August 5, 2025 • 26 mins
(Tuesday Aug 05,2025)
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about Amazon getting into the used car business, OpenAI updating ChatGPT, Lenovo’s new rollable laptop, and the NEW Tesla diner in Hollywood. DOJ opens a grand jury probe of 2016 election claims against Obama officials. Earning More but Worse in Shape: Hardship overwhelms many American families.
KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about Amazon getting into the used car business, OpenAI updating ChatGPT, Lenovo’s new rollable laptop, and the NEW Tesla diner in Hollywood. DOJ opens a grand jury probe of 2016 election claims against Obama officials. Earning More but Worse in Shape: Hardship overwhelms many American families.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Attorney General Pam Bondi has now directed prosecutors to launch
a grand jury investigation into an accusation that members of
the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia's twenty sixteen election interference,
and the President has called former President Obama a straight
(00:27):
out trader. Yeah, I love that, great stuff, and we'll
talk more about that at A thirty. Now it is
time for rich on Tech, our tech segment. You can
hear Rich live every Saturday, eleven am to two pm
rich on Tech. He's on KTLA every day at Channel five,
(00:47):
on Instagram, at rich on Tech website, richon Tech dot TV,
and live in person ladies and gentlemen, Rich Demurrow, Morning, Rich.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Good morning, Bill.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, nice to have you back. Were you here last week?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I was here last week. I was here last week.
Oh you said last week that it's been a while,
but it was at that point.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
See, I've completely forgotten that you were here last week.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It happens.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I know, every day, every other minute, it happens. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
A couple of things that I find fascinating. The Tesla
Diner in Hollywood. Seriously.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, well, you know, I got to visit these things,
and you know, look, this thing started planning in twenty eighteen.
It has finally come to fruition. And I actually have
a little bit of trivia for you if you know
what this was. Do you know what this was before?
It was the Tesla Diner.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This area where Hollywood West, Hollywood Porno Shops, men'sdayighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was a Shaky's Pizza.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh I thought you were talking about the entire neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh well, no, that you can discuss forever. No, this
was a Shaky's Pizza. It's now a Tesla twenty four
to seven diner and supercharger hub. So it's got this giant,
it's kind of retro futuristic looking twenty four to seven diners,
so you can order in your car, you can charge
your car. You can also go into the diner, so
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that the diner is open twenty four to seven, like
I said, but you can only go in from six
am until midnight. The other times you can you know,
you can eat in your car if you want, you
can eat up there. But it also has eighty superchargers,
not just for Tesla's if your Tesla, if your EV
can take one of these chargers with either an adapter
or it's got the Tesla charger built in, you can
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charge your car there. Otherwise you cannot park there. That's
the thing you need to know. If you have a Tesla,
you can get right in, no big deal or an
eving is clever.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That is clever.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not only is it clever in terms of a potential
money maker, I'm assuming it's a revenue for the company.
I don't know how much, but what a neat way
to have people come in and kill time as opposed
to sitting in their car watching Netflix for twenty minutes
at a time.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, and there's also two giant screens. I mean, have
you seen any of the videos or pictures out of
this place or no?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, okay, So there's two. This is a little obviously
it's Elon Musk, so there's a little controversy. But there's
two giant screens. Like it's a drive in as well,
so you can watch a video on these screens as
you charge up. It's just kind of a place to
hang out. But one of the screens is actually in
front of an apartment building where there are you know, balconies,
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and so it blocks all the views that these people
used to have, which is kind of wild, and I
don't know how they got around that. The owner of
the building was like, yeah, do whatever you want. But
these screens are like sixty six feet they're huge, and
you can watch the content on them, or just like
an old drive in theater, you can sync the audio
to your car, so you can tune in the same
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thing that's on the screen and listen to it. But
you can also order food right from your car's dashboarders
I thought was kind of cool. They've got burgers, fries,
tuna melts. My food came in a mini cyber truck box,
which apparently people like I paid seven dollars extra for
the metal souvenir cup. And when you go inside, it's
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got this old school like retro feel, but it's also
very futuristic, very optimistic about the future. All the Tesla
stuff is on display. People were gobbling up the Tesla merchandise.
There were people I talked to from all over. It
wasn't just La people. It was people from Phoenix, people
from New Orleans, and it's just it's a site to
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be seen. So I think that Tesla, even though you
know all the controversy surrounding Tesla and Elon Musk, I
still think that this is going to be one of
the attractions that people seek out when they visit La
because there's nothing else like it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean, that's clever as hell. And of course
two questions. Number one, how's the food that's for starters?
And is you had mentioned an extra seven bucks for
the souvenir cup.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
How expensive is the food?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, so I can tell you number one the first question.
What was the first question?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Sorry, you're starting to sound like me now, how was
the food or how is the food?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Okay, the food is I thought it was excellent. I
got a burger. It's a smash burger, and of course
the menu is small, but it's high quality and so
the burger was great. They do have a person that
brings it out to your car, you know, like car
hop style, or you can go in and eat and
they call out your number whatever you've got options there.
The pricing, so in the time I was there, I
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was there for about, you know, maybe an hour and
a half. The charging of the car was maybe twenty
dollars and then the food was another thirty five, So
you're talking about fifty bucks in just an hour and
a half and I didn't buy any merchandise. So this
is also a money making operation as well. And the
thing is Tesla owners will know that there's something called
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an idling fee, So Tesla has come up with this
pretty smart way of getting people to get out of
their chargers when they're done charging. You can't let your
car sit there without incurring a fee, and it kicks
in after about you know, five minutes of your charge
being done. So in this in this hub, they actually
give you a grace period because they know people are
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going to want to hang out there, So you get
about thirty five minutes of grace period before you're hit
with a fee, an idlely fee.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Now twenty bucks for a charge. Is that right in
line with Tesla chargers all over the country.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, you know, it all depends. Tesla charging is dynamics,
so there's not one price for everything. So yeah, it
just sort of depends on on the place you're charging
and what time it is.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And you said thirty five for the food, was that
just you?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah? I got a burger and the and a drink
and the cup that came out to about thirty five.
I think the burger was like maybe fourteen fifteen bucks.
I should have looked more closely.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, because you know what I was going to hit us.
What you knew I was going to ask that question.
I mean, that's a gift.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No tipping, by the way, no tipping. It says it
says your tip is included in the price of the food,
which I thought was interesting. Yeah, looking at my ex okay,
it was seventeen dollars by the way.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, and I yeah, I don't know how much that is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's a twenty for a twenty minute charge, right, and
that brings you up to eighty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That actually got me one hundred percent. I was there.
I was there total for an hour and twenty three minutes.
Now that's you know, typically if you're at a Chesla
charger for that long, you're going to be charged extra.
But this, like I said, they are doing that grace
period because they know they know this is kind of
a lucky place. You go there and you hang out
and you see stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Fair enough coming back Amazon. This is fun. Amazon is.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Selling everything. Sorry, I don't know what I just swallowed
air anyway, it's getting into the used car business. And
I will cough as soon as we get off. We'll
be right back with Rich tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know who's missing from the show right now, Bill Handle?
Everybody but us and Neil Savader. They're both gone. All
we're looking at a blank screen and.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That's all the Kira. It's you and me again, just
like five am. I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Do we have Richdiemrrol here?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm here him Rich, Well, happen the games here?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
This is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I don't know what happened here.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I don't know, but I got it, you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's just something I said, I know, right.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
After hearing you talking about the Cyber Cafe.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I gotta go. I gotta go check it out. The
Tesla Cafe.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh yeah, I mean look so cool, you know, I
get it. It's Elon, It's Tesla, it's all this stuff
surrounding that. But it's still really interesting. And you know, people,
everyone I talked to there they agree, you know, like
look politics aside, Elona's side whatever, This is still really
interesting and kind of fun to be there. It's like
there's only so many things in life that are a spectacle.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, here's a spectacle. Bill handle in his shorts,
approaching his seat and his microphone. Hey Bill, Oh yeah,
we're back. Oh all right, we were talking about spectacles,
fair enough, and we have Rich Demiro here, so take
it away.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, Tuesday, August fifth, that's today. It is Hello Kitty
Crossbody Bag Day. When I first read this, I thought
the Corner was going to produce those and give out
the crossbody bags. But no, it's the Dodgers that are
giving away the Hello Kitty Crossbody bag and they take
(10:08):
on the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium first pitch at seven o'clock.
Listen to all Dodger games on AM five seventy LA
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Speaker 4 (10:25):
Rich Tomorrow, we're back.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I know you're probably finished with this segment because you
were talking to Amy so Amazon. You know, every time
Amazon I turn around, Amazon is getting into some new business.
And as I've often said, they if they want to
buy Pakistan tomorrow afternoon. They can do it. So now
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they're in the used car business. Explain how that works.
And they are they going to compete with Carvana and
companies of that ilk.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're gonna try. I'm not they're doing it a little
bit differently because Carvana. Okay, well, let me give you
the nuts and bulls first. So now, so last year
Amazon said they are gonna partner with Hyundai to sell
new cars. And the whole thing was you can go
to Amazon dot com, slash autos, you can search through
find the hun day that you want, the price is clear.
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Everything was like very easy. You could do it all
online and then you would go to a dealership to
pick up your car. So they were partnering with dealerships,
not really cutting into their business, kind of a new
lead for business, right and I guess that's gone pretty well.
But now they're getting into used cars and certified pre
owned cars. And right now they're starting with Hundai dealerships
(11:40):
in La I guess since they already had that relationship,
but they want to expand it to you know, other cars,
other brands and other cities. And so it's the same
kind of thing. You get the you know, the transparent pricing,
no hidden fees, you can see the vehicle history report.
You get a three day, three hundred mile return policy,
one thousand mile warranty, and again you buy your car
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through Amazon, but you go pick it up at the dealer.
So it's kind of like a nice middle ground where
they're saying like, look, we're very friendly dealers. We're not
trying to take your business. We're trying to give you
more business. But of course they take a cut. I'm
sure of something. And are they competing with Carvana and
CarMax in a way. I think they would love to.
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But the difference is those companies purchase your car from
you and then they sell it to someone else. Right now.
Amazon is not doing that. I'm not sure they ever
want to get involved in that business because that is
a very up and down business. It's certainly been for
Carvana and Carmacks. Of course, we see they have tons
of locations as well, so interesting, we'll see if this
(12:44):
works out. Amazon tries their hand and a lot of things, Bill,
as you know.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
One of the things about CarMax, which I really appreciate
that I've gone through CarMax before and sold a car
not buying a car, but sold a car because I
got a very good price for you. Is yeah, there's
no one to go here, it is, yeah, and that
is kind of neat. Also, Costco is involved in car sales,
but I think it's new cars, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, I believe Costco is new cars. And I think
it's one of those things where it's like the price
is fixed as well, like it's not. Is there a
negotiation with Costco? I'm not sure, but I have sold
several cars, I think two or three now to CarMax,
and most recently, during the pandemic, I sold a car
through a company called Shift and I couldn't believe how
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much they gave me for my old car, and I
could not cast that check fast enough and I was like,
this is this cannot be sustainable. And sure enough, that
company has gone out of business during the pandemic. There
are a whole bunch of these companies trying to compete
with Carvana, you know, and to a lesser extent, CarMax
because they come to you and buy the car right
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from you. And you know, CarMax is a little bit
different because you go to them. But yeah, you know, look,
you use cars are always going to be a good business.
It's just the Internet has changed things because you know,
you can search on there and find used cars pretty
much anywhere at this point and get them to your
local area.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
All right, Rich, We'll see you on k t l
A Today Live, Rich on Tech every Saturday here on
KFI eleven am to two pm, Instagram at Rich on
Tech website, Rich on Tech dot tv, on the news letter,
(14:32):
rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Rich.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
We'll catch you again, Neck.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, we'll see you this weekend of course on KFI
at eleven o'clock. We'll hear you, and then next week
right here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You have a good day, youtubell, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Is President Obama a trader and out and out trader, Well,
if you ask President Trump, he certainly is. And I'll
tell you the story of what's going on with the
DOJ opening up a grand jury probe not only against
Obama but the Obama officials, and what's that going on.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
What's going on with that? I'll explain.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And before we jump into a grand jury investigation of
the twenty sixteen election. Neil, you have a dinner engagement
coming up that you are inviting folks to come to.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
We're gonna be out Desconso Restaurant in Los Angeles on
Wilshire next to Leabri at Tarpits this Saturday, August ninth,
from two to five pm. I'll be broadcasting, then five
to seven pm, Tiffany Hobbs will be broadcasting there at
Disconso in Los Angeles. We're calling it my birthday bash,
but really it's an excuse for us to hang out.
(15:52):
We have a VIP area, so it's limited. You'll be
my guest. Just go and email rsv he at Disconso
Restaurant dot com. That's RSVP at Disconso Restaurant dot com.
Provide your full name and your number of guests, and
we'll see you on Saturday. They'll have some complimentary apps,
(16:12):
some drink specials. I'll have some swag to give away.
It'll be a good time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now let's move over to another Trump story. And this
is a story about Donald Trump. Was it a couple
of years ago he called former President Obama a trader
and it had to do with or the allegation that
Obama administration officials broke federal laws investigating Russia's potential or
(16:39):
actual involvement in the twenty sixteen election. And they're saying
that the Obama administration made up the accusation that Russia
was involved. Now, the premise or the response and has
always been the case of the Obama administration and Democrats,
(16:59):
is there was Russia in intelligence involved in Russia intervention.
Now it didn't affect the election, That didn't stop the
Russian intervention where they wanted Donald Trump to win as
opposed to Hillary. So what's going on with that? Well,
(17:20):
because of that allegation, and of course when President Trump
makes an allegation, everybody.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jumps to it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And so now there's a grand jury investigation. Attorney General
Pam Bondi has ordered the grand jury investigation into those allegations,
arguing that the campaign Russia's involvement was a witch hunt,
that or at least the accusation Russia was involved, there
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was no collusion. The whole thing was fake news. Okay,
So now we have a grand jury investigation. Prosecutors will
be subpoenaing documents, listening testimony, presenting evidence to a panel
that will determine whether or not to return an indictment.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Will there be an indictment returned? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Let me tell you about grand jury investigations. Someone is
accused or an indictment is handed down. They're not allowed
to defend themselves. They're not allowed to have an attorney
represent them in a grand jury investigation.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
In a grand jury.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Probe, the prosecutor presents the evidence to the grand jury
that the prosecutor has and asks for an indictment.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
And it's one sided.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
No defense. So what ends up happening? What do you
think ends up happening? Of course, the grand jury goes
ahead and indicts. There is a phrase in legal circles
that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if
the prosecutors ask for it. It's been around for years now. Accasionally,
(19:01):
very occasionally, a grand jury will hand down what's known
as a no bill, where they refuse to indict. Now,
I don't want you to conflate a no bill that
a grand jury renders as opposed to a no bill.
When I was hitting up on women and I was
single and a young man, that is a different no bill.
(19:25):
Will there be a no bill involved? In this one,
I don't think so. Now will it go any place?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Of course not. Is Obama a trader, of course not.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And you know, a trader, first of all, has to
be during wartime. The last time anybody was executed as
a trader was nineteen forty two. And this was an
American citizen who helped Germans. German American citizen who helped
spies come aboard the United States or come into the
United States aboard submarines anyway, convicted and executed. And people
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think that the Rosenbergs who gave secrets to the Russians
in the late forties about the atomic secrets, they were executed.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But it wasn't for treason.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It was for aiding and abetting the Russians in super
secret the super secrets of the United States in terms
of the atomic weapons. And it was a different time,
a different place. So what's going to happen. Well, the
argument was is that this was the original accusation the
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Russians were involved, was part of a witch hunt. It
was a why it was just to have Trump lose
the election, and it turned out he said I want
it anyway, helping Hillary.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Right, None of that actually was true.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
That the election was in fact somehow influenced by the Russians.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I don't think so. And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, you'll see an indictment, I think, and then you'll
see it disappear and the accusation will continue on and on.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
All right, now, I want.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
To finish up the show, which I love to do,
in getting you super depressed, and that's you're earning more,
but you are in worse shape.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
How does that work out?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I'll explain that to you as we finished the show
on a Tuesday, August fifth.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nearly ten million American kids are living in poverty, and
that's the most since twenty eighteen. And that's the latest
Census Bureau figures from twenty twenty three. And tens of
millions more are precariously close. Famili has been pushed literally
to the edge by a whole storm of economic factors,
(22:04):
primarily COVID. That has to be a big one. Why
Because money was pouring into the economy during COVID, child credit, taxes,
extra and unemployment insurance, straight out grants to people. It
was the government and there's some flak. It was Biden
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administration saying we've got to help people out and almost
to the point where it didn't matter how much it
cost the US government. You also have the impacts impact
of inflation. Even though inflation is now under control, it
is already baked in. It's not as if inflation has
gone down, it just has slowed. And then you have
(22:50):
cuts to federal spending, including food benefits, medicaid. And the
argument is Medicaid has been cut dramatically, hasn't been cut
harder for people to go on Medicaid because there are
now work requirements that mandate someone asking for Medicaid. Well,
(23:10):
that is going to cut because there are a lot
of people who can't work, and even though there are
some exemptions, there's going to be a lot of people
that are going to lose Medicaid.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And then you have food stamps that are going down.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And so even before these new cuts, the markers show
that households with kids are falling behind.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
That's the big one. That is the group of people.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That are in the worst shape with the new economy,
and that is these families with kids. So they share
of families with kids living in poverty jump thirteen percent
in twenty twenty three, and that's the most recent year available.
It had dropped to a record low of five and
a half percent in twenty twenty one, so it doubled.
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Why well, the temporary pandemic programs, the expanded child tax credit,
as I said, extra unemployment insurance now poverty for all
ages in stup it did there were a lot more
people that were poor. However, no other age demographic as
seen a sharper rise than kids and the Columbia Center
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here's why. By the way, the Census Bureau doesn't say it,
but the Columbia Center uses a family income after taxes,
government benefits, location, and economists view it is a more
accurate way to examine families financial wellbeing than the Census Bureau,
which is broader. And a lot of it has to
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do with housing. For example, I don't know how a
family here in southern California can rent a home, especially
if very little income is being made. If you have
two people working that are making minimum wage or close
to minimum wage, or even a reasonable salary, how do
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they afford a two bedroom place for three thousand dollars
a month?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How do you do it?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And then of course, buying a home is impossible. My
daughter talks about buying a home. Well, Pamalllink, give you
a reality here, you know, a two bedroom or three
bedroom cracker bat a box of a house like here
in Burbank is a million dollars and that's two hundred
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thousand dollars down. So there you are, after taxes, with
two hundred thousand dollars in the bank, and then you
have a mortgage of eight hundred thousand dollars and that's
a six and a half percent.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You can kiss buying a home. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Now you can go to Arkansas, you can go to Tennessee,
parts of Texas and you probably could afford it, but
not here. So Southern California, New Year York, San Francisco
Bay Area, unfortunately, poverty is hitting for families who have kids.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's a rough one. All right.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
We are done on this Tuesday, and I am taking
phone calls for Handle on the Law and I'll give
you marginal legal advice starting in just a moment off
the air. The number eight seven seven five to zero
eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
This is Handle on the Law. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Attorney General Pam Bondi has now directed prosecutors to launch
a grand jury investigation into an accusation that members of
the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia's twenty sixteen election interference,
and the President has called former President Obama a straight
(00:27):
out trader. Yeah, I love that, great stuff, and we'll
talk more about that at A thirty. Now it is
time for rich on Tech, our tech segment. You can
hear Rich live every Saturday, eleven am to two pm
rich on Tech. He's on KTLA every day at Channel five,
(00:47):
on Instagram, at rich on Tech website, richon Tech dot TV,
and live in person ladies and gentlemen, Rich Demurrow, Morning, Rich.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Good morning, Bill.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, nice to have you back. Were you here last week?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I was here last week. I was here last week.
Oh you said last week that it's been a while,
but it was at that point.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
See, I've completely forgotten that you were here last week.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It happens.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I know, every day, every other minute, it happens. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
A couple of things that I find fascinating. The Tesla
Diner in Hollywood. Seriously.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, well, you know, I got to visit these things,
and you know, look, this thing started planning in twenty eighteen.
It has finally come to fruition. And I actually have
a little bit of trivia for you if you know
what this was. Do you know what this was before?
It was the Tesla Diner.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This area where Hollywood West, Hollywood Porno Shops, men'sdayighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It was a Shaky's Pizza.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh I thought you were talking about the entire neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh well, no, that you can discuss forever. No, this
was a Shaky's Pizza. It's now a Tesla twenty four
to seven diner and supercharger hub. So it's got this giant,
it's kind of retro futuristic looking twenty four to seven diners,
so you can order in your car, you can charge
your car. You can also go into the diner, so
(02:29):
that the diner is open twenty four to seven, like
I said, but you can only go in from six
am until midnight. The other times you can you know,
you can eat in your car if you want, you
can eat up there. But it also has eighty superchargers,
not just for Tesla's if your Tesla, if your EV
can take one of these chargers with either an adapter
or it's got the Tesla charger built in, you can
(02:50):
charge your car there. Otherwise you cannot park there. That's
the thing you need to know. If you have a Tesla,
you can get right in, no big deal or an
eving is clever.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That is clever.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not only is it clever in terms of a potential
money maker, I'm assuming it's a revenue for the company.
I don't know how much, but what a neat way
to have people come in and kill time as opposed
to sitting in their car watching Netflix for twenty minutes
at a time.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, and there's also two giant screens. I mean, have
you seen any of the videos or pictures out of
this place or no?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, I have not.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, okay, So there's two. This is a little obviously
it's Elon Musk, so there's a little controversy. But there's
two giant screens. Like it's a drive in as well,
so you can watch a video on these screens as
you charge up. It's just kind of a place to
hang out. But one of the screens is actually in
front of an apartment building where there are you know, balconies,
(03:50):
and so it blocks all the views that these people
used to have, which is kind of wild, and I
don't know how they got around that. The owner of
the building was like, yeah, do whatever you want. But
these screens are like sixty six feet they're huge, and
you can watch the content on them, or just like
an old drive in theater, you can sync the audio
to your car, so you can tune in the same
(04:12):
thing that's on the screen and listen to it. But
you can also order food right from your car's dashboarders
I thought was kind of cool. They've got burgers, fries,
tuna melts. My food came in a mini cyber truck box,
which apparently people like I paid seven dollars extra for
the metal souvenir cup. And when you go inside, it's
(04:33):
got this old school like retro feel, but it's also
very futuristic, very optimistic about the future. All the Tesla
stuff is on display. People were gobbling up the Tesla merchandise.
There were people I talked to from all over. It
wasn't just La people. It was people from Phoenix, people
from New Orleans, and it's just it's a site to
(04:53):
be seen. So I think that Tesla, even though you
know all the controversy surrounding Tesla and Elon Musk, I
still think that this is going to be one of
the attractions that people seek out when they visit La
because there's nothing else like it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean, that's clever as hell. And of course
two questions. Number one, how's the food that's for starters?
And is you had mentioned an extra seven bucks for
the souvenir cup.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
How expensive is the food?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, so I can tell you number one the first question.
What was the first question?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Sorry, you're starting to sound like me now, how was
the food or how is the food?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Okay, the food is I thought it was excellent. I
got a burger. It's a smash burger, and of course
the menu is small, but it's high quality and so
the burger was great. They do have a person that
brings it out to your car, you know, like car
hop style, or you can go in and eat and
they call out your number whatever you've got options there.
The pricing, so in the time I was there, I
(05:57):
was there for about, you know, maybe an hour and
a half. The charging of the car was maybe twenty
dollars and then the food was another thirty five, So
you're talking about fifty bucks in just an hour and
a half and I didn't buy any merchandise. So this
is also a money making operation as well. And the
thing is Tesla owners will know that there's something called
(06:18):
an idling fee, So Tesla has come up with this
pretty smart way of getting people to get out of
their chargers when they're done charging. You can't let your
car sit there without incurring a fee, and it kicks
in after about you know, five minutes of your charge
being done. So in this in this hub, they actually
give you a grace period because they know people are
(06:39):
going to want to hang out there, So you get
about thirty five minutes of grace period before you're hit
with a fee, an idlely fee.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Now twenty bucks for a charge. Is that right in
line with Tesla chargers all over the country.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, you know, it all depends. Tesla charging is dynamics,
so there's not one price for everything. So yeah, it
just sort of depends on on the place you're charging
and what time it is.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
And you said thirty five for the food, was that
just you?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah? I got a burger and the and a drink
and the cup that came out to about thirty five.
I think the burger was like maybe fourteen fifteen bucks.
I should have looked more closely.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, because you know what I was going to hit us.
What you knew I was going to ask that question.
I mean, that's a gift.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No tipping, by the way, no tipping. It says it
says your tip is included in the price of the food,
which I thought was interesting. Yeah, looking at my ex okay,
it was seventeen dollars by the way.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, and I yeah, I don't know how much that is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's a twenty for a twenty minute charge, right, and
that brings you up to eighty percent.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That actually got me one hundred percent. I was there.
I was there total for an hour and twenty three minutes.
Now that's you know, typically if you're at a Chesla
charger for that long, you're going to be charged extra.
But this, like I said, they are doing that grace
period because they know they know this is kind of
a lucky place. You go there and you hang out
and you see stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Fair enough coming back Amazon. This is fun. Amazon is.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Selling everything. Sorry, I don't know what I just swallowed
air anyway, it's getting into the used car business. And
I will cough as soon as we get off. We'll
be right back with Rich tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know who's missing from the show right now, Bill Handle?
Everybody but us and Neil Savader. They're both gone. All
we're looking at a blank screen and.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That's all the Kira. It's you and me again, just
like five am. I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Do we have Richdiemrrol here?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm here him Rich, Well, happen the games here?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
This is the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I don't know what happened here.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I don't know, but I got it, you know what.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's just something I said, I know, right.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
After hearing you talking about the Cyber Cafe.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I gotta go. I gotta go check it out. The
Tesla Cafe.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh yeah, I mean look so cool, you know, I
get it. It's Elon, It's Tesla, it's all this stuff
surrounding that. But it's still really interesting. And you know, people,
everyone I talked to there they agree, you know, like
look politics aside, Elona's side whatever, This is still really
interesting and kind of fun to be there. It's like
there's only so many things in life that are a spectacle.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, here's a spectacle. Bill handle in his shorts,
approaching his seat and his microphone. Hey Bill, Oh yeah,
we're back. Oh all right, we were talking about spectacles,
fair enough, and we have Rich Demiro here, so take
it away.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, Tuesday, August fifth, that's today. It is Hello Kitty
Crossbody Bag Day. When I first read this, I thought
the Corner was going to produce those and give out
the crossbody bags. But no, it's the Dodgers that are
giving away the Hello Kitty Crossbody bag and they take
(10:08):
on the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium first pitch at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 4 (10:25):
Rich Tomorrow, we're back.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I know you're probably finished with this segment because you
were talking to Amy so Amazon. You know, every time
Amazon I turn around, Amazon is getting into some new business.
And as I've often said, they if they want to
buy Pakistan tomorrow afternoon. They can do it. So now
(10:47):
they're in the used car business. Explain how that works.
And they are they going to compete with Carvana and
companies of that ilk.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
They're gonna try. I'm not they're doing it a little
bit differently because Carvana. Okay, well, let me give you
the nuts and bulls first. So now, so last year
Amazon said they are gonna partner with Hyundai to sell
new cars. And the whole thing was you can go
to Amazon dot com, slash autos, you can search through
find the hun day that you want, the price is clear.
(11:19):
Everything was like very easy. You could do it all
online and then you would go to a dealership to
pick up your car. So they were partnering with dealerships,
not really cutting into their business, kind of a new
lead for business, right and I guess that's gone pretty well.
But now they're getting into used cars and certified pre
owned cars. And right now they're starting with Hundai dealerships
(11:40):
in La I guess since they already had that relationship,
but they want to expand it to you know, other cars,
other brands and other cities. And so it's the same
kind of thing. You get the you know, the transparent pricing,
no hidden fees, you can see the vehicle history report.
You get a three day, three hundred mile return policy,
one thousand mile warranty, and again you buy your car
(12:01):
through Amazon, but you go pick it up at the dealer.
So it's kind of like a nice middle ground where
they're saying like, look, we're very friendly dealers. We're not
trying to take your business. We're trying to give you
more business. But of course they take a cut. I'm
sure of something. And are they competing with Carvana and
CarMax in a way. I think they would love to.
(12:21):
But the difference is those companies purchase your car from
you and then they sell it to someone else. Right now.
Amazon is not doing that. I'm not sure they ever
want to get involved in that business because that is
a very up and down business. It's certainly been for
Carvana and Carmacks. Of course, we see they have tons
of locations as well, so interesting, we'll see if this
(12:44):
works out. Amazon tries their hand and a lot of things, Bill,
as you know.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
One of the things about CarMax, which I really appreciate
that I've gone through CarMax before and sold a car
not buying a car, but sold a car because I
got a very good price for you. Is yeah, there's
no one to go here, it is, yeah, and that
is kind of neat. Also, Costco is involved in car sales,
but I think it's new cars, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, I believe Costco is new cars. And I think
it's one of those things where it's like the price
is fixed as well, like it's not. Is there a
negotiation with Costco? I'm not sure, but I have sold
several cars, I think two or three now to CarMax,
and most recently, during the pandemic, I sold a car
through a company called Shift and I couldn't believe how
(13:32):
much they gave me for my old car, and I
could not cast that check fast enough and I was like,
this is this cannot be sustainable. And sure enough, that
company has gone out of business during the pandemic. There
are a whole bunch of these companies trying to compete
with Carvana, you know, and to a lesser extent, CarMax
because they come to you and buy the car right
(13:53):
from you. And you know, CarMax is a little bit
different because you go to them. But yeah, you know, look,
you use cars are always going to be a good business.
It's just the Internet has changed things because you know,
you can search on there and find used cars pretty
much anywhere at this point and get them to your
local area.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
All right, Rich, We'll see you on k t l
A Today Live, Rich on Tech every Saturday here on
KFI eleven am to two pm, Instagram at Rich on
Tech website, Rich on Tech dot tv, on the news letter,
(14:32):
rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Rich.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
We'll catch you again, Neck.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, we'll see you this weekend of course on KFI
at eleven o'clock. We'll hear you, and then next week
right here.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You have a good day, youtubell, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Take care.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Coming up?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Is President Obama a trader and out and out trader, Well,
if you ask President Trump, he certainly is. And I'll
tell you the story of what's going on with the
DOJ opening up a grand jury probe not only against
Obama but the Obama officials, and what's that going on.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
What's going on with that? I'll explain.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And before we jump into a grand jury investigation of
the twenty sixteen election. Neil, you have a dinner engagement
coming up that you are inviting folks to come to.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
We're gonna be out Desconso Restaurant in Los Angeles on
Wilshire next to Leabri at Tarpits this Saturday, August ninth,
from two to five pm. I'll be broadcasting, then five
to seven pm, Tiffany Hobbs will be broadcasting there at
Disconso in Los Angeles. We're calling it my birthday bash,
but really it's an excuse for us to hang out.
(15:52):
We have a VIP area, so it's limited. You'll be
my guest. Just go and email rsv he at Disconso
Restaurant dot com. That's RSVP at Disconso Restaurant dot com.
Provide your full name and your number of guests, and
we'll see you on Saturday. They'll have some complimentary apps,
(16:12):
some drink specials. I'll have some swag to give away.
It'll be a good time.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now let's move over to another Trump story. And this
is a story about Donald Trump. Was it a couple
of years ago he called former President Obama a trader
and it had to do with or the allegation that
Obama administration officials broke federal laws investigating Russia's potential or
(16:39):
actual involvement in the twenty sixteen election. And they're saying
that the Obama administration made up the accusation that Russia
was involved. Now, the premise or the response and has
always been the case of the Obama administration and Democrats,
(16:59):
is there was Russia in intelligence involved in Russia intervention.
Now it didn't affect the election, That didn't stop the
Russian intervention where they wanted Donald Trump to win as
opposed to Hillary. So what's going on with that? Well,
(17:20):
because of that allegation, and of course when President Trump
makes an allegation, everybody.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jumps to it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And so now there's a grand jury investigation. Attorney General
Pam Bondi has ordered the grand jury investigation into those allegations,
arguing that the campaign Russia's involvement was a witch hunt,
that or at least the accusation Russia was involved, there
(17:47):
was no collusion. The whole thing was fake news. Okay,
So now we have a grand jury investigation. Prosecutors will
be subpoenaing documents, listening testimony, presenting evidence to a panel
that will determine whether or not to return an indictment.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Will there be an indictment returned? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Let me tell you about grand jury investigations. Someone is
accused or an indictment is handed down. They're not allowed
to defend themselves. They're not allowed to have an attorney
represent them in a grand jury investigation.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
In a grand jury.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Probe, the prosecutor presents the evidence to the grand jury
that the prosecutor has and asks for an indictment.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
And it's one sided.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
No defense. So what ends up happening? What do you
think ends up happening? Of course, the grand jury goes
ahead and indicts. There is a phrase in legal circles
that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if
the prosecutors ask for it. It's been around for years now. Accasionally,
(19:01):
very occasionally, a grand jury will hand down what's known
as a no bill, where they refuse to indict. Now,
I don't want you to conflate a no bill that
a grand jury renders as opposed to a no bill.
When I was hitting up on women and I was
single and a young man, that is a different no bill.
(19:25):
Will there be a no bill involved? In this one,
I don't think so. Now will it go any place?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Of course not. Is Obama a trader, of course not.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And you know, a trader, first of all, has to
be during wartime. The last time anybody was executed as
a trader was nineteen forty two. And this was an
American citizen who helped Germans. German American citizen who helped
spies come aboard the United States or come into the
United States aboard submarines anyway, convicted and executed. And people
(20:01):
think that the Rosenbergs who gave secrets to the Russians
in the late forties about the atomic secrets, they were executed.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But it wasn't for treason.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It was for aiding and abetting the Russians in super
secret the super secrets of the United States in terms
of the atomic weapons. And it was a different time,
a different place. So what's going to happen. Well, the
argument was is that this was the original accusation the
(20:36):
Russians were involved, was part of a witch hunt. It
was a why it was just to have Trump lose
the election, and it turned out he said I want
it anyway, helping Hillary.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Right, None of that actually was true.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
That the election was in fact somehow influenced by the Russians.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I don't think so. And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Well, you'll see an indictment, I think, and then you'll
see it disappear and the accusation will continue on and on.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
All right, now, I want.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
To finish up the show, which I love to do,
in getting you super depressed, and that's you're earning more,
but you are in worse shape.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
How does that work out?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I'll explain that to you as we finished the show
on a Tuesday, August fifth.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nearly ten million American kids are living in poverty, and
that's the most since twenty eighteen. And that's the latest
Census Bureau figures from twenty twenty three. And tens of
millions more are precariously close. Famili has been pushed literally
to the edge by a whole storm of economic factors,
(22:04):
primarily COVID. That has to be a big one. Why
Because money was pouring into the economy during COVID, child credit, taxes,
extra and unemployment insurance, straight out grants to people. It
was the government and there's some flak. It was Biden
(22:26):
administration saying we've got to help people out and almost
to the point where it didn't matter how much it
cost the US government. You also have the impacts impact
of inflation. Even though inflation is now under control, it
is already baked in. It's not as if inflation has
gone down, it just has slowed. And then you have
(22:50):
cuts to federal spending, including food benefits, medicaid. And the
argument is Medicaid has been cut dramatically, hasn't been cut
harder for people to go on Medicaid because there are
now work requirements that mandate someone asking for Medicaid. Well,
(23:10):
that is going to cut because there are a lot
of people who can't work, and even though there are
some exemptions, there's going to be a lot of people
that are going to lose Medicaid.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And then you have food stamps that are going down.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And so even before these new cuts, the markers show
that households with kids are falling behind.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
That's the big one. That is the group of people.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That are in the worst shape with the new economy,
and that is these families with kids. So they share
of families with kids living in poverty jump thirteen percent
in twenty twenty three, and that's the most recent year available.
It had dropped to a record low of five and
a half percent in twenty twenty one, so it doubled.
(23:57):
Why well, the temporary pandemic programs, the expanded child tax credit,
as I said, extra unemployment insurance now poverty for all
ages in stup it did there were a lot more
people that were poor. However, no other age demographic as
seen a sharper rise than kids and the Columbia Center
(24:21):
here's why. By the way, the Census Bureau doesn't say it,
but the Columbia Center uses a family income after taxes,
government benefits, location, and economists view it is a more
accurate way to examine families financial wellbeing than the Census Bureau,
which is broader. And a lot of it has to
(24:42):
do with housing. For example, I don't know how a
family here in southern California can rent a home, especially
if very little income is being made. If you have
two people working that are making minimum wage or close
to minimum wage, or even a reasonable salary, how do
(25:03):
they afford a two bedroom place for three thousand dollars
a month?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How do you do it?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
And then of course, buying a home is impossible. My
daughter talks about buying a home. Well, Pamalllink, give you
a reality here, you know, a two bedroom or three
bedroom cracker bat a box of a house like here
in Burbank is a million dollars and that's two hundred
(25:34):
thousand dollars down. So there you are, after taxes, with
two hundred thousand dollars in the bank, and then you
have a mortgage of eight hundred thousand dollars and that's
a six and a half percent.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
You can kiss buying a home. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Now you can go to Arkansas, you can go to Tennessee,
parts of Texas and you probably could afford it, but
not here. So Southern California, New Year York, San Francisco
Bay Area, unfortunately, poverty is hitting for families who have kids.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's a rough one. All right.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
We are done on this Tuesday, and I am taking
phone calls for Handle on the Law and I'll give
you marginal legal advice starting in just a moment off
the air. The number eight seven seven five to zero
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