June 29, 2024 • 36 mins
There’s no business like show business – Luke Skywalker wants people to slow down on the PCH, and what’s trending on streamers and at the box office this weekend. Food, glorious food, there’s a new Taco Bell value meal combo and the new minefield of weight loss etiquette. NBA history: Lakers draft Bronny James, who will join his father LeBron. And the NFL must pay $4.8 Billion in damages over Sunday ticket. The Do's and don'ts of having a work best friend.
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K f I A M six.You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Iwant to try this again, Robin.
There is no business like show business. There you now, I'm happy.
Now you're alive to me again,Robin. It was it was touch and
go. You're alive to me onemore time. Luke Skywalker is being recruited
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to help control traffic. Hold on, Mark, don't beat me to the
punchline on this. Malibu is turningto one of its most beloved residents,
according to KTLA, star Wars actorMark Hamill, and its latest effort to
curb crashes and fatalities on the PacificCoast Highway. The city is launching a
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pr blitz dubbed Cruise Malibu Surf sandSlow, which, as the name applies,
urges drivers to slow down. Thecampaign involves a new television commercial starring
Hammel and a theme song performed bythe Kenny Loggins Band. There's license plate
frames and stickers. How many people? And I don't know, maybe we'll
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work in Malibu, maybe it's different, But I just wonder how many people
are going to put a license plateframe on their car that says surf Sam
slow? Am I wrong on that? Am I wrong to assume that people
are not going to get the licenseplate frames. I'm in the minority because
I would. I don't live inMalibu, but I would because I've got
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a dealer frame in my car rightnow. They're not paying me to advertise
for them. I just assume putthe slow down thing. But I'm also
a curmudgeon who hates when people speed. Yeah, I'm the guy you're flipping
off for going the speed limit onthe freeway. It's me. Sorry.
So anyway, They've got Mark Hamillinvolved in this, and I threw this
in with our Hollywood News because youknow celebrity. Okay, go ahead,
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Mark, give the punchline. Idon't have it. Everybody loves Mark Hamil.
I would never gainsay a master ofthe force. Use the brakes,
Luke. Oh god, come on, I think Robin's a little slow on
the rim shot tonight too. Ohthat one was just that was just hanging
out. Now you just get ashrug out of her for that. Nothing,
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not a thing. I'm a fanof the Bear. I haven't watched
the new season yet because I haven'thad time to sit down and power watch
it. I'm looking forward to it. I will tell you this when it
comes to The Bear. Uh isit? I was watching it on Hulu?
Is it on FX? I seeit on Hulu as well. Okay,
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when I watched The Bear, I'vewatched it. First of all,
it's not it's in the comedy categorywhenever it comes up for the awards and
whatnot, And I hate that becauseit's not a comedy. It's a drama.
Well maybe it's a dramedy. Yeah, listen, I don't laugh.
I mean, if you're gonna callit a comedy would definitely be very eyebrow.
I guess that you'd have to sortof look for the irony or something
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of that sort. But really it'sa drama and the oh, it's not
criticism, it's actually it's kind ofa backhanded compliment. The very first time
I watched The Bear, the pilotepisode, I watched it and I got
done and I had to watch somethingelse. I was exhausted. Yeah exactly,
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Yeah, yeah, I mean thatas the highest compliment because they pulled
me right back into the kitchen likeI was eighteen, working at a restaurant
in the summer again, and itwas so stressful to watch. I related
with those characters. I related withthe whole thing so closely that I just
found myself getting stressed out when Iwatched The Bear. I get stressed.
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I get so more than most shows. I just find myself exhausted after watching
it. So I haven't had timeto sit down, and because I've been
doing the night show this week,so I haven't had time to sit down,
and really, you know, startwatching at least one episode at a
time. If an episode is nottoo stressful, I can watch a couple.
All I know is that when Igot done, I think the restaurant
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was no the restaurant was on firein the first season. I think I
don't know, he was stuck ina cooler or something when I the last
time I saw him. So Ican't wait to see that. I did
want to bring this up because Iheard you make mention of it earlier.
Mark, you said a quiet placeDay one is doing really well. Does
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that mean it's doing well on dayone or that's it? Mads. Is
this a prequel? It's the prequel. It's the third film in the series,
but it's a prequel. It's anorigin story. It made seven million
bucks in Thursday previews, and theyfigured it could make up to fifty million
this weekend in theaters. That's prettygood considering what we've seen in the box
office so far this year, right, I mean we've had some we've had
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some openers that have been kind ofbummers. Yeah, it's it's taken a
lot to get people off their Imean out of their houses to go to
a theater. Yeah. Yeah,I want to see that, and I
also want to see I don't ifyou do the Kevin Costner Horizon film.
Both of those look pretty entertaining.Is that the one that he funded?
It is? And I want tosupport that because that takes some nerve.
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Yeah, so the guy stops doingIf I remember this correctly and feel free
to jump in, Mark, theguy said I'm out for Yellowstone because he
wanted to focus on his own Westernepic. Basically, he wants to make
how many films are the three five? I think it's four, okay,
whatever it is. So he wasdropping thirty million of his own money or
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something like that. I love thathe's saying, I'm all in. I
believe in myself, I believe inmy vision, and this is what I
want to spend my money on.That's awesome. I applaud him. It's
so great. Yeah, I admirethat. And it's the same thing that
Coppola is doing with his Megalopolis movie. He put his own his butt on
the line. Nice. Yeah,I love it. I love it.
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I'm with you. I want tosupport it. And let's face it,
Cosner's good at westerns. He's Imean, he's good at westerns. Whether
you like him or don't like him. I mean his westerns have been Yellowstone
Great Dances with Wolves, no doubtthat man directed the heck out of that.
I mean, was the one thingyou got to be worn for it.
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So look, guy knows how todo westerns. So I'm kind of
looking forward to that this quiet place, though, let's get back to this
for a moment as we talk aboutthe Hollywood news here, I don't know
if I want an origin story forthis. Is that bad to say?
Because one of the things that Ithought made the first one a little eerie
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for me as an audience members andI didn't know why. And now normally
you wouldn't want to keep your audiencein the dark on something that is kind
of the main point, But itworked that very first quiet place. It
worked. We just knew that theywere being hunted. We didn't know what
it was, and then we weretipped off that if they made any noise,
that was it. Again, wedidn't really know why, we just
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were It was a story of survival. The circumstances around that were secondary to
the human condition that we were witnessingon the screen, based on the environment
that they were in. I don'tknow that I necessarily want to see the
origin story. However, we'll saythis qualifying this, I suppose, because
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I don't want to back myself intoa corner. If it's good, I'm
all for it. Sure, Sure, But I think you're really hitting on
one of the dumbest trends in Hollywoodright now, which is making a full
movie and filling out every reference inevery franchise and ruining the mystique of things
that are just mentioned. Yeah.Right. The poster child of this,
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to me was the terrible Solo moviethat gives you a pon Solo's origin and
completely makes it ordinary and dull.But we're getting a lot of that in
a lot of different franchises. It'sfunny you went with Star Wars because I
think that if you are Gen Xand older, the Star Wars original trilogy
was fine. It didn't need theprequels, it didn't need the sequels.
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It was fine, don't touch it. And obviously that first prequel comes out
and everybody's like, what the worldwas this? Jar jar binks nonsense?
And I know there were books.I get all that stuff, right,
But for those of us that onlysaw the films, we didn't need the
other stuff to fill it out.And then, as you pointed out,
they had to go back and dothe solo part of the what they call
that a Star Wars saga. Imean there was another Star Wars reference to
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it, right, Yeah, therewere a couple of movies in there that
were sold as US Star Wars sagaor something like that, when they weren't
part of the continuity of the whatthe original nine I guess there are right
now? Yeah, the original nine. But I like the original three episodes,
four, five, and six.What's the Boba Fet one? I
haven't I haven't seen any of that. Oh, the Book of Boba Fet.
That's a mini series. So peoplelove it. It's not as good
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as the Mandalorian. I mean,if you're a Star Wars net, you're
gonna want to see it just becauseit's part of that. But it's not
that great. But the Mandalorian can't. It is different than the Boba Fett
book. The Mandalorian is much better, much better. But that's a mini
series too, writer or some sortof a series. Well, it's ongoing.
I think it's what it's said,two or three seasons, and it's
just terrifically well. The Baby Yodaone is the Mandalorian. And what's great
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about that is that they're kind ofwritten like spaghetti westerns, and the Mandalorian
is kind of like your Man withNo Name, the quiet, laconic gunslinger
with with more nerve than anyone alive. They're really good. They're well made.
Okay, all right, So seethat's what this is why I had
to qualify it, like if it'sgood, I mean, but I mean,
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I think we agree. Not allof them are. No, that's
that's a little rough for me,a little rough, all right. From
our show business news to food,glorious food. It's been a long time
since I've been able to say there'sgood news on the food front. There
is good news on the food front. Especially for US fatties. Next,
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for give it a listen. Ihave good news around food, glorious food.
Let's face it, we all gotto eat right. Oh, it's
been a long time since we've hadgood news. Oh, prices are going
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up. They're going crazy now.By now, I'm sure that you've heard
about the price wars. All ofa sudden, the fast food places,
especially McDonald's gouse. A lot ofpeople are complaining about our prices. So
we thought we'd better do something.Do you think, So, let's face
it, here's what's going on.We've seen the prices. McDonald's is the
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worst offender their average. Many priceswent up one hundred percent in the last
ten years. Inflation's gone up thirtypercent since twenty fourteen, they've gone up
almost three times as fast. Andso what they were doing is they were
testing to see where the tipping pointwas, Where is the point where our
customers will not pay it. Weknow that if the price goes up a
little bit, some customers will falloff. But will the customers that fall
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off, will you lose money?Right? So you raise it a little
bit more and a few more customersfall off, but you still are selling
billions and billions served. And heraise it a little bit more and a
few more customers fall off. Atwhat point, where's the tipping point where
you lose so many customers? Nowyou've raised the price too high? Right?
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This is part of figuring out theirsupply and demand equation. Well,
one thing we know in today's societyis that it takes a little time.
So while they may be raising pricesand some people are paying for it,
eventually we start to note notice thefirst time, but then we start to
notice. We start going through thedrive through and we went, wait a
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minute, I got a number one. That's a big mac meal, Right,
what'd you get? I'll get thequarter pounder and cheese. Why is
there bill twenty five dollars for twomeals a McDonald's. And then what do
they do? They don't just stopgoing new new new new new, new
new new new. They start rollingthe camera on their phones and they say
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twenty five dollars for a big macand a quarter pounder and cheese and McDonald's
And they say, this is crazy. Is anybody else saying this? Click
the lily blow and subscribe to myTikTok And then they all were like,
let's TikTok this out and let's hashtagit fast food rip off and starts to
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go viral. And then things startto spiral very quickly. So all the
fast food places got caught up insome news stories as things started to go
viral, and then they all went, oh, we got a problem.
And then what happens is they alltry to overcorrect and they start competing with
discount meals. Yes, we areinto the back to the competition of value
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menu phase. Granted it's not realgood, it's not great. The McDonald's
value value meal is basically a happymeal. You can have something that used
to be on the dollar menu,and they're all now three dollars, which
is like a McChicken or mcdouble.You get a small fry and a small
drink for five dollars. Listen,let's I get a hamburglar bibblehead to go
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with that. It's not worth it, but I'll tell you what is worth
it. Taco Bell. Cool.Taco Bell used to have a five dollar
box and it was good. Pricesstarted going up and I think the last
time only threw it was like ninedollars. It's crazy. So Taco Bell
actually came out with the five dollarsDiscovery Box that ran last month April and
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May, and that was a crunchytaco, Dorito's, Locos, Taco Cantina,
Chicken, crispy taco in a mediumdrink that was five dollars. Good
Taco Bell leading the charge. Rememberwhen you go fill up at Taco Bell
and it costs you like three bucks, it was great. They're finally getting
back to that. Now they've comeout with a seven dollars bucks. But
I'm in for this. I knowit's more than your small fry small drink
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at McDonald's, but I'm in forthis, and here's why McDonald's is part
of their value menu war that allthe fast food places are doing now.
For seven bucks, Shiloupa Supreme fivelayer burrito, a double stack taco and
chips and nacho cheese sauce. Grandtotal one four hundred calories for seven dollars.
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Yeah, that's enough calories for mostof the day, all in one
city. Listen, you don't haveto loosen up your belt by not eating
Taco Bell like this. You dothis because you're an American eating Mexican food
that you will not find in Mexico. God bless America, and thank god
we're finally getting back to our sensesand we're bringing down the cost of American
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Mexican food. Don't call it MexicanAmerican food. That implies that Mexicans endorsed
Taco Bell. Don't do that.I endorse Taco Bell not actually they don't
pay me, but I like it. I'm one hundred percent. You know.
Now the bad news. You arefamiliar with another restaurant that is uh,
you can easily throw two thousand calorieson in one sitting. It's known
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as the Olive Garden, which,as any Italian will tell you is authentic
Italian food. If you take anItalian person to the Olive Guard and they
will say show but uh uh moreperfect. I don't know Italian at all.
At some point they will tell youjust how how much it is,
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exactly like mamma's cooking back home.That's what the Italians will say about Olive
Garden. I've never met one thatwould say otherwise. So anyway, Olive
Garden is running into a little bitof a sales slump. So while you've
got the fast food places the lowend that are getting into a price war,
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evident least some of those mid rangerestaurants not doing so swell. Olive
Garden says they're going to raise pricesbecause they had a drop in sales last
quarter. So see they're finding thetipping point, but it's the math is
not working out for them. Sonow they're saying, we're going to have
to shed some of our customers,so we're not going to come in because
things are getting more expensive, butwe're hoping we can make up for it
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by those that continue to come in. And it's not just Olive Guard Garden
restaurants owns Olive Garden. They alsoown Longhorn Steakhouse, Yardhouse, Ruths Chris,
which is very difficult for me tosay for some reason, Ruths Chris,
Ruths Chris Steakhouse, Cheddars, ScratchKitchen. I've been to that,
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the Capitol Grill, have been tothat season's fifty two fresh grill, codmit
to that, Eddie V's Prime Seafooddrove by one once, and a Bahama
Breeze Island Grill I think the cnameof a drink I had. Anyway,
I think they say that they're goingto raise prices two to three percent company
wide over the next year. OliveGarden has already seen a one percent increase
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in menu prices, and now theysay they're going to see a one to
two percent growth in sales they expectnext year. Honestly, do you notice
a one percent growth in price?I don't think you. Do you notice
two or three percent year over year? Probably not, because that's basically what
our rate of inflation is right now. So I don't know how much you
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notice that. What you do notice, and this is where I get hunt
up. I notice when they bringthe bill and if I went to Olive
Garden with my wife before and acceptingwine like no wine boll You know,
Let's say our bill was forty fivebucks. They we've got an advertiser,
and let's say it's forty five dollarsbetween the two of us. And then
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they bring the bill out the nexttime and it's fifty two dollars. That's
when I start to notice it's notwhat I'm looking at the menu price.
It's after the fact that I startto notice it feels like it was more
than last time. So I don'tthink i'd noticed one or two early on,
but I probably would after they getto that two or three percent when
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the bill comes. I'm a littlelate to the game. It's the wait
works, all right. I've toldyou before if you were listening earlier in
the program. I set up today'sshow specifically because of my friend Mark Ronner,
and so I've got a segment forhim that is right in his wheelhouse.
We'll talk sports next. You're listeningto Later with Moe Kelly on demand
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from KFI AM six forty. Allright, Mark, this is for you.
I know how much you like talkingabout sports. What did I ever
do to you? How about theonly real sports story? The rest of
it. I think you're actually gonnadig. The only real sports story I
have is this Bronni James going tothe Lakers. It was a story yesterday.
I know that, but we kindof have the debate going on yesterday.
So there you know. Lebron's gonnaplay with his kid. That'll be
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nice. Great. He used upa second round draft pick on him.
They have a coach that's never coachedin the NBA before, perfectly capable,
but inexperienced. And I don't havea whole lot of hope for the Lakers
this year. I would love itif they surprised me. It's heartwarming.
You and your dad have trucks together, and they have the NBA together.
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Yeah. He's got the new one, it's only seven years old, and
I've got the old one. Yeah, so that's it. Yeah. Anyway,
I hope they do really well.I think it'll be a great story.
Should sell some tickets because of it. But beyond that, I got
to tell you, I think thatthe what do they call that? That
the burn time on this is gonnabe pretty short. Before all of a
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sudden, we're like, okay,enough of that, all right, here
there you go. I'm gonna saythe words NFL, but I'm not going
to talk about any of the players. In fact, Ronner, I would
even say, this is an entertainmentstory, but I already had an entertainment
story, so I threw it intoa sports story. So the NFL lost
a big lawsuit. Now maybe youheard about this again, happened yesterday.
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There were some other things going on. The NFL lost this massive lawsuit.
And on the face of it,it looks like the NFL lost a lawsuit
worth almost five billion dollars four pointeight billion in a judgment against them,
But it could be way more thanthat. And here's why. They were
basically found guilty of colluding with DirectTV according to the report, and this
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was in the La Times, buthere it is. It took nearly a
decade for the case to want towind its way through the legal system,
beginning in twenty fifteen when a pubetin San Francisco called the Mucky Duck.
Fuck the mucky Duck. That soundslike something that autocompletes responsible for exactly what
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I was thinking. Yep, that'sexactly where I was going with it.
See this is you and I aresimpatico. My friend anyway, the Mucky
Duck, if that's their real name, file to complain about the hand about
how the NFL handles its out ofmarket broadcast. It's a class action suit
filed on behalf of more than twoand a half a two point four million
residential subscribers, so almost two anda half nine and almost fifty thousand restaurants,
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bars, and other commercial establishments thatshow the NFL. It's centered on
the Sunday ticket package, which isnow on YouTube. It used to be
on direct TV. So that allowsyou to see all the games, except
I think for your in market games. You can see all the out of
market games. But if if theRams are playing in town and it's on
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CBS or Fox or what I guesswould be Fox, you wouldn't be able
to watch that. If the Chargersare in town to be on CBS,
you wouldn't be able to watch that. But all the out of market games
you would be able to watch,all right, So what they did is
they said, wait a minute,we're paying for a premium product, but
it's not a premium product. It'sthe same exact broadcast that you have going
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somewhere else. So if the Ramswere playing the Bears in Chicago, and
they want to show the Bears gamethe Rams game, right, they got
to pay for this Sunday ticket,which is about four hundred and fifty bucks.
Now, granted, your local stationmight be showing the Rams anyway,
so maybe that's a maybe that's amischaracterization. Let's say that Mark wanted to
watch his Seahawks play the Bears,okay rematch of a Super Bowl about almost
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twenty years ago. So let's sayhe wanted to watch the Seahawks play the
Bears, but he's living in LosAngeles and he goes, wait a minute,
if I lived in Seattle, Ican watch this for free on the
over the air broadcast. Why doI have to pay four hundred and fifty
dollars for it? And the NFLsays, well, listen, we give
it away free up there, butthis is special because you're elsewhere and you
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got to be here. And whatthe jury decided is that the NFL,
yeah, maybe you can charge forout of market games, but the amount
you were charging was exorbitant. Itwas out of control, it was too
much, and so this fell underan anti trust case. They said this
was collusion. This has to dowith the NFL and that broadcast partner.
Nobody else was involved, There wasno other competition going on. This is
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its collusion, bad deal. TheNFL, of course disagrees and want to
appeal. Blah blah blah. NowI mentioned that the lawsuit, the jury
said four point eight billion dollars.And if there is a league that can
handle four point eight billion dollars,it's this one. I mean, this
league is doing quite well for itself, but it could be a whole lot
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more because in federal laws, underanti trust cases, they could be liable
up to fourteen point one billion dollarsbecause some of the federal laws triple the
amount one when it's an anti trustcase. Even though the jury said four
point eight billion, just by themere fact that it is in an anti
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trust case that falls under this purview, it triples the price. Now,
listen, I expect there's probably gonnabe some lobbyists that are going to try
to change this and then not sothis in future, and the Supreme Court
will be like, oh groovy tous, do it, But for right
now, fourteen billion dollars. Now, I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you are theNFL, and you're raking in the dough.
Fourteen billion is going to hurt thebottom line. I don't care if
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you're exon. If you take fourteenbillion out of the profits one year,
that's gonna hurt. And finally,how about a win for the little guy?
Again sports related, but this isreally more about business. The La
City Council's effort to crack down onthe brok ring of tee time reservations on
municipal courses. The County Board ofSupervisors takes similar steps this week to require
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non refundable reservation deposits and charging cancelationfees. So what's happening uni course near
you? You want to go golfing? You pull up the website that allows
you to reserve your tea time,already been reserved, nothing's available, and
you go, man, I neverremember this course being that popular. Why
is everything gone all of a sudden. What's happening is there are tee time
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brokers that are just simply going inand reserving every tea time. They're going
in and they're snagging them up.We'll get every tea time. And then
they start their own website that says, do you want to play on this
muni course, you could play.We've got a tea time open at seven
eighteen am and they want to cut, so they're gonna you're you're getting the
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tea time. The tea time isgoing to cost you when you go there,
and you got to pay. Yougot to pay the fees to golf
anyway, but now you have topay somebody else because they reserve the tea
time. And the municipal courses,by definition, are being run by the
same the county, whatever it is, is being run by a local government
entity because it's supposed to be availablefor anybody that wants to do it and
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pay the fees. So not onlyare their greens fees like you normally have
to pay when you go golfing,now you have to pay some reservation broker.
And I have to tell you thereare obviously the reservation brokers are saying,
oh, this is bad for us, but also to the golfers.
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I hope that for those of youthat are at businesses that like to buy
things up and resell them, yourecognize the irony. If you were working
for ticketmaster or a ticket scalper,a ticket resler, that's a legitimate American
business. Yeah, we bought upall the Taylor Swift tickets and now we're
reselling them on seat geek or tofind your bleacher dot com or cushion yourtushion
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dot com. If you want tosee Taylor Swift, We've got your tickets
right here, face value two hundredand twenty five dollars now yours for just
thirty two hundred. That's considered legitimatebusiness. But when you do it to
the Muni course, all of asudden, the same people that are doing
it in resales to everyone else arelike, all right, that's unfair.
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Wait a minute, We're not supposedto be the victims of our own system.
That's not how we set it up. Yeah, there is distinct irony
going on when it comes to thewhole golfers having to go through a ticket
broker and screaming foul. Who Ifeel bad for is the working class people
who like to go golfing on theweekend are not participating in these sorts of
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businesses, and all of a suddencan't because they just got priced out by
a ticket broker who ironically is sellingit to somebody who can't afford it,
likely because they're in the markup businessin some other aspect of commerce. So
anyway, thanks to the La CityCouncil, Thanks to the Board of Supervisors,
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Thanks for cracking down on people takingadvantage of people. Gotta do it
man, all right, how aboutpunch clock buddies? You've heard of work
wives? What about work BFFs.If you don't have one, buddy up
quick, you don't want to bethe last one standing. That's next.
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There's always a pleasure being with youand a pleasure being in for mo Kelly
this week listen to Anytime on demandof the iHeartRadio app. Oh man,
what a week listen. We haddebates, we had Supreme Court things,
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we had of course, then lifegoing on. The busiest traffic season we've
seen in years. In fact,some airports were reporting that they had the
most traffic they've ever seen. Andwe're just now getting into the holiday weekend.
It's a crazy time. It's good. There's a lot of good stuff
going on, good stuff going on. Hopefully things are going all right for
you at work, and chances areif you are at work and you're having
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a good time. It's because youlike the people you work with. During
the last break, I've been spendingtime here talking to people and saying,
listen, I appreciate Matthews. Intonight Toalah had the night off. First
time I've worked with Matthew. Toallasaid, this guy's ready to go his
shark and boy, Matthew, youare locked in, buddy, Thank you
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so so much. I'm impressed sogood. Foush one of the best in
the business. And I am unemployable, which means I've done filling work all
over the country and Foush absolutely oneof the absolute best in the business.
And Mark Ronner. I get upin the morning because I think I get
to work with Mark tonight. Ijust love working with you and I have
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for a long time. I feela connection. You're a good guy,
all of it. Maybe someday someof th already figure will give us a
show together. What did I justsay, unemployable? All right, so
it won't be here. Maybe apodcast. Maybe we could join the podcast
ranks. Wouldn't that be thrilling fornobody? Well, it's just what the
world needs is another podcast. That'swhat I'm saying, this is exactly what
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I'm saying. My god, onehundred thousand. We haven't even we haven't
even scratched the surface yet. Wasreading an article the Wall Street Journal was
talking about how important it is tohave work friends. In fact, they
go so far as to say,everyone seems to be talking Rob, and
I haven't forgotten about you. Justwait until the end of the second.
These days, everyone seems to betalking about all the value of a work
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best friend. On Instagram and onTikTok it's the hashtag work bestie. Gallup
data repeatedly showing that employees with workbest friends feel more invested and productive in
their jobs. Would you like adviceon how to get a workplace best friend?
And yes, I will give itto you. And here's what you
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should do. According to the experts. You should this is listen. If
you have to get a checklist andlearn how to make friends, you're in
trouble, but here's your checklist.You should engage in virtual water cooler talk,
so if you're not actually in house, you should use zoom, Slack
(31:22):
and other digital tools to start casualconversations. That's always yep, always always
personal. Hey, how is divorcegoing yep, people love that, it
says, share personal tidbits and commoninterest to build rapport, just as you
would in physical office, Be genuineand authentic. Authenticity goes a long way
(31:48):
in building trust. You know howyou get to be authentic. This is
what I learned. Here's a littletrip. Here's what I learned. You
just complain. That's it. Youcomplain, and you tell people why you're
complaining. That's authenticity today. Ifwe're being real about it, it goes.
This is what frustrates me because peoplerelate to frustration, and here's why
it frustrates me. And then they'relike, yeah, me too. Oh
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and because of this, that's it. That's how you're authentic. Done.
There are you connected? You're welcomeleverage company events, participate in company organize
social events, even if they seemforced. Like Mark on the company softball
team. These events can be greatto meet colleagues outside your immediate team and
find potential allies. Unless your Markon the softball team, and then we
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don't want to have to play youin the game, but HR says we
do. You should seek common ground. Look for colleagues with similar working styles,
interests, or professional goals or totalslackers like yourself, and you should
offer constructive feedback like Chris. Shutup, quit insulting Mark, be willing
to give and receive honest feedback.People love it when you tell them that
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they're doing something wrong. Do thatmore, that's sarca. Don't do that.
Here's what they say, are thedon'ts all right? Are you listening?
I want you to be great atwork. I want you to go
to work and find your work bestie. Don't rush the relationship. Boy,
This is so true, not justin work relationships but in everything. Yeah.
Are you sure this is specifically forwork? Or yeah? Well with
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this it's It reminds me of thegreat philosopher thirty eight special. Hold on
loosely, but don't let go.If you cling too tightly, you're going
to lose it. You're going tolose control. They say, building a
meaningful work relationship takes time, andmoving too quickly or being overly eager as
it can overwhelm the other person andbackfire. So don't do that. No,
(33:44):
don't don't try to get past secondbase with somebody at work. It's
not recommended, thank you. Yeah, don't do that anyway. No,
they say, don't crap where youeat. Yeah, don't do that.
I don't overshare too soon. Thisis one of my favorites to make people
feel awkward. Do you ever dothis? I love this. While openness
is important, be mindful of boundaries, especially in the early stages. Avoid
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sharing overly personal or sensitive information.I love to do this. Got it.
You send me a photo of yourselfwith this seatpap thing on your face.
Yeah, I don't think. Igo, oh, I look like
a monster. I look like,what did I tell you? I looked
like an elephant or something with myseatpap And you go, no, you
don't. I'm like, here's mypicture. Yep. No, I love
this too. You see somebody inthe elevator, you know, casually,
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you might remember their first name.You couldn't pick them out of a lineup
otherwise, And they're like, howare you doing it? You go,
oh, man, my wife isupset at me again. And they're just
like, oh god, no,don't go into this. And then I
just love to spin a tail.I love it. I love to put
them on the because the people thatget the joke, now you got an
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office buddy for life. The onesthat don't. Yeah, I dismissed them.
Well, people bond over complaints aboutthe old ball and chain, right,
yeah, yeah, I love that. Like, oh god, well,
my wife is going through a crisis. She dyed her hair again.
It's back to purple. I don'tknow why people do this, and they
look at you like, why areyou telling me this? Those are my
favorites? Huh? Ignore power dynamicor don't ignore power dynamics. In other
(35:14):
words, don't try to buddy upto your boss, and don't try to
buddy up to somebody below you,and then don't engage in negative talk.
That's how you build friendships at work, and that makes work more rewarding.
Robin, are you listening. Thisis why I want to be good friends
with Robin. Who's been in therewith Foush all night. I work with
Robin on the weekends. She's dynamite, Robin. Thank you so much,
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because behind the scenes, Robin's beenhelping Exults some things as well. You
are the best and I love youall. Thank you so much for letting
me be a part of your world. I can't wait until the next time
I'm back on Sunday. Look forwardto talking to you that it's Chris Merrill
in from O Kelly Tonight. You'vebeen listening, so later with MO Kelly.
You can always hear us live onKFI AM six forty seven pm to
ten pm every Monday through Friday,and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
K f I A M six.You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Iwant to try this again, Robin.
There is no business like show business. There you now, I'm happy.
Now you're alive to me again,Robin. It was it was touch and
go. You're alive to me onemore time. Luke Skywalker is being recruited
(00:26):
to help control traffic. Hold on, Mark, don't beat me to the
punchline on this. Malibu is turningto one of its most beloved residents,
according to KTLA, star Wars actorMark Hamill, and its latest effort to
curb crashes and fatalities on the PacificCoast Highway. The city is launching a
(00:48):
pr blitz dubbed Cruise Malibu Surf sandSlow, which, as the name applies,
urges drivers to slow down. Thecampaign involves a new television commercial starring
Hammel and a theme song performed bythe Kenny Loggins Band. There's license plate
frames and stickers. How many people? And I don't know, maybe we'll
(01:12):
work in Malibu, maybe it's different, But I just wonder how many people
are going to put a license plateframe on their car that says surf Sam
slow? Am I wrong on that? Am I wrong to assume that people
are not going to get the licenseplate frames. I'm in the minority because
I would. I don't live inMalibu, but I would because I've got
(01:32):
a dealer frame in my car rightnow. They're not paying me to advertise
for them. I just assume putthe slow down thing. But I'm also
a curmudgeon who hates when people speed. Yeah, I'm the guy you're flipping
off for going the speed limit onthe freeway. It's me. Sorry.
So anyway, They've got Mark Hamillinvolved in this, and I threw this
in with our Hollywood News because youknow celebrity. Okay, go ahead,
(01:56):
Mark, give the punchline. Idon't have it. Everybody loves Mark Hamil.
I would never gainsay a master ofthe force. Use the brakes,
Luke. Oh god, come on, I think Robin's a little slow on
the rim shot tonight too. Ohthat one was just that was just hanging
out. Now you just get ashrug out of her for that. Nothing,
(02:17):
not a thing. I'm a fanof the Bear. I haven't watched
the new season yet because I haven'thad time to sit down and power watch
it. I'm looking forward to it. I will tell you this when it
comes to The Bear. Uh isit? I was watching it on Hulu?
Is it on FX? I seeit on Hulu as well. Okay,
(02:38):
when I watched The Bear, I'vewatched it. First of all,
it's not it's in the comedy categorywhenever it comes up for the awards and
whatnot, And I hate that becauseit's not a comedy. It's a drama.
Well maybe it's a dramedy. Yeah, listen, I don't laugh.
I mean, if you're gonna callit a comedy would definitely be very eyebrow.
I guess that you'd have to sortof look for the irony or something
(02:59):
of that sort. But really it'sa drama and the oh, it's not
criticism, it's actually it's kind ofa backhanded compliment. The very first time
I watched The Bear, the pilotepisode, I watched it and I got
done and I had to watch somethingelse. I was exhausted. Yeah exactly,
(03:20):
Yeah, yeah, I mean thatas the highest compliment because they pulled
me right back into the kitchen likeI was eighteen, working at a restaurant
in the summer again, and itwas so stressful to watch. I related
with those characters. I related withthe whole thing so closely that I just
found myself getting stressed out when Iwatched The Bear. I get stressed.
(03:43):
I get so more than most shows. I just find myself exhausted after watching
it. So I haven't had timeto sit down, and because I've been
doing the night show this week,so I haven't had time to sit down,
and really, you know, startwatching at least one episode at a
time. If an episode is nottoo stressful, I can watch a couple.
All I know is that when Igot done, I think the restaurant
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was no the restaurant was on firein the first season. I think I
don't know, he was stuck ina cooler or something when I the last
time I saw him. So Ican't wait to see that. I did
want to bring this up because Iheard you make mention of it earlier.
Mark, you said a quiet placeDay one is doing really well. Does
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that mean it's doing well on dayone or that's it? Mads. Is
this a prequel? It's the prequel. It's the third film in the series,
but it's a prequel. It's anorigin story. It made seven million
bucks in Thursday previews, and theyfigured it could make up to fifty million
this weekend in theaters. That's prettygood considering what we've seen in the box
office so far this year, right, I mean we've had some we've had
(04:46):
some openers that have been kind ofbummers. Yeah, it's it's taken a
lot to get people off their Imean out of their houses to go to
a theater. Yeah. Yeah,I want to see that, and I
also want to see I don't ifyou do the Kevin Costner Horizon film.
Both of those look pretty entertaining.Is that the one that he funded?
It is? And I want tosupport that because that takes some nerve.
(05:09):
Yeah, so the guy stops doingIf I remember this correctly and feel free
to jump in, Mark, theguy said I'm out for Yellowstone because he
wanted to focus on his own Westernepic. Basically, he wants to make
how many films are the three five? I think it's four, okay,
whatever it is. So he wasdropping thirty million of his own money or
(05:31):
something like that. I love thathe's saying, I'm all in. I
believe in myself, I believe inmy vision, and this is what I
want to spend my money on.That's awesome. I applaud him. It's
so great. Yeah, I admirethat. And it's the same thing that
Coppola is doing with his Megalopolis movie. He put his own his butt on
the line. Nice. Yeah,I love it. I love it.
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I'm with you. I want tosupport it. And let's face it,
Cosner's good at westerns. He's Imean, he's good at westerns. Whether
you like him or don't like him. I mean his westerns have been Yellowstone
Great Dances with Wolves, no doubtthat man directed the heck out of that.
I mean, was the one thingyou got to be worn for it.
(06:17):
So look, guy knows how todo westerns. So I'm kind of
looking forward to that this quiet place, though, let's get back to this
for a moment as we talk aboutthe Hollywood news here, I don't know
if I want an origin story forthis. Is that bad to say?
Because one of the things that Ithought made the first one a little eerie
(06:40):
for me as an audience members andI didn't know why. And now normally
you wouldn't want to keep your audiencein the dark on something that is kind
of the main point, But itworked that very first quiet place. It
worked. We just knew that theywere being hunted. We didn't know what
it was, and then we weretipped off that if they made any noise,
that was it. Again, wedidn't really know why, we just
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were It was a story of survival. The circumstances around that were secondary to
the human condition that we were witnessingon the screen, based on the environment
that they were in. I don'tknow that I necessarily want to see the
origin story. However, we'll saythis qualifying this, I suppose, because
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I don't want to back myself intoa corner. If it's good, I'm
all for it. Sure, Sure, But I think you're really hitting on
one of the dumbest trends in Hollywoodright now, which is making a full
movie and filling out every reference inevery franchise and ruining the mystique of things
that are just mentioned. Yeah.Right. The poster child of this,
(07:43):
to me was the terrible Solo moviethat gives you a pon Solo's origin and
completely makes it ordinary and dull.But we're getting a lot of that in
a lot of different franchises. It'sfunny you went with Star Wars because I
think that if you are Gen Xand older, the Star Wars original trilogy
was fine. It didn't need theprequels, it didn't need the sequels.
(08:05):
It was fine, don't touch it. And obviously that first prequel comes out
and everybody's like, what the worldwas this? Jar jar binks nonsense?
And I know there were books.I get all that stuff, right,
But for those of us that onlysaw the films, we didn't need the
other stuff to fill it out.And then, as you pointed out,
they had to go back and dothe solo part of the what they call
that a Star Wars saga. Imean there was another Star Wars reference to
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it, right, Yeah, therewere a couple of movies in there that
were sold as US Star Wars sagaor something like that, when they weren't
part of the continuity of the whatthe original nine I guess there are right
now? Yeah, the original nine. But I like the original three episodes,
four, five, and six.What's the Boba Fet one? I
haven't I haven't seen any of that. Oh, the Book of Boba Fet.
That's a mini series. So peoplelove it. It's not as good
(08:52):
as the Mandalorian. I mean,if you're a Star Wars net, you're
gonna want to see it just becauseit's part of that. But it's not
that great. But the Mandalorian can't. It is different than the Boba Fett
book. The Mandalorian is much better, much better. But that's a mini
series too, writer or some sortof a series. Well, it's ongoing.
I think it's what it's said,two or three seasons, and it's
just terrifically well. The Baby Yodaone is the Mandalorian. And what's great
(09:16):
about that is that they're kind ofwritten like spaghetti westerns, and the Mandalorian
is kind of like your Man withNo Name, the quiet, laconic gunslinger
with with more nerve than anyone alive. They're really good. They're well made.
Okay, all right, So seethat's what this is why I had
to qualify it, like if it'sgood, I mean, but I mean,
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I think we agree. Not allof them are. No, that's
that's a little rough for me,a little rough, all right. From
our show business news to food,glorious food. It's been a long time
since I've been able to say there'sgood news on the food front. There
is good news on the food front. Especially for US fatties. Next,
(10:00):
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(10:22):
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for give it a listen. Ihave good news around food, glorious food.
Let's face it, we all gotto eat right. Oh, it's
been a long time since we've hadgood news. Oh, prices are going
(10:43):
up. They're going crazy now.By now, I'm sure that you've heard
about the price wars. All ofa sudden, the fast food places,
especially McDonald's gouse. A lot ofpeople are complaining about our prices. So
we thought we'd better do something.Do you think, So, let's face
it, here's what's going on.We've seen the prices. McDonald's is the
(11:05):
worst offender their average. Many priceswent up one hundred percent in the last
ten years. Inflation's gone up thirtypercent since twenty fourteen, they've gone up
almost three times as fast. Andso what they were doing is they were
testing to see where the tipping pointwas, Where is the point where our
customers will not pay it. Weknow that if the price goes up a
little bit, some customers will falloff. But will the customers that fall
(11:28):
off, will you lose money?Right? So you raise it a little
bit more and a few more customersfall off, but you still are selling
billions and billions served. And heraise it a little bit more and a
few more customers fall off. Atwhat point, where's the tipping point where
you lose so many customers? Nowyou've raised the price too high? Right?
(11:50):
This is part of figuring out theirsupply and demand equation. Well,
one thing we know in today's societyis that it takes a little time.
So while they may be raising pricesand some people are paying for it,
eventually we start to note notice thefirst time, but then we start to
notice. We start going through thedrive through and we went, wait a
(12:11):
minute, I got a number one. That's a big mac meal, Right,
what'd you get? I'll get thequarter pounder and cheese. Why is
there bill twenty five dollars for twomeals a McDonald's. And then what do
they do? They don't just stopgoing new new new new new, new
new new new. They start rollingthe camera on their phones and they say
(12:33):
twenty five dollars for a big macand a quarter pounder and cheese and McDonald's
And they say, this is crazy. Is anybody else saying this? Click
the lily blow and subscribe to myTikTok And then they all were like,
let's TikTok this out and let's hashtagit fast food rip off and starts to
(12:54):
go viral. And then things startto spiral very quickly. So all the
fast food places got caught up insome news stories as things started to go
viral, and then they all went, oh, we got a problem.
And then what happens is they alltry to overcorrect and they start competing with
discount meals. Yes, we areinto the back to the competition of value
(13:16):
menu phase. Granted it's not realgood, it's not great. The McDonald's
value value meal is basically a happymeal. You can have something that used
to be on the dollar menu,and they're all now three dollars, which
is like a McChicken or mcdouble.You get a small fry and a small
drink for five dollars. Listen,let's I get a hamburglar bibblehead to go
(13:37):
with that. It's not worth it, but I'll tell you what is worth
it. Taco Bell. Cool.Taco Bell used to have a five dollar
box and it was good. Pricesstarted going up and I think the last
time only threw it was like ninedollars. It's crazy. So Taco Bell
actually came out with the five dollarsDiscovery Box that ran last month April and
(14:01):
May, and that was a crunchytaco, Dorito's, Locos, Taco Cantina,
Chicken, crispy taco in a mediumdrink that was five dollars. Good
Taco Bell leading the charge. Rememberwhen you go fill up at Taco Bell
and it costs you like three bucks, it was great. They're finally getting
back to that. Now they've comeout with a seven dollars bucks. But
I'm in for this. I knowit's more than your small fry small drink
(14:24):
at McDonald's, but I'm in forthis, and here's why McDonald's is part
of their value menu war that allthe fast food places are doing now.
For seven bucks, Shiloupa Supreme fivelayer burrito, a double stack taco and
chips and nacho cheese sauce. Grandtotal one four hundred calories for seven dollars.
(14:50):
Yeah, that's enough calories for mostof the day, all in one
city. Listen, you don't haveto loosen up your belt by not eating
Taco Bell like this. You dothis because you're an American eating Mexican food
that you will not find in Mexico. God bless America, and thank god
we're finally getting back to our sensesand we're bringing down the cost of American
(15:15):
Mexican food. Don't call it MexicanAmerican food. That implies that Mexicans endorsed
Taco Bell. Don't do that.I endorse Taco Bell not actually they don't
pay me, but I like it. I'm one hundred percent. You know.
Now the bad news. You arefamiliar with another restaurant that is uh,
you can easily throw two thousand calorieson in one sitting. It's known
(15:39):
as the Olive Garden, which,as any Italian will tell you is authentic
Italian food. If you take anItalian person to the Olive Guard and they
will say show but uh uh moreperfect. I don't know Italian at all.
At some point they will tell youjust how how much it is,
(16:00):
exactly like mamma's cooking back home.That's what the Italians will say about Olive
Garden. I've never met one thatwould say otherwise. So anyway, Olive
Garden is running into a little bitof a sales slump. So while you've
got the fast food places the lowend that are getting into a price war,
(16:21):
evident least some of those mid rangerestaurants not doing so swell. Olive
Garden says they're going to raise pricesbecause they had a drop in sales last
quarter. So see they're finding thetipping point, but it's the math is
not working out for them. Sonow they're saying, we're going to have
to shed some of our customers,so we're not going to come in because
things are getting more expensive, butwe're hoping we can make up for it
(16:42):
by those that continue to come in. And it's not just Olive Guard Garden
restaurants owns Olive Garden. They alsoown Longhorn Steakhouse, Yardhouse, Ruths Chris,
which is very difficult for me tosay for some reason, Ruths Chris,
Ruths Chris Steakhouse, Cheddars, ScratchKitchen. I've been to that,
(17:03):
the Capitol Grill, have been tothat season's fifty two fresh grill, codmit
to that, Eddie V's Prime Seafooddrove by one once, and a Bahama
Breeze Island Grill I think the cnameof a drink I had. Anyway,
I think they say that they're goingto raise prices two to three percent company
wide over the next year. OliveGarden has already seen a one percent increase
(17:23):
in menu prices, and now theysay they're going to see a one to
two percent growth in sales they expectnext year. Honestly, do you notice
a one percent growth in price?I don't think you. Do you notice
two or three percent year over year? Probably not, because that's basically what
our rate of inflation is right now. So I don't know how much you
(17:45):
notice that. What you do notice, and this is where I get hunt
up. I notice when they bringthe bill and if I went to Olive
Garden with my wife before and acceptingwine like no wine boll You know,
Let's say our bill was forty fivebucks. They we've got an advertiser,
and let's say it's forty five dollarsbetween the two of us. And then
(18:06):
they bring the bill out the nexttime and it's fifty two dollars. That's
when I start to notice it's notwhat I'm looking at the menu price.
It's after the fact that I startto notice it feels like it was more
than last time. So I don'tthink i'd noticed one or two early on,
but I probably would after they getto that two or three percent when
(18:27):
the bill comes. I'm a littlelate to the game. It's the wait
works, all right. I've toldyou before if you were listening earlier in
the program. I set up today'sshow specifically because of my friend Mark Ronner,
and so I've got a segment forhim that is right in his wheelhouse.
We'll talk sports next. You're listeningto Later with Moe Kelly on demand
(18:51):
from KFI AM six forty. Allright, Mark, this is for you.
I know how much you like talkingabout sports. What did I ever
do to you? How about theonly real sports story? The rest of
it. I think you're actually gonnadig. The only real sports story I
have is this Bronni James going tothe Lakers. It was a story yesterday.
I know that, but we kindof have the debate going on yesterday.
So there you know. Lebron's gonnaplay with his kid. That'll be
(19:12):
nice. Great. He used upa second round draft pick on him.
They have a coach that's never coachedin the NBA before, perfectly capable,
but inexperienced. And I don't havea whole lot of hope for the Lakers
this year. I would love itif they surprised me. It's heartwarming.
You and your dad have trucks together, and they have the NBA together.
(19:36):
Yeah. He's got the new one, it's only seven years old, and
I've got the old one. Yeah, so that's it. Yeah. Anyway,
I hope they do really well.I think it'll be a great story.
Should sell some tickets because of it. But beyond that, I got
to tell you, I think thatthe what do they call that? That
the burn time on this is gonnabe pretty short. Before all of a
(19:56):
sudden, we're like, okay,enough of that, all right, here
there you go. I'm gonna saythe words NFL, but I'm not going
to talk about any of the players. In fact, Ronner, I would
even say, this is an entertainmentstory, but I already had an entertainment
story, so I threw it intoa sports story. So the NFL lost
a big lawsuit. Now maybe youheard about this again, happened yesterday.
(20:17):
There were some other things going on. The NFL lost this massive lawsuit.
And on the face of it,it looks like the NFL lost a lawsuit
worth almost five billion dollars four pointeight billion in a judgment against them,
But it could be way more thanthat. And here's why. They were
basically found guilty of colluding with DirectTV according to the report, and this
(20:42):
was in the La Times, buthere it is. It took nearly a
decade for the case to want towind its way through the legal system,
beginning in twenty fifteen when a pubetin San Francisco called the Mucky Duck.
Fuck the mucky Duck. That soundslike something that autocompletes responsible for exactly what
(21:03):
I was thinking. Yep, that'sexactly where I was going with it.
See this is you and I aresimpatico. My friend anyway, the Mucky
Duck, if that's their real name, file to complain about the hand about
how the NFL handles its out ofmarket broadcast. It's a class action suit
filed on behalf of more than twoand a half a two point four million
residential subscribers, so almost two anda half nine and almost fifty thousand restaurants,
(21:27):
bars, and other commercial establishments thatshow the NFL. It's centered on
the Sunday ticket package, which isnow on YouTube. It used to be
on direct TV. So that allowsyou to see all the games, except
I think for your in market games. You can see all the out of
market games. But if if theRams are playing in town and it's on
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CBS or Fox or what I guesswould be Fox, you wouldn't be able
to watch that. If the Chargersare in town to be on CBS,
you wouldn't be able to watch that. But all the out of market games
you would be able to watch,all right, So what they did is
they said, wait a minute,we're paying for a premium product, but
it's not a premium product. It'sthe same exact broadcast that you have going
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somewhere else. So if the Ramswere playing the Bears in Chicago, and
they want to show the Bears gamethe Rams game, right, they got
to pay for this Sunday ticket,which is about four hundred and fifty bucks.
Now, granted, your local stationmight be showing the Rams anyway,
so maybe that's a maybe that's amischaracterization. Let's say that Mark wanted to
watch his Seahawks play the Bears,okay rematch of a Super Bowl about almost
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twenty years ago. So let's sayhe wanted to watch the Seahawks play the
Bears, but he's living in LosAngeles and he goes, wait a minute,
if I lived in Seattle, Ican watch this for free on the
over the air broadcast. Why doI have to pay four hundred and fifty
dollars for it? And the NFLsays, well, listen, we give
it away free up there, butthis is special because you're elsewhere and you
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got to be here. And whatthe jury decided is that the NFL,
yeah, maybe you can charge forout of market games, but the amount
you were charging was exorbitant. Itwas out of control, it was too
much, and so this fell underan anti trust case. They said this
was collusion. This has to dowith the NFL and that broadcast partner.
Nobody else was involved, There wasno other competition going on. This is
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its collusion, bad deal. TheNFL, of course disagrees and want to
appeal. Blah blah blah. NowI mentioned that the lawsuit, the jury
said four point eight billion dollars.And if there is a league that can
handle four point eight billion dollars,it's this one. I mean, this
league is doing quite well for itself, but it could be a whole lot
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more because in federal laws, underanti trust cases, they could be liable
up to fourteen point one billion dollarsbecause some of the federal laws triple the
amount one when it's an anti trustcase. Even though the jury said four
point eight billion, just by themere fact that it is in an anti
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trust case that falls under this purview, it triples the price. Now,
listen, I expect there's probably gonnabe some lobbyists that are going to try
to change this and then not sothis in future, and the Supreme Court
will be like, oh groovy tous, do it, But for right
now, fourteen billion dollars. Now, I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you are theNFL, and you're raking in the dough.
Fourteen billion is going to hurt thebottom line. I don't care if
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you're exon. If you take fourteenbillion out of the profits one year,
that's gonna hurt. And finally,how about a win for the little guy?
Again sports related, but this isreally more about business. The La
City Council's effort to crack down onthe brok ring of tee time reservations on
municipal courses. The County Board ofSupervisors takes similar steps this week to require
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non refundable reservation deposits and charging cancelationfees. So what's happening uni course near
you? You want to go golfing? You pull up the website that allows
you to reserve your tea time,already been reserved, nothing's available, and
you go, man, I neverremember this course being that popular. Why
is everything gone all of a sudden. What's happening is there are tee time
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brokers that are just simply going inand reserving every tea time. They're going
in and they're snagging them up.We'll get every tea time. And then
they start their own website that says, do you want to play on this
muni course, you could play.We've got a tea time open at seven
eighteen am and they want to cut, so they're gonna you're you're getting the
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tea time. The tea time isgoing to cost you when you go there,
and you got to pay. Yougot to pay the fees to golf
anyway, but now you have topay somebody else because they reserve the tea
time. And the municipal courses,by definition, are being run by the
same the county, whatever it is, is being run by a local government
entity because it's supposed to be availablefor anybody that wants to do it and
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pay the fees. So not onlyare their greens fees like you normally have
to pay when you go golfing,now you have to pay some reservation broker.
And I have to tell you thereare obviously the reservation brokers are saying,
oh, this is bad for us, but also to the golfers.
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I hope that for those of youthat are at businesses that like to buy
things up and resell them, yourecognize the irony. If you were working
for ticketmaster or a ticket scalper,a ticket resler, that's a legitimate American
business. Yeah, we bought upall the Taylor Swift tickets and now we're
reselling them on seat geek or tofind your bleacher dot com or cushion yourtushion
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dot com. If you want tosee Taylor Swift, We've got your tickets
right here, face value two hundredand twenty five dollars now yours for just
thirty two hundred. That's considered legitimatebusiness. But when you do it to
the Muni course, all of asudden, the same people that are doing
it in resales to everyone else arelike, all right, that's unfair.
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Wait a minute, We're not supposedto be the victims of our own system.
That's not how we set it up. Yeah, there is distinct irony
going on when it comes to thewhole golfers having to go through a ticket
broker and screaming foul. Who Ifeel bad for is the working class people
who like to go golfing on theweekend are not participating in these sorts of
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businesses, and all of a suddencan't because they just got priced out by
a ticket broker who ironically is sellingit to somebody who can't afford it,
likely because they're in the markup businessin some other aspect of commerce. So
anyway, thanks to the La CityCouncil, Thanks to the Board of Supervisors,
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Thanks for cracking down on people takingadvantage of people. Gotta do it
man, all right, how aboutpunch clock buddies? You've heard of work
wives? What about work BFFs.If you don't have one, buddy up
quick, you don't want to bethe last one standing. That's next.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI Am six forty.
There's always a pleasure being with youand a pleasure being in for mo Kelly
this week listen to Anytime on demandof the iHeartRadio app. Oh man,
what a week listen. We haddebates, we had Supreme Court things,
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we had of course, then lifegoing on. The busiest traffic season we've
seen in years. In fact,some airports were reporting that they had the
most traffic they've ever seen. Andwe're just now getting into the holiday weekend.
It's a crazy time. It's good. There's a lot of good stuff
going on, good stuff going on. Hopefully things are going all right for
you at work, and chances areif you are at work and you're having
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a good time. It's because youlike the people you work with. During
the last break, I've been spendingtime here talking to people and saying,
listen, I appreciate Matthews. Intonight Toalah had the night off. First
time I've worked with Matthew. Toallasaid, this guy's ready to go his
shark and boy, Matthew, youare locked in, buddy, Thank you
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so so much. I'm impressed sogood. Foush one of the best in
the business. And I am unemployable, which means I've done filling work all
over the country and Foush absolutely oneof the absolute best in the business.
And Mark Ronner. I get upin the morning because I think I get
to work with Mark tonight. Ijust love working with you and I have
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for a long time. I feela connection. You're a good guy,
all of it. Maybe someday someof th already figure will give us a
show together. What did I justsay, unemployable? All right, so
it won't be here. Maybe apodcast. Maybe we could join the podcast
ranks. Wouldn't that be thrilling fornobody? Well, it's just what the
world needs is another podcast. That'swhat I'm saying, this is exactly what
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I'm saying. My god, onehundred thousand. We haven't even we haven't
even scratched the surface yet. Wasreading an article the Wall Street Journal was
talking about how important it is tohave work friends. In fact, they
go so far as to say,everyone seems to be talking Rob, and
I haven't forgotten about you. Justwait until the end of the second.
These days, everyone seems to betalking about all the value of a work
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best friend. On Instagram and onTikTok it's the hashtag work bestie. Gallup
data repeatedly showing that employees with workbest friends feel more invested and productive in
their jobs. Would you like adviceon how to get a workplace best friend?
And yes, I will give itto you. And here's what you
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should do. According to the experts. You should this is listen. If
you have to get a checklist andlearn how to make friends, you're in
trouble, but here's your checklist.You should engage in virtual water cooler talk,
so if you're not actually in house, you should use zoom, Slack
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and other digital tools to start casualconversations. That's always yep, always always
personal. Hey, how is divorcegoing yep, people love that, it
says, share personal tidbits and commoninterest to build rapport, just as you
would in physical office, Be genuineand authentic. Authenticity goes a long way
(31:48):
in building trust. You know howyou get to be authentic. This is
what I learned. Here's a littletrip. Here's what I learned. You
just complain. That's it. Youcomplain, and you tell people why you're
complaining. That's authenticity today. Ifwe're being real about it, it goes.
This is what frustrates me because peoplerelate to frustration, and here's why
it frustrates me. And then they'relike, yeah, me too. Oh
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and because of this, that's it. That's how you're authentic. Done.
There are you connected? You're welcomeleverage company events, participate in company organize
social events, even if they seemforced. Like Mark on the company softball
team. These events can be greatto meet colleagues outside your immediate team and
find potential allies. Unless your Markon the softball team, and then we
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don't want to have to play youin the game, but HR says we
do. You should seek common ground. Look for colleagues with similar working styles,
interests, or professional goals or totalslackers like yourself, and you should
offer constructive feedback like Chris. Shutup, quit insulting Mark, be willing
to give and receive honest feedback.People love it when you tell them that
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they're doing something wrong. Do thatmore, that's sarca. Don't do that.
Here's what they say, are thedon'ts all right? Are you listening?
I want you to be great atwork. I want you to go
to work and find your work bestie. Don't rush the relationship. Boy,
This is so true, not justin work relationships but in everything. Yeah.
Are you sure this is specifically forwork? Or yeah? Well with
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this it's It reminds me of thegreat philosopher thirty eight special. Hold on
loosely, but don't let go.If you cling too tightly, you're going
to lose it. You're going tolose control. They say, building a
meaningful work relationship takes time, andmoving too quickly or being overly eager as
it can overwhelm the other person andbackfire. So don't do that. No,
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don't don't try to get past secondbase with somebody at work. It's
not recommended, thank you. Yeah, don't do that anyway. No,
they say, don't crap where youeat. Yeah, don't do that.
I don't overshare too soon. Thisis one of my favorites to make people
feel awkward. Do you ever dothis? I love this. While openness
is important, be mindful of boundaries, especially in the early stages. Avoid
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sharing overly personal or sensitive information.I love to do this. Got it.
You send me a photo of yourselfwith this seatpap thing on your face.
Yeah, I don't think. Igo, oh, I look like
a monster. I look like,what did I tell you? I looked
like an elephant or something with myseatpap And you go, no, you
don't. I'm like, here's mypicture. Yep. No, I love
this too. You see somebody inthe elevator, you know, casually,
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you might remember their first name.You couldn't pick them out of a lineup
otherwise, And they're like, howare you doing it? You go,
oh, man, my wife isupset at me again. And they're just
like, oh god, no,don't go into this. And then I
just love to spin a tail.I love it. I love to put
them on the because the people thatget the joke, now you got an
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office buddy for life. The onesthat don't. Yeah, I dismissed them.
Well, people bond over complaints aboutthe old ball and chain, right,
yeah, yeah, I love that. Like, oh god, well,
my wife is going through a crisis. She dyed her hair again.
It's back to purple. I don'tknow why people do this, and they
look at you like, why areyou telling me this? Those are my
favorites? Huh? Ignore power dynamicor don't ignore power dynamics. In other
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words, don't try to buddy upto your boss, and don't try to
buddy up to somebody below you,and then don't engage in negative talk.
That's how you build friendships at work, and that makes work more rewarding.
Robin, are you listening. Thisis why I want to be good friends
with Robin. Who's been in therewith Foush all night. I work with
Robin on the weekends. She's dynamite, Robin. Thank you so much,
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because behind the scenes, Robin's beenhelping Exults some things as well. You
are the best and I love youall. Thank you so much for letting
me be a part of your world. I can't wait until the next time
I'm back on Sunday. Look forwardto talking to you that it's Chris Merrill
in from O Kelly Tonight. You'vebeen listening, so later with MO Kelly.
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