Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon Today Live for Giving Tuesday at our
Speaker 2: fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon, here to benefit Katarina's Club.
Speaker 3: We are at the White House Restaurant in Anaheim.
Speaker 1: The sun has come out. It's a beautiful day. It's
Speaker 1: a nice Tuesday to kick off work and show up
Speaker 1: for a good cause.
Speaker 2: A couple of things I want to update us on.
Speaker 2: You can donate now. You could bid on our auction
Speaker 2: items when you go to KFIAM six forty dot com
Speaker 2: slash postathon.
Speaker 3: We have gone up. We're not where we need.
Speaker 2: To be, but I'm talking about the auction before we
Speaker 2: get to that part our auction right now, this is
Speaker 2: to join Shannon and I and other assorted guests at
Speaker 2: a Dodger.
Speaker 3: Game coming up in the summer.
Speaker 2: In that sentence, Shannon and somebody who doesn't know grammar,
Speaker 2: apparently when we go to a Dodger game next summer
Speaker 2: to and we'll figure it out obviously, which game is you?
Speaker 2: Are available for it's up over twenty one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: That's great, So somebody cares. And again we only get
Speaker 2: part of the money. It's not for us, it's not
Speaker 2: about no. All of the money, of course, goes to
Speaker 2: benefit Katerina's Club. If you go to kfi am six
Speaker 2: forty dot com slash pastathon, that's where you'll find a
Speaker 2: quick button that takes you to the auction items. One
Speaker 2: of the other things that's being auctioned, by the way,
Speaker 2: is a very cool thing from our friends at the
Speaker 2: Garden Grove Police Department where you get not a gun,
Speaker 2: is it a badge? It's a police canine. What you're not.
Speaker 3: They're not getting you a dog.
Speaker 2: But Garden Grove Police Department has an elite police canine group,
Speaker 2: the Regional Canine.
Speaker 3: Training Facility also in Garden Grove.
Speaker 2: So you get a tour of the Garden Grove PD
Speaker 2: a gourmet lunch right here at the Anaheim White House Restaurant.
Speaker 2: You get up in close and personal with the Garden
Speaker 2: Grove canine officers. You would love this, discover the impact
Speaker 2: that these heroes have on our community. You also get
Speaker 2: to take home some unique memorabilia from the canine program.
Speaker 1: Remember when you went to the Monkey Learning Center.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, wasn't monkeys, it was chimpanzees.
Speaker 2: This once in a lifetime experience is your ticket to
Speaker 2: an unforgettable day a VIP access to Garden Grove's finest
Speaker 2: And again, that's one of the auction items that's up there.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Garden Grove would even think about starting
Speaker 2: a police chimpanzee unit.
Speaker 1: That's a question you could ask. If you bid on
Speaker 1: that auction item.
Speaker 2: That would be great because those guys would rip your
Speaker 2: your arms off if they found the bad guys.
Speaker 1: Well, remember what happened with that with that Travis. Travis.
Speaker 3: Travis is the chimpanzee that bit the ladies face off.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was thinking about Harambe, not a chimpanzee.
Speaker 2: Oh that's all right, you'll get your primemates down one.
Speaker 3: Of these days.
Speaker 1: Did you see this number?
Speaker 3: I did see the number.
Speaker 1: That's a big freaking number.
Speaker 3: That's a big number.
Speaker 1: It's I think you should say it, it's I think
Speaker 1: it's a man's side job.
Speaker 2: Are eleven AM numbers As of eleven AM. So far
Speaker 2: we have raised for Katerina's Club two hundred thousand six
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty dollars. Now, listen, this is one of
Speaker 2: those times when we get an indication of how the
Speaker 2: rest of the day is going to go.
Speaker 3: We hope, we cross our fingers.
Speaker 2: This is about fifty thousand dollars more than we had
Speaker 2: last year in the eleven o'clock I think, so keep
Speaker 2: it coming.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It is a great testament to how generous everybody is
Speaker 2: that listens to KFI. So two hundred thousand, six hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty dollars and seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: seven pounds of pasta and sauce, which is as much
Speaker 2: weight as we gained over the last week because of Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: seven eight hundred and ninety seven pounds of pasta and
Speaker 2: sauce so far.
Speaker 1: Did you want to talk about politics just a tiny bit.
Speaker 3: That's time for swamp. Watch what Jacob play.
Speaker 2: Swamp is horrible, Government doesn't.
Speaker 1: Work, good man, you're gonna make it like a reality
Speaker 1: TV shot.
Speaker 2: Bad doos always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. Hey, Joe. He's a town all too clearly
Speaker 2: built on a swamp, and in so many ways still
Speaker 2: a swamp.
Speaker 1: A batch of Mawarkee said the swamp.
Speaker 5: I said, oh, that's so.
Speaker 1: You know the thing, well, Democrats in Congress continue to
Speaker 1: be vocal about how Joe Biden did not take the
Speaker 1: moral high ground and what does it mean for democracy?
Speaker 1: And this is awful and this is like a truth
Speaker 1: social post when you look at his statement and all
Speaker 1: of the things he's dodged questions. He's in Africa for
Speaker 1: a summit there and has dodged all the reporters questions
Speaker 1: about that. I just want to give oxygen to my
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory once again.
Speaker 3: This is it.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that this is about oh my son.
Speaker 1: It's my son, and I feel for him, and you know,
Speaker 1: I want this to be behind him. I'm worried he'll
Speaker 1: relapse something like that. I believe that actually Joe Biden
Speaker 1: set his Justice Department up to go after his son
Speaker 1: so he could pardon him. And everyone think it's about
Speaker 1: taxes and guns, and nobody asks questions about Ukraine and
Speaker 1: all the LLC's and the money laundering that's been going
Speaker 1: on for decades.
Speaker 2: So your theory is that Joe Biden had enough mental
Speaker 2: wherewithal to plan that.
Speaker 1: Set back then, back then, and He's like, you know what, Hunter,
Speaker 1: you have screwed me over for the last time. You're
Speaker 1: gonna fall on this sword and then I'll pardon you.
Speaker 1: But you're taking the heat for the whole family enterprise.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that we saw yesterday from
Speaker 2: I believe it was Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton who said
Speaker 2: that the way this is written and the expanded pardon
Speaker 2: that this was in terms of the timeline and and
Speaker 2: the whole laundry list of things that he could be
Speaker 2: accused of, this wipes away his Fifth Amendment privilege of
Speaker 2: not testifying against himself because he can't be prosecuted for it.
Speaker 1: Right, but he can't before, he can't be compelled to speak.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Just sits there?
Speaker 3: You hold him in contempt of Congress? Can you throw
Speaker 3: him in jail?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying that. I mean, there's there's that option.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the Fifth Amendment privilege anymore.
Speaker 1: You think he's going to tell the truth and care
Speaker 1: about perjuring himself.
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that for people who don't want
Speaker 1: to lie under oath. I don't think Hunter has a
Speaker 1: problem with lying.
Speaker 3: That made me very true.
Speaker 1: I think that I think you know who's at the
Speaker 1: center this whole thing, who I think may have been
Speaker 1: one of the architects of this, Mark Jerregus. Oh I thought,
Speaker 1: I say, Jill, No, No, Mark Mark Gerragus was Hunter's
Speaker 1: attorney who entered that open plea of guilty, Okay, laying
Speaker 1: a foundation to so back to the back it is
Speaker 1: Joe Bid the powers that be that that are that
Speaker 1: are tangled up in their money laundering that they've been
Speaker 1: doing for years in that family. I mean, they they
Speaker 1: set the tone, they say, Okay, Hunter's a problem, He's
Speaker 1: got this stuff involved. How about we focus the public's
Speaker 1: attention on his taxes and his gun issues. Forget about
Speaker 1: the the hookers, forget about the blow. Let's do taxes
Speaker 1: and guns, because then people will stop looking at the
Speaker 1: Ukraine situation and him using his father's name to line
Speaker 1: the pockets of the whole family. And so Biden directed
Speaker 1: his Justice department to bring him up on these charges,
Speaker 1: knowing he would pardon him and this would all go
Speaker 1: away and nobody would be thinking about the Ukraine money laundering.
Speaker 1: Weird LLC's in the family paying Peter to Rob Paul
Speaker 1: that goes on.
Speaker 2: So was it then Mark Garragus's plan to leak the laptop?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't gotten that far in my theory.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're just checking. We're still working on the timeline here.
Speaker 1: But we've all been We've all been distracted by the
Speaker 1: taxes and the guns, haven't we. Where did everyone's concentration
Speaker 1: on Ukraine and that board and where that money came
Speaker 1: from it? And his trips to China with the prince lings.
Speaker 3: It's nowhere near as sexy as hookers in.
Speaker 1: Blow I know, we get distracted by hookers and black
Speaker 1: cocainely very America.
Speaker 2: The other quick political story I wanted to let you
Speaker 2: know about. President elect Trump has issued an ultimatum to
Speaker 2: hamas He on truth Social demanded the immediate release of
Speaker 2: hostages that are being held by Hamas. He says, if
Speaker 2: you're not if they're not released by noon January twentieth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, his inauguration, He says, there will be
Speaker 2: hell to pay.
Speaker 1: Oh and ps for the Democrats that are clutching their
Speaker 1: pearls today, saying that this part in opens the door
Speaker 1: for Trump to part in. All the January sixth people.
Speaker 1: He was going to do that anyway. It's not like
Speaker 1: Trump's going, Oh, Biden did that, so now I can
Speaker 1: do this. That's not how Donald Trump makes his decisions.
Speaker 2: I still think I still think Donald Trump has one
Speaker 2: card to play on that and say I was gonna
Speaker 2: pardon Hunter.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't. I was gonna do it. I don't save
Speaker 3: your legacy.
Speaker 2: Now, Joe Mansion, the Senator of West Virginia, is suggesting you.
Speaker 1: Thought Donald Trump would say to Biden, I was gonna
Speaker 1: save your legacy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I do. Yes, he could listen.
Speaker 1: Listen, you think Trump gives two kombuchas, No, Biden's legacy.
Speaker 2: No, that's not why I say. I'm not saying he
Speaker 2: cared about it. I'm saying he was gonna say it.
Speaker 1: See don't. I was gonna pain him to say that,
Speaker 1: even if it was a joke, it would pain him.
Speaker 1: He would for him to say Biden and legacy in
Speaker 1: the same sentence. It goes against every grain in his body.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're live today giving Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Ed Garragis is joining us now vice president of Coke Cuddy,
Speaker 1: Cuddy Foods, Cutty Foods, and Wendy's. Ed thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 4: No problem.
Speaker 1: What's in the bagh?
Speaker 2: It's in the bad bacon and cheese.
Speaker 3: Wow potato, Oh my goodness, you do.
Speaker 2: That's a steakhouse size baked potato right there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got to you can have some o.
Speaker 3: There's even salt.
Speaker 4: Oh that's the best part.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 6: I agree?
Speaker 3: Would would you guys help us out? By the way,
Speaker 3: it's Ed's birthday today.
Speaker 1: It's it's your special day and you brought me a
Speaker 1: loaded potato.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good friend.
Speaker 2: You guys could sing, go ahead, it'd be birthday.
Speaker 3: Just picked it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Ed Wendy's has been a great partner of ofon in
Speaker 2: Katerina's Club over these last couple of years.
Speaker 3: What does it mean to you to be able to
Speaker 3: help out like this?
Speaker 4: No, I think it's a great thing. I listened to
Speaker 4: you guys for a couple of years before COVID we
Speaker 4: tried to get involved. It takes a while, you know.
Speaker 4: It's all franchisees down here, so you got to get
Speaker 4: everybody going in the same direction.
Speaker 1: You have the best baked potatoes.
Speaker 4: They are best, maybe the only baked potatoes and fast food,
Speaker 4: but you.
Speaker 3: Know they are the best.
Speaker 4: But you know it's a great cause. You know, kids
Speaker 4: shouldn't go hungry, right, Yeah, they haven't done anything wrong.
Speaker 4: There's no reason for them to be hungry. And it's
Speaker 4: easy to give a dollar and feed a child for
Speaker 4: a night.
Speaker 1: There's so much science behind it too. Of if you
Speaker 1: go to bed hungry or worried about your next meal,
Speaker 1: you can't concentrate on anything, like we're not wired to
Speaker 1: be able to concentrate on anything but our next meal.
Speaker 1: And if you are unsure of where that's going to
Speaker 1: come from, or if it's even going to come How
Speaker 1: do these kids go to school? How do they learn?
Speaker 1: How do they achieve?
Speaker 4: It's hard. My wife's a teacher and she can tell
Speaker 4: which kids come to school and they haven't had a
Speaker 4: lot in which kids come to school, and they have
Speaker 4: all kinds of energy and everything, and that makes a
Speaker 4: huge difference.
Speaker 3: What's your history.
Speaker 2: How do you get involved in owning Wendy's restaurants?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't own, it'd be nice, but I manage them.
Speaker 4: I started with Wendy's probably about twenty two years ago.
Speaker 4: Before that, I worked with the Marriott corporation. What's school
Speaker 4: to be an accountant? Said?
Speaker 3: That is too boring. S behind the mask.
Speaker 4: So I really enjoy doing this. I like being out
Speaker 4: with the customers and everything. It's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: How many baked potatoes do you eat a week?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not too many.
Speaker 4: Anyway, you know this birthday's retirement age, you know, sixty,
Speaker 4: so you know those baked potatoes hit you different from years.
Speaker 1: That's so true. That's true.
Speaker 3: But enjoy it. You keep going on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one for him, for everybody. So throughout through
Speaker 2: the rest of this week, of course, you can go
Speaker 2: to any Wendy's restaurants Southern California and ate five dollars
Speaker 2: more and get that coupon book for Wendy's goodies. Through
Speaker 2: Sundays is when we're doing it. H Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 2: It's been such a great partnership. And I don't say
Speaker 2: that just because you guys bring in food every once
Speaker 2: in a while, but Wendy's has always been one of, uh,
Speaker 2: the absolute favorites just in terms of the quality of
Speaker 2: the food. Wherever you are, It's always been a great
Speaker 2: option for people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's good, it's fresh. We make most of
Speaker 4: the stuff in house, so you know you're not getting
Speaker 4: all the frozen canned stuff that you get a lot
Speaker 4: of other locations.
Speaker 1: My dad loved your milkshakes Strawberry VLLA.
Speaker 3: There's a new salted caramel. Is that right?
Speaker 4: Doing salted caramel right now?
Speaker 3: It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: That sounds right up your alley.
Speaker 2: I had assaulted caramel latte this morning, and they have
Speaker 2: to get assaulted caramel frosty on the way home.
Speaker 4: We might take care of you.
Speaker 1: It's assaulted caramel day for you.
Speaker 3: It's a Tuesday, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 3: Giving myself diabetes Tuesday. That's fair.
Speaker 1: I have another at no relation, no relation to the
Speaker 1: other ghosts. So nice to see you. Thank you for everything,
Speaker 1: and happy birthday.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what you said, but our auction
Speaker 2: item has gone up. If you go to kfiam six
Speaker 2: forty dot com slash postathon, not only can you donate there,
Speaker 2: we have a list of auction items that are up
Speaker 2: that you can bid on. The bidding will close at
Speaker 2: nine forty five tonight.
Speaker 3: So we have an idea.
Speaker 2: In fact, everybody looks like everybody's has gone up, at
Speaker 2: least the ones with the shows.
Speaker 3: A reminder that one of those.
Speaker 2: Auction items is a two night stay at Terranea. Earlier
Speaker 2: this year, my wife and I stayed there for the
Speaker 2: first time and had an absolute blast. It was such
Speaker 2: a great even in it was early or mid January
Speaker 2: when we stayed and the weather was incredible.
Speaker 3: It's just a really really nice place.
Speaker 2: A two nights stay at Taranea is up there as well,
Speaker 2: and you can go check it out again. Kfiam six
Speaker 2: forty dot com slash postathon. Our auction item is to
Speaker 2: go hang out at a Dodger game with us. I'm
Speaker 2: not a Dodgers fan, but I'm a massive baseball fan,
Speaker 2: so I don't have to feel like I have to
Speaker 2: apologize for that. Sometimes about the children, I just think
Speaker 2: that people are afraid that I'm going to pooh pooh
Speaker 2: the game, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: You're very respectful there, You don't You don't say anything,
Speaker 1: and this is and how could you, as a Giants fan,
Speaker 1: how could I say you?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 2: That's why I don't say anything. But you and a
Speaker 2: guest will join Shannon and me?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: Is that?
Speaker 2: And me at the Dodger game sometime next summer, will
Speaker 2: coordinate with you, andever it will.
Speaker 1: Stay object and me, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: You lost me.
Speaker 2: The subject will enjoy the game from the luxury suite.
Speaker 2: Dodgers dogs, snacks, drinks, whatever you want. Preferred parking is included.
Speaker 2: We're up to six thousand dollars. Wow, six thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I think it was when I said you put on
Speaker 1: a really great show.
Speaker 3: That may have been you.
Speaker 1: Give a man a few four or five Dodger dogs
Speaker 1: and he gets a little nutty, good squirrely. We are
Speaker 1: watching what's going on in South Korea. Huge news out
Speaker 1: of South Korea. The president there declared emergency martial law.
Speaker 1: He's upset with the opposition dominated parliament. Sound familiar. They
Speaker 1: claim he's paralyzing the government. This means no political activities, rallies, demonstrations,
Speaker 1: all of this. South Korean military officials say this will
Speaker 1: remain in place until the president lifts it, despite the
Speaker 1: parliament saying and voting to strike down this decree. So
Speaker 1: it's a mess. This is a guy Un suck Yule.
Speaker 1: He's a member of the Conservative Party in South Korea
Speaker 1: and since then he's had basement approval ratings. His wife
Speaker 1: was seen accepting like a designer handbag in exchange for
Speaker 1: political favors. It's just been a complete mess.
Speaker 2: So politicians everywhere, they suck every universally, kids write that down.
Speaker 2: Politicians everywhere, Yes, bad bad. Joining us, one of our
Speaker 2: great partners over these last couple of years for Postathon
Speaker 2: and Katerina's Club is d N. Mendos Of, the executive
Speaker 2: vice president of Strategic Development for Teacher Created Materials.
Speaker 3: Thanks again for coming by.
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me. It's great to be back again.
Speaker 2: You guys have been spectacular in terms of not just
Speaker 2: being good partners of Pastathon and Katerina's Club, but creatively
Speaker 2: being a partner in terms of helping develop ways to
Speaker 2: increase the enjoyment.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, for a competition.
Speaker 1: It's a blood sport over there. It is it is.
Speaker 8: We get we roll up our sleeves, we get a
Speaker 8: we start being aggressive.
Speaker 1: So who who won this year?
Speaker 8: Okay, so this year we do a competition between our
Speaker 8: different departments. So at Teacher Creative Materials, we're educational publishers
Speaker 8: for the last forty five years, but for the last
Speaker 8: nine years we've been a drop off location in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 8: But our departments compete against each other, and so the
Speaker 8: winner of our Golden Apple this year is our sales
Speaker 8: off team. And they brought in three thousand and seventy
Speaker 8: four pounds.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, where do you put all this in
Speaker 1: our warehouse? Okay?
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's just with thirteen employees in that specific case.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 8: So we brought and then a total today that we're donating,
Speaker 8: we've brought in thirteen thousand, three hundred and twenty seven pounds.
Speaker 2: How did you get it here?
Speaker 8: We a box truck?
Speaker 1: Oh house?
Speaker 8: They do magical things than they work with Katerina's club staff.
Speaker 8: I think we did. I think we drop it off
Speaker 8: straight at the warehouse.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And then we're also donating ten thousand dollars today to
Speaker 8: creating materials.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness.
Speaker 3: What tell us more about teacher created materials?
Speaker 2: I mean, you did a quick tagline there, but what
Speaker 2: kind of who is your main customer?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it parents who are homeschooling kids?
Speaker 3: Is it teachers? Is it classrooms? What is it?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 8: Historically speaking, we've always worked with teachers and classrooms in
Speaker 8: schools since COVID and education changed in so many different ways.
Speaker 8: We work more with families and parents in private school
Speaker 8: so we really go anywhere where a kid is learning,
Speaker 8: and we're really striving to create a world in which
Speaker 8: children love to learn. But we love what's happening in classrooms.
Speaker 8: We love what teachers are doing every day. We still
Speaker 8: think we should get a PR firm that just highlights
Speaker 8: the amazing things that teachers are doing every day.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea. And they don't unsung
Speaker 1: heroes for sure. They do not get enough credit. They
Speaker 1: don't get paid enough, they don't get enough credit. And
Speaker 1: what was I going to say? I lost my train
Speaker 1: of thought, But what did you do? You know what
Speaker 1: you did last year?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Do you did you so last year?
Speaker 8: I look at that they gave me that information. So
Speaker 8: last year we had thirteen schools that were participating in
Speaker 8: our local area. So last year we brought thirty thousand,
Speaker 8: twenty nine thousand, so crazy.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if if COVID, if
Speaker 1: you saw like a bump, is there a cat here?
Speaker 3: Oh that's Bert's phone.
Speaker 1: Oh Bert, for the love of God. During COVID, did
Speaker 1: you see like a bump, you know, because of people
Speaker 1: schooling more, not.
Speaker 8: In the donations. So like schools and I always feel
Speaker 8: like schools and teachers and educators they know that it's
Speaker 8: necessary for kids to eat dinner in order for them
Speaker 8: to be learning. So the connection between the ability to
Speaker 8: learn and how focused you can be in a classroom
Speaker 8: if you're worried about what's what you're going to eat
Speaker 8: for dinner, if you're going to eat dinner, it just
Speaker 8: really impedes learning. So we actually have always seen with schools,
Speaker 8: with our even our departments throughout the office, we know
Speaker 8: how important that is. So we've continued to see and
Speaker 8: up we did see a little bit less donations this year,
Speaker 8: and I don't we're trying. We don't know exactly why,
Speaker 8: but that was kind of across even the community.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the people that if you just used
Speaker 1: to do products for classrooms and teachers, but now more
Speaker 1: parents are involved with that as well.
Speaker 8: Parents have always been involved with kids education. I think
Speaker 8: I always think parents are the first teachers of there.
Speaker 8: We get them, so I get my kids two thirds
Speaker 8: of the day and schools get them one third of
Speaker 8: the day. So it's really important what I'm reading with them,
Speaker 8: when I'm talking about with them, what parents are doing.
Speaker 8: So yeah, so parents as our customers is amazing. In fact,
Speaker 8: we have free resources on our website specifically if they
Speaker 8: want to talk about food insecurity, because talking about that
Speaker 8: is a heavy topic depending on the age, and our
Speaker 8: talented authors have done remarkable things so that you can
Speaker 8: talk about it with elementary school kids, middle school kids
Speaker 8: and what's age appropriate. So if you do go to
Speaker 8: our website, can I pluck our website?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: So, if you do go to our.
Speaker 8: Website at it's a Teacher Created Materials dot com backslash
Speaker 8: Food Insecurity, there's a lot of free videos and books
Speaker 8: that they can reference, and a lot of free activities
Speaker 8: on how you can talk about food insecurity with your kids.
Speaker 8: Make it a passion project to try to help in
Speaker 8: your local community because there's a lot of ways that
Speaker 8: you can get involved.
Speaker 1: Dan Mendoza joins us. We're talking to DN. She is
Speaker 1: from Teacher Created Materials of our one of our biggest
Speaker 1: partners year after year for the pasta thon. And who
Speaker 1: do we have with us here today?
Speaker 8: So this year we had nine schools and the hunting
Speaker 8: to meet and surrounding areas participate, and I have two
Speaker 8: students from our winning school here. They actually didn't know
Speaker 8: that they were winning until I got here and spoiled
Speaker 8: that surprise. They thought I was gonna have kids from
Speaker 8: the top three. Oh really schools? Yes, so they just
Speaker 8: found out a few minutes ago that their school has won.
Speaker 3: So what does it feel like to be lied to
Speaker 3: by adults? How's that? Does that hit different for you guys?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we thought we were like top We were told
Speaker 7: top three, so we thought we were maybe two.
Speaker 6: But surprising when it's one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were expecting to see other people, other kids
Speaker 5: as well. Yeah, when I saw that it was just us,
Speaker 5: I was like, where's everyone else?
Speaker 3: Travan and Andrew from Mace of You Middle School are
Speaker 3: the winners this year? Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Representing thought said your third time Mace of You has won.
Speaker 1: Nice? Now do you kind of wish some of the
Speaker 1: other kids were here so you could rub it in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nice to have healthy competition over a good cause.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, to help that on that community as well.
Speaker 5: Get back to other people who are need do you guys?
Speaker 2: I mean, are you able to rally your friends and
Speaker 2: stuff like that? Your classmates to do this? How do
Speaker 2: you how do you guys come out on top like this?
Speaker 7: Well, so our whole school donates, but our class is
Speaker 7: the ones who count and collect and put everything together.
Speaker 1: Your T shirts? Is that your school motto? Dude be nice?
Speaker 5: Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: That's very very huntingson Beach, Orange, Orange County.
Speaker 1: It should be everywhere, dude be nice. Start telling him
Speaker 1: that I.
Speaker 8: Think we can get you A sure, I bet we
Speaker 8: can get you.
Speaker 1: I would love one. So do you guys have tactics
Speaker 1: for how you win? This is your second year being
Speaker 1: the number one? How do you get people involved in school?
Speaker 5: We make posters, we promote the winning class at our
Speaker 5: school gets a donut party party, So that's some motivation.
Speaker 5: And then if course the signs signs promoting an unannouncement
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 1: What are you guys going to do when you get
Speaker 1: big or when you're an adult?
Speaker 5: Oh, I want to be some type of law enforcement
Speaker 5: officer or something like that.
Speaker 3: Is that is that your family? Do you have law
Speaker 3: enforcement in your family?
Speaker 5: Or is my uncle it wasn't, lapd Sargeant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great, very cool.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think they don't put pressure on yourself. This
Speaker 3: is not.
Speaker 7: I don't know, like helping people like teacher maybe, or
Speaker 7: like a management like helpful.
Speaker 2: Like stay out of middle management. If you're going to
Speaker 2: get into management, go for the upper stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: the bigger offices, the bigger paychecks, middle managers.
Speaker 3: Nobody likes those guys.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? That's not very nice.
Speaker 3: I'm just what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Don't shoot laws shoot? What are you guys missing right
Speaker 2: now in school?
Speaker 6: I think I'm missing social studies right now?
Speaker 2: Oh well, this is a perfect This is a perfect
Speaker 2: substitute for social studies.
Speaker 6: A lot better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a lot better. I promise the food
Speaker 2: is better too. And you never get twinkies when you're
Speaker 2: a social studies so bad?
Speaker 3: What about you? What are you missing?
Speaker 5: I'm missing Pe?
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, so you're not getting all sweaty in the
Speaker 1: middle of the day. It's not the worst, but it's
Speaker 1: like the middle of the day.
Speaker 5: It's kind of last year, I had a first period,
Speaker 5: so it was definitely better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, cooler mornings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: The pavement doesn't cook your skin when you fall down.
Speaker 3: What do they do in Pe?
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four. What kind of activities right now?
Speaker 5: We're doing black football.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: On Fridays we usually run. Thursdays we do some type
Speaker 5: of fitness activity.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. How far do they make you run?
Speaker 5: It switches off, so one week it's a mile and
Speaker 5: another week it's half a mile.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, that's nice.
Speaker 1: That mile can be really.
Speaker 3: How long do they give you to run a mile?
Speaker 3: Full class or.
Speaker 5: The folk class, so it's like sixteen minute? Tight things, Okay,
Speaker 5: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Being the worst. They would give us a playing card
Speaker 1: from like a deck of cards for each lap, and
Speaker 1: you'd have to have four playing cards, and so we
Speaker 1: started bringing them like smart, yeah, and they don't do
Speaker 1: that and they but then you get caught if the
Speaker 1: image doesn't match the image that they gave it, right,
Speaker 1: so you got blue and then you got red, and
Speaker 1: then they know you're cheating your way through that mile.
Speaker 2: We always had to we if you didn't bring the
Speaker 2: right shoes, they made you run barefoot.
Speaker 3: Whoa, that was back in the old days.
Speaker 1: That's like horse and buggy stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well, and then you'd have to be you'd
Speaker 2: be chased by the horse and buggy around the track.
Speaker 1: That's before a thing called lawsuits.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, lawsuits didn't exist in my day, but it
Speaker 2: was also I mean, these kids, the kids that I
Speaker 2: went to school with, were all farmers, so I mean
Speaker 2: they were perfect. They would have run in their cowboy
Speaker 2: boots if but that they tried to prevent them from
Speaker 2: running in their cowboy boots, even though they probably would
Speaker 2: outrun all of us. So next year, what do you
Speaker 2: guys have planning? Are you guys out of mace of
Speaker 2: you or you? What's next year for you guys?
Speaker 5: I'm in high school next year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: Kind of Yeah, pe is very different in high school.
Speaker 2: If they even still do that, they still Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3: What about you? Where are you going?
Speaker 6: I'm staying at I'm going into eighth grade next year.
Speaker 1: You're going to rule the school eighth hopefully. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a fun time. It sucks because you go from eighth
Speaker 1: grade and being like the ruler and all the little
Speaker 1: kids to being like the freshman.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: It's a rough. It's a rough one eighty, you know.
Speaker 2: But it sounds like you guys have a good start though,
Speaker 2: I mean, just in terms of thank you for everything that.
Speaker 3: You guys did for trying to read.
Speaker 1: It's really great and don't forget your middle school motto
Speaker 1: when you go.
Speaker 8: To high school.
Speaker 2: Andrew and Travin again from Mason you middle school representing
Speaker 2: both the seventh and eighth grades there, So big round
Speaker 2: of applause once again for them for winning and d
Speaker 2: n Mendoza, of course, executive BP is Strategic Development Teacher,
Speaker 2: Creative Materials. I'll say it again, you guys have been
Speaker 2: an incredible partner for these last several years, and it's
Speaker 2: again and to be creative, not just the name, but
Speaker 2: the creative ways that you encourage people to get involved.
Speaker 2: I think has been really very helpful for everybody.
Speaker 1: And we also know when we see your face it's
Speaker 1: the holiday season, so it's always nice to see you.
Speaker 1: I'm ready.
Speaker 8: I'm always ready for we love a theme.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for coming. Glad we could get you guys
Speaker 2: out of school for a couple of hours just.
Speaker 3: On a boring old Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Remember it is Giving Tuesday, our fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon.
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