October 2, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A hilarious conversation revolving around food preferences at various fast food restaurants…PLUS – A look at the triumphant return of beloved TV series “Reading Rainbow” AND plans for iconic toy retailer Toys “R” Us to return to brick-and-mortar stores - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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I need to finish up with Mark Runner from the
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last hour, and Mark, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You have news to do. No, no, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well I was hoping you did have news to do
so I could run steamrolling, That's right, unimpeded. Last even,
we were talking about Wendy's upgraded chicken tenders, and I
was running down the things that I liked did not
like about chicken tenders, and we went all the way
around the barn and Mark made a comment something to
(01:40):
effect up, especially with McDonald's chicken McNuggets, you would prefer
chicken tenders which are at least or chicken products which
are more reminiscent of the animal that it came from, right.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, not something that came out of the Star Trek
food transformer, do hickey whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I was say, how is it that that's any
different from looking at a hamburger and seeing a cow.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, it's all about the texture, isn't it. Because there
is no fibrous texture in a chicken McNugget like with
an actual piece from an actual chicken. And the same
with ground beef. You can tell the difference between ground
beef and things that are other.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Have you eaten a hot dog in your life?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Probably not as many as you. I don't usually eat
that kind of stuff, but I have. Your body's a temple, Well,
not when it comes to booze. But occasionally I've gotten
weak at Costco because they're a dollar and a half there,
and if you have to have a hot dog, the
ones at Costco aren't that bad.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know hot dogs are not healthy for you, and
I try to stay away from them, but after a
while they just call my name and it makes it
very difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, but I'm not gonna sit here and tell you
a hot dog is health food. That's some of the
unhealthiest stuff you can eat. In fact, we had studies
that were in the news here within the last six
months or so saying something along the lines of every
hot dog you eat takes thirty minutes off of your life.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And I heard that and I always I always threw
that in the garbage, no pun intended, if only because
it's we're not living a static life. In other words,
like if I ate six hot dogs and that's not
going to take one hundred and eighty minutes off my life.
That's assuming that I don't also eat well in the future.
That also assumes that I don't exercise, that I don't
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do something to counteract that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, it's an inexact science.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There's not an actuary sitting there counting the hot dogs
you eat, but they are massively unhealthy food. The processed
meats are, among other things, known to be a major
carcinogen YEP, colon cancer, all that kind of stuff, even
like lunch meat you buy in the store. So I mean,
if you do your homework, that ruins a lot of
things that otherwise otherwise might taste okay. But I don't
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like the texture of a lot of that stuff in
the first place.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But you notice they don't say that about alcohol.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Didn't say, you know, drink a fifth of jack and
it's going to take a year off your life.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Have you been online lately? Half of the material that
comes across my feeds I try to hide. I try
to to just not open those articles. I've learned to
move on. Yeah, but all of it's like, you know,
if you have more than a drink a day, or
you shouldn't even have a drink a day, it's all
alcohol doom posts.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I hate that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So I know it's like, well, if I have to
give up something, then let me just give up a
hot talk day.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Am I not a civilized man? Am I not entitled
to a nightcap and the name of all that's holy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Con there is nothing that we eat or drink. And
this is not an excuse. I'm just saying. This is
just an honest statement and realization. There's nothing that we
eat or drink, by and large which is healthy, even
down to a lot of the fruit with the pesticides
and the gene splicing and all that. The food in
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the United States is questionable at best.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You're exactly right about that, and there's a reason why
a lot of European countries won't import our food.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You won't recognize the difference until you travel. And when
you travel, you eat let's say fruit in Italy, or
you eat just the meals in a restaurant Italy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Bread.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, it's cooked differently, is prepared differently. You don't have
the additives about a sugar which is added to bread,
for example. It's just completely different and you don't really
appreciate that until you leave the country. But back to
the chicken tenders, I get on with it, okay. I
would say chicken nuggets are I would agree with you.
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They're probably the bottom the basement of all chicken nuggets
and tenders.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But they taste good, and if you don't think that,
they have teams of scientists diabolically making them taste in
such a way that you want to keep eating them
even after you're full, like they do with Dorito's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I know with especially fries and chicken tenders, a lot
of them are cooked in the fried in the grease
of the other food intentionally. Like the McDonald's fries, they
had cooked in the hamburger grease, so it you know,
they're not vegan, put it that way, so it tastes
like you're almost eating a hamburger when you're eating the fries.
That's part of it. You know, you have to know
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when you go to fast food restaurant. I don't go
all that often. I try not to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, McDonald's fries smell and taste fantastastic. But one thing
that you learn when you do even a little bit
of homework on this is the deep frying process in
French fries and potato chips on locks of carcinogen called
I think the word is akrylamide. It kind of spoils
it for you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
No, you can't read labels or articles if you're going
to enjoy fast food. You just can't from the caloric content,
the sodium content, the saturated fats. There's nothing good other
than the taste with fast food unfortunately. And yes, I'll
probably have some more Wendy's before the week is out.
Now to bring home the whole chicken fingers thing. I
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got a hot tip for you. The best chicken that
I have had are at a place called Urban Plates.
They're massive, yes, they're soft and moist, and there's a place.
There's an urban place in Torrents. They're all over the
place and they're just delicious. And I don't know that
they're the healthiest thing on earth, but they're real chicken
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and they're just magnificent. I have to stop myself from
getting them as much as I want. You know, the
most overrated chicken tenders or strips in the world, raising
canes never been there overrated. I think they're undercooked. It's
almost like they're not completely cooked. It it's hard to explain.
(07:39):
It's like for all the hype, don't get it. Pedro
the traffic guy, agrees on Urban Plates. I think we've
got a quorum here. Okay, that means we have to
continue the conversation. We're coming back with more fast food talk.
It's Late with Mo Kelly k if I AM six
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Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Can't I misterrom o' kelly here.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. And
for some reason We've descended into a fast food conversation.
And I'm not upset about that. I'm not mad about it. Okay,
we have to talk about these issues. They are important
and they are life changing. Okay, someone's life is going
to be improved because of this conversation. We started talking
(08:29):
about Wendy's new and improved chicken tenders, the Tende's, and
then we went from there. Mark Ronald wanted to chime
in about chicken McNuggets and then I started talking about
raising cane and they're undercooked chicken strips, Texas toast. It's great,
don't get me wrong. The chicken tenders, the chicken strips,
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what they're known for.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, Okay, Now, I know everyone has their their preferences.
I'm just saying that I'm the only one that's right
in this conversation, and there's a difference. Just because you
prefer something, it doesn't make you right. It just means
you don't have any tastes. Okay, my preferences are the correct.
The baseliner, Yes, yeah, they see.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Look I on the way in, I stopped real fast
at Del Taco.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh mistake, misspan Typically.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I like Deltah because I like their uh, their del
burrito just like the you know, the the beans and
meat and just what just.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
A regular breed.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I like that and uh and they have this new
thing called the Del Dorado chicken grilled breed.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Is that like to play on El Dorado?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yes, but it's Del Dorado because it's Del Taco Del Dorado.
And I asked the drive through and I said, what
is this? This looks delicious. The picture is great and
she said, that's the Del Dorado's delicious. It's you know,
grilled red peppers, and this sauce, Peblano sauce whatever, blah
blah blah blah blah, had all this stuff. I said,
(09:58):
let me get one of those. I'm driving. Open it
up because you don't want to take a couple of
bites sample is see what's happening? And I take like
three bites. And I'm very sensitive to spicy food, very
sensitive to spicy and you went to because most of
the time I get stuff this bland. I know better
than to get spicy food. But this, it just looks
so good. I took like three or four bites of
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this thing, and I just had to finish that up
with about six or seven packets of that uh pepto
bismo that's in the cabinet out there, because my stomach's
on fire. I gave it to dragon Mouth Mark Ronner
and he eats it like it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There are certain foods you cannot eat after a certain age,
especially when it comes to fast food.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I'm being very serious.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
He's only slightly older than me, and he woofed his
like what is this?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But my question is, Tawala, are you wearing the same
pants you left the house in?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Right now? Thankful, right now. But here's here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I only came in here quickly because I may need
to run around the corner because I don't want to
destroy the you know, general purpose restroom outside. This This
may this may be a both ender. This is oh god,
this is horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Right now, I have.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The I have the stomach of a newborn baby when
it comes to spicy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Before you got to be there, he finds out what
you've been doing.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
To There's certain foods I just cannot eat anymore, And
even though they sound like a great idea, Like for example,
I used to love actually I still do it, just
don't eat anymore Taco Bell, Mexican pizza.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh those are great. They are, Yeah, they're great. You're
talking about that Del Dorado.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, it cannot compare to the Mexican pizza.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yes, brouh. Why don't you come to you know, Sands,
you've been out reding fans for so long now saying.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh, you're a hard one, hard one. I know what
You've got your rees, these things that are please and
you can hurt you. So there's a lot of wisdom
in that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Okay, Del Taco see twilet, You're gonna learn you cannot
eat that stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I'm gonna learn the hard way. I look, I already
learned that I cannot eat Popeyes because I don't know
what they put on pop Eyes. That it tastes good
going down, but man, what happens afterwards?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's the toilet Bowl record.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I had Popeyes two weeks ago because I hadn't had
it in years, and I said, oh I have. I
had a taste for some red beans and rice yep,
and I had to taste for their biscuits, and I
also got some of their chicken strips.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was a good idea in theory.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
In reality, it was horrible And and I ate it
around four four thirty enough time that it messed up
my pre show prep because yeah, and I used to
laugh at my dad because he would say, like, oh,
I ate something. And then like two hours later I
had to I said, Hey, how can something go through
(13:19):
you that fast? It's not even possible. And then all
of a sudden, I turned forty, and then I realized, oh,
it's very possible. It can clear you out inside of
the length of an Avatar movie.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Are you sure the two of you guys don't have
some sort of like stomach bug that you picked up traveling.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, it's just called being plus fifty Mark, Mark.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I mean, look, I understand that you have a cauldron
where your stomach should be, and you're in there churning,
firing heardstone and you're able to eat all this, But
I cannot, Mark. I'm sorry. My stomach is a tenderfoot stomach.
I guess so okay, I'm sorry. I just can't do it, man,
and I really want to.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
My stomach is is much more disagreeable now as I
get older. There are just certain things I have to
have a conversation with my body in advance. I kind
of like preparing them for bad news. It's like, hey, stomach,
I'm just letting you know you're gonna have a visitor tonight.
And I know y'all don't get along, but if you
(14:20):
could just be nice to each other on this one occasion,
I promise I won't bring them around for like two
three months.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Now. You know what, now that you bring this up,
I've read about how black people enjoy bland food.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Tony, you want to help me out, he says the
guy who likes black olives on his pizza. I stand
by it. Raisins in your potato Saladude, No, I despise raisins.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I think raisins are of the devil and there's no
reason for them to exist. And when I see somebody
eating raisins were a sin, let me finish.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You finish. You just insulted all black people with bland food.
I can't let you finish.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Oh no, no, it was just a cold statement of fact.
If I see somebody eat, what the hell.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
All right? I can't, I can't finish. They ruined it.
Are you happy now?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I ruin your collioqu soliloquy on the blandness of food
that black people.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Prefer isn't Did I get that wrong somehow?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You absolutely got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, absolutely, because black folks will tell you they hate
like hotel food because it's always bland. If you go
to a hotel, most of the food is bland because
they don't want to necessarily have an issue with any
type of person. You know, there's two spikes or whatever,
so they make it intentionally bland.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And yet the two good friends that I work with
right here, not your friend. Look, the two occupants, the
two occupants of the studio with me. If you so
much as look at something spicy, you're filling your diaper. Look,
the devil's peppersack is not something that I need to
be munching on, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I like the food, I just can't tolerate it anymore.
There's a difference. Like, for example, I like Jack Daniels.
I can't tolerate it like I used to.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Like you remember when Ed Gargos brought in those Windies
ghost pepper. Yes, I th things were delicious until my
body said, are you out of your blanken.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
About those spicy chicken samschus with the tachis on everything?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Are you out of your blank and blank mind? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It may taste good, but you're gonna regret it. Oh, oh,
you think I'm playing? You think I'm playing, And then
I'm up all night crying cuz you know I can't
get off the damn bole.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, I'm sure you could find some like wonder bread
or potato salad or something. The little suit you that
that's you know, good and bland. Did you just try
to throw some mayonnaise laden potatoes? Oh you must love mayonnaise.
I'm sure you can't get enough mayonnaise. No, no, do
you prefer? Do you prefer Miracle whip or Helman's? I
(17:04):
don't know. I don't really buy that stuff. Whatever is
in the refrigerator that has been put there. I'll just
like if I'm making tuner or something. I don't really
eat a lot of mayonnaise. I think mayonnaise is borderline disgusting. Okay,
all right, I'll accept that.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I just know that as I get older, there there's
alcohol hangovers, and now there are food hangovers where if
you indulge too much with certain foods, it can mess
up your next day. That's why I always keep an
extra pair of underwear in my car. Yeah, no joke.
When I say never trust a fart after forty, I'm
being serious. I'm opening up my heart to you, among
(17:41):
other things.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, no, and I'm grateful that you've shared all this
about you and your You're horrific colon.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, I've already heard you haven't had a wet one,
right right, Stop lying, Stop it. I don't know what
you're talking about. Do you think this is cany ignorance?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're t you think
this is common because both of you clearly suffer from incontinence.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, no, no, no, it's not incontinence.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's just that you you're you can be too trusting
with your body when you shouldn't, and you don't think
you know the difference.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Some as you don't you think it's gonna be nice.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You think why you think it's gonna be alright, and
then you got a problem.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You've gotta swish your way back to it. Do you
guys just sit around and chug laxatives all day? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It has nothing to do with it. Last, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
There's certain things that you cannot take into your body
after certain Ay, Now.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This isn't normal.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You're trying to nor well, No, we got to go
to break But I'm being very serious. Do you know
what the bubblies are? I'm not sure? Wow, Okay, what's
the tony? Do you know what the bubblies are?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Bubble guts?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Mark is that when your stomach is grumbling after you've
eaten something upsetting.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It's it's it's slightly worse than that because you know
it's right at the door.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's right. You're not practical, kno, but you're like, look,
it's gonna bust down the door. It's touching cloth.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's one of those things where you know that you
have approximately three minutes to get to a bathroom.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I want the two of you to get the professional help.
You need the medical help. Tommy godlove and from the
Momigos said. This segment just went down the toilet Lol,
he's not wrong, he's not wrong, he's not wrong. We
gotta go to breakwn just you know. Yeah, Tommy, godlove
earned that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And we encourage you to tune in to the momigos
on the YouTube stream because we're gonna give them a
heads up when we're getting ready to give away the
Disney tickets tonight. What we're gonna talk about between now
and then, I don't know. Okay, we're all around the
barn tonight. We just threw out our whole show run
down because of Mark and McDonald's chicken McNuggets, and that's
(19:53):
how we got here. KF I am six forty. We're
live everywhere on YouTube, iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Butterfly in BEI. I can go twice.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Take up.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Look it's getting up, book a reading, Rainbow.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Anything, take a look it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
We all remember that, right, Rainbow KFI Later with mo
Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. I'm
way behind, way over all. Our talk about fast food
threw us off the clock. We have to catch up
in just a moment. But I did want to say,
Reading Rainbow is back has a new host.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Hi, and welcome to Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well, Reading Rainbow, who was back almost twenty years Afterwards
final episode air, the classic PBS series will be on
kid Zuko, which is a kid's focus YouTube channel. New
episodes start Saturday and we'll run through October twenty fifth.
The original show was on from nineteen eighty three to
two thousand and six with LaVar Burton as the host.
The new host is a librarian and digital creator named
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Michael Threetz. He's known for his viral content recommending books,
library services, and what he calls library joy.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Hey, Twaller, you know that if you were to ask
most people what they thought about Reading Rainbow this.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Day, Oh, I love the show. I love LeVar Burdight.
I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The show nothing but positive things probably to a person
absolutely And then when you remind them it was a
PBS show, then he said, oh uh well, well yeah, PBS,
you know, the literal leftist. Yeah, folks forget how important
(22:00):
PBS has been in our all of our lives, the
educational programming which is inextricably linked to PBS, and.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Most people just forget it's a PBS show always was,
always will be.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And yes, the the funding of PBS, NPR public broadcasting
more broadly, that's what it's called, will impact shows like
Reading Rainbow. And most people who have an issue with
PBS or NPR don't watch or listen to either, or
if they do, they don't even know that they're watching it.
(22:40):
There's so many shows just like Reading Rainbow which come
out of PBS, so much great content for both kids
and adults, and I'm glad that Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Was still well.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Let me put it this way, if you don't know
how PBS works, The shows have to find their own budget.
It's not PBS paying for the show. The show has
to find its own money. They'll have a sponsor or
someone who will donate money specifically for the show, and
then the show comes to PBS and say, hey, we
have a show.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
It's financed and funded.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And then PBS will say, okay, we'll help you distributed
across the PBS stations.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
But people don't even know how it works.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
That's why you're here at the end of the show.
This show is brought to you by our sponsors. And
they would play three or four different ads or whatever
they have to do with their ye know, such a
such foundation and such and such, and it's made possible
courtesies of ABS and this network and blah.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yes, so you know, you know, you think defunding PBS
is the answer.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When it's not. It's like, that's not even how it works. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
There is a degree of funding which comes from PBS
for their member stations to help the stations like PBS
excuse me, like k c E T or Channel twenty
eight or KOCEE Channel out here stay in business and
provide programming. But they're not creating the program they're just
(24:07):
a distributor.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yes, that money would go to having engineers, having programming
teams running their stations, running the station on the day
to day basis, keeping these shows out. That the shows
aren't just sent to a network of and they just
magically pop up on the air.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, It's not like ABC, where ABC is producing Jimmy
Kimmel Live, ABC is producing the View.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No, it's the exact opposite. It works in.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The other direction, where the shows have to create themselves
then go to PBS, and then PBS helps distribute them
on various stations.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I remember the first time I saw Eyes on the Prize,
it was on PBS, and that like beyond impact in
my life and my mind and learning about the civil
rights movement. And then it became just all the time,
like they would show a year after year after year
before schools start picking up and say every year, okay,
we're gonna go out and play Eyes on the Prize,
but that's where we would sit down and watch it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It wants my heart to see that Reading Rainbow is
back because despite the politics surrounding PBS, NPR public broadcasting,
these very important shows or at least some of them
are finding a way to survive in the way that
they always have, not dependent upon PBS, but it's essential
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in the way that there are well, there are fewer
places for it now. Some of these shows may end
up on like a Netflix or some sort of streaming platform,
but for the most part, they're still dependent upon the
traditional broadcast option, and PBS is considered broadcast because it
does fall under the federal government and the FCC jurisdiction
still need that aspect and component to distribute. So if
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you are of the opinion that you're happy that they've
defunded in pr and PBS. You are really seriously hampering
quality educational entertainment. And most people who are against PBS
have no idea what it even provides or the quality
(26:10):
of educational programming it provides. But if you ask them
about Reading Rainbow, they'll say, oh, yeah, I love reading Rainbow.
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Speaker 2 (26:30):
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four pack were getting ready to give away, as I said,
getting ready to give away.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Towards r Us.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's back of the news and it made the announcement
that it plans to open ten new flagship stores and
twenty seasonal holiday shops with his partner Go Retail by
the end of this year. Now, if you've been following
this Toys R. Russ story, they went through bankruptcy, they
tried to reopen, they had some partnership they were doing
with Macy's as far as like in store in Macy's store,
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then they would have like a Toys r Us mini
store in it. Now, Twale, you're the only one who
has the history of working with Toys r USTs. What
do you make of this? Is this going anywhere? Are
they back? Are they hoping to be back? Is it
a positive move? This is a very positive move. They
are back. They are having different phases of toy stores
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being realized. Now they still have the Macy's in store
Toys Rust displays. They are now having some holiday pop ups,
which is a smart idea in different areas because they're
not going to try to go nationwide again and just
lose their shirts. They're gonna have situational holiday pop ups
inarios where they feel they can draw a big crowd,
and these locations will pop up during holliy people be
(27:57):
able to go and shop experiencing then those shut those down.
But then they're also going to have in Key states,
key cities, have some brick and mortar locations, like the
one that they are going to be opening in Long Beach.
It is going to be a Toys r Us superstore,
and they're also going to have a Toys Rus superstore
in Camarillo and some other locations just in various states.
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But I'm excited about the one in Long Beach because
I looked at some of the plans on my.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It's going to be huge.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And I'm telling you, of every job I've ever had,
save working with you, Toys r US was quite possibly
one of the greatest experiences.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I ever had work.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Really I loved working at Toys r US, I really
really did.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I mean, was it the nostalgia or just the corporate structure?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What about it? I think it was a combination of that.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Like when they say don't don't meet your heroes, this
is one of those opportunies where I would disagree because
growing up I was a toy fanatic, a toy collector.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I was in toy stores all the time.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
And getting to work at Toys r US and experiencing
the behind the scenes it was great. And the way
that at least at the Toys r US that I
worked at, the one right here in Bourbank, the biggest
Toys of US, the biggest selling Toys r US in
Southern California, that's the one I worked at that closed.
They did the Back to the Future seeing over there
that location, the management team there. They were aces all
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the way through. They really really fought and took care
of their staff all the way up until the point
where we found out we had to close the doors.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Let me ask you about that, since we talked about
closing the door. Scott of the moment Egos in the
Motown Chat says plastic toys are not being played with
any more. I tend to agree with him the idea
of toys, which is more than just action figures. Toys
are not the draw in the way that they were
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twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I disagree because if you go through a Target, if
you go through a Walmart, those sections are still filled
with kids. There are still kids that are filling those sections,
and they do want toys. It's something about going into
a place and touching things and being able to figure
stuff out. Remember toys r US also wasn't just toys,
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plastic toys and the like. There were also building blocks,
educational toys. There were also a humongous, humongous electronic section,
and one of the biggest draws was the bicycle section.
Believe it or not, because yes, you take a bike
off the rack, ride it around, and even our electronic
car section. Kids would stay over their parents pulling out
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these cars, trying to drive them around the store every
single day. Sir, sir, sir, please don't do that, sir.
You have to get out of the Bronco Mini truck.
You got to get out. That was It was just
something about that. There was something about the toy store
being filled with kids just touching stuff, filling stuff. And
I know with this new rebranding of Toys r Us,
they are trying to make it an experience where they
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can have more in store play, in store displays, have
different companies come through in demo toys for appearans and
things like that, so it turns it into a destination
spot for parents.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I hope that you are right.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I hope that Toys r Us can make a successful
comeback because they've tried in different iterations and ways over
the past ten years. So we've been discussing them. Each
time there's movement with Toys r Us, we talk about it.
This is the latest movement and they're committed. Obviously, they're
going to open this many standalone stores stand alone, and.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
A brick and mortar location onto itself, which I'm most
accustomed to seeing Toys r Us. I guess maybe it
could be part of a strip mall or in a like,
not in a mall situation, but you know, it's part
of a larger shopping center.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
And I believe that these new ones will be more
similar to a toy store that you fancied, more like
the f al Schwartz.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes, and I was a big fan of that experience,
is what I believe.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Toys r Us is looking to come back with a
brand that's more kin to that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
We shall find out, and also we'll watch this as
we go into the holidays and see how this story
continues to emerge. I am six forty eleve everywhere in
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And yes, we'll eventually get to Kim john Oun and
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to that story, but there's something much more important that
I need to finish up with Mark Runner from the
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last hour, and Mark, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You have news to do. No, no, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well I was hoping you did have news to do
so I could run steamrolling, That's right, unimpeded. Last even,
we were talking about Wendy's upgraded chicken tenders, and I
was running down the things that I liked did not
like about chicken tenders, and we went all the way
around the barn and Mark made a comment something to
(01:40):
effect up, especially with McDonald's chicken McNuggets, you would prefer
chicken tenders which are at least or chicken products which
are more reminiscent of the animal that it came from, right.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, not something that came out of the Star Trek
food transformer, do hickey whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And I was say, how is it that that's any
different from looking at a hamburger and seeing a cow.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, it's all about the texture, isn't it. Because there
is no fibrous texture in a chicken McNugget like with
an actual piece from an actual chicken. And the same
with ground beef. You can tell the difference between ground
beef and things that are other.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Have you eaten a hot dog in your life?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Probably not as many as you. I don't usually eat
that kind of stuff, but I have. Your body's a temple, Well,
not when it comes to booze. But occasionally I've gotten
weak at Costco because they're a dollar and a half there,
and if you have to have a hot dog, the
ones at Costco aren't that bad.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I know hot dogs are not healthy for you, and
I try to stay away from them, but after a
while they just call my name and it makes it
very difficult.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, but I'm not gonna sit here and tell you
a hot dog is health food. That's some of the
unhealthiest stuff you can eat. In fact, we had studies
that were in the news here within the last six
months or so saying something along the lines of every
hot dog you eat takes thirty minutes off of your life.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And I heard that and I always I always threw
that in the garbage, no pun intended, if only because
it's we're not living a static life. In other words,
like if I ate six hot dogs and that's not
going to take one hundred and eighty minutes off my life.
That's assuming that I don't also eat well in the future.
That also assumes that I don't exercise, that I don't
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do something to counteract that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, it's an inexact science.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There's not an actuary sitting there counting the hot dogs
you eat, but they are massively unhealthy food. The processed
meats are, among other things, known to be a major
carcinogen YEP, colon cancer, all that kind of stuff, even
like lunch meat you buy in the store. So I mean,
if you do your homework, that ruins a lot of
things that otherwise otherwise might taste okay. But I don't
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like the texture of a lot of that stuff in
the first place.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But you notice they don't say that about alcohol.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Didn't say, you know, drink a fifth of jack and
it's going to take a year off your life.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Have you been online lately? Half of the material that
comes across my feeds I try to hide. I try
to to just not open those articles. I've learned to
move on. Yeah, but all of it's like, you know,
if you have more than a drink a day, or
you shouldn't even have a drink a day, it's all
alcohol doom posts.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I hate that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So I know it's like, well, if I have to
give up something, then let me just give up a
hot talk day.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Am I not a civilized man? Am I not entitled
to a nightcap and the name of all that's holy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Con there is nothing that we eat or drink. And
this is not an excuse. I'm just saying. This is
just an honest statement and realization. There's nothing that we
eat or drink, by and large which is healthy, even
down to a lot of the fruit with the pesticides
and the gene splicing and all that. The food in
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the United States is questionable at best.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You're exactly right about that, and there's a reason why
a lot of European countries won't import our food.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You won't recognize the difference until you travel. And when
you travel, you eat let's say fruit in Italy, or
you eat just the meals in a restaurant Italy.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Bread.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, it's cooked differently, is prepared differently. You don't have
the additives about a sugar which is added to bread,
for example. It's just completely different and you don't really
appreciate that until you leave the country. But back to
the chicken tenders, I get on with it, okay. I
would say chicken nuggets are I would agree with you.
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They're probably the bottom the basement of all chicken nuggets
and tenders.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But they taste good, and if you don't think that,
they have teams of scientists diabolically making them taste in
such a way that you want to keep eating them
even after you're full, like they do with Dorito's.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I know with especially fries and chicken tenders, a lot
of them are cooked in the fried in the grease
of the other food intentionally. Like the McDonald's fries, they
had cooked in the hamburger grease, so it you know,
they're not vegan, put it that way, so it tastes
like you're almost eating a hamburger when you're eating the fries.
That's part of it. You know, you have to know
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when you go to fast food restaurant. I don't go
all that often. I try not to.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, McDonald's fries smell and taste fantastastic. But one thing
that you learn when you do even a little bit
of homework on this is the deep frying process in
French fries and potato chips on locks of carcinogen called
I think the word is akrylamide. It kind of spoils
it for you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
No, you can't read labels or articles if you're going
to enjoy fast food. You just can't from the caloric content,
the sodium content, the saturated fats. There's nothing good other
than the taste with fast food unfortunately. And yes, I'll
probably have some more Wendy's before the week is out.
Now to bring home the whole chicken fingers thing. I
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got a hot tip for you. The best chicken that
I have had are at a place called Urban Plates.
They're massive, yes, they're soft and moist, and there's a place.
There's an urban place in Torrents. They're all over the
place and they're just delicious. And I don't know that
they're the healthiest thing on earth, but they're real chicken
(07:18):
and they're just magnificent. I have to stop myself from
getting them as much as I want. You know, the
most overrated chicken tenders or strips in the world, raising
canes never been there overrated. I think they're undercooked. It's
almost like they're not completely cooked. It it's hard to explain.
(07:39):
It's like for all the hype, don't get it. Pedro
the traffic guy, agrees on Urban Plates. I think we've
got a quorum here. Okay, that means we have to
continue the conversation. We're coming back with more fast food talk.
It's Late with Mo Kelly k if I AM six
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Speaker 1 (07:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Can't I misterrom o' kelly here.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. And
for some reason We've descended into a fast food conversation.
And I'm not upset about that. I'm not mad about it. Okay,
we have to talk about these issues. They are important
and they are life changing. Okay, someone's life is going
to be improved because of this conversation. We started talking
(08:29):
about Wendy's new and improved chicken tenders, the Tende's, and
then we went from there. Mark Ronald wanted to chime
in about chicken McNuggets and then I started talking about
raising cane and they're undercooked chicken strips, Texas toast. It's great,
don't get me wrong. The chicken tenders, the chicken strips,
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what they're known for.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, Okay, Now, I know everyone has their their preferences.
I'm just saying that I'm the only one that's right
in this conversation, and there's a difference. Just because you
prefer something, it doesn't make you right. It just means
you don't have any tastes. Okay, my preferences are the correct.
The baseliner, Yes, yeah, they see.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Look I on the way in, I stopped real fast
at Del Taco.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh mistake, misspan Typically.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I like Deltah because I like their uh, their del
burrito just like the you know, the the beans and
meat and just what just.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
A regular breed.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I like that and uh and they have this new
thing called the Del Dorado chicken grilled breed.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Is that like to play on El Dorado?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yes, but it's Del Dorado because it's Del Taco Del Dorado.
And I asked the drive through and I said, what
is this? This looks delicious. The picture is great and
she said, that's the Del Dorado's delicious. It's you know,
grilled red peppers, and this sauce, Peblano sauce whatever, blah
blah blah blah blah, had all this stuff. I said,
(09:58):
let me get one of those. I'm driving. Open it
up because you don't want to take a couple of
bites sample is see what's happening? And I take like
three bites. And I'm very sensitive to spicy food, very
sensitive to spicy and you went to because most of
the time I get stuff this bland. I know better
than to get spicy food. But this, it just looks
so good. I took like three or four bites of
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this thing, and I just had to finish that up
with about six or seven packets of that uh pepto
bismo that's in the cabinet out there, because my stomach's
on fire. I gave it to dragon Mouth Mark Ronner
and he eats it like it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There are certain foods you cannot eat after a certain age,
especially when it comes to fast food.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I'm being very serious.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
He's only slightly older than me, and he woofed his
like what is this?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But my question is, Tawala, are you wearing the same
pants you left the house in?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Right now? Thankful, right now. But here's here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I only came in here quickly because I may need
to run around the corner because I don't want to
destroy the you know, general purpose restroom outside. This This
may this may be a both ender. This is oh god,
this is horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Right now, I have.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The I have the stomach of a newborn baby when
it comes to spicy.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Before you got to be there, he finds out what
you've been doing.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
To There's certain foods I just cannot eat anymore, And
even though they sound like a great idea, Like for example,
I used to love actually I still do it, just
don't eat anymore Taco Bell, Mexican pizza.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh those are great. They are, Yeah, they're great. You're
talking about that Del Dorado.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, it cannot compare to the Mexican pizza.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yes, brouh. Why don't you come to you know, Sands,
you've been out reding fans for so long now saying.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Oh, you're a hard one, hard one. I know what
You've got your rees, these things that are please and
you can hurt you. So there's a lot of wisdom
in that.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Okay, Del Taco see twilet, You're gonna learn you cannot
eat that stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I'm gonna learn the hard way. I look, I already
learned that I cannot eat Popeyes because I don't know
what they put on pop Eyes. That it tastes good
going down, but man, what happens afterwards?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's the toilet Bowl record.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I had Popeyes two weeks ago because I hadn't had
it in years, and I said, oh I have. I
had a taste for some red beans and rice yep,
and I had to taste for their biscuits, and I
also got some of their chicken strips.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It was a good idea in theory.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
In reality, it was horrible And and I ate it
around four four thirty enough time that it messed up
my pre show prep because yeah, and I used to
laugh at my dad because he would say, like, oh,
I ate something. And then like two hours later I
had to I said, Hey, how can something go through
(13:19):
you that fast? It's not even possible. And then all
of a sudden, I turned forty, and then I realized, oh,
it's very possible. It can clear you out inside of
the length of an Avatar movie.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Are you sure the two of you guys don't have
some sort of like stomach bug that you picked up traveling.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No, it's just called being plus fifty Mark, Mark.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I mean, look, I understand that you have a cauldron
where your stomach should be, and you're in there churning,
firing heardstone and you're able to eat all this, But
I cannot, Mark. I'm sorry. My stomach is a tenderfoot stomach.
I guess so okay, I'm sorry. I just can't do it, man,
and I really want to.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
My stomach is is much more disagreeable now as I
get older. There are just certain things I have to
have a conversation with my body in advance. I kind
of like preparing them for bad news. It's like, hey, stomach,
I'm just letting you know you're gonna have a visitor tonight.
And I know y'all don't get along, but if you
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could just be nice to each other on this one occasion,
I promise I won't bring them around for like two
three months.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Now. You know what, now that you bring this up,
I've read about how black people enjoy bland food.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Tony, you want to help me out, he says the
guy who likes black olives on his pizza. I stand
by it. Raisins in your potato Saladude, No, I despise raisins.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I think raisins are of the devil and there's no
reason for them to exist. And when I see somebody
eating raisins were a sin, let me finish.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
You finish. You just insulted all black people with bland food.
I can't let you finish.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Oh no, no, it was just a cold statement of fact.
If I see somebody eat, what the hell.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
All right? I can't, I can't finish. They ruined it.
Are you happy now?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I ruin your collioqu soliloquy on the blandness of food
that black people.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Prefer isn't Did I get that wrong somehow?
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You absolutely got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, absolutely, because black folks will tell you they hate
like hotel food because it's always bland. If you go
to a hotel, most of the food is bland because
they don't want to necessarily have an issue with any
type of person. You know, there's two spikes or whatever,
so they make it intentionally bland.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And yet the two good friends that I work with
right here, not your friend. Look, the two occupants, the
two occupants of the studio with me. If you so
much as look at something spicy, you're filling your diaper. Look,
the devil's peppersack is not something that I need to
be munching on, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I like the food, I just can't tolerate it anymore.
There's a difference. Like, for example, I like Jack Daniels.
I can't tolerate it like I used to.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Like you remember when Ed Gargos brought in those Windies
ghost pepper. Yes, I th things were delicious until my
body said, are you out of your blanken.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
About those spicy chicken samschus with the tachis on everything?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Are you out of your blank and blank mind? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It may taste good, but you're gonna regret it. Oh, oh,
you think I'm playing? You think I'm playing, And then
I'm up all night crying cuz you know I can't
get off the damn bole.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, I'm sure you could find some like wonder bread
or potato salad or something. The little suit you that
that's you know, good and bland. Did you just try
to throw some mayonnaise laden potatoes? Oh you must love mayonnaise.
I'm sure you can't get enough mayonnaise. No, no, do
you prefer? Do you prefer Miracle whip or Helman's? I
(17:04):
don't know. I don't really buy that stuff. Whatever is
in the refrigerator that has been put there. I'll just
like if I'm making tuner or something. I don't really
eat a lot of mayonnaise. I think mayonnaise is borderline disgusting. Okay,
all right, I'll accept that.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I just know that as I get older, there there's
alcohol hangovers, and now there are food hangovers where if
you indulge too much with certain foods, it can mess
up your next day. That's why I always keep an
extra pair of underwear in my car. Yeah, no joke.
When I say never trust a fart after forty, I'm
being serious. I'm opening up my heart to you, among
(17:41):
other things.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
No, no, and I'm grateful that you've shared all this
about you and your You're horrific colon.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, I've already heard you haven't had a wet one,
right right, Stop lying, Stop it. I don't know what
you're talking about. Do you think this is cany ignorance?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're t you think
this is common because both of you clearly suffer from incontinence.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, no, no, no, it's not incontinence.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's just that you you're you can be too trusting
with your body when you shouldn't, and you don't think
you know the difference.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Some as you don't you think it's gonna be nice.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You think why you think it's gonna be alright, and
then you got a problem.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
You've gotta swish your way back to it. Do you
guys just sit around and chug laxatives all day? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
It has nothing to do with it. Last, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
There's certain things that you cannot take into your body
after certain Ay, Now.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This isn't normal.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You're trying to nor well, No, we got to go
to break But I'm being very serious. Do you know
what the bubblies are? I'm not sure? Wow, Okay, what's
the tony? Do you know what the bubblies are?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Bubble guts?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Mark is that when your stomach is grumbling after you've
eaten something upsetting.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It's it's it's slightly worse than that because you know
it's right at the door.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's right. You're not practical, kno, but you're like, look,
it's gonna bust down the door. It's touching cloth.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's one of those things where you know that you
have approximately three minutes to get to a bathroom.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I want the two of you to get the professional help.
You need the medical help. Tommy godlove and from the
Momigos said. This segment just went down the toilet Lol,
he's not wrong, he's not wrong, he's not wrong. We
gotta go to breakwn just you know. Yeah, Tommy, godlove
earned that.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
And we encourage you to tune in to the momigos
on the YouTube stream because we're gonna give them a
heads up when we're getting ready to give away the
Disney tickets tonight. What we're gonna talk about between now
and then, I don't know. Okay, we're all around the
barn tonight. We just threw out our whole show run
down because of Mark and McDonald's chicken McNuggets, and that's
(19:53):
how we got here. KF I am six forty. We're
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Speaker 1 (20:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Butterfly in BEI. I can go twice.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Take up.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Look it's getting up, book a reading, Rainbow.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Anything, take a look it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
We all remember that, right, Rainbow KFI Later with mo
Kelly Live everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. I'm
way behind, way over all. Our talk about fast food
threw us off the clock. We have to catch up
in just a moment. But I did want to say,
Reading Rainbow is back has a new host.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Hi, and welcome to Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Well, Reading Rainbow, who was back almost twenty years Afterwards
final episode air, the classic PBS series will be on
kid Zuko, which is a kid's focus YouTube channel. New
episodes start Saturday and we'll run through October twenty fifth.
The original show was on from nineteen eighty three to
two thousand and six with LaVar Burton as the host.
The new host is a librarian and digital creator named
(21:19):
Michael Threetz. He's known for his viral content recommending books,
library services, and what he calls library joy.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Hey, Twaller, you know that if you were to ask
most people what they thought about Reading Rainbow this.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Day, Oh, I love the show. I love LeVar Burdight.
I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The show nothing but positive things probably to a person
absolutely And then when you remind them it was a
PBS show, then he said, oh uh well, well yeah, PBS,
you know, the literal leftist. Yeah, folks forget how important
(22:00):
PBS has been in our all of our lives, the
educational programming which is inextricably linked to PBS, and.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Most people just forget it's a PBS show always was,
always will be.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And yes, the the funding of PBS, NPR public broadcasting
more broadly, that's what it's called, will impact shows like
Reading Rainbow. And most people who have an issue with
PBS or NPR don't watch or listen to either, or
if they do, they don't even know that they're watching it.
(22:40):
There's so many shows just like Reading Rainbow which come
out of PBS, so much great content for both kids
and adults, and I'm glad that Reading Rainbow.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Was still well.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Let me put it this way, if you don't know
how PBS works, The shows have to find their own budget.
It's not PBS paying for the show. The show has
to find its own money. They'll have a sponsor or
someone who will donate money specifically for the show, and
then the show comes to PBS and say, hey, we
have a show.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
It's financed and funded.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And then PBS will say, okay, we'll help you distributed
across the PBS stations.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
But people don't even know how it works.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
That's why you're here at the end of the show.
This show is brought to you by our sponsors. And
they would play three or four different ads or whatever
they have to do with their ye know, such a
such foundation and such and such, and it's made possible
courtesies of ABS and this network and blah.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yes, so you know, you know, you think defunding PBS
is the answer.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When it's not. It's like, that's not even how it works. Now.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
There is a degree of funding which comes from PBS
for their member stations to help the stations like PBS
excuse me, like k c E T or Channel twenty
eight or KOCEE Channel out here stay in business and
provide programming. But they're not creating the program they're just
(24:07):
a distributor.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yes, that money would go to having engineers, having programming
teams running their stations, running the station on the day
to day basis, keeping these shows out. That the shows
aren't just sent to a network of and they just
magically pop up on the air.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right, It's not like ABC, where ABC is producing Jimmy
Kimmel Live, ABC is producing the View.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No, it's the exact opposite. It works in.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The other direction, where the shows have to create themselves
then go to PBS, and then PBS helps distribute them
on various stations.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
I remember the first time I saw Eyes on the Prize,
it was on PBS, and that like beyond impact in
my life and my mind and learning about the civil
rights movement. And then it became just all the time,
like they would show a year after year after year
before schools start picking up and say every year, okay,
we're gonna go out and play Eyes on the Prize,
but that's where we would sit down and watch it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
It wants my heart to see that Reading Rainbow is
back because despite the politics surrounding PBS, NPR public broadcasting,
these very important shows or at least some of them
are finding a way to survive in the way that
they always have, not dependent upon PBS, but it's essential
(25:25):
in the way that there are well, there are fewer
places for it now. Some of these shows may end
up on like a Netflix or some sort of streaming platform,
but for the most part, they're still dependent upon the
traditional broadcast option, and PBS is considered broadcast because it
does fall under the federal government and the FCC jurisdiction
still need that aspect and component to distribute. So if
(25:49):
you are of the opinion that you're happy that they've
defunded in pr and PBS. You are really seriously hampering
quality educational entertainment. And most people who are against PBS
have no idea what it even provides or the quality
(26:10):
of educational programming it provides. But if you ask them
about Reading Rainbow, they'll say, oh, yeah, I love reading Rainbow.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Hello, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from kfi AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Kids Later with mo Kelly kfi AM six forty Live
everywhere on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. And you better
be on the YouTube live stream because I'm getting ready
to give some information about these Disney tickets. This family
four pack were getting ready to give away, as I said,
getting ready to give away.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Towards r Us.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's back of the news and it made the announcement
that it plans to open ten new flagship stores and
twenty seasonal holiday shops with his partner Go Retail by
the end of this year. Now, if you've been following
this Toys R. Russ story, they went through bankruptcy, they
tried to reopen, they had some partnership they were doing
with Macy's as far as like in store in Macy's store,
(27:14):
then they would have like a Toys r Us mini
store in it. Now, Twale, you're the only one who
has the history of working with Toys r USTs. What
do you make of this? Is this going anywhere? Are
they back? Are they hoping to be back? Is it
a positive move? This is a very positive move. They
are back. They are having different phases of toy stores
(27:34):
being realized. Now they still have the Macy's in store
Toys Rust displays. They are now having some holiday pop ups,
which is a smart idea in different areas because they're
not going to try to go nationwide again and just
lose their shirts. They're gonna have situational holiday pop ups
inarios where they feel they can draw a big crowd,
and these locations will pop up during holliy people be
(27:57):
able to go and shop experiencing then those shut those down.
But then they're also going to have in Key states,
key cities, have some brick and mortar locations, like the
one that they are going to be opening in Long Beach.
It is going to be a Toys r Us superstore,
and they're also going to have a Toys Rus superstore
in Camarillo and some other locations just in various states.
(28:19):
But I'm excited about the one in Long Beach because
I looked at some of the plans on my.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It's going to be huge.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
And I'm telling you, of every job I've ever had,
save working with you, Toys r US was quite possibly
one of the greatest experiences.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I ever had work.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Really I loved working at Toys r US, I really
really did.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I mean, was it the nostalgia or just the corporate structure?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What about it? I think it was a combination of that.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Like when they say don't don't meet your heroes, this
is one of those opportunies where I would disagree because
growing up I was a toy fanatic, a toy collector.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
I was in toy stores all the time.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
And getting to work at Toys r US and experiencing
the behind the scenes it was great. And the way
that at least at the Toys r US that I
worked at, the one right here in Bourbank, the biggest
Toys of US, the biggest selling Toys r US in
Southern California, that's the one I worked at that closed.
They did the Back to the Future seeing over there
that location, the management team there. They were aces all
(29:16):
the way through. They really really fought and took care
of their staff all the way up until the point
where we found out we had to close the doors.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Let me ask you about that, since we talked about
closing the door. Scott of the moment Egos in the
Motown Chat says plastic toys are not being played with
any more. I tend to agree with him the idea
of toys, which is more than just action figures. Toys
are not the draw in the way that they were
(29:44):
twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I disagree because if you go through a Target, if
you go through a Walmart, those sections are still filled
with kids. There are still kids that are filling those sections,
and they do want toys. It's something about going into
a place and touching things and being able to figure
stuff out. Remember toys r US also wasn't just toys,
(30:05):
plastic toys and the like. There were also building blocks,
educational toys. There were also a humongous, humongous electronic section,
and one of the biggest draws was the bicycle section.
Believe it or not, because yes, you take a bike
off the rack, ride it around, and even our electronic
car section. Kids would stay over their parents pulling out
(30:27):
these cars, trying to drive them around the store every
single day. Sir, sir, sir, please don't do that, sir.
You have to get out of the Bronco Mini truck.
You got to get out. That was It was just
something about that. There was something about the toy store
being filled with kids just touching stuff, filling stuff. And
I know with this new rebranding of Toys r Us,
they are trying to make it an experience where they
(30:48):
can have more in store play, in store displays, have
different companies come through in demo toys for appearans and
things like that, so it turns it into a destination
spot for parents.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I hope that you are right.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I hope that Toys r Us can make a successful
comeback because they've tried in different iterations and ways over
the past ten years. So we've been discussing them. Each
time there's movement with Toys r Us, we talk about it.
This is the latest movement and they're committed. Obviously, they're
going to open this many standalone stores stand alone, and.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
A brick and mortar location onto itself, which I'm most
accustomed to seeing Toys r Us. I guess maybe it
could be part of a strip mall or in a like,
not in a mall situation, but you know, it's part
of a larger shopping center.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
And I believe that these new ones will be more
similar to a toy store that you fancied, more like
the f al Schwartz.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes, and I was a big fan of that experience,
is what I believe.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Toys r Us is looking to come back with a
brand that's more kin to that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
We shall find out, and also we'll watch this as
we go into the holidays and see how this story
continues to emerge. I am six forty eleve everywhere in
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