May 27, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A Memorial Day Tribute honoring those lost while serving our nation…PLUS – A look at the Fleet Week Memorial Day Dodgeball championship at the Port of Los Angeles AND the top 10 places to raise a family in the U.S. - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's later with Mo Kelly. I Am six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. It's Memorial Day. Of course,
we're honoring and mourning the US military personnel who died
while serving in the United States Armed Forces, and we
are honoring and mourning, but there is a degree of
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acknowledgment and celebration. If you've ever lost someone, they probably
told you, or have you've been told by someone else. Yes,
I may be gone or I may be leaving, but
still celebrate in remembrance. It doesn't mean that we cannot
have a good time on this Memorial Day. It does
not mean that we cannot have the proverbial barbecue. It
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does not mean that we can't possibly enjoy a sale
at a big box retailer. But we still have to
keep front and center the contributions of those who fell
in protection of the United States. So, no, it's not
Veterans Day. No, it's not necessarily a happy day, but
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we will acknowledge, commemorate, mourn, and remember those who fell
in service of the United States Armed Forces. With that
in mind, there are more members who served on my
wife's side of the family than my side of the family,
and oftentimes I'll hear some of the stories from her
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side of the family. My brother in law, who's now
law enforcement, did think so different tours and how he
managed not to die. He's Army Ranger, Special Forces, so
he's seen some stuff, he's done some stuff, and a
lot of we don't even have those conversations. I'm not
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that guy's gonna say so tell me about this, So
tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Those are those are his stories and memories, and if
he wants to open up, then I will listen to him.
On my mother's side of him, we had some naval
intelligence officers who worked, i would say, during the Korean War,
served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. My
late great uncle was a civil rights photographer, and you
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get some of the stories from there, but a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Of this day.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The point is this day can be a painful remembrance
for them, and there's an acknowledgment of those. Sometimes it's
survivor's guilt. I can't speak for you. I know you
about your brother, Tuala. Sometimes it's survivor's guilt that people
they remember on this day who did not make it
to this day.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The interesting things that my brother would always tell me
about his time in the army and his time oversees
on the DMZ and the worse he would tell me
that would happen just just in training accidents, just in
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friendly fire accidents. It's a miracle that he made it back.
And he would tell me oftentimes about that desire to
wanting to go overseas, to to fight. You know, I
can never understand and he said, it's something that the
lay person, something that those who have not been in
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it could never understand. He said, you can never understand
what goes through, what goes through men and women, and
that camaraderie and that desire you fail to go and
fight alongside your brother's sisters on the front lines. But
there is something to that. He always wanted to go
out of course, as his brother, I'm glad he didn't.
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And because again the whores that he would tell it's shocking,
It is shocking the things that our soldiers deal with
before they're even deployed onto the front lines.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Just what can happen on base to speak.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And that's why we wanted to start with this and
set the tone. Yes, we will have some fun before
the evening is over. Yes, we're going to talk about
the things like movies and what have you, but we
wanted to at least set the tone to let you
know that we're fully aware, and we are fully thankful,
and we're going to acknowledge and remember those sacrifices of
those we know those we do not know, because this
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day has varying levels of importance and significance, and I
just know that the fullest of today is not solemnity.
But you have to include it, have to acknowledge it,
you have to even embrace it. I think that's the
only way we can do justice and respectfully honor those
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who've given that ultimate sacrifice. It's not enough to just
go out and sit by the pool and maybe have
a barbecue. I mean, that's the part of it. If
you understand the sacrifices which allow it, you can have it.
But I can't think you can respectfully enjoy it if
there's not also the acknowledgment of how we got to
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this place. And that's something I try to be a
little bit more introspective on days like these. Yeah, we
talk about things which are silly and unseerious, but still
at the back of my mind and right now at
the front of my mind think about why we are here,
how we are here. For all the complaints about America,
still it's the best country in the world. It has
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its wards, it has its problems, and we talk about
those all the time. But the luxury, my word, the
luxury of being able to talk about it, the luxury
of me being able to sit here and let's say,
goof off for three hours, is a direct result of
the sacrifices of those men and women who did not
come home.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's just plain the simple. I think that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And this is something that you know, anytime we talk
about Veterans Day, Memorial Day, or any day where there's
some discount being given to troops, and I've gotten some
message about people saying, like, you know, at least they're
given something, because I oftentimes complain about their being discounts
versus just outright giving our troops what they deserve. I
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wholeheartedly believe that not enough is done for our troops
those who do come home. When I think about some
of the things that my brother goes through dealing with
the VA, and even people that I work with at
the school, just the stories that I hear about the
outright disrespect that they receive at the VA. Individuals their
sol to be getting treatment for things that they underwin,
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things that they survive, that they should be getting just
taken care of outright. When I think about the number
of people who are unhoused in this country who are
big on a former soldiers, that is the ultimate disrespect
and disgrace for this country when we talk about homeless,
when we talk about care, and we do not care
for those who are willing to go on and put
their lives on the front line for this country. We
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have to do more for our men and women who
serve and are willing to put their lives on the line.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Period.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
May's also National Military Appreciation Month, and yes we focus
maybe rightly or wrongly on Memorial Day, but it is
national military appreciation months. So let's keep all this as
part of our conversations tonight as we continue all the
way to ten o'clock. We're live here on Later with
mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we
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come back, we're going to talk about la Fleet Week
and the DoD Ball Battle Champion which was newly crowned yesterday.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know if you knew this. I didn't actually
know it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But for ten years, more than one thousand sailors, marines,
and coastguardsmen have joined their military peers at sites around
the Port of Los Angeles to celebrate the past, president
and future of the US Armed Forces. San Francisco, Miami,
Portland are among other cities that hold similar Fleetweek festivities, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
In the Port of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Bringing home the win in their first tournament appearance in
the name of the country's newest guided missile destroyer, the
USS eleven crew credited their win to teamwork. Dodgeball Battle Champion. Now,
I wish I could have been it, because the Port
of Los Angeles is not too far from where I
used to live.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I would go there all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But to see members of our Armed Forces squaring off
in dodgeball probably would have.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Been very cool, very very very cool.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I'm sure that ball is going at one hundred miles
an hour. I'm sure it's not your average.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Game a dog. Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
When you're talking about competitive dodgeball, they're not trying to
literally kill each other. But they're trying to beat the
hell out of each other, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, you're you're leaving that court with some welts, some marks.
You know, you get hit the wrong way with the dodgeball,
you're out for the day.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I know, just in my family, and I'll listen to
my brother in law, he's my closest point of contact.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He will always talk about the other branches of the
Armed Service like, oh, no, they're not there, so they're
not that I'd mean. It is in good spirit, it's
in good fun, good natured. But at the same time,
you know, whenever they're around each other, it's a healthy respect.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's it's a friendly rivalry.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh sometimes unfriendly, sometimes unfriendly. Sometimes they could really really
go there, like the you know, some members of the
Army and my family, they'll hear about the Air Force,
Like I was just playing their their march song and said, oh,
that's not the Air Force, that's a chair force. They
don't do anything. Look okay, I'm not going to get
in all them. Yeah, that's between you all. They call
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the US Coast Guard, the Coast's or the like the
puddle Pirates. It's like kay lee, Wow, No, I'm just said,
that's what they say.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't want to get in trouble. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm just saying, in the spirit of competition and friendly riving,
that's what usually happens. But I would have loved.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I want to make it a point.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I want to make it a point if I'm in
town to go out to the Port of Los Angeles
and in this fleet weeek. The service members from the
Navy and the team of Marines from twenty nine Palms
were especially excited to win, of course, in honor of
their branches two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I actually broke my arm playing dogball when I was
a kid. I think that was like because I tried
the ball, was I would it was? I guess we
were like eighth graders and I tried to get into
a game with some seniors and thinking, I was, you know,
I can do this, and one of them threw a
ball so hard and I had my hands down trying
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to see if I could catch it, and it hit
the tips of my fingers and bit my arm back.
It but such, but it broke your arm? Yeah, hairline fracture.
Hairline fracture in my farm. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it
was the onliest break I've ever had. But yeah, hairline
fracture from that. Let me digress for a second. Think
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about all the games that we used to be able
to play when we were in grade school that are
disallowed now absolutely illegal.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You can't play dodgeball, they don't do it. Are you
allowed to play kickball anymore? I think I think it
was a thing, but not like it's not cool anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Can you do the tether ball with the pole and
they have a tetherball? Well, they did when my kids
were in like, uh, fifth, sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
No, I don't think they have the monkey bars anymore.
They have the monkey bars. I was gonna say tether ball.
I feel like it's only in like the Midwest now. Yeah,
because in my elementary school they had to get rid
of the tether ball. They had to get rid of
the monkey bars. Why they have to get rid of
the tether ball? I guess parents were complaining it was
too dangerous. People were hitting the ball too hard and
come around and smack a kid in the face. I
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just thought this was a rite of passage, But that
was just me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You know, no, my daughter she tethered.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh remember red Rover, red Rover, red rover, sid Mark
Ronner over and he would have to run from the
other side, from the other team and try to break
the class with two. Can't play that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Nobody ever said that. Nobody wanted me.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, but I remember there was such a fun game
and teachers were watching. No one think any of it.
And then you get older and realize, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That probably wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
No, that was a big fan of long darts. I
missed those. I've got a box of lawn darts. I
didn't call them jarts, yeah, jarts.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, the stuff that we used to play with, and
no one thought anything of it. And it was kind
of dangerous because those charts were sharp.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well you're not supposed to throw them at the other
kids heads, but kids are kids.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But if you're in a park and you just throw
it up in the air, we would throw up in
the air and then we'd have to dodge it. We
were you know, it's like an incoming missile. Oh yeah,
and it was like here it goes, no, but it's
coming down.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And that was stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But that's like that game where you play where you
throw it up and see who's the last person to leave, right, Yeah,
or in this case, who's the person who gets impaled.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That was the part of the game that was the
whole point. Sometimes you win, sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Lose, sometimes you get impaled. Oh god, I missed those days.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You know, this would be a day that we as kids,
we would be outside playing with firecrackers because Fourth of
July is coming up. Yeah, playing I don't know, football
in the street from pole to pot and drinking water
out of a water hose.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Bicycle jumps, don't forget that.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh but I was not allowed to do bicycle jumps.
My mother said it was too dangerous, which it was.
Everybody wanted to be evil, Oh absolutely, I won.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Jumped over.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We had the crates and like the linoleum is the
ramp or even a wood panel, and we would jump
to ascending to a descending ramp, just like evil canevl
And it was really really dumb. I remember one time
I did fall and knocked out a tooth. It was
a baby tooth, but you know, so I was I
was still really young. I laid in between the ramp.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
A friend of mine had his bike and he put
we put uh on on some bricks. So we had
the ramp up on on on some bricks, you know,
but some wall bricks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
On those square bricks.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We had the one end going up on one and
you would come down over the other. I lay down
in between, all right. And as he was going nothing
told you that that was a dumb idea because you know,
as kids, you don't know that Evil CANEVL had.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Some not every bone in his body.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We still thought it was gonna be good because but
when he went up the brick, as the brick folded
down and he ended up just rolling right over me.
So the brick went down, the board went down and
just just went right over my stomach.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, a lot of tears were sitting that. Well, that's
the risky run for being a childhood thrill seeker. We yeah,
it was important to have kids lie lie down right
in front of the jump, like especially like with their
face right.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
In front of the jump.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We fancied ourselves as daredevils. We really did. Bat And
if you're not old enough to remember, ABC Wild, ABC Wide,
World of Sports, Yeah, would have these presentations on Saturday,
usually of of Evil Canieval or something else, you know,
the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and oftentimes
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it was Evil Canevil and he would do a stunt
and it would end up failing, you know. And I
remember I remember watching Snake River Canyon live. I was
with the jet side, yeah, and I was so upset
because there was all this lead up and this was
a world in which there wasn't pay per view, there
wasn't the Internet. That it was just what you could
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find out on TV. And to see him with Snake
River Canyon jumping that and it was in the middle
of the day, so I was able to watch it.
And if you don't know what happened, the rocket took
off the shoot, the parachute deployed too early.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He didn't even come close, no, and he and.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He drifted floated slowly down into the canyon. And I
was so heartbroken. I might if even cried or something
like that. But it was ABC wide World of Sports
usually on Saturdays, Saturday mornings, and that was a Saturday
morning sort of just ritual for.
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Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's Later with mo Kelly kfi Amsin's forty Live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we
want to tell you about the top ten places to
raise a family as we continue to observe honor and
remember on this Memorial Day.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. On this Memorial Day, Let's
talk about the top ten places to raise a family
in the United States. According to wallet Hub, the study
evaluated over one hundred eighty US cities across forty five
key metrics, including housing affordability, quality of local schools and
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healthcare systems, also family fund and recreation opportunities. To determine
this ranking, The metrics were greater on a one hundred
point scale, with one hundred representing the best city to
raise a family in according to wallet hub, coming in
at number ten San Diego, California. I believe that. Yeah,
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I could deal with that. Come again at number nine.
The best place is to raise a family, according to
wallet hub. Bismarck, North Dakota past. I'm quite sure it's great.
Quite sure, it's scenic. I'm sure it's beautiful, idyllic, have
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no desire, none money, your room to spread out, right,
family there?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And why you're the property values?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You know, it's very affordable, inexpensive to buy you a
palatial estate.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But it's Bismarked, North Dakota. Yeah. No, Number eight Gilbert, Arizona. Nice.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So much heat, man, No, too much heat, too much heat.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, no, we'll pass. Number seven Boise, Idaho. Too much KKK,
I'll pass.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah. What the Manson family? What family are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It looks it's number seven, Mark.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't go anywhere. Number six Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Well, it is nice, even though it's not as nice
as it was, and it's just as expensive as here.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Now I know, I know when you put affordability that
seemingly to me would be one of the biggest things
to consider when you're talking about a family, let's say
two kids, three kids. It adds up real quick when
you're when in a place where property values are high
and the cost of living is high.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yeah, forget about ever taking the family out to dinner
in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Number five South Burlington, Vermont. Okay, random, yeah, really very random.
How did Burlington get on the list? Okay, look, I'm
sure Freeport, Maine is beautiful or whatever. You know, I
have no idea, but shoot, two trains, what do they got?
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I'm sure it's nice, it's nice. Put it away. Raise
of family is different from what I would want personally. Yeah,
I don't know how inexpensive it is. It says family
fund rank one hundred and sixty three. That's pretty low.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Health and safety rank one hundred and eight.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's low.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But education and childcare rank number one. Oh, for whatever
it's worth. Let's see, that's where you're argumented with affordability. Yes,
it's better be real affordable. Number four of the best
places to raise a family in the United States according
to wallet hub, Irvine, California number thirty one in family
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fun rank, number three in health and safety rank, and
number three education and childcare rank. Irvine compared to the
rest of the United States, is not exactly inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, all right, so it's all relative.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Number three of the twenty excuse me, in the top
ten places to raise a family in the United States,
according to wallet hub, plain old Texas bump that nope
from Texas.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I don't dislike Dallas. It's urban enough for me. I
don't care for Houston. I don't think I've been to Austin.
Even Dallas is getting some kind of way.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Number two of the ten best places to raise a
family in the United States Overland Park, Kansas.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Very random.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay with tornadoes, Well, the sister raise a family doesn't
mean to avoid tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's not one of the considerations.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It should be because this is tornado alley.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'd rather deal with earthquakes than tornadoes or hurricanes without
a doubt.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Come again.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number one the best place to raise a family in
all of the United States, according to wallet hub. Fremont California,
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get the f out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, since I'm not from here, you've got to explain
this to him.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I can't, No, I can't. Family fund rank it's eighty six.
Health and Safety rank comes in number four, Education and
child care rank number two.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
US are not cheap, that too. Freemont is not cheap.
That a friend of mine had their wedding out in
that area, But driving through it is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It is to live there, I don't know, but you
know whatever, It's.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Not that far from Silicon Valley, and that's part of
the reason why it's not part of it. Inexpensive, Yes, location,
uh yeah, but can you raise a family of four
there with income under a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
think that's even feasible. So yeah, you might as well
just pick the most expensive places. Ever, those are probably
the best places to raise kids because not anyone and
everyone can live there.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You need some qualifications for this list, like best places
to live if you have unlimited income and what is
this wallet hub?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Unlimited income and you don't want to ever have fun ever?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Ever, I think of all the hubs, wallet may be
one of the lower hubs and what can wallet hub
really look? Wallet hub will put these things together. Let's
be honest. It's a free advertisement for wallet Hub.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No one knows about wallet hut, No one cares about
wallet Hub. But I've said wallet hup at least forty
five times this segment. Mission accomplished. There you go, Fremont, California,
the place that nobody wants to live, with the exception
of people who work in Silicon Valley. It's Later with
mo Kelly as we continue on this Memorial Day KFI
AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When
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we come back, did you know Planet Fitness has a
special offer, but just for teenagers.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We'll tell you about it just a moment.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Yes, we are
live at KFI right now. We're live on the iHeartRadio
app on this Memorial Day. And if you can remember
back when you were in high school, depending on the decade,
you may have or may not have had PE physical education.
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I was in band and I also played basketball, so
those were my PE credits when I was in high school,
and also I was doing hopketo after school.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
That's where I got my exercise.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But today I don't know if there's actual pe anymore.
And I'm not the only one who wonders about this,
because Planet Fitness has a high school summer pass and
it is going to be for those teenagers ages fourteen
to nineteen to work out for free at any of
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its twenty five hundred Planet Fitness locations across the US
and Canada this summer between June first and August thirty first.
How quickly this world has changed, Because I remember growing up,
and it was a long time ago since I do
the math. When I was growing up, I was not
allowed to stay in the house. My mother would tell me,
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go outside, go somewhere. You are not going to sit
in the house and play video games. You're not going
to sit in the house and watch TV. So my
time was spent outside riding my bike, playing football. There
was no time to just be sedentary, especially during the summer.
But how quickly things have changed. Not quickly, but how
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strange is how we've gone in the other direction where
we have to give free passes and reasons and excuses
seemingly for teenagers to work out, to exercise, to do
something other than sit on their phones or watch TV,
streaming movies, texting, just being sedentary. Three and four teens,
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according to this are self conscious and confess they struggle
with body positive issues forty three percent, something that's been
consistent in years past. Eighty five percent of teens feel
that there's no better time than right now to concentrate
on improving their health. About seven to ten, which is
seventy percent, teens report that staying off social media and
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their phones helps them cope with the challenges they're facing.
Absolutely nothing will stretch you out more than doom scrolling,
nothing will agitate you more than staying on social media.
So I understand what Planet Fitness is trying to do
with this high school Summer Past program. I'm just curious
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whether it actually resonates with someone who's a teenager today.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
My boys are all in their twenties and thirties now,
so it's even a different world for them. But I
don't know if kids now have any focus on physical
activity in the way that we did when some are
rolled around, and let's be honest, summer is basically here
because it's Memorial Day, when some are rolled around. That
is the time I think people wanted to be more
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active than other times because we didn't have homework to do.
We didn't necessarily have someone looking over our shoulder all
the time. We weren't at school, so we had more
genuine free time.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I was just saying, then.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You wanted to be outside because that's that was your
freedom as a kid. Yeah, yeah, you said, no one's
looking over your shoulder, no one's telling you to, you know,
finish that assignment. You're outside, You're on your bikes, You're
you know, hanging out. My bike and I had a
ten speed. It was a yellow ten speed. Uh, don't
ask me why I was yellow. I think it was
the only color that was available. I'm just being serious.
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I would yell, yeah, but that was my car back
then because we had the bus, but I didn't have
any money. You know, it wasn't expensive, but the bus
didn't necessarily go all the places that I wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Ten speople take me anywhere I wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
But I got a lot of exercise just riding my
bus right, riding my bike every damn day, every single place,
But the best time to do it was during the summer,
because I didn't have anything in frinship upon my time. Yeah,
we would play some Atari twenty six hundred video games.
Yeah we played some in television or Kaleco vision, but
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that wouldn't take up the fullness of our day. The
adults around us wouldn't allow it. They wanted us out
the house as well. That would be more at night. Well,
actually it was actually in the earlier part of the
day because even in the summer, I had to be
in when the street lights were on. Now in the
summer the street lights would come on it's seven thirty ish,
depending on the month, but obviously the days were longer.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Changes.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, but we've played in the street. Kids now they
don't play anywhere. One reason I would say generally is
more violent. America is just more violent in many ways.
You don't have nine or ten kids playing in the
street football anymore. If they are, I haven't seen it,
And I don't know when I don't see kids playing
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in the driveway playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I just don't see that anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Kids still go to the to the public pool.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
But clearly I'm not the only one who wonders. Yes,
this is a promotion by Planet Fitness, but it's specifically
geared to teenagers. So I'm not the only one who's
recognizing that young people are more connected to their phones
and less likely to exercise than ever before. I wonder
long term studies what they will show about kids who
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grew up after two thousand and one, the addicted to
the phone generation, how they will age in their forties
and fifties compared to our generation.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Oh, they're all gonna need dribble cups. You got to
remember that part of the reason that we got exercise
and read books when we were younger is that there
wasn't that much to do.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
True.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
And I just sent you I don't know if you
saw this. I sent you a clip of somebody trying
to watch the Playboy channel through all the interference on
their cable box.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh like me tell me, Yeah, that's how desperate we were.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I think if I had access to the internet, porn
as a teenager, video games, and streaming movies and TV,
I never would have cracked a book. I would have
been an idiot.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well don't don't wow, I mean things are inevitable.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Well no, you take my point though, because some things
you do because of a dearth of choices. I wouldn't
have been a huge bookworm if I had every single
entertainment option available to me at the time. I mean,
I would rather have watched like a violent movie or something.
I'm looking at what you sent me via text. Yeah,
this could not be more accurate. Uh, we had on TV.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
There was on, and there was Select, and they'd have
the scrambled channel I would say maybe after ten o'clock
at night, and they were like skin flicks.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It wasn't like porn. It's like soft porn. I like
skin of ax.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, they would show nudity and simulated sex, but it
wasn't like hardcore.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know, you know when it's scrabbled, you try to
catch something a nipple.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's what you do at your
friend's house after school before their parents get home from work,
and then you quickly change the channel when when you
hear the car approaching and the garage door opening.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Oh good times.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Last Key generation where we were actually at home by ourselves, unsupervised.
It's later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
It's Memorial Day. Today, we pay solemn tribute to our
foregn countrymen. We know we can never give them as
much as they gave us, but we also know that
our generation and succeeding generations can, by keeping the flame
of freedom burning brightly, ensure that they did not die
in vain.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Don't forget to raise a glass to the people that
defend our freedom.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Kf I, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Everywhere on the ear radio app.
It's later with Mo Kelly. I Am six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. It's Memorial Day. Of course,
we're honoring and mourning the US military personnel who died
while serving in the United States Armed Forces, and we
are honoring and mourning, but there is a degree of
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acknowledgment and celebration. If you've ever lost someone, they probably
told you, or have you've been told by someone else. Yes,
I may be gone or I may be leaving, but
still celebrate in remembrance. It doesn't mean that we cannot
have a good time on this Memorial Day. It does
not mean that we cannot have the proverbial barbecue. It
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does not mean that we can't possibly enjoy a sale
at a big box retailer. But we still have to
keep front and center the contributions of those who fell
in protection of the United States. So, no, it's not
Veterans Day. No, it's not necessarily a happy day, but
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we will acknowledge, commemorate, mourn, and remember those who fell
in service of the United States Armed Forces. With that
in mind, there are more members who served on my
wife's side of the family than my side of the family,
and oftentimes I'll hear some of the stories from her
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side of the family. My brother in law, who's now
law enforcement, did think so different tours and how he
managed not to die. He's Army Ranger, Special Forces, so
he's seen some stuff, he's done some stuff, and a
lot of we don't even have those conversations. I'm not
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that guy's gonna say so tell me about this, So
tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Those are those are his stories and memories, and if
he wants to open up, then I will listen to him.
On my mother's side of him, we had some naval
intelligence officers who worked, i would say, during the Korean War,
served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. My
late great uncle was a civil rights photographer, and you
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get some of the stories from there, but a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Of this day.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The point is this day can be a painful remembrance
for them, and there's an acknowledgment of those. Sometimes it's
survivor's guilt. I can't speak for you. I know you
about your brother, Tuala. Sometimes it's survivor's guilt that people
they remember on this day who did not make it
to this day.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The interesting things that my brother would always tell me
about his time in the army and his time oversees
on the DMZ and the worse he would tell me
that would happen just just in training accidents, just in
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friendly fire accidents. It's a miracle that he made it back.
And he would tell me oftentimes about that desire to
wanting to go overseas, to to fight. You know, I
can never understand and he said, it's something that the
lay person, something that those who have not been in
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it could never understand. He said, you can never understand
what goes through, what goes through men and women, and
that camaraderie and that desire you fail to go and
fight alongside your brother's sisters on the front lines. But
there is something to that. He always wanted to go
out of course, as his brother, I'm glad he didn't.
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And because again the whores that he would tell it's shocking,
It is shocking the things that our soldiers deal with
before they're even deployed onto the front lines.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Just what can happen on base to speak.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And that's why we wanted to start with this and
set the tone. Yes, we will have some fun before
the evening is over. Yes, we're going to talk about
the things like movies and what have you, but we
wanted to at least set the tone to let you
know that we're fully aware, and we are fully thankful,
and we're going to acknowledge and remember those sacrifices of
those we know those we do not know, because this
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day has varying levels of importance and significance, and I
just know that the fullest of today is not solemnity.
But you have to include it, have to acknowledge it,
you have to even embrace it. I think that's the
only way we can do justice and respectfully honor those
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who've given that ultimate sacrifice. It's not enough to just
go out and sit by the pool and maybe have
a barbecue. I mean, that's the part of it. If
you understand the sacrifices which allow it, you can have it.
But I can't think you can respectfully enjoy it if
there's not also the acknowledgment of how we got to
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this place. And that's something I try to be a
little bit more introspective on days like these. Yeah, we
talk about things which are silly and unseerious, but still
at the back of my mind and right now at
the front of my mind think about why we are here,
how we are here. For all the complaints about America,
still it's the best country in the world. It has
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its wards, it has its problems, and we talk about
those all the time. But the luxury, my word, the
luxury of being able to talk about it, the luxury
of me being able to sit here and let's say,
goof off for three hours, is a direct result of
the sacrifices of those men and women who did not
come home.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's just plain the simple. I think that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And this is something that you know, anytime we talk
about Veterans Day, Memorial Day, or any day where there's
some discount being given to troops, and I've gotten some
message about people saying, like, you know, at least they're
given something, because I oftentimes complain about their being discounts
versus just outright giving our troops what they deserve. I
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wholeheartedly believe that not enough is done for our troops
those who do come home. When I think about some
of the things that my brother goes through dealing with
the VA, and even people that I work with at
the school, just the stories that I hear about the
outright disrespect that they receive at the VA. Individuals their
sol to be getting treatment for things that they underwin,
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things that they survive, that they should be getting just
taken care of outright. When I think about the number
of people who are unhoused in this country who are
big on a former soldiers, that is the ultimate disrespect
and disgrace for this country when we talk about homeless,
when we talk about care, and we do not care
for those who are willing to go on and put
their lives on the front line for this country. We
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have to do more for our men and women who
serve and are willing to put their lives on the line.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Period.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
May's also National Military Appreciation Month, and yes we focus
maybe rightly or wrongly on Memorial Day, but it is
national military appreciation months. So let's keep all this as
part of our conversations tonight as we continue all the
way to ten o'clock. We're live here on Later with
mo Kelly Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. When we
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come back, we're going to talk about la Fleet Week
and the DoD Ball Battle Champion which was newly crowned yesterday.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't know if you knew this. I didn't actually
know it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But for ten years, more than one thousand sailors, marines,
and coastguardsmen have joined their military peers at sites around
the Port of Los Angeles to celebrate the past, president
and future of the US Armed Forces. San Francisco, Miami,
Portland are among other cities that hold similar Fleetweek festivities, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
In the Port of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Bringing home the win in their first tournament appearance in
the name of the country's newest guided missile destroyer, the
USS eleven crew credited their win to teamwork. Dodgeball Battle Champion. Now,
I wish I could have been it, because the Port
of Los Angeles is not too far from where I
used to live.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I would go there all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But to see members of our Armed Forces squaring off
in dodgeball probably would have.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Been very cool, very very very cool.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I'm sure that ball is going at one hundred miles
an hour. I'm sure it's not your average.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Game a dog. Oh no, oh no.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
When you're talking about competitive dodgeball, they're not trying to
literally kill each other. But they're trying to beat the
hell out of each other, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, you're you're leaving that court with some welts, some marks.
You know, you get hit the wrong way with the dodgeball,
you're out for the day.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I know, just in my family, and I'll listen to
my brother in law, he's my closest point of contact.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
He will always talk about the other branches of the
Armed Service like, oh, no, they're not there, so they're
not that I'd mean. It is in good spirit, it's
in good fun, good natured. But at the same time,
you know, whenever they're around each other, it's a healthy respect.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's it's a friendly rivalry.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh sometimes unfriendly, sometimes unfriendly. Sometimes they could really really
go there, like the you know, some members of the
Army and my family, they'll hear about the Air Force,
Like I was just playing their their march song and said, oh,
that's not the Air Force, that's a chair force. They
don't do anything. Look okay, I'm not going to get
in all them. Yeah, that's between you all. They call
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the US Coast Guard, the Coast's or the like the
puddle Pirates. It's like kay lee, Wow, No, I'm just said,
that's what they say.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't want to get in trouble. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm just saying, in the spirit of competition and friendly riving,
that's what usually happens. But I would have loved.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I want to make it a point.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I want to make it a point if I'm in
town to go out to the Port of Los Angeles
and in this fleet weeek. The service members from the
Navy and the team of Marines from twenty nine Palms
were especially excited to win, of course, in honor of
their branches two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I actually broke my arm playing dogball when I was
a kid. I think that was like because I tried
the ball, was I would it was? I guess we
were like eighth graders and I tried to get into
a game with some seniors and thinking, I was, you know,
I can do this, and one of them threw a
ball so hard and I had my hands down trying
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to see if I could catch it, and it hit
the tips of my fingers and bit my arm back.
It but such, but it broke your arm? Yeah, hairline fracture.
Hairline fracture in my farm. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it
was the onliest break I've ever had. But yeah, hairline
fracture from that. Let me digress for a second. Think
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about all the games that we used to be able
to play when we were in grade school that are
disallowed now absolutely illegal.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You can't play dodgeball, they don't do it. Are you
allowed to play kickball anymore? I think I think it
was a thing, but not like it's not cool anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Can you do the tether ball with the pole and
they have a tetherball? Well, they did when my kids
were in like, uh, fifth, sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
No, I don't think they have the monkey bars anymore.
They have the monkey bars. I was gonna say tether ball.
I feel like it's only in like the Midwest now. Yeah,
because in my elementary school they had to get rid
of the tether ball. They had to get rid of
the monkey bars. Why they have to get rid of
the tether ball? I guess parents were complaining it was
too dangerous. People were hitting the ball too hard and
come around and smack a kid in the face. I
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just thought this was a rite of passage, But that
was just me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You know, no, my daughter she tethered.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh remember red Rover, red Rover, red rover, sid Mark
Ronner over and he would have to run from the
other side, from the other team and try to break
the class with two. Can't play that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Nobody ever said that. Nobody wanted me.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, but I remember there was such a fun game
and teachers were watching. No one think any of it.
And then you get older and realize, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That probably wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
No, that was a big fan of long darts. I
missed those. I've got a box of lawn darts. I
didn't call them jarts, yeah, jarts.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, the stuff that we used to play with, and
no one thought anything of it. And it was kind
of dangerous because those charts were sharp.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Well you're not supposed to throw them at the other
kids heads, but kids are kids.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But if you're in a park and you just throw
it up in the air, we would throw up in
the air and then we'd have to dodge it. We
were you know, it's like an incoming missile. Oh yeah,
and it was like here it goes, no, but it's
coming down.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And that was stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But that's like that game where you play where you
throw it up and see who's the last person to leave, right, Yeah,
or in this case, who's the person who gets impaled.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That was the part of the game that was the
whole point. Sometimes you win, sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Lose, sometimes you get impaled. Oh god, I missed those days.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You know, this would be a day that we as kids,
we would be outside playing with firecrackers because Fourth of
July is coming up. Yeah, playing I don't know, football
in the street from pole to pot and drinking water
out of a water hose.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Bicycle jumps, don't forget that.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh but I was not allowed to do bicycle jumps.
My mother said it was too dangerous, which it was.
Everybody wanted to be evil, Oh absolutely, I won.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Jumped over.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We had the crates and like the linoleum is the
ramp or even a wood panel, and we would jump
to ascending to a descending ramp, just like evil canevl
And it was really really dumb. I remember one time
I did fall and knocked out a tooth. It was
a baby tooth, but you know, so I was I
was still really young. I laid in between the ramp.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
A friend of mine had his bike and he put
we put uh on on some bricks. So we had
the ramp up on on on some bricks, you know,
but some wall bricks.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
On those square bricks.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We had the one end going up on one and
you would come down over the other. I lay down
in between, all right. And as he was going nothing
told you that that was a dumb idea because you know,
as kids, you don't know that Evil CANEVL had.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Some not every bone in his body.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We still thought it was gonna be good because but
when he went up the brick, as the brick folded
down and he ended up just rolling right over me.
So the brick went down, the board went down and
just just went right over my stomach.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, a lot of tears were sitting that. Well, that's
the risky run for being a childhood thrill seeker. We yeah,
it was important to have kids lie lie down right
in front of the jump, like especially like with their
face right.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
In front of the jump.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
We fancied ourselves as daredevils. We really did. Bat And
if you're not old enough to remember, ABC Wild, ABC Wide,
World of Sports, Yeah, would have these presentations on Saturday,
usually of of Evil Canieval or something else, you know,
the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and oftentimes
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it was Evil Canevil and he would do a stunt
and it would end up failing, you know. And I
remember I remember watching Snake River Canyon live. I was
with the jet side, yeah, and I was so upset
because there was all this lead up and this was
a world in which there wasn't pay per view, there
wasn't the Internet. That it was just what you could
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find out on TV. And to see him with Snake
River Canyon jumping that and it was in the middle
of the day, so I was able to watch it.
And if you don't know what happened, the rocket took
off the shoot, the parachute deployed too early.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
He didn't even come close, no, and he and.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
He drifted floated slowly down into the canyon. And I
was so heartbroken. I might if even cried or something
like that. But it was ABC wide World of Sports
usually on Saturdays, Saturday mornings, and that was a Saturday
morning sort of just ritual for.
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It's Later with mo Kelly kfi Amsin's forty Live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we
want to tell you about the top ten places to
raise a family as we continue to observe honor and
remember on this Memorial Day.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. On this Memorial Day, Let's
talk about the top ten places to raise a family
in the United States. According to wallet Hub, the study
evaluated over one hundred eighty US cities across forty five
key metrics, including housing affordability, quality of local schools and
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healthcare systems, also family fund and recreation opportunities. To determine
this ranking, The metrics were greater on a one hundred
point scale, with one hundred representing the best city to
raise a family in according to wallet hub, coming in
at number ten San Diego, California. I believe that. Yeah,
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I could deal with that. Come again at number nine.
The best place is to raise a family, according to
wallet hub. Bismarck, North Dakota past. I'm quite sure it's great.
Quite sure, it's scenic. I'm sure it's beautiful, idyllic, have
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no desire, none money, your room to spread out, right,
family there?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And why you're the property values?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You know, it's very affordable, inexpensive to buy you a
palatial estate.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But it's Bismarked, North Dakota. Yeah. No, Number eight Gilbert, Arizona. Nice.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So much heat, man, No, too much heat, too much heat.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, no, we'll pass. Number seven Boise, Idaho. Too much KKK,
I'll pass.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah. What the Manson family? What family are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It looks it's number seven, Mark.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't go anywhere. Number six Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Well, it is nice, even though it's not as nice
as it was, and it's just as expensive as here.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Now I know, I know when you put affordability that
seemingly to me would be one of the biggest things
to consider when you're talking about a family, let's say
two kids, three kids. It adds up real quick when
you're when in a place where property values are high
and the cost of living is high.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yeah, forget about ever taking the family out to dinner
in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Number five South Burlington, Vermont. Okay, random, yeah, really very random.
How did Burlington get on the list? Okay, look, I'm
sure Freeport, Maine is beautiful or whatever. You know, I
have no idea, but shoot, two trains, what do they got?
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I'm sure it's nice, it's nice. Put it away. Raise
of family is different from what I would want personally. Yeah,
I don't know how inexpensive it is. It says family
fund rank one hundred and sixty three. That's pretty low.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Health and safety rank one hundred and eight.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's low.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But education and childcare rank number one. Oh, for whatever
it's worth. Let's see, that's where you're argumented with affordability. Yes,
it's better be real affordable. Number four of the best
places to raise a family in the United States according
to wallet hub, Irvine, California number thirty one in family
(21:56):
fun rank, number three in health and safety rank, and
number three education and childcare rank. Irvine compared to the
rest of the United States, is not exactly inexpensive.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, all right, so it's all relative.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Number three of the twenty excuse me, in the top
ten places to raise a family in the United States,
according to wallet hub, plain old Texas bump that nope
from Texas.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I don't dislike Dallas. It's urban enough for me. I
don't care for Houston. I don't think I've been to Austin.
Even Dallas is getting some kind of way.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Number two of the ten best places to raise a
family in the United States Overland Park, Kansas.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Very random.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay with tornadoes, Well, the sister raise a family doesn't
mean to avoid tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's not one of the considerations.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It should be because this is tornado alley.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I'd rather deal with earthquakes than tornadoes or hurricanes without
a doubt.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Come again.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number one the best place to raise a family in
all of the United States, according to wallet hub. Fremont California,
(23:35):
get the f out of here.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, since I'm not from here, you've got to explain
this to him.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I can't, No, I can't. Family fund rank it's eighty six.
Health and Safety rank comes in number four, Education and
child care rank number two.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
US are not cheap, that too. Freemont is not cheap.
That a friend of mine had their wedding out in
that area, But driving through it is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It is to live there, I don't know, but you
know whatever, It's.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Not that far from Silicon Valley, and that's part of
the reason why it's not part of it. Inexpensive, Yes, location,
uh yeah, but can you raise a family of four
there with income under a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
think that's even feasible. So yeah, you might as well
just pick the most expensive places. Ever, those are probably
the best places to raise kids because not anyone and
everyone can live there.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
You need some qualifications for this list, like best places
to live if you have unlimited income and what is
this wallet hub?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Unlimited income and you don't want to ever have fun ever?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Ever, I think of all the hubs, wallet may be
one of the lower hubs and what can wallet hub
really look? Wallet hub will put these things together. Let's
be honest. It's a free advertisement for wallet Hub.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No one knows about wallet hut, No one cares about
wallet Hub. But I've said wallet hup at least forty
five times this segment. Mission accomplished. There you go, Fremont, California,
the place that nobody wants to live, with the exception
of people who work in Silicon Valley. It's Later with
mo Kelly as we continue on this Memorial Day KFI
AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. When
(25:17):
we come back, did you know Planet Fitness has a
special offer, but just for teenagers.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We'll tell you about it just a moment.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Yes, we are
live at KFI right now. We're live on the iHeartRadio
app on this Memorial Day. And if you can remember
back when you were in high school, depending on the decade,
you may have or may not have had PE physical education.
(25:50):
I was in band and I also played basketball, so
those were my PE credits when I was in high school,
and also I was doing hopketo after school.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
That's where I got my exercise.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But today I don't know if there's actual pe anymore.
And I'm not the only one who wonders about this,
because Planet Fitness has a high school summer pass and
it is going to be for those teenagers ages fourteen
to nineteen to work out for free at any of
(26:24):
its twenty five hundred Planet Fitness locations across the US
and Canada this summer between June first and August thirty first.
How quickly this world has changed, Because I remember growing up,
and it was a long time ago since I do
the math. When I was growing up, I was not
allowed to stay in the house. My mother would tell me,
(26:47):
go outside, go somewhere. You are not going to sit
in the house and play video games. You're not going
to sit in the house and watch TV. So my
time was spent outside riding my bike, playing football. There
was no time to just be sedentary, especially during the summer.
But how quickly things have changed. Not quickly, but how
(27:08):
strange is how we've gone in the other direction where
we have to give free passes and reasons and excuses
seemingly for teenagers to work out, to exercise, to do
something other than sit on their phones or watch TV,
streaming movies, texting, just being sedentary. Three and four teens,
(27:31):
according to this are self conscious and confess they struggle
with body positive issues forty three percent, something that's been
consistent in years past. Eighty five percent of teens feel
that there's no better time than right now to concentrate
on improving their health. About seven to ten, which is
seventy percent, teens report that staying off social media and
(27:54):
their phones helps them cope with the challenges they're facing.
Absolutely nothing will stretch you out more than doom scrolling,
nothing will agitate you more than staying on social media.
So I understand what Planet Fitness is trying to do
with this high school Summer Past program. I'm just curious
(28:15):
whether it actually resonates with someone who's a teenager today.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
My boys are all in their twenties and thirties now,
so it's even a different world for them. But I
don't know if kids now have any focus on physical
activity in the way that we did when some are
rolled around, and let's be honest, summer is basically here
because it's Memorial Day, when some are rolled around. That
is the time I think people wanted to be more
(28:44):
active than other times because we didn't have homework to do.
We didn't necessarily have someone looking over our shoulder all
the time. We weren't at school, so we had more
genuine free time.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I was just saying, then.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You wanted to be outside because that's that was your
freedom as a kid. Yeah, yeah, you said, no one's
looking over your shoulder, no one's telling you to, you know,
finish that assignment. You're outside, You're on your bikes, You're
you know, hanging out. My bike and I had a
ten speed. It was a yellow ten speed. Uh, don't
ask me why I was yellow. I think it was
the only color that was available. I'm just being serious.
(29:19):
I would yell, yeah, but that was my car back
then because we had the bus, but I didn't have
any money. You know, it wasn't expensive, but the bus
didn't necessarily go all the places that I wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Ten speople take me anywhere I wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
But I got a lot of exercise just riding my
bus right, riding my bike every damn day, every single place,
But the best time to do it was during the summer,
because I didn't have anything in frinship upon my time. Yeah,
we would play some Atari twenty six hundred video games.
Yeah we played some in television or Kaleco vision, but
(29:54):
that wouldn't take up the fullness of our day. The
adults around us wouldn't allow it. They wanted us out
the house as well. That would be more at night. Well,
actually it was actually in the earlier part of the
day because even in the summer, I had to be
in when the street lights were on. Now in the
summer the street lights would come on it's seven thirty ish,
depending on the month, but obviously the days were longer.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Changes.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah, but we've played in the street. Kids now they
don't play anywhere. One reason I would say generally is
more violent. America is just more violent in many ways.
You don't have nine or ten kids playing in the
street football anymore. If they are, I haven't seen it,
And I don't know when I don't see kids playing
(30:38):
in the driveway playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I just don't see that anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Kids still go to the to the public pool.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
But clearly I'm not the only one who wonders. Yes,
this is a promotion by Planet Fitness, but it's specifically
geared to teenagers. So I'm not the only one who's
recognizing that young people are more connected to their phones
and less likely to exercise than ever before. I wonder
long term studies what they will show about kids who
(31:10):
grew up after two thousand and one, the addicted to
the phone generation, how they will age in their forties
and fifties compared to our generation.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Oh, they're all gonna need dribble cups. You got to
remember that part of the reason that we got exercise
and read books when we were younger is that there
wasn't that much to do.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
True.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
And I just sent you I don't know if you
saw this. I sent you a clip of somebody trying
to watch the Playboy channel through all the interference on
their cable box.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh like me tell me, Yeah, that's how desperate we were.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
I think if I had access to the internet, porn
as a teenager, video games, and streaming movies and TV,
I never would have cracked a book. I would have
been an idiot.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well don't don't wow, I mean things are inevitable.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Well no, you take my point though, because some things
you do because of a dearth of choices. I wouldn't
have been a huge bookworm if I had every single
entertainment option available to me at the time. I mean,
I would rather have watched like a violent movie or something.
I'm looking at what you sent me via text. Yeah,
this could not be more accurate. Uh, we had on TV.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
There was on, and there was Select, and they'd have
the scrambled channel I would say maybe after ten o'clock
at night, and they were like skin flicks.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It wasn't like porn. It's like soft porn. I like
skin of ax.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, they would show nudity and simulated sex, but it
wasn't like hardcore.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know, you know when it's scrabbled, you try to
catch something a nipple.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's what you do at your
friend's house after school before their parents get home from work,
and then you quickly change the channel when when you
hear the car approaching and the garage door opening.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Oh good times.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Last Key generation where we were actually at home by ourselves, unsupervised.
It's later with mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
It's Memorial Day. Today, we pay solemn tribute to our
foregn countrymen. We know we can never give them as
much as they gave us, but we also know that
our generation and succeeding generations can, by keeping the flame
of freedom burning brightly, ensure that they did not die
in vain.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Don't forget to raise a glass to the people that
defend our freedom.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Kf I, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live
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