October 16, 2024 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the city of Alhambra’s new vending machines that don’t sell candy; they sell books…PLUS – Thoughts on the new QR Code based “hall pass” at Edison High School in Huntington Beach AND five middle schoolers falling ill after ingesting cannabis-laced edible at Nobel Charter Middle School in Northridge - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mister Mokelly here k if I am six or forty
were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Have you been
watching the calendar? Don't you know? It's beginning to look
a lot like well, not Christmas, but a presidential election.
We're three weeks away to the day. Three weeks. It
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seems like this presidential election season will never end. Yeah,
I know, we're gonna probably have a change in the House. Yeah,
we'll probably have a change in the Senate. There'll be
all sorts of movement, but we're only tuning in really
for the presidential election. Now. Nerds like me, we want
to know all that stuff we want to discuss about.
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Regardless of who becomes president, will he or she have
power to get anything done? And that is determined largely
with the makeup of the House and Senate. Will the
new president be able to get any of their confirmations
through the Senate? Will they have control? All that kind
of stuff I love as a political nerd. Most people
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don't care. They only care who's going to be in
the oval office. They'll worry about the other details down
the road. But think about this, in three weeks, all
hell's going to break loose. And I don't say that
with any type of flippancy. I don't say that with
any type of glee. All hell's going to break loose
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because our country is going through some things. It's almost
like they're going through puberty times ten, and hopefully we'll
grow up at the end of it all. Hopefully, but
there are no guarantees ease. And I do Spectrum News
at least once a week, and I'm asked the same
question almost every single time, Moe, what do you think
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is going to happen or what is going to happen?
And my answer is usually the same, because there's nothing
worse than alleging to know something you actually don't know
or couldn't possibly know. When you do, it signifies to
the people who actually do this stuff for a living
that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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If you think that you know what is going to
happen in three weeks and beyond, because we're not going
to know who's president three weeks from today. It's literally
impossible because the mail in balloting, the counting of those
ballots will continue on for the next few days, if
not weeks. But if anyone says they know what's going
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to happen. They are lying, and I'm not ever going
to lie to you. Now, you may disagree with me,
you may doubt my math, but you should never doubt
my sincerity. You should never think that I'm trying to
lead you astray. I said some time ago. The reason
why we can't prognosticate, we don't know what is going
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to happen, is because they're too many variables, I said
months ago. And I know Stephan heard it, I know
Mark heard it, and I know Tuala heard it, and
I know you heard it if you were listening. I said,
there's no way to know because we don't know what's
going to happen in the world. I said before. We
don't know if the events in the Middle East are
going to expand, if that war is going to get
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worse or involve more countries it has. We don't know
if there's going to be a health issue with one
or both of the candidates. And if you've been watching
the news lately, well there's some serious questions surrounding Donald Trump.
I said, I didn't know whether both of these candidates
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were going to make it to the finish line. Most likely,
Donald Trump will make it to the finish line. But
there are more questions now than two weeks ago. If
you saw what happened in that town hall last night,
I said that we don't know what's going to happen. Economically,
We don't know if the stock market, if there's going
to be a major crash. We don't necessarily know if
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there was going to be any type of act of terrorism.
Remember earlier, we didn't know that there was going to
be not one, but two assassination attempts. No, that third
one does not count, don't even try it. But my
point is we don't know. There's even more things that
we don't know. For all the Republicans saying that they're
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never Trumpers and they're campaigning and they're also endorsing Kamala Harris,
do we really know whether they're actually going to pull
the lever for Kamala Harris? Do we know that all
the people who say there maga are actually going to
pull the lever for Donald Trump? Are they going to
show up? And the reason I say that is because
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we had one hundred and fifty five million people who
actually turned out and voted for the office of president
in twenty twenty. We'll probably have even more this time around.
And anyone, absolutely anyone, me included. I don't care what
Mark Runner has to say. Good evening, Mark, I don't
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care what he has to say. If anyone should try
to tell you that they know what one hundred and
fifty million people are going to do, and how that
is going to be spread across some fifty states and territories,
and how mathematically that's going to end up in the
electoral college, if they tell you that, run in the
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other direction, because they are full of issue. There's no
way for them to know. There's no way for anyone
to know. Put it this way, you have both sides
in this election, this presidential race, spending close to bill
millions of dollars trying to influence you, influence me, bring
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different people under their tent, encourage people to come out
and vote. There's no way of knowing whether all those
efforts are going to in the end impact the decision.
We don't know it's going to influence, but we don't
know if it's going to impact. We remember, Georgia was
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only decided by a few thousand votes, Arizona was only
decided by a few thousand votes. There's no way how
to know how that's going to shake out this time around.
They're called battleground states for a reason. And I know
you may wake up on a certain day and say,
oh my goodness, there's Trump all the way, there's no
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way he can lose, and then you remember twenty twenty
he lost. I don't care what you want to tell yourself,
he lost in twenty twenty, Or you could say there's
no way in the world that Hillary clar is going
to lose to a game show host who has never
held any public office, who has no idea how to
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run this country or even a company. Look up, he won.
That's because nobody knows what is going to happen. Spending
all sorts of money to try to make sure they
have the largest say in what happens, but nobody knows.
And in the last three weeks we've seen more uncertainty
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in i'll say world issues. We've seen more uncertainty with
one of the candidates. Can't talk about Joe Biden, he
already dropped out. Then I think anyone could have foreseen. Hopefully,
we as a country will be able to make it
through this period safely, hopefully, but we collectively have to
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want that we have to be willing, willing to accept
the results of this election, because if you believe that
the only way the other side can win is if
they have cheated and you have no evidence to support it,
then we've lost our way and we're lost as a nation,
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and there will be a price to pay for that.
Remember after the first assassination attempt, how everyone was supposed
to tone down the rhetoric. Has that happened, Absolutely not,
not even close. And then we're going to act surprise
when something really bad happens in the future, if not
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election night or sometime after that. And I'm not hoping
for it, but I think that we are deluding ourselves
if we think that we can keep on this trajectory
and not fall victim to it. It's later with mo
Kelly caf I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and I gots some good news when we
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come back. You know how we talked about how these
vending machines on these campuses maybe need not sell all
these candies with that yellow dye and red dye, Maybe
they should sell something healthy. Well, we'll tell you about
a vending machine that is holding books, not candy. I
don't know if it's gonna work. We'll discuss it next.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You know how
they say it's the thought that counts, or their heart
was in the right place, or they were well intentioned.
It usually means it's a bad idea, even though it
came from a good place. That's what I think about
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this when I see that there's a new alternative to
selling candy in vending machines, and I think we can
agree we don't need more vending machines with candy or
cookies cakes for young people. We just don't. We probably
need something healthier. Well, this is a different type of healthy.
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Here is what the City of Alhamber posted on its
Facebook page yesterday, quote We're thrilled to announce the launch
of two innovative resources at Emery Park, the Locker of
Things and the Vending Library. Yes you heard that correctly.
The Vending Library provides more than two hundred Alhamber Library
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books ready for check out and return, and they're also
offering secure lockers where it's according to them makes it
easy for pickup or your holds to twenty four seven,
so you can get a book or return a book
twenty four to seven. And the vending machine can be
found outside the Eugene Colletta Memorial Emory Park Youth Center,
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which is in Emery Park obviously two seven zero nine
Mamosta Street. Place. Next to it is the Locker of Things,
which holds family friendly games like Uno Candyland. I don't
know if kids actually play candy Land anymore, but they
can check out these games any time, whether at the
park or in the comfort of your own home. That's
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how it's being built. And let me just back up,
because I'm gonna use all those phrases. Their heart was
in the right place. I'm quite sure they were well intentioned.
They meant well, But this just seems like a silly idea,
and I don't want to just rain on positive ideas.
I'm more raining on the execution of this. It would
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be nice if we lived in a world in which
kids sought out board games. I played Candyland, I played
games like Sorry Monopoly, and if you're listening, you probably
did as well if you're of a certain age. But
kids today they're not looking for a vending machine to
play a board game, and then you have to think
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about the reality of renting it out and returning it
one piece. You know how what happened with the libraries
back in the day. Most of the time we didn't
return the books. We didn't obviously return the games with
all the pieces. It just didn't turn out well. And
I think this is well intentioned, and yes, we need
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healthier things to offer young people, but I don't know
if this is going to spawn a new trend, a
new fad of offering board games and also books that
people are going to check out of a vending machine now. Now,
not to contradict myself, I am all the expansion of
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library resources. When I was out of work many moons ago,
the library, the public library was a great place to go.
Not only did you have access to Internet, you had
access to all sorts of resources for people young and old.
So I'm all for using these types of resources and
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expanding them and making them available so people can use them.
I just don't know if this is going to be
the right way. I don't think there's going to be
any real return on this where people are going to
actually check out the games and take care of the
games and return them whole in a way that I
think is going to bring about greater use of them. Now, Mark,
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are you there, I gotta ask you this, I'm here.
When you were growing up, what board games did you play? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We had Monopoly. That was a good way to break
someone's will, just humiliate someone.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Those games usually got nasty. Yes, we played Shoot Some Ladders, Candyland. Oh, honestly,
Life Risk. Those are good games.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I have the vaguest memories of those. I don't even
remember how to play. I remember that somebody in our
neighborhood had the Dark Shadows board game too.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
We played that a lot. Do you remember Dark Shadows?
I do not. I played Dungeons and Dragons though. Okay,
all right, But my point is I don't know if
there is a board game playing population out there anywhere.
How are board games supposed to compete with a phone
where they can get digital versions of all these games
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at any time, at any time, for free, and there
is no requirement to check it out, return it anything
like that. I have not seen a kid play a
board game, and I don't know when. With the exception
of with the exception of I still see young people
playing chess because a lot of times it's actually taught
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in schools. I actually taught chess for fifth graders many
years ago in an after school program. But outside of that,
I don't know if there's any real desire or hunger
for kids to play board games now to wall Sharp,
he may know better than me because he's closer to
the schools these days. But the idea of sending kids
and or parents to get board games or books from
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from a vending machine, I think you do better to
just say, hey, we're going to extend the hours of
the library so you can return your books together. In fact,
that the library I went to in Harper City, they
had a twenty four to seven drop slot. You can
still drop it in there. You may not have been
able to check out a book at any time, but
that was half the battle. I mean, I you know,
And if you see the picture of it getting this
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from KTLA dot com, it makes you it looks like
a red box that they played it paid it blue.
That's the only way I can describe it. Am I
wrong to wallet? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It is?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It is?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You know, my kids are of a higher caliber though
they still like playing board games. They love challenging each
other to it a hate field game with a Monopoly
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But I think that's generational. It seems like every generation
kids and adults play Monopoly. And also, to Monopoly's credit,
or I would say, is that is that Parker Brothers?
Who does matter? Brothers?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
To their credit, they've expanded the footprint of Monopoly where
you have Monopoly for different cities, and so adults love
playing Monopoly by and large, so that kind of transcends age.
But games like Candyland, I'm never playing Candyland again in
my life. I'm not playing sorry again, I'm not playing life.
I'll play some risk, but I'll play it digitally, you know,
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because they have it available online to play. But I mean,
all these board games are available online, but the physical
board games. I don't know if this is going to
you know, encourage parents, because the parents are the ones
are going to have to make this happen. Kids are
not going to see this press release, not going on
a Facebook page of of a city, a municipality and
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then seek out the Monopoly game at the at the
local library so they can actually play it. Maybe I'm
wrong but I damn sure doubt I am. And Stephan,
let me ask you, what was the what were the
board games that you played growing up?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
We definitely played Monopoly a lot, and Scrabble was one that.
Oh yeah, scrabble because you know from my mom just
you wanted me to like, you know, educational, and we
did play Do you remember Sorry? Yes, yeah, I played
Sorry a lot. We played that a lot. Now it's
pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Then I can remember, Uh, at twelve, what board games
outside of Monopoly were your kids playing? And I say
work because I don't think they played them now.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No, they still do. They They still will challenge it.
Every once in a while. We'll be like, you know what,
let's play some Monopoly. And they have a lot of
the updated versions. I have actually an unopened Batman City
of Gotham Monopoly set that is phenomenal. They got me
one year for Christmas. It is one of the best
looking Monopoly board game sets. But a nice game of
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Uno that usually starts a nice vicious fight and uh scrabble,
oh scrabble the words they fight overrab Scrabble.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Is a game that adults will still play. Uno is
a game that adults will still play. But do kids
play on their own?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, yes, yes, especially if they want to really mess
with each other and challenge each other's intelligence scrabbles. Scrabble
is definitely a uh a game that sets the weak
apart from the brilliant.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, but when I played scrabble, people were cheating too much,
making up words, you know, colloquialism, slang, and it got
to be too much of a chore in that regard
because people just cheat.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I like a game that has the potential to end
with somebody tipping over the whole table.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's all one of those get out. I will kick
over the whole board in a heartbeat. In a heart beat.
I can see that too. What are you trying to say?
Nothing that you're not supposed to agree with me on
everything like that?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That's boring, I agree. I should tell you remember back
in the old days, there was a board game for
every single TV show that existed, and some movies, like
I've been noticing the Alien movie. Board game goes for
tons of money, now, hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Never thought.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It wouldn't seem intuitively like a perfect game for children
if you ever saw the movie. But there was a
board game for everything.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
These board games that you're talking about, Mark are probably
not in the vending machine. No, no, no, they'd get
stolen right away.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Like we have a small collection of old board games,
like I just got a board game based on the
old Wild Wild West TV show from the sixties. You're
not going to have stuff like that hand it out
for free at the library. Well here's the thing, and
I know we got to go to break, but this
is important. So either you have trash games that no
one really wants or of minimal value, or you have
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really cool games that people obviously would steal, or they
take some of the pieces, or they just destroy. I
mean it's a no win proposition. I wish there was
a way to digitize an old school board game so
that you could play it virtually and it felt like
you were kind of there.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
You can they do with Monopoly and Monopoly and there's
a couple other the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, they
have some really in depth digital board games phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, when we come back, When we come back, we're
going to keep it on the school level. Remember how
you needed a physical pass to walk through the halls
to go to the bathroom or to go to your locker.
You had a physical pass you would take with you. Well,
technology has caught up with us, and now in Orange
County they're using QR codes to replace the conventional hall pass.
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We'll tell you about that next. I Am six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We all remember hall passes. No, I'm not talking about
the one where you get to do whatever you want
with over a weekend with your with your friends. No, no,
not that hall pass. I'm talking about the real hall pass,
which allowed you to go to the bathroom when you
were in school, go to the nurse's office, go to
the library, go to your car if you had a
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car back then. I didn't. Maybe twile did, But I
didn't have a car back then. Well, you know, y'all
were richer than I was. Maybe not Mark, but I look,
I didn't get my first car until I was twenty two,
and it was a hand me down. So Mark Marner
always likes to tease me, like I'm rolling in the
door or something that's never been true.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Whatever you say, whatever you say from the comfort of
your villa.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yes, the villa that you haven't ever visited. It'll happen,
trust me, Okay, okay, so and you'll see like, oh, okay,
this is not a big deal. I had like a
room made up for myself and the finest wines available
to humanity. Tualla tell this man, it's not like that.
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It is definitely not like that. It is home sweet
home Mark. Yeah. Sure, whatever you say is not shake
more kelly right, shakey. Oh. I like the sound of that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I had a car when I was the first I
turned sixteen, but it was a horrible beater. Nobody got
a good card at that age. Oh so you got
a car long before me. It costs like five hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
It was. It had four wheels and an engine.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
My first car was Dookie Brown, a nineteen seventy six Honda,
which was handed down from my dad. Okay, it already
had like a one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it.
I got it in nineteen ninety one. It was a
nineteen seventy six car. What so when you were already
in your thirties, what ninety one?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, everybody, we all got the worst possible beaters. This
is the USS Runner prize I mentioned to you last week.
It was a beat the hell old grand Tirino like
the kind they hadn't Starsky and Hutch, but an embarrassing,
humiliating sky blue.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It was just a beast. It was awful. Okay, all right,
all right, So with the same close enough, all right now?
At Edison High School in Huntington Beach, students for this
hall pass must download an app and scan a QR
code if they want to leave the classroom. And this
goes back to our other discussions about kids high schoolers.
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What have you having a phone while on campus during
school hours? And whereas some have argued that it disruptive
and they are, some have argued that, you know, they
cause consistent problems in the classroom. They do. There's always
the issue of whether they're available in an emergency. Are
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you collecting the phones at the beginning of the day
and giving them out at the end. What if a
parent needs to get in touch with a child. I
know when I was growing up, and Mark and Twallow
were growing up, you had to call the administration building
on the principal's office, and that was the only way
you could possibly get in touch with someone. But we
live in a different world now and kids are not
going to give up their phones, and parents are not
going to make their kids give up phones. But there
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are some good uses for them, and I think this
is one of them. If you have students download the
app and also scan that QR code, you can know
where they are for how long, and they could check
in and check out. And it's something that I think
could be more widely used on campus. You know how
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you come in and you have to do they even
do role anymore. Take rolling Okay, yep, they could be
just you scanned in because I know they do it
on college campuses. It's a bit kind of like the
grocery store. Okay, so and so shout up for class. Yeah, yeah,
I could see that.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Like I said, you could even do that at the
beginning of the day too, to make sure that kids
are showing that they're not being dropped off and going
around the corner and ditch anything now they have to.
And then as a parent, if I could go on
and see that my kid is scanned into school and
that they are on campus all day based on a
location I don't know, subset of the QR code.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, sure, yeah, i'd bean they basically low jack them
in any other way. Don't you get a notification when
they're not in class? Absolutely well, I would think it
would be connected to that. You get to know when
they're in class, what class they're in, and if they've
missed any classes over the course of the day. They
would just use the QR code and scan themselves in
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and scan themselves out. I want to have the phones anyway,
you might as well use them to the advantage of
not only the school but the parents. And I think
this would be like everyone would be happy. Now going
back to Edison, they're not using this as a hard
and fast rule. They're still experimenting with it. But I
see all the other potential applications of this which will
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be really good. Now it kind of ends senior ditch Day.
It ends the whole practice of ditching class. But that's
too bad, so sad for them. I never ditched. I couldn't. No, no, no, no, no,
I'm being serious. I couldn't because one of my parents
was always at teaching at the school I went, and
I didn't walk to school. I had to get a
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ride home to and from school, so what am I
going to do? I'm going to ditch and not get caught?
Am I the only black kid at the school and
my parent is teaching there. There's no way I'm going
to just ditch and nobody notice and not get caught.
That's what I mean. I wasn't saying like I was Angel.
I'm just saying it was not possible for me to
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ditch class because all they would do is is walk
down to the administration building my teacher and say, your
son wasn't in class today, do you know where he is?
And then that would have been my ass.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I so Phil for you, I really do you miss
so many good ditch parties.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The only ditch ditching I did, and it was almost
with the blessing of my mother. It was senior ditch
Day and I just didn't go to school. It was
like a sick day. And we didn't have like an
organized senior ditch activity where everyone like showed up at
the beach or something if I remember correctly, or maybe
I just wasn't invited, but it was nothing for me.
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I can't speak for Rn or Stephan. Did y'all have
a senior ditch Day? I think so? I was pretty
meticulous about showing up every day, but I was late
pretty often. Yeah, I couldn't do that. I did manage
to get an A in the class and a U
and citizenship. Did you have citizenship grades? I don't think so.
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What's a U, unsatisfactory unsatisfactory? We had excellent, satisfactory and unsatisfactory.
But I was an a whole.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I was.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Look, if there's any job which was meant for me,
it was talk radio because I was always mouth and
off in class and the teacher would get mad and
I said, I remember, I told my ap English teacher,
I'm still getting an A, so it doesn't matter. So
you know, it didn't go over well. Now we're similar
in that respect. I was.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I was an unrepentant smart ass in school. And I
think I mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago
I have actually sent a letter and received a response
from an old teacher at the time who channeled me
in the right direction. The rest of them just thought
that I was a thug, and it's important to reach
out and and thank these people have made a difference
in your life.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Well, the only teacher I think who was still living
for me is my sixth grade homeroom teacher. I'm friends
with her on Facebook, and I think every one of
my teachers from elementary school, middle school, and high school
have all passed on. I think every single one.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You had one with the best name I've ever heard,
and I was trying to think of it the other day.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Which was it, Glenn Schwinderman. No, that's a good one too, though,
Barbara Hawkins. I think it was the one from the
Arbor Day incident. Oh, Kletas Nestle Road. There we go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm stealing that name for a character and a screenplay now.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, Kletus Nestl Road, and he has passed on as well.
Rest in peace. Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. When
we come back. We want to tell you about the
middle schoolers who fell ill after eating cannabis edibles. Here
we go again. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (29:55):
Then. I usually have to review this for people because
if you don't know, you may not know this about me.
I've never been for the recreational use of marijuana. I
was for decriminalization, not recreational legalization. And part of it
was I was forecasting down the road what it was
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going to lead to. And the availability of marijuana has
always concerned me. Where it would be not specifically available,
but because of proximity and availability to adults, kids would
be using it. They would be able to get to
it far easier than in previous decades. So when I
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see a story like this one about the five middle
school students who fell ill after ingesting cannabis laced edibles,
I said, this is what I'm talking about. No, you
cannot nerve the world, you cannot protect kids from everything.
But I think we live in a far too permissive
society in many aspects. But if you don't know the story,
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five middle school students reportedly fell ill at a school
campus in Northridge yesterday after they possibly ate cannabis laced
edibles and five female students they said they suddenly began
to feel sick. With all five of the students, they
were reported to be conscious and breathing upon firefighters arrival.
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Three of the girls were taken to a nearby hospital
in fair condition. The other two were released to their
parents or guardians after they were evaluated at the scene.
This is a complex story for me, if only because
it's something that we were talking about. You know, hey,
we're talking about the games and what we used to play,
we were growing up and school age, the things that
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we had to worry about and didn't have to worry about. Yes,
you could probably find some dude who was old enough
or looked old enough to go in a liquor store
a convenience store and buy some alcohol. But alcohol we
kind of know the parameters on how it's going to
impact someone and for how long. This is something which
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is having a different type of impact on young people.
And this was always my concern. This has always been
my concern, and I talked to Tawala oftentimes about this,
and he is and I won't say it for him,
but I know he has articulated concerns about his own
son having to worry about getting candy from school and
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what it might be lace with or what it might
also be passed around school, and you know, those are
things that it's just such a different world. And I
am concerned for my nephew. He's grown now, but when
he was younger, I was very concerned about him. And
my blended sons they had those similar concerns and issues
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they had to deal with, and one of the reasons
why I was most against legalization of marijuana from a
driving standpoint. Although we can still cite someone for DUI
driving under the influence, there still isn't an actual test
that can really quantify with great certainty how much THC
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is in someone's system. And what is the point of
non sobriety in the way that we know that point
eight as far as alcohol BAC, that's going to be
the line. We don't have that same line for marijuana
and so and maybe this is another one of my
old men on the lawn get off my lawn segments.
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Now this is a this is a we'll go ahead
to all of it. I don't want to tell your story. No, no,
it's absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I and I think about this middle school, which was
a hop, skipping and jump from the middle school that
my daughter was previously going to, And I think about
how I used to show up to pick her up
after school and think to myself, this campus is very
open after school. They're kids hanging out all outside the gate,
like on the street side, in the front lawn, hanging
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all outside at all times. What is to prevent someone
from rolling up giving a kid something and then taking
it back in after school because the after school program
staff there, they're not really watching the kids. They're halfway
watching the kids. They're more into their phones or yelling
at kids. And so I look at something like this.
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Even my daughter's current high school now, and I think
about when I go and pick her up, and sometimes
her and her friends may be able to go to
the boba shop next door. Who knows who's at the
boba shop. Fortunately my child has her head on their shoulders.
But these kids, from all reports, were unknowingly get this edible.
So it's one of those like who knows what's happening
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when we're not there.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
When we were in school, the idea of an edible
did not exist. Yes, we knew the smell of marijuana,
but the only way that people were going to ing
just marijuana was by smoking. It wasn't going to sneak
up on anybody. There was no way they were going
to sneak it into your system or sneak it into
your food. This is just a completely different animal. Now,
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in this particular instance, it's marijuana. THC could have been fentanyl.
That's another concern. You know, I know different drug. I
know it's highly regulated, it's illegal. All I'm saying is
it's a different world in which we live, and kids
today have more access to things than ever before, substances included.
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And I just remained of the opinion I think it
was I think we made a wrong step. I think
we went in the wrong direction here in California when
it comes to legalization of marijuana. And I've heard all
of your con rebuttal arguments about well, it's not as
addictive as alcohol, or you say it's not addictive, or
it's not as harmful. I get all that. I'm not
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talking about that. I'm just saying that I don't think
people really thought through the long term implications of what
legalization would look like here in California. And I will
be that same guy until the day I die, just
that simple, because I think about not only me, I
think about we. Kf I am six forty. We are
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Full Fandwidth Stimulation kf I KOST HD two Los Angeles,
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Mister Mokelly here k if I am six or forty
were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Have you been
watching the calendar? Don't you know? It's beginning to look
a lot like well, not Christmas, but a presidential election.
We're three weeks away to the day. Three weeks. It
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seems like this presidential election season will never end. Yeah,
I know, we're gonna probably have a change in the House. Yeah,
we'll probably have a change in the Senate. There'll be
all sorts of movement, but we're only tuning in really
for the presidential election. Now. Nerds like me, we want
to know all that stuff we want to discuss about.
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Regardless of who becomes president, will he or she have
power to get anything done? And that is determined largely
with the makeup of the House and Senate. Will the
new president be able to get any of their confirmations
through the Senate? Will they have control? All that kind
of stuff I love as a political nerd. Most people
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don't care. They only care who's going to be in
the oval office. They'll worry about the other details down
the road. But think about this, in three weeks, all
hell's going to break loose. And I don't say that
with any type of flippancy. I don't say that with
any type of glee. All hell's going to break loose
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because our country is going through some things. It's almost
like they're going through puberty times ten, and hopefully we'll
grow up at the end of it all. Hopefully, but
there are no guarantees ease. And I do Spectrum News
at least once a week, and I'm asked the same
question almost every single time, Moe, what do you think
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is going to happen or what is going to happen?
And my answer is usually the same, because there's nothing
worse than alleging to know something you actually don't know
or couldn't possibly know. When you do, it signifies to
the people who actually do this stuff for a living
that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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If you think that you know what is going to
happen in three weeks and beyond, because we're not going
to know who's president three weeks from today. It's literally
impossible because the mail in balloting, the counting of those
ballots will continue on for the next few days, if
not weeks. But if anyone says they know what's going
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to happen. They are lying, and I'm not ever going
to lie to you. Now, you may disagree with me,
you may doubt my math, but you should never doubt
my sincerity. You should never think that I'm trying to
lead you astray. I said some time ago. The reason
why we can't prognosticate, we don't know what is going
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to happen, is because they're too many variables, I said
months ago. And I know Stephan heard it, I know
Mark heard it, and I know Tuala heard it, and
I know you heard it if you were listening. I said,
there's no way to know because we don't know what's
going to happen in the world. I said before. We
don't know if the events in the Middle East are
going to expand, if that war is going to get
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worse or involve more countries it has. We don't know
if there's going to be a health issue with one
or both of the candidates. And if you've been watching
the news lately, well there's some serious questions surrounding Donald Trump.
I said, I didn't know whether both of these candidates
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were going to make it to the finish line. Most likely,
Donald Trump will make it to the finish line. But
there are more questions now than two weeks ago. If
you saw what happened in that town hall last night,
I said that we don't know what's going to happen. Economically,
We don't know if the stock market, if there's going
to be a major crash. We don't necessarily know if
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there was going to be any type of act of terrorism.
Remember earlier, we didn't know that there was going to
be not one, but two assassination attempts. No, that third
one does not count, don't even try it. But my
point is we don't know. There's even more things that
we don't know. For all the Republicans saying that they're
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never Trumpers and they're campaigning and they're also endorsing Kamala Harris,
do we really know whether they're actually going to pull
the lever for Kamala Harris? Do we know that all
the people who say there maga are actually going to
pull the lever for Donald Trump? Are they going to
show up? And the reason I say that is because
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we had one hundred and fifty five million people who
actually turned out and voted for the office of president
in twenty twenty. We'll probably have even more this time around.
And anyone, absolutely anyone, me included. I don't care what
Mark Runner has to say. Good evening, Mark, I don't
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care what he has to say. If anyone should try
to tell you that they know what one hundred and
fifty million people are going to do, and how that
is going to be spread across some fifty states and territories,
and how mathematically that's going to end up in the
electoral college, if they tell you that, run in the
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other direction, because they are full of issue. There's no
way for them to know. There's no way for anyone
to know. Put it this way, you have both sides
in this election, this presidential race, spending close to bill
millions of dollars trying to influence you, influence me, bring
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different people under their tent, encourage people to come out
and vote. There's no way of knowing whether all those
efforts are going to in the end impact the decision.
We don't know it's going to influence, but we don't
know if it's going to impact. We remember, Georgia was
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only decided by a few thousand votes, Arizona was only
decided by a few thousand votes. There's no way how
to know how that's going to shake out this time around.
They're called battleground states for a reason. And I know
you may wake up on a certain day and say,
oh my goodness, there's Trump all the way, there's no
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way he can lose, and then you remember twenty twenty
he lost. I don't care what you want to tell yourself,
he lost in twenty twenty, Or you could say there's
no way in the world that Hillary clar is going
to lose to a game show host who has never
held any public office, who has no idea how to
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run this country or even a company. Look up, he won.
That's because nobody knows what is going to happen. Spending
all sorts of money to try to make sure they
have the largest say in what happens, but nobody knows.
And in the last three weeks we've seen more uncertainty
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in i'll say world issues. We've seen more uncertainty with
one of the candidates. Can't talk about Joe Biden, he
already dropped out. Then I think anyone could have foreseen. Hopefully,
we as a country will be able to make it
through this period safely, hopefully, but we collectively have to
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want that we have to be willing, willing to accept
the results of this election, because if you believe that
the only way the other side can win is if
they have cheated and you have no evidence to support it,
then we've lost our way and we're lost as a nation,
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and there will be a price to pay for that.
Remember after the first assassination attempt, how everyone was supposed
to tone down the rhetoric. Has that happened, Absolutely not,
not even close. And then we're going to act surprise
when something really bad happens in the future, if not
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election night or sometime after that. And I'm not hoping
for it, but I think that we are deluding ourselves
if we think that we can keep on this trajectory
and not fall victim to it. It's later with mo
Kelly caf I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and I gots some good news when we
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come back. You know how we talked about how these
vending machines on these campuses maybe need not sell all
these candies with that yellow dye and red dye, Maybe
they should sell something healthy. Well, we'll tell you about
a vending machine that is holding books, not candy. I
don't know if it's gonna work. We'll discuss it next.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You know how
they say it's the thought that counts, or their heart
was in the right place, or they were well intentioned.
It usually means it's a bad idea, even though it
came from a good place. That's what I think about
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this when I see that there's a new alternative to
selling candy in vending machines, and I think we can
agree we don't need more vending machines with candy or
cookies cakes for young people. We just don't. We probably
need something healthier. Well, this is a different type of healthy.
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Here is what the City of Alhamber posted on its
Facebook page yesterday, quote We're thrilled to announce the launch
of two innovative resources at Emery Park, the Locker of
Things and the Vending Library. Yes you heard that correctly.
The Vending Library provides more than two hundred Alhamber Library
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books ready for check out and return, and they're also
offering secure lockers where it's according to them makes it
easy for pickup or your holds to twenty four seven,
so you can get a book or return a book
twenty four to seven. And the vending machine can be
found outside the Eugene Colletta Memorial Emory Park Youth Center,
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which is in Emery Park obviously two seven zero nine
Mamosta Street. Place. Next to it is the Locker of Things,
which holds family friendly games like Uno Candyland. I don't
know if kids actually play candy Land anymore, but they
can check out these games any time, whether at the
park or in the comfort of your own home. That's
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how it's being built. And let me just back up,
because I'm gonna use all those phrases. Their heart was
in the right place. I'm quite sure they were well intentioned.
They meant well, But this just seems like a silly idea,
and I don't want to just rain on positive ideas.
I'm more raining on the execution of this. It would
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be nice if we lived in a world in which
kids sought out board games. I played Candyland, I played
games like Sorry Monopoly, and if you're listening, you probably
did as well if you're of a certain age. But
kids today they're not looking for a vending machine to
play a board game, and then you have to think
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about the reality of renting it out and returning it
one piece. You know how what happened with the libraries
back in the day. Most of the time we didn't
return the books. We didn't obviously return the games with
all the pieces. It just didn't turn out well. And
I think this is well intentioned, and yes, we need
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healthier things to offer young people, but I don't know
if this is going to spawn a new trend, a
new fad of offering board games and also books that
people are going to check out of a vending machine now. Now,
not to contradict myself, I am all the expansion of
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library resources. When I was out of work many moons ago,
the library, the public library was a great place to go.
Not only did you have access to Internet, you had
access to all sorts of resources for people young and old.
So I'm all for using these types of resources and
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expanding them and making them available so people can use them.
I just don't know if this is going to be
the right way. I don't think there's going to be
any real return on this where people are going to
actually check out the games and take care of the
games and return them whole in a way that I
think is going to bring about greater use of them. Now, Mark,
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are you there, I gotta ask you this, I'm here.
When you were growing up, what board games did you play? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We had Monopoly. That was a good way to break
someone's will, just humiliate someone.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Those games usually got nasty. Yes, we played Shoot Some Ladders, Candyland. Oh, honestly,
Life Risk. Those are good games.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I have the vaguest memories of those. I don't even
remember how to play. I remember that somebody in our
neighborhood had the Dark Shadows board game too.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
We played that a lot. Do you remember Dark Shadows?
I do not. I played Dungeons and Dragons though. Okay,
all right, But my point is I don't know if
there is a board game playing population out there anywhere.
How are board games supposed to compete with a phone
where they can get digital versions of all these games
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at any time, at any time, for free, and there
is no requirement to check it out, return it anything
like that. I have not seen a kid play a
board game, and I don't know when. With the exception
of with the exception of I still see young people
playing chess because a lot of times it's actually taught
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in schools. I actually taught chess for fifth graders many
years ago in an after school program. But outside of that,
I don't know if there's any real desire or hunger
for kids to play board games now to wall Sharp,
he may know better than me because he's closer to
the schools these days. But the idea of sending kids
and or parents to get board games or books from
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from a vending machine, I think you do better to
just say, hey, we're going to extend the hours of
the library so you can return your books together. In fact,
that the library I went to in Harper City, they
had a twenty four to seven drop slot. You can
still drop it in there. You may not have been
able to check out a book at any time, but
that was half the battle. I mean, I you know,
And if you see the picture of it getting this
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from KTLA dot com, it makes you it looks like
a red box that they played it paid it blue.
That's the only way I can describe it. Am I
wrong to wallet? Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It is?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It is?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You know, my kids are of a higher caliber though
they still like playing board games. They love challenging each
other to it a hate field game with a Monopoly
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But I think that's generational. It seems like every generation
kids and adults play Monopoly. And also, to Monopoly's credit,
or I would say, is that is that Parker Brothers?
Who does matter? Brothers?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
To their credit, they've expanded the footprint of Monopoly where
you have Monopoly for different cities, and so adults love
playing Monopoly by and large, so that kind of transcends age.
But games like Candyland, I'm never playing Candyland again in
my life. I'm not playing sorry again, I'm not playing life.
I'll play some risk, but I'll play it digitally, you know,
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because they have it available online to play. But I mean,
all these board games are available online, but the physical
board games. I don't know if this is going to
you know, encourage parents, because the parents are the ones
are going to have to make this happen. Kids are
not going to see this press release, not going on
a Facebook page of of a city, a municipality and
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then seek out the Monopoly game at the at the
local library so they can actually play it. Maybe I'm
wrong but I damn sure doubt I am. And Stephan,
let me ask you, what was the what were the
board games that you played growing up?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
We definitely played Monopoly a lot, and Scrabble was one that.
Oh yeah, scrabble because you know from my mom just
you wanted me to like, you know, educational, and we
did play Do you remember Sorry? Yes, yeah, I played
Sorry a lot. We played that a lot. Now it's
pretty much it.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Then I can remember, Uh, at twelve, what board games
outside of Monopoly were your kids playing? And I say
work because I don't think they played them now.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No, they still do. They They still will challenge it.
Every once in a while. We'll be like, you know what,
let's play some Monopoly. And they have a lot of
the updated versions. I have actually an unopened Batman City
of Gotham Monopoly set that is phenomenal. They got me
one year for Christmas. It is one of the best
looking Monopoly board game sets. But a nice game of
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Uno that usually starts a nice vicious fight and uh scrabble,
oh scrabble the words they fight overrab Scrabble.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Is a game that adults will still play. Uno is
a game that adults will still play. But do kids
play on their own?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, yes, yes, especially if they want to really mess
with each other and challenge each other's intelligence scrabbles. Scrabble
is definitely a uh a game that sets the weak
apart from the brilliant.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, but when I played scrabble, people were cheating too much,
making up words, you know, colloquialism, slang, and it got
to be too much of a chore in that regard
because people just cheat.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I like a game that has the potential to end
with somebody tipping over the whole table.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's all one of those get out. I will kick
over the whole board in a heartbeat. In a heart beat.
I can see that too. What are you trying to say?
Nothing that you're not supposed to agree with me on
everything like that?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That's boring, I agree. I should tell you remember back
in the old days, there was a board game for
every single TV show that existed, and some movies, like
I've been noticing the Alien movie. Board game goes for
tons of money, now, hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Never thought.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It wouldn't seem intuitively like a perfect game for children
if you ever saw the movie. But there was a
board game for everything.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
These board games that you're talking about, Mark are probably
not in the vending machine. No, no, no, they'd get
stolen right away.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Like we have a small collection of old board games,
like I just got a board game based on the
old Wild Wild West TV show from the sixties. You're
not going to have stuff like that hand it out
for free at the library. Well here's the thing, and
I know we got to go to break, but this
is important. So either you have trash games that no
one really wants or of minimal value, or you have
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really cool games that people obviously would steal, or they
take some of the pieces, or they just destroy. I
mean it's a no win proposition. I wish there was
a way to digitize an old school board game so
that you could play it virtually and it felt like
you were kind of there.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
You can they do with Monopoly and Monopoly and there's
a couple other the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, they
have some really in depth digital board games phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, when we come back, When we come back, we're
going to keep it on the school level. Remember how
you needed a physical pass to walk through the halls
to go to the bathroom or to go to your locker.
You had a physical pass you would take with you. Well,
technology has caught up with us, and now in Orange
County they're using QR codes to replace the conventional hall pass.
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We'll tell you about that next. I Am six forty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We all remember hall passes. No, I'm not talking about
the one where you get to do whatever you want
with over a weekend with your with your friends. No, no,
not that hall pass. I'm talking about the real hall pass,
which allowed you to go to the bathroom when you
were in school, go to the nurse's office, go to
the library, go to your car if you had a
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car back then. I didn't. Maybe twile did, But I
didn't have a car back then. Well, you know, y'all
were richer than I was. Maybe not Mark, but I look,
I didn't get my first car until I was twenty two,
and it was a hand me down. So Mark Marner
always likes to tease me, like I'm rolling in the
door or something that's never been true.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Whatever you say, whatever you say from the comfort of
your villa.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, yes, the villa that you haven't ever visited. It'll happen,
trust me, Okay, okay, so and you'll see like, oh, okay,
this is not a big deal. I had like a
room made up for myself and the finest wines available
to humanity. Tualla tell this man, it's not like that.
(22:20):
It is definitely not like that. It is home sweet
home Mark. Yeah. Sure, whatever you say is not shake
more kelly right, shakey. Oh. I like the sound of that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I had a car when I was the first I
turned sixteen, but it was a horrible beater. Nobody got
a good card at that age. Oh so you got
a car long before me. It costs like five hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
It was. It had four wheels and an engine.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It was.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
My first car was Dookie Brown, a nineteen seventy six Honda,
which was handed down from my dad. Okay, it already
had like a one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it.
I got it in nineteen ninety one. It was a
nineteen seventy six car. What so when you were already
in your thirties, what ninety one?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, everybody, we all got the worst possible beaters. This
is the USS Runner prize I mentioned to you last week.
It was a beat the hell old grand Tirino like
the kind they hadn't Starsky and Hutch, but an embarrassing,
humiliating sky blue.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It was just a beast. It was awful. Okay, all right,
all right, So with the same close enough, all right now?
At Edison High School in Huntington Beach, students for this
hall pass must download an app and scan a QR
code if they want to leave the classroom. And this
goes back to our other discussions about kids high schoolers.
(23:51):
What have you having a phone while on campus during
school hours? And whereas some have argued that it disruptive
and they are, some have argued that, you know, they
cause consistent problems in the classroom. They do. There's always
the issue of whether they're available in an emergency. Are
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you collecting the phones at the beginning of the day
and giving them out at the end. What if a
parent needs to get in touch with a child. I
know when I was growing up, and Mark and Twallow
were growing up, you had to call the administration building
on the principal's office, and that was the only way
you could possibly get in touch with someone. But we
live in a different world now and kids are not
going to give up their phones, and parents are not
going to make their kids give up phones. But there
(24:35):
are some good uses for them, and I think this
is one of them. If you have students download the
app and also scan that QR code, you can know
where they are for how long, and they could check
in and check out. And it's something that I think
could be more widely used on campus. You know how
(24:56):
you come in and you have to do they even
do role anymore. Take rolling Okay, yep, they could be
just you scanned in because I know they do it
on college campuses. It's a bit kind of like the
grocery store. Okay, so and so shout up for class. Yeah, yeah,
I could see that.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Like I said, you could even do that at the
beginning of the day too, to make sure that kids
are showing that they're not being dropped off and going
around the corner and ditch anything now they have to.
And then as a parent, if I could go on
and see that my kid is scanned into school and
that they are on campus all day based on a
location I don't know, subset of the QR code.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, sure, yeah, i'd bean they basically low jack them
in any other way. Don't you get a notification when
they're not in class? Absolutely well, I would think it
would be connected to that. You get to know when
they're in class, what class they're in, and if they've
missed any classes over the course of the day. They
would just use the QR code and scan themselves in
(25:58):
and scan themselves out. I want to have the phones anyway,
you might as well use them to the advantage of
not only the school but the parents. And I think
this would be like everyone would be happy. Now going
back to Edison, they're not using this as a hard
and fast rule. They're still experimenting with it. But I
see all the other potential applications of this which will
(26:21):
be really good. Now it kind of ends senior ditch Day.
It ends the whole practice of ditching class. But that's
too bad, so sad for them. I never ditched. I couldn't. No, no, no, no, no,
I'm being serious. I couldn't because one of my parents
was always at teaching at the school I went, and
I didn't walk to school. I had to get a
(26:42):
ride home to and from school, so what am I
going to do? I'm going to ditch and not get caught?
Am I the only black kid at the school and
my parent is teaching there. There's no way I'm going
to just ditch and nobody notice and not get caught.
That's what I mean. I wasn't saying like I was Angel.
I'm just saying it was not possible for me to
(27:04):
ditch class because all they would do is is walk
down to the administration building my teacher and say, your
son wasn't in class today, do you know where he is?
And then that would have been my ass.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I so Phil for you, I really do you miss
so many good ditch parties.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The only ditch ditching I did, and it was almost
with the blessing of my mother. It was senior ditch
Day and I just didn't go to school. It was
like a sick day. And we didn't have like an
organized senior ditch activity where everyone like showed up at
the beach or something if I remember correctly, or maybe
I just wasn't invited, but it was nothing for me.
(27:42):
I can't speak for Rn or Stephan. Did y'all have
a senior ditch Day? I think so? I was pretty
meticulous about showing up every day, but I was late
pretty often. Yeah, I couldn't do that. I did manage
to get an A in the class and a U
and citizenship. Did you have citizenship grades? I don't think so.
(28:03):
What's a U, unsatisfactory unsatisfactory? We had excellent, satisfactory and unsatisfactory.
But I was an a whole.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I was.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Look, if there's any job which was meant for me,
it was talk radio because I was always mouth and
off in class and the teacher would get mad and
I said, I remember, I told my ap English teacher,
I'm still getting an A, so it doesn't matter. So
you know, it didn't go over well. Now we're similar
in that respect. I was.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I was an unrepentant smart ass in school. And I
think I mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago
I have actually sent a letter and received a response
from an old teacher at the time who channeled me
in the right direction. The rest of them just thought
that I was a thug, and it's important to reach
out and and thank these people have made a difference
in your life.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Well, the only teacher I think who was still living
for me is my sixth grade homeroom teacher. I'm friends
with her on Facebook, and I think every one of
my teachers from elementary school, middle school, and high school
have all passed on. I think every single one.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You had one with the best name I've ever heard,
and I was trying to think of it the other day.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Which was it, Glenn Schwinderman. No, that's a good one too, though,
Barbara Hawkins. I think it was the one from the
Arbor Day incident. Oh, Kletas Nestle Road. There we go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm stealing that name for a character and a screenplay now.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, Kletus Nestl Road, and he has passed on as well.
Rest in peace. Yeah, it's Later with mo Kelly. When
we come back. We want to tell you about the
middle schoolers who fell ill after eating cannabis edibles. Here
we go again. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Then. I usually have to review this for people because
if you don't know, you may not know this about me.
I've never been for the recreational use of marijuana. I
was for decriminalization, not recreational legalization. And part of it
was I was forecasting down the road what it was
(30:17):
going to lead to. And the availability of marijuana has
always concerned me. Where it would be not specifically available,
but because of proximity and availability to adults, kids would
be using it. They would be able to get to
it far easier than in previous decades. So when I
(30:40):
see a story like this one about the five middle
school students who fell ill after ingesting cannabis laced edibles,
I said, this is what I'm talking about. No, you
cannot nerve the world, you cannot protect kids from everything.
But I think we live in a far too permissive
society in many aspects. But if you don't know the story,
(31:03):
five middle school students reportedly fell ill at a school
campus in Northridge yesterday after they possibly ate cannabis laced
edibles and five female students they said they suddenly began
to feel sick. With all five of the students, they
were reported to be conscious and breathing upon firefighters arrival.
(31:25):
Three of the girls were taken to a nearby hospital
in fair condition. The other two were released to their
parents or guardians after they were evaluated at the scene.
This is a complex story for me, if only because
it's something that we were talking about. You know, hey,
we're talking about the games and what we used to play,
we were growing up and school age, the things that
(31:48):
we had to worry about and didn't have to worry about. Yes,
you could probably find some dude who was old enough
or looked old enough to go in a liquor store
a convenience store and buy some alcohol. But alcohol we
kind of know the parameters on how it's going to
impact someone and for how long. This is something which
(32:08):
is having a different type of impact on young people.
And this was always my concern. This has always been
my concern, and I talked to Tawala oftentimes about this,
and he is and I won't say it for him,
but I know he has articulated concerns about his own
son having to worry about getting candy from school and
(32:32):
what it might be lace with or what it might
also be passed around school, and you know, those are
things that it's just such a different world. And I
am concerned for my nephew. He's grown now, but when
he was younger, I was very concerned about him. And
my blended sons they had those similar concerns and issues
(32:54):
they had to deal with, and one of the reasons
why I was most against legalization of marijuana from a
driving standpoint. Although we can still cite someone for DUI
driving under the influence, there still isn't an actual test
that can really quantify with great certainty how much THC
(33:19):
is in someone's system. And what is the point of
non sobriety in the way that we know that point
eight as far as alcohol BAC, that's going to be
the line. We don't have that same line for marijuana
and so and maybe this is another one of my
old men on the lawn get off my lawn segments.
(33:39):
Now this is a this is a we'll go ahead
to all of it. I don't want to tell your story. No, no,
it's absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I and I think about this middle school, which was
a hop, skipping and jump from the middle school that
my daughter was previously going to, And I think about
how I used to show up to pick her up
after school and think to myself, this campus is very
open after school. They're kids hanging out all outside the gate,
like on the street side, in the front lawn, hanging
(34:07):
all outside at all times. What is to prevent someone
from rolling up giving a kid something and then taking
it back in after school because the after school program
staff there, they're not really watching the kids. They're halfway
watching the kids. They're more into their phones or yelling
at kids. And so I look at something like this.
(34:27):
Even my daughter's current high school now, and I think
about when I go and pick her up, and sometimes
her and her friends may be able to go to
the boba shop next door. Who knows who's at the
boba shop. Fortunately my child has her head on their shoulders.
But these kids, from all reports, were unknowingly get this edible.
So it's one of those like who knows what's happening
(34:48):
when we're not there.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
When we were in school, the idea of an edible
did not exist. Yes, we knew the smell of marijuana,
but the only way that people were going to ing
just marijuana was by smoking. It wasn't going to sneak
up on anybody. There was no way they were going
to sneak it into your system or sneak it into
your food. This is just a completely different animal. Now,
(35:13):
in this particular instance, it's marijuana. THC could have been fentanyl.
That's another concern. You know, I know different drug. I
know it's highly regulated, it's illegal. All I'm saying is
it's a different world in which we live, and kids
today have more access to things than ever before, substances included.
(35:39):
And I just remained of the opinion I think it
was I think we made a wrong step. I think
we went in the wrong direction here in California when
it comes to legalization of marijuana. And I've heard all
of your con rebuttal arguments about well, it's not as
addictive as alcohol, or you say it's not addictive, or
it's not as harmful. I get all that. I'm not
(36:00):
talking about that. I'm just saying that I don't think
people really thought through the long term implications of what
legalization would look like here in California. And I will
be that same guy until the day I die, just
that simple, because I think about not only me, I
think about we. Kf I am six forty. We are
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