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