Questions for the President, More Metro Troubles, Phasing Out Checks & MORE

ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on WURD Radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders resigning after admitting she used pre-selected questions in her post-debate interview with President Biden…PLUS – A look at the latest in a string of unfortunate incident involving LA Metro AND the beginning of the end of writing checks at stores - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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I Am sixty is later with moKelly, were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app Happy Monday. And I thinkthe fourth of July Celebration holiday weekend is
still going because when I got onthe freeway, it was an easy drive,
So what the hell is going on? I know people out of school,
but it was never that easy.And then I got to the office.
I pulled into the garage underground parking. It's like, I see what's

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going on. People chose not tocome to work. They're really really milking
this whole holiday weekend thing. Thefourth was on Thursday. People didn't show
up on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, definitely didn't show up on Friday,
and now they've turned it into itextraday holiday. It's great work if you
can find it. But you know, I'm not gonna be a hater,
but I am bitter. Anyhow,Let's get to the business at hand.

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I saw this story and I neededto start off with it because it hurt
my heart. It really bothered meas a journalist, a radio journalist,
and even though I'm not working inthe capacity of a journalist at the moment,
I take what I do seriously.I don't take myself seriously. I
take what I do seriously, andwhen I saw the story that the WRD

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radio host has, I wouldn't saybeen fired, but they mutually separated after
this controversy where the host admitted togiving the Biden campaign the questions before a
post debate interview or vice versa,where the Biden campaign selected the questions.
It hurt my heart because I've interviewedany number of politicians and Twala knows what

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I'm going to say. He knowsit's true, and I definitely want to
get marks thoughts on this. Almostevery time we interview a politician or an
elected official, that campaign, thatadministration, that office, the communications department
will ask for the questions in advance. They always ask one hundred percent of
time, doesn't matter, Democrat,doesn't matter, Republican. Every single time,

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it's their job to ask, andit's my job to say, hell,
no, yep, we're supposed toThey're supposed to ask. They're supposed
to ask for any type of advantage. Everyone that you like, everyone that
you don't like, they ask forthe questions in advance, and every single
time we say no. At mostwe will say okay, well it's going
to be about this person's vision forLos Angeles. We'll say we want to

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talk about the economic climate. We'lltalk in very general terms. But never
ever have I under any circumstances eithergiven the questions to a prospective guest,
and sometimes entertainment guests will ask aswell, And never ever, And there
are times where people have tried tosubmit questions to me, is like here
are questions you can use for theinterviews, like oh, hell's no,

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and I make it a point torespond in advance saying we don't do that.
We have actually lost interviews because wedon't do There several politicians who have
said we are going to have topass on this opportunity. If that is
the case. Yes, Now,Mark, you've interviewed any number of people,
what is your usual expectation. It'san immediate non starter. If somebody

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asks you for the questions in advance, there's no debate about this. Now,
people don't always understand that journalists havesome integrity, and so they say
things that are horribly, horribly insulting, Like when I've interviewed cops and they
have said, don't misquote me.Now, they don't understand how insulting that
is, so I'll immediately come backwith yeah, okay, I won't misquote

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you, and you don't steal anapple off a carter, shake down a
shop owner. What do you thinkof that? But so you know,
when people say that they want alist of questions in advance, it's like,
no, we don't do that.No, it's not done. You
may have heard of that being done, but those aren't serious journalists. Now,
if there are times when you havea thing that's really important, breaking

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news and you have to have theinterview, like I remember one time years
and years ago, I was witha bishop involved in a major sex scandal
in the Midwest, and I waslike, well, I'm not going to
give you a list of the questions, but I'll tell you in advance,
we're going to talk about the thingat hand, right, that's the general
direction the conversation is going to goin. But you do not ever get
a list of questions in advance.And I try to tell guests or they're

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a person who's asking on the behalfslike, look, I know what my
first question is going to be.Still not going to tell you what that
is, and then from there theanswers inform the rest of the interview.
I'm not just going down a listof questions, but I understand it's their
job to ask. The station inquestion is WRD, And part of the
reason I'm talking about this is Ihave been a long time commentator for WRD

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non paid unpaid commentator for WRD inPhiladelphia would do it about once a month,
so I'm pretty familiar with the station. The station has a very good
reputation in film Hladelphia as being avoice of the community and very upstanding.
So I'm surprised that this journalist,a radio host, Andrea Laffel Sanders,

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even did that. And I'm evenmore surprised when she was interviewed after the
fact that she admitted to it.Listen to this, Andrea, let me
ask you here about your interviews andsomething. I listened to both of them,
and there's something that's similar here.Each were you asked four questions,
and maybe that's what you were allowedto ask by the campaign or the White

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House, but they were essentially thesame questions. Both interviews about accomplishments progress
in your respective state, what's atstake in the election, what he has
to say about his debate performance,and what he would say to voters who
think their vote doesn't matter or mightsit this election out. Were those questions
given to you by the White Houseor did you have for the campaign or
did you have to submit questions aheadof this interview? The questions were sent

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to me for approval. I approvedto them. Okay, So the White
House sent the questions to you aheadof the interview. Yes, okay.
They got several questions, eight ofthem, and the four them were chosen
with the ones that I approved.Okay, I can't. Oh, that's
horrible. That is horrible. Youknow, it's all about access, and

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I think access journalism, whether it'sthis person or Maggie Haberman at the New
York Times, it's making people losemassive respect for journalists. You've got to
be willing to walk away. Yes, you've got to be willing to say
no. And I understand people wantthe interview with the president, regardless of
whomever that president is, and youhave to make a conscious decision. Am
I going to give the questions inadvance? No? Am I going to

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accept and use questions sent by thepolitician or elected official in advance to hear
her admit that. It's one thingto do it, but then you could
admit it after that, Oh yeah, you had to go. Yeah,
find another profession. You don't belongin journalism. You're not a journalist,
No, not at all. Youare. You're I'm not going to accuse
her of accepting money from the campaign, but you might as well be a

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paid employee because you're doing the biddingof the campaign. Yeah, if you're
a journalist, no one can ownyou in any way. The most you've
ever done is assure the interviewe thatthere are no gotcha questions. That is
the most that has ever been doneon your part in any conversation. There

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are no gotcha questions. This iswhat the interview will be about, and
that's it. The higher you goup that ladder of politics and elected officials,
powerful officials, the more difficult itis to secure the interview. The
more difficult it is to get themcomfortable enough to actually come on your show,
especially if it's a local show andnot like a national show. But

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every single time they will ask forthe questions. They know, good and
damn well you're supposed to say no. They know good and damn well that
you'll probably say no, but they'restill tasked with asking the questions. It's
one of those things where it's notwrong to ask, but it is wrong
for me to say yes, andit's incumbent upon me or any serious journalists
to say hell no. I gottaeven take issue with the notion of a

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gotcha question in many cases, Idon't think that's a thing. I mean,
if you're a politician and you area servant of the public and not
a ruler, there's no such thingas a gotcha question. You are there
to answer things from the press,which is the way people know things.
Ah, But this is where Idisagree with you. Let's say, for
example, well, Gordon, Iwas going to interview Governor Gavin Newsom and

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we put in request that he's neverresponded. But let's say he was going
to come on the show, andthen in the course of having a conversation,
which we're supposed to be talking abouthis surrogacy for President Biden and his
possible political aspirations, and I throwin some question up, so is it
are you still cheating on your wife? Okay, that's unrelated to what was

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actually supposedly agreed upon as far asthe context of the conversation, but that's
just plain unprofessional. Well, okay, exact, that's all I'm saying.
Playing unprofessional equals gotcha, I mean, gotcha question un professional questions. Say,
you remember when Robert Downey Junior finallybroke through with Iron Man and he
put all his troubles behind them,there were still a couple of kind of

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subpar entertainment reporters, and entertainment journalismis a little different from regular journalism.
They wanted to get him and talkabout his drug use and his brushes with
the law, and you could kindof see him grinding his john ending the
interviews early. Those were from amateurswho shouldn't have been doing that, who
trying to make a name for themselves. Yeah, because they were inappropriate,
hacky questions. A good journalist isnot a hack we agree. All I'm

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saying is there will be people thatyou will never hear on this show because
we're never going to give them thequestions. And anyone who's familiar with my
body of work knows that I wouldlike to at least think of myself as
a fair interviewer and will give theopportunity for real questions to be asked and
answered. But under no circumstances,should anyone be giving the questions or getting

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the questions in advance of a realconversation. And that's why some people,
some presidents, some governors, someelected officials will never see Later with mo
Kelly because they know that's not howI get down. It's Later with mo
Kelly k if I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have a Metro update, anotherone and another person has been harmed.

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Whose fault it is? You know? Have you seen those charge block
videos on TikTok where you see acollision and like a basketball player, they
say whose fault? Is it acharge or a block or mark? You
don't know basketball. It's the samething like if you see a car hit
a pedestrian, is that a chargingvoul or a blocking valve? Okay,
I get you. Okay, Well, we have one of those coming up
next. You're listening to Later withMoe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six

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forty and Friday night, there wasa collision between a pedestrian and a subway
train, a Metro subway train.Not surprisingly, the pedestrian lost. But
here's the question, who was thatfault? Of all the criticism I've had
of Metro, and I've talked abouthow Metro often has these collisions, sometimes

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with cars. We've talked about it, sometimes with people. We've talked about
it. But who is that faultwith this particular incident, well, Friday
evening at the Hollywood and Highland Metrostop. I know it very well.
I wrote it as part of theRed Line. It's now called the Bee
Line. I know something about it. It happened just after five pm on

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Friday, and there was a pedestrianwho was trapped under the train and emergency
crews had to know somehow save theperson. I don't know of the person's
presence status, but anytime you getrun over by a subway train, it
probably does not look good for you. It is said that the person has

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suffered severe injuries to his lower extremities. Now, this is something I do
know about the Red Line, whichis now called The Line. It is
completely underground, meaning that this wasn'ta person who fell off I will say
a platform outside, or was walkingon the street and decided to cross the

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tracks. Now, now, shortof someone pushing this person onto the tracks,
this person chose to jump down onthe tracks and walk the tracks and
then encounter the train in the trainran his ass over. Does that sound
a little callous? Does that sounda little cold? I mean, you
may have some sensitivity issues here.It's kind of hard for me to feel

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for anyone who's going to walk asubway track on their own. It wasn't
like, you know, the subwaytrain broke down and this guy decided to
walk it on his own, likein the movie Volcano. Was nothing like
that. A little compassion goes along way, Mom. I know I
do have compassion, but it's lessthan you think. Yes, you're you're

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You're far more compassionate than I am. We're not talking about someone who made
a good decision. In fact,we'll be doing a return to my old
dying time segment later on the show. What we mocked the people who killed
themselves in unorthodox and Darwinistic ways?Oh like the Darwin Awards. Okay that
all right? Well, okay,this is this is adjacent to it,

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it's right next door. Okay,Well, it's all on how you frame
it. I guess I'm on yourside. I don't know if you're a
victim of your walking a subway track. Okay, just like the guy who
ran out onto the tarmac at Lax. If you got sucked up into an
airplane engine jet engine, I don'tknow how sorry I would feel for the

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person the herd. I guess you'reright. Yeah, I mean, if
you're on a subway track, whatis the likelihood of you encountering the subway
car Hi every three four minutes?Possibly because this was at five o'clock on
Friday, so that is like rushout. They're running every three minutes.
Yeah, you do get the ideathat not a lot of thought was put
into this activity. Yeah, andhe couldn't have been on there long because
there's a train coming every three tofour minutes. But it seems like every

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week we've got a story about somebodyin New York getting shoved in front of
a subway. That's terrifying. Thatis completely different, and that's part of
my subway safety thoughts where when Iwas riding a subway, I never approached
the ledge. No no, no, stay all the way with your back
to the wall, hang on tosomething serious. There's no exaggeration. They

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had that yellow line you're not supposedto step in front of. But I'm
always thinking that someone could inadvertently bumpme, much less push me, and
then you're down in that pit andthere's no telling how you fall land that
you'll be able to scrabble out intime. Utter nightmare fuel. Oh right,
right, And it's something I'm alwaysconscious of because I don't trust people.
I don't like people generally. No, they're filthy animals. The last

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thing I'm going to do is givethem a chance to just off me,
because someone might kind of a longlist, I would get it. Oh,
this list is getting longer by theday. It might be getting longer
by the end of this segment,seeing how callous and insensitive I happen to
be. But I mean, butseriously, how do you end up on
the subway tracks for reasons other thanyour own choosing? If not pushed?

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If not pushed, you're the countrywhere kids eight tide pods? Okay,
right right? You know? Andwho knows? It possibly could have been
a dare It probably possibly could havebeen a TikTok thing where they're trying to
get video footage of of I don'tknow, maybe trying to lay under the
train and maybe they have the traincross over them. I don't know,
stranger things have happened. But ifyou know that, and here's the real

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point, if you know that subwaystation, it is so high volume as
far as foot traffic, it ishigh volume as far as subway train traffic,
especially at that time. Since there'snothing in the story which says the
person would pushed, then I haveevery reason to believe the person jumped down

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and chose to be there. It'snot like you can walk from the outside
like in New York. You knowit's above ground at one point and then
you can walk into the tunnel.No, the Red Line slash B line
is one hundred percent underground. Thereis nowhere you can get on that track
with the exception of jumping down offthe platform into that pit. Are there

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no safety officers who could have reeledhim in? Now that I don't know,
It doesn't say anything about that.But you know, from what we
know, there has been inadequate coverageof these different stations. So yeah,
they can't stop the murders. Wellthey're not going to stop this. Is
that too insensitive? A little bitperhaps warranted now that you've set it up

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properly. Wow, you know nostatus on this person. It seems like
it doesn't look good for him andare Here is a statement from La Metro
which was released after the incident,and it voiced gratitude to firefighters and paramedics
and provided a crucial reminder to riderslike you and me Mark, as we
were saying, but like you,I will never ride this bee line never.

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Well, it's something that we bothsaid. Quote. It says,
quote stand behind the yellow line atall rail stations and never walk on or
around train tracks. Please look andlisten for trains in both directions, and
never run to catch the train.It doesn't say anything. We are looking
to find the person and apprehended,and apprehend the assailant who pushed the guy

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on the tracks. Listen, ifI ever went down to one of those,
I would take mountaineering gear and clipand secure myself to something that was
bolted into the wall. Yeah.Look, I don't have a fear,
but I have a healthy respect ofwhat can happen on a subway. I
have covered like train car accidents andall that kind of stuff. In fact,

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there was one I covered where agirl in the car was trying to
beat two trains going in opposite directionsand got balled up in between them.
I am extra cautious with anything evenremotely related to that because it's terrifying.
I don't know you had such fears. They're warranted. Okay, I've seen
this stuff. It's gross, youknow. It's one of those things like

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I was talking about my sister whoworked at lax once you kind of know
the behind the scenes, or ifyou've covered something in a journalistic capacity,
you look at it differently. Oh, people are just a little soft,
pulpy blood bags. It doesn't takemuch to kill somebody. You want to
avoid that. That's a nice noteto end on. It's later with mo
Kelly. The world is changing rightbefore our eyes. And when we come

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back, we when we talk abouthow Target, Baldy and even Whole Foods,
they're no longer accepting personal checks.Imagine that when Kelly six, we're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app PopQuiz, pop Quiz, When was the

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last time you wrote a personal check? Maybe you do it for rent,
maybe you do it for mortgage.Maybe you do it, I don't know,
to pay a friend, but youwon't be doing it at certain retailers
going forward, all the Whole Foodsthey've already said no more personal checks.
Done with it now. Target issaying you better hurry up and use all

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those personal checks. Why you can, because you won't be able to use
them here at Target starting next month. Target citing extremely low volumes of check
transactions. The company aims to streamlineits checkout process to enhance convenience for shoppers.
And I think they're telling the truth. Have you been to a Target

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lately and seeing those long ass linesjust about everywhere? Because I do like
shopping at Target. I was gonnasay, I think that this is a
personal attack against our elderly and individualswho are still holding on to checks.
You know, there's a lot ofour elderly who do not who have not
moved over to cars and the electronic. My mother is one of them.

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She still writes personal checks for mostof her bills. She'll pay some bills
auto pay or bill paid, butshe'll go to the grocery store and still
write a check. No, Idon't know if it well. I agree
it will most impact the elderly,but that's not where these retailers are getting

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most of their purchases from. Ohno, no, I get that,
But I mean Aldi that anytime I'minto Aldi. Eighty percent of people in
Aldi are old. Yeah, thereisn't one near me, so I can't
tell you I've been in one,but there's not one I go into consistently.
Hold Flues. We got one rightacross the street from the studios.
I'm in that routinely. There there'sa wide mixed bag. It's a mixed

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bag, but it's a little moreaffluent. Yeah, I'm not expecting checks
up there. Most people are usingtheir debit cards that are Amazon. There's
way you can pay by your Amazonthat account. Yeah, that kind of
thing. Yeah, so, andyou know me, I try not to
use cash all that offered. Yes, I haven't used an actual check.

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I don't think I used to checkthis decade. Do you have checks?
No, that's a great question.I put it this way. If I
do, I don't know where theyare in my house. And the last
opportunity to get checks I started myLLC and you open up the account and
they say, where do you wantus to send the checks? I said,
don't send me any checks. Checks. I use a check for I

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am all about the technology. WhenI go to the gas station. You
know you're not supposed to do this, they say, but I'll use it
all the electronic stuff. Just justjust give me what I need and I'll
use my Google Pay for the GoogleWallet. There are times where I've forgotten
my wallet, but I had myGoogle Picks a watch, or I had

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my phone and I could pay thatway. Just scan my retina, please,
Well that's next. Uh huh.Well, it's basically scan my retina
just to unlock your phone. Soit's you have to unlock your phone for
it to use the pay function.So it's the same thing. We're living
in Star Trek, aren't you,except without most of the really cool fun
stuff. It's coming, It's coming. You two are just against it.

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Well, speaking of really cool andfun and technology, most people would think
of Japan as that country very outfrontwith technology, and they are in many
respects. But did you know thatthe government, the Japanese government was hanging
on to floppy discs to use themfor official government business, and now in

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twenty twenty four, they're finally goingto phase out the use of floppy discs.
When was the last time either ofyou used or even thought about a
floppy disc? Boy, I can'tremember. Well, the news from Japan
is that they have finally been ableto at the government level, phase out
the use of floppy discs, whichI just find absolutely fascinated. Absolutely.

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We think about Japan as been onthe frontier, when we think about bullet
trains, when we think about robotics, right, robotics. On the other
hand, Japan is fiercely traditional andhold on to these traditions, and there
are economists who say that those elementsis holding Japan back because when you look
at how the country compares to otherdeveloped nations when it comes to productivity,

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it lags behind. And that's whatso many people love about Japan, sassi
and the fact that they hold onto it right right, There is an
argument, could it also be holdingback Japan in terms of economic growth,
in terms of productivity? Well,if you're losing floppy disks in twenty twenty
four, you are lagging now.If Japan could just get in touch with

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the United States government and tell themto stop using fax machines, we could
all be in the twenty fe rs. Specifically, yes, the irs.
Okay, look, I just burneda CD of really Jesuits, so I'm
not sure are still post floppy dish. Let's let's be fit is making mixtapes
for people? Yeah? What's hername? Twalla? Look, look,

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I just like like making mixes.I like having my own mix on it
on a CD. You know thatyou can do that digitally and still play
it in your car and work aswell. The hell it does not know
I've had I had that one app. That app it's horrible, the one
No, I don't know. Well, I used it and it didn't work

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and it did not give me thesongs I specifically was. I said,
here are some songs that fit whatyou're looking for. No, I want
the songs I want flowing in theway that I want them, fading in
and out. All of that.You can create a playlist, a digital
playlist, and have it play fromyour phone. You don't need a particular
app for that. There's just likefiles on your phone, you know,
play it. Yeah, okay,that's the scene. Though, what are

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you putting on these mixtapes here?Is to score? Twala? I mean,
let's just get right to it.We're talking around it. I want
the information come on a waiting fornance before we go to break my secret
stash. You brought it up.I mean it looks like sex Russ and

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Roll. Look my secret stash,My secret CDs are legendary, uh,
and they are known to get someoneto spend on that thing. But you
got a little sharde a little ya. What's what's going on? No?
No, the artist definitely uh,definitely some shady a little uh. I
like a lot of people. Ilike this the guy that you play a

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lot Anderson, such beautiful music.I go jazz, I go all over
the place and it works. Itproduces results. Right. Hey man,
Look I have one that is calledIt's epic. It is a three see
these series. It is called Scorpio. A love story man from the beginning
and the end of the beginning,middle and the end of a relationship.

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Little poetry and the little spoken word. We're just talking about scoring, Okay,
we're not. We don't need allthat other romance stuff. I'm trying
to takes you, takes you throughthe journey those I don't need you to
spend on that. Okay. Lookat the time when we come back,
we're going to talk about the furtherevolution of our economic society. Malls,

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shopping malls may no longer be athing, and that I think they're coming
to an end sooner than later.And you can see the best representation of
that evidence when we talk about whathappened at the Carson Mall recently and how
that means, you know, mallsjust don't have a place going forward.
I think we'll talk about it justa moment. You're listening to later with

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Moe Kelly on Demand from KFI AMsix forty. You might have heard of
the disturbance at the Carson Mall recently. I know that mall well used to
be one of my hangouts growing up, and it was a dying mall even
back in the day. Then theygot an anchor store by the name of
Ikea, which kept it going.Carson Mal was the location of the last

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Chuck E Cheese I ever went toin my life. Yes, there was
a fight there that day, ButCarson Mal has been struggling for decades.
Malls have been struggling now for quitesome time. Be it because of the
pandemic, be it because of inflationand economics, be it because of the
online marketplace, making a lot ofthese shops obsolete. Malls are a thing

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of the past, whether the mallsrealize it or not. That's not including
the rash of these smashing grabs andtakeovers and these appearances by hundreds of youths
causing trouble. And the latest incidentwas at Carson Mall earlier tonight in Carson.

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That's where several teams had to betaken into custody. After authorities say
a large group of kids cost ofdisturbance at the South Bay Pavilion Mall.
The deputies arrived there just after fiveo'clock this afternoon, reports of teens causing
trouble inside. Official say, thecrowd wait wait, wait, wait wait
wait, they call it the SouthBay Pavilion Mall, it's it's the Carson

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Mall, okay. And the onein fox Hills is called the fox Hills
Mall, not Westfield Town Center.Is fox Hills Mall and Carson Mall.
I don't care what you try tocall them. Today. After authorities say
a large group of kids cost ofdisturbance at the South Bayson Mall, the
deputies arrived there just after five o'clockthis afternoon, reports of teens causing trouble

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inside. Official say the crowd wasdisrupting business at the mall, which was
actually forced to close about three pointthirty witnesses tell us that it was a
small group of teens that started afire in one of the trash cans,
and then that led to the lockdown. My nephew had got detained and had
some kids had started a fire,put a fire in the trash cans,

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and so they detained over one hundredkids. It used to be if they
said it was only thirty days actuallystarted the fires. I feel like they
should only detain the ones that startthe fire and not all the kids.
Well, deputies, we understand spentabout five hours there getting those teams to
leave. Police say no self stilland no injuries reported. Look as far
as the police only detaining the kidswho had started the fire, that's a

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nice sentiment, But yeah, whenyou have some two hundred kids out there,
you're going to try to figure outwho did what. So that means
everyone's going to get detained until theyfigure out who did it. And this
kind of comes on the heels ofour other discussion with dilamah Mall. If
you don't remember, dilamah Mall putin a new policy where if you're under

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the age of eighteen, you mustbe accompanied by an adult twenty one years
or older on Saturdays and Sundays,and that's probably going to be the case
at these other malls as well.I personally don't agree with the policy.
I think it leads itself to otherunintended consequences, but I understand the possibility

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and the reasoning for it, andit's maybe weird how I compartmentalize it,
but I understand. And this isabout the survival of malls as we know
them, and I don't know ifthey will be a thing ten years from
now. I have no reason togo to a mall, and I would
like to believe, or I'm inclinedto believe that I'm like most people in

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that regard. Most things I canget online and either just go pick it
up or have it delivered to mewithin twenty four hours. It actually makes
it easier on my life in whichI don't have to take time out of
my day to go to a mall, hope that something is actually there,
buy it, and then drive back, as opposed to just getting on Amazon

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or even eBay and say click clickclick, click click click, send it
to me, and I'll be therein a relatively short amount of time.
If these malls continue down this pathof banning young people or individuals under the
age of eighteen, there's going tobe no one in the malls. There
is literally no reason for someone thatis our age to be in the mall

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unless we're just browsing, and mostof us don't browse. We go my
food and most a thing. Wedon't go to a mall to go shopping.
We go to find the thing,get it, and leave it.
If it's not there, we maynot come back because then we're going to
go online. I just bought someshoes. I know my size, I
know my width, I know thestyle I'm looking for. I went online
and got that they should be atthe house right now. Well, something

(31:41):
that my wife does, which ispretty ingenious. She will go to a
mall and just get the SKEW numberof the item and then see if she
can find it online at less price. She gets to skew, finds out
the item details, and just goesfrom there. Yeah, that is the
way the mall that my kids goto, and I where I don't like
going to this mall, which isto pang them all, just the kids

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there. They've overrun this thing.Young people galore I can't stand it because
I don't like just their loudness.The rudest I was the old man kids
boarding through the store. They're skateboardingand the damn store. I don't like
it. I'd rather not be in. You sound like, get off my
lawn, and you want to complainabout me. That's a get off my
long moment. Yeah, they needto get off my mall. Oh now

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it's your mall. Now this forme. I don't know if a mall
has any contemporary relevance in a ina in a marketplace, since there are
too many other ways that we canget everything we want without physically going to
the store. I get it.We all have different levels of comfort.
Some people don't feel comfortable with buyingshoes online. Some people don't feel comfortable

(32:52):
with buying clothes without trying them ononline. I get that. But if
you know your size, you knowyour brand, then there's really no need
to go Like, for example,I know my Levi's size, Okay,
I can just go directly to anynumber of online outlets and get the Levi's
that I want. Same with shoes. I love Sketchers, you know what.

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I don't need to go to asketcher store ever, again, because
I know everything I need to know, I don't know about you, Mark.
You don't like a lot of people, so you probably don't go to
a mall either. No where elseare you going to have a Charles Bronson
moment with a gang of young hooligans, though, get off my law religan.
Yeah, that, combined with thefact that you're pretty much not guaranteed

(33:36):
to be safe from a shooting anywherein public, can't say I'm a huge
mall fan at this point. Yougot to bear in mind these have only
been around since the seventies, right, Yes, remember Dawn of the Dead
nineteen seventy nine. That's the firstmost people ever saw of a mall.
These are not a big part ofAmerican history by any stretch. Well,
they are a part of American history. Well, they're gone. They're a
part of the zeitgeist of maybe nineteeneighty five. Do you remember the last

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time you and your wife or girlfriendor whatever actually said to each other,
Hey, let's go to the mall, just without an objective, but like
as a primary activity to do foran evening. No, I remember that
as a team because I was aplace where you could hang out for free,
You didn't have to spend any money, and there was a good chance
you'd come across some girls who wouldactually be shopping. Even without one of

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Tala's mixtapes. You thought you hada shot. No, back then,
I had my own mixed shape.Look I'm on talk radio. I had
game back then. All right,I had to gift the gab. Is
that right? Oh? Yes Idid, Okay, yes I did.
I didn't know it was preparing mefor my life and talk radio. But
yes, I had a mouth onme back then. Honestly, science fiction.

(34:42):
Talk myself into trouble, talk myselfout of trouble, Thank you very
much. Trying to picture it.Look, that was not a hot dog
on a stick stand which didn't knowme, and it wasn't there because of
the food. Let me tell you, well, those firms, especially with
the hat there you go, theywere very allure. Did you see how
they were like making that lemonade andthere pumping in there forcing it down.

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It's like pump never mind. Ibet the hock two girl worked at a
speaking punk dude spent all that time. We're not here to tell you what
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