May 2, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the unveiling of developer KB Homes “wildfire resistant” homes, a massive brawl involving 20-plus Carnival Cruise passengers collecting their baggage AND the first real-world impacts President Trump’s tariffs will have on US consumers - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
If I am six forty, it's later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And as I look out to the studio, what the
hell is going on? Wait?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Wait wait?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
My calendar says May, but my view says like middle
of winter, April showers.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It looks like Mark Ronner, what the hell is going on?
Why is there rain on the way?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, we have this phenomenon called weather that you may
have heard about a little bit. Not much about it.
I'm just getting a handle on what may be going
on elsewhere. But we are supposed to get rain probably
late Saturday night and into Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, so long as it's late Saturday night and early
into Sunday morning, that's fine. I just don't wanted to
mess with my weekend. And it's all about me. Well,
you know, if I were you, I wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just to throw on your usual bikini bottoms and stand
out doors and whatever happens happens. You're tough, You're a masculine,
macho guy, and I won't affect you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't wear bikini bottom speedos maybe, but not bikini bottoms.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
All right, come on, that's a step too far. Well,
you haven't groomed the lawns? What's the problem?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, hey, since I.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Got you on the mic, are you going to see
Thunderbolts tonight? I'm trying to work out the details right now.
I don't know. Okay, okay, I gotta have something to
talk about tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
The field's kind of cleared because that's the eight hundred
pound gorilla of the week and not a lot else
is opening.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Twala, Are you trying to see Thunderbolts tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No? I have to try to rush out of here
and get back to the house in time to sing
Happy Birthday to my daughter.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Isn't she like Beyonce?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And right?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But she should be home, hopefully before midnight. No, she's
still at school night. No, no, no, no, no, she's
not gonna be home before midnight. You might be right
about that. She's not like twenty three, you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Know, fifteen going on twenty three? Oksolutely? Okay, all right, I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
May I may be able to take you up on
that mark. I gotta see what time this beyonceing is over?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What time is the concert supposed to be over? I
have no idea it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Starting like right now, it's happening. It's happening right now,
right now, I'm gonna text her mother. See what time was?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is her mother with her? Yeah? Okay, yeah, would
you let her go with a boyfriend? Hell no? Why not? Extra?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Hell on that note, when is she gonna be allowed
to date? As I told her? As I told her, Okay,
when you are far far out of my sight, you
do what you want. As long as I've got eyes
on you, just know it's gonna be problematic. What about
prom oh probably yeah, yeah, going down and probably yeah,
(03:11):
something like that, because then I'll be able to bring
them in, say, you know, give them that firm handshake
and whispers things like you know, I can collapse your
trick you you know, I can just literally literally push
your eyeballs in with my thumbs. I have practiced that
on various melons. Just thumb strength, going in, getting your ear,
(03:33):
holding it tight, and using that as the lever to
push my thumb into your eye socket. Well, I'm all
ready to do this show that puts me in a
good mood.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, boy, yeah, I'm just saying this is what you
have to be ready to jump girl dumbing melons. Well,
what else we're gonna be talking about tonight? We got
to talk about how KB Holmes has unveiled its first
wildfire resistant community. Now this wasn't specifically built built in
response to the wildfires.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It was already under construction.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But it's the perfect time to start talking about new
builds and also how they're going to be built with
wildfires in at least consideration going forward. Carnival cruise. You
know how we love cruising here, or at least with
exception of Mark Runner. We have to tell you about
a fight, a brawl between twenty four people, and it
(04:26):
wasn't on the cruise. It was actually after the cruise,
after they disembarked and they're trying to get their luggage
on their way home.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well now I'm kind of interested.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh yeah, Like it wasn't actually on the ship, it
was after getting off the ship. And Toilett notes, what
that's like trying to it can be a mad house
trying to get your luggage.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It can't be heird, It's.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Like mad Max trying to get off a ship because
there's only like one or two exits for the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, but when you're getting off, you're they try to
schedule you when to get on and schedule you to
get off. And if you are smart like me and
my wife, we try to get off as early as possible.
A lot of people are partying the night before and
so they don't want that early disembarked time. We try
to get off as early as possible to avoid the
(05:14):
crush and the rush of crazy people trying to get
their bags.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And also we try to travel as light as possible.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And you saved us a nightmarish departure or offloading off
when you said pat like, keep your stuff with you
and you won't have to go through all that. Literally,
we're standing there and it's like they're like, we are
now letting everyone go, and we're standing there with our bags,
and they were like, oh sir, if you guys have
your bags, you don't need any help or anything there
(05:40):
are you're not the way for your luggage.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You can go.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now, what you can do the night before You can
leave your luggage outside your door and then they will
take it down for you and then you have to
go get it from this cage area when you get
off the ship.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You would do that I wouldn't. That's the point people do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I take my bags with me and roll them down
with me and keep them with me at all times,
and so as I get off the ship, I just
keep on going.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I've never understood people who don't follow the rule of
never travel with more than you can carry comfortably all day.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You'd be surprised with those fools.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
We bring it on ships, I may like five and
six suitcases, which makes it impossible for them to do
it all by themselves, and so they leave it up
to the ship's crew to take it down. And then
we'll talk about it at the bottom of the hour.
And we have a new segment that we're going to
be debuting tonight. It's the Sex Doctor is in and
he will see you with sam Zia, who's going to
(06:36):
join us in studio and talk about all those uncomfortable
subjects that you just know and love here on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Did he tell you what he's going to be talking
about tonight? Sex? Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just want to make sure and if you didn't know,
people aren't washing a particular body part as often as
they should. Does anyone want to take a guess what
it might be? Absolutely not? Okay? That's a good idea.
That's a very good idea. There's so many.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, I just assume that everybody's a nasty mother father.
That is my default assumption. That people don't bathe consistently,
People don't bathe all of their body consistently, people don't
brush their teeth consistently. That's my assumption, and usually most
people meet my low expectations.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You can tell. It usually comes out in conversations.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like, yeah, I don't see the need to take a
bathroom shower every day.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You know, my natural aroma is enough. Where it really
got exposed was during the pandemic. Oh yeah, people were
complaining about having to wash your hands. Like really, I
have this I know we got to go to break
I have this test. If I see you with dirty nails,
(07:54):
I have to assume not only do you not wash
your hands, you don't wash your ass either.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm just saying, I'm just I've just gotta be honest,
meaning you're you're digging around in there with the nails.
Your attention to hygiene is probably very low.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Just holistically, Yeah, well, emphasis on the first, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just have to assume, you know, if you don't
take care of your hands, you don't take care of
anything else. And and that was actually taught to me
by my father as part of dating advice. Hmmm, you
can you can interpret that however you want my women
with filthy now, I'm just saying you can interpret that
however you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Cut the paint their now, how do you know you'd
be surprised? Oh, I wish i'd been a fly on
the walls. Gun, It's time for a little talk.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You'd be surprised.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Just you know, sometimes they wear the French tip and
it'd just be showing through Carni.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Carnaian? Am I wrong? Am I wrong? The many said
French Ship. Carnacian knew instantly, Carnasian. Are you wearing first
tip right now? Are you? Are you? Friendship? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Okay, all right, I'm gonna leave it right there. It's
Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube. We don't
know what's gonna happen later on tonight. We're live on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty with Kelly on.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Six We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app let's
talk about the fires, but in a different way, in
a more positive way. I remember when I was doing
fire coverage here with to Walla Sharp and Mark Ronnerd.
We were talking about what was happening, but also what
was going to probably happen in the weeks and months afterward.
(09:52):
Of course, there was a conversation about how we should
maybe fortify our homes, how we should maybe changed of
building materials and make them more structurally sound when it
comes to fires. Well, evidently KB Homes was already ahead
of the curve on that. And it's not like they
(10:14):
constructed a complete development since the fires took place, but
they were already in process of building a sixty four
home fire resistant community, and they did it after seeing
a demonstration of an actual home being set on fire
to test its fireproof ability. Now, as it turns out,
(10:39):
this demonstration was done by the Insurance Institute for Business
and Home Safety. It's a nonprofit organization formed by the
property casualty insurance industry.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Here's some of the things that they did do.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Quote, we had to change the architecture architecture on the
fly to be more stucco oriented with fireproof shutters and
doors and tempered windows. We were able to do that
really quickly with the City of Escondido because they wanted
to work with us, and that's kb Holmes Senior vice
president Steve Ruffner. Beyond that, this is what KAB Holmes did.
(11:18):
They had other fire resistant features include enclosed gutters, fire
resistant patios, doors, and siding. All of the homes have
a six inch vertical clearance using stucco and stone, plus
a defensible space of five feet from the houses which
are spaced ten feet apart and divided by metal fencing.
(11:42):
So it's not fireproof, it's fire resistant fire mitigation. And
from what I read, the houses are very popular and
have already sold out. And this is just outside of
the city of Escondido, excuse me, Dixon Lake, just outside
of San Diego.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Interestingly enough, a lot of what you described are things
that I was listening to Dean Sharp Home with Dean
Sharp here on KFI, and I was listening to show
and he was explaining a lot of ways to fireproof
your home and a lot of things that are flaws
in some of the designs in our houses here, especially
(12:25):
being that not just with the wildfires that just happened
but all the wildfires will be experiencing. These are the
things that homeowners need to start working on. And a
lot of what you just listed is literally like out
of the Dean Sharp playbook.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But beyond that, there are things we can control and
there things that we can't control. When you're trying to
buy a house, you may not have a lot of
say in the building process as far as how it's constructed.
And we know that builders not necessarily will cut corners,
but they're not going to go to the nth degree
to make sure that they're fire resistant. Hopefully, because of
(12:58):
these fires that we've had, this will become the standard.
This will be the requirement for building going forward, or
at least the builders who are serious about making their
homes less susceptible to a fire or the number of
fires that we've had, we should not have to go
through this.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Again.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
One thing that everyone should do, and this was a
very easy thing that doesn't cost you anything. Make sure
you clear the all lines to your house, clear of
them of shrub brushes, dry grass, anything that can catch
an ember.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Just at least start doing that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But see, here's the thing a lot of people want
to have that shrubbery right in front of their house.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They want to have that garden, they want to that
lines the house.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, you know, we have to start thinking differently about
how we decorate and how we i'll say prepare our house.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Unfortunately, for any type of danger or disaster.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I mean, it's something we do have to consider, especially
here in southern California. This is not a shout out
to climate change, but as the summers are getting hotter
and the air is getting driver and we are getting
less rain, We're not going to find ourselves further outside
of fire danger, fire danger and fire alerts and awarenesson
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all day. It's damn there going to be year round.
I mean, yes, it looks like June gloom outside right now,
but earlier during the day it was hot. Does all
know what in the valley? So we have to make
sure that we're constantly aware of, like how quickly this
tender around our homes can go up? Got it help yourself?
Because we had earthquakes, the building codes changed. Because we've
(14:36):
had fires, hopefully the building codes will change. Unfortunately, it
usually takes a disaster or something really horrible to happen
before the building codes actually changed. If you build all
new houses going forward to be fire resistant in the
way that KB has taken that first step as a
major nationwide builder. In fact, I live in a KB home,
(14:59):
so I know about their process of how they really.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, you've been to my house. That's a KB home.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Really, Yes, that is beautiful. You're being nice, but no, no, no, no, no no,
I'm just saying the community you live in. I like
the design of the homes. I like the spacing, I
like the structure. Everything about the homes seems like it
was built for them to be all in a very
tight enclosed space but still have lots of room, lots
(15:27):
of space.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The designs is amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, part of it is we don't have those large driveways,
so it's put into the house. You know, when I
was growing up, you had the large driveway, the large
front lawn. That kind of stuff is not considered necessary
as part of houses anymore. But you also see my
house where it backs up to this very dry brush area.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, Coyoteville.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yes, So it's something that I actively think about and
am concerned about. So shout out to KB Home as
a KB home owner can appreciate what they're doing and
hopefully they will continue to do it across all their developments.
It's Later with mo Kelly ca IF I Am six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. The
(16:11):
party is now started YouTube. I'm reading some of the chat.
I'm gonna be jumping in the chat in just a moment.
I'm pretty sure Stephan's gonna be jumping in the chat.
Mark Runner probably not so much. But we're live everywhere
on YouTube, in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
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And I know anyone in the chat knows this, and
if you're not new to the show, you know this.
But I love cruising. Whenever there is a story about
cruising in the news, I usually pull it for the
show because I like to believe that I can offer
perspective that not everyone can. I meet a lot of
people who are a cruise curious, like I always thought
about going on a cruise.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I just don't know what to expect. I'm your guy.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can tell you what is going to happen, what
you should prepare for, what you should never do. The
only person who probably knows more is maybe Deborah Mark.
I think she's been on more cruise than I have.
Shout out to Deborah Mark of the John Cobell Show.
But when I saw this story that there was this
massive brawl which erupted among carnival cruise passengers, see, that's
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your first mistake. Avoid carnival cruises like the plague, like
it's COVID. Do not go on Carnival. I've been on Carnival,
and it's put it this way. Carnival cruises is fine
as a starter cruise, your first cruise. You can't really
afford a good cruise, so you get on a carnival
maybe three day cruise, maybe do the Mexican Riviera. You
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can say that you've been on a cruise, but it's
not really a cruise. It's a floating club and prison.
That's the only way I.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Can describe it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Bad, bad things happen on carnival cruises, okay, and this
is another example of that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Sorry, I'm not trying to get a carnival cruise.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Endorsement, just not because it attracts a client tell who
is not either familiar with cruising or is not really
willing to spend any money for a cruise. And so
you get anyone and everyone on a carnival cruise.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's point number one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's why my wife and I refuse to go on
any more carnival cruises.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And that kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Highlights this particular story where there was a massive brawl
after a carnival cruise had docked and people were disembarking,
and it resulted in twenty four passengers after their cruise
was Overmind you put on the do not sail list,
that's thequivalent to the do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Not fly list. Their cruise was over.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It wasn't like they were acting a fool on the
ship at sea. They were picking up their luggage. Now,
a cruiser like me, I can tell you exactly what happened.
At the beginning of the show, we were talking about
how the night before the cruise is over, you're giving
instructions and to Alla knows about this. If you want,
you can put your luggage outside your cabin door, and
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when you do the night before, then the ship's crew
will take your luggage down to the luggage area so
you don't have to do it when you're trying to
get off the ship.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That can be very convenient if you have a lot
of bags. I say, never do that.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Try to keep all your luggage with you so you
don't have to hunt for it. Think of a wide
open baggage claim where everyone's luggage is already there, just
in a corner.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, that also sounds risky, like someone could just come
and just go through your.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Stuff going, keep going, or just walk off with it.
You know, all bad things get happen.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I imagine that some of that was going on. Either someone
took the wrong bag or someone was getting impatient, or
a combination of both. You know, Voices were raised, threats
were made, and then punches were thrown and asses were kicked.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Punches were definitely thrown. Oh no, no, I've seen a bunch.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah. Daniel was showing the video on YouTube, so you
can check it out. It's one of those things where
that's why I don't do carnival cruises, and that's why
I do not leave my luggage outside my door for
getting off the ship. These are things that most novice
cruisers don't know. You do it once and then you
realize you don't ever want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm not talking about going on a cruise.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm just saying, like leaving your luggage where you have to,
you get the benefit of the of the staff taking
it to the luggage area.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But then it's basically a gigantic open room. It's not
by alphabetical and it's just they have numbers and if
your number matches that numbered section, it's in there section section.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's almost like baggage claim. You can find your your
luggage at baggage Claim C two. It's the same thing,
except that the section of like a warehouse where everyone's
luggage is, and you just start searching through that area
for your luggage.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Of course someone's gonna.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Get knocked out, so of course, so it's a baggage claim,
but without the little carousel.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Without the carro.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Imagine like you got there after your flight six hours
later and everyone's luggage is just sitting in the corner.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You just have to look for it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You have to hope you have it identified the bag.
And I'm seeing now like this four day Baja Mexico
cruise from Long Beach. It starts start this is without
any discounts applied, starts at two fifty nine a person.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's like a flight.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay, yeah, I'm like, wait a minute, this is this
is almost a third of the cost of the cruise
and I'm like, this is nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I howse you go on this cruise.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I swear by Royal Caribbean for the fact that there
are fewer kids. I don't want your crumb snatches. Look,
I just want to be able to walk around and
do whatever I want to do. I don't want to
have to worry about bumping into kids and accidentally elbowing
one in their forehead. I'm being serious, because kids will
run back and forth on the ship. Not supposed to run,
but they do, and they're just certain experiences I.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Just want to avoid.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't want to deal with the twenty one, twenty
two year old guy who has to prove something's drink
too much liquor. And that's another thing they water down
the liquor to avoid situations just like these.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, have you said a single thing so far tonight
about what makes these things appealing in any way? Okay, no, no, no,
no no. This is a specific cruise line, yes, all right,
this is not Royal Caribbean. Royal Caribbean, it's still fun
and step up with Royal Caribbean is still like an
intermediate cruise line. There are really really virgin all these
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cruises that I could look. I've become a cruise of
a angelus thanks to MO. I'm the word of cruising.
I've looked some of these cruise lines up. There are
some adults only cruise lines that are absolute sheer, glorious
pleasure on.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A cruise, yes, like swinger cruises this way.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Think about going into a bar and you see that
their kids running around. Negative Okay, okay, right now, think
of a cruise ship as a big ass bar and
club and then you got kids running around, or you
have younger new adults running around every least. What I'm
saying like, I would not go to a club now.
(23:36):
My life depended on why, because I don't want to
have to put up with certain junk.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Think of a cruise in the same way, I will
pay more to not have to.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Deal with certain stuff, toss them in the drink, like
imagine you have to murder something. Imagine something like Carnival
is like your first time going and getting drunk, going
to Tijuana, right, you just oh, you're drunk. You may
end up in jail, who knows, right. But stepping up
to like Royal Caribbean, that's like an actual vacation to
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the Bahamas with weight staff and nice food and all that.
And then as you go up, cruise lines just get better, better,
get better.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My wife and I were getting ready to go on
another one, not getting ready, but in August. We're doing
a European kind of a Mediterranean Middle Eastern cruise. Oh yeah,
the ports sometimes change if you book it so far
out in advance, but I'll be going at the end
of August into September.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Look, we love doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
We try to hit a different continent each time, so
this one I think it touches Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I have to look at the itinerary, but we're trying
to do it all. You ever get that neurovirus?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No, because wait, there's certain rules that I follow. In
other words, with okay, Bow and Stern. They have stairs,
they go up to the different decks, and they have
rails on those stairs, wide stairs.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Do not put your hands on the rails. Oh no,
you don't even do that in them all here.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Don't use your hand to hit or I should say,
fingers to They have elevators obviously, which go up and down.
Don't use your hands to hit the button. You know,
if you wear a full haz mat suit, you're okay
on a cruise. You don't need a quarter has mat
use good sense.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If you look at a lot of the cruise lines
that have had those outbreaks.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Which is most of them, No, it's not both.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Of them, and it's oftentimes cruises that are not necessarily
ones you'd want to go on anyway. Well, but that's true,
that's true across all of life. The more you pay,
the more you screen out the riff raff. Right, yes,
and the people want to show up sick, nasty, ready
to put dirty fingernails pol all that touching the food
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at the buffet and then licking your back.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That goes back to the kids stuff. You know, you
have those major kids running around just touching everything. Fewer kids,
less disease, walk them down below. Okay, Twalla knows this
because he worked in the school. Fewer kids, less disease.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
What's that area in Titanic where Jack had to go
down downstairs? Steerage, lock them all in serios and the kids.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
This is Later with mo Kelly k IF I AM
six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When we
come back, we're going to tell you about some of
the first real world impacts of these tariffs. And it's
not even China, but close to it. That's next.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six FORTYFI.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Mister mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
And in my final thought tonight, I will talk about
tariff's in our economy more generally and how as I
would say, the rubber is going to meet the road,
We're gonna start feeling the real effects of tariffs, not
in a hypothetical or theoretical sense, but that's then. I
(26:56):
did want to tell you this as an example of
regardless of wherever you are, whoever you are, you're going
to start feeling the tariffs, sometimes on a smaller level.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Sometimes on a larger level. Stephan, you're a gamer, aren't
you a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, do you have a what do you have? Do
you have a PS five? You have a Xbox? I
got a switch in at PS five. Okay, the switch
and the PS five are made in China. If I'm
not mistaken, Oh boy, if I'm not mistaken, well, let
me just tell you about this and Xbox. They're made
in Taiwan. So I'm not even talking about China exactly yet.
(27:31):
Microsoft announced yesterday that virtually all all physical products relating
to its Xbox gaming line, including consoles, accessories, and games,
will receive hefty and immediate immediate increases worldwide. The standard
(27:52):
version of the Xbox Series X, the flagship gaming console, immediately,
will go from four hundred and ninety nine nine dollars
to five hundred and ninety nine dollars. Okay, jeez, that's
made in Taiwan. I didn't say anything about China and
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one hundred and twenty four percent tariffs.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That's Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
The less powerful Xbox Series S with five hundred and
twelve gigs of storage, that's going up from two hundred
ninety nine dollars to three hundred and seventy nine dollars. Now,
you can't have a console without controllers, right. Standard controllers
will remate at their current prices sixty four ninety nine
(28:38):
for black or white and sixty nine ninety nine for
colorful versions. But limited edition controllers because everyone wants to,
you know, keep it spicy, those will go from seventy
nine ninety nine to eighty nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The Xbox wireless headset is.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Going from one oh nine ninety nine to one nineteen
ninety nine, and the prices will also rise in Europe,
Australia and Asia. I only bring this up because you
may only think of the tariffs having to do with
a particular group of products, or you may think, well,
there are exceptions for electronics.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Not all, not all. You are going to feel this
on some level.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And Taiwan, if I'm not mistaken, they're only like the
ten percent tariff. If I'm not mistaken, I know it's
not on the level of China, which is one hundred
and twenty four percent.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But we're going to feel this on all levels.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And a lot of my friends, even though they may
be in their fifties, they're still gamers. They spend a
lot of money on these consoles, these games, these controllers,
and you know, and well, let me put it in
another way. Don't think about this as just a gaming console.
Think of it more broadly about electronics. Think about it
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in terms of phones, think about it in terms of
audio equipment. All of that's pretty much coming from overseas,
And regardless of the country which it may be coming from,
it's going to cost more. Now how long it's going
to cost more? Is anyone's guests? Is anyone's guests? And
(30:18):
I don't know if people know this. We don't have
any new trade agreements yet. We don't not one. Well
you're lying, no, no, I do my homework. We do
not have any new trade agreements. So it hasn't even
started yet. Do you think it'll affect yes, the holiday
(30:39):
shopping season? No, no, no, yes, yeah, it is already affected
the holiday season. And I don't want to give away
too much from our remarks, but I will say this,
companies have already made the decision about pulling back on
their holiday purchases because you don't want to have to
overpay for inventory that you can't sell. There's gonna be
(31:00):
a retraction of what is purchased by companies, and there's
gonna be a retraction by companies as far as their
holiday hiring the seasonal employees. There is I don't want
to say a trickle down effect, but all these systems,
supply side, demand side, are connected. I just wanted to
pull out Xbox to show how it's starting. And Microsoft
(31:26):
is saying all of its products, but everyone I think
has a reference point with Xbox. I say, Xbox, you
may not have one, but you kind of know what
it is. You know what a gaming console is, and
you may not use it, but your kids may use it.
They may ask for it this holiday season. And just
know you're gonna pay at least one hundred dollars more
for the for the console. You're gonna pay more for
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the games, even if you already have one. So it
may not hit you squared your wallet, but it might,
you know, hit you in the back of the leg.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You gonna feel it. You're gonna feel it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's not politics, that's just BA economics where everything I
can't say the actual word, but it rolls downhill. It
all rolls downhill. Ca f I AM six forty were
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Speaker 1 (32:11):
Help you figure it out. It's kind of what we do.
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If I am six forty, it's later with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And as I look out to the studio, what the
hell is going on? Wait?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Wait wait?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
My calendar says May, but my view says like middle
of winter, April showers.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It looks like Mark Ronner, what the hell is going on?
Why is there rain on the way?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Well, we have this phenomenon called weather that you may
have heard about a little bit. Not much about it.
I'm just getting a handle on what may be going
on elsewhere. But we are supposed to get rain probably
late Saturday night and into Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, so long as it's late Saturday night and early
into Sunday morning, that's fine. I just don't wanted to
mess with my weekend. And it's all about me. Well,
you know, if I were you, I wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Just to throw on your usual bikini bottoms and stand
out doors and whatever happens happens. You're tough, You're a masculine,
macho guy, and I won't affect you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't wear bikini bottom speedos maybe, but not bikini bottoms.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
All right, come on, that's a step too far. Well,
you haven't groomed the lawns? What's the problem?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, hey, since I.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Got you on the mic, are you going to see
Thunderbolts tonight? I'm trying to work out the details right now.
I don't know. Okay, okay, I gotta have something to
talk about tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Again.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
The field's kind of cleared because that's the eight hundred
pound gorilla of the week and not a lot else
is opening.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Twala, Are you trying to see Thunderbolts tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No? I have to try to rush out of here
and get back to the house in time to sing
Happy Birthday to my daughter.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Isn't she like Beyonce?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And right?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But she should be home, hopefully before midnight. No, she's
still at school night. No, no, no, no, no, she's
not gonna be home before midnight. You might be right
about that. She's not like twenty three, you.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Know, fifteen going on twenty three? Oksolutely? Okay, all right, I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
May I may be able to take you up on
that mark. I gotta see what time this beyonceing is over?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What time is the concert supposed to be over? I
have no idea it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Starting like right now, it's happening. It's happening right now,
right now, I'm gonna text her mother. See what time was?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is her mother with her? Yeah? Okay, yeah, would
you let her go with a boyfriend? Hell no? Why not? Extra?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Hell on that note, when is she gonna be allowed
to date? As I told her? As I told her, Okay,
when you are far far out of my sight, you
do what you want. As long as I've got eyes
on you, just know it's gonna be problematic. What about
prom oh probably yeah, yeah, going down and probably yeah,
(03:11):
something like that, because then I'll be able to bring
them in, say, you know, give them that firm handshake
and whispers things like you know, I can collapse your
trick you you know, I can just literally literally push
your eyeballs in with my thumbs. I have practiced that
on various melons. Just thumb strength, going in, getting your ear,
(03:33):
holding it tight, and using that as the lever to
push my thumb into your eye socket. Well, I'm all
ready to do this show that puts me in a
good mood.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, boy, yeah, I'm just saying this is what you
have to be ready to jump girl dumbing melons. Well,
what else we're gonna be talking about tonight? We got
to talk about how KB Holmes has unveiled its first
wildfire resistant community. Now this wasn't specifically built built in
response to the wildfires.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It was already under construction.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
But it's the perfect time to start talking about new
builds and also how they're going to be built with
wildfires in at least consideration going forward. Carnival cruise. You
know how we love cruising here, or at least with
exception of Mark Runner. We have to tell you about
a fight, a brawl between twenty four people, and it
(04:26):
wasn't on the cruise. It was actually after the cruise,
after they disembarked and they're trying to get their luggage
on their way home.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well now I'm kind of interested.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh yeah, Like it wasn't actually on the ship, it
was after getting off the ship. And Toilett notes, what
that's like trying to it can be a mad house
trying to get your luggage.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It can't be heird, It's.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Like mad Max trying to get off a ship because
there's only like one or two exits for the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yes, but when you're getting off, you're they try to
schedule you when to get on and schedule you to
get off. And if you are smart like me and
my wife, we try to get off as early as possible.
A lot of people are partying the night before and
so they don't want that early disembarked time. We try
to get off as early as possible to avoid the
(05:14):
crush and the rush of crazy people trying to get
their bags.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And also we try to travel as light as possible.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And you saved us a nightmarish departure or offloading off
when you said pat like, keep your stuff with you
and you won't have to go through all that. Literally,
we're standing there and it's like they're like, we are
now letting everyone go, and we're standing there with our bags,
and they were like, oh sir, if you guys have
your bags, you don't need any help or anything there
(05:40):
are you're not the way for your luggage.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You can go.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Now, what you can do the night before You can
leave your luggage outside your door and then they will
take it down for you and then you have to
go get it from this cage area when you get
off the ship.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You would do that I wouldn't. That's the point people do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I take my bags with me and roll them down
with me and keep them with me at all times,
and so as I get off the ship, I just
keep on going.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I've never understood people who don't follow the rule of
never travel with more than you can carry comfortably all day.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You'd be surprised with those fools.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
We bring it on ships, I may like five and
six suitcases, which makes it impossible for them to do
it all by themselves, and so they leave it up
to the ship's crew to take it down. And then
we'll talk about it at the bottom of the hour.
And we have a new segment that we're going to
be debuting tonight. It's the Sex Doctor is in and
he will see you with sam Zia, who's going to
(06:36):
join us in studio and talk about all those uncomfortable
subjects that you just know and love here on the show.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Did he tell you what he's going to be talking
about tonight? Sex? Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just want to make sure and if you didn't know,
people aren't washing a particular body part as often as
they should. Does anyone want to take a guess what
it might be? Absolutely not? Okay? That's a good idea.
That's a very good idea. There's so many.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, I just assume that everybody's a nasty mother father.
That is my default assumption. That people don't bathe consistently,
People don't bathe all of their body consistently, people don't
brush their teeth consistently. That's my assumption, and usually most
people meet my low expectations.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You can tell. It usually comes out in conversations.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Like, yeah, I don't see the need to take a
bathroom shower every day.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
You know, my natural aroma is enough. Where it really
got exposed was during the pandemic. Oh yeah, people were
complaining about having to wash your hands. Like really, I
have this I know we got to go to break
I have this test. If I see you with dirty nails,
(07:54):
I have to assume not only do you not wash
your hands, you don't wash your ass either.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm just saying, I'm just I've just gotta be honest,
meaning you're you're digging around in there with the nails.
Your attention to hygiene is probably very low.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Just holistically, Yeah, well, emphasis on the first, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just have to assume, you know, if you don't
take care of your hands, you don't take care of
anything else. And and that was actually taught to me
by my father as part of dating advice. Hmmm, you
can you can interpret that however you want my women
with filthy now, I'm just saying you can interpret that
however you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Cut the paint their now, how do you know you'd
be surprised? Oh, I wish i'd been a fly on
the walls. Gun, It's time for a little talk.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You'd be surprised.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Just you know, sometimes they wear the French tip and
it'd just be showing through Carni.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Carnaian? Am I wrong? Am I wrong? The many said
French Ship. Carnacian knew instantly, Carnasian. Are you wearing first
tip right now? Are you? Are you? Friendship? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Okay, all right, I'm gonna leave it right there. It's
Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube. We don't
know what's gonna happen later on tonight. We're live on
YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty with Kelly on.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Six We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app let's
talk about the fires, but in a different way, in
a more positive way. I remember when I was doing
fire coverage here with to Walla Sharp and Mark Ronnerd.
We were talking about what was happening, but also what
was going to probably happen in the weeks and months afterward.
(09:52):
Of course, there was a conversation about how we should
maybe fortify our homes, how we should maybe changed of
building materials and make them more structurally sound when it
comes to fires. Well, evidently KB Homes was already ahead
of the curve on that. And it's not like they
(10:14):
constructed a complete development since the fires took place, but
they were already in process of building a sixty four
home fire resistant community, and they did it after seeing
a demonstration of an actual home being set on fire
to test its fireproof ability. Now, as it turns out,
(10:39):
this demonstration was done by the Insurance Institute for Business
and Home Safety. It's a nonprofit organization formed by the
property casualty insurance industry.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Here's some of the things that they did do.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Quote, we had to change the architecture architecture on the
fly to be more stucco oriented with fireproof shutters and
doors and tempered windows. We were able to do that
really quickly with the City of Escondido because they wanted
to work with us, and that's kb Holmes Senior vice
president Steve Ruffner. Beyond that, this is what KAB Holmes did.
(11:18):
They had other fire resistant features include enclosed gutters, fire
resistant patios, doors, and siding. All of the homes have
a six inch vertical clearance using stucco and stone, plus
a defensible space of five feet from the houses which
are spaced ten feet apart and divided by metal fencing.
(11:42):
So it's not fireproof, it's fire resistant fire mitigation. And
from what I read, the houses are very popular and
have already sold out. And this is just outside of
the city of Escondido, excuse me, Dixon Lake, just outside
of San Diego.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Interestingly enough, a lot of what you described are things
that I was listening to Dean Sharp Home with Dean
Sharp here on KFI, and I was listening to show
and he was explaining a lot of ways to fireproof
your home and a lot of things that are flaws
in some of the designs in our houses here, especially
(12:25):
being that not just with the wildfires that just happened
but all the wildfires will be experiencing. These are the
things that homeowners need to start working on. And a
lot of what you just listed is literally like out
of the Dean Sharp playbook.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But beyond that, there are things we can control and
there things that we can't control. When you're trying to
buy a house, you may not have a lot of
say in the building process as far as how it's constructed.
And we know that builders not necessarily will cut corners,
but they're not going to go to the nth degree
to make sure that they're fire resistant. Hopefully, because of
(12:58):
these fires that we've had, this will become the standard.
This will be the requirement for building going forward, or
at least the builders who are serious about making their
homes less susceptible to a fire or the number of
fires that we've had, we should not have to go
through this.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Again.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
One thing that everyone should do, and this was a
very easy thing that doesn't cost you anything. Make sure
you clear the all lines to your house, clear of
them of shrub brushes, dry grass, anything that can catch
an ember.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Just at least start doing that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But see, here's the thing a lot of people want
to have that shrubbery right in front of their house.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They want to have that garden, they want to that
lines the house.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, you know, we have to start thinking differently about
how we decorate and how we i'll say prepare our house.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Unfortunately, for any type of danger or disaster.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I mean, it's something we do have to consider, especially
here in southern California. This is not a shout out
to climate change, but as the summers are getting hotter
and the air is getting driver and we are getting
less rain, We're not going to find ourselves further outside
of fire danger, fire danger and fire alerts and awarenesson
(14:15):
all day. It's damn there going to be year round.
I mean, yes, it looks like June gloom outside right now,
but earlier during the day it was hot. Does all
know what in the valley? So we have to make
sure that we're constantly aware of, like how quickly this
tender around our homes can go up? Got it help yourself?
Because we had earthquakes, the building codes changed. Because we've
(14:36):
had fires, hopefully the building codes will change. Unfortunately, it
usually takes a disaster or something really horrible to happen
before the building codes actually changed. If you build all
new houses going forward to be fire resistant in the
way that KB has taken that first step as a
major nationwide builder. In fact, I live in a KB home,
(14:59):
so I know about their process of how they really.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, you've been to my house. That's a KB home.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Really, Yes, that is beautiful. You're being nice, but no, no, no, no, no no,
I'm just saying the community you live in. I like
the design of the homes. I like the spacing, I
like the structure. Everything about the homes seems like it
was built for them to be all in a very
tight enclosed space but still have lots of room, lots
(15:27):
of space.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The designs is amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well, part of it is we don't have those large driveways,
so it's put into the house. You know, when I
was growing up, you had the large driveway, the large
front lawn. That kind of stuff is not considered necessary
as part of houses anymore. But you also see my
house where it backs up to this very dry brush area.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, Coyoteville.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yes, So it's something that I actively think about and
am concerned about. So shout out to KB Home as
a KB home owner can appreciate what they're doing and
hopefully they will continue to do it across all their developments.
It's Later with mo Kelly ca IF I Am six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. The
(16:11):
party is now started YouTube. I'm reading some of the chat.
I'm gonna be jumping in the chat in just a moment.
I'm pretty sure Stephan's gonna be jumping in the chat.
Mark Runner probably not so much. But we're live everywhere
on YouTube, in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (16:32):
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It is Later with mo Kelly live everywhere in the
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(16:54):
And I know anyone in the chat knows this, and
if you're not new to the show, you know this.
But I love cruising. Whenever there is a story about
cruising in the news, I usually pull it for the
show because I like to believe that I can offer
perspective that not everyone can. I meet a lot of
people who are a cruise curious, like I always thought
about going on a cruise.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I just don't know what to expect. I'm your guy.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can tell you what is going to happen, what
you should prepare for, what you should never do. The
only person who probably knows more is maybe Deborah Mark.
I think she's been on more cruise than I have.
Shout out to Deborah Mark of the John Cobell Show.
But when I saw this story that there was this
massive brawl which erupted among carnival cruise passengers, see, that's
(17:38):
your first mistake. Avoid carnival cruises like the plague, like
it's COVID. Do not go on Carnival. I've been on Carnival,
and it's put it this way. Carnival cruises is fine
as a starter cruise, your first cruise. You can't really
afford a good cruise, so you get on a carnival
maybe three day cruise, maybe do the Mexican Riviera. You
(18:01):
can say that you've been on a cruise, but it's
not really a cruise. It's a floating club and prison.
That's the only way I.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Can describe it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Bad, bad things happen on carnival cruises, okay, and this
is another example of that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Sorry, I'm not trying to get a carnival cruise.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Endorsement, just not because it attracts a client tell who
is not either familiar with cruising or is not really
willing to spend any money for a cruise. And so
you get anyone and everyone on a carnival cruise.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's point number one.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's why my wife and I refuse to go on
any more carnival cruises.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And that kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Highlights this particular story where there was a massive brawl
after a carnival cruise had docked and people were disembarking,
and it resulted in twenty four passengers after their cruise
was Overmind you put on the do not sail list,
that's thequivalent to the do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Not fly list. Their cruise was over.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It wasn't like they were acting a fool on the
ship at sea. They were picking up their luggage. Now,
a cruiser like me, I can tell you exactly what happened.
At the beginning of the show, we were talking about
how the night before the cruise is over, you're giving
instructions and to Alla knows about this. If you want,
you can put your luggage outside your cabin door, and
(19:26):
when you do the night before, then the ship's crew
will take your luggage down to the luggage area so
you don't have to do it when you're trying to
get off the ship.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That can be very convenient if you have a lot
of bags. I say, never do that.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Try to keep all your luggage with you so you
don't have to hunt for it. Think of a wide
open baggage claim where everyone's luggage is already there, just
in a corner.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yeah, that also sounds risky, like someone could just come
and just go through your.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Stuff going, keep going, or just walk off with it.
You know, all bad things get happen.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I imagine that some of that was going on. Either someone
took the wrong bag or someone was getting impatient, or
a combination of both. You know, Voices were raised, threats
were made, and then punches were thrown and asses were kicked.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Punches were definitely thrown. Oh no, no, I've seen a bunch.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah. Daniel was showing the video on YouTube, so you
can check it out. It's one of those things where
that's why I don't do carnival cruises, and that's why
I do not leave my luggage outside my door for
getting off the ship. These are things that most novice
cruisers don't know. You do it once and then you
realize you don't ever want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm not talking about going on a cruise.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm just saying, like leaving your luggage where you have to,
you get the benefit of the of the staff taking
it to the luggage area.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But then it's basically a gigantic open room. It's not
by alphabetical and it's just they have numbers and if
your number matches that numbered section, it's in there section section.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's almost like baggage claim. You can find your your
luggage at baggage Claim C two. It's the same thing,
except that the section of like a warehouse where everyone's
luggage is, and you just start searching through that area
for your luggage.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Of course someone's gonna.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Get knocked out, so of course, so it's a baggage claim,
but without the little carousel.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Without the carro.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Imagine like you got there after your flight six hours
later and everyone's luggage is just sitting in the corner.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You just have to look for it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You have to hope you have it identified the bag.
And I'm seeing now like this four day Baja Mexico
cruise from Long Beach. It starts start this is without
any discounts applied, starts at two fifty nine a person.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's like a flight.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay, yeah, I'm like, wait a minute, this is this
is almost a third of the cost of the cruise
and I'm like, this is nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I howse you go on this cruise.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I swear by Royal Caribbean for the fact that there
are fewer kids. I don't want your crumb snatches. Look,
I just want to be able to walk around and
do whatever I want to do. I don't want to
have to worry about bumping into kids and accidentally elbowing
one in their forehead. I'm being serious, because kids will
run back and forth on the ship. Not supposed to run,
but they do, and they're just certain experiences I.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Just want to avoid.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't want to deal with the twenty one, twenty
two year old guy who has to prove something's drink
too much liquor. And that's another thing they water down
the liquor to avoid situations just like these.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, have you said a single thing so far tonight
about what makes these things appealing in any way? Okay, no, no, no,
no no. This is a specific cruise line, yes, all right,
this is not Royal Caribbean. Royal Caribbean, it's still fun
and step up with Royal Caribbean is still like an
intermediate cruise line. There are really really virgin all these
(22:57):
cruises that I could look. I've become a cruise of
a angelus thanks to MO. I'm the word of cruising.
I've looked some of these cruise lines up. There are
some adults only cruise lines that are absolute sheer, glorious
pleasure on.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A cruise, yes, like swinger cruises this way.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Think about going into a bar and you see that
their kids running around. Negative Okay, okay, right now, think
of a cruise ship as a big ass bar and
club and then you got kids running around, or you
have younger new adults running around every least. What I'm
saying like, I would not go to a club now.
(23:36):
My life depended on why, because I don't want to
have to put up with certain junk.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Think of a cruise in the same way, I will
pay more to not have to.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Deal with certain stuff, toss them in the drink, like
imagine you have to murder something. Imagine something like Carnival
is like your first time going and getting drunk, going
to Tijuana, right, you just oh, you're drunk. You may
end up in jail, who knows, right. But stepping up
to like Royal Caribbean, that's like an actual vacation to
(24:06):
the Bahamas with weight staff and nice food and all that.
And then as you go up, cruise lines just get better, better,
get better.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
My wife and I were getting ready to go on
another one, not getting ready, but in August. We're doing
a European kind of a Mediterranean Middle Eastern cruise. Oh yeah,
the ports sometimes change if you book it so far
out in advance, but I'll be going at the end
of August into September.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Look, we love doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
We try to hit a different continent each time, so
this one I think it touches Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I have to look at the itinerary, but we're trying
to do it all. You ever get that neurovirus?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No, because wait, there's certain rules that I follow. In
other words, with okay, Bow and Stern. They have stairs,
they go up to the different decks, and they have
rails on those stairs, wide stairs.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Do not put your hands on the rails. Oh no,
you don't even do that in them all here.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Don't use your hand to hit or I should say,
fingers to They have elevators obviously, which go up and down.
Don't use your hands to hit the button. You know,
if you wear a full haz mat suit, you're okay
on a cruise. You don't need a quarter has mat
use good sense.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If you look at a lot of the cruise lines
that have had those outbreaks.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Which is most of them, No, it's not both.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Of them, and it's oftentimes cruises that are not necessarily
ones you'd want to go on anyway. Well, but that's true,
that's true across all of life. The more you pay,
the more you screen out the riff raff. Right, yes,
and the people want to show up sick, nasty, ready
to put dirty fingernails pol all that touching the food
(25:45):
at the buffet and then licking your back.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
That goes back to the kids stuff. You know, you
have those major kids running around just touching everything. Fewer kids,
less disease, walk them down below. Okay, Twalla knows this
because he worked in the school. Fewer kids, less disease.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
What's that area in Titanic where Jack had to go
down downstairs? Steerage, lock them all in serios and the kids.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
This is Later with mo Kelly k IF I AM
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come back, we're going to tell you about some of
the first real world impacts of these tariffs. And it's
not even China, but close to it. That's next.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
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Speaker 2 (26:33):
Mister mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app.
And in my final thought tonight, I will talk about
tariff's in our economy more generally and how as I
would say, the rubber is going to meet the road,
We're gonna start feeling the real effects of tariffs, not
in a hypothetical or theoretical sense, but that's then. I
(26:56):
did want to tell you this as an example of
regardless of wherever you are, whoever you are, you're going
to start feeling the tariffs, sometimes on a smaller level.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Sometimes on a larger level. Stephan, you're a gamer, aren't
you a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, do you have a what do you have? Do
you have a PS five? You have a Xbox? I
got a switch in at PS five. Okay, the switch
and the PS five are made in China. If I'm
not mistaken, Oh boy, if I'm not mistaken, well, let
me just tell you about this and Xbox. They're made
in Taiwan. So I'm not even talking about China exactly yet.
(27:31):
Microsoft announced yesterday that virtually all all physical products relating
to its Xbox gaming line, including consoles, accessories, and games,
will receive hefty and immediate immediate increases worldwide. The standard
(27:52):
version of the Xbox Series X, the flagship gaming console, immediately,
will go from four hundred and ninety nine nine dollars
to five hundred and ninety nine dollars. Okay, jeez, that's
made in Taiwan. I didn't say anything about China and
(28:12):
one hundred and twenty four percent tariffs.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That's Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
The less powerful Xbox Series S with five hundred and
twelve gigs of storage, that's going up from two hundred
ninety nine dollars to three hundred and seventy nine dollars. Now,
you can't have a console without controllers, right. Standard controllers
will remate at their current prices sixty four ninety nine
(28:38):
for black or white and sixty nine ninety nine for
colorful versions. But limited edition controllers because everyone wants to,
you know, keep it spicy, those will go from seventy
nine ninety nine to eighty nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The Xbox wireless headset is.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Going from one oh nine ninety nine to one nineteen
ninety nine, and the prices will also rise in Europe,
Australia and Asia. I only bring this up because you
may only think of the tariffs having to do with
a particular group of products, or you may think, well,
there are exceptions for electronics.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Not all, not all. You are going to feel this
on some level.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
And Taiwan, if I'm not mistaken, they're only like the
ten percent tariff. If I'm not mistaken, I know it's
not on the level of China, which is one hundred
and twenty four percent.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But we're going to feel this on all levels.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And a lot of my friends, even though they may
be in their fifties, they're still gamers. They spend a
lot of money on these consoles, these games, these controllers,
and you know, and well, let me put it in
another way. Don't think about this as just a gaming console.
Think of it more broadly about electronics. Think about it
(29:58):
in terms of phones, think about it in terms of
audio equipment. All of that's pretty much coming from overseas,
And regardless of the country which it may be coming from,
it's going to cost more. Now how long it's going
to cost more? Is anyone's guests? Is anyone's guests? And
(30:18):
I don't know if people know this. We don't have
any new trade agreements yet. We don't not one. Well
you're lying, no, no, I do my homework. We do
not have any new trade agreements. So it hasn't even
started yet. Do you think it'll affect yes, the holiday
(30:39):
shopping season? No, no, no, yes, yeah, it is already affected
the holiday season. And I don't want to give away
too much from our remarks, but I will say this,
companies have already made the decision about pulling back on
their holiday purchases because you don't want to have to
overpay for inventory that you can't sell. There's gonna be
(31:00):
a retraction of what is purchased by companies, and there's
gonna be a retraction by companies as far as their
holiday hiring the seasonal employees. There is I don't want
to say a trickle down effect, but all these systems,
supply side, demand side, are connected. I just wanted to
pull out Xbox to show how it's starting. And Microsoft
(31:26):
is saying all of its products, but everyone I think
has a reference point with Xbox. I say, Xbox, you
may not have one, but you kind of know what
it is. You know what a gaming console is, and
you may not use it, but your kids may use it.
They may ask for it this holiday season. And just
know you're gonna pay at least one hundred dollars more
for the for the console. You're gonna pay more for
(31:46):
the games, even if you already have one. So it
may not hit you squared your wallet, but it might,
you know, hit you in the back of the leg.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You gonna feel it. You're gonna feel it.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's not politics, that's just BA economics where everything I
can't say the actual word, but it rolls downhill. It
all rolls downhill. Ca f I AM six forty were
live everywhere the iHeartRadio app will.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Help you figure it out. It's kind of what we do.
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