June 11, 2025 • 29 mins
(June 11, 2025)
Fact checking claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California. How the federal immigration raids could disrupt California’s economy. California car buyers face a 488% higher fee under a bill the Senate just passed. X’s sales pitch for ad business.
Fact checking claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California. How the federal immigration raids could disrupt California’s economy. California car buyers face a 488% higher fee under a bill the Senate just passed. X’s sales pitch for ad business.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio f Wednesday morning, June eleven.
Real quickly, I want to share with you an event
that I'm going to be at, which I do every year,
and that's MC the La Lawyer's Philharmonic at the Walt
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Disney Concert Hall. It's always great fun and it's Saturday evening,
June twenty eight. And these are lawyers and judges who
play in the orchestra, and I mean their world class.
They just wanted to make a living and so they
went into the legal profession and also the chorus legal voices.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. It always is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Tickets twenty five bucks they start, and I think they
go to one hundred dollars and this is a benefit,
so half of that is tax deductible to help people
who need legal services, which is everybody in the United States.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And so I'd love to have you there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's Saturday night, June twenty eight. Go to La Lawyers
phil dot org. That's La Lawyers phil as in Orchestra
Philharmonic La Lawyers phil dot org and you get to
see me in a tuxedo and make an ass at them.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's absolutely fantastic they do.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and they're gonna do a Phantom of the opera.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They always do some great stuff and and some classical stuff.
So you put it all together and I make an
ass out of myself, which is all Do.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
They sit alphabetically or do they? Are they out of order?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow? I don't know what it is today. Yeah, I
like the pun. No, I do a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, A little bit of fact checking I thought
i'd share with you. And that is in regards to
bringing out This is the president bringing out seven hundred,
seven hundred Marines, four thousand National Guard troops in addition
to the l A p D with hundreds of cops.
And I mean, is this overreaching? And that's one of
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the big issues regarding the complaints about the Trump administration
is the overreaching and using laws which heretofore either have
never been used or were not intended to be used
in ways that President Trump has done so, in this
case using a law and several laws. This has to
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do with tariffs, etc. Where it is the security of
the United States and in this case with the protesters
dealing with the invasion of illegal migration, as in an
army coming in and the United States has to protect
itself on the same level of the attack on Pearl Harbor,
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for example. It is not an invasion the way. Well,
this has never been done in modern history. I mean
it's been used a couple of times. Once Nixon used
the ability to bring in the National Guard when the
postal service was on strike. I think President Truman used
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it when the steel workers were on strike in the
middle of the Korean War, and clearly we needed the steal.
This one is a little different. This one is the invasion,
and therefore we have the right to bring in the military,
or Trump has the right to bring in the military.
And that Southern California, Well, the bottom line is it
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is being destroyed and it's being painted. You know, it's
being painted around the world as la is in a conflagration.
I mean, the President talks about the protesters flying Mexican
flags burning cars. It turned out there were four cars
that were burnt. And it's all having to do with politics.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Quote, illegal aliens and violent criminal protesters have spent the
last several days attacking law and forcemen. By the way,
on January sixth, there was no mention of the attack
on law enforcement. That was okay, just thought i'd bring
that out. Waving foreign flags. This is a quote lighting
cars on fire, unleashing a state of outright anarchy. How
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many people were actually protesting? Do we have the numbers, Amy,
you've been up on this. Do we know the number
of protesters that were in downtown.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It ranges from a couple hundred to a couple thousand. Okay,
that is a full invasion.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That is a military invasion of these out of control,
actually out of well they're saying it's basically soldiers that
are coming in an invasion of the United States. I mean,
I gotta tell you, you know, I mean, is it appropriate
to bring in the National Guard and the military And
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if it doesn't quiet down, which it has, how many
more would have brought in? Newsom went out of his
mind because what he what the president did is nationalize
the national Guard. Federalize the National Guard, which by the way,
the president has to do whenever the national Guard is
called in, but it's at the request of the governor
or local officials. This one was not only requested. The
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governor said don't bring them in we don't need this,
and yet at the same time, this has become a
huge deal. Now whether or not the president has the authority,
and we'll see what the courts say, because the argument
is he is using these decisions and using the laws
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in a way simply to advocate his political situation. That
everything he has said about the magnitude, about the danger
just doesn't exist. We have not been invaded by a
foreign force to the detriment of this country. Maybe economically
we have, but that's not an invasion the way the
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law was intended in giving the president the power.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
By the way, we don't know if that's true or not.
The courts have never ruled on this. But I'll tell
you what is going on.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
In terms of the immigration issue. Lots of fear, lots
of anxiety my contractor. Of course, the Latinos Hispanic workers
in construction, the majority are Latino.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I was talking the other day to a friend of
mine owns a restaurant. By the way, I have many
friends who own restaurants, because well, food is a big.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Part of my life.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Neil has hundreds of friends that own restaurants. Well, Neil,
let me ask you how many of these owners of
the restaurants are in a real quagmire and because of
the fear that their employees are going to be picked up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh, there's massive concern, you know, because there's been tons
of hits since the pandemic. Over and over, there's been
hits in the industry. You know. It begs the question
why we don't have, you know, a good neighbor policy
with Mexico quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And there's a lot of issues as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The next segment I'm going to do is how these
immigration raids, to your point, how the immigration raids are
going to disrupt California's economy more so than any other state,
Southern California, more so than any other part of the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We'll be back with that. It is a.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Wednesday morning, Humpday, June eleven, and some of the big
stories that we are following. The President announced today the
US will get magnus and rare earth minerals from China
a new trade deal. Tariffs on Chinese good will rise
to fifty five percent okay, and Freedo l a manufacturing
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plant and Sho Cuucamonga has stopped production after fifty years
in operation. Wow, no more Frito's for you. You're going
to be freedo less, well, at least from that production facility.
I guess people are eating Freeto's left less and less.
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I like Fritos, but and the different flavors of Fritos.
They have the chili flavor, the honey barbecue.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And give me the original.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, fair enough? How cheese baby? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Neil and I were discussing the restaurant industry and how
if all the migrants, illegal migrants disappeared, the businesses, the
restaurants would be in real trouble. And not only that,
the construction business. I was talking to my contractor, Polo,
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and he was talking about construction sites all over southern
California and these workers are getting scared and are not
coming to work and are afraid to drive. I mean,
it is really really bad for them. Whether you agree
with the policy or not, this is fact, okay, and
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that is there. It's a double hit for Southern California.
Number One, the tariffs have cut really deeply into the
ports of la and Long Beach. This is a tough
one because the terrorists are the most part are against China,
and where do Chinese goods get shipped into the United States,
where do they come? Where do they land? Ports of
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LA and Long Beach. So you've got that one that
is a real big hit, particularly to Southern California. The
other thing is the immigration crackdown. Where are the most immigrants,
both legal and illegal.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
We're going to talk about illegal immigrants for a moment.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Where is the biggest population of illegal immigration in the country,
Southern California. What area relies on illegal immigrants for labor?
Southern California. So we are getting hit twice.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Is the President nailing Southern California specifically?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I don't think he's doing what he is doing to
go after us, although he's a big fan of California.
It just so happens that the two big issues are
affecting us. And I mean, the numbers are astronomical, and
we're talking about a third of all the illegal immigration
they figure is in Southern California. And it's not just
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in terms of construction for example. It's a huge hit.
The question is when it starts to hit, And that's
according to the Center for Economic Policy Research, left leaning
think tank.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
By the way, right leaning.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thing tanks are thinking the same thing. And so here
is what the argument is. You need workers. They aren't
there now. That really holds up the site. It's going
to raise costs. In some cases, projects won't be undertaken.
There will be projects that they don't bid on, and
so labor costs or labor becomes scarce. Undocumented workers have
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to go underground, and so the amount of payment that
is made under the table is increasing, and that is
very difficult for businesses, very difficult for businesses to undertake
if you want to follow the law, and most businesses
do so, the hit is absolutely enormous to us. And
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so on a political level, of course, then you have
the protests that are going on. A few hundred or
up to a couple of thousand people are protesting in
southern California, and the President brought in overwhelming force. Not
only was it a lap that dealt with the downtown protests,
but also what five hundred marines, four thousand National Guard
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brought in by the president. And there's no chance that
a riot is going to succeed under those circumstances, because
if those forces are overwhelmed, then the president is going
to bring in thousands more troops and there will be
more police, then there will be protests. So with the
President talking about this invasion and need the army to
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fight it off, eh, you know, I mean, you know,
the reality really isn't there. But the reality in terms
of cracking down on illegal immigration, cracking down on illegal immigration,
that the president has the power to do, and a
lot of people agree with him. And I don't think
many people disagree that the borders have to be secure.
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You know, in reality, the borders are much more secure.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And why is that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, because the number of immigrants has really illegal immigrants
have fallen. And a couple of reasons for that number One,
it's too damn expensive to live in southern California. The
economy in Mexico has increased. Illegal immigrants who come here
and send money to Mexico, I don't think want to
live here.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It is an economic decision.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They'd rather live at home with their families if they
can make enough money that everybody eats. And here's another
one that I hadn't thought of until I read this,
and that is the illegal immigrants that have been here
for years and years and years are just retiring. They're
just getting old and where do you retire to you
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retire back home. You can't maintain any kind of an
existence here in Southern California without working. And you know
what kind of retirement plan do they have? Illegal immigrants
pay into Social Security? You know that unless it's under
the table, they don't get any benefit from Social Security.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They have to come up with some fake number. So
it is a real.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hit for Southern California. And I think it's going to
continue on. And you know, the President has said and
he's far away in his decision running against the Biden
administration when he did because the Biden administration it dealt
with illegal immigrants with open arms, and it did and
it did, and so the argument, the accusation is totally legitimate.
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Now the response maybe just a little bit too much,
just a little bit all right, coming up?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Good luck. If you're buying a car, you ready for this?
You pay your registration fee.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about if it goes up five times as much,
a four hundred and eighty eight percent increase. There's a
new California Senate bill that just passed and we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
About that coming. Well, we got to deal with China.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Ostensibly, the tariffs against China fifty five percent now, and
rare earths and magnets are going to be coming into
the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Have no idea what.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
China is getting for that, other than Chinese students will
be able to come in and commit espionage and steal
information as they have for years and years. Weird the
bill that just passed bipartisan support. One senator said no,
And what it does is raise the cost for US
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car buyers by as much as four hundred and fifteen dollars. Now,
what are we paying the extra four hundred and fifteen
dollars for. It's for the well, the junk fees, transportation fees,
you know what the dealership charges for bringing the car
to the dealership. It's like I just bought a toaster
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oven from Walmart and they didn't charge me the cost
of shipping it from the warehouse to the store.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
But that would be kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, car dealers do exactly that destination charges.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What the hell is that? I mean? So weird?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And here is the issue the car dealers are saying
is right now, destination charges. I have a cap or
processing documents, not destination charges.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But to process the fees and it's not the fees,
it's the processing of the fees and the taxes. Right,
The processing fees are eighty five bucks, and this allows
dealers to charge up to five hundred dollars for processing
the documents. So you pay destination fees as well as
the cost of actually filling out the receipt. Now there's
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a lot of paperwork involved, granted, if the register of
the car, et cetera, and they're claiming the car dealers
added costs, which the legislation won't let them because that's
limited by the legislature, and so it's a lot more expensive.
When's the last time you bought a car. Let me
tell you what happens. You go into quote, the manager's office, whatever,
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whoever handles the paperwork, and that has you sign a
bunch of times. And let me tell you what that's about.
It's not about you filling out the paperwork. The paperwork
is filled out, they press one button and the stuff
is done.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You give them your information. Boom.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's like credit reports, right, charging for a credit report,
your name, your social Security number, where you work, You
address one button and the report comes back instantaneously.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And if you have something like LifeLock or whatever. You
get a ding.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Immediately your phone goes ding and it tells you that
someone has just asked for your credit report. That's today's technology.
Do you know what that paperwork is really about? When
you meet with the paperwork guy who is in the
office to finish the deal, It's about selling you insurance.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I just bought a car a couple of years ago,
and I went in to finish paperwork and it was
a hard sell. How about tire insurance? How about extending
your warranty insurance? How about adding a bumper to bumper
warranty which you don't have. That's what that's about. And
those are astronomically power profitable. So they're claiming. Car dealers
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are claiming that it's more expensive to register and to
do the paperwork. Now, in this day of technology, can
you actually argue is it's much more of a hassle
I guess using technology than in the old days when
they really did someone manually filled out that paperwork.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So how did they get away with it?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, it turns out that those people who are in
favor of it, legislators got a bunch of money from
from the lobby from donations from the senators, and you
know what you can.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I've always thought about this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
An industry gets millions of dollars of benefits, either tax
breaks or somehow a benefit in the to the tune
of millions, and all you have to do is pay
a few thousand dollars to the campaign.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
You buy you can literally, I won't say buy a vote.
I don't think I'd go that far, but I think
you can certainly influence a vote. For example, the guy
who wrote this bill, who introduced this bill, got seven
thousand dollars to his campaign from the lobbyists, the car
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Association seven grand, and all of a sudden he loves
the car dealerships. Bottom line, technology today makes it so
much easier, and the car dealerships are claiming it is
more expensive and it's a bigger hassle. What I'd like
to know, and we don't have that information. I know
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if we're ever going to get that information. Let's say
you have a car dealership that has forty employees and
two actually do the paperwork, and you go in and
use the registration.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You know how it ends. How many have added.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
People to that because it's become much more complex, it's
become much more onerous, as in, give me a break,
would you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's I don't know how you argue this.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't know how they got every senator except one
to say yes to this.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Because car dealers aren't making enough money.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If I'm not mistaken, car dealers are making record profits.
Now I may be wrong on that, but correct me
if I'm wrong on that. Car dealers are doing really well. Wow,
life is so.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Weird, all right? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh, here's another one I want to share with you,
and that is imagine if you're advertising and you stop advertising,
and all of a sudden, the company that you used
to advertise for that you no longer are says to you,
either you keep on, or you increase your advertising budget,
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or we're going to sue you. Welcome to America. This
is the new America. I know, Neil shaking his head.
How is that possible. I'll explain it's basically extortion. It's
not that complicated, straight out extortion, and I'll explain how
that works. Coming right up, and then doctor Jim Keeney
coming up at the top of the well at a thirty,
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So we still have plenty of show and say Humpday
June eleven, and good news on the US inflation front
rose less than expected to two point four percent in May.
And what does that mean in terms of the outcome
the influence of the tariffs, Well, we don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It's a double edged sword.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Some are saying the tariffs are going to help and
others are saying it's going to stop our economy, if economy,
if not cold, certainly to our disadvantage. Before we jump
into a really interesting story about lawsuits, Neil, you have
a couple things to say.
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Speaker 1 (23:14):
Disneyland has a bunch of lands, Fantasy Land, tomorrow Land,
frontier Land. They've just added Litigation Land and well maybe not,
but let me tell you about Litigation Land.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Let me give you an example.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, I'm going to give you a scenario which is
absolutely fact, and I'm bringing up here on KFI and iHeart.
We have advertisers that advertise obviously on KFI. Some advertisers
I endorsed, Neil, dorses John, etc. And what happens when
it doesn't work? They go away and we scramble to
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get them back. What can we do to have you
come back? What tell us let's change the message whatever,
because we really want your business. I mean, that's the
way business normally works. Now, here's a clever idea from
X and that is go to the advertiser and simply say,
if you don't either continue to advertise or start to
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advertise on our platform, we are going to sue you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And we are going to sue you for collusion. Now
would X win? No? Illegal experts are saying that's not
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
To prove collusion is a very high bar but the
threat of a lawsuit, and frankly, people at this point
in life are just especially businesses are running scared.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Not only on a political level, but of litigation.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Litigation costs buckets of money, and usually there's some kind
of settlement in order not to go in front of
a jury or in front of a judge. If you're wrong,
you guess wrong, you can get nailed, So you settle.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And so X went after.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
A few corporate advertisers who either have spent less or
have dropped out completely because it just wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Some things just don't work.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
People advertise with us, and sometimes it doesn't work, or
it's too expensive to get customers relative to billboards or
the Internet.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I mean, it's complicated stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So X goes after Verizon, which hasn't advertised since twenty
twenty two. Verizon instantly caved, okay, we'll spend ten million dollars.
This year, fashion company Ralph Lauren agreed to resume buying
ads on X after it received the lawsuit thread threat.
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Right now, at least six companies big companies have either
received lawsuit threats or were motivated in part by pressure
tactics to cut their deals with X.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I mean, this is really extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And when you have a company that's big, Now, why
do people drop out of X companies? Well, not necessarily
because it wasn't working, although there's some real issues because
when Musk bought it, a lot of the guard rails
were removed completely and the executives all went crazy, and
the senior executives left or were fired, and so advertisers
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pulled back and they're going they're getting nailed now by
the threat of lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Man, welcome to the new world of business.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
There is an organization called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
This has to do with what's going on on various
platforms and this was an initiative that was started by
the World Federation of Advertisers intended to protect brands from
quote unsafe online content. In other word, to be seen
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next to something that is really objectable. A story comes
up about a neo Nazis and how they should take
over the world and anti Semitic or anti black viewpoint,
and your story, your ad comes right next to it,
and advertisers are going, we're not happy with that. Well,
guess what exued the World Federation of Advertisers saying there
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it was an illegal boycott, and you know what ended
up happening. The trade group disarmed. That's it, just disbanded
because of the fear of being sued by X. So
for those advertisers, and I'm now giving you a little
bit now, maybe I shouldn't do this because I heart's
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going to be angry with me. If you're advertising, particularly
if you're a small, tiny little business that advertise with
US and buys two commercials every other month, all you
have to do is threaten to sue US, and you
are going to get two million dollars worth of ads
for twelve dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
All you have to do is sue US. Certainly working
for X, isn't it? Am I getting it in trouble
for that? It's not true? Well yeah, but it's not
true that there's collusion either. It's not true. Thing is
weird to me? How I couldn't they sue them for extortion?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, because extortion is another one that's impossible. And these
companies don't want to get into these fights. They don't
need litigation. Certain people don't care about litigation. Certainly must
doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Trump's big beautiful bill, Is it going to add to
the deficit or take away from the deficits the deficit.
Two entirely different views, raining or sunshine out there, and
I have no idea. It doesn't matter if I'm looking
out the window. I'll share that with you and then
at the bottom of the hour, Doctor Jim Keeney KFI
AM six point.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
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on demand on the iHeartRadio f Wednesday morning, June eleven.
Real quickly, I want to share with you an event
that I'm going to be at, which I do every year,
and that's MC the La Lawyer's Philharmonic at the Walt
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Disney Concert Hall. It's always great fun and it's Saturday evening,
June twenty eight. And these are lawyers and judges who
play in the orchestra, and I mean their world class.
They just wanted to make a living and so they
went into the legal profession and also the chorus legal voices.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. It always is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Tickets twenty five bucks they start, and I think they
go to one hundred dollars and this is a benefit,
so half of that is tax deductible to help people
who need legal services, which is everybody in the United States.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And so I'd love to have you there.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's Saturday night, June twenty eight. Go to La Lawyers
phil dot org. That's La Lawyers phil as in Orchestra
Philharmonic La Lawyers phil dot org and you get to
see me in a tuxedo and make an ass at them.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's absolutely fantastic they do.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and they're gonna do a Phantom of the opera.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
They always do some great stuff and and some classical stuff.
So you put it all together and I make an
ass out of myself, which is all Do.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
They sit alphabetically or do they? Are they out of order?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow? I don't know what it is today. Yeah, I
like the pun. No, I do a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, A little bit of fact checking I thought
i'd share with you. And that is in regards to
bringing out This is the president bringing out seven hundred,
seven hundred Marines, four thousand National Guard troops in addition
to the l A p D with hundreds of cops.
And I mean, is this overreaching? And that's one of
(02:03):
the big issues regarding the complaints about the Trump administration
is the overreaching and using laws which heretofore either have
never been used or were not intended to be used
in ways that President Trump has done so, in this
case using a law and several laws. This has to
(02:24):
do with tariffs, etc. Where it is the security of
the United States and in this case with the protesters
dealing with the invasion of illegal migration, as in an
army coming in and the United States has to protect
itself on the same level of the attack on Pearl Harbor,
(02:44):
for example. It is not an invasion the way. Well,
this has never been done in modern history. I mean
it's been used a couple of times. Once Nixon used
the ability to bring in the National Guard when the
postal service was on strike. I think President Truman used
(03:04):
it when the steel workers were on strike in the
middle of the Korean War, and clearly we needed the steal.
This one is a little different. This one is the invasion,
and therefore we have the right to bring in the military,
or Trump has the right to bring in the military.
And that Southern California, Well, the bottom line is it
(03:28):
is being destroyed and it's being painted. You know, it's
being painted around the world as la is in a conflagration.
I mean, the President talks about the protesters flying Mexican
flags burning cars. It turned out there were four cars
that were burnt. And it's all having to do with politics.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Quote, illegal aliens and violent criminal protesters have spent the
last several days attacking law and forcemen. By the way,
on January sixth, there was no mention of the attack
on law enforcement. That was okay, just thought i'd bring
that out. Waving foreign flags. This is a quote lighting
cars on fire, unleashing a state of outright anarchy. How
(04:18):
many people were actually protesting? Do we have the numbers, Amy,
you've been up on this. Do we know the number
of protesters that were in downtown.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It ranges from a couple hundred to a couple thousand. Okay,
that is a full invasion.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That is a military invasion of these out of control,
actually out of well they're saying it's basically soldiers that
are coming in an invasion of the United States. I mean,
I gotta tell you, you know, I mean, is it appropriate
to bring in the National Guard and the military And
(04:54):
if it doesn't quiet down, which it has, how many
more would have brought in? Newsom went out of his
mind because what he what the president did is nationalize
the national Guard. Federalize the National Guard, which by the way,
the president has to do whenever the national Guard is
called in, but it's at the request of the governor
or local officials. This one was not only requested. The
(05:18):
governor said don't bring them in we don't need this,
and yet at the same time, this has become a
huge deal. Now whether or not the president has the authority,
and we'll see what the courts say, because the argument
is he is using these decisions and using the laws
(05:42):
in a way simply to advocate his political situation. That
everything he has said about the magnitude, about the danger
just doesn't exist. We have not been invaded by a
foreign force to the detriment of this country. Maybe economically
we have, but that's not an invasion the way the
(06:06):
law was intended in giving the president the power.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
By the way, we don't know if that's true or not.
The courts have never ruled on this. But I'll tell
you what is going on.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
In terms of the immigration issue. Lots of fear, lots
of anxiety my contractor. Of course, the Latinos Hispanic workers
in construction, the majority are Latino.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I was talking the other day to a friend of
mine owns a restaurant. By the way, I have many
friends who own restaurants, because well, food is a big.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Part of my life.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Neil has hundreds of friends that own restaurants. Well, Neil,
let me ask you how many of these owners of
the restaurants are in a real quagmire and because of
the fear that their employees are going to be picked up.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh, there's massive concern, you know, because there's been tons
of hits since the pandemic. Over and over, there's been
hits in the industry. You know. It begs the question
why we don't have, you know, a good neighbor policy
with Mexico quite honestly.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And there's a lot of issues as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The next segment I'm going to do is how these
immigration raids, to your point, how the immigration raids are
going to disrupt California's economy more so than any other state,
Southern California, more so than any other part of the
state of California.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
We'll be back with that. It is a.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Wednesday morning, Humpday, June eleven, and some of the big
stories that we are following. The President announced today the
US will get magnus and rare earth minerals from China
a new trade deal. Tariffs on Chinese good will rise
to fifty five percent okay, and Freedo l a manufacturing
(07:59):
plant and Sho Cuucamonga has stopped production after fifty years
in operation. Wow, no more Frito's for you. You're going
to be freedo less, well, at least from that production facility.
I guess people are eating Freeto's left less and less.
(08:22):
I like Fritos, but and the different flavors of Fritos.
They have the chili flavor, the honey barbecue.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And give me the original.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, fair enough? How cheese baby? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Neil and I were discussing the restaurant industry and how
if all the migrants, illegal migrants disappeared, the businesses, the
restaurants would be in real trouble. And not only that,
the construction business. I was talking to my contractor, Polo,
(08:58):
and he was talking about construction sites all over southern
California and these workers are getting scared and are not
coming to work and are afraid to drive. I mean,
it is really really bad for them. Whether you agree
with the policy or not, this is fact, okay, and
(09:20):
that is there. It's a double hit for Southern California.
Number One, the tariffs have cut really deeply into the
ports of la and Long Beach. This is a tough
one because the terrorists are the most part are against China,
and where do Chinese goods get shipped into the United States,
where do they come? Where do they land? Ports of
(09:41):
LA and Long Beach. So you've got that one that
is a real big hit, particularly to Southern California. The
other thing is the immigration crackdown. Where are the most immigrants,
both legal and illegal.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
We're going to talk about illegal immigrants for a moment.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Where is the biggest population of illegal immigration in the country,
Southern California. What area relies on illegal immigrants for labor?
Southern California. So we are getting hit twice.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Is the President nailing Southern California specifically?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I don't think he's doing what he is doing to
go after us, although he's a big fan of California.
It just so happens that the two big issues are
affecting us. And I mean, the numbers are astronomical, and
we're talking about a third of all the illegal immigration
they figure is in Southern California. And it's not just
(10:46):
in terms of construction for example. It's a huge hit.
The question is when it starts to hit, And that's
according to the Center for Economic Policy Research, left leaning
think tank.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
By the way, right leaning.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Thing tanks are thinking the same thing. And so here
is what the argument is. You need workers. They aren't
there now. That really holds up the site. It's going
to raise costs. In some cases, projects won't be undertaken.
There will be projects that they don't bid on, and
so labor costs or labor becomes scarce. Undocumented workers have
(11:21):
to go underground, and so the amount of payment that
is made under the table is increasing, and that is
very difficult for businesses, very difficult for businesses to undertake
if you want to follow the law, and most businesses
do so, the hit is absolutely enormous to us. And
(11:44):
so on a political level, of course, then you have
the protests that are going on. A few hundred or
up to a couple of thousand people are protesting in
southern California, and the President brought in overwhelming force. Not
only was it a lap that dealt with the downtown protests,
but also what five hundred marines, four thousand National Guard
(12:05):
brought in by the president. And there's no chance that
a riot is going to succeed under those circumstances, because
if those forces are overwhelmed, then the president is going
to bring in thousands more troops and there will be
more police, then there will be protests. So with the
President talking about this invasion and need the army to
(12:28):
fight it off, eh, you know, I mean, you know,
the reality really isn't there. But the reality in terms
of cracking down on illegal immigration, cracking down on illegal immigration,
that the president has the power to do, and a
lot of people agree with him. And I don't think
many people disagree that the borders have to be secure.
(12:50):
You know, in reality, the borders are much more secure.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And why is that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, because the number of immigrants has really illegal immigrants
have fallen. And a couple of reasons for that number One,
it's too damn expensive to live in southern California. The
economy in Mexico has increased. Illegal immigrants who come here
and send money to Mexico, I don't think want to
live here.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It is an economic decision.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They'd rather live at home with their families if they
can make enough money that everybody eats. And here's another
one that I hadn't thought of until I read this,
and that is the illegal immigrants that have been here
for years and years and years are just retiring. They're
just getting old and where do you retire to you
(13:38):
retire back home. You can't maintain any kind of an
existence here in Southern California without working. And you know
what kind of retirement plan do they have? Illegal immigrants
pay into Social Security? You know that unless it's under
the table, they don't get any benefit from Social Security.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They have to come up with some fake number. So
it is a real.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hit for Southern California. And I think it's going to
continue on. And you know, the President has said and
he's far away in his decision running against the Biden
administration when he did because the Biden administration it dealt
with illegal immigrants with open arms, and it did and
it did, and so the argument, the accusation is totally legitimate.
(14:28):
Now the response maybe just a little bit too much,
just a little bit all right, coming up?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Good luck. If you're buying a car, you ready for this?
You pay your registration fee.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about if it goes up five times as much,
a four hundred and eighty eight percent increase. There's a
new California Senate bill that just passed and we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
About that coming. Well, we got to deal with China.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Ostensibly, the tariffs against China fifty five percent now, and
rare earths and magnets are going to be coming into
the United States.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Have no idea what.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
China is getting for that, other than Chinese students will
be able to come in and commit espionage and steal
information as they have for years and years. Weird the
bill that just passed bipartisan support. One senator said no,
And what it does is raise the cost for US
(15:37):
car buyers by as much as four hundred and fifteen dollars. Now,
what are we paying the extra four hundred and fifteen
dollars for. It's for the well, the junk fees, transportation fees,
you know what the dealership charges for bringing the car
to the dealership. It's like I just bought a toaster
(16:00):
oven from Walmart and they didn't charge me the cost
of shipping it from the warehouse to the store.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
But that would be kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, car dealers do exactly that destination charges.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
What the hell is that? I mean? So weird?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And here is the issue the car dealers are saying
is right now, destination charges. I have a cap or
processing documents, not destination charges.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But to process the fees and it's not the fees,
it's the processing of the fees and the taxes. Right,
The processing fees are eighty five bucks, and this allows
dealers to charge up to five hundred dollars for processing
the documents. So you pay destination fees as well as
the cost of actually filling out the receipt. Now there's
(16:50):
a lot of paperwork involved, granted, if the register of
the car, et cetera, and they're claiming the car dealers
added costs, which the legislation won't let them because that's
limited by the legislature, and so it's a lot more expensive.
When's the last time you bought a car. Let me
tell you what happens. You go into quote, the manager's office, whatever,
(17:11):
whoever handles the paperwork, and that has you sign a
bunch of times. And let me tell you what that's about.
It's not about you filling out the paperwork. The paperwork
is filled out, they press one button and the stuff
is done.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You give them your information. Boom.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's like credit reports, right, charging for a credit report,
your name, your social Security number, where you work, You
address one button and the report comes back instantaneously.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And if you have something like LifeLock or whatever. You
get a ding.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Immediately your phone goes ding and it tells you that
someone has just asked for your credit report. That's today's technology.
Do you know what that paperwork is really about? When
you meet with the paperwork guy who is in the
office to finish the deal, It's about selling you insurance.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I just bought a car a couple of years ago,
and I went in to finish paperwork and it was
a hard sell. How about tire insurance? How about extending
your warranty insurance? How about adding a bumper to bumper
warranty which you don't have. That's what that's about. And
those are astronomically power profitable. So they're claiming. Car dealers
(18:30):
are claiming that it's more expensive to register and to
do the paperwork. Now, in this day of technology, can
you actually argue is it's much more of a hassle
I guess using technology than in the old days when
they really did someone manually filled out that paperwork.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So how did they get away with it?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, it turns out that those people who are in
favor of it, legislators got a bunch of money from
from the lobby from donations from the senators, and you
know what you can.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I've always thought about this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
An industry gets millions of dollars of benefits, either tax
breaks or somehow a benefit in the to the tune
of millions, and all you have to do is pay
a few thousand dollars to the campaign.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
You buy you can literally, I won't say buy a vote.
I don't think I'd go that far, but I think
you can certainly influence a vote. For example, the guy
who wrote this bill, who introduced this bill, got seven
thousand dollars to his campaign from the lobbyists, the car
(19:53):
Association seven grand, and all of a sudden he loves
the car dealerships. Bottom line, technology today makes it so
much easier, and the car dealerships are claiming it is
more expensive and it's a bigger hassle. What I'd like
to know, and we don't have that information. I know
(20:15):
if we're ever going to get that information. Let's say
you have a car dealership that has forty employees and
two actually do the paperwork, and you go in and
use the registration.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
You know how it ends. How many have added.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
People to that because it's become much more complex, it's
become much more onerous, as in, give me a break,
would you?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
It's I don't know how you argue this.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I don't know how they got every senator except one
to say yes to this.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Because car dealers aren't making enough money.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
If I'm not mistaken, car dealers are making record profits.
Now I may be wrong on that, but correct me
if I'm wrong on that. Car dealers are doing really well. Wow,
life is so.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Weird, all right? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh, here's another one I want to share with you,
and that is imagine if you're advertising and you stop advertising,
and all of a sudden, the company that you used
to advertise for that you no longer are says to you,
either you keep on, or you increase your advertising budget,
(21:29):
or we're going to sue you. Welcome to America. This
is the new America. I know, Neil shaking his head.
How is that possible. I'll explain it's basically extortion. It's
not that complicated, straight out extortion, and I'll explain how
that works. Coming right up, and then doctor Jim Keeney
coming up at the top of the well at a thirty,
(21:50):
So we still have plenty of show and say Humpday
June eleven, and good news on the US inflation front
rose less than expected to two point four percent in May.
And what does that mean in terms of the outcome
the influence of the tariffs, Well, we don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It's a double edged sword.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Some are saying the tariffs are going to help and
others are saying it's going to stop our economy, if economy,
if not cold, certainly to our disadvantage. Before we jump
into a really interesting story about lawsuits, Neil, you have
a couple things to say.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, you darn right, because before you get into lawsuits,
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Speaker 1 (23:14):
Disneyland has a bunch of lands, Fantasy Land, tomorrow Land,
frontier Land. They've just added Litigation Land and well maybe not,
but let me tell you about Litigation Land.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Let me give you an example.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, I'm going to give you a scenario which is
absolutely fact, and I'm bringing up here on KFI and iHeart.
We have advertisers that advertise obviously on KFI. Some advertisers
I endorsed, Neil, dorses John, etc. And what happens when
it doesn't work? They go away and we scramble to
(23:52):
get them back. What can we do to have you
come back? What tell us let's change the message whatever,
because we really want your business. I mean, that's the
way business normally works. Now, here's a clever idea from
X and that is go to the advertiser and simply say,
if you don't either continue to advertise or start to
(24:15):
advertise on our platform, we are going to sue you.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And we are going to sue you for collusion. Now
would X win? No? Illegal experts are saying that's not
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
To prove collusion is a very high bar but the
threat of a lawsuit, and frankly, people at this point
in life are just especially businesses are running scared.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Not only on a political level, but of litigation.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Litigation costs buckets of money, and usually there's some kind
of settlement in order not to go in front of
a jury or in front of a judge. If you're wrong,
you guess wrong, you can get nailed, So you settle.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And so X went after.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
A few corporate advertisers who either have spent less or
have dropped out completely because it just wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Some things just don't work.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
People advertise with us, and sometimes it doesn't work, or
it's too expensive to get customers relative to billboards or
the Internet.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I mean, it's complicated stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
So X goes after Verizon, which hasn't advertised since twenty
twenty two. Verizon instantly caved, okay, we'll spend ten million dollars.
This year, fashion company Ralph Lauren agreed to resume buying
ads on X after it received the lawsuit thread threat.
(25:45):
Right now, at least six companies big companies have either
received lawsuit threats or were motivated in part by pressure
tactics to cut their deals with X.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I mean, this is really extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And when you have a company that's big, Now, why
do people drop out of X companies? Well, not necessarily
because it wasn't working, although there's some real issues because
when Musk bought it, a lot of the guard rails
were removed completely and the executives all went crazy, and
the senior executives left or were fired, and so advertisers
(26:22):
pulled back and they're going they're getting nailed now by
the threat of lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Man, welcome to the new world of business.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
There is an organization called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media.
This has to do with what's going on on various
platforms and this was an initiative that was started by
the World Federation of Advertisers intended to protect brands from
quote unsafe online content. In other word, to be seen
(26:59):
next to something that is really objectable. A story comes
up about a neo Nazis and how they should take
over the world and anti Semitic or anti black viewpoint,
and your story, your ad comes right next to it,
and advertisers are going, we're not happy with that. Well,
guess what exued the World Federation of Advertisers saying there
(27:24):
it was an illegal boycott, and you know what ended
up happening. The trade group disarmed. That's it, just disbanded
because of the fear of being sued by X. So
for those advertisers, and I'm now giving you a little
bit now, maybe I shouldn't do this because I heart's
(27:46):
going to be angry with me. If you're advertising, particularly
if you're a small, tiny little business that advertise with
US and buys two commercials every other month, all you
have to do is threaten to sue US, and you
are going to get two million dollars worth of ads
for twelve dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
All you have to do is sue US. Certainly working
for X, isn't it? Am I getting it in trouble
for that? It's not true? Well yeah, but it's not
true that there's collusion either. It's not true. Thing is
weird to me? How I couldn't they sue them for extortion?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, because extortion is another one that's impossible. And these
companies don't want to get into these fights. They don't
need litigation. Certain people don't care about litigation. Certainly must
doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Trump's big beautiful bill, Is it going to add to
the deficit or take away from the deficits the deficit.
Two entirely different views, raining or sunshine out there, and
I have no idea. It doesn't matter if I'm looking
out the window. I'll share that with you and then
at the bottom of the hour, Doctor Jim Keeney KFI
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