WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand this Malfi. 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.640 AM six forty more stimulating talk and on demand anytime 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.759 the iHeartRadio app. All right, Imagine that you own a 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:16.519 company and for years you've been trying to find your lane. 5 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.280 You've been really nailing that brand. You don't worry so 6 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.079 much about the others. You're really trying to You're really 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:23.559 trying to. 8 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:24.679 Own your lane. 9 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.399 You think of you think of some big brands out there, 10 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.799 and you go, okay, Taco Bell is gonna own the cheap, 11 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.359 fast Mexican food lane. 12 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.280 Boom. 13 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.960 Now they've got competitors, but Taco Bell nationwide, they're the 14 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:42.439 big ones. 15 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:46.079 Right, So imagine that you own that lane and you 16 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:46.920 own it hard. 17 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.600 And then imagine, just imagine if Taco Bell's owners came 18 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.039 out and said, you know what, we don't really like 19 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.240 Mexican food. We want to support all of the non 20 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.960 Mexican food things out there. In fact, we're really gonna 21 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:07.480 start pushing sushi. Probably not great for Taco Bell's brand. 22 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:09.519 Should something like that happen, right, Is that fair to 23 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.439 say if all of a sudden, the owner of Taco 24 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.280 Bell came out and said, my food is great, but 25 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.200 also I'm gonna put all of my effort into pushing sushi, 26 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.040 probably not gonna be really good for Taco Bell, especially 27 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:25.120 if part of the push for sushi is to limit 28 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.680 things like I don't know, for holes. That's basically what's 29 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.599 happening when you look at what's going on in DC, 30 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.120 which is why we're seeing the stock prices and the 31 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:45.480 sales more importantly dropping for Tesla. Tesla's being protested as 32 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:46.959 people are upset with Elon Musk. 33 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.760 They're taking it out in his business. 34 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:54.319 They can't protest Starlink because it's tough to get protesters 35 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.560 in space A lot of people would like to, it's 36 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.239 very difficult to protest some of the other stuff the SpaceX. 37 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:03.640 But what they can do is they can show up 38 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.200 but Tesla's showrooms and start protesting. 39 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.240 And that's exactly what people are doing nationwide. 40 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.919 There are about two hundred people lined up here along 41 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:13.639 Colorado Street, which is in front of the Tesla's. 42 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.560 Showroom by the way, NBCLA. 43 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.080 The protesters were demanding that people sell their Tesla cars 44 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:23.479 and stock. Now, these protests are happening all over the area. 45 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.199 We also saw one in Glendale held by the same group. 46 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.000 They were holding signs and encouraging drivers to hank and 47 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.960 support as they went by. The group. Rally for Democracy 48 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.400 is organizing these protests. This movement is in response to 49 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.840 Elon musks position in President Donald Trump's administration and roll 50 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.319 in the Department of Government Efficiency. Similar rallies are taking 51 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.080 place around the world, which started back into February. 52 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.400 What I don't understand, I just I get it. 53 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.840 We have turned vehicles and this is one of the 54 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.120 things that makes in the American car culture so great 55 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.280 is that vehicles are part of our identity. 56 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:00.000 Right. 57 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.759 If you drive certain cars, we make certain assumptions about someone, 58 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.599 and someone who has certain character traits will purchase they're 59 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.360 attracted to certain cars. For instance, if you're driving a 60 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:19.080 mini van that has a bunch of stick figure stickers 61 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.159 in the back window, we assume that you are a 62 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:26.319 family oriented person and obnoxious. If you drive a lifted 63 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:31.479 pickup truck, we assume that you are a dude and obnoxious. 64 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:35.639 If you drive a sports cars your daily driver, we 65 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:42.879 assume that you have some insecurities and are obnoxious. If 66 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.199 you drive a subar ru, we assume that you eat 67 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:51.639 granola and you support LGBTQIA initiatives, right, and you probably 68 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:52.879 want to coexist sticker. 69 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.960 Elon's pivot to Maga. 70 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.159 Would be akin to Subaru declaring that they need to 71 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.960 stop hippies and end LGBTQYA initiatives. 72 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.759 They would never do that because they know they're lane. 73 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.240 Elon's pivot is the worst marketing pivot ever. It's worse 74 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.599 than when Coke did the whole New Coke thing back 75 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:18.000 in the eighties. It is the worst ever. And so 76 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.160 that's why last week you saw President Trump with Elon 77 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.879 on the on the lawn at the White House. Come 78 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.480 on down to Crazy. Don's use Tesla lot. We got 79 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:34.199 Tesla's they're they're great. Tesla cars and Tesla cyber truck. 80 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:34.839 They're great. 81 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:39.040 You should buy one today to support Elon, and not 82 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:40.560 buying one should be illegal. 83 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.720 You can't boycott our Tesla truck. That would be illegal 84 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:45.920 and un American. 85 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.680 You should go back to boycotting other things like cancel 86 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:53.480 Culture and bud Light, but not Elon. Buy is cyber 87 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:59.279 truck today, maybe delivered soon, unless it's not. Because also 88 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.560 in the news, el On Musk's Tesla has been forced 89 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.279 to halt sales of cyber trucks because metal panels keep 90 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:12.800 falling off. Yeah, customers that are posting on the Cyber 91 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:18.079 Truck Owners Club website as well as on Twitter, they 92 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:20.639 say that the deliveries are on hold. 93 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.439 The website electric. 94 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:27.240 So the decision was taken amid increasing instances of trim 95 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.720 and panels flying off. 96 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:30.759 The supposedly bulletproof electric truck. 97 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.680 Now, imagine if you have spent the last few years 98 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.360 saying that electric vehicles and the push to electric use 99 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.160 is bad for the country, and you've been saying that 100 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.360 we have to have fossil fuels and you'll never buy 101 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.839 one of those golf carts, and you've been taking this 102 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.879 tack for years, and then all of a sudden you're 103 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:53.399 told up everything you've been led to believe in the 104 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:59.600 Church of Petrol was false. Now you should buy the evs. 105 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.639 You should buy them because it's the American thing to do. 106 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.240 Also, they're one hundred grand who's doing that? Who has 107 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:11.240 the extra one hundred thives. 108 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.319 It's one thing if you want to show your support 109 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.360 by buying a red hat that cost you twenty five bucks. 110 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.399 Twenty five bucks doesn't make or break things. One hundred 111 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.639 thousand dollars to somebody in the middle of Arkansas to 112 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:26.160 buy a truck whose parts fall off to replace their 113 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.519 lifted f one fifty to get stuck in the mud 114 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.720 without a charger nearby for one hundred grand. I don't 115 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:37.639 see that making up for the damage that musk is 116 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.240 doing to the brand. It's just not happening. Take a 117 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.879 check on news KFI AM six forty Chris Merrill live 118 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:45.480 everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 119 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.639 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 120 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.360 I Am six forty on demand anytime the iHeartRadio app. 121 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.319 According to the mayor and the LA Police Department Chief, 122 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.079 you are safer. 123 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.560 Than you have been in a very long time. 124 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.480 Their Karen bass LAPD Chief Jim McDonald pulling a news 125 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.920 conference yesterday and they say you are safer and you 126 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:11.000 can thank us for that. 127 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:15.560 You're welcome from our friends at ABC seven. 128 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.360 Homicides were down fourteen percent, with forty seven less people 129 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.240 killed in the city of Los Angeles be. 130 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.959 Forty seven fewer people killed, but go. 131 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.000 On in twenty twenty four compared to twenty twenty three. 132 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.160 There was also a nineteen percent decrease when it comes 133 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.800 to shooting victims felony hit and runs also saw a 134 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:36.319 drop of just over six percent. Despite the progress, local 135 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.000 leaders acknowledge there is more work to be done. 136 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:42.319 Any crime is unacceptable to us, and we know that 137 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.480 everyone standing here today knows that we must continue to 138 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.600 approach this issue with urgency and precision. 139 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:55.120 Oh, urgency and precision. Oh, she's saying some really important 140 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:55.800 stuff there. 141 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:56.920 That is. 142 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.360 That's the kind of thing that gives you insight, not 143 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:04.319 platitudes and talking points. Thank goodness, we've got specificity from 144 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.639 the mayor who says crime bad. 145 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.879 We don't like crime, We should uncrime. 146 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.959 The mayor and police chief acknowledge at street racing is 147 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.040 still a problem that they're actively trying to combat. Another 148 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.920 issue they're dealing with hiring more police officers to join 149 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.560 the force. As far as how twenty twenty five is 150 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.519 looking in terms of crime, here's a police chief himself. 151 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:27.959 So far this year we've seen a reduction in all 152 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.160 major crime categories compared to the same time last year. 153 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:33.559 We're optimistic that we can continue on the trend that 154 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.320 we're seeing. But right now we're in a good spot and. 155 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.080 Moving forward, to Chief McDonald says, a big focus again 156 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.240 is on building that trust with the community so they 157 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.600 can feel comfortable coming to police officers and speaking with 158 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.320 them openly and building that relationship. Another focus, of course. 159 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.399 Sounds like a lot of community policing nonsense to me. 160 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.600 The last thing we want to do is the community 161 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:57.879 trusting their cops. 162 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.360 What's next, All. 163 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:05.879 Of a sudden, politicians are bad guys now, unbelievable. 164 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.600 Another focus, of course, on a staffing and keeping the 165 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:12.799 community safe, reporting live and boil heights on that ABC seven. 166 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.039 I wouldness thank you so much. I appreciate that. So 167 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:16.600 what do we have? 168 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:21.039 They claim homicides are down fourteen percent. Now listen, relax, 169 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.720 I'm gonna tell you why I'm skeptical here. Homicides on 170 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:29.559 fourteen percent last year compared with twenty twenty three, fewer 171 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:34.600 people being hit by gunfire. Well, that seems positive. I 172 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.360 hate the idea that we just have random people being 173 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.600 hit by gunfire. Anyway, sitting in police officials say that 174 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.840 this is all there. Listen, this is our doing. But 175 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.159 as we know, any crime is bad, and we're still 176 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.799 going to press forward with urgency and a sense of 177 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:57.000 duty and blah blah blah blah blah. They're also all 178 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.000 excited about taking guns off the streets, including seventy six 179 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.200 one hundred firearms from last year. They said that ten 180 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.679 percent of those are all ghost guns. Oh, you're gonna 181 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.240 don't know how you stop that. All you can do 182 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.559 is take them. Oh you're gonna stop people from putting 183 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.840 them together. Shootings down, they say, almost twenty percent from 184 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:18.600 last year. Uh, they're being proactive. With more words from 185 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:24.639 your corporate bingo card. Here's the problem is that the 186 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.879 data that we're getting is for the last year, which 187 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:37.759 is fine. The department, though, switch the way they count crime. 188 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.679 There's there's the trouble that we're having. So as with anything, 189 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.720 if all of a sudden you change your well, i'm 190 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:49.840 not gonna say accounting procedures, but if you change the 191 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.799 way that you're tracking things, you may see a change. 192 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.360 If if and I'm trying to think of an example here, 193 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:02.120 if all of a sudden, you go from using miles 194 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:04.879 two kilometers, all of a sudden, your car is gonna 195 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.679 look like it's traveled a lot further because the numbers 196 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:10.679 have changed. The numbers have changed, but what those numbers 197 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:16.720 reflect are different. So even LAPD officials they did it, 198 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.240 they had small print. While they were taking credit, patting 199 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.919 themselves on the back. They said, also, year over year 200 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.559 comparisons are nearly impossible for certain types of crimes since 201 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.080 the department switched to a new record keeping system this year, 202 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.240 So they don't really know, they say, we don't really 203 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.639 know if this is true. We don't really know if 204 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.840 this is accurate. Even by our own admission, we're not sure. 205 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:42.960 But based on what we have right now, we're just 206 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.639 gonna take credit anyway, because politicians and why wouldn't you 207 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:49.600 just take credit. 208 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:54.279 While you could. So that's what's happening. Just the same. 209 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.000 If there is any truth to what they're saying, that's great. 210 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.200 We like to feel a little bit safer. The trouble is, 211 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.919 we don't know if there's truth to what they're saying, because, 212 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:08.559 by their own admission, the data is being counted differently, 213 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.919 and they say, it's nearly impossible. 214 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:14.320 To keep track of So. 215 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:21.039 Why are you out and touting your own accomplishments, because 216 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.240 why wouldn't you be That's what being a politician. 217 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:24.240 Is all about. 218 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.679 Oh, that's right, And people don't like Bass right now 219 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.279 because she was out of the country when the fires hit, 220 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:36.639 and then she blamed not knowing wind. So she's trying 221 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:40.000 to try to she's trying to put some wins in 222 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.799 her column, but it's not really working out. 223 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:43.879 It's not going great. 224 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.759 Okay, if I am six forty, we're live everywhere on 225 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:48.159 the iHeartRadio app. 226 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:51.960 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 227 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.480 Why am I am six forty? More stimulating talk Chris Merril. 228 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:01.480 This week there was a much as a number of 229 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:07.759 code talkers disappeared from military websites. The history of the 230 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.559 code Talkers, which used to be on the Department of 231 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:15.320 Defense website, vanished. If you're unfamiliar to the code talkers, 232 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.279 especially the Navajo code talkers who the most famous. All 233 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:24.360 the code talkers were used throughout history Chalk, Taus, Comanche, Navajo, others. 234 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:29.080 But the Navajo code talkers basically developed a code in 235 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:33.440 World War Two using their own language that the Germans 236 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.480 couldn't decipher. They couldn't get to it. Now, if you'll recall, 237 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.879 the Germans were very very good. Listen, I'm getting old, 238 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.799 and I realized about the time I hit forty. Suddenly 239 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.279 all those World War Two documentaries on the History Channel 240 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.120 became fascinating to me. You'll recall the Germans of World 241 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:55.720 War Two were very very good at their codes, at 242 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:00.320 disguising their messages. We couldn't break it. In fact, it 243 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:05.360 was only after the development of the Enigma machine that 244 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:09.039 we were able to do. So it was basically the 245 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:16.720 first computer. We allowed for the machine to UH to 246 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.000 decipher it. Because the Germans had a way of changing 247 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:23.639 their code every day, it seemed to be a completely 248 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.840 random pattern. So suppose you're doing one of those ciphers 249 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.600 in the in the newspaper or online or wherever you 250 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.639 do it, and uh and and and you have to 251 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:34.240 try to figure out what it says. And you're and 252 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:35.879 you're trying to break the code, and you're going, okay, 253 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.120 well this squiggly line this I figured out that this 254 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.159 squiggly line that equals a D. So then you go 255 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.039 through all the cipher and you find all the squiggly 256 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:46.679 lines and you go, that's a D. And then from 257 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.240 there you try to figure out the rest of it. Right, 258 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.159 that's it. Well, imagine if every time you got to one, 259 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:54.879 the whole thing changed. 260 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.440 The whole thing changed. So no, Allan Turing was the guy. 261 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.919 He's kind of considered to be the father of modern computers, 262 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.919 because he had this notion, rather than trying to get 263 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.399 people who are good at crosswords and ciphers in the paper, 264 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.639 why don't we get a machine that can figure out 265 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.480 these codes, and it'll be able to do it faster 266 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:18.360 than we can now. They didn't have the kind of 267 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.279 machinery and chips that we did, obviously, because they didn't 268 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.720 have computers then, so it was a very mechanical system. 269 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:27.159 But he made it work and they were able to 270 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.879 use this Enigma machine to decipher the code, and that 271 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:32.519 gave us an advantage on the Germans. 272 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.039 On the American side, we didn't have any of this. 273 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.919 We didn't worry about Germany's technological superiority to decipher our 274 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.799 codes because what we did is we took a dead language. 275 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.840 Well to the rest of the world anyway, the Navajo 276 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.360 were still using it, which is why it was known. 277 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.279 We took a language that the rest of the world 278 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.879 didn't know. They had no idea, they didn't know what 279 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.639 these different sounds meant. They didn't have any interpreters. They 280 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.559 didn't have so they're trying to decipher a language with 281 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.360 no key. There was no well, this sound means this 282 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.720 letter or this phrase could potentially mean this. They couldn't 283 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.360 decipher it for squat And it was all based on 284 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:18.840 that ancient not ancient, but that Navajo language which had 285 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.759 been around for for hundreds of years or more. So 286 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:29.000 the Navajo stepped up. The Navajo soldiers spoke in this language. 287 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.279 The Germans couldn't decipher it, and the way that we 288 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.559 were then eventually able to decipher their codes using our 289 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:39.799 computing expertise, they couldn't do it. So in many ways 290 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.120 it was the code talkers who gave us an advantage 291 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:48.240 in the war, including iwo Jima, six code talkers. Ewogima 292 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.440 sent more than eight hundred messages with zero errors. Part 293 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.639 of the reason that we had the Navajo in the 294 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:59.399 military was because there was an emphasis. 295 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:05.480 On diversity in the military. They wanted diversity. 296 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.920 Because they knew there was strength in having people with 297 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.200 different backgrounds who could then bring different skills, and in 298 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.319 the case of the code talkers, they brought an entire 299 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.480 language that nobody else could speak, and it was the 300 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:20.319 most effective encryption that anyone had during World War two. 301 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.240 And again, as I mentioned, we said this happened in 302 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.400 the past. Choctaw World War one Comanche also in World 303 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:32.359 War Two. We've seen this happen before. So President Trump 304 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.359 signs the DEI Executive Order. We're gonna get all diversity, 305 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.680 We're gonna get all equality, we're gonna get all inclusion 306 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:44.240 and anything that promotes those things out of the military. 307 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.599 And so they said, we're gonna scrub all the websites 308 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.200 of any of this stuff. And what they do, they 309 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.000 scrubbed the website. At least ten articles that mentioned the 310 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.400 code Talkers disappeared from the US Army and the Department 311 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:57.680 of Defense websites. 312 00:17:58.559 --> 00:17:58.759 Well. 313 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:01.480 As one might expect, all Hell Broke Loues people were 314 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.920 not very excited about the fact that we've just decided 315 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:09.000 to erase history because we're afraid it might be too inclusionary. 316 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.279 After Hell breaks loose, suddenly we go, this isn't gonna 317 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.279 be great. By the way, there are also other DEI 318 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.279 labels that are on the website to go this has 319 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:24.480 been removed in compliance with the executive order that those 320 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:30.559 would include things like Civil War nurses, Black veterans, and 321 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.000 their units, including the Harlem Hell Fighters, the seven hundred 322 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.279 and sixty first Take Battalion, the five hundred and fifty 323 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:41.160 fifth parachute infantry, also Latino airmen who coordinated mental health 324 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:42.599 support for military personnel. 325 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:43.640 That story was deleted. 326 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.519 The Army removed pages about the fifty fourth Massachusetts Regiment, 327 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.960 the Women Air Force Service pilots all removed. 328 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.400 It's not going over very well because we go wait 329 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:57.720 a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. 330 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.720 Are you telling me that this cut has been woke 331 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.480 and that much of our history is based on wokeness? 332 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:06.759 I guess that's what a melting pot is all about. 333 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.039 On certain topics, including Navajo Code Talkers, there's a banner 334 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.119 on the DoD's website saying content has been revised or 335 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.319 removed to align with the President's executive order that has 336 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:18.519 to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion. 337 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:19.119 I just said that. 338 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.880 I've been looking at archived websites from earlier this month. 339 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.359 An error now shows up. A DoD spokesperson told ABC 340 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.400 fifteen they will restore the content with the Navajo Code 341 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.640 Talkers saying had been removed. Quote during the auto removal process. 342 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:34.319 We didn't know anybody who's gonna throw a fit about this, 343 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.039 but now that they have, we're going to get it right. 344 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.160 President Trump previously hosted Code talkers in the White House 345 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:40.160 commending them. 346 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.599 Nava, that's true. 347 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.839 In fact, I had that audio and since deleted it 348 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:47.559 because I'm terrible at saving audio. He did have them 349 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:48.960 at the White House and he commended them, and he 350 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.400 was very thankful, and then he pointed out that Elizabeth 351 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:53.599 Warren is Pocahontas Navajo Nation. 352 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:57.599 President emphasized they should not be lumped into DEI initiatives. 353 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.400 We have different unique relationship with the federal government is 354 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:05.799 a sovereign to sovereign relationship. It's not based upon race, 355 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.599 and it's more of a political relationship. 356 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:11.599 It's currently unclear when the content will be fully restored. 357 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:13.519 You can look at this and say, these are just 358 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.359 you know, small incidents that are happening, but when you 359 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.640 add them up, and as a historian, you know, especially 360 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.480 of World War Two, seeing this, it's downright scary. 361 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.000 I Melanie Dow ABC fifteen, Arizona. 362 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.319 What so we don't learn our history? What could possibly 363 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:31.720 go wrong? Okay? 364 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:33.960 If I AM six forty, we're live everywhere on the 365 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.160 iHeartRadio app. 366 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:39.039 You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 367 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:45.200 AM sixty more stimulating talk Chris Merrill no More ratty kids, 368 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:46.480 it's your a hotel. 369 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:50.200 Hey goodness, I am a grump. 370 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:55.240 I love kids in small doses, and certainly not when 371 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:59.119 I'm trying to sleep. There is a resort in Encinnitas 372 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.039 that has recently come recently become Southern California is only 373 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:05.880 adults only ocean front resort, according to the La Times. 374 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:08.559 Now some are saying, well, that's illegal. You can't do. 375 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:12.599 You can't ban kids from hotels. So now you've got 376 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.200 a bunch of others that are trying to figure out 377 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:16.759 is this legal? 378 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:17.559 Is it not legal? 379 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.759 Attorneys, consumer advocates, travelers, all this stuff. Is this a 380 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.720 violation of civil code? And I thought it was an 381 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:30.599 interesting conversation that we could have because if you're like me, 382 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.119 you'd love to go to a resort that doesn't have 383 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:36.200 a bunch of kids running around. If you go to 384 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:41.119 Las Vegas, they have places like adults only pools, they 385 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:42.599 have places where you. 386 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:44.680 Are not allowed to bring kids. 387 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.599 I don't know that there are adults only hotels in 388 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.119 Vegas though, anybody are they are adult only hotels in Vegas? 389 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.319 You know there should be, right, Well, kids aren't allowed 390 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:58.119 like in the gambling areas. 391 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:01.000 Nope, And they're not allowed. There's some adult only pools 392 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:04.359 absolutely adult. Yeah, right, so they should. 393 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:07.160 And I think in some ways what these hotels and 394 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.200 resorts in Vegas are doing is they are they are 395 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:14.160 de facto becoming no kids allowed, as opposed to just 396 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:19.160 posting no kids allowed. So this uh, Alila, Maria, I'm 397 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.759 sure I'm pronouncing that wrong. Beach resort in Encinita's, part 398 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:24.079 of the Hyatt Hotel Empire, announced that they would exclude 399 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.160 children as overnight guests. They have become the self described 400 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:30.400 only adults only ocean front resort in southern California, and 401 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.240