December 12, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Wellness Wednesday with wife, mother, fitness expert, and masterful storyteller Claudine Cooper weighing in on the best “Wellness Gifts” for the holidays and MORE…PLUS – A look at the SoCal voucher program for a new E-bike - 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 (00:06):
And it's Wellness Wednesday. So that means Claudine Cooper Claudinkcooper
dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Joins me in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let me say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Hanukah's on the way,
all of those happy kwansa eventually back to you.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to see you all of the above.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I mentioned that because since it is the holiday season,
small age people are thinking about gifts that I know,
even in your line of work, there may be some
specific gifts that people may ask you about, or technology
that people say, Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
How about this? So what about this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How do you approach if at all, how do you
approach gifts in your profession?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
As in people giving me gifts?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
All the above, take it wherever you want.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Okay, well this is where I'm going to go with it.
Just last week, a woman said, hey, Claudiine, guess what
I asked for for my Christmas gift?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I said what she said, A set of weights? And
I said, oh, I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
She said, I listened to you when you said put
the weights in front of your TV instead of sitting
on the couch. Just do some bicep curls, do some squats,
and watch your shows. So I asked my husband to
order me a rack with weights. I said, wonderful, that's
an amazing gift.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You sound almost almost convinced. Look you saw, you know
how that story is going to end.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You don't think she's going to use something.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
From the way you describe it seems like she will
be fast out the gate for two weeks and those
weights will move from in front of the TV too,
behind the couch.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I would ask your listeners if they have dumbbells in
their home and if their dumbbells get use because I
use my dumbbells at the house.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I don't know about other people.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But I heard somewhere that people let their dumbbells collect dust,
but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
That for a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I am more for isometric resistance training. I will do
my pushups and core work on the floor, but in
front of the TV, I'll get on the treadmill, and
that's I do the most work. When I'm just watching
a movie, I can watch two hours and get a
pretty decent workout in.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Because basically your treadmill is set up in an area
with your TV correct. So you just get your workout in,
but your mind is on.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I need to take my mind somewhere else. If you
say go downstairs and put it in an hour working out,
I'm not going to do it. Okay, go downstairs. Watch
this new movie on Netflix. It's an hour and forty
five minutes long. But you get at least an hour
in on the treadmill. Do your what I call warmed
up stretches. I try to stretch after I'm warmed up.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
That's smart, that's very smart.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
In fact, you know, I was kind of giving the
advice of stretching every day, but I was thinking about
it after, you know, giving the advice.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I was like, ooh, let me think about this.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You want to make sure your body's warm when you stretch, right,
and so now with the weather changing, it's a little cooler.
You might get out of the bed. It might be
cold in your house, or maybe that's just my house
because I keep a cold house. But you do want
to be somewhat warm when you stretch. You want your
muscles to be malleable when you start moving around like that.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I usually I'll stand and lean against the wall to
stretch out my achilles I'll keep my heel on the
floor because I'm not trying to tear my achilles in
my old age.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'm just not Have you ever torn your achilles?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, I've torn my calf muscle, which is close enough.
Yes it is, and there's nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
How long was the recovery on that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Month and a half? Yeah, no surgery, month and a half,
natural healing, natural healing, Okay, And it was a month
and a half before I could walk normally again. Wow,
but yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Your body did what your body can do.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I was thirty something at a time. I don't
know if i'd be able to do that now at
fifty something.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yes, yeah, Well, anyways, we don't want to find out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No, but I say that to say that's the only
stretching I do before I get on the treadmill. Those
are important, and I also do some squats so I
can just make sure I'm not doing anything which will
lead to injury. After I get off the treadmill, then
I'll sit down on the floor and do what I
call dynamic stretching, where I'm stretching legs and trying to
increase flexibility.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Right, so you know, I teach a stretch class, and
we also have other mobility and recovery classes. And one
of the best ways to work out your body or
to stretch out your soreness is to use some kind
of tools. So as we start talking about gifts, you know,
it's good to think about these kinds of things too.
I just ordered a box for the Gem of forty
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massage sticks.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Have you heard of those? Yes, you have one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I have one of those battery operated massagers.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh like the gun thing, the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Gun thing, I think it's there a gun And I
wish I would have discover this ten years ago because
I'll get up in the morning after working out the
day before. My my hamstrings are always super tight. Put
that their gun on the back of my leg. It's
like altering. That's a life, my whole life. I can
just feel my hamstring just uncurling. Yes, yes, and so
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that would be another gift, right. These are all little tools.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So the Thera gun or for those who are listening,
you would say, it's like a handheld massage device. And
they come in all different brands, but their gun is
an expensive brand by the way, you know, because mo
is bougie.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes I am, but I didn't always have one. What
I used before was a rolling pin.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Okay, so that's what I ordered.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So they look like, uh, this is called a massage
stick and they come in all different kinds of sizes
and colors and whatever whatnot. But it's looking like a
rolling pin. And to be honest, I never used one.
So the woman who does the mobility class had asked
for them, and when it came in, I used it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Life change.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, yes, you don't know until you do it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's like what another tool, little secret tool here is
a lacrosse ball, which you may not know is made
of rubber. It looks like a tennis ball, but it's
made of rubber and it grips down onto the floor
pretty pretty easily. You can put your foot on it
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and roll the ball back and forth on your foot.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh yeah, I usually do that on the corner of steps,
you know, because I, yeah, I don't have flat feet,
but my arches still are something that I'm very concerned with.
And what's the when your when the muscle pulls away
from the foot, is that the planter fa Yeah, And
I've dealt with that over years, and so that, yes,
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I will use small balls and corner the steps and all.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
These different tools.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Anyways, if you're looking for gifts that are home workout
or home recovery tools, there's so many things out there.
It really just depends on if you're gonna use it
or not, or if you know yourself well enough to know, Hey,
I need to actually go into the gym. I actually
need to go to a class. I need a practitioner
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to rub me down. You know, some people need that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When we come back. Since we're ending this year and
we're getting ready to start twenty twenty five, I'm quite
sure you've probably seen or know of some trends in
the health and wellness and training community. When we get back,
tell us what's on the horizon, what are people talking about?
What are people fancying and experimenting with? Can you do
that for me? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I know what they're fancying. I can't wait to talk
about it all right. Cluding Cooper joins me in studio
on This Wellness Wednesday. Kay, if I aim six forty,
it's Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
On This Wellness Wednesday, I'm joined in studio by Claudin Cooper.
Make sure you check out Claudinecooper dot com for all
of her wisdom, her sage advice, also her online workouts
and also in person free community workouts. I'm quite sure
in your business, in your work, that there are trends.
(08:26):
People will move in this direction or that direction as
time goes by. It's a new year. I'm quite sure
there are new things that people are experimenting with. What
are people talking about, what's the hot new thing, the
hot thing going on.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's a few things, and you know, I feel like
they were born out of the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So one of the big things is that there are
more free offerings. Not only do I do a free
workout in the neighborhood, but I also know that there's
free yoga at Kenneth Han Park, there's free hiking groups.
There's a lot of free off rings that I didn't
see as much, let's say, ten years ago when I
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started my free workout.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So the free offerings are something that not only is
near and dear to my heart because I started a
free community work on myself, but also because there are
people who may not be able to afford gym memberships
right or personal trainers, and this is a way for
them to be active, but to also be in community
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with other people who want to be active. So for me,
I would say, on trend is this kind of wellness
hashtag fitness, and it's good that it's on trend because
it's causing people to create these groups and these environments
where you can get active with others.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Do you ever.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Find yourself just a little bit cynical where it's like, Okay,
I know you you're not here for the long haul.
I know you're here for the fifteen minutes. And this
is new and the people who maybe walking to the
gym was like, Okay, you're here for the club aspect
that you're not here to work out.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh no, don't.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I'm citical. I don't think the best of people. Okay,
here's the deal. The other day I was at the gym.
I was talking to two of my old friends who've
been working out with me for over ten years each,
and they said, oh, here we go again, Claudine.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Look at this ghost town right now. Nobody's in the
gym right now.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
In three weeks it's going to be packed from the
window to the wall, and I won't be able to
get a spot in your class, and blah blah blah.
And I looked at them and I said, you know
what I'm going to say, Because they've been working out
with me for a long time. This is my favorite
time of year. I absolutely love when droves of people
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recommit to living a healthy lifestyle because I strongly believe
unlike like you, you cynical.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I am cynical, yo estoy cynical.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yes, I truly believe that there is a percentage of
people who will commit for the long haul, and they'll
start on January first or the first Monday in January.
And I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to
be able to have a passenger seat in the ride
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along that journey. And I've seen it happen so many
times in the thirty two years that I've been working
in fitness.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
In those thirty two years, have you seen an age
demographic shift? Where when I was in my twenties, it
seemed like most of the people were in the twenty
ish range. We were very self absorbed as far as
the gym. Now, it seems like as an outsider because
I'm not a part of that gym culture. Now, it
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seems like that people there's a wider age range.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, you came to the gym the other day with me,
and you saw the various ages. You saw older people,
you saw young, young people, teenagers. I have been pleasantly
surprised to see such a vast and diverse group of ages, ethnicities,
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you know.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Abilities.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
So last week I had a guy come to my
stretch class and he is in a wheelchair, so he
put his wheelchair towards the back of the room. He
hoisted himself out of the wheelchair. He used the stretching
tools to stretch his legs. It was well at the
end of class. And I can tell this story because
he told it in class too. So at the end
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of class, we always go around and all of us
kind of introduce ourselves, just to create a more strong
sense of community, right, And so we get to him
and he just said, I feel so fortunate and so
blessed to be here because I was shot and I
have been in the wheelchair now since I was twenty
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four years old, and I'm just thankful that I'm still
able to participate in classes like this and do as
much as I can.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's some powerful, powerful statement.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And there's a lot of people who are listening right now,
and I just want to take a moment and bend
your ear. There are people who say I can't do this,
or I'm tired, or you know, my hips hurt or
my back hurts. There's always something that you can do.
If all you can do is a little bit, a
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little bit is more than none. And that's my suggestion.
It doesn't have to be well thought out. It doesn't
have to be on the first of the year. It
can be in front of your TV like mo watch
a movie. It can be just stretching with a group
of other people. It can be any amount of movement
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is better than no movement.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
And I stand on that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm sure you've inspired someone, definitely intrigued many someone's, but
let's help them take that first step. Today's Wednesday. I
know you have online Friday free workouts, you have your
in person free community workouts on Saturday. You teach any
number of classes at Iconics Fitness in Englewood.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I also teach at Equinox in Hawthorn Slash Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Excuse me, you've been holding out on me?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Okay, Uh huh, I've been there for ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
How is it you have time to come out to KFI?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Because I just love you guys so much. I'm the
nice exercise lady. How could I not be here? Come on, guys,
what would you do without me?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Everybody loves the nice exercise lady.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
You've grown on me too, Mark.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Like a lord.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Oh not at all, you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I love coming out here, even though tonight the traffic
was ex exdreamly intense, and around this time of year
it does get much harder to get around the city,
so I understand when the population drops down at the gym.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The holidays, traffic, all the responsibilities of parents and teachers
and everything that's going on right now. If you can't
make it to the gym, you can still do a
little something at home, or like most said, you can
go to my website at Clottincooper dot com.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I do teach a virtual workout, but.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I'm sad to say we're gonna say goodbye to the
virtual workouts.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was wondering how long are you going to be
able to do them? Just from a scheduling standpoint, it's.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Been four it's been almost five years since twenty twenty
since I started the free workouts online, and the community
has been so appreciative. But we've dwindled down in size.
People are going back to the gym.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well that's okay. They can find you at the gym.
They can find you at Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Park, absolutely Hollywood Park retail district every Saturday at nine am,
and then at various gyms. And I also do wellness activations.
I do seminars for corporations. I do a little bit
of this and a little bit of that. Animal mom,
animal mom, animal wife. So it's a lot. And you
sleep when I get eight hours of sleep. Trust me
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on that. I'm serious about my sleep hygiene.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, okay, Claudinecooper dot com. And that means you'll be
back next week maybe depending on your very busy schedule.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Well, so next week I do actually have a corporate wellness.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
I'm just letting you know on camera on air. Sorry, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Do, Claudiecooper dot com. We love the nice exercise lady.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I love you guys too. Happy holidays everyone.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And we'll see you soon whenever that might be.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yes, you will.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand KFI sif.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I
got to say, I am kind of jealous about what
the younger generation has that I didn't have as a kid.
For all the trappings, I should say, for all the
things that we did have as kids, this generation has
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a lot more cool stuff. Yeah, we were the beginning
Gen xers. We were the beginning of the video game revolution.
We had arcades, but everything that we had was very
low tech in comparison to what's out there today. I
remember I was happy to just get a phone in
my room, as in, plugged into the wall, touch tone,
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not even my own line, just my own extension where
I could pick up the phone in the house in
my room.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I was happy about that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now the kids get their own phone with their own
phone number at five years old. It's a different world
all together. And I used to ride my bike everywhere.
I am going somewhere with this, no pun intended. I
used to ride my bike everywhere. I had a yellow
ten speed bike and that was my transportation. I would
ride it from Harbor City to Torrents and all areas
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around there. I was getting a lot of miles on
that bike. But today have you seen the e bikes?
They're fast as hell. It's basically a moped that people
ride on the sidewalks. It's basically a moped. And they're
not super expensive when you think about it. The top
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of the line is two thousand dollars. You can get
them as low as like two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's great. Let me tell you about this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There's a new voucher program which offers up to two
thousand dollars for a new e bike. You can get
two thousand dollars immediately, well, I should say starting later
this month December eighteenth and low income California residents can
apply for the state's new e Bike Incentive project. The
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base incentive voucher is seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, but
applicants with certain qualifications can get as much as two
thousand dollars, which basically means for free, basically a top
quality E bike. I would look if I had a
job which was somewhat close to where I live, like
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Tim Conway Jr. I would love to ride by bike
to work. I would love to do it, and even
be even better on an e bike. These young folks
have no idea how good they have it. Applications open
on December eighteenth at six pm, and they'll be reviewed
on a first come, first serve basis, even if you're
not going to be part of the program, the voucher program.
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I just think e bikes would is so very cool.
I just have no need or purpose for them in
my life. I have nowhere to go. There's nowhere for
me to go. Everywhere I need to go, I have
to get in the car and it takes me two
hours to drive twenty two.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Miles in this city.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
I think it'd be fun for you to drive two
hours on an e bike to get to work every day.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It would be fun, and it would be dangerous and
I'd probably get hit.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You wouldn't do it more than once. Look, Stephan, you
know where we lived pool. Oh, odds are against me.
The odds are not my favorite. Yeah, leaving the house,
that right there is already a struggle if you have
something that's shiny like that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, not only that, and you know what this is like.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
When you're driving, at least through my neighborhood, people do
not care about the rules of the road.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They will pass you on the right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Let's say you're coming up you're stopped at a red
light and they're trying to time it where it's gonna
turn green, and they're gonna zip around you on the right,
Oh my, to get in front of you. If you're
not paying attention to that, you might have an accident.
It drives me crazy that, Yeah, there's actually I can
stoplight right at the beginning of my drive. And people
do that all the time, all the time, all the time.
And the other thing that happens too is when like
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you're going on a straight and someone's coming out to
go into the lane for some reason, they see you.
They see you, they see you, and they decide to
pull out of that street right when you're coming up
on that turn. In my neighborhood, I can't speak for
anyone else's neighborhood. People don't stop at stop signs. People
don't stop to make a right on red. They just
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if they just turn. They don't even slow down, they
just turn right as if the light is green.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Talk about defensive driving. It's really dangerous.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I say all that to say I wouldn't trust riding
an e bike because people don't respect the rules of
the road at all. There are a lot of places
where their four way stops, people don't stop, They just
go straight through it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I know, and I've been hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
As a pedestrian, so maybe I'm hyper sensitive to it.
I know that I probably would get creamed and it
wouldn't be my fault. But that's not gonna help because
I'm dead. There's really no upside the idea, at least
when I was growing up. Yes, most definitely would like
to have an e bike if I lived in a
different place than I live now, Yes, definitely would love
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an e bike.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I just don't want to get killed on an ee bike.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You definitely would have to be a lot more judicious
about giving people the finger on an e bike.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, I'm not you, Mark Ronner. I don't do that anymore.
You don't understand people will kill you. Oh they'll get
you with the door on any bike, right right. And
i'mot the person who's going to ride an e bike
and try to lane split or ride it in the streets. Now,
I'm gonna illegally ride it on the sidewalk because it's
much safer there.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Can you do that?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Do you not?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Have to follow the same rules as a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I was gonna say, I don't think you're allowed to
actually even use a sidewalk because there was that whole
rule that came out with the bird scooters correct that
they couldn't do and on the sidewalk because it's too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh yeah, they can get like thirty forty miles an hour. Yeah,
and that's something else.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
When I was I would have loved to have had
one of those scooters as well, something motorized, because my
parents were never going to give me a car, so
anything which would quicken my travel going from home to
Dilomo Mall or something like that would have been fantastic.
I had the bus, or I could walk.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And a lot of times I didn't have money for
the bus, but the mall was where all the girls were,
so I just wanted to be there, and Dalama Mall
was legendary.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I keep hearing your stories about it. Now.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Not to sound like a complete violent sociopath here, but
bearing in mind, okay, that's the wrong preface. Really, bearing
in mind what a nuisance those things can be on
the sidewalk. I can't be the only one who's ever
fantasized about clotheslining somebody on a scooter or an e
bike on a sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I would want to be walking on the sidewalk to
be able to do it. I don't want to hurt
someone like hit them with a car. No clothesline like
the wrestling moves, stick your armouth. Yeah, I've thought about that.
I thought about that.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Somebody's crowd in your space with one of those obnoxious
things on the sidewalk. It barely even counts as self defense.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, to your point, Stefan, No, I don't think you
can ride these on the sidewalk. I'm pretty sure you're
not even supposed to ride just customary bicycles on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
That one I don't get with just regular bicycles.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
But this and the bird scooters, Yeah, that makes sense
because they can go so fast. All I'm saying is,
even though they have this new voucher program, if my
life was just a little bit different, I would get
me an e bykee. I might apply for that. Let's
have those details, all right. You have to be at
least eighteen years old. You qualify make less than three
hundred percent of the federal poverty level.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I don't know what that is, but I guess I'm
sure I'll be competitive.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Maybe the poverty levels like seventeen thousand times three something
like that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's I'm not the second I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, two person household making less than sixty one thousand
dollars per year would qualify. And there's some other things,
but that's the general. Applicants have to provide id proof
of income, taking online safety course and approval may take
up to sixty days, so you know you have to
wait till next year.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Definitely, actually get it. I might go for this.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Only fifteen hundred vouches are expected to be awarded during
the first round of applications, and applications will then open
every three to four months until funding is exhausted.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
In fact, the more of this you read, the more
competition I'm going to have. So maybe you know X
nay on the d ray so we don't talk anymore
about the voucher program.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
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Speaker 1 (25:34):
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Speaker 2 (25:39):
I just found out today. There's a new Lord of
the Rings movie coming to theaters. There's really a new
Lord of the Rings movie. They're not done with that.
That that's the n animated I don't give a damn.
It's a Lord of the Rings movie and it's coming
to theater. I thought we were done with Lord of
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the Rings. I don't know how that slipped by me.
Some of my friends were talking about, Yeah, we're going
to talk about Lord of the Rings. What is there
to talk about. I thought they were talking about the
TV show on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But there's an actual Lord of the Rings movie coming out.
And the reason I mentioned that is because I am
now in my documentary stage. I cannot get enough documentaries.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The Girls Gone Wild one doesn't count as a documentary matter.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I'm talking about that style of storytelling.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I was look, I used to love biopics, but now
I'm really into documentaries. And with that mind, did you
know that there's going to be a Paul Rubin slash
Pee wee Hermann documentary coming in twenty twenty five and
is also going to explore his life and sexuality.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Interesting, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, those are types of the stories that I want to.
I already know the character, you know, I already know
the news headlines. I would love to know more about
the man and the story that is less often told.
Love the documentaries, and that's one thing I do like
about this streaming era. Is gonna unveil at Sundance the
Paul Rubin's pwee Herman documentary, and even if it if
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it's not on the level of something that will be
released in theaters, it will find a home somewhere in
streaming and I'll be able to see it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And I would like to see that.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Streaming has absolutely revitalized documentaries. People never went to see
those in theaters.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
No, not at all. And that's my point.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Mark, you get exactly what I'm saying. Documentaries are not new,
but now they found the perfect home for them. And
I can watch four or five in a given city,
I mean four or five episodes of a documentary in
a giving city, and not of them are great. But
we're just getting exposed to people's stories and subjects that
we wouldn't have gotten normally.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
And if we're being honest, here, come on. They help
you go to sleep. Actually, I have no problem going
to sleep. You're the one, and who has the problem
with going to sleep.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I would say the ones back in the day that
would those might put you to sleep.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
The true crime ones always do because they happen to
match these grisly horrific subjects with the most soothing voices
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And there's also a rhythm and music and a feel
to it. It's almost like paint by numbers. You kind
of know, all right, you have you show the heinous crime,
and you have the the boyfriend who obviously was not
looked at as a suspect. You know, okay, he's the
one who did it. It's always the guy, always, the husband, always,
the boyfriend, always, and they work their way backwards to
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get to that person when you know it's always that person,
and they're building up this false drama.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's a ritual.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
It's like Colombo or murder, she wrote, It doesn't really
matter who did it. They're taking you through the ritual.
It's comforting.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's it's kind of interesting too, because sometimes if you watch,
like if they have a trailer, you already know who
did it, what happened, but how did it get there?
And that's what you've learned all the steps along the
way and the stories that you thought you knew, or
at least I thought I knew. There's probably so much
more that I did not know, which at least makes
me view it just a little bit differently.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It doesn't change obviously, the basic facts about who did it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
They're also doing a documentary on Selena.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's something I would like to see because I lived
through that in the music industry sense, and we're getting
old enough, including you, Stefan, where a lot of these
stories being told now we have some memory of Like
Girls Gone Wild, we have some memory of it.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
And now I got busted for watching the first episode
of that.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
By the way, why did you watch that in the
company or around someone else who might care?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, first of all, it's your fault because I took
your recommendation. Well, just hear me out. I took your recommendation.
I had a little time on my hands, so to speak,
so I watched the first episode of long. I realized
that halfway through. Today I'm just minding my own business,
going about my day, waking up, having some coffee, and
I hear, I see you watch the Girls Gone Wild show?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You actually caught mess for that?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Uh yeah, yeah, I did, Yeah, you're a news person,
you're getting informed. I wish I'd thought of that at
the time. That would have been a person comeback.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He could have said, I'm a grown ass man, I
can watch whatever I want.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
You can't spin a Girl's Gone Wild show. I guess
it was just for education and I'm a professional. How
dare you question me? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Why would you even try to spin it? I watched it.
My wife was in a house doing something. She could
tell because she because throughout the documentary that a trench
coat in your lap. Well, they have all the throwback commercials,
so you hear them again and again and again.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
The steel drums up.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh god, yeah, you can't miss what we were hearing.
That was like borderline nostalgic because I'm like, I just
remember that was, you know, eleven thirty twelve midnight and
now it's playing throughout the whole documentary. But I did
appreciate learning some things about how they got it on
TV and you know, getting attached to Howard Stern. I
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didn't know that, for example, how most television stations wouldn't
touch it at all, no pun intended, but how they
were creative in getting people to at least know about
the products.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
There was a form of brilliance there, there's no question
about that. But how many times can that documentary hammer
home the fact that the guy's sleeves bag go ruined
people's lives.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh yeah, and that was evident from the very beginning.
And I was talking to you about this mark. He
has like maybe four episodes, but after the first episode,
I learned just about everything I needed to know. It
was rense and repeat. After that, he was just going
to be more of an a hole as it went on.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Yeah, not only that, but we should tell people who
think they might be curious about that you're not going
to see anything.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh no, everything, everything's covered up. Yeah, yeah, they cut away.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That was my favorite part is learning that there was
a I forgot what he called it, but the censor
bar guy, like there was a dedicated person that made
those job.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
What a job? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And my thing, if you're going to have a documentary
on streaming and you have f bombs dropping everything, you
have some nudity, right, can you show us something, just
a little something.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I think my response of they didn't show anything that
wasn't the right response, but.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It was an honest one because when I was watching it,
I was expecting to.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
See the links.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No pun intended that they were going to to create
this content and compile this content. You got a sense
of it, but you didn't get the true essence because
there was no nudity.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But when you talk about being on a documentary kick
now in your later years, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, Hotel
Terminus or one of these heavy ones. Now you're sitting
at home watching Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
And it's Wellness Wednesday. So that means Claudine Cooper Claudinkcooper
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Joins me in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let me say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Hanukah's on the way,
all of those happy kwansa eventually back to you.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to see you all of the above.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I mentioned that because since it is the holiday season,
small age people are thinking about gifts that I know,
even in your line of work, there may be some
specific gifts that people may ask you about, or technology
that people say, Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
How about this? So what about this?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
How do you approach if at all, how do you
approach gifts in your profession?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
As in people giving me gifts?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
All the above, take it wherever you want.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Okay, well this is where I'm going to go with it.
Just last week, a woman said, hey, Claudiine, guess what
I asked for for my Christmas gift?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I said what she said, A set of weights? And
I said, oh, I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
She said, I listened to you when you said put
the weights in front of your TV instead of sitting
on the couch. Just do some bicep curls, do some squats,
and watch your shows. So I asked my husband to
order me a rack with weights. I said, wonderful, that's
an amazing gift.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You sound almost almost convinced. Look you saw, you know
how that story is going to end.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You don't think she's going to use something.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
From the way you describe it seems like she will
be fast out the gate for two weeks and those
weights will move from in front of the TV too,
behind the couch.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I would ask your listeners if they have dumbbells in
their home and if their dumbbells get use because I
use my dumbbells at the house.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I don't know about other people.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But I heard somewhere that people let their dumbbells collect dust,
but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
That for a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I am more for isometric resistance training. I will do
my pushups and core work on the floor, but in
front of the TV, I'll get on the treadmill, and
that's I do the most work. When I'm just watching
a movie, I can watch two hours and get a
pretty decent workout in.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Because basically your treadmill is set up in an area
with your TV correct. So you just get your workout in,
but your mind is on.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I need to take my mind somewhere else. If you
say go downstairs and put it in an hour working out,
I'm not going to do it. Okay, go downstairs. Watch
this new movie on Netflix. It's an hour and forty
five minutes long. But you get at least an hour
in on the treadmill. Do your what I call warmed
up stretches. I try to stretch after I'm warmed up.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
That's smart, that's very smart.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
In fact, you know, I was kind of giving the
advice of stretching every day, but I was thinking about
it after, you know, giving the advice.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I was like, ooh, let me think about this.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You want to make sure your body's warm when you stretch, right,
and so now with the weather changing, it's a little cooler.
You might get out of the bed. It might be
cold in your house, or maybe that's just my house
because I keep a cold house. But you do want
to be somewhat warm when you stretch. You want your
muscles to be malleable when you start moving around like that.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I usually I'll stand and lean against the wall to
stretch out my achilles I'll keep my heel on the
floor because I'm not trying to tear my achilles in
my old age.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'm just not Have you ever torn your achilles?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, I've torn my calf muscle, which is close enough.
Yes it is, and there's nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
How long was the recovery on that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Month and a half? Yeah, no surgery, month and a half,
natural healing, natural healing, Okay, And it was a month
and a half before I could walk normally again. Wow,
but yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Your body did what your body can do.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But I was thirty something at a time. I don't
know if i'd be able to do that now at
fifty something.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yes, yeah, Well, anyways, we don't want to find out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
No, but I say that to say that's the only
stretching I do before I get on the treadmill. Those
are important, and I also do some squats so I
can just make sure I'm not doing anything which will
lead to injury. After I get off the treadmill, then
I'll sit down on the floor and do what I
call dynamic stretching, where I'm stretching legs and trying to
increase flexibility.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Right, so you know, I teach a stretch class, and
we also have other mobility and recovery classes. And one
of the best ways to work out your body or
to stretch out your soreness is to use some kind
of tools. So as we start talking about gifts, you know,
it's good to think about these kinds of things too.
I just ordered a box for the Gem of forty
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massage sticks.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Have you heard of those? Yes, you have one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I have one of those battery operated massagers.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh like the gun thing, the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Gun thing, I think it's there a gun And I
wish I would have discover this ten years ago because
I'll get up in the morning after working out the
day before. My my hamstrings are always super tight. Put
that their gun on the back of my leg. It's
like altering. That's a life, my whole life. I can
just feel my hamstring just uncurling. Yes, yes, and so
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that would be another gift, right. These are all little tools.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
So the Thera gun or for those who are listening,
you would say, it's like a handheld massage device. And
they come in all different brands, but their gun is
an expensive brand by the way, you know, because mo
is bougie.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes I am, but I didn't always have one. What
I used before was a rolling pin.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Okay, so that's what I ordered.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So they look like, uh, this is called a massage
stick and they come in all different kinds of sizes
and colors and whatever whatnot. But it's looking like a
rolling pin. And to be honest, I never used one.
So the woman who does the mobility class had asked
for them, and when it came in, I used it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Life change.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, yes, you don't know until you do it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
It's like what another tool, little secret tool here is
a lacrosse ball, which you may not know is made
of rubber. It looks like a tennis ball, but it's
made of rubber and it grips down onto the floor
pretty pretty easily. You can put your foot on it
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and roll the ball back and forth on your foot.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh yeah, I usually do that on the corner of steps,
you know, because I, yeah, I don't have flat feet,
but my arches still are something that I'm very concerned with.
And what's the when your when the muscle pulls away
from the foot, is that the planter fa Yeah, And
I've dealt with that over years, and so that, yes,
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I will use small balls and corner the steps and all.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
These different tools.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Anyways, if you're looking for gifts that are home workout
or home recovery tools, there's so many things out there.
It really just depends on if you're gonna use it
or not, or if you know yourself well enough to know, Hey,
I need to actually go into the gym. I actually
need to go to a class. I need a practitioner
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to rub me down. You know, some people need that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
When we come back. Since we're ending this year and
we're getting ready to start twenty twenty five, I'm quite
sure you've probably seen or know of some trends in
the health and wellness and training community. When we get back,
tell us what's on the horizon, what are people talking about?
What are people fancying and experimenting with? Can you do
that for me? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I know what they're fancying. I can't wait to talk
about it all right. Cluding Cooper joins me in studio
on This Wellness Wednesday. Kay, if I aim six forty,
it's Later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
On This Wellness Wednesday, I'm joined in studio by Claudin Cooper.
Make sure you check out Claudinecooper dot com for all
of her wisdom, her sage advice, also her online workouts
and also in person free community workouts. I'm quite sure
in your business, in your work, that there are trends.
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People will move in this direction or that direction as
time goes by. It's a new year. I'm quite sure
there are new things that people are experimenting with. What
are people talking about, what's the hot new thing, the
hot thing going on.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
There's a few things, and you know, I feel like
they were born out of the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So one of the big things is that there are
more free offerings. Not only do I do a free
workout in the neighborhood, but I also know that there's
free yoga at Kenneth Han Park, there's free hiking groups.
There's a lot of free off rings that I didn't
see as much, let's say, ten years ago when I
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started my free workout.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So the free offerings are something that not only is
near and dear to my heart because I started a
free community work on myself, but also because there are
people who may not be able to afford gym memberships
right or personal trainers, and this is a way for
them to be active, but to also be in community
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with other people who want to be active. So for me,
I would say, on trend is this kind of wellness
hashtag fitness, and it's good that it's on trend because
it's causing people to create these groups and these environments
where you can get active with others.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Do you ever.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Find yourself just a little bit cynical where it's like, Okay,
I know you you're not here for the long haul.
I know you're here for the fifteen minutes. And this
is new and the people who maybe walking to the
gym was like, Okay, you're here for the club aspect
that you're not here to work out.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Oh no, don't.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I'm citical. I don't think the best of people. Okay,
here's the deal. The other day I was at the gym.
I was talking to two of my old friends who've
been working out with me for over ten years each,
and they said, oh, here we go again, Claudine.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Look at this ghost town right now. Nobody's in the
gym right now.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
In three weeks it's going to be packed from the
window to the wall, and I won't be able to
get a spot in your class, and blah blah blah.
And I looked at them and I said, you know
what I'm going to say, Because they've been working out
with me for a long time. This is my favorite
time of year. I absolutely love when droves of people
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recommit to living a healthy lifestyle because I strongly believe
unlike like you, you cynical.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I am cynical, yo estoy cynical.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yes, I truly believe that there is a percentage of
people who will commit for the long haul, and they'll
start on January first or the first Monday in January.
And I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to
be able to have a passenger seat in the ride
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along that journey. And I've seen it happen so many
times in the thirty two years that I've been working
in fitness.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
In those thirty two years, have you seen an age
demographic shift? Where when I was in my twenties, it
seemed like most of the people were in the twenty
ish range. We were very self absorbed as far as
the gym. Now, it seems like as an outsider because
I'm not a part of that gym culture. Now, it
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seems like that people there's a wider age range.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, you came to the gym the other day with me,
and you saw the various ages. You saw older people,
you saw young, young people, teenagers. I have been pleasantly
surprised to see such a vast and diverse group of ages, ethnicities,
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you know.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Abilities.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
So last week I had a guy come to my
stretch class and he is in a wheelchair, so he
put his wheelchair towards the back of the room. He
hoisted himself out of the wheelchair. He used the stretching
tools to stretch his legs. It was well at the
end of class. And I can tell this story because
he told it in class too. So at the end
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of class, we always go around and all of us
kind of introduce ourselves, just to create a more strong
sense of community, right, And so we get to him
and he just said, I feel so fortunate and so
blessed to be here because I was shot and I
have been in the wheelchair now since I was twenty
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four years old, and I'm just thankful that I'm still
able to participate in classes like this and do as
much as I can.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's some powerful, powerful statement.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And there's a lot of people who are listening right now,
and I just want to take a moment and bend
your ear. There are people who say I can't do this,
or I'm tired, or you know, my hips hurt or
my back hurts. There's always something that you can do.
If all you can do is a little bit, a
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little bit is more than none. And that's my suggestion.
It doesn't have to be well thought out. It doesn't
have to be on the first of the year. It
can be in front of your TV like mo watch
a movie. It can be just stretching with a group
of other people. It can be any amount of movement
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is better than no movement.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
And I stand on that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm sure you've inspired someone, definitely intrigued many someone's, but
let's help them take that first step. Today's Wednesday. I
know you have online Friday free workouts, you have your
in person free community workouts on Saturday. You teach any
number of classes at Iconics Fitness in Englewood.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I also teach at Equinox in Hawthorn Slash Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Excuse me, you've been holding out on me?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Okay, Uh huh, I've been there for ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
How is it you have time to come out to KFI?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Because I just love you guys so much. I'm the
nice exercise lady. How could I not be here? Come on, guys,
what would you do without me?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Everybody loves the nice exercise lady.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
You've grown on me too, Mark.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Like a lord.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Oh not at all, you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I love coming out here, even though tonight the traffic
was ex exdreamly intense, and around this time of year
it does get much harder to get around the city,
so I understand when the population drops down at the gym.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It makes perfect sense to me.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The holidays, traffic, all the responsibilities of parents and teachers
and everything that's going on right now. If you can't
make it to the gym, you can still do a
little something at home, or like most said, you can
go to my website at Clottincooper dot com.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I do teach a virtual workout, but.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I'm sad to say we're gonna say goodbye to the
virtual workouts.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was wondering how long are you going to be
able to do them? Just from a scheduling standpoint, it's.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Been four it's been almost five years since twenty twenty
since I started the free workouts online, and the community
has been so appreciative. But we've dwindled down in size.
People are going back to the gym.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well that's okay. They can find you at the gym.
They can find you at Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Park, absolutely Hollywood Park retail district every Saturday at nine am,
and then at various gyms. And I also do wellness activations.
I do seminars for corporations. I do a little bit
of this and a little bit of that. Animal mom,
animal mom, animal wife. So it's a lot. And you
sleep when I get eight hours of sleep. Trust me
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on that. I'm serious about my sleep hygiene.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, okay, Claudinecooper dot com. And that means you'll be
back next week maybe depending on your very busy schedule.
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You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand KFI sif.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I
got to say, I am kind of jealous about what
the younger generation has that I didn't have as a kid.
For all the trappings, I should say, for all the
things that we did have as kids, this generation has
(17:25):
a lot more cool stuff. Yeah, we were the beginning
Gen xers. We were the beginning of the video game revolution.
We had arcades, but everything that we had was very
low tech in comparison to what's out there today. I
remember I was happy to just get a phone in
my room, as in, plugged into the wall, touch tone,
(17:51):
not even my own line, just my own extension where
I could pick up the phone in the house in
my room.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I was happy about that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now the kids get their own phone with their own
phone number at five years old. It's a different world
all together. And I used to ride my bike everywhere.
I am going somewhere with this, no pun intended. I
used to ride my bike everywhere. I had a yellow
ten speed bike and that was my transportation. I would
ride it from Harbor City to Torrents and all areas
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around there. I was getting a lot of miles on
that bike. But today have you seen the e bikes?
They're fast as hell. It's basically a moped that people
ride on the sidewalks. It's basically a moped. And they're
not super expensive when you think about it. The top
(18:44):
of the line is two thousand dollars. You can get
them as low as like two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It's great. Let me tell you about this.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There's a new voucher program which offers up to two
thousand dollars for a new e bike. You can get
two thousand dollars immediately, well, I should say starting later
this month December eighteenth and low income California residents can
apply for the state's new e Bike Incentive project. The
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base incentive voucher is seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, but
applicants with certain qualifications can get as much as two
thousand dollars, which basically means for free, basically a top
quality E bike. I would look if I had a
job which was somewhat close to where I live, like
(19:36):
Tim Conway Jr. I would love to ride by bike
to work. I would love to do it, and even
be even better on an e bike. These young folks
have no idea how good they have it. Applications open
on December eighteenth at six pm, and they'll be reviewed
on a first come, first serve basis, even if you're
not going to be part of the program, the voucher program.
(19:58):
I just think e bikes would is so very cool.
I just have no need or purpose for them in
my life. I have nowhere to go. There's nowhere for
me to go. Everywhere I need to go, I have
to get in the car and it takes me two
hours to drive twenty two.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Miles in this city.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
I think it'd be fun for you to drive two
hours on an e bike to get to work every day.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It would be fun, and it would be dangerous and
I'd probably get hit.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You wouldn't do it more than once. Look, Stephan, you
know where we lived pool. Oh, odds are against me.
The odds are not my favorite. Yeah, leaving the house,
that right there is already a struggle if you have
something that's shiny like that.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, not only that, and you know what this is like.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
When you're driving, at least through my neighborhood, people do
not care about the rules of the road.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
They will pass you on the right.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Let's say you're coming up you're stopped at a red
light and they're trying to time it where it's gonna
turn green, and they're gonna zip around you on the right,
Oh my, to get in front of you. If you're
not paying attention to that, you might have an accident.
It drives me crazy that, Yeah, there's actually I can
stoplight right at the beginning of my drive. And people
do that all the time, all the time, all the time.
And the other thing that happens too is when like
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you're going on a straight and someone's coming out to
go into the lane for some reason, they see you.
They see you, they see you, and they decide to
pull out of that street right when you're coming up
on that turn. In my neighborhood, I can't speak for
anyone else's neighborhood. People don't stop at stop signs. People
don't stop to make a right on red. They just
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if they just turn. They don't even slow down, they
just turn right as if the light is green.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Talk about defensive driving. It's really dangerous.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I say all that to say I wouldn't trust riding
an e bike because people don't respect the rules of
the road at all. There are a lot of places
where their four way stops, people don't stop, They just
go straight through it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I know, and I've been hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
As a pedestrian, so maybe I'm hyper sensitive to it.
I know that I probably would get creamed and it
wouldn't be my fault. But that's not gonna help because
I'm dead. There's really no upside the idea, at least
when I was growing up. Yes, most definitely would like
to have an e bike if I lived in a
different place than I live now, Yes, definitely would love
(22:11):
an e bike.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I just don't want to get killed on an ee bike.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
You definitely would have to be a lot more judicious
about giving people the finger on an e bike.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, I'm not you, Mark Ronner. I don't do that anymore.
You don't understand people will kill you. Oh they'll get
you with the door on any bike, right right. And
i'mot the person who's going to ride an e bike
and try to lane split or ride it in the streets. Now,
I'm gonna illegally ride it on the sidewalk because it's
much safer there.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Can you do that?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Do you not?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Have to follow the same rules as a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I was gonna say, I don't think you're allowed to
actually even use a sidewalk because there was that whole
rule that came out with the bird scooters correct that
they couldn't do and on the sidewalk because it's too fast.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh yeah, they can get like thirty forty miles an hour. Yeah,
and that's something else.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
When I was I would have loved to have had
one of those scooters as well, something motorized, because my
parents were never going to give me a car, so
anything which would quicken my travel going from home to
Dilomo Mall or something like that would have been fantastic.
I had the bus, or I could walk.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And a lot of times I didn't have money for
the bus, but the mall was where all the girls were,
so I just wanted to be there, and Dalama Mall
was legendary.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I keep hearing your stories about it. Now.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Not to sound like a complete violent sociopath here, but
bearing in mind, okay, that's the wrong preface. Really, bearing
in mind what a nuisance those things can be on
the sidewalk. I can't be the only one who's ever
fantasized about clotheslining somebody on a scooter or an e
bike on a sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I would want to be walking on the sidewalk to
be able to do it. I don't want to hurt
someone like hit them with a car. No clothesline like
the wrestling moves, stick your armouth. Yeah, I've thought about that.
I thought about that.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Somebody's crowd in your space with one of those obnoxious
things on the sidewalk. It barely even counts as self defense.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, to your point, Stefan, No, I don't think you
can ride these on the sidewalk. I'm pretty sure you're
not even supposed to ride just customary bicycles on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
That one I don't get with just regular bicycles.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
But this and the bird scooters, Yeah, that makes sense
because they can go so fast. All I'm saying is,
even though they have this new voucher program, if my
life was just a little bit different, I would get
me an e bykee. I might apply for that. Let's
have those details, all right. You have to be at
least eighteen years old. You qualify make less than three
hundred percent of the federal poverty level.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I don't know what that is, but I guess I'm
sure I'll be competitive.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Maybe the poverty levels like seventeen thousand times three something
like that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's I'm not the second I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, two person household making less than sixty one thousand
dollars per year would qualify. And there's some other things,
but that's the general. Applicants have to provide id proof
of income, taking online safety course and approval may take
up to sixty days, so you know you have to
wait till next year.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Definitely, actually get it. I might go for this.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Only fifteen hundred vouches are expected to be awarded during
the first round of applications, and applications will then open
every three to four months until funding is exhausted.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
In fact, the more of this you read, the more
competition I'm going to have. So maybe you know X
nay on the d ray so we don't talk anymore
about the voucher program.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Oh god, look at the time KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1 (25:34):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I just found out today. There's a new Lord of
the Rings movie coming to theaters. There's really a new
Lord of the Rings movie. They're not done with that.
That that's the n animated I don't give a damn.
It's a Lord of the Rings movie and it's coming
to theater. I thought we were done with Lord of
(26:01):
the Rings. I don't know how that slipped by me.
Some of my friends were talking about, Yeah, we're going
to talk about Lord of the Rings. What is there
to talk about. I thought they were talking about the
TV show on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But there's an actual Lord of the Rings movie coming out.
And the reason I mentioned that is because I am
now in my documentary stage. I cannot get enough documentaries.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
The Girls Gone Wild one doesn't count as a documentary matter.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I'm talking about that style of storytelling.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I was look, I used to love biopics, but now
I'm really into documentaries. And with that mind, did you
know that there's going to be a Paul Rubin slash
Pee wee Hermann documentary coming in twenty twenty five and
is also going to explore his life and sexuality.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Interesting, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, those are types of the stories that I want to.
I already know the character, you know, I already know
the news headlines. I would love to know more about
the man and the story that is less often told.
Love the documentaries, and that's one thing I do like
about this streaming era. Is gonna unveil at Sundance the
Paul Rubin's pwee Herman documentary, and even if it if
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it's not on the level of something that will be
released in theaters, it will find a home somewhere in
streaming and I'll be able to see it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And I would like to see that.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Streaming has absolutely revitalized documentaries. People never went to see
those in theaters.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
No, not at all. And that's my point.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Mark, you get exactly what I'm saying. Documentaries are not new,
but now they found the perfect home for them. And
I can watch four or five in a given city,
I mean four or five episodes of a documentary in
a giving city, and not of them are great. But
we're just getting exposed to people's stories and subjects that
we wouldn't have gotten normally.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
And if we're being honest, here, come on. They help
you go to sleep. Actually, I have no problem going
to sleep. You're the one, and who has the problem
with going to sleep.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I would say the ones back in the day that
would those might put you to sleep.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
The true crime ones always do because they happen to
match these grisly horrific subjects with the most soothing voices
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
And there's also a rhythm and music and a feel
to it. It's almost like paint by numbers. You kind
of know, all right, you have you show the heinous crime,
and you have the the boyfriend who obviously was not
looked at as a suspect. You know, okay, he's the
one who did it. It's always the guy, always, the husband, always,
the boyfriend, always, and they work their way backwards to
(28:41):
get to that person when you know it's always that person,
and they're building up this false drama.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's a ritual.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
It's like Colombo or murder, she wrote, It doesn't really
matter who did it. They're taking you through the ritual.
It's comforting.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's it's kind of interesting too, because sometimes if you watch,
like if they have a trailer, you already know who
did it, what happened, but how did it get there?
And that's what you've learned all the steps along the
way and the stories that you thought you knew, or
at least I thought I knew. There's probably so much
more that I did not know, which at least makes
me view it just a little bit differently.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It doesn't change obviously, the basic facts about who did it.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
They're also doing a documentary on Selena.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's something I would like to see because I lived
through that in the music industry sense, and we're getting
old enough, including you, Stefan, where a lot of these
stories being told now we have some memory of Like
Girls Gone Wild, we have some memory of it.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
And now I got busted for watching the first episode
of that.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
By the way, why did you watch that in the
company or around someone else who might care?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, first of all, it's your fault because I took
your recommendation. Well, just hear me out. I took your recommendation.
I had a little time on my hands, so to speak,
so I watched the first episode of long. I realized
that halfway through. Today I'm just minding my own business,
going about my day, waking up, having some coffee, and
I hear, I see you watch the Girls Gone Wild show?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You actually caught mess for that?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Uh yeah, yeah, I did, Yeah, you're a news person,
you're getting informed. I wish I'd thought of that at
the time. That would have been a person comeback.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He could have said, I'm a grown ass man, I
can watch whatever I want.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
You can't spin a Girl's Gone Wild show. I guess
it was just for education and I'm a professional. How
dare you question me? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Why would you even try to spin it? I watched it.
My wife was in a house doing something. She could
tell because she because throughout the documentary that a trench
coat in your lap. Well, they have all the throwback commercials,
so you hear them again and again and again.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
The steel drums up.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh god, yeah, you can't miss what we were hearing.
That was like borderline nostalgic because I'm like, I just
remember that was, you know, eleven thirty twelve midnight and
now it's playing throughout the whole documentary. But I did
appreciate learning some things about how they got it on
TV and you know, getting attached to Howard Stern. I
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didn't know that, for example, how most television stations wouldn't
touch it at all, no pun intended, but how they
were creative in getting people to at least know about
the products.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
There was a form of brilliance there, there's no question
about that. But how many times can that documentary hammer
home the fact that the guy's sleeves bag go ruined
people's lives.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh yeah, and that was evident from the very beginning.
And I was talking to you about this mark. He
has like maybe four episodes, but after the first episode,
I learned just about everything I needed to know. It
was rense and repeat. After that, he was just going
to be more of an a hole as it went on.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Yeah, not only that, but we should tell people who
think they might be curious about that you're not going
to see anything.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh no, everything, everything's covered up. Yeah, yeah, they cut away.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
That was my favorite part is learning that there was
a I forgot what he called it, but the censor
bar guy, like there was a dedicated person that made
those job.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
What a job? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And my thing, if you're going to have a documentary
on streaming and you have f bombs dropping everything, you
have some nudity, right, can you show us something, just
a little something.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I think my response of they didn't show anything that
wasn't the right response, but.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It was an honest one because when I was watching it,
I was expecting to.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
See the links.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No pun intended that they were going to to create
this content and compile this content. You got a sense
of it, but you didn't get the true essence because
there was no nudity.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
But when you talk about being on a documentary kick
now in your later years, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, Hotel
Terminus or one of these heavy ones. Now you're sitting
at home watching Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
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