December 13, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the LA City Council’s nearly unanimous vote to gradually increase minimum wage for tourism workers to $30 by 2028…PLUS – A look at the 136th annual Tournament of Roses Parade and why attending the parade in person is a ‘bucket list’ must AND the final PastaThon totals - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Mister mo Kelly, we are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I hope the traffic wasn't as bad for you today
as it was for me. But you know, on Thursdays
it's usually always bad. But it was an exceptionally bad
experience for me today. But I'm glad I got here safely.
I didn't have to double bird anyone, even though Mark
(00:43):
Rodner may have today, I don't know. It was tempting.
There were some kooks on the road.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Today, you mean, including or not including you? Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was a model of patience and good citizenship. But
it really required a ton of self restraint not to
really let a few people have it for me for
being dangerous, rude and just general d bags.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How many birds per capita do you usually flip? Per capita?
There are no birds per capita? What's wrong with you?
How often did flip a single or a double on average?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I would say it's.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Not every day, But you must understand that like the
four h five. Uh, it's it's like we know people
who when you're in their presence, if you're in their
presence for more than say, thirty seconds, you're probably gonna
get in an argument. And you know that about those
people you know about, say the one oh one and
the four oh five, that if you're on there for
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any length of time, your odds of needing to give
somebody the finger go way up.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I think you paid too much attention to other people.
When I'm in the car. No, I'm serious. With the
exception of motor cycles which may be coming very close
to my cars, they're lane splitting, I'm pretty much indifferent
and I'm oblivious because I'm going to stay in my
same lane and I'm just going to keep on moving
forward and try to mentally just go to some of
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the place and just get through the ride. That's the
hardest part of my day. I tell people all the time.
The hardest part of my day is just getting to
the office. Not doing the job, not going home, nothing
like that, not even dealing with people here at the office.
It's just driving in because it's anywhere from an hour
to an hour and a half of something that would
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usually drive most people to insanity.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh, there's no question about it. In fact, I think
it's not an accident that I started having to go
on blood pressure and meds almost immediately after I started
working at CAFI.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, there are probably some other reasons, but we won't
care that. No, no, no, it's just the traffic. Okay, it's
just the traffic.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, there's also something else we need you to weigh
in on, very quickly, just very quickly. We know the
Franklin fire is still burning. I wouldn't say out of control.
That has a little bit more containment. We also know
that there might be a little bit of rain in
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the near future. What else can you tell us, Mark,
This is a true thing.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We have a thirty percent chance of rain Saturday, but
just Saturday, not any kind of weak marathon of rain
or anything. Back to normal by Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'll take the good news wherever we can find it.
As you know, though, Mo, the weather forecast do change.
So if say we do have a little little sprinkle,
little drizzle on Sunday, I fully expect recriminations from you
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm holding you to what you said now, word for word. Yeah,
thirty percent chance tomorrow, so there better be some rain somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, No, thirty percent chance is Saturday, not tomorrow, Saturday.
Tomorrow's Friday. Okay, But what if it rains tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know about you, but when I was driving
in it was drizzling just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
If it rains tomorrow, I guess we'll just have to
talk again, and I'll have to bear the brunt of
your abuse. Oh okay, that's fair, and the abusing you
is we both take a trip to HR on Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hey, very quickly, have you chosen your runner report for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I saw Craven the Hunter today.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Ooh, ooh, you sought that movie out. I don't want
to give anything away from a movie, but that's me
that's saying, Oh, it's got a fifteen percent rotten to
MAKEO score right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh, it's almost like someone like puts too much salt
in your food.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's like ooh ooh, well, like pee with a sparag ooh,
you have to eat asparagus before you pee in my food.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Ooh, you're so vivid with these pictures you're drawing here.
That's why I got to be where I am as
a writer. He twell, are you going to see Craven
this week?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Tonight? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Tonight after the show? Why are you running to see
these movies that you probably. I don't know, Mark, you
haven't told me, but you probably will.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Not like because I don't want to be left out
When Mark is doing the RUNA report tomorrow, I don't
want to be left out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Leave me out of it. I have fom leave me
out of the MO. I like that. We're doing a
public service. MO.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We have to inform people movie criticism is as a
consumer benefit as well as just talking about movies.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, all right, we're here to help. Can't wait until tomorrow,
or maybe I can wait.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We'll have to see also tonight though, as we get underway,
we will tell you about how La City Council has
voted to increase the minimum wage for tourism workers. We
have talked about that story, but it's going to be
up to thirty dollars by the time the Olympics hit La.
Imagine that. And it's Rose Parade preparation time. We have
the latest information. And if we haven't said it before,
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we'll say it now and we'll say it again. You
got to go to the Rose Parade at least once.
You have to see it in person. It is an
experience and it's one of those things I personally feel
should be on your bucket list.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's just me.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I've done it, and it's not for everyone in the
sense of doing it every single year, but at least
once you should experience it. I think Twalla would agree.
I think I do. Man a few words, I do, No,
I do, and then I get married. No, that was
that was couch with I do.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And then in the back of my mind I said
I wouldn't do it again, though, if only because I didn't.
And now I'm at that age where I can't sit
for like fifty eleven hours watching the parade and not
have access to a restroom.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well there's that, and you have to spend a lot
of time getting there early to get a good enough
placement seat I don't know, pitch your tent or whatever
to be able to see it the next day.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh you know. No, when we went, we didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We bought tickets, bought parking passes, and had a spot
on a bleacher, watched all the parades go by in
the entire time, and then I kept thinking of myself like, man,
I'm gonna have to hold this as long as possible.
But trying to getting that porta potty line, you know,
don't you have like a plastic bottle somewhere, you know,
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but yeah, you know you don't want what happens if
you do that? Okay, passing in the police. They're looking
for people with bottles. Really, yeah, they don't want to
they're trying to catch you. Okay, charge, Okay, then I'll
rescind that record.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No no, no, no no. But you should see it. I mean,
wear a diaper. If you need to, you should see it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
If you're older, if you're if you're of an advanced age,
you should go see it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A shame and it depends.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's just counterintuitive for me to wear a diaper just
because I don't want to deal with the weight and
the line.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Do you have to catch it just in cage? You
don't want any access, you don't want to walk back.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh, it'll be intentional at that point, It'll be a
conscious decision on my part.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If I'm wearing a diaper.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's going to be like, hey, mo, how did you
manage to stay out at the at the roast raid
and go to the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
What did you do? Well? I that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Oh yeah, you really want to take one of those
things for a test drive? Not just a one time thing. Yeah,
you have to try it out in advance. Yeah, see
what it can hold.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
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Speaker 2 (08:21):
And we often talk about the fight to increase the
minimum wage, be it on a state wide level, be
it for fat food workers, be it for tourism workers,
and how that might impact you me and what that
means for the economy and the state and beyond. The
La City Council today voted twelve to three to increase
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the minimum wage, specifically for tourism workers at a graduate
a gradual rate, and also provide improved healthcare benefits. Kind
of controversial to anyone who's not a member of the
tourism industry or working for minimum wage within that industry.
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Under the proposal of the ordinances would be amended to
boost hourly wages to twenty two to fifty an hour
by this coming February, increase to twenty five dollars an
hour by twenty twenty six, twenty seven, fifty by twenty
twenty seven, and then get this, thirty dollars by twenty
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twenty eight. That's a huge step up because if you're
let's say twenty one dollars an hour right now, in
the next four years, you'll probably have an increase. Assuming
that you're working as in a tourism industry hospitality worker,
you'll have a nine dollars increase, which is about a
forty percent bump in your wage. This is what it
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sounded like today, proves three notes. The substitute marshal passes.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
That was so the moment, the La City Council voted
twelve to three to gradually increase the minimum wage for
tourism workers to twenty two dollars and fifty cents an
hour starting July first. It will increase to thirty dollars
an hour by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Hey, hey, why are you repeating everything what I said?
I already said that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You don't need to recapitulate, restate, mock me, and resay
what I already said.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
When the city is expected to host the Olympics.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I struggle. I live in Los Angeles. The rent is
very very high.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The rent is very very high. Wait, you know what
I'm going to say, right, you know what I'm going
to say. The rent is very, very high, and another
opportunity was missed as far as rent control. Why do
I bring that up? Because the rent is going to
be even higher next year, and a year after that,
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in two years, in three years, in twenty twenty eight,
it'll be even higher.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know how impactful these increases will be because
everything else will go up kind of a constant with that.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
A lot of workers live outside of Los Angeles, as
the travel Bakersfield, Lancaster just to work and at LAX,
and it shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The Olympics generate billions of dollars for every city that
it enters, and we don't want the workers to get
left behind.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And so the whole point here.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Is, well, we do know that the Olympics are only
two weeks, right, They're only two weeks long, and these
increases are going to be permanent. And I'm not against
anyone getting more money. I've said before, and I'm not
going to contradict myself. You are Your worth is what
you can negotiate. If you can negotiate thirty dollars an hour,
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and you were given thirty dollars an hour, then you've
earned thirty dollars an hour. But I always want to
remain intellectually honest as far as the reason you're giving
for needing that three dollars an hour or deserving thirty
dollars an hour, And if you're going to tie it,
I know it's just one person, but I'm just saying,
there are a lot of people saying because of the
influx of people who are coming for the Olympics, that
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this is necessary because of that, And I'm saying, let's
not forget the Olympics are only two weeks long, four
or five if you count the Paralympics as well, temporary
that it.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
That it enters, and we don't want the workers to
get left behind. And so the whole point here is
the workers want to come together to earn an Olympic wage.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Is what we're calling it, an Olympic wage. It's only
a few weeks long out.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
If you want to say, okay, this Olympic wage is
where you're going to have a surge in wages, kind
of like when Stephan is driving for Uber and let's
say it's a holiday, or let's say he's going to
the airport, they have this thing called surge pricing or
dynamic pricing. If they had dynamic wages because of the
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Olympics coming to town, that would make more sense, right,
It would seem that way because you're talking about a
moment in time. This is temporary. The Olympics are coming,
and then they're going. We have the World Cup which
is coming, then it's leaving. Okay, we'll have I think
the NBA All Star Game and into a Dome is coming,
and then it's going temporary.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You can base your argument completely around the idea of, well,
let's raise the wage just because the Olympics are coming
and we don't want people to get left.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Behind to earn an Olympic wage, it's what we're calling it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Worker say they need this minimum wage increase because the
cost of living here in la is so high, but
others argue that raising the minimum wage will cause many
to lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Running a business is hard.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Restaurants have a hard time making money, hotels are having
a hard time.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Tourism is down.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We have still not come back to twenty nineteen tourism numbers.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Before the vote, council members voice their disapproval for the process,
saying it felt like a backdoor deal.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
It is completely disregarded everybody that is affected by these policies,
and in fact, it's been so egregious in the way
that this was all conducted.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
There is no solution for this.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There is not, if only because it is expensive to
live in la it is the rent is too damn high.
It does cost a lot for all this sunshine, even
though it may rain on Saturday. According to Mark Ronner,
I think he's wrong, But according to Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We pay for this weather.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Isn't this the whole point of living in California if
you're going to stay in California, despite all the things
that we may argue about the things that we may dislike,
the point of living in California is we have advantages.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We have perks that they don't have in Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
A little rain every now and then it helps you
appreciate all the nice weather mode. It's like if you
have a day without fire, you know you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, absolutely, absolutely, and hopefully our days of fire are
fewer and further in between.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I've got bad news for you on that front.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh well, can't have it all, Okay, you can have
your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Focus on the pluses and what you can't eat, not
a lot of eggs and milk. If you believe social media. Yeah,
then there's the whole bird flu thing. Yeah, yeah, we're doomed.
Never mind what.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
No, yeah, bird flu, e coali, salmonella, you know, because
of raw milk and other things. And have you ever
in your life, I'm being honest now, serious question, have
you ever in your life seriously considered drinking raw milk.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think it's gross for adults to drink milk at
all in the first place, So definitely no raw milk.
But there's been I think that occasionally from Trader Joe's,
we've gotten some kind of raw cheese that I probably
wouldn't get at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I remember growing up. I used to love milk. I
really did. I love milk. I had it with just
about all my meals. As I got older and more
lactose intolerant, that's gone away.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're just intolerant.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, that's true, but as far as lactose is concerned
for this conversation, just another facet overall intolerance. Yes, I
am a milk fascist. As I got older, I got
away from cow milk and my wife. You know, she
just stuffed the refrigerator with almond milk and even put
in some oat milk creamer.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's like oats have memory glens. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I tried coconut milk, and those look much more like
memory glens.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There's a bonus. No oat milk rules coconut milk, that's
basically water. How about neither? How about neither oat milk
nor coconut milk. I don't like coconut water, and I
definitely don't like coconut milk. And you know, I don't
even like eggnog. Since we're in the season, I don't
know who invented eggnog. Let's put the eggs in the milk.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I didn't. And as some liquor too, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I suspect it was an alcoholic trying to hide the
liquor put it in everything.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's the funniest thing is that the ones they sell it,
like Rouse and Vaughands, that have supposedly Jack already in
the eggnog, it doesn't even have it. It doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I don't know why they that's like false advertising, right,
I just like trace elements.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Know where the desire for people to drink eggnog came from.
It tasted nasty to me as a child, it did
as an adult. I will never develop a taste for
it or desire for it. Like for example, I didn't
like cream cheese as a kid. I wanted to taste
a little bit sweeter like icing. As I got older,
my taste changed. It changed, and I developed a love
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for cream cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now this is what happens when you get old. Your
tastes do change.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Stuff like egg fou young stops looking like a tumor
and it starts looking tasty. And I don't know the
reason for this. I haven't and around to egg food young.
It's just one example. Like spinach, asparagus, all the things
that you used to mock your parents and your grandparents
for eating. Like at some point I'm gonna start craving
aspec and I'm terrified of this.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I used to like oaka as a kid, not as
an adult. I hated spinach as a kid, either raw
or cooked. Love it as an adult. I'll put spinach
in all sorts of salads. I'll put spinach when my
eggs when I cook them. Love spinach. But yeah, your
taste do change and going back to milk. I've never
had any desire to even mess around with raw milk.
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I just can't can't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, times are changing. We got RFK Junior. Who's going
to change your mind about that?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No he's not, No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He can he can recommend whatever he wants because this
is America, and I love America and freedom and freedom
not to drink raw milk. Oo is there such a
thing as raw oat milk? How about raw coconut milks?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I mean it sounds dirty, but it's Later with mo
Kelly k if I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But I was saying at the top of the show,
if you get the opportunity, if not for you, definitely
for your kids. Definitely for your kids see the Rose
Parade in person, just once at least. And maybe you're
not up to doing it like I did when I
was a teenager, spending the night out there the day before,
But if you want to, I don't know what it's
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like now as far as spending the night.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
But for me, it was great, had a great time.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
It's probably not the same because the world has changed
since I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But still the Rose Parade is one of the crown
jewels when you talk about Southern California. Things you must do,
things you must see. See the Rose Parade in person.
Yes you can watch it on TV. Yes you've probably
seen it on TV. The one hundred and thirty six
Rose Parade presented by Honda is going to be from
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eight am to ten am New Year's Day, and you
can get tickets for the grandstand at sharpseting dot com. No,
not twallets sharp, He's not selling them, but I'm saying
that's the website sharp seating dot com. It is an experience,
and obviously, when you're watching something on TV, the vantage
point in view is not the same.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
When you're there in person.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You can feel the energy, you can see more than
just a float or two in front of you can
see up and down Colorado Avenue.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I think it's Colorado aver and it's just a completely
different experience.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I loved it when I spent the night out there
when I was fifteen with a few of my friends.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
We had one adult who was looking over us.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
We had sleeping bags and a quasi tent, and it
was an all night party. I don't know if you
can still do that now, but it was just a
great time. And then we watched the Rose Parade. Obviously,
you celebrate, you know, New Year's at midnight, but then
you have the Rose parades the next day. It's just
just a great experience and I'm glad that I can
say that I've done it. And Twala, you've been from Pasadade.
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I'm quite sure you look at it in a different
way as well.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We used to annually walk up and down Colorado all
night long, just throwing marshmallows, back when silly strings wasn't
an issue. You silly string and watch the cars go
back and forth. It was such a family reunion, such
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a family vibe, such fun. And it wasn't until I
was an actual adult with my own children that I
finally saw the parade.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Why because we would.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Spend all day and all night walking up and down Colorado,
some ten miles back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, and we would do it and then get
home and fall asleep and all through the parade on television,
all through the reruns. Went down there with my kids
when I think they were six and three, maybe ish,
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and it was a time when you fill those bands
going by, and you fill the thunder of the drums
in your chest just then beating as they're walking by.
It is magnificent seeing those marching bands live. Nothing will
compare to it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I didn't know how much I appreciated the New Year's
Day Rose Parade until we didn't have it during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And I was so glad when it came back.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And since it's come back after the pandemic, they've really
stepped up the presentation, like, for example, they're going to
have pyrotechnics, synchronized lights, extreme stunts, they have alo black
and I don't know. I need to ask someone who's
much younger than me, Stephan, you're about forty years younger
than me.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Who's the artist kiyosa kisa k I E k I
E s z A. You got me on that one. Okay,
where's Bella?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right? That might be a Bella or.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Any someone who was born maybe this century, I mean,
you know, this decade or recent to tell us about
some of these artists. But they're stepping up the presentation.
That's okay. I didn't honestly, I didn't know that was
her name. She does a lot of Uh no, it's
not DM, but in that realm, that's what that's what
she except they've seen her.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'd like her stuff. I just didn't know that was
her name. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
See she's going to be performing along with Alo Black
and I know him and I've heard his music before
to kick off the Rose Parade. They're part of the
Rose Parade opener and there, And that's what you need
to do to continue to remain relevant. You have to
talk to the younger generation on some level, on some level,
be it music, and you're competing with a lot of
other stuff on New Year's Day a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I mean, you have to.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And I don't think to all of your kids, if
they weren't exposed to it, would have any desire to
see a Rose Parade. I don't know if fourteen or
eighteen year olds want to see the Rose Parade in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Nah, Like if they go, it'd be something that their
mother drags them to. But I don't know. You know this,
this is my son's first eighteen year old New Year's
at he's out what he's got cooking. My daughter may
want to go and hang out with her friends, you
know she wanted to do last year and ring in
the New Year with apple cider and a bunch of
girls in pajamas' Oh apple cider. That is what they
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call it. Now, that's what they call it. That is
what they call it. But nah, it's when they were younger. Yes,
and they've gone I don't know how many times, but
they've had the experience. That's the point.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's not like they've missed out.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And maybe I'm more speaking to parents where if you
get the opportunity and maybe you haven't done it, or
you know that your children haven't done it, can't recommend
this enough. And if you're wondering about what type of environment,
maybe just no passadesen the police. They're not gonna be
playing around. They don't play and it's a family environment.
And now they're even stricter this year. Last year when
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they were first like trying to bring it back, they
were like, there is no anything happening. You will sit
in your seats and watch the parade and you will
go home. This year, it's even stricter. They're not playing around.
There will be as they've said, and I quote no shenanigans. Quote, Yeah,
I'm so glad that I'm not a teenager anymore because
I would have been out there with all sorts of shenanigans,
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all sorts of shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But you know, time's got to change.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Highly recommend if you get a chance, check out the
Rose Parade in person. Get your tickets at sharp seating
dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No relation, no connection to to Walla Sharp.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Just want to give you a final poss Sathon update. First,
it was a great time. It was an absolutely great time.
It was a celebration of not only what you, as
a KFI listener are capable of, but a celebration of
what we ultimately did in service of Katerina's Club. Here
are some final pastathon totals. Wendy's was able to donate
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through your donations contribute one hundred and sixty three thousand,
four hundred and thirty five dollars. Smarten finals from all
around southern California and also different states. Five hundred and
eleven thousand, three hundred and eight dollars. So you have
Wendy's with one hundred and sixty three thousand, four hundred
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and thirty five dollars, smart and Final with five hundred
and eleven thousand, three hundred and eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But check this out.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Katerina's Club the direct donations between Pastathon and December eighth,
when we stopped receiving donations, the direct donations Katerina's Club
fielded five hundred and forty eight thousand, five hundred and
twenty seven dollars. That's because all you guys were pushing
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donations through the website. Okay, what you were doing. You
heard us here on Later with Mokella. You heard us
on wake Up Call with Amy King. You were listening
to Bill Handel, You were paying attention during Gary and Shannon.
You cared when John Cobel was talking about Pastathon, You
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responded when Tim Conway Junior was reminding you about Pastathon,
and you pushed five hundred and forty eight thousand, five
hundred and twenty seven dollars in direct donations through Katerina's Club.
The grand total one million, two hundred and twenty three thousand,
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two hundred and seventy dollars. Think about that for a second,
one point two million dollars to feed children.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I said it then and I'll say it again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I am in awe of your collective and consistent generosity.
You show up for Catarita's Club, You show up for
the children every single year, every single year. This was
the fourteenth annual. Pasta thought, You've shown up every single year.
And it astounds me how caf I just just one station,
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one station. Of course, with the assistance and help of
Wendy's allok around Southern Californian and smartan Final, we can
raise more than a million dollars consistently now annually. How
many children are going to be fed? Now we know
that Chef Bruto was feeding some twenty five thousand kids
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each week, twenty five thousand, and we know now that
they'll he'll at least be able to continue that, he'll
at least be able to continue rehousing families, He'll be
able to continue his hospitality academy. That is you, That
is your contribution, that is your dedication, and your consistency
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in your generosity. And oh, let me just say like
this and I said it the night of Postathon, but
if you didn't hear it, then I started here KFI
on December eleventh, thirteen years ago, in twenty eleven. December eleventh,
twenty eleven, So I just passed my thirteen year anniversary.
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I've been able to watch Postathon grow from year to
year to year, and your commitment has steadily increased. And
because your commitment has steadily increased, Chef Bruno and his
impact and his reach has also steadily increased. This is
unseen in the history of Southern California radio. No one
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comes close, and you can depend on KFI like you
can the sun coming up in the morning. And I
just have to take my hat off to you, and
I cannot be effusive enough to not only congratulate you,
but salute you in what you do. The only way
that it could have been better, the only way was
if we could have gotten Mark Ronner to join us.
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Another time. It'll happen. I don't know if it's going
to happen this decade though.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Or I could just die abruptly, but we believe in
hope it can't go find.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
There's a little bit in between. Okay, it doesn't have
to be one or the other. Okay, it's not like.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Either you don't show up, or you die.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I mean, you know, there's a little bit of middle ground.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you
for the food that you brought me from that wondrous event.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh, you're very welcome. I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh, I know, because you didn't show up. Yeah, you
didn't make a request. If you would have asked, I'm
quite sure I would have done it, but you didn't ask.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, I had to hold down the fort here.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I had to get the people the news they need
to make informed choices as citizens in a democracy mode.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
No, I didn't say that you didn't have other responsibilities
that you weren't tending to. I'm saying, if you specifically
wanted me to bring you some food, I'm going to
use the thin excuse that you did not ask me.
And because you know, ask not.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Want not, No, No, how could you ever into it
such a thing while you happened to be at a
restaurant known for its delicious food, and I have nothing
here in the news book. I wouldn't expect you to
to come up with something like that on your own.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Look, I have been purchasing dinner for you guys on
Friday nights for quite some time now, for the past
two years.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It all comes out now, doesn't you? Thankfullest you ungrateful? Okay,
needy kitchen sink time on KFI kitchen sink time. Okay,
how about I make it up to you tomorrow during
Friday Show.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You got a deal, Stephan? Did you record this? Is this?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Can we play this back to him again and again tomorrow?
It will live in perpetuity.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Does it have to be White House? Anaheim? White House? No?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
No, no, no, no, okay, So we'll just get some
food tomorrow. Do you have any desire for Italian or
something like that? No, peris.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And there we go.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And you can hear that on last night's podcast if
you if you need to get.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Caught up in just in case you don't know that reference.
Oh boy, yeah, we're talking about pizza. Definitely. You could
say I threw Moe a curve right there, give it
to him. You got one more before we go?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
That's all I got. I'm spent. Oh wait right.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
There, damn you, Mark Runner, Damn you. I am six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
App Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss. Please lead blistless.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
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Speaker 1 (33:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Mister mo Kelly, we are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I hope the traffic wasn't as bad for you today
as it was for me. But you know, on Thursdays
it's usually always bad. But it was an exceptionally bad
experience for me today. But I'm glad I got here safely.
I didn't have to double bird anyone, even though Mark
(00:43):
Rodner may have today, I don't know. It was tempting.
There were some kooks on the road.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Today, you mean, including or not including you? Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I was a model of patience and good citizenship. But
it really required a ton of self restraint not to
really let a few people have it for me for
being dangerous, rude and just general d bags.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
How many birds per capita do you usually flip? Per capita?
There are no birds per capita? What's wrong with you?
How often did flip a single or a double on average?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I would say it's.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Not every day, But you must understand that like the
four h five. Uh, it's it's like we know people
who when you're in their presence, if you're in their
presence for more than say, thirty seconds, you're probably gonna
get in an argument. And you know that about those
people you know about, say the one oh one and
the four oh five, that if you're on there for
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any length of time, your odds of needing to give
somebody the finger go way up.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I think you paid too much attention to other people.
When I'm in the car. No, I'm serious. With the
exception of motor cycles which may be coming very close
to my cars, they're lane splitting, I'm pretty much indifferent
and I'm oblivious because I'm going to stay in my
same lane and I'm just going to keep on moving
forward and try to mentally just go to some of
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the place and just get through the ride. That's the
hardest part of my day. I tell people all the time.
The hardest part of my day is just getting to
the office. Not doing the job, not going home, nothing
like that, not even dealing with people here at the office.
It's just driving in because it's anywhere from an hour
to an hour and a half of something that would
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usually drive most people to insanity.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh, there's no question about it. In fact, I think
it's not an accident that I started having to go
on blood pressure and meds almost immediately after I started
working at CAFI.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, there are probably some other reasons, but we won't
care that. No, no, no, it's just the traffic. Okay, it's
just the traffic.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, there's also something else we need you to weigh
in on, very quickly, just very quickly. We know the
Franklin fire is still burning. I wouldn't say out of control.
That has a little bit more containment. We also know
that there might be a little bit of rain in
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the near future. What else can you tell us, Mark,
This is a true thing.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We have a thirty percent chance of rain Saturday, but
just Saturday, not any kind of weak marathon of rain
or anything. Back to normal by Sunday.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'll take the good news wherever we can find it.
As you know, though, Mo, the weather forecast do change.
So if say we do have a little little sprinkle,
little drizzle on Sunday, I fully expect recriminations from you
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm holding you to what you said now, word for word. Yeah,
thirty percent chance tomorrow, so there better be some rain somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, No, thirty percent chance is Saturday, not tomorrow, Saturday.
Tomorrow's Friday. Okay, But what if it rains tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know about you, but when I was driving
in it was drizzling just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
If it rains tomorrow, I guess we'll just have to
talk again, and I'll have to bear the brunt of
your abuse. Oh okay, that's fair, and the abusing you
is we both take a trip to HR on Monday.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hey, very quickly, have you chosen your runner report for tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I saw Craven the Hunter today.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Ooh, ooh, you sought that movie out. I don't want
to give anything away from a movie, but that's me
that's saying, Oh, it's got a fifteen percent rotten to
MAKEO score right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh, it's almost like someone like puts too much salt
in your food.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's like ooh ooh, well, like pee with a sparag ooh,
you have to eat asparagus before you pee in my food.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Ooh, you're so vivid with these pictures you're drawing here.
That's why I got to be where I am as
a writer. He twell, are you going to see Craven
this week?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Tonight? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Tonight after the show? Why are you running to see
these movies that you probably. I don't know, Mark, you
haven't told me, but you probably will.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Not like because I don't want to be left out
When Mark is doing the RUNA report tomorrow, I don't
want to be left out.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Leave me out of it. I have fom leave me
out of the MO. I like that. We're doing a
public service. MO.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We have to inform people movie criticism is as a
consumer benefit as well as just talking about movies.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, all right, we're here to help. Can't wait until tomorrow,
or maybe I can wait.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We'll have to see also tonight though, as we get underway,
we will tell you about how La City Council has
voted to increase the minimum wage for tourism workers. We
have talked about that story, but it's going to be
up to thirty dollars by the time the Olympics hit La.
Imagine that. And it's Rose Parade preparation time. We have
the latest information. And if we haven't said it before,
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we'll say it now and we'll say it again. You
got to go to the Rose Parade at least once.
You have to see it in person. It is an
experience and it's one of those things I personally feel
should be on your bucket list.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's just me.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I've done it, and it's not for everyone in the
sense of doing it every single year, but at least
once you should experience it. I think Twalla would agree.
I think I do. Man a few words, I do, No,
I do, and then I get married. No, that was
that was couch with I do.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And then in the back of my mind I said
I wouldn't do it again, though, if only because I didn't.
And now I'm at that age where I can't sit
for like fifty eleven hours watching the parade and not
have access to a restroom.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well there's that, and you have to spend a lot
of time getting there early to get a good enough
placement seat I don't know, pitch your tent or whatever
to be able to see it the next day.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Oh you know. No, when we went, we didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We bought tickets, bought parking passes, and had a spot
on a bleacher, watched all the parades go by in
the entire time, and then I kept thinking of myself like, man,
I'm gonna have to hold this as long as possible.
But trying to getting that porta potty line, you know,
don't you have like a plastic bottle somewhere, you know,
(07:06):
but yeah, you know you don't want what happens if
you do that? Okay, passing in the police. They're looking
for people with bottles. Really, yeah, they don't want to
they're trying to catch you. Okay, charge, Okay, then I'll
rescind that record.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No no, no, no no. But you should see it. I mean,
wear a diaper. If you need to, you should see it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
If you're older, if you're if you're of an advanced age,
you should go see it.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
A shame and it depends.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's just counterintuitive for me to wear a diaper just
because I don't want to deal with the weight and
the line.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Do you have to catch it just in cage? You
don't want any access, you don't want to walk back.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh, it'll be intentional at that point, It'll be a
conscious decision on my part.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
If I'm wearing a diaper.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's going to be like, hey, mo, how did you
manage to stay out at the at the roast raid
and go to the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
What did you do? Well? I that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Oh yeah, you really want to take one of those
things for a test drive? Not just a one time thing. Yeah,
you have to try it out in advance. Yeah, see
what it can hold.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And we often talk about the fight to increase the
minimum wage, be it on a state wide level, be
it for fat food workers, be it for tourism workers,
and how that might impact you me and what that
means for the economy and the state and beyond. The
La City Council today voted twelve to three to increase
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the minimum wage, specifically for tourism workers at a graduate
a gradual rate, and also provide improved healthcare benefits. Kind
of controversial to anyone who's not a member of the
tourism industry or working for minimum wage within that industry.
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Under the proposal of the ordinances would be amended to
boost hourly wages to twenty two to fifty an hour
by this coming February, increase to twenty five dollars an
hour by twenty twenty six, twenty seven, fifty by twenty
twenty seven, and then get this, thirty dollars by twenty
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twenty eight. That's a huge step up because if you're
let's say twenty one dollars an hour right now, in
the next four years, you'll probably have an increase. Assuming
that you're working as in a tourism industry hospitality worker,
you'll have a nine dollars increase, which is about a
forty percent bump in your wage. This is what it
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sounded like today, proves three notes. The substitute marshal passes.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
That was so the moment, the La City Council voted
twelve to three to gradually increase the minimum wage for
tourism workers to twenty two dollars and fifty cents an
hour starting July first. It will increase to thirty dollars
an hour by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Hey, hey, why are you repeating everything what I said?
I already said that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You don't need to recapitulate, restate, mock me, and resay
what I already said.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
When the city is expected to host the Olympics.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I struggle. I live in Los Angeles. The rent is
very very high.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The rent is very very high. Wait, you know what
I'm going to say, right, you know what I'm going
to say. The rent is very, very high, and another
opportunity was missed as far as rent control. Why do
I bring that up? Because the rent is going to
be even higher next year, and a year after that,
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in two years, in three years, in twenty twenty eight,
it'll be even higher.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know how impactful these increases will be because
everything else will go up kind of a constant with that.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
A lot of workers live outside of Los Angeles, as
the travel Bakersfield, Lancaster just to work and at LAX,
and it shouldn't be that way.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The Olympics generate billions of dollars for every city that
it enters, and we don't want the workers to get
left behind.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And so the whole point here.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Is, well, we do know that the Olympics are only
two weeks, right, They're only two weeks long, and these
increases are going to be permanent. And I'm not against
anyone getting more money. I've said before, and I'm not
going to contradict myself. You are Your worth is what
you can negotiate. If you can negotiate thirty dollars an hour,
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and you were given thirty dollars an hour, then you've
earned thirty dollars an hour. But I always want to
remain intellectually honest as far as the reason you're giving
for needing that three dollars an hour or deserving thirty
dollars an hour, And if you're going to tie it,
I know it's just one person, but I'm just saying,
there are a lot of people saying because of the
influx of people who are coming for the Olympics, that
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this is necessary because of that, And I'm saying, let's
not forget the Olympics are only two weeks long, four
or five if you count the Paralympics as well, temporary
that it.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
That it enters, and we don't want the workers to
get left behind. And so the whole point here is
the workers want to come together to earn an Olympic wage.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Is what we're calling it, an Olympic wage. It's only
a few weeks long out.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
If you want to say, okay, this Olympic wage is
where you're going to have a surge in wages, kind
of like when Stephan is driving for Uber and let's
say it's a holiday, or let's say he's going to
the airport, they have this thing called surge pricing or
dynamic pricing. If they had dynamic wages because of the
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Olympics coming to town, that would make more sense, right,
It would seem that way because you're talking about a
moment in time. This is temporary. The Olympics are coming,
and then they're going. We have the World Cup which
is coming, then it's leaving. Okay, we'll have I think
the NBA All Star Game and into a Dome is coming,
and then it's going temporary.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You can base your argument completely around the idea of, well,
let's raise the wage just because the Olympics are coming
and we don't want people to get left.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Behind to earn an Olympic wage, it's what we're calling it.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Worker say they need this minimum wage increase because the
cost of living here in la is so high, but
others argue that raising the minimum wage will cause many
to lose their jobs.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Running a business is hard.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Restaurants have a hard time making money, hotels are having
a hard time.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Tourism is down.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We have still not come back to twenty nineteen tourism numbers.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Before the vote, council members voice their disapproval for the process,
saying it felt like a backdoor deal.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
It is completely disregarded everybody that is affected by these policies,
and in fact, it's been so egregious in the way
that this was all conducted.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
There is no solution for this.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
There is not, if only because it is expensive to
live in la it is the rent is too damn high.
It does cost a lot for all this sunshine, even
though it may rain on Saturday. According to Mark Ronner,
I think he's wrong, But according to Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We pay for this weather.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Isn't this the whole point of living in California if
you're going to stay in California, despite all the things
that we may argue about the things that we may dislike,
the point of living in California is we have advantages.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We have perks that they don't have in Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
A little rain every now and then it helps you
appreciate all the nice weather mode. It's like if you
have a day without fire, you know you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, absolutely, absolutely, and hopefully our days of fire are
fewer and further in between.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I've got bad news for you on that front.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh well, can't have it all, Okay, you can have
your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Focus on the pluses and what you can't eat, not
a lot of eggs and milk. If you believe social media. Yeah,
then there's the whole bird flu thing. Yeah, yeah, we're doomed.
Never mind what.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
No, yeah, bird flu, e coali, salmonella, you know, because
of raw milk and other things. And have you ever
in your life, I'm being honest now, serious question, have
you ever in your life seriously considered drinking raw milk.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I think it's gross for adults to drink milk at
all in the first place, So definitely no raw milk.
But there's been I think that occasionally from Trader Joe's,
we've gotten some kind of raw cheese that I probably
wouldn't get at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I remember growing up. I used to love milk. I
really did. I love milk. I had it with just
about all my meals. As I got older and more
lactose intolerant, that's gone away.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You're just intolerant.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, that's true, but as far as lactose is concerned
for this conversation, just another facet overall intolerance. Yes, I
am a milk fascist. As I got older, I got
away from cow milk and my wife. You know, she
just stuffed the refrigerator with almond milk and even put
in some oat milk creamer.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's like oats have memory glens. I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I tried coconut milk, and those look much more like
memory glens.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There's a bonus. No oat milk rules coconut milk, that's
basically water. How about neither? How about neither oat milk
nor coconut milk. I don't like coconut water, and I
definitely don't like coconut milk. And you know, I don't
even like eggnog. Since we're in the season, I don't
know who invented eggnog. Let's put the eggs in the milk.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I didn't. And as some liquor too, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I suspect it was an alcoholic trying to hide the
liquor put it in everything.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's the funniest thing is that the ones they sell it,
like Rouse and Vaughands, that have supposedly Jack already in
the eggnog, it doesn't even have it. It doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I don't know why they that's like false advertising, right,
I just like trace elements.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Maybe I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Know where the desire for people to drink eggnog came from.
It tasted nasty to me as a child, it did
as an adult. I will never develop a taste for
it or desire for it. Like for example, I didn't
like cream cheese as a kid. I wanted to taste
a little bit sweeter like icing. As I got older,
my taste changed. It changed, and I developed a love
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for cream cheese.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now this is what happens when you get old. Your
tastes do change.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Stuff like egg fou young stops looking like a tumor
and it starts looking tasty. And I don't know the
reason for this. I haven't and around to egg food young.
It's just one example. Like spinach, asparagus, all the things
that you used to mock your parents and your grandparents
for eating. Like at some point I'm gonna start craving
aspec and I'm terrified of this.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I used to like oaka as a kid, not as
an adult. I hated spinach as a kid, either raw
or cooked. Love it as an adult. I'll put spinach
in all sorts of salads. I'll put spinach when my
eggs when I cook them. Love spinach. But yeah, your
taste do change and going back to milk. I've never
had any desire to even mess around with raw milk.
(18:33):
I just can't can't do it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, times are changing. We got RFK Junior. Who's going
to change your mind about that?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
No he's not, No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He can he can recommend whatever he wants because this
is America, and I love America and freedom and freedom
not to drink raw milk. Oo is there such a
thing as raw oat milk? How about raw coconut milks?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I mean it sounds dirty, but it's Later with mo
Kelly k if I AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But I was saying at the top of the show,
if you get the opportunity, if not for you, definitely
for your kids. Definitely for your kids see the Rose
Parade in person, just once at least. And maybe you're
not up to doing it like I did when I
was a teenager, spending the night out there the day before,
But if you want to, I don't know what it's
(19:32):
like now as far as spending the night.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
But for me, it was great, had a great time.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
It's probably not the same because the world has changed
since I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But still the Rose Parade is one of the crown
jewels when you talk about Southern California. Things you must do,
things you must see. See the Rose Parade in person.
Yes you can watch it on TV. Yes you've probably
seen it on TV. The one hundred and thirty six
Rose Parade presented by Honda is going to be from
(20:03):
eight am to ten am New Year's Day, and you
can get tickets for the grandstand at sharpseting dot com. No,
not twallets sharp, He's not selling them, but I'm saying
that's the website sharp seating dot com. It is an experience,
and obviously, when you're watching something on TV, the vantage
point in view is not the same.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
When you're there in person.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You can feel the energy, you can see more than
just a float or two in front of you can
see up and down Colorado Avenue.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I think it's Colorado aver and it's just a completely
different experience.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I loved it when I spent the night out there
when I was fifteen with a few of my friends.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
We had one adult who was looking over us.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
We had sleeping bags and a quasi tent, and it
was an all night party. I don't know if you
can still do that now, but it was just a
great time. And then we watched the Rose Parade. Obviously,
you celebrate, you know, New Year's at midnight, but then
you have the Rose parades the next day. It's just
just a great experience and I'm glad that I can
say that I've done it. And Twala, you've been from Pasadade.
(21:09):
I'm quite sure you look at it in a different
way as well.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We used to annually walk up and down Colorado all
night long, just throwing marshmallows, back when silly strings wasn't
an issue. You silly string and watch the cars go
back and forth. It was such a family reunion, such
(21:33):
a family vibe, such fun. And it wasn't until I
was an actual adult with my own children that I
finally saw the parade.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Why because we would.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Spend all day and all night walking up and down Colorado,
some ten miles back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, and we would do it and then get
home and fall asleep and all through the parade on television,
all through the reruns. Went down there with my kids
when I think they were six and three, maybe ish,
(22:13):
and it was a time when you fill those bands
going by, and you fill the thunder of the drums
in your chest just then beating as they're walking by.
It is magnificent seeing those marching bands live. Nothing will
compare to it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I didn't know how much I appreciated the New Year's
Day Rose Parade until we didn't have it during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And I was so glad when it came back.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And since it's come back after the pandemic, they've really
stepped up the presentation, like, for example, they're going to
have pyrotechnics, synchronized lights, extreme stunts, they have alo black
and I don't know. I need to ask someone who's
much younger than me, Stephan, you're about forty years younger
than me.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Who's the artist kiyosa kisa k I E k I
E s z A. You got me on that one. Okay,
where's Bella?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right? That might be a Bella or.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Any someone who was born maybe this century, I mean,
you know, this decade or recent to tell us about
some of these artists. But they're stepping up the presentation.
That's okay. I didn't honestly, I didn't know that was
her name. She does a lot of Uh no, it's
not DM, but in that realm, that's what that's what
she except they've seen her.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'd like her stuff. I just didn't know that was
her name. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
See she's going to be performing along with Alo Black
and I know him and I've heard his music before
to kick off the Rose Parade. They're part of the
Rose Parade opener and there, And that's what you need
to do to continue to remain relevant. You have to
talk to the younger generation on some level, on some level,
be it music, and you're competing with a lot of
other stuff on New Year's Day a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I mean, you have to.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And I don't think to all of your kids, if
they weren't exposed to it, would have any desire to
see a Rose Parade. I don't know if fourteen or
eighteen year olds want to see the Rose Parade in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Nah, Like if they go, it'd be something that their
mother drags them to. But I don't know. You know this,
this is my son's first eighteen year old New Year's
at he's out what he's got cooking. My daughter may
want to go and hang out with her friends, you
know she wanted to do last year and ring in
the New Year with apple cider and a bunch of
girls in pajamas' Oh apple cider. That is what they
(24:36):
call it. Now, that's what they call it. That is
what they call it. But nah, it's when they were younger. Yes,
and they've gone I don't know how many times, but
they've had the experience. That's the point.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's not like they've missed out.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And maybe I'm more speaking to parents where if you
get the opportunity and maybe you haven't done it, or
you know that your children haven't done it, can't recommend
this enough. And if you're wondering about what type of environment,
maybe just no passadesen the police. They're not gonna be
playing around. They don't play and it's a family environment.
And now they're even stricter this year. Last year when
(25:11):
they were first like trying to bring it back, they
were like, there is no anything happening. You will sit
in your seats and watch the parade and you will
go home. This year, it's even stricter. They're not playing around.
There will be as they've said, and I quote no shenanigans. Quote, Yeah,
I'm so glad that I'm not a teenager anymore because
I would have been out there with all sorts of shenanigans,
(25:34):
all sorts of shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But you know, time's got to change.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Highly recommend if you get a chance, check out the
Rose Parade in person. Get your tickets at sharp seating
dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No relation, no connection to to Walla Sharp.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Just want to give you a final poss Sathon update. First,
it was a great time. It was an absolutely great time.
It was a celebration of not only what you, as
a KFI listener are capable of, but a celebration of
what we ultimately did in service of Katerina's Club. Here
are some final pastathon totals. Wendy's was able to donate
(26:24):
through your donations contribute one hundred and sixty three thousand,
four hundred and thirty five dollars. Smarten finals from all
around southern California and also different states. Five hundred and
eleven thousand, three hundred and eight dollars. So you have
Wendy's with one hundred and sixty three thousand, four hundred
(26:46):
and thirty five dollars, smart and Final with five hundred
and eleven thousand, three hundred and eight dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But check this out.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Katerina's Club the direct donations between Pastathon and December eighth,
when we stopped receiving donations, the direct donations Katerina's Club
fielded five hundred and forty eight thousand, five hundred and
twenty seven dollars. That's because all you guys were pushing
(27:14):
donations through the website. Okay, what you were doing. You
heard us here on Later with Mokella. You heard us
on wake Up Call with Amy King. You were listening
to Bill Handel, You were paying attention during Gary and Shannon.
You cared when John Cobel was talking about Pastathon, You
(27:37):
responded when Tim Conway Junior was reminding you about Pastathon,
and you pushed five hundred and forty eight thousand, five
hundred and twenty seven dollars in direct donations through Katerina's Club.
The grand total one million, two hundred and twenty three thousand,
(27:57):
two hundred and seventy dollars. Think about that for a second,
one point two million dollars to feed children.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I said it then and I'll say it again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I am in awe of your collective and consistent generosity.
You show up for Catarita's Club, You show up for
the children every single year, every single year. This was
the fourteenth annual. Pasta thought, You've shown up every single year.
And it astounds me how caf I just just one station,
(28:36):
one station. Of course, with the assistance and help of
Wendy's allok around Southern Californian and smartan Final, we can
raise more than a million dollars consistently now annually. How
many children are going to be fed? Now we know
that Chef Bruto was feeding some twenty five thousand kids
(28:57):
each week, twenty five thousand, and we know now that
they'll he'll at least be able to continue that, he'll
at least be able to continue rehousing families, He'll be
able to continue his hospitality academy. That is you, That
is your contribution, that is your dedication, and your consistency
(29:19):
in your generosity. And oh, let me just say like
this and I said it the night of Postathon, but
if you didn't hear it, then I started here KFI
on December eleventh, thirteen years ago, in twenty eleven. December eleventh,
twenty eleven, So I just passed my thirteen year anniversary.
(29:43):
I've been able to watch Postathon grow from year to
year to year, and your commitment has steadily increased. And
because your commitment has steadily increased, Chef Bruno and his
impact and his reach has also steadily increased. This is
unseen in the history of Southern California radio. No one
(30:06):
comes close, and you can depend on KFI like you
can the sun coming up in the morning. And I
just have to take my hat off to you, and
I cannot be effusive enough to not only congratulate you,
but salute you in what you do. The only way
that it could have been better, the only way was
if we could have gotten Mark Ronner to join us.
(30:29):
Another time. It'll happen. I don't know if it's going
to happen this decade though.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Or I could just die abruptly, but we believe in
hope it can't go find.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
There's a little bit in between. Okay, it doesn't have
to be one or the other. Okay, it's not like.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Either you don't show up, or you die.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I mean, you know, there's a little bit of middle ground.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you
for the food that you brought me from that wondrous event.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh, you're very welcome. I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Oh, I know, because you didn't show up. Yeah, you
didn't make a request. If you would have asked, I'm
quite sure I would have done it, but you didn't ask.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well, I had to hold down the fort here.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I had to get the people the news they need
to make informed choices as citizens in a democracy mode.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
No, I didn't say that you didn't have other responsibilities
that you weren't tending to. I'm saying, if you specifically
wanted me to bring you some food, I'm going to
use the thin excuse that you did not ask me.
And because you know, ask not.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Want not, No, No, how could you ever into it
such a thing while you happened to be at a
restaurant known for its delicious food, and I have nothing
here in the news book. I wouldn't expect you to
to come up with something like that on your own.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Look, I have been purchasing dinner for you guys on
Friday nights for quite some time now, for the past
two years.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
It all comes out now, doesn't you? Thankfullest you ungrateful? Okay,
needy kitchen sink time on KFI kitchen sink time. Okay,
how about I make it up to you tomorrow during
Friday Show.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You got a deal, Stephan? Did you record this? Is this?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Can we play this back to him again and again tomorrow?
It will live in perpetuity.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Does it have to be White House? Anaheim? White House? No?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
No, no, no, no, okay, So we'll just get some
food tomorrow. Do you have any desire for Italian or
something like that? No, peris.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And there we go.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And you can hear that on last night's podcast if
you if you need to get.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Caught up in just in case you don't know that reference.
Oh boy, yeah, we're talking about pizza. Definitely. You could
say I threw Moe a curve right there, give it
to him. You got one more before we go?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
That's all I got. I'm spent. Oh wait right.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
There, damn you, Mark Runner, Damn you. I am six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
App Ignorance is bliss. We have zero bliss. Please lead blistless.
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