November 20, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the backlash the Los Angeles City Council is facing from Small Businesses in Los Angeles over a proposed ordinance to raise employee wages in the city…PLUS – A look at the top 10 holiday-spending cities in the country AND the top cruise lines for 2025 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Jfi mo' kelly live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It
is a big show we have planned for you tonight.
We're going to tell you about the top ten holiday
spending cities. And I have a sneaking suspicion that California
is all over that list with the top.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Cruise line for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Because I've converted to Wala, I'm going to eventually convert Stefan,
and I know I'm going to convince Good evening, Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You are not and good evening to you, but you're
welcome to keep trying.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm going to keep trying, but we have to start
where it's most important to start. There is a sneaking suspicion.
There's a rumor going around there is an idea that
we may be headed towards the first significant rain of
the season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For what I understand, Mark, correct me if I'm wrong,
I wouldn't dream of it. Well, I respect you too much.
You can work on.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Your sarcasm because this is getting less and less believable. Sorry, sorry,
you gotta sell it more. Let's just start over again. Okay,
do the sound here we go? Ah, thank you for that.
Thank you sir, The first significant rain of the season
is on track to arrive by as early as Friday,
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but definitely throughout the weekend into next week, and we
could get anywhere from like a three quarters to an
inch of rain, but you know it's going to be significant.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And then you know how it is every single rain season.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's all almost like no one has ever seen water
fall from the sky in their lives, and we'll just
start crashing into cars because we don't know to slow
down just ever so slightly when it's raining. They've never
heard of the idea of hydroplaning.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now. In fact, it's important for people to speed up,
speed up, cut you off, and then immediately slow down
once they get in front of you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It seems like the large majority of people have some
basic sense and they know that when it's raining, you
turn on your lights, you turn up your caution if
you will, and you slow down.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Most of us know to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But when we slow down, there are these idiots who think, like, oh,
I have an opportunity to go faster because everyone else
is going slower. No, we're slowing down for the collective good,
because it's not just one person. And if you've ever
been on the freeway and seen someone hydroplane or spin out.
It can start a chain reaction which could injure some
the untold number of people and wrecked fifteen to twenty
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cars a.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Collective good What are you some kind of pinko? Here's
what you do. You risk everybody's life so that you
can get one car length ahead. I don't know where
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm at that age now and I admit it where
I start talking to myself and saying, you know what,
running this light, it's only going to save two minutes.
There's no need. Oh go soak your teeth, Grandpa. Do
they do dentchers anymore? I don't know. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You don't know you're older than me? No, I'm not.
You're the oldest person in Yes, you are? You needed
help getting into the studio, I could tell.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, Yes, I did need help getting into the studio
because you're sitting on a roid pillow.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, my arthritis was acting up and my hips have
been bothered me. So that much is true. But I'm
not the oldest. I think Stephan is at least fifty six.
And to Wallace having a birthday tomorrow, and I think
he's caught up to me in age, so you probably
even passed me age.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, we're gonna have to help them blow out
the candles.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah. So, Tuala, are you doing anything special for your
birthday tomorrow? I'm cooking wait wait, wait wait, I thought
people were supposed to cook for you on your birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
No, no, no, I am continuing my new tradition of
making gumbo.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And what is in your gumbo? I've had your gumbo,
but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I cannot explain or put out my trade secrets, or
divulge or release or let anyone into my kitchen. It
is just too bad. You will not be here to
taste the gumbo tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But the past seafood. The crew will tell you it's fire. Okay,
I know it has seafood in it. I've had it before. Yes,
you can't tell us anything.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, I want to look because tomorrow I want to
see if you are able to live on the air,
taste it and explain what you're tasting in it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay, I can do that. I don't think you want
me to do that, but I can do that. I'll
give away all your secrets. I mean when there's like
a crab claw in my cup. Yeah, that kind of
gives it away. How is it you want me to
explain it on the air and not tell anything about
I was going to give like a ratitudey kind of breakdown.
I didn't like that movie, so that's not good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No, No, ratitude is what inspired me to cook to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What inspired you to go to cosmetology school? The ladies
did that help? You know what it did? I will
tell you off the air. But man, did it because
you had certain skills doing people's hair. They thought you
had certain skills elsewhere. No, because.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I was one of a few eligible men in that class,
what as an unmarried or heterosexual heterosexual?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Okay, I just want to make sure you're going in
that direction. I just wasn't sure. I wasn't married either.
Oh so you had a double good going on? You
had two pluses? Yes, three scorpio. How does that figure? Hey? Man?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Look, we are the sexual tyrannos sources of the zodiacs.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, no, no, it's Sagittarius, little tiny arms. Is that what
you're saying? The archers? We will we will hit it.
We know how to hit it, you know. We pull
it back and never mind.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Can We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
When we come back, we'll talk about the La City
Council and how they're now in battle with La businesses
about this proposed wage hike and how hotel workers might
be making seventy five dollars an hour or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We continue to talk about how prices may rise and
how wages may rise, and whether one is influencing or
determining the other. And the next part of this discussion
is the La City Council, which is considering an ordinance
to raise wages for some workers in the city. Specifically,
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hotel and hospitality workers would get up to thirty dollars
an hour in twenty twenty eight. It's not even twenty
twenty five, but still thirty dollars an hour could be
considered significant if you look at how fast food workers
are getting twenty dollars an hour, and you can make
the argument, and I don't disagree with the argument, but
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this is not as simple as this. You can make
the argument that raising these particular wages of these particular
jobs may drive inflation within certain industries, most specifically hospitality
fast food service industry. Now, Chef Claire Results in this
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article for AB seven ABC seven dot com says it
was quote heartbreaking when she had to close her Highland
Park restaurant back in August. Quote I wasn't able to
pay myself a salary. I didn't draw a salary for
almost five years. Luckily I have another source of income.
But if I didn't have the other sources of income,
I don't think it would have lasted as long. She says.
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The costs are simply too high as it relates to
having a restaurant, and a number of other small business
owners are worried that the new proposed wage ordinance in
LA will force some to close.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I know from friends and family who've had restaurants, the
margins are always small. He opened a restaurant, there's a
good chance that it'll be closed inside of a year,
maybe two or three years. Few restaurants actually make it now.
There are a number of factors, but the margins historically
have always been small. The question is what is a
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fair The question is what is a living wage? And
the debate is.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Are you are you deserving?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know, are you someone who should receive a living wage?
Should you expect that or should it be just capitalism
where you know, if you have a skill set, you
will be paid accordingly. If there's more demand for your
skill set, you'll be paid more for what you do.
And I tend to think, and I know that some
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may disagree with me, if you can walk in off
the street and do the job, then maybe you're not
going to receive the same wage as someone else who
has a higher training, higher education, higher skill set, something
which is going to demand something more type of pay
in return.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I don't know what that number is.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I know that if you ask for thirty dollars now
and you get it in twenty twenty eight, by the
time twenty twenty eight rolls around, and we have this
same discussion every four or five years when it relates
to either raising the minimum wage page or raising the
wages for certain jobs, you're asking for thirty dollars now,
you get it to twenty twenty eight and you realize,
oh my gosh, thirty dollars isn't enough, because we said
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back in twenty eighteen, when they're asking for fifteen dollars
an hour for the state minimum wage. By the time
you get to, you know, twenty twenty two. I think
when it was finally enacted, you're don't need twenty And
what happened They got to twenty twenty two and they
said we need twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And before we got out of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Four, when they received the twenty dollars for a fast
food they're saying, well, we need more. I get it.
I don't know how you get off the hamster wheel,
but I don't know if you're going to get any
support outside of the La City Council when it comes
to thirty dollars an hour for a hotel and hospitality workers.
And before you jump Intowaalle, when you say hotel and hospitality,
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is is that cleaning? Are you talking about people who
are cleaning your rooms? Are you talking about the people
who work at the bar? Are you talking about the
bell hop? You know what I mean When you say
hospitality and hotel workers, I'm thinking that it's inclusive of
all of them. And damn you know, I'm gonna tell
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my sons go into hospitality. If you're gonna pay thirty
dollars an hour, because most jobs do not pay thirty
dollars an hour presently. Of course, they have to wait
till twenty twenty eight. But you get my point.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Now, Is this just because of the anticipation of World
Cup and the Olympics and things like that and other
humongous events coming to La and La City Council trying
to act in advance of that is does that lead
lend any credibility to the need to increase wages for
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these individuals.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I don't know if that's the motivation for it, because
just because we will have people visiting the city during
these two weeks of two years, two weeks and twenty
twenty six, two weeks in twenty twenty eight, I don't
know if that means you need to have five hundred
more workers in the city or you need some inordinate
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amount of people available working these jobs and you have
to pay them more.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I would leave that up to the business to decide, Hey,
we need to hire ten more people for the cleaning crew,
or we need to hire three more bartenders, or we
need to hire four more valets. That's another job you're
gonna pay them thirty dollars an hour. Those are the
questions that I have. It seems to be open into
where there would just be an increase of thirty dollars
an hour in twenty twenty eight in perpetuity until they
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have some other increase.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I don't know. I've never owned a hotel.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now you Twaller, you own like seventy five different properties,
Daddy Warbucks, you can weigh in on this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
None of them were hotels. None of them were hotels.
And I can understand how any small business owner, especially
those who may own an independ motel there are still
some of those out here, or this is not just
hotels and motels, this is hospitality. Does this go to
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say the hospitality crew that works at Staple Center? Is
this hospitality in name only? Because that can go across
a couple of different job classifications.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's interesting you talk about that the independent hotels of
the mom and pop businesses. They talk about Ray Patel,
who owns the Welcome in Eagle Rock, family owned, family
run since nineteen ninety eight. I don't know what that
would mean for the non franchise hotels, And you know,
I don't know, And it's not clear.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The la City Council is set to take this up
tomorrow and maybe some of those questions would be answered.
But I don't know if there's a long term solution
for any of this, because I know in four years
they're going to ask for more than thirty thirty dollars
an hour. Now, this's a different discussion of whether you
think they deserve some approximation of that. Let's say no, no, no, no,
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it's not thirty dollars. Maybe the sweet spot is twenty
five dollars or something, and that could be significant of
an agreement if you find somewhere in the middle. But
thirty dollars is steep when you're talking four years away
and you know you're going to ask for even more
come twenty twenty eight. We don't know what the rate
of inflation is going to be between now and then.
We don't know what unemployment is going to be between
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now and then. I suspect, to your point, talking about
the World Cup and also the Olympics, that there will
be an increase in hiring, but we don't know whether
the money will still go as far as it would today.
Because yes, everything's going to be more expensive in twenty
twenty eight. Doesn't matter who's in office, doesn't matter who's governor,
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does not matter who is president. It's not like they're
going to be rolling back rent. They're going to be
rolling back the cost of anything. In four years. I
promise you Mark, rent is going to be higher in
four years. I promise you the cost of eggs and
milk will be higher in four years. It might be comparable,
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might be you know, similar, It may not be a
huge increase, but it'll probably be more. And people will
be complaining about, oh my gosh, gas is so high.
It will be higher than it is now. It yes,
it will. I don't know the time in which anything
has gone back in price big picture. Now, there's some fluctuations.
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It may go up, it may go down, but gas
is not going back to two thirty five a gallon.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's just not now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There may be pockets in the United States where you
can find it for two thirty five a gallon, but
the national average, no, it's not so. Look and I
know Mark wants to call me the pinko, and I
get that. I get that. I am uber for capitalism,
but I'm eyes wide open, and capitalism will always have
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the problem of it eats itself after a while.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the only way I can describe it, is that fair, Mark,
It's not only fair. I think you stole that from me. Yes,
without regulation, capitalism destroys things and eats itself. Well, I'm
glad we agree. I guess we're both pinkos. No, you
are the pink o. How dare you, sir? How dare you?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (16:28):
Forty and the holidays are almost upon US and holiday
sales this year expected to grow between two point five
and three point five percent over last year, reaching more
than nine hundred and eighty billion dollars nationwide.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This is according to wallet hub.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It's estimated the average American is expected to spend seventeen
hundred and seventy eight dollars this holiday season. According to Deloitte,
where does this break down city by city? Well, you
might be surprised. There are one hundred cities were surveyed
as far as the average expenditure by Americans, and we'll
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tell you the top ten in just a second. But
the California cities which are in the top one hundred
and not in the top ten or as follows. Carlsbad
came in at number one hundred, San Diego at ninety three,
Torrance at ninety thousand, Oaks at eighty six, Upland at
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seventy seven, Yorba Linda at seventy five, San Mateo at
sixty eight, San Francisco at sixty five, which was kind
of surprising to me. You would think San Francisco would
be near the upper end just because of cost of living.
Not so here.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sixty three was Irvine.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Hey Mark Seattle came in at fifty eight, above San Francisco.
Just FYI is that good? You spend the most money
for the holidays, more so than San Francisco. Pleasanton, which
is about maybe five hour drive from here, comes in
at number fifty, boy at Park forty seven. Thirty seven
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is Redwood City. I wouldn't think of Redwood City as
the big spenders when it comes to the holidays, but
I guess I'm wrong. San Ramon came in at thirty four,
Redondo Beach at thirty one, Walnut Creek at twenty eight,
San Jose at twenty seven, And that's it. With the
exception of these top ten cities in which spent the
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most money during the holidays. Here is number ten, Santa Clara,
with an average of thirty four hundred and nineteen dollars
per American family. Number nine, Hey, Mark, you've been to Carmel, Indiana.
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I don't think I have. Well, it's thirty four one
hundred and twenty four dollars this holiday season on average
in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That'll take you a long way.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah. Yeah. Number eight Fremont, California. Who the hell is
spending thirty four hundred and eighty three dollars this holiday
season in Fremont. That's a random one, Fremont. That's got
to include a dental implanter two.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So wrong. Number seven.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I've actually never heard of this city Flower Mound, Texas.
Never heard of it, but it's number seven at thirty
five hundred and forty one dollars on average this holiday
season anticipated Flower Mound.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yes, never heard of it, have no idea. I'm just
going to back away from this one slowly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah. Number six.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Bellevue, Washington, with thirty five hundred and fifty dollars anticipate.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, that makes sense. Bellevue is just a yuppie scum
area of near Seattle. Why got to make some personal
y come because I've been there many, many times, and
you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
Number five.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Milpitas, California, thirty six hundred and fifty nine dollars Milpitis, Milpitas.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I like Milpitas, thirty six to fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Number four of the cities in the United States anticipated
to spend the most money this holiday season, mountain View,
California at thirty seven hundred and fifty dollars. That doesn't
surprise me, No, not at all, not mountain View. Neither
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does number three surprise me Palo Alto thirty seven hundred
and nineteen dollars. Of course, yeah, you should sense a
trend at this point. I thought that would have been
number one. Yeah, right, yeah, there's an argument to make
for it in the center of the tech world.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Number two, can you guess the trend?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Sunny Veil, California thirty eight hundred and forty five dollars
per American family this year, estimated just for the holidays.
And anyone have any guesses for Number one? I do Calabasas, Calabasas,
Mark pass any rich Enclaves Stephane that you want to
offer as far as going to spend all this money
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on the holidays, San Jose, that was no. We already
called that a Yeah. Then Sattle's sales number twenty seven dang, wow, Okay,
that's kind of surprising. Notice like there's really no big cities. Yeah,
here's number one, Newton, Massachusetts, forty two hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
What are they buying out there?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I have no idea. There's nothing in the state of
Massachusetts worth buying. Are they buying houses for people? What
they do? Maybe maybe for forty two hundred dollars that's
probably first month, not even last month, first month's rent.
Maybe you're gifting someone in an apartment a tiny house or something. Wow,
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they're I don't know,
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redoing their deck. Everybody gets a PS five in Newton
forty two hundred dollars on the holidays. There's no one
I like that much, not even my family. I don't
like anyone that much to spend that much money. Who
am I trying to impress?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I mean? Does everyone have like ten kids and everyone
needs like a four hundred dollars gift?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Maybe maybe is it like holidays spending period, like for
having friends and family.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Gifts, holidays decorations. Yeah, maybe also bigger families over there.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, maybe they have like eyes wide shut style holiday
parties in Newton.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Maybe those are expensive. I would like to go to one. Well,
not anymore, but I'm saying back in the day, I
would have I would have liked to have gone to
a party that Tom Cruise had gone to that seemed
kind of vaguely enticing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh, there's probably a lot of sugar daddies in Newton.
Who do you get that from small town? A lot
of older dudes who are taking care of younger chicks.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Did that just come out of I don't know what
math he's using. That's new math. That's your default, is it, Twala?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, the older guys who are buying big jewels out
there telling us about your life, Tuala, stop telling us.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
About your dang.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Look, this is what they talk about on social media,
the sugar babies that are looking for the sugar daddies.
And this is the time of year when they start
cuffing up cuffing seasons here and that's who's cuffy.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now we know why Tula works so many hours doing
so much stuff. He's got to stable the support. Tula,
tell us the truth. How many sugar babies do you have?
Just tell give us a round number. How big is
the stable? Come on, I don't have any babies like that.
No sugar babies.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When we come back to Top Cruise Lines for twenty
twenty five and then to Wala, will tell us who
he's taking on his next cruise. Which sugar baby has
received the Golden Rose or whatever it is that you
get when you're the bachelor to go on the cruise
and everything.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
No golden anything. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
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Speaker 2 (25:10):
And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I love going on cruises. You'll never hear me say differently.
And I'm actually proud that I was able to get
Duwalle on a cruise and he got just a little
bit of a glimpse of what and why. I like
the whole cruising experience. But after you go on one cruise,
you get a better sense of what you want to do,
more of what you want to do, less of what
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you need more of, and what you could do without altogether.
And the only way that you can do that is
to go on a different cruise line or so so
you have a comparison point. I tell people, if if
you just want a starter cruise just to get an
idea of what it's all about, how it works, yeah,
go on Carnival. Feel free. But after that, if the
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next time you go on Carnival, it's your fault because
you know better.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You should not go on Carnival for anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sorry, it's just I can't recommend it, not in good conscience.
And I've gone on multiple Carnival cruises because like when
you're traveling with ten different family members, it has to
meet their price point and you know, maybe in a
different age group, so they're okay with a whole twenty
two year old club vibe of Carnival cruises. Oh not that,
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what's wrong with it? Yeah, it's it's like going to
a nightclub in the day at sea all the time,
and all those disturbances and knuckleheadedness that you have to
deal with. I could deal without that, but US News
and World Report has released it's twenty twenty five Best
Cruise Lines rankings, and it highlighted eighteen of the most
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popular cruise lines across six categories, ranging from couples and
families to which distinct parts of the world you're looking
to experience. Not really a countdown, just to let you
know the best cruise lines for the money. In other words,
maybe you're a little price sensitive and you can't spend
five thousand dollars, but you want to have maybe a
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three day cruise.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You maybe want to go to the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You want to do something that's affordable and it doesn't
break the bank for you. The best cruise lines for
the money according to the US News and World Report
MSc Cruises, which is more like in Europe at number three.
Number two is Virgin Voyages. I definitely want to try
out Virgin Voyages. Virgin does well with travel. Virgin Airlines
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used to be my favorite airlines until Alaska bought it out.
Virgin knows how to take care of its customers in
that way. Number one best cruise line for the money
is Celebrity Cruises. I hear more and more good things
about it, and I have to look into it. For me,
my wife and I were trying to hit a different
continent each time we cruise or travel, so we have
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to consider the cruise line itself. I don't care where
Carnival's going. We're not going to be on Carnival, but
it has to be offering a cruise during a certain
time of the year and a certain location for us
to actually do it. So I can say, yeah, I
want to try Virgin voyages, but they may not go
to Greece for example. They may not go to Turkey
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or the coast of Africa. You know, those are the
things that we're looking for. But best cruise lines for
families number three Norwegian. My wife and I have tentatively
scheduled a cruise on Norwegian, Number two Tuala, Royal Caribbean
Nice and number one Disney cruise line for families. But
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when you say families, for me, I think kids and
I'm not looking for kids. Royal Caribbean has fewer kids
than Carnival.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Buy a Lot, Buy a Lot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You will see kids on Royal Caribbean, but they're not
running a monk like they were on Carnival.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
My kids went on the day one with their mother,
they'd loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I'm quite sure. But if the kids love it, then
that means I won't love it. Yeah, yeah, because that
means they're having too much fun, and that means they're everywhere. Yeah,
you know, and I don't know. I mean, I love kids,
just not your kids. I don't mind being around kids.
I just don't want to be around your kids, not
when I'm on vacation. I see, that's when they were younger. Now,
my son, who is graduated to being able to do
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adult things on the cruise, he couldn't get enough of
being on Royal Cribby because he went to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
All of the adults stuff. Right, He was like, oh,
I'm living my best life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Now he gets it now he understands why certain things
appeal to the adults and not to the kids. The
best cruise lines for couples, according to the US News
and World Resorts US News and World Report, Number three
is Celebrity Cruises. We're gonna get Mark on one of
these one of these days, not a chance. Number two
is Seaborn Cruise Line. I have no idea what Seaborn is,
(29:58):
and this is for couples. Maybe it's like one of
those pineapple.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Swapping thing, this couple you know swapping if you're if
you're a couple who's open to a code, an upside
down pineapple on like your door.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Wait, I'm being serious.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm not making this up. It's a thing. Yeah, if
you are into couple swapping or you know orgies, whatever,
leave an upside down pineapple on your door or you
wear pineapple necklace. It's a sign. It's a real sign
that you know you're open to that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Sam Hill, I'm serious. How long have you been in
the swingers lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I have never been into it. I'm just saying I
know some stuff about some stuff. It doesn't mean that
I've done that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So you're denying that you're a swinger.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I am. Yes, I'm denying that I'm a swinger that
has never appealed to me. And Tawala can tell you
when he was invited to a swinger party. Yeah, yeah,
that was.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Why are you trying to deflect on a toula when
I'm asking you about your experiences.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't have any experience as a swinger. I don't
have any desire. It's one of those things. And I
told you about this when I went to gay lesbian club.
The idea of women cavorting and everything. The idea sounds
a whole lot more attractive than the actual reality the
swinger party that I was invited to.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
When the host and hostess sent me and my friends
some of the images and things like that of who's
going to be in attendant, we both looked looked at
each other and said, Oh, we don't want to see
none of these people naked. Hell no, we're not going
to this filthy hog off.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's not eyes wide shut. Okay, it's not what did
you call it, a falthy hog off? Yes, like, look,
that's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
The whole idea of a nude beach, it sounds a
whole lot more sexy than it is.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Something to say like the people you want to see No, No,
I can corroborate this because there were a couple of
summers in college where I went with a friend on
an ice cream truck to a nude beach. And this
is the maximum of nudism. Nobody you want to see
naked wants to be naked in public. Ever, whatever a
bunch of manatees out there. Manates also why an ice
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cream truck that's a great question. Naked people in the
summer crave ice cream products. Let me tell you, why
were you on an ice cream truck going anywhere? Oh?
A friend of mine, it was his job, and he
didn't want to go alone. He was afraid, he wanted
(32:45):
he wanted some protection. None of this makes any sense.
Why you would need protection of a different kind physical protection.
All these leathery, sagging people come up to the truck.
You don't know what's going to happen. You need you
need a backup. You have a damn like a van
door separating you. It's not like they're going to climb
(33:07):
over the sill.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You know, if a person's going to be naked in public,
you don't know what else they're prepared to do. You
come to my way, naked ass right, I'm throwing it
at you. Get away from Who in the hell is.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
On an ice cream truck? Who doesn't need to be
on an ice cream truck? Exactly? Who's riding shotgun on
an ice cream truck?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
If you were to ride an ice cream truck and
you said I'm a little nervous about where I gotta go,
I'd have your back I'd try a friend.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Remember any ice cream truck growing up where there was
more than one person on it?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't remember. Well, did you grow up on a
newdist colony?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I think not no, But why were you taking ice
cream to a newdist colony in the first place?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They spend? Oh they needed a bomb pop?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Sure, okay, actually no, this is disgusting. So I'll tell you.
A naked guy came up to the truck and and
ordered a box of big sticks and then just walked
around and distributed him to all the other naked people.
And he had to ask for that like it was
some kind of joke. Yeah, can I get a box
of big sticks? Okay, we get it, buddy, You're yeah,
(34:13):
there you go. I'm still disturbed right now. I don't
know if I'm disturbed at the big stick story or
the fact that Mark Ronald was on an ice cream
truck at a nudist colony. I'm just telling you. My
friend was to all of us, if you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Should ask me to accompany you to a newdiest colony
on an ice cream truck. The answer is no.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You're a fair weather friend. The answer is no, And
I'm going to call the police.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
On you to walk because if you have an ice
cream truck, you're going to a newest colony.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You are up to something.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I don't know what, but you are up to something.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, you were more like an alibi. Mark. Don't naked
people deserve some relief in the summer heat. What's wrong
with you too?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay? If I am six forty, we're alive everywhere.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
M hmm, guy, Heart Radio News without the
Speaker 4 (35:05):
SKEW K s I and K O S t h
D two Los Angeles lives everywhere on the radio
Jfi mo' kelly live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It
is a big show we have planned for you tonight.
We're going to tell you about the top ten holiday
spending cities. And I have a sneaking suspicion that California
is all over that list with the top.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Cruise line for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Because I've converted to Wala, I'm going to eventually convert Stefan,
and I know I'm going to convince Good evening, Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You are not and good evening to you, but you're
welcome to keep trying.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm going to keep trying, but we have to start
where it's most important to start. There is a sneaking suspicion.
There's a rumor going around there is an idea that
we may be headed towards the first significant rain of
the season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For what I understand, Mark, correct me if I'm wrong,
I wouldn't dream of it. Well, I respect you too much.
You can work on.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Your sarcasm because this is getting less and less believable. Sorry, sorry,
you gotta sell it more. Let's just start over again. Okay,
do the sound here we go? Ah, thank you for that.
Thank you sir, The first significant rain of the season
is on track to arrive by as early as Friday,
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but definitely throughout the weekend into next week, and we
could get anywhere from like a three quarters to an
inch of rain, but you know it's going to be significant.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And then you know how it is every single rain season.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's all almost like no one has ever seen water
fall from the sky in their lives, and we'll just
start crashing into cars because we don't know to slow
down just ever so slightly when it's raining. They've never
heard of the idea of hydroplaning.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now. In fact, it's important for people to speed up,
speed up, cut you off, and then immediately slow down
once they get in front of you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It seems like the large majority of people have some
basic sense and they know that when it's raining, you
turn on your lights, you turn up your caution if
you will, and you slow down.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Most of us know to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But when we slow down, there are these idiots who think, like, oh,
I have an opportunity to go faster because everyone else
is going slower. No, we're slowing down for the collective good,
because it's not just one person. And if you've ever
been on the freeway and seen someone hydroplane or spin out.
It can start a chain reaction which could injure some
the untold number of people and wrecked fifteen to twenty
(03:03):
cars a.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Collective good What are you some kind of pinko? Here's
what you do. You risk everybody's life so that you
can get one car length ahead. I don't know where
you grew up.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm at that age now and I admit it where
I start talking to myself and saying, you know what,
running this light, it's only going to save two minutes.
There's no need. Oh go soak your teeth, Grandpa. Do
they do dentchers anymore? I don't know. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You don't know you're older than me? No, I'm not.
You're the oldest person in Yes, you are? You needed
help getting into the studio, I could tell.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, Yes, I did need help getting into the studio
because you're sitting on a roid pillow.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, my arthritis was acting up and my hips have
been bothered me. So that much is true. But I'm
not the oldest. I think Stephan is at least fifty six.
And to Wallace having a birthday tomorrow, and I think
he's caught up to me in age, so you probably
even passed me age.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh yeah, we're gonna have to help them blow out
the candles.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah. So, Tuala, are you doing anything special for your
birthday tomorrow? I'm cooking wait wait, wait wait, I thought
people were supposed to cook for you on your birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
No, no, no, I am continuing my new tradition of
making gumbo.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And what is in your gumbo? I've had your gumbo,
but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I cannot explain or put out my trade secrets, or
divulge or release or let anyone into my kitchen. It
is just too bad. You will not be here to
taste the gumbo tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But the past seafood. The crew will tell you it's fire. Okay,
I know it has seafood in it. I've had it before. Yes,
you can't tell us anything.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No, I want to look because tomorrow I want to
see if you are able to live on the air,
taste it and explain what you're tasting in it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay, I can do that. I don't think you want
me to do that, but I can do that. I'll
give away all your secrets. I mean when there's like
a crab claw in my cup. Yeah, that kind of
gives it away. How is it you want me to
explain it on the air and not tell anything about
I was going to give like a ratitudey kind of breakdown.
I didn't like that movie, so that's not good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No, No, ratitude is what inspired me to cook to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What inspired you to go to cosmetology school? The ladies
did that help? You know what it did? I will
tell you off the air. But man, did it because
you had certain skills doing people's hair. They thought you
had certain skills elsewhere. No, because.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I was one of a few eligible men in that class,
what as an unmarried or heterosexual heterosexual?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Okay, I just want to make sure you're going in
that direction. I just wasn't sure. I wasn't married either.
Oh so you had a double good going on? You
had two pluses? Yes, three scorpio. How does that figure? Hey? Man?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Look, we are the sexual tyrannos sources of the zodiacs.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, no, no, it's Sagittarius, little tiny arms. Is that what
you're saying? The archers? We will we will hit it.
We know how to hit it, you know. We pull
it back and never mind.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Can We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
When we come back, we'll talk about the La City
Council and how they're now in battle with La businesses
about this proposed wage hike and how hotel workers might
be making seventy five dollars an hour or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We continue to talk about how prices may rise and
how wages may rise, and whether one is influencing or
determining the other. And the next part of this discussion
is the La City Council, which is considering an ordinance
to raise wages for some workers in the city. Specifically,
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hotel and hospitality workers would get up to thirty dollars
an hour in twenty twenty eight. It's not even twenty
twenty five, but still thirty dollars an hour could be
considered significant if you look at how fast food workers
are getting twenty dollars an hour, and you can make
the argument, and I don't disagree with the argument, but
(07:38):
this is not as simple as this. You can make
the argument that raising these particular wages of these particular
jobs may drive inflation within certain industries, most specifically hospitality
fast food service industry. Now, Chef Claire Results in this
(08:01):
article for AB seven ABC seven dot com says it
was quote heartbreaking when she had to close her Highland
Park restaurant back in August. Quote I wasn't able to
pay myself a salary. I didn't draw a salary for
almost five years. Luckily I have another source of income.
But if I didn't have the other sources of income,
I don't think it would have lasted as long. She says.
(08:22):
The costs are simply too high as it relates to
having a restaurant, and a number of other small business
owners are worried that the new proposed wage ordinance in
LA will force some to close.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I know from friends and family who've had restaurants, the
margins are always small. He opened a restaurant, there's a
good chance that it'll be closed inside of a year,
maybe two or three years. Few restaurants actually make it now.
There are a number of factors, but the margins historically
have always been small. The question is what is a
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fair The question is what is a living wage? And
the debate is.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Are you are you deserving?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know, are you someone who should receive a living wage?
Should you expect that or should it be just capitalism
where you know, if you have a skill set, you
will be paid accordingly. If there's more demand for your
skill set, you'll be paid more for what you do.
And I tend to think, and I know that some
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may disagree with me, if you can walk in off
the street and do the job, then maybe you're not
going to receive the same wage as someone else who
has a higher training, higher education, higher skill set, something
which is going to demand something more type of pay
in return.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I don't know what that number is.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I know that if you ask for thirty dollars now
and you get it in twenty twenty eight, by the
time twenty twenty eight rolls around, and we have this
same discussion every four or five years when it relates
to either raising the minimum wage page or raising the
wages for certain jobs, you're asking for thirty dollars now,
you get it to twenty twenty eight and you realize,
oh my gosh, thirty dollars isn't enough, because we said
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back in twenty eighteen, when they're asking for fifteen dollars
an hour for the state minimum wage. By the time
you get to, you know, twenty twenty two. I think
when it was finally enacted, you're don't need twenty And
what happened They got to twenty twenty two and they
said we need twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And before we got out of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Four, when they received the twenty dollars for a fast
food they're saying, well, we need more. I get it.
I don't know how you get off the hamster wheel,
but I don't know if you're going to get any
support outside of the La City Council when it comes
to thirty dollars an hour for a hotel and hospitality workers.
And before you jump Intowaalle, when you say hotel and hospitality,
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is is that cleaning? Are you talking about people who
are cleaning your rooms? Are you talking about the people
who work at the bar? Are you talking about the
bell hop? You know what I mean When you say
hospitality and hotel workers, I'm thinking that it's inclusive of
all of them. And damn you know, I'm gonna tell
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my sons go into hospitality. If you're gonna pay thirty
dollars an hour, because most jobs do not pay thirty
dollars an hour presently. Of course, they have to wait
till twenty twenty eight. But you get my point.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Now, Is this just because of the anticipation of World
Cup and the Olympics and things like that and other
humongous events coming to La and La City Council trying
to act in advance of that is does that lead
lend any credibility to the need to increase wages for
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these individuals.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I don't know if that's the motivation for it, because
just because we will have people visiting the city during
these two weeks of two years, two weeks and twenty
twenty six, two weeks in twenty twenty eight, I don't
know if that means you need to have five hundred
more workers in the city or you need some inordinate
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amount of people available working these jobs and you have
to pay them more.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I would leave that up to the business to decide, Hey,
we need to hire ten more people for the cleaning crew,
or we need to hire three more bartenders, or we
need to hire four more valets. That's another job you're
gonna pay them thirty dollars an hour. Those are the
questions that I have. It seems to be open into
where there would just be an increase of thirty dollars
an hour in twenty twenty eight in perpetuity until they
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have some other increase.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I don't know. I've never owned a hotel.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Now you Twaller, you own like seventy five different properties,
Daddy Warbucks, you can weigh in on this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
None of them were hotels. None of them were hotels.
And I can understand how any small business owner, especially
those who may own an independ motel there are still
some of those out here, or this is not just
hotels and motels, this is hospitality. Does this go to
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say the hospitality crew that works at Staple Center? Is
this hospitality in name only? Because that can go across
a couple of different job classifications.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It's interesting you talk about that the independent hotels of
the mom and pop businesses. They talk about Ray Patel,
who owns the Welcome in Eagle Rock, family owned, family
run since nineteen ninety eight. I don't know what that
would mean for the non franchise hotels, And you know,
I don't know, And it's not clear.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The la City Council is set to take this up
tomorrow and maybe some of those questions would be answered.
But I don't know if there's a long term solution
for any of this, because I know in four years
they're going to ask for more than thirty thirty dollars
an hour. Now, this's a different discussion of whether you
think they deserve some approximation of that. Let's say no, no, no, no,
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it's not thirty dollars. Maybe the sweet spot is twenty
five dollars or something, and that could be significant of
an agreement if you find somewhere in the middle. But
thirty dollars is steep when you're talking four years away
and you know you're going to ask for even more
come twenty twenty eight. We don't know what the rate
of inflation is going to be between now and then.
We don't know what unemployment is going to be between
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now and then. I suspect, to your point, talking about
the World Cup and also the Olympics, that there will
be an increase in hiring, but we don't know whether
the money will still go as far as it would today.
Because yes, everything's going to be more expensive in twenty
twenty eight. Doesn't matter who's in office, doesn't matter who's governor,
(14:50):
does not matter who is president. It's not like they're
going to be rolling back rent. They're going to be
rolling back the cost of anything. In four years. I
promise you Mark, rent is going to be higher in
four years. I promise you the cost of eggs and
milk will be higher in four years. It might be comparable,
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might be you know, similar, It may not be a
huge increase, but it'll probably be more. And people will
be complaining about, oh my gosh, gas is so high.
It will be higher than it is now. It yes,
it will. I don't know the time in which anything
has gone back in price big picture. Now, there's some fluctuations.
(15:30):
It may go up, it may go down, but gas
is not going back to two thirty five a gallon.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's just not now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There may be pockets in the United States where you
can find it for two thirty five a gallon, but
the national average, no, it's not so. Look and I
know Mark wants to call me the pinko, and I
get that. I get that. I am uber for capitalism,
but I'm eyes wide open, and capitalism will always have
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the problem of it eats itself after a while.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the only way I can describe it, is that fair, Mark,
It's not only fair. I think you stole that from me. Yes,
without regulation, capitalism destroys things and eats itself. Well, I'm
glad we agree. I guess we're both pinkos. No, you
are the pink o. How dare you, sir? How dare you?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Forty and the holidays are almost upon US and holiday
sales this year expected to grow between two point five
and three point five percent over last year, reaching more
than nine hundred and eighty billion dollars nationwide.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This is according to wallet hub.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It's estimated the average American is expected to spend seventeen
hundred and seventy eight dollars this holiday season. According to Deloitte,
where does this break down city by city? Well, you
might be surprised. There are one hundred cities were surveyed
as far as the average expenditure by Americans, and we'll
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tell you the top ten in just a second. But
the California cities which are in the top one hundred
and not in the top ten or as follows. Carlsbad
came in at number one hundred, San Diego at ninety three,
Torrance at ninety thousand, Oaks at eighty six, Upland at
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seventy seven, Yorba Linda at seventy five, San Mateo at
sixty eight, San Francisco at sixty five, which was kind
of surprising to me. You would think San Francisco would
be near the upper end just because of cost of living.
Not so here.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sixty three was Irvine.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Hey Mark Seattle came in at fifty eight, above San Francisco.
Just FYI is that good? You spend the most money
for the holidays, more so than San Francisco. Pleasanton, which
is about maybe five hour drive from here, comes in
at number fifty, boy at Park forty seven. Thirty seven
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is Redwood City. I wouldn't think of Redwood City as
the big spenders when it comes to the holidays, but
I guess I'm wrong. San Ramon came in at thirty four,
Redondo Beach at thirty one, Walnut Creek at twenty eight,
San Jose at twenty seven, And that's it. With the
exception of these top ten cities in which spent the
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most money during the holidays. Here is number ten, Santa Clara,
with an average of thirty four hundred and nineteen dollars
per American family. Number nine, Hey, Mark, you've been to Carmel, Indiana.
(19:10):
I don't think I have. Well, it's thirty four one
hundred and twenty four dollars this holiday season on average
in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That'll take you a long way.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah. Yeah. Number eight Fremont, California. Who the hell is
spending thirty four hundred and eighty three dollars this holiday
season in Fremont. That's a random one, Fremont. That's got
to include a dental implanter two.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So wrong. Number seven.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I've actually never heard of this city Flower Mound, Texas.
Never heard of it, but it's number seven at thirty
five hundred and forty one dollars on average this holiday
season anticipated Flower Mound.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yes, never heard of it, have no idea. I'm just
going to back away from this one slowly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah. Number six.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Bellevue, Washington, with thirty five hundred and fifty dollars anticipate.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, that makes sense. Bellevue is just a yuppie scum
area of near Seattle. Why got to make some personal
y come because I've been there many, many times, and
you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
Number five.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Milpitas, California, thirty six hundred and fifty nine dollars Milpitis, Milpitas.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I like Milpitas, thirty six to fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Number four of the cities in the United States anticipated
to spend the most money this holiday season, mountain View,
California at thirty seven hundred and fifty dollars. That doesn't
surprise me, No, not at all, not mountain View. Neither
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does number three surprise me Palo Alto thirty seven hundred
and nineteen dollars. Of course, yeah, you should sense a
trend at this point. I thought that would have been
number one. Yeah, right, yeah, there's an argument to make
for it in the center of the tech world.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Number two, can you guess the trend?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Sunny Veil, California thirty eight hundred and forty five dollars
per American family this year, estimated just for the holidays.
And anyone have any guesses for Number one? I do Calabasas, Calabasas,
Mark pass any rich Enclaves Stephane that you want to
offer as far as going to spend all this money
(21:53):
on the holidays, San Jose, that was no. We already
called that a Yeah. Then Sattle's sales number twenty seven dang, wow, Okay,
that's kind of surprising. Notice like there's really no big cities. Yeah,
here's number one, Newton, Massachusetts, forty two hundred and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
What are they buying out there?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I have no idea. There's nothing in the state of
Massachusetts worth buying. Are they buying houses for people? What
they do? Maybe maybe for forty two hundred dollars that's
probably first month, not even last month, first month's rent.
Maybe you're gifting someone in an apartment a tiny house or something. Wow,
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they're I don't know,
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redoing their deck. Everybody gets a PS five in Newton
forty two hundred dollars on the holidays. There's no one
I like that much, not even my family. I don't
like anyone that much to spend that much money. Who
am I trying to impress?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Who?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I mean? Does everyone have like ten kids and everyone
needs like a four hundred dollars gift?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Maybe maybe is it like holidays spending period, like for
having friends and family.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Gifts, holidays decorations. Yeah, maybe also bigger families over there.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, maybe they have like eyes wide shut style holiday
parties in Newton.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Maybe those are expensive. I would like to go to one. Well,
not anymore, but I'm saying back in the day, I
would have I would have liked to have gone to
a party that Tom Cruise had gone to that seemed
kind of vaguely enticing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh, there's probably a lot of sugar daddies in Newton.
Who do you get that from small town? A lot
of older dudes who are taking care of younger chicks.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Did that just come out of I don't know what
math he's using. That's new math. That's your default, is it, Twala?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, the older guys who are buying big jewels out
there telling us about your life, Tuala, stop telling us.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
About your dang.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Look, this is what they talk about on social media,
the sugar babies that are looking for the sugar daddies.
And this is the time of year when they start
cuffing up cuffing seasons here and that's who's cuffy.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now we know why Tula works so many hours doing
so much stuff. He's got to stable the support. Tula,
tell us the truth. How many sugar babies do you have?
Just tell give us a round number. How big is
the stable? Come on, I don't have any babies like that.
No sugar babies.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When we come back to Top Cruise Lines for twenty
twenty five and then to Wala, will tell us who
he's taking on his next cruise. Which sugar baby has
received the Golden Rose or whatever it is that you
get when you're the bachelor to go on the cruise
and everything.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
No golden anything. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
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Speaker 2 (25:10):
And I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I love going on cruises. You'll never hear me say differently.
And I'm actually proud that I was able to get
Duwalle on a cruise and he got just a little
bit of a glimpse of what and why. I like
the whole cruising experience. But after you go on one cruise,
you get a better sense of what you want to do,
more of what you want to do, less of what
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you need more of, and what you could do without altogether.
And the only way that you can do that is
to go on a different cruise line or so so
you have a comparison point. I tell people, if if
you just want a starter cruise just to get an
idea of what it's all about, how it works, yeah,
go on Carnival. Feel free. But after that, if the
(25:54):
next time you go on Carnival, it's your fault because
you know better.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You should not go on Carnival for anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Sorry, it's just I can't recommend it, not in good conscience.
And I've gone on multiple Carnival cruises because like when
you're traveling with ten different family members, it has to
meet their price point and you know, maybe in a
different age group, so they're okay with a whole twenty
two year old club vibe of Carnival cruises. Oh not that,
(26:23):
what's wrong with it? Yeah, it's it's like going to
a nightclub in the day at sea all the time,
and all those disturbances and knuckleheadedness that you have to
deal with. I could deal without that, but US News
and World Report has released it's twenty twenty five Best
Cruise Lines rankings, and it highlighted eighteen of the most
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popular cruise lines across six categories, ranging from couples and
families to which distinct parts of the world you're looking
to experience. Not really a countdown, just to let you
know the best cruise lines for the money. In other words,
maybe you're a little price sensitive and you can't spend
five thousand dollars, but you want to have maybe a
(27:08):
three day cruise.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You maybe want to go to the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You want to do something that's affordable and it doesn't
break the bank for you. The best cruise lines for
the money according to the US News and World Report
MSc Cruises, which is more like in Europe at number three.
Number two is Virgin Voyages. I definitely want to try
out Virgin Voyages. Virgin does well with travel. Virgin Airlines
(27:33):
used to be my favorite airlines until Alaska bought it out.
Virgin knows how to take care of its customers in
that way. Number one best cruise line for the money
is Celebrity Cruises. I hear more and more good things
about it, and I have to look into it. For me,
my wife and I were trying to hit a different
continent each time we cruise or travel, so we have
(27:56):
to consider the cruise line itself. I don't care where
Carnival's going. We're not going to be on Carnival, but
it has to be offering a cruise during a certain
time of the year and a certain location for us
to actually do it. So I can say, yeah, I
want to try Virgin voyages, but they may not go
to Greece for example. They may not go to Turkey
(28:17):
or the coast of Africa. You know, those are the
things that we're looking for. But best cruise lines for
families number three Norwegian. My wife and I have tentatively
scheduled a cruise on Norwegian, Number two Tuala, Royal Caribbean
Nice and number one Disney cruise line for families. But
(28:40):
when you say families, for me, I think kids and
I'm not looking for kids. Royal Caribbean has fewer kids
than Carnival.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Buy a Lot, Buy a Lot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You will see kids on Royal Caribbean, but they're not
running a monk like they were on Carnival.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
My kids went on the day one with their mother,
they'd loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I'm quite sure. But if the kids love it, then
that means I won't love it. Yeah, yeah, because that
means they're having too much fun, and that means they're everywhere. Yeah,
you know, and I don't know. I mean, I love kids,
just not your kids. I don't mind being around kids.
I just don't want to be around your kids, not
when I'm on vacation. I see, that's when they were younger. Now,
my son, who is graduated to being able to do
(29:25):
adult things on the cruise, he couldn't get enough of
being on Royal Cribby because he went to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
All of the adults stuff. Right, He was like, oh,
I'm living my best life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Now he gets it now he understands why certain things
appeal to the adults and not to the kids. The
best cruise lines for couples, according to the US News
and World Resorts US News and World Report, Number three
is Celebrity Cruises. We're gonna get Mark on one of
these one of these days, not a chance. Number two
is Seaborn Cruise Line. I have no idea what Seaborn is,
(29:58):
and this is for couples. Maybe it's like one of
those pineapple.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Swapping thing, this couple you know swapping if you're if
you're a couple who's open to a code, an upside
down pineapple on like your door.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Wait, I'm being serious.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm not making this up. It's a thing. Yeah, if
you are into couple swapping or you know orgies, whatever,
leave an upside down pineapple on your door or you
wear pineapple necklace. It's a sign. It's a real sign
that you know you're open to that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Sam Hill, I'm serious. How long have you been in
the swingers lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I have never been into it. I'm just saying I
know some stuff about some stuff. It doesn't mean that
I've done that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So you're denying that you're a swinger.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I am. Yes, I'm denying that I'm a swinger that
has never appealed to me. And Tawala can tell you
when he was invited to a swinger party. Yeah, yeah,
that was.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Why are you trying to deflect on a toula when
I'm asking you about your experiences.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't have any experience as a swinger. I don't
have any desire. It's one of those things. And I
told you about this when I went to gay lesbian club.
The idea of women cavorting and everything. The idea sounds
a whole lot more attractive than the actual reality the
swinger party that I was invited to.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
When the host and hostess sent me and my friends
some of the images and things like that of who's
going to be in attendant, we both looked looked at
each other and said, Oh, we don't want to see
none of these people naked. Hell no, we're not going
to this filthy hog off.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's not eyes wide shut. Okay, it's not what did
you call it, a falthy hog off? Yes, like, look,
that's what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
The whole idea of a nude beach, it sounds a
whole lot more sexy than it is.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Something to say like the people you want to see No, No,
I can corroborate this because there were a couple of
summers in college where I went with a friend on
an ice cream truck to a nude beach. And this
is the maximum of nudism. Nobody you want to see
naked wants to be naked in public. Ever, whatever a
bunch of manatees out there. Manates also why an ice
(32:23):
cream truck that's a great question. Naked people in the
summer crave ice cream products. Let me tell you, why
were you on an ice cream truck going anywhere? Oh?
A friend of mine, it was his job, and he
didn't want to go alone. He was afraid, he wanted
(32:45):
he wanted some protection. None of this makes any sense.
Why you would need protection of a different kind physical protection.
All these leathery, sagging people come up to the truck.
You don't know what's going to happen. You need you
need a backup. You have a damn like a van
door separating you. It's not like they're going to climb
(33:07):
over the sill.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You know, if a person's going to be naked in public,
you don't know what else they're prepared to do. You
come to my way, naked ass right, I'm throwing it
at you. Get away from Who in the hell is.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
On an ice cream truck? Who doesn't need to be
on an ice cream truck? Exactly? Who's riding shotgun on
an ice cream truck?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
If you were to ride an ice cream truck and
you said I'm a little nervous about where I gotta go,
I'd have your back I'd try a friend.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Remember any ice cream truck growing up where there was
more than one person on it?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't remember. Well, did you grow up on a
newdist colony?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I think not no, But why were you taking ice
cream to a newdist colony in the first place?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They spend? Oh they needed a bomb pop?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Sure, okay, actually no, this is disgusting. So I'll tell you.
A naked guy came up to the truck and and
ordered a box of big sticks and then just walked
around and distributed him to all the other naked people.
And he had to ask for that like it was
some kind of joke. Yeah, can I get a box
of big sticks? Okay, we get it, buddy, You're yeah,
(34:13):
there you go. I'm still disturbed right now. I don't
know if I'm disturbed at the big stick story or
the fact that Mark Ronald was on an ice cream
truck at a nudist colony. I'm just telling you. My
friend was to all of us, if you.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Should ask me to accompany you to a newdiest colony
on an ice cream truck. The answer is no.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You're a fair weather friend. The answer is no, And
I'm going to call the police.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
On you to walk because if you have an ice
cream truck, you're going to a newest colony.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You are up to something.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I don't know what, but you are up to something.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, you were more like an alibi. Mark. Don't naked
people deserve some relief in the summer heat. What's wrong
with you too?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
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