Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kfi, mister Kelly, it's Later with mo Kelly Live
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Speaker 3: And let's get back to our usual tech Thursday.
Speaker 2: I know things have been really different around southern California,
Speaker 2: which has also changed our show presentation.
Speaker 3: But it's good to see you, Marshall Collier.
Speaker 4: It's good to see you, mowan It. It's good to
Speaker 4: have everybody out there. I hope everybody's safe and that
Speaker 4: you're making it through. Okay. I decided this week that
Speaker 4: I had to do something that hopefully might help us,
Speaker 4: maybe something we can do at home to you were
Speaker 4: talking about the air quality to help us with the
Speaker 4: fires and making it through leaving the house or losing
Speaker 4: your power. So I have to tell you before I
Speaker 4: went to CES, I got in touch with a company
Speaker 4: they were not at CES. It's a company called Flamedetector
Speaker 4: dot com. Flamedetector dot com right, and their product is
Speaker 4: flame detector. Okay, sounds good. You know the guy and
Speaker 4: what really causes the fire aside from the initial starting thing.
Speaker 4: You've got a smoke detector in your house and when
Speaker 4: you get enough smoke in your house, what happens, right,
Speaker 4: It's so annoying.
Speaker 3: But okay, well that was a truck backing up one of.
Speaker 4: The one of the two. We got to work them on.
Speaker 4: But when you have a flame, that's what starts the fire.
Speaker 4: And in these horrible winds. I don't know about where
Speaker 4: you live, but where we live in the North Valley,
Speaker 4: the winds have been insane.
Speaker 3: Yes, it happened.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just dry eight percent humidity. It will
Speaker 4: carry if somebody drops a match, it's going to just
Speaker 4: go with the wind. It's not going to not going
Speaker 4: to just stop and maybe go out or maybe whatever.
Speaker 4: So this terrified me. And I'm looking around at it,
Speaker 4: and I told you earlier so many people had lost things.
Speaker 4: It was what about if there was a way where
Speaker 4: we could find the flame before the fire. And this
Speaker 4: product was developed. Actually there have been commercial devices around
Speaker 4: that are very expensive, but this is the first time
Speaker 4: it's done for home use. And as I said, to
Speaker 4: call a flame detector, what it does is it it's
Speaker 4: not activated by toast or steam or dust or anything.
Speaker 4: We have it sitting on the table there. It covers
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty degrees of flame detecting in the room.
Speaker 3: For those who can't see it, obviously, this is radio.
Speaker 2: It's about the size of I would say a lightsaber
Speaker 2: without the blade. It's like the hilt of a lightsaber size.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's maybe about eight inches six eight inches something
Speaker 4: like that. Not bad looking at all. It detects a
Speaker 4: three quarter inch flame at twenty feet within two seconds.
Speaker 4: So if you get a push notification on your phone
Speaker 4: from this device that says there's a flip. Now you
Speaker 4: have kids at home. Sometimes kids play with matches, right,
Speaker 4: that's how things start too. If you can get this
Speaker 4: warning before the drapes go on fire, I mean, you're
Speaker 4: at a real advantage. So MO, what I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: is I'm gonna have a lighter.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're about eight nine feet from it at it
Speaker 2: And for those who can't see obviously, this was a
Speaker 2: lighter flame. So we're talking about maybe at most an
Speaker 2: inch high, and you're eight feet away from the device.
Speaker 4: And I tested it in my office. I put it
Speaker 4: on a bookshelf and I walked around a corner because
Speaker 4: it is one hundred and thirty degree and I tested
Speaker 4: it everywhere and it never failed. And I think I
Speaker 4: have my phone on silent. I did not get the notification,
Speaker 4: but when I was testing it, you get a notification
Speaker 4: on your phone that says there's a flame detected in
Speaker 4: the office.
Speaker 2: Okay, obviously, I'm sure someone is wondering, well, what about
Speaker 2: the false alarm of Look, I like to cook in
Speaker 2: my kitchen with a walk sometimes there's a flame with that.
Speaker 4: Oh well, then just put that away because this is
Speaker 4: driven by the ultraviolet light that's in a flame, and
Speaker 4: you don't have that when you have a smoke detector.
Speaker 4: It runs on three double A batteries for over a year,
Speaker 4: and just.
Speaker 2: Like all smoke detectors, it just chased the batteries at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 4: And it's a flame detector, so obviously you need the
Speaker 4: Wi Fi in your house. You can enable push notifications
Speaker 4: to your phone. Obviously we heard it and you could.
Speaker 4: Really it gives you a little piece of mind. I
Speaker 4: felt a lot better when I'm hearing the news and
Speaker 4: we're driving home like maniacs from Cees that the fire
Speaker 4: is not at my house because this little gizmo didn't
Speaker 4: see a flame. Cost one hundred and twenty nine dollars.
Speaker 3: Is there any type of subscription fee?
Speaker 4: Nope, No, no subscription fee at all. And the people
Speaker 4: who developed the product, you can read that on the
Speaker 4: website of flamedetector dot com. He spent his life working
Speaker 4: for a major company in fire protection. I don't know
Speaker 4: how to pronounce it. Kitty. You've seen the little kid,
Speaker 4: and he's developed stuff for them, and he's retired and
Speaker 4: he doesn't develop stuff for them anymore. So this is
Speaker 4: something I really think. It's not cheap, but it isn't expensive.
Speaker 4: And to be able to know that your kid just
Speaker 4: struck a match at the other end of the.
Speaker 3: House, were you that kid growing up? No?
Speaker 4: I wasn't a flame kid.
Speaker 2: Boys, maybe I wasn't. I pretty much stayed away from fire.
Speaker 2: I had a little thing with firecrackers and army men,
Speaker 2: but that was about it.
Speaker 4: I wasn't you blew up your army man?
Speaker 3: Yes I did. I'm not gonna lie. Yes, that was
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: I've never seen that. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Are you serious?
Speaker 4: No, I've never seen everybody blow up or I played
Speaker 4: with army.
Speaker 2: They're army man, they're dealing with ordnance. That was the
Speaker 2: whole point he's a little bow. Well it was bigger
Speaker 2: than that. But you had the army man. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: to digress. We had the army man and one would
Speaker 2: have like a parachute, and he put a firecracker arm And.
Speaker 4: What a brilliant idea.
Speaker 3: It's a dangerous idea, but you know, yeah.
Speaker 4: That's that's brilliant.
Speaker 2: It's stuff that we did when we had too much
Speaker 2: time on our hands, these idle hands.
Speaker 4: But you see, this is the way we can think
Speaker 4: and remember about things and smile a little bit.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I have all my appendages.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
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Speaker 2: More emphasis and rightly so has been put on backup
Speaker 2: sources of power because of these fires. There have been
Speaker 2: unintentional power outages because of the fires, and there have
Speaker 2: been intentional power outages. You have power companies turning off
Speaker 2: the power to limit the likelihood of a.
Speaker 3: Transformer creating a fire.
Speaker 2: So people are rightfully looking into other backup power sources.
Speaker 3: Be it propane or these battery packs.
Speaker 4: Where do you come out on it, Well, we have
Speaker 4: to use alternative energy. I mean you were talking earlier
Speaker 4: in the show about the air quality. Uh, it's nothing
Speaker 4: worse to me than the power going out and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden you hear a generator going off in
Speaker 4: my neighbor's house for hours burning gasoline. It's like sitting
Speaker 4: behind a bus. Remember we used to do that in
Speaker 4: the old days. You are sure might be it smells different.
Speaker 3: You didn't know it's toxic fumes?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Whoops? But the point is we have to look for alternative,
Speaker 4: something that we don't have to burn propane to make power,
Speaker 4: because I mean that that would be an alternative. But
Speaker 4: so I looked around and just you know, I always
Speaker 4: try all these things myself. I don't ask for freebies.
Speaker 4: I actually go out and buy products. You need a
Speaker 4: portable power station. We're lucky that we live in California
Speaker 4: and we have a lot of sun. Now I'm not
Speaker 4: going to sit here and tell you that I think
Speaker 4: solar is the greatest thing in the world, but it's
Speaker 4: something we have a whole lot of and when you
Speaker 4: have a power outage, you'd be surprised at how many
Speaker 4: companies there are. Some main companies Goal zero Echo Flow.
Speaker 4: I mean even Dura Cel makes a small device. I
Speaker 4: mean we are brand right they and I mean we
Speaker 4: have these little power banks for our phones. You know
Speaker 4: that you have a power backup if you have an
Speaker 4: alarm system at home, correct, If you have a seapap,
Speaker 4: you really should have a small backup next to that.
Speaker 4: But what happens if the power doesn't come back on,
Speaker 4: You're going to need that seapap for another night. So
Speaker 4: it would make sense to have solar panels, and they're
Speaker 4: manufactured by these different companies to go with their batteries
Speaker 4: and their power banks so that during the day you
Speaker 4: can put them outside, charge them, and use the power
Speaker 4: at night. The one that we have, the one that
Speaker 4: I've tested, is the Goal zero yety three thousand power
Speaker 4: station with a solar generator. I don't know where the
Speaker 4: generator is, but it just looks like big panels to me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they fold up in a briefcase. This isn't is not cheap,
Speaker 4: But then again, having your entire refrigerator go down and
Speaker 4: your freezer after three days or actually having your food
Speaker 4: makes a huge difference.
Speaker 3: How big are these solar panels?
Speaker 4: The solar panels, actually they I'll show you a picture
Speaker 4: that's a teeny tiny picture, but.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's big as like a what we call like
Speaker 2: a pitching net back in the day.
Speaker 4: And they fold up, yes, and they go into a
Speaker 4: briefcase style thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's almost like backyard furniture basically. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it folds up so it's in like a
Speaker 4: case like you designers used to carry artwork in cases
Speaker 4: that kind of case, so you could bring it out
Speaker 4: at a moment's notice if need be exactly. And we
Speaker 4: did have a power outage, and I did you know,
Speaker 4: for what do you do? First thing, You've run around
Speaker 4: the house, You get all the torches, things like that,
Speaker 4: You put them in the room so you have them,
Speaker 4: and the smart thing is to keep them charged ahead
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 2: That was my next question, because we don't know when
Speaker 2: we're going to have the next emergency. And if it's
Speaker 2: in the garage for most of the time, I mean,
Speaker 2: to the best of your knowledge, how long does it
Speaker 2: hold a charge? Can I or do I have to
Speaker 2: bring it out once a month or something to charge it.
Speaker 4: Every between three to six months. There we go okay,
Speaker 4: in this particular model. And the interesting thing is it
Speaker 4: has seven different port options, including fast charging, sixty USBC,
Speaker 4: multiple USBA ports, regulated, twelve vote and two one twenty
Speaker 4: vote AC ports.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So there's the generation generator and there are the solar panels.
Speaker 4: Right, okay, And this little thing it looks like a
Speaker 4: big battery and it goes on kind of what looks
Speaker 4: like a handtruck.
Speaker 2: It looks like a typical solar excuse me, typical generator,
Speaker 2: fossil fuel generator or election you generator.
Speaker 4: So power goes out. Luckily. I have a really strong husband.
Speaker 4: But I'm sure all of us have neighbors and can
Speaker 4: always get help. Hopefully you roll out your refrigerator. I
Speaker 4: never knew refrigerators had wheels. This is something not all
Speaker 4: of them, trust me, they don't. I've moved a few
Speaker 4: of my day. I think they're more standard now with
Speaker 4: the wheels. But yeah, I just know that because I
Speaker 4: had to move my mother's refrigerator last week, who was
Speaker 4: getting her kitchen done.
Speaker 2: But that's another story for no one needs a refrigerator.
Speaker 2: It's relatively new, it's not on wheels. It's slides easy,
Speaker 2: but it's not on wheels.
Speaker 4: Okay, well okay, but and they do have those little
Speaker 4: silicone things that you can get on Amazon, their little
Speaker 4: silicone pads that you can put under the bottom and
Speaker 4: make it slide. But anyway, this particular device will run
Speaker 4: a full size refrigerator for forty three hours. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's not bad. And what's interesting is you have
Speaker 4: a gauge on these power generators.
Speaker 2: That's forty three hours on one charge. That's assuming that
Speaker 2: you don't get a charge to subsequent day, right.
Speaker 4: Right, But what you can do is when daytime rolls
Speaker 4: around the next day. These devices, now, they don't all
Speaker 4: do it, so you have to look at the specs
Speaker 4: of whatever you're considering buying. They can charge while they're discharging,
Speaker 4: and that's the key thing. You just get the extension
Speaker 4: cords for the solar panels, put them outside and let
Speaker 4: it charge. And it's got all the dolls and it's
Speaker 4: very very very technical looking. The one that we have
Speaker 4: has two hundred total watts. And I'm not an electrical expert,
Speaker 4: but it isn't heavy. It's in a canvas bag and
Speaker 4: you just roll those things outside, but it in there
Speaker 4: and you can also charge smaller chargers because they're battery
Speaker 4: size charges, you know, like your car battery size chargers.
Speaker 4: There's small ones like that, which if you want to
Speaker 4: keep one of those next to your bed for your cpat.
Speaker 2: I have it next to my studio. Okay, I have
Speaker 2: one of those from my studio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I have one. I haven't plugged it in yet.
Speaker 4: It's a big giant thing for my computer. But I
Speaker 4: haven't done that yet. But the thing is we should
Speaker 4: do it, especially with the solar panel recharge, because if
Speaker 4: you want to recharge these and there's no power, look
Speaker 4: into these prices are all over the place on them
Speaker 4: because new models are coming out all the time and
Speaker 4: they're having sales all the time on the websites. That's
Speaker 4: Echo Flow Jackerie Goal zero.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: Anchor also makes a good power station oh A and
Speaker 4: k R E R Yeah are oh they make this
Speaker 4: smaller Okay, they make big ones that's on brand. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: So consider this instead of a generator that's just polluting
Speaker 4: everything and it's just going to drive you crazy with
Speaker 4: the noise. Because these days we don't know how long
Speaker 4: the power can be out for and the sun is
Speaker 4: a renewable source if we just use it.
Speaker 3: Great advice, great information. That's what we love to do.
Speaker 2: Useful and usable information, like right now, that's what I
Speaker 2: try to do. Marshall Collier. Let's remind people how they
Speaker 2: can find you.
Speaker 4: You can find me if my web host hasn't screwed
Speaker 4: up again at Marsha Collier dot com or find me
Speaker 4: on X. You find me on X you can talk
Speaker 4: to me and I talk back to you. And on
Speaker 4: my website there's a contact form that emails me to erect.
Speaker 2: Marsha will respond, so if you reach out to her,
Speaker 2: she will respond.
Speaker 3: If you've got questions, she has answers.
Speaker 4: I try, I certainly try. Thank you Moe for inviting
Speaker 4: me again.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's always good to see you, and hopefully we
Speaker 2: get to see you again next week.
Speaker 4: I'll be there.
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Speaker 2: Believe it or not, it's almost time to start talking
Speaker 2: about baseball and the upcoming baseball season. And you know
Speaker 2: I live and die with my Dodgers over the moon.
Speaker 2: That they won another World Series and love that it
Speaker 2: was at the expense of the hated New York Yankees
Speaker 2: and how the New York Yankees imploded for the world
Speaker 2: to see. I don't know if it will be any
Speaker 2: better than that this year, but each year they have
Speaker 2: Dodger Fest, and Dodger Fest is coming up shortly is
Speaker 2: coming up, and it'll be at Dodger Stadium on Saturday,
Speaker 2: February first, just a little over a week from now,
Speaker 2: from eleven to three eleven am to three pm, and
Speaker 2: the gates will open at ten am that morning. Tickets
Speaker 2: will be on the on sale for the public. Actually
Speaker 2: it started this morning at ten am. Tickets are now
Speaker 2: on sale and you will be able to get tickets
Speaker 2: for as little as twenty dollars, with a portion of
Speaker 2: the proceeds, more importantly going to Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts.
Speaker 2: And get this, it's hard to think of any time
Speaker 2: in which parking is free, especially at a sports arena
Speaker 2: or a stadium. Well, parking is free, and you can
Speaker 2: get all these tickets at Dodgers dot com forward slash
Speaker 2: Dodger Fest. Dodger Fest this year will be held in
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium, parking lots B, D and P. And this
Speaker 2: is different because as opposed to inside of Dodger Stadium itself,
Speaker 2: you may not know there's some remodeling, there's some construction
Speaker 2: and other things which are being changed inside the stadium.
Speaker 2: So this year they'll be doing it in Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: parking lots, B, D and P.
Speaker 3: Well, MO, what is Dodger Fest? What is going to
Speaker 3: be going on there?
Speaker 2: You'll be able to meet players, be able to meet coaches,
Speaker 2: team alumni, and there will be an interview show with
Speaker 2: team members. There's a yard sale and mystery bag sale
Speaker 2: where you can purchase Dodgers memorabilia. And also there will
Speaker 2: be VIP events like a Jackie Robinson themed tour, a
Speaker 2: Vin Scully press box experience, photo opportunities with the World
Speaker 2: Series Trophy and players. I would probably love that, And
Speaker 2: tickets for the VIP events they will not be available
Speaker 2: for sale until next Tuesday, the twenty eighth, and they're
Speaker 2: probably more than twenty dollars in cost.
Speaker 3: Just let you know that right now.
Speaker 2: And if you've been following the Dodgers, they have been
Speaker 2: really cleaning up in what is called the free agent
Speaker 2: portion of the offseason, signing new players, signing great talent
Speaker 2: from around the world, and if you haven't been following baseball,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are now, I would say, arguably, and I
Speaker 2: say this very lovingly, the most hated team in baseball,
Speaker 2: because they are willing to spend as much money as
Speaker 2: possible to get the best players available in the world,
Speaker 2: and they're not doing anything that another team couldn't do.
Speaker 2: Their ownership is just more committed to winning, and they're
Speaker 2: much more creative as far as how they're structuring these contracts.
Speaker 2: We talked last year and last season about Shohei Otani's deal,
Speaker 2: which is three quarters of a billion dollars, but most
Speaker 2: of it is deferred. Most teams aren't willing to do that.
Speaker 2: Why because it's a high risk proposition. You have a
Speaker 2: player who may not be as good or or just
Speaker 2: productive seven eight years down the road, but you're still
Speaker 2: on the hook for a lot of money in a
Speaker 2: very very cumbersome contract. The Dodgers, I would say, were
Speaker 2: fortunate in the sense that they only had to pay
Speaker 2: like a couple of million this year to Otani and
Speaker 2: he helped deliver a World Series. But that was a bet,
Speaker 2: that was a wager that Otani was going to be
Speaker 2: able to be impactful right now, and a wage that
Speaker 2: he would be impactful seven and eight years down the road,
Speaker 2: where the brunt of the money would come due for Otani.
Speaker 2: And they've structured other similar deals with players where the
Speaker 2: Dodger's going to owe a hell of a lot of
Speaker 2: money to a hell of a lot of players, and
Speaker 2: the question is whether the wins on the field and
Speaker 2: the merchandise sold off the field financially will be able
Speaker 2: to make up for that. Look, the folks who put
Speaker 2: these deals together are obviously much smarter than I am
Speaker 2: when it comes to creating and structuring these contracts and
Speaker 2: making sure that the Dodgers as an organization are still
Speaker 2: financially viable. But I love it when my favorite team
Speaker 2: is doing the absolute most available to them with the
Speaker 2: resources they have available to make sure that they're putting
Speaker 2: on not only a competitive product on the field, but
Speaker 2: arguably the most talented team, at least on paper, in
Speaker 2: the whole sport. That's what I want, And I don't
Speaker 2: care if other organizations, or like the Seattle Mariners in
Speaker 2: Seattle from mars old Town, they're probably screaming about, Hey,
Speaker 2: we're a small market. We can't do what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are doing. Yes, you can, you just have to try harder.
Speaker 2: I know you're just trying to needle me, and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to take the bait. I'm not taking the bait.
Speaker 2: Take it, Take it, you take it. Did you grow
Speaker 2: up caring about the Mariners at all?
Speaker 6: No, but it's inescapable if you live in Seattle and
Speaker 6: they have a really nice stadium they do with really
Speaker 6: nice food at it. So if you're a nerd like
Speaker 6: me who's not that into most sports at this point,
Speaker 6: you're really the outcast because everybody there loves the Mariners, everybody.
Speaker 2: Each time you tell me that, I am so surprised, Mark,
Speaker 2: because you are a former athlete.
Speaker 6: I was an athlete most of my life, but it
Speaker 6: was all the unpopular stuff like kickboxing, wrestling, track, cross country.
Speaker 6: I tried baseball when I was a kid, and I
Speaker 6: got whacked in places. You don't want to get act
Speaker 6: with the ball, that'll scare you off it.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 2: But you have that competitive spirit and you have an
Speaker 2: appreciation of sports. I'm just surprised it didn't carry over
Speaker 2: into your adult life. It carried over into my profession
Speaker 2: because I've always been drawn to things that require you
Speaker 2: as an individual to show more nerve than anybody else,
Speaker 2: which is why I loved wrestling, and that's why I
Speaker 2: love work that requires you to do things that most
Speaker 2: people are petrified of, like public speaking and writing. Does
Speaker 2: that make sense, Yeah, I think there's a parallel there.
Speaker 3: Honestly, were you ever an MMA fan?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'm grateful that I was a little aged
Speaker 6: out of that by the time it really became a thing,
Speaker 6: Otherwise I would have no teeth Now.
Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah, they don't know that side of you. No,
Speaker 3: no between.
Speaker 6: I figured between my wrestling and kickboxing background, I would
Speaker 6: have been pretty fierce at MMA. But no matter how
Speaker 6: good you are, you don't get through that unscathed.
Speaker 2: No, and you're not paid enough to justify the sacrifice.
Speaker 2: It's not like boxing, where the fighters are making at
Speaker 2: the top of the sport millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: It's not like that.
Speaker 6: No, you don't get the kind of payday Tyson just
Speaker 6: got fighting shake Paul. But I will say baseball games
Speaker 6: are fun to go to. I used to love forget
Speaker 6: about the Mariners, A bunch of yuppiescum go to those things.
Speaker 6: I like going to a good, old working class Cubs
Speaker 6: game in Chicago at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 3: Those are great.
Speaker 2: They are great, And I think people do they mess
Speaker 2: out because they think of sports in only the televised capacity. Baseball,
Speaker 2: especially hockey, those are sports which are better enjoyed and
Speaker 2: appreciated in person.
Speaker 6: With a bunch of rotten drunks that if they spill
Speaker 6: a beer on you, they're a way of apologizing is
Speaker 6: to offer you a drink of the beer.
Speaker 2: All I can say is I love baseball more on
Speaker 2: the radio than I do on TV.
Speaker 3: How is that?
Speaker 2: I don't understand that what they call the words I
Speaker 2: view chick hern when he was talking about when he
Speaker 2: was a broadcaster for the Lakers, who call it the
Speaker 2: words eye view be able to tell a story and
Speaker 2: to give you a sense of the emotion and environment
Speaker 2: that the TV just can't. TV is very sterile. There's
Speaker 2: not a lot of movement with baseball. There's more commentary
Speaker 2: than there is actual action when it comes to broadcasting
Speaker 2: or televising a baseball game.
Speaker 6: It takes a lot of talent to do that and
Speaker 6: make it interesting and captivating. It like for instance, I
Speaker 6: listened to Keith Oberman a lot, and so you'll get
Speaker 6: a lot of sports content with that, and he's got
Speaker 6: a real appreciation for the masters the classics.
Speaker 2: People sometimes forget because depending on how old you are,
Speaker 2: you don't remember him as a sports broadcaster or an
Speaker 2: anchor for ESPN. They know him only for his political commentary.
Speaker 6: Oh, he was primarily a sports nerd and then moved
Speaker 6: into politics later on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, I feel so sorry for the
Speaker 2: younger generation because there are fewer and fewer masterful voices
Speaker 2: who are narrating these games in any of these sports.
Speaker 3: If you grew up in LA you.
Speaker 2: Had an excessive amount of riches and the abundance of
Speaker 2: riches because you had Bob Miller for the Kings, you
Speaker 2: had Vin Scully for the Dodgers, you had Chick Hern
Speaker 2: for obviously the Lakers.
Speaker 3: And people don't remember this.
Speaker 2: Vin Scully and chick Hern for that matter, did multiple sports,
Speaker 2: so you would find them. Vin Scully, I think he
Speaker 2: was doing NFL football if I'm not mistaken, and you would.
Speaker 2: That's how talented they were, in the way that Al
Speaker 2: Michaels today would do multiple sports. Or you have Mike Tarico,
Speaker 2: who would do multiple sports. Back then, we just had
Speaker 2: these larger than live figures who were the voices of
Speaker 2: so many magical moments in sports, and you just have
Speaker 2: fewer and.
Speaker 3: Fewer of those now.
Speaker 6: And I think the mark of a real pro at
Speaker 6: that is somebody who can make it interesting to people
Speaker 6: who aren't hardcore sports fans. And that's the same with
Speaker 6: sports writing, and I always try to apply that to
Speaker 6: my entertainment writing. You know, you write a movie review
Speaker 6: for people who will enjoy it, whether or not they're
Speaker 6: ever going to go see a movie. So like, there
Speaker 6: was a sports writer from Chicago named Bernie Linsecombe. I
Speaker 6: didn't give a damn about any of the stuff, any
Speaker 6: of the games he was writing about, but I loved
Speaker 6: reading his writing about them. And you can apply that
Speaker 6: to spoken word sports cast as well.
Speaker 2: So very well said Mark, you ought to get back
Speaker 2: into your love of sports.
Speaker 6: I want to be the foot world's first major collegiate
Speaker 6: wrestling commentator. I'm going to do color commentary on a
Speaker 6: double leg takedown. That'll be thrilling for people.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's a growth industry, I'll say that. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: has a lot of growth available to it. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see that growth. It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 2: When we come back, We're going to tell you about
Speaker 2: the most popular grocery store in America. I wonder what
Speaker 2: it is. Wonder if there's a California connection. We'll find
Speaker 2: out in just a moment.
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Speaker 4: With Y.
Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We all have
Speaker 2: our favorite grocery stores, but are they really that good?
Speaker 2: Are they just convenient? Or it's just some sort of
Speaker 2: emotional attachment we have to them.
Speaker 3: I know I have my favorite.
Speaker 2: I came across this survey produced by Yugo of a
Speaker 2: market research and analytics firm, and they recently released this
Speaker 2: data showcaseing which grocery store in the US that people
Speaker 2: love the most. So this is not empirical data, this
Speaker 2: is just what people love. This is the emotional attachment.
Speaker 2: They list thirty very quickly go through. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the top fifteen, Top fifteen. Here we go, number fifteen.
Speaker 2: Albertson said, Number fifteen. I happen to like Albertson's. Are
Speaker 2: they still around though?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They got one but yes, yes, I've been there a
Speaker 2: few times. I can think of two. There's one in Guardina.
Speaker 2: There's one like cars and that I go to rather routinely.
Speaker 2: There's an Albertsons near me that I used to go
Speaker 2: to all the time, but they're you know how you
Speaker 2: have to download an app to get the coupons and Stuffeah,
Speaker 2: it got so confusing that I dropped him. I dumped Albertson's.
Speaker 3: I always say, they just give me the discount.
Speaker 2: Want to go up there? Say, oh, I forgot my
Speaker 2: Alberson's car. That's what I do. I'm lazy like that. Yep,
Speaker 2: I'm being serious. I didn't know you could do that
Speaker 2: shit trade secret okay. Number fourteen. In fact, I can't
Speaker 2: even use my drum roll because we won't have enough time.
Speaker 2: Number fourteen is Amazon Fresh now Amazon Fresh. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: we're talking about love. This is trendy feeling. I would
Speaker 2: not go to Amazon Fresh before in Albertson's. Number thirteen,
Speaker 2: Win Dixie, that's regional. Yeah, Number twelve, Save a Lot.
Speaker 3: Number eleven.
Speaker 2: I get it. It's it's garbage, but I get it
Speaker 2: why people love it. Pigly Wiggly. I've actually seen one
Speaker 2: of those. Yeah, yeah, back east, back east most definitely.
Speaker 2: Number ten Sprouts Farmer's Market. Eh okay, sorry, yeah. Number
Speaker 2: nine Safeway. I do not like Safeway. To me, Safeway
Speaker 2: is just Albus but across the street. Yeah, well they
Speaker 2: usually say what do you have against Safeway? It goes
Speaker 2: back to their practices in the nineteen seventies, let me
Speaker 2: put it that way, I see, and the types of
Speaker 2: food and goods that they made available for the urban
Speaker 2: communities as opposed to the other communities.
Speaker 6: Oh, this is a deeper issue. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 6: a deeper issue. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Number eight fresh Market. I don't think I've been there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: fresh Market.
Speaker 5: Those are those new they're in a new hood supermarkets.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: Number seven public or publics, Yep, they have on those.
Speaker 2: Number six it's not a grocery store.
Speaker 3: Circle K Circle. It's not a grocery store. They have eggs.
Speaker 5: They have eggs, they have apples, they have a grocery sandwiches, milk,
Speaker 5: dairy products, yes, frozen food section.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a technicality, right. Really.
Speaker 2: Number five Kroger, which is inclusive of I think is
Speaker 2: it rouse?
Speaker 3: It's in a family.
Speaker 2: Number four Aldi went to one the other day I
Speaker 2: was not impressed. Not impressed is the nine cent store
Speaker 2: version of the supermarket? You gotta know what to get there? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really limited. I'd rather go there. It's great. I'd
Speaker 2: rather go to grocery outlet.
Speaker 5: But it's it's you know, apples and oranges. It's the
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 3: All right. Number four is aldi number three, Whole Foods.
Speaker 2: I thought that'd be number one, because because the way
Speaker 2: people swear by Whole Foods, my wife's like, oh, gotta
Speaker 2: go to Whole Foods. Do they have a Whole Foods
Speaker 2: over here? We can't move over here unless they have
Speaker 2: a Whole Foods, Like really, really? I mean I go
Speaker 2: to the one in Burbank because like right across the
Speaker 2: street from the studio. And there's a reason they call
Speaker 2: it a whole paycheck because that stuff is expensive.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: There's some other things I'd like to say, but I
Speaker 2: can't stay it on the air about Whole Foods.
Speaker 3: There are other you mean the people walk through their dogs. No, No,
Speaker 3: that's what I don't like.
Speaker 2: But constantly let's just say you're a single man and
Speaker 2: you can appreciate the beauty of women.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what we're in that Burbank Foods. Oh gosh.
Speaker 5: The last time I ran into Mark we ran in
Speaker 5: for that exact problem.
Speaker 3: We couldn't. We had to go. We had to go pants.
Speaker 3: It seems like we're up to go grocery side Whole Foods.
Speaker 3: The amount of yoga pants and half shirts.
Speaker 2: And I was like, you sick. It's like, y'all know
Speaker 2: what you're doing. It's like you're just parading now, you're
Speaker 2: showing off. That was number three, number two traders.
Speaker 3: I hear.
Speaker 2: I went to the Trader Joe's back in the day
Speaker 2: when I was living in Studio City. They have one
Speaker 2: at Lancashim and Ventura Boulevard, and I go there and
Speaker 2: I was just consistently underwhelmed. It's just it's like, okay, crowd,
Speaker 2: tough grocery crowd tonight. No, this is about what people love.
Speaker 2: I didn't see what they loved about I didn't love
Speaker 2: whatever they loved about it. For me, the reason I
Speaker 2: like it so much is they have one of the
Speaker 2: kind things that you can't get anywhere else but the
Speaker 2: other part. But the other part that sucks is a
Speaker 2: way and they won't they won't bring them, they'll be
Speaker 2: we don't know when they're coming back. I don't know
Speaker 2: why the Trader Joe's parking lots are always so damn tiny.
Speaker 5: Tiny and their heart and navigating? Why are they made
Speaker 5: up in a maze?
Speaker 2: This is not big enough for a grocery store. Well,
Speaker 2: they want you to feel grateful when you finally get
Speaker 2: in the store.
Speaker 3: Not worth the effort, not at all.
Speaker 2: And number one, does anyone have any idea with the
Speaker 2: number one most beloved grocery store?
Speaker 3: Raups, That's my guess.
Speaker 6: Mark Johnny Carson always used to joke about shopping at
Speaker 6: ralph So I'm gonna go with that too.
Speaker 2: Ralphs did not make the top fifteen lists. Let me
Speaker 2: see it's Ralphs. Let me see if they're in the
Speaker 2: top thirty.
Speaker 6: No, not even the one I go to with all
Speaker 6: the hookers.
Speaker 3: No, that's weird. No, that's super weird. Nowhere on the list.
Speaker 2: Number thirty Wild Oats, twenty nine HB don't know what
Speaker 2: that is?
Speaker 3: Twenty eight Stop and Shop, twenty seven A and P.
Speaker 2: That's definitely East Coast and South twenty six Winco, twenty
Speaker 2: five Shop and Save, twenty four Giant Eagle, I've been
Speaker 2: there twenty three Casey's General Store twenty two, Shopwright twenty one,
Speaker 2: Wegmans twenty ye, Giant, Yes, been there, Number nineteen.
Speaker 3: Food for Less. That place is horrible. Food for less
Speaker 3: is all you can find. You can find, you can
Speaker 3: find roaches.
Speaker 5: No when that's where I go and get a lot
Speaker 5: of my stuff for when I'm making a gumbo, because
Speaker 5: they have a lot of really quality ethnic products that
Speaker 5: you can't get at you know.
Speaker 2: Coach, there's a reason. Yeah, number eighteen, I g A
Speaker 2: don't know what that is? Oh yeah, uh number seventy
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 3: Is it my hair? Emmy?
Speaker 2: I J. E. R. Meyer Meyer Number sixteen food Lion,
Speaker 2: aware of it, never been there, and we told you
Speaker 2: about the other fourteen.
Speaker 3: There's a Varta not on this supermarket.
Speaker 2: No, they don't even have l superty or on here.
Speaker 2: What I don't like this list? I know here's number one.
Speaker 2: No one knows what number one is. Here is the
Speaker 2: number one grocery store in America, as beloved by shoppers.
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding, invalid.
Speaker 2: No one goes to seven to eleven and thinks, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go grocery shopping today.
Speaker 5: Now, okay, So pizza and so pizza Okay, I look,
Speaker 5: I have got to say.
Speaker 3: It was a night last week.
Speaker 5: I was here super late, and I had remembered that
Speaker 5: we were out of toilet paper. Every supermarket was closed.
Speaker 5: You know where I found not only toilet paper I
Speaker 5: found I got some milk, and I got a nice, big,
Speaker 5: hot piping cup of coffee. All of this was at
Speaker 5: seven eleven. It doesn't make it a grocery store. But
Speaker 5: if they sell, If they sell, do they have a
Speaker 5: meat section.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 3: They do have a meat section. It is meat sounwich snacks.
Speaker 5: Okay, it is like sound snacks that you can put
Speaker 5: together with different meats and cheese.
Speaker 3: I didn't say, because you find meat there, I said,
Speaker 3: never mind.
Speaker 6: Seven eleven is closer to being a vending machine than
Speaker 6: a grocery store.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, it's not even a convenience store. There's nothing
Speaker 2: convenient about it. Just getting held up. You said, if
Speaker 2: seven eleven is a grocery store, that means a m
Speaker 2: PM is a grocery store.
Speaker 3: Yes they are.
Speaker 5: There are two of the easiest and most accessible grocery vending.
Speaker 3: They're not grocery.
Speaker 5: They don't have grow You can even get gas, you
Speaker 5: can get your groceries and your gas.
Speaker 3: It just makes it it's closer to never buying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this, I don't know why I'm even trying to
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