October 22, 2024 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look ‘Beyond the Box Score’ with regular guest contributor Jackie Rae; Long Beach Post/WNBA Reporter and host of ‘The Jackie Rae Show,’ weighing in on the WNBA’s massive financial loss in light of the leagues historic 2024 season AND Magic Johnson revised stance on Bronny James future in the NBA…PLUS – A look at the legality of Elon Musk offering voters $1 million to sign his political action committee's petition “backing the Constitution” AND a look at your weekly horoscope and “which pasta aligns with your zodiac sign” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
KIM six forty. It's a letter with Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's go beyond the box score on this Monday with
Jackie Ray who joined me in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Jackie Ray is good to see you. What's going on.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know as I do.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This was a big season for the WNBA, with the
addition of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reees, among others, but
specifically people were focused on those two rookies joining the
league what it might do for the prospects of the league. Well,
news has come out that the WNBA is set to
lose about forty million dollars despite the historic aspect of
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this season.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think I know why that is. But did it
surprise you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It didn't.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
The WBA hasn't made a profit since its inception, so
it's gonna be years, literally years. Even once they starting
in the black, it's still going to be a while
before they turn a profit because they have been in
the red for so long. But the good news, and
I know a lot of people who just see that number,
you go, oh my god. The good news is they
were projected to be fifty million dollars in the red
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and it's only forty. So that just is a testament to,
you know, the things that are coming at this what
is like a two point four billion dollar TV deal
that's going to last over several years. That's coming, and
you know, the game is just getting better, just like
with the Men's League. You know, the men's League for
a while, the game when you look at Jordan's time
to now, the game is different. I think it's progressed
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in a lot of ways. It's declined in others, but
that's just how it grows. So it's growing. I think
it's mimicking the NBA a little bit. I think my
disappointment is the NBA knew some of the downfalls that
it experienced, some of the reasons why it took so
long to take off, and so since you know that,
and since you were the catalyst who even launched the WNBA,
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I would have really hoped that they circumvented some of
those problems, gave the w a bigger.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Boost much much sooner.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
But it just didn't happen that way, and the WS
had to be kind of on its own for a while.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But I'm excited about this season.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
This is down, hands down, one of the best finals
series I have seen as far as the WNBA are
actually any basketball at all.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So it's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Since you mentioned the finals, which just concluded, the New
York Liberty won its first w NBA championship, but not
without controversy. The Minnesota Links coach basically was saying that
the officiating was siding with the New York Liberty and
that's why they won, just paraphrasing, what did you make
of that controversy?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So, first of all, Cheryl Reeve is my favorite coach
in the WNBA, so I tend to lean if she
said it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm a rock with it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
This is not one of those times, because the truth is,
the officiating has been garbage the whole entire season. It's
just been really, really bad officiating. If you watch the finals,
there were some calls that were made that shouldn't have
been and there were some overturns that didn't happen. So
I don't think the officiating was the best. However, you
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can't go into overtime and not score a single basket
and then.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Blame it on the officiating.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That's just not how that works for me. So I
hear what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
There was definitely some questionable no calls, But like my
coach used to always tell me, if it comes down
to whether an official does or does not make a
call for you winning the game, then you had already
lost the game much earlier.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So that's not how that works.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I say this as a basketball fan.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I say this as someone who has watched the growth
of the WNBA after it used to be the WNBA
and the ABL. That's how far back I personally go.
I personally have been very excited with what I've seen,
and I know Rome, as they say, was not built
in a day. This was the first step of many
which are going to be taken, which have to be
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taken for the league to grow. I knew that the
TV deals and ernest weren't going to kick in until
twenty twenty six. These growing they may still be going on,
but they're not forever. And since they have some real
when I say talent, talent that's being recognized, talent that's
being seen, you have more fans coming to the game.
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And that's what I think people misunderstood. Just because you
have more fans coming to the game. It doesn't make
the game more solvent. The game makes money through the merchandise,
and the game makes money through the television deals, and
as those things continue to pick up, and they are
picking up, we'll see more growth of the WNBA. My
question to you, bigger picture, are we just at the beginning,
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because when you have folks like Juju coming into the.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
League, Juju, let me tell your page Page Beckers, which
fingers crossed the LA sparks will get. But I think
we're in a different time because now it's more social
media driven. When you have young players like this who
are already on social media, they when you elevate I've
been saying this for years and it just seems like
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people are catching on. I'm go to say they're finally
listening to me, but maybe that's not the case. But
when you elevate the person and elevate their specific brand,
you automatically elevate the league and the specific team that
they're on. Because if you are a fan of Caitlin Clark,
now you care about the Indiana Fever. It's been a
long time since anybody cared about the Indiana Fever, even
though they have.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No no it's never been any time in which people
care about the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's not a long time trying to be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Don't lie to me, Okay, we know nobody ever cared
about that franchise.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Ever, even with the Leah Boston they had the number
one draft pick two years ago, nobody cared.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was so easy.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
And I can tell you as a person who covers
the WNBA, when you get star power like Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark, usually get a scrub. That's how you
So when a scrum means is it's a bunch of
reporters interviewing one.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Player at a time.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
That's what you get when you get these star power
rookies or these big name players Aliah Boston make a call,
you get in a one on one with her, because
nobody cared about the Indiana Fever. So, but when you
elevate the little bit of attention they did get was
because of Elijah Boston and all the attention that they're
getting now is because of Caitlin Clark. So you do
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have to really capitalize on the young people coming in
and their understanding of social media and being a presence
in the social media world. That's going to bring in
these new fans, you definitely have to capitalize on that.
So I do feel like we're moving in the right direction.
It's just going to be interesting to see. Do they
make it hard Because covering USC before was as an
independent journalist.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
No problem, no problem.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I got an email the day before yesterday says, hey,
we know you're independent. We really need you to be
with a big name outlet to cover this season. So
there's ebbs and flows because I think one of the
things you're doing in that is really dismissing journalists. And
I'm my own brand, so I know the importance of
building your own brand. That's an audience that you're going
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to miss out just because I'm not affiliated.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Let me just jump in there, Yes you are, because
you're affiliated with iHeartRadio, which happens to be the biggest
audio content provider in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Just want to put that out there.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yes, but they but they say, because I'm representing Jackie
Ray TV, So what I should just just send an
email from my personally because I told them, I said
I work for iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They go, we know, but.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's a game that we all have to play in
this business.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yes, yes, yes, but that just shows you the growth,
because that's a bougienss. You don't do that when no
one's really watching.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now that everyone's watching, Now you just get your little
bougie on.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Let me ask you this before we go to break.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
There has been discussion about whether the WNBA needs to
lengthen its season to help create more revenue opportunities for
franchises and of course, you know, more games, more people,
more merchandise, more television rights, more money for those television rights.
Is that something that they should do or is it
premature given that you may possibly grow too fast, too
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soon and not be able to accommodate it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'm going to say it's premature. Sure.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'm going to base that answer entirely off of my
experience covering the LA sparks.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It's a cost attached to that.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
So when you linked in the season, you have to
open those arenas, you have to have employees there to
work the arenas, you have to have the lights on.
There's a cost attached to that. So if you're not
close to being solvent yet, I don't know. They have
made an announcement that they're going to extend the finals
next season to seven games. I'm fine with that because
that's two teams. Everyone can be hyper focused on that.
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But the season as a whole, we just extended it
from what thirty six to forty games. I think it
needs to sit there for a while because again, there's
cost to extending that season, and I think be a
little bit more solvent.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Before you go into that.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
When we come back, let's stay in the basketball lane.
Bronnie James very very controversial. If you will pick by
the Los Angeles Lakers. The season is getting ready to start.
Maggie Johnson, I would say mister Laker originally came out
and said that BRONI wasn't ready.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
He needs at least a year in the G League.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now he's chanted, and I wonder if there were not
outside pressures on him to change his mind. We'll talk
about that next KFIM six to forty live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (09:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty here.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
With Jackie Ray still as we go beyond the box
score and for whatever reasons, Magic Johnson, who we talked
about with his first thoughts of Bronnie James, the son
of lebron James, has made an about face. He originally
said that Bronnie paraphrasing, was not ready. He needed another year,
He needed more growth, He needed more time before he
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could fill out an NBA roster again paraphrasing. Now, Magic
Johnson has changed his tune and said it Bronni's gonna
be a good player in the NBA. To what what happened?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This one is rough for me because this is like
you're singing rock music and all of a sudden you
go to hip hop with no training. There's nothing to
back up this statement for me, because we haven't seen
enough preseason. Sure, he got I believe, fourteen points in
his last preseason.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Game, and no one, no one would be singing the
praises of that.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No one, no one, because the thing is, yeah, it's preseason.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
No one takes preseason seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
It's equivalent to a bunch of All Star games where
people are just kind of having fun at getting their
basketball legs if you will back under them. But it's
nothing to take seriously. I have echoed the same sentiments.
You have echoed the same sentiments. Everybody who's ever watched
basketball has echoed the same sentiments. While his last name
is James, and yes, lebron is one of the greatest
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of all time, that does not Michael Jordan has proven
to us that just because you're the greatest of all
times does not mean that it's going to translate to
your offspring. He has proven that to us. We know this,
we've seen it before. We're lucky that Bryce is good,
We're lucky that Bronny is decent.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But to say that he.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is ready to be a starter, and then he doubled
on it, and that's what made me upset.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
He was like, look at what we've done with Alex Caruso.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bronni's going to be a starter, just the same way
the way that the Lakers train people up.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I'm like, did you just compare Bronnie to.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Alex Caruso and Austin Reeves and Austin Reeves.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I was not prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Let me tell everyone exactly what Magic Johnson said. Most recently,
he said, quote, Laker Nation, I have to tell you,
Bronnie James is going to be a really good basketball player.
Last night he showed he has a few things you
simply can't teach high basketball IQ, athleticism and a competitive
spirit that makes him a tenacious defender. I believe after
a lot of hard work this season, he'll definitely be
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in the Lakers rotation and playing heavy minutes. Close quote
that may or may not be true, but what I've
seen on the court is not consistent with a regular
rotation basketball player in the NBA. His defense, I would say,
is above average. His shooting and be able to his
ability to create his own shot is below average. I
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think because he's undersized and it's preseason, they're going to
be coming for him during the season, and when he's
in those high leverage situations where he's expected to perform
and demanded to perform, it's going to be a very
different situation.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And I'm not wishing him to fail.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm just using my fifty years of basketball watching as
a reference point. Rookies usually don't do well unless they
are exceptional.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Kobe Bryant included, right, and he's not even at the level.
Clearly not at the level. Kobe was not even close
to the level his dad was, and his dad can
straight out of high school.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So it is really.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Putting this level of expectation on this kid who had
a major life event is problematic, and it's dare I
say dangerous, because now he's going to try to lift
up to these standard perhaps push himself to limits that
he's probably shouldn't physically go to right now. But he's
not ready at all, and I think it could impact
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his ability to get mentally ready when you start adding
these pressures on him and say, you know what, by
the end of this season, you're going.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
To be starting.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
No, by the end of the season, you should be saying,
I had an amazing time in the G League. I
think I'm this much closer to being amazing on a roster.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But don't put the cart before the horse. This is
a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
People don't know the Laker history.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The Lakers first round pick last season didn't even get
the first round.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Jalen Hoods Freedom did not even get out of the
G League.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Okay, just as a reference point, just because you're drafted
doesn't mean that you make the team. It means you
won't get cut, you'll stay at the organization. I don't
want to get in all that. But if your second
round pick, rarely do those picks make the team rarely?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's a tradable asset. That's about it, right right.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
We drafted you because we think maybe we can use
you to elevate us in other ways later.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Right down the road. We think that you have potential,
we can develop you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
That's you gonna be playing serious minutes as a rookie.
It doesn't happen, but we'll see. They're welcome to prove
me wrong. But before we get out of here, Jackie Ray,
what are you working on?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So I am excited about this week's podcast. I got
a call from the mayor of Long Beach who was
upset about a take, and it just made my whole
day when the mayor decided to call me and say,
I ain't like your.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Take but it was, but was it wrong? You don't
have to like it right right right?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So he and I argued about that for a bit.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
He has emailed me over some things which I am
going to review about Measure JB here in Long Beach,
which I have been on the record and say I
would not vote yes for. I'm going to review everything
he sent me. It's a plethora of documentation. But I'm
going to represent to you guys on Tuesday right here
on the iHeartRadio podcast app wherevery streaming your podcast. You
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can listen to that and see if I will do
a magic Johnson and all of a sudden change my mind.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
From what I know about you, You're pretty thorough in
your preparation and your research, right, I'm thinking, No, that's.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
What I'm thinking. It'll be fun to see if there's.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Nothing wrong with being open to more information. I am
a big proponent of new information. Look, you know, I
thought one way about this, but then I receive more
information or new information and it's either enhance my opinion
or change my opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
But yeah, and that's the That is a lesson for
the masses. You need to be able to.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Growth comes from learning new things and changing your perspective.
That's how we grow as human beings. You do not
have to be rigid in your thought process. That is
a lesson.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's why we love you. And we'll see you next week.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Chack, you d see you next week.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (16:05):
Gentlemen, it's come to my attention that a breakaway Russian
republic CRYP Lakistan is about to transfer a nuclear warhead
to the United Nations in a few days.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here's the plan.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We get the warhead, and we hold the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
World ransom for.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
One million dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
M m m, well don't you think we should maybe
ask for more than a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Virtukon alone makes over ninety billion dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Really, it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Okay? Then we hold the world ransom for.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
One hundred billion dollars. Kfi mo' kelly, we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Is Elon Musk, the real life
version of doctor Evil. To some, he is, to his
supporters and Trump supporters he is not. But here's the
one million dollar tie in. Elon Musk is plasing to
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give away one million dollars a day to voters for
signing his Political Action Committee's petition backing the Constitution. But
this is where it gets complicated. It is illegal to
pay someone for their votes, and it's illegal to pay
someone to register to vote. But in this is the
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gray area where the incentive is to sign a petition.
But to sign the petition and be eligible for the
million dollars, you have to be already a registered voter.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Elon Musk says every day he'll give one lucky registered
voter a million bucks if they sign a petition from
his pro Trump Political Action Committee, which is the latest
way of the world. The world's richest man is boosting
the former president. But whether the contest is legal and
what Musk's endgame is are both unanswered questions. CBS is
Joeline Kent reports.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
It's the Elon Musk Show on the Trump trail and
must win Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
As a nice person is Seandreer.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
The world's richest man is handing out million dollar checks
to swing state voters sweep steak style once a day till.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Election Day, and all you have to do is sign
a petition in support of a constitution.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
He's also poured seventy five million dollars into his own
pack to get Trump voters to the poll.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What he really wants to do is get people who
he thinks are going to vote for Trump but aren't
registered to register to vote.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Federal election law says it's a crime to pay anyone
to register to vote or simply vote.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Is Elon Musk acting illegally the.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Actions that we're seeing it violates federal law pretty clearly. Actually,
I don't think it's a particularly close.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Calls is dangling incentives to voters after he was promised
a prominent role in a second Trump white House.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I will create a Government Efficiency Commission, and Elon, because
he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
His company's SpaceX and Tesla have benefited from billions in
federal government grants and contracts.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And I'm very concerned about a country where people like
Elon Musk others that are sucking up to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That will undoubtedly be What did he say?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What was that? The governor Knwsom said, that will undoubtedly
be undoubtedly. That's not a word. There's undoubtedly, but not undoubtably.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
That will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations undoubtedly.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Getting he did it again, he needed twice in one sentence.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Irregardless, that's not a word, okay, irregardless of what the
governor said, undoubtedly is not a word. It's like supposedly, no,
it's supposedly undoubtedly, not supposably or undoubtedly.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I am so disappointed in this governor. How can you
not know.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
That, Donald Trump, that will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations,
undoubtedly gotten.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Doubtably he did it for emphasis or emphasists as they.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Say they get massive, even larger federal contracts. I mean
it is an American oligarchy.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Musk also uses X formerly Twitter, which he owns, to
promote Trump to his two hundred million plus followers.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now listen to this part.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This is really important about the impact of what Musk
has been doing, whether you like him or not.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
According to a CBS News investigation, Musk has used x
to amass three point three billion views on posts about
election security so far this year. Nearly sixty percent amplified
false or misleading information.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Nearly sixty percent amplified false or misleading information, including unsubstantiated conspiracies.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
A third one million dollar check was just given away
in Pennsylvania tonight. And when we reached out to Musk
and his pack about whether this violates federal election law,
a source directly familiar tells us it's confident in the
legality of this initiative.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
As a practical matter.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It really doesn't matter whether it is or is not
legal for this reason, not whether you care whether it's
illegal as a practical matter, unless there is an immediate injunction,
it's not going to stop what he is doing, and
any lawsuit after the fact is not going to undo
any votes or registrations which may be connected to this.
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On the flip side, as a practical matter, the people
who are signing this petition and who are already registered voters,
it's fair to assume that they're already Trump voters. And
if they're not Trump voters and they just are in
it for the money, well you paid someone a million
dollars for someone who's not going to vote for Donald Trump.
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So as a practical matter, I don't know if it
changes the landscape in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But even if it is deemed.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Illegal, and even if there is an injunction filed and
put in place, we are now what fifteen days away
from the election, it's probably not going to make much
of a difference.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But here is the most important point.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
We are now in this slippery slope, this very gray
area where money is going to in the next instance,
probably move even closer to that line, or go further
on the other side of the line, where they're just
out now outright just buying votes, paying for votes, or
paying for voter registrations.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
This is pretty much that.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But since it's done so late in October and no
one had dared to do it before, it's not going
to make any difference in the sense of no one's
probably going to step in to stop it. But the
other side of that is is it really changing any votes?
Is it encouraging anyone to vote who was not going
to vote? Because both sides are trying to make sure
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that they can close that enthusiasm gap and get out
their voters, turnout is going to be key. But in
a state like Pennsylvania, the Democrats still have an advantage
when it comes to enthusiasm. But this is again a
result of that Citizens United horrible Supreme Court decision. If
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you're worried about the power of a few people dictating
what happens in this country or as far as foreign policy,
look to moments like that Supreme Court decision which said
that there's no such thing as too much money in
our politics, and there are people like Elon Musk trying
to buy an election all by himself. It's later with
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your zodiac sign.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I'm not Italian, I'm not of Italian descent.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I am going to unintentionally mispronounce some of these dishes,
probably horribly. I'm letting you know in advance. It's not intentional. Robin,
are you, by chance of any Italian descent?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Okay, so you can't help me, No, Tawala Tanzanian. He
can't help me, Mark Ronner, any Italian blood?
Speaker 10 (24:59):
No, But I grew up in a city that was
nothing but Italian Catholics, and I was like the Tom
Hagen figure in everybody's family. So I might have.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Your back, Okay, No guarantees, because you've never had my
back in your life, so I'm not sure if I
can depend on anyone to help me through these pronunciations. Again,
it's unintentional, but I'm self aware and I'm going to
mispronounce some of these dishes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Charge it to my head, not my heart. Aries.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
The pasta dish which aligns with your zodiac sign is spaghetti. Pomodoro.
Aries is not a sign renowned for subtlety, and Pomodoro
blutly and beautifully translates to tomato in Italian did not
know that making up for nuance with absolute delightfulness. The
dish sings with simplicity and comes together fast and easy,
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exactly how Aries likes their meals, sexual encounters and criminal getaways.
Taurus pasta pest so oh man I wanted that one
love Pesto. Pesto is traditionally made with the crushed leaves
of the basil plant, an herb aligned with the traits
and tendencies of Taurus.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Taurus, whose power color is.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Green and under belly is Greed rules the second house
of values and possessions, and basil has long been associated
with wealth and worth. It's said that carrying basil in
your pocket will draw riches, having it in your place
of business will attract customers, and putting a sprig in
the hand of your beloved will indicate, by withering or
not whether they are virtuous or promiscuous. A helpful trick
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for the jealous bull Gemini. That's you, Mark right, I
predict angel hair casio e pepe c acio eh pepe yep.
Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. Name for the
god of commerce and communication, trade and tricks, and the
patron of shepherds, thieves, and travelers. Fittingly and according to
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legend legend being Gemini's loveland language, Cassiopepe was born from
the necessities of nomadic shepherds who spent the late spring
and early summer of course Gemini season, grazing their flocks
in the Appendine mountains. For sustenance, they needed something cheap, lightweight,
and resistant to rot, a holy trinity of Gemini preference,
of course, and packed dried pasta and pepper for the
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journey cancer.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh hell.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay linguini alos scoglio scoglio yep.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes, fruiti di marem.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Abondanzach, while the official noodle of cancer would be the ravioli,
on account of this ilk, keeping their feelings inside and
spirited away under a comfortable layer of mistrust. The pasta
dish that speaks most fluently to cardinal water is linguine aloscoglio.
The name translates to spaghetti of the rock, and the recipe,
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which fluctuates in accordance with the tide, seasons and temp
remant of the cook is as ever changing as the
moon and many moods that rule the people of the
crab Nice Leo, well I can pronounce this one Feedicini
Alfredo Leo is ruled by the sun lords over the
human heart and shines as the zodiac's most unrepentant romantic
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showman and self ordained regent. Leo's also the sign of
the eternal child, and in nineteen oh eight, in the
eternal city of Rome, Chef Alfredo de Lelio's wife Ines
gave birth to a son. According to Lucas Cesaries, the
discovery of Pasta, a History and Ten Dishes in s
was severely weakened from the delivery. A distressed Alfredo took
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to the kitchen to prepare her something nourishing and easy
to digest. Like a true carb king, he made feedicini noodles,
tossed him in a mulsified butter and parmesan, and said
a prayer to the patron Saint of New Mothers. Ines
loved the dish so much that they put it on
the menu of the olive garden. I mean try to
virgo Macaroni and cheese easy, That's an Italian dish.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Pasta Okay, I get Pasta's not Italian dishes? Oh, I
think of pasta? Never mind.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Virgo is the sign of the resourceful recluse at Macaroni
and cheese is the dish of choice of home alones.
Hermit hero Kevin Mcowister played by in real life Virgo
Macaulay Culkin. But who but a clever, mutable Earth priest
would wish for their family to disappear so they can
enjoy the holidays. In Peace Watch R rated movies, drink
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their milk from a wine glass and eat their pasta
in Blessed Solitude. Libra spaghetti and meatballs, ruled by Venus,
planet of love, esthetics, and attraction. Libra is a sign
of partnership and popularity. In Disney's Lady in the Tramp
provides the most iconic pasta scene in all of cinema history,
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as Belle Notte plays Tramp and Lady, two sides of
the same Libra arc type, Rakish flirt and coquettish aristocrat,
strike a balance and share an accidental kiss over a
bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. Did you know the scene
was almost cut by Walt Disney, who thought the idea
of dogs eating was more ridiculous than romantic. But love
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went out in the end, and the spaghetti kiss remains
a cultural cornerstone. Scorpio, let's go pasta alanorma? What pasta
alanorma is a traditional Secilian past the salted egg plant,
crushed potatoes, excuse me, crushed tomatoes, and fresh ricata. Regarding
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the corporeal form mortal coil, Scorpio rules the Genitalia. Wait
a second, I'm just reading Scorpio rules the Genitalia.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I didn't know that there was a ruler. No pun intended.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And as any millennium will tell you, the egg plant
emoji is a digital stand in for I can't say
that on the air, but you can figure out the
rest standing. Yes, it's a visual representation of an organ.
Add to the sauce that the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini,
who wrote the opera Norma from which the dish takes
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its name, was a card carrying Scorpio sagittarius.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's me Lasagna. Why can I get lazangna?
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Look?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I want it pest up, but you know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Zazu dining in Brisbane, Australia has gone viral for charging
forty eight dollars for a crab lasagna sounds good? Actually
topped with caviar does not sound good. Don't like caviar?
Had it nasty? Sazu dining sagittarius is the sign of expansion,
abundance at best and excess an empirical tyranny at worst.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Apropos of this.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Lasagna is a consequence of conquests originally developed by the Greeks.
Did you know that the marauding Romans took the dish
home with them, along with an entire esthetic tradition, a
pantheon of gods, and a governing philosophy. In the century since,
lasagna has been adapted and adopted while maintaining a richness
in taste and reputation. Recent evidence includes this viral fifty
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dollars caviar lasagna just not taste. Doesn't sound appetizing caviar anything?
Have you ever had caviar? Twala once?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Did not like it at all?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
They had it all over parties in the music industry
that was supposed to be a symbol of largess x us.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I spit it into my napkin. It was bad. It
was bad. Mark, have you had caviar? I like it,
but I can't afford it.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You like it?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, it's good. I'd try that. What did you have
it with?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
But I would try it on an evening when you're
picking up the tab. Yeah, it won't be that's ridiculously expensive.
You're not gonna you're not gonna be ordering that on
a Friday. I do want to see you and Tula
recreate that lady in the tramp scene, though, with a
piece of spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That would be heartwarming. Please proceed.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Capricorn spaghetti Alaska.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Oh yeah, that's dirty. You know what that means? No,
I don't. I'm not going to say it on the air.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Capricorn is the sign of industry, the sacred grind, the
punishing work ethic, and the mighty dollar Putinska, which translates
to in the style of sex workers.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
There we go kind of downplaying it, but you get
the idea.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's the sanitized version of it.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yes, okay, it's a quick and easy dish of spaghetti
with tomatoes, black olives.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh hell no, there we go, blackallics.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Oh no, capers, anchobies, onions, garlic, and herbs. That sounds
like a horrible kiss waiting to happen.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Yeah, the prostitute part doesn't bother you so much as
the black olives part.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What's your point? I think I just made it. Why
would prostitutes bother me? You want to keep going or
you want to dwell on this?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
In the spirit of the enterprising sea goat legend holes
that Neopolitan sex workers they have ice cream sexs No.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's just the different flavors of sex work.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Oh okay, would draw men to their doors like the
sirens of yore with the pungent scent of this pasta,
and or prepare it between clients to maximize earning potential.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It seems like it would be a turnoff, not a
turn off. Yeah, you don't want pudget? Yeah? Work, No,
not punge in sex? Is that the dish? Or is
it right? That's almost like the dish, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Aquarius pastacomanata carbonaire carbonare carbonare carbonara is typically made with eggs,
cured pork, parmesan, and cracked black pepper. Aquarius is ruled
by two planets, staunch traditionalists Saturn and burn it Down
build it back better, Euratus the planet, of course, always,
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It's always the planet. It's never referring to anything else.
Never has the energy of these two luminaries found more
acute culinary expression than in the Carbonara gate. It all
began when a French website's recipe for a one pot
carbonera using blasphemous bold type pasta went viral. The video
sparked international debate among Italian food writers, chefs, home cooks,
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and pasta makers who were outraged by the break in
orthodox preparation and the breakdown of general decency. Further fuel
in the fire was a New York Times recipe the
call for tomatoes to be added to Carbonera, which some
likened to declaring war on Italy.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And last is Pisces breakfast spaghetti you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
In the Christmas classic Elf Efferves and Buddy is the
quintessential Pisces, living and loving out loud with an endearing
and unhinged sense of whimsy. His spirit and that of
all fish folk is made manifest in this breakfast calamity
of noodles covered in maple syrup, Oh Gosh, cereal, pop tarts, hope, marshmallows,
cheer candy, and an inextinguishable enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's go beyond the box score on this Monday with
Jackie Ray who joined me in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Jackie Ray is good to see you. What's going on.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
It's good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know as I do.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This was a big season for the WNBA, with the
addition of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reees, among others, but
specifically people were focused on those two rookies joining the
league what it might do for the prospects of the league. Well,
news has come out that the WNBA is set to
lose about forty million dollars despite the historic aspect of
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this season.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think I know why that is. But did it
surprise you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
It didn't.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
The WBA hasn't made a profit since its inception, so
it's gonna be years, literally years. Even once they starting
in the black, it's still going to be a while
before they turn a profit because they have been in
the red for so long. But the good news, and
I know a lot of people who just see that number,
you go, oh my god. The good news is they
were projected to be fifty million dollars in the red
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and it's only forty. So that just is a testament to,
you know, the things that are coming at this what
is like a two point four billion dollar TV deal
that's going to last over several years. That's coming, and
you know, the game is just getting better, just like
with the Men's League. You know, the men's League for
a while, the game when you look at Jordan's time
to now, the game is different. I think it's progressed
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in a lot of ways. It's declined in others, but
that's just how it grows. So it's growing. I think
it's mimicking the NBA a little bit. I think my
disappointment is the NBA knew some of the downfalls that
it experienced, some of the reasons why it took so
long to take off, and so since you know that,
and since you were the catalyst who even launched the WNBA,
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I would have really hoped that they circumvented some of
those problems, gave the w a bigger.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Boost much much sooner.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
But it just didn't happen that way, and the WS
had to be kind of on its own for a while.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But I'm excited about this season.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
This is down, hands down, one of the best finals
series I have seen as far as the WNBA are
actually any basketball at all.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So it's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Since you mentioned the finals, which just concluded, the New
York Liberty won its first w NBA championship, but not
without controversy. The Minnesota Links coach basically was saying that
the officiating was siding with the New York Liberty and
that's why they won, just paraphrasing, what did you make
of that controversy?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So, first of all, Cheryl Reeve is my favorite coach
in the WNBA, so I tend to lean if she
said it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I'm a rock with it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
This is not one of those times, because the truth is,
the officiating has been garbage the whole entire season. It's
just been really, really bad officiating. If you watch the finals,
there were some calls that were made that shouldn't have
been and there were some overturns that didn't happen. So
I don't think the officiating was the best. However, you
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can't go into overtime and not score a single basket
and then.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Blame it on the officiating.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
That's just not how that works for me. So I
hear what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
There was definitely some questionable no calls, But like my
coach used to always tell me, if it comes down
to whether an official does or does not make a
call for you winning the game, then you had already
lost the game much earlier.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So that's not how that works.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I say this as a basketball fan.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I say this as someone who has watched the growth
of the WNBA after it used to be the WNBA
and the ABL. That's how far back I personally go.
I personally have been very excited with what I've seen,
and I know Rome, as they say, was not built
in a day. This was the first step of many
which are going to be taken, which have to be
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taken for the league to grow. I knew that the
TV deals and ernest weren't going to kick in until
twenty twenty six. These growing they may still be going on,
but they're not forever. And since they have some real
when I say talent, talent that's being recognized, talent that's
being seen, you have more fans coming to the game.
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And that's what I think people misunderstood. Just because you
have more fans coming to the game. It doesn't make
the game more solvent. The game makes money through the merchandise,
and the game makes money through the television deals, and
as those things continue to pick up, and they are
picking up, we'll see more growth of the WNBA. My
question to you, bigger picture, are we just at the beginning,
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because when you have folks like Juju coming into the.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
League, Juju, let me tell your page Page Beckers, which
fingers crossed the LA sparks will get. But I think
we're in a different time because now it's more social
media driven. When you have young players like this who
are already on social media, they when you elevate I've
been saying this for years and it just seems like
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people are catching on. I'm go to say they're finally
listening to me, but maybe that's not the case. But
when you elevate the person and elevate their specific brand,
you automatically elevate the league and the specific team that
they're on. Because if you are a fan of Caitlin Clark,
now you care about the Indiana Fever. It's been a
long time since anybody cared about the Indiana Fever, even
though they have.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No no it's never been any time in which people
care about the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's not a long time trying to be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Don't lie to me, Okay, we know nobody ever cared
about that franchise.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Ever, even with the Leah Boston they had the number
one draft pick two years ago, nobody cared.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was so easy.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
And I can tell you as a person who covers
the WNBA, when you get star power like Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark, usually get a scrub. That's how you
So when a scrum means is it's a bunch of
reporters interviewing one.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Player at a time.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
That's what you get when you get these star power
rookies or these big name players Aliah Boston make a call,
you get in a one on one with her, because
nobody cared about the Indiana Fever. So, but when you
elevate the little bit of attention they did get was
because of Elijah Boston and all the attention that they're
getting now is because of Caitlin Clark. So you do
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have to really capitalize on the young people coming in
and their understanding of social media and being a presence
in the social media world. That's going to bring in
these new fans, you definitely have to capitalize on that.
So I do feel like we're moving in the right direction.
It's just going to be interesting to see. Do they
make it hard Because covering USC before was as an
independent journalist.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
No problem, no problem.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I got an email the day before yesterday says, hey,
we know you're independent. We really need you to be
with a big name outlet to cover this season. So
there's ebbs and flows because I think one of the
things you're doing in that is really dismissing journalists. And
I'm my own brand, so I know the importance of
building your own brand. That's an audience that you're going
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to miss out just because I'm not affiliated.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Let me just jump in there, Yes you are, because
you're affiliated with iHeartRadio, which happens to be the biggest
audio content provider in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Just want to put that out there.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Yes, but they but they say, because I'm representing Jackie
Ray TV, So what I should just just send an
email from my personally because I told them, I said
I work for iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They go, we know, but.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's a game that we all have to play in
this business.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yes, yes, yes, but that just shows you the growth,
because that's a bougienss. You don't do that when no
one's really watching.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now that everyone's watching, Now you just get your little
bougie on.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Let me ask you this before we go to break.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
There has been discussion about whether the WNBA needs to
lengthen its season to help create more revenue opportunities for
franchises and of course, you know, more games, more people,
more merchandise, more television rights, more money for those television rights.
Is that something that they should do or is it
premature given that you may possibly grow too fast, too
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soon and not be able to accommodate it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'm going to say it's premature. Sure.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'm going to base that answer entirely off of my
experience covering the LA sparks.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
It's a cost attached to that.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
So when you linked in the season, you have to
open those arenas, you have to have employees there to
work the arenas, you have to have the lights on.
There's a cost attached to that. So if you're not
close to being solvent yet, I don't know. They have
made an announcement that they're going to extend the finals
next season to seven games. I'm fine with that because
that's two teams. Everyone can be hyper focused on that.
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But the season as a whole, we just extended it
from what thirty six to forty games. I think it
needs to sit there for a while because again, there's
cost to extending that season, and I think be a
little bit more solvent.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Before you go into that.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
When we come back, let's stay in the basketball lane.
Bronnie James very very controversial. If you will pick by
the Los Angeles Lakers. The season is getting ready to start.
Maggie Johnson, I would say mister Laker originally came out
and said that BRONI wasn't ready.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
He needs at least a year in the G League.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now he's chanted, and I wonder if there were not
outside pressures on him to change his mind. We'll talk
about that next KFIM six to forty live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (09:09):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty here.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
With Jackie Ray still as we go beyond the box
score and for whatever reasons, Magic Johnson, who we talked
about with his first thoughts of Bronnie James, the son
of lebron James, has made an about face. He originally
said that Bronnie paraphrasing, was not ready. He needed another year,
He needed more growth, He needed more time before he
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could fill out an NBA roster again paraphrasing. Now, Magic
Johnson has changed his tune and said it Bronni's gonna
be a good player in the NBA. To what what happened?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
This one is rough for me because this is like
you're singing rock music and all of a sudden you
go to hip hop with no training. There's nothing to
back up this statement for me, because we haven't seen
enough preseason. Sure, he got I believe, fourteen points in
his last preseason.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Game, and no one, no one would be singing the
praises of that.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
No one, no one, because the thing is, yeah, it's preseason.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
No one takes preseason seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
It's equivalent to a bunch of All Star games where
people are just kind of having fun at getting their
basketball legs if you will back under them. But it's
nothing to take seriously. I have echoed the same sentiments.
You have echoed the same sentiments. Everybody who's ever watched
basketball has echoed the same sentiments. While his last name
is James, and yes, lebron is one of the greatest
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of all time, that does not Michael Jordan has proven
to us that just because you're the greatest of all
times does not mean that it's going to translate to
your offspring. He has proven that to us. We know this,
we've seen it before. We're lucky that Bryce is good,
We're lucky that Bronny is decent.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But to say that he.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is ready to be a starter, and then he doubled
on it, and that's what made me upset.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
He was like, look at what we've done with Alex Caruso.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bronni's going to be a starter, just the same way
the way that the Lakers train people up.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I'm like, did you just compare Bronnie to.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Alex Caruso and Austin Reeves and Austin Reeves.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I was not prepared for that.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Let me tell everyone exactly what Magic Johnson said. Most recently,
he said, quote, Laker Nation, I have to tell you,
Bronnie James is going to be a really good basketball player.
Last night he showed he has a few things you
simply can't teach high basketball IQ, athleticism and a competitive
spirit that makes him a tenacious defender. I believe after
a lot of hard work this season, he'll definitely be
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in the Lakers rotation and playing heavy minutes. Close quote
that may or may not be true, but what I've
seen on the court is not consistent with a regular
rotation basketball player in the NBA. His defense, I would say,
is above average. His shooting and be able to his
ability to create his own shot is below average. I
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think because he's undersized and it's preseason, they're going to
be coming for him during the season, and when he's
in those high leverage situations where he's expected to perform
and demanded to perform, it's going to be a very
different situation.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And I'm not wishing him to fail.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm just using my fifty years of basketball watching as
a reference point. Rookies usually don't do well unless they
are exceptional.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Kobe Bryant included, right, and he's not even at the level.
Clearly not at the level. Kobe was not even close
to the level his dad was, and his dad can
straight out of high school.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So it is really.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Putting this level of expectation on this kid who had
a major life event is problematic, and it's dare I
say dangerous, because now he's going to try to lift
up to these standard perhaps push himself to limits that
he's probably shouldn't physically go to right now. But he's
not ready at all, and I think it could impact
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his ability to get mentally ready when you start adding
these pressures on him and say, you know what, by
the end of this season, you're going.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
To be starting.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
No, by the end of the season, you should be saying,
I had an amazing time in the G League. I
think I'm this much closer to being amazing on a roster.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But don't put the cart before the horse. This is
a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
People don't know the Laker history.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The Lakers first round pick last season didn't even get
the first round.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Jalen Hoods Freedom did not even get out of the
G League.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Okay, just as a reference point, just because you're drafted
doesn't mean that you make the team. It means you
won't get cut, you'll stay at the organization. I don't
want to get in all that. But if your second
round pick, rarely do those picks make the team rarely?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's a tradable asset. That's about it, right right.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
We drafted you because we think maybe we can use
you to elevate us in other ways later.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Right down the road. We think that you have potential,
we can develop you.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
That's you gonna be playing serious minutes as a rookie.
It doesn't happen, but we'll see. They're welcome to prove
me wrong. But before we get out of here, Jackie Ray,
what are you working on?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So I am excited about this week's podcast. I got
a call from the mayor of Long Beach who was
upset about a take, and it just made my whole
day when the mayor decided to call me and say,
I ain't like your.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Take but it was, but was it wrong? You don't
have to like it right right right?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
So he and I argued about that for a bit.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
He has emailed me over some things which I am
going to review about Measure JB here in Long Beach,
which I have been on the record and say I
would not vote yes for. I'm going to review everything
he sent me. It's a plethora of documentation. But I'm
going to represent to you guys on Tuesday right here
on the iHeartRadio podcast app wherevery streaming your podcast. You
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can listen to that and see if I will do
a magic Johnson and all of a sudden change my mind.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
From what I know about you, You're pretty thorough in
your preparation and your research, right, I'm thinking, No, that's.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
What I'm thinking. It'll be fun to see if there's.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Nothing wrong with being open to more information. I am
a big proponent of new information. Look, you know, I
thought one way about this, but then I receive more
information or new information and it's either enhance my opinion
or change my opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
But yeah, and that's the That is a lesson for
the masses. You need to be able to.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Growth comes from learning new things and changing your perspective.
That's how we grow as human beings. You do not
have to be rigid in your thought process. That is
a lesson.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
That's why we love you. And we'll see you next week.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Chack, you d see you next week.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Gentlemen, it's come to my attention that a breakaway Russian
republic CRYP Lakistan is about to transfer a nuclear warhead
to the United Nations in a few days.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here's the plan.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We get the warhead, and we hold the.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
World ransom for.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
One million dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
M m m, well don't you think we should maybe
ask for more than a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Virtukon alone makes over ninety billion dollars a year.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Really, it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Okay? Then we hold the world ransom for.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
One hundred billion dollars. Kfi mo' kelly, we're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Is Elon Musk, the real life
version of doctor Evil. To some, he is, to his
supporters and Trump supporters he is not. But here's the
one million dollar tie in. Elon Musk is plasing to
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give away one million dollars a day to voters for
signing his Political Action Committee's petition backing the Constitution. But
this is where it gets complicated. It is illegal to
pay someone for their votes, and it's illegal to pay
someone to register to vote. But in this is the
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gray area where the incentive is to sign a petition.
But to sign the petition and be eligible for the
million dollars, you have to be already a registered voter.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Elon Musk says every day he'll give one lucky registered
voter a million bucks if they sign a petition from
his pro Trump Political Action Committee, which is the latest
way of the world. The world's richest man is boosting
the former president. But whether the contest is legal and
what Musk's endgame is are both unanswered questions. CBS is
Joeline Kent reports.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
It's the Elon Musk Show on the Trump trail and
must win Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
As a nice person is Seandreer.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
The world's richest man is handing out million dollar checks
to swing state voters sweep steak style once a day till.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Election Day, and all you have to do is sign
a petition in support of a constitution.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
He's also poured seventy five million dollars into his own
pack to get Trump voters to the poll.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What he really wants to do is get people who
he thinks are going to vote for Trump but aren't
registered to register to vote.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Federal election law says it's a crime to pay anyone
to register to vote or simply vote.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Is Elon Musk acting illegally the.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Actions that we're seeing it violates federal law pretty clearly. Actually,
I don't think it's a particularly close.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Calls is dangling incentives to voters after he was promised
a prominent role in a second Trump white House.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I will create a Government Efficiency Commission, and Elon, because
he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force.
Speaker 9 (19:14):
His company's SpaceX and Tesla have benefited from billions in
federal government grants and contracts.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And I'm very concerned about a country where people like
Elon Musk others that are sucking up to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That will undoubtedly be What did he say?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What was that? The governor Knwsom said, that will undoubtedly
be undoubtedly. That's not a word. There's undoubtedly, but not undoubtably.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
That will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations undoubtedly.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Getting he did it again, he needed twice in one sentence.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Irregardless, that's not a word, okay, irregardless of what the
governor said, undoubtedly is not a word. It's like supposedly, no,
it's supposedly undoubtedly, not supposably or undoubtedly.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I am so disappointed in this governor. How can you
not know.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
That, Donald Trump, that will undoubtedly be carved out of regulations,
undoubtedly gotten.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Doubtably he did it for emphasis or emphasists as they.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Say they get massive, even larger federal contracts. I mean
it is an American oligarchy.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Musk also uses X formerly Twitter, which he owns, to
promote Trump to his two hundred million plus followers.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now listen to this part.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
This is really important about the impact of what Musk
has been doing, whether you like him or not.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
According to a CBS News investigation, Musk has used x
to amass three point three billion views on posts about
election security so far this year. Nearly sixty percent amplified
false or misleading information.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Nearly sixty percent amplified false or misleading information, including unsubstantiated conspiracies.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
A third one million dollar check was just given away
in Pennsylvania tonight. And when we reached out to Musk
and his pack about whether this violates federal election law,
a source directly familiar tells us it's confident in the
legality of this initiative.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
As a practical matter.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It really doesn't matter whether it is or is not
legal for this reason, not whether you care whether it's
illegal as a practical matter, unless there is an immediate injunction,
it's not going to stop what he is doing, and
any lawsuit after the fact is not going to undo
any votes or registrations which may be connected to this.
(21:53):
On the flip side, as a practical matter, the people
who are signing this petition and who are already registered voters,
it's fair to assume that they're already Trump voters. And
if they're not Trump voters and they just are in
it for the money, well you paid someone a million
dollars for someone who's not going to vote for Donald Trump.
(22:15):
So as a practical matter, I don't know if it
changes the landscape in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But even if it is deemed.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Illegal, and even if there is an injunction filed and
put in place, we are now what fifteen days away
from the election, it's probably not going to make much
of a difference.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But here is the most important point.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
We are now in this slippery slope, this very gray
area where money is going to in the next instance,
probably move even closer to that line, or go further
on the other side of the line, where they're just
out now outright just buying votes, paying for votes, or
paying for voter registrations.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
This is pretty much that.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But since it's done so late in October and no
one had dared to do it before, it's not going
to make any difference in the sense of no one's
probably going to step in to stop it. But the
other side of that is is it really changing any votes?
Is it encouraging anyone to vote who was not going
to vote? Because both sides are trying to make sure
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that they can close that enthusiasm gap and get out
their voters, turnout is going to be key. But in
a state like Pennsylvania, the Democrats still have an advantage
when it comes to enthusiasm. But this is again a
result of that Citizens United horrible Supreme Court decision. If
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you're worried about the power of a few people dictating
what happens in this country or as far as foreign policy,
look to moments like that Supreme Court decision which said
that there's no such thing as too much money in
our politics, and there are people like Elon Musk trying
to buy an election all by himself. It's later with
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mo Kelly Cafi AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
We have your horoscope. When we come back, and it
has all to do with pasta.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Six KFI mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And here is your horoscope for this week, and it
has to do with a pasta dish which aligns with
your zodiac sign.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I'm not Italian, I'm not of Italian descent.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I am going to unintentionally mispronounce some of these dishes,
probably horribly. I'm letting you know in advance. It's not intentional. Robin,
are you, by chance of any Italian descent?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Okay, so you can't help me, No, Tawala Tanzanian. He
can't help me, Mark Ronner, any Italian blood?
Speaker 10 (24:59):
No, But I grew up in a city that was
nothing but Italian Catholics, and I was like the Tom
Hagen figure in everybody's family. So I might have.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Your back, Okay, No guarantees, because you've never had my
back in your life, so I'm not sure if I
can depend on anyone to help me through these pronunciations. Again,
it's unintentional, but I'm self aware and I'm going to
mispronounce some of these dishes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Charge it to my head, not my heart. Aries.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
The pasta dish which aligns with your zodiac sign is spaghetti. Pomodoro.
Aries is not a sign renowned for subtlety, and Pomodoro
blutly and beautifully translates to tomato in Italian did not
know that making up for nuance with absolute delightfulness. The
dish sings with simplicity and comes together fast and easy,
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exactly how Aries likes their meals, sexual encounters and criminal getaways.
Taurus pasta pest so oh man I wanted that one
love Pesto. Pesto is traditionally made with the crushed leaves
of the basil plant, an herb aligned with the traits
and tendencies of Taurus.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Taurus, whose power color is.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Green and under belly is Greed rules the second house
of values and possessions, and basil has long been associated
with wealth and worth. It's said that carrying basil in
your pocket will draw riches, having it in your place
of business will attract customers, and putting a sprig in
the hand of your beloved will indicate, by withering or
not whether they are virtuous or promiscuous. A helpful trick
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for the jealous bull Gemini. That's you, Mark right, I
predict angel hair casio e pepe c acio eh pepe yep.
Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury. Name for the
god of commerce and communication, trade and tricks, and the
patron of shepherds, thieves, and travelers. Fittingly and according to
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legend legend being Gemini's loveland language, Cassiopepe was born from
the necessities of nomadic shepherds who spent the late spring
and early summer of course Gemini season, grazing their flocks
in the Appendine mountains. For sustenance, they needed something cheap, lightweight,
and resistant to rot, a holy trinity of Gemini preference,
of course, and packed dried pasta and pepper for the
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journey cancer.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh hell.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay linguini alos scoglio scoglio yep.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes, fruiti di marem.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Abondanzach, while the official noodle of cancer would be the ravioli,
on account of this ilk, keeping their feelings inside and
spirited away under a comfortable layer of mistrust. The pasta
dish that speaks most fluently to cardinal water is linguine aloscoglio.
The name translates to spaghetti of the rock, and the recipe,
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which fluctuates in accordance with the tide, seasons and temp
remant of the cook is as ever changing as the
moon and many moods that rule the people of the
crab Nice Leo, well I can pronounce this one Feedicini
Alfredo Leo is ruled by the sun lords over the
human heart and shines as the zodiac's most unrepentant romantic
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showman and self ordained regent. Leo's also the sign of
the eternal child, and in nineteen oh eight, in the
eternal city of Rome, Chef Alfredo de Lelio's wife Ines
gave birth to a son. According to Lucas Cesaries, the
discovery of Pasta, a History and Ten Dishes in s
was severely weakened from the delivery. A distressed Alfredo took
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to the kitchen to prepare her something nourishing and easy
to digest. Like a true carb king, he made feedicini noodles,
tossed him in a mulsified butter and parmesan, and said
a prayer to the patron Saint of New Mothers. Ines
loved the dish so much that they put it on
the menu of the olive garden. I mean try to
virgo Macaroni and cheese easy, That's an Italian dish.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Pasta Okay, I get Pasta's not Italian dishes? Oh, I
think of pasta? Never mind.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Virgo is the sign of the resourceful recluse at Macaroni
and cheese is the dish of choice of home alones.
Hermit hero Kevin Mcowister played by in real life Virgo
Macaulay Culkin. But who but a clever, mutable Earth priest
would wish for their family to disappear so they can
enjoy the holidays. In Peace Watch R rated movies, drink
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their milk from a wine glass and eat their pasta
in Blessed Solitude. Libra spaghetti and meatballs, ruled by Venus,
planet of love, esthetics, and attraction. Libra is a sign
of partnership and popularity. In Disney's Lady in the Tramp
provides the most iconic pasta scene in all of cinema history,
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as Belle Notte plays Tramp and Lady, two sides of
the same Libra arc type, Rakish flirt and coquettish aristocrat,
strike a balance and share an accidental kiss over a
bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. Did you know the scene
was almost cut by Walt Disney, who thought the idea
of dogs eating was more ridiculous than romantic. But love
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went out in the end, and the spaghetti kiss remains
a cultural cornerstone. Scorpio, let's go pasta alanorma? What pasta
alanorma is a traditional Secilian past the salted egg plant,
crushed potatoes, excuse me, crushed tomatoes, and fresh ricata. Regarding
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the corporeal form mortal coil, Scorpio rules the Genitalia. Wait
a second, I'm just reading Scorpio rules the Genitalia.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I didn't know that there was a ruler. No pun intended.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
And as any millennium will tell you, the egg plant
emoji is a digital stand in for I can't say
that on the air, but you can figure out the
rest standing. Yes, it's a visual representation of an organ.
Add to the sauce that the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini,
who wrote the opera Norma from which the dish takes
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its name, was a card carrying Scorpio sagittarius.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's me Lasagna. Why can I get lazangna?
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Look?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I want it pest up, but you know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Zazu dining in Brisbane, Australia has gone viral for charging
forty eight dollars for a crab lasagna sounds good? Actually
topped with caviar does not sound good. Don't like caviar?
Had it nasty? Sazu dining sagittarius is the sign of expansion,
abundance at best and excess an empirical tyranny at worst.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Apropos of this.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Lasagna is a consequence of conquests originally developed by the Greeks.
Did you know that the marauding Romans took the dish
home with them, along with an entire esthetic tradition, a
pantheon of gods, and a governing philosophy. In the century since,
lasagna has been adapted and adopted while maintaining a richness
in taste and reputation. Recent evidence includes this viral fifty
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dollars caviar lasagna just not taste. Doesn't sound appetizing caviar anything?
Have you ever had caviar? Twala once?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Did not like it at all?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
They had it all over parties in the music industry
that was supposed to be a symbol of largess x us.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I spit it into my napkin. It was bad. It
was bad. Mark, have you had caviar? I like it,
but I can't afford it.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You like it?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah, it's good. I'd try that. What did you have
it with?
Speaker 10 (32:41):
But I would try it on an evening when you're
picking up the tab. Yeah, it won't be that's ridiculously expensive.
You're not gonna you're not gonna be ordering that on
a Friday. I do want to see you and Tula
recreate that lady in the tramp scene, though, with a
piece of spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
That would be heartwarming. Please proceed.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Capricorn spaghetti Alaska.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Oh yeah, that's dirty. You know what that means? No,
I don't. I'm not going to say it on the air.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Capricorn is the sign of industry, the sacred grind, the
punishing work ethic, and the mighty dollar Putinska, which translates
to in the style of sex workers.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
There we go kind of downplaying it, but you get
the idea.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's the sanitized version of it.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yes, okay, it's a quick and easy dish of spaghetti
with tomatoes, black olives.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Oh hell no, there we go, blackallics.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Oh no, capers, anchobies, onions, garlic, and herbs. That sounds
like a horrible kiss waiting to happen.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Yeah, the prostitute part doesn't bother you so much as
the black olives part.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What's your point? I think I just made it. Why
would prostitutes bother me? You want to keep going or
you want to dwell on this?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
In the spirit of the enterprising sea goat legend holes
that Neopolitan sex workers they have ice cream sexs No.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
That's just the different flavors of sex work.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Oh okay, would draw men to their doors like the
sirens of yore with the pungent scent of this pasta,
and or prepare it between clients to maximize earning potential.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It seems like it would be a turnoff, not a
turn off. Yeah, you don't want pudget? Yeah? Work, No,
not punge in sex? Is that the dish? Or is
it right? That's almost like the dish, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Aquarius pastacomanata carbonaire carbonare carbonare carbonara is typically made with eggs,
cured pork, parmesan, and cracked black pepper. Aquarius is ruled
by two planets, staunch traditionalists Saturn and burn it Down
build it back better, Euratus the planet, of course, always,
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It's always the planet. It's never referring to anything else.
Never has the energy of these two luminaries found more
acute culinary expression than in the Carbonara gate. It all
began when a French website's recipe for a one pot
carbonera using blasphemous bold type pasta went viral. The video
sparked international debate among Italian food writers, chefs, home cooks,
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and pasta makers who were outraged by the break in
orthodox preparation and the breakdown of general decency. Further fuel
in the fire was a New York Times recipe the
call for tomatoes to be added to Carbonera, which some
likened to declaring war on Italy.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
And last is Pisces breakfast spaghetti you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
In the Christmas classic Elf Efferves and Buddy is the
quintessential Pisces, living and loving out loud with an endearing
and unhinged sense of whimsy. His spirit and that of
all fish folk is made manifest in this breakfast calamity
of noodles covered in maple syrup, Oh Gosh, cereal, pop tarts, hope, marshmallows,
cheer candy, and an inextinguishable enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
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