February 26, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the insane increase in the price of a bag of potato chips AND the ever-increasing price of eggs…PLUS – A look at a brand-new program from ‘The Artist Tree’ that aims to provides free ‘medical marijuana’ to patients in West Hollywood - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mister moo Kelly here k if I am six forty
one live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And you ever
sit with a TV show episode for a few hours
and just ruminate on it, just think about it, even
sleep with the lights on because it impacted you so much.
We'll talk about it more in depth later. But the
(00:45):
Paradise episode which dropped at midnight last night, episode seven. Yes,
I'm going to be hyperbolic for just a moment, but
right now, first response, rapid reaction. It's arguably one of
the best television episodes I've ever seen, and that's within
(01:06):
the context of the fullness of the series of Paradise.
You'd have to see one through six to best appreciate
episode seven. It was cinematic quality as far as the storytelling. Yes,
I said it and I meant it, mister Mark Ronner,
I take none of it back.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I hate to agree with you. It really causes me
physical pain.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Don't creep.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But I watched it before I had planned to go
to sleep last night, and there was no way I
was going to sleep after that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I just couldn't go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It was it was a treatise on the frailty of
the American civilization experiment.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's all I'll say. That's all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was a great, great deconstruction of what we as
America actually is, and people could take that how they want.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm not going to invoke Rod Serling here, but I
am drawn to stories about things hitting the fan and
how that brings out your true character.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, yes, and it hit the fan and it's lovely
how Paradise tells a story in a wholly unconventional way.
It's not like, oh, I've seen this type of story before.
It's really really different, and it gets better and better.
Usually have a great start and then it peters off
as you getting towards the finish line. But this is
(02:33):
the penultimate episode for the season. There's no way they
could wrap this up in one episode. So if they
don't have a second season, I'm gonna go find someone
and hunt them down.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm actually surprised that they kind of stealthed this, which
may or may not be an appropriate term, but not
today's world in it. But but I mean, we didn't
know about any of this going in. We just thought
it was another generic Hulu show with some people. We
liked in it, and I think they should have. They
should have found a way to promote what was going
(03:04):
on here without spoiling it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The marketing, I actually thought it was genius.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now it's a victim of its own success because since
they marketed it in a very generic and I want
to say a pedestrian way, you get the benefit of
not having anything spoiled. But it's a slow burn for
people trying to catch up with it, because if someone
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didn't recommend it to me word of mouth, I probably
wouldn't have watched it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
The same here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
In fact, I was about ready to call HR about
you pressuring this all to it to watch a show
you like, But it turned out to be outstanding and
without spoiling anything at all. It's got elements of a
lot of conventional shows that were all hyper familiar with
in what turns out to be a very unusual scenario.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I would say, even movies.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But it's a lot more honest than movies of it ILK.
I think it takes you down to a very human
level that you don't see in other movies of its
own ilk uh. Yeah, and it's also a thing of
its time. I mean, people are going to be watching
this twenty thirty years from now seeing Oh oh that
was in the zeitgeist back then.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh boy, do I get that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, if you live through it, absolutely, Yeah, that's not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Absolutely, And we're still trying to get to Walla to
do his homework on this. Look, after a certain while,
you just have to fail someone and give him an
F for not turning in the homework assignment.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
He's resisting your authoritie.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I've heard from listeners who said, mo, I took your
advice and I watched Paradise and now I love it. Look,
there are very few shows that I'm miss high on
and would recommend to anyone and everyone, very few shows.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
This is one of those.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Like, damn, I've never seen something like this before, the
way the story's told, the content of the story, and
how you don't know who you know whose story it is,
but you don't know who you're always rooting for.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Did you get choked up at all last night? I
kind of did, because it really sat with me for
a long time. It was there's no happy ending coming.
That's only thing I'll say.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
There are some aspects of it that do pack kind
of a wallop, no matter how case hardened you might
think you are. And as we were talking about before
the show, it's also one of those what would you
do episode? It's a Kobyashi Maru episode, isn't it? It
really is, isn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It is you have to make a decision and there's
no good decision. They're just varying degrees of bad decisions.
And how many people it may impact.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean we got to talk about it off
the air with the spoilers because there are some things
that were driving me nuts last night, like who was
right and who was wrong? And there was no clear
answer to those questions.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
No, no, And you can empathize with a lot of
decisions that the characters in their respect to positions made
even though it came with consequences. And if you've seen
the show, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If
you haven't seen the show, shame on you. You should
have been watching it. But it's not too late. New
episodes drop every Tuesday. In fact, this is a good
time to start watching Paradise because next week next Tuesday
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is a season ending episode, So if you haven't started watching,
you can binge the first seven and then you'll be
ready for the season finale on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What's your bet? Is this going to be a one
and done or are they going to drag it out
extra season?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, it has to be dragged out extra seasons, if
only because you'll have a cult following behind this show,
and Hulu doesn't have a lot of shows that can
keep people tied into the streaming app over multiple years.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I think I must be a sociopath because, without spoiling anything, still,
there were a number of moments in the show where
I thought, I just shoot that person in the face.
Do you know what I'm talking about that?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, we aren't spread in the news. Okay, that's all
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, and I would not have heard any more dialogue
from that person. Yeah, get on Paradise on Hulu. We're
gonna talk about how potato chip prices tonight have gone
through the roof. If you have a favorite potato chip brand,
mine is Baked Lays. Don't ask me why, but I
like Baked Lays. No, those are good, but those are
the only ones I'll eat. I'm not gonna eat Pringles,
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I'm not gonna eat Free Doo's or whatever, But potato
chip prices are soaring in the way that egg prices
are souring. And speaking of egg prices, did you know
that eggs right now are gonna go up probably forty
one percent this year. I thought that was gonna be
fixed right away. We were told that it'll be fixed
day one. For whatever reasons, it hasn't turned out that way.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Huh. Who knew.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Denny's they're adding an eggs surcharge, as many businesses now
are due to the rising prices of eggs.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
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Speaker 5 (08:12):
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Speaker 1 (08:18):
Potato chips one of my guilty pleasures. On occasion, I
like baked lays. Oftentimes when I get my lunch, I'll
throw in some baked lays. We have them in our
kitchen here and I usually snack on them. Not a
lot of calories, not a lot of sodium. I didn't
say it was healthy, but it's what I like to eat,
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and I had known and noticed that the price of
the baked lays and other potato chips in our kitchen
have been slowly rising over the years. And I say
over the years because it's something that has become more
and more expensive, even more so than the recent inflation
of the past year and a half or so. And
(08:59):
then I saw this story on Yahoo News and it
confirmed what I had thought was happening. Potato chip prices
are soaring for reasons beyond inflation. A bag of potato
chips now costs nearly fifty percent more than ten years ago.
And that's saying nothing of shrink freight. In shrinkflation, where
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you know that there are fewer chips in the actual
bag and they're charging you more.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There's a whole lot of air in those bags.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I get a bag of baked layers and it's like
ten chips in air, and it's and it's like puffy
for no reason.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And then open it goes and you see there's about
ten chips. What's a bag of those costs in our
break area? It think's like three dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, that's what I thought. I think it's like three
dollars for like ten chips terrific. I mean, seriously, I'm
not exaggerating ten chips.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, you're right right, Well chee those you get a
little more? Oh you do? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
According to yah who News, part of the rise is
due to inflation, but another cause is according to Yahoo News,
are overheating planet. Ten years ago, the average price for
a sixteen ounce bag of chips was four dollars in
twenty seven cents. By the end of twenty twenty four,
it was six dollars and thirty two cents. Inflation has contributed,
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but a warming world is thought to be another factor
driving the increase. Here's what I mean. Idaho and Washington
and Mark you may know something about this, are the
leading potato producing states in the country. Idaho had its
third warmest year on record in twenty twenty four, while
Washington had its fifteenth warmest. And you say, well, what
(10:38):
does that have to do with anything, Well, rising temperatures
impact the soil, and if you know anything about potatoes,
they are very sensitive to rising soil temperatures, which means
it has become over the years more difficult to grow
and sustain the same amount of potato crops for the
amount of money put into them than in previous years.
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So as the climate gets worse or it gets warmer
from year to year, it makes it more difficult or
more expensive to produce the same types of potato crops.
And of course that's passed on to you and me,
the consumer, and it costs much more for me to
purchase my bag of ten chips of baked legs. Let's
(11:22):
bring it back to you. It's always about me. What
are you talking about? Yeah, we picked these stories because
I have to have a personal reference.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, of course it's beyond your potato chips though, because
the price of French fries has skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, there's a potato tying hash Browns.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Everything potato is not potato.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's crit It's true, everything that's connected to potatoes. I
guess it's more easy to see the precipitous rise because
everyone understands a bag of potato chips. You may not
notice it in Hash Browns unless you buy those frequently.
But if you like me, you can get a few
bags of potato chips a week and you can see,
(12:04):
wait a minute, this is costing a lot more in
a way that it just didn't a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Of course, a part of that is inflation.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But inflation is more than just the arbitrary price that
is put on by producers and grocers. There are other
things which are fueling that inflation and that inflation, like,
for example, we know that egg inflation has to do
with bird flu. That is a specific reason why eggs
are costing more.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This specific claim. Oh, okay, well, conspiracy theories aside. No, no, no,
not not conspiracy.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I'm not talking about conspiracies of what is and is
not happening with bird flu. I'm just saying that it's
easy for markets to blame bird flu when there are
other mitigating factors that they are denying.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Oh, same as with these potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, I absolutely agree that egg producers are taking advantage
of the situation without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Is there a legitimate yes?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Is there reason to believe that it's not as severe
or not as cost impactful as we're being told to believe.
I absolutely believe that the egg producers are saying, like, look,
we have five fewer eggs this week. Okay, why don't
we charge the hell out of consumers while we can't
because everyone knows about bird flu? Let's kill seventy million
chickens and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, you don't just want to take the word of
big egg well or big potato. I mean, really and truly,
you know, we don't know if it's the potato shortage.
They can say it has to do with global warming,
which I wholeheartedly believe that that does play a factor
because the ground is more arid, harder to grow everything.
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But it doesn't discount the long term effects of the
pesticides or anything else that they may be using on
their grounds that may also contribute to making the ground
infertile and unable for them to grow the same crop
of potatoes. You can't keep tilling this land over over
and over without letting it healed to reproduce more potatoes. Moh,
(14:04):
you're a fourage or you know this.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Listen to Green Thumb to Walla. Wow, I had no idea. Look,
I this was not my four age specialty.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I used to try to grow stuff in my backyard
A few times. I grew some potatoes, was semi successful.
But in four h we have different projects and we're
not all agricultural farmers all right.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Now Toila's onto something though, and it's one reason why
they say apples have like a third of the nutrition
they used to have is the over farming of the soil.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well, and also GMOs. It's not like, well, so what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's not like apples just naturally stay red for a month,
all right, let's be real.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yes, okay, there's that. It's not like this.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Bananas naturally stay yellow for a week unless you leave
them a refrigerator, they turn brown immediately.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, okay, I'm not going to be a banana truther here, Okay,
but those things were bread to be like that, and
that's that's nothing insidious. No.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
When I say GMO, I'm talking about genetically modified, which
is a little bit different than breeding per se and
using different seeds and you know, more trying to like
natural pollenization or something something something.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I thought that anytime that you bread two things together
to create a new thing that didn't exist before, that
falls under the umbrella of GMO. It's all GMO. Well,
I don't know if it falls on the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, it's not like you and your long suffering one
could have a child. That doesn't mean that it's genetically
modified just because you breeded. Where are you trying to
take this to what is Just because you bring something
together doesn't mean that it's been scientifically modified.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You have cameras in our bedroom, you have a bedroom.
Never mind, I don't like the direction.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
This is editing. Oh I love it when you're uncomfortable. No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We're just talking about about big Egg, big potato and
how overfarming and climate change. So here's the irony here.
I have been to Idaho more times than I can count.
I'm intimately familiar with Idaho. How many arian gangs did
you see? Well, there's a lot of that there, and
none of them believe in the climate change that they're
all going to be dealing with very very soon. It's
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going to complicate their food situation. There are a lot
of preppers in Idaho too. They've got barns and garages
filled with dried stuff so that they can live two
weeks longer than everybody else during the apocalypse. Well, they
might be onto something because we're like, what is the
doomsday clock? It's got to be like eleven to fifty
nine and forty eight seconds.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Now, that's right up there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And ticket let's talk about Big Egg when we come
back KFI AM six forty one live everywhere in the
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Speaker 5 (16:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Egg price is predicted to sore more than forty one
percent this year, more than forty one percent. In January,
it was predicted to only be a twenty percent increase.
And I'm not really good with math, but now that
means it's more than doubled. And we're only in February,
which means it could conceivably likely probably will be even
(17:18):
higher come March. Just looking at the trajectory. And the
predicted price comes as a result of the rising bird
flu cases. And according to the report, retail egg prices
went up by thirteen point eight percent in January after
rising by eight point four percent in December. Overall egg
prices in January we're fifty three percent higher than the
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year before. The national average price for eggs hit four
ninety five a dozen for shoppers in January. I don't
know about the national average, but this is what I've
seen in my shopping.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
This is anecdotal.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I can't tell you about the quality of the eggs
in my local supermarkets.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I'm just telling you what I see on the ship.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
There have never been any empty shelves the places that
I shop.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
There's a vonds and of routes in.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
My neighborhood that I'll go to on various occasions, and
they've always had eggs on the shelves.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
What I have seen is.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Fewer egg whites being sold or being available, but had
plenty eggs.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
The average price that I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Can't speak for U Tuala because we're in different areas,
but my area it's like seven ninety five and that's
for like eighteen, not a dozen, but eighteen eggs.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, it's about eight something when I was at Target yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And it's going to get worse. It's going to get worse.
And we've heard of a number of businesses saying that
they will add an egg surcharge.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And I happen to like eggs.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, let me say I like to eat egg whites
most days, or I'll eat egg beaters or some sort
of egg plat egg product because I'm not trying to
eat whole eggs all the time for cholesterol reasons. But
I do like eggs, and when I have any type
of breakfast me, I I like to have some sort
of egg product. Denny's is going to be adding a
surcharge for meals that include the use of eggs at
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some locations, of course, because of the rising costs of
eggs and going to pass that cost on to you.
Denny's did not announce which of its fifteen hundred locations
would impose the surcharge, but I'd be willing to bet
it's most of them, you know, since they're all having
to deal with the cost of purchasing eggs, they're probably
going to pass it on to you. Do you even
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eat eggs?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Mark? I do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And the irony here is that I've had some dental
work lately, some traumatic, horrifying little shop of horrors dental.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Please share.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That's all I'm going to say about it. But I
want eggs now, and this is exactly the wrong time
to be buying them. That the Hooker Ralph store that
I go to after work at night between twelve and one,
they're like around ten eleven bucks for a day.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
At least it looked that way last time I checked.
I don't know what they are today. That's good to know.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
We are seeing this everywhere from grocery stores to bakeries
and diners. Both of those types of businesses use a
lot of eggs, so you see it there as well.
And the average price across the country right now for
a dozen eggs for ninety five that was last month.
A year ago, it was two dollars fifty two cents,
which is a stunning ninety six percent jump over the
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last year. And now that's what you're paying. What the
grocers pay, that's called the wholesale price was eight dollars
and seven cents in the latest weekly report. Many retailers
sell eggs as a loss in the hopes that you're
going to come in, pick up a dozen there and
buy a few other things while you're at it. That
much higher wholesale price is a signal that what you
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pay at the grocery store, what we all pay, it
could be going higher. And of course this is if
you can find the eggs. With bird flu spreading. Many
eggshelves at supermarkets are empty. In the past shortages like
this Robin, they were reaching. But the USDA says this
time this is a nationwide thing.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, it's a nationwide thing. But I'm quite sure there's
some price gouging going on. Do you remember when eggs
were so cheap that we threw them at cars and
people houses houses. Yet they were so cheap, they were
practically free free. We would just throw them at anybody
or anything that we felt needed to be egged. My
wife goes to Costco, I would say, once a week,
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usually every Sunday, and she'll get her box of eighteen
brown eggs.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You know, it's not going to really really impact us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
It's a couple more dollars, but in the grand scheme
of things, Costco's is so damn I don't want to
say inexpensive, but it's inexpensive enough where you're not going
to be paying a whole lot more Overall.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I have seen a video online, viral video of people
getting in scuffles at Costco when they put out the eggs.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Really yeah, yeah, My wife hasn't told me about anything
of that. She hasn't had any problem. Maybe she has
perpetrated his scuffle.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But the ones that she will go to, and she
has like four or five that she'll kind of rotate
on as far as where she'll she'll go to shop.
The one in El Segundo, the one in Inglewood one
in Torrance. She'll go to any one of them. She
hasn't had any problem to my knowledge as far as
trying to get eggs.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Now, she does know if you.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Go on a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken, that's when
they usually restock for the week.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
There was some bear spray. The next time bear spray.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No, no, no, because if we put bear spray in
the house, she's gonna shoot me in my face in
the middle of the night, okay, and we can't have
that problems.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
She's not to be trusted.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I would never give her a weapon, and she's weapon certified.
You know, she will shoot me in the face. So
that's why we keep it in the gun safe and
I only have the key. Not really sure who's side
to take on this.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well, look, you've met my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, she's very nice, well presentable, but she'll shoot you
in the face noted, not exaggerating, you know, a mean
streak too.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
She don't want to be saying that on She doesn't
listen to the show. It's okay, good. Wait, of the
things that she does eat is a still on her menu.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yes, she used to be full on vegan and now
she's floated into more.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Not vegan.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's all I can describe it, you know, because she'll
eat salmon and some eggs, but she's not gonna have
a steak or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I just remember. I can't remember why, but I swear
I recall her mentioning something about the fresh omelets on
the cruise, and I remember when it was when she said,
I was like, yes, she get it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes, No, she will get an omelet. Yeah, she'll get
an omelet. She had. Her dietary lifestyle has changed and
evolved over the years relative to her her knees because
when when she was working out, she wanted needed more
protein and she wasn't just getting it from beings and lentils,
not kind of stuff. So she said, I need to
incorporate eggs and other types of approach and the sources.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So it's kind of hard, I know, she said, I
used to say she was a vegan. That would not
be accurate. Not that I need to be, but that
would not be accurate. Now, to answer all y'all's questions,
she'll shoot me in my face and she will have
an egg sandwich.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Not anymore. That sounds like a full day.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I mean, honestly, bullets are too expensive and eggs are
too expensive, so you're safe.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And we can no longer use It's not like she
needs a bunch of bullets. She just needs one. I'm
kind of like prone in asleep. She kind of like
size me up. It's not like I'm running down the
street or the hallway she's gonna shoot me.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's not happened while you're away. Yeah, that takes the
sport out of it, though. If it's gonna be while
you're asleep, set you on fire. No, no, no, no, She's
not about sport. She's about effectiveness, I see, and finishing
the job. It's kind of like how she does her
day job. It's quick and to the point efficient, and
she moves on to the next project. I believe in
her former life she was a contract killer. I mean,
(25:06):
the way you're breaking it down now, I'm kind of
thinking maybe. Now you've been in my house.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Track you've seen how she organizes stuff in the pantry
and the OCD, which is like everything. It's almost like
she's banned been affleck from the accountant. That's the only
way I can describe it. She's going numbers. Okay, man, right,
it's all of that. Is there a secret safe room
with an armory in it at your place? Well, I
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wouldn't know about it that he's holding it from you.
It might be under the floorboards in her office.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I don't know. I don't know. This is only halfway joking. No, no, no, tread.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Lightleys Later with Kelly, Yeah, yeah yeah. Egg prices are
going up everywhere. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
But we have some good news just in case you
happen to indulge. There's free medical cannabis in West Hollywood.
We'll tell you about that next.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't use marijuana, and I don't say that to
seem pious or anything. It's just not my thing. And
also I tell you about how I officiate youth sports leagues.
I could be drug tested at any time, and you
may not know this.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
For like the City of Carson, who.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I officiate for, they fingerprint you because you're working with kids.
I'm in the federal database, so it's not like I
can do anything and they won't find out as me.
And also they drug test you in theory, they probably
won't drug test me again, but it's something that I'm
conscious of, and even though it may be legal to use,
(26:45):
it's still a fireable offense given what I do since
I work with kids as far as the City of
Carson and Donald Beach in Manhattan Beach, so it's just
easier for me just to stay away from it. But
for other people it is a helpful item as far
as dealing with emotional issues physical issues. I remember when
(27:08):
my father was declining, doctor have prescribed medicinal marijuana to
help with some of this symptoms. So I'm not going
to devalue its impact on people, especially when it comes
to medicinal uses. And I saw this story and I
thought it was worth mentioning that the Artist Tree is
offering free medical marijuana to patients and veterans at its
(27:32):
two Southern California locations. The Compassion program provides free products
to patients quote suffering from serious medical conditions, clothes quote,
and military veterans. The program is available at the West
Hollywood and Laguna Woods dispensaries. The company said it expects
to help one hundred patients monthly at each location and
(27:56):
to give you more information. Patients must provide the same
documentation that is required at all California dispensaries to qualify
as a medical cannabis patient, either a MMIC or a
physician's recommendation, and those who are eligible are eligible eligible
for two free items every month.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Free items will include.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Tensures, edibles, topicals, flour vapes from a variety of wellness
brands and dispensaries are at eight six two five Santa
Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and two four nine zero
two Molten Parkway in Laguna Woods. And sitting in tonight
(28:39):
for Stephen is Robin and you've probably heard her on
the show before. Robin, do you use any type of
bear water? I don't not anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
But in college I was crossfaded all the time. What
does that mean where you drink and doing.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I've never heard that terminology before. Mark, have you heard that?
You've heard that? No, this is going to be very
useful though, cross faded.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
When you say cross fades to me, I'm thinking like
a DJ and a mixing console, So I understand the terminology.
I've just never heard it us like that before.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
But I mean it is the thinking that the using
both makes you rely less on the one. No, I
mean there's been research to that effect.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean I was more into weed, but I got
cross fraded all the time, and.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
It got me in so much.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wow, it was awful, and I stopped, like I think
once I got out of college.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
But you're only like twenty three. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I am thirty, Okay, thirty was decades ago, okay for
me twelve.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I've ever been cross faded?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
No, I've never been totally crossed out. Well no, I
was totally crossed out off of some ever Clear, but
cross faded.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, that's grain alcohol. Young And wow, you don't know
about grain alcohol. Yes, I know something about some ever Clear.
Everclear is like ninety what it's like, it's ninety proof
is no, No, it's no, it's it's one hundred something proof
because it's it's half that it's the actual percentage of alcohol.
(30:17):
I think it's I think it's like more like one
hundred and fifty proof.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Know when you've had a forty to the head, everything
after that just goes down smooth and ever Clear ever
Clear's a hundred proof, Yeah, ever close, hundred proof.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It's good for stripping paint too.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, actually, no, no, no, it's it's it's it's actually like
one hundred and ninety proof. It's like ninety five percent alcohol.
You can get Jack Daniels, which is one hundred proof.
I know that because I have something at home. Everclear
is almost like a ninety percent alcohol depending on the
brand and Everclear depending on the depending.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you think it's better to take it cold order lukewarm?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
You mean never Clear? Yeah, Oh, it's got to be.
It's got to be. It freeze.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
It literally did. Like we've left in the freezer. It
does not freeze. Yeah, it does not freeze.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But that's that's as far as I've gone ever Clear
grain alcohol. I've had a little bit of a joint
and in my life, I think one edible and it
never did anything for me.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
It just didn't.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Oh now I see why I thought it was ninety proof. Yeah,
because it is one hundred ninety proof. Yes, So yeah,
that's the one that we have. I'm looking at I
remember the bottle. I'm looking at it right now. It
was one hundred ninety proof.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Isn't that like band now? It is?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I mean in the late nineteen eighties when we were
drinking it. You can find it in just about every
liquor store.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
I'm sorry we're talking about getting cross faded with the Marriagejuana, though, yes,
I need to know more about the cross fading Robin.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Honestly, I liked it better because when I smoked weed,
it just in hnced all my emotions. But then when
I got cross faded, it like mellowed it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
So you're trying to fine tune. Yeah, okay, nice. Do
a lot of people of.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The Gin millennial gen Z generations do the cross fading thing.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
We even had like after parties and everybody was crossbraded.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's a brand new world. I know nothing about, nothing
about at all. Mark, You've never been cross faded. We're
not going to talk about me today. To talk about Robin.
I think that's far more interesting. I'll just say in general,
I believe in the law, and that's asked an answered
(32:47):
counselor please move on. But this is legal, So what
are we talking about. If you believe in the law,
that means you can be cross faded legally.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That's true. By the way, ever clear is the nastiest
thing you'll ever drink. I think I was in college
at a party and I had a beer in my
hand and somebody was like, hey man, try and ever beer,
and they dumped some ever Clear into my beer. Easily
the worst thing I've ever tasted that because you should
not have mixed that, Okay, But I was also poor
and I wasn't gonna pour it out and waste it
(33:16):
after somebody poured that in.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So we use ever Clear and what we call trash
can punch or bathtub punch. We put a trash bag
in a literal bathtub and we put all this fruit,
ever Clear and kool Aid. We mix it all together,
and it was really really inexpensive, but it was a
good way to set the party off.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, if you can mask the awful, awful flavor of
ever Care with fruit, get into that. But ever beer
thumbs down. When you put it with fruit and kool
Aid or some sort of fruit juice jungle juice, right,
you don't really taste ever Clear. That's why when you're
drinking one hundred and ninety proof ever Clear in a
(34:00):
solo cup and kool Aid, you get two cups of that,
you might be done for the night.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You're gonna wake up with your pants around your ankles. Okay,
yeah that too, that too.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We were a long way from the story, but I
don't think we'll be able to get back now because
pants around ankles is gonna be the last word.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It's later with Mo Kelly, K s I, M k
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
HD two Los Angeles, Orange County locks Everywhere on the radio.
Mister moo Kelly here k if I am six forty
one live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And you ever
sit with a TV show episode for a few hours
and just ruminate on it, just think about it, even
sleep with the lights on because it impacted you so much.
We'll talk about it more in depth later. But the
(00:45):
Paradise episode which dropped at midnight last night, episode seven. Yes,
I'm going to be hyperbolic for just a moment, but
right now, first response, rapid reaction. It's arguably one of
the best television episodes I've ever seen, and that's within
(01:06):
the context of the fullness of the series of Paradise.
You'd have to see one through six to best appreciate
episode seven. It was cinematic quality as far as the storytelling. Yes,
I said it and I meant it, mister Mark Ronner,
I take none of it back.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I hate to agree with you. It really causes me
physical pain.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Don't creep.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But I watched it before I had planned to go
to sleep last night, and there was no way I
was going to sleep after that.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I just couldn't go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It was it was a treatise on the frailty of
the American civilization experiment.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's all I'll say. That's all I'll say.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was a great, great deconstruction of what we as
America actually is, and people could take that how they want.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm not going to invoke Rod Serling here, but I
am drawn to stories about things hitting the fan and
how that brings out your true character.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yes, yes, and it hit the fan and it's lovely
how Paradise tells a story in a wholly unconventional way.
It's not like, oh, I've seen this type of story before.
It's really really different, and it gets better and better.
Usually have a great start and then it peters off
as you getting towards the finish line. But this is
(02:33):
the penultimate episode for the season. There's no way they
could wrap this up in one episode. So if they
don't have a second season, I'm gonna go find someone
and hunt them down.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm actually surprised that they kind of stealthed this, which
may or may not be an appropriate term, but not
today's world in it. But but I mean, we didn't
know about any of this going in. We just thought
it was another generic Hulu show with some people. We
liked in it, and I think they should have. They
should have found a way to promote what was going
(03:04):
on here without spoiling it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
The marketing, I actually thought it was genius.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now it's a victim of its own success because since
they marketed it in a very generic and I want
to say a pedestrian way, you get the benefit of
not having anything spoiled. But it's a slow burn for
people trying to catch up with it, because if someone
(03:30):
didn't recommend it to me word of mouth, I probably
wouldn't have watched it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
The same here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
In fact, I was about ready to call HR about
you pressuring this all to it to watch a show
you like, But it turned out to be outstanding and
without spoiling anything at all. It's got elements of a
lot of conventional shows that were all hyper familiar with
in what turns out to be a very unusual scenario.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I would say, even movies.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But it's a lot more honest than movies of it ILK.
I think it takes you down to a very human
level that you don't see in other movies of its
own ilk uh. Yeah, and it's also a thing of
its time. I mean, people are going to be watching
this twenty thirty years from now seeing Oh oh that
was in the zeitgeist back then.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh boy, do I get that?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, if you live through it, absolutely, Yeah, that's not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Absolutely, And we're still trying to get to Walla to
do his homework on this. Look, after a certain while,
you just have to fail someone and give him an
F for not turning in the homework assignment.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
He's resisting your authoritie.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I've heard from listeners who said, mo, I took your
advice and I watched Paradise and now I love it. Look,
there are very few shows that I'm miss high on
and would recommend to anyone and everyone, very few shows.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
This is one of those.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Like, damn, I've never seen something like this before, the
way the story's told, the content of the story, and
how you don't know who you know whose story it is,
but you don't know who you're always rooting for.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Did you get choked up at all last night? I
kind of did, because it really sat with me for
a long time. It was there's no happy ending coming.
That's only thing I'll say.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
There are some aspects of it that do pack kind
of a wallop, no matter how case hardened you might
think you are. And as we were talking about before
the show, it's also one of those what would you
do episode? It's a Kobyashi Maru episode, isn't it? It
really is, isn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It is you have to make a decision and there's
no good decision. They're just varying degrees of bad decisions.
And how many people it may impact.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean we got to talk about it off
the air with the spoilers because there are some things
that were driving me nuts last night, like who was
right and who was wrong? And there was no clear
answer to those questions.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
No, no, And you can empathize with a lot of
decisions that the characters in their respect to positions made
even though it came with consequences. And if you've seen
the show, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If
you haven't seen the show, shame on you. You should
have been watching it. But it's not too late. New
episodes drop every Tuesday. In fact, this is a good
time to start watching Paradise because next week next Tuesday
(06:17):
is a season ending episode, So if you haven't started watching,
you can binge the first seven and then you'll be
ready for the season finale on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What's your bet? Is this going to be a one
and done or are they going to drag it out
extra season?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, it has to be dragged out extra seasons, if
only because you'll have a cult following behind this show,
and Hulu doesn't have a lot of shows that can
keep people tied into the streaming app over multiple years.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I think I must be a sociopath because, without spoiling anything, still,
there were a number of moments in the show where
I thought, I just shoot that person in the face.
Do you know what I'm talking about that?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, we aren't spread in the news. Okay, that's all
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yes, and I would not have heard any more dialogue
from that person. Yeah, get on Paradise on Hulu. We're
gonna talk about how potato chip prices tonight have gone
through the roof. If you have a favorite potato chip brand,
mine is Baked Lays. Don't ask me why, but I
like Baked Lays. No, those are good, but those are
the only ones I'll eat. I'm not gonna eat Pringles,
(07:26):
I'm not gonna eat Free Doo's or whatever, But potato
chip prices are soaring in the way that egg prices
are souring. And speaking of egg prices, did you know
that eggs right now are gonna go up probably forty
one percent this year. I thought that was gonna be
fixed right away. We were told that it'll be fixed
day one. For whatever reasons, it hasn't turned out that way.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Huh. Who knew.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Denny's they're adding an eggs surcharge, as many businesses now
are due to the rising prices of eggs.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And here's some good news.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
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Speaker 5 (08:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Potato chips one of my guilty pleasures. On occasion, I
like baked lays. Oftentimes when I get my lunch, I'll
throw in some baked lays. We have them in our
kitchen here and I usually snack on them. Not a
lot of calories, not a lot of sodium. I didn't
say it was healthy, but it's what I like to eat,
(08:38):
and I had known and noticed that the price of
the baked lays and other potato chips in our kitchen
have been slowly rising over the years. And I say
over the years because it's something that has become more
and more expensive, even more so than the recent inflation
of the past year and a half or so. And
(08:59):
then I saw this story on Yahoo News and it
confirmed what I had thought was happening. Potato chip prices
are soaring for reasons beyond inflation. A bag of potato
chips now costs nearly fifty percent more than ten years ago.
And that's saying nothing of shrink freight. In shrinkflation, where
(09:20):
you know that there are fewer chips in the actual
bag and they're charging you more.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There's a whole lot of air in those bags.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I get a bag of baked layers and it's like
ten chips in air, and it's and it's like puffy
for no reason.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And then open it goes and you see there's about
ten chips. What's a bag of those costs in our
break area? It think's like three dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, that's what I thought. I think it's like three
dollars for like ten chips terrific. I mean, seriously, I'm
not exaggerating ten chips.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, you're right right, Well chee those you get a
little more? Oh you do? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
According to yah who News, part of the rise is
due to inflation, but another cause is according to Yahoo News,
are overheating planet. Ten years ago, the average price for
a sixteen ounce bag of chips was four dollars in
twenty seven cents. By the end of twenty twenty four,
it was six dollars and thirty two cents. Inflation has contributed,
(10:16):
but a warming world is thought to be another factor
driving the increase. Here's what I mean. Idaho and Washington
and Mark you may know something about this, are the
leading potato producing states in the country. Idaho had its
third warmest year on record in twenty twenty four, while
Washington had its fifteenth warmest. And you say, well, what
(10:38):
does that have to do with anything, Well, rising temperatures
impact the soil, and if you know anything about potatoes,
they are very sensitive to rising soil temperatures, which means
it has become over the years more difficult to grow
and sustain the same amount of potato crops for the
amount of money put into them than in previous years.
(11:01):
So as the climate gets worse or it gets warmer
from year to year, it makes it more difficult or
more expensive to produce the same types of potato crops.
And of course that's passed on to you and me,
the consumer, and it costs much more for me to
purchase my bag of ten chips of baked legs. Let's
(11:22):
bring it back to you. It's always about me. What
are you talking about? Yeah, we picked these stories because
I have to have a personal reference.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Mo.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, of course it's beyond your potato chips though, because
the price of French fries has skyrocketed.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Well, there's a potato tying hash Browns.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Everything potato is not potato.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It's crit It's true, everything that's connected to potatoes. I
guess it's more easy to see the precipitous rise because
everyone understands a bag of potato chips. You may not
notice it in Hash Browns unless you buy those frequently.
But if you like me, you can get a few
bags of potato chips a week and you can see,
(12:04):
wait a minute, this is costing a lot more in
a way that it just didn't a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Of course, a part of that is inflation.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But inflation is more than just the arbitrary price that
is put on by producers and grocers. There are other
things which are fueling that inflation and that inflation, like,
for example, we know that egg inflation has to do
with bird flu. That is a specific reason why eggs
are costing more.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This specific claim. Oh, okay, well, conspiracy theories aside. No, no, no,
not not conspiracy.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I'm not talking about conspiracies of what is and is
not happening with bird flu. I'm just saying that it's
easy for markets to blame bird flu when there are
other mitigating factors that they are denying.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Oh, same as with these potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, I absolutely agree that egg producers are taking advantage
of the situation without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Is there a legitimate yes?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Is there reason to believe that it's not as severe
or not as cost impactful as we're being told to believe.
I absolutely believe that the egg producers are saying, like, look,
we have five fewer eggs this week. Okay, why don't
we charge the hell out of consumers while we can't
because everyone knows about bird flu? Let's kill seventy million
chickens and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, you don't just want to take the word of
big egg well or big potato. I mean, really and truly,
you know, we don't know if it's the potato shortage.
They can say it has to do with global warming,
which I wholeheartedly believe that that does play a factor
because the ground is more arid, harder to grow everything.
(13:43):
But it doesn't discount the long term effects of the
pesticides or anything else that they may be using on
their grounds that may also contribute to making the ground
infertile and unable for them to grow the same crop
of potatoes. You can't keep tilling this land over over
and over without letting it healed to reproduce more potatoes. Moh,
(14:04):
you're a fourage or you know this.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Listen to Green Thumb to Walla. Wow, I had no idea. Look,
I this was not my four age specialty.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I used to try to grow stuff in my backyard
A few times. I grew some potatoes, was semi successful.
But in four h we have different projects and we're
not all agricultural farmers all right.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Now Toila's onto something though, and it's one reason why
they say apples have like a third of the nutrition
they used to have is the over farming of the soil.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well, and also GMOs. It's not like, well, so what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's not like apples just naturally stay red for a month,
all right, let's be real.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yes, okay, there's that. It's not like this.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Bananas naturally stay yellow for a week unless you leave
them a refrigerator, they turn brown immediately.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, okay, I'm not going to be a banana truther here, Okay,
but those things were bread to be like that, and
that's that's nothing insidious. No.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
When I say GMO, I'm talking about genetically modified, which
is a little bit different than breeding per se and
using different seeds and you know, more trying to like
natural pollenization or something something something.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I thought that anytime that you bread two things together
to create a new thing that didn't exist before, that
falls under the umbrella of GMO. It's all GMO. Well,
I don't know if it falls on the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, it's not like you and your long suffering one
could have a child. That doesn't mean that it's genetically
modified just because you breeded. Where are you trying to
take this to what is Just because you bring something
together doesn't mean that it's been scientifically modified.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You have cameras in our bedroom, you have a bedroom.
Never mind, I don't like the direction.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
This is editing. Oh I love it when you're uncomfortable. No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We're just talking about about big Egg, big potato and
how overfarming and climate change. So here's the irony here.
I have been to Idaho more times than I can count.
I'm intimately familiar with Idaho. How many arian gangs did
you see? Well, there's a lot of that there, and
none of them believe in the climate change that they're
all going to be dealing with very very soon. It's
(16:21):
going to complicate their food situation. There are a lot
of preppers in Idaho too. They've got barns and garages
filled with dried stuff so that they can live two
weeks longer than everybody else during the apocalypse. Well, they
might be onto something because we're like, what is the
doomsday clock? It's got to be like eleven to fifty
nine and forty eight seconds.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Now, that's right up there.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And ticket let's talk about Big Egg when we come
back KFI AM six forty one live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Egg price is predicted to sore more than forty one
percent this year, more than forty one percent. In January,
it was predicted to only be a twenty percent increase.
And I'm not really good with math, but now that
means it's more than doubled. And we're only in February,
which means it could conceivably likely probably will be even
(17:18):
higher come March. Just looking at the trajectory. And the
predicted price comes as a result of the rising bird
flu cases. And according to the report, retail egg prices
went up by thirteen point eight percent in January after
rising by eight point four percent in December. Overall egg
prices in January we're fifty three percent higher than the
(17:41):
year before. The national average price for eggs hit four
ninety five a dozen for shoppers in January. I don't
know about the national average, but this is what I've
seen in my shopping.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
This is anecdotal.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I can't tell you about the quality of the eggs
in my local supermarkets.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I'm just telling you what I see on the ship.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
There have never been any empty shelves the places that
I shop.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
There's a vonds and of routes in.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
My neighborhood that I'll go to on various occasions, and
they've always had eggs on the shelves.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
What I have seen is.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Fewer egg whites being sold or being available, but had
plenty eggs.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
The average price that I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Can't speak for U Tuala because we're in different areas,
but my area it's like seven ninety five and that's
for like eighteen, not a dozen, but eighteen eggs.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, it's about eight something when I was at Target yesterday.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And it's going to get worse. It's going to get worse.
And we've heard of a number of businesses saying that
they will add an egg surcharge.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And I happen to like eggs.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, let me say I like to eat egg whites
most days, or I'll eat egg beaters or some sort
of egg plat egg product because I'm not trying to
eat whole eggs all the time for cholesterol reasons. But
I do like eggs, and when I have any type
of breakfast me, I I like to have some sort
of egg product. Denny's is going to be adding a
surcharge for meals that include the use of eggs at
(19:12):
some locations, of course, because of the rising costs of
eggs and going to pass that cost on to you.
Denny's did not announce which of its fifteen hundred locations
would impose the surcharge, but I'd be willing to bet
it's most of them, you know, since they're all having
to deal with the cost of purchasing eggs, they're probably
going to pass it on to you. Do you even
(19:34):
eat eggs?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Mark? I do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And the irony here is that I've had some dental
work lately, some traumatic, horrifying little shop of horrors dental.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Please share.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
That's all I'm going to say about it. But I
want eggs now, and this is exactly the wrong time
to be buying them. That the Hooker Ralph store that
I go to after work at night between twelve and one,
they're like around ten eleven bucks for a day.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
At least it looked that way last time I checked.
I don't know what they are today. That's good to know.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
We are seeing this everywhere from grocery stores to bakeries
and diners. Both of those types of businesses use a
lot of eggs, so you see it there as well.
And the average price across the country right now for
a dozen eggs for ninety five that was last month.
A year ago, it was two dollars fifty two cents,
which is a stunning ninety six percent jump over the
(20:26):
last year. And now that's what you're paying. What the
grocers pay, that's called the wholesale price was eight dollars
and seven cents in the latest weekly report. Many retailers
sell eggs as a loss in the hopes that you're
going to come in, pick up a dozen there and
buy a few other things while you're at it. That
much higher wholesale price is a signal that what you
(20:47):
pay at the grocery store, what we all pay, it
could be going higher. And of course this is if
you can find the eggs. With bird flu spreading. Many
eggshelves at supermarkets are empty. In the past shortages like
this Robin, they were reaching. But the USDA says this
time this is a nationwide thing.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, it's a nationwide thing. But I'm quite sure there's
some price gouging going on. Do you remember when eggs
were so cheap that we threw them at cars and
people houses houses. Yet they were so cheap, they were
practically free free. We would just throw them at anybody
or anything that we felt needed to be egged. My
wife goes to Costco, I would say, once a week,
(21:26):
usually every Sunday, and she'll get her box of eighteen
brown eggs.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You know, it's not going to really really impact us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
It's a couple more dollars, but in the grand scheme
of things, Costco's is so damn I don't want to
say inexpensive, but it's inexpensive enough where you're not going
to be paying a whole lot more Overall.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I have seen a video online, viral video of people
getting in scuffles at Costco when they put out the eggs.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Really yeah, yeah, My wife hasn't told me about anything
of that. She hasn't had any problem. Maybe she has
perpetrated his scuffle.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But the ones that she will go to, and she
has like four or five that she'll kind of rotate
on as far as where she'll she'll go to shop.
The one in El Segundo, the one in Inglewood one
in Torrance. She'll go to any one of them. She
hasn't had any problem to my knowledge as far as
trying to get eggs.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Now, she does know if you.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Go on a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken, that's when
they usually restock for the week.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
There was some bear spray. The next time bear spray.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No, no, no, because if we put bear spray in
the house, she's gonna shoot me in my face in
the middle of the night, okay, and we can't have
that problems.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
She's not to be trusted.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I would never give her a weapon, and she's weapon certified.
You know, she will shoot me in the face. So
that's why we keep it in the gun safe and
I only have the key. Not really sure who's side
to take on this.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well, look, you've met my wife.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, she's very nice, well presentable, but she'll shoot you
in the face noted, not exaggerating, you know, a mean
streak too.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
She don't want to be saying that on She doesn't
listen to the show. It's okay, good. Wait, of the
things that she does eat is a still on her menu.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yes, she used to be full on vegan and now
she's floated into more.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Not vegan.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's all I can describe it, you know, because she'll
eat salmon and some eggs, but she's not gonna have
a steak or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I just remember. I can't remember why, but I swear
I recall her mentioning something about the fresh omelets on
the cruise, and I remember when it was when she said,
I was like, yes, she get it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes, No, she will get an omelet. Yeah, she'll get
an omelet. She had. Her dietary lifestyle has changed and
evolved over the years relative to her her knees because
when when she was working out, she wanted needed more
protein and she wasn't just getting it from beings and lentils,
not kind of stuff. So she said, I need to
incorporate eggs and other types of approach and the sources.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So it's kind of hard, I know, she said, I
used to say she was a vegan. That would not
be accurate. Not that I need to be, but that
would not be accurate. Now, to answer all y'all's questions,
she'll shoot me in my face and she will have
an egg sandwich.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Not anymore. That sounds like a full day.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I mean, honestly, bullets are too expensive and eggs are
too expensive, so you're safe.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And we can no longer use It's not like she
needs a bunch of bullets. She just needs one. I'm
kind of like prone in asleep. She kind of like
size me up. It's not like I'm running down the
street or the hallway she's gonna shoot me.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's not happened while you're away. Yeah, that takes the
sport out of it, though. If it's gonna be while
you're asleep, set you on fire. No, no, no, no, She's
not about sport. She's about effectiveness, I see, and finishing
the job. It's kind of like how she does her
day job. It's quick and to the point efficient, and
she moves on to the next project. I believe in
her former life she was a contract killer. I mean,
(25:06):
the way you're breaking it down now, I'm kind of
thinking maybe. Now you've been in my house.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Track you've seen how she organizes stuff in the pantry
and the OCD, which is like everything. It's almost like
she's banned been affleck from the accountant. That's the only
way I can describe it. She's going numbers. Okay, man, right,
it's all of that. Is there a secret safe room
with an armory in it at your place? Well, I
(25:32):
wouldn't know about it that he's holding it from you.
It might be under the floorboards in her office.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I don't know. I don't know. This is only halfway joking. No, no, no, tread.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Lightleys Later with Kelly, Yeah, yeah yeah. Egg prices are
going up everywhere. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
But we have some good news just in case you
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We'll tell you about that next.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't use marijuana, and I don't say that to
seem pious or anything. It's just not my thing. And
also I tell you about how I officiate youth sports leagues.
I could be drug tested at any time, and you
may not know this.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
For like the City of Carson, who.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I officiate for, they fingerprint you because you're working with kids.
I'm in the federal database, so it's not like I
can do anything and they won't find out as me.
And also they drug test you in theory, they probably
won't drug test me again, but it's something that I'm
conscious of, and even though it may be legal to use,
(26:45):
it's still a fireable offense given what I do since
I work with kids as far as the City of
Carson and Donald Beach in Manhattan Beach, so it's just
easier for me just to stay away from it. But
for other people it is a helpful item as far
as dealing with emotional issues physical issues. I remember when
(27:08):
my father was declining, doctor have prescribed medicinal marijuana to
help with some of this symptoms. So I'm not going
to devalue its impact on people, especially when it comes
to medicinal uses. And I saw this story and I
thought it was worth mentioning that the Artist Tree is
offering free medical marijuana to patients and veterans at its
(27:32):
two Southern California locations. The Compassion program provides free products
to patients quote suffering from serious medical conditions, clothes quote,
and military veterans. The program is available at the West
Hollywood and Laguna Woods dispensaries. The company said it expects
to help one hundred patients monthly at each location and
(27:56):
to give you more information. Patients must provide the same
documentation that is required at all California dispensaries to qualify
as a medical cannabis patient, either a MMIC or a
physician's recommendation, and those who are eligible are eligible eligible
for two free items every month.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Free items will include.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Tensures, edibles, topicals, flour vapes from a variety of wellness
brands and dispensaries are at eight six two five Santa
Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and two four nine zero
two Molten Parkway in Laguna Woods. And sitting in tonight
(28:39):
for Stephen is Robin and you've probably heard her on
the show before. Robin, do you use any type of
bear water? I don't not anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
But in college I was crossfaded all the time. What
does that mean where you drink and doing.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I've never heard that terminology before. Mark, have you heard that?
You've heard that? No, this is going to be very
useful though, cross faded.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
When you say cross fades to me, I'm thinking like
a DJ and a mixing console, So I understand the terminology.
I've just never heard it us like that before.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
But I mean it is the thinking that the using
both makes you rely less on the one. No, I
mean there's been research to that effect.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean I was more into weed, but I got
cross fraded all the time, and.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
It got me in so much.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wow, it was awful, and I stopped, like I think
once I got out of college.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
But you're only like twenty three. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I am thirty, Okay, thirty was decades ago, okay for
me twelve.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I've ever been cross faded?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
No, I've never been totally crossed out. Well no, I
was totally crossed out off of some ever Clear, but
cross faded.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, that's grain alcohol. Young And wow, you don't know
about grain alcohol. Yes, I know something about some ever Clear.
Everclear is like ninety what it's like, it's ninety proof
is no, No, it's no, it's it's one hundred something proof
because it's it's half that it's the actual percentage of alcohol.
(30:17):
I think it's I think it's like more like one
hundred and fifty proof.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Know when you've had a forty to the head, everything
after that just goes down smooth and ever Clear ever
Clear's a hundred proof, Yeah, ever close, hundred proof.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It's good for stripping paint too.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, actually, no, no, no, it's it's it's it's actually like
one hundred and ninety proof. It's like ninety five percent alcohol.
You can get Jack Daniels, which is one hundred proof.
I know that because I have something at home. Everclear
is almost like a ninety percent alcohol depending on the
brand and Everclear depending on the depending.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you think it's better to take it cold order lukewarm?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
You mean never Clear? Yeah, Oh, it's got to be.
It's got to be. It freeze.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
It literally did. Like we've left in the freezer. It
does not freeze. Yeah, it does not freeze.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But that's that's as far as I've gone ever Clear
grain alcohol. I've had a little bit of a joint
and in my life, I think one edible and it
never did anything for me.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
It just didn't.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Oh now I see why I thought it was ninety proof. Yeah,
because it is one hundred ninety proof. Yes, So yeah,
that's the one that we have. I'm looking at I
remember the bottle. I'm looking at it right now. It
was one hundred ninety proof.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Isn't that like band now? It is?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I mean in the late nineteen eighties when we were
drinking it. You can find it in just about every
liquor store.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
I'm sorry we're talking about getting cross faded with the Marriagejuana, though, yes,
I need to know more about the cross fading Robin.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Honestly, I liked it better because when I smoked weed,
it just in hnced all my emotions. But then when
I got cross faded, it like mellowed it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
So you're trying to fine tune. Yeah, okay, nice. Do
a lot of people of.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The Gin millennial gen Z generations do the cross fading thing.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
We even had like after parties and everybody was crossbraded.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's a brand new world. I know nothing about, nothing
about at all. Mark, You've never been cross faded. We're
not going to talk about me today. To talk about Robin.
I think that's far more interesting. I'll just say in general,
I believe in the law, and that's asked an answered
(32:47):
counselor please move on. But this is legal, So what
are we talking about. If you believe in the law,
that means you can be cross faded legally.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That's true. By the way, ever clear is the nastiest
thing you'll ever drink. I think I was in college
at a party and I had a beer in my
hand and somebody was like, hey man, try and ever beer,
and they dumped some ever Clear into my beer. Easily
the worst thing I've ever tasted that because you should
not have mixed that, Okay, But I was also poor
and I wasn't gonna pour it out and waste it
(33:16):
after somebody poured that in.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So we use ever Clear and what we call trash
can punch or bathtub punch. We put a trash bag
in a literal bathtub and we put all this fruit,
ever Clear and kool Aid. We mix it all together,
and it was really really inexpensive, but it was a
good way to set the party off.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, if you can mask the awful, awful flavor of
ever Care with fruit, get into that. But ever beer
thumbs down. When you put it with fruit and kool
Aid or some sort of fruit juice jungle juice, right,
you don't really taste ever Clear. That's why when you're
drinking one hundred and ninety proof ever Clear in a
(34:00):
solo cup and kool Aid, you get two cups of that,
you might be done for the night.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
You're gonna wake up with your pants around your ankles. Okay,
yeah that too, that too.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We were a long way from the story, but I
don't think we'll be able to get back now because
pants around ankles is gonna be the last word.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It's later with Mo Kelly, K s I, M k
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
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