Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2: Six more stimulating talk, Chris Marylyn.
Speaker 3: Imagine that you have the unthinkable happen and you lose
Speaker 3: a child. That did happen to a couple in Texas.
Speaker 3: They did not get their kids vaccinated there. Their kids
Speaker 3: got measles, and you've probably heard that measles has claimed
Speaker 3: the life of one person.
Speaker 2: It was their kid.
Speaker 3: They live in a Mennonite community and they speak the
Speaker 3: Mennonite German, which is a kind of a it's Germanish. Anyway,
Speaker 3: this is what they were saying through a translator. Let
Speaker 3: me see if this audio comes.
Speaker 2: Through well enough.
Speaker 4: They think that it's not as bad as the media
Speaker 4: is making it out to be. And it was her
Speaker 4: time on earth. They believe that she's better off where
Speaker 4: she is now versus all the negative many and all
Speaker 4: the stuff going on.
Speaker 3: Was that loud enough, CONO, I know it was kind
Speaker 3: of quiet there. It was good enough, all right? Thanks,
Speaker 3: so they say, well it was time. That would be
Speaker 3: tough for me to reconcile. Joining us right now is
Speaker 3: our ABC News correspondent to in Texas, Jim Ryan.
Speaker 2: Jim, good talk to you again.
Speaker 3: They're my friend what a bizarre and sad story. This
Speaker 3: is when yeah, you lose, you lose a child, and
Speaker 3: then we run into this ethical and moral quandary between
Speaker 3: parenting and religion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you're right.
Speaker 5: There are Mennonites. This is a deeply religious community out
Speaker 5: there in West Texas Gaines County. Parents who came originally
Speaker 5: from Germany, I assume, or from that part of Europe.
Speaker 5: And yes, this is a part of their culture.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: The leadership in the Mennonite church out there, he says
Speaker 5: that the main pastor there says that he doesn't preach
Speaker 5: against getting your kids vaccinated or for getting your kids vaccinated.
Speaker 5: He says he leaves it to the parents. But it
Speaker 5: seems to be at least based on what these parents
Speaker 5: have had, the parents of the child who died, that
Speaker 5: they leave God's hands. That there are other ways of
Speaker 5: treating or preventing measles, cod lit oil, vitamins, supplements, name.
Speaker 5: Traditional health community out there in West Texas and elsewhere
Speaker 5: says that just doesn't work. Vaccination is the best way
Speaker 5: to protect your kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there seem to be a lot of these old wives.
Speaker 3: Tales type remedies, right, These home remedies and nothing seems
Speaker 3: to back that up. Are they getting any support that
Speaker 3: you know of, Jim? Are they getting other people that
Speaker 3: are rallying behind them and saying that's right, don't get
Speaker 3: your kids vaccinated even if you lose one, because they
Speaker 3: still have other kids, right.
Speaker 5: For other kids, And all of them had measles. They
Speaker 5: were treated by a doctor out there who's kind of
Speaker 5: gaining a name in West Texas for his defiance against
Speaker 5: the call to vaccinate children. They also have the backing
Speaker 5: of something called the Children's Health Defense, which they posted
Speaker 5: the interview conducted and then posted this inn you with
Speaker 5: the parents on their website. On its website, this group
Speaker 5: CHD Children's Health Defense was founded in two thousand and
Speaker 5: seven by Robert F. Kennedy Junior. It's somehow it's a
Speaker 5: nonprofit organization and was founded long before the pandemic, long
Speaker 5: before this. Certain this measle.
Speaker 2: Outbreak, certainly, but this is Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy's group, and it's the one who has these parents
Speaker 5: out and front doesn't identify them by name, but does
Speaker 5: do this interview with the parents of the child to die.
Speaker 3: So this is interesting because RFK Junior sat in front
Speaker 3: of the Senate confirmation hearing and said that he was
Speaker 3: not going to discourage vaccinations.
Speaker 2: Right, but here his.
Speaker 5: Whole books, right, Well, that's true, He personally isn't isn't
Speaker 5: discouraging vaccination.
Speaker 2: In fact, you know, he's he's.
Speaker 5: Now saying that it's a good idea to get your
Speaker 5: kids vaccinated. But that's not a complete endorsement. It's not
Speaker 5: urging parents please go get your kid vaccinated. It's not
Speaker 5: that at all. These kind of hedged a little bit
Speaker 5: here in the last couple of weeks, and this I
Speaker 5: thought was fascinating.
Speaker 2: Chris.
Speaker 5: So, these Children's Health Defense on its website posted a
Speaker 5: page which mimicked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker 5: the CDC. This page looked, you know, the same font,
Speaker 5: same logo, same everything, except that it talks on this
Speaker 5: page about vaccines and a connection to autism, which is
Speaker 5: something that Kennedy has talked about for a long time.
Speaker 5: So this page was posted there and Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 5: Junior saw it and called the Children's Health Defends and said, hey,
Speaker 5: you got to take that down. So maybe his position
Speaker 5: is changing somewhat now that he's held in Human Service
Speaker 5: as Secretary who knows, but even that was too much
Speaker 5: for Kennedy.
Speaker 3: But am I mistaken Jim? It seems that Jim ryaner
Speaker 3: Abyceniors correspondent didn't. I see that the CDC is now
Speaker 3: going to be investigating whether or not there's any link
Speaker 3: between vaccines and autism.
Speaker 5: It is the research which has been done since the
Speaker 5: nineteen nineties has shown that there is no link between this.
Speaker 5: But we're talking about a Health and Human Services secretary
Speaker 5: who's kind of directing that show others changes in staffing
Speaker 5: at CDC, and so they will spend some other time
Speaker 5: and some of your money, Chris, to determine whether there's
Speaker 5: any link between autism and vaccination. In the past, there's
Speaker 5: been no link established at all.
Speaker 3: All Right, Jim, let's go back to this couple in
Speaker 3: West Texas that lost the young one and say that
Speaker 3: they still wouldn't get their kids vaccinated and that, as
Speaker 3: you said, they believed it was their child's time to go.
Speaker 2: That I guess basically God called this kid home.
Speaker 3: Is there a response by others in the community, because
Speaker 3: I know there are pockets in Texas, especially in West Texas,
Speaker 3: with very very low vaccination rates. In fact, I was
Speaker 3: just reading an article last week about one school was
Speaker 3: bragging about having the lowest vaccination rate in the state.
Speaker 3: Only fourteen percent of their students were vaccinated, which to
Speaker 3: me seems like a really strange brag, not the flex
Speaker 3: they think it is, but they're doing it. Are we
Speaker 3: seeing some other parents that are that are heating the
Speaker 3: warning and going, Okay, you know, in principle, I was
Speaker 3: all for this before, but maybe now that now that
Speaker 3: it's here, I bought it.
Speaker 2: I better get my kid vaccinated. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, despite you know what's being said in the in
Speaker 5: the Mennonine community, out there other places, Yes, the health
Speaker 5: department in Lubbock, for example, out out in West Texas
Speaker 5: and other state health departments have set up vaccination clinics.
Speaker 2: They offer them free.
Speaker 5: They park a VANA or RV outside the hospital and
Speaker 5: they say come on. And yes, they've had lines of
Speaker 5: people who were bringing their kids in and saying, you
Speaker 5: know what, I better get this kid vaccinated because people
Speaker 5: are getting sick, people are dying. So yes, you are
Speaker 5: seeing that people are getting their kids vaccinated, such that.
Speaker 2: Distribution was getting a little tight for.
Speaker 5: The vaccine out there to West Texas. That's kind of
Speaker 5: a good thing the Health Department wants to see that.
Speaker 5: At the same time, you're seeing shortages essentially of things
Speaker 5: like cod.
Speaker 2: Live oil supplements in some of the drug stores out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, what's that? Uh, what's that Crackpot Jones?
Speaker 3: That's he's selling supplements at his website right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Uh are a radio guy there, the Sandy Hook.
Speaker 5: Alex Jones.
Speaker 2: Alex, He's got a supplement.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's got something that's gonna cure everything for everyone.
Speaker 3: It sounds like something my sister in law will get into.
Speaker 3: She just loves to push u you know, healing crystals
Speaker 3: and and uh, the essential oils sounds perfect.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's I mean, the people put a lot
Speaker 5: of faith in that stuff. And uh, and there is
Speaker 5: this deep suspicion. I think, more than anything else, Chris,
Speaker 5: it tells us how deeply divided on principle the country is,
Speaker 5: you know, on science and on things that we used
Speaker 5: to take for granted. You know, I've got everybody got
Speaker 5: the MLR shot before they went off to school. But
Speaker 5: now you have this this suspicion about that. And I
Speaker 5: don't know if it's going to get better or gonna
Speaker 5: get worse.
Speaker 2: It is so strange to me though, Jim, because once we.
Speaker 3: All say I don't trust him, I don't trust him,
Speaker 3: I don't trust him. But then of course once it's
Speaker 3: in the community and we have a child who loses
Speaker 3: their lives, then people are lining up to get their
Speaker 3: kids vaccinated. So how deeply do their principles really run?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Of course that's what we're yeah, that's what we're watching
Speaker 3: from from a farm, all right, Jim, always great talking
Speaker 3: to you, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Jim Ryan Aby, Seniors correspondent who is in Texas. They're
Speaker 3: great talking with Jim.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3: Meryl I AM six forty more stimulating talk and on
Speaker 3: demand anytime the iHeartRadio Act if you missed it. Last week,
Speaker 3: President Trump signed an order saying get rid of the
Speaker 3: Department of Education, which is kind of tough to do
Speaker 3: because it's not a president department, but it is under
Speaker 3: the executive branch, which means he can just about decimate
Speaker 3: it anytime he wants.
Speaker 6: President Trump signing yet another executive order today, this one
Speaker 6: directing his Education secretary to dismantle the Department of Education.
Speaker 6: We're going to be returning education very simply back to
Speaker 6: the states where it belongs to the administration, arguing US
Speaker 6: schools are failing, but the Department of Education does not
Speaker 6: administer a curriculum, create lessons, or set requirements for enrollment
Speaker 6: and graduation.
Speaker 3: So what do they do if the Department of Education
Speaker 3: doesn't oversee education.
Speaker 2: What are they?
Speaker 6: Critics arguing this move will gut public education funding and
Speaker 6: hurt millions of low income students and those with disabilities.
Speaker 2: Oh, follow the money.
Speaker 7: What we find is when we give block grants to
Speaker 7: states a lot of times, that hurts students in need
Speaker 7: that help. That hurts brown and black children, and that
Speaker 7: gives states opportunity to leave students out.
Speaker 6: But the White House saying the department will not totally
Speaker 6: shut down, but when it comes to student loans and pelgrants,
Speaker 6: those will still be run out of the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: But we don't need to be spending more than three trillion.
Speaker 6: Dollars over the course of a few decades on a
Speaker 6: department that's clearly failing in its initial intention to educate
Speaker 6: our students.
Speaker 2: All right, so three trillion dollars over decades.
Speaker 3: You notice how they kind of cut they go we
Speaker 3: don't need to be spending three trillion dollars over decades.
Speaker 2: Here are these numbers thrown around.
Speaker 3: For instance, they talk about the budget and the you know,
Speaker 3: the Republicans passing the continuing Resolution, and they want to
Speaker 3: extend the tax cuts, and they say, well, the tax
Speaker 3: cuts are going to cost four point five trillion dollars,
Speaker 3: and then they want to cut more, and they want
Speaker 3: to cut another two trillion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's not that's not per year.
Speaker 3: So I think I always think that we tend to
Speaker 3: throw a bunch of numbers around, but we don't really
Speaker 3: give those numbers con text. It is tough enough to
Speaker 3: fathom what a trillion dollars is anyway, it's even harder
Speaker 3: to fathom when we don't give it any sort of context.
Speaker 3: We say it's trillions of dollars over ten years, or
Speaker 3: in this case, three trillion dollars since its inception back
Speaker 3: in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Right, listen, But.
Speaker 3: We don't need to be spending more than three trillion
Speaker 3: dollars over the course of a few decades. On three
Speaker 3: trillion dollars over the course of a few decades, it's
Speaker 3: been like forty five years. I'm not saying that it's
Speaker 3: a good use of money, but context context.
Speaker 6: Come on, official, saying a smaller agency will help carry
Speaker 6: out some of the critical functions that the department focuses on,
Speaker 6: like enforcing laws against discrimination and providing funding for low
Speaker 6: income students and special education.
Speaker 8: I don't believe that those funds will still be there
Speaker 8: if this department is closed.
Speaker 6: Head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten saying
Speaker 6: on social media, mister President, we will see you in court.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 6: We're a group of Democratic senators has written a letter
Speaker 6: to Education Secretary Linda McMahon urging her to reinstate those
Speaker 6: former employees, warning if not, student loan borrowers will suffer
Speaker 6: dire consequences. Queena Roy, ABC News, New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something like forty percent of the student loans that
Speaker 3: are out there are past due. And a lot of
Speaker 3: this has to do with the confusion from the last
Speaker 3: administration with the on again, off.
Speaker 2: Again student loan forgiveness. So who's it going to affect?
Speaker 3: Low income rural schools and students with disabilities mostly going
Speaker 3: to be affected. Your student loans are now going to
Speaker 3: have to be paid back to the small Business the
Speaker 3: administration and Mostet Association Small Business Administration.
Speaker 2: That's who's going to take over that.
Speaker 3: As far as what your kids are learning, and we
Speaker 3: talk about schools aren't educating well enough. Our education level
Speaker 3: is dropping. The United States has falling behind. Department of
Speaker 3: Education doesn't see anything that has to do with curriculum
Speaker 3: that's still set at state levels. But we are likely
Speaker 3: to see a bunch of cuts to the workforce at
Speaker 3: the Department of Education. I think they're getting doged. You're
Speaker 3: gonna get doged right out of here. They're gonna have
Speaker 3: the workforce cut it right off. By the way, they
Speaker 3: said that, well, they want to make sure they protect
Speaker 3: that Office for Civil Rights. Actually, that's one of the
Speaker 3: officers that they say is going to be hit the hardest.
Speaker 3: So the ones that make sure that schools are not
Speaker 3: violating kids, the civil rights, protecting against things like anti Semitism,
Speaker 3: that office is being thrashed, thrashed.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: On demand any time, the iHeartRadio app. Imagine you open
Speaker 2: your wallet, it is empty.
Speaker 3: You don't get paid un till Friday, but you are
Speaker 3: hungry right now, Boy, you really want.
Speaker 2: A pizza or a delicious burrito or talk whatever it is.
Speaker 3: You just don't have the money, and Lord knows you're
Speaker 3: not going to eat whatever that can of mystery food
Speaker 3: is in the pantry.
Speaker 1: So what do you do?
Speaker 2: Well, it's really easy. You take out a loan.
Speaker 9: By now pay later service. Klarna is partnering with door
Speaker 9: dash to allow you to defer payments for delivery services.
Speaker 9: The aim is to give consumers more flexibility when it
Speaker 9: comes to their spending power. Finance experts say this could
Speaker 9: be bad news for the economy, real bad news. Nation's
Speaker 9: Alicia Yeavis has been following the story at Leasta. So
Speaker 9: many questions, first, breakdown, how this will work?
Speaker 2: Break it down?
Speaker 7: Interesting?
Speaker 10: And we know that you know a few companies are
Speaker 10: doing this. It's coming kind of in the headlines because
Speaker 10: Klarna just this week announced that partnership with DoorDash. And
Speaker 10: basically what's happening here is listen, if you want to
Speaker 10: buy lunch today, and if your bank account's running a
Speaker 10: little bit low, you can buy that lunch today on
Speaker 10: door dash and then you'll split the payments for that
Speaker 10: maybe over the next couple of weeks or months. They
Speaker 10: haven't really outlined exactly, you know, the payment arrangement, because I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to take out a loan and split my payments
Speaker 3: up for a burrito. Well, I'm assuming that most people
Speaker 3: using this are not going to be people ordering a
Speaker 3: burrito or a sushi.
Speaker 2: Role it's probably dinner for the whole family.
Speaker 10: Still because it hasn't launched yet. But I look at
Speaker 10: another company that's doing this called ZIP. That company you
Speaker 10: could actually buy, you know, a big batch of groceries
Speaker 10: we call it compra in Spanish, at at costcos or
Speaker 10: shopwrite and then make eight payments over eight months for
Speaker 10: that batch of groceries.
Speaker 3: Eight months to pay for this month's grocery. It's all, well,
Speaker 3: I don't see this not ending well at all.
Speaker 10: Now, I said, this is interesting because typically with buy
Speaker 10: now pay later, it's usually for a one time major
Speaker 10: purchase like a furniture set or a computer, and that's
Speaker 10: a one time debt accumulation. Food and groceries that's a daily,
Speaker 10: sometimes weekly potential accumulation.
Speaker 9: So is this going to hurt consumers?
Speaker 2: Yes, On one.
Speaker 10: Hand, this is better than put you know, your groceries
Speaker 10: on your credit card if you can't afford those groceries right.
Speaker 10: Because credit cards charge anywhere from like seventeen percent to
Speaker 10: upwards a thirty percent interest on these payment services. The
Speaker 10: consumer doesn't get hit with any interests, right. The merchant
Speaker 10: actually pays a fee for that. As the saying of
Speaker 10: business that I love, it's you know, there's no such
Speaker 10: thing as a free lunch. Someone's paying for that lunch,
Speaker 10: and because they're getting a benefit, the merchant is willing
Speaker 10: to pay that. Because on average, people who use buy now,
Speaker 10: Pay Later spend thirty to fifty percent more than they
Speaker 10: would have if they had that money on hand that
Speaker 10: much thirty to thirty to fifty percent more. And those
Speaker 10: who wouldn't have been able to make a purse at all,
Speaker 10: they're able, you know, to make that purchase now. So
Speaker 10: that is concerning when you think that if you don't
Speaker 10: have that money on hand, you're spending even more than
Speaker 10: you have. Some are calling this predatory lending. We've seen
Speaker 10: the CFPV, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigate these companies
Speaker 10: in the past, they've warned for more oversight. But under
Speaker 10: the current administration under Doge, and we've talked about that
Speaker 10: a lot. Yeah, that organization has been gutted. So you're
Speaker 10: having this increase in buy now, pay later with less oversight.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we all right, So we've got companies that
Speaker 3: are saying, yeah, you can borrow to pay for your
Speaker 3: kid's dinner. It'll take you just eight months to pay
Speaker 3: it off, but don't worry. It's better than using your
Speaker 3: credit card. Oh and while you're getting your dinner, don't
Speaker 3: you think that you ought to have extra dessert? And
Speaker 3: don't you think those kids they want the chicky nuggets,
Speaker 3: but they also, you know, they want that extra toy
Speaker 3: on the side, and they're gonna want dessert as well.
Speaker 3: And so you spend fifty percent more and we don't
Speaker 3: have everybody watching this. There's no oversight. We've cut the oversight.
Speaker 3: Now who benefits you know who benefits? Door Dash is
Speaker 3: benefiting as they normally do. But Clarin is making the money,
Speaker 3: which means that you're taking people who don't have money
Speaker 3: and you are getting them into a payment plan to
Speaker 3: give money that they don't have to somebody else who
Speaker 3: has money.
Speaker 2: This is the cycle.
Speaker 3: This is why she says it's a Some are calling
Speaker 3: it predatory lending.
Speaker 2: Friends, I'll tell you what this is. It is.
Speaker 3: It is a reflection on how bad our education system
Speaker 3: instructs young people on money, and as someone who got
Speaker 3: into some really bad credit card debt, really bad. In fact,
Speaker 3: Ann and I were talking before the show that things
Speaker 3: a few years back. I was in a lot of
Speaker 3: debt and then I lost my gig and my wife
Speaker 3: was making okay money, but things got real tight. We
Speaker 3: had two car payments, we had a mortgage payment, and
Speaker 3: we had this credit card debt that was mounting, and
Speaker 3: so we said forget it. We sold off a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff and we went and lived quite literally in
Speaker 3: a van down by the river for two years in
Speaker 3: order to pay off all of our debt.
Speaker 2: And we did.
Speaker 3: We buck down and we paid it off. And it
Speaker 3: was a lesson that I never want to have to
Speaker 3: repeat again. And if there's anything I can offer you,
Speaker 3: it's a warning. Don't put yourself in that position. And
Speaker 3: by god, if you are taking out short term loans
Speaker 3: effectively lay away on a burrito, you are putting yourself
Speaker 3: in a bad spot. And we are so bad in
Speaker 3: this country about making decisions, impulse decisions that are going
Speaker 3: We're gonna pay for him later, and we always go, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But here's what I learned is I got and
Speaker 2: I hate man.
Speaker 3: I got old, and remember when you got old and
Speaker 3: he started realizing that later comes, you know, yeah, answers Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because when you're younger, you go, well, later's down the
Speaker 3: road and don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: But here's what you learn.
Speaker 3: The longer you're around, you realize later is coming, and
Speaker 3: everything I put off until later, I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2: To deal with later. And it doesn't get easier when
Speaker 2: you put it off.
Speaker 3: So just figure out a way to not borrow money
Speaker 3: for takeout food.
Speaker 2: I mean I eat at home. Quit eating out, buy groceries.
Speaker 2: Do that? Do that?
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six on demand, six.
Speaker 3: On demand anytime, the iHeartRadio app. Number of people continue
Speaker 3: to protest elon Musk, and they're doing it by attacking teslas.
Speaker 2: This is counterproductive because you're making yourself look like a lunatic. Fact,
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 3: Are attacking someone's car because you're mad about the car
Speaker 3: manufacturer and what they're doing in Washington, DC, that's a
Speaker 3: stretch because they don't own that car any longer. The
Speaker 3: person who purchased that car owns it, and what good
Speaker 3: are you really doing? Are you teaching them a lesson?
Speaker 3: If if you see a Tesla on the road, do
Speaker 3: you instantly assume that person supports Elon Musk. I mean,
Speaker 3: we've got to the point where people have to put
Speaker 3: bumper stickers on the cars now that say I bought
Speaker 3: this before Elon went crazy. But what about the people
Speaker 3: that are selling their Teslas right now because somebody's buying it.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're getting good deals on use Tesla's right
Speaker 3: now because so many people want out because other people
Speaker 3: keep attacking their cars. So you're talking about people who
Speaker 3: are the second or third or even fourth owner of
Speaker 3: a Tesla, and you're attacking them for what fascism? It
Speaker 3: doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Now, I do
Speaker 3: know that we have people that are attacking Tesla dealerships.
Speaker 3: Why why you're not attacking Trump Tower. You're not smashing
Speaker 3: old bottles of Trump wine. You're not buying up make
Speaker 3: America Great and then burning them an effigy. You're not
Speaker 3: buying those sweet Trump tennis shoes. Man, those don't look
Speaker 3: anything like a pair of old converts that have been
Speaker 3: spray painted with gold paint at all. You're not doing
Speaker 3: that why are you attacking these cars? Doesn't make a
Speaker 3: whole lot of sense. Now, I understand not wanting to
Speaker 3: support the business. I get that that's a boycott. That's
Speaker 3: that's as old as America itself. I mean, for Pete's sake,
Speaker 3: we're here because we boycotted Tea, So I get the
Speaker 3: whole boycott thing.
Speaker 2: But maybe we don't attack.
Speaker 3: Car owners because I don't think that that car owner,
Speaker 3: who may or may not have been aligned with your
Speaker 3: political ideology, before you attack their car. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're gonna say, oh my gosh. You know, I didn't
Speaker 3: really pay attention to Elon Musk before I bought this
Speaker 3: car because I wanted an electric vehicle and this was
Speaker 3: one of the good ones on the market, so that's
Speaker 3: why I bought it. But now that you've spray painted
Speaker 3: it with a swastika.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see the error of my ways.
Speaker 3: Now, I know I want to make sure I vote
Speaker 3: for whomever you tell me to. You're not winning people
Speaker 3: over that way. On the other hand, Elon Musk is
Speaker 3: also not really getting the He's not really getting the
Speaker 3: message either.
Speaker 2: So if you're Elon Musk, do you.
Speaker 3: Decide that you're going to start a new business in
Speaker 3: California of all places.
Speaker 2: I mean, you pulled.
Speaker 3: Your headquarters out of California, you went to Texas, but
Speaker 3: now you want to start a new business in California.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what's happening, as we can now go to
Speaker 3: the Tesla diner.
Speaker 8: Elon Musk visited the Pentagon today. He reportedly had meetings
Speaker 8: with senior US military leaders as an advisor to President Trump. Today,
Speaker 8: the president said war plans should not be shared with
Speaker 8: Musk because.
Speaker 2: Of its get ahead of the diner partitz.
Speaker 8: Now, Musk is about to roll out a new business,
Speaker 8: Ventuereio in Hollywood. It's a twenty four hour diner and
Speaker 8: drive in theater where Tesla drivers can charge their car
Speaker 8: as well eating a burger. Well must be welcome given
Speaker 8: all the controversy that he's creating In Washington, Wholly asked
Speaker 8: kay Cal News reporter Nicole coomb Stock to find out, Nicole,
Speaker 8: to find out what tonight? Okay, that's here.
Speaker 11: Nicole, Nicole, Well, Pat, you have to admit it looks
Speaker 11: a lot like a UFO.
Speaker 3: I mean I can't see it because radio. But that's
Speaker 3: typically not thought of as a great design.
Speaker 11: But some people say, even though they love that signature
Speaker 11: Tesla style, they don't want to take this ride with
Speaker 11: Elon Musk anymore now that he's involved with Doge. But
Speaker 11: other people say, you know what, Tesla makes great products
Speaker 11: and experiences and everything in life doesn't always have to
Speaker 11: be about politics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really doesn't, although Elon kind of invited that
Speaker 3: in h real quick before we continue with the report,
Speaker 3: as far as making great products, did you see that
Speaker 3: almost all the cyber trucks just got recalled? Oh, first
Speaker 3: of all, I was a big fan of the models.
Speaker 3: I think it is a great car. It needs to
Speaker 3: be revamped. It's been like ten plus years. They need
Speaker 3: to put out a new model.
Speaker 2: You know. It's guys, we've got to revamp, right. You can't.
Speaker 3: All cars go through a revamp about every eight to
Speaker 3: ten years. So you got to get on that. But
Speaker 3: the cyber truck, I just can't figure out the market
Speaker 3: for the cyber truck. If you are a truck driver,
Speaker 3: because you need a truck, you don't get the cyber truck.
Speaker 3: You want to pick up you want something that's got
Speaker 3: a gas engine in it.
Speaker 2: You want something that's not going.
Speaker 3: To deplete the battery right away when you start towing
Speaker 3: heavy stuff. It's not better in any utilitarian way than
Speaker 3: a traditional pickup truck.
Speaker 2: What is it marketed to.
Speaker 3: It's marketed to city dwellers that want to feel tough
Speaker 3: and drive a truck, and you see them on the freeways.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're one of them. You know exactly what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about. So it's marketed to those people. But did
Speaker 3: those people want to spend on hundred and twenty five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars on the electric truck Because honestly, if you're
Speaker 3: trying to feel tough on the freeway, nothing says I'm
Speaker 3: tough like we When you sound like a golf cart,
Speaker 3: you don't sound macho. And if you have an extra
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, I don't think
Speaker 3: you're spending it on something that sounds that way.
Speaker 2: I just don't. I don't, So I don't know who
Speaker 2: the market is.
Speaker 3: But for the forty some one thousand that have been sold,
Speaker 3: they're being recalled. Cyber Truck's first recall of twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five was announced last week. I guess because the trim
Speaker 3: paan is attached with glue and falls off. I thought
Speaker 3: this truck was supposed to be indestructible. That is, unless
Speaker 3: I guess you have solvent and then it all falls apart.
Speaker 3: All right, continue here. What do we know about the diner.
Speaker 11: It's a new concept dinner in a drive in movie
Speaker 11: while you charge your car. The Tesla Diner is coming
Speaker 11: sometime soon to Santa Monica Boulevard. But is Hollywood hungry
Speaker 11: for another Elon Musk business now that he's also running Doge.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say anything.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry because it's.
Speaker 3: All I love that they took somebody that didn't want
Speaker 3: to comment. Let's put this in the story. I have
Speaker 3: nothing to say. Good, we're going to use that.
Speaker 2: The cause the passes the politics. I'm neutral. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say neutral, and I leave it up to people to decide.
Speaker 1: A lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I leave enough for people to decide to do
Speaker 3: whatever you want. I do think that we're going to
Speaker 3: see more of these sorts of concepts, not necessarily from
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, but as more and more people buy electric vehicles,
Speaker 3: and as more and more charging stations become available, I
Speaker 3: think we're going to see more traditional gas stations adding
Speaker 3: electric charging stations to their parking lot, which should be
Speaker 3: relatively simple to do. It's not like you have to
Speaker 3: have all this the different pump infrastructure like you do now.
Speaker 3: You don't have to have these massive tanks. And you
Speaker 3: can line the outside of your gas station parking lot
Speaker 3: with charging stations where you already have parking for your
Speaker 3: convenience store. You can put charging stations right in front
Speaker 3: of those and plug cars in. Now, how do you
Speaker 3: get people to spend more time there? Because the more
Speaker 3: time they spend in your your service station or your
Speaker 3: gas station, whatever it is, your convenience store, the more
Speaker 3: money they're going to spend. And we know that it
Speaker 3: might take twenty or thirty minutes to charge that car
Speaker 3: at least to get up to your eighty percent charge
Speaker 3: to get on the road and get on your way.
Speaker 3: So how do you get people to spend more time there?
Speaker 3: I think we're going to see some more imaginative development,
Speaker 3: some innovation at some of the these gas stations where
Speaker 3: they want to keep people around. Could be could be
Speaker 3: a some sort of a movie theater or a lounge,
Speaker 3: could be a could be a little casino type games.
Speaker 3: I guess you're gonna see more and more of this.
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