March 21, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Tawala Sharp filling in with a look at the development of Disney’s multi-million dollar ‘Cotino’ community…PLUS – Thoughts on the destructive impact of social media on teenage friendships AND Hasbro’s new “kidults” focus - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
This here is a Later with Mo Kelly to Wilder
Sharp filling in for the one and only Mo. And
if if we were to win the lottery tonight, or
(00:30):
win we win the lottery next week, I can tell
you that I may not let it be known that
we won. You know, I can agree with Mo in
that it's probably best not to say anything. Keep it
close to the vest, keep it close to the vest.
But there's definitely gonna be signs. Oh, there's definitely gonna
(00:52):
be signs that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I want some new Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No no, not even new George like to me shoes, clothing, no, no, no,
those are the giveaways, because it'd be like, why it
doesn't wear Jordan's while all of a sudden wearing Jordan's. No.
But would you notice me saying things like, oh, I
got a really really long drive home. It'd be like,
but I thought you just live like nearby. No, no, no, no,
it's a really really long drive. I'm talking all the
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way out to the Coachella Valley because I'm telling you,
I actually dream now of owning one of these homes
in the Disney Cotino properties. They just started moving people
in to some of these four million dollar palatial homes,
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and this place looks like it's cut right out of
a dream. I mean, the houses themselves are designed by
the Disney imagineer. So imagine all of the sights and
all the glory and glamour that you see at Disneyland,
of all the set pieces and lands and all that.
These are the people that came in and designed the
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homes and the structures, the children's bedrooms, the living rooms,
all this. It looks like something out of the future,
like back in the day when we used to watch
Bugs Bady cartoons and they would slip into like homes
of the future. This is what it looks like. It
really really does. I mean, in the Katina Estates, they
have not just expensive homes. They've got this Club thirty
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three like lounges. They've got an Incredibles inspired clubhouse Exclusive.
They've got a Disney Chef run restaurant all ready on
the property. This right now is looking to start. This
buildout is looking to start with some three hundred homes
but by the time all is said and done on
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this six hundred and eighteen acre property, they could have
some seventeen hundred homes and up to four hundred hotel rooms.
So there will be a hotel there. Of course, there's
gonna be shops, there's gonna be all types of amenities.
So anyone even heading two like Coachella or even in
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the Palm Springs area, this is gonna be where you
want to go. Now, Okay, the smallest of the Katina
College is they start in the upper one millions, the
upper millions, and will feature twenty two one hundred square
feet floor pans with two bedrooms and two bathrooms just
the upper millions.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, just over a million, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The largest Kotina States they start in the upper four millions,
not going into the fives though, so we're not going
into the fives, just into the upper fours, and they
will boast a seventy two hundred square foot floor pans
with five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right. There is this private artisan club. They have.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Membership plans for different different Disney perks on the property.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Look, I would.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Love, love, love to live in a place like this
and this is why I believe so wholeheartedly in the
Lotto Captain, because I promise you this, I get the
opportunity to move into one of these places.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't think I'll ever have to go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Do like the Disney Like I don't know what it's
called anymore, but the magic keyholders that they get any
bonuses or benefits or its own thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is its only thing they do have. They do
allow Disney cast members access to some of the amendities,
like the clubhouse and some of the different restaurants on there.
So so you do have that. There is a private
member's only beach, members only beach that has shaded seating,
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swimming zones, paddle boarding, kayaking, and other creational paradise. Yes,
they have curated events on the property, signature events, live performances,
seasonal celebrations. It's almost like this is sounding more and
more like if they were to just take all the
amenities of a cruise ship and put them in a community.
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Because they've got cooking classes, art classes, seminars, health and
wellness events, philanthropic endeavors. This is everything you'd want in
a place to call home.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I was just gonna say, does that not sound like
the cruises that the crews that you went on.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, no, it actually it actually does. Yes, they have
a what is this family oriented little desert park, senior
oriented long table park, and they have an equestrian themed
dog park.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Wow, that's really everything. But the neurovirus right there, isn't it? Okay,
all right, okay, okay, here we go. We don't need
any of that. The necessity you got the necessities, yes, Mark,
And I know you too would want to live here.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
If you see these pictures, you'd be drummed in like
I am.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh well yeah, but I think I need a little
bit of a bump before I was able to afford something.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Like oh look, look, look, we are going to get
a bump, and we all would like that bump. I'm
just saying. In a world where hope springs eternal, right.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Oh, hope keeps us a lot, I think I have
to settle for the cottage, the low level, the low
the trashy million dom million dollars, not the extravagant four
million two bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
But just think if all of us got together and
were to put down on one of these faces, we'd
have a spot. That's right, near Coachella, So if we
ever wanted to go to the concert, it would be
right down the street.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And we'd have a sitcom too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Four guys, I can hear the song now, and from
there together we could We don't have to leave our place, no,
because we could turn Oh that would be wild if
we turned one of the bedrooms into the studios and
we all were sharing the other spaces lying around. Oh,
so you're gonna so you're gonna take the bed tonight. Okay,
I'll be on the couch. Fosh what you got, I'll
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take the blow up? They say, We will be like,
you know, my back is hurted. I'll have to get
the floor tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Wait to blow up? What bed?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Bed?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Blow up bed?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
All right, Psycho, we're talking about Disney's Ktino Adventure, not
some perverse playground.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We're also talking about foushezhn ouch ouch coach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I just think that when when this is launching now,
I think the first area that's being built out is
gonna be kind of like the Beverly Hills of the
Kotino community.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It'll be the upper area.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But then as they start spreading this out and you
have more people that need to live.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Nearby and work.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Maybe there you're gonna have to start having some more
affordable homes and things like that.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And you know what, like speaking of just owning one,
can you imagine owning one and then renting it out
to Oh absolutely, boul that go to Coachella.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Absolutely, you would never have to work again.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think if if we were to just do that,
just get one of the cottages. Oh yes, this is
just the upper millions, I think that we might be
able to get a good deal and we could broadcast
live there. We could do sponsored events there, we could
lease it out for people, get alas every year Coachella.
We could charge top dollar to be at our Cotina cottage. Yes,
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you're onto something.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
This is the capitalist dream. I'm in all inn.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Now again, if we were to win the Lottel tonight,
you know, all of a sudden, if you start hearing
us saying things like oh yes, uh broadcast asting live
from POFI, then you know something has happened.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We all have a long drive tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, KFIM six forty live everywhere all the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
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This is Later with Moe Kelly to all the Charlotte
Fields in for Mo and last segment, we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Our dream of getting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
A super deluxe multimillion dollar bachelor pad at the Disney
Cotino Estates, or winning the lottery and quietly going and
purchasing one of those upper level multimillion dollar estates in
the Katina. We would all like kind of walk our
dogs or see each other driving by and say, hey, hey,
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as we're going over to Club Disney or our private
chef or whatever it is that we do in the
Katito Estates, you know, just bawling out of control. And
when I first saw that story, I said to myself, Wow, man,
like this is this is the perfect like idyllic little community.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It reminds me of just like growing up in Pasadena,
where you know, just you knew everybody and everyone knew you,
and you know, kids weren't out cussing up a storm
because anyone's parent could come up and just knock your
block off. Not saying that that would happen at the
Disney Katino Estates, but just just reminds me of just
like a really cool kind of community to live in.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I know it's fantasy.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's all fantasy because you know, the average person or
even the above average person's not buying a spot at
the Katino States. But it is a hope, a dream
I think of everyone to live in a really really
great community, a really positive community, a community where you
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enjoy coming home. As a parent, I want that more
than anything. I mean, I really really really want that.
I want that because as a parent, things that I
worry about are my children's safety, just walking out and
about I would love I would love, love, love, love
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love to be comfortable enough that I could give my
daughter the green light to walk home every other day.
She's like, can I just walk home home? For like
waiting for you to pick me up? Can I walk home?
I'm like, hell to the No, you cannot walk home?
Why because of murderers and rapists and psychos that are
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just driving up and down the streets in these communities. No,
all right, we don't know what pervs have been released
from prisident or living in the neighborhood. I've been checked
the perv log in a while, Okay, but I know
they're out there North Hills.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You're full of perves out there. Look at me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'm not looking at you. I'm just looking at the
perves out there. And it's why I will never lie
about her. To just walk home. Okay, that's that's a no,
that's a hell no, dog, that's not happening. But but
but that's being my overprotective self, right, I'm super overprotective.
It took me forever in the day to allow my
son to walk home. And my son is fairly capable.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You studied martial arts for most of his life and
then I got him into boxing, and so he's got
really really nice hands and really capable feet, you know.
And even still I'm like, no, I don't know about
you going to the store. He's like, I'm also eighteen.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, you are all right, tell me
when you get there, you know, text me when you
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get there, text me on your way back. I'm just, oh, no, dall,
I just it's just it's it's tough. It is really
really tough being a parent and just being allowed or
just allow your children to be children and just kind
of be free. And I bring this up because on Friday, tomorrow.
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It's a half day because it's the last day before spring,
and breaking my daughter's like, oh, Daddy, we want to
me and my friends, we want to walk down to
this local burger spot. And my very first instinct and
very first words of our mouth were no. And She's like,
I was just letting you know, Daddy, because I already
talked to mommy and Mommy has already said yeah, we can.
And so I'm like, okay, all right, I'm not gonna challenge,
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you know, mommy's edict, because that's not what we do.
You know, if she says hey, because you all often
take me to the side and say, hey, t you're
a little bit too overprotective, a little bit too strict.
And what that's gonna end up doing is that's gonna
make them get eighteen and just be out and be gone.
And I'm like, okay, woo sah, let me chill. But
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then then, well, I can't wait to get home today
because I'm I'm pulling this story out. I'm like, aha,
there is a story about a fourteen year old who
was walking home from school and he was beaten within
an inch of his life. This young man was hospitalized
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after he was assaulted wall walking home from school in
San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
All right, this is to me.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's uncomfortable that this young man will be attacked like this,
first of all, just going home. But he's fourteen years old,
fourteen years old, beaten within an inch.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Of his life.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
My daughter is fourteen years old, okay, And I see
something like this, and I just know that even though
the Disney Coltino estates may be far far out of
reach for you and I to really really even think
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about earnestly, it's just it's just one of those things
that's like put that dream out of your head. Oh,
I hold on to my dreams. But still it's not
like it's going to be a reality for us anytime soon. Right,
But still, wouldn't we want that? Isn't that what we want?
Isn't that what we want for our families, for friends?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Don't we want to be able to be out and
about in public and not have to worry about being jumped,
not to be worried, have to worry about our children
being accosted just trying to walk home from school. I
think that stuff like this is it's hard enough to
read it, but when this child is the same age
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as your old, as your own, it hits it hits different.
And so now, as much as I want to just
be fancy free and tell about like, yes, you know what, sure,
you know what. Your mother's right, you're responsible, you know
you keep your head on the swivel because I'm constantly
filling your head with all types of fear mongering talk
about the dangers of the neighborhood. And so you know,
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you're nervous enough as it is, go walk to the
burger place. But did I see something like this? And
I'm like, again, hell to the no, what to do?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What to do? What to do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Maybe maybe the best thing to do is enroll all
of our children into martial arts. Maybe we need to
get them into songs how Keto Mos Studio, and not
to learn how to fight, but to learn some respect
and some compassion and learn how dangerous life can be.
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I don't know, because this is just heartbreaking for me.
And no, no, little girl.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You would not be walking home. I promish.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I'm coming in at the door with this story. All right,
this can't fight everywhere? On the iHeartRadio app on the
other side, more positive news, Well, Okay, no, I take
that back, because I'm just gonna take you further down
this teenage rabbit hole with a story on how social
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media is destroying teenage friendships, which is almost like a
noe duh, but still I want to get into it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
While a sharp filling in from O Kelly in a
world that is just getting harder and harder and harder
for kids. Man, kids got it bad. Kids got it bad.
I know when I was a kid, I think the
pressures of communicating with each other was like maybe if
there's like a really really cute girl class and it
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was like, do I send her this message that says,
you know, check this box for yes, you like me,
check this box for knowing that she sent it back
with the box check no. It's like, ah, heartbreak. But
then the next day you're sending a note to someone else.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Kids nowadays with the advent of social media and every
kid having a cell phone, which in the beginning, like
most parents, I was against, right. I was against the
idea of my kids having cellular phones, and then the
ease of being able to get in touch with them,
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and just where we're at society now, where we have
to be able to get in contact with each other
at a moment's notice for whatever reason. You know, sometimes
I think myself, phone, I don't need to get in
contact with them. They know where I'm at and I
know where they are. But still it does allow for
some reassurance and things like that. So, yeah, every kid
has a cell phone, and no, you cannot lock your
kid's cell phone. They'll figure out a way to get
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around and get on all of the apps and all
the sites and be able to communicate. Unfortunately, what's happening
now more and more is that social media and the
access to it by way of their phones and things
like that are destroying friendships for kids now in ways
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that arguably you and I never had to experience. You
and I because we didn't know what each other was
doing every damn moment of the day. You know, there
was some mystery, some nuance to our friendships. It was
when I said, hey, what's going on with what you've
been doing? It wasn't you saw what I did? I
posted it? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Or I
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may not even have to ask you what's going on
with you? Because if you posted every single thing you
did and after the moment you woke up not only
to ask you what you're doing, that also is having
an impact on kids' relationships. But there's this new study
that comes from Italy that was published in Frontiers and
Digital Health that tracked about eleven hundred and eighty five
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teenagers over a six month period to understand how social
media affects their friendships. And what they found, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is beyond beyond.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Concerning two things that shock me because I'm like, I
don't care, why would they care? But this matters to
kids is that the concept of being texted back mean
something to kids. Like if I send a text message
out to the group chat and the crew doesn't see it,
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I'm not like, Hey, did you guys see my text?
I text you last night and I said I had
a really good burger. You guys didn't respond. No, I
don't care. If no one says anything, and I may
come in the next day, foods may say hey, what
was that burger you're talking about? The chat you start,
I'd be like, huh oh, yeah, I went to the
spot and it was good. That's how we relate. That's adults, right,
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but kids right now. One thing that they're dealing with
is social media allows them to see when their friends
are available, right and let you know when someone's online.
And so if they're sending each other a DM or
something and the friend who receives it, you can see
they're online but they don't respond. That gets kids feeling
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all types of messed up. They get down in the dumps, like,
oh man, I'll hit you up, you needna hit me back,
And I'm like, really, that actually means something again. Talk
to my daughter, She's like, oh yeah, I'd be so
pissed if one of my friends was online and I
reached out and sent them a message and they didn't
respond because I know you saw my message. It even
shows that you read it and you're not gonna respond back.
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You're up my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And I'm like, what, that's about a quarter of the
conversations that happened in the back of the uber really
talk about oh so and so didn't hit me back
and I saw he was online because he was over
at Club Devia and he was on the phone and
he saw that he saw his text and he didn't respond.
To me and then guys saying, well, not as much.
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But the guys will say the same thing, like, yo, man,
the girls she I was left unread. I know that
she saw it and she didn't respond. Like that's all
they talk about. They need to get that response or
they think that not necessarily worthless, but they think that,
oh they don't want me.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, or they're not friends. You're just like, yo, we're
not down, we're not friends. And this is a problem,
and it's even more of a problem now with social media,
especially within phones as well, because now with the video component,
So now when you're having a conversation with it, like
if if I call Mark right and I'm going on
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and on and on about something, I'm just bugging him
and he's writing or do whatever Ronner does during the day,
and he's like, I really got to get back to ronnoring,
but I'm going on and on and on and on right,
I cannot see him roll his eyes and give me
kind of like the yeah, yeah, okay, okay, get the
blank off my phone.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I can't see that, right. As opposed to just the
cat pictures we send each.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Other, Yes, love, I love getting cat pictures from Mark.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think this is such a dumber and more irritating
future than we were promised by Star Trek and Logan's run.
I don't like this future at all.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No, it's really really sad because this is defining it's
literally defining their lives. Mark that they are literally hanging
on every post, every every message, every everything, expecting to
be responded to almost immediately. Now, Like if I see
something bl bloop, because you can hear it, and I
know you got your alerts on because I was with
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you earlier during the day at school and I can
hear your phone going bo. So oh, so when you
get off at home you turn your alerts. I'm just
this is actually a conversation I've actually overheard. I actually
say that sounds like something I've heard. Yeah, I'm there.
It's like literally like I was with you when your
alerts were going off and they were fine, but all
of a sudden I send one and know, oh you
don't you all of a sudden you don't hear it.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I'm like wow. And to you as a dad,
there was this one time where I took a couple
of dads. There were probably like i'd say late thirties
and they kind of and this was five four or
five years ago, and they said, kind of, what you're
touching on is that, you know, they were going back
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and forth and I guess one of the girls didn't
get invited to a party and she saw it on
Snapchat or Instagram and she felt really like just so down.
And then you know, it kind of evolved into this
conversation between the two guys and they go, Man, if
we would have had that when we were kids, I
don't know what I would have done, because you see
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that they get invited and they're not there, and so
it's like they clearly got rejected.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So yeah, I think if I would have had this
when I was a kid, I don't think i'd be
here now. I don't think society would be here if
this was around, So you know, thirty five, forty years ago,
society would have ended.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Well, there's no question about it, because look at how
social media has radicalized adults.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Multiply that by the order of magnitude about how hyper
intense every emotion is for a teenager, the planet would
be dust.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh, it'd be absolute dust.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And I think we're heading there anyway, because this is
not a study that says we are on the precipice
of this global change where children are putting their phones
down because of how this is affecting them. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not what this is. Just basically, hey, moms and dads,
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we just want you to know how badly your kids
are being messed up by social media, and it's not
likely going to stop you. You have more and more
companies that are doing more and more to addict children
to social media. They are investing more and more into
these algorithms that make it harder and harder to get off.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know sometimes I'm here till two o'clock in the
morning because I'll be working and then out of nowhere,
I'll just open my phone real quick. I'll see a cat.
I have to see what the cat is doing. And
it's a cat, you know, who's walked up to a
dog and hit the dog. And the cat's like, mo fool,
you saw me coming. And the dog's like, oh man,
I get me in the next thing. No, I'm holler laughing.
I'm sending it to Mark and I'm just waiting, and
(26:28):
I've waited for him to respond. He does responding kind
of he says perfect or precious or I love it,
and then next thing, no, I'm looking for more cat videos.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So I know the trap.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
But but but I oftentimes look at the clock and say,
geez loast I got to get out of here, and
I put my phone in my pocket. These kids, they
don't put their phones in their pockets. Hell, the pants
are sacking all the way down to their ankles anyway,
they can't reach the damn pockets. So that's another problem.
But still, this is that it's disheartening, and I don't know, honestly,
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if there's anything that we can do other than pray
that some way, somehow, all the towers get taken out.
You know, Comet passes by the planet and all the
cell phone towers go down.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's almost as if I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
interrupt it. But it's almost as if we can't count
on the people who run these massive social media corporations
to do the right thing of their own accord. And
there's a word for what we used to do with
companies like that. It's a multi syllable word. Can you
think of it? I'm seeing an R.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
There seems to me like it's not an insoluble problem.
Get your dopamine boost someplace else. Oh yeah, regulation.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh unfortunately, one such individual who runs one of these
crack arms, all these online crack farms, actually has the
ear of the president.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
It's KIM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You see what you did, Mark, I wouln't even try
to go no. I like crack farm and I'm stealing it.
Please do.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Twiler Shark filling in for mo Kelly on Later with
mo Kelly, Just Later with Twala and the crew Fu.
She's in the building, Mark Runners in the building, and Mark,
I know that this is something you can relate to.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
As a comic book.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Collector, one thing that I have seen every time I
walk into the comic shop is nothing but individuals our age.
I never see any kids in the comic shop, This
is true. Not ever. I walk into a lot of
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collector shops. They have just collector toys and figures and
things like that that are related to the comics that
I collect. Never see any kids in the collector shop
at all.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Makes you wonder who comics are for.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
At this point, I think Hasbro is tapping in to
exactly who the next real buying audience is for Hasbro products.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Why.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Because Hasbro is really relying on teens and adults, mainly adults,
to buy into what it is that they are selling.
They are coming out with more and more products that
appeal to older teens and adults for the most part,
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because kids. Kids no longer want toys. Kids aren't into
toys like we were into toys and things that you
actually had to maybe build or put together Legos together.
They're like, I played legos on my game. Kids want electronics,
they want things like that. They don't want action figures,
they don't want girls don't want dolls because dolls are like,
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oh my god, that's sexist. How dare you tell me
I want to Barbie? And you know, boys like I
don't play with g I Joe or are you crazy?
You know When I was a kid, that's all it was.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I'm sorry, Oh yeah, I remember getting in trouble by
my mom She looked up from her reading once and
found that I had positioned G I. Joe's all around
the living room pointing their guns at her. And she
didn't appreciate that. But you can't. You can't get that
with the video. Yeah, you know, Mark, I don't know
who would appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
On think to myself, like my kids in positioned the
G I jos their guns all facing me.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Hell's going on?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
We don't punish children for being creative. I love it,
even if they're borderline sociopaths, even if well has bro
right now is putting forth an effort to turn around
their somewhat sagging cells to the tune of cutting some
six hundred million dollars over two thirds of its individual products.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And they are now pinning their growth on adults and teens.
It's interested in Star Wars fighters, Star Wars figures and vehicles,
Spider Man action figures, and other things like that, because
they say that by essentially by releasing higher priced action
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figures in limited quality for collectors, they are still going
to make their money. In Point today a limited edition
and I don't even know if it was limited edition.
I just know it was gone by the time I
went online to find one. There is a Jeen Gray
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Marvel Legends action figure that would have completed a growing
set that I have of X Men X Factor color
coded uniform figure. So they have like Cyclops in his
blue and gold, they have Angel and his red and white.
They have Gene Gray in her green and orange with
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the solid suits with the X's in various colors. And
I know that Bobby akaikes Band is coming and that
will finish the set, but gen Gray was the next
one coming. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta get it.
Why to complete the set? I went online. Gone and
they're not cheap, right, They're not cheap at all, but
they're still gone. They dropped a Marvel Legends X Force
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two pack with a war Path and Weapon X or
not Weapon X but Laura X. And that was that's
going on fifty dollars a pop. Fifty dollars gone off
the show. I mean, it's no longer available online. And
that is how I know for a fact, companies like
has Bro Mattel who has this really burgeoning online kind
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of collectorplace where they actually will go to fans and
say which figure would you like to see us make?
And they'll give you like a choice, and you but
and then they'll make it in this like these things
are gone hot off the presses, which actually adds to
the collectibility which you and I seek.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You don't want, you know, a bunch of things being made,
because that that messes with our collectibility. Man, Well, I
always tell people you have a growing set, and I don't.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I don't happen to collect action figures or thanks you
thanks for the delayed one.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But I do see.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
All of our nerd friends come in different sizes, shapes, flavors.
My friends post when they pick these things up all
the time, and I can't believe what grown adults will
spend on these things. And I'm not speaking from a
position of superiority. The stuff I spend money on is
equally juvenile. But that is a serious market, it is,
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and it's not going anywhere. I know, because I am
addicted to collecting these exclusives.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss, completely blissless.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
KFI and the kost Ehd two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Live everywhere on the Younger Radio app
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
This here is a Later with Mo Kelly to Wilder
Sharp filling in for the one and only Mo. And
if if we were to win the lottery tonight, or
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win we win the lottery next week, I can tell
you that I may not let it be known that
we won. You know, I can agree with Mo in
that it's probably best not to say anything. Keep it
close to the vest, keep it close to the vest.
But there's definitely gonna be signs. Oh, there's definitely gonna
(00:52):
be signs that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I want some new Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No no, not even new George like to me shoes, clothing, no, no, no,
those are the giveaways, because it'd be like, why it
doesn't wear Jordan's while all of a sudden wearing Jordan's. No.
But would you notice me saying things like, oh, I
got a really really long drive home. It'd be like,
but I thought you just live like nearby. No, no, no, no,
it's a really really long drive. I'm talking all the
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way out to the Coachella Valley because I'm telling you,
I actually dream now of owning one of these homes
in the Disney Cotino properties. They just started moving people
in to some of these four million dollar palatial homes,
(01:43):
and this place looks like it's cut right out of
a dream. I mean, the houses themselves are designed by
the Disney imagineer. So imagine all of the sights and
all the glory and glamour that you see at Disneyland,
of all the set pieces and lands and all that.
These are the people that came in and designed the
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homes and the structures, the children's bedrooms, the living rooms,
all this. It looks like something out of the future,
like back in the day when we used to watch
Bugs Bady cartoons and they would slip into like homes
of the future. This is what it looks like. It
really really does. I mean, in the Katina Estates, they
have not just expensive homes. They've got this Club thirty
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three like lounges. They've got an Incredibles inspired clubhouse Exclusive.
They've got a Disney Chef run restaurant all ready on
the property. This right now is looking to start. This
buildout is looking to start with some three hundred homes
but by the time all is said and done on
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this six hundred and eighteen acre property, they could have
some seventeen hundred homes and up to four hundred hotel rooms.
So there will be a hotel there. Of course, there's
gonna be shops, there's gonna be all types of amenities.
So anyone even heading two like Coachella or even in
(03:10):
the Palm Springs area, this is gonna be where you
want to go. Now, Okay, the smallest of the Katina
College is they start in the upper one millions, the
upper millions, and will feature twenty two one hundred square
feet floor pans with two bedrooms and two bathrooms just
the upper millions.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, just over a million, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The largest Kotina States they start in the upper four millions,
not going into the fives though, so we're not going
into the fives, just into the upper fours, and they
will boast a seventy two hundred square foot floor pans
with five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right. There is this private artisan club. They have.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Membership plans for different different Disney perks on the property.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Look, I would.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Love, love, love to live in a place like this
and this is why I believe so wholeheartedly in the
Lotto Captain, because I promise you this, I get the
opportunity to move into one of these places.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I don't think I'll ever have to go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Do like the Disney Like I don't know what it's
called anymore, but the magic keyholders that they get any
bonuses or benefits or its own thing.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is its only thing they do have. They do
allow Disney cast members access to some of the amendities,
like the clubhouse and some of the different restaurants on there.
So so you do have that. There is a private
member's only beach, members only beach that has shaded seating,
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swimming zones, paddle boarding, kayaking, and other creational paradise. Yes,
they have curated events on the property, signature events, live performances,
seasonal celebrations. It's almost like this is sounding more and
more like if they were to just take all the
amenities of a cruise ship and put them in a community.
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Because they've got cooking classes, art classes, seminars, health and
wellness events, philanthropic endeavors. This is everything you'd want in
a place to call home.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I was just gonna say, does that not sound like
the cruises that the crews that you went on.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, no, it actually it actually does. Yes, they have
a what is this family oriented little desert park, senior
oriented long table park, and they have an equestrian themed
dog park.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Wow, that's really everything. But the neurovirus right there, isn't it? Okay,
all right, okay, okay, here we go. We don't need
any of that. The necessity you got the necessities, yes, Mark,
And I know you too would want to live here.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
If you see these pictures, you'd be drummed in like
I am.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh well yeah, but I think I need a little
bit of a bump before I was able to afford something.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Like oh look, look, look, we are going to get
a bump, and we all would like that bump. I'm
just saying. In a world where hope springs eternal, right.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Oh, hope keeps us a lot, I think I have
to settle for the cottage, the low level, the low
the trashy million dom million dollars, not the extravagant four
million two bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
But just think if all of us got together and
were to put down on one of these faces, we'd
have a spot. That's right, near Coachella, So if we
ever wanted to go to the concert, it would be
right down the street.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And we'd have a sitcom too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Four guys, I can hear the song now, and from
there together we could We don't have to leave our place, no,
because we could turn Oh that would be wild if
we turned one of the bedrooms into the studios and
we all were sharing the other spaces lying around. Oh,
so you're gonna so you're gonna take the bed tonight. Okay,
I'll be on the couch. Fosh what you got, I'll
(07:15):
take the blow up? They say, We will be like,
you know, my back is hurted. I'll have to get
the floor tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Wait to blow up? What bed?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Bed?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Blow up bed?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
All right, Psycho, we're talking about Disney's Ktino Adventure, not
some perverse playground.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We're also talking about foushezhn ouch ouch coach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I just think that when when this is launching now,
I think the first area that's being built out is
gonna be kind of like the Beverly Hills of the
Kotino community.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It'll be the upper area.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But then as they start spreading this out and you
have more people that need to live.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Nearby and work.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Maybe there you're gonna have to start having some more
affordable homes and things like that.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And you know what, like speaking of just owning one,
can you imagine owning one and then renting it out
to Oh absolutely, boul that go to Coachella.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Absolutely, you would never have to work again.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think if if we were to just do that,
just get one of the cottages. Oh yes, this is
just the upper millions, I think that we might be
able to get a good deal and we could broadcast
live there. We could do sponsored events there, we could
lease it out for people, get alas every year Coachella.
We could charge top dollar to be at our Cotina cottage. Yes,
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you're onto something.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
This is the capitalist dream. I'm in all inn.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Now again, if we were to win the Lottel tonight,
you know, all of a sudden, if you start hearing
us saying things like oh yes, uh broadcast asting live
from POFI, then you know something has happened.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We all have a long drive tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, KFIM six forty live everywhere all the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
This is Later with Moe Kelly to all the Charlotte
Fields in for Mo and last segment, we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Our dream of getting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
A super deluxe multimillion dollar bachelor pad at the Disney
Cotino Estates, or winning the lottery and quietly going and
purchasing one of those upper level multimillion dollar estates in
the Katina. We would all like kind of walk our
dogs or see each other driving by and say, hey, hey,
(10:00):
as we're going over to Club Disney or our private
chef or whatever it is that we do in the
Katito Estates, you know, just bawling out of control. And
when I first saw that story, I said to myself, Wow, man,
like this is this is the perfect like idyllic little community.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It reminds me of just like growing up in Pasadena,
where you know, just you knew everybody and everyone knew you,
and you know, kids weren't out cussing up a storm
because anyone's parent could come up and just knock your
block off. Not saying that that would happen at the
Disney Katino Estates, but just just reminds me of just
like a really cool kind of community to live in.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I know it's fantasy.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's all fantasy because you know, the average person or
even the above average person's not buying a spot at
the Katino States. But it is a hope, a dream
I think of everyone to live in a really really
great community, a really positive community, a community where you
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enjoy coming home. As a parent, I want that more
than anything. I mean, I really really really want that.
I want that because as a parent, things that I
worry about are my children's safety, just walking out and
about I would love I would love, love, love, love
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love to be comfortable enough that I could give my
daughter the green light to walk home every other day.
She's like, can I just walk home home? For like
waiting for you to pick me up? Can I walk home?
I'm like, hell to the No, you cannot walk home?
Why because of murderers and rapists and psychos that are
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just driving up and down the streets in these communities. No,
all right, we don't know what pervs have been released
from prisident or living in the neighborhood. I've been checked
the perv log in a while, Okay, but I know
they're out there North Hills.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You're full of perves out there. Look at me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'm not looking at you. I'm just looking at the
perves out there. And it's why I will never lie
about her. To just walk home. Okay, that's that's a no,
that's a hell no, dog, that's not happening. But but
but that's being my overprotective self, right, I'm super overprotective.
It took me forever in the day to allow my
son to walk home. And my son is fairly capable.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You studied martial arts for most of his life and
then I got him into boxing, and so he's got
really really nice hands and really capable feet, you know.
And even still I'm like, no, I don't know about
you going to the store. He's like, I'm also eighteen.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, you are all right, tell me
when you get there, you know, text me when you
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get there, text me on your way back. I'm just, oh, no, dall,
I just it's just it's it's tough. It is really
really tough being a parent and just being allowed or
just allow your children to be children and just kind
of be free. And I bring this up because on Friday, tomorrow.
(13:11):
It's a half day because it's the last day before spring,
and breaking my daughter's like, oh, Daddy, we want to
me and my friends, we want to walk down to
this local burger spot. And my very first instinct and
very first words of our mouth were no. And She's like,
I was just letting you know, Daddy, because I already
talked to mommy and Mommy has already said yeah, we can.
And so I'm like, okay, all right, I'm not gonna challenge,
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you know, mommy's edict, because that's not what we do.
You know, if she says hey, because you all often
take me to the side and say, hey, t you're
a little bit too overprotective, a little bit too strict.
And what that's gonna end up doing is that's gonna
make them get eighteen and just be out and be gone.
And I'm like, okay, woo sah, let me chill. But
(13:55):
then then, well, I can't wait to get home today
because I'm I'm pulling this story out. I'm like, aha,
there is a story about a fourteen year old who
was walking home from school and he was beaten within
an inch of his life. This young man was hospitalized
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after he was assaulted wall walking home from school in
San Bernardino.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
All right, this is to me.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's uncomfortable that this young man will be attacked like this,
first of all, just going home. But he's fourteen years old,
fourteen years old, beaten within an inch.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Of his life.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
My daughter is fourteen years old, okay, And I see
something like this, and I just know that even though
the Disney Coltino estates may be far far out of
reach for you and I to really really even think
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about earnestly, it's just it's just one of those things
that's like put that dream out of your head. Oh,
I hold on to my dreams. But still it's not
like it's going to be a reality for us anytime soon. Right,
But still, wouldn't we want that? Isn't that what we want?
Isn't that what we want for our families, for friends?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Don't we want to be able to be out and
about in public and not have to worry about being jumped,
not to be worried, have to worry about our children
being accosted just trying to walk home from school. I
think that stuff like this is it's hard enough to
read it, but when this child is the same age
(15:43):
as your old, as your own, it hits it hits different.
And so now, as much as I want to just
be fancy free and tell about like, yes, you know what, sure,
you know what. Your mother's right, you're responsible, you know
you keep your head on the swivel because I'm constantly
filling your head with all types of fear mongering talk
about the dangers of the neighborhood. And so you know,
(16:07):
you're nervous enough as it is, go walk to the
burger place. But did I see something like this? And
I'm like, again, hell to the no, what to do?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
What to do? What to do? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Maybe maybe the best thing to do is enroll all
of our children into martial arts. Maybe we need to
get them into songs how Keto Mos Studio, and not
to learn how to fight, but to learn some respect
and some compassion and learn how dangerous life can be.
(16:47):
I don't know, because this is just heartbreaking for me.
And no, no, little girl.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You would not be walking home. I promish.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I'm coming in at the door with this story. All right,
this can't fight everywhere? On the iHeartRadio app on the
other side, more positive news, Well, Okay, no, I take
that back, because I'm just gonna take you further down
this teenage rabbit hole with a story on how social
(17:16):
media is destroying teenage friendships, which is almost like a
noe duh, but still I want to get into it.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
While a sharp filling in from O Kelly in a
world that is just getting harder and harder and harder
for kids. Man, kids got it bad. Kids got it bad.
I know when I was a kid, I think the
pressures of communicating with each other was like maybe if
there's like a really really cute girl class and it
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was like, do I send her this message that says,
you know, check this box for yes, you like me,
check this box for knowing that she sent it back
with the box check no. It's like, ah, heartbreak. But
then the next day you're sending a note to someone else.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Kids nowadays with the advent of social media and every
kid having a cell phone, which in the beginning, like
most parents, I was against, right. I was against the
idea of my kids having cellular phones, and then the
ease of being able to get in touch with them,
(18:30):
and just where we're at society now, where we have
to be able to get in contact with each other
at a moment's notice for whatever reason. You know, sometimes
I think myself, phone, I don't need to get in
contact with them. They know where I'm at and I
know where they are. But still it does allow for
some reassurance and things like that. So, yeah, every kid
has a cell phone, and no, you cannot lock your
kid's cell phone. They'll figure out a way to get
(18:52):
around and get on all of the apps and all
the sites and be able to communicate. Unfortunately, what's happening
now more and more is that social media and the
access to it by way of their phones and things
like that are destroying friendships for kids now in ways
(19:17):
that arguably you and I never had to experience. You
and I because we didn't know what each other was
doing every damn moment of the day. You know, there
was some mystery, some nuance to our friendships. It was
when I said, hey, what's going on with what you've
been doing? It wasn't you saw what I did? I
posted it? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Or I
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may not even have to ask you what's going on
with you? Because if you posted every single thing you
did and after the moment you woke up not only
to ask you what you're doing, that also is having
an impact on kids' relationships. But there's this new study
that comes from Italy that was published in Frontiers and
Digital Health that tracked about eleven hundred and eighty five
(20:02):
teenagers over a six month period to understand how social
media affects their friendships. And what they found, as you
can imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is beyond beyond.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Concerning two things that shock me because I'm like, I
don't care, why would they care? But this matters to
kids is that the concept of being texted back mean
something to kids. Like if I send a text message
out to the group chat and the crew doesn't see it,
(20:36):
I'm not like, Hey, did you guys see my text?
I text you last night and I said I had
a really good burger. You guys didn't respond. No, I
don't care. If no one says anything, and I may
come in the next day, foods may say hey, what
was that burger you're talking about? The chat you start,
I'd be like, huh oh, yeah, I went to the
spot and it was good. That's how we relate. That's adults, right,
(20:57):
but kids right now. One thing that they're dealing with
is social media allows them to see when their friends
are available, right and let you know when someone's online.
And so if they're sending each other a DM or
something and the friend who receives it, you can see
they're online but they don't respond. That gets kids feeling
(21:20):
all types of messed up. They get down in the dumps, like,
oh man, I'll hit you up, you needna hit me back,
And I'm like, really, that actually means something again. Talk
to my daughter, She's like, oh yeah, I'd be so
pissed if one of my friends was online and I
reached out and sent them a message and they didn't
respond because I know you saw my message. It even
shows that you read it and you're not gonna respond back.
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You're up my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And I'm like, what, that's about a quarter of the
conversations that happened in the back of the uber really
talk about oh so and so didn't hit me back
and I saw he was online because he was over
at Club Devia and he was on the phone and
he saw that he saw his text and he didn't respond.
To me and then guys saying, well, not as much.
(22:04):
But the guys will say the same thing, like, yo, man,
the girls she I was left unread. I know that
she saw it and she didn't respond. Like that's all
they talk about. They need to get that response or
they think that not necessarily worthless, but they think that,
oh they don't want me.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, or they're not friends. You're just like, yo, we're
not down, we're not friends. And this is a problem,
and it's even more of a problem now with social media,
especially within phones as well, because now with the video component,
So now when you're having a conversation with it, like
if if I call Mark right and I'm going on
(22:43):
and on and on about something, I'm just bugging him
and he's writing or do whatever Ronner does during the day,
and he's like, I really got to get back to ronnoring,
but I'm going on and on and on and on right,
I cannot see him roll his eyes and give me
kind of like the yeah, yeah, okay, okay, get the
blank off my phone.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I can't see that, right. As opposed to just the
cat pictures we send each.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Other, Yes, love, I love getting cat pictures from Mark.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think this is such a dumber and more irritating
future than we were promised by Star Trek and Logan's run.
I don't like this future at all.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No, it's really really sad because this is defining it's
literally defining their lives. Mark that they are literally hanging
on every post, every every message, every everything, expecting to
be responded to almost immediately. Now, Like if I see
something bl bloop, because you can hear it, and I
know you got your alerts on because I was with
(23:41):
you earlier during the day at school and I can
hear your phone going bo. So oh, so when you
get off at home you turn your alerts. I'm just
this is actually a conversation I've actually overheard. I actually
say that sounds like something I've heard. Yeah, I'm there.
It's like literally like I was with you when your
alerts were going off and they were fine, but all
of a sudden I send one and know, oh you
don't you all of a sudden you don't hear it.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, I'm like wow. And to you as a dad,
there was this one time where I took a couple
of dads. There were probably like i'd say late thirties
and they kind of and this was five four or
five years ago, and they said, kind of, what you're
touching on is that, you know, they were going back
(24:22):
and forth and I guess one of the girls didn't
get invited to a party and she saw it on
Snapchat or Instagram and she felt really like just so down.
And then you know, it kind of evolved into this
conversation between the two guys and they go, Man, if
we would have had that when we were kids, I
don't know what I would have done, because you see
(24:43):
that they get invited and they're not there, and so
it's like they clearly got rejected.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
So yeah, I think if I would have had this
when I was a kid, I don't think i'd be
here now. I don't think society would be here if
this was around, So you know, thirty five, forty years ago,
society would have ended.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Well, there's no question about it, because look at how
social media has radicalized adults.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Now.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Multiply that by the order of magnitude about how hyper
intense every emotion is for a teenager, the planet would
be dust.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh, it'd be absolute dust.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And I think we're heading there anyway, because this is
not a study that says we are on the precipice
of this global change where children are putting their phones
down because of how this is affecting them. No, no, no, no, no, no,
that's not what this is. Just basically, hey, moms and dads,
(25:42):
we just want you to know how badly your kids
are being messed up by social media, and it's not
likely going to stop you. You have more and more
companies that are doing more and more to addict children
to social media. They are investing more and more into
these algorithms that make it harder and harder to get off.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hell.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know sometimes I'm here till two o'clock in the
morning because I'll be working and then out of nowhere,
I'll just open my phone real quick. I'll see a cat.
I have to see what the cat is doing. And
it's a cat, you know, who's walked up to a
dog and hit the dog. And the cat's like, mo fool,
you saw me coming. And the dog's like, oh man,
I get me in the next thing. No, I'm holler laughing.
I'm sending it to Mark and I'm just waiting, and
(26:28):
I've waited for him to respond. He does responding kind
of he says perfect or precious or I love it,
and then next thing, no, I'm looking for more cat videos.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So I know the trap.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
But but but I oftentimes look at the clock and say,
geez loast I got to get out of here, and
I put my phone in my pocket. These kids, they
don't put their phones in their pockets. Hell, the pants
are sacking all the way down to their ankles anyway,
they can't reach the damn pockets. So that's another problem.
But still, this is that it's disheartening, and I don't know, honestly,
(27:02):
if there's anything that we can do other than pray
that some way, somehow, all the towers get taken out.
You know, Comet passes by the planet and all the
cell phone towers go down.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's almost as if I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
interrupt it. But it's almost as if we can't count
on the people who run these massive social media corporations
to do the right thing of their own accord. And
there's a word for what we used to do with
companies like that. It's a multi syllable word. Can you
think of it? I'm seeing an R.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
There seems to me like it's not an insoluble problem.
Get your dopamine boost someplace else. Oh yeah, regulation.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh unfortunately, one such individual who runs one of these
crack arms, all these online crack farms, actually has the
ear of the president.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
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Speaker 3 (28:11):
You see what you did, Mark, I wouln't even try
to go no. I like crack farm and I'm stealing it.
Please do.
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Speaker 2 (28:33):
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She's in the building, Mark Runners in the building, and Mark,
I know that this is something you can relate to.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
As a comic book.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Collector, one thing that I have seen every time I
walk into the comic shop is nothing but individuals our age.
I never see any kids in the comic shop, This
is true. Not ever. I walk into a lot of
(29:19):
collector shops. They have just collector toys and figures and
things like that that are related to the comics that
I collect. Never see any kids in the collector shop
at all.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Makes you wonder who comics are for.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
At this point, I think Hasbro is tapping in to
exactly who the next real buying audience is for Hasbro products.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Why.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Because Hasbro is really relying on teens and adults, mainly adults,
to buy into what it is that they are selling.
They are coming out with more and more products that
appeal to older teens and adults for the most part,
(30:14):
because kids. Kids no longer want toys. Kids aren't into
toys like we were into toys and things that you
actually had to maybe build or put together Legos together.
They're like, I played legos on my game. Kids want electronics,
they want things like that. They don't want action figures,
they don't want girls don't want dolls because dolls are like,
(30:35):
oh my god, that's sexist. How dare you tell me
I want to Barbie? And you know, boys like I
don't play with g I Joe or are you crazy?
You know When I was a kid, that's all it was.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I'm sorry, Oh yeah, I remember getting in trouble by
my mom She looked up from her reading once and
found that I had positioned G I. Joe's all around
the living room pointing their guns at her. And she
didn't appreciate that. But you can't. You can't get that
with the video. Yeah, you know, Mark, I don't know
who would appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
On think to myself, like my kids in positioned the
G I jos their guns all facing me.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Hell's going on?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
We don't punish children for being creative. I love it,
even if they're borderline sociopaths, even if well has bro
right now is putting forth an effort to turn around
their somewhat sagging cells to the tune of cutting some
six hundred million dollars over two thirds of its individual products.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And they are now pinning their growth on adults and teens.
It's interested in Star Wars fighters, Star Wars figures and vehicles,
Spider Man action figures, and other things like that, because
they say that by essentially by releasing higher priced action
(31:52):
figures in limited quality for collectors, they are still going
to make their money. In Point today a limited edition
and I don't even know if it was limited edition.
I just know it was gone by the time I
went online to find one. There is a Jeen Gray
(32:14):
Marvel Legends action figure that would have completed a growing
set that I have of X Men X Factor color
coded uniform figure. So they have like Cyclops in his
blue and gold, they have Angel and his red and white.
They have Gene Gray in her green and orange with
(32:35):
the solid suits with the X's in various colors. And
I know that Bobby akaikes Band is coming and that
will finish the set, but gen Gray was the next
one coming. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta get it.
Why to complete the set? I went online. Gone and
they're not cheap, right, They're not cheap at all, but
they're still gone. They dropped a Marvel Legends X Force
(33:01):
two pack with a war Path and Weapon X or
not Weapon X but Laura X. And that was that's
going on fifty dollars a pop. Fifty dollars gone off
the show. I mean, it's no longer available online. And
that is how I know for a fact, companies like
has Bro Mattel who has this really burgeoning online kind
(33:24):
of collectorplace where they actually will go to fans and
say which figure would you like to see us make?
And they'll give you like a choice, and you but
and then they'll make it in this like these things
are gone hot off the presses, which actually adds to
the collectibility which you and I seek.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You don't want, you know, a bunch of things being made,
because that that messes with our collectibility. Man, Well, I
always tell people you have a growing set, and I don't.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I don't happen to collect action figures or thanks you
thanks for the delayed one.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But I do see.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
All of our nerd friends come in different sizes, shapes, flavors.
My friends post when they pick these things up all
the time, and I can't believe what grown adults will
spend on these things. And I'm not speaking from a
position of superiority. The stuff I spend money on is
equally juvenile. But that is a serious market, it is,
(34:18):
and it's not going anywhere. I know, because I am
addicted to collecting these exclusives.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss, completely blissless.
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