Kaf I Am six. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. It's Later with Moe Kelly. I am not Mo Kelly.
You probably can tell that by now because Moe is out of town.
I am Tiffany Hobbes with you tonight, filling in for Moe, who's back
on Monday, being Bope, air horns, Bio ba Po. We're gonna
be fine, don't worry. Everything is gonna go justice planned, maybe even
better. We're gonna do great. So it's practically a lady's night takeover.
The guys are still here. They're still here. They're there, They're in
the shadows, but I'm here. Producer Keanna is here. Hello. Nautica
de la Cruz will be here to do her Friday Nights with Nautica as normal,
and again Steph is on the boards. We're definitely hopefully going to get
some print because today is Prince's birthday. I put in a special request.
That's what Moe would have done in the spirit of mo. We're going to
play some prints for sure, and then we have the Mark Ronner in the
KFI News booth. I got you back. You're going to do great back
and the front, and you will have a variation of the Runner Report around
eight fifty a little more casual this week, a little more casual. So
we're going to get to it. I'm usually here on Fridays anyway, so
it's not necessarily uncommon to hear my voice, but it may be for some
of you to hear it at length. Right. I'm also here on Wednesdays.
I do the Viral Load, which is the segment that is weekly with
MO where we get into all things social media. There will be some stories
today about social media. From social media, we're going to get into local
stories. We've put together a lot of interesting news items for you, including
local stories. Of course, what are the consequences of California raising the minimum
wage to twenty dollars. There's an app that'll help you find the cheapest Big
Mac in all of your city. We need that there are new high rise
apartments on skid Row for people experiencing homelessness. We'll get some cool features about
those apartments and why you and I won't be able to afford them if we
tried. TJ Max popular store is putting body cameras on their employees. Question
Mark, we'll find out, and a popular La grocery chain that thinks that
you really enjoy the taste of sunblock so much so that you'll want to enjoy
it in your smoothie. What a very La story. We're going to get
into all of that, but before we do, I want to say again
hi to producer Keianna. Hello. Hello, She's been wonderful and want to
make sure that I highlight that because I hit her just a couple of minutes
ago with some really sad breaking news. So before we get into this story
or into the stories, the sad news that just broke is that the Apollo
eight astronaut William Anders was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Washington
just earlier today, and this has been confirmed by his son. William Anders
was ninety years old. He's famous for being one of the three to walk
on the Moon, one of the first people ever to walk on the Moon,
and he also took that beautiful picture of Earth kind of in a half
moon shape from the lunar orbit that was entitled Earth Rising, Earth Rise,
and that picture is something that has been seen since the nineteen sixties. The
posters made about it It's been everywhere, and his name has been synonymous with
spacexploration and that sort of innovation. And unfortunately today he was piloting a small
plane that apparently he may have been at this point the only person inside of
the details are still emerging. The USGS again has confirmed that William Anders has
passed. So we're definitely sending our thoughts and prayers and condolences to his family
and all who knew and respected him. I know I did. What a
sad story to start with, and as details and more information emerges about that
story, we'll be sure to bring it to you. Let's get into something
a little bit more light, right, let's move away from that again.
Sun block. You're thinking about maybe enjoying a summer day out. The temperature
is warming up, as it does during this season. The sun is out,
it may not be out. June gloom is there. This is a
pivotal time that we all should be focusing on our skincare You should be wearing
sunblock, whether the sun is out or it's not. That's just a non
sequitor. However, there's a little strange twist to this sun block urgency.
There is a popular grocery store Aerwine. You might have heard of it.
There are ten stores in this LA based chain, and Arawine is known to
be on the priceier end of grocers. They have smoothies that are upwards of
twenty dollars. They really break the bank when it comes to their goods,
and carrying their bags is more or less a social status, a symbol of
social status. Well, Arawin has partnered with another brand called Vacation aptly named
Vacation And what does vacation do? Vacation actually manufactures sun block and other skincare
goods. Vacation and Arowin the grocery store have teamed up not to offer you
a limited edition sunblock, but instead to offer you, you, beautiful patrons
in southern California, a sunblock flavored smoothie. What a sunblock flavored smoothie?
You heard me right? You will be essentially eating something that tastes in their
minds like sunblock. Now why would you want to do that? Right?
Well, Arilon and Vacation believe that you enjoy the taste of sunblock when it's
when you're sweating and it gets into your mouth on accident or you're in the
ocean and it starts to move about your skin, or you accidentally somehow get
it on your face in a way that ingests. That causes you to ingest
some block that you love it so much that you are willing to fork over
money to buy a food item that tastes like sunblock. Now, I,
like anyone, am nostalgic, and it comes to things that are related to
summer. Sunblock immediately puts me in the summer feeling. I feel like I'm
at the beach. I can be wearing sunblock and walking around my neighborhood and
it just makes me feel good. But I don't want to eat sunblock.
Airline feels like you do vacation. The sunblock manufacturer assured Araline that you want
to taste sunblock. We're going to get into what the ingredients are in this
smoothie, how much this smoothie is for members and non members, because you
have to be a member of Arawine to really enjoy the fruits of this grocery
store, right, no pun intended. And we're going to also get into
how long this sunblock flavored smoothie will be available. We'll also talk a little
bit about TJ Max arming employees with body cameras and a store owner who took
it upon herself to stop a thief in her tracks. Will have audio from
both of those stories when we come back. You're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty. Last we talked about in the
previous segment is a smoothie introduced by luxury grocery store Arawan. You might have
heard of it. You might have seen the bags carried by people as status
symbols. I know I've seen them. You see people packing their lunches and
making sure that the insignia from the grocery store is showing that it's front facing.
You want to be seen carrying these bags, right, They're the pricey
grocery store that puts whole foods to shame. Well. Arawan and another brand,
a manufacturer of some block called Vacation, very aptly named, have teamed
up to introduce a sun block themed smoothie. Yes, and so I was
get into the details of the ingredients of this smoothie and here they are again.
It's available in all ten Arewon locations. The ingredients include a refleshing blend
of coconut banana sounds, good so far right alovera Tahitian vanilla. That's what
makes it so expensive, the Tahitian vanilla, blue pool water, Spiroalna,
pul water Spirillina. I don't know about you, but whenever I've accidentally had
some pool water, it's not something that I've wanted to add to anything that's
going into my body. I'm trying to get it back out as soon as
possible. And a sprinkling of sea salt that makes it fancy, and it
says that one can expect the same leisure enhancing experience as Vacations Classic Lotion with
every sip. They released this information on their Instagram because that's where brands break
their newest products social media, and they appeal to all of their followers again,
wanting to create a sense of nostalgia. You like sunblock, so why
not drink it? I can think of many reasons, but for them,
they feel that you are willing to spend a modest in their minds nine dollars
if you are a non member. So if you are not a member of
Arawan, you will be forking over nine dollars for this smoothie, and that
is a deal. They want you to know that that is a huge deal
because they're normal smoothies, they're non vacation themed smoothies can cost an upward of
twenty dollars. Twenty dollars, so the sunscreen smoothie is actually a deal,
a deal nine dollars and if you are a member, you can try your
first smoothie for free until next Friday, June fourteenth. So if you are
just interested in, you know, trying this thing out or having someone taste
test it, maybe you're nil Sevadra and you want to do it for the
Fork Report. It is nine dollars if you're a member and it is or
excuse me, a non member and it is free if you are a member.
Let me know how you like it. You can follow me on Instagram
find me there at tiff Hobbs on here because I love to know what you
think of the Vacation Leisure Enhancing Sunscreen Smoothie at Arawan. I don't think i'll
be getting that mark. Are you getting that? What color is the pool
water? One? It is Spirrilina blue, Okay, not yellow? Then
we're okay, exactly exactly. I mut this doesn't make me feel good.
It doesn't make me want to run to Arawine. It actually makes me want
to call their corporate office and say, what are you thinking? This is
crazy. But it's all about branding, and it's all about what's gonna go
viral, and they know that people are gonna get that smoothie and probably put
it into their Stanley cup to keep it, you know, keep it cold.
And it's the most la thing you can do. You want to go
viral, you take that pool water one, you put a baby roof in
it. The chocolate enhanced Yes leisure enhancing sunscreen smoothie. The chocolate costs you
an extra couple of dollars. Staying with what's happening locally, if you are
a shopper at some of these big box clothing stores and home goods stores like
TJ Max or Home Goods and Marshals, you might have noticed that many of
the items are locked up behind glass cases, everything from certain items of clothing
to handbags to perfume whom perhaps there are other items that you're interested in that
you have to get an employee over to on lock well. As we know,
and as we've covered here on the Mokelly Show, those are effects of
the rampant uptick in theft in retail theft, and TJ max has a parent
company that is hoping to curb shoplifting with a new tactic that is often seen
on police and other law enforcement officials body cameras body cameras. Tj Max's parent
company, TJX, which also parents home Goods and Marshals, announced that it
will be arming certain employees, not all. They want to make sure they
make that distinction, certain employees with body cameras in an effort to crack down
on all of this thievery. The owner said that body cameras will be worn
to deter thieves. And what employees will get to wear these body cameras Not
the sales associate actually checking you out, not the one unlocking the place where
you try on your clothes back there, or the one trying to give you
your perfume. No, the loss prevention associates will be trained and able to
wear those cameras while they're in the store. TJX actually said that the associates
who are eligible to wear the cameras will be the loss prevention associates, which
makes me wonder, what is the eligibility criteria? What separates the loss prevention
associates from the associates on the floor doing the other day to day operations.
They're all there, and we have another story coming up about an associate who's
not a lost prevention associate, but who took matters into her own hands to
reclaim some of the items that were being thefted. But these loss prevention associates
will be wearing the cameras while they are in the store. So can anyone
obtain the security footage? Answer is no, Only police and other law enforcement
officials will be able to end legal representatives will be able to obtain this footage
with a subpoena. So you can't go ask for the footage for your Instagram,
You can't go ask for the footage for your own just records. No,
you have to be a law enforcement official or a lawyer. And if
you have that, or you're in that sort of situation and you're probably already
behind the gun, as they say, you're already probably guilty. What's the
company's main goal again, Well, they say that this implementation is to promote
a safer environment for all shoppers as well as their associates. If you've ever
been in these stores or any store as there is a theft going down,
then you know, like me that it can be somewhat of a paralytic.
You freeze and you assess, and you don't really know what to do.
You're really just an onlooker. How many of us are going to step in
and try and thwart physically or even verbally some sort of altercation or thievery and
process, No, we don't do that, as much as you may feel
you want to, or you might think you could while you're in the shower
and you're rehearsing the lines you might say to a thief, and process,
most times, you're not going to do anything. I know I haven't,
I've looked, I've shaken my head, but I'm not going to put my
body between a thief and that front door. So this is what they're aiming
to do. They're aiming to create a safer environment for the employees and the
other shoppers. They also hope that this will lessen crime, of course,
and be a preventative measure so that crime just stops altogether. They're hoping that
this will be enough of a deterrent that these loss prevention associates will have this
camera on the front, and these potential thieves will see that and think to
themselves, Hmm, I shouldn't do this here because they're going to see my
face. Which makes me wonder, what are the cameras in the store doing.
Their cameras in all of these stores, their cameras often at some of
the registers. What are these cameras doing that these body cameras may do differently
or better. Instead of perhaps arming these people with cameras, there may be
another strategy to stop this sort of theft. I don't know what it is,
but it feels like a lot of this is very reactive, and I
know they want this to be an effort of proactivity, but it feels kind
of redundant, and it feels like it could set these loss prevention associates up
for situations that could escalate. Again, this isn't an effort to crack down.
There are other stores like Target that are implementing a new sort of strategy
called true scan that will detect if bar codes aren't scanned when a customer is
in a self checkout line, self checkout lines, or a completely different animal
altogether. We'll get into another story we come back about the woman who stopped
a thief in process. We're gonna hear what happened and we'll dissect that story
in a little bit. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty. Shortly we have Friday Nights with Nautica coming up.
Just saw her walking around. Can't wait to hear what she's gonna bring us.
It's always informative. I last was talking to you about this Tjmax situation
and all of these security measures, all of these new strategies are being implemented
across different stores, small and large, mom and pop, brick and mortar,
whatever it is to curb this uptick in theft. We're in Socow.
It is likely you have seen theft happen in front of you, or you've
been a victim of theft yourself, and I'll tell you a little bit about
my own experience with that in a moment. But this crackdown on retail theft
again is causing a lot of innovation, and it may be technological, it
may be more digitally based. Well, there's a woman who took it upon
herself to go old school with her theft prevention. Steph. Can we play
the clip you want to get to give me my jacket right now. I'm
not gonna have you steal it from my store. Give it to me.
You on video, and you are going to get arrested, you know.
Give it that my jacket right now. You're to give me back my jacket.
Here, give me the other one jump steal from my floor. Give
me the other one. That is, let me look at your back.
Yeah, well that's let me look at your back. So that's the voice
of Amber Jolly asking for items back. Amber Jolly is a store manager at
a store in Santa Monica right over here. It's called grammar Cy Boo Tique.
And this confrontation happened in April in an alley outside of the store.
The other voice you heard was the thief, and this thief attempted to steal
five hundred and fifty dollars worth of clothing, and that included three jackets worth
more than five hundred and fifty dollars in total. So just under what would
be what it's within the parameters what is kind of uncommonly known as being allowed
as far as the amount of money that can be theft or amount of items
that can be thefted, but this five hundred and fifty dollars was not going
to go away with ease. Amber Jolly, this store manager, as you
heard, got physical with this thief. The thief is unnamed, but Amber
Jolly actually grabbed the items started chasing her, she says. She says,
quote, I chased her because I needed the jackets back. Either I have
to explain why I didn't get them back, or it's a total loss for
us. Amber Jolly's like, look, this is my job, and I'm
not going to stand by and just let someone come in and think that they
are entitled to the goods within this store. She put all things aside.
The risk the ROI for her was right there. She said, I don't
care what happens. I'm getting these jackets back, and she did. She
got two of the three items back. The third one wherever it went,
didn't come back to the store. But Amber Jolly was pleased with her ability
to reclaim the two items because she is like many people in this city,
many people around the country, if not the world at this point, because
it's just it's all over the place. But we're talking about a local story
here. Many people around the city are just fed up, fed up with
retail theft. Amber Jolly says that the woman was not arrested, she was
not even located after she walked off. At the end of the confrontation.
Amber went on to file a police report, but she was told, unfortunately
by Santa Monica PD, that little could be done. Here in lies my
story. I have now been, as of this previous weekend, a victim
for the third time of a my car being broken into. My car was
broken into for a third time just this past Saturday. I didn't have anything
in there. The thieves or thief didn't take anything, but they broke out
my window, which is a huge inconvenience, one of the little small windows
that are usually broken out to get to your lock or try to get to
your lock, leaving glass everywhere in my locked parking garage at my apartment complex,
which is supposed to be secured by video camera right digital deterrents. I
called the police. I called two police stations in my area, and I
was told essentially little can be done on security camera. Is this person who
has covered up all you can see is his eyes, so little can be
done. I in my apartment complex also had my car broken into all and
when I went to the leasing office to ask for security cameras, they said
that they didn't have security cameras anywhere in the complex for the privacy of their
tenets. So in my complex there is no security, no security nothing.
Do you feel secure? No? Are you looking to move at this point?
I mean, once I get out on my lease, that's it.
How can you live comfortably without security? That's our living situation, shopping and
being an employee or a manager and owner of a store of a business.
How can you be secure or feel secure if you know that people can essentially
come in and take what they want without repercussion in the majority of the time.
So again Amber Jolly says that you know, it's terrible, and she's
also really incensed that this woman was saying if you touch me, if you
touch me, and it's illegal to touch me, and kind of saying all
these catchphrases, bus phrases that people have been armed with or arming themselves with
because they know that they are largely un touchable. When we come back,
we're going to talk a little bit more about what's going on around southern California.
We're going to get into some news about fast food restaurants and again,
why you need the app that tells you where to find the cheapest Big Mac
If that's your thing. You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty California fast food restaurants. Oh man, do you like
fast food? Do you find yourself going through the drive through absent mindedly or
for whatever reason? Is that your thing? It may not be. No,
A lot more people are cooking at home or trying to cook at home
because the price of groceries has also shot up, and so has food at
fast food restaurants. And let's find out why. Essentially two months ago,
California increase the minimum wage to twenty dollars. Now there's an a total data
and evidence that reflects the casualties in the wake of this significant wage bump.
Not only have prices at major brands like Chipotle, McDonald's and even our beloved
In and Out, which does not like to change its prices. They like
to keep their bottom line and everything else very low. But let me tell
you, In and Out's gone up about twenty five cents fifty cents in the
last few months. And I'm not happy about that, and I want to
talk to a manager, but until then, let's talk about this story.
So, these major brands have all bumped up their prices since April first.
The California Business and Industrial Alliance CABA, for short, says that another casualty
besides prices in increasing is that nearly ten thousand jobs have been cut. Ten
thousand people have been removed from their positions at fast food fast food restaurants in
the wake of minimum wage going up to twenty dollars in the last two months.
So if we're just spreading it out evenly, that's five thousand jobs per
month. That's a big hit. In California. That's a huge hit.
And because of that there are all sorts of ideas and all sorts of predictions
about what's to come. Well, CABYA actually took out a mock obituary in
the USA today which essentially made rest in peace or or put to bed the
idea of popular fast food brands. They say that fast food brands are dying,
so this obituary was to reflect this imminent death because they say it is
an unsustainable industry at this point. Again, not only are prices out of
touch for large for a large portion of America, but wages do not match
the cost of living, and again, these jobs are being cut. So
all of these things combined to make the fast food industry a really volatile space,
a really volatile space, and it says that it just puts these businesses
in future jeopardy. So Governor Knewso signed this law in an effort to make
wages a bit closer to what he considered as being fairer and to create safer
and healthier working conditions by giving fast food workers a voice, by amplifying their
causes and highlighting their needs. But instead it's had a reverse effect. What
was meant to be a positive change has led to some pretty dire circumstances.
And not only are you seeing this, but again, rising prices for food
is now affecting the rest of everyone who's subjected to this economy. No one
wants to pay twenty dollars for a big mac, but around southern California you'll
see that if you just try and buy a singular burger. Gone are the
days of the three dollars, four dollars, five dollars hamburger cheeseburger. You're
now looking at a ten dollar Big Mac at McDonald's and if you have a
family, then you're seeing your prices just balloon. And if you're trying to
subvert all of that by buying groceries and good luck, we're sol in many
ways. One of the things that happened is that a digital company, an
app company, created something called the mic Cheapest Map. Mic Cheapest Map.
It's been all around the country, but right here in southern California. You
can put it to use to help you find the cheapest Big Mac. So
if you are driving and you use maps just to navigate, this is something
similar. You can plug into this app that you want the cheapest big Mac
nearest to you, and it will direct you to that cheapest big Mac.
This makes me worry because there are all these other apps that are about person
to person sharing or large scale sharing and kind of giving insider baseball tips about
traffic or where to go to navigate these police or whatever it is. Ways
is a really popular one, right but when you sign on to these you
see this kind of inundation. It becomes very busy, very crowded with people
and what could be a short line for a cheap big Mac that you think
that you can obtain because of this app then turns into something longer. Right,
you all are going toward the same cheap alternative, and that's where the
app does really well. It really is predatory in my mind, because while
it is a free app right now, it runs off of ads. There
will be incentives to get you to scribe in some way and pay some sort
of nominal fee, and then you'll get hooked, and then you'll increase that
pay so that you can save money. It is playing on this really volatile
and unstable economy so that you can get the cheapest big mac. If you're
on the ninety and you're driving through Massachusetts, you'll see that a whopper is
eight dollars and nine cents from Burger King. A whopper, excuse me,
not a whopper, A big mac. Oh, shame on me. Is
that a whopping in nine dollars? But it's a big mac. We're not
talking about Burger King here. We'd never do that. A big mac is
eight dollars and nine cents in Massachusetts. If you go to Stigler, Oklahoma,
I don't even know where that is. I know Oklahoma, I don't
know about Stigler. A big Mac is three dollars and forty nine cents,
so it's less than half of what's that in Massachusetts. If you are in
New York City, the price is very even more. You can get a
big Mac for a little over five dollars and thirty cents in locations in the
Bronx and Queens. This is speaking to Natica for sure, But the priceiest
big Mac is six dollars and sixty nine cents at a Westchester Avenue location in
the Bronx. So why the variation? Why are we paying so differently across
even city lines, not just state lines but city lines. Why is a
big Mac six dollars there but five dollars here, ten dollars there, but
three dollars there. It's like gas, right, we pay the most expensive
gas tax. We have the highest gas here in California. You look at
other places, probably like Stigler, Oklahoma, and you're paying two dollars or
three dollars in gas, where we're paying close to six. Yeah. So
here in Burbank, for reference, for so Cal prices, one big Mac
is six' oh nine and then the meal is ten eighty nine, ten eighty
nine. I don't know if that's coming for medium. That's a medium if
you want to get and that's a medium is now and they skimp. They
definitely don't give you everything you want right now. I'm not a proponent of
fast food. I'm an in and out snob. I don't consider that as
fast food. But when it comes to fast food, I feel like,
hey, get what you need. Long as you have some exercise and you're
kind of balancing it, then do your thing. I'm not here to shame,
but the fact that fast food meals are more expensive than meals that you
can prepare at home is a complete contradiction. Right They're expected to be fast
and cheap, but now they are more expensive and perhaps longer lines and longer
it takes it for you to prepare your own food at home. So it
feels very counter productive, would you say. And the fact that it's that
price here, it's likely different across city lines going down into the South Bay.
The variations are again just a reflection of this very unstable economy. Prices
are unstable. When we come back, we are going to get to the
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