August 22, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, good even to my friends.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Chris merrill In from o Kelly KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk listen anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
Mark Ronner with the news you heard about Eric Menendez, right,
was denied parole And they made a big deal out
of him having a cell phone. Didn't he just have
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that like six months ago or something. It's not like
this is ant. This is a pretty recent thing, which
I think worked against him. But a lot of people
thought he was maybe sneaking this in, or people somebody
had snuck this in after the Netflix documentary and there
was this momentum that he may get out, and who
knows who he was talking to. No idea, but it
looks like, I mean, he's been denied parole now, but
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his attorneys now have an opportunity to appeal a case
on facts.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Blah blah blah legal crap.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That's a Bill Handle thing, not a not a Meryl thing,
not smart enough for that. But I'm I'm curious about
what happens now with Lyle Menendoz.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mark Thompson in the last hour.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think I think nailed it when he said it
seemed as though the parole board already had a decision.
They were just sort of reverse engineering how to get there.
Is that what you were getting, Ronner?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, you mentioned the cell phone, and I think there
was more to it than that. This is from the
story that just came across the wad. The panel of
commissioners scrutinized every rules violation and fight on his lengthy
prison record, including allegations that he worked with a prison gang,
bought drugs, used a cell phone, and helped with a
tax scam. Commissioner that there's a little more of this
that's interesting prison. I think the gist of this is
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that he didn't think he had any chance and he
was just trying to watch his ass until he realized
that he had a chance at parole. Then he cleaned
it up according to this article. And that's that's a
rather liberal paraphrasing of the article, but that does sum
it up.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay, this is the catch twenty two of the parole board.
As they go, oh, you got a prison and joined
a gang. Yeah, because I got to prison and I
was told you have to join a gang, or you're
gonna be man meat for the rest of your life.
Although I do think you hit a certain age and
all of a sudden, nobody wants you in their gang.
I thought about this, and I think once you hit
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I don't know, late thirties, maybe forties, once you're in
that range, nobody really wants.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You in the gang. You've been watching some oz at home?
What do you?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
No, No, this is just an intuition. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I feel like I feel like I'm probably probably an
expert without knowing a thing on it. What they call it,
an idiot savant minus the savant. I see, that's me.
Uh but if you if you were running a gang,
let's say that you were running the Runners.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, the most in prison.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes, yes, the most feared gang in prison, known for
shiving people with dull microphones.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And I'm I'm covered with tats. Yes, okay, everybody knows
that about you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You've got a lot of tats. You've got the you've
got I heard your news cast. It sounded like a
porky pig tatt.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah I believe, Yeah, yeah, that was you. I heard it.
I know It's okay.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Please make fun of any medical condition that I may
have on the air.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No, that's fine. I did.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Actually I recorded that segment where he goofed I was
running tape on it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I expect that. Yeah. Did you want to hear what
you sounded like?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I really don't. It was like this, Yeah, yeah, I
think what's nice about a job like this?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Apart from being able to deliver breaking news to listeners
on the public's airwaves, anytime you do anything wrong, it
gets repeated ad infinite.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm like merciless.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I was not born here, didn't grow up here, I've
been at I'm in my fifth year at kf I.
I mispronounced Fred Rogan's name the first time I came
across it, boy, And how many times do you suppose
Conway replayed that on the OI? Oh my gosh, the
answer is infinitely good, Jillian, right, Yeah, but Rogan came
into the studio and absolved me a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Frank Rogan or rose in. Oh no, but what did
you call him? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I just looked at the spelling and pronounced it phonetically. Well,
also franetically phonetically is Robin. You're You're killing it tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love this? You like that? Yeah? Oh rogin oh,
because it's got two g's.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, you know, you should have seen some of the
place names when I first got here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
My friend, you are preaching to the choir. I've done
radio all over the country and I can't think of
a single city.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I haven't screwed up. Uh yeah, absolutely, But let's get
back to prison. I was gonnay me running a gang
and covered with think.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And and specifically we're talking about the menendi which again
to Mark's credit, this is that is the phrase.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That he coined yesterday, which I actually thought was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I can't possibly have been the first to say that.
Can't possibly it was the first time I heard it. Okay,
So I'm gonna give you credit, all right, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I they say, well he had They didn't even
say he joined a gang.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They said that he had gang affiliations. You know who
else did? Red?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Red worked with all the gangs because he was known
as a guy that could get things, and.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That means you have to you have to work, you
have to work with everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm it is a catch twenty two that the parole
board has where they go, I can't believe that you
came to prison and then you lived prison life. What
did you think was gonna happen? Okay, look I've never
done time in a California penitentiary. Thank god you buried
the lead there. Okay, I really did, didn't I Uh?
But my understanding is it ain't a picnic. It's not
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a it's not a fun place to hang out and
spend a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And you don't know, you don't think if you went,
you'd be like rorshock and watchmen telling them you're not
locked up with me?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Wait, how did go? What's the phrase? I'm not locked
up with you? You're locked up with me? Thank you?
That's how it come.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Was. No, No, this is how you know I'd be
such a fish my first day in prison.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah. I it blows.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My mind that they you know, that's like saying, oh,
you ate the slop we put on your tray. You
sent a man in his early twenties to prison and
then he did prison.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Things and now you're shocked by it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So no, I think the parole board was looking to
backpack because think of all the people that they do parole.
Are you telling me that they put people on parole?
And they were like we're putting you on parole because
you never joined a prison gang. So evidently you get
to prison and no one who joins a gang ever
gets paroled. Bolowney absolute bunk.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, I'm not sure what people are picturing. Like, everybody's
seen the Shawshank redeption, so they probably pictured that scene
with Morgan Freeman telling people I don't care what you
do to me, and.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The next scenes him on a bus.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I think, uh yeah, is that what you're supposed to do.
I've done the time. You can't do nothing to me? No,
come on, come on, just Bolowny, I do wanna, I wanna?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What was I saying there? Mark? Did you wanna? Okay?
Did you want to help me? Get it out of
your system? Get it out? That was for me one
hundred percent goof that up myself. So that's the breaking news.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We'll discuss that a little bit later on as we
get more and more of the information as it comes
in on the Eric Menendez. But what does that portend
for Lyle Menendez? And we will probably just repeat the
same crap we just said a little bit later on
in the show that said. The other big breaking news
today is I guess we get to vote for more
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Speaker 2 (09:05):
There is more breaking news today.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
This one is not as breaking as the Eric Menendez
being denied parole because it happened I don't know a
couple hours ago, and that is that shockingly to know one.
Sure enough, we've decided to try to out Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Texas. Take that Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Everything is bigger in Texas except their electoral college.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
The state Senate approving the redistricting proposal, which passed the
Assembly earlier today. Now that triggers a special election in
roughly two and a half months. This will be on
the November fourth ballot. This November, it'll be known as
Prop fifty. California's redisserting fight is in response to Texas,
whose legislature passed new maps without letting voters decide. If
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California has six seeds, Democrats could win five.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, kind of ran those sentences together.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Texas approved the maps without allowing their voters to decide. California,
you will, you will have a say, and whether or
not you want to redraw the mass.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Democrats could win five more US House seats in the
twenty twenty six mid terms. Now, we have not heard
from Governor Newsom yet. We do expect a bill signing
at some point, and then we should hear from the
governor directly. We should also probably get another one of
those all caps tweets for now.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Live in the newsroom, Josh Haskell, ABC seven. I win
a snooth. Thank you, ABC seven. So there you go.
California said, how dare you? Texas? That's you. You can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So this goes back, and I'm going to get a
little bit deeper into this in the eight o'clock hour
because I'm just fascinated by how we all are in
this victimhood mentality. Everyone's a victim, right, So President Trump says,
I'm a victim. The you can never you can't even
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say the Democrats. You have to say the Libs.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The Libs are very unfair. They've been very mean to me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And in the midterm election, I'm gonna get smoked because
they're gonna cheat. Not because history always says that the
party in charge always loses control of the of the Congress.
That's there, has nothing to do with history. I've never
even liked history, never even studied history. I've got an
f in history, probably the best f ever. But because
they're total cheaters and I'm gonna get my my butt smoked.
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I'm gonna have to try to read raw the maps.
It's only fair they they're cheating. So I'm gonna cheat
to Texas. Will you help me in Texas?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Like, yeah, pew pew pew.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, yeah, I tell you what we're not gonna do.
We are not gonna help make sure the kids a
Christian camp don't get swept away by floody rivers anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Pee pee pee pee. We're gonna read rass maps whea.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And so they decided they were going to to which
California says, how dare you?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That makes us a victim?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
BRO?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Like, that's not even fair. You just trying to steal Congress. Bro,
that's not cool at all. We're not down with that.
And what Marril was playing into stereotypes. So what we
do is we say we are a victim of Texas
stealing five house seats, so we are then gonna steal
him back. It is not at all unlike OJ. OJ
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was ripping some people off. Some people said, how dare
you OJ? And then they went and they took his
crap and then OJ said I gotta go get it back,
and then Oja went and kidnapped people and then tried
to get his stuff back, and then OJ ended up
doing prison time for that, and OJ was like, that's
not fair. I was the victim. I think we can
all agree. OJ for his whole life has been nothing
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but a victim. It's nothing but a vast conspiracy out
to get him.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's basically what we did.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
This is basically what's happening in America is the OJ saga,
only there's we don't we don't actually have anybody. You know,
the liberals wanted to do some terrible things, but we
stop them from doing it. And that's why we have
to do some terrible things back to make sure they
don't do terrible things. And then California says, you can't
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do that to us. We will not allow you to
be to victimize us. This is part of the new
get aggressive liberal movement. This is the new brute force
liberalism that you are going to see for the next
couple of years. If if you are, if you are
a flowers and rainbow liberal, this is gonna be a
dark period for you.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's gonna be very dark.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
If you're somebody that loves to watch the war of
the world's between political parties, this is gonna be grand.
And the craziest thing about all of it is, at
no point does it cross anyone's mind to say, maybe
we should slow things down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
At no point do the people in.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Texas say, ah, this is We're not really keen on this.
This is this sounds like a you problem. Quit screwing
with our country. This is your this is party fighting.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What we care about is what the prices are at
the grocery store when I go to Walmart? Am I
going to be able to afford what I need at Walmart?
I already can't shop at Target. Cole's is completely out
of the question. And don't even get me started on Billard's.
I got to be able to afford Walmart. And you've
got the Republicans in Texas going, no, we've got to
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keep control. We've got to make sure we get those
tariffs and in a bigger, beautifuler bill. And you've got
the California Liberals that are like, this is totally unfair man,
not cool for us.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What if we wanted to have power too, bro, No,
we don't care. We want our equate items to stay
low priced.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But that's not what they're worried about, because they're all
worried about portraying themselves as a victim so that they
can maintain power. Ironically enough, I'm getting worked up. I
need a drink Roner take the news. I'm gonna go
get some booze.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
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Speaker 3 (15:05):
We're having a Grady even Chris Maryland from o Kelly
KFI AM six forty even listen anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. And I believe we're looking at releasing
that single. It's a cover of Pink Pony Club, hopefully
available for downloads and streams soon. I know Tawala is
working on the licensing to make sure we get all
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of our royalties out of that, so we'll get that
out as soon as we can. I was just discussing
how frustrating it is when we have the politicians are
more worried about who's going to get five seats in Congress,
with Texas saying we're going to steal five seats from
the Democrats and then California saying no, we're going to
steal five seats from the Republicans. And all you're doing
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is dividing the country even more, one district at a time,
and the politicians do not care because the goal of
a party is not about serving the people. It's about
maintaining power. That is that is explicit within the party.
It's not even a dirty little secret. It's just it's
just the way that it is. And I don't even
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mean that in a condescending way. That's how the system works.
The parties try to maintain power. And they claim that
it's because they have principles and they have to stand
up for their their people. But the truth is it's
about the parties maintaining power because the parties political parties
are a business that have written themselves their own tax deductions.
I talk to the politician one time, and I'm not
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going to tell you who it is because you've heard it.
But I talked with this politician behind the scenes one
time and he was working sort of as a consultant
slash lobbyist before he got back into public office.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And he said, this is where the money is. This
is great. I couldn't. I mean, it was like he
was saying the.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Quiet part out loud, not publicly and on the air,
but he was saying it to you know me who's
got a big mouth. And he says, this is where
the money is. And I thought, oh, the whole is
such a scam. Meanwhile, are they worried about our grocery prices. No,
are they worried about the price of our Baptist school
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stuff at Walmart?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No? You know who is a guy that used to
be a politician.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Mike Pence was on News Nation talking about the tariffs,
and he has to be a little bit careful because
he doesn't want to he doesn't want to catch the
wrath of Trump. But they did ask him about the tariffs,
and he went back to that old, I don't know
what do you want to call it? Establishment rhino attitude
of saying he doesn't like high taxes.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I'm somebody who believes in less government and less taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Would be fewer taxes, I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And tariffs are taxes. I mean American businesses and American
consumers pay American tariffs. And I must tell you the
fact that the administration put out a panel yesterday boasting
of the fact that they'd collected one hundred and fifty
billion dollars more in taxes than this period of time
during the Biden administration was quite striking to me, because
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those taxes, those tariffs are coming from the American people,
and I think at the end of the day, they're
going to show up in our economy negative effects. Now
that that that painting is not wrong, okay, but everyone
around the president there was a protectionist. Every one of
those people was president before we had an income tax.
And the reality is we that was that was a
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time when we financed our entire government.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So he's talking about going back to the you know
the pictures of the presidents who all had tariffs in.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
The past, based on tariffs and duties, and now we
finance our government by individual and business taxes, a very
small amount from tariffs. And I think at the end
of the day, the American people are more and more
understanding that that it's our companies, it's our businesses that
are paying the tariffs and so.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, so you get the point. These are all
excise taxes. And I want to get too wonkish on this,
but you really come to a choice. How are we
going to collect money for the coffers. You can argue
over how much money is being spent. You can argue
over whether or not the money is being wasted. You
can argue over whether or not the DOGE cuts were
too severe. That's a different argument. But where does the
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money come from? And as Pence points out in the past,
tariffs is where we got a great deal of our money.
It was also before the country really took off as
a world leader. Right, we were here, but it wasn't
until after World War One that we really put our
mark on the world. I mean we had to you know,
the Industrial Age, world War one all coming about the
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same time, Industrial Age a little before that. But suddenly
we were a player. We were no longer just this
very vast agricultural nation.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We were a player.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And so we also had debt after World War One,
and that's when we end up developing the income tax.
And so we decided from that point forward the income
tax is going to supplement what we had for tariffs.
And then we found out as we lowered tariffs, that
made businesses more And this has been the principle of
conservatism for the last one hundred years, and that is
low taxes, low regulation, business friendly, capitalistic friendly, is going
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to make our country more prosperous, and everyone will will
receive some.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Of that prosperity. A rise and tide lifts all ships.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But now what we're doing is we're saying, wait a minute,
maybe we should take our system back one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's not wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's just that you're taking it all back and you're
trying to cut taxes at the same time. But this
is a very painful period. There's no way to do
it without pain, which is why you've got all these
companies that are saying we're going to have to run
the prices up, like Walmart. Walmart says the tariff the
tariff impact is gradual, but it is starting to change
customer behavior. Weekly costs are rising as inventory cycles through
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at post tariff levels that according to the CEO of Walmart,
Doug McMillan, He said, it will persist through the rest
of the year. We're not seeing dramatic shifts the way
things have played out so far, he said, but any
behavioral adjustments by the customer have been somewhat muted. Not surprisingly,
we see more adjustments in middle and lower income households
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than we do with higher income households, which means that
tariffs are affecting the middle and lower class more than
they are affecting that top ten or twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So all this bluster about how we're going to get
the country out of debt and we're going to help
expand the middle class, we're not seeing it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
There is no way to do it without pain.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
But unfortunately, the way that we are going about it
is affecting the people that don't have additional disposable income.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So even if you go.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We should get away from all of the income taxes
and we should go to a tariff driven in excise
driven system, that's fine, but it is regressive. But it
also doesn't help when you have grocery stores that are
raising prices and then blaming the government.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Totally normal.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
If you're running a business and you got to raise
your prices, how do you blame somebody else? Always listen, customers,
we want your loyalty. It's not that we're jacking prices.
It's that the politicians have left us no choice. Walmart says,
there's no choice. We have to raise prices because of
the tariffs. Now you've got grocery store chains in California
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that are saying that because of the Senate bill that
wants to improve working conditions for employees, the grocery stores
are saying, well, you know this is gonna cost people
at the register. So you know, if you want to
if you want to mandate that self check stations are
manned and that there's limitations to how many items can
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go through a self check, because we've all been behind
that person that brings two cards worth a grocery store
a self check, and they're terrible and.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They move very slowly.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Now you've got grocery stores that are like, uh, I mean,
I don't know how we're gonna pay this is we're
gonna have to raise our prices because we're gonna have
to pay people.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And the last we want to do is pay people.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And it's bulowy, straight up bulowny, because what do we
know about these self checks. A number of companies are
getting rid of the self check stations because it's costing
them more money. Loss is higher because of the self checks,
and they're going back to individual checkouts. And yet when
the State of California says you have to have a
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manned checkout, you can't just have self checks. You have
to have a man check out. Now, I'm not saying
this is a place that government should be sticking their noses. Frankly,
they shouldn't let the business run the business get out
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But if the business is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Throwing a fit, and wash my mouth there if they're
throwing a fit because the government says, you know, you
have to have people there when customers are trying to check.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Out, and they go, oh, this is going to drive inflation.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Blowny, You were already getting rid of self check stations
because it was costing you too much. So don't tell
me that suddenly it's going to cost you more that
you can't have them talking out of both sides of
your mouth. I just can't stand it. When did honesty die?
When did that happen? When did it die? When did
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accountability go to the wayside? And it just became who
won't believe my bs? How much can I get away with?
How much can I throw crap at your face? And
you'll swallow before you say it tastes like poop?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Shame on you? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Oh bad news? Well maybe good news based on a
pissy I am tonight. It's possible we're all dead very
very soon. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
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Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you see the crime stats out of DC today, Mark?
Did you see those crime stats?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, they went up today when Trump went out of
the street because there was another felon out there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They had to They had to. Sorry, we've got more
fellon on the streets.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You're not dragging me into this, yep, trying to trying
to hang out to dry it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I appreciate the effort that you could.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
You could replay the cartoon noise again, though, Oh do
I still have it now? I don't do that. I
was hoping you wouldn't take the easy one. I don't
want to do that too. Uh let me see.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh.
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Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh, bad news for those of you just joining us.
We are all going to die. Yeah, it seems that
it's back. Every few years we get word that black
death is.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Upon us for both visitors and residents of South Lake Tahoe.
It's shocking. Do you hear about a case of the
bubonic plague?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Crap NBC News with the report. That's what's very news
to me.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
That the cases are rare.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
They do.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Heather Orchard, the nursing for Eldorado County Public Health says
plague bacteria are commonly found in higher elevation areas. It's
carried by rodents and often transmitted by fleas.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
So this person was.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, what do you think, guys, what do you think
bitten by a rodent?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Or does this person have fleas?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Fleas fleas go to fleas. Ye, all right, I'm gonna say,
tried to pet the squirrel. Pedal squirrel not a euphemism. Yeah,
that's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna guess they tried
to pet a squirrel.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm just it's not it's not out of the realm
of possibility. But I'm thinking they're walking around probably what
the rodents do they have in Tahoe?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean they have hipmunks, mice, rats.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
They have no spread the plague, can they? I mean
they can spread a lot of things, yellow fever, but
not the plague. Uh. Do they have beavers? No beavers
now in Tahoe. Do they have beavers? That's a rodent. Actually,
I've never been to Tahoe, so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, all right, you know what I'm gonna take it.
I don't think anybody was trying to pet square. Somebody
was trying to pet the beaver. That's what I'm going with,
all right. You say fleas, I say pet the.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Beaver camping in an area in southeast Tahoe and was bitten,
likely by a flee.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Because don't fleas.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Isn't that what what would took out Europe when it's
the fleas on the rats?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yes? Yes, cobonic plague. Yeah, yeah, I remember the plague.
I mean not that I was there, but I remember
what it was about.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I genuinely think I could be completely wrong on this,
but I also think it was spread through some of
the rodent feces, and I think it was getting into
the food sources.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Awesome watering feces out the window into the streets. Yeah yeah,
I mean that's what Sannitation was not up to par
back then.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
No, that person is now getting medical treatment and recovering
at home.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
A lot of the symptoms are very common, nausea, vomiting.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
When they get medical treatment, do they also get a collar?
That's funny, what.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Muscle aches? A bite that they may have noticed.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
While these cases can be serious, they are curable.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
It's treated with antibiotics and early identification.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
The last human case of plague in Eldorado County was
in twenty twenty, but officials are routinely tracking it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Oh my gosh, can you imagine going through COVID and
you end up getting the plague?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Right, the last one was in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So you're masking up, you're keeping your distance, you're not
going out, You've basically quarantined yourself, and somehow you end
up with the plague.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Talk about a bad year.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
So far this year, four rodents have tested positive in
the Tahoe Basins.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Something letting people know that, hey, don't bet the beavers,
be careful where something we should live, I mean, make
some away to people.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Still, there are a lot of questions from people who
frequent the area.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's is the only place it's been happening.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
About a disease they first read about in their history books.
And the latest person to test positive.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, NBC News with that report about the damn
plague is back.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
This is actually coincidentally.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
The second time today that I've I've talked about the
bubonic plague. When we got done with the show yesterday,
I don't know, Tula was giving me grief about something
I said. I said something, and he said that's not
very alpha. And I said, I'm beyond alpha. Whatever is
beyond alpha?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Alpha? That was marked?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, that was all marked. Okay, all right, so I
apologize to Wala No. But here's what I Here's what
I I was thinking. I don't know why. I woke
up thinking about it this morning, like what is what
is bigger than alpha? And then it dawned on me.
The kids say Sigma is better, right, Sigma. Oh, that's
so sigma right, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But before it dawned on me, I thought we should
start our own slang, and I thought of a good one.
I thought peak. Oh I'm not alpha, I'm peak.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
No, it works because you have peak, oil, peak, pollution, peak, whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's like, I'm peak.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Nope, somebody take a buzzer away from Robin, So I
am Peak.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I'm down with peak. Peak like peak, what's wrong with peak?
So I was.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I was sharing this with a friend of mine at
work and I said, what do you think about peak?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And he's like, he's like, peak works, Peak works.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
And then he said, hey, the bubonic plague is back,
and he said we should use bubonic to mark something
that is massive or uh scale, like basically, think of
bubonic as the new epic. Right, oh uh, Taylor Swift
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is coming here. Traffic is gonna be bubonic. Right, we
could use bubonic as our new oh instead of Parma
Getton like on traffic this weekend.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Well, you're setting rather bubonic at the moment. We're gonna
go straight to the new K O S t H
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, good even to my friends.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Chris merrill In from o Kelly KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk listen anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
Mark Ronner with the news you heard about Eric Menendez, right,
was denied parole And they made a big deal out
of him having a cell phone. Didn't he just have
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that like six months ago or something. It's not like
this is ant. This is a pretty recent thing, which
I think worked against him. But a lot of people
thought he was maybe sneaking this in, or people somebody
had snuck this in after the Netflix documentary and there
was this momentum that he may get out, and who
knows who he was talking to. No idea, but it
looks like, I mean, he's been denied parole now, but
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his attorneys now have an opportunity to appeal a case
on facts.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Blah blah blah legal crap.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That's a Bill Handle thing, not a not a Meryl thing,
not smart enough for that. But I'm I'm curious about
what happens now with Lyle Menendoz.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mark Thompson in the last hour.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think I think nailed it when he said it
seemed as though the parole board already had a decision.
They were just sort of reverse engineering how to get there.
Is that what you were getting, Ronner?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, you mentioned the cell phone, and I think there
was more to it than that. This is from the
story that just came across the wad. The panel of
commissioners scrutinized every rules violation and fight on his lengthy
prison record, including allegations that he worked with a prison gang,
bought drugs, used a cell phone, and helped with a
tax scam. Commissioner that there's a little more of this
that's interesting prison. I think the gist of this is
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that he didn't think he had any chance and he
was just trying to watch his ass until he realized
that he had a chance at parole. Then he cleaned
it up according to this article. And that's that's a
rather liberal paraphrasing of the article, but that does sum
it up.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay, this is the catch twenty two of the parole board.
As they go, oh, you got a prison and joined
a gang. Yeah, because I got to prison and I
was told you have to join a gang, or you're
gonna be man meat for the rest of your life.
Although I do think you hit a certain age and
all of a sudden, nobody wants you in their gang.
I thought about this, and I think once you hit
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I don't know, late thirties, maybe forties, once you're in
that range, nobody really wants.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You in the gang. You've been watching some oz at home?
What do you?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
No, No, this is just an intuition. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I feel like I feel like I'm probably probably an
expert without knowing a thing on it. What they call it,
an idiot savant minus the savant. I see, that's me.
Uh but if you if you were running a gang,
let's say that you were running the Runners.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, the most in prison.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes, yes, the most feared gang in prison, known for
shiving people with dull microphones.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And I'm I'm covered with tats. Yes, okay, everybody knows
that about you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You've got a lot of tats. You've got the you've
got I heard your news cast. It sounded like a
porky pig tatt.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah I believe, Yeah, yeah, that was you. I heard it.
I know It's okay.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Please make fun of any medical condition that I may
have on the air.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No, that's fine. I did.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Actually I recorded that segment where he goofed I was
running tape on it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I expect that. Yeah. Did you want to hear what
you sounded like?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I really don't. It was like this, Yeah, yeah, I
think what's nice about a job like this?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Apart from being able to deliver breaking news to listeners
on the public's airwaves, anytime you do anything wrong, it
gets repeated ad infinite.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm like merciless.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I was not born here, didn't grow up here, I've
been at I'm in my fifth year at kf I.
I mispronounced Fred Rogan's name the first time I came
across it, boy, And how many times do you suppose
Conway replayed that on the OI? Oh my gosh, the
answer is infinitely good, Jillian, right, Yeah, but Rogan came
into the studio and absolved me a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Frank Rogan or rose in. Oh no, but what did
you call him? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I just looked at the spelling and pronounced it phonetically. Well,
also franetically phonetically is Robin. You're You're killing it tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love this? You like that? Yeah? Oh rogin oh,
because it's got two g's.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, you know, you should have seen some of the
place names when I first got here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
My friend, you are preaching to the choir. I've done
radio all over the country and I can't think of
a single city.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I haven't screwed up. Uh yeah, absolutely, But let's get
back to prison. I was gonnay me running a gang
and covered with think.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And and specifically we're talking about the menendi which again
to Mark's credit, this is that is the phrase.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That he coined yesterday, which I actually thought was brilliant.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I can't possibly have been the first to say that.
Can't possibly it was the first time I heard it. Okay,
So I'm gonna give you credit, all right, I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I they say, well he had They didn't even
say he joined a gang.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They said that he had gang affiliations. You know who
else did? Red?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Red worked with all the gangs because he was known
as a guy that could get things, and.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That means you have to you have to work, you
have to work with everybody.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I'm it is a catch twenty two that the parole
board has where they go, I can't believe that you
came to prison and then you lived prison life. What
did you think was gonna happen? Okay, look I've never
done time in a California penitentiary. Thank god you buried
the lead there. Okay, I really did, didn't I Uh?
But my understanding is it ain't a picnic. It's not
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a it's not a fun place to hang out and
spend a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And you don't know, you don't think if you went,
you'd be like rorshock and watchmen telling them you're not
locked up with me?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Wait, how did go? What's the phrase? I'm not locked
up with you? You're locked up with me? Thank you?
That's how it come.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Was. No, No, this is how you know I'd be
such a fish my first day in prison.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah. I it blows.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My mind that they you know, that's like saying, oh,
you ate the slop we put on your tray. You
sent a man in his early twenties to prison and
then he did prison.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Things and now you're shocked by it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So no, I think the parole board was looking to
backpack because think of all the people that they do parole.
Are you telling me that they put people on parole?
And they were like we're putting you on parole because
you never joined a prison gang. So evidently you get
to prison and no one who joins a gang ever
gets paroled. Bolowney absolute bunk.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Well, I'm not sure what people are picturing. Like, everybody's
seen the Shawshank redeption, so they probably pictured that scene
with Morgan Freeman telling people I don't care what you
do to me, and.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The next scenes him on a bus.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I think, uh yeah, is that what you're supposed to do.
I've done the time. You can't do nothing to me? No,
come on, come on, just Bolowny, I do wanna, I wanna?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What was I saying there? Mark? Did you wanna? Okay?
Did you want to help me? Get it out of
your system? Get it out? That was for me one
hundred percent goof that up myself. So that's the breaking news.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We'll discuss that a little bit later on as we
get more and more of the information as it comes
in on the Eric Menendez. But what does that portend
for Lyle Menendez? And we will probably just repeat the
same crap we just said a little bit later on
in the show that said. The other big breaking news
today is I guess we get to vote for more
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of the same.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
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I also think if we did some auto tune it
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But so far, that's pretty that's pretty good. That's pretty
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Yeah, that's the kind of quality radio you get when
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Speaker 2 (09:05):
There is more breaking news today.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
This one is not as breaking as the Eric Menendez
being denied parole because it happened I don't know a
couple hours ago, and that is that shockingly to know one.
Sure enough, we've decided to try to out Texas.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Texas. Take that Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Everything is bigger in Texas except their electoral college.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
The state Senate approving the redistricting proposal, which passed the
Assembly earlier today. Now that triggers a special election in
roughly two and a half months. This will be on
the November fourth ballot. This November, it'll be known as
Prop fifty. California's redisserting fight is in response to Texas,
whose legislature passed new maps without letting voters decide. If
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California has six seeds, Democrats could win five.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, kind of ran those sentences together.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Texas approved the maps without allowing their voters to decide. California,
you will, you will have a say, and whether or
not you want to redraw the mass.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Democrats could win five more US House seats in the
twenty twenty six mid terms. Now, we have not heard
from Governor Newsom yet. We do expect a bill signing
at some point, and then we should hear from the
governor directly. We should also probably get another one of
those all caps tweets for now.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Live in the newsroom, Josh Haskell, ABC seven. I win
a snooth. Thank you, ABC seven. So there you go.
California said, how dare you? Texas? That's you. You can't
do that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
So this goes back, and I'm going to get a
little bit deeper into this in the eight o'clock hour
because I'm just fascinated by how we all are in
this victimhood mentality. Everyone's a victim, right, So President Trump says,
I'm a victim. The you can never you can't even
(10:57):
say the Democrats. You have to say the Libs.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The Libs are very unfair. They've been very mean to me.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And in the midterm election, I'm gonna get smoked because
they're gonna cheat. Not because history always says that the
party in charge always loses control of the of the Congress.
That's there, has nothing to do with history. I've never
even liked history, never even studied history. I've got an
f in history, probably the best f ever. But because
they're total cheaters and I'm gonna get my my butt smoked.
(11:26):
I'm gonna have to try to read raw the maps.
It's only fair they they're cheating. So I'm gonna cheat
to Texas. Will you help me in Texas?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Like, yeah, pew pew pew.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, yeah, I tell you what we're not gonna do.
We are not gonna help make sure the kids a
Christian camp don't get swept away by floody rivers anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Pee pee pee pee. We're gonna read rass maps whea.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And so they decided they were going to to which
California says, how dare you?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That makes us a victim?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
BRO?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Like, that's not even fair. You just trying to steal Congress. Bro,
that's not cool at all. We're not down with that.
And what Marril was playing into stereotypes. So what we
do is we say we are a victim of Texas
stealing five house seats, so we are then gonna steal
him back. It is not at all unlike OJ. OJ
(12:24):
was ripping some people off. Some people said, how dare
you OJ? And then they went and they took his
crap and then OJ said I gotta go get it back,
and then Oja went and kidnapped people and then tried
to get his stuff back, and then OJ ended up
doing prison time for that, and OJ was like, that's
not fair. I was the victim. I think we can
all agree. OJ for his whole life has been nothing
(12:44):
but a victim. It's nothing but a vast conspiracy out
to get him.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
That's basically what we did.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
This is basically what's happening in America is the OJ saga,
only there's we don't we don't actually have anybody. You know,
the liberals wanted to do some terrible things, but we
stop them from doing it. And that's why we have
to do some terrible things back to make sure they
don't do terrible things. And then California says, you can't
(13:11):
do that to us. We will not allow you to
be to victimize us. This is part of the new
get aggressive liberal movement. This is the new brute force
liberalism that you are going to see for the next
couple of years. If if you are, if you are
a flowers and rainbow liberal, this is gonna be a
dark period for you.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's gonna be very dark.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
If you're somebody that loves to watch the war of
the world's between political parties, this is gonna be grand.
And the craziest thing about all of it is, at
no point does it cross anyone's mind to say, maybe
we should slow things down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
At no point do the people in.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Texas say, ah, this is We're not really keen on this.
This is this sounds like a you problem. Quit screwing
with our country. This is your this is party fighting.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
What we care about is what the prices are at
the grocery store when I go to Walmart? Am I
going to be able to afford what I need at Walmart?
I already can't shop at Target. Cole's is completely out
of the question. And don't even get me started on Billard's.
I got to be able to afford Walmart. And you've
got the Republicans in Texas going, no, we've got to
(14:28):
keep control. We've got to make sure we get those
tariffs and in a bigger, beautifuler bill. And you've got
the California Liberals that are like, this is totally unfair man,
not cool for us.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What if we wanted to have power too, bro, No,
we don't care. We want our equate items to stay
low priced.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But that's not what they're worried about, because they're all
worried about portraying themselves as a victim so that they
can maintain power. Ironically enough, I'm getting worked up. I
need a drink Roner take the news. I'm gonna go
get some booze.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We're having a Grady even Chris Maryland from o Kelly
KFI AM six forty even listen anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. And I believe we're looking at releasing
that single. It's a cover of Pink Pony Club, hopefully
available for downloads and streams soon. I know Tawala is
working on the licensing to make sure we get all
(15:26):
of our royalties out of that, so we'll get that
out as soon as we can. I was just discussing
how frustrating it is when we have the politicians are
more worried about who's going to get five seats in Congress,
with Texas saying we're going to steal five seats from
the Democrats and then California saying no, we're going to
steal five seats from the Republicans. And all you're doing
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is dividing the country even more, one district at a time,
and the politicians do not care because the goal of
a party is not about serving the people. It's about
maintaining power. That is that is explicit within the party.
It's not even a dirty little secret. It's just it's
just the way that it is. And I don't even
(16:08):
mean that in a condescending way. That's how the system works.
The parties try to maintain power. And they claim that
it's because they have principles and they have to stand
up for their their people. But the truth is it's
about the parties maintaining power because the parties political parties
are a business that have written themselves their own tax deductions.
I talk to the politician one time, and I'm not
(16:28):
going to tell you who it is because you've heard it.
But I talked with this politician behind the scenes one
time and he was working sort of as a consultant
slash lobbyist before he got back into public office.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And he said, this is where the money is. This
is great. I couldn't. I mean, it was like he
was saying the.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Quiet part out loud, not publicly and on the air,
but he was saying it to you know me who's
got a big mouth. And he says, this is where
the money is. And I thought, oh, the whole is
such a scam. Meanwhile, are they worried about our grocery prices. No,
are they worried about the price of our Baptist school
(17:08):
stuff at Walmart?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No? You know who is a guy that used to
be a politician.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Mike Pence was on News Nation talking about the tariffs,
and he has to be a little bit careful because
he doesn't want to he doesn't want to catch the
wrath of Trump. But they did ask him about the tariffs,
and he went back to that old, I don't know
what do you want to call it? Establishment rhino attitude
of saying he doesn't like high taxes.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I'm somebody who believes in less government and less taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Would be fewer taxes, I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And tariffs are taxes. I mean American businesses and American
consumers pay American tariffs. And I must tell you the
fact that the administration put out a panel yesterday boasting
of the fact that they'd collected one hundred and fifty
billion dollars more in taxes than this period of time
during the Biden administration was quite striking to me, because
(18:04):
those taxes, those tariffs are coming from the American people,
and I think at the end of the day, they're
going to show up in our economy negative effects. Now
that that that painting is not wrong, okay, but everyone
around the president there was a protectionist. Every one of
those people was president before we had an income tax.
And the reality is we that was that was a
(18:27):
time when we financed our entire government.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So he's talking about going back to the you know
the pictures of the presidents who all had tariffs in.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
The past, based on tariffs and duties, and now we
finance our government by individual and business taxes, a very
small amount from tariffs. And I think at the end
of the day, the American people are more and more
understanding that that it's our companies, it's our businesses that
are paying the tariffs and so.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, so you get the point. These are all
excise taxes. And I want to get too wonkish on this,
but you really come to a choice. How are we
going to collect money for the coffers. You can argue
over how much money is being spent. You can argue
over whether or not the money is being wasted. You
can argue over whether or not the DOGE cuts were
too severe. That's a different argument. But where does the
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money come from? And as Pence points out in the past,
tariffs is where we got a great deal of our money.
It was also before the country really took off as
a world leader. Right, we were here, but it wasn't
until after World War One that we really put our
mark on the world. I mean we had to you know,
the Industrial Age, world War one all coming about the
(19:35):
same time, Industrial Age a little before that. But suddenly
we were a player. We were no longer just this
very vast agricultural nation.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We were a player.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And so we also had debt after World War One,
and that's when we end up developing the income tax.
And so we decided from that point forward the income
tax is going to supplement what we had for tariffs.
And then we found out as we lowered tariffs, that
made businesses more And this has been the principle of
conservatism for the last one hundred years, and that is
low taxes, low regulation, business friendly, capitalistic friendly, is going
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to make our country more prosperous, and everyone will will
receive some.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Of that prosperity. A rise and tide lifts all ships.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But now what we're doing is we're saying, wait a minute,
maybe we should take our system back one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's not wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's just that you're taking it all back and you're
trying to cut taxes at the same time. But this
is a very painful period. There's no way to do
it without pain, which is why you've got all these
companies that are saying we're going to have to run
the prices up, like Walmart. Walmart says the tariff the
tariff impact is gradual, but it is starting to change
customer behavior. Weekly costs are rising as inventory cycles through
(20:51):
at post tariff levels that according to the CEO of Walmart,
Doug McMillan, He said, it will persist through the rest
of the year. We're not seeing dramatic shifts the way
things have played out so far, he said, but any
behavioral adjustments by the customer have been somewhat muted. Not surprisingly,
we see more adjustments in middle and lower income households
(21:12):
than we do with higher income households, which means that
tariffs are affecting the middle and lower class more than
they are affecting that top ten or twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So all this bluster about how we're going to get
the country out of debt and we're going to help
expand the middle class, we're not seeing it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
There is no way to do it without pain.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
But unfortunately, the way that we are going about it
is affecting the people that don't have additional disposable income.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
So even if you go.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We should get away from all of the income taxes
and we should go to a tariff driven in excise
driven system, that's fine, but it is regressive. But it
also doesn't help when you have grocery stores that are
raising prices and then blaming the government.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Totally normal.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
If you're running a business and you got to raise
your prices, how do you blame somebody else? Always listen, customers,
we want your loyalty. It's not that we're jacking prices.
It's that the politicians have left us no choice. Walmart says,
there's no choice. We have to raise prices because of
the tariffs. Now you've got grocery store chains in California
(22:20):
that are saying that because of the Senate bill that
wants to improve working conditions for employees, the grocery stores
are saying, well, you know this is gonna cost people
at the register. So you know, if you want to
if you want to mandate that self check stations are
manned and that there's limitations to how many items can
(22:43):
go through a self check, because we've all been behind
that person that brings two cards worth a grocery store
a self check, and they're terrible and.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They move very slowly.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Now you've got grocery stores that are like, uh, I mean,
I don't know how we're gonna pay this is we're
gonna have to raise our prices because we're gonna have
to pay people.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And the last we want to do is pay people.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And it's bulowy, straight up bulowny, because what do we
know about these self checks. A number of companies are
getting rid of the self check stations because it's costing
them more money. Loss is higher because of the self checks,
and they're going back to individual checkouts. And yet when
the State of California says you have to have a
(23:24):
manned checkout, you can't just have self checks. You have
to have a man check out. Now, I'm not saying
this is a place that government should be sticking their noses. Frankly,
they shouldn't let the business run the business get out
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But if the business is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Throwing a fit, and wash my mouth there if they're
throwing a fit because the government says, you know, you
have to have people there when customers are trying to check.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Out, and they go, oh, this is going to drive inflation.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Blowny, You were already getting rid of self check stations
because it was costing you too much. So don't tell
me that suddenly it's going to cost you more that
you can't have them talking out of both sides of
your mouth. I just can't stand it. When did honesty die?
When did that happen? When did it die? When did
(24:14):
accountability go to the wayside? And it just became who
won't believe my bs? How much can I get away with?
How much can I throw crap at your face? And
you'll swallow before you say it tastes like poop?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Shame on you? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Oh bad news? Well maybe good news based on a
pissy I am tonight. It's possible we're all dead very
very soon. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you see the crime stats out of DC today, Mark?
Did you see those crime stats?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, they went up today when Trump went out of
the street because there was another felon out there.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They had to They had to. Sorry, we've got more
fellon on the streets.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You're not dragging me into this, yep, trying to trying
to hang out to dry it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I appreciate the effort that you could.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
You could replay the cartoon noise again, though, Oh do
I still have it now? I don't do that. I
was hoping you wouldn't take the easy one. I don't
want to do that too. Uh let me see.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
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Speaker 3 (25:19):
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Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh, bad news for those of you just joining us.
We are all going to die. Yeah, it seems that
it's back. Every few years we get word that black
death is.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Upon us for both visitors and residents of South Lake Tahoe.
It's shocking. Do you hear about a case of the
bubonic plague?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Crap NBC News with the report. That's what's very news
to me.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
That the cases are rare.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
They do.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Heather Orchard, the nursing for Eldorado County Public Health says
plague bacteria are commonly found in higher elevation areas. It's
carried by rodents and often transmitted by fleas.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
So this person was.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, what do you think, guys, what do you think
bitten by a rodent?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Or does this person have fleas?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Fleas fleas go to fleas. Ye, all right, I'm gonna say,
tried to pet the squirrel. Pedal squirrel not a euphemism. Yeah,
that's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna guess they tried
to pet a squirrel.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I'm just it's not it's not out of the realm
of possibility. But I'm thinking they're walking around probably what
the rodents do they have in Tahoe?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean they have hipmunks, mice, rats.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
They have no spread the plague, can they? I mean
they can spread a lot of things, yellow fever, but
not the plague. Uh. Do they have beavers? No beavers
now in Tahoe. Do they have beavers? That's a rodent. Actually,
I've never been to Tahoe, so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, all right, you know what I'm gonna take it.
I don't think anybody was trying to pet square. Somebody
was trying to pet the beaver. That's what I'm going with,
all right. You say fleas, I say pet the.
Speaker 10 (27:18):
Beaver camping in an area in southeast Tahoe and was bitten,
likely by a flee.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Because don't fleas.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Isn't that what what would took out Europe when it's
the fleas on the rats?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yes? Yes, cobonic plague. Yeah, yeah, I remember the plague.
I mean not that I was there, but I remember
what it was about.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I genuinely think I could be completely wrong on this,
but I also think it was spread through some of
the rodent feces, and I think it was getting into
the food sources.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Awesome watering feces out the window into the streets. Yeah yeah,
I mean that's what Sannitation was not up to par
back then.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
No, that person is now getting medical treatment and recovering
at home.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
A lot of the symptoms are very common, nausea, vomiting.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
When they get medical treatment, do they also get a collar?
That's funny, what.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Muscle aches? A bite that they may have noticed.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
While these cases can be serious, they are curable.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
It's treated with antibiotics and early identification.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
The last human case of plague in Eldorado County was
in twenty twenty, but officials are routinely tracking it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Oh my gosh, can you imagine going through COVID and
you end up getting the plague?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Right, the last one was in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
So you're masking up, you're keeping your distance, you're not
going out, You've basically quarantined yourself, and somehow you end
up with the plague.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Talk about a bad year.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
So far this year, four rodents have tested positive in
the Tahoe Basins.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Something letting people know that, hey, don't bet the beavers,
be careful where something we should live, I mean, make
some away to people.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Still, there are a lot of questions from people who
frequent the area.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's is the only place it's been happening.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
About a disease they first read about in their history books.
And the latest person to test positive.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All right, NBC News with that report about the damn
plague is back.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
This is actually coincidentally.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
The second time today that I've I've talked about the
bubonic plague. When we got done with the show yesterday,
I don't know, Tula was giving me grief about something
I said. I said something, and he said that's not
very alpha. And I said, I'm beyond alpha. Whatever is
beyond alpha?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Alpha? That was marked?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, that was all marked. Okay, all right, so I
apologize to Wala No. But here's what I Here's what
I I was thinking. I don't know why. I woke
up thinking about it this morning, like what is what
is bigger than alpha? And then it dawned on me.
The kids say Sigma is better, right, Sigma. Oh, that's
so sigma right, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But before it dawned on me, I thought we should
start our own slang, and I thought of a good one.
I thought peak. Oh I'm not alpha, I'm peak.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
No, it works because you have peak, oil, peak, pollution, peak, whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's like, I'm peak.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Nope, somebody take a buzzer away from Robin, So I
am Peak.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I'm down with peak. Peak like peak, what's wrong with peak?
So I was.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I was sharing this with a friend of mine at
work and I said, what do you think about peak?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And he's like, he's like, peak works, Peak works.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
And then he said, hey, the bubonic plague is back,
and he said we should use bubonic to mark something
that is massive or uh scale, like basically, think of
bubonic as the new epic. Right, oh uh, Taylor Swift
(31:16):
is coming here. Traffic is gonna be bubonic. Right, we
could use bubonic as our new oh instead of Parma
Getton like on traffic this weekend.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Well, you're setting rather bubonic at the moment. We're gonna
go straight to the new K O S t H
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