August 14, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the new charges of public corruption filed in the ongoing case against Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price…PLUS – Thoughts on fast-food restaurant chain Del Taco’s SoCal celebration AND the waning interest in the Hollywood Tesla Diner - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Gaff I am six forty It's Later with Mo Kelly
re live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
And there is so much to cover, from Los Angeles
to Washington, DC, to the Tesla Diner here in La
to Del Taco here in southern California, self checkout grocery stores,
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whether there might be an alcohol allowance component to it.
So much and last night I ran home and I
put on Hulu just as soon as I could so
I could watch the first two episodes of the new
Hulu slash FX show Alien Earth. Have a formal review
in the second hour, but here's a quick preview. It
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was effing great. It was great two episodes of a
total eight, But the first two they were great. Mark Rodner,
they were great.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I saw the first one and liked it, got high
hopes for the second one. I didn't want to just
gorge on them both. I wanted to savor them, so
I only watched one last night.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I would have rather watched all eight in one sitting,
because it was cinematic quality and the story was tight
enough where I would have wanted to enjoy all of
it at once. I wouldn't be put its way I
wouldn't have been surprised if they made it into a
movie and said no, no, no, no, let's go ahead and
break this up and make it into a series. That
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what I saw, and I'll talk about it later in
the next hour. That could have been in a movie theater,
and I would have paid to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's really promising. And I say that after being disappointed
with pretty much every single Alien thing since the second
movie Aliens. They've all been disappointing in some way. They have,
they have, and.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Even you have the non canonical movies of Alien Versus Predatorrash.
You don't know what is or is not cannon. You
don't know what is serious, because it seemed like, Okay,
they're not trying to be serious. Alien has always been serious.
Then you had Alien Versus Predator and it seemed like
it was a joke. This is back to the serious
Alien and and really taught storytelling. But we'll get into
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all that. And I don't know if he even to
Walla City yet. I'd be very disappointed if he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I have that, But I told Mark last night because
it actually looks frightening and scary, and I said, I'll
watch it during the day, just in case I need
a palate cleanser and can like clear my mind of
all the madness.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm telling you you're not wrong, and I will say that. See,
I will say this. They're not hiding anything from you. Okay,
it's not like a slow burn of the first Alien movie.
And you'll know what you're dealing with. And eventually you
get to see what you're dealing with. Oh no, you
see what you're dealing with from the jump. Yeah to all.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Surely you must have like a blanky you could wrap
around yourself, or somebody whose hand you could hold.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I would offer, but this is a nightlight. Okay, Well
that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, all right, all right, box them off?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And did you see the story about the American Airlines
passenger who got caught vaping? Yes? What an a hole?
What an a hole? And now he's doubling and tripling
down on his aholdness, but also seeking sympathy for being
an ahole. I can't, okay, what American doesn't supply you
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with the vapes? No? No, He is arguing, as a
quick preview that the flight attendant opened the door, busted
in on him, and invaded his privacy. Now, he's embarrassed,
he feels shame, he has some emotional issues of everything,
but an actual lawsuit, and he's saying that the flight
attendant owes him an apology.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Who side to take on that? First they take away
the peanuts, then you can't vape.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What's next? But it he admits doing it. Yeah, and
it's a felony, you know, it's a federal crime to
do that. And the flight was only two hours long.
And he said that he was having a nicotine fit
and he couldn't hold out for a two hour flight.
I feel so bad.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, I'm being victimized because of something it's not
even my fault.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How dare they impede on my addiction? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
My?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay? And I think he's illustrative of the world in
which we live right now, especially you millennials and gen
Zers don't have any respect for anything. Yes, you, Robin?
Are you? You're a gen z? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'm lial. What year were you born? Is kiki? So
is ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay, it's all the same. What's the It's a distinction
without a difference, that's right with them? Entitled illiterate? What?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah? What else? What else am I looking for?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
There's gotta be more words da uncouth, Yeah, all all
sorts of unwords.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm gonna say, Man, the vape for two hours, I understand, see,
see gotta get it. Okay, okay, See I'm glad my
nicotine level was not that bad. Yeah that's what you
say on the radio gets you on a plane. But
I don't really like going on planes anyways. But I'm
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not going to go in. They give you the whole speech.
You know, do not tamper with in the laboratory. You know,
you cannot light up because that's a federal offense. They
tell you that every flight and this a hole decides
to go in the bathroom and starts vaping. And by
the way, by the way, the flight attendant, if they
sense that it may be an emergency or you're committing
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a crime, they can't open that door on you. If
they think you're joining the mile high club, they can
just bust right in. Yes they can. That's actually their
job and have that. Goodness. These young people, I don't
know what to do with them. But we have a
huge show tonight, and yes, I'll have a final thought,
and it's going to be connected to the lack of shame,
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the lack of understanding and appreciation of hypocrisy in our
politics so much to the cover. When we come back,
I'm going to get into current price La City Council
and also the latest charges that they hit them with,
not the original charges, not like the original ten. I'm
talking about two more superseding indictments. It's like, take that
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with you. Here's one more while you go. La City Council.
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Speaker 1 (07:06):
KFI. Mister Kelly here, we're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
And I know that everyone is innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law. People usually forget that they're
innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But
that is a legal status. That doesn't mean that we can't,
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in the court of public opinion, form our own opinions.
I don't need someone to be convicted of something for
me to feel that someone might be a crook. And
that's irrespective of office that has, irrespective of title. It
does not matter. For example, and I always like to
use this as an example. Oj Simpson was acquitted in
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the murder trial of Ron and Nicole. In the eyes
of the law, he was found not guilty. He was
innocent and he was not proved guilty in the court
of law. Now we as people lay people can say, yeah,
I know he's dead and everything, but you can say
I still think, oh, Jay did it all right. So
there's a distinction to be made for us what the
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legal classification of someone is and how we may view
that person. And in talking about the La City Council,
there is a mix of how we feel about the
corruption and there have been criminal charges and convictions related
to that corruption. This Jose whuisar indicted on bribery and
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other federal charges including racketeering, and he ended up pleading
guilty to tax evation and abusive office, sentenced to thirteen
years in prison. Mitch Englander convicted of obstruction of justice
and sentenced to prison for obstructing a corruption probe. Councilman
Mark Ridley Thomas, he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy.
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You might remember in that case related to his son
and benefits he received from USC. That was all before
Current Price, and Current Price had at least yeah, five
different felon accounts of embezzlement of government funds, three felon
accounts of perjury, and two felon accounts of conflict of interest,
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and a partridge and a pear tree. He previously has
pleaded not guilty. That was prior to yesterday, where County
prosecutors Nathan Hockman's office filed two new public corruption charges
against Current Price, and I assumed that he said, you know,
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said not guilty. But if convicted, Current Price could face
up to eleven years and four months in prison, up
to nine years and four months in state prison and
two years in county jail, because these charges are local, state,
and federal. I don't know in a legal sense, going
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back to what I was saying before, whether Current Price
is guilty. I don't know that he is guilty, but
I do know I am old enough to remember a
time in which politicians, elected officials knew the value of shame.
Shame on one hand, protects us from not doing certain things.
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In other words, like when I do my show, I
don't want to do anything to embarrass my mother, who's
listening right now. That would bring shame upon me if
I did something that she thought was embarrassing or was
shameful to her. Shame oftentimes prevents us from doing things
going too far. Well, that doesn't exist anymore. There was
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a time in which hypocrisy meant something. In other words,
if you were found doing something that you supposedly were against. Hypocrisy,
along with shame, usually led to people resigning, stepping down,
removing themselves from office, having nothing to do with the
legal process. Those days are over. Those days are over.
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And I hear from people all the times like why
don't you talk about this person? Or or why don't
you talk about that person? And I tell you it
doesn't matter. It does not matter, you know, it doesn't
matter how many previous a council people have gone to jail.
There are still people engaging in questionable behavior, possibly illegal behavior,
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behavior on La City Council. Why, because shame doesn't matter.
It used to be if you were charged with so
many crimes like this, you would step down because you
knew that you would not be able to faithfully complete
the duties of the office. You could not fight some
eleven different charges of federal, state, and county and also
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do your job at the same time. Can you actually
serve your constituents and then fight all these other charges
the other two hours of the day. No, it's just
not feasible, It's not possible. But we live in a
time now. So long as the other guy is the
person who's charged with something, that's enough, and the people
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who are charged don't feel any real shame to step down.
Of course you can liken this too, President Trump and
then former President Trump. He's never accepted blame for anything anything.
He would never resign. He would never step down for
anything that he might have done. And I think that
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has been employed by just about everyone now. Who is
actually going to resign. Who's going to step down. It
doesn't matter how many charges, it doesn't matter how much
evidence may be levied against you. And to be fair,
Current Prices says that he's innocent, and he says that
the charges are baseless and it's just YadA, yeah, yeah,
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blah blah blah. But if I were on city council
and I would charged with the litany of crimes and
corruption here, I would feel compelled for the sake of
my family to step down, and then I could have
my day in court. And then allow the City Council
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and by extension, the city the ability to move on
because clearly whatever I've done has distracted the City Council
and impacts my ability to fulfill my duties. And there's
also other blame here as far as the City Council,
as far as not removing current price. I don't know
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all the steps involved, but there's something that they can
do because they did it with a Mark Ridley Thomas.
So it comes down to we live in a time
where it doesn't matter what elected officials do. And I'm
not talking about throw Hillary in jail. I'm talking about
actual charges. Someone's been arranged, someone has gone before a
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judge and made a plea, in this case, multiple pleas
where you would think in a time in which Shane
meant something, it's like, this is a time for me
to step aside so I can handle this business and
not further further cloud the integrity and further lose the
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public trust, further sully the office of La City Council.
That doesn't happen anymore. No one's stepping down, And even
if he gets convicted, he's not stepping down. How do
I know, Mark Ridley Thomas, who I know personally well,
I've known for more than twenty years, So I'm not
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talking about this in the abstract. I ran to Mark
really Thomas about a year and a half ago. We
shook hands. He knows what I say about him, and
and he doesn't take a person. He knows it's part
of the job. I'm still friends with this son now.
We follow each other on social media. This is not personal,
but I can say I'm speaking from a knowledgeable point
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of view where I dealt with these individuals. I know
these individuals, and I know that they should be better
than this. And I know that we, as the voting
voting public, should require more of our elected officials. But
here's the thing. If you don't require more of the
people that you yourself voted for, then it doesn't matter.
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You can't only say well, I want the Democrats to
step down, or I want the Democrats to be held accountable.
I want them to throw the book at the Democrats
a current price, and Jose whose Are and Mark Ridley Thomas,
they all need to go to jail. It's the same
freaking Justice Department. You can't have it both ways. You can't. Now,
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I know at current price. There are you know, counties,
county DA charges, and you have state charges, and you
have federal charges. But as far as the federal racketeering
and the bribes and the corruption, it's the same, DJ,
It's the exact same. We don't require more of our
elected officials, then we're not going to get more. If
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we don't hold our elected officials to a higher personal
and moral standard, then you can't ask it or or
expect it of the other folks, the other guys, the
folks you just don't like, and you can say, well,
why do we keep electing these people? You got to
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put up better candidates. You know, I hate Gavin Newsom.
Hey twalla, who's running against Gavin Newsom? I should well
Revenue was not running. But I'm saying, who's running to
be governor? Oh, Sheriff Bianco is he though I was
very somewhat impolitely reaching out to him on social media,
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And I'm saying, Sheriff Bianco, You're not serious. You're not
even going all the way around the state as far
as campaign. You're not even speaking to the people that
you need as voters.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I've only seen him speaking to the people in Orange
County Hello, I'm confused. There have been no big pushes
for his campaign outside of his backyard.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, and I don't know what's happening. Like I said,
not everyone's actually running to win that office. And if
and when the Democratic nominee wins and becomes governor of California,
you have no one to blame but yourself, Republicans, because
you're not putting up serious candidates. Steve Hilton, Okay, he
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was on Fox News. Can he win a statewide race
in California? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Not. The guest that we had on, isn't she flirted
with the idea, Elaine Coaludi. Yeah, I've heard her flirting
with the idea. Just interesting. You actually have to campaign.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Campaign, You actually have to go to places like Oakland
and San Francisco, the places who you think would not
normally vote for you. You have to actually ask for
people's votes. And still there's no Republican candidate in for
mayor of Los Angeles. So this is a multifaceted issue.
Are we getting the best candidates? No, And when you
don't get the best candidates, you get candidates who are corrupt,
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You get people who are incompetent or don't have the
expertise or the experience to actually be a governor or
a city council person or a senator. But if you're
only concerned with the other guys being taken down, well
you get what you get. Shame is a very very
valuable tool. The moral high ground could be a very
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very valuable tool, but they're they're requirements to it. You know,
it's kind of hard to shame current price if you're
voting for people who are just as corrupt. It's Later
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Live on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Okay, this is an
either or you know which would you rather? Tawala? I
think you might be partial to Taco Bell because you
worked there at once upon a time. Taco Bell or
Del Taco, Taco Bell all day? Okay between the two?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, yeah, Mark Ronner, Taco Bell or Del Taco. I
haven't eaten a Del Taco enough to make a choice there,
but boy, if Taco Bell is your default, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm just saying I'm comparing, you know, oranges and mandarin oranges. Okay,
Taco Bell disrespect though, I mean that was uncalled for.
Do I have to spell this out? Yes, you do.
Hang on a second, van for a second. I was
in the middle of a robin Taco Bell or Del
Taco for sure. Del Taco for Sure for sure. Yeah,
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Taco Bell always did me wrong. And what do you
mean by that? It doesn't it doesn't agree with you. Yeah, no,
it really doesn't. I actually prefer taste wise, Taco Bell
menu items and more stuff that I probably would eat
Del Taco. I could agree with that. I could agree
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with that because for a while, Taco Bell took away
the Mexican pizza and that pissed me off. Yeah, back,
and it's not it's not to say it's like. The
reason I'm talking about this is because Del Taco is
celebrating it's southern California roots and they're going to be
offering bigger burritos, big ass burritos. I'm down with that.
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You got my attention, Okay, because we know you're burrito boy.
What don't you always like burritos?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
No, more than average. I don't think it's one of
my defining traits. Okay, if you got to latch onto something,
go ahead. Well, Del Taco last them to a burrito. Well,
who doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Founded in the nineteen sixties, in year mode, California is
back to its roots with new menu innovations and now
it's based in Lake Forest, and they're going back to
its classic burritos, but larger in size. Okay. They want
to distinguish themselves as having a higher quality food and
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more food for the dollar. A five dollars classical box
includes the big Ass Burrito, many quesadilla, crinkle cut fries,
and a sixteen ounce soft drink for just five dollars.
A seven dollars mix Faves box includes the Big Ass Burrito,
a grilled chicken taco, a saft snap taco, fries, and
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a drink. Are they calling it the big as Burrito? No,
they should. It's the burrito and I just gave them
that for free. Yeah they should. They should use that.
A nine dollars a Maramex box includes a double Dell cheeseburger.
See that's the thing about Del Taco. They serve a
little bit of everything. They call it Del Taco where
they got cheeseburgers. I think they got hot dolls. They
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got a little bit of everything in there.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They For a minute, they were selling that that stew,
the you know how to roll the rs, the barrier
burr what burier Berria, Oh that stuff. There's a great
berrier truck in my neighborhood. Yeah, they were selling that
at Del Taco and it was going crazy. By the way,
do you want to circle back to what my problem
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was before I was able to swallow that mouthful of
food with Taco Bell stuff? Sure, beef in their burritos
is only eighty eight percent beef? Twelve percent of it
is other you saying Taco Bell specifically? Yeah, oh so
what is Del Taco? Mister meat Fishiinado. I don't eat
there often enough to don't cherry yeah, don't don't cherry
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pick the facts.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Look it up. I'm not cherry picking anything. I'm telling you.
That was my look up to eighty eight percent on
Taco Bell. You cannot throw the slanderers. It's not slander
if it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, you cannot throw out these insulting remarks for one
side A fact, this isn't an insulting remark.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You are leaning heavily only support. Okay, now what is
it for Del Taco? Okay, well let's find out. Yes,
uh huh, mister intrepid reporter, click click clack clap, I'm
only good at tacoboll taco, bill, do both.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I see no reporting that there's any adulteration of Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There's the beef. Wow. If you find out something different,
let me know. But I'm not saying anything. Del Taco's
nutrition guide for August shows classic burritos weigh about nine
to twelve ounces, a couple of ounces more than other places,
and epic burritos weigh a lot more, fourteen ounces to
a pound. I don't want to eat that much. Are
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the epic ones the big ass ones? I guess? So? Okay,
that's good. Yeah, those are good. Fries are also a
core item at Del Taco. Quote. We went back to
our origin story in the high desert of southern California,
where Ed Hackbarth combined American items burgers, fries, and shakes
with Mexican items tacos and burritos that together made an
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unexpected combination. We're using our origin story for our curtain
current proposition with the unexpected combination of a merry mex
as an American and Mexican flavors.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, Mark, Here is a more detailed breakdown of the
del Taco beef yes they use. First, they brown the beef,
taking lean ground beef that is brown likely to develop
flavor and texture. Then they process this meat. The brown
meat is then pulsed in a food processor to achieve
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the desired consistency added ingredients. They add thickeners, beef fat, water,
tomato paste, and a blend of authentic seasons ultra process yes,
and then they add texturized vegetable protein to give it
a little more thickness.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They simmer all that together.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They add other protein or thickness, just other proteins.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So you go underneath that that meat paste. What is
it you think you just proved? Explain that?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Believe I'm telling you, mister Taco Bells only got eighty
eight percent meat. You know what they got is at
least eighty eight percent meat and some filler. This is
straight meat mush. They put it in a blender and
then they add some thickening substance and they say, here's
your meat. Do you think we could eat that with
a straw because we've a strong probably could drink it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't know, but you know that's one of the
reason why I'll eat at either anymore. And that goes
back to Robin's point. I liked Taco Bell back in
the day, but it did disagree with me on more
than one occasion. And the sodium content is out of
this world. Yo, Kiero observing toilet paper. Yeah. Now, I'll
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tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
One of the only times I've even been to Del
Taco here is when I was coming out of work.
Everything was closed, you know what time I get out
of here, and and I was just desperate for food.
So I went to one near the prostitute Ralph's near
my place, and they were closing. But the guy is like,
the guy took pity on me and he made me
a burrito. And I swear to god, he just took
everything that was still left lying around and jammed it
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into a burrito. I think there were tater tots in there,
just all sorts of random things.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I was grateful for the guy because it's like, well,
don't throw all those those odds and ends away. But
at the same time. It was a low point of
my life. I can't lie yet. I have a taste
for it every now and then, but not actually going
to see it through.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Like, for example, I had a taste for some Divena
snincil and I actually got Diverna stencil for the first
time in at least nine years, because I haven't had
it since I've been married. Oh, today's the day they've
got like what the four chili dogs for four bucks. Yeah,
but it's not I'm not going there for discounter price.
I'm just going there because they could charge me eight
dollars for it. You know, it doesn't matter Ethos. In
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the shower, I had three hot dogs. I had two
chili dogs and one corn dog. Tasted wonderful but correct.
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live on YouTube iHeartRadio app. It may be grand opening,
grand closing for the Tesla Diner already having serious issues
and problems. We told you about the neighborhood of noise complaints.
It's screens or obstructing views. People could not drive through
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there because of the traffic. And now, just weeks after
its grand opening, the Tesla Diner has already slashed its
menu down to almost nothing five items total. And Mark,
I don't know if you heard this, Remember how it
was supposed to be twenty four to seven. Now it's
only open from like six am to midnight ish. Well,
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if you've read about all the recalls of Tesla's this
tracks when it comes to a restaurant, doesn't it. I
have to believe that there is some sort of connection
with the damage which has been done to the brand
of Tesla. You can't say Tesla and not also think
of Elon Musk because that's the way Elon Musk construct
to the company, where he was the face of the
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company and he was the voice of the company. So
anything that Elon Musk has to say about anything is
going to be connected back to Tesla. And Tesla has
had a diminishing sales record, let me put it that way.
And fewer Teslas have been sold in the past two quarters,
and that's directly attributable to musk expanded political presence. And
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I've said I have nothing against the cars. I think
they are well made cars. From the times that I
have been in them. I think they're technologically very advanced,
and I understand why they are so popular by and
large here in California. But you can't also deny that
Elon Musk is a stain on the brand, and from
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the people that I've talked to, there have been more
than just a few grumblings about trying to move him
out as president and CEO. But the Tesla Diner the
concept very cool. A place where you could charge car,
and of course if you're charging your car, you can't
charge your car as quickly as you would maybe get
a tank of gas. But if you're going to hang
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out for thirty minutes or to an hour, you can
get some food, stretch your legs, and maybe sit down
and hang out for a bit in the way that
you would a Starbucks. It's a great idea. Now the
execution may leave a little something to be desired when
you think of the traffic problems which they're having. And also,
I'll say the ill conceived placement of it where you're
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right next to apartment buildings and you're blocking the view,
so the neighbors are not going to readily embrace you.
I think those are some things should have been better
planned out. But yeah, it's not looking good for the
Tesla diner. Let's go enjoy a meal put on by
the guy who threw all those Nazi salutes. Well it
sounds like a great email. Oh I'm quite sure that
(30:50):
has something to do with it as well. And also
what was originally being sold or how it was built
is not being delivered. Originally it was supposed to be
open to also non Tesla vehicles to be charged, and
the conflicting reports about whether that is available to non
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Tesla evs to use as a charging station. So now
they have what does it? See? They have just a
few items on the menu. You can get a Tesla
Burger hot dog. Okay, maybe they brand like a big
tea in it or something. I don't know. The Tesla
Burger hot dog, grilled cheese, tuna melt, or a fried
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chicken sandwich also fries. That's it. That is it? So
they have they used to have like a maple glaze
breakfast meat called epic Bacon. That's off the menu. They've
taken off the fountain drink options like the Shirley Temple
and the cream sickle. Now it's just bare bones and
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it's also being reported. This is coming from Fortune magazine,
so it's not like it's a rinking ink website. Fortune
is reporting that they've also slashed at least half of
its staff. This is just weeks in. What was the
economic forecasting model for this that you wouldn't make it
through October? They put the doge guys. I think Big
Balls is in charge of the restaurant, right, No, no,
(32:15):
Big Balls is on the man right now. Oh okay,
he had an unfortunate accident at three am, allegedly supposedly
while doing something he probably wasn't supposed to be doing. Well.
I wish him well, did I say that right? Yeah,
you said it right. I don't know how sincere it was,
but you said it correctly. It was absolutely every bit
of sincere as deserved. And actually I did want to
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check out the Tesla Diner, not that I own a test.
I just want to see it. I never had a
chance to get over there, but I like the idea.
I like the concept, but it's not going over well
at this point. Well, there's something here that's kind of
similar that I know Tawala has partaken of, which is
the Gallpin place that has the horseless carriage diner that
it seemed counterintuitive to me when I moved here, but
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everybody I know who's tried it says, that's great. We
have these pop up locations, we have these themed restaurants.
I'm for all of that, but we live in such
a sensitive time. There's no way for me that you
can separate Tesla Diner from Tesla Motors from Elon musk.
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It seems like a Tesla diner should have like a
flaming platter that they serve you, doesn't it. There's a
joke there. I just I just don't want there's nothing
funny about it. No, I don't land too soon, too soon,
not coming behind Nazi salutes. I can't do that. Well,
we didn't do it. No, I'm just like, never mind,
I can't. I can't can't put certain jokes together. Maybe
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you can get the Seagham sense. See, that's exactly what
I'm talking about. Mark, Hey, if I am since forty
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And there is so much to cover, from Los Angeles
to Washington, DC, to the Tesla Diner here in La
to Del Taco here in southern California, self checkout grocery stores,
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whether there might be an alcohol allowance component to it.
So much and last night I ran home and I
put on Hulu just as soon as I could so
I could watch the first two episodes of the new
Hulu slash FX show Alien Earth. Have a formal review
in the second hour, but here's a quick preview. It
(01:04):
was effing great. It was great two episodes of a
total eight, But the first two they were great. Mark Rodner,
they were great.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I saw the first one and liked it, got high
hopes for the second one. I didn't want to just
gorge on them both. I wanted to savor them, so
I only watched one last night.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I would have rather watched all eight in one sitting,
because it was cinematic quality and the story was tight
enough where I would have wanted to enjoy all of
it at once. I wouldn't be put its way I
wouldn't have been surprised if they made it into a
movie and said no, no, no, no, let's go ahead and
break this up and make it into a series. That
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what I saw, and I'll talk about it later in
the next hour. That could have been in a movie theater,
and I would have paid to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's really promising. And I say that after being disappointed
with pretty much every single Alien thing since the second
movie Aliens. They've all been disappointing in some way. They have,
they have, and.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Even you have the non canonical movies of Alien Versus Predatorrash.
You don't know what is or is not cannon. You
don't know what is serious, because it seemed like, Okay,
they're not trying to be serious. Alien has always been serious.
Then you had Alien Versus Predator and it seemed like
it was a joke. This is back to the serious
Alien and and really taught storytelling. But we'll get into
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all that. And I don't know if he even to
Walla City yet. I'd be very disappointed if he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I have that, But I told Mark last night because
it actually looks frightening and scary, and I said, I'll
watch it during the day, just in case I need
a palate cleanser and can like clear my mind of
all the madness.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm telling you you're not wrong, and I will say that. See,
I will say this. They're not hiding anything from you. Okay,
it's not like a slow burn of the first Alien movie.
And you'll know what you're dealing with. And eventually you
get to see what you're dealing with. Oh no, you
see what you're dealing with from the jump. Yeah to all.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Surely you must have like a blanky you could wrap
around yourself, or somebody whose hand you could hold.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I would offer, but this is a nightlight. Okay, Well
that's a good start.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, all right, all right, box them off?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And did you see the story about the American Airlines
passenger who got caught vaping? Yes? What an a hole?
What an a hole? And now he's doubling and tripling
down on his aholdness, but also seeking sympathy for being
an ahole. I can't, okay, what American doesn't supply you
(03:46):
with the vapes? No? No, He is arguing, as a
quick preview that the flight attendant opened the door, busted
in on him, and invaded his privacy. Now, he's embarrassed,
he feels shame, he has some emotional issues of everything,
but an actual lawsuit, and he's saying that the flight
attendant owes him an apology.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Who side to take on that? First they take away
the peanuts, then you can't vape.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
What's next? But it he admits doing it. Yeah, and
it's a felony, you know, it's a federal crime to
do that. And the flight was only two hours long.
And he said that he was having a nicotine fit
and he couldn't hold out for a two hour flight.
I feel so bad.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, I'm being victimized because of something it's not
even my fault.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How dare they impede on my addiction? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
My?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay? And I think he's illustrative of the world in
which we live right now, especially you millennials and gen
Zers don't have any respect for anything. Yes, you, Robin?
Are you? You're a gen z? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I'm lial. What year were you born? Is kiki? So
is ninety seven?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay, it's all the same. What's the It's a distinction
without a difference, that's right with them? Entitled illiterate? What?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah? What else? What else am I looking for?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
There's gotta be more words da uncouth, Yeah, all all
sorts of unwords.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm gonna say, Man, the vape for two hours, I understand, see,
see gotta get it. Okay, okay, See I'm glad my
nicotine level was not that bad. Yeah that's what you
say on the radio gets you on a plane. But
I don't really like going on planes anyways. But I'm
(05:40):
not going to go in. They give you the whole speech.
You know, do not tamper with in the laboratory. You know,
you cannot light up because that's a federal offense. They
tell you that every flight and this a hole decides
to go in the bathroom and starts vaping. And by
the way, by the way, the flight attendant, if they
sense that it may be an emergency or you're committing
(06:03):
a crime, they can't open that door on you. If
they think you're joining the mile high club, they can
just bust right in. Yes they can. That's actually their
job and have that. Goodness. These young people, I don't
know what to do with them. But we have a
huge show tonight, and yes, I'll have a final thought,
and it's going to be connected to the lack of shame,
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the lack of understanding and appreciation of hypocrisy in our
politics so much to the cover. When we come back,
I'm going to get into current price La City Council
and also the latest charges that they hit them with,
not the original charges, not like the original ten. I'm
talking about two more superseding indictments. It's like, take that
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with you. Here's one more while you go. La City Council.
They never disappoint. KFI AM six forty elive everywhere the
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KFI. Mister Kelly here, we're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
And I know that everyone is innocent until proven guilty
in a court of law. People usually forget that they're
innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But
that is a legal status. That doesn't mean that we can't,
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in the court of public opinion, form our own opinions.
I don't need someone to be convicted of something for
me to feel that someone might be a crook. And
that's irrespective of office that has, irrespective of title. It
does not matter. For example, and I always like to
use this as an example. Oj Simpson was acquitted in
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the murder trial of Ron and Nicole. In the eyes
of the law, he was found not guilty. He was
innocent and he was not proved guilty in the court
of law. Now we as people lay people can say, yeah,
I know he's dead and everything, but you can say
I still think, oh, Jay did it all right. So
there's a distinction to be made for us what the
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legal classification of someone is and how we may view
that person. And in talking about the La City Council,
there is a mix of how we feel about the
corruption and there have been criminal charges and convictions related
to that corruption. This Jose whuisar indicted on bribery and
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other federal charges including racketeering, and he ended up pleading
guilty to tax evation and abusive office, sentenced to thirteen
years in prison. Mitch Englander convicted of obstruction of justice
and sentenced to prison for obstructing a corruption probe. Councilman
Mark Ridley Thomas, he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy.
(08:54):
You might remember in that case related to his son
and benefits he received from USC. That was all before
Current Price, and Current Price had at least yeah, five
different felon accounts of embezzlement of government funds, three felon
accounts of perjury, and two felon accounts of conflict of interest,
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and a partridge and a pear tree. He previously has
pleaded not guilty. That was prior to yesterday, where County
prosecutors Nathan Hockman's office filed two new public corruption charges
against Current Price, and I assumed that he said, you know,
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said not guilty. But if convicted, Current Price could face
up to eleven years and four months in prison, up
to nine years and four months in state prison and
two years in county jail, because these charges are local, state,
and federal. I don't know in a legal sense, going
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back to what I was saying before, whether Current Price
is guilty. I don't know that he is guilty, but
I do know I am old enough to remember a
time in which politicians, elected officials knew the value of shame.
Shame on one hand, protects us from not doing certain things.
(10:26):
In other words, like when I do my show, I
don't want to do anything to embarrass my mother, who's
listening right now. That would bring shame upon me if
I did something that she thought was embarrassing or was
shameful to her. Shame oftentimes prevents us from doing things
going too far. Well, that doesn't exist anymore. There was
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a time in which hypocrisy meant something. In other words,
if you were found doing something that you supposedly were against. Hypocrisy,
along with shame, usually led to people resigning, stepping down,
removing themselves from office, having nothing to do with the
legal process. Those days are over. Those days are over.
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And I hear from people all the times like why
don't you talk about this person? Or or why don't
you talk about that person? And I tell you it
doesn't matter. It does not matter, you know, it doesn't
matter how many previous a council people have gone to jail.
There are still people engaging in questionable behavior, possibly illegal behavior,
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behavior on La City Council. Why, because shame doesn't matter.
It used to be if you were charged with so
many crimes like this, you would step down because you
knew that you would not be able to faithfully complete
the duties of the office. You could not fight some
eleven different charges of federal, state, and county and also
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do your job at the same time. Can you actually
serve your constituents and then fight all these other charges
the other two hours of the day. No, it's just
not feasible, It's not possible. But we live in a
time now. So long as the other guy is the
person who's charged with something, that's enough, and the people
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who are charged don't feel any real shame to step down.
Of course you can liken this too, President Trump and
then former President Trump. He's never accepted blame for anything anything.
He would never resign. He would never step down for
anything that he might have done. And I think that
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has been employed by just about everyone now. Who is
actually going to resign. Who's going to step down. It
doesn't matter how many charges, it doesn't matter how much
evidence may be levied against you. And to be fair,
Current Prices says that he's innocent, and he says that
the charges are baseless and it's just YadA, yeah, yeah,
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blah blah blah. But if I were on city council
and I would charged with the litany of crimes and
corruption here, I would feel compelled for the sake of
my family to step down, and then I could have
my day in court. And then allow the City Council
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and by extension, the city the ability to move on
because clearly whatever I've done has distracted the City Council
and impacts my ability to fulfill my duties. And there's
also other blame here as far as the City Council,
as far as not removing current price. I don't know
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all the steps involved, but there's something that they can
do because they did it with a Mark Ridley Thomas.
So it comes down to we live in a time
where it doesn't matter what elected officials do. And I'm
not talking about throw Hillary in jail. I'm talking about
actual charges. Someone's been arranged, someone has gone before a
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judge and made a plea, in this case, multiple pleas
where you would think in a time in which Shane
meant something, it's like, this is a time for me
to step aside so I can handle this business and
not further further cloud the integrity and further lose the
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public trust, further sully the office of La City Council.
That doesn't happen anymore. No one's stepping down, And even
if he gets convicted, he's not stepping down. How do
I know, Mark Ridley Thomas, who I know personally well,
I've known for more than twenty years, So I'm not
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talking about this in the abstract. I ran to Mark
really Thomas about a year and a half ago. We
shook hands. He knows what I say about him, and
and he doesn't take a person. He knows it's part
of the job. I'm still friends with this son now.
We follow each other on social media. This is not personal,
but I can say I'm speaking from a knowledgeable point
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of view where I dealt with these individuals. I know
these individuals, and I know that they should be better
than this. And I know that we, as the voting
voting public, should require more of our elected officials. But
here's the thing. If you don't require more of the
people that you yourself voted for, then it doesn't matter.
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You can't only say well, I want the Democrats to
step down, or I want the Democrats to be held accountable.
I want them to throw the book at the Democrats
a current price, and Jose whose Are and Mark Ridley Thomas,
they all need to go to jail. It's the same
freaking Justice Department. You can't have it both ways. You can't. Now,
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I know at current price. There are you know, counties,
county DA charges, and you have state charges, and you
have federal charges. But as far as the federal racketeering
and the bribes and the corruption, it's the same, DJ,
It's the exact same. We don't require more of our
elected officials, then we're not going to get more. If
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we don't hold our elected officials to a higher personal
and moral standard, then you can't ask it or or
expect it of the other folks, the other guys, the
folks you just don't like, and you can say, well,
why do we keep electing these people? You got to
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put up better candidates. You know, I hate Gavin Newsom.
Hey twalla, who's running against Gavin Newsom? I should well
Revenue was not running. But I'm saying, who's running to
be governor? Oh, Sheriff Bianco is he though I was
very somewhat impolitely reaching out to him on social media,
(17:15):
And I'm saying, Sheriff Bianco, You're not serious. You're not
even going all the way around the state as far
as campaign. You're not even speaking to the people that
you need as voters.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I've only seen him speaking to the people in Orange
County Hello, I'm confused. There have been no big pushes
for his campaign outside of his backyard.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, and I don't know what's happening. Like I said,
not everyone's actually running to win that office. And if
and when the Democratic nominee wins and becomes governor of California,
you have no one to blame but yourself, Republicans, because
you're not putting up serious candidates. Steve Hilton, Okay, he
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was on Fox News. Can he win a statewide race
in California? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Not. The guest that we had on, isn't she flirted
with the idea, Elaine Coaludi. Yeah, I've heard her flirting
with the idea. Just interesting. You actually have to campaign.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Campaign, You actually have to go to places like Oakland
and San Francisco, the places who you think would not
normally vote for you. You have to actually ask for
people's votes. And still there's no Republican candidate in for
mayor of Los Angeles. So this is a multifaceted issue.
Are we getting the best candidates? No, And when you
don't get the best candidates, you get candidates who are corrupt,
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You get people who are incompetent or don't have the
expertise or the experience to actually be a governor or
a city council person or a senator. But if you're
only concerned with the other guys being taken down, well
you get what you get. Shame is a very very
valuable tool. The moral high ground could be a very
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very valuable tool, but they're they're requirements to it. You know,
it's kind of hard to shame current price if you're
voting for people who are just as corrupt. It's Later
with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty We live everywhere
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Live on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Okay, this is an
either or you know which would you rather? Tawala? I
think you might be partial to Taco Bell because you
worked there at once upon a time. Taco Bell or
Del Taco, Taco Bell all day? Okay between the two?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, yeah, Mark Ronner, Taco Bell or Del Taco. I
haven't eaten a Del Taco enough to make a choice there,
but boy, if Taco Bell is your default, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm just saying I'm comparing, you know, oranges and mandarin oranges. Okay,
Taco Bell disrespect though, I mean that was uncalled for.
Do I have to spell this out? Yes, you do.
Hang on a second, van for a second. I was
in the middle of a robin Taco Bell or Del
Taco for sure. Del Taco for Sure for sure. Yeah,
(20:27):
Taco Bell always did me wrong. And what do you
mean by that? It doesn't it doesn't agree with you. Yeah, no,
it really doesn't. I actually prefer taste wise, Taco Bell
menu items and more stuff that I probably would eat
Del Taco. I could agree with that. I could agree
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with that because for a while, Taco Bell took away
the Mexican pizza and that pissed me off. Yeah, back,
and it's not it's not to say it's like. The
reason I'm talking about this is because Del Taco is
celebrating it's southern California roots and they're going to be
offering bigger burritos, big ass burritos. I'm down with that.
(21:09):
You got my attention, Okay, because we know you're burrito boy.
What don't you always like burritos?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
No, more than average. I don't think it's one of
my defining traits. Okay, if you got to latch onto something,
go ahead. Well, Del Taco last them to a burrito. Well,
who doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Founded in the nineteen sixties, in year mode, California is
back to its roots with new menu innovations and now
it's based in Lake Forest, and they're going back to
its classic burritos, but larger in size. Okay. They want
to distinguish themselves as having a higher quality food and
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more food for the dollar. A five dollars classical box
includes the big Ass Burrito, many quesadilla, crinkle cut fries,
and a sixteen ounce soft drink for just five dollars.
A seven dollars mix Faves box includes the Big Ass Burrito,
a grilled chicken taco, a saft snap taco, fries, and
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a drink. Are they calling it the big as Burrito? No,
they should. It's the burrito and I just gave them
that for free. Yeah they should. They should use that.
A nine dollars a Maramex box includes a double Dell cheeseburger.
See that's the thing about Del Taco. They serve a
little bit of everything. They call it Del Taco where
they got cheeseburgers. I think they got hot dolls. They
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got a little bit of everything in there.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
They For a minute, they were selling that that stew,
the you know how to roll the rs, the barrier
burr what burier Berria, Oh that stuff. There's a great
berrier truck in my neighborhood. Yeah, they were selling that
at Del Taco and it was going crazy. By the way,
do you want to circle back to what my problem
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was before I was able to swallow that mouthful of
food with Taco Bell stuff? Sure, beef in their burritos
is only eighty eight percent beef? Twelve percent of it
is other you saying Taco Bell specifically? Yeah, oh so
what is Del Taco? Mister meat Fishiinado. I don't eat
there often enough to don't cherry yeah, don't don't cherry
(23:21):
pick the facts.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Look it up. I'm not cherry picking anything. I'm telling you.
That was my look up to eighty eight percent on
Taco Bell. You cannot throw the slanderers. It's not slander
if it's true.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, you cannot throw out these insulting remarks for one
side A fact, this isn't an insulting remark.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You are leaning heavily only support. Okay, now what is
it for Del Taco? Okay, well let's find out. Yes,
uh huh, mister intrepid reporter, click click clack clap, I'm
only good at tacoboll taco, bill, do both.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I see no reporting that there's any adulteration of Del Taco.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There's the beef. Wow. If you find out something different,
let me know. But I'm not saying anything. Del Taco's
nutrition guide for August shows classic burritos weigh about nine
to twelve ounces, a couple of ounces more than other places,
and epic burritos weigh a lot more, fourteen ounces to
a pound. I don't want to eat that much. Are
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the epic ones the big ass ones? I guess? So? Okay,
that's good. Yeah, those are good. Fries are also a
core item at Del Taco. Quote. We went back to
our origin story in the high desert of southern California,
where Ed Hackbarth combined American items burgers, fries, and shakes
with Mexican items tacos and burritos that together made an
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unexpected combination. We're using our origin story for our curtain
current proposition with the unexpected combination of a merry mex
as an American and Mexican flavors.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, Mark, Here is a more detailed breakdown of the
del Taco beef yes they use. First, they brown the beef,
taking lean ground beef that is brown likely to develop
flavor and texture. Then they process this meat. The brown
meat is then pulsed in a food processor to achieve
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the desired consistency added ingredients. They add thickeners, beef fat, water,
tomato paste, and a blend of authentic seasons ultra process yes,
and then they add texturized vegetable protein to give it
a little more thickness.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They simmer all that together.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
They add other protein or thickness, just other proteins.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
So you go underneath that that meat paste. What is
it you think you just proved? Explain that?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Believe I'm telling you, mister Taco Bells only got eighty
eight percent meat. You know what they got is at
least eighty eight percent meat and some filler. This is
straight meat mush. They put it in a blender and
then they add some thickening substance and they say, here's
your meat. Do you think we could eat that with
a straw because we've a strong probably could drink it.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I don't know, but you know that's one of the
reason why I'll eat at either anymore. And that goes
back to Robin's point. I liked Taco Bell back in
the day, but it did disagree with me on more
than one occasion. And the sodium content is out of
this world. Yo, Kiero observing toilet paper. Yeah. Now, I'll
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tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
One of the only times I've even been to Del
Taco here is when I was coming out of work.
Everything was closed, you know what time I get out
of here, and and I was just desperate for food.
So I went to one near the prostitute Ralph's near
my place, and they were closing. But the guy is like,
the guy took pity on me and he made me
a burrito. And I swear to god, he just took
everything that was still left lying around and jammed it
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into a burrito. I think there were tater tots in there,
just all sorts of random things.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I was grateful for the guy because it's like, well,
don't throw all those those odds and ends away. But
at the same time. It was a low point of
my life. I can't lie yet. I have a taste
for it every now and then, but not actually going
to see it through.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Like, for example, I had a taste for some Divena
snincil and I actually got Diverna stencil for the first
time in at least nine years, because I haven't had
it since I've been married. Oh, today's the day they've
got like what the four chili dogs for four bucks. Yeah,
but it's not I'm not going there for discounter price.
I'm just going there because they could charge me eight
dollars for it. You know, it doesn't matter Ethos. In
(27:26):
the shower, I had three hot dogs. I had two
chili dogs and one corn dog. Tasted wonderful but correct.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
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Speaker 1 (27:56):
If I am six fortys later with bo Kelly, We're
live on YouTube iHeartRadio app. It may be grand opening,
grand closing for the Tesla Diner already having serious issues
and problems. We told you about the neighborhood of noise complaints.
It's screens or obstructing views. People could not drive through
(28:19):
there because of the traffic. And now, just weeks after
its grand opening, the Tesla Diner has already slashed its
menu down to almost nothing five items total. And Mark,
I don't know if you heard this, Remember how it
was supposed to be twenty four to seven. Now it's
only open from like six am to midnight ish. Well,
(28:41):
if you've read about all the recalls of Tesla's this
tracks when it comes to a restaurant, doesn't it. I
have to believe that there is some sort of connection
with the damage which has been done to the brand
of Tesla. You can't say Tesla and not also think
of Elon Musk because that's the way Elon Musk construct
to the company, where he was the face of the
(29:03):
company and he was the voice of the company. So
anything that Elon Musk has to say about anything is
going to be connected back to Tesla. And Tesla has
had a diminishing sales record, let me put it that way.
And fewer Teslas have been sold in the past two quarters,
and that's directly attributable to musk expanded political presence. And
(29:27):
I've said I have nothing against the cars. I think
they are well made cars. From the times that I
have been in them. I think they're technologically very advanced,
and I understand why they are so popular by and
large here in California. But you can't also deny that
Elon Musk is a stain on the brand, and from
(29:47):
the people that I've talked to, there have been more
than just a few grumblings about trying to move him
out as president and CEO. But the Tesla Diner the
concept very cool. A place where you could charge car,
and of course if you're charging your car, you can't
charge your car as quickly as you would maybe get
a tank of gas. But if you're going to hang
(30:08):
out for thirty minutes or to an hour, you can
get some food, stretch your legs, and maybe sit down
and hang out for a bit in the way that
you would a Starbucks. It's a great idea. Now the
execution may leave a little something to be desired when
you think of the traffic problems which they're having. And also,
I'll say the ill conceived placement of it where you're
(30:29):
right next to apartment buildings and you're blocking the view,
so the neighbors are not going to readily embrace you.
I think those are some things should have been better
planned out. But yeah, it's not looking good for the
Tesla diner. Let's go enjoy a meal put on by
the guy who threw all those Nazi salutes. Well it
sounds like a great email. Oh I'm quite sure that
(30:50):
has something to do with it as well. And also
what was originally being sold or how it was built
is not being delivered. Originally it was supposed to be
open to also non Tesla vehicles to be charged, and
the conflicting reports about whether that is available to non
(31:11):
Tesla evs to use as a charging station. So now
they have what does it? See? They have just a
few items on the menu. You can get a Tesla
Burger hot dog. Okay, maybe they brand like a big
tea in it or something. I don't know. The Tesla
Burger hot dog, grilled cheese, tuna melt, or a fried
(31:33):
chicken sandwich also fries. That's it. That is it? So
they have they used to have like a maple glaze
breakfast meat called epic Bacon. That's off the menu. They've
taken off the fountain drink options like the Shirley Temple
and the cream sickle. Now it's just bare bones and
(31:54):
it's also being reported. This is coming from Fortune magazine,
so it's not like it's a rinking ink website. Fortune
is reporting that they've also slashed at least half of
its staff. This is just weeks in. What was the
economic forecasting model for this that you wouldn't make it
through October? They put the doge guys. I think Big
Balls is in charge of the restaurant, right, No, no,
(32:15):
Big Balls is on the man right now. Oh okay,
he had an unfortunate accident at three am, allegedly supposedly
while doing something he probably wasn't supposed to be doing. Well.
I wish him well, did I say that right? Yeah,
you said it right. I don't know how sincere it was,
but you said it correctly. It was absolutely every bit
of sincere as deserved. And actually I did want to
(32:36):
check out the Tesla Diner, not that I own a test.
I just want to see it. I never had a
chance to get over there, but I like the idea.
I like the concept, but it's not going over well
at this point. Well, there's something here that's kind of
similar that I know Tawala has partaken of, which is
the Gallpin place that has the horseless carriage diner that
it seemed counterintuitive to me when I moved here, but
(32:57):
everybody I know who's tried it says, that's great. We
have these pop up locations, we have these themed restaurants.
I'm for all of that, but we live in such
a sensitive time. There's no way for me that you
can separate Tesla Diner from Tesla Motors from Elon musk.
(33:17):
It seems like a Tesla diner should have like a
flaming platter that they serve you, doesn't it. There's a
joke there. I just I just don't want there's nothing
funny about it. No, I don't land too soon, too soon,
not coming behind Nazi salutes. I can't do that. Well,
we didn't do it. No, I'm just like, never mind,
I can't. I can't can't put certain jokes together. Maybe
(33:40):
you can get the Seagham sense. See, that's exactly what
I'm talking about. Mark, Hey, if I am since forty
we live everywhere.
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