WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:14.679 KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 2 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.839 It's later with Mo Kelly, except tonight, it's not later 3 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:23.480 with Mo Kelly. It's later with Mark Ronner, who's sitting 4 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:24.399 across from me. 5 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.239 Hi, Mark, it's not a mistake. We're actually meant to 6 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.199 be here. And Tiffany Hobbes, my pal. We are sitting 7 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:32.359 in for Mo. We are We all just kind of 8 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.039 moved over a chair. MO filled in for Conway. We're 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:36.679 filling in for Mo. And we're going to try not 10 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.679 to burn the joint down again. We've already done it. 11 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:43.759 Twice well, you know, and so far, so good, relatively unscathed. 12 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.439 We're trying also not to cruise the or excuse me, 13 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.640 not to crash the proverbial cruise ship, as we talked 14 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:53.320 about in the last few segments with Mo. But with 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:58.000 all of that said, there is a really monumental kind 16 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.359 of passing of the torch and ways as well. This 17 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:04.760 is the last mo Kelly show of the summer. Did 18 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:05.439 you know that, Mark? 19 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:06.200 No, I didn't know that. 20 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.480 I almost scared you there for a second. Right, last 21 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.480 mo Kelly show of the summer. The first day of 22 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.959 fall is this Sunday. And as the seasons change, as 23 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.200 the air becomes more clear and crisp, the days are shorter, 24 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.239 you're not running your ac twenty four to seven. Some things, 25 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:28.319 Mark are staying the same, like crime in the Southland, 26 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:33.079 and like the overwhelming backlash two hour not so beloved 27 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.680 Prop forty seven, that familiar initiative that reduced felonies to 28 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:41.400 misdemeanors and up the shoplifting threshold to nine hundred and 29 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:42.120 fifty dollars. 30 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:43.159 Have you heard of that, Mark? 31 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.000 I have. But the important question here is if it's 32 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.680 the last day of summer, can I still wear cargo shorts? 33 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.319 You can still wear your white cargo shorts if you 34 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.319 want to be adventures. 35 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.000 I don't want to get too far off track here, 36 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.840 but why do women hate cargo shorts? 37 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.319 I think it's the fact that they're called cargo shorts. 38 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.040 We don't want an as necessarily carry more on our bodies. 39 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:03.439 We are carried like. 40 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:04.760 Having a Batman utility belt. 41 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.040 And before we get started with your items, we got 42 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.039 fush here, fush you. 43 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:08.520 Ready to roll? 44 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.560 You got us, let's do it. Man tawalas here, Heather, 45 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.240 You're good. We're gonna call on you the team, She's there. Okay, 46 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.520 there we go. I think we got this. Let's roll, 47 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:19.360 let's do it well. 48 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:24.400 The excrement has hit the proverbial fan mark with the 49 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:29.479 shoplifting that we have all been witnessing, either directly or indirectly, 50 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.280 and there's a new proposition that could very well be 51 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.680 in stated in the wake of all of this crime. 52 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.639 That proposition is called Prop thirty six, and it would 53 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.879 roll back aspects of Prop forty seven, which then would 54 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.039 increase penalties for shoplifting, smash and grabs, as well as 55 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:53.159 low level offenses for drug possession. And polls that have 56 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.800 been taken most recently just last week are showing that 57 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.800 if put to vote today, this new prop Prop thirty 58 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.919 six would surely pass and it would affect everyone mark. 59 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.240 It would affect me, It would affect you as shop 60 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:10.599 as both of us as customers. It would affect shop 61 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:14.599 owners and whether you are shop owner or patron. This 62 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.520 is a proposition that you probably will want to get 63 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:22.319 behind when you hear this next thing that's happening in 64 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.919 the city of Compton, And unfortunately it's not unique unto Compton, 65 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:32.840 but this story, this specific place is making its rounds 66 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.879 because of how bombastic all of this is. 67 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.120 And what am I talking about? 68 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.439 Well, in Compton, there is a Rite Aid on Long 69 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.360 Beach Boulevard. You might have passed by it on your 70 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.240 way somewhere else. 71 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:46.800 You might have. 72 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.759 Stopped to shop there. You might have your own Rite 73 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.479 Aid in your neighborhood. Many of them have since closed down. 74 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:56.639 This one is still very much alive, but it is 75 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:04.680 practically encased in plexi glass mark. When you go shopping, 76 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.719 when you go to Right Aids and CBS's or wherever 77 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.840 you might go your local drug store, are you noticing 78 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:14.280 that more and more items are behind these plexi glass 79 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:14.960 cases now? 80 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.279 Because I'm ordering everything off of Amazon now because I 81 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.079 don't want to interact with human beings in a situation 82 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.120 like that or get shot in the face. 83 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:24.240 But this is what I hear. 84 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.800 Yeah, And the thing about interacting with human beings is like, 85 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.480 at this right Aid you have to then request that 86 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.560 an employee comes to you and opens this glass case. 87 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:39.680 And if you were to patronize this specific right Aid, 88 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:44.519 you would find that mostly everything in this store is 89 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:50.360 now behind this plexi glass casing, whether it's your toilet trees, 90 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.360 whether there are certain items of food, whether it's medicine, 91 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:58.959 it is behind plexiglass. And this right aid has of 92 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.720 course installed these locked glass cases because of theft. 93 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.040 That seems like it could be embarrassing. It should be imbuing, 94 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:09.439 like not everybody's going to be going up to the 95 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.279 counter and saying, pardon me, sir, would you help me 96 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.879 acquire a box of magnums from the case. 97 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.120 It's all going to be gross stuff. 98 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.600 It's everything you need that you don't want to ever 99 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:22.240 involve another human being in retrieving for you. But when 100 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.879 you think about again patronizing these stores, you think about 101 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.680 going into places where you need some sort of whatever, 102 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:32.680 it may be a personal item or otherwise. Now you're 103 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:36.199 being forced to reckon with the consequences of all of 104 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.160 this shoplifting, and stores, as we've seen, are doing this 105 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:43.040 using this strategy more and more. And this particular store 106 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:47.240 in Compton is really popular now on social media because 107 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.560 it's become kind of a tourist destination. People are flocking 108 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:53.480 to it just so they can get footage of all 109 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.279 of these cases. It's so abnormal, and it should be 110 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.839 because we shouldn't have to wait ten minutes to get 111 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:01.279 you you're deodorant. 112 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.680 No no, you need deodorant promptly, I find especially now 113 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.759 right at the turn of the seasons. But probably not. 114 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.360 Are we still talking about the props at thirty six here? 115 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.759 Because you know, one thing that I that occurred to 116 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.839 me about this was, as much as I understand that 117 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.040 there are thefts and smashing grabs and they have to 118 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.199 do something, we also know that some of these places 119 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.720 have kind of cooked the books. The National Retail Association 120 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.920 admitted to as much not long ago. And when you 121 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:35.199 see the figures on say wage theft, those numbers dwarf 122 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.439 these thefts, and so I think you have to keep 123 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:38.560 the big picture in mind. 124 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.759 So we'll talk more about that when we come back. 125 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.279 We have a lot to cover, and I would love 126 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.279 for Mark to share his thoughts on these smash and 127 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.000 grabs and what he's experienced. 128 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.160 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 129 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.480 KFI AM six forty later. 130 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.720 With Moe Kelly. But we are not Mo Kelly. 131 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.680 We are Mark Ronner and Tiffany Hobbes, that is I. 132 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.040 And just to put a pin in our last story, 133 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.759 we were talking about smash and grabs, the new answer 134 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:10.560 to the existing prop forty seven and all of the 135 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.680 things inteled in the uptick of petty theft, thefts under 136 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:19.000 nine hundred and fifty dollars no longer being taken seriously, 137 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.959 so to speak, and causing kind of this cascade of 138 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:24.480 crime in the south Land. 139 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.519 And Mark you had some final thoughts on that. 140 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.680 Well, we're talking about increasing penalties for people who shoplifted 141 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.240 and stole from stores, and that's fine. I mean, I'm 142 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.319 going to take the bold position that I'm against crimes 143 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.519 and I don't care who knows about it. But you know, 144 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.519 there's other crime that goes on. I mentioned wage theft. 145 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:49.120 We've seen corporations like Kroger admit to price gouging, and 146 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.879 the numbers on that are big. They're bigger than petty theft. 147 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:54.279 And the thing you got to remember is nobody ever 148 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.759 goes to jail for that stuff. 149 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:56.279 They don't. 150 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.040 You don't see a seat, not often anyway. 151 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.319 Yeah, not nearly as often as just somebody who gets busted. 152 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.519 Like you know, I think I worked at a grocery 153 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.279 store for a little while in high school and I 154 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.319 had to we always had to go out with the 155 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.199 security guy when there was a shoplifter, just to be 156 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.959 a witness. We didn't touch anybody, but it always made 157 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.519 me sad because, like, here's an example. The last time 158 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.480 I had to do that, and I was what seventeen 159 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:23.879 years old something like that. The guy taps me on 160 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:25.720 the shoulder and he's like, come on, buddy, we got 161 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.120 to go. And it turns out it was a woman 162 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.560 walking with a limp, somebody who had obviously fallen on 163 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:32.200 hard times. 164 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:33.799 She had a piece of meat in her bag. 165 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.399 That's not a euphemism, no, okay, no, it was just 166 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.120 a piece of a modest piece of meat she took 167 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:43.720 from the butcher department. And she was like, well, I 168 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:45.919 guess she got me. Sure was a good looking piece 169 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:46.320 of meat. 170 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.039 Oh. 171 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.799 And the guy had no mercy. He wasn't gonna let 172 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:52.639 her go. He was going to throw the book at her. 173 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.440 I always have a little compassion because I'm a human 174 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.720 being for people like that. So I think it's important 175 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.519 to look at the reason people are doing this, first 176 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.159 of all, and like I said, also put it into 177 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.639 perspective with the bigger crimes that nobody ever gets punished for, 178 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:12.639 or like say with Walmart and McDonald's, all the money 179 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.279 that taxpayers have to pay to make up for what 180 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.360 they don't pay their employees who have to go on 181 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.159 public assistance. I think everything's connected, and that's all I 182 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:21.159 wanted to say about that. 183 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.200 Speaking of connectivity, and not to say that a piece 184 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.240 of meat is the same as say, a pair of 185 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.840 trainers or a pair of you know, jeans or something, 186 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.399 because they're not they're definitely not equitable. 187 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.559 Well, we did see Charlie Chaplin try to eat a 188 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.120 shoe in one of his movies, but that's more of 189 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:35.960 a rare occurrence. 190 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:40.039 Speaking of a piece of meat, Please tell us what's 191 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:41.200 going on with RFK. 192 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:42.559 Yeah, that's your segue. 193 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.600 So this might seem like some insider baseball, but it's 194 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.200 salacious and it really does affect us all and more importantly, 195 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:51.759 it makes me angry. It turns out the New Yorkers 196 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.360 star reporter got herself in a little hot water and 197 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.600 may soon be the New Yorker's farmer star reporter because 198 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.799 she was reporting and got in a relationship of some 199 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.559 sort with someone she was covering. And that person was 200 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.360 RFKA Junior, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 201 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.159 Knew what was he thinking? 202 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.799 Well, first off, as a woman, I ask you who 203 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:13.679 could resist him? 204 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.720 What was she thinking as I said. 205 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.879 Like, ooh, that Andy vax talk could get anybody all 206 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.360 hot and bothered, wouldn't it. Here's some of the details, 207 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.960 and this is from a Variety New York magazine political 208 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.600 correspondent Olivia News. He has been put on leave by 209 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:31.399 leadership after engaging in a quote personal relationship with a 210 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.159 former subject relevant to the twenty twenty four campaign while 211 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:37.559 she was reporting on the campaign. And the subject is 212 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.600 allegedly Robert Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. According to reporter 213 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.399 Oliver Darcy, it supposedly the relationship, whatever it was, didn't 214 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.080 begin until after she profiled him in November twenty twenty three. 215 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.320 But just knowing that much, lady, there's three and a 216 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.240 half billion other men on earth. You don't have to 217 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.480 pick a guy who you profiled. And this is what happened. 218 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.759 These opportunities have come my way over the decades as well, 219 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.799 and anybody anybody else the way, I'll. 220 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:08.039 Get to that. 221 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.120 Anybody knows you just don't do that. It's one of 222 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:16.519 the cardinal rules of journalism. And so the magazine said 223 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.759 that she violated their standards around conflicts of interest. An 224 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:24.960 internal review of her published work allegedly found no inaccuracies 225 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.240 or evidence of bias. But if you look at this 226 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.840 stuff on Twitter, people are going back through all her 227 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:34.080 work now, Olivia Newsy. Because the thing is, we shouldn't 228 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.919 have to wonder about this, Okay, we need to keep 229 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.320 our noses clean. The magazine says, we regret this violation 230 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.639 of our readers trust. And here's the statement from Newsy 231 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.240 yourself earlier this year. The nature of some communication between 232 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:49.399 myself and a former reporting subject turned personal. During that time, 233 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.960 I did not directly report on the subject nor use 234 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.480 them as a source. Relationship was never physical, should have 235 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:00.240 been disclosed to prevent the appearance of conflict. Blob blah blah, 236 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.799 you're out of line. We shouldn't have to wonder. 237 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.320 I find it very entertaining that miss Newzy would include 238 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.720 in that that the relationship was never physical. 239 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.240 We didn't ask you if that's what it was. 240 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:15.360 But I find it interesting that she would want to 241 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:17.679 distance herself from the idea. 242 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:18.679 That she might have. 243 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.360 You know, yeah, well, we got to take her choy Forrrett, 244 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.240 and we got to take his word for it. But 245 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.799 you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore. After 246 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.399 you do that. Darcy's report, according to Variety, stated Kennedy 247 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.720 would boast about his relationship with Newsy. Then Kennedy comes 248 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.320 out with a statement that says, mister Kennedy only met 249 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.960 Olivia Newsy once in his life for an interview she requested, 250 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.279 which yielded a hit piece. 251 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.759 Okay, well, I guess I got to take your word 252 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:43.000 for that. 253 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.000 If you were trustworthy on most other things, maybe I would. 254 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.919 But you tend not to be so Olivia Newsy if 255 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:52.919 you're not familiar with her, she's become a pretty familiar 256 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.720 face on TV. Definitely one of those journals who wants 257 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.519 to be a celebrity, and you would think not getting 258 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.039 in any of a relationship with somebody you cover would 259 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:05.039 be a no brainer. But let's be honest here, a 260 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.240 little behind the scenes baseball here. There are different standards 261 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:13.039 in journalism for newspapers, for radio, for entertainment journalism. 262 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:14.559 It's an inexact science. 263 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.240 I think that she and he are both wanting to 264 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:19.879 unring the bell. 265 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:21.080 You can't do that. 266 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.960 It's already been done, it's already been said, it's out there. 267 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.960 Just move forward from it. I think the more they 268 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.000 try and explain it the deeper the hole they dig 269 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:31.120 becomes well. 270 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.159 Yeah, and it's not clear that they're telling the truth. 271 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.080 And the reason that you got to keep your nose clean. 272 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.279 It should be obvious for anyone with the functioning brain. 273 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.159 People have to be able to trust us. 274 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:40.799 We're in a. 275 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.759 Time when more than ever, people go to news sources 276 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.799 they like and they avoid the ones they don't that 277 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.600 don't line up with their political beliefs. We've had journalists 278 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:53.039 called the enemy of the American people, which isn't ideal. 279 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:57.000 In the United States, where journalism is specifically mentioned in 280 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.320 the Constitution and one of its functions is to a 281 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.320 watchdog for democracy. We got to keep our noses clean. 282 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.919 If I did let's just an example. If I did 283 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.759 a lot of reporting on say Tesla, and that reporting 284 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.720 was overwhelmingly positive, then it came out that I had 285 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.279 a bunch of Tesla stock, you might rightly be like, Hey, 286 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.120 that don't seem right, or okay, maybe you wouldn't say 287 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:22.080 it like that. Well, most journalists are not celebrities lack 288 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:27.080 and Newsey. I think for most of us, journalism is 289 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.879 a real calling, and I can tell you from years 290 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.000 of experience that the people in it largely consider it 291 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.639 a calling. They don't make a lot of money compared 292 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.720 to other people with similar experience or. 293 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.080 Education or skills. 294 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.399 Most of it take it seriously, just like doctors who 295 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.399 take a hippocratic oath or lawyers. On the other hand, 296 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.639 I've known reporters who have gone off the reservation in 297 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:49.879 both directions. Cops beat reporters who slept with cops can't 298 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.600 have that. You cannot do that. When I took over 299 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.039 as a cops beat reporter from this person, the cops 300 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.600 hated me because A reported on what they said and 301 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:03.000 what they did, and they were used to slightly different treatment. 302 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:04.879 And I got word they were at to get me. 303 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.600 They were looking to pull me over for so much 304 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.639 as a hint of booze on my breath, because I 305 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.120 wasn't sleeping with any of them and I wasn't writing 306 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.360 puff pieces about them. Other reporters they get to be 307 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:19.600 way too much of a hall monitor. Like I covered 308 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:23.000 the wto thing in Seattle as well as the riots, 309 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.960 and I was told the gift bags every single person 310 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:27.840 who registered got not. 311 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:29.840 A euphemism either, right, no, no, no, no. 312 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:31.879 The gift bags with like a bottle of wine and 313 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.440 some crackers in them. Everybody who registered got and I 314 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.759 was told we shouldn't take those because of the appearance 315 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.240 of impropriety and all that, And I was like, get real, 316 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:42.879 If you think I can be bought for a bottle 317 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:45.039 of wine and some crackers, you can go soak your head. 318 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.559 But when a prominent journalist like Newsy messes up like this, 319 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.639 I'm okay with getting their excommunicated. Go work in PR 320 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.279 lots of other things you could do. I profiled the 321 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.240 different Kennedy once, the Kennedy who was on MTV and 322 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.759 I think is on Fox now it's Fox. Right after 323 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.879 the profile ran a couple days later, she called me 324 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:10.559 up at the newsroom, just wanted to talk and I'm like, uh, hello, 325 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.879 can I help you? Because it's just inappropriate. Pretty sure 326 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:17.879 John Waters was hitting on me in a hotel room too. 327 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.200 I know where you got to go. But the point 328 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.559 is none of that's cool. If you don't like the rules, 329 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.559 go do something else. If you're a journalist, that's it. 330 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.679 And this opens up the whole issue of access journalism 331 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.000 that you hear about. We now know that, say Maggie 332 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:31.759 Haberman at the New York Times was one of the 333 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.080 people the Trump campaign said they could count on for 334 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.080 positive coverage if they wanted to get something out to 335 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.759 the public. This stuff makes us all look bad, and 336 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.720 we got to get them out, just like like antibodies 337 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.879 removing an infection from a body. I always pay attention 338 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.679 to who I'm reading, what they're doing. Got to be 339 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.399 a smart journalist consumer, especially with all the propaganda masquerading 340 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.360 his journalism. Right now, what are we gonna do when 341 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:55.799 we come back? 342 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:57.840 What a lovely Lynchpinton. So we're going to talk about 343 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.080 super thrifting. What's going on at this beautiful facility. 344 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:02.279 It's huge. I've been there. 345 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:04.680 You have to have a lot of gumption to stay 346 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.799 there if you're looking for some clothes or any other 347 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:08.680 goods at this specific goodwill. 348 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:10.680 We'll come back with that story. 349 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.880 It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 350 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.039 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 351 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.680 KFI AM six forty. 352 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:25.000 We are going to talk about popping tags and that 353 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.400 is a slang term for shopping. When you shop you 354 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:34.079 take the tags off instead of taking expensive tags off. 355 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.920 We're going to talk about thrifting and of course at 356 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.559 certain thrift stores. You might find a jewel, you might 357 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.559 find something that is something that you could resell. 358 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.079 Let's say, but at. 359 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:53.079 One southern California thrift store in the valley, not only 360 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:58.400 are they looking for surprising goods or unique wares, this 361 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.440 is another gladiator type sport. 362 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:04.279 It is a bloodbath. 363 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.519 And this particular store, this Goodwill on San Fernando Road, 364 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.279 is known to be one of the biggest, most competitive 365 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:17.680 shopping experiences you might ever engage in mark What say you? 366 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:18.960 Are you a thrifter? 367 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.720 Do you like perusing those shelves at Goodwill or Salvation 368 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.319 Army or something smaller? 369 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:24.880 What do you do? 370 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:26.799 I do? 371 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:30.200 And it causes some conflict with the human I live with, 372 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.559 who absolutely hates that souff. By the way, we started 373 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:35.680 off playing my homie Macklemore from Seattle. 374 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.119 Oh look at you, knowing the jam. 375 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.240 I love old stuff, I love vintage stuff. I love 376 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:42.599 old gadgets. 377 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:46.599 Wait, are you considering Mackelmore old and vintage? Is that 378 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:47.200 what you're saying? 379 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.799 No, I switch gears. Now we're talking about the stuff 380 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:50.079 you buy. 381 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:53.640 Because if he's old in vintage, I'm decrepit in one foot. 382 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.319 In Well, we're not even going to talk about me. 383 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.039 I cannot afford to buy mackelmore. But we're all poor, 384 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.599 so we're all thrifting more lately, because I mean, look, 385 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.039 the economy is booming by every single metric you can name, 386 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.400 but we're still getting squeezed to death by price gouging 387 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:17.599 from groceries, landlords, healthcare. Like I bought a couple of 388 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.200 things used on Craigslist, a couple pieces of furniture on Craigslist, 389 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.240 and by the way, that opens up a whole new 390 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:24.880 universe of humanity for you. 391 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:25.519 It is. 392 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:28.599 It is a crapshoot. It's a crapshoot. 393 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.200 But it was a day after I had to spend 394 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.480 one thousand dollars on a car repair. So if you 395 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.640 wonder why a lot of us are thrifting, look no further. 396 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:38.599 But yeah, I do. I love that stuff because you 397 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:40.480 find some treasures there. 398 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:40.759 You go. 399 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.440 Well, at this Goodwill again on San Fernando Road, they 400 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.000 charged not by the parcel, as far as this shirt 401 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:50.359