May 23, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the announcement of Apple’s next level Smart Glasses and more on ‘Tech Thursday’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier…PLUS – Thoughts on the end of “big box” stores in America - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, we're live on Instagram, YouTube and the iHeartRadio app
joining us in the studio. Of course, it's Thursday, Tech
Thursday is Marsha Collier. Marsha is always great to see you.
And from what I understand, you were listening to the
(00:20):
show on the way in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I was listening to the show and my eyes were
opened up because you're so absolutely right, Tom Cruise. I mean,
think about it. The man broke his leg and he
was acting, right. He held onto a plane and he
was acting. Now, I know people who can't chew gum
and walk at the same time.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Look, it's as far as I'm concerned, it's the same
as delivering your lines. You are still in character as
part of your performance.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And I don't know if any other actor who has
done quite all that, and not even close anyone. So
I think we should come up with a hashtag that
we should start right here and now from the MOCLI show, okay,
and keep it up through the Oscar season. Yes, and
(01:07):
hopefully everybody who's listening, you guys, use it. Let's spread
it around if you're a fan of Tom Cruise, and
let's get this going.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He deserves it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We had talked about Tom Cruise the number four oscar, Right,
Tom Cruise four oscar. That's going to be the hashtag
that we're using going forward, and it'll track back to us.
And when Tom gets his oscar he can think of
that's right, he can talk about the online campaign started
(01:37):
by later of Mokel. Shall we put it in the
motown Yes, Carnegie I think is doing it right now. Okay,
Tom Cruise number four oscar.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We got some time.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We got some time to build it up. That hashtag
out there, that's right. And I don't think people Mark,
I don't think believe me. But I was being one
hundred percent serious.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
No, and you are.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And as I as I thought about it while we
were driving here, he's absolutely right. I mean Tom Cruise,
aside from being incredibly.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Handsome, he all right. I mean that man has aged well,
yes he has.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But the point is in all his movies, I mean
even in Top Gun, even in everything he does, he
acts and he's a believable character and we're sympathetic to
that character.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Never have I looked at the screen and said, oh,
that's some stunt double. They turned the back of the head.
You don't get to actually see him.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
They cut it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh, that's cgi, that's not him on a motorcycle jumping.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Off into a canyon.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, you have to look at it like, is he
really doing that? Oh? Why?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
In every movie it's not like it's a special project.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
In every single movie, with exception of Top Gun Mavericks,
they were not allowed to fly the Fatens.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But no, wonder he's such a pain in the butt
on the set if he's that much of a perfectionist
that he expects that much from himself.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The story that I heard, and I was going over
it with Twala, was that if in Mission Impossible six
he's flying a helicopter in this canyon scene chasing after
Henry Cavill near the end of the movie, Originally from
what I was told, he was not going to be
allowed by his stunt coordinator to actually fly the helicopter
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in like a dog fighting style. So Tom Cruise, who's
not only the actor but also the executive producer and producer,
he has some say in how the movie's gonna be
laid out.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He fired the stunt coordinator.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Got someone who would get him some helicopter flight lessons,
and when you see him in the movie.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's him flying the helicopter.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yes, I mean said it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You said yes, Marsha Carler said kick ass on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean that's it. That's having the balls to put
your mind.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You're worried about kick ass but not balls.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, I'm just messed with marsh Is on one tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But really, Tom Cruise works it for the movies. I
mean that he's the tempest storm of movies. And those
who know who I'm talking about know what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you can see it on our YouTube chat. You
can see it on our YouTube. But they say lower
third that's it. Hashtag Tom Cruise number four OSCAR, Tom
Cruise for OSCAR. We're starting it now. It's a real thing.
We're going to make this happen. We want to make
sure that Tom Cruise receives his flowers from the Motion
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Picture Academy this year.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So if you're on Facebook X or anything and you
see the paid promotion ads, start replying to them with
your comment and our hashtag, and that will be our
They'll know about us right away.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yes they will.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And this is just my small contribution to the glorification
of Tom Cruise.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's the least I could do.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And also, we talk about movies all time and the
combination of technology, and I had to say this before
we go to break.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't know if there's eighty better.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Deal than going to a movie with all these stunts
and a budget of maybe two hundred and fifty million
dollars and you pay twenty dollars to see that, right,
I don't know if there's any.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Better, Like how much entertainment can you get for twenty bucks?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Not deservedly that if you think about, you're not doing
anything except putting down your twenty dollars and sitting down.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
With a big barrel of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm partially to hot dogs, but okay, you're popcorn.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I'm hot con.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I love hot dogs too.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I gotta have two hot dogs with just mustard and relish.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No ketchup. I think Stephan likes ketchup on his hot dogs.
I do see something wrong, right, It's just wrong. It's
just wrong. No, it's wrong, it's wrong. But I'm a
popcorn guy. Oh yeah, you have to be a popcorn guy.
And you have lots of that fake butter on it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, slathered now.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Mark Ronner and Twaller are going to see Mission and
Pop Final Reckoning tonight at some god awful time like
one in the morning.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
One in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I just enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You can't get on the fact that they're gonna come
out at breakfast time. It's a whole new day, you mean,
cocktail out.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We have decided at our house that we're going to
make this a Mission Impossible weekend and see all the
old ones.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, that's what I did start off the show.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've I rewatched all of them starting on Monday to
have everything fresh in my mind. And I have a
greater appreciation of the series now because there's a continuity,
there's a level of quality which is constant.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Exactly because he put it there. He put it there
for us to see. He put in the effort. Let's
take full advantage of this man's work.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Hashtag Tom Cruise number four Oscar. Okay, we have to
take a break, Marshall, Cary, will we come back. Can
we actually talk about some tech?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We have a little bit, but I'll go wild with it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, it's later with moo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
the iHeartRadio app. Remember hashtag Tom Cruise, the number four Oscar.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty KFI.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
and the iHeartRadio app. It's Tech Thursday, so you know
that means that Marsha carre joins us in studio Marsha.
Last segment, we talked about Tom Cruise hashtag Tom Cruise
four number four Oscar. Let's talk a little bit about tech.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, I had all these pages, pages, pages pages of
technology to talk about, and since we only have half
the segment, I'm gonna go a little bit rogue. It
seems that Apple has decided not to go ahead right
away with their new VR glasses, I mean AR glasses.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I could see that given the problem they had with
their last iteration of AR goggles.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, let me show you a pair of AR goggles
that actually worked. I'm gonna take off my headphones. Okay,
so these are Google glass I remember twenty thirteen. And
there's a little screen up here where if you look
at a sign it's in another language, it translates into English.
(08:17):
You are lost, you call up a map on your phone,
it'll come up here, you can follow the map, you
can take movies. I did interviews with people with these
that I used on the web, and these were truly ar.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why do you think that they did not catch on
in the way that Google had hoped were? They are
just genuinely too early for their time, ahead of the time,
way too early. I mean, who would believe that this
piece right here is a bone a sound condenser, so
the sound goes through the bone in your head.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't need an ear piece. I mean, how how
far ahead? This was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And you look at what Meta's doing with their glasses
now and you think Google just wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Absolutely. I mean people were afraid, weren't they. I mean
people were afraid, Oh no, you're going to be taking
my picture.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Remember, oh I remember, Oh I remember? And it was
a big thing. Now it's like, please take my picture.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah. They called us glassholes, Yes, it did. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Her second class. I was in New York. I walked
around New York. I walked around shining with these on it.
This is true, AR, and it only weighs a few ounces.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I wonder if Google is going to have some sort
of updated version of that technology because Meta has leaned
heavily into AR and also their glasses which have all
sorts of multifunctionality, but not Google Apple we were talking
about they have, but not Google.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I wonder why I think they should and I think
they are because I know there is several industrial versions
of Google glass that are used in machining and surgery
for doctors to look and see inside bodies. I think
it's still valuable. But do people want to walk around
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with something that look like this?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't mind, see.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's the thing, and I think that is the appeal
and a llure of metas glasses in there. If I
don't know, they have a partnership with ray Band, and
from just first glance, they look like just a pair
of ray band glasses, so you're not drawing attention to yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Except you know that those two little dots in the
front are cameras that are going to take.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But if you know what you're looking for, but the
glasses themselves don't draw attention.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I am a huge fan Bose as a pair of
ray Band style glasses that are bluetooth that when I'm
taking my walks, I can play my music through the
sunglasses and to me, that's all I need. I don't
need really to be taking pictures. I mean, this was
nice with the maps and everything like this, but I
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don't really think they can do it in the right
size and weight that people want, like in a ray
band style glass. I mean, this is they did it once.
I don't know where the technology went. It's like we
don't remember how we got to the moon.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But you mentioned mentioned the weight. The weight doesn't matter.
When we tried Apple's ar oh my goodness, it was
felt like it was a boulder on our on our head,
wrapped around our neck, and it was way too heavy.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh so all those things really do matter. But I
do believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
More products are about timing, and there's a being a
willingness by the public to adopt new technology.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Now, people are willing to adopt ar goggles.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now, people are into where glasses, multifunctional glasses and what
have you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, computer lenses.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On some level, we're talking about Mission Impossible, and prominently
featured in Mission Impossible is a contact lens, which is
basically a shrunken down version of Google Glass what Google
Glass could do. So we all know where the technology
is actually headed. It's just whether we the general public,
are willing to buy in.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But this was in twenty thirteen and people were so
I don't even know the word to use that. They
put them down so badly, and they never really went
public because people were so anti them.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's a different generation now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
There's a literal different generation of tech buying people who
are open to things now that we weren't ten twelve
years ago. Now we use social media more than ever
before less so in twenty thirteen, now had social media platforms,
but they weren't integrated in every aspect of our lives professionally,
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personally like they are now.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well, what was.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Really cool also on these glasses is I have a
pair their sunglass lenses that you can snap into these
and wear them like sunglasses. So this was the multipurpose thing.
I don't know where Google, I believe in you. This
was a great product. I don't know where you got it.
You know, it's like probably hidden away somewhere, or you're
(13:28):
planning something really big, but we're waiting for it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're a student of technology as I am, and if
we remember how technology evolves, it's almost never the company
which starts it, or invents it, or first publicizes it,
which gets the greatest benefit from it. Like if I
were to tell you sailor phone, people probably think Motorola,
where are they now? If I were to tell you
(13:53):
music synthesizer, they would be moo, where are they now?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Oh no, Motorola just came out with a new flip phone.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Right, but they're not a market leader in any way.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And as a matter of fact, Gemini we were going
to talk about Android at Google Io, which we will
talk about next week. Serge A Brin, one of the
founders of Google, showed up there for a panel discussion
on Gemini AI. And I have found Gemini AI. It's
(14:26):
a little pushy, but it's for good.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's very good.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Marshall Callier very quickly. How can people find you and
also find your books?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I am on the Dreaded X at Marsha Collier. I'm
also on Facebook and Instagram and my books. Just search
Marsha Collier on Amazon and you will be shocked. My
current book is Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies, and
it's really not just for seniors. It's for dummies.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Marshall Callier, I told you off air now I'm telling
you on air. My mother loves you, loves hearing you
on this show, and she watches us now because she
watches the YouTube show on her smart TV. She logs
into the YouTube app and watches the show on her
smart TV. And I think that's due in large part
to the tech conversations that I've had with her through you,
(15:16):
and she thoroughly enjoys her technology.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We need to empower everybody to use the tech because
it will improve your life.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Marshall, See you next week, See you next week.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
CAFI mister mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, and the
iHeartRadio app. And we have this ongoing conversation. Our economy
is evolving. You can't point to one thing necessarily, you
can't point to another thing necessarily.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's a variety of things.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
For example, JC Penny is closing stores nationwide this week,
in the total of seven stores, one in California.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
And you might think J. C. Penny is still in business.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, just barely, probably just circling the dream like a
lot of retailers these days. And you can say, well,
it's the economy, it's the terrace. Yes, no, maybe, so
it's a little bit more complicated than that. You can
look at a store like jcpenny and ask yourself, is
(16:39):
there anything that I would buy at JC Penny that
I can't get online? Is there anything that I would
buy at JC Penny that I would not buy online?
And also get quicker than if I drove my ass
to Jcpenny, waited in line, hopefully they have my size
(16:59):
I don't know in advance, and then drive home. What
is the upside? And it's not just about jacon Pitty,
it's what's the upside to go to any big box retailer.
It could be jac Pitty today, but it could be
Best Buy tomorrow. It could be I don't know, the Coles,
it could be any place where here Toofore we had
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to go to the store to get what we wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
That time is gone.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I could actually know, as a matter of fact, I
have actually done my shopping from this chair from the
studio during the show on multiple occasions. Or I just
forgot I need to order this, I'll do it during
the break. Oh I forgot I gotta get some toothpaste.
My wife said to bring home back and I can
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order it from Amazon. And if it doesn't arrive that day,
depending on how early today I order it, I may
get it the next day. And you know what, I've
saved myself the trouble of driving to a store possibly
not having it and then having to drive back. J. C.
(18:12):
Penny is fighting uphill battle that it's never going to win.
And JC Pitty is just the last and latest example
of how stores like it are going to be downsizing consistently.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And it's not just JC Penny.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
When I say it's a complicated discussion, it's not just this,
not just that I mentioned Target earlier in the evening.
Target at the moment is not closing stores, but Target
is struggling. The reason why Target is struggling is not
why Target says it's struggling. Target has had a number
(18:55):
of problems, and they may want to point the finger
at terriffs. No, no, no, no, Target doesn't get that. They
don't get that latitude because people have been boycotting Target
for the better part of six or seven months, and
since they have been boycotting Target. Target did not meet
its revenue earnings expectation. It's projection and target. I think
(19:18):
someone look it up for me. But I think the
CEO lost like seventy percent of his pay, which was
tied to revenue projections.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
He was a huge number. Can't blame that on the tariffs.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
But Target, just like other retailers, they're dealing with an
evolving economy. They're dealing with a customer base who is
very angry at Target.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Go ahead, Stephan, and you're going to say it says
his paid decreased by forty five twenty four, reaching nine
point nine million, And like you said, this reduction was
due to the company's financial struggles, including miss missing performance Target.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, that has nothing to do with tariffs.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And we can talk about how terras will have an
actual impact on businesses. And I said a few weeks ago,
the rubber's going to meet the road and we're going
to see how all this is going to shake out.
I know that the President has told some businesses just
eat the tariffs. I think Walmart said that they're not
going to raise their prices, or I think they said
they're not going to raise their prices. But my point
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is that's a discussion which is clearly connected to terrafs.
Targets issues are not connected to terrafs. Now, terriffs may
make their issues worse, but that's different from what JC
Penny is going through, and that's different from what Walmart
is going through. But our economy, taking me back up
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to the top, is ever evolving. How we as consumers
find our goods, how we choose to spend our money
is completely different.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Now we can shop.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Anywhere, anytime, on any electronic device, provided we have Internet
connection and don't need to actually walk our ass into
any store. And you know, like our loathe Amazon, they
beat everyone to this. They saw the evolution of our economy.
They saw how people as consumers want the convenience of
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being able to buy anything and everything without having to
sacrifice their time to go get something. Now, we didn't
have the infrastructure around the dot com boom. I remember
he had all these websites like groceries dot Com, and
they failed because people didn't trust the idea of getting
groceries via the internet. Now you got door Dash, You
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got all these places which will get your food and
shop for you and bring it to you, and we're
comfortable with it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Why because now we're used to it.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
That goes to your point about people that started are
rarely the ones that actually succeed. True, because we had
all these delivery services ten years ago, but like you said,
no one trusted them, and now we have someone shopping
for us.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I distinctly remember I refuse to buy clothes that I
had not tried on in invest I'm not going to
buy a pair.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Of shoes on the internet. How am I supposed to
know that they actually fit?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Then, when you had retailers like Nike or Adidas having
these extensive online presences, then I could say, wait a minute, Okay,
I know my size, and I know my size, and
Nike I could maybe find the shoe that I want
and since I know the size, let me just go
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ahead and see if I can buy it. And then
the experience was good enough for me to try it again.
But it took me a long time to get there,
a long time. Seriously, I was not going to buy
a pair of shoes like what am I supposed to do?
And also the return policy wasn't where it is now
like Amazon. Look, I got a shirt off Amazon and
(23:02):
it was my fault, I put in the wrong size.
But I'd never return anything. So Amazon was nice enough
to say, you know, just go ahead and keep it.
We'll refund your money. And if you use Amazon, you
know what I'm talking about now. My wife she would
return is stuff every single day, So no, I don't
like it.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
That was going to be my next point is that
you know women that do the try on hauls and stuff.
They'll buy a bunch of clothes, see what fits. You're sexist,
see to me the what about the men? See what fits?
And then what doesn't fit. They're able to just return
it and then that's it. And it's the convenience of
being able to do it all online. Wait, this is
what my wife does. There's nothing illegal, but this is
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what she does. In her goings around.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
She may stop buy a store and she'll see something
that she likes, and then she'll get the skewed number
and she'll see where she can find it for less,
and while she's in the store, she'll either get it
off Amazon or some other location and then undercut the
store that she's actually in and not make the player
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purchase there.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That's just smart. It is smart.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But that's how retailers like a JC Penny or a
Target or a Walmart now have to compete, and I
learned it from her. Whenever I see anything, it's like,
let me use my Google lens, going back to our
tech conversation, see what that item is at some of
the location, physical location or online, and then I'll just
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go ahead and buy it for a lesser price from
my phone as opposed to going to the register, because
I know I'll get it in a day or two
at most, and I'll also save money free delivery. It's
kind of hard to beat Amazon right now with all
these And I'm not saying that I'm ignorant to the
(24:55):
problems that employees have. I'm not pushing that aside. I'm
just saying as a consumer, I get the appeal, and
it took me a long time to get there because
I was eBay everything. Now I'm like eBay nothing because
Eba takes too freakin' long. If I need something very obscure,
I'll still do eBay. But if I need something like tomorrow,
if I need some toothpaste or something, and with my job, oh,
(25:19):
I forgot to go to the store, I don't want
to go to the store.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
On the way home.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Click click click click click click, it's on the way.
You'll be there in the morning. Good enough, good enough? Yeah,
because Mark, don't you use eBay for like your collection stuff?
I use eBay to buy up the childhood I was designed.
I don't buy it for anything I need urgently. If
you can be patient, eBay is perfect for that. It's
perfect for like old James Bond posters, Okay, Harry Nietzsche
(25:43):
niche stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. Our
economy is continuing to evolve. We're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app, YouTube and Instagram and when we come back. Oh,
by the way, Nike, since I mentioned them, they're getting
ready to raise their prices, but they're saying specifically it's
because of the terriffs.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
This is Later with mo Kelly live on Instagram, YouTube,
and the iHeartRadio app. Another company which is having to
adjust in this moment of economic uncertainty. My phrase Nike.
I'm a Nike guy through and through. I buy nothing
but Nike shoes. When it comes to athletic wear. I'm
not an Adidas guy. My wife is Adidas. I'm Nike,
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so I am super sensitive to anything that happens at Nike.
Nike says that it's going to have to raise prices
over the Trump tariffs. If you know anything about footwear,
especially athletic wear, most of our sports shoes are sneakers
as they call them, are made in Asia, mostly in China, Taiwan,
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those countries, and if there's any type of tariff which
is going to be put on China or Hong Kong
or Taiwan, that cost is going to be passed on
to us as a consumer. Now we've heard President Trump
ask certain companies to just eat the tariffs. I don't
know why he would say that if the country is
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supposedly paying the terraffs. But we've told them all along
that we as the consumer, are going to have to
pay the terraffs. Why because companies want to maintain their
profit margins. And Chris seven seven seven in the YouTube
Jet said Nike has a ninety eight percent profit margin,
but want to pass the terraffs onto its customers.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Well, I thought this was the land of capitalism.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Why is the company going to do something out of
the goodness of its heart when they know that you,
the customer, are still going to pay it. Now, you
can vote with your feet. You can either pay it
or not pay it. If you are like me, you
know anything about Nike.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
None of their shoes are cheap. They are not cheap.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Now, if an extra ten to fifteen dollars or whatever
the tariff may turn into is the breaking point, forew,
then don't support the company, don't buy the product. It's
just that simple. But if you are expecting Corporate America
to do things for the benefit of customers and not
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their bottom line, you are diluting yourself. They are in
the business of making money. They are in the business
of meeting their revenue projections and also satisfying their shareholders.
Nike is a publicly traded company. They have revenue projections.
And if they don't make their revenue projections because they
don't want to pass along the increased cost of production
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VISA V tariffs, well you know you're expecting the wrong
thing to happen.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
They're in the job.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
They're in the business of making money, not doing things
to help your bottom line. But to help their bottom line.
Go ahead, Mark, go ahead, say try to tell you.
I hadn't really planned on chiming in here. But isn't
telling a company how much they can and should charge
sort of communism?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yes, the answer is yes, yes it is. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But by the way, I don't understand this brand loyalty
you have to Nike and your wife to Adidas. I
think I'm wearing sketches right now, but I couldn't care less,
and there's no way on earth I would get in
some kind of sharks and Jets knife fight over who
has the better shoes. No, well it's not better. Remember
I love sketches as well. But when it comes to
sports where it's Nike one, it's shoes, which we're specifically
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talking about, they're wider. I think I'm like an e
with Okay, so you have flippers, yeah, pretty much. So
that is why I prefer Nike. That fits my foot
better than Adidas, which happened to be much more narrow.
That's all it is is how the shoe fits. There's
no the shoe fits. Okay, all right, and it fits,
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thank you very much. That is not a shot. That
is absolutely not a rim shot. It was an artful
inclusion of a common phrase in our lexicon.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
If you say so real quick talking about why Nike
should or should not fork over you know, their earnings
to take us. There's a company I told you about
when we the tariffs are first going into a place
where I ordered this limited edition action figure and the
company said, hey, we're sorry. With these terrorists, the price
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is going to go up. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. They adjusted an EMO saying even with the
tariffs coming back down slightly, they are still going to
be in the red for production.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
They said.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
In order to be people of their words, they're going
to keep the costs that we originally were quoted the same,
but it's going to them to go out of business.
So this is a grand opening, grand closing sale. They
are still going to ship the figures out for what
they were quoted, but it's going to be too cost
prohibitive for them to stay in business to fulfill all
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the orders.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Are some businesses probably using the terrace as a fake
excuse to charge more money to consumers?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Probably? Probably, But at.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The same time, I'm not going to fall to a
company for being unwilling to make less money.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
They're putting it to you.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
You don't have to pay the higher prices, but you
can't be expecting them to roll over to make you
less comfortable. When I say I'm a capitalist, that's a
part of it. It's like the business gets to decide
and then the market gets to decide. I think we
need to know, after all that what this figure is
that Tala is buying. It's a I think it's a
blow up doll if I'm not mistaken, of course it is, yes,
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trade overseas. Those are hard to make.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
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Okay, we're live on Instagram, YouTube and the iHeartRadio app
joining us in the studio. Of course, it's Thursday, Tech
Thursday is Marsha Collier. Marsha is always great to see you.
And from what I understand, you were listening to the
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show on the way in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I was listening to the show and my eyes were
opened up because you're so absolutely right, Tom Cruise. I mean,
think about it. The man broke his leg and he
was acting, right. He held onto a plane and he
was acting. Now, I know people who can't chew gum
and walk at the same time.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Look, it's as far as I'm concerned, it's the same
as delivering your lines. You are still in character as
part of your performance.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And I don't know if any other actor who has
done quite all that, and not even close anyone. So
I think we should come up with a hashtag that
we should start right here and now from the MOCLI show, okay,
and keep it up through the Oscar season. Yes, and
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hopefully everybody who's listening, you guys, use it. Let's spread
it around if you're a fan of Tom Cruise, and
let's get this going.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
He deserves it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We had talked about Tom Cruise the number four oscar, Right,
Tom Cruise four oscar. That's going to be the hashtag
that we're using going forward, and it'll track back to us.
And when Tom gets his oscar he can think of
that's right, he can talk about the online campaign started
(01:37):
by later of Mokel. Shall we put it in the
motown Yes, Carnegie I think is doing it right now. Okay,
Tom Cruise number four oscar.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We got some time.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We got some time to build it up. That hashtag
out there, that's right. And I don't think people Mark,
I don't think believe me. But I was being one
hundred percent serious.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
No, and you are.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And as I as I thought about it while we
were driving here, he's absolutely right. I mean Tom Cruise,
aside from being incredibly.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Handsome, he all right. I mean that man has aged well,
yes he has.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But the point is in all his movies, I mean
even in Top Gun, even in everything he does, he
acts and he's a believable character and we're sympathetic to
that character.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Never have I looked at the screen and said, oh,
that's some stunt double. They turned the back of the head.
You don't get to actually see him.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
They cut it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh, that's cgi, that's not him on a motorcycle jumping.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Off into a canyon.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, you have to look at it like, is he
really doing that? Oh? Why?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
In every movie it's not like it's a special project.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
In every single movie, with exception of Top Gun Mavericks,
they were not allowed to fly the Fatens.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But no, wonder he's such a pain in the butt
on the set if he's that much of a perfectionist
that he expects that much from himself.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The story that I heard, and I was going over
it with Twala, was that if in Mission Impossible six
he's flying a helicopter in this canyon scene chasing after
Henry Cavill near the end of the movie, Originally from
what I was told, he was not going to be
allowed by his stunt coordinator to actually fly the helicopter
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in like a dog fighting style. So Tom Cruise, who's
not only the actor but also the executive producer and producer,
he has some say in how the movie's gonna be
laid out.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He fired the stunt coordinator.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Got someone who would get him some helicopter flight lessons,
and when you see him in the movie.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's him flying the helicopter.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yes, I mean said it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You said yes, Marsha Carler said kick ass on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean that's it. That's having the balls to put
your mind.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You're worried about kick ass but not balls.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, I'm just messed with marsh Is on one tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But really, Tom Cruise works it for the movies. I
mean that he's the tempest storm of movies. And those
who know who I'm talking about know what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you can see it on our YouTube chat. You
can see it on our YouTube. But they say lower
third that's it. Hashtag Tom Cruise number four OSCAR, Tom
Cruise for OSCAR. We're starting it now. It's a real thing.
We're going to make this happen. We want to make
sure that Tom Cruise receives his flowers from the Motion
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Picture Academy this year.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So if you're on Facebook X or anything and you
see the paid promotion ads, start replying to them with
your comment and our hashtag, and that will be our
They'll know about us right away.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yes they will.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And this is just my small contribution to the glorification
of Tom Cruise.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's the least I could do.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And also, we talk about movies all time and the
combination of technology, and I had to say this before
we go to break.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I don't know if there's eighty better.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Deal than going to a movie with all these stunts
and a budget of maybe two hundred and fifty million
dollars and you pay twenty dollars to see that, right,
I don't know if there's any.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Better, Like how much entertainment can you get for twenty bucks?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Not deservedly that if you think about, you're not doing
anything except putting down your twenty dollars and sitting down.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
With a big barrel of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm partially to hot dogs, but okay, you're popcorn.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I'm hot con.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I love hot dogs too.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I gotta have two hot dogs with just mustard and relish.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No ketchup. I think Stephan likes ketchup on his hot dogs.
I do see something wrong, right, It's just wrong. It's
just wrong. No, it's wrong, it's wrong. But I'm a
popcorn guy. Oh yeah, you have to be a popcorn guy.
And you have lots of that fake butter on it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yes, slathered now.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Mark Ronner and Twaller are going to see Mission and
Pop Final Reckoning tonight at some god awful time like
one in the morning.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
One in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I just enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You can't get on the fact that they're gonna come
out at breakfast time. It's a whole new day, you mean,
cocktail out.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We have decided at our house that we're going to
make this a Mission Impossible weekend and see all the
old ones.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, that's what I did start off the show.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've I rewatched all of them starting on Monday to
have everything fresh in my mind. And I have a
greater appreciation of the series now because there's a continuity,
there's a level of quality which is constant.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Exactly because he put it there. He put it there
for us to see. He put in the effort. Let's
take full advantage of this man's work.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Hashtag Tom Cruise number four Oscar. Okay, we have to
take a break, Marshall, Cary, will we come back. Can
we actually talk about some tech?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We have a little bit, but I'll go wild with it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, it's later with moo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
the iHeartRadio app. Remember hashtag Tom Cruise, the number four Oscar.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty KFI.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube, Instagram,
and the iHeartRadio app. It's Tech Thursday, so you know
that means that Marsha carre joins us in studio Marsha.
Last segment, we talked about Tom Cruise hashtag Tom Cruise
four number four Oscar. Let's talk a little bit about tech.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, I had all these pages, pages, pages pages of
technology to talk about, and since we only have half
the segment, I'm gonna go a little bit rogue. It
seems that Apple has decided not to go ahead right
away with their new VR glasses, I mean AR glasses.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I could see that given the problem they had with
their last iteration of AR goggles.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, let me show you a pair of AR goggles
that actually worked. I'm gonna take off my headphones. Okay,
so these are Google glass I remember twenty thirteen. And
there's a little screen up here where if you look
at a sign it's in another language, it translates into English.
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You are lost, you call up a map on your phone,
it'll come up here, you can follow the map, you
can take movies. I did interviews with people with these
that I used on the web, and these were truly ar.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why do you think that they did not catch on
in the way that Google had hoped were? They are
just genuinely too early for their time, ahead of the time,
way too early. I mean, who would believe that this
piece right here is a bone a sound condenser, so
the sound goes through the bone in your head.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You don't need an ear piece. I mean, how how
far ahead? This was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And you look at what Meta's doing with their glasses
now and you think Google just wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Absolutely. I mean people were afraid, weren't they. I mean
people were afraid, Oh no, you're going to be taking
my picture.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Remember, oh I remember, Oh I remember? And it was
a big thing. Now it's like, please take my picture.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah. They called us glassholes, Yes, it did. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Her second class. I was in New York. I walked
around New York. I walked around shining with these on it.
This is true, AR, and it only weighs a few ounces.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I wonder if Google is going to have some sort
of updated version of that technology because Meta has leaned
heavily into AR and also their glasses which have all
sorts of multifunctionality, but not Google Apple we were talking
about they have, but not Google.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I wonder why I think they should and I think
they are because I know there is several industrial versions
of Google glass that are used in machining and surgery
for doctors to look and see inside bodies. I think
it's still valuable. But do people want to walk around
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with something that look like this?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't mind, see.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's the thing, and I think that is the appeal
and a llure of metas glasses in there. If I
don't know, they have a partnership with ray Band, and
from just first glance, they look like just a pair
of ray band glasses, so you're not drawing attention to yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Except you know that those two little dots in the
front are cameras that are going to take.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
But if you know what you're looking for, but the
glasses themselves don't draw attention.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I am a huge fan Bose as a pair of
ray Band style glasses that are bluetooth that when I'm
taking my walks, I can play my music through the
sunglasses and to me, that's all I need. I don't
need really to be taking pictures. I mean, this was
nice with the maps and everything like this, but I
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don't really think they can do it in the right
size and weight that people want, like in a ray
band style glass. I mean, this is they did it once.
I don't know where the technology went. It's like we
don't remember how we got to the moon.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But you mentioned mentioned the weight. The weight doesn't matter.
When we tried Apple's ar oh my goodness, it was
felt like it was a boulder on our on our head,
wrapped around our neck, and it was way too heavy.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Uh so all those things really do matter. But I
do believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
More products are about timing, and there's a being a
willingness by the public to adopt new technology.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Now, people are willing to adopt ar goggles.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Now, people are into where glasses, multifunctional glasses and what
have you.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You know, computer lenses.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
On some level, we're talking about Mission Impossible, and prominently
featured in Mission Impossible is a contact lens, which is
basically a shrunken down version of Google Glass what Google
Glass could do. So we all know where the technology
is actually headed. It's just whether we the general public,
are willing to buy in.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But this was in twenty thirteen and people were so
I don't even know the word to use that. They
put them down so badly, and they never really went
public because people were so anti them.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
It's a different generation now.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
There's a literal different generation of tech buying people who
are open to things now that we weren't ten twelve
years ago. Now we use social media more than ever
before less so in twenty thirteen, now had social media platforms,
but they weren't integrated in every aspect of our lives professionally,
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personally like they are now.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well, what was.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Really cool also on these glasses is I have a
pair their sunglass lenses that you can snap into these
and wear them like sunglasses. So this was the multipurpose thing.
I don't know where Google, I believe in you. This
was a great product. I don't know where you got it.
You know, it's like probably hidden away somewhere, or you're
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planning something really big, but we're waiting for it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're a student of technology as I am, and if
we remember how technology evolves, it's almost never the company
which starts it, or invents it, or first publicizes it,
which gets the greatest benefit from it. Like if I
were to tell you sailor phone, people probably think Motorola,
where are they now? If I were to tell you
(13:53):
music synthesizer, they would be moo, where are they now?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Oh no, Motorola just came out with a new flip phone.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Right, but they're not a market leader in any way.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And as a matter of fact, Gemini we were going
to talk about Android at Google Io, which we will
talk about next week. Serge A Brin, one of the
founders of Google, showed up there for a panel discussion
on Gemini AI. And I have found Gemini AI. It's
(14:26):
a little pushy, but it's for good.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's very good.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Marshall Callier very quickly. How can people find you and
also find your books?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I am on the Dreaded X at Marsha Collier. I'm
also on Facebook and Instagram and my books. Just search
Marsha Collier on Amazon and you will be shocked. My
current book is Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies, and
it's really not just for seniors. It's for dummies.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Marshall Callier, I told you off air now I'm telling
you on air. My mother loves you, loves hearing you
on this show, and she watches us now because she
watches the YouTube show on her smart TV. She logs
into the YouTube app and watches the show on her
smart TV. And I think that's due in large part
to the tech conversations that I've had with her through you,
(15:16):
and she thoroughly enjoys her technology.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We need to empower everybody to use the tech because
it will improve your life.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Marshall, See you next week, See you next week.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
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Speaker 5 (15:30):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
CAFI mister mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, and the
iHeartRadio app. And we have this ongoing conversation. Our economy
is evolving. You can't point to one thing necessarily, you
can't point to another thing necessarily.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
It's a variety of things.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
For example, JC Penny is closing stores nationwide this week,
in the total of seven stores, one in California.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
And you might think J. C. Penny is still in business.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, just barely, probably just circling the dream like a
lot of retailers these days. And you can say, well,
it's the economy, it's the terrace. Yes, no, maybe, so
it's a little bit more complicated than that. You can
look at a store like jcpenny and ask yourself, is
(16:39):
there anything that I would buy at JC Penny that
I can't get online? Is there anything that I would
buy at JC Penny that I would not buy online?
And also get quicker than if I drove my ass
to Jcpenny, waited in line, hopefully they have my size
(16:59):
I don't know in advance, and then drive home. What
is the upside? And it's not just about jacon Pitty,
it's what's the upside to go to any big box retailer.
It could be jac Pitty today, but it could be
Best Buy tomorrow. It could be I don't know, the Coles,
it could be any place where here Toofore we had
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to go to the store to get what we wanted.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
That time is gone.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I could actually know, as a matter of fact, I
have actually done my shopping from this chair from the
studio during the show on multiple occasions. Or I just
forgot I need to order this, I'll do it during
the break. Oh I forgot I gotta get some toothpaste.
My wife said to bring home back and I can
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order it from Amazon. And if it doesn't arrive that day,
depending on how early today I order it, I may
get it the next day. And you know what, I've
saved myself the trouble of driving to a store possibly
not having it and then having to drive back. J. C.
(18:12):
Penny is fighting uphill battle that it's never going to win.
And JC Pitty is just the last and latest example
of how stores like it are going to be downsizing consistently.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And it's not just JC Penny.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
When I say it's a complicated discussion, it's not just this,
not just that I mentioned Target earlier in the evening.
Target at the moment is not closing stores, but Target
is struggling. The reason why Target is struggling is not
why Target says it's struggling. Target has had a number
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of problems, and they may want to point the finger
at terriffs. No, no, no, no, Target doesn't get that. They
don't get that latitude because people have been boycotting Target
for the better part of six or seven months, and
since they have been boycotting Target. Target did not meet
its revenue earnings expectation. It's projection and target. I think
(19:18):
someone look it up for me. But I think the
CEO lost like seventy percent of his pay, which was
tied to revenue projections.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
He was a huge number. Can't blame that on the tariffs.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
But Target, just like other retailers, they're dealing with an
evolving economy. They're dealing with a customer base who is
very angry at Target.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Go ahead, Stephan, and you're going to say it says
his paid decreased by forty five twenty four, reaching nine
point nine million, And like you said, this reduction was
due to the company's financial struggles, including miss missing performance Target.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, that has nothing to do with tariffs.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And we can talk about how terras will have an
actual impact on businesses. And I said a few weeks ago,
the rubber's going to meet the road and we're going
to see how all this is going to shake out.
I know that the President has told some businesses just
eat the tariffs. I think Walmart said that they're not
going to raise their prices, or I think they said
they're not going to raise their prices. But my point
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is that's a discussion which is clearly connected to terrafs.
Targets issues are not connected to terrafs. Now, terriffs may
make their issues worse, but that's different from what JC
Penny is going through, and that's different from what Walmart
is going through. But our economy, taking me back up
(20:46):
to the top, is ever evolving. How we as consumers
find our goods, how we choose to spend our money
is completely different.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Now we can shop.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Anywhere, anytime, on any electronic device, provided we have Internet
connection and don't need to actually walk our ass into
any store. And you know, like our loathe Amazon, they
beat everyone to this. They saw the evolution of our economy.
They saw how people as consumers want the convenience of
(21:21):
being able to buy anything and everything without having to
sacrifice their time to go get something. Now, we didn't
have the infrastructure around the dot com boom. I remember
he had all these websites like groceries dot Com, and
they failed because people didn't trust the idea of getting
groceries via the internet. Now you got door Dash, You
(21:45):
got all these places which will get your food and
shop for you and bring it to you, and we're
comfortable with it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Why because now we're used to it.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
That goes to your point about people that started are
rarely the ones that actually succeed. True, because we had
all these delivery services ten years ago, but like you said,
no one trusted them, and now we have someone shopping
for us.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I distinctly remember I refuse to buy clothes that I
had not tried on in invest I'm not going to
buy a pair.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Of shoes on the internet. How am I supposed to
know that they actually fit?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Then, when you had retailers like Nike or Adidas having
these extensive online presences, then I could say, wait a minute, Okay,
I know my size, and I know my size, and
Nike I could maybe find the shoe that I want
and since I know the size, let me just go
(22:42):
ahead and see if I can buy it. And then
the experience was good enough for me to try it again.
But it took me a long time to get there,
a long time. Seriously, I was not going to buy
a pair of shoes like what am I supposed to do?
And also the return policy wasn't where it is now
like Amazon. Look, I got a shirt off Amazon and
(23:02):
it was my fault, I put in the wrong size.
But I'd never return anything. So Amazon was nice enough
to say, you know, just go ahead and keep it.
We'll refund your money. And if you use Amazon, you
know what I'm talking about now. My wife she would
return is stuff every single day, So no, I don't
like it.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
That was going to be my next point is that
you know women that do the try on hauls and stuff.
They'll buy a bunch of clothes, see what fits. You're sexist,
see to me the what about the men? See what fits?
And then what doesn't fit. They're able to just return
it and then that's it. And it's the convenience of
being able to do it all online. Wait, this is
what my wife does. There's nothing illegal, but this is
(23:43):
what she does. In her goings around.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
She may stop buy a store and she'll see something
that she likes, and then she'll get the skewed number
and she'll see where she can find it for less,
and while she's in the store, she'll either get it
off Amazon or some other location and then undercut the
store that she's actually in and not make the player
(24:07):
purchase there.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
That's just smart. It is smart.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But that's how retailers like a JC Penny or a
Target or a Walmart now have to compete, and I
learned it from her. Whenever I see anything, it's like,
let me use my Google lens, going back to our
tech conversation, see what that item is at some of
the location, physical location or online, and then I'll just
(24:34):
go ahead and buy it for a lesser price from
my phone as opposed to going to the register, because
I know I'll get it in a day or two
at most, and I'll also save money free delivery. It's
kind of hard to beat Amazon right now with all
these And I'm not saying that I'm ignorant to the
(24:55):
problems that employees have. I'm not pushing that aside. I'm
just saying as a consumer, I get the appeal, and
it took me a long time to get there because
I was eBay everything. Now I'm like eBay nothing because
Eba takes too freakin' long. If I need something very obscure,
I'll still do eBay. But if I need something like tomorrow,
if I need some toothpaste or something, and with my job, oh,
(25:19):
I forgot to go to the store, I don't want
to go to the store.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
On the way home.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Click click click click click click, it's on the way.
You'll be there in the morning. Good enough, good enough? Yeah,
because Mark, don't you use eBay for like your collection stuff?
I use eBay to buy up the childhood I was designed.
I don't buy it for anything I need urgently. If
you can be patient, eBay is perfect for that. It's
perfect for like old James Bond posters, Okay, Harry Nietzsche
(25:43):
niche stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. Our
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by the way, Nike, since I mentioned them, they're getting
ready to raise their prices, but they're saying specifically it's
because of the terriffs.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
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Speaker 4 (26:11):
Mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
This is Later with mo Kelly live on Instagram, YouTube,
and the iHeartRadio app. Another company which is having to
adjust in this moment of economic uncertainty. My phrase Nike.
I'm a Nike guy through and through. I buy nothing
but Nike shoes. When it comes to athletic wear. I'm
not an Adidas guy. My wife is Adidas. I'm Nike,
(26:35):
so I am super sensitive to anything that happens at Nike.
Nike says that it's going to have to raise prices
over the Trump tariffs. If you know anything about footwear,
especially athletic wear, most of our sports shoes are sneakers
as they call them, are made in Asia, mostly in China, Taiwan,
(27:01):
those countries, and if there's any type of tariff which
is going to be put on China or Hong Kong
or Taiwan, that cost is going to be passed on
to us as a consumer. Now we've heard President Trump
ask certain companies to just eat the tariffs. I don't
know why he would say that if the country is
(27:21):
supposedly paying the terraffs. But we've told them all along
that we as the consumer, are going to have to
pay the terraffs. Why because companies want to maintain their
profit margins. And Chris seven seven seven in the YouTube
Jet said Nike has a ninety eight percent profit margin,
but want to pass the terraffs onto its customers.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Well, I thought this was the land of capitalism.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Why is the company going to do something out of
the goodness of its heart when they know that you,
the customer, are still going to pay it. Now, you
can vote with your feet. You can either pay it
or not pay it. If you are like me, you
know anything about Nike.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
None of their shoes are cheap. They are not cheap.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Now, if an extra ten to fifteen dollars or whatever
the tariff may turn into is the breaking point, forew,
then don't support the company, don't buy the product. It's
just that simple. But if you are expecting Corporate America
to do things for the benefit of customers and not
(28:29):
their bottom line, you are diluting yourself. They are in
the business of making money. They are in the business
of meeting their revenue projections and also satisfying their shareholders.
Nike is a publicly traded company. They have revenue projections.
And if they don't make their revenue projections because they
don't want to pass along the increased cost of production
(28:52):
VISA V tariffs, well you know you're expecting the wrong
thing to happen.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
They're in the job.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
They're in the business of making money, not doing things
to help your bottom line. But to help their bottom line.
Go ahead, Mark, go ahead, say try to tell you.
I hadn't really planned on chiming in here. But isn't
telling a company how much they can and should charge
sort of communism?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yes, the answer is yes, yes it is. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But by the way, I don't understand this brand loyalty
you have to Nike and your wife to Adidas. I
think I'm wearing sketches right now, but I couldn't care less,
and there's no way on earth I would get in
some kind of sharks and Jets knife fight over who
has the better shoes. No, well it's not better. Remember
I love sketches as well. But when it comes to
sports where it's Nike one, it's shoes, which we're specifically
(29:43):
talking about, they're wider. I think I'm like an e
with Okay, so you have flippers, yeah, pretty much. So
that is why I prefer Nike. That fits my foot
better than Adidas, which happened to be much more narrow.
That's all it is is how the shoe fits. There's
no the shoe fits. Okay, all right, and it fits,
(30:05):
thank you very much. That is not a shot. That
is absolutely not a rim shot. It was an artful
inclusion of a common phrase in our lexicon.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
If you say so real quick talking about why Nike
should or should not fork over you know, their earnings
to take us. There's a company I told you about
when we the tariffs are first going into a place
where I ordered this limited edition action figure and the
company said, hey, we're sorry. With these terrorists, the price
(30:40):
is going to go up. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. They adjusted an EMO saying even with the
tariffs coming back down slightly, they are still going to
be in the red for production.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
They said.
Speaker 8 (30:50):
In order to be people of their words, they're going
to keep the costs that we originally were quoted the same,
but it's going to them to go out of business.
So this is a grand opening, grand closing sale. They
are still going to ship the figures out for what
they were quoted, but it's going to be too cost
prohibitive for them to stay in business to fulfill all
(31:13):
the orders.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Are some businesses probably using the terrace as a fake
excuse to charge more money to consumers?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Probably? Probably, But at.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The same time, I'm not going to fall to a
company for being unwilling to make less money.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
They're putting it to you.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
You don't have to pay the higher prices, but you
can't be expecting them to roll over to make you
less comfortable. When I say I'm a capitalist, that's a
part of it. It's like the business gets to decide
and then the market gets to decide. I think we
need to know, after all that what this figure is
that Tala is buying. It's a I think it's a
blow up doll if I'm not mistaken, of course it is, yes,
(31:55):
trade overseas. Those are hard to make.
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