way of changing
their code every day, it seemed to be a completely
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random pattern. So suppose you're doing one of those ciphers
in the in the newspaper or online or wherever you
do it, and uh and and and you have to
try to figure out what it says. And you're and
you're trying to break the code, and you're going, okay,
well this squiggly line this I figured out that this
squiggly line that equals a D. So then you go
through all the cipher and you find all the squiggly
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lines and you go, that's a D. And then from
there you try to figure out the rest of it. Right,
that's it. Well, imagine if every time you got to one,
the whole thing changed.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
The whole thing changed. So no, Allan Turing was the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
He's kind of considered to be the father of modern computers,
because he had this notion, rather than trying to get
people who are good at crosswords and ciphers in the paper,
why don't we get a machine that can figure out
these codes, and it'll be able to do it faster
than we can now. They didn't have the kind of
machinery and chips that we did, obviously, because they didn't
have computers then, so it was a very mechanical system.
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But he made it work and they were able to
use this Enigma machine to decipher the code, and that
gave us an advantage on the Germans.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
On the American side, we didn't have any of this.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We didn't worry about Germany's technological superiority to decipher our
codes because what we did is we took a dead language.
Well to the rest of the world anyway, the Navajo
were still using it, which is why it was known.
We took a language that the rest of the world
didn't know. They had no idea, they didn't know what
these different sounds meant. They didn't have any interpreters. They
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didn't have so they're trying to decipher a language with
no key. There was no well, this sound means this
letter or this phrase could potentially mean this. They couldn't
decipher it for squat And it was all based on
that ancient not ancient, but that Navajo language which had
been around for for hundreds of years or more. So
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the Navajo stepped up. The Navajo soldiers spoke in this language.
The Germans couldn't decipher it, and the way that we
were then eventually able to decipher their codes using our
computing expertise, they couldn't do it. So in many ways
it was the code talkers who gave us an advantage
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in the war, including iwo Jima, six code talkers. Ewogima
sent more than eight hundred messages with zero errors. Part
of the reason that we had the Navajo in the
military was because there was an emphasis.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
On diversity in the military. They wanted diversity.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Because they knew there was strength in having people with
different backgrounds who could then bring different skills, and in
the case of the code talkers, they brought an entire
language that nobody else could speak, and it was the
most effective encryption that anyone had during World War two.
And again, as I mentioned, we said this happened in
the past. Choctaw World War one Comanche also in World
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War Two. We've seen this happen before. So President Trump
signs the DEI Executive Order. We're gonna get all diversity,
We're gonna get all equality, we're gonna get all inclusion
and anything that promotes those things out of the military.
And so they said, we're gonna scrub all the websites
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of any of this stuff. And what they do, they
scrubbed the website. At least ten articles that mentioned the
code Talkers disappeared from the US Army and the Department
of Defense websites.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
As one might expect, all Hell Broke Loues people were
not very excited about the fact that we've just decided
to erase history because we're afraid it might be too inclusionary.
After Hell breaks loose, suddenly we go, this isn't gonna
be great. By the way, there are also other DEI
labels that are on the website to go this has
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been removed in compliance with the executive order that those
would include things like Civil War nurses, Black veterans, and
their units, including the Harlem Hell Fighters, the seven hundred
and sixty first Take Battalion, the five hundred and fifty
fifth parachute infantry, also Latino airmen who coordinated mental health
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support for military personnel.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That story was deleted.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The Army removed pages about the fifty fourth Massachusetts Regiment,
the Women Air Force Service pilots all removed.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's not going over very well because we go wait
a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Are you telling me that this cut has been woke
and that much of our history is based on wokeness?
I guess that's what a melting pot is all about.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
On certain topics, including Navajo Code Talkers, there's a banner
on the DoD's website saying content has been revised or
removed to align with the President's executive order that has
to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I just said that.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I've been looking at archived websites from earlier this month.
An error now shows up. A DoD spokesperson told ABC
fifteen they will restore the content with the Navajo Code
Talkers saying had been removed. Quote during the auto removal process.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We didn't know anybody who's gonna throw a fit about this,
but now that they have, we're going to get it right.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
President Trump previously hosted Code talkers in the White House
commending them.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Nava, that's true.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
In fact, I had that audio and since deleted it
because I'm terrible at saving audio. He did have them
at the White House and he commended them, and he
was very thankful, and then he pointed out that Elizabeth
Warren is Pocahontas Navajo Nation.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
President emphasized they should not be lumped into DEI initiatives.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
We have different unique relationship with the federal government is
a sovereign to sovereign relationship. It's not based upon race,
and it's more of a political relationship.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
It's currently unclear when the content will be fully restored.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
You can look at this and say, these are just
you know, small incidents that are happening, but when you
add them up, and as a historian, you know, especially
of World War Two, seeing this, it's downright scary.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I Melanie Dow ABC fifteen, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What so we don't learn our history? What could possibly
go wrong? Okay?
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AM sixty more stimulating talk Chris Merrill no More ratty kids,
it's your a hotel.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Hey goodness, I am a grump.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I love kids in small doses, and certainly not when
I'm trying to sleep. There is a resort in Encinnitas
that has recently come recently become Southern California is only
adults only ocean front resort, according to the La Times.
Now some are saying, well, that's illegal. You can't do.
You can't ban kids from hotels. So now you've got
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a bunch of others that are trying to figure out
is this legal?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Is it not legal?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Attorneys, consumer advocates, travelers, all this stuff. Is this a
violation of civil code? And I thought it was an
interesting conversation that we could have because if you're like me,
you'd love to go to a resort that doesn't have
a bunch of kids running around. If you go to
Las Vegas, they have places like adults only pools, they
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have places where you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Are not allowed to bring kids.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I don't know that there are adults only hotels in
Vegas though, anybody are they are adult only hotels in Vegas?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
You know there should be, right, Well, kids aren't allowed
like in the gambling areas.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Nope, And they're not allowed. There's some adult only pools
absolutely adult. Yeah, right, so they should.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I think in some ways what these hotels and
resorts in Vegas are doing is they are they are
de facto becoming no kids allowed, as opposed to just
posting no kids allowed. So this uh, Alila, Maria, I'm
sure I'm pronouncing that wrong. Beach resort in Encinita's, part
of the Hyatt Hotel Empire, announced that they would exclude
children as overnight guests. They have become the self described
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only adults only ocean front resort in southern California, and
some people are saying that is a no go. They say,
we cater to adults only because that's kind of our vision.
So what's is this not discrimination? Is this not age discrimination?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well? Is it age discrimination?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
If you're twenty three years old and you can't rent
a car, is that age discrimination? California courts have decided
that the Act does prohibit landlords from refusing to rent
to families children. So you may have a landlord that
says no kids in my complex and parents GOP. You
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can't say that it's already been checked out. You have
to read to us. Even though we have horrible children.
I'm not saying all children are horrible. Just when they're
on vacation and they're not mine, that's when they're horrible.
Of Course, there is another way around this, and there
are times that I think some people take capitalism in
the free market too far. For instance, RFK says that
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we should allow the bird flu to run rampant so
we can figure out who the strong chickens are. I'm paraphrasing,
but that's pretty much the gist of it. Then they
will develop their own natural immudities and they'll be stronger chickens.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Should we just say, sure, lase a fair spread the
bird flu and then let's weed out the weak ones.
Darwinism at its best, That is a capitalism gone a
little too far right. However, I do think there's an
opportunity for capitalism and the market to correct this issue.
If you've got an adult's only hotel, couldn't you have
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other places to say they're going to institute family only
bookings and why.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Not think about this?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
If you go to if you go to some of
the football games, could be a college game, could be
a program. They have those sections that are called the
family sections in the stadiums.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Those are the family sections. The family sections.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
There's no alcohol allowed, right, that's the whole the family sections.
No alcohol allowed, and you're definitely going to get the
look have you start swearing at the other team because
there's gonna be kids around there?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
The whole idea family section. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The rest of the stadium is not strictly no kids,
but it's definitely discouraged because you've been encouraged.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
To go to the family section.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So why not have your hotel be family only bookings?
My wife and I had a short term rental and
we promoted the heck out of the fact that it
was five bedrooms, Bring all the family, bring the kids, kids,
We were pet friendly. We wanted everyone there because we
wanted our booking to appeal to the broadest audience.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So if you have a place, if you're a Disney resort,
you're promoting that you want kids there fin out. So
why wouldn't we allow for the market to dictate that
If a company's avenue is we want no kids, we
want adults only.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What's the issue? Well, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Little Johnny wants to be able to pee in everyone's pool.
I'm not for it, not for it. I think this
is a great opportunity for the market to sort things out.
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AM six forty more stimulating talk and on demand anytime
the iHeartRadio app. All right, Imagine that you own a
company and for years you've been trying to find your lane.
You've been really nailing that brand. You don't worry so
much about the others. You're really trying to You're really
trying to.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Own your lane.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You think of you think of some big brands out there,
and you go, okay, Taco Bell is gonna own the cheap,
fast Mexican food lane.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Now they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the
big ones.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Right, So imagine that you own that lane and you
own it hard.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's owners came
out and said, you know what, we don't really like
Mexican food. We want to support all of the non
Mexican food things out there. In fact, we're really gonna
start pushing sushi. Probably not great for Taco Bell's brand.
Should something like that happen, right, Is that fair to
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say if all of a sudden, the owner of Taco
Bell came out and said, my food is great, but
also I'm gonna put all of my effort into pushing sushi,
probably not gonna be really good for Taco Bell, especially
if part of the push for sushi is to limit
things like I don't know, for holes. That's basically what's
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happening when you look at what's going on in DC,
which is why we're seeing the stock prices and the
sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's being protested as
people are upset with Elon Musk.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They're taking it out in his business.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
They can't protest Starlink because it's tough to get protesters
in space A lot of people would like to, it's
very difficult to protest some of the other stuff the SpaceX.
But what they can do is they can show up
but Tesla's showrooms and start protesting.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
There are about two hundred people lined up here along
Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Showroom by the way, NBCLA.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars
and stock. Now, these protests are happening all over the area.
We also saw one in Glendale held by the same group.
They were holding signs and encouraging drivers to hank and
support as they went by. The group. Rally for Democracy
is organizing these protests. This movement is in response to
(02:37):
Elon musks position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll
in the Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking
place around the world, which started back into February.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
What I don't understand, I just I get it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We have turned vehicles and this is one of the
things that makes in the American car culture so great
is that vehicles are part of our identity.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone,
and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're
attracted to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a
mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers
in the back window, we assume that you are a
family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted
(03:26):
pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious.
If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we
assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If
you drive a subar ru, we assume that you eat
granola and you support LGBTQIA initiatives, right, and you probably
(03:51):
want to coexist sticker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Elon's pivot to Maga.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to
stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
They would never do that because they know they're lane.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Elon's pivot is the worst marketing pivot ever. It's worse
than when Coke did the whole New Coke thing back
in the eighties. It is the worst ever. And so
that's why last week you saw President Trump with Elon
on the on the lawn at the White House. Come
on down to Crazy. Don's use Tesla lot. We got
(04:29):
Tesla's they're they're great. Tesla cars and Tesla cyber truck.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're great.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You should buy one today to support Elon, and not
buying one should be illegal.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal
and un American.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel
Culture and bud Light, but not Elon. Buy is cyber
truck today, maybe delivered soon, unless it's not. Because also
in the news, el On Musk's Tesla has been forced
to halt sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep
falling off. Yeah, customers that are posting on the Cyber
(05:12):
Truck Owners Club website as well as on Twitter, they
say that the deliveries are on hold.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The website electric.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim
and panels flying off.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
The supposedly bulletproof electric truck.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now, imagine if you have spent the last few years
saying that electric vehicles and the push to electric use
is bad for the country, and you've been saying that
we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy
one of those golf carts, and you've been taking this
tack for years, and then all of a sudden you're
told up everything you've been led to believe in the
(05:53):
Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy the evs.
You should buy them because it's the American thing to do.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Also, they're one hundred grand who's doing that? Who has
the extra one hundred thives.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's one thing if you want to show your support
by buying a red hat that cost you twenty five bucks.
Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred
thousand dollars to somebody in the middle of Arkansas to
buy a truck whose parts fall off to replace their
lifted f one fifty to get stuck in the mud
without a charger nearby for one hundred grand. I don't
(06:35):
see that making up for the damage that musk is
doing to the brand. It's just not happening. Take a
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Speaker 1 (06:45):
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Speaker 2 (06:54):
According to the mayor and the LA Police Department Chief,
you are safer.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Than you have been in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Their Karen bass LAPD Chief Jim McDonald pulling a news
conference yesterday and they say you are safer and you
can thank us for that.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You're welcome from our friends at ABC seven.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Homicides were down fourteen percent, with forty seven less people
killed in the city of Los Angeles be.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Forty seven fewer people killed, but go.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
On in twenty twenty four compared to twenty twenty three.
There was also a nineteen percent decrease when it comes
to shooting victims felony hit and runs also saw a
drop of just over six percent. Despite the progress, local
leaders acknowledge there is more work to be done.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Any crime is unacceptable to us, and we know that
everyone standing here today knows that we must continue to
approach this issue with urgency and precision.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, urgency and precision. Oh, she's saying some really important
stuff there.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's the kind of thing that gives you insight, not
platitudes and talking points. Thank goodness, we've got specificity from
the mayor who says crime bad.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
We don't like crime, We should uncrime.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
The mayor and police chief acknowledge at street racing is
still a problem that they're actively trying to combat. Another
issue they're dealing with hiring more police officers to join
the force. As far as how twenty twenty five is
looking in terms of crime, here's a police chief himself.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
So far this year we've seen a reduction in all
major crime categories compared to the same time last year.
We're optimistic that we can continue on the trend that
we're seeing. But right now we're in a good spot and.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Moving forward, to Chief McDonald says, a big focus again
is on building that trust with the community so they
can feel comfortable coming to police officers and speaking with
them openly and building that relationship. Another focus, of course.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sounds like a lot of community policing nonsense to me.
The last thing we want to do is the community
trusting their cops.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What's next, All.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Of a sudden, politicians are bad guys now, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Another focus, of course, on a staffing and keeping the
community safe, reporting live and boil heights on that ABC seven.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I wouldness thank you so much. I appreciate that. So
what do we have?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They claim homicides are down fourteen percent. Now listen, relax,
I'm gonna tell you why I'm skeptical here. Homicides on
fourteen percent last year compared with twenty twenty three, fewer
people being hit by gunfire. Well, that seems positive. I
hate the idea that we just have random people being
hit by gunfire. Anyway, sitting in police officials say that
(09:39):
this is all there. Listen, this is our doing. But
as we know, any crime is bad, and we're still
going to press forward with urgency and a sense of
duty and blah blah blah blah blah. They're also all
excited about taking guns off the streets, including seventy six
(10:00):
one hundred firearms from last year. They said that ten
percent of those are all ghost guns. Oh, you're gonna
don't know how you stop that. All you can do
is take them. Oh you're gonna stop people from putting
them together. Shootings down, they say, almost twenty percent from
last year. Uh, they're being proactive. With more words from
your corporate bingo card. Here's the problem is that the
(10:25):
data that we're getting is for the last year, which
is fine. The department, though, switch the way they count crime.
There's there's the trouble that we're having. So as with anything,
if all of a sudden you change your well, i'm
(10:47):
not gonna say accounting procedures, but if you change the
way that you're tracking things, you may see a change.
If if and I'm trying to think of an example here,
if all of a sudden, you go from using miles
two kilometers, all of a sudden, your car is gonna
look like it's traveled a lot further because the numbers
have changed. The numbers have changed, but what those numbers
(11:10):
reflect are different. So even LAPD officials they did it,
they had small print. While they were taking credit, patting
themselves on the back. They said, also, year over year
comparisons are nearly impossible for certain types of crimes since
the department switched to a new record keeping system this year,
So they don't really know, they say, we don't really
(11:33):
know if this is true. We don't really know if
this is accurate. Even by our own admission, we're not sure.
But based on what we have right now, we're just
gonna take credit anyway, because politicians and why wouldn't you
just take credit.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
While you could. So that's what's happening. Just the same.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If there is any truth to what they're saying, that's great.
We like to feel a little bit safer. The trouble is,
we don't know if there's truth to what they're saying, because,
by their own admission, the data is being counted differently,
and they say, it's nearly impossible.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
To keep track of So.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Why are you out and touting your own accomplishments, because
why wouldn't you be That's what being a politician.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Is all about.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh, that's right, And people don't like Bass right now
because she was out of the country when the fires hit,
and then she blamed not knowing wind. So she's trying
to try to she's trying to put some wins in
her column, but it's not really working out.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's not going great.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
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Why am I am six forty? More stimulating talk Chris Merril.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This week there was a much as a number of
code talkers disappeared from military websites. The history of the
code Talkers, which used to be on the Department of
Defense website, vanished. If you're unfamiliar to the code talkers,
especially the Navajo code talkers who the most famous. All
(13:18):
the code talkers were used throughout history Chalk, Taus, Comanche, Navajo, others.
But the Navajo code talkers basically developed a code in
World War Two using their own language that the Germans
couldn't decipher. They couldn't get to it. Now, if you'll recall,
the Germans were very very good. Listen, I'm getting old,
(13:39):
and I realized about the time I hit forty. Suddenly
all those World War Two documentaries on the History Channel
became fascinating to me. You'll recall the Germans of World
War Two were very very good at their codes, at
disguising their messages. We couldn't break it. In fact, it
(14:00):
was only after the development of the Enigma machine that
we were able to do. So it was basically the
first computer. We allowed for the machine to UH to
decipher it. Because the Germans had a way of changing
their code every day, it seemed to be a completely
(14:23):
random pattern. So suppose you're doing one of those ciphers
in the in the newspaper or online or wherever you
do it, and uh and and and you have to
try to figure out what it says. And you're and
you're trying to break the code, and you're going, okay,
well this squiggly line this I figured out that this
squiggly line that equals a D. So then you go
through all the cipher and you find all the squiggly
(14:45):
lines and you go, that's a D. And then from
there you try to figure out the rest of it. Right,
that's it. Well, imagine if every time you got to one,
the whole thing changed.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
The whole thing changed. So no, Allan Turing was the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
He's kind of considered to be the father of modern computers,
because he had this notion, rather than trying to get
people who are good at crosswords and ciphers in the paper,
why don't we get a machine that can figure out
these codes, and it'll be able to do it faster
than we can now. They didn't have the kind of
machinery and chips that we did, obviously, because they didn't
have computers then, so it was a very mechanical system.
(15:25):
But he made it work and they were able to
use this Enigma machine to decipher the code, and that
gave us an advantage on the Germans.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
On the American side, we didn't have any of this.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We didn't worry about Germany's technological superiority to decipher our
codes because what we did is we took a dead language.
Well to the rest of the world anyway, the Navajo
were still using it, which is why it was known.
We took a language that the rest of the world
didn't know. They had no idea, they didn't know what
these different sounds meant. They didn't have any interpreters. They
(15:59):
didn't have so they're trying to decipher a language with
no key. There was no well, this sound means this
letter or this phrase could potentially mean this. They couldn't
decipher it for squat And it was all based on
that ancient not ancient, but that Navajo language which had
been around for for hundreds of years or more. So
(16:22):
the Navajo stepped up. The Navajo soldiers spoke in this language.
The Germans couldn't decipher it, and the way that we
were then eventually able to decipher their codes using our
computing expertise, they couldn't do it. So in many ways
it was the code talkers who gave us an advantage
(16:43):
in the war, including iwo Jima, six code talkers. Ewogima
sent more than eight hundred messages with zero errors. Part
of the reason that we had the Navajo in the
military was because there was an emphasis.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
On diversity in the military. They wanted diversity.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Because they knew there was strength in having people with
different backgrounds who could then bring different skills, and in
the case of the code talkers, they brought an entire
language that nobody else could speak, and it was the
most effective encryption that anyone had during World War two.
And again, as I mentioned, we said this happened in
the past. Choctaw World War one Comanche also in World
(17:27):
War Two. We've seen this happen before. So President Trump
signs the DEI Executive Order. We're gonna get all diversity,
We're gonna get all equality, we're gonna get all inclusion
and anything that promotes those things out of the military.
And so they said, we're gonna scrub all the websites
(17:48):
of any of this stuff. And what they do, they
scrubbed the website. At least ten articles that mentioned the
code Talkers disappeared from the US Army and the Department
of Defense websites.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
As one might expect, all Hell Broke Loues people were
not very excited about the fact that we've just decided
to erase history because we're afraid it might be too inclusionary.
After Hell breaks loose, suddenly we go, this isn't gonna
be great. By the way, there are also other DEI
labels that are on the website to go this has
(18:20):
been removed in compliance with the executive order that those
would include things like Civil War nurses, Black veterans, and
their units, including the Harlem Hell Fighters, the seven hundred
and sixty first Take Battalion, the five hundred and fifty
fifth parachute infantry, also Latino airmen who coordinated mental health
(18:41):
support for military personnel.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That story was deleted.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
The Army removed pages about the fifty fourth Massachusetts Regiment,
the Women Air Force Service pilots all removed.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It's not going over very well because we go wait
a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Are you telling me that this cut has been woke
and that much of our history is based on wokeness?
I guess that's what a melting pot is all about.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
On certain topics, including Navajo Code Talkers, there's a banner
on the DoD's website saying content has been revised or
removed to align with the President's executive order that has
to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I just said that.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
I've been looking at archived websites from earlier this month.
An error now shows up. A DoD spokesperson told ABC
fifteen they will restore the content with the Navajo Code
Talkers saying had been removed. Quote during the auto removal process.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We didn't know anybody who's gonna throw a fit about this,
but now that they have, we're going to get it right.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
President Trump previously hosted Code talkers in the White House
commending them.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Nava, that's true.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
In fact, I had that audio and since deleted it
because I'm terrible at saving audio. He did have them
at the White House and he commended them, and he
was very thankful, and then he pointed out that Elizabeth
Warren is Pocahontas Navajo Nation.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
President emphasized they should not be lumped into DEI initiatives.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
We have different unique relationship with the federal government is
a sovereign to sovereign relationship. It's not based upon race,
and it's more of a political relationship.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
It's currently unclear when the content will be fully restored.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
You can look at this and say, these are just
you know, small incidents that are happening, but when you
add them up, and as a historian, you know, especially
of World War Two, seeing this, it's downright scary.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I Melanie Dow ABC fifteen, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What so we don't learn our history? What could possibly
go wrong? Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
If I AM six forty, we're live everywhere on the
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AM sixty more stimulating talk Chris Merrill no More ratty kids,
it's your a hotel.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Hey goodness, I am a grump.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I love kids in small doses, and certainly not when
I'm trying to sleep. There is a resort in Encinnitas
that has recently come recently become Southern California is only
adults only ocean front resort, according to the La Times.
Now some are saying, well, that's illegal. You can't do.
You can't ban kids from hotels. So now you've got
(21:13):
a bunch of others that are trying to figure out
is this legal?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Is it not legal?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Attorneys, consumer advocates, travelers, all this stuff. Is this a
violation of civil code? And I thought it was an
interesting conversation that we could have because if you're like me,
you'd love to go to a resort that doesn't have
a bunch of kids running around. If you go to
Las Vegas, they have places like adults only pools, they
(21:41):
have places where you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Are not allowed to bring kids.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I don't know that there are adults only hotels in
Vegas though, anybody are they are adult only hotels in Vegas?
Speaker 9 (21:52):
You know there should be, right, Well, kids aren't allowed
like in the gambling areas.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Nope, And they're not allowed. There's some adult only pools
absolutely adult. Yeah, right, so they should.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I think in some ways what these hotels and
resorts in Vegas are doing is they are they are
de facto becoming no kids allowed, as opposed to just
posting no kids allowed. So this uh, Alila, Maria, I'm
sure I'm pronouncing that wrong. Beach resort in Encinita's, part
of the Hyatt Hotel Empire, announced that they would exclude
children as overnight guests. They have become the self described
(22:27):
only adults only ocean front resort in southern California, and
some people are saying that is a no go. They say,
we cater to adults only because that's kind of our vision.
So what's is this not discrimination? Is this not age discrimination?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well? Is it age discrimination?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
If you're twenty three years old and you can't rent
a car, is that age discrimination? California courts have decided
that the Act does prohibit landlords from refusing to rent
to families children. So you may have a landlord that
says no kids in my complex and parents GOP. You
(23:06):
can't say that it's already been checked out. You have
to read to us. Even though we have horrible children.
I'm not saying all children are horrible. Just when they're
on vacation and they're not mine, that's when they're horrible.
Of Course, there is another way around this, and there
are times that I think some people take capitalism in
the free market too far. For instance, RFK says that
(23:30):
we should allow the bird flu to run rampant so
we can figure out who the strong chickens are. I'm paraphrasing,
but that's pretty much the gist of it. Then they
will develop their own natural immudities and they'll be stronger chickens.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Is that okay?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Should we just say, sure, lase a fair spread the
bird flu and then let's weed out the weak ones.
Darwinism at its best, That is a capitalism gone a
little too far right. However, I do think there's an
opportunity for capitalism and the market to correct this issue.
If you've got an adult's only hotel, couldn't you have
(24:05):
other places to say they're going to institute family only
bookings and why.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Not think about this?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
If you go to if you go to some of
the football games, could be a college game, could be
a program. They have those sections that are called the
family sections in the stadiums.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Those are the family sections. The family sections.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
There's no alcohol allowed, right, that's the whole the family sections.
No alcohol allowed, and you're definitely going to get the
look have you start swearing at the other team because
there's gonna be kids around there?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
The whole idea family section. What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
The rest of the stadium is not strictly no kids,
but it's definitely discouraged because you've been encouraged.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
To go to the family section.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So why not have your hotel be family only bookings?
My wife and I had a short term rental and
we promoted the heck out of the fact that it
was five bedrooms, Bring all the family, bring the kids, kids,
We were pet friendly. We wanted everyone there because we
wanted our booking to appeal to the broadest audience.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So if you have a place, if you're a Disney resort,
you're promoting that you want kids there fin out. So
why wouldn't we allow for the market to dictate that
If a company's avenue is we want no kids, we
want adults only.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What's the issue? Well, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Little Johnny wants to be able to pee in everyone's pool.
I'm not for it, not for it. I think this
is a great opportunity for the market to sort things out.
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