October 3, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Wellness Wednesday with wife, mother, fitness expert, and masterful storyteller Claudine Cooper weighing in on today’s “gym etiquette, or lack thereof” and MORE…PLUS – A look at a new study that reveals five behaviors that may help you determine if you have undiagnosed ADHD & thoughts on Costco delving into selling platinum bars - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's also well
thisss Wednesday. So I'm always overjoyed to be joined in
studio by Claudine Cooper. Claudinecooper dot com you can get
all the information cloudin first.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is great to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm a Nike person like you, so when you're adorned
in Nikes like, yes, we're some Potiko.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm head to toe in Niki today.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey, it's good to be back. I love being in
studio with you. So what's been going on?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, we started the show tonight talking in part about
the seven eleven ransacking by the youth and how it
had been going on for maybe four weeks or so
within a certain area. Police took the videos from the
various ransackings and they put it out to the media,
and the media showed it and we all saw it.
And then there were some parents who recognized their own kids.
(00:54):
Oh my, and at least three different kids have been
arrested because their parents turned them in.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I wanted to put.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
This question to you, and I say, this because your
husband has a law enforcement background.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes, and we have three teenagers at this present moment.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I said, if my father saw me on that video,
what would he do?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He would have first killed me, and then.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Because I was, yes, okay, got it, because.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was, I was more afraid and rightfully so, right
more afraid of my father than I was the police.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, but if they saw me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Doing that, that reflected on him and he would have
turned me in no doubt.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What do you think you and or your husband would
have done?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, this is a tough one for me because
I honestly think that whatever happened leading up to these
teenagers doing this, and we could say it's peer pressure,
we could say, oh, they're just doing it because it's cool,
they think they're being cool or whatever. I often ask
what happened before this? How did we get here? Because
(02:05):
I can tell you right now, my youngest, which is
my son, So we have two daughters that are the
older two, and then my son is the youngest. My
son would not I can say this beyond a shadow
of a doubt, he would not participate in these shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He would be looking like, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, you would you say you're so scared of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Your dad, you would have no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
M m mmmm there were physical consequences waiting on me.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Wait a minute, I can't even imagine the thought process
of my son in this situation. But I'm more of
the you know, I'm kind of the nice parent. I'm
the what do you call it, the one who'd be like, Okay,
we're not gonna tell, We're gonna just you know, you're
going internally outside the house, handle it internally. But but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
This is a tough one for me, only because you know,
I was raised by the opposite of law enforcement, and
so we believe that snitches.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, Now, your husband may have a different approach. How
do you think he would have approached this.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's hard to say he's not here, but I will
say that if he saw his child, any one of
his children on a video participating in any criminal activity,
I would be scared for their Okay, I'm being terrified
for them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And part of the reason I brought this up because
you made a great point, and as part of what
I was thinking is like, what happened before that?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And I wonder is it a lack of activities which
are available to them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To kids have too much free time and they find
themselves getting into these situations.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Because I know when I was in school, in high school,
we had athletics, we had chess club, there were activities.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There are things that we could do.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And from what I know, and correct me if I'm wrong,
those things don't exist anymore for high schoolers.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, you know, we live in a very close knit community,
something that's rare, and we still have young adults and
teenagers who actually participate in what like street ball and
going outside.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They play outside, they play Do they play pole to
pole football in the street? They play It's not poll
to pole, but it's corner to corner. Okay, you know,
is that what I'm talking about? Lfehole the light pole.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And so our kids were raised in this environment, which
is so rare. People who come over, they're like, ooh,
that's kind of old school. The kids are outside and
they're in the street. We live in a cul de
sac and it's integated community. So the kids pretty much
have just lived their life not really knowing that there's
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a whole segment of the population who does not have
the outdoor activity. Who doesn't get that interaction and you
know we this is this is such a good like
tipping point for what I wanted to talk about tonight,
because I wanted to talk about the social impact of
being together in co immunal activities.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
As you know, I teach group fitness, so I'm a
big proponent of how important it is for us to
move our bodies. But I'm also noticing a huge impact
for people who are excited to get together with other
people in a group.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, I think we learned that and it was much
more readily apparent during the pandemic because we were robbed
of that, Yes, and we were acutely aware what we
were missing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And since I've been back in the gym and I've
noticed how people are drawn to this energy of the group. Right,
I'm saying, Wow, maybe that was something that we were
really missing during the pandemic. But I watched a video
recently on TikTok because I'm obsessed with TikTok and I
can just go down the rabbit hole in TikTok. But
this guy was saying that it started long before the
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pandemic that people started being more protective of their children
based on what was going on outside, and they've been
keeping their kids indoors more so you've been seeing less
outdoor play.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But one thing he said is that in seeing.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Less outdoor play, you're also noticing that kids don't have
basic skills like problem solving skills, social interaction skills. There's
all these things that are impacted by you not playing outside.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Conflict resolution. There you go.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That was one of the things he said, conflict resolution.
So all of these things that we are learning through play,
or that we're learning just by being outdoors or being
like what we used to do, just go outside and
have to come back.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
In when you know, the street life came on.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So now you're keeping your kids at home because you're
trying to keep them safe, But are they safe?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, I know when my my parents use my outside
time as the carrot and balanced it with the stick,
Like if you want to go outside and play, you
have to make sure you've done your homework being respectful
at home. You had to earn that outside time because
that was what we wanted to do. We want to
get outside collectively play together. That the what we did
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is as a group changed as we got older. But
the point was not to be home, not to be inside,
because the punishment was what grounded You have to stay inside, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You have to stay in the house. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And so now being in the house is the that's
kind of where everybody is weird.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's completely flipped.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
It's flipped on its axis. Yes, so it's fair to
say all these things are connected. I don't know if
there is a causal relationship, but once upon a time
we wanted to be outside. We know the benefits of
being outside and also being together. There's a social interaction,
there's the maturation process, all those things. But at the
same time, I wonder if it's not connected, going back
(07:54):
to seven to eleven, while we have a lot of
kids who don't have.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Good sense, okay, because because there's a checks and balances too, right,
you play outside, you get into conflict. I'll never forget
my son and his neighbor friend because there's thirteen of
them that all play together. So anyways, they were into
a little argument in the basketball world whatever they were
fighting about outside, and I heard them, came outside and
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I tried to solve the problem for them, and later
my son came in and said, don't ever do that again,
and I said, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I know what he's going ready to say, so say it.
What was he saying?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I would have said, first, you made me look
like a mama's boy.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, in front of them. It's like like I need
someone to.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Save me, as opposed to let it be handle it
as a growing man.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yes, it's it was in that line, and it was
I would have beat him anyways.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And you came out okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
But again going back to the seven eleventh thing, why
are these kids coming up with these, you know, kind
of shenanigans to get into.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Who stops them?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Who says, hey, buddy, this is not a good idea.
You know, with your friends. Somebody out there is going
to say, no, my dad's going to kill me.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I can't right. That was me, and that was you,
and that might might have been my son, someone said
to me a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Life and sometimes death is decided on the car that
you either get into or the car you choose not
to get into.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Those decisions that you make.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Because I've had some friends who gone to jail because
they got in the car and went that direction, and
some who ended up in the cemetery because they got
in this car and went in some other direction. But
there needs to be some sort of reference point to
know that I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's too far.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That's a great way to think about it, because honestly,
I spent ten years of my childhood visiting my parent
in the penitentiary. So this is, yeah, one decision away
from having a totally different life that impacts a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's later with mokel We'll have more with Clauding Cooper
in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Claudingcooper dot com can if I AM six forty live
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Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app as we continue
our Wellness Wednesday here Claudie, last segment, I was basically
saying that health and wellness exercise, the communal activity does
more than just keep our bodies right. It keeps our
minds right, and it keeps us on a certain path.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh, I would agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I also feel like the social impact of exercise, especially
in a group you have run groups, you have walk groups,
you have people who go take water aerobix in the pool,
and even what I've noticed in the group fitness space
is people may not necessarily love to work out, but
they like to be around other people. And how does
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that impact our lives? What would you say, Mom, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm a person who needs to be working out in
a group of people, one because I have an ego
and I don't want to fall out in front of anyone,
so I push through. And also it gives my mind
somewhere to go, so I don't feel like all the
focus is on me.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's really hard to work out one on one.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's really like to have a train or so just
telling you, okay, four more sets whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I can't that. It's really difficult for me to do that.
So this has been my observation.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right, So, you know, I go to work in a
gym and I just kind of like, you know, stand
around and watch what people are doing, as well as
teach my classes and connect with people throughout the day.
But one thing I have noticed is that the people
who are on a solo mission, right, usually they do
a couple of repetitions on the leg extension and then
they look at their phones, and that has been something
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that is newer. As you know, I got my first
gym job when I was eighteen years old and I'm
getting ready to turn fifty in January, so that's thirty
two years that I've been able to see the evolution
of fitness but also the evolution of gym culture. And
it wasn't until now, really that I noticed how distracting
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the phone can be on the weight room floor. And
so here you have a person who's sitting on the
leg extension with their phone, and you have someone who's
adjacent but they're not close by, but they're close enough
to see that they want to get in on that machine,
but they're not like they don't want to impost. There
is this kind of delicacy that's happening now and I'm
(12:35):
noticing it. Back in the day in gym culture, if
you wanted to use the leg extension and I'm on it,
you would just come up and say can I work in?
And mostly I would just say yes, that's Jim etiquette.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Here's a couple of things I've noticed recently new changes.
The first one is a personal weight for you. Instead
of asking can they work in. They'll watch you from
afar to see when you finish, so that they don't
have to ask you can they work in.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's one.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The second thing is I've seen something which I never
saw before, which is people saying no, you cannot work in.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That blows my mind because, like I said, I've been
in this industry so long, there are certain things that
go without saying.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You know, the etiquette of it all.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, if you're not actively using the machine, or if
you're not just like say in between reps, and I'll
respect that and you need to move.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Okay, but I'm telling you this phone is up. I
don't even think people realize how much time because even
when I in our last segment, I talked about TikTok
because I do like TikTok. I like to scroll, I
like to get the TikTok tends to be a little
bit more educational.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know, if you want to find out how to make.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Something, if you say so, go on TikTok, I go
on every down, then I wouldn't call it educational.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Coming on, if you want to know how to make
oven baked rice, they have like a thousand people making
up and baked rice.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You want to know, No, it's just to me.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Look, every platform is different, and I'm on social media.
I'm on all the social media platforms. But there is
something special about TikTok that keeps people engaged. And that's
what the magic is behind it. And that's why kids
can't leave the house because they're on that TikTok. You know,
on that TikTok, I sound like I'm one hundred years old.
But anyways, that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Being sewn to say that I'm I know we're all
on the same boat here.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
But anyways, with that being said, I have noticed that
people don't realize how much time is passing when they
look down at the phone. They may think they're in
between reps as you said, but really they're scrolling, which
takes more time than what you may realize. So back
in the day when there was no phone interference, you
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were there to do your twelve to fifteen reps on
the Lake Extension, take a pause, do your second set,
and maybe in that pause you would let somebody come
in and do their set. Right now, you're just boot
to do a scroll in your phone in between your sets.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
See, but the flip side for me is even though
it's harder for me to work out individually or you know,
with a train or something, I don't like to be bothered.
I don't like to have that type of interaction, that
negative interaction in a gym setting. I would rather just
avoid the confrontation altogether. So it's easier for me to
not be in a classical gym environment. Now I would
(15:32):
take a spin class. I like a class environment, but
as far as working in and on the machines and everything, look,
I'll get on a treadmill, but I'm not fighting for
the machines.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I'm just not. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Well, the fact that you brought up spin class, so
I gotta tell you a funny story. So I've never
taught spin. I've taught a lot of formats, a lot
of different classes. But we got brand new spin bikes.
Uh oh oh my goodness. So along with the spin bikes,
we also got a certification class. And one thing I'm
very passionate is staying abreast of new ways to do
(16:03):
my old job right. So I was like, I'm going
to learn how to take a spin class, and I'm
going to learn how to teach a spin class, and
so once we got certified, it was about maybe twenty
of us. We all got the certification, and I was like, mmm,
I'm still not fully confident that I could teach a
cycle class, even though I've taught classes for many years decades.
But it's a different animal the spin bite. So one day,
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one of the spin instructors, she says, Claudine, I'm sick.
I can't come in and teach, and it was too
late for me to find a substitute teacher. So I
had to jump in and teach the cycle class. It
was something I had never done before, and even at
my big age of almost fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I was nervous. I had butterflies.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
And when I taught the class, one thing that I
thought of and one thing that I asked the class
to do, is we should all be trying new things,
new ways to grow our mind and also challenge our bodies.
So when you said that you like psychle classes, we have.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Those too, Okay, then I'm just going to have to
find some time to come see you at Iconics Fitness.
For those who don't know, Clauding Cooper can always be
found at Claudincooper dot com. She has online workouts on Friday,
but you have to go to Claudingcooper dot com get
the link for that. And she has the free community
workhouse on Saturdays. Right and where are the Saturday workhouse?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
They're in Inglewood at the Hollywood Park Retail District. And
I'm happy to give people that information. If they want
to go to Claudinecooper dot com, send me a little
note and I will respond.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Claudine is always great to see you, and I would
love to get your husband's thoughts for real, ask him
about what would happen, what would he do if he's
found one of his kids on video ransacking A seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh, don't worry. As soon as I get off this, Mike,
he'll be calling me Claudi. Now see you soon. Yes,
thanks Moe.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (18:04):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I have long
thought that I was different. When I say different, I
see the world differently, I relate to stimuli, I think differently.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm in my head all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I can have complete conversations and theorize about the history
and future of the world and have full blown theoretical
just a discussion with myself. I'm always thinking, and I said,
I can't be normal now. When I'm growing up, I
was called everything the book, weird, whatever, just I did
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not seem to fit. I was not comfortable in my
own skin until I would say my thirties. But after
that you start learning more about how the mind is
different from person to person and what we may call
someone who's neurodiversion or someone who receive stimuli a certain way,
like I experience a synesthesia where if you play a note,
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I also see a color. I will hear the note
and I associate a color with it. It's just weird,
but it's something that has always been true with me.
I came across this article about this life coach who
was undiagnosed with ADHD until she turned thirty, and these
are some of the clues, symptoms, behaviors that she said
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that were picked up on which said or were I said,
or emblematic of being ADHD. Take it for what it's
worth and see if it might apply to you. People
with ADHD might loop a single song for ages, extracting
every ounce of emotion until they can't stand it anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That is me. I will listen to a single song.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
In a car or at home over and over and
over and over and wait for it over and over
and over.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Don't ask me to explain why, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Listening to every chord progression, every note, every minor tonal
inflection by the vocalists. I'm listening then to the harmony.
I am just drenching myself in a single song over
and over again. Sometimes it's because I want to relate
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to the memories associated with the song. It might be
memories of someone, it might be memories of some thing
a time in my life. Like there's certain songs that
I'll listen to which remind me of my freshman year
in college, which was the best year of my life
for any number of reasons. Part of the reason why
I've always like going back to Georgetown for alumni events,
and I'll be going back in November because it just
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evokes certain memories nostalgia that we all love. So I
will listen to a song over and over and over
and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
What it's worth. That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Now there's something else. There are other things that people
will do. Another is stalling over minute chores that would
take merely moments, procrastinating for no real good reason, even
though you know it will take you only five minutes,
you cannot get yourself to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There'll be three dishes in the sink, three not four. Three,
and I will look at them and I will just
stare at them. I will stand at the sink and
I'll say, do I need to do it now? Or
will I do it when I get home from work?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Home from work?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And all the time that I'm thinking about it, I
could have performed the task of putting Washington because look,
I was raised that you wash the dishes before you
put them in a dish washer. Okay, so you have
to do the one before you do the other. So
I wash the dishes and then put them in a dishwasher.
And the time that I've been talking to you in
this one segment, I could have washed the dishes, and
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I'm still having that internal dialogue. It's like, I don't know, though,
do I really need to do washing right now? Have
I run the dishwasher? Well? Maybe I should wait until
tonight because I'm gonna have dinner and they're gonna be
other dishes. Why just make one process of one dishwashing
and then put them all in the dish. All that's
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going through my mind, and I think, am I the
only person who.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Thinks like that?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Evidently not? And here's another one and this is me,
This is all together me. Have you ever come home,
like you're coming home from work and you just sit
in the car and linger for like an hour. You
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might be adhd because you have this problem with switching tasks.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I can't tell you now.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I may joke about like I don't want to go
in the house because you know I'm gonna have to
hear it from La mu Hair. That's part of it,
don't get me wrong. Usually she's sleeps, So I want
to linger in the car to make sure that they're
snoring when I walk in, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Just to be safe, make sure all the lights are
out right.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
If I walk in and there's some lights on, it's
like damn it. So I may linger in the car.
But then I realized I linger all the time. When
I got to work today, I was in no rush,
just like I'm just gonna sit here and linger in
the car. I have stuff to do. But you know what,
I don't want to get out of the car. They're
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all sorts of things which are just running around this
crazy mind of mine, and that's my word crazy. They're
just things which I can't explain.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I am so.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Actually now I'm more comfortable with myself now than ever before.
But when you're a kid growing up, people look at
you like, what is your issue is? What is your
what is your problem? I would listen to music all
night long, but it'd be like one or two songs
all night long. I'd have those big, bulky over the
year headphones that they used to use in the nineteen seventies,
and I would listen to vinyl or back then they
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had analog cassette tapes, and I would just listen to
like two songs, one or two songs.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I can remember. It was either like Michael Jackson or
d Bars or or be Van Halen.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But it was just the same song over and over
and over and over and over. But it was completely
normal to me. So what does this mean? What does
it mean for me? What does it mean for you?
Maybe maybe we're all a little bit adhd maybe just
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a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I mean, because I will obsess.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Over the just the smallest, most minute things. Ever, each
time I drive home, there's this one ball about on
our house and I see it and it's out, and
it's like, you know, I need to change that. Every
single time I drive home, I see that it's out,
and I have the same conversation with myself as if
(25:14):
it's the first time. You know, I need to change
that bulb. And then I'll drive in the garage and linger.
And in the time that I'm lingering, I could have
changed the bulb and ended the vicious cycle. But instead
I'm going to linger, not do it, waiting for the
lights to be out in the house, and then I
go inside and then I look at the sink.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I still got to do the dishes, the same ones
from earlier in the day. Is that your life or
is it just mine? It's later with mo Kelly care
if I am six forty. We are alive everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and on the other side of this break, well,
you know, we got to talk about Costco. We talked
about how gold is still a thing and it's always
(25:58):
a thing in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But I only found out.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Today that Costco sells gold and now they stepped it up.
Costco is now selling platinum bars, So damn. Like what
type of operation they run over there? It's like Costco
a front for some drug ring or something. Do they
sell drugs too? Look, if you're dealing gold, you're doing
something shady. Who sells gold? You gotta pay for those
(26:26):
hot dogs somehow?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
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Speaker 3 (26:37):
I honestly did not know this. I'm not saying this
for effect or to be funny. I did not know
in all of my years of my wife going to Costco,
I don't have a Costco membership, just I just go
with her. My father when he was alive, he loved
Costco hit. He would just find reasons to go so
he gets some of the hot dogs. In all my
(26:59):
years of knowing of Costco, I did not know that
Costco would sell gold bars. And not only do they
sell gold bars, they sell one hundred to two hundred
million dollars worth of gold bars each month.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Each month.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I had absolutely no idea. And because of the economic
i'll say uncertainty of the moment given issues like the
expanding conflict in the Middle East. While gold usually rises
in value during uncertain times and this is no different,
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so Costco is making even more money. But get this,
Let's say you're really into the precious metals market. That's
not something I've ever done. That's not something I've ever
endeavored to do. And probably someone is saying right now, oh,
oh you're missing out. Maybe so maybe so it's just
not my thing. But beyond just selling gold bars, Costco
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in addition to selling gas and gold, they are now
selling platinum bars and it's available right now. Each bar
is being sold for one thousand and eighty nine dollars
and ninety nine cents and it's in the precious metal
(28:31):
selection like it's on Aisle six or something like that.
You can find platinum bars. It's right next to the
gold top shelf. You need someone to get on the
ladder and get it. Yeah, we'll help you. Am I
the only one who didn't know this?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stephan? Did you know that they were selling gold bars? Gold?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I knew platinum I learned today and now I'll think
about it. Is like walking in like I need some
toilet pepper. And also with the platinum.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Who goes to Costco? I'm being serious.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Who would go to Costco to purchase precious metals? Evidently everybody,
But I'm trying to figure out who that person is,
what type of person? If you're the discount minded person
or you're trying to buy in bulk, what would then
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possess you to then drop thousands of dollars presumably thousands
of dollars on either gold or platinum. I never in
my life, and I think of Costco as a big warehouse.
It's a grocery store slash warehouse. That's how I perceive
it in my mind, not a jeweler, not a place
(29:43):
of selling precious metals, not a place where I'm thinking, like,
let me go get some gold before the market crashes.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Is Costco still open?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yes? Or open till ten? Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We got time to get in the car and then
drive down to Costco and get some gold and platinum
because the world might end tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
And you know, it's funny how like they talk about
Amazon taking over the world with you know, taking pharmacies,
and they have every possible thing available. Costco literally makes
almost everything of their own brand at this point, Like
there's nothing you can really think of that. There's not
a Kirkland signature ye stamp on it. Yeah, and now
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they're precious metals.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Gold has risen consistently in the last five years. Platinum
has been a bit more volatile. But in the past year,
past twelve months, platinum has risen more than fifteen percent.
So it might be a very lucrative investment. But I
would never even think of buying semi precious or even
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precious metals from a grocery store slash warehouse. I never
would enter my mind. Never would I think, Okay, I
need egg whites, I need candalope, I need those little
chicken rollers that they make, and side of beef, and
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also pick up some platinum. I got an extra three
thousand dollars. Let's get three platinum bars. They probably put
it up at the register with all like the candy
in all the last second items, just in case you
forgot something. Here's one thousand dollars worth of platinum. You
can get a candy bar and a platinum bar. Right
as you're getting ready to exit Mark. You have a
(31:32):
Costco card. Are you gonna buy any gold?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Now? Let me know when they start selling adamantium, they're okay, Well,
vibranium might be NXT vibranium too. I mean, I go
to Costco every week or two. I have some weird
affinity for it, and I can't really explain it to you,
but it would never occur to me either to buy
a precious metal air. But I wouldn't have bought gold anyway.
After our discussion the other night, I got in touch
(31:56):
with a denist friend of mine who's been hoarding gold
for years and asked him, like, what's plan with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And essentially he copped to me and I can't give
his name on the air for obvious reasons that he
gets a lot of gold ostensibly for truth work, yes,
but keeps it for himself to sell off at some
later date. That's probably illegal. Yeah, probably That's why I
can't give his name. But you know, for a normal person, no,
you probably don't need gold. But you know, the preppers,
(32:24):
they're they're gonna do what they're gonna do. And you know,
maybe we shouldn't be watching so many zombie apocalypse shows
because I promise you you do not want the zombie apocalypse.
Your gold and your platinum aren't going to come in
as handy as you think they are right now?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well it it?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, there has to be something that you can really
trade for gold.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You know, I don't know what you can do.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You know, when the world is in a dystopian America,
I mean more dystopian than it is right now.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, I mean, and if the things that we see
on the news every night, of places, you know, being
overwhelmed by natural disasters is going to continue getting worse
as the scientists tell us it is, maybe we want
some kind of plan, but I just don't see gold
figuring into that too much.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You know how I always tell you I'm not a criminal,
but I tend to think like one. If I were
going to be a criminal, I would do X, Y
and Z. It makes me wonder why no one has
tried to knock off Costco.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
They got platinum gold up in there. Too much goodwill
to Costco. Come on, they're nice folks. Plus, you can't
get in without a ID, say, oh that's right, yeah, yeah,
Now you've got to scan your card to get in.
It's not just some guys standing there looking at it
and waving in without paying attention.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But you would think this.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Now you think platinum Gold is probably far more security
at a jeweler, armed security. I'm quite sure they got
some security at Costco, but not a hell of a lot,
not a lot. I've been there enough times. Okay, unless
they have some secret shoppers with three fifty seven magnums
or something that I don't know about.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
No, it's just regular old folks in the Costco garb.
I don't see anybody there packing heat or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Now, if Costco gets knocked off the next week, I'm
not taking credit for that one.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, get your alibi sorted out well ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's led with both killers can if I am six forty,
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Speaker 4 (34:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's also well
thisss Wednesday. So I'm always overjoyed to be joined in
studio by Claudine Cooper. Claudinecooper dot com you can get
all the information cloudin first.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Is great to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm a Nike person like you, so when you're adorned
in Nikes like, yes, we're some Potiko.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm head to toe in Niki today.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hey, it's good to be back. I love being in
studio with you. So what's been going on?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, we started the show tonight talking in part about
the seven eleven ransacking by the youth and how it
had been going on for maybe four weeks or so
within a certain area. Police took the videos from the
various ransackings and they put it out to the media,
and the media showed it and we all saw it.
And then there were some parents who recognized their own kids.
(00:54):
Oh my, and at least three different kids have been
arrested because their parents turned them in.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And I wanted to put.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
This question to you, and I say, this because your
husband has a law enforcement background.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes, and we have three teenagers at this present moment.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I said, if my father saw me on that video,
what would he do?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He would have first killed me, and then.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Because I was, yes, okay, got it, because.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was, I was more afraid and rightfully so, right
more afraid of my father than I was the police.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, but if they saw me.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Doing that, that reflected on him and he would have
turned me in no doubt.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What do you think you and or your husband would
have done?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, this is a tough one for me because
I honestly think that whatever happened leading up to these
teenagers doing this, and we could say it's peer pressure,
we could say, oh, they're just doing it because it's cool,
they think they're being cool or whatever. I often ask
what happened before this? How did we get here? Because
(02:05):
I can tell you right now, my youngest, which is
my son, So we have two daughters that are the
older two, and then my son is the youngest. My
son would not I can say this beyond a shadow
of a doubt, he would not participate in these shenanigans.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He would be looking like, oh.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, you would you say you're so scared of.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Your dad, you would have no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
M m mmmm there were physical consequences waiting on me.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Wait a minute, I can't even imagine the thought process
of my son in this situation. But I'm more of
the you know, I'm kind of the nice parent. I'm
the what do you call it, the one who'd be like, Okay,
we're not gonna tell, We're gonna just you know, you're
going internally outside the house, handle it internally. But but yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
This is a tough one for me, only because you know,
I was raised by the opposite of law enforcement, and
so we believe that snitches.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, Now, your husband may have a different approach. How
do you think he would have approached this.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's hard to say he's not here, but I will
say that if he saw his child, any one of
his children on a video participating in any criminal activity,
I would be scared for their Okay, I'm being terrified
for them.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And part of the reason I brought this up because
you made a great point, and as part of what
I was thinking is like, what happened before that?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And I wonder is it a lack of activities which
are available to them.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
To kids have too much free time and they find
themselves getting into these situations.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Because I know when I was in school, in high school,
we had athletics, we had chess club, there were activities.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There are things that we could do.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And from what I know, and correct me if I'm wrong,
those things don't exist anymore for high schoolers.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, you know, we live in a very close knit community,
something that's rare, and we still have young adults and
teenagers who actually participate in what like street ball and
going outside.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They play outside, they play Do they play pole to
pole football in the street? They play It's not poll
to pole, but it's corner to corner. Okay, you know,
is that what I'm talking about? Lfehole the light pole.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
And so our kids were raised in this environment, which
is so rare. People who come over, they're like, ooh,
that's kind of old school. The kids are outside and
they're in the street. We live in a cul de
sac and it's integated community. So the kids pretty much
have just lived their life not really knowing that there's
(04:40):
a whole segment of the population who does not have
the outdoor activity. Who doesn't get that interaction and you
know we this is this is such a good like
tipping point for what I wanted to talk about tonight,
because I wanted to talk about the social impact of
being together in co immunal activities.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
As you know, I teach group fitness, so I'm a
big proponent of how important it is for us to
move our bodies. But I'm also noticing a huge impact
for people who are excited to get together with other
people in a group.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, I think we learned that and it was much
more readily apparent during the pandemic because we were robbed
of that, Yes, and we were acutely aware what we
were missing.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's one thing.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And since I've been back in the gym and I've
noticed how people are drawn to this energy of the group. Right,
I'm saying, Wow, maybe that was something that we were
really missing during the pandemic. But I watched a video
recently on TikTok because I'm obsessed with TikTok and I
can just go down the rabbit hole in TikTok. But
this guy was saying that it started long before the
(05:50):
pandemic that people started being more protective of their children
based on what was going on outside, and they've been
keeping their kids indoors more so you've been seeing less
outdoor play.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But one thing he said is that in seeing.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Less outdoor play, you're also noticing that kids don't have
basic skills like problem solving skills, social interaction skills. There's
all these things that are impacted by you not playing outside.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Conflict resolution. There you go.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That was one of the things he said, conflict resolution.
So all of these things that we are learning through play,
or that we're learning just by being outdoors or being
like what we used to do, just go outside and
have to come back.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
In when you know, the street life came on.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So now you're keeping your kids at home because you're
trying to keep them safe, But are they safe?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, I know when my my parents use my outside
time as the carrot and balanced it with the stick,
Like if you want to go outside and play, you
have to make sure you've done your homework being respectful
at home. You had to earn that outside time because
that was what we wanted to do. We want to
get outside collectively play together. That the what we did
(07:10):
is as a group changed as we got older. But
the point was not to be home, not to be inside,
because the punishment was what grounded You have to stay inside, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You have to stay in the house. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And so now being in the house is the that's
kind of where everybody is weird.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's completely flipped.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
It's flipped on its axis. Yes, so it's fair to
say all these things are connected. I don't know if
there is a causal relationship, but once upon a time
we wanted to be outside. We know the benefits of
being outside and also being together. There's a social interaction,
there's the maturation process, all those things. But at the
same time, I wonder if it's not connected, going back
(07:54):
to seven to eleven, while we have a lot of
kids who don't have.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Good sense, okay, because because there's a checks and balances too, right,
you play outside, you get into conflict. I'll never forget
my son and his neighbor friend because there's thirteen of
them that all play together. So anyways, they were into
a little argument in the basketball world whatever they were
fighting about outside, and I heard them, came outside and
(08:18):
I tried to solve the problem for them, and later
my son came in and said, don't ever do that again,
and I said, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I know what he's going ready to say, so say it.
What was he saying?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, I would have said, first, you made me look
like a mama's boy.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, in front of them. It's like like I need
someone to.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Save me, as opposed to let it be handle it
as a growing man.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yes, it's it was in that line, and it was
I would have beat him anyways.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And you came out okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
But again going back to the seven eleventh thing, why
are these kids coming up with these, you know, kind
of shenanigans to get into.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Who stops them?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Who says, hey, buddy, this is not a good idea.
You know, with your friends. Somebody out there is going
to say, no, my dad's going to kill me.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I can't right. That was me, and that was you,
and that might might have been my son, someone said
to me a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Life and sometimes death is decided on the car that
you either get into or the car you choose not
to get into.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Those decisions that you make.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Because I've had some friends who gone to jail because
they got in the car and went that direction, and
some who ended up in the cemetery because they got
in this car and went in some other direction. But
there needs to be some sort of reference point to
know that I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
That's too far.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That's a great way to think about it, because honestly,
I spent ten years of my childhood visiting my parent
in the penitentiary. So this is, yeah, one decision away
from having a totally different life that impacts a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's later with mokel We'll have more with Clauding Cooper
in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Claudingcooper dot com can if I AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app as we continue
our Wellness Wednesday here Claudie, last segment, I was basically
saying that health and wellness exercise, the communal activity does
more than just keep our bodies right. It keeps our
minds right, and it keeps us on a certain path.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh, I would agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I also feel like the social impact of exercise, especially
in a group you have run groups, you have walk groups,
you have people who go take water aerobix in the pool,
and even what I've noticed in the group fitness space
is people may not necessarily love to work out, but
they like to be around other people. And how does
(10:56):
that impact our lives? What would you say, Mom, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm a person who needs to be working out in
a group of people, one because I have an ego
and I don't want to fall out in front of anyone,
so I push through. And also it gives my mind
somewhere to go, so I don't feel like all the
focus is on me.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's really hard to work out one on one.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's really like to have a train or so just
telling you, okay, four more sets whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I can't that. It's really difficult for me to do that.
So this has been my observation.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right, So, you know, I go to work in a
gym and I just kind of like, you know, stand
around and watch what people are doing, as well as
teach my classes and connect with people throughout the day.
But one thing I have noticed is that the people
who are on a solo mission, right, usually they do
a couple of repetitions on the leg extension and then
they look at their phones, and that has been something
(11:52):
that is newer. As you know, I got my first
gym job when I was eighteen years old and I'm
getting ready to turn fifty in January, so that's thirty
two years that I've been able to see the evolution
of fitness but also the evolution of gym culture. And
it wasn't until now, really that I noticed how distracting
(12:14):
the phone can be on the weight room floor. And
so here you have a person who's sitting on the
leg extension with their phone, and you have someone who's
adjacent but they're not close by, but they're close enough
to see that they want to get in on that machine,
but they're not like they don't want to impost. There
is this kind of delicacy that's happening now and I'm
(12:35):
noticing it. Back in the day in gym culture, if
you wanted to use the leg extension and I'm on it,
you would just come up and say can I work in?
And mostly I would just say yes, that's Jim etiquette.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Here's a couple of things I've noticed recently new changes.
The first one is a personal weight for you. Instead
of asking can they work in. They'll watch you from
afar to see when you finish, so that they don't
have to ask you can they work in.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's one.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The second thing is I've seen something which I never
saw before, which is people saying no, you cannot work in.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
That blows my mind because, like I said, I've been
in this industry so long, there are certain things that
go without saying.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You know, the etiquette of it all.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, if you're not actively using the machine, or if
you're not just like say in between reps, and I'll
respect that and you need to move.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Okay, but I'm telling you this phone is up. I
don't even think people realize how much time because even
when I in our last segment, I talked about TikTok
because I do like TikTok. I like to scroll, I
like to get the TikTok tends to be a little
bit more educational.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know, if you want to find out how to make.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Something, if you say so, go on TikTok, I go
on every down, then I wouldn't call it educational.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Coming on, if you want to know how to make
oven baked rice, they have like a thousand people making
up and baked rice.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You want to know, No, it's just to me.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Look, every platform is different, and I'm on social media.
I'm on all the social media platforms. But there is
something special about TikTok that keeps people engaged. And that's
what the magic is behind it. And that's why kids
can't leave the house because they're on that TikTok. You know,
on that TikTok, I sound like I'm one hundred years old.
But anyways, that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Being sewn to say that I'm I know we're all
on the same boat here.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
But anyways, with that being said, I have noticed that
people don't realize how much time is passing when they
look down at the phone. They may think they're in
between reps as you said, but really they're scrolling, which
takes more time than what you may realize. So back
in the day when there was no phone interference, you
(14:51):
were there to do your twelve to fifteen reps on
the Lake Extension, take a pause, do your second set,
and maybe in that pause you would let somebody come
in and do their set. Right now, you're just boot
to do a scroll in your phone in between your sets.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
See, but the flip side for me is even though
it's harder for me to work out individually or you know,
with a train or something, I don't like to be bothered.
I don't like to have that type of interaction, that
negative interaction in a gym setting. I would rather just
avoid the confrontation altogether. So it's easier for me to
not be in a classical gym environment. Now I would
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take a spin class. I like a class environment, but
as far as working in and on the machines and everything, look,
I'll get on a treadmill, but I'm not fighting for
the machines.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I'm just not. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Well, the fact that you brought up spin class, so
I gotta tell you a funny story. So I've never
taught spin. I've taught a lot of formats, a lot
of different classes. But we got brand new spin bikes.
Uh oh oh my goodness. So along with the spin bikes,
we also got a certification class. And one thing I'm
very passionate is staying abreast of new ways to do
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my old job right. So I was like, I'm going
to learn how to take a spin class, and I'm
going to learn how to teach a spin class, and
so once we got certified, it was about maybe twenty
of us. We all got the certification, and I was like, mmm,
I'm still not fully confident that I could teach a
cycle class, even though I've taught classes for many years decades.
But it's a different animal the spin bite. So one day,
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one of the spin instructors, she says, Claudine, I'm sick.
I can't come in and teach, and it was too
late for me to find a substitute teacher. So I
had to jump in and teach the cycle class. It
was something I had never done before, and even at
my big age of almost fifty.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I was nervous. I had butterflies.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
And when I taught the class, one thing that I
thought of and one thing that I asked the class
to do, is we should all be trying new things,
new ways to grow our mind and also challenge our bodies.
So when you said that you like psychle classes, we have.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Those too, Okay, then I'm just going to have to
find some time to come see you at Iconics Fitness.
For those who don't know, Clauding Cooper can always be
found at Claudincooper dot com. She has online workouts on Friday,
but you have to go to Claudingcooper dot com get
the link for that. And she has the free community
workhouse on Saturdays. Right and where are the Saturday workhouse?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
They're in Inglewood at the Hollywood Park Retail District. And
I'm happy to give people that information. If they want
to go to Claudinecooper dot com, send me a little
note and I will respond.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Claudine is always great to see you, and I would
love to get your husband's thoughts for real, ask him
about what would happen, what would he do if he's
found one of his kids on video ransacking A seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh, don't worry. As soon as I get off this, Mike,
he'll be calling me Claudi. Now see you soon. Yes,
thanks Moe.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty with Mo Kelly one KAX.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I have long
thought that I was different. When I say different, I
see the world differently, I relate to stimuli, I think differently.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm in my head all the time.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I can have complete conversations and theorize about the history
and future of the world and have full blown theoretical
just a discussion with myself. I'm always thinking, and I said,
I can't be normal now. When I'm growing up, I
was called everything the book, weird, whatever, just I did
(18:42):
not seem to fit. I was not comfortable in my
own skin until I would say my thirties. But after
that you start learning more about how the mind is
different from person to person and what we may call
someone who's neurodiversion or someone who receive stimuli a certain way,
like I experience a synesthesia where if you play a note,
(19:08):
I also see a color. I will hear the note
and I associate a color with it. It's just weird,
but it's something that has always been true with me.
I came across this article about this life coach who
was undiagnosed with ADHD until she turned thirty, and these
are some of the clues, symptoms, behaviors that she said
(19:32):
that were picked up on which said or were I said,
or emblematic of being ADHD. Take it for what it's
worth and see if it might apply to you. People
with ADHD might loop a single song for ages, extracting
every ounce of emotion until they can't stand it anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That is me. I will listen to a single song.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
In a car or at home over and over and
over and over and wait for it over and over
and over.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Don't ask me to explain why, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Listening to every chord progression, every note, every minor tonal
inflection by the vocalists. I'm listening then to the harmony.
I am just drenching myself in a single song over
and over again. Sometimes it's because I want to relate
(20:35):
to the memories associated with the song. It might be
memories of someone, it might be memories of some thing
a time in my life. Like there's certain songs that
I'll listen to which remind me of my freshman year
in college, which was the best year of my life
for any number of reasons. Part of the reason why
I've always like going back to Georgetown for alumni events,
and I'll be going back in November because it just
(20:57):
evokes certain memories nostalgia that we all love. So I
will listen to a song over and over and over
and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
What it's worth. That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Now there's something else. There are other things that people
will do. Another is stalling over minute chores that would
take merely moments, procrastinating for no real good reason, even
though you know it will take you only five minutes,
you cannot get yourself to do it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There'll be three dishes in the sink, three not four. Three,
and I will look at them and I will just
stare at them. I will stand at the sink and
I'll say, do I need to do it now? Or
will I do it when I get home from work?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Home from work?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And all the time that I'm thinking about it, I
could have performed the task of putting Washington because look,
I was raised that you wash the dishes before you
put them in a dish washer. Okay, so you have
to do the one before you do the other. So
I wash the dishes and then put them in a dishwasher.
And the time that I've been talking to you in
this one segment, I could have washed the dishes, and
(22:08):
I'm still having that internal dialogue. It's like, I don't know, though,
do I really need to do washing right now? Have
I run the dishwasher? Well? Maybe I should wait until
tonight because I'm gonna have dinner and they're gonna be
other dishes. Why just make one process of one dishwashing
and then put them all in the dish. All that's
(22:28):
going through my mind, and I think, am I the
only person who.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Thinks like that?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Evidently not? And here's another one and this is me,
This is all together me. Have you ever come home,
like you're coming home from work and you just sit
in the car and linger for like an hour. You
(22:55):
might be adhd because you have this problem with switching tasks.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I can't tell you now.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I may joke about like I don't want to go
in the house because you know I'm gonna have to
hear it from La mu Hair. That's part of it,
don't get me wrong. Usually she's sleeps, So I want
to linger in the car to make sure that they're
snoring when I walk in, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Just to be safe, make sure all the lights are
out right.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
If I walk in and there's some lights on, it's
like damn it. So I may linger in the car.
But then I realized I linger all the time. When
I got to work today, I was in no rush,
just like I'm just gonna sit here and linger in
the car. I have stuff to do. But you know what,
I don't want to get out of the car. They're
(23:43):
all sorts of things which are just running around this
crazy mind of mine, and that's my word crazy. They're
just things which I can't explain.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I am so.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Actually now I'm more comfortable with myself now than ever before.
But when you're a kid growing up, people look at
you like, what is your issue is? What is your
what is your problem? I would listen to music all
night long, but it'd be like one or two songs
all night long. I'd have those big, bulky over the
year headphones that they used to use in the nineteen seventies,
and I would listen to vinyl or back then they
(24:15):
had analog cassette tapes, and I would just listen to
like two songs, one or two songs.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I can remember. It was either like Michael Jackson or
d Bars or or be Van Halen.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But it was just the same song over and over
and over and over and over. But it was completely
normal to me. So what does this mean? What does
it mean for me? What does it mean for you?
Maybe maybe we're all a little bit adhd maybe just
(24:47):
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I mean, because I will obsess.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Over the just the smallest, most minute things. Ever, each
time I drive home, there's this one ball about on
our house and I see it and it's out, and
it's like, you know, I need to change that. Every
single time I drive home, I see that it's out,
and I have the same conversation with myself as if
(25:14):
it's the first time. You know, I need to change
that bulb. And then I'll drive in the garage and linger.
And in the time that I'm lingering, I could have
changed the bulb and ended the vicious cycle. But instead
I'm going to linger, not do it, waiting for the
lights to be out in the house, and then I
go inside and then I look at the sink.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I still got to do the dishes, the same ones
from earlier in the day. Is that your life or
is it just mine? It's later with mo Kelly care
if I am six forty. We are alive everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and on the other side of this break, well,
you know, we got to talk about Costco. We talked
about how gold is still a thing and it's always
(25:58):
a thing in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But I only found out.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Today that Costco sells gold and now they stepped it up.
Costco is now selling platinum bars, So damn. Like what
type of operation they run over there? It's like Costco
a front for some drug ring or something. Do they
sell drugs too? Look, if you're dealing gold, you're doing
something shady. Who sells gold? You gotta pay for those
(26:26):
hot dogs somehow?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
If I am six forty, everyone, I heart ready app.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I honestly did not know this. I'm not saying this
for effect or to be funny. I did not know
in all of my years of my wife going to Costco,
I don't have a Costco membership, just I just go
with her. My father when he was alive, he loved
Costco hit. He would just find reasons to go so
he gets some of the hot dogs. In all my
(26:59):
years of knowing of Costco, I did not know that
Costco would sell gold bars. And not only do they
sell gold bars, they sell one hundred to two hundred
million dollars worth of gold bars each month.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Each month.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I had absolutely no idea. And because of the economic
i'll say uncertainty of the moment given issues like the
expanding conflict in the Middle East. While gold usually rises
in value during uncertain times and this is no different,
(27:45):
so Costco is making even more money. But get this,
Let's say you're really into the precious metals market. That's
not something I've ever done. That's not something I've ever
endeavored to do. And probably someone is saying right now, oh,
oh you're missing out. Maybe so maybe so it's just
not my thing. But beyond just selling gold bars, Costco
(28:09):
in addition to selling gas and gold, they are now
selling platinum bars and it's available right now. Each bar
is being sold for one thousand and eighty nine dollars
and ninety nine cents and it's in the precious metal
(28:31):
selection like it's on Aisle six or something like that.
You can find platinum bars. It's right next to the
gold top shelf. You need someone to get on the
ladder and get it. Yeah, we'll help you. Am I
the only one who didn't know this?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stephan? Did you know that they were selling gold bars? Gold?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I knew platinum I learned today and now I'll think
about it. Is like walking in like I need some
toilet pepper. And also with the platinum.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Who goes to Costco? I'm being serious.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Who would go to Costco to purchase precious metals? Evidently everybody,
But I'm trying to figure out who that person is,
what type of person? If you're the discount minded person
or you're trying to buy in bulk, what would then
(29:21):
possess you to then drop thousands of dollars presumably thousands
of dollars on either gold or platinum. I never in
my life, and I think of Costco as a big warehouse.
It's a grocery store slash warehouse. That's how I perceive
it in my mind, not a jeweler, not a place
(29:43):
of selling precious metals, not a place where I'm thinking, like,
let me go get some gold before the market crashes.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Is Costco still open?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yes? Or open till ten? Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We got time to get in the car and then
drive down to Costco and get some gold and platinum
because the world might end tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
And you know, it's funny how like they talk about
Amazon taking over the world with you know, taking pharmacies,
and they have every possible thing available. Costco literally makes
almost everything of their own brand at this point, Like
there's nothing you can really think of that. There's not
a Kirkland signature ye stamp on it. Yeah, and now
(30:20):
they're precious metals.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Gold has risen consistently in the last five years. Platinum
has been a bit more volatile. But in the past year,
past twelve months, platinum has risen more than fifteen percent.
So it might be a very lucrative investment. But I
would never even think of buying semi precious or even
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precious metals from a grocery store slash warehouse. I never
would enter my mind. Never would I think, Okay, I
need egg whites, I need candalope, I need those little
chicken rollers that they make, and side of beef, and
(31:10):
also pick up some platinum. I got an extra three
thousand dollars. Let's get three platinum bars. They probably put
it up at the register with all like the candy
in all the last second items, just in case you
forgot something. Here's one thousand dollars worth of platinum. You
can get a candy bar and a platinum bar. Right
as you're getting ready to exit Mark. You have a
(31:32):
Costco card. Are you gonna buy any gold?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Now? Let me know when they start selling adamantium, they're okay, Well,
vibranium might be NXT vibranium too. I mean, I go
to Costco every week or two. I have some weird
affinity for it, and I can't really explain it to you,
but it would never occur to me either to buy
a precious metal air. But I wouldn't have bought gold anyway.
After our discussion the other night, I got in touch
(31:56):
with a denist friend of mine who's been hoarding gold
for years and asked him, like, what's plan with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And essentially he copped to me and I can't give
his name on the air for obvious reasons that he
gets a lot of gold ostensibly for truth work, yes,
but keeps it for himself to sell off at some
later date. That's probably illegal. Yeah, probably That's why I
can't give his name. But you know, for a normal person, no,
you probably don't need gold. But you know, the preppers,
(32:24):
they're they're gonna do what they're gonna do. And you know,
maybe we shouldn't be watching so many zombie apocalypse shows
because I promise you you do not want the zombie apocalypse.
Your gold and your platinum aren't going to come in
as handy as you think they are right now?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well it it?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, there has to be something that you can really
trade for gold.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You know, I don't know what you can do.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You know, when the world is in a dystopian America,
I mean more dystopian than it is right now.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, I mean, and if the things that we see
on the news every night, of places, you know, being
overwhelmed by natural disasters is going to continue getting worse
as the scientists tell us it is, maybe we want
some kind of plan, but I just don't see gold
figuring into that too much.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
You know how I always tell you I'm not a criminal,
but I tend to think like one. If I were
going to be a criminal, I would do X, Y
and Z. It makes me wonder why no one has
tried to knock off Costco.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
They got platinum gold up in there. Too much goodwill
to Costco. Come on, they're nice folks. Plus, you can't
get in without a ID, say, oh that's right, yeah, yeah,
Now you've got to scan your card to get in.
It's not just some guys standing there looking at it
and waving in without paying attention.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But you would think this.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Now you think platinum Gold is probably far more security
at a jeweler, armed security. I'm quite sure they got
some security at Costco, but not a hell of a lot,
not a lot. I've been there enough times. Okay, unless
they have some secret shoppers with three fifty seven magnums
or something that I don't know about.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
No, it's just regular old folks in the Costco garb.
I don't see anybody there packing heat or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Now, if Costco gets knocked off the next week, I'm
not taking credit for that one.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, get your alibi sorted out well ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's led with both killers can if I am six forty,
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
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