October 1, 2024 • 38 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the DMV’s plan to eliminate “written driver tests” for Californians 70 years old and older AND Gov. Newsom’s new bill banning artificial food dyes in snacks & drinks across K-12 school campuses…PLUS – A look at the “top 10 states where you’re likely to find gold” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with Mo Kelly caf I am six point forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and the hits just.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Keep on coming. Have you have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Have you seen the number of people we call them celebrities,
but they are people. The number of people who have
passed in just the past maybe four or five days,
four or five days, we're talking about people who have
made tremendous contributions to this life that we've lived. Pete Rose,
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most recently, eighty three years old, passed away. I got
one Pete Rose story, I'll tell it in just a second.
And where did I meet him? At the tables he
was gambling Vegas. True story, true story, of course, And
I'll come back to that in a second. But I
started this weekend, I guess, trying to deal with the
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passing of John Ashton of Beverly Hills cop fame.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then you had Chris Christofferson.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean that alone would have been enough, and then
you have Pete Rose today. And for me more personally
to Kim Bae Mutambo, he and I graduated Georgetown together.
Basketball Hall of famer passed away today from brain cancer
at the age of fifty eight fifty eight, someone in
my class. He was a little bit older when he
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came to Georgetown, but we were in the same class.
Of course, you're reminded of your own mortality. But when
you lose some of these pillars in entertainment, it's not
that they were celebrities. It is they had an outsize
impact on our lives, be it their music, be it
their movies, be it their sports performances, and you can
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associate probably some good moments of your life with each
and all of them. How many times have I say
the stars born, I don't know, can't tell you. How
many times have I watched Chris Christofferson as Whistler and Blade?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I can't tell you. But he was resident with different generations.
You know my love of baseball growing up. I'm a
stat nerd. I can tell you the history of Pete
Rose up and down, back and forth as the all
time hits leader. I know intimately his history of gambling
issues and why he was excommunicated from baseball. My first
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radio gig was in sports and had any number of
opportunities to at least book him for a show.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let me just tell the story real quick.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I was in Las Vegas for the Oscar de la
Hoya Felix Trinidad fight. So this is like early two
thousands and it was at the MGM, and it was
one of those weird times where anyone who was anyone
you would run into them, but not everyone had a camera.
It wasn't about taking photos and social media. So after
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the fight, we're finally out of the arena. I'm walking out.
Right behind me is the late legendary trainer, Angelo Dundee.
So I'm getting to have an off the cuff conversation
with Angelo Dundee, that was Ali's trainer, and I'm saying,
you know, mister Dundee, how did you have the fight?
And he pulled out his scorecard and he showed me
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his handwritten notes of the rounds of who he thought
won the fight, and he had a Felix Trinidad who won.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I thought it was Felix Trinidad too.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Anyway, as we're going through the casino, because the MGM
their facility goes through the casino, they want you to
bet on the table and the slots and everything going
and coming from the arena. As we're going through the
casino area, here is Pete Rose with some woman. I
don't know who it was. She looked very expensive. That's
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the only way I could describe it. She was very expensive.
And he's still, in many respects at this time, a
social pariah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's already been excommunicated from baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And we get a chance to just talk for a second,
because I'm you know, I'm a stat nerd. I know
everything about Pete Rose, and Pete had a moment to
just kind of just go off about how he hated
what Jim Gray did to him in an interview, and
how baseball had mistreated him. But he hoped even then
that one day he would get into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It still mattered to him. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know if it mattered to him upon his
deathbed or later much later in life, because we're talking
about maybe twenty some odd years, no more than that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
This was no I'm sorry, this was late nineties, late nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Got my years mixed up, So this like maybe twenty
six years intervening. And you wonder, as you get older,
all of us, and you see these people leave as
I'm bouncing around, you wonder whether people were at peace.
I think that's what it comes down to you wonder
whether Pete Rose had found peace. I thought about Christopher Christofferson,
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how he died at his home in Maui, and I
was saying it into the studio and I said, that's
the way I want to go. I want to know
that if I can see it coming, that I can
be home, be with my loved ones, be with my family.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's how my father passed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Twala, you were telling a story about your aunt's similar situation.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, And that is absolutely the way that I want
to go. You want to go in your place of peace,
the place that's going to give you the most solitude
as you exit into the night. And we'd be remiss
if we did not mention the passing of Maggie Smith,
who also died right days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, And that is an unintentional oversight. There's been so
much news, not a lot of it good. And this
show is big on nostalgia. We're self aware, and so
that weighs heavy, very heavy on us because we're talking
about a lot of great memories, a lot of great talent,
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tremendous contributions. And you come in and I tell this
all the time, and people don't know, but it's a reminder.
You come in, you think you're going to do one show.
Then oh, by the way, the news just broke. Pete
Rose died.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh my goodness. You know we had slaughter.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We're going to talk about John Ashton and also Chris Christofferson,
and then the Pete Rose news broke.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The t kembeboutabo news broke.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And that has me in a different space because you know,
I went to school with him, We played basketball and
intramurals together. When I was an intramural refereel referee his
basketball games. You get to know him as people, and
this is just one of those days where it's a
very painful reminder that all this stuff really ain't all
that important. All of it is fleeting, and I hope
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I always say that the most important part of life
is making sure you're at peace when life is about
to end.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And if you get there at fifty, god bless you.
If it takes you into your eighty five to get there,
god bless you. But just make sure you get there
before it gets you. It's later with mo Kelly. I
am six forty. We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and we have some DMV news when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think it's a universal truth. The DMV is absolute health.
Nobody wants to go, but everyone needs to go at
some point. But as we progress through life, we may
have to go for different reasons. My license is going
to expire on my birthday next year, which probably means
I'm going to have to.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Go in and do the EE test and you know,
all the things.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Make sure that I'm still in my right mind, that
I'm allowed to drive.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Or they'll take away. I look at Twalla's putting out
of slices just a check. He's getting scared all of
a sudden. But I think for the most part, none
of us want to go to the DMV.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And we had not a Coadela Cruz in a few
fridays ago, and she was detailing how her mother was
ruined the day where she had to go to the
DMV because she's of a certain age, and after a
certain age you have to go in and take the
written test all over again. Look, I remember the first
time I took the written test when I was fifteen
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for my permit.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I failed that mother. Father. I went in thinking, I,
come on, I got this. This isn't that hard. I
got this. I know how to drive.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thumb through the book a few times went in there.
I think I missed like twelve or thirteen, and I remember,
I remember my father took me down. I went out
and took the test by myself, looking all smug and stuff.
Then I got back in the car, all sheepishly says,
because he so how did it go? I said, man,
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those questions were messed up. They were trick questions, and
he said, well, you should have studied more. Then the
next time I knocked it out the park. But it
could be very humbly that test. It's not easy. Yes,
they are trick questions. But you think of all the
subtleties and the rules which have changed in the many
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years I have literally been driving now for forty years.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Driving forty years, I think a ruler two has changed
a law of you know, a double line this or
a don't no left turn here? That has changed in
the past forty years. Have I looked at a driver's
manual in the past forty years?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Nop.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, here's the good news. Not that I'm almost seventy,
but it's something I can look forward to. The State
of California has eliminated the written driving test for most people,
not all, most people seventy years old and older renewing
their license.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Please clap.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The reason I say that because as of October first,
these older drivers whose licenses expire as of twenty twenty four.
Unless you are one of those high risk drivers where
you've had a lot of points on putting your license,
you won't have to take the written portion.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You'll still have to get your eye tests, but that's
about it. The DMV says drivers seventy and older still
need to make an office visit for the vision exam
and updated photo when they renew their license. Well, I'll
have to do the updated photo and probably the eye
test because my eyes are horrible.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's another reason why I'll try to get into fricases
out on the road, because I wouldn't be able to
identify my assailant.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Mark Ronner. He likes to flip off people only when
they deserve it, I know, only when it's fully justified.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
And there's really no other polite way to let people
know that they're being rude and dangerous. I never initiate violence.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ever, those days are behind me. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I can't pop the trunk, I can't ask people to
pull over, and I've done that before. I was driving
down Venture Boulevard and right around Laurel Canyon and this
guy started mouthing off to me, and I think I'd
just gotten first or second degree, and.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I was amped up that that It was not a
good time in my life. What are you in mouthing
off like how He.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Was mouthing off to me, talking about you need to
look at the f and road watch where you're going.
And I rolled down the window and I said, pull
your punk ass over, pull over as you do.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah. I started pulling over.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He started pulling over, and I guess he realized that
I was really pulling over, and then he decided to
pull off. It would not have been a good idea
black man in Studio City trying to get in a
fight with someone in broad daylight.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Well, it never is under any circumstances. But when you
add that to the mix, no vented badly for me,
no matter what, even if I won the fight.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But but my point is that part of my life
thank goodness is behind me and I try not to
do anything to make my life worse. And also since
my eyes are bad, you know, it's just enough for
me to stay focused on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Be like mister Magoo, pretend you don't see them road hog.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm just not looking forward to going back to the
DMV for any reason.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Oh it's hell say b three zero nine adown, perfect
down nine one three adown.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Okay, twalla, what were you looking for on your driver license?
I was looking for the uh for the day I
to do it? Okay? Yeah, so next year you and
me both will be in there. Mark when is yours expire? Oh?
I haven't looked. Let me check.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I just renewed mine by mail though. Right. So, but
the next time you'll probably have to go in. Oh
that's not going to be good for end anybody. That's
my points, really, that is my Wait a minute, I'm
gonna getting all your business. Do you have a California
one or you still have a Washington one?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I got a California one. I've been here six years now.
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
You're a rule breaker, you're lawbyret I'm a rebel. Yeah,
just like pee Wee Herban, I'm a rebel dottie. It
expires in twenty twenty eight. I could do yet by that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well that's true, Jamal's not promised. No, no, you might
have flipped off the wrong person.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well here's the thing on. No, No, let's just keep up. No, no,
finish your thoughts. There's no good to come of this.
But I feel like there's something in the air where
people are just a little extra nuts lately, and I
have no idea what to ascribe this to. It's like
that old Star Trek episode where they aim an irritation
ray at people to break the spell when they're on
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the Spore planet and mister Spock is happy. There's something
going on with people driving right now. They're extra aggressive,
extra obnoxious, and I don't know what's causing it. I'm
trying not to contribute to it. Twelve washing this. Can
you repeat that very obscure Star Trek reference one more time?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
It was a Star Trek episode This Side of Paradise
with Jill Ireland, who is mister Spock's love ooh Jill Ireland,
Oh shoot, yeah yeah. So they get sprayed with these
spores and everybody's happy except for Captain Kirk, and to
get everybody back to business, he aims an irritation ray
down the planet and it breaks the spell. I feel
like that's what we're getting hit with. Don't pretend like
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you don't know this.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I think that we've been at this heightened state of
insanity for quite some time. I don't think it's a
recent phenomenon. Is it impacted by the news, yes. Is
it impacted by our political state, absolutely. Is it impacted
by crime and our feelings of lack of safety, absolutely,
But I don't think that's a recent occurrence.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I don't think that's a recent realization. Well, you're gonna
think I'm nuts, and I don't care. But I've been
reading an enormous amount about COVID and the brain damage
that it caused, and I'm wondering if people are more
prone to ray because of this, and they can get
it from even mild cases. And I'm even wondering if
it's affecting me because just like, we went to a
pub last night and it costs like seventy bucks for
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a burger and beer, and you know the equivalent for
the long suffering one, I thought, I'm going to set
this place on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You know, if I were to make a COVID connection,
I make this connection. I believe it broke us socially.
Our lack of socialization for that amount of time made
it very difficult for us to reintegrate back into our
own society. You see it with the way people misbehave
at movie theaters, you see it with the crime you
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see it in I know Twalla sees it in a
school setting. Kids like they don't know how to act,
adults don't know how to act. And if there was
any one through line, I would say it was the pandemic.
Whether you caught COVID or not, you're still locked down
to a certain degree. You weren't going to your job physically,
you weren't interacting with people or socializing in a normal way.
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And think about how people were acting up on airplanes.
Ever since then, it's like we've forgotten how to coexist.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, we really.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
I find myself having to stop and check myself to
avoid escalating like that. I mean, I went to a
pharmacy drive through yesterday and just as I pulled up
the wind to the window before their scheduled closing time.
They shut the blinds and just decided they were closed.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Early.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I thought it was going to go berserk, and I
had to stop and be like, all right, cool it here,
It's just a small thing. Something's going and something's in
the air.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Something five six times per day I have to remind
myself and talk to myself in the car or in
live saying let it go, Yeah, exactly, let it go.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Let's see. There could be something to that. I mean,
you know, I'm not all the way there with you, Mark,
but there is something distinctly different about our brain patterns
now as opposed to prior to COVID, And unfortunately we
don't know all bands and outs about it. We don't
know what's happened to our brains since having it. I've
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had it, you know, four times, I think five, and
I have no idea what type of psychosis I may
go through on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's a real thing to look out for. Not seriously, Yeah,
it's a problem. I wonder what we will think about
this time. No, let me put it this away.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I wonder what history will make of this time thirty
years from now, if I'm still around. Well in the
way that we look back on the nineteen eighties with
for the most part, great reverence and romanticize that the
nineteen eighties for the most part.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I wonder what historians will say about this period right here,
right now.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Well, I do a lot of reading about that stuff
because it really interests me, and I'm a student of history,
and I believe that we've also been in kind of
a mass psychosis that would make what happened in Salem
look like a hangnail. So you combine that with COVID
brain damage, and I think that that's going to be
a lot of fodder for people to study in the
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Speaker 2 (18:20):
Did you Know?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Starting in twenty twenty eight and we covered the story,
but now it's official with the signing of the band
by Gavin Newsom. Starting in twenty twenty eight six, common
food dies will no longer be allowed in food sold
at schools because of concerns that they cause behavior and
attention problems in some children. How about just because they're
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just unhealthy? Why does he have to cause, you know,
behavior and attention problems? The band dies are blue number one,
blue number two, sounds like a football game, green number three,
red forty.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You don't want a blue number two, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
See Tony Sorrentino is in for Stephan tonight and he
doesn't know the rules of the road, and I'm glad
he doesn't because if he did, then he might have
felt inclined to give you a rim shot a well
deserved now what you meant? No, no, no, Tony's too like,
don't try it. Not a rim shot after a blue
number two. No, there's nothing funny about that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Don't look for the rim shot. There we go. That's
a blue number two.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There you go anyhow, blue number one, blue number two,
green three, red forty, yellow number five, and yellow number six.
They've been banned so they can't sell food which has
any of those dies at school, most notably foods like uh,
you know, flaming hot cheetos and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Skittles. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, we had this discussion before, and I think that
it should be up to the schools to just say, hey,
we're not gonna sell that, as opposed to to the
governments saying to the schools, hey you can't sell that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It would make sense because the schools get to decide.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The vending machines and what's in the vending machines, and
it would be easier, I think, to do it that
way as opposed to writing legislation which really doesn't get
to the heart of the matter. It just says those
particular foods with those particular dies can't be sold, but
they can sell any other junk food which can encourage
other types of behavioral problem. Let's be serious now, well
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all the sugar that they sell that causes behavioral problems?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Am I wrong? Tobala? I mean, have them hyped up
on four cookies of sugar? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No, I mean, And looking at this the way this
is going to be rolled out, I can understand that
this law has been enacted because there are probably schools
that are resistant because of all the money they're probably
raking in off of the scales of sales of US
Skittles and flaming the Hot Flamingo chips or whatever. All
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that stuff. The schools are making big money at their
vending machine. So I guess Newsom has said, no, we
try to tell you take those things out, you didn't
want to listen, so now we're going to force you to.
But it does not stop kids from getting it. It
doesn't say that it stops kids from bringing it in
for bringing it in from home. It doesn't stop them
from going down to you know, the quarter store at
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lunch for these open campus schools and getting it. I
guess this is this is this is a drop in
the bucket, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, this is grand stand governance. That's what I call it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There's something that you can say, hey, I signed the bill.
I'm protecting the children of California. That's how it's going
to be positioned. But that almost goes back to what
we were saying about the plastic bag band. Are you
really banning plastic bags, single use plastic bags? Is that
actually going to make a dent in the overall plastic
usage just in a grocery store, much less anywhere else.
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But they get to get on TV and say, hey,
we are you know, helping the climate. We're limiting the
amount of plastic which is in our landfills. I think
this is much of the same. You're not actually diminishing
the likelihood of children being exposed to these foods. You're
just saying the schools can't sell them. Big deal. You're
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not really changing it. Look and I don't know what
the school lunches look like today, but they're probably not
much better.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh, school lunches are trash, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
School lunches are trash, which is why kids are sneaking
off or leaving or going elsewhere to eat because the
food that they're getting is so subpar. And I swear
Superintendent Carvalla had rolled out this plan where there's supposed
to be some level of gourmet or some interaction with
the food trucks, something to step these lunches up. I'm
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still waiting for it to happen. I don't know what
the hold up is, but I've seen some of my
daughter's lunches, and I just I pray for the children
of at least LAUSD. Maybe in Orange County they're eating well,
but LAUSD.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
I think you raised an important point here, which is
that school lunches have never been very good at all.
They've never been some kind of paragon of health food. Like,
I'll just say right up front, I haven't been to
prison yet, but I can't imagine. I can't imagine that
their food there is that much more healthy. I love
that modifier.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, nice caveat is like you don't want to get
too far out in front of it and chink yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, no, no, no, I'm like knock on wood that right, Mark. Sorry,
I showed you the tackles that I grew up on.
Even I don't think so. No, the yellow the yellow
breedle in a bag that I showed you, the grease ball.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh that's a war crime. Yeah, people need to go
to prison for that. They still sell those. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
See, this actually harkens back to a conversation we had
last week about the hypocrisy of it all. If we
supposedly care about our kids being in school, going back
to the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You know, they need to be learning, they need to
be in school.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But at the same time, we're not exactly trying to
make or that environment is as learning conducive as possible,
Which includes the lunches, It includes getting the stuff out
of the vending machines, it includes paying the teachers, It
includes actually acting like school is important.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You can't say, oh my gosh, the pandemic they were
out of.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
School and they lost so much time to learn, And
then you don't back actually paying the teachers. You don't
back actually have free school lunches if need, but you
don't back actually having healthy school lunches. I mean, you
can't have it both ways. You're gonna try, but I'm
listening to you. I'm listening to what you're saying out
the right side of your mouth and the left side
of your mouth, and it doesn't make any sense. It's
nice for you to care about your kids getting an education,
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but this is a part of that equation too punintended.
You know, they actually have to have something decent to eat.
And although I don't agree with the grandstand governance of
trying to ban five or six dies at a school,
there is something to be said about having a concerted
effort to improve not only the educational equation but also
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the health food equation for school lunches. I know that
if they eat better, they'll actually perform better in school.
That's not like rocket science. That's like just basics, basics,
And we don't even want to do that. It's later
with Mokela k if I AM six forty. We are
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back,
we're gonna go looking for gold in our heels. We're
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going on a gold rush and we're gonna tell you
the top ten states where you're likely to find gold
because we all know the stock market's gonna crash and
we're gonna go back to the Stone age. She's gonna
be some big emp's gonna wipe out everything and only
gold will matter.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What or something like that. Weren't you told like to
buy gold in case of the disaster.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I thought the stock market broke records like four days
in a row last week.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
H yeah, but it's gonna crash. It's gonna crash. Oh, yes,
of course. Okay, sorry, my mistake. Don't allow facts to
ever come in this conversation. No, no, no, you're completely right.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
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AM six forty Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
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Speaker 1 (26:07):
And gold still is a big thing when it comes
to valuable items in America, especially if you're the older generation.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I was told growing up all the oh you should
always have gold. Gold will always have value. You know,
stocks will rise and fall, but gold is where it's at.
You always have a gold in your portfolio.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Okay, whatever, But there are a lot of people who
still subscribe to that and it's still one of the
most precious metals in the US today. And there's a
serving which was conducted by online metal dealer sd Bullion.
So take it for what is worth and and identify
the top ten states where you're most likely to find
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gold in the ground. So, if you're a gold prospector
you want to add to your portfolio, find some gold,
you want to melt down, maybe fence it, steal some gold, whatever,
here's where you're most likely to find it. Coming in
at number ten of the top states with the most
gold producing locations today.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Utah didn't see that coming. No, No, I didn't know
there was gold in them Utah Hills. Yeah, didn't know that. Hey,
you get your sister wives to dig for it. Well wait,
he earned that one, tony. She is just not paying attention.
(27:36):
He doesn't listen to the show. All right, we'll just
have to keep it going. Number nine Alaska, give you
some data.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Nine point twenty two locations per one thousand square miles.
So if you can brave the elements, maybe you want
to go prospecting in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Number eight Montana. Have anyone here been to Montana? I
haven't billings, not a lot else to do there, Just
start digging. Thirteen point two to one locations per one
thousand square miles. It's a lot. Number seven.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Colorado fourteen point eight nine locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Two, there's gold in Colorado. Number six.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Getting closer, Arizona seventeen point four zero locations per one
thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Number five.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Idaho seventeen excuse me, twenty eight point forty four locations
per one thousand square miles Idaho, Idaho.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So you can, if you can avoid the Klan, you
might find some goal. Yeah, you got to.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Dodge some Nazis to dig for your gold in Idaho.
And look, believe me, I've been there enough times so
that that's not really even a joke. No risk, no
reward exactly. Number four Nevada.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Not to be confused with Nevada, but Nevada thirty point
ninety one locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
That makes sense. Yeah, yeah, that's part of the gold rush.
Number three.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oregon thirty one point forty one locations per one thousand
square miles.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Even today, I would have thought that would have been higher,
thought at least two or one, only because of the
Oregon Trail and how there was so much gold prospecting
along that route.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, I guess they've depleted it. Number two Hello, Mark Ronner? Sorry, yes,
Washington really thirty four point seventeen locations per one thousand
square miles. Well I never got any of it. Yeah
did you look though?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Because I never really understood the whole gold thing. Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode about the
bomb shelter. If you get to the point where you
think you need gold, we're all just cooked.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He did it again.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He came out of his ass with some really obscure
cinematic or television reference that nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Well, just stick to the point. How does that even work? Like,
if our currency fails and you've been hoarding gold, what
do you do.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It has look? You take it to the gold Yeah yeah, no,
I mean take it to the seven eleven. Anything has value. Yeah,
they will jump before it there. Yeah, you're not for kids.
Value is what we ascribe to it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You know if people one day ago said gold had value.
It was bright, it was shiny, it was malleable. They
can make it into just about anything, and there was
enough of it they decided this or is semi precious,
has value.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I mean, but that's my question.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I mean, to March's point, do you go into routs
then and just say here, I like to pay with
these groceries with some gold flakes.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
If our currency market collapse, you will not be able
to just walk in any grocery store and they won't
have anything to sell you. We can look at what's
happening in countries like Venezuela, where money means almost nothing down.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
There, so that the gold is going to be worthless.
We'll just have it. No, they'll kill you for it.
It's not worthless. That's just okay.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Because gold outside of a country's currency has value around
the world. Where you can look at the currency like
the Pasol, the Mexican payso, or the Venezuela and I
don't know what their currency is called, it doesn't have
any value anywhere. But gold retains value in at least
in a civilization which still exists now after nuclear bomb.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I don't know. I like an optimist. Hey, you got
to have something to look forward to after the bomb.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, and coming in at number one at sixty six
point five nine locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
California, I believe it or not, of course.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But see it's weird because I'm thinking, like, well, I
would love to see the evidence of that that actually
gold is being found, like in a way that you
can see, Okay, oil, there's an oil.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well, well, last time you saw a gold dig where
was that? You don't have something like that on your
your estate in the backyard, No, no, just your villa. Look,
you'd like to make me out to be much more
wealthy than I am. Okay, I'm just getting by, keep
my head above water, make it a way when I
(33:04):
can struggling. Are you layoffs?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Good times, easy credit ripoffs, good time scratching and surviving,
hanging in a chout line. Good times. And we got
and we lucky we got them so I can go
obscure TV reference too. Oh a plus, nice work, okay,
real quickly before we end this hour, Tony Sorrentino, I
did not officially say good evening to you didn't welcome you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You you are in for for Stephan tonight. How are you, sir?
Doing well? How about you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I'm doing well now very quickly. For those who don't know,
you have it, have an extensive arcade and guitar collection.
A little bit. How many guitars do you have?
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Sixteen? How many arcade games do you have? The big
stand up? The ones? Do I count my new light
gun cabinet? Then? Then about eighteen? What right? Rights?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Wow, I'm talking about the nineteen eighties actual arcade consoles.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
They're emulators, most of them. But there they look right,
they look right, they play right. You got the whole
cabin you know, the shelby and everything. I have a
new one I'm working on right now too. It's gonna
be really cool.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Okay. Can I tell people more about your house please?
It's okay. It is a bachelor's paradise me. I mean,
before you do that. I just got myself a slushy machine.
Be careful. They've been knocking off seven eleven's Okay, attention burglars.
What flavors?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
So I went on a mission of like I wanted
to get I want to make icys at home, right,
So I couldn't get the icy syrup, but I got
like the carnival, like what you get like carnival like
state fairs and stuff like that. So I have a gallon,
like industrial gallon of cherry syrup in my fridge. It's
perfect bachelor's paradise, arcade, games, guitars. There's a pool table
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and a pool and a pool and a pizza oven
and a pizza oven. Yeah, no, describe your pizza oven.
It's nice, it's wanted like a proper It works like
it should it does. It makes very good ne Apolitan pizza.
But it's like a brick oven, isn't it. It's a
wood oven? Would I want to mock that? But I'm jealous,
(35:16):
That's what I'm saying. It was a very nice gift
from my family because my cousin got tired of me
always using his. He's like, here's your own, stop using mine.
But you do you get to spend enough time at
home to enjoy it all.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
That's what I thought. Much right, now.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Have you have you brought a nice lady home? And
if so, what have they said? She was cool with
it because she was a gamer, so yeah, she she
she the garage is cool. The Arkay, it's in the garage,
I should be I thought the garage was code for something.
Is that like your grotto or something? It puts the
lotion on its skin. I was going to say, it's like,
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do you and did.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
He have anything in common? I mean, do you have
a little know about like he was one? I don't
want to say too much because did he is in
the news, you know the hose again? Yeah, to the
right people, it was cool.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
The right people. You have very exclusive parties. No, no, no, no,
just say like other people, you know, look at my
arcade and.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
They go, So if you have that big container of
cherry syrup, how many bottles of loube do you have?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
No? You had to make it weird. And this is
pulled from the headlines. Don't put this on me. This
is not law and order. Okay, tony, Okay, I'm fine. Okay.
How many did are you uncomfortable yet?
Speaker 8 (36:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Never? Well, we can fix that.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
How many?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
There's nothing you can oh, Mark can go ahead and
find it. Mark, what it's just I have.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
A dump button here I can get rid of it.
These are serious questions still going on the podcast.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
I'm a journalist, because what did he have, like a
thousand bottles of the stuff, one thousand bottles of Move
on the Wall.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
The best part was, like his lawyer said, you got
it at Costco and at Costco's like, we don't sell
that book.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
No, Costa said, we don't want to tout that at all. Well,
you don't want to get caught short on that stuff
when you need it. I mean, it's better safe than sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Right, we wouldn't know Mark, We're just gonna We're just
gonna let that uncomfortable silence hang out there.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. You go to town.
I'm fine. You know what, Why don't we just hit are?
This is about time to time. What we're gonna Oh
she's on vacation, she's not listening. That's why we're doing this,
and nobody listens.
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Keep on coming. Have you have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Have you seen the number of people we call them celebrities,
but they are people. The number of people who have
passed in just the past maybe four or five days,
four or five days, we're talking about people who have
made tremendous contributions to this life that we've lived. Pete Rose,
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most recently, eighty three years old, passed away. I got
one Pete Rose story, I'll tell it in just a second.
And where did I meet him? At the tables he
was gambling Vegas. True story, true story, of course, And
I'll come back to that in a second. But I
started this weekend, I guess, trying to deal with the
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passing of John Ashton of Beverly Hills cop fame.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then you had Chris Christofferson.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean that alone would have been enough, and then
you have Pete Rose today. And for me more personally
to Kim Bae Mutambo, he and I graduated Georgetown together.
Basketball Hall of famer passed away today from brain cancer
at the age of fifty eight fifty eight, someone in
my class. He was a little bit older when he
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came to Georgetown, but we were in the same class.
Of course, you're reminded of your own mortality. But when
you lose some of these pillars in entertainment, it's not
that they were celebrities. It is they had an outsize
impact on our lives, be it their music, be it
their movies, be it their sports performances, and you can
(02:07):
associate probably some good moments of your life with each
and all of them. How many times have I say
the stars born, I don't know, can't tell you. How
many times have I watched Chris Christofferson as Whistler and Blade?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I can't tell you. But he was resident with different generations.
You know my love of baseball growing up. I'm a
stat nerd. I can tell you the history of Pete
Rose up and down, back and forth as the all
time hits leader. I know intimately his history of gambling
issues and why he was excommunicated from baseball. My first
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radio gig was in sports and had any number of
opportunities to at least book him for a show.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let me just tell the story real quick.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I was in Las Vegas for the Oscar de la
Hoya Felix Trinidad fight. So this is like early two
thousands and it was at the MGM, and it was
one of those weird times where anyone who was anyone
you would run into them, but not everyone had a camera.
It wasn't about taking photos and social media. So after
(03:19):
the fight, we're finally out of the arena. I'm walking out.
Right behind me is the late legendary trainer, Angelo Dundee.
So I'm getting to have an off the cuff conversation
with Angelo Dundee, that was Ali's trainer, and I'm saying,
you know, mister Dundee, how did you have the fight?
And he pulled out his scorecard and he showed me
(03:41):
his handwritten notes of the rounds of who he thought
won the fight, and he had a Felix Trinidad who won.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I thought it was Felix Trinidad too.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Anyway, as we're going through the casino, because the MGM
their facility goes through the casino, they want you to
bet on the table and the slots and everything going
and coming from the arena. As we're going through the
casino area, here is Pete Rose with some woman. I
don't know who it was. She looked very expensive. That's
(04:13):
the only way I could describe it. She was very expensive.
And he's still, in many respects at this time, a
social pariah.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
He's already been excommunicated from baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And we get a chance to just talk for a second,
because I'm you know, I'm a stat nerd. I know
everything about Pete Rose, and Pete had a moment to
just kind of just go off about how he hated
what Jim Gray did to him in an interview, and
how baseball had mistreated him. But he hoped even then
that one day he would get into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It still mattered to him. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know if it mattered to him upon his
deathbed or later much later in life, because we're talking
about maybe twenty some odd years, no more than that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
This was no I'm sorry, this was late nineties, late nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Got my years mixed up, So this like maybe twenty
six years intervening. And you wonder, as you get older,
all of us, and you see these people leave as
I'm bouncing around, you wonder whether people were at peace.
I think that's what it comes down to you wonder
whether Pete Rose had found peace. I thought about Christopher Christofferson,
(05:21):
how he died at his home in Maui, and I
was saying it into the studio and I said, that's
the way I want to go. I want to know
that if I can see it coming, that I can
be home, be with my loved ones, be with my family.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's how my father passed.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Twala, you were telling a story about your aunt's similar situation.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, And that is absolutely the way that I want
to go. You want to go in your place of peace,
the place that's going to give you the most solitude
as you exit into the night. And we'd be remiss
if we did not mention the passing of Maggie Smith,
who also died right days ago.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, And that is an unintentional oversight. There's been so
much news, not a lot of it good. And this
show is big on nostalgia. We're self aware, and so
that weighs heavy, very heavy on us because we're talking
about a lot of great memories, a lot of great talent,
(06:22):
tremendous contributions. And you come in and I tell this
all the time, and people don't know, but it's a reminder.
You come in, you think you're going to do one show.
Then oh, by the way, the news just broke. Pete
Rose died.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh my goodness. You know we had slaughter.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We're going to talk about John Ashton and also Chris Christofferson,
and then the Pete Rose news broke.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The t kembeboutabo news broke.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And that has me in a different space because you know,
I went to school with him, We played basketball and
intramurals together. When I was an intramural refereel referee his
basketball games. You get to know him as people, and
this is just one of those days where it's a
very painful reminder that all this stuff really ain't all
that important. All of it is fleeting, and I hope
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I always say that the most important part of life
is making sure you're at peace when life is about
to end.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And if you get there at fifty, god bless you.
If it takes you into your eighty five to get there,
god bless you. But just make sure you get there
before it gets you. It's later with mo Kelly. I
am six forty. We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app and we have some DMV news when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think it's a universal truth. The DMV is absolute health.
Nobody wants to go, but everyone needs to go at
some point. But as we progress through life, we may
have to go for different reasons. My license is going
to expire on my birthday next year, which probably means
I'm going to have to.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Go in and do the EE test and you know,
all the things.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Make sure that I'm still in my right mind, that
I'm allowed to drive.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Or they'll take away. I look at Twalla's putting out
of slices just a check. He's getting scared all of
a sudden. But I think for the most part, none
of us want to go to the DMV.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And we had not a Coadela Cruz in a few
fridays ago, and she was detailing how her mother was
ruined the day where she had to go to the
DMV because she's of a certain age, and after a
certain age you have to go in and take the
written test all over again. Look, I remember the first
time I took the written test when I was fifteen
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for my permit.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I failed that mother. Father. I went in thinking, I,
come on, I got this. This isn't that hard. I
got this. I know how to drive.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Thumb through the book a few times went in there.
I think I missed like twelve or thirteen, and I remember,
I remember my father took me down. I went out
and took the test by myself, looking all smug and stuff.
Then I got back in the car, all sheepishly says,
because he so how did it go? I said, man,
(09:04):
those questions were messed up. They were trick questions, and
he said, well, you should have studied more. Then the
next time I knocked it out the park. But it
could be very humbly that test. It's not easy. Yes,
they are trick questions. But you think of all the
subtleties and the rules which have changed in the many
(09:24):
years I have literally been driving now for forty years.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Driving forty years, I think a ruler two has changed
a law of you know, a double line this or
a don't no left turn here? That has changed in
the past forty years. Have I looked at a driver's
manual in the past forty years?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Nop.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, here's the good news. Not that I'm almost seventy,
but it's something I can look forward to. The State
of California has eliminated the written driving test for most people,
not all, most people seventy years old and older renewing
their license.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Please clap.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The reason I say that because as of October first,
these older drivers whose licenses expire as of twenty twenty four.
Unless you are one of those high risk drivers where
you've had a lot of points on putting your license,
you won't have to take the written portion.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You'll still have to get your eye tests, but that's
about it. The DMV says drivers seventy and older still
need to make an office visit for the vision exam
and updated photo when they renew their license. Well, I'll
have to do the updated photo and probably the eye
test because my eyes are horrible.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
That's another reason why I'll try to get into fricases
out on the road, because I wouldn't be able to
identify my assailant.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Mark Ronner. He likes to flip off people only when
they deserve it, I know, only when it's fully justified.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
And there's really no other polite way to let people
know that they're being rude and dangerous. I never initiate violence.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ever, those days are behind me. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I can't pop the trunk, I can't ask people to
pull over, and I've done that before. I was driving
down Venture Boulevard and right around Laurel Canyon and this
guy started mouthing off to me, and I think I'd
just gotten first or second degree, and.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I was amped up that that It was not a
good time in my life. What are you in mouthing
off like how He.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Was mouthing off to me, talking about you need to
look at the f and road watch where you're going.
And I rolled down the window and I said, pull
your punk ass over, pull over as you do.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah. I started pulling over.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He started pulling over, and I guess he realized that
I was really pulling over, and then he decided to
pull off. It would not have been a good idea
black man in Studio City trying to get in a
fight with someone in broad daylight.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Well, it never is under any circumstances. But when you
add that to the mix, no vented badly for me,
no matter what, even if I won the fight.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But but my point is that part of my life
thank goodness is behind me and I try not to
do anything to make my life worse. And also since
my eyes are bad, you know, it's just enough for
me to stay focused on the road.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Be like mister Magoo, pretend you don't see them road hog.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm just not looking forward to going back to the
DMV for any reason.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Oh it's hell say b three zero nine adown, perfect
down nine one three adown.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Okay, twalla, what were you looking for on your driver license?
I was looking for the uh for the day I
to do it? Okay? Yeah, so next year you and
me both will be in there. Mark when is yours expire? Oh?
I haven't looked. Let me check.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I just renewed mine by mail though. Right. So, but
the next time you'll probably have to go in. Oh
that's not going to be good for end anybody. That's
my points, really, that is my Wait a minute, I'm
gonna getting all your business. Do you have a California
one or you still have a Washington one?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I got a California one. I've been here six years now.
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
You're a rule breaker, you're lawbyret I'm a rebel. Yeah,
just like pee Wee Herban, I'm a rebel dottie. It
expires in twenty twenty eight. I could do yet by that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well that's true, Jamal's not promised. No, no, you might
have flipped off the wrong person.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well here's the thing on. No, No, let's just keep up. No, no,
finish your thoughts. There's no good to come of this.
But I feel like there's something in the air where
people are just a little extra nuts lately, and I
have no idea what to ascribe this to. It's like
that old Star Trek episode where they aim an irritation
ray at people to break the spell when they're on
(13:48):
the Spore planet and mister Spock is happy. There's something
going on with people driving right now. They're extra aggressive,
extra obnoxious, and I don't know what's causing it. I'm
trying not to contribute to it. Twelve washing this. Can
you repeat that very obscure Star Trek reference one more time?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Please? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
It was a Star Trek episode This Side of Paradise
with Jill Ireland, who is mister Spock's love ooh Jill Ireland,
Oh shoot, yeah yeah. So they get sprayed with these
spores and everybody's happy except for Captain Kirk, and to
get everybody back to business, he aims an irritation ray
down the planet and it breaks the spell. I feel
like that's what we're getting hit with. Don't pretend like
(14:25):
you don't know this.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I think that we've been at this heightened state of
insanity for quite some time. I don't think it's a
recent phenomenon. Is it impacted by the news, yes. Is
it impacted by our political state, absolutely. Is it impacted
by crime and our feelings of lack of safety, absolutely,
But I don't think that's a recent occurrence.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I don't think that's a recent realization. Well, you're gonna
think I'm nuts, and I don't care. But I've been
reading an enormous amount about COVID and the brain damage
that it caused, and I'm wondering if people are more
prone to ray because of this, and they can get
it from even mild cases. And I'm even wondering if
it's affecting me because just like, we went to a
pub last night and it costs like seventy bucks for
(15:10):
a burger and beer, and you know the equivalent for
the long suffering one, I thought, I'm going to set
this place on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You know, if I were to make a COVID connection,
I make this connection. I believe it broke us socially.
Our lack of socialization for that amount of time made
it very difficult for us to reintegrate back into our
own society. You see it with the way people misbehave
at movie theaters, you see it with the crime you
(15:40):
see it in I know Twalla sees it in a
school setting. Kids like they don't know how to act,
adults don't know how to act. And if there was
any one through line, I would say it was the pandemic.
Whether you caught COVID or not, you're still locked down
to a certain degree. You weren't going to your job physically,
you weren't interacting with people or socializing in a normal way.
(16:02):
And think about how people were acting up on airplanes.
Ever since then, it's like we've forgotten how to coexist.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, we really.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
I find myself having to stop and check myself to
avoid escalating like that. I mean, I went to a
pharmacy drive through yesterday and just as I pulled up
the wind to the window before their scheduled closing time.
They shut the blinds and just decided they were closed.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Early.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
I thought it was going to go berserk, and I
had to stop and be like, all right, cool it here,
It's just a small thing. Something's going and something's in
the air.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Something five six times per day I have to remind
myself and talk to myself in the car or in
live saying let it go, Yeah, exactly, let it go.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Let's see. There could be something to that. I mean,
you know, I'm not all the way there with you, Mark,
but there is something distinctly different about our brain patterns
now as opposed to prior to COVID, And unfortunately we
don't know all bands and outs about it. We don't
know what's happened to our brains since having it. I've
(17:07):
had it, you know, four times, I think five, and
I have no idea what type of psychosis I may
go through on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's a real thing to look out for. Not seriously, Yeah,
it's a problem. I wonder what we will think about
this time. No, let me put it this away.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I wonder what history will make of this time thirty
years from now, if I'm still around. Well in the
way that we look back on the nineteen eighties with
for the most part, great reverence and romanticize that the
nineteen eighties for the most part.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I wonder what historians will say about this period right here,
right now.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Well, I do a lot of reading about that stuff
because it really interests me, and I'm a student of history,
and I believe that we've also been in kind of
a mass psychosis that would make what happened in Salem
look like a hangnail. So you combine that with COVID
brain damage, and I think that that's going to be
a lot of fodder for people to study in the
future when we come back. More good news this Later
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Did you Know?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Starting in twenty twenty eight and we covered the story,
but now it's official with the signing of the band
by Gavin Newsom. Starting in twenty twenty eight six, common
food dies will no longer be allowed in food sold
at schools because of concerns that they cause behavior and
attention problems in some children. How about just because they're
(18:42):
just unhealthy? Why does he have to cause, you know,
behavior and attention problems? The band dies are blue number one,
blue number two, sounds like a football game, green number three,
red forty.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You don't want a blue number two, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
See Tony Sorrentino is in for Stephan tonight and he
doesn't know the rules of the road, and I'm glad
he doesn't because if he did, then he might have
felt inclined to give you a rim shot a well
deserved now what you meant? No, no, no, Tony's too like,
don't try it. Not a rim shot after a blue
number two. No, there's nothing funny about that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Don't look for the rim shot. There we go. That's
a blue number two.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There you go anyhow, blue number one, blue number two,
green three, red forty, yellow number five, and yellow number six.
They've been banned so they can't sell food which has
any of those dies at school, most notably foods like uh,
you know, flaming hot cheetos and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Skittles. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, we had this discussion before, and I think that
it should be up to the schools to just say, hey,
we're not gonna sell that, as opposed to to the
governments saying to the schools, hey you can't sell that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It would make sense because the schools get to decide.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
The vending machines and what's in the vending machines, and
it would be easier, I think, to do it that
way as opposed to writing legislation which really doesn't get
to the heart of the matter. It just says those
particular foods with those particular dies can't be sold, but
they can sell any other junk food which can encourage
other types of behavioral problem. Let's be serious now, well
(20:31):
all the sugar that they sell that causes behavioral problems?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Am I wrong? Tobala? I mean, have them hyped up
on four cookies of sugar? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No, I mean, And looking at this the way this
is going to be rolled out, I can understand that
this law has been enacted because there are probably schools
that are resistant because of all the money they're probably
raking in off of the scales of sales of US
Skittles and flaming the Hot Flamingo chips or whatever. All
(21:01):
that stuff. The schools are making big money at their
vending machine. So I guess Newsom has said, no, we
try to tell you take those things out, you didn't
want to listen, so now we're going to force you to.
But it does not stop kids from getting it. It
doesn't say that it stops kids from bringing it in
for bringing it in from home. It doesn't stop them
from going down to you know, the quarter store at
(21:22):
lunch for these open campus schools and getting it. I
guess this is this is this is a drop in
the bucket, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, this is grand stand governance. That's what I call it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There's something that you can say, hey, I signed the bill.
I'm protecting the children of California. That's how it's going
to be positioned. But that almost goes back to what
we were saying about the plastic bag band. Are you
really banning plastic bags, single use plastic bags? Is that
actually going to make a dent in the overall plastic
usage just in a grocery store, much less anywhere else.
(21:54):
But they get to get on TV and say, hey,
we are you know, helping the climate. We're limiting the
amount of plastic which is in our landfills. I think
this is much of the same. You're not actually diminishing
the likelihood of children being exposed to these foods. You're
just saying the schools can't sell them. Big deal. You're
(22:14):
not really changing it. Look and I don't know what
the school lunches look like today, but they're probably not
much better.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh, school lunches are trash, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
School lunches are trash, which is why kids are sneaking
off or leaving or going elsewhere to eat because the
food that they're getting is so subpar. And I swear
Superintendent Carvalla had rolled out this plan where there's supposed
to be some level of gourmet or some interaction with
the food trucks, something to step these lunches up. I'm
(22:46):
still waiting for it to happen. I don't know what
the hold up is, but I've seen some of my
daughter's lunches, and I just I pray for the children
of at least LAUSD. Maybe in Orange County they're eating well,
but LAUSD.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
I think you raised an important point here, which is
that school lunches have never been very good at all.
They've never been some kind of paragon of health food. Like,
I'll just say right up front, I haven't been to
prison yet, but I can't imagine. I can't imagine that
their food there is that much more healthy. I love
that modifier.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, nice caveat is like you don't want to get
too far out in front of it and chink yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, no, no, no, I'm like knock on wood that right, Mark. Sorry,
I showed you the tackles that I grew up on.
Even I don't think so. No, the yellow the yellow
breedle in a bag that I showed you, the grease ball.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh that's a war crime. Yeah, people need to go
to prison for that. They still sell those. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
See, this actually harkens back to a conversation we had
last week about the hypocrisy of it all. If we
supposedly care about our kids being in school, going back
to the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You know, they need to be learning, they need to
be in school.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But at the same time, we're not exactly trying to
make or that environment is as learning conducive as possible,
Which includes the lunches, It includes getting the stuff out
of the vending machines, it includes paying the teachers, It
includes actually acting like school is important.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You can't say, oh my gosh, the pandemic they were
out of.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
School and they lost so much time to learn, And
then you don't back actually paying the teachers. You don't
back actually have free school lunches if need, but you
don't back actually having healthy school lunches. I mean, you
can't have it both ways. You're gonna try, but I'm
listening to you. I'm listening to what you're saying out
the right side of your mouth and the left side
of your mouth, and it doesn't make any sense. It's
nice for you to care about your kids getting an education,
(24:37):
but this is a part of that equation too punintended.
You know, they actually have to have something decent to eat.
And although I don't agree with the grandstand governance of
trying to ban five or six dies at a school,
there is something to be said about having a concerted
effort to improve not only the educational equation but also
(25:01):
the health food equation for school lunches. I know that
if they eat better, they'll actually perform better in school.
That's not like rocket science. That's like just basics, basics,
And we don't even want to do that. It's later
with Mokela k if I AM six forty. We are
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back,
we're gonna go looking for gold in our heels. We're
(25:22):
going on a gold rush and we're gonna tell you
the top ten states where you're likely to find gold
because we all know the stock market's gonna crash and
we're gonna go back to the Stone age. She's gonna
be some big emp's gonna wipe out everything and only
gold will matter.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What or something like that. Weren't you told like to
buy gold in case of the disaster.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I thought the stock market broke records like four days
in a row last week.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
H yeah, but it's gonna crash. It's gonna crash. Oh, yes,
of course. Okay, sorry, my mistake. Don't allow facts to
ever come in this conversation. No, no, no, you're completely right.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
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AM six forty Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And gold still is a big thing when it comes
to valuable items in America, especially if you're the older generation.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I was told growing up all the oh you should
always have gold. Gold will always have value. You know,
stocks will rise and fall, but gold is where it's at.
You always have a gold in your portfolio.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Okay, whatever, But there are a lot of people who
still subscribe to that and it's still one of the
most precious metals in the US today. And there's a
serving which was conducted by online metal dealer sd Bullion.
So take it for what is worth and and identify
the top ten states where you're most likely to find
(26:49):
gold in the ground. So, if you're a gold prospector
you want to add to your portfolio, find some gold,
you want to melt down, maybe fence it, steal some gold, whatever,
here's where you're most likely to find it. Coming in
at number ten of the top states with the most
gold producing locations today.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Utah didn't see that coming. No, No, I didn't know
there was gold in them Utah Hills. Yeah, didn't know that. Hey,
you get your sister wives to dig for it. Well wait,
he earned that one, tony. She is just not paying attention.
(27:36):
He doesn't listen to the show. All right, we'll just
have to keep it going. Number nine Alaska, give you
some data.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Nine point twenty two locations per one thousand square miles.
So if you can brave the elements, maybe you want
to go prospecting in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Number eight Montana. Have anyone here been to Montana? I
haven't billings, not a lot else to do there, Just
start digging. Thirteen point two to one locations per one
thousand square miles. It's a lot. Number seven.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Colorado fourteen point eight nine locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Two, there's gold in Colorado. Number six.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Getting closer, Arizona seventeen point four zero locations per one
thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Number five.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Idaho seventeen excuse me, twenty eight point forty four locations
per one thousand square miles Idaho, Idaho.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So you can, if you can avoid the Klan, you
might find some goal. Yeah, you got to.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Dodge some Nazis to dig for your gold in Idaho.
And look, believe me, I've been there enough times so
that that's not really even a joke. No risk, no
reward exactly. Number four Nevada.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Not to be confused with Nevada, but Nevada thirty point
ninety one locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
That makes sense. Yeah, yeah, that's part of the gold rush.
Number three.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oregon thirty one point forty one locations per one thousand
square miles.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Even today, I would have thought that would have been higher,
thought at least two or one, only because of the
Oregon Trail and how there was so much gold prospecting
along that route.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, I guess they've depleted it. Number two Hello, Mark Ronner? Sorry, yes,
Washington really thirty four point seventeen locations per one thousand
square miles. Well I never got any of it. Yeah
did you look though?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Because I never really understood the whole gold thing. Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
It reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode about the
bomb shelter. If you get to the point where you
think you need gold, we're all just cooked.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He did it again.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
He came out of his ass with some really obscure
cinematic or television reference that nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Well, just stick to the point. How does that even work? Like,
if our currency fails and you've been hoarding gold, what
do you do.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It has look? You take it to the gold Yeah yeah, no,
I mean take it to the seven eleven. Anything has value. Yeah,
they will jump before it there. Yeah, you're not for kids.
Value is what we ascribe to it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You know if people one day ago said gold had value.
It was bright, it was shiny, it was malleable. They
can make it into just about anything, and there was
enough of it they decided this or is semi precious,
has value.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I mean, but that's my question.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I mean, to March's point, do you go into routs
then and just say here, I like to pay with
these groceries with some gold flakes.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
If our currency market collapse, you will not be able
to just walk in any grocery store and they won't
have anything to sell you. We can look at what's
happening in countries like Venezuela, where money means almost nothing down.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
There, so that the gold is going to be worthless.
We'll just have it. No, they'll kill you for it.
It's not worthless. That's just okay.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Because gold outside of a country's currency has value around
the world. Where you can look at the currency like
the Pasol, the Mexican payso, or the Venezuela and I
don't know what their currency is called, it doesn't have
any value anywhere. But gold retains value in at least
in a civilization which still exists now after nuclear bomb.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I don't know. I like an optimist. Hey, you got
to have something to look forward to after the bomb.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, and coming in at number one at sixty six
point five nine locations per one thousand square miles.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
California, I believe it or not, of course.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But see it's weird because I'm thinking, like, well, I
would love to see the evidence of that that actually
gold is being found, like in a way that you
can see, Okay, oil, there's an oil.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Well, well, last time you saw a gold dig where
was that? You don't have something like that on your
your estate in the backyard, No, no, just your villa. Look,
you'd like to make me out to be much more
wealthy than I am. Okay, I'm just getting by, keep
my head above water, make it a way when I
(33:04):
can struggling. Are you layoffs?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Good times, easy credit ripoffs, good time scratching and surviving,
hanging in a chout line. Good times. And we got
and we lucky we got them so I can go
obscure TV reference too. Oh a plus, nice work, okay,
real quickly before we end this hour, Tony Sorrentino, I
did not officially say good evening to you didn't welcome you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You you are in for for Stephan tonight. How are you, sir?
Doing well? How about you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I'm doing well now very quickly. For those who don't know,
you have it, have an extensive arcade and guitar collection.
A little bit. How many guitars do you have?
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Sixteen? How many arcade games do you have? The big
stand up? The ones? Do I count my new light
gun cabinet? Then? Then about eighteen? What right? Rights?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Wow, I'm talking about the nineteen eighties actual arcade consoles.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
They're emulators, most of them. But there they look right,
they look right, they play right. You got the whole
cabin you know, the shelby and everything. I have a
new one I'm working on right now too. It's gonna
be really cool.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Okay. Can I tell people more about your house please?
It's okay. It is a bachelor's paradise me. I mean,
before you do that. I just got myself a slushy machine.
Be careful. They've been knocking off seven eleven's Okay, attention burglars.
What flavors?
Speaker 8 (34:32):
So I went on a mission of like I wanted
to get I want to make icys at home, right,
So I couldn't get the icy syrup, but I got
like the carnival, like what you get like carnival like
state fairs and stuff like that. So I have a gallon,
like industrial gallon of cherry syrup in my fridge. It's
perfect bachelor's paradise, arcade, games, guitars. There's a pool table
(34:53):
and a pool and a pool and a pizza oven
and a pizza oven. Yeah, no, describe your pizza oven.
It's nice, it's wanted like a proper It works like
it should it does. It makes very good ne Apolitan pizza.
But it's like a brick oven, isn't it. It's a
wood oven? Would I want to mock that? But I'm jealous,
(35:16):
That's what I'm saying. It was a very nice gift
from my family because my cousin got tired of me
always using his. He's like, here's your own, stop using mine.
But you do you get to spend enough time at
home to enjoy it all.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
That's what I thought. Much right, now.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Have you have you brought a nice lady home? And
if so, what have they said? She was cool with
it because she was a gamer, so yeah, she she
she the garage is cool. The Arkay, it's in the garage,
I should be I thought the garage was code for something.
Is that like your grotto or something? It puts the
lotion on its skin. I was going to say, it's like,
(35:56):
do you and did.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
He have anything in common? I mean, do you have
a little know about like he was one? I don't
want to say too much because did he is in
the news, you know the hose again? Yeah, to the
right people, it was cool.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
The right people. You have very exclusive parties. No, no, no, no,
just say like other people, you know, look at my
arcade and.
Speaker 7 (36:18):
They go, So if you have that big container of
cherry syrup, how many bottles of loube do you have?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
No? You had to make it weird. And this is
pulled from the headlines. Don't put this on me. This
is not law and order. Okay, tony, Okay, I'm fine. Okay.
How many did are you uncomfortable yet?
Speaker 8 (36:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Never? Well, we can fix that.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
How many?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
There's nothing you can oh, Mark can go ahead and
find it. Mark, what it's just I have.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
A dump button here I can get rid of it.
These are serious questions still going on the podcast.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
I'm a journalist, because what did he have, like a
thousand bottles of the stuff, one thousand bottles of Move
on the Wall.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
The best part was, like his lawyer said, you got
it at Costco and at Costco's like, we don't sell
that book.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
No, Costa said, we don't want to tout that at all. Well,
you don't want to get caught short on that stuff
when you need it. I mean, it's better safe than sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Right, we wouldn't know Mark, We're just gonna We're just
gonna let that uncomfortable silence hang out there.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. You go to town.
I'm fine. You know what, Why don't we just hit are?
This is about time to time. What we're gonna Oh
she's on vacation, she's not listening. That's why we're doing this,
and nobody listens.
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