November 22, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Los Angeles City Controller’s finding that “nearly half of L.A.’s record homelessness budget went unspent” AND the latest on the LA City Council workers wage increase with KFI Reporter Michael Monks’…PLUS – ‘Advance Auto Parts’ is closing ALL of its California stores - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
KFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You
know that it's really bad out there on the freeway,
so just slow down or you have no choice of
the matter because the traffic is so heavy. If you're
listening to Tim Conway Junior earlier, you know it's really
bad out there. Just sit back, relax. I wouldn't say
(00:43):
have a drink, especially if you're driving, but enjoy the
next three hours of Later with Mokelly. We have a
great show for you. Michael Bunks is going to join
us and talk about the latest with the La City
Council and how they are working or maybe they've paused
and trying to give a pay raise to hospitality workers.
And did you hear Advance Auto Parts is closing all
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of its stores, like all, all, all, all. We'll get
into that and so much more. And let me just
say last night, yesterday was to Walla Sharp's birthday. He
gave us a birthday gift, oddly enough with his fantastic gumbo.
And I'm not even a big seafood fan, so for
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me to tell you that it was on hit, it
was the bomb, it was on fleek. I don't know
what the kids say today, something like that, something like that.
I just know that I'm telling you the truth. I
mean that sincerely. I like all those. I don't know
what the kids say exactly, but all those sound appropriate.
I know they had crab in it. I know it
had some sort of sausage in it. Yes, I know
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it had all sorts of special spices and seasonings that
you probably won't tell us. But you did say you
cooked it differently this year as opposed to previous Yes,
this year, I actually was able to take a little
more time in the prep and the cooking, Like this
was a this was a three hour pot of gumbo.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And yeah, and I put a lot into it, and
I doubled up on the ingredients from last year to
this year. So I think this year's mix, this is
the right blend. This is what really really hit. How
often do you cook?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Usually?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I cook every weekend, Like Sundays is a day that
I cook. So I'm always like cooking something, either you know,
for the kids or for a meal prepping for the week.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I like cooking. I wish I could bake. Baking
is such an existing right, the baking contest.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I know I do, and that that's literally just for
bragging rights and because I love the competition, I love
the thrill of your Chateau le Mo bake off. It
just the ish talking, all of that is just it
hypes me up. But man like, like there's such an
exact science to baking, wherein when you're cooking, it's about
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you know, cooking to taste and flavoring and making it right.
Baking you don't get it right. You don't get those
ingredients right. When it comes out the oven, it's gonna
look like trash or it tastes like trash.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Would your kids say that you or your ex wife,
your co parent is a better cook?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Ooh, I don't know. We have entirely different styles of cooking.
I'm gonna have to ask them. I don't ever really
ask them about, like, you know what their you know,
what their flavor palette is. I'm cooking and they're coming
in and they're like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
and it's gone, it disappears. So yeah, I'm about to
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ask them who is the better cook? Quietly though, like shit,
I'm low.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, all right, Well we could ask them on
the loud and have them on the show and no
pressure towilet, and let me say good evening to Mark Ronner,
who also participated in the gumbo festivities. Yeah, I concur
with you. It was glory. It was really good. And
while I have you on the line right now, we
know that there is a lot of headed our way. Oh, yes,
(04:13):
thank you for that. Yeah. Do they know how many
inches are coming this way? Careful? How you asked me
that we're off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
There's a good chance at rain tomorrow night, and a
near certainty of its Saturday, and the chance of it
lasts all the way in the mid next week.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I guess I'm not going to get my car
washed tomorrow, as I usually do on a Friday. What
would be the point it would? It would serve no
purpose except wasting money.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I can tell you, having lived in Seattle for a
good long time before I moved to La I never
washed my car once.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let me ask you Wallow this now you were in eerie,
and I know, with the snow and the rock salt,
did you even try to wash your car? Never?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Not once? Never, not once? Because it was a waste.
I went one time down there, and it was like
kind of clean up because the rock salt, the trucks
came through West Coast, people that don't know nothing about rocks,
and they and my neighbors like, don't even bother. They said,
you live here long enough, your whole pink job will fade.
All of that will go and it'll be on one side.
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Just don't even bother. Washington car like that rock salt
destroys cars.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, it does. Yeah does. I don't. I don't understand
why they haven't invented something better to deal with the
snow than rock salt.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's just this too much snow. The snowplows can only
do so much. They pile it up on the side
of the road, which makes it just that much harder
to traverse the highways and byways. And so yeah, they
come around with that rock salt and it's just.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like it's amazing to watch. It's effective. Watch, it's very effective.
I know why they use it. I just know that
it's horrible on cars and the property.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Everything is true, the gravel, the streets out there, it's
like you're you're that's what use acid? Yeah, yeah, because
all the streets are always jacked up and the weather
was always grey, always gray, always on the precipice of rain,
So it's.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Like, why am I going to WALKR was, Well, we might
as we just go to Seattle, you know, and you
don't have to at least deal with the snow there. Yeah.
I see. That's part of the reason for many people
who want to complain about how bad it is in
California or how expensive it is. We are paying for
only having to deal with rain. And we're only having
to deal with rain, I don't know, a few weeks
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out of the year if we're not in a drought. Yeah,
you were in Chicago not long ago. Those winters are hellish.
I was in Chicago in February of this year, and
I was in DC just last weekend, and their summers
are hellish. Their summer's are really big. Talk about humidity. Oh,
it's really bad in DC and Chicago for that matter.
(06:46):
Those are the extremes of weather that I'm glad that
I don't have to deal with here in California. And
if it means I have to pay a little bit
more with gas, that's okay. If it means I have
to pay a little bit more as far as property taxes,
that's okay. That's a heart of the high cost of
living that I'm opting in to pay.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh yeah, all the trade offs are acceptable to me,
except private equity buying up all the residential houses and
jacking up the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But that's not a function of the weather or anything
like that. No, No, that's everywhere. But I look, it's
not perfect. I know LA and California have a lot
of warts, but they're my warts, okay, and I got
enough campho fonique to deal with the warts frozen nitrogen. Right,
at least it's not genital, you say, I think, Wow,
(07:36):
So I'm told. I think they're just caf I AM
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Speaker 4 (07:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Then I wonder, is this a glass half full or
glass half empty? Information? If I told you, and it
is true, but if I told you that nearly half
of LA's homelessness budget went unspent, would you say that's good?
(08:10):
Would you say that's bad? Depends on how you present it.
You can say it's good because hey, we're not needlessly
throwing money at a problem and also not seeing results.
We've talked about this the eyeball test. You can walk
outside in La County and realize that we're not getting
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any closer to a solution regarding homelessness. Or you can
take it and turn it and put it on its head,
turn it upside down and say, wait a minute, then
why are we asking for so much money be included
in the budget if there is a level of an
efficiency or I would say a lack of control or
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a lack of preparation or lack of planning to effectively
use the money. It's like if you've ever had kids
and the companies say, dad can have some money. How
much you need? I need five hundred dollars. What do
you need five hundred dollars for? And they will give
you this explanation. They'll give you some sort of reason, excuse, well,
I need to buy this, I need to buy that,
and then you give them five hundred dollars and then
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you check back a little later. If you're a parent,
or you've been a parent, you've had a similar situation.
And he realized they have another two hundred and fifty
three hundred dollars laying around, and he said, wait a minute,
you told me you needed five hundred dollars. Then it
was like an emergency. You needed it right then, and
you didn't spend it for what you said you were
going to spend it on. Again. Do you look at
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your child and say, look, okay, you're trying to get
over on me, or you're saying I'm glad that you
use some restraint and didn't spend it willy nilly. Well,
the question here is wasn't as urgent as we thought
it was or something else. I would like to think
that it was urgent, like we need the money. We've
been throwing money at it for quite some time. We
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need some money, like right now, why we need to
address homelessness right now? How much you need? We need
a lot? Okay, we give you a lot. And then
a year later we said to see that they didn't
need a lot or they didn't use a lot. Let
me give you some numbers. It was a record of
one point three billion dollars set aside for homelessness for
the fiscal twenty twenty three twenty four year that was unspent.
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Only five hundred and ninety nine million had actually been spent,
So you only spent five ninety nine out of one
point three billion I honestly don't know what I should
think about that, because in a budget you are saying
I need this, uh, I will say one point nine
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billion altogether for a through Z. We need this for this,
we need that for that, we need that for that,
and this for this one point nine billion. I'm thinking
that you needed now, I'm thinking that you're going to
use it now. I'm thinking that this is what needs
to happen to show improvement and progress in dealing with homelessness.
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But you only got through, oh a little bit less
than half what is going on there? Controller Kenneth Mihia
found that only five hundred and ninety nine million had
actually been spent. An additional one hundred and ninety five
million was encumbered, leaving at least five hundred and thirteen
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million unspent now. According to Controller Kenneth Mihia, he blamed
a quote unquote sluggish, inefficient approach close quote for the underspending,
listing lack of staff, lack of resources, programs spread over
multiple city departments and council offices, obsolete technology, and absence
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of real time data as contributing factors. So it sounds
like they asked for the money but they weren't ready
for the money. They weren't They didn't have the guardrails
in place, they didn't have all of the programs in place.
They didn't have everything in place to be ready for
the money that they asked for. And also, according to Mihir,
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the city spent or encumbered only about thirty percent of
its two hundred and sixty two million dollars in grants
from the state Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention program and
fifty eight percent of its two hundred and sixty seven
million dollar budget for basses inside safe Encampment Reduction program.
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Let me just get outside of the numbers and just
look at this big picture. It seems to me it
is not a money problem. It seems to be an
organizational problem or a lack of organization problem. Because you
had the money available to do what you said you
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wanted to do as per your budget proposal, so you
put in the budget, You got the money for your
proposed budget, and then you're supposed to implement the budget
and then show results going into your next fiscal year,
as in twenty twenty five, when you ask for another
one point nine billion dollars, because that's going to be
the first question I would ask. You asked for one
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point nine billion, you didn't use half of that, so
how are we supposed to account for the remaining money?
Are you expecting not to just roll over to twenty
twenty five or you're going to ask for another one
point five billion, which goes back to the rant I
had last night. I'm not sure we're serious about homelessness.
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I'm really not sure. It seems like voters were not
serious about addressing homelessness, and it seems our local government,
possibly well intentioned, does not either have the infrastruct sure,
the plan, or the organization to utilize the funds which
have been allocated and appropriated to address homelessness. So I
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don't see if there's any real solution on the immediate horizon.
It's not a money issue, because there's more than a
uugh enough money which has been set aside to do
whatever Mayor Bass wants to do. And mind you, this
is only the city of La I'm not even talking
about the County of Los Angeles. Los Angeles City is
only a portion of the homelessness problem that you and
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I see. I live in unincorporated Los Angeles, means not
La City, but the County of La even though my
address says LA. I know it's complicated, But when I
call the police a nine one one, I get LA
County Sheriff's Department, not LA Police Department. So my services
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are governed by LA County. This doesn't even apply to me.
We're only talking about just a sliver of Los Angeles,
La City, not the county. And if the city we
know is a geographically smaller than the county and the
city can't get its act together, and I'm not going
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to say by definition that means the county can't get
its act together. But you can't expect the homelessness issue
in La County to get any better if the homelessness
in La City is not getting any better. Why why,
someone asked me why? Because homelessness doesn't stop at the
border of LA City. It actually is kind of free
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moving like that. That's what it means to be homeless.
You kind of go wherever you want you sleep, wherever
you want to sleep. And I couldn't tell you where
exactly that line for the city is dividing where the
city begins in LA County begins. But I know that
homeless people don't really care one way or the other.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
We're not serious. We have set aside the money and
we can't, for some reason spend it. You've given the
children some one point three billion dollars and the children
and they said, the children said they need it, We
need it right now.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's the only way that we'll be able to handle
this problem. Do you give us all the money that
we need? Okay, we give you all the money that
you need. And if you ever to all, I'm going
to ask you this. Havev you kids ever asked you
for money because they said they needed it right then
and like to buy a book for class, or they're
supposed to buy this for school, or they need to
buy this computer because they're saying it has to be
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done now right. It's like it's an immediate thing that
just you got to do it right now. It's an emergency.
It's an emergency, and you give them the money and
then you come back a few weeks later and you say,
where where's the where's the computer you said that you
needed to buy? I thought you needed this, you know,
I thought you needed to buy this particular book because
you needed it for class and it was an ancillary text.
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You couldn't do the project without the book. Has that
ever happened to you?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yes, yes it has. And you know what happens when
I come back later and I say, what happened to
this need? It's always oh, oh, well no, because I thought,
and then when I was told, and then so when
I got it, But then it turns out we don't
need it till like the eleventh whole day of never Weary, and.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
What had happened was, yes, I'm like, where's the money?
Oh yeah, See that's what it feels like to me,
because you asked for all this money, and not only
are we not getting the result that we asked for,
we can't get any clarity on why you can't even
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use the money that you asked for and you said
it was an emergency.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Six, Let's talk a little bit of heartbreak hotel. If
you didn't know, there has been a fight of foot.
We talked about it earlier this week about how the
La City Council was trying to propose a wage increase
for a hotel and hospitality workers. Well, that vote was
postponed yesterday and because hotel owners came forward. They threatened
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to pull out of a deal to provide tens of
thousands of rooms during the twenty twenty eight Olympics if
this pay increase was approved, saying it would decimate their
bottom line. And joining us right now to give us
a little more context and maybe just some more insight,
is Cafe's own Michael Monks, who's been on this. Michael,
how are you doing this evening? I'm doing well.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
How about you? I'm doing fine. I guess I'm not
gonna be able to get a hotel room for the
twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Well, that's to be determined. They've not shot this thing
down yet. But it didn't look good this week. Because
usually you see workers asking for something, they come down
to city Hall, they chance see sapwide a few times,
and the city council says okay, sure, and they vote
for it. But something different happened, and this city council
stood up and asked a lot of questions about the
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potential economic impact locally beyond the hotels, beyond the airport concessionaires,
and also about those businesses themselves. Would they be able
to survive this type of increase because this is a
minimum wage request that would mandate some workers at airports,
some workers at hotels be paid a minimum of twenty
five dollars an hour starting next year, and then it
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would go up incrementally until the Olympics in twenty twenty eight,
when it reaches thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
If the past is prolog and the workers do not
get what they're asking for or some approximation of it,
that the past is prologued, that says to me, they
will threaten and maybe go with that threat to go
on strike ahead of let's say the World Cup or
depending on the timing of the Olympics. Has there been
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any type of discussion of that.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well, this is a union town and for some of
these workers may not necessarily be represented by a union.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Some are.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
We heard a lot from smaller hotel operators whose workers
are more than likely not represented by one of the
more vocal service workers unions here in the area. And
basically what they said, if you force us to pay
these employees that much, we won't be operating. So, whether
it's a situation where there aren't workers available or a
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situation where there aren't hotels available, there's a storm brewing
ahead of the Olympics. And this isn't the only problem
the city in the region are facing ahead of the Olympics.
They've got transportation issues to consider, They've got infrastructure issues
to consider, and as of now, this city is very
well behind the eight ball when it comes to being
prepared for the twenty twenty eight Games.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't know. We'll put it this way. I don't
expect you to know the answer to this question because
it hasn't been made plain to me. We have to
distinguish between smaller hotel operators and franchise and larger hotels.
We don't know the exact workers involved unless you have
some information. I don't, and I was asking the question.
I don't know if this includes the bartenders. I don't
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know if it includes the hotel housekeeper. I don't know
if it includes the valet. Do we know specifically what
hotel workers or class of employees we're dealing with. We do,
and it is most of them.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
And what the regulation would relate to is basically, if
you're a hotel operator, the number of rooms that you operate,
and that is like several dozens. So if you're a
bed and breakfast operator. This isn't going to apply to you.
If you own one small hotel in Hollywood, this isn't
going to apply to you. But if you own three
or four small hotels, it starts to add up and
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then it does apply to you. And it also applies
to those vendors that you see at LAX depending on
the number of employees that they have. And so one
of the main questions that came up at city Hall,
and it's directly related to this nober of employees, is look,
the tourism industry in this region has not fully recovered
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from the pandemic. What does it look like compared to
the numbers in twenty nineteen, and we're just not back
there yet. And so the questions that were raised by
city council members were directly related to how can we
expect these businesses to be able to cover these costs
when their revenues are still down. The tourism is creeping
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back up, it is recovering, but it has not fully recovered.
One proposal that was made by city Councilman John Lee,
who represents part of the valley, he says, look, yeah,
I'm in favor of this, but let's put a clause
in there. We will make this go into effect six
months after it is verified by economic data that we
have gone back to the numbers that we saw in
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twenty nineteen. So several amendments were made to try to
either delay this or put some caveats on it, and
ultimately the council decided to table it and they'll bring
it back to the floor on December eleventh.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I asked you earlier in this conversation what might hotel
and hospitality workers do if they don't get their way?
And we all know that probably looks like a strike.
But when I opened this conversation, I said that hotel
owners may pull out of a deal to provide tens
of thousands of rooms during the twenty twenty eight Olympics
if this pay increase was approved. What does that mean?
(23:27):
As far as you can glean, how can the hotel
workers pull out? Are they not going to provide rooms
for the Olympics. It seems like they would be shooting
themselves in their own foot. Yeah, it's it's still.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Several years off, so they can get this worked out.
But I mean, when you have an event like the Olympics,
which is going to bring a huge crowd from all
around the world. You're going to want to cash in
on that. And really that's what the workers are saying.
They're like, look, this is a big deal. There's going
to be a lot of business here, both at the
airport and in hospitality. We should get our share of
that because we're going to be working our things to
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the bone. But it's also a temporary event. There's certainly
a big build up to it that will bring some
traffic in. There'll be a little bit after that perhaps,
and maybe the economy, the tourism economy is fully recovered
by twenty twenty eight and they're as busy as they
used to be. But what does that mean long term
when the Olympics go away. Is it the same level
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of business, Is it the same amount of revenue, or
are these hotel operators going to be struggling and the
workers will lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Anyway, Well, we have a few years before we have
to deal with all these issues, but some of them
we're going to have to deal with them before we
get to twenty twenty eight. Those years are going to
go by fast.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
With the significant investments that the city needs to be
making and We're going to be keeping an eye on it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Michael Monks, thank you so much for broadcasting tonight from downtown. iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Always a pleasure from the Fashion District headquarters.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's Lad with Mo Kelly. Ca if I AM six forty,
we're live. It's an inside joke. We'll tell you about
it sometime. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app and when
we come back, we'll tell you about how Advanced Auto
Parts is closing like all their stores in California, in Oregon,
in Washington, Nevada, Arizona and more.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Did you know Advance Auto Parts is closing all of
its California stores and altogether more than seven hundred stores
and distribution centers in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona.
And according to the president and Mark Runner, get a
(25:36):
load of the name of the president, Shane O'Kelly suspicious
spelled just like Morris O'Kelly. Sus we might be related.
I might have to look that up on ancestry dot
com or you know, find my Relatives dot com. Twenty three. Yeah,
we might be related Shane and Morris Well anyhow. In
(26:00):
last week's third quarter earnings call, Shane O. Kelly said
the company will focus on top performing stores and ditch
stores that are struggling. Quote. We made the decision to
close certain non performing, non strategic stores in the US
to better position our assets based for long term sustainable
growth close. Quote here is how some news outlets were
reporting it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Advanced Auto Parts joins the growing list of retailers rolling
back and How's enclosures of more than seven hundred stores,
including five hundred and twenty three corporate shops, two undred
and four independent locations, and four distribution centers.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Folks like Terrence who hasn't been in one for more
than two years.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's why I.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Have Audi, So I just go to Audi for everything
I need.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, that's a baller. That's a baller. When you say
I don't go to Advance all the parts, you go
to the dealer and you're driving an AUTI that's a
baller move. No, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Folks like Terrence, who hasn't been in one for more
than two years.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Gets why I have Audi, So I just go to
Audi for everything I need.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
The dealership, Yeah, the dealership.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
After revealing their last quarter's performance, the major change shares
dropped five percent. Now the company's CEO shares. The cuts
are part of creating value among shareholders. Now Advanced Autoparts
move to close hundreds of their stores are signs of
the times and mechanics here at United Auto Repairs have
seen those times changing and tell us that's no surprise.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hey, Mark, why do you think that Advanced Auto parts struggle?
What would you say if you were just hazardou guess
to create value for shareholders? Is that the correct answer?
That's part of it? Okay, how'd I do on it? Okay,
did very well.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I could see them being having hard times, especially with
the COVID and everything else, and people not using their
cars as much.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I don't think that's it. I don't think it's car usage.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
I could see them being having hard times, especially with
the COVID and everything else, and people not using their
cars as much, and then upbreaking not as much. And
like I said, a lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
The father's son mechanic duo shares those new cars comes
with lengthy warranties.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Have you noticed that there haven't been any reports of
O'Reilly auto parts closing in storms?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You know, it sounded like James Gandelfini. You just played
there can you can you play that again?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Well, it's from New York. Sell you there's probably some
cross over there and.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Then upbreaking not as much. And like I said, a
lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
We're gonna move down to the bottom being but before
we do that, we're gonna get some gabba gul and.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Then upbreaking not as much. And like I said, a
lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
The father son new cause new cause, what's a new qua?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
The father son mechanic duo shares those new cars comes
with lengthy warranties, cutting into business for both auto parts
stores and mechanics as customers at times bypass them both,
not to mention smart cars also reducing the need for
traditional auto parts.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
If you don't have the volume of the course breaking
down as much, you really don't need that many plates
to sell you the parts.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Break it down, break it down as much. I'm tired
of meadow parts.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
If you don't have the volume of the course breaking
down as much, you really don't need that many plates
to sell you the parts.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Because I'm not breaking down as much. That's what it
comes down to. The peace. Here's the real reason advanced
Auto Parts did not have a cool jingle. If you
had a cool jingle, you would not go out of business.
Wait a bitte. I had been playing that jingle for
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years and I didn't know that there was someone saying
ow at the end, will tang at the end. It slaps,
and it's keeping O'Reilly Auto Parts in business. I dare
you to google and find a story of O'Reilly Auto
Parts closing source. You will not find it. The reason
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the jingle as you wish you had no Kelly song
like that. Now I could have sworn I was Michael
Jackson in there. Parts it It was Michael. I wonder
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if he got any credit for it. You know how
artists will just do some stuff for free, like Eddie
van Halen did Beat It for free from Michael Jackson.
I didn't know that it's a true story. That's a
true story. Yep, free did it for free. In fact,
one of the van Halen members, it might have been
his brother, was angry at Eddie van Halen and it
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was a story recently for doing that for free and
also going on a pop slash R and B record.
I have to find the story. But I did a
tribute to Eddie van Halen when he passed, and part
of that was I had uncovered that Eddie van Halen
did that lick, that work that bridge for Michael Jackson
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for free. Yeah that's a scandal. Yeah, for all we
know that might beat Michael Jackson and he just didn't
say anything. He just didn't want anyone to know, you know.
So like, for example, Daniel Craig was in the Force
Awakens playing a stormtrooper. Yeah I didn't know that, but
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not everyone knew that, and he wasn't trying to get
credit for it. Really. Yeah, do you know when Ray
uses the Jedi mind trick on a stormtrooper you're talking
about you'll drop your weapon? And yeah, that stormtrooper is
Daniel Craig. But why just because he likes because people
wanted to be associated in a Star Wars movie. That's crazy.
There are a lot of other like hitting gems and
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Easter eggs of people who are in Star Wars movies
that they were Was it like Gary Busey if someone
in the Empire Strikes Back. I don't know if it
was Gary Busey or or John Ratzenberger or something like that.
I have to look it up. But there are a
lot of people earlier on in their careers or at
different points of their careers that are in Star Wars movies.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Boy, John Ratzenberger would be a really irritating sith lord.
Don't you think he would never shut up?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah? Yeah, but he was a good interview though. He
was a good one. You got that one too, huh? I? Yes,
I do, yes, I do. And see if his John
Ratzenberger was he the one who said it? Yes, he
he played Major Brian Dearlyn and the Empire Strikes Back?
Yes he did. How about that for an some trivia? Yes?
Speaker 9 (32:22):
No, yes, it is also for the the o'relly jingle.
The marketing team tapped into the pool of local talent
and reached out to John Dylon, who is a founding
member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, a rock band based
in Springfield, Missouri. Oh, yes, the birthplace of O'Reilly Auto parts.
(32:44):
I did not know that. How many hits did the
Dylans have? Pretty sure? That's it?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, kind of sounds like somebody getting caught in something
that is painful.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Parts already alrighty hooray, sound like Creden's Clearwater Revival.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Alrighty at part already.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah horay. If we could just team them up with
the pepto bismol singers, what would that sound like? Diarrhea?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Alright alrighty parts okay.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
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Speaker 4 (33:41):
If it doesn't affect you were not interested.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
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Everywhere on the radio.
KFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You
know that it's really bad out there on the freeway,
so just slow down or you have no choice of
the matter because the traffic is so heavy. If you're
listening to Tim Conway Junior earlier, you know it's really
bad out there. Just sit back, relax. I wouldn't say
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have a drink, especially if you're driving, but enjoy the
next three hours of Later with Mokelly. We have a
great show for you. Michael Bunks is going to join
us and talk about the latest with the La City
Council and how they are working or maybe they've paused
and trying to give a pay raise to hospitality workers.
And did you hear Advance Auto Parts is closing all
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of its stores, like all, all, all, all. We'll get
into that and so much more. And let me just
say last night, yesterday was to Walla Sharp's birthday. He
gave us a birthday gift, oddly enough with his fantastic gumbo.
And I'm not even a big seafood fan, so for
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me to tell you that it was on hit, it
was the bomb, it was on fleek. I don't know
what the kids say today, something like that, something like that.
I just know that I'm telling you the truth. I
mean that sincerely. I like all those. I don't know
what the kids say exactly, but all those sound appropriate.
I know they had crab in it. I know it
had some sort of sausage in it. Yes, I know
(01:50):
it had all sorts of special spices and seasonings that
you probably won't tell us. But you did say you
cooked it differently this year as opposed to previous Yes,
this year, I actually was able to take a little
more time in the prep and the cooking, Like this
was a this was a three hour pot of gumbo.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And yeah, and I put a lot into it, and
I doubled up on the ingredients from last year to
this year. So I think this year's mix, this is
the right blend. This is what really really hit. How
often do you cook?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Usually?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I cook every weekend, Like Sundays is a day that
I cook. So I'm always like cooking something, either you know,
for the kids or for a meal prepping for the week.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I like cooking. I wish I could bake. Baking
is such an existing right, the baking contest.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I know I do, and that that's literally just for
bragging rights and because I love the competition, I love
the thrill of your Chateau le Mo bake off. It
just the ish talking, all of that is just it
hypes me up. But man like, like there's such an
exact science to baking, wherein when you're cooking, it's about
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you know, cooking to taste and flavoring and making it right.
Baking you don't get it right. You don't get those
ingredients right. When it comes out the oven, it's gonna
look like trash or it tastes like trash.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Would your kids say that you or your ex wife,
your co parent is a better cook?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Ooh, I don't know. We have entirely different styles of cooking.
I'm gonna have to ask them. I don't ever really
ask them about, like, you know what their you know,
what their flavor palette is. I'm cooking and they're coming
in and they're like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
and it's gone, it disappears. So yeah, I'm about to
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ask them who is the better cook? Quietly though, like shit,
I'm low.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
All right, all right, Well we could ask them on
the loud and have them on the show and no
pressure towilet, and let me say good evening to Mark Ronner,
who also participated in the gumbo festivities. Yeah, I concur
with you. It was glory. It was really good. And
while I have you on the line right now, we
know that there is a lot of headed our way. Oh, yes,
(04:13):
thank you for that. Yeah. Do they know how many
inches are coming this way? Careful? How you asked me
that we're off.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
There's a good chance at rain tomorrow night, and a
near certainty of its Saturday, and the chance of it
lasts all the way in the mid next week.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I guess I'm not going to get my car
washed tomorrow, as I usually do on a Friday. What
would be the point it would? It would serve no
purpose except wasting money.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I can tell you, having lived in Seattle for a
good long time before I moved to La I never
washed my car once.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let me ask you Wallow this now you were in eerie,
and I know, with the snow and the rock salt,
did you even try to wash your car? Never?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Not once? Never, not once? Because it was a waste.
I went one time down there, and it was like
kind of clean up because the rock salt, the trucks
came through West Coast, people that don't know nothing about rocks,
and they and my neighbors like, don't even bother. They said,
you live here long enough, your whole pink job will fade.
All of that will go and it'll be on one side.
(05:16):
Just don't even bother. Washington car like that rock salt
destroys cars.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, it does. Yeah does. I don't. I don't understand
why they haven't invented something better to deal with the
snow than rock salt.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It's just this too much snow. The snowplows can only
do so much. They pile it up on the side
of the road, which makes it just that much harder
to traverse the highways and byways. And so yeah, they
come around with that rock salt and it's just.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like it's amazing to watch. It's effective. Watch, it's very effective.
I know why they use it. I just know that
it's horrible on cars and the property.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Everything is true, the gravel, the streets out there, it's
like you're you're that's what use acid? Yeah, yeah, because
all the streets are always jacked up and the weather
was always grey, always gray, always on the precipice of rain,
So it's.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Like, why am I going to WALKR was, Well, we might
as we just go to Seattle, you know, and you
don't have to at least deal with the snow there. Yeah.
I see. That's part of the reason for many people
who want to complain about how bad it is in
California or how expensive it is. We are paying for
only having to deal with rain. And we're only having
to deal with rain, I don't know, a few weeks
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out of the year if we're not in a drought. Yeah,
you were in Chicago not long ago. Those winters are hellish.
I was in Chicago in February of this year, and
I was in DC just last weekend, and their summers
are hellish. Their summer's are really big. Talk about humidity. Oh,
it's really bad in DC and Chicago for that matter.
(06:46):
Those are the extremes of weather that I'm glad that
I don't have to deal with here in California. And
if it means I have to pay a little bit
more with gas, that's okay. If it means I have
to pay a little bit more as far as property taxes,
that's okay. That's a heart of the high cost of
living that I'm opting in to pay.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Oh yeah, all the trade offs are acceptable to me,
except private equity buying up all the residential houses and
jacking up the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But that's not a function of the weather or anything
like that. No, No, that's everywhere. But I look, it's
not perfect. I know LA and California have a lot
of warts, but they're my warts, okay, and I got
enough campho fonique to deal with the warts frozen nitrogen. Right,
at least it's not genital, you say, I think, Wow,
(07:36):
So I'm told. I think they're just caf I AM
six forty live everywhere, the Iheartradiot.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Then I wonder, is this a glass half full or
glass half empty? Information? If I told you, and it
is true, but if I told you that nearly half
of LA's homelessness budget went unspent, would you say that's good?
(08:10):
Would you say that's bad? Depends on how you present it.
You can say it's good because hey, we're not needlessly
throwing money at a problem and also not seeing results.
We've talked about this the eyeball test. You can walk
outside in La County and realize that we're not getting
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any closer to a solution regarding homelessness. Or you can
take it and turn it and put it on its head,
turn it upside down and say, wait a minute, then
why are we asking for so much money be included
in the budget if there is a level of an
efficiency or I would say a lack of control or
(08:54):
a lack of preparation or lack of planning to effectively
use the money. It's like if you've ever had kids
and the companies say, dad can have some money. How
much you need? I need five hundred dollars. What do
you need five hundred dollars for? And they will give
you this explanation. They'll give you some sort of reason, excuse, well,
I need to buy this, I need to buy that,
and then you give them five hundred dollars and then
(09:16):
you check back a little later. If you're a parent,
or you've been a parent, you've had a similar situation.
And he realized they have another two hundred and fifty
three hundred dollars laying around, and he said, wait a minute,
you told me you needed five hundred dollars. Then it
was like an emergency. You needed it right then, and
you didn't spend it for what you said you were
going to spend it on. Again. Do you look at
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your child and say, look, okay, you're trying to get
over on me, or you're saying I'm glad that you
use some restraint and didn't spend it willy nilly. Well,
the question here is wasn't as urgent as we thought
it was or something else. I would like to think
that it was urgent, like we need the money. We've
been throwing money at it for quite some time. We
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need some money, like right now, why we need to
address homelessness right now? How much you need? We need
a lot? Okay, we give you a lot. And then
a year later we said to see that they didn't
need a lot or they didn't use a lot. Let
me give you some numbers. It was a record of
one point three billion dollars set aside for homelessness for
the fiscal twenty twenty three twenty four year that was unspent.
(10:25):
Only five hundred and ninety nine million had actually been spent,
So you only spent five ninety nine out of one
point three billion I honestly don't know what I should
think about that, because in a budget you are saying
I need this, uh, I will say one point nine
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billion altogether for a through Z. We need this for this,
we need that for that, we need that for that,
and this for this one point nine billion. I'm thinking
that you needed now, I'm thinking that you're going to
use it now. I'm thinking that this is what needs
to happen to show improvement and progress in dealing with homelessness.
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But you only got through, oh a little bit less
than half what is going on there? Controller Kenneth Mihia
found that only five hundred and ninety nine million had
actually been spent. An additional one hundred and ninety five
million was encumbered, leaving at least five hundred and thirteen
(11:32):
million unspent now. According to Controller Kenneth Mihia, he blamed
a quote unquote sluggish, inefficient approach close quote for the underspending,
listing lack of staff, lack of resources, programs spread over
multiple city departments and council offices, obsolete technology, and absence
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of real time data as contributing factors. So it sounds
like they asked for the money but they weren't ready
for the money. They weren't They didn't have the guardrails
in place, they didn't have all of the programs in place.
They didn't have everything in place to be ready for
the money that they asked for. And also, according to Mihir,
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the city spent or encumbered only about thirty percent of
its two hundred and sixty two million dollars in grants
from the state Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention program and
fifty eight percent of its two hundred and sixty seven
million dollar budget for basses inside safe Encampment Reduction program.
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Let me just get outside of the numbers and just
look at this big picture. It seems to me it
is not a money problem. It seems to be an
organizational problem or a lack of organization problem. Because you
had the money available to do what you said you
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wanted to do as per your budget proposal, so you
put in the budget, You got the money for your
proposed budget, and then you're supposed to implement the budget
and then show results going into your next fiscal year,
as in twenty twenty five, when you ask for another
one point nine billion dollars, because that's going to be
the first question I would ask. You asked for one
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point nine billion, you didn't use half of that, so
how are we supposed to account for the remaining money?
Are you expecting not to just roll over to twenty
twenty five or you're going to ask for another one
point five billion, which goes back to the rant I
had last night. I'm not sure we're serious about homelessness.
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I'm really not sure. It seems like voters were not
serious about addressing homelessness, and it seems our local government,
possibly well intentioned, does not either have the infrastruct sure,
the plan, or the organization to utilize the funds which
have been allocated and appropriated to address homelessness. So I
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don't see if there's any real solution on the immediate horizon.
It's not a money issue, because there's more than a
uugh enough money which has been set aside to do
whatever Mayor Bass wants to do. And mind you, this
is only the city of La I'm not even talking
about the County of Los Angeles. Los Angeles City is
only a portion of the homelessness problem that you and
(14:35):
I see. I live in unincorporated Los Angeles, means not
La City, but the County of La even though my
address says LA. I know it's complicated, But when I
call the police a nine one one, I get LA
County Sheriff's Department, not LA Police Department. So my services
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are governed by LA County. This doesn't even apply to me.
We're only talking about just a sliver of Los Angeles,
La City, not the county. And if the city we
know is a geographically smaller than the county and the
city can't get its act together, and I'm not going
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to say by definition that means the county can't get
its act together. But you can't expect the homelessness issue
in La County to get any better if the homelessness
in La City is not getting any better. Why why,
someone asked me why? Because homelessness doesn't stop at the
border of LA City. It actually is kind of free
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moving like that. That's what it means to be homeless.
You kind of go wherever you want you sleep, wherever
you want to sleep. And I couldn't tell you where
exactly that line for the city is dividing where the
city begins in LA County begins. But I know that
homeless people don't really care one way or the other.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
We're not serious. We have set aside the money and
we can't, for some reason spend it. You've given the
children some one point three billion dollars and the children
and they said, the children said they need it, We
need it right now.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's the only way that we'll be able to handle
this problem. Do you give us all the money that
we need? Okay, we give you all the money that
you need. And if you ever to all, I'm going
to ask you this. Havev you kids ever asked you
for money because they said they needed it right then
and like to buy a book for class, or they're
supposed to buy this for school, or they need to
buy this computer because they're saying it has to be
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done now right. It's like it's an immediate thing that
just you got to do it right now. It's an emergency.
It's an emergency, and you give them the money and
then you come back a few weeks later and you say,
where where's the where's the computer you said that you
needed to buy? I thought you needed this, you know,
I thought you needed to buy this particular book because
you needed it for class and it was an ancillary text.
(16:55):
You couldn't do the project without the book. Has that
ever happened to you?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yes, yes it has. And you know what happens when
I come back later and I say, what happened to
this need? It's always oh, oh, well no, because I thought,
and then when I was told, and then so when
I got it, But then it turns out we don't
need it till like the eleventh whole day of never Weary, and.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
What had happened was, yes, I'm like, where's the money?
Oh yeah, See that's what it feels like to me,
because you asked for all this money, and not only
are we not getting the result that we asked for,
we can't get any clarity on why you can't even
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use the money that you asked for and you said
it was an emergency.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI Am.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Six, Let's talk a little bit of heartbreak hotel. If
you didn't know, there has been a fight of foot.
We talked about it earlier this week about how the
La City Council was trying to propose a wage increase
for a hotel and hospitality workers. Well, that vote was
postponed yesterday and because hotel owners came forward. They threatened
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to pull out of a deal to provide tens of
thousands of rooms during the twenty twenty eight Olympics if
this pay increase was approved, saying it would decimate their
bottom line. And joining us right now to give us
a little more context and maybe just some more insight,
is Cafe's own Michael Monks, who's been on this. Michael,
how are you doing this evening? I'm doing well.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
How about you? I'm doing fine. I guess I'm not
gonna be able to get a hotel room for the
twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Well, that's to be determined. They've not shot this thing
down yet. But it didn't look good this week. Because
usually you see workers asking for something, they come down
to city Hall, they chance see sapwide a few times,
and the city council says okay, sure, and they vote
for it. But something different happened, and this city council
stood up and asked a lot of questions about the
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potential economic impact locally beyond the hotels, beyond the airport concessionaires,
and also about those businesses themselves. Would they be able
to survive this type of increase because this is a
minimum wage request that would mandate some workers at airports,
some workers at hotels be paid a minimum of twenty
five dollars an hour starting next year, and then it
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would go up incrementally until the Olympics in twenty twenty eight,
when it reaches thirty dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
If the past is prolog and the workers do not
get what they're asking for or some approximation of it,
that the past is prologued, that says to me, they
will threaten and maybe go with that threat to go
on strike ahead of let's say the World Cup or
depending on the timing of the Olympics. Has there been
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any type of discussion of that.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Well, this is a union town and for some of
these workers may not necessarily be represented by a union.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Some are.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
We heard a lot from smaller hotel operators whose workers
are more than likely not represented by one of the
more vocal service workers unions here in the area. And
basically what they said, if you force us to pay
these employees that much, we won't be operating. So, whether
it's a situation where there aren't workers available or a
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situation where there aren't hotels available, there's a storm brewing
ahead of the Olympics. And this isn't the only problem
the city in the region are facing ahead of the Olympics.
They've got transportation issues to consider, They've got infrastructure issues
to consider, and as of now, this city is very
well behind the eight ball when it comes to being
prepared for the twenty twenty eight Games.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't know. We'll put it this way. I don't
expect you to know the answer to this question because
it hasn't been made plain to me. We have to
distinguish between smaller hotel operators and franchise and larger hotels.
We don't know the exact workers involved unless you have
some information. I don't, and I was asking the question.
I don't know if this includes the bartenders. I don't
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know if it includes the hotel housekeeper. I don't know
if it includes the valet. Do we know specifically what
hotel workers or class of employees we're dealing with. We do,
and it is most of them.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
And what the regulation would relate to is basically, if
you're a hotel operator, the number of rooms that you operate,
and that is like several dozens. So if you're a
bed and breakfast operator. This isn't going to apply to you.
If you own one small hotel in Hollywood, this isn't
going to apply to you. But if you own three
or four small hotels, it starts to add up and
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then it does apply to you. And it also applies
to those vendors that you see at LAX depending on
the number of employees that they have. And so one
of the main questions that came up at city Hall,
and it's directly related to this nober of employees, is look,
the tourism industry in this region has not fully recovered
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from the pandemic. What does it look like compared to
the numbers in twenty nineteen, and we're just not back
there yet. And so the questions that were raised by
city council members were directly related to how can we
expect these businesses to be able to cover these costs
when their revenues are still down. The tourism is creeping
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back up, it is recovering, but it has not fully recovered.
One proposal that was made by city Councilman John Lee,
who represents part of the valley, he says, look, yeah,
I'm in favor of this, but let's put a clause
in there. We will make this go into effect six
months after it is verified by economic data that we
have gone back to the numbers that we saw in
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twenty nineteen. So several amendments were made to try to
either delay this or put some caveats on it, and
ultimately the council decided to table it and they'll bring
it back to the floor on December eleventh.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I asked you earlier in this conversation what might hotel
and hospitality workers do if they don't get their way?
And we all know that probably looks like a strike.
But when I opened this conversation, I said that hotel
owners may pull out of a deal to provide tens
of thousands of rooms during the twenty twenty eight Olympics
if this pay increase was approved. What does that mean?
(23:27):
As far as you can glean, how can the hotel
workers pull out? Are they not going to provide rooms
for the Olympics. It seems like they would be shooting
themselves in their own foot. Yeah, it's it's still.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Several years off, so they can get this worked out.
But I mean, when you have an event like the Olympics,
which is going to bring a huge crowd from all
around the world. You're going to want to cash in
on that. And really that's what the workers are saying.
They're like, look, this is a big deal. There's going
to be a lot of business here, both at the
airport and in hospitality. We should get our share of
that because we're going to be working our things to
(24:00):
the bone. But it's also a temporary event. There's certainly
a big build up to it that will bring some
traffic in. There'll be a little bit after that perhaps,
and maybe the economy, the tourism economy is fully recovered
by twenty twenty eight and they're as busy as they
used to be. But what does that mean long term
when the Olympics go away. Is it the same level
(24:21):
of business, Is it the same amount of revenue, or
are these hotel operators going to be struggling and the
workers will lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Anyway, Well, we have a few years before we have
to deal with all these issues, but some of them
we're going to have to deal with them before we
get to twenty twenty eight. Those years are going to
go by fast.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
With the significant investments that the city needs to be
making and We're going to be keeping an eye on it.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Michael Monks, thank you so much for broadcasting tonight from downtown. iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Always a pleasure from the Fashion District headquarters.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's Lad with Mo Kelly. Ca if I AM six forty,
we're live. It's an inside joke. We'll tell you about
it sometime. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app and when
we come back, we'll tell you about how Advanced Auto
Parts is closing like all their stores in California, in Oregon,
in Washington, Nevada, Arizona and more.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
That's next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Did you know Advance Auto Parts is closing all of
its California stores and altogether more than seven hundred stores
and distribution centers in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona.
And according to the president and Mark Runner, get a
(25:36):
load of the name of the president, Shane O'Kelly suspicious
spelled just like Morris O'Kelly. Sus we might be related.
I might have to look that up on ancestry dot
com or you know, find my Relatives dot com. Twenty three. Yeah,
we might be related Shane and Morris Well anyhow. In
(26:00):
last week's third quarter earnings call, Shane O. Kelly said
the company will focus on top performing stores and ditch
stores that are struggling. Quote. We made the decision to
close certain non performing, non strategic stores in the US
to better position our assets based for long term sustainable
growth close. Quote here is how some news outlets were
reporting it.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Advanced Auto Parts joins the growing list of retailers rolling
back and How's enclosures of more than seven hundred stores,
including five hundred and twenty three corporate shops, two undred
and four independent locations, and four distribution centers.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Folks like Terrence who hasn't been in one for more
than two years.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's why I.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Have Audi, So I just go to Audi for everything
I need.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, that's a baller. That's a baller. When you say
I don't go to Advance all the parts, you go
to the dealer and you're driving an AUTI that's a
baller move. No, it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Folks like Terrence, who hasn't been in one for more
than two years.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Gets why I have Audi, So I just go to
Audi for everything I need.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
The dealership, Yeah, the dealership.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
After revealing their last quarter's performance, the major change shares
dropped five percent. Now the company's CEO shares. The cuts
are part of creating value among shareholders. Now Advanced Autoparts
move to close hundreds of their stores are signs of
the times and mechanics here at United Auto Repairs have
seen those times changing and tell us that's no surprise.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hey, Mark, why do you think that Advanced Auto parts struggle?
What would you say if you were just hazardou guess
to create value for shareholders? Is that the correct answer?
That's part of it? Okay, how'd I do on it? Okay,
did very well.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
I could see them being having hard times, especially with
the COVID and everything else, and people not using their
cars as much.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I don't think that's it. I don't think it's car usage.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
I could see them being having hard times, especially with
the COVID and everything else, and people not using their
cars as much, and then upbreaking not as much. And
like I said, a lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
The father's son mechanic duo shares those new cars comes
with lengthy warranties.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Have you noticed that there haven't been any reports of
O'Reilly auto parts closing in storms?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You know, it sounded like James Gandelfini. You just played
there can you can you play that again?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Well, it's from New York. Sell you there's probably some
cross over there and.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Then upbreaking not as much. And like I said, a
lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
We're gonna move down to the bottom being but before
we do that, we're gonna get some gabba gul and.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Then upbreaking not as much. And like I said, a
lot of people bought new cars.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
The father son new cause new cause, what's a new qua?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
The father son mechanic duo shares those new cars comes
with lengthy warranties, cutting into business for both auto parts
stores and mechanics as customers at times bypass them both,
not to mention smart cars also reducing the need for
traditional auto parts.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
If you don't have the volume of the course breaking
down as much, you really don't need that many plates
to sell you the parts.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Break it down, break it down as much. I'm tired
of meadow parts.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
If you don't have the volume of the course breaking
down as much, you really don't need that many plates
to sell you the parts.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Because I'm not breaking down as much. That's what it
comes down to. The peace. Here's the real reason advanced
Auto Parts did not have a cool jingle. If you
had a cool jingle, you would not go out of business.
Wait a bitte. I had been playing that jingle for
(29:24):
years and I didn't know that there was someone saying
ow at the end, will tang at the end. It slaps,
and it's keeping O'Reilly Auto Parts in business. I dare
you to google and find a story of O'Reilly Auto
Parts closing source. You will not find it. The reason
(29:45):
the jingle as you wish you had no Kelly song
like that. Now I could have sworn I was Michael
Jackson in there. Parts it It was Michael. I wonder
(30:07):
if he got any credit for it. You know how
artists will just do some stuff for free, like Eddie
van Halen did Beat It for free from Michael Jackson.
I didn't know that it's a true story. That's a
true story. Yep, free did it for free. In fact,
one of the van Halen members, it might have been
his brother, was angry at Eddie van Halen and it
(30:28):
was a story recently for doing that for free and
also going on a pop slash R and B record.
I have to find the story. But I did a
tribute to Eddie van Halen when he passed, and part
of that was I had uncovered that Eddie van Halen
did that lick, that work that bridge for Michael Jackson
(30:49):
for free. Yeah that's a scandal. Yeah, for all we
know that might beat Michael Jackson and he just didn't
say anything. He just didn't want anyone to know, you know.
So like, for example, Daniel Craig was in the Force
Awakens playing a stormtrooper. Yeah I didn't know that, but
(31:10):
not everyone knew that, and he wasn't trying to get
credit for it. Really. Yeah, do you know when Ray
uses the Jedi mind trick on a stormtrooper you're talking
about you'll drop your weapon? And yeah, that stormtrooper is
Daniel Craig. But why just because he likes because people
wanted to be associated in a Star Wars movie. That's crazy.
There are a lot of other like hitting gems and
(31:32):
Easter eggs of people who are in Star Wars movies
that they were Was it like Gary Busey if someone
in the Empire Strikes Back. I don't know if it
was Gary Busey or or John Ratzenberger or something like that.
I have to look it up. But there are a
lot of people earlier on in their careers or at
different points of their careers that are in Star Wars movies.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Boy, John Ratzenberger would be a really irritating sith lord.
Don't you think he would never shut up?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah? Yeah, but he was a good interview though. He
was a good one. You got that one too, huh? I? Yes,
I do, yes, I do. And see if his John
Ratzenberger was he the one who said it? Yes, he
he played Major Brian Dearlyn and the Empire Strikes Back?
Yes he did. How about that for an some trivia? Yes?
Speaker 9 (32:22):
No, yes, it is also for the the o'relly jingle.
The marketing team tapped into the pool of local talent
and reached out to John Dylon, who is a founding
member of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, a rock band based
in Springfield, Missouri. Oh, yes, the birthplace of O'Reilly Auto parts.
(32:44):
I did not know that. How many hits did the
Dylans have? Pretty sure? That's it?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, kind of sounds like somebody getting caught in something
that is painful.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Parts already alrighty hooray, sound like Creden's Clearwater Revival.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Alrighty at part already.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah horay. If we could just team them up with
the pepto bismol singers, what would that sound like? Diarrhea?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Alright alrighty parts okay.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
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If it doesn't affect you were not interested.
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