July 8, 2025 • 24 mins
(July 08,2025)
Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park; Mayor Karen Bass shows up. ‘Gringo Go Home.’ Mexico City protests target Americans and gentrification. KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize and gives him a copy of the nominating letter
Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park; Mayor Karen Bass shows up. ‘Gringo Go Home.’ Mexico City protests target Americans and gentrification. KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize and gives him a copy of the nominating letter
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to k i AM six forty the Bill
Handle show on demand on the iHeartRadio f campy AM
sixty Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here it is a Tuesday morning, July eight.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Some of the big stories we are covering all the
US has decided Donald Trump has decided to send weapons,
defensive weapons to Ukraine because, as he said, the Russians
are just going balls.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
To the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't think he actually said that in terms of
the attacks on Ukraine, and the President said, it's time
we have to turn around. And then the Academy, American
Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Rational Doctors
is suing Robert F. Kennedy because he's changing unilatterly federal
(00:53):
COVID vaccine recommendations, saying, you know what, you really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Don't need him.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If you're a healthy young person or a pregnant woman,
you just don't need the COVID vaccine. All right now,
This is a story of the FEDS coming into MacArthur Park,
immigration agents in military green. I mean they were dressed
(01:21):
to the hilt and with tactical gear, uniforms, I mean
all of it. They come in surround MacArthur Park, and
the purpose was to pick up illegal migrants. I'm assuming
dangerous illegal migrants, as the President first said, because that
was the point of picking these folks up and deporting them.
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They came with horses, the vehicles. They came right into
the heart of immigrant la MacArthur Park. And who was
around for them to pick up? Not many because this
was not even an open secret. It wasn't a secret
since last Sunday rumors were spreading about an operation at
(02:07):
the park. There were flyers that were plastered around the
area warning that La migra, the immigration folks were coming,
and they showed up.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now Ice was there.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And my question is, let's say you've got Ice showing
up to arrest illegal migrants. Do you really need tactical gear?
Do you really need to bring in armed personnel? Do
you really need to bring in the army to pick
up illegal migrants?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now? Is this a legitimate attempt to pick them up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
By the way, no one knows how many were actually
picked up, and Homeland Security says we don't comment on that.
How many of them were violent individuals? The park is
used for kids now, Neil and I were talking about it.
MacArthur Park is a toilet, There's no question about it.
(03:08):
It is not a fun place to be, but it's
also a center for immigration for the immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They live in that area, the kids play in that area.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you are interested in buying a street taco of
undetermined meat that you have no idea if what animal
it may have come from, that's where you go. If
you are interested in those stands that sell fruit, fruit,
the fruit, the fruita that's.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Where you go.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It is a very sketchy place these days. You know
what's funny is I hate seeing this for immigration purposes,
very frustrated and have my own feelings about all of that.
But I wish they would have done this for just
the crime there, not the civil stuff dealing with immigration,
but a will crime, the drug deals that go down
(04:03):
there all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, And I don't know, and I don't know how
much LAPD is involved down there in what they do,
or they just leave it alone. But the sweep came
in right after the President signed a budget bill that
provides this huge infusions of funds to ramp up immigration
enforcement and put up the tension center.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And are in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Texas five thousand or in Florida, I think five thousand
beds in the.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Alcatraz Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The agents of here about ten thirty in the morning,
after setting after being in their areas, there are various
locations amassing at nearby locations control centers.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And then once they were.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
At the park and you saw video of this, they're
met with crowds of people screaming, get the f out,
get out, and then the mayor shows up, Karen Bass
and says, this is horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Look at the country and we now live in where
you have literally armed personnel. The last time that I
remember seeing this kind of armed personnel, and I'm trying
to remember this was the riots of Rodney King riots
where they brought in federal troops and they brought in
the National Guard. Now there were only five hundred I
(05:23):
think of federal troops brought in. But come on, guys,
really and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This was a show of force. This was simply a
photo op.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is the administration proving we're actually doing something about this.
This is part of undoing this invasion of illegal migrants
that are a huge risk to the country because our
country is about to tilt over and we're going to
lose the war to this invasion of illegal migrants come on. Really,
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so the mayor comes out and starts screaming, and that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Was a poltical op to. As she's yelling.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
About an hour after the raid, guess what, people return
to the park.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They're playing street vendors not so much.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And dozens of protesters were sticking around, some carrying Mexican
or Salvadorian flags. Now that is not a good idea
because they're chanting whose streets are streets? Hang on a
minute with a Salvadorian flag, a Mexican flag, and you're
screaming our streets. They have to hire a pr person
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and literally say, guys, maybe that's not the best idea
to argue that you deserve being here and the rules
of immigration should be loosened, and you should be allowed
to stay in this country for various purposes, getting some
protected status, being allowed to stay in Don't bring in
(06:56):
a Salvadorian flag when you're doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That doesn't make any sense. So lawsuits, of course have
been filed.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The immigration forces are out there in the bottom line here,
and this is the part that is absolutely the most
troubling for me. I don't think anybody has an argument
with the federal government, the border control people, border patrol
going after the bad guys, people that are on their
fourth attempt to stay here after they've been deported. People
(07:30):
have been accused of crimes, even accusations I don't know,
but certainly convicted of crimes.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Okay those people? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And that was the purpose of this mass influx of
money and personnel that the president wanted to get rid
of the bad guys. Well, guess what how many people
you think are swept up where this is?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Let me give make an analogy here.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Your fishermen who fish with these huge nets and they
just pick up everything, even those the sea creatures that
have no business being picked up. Sea turtles for example.
You know, they're dying like crazy, which is why you
ever notice if you ever buy a six six pack
(08:21):
of soda, you know how people cut tops of those plastics.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, of course we do.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And that's to save the sea turtles that live in
the landfills, because that's where those thing go.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wait, I'm confused. Are we deporting sea turtles as that way?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, we are. We are.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm making an analogy here, and it was a good analogy.
It's sweeping up things that should not be swept up.
It's sweeping up migrants who should not necessarily be swept up.
And if they should, or they would, the first people
are the bad guys should be swept up, and they're
being picked up. Talk about the migrants that are not
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a danger to us. Okay, now we're talking about throwing
out Mexicans in this story from here, Well, how about
throwing Americans out of Mexico and marchers over the weekend
carrying signs and you could see them and they say
gringo go home in English.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And to gentrify is to erase memories.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And this has to do with the gentrification of Mexico
City neighborhoods. Rents have exploded, the housing has exploded, and
the kind of mom and pop businesses are for the
most part disappearing because now you have the Starbucks, and
now you have the chains, and you have the pilate studios,
the higher end restaurants. That's what's happening in Mexico City.
(09:50):
And they're getting a little bit upset about it, to
say the least, and demonstrating. And one of the reasons
that they're demonstrating is this. They're basically being it's gonna
cost too much for them to live there. And that's
what happens when you gentrify. I mean, do you remember
when West Hollywood was just a complete toilet and then
(10:14):
the gay community moved in and totally transformed West Hollywood.
Now there are more to two stores, and you can
buy BoA's at more stores in one square mile than
probably any place in the world. Flower shops, tons of them.
(10:35):
West Hollywood's changed completely. Try renting in West Hollywood are
buying The prices are astronomical because it was gentrified. And
that's exactly what's happening with Mexico City. And needless to say,
people are a little upset about it, and they're blaming
the pandemic, saying, well, look what happened the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
People all of a sudden could work remotely.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And if you're making let's say, eighty thousand dollars a year,
where in La eighty thousand dollars a year, it's a
pretty good salary. But you're not rich eighty thousand dollars
a year. In Mexico, you are rich. I mean, you
are living a spectacular life. The twenty five hundred dollars
(11:19):
that you are paying for a one bedroom anywhere here
in southern California. That twenty five hundred dollars buys you
a five bedroom penthouse, or you rent a penthouse there,
or you used to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And the problem is you've got the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
People effectively being have to be moving out because they
can't afford the prices anymore, and landlords but of course
if they can get the money, they're going to get
the money. If you're renting, and how many people have
ten year leases?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Very few?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So the rent comes due and all of a sudden
rent explodes and you're gone, and some American who is
still looking at exploding rents down there a fraction.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Of what you pay here. Hey, you know, in life
in Mexico is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, I've talked to people who live in Mexico.
I mean, the food is great. It's well, granted, you've
got the cartel ready to take your head off, but
assuming you want to keep your head, or you can
keep your head, the restaurants are reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The food is great.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And Neil, you're a big fan of Mexican food, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And the food out there is spectacular, you know, I
looked into through my grandparents, getting a citizen, dual citizenship
so I could own property and the like out there.
But you know what happens when you have dual citizenship
in Mexico and you're in Mexico and it doesn't matter
that you're an American, Oh absolutely not. You live by
the laws of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Absolutely. The same thing with Brazil.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
When I went down to Brazil when I was eighteen
to visit family, I found out that I'd been drafted
into the Brazilian Army. I go, wait a minute, I'm
an American citizen. I go, not here, You're not. As
far as we're concerned, we don't care what citizenship you
think you have outside of Brazil. You're Brazilian and so
exactly the same in Mexico. Now, there's also a school
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of thought that says it's not gentrification that caused all
this to go crazy. The prices were going nuts anyway,
and that seems to be in any growing community anywhere
in the world. You look at Barcelona, where you had
the Gringo go home that movement, also Berlin and other
cities around the world.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Gentrification good or bad.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, if you're poor, and living in a neighborhood that's
been around for generations and you don't make a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
If you are an American or someone who is wealthy
and decides they're going to live in a neighborhood and
get cheap rents and set up a really neat cafes, restaurants, studios,
well then it's.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
A great place, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Mike Dubuski is the ABC News Technology reporter, and Mike,
of course knows what's going on in the world hopefully.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good morning, Mike, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't know if I gave you too much credit
and saying you know what's going on but.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
About all the world. But you know we're around, right
for some of the world. I mean a small part
of the world.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And when I mean all the world, I mean in
your sort of expertise. All right, let's start with Amazon
and Prime Day, which is really Prime Week, which is
on its way to become Prime Month.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And what's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You know, at some point doesn't it get to diminishing returns?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, well, Amazon certainly doesn't, hope. So Amazon Prime Day
is ten years old this year. That's all started back
in twenty fifteen, is a pretty modest online sale. Amazon
kind of trying to stake its claim in the middle
of the summer. They want to compete with at the time,
the really dominant players in the space, the targets, the
Walmarts of the world, who usually held big sales in
(15:07):
the fall and the lead up to the holidays. Amazon
thought the middle of the summer is a good place
to distinguish ourselves to get people's attention, and they've ridden
that to huge success. It originally expanded into two days.
Now it is a twice a year thing, and this year,
for the first time, it is a four day long sale,
really stretching the definition of day by hosting a ninety
six hour long sale on Amazon. But even still, experts
(15:30):
expect this to be a major windfall for Amazon, there
not slowing down. Adobe Analytics predicts that online spending this
week will surge to about twenty three point eight billion
dollars by the time that Prime Day wraps up on Friday.
But of course, the other piece of this is that
the popularity of Prime Day has spawned a lot of
similar sales from other retailers. Walmart has Walmart deals events.
(15:53):
Target Circle Week is this week, and best Buy Black
Friday in July is going on as well. And there's
some evidence to suggest that people don't have it done
a brand loyalty when it comes to scoring a deal
on Amazon versus one of its competitors. A report from
Numerator finds that thirty five percent of Amazon Prime members
also shopped online at Target last year, same number for Walmart,
(16:15):
and twelve percent also shopped online at best Buy. So
people don't really care where they're getting a deal, They
just want to save some money.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, and I'm assuming that at some point, obviously these
folks have done all the surveys and studies because Amazon's Amazon.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But isn't it get to the point.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Where there are so that Prime Day, for example, is
going to last such a long period time, and it's
twice and maybe it'll be three times a year where.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
People just kick back and go, I'll.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wait, you know, Prime Day's coming up next month, and
I'll just hang loose and buy then, and the website
cannibalizes itself because of that.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, I mean, it's certainly a possibility. But even still
in the numbers, Prime Day has grown successfully every year, right,
they make more money every Prime Day, so they're trying
out this new four day thing that we'll see if that,
you know, has any sort of diminishing returns. Again, twenty
three point eight billion dollars is a lot of money,
but it's not double what Amazon made last year during
(17:13):
the two day Prime Day sale, which was closer to
like fourteen billion dollars. Still huge amounts of money, but
you know, it's not like they're they're doubling it every
time they expand the amount of time people have to shop.
In addition, though, Amazon kind of has to do stuff right.
We talked about their competitors that are out there in
the space maybe stealing some of Amazon's thunder, Well, they
(17:34):
kind of have to do that because they don't want,
you know, Target to come along and steal their sort
of you know, attention. In addition to that, they're rolling
out a lot of sort of attention grabbing things to
get people excited about Prime Day. Lebron James was all
over the commercials for this, so, like celebrity endorsements, influencers
also making major advertisements for Amazon, and recently they rolled
(17:55):
out Rufus, which is an AI shopping assistant. This is
a chatbot that is built on top of Amazon's Large
Language Model, which is designed to answer questions about any
products that might not have the answer in the description.
So you can ask questions like what material is this
backpack made out of? Or how easy is this coffee
maker to clean? That's kind of what this is meant
to do. Of course, we have to say this every
(18:16):
time we mentioned large language models and artificial intelligence. It's
an imperfect technology. It makes mistakes, it makes things up,
It hallucinates, so it's best to double check whatever rufus
tells you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, and we've all been there. I used to pay
a lot of money to hallucinate. Hey, you've tried the
new ev from Volkswagen. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, so I was driving the id Buzz for the
last week. This is Volkswagen's all electric reimagining of the
micro bus from the sixties and the seventies. People associate
this with like woodstock and sixties counterculture and the big
flowery shirts and whatnot. At its core, that original vehicle, though,
was a mini van, right, it was a bus that
was micro The new one follows that same formula. It
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has sliding doors, a bunch of seats that all fold down. Bill,
I moved apartments in the last week, and I threw
tables and bookshelves and bureaus and a bunch of boxes
in this thing and handled it totally fine. So it
does do the practical vehicle thing really well. And then
you drive it around and you see how many people
smile or flag you down in traffic or stop you
at a charging station, and it kind of becomes something
(19:19):
a little more than a mini van. People have a
lot of good memories associated with the old one, and
they want to tell you about it. Young people, old
people just wanted to poke around this thing. The fact
that it was white and bright yellow probably helped that
a little bit. Of course, the trade off to all
of this is that it's sixty eight thousand dollars and
that's a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Also, do they have a place for you to put
your roach in?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And associated with that as well, I will say this,
the one that I was testing did not have a
sun roof, which meant that the you know, smoke conceivably
hypothetically didn't really have that many places to go.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, it's are EV's going down in price because they
seem to me to be getting more and more expensive.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
So what we understand is that, yes, to a degree,
they are still on average more expensive than their gas counterparts,
about fifty five thousand dollars on average versus just under
fifty thousand dollars for the average new car in general.
But that used to be sixty six thousand dollars on
average for a new electric vehicle only about two years ago.
So we are seeing that price come down. Volkswagen trying
(20:21):
to make a bit of a nostalgia play here, it
seems like. So they are, you know, really kind of
leaning into the sixties sort of vibe here with some
fun colors, a lot of little Easter eggs throughout the vehicle.
We'll have to see if all that nostalgia pays off
for them.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
All Right, Mike always appreciated. You have a good day.
You do the same, Ticke care right, take care of yourself.
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I was going to talk about Robert Kennedy. We may
end up doing that tomorrow with his.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Battle against food dies.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But I was watching I think this was CNN that
was covering this, certainly, I was watching the video of
the President meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu Netta Yahoo hand. He's
the President a letter and says, mister President, this is
a copy of the letter that I have sent to
the Nobel Prize Committee nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Actually it wasn't that clear cut what he said.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize because his
head was so far up Nittan nelle Who's butt that
we had a hard time understanding. So I mean, big deal, Wow,
Nobel Peace Prize. You know who else has been nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was, for real, I
was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Do you know
(21:37):
how you get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Here
are the rules, any elected official, any professor of any
certified accredited university.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I was done.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The reason I was nominated is because you remember Tuki Williams.
Tuki Williams was the guy who killed was convicted of
killing a police officer, and there was a whole move
out there that number one, he was innocent, and that
he'd written children's books in while he was in prison,
and there was we were we nominated him for the
Nobel Peace Prize. And I'm going come on, really, And
(22:12):
so I got myself nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,
and we ended up getting I got a congressman to
actually nominate me. Now, the congressman wouldn't let his name
being used when I went public with it, and we
showed the letter and his name was redacted, but there
(22:35):
it was. I nominate Bill Handle for the Nobel Peace Prize.
So Donald Trump is being nominated. Why because he stopped
the war in Ukraine with Russia. Oh maybe not because
of the Kamas peace plan with Israel. Maybe maybe if
anybody's gonna pull it off, it is going to be Trump.
(22:58):
And why would Nitaanyahu to be such a kiss ass
to Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, it's really simple.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Without the US, the world in the Middle East, world
changes dramatically. I think it's fair to say that if Israel,
some people say Israel couldn't even exist, it would be
in such a defensive posture, but it certainly would not
be anywhere near as strong because if you look at Israel,
it's American arms, it's American missiles. What they don't produce
over there, American fighter jets, American munitions, artillery, etc. It's
(23:33):
all American manufactured war material. I mean, we give a
lot of money we the government of the US gives
a lot of money and grants a lot of money
into Israel. So without the US, Israel has some real,
real problems.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And that is our ally in the Mid East, that
is the democracy.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So it is really important that Israel maintains this position.
So with that being said, Donald Trump Nobel Piece Prize,
maybe I should get the Nobel Prize for physics because
(24:14):
he is a well, I think that's more legitimate because
he's able to prove that up is down, and that
square is really round, and that left is right.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Here it is a Tuesday morning, July eight.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Some of the big stories we are covering all the
US has decided Donald Trump has decided to send weapons,
defensive weapons to Ukraine because, as he said, the Russians
are just going balls.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
To the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't think he actually said that in terms of
the attacks on Ukraine, and the President said, it's time
we have to turn around. And then the Academy, American
Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Rational Doctors
is suing Robert F. Kennedy because he's changing unilatterly federal
(00:53):
COVID vaccine recommendations, saying, you know what, you really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Don't need him.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If you're a healthy young person or a pregnant woman,
you just don't need the COVID vaccine. All right now,
This is a story of the FEDS coming into MacArthur Park,
immigration agents in military green. I mean they were dressed
(01:21):
to the hilt and with tactical gear, uniforms, I mean
all of it. They come in surround MacArthur Park, and
the purpose was to pick up illegal migrants. I'm assuming
dangerous illegal migrants, as the President first said, because that
was the point of picking these folks up and deporting them.
(01:44):
They came with horses, the vehicles. They came right into
the heart of immigrant la MacArthur Park. And who was
around for them to pick up? Not many because this
was not even an open secret. It wasn't a secret
since last Sunday rumors were spreading about an operation at
(02:07):
the park. There were flyers that were plastered around the
area warning that La migra, the immigration folks were coming,
and they showed up.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now Ice was there.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And my question is, let's say you've got Ice showing
up to arrest illegal migrants. Do you really need tactical gear?
Do you really need to bring in armed personnel? Do
you really need to bring in the army to pick
up illegal migrants?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now? Is this a legitimate attempt to pick them up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
By the way, no one knows how many were actually
picked up, and Homeland Security says we don't comment on that.
How many of them were violent individuals? The park is
used for kids now, Neil and I were talking about it.
MacArthur Park is a toilet, There's no question about it.
(03:08):
It is not a fun place to be, but it's
also a center for immigration for the immigrants.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They live in that area, the kids play in that area.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you are interested in buying a street taco of
undetermined meat that you have no idea if what animal
it may have come from, that's where you go. If
you are interested in those stands that sell fruit, fruit,
the fruit, the fruita that's.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Where you go.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It is a very sketchy place these days. You know
what's funny is I hate seeing this for immigration purposes,
very frustrated and have my own feelings about all of that.
But I wish they would have done this for just
the crime there, not the civil stuff dealing with immigration,
but a will crime, the drug deals that go down
(04:03):
there all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, And I don't know, and I don't know how
much LAPD is involved down there in what they do,
or they just leave it alone. But the sweep came
in right after the President signed a budget bill that
provides this huge infusions of funds to ramp up immigration
enforcement and put up the tension center.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And are in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Texas five thousand or in Florida, I think five thousand
beds in the.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Alcatraz Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The agents of here about ten thirty in the morning,
after setting after being in their areas, there are various
locations amassing at nearby locations control centers.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And then once they were.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
At the park and you saw video of this, they're
met with crowds of people screaming, get the f out,
get out, and then the mayor shows up, Karen Bass
and says, this is horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Look at the country and we now live in where
you have literally armed personnel. The last time that I
remember seeing this kind of armed personnel, and I'm trying
to remember this was the riots of Rodney King riots
where they brought in federal troops and they brought in
the National Guard. Now there were only five hundred I
(05:23):
think of federal troops brought in. But come on, guys,
really and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This was a show of force. This was simply a
photo op.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This is the administration proving we're actually doing something about this.
This is part of undoing this invasion of illegal migrants
that are a huge risk to the country because our
country is about to tilt over and we're going to
lose the war to this invasion of illegal migrants come on. Really,
(05:53):
so the mayor comes out and starts screaming, and that.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Was a poltical op to. As she's yelling.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
About an hour after the raid, guess what, people return
to the park.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
They're playing street vendors not so much.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And dozens of protesters were sticking around, some carrying Mexican
or Salvadorian flags. Now that is not a good idea
because they're chanting whose streets are streets? Hang on a
minute with a Salvadorian flag, a Mexican flag, and you're
screaming our streets. They have to hire a pr person
(06:35):
and literally say, guys, maybe that's not the best idea
to argue that you deserve being here and the rules
of immigration should be loosened, and you should be allowed
to stay in this country for various purposes, getting some
protected status, being allowed to stay in Don't bring in
(06:56):
a Salvadorian flag when you're doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That doesn't make any sense. So lawsuits, of course have
been filed.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The immigration forces are out there in the bottom line here,
and this is the part that is absolutely the most
troubling for me. I don't think anybody has an argument
with the federal government, the border control people, border patrol
going after the bad guys, people that are on their
fourth attempt to stay here after they've been deported. People
(07:30):
have been accused of crimes, even accusations I don't know,
but certainly convicted of crimes.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Okay those people? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And that was the purpose of this mass influx of
money and personnel that the president wanted to get rid
of the bad guys. Well, guess what how many people
you think are swept up where this is?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Like?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Let me give make an analogy here.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Your fishermen who fish with these huge nets and they
just pick up everything, even those the sea creatures that
have no business being picked up. Sea turtles for example.
You know, they're dying like crazy, which is why you
ever notice if you ever buy a six six pack
(08:21):
of soda, you know how people cut tops of those plastics.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, of course we do.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And that's to save the sea turtles that live in
the landfills, because that's where those thing go.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wait, I'm confused. Are we deporting sea turtles as that way?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, we are. We are.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm making an analogy here, and it was a good analogy.
It's sweeping up things that should not be swept up.
It's sweeping up migrants who should not necessarily be swept up.
And if they should, or they would, the first people
are the bad guys should be swept up, and they're
being picked up. Talk about the migrants that are not
(09:01):
a danger to us. Okay, now we're talking about throwing
out Mexicans in this story from here, Well, how about
throwing Americans out of Mexico and marchers over the weekend
carrying signs and you could see them and they say
gringo go home in English.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And to gentrify is to erase memories.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And this has to do with the gentrification of Mexico
City neighborhoods. Rents have exploded, the housing has exploded, and
the kind of mom and pop businesses are for the
most part disappearing because now you have the Starbucks, and
now you have the chains, and you have the pilate studios,
the higher end restaurants. That's what's happening in Mexico City.
(09:50):
And they're getting a little bit upset about it, to
say the least, and demonstrating. And one of the reasons
that they're demonstrating is this. They're basically being it's gonna
cost too much for them to live there. And that's
what happens when you gentrify. I mean, do you remember
when West Hollywood was just a complete toilet and then
(10:14):
the gay community moved in and totally transformed West Hollywood.
Now there are more to two stores, and you can
buy BoA's at more stores in one square mile than
probably any place in the world. Flower shops, tons of them.
(10:35):
West Hollywood's changed completely. Try renting in West Hollywood are
buying The prices are astronomical because it was gentrified. And
that's exactly what's happening with Mexico City. And needless to say,
people are a little upset about it, and they're blaming
the pandemic, saying, well, look what happened the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
People all of a sudden could work remotely.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And if you're making let's say, eighty thousand dollars a year,
where in La eighty thousand dollars a year, it's a
pretty good salary. But you're not rich eighty thousand dollars
a year. In Mexico, you are rich. I mean, you
are living a spectacular life. The twenty five hundred dollars
(11:19):
that you are paying for a one bedroom anywhere here
in southern California. That twenty five hundred dollars buys you
a five bedroom penthouse, or you rent a penthouse there,
or you used to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And the problem is you've got the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
People effectively being have to be moving out because they
can't afford the prices anymore, and landlords but of course
if they can get the money, they're going to get
the money. If you're renting, and how many people have
ten year leases?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Very few?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So the rent comes due and all of a sudden
rent explodes and you're gone, and some American who is
still looking at exploding rents down there a fraction.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Of what you pay here. Hey, you know, in life
in Mexico is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, I've talked to people who live in Mexico.
I mean, the food is great. It's well, granted, you've
got the cartel ready to take your head off, but
assuming you want to keep your head, or you can
keep your head, the restaurants are reasonably priced.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The food is great.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And Neil, you're a big fan of Mexican food, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And the food out there is spectacular, you know, I
looked into through my grandparents, getting a citizen, dual citizenship
so I could own property and the like out there.
But you know what happens when you have dual citizenship
in Mexico and you're in Mexico and it doesn't matter
that you're an American, Oh absolutely not. You live by
the laws of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Absolutely. The same thing with Brazil.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
When I went down to Brazil when I was eighteen
to visit family, I found out that I'd been drafted
into the Brazilian Army. I go, wait a minute, I'm
an American citizen. I go, not here, You're not. As
far as we're concerned, we don't care what citizenship you
think you have outside of Brazil. You're Brazilian and so
exactly the same in Mexico. Now, there's also a school
(13:18):
of thought that says it's not gentrification that caused all
this to go crazy. The prices were going nuts anyway,
and that seems to be in any growing community anywhere
in the world. You look at Barcelona, where you had
the Gringo go home that movement, also Berlin and other
cities around the world.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Gentrification good or bad.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, if you're poor, and living in a neighborhood that's
been around for generations and you don't make a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
If you are an American or someone who is wealthy
and decides they're going to live in a neighborhood and
get cheap rents and set up a really neat cafes, restaurants, studios,
well then it's.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
A great place, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Mike Dubuski is the ABC News Technology reporter, and Mike,
of course knows what's going on in the world hopefully.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good morning, Mike, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't know if I gave you too much credit
and saying you know what's going on but.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
About all the world. But you know we're around, right
for some of the world. I mean a small part
of the world.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
And when I mean all the world, I mean in
your sort of expertise. All right, let's start with Amazon
and Prime Day, which is really Prime Week, which is
on its way to become Prime Month.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And what's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You know, at some point doesn't it get to diminishing returns?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, well, Amazon certainly doesn't, hope. So Amazon Prime Day
is ten years old this year. That's all started back
in twenty fifteen, is a pretty modest online sale. Amazon
kind of trying to stake its claim in the middle
of the summer. They want to compete with at the time,
the really dominant players in the space, the targets, the
Walmarts of the world, who usually held big sales in
(15:07):
the fall and the lead up to the holidays. Amazon
thought the middle of the summer is a good place
to distinguish ourselves to get people's attention, and they've ridden
that to huge success. It originally expanded into two days.
Now it is a twice a year thing, and this year,
for the first time, it is a four day long sale,
really stretching the definition of day by hosting a ninety
six hour long sale on Amazon. But even still, experts
(15:30):
expect this to be a major windfall for Amazon, there
not slowing down. Adobe Analytics predicts that online spending this
week will surge to about twenty three point eight billion
dollars by the time that Prime Day wraps up on Friday.
But of course, the other piece of this is that
the popularity of Prime Day has spawned a lot of
similar sales from other retailers. Walmart has Walmart deals events.
(15:53):
Target Circle Week is this week, and best Buy Black
Friday in July is going on as well. And there's
some evidence to suggest that people don't have it done
a brand loyalty when it comes to scoring a deal
on Amazon versus one of its competitors. A report from
Numerator finds that thirty five percent of Amazon Prime members
also shopped online at Target last year, same number for Walmart,
(16:15):
and twelve percent also shopped online at best Buy. So
people don't really care where they're getting a deal, They
just want to save some money.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, and I'm assuming that at some point, obviously these
folks have done all the surveys and studies because Amazon's Amazon.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But isn't it get to the point.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Where there are so that Prime Day, for example, is
going to last such a long period time, and it's
twice and maybe it'll be three times a year where.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
People just kick back and go, I'll.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wait, you know, Prime Day's coming up next month, and
I'll just hang loose and buy then, and the website
cannibalizes itself because of that.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah, I mean, it's certainly a possibility. But even still
in the numbers, Prime Day has grown successfully every year, right,
they make more money every Prime Day, so they're trying
out this new four day thing that we'll see if that,
you know, has any sort of diminishing returns. Again, twenty
three point eight billion dollars is a lot of money,
but it's not double what Amazon made last year during
(17:13):
the two day Prime Day sale, which was closer to
like fourteen billion dollars. Still huge amounts of money, but
you know, it's not like they're they're doubling it every
time they expand the amount of time people have to shop.
In addition, though, Amazon kind of has to do stuff right.
We talked about their competitors that are out there in
the space maybe stealing some of Amazon's thunder, Well, they
(17:34):
kind of have to do that because they don't want,
you know, Target to come along and steal their sort
of you know, attention. In addition to that, they're rolling
out a lot of sort of attention grabbing things to
get people excited about Prime Day. Lebron James was all
over the commercials for this, so, like celebrity endorsements, influencers
also making major advertisements for Amazon, and recently they rolled
(17:55):
out Rufus, which is an AI shopping assistant. This is
a chatbot that is built on top of Amazon's Large
Language Model, which is designed to answer questions about any
products that might not have the answer in the description.
So you can ask questions like what material is this
backpack made out of? Or how easy is this coffee
maker to clean? That's kind of what this is meant
to do. Of course, we have to say this every
(18:16):
time we mentioned large language models and artificial intelligence. It's
an imperfect technology. It makes mistakes, it makes things up,
It hallucinates, so it's best to double check whatever rufus
tells you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, and we've all been there. I used to pay
a lot of money to hallucinate. Hey, you've tried the
new ev from Volkswagen. Tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, so I was driving the id Buzz for the
last week. This is Volkswagen's all electric reimagining of the
micro bus from the sixties and the seventies. People associate
this with like woodstock and sixties counterculture and the big
flowery shirts and whatnot. At its core, that original vehicle, though,
was a mini van, right, it was a bus that
was micro The new one follows that same formula. It
(18:57):
has sliding doors, a bunch of seats that all fold down. Bill,
I moved apartments in the last week, and I threw
tables and bookshelves and bureaus and a bunch of boxes
in this thing and handled it totally fine. So it
does do the practical vehicle thing really well. And then
you drive it around and you see how many people
smile or flag you down in traffic or stop you
at a charging station, and it kind of becomes something
(19:19):
a little more than a mini van. People have a
lot of good memories associated with the old one, and
they want to tell you about it. Young people, old
people just wanted to poke around this thing. The fact
that it was white and bright yellow probably helped that
a little bit. Of course, the trade off to all
of this is that it's sixty eight thousand dollars and
that's a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Also, do they have a place for you to put
your roach in?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And associated with that as well, I will say this,
the one that I was testing did not have a
sun roof, which meant that the you know, smoke conceivably
hypothetically didn't really have that many places to go.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, it's are EV's going down in price because they
seem to me to be getting more and more expensive.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
So what we understand is that, yes, to a degree,
they are still on average more expensive than their gas counterparts,
about fifty five thousand dollars on average versus just under
fifty thousand dollars for the average new car in general.
But that used to be sixty six thousand dollars on
average for a new electric vehicle only about two years ago.
So we are seeing that price come down. Volkswagen trying
(20:21):
to make a bit of a nostalgia play here, it
seems like. So they are, you know, really kind of
leaning into the sixties sort of vibe here with some
fun colors, a lot of little Easter eggs throughout the vehicle.
We'll have to see if all that nostalgia pays off
for them.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
All Right, Mike always appreciated. You have a good day.
You do the same, Ticke care right, take care of yourself.
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I was going to talk about Robert Kennedy. We may
end up doing that tomorrow with his.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Battle against food dies.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
But I was watching I think this was CNN that
was covering this, certainly, I was watching the video of
the President meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu Netta Yahoo hand. He's
the President a letter and says, mister President, this is
a copy of the letter that I have sent to
the Nobel Prize Committee nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Actually it wasn't that clear cut what he said.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize because his
head was so far up Nittan nelle Who's butt that
we had a hard time understanding. So I mean, big deal, Wow,
Nobel Peace Prize. You know who else has been nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was, for real, I
was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Do you know
(21:37):
how you get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Here
are the rules, any elected official, any professor of any
certified accredited university.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I was done.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The reason I was nominated is because you remember Tuki Williams.
Tuki Williams was the guy who killed was convicted of
killing a police officer, and there was a whole move
out there that number one, he was innocent, and that
he'd written children's books in while he was in prison,
and there was we were we nominated him for the
Nobel Peace Prize. And I'm going come on, really, And
(22:12):
so I got myself nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,
and we ended up getting I got a congressman to
actually nominate me. Now, the congressman wouldn't let his name
being used when I went public with it, and we
showed the letter and his name was redacted, but there
(22:35):
it was. I nominate Bill Handle for the Nobel Peace Prize.
So Donald Trump is being nominated. Why because he stopped
the war in Ukraine with Russia. Oh maybe not because
of the Kamas peace plan with Israel. Maybe maybe if
anybody's gonna pull it off, it is going to be Trump.
(22:58):
And why would Nitaanyahu to be such a kiss ass
to Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, it's really simple.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Without the US, the world in the Middle East, world
changes dramatically. I think it's fair to say that if Israel,
some people say Israel couldn't even exist, it would be
in such a defensive posture, but it certainly would not
be anywhere near as strong because if you look at Israel,
it's American arms, it's American missiles. What they don't produce
over there, American fighter jets, American munitions, artillery, etc. It's
(23:33):
all American manufactured war material. I mean, we give a
lot of money we the government of the US gives
a lot of money and grants a lot of money
into Israel. So without the US, Israel has some real,
real problems.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And that is our ally in the Mid East, that
is the democracy.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
So it is really important that Israel maintains this position.
So with that being said, Donald Trump Nobel Piece Prize,
maybe I should get the Nobel Prize for physics because
(24:14):
he is a well, I think that's more legitimate because
he's able to prove that up is down, and that
square is really round, and that left is right.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
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