July 23, 2025 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the passing of the “Godfather of Heavy Metal,” Ozzy Osbourne, gone at 76…PLUS – The Los Angeles Times is going public, Americans have been warned against the dangers of drinking liquor in 18 states to avoid heat illnesses AND Thrifty Ice Cream may be returning in a major way - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Kf IM six forty. It's so later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We're live on YouTube.
In fact, we're live on threads and put the live
link there. We're live on Facebook. We're live everywhere, so
just join the show. The video simulcast. And I was
listening to Mark Ronner, our news man. Hey, Mark Ronner,
Good evening evening, mom. I was listening to and during
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the news breaking and brought back this flood of memories.
I remember I was at Calli Mayor Middle School when
one day I went to school and it was the
whole discussion Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat
in a concert. Now this is pre internet, so mostly
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this is news reports, word of mouth, telephone train. We
weren't exactly sure how it happened, but then you know,
as years go on you get more of the story.
But it was such a phenomenon back then. Not only
did it happen, but it happened in Iowa. And so
that's the wrong place to bite off the head of
a bat. Well, I was always on the side of
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the bat. Actually, Ozzy Osbourne is someone who if you
know anything about him, but he was a lover of animals.
He thought, as the story goes, that he was biting
the head off of a rubber bat. Now, he probably
was under the influence of some sort of substance. You
think I'm just catching here, I'm spitball, okay, But as
the story goes, it was a dead bat. But it
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was a real bat found by some concertgoer outside of
his school, and he and his friends decided to throw
it up on stage. I don't know who in the
world wants to pick up a dead bat, but as
the story goes, picked up the dead bat, decided with
his friends to take it to the concert and they
were determined to throw it on stage to see what
Ozzie would do. Ozzie looked at the bat, picked up
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the bat, bit off the head, thinking it was a
rubber bat, and according to Ozzy, all the gooey stuff
started coming out of the inside of the bat, so
he realized it was real.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, the nugat. I was lucky enough to be able
to go to an oz Fest at the Gorge in
Rushington and it was a really fun day.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm not a huge metal head.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't look like Foosh, I don't have the hair
for it, but lots of fun and now I feel
really fortunate to have gotten to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I always felt kind of left out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I couldn't bang my head, you know, and have my
hair flopping around in Kylie maher middle school.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It just didn't I.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Know all the music, I just didn't, you know, I
couldn't partake like everyone else. I understand, kind of stood out,
you know, stuck out. But thoughts in prayers to the
family of Ozzy Osbourne. He's someone I did listen to
a lot of growing up, if only by os Moses
where I was going to school, middle school during the
height of his fame in the early nineteen eighties. Yes,
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you would hear Ozzy Osbourne everywhere. But when you were
telling that story about the bat, it's just it just
brought back this flood of memories of how big a deal.
If you're not old enough to remember, Oh, it was
a hell of a big deal in the way that
the police and NWA f the police, how that kind
of transfixed media and all that was wrong in music.
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You have to stop these young people, they're out of control.
That was Ozzy Osbourne because of that incident, and I
think if it happened to maybe New York people wouldn't
have cared as much, But it happened in Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Now, even though it's horrific to kill an animal like that,
if it wasn't already dead, it's a very rock and
roll thing to do, to do outrageous stuff that you
know will horrify parents everywhere. I can get behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, and I don't want to say it defined his legacy,
but everyone knew at that moment he would forever be
known and connected to that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, that's way up in the first line on your resume.
No matter what else you do in your life.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
If he never had another concert, that was going to
be Unfortunately, as we talk about it now, part of
his obituary.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think everyone knew in that moment. Yeah, you don't
get to choose that for yourself. You do that, you
own it for life.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's a sad day coming after the passing of Malcolm
Jamal Warner seems like, can you get a break?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Please tell you what they say threes?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I know, I know, I didn't want to say it
out loud, but she made me go there. That means
there's another one. We have to wait on, it's probably tomorrow,
maybe later on tonight. It might be me right here.
I don't think you would qualify on that level. No disrespect,
no will miss you. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate it,
but no one's gonna give a day. Let's not get
all emotional now. Also on the show tonight, Mark, you
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and I are going to have a conversation next segment
because on a play some audio from the owner of
the La Times.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He went on with John Stewart. I saw that last
night and I was going to mention it to you.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, absolutely, And he made some pronouncements about cancer, cancer research,
of the future of La Times, and he almost sounds
halfway credible if you just sanitize his remarks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You know, as incredible as John Stewart's first segment was.
That interview was a horrible failure on his partner.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, it was. It was because it was not what
I say.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It lacked curiosity, It did not dig down on some
of the low hanging fruit, which is really part of
why he is a controversial figure and why anyone will
want to talk to him in the first place.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, I'll save my ammo for the segment, but I
was really disappointed with how Stewart did that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We'll talk about it next segment as a matter of fact.
And also you heard Mark Ronning's talking about the heat
wave going around the country. Well, Americans are advised not
to drink alcohol and not one, not two, but eighteen
different states, mostly in the South. Hold on now what yep, yep,
horse feathers, yep, don't drink alcohol down south because of
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he don't kill you.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But they're going to so, oh well, we're just gonna
have to deal with the death.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do the matter.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They're not gonna listen to damn science. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Please get out of here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you know, public Health has issued some more warnings
about not going into La beachwater because it's full of feces.
Uh thirty ice cream just might be back. How'd you
like that segue? Ice cream from poop to chocolate? Yeah,
tasty to tasty. Uh thirty ice cream just maybe back.
They've been teasing a possible return on social media, so
(06:36):
we're gonna dig into that. Yes, and we're not talking
about in just grocerysource. We're talking about someone purchasing frifty
ice cream and then putting up some way that you
and I can buy directly thrifty ice cream. But you
know that's speculation. But when we come back, when we
talk about the La Times and their desire get this
to go public.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
KIM six forty years Later with mo Kelly well Live
on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, the iHeartRadio app. And the La
Times is something that I grew up with. It's something
I literally did read every single morning. My parents would
read the La Times and then I would take the
sports page of the Metro section. But it got me
in the habit of staying informed on a day to
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day basis.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It helped me in school.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It helped me with a better understanding of how the
world around me worked. Because we didn't have cable TV
back then, we didn't have the Internet. It was just
print media. It served a very important purpose in informing
the general public. Print media is not that anymore. When
I say print, I'm talking about the actual print, not
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online print, but physical print. There are few people in
my neighborhood who still actually get newspapers thrown over the
fence to their house. I don't know why. Maybe they
got it as a gift. I don't know, but people
still do buy physical newspapers. I'm not one of them,
but I miss what the La Times signified. It was
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never the New York Times, it was never one of
those pre eminent newspapers when it came to journalism, but
it still held a very fond place in my heart
when I was growing up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Those times are over.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
The president owner Patrick Soon shown, has made it very
clear that he wants the La Times to more reflect
his personal politics, not necessarily letting the journalists lead the way.
He's been heavy handed with what the editorial section can
and cannot print, going back to the presidential race, did
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not allow the editorial board to endorse any Democratic candidates.
I'm saying, not just president all the way down, and
that seems to be the future of the La Times.
He was on with John Stewart last night and I
wanted to play two clips and get your thoughts. Mark
ronnerdu You've probably heard this, but you and I have
discussed the future in the past of print media and
(09:05):
where it may be headed. This is Patrick Soon shown,
and he's detailing the moment's leading up to his buying
the paper, and why he wanted to buy the paper.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So news meant a lot.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Too, oh every day, because it really kept internally our
freedom right because we the people then were under parteed.
I lived under part it, the editors thought it, and
that's how I get educated, and that's how good inspired
so to me. By the time I was working on cancer,
I was giving forty eight hours, forty eight hours to
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buy this newspaper or not.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Why was there such a was it like a like
the movie speed, like fifty five miles an.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Hour, or the paper's going to blow up?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Like why forty eight hours?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
So Michael Farah had bought the Tribune at that point
in time, and he knew how much I wanted to
protect the newspaper in Los Angeles, and he come in
a Friday an I was ironically having a conference call
a conference with science doctors and cancer Miss Patrick. Monday.
We shutting down the DC Bureau. We're shutting down Los Angeles,
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moving into Chicago. You got forty eight hours if you
want to buy it, it's five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
You had to make a five hundred million dollar decision,
take it or leave it. Forty eight hours you got it.
And was that a gut wrenching decision? Was it a
sleep losing decision.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It was a decision that I talked to my wife about,
if I may, I'll back go. Actually, because we both
grew up in South Africa.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Oh, so she was invested in this as well, very much.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And we said, okay, but you said no due diligence,
you can't go to the newsroom. You don't know anything
forty eight hours. So I brought the team in that
came over and by Monday we both the newspaper too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
At this point, I wish he just would not have.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, can we get in the time machine and go
back and make him rethink.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That he may have saved the paper, but he did
not save the brand.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Oh no, No. And the thing about his appearance last
night was that he's kind of a personable guy. He's
kind of a likable guy, and that distracts you from
the fact that he's been such an absolute and utter
disaster for the newspaper. I pity the longtime journalists there
who you know, when I was still at the Seattle
Times that we always kind of talked about how the
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hall smelled like a slaughter house. People had been crying
in the hallways. There are all sorts of rounds of
layoffs and buyouts, but we never and every newspaper has
to apologize for its editorial board because that's separate from
the journalists and the editorial people don't understand that. Well,
some people do and now the ones listening to us too. Yeah,
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but you know, if you're just a shoe leather journalist,
you always have to apologize to people out in the
real world, like, no, we don't write those editorials. That
is the Brahmin class with the monocles that cranked out
that awful thing. But Patrick Suon Shong, newspapers are going extinct,
that's no secret, and that's horribly sad. He's one of
the people accelerating that extinction because of what you talked about,
(12:23):
which is he didn't respect the separation of ownership editorial independence.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yes, but there is a media illiteracy component to this
as well. People don't understand that they're supposed to be
that editorial independence. They're supposed to be correspondence. There are
journalists and there are editorial calmness, and there's an editorial board,
and the two shall never meet, you know, as they.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Say, yeah, the owner. You know, it's not your plaything.
You buy an institution. And I may have held the
La Times in higher esteem than you. I think it's
one of the countries and the world's legendary newspapers. And
this which Dinwitz just came in there and bought it
up and started reckoning it, and to.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Make bad matters worse, he is now trying to bail
and take The Times public.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
So I'm gonna known something with you tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Is that more than the newde Mouse.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You're gonna know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
That we literally going to take La Times public and
allowed to be democratized and allowed the public to help
this paper.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Wow, okay, do you democratize facts?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Look, I'm not a stock market genius, and I know
a lot of people like to think of myself as that.
But I do know buy low, sell high, and I
don't buy stuff that has no future. I can't seriously
consider buying stock of a news paper outlet beyond just
the La Times.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's like, what is the IP on that going to be?
Like four dollars? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But it started because of advertising revenue. Craigslist made it
so that nobody ever had to take out a personal
ad again.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Right, wait, but you have to explain not everyone remember
what a personal ad.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I guess this is back in the area of
era of rotary phones. Yes, we looked at the want
ads when we were trying to find a job.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But that's part of how a newspaper stayed afloat it is.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, advertising revenue was what made newspapers able to exist,
and that went away more and more with free stuff
on the Internet. But also what added to that was
increasing irrelevance. When you can't trust a newspaper to give
you the straight truth about stuff, then you go elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Something else I've noticed in this online world and now
we'll just be bumping around the Internet and you'll see
like an editorial from USA Today on Facebook, and it's
not clearly marked as an editorial, And then you'll see
people assuming that that's USA Today, for example, and I'm
picking on them that that's either the editorial board or
(14:56):
the voice of USA Today weighing in on something. No,
it's an opinion editorial from a singular individual who's not
even employed by USA Today. There's a media illiteracy which
I think compounds this problem and issue we don't know
what we're looking at, and what we're looking at has
largely been corrupted.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, I worked for Gennett, which owns USA Today, one
of their hydra head newspapers in the Midwest, and let's
be honest, nobody ever confused USA Today with its colored
sections with you know, a great crusading newspaper that people
go to from.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'm sorry I got to jump in there, Mark, but
you and I know that is we're if we're going
to line up credible newspapers. But today I don't think
people understand that distinction.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Let me consult the newspaper with the purple section that
you get for free when you stay at a hotel.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Don't you know. Part of the reason why that USA
Today was so popular and was popular with me and
others in college they were given away to college students
back in the late eighties was the whole part the
point of it being a colorized newspaper. It was seen
as contemporary, as happening, as full we're looking where you
had the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times still
in black and white in the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, it had no depth of coverage whatsoever, and the
corporate mandates I won't get into the weeds on that,
but if you want real news, you would go to
someplace like the La Times, the Washington Post, the New
York Times, even though Wall Street Journal. And just to
put a point on what I was saying about John
Stewart's interview, the interview with Patrick soon Scheng last night,
the massive failure was that he let the guy ramble
(16:28):
on about the cancer stuff that nobody understood, and Stuart
clearly didn't understand. And I saw the unedited version that
went on for something like twenty minutes. Stuart never tried
to hold Soon Seng accountable for this violation of the
sanctity of the separation of ownership and editorial at his
own newspaper.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't understand to dovetailor on that point. I don't
understand how he allowed it to happen within the same
media space, the same news cycle as Stephen Colbert, who
he was railing about on his show the same week.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, that first half hour segment of the show last
night was an absolute scorcher, and it was thorough and
it was just a master class in TV satire that
touches on current events. If you haven't seen it, get
it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's how I watched it because I sent it to you.
No no, no, no, no, not.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Stewart, you sent me Colbert, Oh, Colbert about I watched
that as well.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Colbert made me laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When we come back, we have to talk about the
weather and people are going to die from drinking in
the heat.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Will it be you?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
What's left to believe in? Yes, if you believe science. Okay,
I understand science is kind of controversial. Now, no one
wants to talk about science, well climate. KFIM six forty
we're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
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Speaker 3 (17:55):
Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We're live on social media and we're live on the
iHeartRadio app. And I gotta tell you, I've done a
lot of stupid stuff in my life. Some things I
paid the price for, some things that got away with.
But one of the stupid things I did when I
was in college was day drinking in the sun in
the heat. That was really, really dumb. I think I
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got heat stroke and didn't even know it. But during
the summer is when you can get heat, exhaustion, heat stroke,
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention I think
that's one of the agencies we defunded, stated that extreme
heat can trigger heat related illnesses, particularly among seniors like me,
young children like Mark Runner, and people with chronic health conditions.
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Symptoms can range from intense sweating and muscle cramps to
dizziness and nausea. According to the CDC, which I think
we defunded, extreme heat causes more than seven hundred deaths
annually in the US. Extreme heat warnings, which the NWS
to National Weather Service, I think we defunded them too,
issues when extremely dangerous heat conditions are expected or occurrent.
(19:01):
So those two agencies suggested advised against drinking alcohol in
not one, not two, but eighteen different states, more specifically Kansas.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh Lahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, Arkansas, Missouri,
Mississippi sounds like a Miss USA competition or Miss America, Tennessee, Kentucky,
and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Those are the main ones. Illinois, Illinois. Yeah, Okay, it's
not down south, but it's supposed to be very hot.
You had the weather, you should know which states it's involving.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I guess it gets hot there and in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But also there's some less severe heat advisories which have
also been issued for parts of the following states. South
Dakota shout out to Christin No, Nebraska, Uh, Decas or
Texas as they say, Iowa, Louisiana, I love by Kate
Jackson football, fum Malaya fumbleski Florida, Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
North Carolina, South Carolina. Don't drink any alcohol in any
of those states.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
California, you should be okay, didn't you say, like California
should be in the eighties or at least southern California.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, okay, so we'll be good. No, we're good to
have a beer all right. In fact, if you want
to bring some in, that'd be great. I only drink
beer not at work, number one. And I only drink
beer at dodd games. Yeah say that, that's the only
time I do. What's a beer cost it a Dodgers game?
Like fifteen dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No exaggeration, Oh of course, okay, and they get it's
the tall like magnum. Yeah, they're they're pretty big, but still, yeah,
it's pretty it's like fifteen dollars, And I remember I
got a modello and I said, wow, okay at a
Dodger dog.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A Dodger dog. And I'm sitting out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So I'm being very careful because i know I'm on
the wrong side of twenty five and I take that
to the head and I'll be laid out there and
missed the rest of the game. But no, I'm not
going to bring you beer in the studio, Mark Ronner.
I thought we were friends, but we are friends. Proceed.
If we weren't friends, I would actually bring you beer
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so you can get fired.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh, So perspective is the key here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't want to I don't want to call any names,
but we have had some people leave up out of
here for drinking on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now, there's always somebody at any radio station who is
just really obviously plastered.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
But there were some I'm not gonna call any names,
there were some people who were more blatant about it
than others. We've had people come to work with the
beer in their hand already slashed. Oh, just open carrying.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Open carry, open container.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I feel naive because somebody pointed out somebody I knew
who apparently came to work just blotto, and I didn't
notice it didn't smell anything. I just thought it was
how the person acted.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But this this person was an on air personality, and
then got on the air and it was apparent to
everyone who was listening and paying attention. And you know,
the person took the beer into the studio with him
her they and kept on drinking.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
How could anybody not tell?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
It?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Was like, I can't find everyone knew. But I guess
some people look the other way.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I guess not every single drunk sounds like Foster Brooks.
But still, you're really dating yourself. But I don't know
who Foster everybody does?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Foosh? Come on, I bet you Carnesia has no idea
who who Foster Brooks is. She didn't know the movie Alien.
Tell me I'm wrong. It's unfair to bring her into it. Okay, Exeph,
do you know who Foster Brooks was? I've heard of
the name.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I couldn't tell you what he No, No, no, you're
thinking of Foster Grant Sunglass. I'm talking about Foster Brooks.
You're putting words in his mouth.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
No, I'll be honest. I've heard of the name. I
just I couldn't tell you what or where anything about him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He's a legendary drunk, or at least his stick was.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
He was on all the Dean Martin ROAs when we
were growing up, and his stick was that he was
he was a drunk and he could mimic like belching
and stuff during his speech, and he was hilarious. Look
him up on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
You know what, Daniel, where are you when I need?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Bring up a Foster Brooks clip real quick before we
go to break. Yeah, you feel very old tonight, Mark.
It's not old to know things, but your cultural references
are like nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I grew up with my grandparents and so all my
tastes and references are like two generations before me. So
I watched all the stuff they were watching when I
was just barely able to walk.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
If you're watching our YouTube show right now, you can
see some old Dean Martin Foster Brooks.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yes, good stuff I got on. I got one of
him roasting Don Wrickles. I don't know there's cursing it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, we can always dump it out. Let's play it
on the edge. Don Rickles is probably cursing.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
That's very portant. Frederic and gentlemen, just told you I
have never met Don Record. In fact, he's probably wondering
what I'm doing here. He has never even never evens.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He has never seen me before.
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love thrifty ice cream just like I do. I have
loved thrifty ice cream for all of my life, yes,
all of my life. I don't know if it was
fifteen cents twenty five cents when I first started falling
in love with it, but it was really really cheap.
It was maybe it hadn't been less than a quarter.
But we know, with the closure of write aids all
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around the country, the question was what was going to
happen with thrifty ice cream? And I've gotten your messages.
I know you can get those tubs of thrifty ice cream,
and like Albertsons, I'm not talking about buying it in
a grocery store. I'm talking about just getting a scoop here,
a scoop there.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I don't want a gallon. I don't want that much
ice cream.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I just want to wet my appetite every now and
then with some cookies and cream. Damn it, that's all
I'm asking for out of life. I don't need a tub.
I just need a cone, just a cone every now
and then. And I'm being very honest. When I get
Thrifty ice cream, I feel closer to my father who
always took me to get Thrifty ice cream.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It's kind of a ritual that we have. He picked
me up from school and.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Then on the way home and say, hey, you want
to get some express say show, let's get some Thrifty
ice cream.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's something that we would do together.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So the whole process of getting a scoop of ice
cream back then it was just a cone. You didn't
get it in a little bowl. He put it on
a cone. That meant a lot to me, and it
does even now. So I don't need to just get
Thrifty ice cream from the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I need an actual cone or a cup.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And we were wondering what was going to happen to
Thrifty and people have been monitoring its online presence. The
website was still up, but social media had largely been dark.
That was until last Wednesday, when all of a sudden,
one of the social media channels for thrifty came alive
(26:59):
and had a post saying quote, we know we've been
quiet and we're sorry. Some sweet news is coming soon,
and then also said making new memories. That speaks to
people like me. You know, memories. I think of my dad,
I think of thrifty ice cream. I think of us
going and getting ice cream together for like less than
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forty cents in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So I'm looking forward to new memories. Maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
CNBC's Fast Money reported recently that the coos Co CEOs
of Monster Beverage Corporation had purchased Thrifties assets for approximately
nineteen point two million dollars. There's not much more information
than that at the moment, but it does mean there
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is a future for thrifty ice cream beyond the offerings
in grocery stores. And you know, last night we talked
about what your ice cream is according to your zodiac sign.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I would love to have some Thrifties crispy.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Excuse me, cookies and cream right now, right now, just
a scoop, just one.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I don't need a whole bowl. I don't need a
whole gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Just a couple scoops of thrifty cookies and cream ice cream.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
It is loaded with nostalgia, yeah, because you can get
cookies and cream somewhere else, and it does have a
different taste to it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't have any emotional connection, no disrespect. I have
zero emotional connection to Basket Robins, yes and zero. I'm
sure the ice cream tastes just fine. I'm sure the
cookies and cream is passable. I don't feel anything when
I pass Basket Robins, and I'm not encouraged emotionally to
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walk in the Basket Robins and get some cookies and cream.
It doesn't remind me of anything or anyone. You take
me past a ride aid, or least in the past,
go a right aid, walk into a right aid and
see that thrifty sign up there? Who tears? Maybe tears
got to bring my thrifty ice cream back?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't know if it was a thing mark with
you in Washington.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
No, I have no idea what you're talking about. And
I'm curious about if it's actually objectively good compared to
other ice cream.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Oh, your your opinion doesn't matter, don't worry about it. Well, no,
I'm just asking. It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, No, it's it's actually yes, I am biased, but
it is great tasting ice cream. But also it is
synonymous with southern California, Okay, and it's and my example
was just one of many where it's deep rooted with
families and memories and just a tradition of going with
family members to get thrifty ice cream.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I don't eat ice cream very often because I have
no impulse control, and so if there's some in the refrigerator,
we do this thing where we kind of we eat
what we think is a reasonable amount. Then we start
like cheating and like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
You kind of dig around so it doesn't look like
you've had as much as you've had.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
My dad would have ice cream in the freezer and
I never touched it. I never have a taste for
ice cream more than a scoop here or there.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And it's maybe once every two or three months at most.
But when I want to have some Thrifties ice cream,
I want to have some Thrifty ice cream and hopefully
it's coming back and coming back sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Something else we can count on you to bring into
the studio for us. This is gonna be great.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Last Yeah, two hour dry Yeah, maybe we'll get a
you know, some dry ice.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Does your wife share the same nostalgic effect of it
or no?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not for thrifty, for thrifty Okay, yeah, I believe that
she's had it, but I don't think it's the same connection.
She'll bring in some basket robins and she just wants
to give me some cookies and cream and it's like, oh,
thank you very much, honey.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You know whatever, big deal.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. We're live on YouTube.
In fact, we're live on threads and put the live
link there. We're live on Facebook. We're live everywhere, so
just join the show. The video simulcast. And I was
listening to Mark Ronner, our news man. Hey, Mark Ronner,
Good evening evening, mom. I was listening to and during
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the news breaking and brought back this flood of memories.
I remember I was at Calli Mayor Middle School when
one day I went to school and it was the
whole discussion Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat
in a concert. Now this is pre internet, so mostly
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this is news reports, word of mouth, telephone train. We
weren't exactly sure how it happened, but then you know,
as years go on you get more of the story.
But it was such a phenomenon back then. Not only
did it happen, but it happened in Iowa. And so
that's the wrong place to bite off the head of
a bat. Well, I was always on the side of
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the bat. Actually, Ozzy Osbourne is someone who if you
know anything about him, but he was a lover of animals.
He thought, as the story goes, that he was biting
the head off of a rubber bat. Now, he probably
was under the influence of some sort of substance. You
think I'm just catching here, I'm spitball, okay, But as
the story goes, it was a dead bat. But it
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was a real bat found by some concertgoer outside of
his school, and he and his friends decided to throw
it up on stage. I don't know who in the
world wants to pick up a dead bat, but as
the story goes, picked up the dead bat, decided with
his friends to take it to the concert and they
were determined to throw it on stage to see what
Ozzie would do. Ozzie looked at the bat, picked up
(02:08):
the bat, bit off the head, thinking it was a
rubber bat, and according to Ozzy, all the gooey stuff
started coming out of the inside of the bat, so
he realized it was real.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, the nugat. I was lucky enough to be able
to go to an oz Fest at the Gorge in
Rushington and it was a really fun day.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm not a huge metal head.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't look like Foosh, I don't have the hair
for it, but lots of fun and now I feel
really fortunate to have gotten to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I always felt kind of left out.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I couldn't bang my head, you know, and have my
hair flopping around in Kylie maher middle school.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It just didn't I.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Know all the music, I just didn't, you know, I
couldn't partake like everyone else. I understand, kind of stood out,
you know, stuck out. But thoughts in prayers to the
family of Ozzy Osbourne. He's someone I did listen to
a lot of growing up, if only by os Moses
where I was going to school, middle school during the
height of his fame in the early nineteen eighties. Yes,
(03:04):
you would hear Ozzy Osbourne everywhere. But when you were
telling that story about the bat, it's just it just
brought back this flood of memories of how big a deal.
If you're not old enough to remember, Oh, it was
a hell of a big deal in the way that
the police and NWA f the police, how that kind
of transfixed media and all that was wrong in music.
(03:29):
You have to stop these young people, they're out of control.
That was Ozzy Osbourne because of that incident, and I
think if it happened to maybe New York people wouldn't
have cared as much, But it happened in Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Now, even though it's horrific to kill an animal like that,
if it wasn't already dead, it's a very rock and
roll thing to do, to do outrageous stuff that you
know will horrify parents everywhere. I can get behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, and I don't want to say it defined his legacy,
but everyone knew at that moment he would forever be
known and connected to that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, that's way up in the first line on your resume.
No matter what else you do in your life.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
If he never had another concert, that was going to
be Unfortunately, as we talk about it now, part of
his obituary.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think everyone knew in that moment. Yeah, you don't
get to choose that for yourself. You do that, you
own it for life.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's a sad day coming after the passing of Malcolm
Jamal Warner seems like, can you get a break?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Please tell you what they say threes?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I know, I know, I didn't want to say it
out loud, but she made me go there. That means
there's another one. We have to wait on, it's probably tomorrow,
maybe later on tonight. It might be me right here.
I don't think you would qualify on that level. No disrespect,
no will miss you. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate it,
but no one's gonna give a day. Let's not get
all emotional now. Also on the show tonight, Mark, you
(04:51):
and I are going to have a conversation next segment
because on a play some audio from the owner of
the La Times.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He went on with John Stewart. I saw that last
night and I was going to mention it to you.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, absolutely, And he made some pronouncements about cancer, cancer research,
of the future of La Times, and he almost sounds
halfway credible if you just sanitize his remarks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You know, as incredible as John Stewart's first segment was.
That interview was a horrible failure on his partner.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, it was. It was because it was not what
I say.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It lacked curiosity, It did not dig down on some
of the low hanging fruit, which is really part of
why he is a controversial figure and why anyone will
want to talk to him in the first place.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, I'll save my ammo for the segment, but I
was really disappointed with how Stewart did that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We'll talk about it next segment as a matter of fact.
And also you heard Mark Ronning's talking about the heat
wave going around the country. Well, Americans are advised not
to drink alcohol and not one, not two, but eighteen
different states, mostly in the South. Hold on now what yep, yep,
horse feathers, yep, don't drink alcohol down south because of
(06:02):
he don't kill you.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But they're going to so, oh well, we're just gonna
have to deal with the death.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do the matter.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
They're not gonna listen to damn science. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Please get out of here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And you know, public Health has issued some more warnings
about not going into La beachwater because it's full of feces.
Uh thirty ice cream just might be back. How'd you
like that segue? Ice cream from poop to chocolate? Yeah,
tasty to tasty. Uh thirty ice cream just maybe back.
They've been teasing a possible return on social media, so
(06:36):
we're gonna dig into that. Yes, and we're not talking
about in just grocerysource. We're talking about someone purchasing frifty
ice cream and then putting up some way that you
and I can buy directly thrifty ice cream. But you
know that's speculation. But when we come back, when we
talk about the La Times and their desire get this
to go public.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
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Speaker 1 (07:05):
KIM six forty years Later with mo Kelly well Live
on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, the iHeartRadio app. And the La
Times is something that I grew up with. It's something
I literally did read every single morning. My parents would
read the La Times and then I would take the
sports page of the Metro section. But it got me
in the habit of staying informed on a day to
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day basis.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It helped me in school.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It helped me with a better understanding of how the
world around me worked. Because we didn't have cable TV
back then, we didn't have the Internet. It was just
print media. It served a very important purpose in informing
the general public. Print media is not that anymore. When
I say print, I'm talking about the actual print, not
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online print, but physical print. There are few people in
my neighborhood who still actually get newspapers thrown over the
fence to their house. I don't know why. Maybe they
got it as a gift. I don't know, but people
still do buy physical newspapers. I'm not one of them,
but I miss what the La Times signified. It was
(08:10):
never the New York Times, it was never one of
those pre eminent newspapers when it came to journalism, but
it still held a very fond place in my heart
when I was growing up.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Those times are over.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
The president owner Patrick Soon shown, has made it very
clear that he wants the La Times to more reflect
his personal politics, not necessarily letting the journalists lead the way.
He's been heavy handed with what the editorial section can
and cannot print, going back to the presidential race, did
(08:43):
not allow the editorial board to endorse any Democratic candidates.
I'm saying, not just president all the way down, and
that seems to be the future of the La Times.
He was on with John Stewart last night and I
wanted to play two clips and get your thoughts. Mark
ronnerdu You've probably heard this, but you and I have
discussed the future in the past of print media and
(09:05):
where it may be headed. This is Patrick Soon shown,
and he's detailing the moment's leading up to his buying
the paper, and why he wanted to buy the paper.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
So news meant a lot.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Too, oh every day, because it really kept internally our
freedom right because we the people then were under parteed.
I lived under part it, the editors thought it, and
that's how I get educated, and that's how good inspired
so to me. By the time I was working on cancer,
I was giving forty eight hours, forty eight hours to
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buy this newspaper or not.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Why was there such a was it like a like
the movie speed, like fifty five miles an.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Hour, or the paper's going to blow up?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Like why forty eight hours?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
So Michael Farah had bought the Tribune at that point
in time, and he knew how much I wanted to
protect the newspaper in Los Angeles, and he come in
a Friday an I was ironically having a conference call
a conference with science doctors and cancer Miss Patrick. Monday.
We shutting down the DC Bureau. We're shutting down Los Angeles,
(10:12):
moving into Chicago. You got forty eight hours if you
want to buy it, it's five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
You had to make a five hundred million dollar decision,
take it or leave it. Forty eight hours you got it.
And was that a gut wrenching decision? Was it a
sleep losing decision.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It was a decision that I talked to my wife about,
if I may, I'll back go. Actually, because we both
grew up in South Africa.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Oh, so she was invested in this as well, very much.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
And we said, okay, but you said no due diligence,
you can't go to the newsroom. You don't know anything
forty eight hours. So I brought the team in that
came over and by Monday we both the newspaper too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
At this point, I wish he just would not have.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, can we get in the time machine and go
back and make him rethink.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
That he may have saved the paper, but he did
not save the brand.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Oh no, No. And the thing about his appearance last
night was that he's kind of a personable guy. He's
kind of a likable guy, and that distracts you from
the fact that he's been such an absolute and utter
disaster for the newspaper. I pity the longtime journalists there
who you know, when I was still at the Seattle
Times that we always kind of talked about how the
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hall smelled like a slaughter house. People had been crying
in the hallways. There are all sorts of rounds of
layoffs and buyouts, but we never and every newspaper has
to apologize for its editorial board because that's separate from
the journalists and the editorial people don't understand that. Well,
some people do and now the ones listening to us too. Yeah,
(12:00):
but you know, if you're just a shoe leather journalist,
you always have to apologize to people out in the
real world, like, no, we don't write those editorials. That
is the Brahmin class with the monocles that cranked out
that awful thing. But Patrick Suon Shong, newspapers are going extinct,
that's no secret, and that's horribly sad. He's one of
the people accelerating that extinction because of what you talked about,
(12:23):
which is he didn't respect the separation of ownership editorial independence.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yes, but there is a media illiteracy component to this
as well. People don't understand that they're supposed to be
that editorial independence. They're supposed to be correspondence. There are
journalists and there are editorial calmness, and there's an editorial board,
and the two shall never meet, you know, as they.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Say, yeah, the owner. You know, it's not your plaything.
You buy an institution. And I may have held the
La Times in higher esteem than you. I think it's
one of the countries and the world's legendary newspapers. And
this which Dinwitz just came in there and bought it
up and started reckoning it, and to.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Make bad matters worse, he is now trying to bail
and take The Times public.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
So I'm gonna known something with you tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Is that more than the newde Mouse.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
You're gonna know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
That we literally going to take La Times public and
allowed to be democratized and allowed the public to help
this paper.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Wow, okay, do you democratize facts?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Look, I'm not a stock market genius, and I know
a lot of people like to think of myself as that.
But I do know buy low, sell high, and I
don't buy stuff that has no future. I can't seriously
consider buying stock of a news paper outlet beyond just
the La Times.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It's like, what is the IP on that going to be?
Like four dollars? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But it started because of advertising revenue. Craigslist made it
so that nobody ever had to take out a personal
ad again.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Right, wait, but you have to explain not everyone remember
what a personal ad.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, I guess this is back in the area of
era of rotary phones. Yes, we looked at the want
ads when we were trying to find a job.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But that's part of how a newspaper stayed afloat it is.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, advertising revenue was what made newspapers able to exist,
and that went away more and more with free stuff
on the Internet. But also what added to that was
increasing irrelevance. When you can't trust a newspaper to give
you the straight truth about stuff, then you go elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Something else I've noticed in this online world and now
we'll just be bumping around the Internet and you'll see
like an editorial from USA Today on Facebook, and it's
not clearly marked as an editorial, And then you'll see
people assuming that that's USA Today, for example, and I'm
picking on them that that's either the editorial board or
(14:56):
the voice of USA Today weighing in on something. No,
it's an opinion editorial from a singular individual who's not
even employed by USA Today. There's a media illiteracy which
I think compounds this problem and issue we don't know
what we're looking at, and what we're looking at has
largely been corrupted.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Well, I worked for Gennett, which owns USA Today, one
of their hydra head newspapers in the Midwest, and let's
be honest, nobody ever confused USA Today with its colored
sections with you know, a great crusading newspaper that people
go to from.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'm sorry I got to jump in there, Mark, but
you and I know that is we're if we're going
to line up credible newspapers. But today I don't think
people understand that distinction.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Let me consult the newspaper with the purple section that
you get for free when you stay at a hotel.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Don't you know. Part of the reason why that USA
Today was so popular and was popular with me and
others in college they were given away to college students
back in the late eighties was the whole part the
point of it being a colorized newspaper. It was seen
as contemporary, as happening, as full we're looking where you
had the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times still
in black and white in the late eighties.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, it had no depth of coverage whatsoever, and the
corporate mandates I won't get into the weeds on that,
but if you want real news, you would go to
someplace like the La Times, the Washington Post, the New
York Times, even though Wall Street Journal. And just to
put a point on what I was saying about John
Stewart's interview, the interview with Patrick soon Scheng last night,
the massive failure was that he let the guy ramble
(16:28):
on about the cancer stuff that nobody understood, and Stuart
clearly didn't understand. And I saw the unedited version that
went on for something like twenty minutes. Stuart never tried
to hold Soon Seng accountable for this violation of the
sanctity of the separation of ownership and editorial at his
own newspaper.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't understand to dovetailor on that point. I don't
understand how he allowed it to happen within the same
media space, the same news cycle as Stephen Colbert, who
he was railing about on his show the same week.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, that first half hour segment of the show last
night was an absolute scorcher, and it was thorough and
it was just a master class in TV satire that
touches on current events. If you haven't seen it, get
it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's how I watched it because I sent it to you.
No no, no, no, no, not.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Stewart, you sent me Colbert, Oh, Colbert about I watched
that as well.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Colbert made me laugh out loud.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When we come back, we have to talk about the
weather and people are going to die from drinking in
the heat.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Will it be you?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
What's left to believe in? Yes, if you believe science. Okay,
I understand science is kind of controversial. Now, no one
wants to talk about science, well climate. KFIM six forty
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Speaker 4 (17:45):
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Speaker 3 (17:55):
Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We're live on social media and we're live on the
iHeartRadio app. And I gotta tell you, I've done a
lot of stupid stuff in my life. Some things I
paid the price for, some things that got away with.
But one of the stupid things I did when I
was in college was day drinking in the sun in
the heat. That was really, really dumb. I think I
(18:18):
got heat stroke and didn't even know it. But during
the summer is when you can get heat, exhaustion, heat stroke,
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention I think
that's one of the agencies we defunded, stated that extreme
heat can trigger heat related illnesses, particularly among seniors like me,
young children like Mark Runner, and people with chronic health conditions.
(18:39):
Symptoms can range from intense sweating and muscle cramps to
dizziness and nausea. According to the CDC, which I think
we defunded, extreme heat causes more than seven hundred deaths
annually in the US. Extreme heat warnings, which the NWS
to National Weather Service, I think we defunded them too,
issues when extremely dangerous heat conditions are expected or occurrent.
(19:01):
So those two agencies suggested advised against drinking alcohol in
not one, not two, but eighteen different states, more specifically Kansas.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Oh Lahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, Arkansas, Missouri,
Mississippi sounds like a Miss USA competition or Miss America, Tennessee, Kentucky,
and Illinois.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Those are the main ones. Illinois, Illinois. Yeah, Okay, it's
not down south, but it's supposed to be very hot.
You had the weather, you should know which states it's involving.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I guess it gets hot there and in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But also there's some less severe heat advisories which have
also been issued for parts of the following states. South
Dakota shout out to Christin No, Nebraska, Uh, Decas or
Texas as they say, Iowa, Louisiana, I love by Kate
Jackson football, fum Malaya fumbleski Florida, Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
North Carolina, South Carolina. Don't drink any alcohol in any
of those states.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
California, you should be okay, didn't you say, like California
should be in the eighties or at least southern California.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, okay, so we'll be good. No, we're good to
have a beer all right. In fact, if you want
to bring some in, that'd be great. I only drink
beer not at work, number one. And I only drink
beer at dodd games. Yeah say that, that's the only
time I do. What's a beer cost it a Dodgers game?
Like fifteen dollars?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No exaggeration, Oh of course, okay, and they get it's
the tall like magnum. Yeah, they're they're pretty big, but still, yeah,
it's pretty it's like fifteen dollars, And I remember I
got a modello and I said, wow, okay at a
Dodger dog.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A Dodger dog. And I'm sitting out in the sun.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
So I'm being very careful because i know I'm on
the wrong side of twenty five and I take that
to the head and I'll be laid out there and
missed the rest of the game. But no, I'm not
going to bring you beer in the studio, Mark Ronner.
I thought we were friends, but we are friends. Proceed.
If we weren't friends, I would actually bring you beer
(21:21):
so you can get fired.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh, So perspective is the key here.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I don't want to I don't want to call any names,
but we have had some people leave up out of
here for drinking on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now, there's always somebody at any radio station who is
just really obviously plastered.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
But there were some I'm not gonna call any names,
there were some people who were more blatant about it
than others. We've had people come to work with the
beer in their hand already slashed. Oh, just open carrying.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Open carry, open container.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I feel naive because somebody pointed out somebody I knew
who apparently came to work just blotto, and I didn't
notice it didn't smell anything. I just thought it was
how the person acted.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But this this person was an on air personality, and
then got on the air and it was apparent to
everyone who was listening and paying attention. And you know,
the person took the beer into the studio with him
her they and kept on drinking.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
How could anybody not tell?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
It?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Was like, I can't find everyone knew. But I guess
some people look the other way.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I guess not every single drunk sounds like Foster Brooks.
But still, you're really dating yourself. But I don't know
who Foster everybody does?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Foosh? Come on, I bet you Carnesia has no idea
who who Foster Brooks is. She didn't know the movie Alien.
Tell me I'm wrong. It's unfair to bring her into it. Okay, Exeph,
do you know who Foster Brooks was? I've heard of
the name.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I couldn't tell you what he No, No, no, you're
thinking of Foster Grant Sunglass. I'm talking about Foster Brooks.
You're putting words in his mouth.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
No, I'll be honest. I've heard of the name. I
just I couldn't tell you what or where anything about him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
He's a legendary drunk, or at least his stick was.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
He was on all the Dean Martin ROAs when we
were growing up, and his stick was that he was
he was a drunk and he could mimic like belching
and stuff during his speech, and he was hilarious. Look
him up on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
You know what, Daniel, where are you when I need?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Bring up a Foster Brooks clip real quick before we
go to break. Yeah, you feel very old tonight, Mark.
It's not old to know things, but your cultural references
are like nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I grew up with my grandparents and so all my
tastes and references are like two generations before me. So
I watched all the stuff they were watching when I
was just barely able to walk.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
If you're watching our YouTube show right now, you can
see some old Dean Martin Foster Brooks.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yes, good stuff I got on. I got one of
him roasting Don Wrickles. I don't know there's cursing it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, we can always dump it out. Let's play it
on the edge. Don Rickles is probably cursing.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
That's very portant. Frederic and gentlemen, just told you I
have never met Don Record. In fact, he's probably wondering
what I'm doing here. He has never even never evens.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He has never seen me before.
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love thrifty ice cream just like I do. I have
loved thrifty ice cream for all of my life, yes,
all of my life. I don't know if it was
fifteen cents twenty five cents when I first started falling
in love with it, but it was really really cheap.
It was maybe it hadn't been less than a quarter.
But we know, with the closure of write aids all
(25:26):
around the country, the question was what was going to
happen with thrifty ice cream? And I've gotten your messages.
I know you can get those tubs of thrifty ice cream,
and like Albertsons, I'm not talking about buying it in
a grocery store. I'm talking about just getting a scoop here,
a scoop there.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I don't want a gallon. I don't want that much
ice cream.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I just want to wet my appetite every now and
then with some cookies and cream. Damn it, that's all
I'm asking for out of life. I don't need a tub.
I just need a cone, just a cone every now
and then. And I'm being very honest. When I get
Thrifty ice cream, I feel closer to my father who
always took me to get Thrifty ice cream.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
It's kind of a ritual that we have. He picked
me up from school and.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Then on the way home and say, hey, you want
to get some express say show, let's get some Thrifty
ice cream.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
That's something that we would do together.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So the whole process of getting a scoop of ice
cream back then it was just a cone. You didn't
get it in a little bowl. He put it on
a cone. That meant a lot to me, and it
does even now. So I don't need to just get
Thrifty ice cream from the grocery store.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I need an actual cone or a cup.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And we were wondering what was going to happen to
Thrifty and people have been monitoring its online presence. The
website was still up, but social media had largely been dark.
That was until last Wednesday, when all of a sudden,
one of the social media channels for thrifty came alive
(26:59):
and had a post saying quote, we know we've been
quiet and we're sorry. Some sweet news is coming soon,
and then also said making new memories. That speaks to
people like me. You know, memories. I think of my dad,
I think of thrifty ice cream. I think of us
going and getting ice cream together for like less than
(27:20):
forty cents in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So I'm looking forward to new memories. Maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
CNBC's Fast Money reported recently that the coos Co CEOs
of Monster Beverage Corporation had purchased Thrifties assets for approximately
nineteen point two million dollars. There's not much more information
than that at the moment, but it does mean there
(27:48):
is a future for thrifty ice cream beyond the offerings
in grocery stores. And you know, last night we talked
about what your ice cream is according to your zodiac sign.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I would love to have some Thrifties crispy.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Excuse me, cookies and cream right now, right now, just
a scoop, just one.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I don't need a whole bowl. I don't need a
whole gallon.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Just a couple scoops of thrifty cookies and cream ice cream.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
It is loaded with nostalgia, yeah, because you can get
cookies and cream somewhere else, and it does have a
different taste to it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I don't have any emotional connection, no disrespect. I have
zero emotional connection to Basket Robins, yes and zero. I'm
sure the ice cream tastes just fine. I'm sure the
cookies and cream is passable. I don't feel anything when
I pass Basket Robins, and I'm not encouraged emotionally to
(28:51):
walk in the Basket Robins and get some cookies and cream.
It doesn't remind me of anything or anyone. You take
me past a ride aid, or least in the past,
go a right aid, walk into a right aid and
see that thrifty sign up there? Who tears? Maybe tears
got to bring my thrifty ice cream back?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't know if it was a thing mark with
you in Washington.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
No, I have no idea what you're talking about. And
I'm curious about if it's actually objectively good compared to
other ice cream.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Oh, your your opinion doesn't matter, don't worry about it. Well, no,
I'm just asking. It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, No, it's it's actually yes, I am biased, but
it is great tasting ice cream. But also it is
synonymous with southern California, Okay, and it's and my example
was just one of many where it's deep rooted with
families and memories and just a tradition of going with
family members to get thrifty ice cream.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I don't eat ice cream very often because I have
no impulse control, and so if there's some in the refrigerator,
we do this thing where we kind of we eat
what we think is a reasonable amount. Then we start
like cheating and like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
You kind of dig around so it doesn't look like
you've had as much as you've had.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
My dad would have ice cream in the freezer and
I never touched it. I never have a taste for
ice cream more than a scoop here or there.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And it's maybe once every two or three months at most.
But when I want to have some Thrifties ice cream,
I want to have some Thrifty ice cream and hopefully
it's coming back and coming back sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Something else we can count on you to bring into
the studio for us. This is gonna be great.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Last Yeah, two hour dry Yeah, maybe we'll get a
you know, some dry ice.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Does your wife share the same nostalgic effect of it
or no?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not for thrifty, for thrifty Okay, yeah, I believe that
she's had it, but I don't think it's the same connection.
She'll bring in some basket robins and she just wants
to give me some cookies and cream and it's like, oh,
thank you very much, honey.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You know whatever, big deal.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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