August 22, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Chris Merrill filling in ‘Later, for Mo’Kelly’ with thoughts on the Trump’s pledge to end the use of mail-in ballots & voting machines; while demonstrating how easy it is to start a conspiracy when all evidence is to the contrary…PLUS - Olive Garden’s “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” promotion is back, at the same low price for the fourth consecutive year - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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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 (00:07):
Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty more stimulating talking from
O Kelly. My internet connection went bubonic just before the break.
But I appreciate Mark jumping in there and bailing me out.
Thank you, sir, I got you back, bubonic, hydraulic, whatever
you got going on? Oh hydraulic, Yeah, ooh, that's not bad.
I like hydraulic. We might have to work on that one.
(00:28):
I told that from Mark Twain. You were sounding like
a character out of The Innocence Abroad for a minute there,
and that was your literary moment for thirsty. That's that's wonderful. Yeah,
I read nice. Yeah, yeah, I don't even know what
to say.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Nothing, that's all I could saying.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got nothing then, yeah, nothing If you missed it,
I believe yesterday, day before or whatever. This this week,
the President said that we've got to stop with the
mail in ballots. In fact, I think it was after
his meeting with Vladimir Putin, and Putin Putin, according to Trump,
told him that he's impossible to have fair election with
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million ballot. I don't know what Putin's accent is really bad.
I don't know if you've noticed, it's just terrible. Putin's
Russian accent is horrible, but he basically said your election
was According to Trump, Putin told him the election was rigged.
You can't have a fair election with mail in ballots,
which begs a couple of different questions, which I don't
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think that you're supposed to. You're not supposed to imagine
beyond the surface of what you're told. You're only supposed
to take at face value what the president says. President
Trump says that he was told by another great leader,
someone he respects very much, Vladimir Putin, that our election
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system is all.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Messed up too much the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The trouble is that if if it's true that Putin
told Trump that you it's impossible to have fair elections
with mail in balloting. There it's basically an admission that
Russia is trying to hack our election process and somehow
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is being They're using mail in balloting and machines to
do so.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's one and two.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It would basically invalidate Trump's win, where he got for
the first time the GOP winning the popular vote in
twenty years eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So no, no, twenty years. It was two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So are we supposed to actually believe then, that Vladimir
Putin said this, that Vladimir Putin told Trump you didn't
win the.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Election, I had to rig it for you. I don't
think we're supposed to think that far. Are you suggesting
that the dictator of Russia may not be an entirely
credible source.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is going to blow your mind. Yeah, I don't
think Putin actually said it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think that President Trump wanted to bring the issue
back up because midterms and he doesn't want to lose
control during the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He doesn't want to look like the guy who couldn't
hang on to it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But the midterms are coming and it's just what happens.
So this is the latest Trump's war on mail in balloting.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
For ABC News, President Trump says he will sign an
executive order to get rid of mail in ballots and
voting machines. Studies have shown mail in voting fraud is rare,
and in those few instances, the perpetrator was punished and
votes were never counted. But the president now says elections
can never be honest with mail in Ballots. Absnews Washington
Bureau Managing editor Catherine Falders is here with Warren.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Katherine Falder's very smart, wonderful reporter, talk to her many times.
Don't want to hear from her right now. He's not
gonna be able to do this. First of all, for
those of you that think he's going to write an
executive order, whether you're pro exact order to get rid
of mail in ballots or you're anti, he's not gonna
be able to. It is pretty explicitly laid out in
the Constitution that you don't get to do that. A
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number of attorneys general and secretaries of state have already
threatened lawsuits and that would tie everything up well before
the midterms anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So don't worry about that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But you have to wonder, why is it that after
twenty twenty, Trump said don't trust mail in ballots, mail
in ballots, and the reason we lost it was very unfair. Look,
I watched a movie on YouTube two thousand mules. Definitely
not debunked many different times. Definitely hasn't been disavowed by
the actual place that put out the film in the
first place. Definitely totally true. I know it's true. And
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then what happens in twenty twenty two, The red wave
doesn't come, right, the red Wave didn't happen. I mean,
Republicans got Republicans got con No, they didn't, right, I'm
trying to think, no, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So the red Wave didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So the Republican smarty pants said, guys, we got to
get back on this, and it became this conspiracy theory
and it's all part of this. Everything is someone else's
fault era that we're in. We just we point to
things that are unfamiliar and we say, that's why I'm
not getting what I want, that's why things aren't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
My life isn't the way I want it to be.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's because of the Grand scheme. And I'm a victim.
And then you've got someone championing that, someone that says, listen, Conservatives, listen, Republicans,
you didn't lose, it was stolen from you. You're a victim,
and so am I. And you see this with people
who tend to have maturation issues, emotional maturation issues, logics
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in cells, racists, xenophobes, and of course no account politicians
except no count politicians are counting on the useful idiots
to push that message along. In twenty twenty, massive mail
in voting was new to the majority of the country
and things didn't go very well for one party, and
of course Biden won. And then the Democrats they had
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a very good election in twenty twenty, and so what
do they do. They laid the blame of the thing
that was different. The trouble is the stat geeks on
the right said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Our voters are
using the mail in voting. We need the mail in
voting for the older voters who tend to be more conservative.
We can't tell people not to use it. We're gonna
lose votes. We can't tell people don't vote because the
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system is rigged.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's gonna cost us. And they did.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You didn't see the red wave. So the push shifted
back in twenty twenty four and we hear this, get your.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ballots in early mailemen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Now every politician wants the mail in ballots because as
soon as you vote, it's locked in. You vote, it's luck.
There is no more October surprise. When we have people
that are using early voting, and they're using the mail
in balance. You don't have a national inquirer's story popping
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out about the vice presidential candidate having an affair fathering
a child outside of marriage while his wife is fighting
off cancer.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Right, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, what a hell of a politician Edwards was too, huh,
who scumbag? But now you've got this push to reconnect
with the roots, the victim class, the same people who
see everything bad in their lives is part of a conspiracy.
And the beauty of a good conspiracy is you can't
disprove it. A good conspiracy taps into the feelings of helplessness.
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I lost, How could I have possibly lost? How do
I get over this? Wait, you don't have to. All
you have to do is fight the shadows. Oh yes,
the boogeym out of the shadows, and then you feel productive.
I'm fighting, even if it's futile. It's not unlike during
the pandemic. We all went and bought toilet paper. Why
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because we wanted to have some sort of control over
those things that we couldn't control. So you believe in
the conspiracy even if there is no logic behind it,
because you want to believe it. It makes you feel better,
It empowers you, It relieves you of any responsibility in
your own life, and your stress goes from disappointment and
everything in your own life, and the decisions you've made
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to anger over some nefarious and nebulous forces that's picked
on you made you their target. In other words, you
go from being a supporting character. If there were video games,
you'd be a non playable character into being the main character.
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You are special because you are worth picking on. Yes,
you see, the other party is afraid of you, and
so you're a hero if you stand up to those
evil doers.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And then creating the.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Boogeyman gives the politicians cover to do things that we
otherwise would not accept. Look at the redistricting fight going
out in Texas in here now, why is Texas redistricting?
Because Trump says we have to do it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Or else the liberals will steal the election from us.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And so California says, why don't we suspend our own constitution?
Ask the voters to suspend our own constitution so that
we can fight back against the evil doers in Texas.
And we all become useful idiots, because what choice do
we have. I do have a fun exercise if you
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guys want to do this, because obviously somebody pissing materials tonight?
Is that fair to say? I am really grumpy tonight.
I don't have any idea why. I've had a really
good day. I got going on the show today. It
felt like a good show, but for whatever reason, the
topics have got me really grumpy. I'm gonna say it's
that's fair. Uh made her whipperhead writer Robin's like, what
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I have a I want to play a game. Let's
do a choose your own conspiracy. I want to start
a conspiracy theory. I think I can do it. I'm
gonna walk you through the process of doing it. You
tell me if you believe me by the time we're
done with it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (10:28):
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and you can
listen any time on demand of the iHeartRadio. All right,
let's stimulate you. Let's choose your own conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
All right? Well that seems a lot like a lot
of fun. Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I was just telling you about this whole mail in
ballad thing which is it works really good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Because it works really well, I should say, because.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We can just say that if we don't win the
midterm elections, it's because of mail in balloting.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So President Trump is doing two things.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One, he's casting doubt on the system so that he
can appeal to the basis says, yeah, that's right, there's
this nebulous force that's out to get us, the Libs
in the vast left wing conspiracy is taking everything over.
And then two, he's already building it his excuse if
he loses control of the House of the Senate. Right,
Miss Mary Trump here, we've seen this play out before.
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He's how many times has he told us the election
was rigged before the election happens. He he pre excuses things.
He was saying in twenty twenty four the election was rigged,
and then he won it, and then it wasn't rigged anymore, Right,
I mean, this is is par for the course. So
I thought, how hard is it to start your own conspiracy?
And I started thinking about how do we do it?
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And I think the first thing that we have to
do is we have to find something from one from
the viewpoint of one side or the other that we
don't like. So I've been talking about trumpet his conspiracy
theories and how a number of his base buy into it.
So I'm going to pick on the left now because
I'm an equal opportunity offender, and I saw this story
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from the New York Times.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Today because I'm gonna lead us.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The Democratic Party faces voter registration crisis. The Democratic Party
is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the
polls of the thirty states the track voter registration by
political party Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single
one between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, and often
by a lot. It is a swing toward the Republicans
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of four and a half million voters. Okay, that's your report.
Now I hear that, and I go, my goodness. The
Democratic Party's messaging is completely off base. The Republican Party
has done a really good job of messaging.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They are making people.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Feel like they're the fighters, like they're the leaders. The
Democratic Party has had feeble leadership. Biden did not project strength,
and the kind then chose Trump. That's why he became
the first Republican to win the majority of votes, the
popular majority since Bush in two thousand and four, I said,
I thought that's the reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Explanation for it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But if we were to choose our own conspiracy theory,
what would we do. We would take that story, and
the story is that Trump won the election and the
country is shifting, right. All the data shows it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But if we're going to try to pitch a conspiracy
theory to suckers, what we don't have to do is
associate that thing that we don't like with someone or
some group that we don't like. So if I'm pitching
this to people on the left, they go, oh, Trump
and Maga, oh they oh, the country's not shifting right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Trump and Maga are doing they're cheating.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
See, we just abandoned reason, we abandoned logic, we abandon
personal accountability, and then we blame everything on the person
or the people that we don't like, and then we
offer this nefarious explanation the MAGA is cheating, they're changing
voter rolls. Say it takes a charismatic leader to sell this,
and once they do, people buy it, and then you
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end up with horrible authoritarians.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It helps if you can uncover a.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Plausible but very far fetched explanation and you don't have
to have evidence.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You could cherry pick fragments of evidence if you want to,
and you can twist actual facts that may be useful,
or just make crap up, like you could say Trump
and his minions change the voter rules, they deleted votes,
they manipulated machines to give him the victory in twenty
twenty four. The election was stolen. Basically, you're just spitting
the same stuff that he said. You're just saying it
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to the left this time, and they go.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, that's right. He did.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He told everybody he was doing that when he claimed
the other side was doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
From the story from the New York Times. The swing
from the left to the right.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Helps explain President Trump' success last year when he won
the popular vote for the first time. He swept the
swing states and he roared back to the White House.
But then you put your conspiratorial spin on it. You say,
you see, I told you Trump can only win the
popular vote if he rigs the election. No Republican of
twenty years has won that popular vote. And now you
expect that more than half the country actually wanted a
thirty four time fell in from Jeffrey Epstein's list to
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be in the White House.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
No, of course not.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The country already voted him out on a landslide. But
now they change their minds and they want him back.
That's not possible. It makes no sense. And the more
you appeal excuse me, the more that you appear to
be appealing to their logic by saying statistically, it just
doesn't happen. You're actually appealing to their emotion, right, And
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the deeper ingrained the conspiracy theory becomes, it really starts.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
To take hold.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Then you make up some facts that counter the actual
research by claiming, you know, it's statistically impossible to have
thirty states shift in one direction without a major social
disruption like a depression or a war. The country doesn't
vacillate in unison like that, it's impossible. And then if
you really want to sell your conspiracy theory you get
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buy in.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You're gonna need an endorsement from somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Viewed as credible, even if that credibility is only within
the conspiracy class. It doesn't matter. And the bigger the name,
the better. We saw Trump do this when he's talking
about the mail in Balance. He says Vladimir Putin told
me that you can't have a secure election if you
have mail in balance.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Right, he's using him as the celebrity endorsement.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The other thing that you can do if you're trying
to create your own conspiracy theory is just make up
your own expert, kind of a man behind the curtain type,
the great and Powerful OS or just Q whatever it is.
You have to have the perception of legitimacy, right. That
was all QAnon's thing, with some sort of an insider.
Q knows what's going on. Q is on the inside.
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Q is a higher up. Q is in on all
the meetings. And then, of course the big one is
you have to spread the word because you too could
be a thought leader if you start your own podcast, Yes,
be a real life podcaster.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You could add influencer to your bio.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just make sure that you continue to appeal to emotion
and a sense of victimhood, that someone is stealing something
from you, someone is hunting you. And then you can
just claim to be a champion and provide facts, even
if they are alternative facts. You want to make a
go worldwide, start a blog. It sounds very two thousand
and four. Its still has its place. So don't call
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it a blog. Call it a newsletter or a substack.
Do that, and then you can claim that you're a
journalist training an experience, be damned.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Or get this. You could get a radio talk show.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You don't even have to be in a powerhouse station
like this one, and I mean it helps. All you
really need are legitimate call letters, real call letters that
you can add to your signature line or your press
release when you're quoting yourself, says Chris Merrill KFI Radio,
Los Angeles. And maybe, just maybe you could land a
position the cabinet or maybe even be president one day.
That is, if the vast left wing or right wing nationalist, immigrant,
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gay right bigots don't cheat and keep you all down.
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Speaker 3 (18:33):
You guys want to hear rumor want to hear a
good rumor well, of course, all right, yeah, I love
this rumor.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Rumor has it you're gonna get a monster check from
the government. I think it's safe to say we can
all agree the government loves to give money to people.
That is basically the goal of the government. Just give
you money, send a check up. Were spreading online that
the US government is soon going to be issuing stimulus
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checks to taxpayers in certain income tax brackets. The claim
is that the IRS and the Treasury Department have approved
one thousand, three hundred and ninety dollars stimulus checks that
are gonna be distributed to low and middle middle income
taxpayers by the end of the summer.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Do you know what I love about.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
This this rumor, which of course is a hoax. It
follows kind of what I was discussing before, and that
you just you make something up that seems plausible by
saying that you're going to get a stimulus check, but
putting out a number that is obscure. They didn't say
you're gonna get a fourteen hundred dollars check. They said
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you're gonna get a one thousand, three hundred and ninety
dollars check. That number is so specific. How could it
possibly be made up, right, Like, well, that's that's got
to be the number. I mean, why wouldn't they just
round it if it weren't an actual accounting thing, right,
so they say one three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Fun little story. When I was.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I was early twenties, my parents were moving. We lived
a in a this is gonna sound like a like
a downplay things. We lived in a poor area of
northern Michigan. Now when I say that, it's not like
I came. It was very middle class growing up. It's
just that the town we were in, I guess we
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were considered the rich people. My parents had a combined income.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
This is no joke.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
My parents had a combined income in the nineteen nineties
of fifty thousand dollars and that put us in the
top five percent of earners in our in our home county.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So we were rolling in it. We were not.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Anyway, They were trying to sell the house and they
they were asking they were asking like one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars for this house at the time,
and this would have been this would have been right
around I mean, god, y, I think it was like
two thousand five, two thousand and four, two thousand and five,
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that they were selling this this house and they only
won one hundred twenty five thousand dollars. But at the time, no,
this tells you just how crappy my hometown is.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't know why, but it's it's just who I am.
It would have been the first house in my hometown
that sold for more than six figures, and I would
have been in two thousand and five. You remember in
two thousand and five when you couldn't get your hands
and this is before the market crapped. You couldn't get
your hands in a house in southern California for under
about four hundred, five hundred thousand dollars. And yet my
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parents sold the very first house in my hometown that
sold for more than one hundred thousand dollars. I think
they were asking about one twenty five. They couldnt get
anybody buy it because everything else in town pretty run down,
but they were selling for, you know, sixty seventy eighty thousand.
So my dad did something and he said, let's try this.
So he changed the asking price from one hundred and
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twenty five thousand dollars, and I think they had dropped
it to like one twenty or something like that, you know,
you know, price drop. So he changed the asking price
to something obscure, like one hundred twenty one thousand, eight
hundred fifty one dollars, something very specific, and he said,
let's try this, and the house sold. And I said,
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why did you do that? And he said, because I
wanted people to believe that that number had a very
specific target, like this is what we owe on the mortgage.
The buyer's never going to know that, but if we
give them a number that makes it look like this
is what we have, we literally have to have this number.
Then all of a sudden it felt like people were
getting it at cost. And he was right, it's sold. Now,
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maybe it was just coincidence that it's sold. But when
we talk about this idea that suddenly we're all going
to start getting this this stimulus check of one three
hundred and ninety dollars, that number just seems way too
the nose.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It's not fourteen hundred dollars, it's not twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's one three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Have we gotten it? No? No, we have not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Some of this plays off of the proposal by Josh Hawley,
the Senator from Missouri, who introduced a bill that would
give some tax rebates to qualified taxpayers, be people, I believe,
I recall its correctly making under seventy thousand dollars a
year using some of the revenue from the tariffs that
that we're you know, we're taxing people on right now anyway,
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So it seemed plausible ish, But of course it's not.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We're not We're not cutting a check for billions of
dollars to redistribute out of the like, why would we
have the tariffs in the first place. Oh, I know,
because we have a gross misunderstanding of how tariffs work.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
As much as prices are going up all over the
place and so far tonight I told you about Walmart
is saying that they are gonna have to start raising
some prices and it's hitting the lower and middle income
of buyers more. Well, I think we talked about prices
a little bit yesterday. There are a couple of places
that have some good news, and I will tell you
what those places are and how your fourteen dollars is
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going to go as far in twenty twenty five as
it did in twenty twenty two. Inflation be damned. That
is next Chris merrill In for mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Chris merrill In from o Kelly Tonight KFI AM six
forty more stimulating talk. You can listen anytime on demand
of the iHeart Radio app. To Wala has a surprise
for us at the top of the hour. I'm told,
is this a good surprise or a bad surprise?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's the best kind of surprise. Oh okay, yes, then
I was like it, that's a heck of a tease.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, my friend, all right, to Wala's big surprise coming
up here after nine o'clock. Also an update on the
Menendi because one half of the Menendi, E Menendez, got
some news today, so that I know Mark's been covering that.
We'll dive into it a little bit here after after
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the nine o'clock news. Fourteen dollars doesn't go as far
today as it did just three years ago, all because
of inflation, whether it's Biden's inflation, or Trump's tariff inflation.
We all know fourteen dollars just doesn't go as far
as it used to. Did Well, not so fast, my friends,
as Lee Corso used to say.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
From the gang at KTLA.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
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the deal beginning Monday, but if you're a the E Club,
you get it today. It runs through November sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
All right, today in this case was last weeknd like Friday,
So it's back it. It is going to start on
the twenty fifth, twenty fifth, twenty fifth, so yes, but
you have to be a part of their E Club.
Do I have to pay to be a part of
the E Club?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You guys? Know?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Is that just like their membership? You just sign up
for their app or something. I don't know, but it
always comes with strings, doesn't it. You gotta download an app,
you gotta get a tattoo something.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Oh okay, well, the tattoo thing.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
We've seen that where you're like get free taco bell
if your tattooed, you know, the chihuahua on your face.
But I am so everywhere you go you have to
download the stupid app.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, you can't even go to Taco Well, I mean
you can, but they really emphasize they lean on you.
Even at Taco Bell get the app order through the app.
Have you looked at the difference in price when you
go to McDonald's and just hit the drive through versus
McDonald on the app and you're supposed to go through
drive through and they say are you using rewards today?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And you go, no, I have a code, and they go, okay,
what is it? Why did you ask me if I'm
using rewards? I don't what is that?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Even?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Do I have rewards? How do I use my rewards?
My rewards? How does that work? Driving me nuts? Too complicated?
I just want some lousy fast food. I don't want
you in my phone. Thank you? When I go to McDonald's.
Here's what I want. Hello, welcome to McDonald's. May I
take your order?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Please?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I would like a combo meal a big mac, and yes,
of course obviously supersize that, but give me a diet coke.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm trying to thin down this is what we should
be doing. Nope, gotta have an app.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Have you looked at the difference in prices, because all
the specials are on the app. So if you just
want to go to McDonald's, you're gonna pay out the nose.
If you use the app, you're still gonna pay out
the nose. But it's gonna smell better all of McDonald's.
I guess it's they're in a little bit of a
turf war.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Two.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
They're lowering the cost of their combo meals after consumers
were left sticker shocked by Big Mac meals. They say
they climbed to eighteen dollars in some places.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Whoa man, man, you don't see that at in and out?
No you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Let's see the chain is running five dollars breakfast and
eight dollars Big Mac and McNugget combo meal specials later
this year, marketing them as extra value meals.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Isn't that what they always were? Weren't they always called
extra value meals? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I think they they change up the terminology so they
use all the same words out but it's just in
a slightly different order. Extra super secret value meal. Okay,
double plus value yeah, yes, yeah. Do you remember when
they came out with the one two three menu, But
it was like, okay, here's your dollar it's the dollar menu.
And there became the one two three dollar menu. Then
it became the couple of bucket. It's terrible. So I
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guess now they call them combo meals, but they're going
to roll these out as the extra value meals, which
is I always thought that's what they were to start with.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I guess not. Let me see current Big Mac combo
meal discounts. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Uh combo in Los Angeles. That's the one that's important.
If we're to buy everything a la carte for your
big Mac combo twelve seventy seven, if you get the
combo meal, you save almost two dollars. Still, almost eleven
dollars for a big Mac meal seems high. Still, it does.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Have you seen the new Dominoes ad?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
But I had to get their app too though, Oh
me too? Oh crazy, But they have a really good ad.
It's pretty smart. I think it's I think genuinely believe
this is smart. A lot of people are taking there.
They're going after McDonald's because the prices have jumped up
so much so you've seen what is it Chili's, it's
like twelve dollars. You could get this gourmet burger or
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you could get that burger. I'm like, that's pretty good marketing.
But then Dominoes had an ad. You know, they got
like their six ninety nine menu, so they've got you know,
a bunch of difference that you get like I don't know,
eight chicken, or you get there what do you call it,
not the.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
The whatever it is, you know, the sandwiches and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Or they go or you could get the medium one
topping pizza and they go a medium one topping pizza
and then they show it slicing and they go for
six ninety nine, you get this, and they go, or
you could get a six to ninety nine burger, and
then they cut the burger into six pieces, and then
you've got a bunch of kids grabbing just a little
tiny little piece of burger and.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
They're like, that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And I thought that's really good. Oh that makes me sad,
it really does. But I thought domino has done a
really good job of showing how much value there is.
And there's six ninety nine meal. But I gotta tell
you my son. My son lives to me still. He
is way too old to do that, but he still
lives with me, and he still convinces me to buy
his dinner every Friday night, so we always get pizza.
And I'm glad he likes pizza because it is so much.
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I get so much more for it. I'm I'm bugs
the hell out of me when I buy a couple
of pizzas and I always get some sides or whatever,
and it'll be at fifty bucks. But I just think
I've gone through the fast food place and picked up
meals for the for the family, and it's been fifty
bucks before too, and there's nothing left at the end.
At least when I spend fifty bucks on pizza, I
got some leftovers for a day or two.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
The thing about Dominoes is, though less would be more
with Dominoes, they send me at least at least one
email every single day. It's like I didn't forget that
you make pizza. Okay, I'm not sure how much you
think you need to remind me that I'm able to
order a pizza from you, But I don't need one
or two emails a day, certainly not I'm the worst
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at ordering pizza, and then they're like, thank you for
ordering pizza. Here's a coupon code for fifty percent off
for your next one. And then the next Friday comes around,
I completely forget I have a coupon code somewhere in
my email, and then I never use it, maddening, driving
me crazy. I downloaded your app. Shouldn't my coupon just
automatically be downloaded out.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Of the app? Noop, Just put a chip in me
and get it over with. Thank you, thank you. You're
following my every move anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
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Chris Merril CAFI AM six forty more stimulating talking from
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But I appreciate Mark jumping in there and bailing me out.
Thank you, sir, I got you back, bubonic, hydraulic, whatever
you got going on? Oh hydraulic, Yeah, ooh, that's not bad.
I like hydraulic. We might have to work on that one.
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I told that from Mark Twain. You were sounding like
a character out of The Innocence Abroad for a minute there,
and that was your literary moment for thirsty. That's that's wonderful. Yeah,
I read nice. Yeah, yeah, I don't even know what
to say.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Nothing, that's all I could saying.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I got nothing then, yeah, nothing If you missed it,
I believe yesterday, day before or whatever. This this week,
the President said that we've got to stop with the
mail in ballots. In fact, I think it was after
his meeting with Vladimir Putin, and Putin Putin, according to Trump,
told him that he's impossible to have fair election with
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million ballot. I don't know what Putin's accent is really bad.
I don't know if you've noticed, it's just terrible. Putin's
Russian accent is horrible, but he basically said your election
was According to Trump, Putin told him the election was rigged.
You can't have a fair election with mail in ballots,
which begs a couple of different questions, which I don't
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think that you're supposed to. You're not supposed to imagine
beyond the surface of what you're told. You're only supposed
to take at face value what the president says. President
Trump says that he was told by another great leader,
someone he respects very much, Vladimir Putin, that our election
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system is all.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Messed up too much the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The trouble is that if if it's true that Putin
told Trump that you it's impossible to have fair elections
with mail in balloting. There it's basically an admission that
Russia is trying to hack our election process and somehow
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is being They're using mail in balloting and machines to
do so.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's one and two.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It would basically invalidate Trump's win, where he got for
the first time the GOP winning the popular vote in
twenty years eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So no, no, twenty years. It was two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So are we supposed to actually believe then, that Vladimir
Putin said this, that Vladimir Putin told Trump you didn't
win the.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Election, I had to rig it for you. I don't
think we're supposed to think that far. Are you suggesting
that the dictator of Russia may not be an entirely
credible source.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is going to blow your mind. Yeah, I don't
think Putin actually said it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think that President Trump wanted to bring the issue
back up because midterms and he doesn't want to lose
control during the midterms.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He doesn't want to look like the guy who couldn't
hang on to it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But the midterms are coming and it's just what happens.
So this is the latest Trump's war on mail in balloting.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
For ABC News, President Trump says he will sign an
executive order to get rid of mail in ballots and
voting machines. Studies have shown mail in voting fraud is rare,
and in those few instances, the perpetrator was punished and
votes were never counted. But the president now says elections
can never be honest with mail in Ballots. Absnews Washington
Bureau Managing editor Catherine Falders is here with Warren.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Katherine Falder's very smart, wonderful reporter, talk to her many times.
Don't want to hear from her right now. He's not
gonna be able to do this. First of all, for
those of you that think he's going to write an
executive order, whether you're pro exact order to get rid
of mail in ballots or you're anti, he's not gonna
be able to. It is pretty explicitly laid out in
the Constitution that you don't get to do that. A
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number of attorneys general and secretaries of state have already
threatened lawsuits and that would tie everything up well before
the midterms anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So don't worry about that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
But you have to wonder, why is it that after
twenty twenty, Trump said don't trust mail in ballots, mail
in ballots, and the reason we lost it was very unfair. Look,
I watched a movie on YouTube two thousand mules. Definitely
not debunked many different times. Definitely hasn't been disavowed by
the actual place that put out the film in the
first place. Definitely totally true. I know it's true. And
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then what happens in twenty twenty two, The red wave
doesn't come, right, the red Wave didn't happen. I mean,
Republicans got Republicans got con No, they didn't, right, I'm
trying to think, no, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So the red Wave didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So the Republican smarty pants said, guys, we got to
get back on this, and it became this conspiracy theory
and it's all part of this. Everything is someone else's
fault era that we're in. We just we point to
things that are unfamiliar and we say, that's why I'm
not getting what I want, that's why things aren't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
My life isn't the way I want it to be.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's because of the Grand scheme. And I'm a victim.
And then you've got someone championing that, someone that says, listen, Conservatives, listen, Republicans,
you didn't lose, it was stolen from you. You're a victim,
and so am I. And you see this with people
who tend to have maturation issues, emotional maturation issues, logics
(05:55):
in cells, racists, xenophobes, and of course no account politicians
except no count politicians are counting on the useful idiots
to push that message along. In twenty twenty, massive mail
in voting was new to the majority of the country
and things didn't go very well for one party, and
of course Biden won. And then the Democrats they had
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a very good election in twenty twenty, and so what
do they do. They laid the blame of the thing
that was different. The trouble is the stat geeks on
the right said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Our voters are
using the mail in voting. We need the mail in
voting for the older voters who tend to be more conservative.
We can't tell people not to use it. We're gonna
lose votes. We can't tell people don't vote because the
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system is rigged.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's gonna cost us. And they did.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You didn't see the red wave. So the push shifted
back in twenty twenty four and we hear this, get your.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ballots in early mailemen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Now every politician wants the mail in ballots because as
soon as you vote, it's locked in. You vote, it's luck.
There is no more October surprise. When we have people
that are using early voting, and they're using the mail
in balance. You don't have a national inquirer's story popping
(07:12):
out about the vice presidential candidate having an affair fathering
a child outside of marriage while his wife is fighting
off cancer.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Right, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now, what a hell of a politician Edwards was too, huh,
who scumbag? But now you've got this push to reconnect
with the roots, the victim class, the same people who
see everything bad in their lives is part of a conspiracy.
And the beauty of a good conspiracy is you can't
disprove it. A good conspiracy taps into the feelings of helplessness.
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I lost, How could I have possibly lost? How do
I get over this? Wait, you don't have to. All
you have to do is fight the shadows. Oh yes,
the boogeym out of the shadows, and then you feel productive.
I'm fighting, even if it's futile. It's not unlike during
the pandemic. We all went and bought toilet paper. Why
(08:10):
because we wanted to have some sort of control over
those things that we couldn't control. So you believe in
the conspiracy even if there is no logic behind it,
because you want to believe it. It makes you feel better,
It empowers you, It relieves you of any responsibility in
your own life, and your stress goes from disappointment and
everything in your own life, and the decisions you've made
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to anger over some nefarious and nebulous forces that's picked
on you made you their target. In other words, you
go from being a supporting character. If there were video games,
you'd be a non playable character into being the main character.
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You are special because you are worth picking on. Yes,
you see, the other party is afraid of you, and
so you're a hero if you stand up to those
evil doers.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And then creating the.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Boogeyman gives the politicians cover to do things that we
otherwise would not accept. Look at the redistricting fight going
out in Texas in here now, why is Texas redistricting?
Because Trump says we have to do it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Or else the liberals will steal the election from us.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And so California says, why don't we suspend our own constitution?
Ask the voters to suspend our own constitution so that
we can fight back against the evil doers in Texas.
And we all become useful idiots, because what choice do
we have. I do have a fun exercise if you
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guys want to do this, because obviously somebody pissing materials tonight?
Is that fair to say? I am really grumpy tonight.
I don't have any idea why. I've had a really
good day. I got going on the show today. It
felt like a good show, but for whatever reason, the
topics have got me really grumpy. I'm gonna say it's
that's fair. Uh made her whipperhead writer Robin's like, what
(10:08):
I have a I want to play a game. Let's
do a choose your own conspiracy. I want to start
a conspiracy theory. I think I can do it. I'm
gonna walk you through the process of doing it. You
tell me if you believe me by the time we're
done with it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (10:28):
KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk and you can
listen any time on demand of the iHeartRadio. All right,
let's stimulate you. Let's choose your own conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
All right? Well that seems a lot like a lot
of fun. Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I was just telling you about this whole mail in
ballad thing which is it works really good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Because it works really well, I should say, because.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We can just say that if we don't win the
midterm elections, it's because of mail in balloting.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So President Trump is doing two things.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One, he's casting doubt on the system so that he
can appeal to the basis says, yeah, that's right, there's
this nebulous force that's out to get us, the Libs
in the vast left wing conspiracy is taking everything over.
And then two, he's already building it his excuse if
he loses control of the House of the Senate. Right,
Miss Mary Trump here, we've seen this play out before.
(11:25):
He's how many times has he told us the election
was rigged before the election happens. He he pre excuses things.
He was saying in twenty twenty four the election was rigged,
and then he won it, and then it wasn't rigged anymore, Right,
I mean, this is is par for the course. So
I thought, how hard is it to start your own conspiracy?
And I started thinking about how do we do it?
(11:47):
And I think the first thing that we have to
do is we have to find something from one from
the viewpoint of one side or the other that we
don't like. So I've been talking about trumpet his conspiracy
theories and how a number of his base buy into it.
So I'm going to pick on the left now because
I'm an equal opportunity offender, and I saw this story
(12:10):
from the New York Times.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Today because I'm gonna lead us.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The Democratic Party faces voter registration crisis. The Democratic Party
is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the
polls of the thirty states the track voter registration by
political party Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single
one between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, and often
by a lot. It is a swing toward the Republicans
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of four and a half million voters. Okay, that's your report.
Now I hear that, and I go, my goodness. The
Democratic Party's messaging is completely off base. The Republican Party
has done a really good job of messaging.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They are making people.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Feel like they're the fighters, like they're the leaders. The
Democratic Party has had feeble leadership. Biden did not project strength,
and the kind then chose Trump. That's why he became
the first Republican to win the majority of votes, the
popular majority since Bush in two thousand and four, I said,
I thought that's the reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Explanation for it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But if we were to choose our own conspiracy theory,
what would we do. We would take that story, and
the story is that Trump won the election and the
country is shifting, right. All the data shows it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But if we're going to try to pitch a conspiracy
theory to suckers, what we don't have to do is
associate that thing that we don't like with someone or
some group that we don't like. So if I'm pitching
this to people on the left, they go, oh, Trump
and Maga, oh they oh, the country's not shifting right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Trump and Maga are doing they're cheating.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
See, we just abandoned reason, we abandoned logic, we abandon
personal accountability, and then we blame everything on the person
or the people that we don't like, and then we
offer this nefarious explanation the MAGA is cheating, they're changing
voter rolls. Say it takes a charismatic leader to sell this,
and once they do, people buy it, and then you
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end up with horrible authoritarians.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
It helps if you can uncover a.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Plausible but very far fetched explanation and you don't have
to have evidence.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's totally unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You could cherry pick fragments of evidence if you want to,
and you can twist actual facts that may be useful,
or just make crap up, like you could say Trump
and his minions change the voter rules, they deleted votes,
they manipulated machines to give him the victory in twenty
twenty four. The election was stolen. Basically, you're just spitting
the same stuff that he said. You're just saying it
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to the left this time, and they go.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, that's right. He did.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He told everybody he was doing that when he claimed
the other side was doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
From the story from the New York Times. The swing
from the left to the right.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Helps explain President Trump' success last year when he won
the popular vote for the first time. He swept the
swing states and he roared back to the White House.
But then you put your conspiratorial spin on it. You say,
you see, I told you Trump can only win the
popular vote if he rigs the election. No Republican of
twenty years has won that popular vote. And now you
expect that more than half the country actually wanted a
thirty four time fell in from Jeffrey Epstein's list to
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be in the White House.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
No, of course not.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The country already voted him out on a landslide. But
now they change their minds and they want him back.
That's not possible. It makes no sense. And the more
you appeal excuse me, the more that you appear to
be appealing to their logic by saying statistically, it just
doesn't happen. You're actually appealing to their emotion, right, And
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the deeper ingrained the conspiracy theory becomes, it really starts.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
To take hold.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Then you make up some facts that counter the actual
research by claiming, you know, it's statistically impossible to have
thirty states shift in one direction without a major social
disruption like a depression or a war. The country doesn't
vacillate in unison like that, it's impossible. And then if
you really want to sell your conspiracy theory you get
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buy in.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You're gonna need an endorsement from somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Viewed as credible, even if that credibility is only within
the conspiracy class. It doesn't matter. And the bigger the name,
the better. We saw Trump do this when he's talking
about the mail in Balance. He says Vladimir Putin told
me that you can't have a secure election if you
have mail in balance.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Right, he's using him as the celebrity endorsement.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The other thing that you can do if you're trying
to create your own conspiracy theory is just make up
your own expert, kind of a man behind the curtain type,
the great and Powerful OS or just Q whatever it is.
You have to have the perception of legitimacy, right. That
was all QAnon's thing, with some sort of an insider.
Q knows what's going on. Q is on the inside.
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Q is a higher up. Q is in on all
the meetings. And then, of course the big one is
you have to spread the word because you too could
be a thought leader if you start your own podcast, Yes,
be a real life podcaster.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
You could add influencer to your bio.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Just make sure that you continue to appeal to emotion
and a sense of victimhood, that someone is stealing something
from you, someone is hunting you. And then you can
just claim to be a champion and provide facts, even
if they are alternative facts. You want to make a
go worldwide, start a blog. It sounds very two thousand
and four. Its still has its place. So don't call
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it a blog. Call it a newsletter or a substack.
Do that, and then you can claim that you're a
journalist training an experience, be damned.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Or get this. You could get a radio talk show.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You don't even have to be in a powerhouse station
like this one, and I mean it helps. All you
really need are legitimate call letters, real call letters that
you can add to your signature line or your press
release when you're quoting yourself, says Chris Merrill KFI Radio,
Los Angeles. And maybe, just maybe you could land a
position the cabinet or maybe even be president one day.
That is, if the vast left wing or right wing nationalist, immigrant,
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gay right bigots don't cheat and keep you all down.
Chris Marriland from Okelly to Night, KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 3 (18:33):
You guys want to hear rumor want to hear a
good rumor well, of course, all right, yeah, I love
this rumor.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Rumor has it you're gonna get a monster check from
the government. I think it's safe to say we can
all agree the government loves to give money to people.
That is basically the goal of the government. Just give
you money, send a check up. Were spreading online that
the US government is soon going to be issuing stimulus
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checks to taxpayers in certain income tax brackets. The claim
is that the IRS and the Treasury Department have approved
one thousand, three hundred and ninety dollars stimulus checks that
are gonna be distributed to low and middle middle income
taxpayers by the end of the summer.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Do you know what I love about.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
This this rumor, which of course is a hoax. It
follows kind of what I was discussing before, and that
you just you make something up that seems plausible by
saying that you're going to get a stimulus check, but
putting out a number that is obscure. They didn't say
you're gonna get a fourteen hundred dollars check. They said
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you're gonna get a one thousand, three hundred and ninety
dollars check. That number is so specific. How could it
possibly be made up, right, Like, well, that's that's got
to be the number. I mean, why wouldn't they just
round it if it weren't an actual accounting thing, right,
so they say one three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Fun little story. When I was.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I was early twenties, my parents were moving. We lived
a in a this is gonna sound like a like
a downplay things. We lived in a poor area of
northern Michigan. Now when I say that, it's not like
I came. It was very middle class growing up. It's
just that the town we were in, I guess we
(20:27):
were considered the rich people. My parents had a combined income.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
This is no joke.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
My parents had a combined income in the nineteen nineties
of fifty thousand dollars and that put us in the
top five percent of earners in our in our home county.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So we were rolling in it. We were not.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Anyway, They were trying to sell the house and they
they were asking they were asking like one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars for this house at the time,
and this would have been this would have been right
around I mean, god, y, I think it was like
two thousand five, two thousand and four, two thousand and five,
(21:08):
that they were selling this this house and they only
won one hundred twenty five thousand dollars. But at the time, no,
this tells you just how crappy my hometown is.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't know why, but it's it's just who I am.
It would have been the first house in my hometown
that sold for more than six figures, and I would
have been in two thousand and five. You remember in
two thousand and five when you couldn't get your hands
and this is before the market crapped. You couldn't get
your hands in a house in southern California for under
about four hundred, five hundred thousand dollars. And yet my
(21:41):
parents sold the very first house in my hometown that
sold for more than one hundred thousand dollars. I think
they were asking about one twenty five. They couldnt get
anybody buy it because everything else in town pretty run down,
but they were selling for, you know, sixty seventy eighty thousand.
So my dad did something and he said, let's try this.
So he changed the asking price from one hundred and
(22:02):
twenty five thousand dollars, and I think they had dropped
it to like one twenty or something like that, you know,
you know, price drop. So he changed the asking price
to something obscure, like one hundred twenty one thousand, eight
hundred fifty one dollars, something very specific, and he said,
let's try this, and the house sold. And I said,
(22:23):
why did you do that? And he said, because I
wanted people to believe that that number had a very
specific target, like this is what we owe on the mortgage.
The buyer's never going to know that, but if we
give them a number that makes it look like this
is what we have, we literally have to have this number.
Then all of a sudden it felt like people were
getting it at cost. And he was right, it's sold. Now,
(22:45):
maybe it was just coincidence that it's sold. But when
we talk about this idea that suddenly we're all going
to start getting this this stimulus check of one three
hundred and ninety dollars, that number just seems way too
the nose.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It's not fourteen hundred dollars, it's not twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It's one three hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Have we gotten it? No? No, we have not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Some of this plays off of the proposal by Josh Hawley,
the Senator from Missouri, who introduced a bill that would
give some tax rebates to qualified taxpayers, be people, I believe,
I recall its correctly making under seventy thousand dollars a
year using some of the revenue from the tariffs that
that we're you know, we're taxing people on right now anyway,
(23:33):
So it seemed plausible ish, But of course it's not.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
We're not We're not cutting a check for billions of
dollars to redistribute out of the like, why would we
have the tariffs in the first place. Oh, I know,
because we have a gross misunderstanding of how tariffs work.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
As much as prices are going up all over the
place and so far tonight I told you about Walmart
is saying that they are gonna have to start raising
some prices and it's hitting the lower and middle income
of buyers more. Well, I think we talked about prices
a little bit yesterday. There are a couple of places
that have some good news, and I will tell you
what those places are and how your fourteen dollars is
(24:22):
going to go as far in twenty twenty five as
it did in twenty twenty two. Inflation be damned. That
is next Chris merrill In for mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Chris merrill In from o Kelly Tonight KFI AM six
forty more stimulating talk. You can listen anytime on demand
of the iHeart Radio app. To Wala has a surprise
for us at the top of the hour. I'm told,
is this a good surprise or a bad surprise?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's the best kind of surprise. Oh okay, yes, then
I was like it, that's a heck of a tease.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, my friend, all right, to Wala's big surprise coming
up here after nine o'clock. Also an update on the
Menendi because one half of the Menendi, E Menendez, got
some news today, so that I know Mark's been covering that.
We'll dive into it a little bit here after after
(25:20):
the nine o'clock news. Fourteen dollars doesn't go as far
today as it did just three years ago, all because
of inflation, whether it's Biden's inflation, or Trump's tariff inflation.
We all know fourteen dollars just doesn't go as far
as it used to. Did Well, not so fast, my friends,
as Lee Corso used to say.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
From the gang at KTLA.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Olive Garden is bringing back one of its most popular promotions,
the never ending postable. The all you can Eat offer
for thirteen ninety nine is back for the restaurant's E
Club members starting today. Everybody will be able to get
the deal beginning Monday, but if you're a the E Club,
you get it today. It runs through November sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
All right, today in this case was last weeknd like Friday,
So it's back it. It is going to start on
the twenty fifth, twenty fifth, twenty fifth, so yes, but
you have to be a part of their E Club.
Do I have to pay to be a part of
the E Club?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You guys? Know?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Is that just like their membership? You just sign up
for their app or something. I don't know, but it
always comes with strings, doesn't it. You gotta download an app,
you gotta get a tattoo something.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Oh okay, well, the tattoo thing.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
We've seen that where you're like get free taco bell
if your tattooed, you know, the chihuahua on your face.
But I am so everywhere you go you have to
download the stupid app.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, you can't even go to Taco Well, I mean
you can, but they really emphasize they lean on you.
Even at Taco Bell get the app order through the app.
Have you looked at the difference in price when you
go to McDonald's and just hit the drive through versus
McDonald on the app and you're supposed to go through
drive through and they say are you using rewards today?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And you go, no, I have a code, and they go, okay,
what is it? Why did you ask me if I'm
using rewards? I don't what is that?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Even?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Do I have rewards? How do I use my rewards?
My rewards? How does that work? Driving me nuts? Too complicated?
I just want some lousy fast food. I don't want
you in my phone. Thank you? When I go to McDonald's.
Here's what I want. Hello, welcome to McDonald's. May I
take your order?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Please?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I would like a combo meal a big mac, and yes,
of course obviously supersize that, but give me a diet coke.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm trying to thin down this is what we should
be doing. Nope, gotta have an app.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Have you looked at the difference in prices, because all
the specials are on the app. So if you just
want to go to McDonald's, you're gonna pay out the nose.
If you use the app, you're still gonna pay out
the nose. But it's gonna smell better all of McDonald's.
I guess it's they're in a little bit of a
turf war.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Two.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
They're lowering the cost of their combo meals after consumers
were left sticker shocked by Big Mac meals. They say
they climbed to eighteen dollars in some places.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Whoa man, man, you don't see that at in and out?
No you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Let's see the chain is running five dollars breakfast and
eight dollars Big Mac and McNugget combo meal specials later
this year, marketing them as extra value meals.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Isn't that what they always were? Weren't they always called
extra value meals? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I think they they change up the terminology so they
use all the same words out but it's just in
a slightly different order. Extra super secret value meal. Okay,
double plus value yeah, yes, yeah. Do you remember when
they came out with the one two three menu, But
it was like, okay, here's your dollar it's the dollar menu.
And there became the one two three dollar menu. Then
it became the couple of bucket. It's terrible. So I
(28:48):
guess now they call them combo meals, but they're going
to roll these out as the extra value meals, which
is I always thought that's what they were to start with.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I guess not. Let me see current Big Mac combo
meal discounts. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Uh combo in Los Angeles. That's the one that's important.
If we're to buy everything a la carte for your
big Mac combo twelve seventy seven, if you get the
combo meal, you save almost two dollars. Still, almost eleven
dollars for a big Mac meal seems high. Still, it does.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Have you seen the new Dominoes ad?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
But I had to get their app too though, Oh
me too? Oh crazy, But they have a really good ad.
It's pretty smart. I think it's I think genuinely believe
this is smart. A lot of people are taking there.
They're going after McDonald's because the prices have jumped up
so much so you've seen what is it Chili's, it's
like twelve dollars. You could get this gourmet burger or
(29:46):
you could get that burger. I'm like, that's pretty good marketing.
But then Dominoes had an ad. You know, they got
like their six ninety nine menu, so they've got you know,
a bunch of difference that you get like I don't know,
eight chicken, or you get there what do you call it,
not the.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
The whatever it is, you know, the sandwiches and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Or they go or you could get the medium one
topping pizza and they go a medium one topping pizza
and then they show it slicing and they go for
six ninety nine, you get this, and they go, or
you could get a six to ninety nine burger, and
then they cut the burger into six pieces, and then
you've got a bunch of kids grabbing just a little
tiny little piece of burger and.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
They're like, that's not enough.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And I thought that's really good. Oh that makes me sad,
it really does. But I thought domino has done a
really good job of showing how much value there is.
And there's six ninety nine meal. But I gotta tell
you my son. My son lives to me still. He
is way too old to do that, but he still
lives with me, and he still convinces me to buy
his dinner every Friday night, so we always get pizza.
And I'm glad he likes pizza because it is so much.
(30:50):
I get so much more for it. I'm I'm bugs
the hell out of me when I buy a couple
of pizzas and I always get some sides or whatever,
and it'll be at fifty bucks. But I just think
I've gone through the fast food place and picked up
meals for the for the family, and it's been fifty
bucks before too, and there's nothing left at the end.
At least when I spend fifty bucks on pizza, I
got some leftovers for a day or two.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
The thing about Dominoes is, though less would be more
with Dominoes, they send me at least at least one
email every single day. It's like I didn't forget that
you make pizza. Okay, I'm not sure how much you
think you need to remind me that I'm able to
order a pizza from you, But I don't need one
or two emails a day, certainly not I'm the worst
(31:33):
at ordering pizza, and then they're like, thank you for
ordering pizza. Here's a coupon code for fifty percent off
for your next one. And then the next Friday comes around,
I completely forget I have a coupon code somewhere in
my email, and then I never use it, maddening, driving
me crazy. I downloaded your app. Shouldn't my coupon just
automatically be downloaded out.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Of the app? Noop, Just put a chip in me
and get it over with. Thank you, thank you. You're
following my every move anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
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