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Kaf I Am six. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demand on

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the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with
Moe Kelly. I am not Mo Kelly.

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You probably can tell that by now
because Moe is out of town.

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I am Tiffany Hobbes with you tonight, filling in for Moe, who's back

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on Monday, being Bope, air
horns, Bio ba Po. We're gonna

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be fine, don't worry. Everything
is gonna go justice planned, maybe even

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better. We're gonna do great.
So it's practically a lady's night takeover.

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The guys are still here. They're
still here. They're there, They're in

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the shadows, but I'm here.
Producer Keanna is here. Hello. Nautica

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de la Cruz will be here to
do her Friday Nights with Nautica as normal,

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and again Steph is on the boards. We're definitely hopefully going to get

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some print because today is Prince's birthday. I put in a special request.

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That's what Moe would have done in
the spirit of mo. We're going to

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play some prints for sure, and
then we have the Mark Ronner in the

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KFI News booth. I got you
back. You're going to do great back

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and the front, and you will
have a variation of the Runner Report around

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eight fifty a little more casual this
week, a little more casual. So

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we're going to get to it.
I'm usually here on Fridays anyway, so

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it's not necessarily uncommon to hear my
voice, but it may be for some

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of you to hear it at length. Right. I'm also here on Wednesdays.

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I do the Viral Load, which
is the segment that is weekly with

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MO where we get into all things
social media. There will be some stories

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today about social media. From social
media, we're going to get into local

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stories. We've put together a lot
of interesting news items for you, including

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local stories. Of course, what
are the consequences of California raising the minimum

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wage to twenty dollars. There's an
app that'll help you find the cheapest Big

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Mac in all of your city.
We need that there are new high rise

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apartments on skid Row for people experiencing
homelessness. We'll get some cool features about

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those apartments and why you and I
won't be able to afford them if we

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tried. TJ Max popular store is
putting body cameras on their employees. Question

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Mark, we'll find out, and
a popular La grocery chain that thinks that

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you really enjoy the taste of sunblock
so much so that you'll want to enjoy

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it in your smoothie. What a
very La story. We're going to get

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into all of that, but before
we do, I want to say again

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hi to producer Keianna. Hello.
Hello, She's been wonderful and want to

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make sure that I highlight that because
I hit her just a couple of minutes

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ago with some really sad breaking news. So before we get into this story

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or into the stories, the sad
news that just broke is that the Apollo

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eight astronaut William Anders was killed in
a plane crash off the coast of Washington

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just earlier today, and this has
been confirmed by his son. William Anders

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was ninety years old. He's famous
for being one of the three to walk

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on the Moon, one of the
first people ever to walk on the Moon,

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and he also took that beautiful picture
of Earth kind of in a half

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moon shape from the lunar orbit that
was entitled Earth Rising, Earth Rise,

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and that picture is something that has
been seen since the nineteen sixties. The

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posters made about it It's been everywhere, and his name has been synonymous with

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spacexploration and that sort of innovation.
And unfortunately today he was piloting a small

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plane that apparently he may have been
at this point the only person inside of

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the details are still emerging. The
USGS again has confirmed that William Anders has

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passed. So we're definitely sending our
thoughts and prayers and condolences to his family

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and all who knew and respected him. I know I did. What a

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sad story to start with, and
as details and more information emerges about that

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story, we'll be sure to bring
it to you. Let's get into something

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a little bit more light, right, let's move away from that again.

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Sun block. You're thinking about maybe
enjoying a summer day out. The temperature

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is warming up, as it does
during this season. The sun is out,

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it may not be out. June
gloom is there. This is a

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pivotal time that we all should be
focusing on our skincare You should be wearing

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sunblock, whether the sun is out
or it's not. That's just a non

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sequitor. However, there's a little
strange twist to this sun block urgency.

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There is a popular grocery store Aerwine. You might have heard of it.

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There are ten stores in this LA
based chain, and Arawine is known to

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be on the priceier end of grocers. They have smoothies that are upwards of

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twenty dollars. They really break the
bank when it comes to their goods,

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and carrying their bags is more or
less a social status, a symbol of

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social status. Well, Arawin has
partnered with another brand called Vacation aptly named

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Vacation And what does vacation do?
Vacation actually manufactures sun block and other skincare

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goods. Vacation and Arowin the grocery
store have teamed up not to offer you

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a limited edition sunblock, but instead
to offer you, you, beautiful patrons

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in southern California, a sunblock flavored
smoothie. What a sunblock flavored smoothie?

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You heard me right? You will
be essentially eating something that tastes in their

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minds like sunblock. Now why would
you want to do that? Right?

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Well, Arilon and Vacation believe that
you enjoy the taste of sunblock when it's

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when you're sweating and it gets into
your mouth on accident or you're in the

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ocean and it starts to move about
your skin, or you accidentally somehow get

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it on your face in a way
that ingests. That causes you to ingest

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some block that you love it so
much that you are willing to fork over

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money to buy a food item that
tastes like sunblock. Now, I,

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like anyone, am nostalgic, and
it comes to things that are related to

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summer. Sunblock immediately puts me in
the summer feeling. I feel like I'm

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at the beach. I can be
wearing sunblock and walking around my neighborhood and

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it just makes me feel good.
But I don't want to eat sunblock.

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Airline feels like you do vacation.
The sunblock manufacturer assured Araline that you want

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to taste sunblock. We're going to
get into what the ingredients are in this

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smoothie, how much this smoothie is
for members and non members, because you

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have to be a member of Arawine
to really enjoy the fruits of this grocery

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store, right, no pun intended. And we're going to also get into

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how long this sunblock flavored smoothie will
be available. We'll also talk a little

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bit about TJ Max arming employees with
body cameras and a store owner who took

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it upon herself to stop a thief
in her tracks. Will have audio from

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both of those stories when we come
back. You're listening to Later with Moe

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Last we talked about in the

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previous segment is a smoothie introduced by
luxury grocery store Arawan. You might have

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heard of it. You might have
seen the bags carried by people as status

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symbols. I know I've seen them. You see people packing their lunches and

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making sure that the insignia from the
grocery store is showing that it's front facing.

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You want to be seen carrying these
bags, right, They're the pricey

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grocery store that puts whole foods to
shame. Well. Arawan and another brand,

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a manufacturer of some block called Vacation, very aptly named, have teamed

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up to introduce a sun block themed
smoothie. Yes, and so I was

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get into the details of the ingredients
of this smoothie and here they are again.

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It's available in all ten Arewon locations. The ingredients include a refleshing blend

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of coconut banana sounds, good so
far right alovera Tahitian vanilla. That's what

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makes it so expensive, the Tahitian
vanilla, blue pool water, Spiroalna,

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pul water Spirillina. I don't know
about you, but whenever I've accidentally had

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some pool water, it's not something
that I've wanted to add to anything that's

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going into my body. I'm trying
to get it back out as soon as

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possible. And a sprinkling of sea
salt that makes it fancy, and it

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says that one can expect the same
leisure enhancing experience as Vacations Classic Lotion with

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every sip. They released this information
on their Instagram because that's where brands break

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their newest products social media, and
they appeal to all of their followers again,

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wanting to create a sense of nostalgia. You like sunblock, so why

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not drink it? I can think
of many reasons, but for them,

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they feel that you are willing to
spend a modest in their minds nine dollars

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if you are a non member.
So if you are not a member of

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Arawan, you will be forking over
nine dollars for this smoothie, and that

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is a deal. They want you
to know that that is a huge deal

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because they're normal smoothies, they're non
vacation themed smoothies can cost an upward of

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twenty dollars. Twenty dollars, so
the sunscreen smoothie is actually a deal,

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a deal nine dollars and if you
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first smoothie for free until next Friday, June fourteenth. So if you are

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just interested in, you know,
trying this thing out or having someone taste

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test it, maybe you're nil Sevadra
and you want to do it for the

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Fork Report. It is nine dollars
if you're a member and it is or

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excuse me, a non member and
it is free if you are a member.

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Let me know how you like it. You can follow me on Instagram

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find me there at tiff Hobbs on
here because I love to know what you

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think of the Vacation Leisure Enhancing Sunscreen
Smoothie at Arawan. I don't think i'll

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be getting that mark. Are you
getting that? What color is the pool

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water? One? It is Spirrilina
blue, Okay, not yellow? Then

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we're okay, exactly exactly. I
mut this doesn't make me feel good.

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It doesn't make me want to run
to Arawine. It actually makes me want

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to call their corporate office and say, what are you thinking? This is

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crazy. But it's all about branding, and it's all about what's gonna go

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viral, and they know that people
are gonna get that smoothie and probably put

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it into their Stanley cup to keep
it, you know, keep it cold.

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And it's the most la thing you
can do. You want to go

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viral, you take that pool water
one, you put a baby roof in

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it. The chocolate enhanced Yes leisure
enhancing sunscreen smoothie. The chocolate costs you

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an extra couple of dollars. Staying
with what's happening locally, if you are

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a shopper at some of these big
box clothing stores and home goods stores like

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TJ Max or Home Goods and Marshals, you might have noticed that many of

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the items are locked up behind glass
cases, everything from certain items of clothing

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to handbags to perfume whom perhaps there
are other items that you're interested in that

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you have to get an employee over
to on lock well. As we know,

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and as we've covered here on the
Mokelly Show, those are effects of

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the rampant uptick in theft in retail
theft, and TJ max has a parent

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company that is hoping to curb shoplifting
with a new tactic that is often seen

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on police and other law enforcement officials
body cameras body cameras. Tj Max's parent

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company, TJX, which also parents
home Goods and Marshals, announced that it

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will be arming certain employees, not
all. They want to make sure they

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make that distinction, certain employees with
body cameras in an effort to crack down

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on all of this thievery. The
owner said that body cameras will be worn

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to deter thieves. And what employees
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the sales associate actually checking you out, not the one unlocking the place where

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you try on your clothes back there, or the one trying to give you

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your perfume. No, the loss
prevention associates will be trained and able to

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wear those cameras while they're in the
store. TJX actually said that the associates

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who are eligible to wear the cameras
will be the loss prevention associates, which

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makes me wonder, what is the
eligibility criteria? What separates the loss prevention

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associates from the associates on the floor
doing the other day to day operations.

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They're all there, and we have
another story coming up about an associate who's

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not a lost prevention associate, but
who took matters into her own hands to

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reclaim some of the items that were
being thefted. But these loss prevention associates

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will be wearing the cameras while they
are in the store. So can anyone

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obtain the security footage? Answer is
no, Only police and other law enforcement

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officials will be able to end legal
representatives will be able to obtain this footage

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with a subpoena. So you can't
go ask for the footage for your Instagram,

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You can't go ask for the footage
for your own just records. No,

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you have to be a law enforcement
official or a lawyer. And if

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you have that, or you're in
that sort of situation and you're probably already

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behind the gun, as they say, you're already probably guilty. What's the

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company's main goal again, Well,
they say that this implementation is to promote

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a safer environment for all shoppers as
well as their associates. If you've ever

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been in these stores or any store
as there is a theft going down,

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then you know, like me that
it can be somewhat of a paralytic.

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You freeze and you assess, and
you don't really know what to do.

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You're really just an onlooker. How
many of us are going to step in

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and try and thwart physically or even
verbally some sort of altercation or thievery and

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process, No, we don't do
that, as much as you may feel

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you want to, or you might
think you could while you're in the shower

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and you're rehearsing the lines you might
say to a thief, and process,

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most times, you're not going to
do anything. I know I haven't,

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I've looked, I've shaken my head, but I'm not going to put my

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body between a thief and that front
door. So this is what they're aiming

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to do. They're aiming to create
a safer environment for the employees and the

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other shoppers. They also hope that
this will lessen crime, of course,

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and be a preventative measure so that
crime just stops altogether. They're hoping that

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this will be enough of a deterrent
that these loss prevention associates will have this

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camera on the front, and these
potential thieves will see that and think to

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themselves, Hmm, I shouldn't do
this here because they're going to see my

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face. Which makes me wonder,
what are the cameras in the store doing.

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Their cameras in all of these stores, their cameras often at some of

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the registers. What are these cameras
doing that these body cameras may do differently

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or better. Instead of perhaps arming
these people with cameras, there may be

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another strategy to stop this sort of
theft. I don't know what it is,

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but it feels like a lot of
this is very reactive, and I

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know they want this to be an
effort of proactivity, but it feels kind

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of redundant, and it feels like
it could set these loss prevention associates up

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for situations that could escalate. Again, this isn't an effort to crack down.

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There are other stores like Target that
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called true scan that will detect if
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in a self checkout line, self
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altogether. We'll get into another story
we come back about the woman who stopped

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a thief in process. We're gonna
hear what happened and we'll dissect that story

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in a little bit. You're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from

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KFI AM six forty. Shortly we
have Friday Nights with Nautica coming up.

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Just saw her walking around. Can't
wait to hear what she's gonna bring us.

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It's always informative. I last was
talking to you about this Tjmax situation

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and all of these security measures,
all of these new strategies are being implemented

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across different stores, small and large, mom and pop, brick and mortar,

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whatever it is to curb this uptick
in theft. We're in Socow.

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It is likely you have seen theft
happen in front of you, or you've

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been a victim of theft yourself,
and I'll tell you a little bit about

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my own experience with that in a
moment. But this crackdown on retail theft

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again is causing a lot of innovation, and it may be technological, it

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may be more digitally based. Well, there's a woman who took it upon

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herself to go old school with her
theft prevention. Steph. Can we play

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the clip you want to get to
give me my jacket right now. I'm

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not gonna have you steal it from
my store. Give it to me.

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You on video, and you are
going to get arrested, you know.

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Give it that my jacket right now. You're to give me back my jacket.

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Here, give me the other one
jump steal from my floor. Give

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me the other one. That is, let me look at your back.

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Yeah, well that's let me look
at your back. So that's the voice

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of Amber Jolly asking for items back. Amber Jolly is a store manager at

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a store in Santa Monica right over
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And this confrontation happened in April in
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The other voice you heard was the
thief, and this thief attempted to steal

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five hundred and fifty dollars worth of
clothing, and that included three jackets worth

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more than five hundred and fifty dollars
in total. So just under what would

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be what it's within the parameters what
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as far as the amount of money
that can be theft or amount of items

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that can be thefted, but this
five hundred and fifty dollars was not going

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to go away with ease. Amber
Jolly, this store manager, as you

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heard, got physical with this thief. The thief is unnamed, but Amber

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Jolly actually grabbed the items started chasing
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quote, I chased her because I
needed the jackets back. Either I have

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to explain why I didn't get them
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us. Amber Jolly's like, look, this is my job, and I'm

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not going to stand by and just
let someone come in and think that they

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are entitled to the goods within this
store. She put all things aside.

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The risk the ROI for her was
right there. She said, I don't

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care what happens. I'm getting these
jackets back, and she did. She

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got two of the three items back. The third one wherever it went,

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didn't come back to the store.
But Amber Jolly was pleased with her ability

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to reclaim the two items because she
is like many people in this city,

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many people around the country, if
not the world at this point, because

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it's just it's all over the place. But we're talking about a local story

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here. Many people around the city
are just fed up, fed up with

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retail theft. Amber Jolly says that
the woman was not arrested, she was

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not even located after she walked off. At the end of the confrontation.

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Amber went on to file a police
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by Santa Monica PD, that little
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story. I have now been,
as of this previous weekend, a victim

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for the third time of a my
car being broken into. My car was

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broken into for a third time just
this past Saturday. I didn't have anything

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in there. The thieves or thief
didn't take anything, but they broke out

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my window, which is a huge
inconvenience, one of the little small windows

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that are usually broken out to get
to your lock or try to get to

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your lock, leaving glass everywhere in
my locked parking garage at my apartment complex,

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which is supposed to be secured by
video camera right digital deterrents. I

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called the police. I called two
police stations in my area, and I

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was told essentially little can be done
on security camera. Is this person who

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has covered up all you can see
is his eyes, so little can be

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done. I in my apartment complex
also had my car broken into all and

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when I went to the leasing office
to ask for security cameras, they said

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that they didn't have security cameras anywhere
in the complex for the privacy of their

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tenets. So in my complex there
is no security, no security nothing.

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Do you feel secure? No?
Are you looking to move at this point?

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I mean, once I get out
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How can you live comfortably without security? That's our living situation, shopping and

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being an employee or a manager and
owner of a store of a business.

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How can you be secure or feel
secure if you know that people can essentially

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come in and take what they want
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So again Amber Jolly says that you
know, it's terrible, and she's

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also really incensed that this woman was
saying if you touch me, if you

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touch me, and it's illegal to
touch me, and kind of saying all

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these catchphrases, bus phrases that people
have been armed with or arming themselves with

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because they know that they are largely
un touchable. When we come back,

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we're going to talk a little bit
more about what's going on around southern California.

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We're going to get into some news
about fast food restaurants and again,

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why you need the app that tells
you where to find the cheapest Big Mac

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If that's your thing. You're listening
to later with Moe Kelly on demand from

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KFI AM six forty California fast food
restaurants. Oh man, do you like

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fast food? Do you find yourself
going through the drive through absent mindedly or

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for whatever reason? Is that your
thing? It may not be. No,

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A lot more people are cooking at
home or trying to cook at home

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because the price of groceries has also
shot up, and so has food at

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fast food restaurants. And let's find
out why. Essentially two months ago,

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California increase the minimum wage to twenty
dollars. Now there's an a total data

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and evidence that reflects the casualties in
the wake of this significant wage bump.

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Not only have prices at major brands
like Chipotle, McDonald's and even our beloved

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In and Out, which does not
like to change its prices. They like

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to keep their bottom line and everything
else very low. But let me tell

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you, In and Out's gone up
about twenty five cents fifty cents in the

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last few months. And I'm not
happy about that, and I want to

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talk to a manager, but until
then, let's talk about this story.

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So, these major brands have all
bumped up their prices since April first.

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The California Business and Industrial Alliance CABA, for short, says that another casualty

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besides prices in increasing is that nearly
ten thousand jobs have been cut. Ten

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thousand people have been removed from their
positions at fast food fast food restaurants in

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the wake of minimum wage going up
to twenty dollars in the last two months.

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So if we're just spreading it out
evenly, that's five thousand jobs per

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month. That's a big hit.
In California. That's a huge hit.

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And because of that there are all
sorts of ideas and all sorts of predictions

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about what's to come. Well,
CABYA actually took out a mock obituary in

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the USA today which essentially made rest
in peace or or put to bed the

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idea of popular fast food brands.
They say that fast food brands are dying,

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so this obituary was to reflect this
imminent death because they say it is

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an unsustainable industry at this point.
Again, not only are prices out of

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touch for large for a large portion
of America, but wages do not match

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the cost of living, and again, these jobs are being cut. So

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all of these things combined to make
the fast food industry a really volatile space,

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a really volatile space, and it
says that it just puts these businesses

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in future jeopardy. So Governor Knewso
signed this law in an effort to make

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wages a bit closer to what he
considered as being fairer and to create safer

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and healthier working conditions by giving fast
food workers a voice, by amplifying their

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causes and highlighting their needs. But
instead it's had a reverse effect. What

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was meant to be a positive change
has led to some pretty dire circumstances.

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And not only are you seeing this, but again, rising prices for food

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is now affecting the rest of everyone
who's subjected to this economy. No one

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wants to pay twenty dollars for a
big mac, but around southern California you'll

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see that if you just try and
buy a singular burger. Gone are the

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days of the three dollars, four
dollars, five dollars hamburger cheeseburger. You're

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now looking at a ten dollar Big
Mac at McDonald's and if you have a

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family, then you're seeing your prices
just balloon. And if you're trying to

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subvert all of that by buying groceries
and good luck, we're sol in many

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ways. One of the things that
happened is that a digital company, an

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app company, created something called the
mic Cheapest Map. Mic Cheapest Map.

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It's been all around the country,
but right here in southern California. You

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can put it to use to help
you find the cheapest Big Mac. So

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if you are driving and you use
maps just to navigate, this is something

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similar. You can plug into this
app that you want the cheapest big Mac

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nearest to you, and it will
direct you to that cheapest big Mac.

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This makes me worry because there are
all these other apps that are about person

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to person sharing or large scale sharing
and kind of giving insider baseball tips about

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traffic or where to go to navigate
these police or whatever it is. Ways

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is a really popular one, right
but when you sign on to these you

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see this kind of inundation. It
becomes very busy, very crowded with people

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and what could be a short line
for a cheap big Mac that you think

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that you can obtain because of this
app then turns into something longer. Right,

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you all are going toward the same
cheap alternative, and that's where the

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app does really well. It really
is predatory in my mind, because while

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it is a free app right now, it runs off of ads. There

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will be incentives to get you to
scribe in some way and pay some sort

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of nominal fee, and then you'll
get hooked, and then you'll increase that

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pay so that you can save money. It is playing on this really volatile

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and unstable economy so that you can
get the cheapest big mac. If you're

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on the ninety and you're driving through
Massachusetts, you'll see that a whopper is

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eight dollars and nine cents from Burger
King. A whopper, excuse me,

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not a whopper, A big mac. Oh, shame on me. Is

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that a whopping in nine dollars?
But it's a big mac. We're not

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talking about Burger King here. We'd
never do that. A big mac is

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eight dollars and nine cents in Massachusetts. If you go to Stigler, Oklahoma,

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I don't even know where that is. I know Oklahoma, I don't

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know about Stigler. A big Mac
is three dollars and forty nine cents,

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so it's less than half of what's
that in Massachusetts. If you are in

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New York City, the price is
very even more. You can get a

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big Mac for a little over five
dollars and thirty cents in locations in the

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Bronx and Queens. This is speaking
to Natica for sure, But the priceiest

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big Mac is six dollars and sixty
nine cents at a Westchester Avenue location in

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the Bronx. So why the variation? Why are we paying so differently across

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even city lines, not just state
lines but city lines. Why is a

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big Mac six dollars there but five
dollars here, ten dollars there, but

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three dollars there. It's like gas, right, we pay the most expensive

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gas tax. We have the highest
gas here in California. You look at

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other places, probably like Stigler,
Oklahoma, and you're paying two dollars or

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three dollars in gas, where we're
paying close to six. Yeah. So

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here in Burbank, for reference,
for so Cal prices, one big Mac

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is six' oh nine and then the
meal is ten eighty nine, ten eighty

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nine. I don't know if that's
coming for medium. That's a medium if

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you want to get and that's a
medium is now and they skimp. They

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definitely don't give you everything you want
right now. I'm not a proponent of

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fast food. I'm an in and
out snob. I don't consider that as

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fast food. But when it comes
to fast food, I feel like,

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hey, get what you need.
Long as you have some exercise and you're

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kind of balancing it, then do
your thing. I'm not here to shame,

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but the fact that fast food meals
are more expensive than meals that you

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can prepare at home is a complete
contradiction. Right They're expected to be fast

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and cheap, but now they are
more expensive and perhaps longer lines and longer

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it takes it for you to prepare
your own food at home. So it

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feels very counter productive, would you
say. And the fact that it's that

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price here, it's likely different across
city lines going down into the South Bay.

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The variations are again just a reflection
of this very unstable economy. Prices

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are unstable. When we come back, we are going to get to the

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not a Cadela cruise and Friday nights
with Nataka and see what she has going

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on It is Later with mo Kelly
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