April 19, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the latest preparations taking place at Disneyland to ready the theme park for its 70th celebration…PLUS – Thoughts on Sam’s Club plans to implement “Scan & Go” technology at all store locations AND why superstar Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour is not filling stadiums - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh yeah, it is Friday, can if I am since
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube
at mister mo Kelly. It's Friday. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We're gonna
have nothing but fun tonight. I got nothing but fun
for you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Honey. You call me honey. No, I never talked to you, Mark.
That's awkward.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now now you're gonna make me introduce you. I was
not even thinking about you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're always thinking about me, and the honey thing is
just kind of a step too far.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, since you're on the mic, yes, darling, ah, thank you. Well,
you know we've we had some drizzle today. I don't
know where you were, but I was driving back and
forth from like Ontario has a little bit of precipitation,
but not a full on rain.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I think you just must have your own personal rain
cloud because I didn't get any of it. And we're
due for a pretty comfy weekend sun and the low seventies.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You said that we're supposed to have like twenty thirty
percent chance of rain on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I remember it, Stephan. Didn't you hear it? You were
here as well, you heard it. I heard it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh yeah, you experienced the one hundred percent chance and
I got the zero percent. That's the thing about predicting
a twenty percent chance of rain one five. Yeah, yeah,
you're you were the one.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, well, I just had a little bit of precipitation.
I can't speak for anyone else. I was supposed to
go to the movies with y'all today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, what happened with that?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I had to take care of some family business, had
to take care of some homp kytal business.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There was a lot going on. It was a busy, busy,
busy day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I see, busy, busy day, A lot going on. But
the week is now over. Hopefully, if you're in your
the traffic is not too bad. Given it's good Friday.
It's probably horrible, but I can wish good things for
you if you happen to be on any one of
those freeways. We know that Mark Runner is here, so
you won't get a runner from him. Okay, I can't
(02:13):
speak on anyone else. I can't give you any type
of guarantee. But tonight it is nothing but fun, and
I guess according to Mark Runner and son, for the
rest of the weekend, he's the one who said it,
So he's never wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's the National Weather Service, but soon it might
just be me. Based on what we know about cuts
to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, that is true. We might just have a service.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Next month, weather brought to you by me sticking my
head out the window.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, you wouldn't be wrong. I mean, it'd be just
about the same chance of being correct.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I have more confidence than these professionals who have
made it their career to do this. But I'll do
what I gotta do.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Tonight we're gonna be talking about Disneyland and how they're
further preparing for the seventieth anniversary celebration. Sam's Club. Not
good news there, or maybe it's good news. It depends
on how you like your shopping experience to go and
what do you expect. Would you go and pay a
lot of money for a concert. Do you expect it
to be sold out, especially with dynamic pricing.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you expect it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To be a full house or do you expect it
to be something less than that when you pay so
much money. We'll talk about that, and of course we'll
close out the show with name that movie called Classic
We were working on some prizes.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't know if it came to fruition or no.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The prizes will be in full effect next week and
the week after prize will start rolling out again next week.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, because I know we were working on it all
week and certain people that can get back to us
in a timely fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They did.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yes, they did, they said, hey, my bad, prize is
on the way. Absolutely absolutely, so next week we do apologize.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But we have some great movies to choose from. I
chose some clips to wallet, chose some clips. We would
never let market near any of the clips. That's just no,
you wouldn't want that. Is there a theme tonight? No
theme tonight. I was thinking about, you know, doing an
Easter weekend theme, but I couldn't really find ten movies
had to find it is it is? It's like you
(04:12):
got Passion on the Christ and.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I just play a lot of the whipping sounds
from that movie.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Everybody loves that. I don't know what else I could
do at that point.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean, you could probably do some Peter Cottontail or
something like that, but there are not a lot of
movies that I could have used for the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No, your your options are really limited, best to open
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So we just left it to you know, just movies,
just movies, and hopefully you have a drink or two
or a blunt or eight and join us and regale
us with the stories of your life. Maybe they might
have to do what Jack Nicholson might have to do
with ncis.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All we know is we answer the phone, we get
your first name, we get your city, and we get
your address if we're giving away prizes, and then we
go from there. Oftentimes, whatever happens just happens.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And then he might end up in the promo.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And there've been some really really good callers, some strong
callers in the past few weeks. Hopefully we can get
as many of those great callers again tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You might end up on a date with Foosh. You could.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's true because a lot of callers have been flirting
with Stefan as of lately. And from what I understand, why, well,
not a few, so I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, who could resist?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Look at him, I mean, you're all fancy free over there.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think he's got more hair than all of us combined.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, possibly, Yeah, he's got those green eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He's not slimming down for us. I think we don't notice.
You know, what's her name? And you won't tell us
her name?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What's her name? Oh, Sophia, he's back. He's doing that again. No,
we're not talking about the callers. We're talking about you know,
the one at the top of the list right now,
your secret secret list I wish And he's humble too. Ladies,
you need to get at this man. Get at him,
why you can. The chat is now open on the
(06:16):
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looking for you, and don't get try to get too
frogged with her because she will block your ass. She
is my She is my like my secret twin. She
loves to block people. She's the gamekeeper on that show.
If you try to go left in her block, tell
him a blocky.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, not at all. Why don't you talk about block.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
That?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mo Hee's ah?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I tell you if I ever see Twala mark Ron,
I want to give him a piece of piece.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What that full up on that?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You always can give them a runners since we have
a video component, Is it all right if I don't
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I promise I won't tell on you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, I think I'm gonna play it safe on
that front. How is it? How's it playing it safe?
Everybody knows you do it well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Everybody knows that we all do quite a number of
things that we don't also do it work.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think everyone's given a rnor at this point. First
of all, how did it become that? Because it's always
been that, It's been that dude. I don't know who
named it a chair, but it's always going to be
a chair. I don't know who named it aronor, but
it's always going to be a runor. You are a
noun and a verb.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You put so much emphasis on it when you first
introduced your double double flippant bird, and you owned it
in such a manner that it made it a honor.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I have a verb and a pronoun for you. Give
it on the camera.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No no, see no, no no, no, not at work,
come on, not over the public's airwaves. Just a little
fingernail of her honor. Well, the bosses are listening and watching.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, let's just move ahead, shall wef I am six
forty and YouTube, We're live everywhere.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Also we're live on YouTube. Let's talk a little bit
about Disneyland. You know that they are trying to get
the park, actually the parks plural ready for Disneyland's seventieth
anniversary celebration. I say the parks because there's renovations and
refurbishments going on at Disney's California Adventure as well. There
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are a number of rides and attractions which have been
closed for a number of months and they're going to
be Some are going to be reopening in the near future,
and some were just recently closed for an amount of time.
I know, it's real confusing. Let me see if I
can sort through some of the confusion. Sailing Yep Columbia
had been closed through April eleventh of this month, but
(09:05):
it does not show a reopening date as of yet.
There's the Disneyland Story Presenting Great Moments with Mister Lincoln
is going to be reimagined into Walt Disney A Magical
Life that is going to debut on July seventeenth of
this year, and it had been closed since April sixteenth
of last year. You heard the Intro Small World, it
(09:29):
had been closed since January twenty first, is going to
reopen on April twenty fourth, so sometime next week if
it's still on schedule. There's the Meat Tinkerbell in Pixie
Hollow had been closed since September fifteenth of last year.
There is no reopening date as of yet. Indiana Jones Adventure,
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a very popular ride, had been closed since March seventeenth,
is going to reopen next week on the twenty fourth.
Walt Disney's in ten Ta Tiki Room, It's going to
be closed starting April twenty eighth of this year.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There is no scheduled reopening date.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The Matta Horn Bob Sleds will be closed on April
twenty eighth again, and that's open ended, no reopening date.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And Chippendale's Gadget Coaster. Have you been on that twilet?
I'm not even familiar with that. Chippindale's.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, Rangers, not those Chippindale's Oh my gosh, huh the squirrels. Yes,
of course, the squirrel is not the exotic dancers.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh thank you Jesus. Mark point oflication. It's always not
the rescue range. It's not the dancers, the rescue rangers.
I'd been there. Okay, you gotta go, Mark, you gotta go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's going to be closed on May nineteenth of this year,
and there's no scheduled reopening date. As I said, there's
going to be some closings or some closures at Disney
California Adventure Park for refurbishing some of the rides and attractions.
Soaring Around the World a hugely popular traction. I think
it's probably the most popular one over there.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I love that one.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It used to be Swing over California and he said,
now let's do Sword around the World. And the last
time I went to disney Land, popped over to California
Adventure and rode Sword around the World for the first time.
It's a really fun, fun experience. It's not real long,
and you can do it two or three times in
a day, and the line is usually not too long, you.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Know what I love about it For individuals like myself
who do not travel the world that film and it
is filmed, it kind of takes you around the world
and gives you I don't know what it would be
like to go to different places. They bring in different smells,
the wind, the flowing. It is inspirational for anyone. Like
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myself was like, ooh, I don't like traveling, But then
I get on that ride, I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Like, I gotta go. I have to see the world.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But it's not gonna be closed very long. It's April
twenty eighth of this year, so we're talking about ten
days from now, and it's going to reopen May first,
So over the course of a week or so, it
will only be closed. There's the Sorcerer's Workshop. We'll be
closed April twenty eighth, and that will reopen or at
least scheduled to reopen May twelfth. And there's Anna and
(12:19):
Elsa's Royal Welcome. Do you know what that is? I
don't have no Frozen right, yes, okay, character seeah, I
don't know. It's like a kid attraction.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah. I never saw Frozen or Frozen two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I just know the song because it was just so massive. Right,
it just didn't seem anything for me. I didn't have
any desire. Your daughter loved Frozen, didn't she. Yes, you're
an adult. Well, it's not that I'm not above seeing
a Disney movie, be it Pixar or not. That one
in particular, just didn't have anything for me. Yeah, that
(12:53):
was definitely a specific demographic. Yeah, maybe if I had
long flowing hair or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Know. The little the little Snowman, he he he's for everyone,
No man for everyone.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
He's pretty funny. Not enough for me to watch the
movie for either of them. It's a little snowman in
both of them. Yeah, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I never saw it. No, he's crashed.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All off is all off is one of the freshest
things about the whole film.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That Yeah, fast, okay, I love that, Yes, he is.
How dare you not see Frozen very easily? I mean
skip across it all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
There is only one individual who's always throwing out his
adult card when it comes to and and made his films.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That would be mister He's just a middle figure. He's quiet.
See listen the middle thing. I didn't make up the
middle finger, but you own it. It's yours, probably some
guy named Johanna's Finger from the sixteenth century.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I can't take credit for that. It's a brand, you know.
It's like the product is tissue, what you call it
clean rights the same, That's essentially what this is.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's the same thing. It's been branded.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But I I stand by my point that I don't
see movies like Frozen because let's all say it together.
I'm an adult, sure, but that's debatable. You know you
have your moments. Well you're not really an adult.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well we all do. I mean, when you come to.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Work you're not wearing pants, It's like, come on, grow up. Well,
I'm trying to think of my co workers. I'm trying
to think of you and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Fight not wearing pants. Yeah, you're we and you say
I make it uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You're welcome, and some gratitude be appropriate, Like what was
the line from JD Vance?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Have you said to thank you even once? Go ahead?
Go ahead. See he doesn't expect you to be funny,
that's why the rim shot. But he expects you to
be Yes he does. Huh, yes he does.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I have more of a track record of being funny.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. Yeah. Is there a crickets sound effect? Instead? Thank
you very much? Thank you very much? Oh boy, here
we go, Yes, here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And when we come back on the other side, let's
talk about Sam's Club and they're playing to eliminate get
this all checkout lanes and all self checkout lanes what
but they have an answer.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We'll tell you about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
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Speaker 1 (15:25):
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Speaker 2 (15:32):
Let's go to YouTube.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Just go to YouTube right now so you could check
out how cool this show is. At mister mo Kelly.
We have this live stream that has been put together
by Daniel Ferguson. It is fantastic, it's interactive. We have
the chat which is Carnesia who's running that, where you
can interact with us. We will have polls throughout the
evening on each subject, and there's also visual material to
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compliment this audio. So let's get into it. Sam's Club
and I hate to say we were right. It's not
just me, but it was Twala and much to the
chagrin of Mark Ronner. He doesn't like this trend, but
he doesn't deny this trend. We talk oftentimes, and I
argue with you on social media. You may hit me
(16:14):
on Instagram or threads at mister Mokelly, either place, and
you want to tell me I don't know what I'm
talking about. Oh, you just you just don't know. You're
an idiot. Okay, Trump's going to bring back manufacturing jobs.
It's bring back jobs. Okay. I'm just giving you the
facts of where our economy is going and has been
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going for quite some time. Sam's Club plans to eliminate
all checkout lanes, plans to eliminate all self checkout.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
In favor of scan and go. Did you did you?
Did you get all that? All checkout lanes, all self
checkout lanes?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And it's according to Sam's Club, it's part of a
broader effort to quote redefine the club model and set
a new standard in retail. Hey, Mark, Sam's Club is
a division of what major corporation?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I don't know, mo, what is it? Oh? Walmart? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The biggest corporation, retail corporation in the world. I think
I'm pretty sure they can't afford to pay people. Surely,
where do you think those low prices come from?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Taxpayers who subsidize all their underpaid workers that have to
go on public assistance.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Since they don't pay their workers a whole lot, they
passed on those.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Quote unquote savings to you.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Now, if they don't have to pay workers at all,
where do you think those people are going to go
to work. We're talking about the largest retailer in the world.
And here's something else, and this is going to tickle you.
Mark Sam's Club introduced the concept at its Grapevine, Texas store.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And there's this where.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
AI technology verifies purchases through image classification as customers exit.
That means receipt checkers will also be phased out, So
you will have no cashiers, no receipt checkers, no baggers.
Maybe there's someone who comes in and stocks the you know,
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the products on the shelves at night. Maybe more for now,
for now, until they figure out they've invented the rumba
and they can don't need anyone to sweep the floors.
This is where our economy is going. And you can say,
bring back these jobs or we need to have more jobs.
We can't have a universal basic income. It is coming.
(18:40):
There will not be enough jobs for people.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All we gotta do is start making soilent green and
that'll take care of the problem. Hello, all the excess
people will will be used somehow.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's weird how Art has a profound impact on life
or predict life.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Experts say that the shift may not lead to job loss,
but could change how employees support customers. Well, I disagree
with that it's going to lead to job loss because
every single corporation is about minimizing their expenses with every checker,
every cashier that's gone. We talked about it before. That's
the no payroll taxes you have to pay, no health
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care you'd have to pay. You have to worry about
days off. You don't have to worry about overworking them
and underpaying them. You don't have to worry about anyone
raising the minimum wage on you. There are no employees
in this store. For the most part.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I don't understand the concept of this is not going
to lead to job loss when you're literally cutting all
of those jobs. I don't understand that concept. But we
literally just this week we said this was coming, not
knowing that this was about to happen, not knowing that.
And again you may say, well, that's just Sales Club.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No no, no, no, no no, it is.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
This is going to go to Walmart, it's going to
go to the competitor Target, it will go to Best buy,
it will go to everywhere that can adopt this same
scan and go technology. How do we know because in
places like China they already have this running.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, let's take it to its logical conclusion.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If it is in SABS Club, that means it goes
to Walmart because it's the same company. And if Walmart
then has a competitive advantage over places like Target or
any other one of those bolt convenience stores, they're also
going to do it as well, because that's the only
way they'll be able to compete. If you have a
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place that has very little overhead due to employees, and
there's a place like Target who's still employing a lot
of employees, what do you think is going to happen?
Technology and innovation always works to the detriment of those
who might be lowest on the totem pole. If you're
working a minimum wage job, those are the jobs which
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are always the first to go. Do you really talking
about movies, do you really think they need to pay
someone to tear your ticket? Do you really think that
there's not technology available to.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Have that person replaced.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Do you really think in this age of vending machines
and scanning go technology, they need someone behind the counter
at a movie theater concession to get your popcorn and
hand it to you for.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Twelve dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Do you really think that, No, those jobs are not
going to exist much longer, And if you're paying attention,
they're already disappearing already. It's Sam's Club today, tomorrow, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Think about it. How many places have you gone where
there are no employees.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It's almost like it's the vending machine technology of five
and ten years ago, and it's being applied just about
everywhere where you just get to scan your food or
whatever and just walk on out and it will deduct
it from your ATM cardway whatever card you have on file.
They don't need anyone anymore. And I know, from a
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nostalgia standpoint, we like to believe that these jobs are
going to stay around forever, or we need to make
these jobs available so everyone will have a job. They
are not these jobs. And we talked about it with manufacturing,
and here's the tie in. These jobs are not coming back,
and there's always been pushed back to the idea. But
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once upon a time, and I like to use this
example because it still holds you today. Once upon a time,
we had long distance operators. Once upon a time, we
had elevator operators, we had traffic light operators.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Actual people who would do these jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They don't exist anymore because technology eradicated the need for
the jobs, and they're coming for all these service jobs.
Do you think they really need to have a host
or hostess at the front of a restaurant? Do you
think they need to have a person bring you your
food at a restaurant? Go to a Denny's, they have
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a robot which will roll around the whole freaking place
and bring your food. Go to the movies, they have
that same robot. I have it on my Instagram, will
roll around the movies and bring you your food. The
only reason why these jobs still exist is out of
the goodness of the heart of the people who owns
those businesses. That's the only reason. Because the technology has
already replaced these people.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But at least we're bringing manufacturing jobs back from rights Vietnam,
where they're paid two dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Something about this doesn't add up, doesn't It doesn't add up.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But just like how the jobs went to China, the
jobs went to Taiwan, the jobs went to Mexico. The
goal of those multinational corporations was to make sure they mitigated,
minimize their bottom line the amount that they were spending
on employees. And if you can spend zero on employees
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as opposed to two dollars an hour in Vietnam and
not have to deal with the shipping costs of shipping
your iPhone, for example, from China, Yeah, it's a brand
new ballgame.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I don't expect corporations to ask or answer this question,
but I think a lot of us have forgotten to
ask the question, By the way, what happens to all
these people, whether it's the ones getting put out of
work for automation, or say, what happens if we slash
Medicare that kind of thing? I don't hear enough lately
of oh, yeah, what happens to all those people well
who need.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That, who rely on mark? Nothing? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And this is where the politics of it all comes in.
This is where the demagoguery comes in. There needs to
be blame laid at somebody's feet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
We are blaming immigrants right now because supposedly they're taking
all of these jobs. Right now, we are blaming certain
corporations because or actually, we're blaming our politicians here by
not being business this friendly.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So these jobs are leaving. Well, it wasn't the immigrants
who sent the jobs overseas. It was sure, it was
the corporations that didn't want to pay a living wage
and benefits.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But here here's where those ideas are going to clash.
They're not going to pay that living wage and benefits
because they can get a machine that needs no benefits,
that needs no wages.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, there is nothing, Mark, I know you're scratching and
trying to find this answer of what happens to the people?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They die? They die? Mark? Oh yeah, die.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I mean the point behind that question is people don't
just disappear because they're inconvenient for you to deal with.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, it still exists, okay, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They still exist, and they end up homeless, and we
complain about why we're not doing anything more about homelessness.
It's a vicious circle in cycle, however you want to
characterize it. We complain about homelessness, but we don't ever
talk about the reasons why people end up homeless.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You get into it. Oh no, we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We're talking about the living wage and how people can't
afford to live in the society that they live. It's
not about the cost of living quote unquote in California,
you got homeless people all around the freaking country. You
think that they don't have homeless people in Texas, I
got news for you.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
They do, Yes, they do, But they don't have homeless
people like this all around the world.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And we should start thinking about why that is. Oh,
we know why. I just think people don't want to
be honest with the why. It's Later with mo Kelly
caf I AM six forty Live everywhere, the I Heart
Radio app and on YouTube at mister mo Kelly.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube.
Beyonce is inarguably one of the largest most successful artists
in the world today, with the exception of maybe Taylor
Swift her as in Beyonce her concert tour, her most
recent concert tour brought in billions of dollars for the economy,
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billions of dollars, and that's not including her concert movie
that was also in theaters. Beyonce is a billionaire in
her own right, But every star hits their apex at
some point, and just maybe, just maybe, Beyonce is starting
to be on the other side of her career. And
(27:19):
mind you, this is after a lot of success with
her Texas Hold Them and her country album. I put
country in quotation marks because not everyone felt it was
actual country. But her Cowboy Carter album did do a
lot for her career. She won Album of the Year.
But as far as her ongoing concert dates, the officials
(27:41):
Ticketmaster site, then this is for the Cowboy Carter Tour.
Ticketmaster shows that the tours opening night of April twenty eighth,
here in La, we're talking ten days from now, still
has more than thirty two hundred unsold seats.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
This is LA.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We're not talking about a more obscure market. LA is
a place that she has routinely sold out, and the
standard tickets are between thirty five and eighty five dollars.
Sales have been even slower for the final two nights
in LA.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
See that's opening night, thirty two hundred tickets still available.
The other two.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Nights right after that, more than thirty eight hundred standard
tickets available. We're not talking about ticket brokers and ticket
resalers who are buying these tickets up and then trying
to resell them for an exorbitant amount of money or
ridiculous amount of money. We're talking about tickets which are
(28:45):
available to the public right now. I've never been to
a Beyonce concert. I can't speak for what the experience
is like. I've talked to people who love going to
Beyonce concerts. Maybe she was in La too recently with
the Renaissance tour.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I got to ask Tuala because his daughter goes to
every single concert. His daughter has been on cruises. His
daughter went to see Hamilton fifty eleven times. His daughter
has toured the world. I like kidding him because it
comes out of Twalla's pocket usually, and I want that
life right right. It's like I want to be Twala's
daughter whenever I But here's the thing, going back to Beyonce,
(29:26):
I told you what is going on with La and
her concert tickets. East Coast is not even doing much better.
The last night in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, the last
night on that tour, still has over fifty five one
hundred unsold tickets. In Georgia, the Atlanta show on July fourteenth,
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has more than fifty eight hundred tickets available, including more
than fifty percent of the floor seats. Is this pushback
against Beyonce? I don't think so, if I'm not mistaken,
and Parnasha look it up for me if you could.
What is Beyonce's age? I think she's forty three. And
I'm not trying to be an agist. I know there
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is a point of no return for most artists who
might appeal forty three might appeal to someone who's fourteen
or fifteen years old. Beyonce is getting into their parents' demographic,
not the demographic of the of the fans that are
most likely to buy those concert tickets. If you looked
(30:31):
at the Renaissance tour, there are a lot of wide
age rages. You had people in their fifties and forties
and thirties and so forth. But pop music And I
said this a couple of nights ago especially, and I
made the distinction with Will Smith. That's what I was
talking about, Will Smith. Age elasticity music, it doesn't exist.
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In other words, the older you get in music, there
is a precipitous drop off with stardom and fandom. You
get after the age of forty, all of a sudden,
you're just thought of as old. And I'm not saying
it's all of that. It might be Beyonce overexposure and
burn out because she's been in everyone's faces for the
(31:13):
past two and a half years straight, between the Renaissance Tour,
the concert movie, and now the Cowboy Carter tour doing
She's never left the public scene for the most part.
But I do wonder with her being forty three, and
like I was talking about Will Smith being fifty six
years old, after a certain point, you just don't have
(31:36):
that level of appeal and it's really difficult to sell
out stadiums stadiums. Has she done it before, sure, sure,
But she only has one new album and all of
her previous hits. I'd be willing to bet that we
may have seen the absolute apex of Beyonce's career. And
I'm not trying to throw shade at her. I'm just saying,
(32:00):
no one stays on top forever. And if she's struggling
in a Beyonce sense, struggling to sell all these tickets
around the country, that says to me, is going to
continue to be a struggle Jennifer Lopez. Remember she was
supposed to have a music tour. She canceled her tour.
Why no one was buying her music? Jennifer Lopez, Let's
be fair. I think she's fifty five now. She is
(32:23):
not perceived as a music star of the twenty first century.
Could she do it in the late twentieth century when
she was in her thirties. Yeah, sure, but music doesn't
have that elasticity. Oh and before we go to break,
we were talking about how Sam's Club was going to
get rid of all those people and just go with
(32:44):
scanning Go. Fifty six percent of people surveyed on our
YouTube channel said that they would be okay with scanning go. Yeah,
you would be okay with it right up until it's
your job in which they're getting rid of.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
It's just because they're buying embarrassing stuff like lou In suppositories.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably that. It's probably that, or it's
something much more embarrassing. I don't know, I can't think
of anything. It's later with bo Kelly. We're live everywhere
on YouTube and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
App Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss, completely blissless.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
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Live
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Everywhere on the radio app
Oh yeah, it is Friday, can if I am since
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube
at mister mo Kelly. It's Friday. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We're gonna
have nothing but fun tonight. I got nothing but fun
for you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Honey. You call me honey. No, I never talked to you, Mark.
That's awkward.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now now you're gonna make me introduce you. I was
not even thinking about you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're always thinking about me, and the honey thing is
just kind of a step too far.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, since you're on the mic, yes, darling, ah, thank you. Well,
you know we've we had some drizzle today. I don't
know where you were, but I was driving back and
forth from like Ontario has a little bit of precipitation,
but not a full on rain.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I think you just must have your own personal rain
cloud because I didn't get any of it. And we're
due for a pretty comfy weekend sun and the low seventies.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You said that we're supposed to have like twenty thirty
percent chance of rain on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I remember it, Stephan. Didn't you hear it? You were
here as well, you heard it. I heard it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh yeah, you experienced the one hundred percent chance and
I got the zero percent. That's the thing about predicting
a twenty percent chance of rain one five. Yeah, yeah,
you're you were the one.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, well, I just had a little bit of precipitation.
I can't speak for anyone else. I was supposed to
go to the movies with y'all today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, what happened with that?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I had to take care of some family business, had
to take care of some homp kytal business.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There was a lot going on. It was a busy, busy,
busy day.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I see, busy, busy day, A lot going on. But
the week is now over. Hopefully, if you're in your
the traffic is not too bad. Given it's good Friday.
It's probably horrible, but I can wish good things for
you if you happen to be on any one of
those freeways. We know that Mark Runner is here, so
you won't get a runner from him. Okay, I can't
(02:13):
speak on anyone else. I can't give you any type
of guarantee. But tonight it is nothing but fun, and
I guess according to Mark Runner and son, for the
rest of the weekend, he's the one who said it,
So he's never wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's the National Weather Service, but soon it might
just be me. Based on what we know about cuts
to the National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, that is true. We might just have a service.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Next month, weather brought to you by me sticking my
head out the window.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, you wouldn't be wrong. I mean, it'd be just
about the same chance of being correct.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I have more confidence than these professionals who have
made it their career to do this. But I'll do
what I gotta do.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Tonight we're gonna be talking about Disneyland and how they're
further preparing for the seventieth anniversary celebration. Sam's Club. Not
good news there, or maybe it's good news. It depends
on how you like your shopping experience to go and
what do you expect. Would you go and pay a
lot of money for a concert. Do you expect it
to be sold out, especially with dynamic pricing.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Do you expect it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
To be a full house or do you expect it
to be something less than that when you pay so
much money. We'll talk about that, and of course we'll
close out the show with name that movie called Classic
We were working on some prizes.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I don't know if it came to fruition or no.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The prizes will be in full effect next week and
the week after prize will start rolling out again next week.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, because I know we were working on it all
week and certain people that can get back to us
in a timely fashion.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They did.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yes, they did, they said, hey, my bad, prize is
on the way. Absolutely absolutely, so next week we do apologize.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But we have some great movies to choose from. I
chose some clips to wallet, chose some clips. We would
never let market near any of the clips. That's just no,
you wouldn't want that. Is there a theme tonight? No
theme tonight. I was thinking about, you know, doing an
Easter weekend theme, but I couldn't really find ten movies
had to find it is it is? It's like you
(04:12):
got Passion on the Christ and.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I just play a lot of the whipping sounds
from that movie.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Everybody loves that. I don't know what else I could
do at that point.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean, you could probably do some Peter Cottontail or
something like that, but there are not a lot of
movies that I could have used for the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No, your your options are really limited, best to open
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So we just left it to you know, just movies,
just movies, and hopefully you have a drink or two
or a blunt or eight and join us and regale
us with the stories of your life. Maybe they might
have to do what Jack Nicholson might have to do
with ncis.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We don't know, We don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
All we know is we answer the phone, we get
your first name, we get your city, and we get
your address if we're giving away prizes, and then we
go from there. Oftentimes, whatever happens just happens.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And then he might end up in the promo.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And there've been some really really good callers, some strong
callers in the past few weeks. Hopefully we can get
as many of those great callers again tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You might end up on a date with Foosh. You could.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's true because a lot of callers have been flirting
with Stefan as of lately. And from what I understand, why, well,
not a few, so I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, who could resist?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Look at him, I mean, you're all fancy free over there.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think he's got more hair than all of us combined.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, possibly, Yeah, he's got those green eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
He's not slimming down for us. I think we don't notice.
You know, what's her name? And you won't tell us
her name?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What's her name? Oh, Sophia, he's back. He's doing that again. No,
we're not talking about the callers. We're talking about you know,
the one at the top of the list right now,
your secret secret list I wish And he's humble too. Ladies,
you need to get at this man. Get at him,
why you can. The chat is now open on the
(06:16):
YouTube extreaming channel. The chat is now open. Carnesia is
looking for you, and don't get try to get too
frogged with her because she will block your ass. She
is my She is my like my secret twin. She
loves to block people. She's the gamekeeper on that show.
If you try to go left in her block, tell
him a blocky.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, not at all. Why don't you talk about block.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
That?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Mo Hee's ah?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I tell you if I ever see Twala mark Ron,
I want to give him a piece of piece.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What that full up on that?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
You always can give them a runners since we have
a video component, Is it all right if I don't
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I promise I won't tell on you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, I think I'm gonna play it safe on
that front. How is it? How's it playing it safe?
Everybody knows you do it well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Everybody knows that we all do quite a number of
things that we don't also do it work.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think everyone's given a rnor at this point. First
of all, how did it become that? Because it's always
been that, It's been that dude. I don't know who
named it a chair, but it's always going to be
a chair. I don't know who named it aronor, but
it's always going to be a runor. You are a
noun and a verb.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You put so much emphasis on it when you first
introduced your double double flippant bird, and you owned it
in such a manner that it made it a honor.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I have a verb and a pronoun for you. Give
it on the camera.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No no, see no, no no, no, not at work,
come on, not over the public's airwaves. Just a little
fingernail of her honor. Well, the bosses are listening and watching.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, let's just move ahead, shall wef I am six
forty and YouTube, We're live everywhere.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Also we're live on YouTube. Let's talk a little bit
about Disneyland. You know that they are trying to get
the park, actually the parks plural ready for Disneyland's seventieth
anniversary celebration. I say the parks because there's renovations and
refurbishments going on at Disney's California Adventure as well. There
(08:42):
are a number of rides and attractions which have been
closed for a number of months and they're going to
be Some are going to be reopening in the near future,
and some were just recently closed for an amount of time.
I know, it's real confusing. Let me see if I
can sort through some of the confusion. Sailing Yep Columbia
had been closed through April eleventh of this month, but
(09:05):
it does not show a reopening date as of yet.
There's the Disneyland Story Presenting Great Moments with Mister Lincoln
is going to be reimagined into Walt Disney A Magical
Life that is going to debut on July seventeenth of
this year, and it had been closed since April sixteenth
of last year. You heard the Intro Small World, it
(09:29):
had been closed since January twenty first, is going to
reopen on April twenty fourth, so sometime next week if
it's still on schedule. There's the Meat Tinkerbell in Pixie
Hollow had been closed since September fifteenth of last year.
There is no reopening date as of yet. Indiana Jones Adventure,
(09:51):
a very popular ride, had been closed since March seventeenth,
is going to reopen next week on the twenty fourth.
Walt Disney's in ten Ta Tiki Room, It's going to
be closed starting April twenty eighth of this year.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There is no scheduled reopening date.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
The Matta Horn Bob Sleds will be closed on April
twenty eighth again, and that's open ended, no reopening date.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And Chippendale's Gadget Coaster. Have you been on that twilet?
I'm not even familiar with that. Chippindale's.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, Rangers, not those Chippindale's Oh my gosh, huh the squirrels. Yes,
of course, the squirrel is not the exotic dancers.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh thank you Jesus. Mark point oflication. It's always not
the rescue range. It's not the dancers, the rescue rangers.
I'd been there. Okay, you gotta go, Mark, you gotta go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's going to be closed on May nineteenth of this year,
and there's no scheduled reopening date. As I said, there's
going to be some closings or some closures at Disney
California Adventure Park for refurbishing some of the rides and attractions.
Soaring Around the World a hugely popular traction. I think
it's probably the most popular one over there.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I love that one.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
It used to be Swing over California and he said,
now let's do Sword around the World. And the last
time I went to disney Land, popped over to California
Adventure and rode Sword around the World for the first time.
It's a really fun, fun experience. It's not real long,
and you can do it two or three times in
a day, and the line is usually not too long, you.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Know what I love about it For individuals like myself
who do not travel the world that film and it
is filmed, it kind of takes you around the world
and gives you I don't know what it would be
like to go to different places. They bring in different smells,
the wind, the flowing. It is inspirational for anyone. Like
(11:49):
myself was like, ooh, I don't like traveling, But then
I get on that ride, I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Like, I gotta go. I have to see the world.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But it's not gonna be closed very long. It's April
twenty eighth of this year, so we're talking about ten
days from now, and it's going to reopen May first,
So over the course of a week or so, it
will only be closed. There's the Sorcerer's Workshop. We'll be
closed April twenty eighth, and that will reopen or at
least scheduled to reopen May twelfth. And there's Anna and
(12:19):
Elsa's Royal Welcome. Do you know what that is? I
don't have no Frozen right, yes, okay, character seeah, I
don't know. It's like a kid attraction.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah. I never saw Frozen or Frozen two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I just know the song because it was just so massive. Right,
it just didn't seem anything for me. I didn't have
any desire. Your daughter loved Frozen, didn't she. Yes, you're
an adult. Well, it's not that I'm not above seeing
a Disney movie, be it Pixar or not. That one
in particular, just didn't have anything for me. Yeah, that
(12:53):
was definitely a specific demographic. Yeah, maybe if I had
long flowing hair or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Know. The little the little Snowman, he he he's for everyone,
No man for everyone.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
He's pretty funny. Not enough for me to watch the
movie for either of them. It's a little snowman in
both of them. Yeah, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I never saw it. No, he's crashed.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All off is all off is one of the freshest
things about the whole film.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That Yeah, fast, okay, I love that, Yes, he is.
How dare you not see Frozen very easily? I mean
skip across it all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
There is only one individual who's always throwing out his
adult card when it comes to and and made his films.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
That would be mister He's just a middle figure. He's quiet.
See listen the middle thing. I didn't make up the
middle finger, but you own it. It's yours, probably some
guy named Johanna's Finger from the sixteenth century.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I can't take credit for that. It's a brand, you know.
It's like the product is tissue, what you call it
clean rights the same, That's essentially what this is.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's the same thing. It's been branded.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But I I stand by my point that I don't
see movies like Frozen because let's all say it together.
I'm an adult, sure, but that's debatable. You know you
have your moments. Well you're not really an adult.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well we all do. I mean, when you come to.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Work you're not wearing pants, It's like, come on, grow up. Well,
I'm trying to think of my co workers. I'm trying
to think of you and.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Fight not wearing pants. Yeah, you're we and you say
I make it uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
You're welcome, and some gratitude be appropriate, Like what was
the line from JD Vance?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Have you said to thank you even once? Go ahead?
Go ahead. See he doesn't expect you to be funny,
that's why the rim shot. But he expects you to
be Yes he does. Huh, yes he does.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I have more of a track record of being funny.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. Yeah. Is there a crickets sound effect? Instead? Thank
you very much? Thank you very much? Oh boy, here
we go, Yes, here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And when we come back on the other side, let's
talk about Sam's Club and they're playing to eliminate get
this all checkout lanes and all self checkout lanes what
but they have an answer.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We'll tell you about it when we come back.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Lane with Kelly on k.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
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YouTube right now.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Let's go to YouTube.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Just go to YouTube right now so you could check
out how cool this show is. At mister mo Kelly.
We have this live stream that has been put together
by Daniel Ferguson. It is fantastic, it's interactive. We have
the chat which is Carnesia who's running that, where you
can interact with us. We will have polls throughout the
evening on each subject, and there's also visual material to
(15:53):
compliment this audio. So let's get into it. Sam's Club
and I hate to say we were right. It's not
just me, but it was Twala and much to the
chagrin of Mark Ronner. He doesn't like this trend, but
he doesn't deny this trend. We talk oftentimes, and I
argue with you on social media. You may hit me
(16:14):
on Instagram or threads at mister Mokelly, either place, and
you want to tell me I don't know what I'm
talking about. Oh, you just you just don't know. You're
an idiot. Okay, Trump's going to bring back manufacturing jobs.
It's bring back jobs. Okay. I'm just giving you the
facts of where our economy is going and has been
(16:36):
going for quite some time. Sam's Club plans to eliminate
all checkout lanes, plans to eliminate all self checkout.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
In favor of scan and go. Did you did you?
Did you get all that? All checkout lanes, all self
checkout lanes?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And it's according to Sam's Club, it's part of a
broader effort to quote redefine the club model and set
a new standard in retail. Hey, Mark, Sam's Club is
a division of what major corporation?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I don't know, mo, what is it? Oh? Walmart? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The biggest corporation, retail corporation in the world. I think
I'm pretty sure they can't afford to pay people. Surely,
where do you think those low prices come from?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Taxpayers who subsidize all their underpaid workers that have to
go on public assistance.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Since they don't pay their workers a whole lot, they
passed on those.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Quote unquote savings to you.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Now, if they don't have to pay workers at all,
where do you think those people are going to go
to work. We're talking about the largest retailer in the world.
And here's something else, and this is going to tickle you.
Mark Sam's Club introduced the concept at its Grapevine, Texas store.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And there's this where.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
AI technology verifies purchases through image classification as customers exit.
That means receipt checkers will also be phased out, So
you will have no cashiers, no receipt checkers, no baggers.
Maybe there's someone who comes in and stocks the you know,
(18:19):
the products on the shelves at night. Maybe more for now,
for now, until they figure out they've invented the rumba
and they can don't need anyone to sweep the floors.
This is where our economy is going. And you can say,
bring back these jobs or we need to have more jobs.
We can't have a universal basic income. It is coming.
(18:40):
There will not be enough jobs for people.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All we gotta do is start making soilent green and
that'll take care of the problem. Hello, all the excess
people will will be used somehow.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's weird how Art has a profound impact on life
or predict life.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Experts say that the shift may not lead to job loss,
but could change how employees support customers. Well, I disagree
with that it's going to lead to job loss because
every single corporation is about minimizing their expenses with every checker,
every cashier that's gone. We talked about it before. That's
the no payroll taxes you have to pay, no health
(19:21):
care you'd have to pay. You have to worry about
days off. You don't have to worry about overworking them
and underpaying them. You don't have to worry about anyone
raising the minimum wage on you. There are no employees
in this store. For the most part.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I don't understand the concept of this is not going
to lead to job loss when you're literally cutting all
of those jobs. I don't understand that concept. But we
literally just this week we said this was coming, not
knowing that this was about to happen, not knowing that.
And again you may say, well, that's just Sales Club.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No no, no, no, no no, it is.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
This is going to go to Walmart, it's going to
go to the competitor Target, it will go to Best buy,
it will go to everywhere that can adopt this same
scan and go technology. How do we know because in
places like China they already have this running.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, let's take it to its logical conclusion.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If it is in SABS Club, that means it goes
to Walmart because it's the same company. And if Walmart
then has a competitive advantage over places like Target or
any other one of those bolt convenience stores, they're also
going to do it as well, because that's the only
way they'll be able to compete. If you have a
(20:36):
place that has very little overhead due to employees, and
there's a place like Target who's still employing a lot
of employees, what do you think is going to happen?
Technology and innovation always works to the detriment of those
who might be lowest on the totem pole. If you're
working a minimum wage job, those are the jobs which
(20:57):
are always the first to go. Do you really talking
about movies, do you really think they need to pay
someone to tear your ticket? Do you really think that
there's not technology available to.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Have that person replaced.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Do you really think in this age of vending machines
and scanning go technology, they need someone behind the counter
at a movie theater concession to get your popcorn and
hand it to you for.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Twelve dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Do you really think that, No, those jobs are not
going to exist much longer, And if you're paying attention,
they're already disappearing already. It's Sam's Club today, tomorrow, it's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Think about it. How many places have you gone where
there are no employees.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It's almost like it's the vending machine technology of five
and ten years ago, and it's being applied just about
everywhere where you just get to scan your food or
whatever and just walk on out and it will deduct
it from your ATM cardway whatever card you have on file.
They don't need anyone anymore. And I know, from a
(22:06):
nostalgia standpoint, we like to believe that these jobs are
going to stay around forever, or we need to make
these jobs available so everyone will have a job. They
are not these jobs. And we talked about it with manufacturing,
and here's the tie in. These jobs are not coming back,
and there's always been pushed back to the idea. But
(22:27):
once upon a time, and I like to use this
example because it still holds you today. Once upon a time,
we had long distance operators. Once upon a time, we
had elevator operators, we had traffic light operators.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Actual people who would do these jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They don't exist anymore because technology eradicated the need for
the jobs, and they're coming for all these service jobs.
Do you think they really need to have a host
or hostess at the front of a restaurant? Do you
think they need to have a person bring you your
food at a restaurant? Go to a Denny's, they have
(23:04):
a robot which will roll around the whole freaking place
and bring your food. Go to the movies, they have
that same robot. I have it on my Instagram, will
roll around the movies and bring you your food. The
only reason why these jobs still exist is out of
the goodness of the heart of the people who owns
those businesses. That's the only reason. Because the technology has
already replaced these people.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
But at least we're bringing manufacturing jobs back from rights Vietnam,
where they're paid two dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Something about this doesn't add up, doesn't It doesn't add up.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But just like how the jobs went to China, the
jobs went to Taiwan, the jobs went to Mexico. The
goal of those multinational corporations was to make sure they mitigated,
minimize their bottom line the amount that they were spending
on employees. And if you can spend zero on employees
(23:55):
as opposed to two dollars an hour in Vietnam and
not have to deal with the shipping costs of shipping
your iPhone, for example, from China, Yeah, it's a brand
new ballgame.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I don't expect corporations to ask or answer this question,
but I think a lot of us have forgotten to
ask the question, By the way, what happens to all
these people, whether it's the ones getting put out of
work for automation, or say, what happens if we slash
Medicare that kind of thing? I don't hear enough lately
of oh, yeah, what happens to all those people well
who need.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That, who rely on mark? Nothing? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And this is where the politics of it all comes in.
This is where the demagoguery comes in. There needs to
be blame laid at somebody's feet.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
We are blaming immigrants right now because supposedly they're taking
all of these jobs. Right now, we are blaming certain
corporations because or actually, we're blaming our politicians here by
not being business this friendly.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So these jobs are leaving. Well, it wasn't the immigrants
who sent the jobs overseas. It was sure, it was
the corporations that didn't want to pay a living wage
and benefits.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But here here's where those ideas are going to clash.
They're not going to pay that living wage and benefits
because they can get a machine that needs no benefits,
that needs no wages.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Right, there is nothing, Mark, I know you're scratching and
trying to find this answer of what happens to the people?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
They die? They die? Mark? Oh yeah, die.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I mean the point behind that question is people don't
just disappear because they're inconvenient for you to deal with.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, it still exists, okay, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They still exist, and they end up homeless, and we
complain about why we're not doing anything more about homelessness.
It's a vicious circle in cycle, however you want to
characterize it. We complain about homelessness, but we don't ever
talk about the reasons why people end up homeless.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You get into it. Oh no, we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We're talking about the living wage and how people can't
afford to live in the society that they live. It's
not about the cost of living quote unquote in California,
you got homeless people all around the freaking country. You
think that they don't have homeless people in Texas, I
got news for you.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
They do, Yes, they do, But they don't have homeless
people like this all around the world.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And we should start thinking about why that is. Oh,
we know why. I just think people don't want to
be honest with the why. It's Later with mo Kelly
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Speaker 5 (26:30):
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube.
Beyonce is inarguably one of the largest most successful artists
in the world today, with the exception of maybe Taylor
Swift her as in Beyonce her concert tour, her most
recent concert tour brought in billions of dollars for the economy,
(26:59):
billions of dollars, and that's not including her concert movie
that was also in theaters. Beyonce is a billionaire in
her own right, But every star hits their apex at
some point, and just maybe, just maybe, Beyonce is starting
to be on the other side of her career. And
(27:19):
mind you, this is after a lot of success with
her Texas Hold Them and her country album. I put
country in quotation marks because not everyone felt it was
actual country. But her Cowboy Carter album did do a
lot for her career. She won Album of the Year.
But as far as her ongoing concert dates, the officials
(27:41):
Ticketmaster site, then this is for the Cowboy Carter Tour.
Ticketmaster shows that the tours opening night of April twenty eighth,
here in La, we're talking ten days from now, still
has more than thirty two hundred unsold seats.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
This is LA.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We're not talking about a more obscure market. LA is
a place that she has routinely sold out, and the
standard tickets are between thirty five and eighty five dollars.
Sales have been even slower for the final two nights
in LA.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
See that's opening night, thirty two hundred tickets still available.
The other two.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Nights right after that, more than thirty eight hundred standard
tickets available. We're not talking about ticket brokers and ticket
resalers who are buying these tickets up and then trying
to resell them for an exorbitant amount of money or
ridiculous amount of money. We're talking about tickets which are
(28:45):
available to the public right now. I've never been to
a Beyonce concert. I can't speak for what the experience
is like. I've talked to people who love going to
Beyonce concerts. Maybe she was in La too recently with
the Renaissance tour.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I got to ask Tuala because his daughter goes to
every single concert. His daughter has been on cruises. His
daughter went to see Hamilton fifty eleven times. His daughter
has toured the world. I like kidding him because it
comes out of Twalla's pocket usually, and I want that
life right right. It's like I want to be Twala's
daughter whenever I But here's the thing, going back to Beyonce,
(29:26):
I told you what is going on with La and
her concert tickets. East Coast is not even doing much better.
The last night in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, the last
night on that tour, still has over fifty five one
hundred unsold tickets. In Georgia, the Atlanta show on July fourteenth,
(29:47):
has more than fifty eight hundred tickets available, including more
than fifty percent of the floor seats. Is this pushback
against Beyonce? I don't think so, if I'm not mistaken,
and Parnasha look it up for me if you could.
What is Beyonce's age? I think she's forty three. And
I'm not trying to be an agist. I know there
(30:07):
is a point of no return for most artists who
might appeal forty three might appeal to someone who's fourteen
or fifteen years old. Beyonce is getting into their parents' demographic,
not the demographic of the of the fans that are
most likely to buy those concert tickets. If you looked
(30:31):
at the Renaissance tour, there are a lot of wide
age rages. You had people in their fifties and forties
and thirties and so forth. But pop music And I
said this a couple of nights ago especially, and I
made the distinction with Will Smith. That's what I was
talking about, Will Smith. Age elasticity music, it doesn't exist.
(30:53):
In other words, the older you get in music, there
is a precipitous drop off with stardom and fandom. You
get after the age of forty, all of a sudden,
you're just thought of as old. And I'm not saying
it's all of that. It might be Beyonce overexposure and
burn out because she's been in everyone's faces for the
(31:13):
past two and a half years straight, between the Renaissance Tour,
the concert movie, and now the Cowboy Carter tour doing
She's never left the public scene for the most part.
But I do wonder with her being forty three, and
like I was talking about Will Smith being fifty six
years old, after a certain point, you just don't have
(31:36):
that level of appeal and it's really difficult to sell
out stadiums stadiums. Has she done it before, sure, sure,
But she only has one new album and all of
her previous hits. I'd be willing to bet that we
may have seen the absolute apex of Beyonce's career. And
I'm not trying to throw shade at her. I'm just saying,
(32:00):
no one stays on top forever. And if she's struggling
in a Beyonce sense, struggling to sell all these tickets
around the country, that says to me, is going to
continue to be a struggle Jennifer Lopez. Remember she was
supposed to have a music tour. She canceled her tour.
Why no one was buying her music? Jennifer Lopez, Let's
be fair. I think she's fifty five now. She is
(32:23):
not perceived as a music star of the twenty first century.
Could she do it in the late twentieth century when
she was in her thirties. Yeah, sure, but music doesn't
have that elasticity. Oh and before we go to break,
we were talking about how Sam's Club was going to
get rid of all those people and just go with
(32:44):
scanning Go. Fifty six percent of people surveyed on our
YouTube channel said that they would be okay with scanning go. Yeah,
you would be okay with it right up until it's
your job in which they're getting rid of.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
It's just because they're buying embarrassing stuff like lou In suppositories.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably that. It's probably that, or it's
something much more embarrassing. I don't know, I can't think
of anything. It's later with bo Kelly. We're live everywhere
on YouTube and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
App Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss, completely blissless.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
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