Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: It's later with Mo Kelly, except tonight, it's not later
Speaker 1: with Mo Kelly. It's later with Mark Ronner, who's sitting
Speaker 1: across from me.
Speaker 2: Hi, Mark, it's not a mistake. We're actually meant to
Speaker 2: be here. And Tiffany Hobbes, my pal. We are sitting
Speaker 2: in for Mo. We are We all just kind of
Speaker 2: moved over a chair. MO filled in for Conway. We're
Speaker 2: filling in for Mo. And we're going to try not
Speaker 2: to burn the joint down again. We've already done it.
Speaker 1: Twice well, you know, and so far, so good, relatively unscathed.
Speaker 1: We're trying also not to cruise the or excuse me,
Speaker 1: not to crash the proverbial cruise ship, as we talked
Speaker 1: about in the last few segments with Mo. But with
Speaker 1: all of that said, there is a really monumental kind
Speaker 1: of passing of the torch and ways as well. This
Speaker 1: is the last mo Kelly show of the summer. Did
Speaker 1: you know that, Mark?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I almost scared you there for a second. Right, last
Speaker 1: mo Kelly show of the summer. The first day of
Speaker 1: fall is this Sunday. And as the seasons change, as
Speaker 1: the air becomes more clear and crisp, the days are shorter,
Speaker 1: you're not running your ac twenty four to seven. Some things,
Speaker 1: Mark are staying the same, like crime in the Southland,
Speaker 1: and like the overwhelming backlash two hour not so beloved
Speaker 1: Prop forty seven, that familiar initiative that reduced felonies to
Speaker 1: misdemeanors and up the shoplifting threshold to nine hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: Have you heard of that, Mark?
Speaker 2: I have. But the important question here is if it's
Speaker 2: the last day of summer, can I still wear cargo shorts?
Speaker 1: You can still wear your white cargo shorts if you
Speaker 1: want to be adventures.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get too far off track here,
Speaker 2: but why do women hate cargo shorts?
Speaker 1: I think it's the fact that they're called cargo shorts.
Speaker 1: We don't want an as necessarily carry more on our bodies.
Speaker 4: We are carried like.
Speaker 3: Having a Batman utility belt.
Speaker 2: And before we get started with your items, we got
Speaker 2: fush here, fush you.
Speaker 3: Ready to roll?
Speaker 2: You got us, let's do it. Man tawalas here, Heather,
Speaker 2: You're good. We're gonna call on you the team, She's there. Okay,
Speaker 2: there we go. I think we got this. Let's roll,
Speaker 2: let's do it well.
Speaker 1: The excrement has hit the proverbial fan mark with the
Speaker 1: shoplifting that we have all been witnessing, either directly or indirectly,
Speaker 1: and there's a new proposition that could very well be
Speaker 1: in stated in the wake of all of this crime.
Speaker 1: That proposition is called Prop thirty six, and it would
Speaker 1: roll back aspects of Prop forty seven, which then would
Speaker 1: increase penalties for shoplifting, smash and grabs, as well as
Speaker 1: low level offenses for drug possession. And polls that have
Speaker 1: been taken most recently just last week are showing that
Speaker 1: if put to vote today, this new prop Prop thirty
Speaker 1: six would surely pass and it would affect everyone mark.
Speaker 1: It would affect me, It would affect you as shop
Speaker 1: as both of us as customers. It would affect shop
Speaker 1: owners and whether you are shop owner or patron. This
Speaker 1: is a proposition that you probably will want to get
Speaker 1: behind when you hear this next thing that's happening in
Speaker 1: the city of Compton, And unfortunately it's not unique unto Compton,
Speaker 1: but this story, this specific place is making its rounds
Speaker 1: because of how bombastic all of this is.
Speaker 4: And what am I talking about?
Speaker 1: Well, in Compton, there is a Rite Aid on Long
Speaker 1: Beach Boulevard. You might have passed by it on your
Speaker 1: way somewhere else.
Speaker 4: You might have.
Speaker 1: Stopped to shop there. You might have your own Rite
Speaker 1: Aid in your neighborhood. Many of them have since closed down.
Speaker 1: This one is still very much alive, but it is
Speaker 1: practically encased in plexi glass mark. When you go shopping,
Speaker 1: when you go to Right Aids and CBS's or wherever
Speaker 1: you might go your local drug store, are you noticing
Speaker 1: that more and more items are behind these plexi glass
Speaker 1: cases now?
Speaker 2: Because I'm ordering everything off of Amazon now because I
Speaker 2: don't want to interact with human beings in a situation
Speaker 2: like that or get shot in the face.
Speaker 3: But this is what I hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the thing about interacting with human beings is like,
Speaker 1: at this right Aid you have to then request that
Speaker 1: an employee comes to you and opens this glass case.
Speaker 1: And if you were to patronize this specific right Aid,
Speaker 1: you would find that mostly everything in this store is
Speaker 1: now behind this plexi glass casing, whether it's your toilet trees,
Speaker 1: whether there are certain items of food, whether it's medicine,
Speaker 1: it is behind plexiglass. And this right aid has of
Speaker 1: course installed these locked glass cases because of theft.
Speaker 2: That seems like it could be embarrassing. It should be imbuing,
Speaker 2: like not everybody's going to be going up to the
Speaker 2: counter and saying, pardon me, sir, would you help me
Speaker 2: acquire a box of magnums from the case.
Speaker 3: It's all going to be gross stuff.
Speaker 1: It's everything you need that you don't want to ever
Speaker 1: involve another human being in retrieving for you. But when
Speaker 1: you think about again patronizing these stores, you think about
Speaker 1: going into places where you need some sort of whatever,
Speaker 1: it may be a personal item or otherwise. Now you're
Speaker 1: being forced to reckon with the consequences of all of
Speaker 1: this shoplifting, and stores, as we've seen, are doing this
Speaker 1: using this strategy more and more. And this particular store
Speaker 1: in Compton is really popular now on social media because
Speaker 1: it's become kind of a tourist destination. People are flocking
Speaker 1: to it just so they can get footage of all
Speaker 1: of these cases. It's so abnormal, and it should be
Speaker 1: because we shouldn't have to wait ten minutes to get
Speaker 1: you you're deodorant.
Speaker 2: No no, you need deodorant promptly, I find especially now
Speaker 2: right at the turn of the seasons. But probably not.
Speaker 2: Are we still talking about the props at thirty six here?
Speaker 2: Because you know, one thing that I that occurred to
Speaker 2: me about this was, as much as I understand that
Speaker 2: there are thefts and smashing grabs and they have to
Speaker 2: do something, we also know that some of these places
Speaker 2: have kind of cooked the books. The National Retail Association
Speaker 2: admitted to as much not long ago. And when you
Speaker 2: see the figures on say wage theft, those numbers dwarf
Speaker 2: these thefts, and so I think you have to keep
Speaker 2: the big picture in mind.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk more about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: We have a lot to cover, and I would love
Speaker 1: for Mark to share his thoughts on these smash and
Speaker 1: grabs and what he's experienced.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty later.
Speaker 4: With Moe Kelly. But we are not Mo Kelly.
Speaker 1: We are Mark Ronner and Tiffany Hobbes, that is I.
Speaker 1: And just to put a pin in our last story,
Speaker 1: we were talking about smash and grabs, the new answer
Speaker 1: to the existing prop forty seven and all of the
Speaker 1: things inteled in the uptick of petty theft, thefts under
Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty dollars no longer being taken seriously,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and causing kind of this cascade of
Speaker 1: crime in the south Land.
Speaker 4: And Mark you had some final thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about increasing penalties for people who shoplifted
Speaker 2: and stole from stores, and that's fine. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: going to take the bold position that I'm against crimes
Speaker 2: and I don't care who knows about it. But you know,
Speaker 2: there's other crime that goes on. I mentioned wage theft.
Speaker 2: We've seen corporations like Kroger admit to price gouging, and
Speaker 2: the numbers on that are big. They're bigger than petty theft.
Speaker 2: And the thing you got to remember is nobody ever
Speaker 2: goes to jail for that stuff.
Speaker 4: They don't.
Speaker 3: You don't see a seat, not often anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not nearly as often as just somebody who gets busted.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I think I worked at a grocery
Speaker 2: store for a little while in high school and I
Speaker 2: had to we always had to go out with the
Speaker 2: security guy when there was a shoplifter, just to be
Speaker 2: a witness. We didn't touch anybody, but it always made
Speaker 2: me sad because, like, here's an example. The last time
Speaker 2: I had to do that, and I was what seventeen
Speaker 2: years old something like that. The guy taps me on
Speaker 2: the shoulder and he's like, come on, buddy, we got
Speaker 2: to go. And it turns out it was a woman
Speaker 2: walking with a limp, somebody who had obviously fallen on
Speaker 2: hard times.
Speaker 3: She had a piece of meat in her bag.
Speaker 2: That's not a euphemism, no, okay, no, it was just
Speaker 2: a piece of a modest piece of meat she took
Speaker 2: from the butcher department. And she was like, well, I
Speaker 2: guess she got me. Sure was a good looking piece
Speaker 2: of meat.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: And the guy had no mercy. He wasn't gonna let
Speaker 2: her go. He was going to throw the book at her.
Speaker 2: I always have a little compassion because I'm a human
Speaker 2: being for people like that. So I think it's important
Speaker 2: to look at the reason people are doing this, first
Speaker 2: of all, and like I said, also put it into
Speaker 2: perspective with the bigger crimes that nobody ever gets punished for,
Speaker 2: or like say with Walmart and McDonald's, all the money
Speaker 2: that taxpayers have to pay to make up for what
Speaker 2: they don't pay their employees who have to go on
Speaker 2: public assistance. I think everything's connected, and that's all I
Speaker 2: wanted to say about that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of connectivity, and not to say that a piece
Speaker 1: of meat is the same as say, a pair of
Speaker 1: trainers or a pair of you know, jeans or something,
Speaker 1: because they're not they're definitely not equitable.
Speaker 2: Well, we did see Charlie Chaplin try to eat a
Speaker 2: shoe in one of his movies, but that's more of
Speaker 2: a rare occurrence.
Speaker 1: Speaking of a piece of meat, Please tell us what's
Speaker 1: going on with RFK.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's your segue.
Speaker 2: So this might seem like some insider baseball, but it's
Speaker 2: salacious and it really does affect us all and more importantly,
Speaker 2: it makes me angry. It turns out the New Yorkers
Speaker 2: star reporter got herself in a little hot water and
Speaker 2: may soon be the New Yorker's farmer star reporter because
Speaker 2: she was reporting and got in a relationship of some
Speaker 2: sort with someone she was covering. And that person was
Speaker 2: RFKA Junior, Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 4: Knew what was he thinking?
Speaker 2: Well, first off, as a woman, I ask you who
Speaker 2: could resist him?
Speaker 4: What was she thinking as I said.
Speaker 2: Like, ooh, that Andy vax talk could get anybody all
Speaker 2: hot and bothered, wouldn't it. Here's some of the details,
Speaker 2: and this is from a Variety New York magazine political
Speaker 2: correspondent Olivia News. He has been put on leave by
Speaker 2: leadership after engaging in a quote personal relationship with a
Speaker 2: former subject relevant to the twenty twenty four campaign while
Speaker 2: she was reporting on the campaign. And the subject is
Speaker 2: allegedly Robert Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. According to reporter
Speaker 2: Oliver Darcy, it supposedly the relationship, whatever it was, didn't
Speaker 2: begin until after she profiled him in November twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: But just knowing that much, lady, there's three and a
Speaker 2: half billion other men on earth. You don't have to
Speaker 2: pick a guy who you profiled. And this is what happened.
Speaker 2: These opportunities have come my way over the decades as well,
Speaker 2: and anybody anybody else the way, I'll.
Speaker 3: Get to that.
Speaker 2: Anybody knows you just don't do that. It's one of
Speaker 2: the cardinal rules of journalism. And so the magazine said
Speaker 2: that she violated their standards around conflicts of interest. An
Speaker 2: internal review of her published work allegedly found no inaccuracies
Speaker 2: or evidence of bias. But if you look at this
Speaker 2: stuff on Twitter, people are going back through all her
Speaker 2: work now, Olivia Newsy. Because the thing is, we shouldn't
Speaker 2: have to wonder about this, Okay, we need to keep
Speaker 2: our noses clean. The magazine says, we regret this violation
Speaker 2: of our readers trust. And here's the statement from Newsy
Speaker 2: yourself earlier this year. The nature of some communication between
Speaker 2: myself and a former reporting subject turned personal. During that time,
Speaker 2: I did not directly report on the subject nor use
Speaker 2: them as a source. Relationship was never physical, should have
Speaker 2: been disclosed to prevent the appearance of conflict. Blob blah blah,
Speaker 2: you're out of line. We shouldn't have to wonder.
Speaker 1: I find it very entertaining that miss Newzy would include
Speaker 1: in that that the relationship was never physical.
Speaker 4: We didn't ask you if that's what it was.
Speaker 1: But I find it interesting that she would want to
Speaker 1: distance herself from the idea.
Speaker 4: That she might have.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, well, we got to take her choy Forrrett,
Speaker 2: and we got to take his word for it. But
Speaker 2: you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. After
Speaker 2: you do that. Darcy's report, according to Variety, stated Kennedy
Speaker 2: would boast about his relationship with Newsy. Then Kennedy comes
Speaker 2: out with a statement that says, mister Kennedy only met
Speaker 2: Olivia Newsy once in his life for an interview she requested,
Speaker 2: which yielded a hit piece.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I guess I got to take your word
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 2: If you were trustworthy on most other things, maybe I would.
Speaker 2: But you tend not to be so Olivia Newsy if
Speaker 2: you're not familiar with her, she's become a pretty familiar
Speaker 2: face on TV. Definitely one of those journals who wants
Speaker 2: to be a celebrity, and you would think not getting
Speaker 2: in any of a relationship with somebody you cover would
Speaker 2: be a no brainer. But let's be honest here, a
Speaker 2: little behind the scenes baseball here. There are different standards
Speaker 2: in journalism for newspapers, for radio, for entertainment journalism.
Speaker 3: It's an inexact science.
Speaker 1: I think that she and he are both wanting to
Speaker 1: unring the bell.
Speaker 4: You can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's already been done, it's already been said, it's out there.
Speaker 1: Just move forward from it. I think the more they
Speaker 1: try and explain it the deeper the hole they dig
Speaker 1: becomes well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not clear that they're telling the truth.
Speaker 2: And the reason that you got to keep your nose clean.
Speaker 2: It should be obvious for anyone with the functioning brain.
Speaker 2: People have to be able to trust us.
Speaker 3: We're in a.
Speaker 2: Time when more than ever, people go to news sources
Speaker 2: they like and they avoid the ones they don't that
Speaker 2: don't line up with their political beliefs. We've had journalists
Speaker 2: called the enemy of the American people, which isn't ideal.
Speaker 2: In the United States, where journalism is specifically mentioned in
Speaker 2: the Constitution and one of its functions is to a
Speaker 2: watchdog for democracy. We got to keep our noses clean.
Speaker 2: If I did let's just an example. If I did
Speaker 2: a lot of reporting on say Tesla, and that reporting
Speaker 2: was overwhelmingly positive, then it came out that I had
Speaker 2: a bunch of Tesla stock, you might rightly be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: that don't seem right, or okay, maybe you wouldn't say
Speaker 2: it like that. Well, most journalists are not celebrities lack
Speaker 2: and Newsey. I think for most of us, journalism is
Speaker 2: a real calling, and I can tell you from years
Speaker 2: of experience that the people in it largely consider it
Speaker 2: a calling. They don't make a lot of money compared
Speaker 2: to other people with similar experience or.
Speaker 3: Education or skills.
Speaker 2: Most of it take it seriously, just like doctors who
Speaker 2: take a hippocratic oath or lawyers. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: I've known reporters who have gone off the reservation in
Speaker 2: both directions. Cops beat reporters who slept with cops can't
Speaker 2: have that. You cannot do that. When I took over
Speaker 2: as a cops beat reporter from this person, the cops
Speaker 2: hated me because A reported on what they said and
Speaker 2: what they did, and they were used to slightly different treatment.
Speaker 3: And I got word they were at to get me.
Speaker 2: They were looking to pull me over for so much
Speaker 2: as a hint of booze on my breath, because I
Speaker 2: wasn't sleeping with any of them and I wasn't writing
Speaker 2: puff pieces about them. Other reporters they get to be
Speaker 2: way too much of a hall monitor. Like I covered
Speaker 2: the wto thing in Seattle as well as the riots,
Speaker 2: and I was told the gift bags every single person
Speaker 2: who registered got not.
Speaker 4: A euphemism either, right, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The gift bags with like a bottle of wine and
Speaker 2: some crackers in them. Everybody who registered got and I
Speaker 2: was told we shouldn't take those because of the appearance
Speaker 2: of impropriety and all that, And I was like, get real,
Speaker 2: If you think I can be bought for a bottle
Speaker 2: of wine and some crackers, you can go soak your head.
Speaker 2: But when a prominent journalist like Newsy messes up like this,
Speaker 2: I'm okay with getting their excommunicated. Go work in PR
Speaker 2: lots of other things you could do. I profiled the
Speaker 2: different Kennedy once, the Kennedy who was on MTV and
Speaker 2: I think is on Fox now it's Fox. Right after
Speaker 2: the profile ran a couple days later, she called me
Speaker 2: up at the newsroom, just wanted to talk and I'm like, uh, hello,
Speaker 2: can I help you? Because it's just inappropriate. Pretty sure
Speaker 2: John Waters was hitting on me in a hotel room too.
Speaker 2: I know where you got to go. But the point
Speaker 2: is none of that's cool. If you don't like the rules,
Speaker 2: go do something else. If you're a journalist, that's it.
Speaker 2: And this opens up the whole issue of access journalism
Speaker 2: that you hear about. We now know that, say Maggie
Speaker 2: Haberman at the New York Times was one of the
Speaker 2: people the Trump campaign said they could count on for
Speaker 2: positive coverage if they wanted to get something out to
Speaker 2: the public. This stuff makes us all look bad, and
Speaker 2: we got to get them out, just like like antibodies
Speaker 2: removing an infection from a body. I always pay attention
Speaker 2: to who I'm reading, what they're doing. Got to be
Speaker 2: a smart journalist consumer, especially with all the propaganda masquerading
Speaker 2: his journalism. Right now, what are we gonna do when
Speaker 2: we come back?
Speaker 1: What a lovely Lynchpinton. So we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: super thrifting. What's going on at this beautiful facility.
Speaker 4: It's huge. I've been there.
Speaker 1: You have to have a lot of gumption to stay
Speaker 1: there if you're looking for some clothes or any other
Speaker 1: goods at this specific goodwill.
Speaker 4: We'll come back with that story.
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Speaker 5: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1: We are going to talk about popping tags and that
Speaker 1: is a slang term for shopping. When you shop you
Speaker 1: take the tags off instead of taking expensive tags off.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about thrifting and of course at
Speaker 1: certain thrift stores. You might find a jewel, you might
Speaker 1: find something that is something that you could resell.
Speaker 4: Let's say, but at.
Speaker 1: One southern California thrift store in the valley, not only
Speaker 1: are they looking for surprising goods or unique wares, this
Speaker 1: is another gladiator type sport.
Speaker 4: It is a bloodbath.
Speaker 1: And this particular store, this Goodwill on San Fernando Road,
Speaker 1: is known to be one of the biggest, most competitive
Speaker 1: shopping experiences you might ever engage in mark What say you?
Speaker 4: Are you a thrifter?
Speaker 1: Do you like perusing those shelves at Goodwill or Salvation
Speaker 1: Army or something smaller?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: And it causes some conflict with the human I live with,
Speaker 2: who absolutely hates that souff. By the way, we started
Speaker 2: off playing my homie Macklemore from Seattle.
Speaker 4: Oh look at you, knowing the jam.
Speaker 2: I love old stuff, I love vintage stuff. I love
Speaker 2: old gadgets.
Speaker 1: Wait, are you considering Mackelmore old and vintage? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying?
Speaker 2: No, I switch gears. Now we're talking about the stuff
Speaker 2: you buy.
Speaker 1: Because if he's old in vintage, I'm decrepit in one foot.
Speaker 2: In Well, we're not even going to talk about me.
Speaker 2: I cannot afford to buy mackelmore. But we're all poor,
Speaker 2: so we're all thrifting more lately, because I mean, look,
Speaker 2: the economy is booming by every single metric you can name,
Speaker 2: but we're still getting squeezed to death by price gouging
Speaker 2: from groceries, landlords, healthcare. Like I bought a couple of
Speaker 2: things used on Craigslist, a couple pieces of furniture on Craigslist,
Speaker 2: and by the way, that opens up a whole new
Speaker 2: universe of humanity for you.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: It is a crapshoot. It's a crapshoot.
Speaker 2: But it was a day after I had to spend
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars on a car repair. So if you
Speaker 2: wonder why a lot of us are thrifting, look no further.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do. I love that stuff because you
Speaker 2: find some treasures there.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 1: Well, at this Goodwill again on San Fernando Road, they
Speaker 1: charged not by the parcel, as far as this shirt
Speaker 1: is three dollars or these pants or seven.
Speaker 4: No, they charged you by the pound.
Speaker 1: And I said, I actually have visited this particular store.
Speaker 1: There's a Starbucks nearby, there's some other places nearby. It's
Speaker 1: kind of tucked away off San Fernando Road. It's easy
Speaker 1: to miss except for those who know what they're going
Speaker 1: there for. And trust me when I say this place
Speaker 1: gets crowded and busy. It looks like a warehouse and
Speaker 1: it operates like one too.
Speaker 2: Is this like one of those things where they pass
Speaker 2: around the viral videos of people crowding the doorway like
Speaker 2: zombies at a Walmart before Black Friday, and they just
Speaker 2: burst in and it's like elbows thrown.
Speaker 1: No judgment, but yes, that's exactly what it is. This
Speaker 1: is what these these these shoppers are doing. So again,
Speaker 1: they charged by the pound, anywhere from three nineteen per
Speaker 1: pound or one nineteen per pound for home goods, and
Speaker 1: it's regardless of what you might find. It is highly competitive.
Speaker 1: And when I went, I noticed that I was out
Speaker 1: of my element.
Speaker 3: Did you wear a mouth guard?
Speaker 4: I did wear a shin guard?
Speaker 1: You literally, you do, honestly need some sort of protective
Speaker 1: covering because people in there are just there to get
Speaker 1: what they want and they don't care what or who's
Speaker 1: in their way. When you're there, there are these blue bins,
Speaker 1: and this particular store is known for their blue bins
Speaker 1: like many good wills, and these blue bins are filled
Speaker 1: to five feet tall of clothing and other things, and
Speaker 1: you are expected to sift through with your hands. And
Speaker 1: you see people who make this into their common, their
Speaker 1: common Saturday or Sunday activity. They're there, they're shopping and
Speaker 1: they are going completely crazy. The goodwill site itself has
Speaker 1: a disclaimer. It says, when preparing to visit the blue bins,
Speaker 1: brace yourself for a rough experience, including shoving and aggressive
Speaker 1: resellers and vintage hunters. And that is an understatement mark
Speaker 1: because aggressive is generous and kind. These people are out
Speaker 1: for blood and jeans and shirts and they don't again,
Speaker 1: they don't care who's in their way. And it's because,
Speaker 1: like you said, the economy is not necessarily trickling down
Speaker 1: to all, and not only are people looking to thrifting
Speaker 1: for saving money, but they're looking for the possibility of
Speaker 1: resale items.
Speaker 2: I used to really think those videos were funny, but
Speaker 2: then I realized I had a moment of epiphany where
Speaker 2: I thought, wait, am I just poor shaming people because
Speaker 2: they're not there because they enjoy this sport. They're there
Speaker 2: because they need to be there. They're there because they
Speaker 2: need to be there.
Speaker 1: They're there because it is yet another experience that if
Speaker 1: you're into thrifting, people want to engage in kind of.
Speaker 4: For the lore of it all.
Speaker 1: At any rate, this store, if you're interested in thrifting,
Speaker 1: if you're interested in being competitive and going elbow to
Speaker 1: elbow with other shoppers, is at three one five zero
Speaker 1: or thirty one fifty North Fernando Road nine double six
Speaker 1: ' five. Again, it's right there, just past Griffith Park
Speaker 1: and all these places. It's easy to find once you
Speaker 1: get into the area. And again, Star Books and other
Speaker 1: places are there, but it is not easy to navigate.
Speaker 4: I wish you well if you should go.
Speaker 2: How about those football helmets with the extra padding on
Speaker 2: them that makes you look like a giant mushroom?
Speaker 4: You need it. These people are serious.
Speaker 3: Well what do you get when you go?
Speaker 2: Because I look for books and if you're selling those
Speaker 2: by the pound, I'm screwed.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 1: They have everything and then some and Mark, they may
Speaker 1: even have transformers there, don't They might even have transformers
Speaker 1: your favorite series, your favorite brand, And I know you're
Speaker 1: going to talk about that when we come back. And
Speaker 1: again when we come back, Mark's going to get into
Speaker 1: something called Hostile Witness.
Speaker 2: We're going to have Tawala come in here and defend
Speaker 2: the Transformers while I ask him a series of questions
Speaker 2: that he's not going to.
Speaker 1: Like, finger of shame, Finger of shame, Cone of shame
Speaker 1: around your neck.
Speaker 3: I might learn something.
Speaker 1: It's Later with Mo Kelly. I'm Tiffany Hobbs. That's Mark Ronert.
Speaker 5: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Mark Ronner and from rotating in from the news booth
Speaker 2: with my pal Tiffany Hobbs tonight as well as Tawalla
Speaker 2: Sharp and he's in here for a segment, a new
Speaker 2: segment that I'm calling Hostile Witness.
Speaker 3: I need to listen.
Speaker 2: Transformers one is opening this weekend and it's projected to
Speaker 2: take first place debuting in theaters, making up to forty
Speaker 2: million bucks in its first weekend. That's going to be
Speaker 2: enough to knock down Beetlejuice out a first place to second.
Speaker 2: And I don't get it. I Never let Go is
Speaker 2: opening up that's supposed to make.
Speaker 3: Like six million bucks.
Speaker 2: The halle Berry horror film and I need to be
Speaker 2: tutored on this.
Speaker 3: But we're going to do.
Speaker 6: Look I what I'm hearing already, disdain and your hate
Speaker 6: for all things that are good. I am contributing to
Speaker 6: the forty million dollar boon for Transformers one. I'm seeing
Speaker 6: it tomorrow with my son.
Speaker 2: I've hardy got my tickets there, okay, And I have
Speaker 2: never seen a single Transformers movie.
Speaker 3: Sh Do you know why?
Speaker 4: Shame?
Speaker 2: Because I'm an adult. Now, hey, hey, what in the
Speaker 2: name of Sam Hill? These films are four adults. This
Speaker 2: is taking a child's franchise something that many grew up with,
Speaker 2: many true nerds, true comic collectors, true fans of all
Speaker 2: things robots, and now the robots were brought here to
Speaker 2: America in the form of Tarka and then they became
Speaker 2: Transformers and all that, and we bonded with it. To
Speaker 2: see that on the big screen, to actually see cars
Speaker 2: transforming into robots the first time with young Chia Labouf,
Speaker 2: it was fantastic.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't I have.
Speaker 4: My hand up like I'm in class. I have something
Speaker 4: I need about this.
Speaker 1: I remember being three or four playing with Transformers.
Speaker 4: And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It probably wasn't the branded Transformers, but an off brand
Speaker 1: that you could get from some other little store.
Speaker 4: But as brand here you get it. But either way,
Speaker 4: the thing trans transformed. It was the transform like.
Speaker 3: The Lee Jeans of Transformers.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I loved it, and I grew up loving that
Speaker 1: this thing could transform into other things.
Speaker 4: It was like alchemy.
Speaker 1: And then the movies came, Like you said, Shia Lebuff
Speaker 1: or Labouf, whatever we call them, were disgraced at this
Speaker 1: at this time.
Speaker 4: But Shia, Megan Fox.
Speaker 1: That whole trilogy, that whole series was just so exciting
Speaker 1: and well done, and you had all the cinematic appeal
Speaker 1: of it. How could you not have at least seen
Speaker 1: the first one or two? All right, listen, how do
Speaker 1: I how you watch every movie? How did you bypass that?
Speaker 2: I have nerd cred coming out of my ears? Look
Speaker 2: at my wallet? Even what is this wallet? It's an
Speaker 2: evil dead wallet with a face like the like the
Speaker 2: Necronomicon and human flesh. Okay, only a nerd would carry
Speaker 2: such a thing. So there's some a list talent in
Speaker 2: this new Transformers. And there have been seven of them,
Speaker 2: seven of these things, okay. Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan,
Speaker 2: Michael Key, Steve bushmy Laurence Fishburn.
Speaker 3: Is in this thing.
Speaker 2: It wasn't worth it. These I hope they're getting a
Speaker 2: lot of money for this.
Speaker 3: I just hope.
Speaker 6: Mart I want you to make sure that you are really,
Speaker 6: really clear on what it is that you are blaspheming.
Speaker 3: Okay, there was the.
Speaker 6: Original Michael Bay Transformers franchise of films. Yeah, did three
Speaker 6: with Shia, and then he did two with Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 6: And then they decided to relaunch the Transformers brand when
Speaker 6: Hasbro decided to launch its film universe. And then they
Speaker 6: gave us the Bubblebee movie, which was loosely connected to
Speaker 6: the Snake Eyes movie. And now there will be a
Speaker 6: g I. Joe Transformers film, as we saw from Transformers
Speaker 6: Beast War. They already allude to this. Transformers One is
Speaker 6: an animated or just story standalone all to itself. It
Speaker 6: is not connected to the original French which after a
Speaker 6: while turned to trash. Okay, turn to trash Formers.
Speaker 2: I will give you that. I will give you that. Okay,
Speaker 2: the Bumblebee movie? Did that involve an alien robot who
Speaker 2: could turn into a can of tuna?
Speaker 4: Don't you diss bumble you do that?
Speaker 2: That is the most disrespectful thing I've heard Okay, I
Speaker 2: hears some facts. It is the fourth highest grossing film
Speaker 2: series with a total of five point two eight billion
Speaker 2: dollars grossed over seven films. And these things are incredibly popular.
Speaker 2: So I can go one of two ways on this.
Speaker 2: I can take their popularity as a sign that we're
Speaker 2: a civilization in decline and soon will be roaming the
Speaker 2: desert wasteland fighting for gas and get the cannibalism. Or
Speaker 2: maybe I'm missing something and that's why the two of
Speaker 2: you are here. Now. Look, here's another example to put
Speaker 2: this in perspective. When I was a newspaper critic, I
Speaker 2: always reviewed the horror movies because the other critics didn't
Speaker 2: get them, look down their nose at them, considered them trash.
Speaker 2: My question to you two is have I just become
Speaker 2: what I have always mocked?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Because if if Martin scoor Sessey had directed a movie
Speaker 6: about an artistic robot that transformed into a paint brush
Speaker 6: and then sat with an incessant psychopath on a beach
Speaker 6: trying to get inspiration, you may like that.
Speaker 3: Now we would hate it so far.
Speaker 2: There you go, Well, now you're just needling me. I've
Speaker 2: had cars that transformed but they transformed into non moving cars,
Speaker 2: and generally when you see a car transform it it's
Speaker 2: into living quarters for somebody who can't afford rent.
Speaker 6: So there's there's a deeper anger, that there's something deep
Speaker 6: inside with you that is coming out now.
Speaker 2: So this is an elemental question, though, I need to
Speaker 2: know what you enjoy about these movies because they look
Speaker 2: just unutterably dumb to me, and I like I like
Speaker 2: Beavis and butt heead, what do you like about these
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 6: Whoa you Beavis and butt Head spill out your mouth.
Speaker 6: I then try to disrespect Transformers. I think that's the
Speaker 6: end of your argument. The question is what am I missing?
Speaker 6: I like other dumb stuff that there is a level
Speaker 6: of adventure and just the amazement of seeing these special
Speaker 6: effects wonders and these things happen on screen. If you
Speaker 6: grew up playing with these things, if you grew up,
Speaker 6: you know, spending all your time figuring out how to
Speaker 6: make these things go from car to roll by mode,
Speaker 6: and then you see that happen on the big screen.
Speaker 6: It's magnificent. Now here's the thing. I challenge you, though,
Speaker 6: I challenge you to go and see Transformers one because
Speaker 6: it is being heralded by several critics, and you know
Speaker 6: this to be true, has been the godfather of Transformers
Speaker 6: films and one of the best origin films ever made ever,
Speaker 6: not just animated. I challenge you to see it and
Speaker 6: then review it on Monday when we come in and
Speaker 6: discuss films.
Speaker 2: Okay, I decline your challenge. The director of this Transformers
Speaker 2: movie is Josh Cooley, and I've never heard of him.
Speaker 2: He did a toy story movie and you know what
Speaker 2: they William Faulkner once said, the only thing worth writing
Speaker 2: about is the human heart in conflict with itself or
Speaker 2: in conflict with the student loan people. Is there anything
Speaker 2: deeper in these movies than just big robot cars hitting
Speaker 2: each other?
Speaker 1: Well, Bumblebee's kind of hot. What's that means? He's a looker,
Speaker 1: He's kind of hot, He's super charismatic. The robots are
Speaker 1: just full of personality, and you really they're so personified.
Speaker 1: You relate and you start to form these relationships with
Speaker 1: them as well, and you want to follow their story.
Speaker 4: And Bumblebee's hot.
Speaker 2: There's a clinical world for people who feel an erotic
Speaker 2: attraction to cars and inanimate objects.
Speaker 4: I'll wave that flag I think.
Speaker 2: I'm all become pretty good friends over the last three
Speaker 2: three and a half years, and I'd go as far
Speaker 2: as to say family, not a lot I wouldn't do
Speaker 2: for either one of you. But I'm not going to
Speaker 2: go see a Transformers movie. I feel like the Green
Speaker 2: Eggs and Ham guy, So.
Speaker 3: I'm going to leave. And he tried it and he
Speaker 3: liked it. What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Well, if you're if that's your analogy, and then let's
Speaker 6: go with that. He tried it and he liked it.
Speaker 2: I read that, then you didn't know how it ended,
Speaker 2: so maybe I haven't read it.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're a psychopath.
Speaker 2: How would I not have red, Green Eggs and hand
Speaker 2: I want you to imagine a Transformers movie directed by
Speaker 2: like David Lean, the Lawrence of Arabia guy, or you
Speaker 2: mentioned Scorsese.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't compute with me.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna leave it there, and you tuwala are
Speaker 2: gonna go see it without me, and you're gonna let
Speaker 2: me know how ridiculous it is. KF I am six
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