WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.960 KM I am sixty. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand on 2 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:11.320 the iHeartRadio app. Chris Mariland from O Kelly give it an eye on that 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.160 standoff. That's good times, good time with the standoff. Who doesn't love 4 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.120 a good stand up, huh? I know I do. I'm a big 5 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:22.480 fan of it, big big fan. So anyway, we'll give an eye 6 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:27.600 on what's going on there that the everybody's standing off fighting one another. Meanwhile, 7 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:33.840 travel continues by the air air travel. I don't if you're unfamiliar, 8 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:39.240 and well, we'll connect on what's going on with the standoff here. As 9 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.320 I see what's going on, I'm trying to keep an eye on it. 10 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:47.119 But honestly, listen, my Internet is like the whole strings on a tin 11 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:52.159 can thing going on right now. So behind the scenes, listen, I 12 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.039 sung calm, cool and collected, but behind the scenes kind of freaking out 13 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.000 as we speak. So I wanted to talk about this briefly, is what 14 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:00.200 I had in my notes, and I'm I'm just going to kind of forge 15 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.200 forward as we watch what else is going on, and I'm going to rely 16 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.120 on ron Or to jump in if he has to. Is that once again, 17 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.439 we've got another airline issue. Now. There were some internet issues with 18 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:18.040 some of the airports this morning, which delayed things all day long. But 19 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:23.680 then there was this Imagine that you are on a flight, and I've always 20 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:27.840 imagined how wonderful it would be. I don't know why, strange thoughts to 21 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.040 slide down one of those emergency slides. I get such a kick out of 22 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.000 those things. I don't know why, but I do. So. Imagine 23 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.040 that you're in New York and you're headed back here, right, so you're 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:44.200 about to jump in in the plane, and the plane takes off and everything's 25 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.840 fine, and then you're in the air, and I can tell you this 26 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.719 is not when it's supposed to happen. You're in the air and the emergency 27 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:57.920 slide deploys YEP. Typically frowned upon, not something to give somebody a whole 28 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.519 lot of comfort, which was the case with Delta Airlines this morning. The 29 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.879 FAA is investigating another incident in the sky. This morning. A Delta flight 30 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:13.240 carrying one hundred and sixty seven passengers had to turn around after departing JFK Airport 31 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.960 due to an emergency equipment malfunction. The plane was headed to LA, but 32 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:22.319 it returned after about thirty minutes. Delta says the emergency slide had separated from 33 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.159 the air. They say, what, no one? Aaircraft landed safely. 34 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:30.319 Everything was fine. After take off, the crew observed a flight deck indication 35 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.520 related to the right wing emergency exit slide, as well as a non routine 36 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.319 sound from the rear right wing. That non routine sound would have been the 37 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:46.840 screaming of passengers as they watch a piece of the wing deployed so the slide 38 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:52.280 falls off. As the thing is in the air, a couple of things 39 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.639 come to mind. Right The obvious is, oh my god, we're all 40 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:02.680 going to die. That's first. Foremost. Second is when you start thinking 41 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.159 about the people on the ground. Look, there are freak accidents. In 42 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.240 fact, last week there was an issue with NASA. I don't know if 43 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.800 you caught this. NASA had a piece of their International Space Station fell out 44 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:20.439 of the space and crashed through somebody's roof and lodged itself in the wall. 45 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:24.280 They later determined it was like a giant battery. I say giant, not 46 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.479 like the size of a car battery, but definitely larger than a D battery. 47 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:36.159 It was meaty. It was a sizeable, chunky battery that came out 48 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.159 and it right on through the ceiling and lodged itself in the wall. And 49 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.599 I immediately thought, my god, what is the worst way to die. 50 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:47.199 That's got to be one of the worst freak accidents anyone could imagine. Right 51 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.759 then I got to thinking about suppose you're on your way to work and you're 52 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:58.199 driving along the New York I don't know roads in New York, turned Pike, 53 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:06.199 New York Way, the whatever, and then you are smothered by an 54 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.840 emergency slide. If and this is where I always get a little bit confused, 55 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:18.639 if you are if you are a victim of an emergency slide crashing through 56 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:26.680 the roof of your vehicle and it crushes you, is that considered irony? 57 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.040 Right? Because it's an emergency slide is meant to save lives and then you're 58 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.240 dead. That didn't happen, Thank god, did not happen. Air traffic 59 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:41.160 control audio obtained by the news station there in New York captured when the pilot 60 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.240 communicated that the plane was heading back to JFK, saying Delta five twenty. 61 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.839 Yeah, we got an indication light that the right wing flight latch on the 62 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.079 door. One of the latches is showing an open indication. So yeah, 63 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:55.480 we plan on returning back to Kennedy and having them take a look at it, 64 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.240 saying we are starting to get a little bit of vibration on that right 65 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.240 side. We're not declaring an emergency this, but we'd like to return back 66 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.720 to Kennedy as soon as possible. Seems kind of emergency like to me, 67 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:10.279 And I know what you're thinking. I don't know what you're thinking. I'm 68 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.439 just hoping that you and I are thinking the same thing. You're thinking, 69 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.240 is this another Boeing incident? And I think that's a really good question. 70 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.920 You know what's funny is that the stories I found about this, this lax 71 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.519 bound Delta flight that had the emergency slide fly off after it had taken off, 72 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.879 what I found was, Yep, it's a Boeing. Yep, sure 73 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:41.199 enough. Now look full disclosure. I bought Boeing stock a number of years 74 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:46.000 ago because I was told that Boeing stock always makes money. Even when Boeing 75 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:51.519 has disasters, Boeing rebounds and makes money because they have these giant government contracts. 76 00:05:53.040 --> 00:06:00.600 They're one of only two major producers of aircraft and so going tends to 77 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.319 do really well. This was a seven sixty seven, by the way, 78 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.560 for you air nerds, a seven sixty seven to three hundred twin jet as 79 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:16.399 it were. I'm gonna say, not a good look for the Boeing manufacturing 80 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:24.639 company, frowned upon when you have doors, not doors, old doors that 81 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.360 were welded on, and then the welds come loosen, the door falls off, 82 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.600 and then you have people making that funny look like they do in their 83 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.199 skydiving or their their cheek sculpe flying back. So you've got that going for 84 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.639 you. Uh, and then what wheels falling on? We had a wheel 85 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:42.439 fall off a few weeks ago, and now we've got the emergency slide is 86 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:49.040 exploding off of the wing. This is not a great way to end your 87 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:54.600 week. Not a great way, not just for Boeing, but for any 88 00:06:54.639 --> 00:07:00.000 of the passengers. Now funny side note, coincidentally, I have to drop 89 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.920 my wife off at the airport at six o'clock tomorrow morning. She will be 90 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:10.839 in a Boeing, So I did make sure premiums are paid. We're we're 91 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.720 up to snuff on that, We're ready to go. So it should anything 92 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:23.160 happen, I guess Dinners on me. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly 93 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:29.240 on demand from KFI AM six forty. This is the worst. I think 94 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.040 you sound like you should be recording Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album right now. That's 95 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:36.680 good, that's really smart. I like that deep cut. Oh my gosh, 96 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.759 I'm having the worst time. My sound card died. My my internet 97 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.759 is garbage. It's an impressive day of just everything going wrong all at once. 98 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.040 I'm here for you. Thanks, buddy, I appreciate you. What's 99 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.680 the deal on the standoff? I was I had it open and that I 100 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:56.439 was trying to fix my internets. I'm not seeing it on the TV right 101 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:01.720 now. I've got went to commercial. Channel five doesn't have it, and 102 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.439 my other TV's on CNN. So we'll we're taking that scar a breather from 103 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.040 the standoff. Fix that, Hey, sa, I'll get on it. 104 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.920 Anything else, you need something to eat? Are you hydrated? You need 105 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:20.000 to stay hydrated? Thank god, I have you here. I missed that 106 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.959 voice. It's been a while. I know, I know, I was 107 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.399 really looking forward to this and every now and again on that Sunday show, 108 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.160 I'll have a little bit of a hiccup on the internets, and I contacted 109 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.120 Cocks and they're like, hello, may I have your name? I'm like, 110 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.639 yeah, it's Chris Merrill and they go, I'm waiting for your name. 111 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.480 Oh, you sons of guns. I'll put you in your place. 112 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.720 Yeah, and then let's see, I just got this. Would you like 113 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.840 a tective visit. I can check the slots for you. There may be 114 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.440 a possible charge of seventy five dollars if the issue is on your end. 115 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.120 There will be no charge for you if it's on our end. Yeah, 116 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:07.200 yeah, check this slots. Yeah. So this is a this is a 117 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.200 high quality radio program we're putting forth right now. Who does the thing is? 118 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.279 Is that sometimes when this stuff goes wrong, all of a sudden, 119 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.799 it will just magically clear right up. I don't get it. Well, 120 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.960 look, you and I can pretend we're kids doing that thing with the cans 121 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.039 on the piece of string across the street from each other. It'll just be 122 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.960 you and me. Nobody else is listening. Yeah, that's kind of what 123 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:30.840 it feels like, too, right. I'm literally holding the like the team's 124 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:35.720 camera up to my mustache. If you take a photo of this fancy. 125 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.399 Oh, it's so bad. Just like Star Trek. I was covering on 126 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.120 my day job. I was covering some of these protests that people are doing 127 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.879 on the college campuses, and I saw that, you know, USC has 128 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.919 decided we're going to cancel all of our commencement ceremony. And I thought good, 129 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.840 because the last thing was that the valedictorian was and she was pro Palestinian, 130 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.480 and so they were other people. They were telling other people they didn't 131 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.320 have to come in and get their honorary degrees and they shouldn't come speak and 132 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.720 all this kind of stuff. And then I see that there's another demonstration encampments 133 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:22.200 at UCLA and happening all over the country. And I'm fascinated by this because 134 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.000 there seems to be two schools of thought. It's either, yeah, the 135 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.879 protesters are right on, yeah, good stand up for what you believe in. 136 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:35.879 Or it's the protesters are anti Semits and they hate America and they want 137 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:41.159 death to America. And there's really no nuance left in America, is there. 138 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.200 I think it's not really an either or situation, and there is some 139 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.159 nuance to be had, but people aren't treating it that way. The Daily 140 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.320 Show. The Daily Show had a fantastic segment on it last night where they 141 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.399 pointed out, you know, can can universities ever do anything without cracking down 142 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.159 on people? And just from my own I was a history student, along 143 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.440 with a few other things, did we learn anything from Vietnam? Anything at 144 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.399 all? And we learned at the other thing that struck me? And I 145 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.240 made that same comment to a respected colleague of mine today and he said, 146 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.200 listen, Vietnam was different. That was a war we shouldn't have been in. 147 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.919 That was a different situation altogether. We don't have any troops in Israel 148 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.360 and we're probably not going to have any going into Gaza. And I went, 149 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.480 I don't know about that. He said, we don't need to. 150 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:33.360 We have drones. Well, taking the moral high ground there, Yeah, 151 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:41.600 okay. There was a really interesting commentary that I read in the morning newsletter 152 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.919 from the New York Times, and it had to do with Arnold Kling, 153 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.360 who's an economist, and he published a book, they said, a decade 154 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.840 ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between the progressives and 155 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:56.320 conservatives. He said, progressive see the world as a struggle between the oppressor 156 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.679 and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see, 157 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.639 the world is a struggle between civilization and barbarism, between order and chaos, 158 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:09.759 and the product they try to protect civilization. And so one of the things 159 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.559 that strikes me when it comes to the protests about Hamas is they say, 160 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:18.759 you people who are supporting Palestine, you're celebrating the murders on October seventh, 161 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:28.159 Right, That struck me as absolute. Is there no room to acknowledge an 162 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:33.360 overkill of civilian deaths without being called an anti Semite? That was my question. 163 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.639 Okay, certain nuanced? Whatsoever? I actually I've got to tell you, 164 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.840 without taking sides or anything, I am heartened that college students are taking 165 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:52.399 a moral stand and popping their heads up from their smartphones about something else going 166 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.519 on the world, in the world that's not directly affecting their lives. I'm 167 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.200 kind of proud that this has happened for once. Yeah, so there is 168 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.960 that piece that should be celebrated. However, I do run into the there 169 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:13.480 are the people screaming death to Israel from the river to the sea, all 170 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.200 that stuff. Right, He's like, maybe just tone it down, like 171 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:22.559 know your own nuances. But again, we're not in a world of nuance, 172 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.759 right, No, And there's always going to be extremists and troublemakers and 173 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.320 anarchists in any kind of movement like that. I mean anything I've ever covered 174 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.679 as a reporter. I mean, there were reasonable people in the wto riots, 175 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.919 and there were the ones smashing the Starbucks windows, and they always kind 176 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.799 of dragged the debate and the attention toward them when it shouldn't be. Yeah, 177 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.639 but that's the easiest way to argue. It's just find the most extreme 178 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.120 example. Zero went on that as an example of what everyone's doing. Yeah, 179 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.200 and it's up to the adults in the room not to do that. 180 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.919 Where are those Can you point them out to me? There's none in this 181 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.399 room. Yeah, that's that's what we run into. There don't seem to 182 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.559 be any all right. I'm going to see if I can plug a different 183 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:11.360 microphone in because this is garbage. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on 184 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:16.000 Demand from KFI AM six forty. I don't know if this one's any better? 185 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.200 Is it a little better? I think you sound a little better a 186 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:28.080 little bit. Still sounds like I'm in the bathtub. Bad deal. Man 187 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.919 of it. We got this. I appreciate you. You're a good man. 188 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:39.519 All right. So where was I? We had Palestine? Yeah, 189 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.759 nuances? Oh yeah, yeah, here's another. There's another onegream. I 190 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.240 don't know if he caught this. So the La Times had a story that 191 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.279 was talking about the bane of retail to prevent theft, Many big chains now 192 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.360 lock up all kinds of merchandise. And that sounds ominous, doesn't it. 193 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:01.039 But if you've been to a store or lately, and it also depends on 194 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.639 which neighborhood you're in, but if you've been to a story, you know 195 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.840 that sometimes weird things get locked up. Have you been? I mean, 196 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.600 what's the strangest thing for me? It's it's where they lock up the underwear. 197 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:22.399 And I think hm are boxer thefts on the rise underwear underwear? Is 198 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:28.279 there grand theft briefs going on? I don't know. And if it goes 199 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.720 to court until the lawyers have to file a stop, don't do it. 200 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:39.080 So so this article was talking about all this this locked up stuff and deodorant. 201 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.840 I think razor blades are gonna be locked up for probably the rest of 202 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.080 our lives because they're easy to steal right there. They have value and you 203 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.720 can pocket those really easily. Yeah, those things are as expensive as saffron 204 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.279 and printer ink. And I can't believe how expensive they are. That's insane. 205 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.320 And I made the mistake. I got the TMU ones. And the 206 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:06.320 problem with the Timu razors they cut more skin than they do hair. They're 207 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:10.399 bad. What are Tu razors? It's like, have you not been on 208 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:15.960 Timu? No? Oh, Mark, I'm missing beautiful man. Apart from 209 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.799 having the flesh flensed from my skeleton. Well, you're definitely missing out on 210 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:23.120 that. Uh, wish have you done wish? No? I haven't done 211 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.039 that either, but you know what it is. Yeah, I'm aware of 212 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.159 it. Okay. So Timu's like wish. It's like, here's a bunch 213 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.039 of junk from China. We'll ship it to you and uh, and you 214 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.679 can save a whole bunch of money. It'll probably fall apart by the time 215 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.799 it gets there. Who could resist, right, But when you see razors 216 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.639 that are thirty of them for the price of one Gillette razor, you think 217 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:51.679 it's worth a shot. And they last about I would say I get like 218 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:56.159 two shavings out each each one of them. They're bad, So I don't 219 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:02.480 recommend, but what they're saying is well. The true severity and scope of 220 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.799 the problem remain an enduring mystery of the free market, as national chains eagerly 221 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.960 point to retail theft is a key drag on profits, but are reticent to 222 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:18.440 publicly discuss internal numbers on shrink huh. They won't talk about it publicly, 223 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:23.279 or or specifics on anti theft measures. According to the Murkiness, the issue 224 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:26.839 has become more politicized in recent years, as some voters and elected officials in 225 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:32.359 Los Angeles, San Francisco and other city centers clamor for a response to what 226 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.359 they are seeing as a worsening problem. So is retail theft getting worse? 227 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:44.640 It depends what do you want to believe, Because if you want to say 228 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.480 it's getting worse, the politicians are happy to tell you it's getting much worse. 229 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.079 If you want to look at statistics, you're going to be very disappointed. 230 00:17:52.680 --> 00:18:00.279 Yeah. I looked at the whole fact checking and here's what the Renan 231 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:06.680 Center for Justice says. Broader claims about trends and retail theft have not panned 232 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.559 out. Walgreens, for example, cited spikes and shoplifting as an explanation for 233 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.599 falling profits and store closures. The claim has since been retracted. Hold on, 234 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.680 it's since been retracted. I thought this was a growing problem. I 235 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:27.680 thought this was the bane of retail, as is the headline in the La 236 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:34.519 Times, the bane of retail, And yet they've retracted that claim. Target 237 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.759 blamed theft for a rash of store closures, but in an analysis showed that 238 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.359 according to the limited data available, because again they shroud all of their actual 239 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:51.759 numbers and mystery, Target closed stores in Portland and Seattle that had less crimes 240 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.240 than stores that were not closing. I should also point out I think they 241 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:00.400 should say fewer crimes, but we're just gonna go with less crime. CNBC 242 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.720 in September of last year, cast dout on retailer claims about the impact of 243 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.680 theft, noting that certain retailers have pulled back from blaming organized theft as a 244 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:14.920 primary cause of losses, in fact to the extent that it can be replied 245 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.839 upon industry data, says the recent national spike in retail theft, it's just 246 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:27.759 not there. Retail shrink is held steady since twenty fifteen, So why do 247 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:34.279 we keep pushing this whole lie. Look, here's the headline from the La 248 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:41.680 Times from early twenty twenty three. I think it was March retailer setting theft 249 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:48.000 lost one hundred and twelve billion dollars in inventory in twenty twenty two USA today 250 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.519 from the middle of last year. Retail theft and other factors drained billions from 251 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:57.319 stores in twenty twenty two. And here's what Reuters had this in June. 252 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:03.000 I think of last year, organized retail crime a multi billion dollar problem. 253 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:10.200 And they said, quoting a retail source, it's costing seventy billion dollars a 254 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:17.240 year. But as Marie Povich would say, that was a lie. So 255 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:30.160 what's going on. It's it's a very convenient lie. I guess that the 256 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:37.119 politicians can push because who you gonna believe, those geeky statisticians or your eyes. 257 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:41.640 And here's a TikTok showing you all of the crime that's growing. Look, 258 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:48.119 growing crime, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, growing crime, 259 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.319 organized crime. If you walk by an Apple store, you'll see people that 260 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:57.880 are stealing iPads, iPhones, and I don't even know what else. If 261 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:03.960 you go into a Greens you'll see a young man on a bicycle who's just 262 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.200 pulling items off the shelf and riding out the door. All of these things, 263 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:15.240 mind you, did happen. But are all of these things constantly happening. 264 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.839 They're not. The numbers just aren't there. And then I was reading 265 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:26.960 an article caw Matters had let me see Wednesday. So the cow Matters article 266 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:34.400 says that listen, these petty thefts and these and these drug offenses are on 267 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:40.160 the way up. They're not, but they're on the way up because of 268 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:42.599 Proposition forty seven. You know what that is, right, that's the one 269 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:48.680 where they raised the threshold between a a misdemeanor and a felony and I had 270 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.920 to be over one thousand dollars. And they said Prop forty seven is the 271 00:21:53.960 --> 00:22:02.519 reason for the uptick in crime. Just another example of how California politicians are 272 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:10.599 ruining America. But it's not there. This notion of raising things up to 273 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:15.480 one thousand dollars for something to go from a misdemeanor to a felony. The 274 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:22.440 narrative is, well, now you've got criminals that know that they can steal 275 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:27.200 up to one thousand dollars. And then uh, and so that's what they're 276 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:33.599 doing. Do they take calculators in with them? I'm glad you brought that 277 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.519 up. How many of these people do you suppose are walking through there with 278 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:45.799 one of those old school cash registers chi chin ju chtin None. When they 279 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:49.279 go into the Apple Store and they start ripping things off the walls, do 280 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.160 you think they're going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 281 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.480 Don't get the iPhone fifteen that's a base retail price of twelve ninety nine. 282 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.400 You're gonna have to go to the older model that's been reduced in price down 283 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:04.200 to nine. None. No, of course they're not any want more evidence? 284 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:10.599 I love this. I was doing a show in Dallas a few months 285 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:15.839 ago and they were on about how California retail crime is on the way up 286 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:21.119 and it's a disaster in society's falling apart and all this other stuff. And 287 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:22.839 I actually had a caller that said, well, this is because they put 288 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.079 in Prop forty seven. And I said, oh, that's the one that 289 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:30.960 raised the threshold from a felony up to one thousand dollars, right, And 290 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.680 they said yes, and the criminals know how to get around it. Wow, 291 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.880 that's interesting. I said, what do you suppose the threshold is in 292 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:44.319 Texas? And they said, I don't know, there's two thousand dollars. 293 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:55.480 So evidently the sorry criminals in California are smarter than the criminals in Texas because 294 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:57.920 they care calculators. Well, it just goes to follow, of course, 295 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:03.559 California criminals. Are you put it? A Writer's article from last summer. 296 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:08.119 Writers also reported in December of last year that the National Retail Federation had to 297 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:12.559 retract its statements about organized retail theft, so they I'm glad you brought that 298 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:18.160 up. Yeah, because there's a big difference between retail theft and shrinkage. 299 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:23.599 This is one of those. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle 300 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:29.160 is not a square situations. I'll sort of explain that and then tell you 301 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.960 about the upside of pushing the narrative that just is not true. You're listening 302 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:40.680 to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty look back on 303 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:45.599 the standoff that's going on on the ninety one freeway. What channel are you're 304 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:51.480 watching it on? I got a channel seven ABC, okay, but I 305 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:56.680 might be on a delay because I'm watching the streaming feed, So they have 306 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.519 the dog out there ready to go. They just pulled a cruiser up to 307 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:02.319 the back of the this van that's wedged against the wall. It was a 308 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.400 pursuit. They put out the stopsticks right, and the van kind of crashed 309 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.279 into a wall, completely surrounded by cops. They seem to have something like 310 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:17.279 a sheet and maybe a cardboard box hanging out the window. Are you still 311 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.240 seeing this or am I delayed too far here? Okay, I just got 312 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:22.880 it on KKEW. Looks like they have somebody on the ground. The cops 313 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:25.119 do. Oh they got him on the ground now, Hi, okay, 314 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:30.240 so but they're they're obscuring whatever they got. What don't do that? That's 315 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.680 the good stuff. The van's over on the side, the door on the 316 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:37.880 sides open. The driver's door is open, so it must they must have 317 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:44.680 the driver down on the ground. Oh let's shoot bad. Yeah. I 318 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:48.079 kind of love that. Okay, I probably shouldn't though, right, I 319 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.079 should probably be like, oh, thank goodness, just to serve now everybody 320 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:55.119 can get home. But I'm not stuck in that traffic, So for me, 321 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:59.039 I get kind of excited about that silly stuff. Well, you're only 322 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:03.200 human. It's silly, they get kind of crazy, wound up by that. 323 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.039 Who doesn't like a good car chase? Right, yeah, okay, 324 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.039 yeah, now the streaming just went back. Oh yeah, they pulled him 325 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:14.960 out of the van. They've got him. It's not obscured on seven. 326 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:19.599 It's just that there's cops in the way. Yeah, they got somebody. 327 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:22.400 Yeah, they got somebody. All right, So it sounds like that pursuit 328 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.079 is gonna end, and then I don't know, maybe they're gonna get traffic 329 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:27.960 moving here in the next ten twenty minutes. So if you're stuck in that 330 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:32.880 mess, then good news. I guess you're you're gonna be on your way 331 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:38.400 home soon. Ish. I suppose. All right, what were we talking 332 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.720 about, Mark, Oh, we were talking about that retail crime. Oh, 333 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:44.880 yes, there's a crime wave, retail crime wave. And I happen 334 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.119 to see another headline that that popped up from the La Times this week, 335 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.680 the bane of retail to prevent theft, many big chains now lock up all 336 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:59.359 kinds of merchandise. And I thought, but the stats don't show that there's 337 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.440 actually been enough crime. You know what shows there's been enough ticking crime TikTok. 338 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.759 But it's in front of us. Now, we can't ignore it. 339 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.000 We can't pretend like, well, the stats show it's not so bad, 340 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:12.519 because there it is. It's on TikTok. I saw it. And then 341 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.519 the TikTok video got shared on all of the news stations, and the news 342 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.079 stations breathlessly replayed it over and over and over again. They said, look 343 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.000 at the smashing grab, look at this going on, look at that going 344 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:27.000 on. And I will say this, though, stats do show that it's 345 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:33.759 gone up in Los Angeles County. It's one of the few, but the 346 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:38.519 stats have gone up a little bit. So give that, okay, But 347 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.440 here's what we have. Here's what we have going on right now. Imagine 348 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:48.200 that you are a DA. What's your job. Your job is enforcing a 349 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.079 little tough on crime. You say you're the ag. What do you say 350 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.160 that's tough on crime. I don't care which side of the political aisle you're 351 00:27:56.200 --> 00:28:00.960 on. You always say tough on crime. On the state's top cop. 352 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.079 I'm the county's top cop. I'm the city's top cop, city attorney, 353 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:11.519 district attorney, attorney general. I'm tough on crime. And so if you 354 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.839 can find this is what's brilliant about it if you can find something that people 355 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:21.200 are convinced that we they've already convinced themselves that crime is on the uptick because 356 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:25.680 TikTok told us, and then all of a sudden you can come out and 357 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:32.720 say, under my watch, we're seeing retail crime numbers back to their twenty 358 00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:37.119 fifteen levels, even though they never came off their twenty fifteen levels statistically speaking, 359 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.920 Why would you ever counter the argument. Why would you ever say, 360 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.759 oh, hey, the National Retail Federation actually backtracked on what they were saying, 361 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:51.079 because it was total bunk. You would never do that. You would 362 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.599 say I'm tough on crime. Or it's kind of a backdraft situation too. 363 00:28:55.640 --> 00:29:00.480 You know, remember, of course you remember the movie Mark backdraftsat film. 364 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.720 Sure, Yeah, who was the guy setting the fires? Oh? It 365 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:08.839 was it Scott Glenn? I forget it was Scott Glenn. Also, if 366 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.839 you didn't see the movie, you should know Scott Glenn was one of the 367 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.119 firefighters. So the whole thing, I mean, otherwise just saying it with 368 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.920 Scott Glenn setting fires probably doesn't ring so true with people. But it was 369 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.119 one of the firefighters. So I got to set these fires and then I'm 370 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.960 doing it for us. It makes us look good, we get more funding, 371 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.440 we have know all this other stuff that happens, and Alec Baldwin says, 372 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.079 what not Alec Baldwin, who was it? Kurt Russell, Yeah, 373 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.920 it was one of the Baldwin brothers that was in that too. I can't 374 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:42.160 believe it was you that did this the whole time. So imagine you've got 375 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:47.599 this narrative that crime is on the uptick, and then you're a politician who 376 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:49.039 of course is going to catch a little bit of grief to start with and 377 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.720 might cost you your job if you're in San Francisco. But if you're one 378 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.920 of the politicians here, you can say, under my watch, we put 379 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.640 together the Organized Retail Crime crit Task. And then you can go to the 380 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.000 city council and you can say, well, you've all seen the tiktoks, 381 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.079 crime is on the rise. You're gonna have to give me more money. 382 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:10.000 And the city council is like, well, don't have a choice. Crime 383 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:15.599 is on the rise. I was just watching a TikTok about this and then 384 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.960 they say, well, I turned on Fox News and it said crime was 385 00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:21.039 on the rise. Look at crime ridden cities and they showed San Francisco, 386 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:26.000 Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, So let's allocate some more funds, 387 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.400 and they do because they want to be the politics. They don't want to 388 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:36.680 be the politician the castill vote against trying to stop crime. They don't want 389 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:41.000 to be the pro violence, the pro crime city council member. You can't 390 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.200 run against that. And so it kind of behooves them to keep buying into 391 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.160 the narrative, to keep pushing the narrative that things are bad. Boy, 392 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:56.880 you thought they were bad before they're even batter Now. Meanwhile, these same 393 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:03.039 companies keep locking up underwear and so what do you and I do? We 394 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.400 order ours? I love that the l Times article quoted somebody is saying, 395 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.799 I give my money now to Daddy Bezos. Commando is always an option. 396 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.160 Yeah, you can do that. I mean, listen, if you're on 397 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.079 a budget, you gotta do what you gotta do. But I'm giving my 398 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:25.920 money to Daddy Bezos instead. Daddy Bezos. I mean, that's just fantastic. 399 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.839 So Amazon doesn't have any interest in saying, now, the crime is 400 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.759 not as bad as what people are claiming. The politicians don't have any reason 401 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.680 to say crime is not as bad as what people are saying. TV networks 402 00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.240 don't have any reason to say crime is not as bad as what people are 403 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.960 saying. The stores don't have any reason to do that because the stores are 404 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.839 saying, well, we had to close these stores because your community is violent. 405 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.720 They gaslight the hell out of things, and then they save money, 406 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.319 and then they say our profits they're up. So the trouble here is that 407 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:02.680 nobody is incentivized to be honest with you. That's the sad reality. All 408 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.039 right, Speaking of honesty, we'll talk fast food follies. As some are 409 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:12.400 saying, well, you know it's all because of California. When we dive 410 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.839 a little deeper into the story, maybe that minimum wage increase is not the 411 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:21.000 reason for firing everybody right now. That's next. It's Chris merril In for 412 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.319 mo Kelly kf I AM six forty. We are live everywhere in your iHeartRadio 413 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:27.799 app. You've been listening so later with mo Kelly. You can always hear 414 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:31.839 us live on kf I AM six forty seven pm to ten pm every Monday 415 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.359 through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.