Memorial Day Metro Attack, More 7/11 Robberies & the passing of Bill Walton

ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on an unprovoked attack against an LA Metro Bus driver that has the transit agency “angered” AND the string of overnight robberies at three 7-Eleven stores that occurred within an hour of each other…PLUS – Memories of NBA Hall of Famer turned Sportscaster Bill Walton, who has passed at the age of 71 - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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Jaf I am sixty. It's laterwith Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Hope you hada good holiday. Hope you took some
time out to also remember our fallenheroes on this day specifically, and hopefully
you didn't get on the metro.Hopefully And let me let me just back

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up a minute. There was awhole lot of MO being right in the
past week, and there's a wholelot of MO being right. I'm gonna
remind you of today later on theshow, we're going to talk about more.
Seven elevens were robbed, a lotof them. I tried to warn

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you. I even told Tawalla Sharpstay your ass out of seven to eleven.
We're going to tell you about thelatest measles case reported and traveler heading
through lax I told you, tryto warn you, got to tell you
about all these things and more.First, let me just say before we
get into it, good evening,Mark Ronner, how are you sir?

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Happy Memorial Day? Mo, niceto be here. No, no,
no, no, it's not happyMemorial Day. It's Memorial Day and we
observe it. Well, thank youfor that correction. I appreciate that.
Otherwise I wouldn't have done the daycorrectly without that, thank you. No,
you would have gotten a lot ofhate mail, more than usual.
I'm trying to protect you. Ijust want you to be happy. Is

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that so wrong? I want youMo to be happy? Then say happy
Mo. Let's leave it to that. Just be happy and get out of
my face. All right. Iam happy because I was proven right once
again, and I have to I'mjust here to protect the people of southern
California. I want to make sure. I just want to make sure that
they get to work safely, theyget home safely, and they don't have

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to fight anybody in the time inbetween. And I just try to give
out some tips, some hints howto make it through southern California. There
was an old salt By ice cube, how to survive in South Central Well,
we have to broaden it to howto survive in Southern California. That's
where we are. We're gonna talkabout that to Walla Sharup. Good evening,
sir. How's your memorial Daban?You know what it has been fantastic

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concern. Is this one of thefew days in which you didn't have to
do much outside of this show.Uh yeah, no, absolutely. I
was asleep for most of the dayand then I woke up and came on
in. That's a beautiful thing.That is a beautiful thing. Stephan on
the ones and twos. How youdoing, my brother? Fantastic, my
friend. All right, we arevery blessed. We are lucky. Here's

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why I could understand if we workedin law enforcement. I can understand if
we worked in part of the firedepartment, if we were a first responder.
There's a different mentality that you musthave each and every day when you
wake up and you willingly, knowinglyput yourself in harm's way. You have

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to approach your job differently than let'ssay a radio host. But imagine if
that was not your primary responsibility,but you still have to go to work.
Let's say you're a metro bus driver. Let's say you're I don't know,
a metro train operator. I'm justpicking two professions out of the air.

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Let's say you're one of the two. But you have to get out
of bed and have a conscious affirmativeconversation with yourself, preparing yourself, maybe
even psyching yourself up, and dealingwith the reality that there is not necessarily
a grit, but a decent chance, a measurable chance, that you might

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have to get in a fight withsomeone at your job. Think about that
for a moment. It's not likeI have to come to work and oh
my gosh, we're gonna have tofight Aaron in the newsroom. No,
I don't have to think about that. Most people don't have to think about
a physical confrontation at their job.But if you're a Metro operator, you

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have to have that conversation. Well, if you're not, I think you're
being I think you're being foolish.At this point, I'm actually surprised that
Metro, beyond its sick out recently, they haven't taken the next step and
had just a full blown strike becauseI wouldn't knowingly put myself in that position.
I signed up to drive buses,hypothetically, I signed up to operate

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a train. I didn't sign upto have a fight with people who are
just getting on the bus. Nowdo they know that they are working in
an area in which there may besome homeless people, maybe some questionable types
who may get on and off,of course, but their primary focus and

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responsibility. Maybe I'm wrong, butI'm thinking their primary responsibility is to,
as they say, drive the bus, operate the train. That's their primary
responsibility. I don't know how youcan focus on the road as it were,
when you have a homeless person tryingto beat the crap out of you.
And it's happened again. Another Metroemployee was attacked while operating a bus

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in downtown Los Angeles this morning.This morning, a woman possible transient,
as it's relayed on NBC Los Angeles, boarded the bus and got into a
verbal altercation with the bus driver ataround nine to forty five am, broad
daylight, maybe early in the busdriver's day. This is downtown and what
should happen. The passenger took thedriver's prescription glasses. Kind of important when

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you're driving the bus, kind ofimportant. Took the driver's prescription glasses while
leaving scratches on her face. That'safter the verbal altercation escalated to a physical
altercation. The female suspect got offthe bus. The driver chased the suspect
and got into another physical altercation.Are you counting with me? There was

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a verbal altercation which escalated to physicaland then it left the bus and there
was another physical altercation. And Iknow this bus driver did not expect to
be in two different fights with thesame person on the same bus drid.
I know this bus driver didn't expectit, or maybe she did. But

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it shouldn't be like that. Itshouldn't have to be like that. It
was Memorial Day. It is MemorialDay, and you would think the holiday,
the holiday, traffic on and offpublic transportation should be lesser, lighter.
But still, you can't take abreath, you can't let your guard
down, because in the those momentsthat you do, wham, someone's hitting

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it in your face. Someone istrying to attack you for reasons having nothing
to do with you. I wouldbetter understand it if I woke up and
said, hey, this is thejob I got, this is what I
signed up for. I'm working inlaw enforcement. I'm dealing with the public,
usually on the worst day of theirlives, because when I, as
a police officer, interact with someone, I'm usually trying to resolve a problem.

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Sometimes they're armed, sometimes they're violent. But it's the job that I
chose. I went to a literalacademy to train myself to deal with these
physical and verbal confrontations. That's lawenforcement. If I are a firefighter,
hey, I train long and hard, to run towards danger, run into
a burning building, but it's whatI signed up for. That's not the

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case, or put it this way. It shouldn't be the case if you're
driving the bus for Metro. Butit's the reality now. That's what it
is. Every single day. IfI were driving a bus for Metro or
operating the train, I have towake up and say, damn it,
there's a decent chance that I mighthave to whoop someone's ass today. Who

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wants to do that job? Iwonder how long before we get to the
point where we have a full onstrike from Metro operators and bus drivers Because
the way it's going right now,I don't know who's gonna want to do
that job. They're not gonna givethem raises, and I'm not so sure
enough law enforcement is going to changethe overall equation of who's getting their ass

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wood nothing left to do except walkoff the job and hopefully they don't get
beat up on the picket lines.It's later with bo Kelly. I'm gonna
tell you more about why I wasright. More seven eleven's robbed I warned
to Walla Sharp not to ever goback into seven to eleven. And now
there's more proof. Hopefully he'll listento me this time. No guarantees,

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but you never listen to me,Siday. I know you're gonna go get
some more coffee from seven eleven,aren't you. We'll talk about just a
moment you're listening to later with MoeKelly on demand from KFI A six forty.
And to Walla Sharp, who producesthis show, I give him a
hard time, but I do worryabout him. I worry about his safety.

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And he, for some reason,does a lot of things that I
don't do. He lives life onthe edge. He flies by the seat
of his pants, and he stillwill go to a seven eleven. And
I told him, like he's myson, please don't ever go into a
seven eleven anymore. And I said, many months ago before it became a
thing, of these string of robberiesof seven eleven locations, I said,

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you know, I don't go toseven eleven because they're generally unsafe. I
think it's because if you go intoa seven eleven, most of them when
I did go to them many manyyears ago, they were open air where
you could actually reach out and touchthe person working behind the counter. They
weren't built the same way as maybean AMPM. They usually have the Leksan

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glass and so forth. I'm quitesure some seven elevens they got the glass,
but most of them, in correctly, if I'm wrong twelve, because
you've been more recently than me,Most of the seven elevens the person is
behind the counter, and you canstill jump behind the counter if you wanted
to. Is that right? Yeah? No, that I have yet to
see seven eleven that I've gone intowith the same level of protection that you

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find at AMPM. Okay, theseseven elevens are being targeted. When three
seven elevens are hit in an hour, in an hour, that's not reddom.
Okay. They've chosen the three locationsthat they're going to hit, and
they said, we're going to hitthe seven eleven here, the seven eleven

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there, and the seven eleven wayover there. I don't know how much
money is in a seven eleven register. I suspect that there's not a lot,
but there is some decision making processbeing utilized by these criminals where they
think that either it's rewarding to hita seven eleven, and it's I guess

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it's a little easier to get awaywith. Maybe they think they'll encounter less
resistance. I don't know. Idon't know. I like to think like
a criminal, and you know,my somewhat criminal mind tells me that seven
eleven would not be a good targetor location. It just would It would
not be a lot of reward forthe risk that you're putting in. But
they keep getting hit. And asa as an innocent bystander, as a

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civilian, as a person who youknow will go to a convenience store every
now and then, not seven eleven, I just I just can't in good
conscience walking to a seven eleven because, know what I knowing what I know
now and what I knew then,seven eleven has always been more dangerous than
any other convenience store. And ithas to be something with the setup.

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It has to be where they thinkthat they can either reach into the register
or threaten the person who's working there. And obviously the twenty four hour access
that doesn't help. You know,anything that's open twenty four hours is is
going to be a problem. I'mthinking like and I'm not recommending someone hit
a different location. I'm just askingthe question out loud. There are diners

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which are open twenty four to seven, which you would think that there'll be
more cash available. Correct me ifI'm wrong to Waller see, I don't
know. I mean, because Ihear you, why is the seven eleven?
Because there are a lot of liquorstores that are open late night,
after hours and things like that thatI passed by all the time. I
mean, but you know, liquorstore the usually got that plate glass glass

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and someone behind the counter who willshoot you immediately. That is true.
That is true. That's what hasgot to be because seven eleven. I
mean, maybe it's the perceived notionthat the people who own or operate at
seven eleven aren't going to shoot you. Maybe it's that I don't know,

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I've but even if they had thelexan and glass, I wonder if seven
eleven would still be targeted. Maybe. But going back to the liquor store,
and that's a great formulation. Theliquor store, the ones that I've
been to, and yes I've beenin a few. Usually the people in
the store, they usually own itor connected to the owners, the people

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who work there. So they havemore of a vested interest. When I
did go to seven eleven, it'susually some random employee who doesn't care as
much or shouldn't care as much.Maybe the owner is working, but just
in my limited anecdotal experiences, it'susually just some person who's working there for

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I don't know, minimum wage orbarely above minimum wage. Most likely not
the person who's going to resist.If you go onto a liquor store,
you're you're playing with fire. Theyyeah, they'll come get you. The
liquor stores of my neighborhood, youdefinitely get the impression that the individual behind
the counter is thinking, I wishyou would right, wait, wait on

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it. They probably have their handon the trigger under the counter. Yeah,
yep, and blast you through.And I feel like the one that
I go to in my neighborhood,they'll lock eyes with everyone that walks in
the liquor store, everyone, andso they'll watch them diligently, So I
know what you mean, like they, like you said, they have a
more vested interest, So they're gonnabe way more you know, careful about

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who's you know, walking around andwhat they're doing. I don't go to
liquor stores anymore, because you know, I've moved up in the world.
I don't need to buy my littleget my liquor from like I don't know
Gelsons put but what But when Idid go to a liquor store. To
your point, Stephan, not onlydo they lock eyes, I always make

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it a point to speak and makeeye contact, saying I got nothing to
hide. You don't have anything tofear for me, How are you?
I'm not you know, I'm nothere to do anything surreptitious, you know,
or that's dying in nature. Ijust want to get my stuff and
go. Usually, Jack Daniels,that's all I want. But that's me
kind of understanding the dynamic of beingpossibly perceived as a threat and not having

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a situation escalate for for no reason. The seven eleven has the best coffee,
the best flavors. I don't drinkcoffee, and I don't and I
don't and I don't like getting shotat, and so I get touala.
That's not true. Well not that, not necessarily from a seven eleven.
You better clean it up right,because we've had conversations. I've been shot

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at, and I've had guns pointedat me and right in my face.
Yes, but it wasn't a relationto a seven eleven. That's just being
in the wrong neighborhood at the wrongtime, thinking, oh, let's go
to this party or let's go tothis burger joint. Those are things that
I said to myself, not we'renot going over here anymore. But seven
to eleven, I mean outside ofthe always present homeless people, whether they

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are asleep out front or walking alongthe store or whatever. That's to me,
the biggest turnoff of seven to elevenis the attraction of unhoused people who
just camp out. Seven eleven isalways the wrong neighborhood. It is a
neighborhood unto itself. You are spotoff. Anytime you even drive past the

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seven eleven. There's always a homelessperson posted up, usually outside view of
whoever's working there. But they're readyto ask you, pounce on you whatever,
for spare change or whatever when you'recoming in or leaving, and yeah,
there's something else to deal with it. You know. Look, I
don't know how seven eleven gets peopleto work there. They must be paying

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a lot more more money than everyoneelse to have someone be willing. It's
like, let's have that same conversation. You wake up in the morning,
I gotta go to work at seveneleven. There's a good chance I might
get robbed again for the third time. Just come on, promise me.
Promise Mark, Promise Stefan Promise.Everyone listening on KFI right now from you

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know, everyone listening to an iHeartRadio, promise us you'll stop getting your damn
coffee from seven to eleven. Welljust a second here. If I'm to
understand Tuwala and Fush, they're sayingthat the coffee there is worth risking your
life for it. It is.It's life affirming coffee. I mean,
I mean that was my spot whenI was doing uber, so I get
it. I mean I was nevergoing to go into one, and I
haven't for years, but now Ikind of want to go into the one

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by my place where previously I thought, get your house in order, if
you're going to go into that place, I mean, are your affairs in
order? Oh no, I wasn'tlaughing. Yeah, I'm pretty good.
I'm pretty good. When we comeback, we got more. Moe was

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right. Mezos case reported through laxSo now it's anywhere and everywhere. It's
touching everyone in southern California and maybeit's gone international. What have you.
We tried to tell you when youfound measles with the homeless, and the
homeless are right in Metro, well, they're also interacting with folks who are

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getting on planes. You're listening tolater with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six forty, and we tryto let you know. When there were
the first news breaking of measles,a number of cases documented amongst the homeless
population in LA County, and Isaid, it's not going to just end

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there. I said, well,if we know five, there are probably
many more. If it's the homelesspopulation, we know that they're getting on
Metro, and so it's going tospread beyond Metro, is gonna spread beyond
just the homeless community. And thenwe saw other cases which are popping up,
and now another case was popped upand it's probably not going to end

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there either. Los Angeles County PublicHealth officials have been notified of a measo's
case. A single case that weknow of in a traveler heading through LAX
last week. The person arrived atLAX's Tom Bradley International Excuse Me Terminal at
Gate one P fifty six around threepm aboard Lufton's flight LH four to fifty

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two on Sunday before connecting to anotherflight at eight pm, So had about
five hours in the airport. Andthis is from a statement from the La
County Sheriff's Department. But the statementalso said this, this is interesting quote
there are no additional locations where possibleexposures to this traveler may have occurred.

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Close quote Is it just me?But when you're in an airport for five
frickin hours the international terminal, that'snot really the place where you can say
there were no other locations were possibleexposures to this travel may have occurred.
Yet maybe they didn't happen outside theconfines of the airport. But the next

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time you go to an airport,you're probably going to come in contact with
dozens, if not hundreds of peoplewho are in your space or very close
to you, that you may breatheon, that you may touch, the
same knob of a door, orany type of exposure. So I'm not
trying to make it more than itis, but I'm not going to let

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people make it something or less thansomething that it is. This is something
which is going to be more thanwhat it is. And I keep trying
to remind folks, part of thereason measles is spreading is because, why
I should say, the large partof it is the unvaccinated population, period

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point blank. That's the only waythat this disease is likely to spread in
any meaningful and measurable way. Yes, if you are vaccinated, it is
still possible to contract measles, butthe likelihood is almost nil. The reason

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why it's moving quickly at this point, it's due to the unvaccinated population.
Why people don't really care for vaccinesanymore, Well, I'll leave that up
to you. But this was nota problem we were having five years ago.
This is not a problem that wewere having ten years ago. And

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you may think that measles is notdangerous to you, but it is dangerous
to the elderly, it is dangerousto young people, infinites especially, and
it's dangerous to the immuno compromise.This is very serious, and this is
something that we can prevent or halt, but we just have to be willing
to do it. And I remember, Mark, I remember, didn't I

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say that this is going to growbeyond just the homeless population, didn't I
say that. I believe you did. And we've probably talked as well about
the the effect of all the disinformationvaccines, whether it was for COVID or
whatnot. That stuff has an effect. Well, we're seeing that right now,
and unfortunately people may feel as ifwell, if it doesn't bother me,

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if someone is not Mark negatively impactedby this, then it's not a
big deal. No. Absolutely,people aren't negatively impacted by it. And
I actually read quite a bit overthe weekend, and I've think Bobby Kennedy
said something about he'd rather not weara mask than live like a slave.

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It's like, Okay, there's somuch stuff going on out there, Mark,
I gotta correct you. There's onlyone Bobby Kennedy junior, that guy.
Yeah, right, And so Imean we're really up against some dangerous
disinformation when people are saying things likethey comparing a simple safety measure to being

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a slave, a safety measure ina pandemic that's killed more than a million
Americans. And let me ask toawalla sharp this because I know, working
at a school, it's different.You know, you can't walk in and
be a teacher without certain vaccinations andyou can't walk in as a student without
certain vaccinations. If that were tohappen to all, what might happen at

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the school, if someone was totry to come in now without a vaccination?
Yes, actually, you know what, I believe that in l a
U. S D, especially andvery school districts, they have actually relaxed
at least COVID vaccinations and things likethat. There was a point in time
when that was a mandatory and nowl a U s D, and by

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way of l a U s D, most every school district follows l a
U s D's lead. When la U s D backed off of mandating
at least COVID vaccinations, everyone elsesaid we're good. Yeah, I know
COVID is still out there well,but beyond COVID, I know teachers that
I have to I think they haveto have an annual I think it's technics.

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Don't quote me, but there arecertain vaccinations that teachers have to have
annually. And I know kids aresupposed to still have. Don't they still
have to have the MMR? Yeah, no, no, you do have
to be vaccinated for that. Ifyou are working in school, you have
to have that uh, and youhave to have your actual TV tests,
So we do that's you have togo and get my TV tests updated because

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of the fact that will with childrenwho may bite and things of that nature.
And so you have to make surethat you are up to date on
your vaccinations outside of just COVID.Yes, every single vaccination if you're working
in a school, is mandatory.Is absolutely mandatory. And if there were

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an outbreak at a school, becausewhat we've seen the measles outbreaks in school,
what could happen, then the wholeschool hypothetically could be shut down.
I mean the whole school, thewhole school, whole school. If you
have an outbreak like that in aschool, it's yeah, you could relatively
shut down the whole school. Andwe want to make sure our kids in
school, right. Yeah, butyou still have plenty of parents who they

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do they do get those exemptions.Believe it or not, there are parents
who will opt to get an exemptionfor be it religious reasons, and I
forgot what if there's religious reasons,and or I think there might even be
a health clause where you can optout of getting your child vaccinate. And

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when we see that, we go, oh, hell, to the NAH.
But this is beyond that. Thisis beyond that. I mean,
because we're seeing this and if youwanted to do the whole Google thing,
you can see these measles outbreaks aroundthe country. It's not just Southern California.
We're just talking about it because we'rein Southern California and we're dealing with
the news right in front of us. This is I mean, this is

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these are things that we can avoid. You know, we're not that far
from having a school outbreak. That'sthe point I was trying to get to
at the beginning of all this.We're not that far from a school outbreak.
And you'll talk about our kids aresupposed to be in school, Well,
this is the quickest way to getyour kids out of school and the
school shut down for an extended periodof time, mess around and have a
measles outbreak. You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AM

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six forty and some sad news youprobably know by now. Basketball legend UCLA
legend legendary broadcaster Bill passed away todayat the age of seventy one, and
from what I'm told, it wasa lengthy bout with cancer. I would

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like to think that I follow sports, especially basketball, relatively closely. I
did not know. I did notknow that he was suffering from cancer because
you would see him from time totime in the stands watching various games on
a college and professional level. Hedidn't seem as if that his body was

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being ravaged by cancer. You can'talways tell, but it was not something
which was upfront. And the reasonI mentioned that usually and he was an
ESPN personality for quite some time.ESPN is usually very upfront about its personalities
who may be dealing with cancer becausethey have the Jimmy ve Foundation, and

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they will talk about people like DickVital for example, who may have been
battling cancer and dealing with it.Because of ESPN has lost a lot of
personalities over the years to cancer,going back to Jim Valvino, formerly of
the North Carolina State wolf Pack.So I didn't know, and if I
missed it, I missed it.But it was all a great surprise to

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me to lose Bill Walton today.He was this irrepressible character on and off
the court. If you're not oldenough to remember him as a player,
he was basically a big hippie whocame to UCLA in the years after lu
Al Sender, who eventually became Kareemabdul Jabbar. Bill Walton expanded the dominance

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of the UCLA Bruins and that basketballdynasty under the late great John Wooden.
Bill Walton was arguably one of thebest passing big men of all time.
And I remember I didn't get tosee his college career I was gie,
but I got to see the verybeginning of his professional career and my great

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memories of him what he was thestarting center for the Portland Trailblazers and his
battles against Kareem ab Dul jabbarro whenKareem had just come to the Lakers,
and it was nineteen seventy seven andPortland with Bill Walton eliminated the Lakers.
I think it was a sweep,even on the way to winning the championship.

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And I remember crying my eyes outbecause you had these two giants,
Bill Walton and Kareem ab dual Jabbardoing battle back at a time where there
weren't a lot of seven footers inthe league, and you had two arguably
of the greatest college players of alltime on the court and I got to
be able to watch that because thereweren't a lot of NBA games on TV

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back then. You were lucky tosee the Lakers play, and usually it
was tape delayed, so be ableto see it was a real treat.
It wasn't like it is today,where you have sports everywhere. You can
find every game no matter what,you wouldn't have to worry about missing it.
It was a big deal to watchKareem and Bill Walton square off against

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each other. And it was justa sad day because usually if you know
someone is declining in health or dealingwith cancer, it gives you the opportunity
to at least emotionally prepare for it. And I didn't expect this at all.
It just came out of nowhere.NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said, Bill
Walton was truly one of a kind. And if you get up on social

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media, you'll be able to seethe long letter that Kareem Abdul Jabbar penned
in memory of his friend Bill Walton. It was it was really well done
talking about him as a person,as a guy who was large. They
always talk about larger than life,but if you knew anything about Bill Walton.
He loved going to Grateful Dead concerts. Even up to almost the day

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that he died, he and attendedI think more than a thousand Grateful Dead
concerts, one thousand. I don'tthink I've been to a hundred concerts of
anybody anything, any concerts at allin my life, and to imagine a
thousand concerts. He lived out loud. He lived brashly and boldly. He
was the big redhead kid when hewas on campus at UCLA, and as

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a basketball broadcaster, his energies,I'm gonna throw it down, big man,
throw it down. He was fullof hyperbole. He was always over
the top when he was announcing abasketball game, and that's what I think
subsequent generations endeared themselves to him forthat reason. Most people don't remember that

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when he was playing he was verydominant, but also his career was cut
short because of injuries, all sortsof injuries, foot and leg, knee
injuries. But I did get tosee him earlier in his career when he
was as dominant as anyone to everplay the game or play that position.

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His personality was just as dominant,and he was selected for the Naate Smith
Basketball Hall of Fame, and peoplemay not know the Naate Smith Basketball Hall
of Fame is for your totality ofcontributions to the sport of basketball. That's
why they have referees in the BasketballHall of Fame. They have owners,
they have people who are only dominanton the college level. They have people

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who were dominated only on the professionallevel, and maybe they were not well
known as college players, but theNatesmith Basketball Hall of Fame is for the
totality of one's contributions. And BillWalton was elected in nineteen ninety three,
so at least he had a goodthirty years of acknowledgment and recognition for all

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of his great additions to the sportof basketball on and off the court.
He's someone that will miss. Thegame will miss and I think broadcasting entertainment
will miss him because he truly wasone of a cond kf I AM six
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