December 18, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at LA County’s new medical debt relief program, the “2024’s Best Cities for Christmas” according to WalletHub AND Disney’s “$233 million wage theft settlement” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Drones, drones and more drones.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
There have been more drone sidings, not just in New Jersey,
but all around the country. Tips have been pouring in
regarding more than five thousand drone sidings. The government is
telling us there's no need to be concerned. There's no
threat that has been assessed. Quote.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is from a written statement. Quote.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The sidings to date included a combination of lawful commercial drones,
hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as man
fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and stars mistakenly reported as drones.
We have not identified a national security or public safety
risk close quote. And there are those who don't believe
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our government, including members of our government. Senator Rick Scott
says the government is not being truthful, and he is
a member of the Senate Homeland Security, Budget and Armed
Services Committee. He told Fox Business Networks Mornings with Maria.
I said Maria Bartiromo that the US public doesn't trust
the Pentagon, Homeland Security, or the FBI to provide accurate information. Well,
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I don't know if that exactly is helpful, but let
me break this down for a second. It's fine to
always disbelieve the evil government about everything. It's fine, but
it comes at a cost. You do know that, and
I understand the government doesn't always tell us the truth
of the complete truth. But here's something else that you
should not forget. If there is something which is concerning
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or a possible threat, I actually don't want the government
to tell me one is classified information.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It may be a part of a larger investigation. And
I'm just going to go off of my personal experience
just interviewing retired members of the FBI Anomberthom when I
had the mo Kelly Show, they came on. I'm not
going to give their names, but I can say what
they told me, and they told me not a day
goes by in which there is not a credible threat
against a politician or public figure, someone very important, a
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heart's target, a soft target here in the United States,
And they don't divulge that to the public. Why Because
they are investigating and making sure that they're not tipping
off the person who is either an active threat or
is become an operational threat, and they're going to go
get that person. That's why you usually hear after the
fact so and so was arrested for trying to buy
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uranium or trying to solicit help for the assassination of
the president of the United States. We don't hear about
that until after it's over. And I'm okay with that.
I know that there are certain things that the government
doesn't want me to know and buy me I mean
you as well, because we would tell everybody, including the
person who's planning to harm us. And yes, we are
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in the Christmas holidays. The threat risk is higher during
the holidays. That's not a secret to anyone. And yes,
it's very very normal to want to know whether these
drones are like a dry run for something, or that
possibly some other sinister plan or plot against the United States.
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I get that that is all normal and that is reasonable.
But also we know that let's just put it on
a local level. We often see that there may be
unfortunately a mass shooting or some sort of incident, and
then we'll get a press conference.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We want all the answers up front.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We want to know what kind of gun was use,
how many assailants, all of this, and all of that,
and we're always reminded, hey, we don't want to impugne
the credibility of this investigation. We don't want to compromise
it in any way. We don't need to know everything
all the time. And let's not forget it's not like
we were told the whole truth or nothing about the
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truth about COVID as it was happening. Okay, I understand
why you may not believe the government at all times,
but I also know that there is value in not
telling everyone everything. Do you think we would really be
able to pull off D Day in today's world with
social media? Do you really think if we ask, hey,
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when are we going to mount this offensive and maybe
a turn the tide in the war, Well, it's coming
up in June. That much we can tell you because
we want to be transparent and let you know we're
doing ever we can to win World War two? Do
you actually think that that would have been successful if
we require the government to tell us everything? And I
know the government does lie to us about some things.
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I get that, but it can't be the default response.
That's the point I want to make. It can't be
well the government said, ay, it must be BC and
D because I have concocted this conspiracy theory in my head,
or the president elect doesn't believe what the government tell us.
And let's not forget the president elect is getting security briefs.
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The president elect knows certain things that you and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So if the president elect says, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The government is not telling us everything, that is probably true,
but it doesn't mean it's unwarranted. Because there are investigations,
there are plots right now to harm America, probably far
beyond our comprehension, and honestly, I don't need to know
all of those things, especially if it's going to somehow
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compromise what the FBI and other federal agencies are doing
to thwart them.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We live in a world where we have this instant information.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We expect to learn everything right now immediately, when most
times we don't need to know any of it. We
don't have a right to know everything that's going on.
And if you don't trust the government, well I got
news for you. Just because you have the new president.
That doesn't change the government overnight. But I know for
some for partisans out there, all of a sudden, the
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government will be trustworthy come January twenty first, So twenty
twenty five, it's strange how that happens. It's really strange.
But that's another conversation for another day. But all these
drones out there, something must be going on. George Norry
must have something to do with it. He probably knows
what's going on, because we are all too quick to
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want to disbelieve any reasonable explanation and instead believe what
we already In other words, we want to confirm our
biases about the government. Aha, the government did not tell
us everything about the drones, so therefore they're a lying
to us about the drones, and they're hiding something that
they don't want us to know about the drones. Well,
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all of those things might be true, but it might
be for the best of the United States citizenry because
if they are tracking a possible lead, or there was
a possible dry.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Run that the drones were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Don't you know that by putting that out in the public,
you've compromised just about every investigation out there. You've probably
compromised sources, You've probably compromised tactics and methods and technologies
for us to know these things. You've probably made it
very easier for the next dry run to be more successful.
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You don't need to know everything, just need to be
kept safe. It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi AM six
forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I didn't get
to say hello to Mark Roner tonight, my very close friend. Hello, Mo,
nice to see you. It's nice to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I miss you. I missed you too. I'm glad we're
together now. You want to keep going? Yeah? You complete me?
Hi stap Ben. How you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hello? How are you? I'm just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And also joining us in the studio tonight is Nick
Poliochini and he brought food for me and Tuala Tualla
close the door to not let market. He's not getting
any of this pizza. What this is the worst night
of my life.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, no, I'm not kidding. I'm kidding. Nick brought us pizza.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
No I believe that you're not kidding because didn't you
smell No, I can't smell it yet.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh it's good. It's better than my pizza roast.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well that's about par for the course here, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Pizza is probably one of the greatest invention that God
ever did.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
This just in Moe's not sharing his pizza. You know,
I have a saft spot for pizza.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I look, look, you put me between a hooker and
some pizza. I'm choosing a pizza. Every time Happen six
forty alafe everywhere in near I heart radio app.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And if you have ever ever received a medical bill
in the mail, let's just say like, for example, I
got hit by a car as a pedestrian. I told
you some time ago. I was a pedestrian. Junk driver
hit me. I was a pedestrian. I was okay, but
the ambulance still took me to the hospital thousands of
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dollars for something that I didn't do, an ambulance I
did not ask for, and tests I did not request.
That's how expensive our healthcare industry can be. And you
may not be expecting to have a bill drop in
your lap, but it could drop in your lap at
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any time, and all of a sudden, you're looking at
some very difficult decisions you have to make. And if
you have unpaid medical bills here in La County, depending
on how much money you make, you might be able
to have those bills abolished altogether. The county has a
new medical debt relief program and it launched today. It
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comes after a report found that people living in Los
Angeles have over two point nine billion dollars in unpaid
medical bills as of twenty twenty two. That's not County
twenty twenty three, that's not County twenty twenty four. A
whole lot of life has changed in two years for
all of us. And if you didn't know, medical bills
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leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. And let's not
forget we live in a state specifically that we like
to complain about the price of rent. The cost of rent,
we didn't want to do anything about that. But all
these things are connected, Mo, What do you mean how
they're connected?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
This? If you file bankruptcy, you're on your way to
being homeless.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If you have tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills,
you might be on your way to being homeless because
you have to make a decision. Am I going to
pay this medical bill? Or am I going to pay
the rent? That's what this is all about, in how
all these problems are connected.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Well, here's the number. One in ten people living in
La County is saddled with medical debt, and half of them,
more than half of them, fifty three percent, have been
forced to put that debt on a credit card because
they just don't make enough well. Local leaders and doctors
in the county say that's unacceptable and they want to
make a change. People should not be putting all this
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on their credit cards.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
People should not be contemplating needed to drive to Tijuana
to get the.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Care they need.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
LA County standing up to crippling medical debt, announcing plans
today to erase five hundred million dollars owed by one
hundred and fifty people can find the.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Unique partnership we're launching today with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.
Los Angeles County is going to step in and buy
much of that debt, and instead of sending a bill
to the person I love this part, we're going to
send a letter to our low income residents letting them
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know that their medical debt has been eliminated.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
A five million dollar initial investment comes from a motion
introduced by LA County Supervisors jenis Han and Holly Mitchell
approved earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The county will.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Use the money to buy the medical debt for one
cent per dollar. Erasing five hundred million dollars gets the
county a quarter of the way to their goal of
eliminating two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, twell, I bet this someone listening right now who's
probably thinking or yelling at the radio or their phone, saying,
you deadbeats.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Pay your bills first. You want a free education.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You want them to abolish your your loans, your student loans.
Now you want them to abolish your medical debt. What
would you say to that?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Keep on living, Keep on living. I have been paying
medical debt for the last ooh eighteen nineteen twenty years.
Damn it, okay, just keep on living. Never did I
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think that my health would take such a dramatic turn
from just having type one diabetes, which I was managing
very well, to all of a sudden being on dialysis
for six years, to then having a dual transplant. And
I promise you, the medical debt just compiles.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Wait, how much how much was your transplant? And how
much did it? Insurance pay for?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Insurance paid for for the most part, insurance paid for
I think between insurance and between medi mehdi So I
had mediciclum Medicare, and that was about eighty thousand. I mean,
I'm sorry, it's not eighty percent, So eighty percent leaving
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twenty percent of the I believe in total million.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Five what at my doorstep? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And then through winning twenty percent, you were you were
response before of more than a million dollars.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Yeah, thankfully, Thankfully, cedar Cyanide has a wonderful, wonderful staff
that works in their billing department, and they showed me
how to apply for various grants and things like that.
Cedar Cyanide is a beautiful, beautiful facility. But that's just
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one of a handful of individuals who would take that
initiative to find out how to take care of that.
Just remember Mo, every single time I sat down that
chair for dialysis, that was about a thirty thousand dollars
a bill without insurance. Think about people who just have
Medicare days account. I was going three days a week,
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three days a week covered by insurance. The number of
people I knew who were on dousards who didn't get insurance.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Why because I.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Don't need insurance, I'm healthy, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Keep on living.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Taking You're on diasis three days week and that's some
thirty thousand dollars just to sit in the damn chair.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Or wait or their insurance is insufficient to cover.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh oh, I saw lots of that's lots of that.
There are some meds that I take right now that
without insurance, and I pay for the top tier premium
insurance to help cover down the cost of some of
these pills, because there are sometimes when I look at
these thirty days supplies for like what like I don't know,
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four hundred dollars for a thirty days apply.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'm like, just thirty days. It's sounds likeny dollars. It
sounds like you're telling me it's.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Very easy to end up being bankrupt from medical bills,
regardless of your income. Absolulutely, I lose my job for
some reason. They come in in these jobs. Oh OOA got.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
More than one. I call it what both of them
all of a sudden go away.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
I'm living in my car, trying to escape the car
dealership so they he'll come find me. I am on
the street, I really really, because that's how close we
are because of the overwhelming amount of debt that I'm
constantly paying off. And you can't escape it, man, You
cannot escape it.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
So does it then offend you if someone were to
look at this program and say these are freeloaders or
they're not honoring their responsibilities or their debts.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I mean, you can kiss my I just went and
paid some one hundred and eighty five dollars just to
have this bloodshot.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I looked at out, looked at, looked at that's not treated.
That's not treated.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
For them to look at it and say, hmm, you're
gonna have to go in for further examination. Wait what,
here's some hyge drops, go and see a specialist. The
amount of medical debt you can accumulate like that?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like that.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
This program is a lifesaver for so many people. And
there are so many people who I knew who did
not opt for a transplant because they could not afford it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well, just in case you were curious or this might
apply to you, here is how much you need to
make or not need to make to qualify.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
How do you find out if you qualify? La County
Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer says qualifying debts include past
do medical bills owed by residents who earn up to
four hundred percent of the federal poverty level. That's an
annual income of up to sixty thousand dollars for individuals
or one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars for a
family of four.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's not a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean, look what I qualify for this. No, but
I'm just one medical emergency away from being bankrupt, and
just about everyone listening is too.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And let's talk a little bit about Christmas. What might
be the best city for Christmas? Of course it's subjective,
but we all have thoughts, we all have ideas about
which city is probably the best place to celebrate Christmas
in the United States. Well, wallet Hub, in their attempt
to identify the most festive and affordable cities for Christmas celebrations,
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compare the one hundred biggest cities in the US based
on twenty eight key indicators such as traditions, shopping, and costs. So,
if you want to make this Christmas a memorable one
without breaking the bank, here is their list of the
most Christmas friendly cities in the US. We'll start at
number ten and work our way up. Any predictions before
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we go.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Mark gotta be someplace with snow, all right, don't you ever.
We talk about this at home a lot. I miss
seasons sometime. I wish I had moved to La even
sooner than I did. I like it here, but I
do sometimes miss seasons because here the seasons consists of
short season and pants season.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Look, you haven't noticed the leaves turning brown and falling
gracefully to the ground.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
We've had a little bit of a fall this year. Yeah,
I've had to clean up some leaves.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, you're not gonna get snow necessarily, but you get,
you know, somewhat of.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
A seasons up in one of the mounds. Right now,
we're expecting a little snow. Okay, de clearing you hostile witness.
Do you, or do you not sometimes wish that you
had a white Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No? Absolutely not, I've had one. No. Are you taking
that in a different sense than in which I no,
I mean, I don't want a Christmas with snow.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If you've ever lived in a snow climate, dealing with
the snow, especially after it's fallen and it turns to
slush and black ice and you're slipping and busting your
ass and everything, or you have to shovel out your car.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And the rock salt. No, oh please. When I was
growing up, he is filthy. You come listen to yourself.
I grew up having to shovel such a comically long
driveway that Sissyphus, who spent eternity was pushing the rock
up and down the hill. He would have looked at
that and been like, no, no way, not doing it.
You asked the question. I'm just answering the question. No,
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I'm not in need of a white Christmas. Christmas with
eighty five degrees in the sun out is just fine
for me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You hate America, I assure do. Go right ahead, We're going.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
To go to this list now of the top ten
best cities for Christmas in the United States, coming in
at number ten.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
New York, New York. Number one, Wow. No. Number nine Chicago, Illinois.
Remember it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's most festive and affordable cities for Christmas celebrations, according
to wallet Hub.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Number eight My kind of Christmas, Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Put me on Ocean Boulevard by the Tides Hotel the Marlin. Yes, sir,
good times, good women, Well I can't say that now.
Good times, good food. Number seven Saint Louis, Missouri. Now
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I think pass No, I don't think of Saint Louis's.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
They did they give any rationale for any of these? Well,
I can understand it would take us hours.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But you know they give these key indicators as far
as traditions, shopping, and costs.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
But you know they have like traditions and fun.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Rank h Saint Louis Rank's twentieth observance rank, number five,
generosity rank forty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's too much information, just way too much. Number six.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
San Francisco. I guess, yeah, yeah, okay, it's festive. I mean, look,
there's a lot of homelessess and it was not affordable.
But hey, Number five Orlando, Florida. Yeah, there's no reason.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, I guess you have Disney World maybe if you're
going to make a trip out of it or something.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
But other than that, I don't know why I would
go to Orlando. Number four.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I see this, Las Vegas. Yeah, I would do
Christmas in the desert. Yeah, absolute, And it can'tnow there, yes,
it can, yes, it can. Mark here comes number three,
just for you.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Let's have it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Seattle, Washington. Any thoughts it's nice in Seattle around the holidays.
It never gets too miserably cold, like if you've ever
had I think you have been in Chicago in the winter. Yes,
it's like that Chicago that is unsustainable for human life.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well I'm going to Chicago next month. So thank you
very much. It's been great knowing you. Number two of
the best cities for Christmas in all the United States
as compared for twenty eight key indicators such as traditions, shopping,
and cost. Number two. Oh h Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ain't nobody
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want to go to Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh especially for anything, not
even a Steelers.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Is really really nice.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And I will tell you this, especially Erie, that the
fact that there's no sales tax. People would come from
all over to come into Erie to go shopping for
the holidays. And plus it was snowing. Yeah, area was nice.
The lake was frozen.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah. Man, but Aria's not Pittsburgh. I know, it's the
same state. It's just it's a.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Short drive, a beautiful drive too. And Pittsburgh, Yeah, it's
really nice.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Pittsburg where the Dawn of the Dead movie got filmed
in that Monroeville mall.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I would spend a Christmas there.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Christmas, you are a walking encyclopedia of cinematic knowledge.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Everybody knows about that. That's not just me.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Coming in at number one of the best city for
Christmas in the United States, Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
What get there again? Fast though cold? The snow and
it can snow there.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I have no desire to go to Atlanta, Georgia, and
I've been Atlanta, Georgia many times. Shout out to Magic City.
I'm not going to Atlanta, Georgia for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
It can be really really nice. Wait where, but damn
all that? Where's California?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
La came in at number seventeen, Washington, d C At
number nineteen, Sad Eagles at sixteen. Okay, Yeah, California didn't
fare to well because probably the cost. Sacramentos at number
thirty two. How can you beat the weather on Christmas?
Long Beach comes in at forty seven. It's weird. La
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is at seventeen. Long Beach is at forty seven. When
you're I don't know, maybe ten miles if you close
it through the water. That's very anti Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Irvine number fifty one, Anaheim fifty three, San Jose fifty four,
Bakersfield fifty six, Oaktown comes in at sixty, Santa Clara
at sixty three, and Fresno came in at number seventy five.
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And there's Fremont at eighty nine, Stockton at ninety four,
Chula Vista at ninety five, and San Bernissippi and ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Wow. Yeah, I would have thought the West Coast with
a fair and feather man. You can't beat our weather.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So if you're in San Bernissippi, you drive about thirty miles,
you be at number seventeen Los Angeles. So you can
have a good Christmas. Just have to leave San Bernissippi.
It's not asking much. Just Later with Mo Kelly KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And the Walt Disney Company has agreed to settle what
has been termed as a wage theft lawsuit for two
hundred and thirty three million dollars a quarter of a
billion dollars almost and this ends a five year dispute
over pay for tens of thousands of Anaheim Theme park employees.
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According to a December six court filing, one hundred and
eighty million will go to plaintiffs in terms of back
pay and retirement contributions. Another seventeen point five million in
penalties will be paid to the California Labor and Workforce
Development Agency, and thirty five million will go toward attorney fees. Damn,
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the attorneys made off with thirty five million dollars. It's
good work if you can get it, and the remainder
goes to administration of the settlement. You may not remember,
but the lawsuit arose after Disney claimed it was exempt
from Measure L You remember that that was that twenty
eighteen voter approved living Wage initiative, and that ordinance required
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any businesses in the city Resort District that received city
tax subsidies to pay workers at least fifteen dollars an hour.
And I was supposed to begin on January first, twenty nineteen,
with hourly wages rising one dollar annually through twenty twenty two.
Disney said no, we're not going to do it, and
now they're one to have to pay all that money back.
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Under the terms of the settlement, the wage floor for
Disney workers will rise to at least twenty dollars and
fifty cents hourly beginning in January of twenty twenty five,
and it said that the cast members at the resort
earn at least the measure L requirement of nineteen ninety hourly,
with ninety five percent of them making more. Back in
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October twenty twenty three, the company said it moved all
cast members who quote were not at or above the
measure L rate close quote to nineteen dollars and forty
cents per hour. And this pasture like, Disney agreed with
unions to raise the pay up more than thirteen thousand
cast members who work in attractions, custodial and merchandise to
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a minimum hourly rate of twenty four dollars. We had
talked about that. I look at this and I say, well,
price is getting ready to go up at Disneyland. I mean,
that's the only way. Look, if someone has to cut
a check or checks equaling two hundred and thirty three
million dollars, either you let people go or you have
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to charge more of customers this or it could be
a combination of both. But that's about the only way
you get around this.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I'm saying combination of both.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Fewer parades fewer, Yes, fireworks shows, things like that, you know,
those off hours, they may close early. Get start seeing
a lot of that. On top of man, these drumstick
used to cost like eighteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, the food is out.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's good, but it's outlandishly priced, outlandishly priced. And yeah,
when you say fewer parades, when I went, I think
they only have like two parades a day.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What do they have like four or five? Now they're
supposed to Okay, okay, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Now it's like, well, the parade in the morning, you
see the one at night, yes, okay, And they are elaborate.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
They require hundreds of performers. And if you could cut
the parades in half and arguably the amount of time
that they're needed to perform or act as characters, as
talent in the park, Yeah, that that's probably going to
be one of the cost cutting measures because the two
hundred and thirty three million has to come from somewhere. Yeah,
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they can amortize that debt and pay it off a
little as they go, you know, to get that money back.
But that two hundred and thirty three million dollars outlay
is going to mean higher prices and fewer jobs.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
There's just nowhere around it. Can I add some context?
Sure you might find this helpful. This is from CNBC.
Disney's theme park division posted record revenue and profit for
fiscal twenty twenty four, with revenue rising five percent for
the full year to thirty four point one five billion billion.
I don't think they're digging in the couch for spaitane.
(31:22):
You know, I didn't say that. I'm saying they are
going to keep let me put it in another way.
They are going to keep their revenue projections on target.
They are going to keep their shareholders happy. And the
only way that you can do that is to not
give up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So much money at once. That's the only way I
can describe it. I'm not saying it is fair, but
I guarantee you it's a fact. They're not going to
sacrifice their revenue projections and shareholder dividends with meeting. Their
stock price is going to drop because they can't meet
their projections.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
They're not Can I jump in a little bit early here,
because I know you don't want to hear from me
until nine o'clock. And that's Nick pobly Okinny showing the
program mister Disney here. But yes, the thing that's wild
is we're coming up on the seventieth anniversary of the
Disneyland Resort, or of Disneyland Park coming up in twenty
twenty five, so which is interesting because you guys are
talking about the different parades and everything. So the Paint
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the Night will be returning in twenty twenty five, which
is a really sought after parade. The Magic Happens as
a parade that will be actually going away in twenty
twenty five, so that is one parade that'll be going away.
So there's a lot of things that have been there
that will be disappearing. So even with all these numbers changing,
it'll be really interesting to see what in a celebration year,
a huge celebration year, because you have to think we've
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already done one hundred years of Disney and now we're
coming up on the seventieth anniversary of the original theme park.
So all of these numbers that are being thrown around
and shareholders and everything else, but you've got the focus
coming right back here to southern California for twenty twenty
five and seeing exactly what's going to be put out
there with all the money that's going around and everything
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else to that effect. And you know that, you know,
people like Amy King and myself will be bringing you
all sorts of information of what's happening. But it's just
wild to think that these are the numbers that we're
looking at. I say, the shareholder dividends and stock price
trump everything. Oh no, I agree with you, I mean,
And that's the sad part, unfortunately, especially because when you
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go I mean, I literally was at Disneyland on Monday,
and uh, let's today Tuesday, so yesterday you get told
that you're you're not wrong, and but that's it. It's
wild to think that and just being able to walk
around there and see the magic in happening. But you're right,
it really comes down to the shareholders at the end
of the day.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
I believe that we will see small increases here and there,
but I can promise you this much, to even Mark
Ronner's sagrin, not a single ticket will go unsold, not
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a single T shirt that is limited edition will stay
on the stand. Every single drumstick and lemonade pop and
all that with turkey legs will go I can promise
you this. The churros will be on fire. Yes, Disney
Plus subscribers are going to go up incrementally across next
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year because they are just beating us over their head
with new content. Disney will not lose, so yes, they
will pay this money out. And those of us who
have bought in lockstock and barrel to the brand, we're
gonna keep on supporting it because they turn out good ish.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And they're gonna fire people. Lots of people fired, Oh,
lots of people.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
I'm telling you that entire division that they moved out
the Florida that never really came to pass us like, hey,
all of you, we are sorry, you're all fired. We
never even erected the building, even though we squashed our
beef with Ron.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Uh yeah, Destantas. That's it. We're done.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
All you are fired. Hey, uh who who runs that
shop over there?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
What is that? What is that? Uh? Fried Pickles fire?
Everyphone in the Fried Pickles Stand's going to go.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Drones, drones and more drones.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
There have been more drone sidings, not just in New Jersey,
but all around the country. Tips have been pouring in
regarding more than five thousand drone sidings. The government is
telling us there's no need to be concerned. There's no
threat that has been assessed. Quote.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is from a written statement. Quote.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The sidings to date included a combination of lawful commercial drones,
hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as man
fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and stars mistakenly reported as drones.
We have not identified a national security or public safety
risk close quote. And there are those who don't believe
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our government, including members of our government. Senator Rick Scott
says the government is not being truthful, and he is
a member of the Senate Homeland Security, Budget and Armed
Services Committee. He told Fox Business Networks Mornings with Maria.
I said Maria Bartiromo that the US public doesn't trust
the Pentagon, Homeland Security, or the FBI to provide accurate information. Well,
(01:40):
I don't know if that exactly is helpful, but let
me break this down for a second. It's fine to
always disbelieve the evil government about everything. It's fine, but
it comes at a cost. You do know that, and
I understand the government doesn't always tell us the truth
of the complete truth. But here's something else that you
should not forget. If there is something which is concerning
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or a possible threat, I actually don't want the government
to tell me one is classified information.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It may be a part of a larger investigation. And
I'm just going to go off of my personal experience
just interviewing retired members of the FBI Anomberthom when I
had the mo Kelly Show, they came on. I'm not
going to give their names, but I can say what
they told me, and they told me not a day
goes by in which there is not a credible threat
against a politician or public figure, someone very important, a
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heart's target, a soft target here in the United States,
And they don't divulge that to the public. Why Because
they are investigating and making sure that they're not tipping
off the person who is either an active threat or
is become an operational threat, and they're going to go
get that person. That's why you usually hear after the
fact so and so was arrested for trying to buy
(02:58):
uranium or trying to solicit help for the assassination of
the president of the United States. We don't hear about
that until after it's over. And I'm okay with that.
I know that there are certain things that the government
doesn't want me to know and buy me I mean
you as well, because we would tell everybody, including the
person who's planning to harm us. And yes, we are
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in the Christmas holidays. The threat risk is higher during
the holidays. That's not a secret to anyone. And yes,
it's very very normal to want to know whether these
drones are like a dry run for something, or that
possibly some other sinister plan or plot against the United States.
(03:42):
I get that that is all normal and that is reasonable.
But also we know that let's just put it on
a local level. We often see that there may be
unfortunately a mass shooting or some sort of incident, and
then we'll get a press conference.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We want all the answers up front.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We want to know what kind of gun was use,
how many assailants, all of this, and all of that,
and we're always reminded, hey, we don't want to impugne
the credibility of this investigation. We don't want to compromise
it in any way. We don't need to know everything
all the time. And let's not forget it's not like
we were told the whole truth or nothing about the
(04:19):
truth about COVID as it was happening. Okay, I understand
why you may not believe the government at all times,
but I also know that there is value in not
telling everyone everything. Do you think we would really be
able to pull off D Day in today's world with
social media? Do you really think if we ask, hey,
(04:40):
when are we going to mount this offensive and maybe
a turn the tide in the war, Well, it's coming
up in June. That much we can tell you because
we want to be transparent and let you know we're
doing ever we can to win World War two? Do
you actually think that that would have been successful if
we require the government to tell us everything? And I
know the government does lie to us about some things.
(05:03):
I get that, but it can't be the default response.
That's the point I want to make. It can't be
well the government said, ay, it must be BC and
D because I have concocted this conspiracy theory in my head,
or the president elect doesn't believe what the government tell us.
And let's not forget the president elect is getting security briefs.
(05:25):
The president elect knows certain things that you and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So if the president elect says, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The government is not telling us everything, that is probably true,
but it doesn't mean it's unwarranted. Because there are investigations,
there are plots right now to harm America, probably far
beyond our comprehension, and honestly, I don't need to know
all of those things, especially if it's going to somehow
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compromise what the FBI and other federal agencies are doing
to thwart them.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We live in a world where we have this instant information.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
We expect to learn everything right now immediately, when most
times we don't need to know any of it. We
don't have a right to know everything that's going on.
And if you don't trust the government, well I got
news for you. Just because you have the new president.
That doesn't change the government overnight. But I know for
some for partisans out there, all of a sudden, the
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government will be trustworthy come January twenty first, So twenty
twenty five, it's strange how that happens. It's really strange.
But that's another conversation for another day. But all these
drones out there, something must be going on. George Norry
must have something to do with it. He probably knows
what's going on, because we are all too quick to
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want to disbelieve any reasonable explanation and instead believe what
we already In other words, we want to confirm our
biases about the government. Aha, the government did not tell
us everything about the drones, so therefore they're a lying
to us about the drones, and they're hiding something that
they don't want us to know about the drones. Well,
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all of those things might be true, but it might
be for the best of the United States citizenry because
if they are tracking a possible lead, or there was
a possible dry.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Run that the drones were doing.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Don't you know that by putting that out in the public,
you've compromised just about every investigation out there. You've probably
compromised sources, You've probably compromised tactics and methods and technologies
for us to know these things. You've probably made it
very easier for the next dry run to be more successful.
(07:45):
You don't need to know everything, just need to be
kept safe. It's later with Mo Kelly Cafi AM six
forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I didn't get
to say hello to Mark Roner tonight, my very close friend. Hello, Mo,
nice to see you. It's nice to see you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I miss you. I missed you too. I'm glad we're
together now. You want to keep going? Yeah? You complete me?
Hi stap Ben. How you doing?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hello? How are you? I'm just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And also joining us in the studio tonight is Nick
Poliochini and he brought food for me and Tuala Tualla
close the door to not let market. He's not getting
any of this pizza. What this is the worst night
of my life.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, no, I'm not kidding. I'm kidding. Nick brought us pizza.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
No I believe that you're not kidding because didn't you
smell No, I can't smell it yet.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh it's good. It's better than my pizza roast.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well that's about par for the course here, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Pizza is probably one of the greatest invention that God
ever did.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
This just in Moe's not sharing his pizza. You know,
I have a saft spot for pizza.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I look, look, you put me between a hooker and
some pizza. I'm choosing a pizza. Every time Happen six
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Speaker 5 (09:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And if you have ever ever received a medical bill
in the mail, let's just say like, for example, I
got hit by a car as a pedestrian. I told
you some time ago. I was a pedestrian. Junk driver
hit me. I was a pedestrian. I was okay, but
the ambulance still took me to the hospital thousands of
(09:32):
dollars for something that I didn't do, an ambulance I
did not ask for, and tests I did not request.
That's how expensive our healthcare industry can be. And you
may not be expecting to have a bill drop in
your lap, but it could drop in your lap at
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any time, and all of a sudden, you're looking at
some very difficult decisions you have to make. And if
you have unpaid medical bills here in La County, depending
on how much money you make, you might be able
to have those bills abolished altogether. The county has a
new medical debt relief program and it launched today. It
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comes after a report found that people living in Los
Angeles have over two point nine billion dollars in unpaid
medical bills as of twenty twenty two. That's not County
twenty twenty three, that's not County twenty twenty four. A
whole lot of life has changed in two years for
all of us. And if you didn't know, medical bills
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leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. And let's not
forget we live in a state specifically that we like
to complain about the price of rent. The cost of rent,
we didn't want to do anything about that. But all
these things are connected, Mo, What do you mean how
they're connected?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
This? If you file bankruptcy, you're on your way to
being homeless.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
If you have tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills,
you might be on your way to being homeless because
you have to make a decision. Am I going to
pay this medical bill? Or am I going to pay
the rent? That's what this is all about, in how
all these problems are connected.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Well, here's the number. One in ten people living in
La County is saddled with medical debt, and half of them,
more than half of them, fifty three percent, have been
forced to put that debt on a credit card because
they just don't make enough well. Local leaders and doctors
in the county say that's unacceptable and they want to
make a change. People should not be putting all this
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on their credit cards.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
People should not be contemplating needed to drive to Tijuana
to get the.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Care they need.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
LA County standing up to crippling medical debt, announcing plans
today to erase five hundred million dollars owed by one
hundred and fifty people can find the.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Unique partnership we're launching today with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.
Los Angeles County is going to step in and buy
much of that debt, and instead of sending a bill
to the person I love this part, we're going to
send a letter to our low income residents letting them
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know that their medical debt has been eliminated.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
A five million dollar initial investment comes from a motion
introduced by LA County Supervisors jenis Han and Holly Mitchell
approved earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The county will.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Use the money to buy the medical debt for one
cent per dollar. Erasing five hundred million dollars gets the
county a quarter of the way to their goal of
eliminating two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, twell, I bet this someone listening right now who's
probably thinking or yelling at the radio or their phone, saying,
you deadbeats.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Pay your bills first. You want a free education.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
You want them to abolish your your loans, your student loans.
Now you want them to abolish your medical debt. What
would you say to that?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Keep on living, Keep on living. I have been paying
medical debt for the last ooh eighteen nineteen twenty years.
Damn it, okay, just keep on living. Never did I
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think that my health would take such a dramatic turn
from just having type one diabetes, which I was managing
very well, to all of a sudden being on dialysis
for six years, to then having a dual transplant. And
I promise you, the medical debt just compiles.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Wait, how much how much was your transplant? And how
much did it? Insurance pay for?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Insurance paid for for the most part, insurance paid for
I think between insurance and between medi mehdi So I
had mediciclum Medicare, and that was about eighty thousand. I mean,
I'm sorry, it's not eighty percent, So eighty percent leaving
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twenty percent of the I believe in total million.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Five what at my doorstep? Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And then through winning twenty percent, you were you were
response before of more than a million dollars.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Yeah, thankfully, Thankfully, cedar Cyanide has a wonderful, wonderful staff
that works in their billing department, and they showed me
how to apply for various grants and things like that.
Cedar Cyanide is a beautiful, beautiful facility. But that's just
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one of a handful of individuals who would take that
initiative to find out how to take care of that.
Just remember Mo, every single time I sat down that
chair for dialysis, that was about a thirty thousand dollars
a bill without insurance. Think about people who just have
Medicare days account. I was going three days a week,
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three days a week covered by insurance. The number of
people I knew who were on dousards who didn't get insurance.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Why because I.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Don't need insurance, I'm healthy, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Keep on living.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Taking You're on diasis three days week and that's some
thirty thousand dollars just to sit in the damn chair.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Or wait or their insurance is insufficient to cover.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh oh, I saw lots of that's lots of that.
There are some meds that I take right now that
without insurance, and I pay for the top tier premium
insurance to help cover down the cost of some of
these pills, because there are sometimes when I look at
these thirty days supplies for like what like I don't know,
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four hundred dollars for a thirty days apply.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I'm like, just thirty days. It's sounds likeny dollars. It
sounds like you're telling me it's.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Very easy to end up being bankrupt from medical bills,
regardless of your income. Absolulutely, I lose my job for
some reason. They come in in these jobs. Oh OOA got.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
More than one. I call it what both of them
all of a sudden go away.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
I'm living in my car, trying to escape the car
dealership so they he'll come find me. I am on
the street, I really really, because that's how close we
are because of the overwhelming amount of debt that I'm
constantly paying off. And you can't escape it, man, You
cannot escape it.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
So does it then offend you if someone were to
look at this program and say these are freeloaders or
they're not honoring their responsibilities or their debts.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I mean, you can kiss my I just went and
paid some one hundred and eighty five dollars just to
have this bloodshot.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I looked at out, looked at, looked at that's not treated.
That's not treated.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
For them to look at it and say, hmm, you're
gonna have to go in for further examination. Wait what,
here's some hyge drops, go and see a specialist. The
amount of medical debt you can accumulate like that?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like that.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
This program is a lifesaver for so many people. And
there are so many people who I knew who did
not opt for a transplant because they could not afford it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Well, just in case you were curious or this might
apply to you, here is how much you need to
make or not need to make to qualify.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
How do you find out if you qualify? La County
Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer says qualifying debts include past
do medical bills owed by residents who earn up to
four hundred percent of the federal poverty level. That's an
annual income of up to sixty thousand dollars for individuals
or one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars for a
family of four.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's not a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean, look what I qualify for this. No, but
I'm just one medical emergency away from being bankrupt, and
just about everyone listening is too.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And let's talk a little bit about Christmas. What might
be the best city for Christmas? Of course it's subjective,
but we all have thoughts, we all have ideas about
which city is probably the best place to celebrate Christmas
in the United States. Well, wallet Hub, in their attempt
to identify the most festive and affordable cities for Christmas celebrations,
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compare the one hundred biggest cities in the US based
on twenty eight key indicators such as traditions, shopping, and costs. So,
if you want to make this Christmas a memorable one
without breaking the bank, here is their list of the
most Christmas friendly cities in the US. We'll start at
number ten and work our way up. Any predictions before
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we go.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Mark gotta be someplace with snow, all right, don't you ever.
We talk about this at home a lot. I miss
seasons sometime. I wish I had moved to La even
sooner than I did. I like it here, but I
do sometimes miss seasons because here the seasons consists of
short season and pants season.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Look, you haven't noticed the leaves turning brown and falling
gracefully to the ground.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
We've had a little bit of a fall this year. Yeah,
I've had to clean up some leaves.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, you're not gonna get snow necessarily, but you get,
you know, somewhat of.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
A seasons up in one of the mounds. Right now,
we're expecting a little snow. Okay, de clearing you hostile witness.
Do you, or do you not sometimes wish that you
had a white Christmas?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No? Absolutely not, I've had one. No. Are you taking
that in a different sense than in which I no,
I mean, I don't want a Christmas with snow.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If you've ever lived in a snow climate, dealing with
the snow, especially after it's fallen and it turns to
slush and black ice and you're slipping and busting your
ass and everything, or you have to shovel out your car.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And the rock salt. No, oh please. When I was
growing up, he is filthy. You come listen to yourself.
I grew up having to shovel such a comically long
driveway that Sissyphus, who spent eternity was pushing the rock
up and down the hill. He would have looked at
that and been like, no, no way, not doing it.
You asked the question. I'm just answering the question. No,
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I'm not in need of a white Christmas. Christmas with
eighty five degrees in the sun out is just fine
for me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You hate America, I assure do. Go right ahead, We're going.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
To go to this list now of the top ten
best cities for Christmas in the United States, coming in
at number ten.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
New York, New York. Number one, Wow. No. Number nine Chicago, Illinois.
Remember it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's most festive and affordable cities for Christmas celebrations, according
to wallet Hub.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Number eight My kind of Christmas, Miami, Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Put me on Ocean Boulevard by the Tides Hotel the Marlin. Yes, sir,
good times, good women, Well I can't say that now.
Good times, good food. Number seven Saint Louis, Missouri. Now
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I think pass No, I don't think of Saint Louis's.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
They did they give any rationale for any of these? Well,
I can understand it would take us hours.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But you know they give these key indicators as far
as traditions, shopping, and costs.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
But you know they have like traditions and fun.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Rank h Saint Louis Rank's twentieth observance rank, number five,
generosity rank forty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's too much information, just way too much. Number six.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
San Francisco. I guess, yeah, yeah, okay, it's festive. I mean, look,
there's a lot of homelessess and it was not affordable.
But hey, Number five Orlando, Florida. Yeah, there's no reason.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, I guess you have Disney World maybe if you're
going to make a trip out of it or something.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
But other than that, I don't know why I would
go to Orlando. Number four.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I see this, Las Vegas. Yeah, I would do
Christmas in the desert. Yeah, absolute, And it can'tnow there, yes,
it can, yes, it can. Mark here comes number three,
just for you.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Let's have it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Seattle, Washington. Any thoughts it's nice in Seattle around the holidays.
It never gets too miserably cold, like if you've ever
had I think you have been in Chicago in the winter. Yes,
it's like that Chicago that is unsustainable for human life.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well I'm going to Chicago next month. So thank you
very much. It's been great knowing you. Number two of
the best cities for Christmas in all the United States
as compared for twenty eight key indicators such as traditions, shopping,
and cost. Number two. Oh h Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ain't nobody
(24:03):
want to go to Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh especially for anything, not
even a Steelers.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Is really really nice.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
And I will tell you this, especially Erie, that the
fact that there's no sales tax. People would come from
all over to come into Erie to go shopping for
the holidays. And plus it was snowing. Yeah, area was nice.
The lake was frozen.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah. Man, but Aria's not Pittsburgh. I know, it's the
same state. It's just it's a.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Short drive, a beautiful drive too. And Pittsburgh, Yeah, it's
really nice.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Pittsburg where the Dawn of the Dead movie got filmed
in that Monroeville mall.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I would spend a Christmas there.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Christmas, you are a walking encyclopedia of cinematic knowledge.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Everybody knows about that. That's not just me.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Coming in at number one of the best city for
Christmas in the United States, Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
What get there again? Fast though cold? The snow and
it can snow there.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I have no desire to go to Atlanta, Georgia, and
I've been Atlanta, Georgia many times. Shout out to Magic City.
I'm not going to Atlanta, Georgia for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
It can be really really nice. Wait where, but damn
all that? Where's California?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
La came in at number seventeen, Washington, d C At
number nineteen, Sad Eagles at sixteen. Okay, Yeah, California didn't
fare to well because probably the cost. Sacramentos at number
thirty two. How can you beat the weather on Christmas?
Long Beach comes in at forty seven. It's weird. La
(25:54):
is at seventeen. Long Beach is at forty seven. When
you're I don't know, maybe ten miles if you close
it through the water. That's very anti Christmas.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Irvine number fifty one, Anaheim fifty three, San Jose fifty four,
Bakersfield fifty six, Oaktown comes in at sixty, Santa Clara
at sixty three, and Fresno came in at number seventy five.
(26:27):
And there's Fremont at eighty nine, Stockton at ninety four,
Chula Vista at ninety five, and San Bernissippi and ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Wow. Yeah, I would have thought the West Coast with
a fair and feather man. You can't beat our weather.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So if you're in San Bernissippi, you drive about thirty miles,
you be at number seventeen Los Angeles. So you can
have a good Christmas. Just have to leave San Bernissippi.
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Speaker 5 (26:59):
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Speaker 1 (27:04):
And the Walt Disney Company has agreed to settle what
has been termed as a wage theft lawsuit for two
hundred and thirty three million dollars a quarter of a
billion dollars almost and this ends a five year dispute
over pay for tens of thousands of Anaheim Theme park employees.
(27:24):
According to a December six court filing, one hundred and
eighty million will go to plaintiffs in terms of back
pay and retirement contributions. Another seventeen point five million in
penalties will be paid to the California Labor and Workforce
Development Agency, and thirty five million will go toward attorney fees. Damn,
(27:47):
the attorneys made off with thirty five million dollars. It's
good work if you can get it, and the remainder
goes to administration of the settlement. You may not remember,
but the lawsuit arose after Disney claimed it was exempt
from Measure L You remember that that was that twenty
eighteen voter approved living Wage initiative, and that ordinance required
(28:12):
any businesses in the city Resort District that received city
tax subsidies to pay workers at least fifteen dollars an hour.
And I was supposed to begin on January first, twenty nineteen,
with hourly wages rising one dollar annually through twenty twenty two.
Disney said no, we're not going to do it, and
now they're one to have to pay all that money back.
(28:35):
Under the terms of the settlement, the wage floor for
Disney workers will rise to at least twenty dollars and
fifty cents hourly beginning in January of twenty twenty five,
and it said that the cast members at the resort
earn at least the measure L requirement of nineteen ninety hourly,
with ninety five percent of them making more. Back in
(28:58):
October twenty twenty three, the company said it moved all
cast members who quote were not at or above the
measure L rate close quote to nineteen dollars and forty
cents per hour. And this pasture like, Disney agreed with
unions to raise the pay up more than thirteen thousand
cast members who work in attractions, custodial and merchandise to
(29:20):
a minimum hourly rate of twenty four dollars. We had
talked about that. I look at this and I say, well,
price is getting ready to go up at Disneyland. I mean,
that's the only way. Look, if someone has to cut
a check or checks equaling two hundred and thirty three
million dollars, either you let people go or you have
(29:42):
to charge more of customers this or it could be
a combination of both. But that's about the only way
you get around this.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I'm saying combination of both.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
Fewer parades fewer, Yes, fireworks shows, things like that, you know,
those off hours, they may close early. Get start seeing
a lot of that. On top of man, these drumstick
used to cost like eighteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, the food is out.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's good, but it's outlandishly priced, outlandishly priced. And yeah,
when you say fewer parades, when I went, I think
they only have like two parades a day.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
What do they have like four or five? Now they're
supposed to Okay, okay, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Now it's like, well, the parade in the morning, you
see the one at night, yes, okay, And they are elaborate.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
They require hundreds of performers. And if you could cut
the parades in half and arguably the amount of time
that they're needed to perform or act as characters, as
talent in the park, Yeah, that that's probably going to
be one of the cost cutting measures because the two
hundred and thirty three million has to come from somewhere. Yeah,
(30:51):
they can amortize that debt and pay it off a
little as they go, you know, to get that money back.
But that two hundred and thirty three million dollars outlay
is going to mean higher prices and fewer jobs.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
There's just nowhere around it. Can I add some context?
Sure you might find this helpful. This is from CNBC.
Disney's theme park division posted record revenue and profit for
fiscal twenty twenty four, with revenue rising five percent for
the full year to thirty four point one five billion billion.
I don't think they're digging in the couch for spaitane.
(31:22):
You know, I didn't say that. I'm saying they are
going to keep let me put it in another way.
They are going to keep their revenue projections on target.
They are going to keep their shareholders happy. And the
only way that you can do that is to not
give up.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
So much money at once. That's the only way I
can describe it. I'm not saying it is fair, but
I guarantee you it's a fact. They're not going to
sacrifice their revenue projections and shareholder dividends with meeting. Their
stock price is going to drop because they can't meet
their projections.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
They're not Can I jump in a little bit early here,
because I know you don't want to hear from me
until nine o'clock. And that's Nick pobly Okinny showing the
program mister Disney here. But yes, the thing that's wild
is we're coming up on the seventieth anniversary of the
Disneyland Resort, or of Disneyland Park coming up in twenty
twenty five, so which is interesting because you guys are
talking about the different parades and everything. So the Paint
(32:17):
the Night will be returning in twenty twenty five, which
is a really sought after parade. The Magic Happens as
a parade that will be actually going away in twenty
twenty five, so that is one parade that'll be going away.
So there's a lot of things that have been there
that will be disappearing. So even with all these numbers changing,
it'll be really interesting to see what in a celebration year,
a huge celebration year, because you have to think we've
(32:39):
already done one hundred years of Disney and now we're
coming up on the seventieth anniversary of the original theme park.
So all of these numbers that are being thrown around
and shareholders and everything else, but you've got the focus
coming right back here to southern California for twenty twenty
five and seeing exactly what's going to be put out
there with all the money that's going around and everything
(32:59):
else to that effect. And you know that, you know,
people like Amy King and myself will be bringing you
all sorts of information of what's happening. But it's just
wild to think that these are the numbers that we're
looking at. I say, the shareholder dividends and stock price
trump everything. Oh no, I agree with you, I mean,
And that's the sad part, unfortunately, especially because when you
(33:20):
go I mean, I literally was at Disneyland on Monday,
and uh, let's today Tuesday, so yesterday you get told
that you're you're not wrong, and but that's it. It's
wild to think that and just being able to walk
around there and see the magic in happening. But you're right,
it really comes down to the shareholders at the end
of the day.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
I believe that we will see small increases here and there,
but I can promise you this much, to even Mark
Ronner's sagrin, not a single ticket will go unsold, not
(34:00):
a single T shirt that is limited edition will stay
on the stand. Every single drumstick and lemonade pop and
all that with turkey legs will go I can promise
you this. The churros will be on fire. Yes, Disney
Plus subscribers are going to go up incrementally across next
(34:23):
year because they are just beating us over their head
with new content. Disney will not lose, so yes, they
will pay this money out. And those of us who
have bought in lockstock and barrel to the brand, we're
gonna keep on supporting it because they turn out good ish.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And they're gonna fire people. Lots of people fired, Oh,
lots of people.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
I'm telling you that entire division that they moved out
the Florida that never really came to pass us like, hey,
all of you, we are sorry, you're all fired. We
never even erected the building, even though we squashed our
beef with Ron.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Uh yeah, Destantas. That's it. We're done.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
All you are fired. Hey, uh who who runs that
shop over there?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
What is that? What is that? Uh? Fried Pickles fire?
Everyphone in the Fried Pickles Stand's going to go.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
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