December 21, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the natural perks of living in SoCal…PLUS – Thoughts on the new upgrades to California’s “MyShake App AND the growing trend of Americans falling out of love with Christmas traditions - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kfi B Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app twas the Friday
before Christmas and all through the house. We're gonna play
the game one more time and it's gonna be cool.
It's gonna be really cool. Everything must go or name
that movie cled classic. We have t shirts, we have mugs,
we have key chains, and we're getting rid of all
of them. Were giving them away to you tonight. It's
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nothing but fun tonight. Even Scrooge bah humbug Mark Ronner
is gonna have some fun with us tonight. Much against
him his better judgment, He's gonna have some fun with us.
How you doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Mark? Oh? As the world knows, I hate fun? How
are you? Mo?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You know I hate fun as much as you do.
I'm doing great. And I was looking at the weather today.
That's part of the reason I was getting ready to
come to you. And I see the ten day forecast
and let me just say.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This, Yes, ah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There's a very very small chance of precipitation between now
and like January third and twenty twenty five, but it's
highly unlikely that we'll see any actual rain. But the
temperature is going to be a nice, steady seventy degrees
for the most part between now and the end of
the year, starting into next year. And it kind of
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reminds me, this is why I live in southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
This right here. I don't like weather extremes. It's the holidays.
We've had this discussion. You hate a white Christmas. What's
why I got to make it about race. Well, I
knew you were going to take it there too. You despise,
you hate a white Christmas, you hate bing Crossby.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm trying to think, have I ever been anywhere I
guess in Washington, d C. But it wasn't on Christmas Day.
But I'd been places in December where it was really,
really cold and it was snowing, and I thought in
that moment in DC, in Chicago and New York especially,
I would not need snow to enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was out in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I stayed there two weeks. It was not long after
the New Year for the Grammy Awards. The Grammy Awards
were in New York when I was there, and we
basically lived out there, and it was snowing most of
the time, and I quickly reminded myself. I don't need
to live out in this type of weather. We're just
coming off the holidays. I don't see any enjoyment in
having snow and cold as part of my Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I could do without.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think you'd enjoy a nice Christmas holiday in Afghanistan.
Please send a postcard. No, no, no, I didn't say
I wanted that. I didn't say I wanted sand. No no,
I feel sorry for you. Now that I've never thought
of this before, You've probably never gone sledding.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's no, you were incorrect.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Really, when I was in college went sledding informally, informally.
What I mean by informally is we'd have our snow
days and then we would take the trays from the
from the cafeteria and slide down the hill on the trays.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, okay, but when you're a kid, you need like
the full Calvin and Hobbs flying in the air.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I was gonna get there. I said. That was the informal.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Formally, there were some folks on campus who had actual
sleds that we used on different parts of the campus
to go around, and there were Georgetown's campus back then,
there were a lot of undeveloped hills, and that's where
we would go play in the snow and semi quasi
ski down them and sled down them with real like
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the red wagon type sleds.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, Okay. I love Californian and I like living here.
But I had the best that aspect of my childhood
because I lived about a half a block away from
a hilly golf course and we used that to sled
on and it was so much fun because always, you know,
some homicidal slash suicidal psychopath would build a jump at
the bottom of course, and you didn't always see the jump,
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and so more often than not you were airborne for
a good amount of time. And I'm lucky to have
a mostly full set of adult teeth to walla.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Sharp can speak on this issue as he's had an
old fashioned, formal white Christmas before.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Absolutely, so you don't hate a white Christmas. No, No.
I loved it for a moment, a brief moment. So
you tried out the white stuff and decided it wasn't
for you. It's not for me at all. Pat too tight,
very dense, cold. I can't deal with it. Shoveling it
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is hell icing, waiting for the ice truck to come through,
hell up to a stop sign and the car just
moving by, slide slide, and and have we everyone sitting
in their cars waiting to like go into the embankment
on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
There's nothing scarier than being in a car slowly sliding
towards an embankment. Now that has happened to me, and
I don't ever want to drive in the snow again.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh yeah, that's happened to everybody. I mean I've I've
been on a highway with black ice and had the
cars just abruptly going to spins, wondering, uh is this it?
Is this the end for little Rico. Have you ever
busted your ass just walking on black ice?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh everybody has? Yeah? Sure, Okay, Well, just making sure
I don't know what your experience is like.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, I just want the record to reflect that the
two of you have made clear that you've settled into
a lifetime of anti white Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
No, I'm anti extreme temperatures. I don't like humidity. I
don't I like it warm, I don't mind it hot,
but I do not like humidity. Far the reason why
I would never want to live on the East Coast again.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Would never live in Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Every time I watch Dexter, I always wondered, how can
they stand that being sweaty all the time would bother
me worse than being dismembered.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And that brings me back to California. For all that
we collectively can admit is less than perfect here in
southern California weather like right now. That's part of the
reason why we're paying more than most people. I'm quite
sure that people may say, well, you know, there are
no state taxes in Texas and Florida. It's not California.
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I'm sorry, you know, it's nice to visit, would not
want to live there. And part of the reason is, like,
right now, it's going to be seventy degrees for the
next two two and a half weeks. That's the way
you should celebrate the holidays.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, in terms of penn state taxes, you get what
you pay for, so unlike Texas, we can keep our
electrical grid on ahaha, and we.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We don't have to worry that it's going to freeze
over and stop working for a week.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now. Taxes serve a purpose if you live in a
quote society which I think we do well.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
The flip side of that is that I know that
people in Texas say, well, our power companies don't set
the whole state on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Then there's that well they have no trees. Well, I'm saying, PGNE,
they were set in some fires.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, I'm confident that we could win that back
and forth. Okay, between California and Texas. I think so too.
You know, I'm just seeing both sides.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, there's a reason I moved here in not Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, but you came from Seattle where it was just
raining seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If that. You know, if I were suicidal, i'd know
it by now.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And that's one thing I don't particularly care for, either
extended periods of rain.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't mind rain here and there, like for twenty
minutes on one day you're worried about your hair.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, I just don't like the rain because one, I
usually have a long drive and California people cannot drive
in the rain.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And also rainy days and Mondays always gets me down.
It doesn't rain as often as people say. In Seattle.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We put that out there as propaganda to keep people
from moving in, because was really getting crowded and and
whiners and Karen's from all over the country where we're
crowding everybody else out and making it too unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was really expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Though I've been up there, I just haven't tried to
actually look for a place up there, but it's it's
kind of expensive if you're trying to rent a place
or buy a place.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So here we are with a green and possibly flaming Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, yes, okay, that's the way it should be, die
Hard style. I'm Christmas Eve, not a cloud in the sky.
Go down to knockotomy Plaza, get some I don't know tweakies,
and and save Los Angeles from the terrorists.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I am a proud Angelino now, and I embrace it. No, no, no,
you're not an Angelino.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You just lived here. You're not an Angeline.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You don't get this decide that I do get to.
There's no hostrig. This's been here six years. This isn't
making an Angelina. It's just a transplant.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well what do I gotta do? Eat some chillins? No
negatory on that.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's not going to happen, not not for anyone's Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, speaking of California, when we come back, we do
have an earthquake update, because living in California, you got
to deal with the earthquakes. And we're going to tell
you about some of the technology which is being upgraded
in regard to that and more.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And remember name that movie called Classic.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's everything must go Tonight, t shirts, key chains, coffee mugs,
but only.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
For first time callers. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And the movies I picked Tonight MARKO. I think they're
gonna be too difficult for even you. Some of them,
not all of them, but some of them I had
to go kind of obscure because the theme tonight is
holiday films. It could be Hanukah, it would be Christmas.
It could be a movie with which has a Christmas scene,
but it's not a holiday movie. Overall, It's not gonna
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be easy.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I had a revelation a couple of nights ago that
John Carpenter's The Thing is a Christmas movie. Where do
you stand on that? I don't remember when it was
set in a calendar sense. Well, but it's in the snow.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, but I don't associate snow with Chris so or holidays.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Sorry back to this, but I say there's a lot
of people that have that though.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Mark, there's that theory is out there now that it
is actually a Christmas And I think it's because they
said when it's taking places, not just that it's in
the snow, but unbeknownst to you the viewer, it is
taking place around Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I have to go back and watch it again and
see if there are any subtle clues or anything else
that would indicate that it was in the month of
December or so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I can think of no more special way to celebrate
the Birth of Jesus than watching John Carpenter's The Thing.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You are so blasphemous?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What what? I Love Christmas? I am six forty WeLive
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Forty Running the show tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Running the board is producer technical director Robin and Robin
and I were having a conversation during the break about.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
How she too now why she told me off air.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I don't know she should have told us on the air,
but she too is not a fan of the cold
when it comes to the holidays. Just paraphrasing, and I
completely get it. But there's a trade off. I understand
that some people may look at California from the outside
end and say, hey, I don't want to deal with earthquakes.
Now we know if you live in California or if
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you're from California, earthquakes are not as big a deal
as let's say, tornadoes, are hurricanes, or just inclement weather.
People will die this winter, unfortunately due to inclement weather
all over the country every single year. As far as earthquakes,
almost never, and I mean almost never does someone die
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in an earthquake, but there's still very serious and not
to be played with.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You might know of California's the my Shake app.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You can get it on your phone and in some
instances it will give you up to some fifteen seconds
warning before an earthquake should start. According to state officials,
more than three point seven million people have the app,
and more than five hundred thousand people combined received a
notification from my Shake for two recent earthquakes, as much
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as fifteen seconds in advance. And the my Shake app
is run by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and
the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, and it usually works with
stronger earthquakes, but it can give you a notification for
earthquakes as small as two point five on the Richter scale.
Now I have not added the app to my phone.
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Maybe they've changed it. But when I first put it
on my phone, it required me at least to work.
It required me to have my location on all the time. Well,
that just burns my phone battery and depending on the
phone you have, your phone won't last too many hours
if you have the location turned on all the time.
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So I said, I can't use that, and I was
thinking out loud again. Hopefully they've changed it. Why does
the app need to know my location? Why is it
I can't just put in my zip code or a
zip code and it will let me know about any
earthquake within a thirty mile radius. That would make more sense.
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Why do I need my location on? What is it
supposed to do when I'm in Chicago next month?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What is it supposed to do if.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I'm in I don't know, if I'm out of the country,
I need to have my location setting on.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That didn't make sense to me. So I'm going to
try it out again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm going to at least look and see if it
still requires me to turn on my location setting. The
only time I like to turn off my location setting
is is if I'm in my car and I need
to use it with my Android Auto.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I love Android Auto.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I love all those look with my newer car, all
the new bells and whistles that I'm still discovering in
my car. It's fantastic. And the only one who understands
that is to Wallet. Because our cars are similar enough,
with a lot of the same features, we'll get to
do the same things.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I like that your car sounds like the Batmobile when
it's taking off.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, it's a hybrid, so it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It doesn't make any sound when it's below a certain Well,
if the engine, the actual engine drops below twenty five
hundred RPMs, then the electric portion takes over. And whenever
I'm backing up or just pulling out, you just you
just have the electric motor. Yeah, just that whistle that
Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, it sounds futuristic. My my
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Shake app isn't burning up my battery. I'm looking right
now and I have the my Shake app installed, and
I have it, you know, location on. Yeah, it's not
burning but it's not it's not taking up a whole
bunch of my battery.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, I'll give it another try. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, and I told
you you see, Berkeley Seismology Lab put this together and
there are some new upgrades and they say that the
tool will allow more people to receive an early warning
when a strong earthquake is imminent.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And there's some other improvements.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
New availability on chrome Book laptops and devices running mac
Os tablets included, so that might be a viable alternative.
I have a Chromebook with me all the time, but
I assume it has to be open and on, as
opposed to my phone, which is always opening on. There
are audio messages in six languages, updated to include a
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calm but urgent voice.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I guess they don't want to panic you in any way.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
English, of course, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalic, Korean, and Vietnamese. There's
also information for seismic activity as low as I said
before two point five. While early warning alerts will remain
only for a magnitude of four point five or higher,
you'll get a notification, hey, there's an earthquake. There's only
two point seven, but you won't get advance warning if
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it's four point five or higher, then you would get
a warning. There's also the ability to pinpoint precise seismic
activity and identified neighborhoods, places, addresses, and zip codes. See,
that's my thing. All I need to know is where
the earthquake is, not where I am. I know where
I am. I don't need to you know. It doesn't
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make sense to me. It's like, why do you need
to know where I am? Unless they're using my phone
and my location to detect the earthquake. Am I somehow
helping out with the detection?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But there you go. Yeah, turn yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But also to let you know or to be able
to give you an adequate amount of time to get
out of the way, Like if you're further away, your
alert may not come in as quick as someone who
is closer to the epicenter. Your location helps the alert
system to determine how important it is that you get
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it versus me. If I'm right here in Burbank and
this is where the quake is, I need to know immediately,
versus you who may be in San Diego, and it's like,
oh man, I think there's a rumble going on.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is that I think that.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, okay, all right, proximity is like a proximity warning alert.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's a new landscape orientation on compatible devices, yes, because
I hate portrait. Got to give me the option of landscape.
And there's easier identification of app functionality issues. Can't tell
you exactly what that means, but on your recommendation, Toula,
I will try the mind shake app again and see
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if it adds anything.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
There also is the emergency alert system where I did get,
you know, one of those obtrusive alerts for when you
have like a silver alert or something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I did for one of the earthquakes.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I want to say, maybe two months ago, got one
of those emergency alerts and it happened simultaneous to the
to the beginning of the earthquake as far as when
I felt it. So as the technology gets better and better,
more and more of us will be getting these earthquake
alerts in a way which hopefully would be helpful. Fifteen
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seconds may not seem like a lot, but if anything,
it gets you aware of what's getting ready to happen.
Fifteen seconds can be life saving when you think about Okay,
let me at least get away from this dangerous object.
Let me at least move away from this object which
might fall. Let me get somewhere, or at least find
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out where my children are in those fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That could be the difference, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And some Americans, and I
might count myself as one of them. Some Americans are
over certain Christmas traditions. Some people are over the food.
You know, let's stop doing the whole traditional turkey thing,
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let's do spaghetti instead. Or some people are over just
a whole gift exchange. And I think it might be generational.
When we come back, we'll find out who wants to
change everything and why.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And Americans, and I might be included in this group,
are just over Christmas traditions, their quotes and want to
swap traditional turkey for all time favorite takeout. I'm not
going to go that far, but there are some Christmas traditions,
at least within my family, you know what, I've been
doing them consciously for the past fifty plus years.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm about ready for a change.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
There's certain things that since I'm getting to that point
in my life where I get to be the old
guy in the house, I get to choose my chair
and the kids sit around my knee, and the grandkids
that kind of thing. I actually get some of the
privileges that come along with it. In other words, I
get to make some of the decisions like what channel
the TV's going to be are? In other word, what
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sporting event do I want to watch? No, I don't
want to do karaoke with the family. No I don't
want to do Baby Sharks singing along with the young kids.
I just want to watch what I want to watch,
and it's usually the basketball games, the NBA games, which
we're on on Christmas Day. But beyond me, there is
a poll of two thousand adults who celebrate and are
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pretty much bored with the usual Christmas customs and would
like to see more unusual alternatives.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
During the lead up to Christmas, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Revealed that forty seven percent, almost half, would prefer to
spend the whole day in their pajamas rather than getting
dressed up.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, yes, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Would like to walk around the house with my stink
ass draws on and leave it at that. I don't
know about anyone else, but you know, everyone feels the
need in my families get dressed up. We're going over
to my sister for Christmas, so all the food will
be over there. So that means I have to get
all my pressed shirt, maybe some non jeans semi dress shoes,
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and I would rather just walk around the house in
my underwear. I would rather that and watch the basketball games.
That's just me, but I'm not alone. And some eighteen
percent like the idea of doing a friend's only Christmas.
Thirty five percent would choose to focus on quality time
together over elaborate gifts and decorations.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
And a number of people would like to just switch
out turkey for like a good burger.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now that's where I draw the line.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
What about Nope, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to
the food because the food is what triggers the nostalgia
and the memories. And as I get older, connections to
people who are no longer here are through the food.
Mother's macaroni and cheese, or if we sit down and
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we have the turkey, and my sisters is making the
banana pudding, for example, using the recipe of my mother's mother.
So the food, at least in my house is very
important in a tradition sense. But I'm encountering more and
more young people who rather throw the baby and the
bathwater out and throw a dispense with all those traditions,
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including the food.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
For Thanksgiving, for instance, my cousins took over hosting Thanksgiving,
and it was a real treat because you know, they're younger,
and they're wanted, like, let's bring the family together the
Alkama of ros and we'll do this. And instead of
the regular Thanksgiving menu, they sent out a menu that
had appetizers with autumn harvest salad, roasted cauliflower and hummus
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and tomato jam that doesn't sound holidayish, and deviled eggs
and a car charge charcooterie. There you go that that
board right there, And I said, I was, okay, cool,
that's like the advertiser. I kind of like, you know,
finger foods. But then the entrees, I was like, and
this this is Thanksgiving. The entrees were very different, with
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lemon herb, roasted chicken, jerk turkey, Jamaican pimento beef pot roast,
veggie rundown, which is a veggie stewed in coconut milk,
miso glazed salmon, and oxtails. And I said to myself,
this is different, delicious. Hell yeah, they could cook, but
I said, this is different.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I wouldn't want that on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Again, I'm
a traditionalist when it comes to food on the holidays,
family traditions, and I wouldn't expect if I went to
someone else's house for a holiday celebration that they would
adhere to my family traditions. But I would hope that
house had their own family traditions. I believe that's a
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tradition day when it comes to food. Now, I'm not
the one who Okay, you wouldn't know this. Our family,
we exchange gifts after Christmas dinner on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
That to me is exhausting.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's just freaking exhausting because after I eat, emotionally, I'm done,
I'm checked out. I'm in the chair, my pants are
on button because I'm so full from the meal. And
you know, maybe I need to go outside and burp
and fart or whatever. I'm just done. I don't want
to have more festivities. At that point, the dinner for
me is a shutdown zone. I don't want to do
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anything after that. Oh, we all go into food comas
after a big holiday dinner. Hello, why is it? No
one in my family understands that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I don't. You don't go into food comas. No, Oh,
because you're not thirty five yet. Well. Also, like my
family doesn't really get together that much, even for holidays.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But even if you are with a group of friends
or extended family, is food a big thing?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay? And so I usually just eat until I'm full?
What's wrong with you? No?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But this look, I dig it and I did where
you're coming from. Oh, but this year, like me and
my Meati Fan, we're doing away with the turkey and
this or the other.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Look.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We are going to get ribs and we are going
to have a soul food ribs backing Christmas dinner because
we're just.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Tired of all that. That sounds good, that sounds let
me just bring it down.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Our family will usually have We'll have the turkey, We'll
have yams as part of the meal. We'd have the
sweet potato pie. As far as the dessert, we would
have macaroni cheese, my mother's macaroni cheese. Obviously some sort
of stuffing, and we have so many family members will
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have the vegan stuffing and the stuffing with meat. We'll
have the collar greens with meat and collar greens without meat,
because we have so many vegans and vegetarians in our house.
I know I'm being dismissive, but those are the staples
yet Sti'll be cranberry from the can on the table.
I don't touch that stuff, but those are the staples.
I need to see those when I walk in the house.
(26:11):
If not, we're going to have a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. Yes,
now you can add to it. You can also have ribs,
you can also have this, you can also have that.
But I need the basic food groups of Christmas on
the table, and then everything else is negotiable.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Christmas food groups.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, well, the cranberry and the can is one of
those groups. It's unacceptable not to have that. It's always there.
I've never touched life. If I went someplace and they
didn't have that, I just kicked the table right over.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I have a cousin who will His job is to
just bring the cranberry in a can. To this day,
I don't think I've ever in my life had that cranberry,
never even tried it. There's a reason growing up my
mother made me eat beats, and I hated beats.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Okay, there's the same color, but I'm here to tell
you that they taste slightly different.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But still the subconscious association is they are the same.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh, because you can't slice it up, it looks exactly
the same. You need cranberry deprogramming therapy.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Look, I'll drink cranberry juice. I'll eat some cranberry gummies.
Not you know, Edible's gummies, just regular gummies, health gummies.
But I'm not eating cranberry out of the can. I'm
just not.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The Only thing that you should be confused about with
the cranberry out of the can is that you really
can't mix it with vodka.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's the only problem you can. It just probably wouldn't
go real well. Just pour some bok over the top.
I'm sure it works.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I may have to try that. I don't see how
you got so precious about food. Listen, in the town
I grew up with, everybody was Italian except for me,
So the family that I spent many Christmases with They
had rigatoni for their Christmas dinner and nothing could have
pleased me more.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I didn't care. No, but id that?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I mean each family has their own traditions, and if
I went to that Italian family's house, I would expect
them to have their own family traditions. I'm saying there
is a place for those traditions in my house.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
We have the family traditions.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
As far as food that I don't want change all
the other stuff, yes, you can change.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Right now because of Robin. I want Christmas tacos with
a little cranberry dressing on top.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Christmas tacos Christmas. Have you not?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Have you had the Thanksgiving soundwich of like firehouse subs
or or one of those places where they have the
Thanksgiving sub that has the turkey, the dressing, the cranberry
sauce and the gravy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, but I need that. I need that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
God, I would eat that acculdly delicious. No, I would
eat that, but not on Thanksgiving. I would eat that
like the next day or something. You can you can
get it, and they use sliced cranberry. No, they're not
playing no mess me like that. Don't send the information
to me. Yes, I definitely want some of that when
we come back. We have well, I don't want to say,
(29:01):
I want.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
To say, I don't want to say. But there are
more traditions.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I think I have to be careful about telling all
my family's business because then I'll go home. Oh, this
is one thing I do want to say to all.
You'd always talk about we always have people coming over
to the house.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I got great news today. I got great news. No no, no, no, no,
it's even better than that. Better than that. Someone's not
wearing pants.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Now, you got that right, because they got the news
today that the family that was supposed to be coming
out I guess changed their mind because it was a
financial thing or something. They couldn't do it because they
came out for Thanksgiving, so they couldn't make both of
the drives out from Arizona. So I'm going to have
my house this Christmas, and I cannot be happier. You
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don't understand if I wanted anything for Christmas. That was
the gift that I wanted. So I could walk around
the house and scratch my ass and any other place
I wanted in my draws and not have to worry
about it anything or anyone.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My question is when I show up, should I be
wearing the normal sweats or the dress up sweats? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Sure, you can wear whatever you want, because well, we
won't be at my house for dinner.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I told you we're going over my sister. So if
you show up to my house, I don't care what
you wear. I don't like how this is shaping up.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Last second, we were talking about Christmas traditions. Traditions had
many people, especially younger people, are moving away from from
food to types of celebrations, moving away from the traditional
turkey and trimmings to maybe a burger or, in the
case of Robin tacos, Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah. I'm not there yet. You're trying to mock it,
but it sounds No.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, I can't wrap my head around Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
It may be perfect for someone else, just not for me. Mark.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Do you have any Christmas traditions as far as food?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No, just alcohol. I mean, damn, I usually work holidays,
so do I.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But I'm saying still, there might be some observance where
there may be a plate waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
No, I wish I could say.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
No, I'm usually working and I had really untraditional holidays
when when I was growing up. Like I said, I
was like the Tom Hagen of the Corleoni family in Spokane,
Washington being fo Yeah. Yeah, and there was no no
horse heads in the bed either. But but I was
always kind of the the one non Italian, non Catholic
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outsider who was allowed in and it pleased me no end.
But I don't really have much in the way of
personal ones. What about you, twelve? Are there things that
you just gotta have On a Christmas Day? When I
was a kid, absolutely going over to my uncle's house,
Brown's house, and there were just certain dishes that had
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to be there. I know you are not a fan
of ambrosia, but now I used to love the ambrosia
things like that.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Those dishes were fire Marget him.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I don't really know what to say about that, because
I thought that was strictly for people over the age
of able.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Hey, hey, and I've noticed that you have teeth, so
I don't understand this. Look, you know what, I will
make you some fire ambrosia.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You will, Yeah, what did your ambrosa is different from
everyone else's ambrosia.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna get the family recipe. My family's recipe
for ambrosia is delicious. I'm going to pull it out
and I'm gonna bring some so you can say, damn it,
make this ambrosia all the time. You actually look forward
to ambrosia. That's something that I would. But now now
I don't want any traditions. Like I said when my
mother said, hey, how about we say damn the turkey
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and go with something we all want, like ribs, so
that well, we're going to actually eat the food. And
I'd have it sitting around forever and trying to make
turkey this and turkey that and jibbleing. No, just have
the ribs even have a lips back in good time.
I wouldn't make gumbo. But I'm just I just don't
think I want to make Christmas gumbo, even though Christmas
gumbo can't be fired.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh that sounds good. Yeah see see that wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
If I were like in New Orleans and that was
a part of someone's family tradition, that would make perfect sense.
I'm just saying for me, if it's gonna be within
my family gathering, it's got to have the traditional fair.
You can add to it, but don't subtract the stuff
that I'm looking forward to. Okay, Oh, we're gonna have
a misunderstanding and I'll probably turn around and walk out.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
So turkey is a deal breaker for you. You must
have turkey. Gotta have turkey. I don't eat ham, but
for everyone else, they'd like to have ham. No one
wants any jive turkey or.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
What about macaroni.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Cheese if I'm making it, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay,
but but I don't need it. I'm sometimes I look
at it and I'm like, all this is is gonna
be a painful stomach, all this starch, and it's like
I want something that I want to eat and be
happy about it and not eat it because it's there,
because I grew up with it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm past that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You know, Robin has hit it out the park with
the Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Not you guys.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Do the two of you, the three of you not
have any Jewish friends at all who have Chinese food
at Christmas?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I have Jewish friends, and I know there's Chinese food
in my neighborhood, but I've never seen the intersection of both.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, now, I'm ques.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Sure they have their family traditions when it comes to Hanukkah,
but I don't know about Chinese food.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Maybe in Spokane. That's not a Spokane thing. I'm not judging.
I'm just saying I don't personally know. That's not my
area of expertise. Okay, it's delicious. I just know that
there will be no ambrosia at my house on Yeah,
that is Look, I think I'm gonna have to make
ambrosia and spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's fine. Just don't call it Christmas.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
He's threatening us with it. No, No, it will be
for Christmas Eve. The Savior will not approve. What are
the key components in ambrosia to What are the key
I have to I have to put up the family? Yeah,
I mean salaries. Yeah, but there's some protoplasm that the
fils floating in. Yes, the protoplasm, it's usually made of
a special ingredient. East family has their own aosity, Yes
(35:15):
it does. You have to have a viscossa, gotta have
the mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You have to.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm not the mushrooms, the marshmallows, marshmallows, the marshmallows, candy, wallnuts.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You have to have the fruit. You have to have
a little bit of cream. Have you anything good in
it that you're You're lucky, We're out of time. It's delicit.
It sounds re K forty. We live everywhere in the
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
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Orange County.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Lots everywhere on the radio.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app twas the Friday
before Christmas and all through the house. We're gonna play
the game one more time and it's gonna be cool.
It's gonna be really cool. Everything must go or name
that movie cled classic. We have t shirts, we have mugs,
we have key chains, and we're getting rid of all
of them. Were giving them away to you tonight. It's
(00:44):
nothing but fun tonight. Even Scrooge bah humbug Mark Ronner
is gonna have some fun with us tonight. Much against
him his better judgment, He's gonna have some fun with us.
How you doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Mark? Oh? As the world knows, I hate fun? How
are you? Mo?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You know I hate fun as much as you do.
I'm doing great. And I was looking at the weather today.
That's part of the reason I was getting ready to
come to you. And I see the ten day forecast
and let me just say.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This, Yes, ah, there we go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There's a very very small chance of precipitation between now
and like January third and twenty twenty five, but it's
highly unlikely that we'll see any actual rain. But the
temperature is going to be a nice, steady seventy degrees
for the most part between now and the end of
the year, starting into next year. And it kind of
(01:41):
reminds me, this is why I live in southern California.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
This right here. I don't like weather extremes. It's the holidays.
We've had this discussion. You hate a white Christmas. What's
why I got to make it about race. Well, I
knew you were going to take it there too. You despise,
you hate a white Christmas, you hate bing Crossby.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm trying to think, have I ever been anywhere I
guess in Washington, d C. But it wasn't on Christmas Day.
But I'd been places in December where it was really,
really cold and it was snowing, and I thought in
that moment in DC, in Chicago and New York especially,
I would not need snow to enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was out in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I stayed there two weeks. It was not long after
the New Year for the Grammy Awards. The Grammy Awards
were in New York when I was there, and we
basically lived out there, and it was snowing most of
the time, and I quickly reminded myself. I don't need
to live out in this type of weather. We're just
coming off the holidays. I don't see any enjoyment in
having snow and cold as part of my Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I could do without.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think you'd enjoy a nice Christmas holiday in Afghanistan.
Please send a postcard. No, no, no, I didn't say
I wanted that. I didn't say I wanted sand. No no,
I feel sorry for you. Now that I've never thought
of this before, You've probably never gone sledding.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's no, you were incorrect.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Really, when I was in college went sledding informally, informally.
What I mean by informally is we'd have our snow
days and then we would take the trays from the
from the cafeteria and slide down the hill on the trays.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, okay, but when you're a kid, you need like
the full Calvin and Hobbs flying in the air.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I was gonna get there. I said. That was the informal.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Formally, there were some folks on campus who had actual
sleds that we used on different parts of the campus
to go around, and there were Georgetown's campus back then,
there were a lot of undeveloped hills, and that's where
we would go play in the snow and semi quasi
ski down them and sled down them with real like
(03:51):
the red wagon type sleds.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, Okay. I love Californian and I like living here.
But I had the best that aspect of my childhood
because I lived about a half a block away from
a hilly golf course and we used that to sled
on and it was so much fun because always, you know,
some homicidal slash suicidal psychopath would build a jump at
the bottom of course, and you didn't always see the jump,
(04:17):
and so more often than not you were airborne for
a good amount of time. And I'm lucky to have
a mostly full set of adult teeth to walla.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Sharp can speak on this issue as he's had an
old fashioned, formal white Christmas before.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Absolutely, so you don't hate a white Christmas. No, No.
I loved it for a moment, a brief moment. So
you tried out the white stuff and decided it wasn't
for you. It's not for me at all. Pat too tight,
very dense, cold. I can't deal with it. Shoveling it
(04:53):
is hell icing, waiting for the ice truck to come through,
hell up to a stop sign and the car just
moving by, slide slide, and and have we everyone sitting
in their cars waiting to like go into the embankment
on the side.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
There's nothing scarier than being in a car slowly sliding
towards an embankment. Now that has happened to me, and
I don't ever want to drive in the snow again.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh yeah, that's happened to everybody. I mean I've I've
been on a highway with black ice and had the
cars just abruptly going to spins, wondering, uh is this it?
Is this the end for little Rico. Have you ever
busted your ass just walking on black ice?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh everybody has? Yeah? Sure, Okay, Well, just making sure
I don't know what your experience is like.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Well, I just want the record to reflect that the
two of you have made clear that you've settled into
a lifetime of anti white Christmas.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
No, I'm anti extreme temperatures. I don't like humidity. I
don't I like it warm, I don't mind it hot,
but I do not like humidity. Far the reason why
I would never want to live on the East Coast again.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Would never live in Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Every time I watch Dexter, I always wondered, how can
they stand that being sweaty all the time would bother
me worse than being dismembered.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And that brings me back to California. For all that
we collectively can admit is less than perfect here in
southern California weather like right now. That's part of the
reason why we're paying more than most people. I'm quite
sure that people may say, well, you know, there are
no state taxes in Texas and Florida. It's not California.
(06:29):
I'm sorry, you know, it's nice to visit, would not
want to live there. And part of the reason is, like,
right now, it's going to be seventy degrees for the
next two two and a half weeks. That's the way
you should celebrate the holidays.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, in terms of penn state taxes, you get what
you pay for, so unlike Texas, we can keep our
electrical grid on ahaha, and we.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We don't have to worry that it's going to freeze
over and stop working for a week.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now. Taxes serve a purpose if you live in a
quote society which I think we do well.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
The flip side of that is that I know that
people in Texas say, well, our power companies don't set
the whole state on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Then there's that well they have no trees. Well, I'm saying, PGNE,
they were set in some fires.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, I'm confident that we could win that back
and forth. Okay, between California and Texas. I think so too.
You know, I'm just seeing both sides.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I mean, there's a reason I moved here in not Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, but you came from Seattle where it was just
raining seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If that. You know, if I were suicidal, i'd know
it by now.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And that's one thing I don't particularly care for, either
extended periods of rain.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I don't mind rain here and there, like for twenty
minutes on one day you're worried about your hair.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, I just don't like the rain because one, I
usually have a long drive and California people cannot drive
in the rain.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And also rainy days and Mondays always gets me down.
It doesn't rain as often as people say. In Seattle.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We put that out there as propaganda to keep people
from moving in, because was really getting crowded and and
whiners and Karen's from all over the country where we're
crowding everybody else out and making it too unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was really expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Though I've been up there, I just haven't tried to
actually look for a place up there, but it's it's
kind of expensive if you're trying to rent a place
or buy a place.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So here we are with a green and possibly flaming Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, yes, okay, that's the way it should be, die
Hard style. I'm Christmas Eve, not a cloud in the sky.
Go down to knockotomy Plaza, get some I don't know tweakies,
and and save Los Angeles from the terrorists.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I am a proud Angelino now, and I embrace it. No, no, no,
you're not an Angelino.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You just lived here. You're not an Angeline.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You don't get this decide that I do get to.
There's no hostrig. This's been here six years. This isn't
making an Angelina. It's just a transplant.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well what do I gotta do? Eat some chillins? No
negatory on that.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's not going to happen, not not for anyone's Christmas gift.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Well, speaking of California, when we come back, we do
have an earthquake update, because living in California, you got
to deal with the earthquakes. And we're going to tell
you about some of the technology which is being upgraded
in regard to that and more.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And remember name that movie called Classic.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's everything must go Tonight, t shirts, key chains, coffee mugs,
but only.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
For first time callers. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And the movies I picked Tonight MARKO. I think they're
gonna be too difficult for even you. Some of them,
not all of them, but some of them I had
to go kind of obscure because the theme tonight is
holiday films. It could be Hanukah, it would be Christmas.
It could be a movie with which has a Christmas scene,
but it's not a holiday movie. Overall, It's not gonna
(09:44):
be easy.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I had a revelation a couple of nights ago that
John Carpenter's The Thing is a Christmas movie. Where do
you stand on that? I don't remember when it was
set in a calendar sense. Well, but it's in the snow.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, but I don't associate snow with Chris so or holidays.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Sorry back to this, but I say there's a lot
of people that have that though.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Mark, there's that theory is out there now that it
is actually a Christmas And I think it's because they
said when it's taking places, not just that it's in
the snow, but unbeknownst to you the viewer, it is
taking place around Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I have to go back and watch it again and
see if there are any subtle clues or anything else
that would indicate that it was in the month of
December or so.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I can think of no more special way to celebrate
the Birth of Jesus than watching John Carpenter's The Thing.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You are so blasphemous?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What what? I Love Christmas? I am six forty WeLive
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Forty Running the show tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Running the board is producer technical director Robin and Robin
and I were having a conversation during the break about.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
How she too now why she told me off air.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I don't know she should have told us on the air,
but she too is not a fan of the cold
when it comes to the holidays. Just paraphrasing, and I
completely get it. But there's a trade off. I understand
that some people may look at California from the outside
end and say, hey, I don't want to deal with earthquakes.
Now we know if you live in California or if
(11:16):
you're from California, earthquakes are not as big a deal
as let's say, tornadoes, are hurricanes, or just inclement weather.
People will die this winter, unfortunately due to inclement weather
all over the country every single year. As far as earthquakes,
almost never, and I mean almost never does someone die
(11:37):
in an earthquake, but there's still very serious and not
to be played with.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You might know of California's the my Shake app.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You can get it on your phone and in some
instances it will give you up to some fifteen seconds
warning before an earthquake should start. According to state officials,
more than three point seven million people have the app,
and more than five hundred thousand people combined received a
notification from my Shake for two recent earthquakes, as much
(12:10):
as fifteen seconds in advance. And the my Shake app
is run by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and
the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, and it usually works with
stronger earthquakes, but it can give you a notification for
earthquakes as small as two point five on the Richter scale.
Now I have not added the app to my phone.
(12:35):
Maybe they've changed it. But when I first put it
on my phone, it required me at least to work.
It required me to have my location on all the time. Well,
that just burns my phone battery and depending on the
phone you have, your phone won't last too many hours
if you have the location turned on all the time.
(12:56):
So I said, I can't use that, and I was
thinking out loud again. Hopefully they've changed it. Why does
the app need to know my location? Why is it
I can't just put in my zip code or a
zip code and it will let me know about any
earthquake within a thirty mile radius. That would make more sense.
(13:17):
Why do I need my location on? What is it
supposed to do when I'm in Chicago next month?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What is it supposed to do if.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I'm in I don't know, if I'm out of the country,
I need to have my location setting on.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That didn't make sense to me. So I'm going to
try it out again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm going to at least look and see if it
still requires me to turn on my location setting. The
only time I like to turn off my location setting
is is if I'm in my car and I need
to use it with my Android Auto.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I love Android Auto.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I love all those look with my newer car, all
the new bells and whistles that I'm still discovering in
my car. It's fantastic. And the only one who understands
that is to Wallet. Because our cars are similar enough,
with a lot of the same features, we'll get to
do the same things.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I like that your car sounds like the Batmobile when
it's taking off.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, it's a hybrid, so it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It doesn't make any sound when it's below a certain Well,
if the engine, the actual engine drops below twenty five
hundred RPMs, then the electric portion takes over. And whenever
I'm backing up or just pulling out, you just you
just have the electric motor. Yeah, just that whistle that
Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, it sounds futuristic. My my
(14:30):
Shake app isn't burning up my battery. I'm looking right
now and I have the my Shake app installed, and
I have it, you know, location on. Yeah, it's not
burning but it's not it's not taking up a whole
bunch of my battery.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, I'll give it another try. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, and I told
you you see, Berkeley Seismology Lab put this together and
there are some new upgrades and they say that the
tool will allow more people to receive an early warning
when a strong earthquake is imminent.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And there's some other improvements.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
New availability on chrome Book laptops and devices running mac
Os tablets included, so that might be a viable alternative.
I have a Chromebook with me all the time, but
I assume it has to be open and on, as
opposed to my phone, which is always opening on. There
are audio messages in six languages, updated to include a
(15:29):
calm but urgent voice.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I guess they don't want to panic you in any way.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
English, of course, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalic, Korean, and Vietnamese. There's
also information for seismic activity as low as I said
before two point five. While early warning alerts will remain
only for a magnitude of four point five or higher,
you'll get a notification, hey, there's an earthquake. There's only
two point seven, but you won't get advance warning if
(15:56):
it's four point five or higher, then you would get
a warning. There's also the ability to pinpoint precise seismic
activity and identified neighborhoods, places, addresses, and zip codes. See,
that's my thing. All I need to know is where
the earthquake is, not where I am. I know where
I am. I don't need to you know. It doesn't
(16:18):
make sense to me. It's like, why do you need
to know where I am? Unless they're using my phone
and my location to detect the earthquake. Am I somehow
helping out with the detection?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But there you go. Yeah, turn yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
But also to let you know or to be able
to give you an adequate amount of time to get
out of the way, Like if you're further away, your
alert may not come in as quick as someone who
is closer to the epicenter. Your location helps the alert
system to determine how important it is that you get
(16:56):
it versus me. If I'm right here in Burbank and
this is where the quake is, I need to know immediately,
versus you who may be in San Diego, and it's like,
oh man, I think there's a rumble going on.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is that I think that.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, okay, all right, proximity is like a proximity warning alert.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
There's a new landscape orientation on compatible devices, yes, because
I hate portrait. Got to give me the option of landscape.
And there's easier identification of app functionality issues. Can't tell
you exactly what that means, but on your recommendation, Toula,
I will try the mind shake app again and see
(17:35):
if it adds anything.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
There also is the emergency alert system where I did get,
you know, one of those obtrusive alerts for when you
have like a silver alert or something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I did for one of the earthquakes.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I want to say, maybe two months ago, got one
of those emergency alerts and it happened simultaneous to the
to the beginning of the earthquake as far as when
I felt it. So as the technology gets better and better,
more and more of us will be getting these earthquake
alerts in a way which hopefully would be helpful. Fifteen
(18:09):
seconds may not seem like a lot, but if anything,
it gets you aware of what's getting ready to happen.
Fifteen seconds can be life saving when you think about Okay,
let me at least get away from this dangerous object.
Let me at least move away from this object which
might fall. Let me get somewhere, or at least find
(18:29):
out where my children are in those fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
That could be the difference, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And some Americans, and I
might count myself as one of them. Some Americans are
over certain Christmas traditions. Some people are over the food.
You know, let's stop doing the whole traditional turkey thing,
(18:57):
let's do spaghetti instead. Or some people are over just
a whole gift exchange. And I think it might be generational.
When we come back, we'll find out who wants to
change everything and why.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And Americans, and I might be included in this group,
are just over Christmas traditions, their quotes and want to
swap traditional turkey for all time favorite takeout. I'm not
going to go that far, but there are some Christmas traditions,
at least within my family, you know what, I've been
doing them consciously for the past fifty plus years.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm about ready for a change.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
There's certain things that since I'm getting to that point
in my life where I get to be the old
guy in the house, I get to choose my chair
and the kids sit around my knee, and the grandkids
that kind of thing. I actually get some of the
privileges that come along with it. In other words, I
get to make some of the decisions like what channel
the TV's going to be are? In other word, what
(20:00):
sporting event do I want to watch? No, I don't
want to do karaoke with the family. No I don't
want to do Baby Sharks singing along with the young kids.
I just want to watch what I want to watch,
and it's usually the basketball games, the NBA games, which
we're on on Christmas Day. But beyond me, there is
a poll of two thousand adults who celebrate and are
(20:25):
pretty much bored with the usual Christmas customs and would
like to see more unusual alternatives.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
During the lead up to Christmas, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Revealed that forty seven percent, almost half, would prefer to
spend the whole day in their pajamas rather than getting
dressed up.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yes, yes, yes, I.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Would like to walk around the house with my stink
ass draws on and leave it at that. I don't
know about anyone else, but you know, everyone feels the
need in my families get dressed up. We're going over
to my sister for Christmas, so all the food will
be over there. So that means I have to get
all my pressed shirt, maybe some non jeans semi dress shoes,
(21:10):
and I would rather just walk around the house in
my underwear. I would rather that and watch the basketball games.
That's just me, but I'm not alone. And some eighteen
percent like the idea of doing a friend's only Christmas.
Thirty five percent would choose to focus on quality time
together over elaborate gifts and decorations.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
And a number of people would like to just switch
out turkey for like a good burger.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Now that's where I draw the line.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
What about Nope, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to
the food because the food is what triggers the nostalgia
and the memories. And as I get older, connections to
people who are no longer here are through the food.
Mother's macaroni and cheese, or if we sit down and
(22:02):
we have the turkey, and my sisters is making the
banana pudding, for example, using the recipe of my mother's mother.
So the food, at least in my house is very
important in a tradition sense. But I'm encountering more and
more young people who rather throw the baby and the
bathwater out and throw a dispense with all those traditions,
(22:24):
including the food.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
For Thanksgiving, for instance, my cousins took over hosting Thanksgiving,
and it was a real treat because you know, they're younger,
and they're wanted, like, let's bring the family together the
Alkama of ros and we'll do this. And instead of
the regular Thanksgiving menu, they sent out a menu that
had appetizers with autumn harvest salad, roasted cauliflower and hummus
(22:52):
and tomato jam that doesn't sound holidayish, and deviled eggs
and a car charge charcooterie. There you go that that
board right there, And I said, I was, okay, cool,
that's like the advertiser. I kind of like, you know,
finger foods. But then the entrees, I was like, and
this this is Thanksgiving. The entrees were very different, with
(23:13):
lemon herb, roasted chicken, jerk turkey, Jamaican pimento beef pot roast,
veggie rundown, which is a veggie stewed in coconut milk,
miso glazed salmon, and oxtails. And I said to myself,
this is different, delicious. Hell yeah, they could cook, but
I said, this is different.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I wouldn't want that on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Again, I'm
a traditionalist when it comes to food on the holidays,
family traditions, and I wouldn't expect if I went to
someone else's house for a holiday celebration that they would
adhere to my family traditions. But I would hope that
house had their own family traditions. I believe that's a
(23:57):
tradition day when it comes to food. Now, I'm not
the one who Okay, you wouldn't know this. Our family,
we exchange gifts after Christmas dinner on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
That to me is exhausting.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's just freaking exhausting because after I eat, emotionally, I'm done,
I'm checked out. I'm in the chair, my pants are
on button because I'm so full from the meal. And
you know, maybe I need to go outside and burp
and fart or whatever. I'm just done. I don't want
to have more festivities. At that point, the dinner for
me is a shutdown zone. I don't want to do
(24:34):
anything after that. Oh, we all go into food comas
after a big holiday dinner. Hello, why is it? No
one in my family understands that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I don't. You don't go into food comas. No, Oh,
because you're not thirty five yet. Well. Also, like my
family doesn't really get together that much, even for holidays.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But even if you are with a group of friends
or extended family, is food a big thing?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Okay? And so I usually just eat until I'm full?
What's wrong with you? No?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But this look, I dig it and I did where
you're coming from. Oh, but this year, like me and
my Meati Fan, we're doing away with the turkey and
this or the other.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Look.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We are going to get ribs and we are going
to have a soul food ribs backing Christmas dinner because
we're just.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Tired of all that. That sounds good, that sounds let
me just bring it down.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Our family will usually have We'll have the turkey, We'll
have yams as part of the meal. We'd have the
sweet potato pie. As far as the dessert, we would
have macaroni cheese, my mother's macaroni cheese. Obviously some sort
of stuffing, and we have so many family members will
(25:49):
have the vegan stuffing and the stuffing with meat. We'll
have the collar greens with meat and collar greens without meat,
because we have so many vegans and vegetarians in our house.
I know I'm being dismissive, but those are the staples
yet Sti'll be cranberry from the can on the table.
I don't touch that stuff, but those are the staples.
I need to see those when I walk in the house.
(26:11):
If not, we're going to have a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. Yes,
now you can add to it. You can also have ribs,
you can also have this, you can also have that.
But I need the basic food groups of Christmas on
the table, and then everything else is negotiable.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Christmas food groups.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, well, the cranberry and the can is one of
those groups. It's unacceptable not to have that. It's always there.
I've never touched life. If I went someplace and they
didn't have that, I just kicked the table right over.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I have a cousin who will His job is to
just bring the cranberry in a can. To this day,
I don't think I've ever in my life had that cranberry,
never even tried it. There's a reason growing up my
mother made me eat beats, and I hated beats.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Okay, there's the same color, but I'm here to tell
you that they taste slightly different.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But still the subconscious association is they are the same.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh, because you can't slice it up, it looks exactly
the same. You need cranberry deprogramming therapy.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Look, I'll drink cranberry juice. I'll eat some cranberry gummies.
Not you know, Edible's gummies, just regular gummies, health gummies.
But I'm not eating cranberry out of the can. I'm
just not.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The Only thing that you should be confused about with
the cranberry out of the can is that you really
can't mix it with vodka.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's the only problem you can. It just probably wouldn't
go real well. Just pour some bok over the top.
I'm sure it works.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I may have to try that. I don't see how
you got so precious about food. Listen, in the town
I grew up with, everybody was Italian except for me,
So the family that I spent many Christmases with They
had rigatoni for their Christmas dinner and nothing could have
pleased me more.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I didn't care. No, but id that?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I mean each family has their own traditions, and if
I went to that Italian family's house, I would expect
them to have their own family traditions. I'm saying there
is a place for those traditions in my house.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
We have the family traditions.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
As far as food that I don't want change all
the other stuff, yes, you can change.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Right now because of Robin. I want Christmas tacos with
a little cranberry dressing on top.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Christmas tacos Christmas. Have you not?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Have you had the Thanksgiving soundwich of like firehouse subs
or or one of those places where they have the
Thanksgiving sub that has the turkey, the dressing, the cranberry
sauce and the gravy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, but I need that. I need that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
God, I would eat that acculdly delicious. No, I would
eat that, but not on Thanksgiving. I would eat that
like the next day or something. You can you can
get it, and they use sliced cranberry. No, they're not
playing no mess me like that. Don't send the information
to me. Yes, I definitely want some of that when
we come back. We have well, I don't want to say,
(29:01):
I want.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
To say, I don't want to say. But there are
more traditions.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I think I have to be careful about telling all
my family's business because then I'll go home. Oh, this
is one thing I do want to say to all.
You'd always talk about we always have people coming over
to the house.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I got great news today. I got great news. No no, no, no, no,
it's even better than that. Better than that. Someone's not
wearing pants.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Now, you got that right, because they got the news
today that the family that was supposed to be coming
out I guess changed their mind because it was a
financial thing or something. They couldn't do it because they
came out for Thanksgiving, so they couldn't make both of
the drives out from Arizona. So I'm going to have
my house this Christmas, and I cannot be happier. You
(29:49):
don't understand if I wanted anything for Christmas. That was
the gift that I wanted. So I could walk around
the house and scratch my ass and any other place
I wanted in my draws and not have to worry
about it anything or anyone.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
My question is when I show up, should I be
wearing the normal sweats or the dress up sweats? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Sure, you can wear whatever you want, because well, we
won't be at my house for dinner.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I told you we're going over my sister. So if
you show up to my house, I don't care what
you wear. I don't like how this is shaping up.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI A six forty.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Last second, we were talking about Christmas traditions. Traditions had
many people, especially younger people, are moving away from from
food to types of celebrations, moving away from the traditional
turkey and trimmings to maybe a burger or, in the
case of Robin tacos, Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah. I'm not there yet. You're trying to mock it,
but it sounds No.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, I can't wrap my head around Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
It may be perfect for someone else, just not for me. Mark.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Do you have any Christmas traditions as far as food?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No, just alcohol. I mean, damn, I usually work holidays,
so do I.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But I'm saying still, there might be some observance where
there may be a plate waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
No, I wish I could say.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
No, I'm usually working and I had really untraditional holidays
when when I was growing up. Like I said, I
was like the Tom Hagen of the Corleoni family in Spokane,
Washington being fo Yeah. Yeah, and there was no no
horse heads in the bed either. But but I was
always kind of the the one non Italian, non Catholic
(31:37):
outsider who was allowed in and it pleased me no end.
But I don't really have much in the way of
personal ones. What about you, twelve? Are there things that
you just gotta have On a Christmas Day? When I
was a kid, absolutely going over to my uncle's house,
Brown's house, and there were just certain dishes that had
(31:58):
to be there. I know you are not a fan
of ambrosia, but now I used to love the ambrosia
things like that.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Those dishes were fire Marget him.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I don't really know what to say about that, because
I thought that was strictly for people over the age
of able.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Hey, hey, and I've noticed that you have teeth, so
I don't understand this. Look, you know what, I will
make you some fire ambrosia.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You will, Yeah, what did your ambrosa is different from
everyone else's ambrosia.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, I'm gonna get the family recipe. My family's recipe
for ambrosia is delicious. I'm going to pull it out
and I'm gonna bring some so you can say, damn it,
make this ambrosia all the time. You actually look forward
to ambrosia. That's something that I would. But now now
I don't want any traditions. Like I said when my
mother said, hey, how about we say damn the turkey
(32:46):
and go with something we all want, like ribs, so
that well, we're going to actually eat the food. And
I'd have it sitting around forever and trying to make
turkey this and turkey that and jibbleing. No, just have
the ribs even have a lips back in good time.
I wouldn't make gumbo. But I'm just I just don't
think I want to make Christmas gumbo, even though Christmas
gumbo can't be fired.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh that sounds good. Yeah see see that wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
If I were like in New Orleans and that was
a part of someone's family tradition, that would make perfect sense.
I'm just saying for me, if it's gonna be within
my family gathering, it's got to have the traditional fair.
You can add to it, but don't subtract the stuff
that I'm looking forward to. Okay, Oh, we're gonna have
a misunderstanding and I'll probably turn around and walk out.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
So turkey is a deal breaker for you. You must
have turkey. Gotta have turkey. I don't eat ham, but
for everyone else, they'd like to have ham. No one
wants any jive turkey or.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
What about macaroni.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Cheese if I'm making it, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay,
but but I don't need it. I'm sometimes I look
at it and I'm like, all this is is gonna
be a painful stomach, all this starch, and it's like
I want something that I want to eat and be
happy about it and not eat it because it's there,
because I grew up with it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm past that.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
You know, Robin has hit it out the park with
the Christmas tacos.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Not you guys.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Do the two of you, the three of you not
have any Jewish friends at all who have Chinese food
at Christmas?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I have Jewish friends, and I know there's Chinese food
in my neighborhood, but I've never seen the intersection of both.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, now, I'm ques.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Sure they have their family traditions when it comes to Hanukkah,
but I don't know about Chinese food.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Maybe in Spokane. That's not a Spokane thing. I'm not judging.
I'm just saying I don't personally know. That's not my
area of expertise. Okay, it's delicious. I just know that
there will be no ambrosia at my house on Yeah,
that is Look, I think I'm gonna have to make
ambrosia and spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's fine. Just don't call it Christmas.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
He's threatening us with it. No, No, it will be
for Christmas Eve. The Savior will not approve. What are
the key components in ambrosia to What are the key
I have to I have to put up the family? Yeah,
I mean salaries. Yeah, but there's some protoplasm that the
fils floating in. Yes, the protoplasm, it's usually made of
a special ingredient. East family has their own aosity, Yes
(35:15):
it does. You have to have a viscossa, gotta have
the mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You have to.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm not the mushrooms, the marshmallows, marshmallows, the marshmallows, candy, wallnuts.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You have to have the fruit. You have to have
a little bit of cream. Have you anything good in
it that you're You're lucky, We're out of time. It's delicit.
It sounds re K forty. We live everywhere in the
I Heart radio app. You will Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
K s i k O st HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Lots everywhere on the radio.
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