September 5, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the sweltering SoCal heatwave AND California’s ranking on the list of the most sweet-obsessed states…PLUS – Thoughts on the latest incidence of violence in SoCal and its connection to LA Metro - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mister Bill Kelly here k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I
wanted to start off the show tonight with something a
little different.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Usually we don't do the mass shootings.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Usually we don't talk about some of the harder news
which is out there. But this is a moment I
think we need to because it kind of ties in
to something we have been discussing more locally. Of course,
I'm talking about the four people who were killed in
a Georgia high school shooting today, but we're talking about
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it within the there's a space of our discussion of
California schools banning smartphones. Remember Assembly Bill thirty two sixteen,
renamed the Phone Free School Act, requires that every school, district,
charter school, and county Office of Education develop a policy
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limiting the use of smartphones by July first, twenty twenty six. Yes,
more and more information is coming in about the fourteen
year old killer. Yes he used an AR fifteen. Yes
he'll be tried as an adult. But I wanted to
talk about this through the lens of communication. We know
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that law enforcement on scene got information from students who
were dealing with the shooter. They were able to contact
and communicate with them to find out where the shooter was,
who the shooter was, and other information which was tactically
beneficial to law enforcement. I've also discussed here how this
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would be implementation of that law Assembly Bill thirty two sixteen.
We always had concerns, at least I expressed them as
far as parents wanting to get in touch with their
children in the event of an emergency.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, school has just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Come back in law and behold, here is a real
world example of such an emergency. Not only did the
phones help law enforcement, it help the families because in
an emergency situation, if these kids had turned in their phone,
there would be no communication with law enforcement. There would
be no communication or limited communication between students and parents.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And I wonder whether this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
If we take the politics out of it, I wonder
whether this moment changes how we conceive of smartphone availability
in schools here in California. What happened in Georgia today
could be California tomorrow. It's not something which is limited
to a certain quadron of the country. It doesn't matter
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what city, what state. It could happen anywhere in America
and Twali. You serve a dual role in this conversation.
Let me bring you in from the beginning. You're an
administrator at a school and also you're a parent of
two teenage children, one just graduated high school. But the
danger still remains. I don't know where you want to
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start with this. I believe it was last week and
I'll look it up. But last week at the school
that my son just graduated, there was a school wide
lockdown over a threat of a student bringing a gun
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on campus.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
This is just a week ago now.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It turned out to be a false report, but it
was credible enough at the time that they locked down
the entire school. The week before that, my daughter goes
to her very first high school football game, and after
the game there was a shooting around the corner that
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was sparked at the game. The confrontation started at the
game and it escalated around the corner and resulted in
a shooting. When I see something like this in the
news today, I look at the entire concept of this
phone band in a whole new light, because here in California,
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we know that the accessibility to firearms is not as
strict as it may be in other places. And I'm
not trying to cast blame on anyone for having a
gun whatever. Do you What I'm saying is I am
more intimately aware of the access two guns here in
southern California, and an incident like this makes me want
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my daughter to have her phone staple to her hand,
because this could happen anywhere. As I was pulling in,
I was talking to one of my closest friends, and
we were talking about this exact situation, and I was
explaining how, there, before the grace of God, my children
could have been involved in any number of confrontations that
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had resulted in gunfire here in southern California, not in
the Midwest, not in the South, not somewhere foreign to us,
right here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
How did you know that your son's school had been
locked down?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Did the school contact you or did you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I got an alert from LAUSD just because just because
my son was part of that school, so I am
still in their system. I got an alert. That's how
I knew about it now from looking on the news.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So in other words, if we were to jump back
a year and your son was still in school, the
first thing you would have done would have been calling him.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yes. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Look if I would have gotten that alert on my
phone and said there has been an incident at this
school involving a suspect having a gun on campus, I
would have instantly not calling. But I would have been texting.
I don't want to call because I don't know the situation.
I don't want to alert. I don't know if they're hiding,
there's a lockdown. But I would have been texting, and
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I would have needed to know. All right, now, put
on your other hat. As an administrator, I get the
concept and the reasons why. I get how these phones
can be a nuisance and they are out of control.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I get it. I see it. I literally see it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Even when I pick my daughter up and I see
every single kid standing outside they've got a phone in
their hand. When there's sometimes when I would go and
pick my daughter up at school during the day, I
would see every single kid on the campus walking around
with the phone in the middle of a day. But
there has to be a very very comprehensive plan in place,
and I don't think they're anywhere near close.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I think from.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Everything I've seen, it's when the kids come in they're
checking their phones and put them in one of those
magnetically sealed bags that already were seeing kids. As you said,
you predicted, they're already putting dummy phones in. They've already
found a way to slit the bottom of the damn
bag and pull the phone out.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The bags aren't working, and they're very expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So if anything, there's gonna cost LAUSD and other school
districts more money than we already.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Have to already already. So I get the concept.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I get the idea, But when something like this happens, Oh,
this is a hell to the now, don't take my
child's phone.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I wonder if this doesn't fundamentally change what California lawmakers
may do, Governor Gavin Newsom may do, whether the individual schools,
because they're supposed to come up with some policy by
July first, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There's a long way between now and then, just under
two years.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I bet that this whole policy will be gone by then,
if I were to guess it's later. With mo Kelly,
we have to tell you about this ongoing heat wave.
You already know about it. I'll tell you where it's
going to go next, or how it's going to go
next in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
You're listening too later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I gotta say, I'm a pretty fortunate guy. I'm
pretty fortunate. I didn't have to deal with too much
of the heat today, and I don't have to deal
with too much of the heat on a regular basis.
I'll get up in the morning, turn on the air conditioning,
make sure my dogs are all cool and calm. Then
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I'll go about my housework, do what I need to do.
Because I'm doing the housework. When my wife is in
a home, we have like opposite schedules. She goes to
work very early in the morning, so I usually get
up and do the housework. But after I do that,
I take my shower, get in the car air conditioning,
then I go to work. Then I pull into the
underground parking and to leave that parking structure and get
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to iHeart, I have to walk a total of Stephan,
would you say, like maybe thirty thirty five steps?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
If that? If that? If that, so I get to
feel the heat for about.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Fifteen twenty seconds, and that's if I'm walking very slowly.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But I can say without question it was damn hot
for all that fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, as I look at the news, it says, you know,
triple triple digit weather in San Fernando Valley, Burbank, Woodland Hills, Pasadena,
and it was supposedly reaching between one ten and one fifteen. Now,
let's be honest, after like one hundred and two, it
just feels hot as hell to me. There's no way
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for me to distinguish between one hundred and two and
one hundred and fifteen, especially not in only fifteen steps.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But I can agree it was really really hot today,
and I know it's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Really uncomfortable, and as I get older, I have less
and less tolerance for extremes and ten temperature. If it's
over eighty five, I am uncomfortable. It's really uncomfortable. But
there's a serious aspect to this. It's very dangerous, especially
to the elderly or the infirm. This type of heat
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can be deadly. So we do recommend that you don't
take it for granted, that you stay hydrated. Of course,
wear loose fitted, light colored clothes and hats. I know
I'm wearing black jeans and a gray T shirt or
just say a great polo. But I only had to
walk fifteen steps in the heat. And when I leave
here it'll be ten thirty at night, and hopefully it'll
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be about seventy five. I will say this, when I
leave work after hot days like this, it is perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It is just glorious.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I walk outside and it feels like a perfect summer night.
But that's like ten o'clock ten thirty when I leave.
But between time, we have to be safe, and you
got its day school.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Stay cool.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You can stay in the shade, of course, set your
air conditioners between seventy five and eighty degrees. Close your
windows so your air conditioning is not working against that
air which is coming in your windows. And here's something
that I think people forget. You may want the sunlight
to come in, but that heats up your house, so
close your shades. Make sure your shades are down, your
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blinds if you have blinds, and if you don't have
air conditioning, then visit one of the nearby cooling centers.
The cooling centers all around La County are going to
be open for an extended period of time because of
this heat. Now, since I'm not a young, spry chicken anymore,
these are things that I take to heart. You wouldn't
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know this because you're not here in the office with
me or at the studio. But I think Mark nosis
and I know stephanosis. I drink water consistently all day,
all evening. It's the only beverage I have unless I'm
on a cruise, and then it's Jack Daniels neat.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, no ice.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But I try to drink water all the time, and
it helps me, even if I'm not thirsty, to keep
my body cool. And I recommend that for anyone else.
And also you may be someone like me with them
an aging relative. My mother, God bless her heart. You
know she's still here, but I still have to check
in on her. And I recommend that you checking on
your relatives as well, because the heat can have adverse
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effects on people in ways that you don't think. I mean,
for me, I can tolerate the eighty five, but someone
else may not. Mark Ronner can tolerate the cold in
the rain, I cannot.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh, are you at the point with your wife where
you're arguing about the temperature at home and in the
car and stuff? Now, Like it's too cold in here,
but I need some breeze.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh, wowa.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yes, And I'm gonna go ahead and get my ass
kicked for saying this, because it's the true story. She
is going through the change. Oh boy, here, you're on
your own now, buddy. So she has these hot flashes,
is at various points of the day, huh. And the
hot flashes mean, regardless of how cold I may be,
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I have to turn on the air conditioning, either in
the car or in the house just you know, to
nine or ten, I have to keep it very, very cold.
And it's kind of difficult to navigate that at different
points of the day. Now, if it's a day like this, fine,
no problem, let's turn off the air conditioning. But if
we're in winter or a mild night, there is a problem.
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I want to state for the record that I have
nothing but empathy for your wife's hot flashes.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yes, because you've met her, she'll come for you.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No. I mean I think I'm more on her side
because I am still not acclimated to the heat, even
after around six years here close to that. So when
I even walk from the car to our lobby and
I get that first blast of cool air walking in
the lobby, the sounds that I let out are sounding
more and more sexual. Like today, when I walked in
and I got that blast of cold air, I actually said, oh, yeah,
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I did the same.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Hello, hey, you can do it. Oh, thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh that was so good, you were saying, Stephan, No,
I was telling him I did the exact same thing,
because you can tell when it's hotter, because there's times
where you walk into the building and it's just cool.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But it literally was like a blast of air. That's
how hot it is.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
A days he's just running, who knows what the temperature
they have it at, but it was like it hit
you in the face.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, this stuff is not livable if you do not
have air conditioning. I'm serious, no, And I don't know
how people do it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes, it's a dry heat, Yes we don't have humidity,
but still it's it's damn unbearable.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And if you're trying to deal with it for multiple
days or maybe a week, I don't see how people
deal with it without really a solid air condition I'm
not talking about a fan and you're like blowing with
a water bottle, spraying water into the fan. That's not
good enough, you know, actual air conditioning. No, Fan's not
gonna do it. Fan just pushes around the hot air.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
And I went to pick up the car from the
mechanic today and I cranked up the AC and it
was still just blasting me with hot air, and I
was sweating, and I'm just sitting there suffering. And then
I finally, you know, I thought, if I drive the
car a little bit sometimes you get the engine running,
that'll get the cool air, because you know, you don't
get the best cold air when you're just sitting there
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parked with the engine running. So about five minutes in,
I'm dying. I'm like Superman exposed to the Kryptonite. And
I looked down and I realized, Oh, they've cranked up
the heat all the way to hide, and I didn't
notice it all this time. So I could die right now.
I mean, you fush could have to come in here
and finish the news. I was reading the news and
it said some of the things that you should do
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in this hot weather. It says also to take cold showers.
That's something I could never do. Now.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I could take cool showers, but I never creciated a
cold shower.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
It's like a shot to the body. It's a bit
much and it doesn't last. I mean, you have to
get out of the shower eventually. Then what you just
start sweating again? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah much.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
It's gotten to the point where I have a window
right next to mine and I just leave that open,
and I even leave the I have like a glass door.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I even leave that open because it's so hot.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I don't even feel cold coming in like you normally do,
like during the winter, because you're just trying to like
stay as cool as you can, and I'm just well.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Another issue here is that it presents a quandary for
people like me who wear the same thing all the time,
which is mainly black T shirts. When it's hot like
this and sunny, you're supposed to wear looser, lighter colored clothing.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I don't have any of that. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Don't do that either, because most of my wardrobe is
usually solid darker colors, because I'm afraid that I want
to spill something on lighter clothes.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I'm being serious, but no, that always wear dark pants.
By the way, I ever know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't wear like beige, white, no weather shorts or anything.
I always have dark color.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I have an extra pair of pants in the car
right now, just because I may spill something.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Not that I'll soil myself, but I may spill something.
Well you age know, you know anything can happen front door, back.
Do you have to be prepared? Look, they say never
trust the fart after forty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Okay, I wasn't. Okay, Yes you were a Look at
you work, Look at the time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about the states
in this country with who are most sweet obsessed? You know,
the states love their desserts, their cakes, their candies or cookies.
Where does California rank? Well, if we're doing it, that
means we're ranking somewhere. K IF I am six forty
Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And let's talk about this study by taffy shop dot
com of the most sweet of cessed states in America.
And you wonder, well, it's California on this list. Probably
most likely I wouldn't say I have a sweet tooth,
But as I've gotten older, I've enjoyed sweets more. I
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was in a household we really did not have dessert
all that. Often it was not a thing. And so
when I got older and I could, you know, choose
my own meals and desserts, I started to like it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I like chocolate pudding. I found a taste for crim
bul at weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But I'm not someone who's gonna walk into the snack
room and just get some donuts or anything like that. Now,
if you put donuts out in front of me, we
might have a misunderstanding because they're hard to resist. But
it's not something I seek out. But from what I hear,
Californians do like their sweets, Tall Sharp, Do you like
your sweets?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I grew up diabetic, so I could not have sugar,
and unfortunately, because I couldn't have sugar, my mom making
sugar really for my brother. When I moved out, I
remember the first thing I said was to do. I
was gonna buy a gigantic box of sugar, cereal and
just all types of junk food and canny and everything,
and I was going to lose my mind. But even
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now to this day, I mean I don't even drink
coca sugar. I still maintain like as sugar free a
diet as possible. I just don't like the taste of it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Really well, let's see if that holds up around the
country as we go to taffee shop dot COM's list
of the most sweet obsessed states in.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
America, coming in at number ten, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
New Jersey rounds out the top ten with a sweet
obsession score of sixty point oh three. The state has
two point seven million searches for sweet snacks and an
average weekly consumption of thirteen point nine to nine sugary
snacks by those age one to seven. Team Damn, they'd
be higher on the list, but they like the Gabba ghoul.
It has two candy and chocolate shops per one hundred
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thousand and a sugar industry economic output of two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Coming in at number nine, Idaho, stop, Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Do you.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
What? What were you going to suggest that I thought
the Nazis there might enjoy some martinis.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We're going to take it a different direction, Okay, to
just go with the end. That's right for it too.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Idaho, ranking ninth, has a sweet obsession score sixty point one.
The state sees one point five million searches for sweet snacks,
resulting in the third highest weekly consumption of sixteen point
four four sugary snacks by children age one to seventeen.
It has three candy and chocolate shops per one hundred
thousand and a relatively low sugar industry economic output of
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one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Number eight.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Ohio, which scores sixty one point oh seven on a
sweet obsession scale, driven by five point three million searches
for sweet snacks and children's average consumption of twelve point
ninety five sugary snacks per week. It has three point
four candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand residents
and a sugar industry economic.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Output of two billion dollars wow. Number seven.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Kentucky, which has a suite obsession of sixty one point
five eight. It has a relatively low number of two
million searches for sweet snacks and a high average weekly
consumption of seventeen point seven six sugary snacks by children
age one through seventeen that's why they have no teeth
as adults, and the state has two point seven candy
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and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand population and a
sugar industry economic output of three hundred and fifty four million.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now on to number six.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Start spread the news I'm leaving today New York, New York,
with a sweet obsession score of sixty one point nine eight.
New York registers four point seven million searches for sweet
snacks and an average weekly sugary snap snack consumption of
thirteen point ninety five by children. It has a three
point three candy and chocolate chops per one hundred thousand
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people and the second highest sugar industry economic output of
two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Coming in in number five.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hawaii, with a sweet obsession score of sixty five point
seventy nine. The state has one point four million searches
for sweet snacks and an average consumption of eight point
two sugary snacks per week by children one to seventeen.
Has the highest number of candy and chocolate shops twelve
per hundred thousand and a moderate sugar industry economic output
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of four hundred and thirty three million.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number four right surprising.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Vermont, with a sweet obsession score of sixty six point
one five. It stands out with the second highest number
of candy and chocolate shops eleven point five per one
hundred thousand residents. Surprisingly, the state has a comparatively low
one point one million search volume for sweet snacks, and
children between the ages of one and seventeen consume nine
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point six sugary snacks on average each week, sugar economic
output two hundred and twenty six million.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Coming in at number three.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
California with a sweet Obsession score of sixty six point eight.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
California ranks third.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It leads in search volume with eight point six million
searches for sweet snacks and has an average sugary snack
consumption of nine point seventy four per week for children
age one to seventeen. The state has three point eight
candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand, matching Illinois
and Pennsylvania sugar industry economic output of six billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
How many dennis per one hundred thousand. But where in California.
I don't see candy shops anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Look, there's more to California than La San Francisco and
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's all I can say. That's all I know. Coming
in number two.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
As just reference, Illinois, ranking second, has a sweet obsession
score of seventy point five six. The state sees three
point eight million searches for sweet snacks and has an
average weekly consumption of sugary snacks of thirteen point sixty
nine for those age one seventeen. Illinois has three point
five candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand people
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and a sugary industry economic output of six billion dollars,
and in first place as the most sweet obsessed state
in the Union Pennsylvania. Believe it or not, it has
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the highest sweet obsession score obviously of eighty. Pennsylvania's love
for sugary snacks is reflected in its substantial state wide
online search volume four sweet snacks three point seven million,
and the highest average sugary snacks consumed twenty two point
eight six per week among ages one to seventeen. It
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also has a decent number of candy and chocolate shops
three point three per one hundred thousand residents and the
highest sugar industry economic output of six billion dollars. And
there you have it, sweet obsessed Pennsylvania. Who says you
need both feet diabetes? We have a metro update when
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we come back. And if you weren't listening to Mark Ronner,
just know someone got stabbed.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
We'll tell you that much. KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
KFI mo Kelly Metro Update Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Usually we do the Metro update earlier in the first hour,
but there was some confusion at least on our part
as far as whether this what I'm about to tell
you about actually happened and was connected to Metro or
was it something that just ended up at a Metro station.
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And if you might not have heard Mark Runner's earlier report,
let me bring you up to date. Police revealed back
on money what appeared to be the most recent case
of a Metro attack. There's now some question about it
whether it actually happened on Metro. Police initially said that
there were two separate stabbings, one of which was believed
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to have occurred on a train. The attack itself occurred
at about eight twenty five am and the fifty seven
hundred block of Jefferson Boulevard, that's according to LAPD. From there,
the victim, a man, headed to the train station at
Jefferson and Losienega Boulevards, where he was spotted at around
eight forty am, and officers were alerted to the attack
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by callers at the scene and at the station. The
victim was located at the Librea Exposition station and then
transported to a local hospital. And it was unclear, at
least originally, whether the stabbing happened on the platform or
prior to the victim arriving at the platform try to
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escape his attacker.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I think I can clarify a little bit shre in
the item that I had just a short time ago.
The wire copy said Copsamn was stabbed this morning on
the way to catch the little brea Eline train and
taken to a hospital. But the story started by saying
there's been another stabbing at a Metro station. So it
wasn't entirely clear.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, it's completely unclear, And I'm not trying to wrongfully
attribute blame or ascribe blame to Metro as being somehow
more unsafe than it already is. You know, they already
have enough stabbings on its resume. I don't need to
add one unnecessarily. Yeah, you kind of need to cut
them some slack where it's warranted. But the information we
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were originally given indicated that it happened connected to Metro
or on a Metro property station, what have you. And
there's more information coming out that didn't seem to be
consistent with that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So we're just letting you know we're aware of this.
And here's something else.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Last week, when I talked about Metro with Michael Monks
when I was filling in for a brief time for
Tim Conway Junior, Michael Monks, kfi's reporter, let me know
that Metro had been in constant communication with him regarding
my on air commentaries and how they didn't necessarily approve
I'm just paraphrasing. They didn't approve of my consistent negative coverage.
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They took issue with certain things that I've said or
maybe not giving Metro enough positive credit. And I told
Michael Monks at that time, I said, why are they
trying to use you as a proxy or go between.
They have an open invitation to send a representative here
and discuss these issues with us, clear up any misunderstandings
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that might be out there, but they haven't. And they've
you know, they've emailed other people within the KFI matrix
which have been forwarded to me, and I've responded directly
to Metro saying one you're wrong, and number two, you're
welcome to come on anytime. You just have to make
that formal request or submit someone up as an offering
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a sect.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I understand MO, why you hate America like this, because
you've got to understand we're in the era of working
the ref, not in the era of coming on and
stating your case in simple and direct terms.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You got to work the REF.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But you know to use your analogy. When you're working
the REF. It's not about that call. It's about the
next call. And if you want the next call to
go your way or that I would show some sort
of mercy that you're going to actually have to address me.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, if you're going to work the REF, speak
to the REF.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Don't speak to the guy who's working in the scorer's
table and ask him to talk to the reef on
the court.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
I think their psyops have already worked a little bit
on you, because just a couple of minutes ago you
characterized your remarks as negative, when in fact, you know
there may have been a satirical edge to them, but
there was nothing negative about them. You're talking about things
that have happened. Oh absolutely, And I maintain that. That's
always been my approach. If and when someone gets stabbed,
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like later tonight, then.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I will report upon it. I will talk about it.
I will talk about the circumstances surrounding it. I'm talking.
I will talk about whether crime is increasing or decreasing.
I will talk about whether Metro is implementing new procedures
or they're taking away procedures. Are they going to add
police officers, are they going to add actual security, are
they going to add Metro ambassadors?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Are they going to decrease it. I'm going to talk
about all those things.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But it would be nice if we had a representative
from Metro to either contradict.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What I'm saying, clarify what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Or offer some sort of opposing view, Because as far
as I'm concerned, look, I'm.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Right until you prove me wrong, I don't think that's
going to happen. What they're not going to prove me wrong? Well,
not based on what's been going on so far that
we've been able to observe in objective reality, do you
see that coming around the corner.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I wish that they would at least come forward and say, hey,
this is what we're trying to do. This is what
we've been doing. This is what you've missed in your
commentary that it needs to be added into the conversation.
That's what I would want, unless there's nothing to report,
unless there's nothing to say, unless there's nothing to add
other than the news reports of someone getting shot, stabbed.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Or sexually assaulted.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
It seems like if things happen and they're reported, they're
fair game to discuss. And the main problem that people
have is that you are not discussing them in a
flattering way, which again work in the ref.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, put it this way, there's always the opportunity, since
I have contacted them directly, that they can send me
something and say, hey, MO, we don't have a representative
that we can offer you, but here's some information that
you may want to be aware of and add into
to the discussion. I'd be open to that if there's
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anything to all, but you have to at least make
an effort. For as much effort as Metro has made
to contact and harass my word, Michael Monks, they could
have contacted me and offered some legitimate information.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, one hundred percent agree. It's a little strange because
Michael is a reporter. He's not somebody who gives his
opinion about things on the air, so it's strange to
lean on him in the first place.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, well, look as if that's the only person they
know from KFI. I mean, look, I am. I don't
think of myself as an intimidating guy. I think myself
as warm and fuzzy. That's how I think of you too.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Cuddy, in fact, had to make it weird, didn't you? Yet?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Mostly dry? It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
The ABC News Presidential Debates simulcast KFI.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We'll bring it to you live this tooth evening at
six pm KF.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I'm kost HD two Los Angeles counting live
Speaker 1 (34:00):
From everywhere on the Echart radio app.
Mister Bill Kelly here k IF. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I
wanted to start off the show tonight with something a
little different.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Usually we don't do the mass shootings.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Usually we don't talk about some of the harder news
which is out there. But this is a moment I
think we need to because it kind of ties in
to something we have been discussing more locally. Of course,
I'm talking about the four people who were killed in
a Georgia high school shooting today, but we're talking about
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it within the there's a space of our discussion of
California schools banning smartphones. Remember Assembly Bill thirty two sixteen,
renamed the Phone Free School Act, requires that every school, district,
charter school, and county Office of Education develop a policy
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limiting the use of smartphones by July first, twenty twenty six. Yes,
more and more information is coming in about the fourteen
year old killer. Yes he used an AR fifteen. Yes
he'll be tried as an adult. But I wanted to
talk about this through the lens of communication. We know
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that law enforcement on scene got information from students who
were dealing with the shooter. They were able to contact
and communicate with them to find out where the shooter was,
who the shooter was, and other information which was tactically
beneficial to law enforcement. I've also discussed here how this
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would be implementation of that law Assembly Bill thirty two sixteen.
We always had concerns, at least I expressed them as
far as parents wanting to get in touch with their
children in the event of an emergency.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, school has just.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Come back in law and behold, here is a real
world example of such an emergency. Not only did the
phones help law enforcement, it help the families because in
an emergency situation, if these kids had turned in their phone,
there would be no communication with law enforcement. There would
be no communication or limited communication between students and parents.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And I wonder whether this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
If we take the politics out of it, I wonder
whether this moment changes how we conceive of smartphone availability
in schools here in California. What happened in Georgia today
could be California tomorrow. It's not something which is limited
to a certain quadron of the country. It doesn't matter
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what city, what state. It could happen anywhere in America
and Twali. You serve a dual role in this conversation.
Let me bring you in from the beginning. You're an
administrator at a school and also you're a parent of
two teenage children, one just graduated high school. But the
danger still remains. I don't know where you want to
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start with this. I believe it was last week and
I'll look it up. But last week at the school
that my son just graduated, there was a school wide
lockdown over a threat of a student bringing a gun
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on campus.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
This is just a week ago now.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It turned out to be a false report, but it
was credible enough at the time that they locked down
the entire school. The week before that, my daughter goes
to her very first high school football game, and after
the game there was a shooting around the corner that
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was sparked at the game. The confrontation started at the
game and it escalated around the corner and resulted in
a shooting. When I see something like this in the
news today, I look at the entire concept of this
phone band in a whole new light, because here in California,
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we know that the accessibility to firearms is not as
strict as it may be in other places. And I'm
not trying to cast blame on anyone for having a
gun whatever. Do you What I'm saying is I am
more intimately aware of the access two guns here in
southern California, and an incident like this makes me want
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my daughter to have her phone staple to her hand,
because this could happen anywhere. As I was pulling in,
I was talking to one of my closest friends, and
we were talking about this exact situation, and I was
explaining how, there, before the grace of God, my children
could have been involved in any number of confrontations that
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had resulted in gunfire here in southern California, not in
the Midwest, not in the South, not somewhere foreign to us,
right here in southern California.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
How did you know that your son's school had been
locked down?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Did the school contact you or did you?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I got an alert from LAUSD just because just because
my son was part of that school, so I am
still in their system. I got an alert. That's how
I knew about it now from looking on the news.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So in other words, if we were to jump back
a year and your son was still in school, the
first thing you would have done would have been calling him.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yes. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Look if I would have gotten that alert on my
phone and said there has been an incident at this
school involving a suspect having a gun on campus, I
would have instantly not calling. But I would have been texting.
I don't want to call because I don't know the situation.
I don't want to alert. I don't know if they're hiding,
there's a lockdown. But I would have been texting, and
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I would have needed to know. All right, now, put
on your other hat. As an administrator, I get the
concept and the reasons why. I get how these phones
can be a nuisance and they are out of control.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I get it. I see it. I literally see it.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Even when I pick my daughter up and I see
every single kid standing outside they've got a phone in
their hand. When there's sometimes when I would go and
pick my daughter up at school during the day, I
would see every single kid on the campus walking around
with the phone in the middle of a day. But
there has to be a very very comprehensive plan in place,
and I don't think they're anywhere near close.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I think from.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Everything I've seen, it's when the kids come in they're
checking their phones and put them in one of those
magnetically sealed bags that already were seeing kids. As you said,
you predicted, they're already putting dummy phones in. They've already
found a way to slit the bottom of the damn
bag and pull the phone out.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The bags aren't working, and they're very expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So if anything, there's gonna cost LAUSD and other school
districts more money than we already.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Have to already already. So I get the concept.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I get the idea, But when something like this happens, Oh,
this is a hell to the now, don't take my
child's phone.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I wonder if this doesn't fundamentally change what California lawmakers
may do, Governor Gavin Newsom may do, whether the individual schools,
because they're supposed to come up with some policy by
July first, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
There's a long way between now and then, just under
two years.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I bet that this whole policy will be gone by then,
if I were to guess it's later. With mo Kelly,
we have to tell you about this ongoing heat wave.
You already know about it. I'll tell you where it's
going to go next, or how it's going to go
next in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
You're listening too later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
And I gotta say, I'm a pretty fortunate guy. I'm
pretty fortunate. I didn't have to deal with too much
of the heat today, and I don't have to deal
with too much of the heat on a regular basis.
I'll get up in the morning, turn on the air conditioning,
make sure my dogs are all cool and calm. Then
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I'll go about my housework, do what I need to do.
Because I'm doing the housework. When my wife is in
a home, we have like opposite schedules. She goes to
work very early in the morning, so I usually get
up and do the housework. But after I do that,
I take my shower, get in the car air conditioning,
then I go to work. Then I pull into the
underground parking and to leave that parking structure and get
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to iHeart, I have to walk a total of Stephan,
would you say, like maybe thirty thirty five steps?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
If that? If that? If that, so I get to
feel the heat for about.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Fifteen twenty seconds, and that's if I'm walking very slowly.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
But I can say without question it was damn hot
for all that fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, as I look at the news, it says, you know,
triple triple digit weather in San Fernando Valley, Burbank, Woodland Hills, Pasadena,
and it was supposedly reaching between one ten and one fifteen. Now,
let's be honest, after like one hundred and two, it
just feels hot as hell to me. There's no way
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for me to distinguish between one hundred and two and
one hundred and fifteen, especially not in only fifteen steps.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But I can agree it was really really hot today,
and I know it's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Really uncomfortable, and as I get older, I have less
and less tolerance for extremes and ten temperature. If it's
over eighty five, I am uncomfortable. It's really uncomfortable. But
there's a serious aspect to this. It's very dangerous, especially
to the elderly or the infirm. This type of heat
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can be deadly. So we do recommend that you don't
take it for granted, that you stay hydrated. Of course,
wear loose fitted, light colored clothes and hats. I know
I'm wearing black jeans and a gray T shirt or
just say a great polo. But I only had to
walk fifteen steps in the heat. And when I leave
here it'll be ten thirty at night, and hopefully it'll
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be about seventy five. I will say this, when I
leave work after hot days like this, it is perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It is just glorious.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I walk outside and it feels like a perfect summer night.
But that's like ten o'clock ten thirty when I leave.
But between time, we have to be safe, and you
got its day school.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Stay cool.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You can stay in the shade, of course, set your
air conditioners between seventy five and eighty degrees. Close your
windows so your air conditioning is not working against that
air which is coming in your windows. And here's something
that I think people forget. You may want the sunlight
to come in, but that heats up your house, so
close your shades. Make sure your shades are down, your
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blinds if you have blinds, and if you don't have
air conditioning, then visit one of the nearby cooling centers.
The cooling centers all around La County are going to
be open for an extended period of time because of
this heat. Now, since I'm not a young, spry chicken anymore,
these are things that I take to heart. You wouldn't
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know this because you're not here in the office with
me or at the studio. But I think Mark nosis
and I know stephanosis. I drink water consistently all day,
all evening. It's the only beverage I have unless I'm
on a cruise, and then it's Jack Daniels neat.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, no ice.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But I try to drink water all the time, and
it helps me, even if I'm not thirsty, to keep
my body cool. And I recommend that for anyone else.
And also you may be someone like me with them
an aging relative. My mother, God bless her heart. You
know she's still here, but I still have to check
in on her. And I recommend that you checking on
your relatives as well, because the heat can have adverse
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effects on people in ways that you don't think. I mean,
for me, I can tolerate the eighty five, but someone
else may not. Mark Ronner can tolerate the cold in
the rain, I cannot.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh, are you at the point with your wife where
you're arguing about the temperature at home and in the
car and stuff? Now, Like it's too cold in here,
but I need some breeze.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh, wowa.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yes, And I'm gonna go ahead and get my ass
kicked for saying this, because it's the true story. She
is going through the change. Oh boy, here, you're on
your own now, buddy. So she has these hot flashes,
is at various points of the day, huh. And the
hot flashes mean, regardless of how cold I may be,
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I have to turn on the air conditioning, either in
the car or in the house just you know, to
nine or ten, I have to keep it very, very cold.
And it's kind of difficult to navigate that at different
points of the day. Now, if it's a day like this, fine,
no problem, let's turn off the air conditioning. But if
we're in winter or a mild night, there is a problem.
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I want to state for the record that I have
nothing but empathy for your wife's hot flashes.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yes, because you've met her, she'll come for you.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No. I mean I think I'm more on her side
because I am still not acclimated to the heat, even
after around six years here close to that. So when
I even walk from the car to our lobby and
I get that first blast of cool air walking in
the lobby, the sounds that I let out are sounding
more and more sexual. Like today, when I walked in
and I got that blast of cold air, I actually said, oh, yeah,
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I did the same.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Hello, hey, you can do it. Oh, thank you for that.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Oh that was so good, you were saying, Stephan, No,
I was telling him I did the exact same thing,
because you can tell when it's hotter, because there's times
where you walk into the building and it's just cool.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But it literally was like a blast of air. That's
how hot it is.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
A days he's just running, who knows what the temperature
they have it at, but it was like it hit
you in the face.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, this stuff is not livable if you do not
have air conditioning. I'm serious, no, And I don't know
how people do it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes, it's a dry heat, Yes we don't have humidity,
but still it's it's damn unbearable.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And if you're trying to deal with it for multiple
days or maybe a week, I don't see how people
deal with it without really a solid air condition I'm
not talking about a fan and you're like blowing with
a water bottle, spraying water into the fan. That's not
good enough, you know, actual air conditioning. No, Fan's not
gonna do it. Fan just pushes around the hot air.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
And I went to pick up the car from the
mechanic today and I cranked up the AC and it
was still just blasting me with hot air, and I
was sweating, and I'm just sitting there suffering. And then
I finally, you know, I thought, if I drive the
car a little bit sometimes you get the engine running,
that'll get the cool air, because you know, you don't
get the best cold air when you're just sitting there
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parked with the engine running. So about five minutes in,
I'm dying. I'm like Superman exposed to the Kryptonite. And
I looked down and I realized, Oh, they've cranked up
the heat all the way to hide, and I didn't
notice it all this time. So I could die right now.
I mean, you fush could have to come in here
and finish the news. I was reading the news and
it said some of the things that you should do
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in this hot weather. It says also to take cold showers.
That's something I could never do. Now.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I could take cool showers, but I never creciated a
cold shower.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
It's like a shot to the body. It's a bit
much and it doesn't last. I mean, you have to
get out of the shower eventually. Then what you just
start sweating again? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah much.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
It's gotten to the point where I have a window
right next to mine and I just leave that open,
and I even leave the I have like a glass door.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I even leave that open because it's so hot.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I don't even feel cold coming in like you normally do,
like during the winter, because you're just trying to like
stay as cool as you can, and I'm just well.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Another issue here is that it presents a quandary for
people like me who wear the same thing all the time,
which is mainly black T shirts. When it's hot like
this and sunny, you're supposed to wear looser, lighter colored clothing.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I don't have any of that. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Don't do that either, because most of my wardrobe is
usually solid darker colors, because I'm afraid that I want
to spill something on lighter clothes.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I'm being serious, but no, that always wear dark pants.
By the way, I ever know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't wear like beige, white, no weather shorts or anything.
I always have dark color.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I have an extra pair of pants in the car
right now, just because I may spill something.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Not that I'll soil myself, but I may spill something.
Well you age know, you know anything can happen front door, back.
Do you have to be prepared? Look, they say never
trust the fart after forty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Okay, I wasn't. Okay, Yes you were a Look at
you work, Look at the time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
When we come back, we're gonna talk about the states
in this country with who are most sweet obsessed? You know,
the states love their desserts, their cakes, their candies or cookies.
Where does California rank? Well, if we're doing it, that
means we're ranking somewhere. K IF I am six forty
Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And let's talk about this study by taffy shop dot
com of the most sweet of cessed states in America.
And you wonder, well, it's California on this list. Probably
most likely I wouldn't say I have a sweet tooth,
But as I've gotten older, I've enjoyed sweets more. I
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was in a household we really did not have dessert
all that. Often it was not a thing. And so
when I got older and I could, you know, choose
my own meals and desserts, I started to like it.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I like chocolate pudding. I found a taste for crim
bul at weird stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
But I'm not someone who's gonna walk into the snack
room and just get some donuts or anything like that. Now,
if you put donuts out in front of me, we
might have a misunderstanding because they're hard to resist. But
it's not something I seek out. But from what I hear,
Californians do like their sweets, Tall Sharp, Do you like
your sweets?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I grew up diabetic, so I could not have sugar,
and unfortunately, because I couldn't have sugar, my mom making
sugar really for my brother. When I moved out, I
remember the first thing I said was to do. I
was gonna buy a gigantic box of sugar, cereal and
just all types of junk food and canny and everything,
and I was going to lose my mind. But even
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now to this day, I mean I don't even drink
coca sugar. I still maintain like as sugar free a
diet as possible. I just don't like the taste of it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Really well, let's see if that holds up around the
country as we go to taffee shop dot COM's list
of the most sweet obsessed states in.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
America, coming in at number ten, New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
New Jersey rounds out the top ten with a sweet
obsession score of sixty point oh three. The state has
two point seven million searches for sweet snacks and an
average weekly consumption of thirteen point nine to nine sugary
snacks by those age one to seven. Team Damn, they'd
be higher on the list, but they like the Gabba ghoul.
It has two candy and chocolate shops per one hundred
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thousand and a sugar industry economic output of two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Coming in at number nine, Idaho, stop, Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Do you.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
What? What were you going to suggest that I thought
the Nazis there might enjoy some martinis.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We're going to take it a different direction, Okay, to
just go with the end. That's right for it too.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Idaho, ranking ninth, has a sweet obsession score sixty point one.
The state sees one point five million searches for sweet snacks,
resulting in the third highest weekly consumption of sixteen point
four four sugary snacks by children age one to seventeen.
It has three candy and chocolate shops per one hundred
thousand and a relatively low sugar industry economic output of
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one hundred million.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Number eight.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Ohio, which scores sixty one point oh seven on a
sweet obsession scale, driven by five point three million searches
for sweet snacks and children's average consumption of twelve point
ninety five sugary snacks per week. It has three point
four candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand residents
and a sugar industry economic.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Output of two billion dollars wow. Number seven.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Kentucky, which has a suite obsession of sixty one point
five eight. It has a relatively low number of two
million searches for sweet snacks and a high average weekly
consumption of seventeen point seven six sugary snacks by children
age one through seventeen that's why they have no teeth
as adults, and the state has two point seven candy
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and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand population and a
sugar industry economic output of three hundred and fifty four million.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now on to number six.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Start spread the news I'm leaving today New York, New York,
with a sweet obsession score of sixty one point nine eight.
New York registers four point seven million searches for sweet
snacks and an average weekly sugary snap snack consumption of
thirteen point ninety five by children. It has a three
point three candy and chocolate chops per one hundred thousand
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people and the second highest sugar industry economic output of
two billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Coming in in number five.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hawaii, with a sweet obsession score of sixty five point
seventy nine. The state has one point four million searches
for sweet snacks and an average consumption of eight point
two sugary snacks per week by children one to seventeen.
Has the highest number of candy and chocolate shops twelve
per hundred thousand and a moderate sugar industry economic output
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of four hundred and thirty three million.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Number four right surprising.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Vermont, with a sweet obsession score of sixty six point
one five. It stands out with the second highest number
of candy and chocolate shops eleven point five per one
hundred thousand residents. Surprisingly, the state has a comparatively low
one point one million search volume for sweet snacks, and
children between the ages of one and seventeen consume nine
(23:38):
point six sugary snacks on average each week, sugar economic
output two hundred and twenty six million.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Coming in at number three.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
California with a sweet Obsession score of sixty six point eight.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
California ranks third.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It leads in search volume with eight point six million
searches for sweet snacks and has an average sugary snack
consumption of nine point seventy four per week for children
age one to seventeen. The state has three point eight
candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand, matching Illinois
and Pennsylvania sugar industry economic output of six billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
How many dennis per one hundred thousand. But where in California.
I don't see candy shops anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Look, there's more to California than La San Francisco and
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's all I can say. That's all I know. Coming
in number two.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
As just reference, Illinois, ranking second, has a sweet obsession
score of seventy point five six. The state sees three
point eight million searches for sweet snacks and has an
average weekly consumption of sugary snacks of thirteen point sixty
nine for those age one seventeen. Illinois has three point
five candy and chocolate shops per one hundred thousand people
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and a sugary industry economic output of six billion dollars,
and in first place as the most sweet obsessed state
in the Union Pennsylvania. Believe it or not, it has
(25:30):
the highest sweet obsession score obviously of eighty. Pennsylvania's love
for sugary snacks is reflected in its substantial state wide
online search volume four sweet snacks three point seven million,
and the highest average sugary snacks consumed twenty two point
eight six per week among ages one to seventeen. It
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also has a decent number of candy and chocolate shops
three point three per one hundred thousand residents and the
highest sugar industry economic output of six billion dollars. And
there you have it, sweet obsessed Pennsylvania. Who says you
need both feet diabetes? We have a metro update when
(26:17):
we come back. And if you weren't listening to Mark Ronner,
just know someone got stabbed.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
We'll tell you that much. KFI AM six forty Live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
KFI mo Kelly Metro Update Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Usually we do the Metro update earlier in the first hour,
but there was some confusion at least on our part
as far as whether this what I'm about to tell
you about actually happened and was connected to Metro or
was it something that just ended up at a Metro station.
(26:54):
And if you might not have heard Mark Runner's earlier report,
let me bring you up to date. Police revealed back
on money what appeared to be the most recent case
of a Metro attack. There's now some question about it
whether it actually happened on Metro. Police initially said that
there were two separate stabbings, one of which was believed
(27:17):
to have occurred on a train. The attack itself occurred
at about eight twenty five am and the fifty seven
hundred block of Jefferson Boulevard, that's according to LAPD. From there,
the victim, a man, headed to the train station at
Jefferson and Losienega Boulevards, where he was spotted at around
eight forty am, and officers were alerted to the attack
(27:39):
by callers at the scene and at the station. The
victim was located at the Librea Exposition station and then
transported to a local hospital. And it was unclear, at
least originally, whether the stabbing happened on the platform or
prior to the victim arriving at the platform try to
(28:00):
escape his attacker.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I think I can clarify a little bit shre in
the item that I had just a short time ago.
The wire copy said Copsamn was stabbed this morning on
the way to catch the little brea Eline train and
taken to a hospital. But the story started by saying
there's been another stabbing at a Metro station. So it
wasn't entirely clear.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, it's completely unclear, And I'm not trying to wrongfully
attribute blame or ascribe blame to Metro as being somehow
more unsafe than it already is. You know, they already
have enough stabbings on its resume. I don't need to
add one unnecessarily. Yeah, you kind of need to cut
them some slack where it's warranted. But the information we
(28:44):
were originally given indicated that it happened connected to Metro
or on a Metro property station, what have you. And
there's more information coming out that didn't seem to be
consistent with that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So we're just letting you know we're aware of this.
And here's something else.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Last week, when I talked about Metro with Michael Monks
when I was filling in for a brief time for
Tim Conway Junior, Michael Monks, kfi's reporter, let me know
that Metro had been in constant communication with him regarding
my on air commentaries and how they didn't necessarily approve
I'm just paraphrasing. They didn't approve of my consistent negative coverage.
(29:25):
They took issue with certain things that I've said or
maybe not giving Metro enough positive credit. And I told
Michael Monks at that time, I said, why are they
trying to use you as a proxy or go between.
They have an open invitation to send a representative here
and discuss these issues with us, clear up any misunderstandings
(29:46):
that might be out there, but they haven't. And they've
you know, they've emailed other people within the KFI matrix
which have been forwarded to me, and I've responded directly
to Metro saying one you're wrong, and number two, you're
welcome to come on anytime. You just have to make
that formal request or submit someone up as an offering
(30:09):
a sect.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I understand MO, why you hate America like this, because
you've got to understand we're in the era of working
the ref, not in the era of coming on and
stating your case in simple and direct terms.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You got to work the REF.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But you know to use your analogy. When you're working
the REF. It's not about that call. It's about the
next call. And if you want the next call to
go your way or that I would show some sort
of mercy that you're going to actually have to address me.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, if you're going to work the REF, speak
to the REF.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Don't speak to the guy who's working in the scorer's
table and ask him to talk to the reef on
the court.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
I think their psyops have already worked a little bit
on you, because just a couple of minutes ago you
characterized your remarks as negative, when in fact, you know
there may have been a satirical edge to them, but
there was nothing negative about them. You're talking about things
that have happened. Oh absolutely, And I maintain that. That's
always been my approach. If and when someone gets stabbed,
(31:07):
like later tonight, then.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I will report upon it. I will talk about it.
I will talk about the circumstances surrounding it. I'm talking.
I will talk about whether crime is increasing or decreasing.
I will talk about whether Metro is implementing new procedures
or they're taking away procedures. Are they going to add
police officers, are they going to add actual security, are
they going to add Metro ambassadors?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Are they going to decrease it. I'm going to talk
about all those things.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But it would be nice if we had a representative
from Metro to either contradict.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What I'm saying, clarify what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Or offer some sort of opposing view, Because as far
as I'm concerned, look, I'm.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Right until you prove me wrong, I don't think that's
going to happen. What they're not going to prove me wrong? Well,
not based on what's been going on so far that
we've been able to observe in objective reality, do you
see that coming around the corner.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I wish that they would at least come forward and say, hey,
this is what we're trying to do. This is what
we've been doing. This is what you've missed in your
commentary that it needs to be added into the conversation.
That's what I would want, unless there's nothing to report,
unless there's nothing to say, unless there's nothing to add
other than the news reports of someone getting shot, stabbed.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Or sexually assaulted.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
It seems like if things happen and they're reported, they're
fair game to discuss. And the main problem that people
have is that you are not discussing them in a
flattering way, which again work in the ref.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, put it this way, there's always the opportunity, since
I have contacted them directly, that they can send me
something and say, hey, MO, we don't have a representative
that we can offer you, but here's some information that
you may want to be aware of and add into
to the discussion. I'd be open to that if there's
(32:59):
anything to all, but you have to at least make
an effort. For as much effort as Metro has made
to contact and harass my word, Michael Monks, they could
have contacted me and offered some legitimate information.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, one hundred percent agree. It's a little strange because
Michael is a reporter. He's not somebody who gives his
opinion about things on the air, so it's strange to
lean on him in the first place.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, well, look as if that's the only person they
know from KFI. I mean, look, I am. I don't
think of myself as an intimidating guy. I think myself
as warm and fuzzy. That's how I think of you too.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Cuddy, in fact, had to make it weird, didn't you? Yet?
Speaker 5 (33:41):
Mostly dry? It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
The ABC News Presidential Debates simulcast KFI.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We'll bring it to you live this tooth evening at
six pm KF.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I'm kost HD two Los Angeles counting live
Speaker 1 (34:00):
From everywhere on the Echart radio app.
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