October 2, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on Gov. Newsom signing a bill to legalize ‘Amsterdam-style’ cannabis cafes in California AND extending the hours of the Intuit Dome’s ‘After Hours’ club…PLUS – It’s “National Taco Day” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with Mo Kelly k If I am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We have not
one but two Governor Knew some updates tonight for you,
and one of them just might put Starbucks out of business. Well,
I know it's kind of hyperbole, but it will put
some pressure on Starbucks. We'll tell you about that in
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just a moment, and it's not too late. National Taco
Day is not completely over. We have some deals for you,
and actually some deals which extend throughout the week. So
if you didn't get your free taco or your reduced
price taco, we have help for you. Some unfortunate news,
Dodgers legend Fernando Valezuela has been hospitalized.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We'll talk about that. And that's against the backdrop of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
A lot of bad, bad news when it comes to
people we know in an entertainment sense or a sports
since we know and love Fernando Valenzuela being just the
latest of them, but not the only one.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But let me start with I would say the Starbucks killer.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill which is going
to legalize what I should say, has legalized Amsterdam style cannabis. Cafes.
I've never been to Amsterdam. I've heard a lot of
stories about it. Oh, Mark, you've been to Amsterdam, sure
have yep? Okay, now I know the idea of how
these cannabis, I should say, drug cafes are portrayed. What
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are they really like? At least in Amsterdam. They are
about as chill as you could possibly imagine. It's just
like walking into a regular cafe. They've got menus up.
It's perfectly normal. But you need to show a little
bit of restraint because in addition to what you would expect,
they also have chocolates and things like that. And when
the the what do you call them? They're the person
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who pours the coffee. The word's not coming to my
head right now. Not waitress, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Anyway, when the person at the counter tells you just
eat half risk chocolate, burista, thank you very much. Well,
I don't know if it is there a word for
a weed barista, yet, That's what I was looking for.
We need a neologism for a pot burista.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
When they tell you just eat half of the chocolate
you just bought, don't eat the whole chocolate. Even if
you think it's it's not taking effect because you're gonna
have to get led back to your hotel room like
it's and then the snow by a shirt.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Put do what they tell you in those cafes. Was
it just weed?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Were there other pharmaceutical products you could purchase? Her In jest,
I think it was all cannabis related stuff, if I
remember correctly, but it may have changed since then.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's been a while. Well. Talking about California.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
AB seventeen seventy five will allow cannabis retailers to diversify
their business and move away from the limited dispensary model
by now selling non cannabis infused foods. The bill goes
into effect on January first, but local jurisdictions must also
approve and license the new type of business. So to
be clear, they cannot serve you edibles serve you now.
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I'm quite sure you can buy it at the dispensary
and probably consume it in the cafe, but they can't
serve it to you now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
From my understanding, there are a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Cafes that are connected to dispensaries by way of a hallway,
two separate two separate buildings that are connected by way
of a hallway. Wait, this is like letter the lost
spirit of the law exactly because you can go to
the dispensary and purchase your edibles and your marriage juwanna,
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and then walk through a door down the hallway to
the cafe where you can smoke, enjoy poetry, eat your
edible and all of that. So this, from my understanding,
this eliminates the need for the hallway.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
All I'm saying is if I were Starbucks, I would
be concerned because the whole idea of Starbucks is you're
not just going there for the coffee. You're going there
to be able to hang out, be able to do
some work, to listen to some poetry. If they have
a performer, someone's playing guitar. It is a hangout where
people can convene. Well, if you have a place where
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you can consume cannabis products and get your munchies on
in the same place and don't tell your WiFi, right,
you don't have to go to Taco Bell, and Taco
Bell was very smart talking about National Taco Day. Taco
Bell was very smart about actively courting that crowd, the
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late night munchie's crowd. Now you're saying it can all
be self contained. If I were Starbucks, at least in California,
I would be concerned.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think we can possibly predict a chapter love and
filing for Coffee Bean.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I believe that's coming. Yeah, coffee Bean, you're done. Be sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sorry you know, and all these mom and pop went
off coffee places.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, you're in trouble as well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Unless they adopt this new cannabis cafe model, which they
probably have the ground floor on dooing, they could possibly easily.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I don't know about that happened because from what I've
heard the people that I know who are in the
dispensary business, it is so cost prohibitive to get the
licensing to be allowed to distribute any type of cannabis products.
And that was part of the issue why you had
the black market places which were still thriving, because the
legal places it was so difficult for them to maintain
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their licenses or just get in. Just the initial costs
was I was told like close to half a million
just trying to get in.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, just think if you have a cafe and you
have a green plus sign where it's say, hey, come
in here, enjoy your cannabis, and few snacks and treats
that might be still a boom for the independent cafe.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know, I know what you mean, and I don't
know where the law lands on that. As far as
where you can consume cannabis products in public, like you
can you just walk into a McDonald's and consume cannabis products,
I don't know if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think the lesson to be drawn from Amsterdam is
that people are well behaved, and you can extend that.
You know, they had cannabis for sale in retail establishments
in Seattle a lot sooner, I believe than in La
So it's just like a shop you walk into there,
but here it's like a sally Port high security situation,
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like escape from New York. Decriminalizing all this stuff and
normalizing it doesn't lead to chaos is the lesson that
we take from this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, it has not as of yet, And I say
that if only because I'm still reticent to agree with
the recreational use of it. You point to Washington, I
would point to Oregon. As far as issues with the
legalization of a lot of drugs, I'm unaware of any
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serious troubles there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What do you know that I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They've had some issues, and also Oregon has some of
the most liberal small l drug laws in the nation
as far as the amount of substances which they have legalized.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean where I'm coming from on this is that
just from an objective factual, not taking a side of viewpoint,
we know everything about the drug war was a massive
failure that did no good whatsoever, and as a bonus,
ruined countless lives, and so this thing doesn't seem to
have a lot of negatives to me.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, we could debate that some of it is anecdotal
with my life experience people around me, and I've seen
the lives that it has ruined, beyond the criminal aspect
of incarceration, but just the personal livelihoods that it's ruined.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's same I have as well, and people close to
me as well. But you could use the same anecdotal
approach with alcohol, right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's true. No, absolutely, absolutely want to have a drink later.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't know who you think you're talking to. I
never touched the stuff. It's later with mo Kelly Cab
I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And it's interesting Mark that you said alcohol, because when
we come back, we're going to talk about how Governor
Newsom has extended this after hours late night party option
to only one business in all of southern California, the
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Into It Dome, and we'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
LA is not known for great after parties because you
can't have a party in LA for the most part
past maybe one thirty am. Last call got to stop
serving alcohol. As they say, you don't have to go home,
but you got to get the hell up out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I know this because I closed down a lot of
joints as a patron, a lot of bars, a lot
of lounges, a lot of liquor over the years. Last segment,
we were talking about cannabis and these cannabis cafes and Mark
Rodner somehow helped me get to alcohol. Let's talk about alcohol,
how that works. It's still just a party. And Assembly
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Bill thirty two oh six created this carve out for
one venue in all of southern California, which would allow
this one venue in all of southern California to serve
alcohol until four am. Only one venue, not one city,
not one county, not one area.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
One specific venue.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And if you have to, if you look at the
text of this bill, it says specifically the law is
limited to a fully enclosed arena with a seating capacity
of at least eighteen thousand seats located in the city
of Inglewood. That is oddly specific. So we know that
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it's not Sofi Stadium because so far is not fully enclosed.
It's not the Forum because the Forum doesn't have eighteen
thousand seats and the YouTube Theater does not have eighteen
thousand seats. So we're running out of arenas or potentials
which could satisfy these stipulations of at least eighteen thousand
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seats and located in the city of Inglewood as a
fully enclosed arena. The Into It Dome, and we've covered
the story how Steve Balmer and the Into It Dome
they want to have this exclusive club a llah the
Forum Club which the Lakers had, which was jumping. It
was the thing back in the nineteen seventies and early eighties.
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They wanted to create that similar type of party atmosphere,
but only for the into it dome. Here is the
real crux of the matter, And people wondered, like, well,
how is it someone got a law a carve out
for a particular venue?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It mark, I'm going to say it. It begs the question.
Oh no, are you sure that's what you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yes, it begs the question as to whether there was
any level of quid pro quo.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh no, I'm sorry. That raises the question. It does
not infamy. No, it begs. It's begging. It's pleading. I
don't think you know what question means. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no begging.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The question is assuming the premise into your question, have
you stopped beating your wife yet?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But I'm saying it. It's not actually, it's not a
real question. Okay, it's an assumption. Let's not get hung
up on it. Okay, please proceed. Connie Balmer the wife
of the Clippers owner Steve Balmer. You might know she's
been a very strong supporter of Gavin Newsom and has
donated one million dollars to a committee opposing the recall
efforts against him back in twenty twenty one. It's not
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a direct contribution, but it might as well be. And
even though the bill doesn't specifically mention the end to
it dome, I don't think you can push aside the
fact that the Bambers are financial supporters of Gavid Newsom.
And if you donate a million dollars to someone's anti
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recall bid, there may be something something which may come
back your way in the future, something that you know
might be worth a lot of money to you in return.
I'm not trying to say that there was something untoward.
I'm just saying that one person donated a million dollars
and the other person did something nice for their birthday.
That's all I'm saying. So the end to a Dome
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will have parties until four a m. Opponents of the
law say that, well, this is probably going to encourage
more drunk driving, and it's going to make what is
already a very densely populated and traffic laden area. Because
we've talked about this before with all of those venues,
so mention them by names. So far, YouTube Theater, Kia
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Forum into a dome, and there's there's a Synopolis, the
movie plaza and shops which just went.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Up over there.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
If you've ever driven through there, it is really really
full of people, pedestrians, cars, traffic. Even at two in
the morning, when people are letting out from those other venues,
you still have another two hours of people drinking and
presumably driving. The concern is is going to make it
a much more dangerous area. It's said that the CHP
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will monitor the duys and if you've driven through that area.
They have dui checkpoints all the time in Inglewood and
the surrounding area. So if you think that you're going
to be able to drink until four am, even though
that the bar is still serving, and you're going to
be able to get into your car and probably not
encounter CHP on the way home, you're deluding yourself because
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they are all over those venues.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You got to call Stephan to come pick you up. Yeah, hey, Stephan,
how does that work?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Is there anyway Is there any way that we can
request an Uber driver these days?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
No, they still haven't made that because it's it's it
would be too time consuming because if like, let's just
say you're partying in Englewood and I happen to be
working and I'm in Burbank, It's well, how about this, okay?
And I know Uber's listening because they always listen. What
if we had a list of favorite drivers that we
could like star like our favorite locations on our GPS map,
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and then when we use Uber, it will list any
of our starred drivers who were in that area within
let's say a ten mile radius.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's actually not about app. I know, it's a great idea.
It's a great idea because I thought of it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'd just be sitting at home thinking of stuff. Let's
you get to know the person. It's not like that
much of a strange encounter, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well, all I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Saying is it doesn't seem like it would be hard
to add to an app because we're always able to,
you know, save this or favorite that set aside, and
if your favorite driver is it's almost like a dating
app and you get to see who's online or who
is actually on the site at that time.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh yeah, don't ask me how I know that. Okay,
But it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Would be a way that you could figure out, like, hey,
let me talk to so and so or request so
and so as a driver since they are driving and
available in that area. Why would I not go to
a preferred driver? Think of all the groupies, Stephan would have. Yeah, Hey, Stephan,
I got to ask you as anyone recognized you or
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made the connection between Steph and the Uber driver and KFI.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, actually the day that I thought I lost my
car when I had to take an Uber Oh, when
we went to the movie driver. Yeah, the driver recognized
me when I was in the car because we were talking.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So that happened once. Yeah, you're a star.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I guess so KFI am six forty is later with
Mo Kelly. How did I not know that you did
not tell that story we were Yeah, I told that
on the air. No no, no, no, not the car.
I'm talking about being recognized. Yeah, I did. I talked
about it. I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh anything for the Foosh.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Did you get a discount? No, of course, omit you got.
You worked for Uber and you got picked up in
an Uber. You're celebrity famous and you didn't get any
type of discount anything.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I wish we did, but now that doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You don't get any Like when I worked norsetom we
got a discount on a close. You don't get a
discount on rides.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I think just because there's so many. I don't know
why but yeah, we don't get any perks there in
that sense. They should make me president and CEO of Uber.
I turned that thing around, would be done for that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
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Speaker 2 (17:27):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I know
it's a bit confusing. You're thinking, like, it's National Taco Day,
but usually it's like the first Monday in October, but
it's Tuesday. But Taco Tuesday is when you're supposed to
get tacos. But Taco Tuesday is fine, but the National
Taco Day is.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Actually all week long.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's very confusing, but it's not too late for you
to enjoy National Taco Day, which is which is actually
Taco Week. Okay, does all that make sense? It's Taco Week,
not National Taco Day. For example, Apocool Aoo po Hakapoco
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restaurant in Cantina, they have house margaritas which will go
for two dollars when diners ordered to create your own
combo on October fourth, as in later this week.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
The original National Taco Day, the fourth. Yeah, that was
the original day.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Okay, my point, that's what I'm saying it's very confusing
because it used to be October fourth, and did it
move to the first Monday in October. But this year's
National Taco Day on today, Tuesday was Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Mark acostam me in the hallway and almost pulled a
shank on me, demanding tacos because it was today, and
I said, no, sir, it's the fourth. We had a
big back and forth. I thought it was gonna die.
Don't blame the victim here. I'm the one who's got
to go without tacos. I thought you were a burrito guy. Well,
I like there's room for both. Okay, the Broken Yolk
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Cafe never been there. There will be a buy one,
get one half off on Baja Breakfast tacos at participating
locations on Friday the fourth, So not everyone is down
with the whole Taco Tuesday National Taco Day. There's chronic
Tacos Loyalty members can buy one taco and get one
free on October fourth, as it should be Dell Taco,
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which I think is superior to Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Sorry, it's just the truth. Today kicks off a month.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Of deals called tacober Taco tacob Fist, October Tacobrafest Taco
pick up these words in the Dell Yeah Rewards app
Rewards members can get one free taco with any purchase
today and the deal on October fourth is a beer
battered crispy fish taco with five dollars purchase.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You can get all this at deltaco dot com. Delpoyo
Loco Local Rewards members can get three chicken tacos from
five dollars from today through October fourth. That means the
rest of the week, so it's not just today, it's
Taco week.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But see, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And I think that a lot of these restaurants righteously
so are maintaining that National Taco Day be on the
fourth because the whole brew haha and kerfuffle about this
Taco National Taco Day being the first is all a
product of Taco Bell in corporate America. Taco Bell lobbied
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the national calendars to make it today because Taco Bell
took ownership of Taco Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Actually, yes, they tried to take ownership of it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Commandeer, you should be against this because you mark you
don't like, uh, this type of corporate intrusions, big tacos.
It's free market taco capitalism. What are you talking about? Okay,
back to the story. It's Almos Rigor Sando.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Elrito House, Mortgan ritos would go for two dollars win
dinners order. I already said that Miguel Juniors customers can
get two traditional or soft tacos with choice of chicken
or beef for five dollars today, so you better hurry up.
Rubios Coastal Grill customers can get a Rubio's fish taco
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and those are good. Those are fire for two dollars
and fifty cents today, So you're running out of time.
But there are a couple of offers for Rewards members.
On October fourth, they can get a free taco with
any purchase on that date only on the fourth, and
if they check in the app, they can become eligible
to win.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
A free taco a day for a year. Would you
want a taco a day for a year?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
No, waiting for a week, I wouldn't want to taco
a day. Maybe the option to get one if I
want one, but I wouldn't want to actually have one
every day for a year.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Three hundred and sixty five tacos.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Absolutely. I'm still waiting for the taco truck on every corner.
We were promised. Who promised that? I don't remember, but
I want it and I want it promptly. Okay, that
was Maribath Day one.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, Taco Bell, here you go, Twala. There will be
hourly drops of dollar tacos for rewards members on the
Taco Bell app between ten am and seven pm.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oop today, well too late. Sounds like a lot of
specials went out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I looked into that, and you gotta be a rewards.
You can't just drive up to the window and say,
I like my one dollar taco please, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a whole deal with that. That that
made me angry.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Okay, let's let's just ask, and let's just be clear
here which place is superior, Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Or Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't really like Dell Taco shells. They're a little gabie.
I did say Tacos. I'm just saying the places I
take Taco Bell for me. Okay, you're wrong, all right,
Twala said, I said, I said Taco Bell.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Okay, he's wrong to mark your vote on Taco Bell.
I'm not sure I have a dog to eat in
this fight. I am more of a sharky dog. Any dog,
what you do. It's been on my mind lately because
of the news. But eating dog, I can't.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I don't really have a huge preference between Taco Bell
and Delta.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you if you're going right now, like, what would
you go do?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Whatever is closest, whatever is open when I get off work,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh, it would be Del Taco for me. I prefer
their burritos.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I prefer their case of dias and Taco Bell tastes like.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
A salt bomb.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I was gonna say, Okay, I think Del Taco does
have better burritos, but I like Taco Bell tacos a
little bit more.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I don't have a lot of experience with Del Taco,
but I was desperate getting out of work one night late,
and I stopped at the drive through there and the
guy was closing up, and I said, well, just give
me whatever you got, please, and he took pity on me.
He gave me some grotesque thing that had like potatoes
in it. Yeah, bacon, and that's the that's the caso
fresco whatever, and their britles fall apart in your hand.
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They're like eating burritos soup. I want to throw this
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, look, I will give Taco Bell credit for one thing,
the Mexican pizza.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Everybody those are fire would slap. They do slap, They
slapooy movie.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
There's a discrepancy because I kind of figured and you
guys are talking about Taco Bell's Taco Tuesday. Taco Bell
actually filed a petition to make Taco Tuesday available for
everyone because they feel that it should be freely available
to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wasn't there some issue with Lebron James trying to fight
for the copyright of Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, he did that too.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But he partnered with Taco Bell to take the ownership
of Taco Tuesday away from a local restaurant tour here
in the Southland who did trademark. They had a loose
trade Marco Johns Taco John's, Yes, and and they big
business them and took it away from the little guy.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
That's why. I so, why is it so? Why is
it you like Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Then their food is superior to Del Taco, to Del
Taco to del Taco. There is no Taco Johnson every corner,
otherwise i'd go there. I don't even know where this
Taco John's is, but I support you. Taco Tuesday should
belong to all of us.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Come on now, now when it comes to Taco Tuesday,
I'm going to El Touredo Taco Tuesdays at El Toedo.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh you're the bomb, okay, that's fire?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Why I mean you're talking about what
taco I mean, why, poor Katy, I require an explanation.
Uh see the play all you could eat tacos. Oh okay,
and they're real tacos.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
They're real tackles, soft shackles, yes, cook the shells and yeah,
real tacos.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So who's gonna go and get us tacos at this hour?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They used to have an El Toedo right down the
street on Olive, and it's no longer there.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They turned it into a Chick fil A. And see
that's why you're not getting tacos. Clock's chicken. We need
them fast. There's nothing I can do. I mean, we
used to have like some junior producers. They don't give
us junior producers anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We had Lindsay. But Lindsay wasn't filling HS, so she
had to go home.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Like I said, we don't have junior producers anymore. The
schedules said that she was going to be in, and
now she's not in. Otherwise we'd have tacos and I'd
have probably a burrito or something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, then now this is this is pointless. If you're
getting burritos tomorrow, no Friday. I can't have a burrito
on National Taco Day?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Why is it? I can't do both? Who does that?
Mark Ronner? Why not you would eat both? Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You can't have a burrito and a taco on National
Taco Day. No, you can't have a waffle and a
pancake on National Pancake Day.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
No kind person are you? Who knew you were such
a stickler for this stuff? You can't have bacon and
sausage on National Bacon Day? Hell? No, same animal. It's
a different portion. It's a different No. I know this.
It's all parts. Is parts, It's just parts.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It's just the The bacon is just like it's the skin, right,
It's like the crackly skin skin.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't know. I think it's a skin. I just
think it's a thin shaving. Oh. Oh, it's a thin shaving. Oh.
I think we're over.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You're listening to with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And all my years of working in entertainment, I want
to think, with the exception of the year twenty sixteen,
I don't remember a year of such bad news when
it came to sports figures, celebrities, movie stars, whatever, passing
away or falling ill. I don't remember a time in
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which there were so many in such a short amount
of time. Not that celebrities or sports heroes are any
better than us or any more important than us, but
they are very much linked to our childhood, to some
of the best moments in our life. They have access
to our memories and ways that other people just don't,
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so they have an outsized importance when it comes to
their health issues or when they should eventually pass. And
I'm not predicting ill or a poor end result for
former Dodgers pitcher and broadcaster Fernando Valnezuela, but I just
know from my discussions with people within the Dodgers organization
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it is very, very serious. What is going on with
Fernando Valezuela.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yo this year LA in a minute news for Tuesday,
October first, and a terrible headline being reported by David
Fidalsin of teenud and Televisa Unavision in Mexico City that
Fernando Vealezuela has been hospitalized with undisclosed health problems after
stepping away from the booth and the Dodgers last week.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It looked frail.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
He looked weak in those photos, but again no details
are known. But what is noticed that Fernando had one
of the biggest impacts on Dodger history. The kid from
Etchewaquilas and Nora, Mexico came to La, learned a screwball
from East LA's Bobby Castillo, and used that screwball and
the delivery where he would look up to the heavens
to win Rookie of the Year, side a World Series
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and just have a fantastic career with the Dodgers that
culminated with him being inducted into the Ring of Honor,
retiring as number thirty four on a memorable Fernando Valzuela
weekend last year. Fernando, of course responsible for bringing Latino
fans back into the fold.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I remember Fernandomania and if you're not old enough to
remember this rookie who did not look all that physically athletic,
it did not look like he was an athlete, did
not look like he could really be a major league pitcher.
He had a weird wind up, where as they said
in the news clip, where he would look to the heavens,
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so a runner or even a batter could not fix
their eyes on where the pitch was going. It just
seemed like it was coming out of nowhere. And if
you're not really knowledgeable about baseball, a screwball is the
exact opposite of a curveball. It has the exact opposite rotation,
it does the exact opposite, and not many players have
ever thrown it on a major league level. It's really
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damaging to the arm, and it's a hard pitch to throw.
But Fernando Valenzuela was able to throw it with such
a superior skill that not only did he start off
some eight and oh, there was a magic around the
city of Los Angeles that the only thing I can
compare it to since would be Shohei o Tani in
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the past five or six weeks or so, or maybe
Mandy would with Manny Ramirez some ten years or so back.
Those are the only things which even come close to it.
Fernando Valenzuela has been a beloved person within Los Angeles
and Dodger lore for decades and decades now to what
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is happening right now. I always get very, very very
concerned when we don't get any information, when someone leaves
their posts or broadcasts both with new of an undisclosed illness.
That if you've seen the pictures recently of Fernando Vealnezuela,
like I said, when he first came to the league,
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he was a heavy guy who's a chubby guy. He
did not look like a professional athlete, and the most
recent pictures he looked like he's lost some eighty pounds
or so, a shell of himself. Obviously he has not
been in good health for a long time. But the
point I want to make is when we get no information,
that usually is dire, that historically is dire. And I
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will use a contemporary example to Kimba Mutambo, who I
went to Georgetown with. We graduated together the same class.
We were friends and classmates. He was diagnosed with brain
cancer years ago. I want to say, maybe three years ago,
but it wasn't known by the general public, and the
reason being they didn't want the general public to worry.
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They didn't want people constantly asking about his health, about
his status, and so was something that people like alumni knew.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
People who were.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Closer to university classmates we knew, but for the most
part it was not publicized. And when you don't get
a lot of information, it usually trends in a negative direction.
And we didn't get to see any more of the Kimba.
He didn't make any more public appearances. You didn't get
to hear from him. He wasn't even doing radio interviews.
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And then we got the news earlier this week that
he had passed on. Now, if there's any good news
out of this is that Fernando Valenzuela was doing his
job up until this week.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Hopefully this story will end differently.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But given all the bad news that we've been hearing
about some of our favorite actors and actresses and television personalities,
movie stars and sports figures, you know, it doesn't sound good.
But we're going to hope for the best because Fernando
Valenzuela is a Los Angeles treasure it's Later with Moe Kelly.
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It's later with Mo Kelly k If I am six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We have not
one but two Governor Knew some updates tonight for you,
and one of them just might put Starbucks out of business. Well,
I know it's kind of hyperbole, but it will put
some pressure on Starbucks. We'll tell you about that in
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just a moment, and it's not too late. National Taco
Day is not completely over. We have some deals for you,
and actually some deals which extend throughout the week. So
if you didn't get your free taco or your reduced
price taco, we have help for you. Some unfortunate news,
Dodgers legend Fernando Valezuela has been hospitalized.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We'll talk about that. And that's against the backdrop of.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
A lot of bad, bad news when it comes to
people we know in an entertainment sense or a sports
since we know and love Fernando Valenzuela being just the
latest of them, but not the only one.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
But let me start with I would say the Starbucks killer.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill which is going
to legalize what I should say, has legalized Amsterdam style cannabis. Cafes.
I've never been to Amsterdam. I've heard a lot of
stories about it. Oh, Mark, you've been to Amsterdam, sure
have yep? Okay, now I know the idea of how
these cannabis, I should say, drug cafes are portrayed. What
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are they really like? At least in Amsterdam. They are
about as chill as you could possibly imagine. It's just
like walking into a regular cafe. They've got menus up.
It's perfectly normal. But you need to show a little
bit of restraint because in addition to what you would expect,
they also have chocolates and things like that. And when
the the what do you call them? They're the person
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who pours the coffee. The word's not coming to my
head right now. Not waitress, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Anyway, when the person at the counter tells you just
eat half risk chocolate, burista, thank you very much. Well,
I don't know if it is there a word for
a weed barista, yet, That's what I was looking for.
We need a neologism for a pot burista.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
When they tell you just eat half of the chocolate
you just bought, don't eat the whole chocolate. Even if
you think it's it's not taking effect because you're gonna
have to get led back to your hotel room like
it's and then the snow by a shirt.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Put do what they tell you in those cafes. Was
it just weed?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Were there other pharmaceutical products you could purchase? Her In jest,
I think it was all cannabis related stuff, if I
remember correctly, but it may have changed since then.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's been a while. Well. Talking about California.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
AB seventeen seventy five will allow cannabis retailers to diversify
their business and move away from the limited dispensary model
by now selling non cannabis infused foods. The bill goes
into effect on January first, but local jurisdictions must also
approve and license the new type of business. So to
be clear, they cannot serve you edibles serve you now.
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I'm quite sure you can buy it at the dispensary
and probably consume it in the cafe, but they can't
serve it to you now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
From my understanding, there are a couple of.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Cafes that are connected to dispensaries by way of a hallway,
two separate two separate buildings that are connected by way
of a hallway. Wait, this is like letter the lost
spirit of the law exactly because you can go to
the dispensary and purchase your edibles and your marriage juwanna,
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and then walk through a door down the hallway to
the cafe where you can smoke, enjoy poetry, eat your
edible and all of that. So this, from my understanding,
this eliminates the need for the hallway.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
All I'm saying is if I were Starbucks, I would
be concerned because the whole idea of Starbucks is you're
not just going there for the coffee. You're going there
to be able to hang out, be able to do
some work, to listen to some poetry. If they have
a performer, someone's playing guitar. It is a hangout where
people can convene. Well, if you have a place where
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you can consume cannabis products and get your munchies on
in the same place and don't tell your WiFi, right,
you don't have to go to Taco Bell, and Taco
Bell was very smart talking about National Taco Day. Taco
Bell was very smart about actively courting that crowd, the
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late night munchie's crowd. Now you're saying it can all
be self contained. If I were Starbucks, at least in California,
I would be concerned.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think we can possibly predict a chapter love and
filing for Coffee Bean.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I believe that's coming. Yeah, coffee Bean, you're done. Be sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Sorry you know, and all these mom and pop went
off coffee places.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, you're in trouble as well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Unless they adopt this new cannabis cafe model, which they
probably have the ground floor on dooing, they could possibly easily.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I don't know about that happened because from what I've
heard the people that I know who are in the
dispensary business, it is so cost prohibitive to get the
licensing to be allowed to distribute any type of cannabis products.
And that was part of the issue why you had
the black market places which were still thriving, because the
legal places it was so difficult for them to maintain
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their licenses or just get in. Just the initial costs
was I was told like close to half a million
just trying to get in.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, just think if you have a cafe and you
have a green plus sign where it's say, hey, come
in here, enjoy your cannabis, and few snacks and treats
that might be still a boom for the independent cafe.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You know, I know what you mean, and I don't
know where the law lands on that. As far as
where you can consume cannabis products in public, like you
can you just walk into a McDonald's and consume cannabis products,
I don't know if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I think the lesson to be drawn from Amsterdam is
that people are well behaved, and you can extend that.
You know, they had cannabis for sale in retail establishments
in Seattle a lot sooner, I believe than in La
So it's just like a shop you walk into there,
but here it's like a sally Port high security situation,
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like escape from New York. Decriminalizing all this stuff and
normalizing it doesn't lead to chaos is the lesson that
we take from this.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, it has not as of yet, And I say
that if only because I'm still reticent to agree with
the recreational use of it. You point to Washington, I
would point to Oregon. As far as issues with the
legalization of a lot of drugs, I'm unaware of any
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serious troubles there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
What do you know that I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They've had some issues, and also Oregon has some of
the most liberal small l drug laws in the nation
as far as the amount of substances which they have legalized.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean where I'm coming from on this is that
just from an objective factual, not taking a side of viewpoint,
we know everything about the drug war was a massive
failure that did no good whatsoever, and as a bonus,
ruined countless lives, and so this thing doesn't seem to
have a lot of negatives to me.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, we could debate that some of it is anecdotal
with my life experience people around me, and I've seen
the lives that it has ruined, beyond the criminal aspect
of incarceration, but just the personal livelihoods that it's ruined.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It's same I have as well, and people close to
me as well. But you could use the same anecdotal
approach with alcohol, right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's true. No, absolutely, absolutely want to have a drink later.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I don't know who you think you're talking to. I
never touched the stuff. It's later with mo Kelly Cab
I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And it's interesting Mark that you said alcohol, because when
we come back, we're going to talk about how Governor
Newsom has extended this after hours late night party option
to only one business in all of southern California, the
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Into It Dome, and we'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
LA is not known for great after parties because you
can't have a party in LA for the most part
past maybe one thirty am. Last call got to stop
serving alcohol. As they say, you don't have to go home,
but you got to get the hell up out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I know this because I closed down a lot of
joints as a patron, a lot of bars, a lot
of lounges, a lot of liquor over the years. Last segment,
we were talking about cannabis and these cannabis cafes and Mark
Rodner somehow helped me get to alcohol. Let's talk about alcohol,
how that works. It's still just a party. And Assembly
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Bill thirty two oh six created this carve out for
one venue in all of southern California, which would allow
this one venue in all of southern California to serve
alcohol until four am. Only one venue, not one city,
not one county, not one area.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
One specific venue.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And if you have to, if you look at the
text of this bill, it says specifically the law is
limited to a fully enclosed arena with a seating capacity
of at least eighteen thousand seats located in the city
of Inglewood. That is oddly specific. So we know that
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it's not Sofi Stadium because so far is not fully enclosed.
It's not the Forum because the Forum doesn't have eighteen
thousand seats and the YouTube Theater does not have eighteen
thousand seats. So we're running out of arenas or potentials
which could satisfy these stipulations of at least eighteen thousand
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seats and located in the city of Inglewood as a
fully enclosed arena. The Into It Dome, and we've covered
the story how Steve Balmer and the Into It Dome
they want to have this exclusive club a llah the
Forum Club which the Lakers had, which was jumping. It
was the thing back in the nineteen seventies and early eighties.
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They wanted to create that similar type of party atmosphere,
but only for the into it dome. Here is the
real crux of the matter, And people wondered, like, well,
how is it someone got a law a carve out
for a particular venue?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It mark, I'm going to say it. It begs the question.
Oh no, are you sure that's what you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yes, it begs the question as to whether there was
any level of quid pro quo.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh no, I'm sorry. That raises the question. It does
not infamy. No, it begs. It's begging. It's pleading. I
don't think you know what question means. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no begging.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
The question is assuming the premise into your question, have
you stopped beating your wife yet?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But I'm saying it. It's not actually, it's not a
real question. Okay, it's an assumption. Let's not get hung
up on it. Okay, please proceed. Connie Balmer the wife
of the Clippers owner Steve Balmer. You might know she's
been a very strong supporter of Gavin Newsom and has
donated one million dollars to a committee opposing the recall
efforts against him back in twenty twenty one. It's not
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a direct contribution, but it might as well be. And
even though the bill doesn't specifically mention the end to
it dome, I don't think you can push aside the
fact that the Bambers are financial supporters of Gavid Newsom.
And if you donate a million dollars to someone's anti
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recall bid, there may be something something which may come
back your way in the future, something that you know
might be worth a lot of money to you in return.
I'm not trying to say that there was something untoward.
I'm just saying that one person donated a million dollars
and the other person did something nice for their birthday.
That's all I'm saying. So the end to a Dome
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will have parties until four a m. Opponents of the
law say that, well, this is probably going to encourage
more drunk driving, and it's going to make what is
already a very densely populated and traffic laden area. Because
we've talked about this before with all of those venues,
so mention them by names. So far, YouTube Theater, Kia
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Forum into a dome, and there's there's a Synopolis, the
movie plaza and shops which just went.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Up over there.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
If you've ever driven through there, it is really really
full of people, pedestrians, cars, traffic. Even at two in
the morning, when people are letting out from those other venues,
you still have another two hours of people drinking and
presumably driving. The concern is is going to make it
a much more dangerous area. It's said that the CHP
(14:06):
will monitor the duys and if you've driven through that area.
They have dui checkpoints all the time in Inglewood and
the surrounding area. So if you think that you're going
to be able to drink until four am, even though
that the bar is still serving, and you're going to
be able to get into your car and probably not
encounter CHP on the way home, you're deluding yourself because
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they are all over those venues.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You got to call Stephan to come pick you up. Yeah, hey, Stephan,
how does that work?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Is there anyway Is there any way that we can
request an Uber driver these days?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
No, they still haven't made that because it's it's it
would be too time consuming because if like, let's just
say you're partying in Englewood and I happen to be
working and I'm in Burbank, It's well, how about this, okay?
And I know Uber's listening because they always listen. What
if we had a list of favorite drivers that we
could like star like our favorite locations on our GPS map,
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and then when we use Uber, it will list any
of our starred drivers who were in that area within
let's say a ten mile radius.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's actually not about app. I know, it's a great idea.
It's a great idea because I thought of it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'd just be sitting at home thinking of stuff. Let's
you get to know the person. It's not like that
much of a strange encounter, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well, all I'm.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Saying is it doesn't seem like it would be hard
to add to an app because we're always able to,
you know, save this or favorite that set aside, and
if your favorite driver is it's almost like a dating
app and you get to see who's online or who
is actually on the site at that time.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh yeah, don't ask me how I know that. Okay,
But it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Would be a way that you could figure out, like, hey,
let me talk to so and so or request so
and so as a driver since they are driving and
available in that area. Why would I not go to
a preferred driver? Think of all the groupies, Stephan would have. Yeah, Hey, Stephan,
I got to ask you as anyone recognized you or
(16:05):
made the connection between Steph and the Uber driver and KFI.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, actually the day that I thought I lost my
car when I had to take an Uber Oh, when
we went to the movie driver. Yeah, the driver recognized
me when I was in the car because we were talking.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
So that happened once. Yeah, you're a star.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I guess so KFI am six forty is later with
Mo Kelly. How did I not know that you did
not tell that story we were Yeah, I told that
on the air. No no, no, no, not the car.
I'm talking about being recognized. Yeah, I did. I talked
about it. I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh anything for the Foosh.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Did you get a discount? No, of course, omit you got.
You worked for Uber and you got picked up in
an Uber. You're celebrity famous and you didn't get any
type of discount anything.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I wish we did, but now that doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You don't get any Like when I worked norsetom we
got a discount on a close. You don't get a
discount on rides.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I think just because there's so many. I don't know
why but yeah, we don't get any perks there in
that sense. They should make me president and CEO of Uber.
I turned that thing around, would be done for that.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I know
it's a bit confusing. You're thinking, like, it's National Taco Day,
but usually it's like the first Monday in October, but
it's Tuesday. But Taco Tuesday is when you're supposed to
get tacos. But Taco Tuesday is fine, but the National
Taco Day is.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Actually all week long.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's very confusing, but it's not too late for you
to enjoy National Taco Day, which is which is actually
Taco Week. Okay, does all that make sense? It's Taco Week,
not National Taco Day. For example, Apocool Aoo po Hakapoco
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restaurant in Cantina, they have house margaritas which will go
for two dollars when diners ordered to create your own
combo on October fourth, as in later this week.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
The original National Taco Day, the fourth. Yeah, that was
the original day.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Okay, my point, that's what I'm saying it's very confusing
because it used to be October fourth, and did it
move to the first Monday in October. But this year's
National Taco Day on today, Tuesday was Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Mark acostam me in the hallway and almost pulled a
shank on me, demanding tacos because it was today, and
I said, no, sir, it's the fourth. We had a
big back and forth. I thought it was gonna die.
Don't blame the victim here. I'm the one who's got
to go without tacos. I thought you were a burrito guy. Well,
I like there's room for both. Okay, the Broken Yolk
(18:58):
Cafe never been there. There will be a buy one,
get one half off on Baja Breakfast tacos at participating
locations on Friday the fourth, So not everyone is down
with the whole Taco Tuesday National Taco Day. There's chronic
Tacos Loyalty members can buy one taco and get one
free on October fourth, as it should be Dell Taco,
(19:19):
which I think is superior to Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Sorry, it's just the truth. Today kicks off a month.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Of deals called tacober Taco tacob Fist, October Tacobrafest Taco
pick up these words in the Dell Yeah Rewards app
Rewards members can get one free taco with any purchase
today and the deal on October fourth is a beer
battered crispy fish taco with five dollars purchase.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You can get all this at deltaco dot com. Delpoyo
Loco Local Rewards members can get three chicken tacos from
five dollars from today through October fourth. That means the
rest of the week, so it's not just today, it's
Taco week.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But see, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And I think that a lot of these restaurants righteously
so are maintaining that National Taco Day be on the
fourth because the whole brew haha and kerfuffle about this
Taco National Taco Day being the first is all a
product of Taco Bell in corporate America. Taco Bell lobbied
(20:24):
the national calendars to make it today because Taco Bell
took ownership of Taco Tuesdays.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Actually, yes, they tried to take ownership of it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Commandeer, you should be against this because you mark you
don't like, uh, this type of corporate intrusions, big tacos.
It's free market taco capitalism. What are you talking about? Okay,
back to the story. It's Almos Rigor Sando.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Elrito House, Mortgan ritos would go for two dollars win
dinners order. I already said that Miguel Juniors customers can
get two traditional or soft tacos with choice of chicken
or beef for five dollars today, so you better hurry up.
Rubios Coastal Grill customers can get a Rubio's fish taco
(21:19):
and those are good. Those are fire for two dollars
and fifty cents today, So you're running out of time.
But there are a couple of offers for Rewards members.
On October fourth, they can get a free taco with
any purchase on that date only on the fourth, and
if they check in the app, they can become eligible
to win.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
A free taco a day for a year. Would you
want a taco a day for a year?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
No, waiting for a week, I wouldn't want to taco
a day. Maybe the option to get one if I
want one, but I wouldn't want to actually have one
every day for a year.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Three hundred and sixty five tacos.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Absolutely. I'm still waiting for the taco truck on every corner.
We were promised. Who promised that? I don't remember, but
I want it and I want it promptly. Okay, that
was Maribath Day one.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, Taco Bell, here you go, Twala. There will be
hourly drops of dollar tacos for rewards members on the
Taco Bell app between ten am and seven pm.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oop today, well too late. Sounds like a lot of
specials went out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I looked into that, and you gotta be a rewards.
You can't just drive up to the window and say,
I like my one dollar taco please, sir.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a whole deal with that. That that
made me angry.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Okay, let's let's just ask, and let's just be clear
here which place is superior, Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Or Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't really like Dell Taco shells. They're a little gabie.
I did say Tacos. I'm just saying the places I
take Taco Bell for me. Okay, you're wrong, all right,
Twala said, I said, I said Taco Bell.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Okay, he's wrong to mark your vote on Taco Bell.
I'm not sure I have a dog to eat in
this fight. I am more of a sharky dog. Any dog,
what you do. It's been on my mind lately because
of the news. But eating dog, I can't.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I don't really have a huge preference between Taco Bell
and Delta.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you if you're going right now, like, what would
you go do?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Whatever is closest, whatever is open when I get off work,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh, it would be Del Taco for me. I prefer
their burritos.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I prefer their case of dias and Taco Bell tastes like.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
A salt bomb.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I was gonna say, Okay, I think Del Taco does
have better burritos, but I like Taco Bell tacos a
little bit more.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I don't have a lot of experience with Del Taco,
but I was desperate getting out of work one night late,
and I stopped at the drive through there and the
guy was closing up, and I said, well, just give
me whatever you got, please, and he took pity on me.
He gave me some grotesque thing that had like potatoes
in it. Yeah, bacon, and that's the that's the caso
fresco whatever, and their britles fall apart in your hand.
(23:51):
They're like eating burritos soup. I want to throw this
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, look, I will give Taco Bell credit for one thing,
the Mexican pizza.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Everybody those are fire would slap. They do slap, They
slapooy movie.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
There's a discrepancy because I kind of figured and you
guys are talking about Taco Bell's Taco Tuesday. Taco Bell
actually filed a petition to make Taco Tuesday available for
everyone because they feel that it should be freely available
to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Wasn't there some issue with Lebron James trying to fight
for the copyright of Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, he did that too.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
But he partnered with Taco Bell to take the ownership
of Taco Tuesday away from a local restaurant tour here
in the Southland who did trademark. They had a loose
trade Marco Johns Taco John's, Yes, and and they big
business them and took it away from the little guy.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
That's why. I so, why is it so? Why is
it you like Taco Bell?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Then their food is superior to Del Taco, to Del
Taco to del Taco. There is no Taco Johnson every corner,
otherwise i'd go there. I don't even know where this
Taco John's is, but I support you. Taco Tuesday should
belong to all of us.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Come on now, now when it comes to Taco Tuesday,
I'm going to El Touredo Taco Tuesdays at El Toedo.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh you're the bomb, okay, that's fire?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Why I mean you're talking about what
taco I mean, why, poor Katy, I require an explanation.
Uh see the play all you could eat tacos. Oh okay,
and they're real tacos.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
They're real tackles, soft shackles, yes, cook the shells and yeah,
real tacos.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So who's gonna go and get us tacos at this hour?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
They used to have an El Toedo right down the
street on Olive, and it's no longer there.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They turned it into a Chick fil A. And see
that's why you're not getting tacos. Clock's chicken. We need
them fast. There's nothing I can do. I mean, we
used to have like some junior producers. They don't give
us junior producers anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
We had Lindsay. But Lindsay wasn't filling HS, so she
had to go home.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Like I said, we don't have junior producers anymore. The
schedules said that she was going to be in, and
now she's not in. Otherwise we'd have tacos and I'd
have probably a burrito or something.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well, then now this is this is pointless. If you're
getting burritos tomorrow, no Friday. I can't have a burrito
on National Taco Day?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Why is it? I can't do both? Who does that?
Mark Ronner? Why not you would eat both? Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You can't have a burrito and a taco on National
Taco Day. No, you can't have a waffle and a
pancake on National Pancake Day.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
No kind person are you? Who knew you were such
a stickler for this stuff? You can't have bacon and
sausage on National Bacon Day? Hell? No, same animal. It's
a different portion. It's a different No. I know this.
It's all parts. Is parts, It's just parts.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It's just the The bacon is just like it's the skin, right,
It's like the crackly skin skin.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't know. I think it's a skin. I just
think it's a thin shaving. Oh. Oh, it's a thin shaving. Oh.
I think we're over.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You're listening to with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
And all my years of working in entertainment, I want
to think, with the exception of the year twenty sixteen,
I don't remember a year of such bad news when
it came to sports figures, celebrities, movie stars, whatever, passing
away or falling ill. I don't remember a time in
(27:26):
which there were so many in such a short amount
of time. Not that celebrities or sports heroes are any
better than us or any more important than us, but
they are very much linked to our childhood, to some
of the best moments in our life. They have access
to our memories and ways that other people just don't,
(27:47):
so they have an outsized importance when it comes to
their health issues or when they should eventually pass. And
I'm not predicting ill or a poor end result for
former Dodgers pitcher and broadcaster Fernando Valnezuela, but I just
know from my discussions with people within the Dodgers organization
(28:12):
it is very, very serious. What is going on with
Fernando Valezuela.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yo this year LA in a minute news for Tuesday,
October first, and a terrible headline being reported by David
Fidalsin of teenud and Televisa Unavision in Mexico City that
Fernando Vealezuela has been hospitalized with undisclosed health problems after
stepping away from the booth and the Dodgers last week.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It looked frail.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
He looked weak in those photos, but again no details
are known. But what is noticed that Fernando had one
of the biggest impacts on Dodger history. The kid from
Etchewaquilas and Nora, Mexico came to La, learned a screwball
from East LA's Bobby Castillo, and used that screwball and
the delivery where he would look up to the heavens
to win Rookie of the Year, side a World Series
(29:01):
and just have a fantastic career with the Dodgers that
culminated with him being inducted into the Ring of Honor,
retiring as number thirty four on a memorable Fernando Valzuela
weekend last year. Fernando, of course responsible for bringing Latino
fans back into the fold.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I remember Fernandomania and if you're not old enough to
remember this rookie who did not look all that physically athletic,
it did not look like he was an athlete, did
not look like he could really be a major league pitcher.
He had a weird wind up, where as they said
in the news clip, where he would look to the heavens,
(29:41):
so a runner or even a batter could not fix
their eyes on where the pitch was going. It just
seemed like it was coming out of nowhere. And if
you're not really knowledgeable about baseball, a screwball is the
exact opposite of a curveball. It has the exact opposite rotation,
it does the exact opposite, and not many players have
ever thrown it on a major league level. It's really
(30:04):
damaging to the arm, and it's a hard pitch to throw.
But Fernando Valenzuela was able to throw it with such
a superior skill that not only did he start off
some eight and oh, there was a magic around the
city of Los Angeles that the only thing I can
compare it to since would be Shohei o Tani in
(30:26):
the past five or six weeks or so, or maybe
Mandy would with Manny Ramirez some ten years or so back.
Those are the only things which even come close to it.
Fernando Valenzuela has been a beloved person within Los Angeles
and Dodger lore for decades and decades now to what
(30:46):
is happening right now. I always get very, very very
concerned when we don't get any information, when someone leaves
their posts or broadcasts both with new of an undisclosed illness.
That if you've seen the pictures recently of Fernando Vealnezuela,
like I said, when he first came to the league,
(31:07):
he was a heavy guy who's a chubby guy. He
did not look like a professional athlete, and the most
recent pictures he looked like he's lost some eighty pounds
or so, a shell of himself. Obviously he has not
been in good health for a long time. But the
point I want to make is when we get no information,
that usually is dire, that historically is dire. And I
(31:29):
will use a contemporary example to Kimba Mutambo, who I
went to Georgetown with. We graduated together the same class.
We were friends and classmates. He was diagnosed with brain
cancer years ago. I want to say, maybe three years ago,
but it wasn't known by the general public, and the
reason being they didn't want the general public to worry.
(31:52):
They didn't want people constantly asking about his health, about
his status, and so was something that people like alumni knew.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
People who were.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Closer to university classmates we knew, but for the most
part it was not publicized. And when you don't get
a lot of information, it usually trends in a negative direction.
And we didn't get to see any more of the Kimba.
He didn't make any more public appearances. You didn't get
to hear from him. He wasn't even doing radio interviews.
(32:20):
And then we got the news earlier this week that
he had passed on. Now, if there's any good news
out of this is that Fernando Valenzuela was doing his
job up until this week.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Hopefully this story will end differently.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But given all the bad news that we've been hearing
about some of our favorite actors and actresses and television personalities,
movie stars and sports figures, you know, it doesn't sound good.
But we're going to hope for the best because Fernando
Valenzuela is a Los Angeles treasure it's Later with Moe Kelly.
(32:55):
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