October 18, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the shocking number of horses euthanized at Los Alamitos Race Course AND another incident of drug related exposure and illness at a SoCal middle school - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI, mister mo Kelly, were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
apps so much to cover Tonight We're watching the Dodgers,
who are up five to two. We live and die
with our Dodgers here in southern California. I don't know
if there is such a thing as an Angel fan. No,
there's not, just Dodger fans. There's still up five to two.
Will be monitoring that game and some other news around
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southern California. You may hear me and Tim Conway Junior
talk about the horses. I have an affinity for horse racing.
I grew up with it. I can't remember exactly when
I first learned to read a racing form. I appreciate
my father for teach me that. But I think times
are changing in America, and with the recent spate of
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deaths of horses and horses which have been euthanized at
Los Alamados, we have to get into that and reassess
what the future of horse racing may be. And do
you remember on Monday I told you about this story
of five middle schoolers who were sickened. Three were hospitalized
for possible cannabis ingestion in Northridge.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Nobel Charter Middle School to be specific.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, today at a different middle school in Studio City,
Walter Reed Middle School, seventeen middle school students were treated
for likely cannabis exposure. I don't like to be right
all the time about certain things, and this is one
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of those things where I don't like to be right.
I don't want to read another story about middle school
children being sickened by most likely cannabis ingestion. But we'll
talk about it in a bit. And also, you know
there's a war against shrinkflation that's going on. Well, two
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companies have bowed to the pressure. We'll tell you about
how Tostito's and Ruffles are now changing the contents of
their packages because of the cry against shrinkflation. But if
you are listening to Mark Ronner prior to the show,
you know what we have to do. It's that time
in the program. Oh and of course my cup hereter
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stops working. You're gonna leave me high and dry.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't like the way that happened. I think you
have to do it again. Do it one more time?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Are you ready this time? I'm ready? Are you ready?
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Are you bracing yourself? We're not to use the word
brace around here in the newsroom. Oh okay, that's not
conversational English. Are you prepared? I'm prepared, all right. Oh,
thank you. Okay, that's much better.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Thank you. I heard there's rain on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, there's a twenty percent chance of it tonight, and
if it rains, that becomes one hundred percent. What areas
do you remember the sky? Mo? The rain comes from
the sky? I ask a non specific question. I get
a non specific and in this area that we're living in. Okay,
is that good enough for you? Okay, let's twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
One in five.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Let's review for the audience. I always like to know
about me personally, because it's only about me. I need
to know of rain that's going to be dropping on
my head, not anyone else's.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, what I suggest is that when you go home tonight,
stand outside.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But when is this supposed to show up?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I don't have that information. I don't know how
granular you think that we get the weather information here,
but twenty percent and tonight is about as specific as
as it's going to get right now. It might get
more specific later as it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Starts to rain.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I was listening to your news break for one of
the few times that I would ever listen to you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you're an important man. You have things to do.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I know, I know, I know, keep it coming, keep
telling that truth. But you were talking about a contest
or a job opportunity for someone who's in the horror movies.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, yes, yes, and it seemed like.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was perfect for you, right up into the point
where it wasn't perfect for you, where.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I said amateurs. You could tell I was spitting out
the word amateurs on the air.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's a joint called casino dot Org and they want
a horror movie tester. But this list of movies everybody's
already seen. I'm sure you have the exor system. I
know you've seen that. Yep, Hereditary, No, oh, that's messed up.
You have to see that, The Conjuring you've seen, Yes,
I've seen that. Those are those Ed Lorraine Warren movies
Insidious from the same folks. Yeah, the ring come on,
everybody ring there.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, here's a prop because you're supposed to judge which
one is the scariest. How can you judge a nineteen
seventy three movie against a twenty seventeen movie.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, Apparently they're monitoring heart rates, so if you're just
sitting there watching it and it causes a reaction, that's
what they measure. And The Exorcist is still, I think,
really effective. I've told before the story of how the
long suffering one during the spinal tap scene, yes, went
and passed out in the theater lobby. And this wasn't
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in like what nineteen seventy three or whatever the year
was it came out. This is when they re released
the movie in theaters just a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But I think the whole idea of scary has changed
over the years. There's such a thing as knowing that
something's going to jump out and startle you, but that's
not the same as being scared. There was a basic
baseline of fear of the Exorcist. It was something ominous
throughout the whole movie. And horror movies and we go
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back and forth about the definition of horror.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's different from decade to decade. Would you agree? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, for me, a horror film would be like being
stalked by the student loan people. Okay, I'm not afraid
of supernatural stuff, that's reality. Yeah, I'm not a superstitious person.
So a lot of these things for me involve the
willing suspension of disbelief. But you know, it's like going
on a carnival ride. You know you're safe, you're let
off at the end. So I can get into the
Exorcist as much as a hardcore Catholic could.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I get more into the Exorcist because the idea of
supernatural is much more scary to me. Then let's say
Jason going around Camp Crystal Lake and hacking up people.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, it's a whole different ball of ax. I mean,
slasher movies are different than demonic possession movies. And one
thing I like about the demonic possession movies is that
they often tend to center around people who are having
a crisis of faith, and when it starts to hit
the fan, it doesn't matter what you believe. The stuff
is happening, and you've got to cope with it, right right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And also, there's something when you say supernatural, there's something
beyond our understanding, beyond our comprehension, beyond our control that
you cannot fight in the way that Jason. He may
be kind of supernatural or superhuman because he's impossible to kill,
but it's not like he's he's teleporting from room to room.
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You know you can see him when he's coming. Is
gonna cut your head off? Yeah, that doesn't make it realistic.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But these things tap into like all sorts of primal
fears that people have, say, zombie movies being eaten. Is
you know you can draw straight line between those and
shark movies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, yeah, I guess so, so you're gonna go enter
the contest. I think I am probably pardon me for
sounding im modest here, but I think I'm a little
overqualified on the horror front, to the point that maybe
maybe I need to be on a federal registry. Fair enough,
it's Later with Mo Kelly cay if I AM six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we
come back, we're gonna go to Los Alaminos and tell
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you what is going on there, and it's not good
at all.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
He didn't know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I grew up going to Hollywood Parks, Santa Anita, All
adel Mar, all the racing tracks, even those Ala Medos.
A couple of times back in the day, My father
loved horse racing, and I soo by extension, loved horse racing.
And then you get older in society changes, our sports landscape,
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our entertainment landscape evolves, and you can see societies moving
away from horse racing. Tracks are being closed almost every year.
There are fewer horse racing tracks in the country now
than ever before. Part of it is because our concept
of entertainment has changed.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Let's just be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Using animals as entertainment is not the allure that it
used to be. We can talk about SeaWorld, we can
talk about greyhound racing. We can talk about the perception
of cock fighting down south, the perception of dog fighting
post Michael Vick. The idea of animals in sports, legal
or illegal, is just completely changed of tolerance and acceptance.
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So when I tell you about how five more horses
have been euthanized in the hell in the heath Taylor
barn at Los Alamedos to do to equine infectious anemia,
know that it's going to be perceived differently in twenty
twenty four than maybe nineteen eighty four. And these five
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euthanasia instances follows seven other EIA positive quarter horses earlier
this month at Los Alabedos, and all twelve of the
horses were trained by Heath Taylor and stabled in his
barn at Los Alabedos. And additional six horses from Taylor's
barn at Lone Star Park tested positive for EIA and
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say it with Me were also euthanized, meaning if not
four the horse racing component, they would not have all
been together, they would have not all been infected and
then euthanized. The Equine Disease Communications Center also, and this
is important, reported the death of a racing quarter horse
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in Bernalillo County in New Mexico, so this transcends state borders.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
This is probably not done.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There are other horses in quarantine, but check this out.
In total, twenty one horses trained by Taylor have tested
positive for EIA this year. Eighteen have been confirmed as
euthanized as of today. That's unsustainable. That has nothing to
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do with whether you love horse racing. It has nothing
to do with whether you want to go back to
nineteen eighty four in the America that it used to be.
That's unsustainable in today's America. Because we were talking yesterday,
I should say I was talking to Tim Conway Junior
yesterday about this new entertainment venue called Cosm where you
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can it's almost it's like a semisphere where you get
to go to a stadium like restaurant arena and then
you get to see live games and you're an immersive setting.
It makes you feel like you're right there on the field.
There are too many ways and too many competing ideas
of entertainment and sports entertainment for horse racing to continue.
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We have sports betting for all the professional sports now,
be it baseball, football, basketball, hockey. Even you got different
sports apps like DraftKings and prize picks. People don't have
to leave their house to bet on sports. The audience
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for horse racing is simply dwindling. And if the only
news you hear about horse racing is horses dying, that
and I'm not trying to be funny or even make
a pun, that is killing the business. You can't expect
low solid medos or any track to survive when horses
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are dying every week for whatever reason, if they're dying
for an issue on the track, if they're dying because
of EIA, if they're dying at all, that negative news
media makes it much more difficult for anyone connected to
the business of horse racing to survive. And not only that,
horse racing is hell of experience expensive for trainers. Every
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aspect of it is extremely expensive, and businesses now are
looking for ways to provide less expensive entertainment.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I grew up. I shouldn't say I grew up.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I lived for the early part of my life within
five minutes of Hollywood Park.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I was there far more than a child should have been.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So it's not like I'm talking about this from the
outside that I don't understand the allure and the history,
the connection, the nostalgia with respect to horse racing and
Southern California. I know it intimately, and I'm not going
to be a hypocrite. I could go to Santa Anita
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tomorrow and probably have a great time. I'm just trying
to keep my personal feelings out of this and recognize
that the stuff that you ever realized that the things
that you did twenty thirty years ago are probably not
the thing to do now. I used to go to
nightclubs when I was in my twenties. That's not something
to do now. And you see fewer and fewer nightclubs.
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You see fewer and fewer lounges. The bar seat has changed.
People change, industry changes, business change, entertainment options change. If
I were to ask Tauala and his kids, I doubt,
I seriously doubt anyone in this kid's generation, with exception
of a few, have actually been to the horse races.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, they have not. And not only have they have
not ever been. I would never take that.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I came up on the other side and growing up
not far from Sant Nita Racetrack and going to the
mall and hanging out in that area.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I never understood horse racing.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But even though it wasn't as publicized back in the day,
horses dying on the track is not new. And I
think I came to the knowledge of what happens to
some of these horses from my aunt who rest in peace,
raised horses, loved horses, groomed horses, all that, and so
I had a different affinity for horses. So for me,
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I look at these stories and I say to my
to myself, how long before an individual like this is
banned from the sport period? Because not that this individual,
this is particularly this particular incident, and this particular breeder
or horse racer is doing this on purpose. But you
cannot be this callous and this cavalier with the lives
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of animals.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You just can't.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And I think to myself, this individual in particular should
be shut down and banned from the sport period. And
this is just the roach that we know of. That's
the problem that I have with it. We're hearing about
this because too many have died.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
For it to keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Twenty one twenty one, twenty one I've tested positive, eighteen
have been euthanized.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The roach theory says that this is not an isolated
incident with just this breeder or this breeder's bar.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And I talk about it, Tuala, you came at it
from a completely different vantage point. I come at it
from just talking about business, talking about the business of entertainment.
Horse racing used to be kind of exclusive in southern
California because we did not have any gambling. You didn't
have the Hustler casino, you didn't have a Crystal casino,
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you didn't have those places. Indian gaming was very very
new at that time. There weren't places for people to gamble.
Then you go to a place like Hollywood Park, and
then they had what they called off track betting, where
you go to Hollywood Park and bet the greyhounds in Florida,
or you could bet certain other sporting events or horse
racing at different racing tracks, like you can go bet
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Churchill Downs or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was off track betting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Then, as sports entertainment and gambling became more available to
people than horse racing fell out of favor buying large
because you had other ways that you could bet. Also,
the introduction of the California Lottery took a lot of
that appeal of horse racing because people could get their
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gambling on, if you will, by buying scratchers and playing
Lotto and super Loatto. So the would be gamblers had
other things to do. And yes, you had your core enthusiasts.
But part of why horse racing was original and was
so successful because it didn't really have any gambling competition.
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That is no longer true and that will no longer
ever be true because I don't have.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
To leave my house.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I got a phone, and I can do all the
gambling I want in California and around the country on
all the major sports.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Horse racing can't compete.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Now there's that aspect, and there's also the aspect of
cruelty the animals, and I don't think that they will
be able to push aside the deaths of all these
horses year after year after year and also stay in business.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's Later with mo Kelly k I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, unfortunately we got to go to another middle
school which is dealing with the issue of drug exposure
and children being taken to the hospital because of what
is thought to be edibles.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And when we talked about Diddy, I would say, hey,
there is a pattern which is emerging here. You can
see where a story is going and why there would
be other similar incidents. This is something similar to that
when we talk about these poisonings of middle school students
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due to edibles, gummies, whatever they're ingesting some form of THC.
On Monday, we told you about the middle school in Northridge,
Nobel Charter, where five students were poisoned. Three were taken
to the hospital. Now have to tell you the numbers
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up to seventeen in Studio City at Walter Reed Middle School.
And this started early this morning due to apparent overdoses
by number of these students. Seventeen were poisoned. Two were
taken to the hospital. And this if you're not paying attention,
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if you're not recognizing the signs, you probably think that
these are isolated incidents. I'm not saying they're connected, but
they're not isolated. This highlights the fears that I've been
having about the proliferation of edibles and THHC products on campuses.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And this is middle school, this is not even high school.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're talking about children who should have limited ability to
get anything on their own, much less go to a
convenience store, but to get a controlled substance. That scares
the Bejesus out of me. And if you have kids,
I would hope that it scares you as well. Five
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on Monday seventeen today, what is it going to be tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What is it going to be next week?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And in both cases had to be had connected to
ingesting edibles. This incident at Walter Reed Middle School supposedly
was connected to gummies. Quote today we became aware that
a group of students may have consumed a banned substance.
That's principal Paul de Bonis. He went on, quote, emergency
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personnel were contacted and students received medical attention. The parents
of the affected students have been notified close quote. And
also LAFD Captain Eric Scott had this to say, quote,
there was no evidence of any fentanyl type drugs. It
was described as gummy bears that were ingested. That's still
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being evaluated and part of an active investigation. I'm not
trying to ascribe motive. I'm not trying to say that
it was the fault of this or that, or this
is the cause of it. But if you're not paying attention,
this is the time I need you to pay attention
because there's probably going to be a similar style event
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or incident in the near future. Because this is right
in front of us. I I go back to what
I said on Monday. I did not want the legalization
of marijuana in a recreational sense because I knew I
was going to have this conversation in the near future.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I didn't know when, I didn't know exactly why.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
In fact, I thought it was going to be high
schoolers who probably were more inclined to experiment more inclined
to have access to this because they're not adults, but
they're adults adjacent in many instances. And now you're having
young teenagers, pre teenagers, absolute children who are somehow, some
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way getting their hands on THHC gummies and they're going
to the hospital. I'm not blaming the school because I
don't think you could. I don't think the school can't
prevent kids having quote unquote candy or something that's being
brought on campus from off campus.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
See, I don't know, because I do have to look
at the schools, if only because anytime I've picked up
my daughter early, say she was feeling ill or whatever
case uh doctor pointman Dillon pointment. I always take note
of how lax school security seems to be, or how
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easy you can get access to the campus, how easy
you can get access to students. They want to make
this big deal about banning phones, but you're not actually
watching the campus. When I had to go and pick
my son up for fear that he was given some
chocolate by someone who one of his friends who just
got ahold of some candy, I didn't want to tell
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that story, but I was wait trying to tell it
like no that like that happened. He was given some
candy by a friend who was passing out candy in
the class, and I had to go and take him.
His heart started beating. He was scared, and he knew
because he's heard us have these conversations on the air,
and I've had these conversations directly with him. So the
instant he started feeling weird after eating some chocolate, he
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called immediately. Thankfully he had what on him, he had
his phone. Went to go get him and they checked
him out and it was like, no, there's no traces,
but they said he could have already left his system.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Huge investigation had to happen. My question was how did
it get on there? And the friend of question was like,
I got it from someone from one of the other
schools who walked it over.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, see, in that instance, you know it came from
off campus. But let's say you have little Johnny. Little
Johnny has an older brother or father who has some
edibles in the house and he decides to bring him
to school. When we were kids, we know that kids
would bring candy air quotes to school and pass it out,
maybe share stickers, whatever, it's not uncommon for kids to
share stuff that they had with their friends. Yes, you
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can stop possibly something coming on the campus from off campus,
but you can't stop the kid who's getting it from
his house, getting it from his siblings, or getting it
from his dad or mom and bringing that to campus.
And then you know, just sharing with friends because they
think it's cool or think it's funny, or they don't
understand the severity of it all.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh no, no, no, no. We do not live in the.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Age of innocence where children don't understand what a gummy is.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We We're not there anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
They know, damn well the difference between edibles and gummy bears,
the Harborough gummy bears. They know the difference. Okay, the
smell alone. At twelve years old, my daughter had a
phone for emergencies. But I promise you if she was
on Pinterest or TikTok or whatever, she is fully aware
of what an edible it is. She does not engage
because she knows who her parents are and how much
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we drill into her head with it. But we're not
every parent. There's some parents who are like, just sit
down and go get on your phone and kids say ooh,
look what I've got. I'm gonna bring it to school. Hey,
try this. Try this. There are children who are in
school who have medically prescribed gummies to help regulate their behaviors,
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to help reggie regulate their system, who also may take
advantage of that and spread those around.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, so what do you want the school to do?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Do you want kids to come in and empty their
pockets before coming on campus?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Damn sure, if that's what we have to get. Here's
my thing. I am all about protecting the kids. If
that's what we have to do. Go through the damn backpacks.
Why will we not?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
You know, we may find weapons or anything else that
they may bring in if you have to check bags.
I don't want to hear about a violation of privacy.
You have no privacy. You're coming onto a private instant child.
If you're a child, you don't have any rights to
not have your bag search. If this is where we
have to go, go there.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I agree. I mean I can't really say anything, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
To dispute that, because the alternative is kids go to
the hospital and die. So what outcome do you want?
It's later with mo kellyfi Am six forty. We are
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we come back,
Tostitos ruffles. They have bowed to public pressure and they're
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going to stop engaging in shrinkflation, so they say, we'll
tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Have you been in a grocery store recently, or maybe
to the vending machine at your job, Like we have
a vending machine area here at KFI and if you
look at the potato chip bags, there's a whole lot
of air in them and not a lot of chips
in them, and you think it's this my imagination. And
as time goes on, it seems like there's more and
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more air in fewer and fewer chips. They call that
shrink flation, and it's not your imagination. Companies have been
raising the prices of their products. We know that's inflation,
but also you're getting less in the same sized bag,
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You're getting.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
A smaller serving for more money.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Shrinkflation, and people have been pissed off. I've been mad,
you've been mad. We've been complaining. We've been complaining on
social media. We've been complaining like right now in traditional media, Well, PepsiCo,
the owner of many of your favorite brands of potato chips,
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they're going to do something for you to counteract that.
But the devil is in the details. As they say, PepsiCo,
the owner of lays Doritos, Tostitos, and Ruffles.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're saying that they're going to put more chips.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In some bags to get back customers like you and
me who are tired of the higher prices and the
chips contained. A PepsiCo spokesperson told CNN that Tostitos and
Ruffles bonus bags. They have the dirty nerve to call
them bonus bags. Bonus bags will contain twenty percent more
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chips for the same price as the standard bags in
select locations.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So let's start from the beginning. You had normal bags.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They started taking chips out for shrink flation, and they
were charging more for those bags, and they had the
dirty nerve to put twenty percent more chips back in
the bag, which only got you back to square one.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And then they call it a bonus right, and they're
still selling it for the higher price. Look at the
gall that takes.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And they release a press release say, look at us,
we are doing away with shrink flation.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No they're not, but this is more.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
PepsiCo is also adding two additional small chip bags to
its variety pack option with eighteen.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So you get two small chip bags.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I hope they show the appropriate degree of gratitude for
this act of large s.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The dirty nerve to think that they're giving you what
they originally promised you. Let's say six seven months ago,
they promised you X, Y and Z, and they took
out X, and they charged you more for Y and Z.
And then they come back six months later and say,
we're gonna put the X back in X, Y and Z,
and we're still gonna charge you the higher amount.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And you better say thanks. You'd say thank you once again. Mark.
We try to tell folks about capitalism.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's not inflation, it's greed greedflation. It is a distinct difference. Yes,
the cost of producing goods may be more, but what
retailers are doing, what companies are doing, is over and
above the supposed inflation.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't mess around when it comes to funians. You
eat funions. What this is a news flash to you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, I'm just I don't think I've ever eaten a
funion in my freaking life.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Why do you hate America? You never had a funion?
I don't think she wanted on this.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
It's been a minute I've had what does that mean,
like five probably.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Like five minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Well, I'm not going to haul off and tell you
in front of our massive audience that funions are food
or anything.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right, let's play a game. It's called yes or no.
I'll give you a food air quotes item. Let's just
say yes or no as to whether you eat them pigskins,
Oh like those pork rynds pork rhymes. Yeah, yeah, but
it's not a regular part of my diet. No, God's sake, No,
that's poison. Okay, funions, you're a yes. Flaming hot cheetos
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those are kind of nasty. I've tried them. What about you, Foosh?
I don't like spicy. Some people love that stuff. But
I've heard Tawala talk about his kid having a hole
eaten through his stomach.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So yes, that lacked is a deterrent. It's like acid
in the stomach. It's not meant to be ingested. No, No,
that's landfill. That's you fill potholes with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
M is there anything in our kitchen that you won't
eat in our vending machine area.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I'll let's go the other direction. There's not a lot
in our kitchen that willy Okay, I'm trying to think
of the different Every single thing in the vending machine
there is like taking a dare some some extreme form
of culinary sadism that that you wouldn't willingly endure.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I don't know who our vending person is, whoever stocks
the vending machine, whatever company that somebody with a pretty
good sense of humor. Well, they're not putting stuff in
there that people actually want to buy. There's sandwiches in there,
like three weeks old. I'm not exaggerating, that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
No, this is only for a walking dead scenario when
you're just busting out the glass and grabbing what you
can and running right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But it shouldn't kill me in the process, you know,
it's ideally, I mean, there's but who if they're not
buying it, people are not buying it, then why is
the vending machine company still selling it? Don't they like realize, oh,
this is not selling No one is actually buying these
these sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, somebody's got to be right. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I don't know because I checked the expiration date on them,
and they're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You handle them. Oh, generally you're handling the sandwiches. I'm
not putting.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I'm not touching the sandwiches that you know there is
the plastic on the outside, not the actual sandwich. I'm
not opening the packages give it a sniff. No, No,
I'm just saying I'm looking for the expiration date.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Also, I did get one once, probably like five or
six months ago. It's ninety percent bread and ten percent
of whatever meat it's supposed.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To be in there. Have you ever checked. You're not
old enough to care.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But if you ever looked at the the ingredients and
the and the the percentage of sodium.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh, it's through the roof, through the roof, it's not
health foods. And it's being used as like a preservative.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That's part of the reason true why it can sit
on that refrigerated rack for weeks at a time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, that that's like break glass in case of emergency
food in there. And I've never I've been here three
and a half years and I've never once felt that
it was urgent enough to eat like one of their
entrees or a sandwich because okay, so the lube you
got to put on a sandwich like mayo or mustard
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
The lube. Yeah, the lube, the sandwich loob. Otherwise they're
very dry. Yeah. Can we not get hung up on that? Please?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
For that to stay on that bread for all that time?
What are you getting when you open that up? Invite
to a Diddy party? Oh oh oh, go ahead? I wait,
I wait, that's not a rim shot?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No. No Diddy party and rimshot do go together? Do
you have a like a gag sound effect foosh that
would go to with a Diddy party? Okay, please, if
you're trying to get me fired, let's just move forward.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Please. But the bag thing's real.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
You started off about the shrink flation, and you know
we all have like a dorrito, even if you've never
had a funion, you know this is a true thing.
And those things are insanely overpriced, all junk foods overpriced
to begin with, like what uh five dollars for a
nine point twenty five ounce bag of Dorito's in God's
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name and.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
It's and here's the thing, it's still nine point twenty
five ounces that they put on the bag when clearly
it's not still nine point twenty five ounces in the bag.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
If I can eat it in a sitting. There's something
going on and I'm not the problem. Well don't well
slow down, Okay, that too well look at the time,
but I was gonna say real quick, and you're like, oh,
is it my imagination? And I usually get a couple
of gatories before I come to work, you know, Rouse
or Vonds whatever, and I thought, I was like, it
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seems smaller. And then the story came out that they
they marketed it, marketed it as it's easier to hold
in your hand so that the middle of the bottle
curves in so you're getting less.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So once again, shrinkflation. So every angle just.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Get robbed every single time, every single way, by every
single one.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Shrinkage is never good. Nobody wants shrinkage. We're up against
the clock AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I don't know what you're thinking, and I kind of
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Keep it fun and the kost E HD
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Two Los Angeles, Orange County lives everywhere on the radio
app
KFI, mister mo Kelly, were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
apps so much to cover Tonight We're watching the Dodgers,
who are up five to two. We live and die
with our Dodgers here in southern California. I don't know
if there is such a thing as an Angel fan. No,
there's not, just Dodger fans. There's still up five to two.
Will be monitoring that game and some other news around
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southern California. You may hear me and Tim Conway Junior
talk about the horses. I have an affinity for horse racing.
I grew up with it. I can't remember exactly when
I first learned to read a racing form. I appreciate
my father for teach me that. But I think times
are changing in America, and with the recent spate of
(01:08):
deaths of horses and horses which have been euthanized at
Los Alamados, we have to get into that and reassess
what the future of horse racing may be. And do
you remember on Monday I told you about this story
of five middle schoolers who were sickened. Three were hospitalized
for possible cannabis ingestion in Northridge.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Nobel Charter Middle School to be specific.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, today at a different middle school in Studio City,
Walter Reed Middle School, seventeen middle school students were treated
for likely cannabis exposure. I don't like to be right
all the time about certain things, and this is one
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of those things where I don't like to be right.
I don't want to read another story about middle school
children being sickened by most likely cannabis ingestion. But we'll
talk about it in a bit. And also, you know
there's a war against shrinkflation that's going on. Well, two
(02:15):
companies have bowed to the pressure. We'll tell you about
how Tostito's and Ruffles are now changing the contents of
their packages because of the cry against shrinkflation. But if
you are listening to Mark Ronner prior to the show,
you know what we have to do. It's that time
in the program. Oh and of course my cup hereter
(02:39):
stops working. You're gonna leave me high and dry.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I don't like the way that happened. I think you
have to do it again. Do it one more time?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Are you ready this time? I'm ready? Are you ready?
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Are you bracing yourself? We're not to use the word
brace around here in the newsroom. Oh okay, that's not
conversational English. Are you prepared? I'm prepared, all right. Oh,
thank you. Okay, that's much better.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Thank you. I heard there's rain on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, there's a twenty percent chance of it tonight, and
if it rains, that becomes one hundred percent. What areas
do you remember the sky? Mo? The rain comes from
the sky? I ask a non specific question. I get
a non specific and in this area that we're living in. Okay,
is that good enough for you? Okay, let's twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
One in five.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Let's review for the audience. I always like to know
about me personally, because it's only about me. I need
to know of rain that's going to be dropping on
my head, not anyone else's.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, what I suggest is that when you go home tonight,
stand outside.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But when is this supposed to show up?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I don't have that information. I don't know how
granular you think that we get the weather information here,
but twenty percent and tonight is about as specific as
as it's going to get right now. It might get
more specific later as it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Starts to rain.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I was listening to your news break for one of
the few times that I would ever listen to you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, you're an important man. You have things to do.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I know, I know, I know, keep it coming, keep
telling that truth. But you were talking about a contest
or a job opportunity for someone who's in the horror movies.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yes, yes, yes, and it seemed like.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was perfect for you, right up into the point
where it wasn't perfect for you, where.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I said amateurs. You could tell I was spitting out
the word amateurs on the air.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's a joint called casino dot Org and they want
a horror movie tester. But this list of movies everybody's
already seen. I'm sure you have the exor system. I
know you've seen that. Yep, Hereditary, No, oh, that's messed up.
You have to see that, The Conjuring you've seen, Yes,
I've seen that. Those are those Ed Lorraine Warren movies
Insidious from the same folks. Yeah, the ring come on,
everybody ring there.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, here's a prop because you're supposed to judge which
one is the scariest. How can you judge a nineteen
seventy three movie against a twenty seventeen movie.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, Apparently they're monitoring heart rates, so if you're just
sitting there watching it and it causes a reaction, that's
what they measure. And The Exorcist is still, I think,
really effective. I've told before the story of how the
long suffering one during the spinal tap scene, yes, went
and passed out in the theater lobby. And this wasn't
(05:29):
in like what nineteen seventy three or whatever the year
was it came out. This is when they re released
the movie in theaters just a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But I think the whole idea of scary has changed
over the years. There's such a thing as knowing that
something's going to jump out and startle you, but that's
not the same as being scared. There was a basic
baseline of fear of the Exorcist. It was something ominous
throughout the whole movie. And horror movies and we go
(05:57):
back and forth about the definition of horror.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's different from decade to decade. Would you agree? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, for me, a horror film would be like being
stalked by the student loan people. Okay, I'm not afraid
of supernatural stuff, that's reality. Yeah, I'm not a superstitious person.
So a lot of these things for me involve the
willing suspension of disbelief. But you know, it's like going
on a carnival ride. You know you're safe, you're let
off at the end. So I can get into the
Exorcist as much as a hardcore Catholic could.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I get more into the Exorcist because the idea of
supernatural is much more scary to me. Then let's say
Jason going around Camp Crystal Lake and hacking up people.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, it's a whole different ball of ax. I mean,
slasher movies are different than demonic possession movies. And one
thing I like about the demonic possession movies is that
they often tend to center around people who are having
a crisis of faith, and when it starts to hit
the fan, it doesn't matter what you believe. The stuff
is happening, and you've got to cope with it, right right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And also, there's something when you say supernatural, there's something
beyond our understanding, beyond our comprehension, beyond our control that
you cannot fight in the way that Jason. He may
be kind of supernatural or superhuman because he's impossible to kill,
but it's not like he's he's teleporting from room to room.
(07:13):
You know you can see him when he's coming. Is
gonna cut your head off? Yeah, that doesn't make it realistic.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
But these things tap into like all sorts of primal
fears that people have, say, zombie movies being eaten. Is
you know you can draw straight line between those and
shark movies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, yeah, I guess so, so you're gonna go enter
the contest. I think I am probably pardon me for
sounding im modest here, but I think I'm a little
overqualified on the horror front, to the point that maybe
maybe I need to be on a federal registry. Fair enough,
it's Later with Mo Kelly cay if I AM six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we
come back, we're gonna go to Los Alaminos and tell
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you what is going on there, and it's not good
at all.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
He didn't know.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I grew up going to Hollywood Parks, Santa Anita, All
adel Mar, all the racing tracks, even those Ala Medos.
A couple of times back in the day, My father
loved horse racing, and I soo by extension, loved horse racing.
And then you get older in society changes, our sports landscape,
(08:21):
our entertainment landscape evolves, and you can see societies moving
away from horse racing. Tracks are being closed almost every year.
There are fewer horse racing tracks in the country now
than ever before. Part of it is because our concept
of entertainment has changed.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Let's just be honest.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Using animals as entertainment is not the allure that it
used to be. We can talk about SeaWorld, we can
talk about greyhound racing. We can talk about the perception
of cock fighting down south, the perception of dog fighting
post Michael Vick. The idea of animals in sports, legal
or illegal, is just completely changed of tolerance and acceptance.
(09:02):
So when I tell you about how five more horses
have been euthanized in the hell in the heath Taylor
barn at Los Alamedos to do to equine infectious anemia,
know that it's going to be perceived differently in twenty
twenty four than maybe nineteen eighty four. And these five
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euthanasia instances follows seven other EIA positive quarter horses earlier
this month at Los Alabedos, and all twelve of the
horses were trained by Heath Taylor and stabled in his
barn at Los Alabedos. And additional six horses from Taylor's
barn at Lone Star Park tested positive for EIA and
(09:46):
say it with Me were also euthanized, meaning if not
four the horse racing component, they would not have all
been together, they would have not all been infected and
then euthanized. The Equine Disease Communications Center also, and this
is important, reported the death of a racing quarter horse
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in Bernalillo County in New Mexico, so this transcends state borders.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
This is probably not done.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There are other horses in quarantine, but check this out.
In total, twenty one horses trained by Taylor have tested
positive for EIA this year. Eighteen have been confirmed as
euthanized as of today. That's unsustainable. That has nothing to
(10:38):
do with whether you love horse racing. It has nothing
to do with whether you want to go back to
nineteen eighty four in the America that it used to be.
That's unsustainable in today's America. Because we were talking yesterday,
I should say I was talking to Tim Conway Junior
yesterday about this new entertainment venue called Cosm where you
(10:58):
can it's almost it's like a semisphere where you get
to go to a stadium like restaurant arena and then
you get to see live games and you're an immersive setting.
It makes you feel like you're right there on the field.
There are too many ways and too many competing ideas
of entertainment and sports entertainment for horse racing to continue.
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We have sports betting for all the professional sports now,
be it baseball, football, basketball, hockey. Even you got different
sports apps like DraftKings and prize picks. People don't have
to leave their house to bet on sports. The audience
(11:45):
for horse racing is simply dwindling. And if the only
news you hear about horse racing is horses dying, that
and I'm not trying to be funny or even make
a pun, that is killing the business. You can't expect
low solid medos or any track to survive when horses
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are dying every week for whatever reason, if they're dying
for an issue on the track, if they're dying because
of EIA, if they're dying at all, that negative news
media makes it much more difficult for anyone connected to
the business of horse racing to survive. And not only that,
horse racing is hell of experience expensive for trainers. Every
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aspect of it is extremely expensive, and businesses now are
looking for ways to provide less expensive entertainment.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And I grew up. I shouldn't say I grew up.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I lived for the early part of my life within
five minutes of Hollywood Park.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I was there far more than a child should have been.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
So it's not like I'm talking about this from the
outside that I don't understand the allure and the history,
the connection, the nostalgia with respect to horse racing and
Southern California. I know it intimately, and I'm not going
to be a hypocrite. I could go to Santa Anita
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tomorrow and probably have a great time. I'm just trying
to keep my personal feelings out of this and recognize
that the stuff that you ever realized that the things
that you did twenty thirty years ago are probably not
the thing to do now. I used to go to
nightclubs when I was in my twenties. That's not something
to do now. And you see fewer and fewer nightclubs.
(13:32):
You see fewer and fewer lounges. The bar seat has changed.
People change, industry changes, business change, entertainment options change. If
I were to ask Tauala and his kids, I doubt,
I seriously doubt anyone in this kid's generation, with exception
of a few, have actually been to the horse races.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No, they have not. And not only have they have
not ever been. I would never take that.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I came up on the other side and growing up
not far from Sant Nita Racetrack and going to the
mall and hanging out in that area.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I never understood horse racing.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But even though it wasn't as publicized back in the day,
horses dying on the track is not new. And I
think I came to the knowledge of what happens to
some of these horses from my aunt who rest in peace,
raised horses, loved horses, groomed horses, all that, and so
I had a different affinity for horses. So for me,
(14:37):
I look at these stories and I say to my
to myself, how long before an individual like this is
banned from the sport period? Because not that this individual,
this is particularly this particular incident, and this particular breeder
or horse racer is doing this on purpose. But you
cannot be this callous and this cavalier with the lives
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of animals.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You just can't.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And I think to myself, this individual in particular should
be shut down and banned from the sport period. And
this is just the roach that we know of. That's
the problem that I have with it. We're hearing about
this because too many have died.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
For it to keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Twenty one twenty one, twenty one I've tested positive, eighteen
have been euthanized.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The roach theory says that this is not an isolated
incident with just this breeder or this breeder's bar.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And I talk about it, Tuala, you came at it
from a completely different vantage point. I come at it
from just talking about business, talking about the business of entertainment.
Horse racing used to be kind of exclusive in southern
California because we did not have any gambling. You didn't
have the Hustler casino, you didn't have a Crystal casino,
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you didn't have those places. Indian gaming was very very
new at that time. There weren't places for people to gamble.
Then you go to a place like Hollywood Park, and
then they had what they called off track betting, where
you go to Hollywood Park and bet the greyhounds in Florida,
or you could bet certain other sporting events or horse
racing at different racing tracks, like you can go bet
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Churchill Downs or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was off track betting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Then, as sports entertainment and gambling became more available to
people than horse racing fell out of favor buying large
because you had other ways that you could bet. Also,
the introduction of the California Lottery took a lot of
that appeal of horse racing because people could get their
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gambling on, if you will, by buying scratchers and playing
Lotto and super Loatto. So the would be gamblers had
other things to do. And yes, you had your core enthusiasts.
But part of why horse racing was original and was
so successful because it didn't really have any gambling competition.
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That is no longer true and that will no longer
ever be true because I don't have.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
To leave my house.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I got a phone, and I can do all the
gambling I want in California and around the country on
all the major sports.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Horse racing can't compete.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Now there's that aspect, and there's also the aspect of
cruelty the animals, and I don't think that they will
be able to push aside the deaths of all these
horses year after year after year and also stay in business.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's Later with mo Kelly k I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, unfortunately we got to go to another middle
school which is dealing with the issue of drug exposure
and children being taken to the hospital because of what
is thought to be edibles.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And when we talked about Diddy, I would say, hey,
there is a pattern which is emerging here. You can
see where a story is going and why there would
be other similar incidents. This is something similar to that
when we talk about these poisonings of middle school students
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due to edibles, gummies, whatever they're ingesting some form of THC.
On Monday, we told you about the middle school in Northridge,
Nobel Charter, where five students were poisoned. Three were taken
to the hospital. Now have to tell you the numbers
(18:45):
up to seventeen in Studio City at Walter Reed Middle School.
And this started early this morning due to apparent overdoses
by number of these students. Seventeen were poisoned. Two were
taken to the hospital. And this if you're not paying attention,
(19:06):
if you're not recognizing the signs, you probably think that
these are isolated incidents. I'm not saying they're connected, but
they're not isolated. This highlights the fears that I've been
having about the proliferation of edibles and THHC products on campuses.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And this is middle school, this is not even high school.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're talking about children who should have limited ability to
get anything on their own, much less go to a
convenience store, but to get a controlled substance. That scares
the Bejesus out of me. And if you have kids,
I would hope that it scares you as well. Five
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on Monday seventeen today, what is it going to be tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
What is it going to be next week?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And in both cases had to be had connected to
ingesting edibles. This incident at Walter Reed Middle School supposedly
was connected to gummies. Quote today we became aware that
a group of students may have consumed a banned substance.
That's principal Paul de Bonis. He went on, quote, emergency
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personnel were contacted and students received medical attention. The parents
of the affected students have been notified close quote. And
also LAFD Captain Eric Scott had this to say, quote,
there was no evidence of any fentanyl type drugs. It
was described as gummy bears that were ingested. That's still
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being evaluated and part of an active investigation. I'm not
trying to ascribe motive. I'm not trying to say that
it was the fault of this or that, or this
is the cause of it. But if you're not paying attention,
this is the time I need you to pay attention
because there's probably going to be a similar style event
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or incident in the near future. Because this is right
in front of us. I I go back to what
I said on Monday. I did not want the legalization
of marijuana in a recreational sense because I knew I
was going to have this conversation in the near future.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I didn't know when, I didn't know exactly why.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
In fact, I thought it was going to be high
schoolers who probably were more inclined to experiment more inclined
to have access to this because they're not adults, but
they're adults adjacent in many instances. And now you're having
young teenagers, pre teenagers, absolute children who are somehow, some
(21:48):
way getting their hands on THHC gummies and they're going
to the hospital. I'm not blaming the school because I
don't think you could. I don't think the school can't
prevent kids having quote unquote candy or something that's being
brought on campus from off campus.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
See, I don't know, because I do have to look
at the schools, if only because anytime I've picked up
my daughter early, say she was feeling ill or whatever
case uh doctor pointman Dillon pointment. I always take note
of how lax school security seems to be, or how
(22:32):
easy you can get access to the campus, how easy
you can get access to students. They want to make
this big deal about banning phones, but you're not actually
watching the campus. When I had to go and pick
my son up for fear that he was given some
chocolate by someone who one of his friends who just
got ahold of some candy, I didn't want to tell
(22:54):
that story, but I was wait trying to tell it
like no that like that happened. He was given some
candy by a friend who was passing out candy in
the class, and I had to go and take him.
His heart started beating. He was scared, and he knew
because he's heard us have these conversations on the air,
and I've had these conversations directly with him. So the
instant he started feeling weird after eating some chocolate, he
(23:17):
called immediately. Thankfully he had what on him, he had
his phone. Went to go get him and they checked
him out and it was like, no, there's no traces,
but they said he could have already left his system.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Huge investigation had to happen. My question was how did
it get on there? And the friend of question was like,
I got it from someone from one of the other
schools who walked it over.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well, see, in that instance, you know it came from
off campus. But let's say you have little Johnny. Little
Johnny has an older brother or father who has some
edibles in the house and he decides to bring him
to school. When we were kids, we know that kids
would bring candy air quotes to school and pass it out,
maybe share stickers, whatever, it's not uncommon for kids to
share stuff that they had with their friends. Yes, you
(24:02):
can stop possibly something coming on the campus from off campus,
but you can't stop the kid who's getting it from
his house, getting it from his siblings, or getting it
from his dad or mom and bringing that to campus.
And then you know, just sharing with friends because they
think it's cool or think it's funny, or they don't
understand the severity of it all.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh no, no, no, no. We do not live in the.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Age of innocence where children don't understand what a gummy is.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We We're not there anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
They know, damn well the difference between edibles and gummy bears,
the Harborough gummy bears. They know the difference. Okay, the
smell alone. At twelve years old, my daughter had a
phone for emergencies. But I promise you if she was
on Pinterest or TikTok or whatever, she is fully aware
of what an edible it is. She does not engage
because she knows who her parents are and how much
(24:53):
we drill into her head with it. But we're not
every parent. There's some parents who are like, just sit
down and go get on your phone and kids say ooh,
look what I've got. I'm gonna bring it to school. Hey,
try this. Try this. There are children who are in
school who have medically prescribed gummies to help regulate their behaviors,
(25:13):
to help reggie regulate their system, who also may take
advantage of that and spread those around.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, so what do you want the school to do?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Do you want kids to come in and empty their
pockets before coming on campus?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Damn sure, if that's what we have to get. Here's
my thing. I am all about protecting the kids. If
that's what we have to do. Go through the damn backpacks.
Why will we not?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
You know, we may find weapons or anything else that
they may bring in if you have to check bags.
I don't want to hear about a violation of privacy.
You have no privacy. You're coming onto a private instant child.
If you're a child, you don't have any rights to
not have your bag search. If this is where we
have to go, go there.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I agree. I mean I can't really say anything, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
To dispute that, because the alternative is kids go to
the hospital and die. So what outcome do you want?
It's later with mo kellyfi Am six forty. We are
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Tostitos ruffles. They have bowed to public pressure and they're
(26:15):
going to stop engaging in shrinkflation, so they say, we'll
tell you about it next.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Have you been in a grocery store recently, or maybe
to the vending machine at your job, Like we have
a vending machine area here at KFI and if you
look at the potato chip bags, there's a whole lot
of air in them and not a lot of chips
in them, and you think it's this my imagination. And
as time goes on, it seems like there's more and
(26:49):
more air in fewer and fewer chips. They call that
shrink flation, and it's not your imagination. Companies have been
raising the prices of their products. We know that's inflation,
but also you're getting less in the same sized bag,
(27:11):
You're getting.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
A smaller serving for more money.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Shrinkflation, and people have been pissed off. I've been mad,
you've been mad. We've been complaining. We've been complaining on
social media. We've been complaining like right now in traditional media, Well, PepsiCo,
the owner of many of your favorite brands of potato chips,
(27:37):
they're going to do something for you to counteract that.
But the devil is in the details. As they say, PepsiCo,
the owner of lays Doritos, Tostitos, and Ruffles.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're saying that they're going to put more chips.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In some bags to get back customers like you and
me who are tired of the higher prices and the
chips contained. A PepsiCo spokesperson told CNN that Tostitos and
Ruffles bonus bags. They have the dirty nerve to call
them bonus bags. Bonus bags will contain twenty percent more
(28:14):
chips for the same price as the standard bags in
select locations.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So let's start from the beginning. You had normal bags.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
They started taking chips out for shrink flation, and they
were charging more for those bags, and they had the
dirty nerve to put twenty percent more chips back in
the bag, which only got you back to square one.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And then they call it a bonus right, and they're
still selling it for the higher price. Look at the
gall that takes.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
And they release a press release say, look at us,
we are doing away with shrink flation.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No they're not, but this is more.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
PepsiCo is also adding two additional small chip bags to
its variety pack option with eighteen.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So you get two small chip bags.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I hope they show the appropriate degree of gratitude for
this act of large s.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The dirty nerve to think that they're giving you what
they originally promised you. Let's say six seven months ago,
they promised you X, Y and Z, and they took
out X, and they charged you more for Y and Z.
And then they come back six months later and say,
we're gonna put the X back in X, Y and Z,
and we're still gonna charge you the higher amount.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And you better say thanks. You'd say thank you once again. Mark.
We try to tell folks about capitalism.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's not inflation, it's greed greedflation. It is a distinct difference. Yes,
the cost of producing goods may be more, but what
retailers are doing, what companies are doing, is over and
above the supposed inflation.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't mess around when it comes to funians. You
eat funions. What this is a news flash to you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, I'm just I don't think I've ever eaten a
funion in my freaking life.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Why do you hate America? You never had a funion?
I don't think she wanted on this.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
It's been a minute I've had what does that mean,
like five probably.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Like five minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Well, I'm not going to haul off and tell you
in front of our massive audience that funions are food
or anything.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right, let's play a game. It's called yes or no.
I'll give you a food air quotes item. Let's just
say yes or no as to whether you eat them pigskins,
Oh like those pork rynds pork rhymes. Yeah, yeah, but
it's not a regular part of my diet. No, God's sake, No,
that's poison. Okay, funions, you're a yes. Flaming hot cheetos
(30:58):
those are kind of nasty. I've tried them. What about you, Foosh?
I don't like spicy. Some people love that stuff. But
I've heard Tawala talk about his kid having a hole
eaten through his stomach.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So yes, that lacked is a deterrent. It's like acid
in the stomach. It's not meant to be ingested. No, No,
that's landfill. That's you fill potholes with that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
M is there anything in our kitchen that you won't
eat in our vending machine area.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I'll let's go the other direction. There's not a lot
in our kitchen that willy Okay, I'm trying to think
of the different Every single thing in the vending machine
there is like taking a dare some some extreme form
of culinary sadism that that you wouldn't willingly endure.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I don't know who our vending person is, whoever stocks
the vending machine, whatever company that somebody with a pretty
good sense of humor. Well, they're not putting stuff in
there that people actually want to buy. There's sandwiches in there,
like three weeks old. I'm not exaggerating, that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
No, this is only for a walking dead scenario when
you're just busting out the glass and grabbing what you
can and running right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But it shouldn't kill me in the process, you know,
it's ideally, I mean, there's but who if they're not
buying it, people are not buying it, then why is
the vending machine company still selling it? Don't they like realize, oh,
this is not selling No one is actually buying these
these sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, somebody's got to be right. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I don't know because I checked the expiration date on them,
and they're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
You handle them. Oh, generally you're handling the sandwiches. I'm
not putting.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I'm not touching the sandwiches that you know there is
the plastic on the outside, not the actual sandwich. I'm
not opening the packages give it a sniff. No, No,
I'm just saying I'm looking for the expiration date.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Also, I did get one once, probably like five or
six months ago. It's ninety percent bread and ten percent
of whatever meat it's supposed.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
To be in there. Have you ever checked. You're not
old enough to care.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But if you ever looked at the the ingredients and
the and the the percentage of sodium.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh, it's through the roof, through the roof, it's not
health foods. And it's being used as like a preservative.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That's part of the reason true why it can sit
on that refrigerated rack for weeks at a time.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, that that's like break glass in case of emergency
food in there. And I've never I've been here three
and a half years and I've never once felt that
it was urgent enough to eat like one of their
entrees or a sandwich because okay, so the lube you
got to put on a sandwich like mayo or mustard
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
The lube. Yeah, the lube, the sandwich loob. Otherwise they're
very dry. Yeah. Can we not get hung up on that? Please?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
For that to stay on that bread for all that time?
What are you getting when you open that up? Invite
to a Diddy party? Oh oh oh, go ahead? I wait,
I wait, that's not a rim shot?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No. No Diddy party and rimshot do go together? Do
you have a like a gag sound effect foosh that
would go to with a Diddy party? Okay, please, if
you're trying to get me fired, let's just move forward.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Please. But the bag thing's real.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
You started off about the shrink flation, and you know
we all have like a dorrito, even if you've never
had a funion, you know this is a true thing.
And those things are insanely overpriced, all junk foods overpriced
to begin with, like what uh five dollars for a
nine point twenty five ounce bag of Dorito's in God's
(34:27):
name and.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
It's and here's the thing, it's still nine point twenty
five ounces that they put on the bag when clearly
it's not still nine point twenty five ounces in the bag.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
If I can eat it in a sitting. There's something
going on and I'm not the problem. Well don't well
slow down, Okay, that too well look at the time,
but I was gonna say real quick, and you're like, oh,
is it my imagination? And I usually get a couple
of gatories before I come to work, you know, Rouse
or Vonds whatever, and I thought, I was like, it
(35:04):
seems smaller. And then the story came out that they
they marketed it, marketed it as it's easier to hold
in your hand so that the middle of the bottle
curves in so you're getting less.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So once again, shrinkflation. So every angle just.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Get robbed every single time, every single way, by every
single one.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Shrinkage is never good. Nobody wants shrinkage. We're up against
the clock AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I don't know what you're thinking, and I kind of
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Keep it fun and the kost E HD
Speaker 1 (35:45):
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