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Okay, if I am sixty fouryears later with vot Kelly Happy Monday.
Is there such a thing as happyMonday? Well, anyhow, we're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Wehave a huge show for you, plenty
of updates. We have a presidentialrace for the White House update next segment,
and we have a hepatitis A update. We told you, We told
you you gotta listen to me more. You gotta take me more seriously.
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We're giving you great information which isgoing to help you in your personal and
professional lives. We're going to protectyou beyond the Metro Disney characters have voted
to unionize. We have that update, and there's this. Remember I said
that you need to listen to memore because I'll protect you. I specifically
remember warning you admonishing you do notgo to seven elevens. I said it
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more than once. I said,don't stop at gas stations at night,
and you damn sure should not stopat seven elevens at any time a day
or night. I consider myself apraying person. I don't ever remember thanking
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God or thanking Heaven for seven toeleven. Those things just don't go together.
But there have been a string ofseven eleven robberies in Los Angeles and
Orange County. It's almost like Ipredicted this. It's almost like I warned
you. I didn't say stay awayfrom Circle K. I didn't say stay
away from am PM. I didn'tsay that. I said specifically, stay
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your ass away from seven to eleven. The jingle should have been, oh,
thank Heaven, I didn't take myass to seven eleven. Now the
details are scammed, but police arelooking for a number of suspects. I
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think they are arrested. Three ofthem involved in a string of convenience store
robberies only seven elevens in both LosAngeles and Orange Counties overnight. Some of
the robberies were captured on surveillance video. Duh, duh. These are some
dumb criminals, including one that occurredabout one this morning at a seven eleven
in Bellflower. Two suspects simulated heavinghandguns and two others took cash from the
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register of nominal amount. Haven't youever been in a seven eleven back in
the early days. I haven't beenrecently, but back in the early days,
you go in and you see thesign registers not have more than like
forty dollars change or something. There'snever a lot of money there. You're
not going to get rich off ofrobbing seven elevens. How do I know
this? Because these dummies tried torob like eight of them. Look,
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if you're gonna do it, dothe one job which you'll never have to
do it again. I don't know. I went to seven eleven this morning.
I mean I didn't get robbed.I got coffee. I got coffee.
I didn't get robbed. You're playingwith your life. You're playing with
your life. Thank Heaven, yousurvived seven eleven. I'm sorry you were
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saying twelve. I looked, aren'tyou given seven eleven a bad rap?
Like doude? Else get robbed?No one else has been robbed? Wait
wait wait wait wait wait? Namethe last time a string of convenience stores
were robbed in two different counties andthey were all one type, one store,
I mean, one brand. Ican't remember any a m pms who
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have suffered this string of robbery.I have to literally google if a MPM
has ever been robbed. I'm notsure they have been, but it's not
like they've robbed eight of them inone night. Plasca's AMPM is where the
cops hang out. Hello, theygo and get their gas there all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Andthe last time we talked about this,
it was a LA County sheriff whowalked in on a robbery in process.
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Yes, that is true at aseven to eleven. Okay, Oh,
thank Heaven for La County Sheriff's Department. Now, I'm not going to
be one to make fun of stupidcriminals. But two suspects who simulated having
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handguns and two others who took cashfrom the register I told you about them.
Well, those suspects fled in anOrange Kiya, according to authorities.
I don't know how many Kias areout there, but there are not a
lot of Orange ones. Oh,don't drive bright colored getaway cars. I'm
not a criminal, but I liketo think like one. And and if
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I were sitting at the table planningthis crime with Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky,
Mike and Johnny two whoever might bea part of it, the last
car I'm going to use is theOrange Kia. I'm quite sure they can
run the DMV tags of all theOrange Kias in LA and Orange County and
they're about four. They're probably fourin both counties together, and that's the
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car you decided to do the crimein. No, no, no,
it wasn't a stolen Kia. That'ssomeone's Kia that somebody owns. Because the
common themes were all of this isdumb. I don't think they gross maybe
three hundred dollars the whole night,no exaggeration, because it's seven to eleven.
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They don't carry a lot of cash. It also is the twenty first
century. Most people are just usingtheir debit cards. They're not actually using
cash, so the hall could nothave been a lot of money. They
didn't take any lottery tickets, likethe last time the seven eleven was robbed,
they took like eight hundred dollars worthof lottery. But you know how
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that works, right, They're they'renot usable, they have numbers on them,
you know, traceable. Yeah,it's like stealing gift cards. One
time I was in Routes and Isaw these ignorant fools try to steal those
gift cards from the gift card rounderand walk out of the store as if
they're all preloaded with money on them. What are you gonna do? You're
gonna offend those you're gonna sell thosethis, you're gonna walk in and use
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them, but they're not traceable.I'm not saying that all criminals are dumb.
I'm just saying all the criminals thatI talk about here are dumb.
When we come back, we havea presidential update. We'll tell you about
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Joe Biden. He went to MorehouseCollege in Atlanta and some students turn their
backs on him. And also forPresident Donald Trump. Well, he went
to the NRA convention and just liedand lied some more and talked about black
people. Oh and Hispanic people too, but they were lies. We'll tell
you about that next. You're listeningto Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Some people say I should drop outof this race. I'm Chris Christen,
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six forty is later with Mo KellyWe live every where on the iHeartRadio app.
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And of course, the presidential raceis heating up for a number of
reasons having nothing to do with theactual race. We know that Trump hush
money trial. The prosecution has restedits case and defense has begun the case,
maybe to the jury by Friday orsooner. If you don't remember what
I said, I said this wasa minor bump in the road, a
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minor case for Donald Trump. Idon't know if he's going to be convicted.
I would bet it's fifty to fiftyfor me just watching the case.
I don't know what's going to happen. But even if he is convicted,
he most likely wouldn't go to jailbecause he would be a first time offender.
But that's just me. We'll seehow it turns out. This weekend,
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it was announced that President Joe Bidenand former President Barack Obama going to
appear together here in LA for afundraiser, and it's going to be next
month. Tickets would be two hundredand fifty dollars, so if you want
to get on that, it's reasonablypriced, kind of like of a concert.
Proceeds will benefit Joe Biden's re electioncampaign, and I think it's going
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to be hosted by Yeah, it'sgoing to be a conversation which is going
to be moderated by late night hostsJimmy Kimmel, and an event that will
also include George Clooney and Juliet Roberts. That's what President Joe Biden is doing.
He also spoke at Morehouse College,which is a historically black institution in
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Atlanta, Georgia. And if youdidn't see the speech, I could tell
you it was kind of like,you know when the students at Duke University
stood up and turned their backs andstarted walking out on Jerry Seinfeld. It
was kind of like that, exceptthe students didn't leave where they were sitting.
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They stood up, I don't knowdozens or so and turned their backs
in protests of President Biden's stance onGaza or how he was handling the you
with Israel and the Middle East morebroadly. It was not a great look.
But this is one distinction I wouldmake. He knew it was coming,
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and then he at least addressed hisdetractors. Former President Donald Trump during
that time was in Uh. Hewas speaking before the NRA convention, and
if you can imagine, that's ahomogeneous group of people. They all love
him for the most part. Butit was interesting how he decided to talk
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about black people instead of with blackpeople. And I always say, watch
your prepositions. If you want toreach a community, especially African Americans,
talk with us, talk to us, don't talk about us, don't lie
about us to other people. Now, I don't know how many black people
were in the room, but Iknow there weren't more than three. That's
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all I'm saying. And the latestNew York Times, Paul, they were
not happy about this. The NewYork Times. We were leading in every
swing state by massive margins, andwe're on track to win a record share
of the Hispanic American votes this November. And likewise, we're doing record numbers
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with the African American voters. Theyare tired of what's happening to them?
What you mean? What's what doyou mean? What? What's what do
you mean? What's happening to them? What do you mean us? And
likewise, we're doing record numbers withthe African American voters. They are tired
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of what's happening to them? Canyou be more specific and honestly, There's
been no president since Abraham Lincoln,and perhaps in a certain way including Abraham
Lincoln. But there's been no presidentsince Abraham Lincoln that has done more for
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the black individual in this country thanPresident Donald J. Trump. There's been
no not even close. That iscategorically false. It is untrue by every
imaginable measure. I can think ofat least three or four presidents off the
top of my head who put forwardlegislation which was more impactful, more consequential,
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more meaningful. We can talk aboutLynda Mains Johnson and the Voting Rights
Act and the Civil Rights Act.We can talk about JFK who paid the
way for those acts. We cantalk about even George W. Bush and
his minority housing mandate. But whathe said right there, that is not
true. That's that part of it. And part of the reason I talk
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about it is because I hear fromyou all the time. He always hit
me on Instagram. I would preferyou hit me at later with Mokelly on
Instagram. If you want to havethis conversation. But you're talking about I
hate identity politics, why might soundlike Donald Trump, I hate identity politics,
I hate race. Well, whatdid what was? What was that?
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What was that? And if you'regoing to have if you want to
hear about this, hear about this, if you want to make that argument,
as flawed and erroneous as it is, make it to us, make
it with us. Don't say itat the NRA convention. Say it at
the NAACP convention. Say it atHBCU convention. Say it at the Jack
and Jail convention. You say,what's Jack and Jill exactly? That's my
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point. Say it to us,not about us. Make the case in
front of us, defend your recordin front of us, but don't use
us as a prop at the NRAconvention. And then wonder why, oh
my goodness, African Americans don't mostlyvote for for Donald Trump. There's a
reason. And likewise, we're doingrecord numbers with the African American voters.
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They are tired. Who who issaying We're tired? Who who? And
likewise, we're doing record numbers withthe African American voters. They are tired
of what's happening to them. Andhonestly, there's been no president since Abraham
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Lincoln and perhaps in a certain way, including Abraham Lincoln. But there's been
no president since Abraham Lincoln that hasdone more for the black individual in this
country than President Donald J. Trump. There's been nobody, not even close.
Let's have an honest conversation. Ifyou want more African American voters to
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support Donald Trump, these are thethings that he must not do. You
can't talk about us, get totalk to us, get to talk with
us. You can't use us asprops in a speech to people who are
not concerned about us. It's theNRA convention. They don't care care about
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African Americans and our particular issues.Why it's the nr convention. So I
have to say that you're being unsious. Not only you being untruthful, you're
being unseious. You're not actually lookingfor us as voters. You're talking about
using us as props for the purposeof a campaign speech. And then Republicans
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more generally wonder why is it AfricanAmericans don't, at least on the national
level, vote for Republicans by andlarge. Well, that's a perfect example.
I would much rather he make thecase in front of us. I
would much more respect that because thenwe know it's with sincerity and honesty,
it still wouldn't be true. Wouldbe at least a little bit more sincere.
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It's not true, it's factually inaccurateon every level, but at least
have the temerity to look us inthe eye and tell us that lie.
It's Later with mo Kelly caf IAM six forty one live everywhere on the
iHeart when we come back. Wehad a hepatitis update. We told you
last week what was going to happenbecause the metro and hepatitis, and we
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were right once again. Will tellyou why. We'll tell you how in
just a moment. You're listening toLater with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty Last week you maynot remember, and that's why I say
listen to the podcast, but justin case you don't. Last week,
I said that there was this hepatitisoutbreak that Mark Runner had talked about in
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the news and also, good evening, Mark Runner is good to see you
on this Monday. How are you, my friend, all rested up and
ready to roll? Moh I mentionedyou because you do remember, I'm sure
talking about the hepatitis outbreak which wasamongst the homeless population. There were may
be five or six cases documented cases. If I'm not mistaken, Uh yeah,
I don't recall all the specifics,but absolutely, yeah, you take
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notice when you see an outbreak ofthe heap. Now you should. You
should take notice what I said lastweek, I said, it's the homeless
population. If there are five confirmedcases, they're probably fifty or more.
We're only talking about people who haveactually been tested, so they're probably more.
And we knew and I was connectingthis to the Metro that the homeless
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population spends a lot of time onMetro. It's one of the issues that
Metro has identified as a problem,removing homeless people from the Metro trains and
buses for that matter. I said, well, it's going to be a
super spreader. Then you can't expectthe hepatitis outbreak, which is probably underestimated,
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to stay within the homeless population.And since they have access to the
Metro and using the Metro, thishepatitis outbreak is probably more extensive than we
know or has been reported. Wejust don't know as of yet. Well
that's what I say said last week. If you don't believe me, the
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audio is still there on the podcast, but here it is. This week,
we have a new warning about ahepatitis A outbreak in La County.
The latest case is an employee whoworked at the Whole Foods at Crescent and
Dayton in Beverly Hills. Oh,great, hepatitis grocery store food prepare Maybe
that sounds great. At Crescent andDayton in Beverly Hills, health officials now
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warning anyone who shopped at the seafoodcounter there seafood. Oh, it's getting
better by the minute. Counter therebetween April twentieth and May thirteenth. April
twentieth and May thirteenth, if youwent to the Whole Food seafood counter within
a three week period, that's thewindow of exposure between April twentieth and May
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thirteenth. I don't even remember whereI was on April twentth I wasn't there,
But I'm saying, how do youremember it's a three week period between
eight April twentieth and May thirteenth.To get vaccinated. This is the second
time. And oh, you knowhow we feel about vaccinations in La County.
You know we're not exactly high onthem. Between April twentieth and May
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thirteenth to get vaccinated. This isthe second time in recent days they're warning
the public about the virus. Iknow, right, I was saying,
that is the second time. Look, it's a highly communicable, transmissible disease.
And you have a food preparing let'ssay, grocery store. If you've
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been to Whole Foods, they havebuffet food, they have the seafood they
were talking about, they have hotfood salads. All that's exposed. And
you want to know all the peoplewho might have been near the seafood area
over a three week period. Whatshould that tell you. There's likely more
people who've been exposed and who arehepatitis A positive than we know about.
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It's the reasonable assumption. You know, it's a good protection against that.
Don't say don't say the V word, but the M word. Masks.
No, no, no, no, no, no, I knew it.
No no, no more vaccinations,no more masks. Okay, we'd
hate to comply with any safety measuresfor something as minor as hepatitis. No,
no, no, no no.It's more important that I am free
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to catch hepatitis at my local grocerystore than it is to wear a mask.
You know, I like people likeyou Mo. When they save freedom,
they only mean the freedom to killand die. It only gets real
when it touches people where they are. And this is the serious, This
is the serious commentary. Hepatitis Ais very serious, and hepatitis A spreading
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possibly, no, not even possiblyexponentially at a grocery or food source location
could have untold consequences for La Countycould no no exaggeration. But we wouldn't
be willing. We wouldn't be willingto do the things that we need to
do, first to even get tested, second to find out the points of
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contact, to find out who mighthave been exposed. This is gonna be
a lot bigger than it is,if only because we'd rather put our heads
in the sand and act like itdidn't happen. Remember last week, it
was just homeless people, like notin my backyard. I don't have worry
about that's just homeless people. I'mnot homeless. We don't have to worry
about it, I said. Homelesspeople have access to the to the shelter,
like you and me. Homeless peopleare writing a mass transit like you,
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not like me, I mean otherpeople who are writing mass transit.
It is literally been given a wayto spread across the county to any number
of people. Do you actually believeif there's one confirmed case that a whole
Foods in Beverly Hills, that nobodyelse was exposed nobody, that's not even
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scientifically reasonable to surmise. That's whatI said it last week. It's gonna
be more, and I'm stating againthis week there's going to be more.
Now. Either we can take itseriously or we can ignore it and then
deal with the consequences on the otherside of not taking it seriously. I
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don't know. We'll probably choose fornot take it seriously, because historically that's
what we tend to do. Wetend to think that, oh, it's
no big deal. Oh it'll workitself out. Oh it's just a little
hepatitis, it'll clear itself right upon its own. I don't have to
worry about it. And I thinkit's almost ironic that this is in Beverly
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Hills. You can't then deny theconnection. Okay, it's a hell of
elite from homeless to mass transit toBeverly Hills. What should that tell you?
That should tell you then that itprobably has impacted all communities in between,
all communities between April twentieth and Maythirteenth, May thirteenth, April twentth
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and May thirteenth, three whole weeks. And if you just tuning in hepatitis
A, welcome to Los Angeles County. We have a new warning about a
hepatitis A out LA County. Thelatest case is an employee who worked at
the Whole Foods at Crescent and Daytonin Beverly Hills. Health officials now warning
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anyone who's shopped at the seafood counteranyone between April twentieth and thirteenth to get
vaccinated. This is the second timein recent days they're warning the public about
the virus. Anyone want to placeany bets about whether I'll be talking about
this next week because there'll be anotherconfirmed case. Anyone, anyone want to
take that bet? Stefan good evening. You want to take that bet?
You want to bet me that thiswill be the end of the hepatitis eight
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outbreak, because we're going to doeverything we need to do to make sure
that no one else is exposed.Definitely not. It's going to be brought
up several times. I think Okay, Mark, you want to take that
bet? No faith in humanity.The one thing, the one lesson that
we learned from COVID was that weare not to be inconvenienced in any way
in the name of public health.So I'm not taking the bet. What's
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a little hep between friends? Yeah? I mean, look, at least
we got the best type of hepatitis. We didn't settle for a C A
C is average. We got hepatitis. Hey, top of the list,
the best grade. I'll take apound of the ah tuna and the hepatitis
A. Thank you very much.Hey, Mark, your eyes are looking
little chaun to see over there arethey? I've been told that I have
kind of a jaundice personality. Beforeyou think that's what this is? Yeah,
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it might be hepatitis A. Ohno, what will we do?
You can probably the rest of yourshow in the news booth. Hi,
markof I am six forty. We'relive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And
let's go to Disneyland speaking of hepatitisA. How about that for a transition.
Let's go from Beverly Hills to Disneylandand talk about how the Disneyland characters
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have voted successfully to unionize us.Next, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM sixforty. This is a Lady with mo
Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio appAnd this is a story that we have
been following how the character actors atDisneyland have voted to unionize. In fact,
we had talked to one of ourproducers, producer Keiana, who gave
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us an inside look at what goeson with Disneyland. I would say the
extreme, my word, expectations ofthese character actors, the amount of hours,
the inconsistent work, what goes intothe parade, and a lot of
these are accomplished performers in their ownright. And here's something that I did
not know. Well, if Idid know it, I'd forgotten it.
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How the unionization of Disneyland is new, but Disney World had been unionized.
These same groups of character performers andactors have been unionized since the eighties.
And I'm thinking, how is thateven possible under the umbrella of the same
corporation. Disneyland is welcoming another unioninto its workforce. Disneyland characters have voted
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overwhelmingly to be represented by Actors equAssociation. The vote was opened to Disneyland's
seventeen hundred character and parade performers,calling themselves Magic United. Campaign organizers called
for higher wages and also more reliableschedules, pointing out that parade performers in
particular have trouble getting full time hours. Other departments at the Disneyland resort,
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like food and beverage, have alsounionized. Character and parade cast members at
Walt disney World in Florida have beenunionized rather since the nineteen eighties. That's
really strange. You had food andbeverage already unionized. From a talent perspective,
we know that the characters, theperformers, they're highly trained for the
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most part. If you've never ifyou've ever known someone who did the job,
they were probably a dancer. Theywere probably an actor in their own
right, and this was something thatwas going to forward their career. But
they've been trained, and for somany actors and actresses, performers, dancers
to not be unionized seem it wasweird. And Twyler, you had gone
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to Disneyland most recently, so Iknow it's fresh in your mind. When
I would say, the parade,and how many performers are just in the
parade. That's all that parade,But three times, three times I watched
their parade go back and forth alongthe main strip, and to see those
performers come out each time and dothe exact same show with the exact same
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enthusiasm and gusto and joy and hereI'm like, they were performing their butts
off and it was hot. IsI don't know what to not have a
union for them, but to havea union for stay stage performers for plays
and things like that. There areseveral venues in Orange County that have unionized
stage performers. Yes, it's nodifferent than what they're doing at Disneyland.
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And really and truly you walk throughStar Wars Land and they're all performing.
I don't care what they're doing there, if they're selling food or lightsabers,
they're in character character are performing.What I couldn't understand is, actually I
marvel at is how these characters likein Star Wars Land, they'll be out
there hours on end in this garband get up and make up in the
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blazing sun. And then you wouldwatch the parade and I don't know how
long the parade route is, butI want to say it's maybe close to
a mile. I don't know.Yes, they made half a mile,
half a mile, but if youknow how long that parade is going on,
they're performing maybe half an hour nonstop. They're just guessing from beginning
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to end because they do the routineand it starts over, and they do
the routine, starts over to dothe routine, and it starts over,
and it's a lot of not saying, but definitely dancing in choreography. I
don't think anyone can honestly argue howmuch work goes into it for a performer.
I cannot speak to their scheduling orinconsistency of it, or whether they're
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only working twenty four hours a weekor thirty two as opposed to forty eight.
I don't know how that breaks down. But that's where the union comes
in, and some of those performerslike that. You've see some of the
stars of those different floats, likePrince Namin and Tiana on the Princess and
the Frog float, or Cinderella onthe Princess Float. They also will walk
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around and do picture photo ops forpeople coming up, so they're not just
on the parade route. You willfind them in the park at various places
doing picture ops, so they're workingall day. I guess when they're on
without going every day. I don'tknow if it's the same performers forever if
they get a different set of peopleto do that. And I'm sure if
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you sign on a Disneyland, you'dwant that. I would want it,
and I know any performer would wantit. I'm more curious to know why
it took so long to get tothis point, since they're parallels. They're
contemporaries in a different Disney any Land. Disney Slashed Disney World Park just on
the other side of the country hadit. I don't know why it would
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take almost forty years to get thesame thing at the originating park. I
think it has something to do withwith the states and how unions are formed,
because you got to California. Alot of these unions that we're seeing
are new. Yeah they are new, yeah yeah, And that would be
something to definitely look into. ButI'm going to look full disclosure. A
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member of the union sag AFTRA,so I'm not going to say, hey,
you guys can't unionize and we can't. I will say there is some
striification, there's some strata, there'ssome businesses and jobs where I don't know
if you guys should be unionizing oryou should be unionizing on a very small
level, like a Starbucks location.If you had a larger union of baristas
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united all across the country or something, or all across California, that would
make more sense. But if you'rejust unionizing for Starbucks number one eighty two
on Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood,I don't know about all that. All
eight of you, I'm sorry.I know that pissed somebody off. Oh
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