July 26, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at how your ZIP code can tell you how to find out if/what you need to filter your water AND tips on protecting yourself from credit card skimmers at ATMs & Gas stations on ‘Tech Thursday’ with regular guest contributor; (author, podcast host, and technology pundit) Marsha Collier…PLUS – Thoughts on the California Supreme Court decision to uphold Prop. 22, which allows Uber/Lyft Drivers to remain as independent contractors instead of employees - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty Tech
Thursday and we're live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. And when I say Tech
Thursday, that means Marcia Collier joinsme in studio. Good evening, Marsha,
oh mo, it's been so longsince I've been here. I swear
you've grown a couple of inches.No. I wish that were true,
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but it is not true. Infact, in my age, I start
to get shorter as my spine getscompacted, as it happens for all of
us. Do you do those stretches, you know, bending over and letting
your back roll out. Yeah.I actually had an inversion table at home.
I don't use it as often asI should. Get it's right.
The blood rushes to my head.It kind of defeats a purpose. But
yeah, yeah, I know whatthat's like. But you know with it,
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No, I know, Look,my back could be worse than it
is. You know, my lifecould be far worse than it is.
Grateful for everything I am. AndI was telling our health and wellness expert
on Wednesday, I would take allmy problems throwing into the center and look
at everyone else's and take mine backexactly exactly. The Lord doesn't give you
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anything you can handle, no,no, but he can give us a
lot because sure, yeah there's testshere. But you know, speaking of
which, so what would you youwant to talk about water? You said
you were a tap water guy.Yes, I grew up with tap water,
and then the world changed with thewhole idea of bottle water. The
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closest thing I got to bottle waterin the eighties and nineties actually was the
big bottle of water at the watercooler. That was it. I didn't
carry around water, but I drankwater all the time because my father,
That's how I was raised. Hedidn't let us have soda in the sweetened
juice. It was just I justhave water. I just had water.
When I moved to California, Iheard of Arrowhead spring water. What about
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sparklets? That different? Erahead isspring water? No, I'm saying that
like the sparkless they had the bigbottles that right, Remember those beautiful trucks
they use. Yes, oh mygoodness. Yeah. And there were some
people who had their own little watercooler at home. But you did you
did that. I have had aceramic where you just put the bottle on
top of it's not electric or anything. Because I like room temperature water me
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too, and I like them.I've been drinking that spring water since nineteen
seventy nine solely unless I go toa restaurant, of course that but I
love that water. And unfortunately herethere's bottled water, and bottled water makes
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plastics in the water. And ifwe don't have enough to freak out about
in today's world, there's the plasticsin everything. Every day you seem to
go to the internet in there's something. Oh my god, there's plastics in
semen, there's plan plastics. There'splastics everywhere. Yeah, it's all over
our bodies. Now, I figurewe kind of know what our snickel do.
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What about the plastics? So Iwent deep and I looked into what
about just tapwater? Because everybody Iknow has a picture at home? Do
you have a filter picture at home? Yes? We do. Okay,
we have a filtered picture. Wehave a refrigerator hooked up to the water
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with a filter on it. Okay, right, we got that going by
the way. Okay, well that'sone of the four. We're going to
mention the top four. But youknow. So I looked and the La
Times did a pace, and soI decided to go a little deeper.
So I went to this website.Don't ask me what it stands for,
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EWG dot org slash tapwater. Okay, you go to that website and you
put in your zip code all righton it. MO, Well, you
know I did, and it bringsup my utility tap on that all right,
because we don't know every utility whodelivers water to California. In California,
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there are almost three thousand different communitywater systems that serve like forty million
people. Yes, so it's alot of places. Some of it's groundwater,
some of it's well, the groundwater, you know, has chemicals such
as arsenic that comes from bedrock.Who knew arsenic came from bedrock? And
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then we have the aqueduct and wehave the Mountain springs. And California voted
in April to finalize a limit forhow much hexavalent chromium or chrome six,
which is a carcinogenic chemical that PGand E contaminated residents groundwater with re Aaron
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Brockovich if you out of story,so you know, supposedly I'm with DWP
as am I. And when Iwent to that page and I scrolled down
on my DWP, it says thirtytotal contaminants, nine exceed ewg's health guidelines.
Scroll further, it says what todo. We can filter contaminants out,
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contact your local officials. It didn'ttell you if you do it on
a tablet. Ok, you're ona mobile device. You're on a phone
with a small screen. But ifyou do it on a tablet or on
a computer, it will tell youexactly. And I don't have my phone
in my hands. Strangely, youknow, there there's arsenic, there is
chromium. There are all of thesethings in our water, which we're not
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sure now that the government says it'sacceptable levels. Yeah, I just remember
Flat Michigan, right right, Jackson, Mississippi. But I'm sorry, no,
but this is the point, youknow, Los Angeles Aqueduct. Think
about it that four million people inLos Angeles are served by the DWP.
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Let me ask you this to thebest your knowledge, and I know you're
making a generalization. Are these contaminantsthings which are being put in the water
or is it a function of pipesor something else? Well, okay,
funny you mentioned that. Like Isaid, the hexsavanian chromium comes from rocks
and things under the I'm just gonnahappen. There's even uranium. It's naturally
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occurring. You're going to see uraniumalso when you look at that on a
laptop. It's naturally occurring. Butthen also it goes through the pipes of
your house. How old are thepipes in your How leaded are they?
How leaded are they? Yeah,and how leaded are the pipes coming from
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the main, the water main toyour house that you have no control over.
Right, you have control over thepipes in your house, maybe your
housing development, but not two blocksaway coming in. Yeah, so scary
period. If you're obsessive and youhave nerd time, you can go to
home depot and get little test strips. Costs about fifteen bucks to test your
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water and see what kind of poisonyou have. You can filter it the
way mo does. I filter inmy refrigerator also, but I like to
have a picture in the house,like when I get home, if there's
any water left in this bottle ofplastic water, I will pour it into
the top of mine. So Iwanted to tell everybody real quickly. Water
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pictures do work for some reason.Everybody has a different one. My daughter
and my husband has a zero Water. My daughter has a Brita like you.
We've had. There's a brand calledPure Pure, yes that I didn't
know familiar to that one. AndI'm in earthquake mode all the time.
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And I have a thing called alife straw, which, oh you don't
know if for me, your boyscout, you'd know about it. If
you're out in the wilderness, there'sa thing called a life straw. You
can put it in a nasty lookingthing of water. It filters out everything
and makes water safe to drink.No, I'm not familiar with that.
I was four aged, not boyscouts. Okay, I bought after the
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earthquake. We have life straw andI got this big pool got its.
It filters out the chlorine, itfilters out the bacteria. It's amazing and
it's a straw. But now thenumber one best and when I researched them,
is made by life water, whichis excuse me, and life straw,
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and it's absolutely amazing they make Noweverybody makes them in plastic, which
makes me a little nervous because it'sjust your purpose. Yeah, you're trading
one for the other, not BPA. I get it, but I don't
know what that means. But purenot pure. Life Straw also makes one
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in borosilicate glass. What's that pyrexpyrax? Oh? Okay, except it's
a lot thinner than pyrex. Pyrexyou always know is thick because boris silicate
glass breaks reel easily. But theyhave a lovely silicone base to it,
so you can set it down onsomething. And so whatever your choice is,
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whatever you go to that website,and whatever you're worried about, go
to the website of either Brita ZeroWater, Pure or Life Straw and see
if what you're freaked about is gonnabe filtered out. And let's not forget
ewg dot org forward slash tapwater,tapwater and do your tapwater too. And
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the reason I picked that LifeStraw oneis because it filters out micro micro plastics,
not the macro. Oh the macrois easy. It's the micro you
have to worry about. So whenwe come back, can you scare us
some more with the concerns about creditcard skimmers. I didn't want to scare
anybody. I just want to tellyou, like you should maybe you know,
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think about which water filtered cats.Everything's trying to kill us. It's
Later with mo Kelly. I'm joinedin the studio by Marshall Callier on this
Tech Thursday. You're listening to Laterwith mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM
six forty Tech Thursday with Marsha Callier. Now, Marshall, you also have
some other really important recommendations and warningsas it comes as it relates to credit
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card skimmers. We know about it, we hear some of the horror stories,
but what are some of the thingsthat we really need to be mindful
of. Okay, this is positive. This is good stuff for you.
When you look like gas stations,they creep me out really bad. At
least maybe an ATM you go to, the one at the bank might be
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a little safer. I'm never goingto one in a seven eleven take you,
thank you. Not going to happen. So when you get to a
place and you're looking for a skimmer, For those who don't know, a
skimmer is something that has been insertedinto where you put your card to get
your money and to read the information, and this is put by someone other
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than the bank, and then theinformation is sent to the get bad guys
in the short long story short.So what you need to do to protect
yourself? First of all, lookaround. If there's more than one credit
card reader in the same store orplace, are they all the same?
Does that one have tape all overit like this one does? Does that?
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Okay, that tape just creeps meout. I don't know why it's
there, but I don't know anythingwhich would seem unusual, right, and
now they all look unusual. Nowthere's mo you were telling me you do
this, and my husband does it. Try to remove it, like,
grab it, give it a goodtug. If it comes out in your
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hand, it's probably a skimmer,because those machines are really built. And
this is something I got to interruptyou there because I was told, hey,
don't use your ATM or credit cardat the pump, use it inside.
But many times the credit card skimmeris inside. Yep, it is.
And also take your fingernail, putit under the keypad and try and
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lift that mm. I mean,this is insane. Look for residue.
If you see maybe a little glopof glue or a little something weird around
the slot, anything that would liveto the ordinary that has been jimmied in
any way, right, um,and again, check the tape. I
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don't know what the tape is.I see it the tape. It hasn't
been cut, so I figured thatmeans it's okay. I still don't get
the tape. Look inside if youcan, you know, shine a light.
I have a little tiny flashlight andmy purse men carry them in their
pockets. Shine a light into it. See if you see something dangling around
in there. You never know,right, Just be aware look around you
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when you're going to do this isa financial transaction with your bank. Be
aware. Be aware who's around you. Be aware if there are cameras around
you, maybe a can, right, maybe a camera that doesn't belong.
Cover the keypad with your hand booboo boo, and press the buttons underneath.
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And if possible, at all times, go contactless. And that means
tapping your card with that little boat. Yes, that's the safest way.
But I wanted to finish up realquick because I wanted to talk to you
at the Olympics, because I solove the Olympics. Okay, okay,
it has a tech theme here orit does. Yes, opening ceremonies in
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Los Angeles tomorrow are at four thirtypm. Not you mean time to air.
Okay, they air LA for thirtypm. And I love it because
all the countries come out, theyhave their uniforms, they're all proud,
they're waving the flags. It's justmakes my heart feel good. Well,
this year making it different. Iwas told instead of walking into a building,
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they're going to be on the sandRiver in Paris. That's going to
be cool. And each country isgoing to have a boat or a couple
of boats, but you know thosesand river boats, so just perfect.
They're going to have their flags,they're going to wear their uniforms, and
Samsung has put Samsung phones for theircameras on the different boats so that the
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players and the athletes can also takea part in the opening ceremonies by saying
something or pointing pictures at certain thingsas they go by. So it'll make
it a much better I think multimediaperformance. See that was always my question.
There was a news report that MarkRunner did earlier about the waning television
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that's just say viewership of the Olympics, and a lot of this is all
tied together. You have to givethe younger generation a reason to tune in.
Exactly, the Olympics for us isour generation is not these folks generation,
and you have you can't present itthe same way as they did in
nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty eight, right right. It's a new world.
So I think that's why they're gettingall the celebrities involved. I mean,
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Flavor flav is going to be atthe Olympics. Snoop, I love
Snoop. I'm just sorry. He'shilarious to me and Flavor flav is,
please and hear what the shot putin flav a five. You know,
this is going to be kind ofinteresting, but it's going to be something
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to watch and it's going to hopefullyamuse as well as educate everybody to these
sports. And you can pull outyour Olympic Barbie. I gotta say,
I am tickled that you know whoFlavor flav is. I am really tickled.
I love him. How many clocksdoes he have a bunch that goes
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back to when he was a partof Public Enemy and that was part of
his his get up. He's wornat for at least forty years that I
know of. I mean, it'samazing. I think I met him once
in an airport and I didn't walkup to him or anything, but I
saw a guy with a clock.You know, he's kind of recognizable and
identifiable. Ye, he was.I saw Sammy Davis Junior in an airport.
Wants to very man wore more jewelry. He couldn't hold his head up.
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He's a tiny man, wasn't he. He was really really five foot
uh huh, five foot one,five foot two. But he was very
old when I saw him. Hewas at Burbank Airport, and he had
so much goal jewelry. I'm surprisedhe could stand. It was a different
time, you know, people worejewelry, they wore gold back what you
could. That's true, you couldagain a different time. Yeah, not
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afraid of having your arm chopped offfor your watch, which you know.
We live in a strange time.And I really don't like wearing a fitbit.
You know, I want to weara watch. I want to wear
a pretty piece of jewelry. Yeah. I don't wear any jewelry in part
for that reason. I just don't. I don't live in a way that
suggests, oh, he might bea good target. Yeah, and that's
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sad. You know. I don'teven use my good purses anymore either,
do Why? And you looked sogood in them? Oh, I had
a burk in bag. It wasto die for. I'm sweetie, I
love it. But now it's LouisNo Mo, it's great to be here
this week. Thank you so much. I promise to try and come up
with a happier story next. Wejust talk about the news that's in front
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of us. That's all we cando. Tech we love and we'll do
it again next week. Bye bye, everybody. See you next week.
It's Later with Mo Kelly. IAm six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. You're listening to Later withMoe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Hey, Mark Ronner,I know you're busy it, but I
need to interrupt you. First.You didn't say thank you like you were
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supposed to earlier for the Shia.Well, no, no, thank you
for the pizza. I'm enjoying itright now. I'm not eating pizza tonight.
Know what I am, and Iwant you to know how much I
appreciate it. Okay, let metake you behind the scenes. Usually we'll
get food on a Friday, butwe're doing it on a Thursday. And
I say, if you want food, you decide, I'll pay to Wallip
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paid, I'll pay him back.But tonight they got pizza. I'm not
happy any of it because I'm goto cleanse and diet. You know,
I'm working my way up to mysemiannual physical. You really need to start
taking better care of yourself. Yes, he said this with a mouthful pizza
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that I am. And I literallywalked by Air Mix, which is the
studio next to the main studio thatStephan and Lindsay are in, and I
said, have you guys finished thepizza because I need you to hurry up
and finish it so I will notbe uh drawn to it. You know,
I have been very good with myand I don't want to call it
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a diet. I would want to. I want to say it's a life
change. It's been low calorie,low sodium, low sugar, low cholesterol,
low taste, low enjoyment. That'sbasically what it's been. If you
don't want to be pear shaped anymore, you got to have the willpower.
Well, not only not do Inot want to be pear shaped? I
got to just make sure my numbersare in a better place when I do
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see my doctor. Yeah, let'swatch those numbers. Yeah yeah, think
you know your time is coming.Okay, but yes, that's as you
guys much on pizza. I'm tryingnot to think about it. But the
reason I did call you on themic is I know you're a quasi sports
fan to a certain degree. Youhad an interest in sports as an athlete.
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Well, but in the unpopular oneslike did you ever see the Breakfast
Club? Of course? Okay,so I'm the guy who had to explain
I wore the required singless singless Yes, yeah, unless you understand anything about
wrestling, you have no idea whata singlet is, and you're fur the
better for it. You know,that was a sport which is really big
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at my high school, but Inever had any desire to get into.
I think it kept me out ofprison. It's a hell of an outlet.
It's good. Oh that was yourrelease, one of it? Well,
that in martial arts. Yeah,did you ever consider any other sports?
There's a reason for this. I'mnot sure what you mean. No,
I've said, did you ever considerplaying football or something like that?
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I did track and field. Whowas your event? I did a number
of things. I did long distance. I did the mile, I did
the four hundred, I did thethree hundred meters low hurdles. Now,
see, I didn't know that.I'm still learning new things about you.
I thought you would have been moreinto like pole vault or shot put.
You're gonna make something dirty out ofthose. No, I feel like you're
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going No, you make it weird. I'm just making an observation. Okay,
No, No, I was ahalfway decent runner. It wasn't anywhere
near the best. But some No, I did not know that you did
sprints and long in distance. Yeah, both completely different skills. The only
reason I asked that is because thisLA, for the most part, is
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the sports town. Dodgers lifelong fanClayton Kershaw came back tonight from one understand,
and the Dodgers did beat the Giants. They won like seven out of
the last eight games, And Iwas wondering, do you follow baseball at
all? No? I just seethe headlines. And when most sports headlines
come across the wire and they're importantenough for me to report, I just
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report them like I'm I'm reading aforeign language phonetically, so I don't mess
it up. It doesn't mean anythingto you at all, not so much.
Okay, growing up, did itmatter at all what the Mariners did
or the Seahawks or anything. Imean, you go to a game.
I used to really enjoy going togames at Wrigley Field in Chicago because a
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Chicago has the best drunks on earth. They're fun drunks. They're not particularly
violent drunks. And Wrigley Field isjust a beautiful facility. But it could
be anybody playing, you know.It's like an onion headline. You know,
regional area man supports regional team.You know. I would like to
go to Wrigley Field. That's oneof the few ballparks of the old bar
ballparks which is still around that Ihaven't been able to get to. I've
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never been to Boston, so thenI've never been to Finway Park. Camden
Yards is a great ballpark in Baltimore, great especially for the Baltimore but not
there. I went to a greatlike old Art Deco movie theater with a
crying room for kids in baltim More. Every theater should have one of those.
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Yeah, but I'd like to whenI usually go to a new city,
I try to get a sports pieceof paraphernalia, could be a jersey
or something T shirt from one ofthe home teams, and add to my
collection whenever I go to a differentcity. So how much stuff you got?
A lot? A lot of it. I don't even wear anymore because
my whole wardrobe has changed and Idon't have enough reasons to wear all that
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stuff. Like I have a SaintLouis Ozzie Smith jersey. When am I
gonna wear that in a Dodger Town? You know what I mean. I'm
not gonna wear it to work.It's We're in the same building as the
Dodger station. It just be weirdand awkward and people would look at me
like I'm crazy. Would it everbe enough to provoke a fistfight? No,
because it's no it's Saint Louis.It would be odd, but it
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wouldn't anger people. If I walkedin in a Padres jersey or a San
Francisco Giants jersey jersey like Gary Hoffmandoes, that might wrinkle some nerves.
I love it when sports people talkcrap to each other and get up in
it, Like when you and tualaargue about any sporting event whatsoever. It
tickles me to death because it's like, you don't understand that. You sound
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like Charlie Brown's teachers. To peoplewho were used to being marginalized for being
nerds and arguing about like movies andcomics and superheroes and stuff. You sound
the same way. I was anerd, I was a band geek.
I was marginalized, but I stillliked sports talking about professional sports. I
agree with that, and I thinkif you and I had known each other
when we were kids, we wouldhave been just inseparable nerds because we like
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all the same stuff. You havethe sports angle covered, and I absolutely
do not. I think it wasmore a function of my dad, because
he was the one who introduced meto the Lakers. He introduced me to
the Dodgers. He was the onewho told me how football works, what
four downs was. He took meto Hollywood Park and sent a Nita and
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explain to me how to read aracing form. So anything that sports related
came from him. Yeah, bondingwith your dad over sports has to be
one of the best things in theworld. And I grew up without a
dad. My Grandpa admonished me anddespised me for not getting into basketball like
he maybe saw like one wrestling matchof mine. So I am deeply envious
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that you had that with your dad. Do you remember what a weight class
you wrestled in? One fifty eightand one sixty eight? How many years
ago was that the last time yousaw one fifty eight or one sixty eight?
None of your damn disess. No, it's funny. When I graduated
high school, I remember I weighedone hundred and thirty three pounds, A
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one hundred and thirty three, Well, one of your legs. One hundred
and thirty three pounds, totally okay. And I gained fifteen pounds my freshman
year in college, the freshman fifteen, Well that happens, It really happened,
and I weighed a robust one fortyeight. Now we got the pandemic
twenty two that I'm still trying todo. Look, I will never see
one forty eight again in my lifeunless I'm on my deathbed getting ready to
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lead up out of here. There'sno way I'll ever get down to one
forty eight, not without an amputation. And even then, you know that
I'm not going to lose. I'mone seventy five right now, right now,
one seventy five. No, itfeels great to just settle, just
settle like an old person. Yeah, oh yeah, those might as well
throw those pants away again. No. I went through a whole period of
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that. I had all these clothesin my closet from years ago. Whatever.
It's like, you know that doesn'tfit right. Yeah, but on
the get there one day, youknow that doesn't fit right, and it's
out of style, and it doesn'tfit right, go ahead and throw it
away. So I've been doing alot of spring and summer cleaning, just
kind of owning up to certain thingsI don't need to wear again, certain
things I won't wear again, andI'll and what got me on this kick,
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This is a true story. Ibought a suit online Men's Warehouse,
and I know my measurements, butfor some reason, I hit the wrong
button. I was supposed to ordera forty two regular jacket, and I
ended up ordering a forty regular jacket. Send it to me, and I
realized, oh, this is kindof tight. And I said, well,
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I have two options. I cango return it and get another jacket.
They can't like tailor, it goingup, they can go down right,
Yeah, But so I said,well I can lose weight, get
in better shape and fit the fortyregular, or well I could go through
the other trouble of you know,trying to get the correct size at the
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time sent out. In other words, the one that's possible. But I'm
proud to announce I fit that fortyregular comfortably. Really yeah, I'm down
to one seventy five sexy as comingback. Wow. Yeah, I'm hopefully
by this cruise. When I geton with Twala, I'll have some shirtsaft
photos just one last time. Ohno, don't do that. We don't
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need that. I don't need thatwhen we come back. When I talk
about Uber Lyft and Stefan whether anyof this matters to him as a I
don't know, former president Uber driver. Which is it seven in between right
now? Okay, that's what Ithought. You're listening to later with Moe
Kelly on Demand from KFI AM sixforty. California Supreme Court today upheld a
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voter approved law that allows Uber andother app makers to treat their drivers and
delivery workers as independent contractors instead ofemployees. And you may remember here in
the state. The decision on Propositiontwenty two was just about unanimous, approved
by fifty eight percent of California votersback in twenty twenty and enacted that same
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year. Prop twenty two gave appbased gig workers some benefits, but not
full worker protections because the ballot initiative, which ensures they are not considered employees.
Did you know that more than onepoint four million Californians are APT based
gig workers? Talking about the peoplewho work for Uber, work for Lyft
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or maybe door Dash or instacar,that's a part of that gig economy.
Maybe you have more than one job, more than one stream of income.
I know, I do. Iknow it's pretty commonplace now. You can't
necessarily depend on just one job.And part I would say of the gig
economy is the freedom and flexibility itaffords. The whole point, or I
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should say the whole allure of drivingfor Uber is you can work when you
want, basically wherever you want,and if you have a car, you
are never without money coming in.Now there's a question of whether it's financially
as meaningful and helpful as it oncewas when Uber first started, but still
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some money is better than no money, especially if you need to depend on
that. And Stephan, I knowwe don't have a lot of time in
this segment, and I know yousaid you were kind of in between.
Yes, no, still driving forUber. But in the past year or
so, how has it changed forthe better or for worse for drivers?
I mean, nothing's really changed forthe most part, because what they've really
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done is just add what they callquest bonuses, And if you do a
certain amount of trips, you geta bonus on top of what you make.
So if you make let's say,two hundred dollars in any given week
and you did thirty trips, theymight throw an extra one hundred dollars or
fifty dollars, depending on how faryou go. But now that I'm here
and I'm kind of like taking careof my dad a little bit more,
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I can't really do it as much, so I'm going to try to go
back. It'll be Fridays and Saturdays. And that's what I always told people.
If you want to do part time, that's the time to do it,
because that's when you're going to makethe most money. If someone was
out of work, someone who hadno employment but they have a reliable car,
and if they were willing to drivelet's say ten eleven hours a day,
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it's best you could guesstimate how muchmoney could they conceivably be making a
week if they Because mine was Mondaythrough Saturday, I always took Sunday off,
and depending on if there's a holidayor not. But average, I
would say I made somewhere around betweenone thoy thirteen hundred a week. I
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because I did most, I dida lot of hours, and plus Friday
and Saturday nights, I stay outreally late. Okay, so let's just
say if you lose your drop joband you're willing to commit to uber,
you could bring home gross at leastfour thousand a month, yeah, give
or take. Yeah, And ofcourse I know there's cost of gas,
there's a cost of maintenance. Butyou could survive, yeah, in most
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instances, especially because if you havea really fueled like it was a good
car and gas, like a Priusor just a four door sedan that'll go
far and doing it, especially becauseif you're waiting around for trips, you
don't have to worry about shutting theengine off all the time. Stuff like
that. How many miles did youdrive on an average day? Monday through
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Thursday was about a one hundred andfifty, and then Fridays and Saturdays was
like three to three fifty. Okay, so if you had the electric vehicle,
conceivably you could do it. Ohyeah, you could do it.
The only thing that held me backfrom that was it's especially on Fridays and
Saturdays. I've worked so long thatI'd have to stop to get gas halfway
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through. So if you'd have anelectric cart, it takes longer to charge
it. Right, just filling upquick in ten minutes and you're off.
So let me just ask you this, given this story that y'all are going
to remain as independent contractors instead ofemployees plus or minus, is that good
or not so good? I wouldthink it's better for drivers. Oh yeah,
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it's one hundred percent better. Theythey kind of try to brainwash some
of those people into thinking that itshould be hourly pay, But people don't
realize they're gonna cut half of theworkforce there. You're not gonna be able
to work when you want. You'regonna have caps, you're gonna have a
schedule, and that defeats the purposethere you have it. Yeah, it's
later with Mo Keller k if IAM six forty were live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. We go through allthe thing's going on so that we can
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tell you just that you need toknow. KFI and the KOST HD two
Los Angeles, Orange County live everywhereon the radio.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty Tech
Thursday and we're live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. And when I say Tech
Thursday, that means Marcia Collier joinsme in studio. Good evening, Marsha,
oh mo, it's been so longsince I've been here. I swear
you've grown a couple of inches.No. I wish that were true,
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but it is not true. Infact, in my age, I start
to get shorter as my spine getscompacted, as it happens for all of
us. Do you do those stretches, you know, bending over and letting
your back roll out. Yeah.I actually had an inversion table at home.
I don't use it as often asI should. Get it's right.
The blood rushes to my head.It kind of defeats a purpose. But
yeah, yeah, I know whatthat's like. But you know with it,
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No, I know, Look,my back could be worse than it
is. You know, my lifecould be far worse than it is.
Grateful for everything I am. AndI was telling our health and wellness expert
on Wednesday, I would take allmy problems throwing into the center and look
at everyone else's and take mine backexactly exactly. The Lord doesn't give you
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anything you can handle, no,no, but he can give us a
lot because sure, yeah there's testshere. But you know, speaking of
which, so what would you youwant to talk about water? You said
you were a tap water guy.Yes, I grew up with tap water,
and then the world changed with thewhole idea of bottle water. The
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closest thing I got to bottle waterin the eighties and nineties actually was the
big bottle of water at the watercooler. That was it. I didn't
carry around water, but I drankwater all the time because my father,
That's how I was raised. Hedidn't let us have soda in the sweetened
juice. It was just I justhave water. I just had water.
When I moved to California, Iheard of Arrowhead spring water. What about
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sparklets? That different? Erahead isspring water? No, I'm saying that
like the sparkless they had the bigbottles that right, Remember those beautiful trucks
they use. Yes, oh mygoodness. Yeah. And there were some
people who had their own little watercooler at home. But you did you
did that. I have had aceramic where you just put the bottle on
top of it's not electric or anything. Because I like room temperature water me
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too, and I like them.I've been drinking that spring water since nineteen
seventy nine solely unless I go toa restaurant, of course that but I
love that water. And unfortunately herethere's bottled water, and bottled water makes
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plastics in the water. And ifwe don't have enough to freak out about
in today's world, there's the plasticsin everything. Every day you seem to
go to the internet in there's something. Oh my god, there's plastics in
semen, there's plan plastics. There'splastics everywhere. Yeah, it's all over
our bodies. Now, I figurewe kind of know what our snickel do.
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What about the plastics? So Iwent deep and I looked into what
about just tapwater? Because everybody Iknow has a picture at home? Do
you have a filter picture at home? Yes? We do. Okay,
we have a filtered picture. Wehave a refrigerator hooked up to the water
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with a filter on it. Okay, right, we got that going by
the way. Okay, well that'sone of the four. We're going to
mention the top four. But youknow. So I looked and the La
Times did a pace, and soI decided to go a little deeper.
So I went to this website.Don't ask me what it stands for,
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EWG dot org slash tapwater. Okay, you go to that website and you
put in your zip code all righton it. MO, Well, you
know I did, and it bringsup my utility tap on that all right,
because we don't know every utility whodelivers water to California. In California,
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there are almost three thousand different communitywater systems that serve like forty million
people. Yes, so it's alot of places. Some of it's groundwater,
some of it's well, the groundwater, you know, has chemicals such
as arsenic that comes from bedrock.Who knew arsenic came from bedrock? And
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then we have the aqueduct and wehave the Mountain springs. And California voted
in April to finalize a limit forhow much hexavalent chromium or chrome six,
which is a carcinogenic chemical that PGand E contaminated residents groundwater with re Aaron
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Brockovich if you out of story,so you know, supposedly I'm with DWP
as am I. And when Iwent to that page and I scrolled down
on my DWP, it says thirtytotal contaminants, nine exceed ewg's health guidelines.
Scroll further, it says what todo. We can filter contaminants out,
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contact your local officials. It didn'ttell you if you do it on
a tablet. Ok, you're ona mobile device. You're on a phone
with a small screen. But ifyou do it on a tablet or on
a computer, it will tell youexactly. And I don't have my phone
in my hands. Strangely, youknow, there there's arsenic, there is
chromium. There are all of thesethings in our water, which we're not
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sure now that the government says it'sacceptable levels. Yeah, I just remember
Flat Michigan, right right, Jackson, Mississippi. But I'm sorry, no,
but this is the point, youknow, Los Angeles Aqueduct. Think
about it that four million people inLos Angeles are served by the DWP.
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Let me ask you this to thebest your knowledge, and I know you're
making a generalization. Are these contaminantsthings which are being put in the water
or is it a function of pipesor something else? Well, okay,
funny you mentioned that. Like Isaid, the hexsavanian chromium comes from rocks
and things under the I'm just gonnahappen. There's even uranium. It's naturally
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occurring. You're going to see uraniumalso when you look at that on a
laptop. It's naturally occurring. Butthen also it goes through the pipes of
your house. How old are thepipes in your How leaded are they?
How leaded are they? Yeah,and how leaded are the pipes coming from
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the main, the water main toyour house that you have no control over.
Right, you have control over thepipes in your house, maybe your
housing development, but not two blocksaway coming in. Yeah, so scary
period. If you're obsessive and youhave nerd time, you can go to
home depot and get little test strips. Costs about fifteen bucks to test your
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water and see what kind of poisonyou have. You can filter it the
way mo does. I filter inmy refrigerator also, but I like to
have a picture in the house,like when I get home, if there's
any water left in this bottle ofplastic water, I will pour it into
the top of mine. So Iwanted to tell everybody real quickly. Water
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pictures do work for some reason.Everybody has a different one. My daughter
and my husband has a zero Water. My daughter has a Brita like you.
We've had. There's a brand calledPure Pure, yes that I didn't
know familiar to that one. AndI'm in earthquake mode all the time.
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And I have a thing called alife straw, which, oh you don't
know if for me, your boyscout, you'd know about it. If
you're out in the wilderness, there'sa thing called a life straw. You
can put it in a nasty lookingthing of water. It filters out everything
and makes water safe to drink.No, I'm not familiar with that.
I was four aged, not boyscouts. Okay, I bought after the
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earthquake. We have life straw andI got this big pool got its.
It filters out the chlorine, itfilters out the bacteria. It's amazing and
it's a straw. But now thenumber one best and when I researched them,
is made by life water, whichis excuse me, and life straw,
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and it's absolutely amazing they make Noweverybody makes them in plastic, which
makes me a little nervous because it'sjust your purpose. Yeah, you're trading
one for the other, not BPA. I get it, but I don't
know what that means. But purenot pure. Life Straw also makes one
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in borosilicate glass. What's that pyrexpyrax? Oh? Okay, except it's
a lot thinner than pyrex. Pyrexyou always know is thick because boris silicate
glass breaks reel easily. But theyhave a lovely silicone base to it,
so you can set it down onsomething. And so whatever your choice is,
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whatever you go to that website,and whatever you're worried about, go
to the website of either Brita ZeroWater, Pure or Life Straw and see
if what you're freaked about is gonnabe filtered out. And let's not forget
ewg dot org forward slash tapwater,tapwater and do your tapwater too. And
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the reason I picked that LifeStraw oneis because it filters out micro micro plastics,
not the macro. Oh the macrois easy. It's the micro you
have to worry about. So whenwe come back, can you scare us
some more with the concerns about creditcard skimmers. I didn't want to scare
anybody. I just want to tellyou, like you should maybe you know,
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think about which water filtered cats.Everything's trying to kill us. It's
Later with mo Kelly. I'm joinedin the studio by Marshall Callier on this
Tech Thursday. You're listening to Laterwith mo Kelly on demand from KFI AM
six forty Tech Thursday with Marsha Callier. Now, Marshall, you also have
some other really important recommendations and warningsas it comes as it relates to credit
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card skimmers. We know about it, we hear some of the horror stories,
but what are some of the thingsthat we really need to be mindful
of. Okay, this is positive. This is good stuff for you.
When you look like gas stations,they creep me out really bad. At
least maybe an ATM you go to, the one at the bank might be
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a little safer. I'm never goingto one in a seven eleven take you,
thank you. Not going to happen. So when you get to a
place and you're looking for a skimmer, For those who don't know, a
skimmer is something that has been insertedinto where you put your card to get
your money and to read the information, and this is put by someone other
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than the bank, and then theinformation is sent to the get bad guys
in the short long story short.So what you need to do to protect
yourself? First of all, lookaround. If there's more than one credit
card reader in the same store orplace, are they all the same?
Does that one have tape all overit like this one does? Does that?
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Okay, that tape just creeps meout. I don't know why it's
there, but I don't know anythingwhich would seem unusual, right, and
now they all look unusual. Nowthere's mo you were telling me you do
this, and my husband does it. Try to remove it, like,
grab it, give it a goodtug. If it comes out in your
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hand, it's probably a skimmer,because those machines are really built. And
this is something I got to interruptyou there because I was told, hey,
don't use your ATM or credit cardat the pump, use it inside.
But many times the credit card skimmeris inside. Yep, it is.
And also take your fingernail, putit under the keypad and try and
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lift that mm. I mean,this is insane. Look for residue.
If you see maybe a little glopof glue or a little something weird around
the slot, anything that would liveto the ordinary that has been jimmied in
any way, right, um,and again, check the tape. I
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don't know what the tape is.I see it the tape. It hasn't
been cut, so I figured thatmeans it's okay. I still don't get
the tape. Look inside if youcan, you know, shine a light.
I have a little tiny flashlight andmy purse men carry them in their
pockets. Shine a light into it. See if you see something dangling around
in there. You never know,right, Just be aware look around you
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when you're going to do this isa financial transaction with your bank. Be
aware. Be aware who's around you. Be aware if there are cameras around
you, maybe a can, right, maybe a camera that doesn't belong.
Cover the keypad with your hand booboo boo, and press the buttons underneath.
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And if possible, at all times, go contactless. And that means
tapping your card with that little boat. Yes, that's the safest way.
But I wanted to finish up realquick because I wanted to talk to you
at the Olympics, because I solove the Olympics. Okay, okay,
it has a tech theme here orit does. Yes, opening ceremonies in
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Los Angeles tomorrow are at four thirtypm. Not you mean time to air.
Okay, they air LA for thirtypm. And I love it because
all the countries come out, theyhave their uniforms, they're all proud,
they're waving the flags. It's justmakes my heart feel good. Well,
this year making it different. Iwas told instead of walking into a building,
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they're going to be on the sandRiver in Paris. That's going to
be cool. And each country isgoing to have a boat or a couple
of boats, but you know thosesand river boats, so just perfect.
They're going to have their flags,they're going to wear their uniforms, and
Samsung has put Samsung phones for theircameras on the different boats so that the
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players and the athletes can also takea part in the opening ceremonies by saying
something or pointing pictures at certain thingsas they go by. So it'll make
it a much better I think multimediaperformance. See that was always my question.
There was a news report that MarkRunner did earlier about the waning television
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that's just say viewership of the Olympics, and a lot of this is all
tied together. You have to givethe younger generation a reason to tune in.
Exactly, the Olympics for us isour generation is not these folks generation,
and you have you can't present itthe same way as they did in
nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty eight, right right. It's a new world.
So I think that's why they're gettingall the celebrities involved. I mean,
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Flavor flav is going to be atthe Olympics. Snoop, I love
Snoop. I'm just sorry. He'shilarious to me and Flavor flav is,
please and hear what the shot putin flav a five. You know,
this is going to be kind ofinteresting, but it's going to be something
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to watch and it's going to hopefullyamuse as well as educate everybody to these
sports. And you can pull outyour Olympic Barbie. I gotta say,
I am tickled that you know whoFlavor flav is. I am really tickled.
I love him. How many clocksdoes he have a bunch that goes
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back to when he was a partof Public Enemy and that was part of
his his get up. He's wornat for at least forty years that I
know of. I mean, it'samazing. I think I met him once
in an airport and I didn't walkup to him or anything, but I
saw a guy with a clock.You know, he's kind of recognizable and
identifiable. Ye, he was.I saw Sammy Davis Junior in an airport.
Wants to very man wore more jewelry. He couldn't hold his head up.
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He's a tiny man, wasn't he. He was really really five foot
uh huh, five foot one,five foot two. But he was very
old when I saw him. Hewas at Burbank Airport, and he had
so much goal jewelry. I'm surprisedhe could stand. It was a different
time, you know, people worejewelry, they wore gold back what you
could. That's true, you couldagain a different time. Yeah, not
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afraid of having your arm chopped offfor your watch, which you know.
We live in a strange time.And I really don't like wearing a fitbit.
You know, I want to weara watch. I want to wear
a pretty piece of jewelry. Yeah. I don't wear any jewelry in part
for that reason. I just don't. I don't live in a way that
suggests, oh, he might bea good target. Yeah, and that's
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sad. You know. I don'teven use my good purses anymore either,
do Why? And you looked sogood in them? Oh, I had
a burk in bag. It wasto die for. I'm sweetie, I
love it. But now it's LouisNo Mo, it's great to be here
this week. Thank you so much. I promise to try and come up
with a happier story next. Wejust talk about the news that's in front
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of us. That's all we cando. Tech we love and we'll do
it again next week. Bye bye, everybody. See you next week.
It's Later with Mo Kelly. IAm six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. You're listening to Later withMoe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Hey, Mark Ronner,I know you're busy it, but I
need to interrupt you. First.You didn't say thank you like you were
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supposed to earlier for the Shia.Well, no, no, thank you
for the pizza. I'm enjoying itright now. I'm not eating pizza tonight.
Know what I am, and Iwant you to know how much I
appreciate it. Okay, let metake you behind the scenes. Usually we'll
get food on a Friday, butwe're doing it on a Thursday. And
I say, if you want food, you decide, I'll pay to Wallip
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paid, I'll pay him back.But tonight they got pizza. I'm not
happy any of it because I'm goto cleanse and diet. You know,
I'm working my way up to mysemiannual physical. You really need to start
taking better care of yourself. Yes, he said this with a mouthful pizza
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that I am. And I literallywalked by Air Mix, which is the
studio next to the main studio thatStephan and Lindsay are in, and I
said, have you guys finished thepizza because I need you to hurry up
and finish it so I will notbe uh drawn to it. You know,
I have been very good with myand I don't want to call it
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a diet. I would want to. I want to say it's a life
change. It's been low calorie,low sodium, low sugar, low cholesterol,
low taste, low enjoyment. That'sbasically what it's been. If you
don't want to be pear shaped anymore, you got to have the willpower.
Well, not only not do Inot want to be pear shaped? I
got to just make sure my numbersare in a better place when I do
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see my doctor. Yeah, let'swatch those numbers. Yeah yeah, think
you know your time is coming.Okay, but yes, that's as you
guys much on pizza. I'm tryingnot to think about it. But the
reason I did call you on themic is I know you're a quasi sports
fan to a certain degree. Youhad an interest in sports as an athlete.
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Well, but in the unpopular oneslike did you ever see the Breakfast
Club? Of course? Okay,so I'm the guy who had to explain
I wore the required singless singless Yes, yeah, unless you understand anything about
wrestling, you have no idea whata singlet is, and you're fur the
better for it. You know,that was a sport which is really big
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at my high school, but Inever had any desire to get into.
I think it kept me out ofprison. It's a hell of an outlet.
It's good. Oh that was yourrelease, one of it? Well,
that in martial arts. Yeah,did you ever consider any other sports?
There's a reason for this. I'mnot sure what you mean. No,
I've said, did you ever considerplaying football or something like that?
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I did track and field. Whowas your event? I did a number
of things. I did long distance. I did the mile, I did
the four hundred, I did thethree hundred meters low hurdles. Now,
see, I didn't know that.I'm still learning new things about you.
I thought you would have been moreinto like pole vault or shot put.
You're gonna make something dirty out ofthose. No, I feel like you're
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going No, you make it weird. I'm just making an observation. Okay,
No, No, I was ahalfway decent runner. It wasn't anywhere
near the best. But some No, I did not know that you did
sprints and long in distance. Yeah, both completely different skills. The only
reason I asked that is because thisLA, for the most part, is
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the sports town. Dodgers lifelong fanClayton Kershaw came back tonight from one understand,
and the Dodgers did beat the Giants. They won like seven out of
the last eight games, And Iwas wondering, do you follow baseball at
all? No? I just seethe headlines. And when most sports headlines
come across the wire and they're importantenough for me to report, I just
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report them like I'm I'm reading aforeign language phonetically, so I don't mess
it up. It doesn't mean anythingto you at all, not so much.
Okay, growing up, did itmatter at all what the Mariners did
or the Seahawks or anything. Imean, you go to a game.
I used to really enjoy going togames at Wrigley Field in Chicago because a
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Chicago has the best drunks on earth. They're fun drunks. They're not particularly
violent drunks. And Wrigley Field isjust a beautiful facility. But it could
be anybody playing, you know.It's like an onion headline. You know,
regional area man supports regional team.You know. I would like to
go to Wrigley Field. That's oneof the few ballparks of the old bar
ballparks which is still around that Ihaven't been able to get to. I've
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never been to Boston, so thenI've never been to Finway Park. Camden
Yards is a great ballpark in Baltimore, great especially for the Baltimore but not
there. I went to a greatlike old Art Deco movie theater with a
crying room for kids in baltim More. Every theater should have one of those.
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Yeah, but I'd like to whenI usually go to a new city,
I try to get a sports pieceof paraphernalia, could be a jersey
or something T shirt from one ofthe home teams, and add to my
collection whenever I go to a differentcity. So how much stuff you got?
A lot? A lot of it. I don't even wear anymore because
my whole wardrobe has changed and Idon't have enough reasons to wear all that
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stuff. Like I have a SaintLouis Ozzie Smith jersey. When am I
gonna wear that in a Dodger Town? You know what I mean. I'm
not gonna wear it to work.It's We're in the same building as the
Dodger station. It just be weirdand awkward and people would look at me
like I'm crazy. Would it everbe enough to provoke a fistfight? No,
because it's no it's Saint Louis.It would be odd, but it
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wouldn't anger people. If I walkedin in a Padres jersey or a San
Francisco Giants jersey jersey like Gary Hoffmandoes, that might wrinkle some nerves.
I love it when sports people talkcrap to each other and get up in
it, Like when you and tualaargue about any sporting event whatsoever. It
tickles me to death because it's like, you don't understand that. You sound
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like Charlie Brown's teachers. To peoplewho were used to being marginalized for being
nerds and arguing about like movies andcomics and superheroes and stuff. You sound
the same way. I was anerd, I was a band geek.
I was marginalized, but I stillliked sports talking about professional sports. I
agree with that, and I thinkif you and I had known each other
when we were kids, we wouldhave been just inseparable nerds because we like
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all the same stuff. You havethe sports angle covered, and I absolutely
do not. I think it wasmore a function of my dad, because
he was the one who introduced meto the Lakers. He introduced me to
the Dodgers. He was the onewho told me how football works, what
four downs was. He took meto Hollywood Park and sent a Nita and
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explain to me how to read aracing form. So anything that sports related
came from him. Yeah, bondingwith your dad over sports has to be
one of the best things in theworld. And I grew up without a
dad. My Grandpa admonished me anddespised me for not getting into basketball like
he maybe saw like one wrestling matchof mine. So I am deeply envious
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that you had that with your dad. Do you remember what a weight class
you wrestled in? One fifty eightand one sixty eight? How many years
ago was that the last time yousaw one fifty eight or one sixty eight?
None of your damn disess. No, it's funny. When I graduated
high school, I remember I weighedone hundred and thirty three pounds, A
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one hundred and thirty three, Well, one of your legs. One hundred
and thirty three pounds, totally okay. And I gained fifteen pounds my freshman
year in college, the freshman fifteen, Well that happens, It really happened,
and I weighed a robust one fortyeight. Now we got the pandemic
twenty two that I'm still trying todo. Look, I will never see
one forty eight again in my lifeunless I'm on my deathbed getting ready to
(25:59):
lead up out of here. There'sno way I'll ever get down to one
forty eight, not without an amputation. And even then, you know that
I'm not going to lose. I'mone seventy five right now, right now,
one seventy five. No, itfeels great to just settle, just
settle like an old person. Yeah, oh yeah, those might as well
throw those pants away again. No. I went through a whole period of
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that. I had all these clothesin my closet from years ago. Whatever.
It's like, you know that doesn'tfit right. Yeah, but on
the get there one day, youknow that doesn't fit right, and it's
out of style, and it doesn'tfit right, go ahead and throw it
away. So I've been doing alot of spring and summer cleaning, just
kind of owning up to certain thingsI don't need to wear again, certain
things I won't wear again, andI'll and what got me on this kick,
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This is a true story. Ibought a suit online Men's Warehouse,
and I know my measurements, butfor some reason, I hit the wrong
button. I was supposed to ordera forty two regular jacket, and I
ended up ordering a forty regular jacket. Send it to me, and I
realized, oh, this is kindof tight. And I said, well,
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I have two options. I cango return it and get another jacket.
They can't like tailor, it goingup, they can go down right,
Yeah, But so I said,well I can lose weight, get
in better shape and fit the fortyregular, or well I could go through
the other trouble of you know,trying to get the correct size at the
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time sent out. In other words, the one that's possible. But I'm
proud to announce I fit that fortyregular comfortably. Really yeah, I'm down
to one seventy five sexy as comingback. Wow. Yeah, I'm hopefully
by this cruise. When I geton with Twala, I'll have some shirtsaft
photos just one last time. Ohno, don't do that. We don't
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need that. I don't need thatwhen we come back. When I talk
about Uber Lyft and Stefan whether anyof this matters to him as a I
don't know, former president Uber driver. Which is it seven in between right
now? Okay, that's what Ithought. You're listening to later with Moe
Kelly on Demand from KFI AM sixforty. California Supreme Court today upheld a
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voter approved law that allows Uber andother app makers to treat their drivers and
delivery workers as independent contractors instead ofemployees. And you may remember here in
the state. The decision on Propositiontwenty two was just about unanimous, approved
by fifty eight percent of California votersback in twenty twenty and enacted that same
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year. Prop twenty two gave appbased gig workers some benefits, but not
full worker protections because the ballot initiative, which ensures they are not considered employees.
Did you know that more than onepoint four million Californians are APT based
gig workers? Talking about the peoplewho work for Uber, work for Lyft
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or maybe door Dash or instacar,that's a part of that gig economy.
Maybe you have more than one job, more than one stream of income.
I know, I do. Iknow it's pretty commonplace now. You can't
necessarily depend on just one job.And part I would say of the gig
economy is the freedom and flexibility itaffords. The whole point, or I
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should say the whole allure of drivingfor Uber is you can work when you
want, basically wherever you want,and if you have a car, you
are never without money coming in.Now there's a question of whether it's financially
as meaningful and helpful as it oncewas when Uber first started, but still
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some money is better than no money, especially if you need to depend on
that. And Stephan, I knowwe don't have a lot of time in
this segment, and I know yousaid you were kind of in between.
Yes, no, still driving forUber. But in the past year or
so, how has it changed forthe better or for worse for drivers?
I mean, nothing's really changed forthe most part, because what they've really
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done is just add what they callquest bonuses, And if you do a
certain amount of trips, you geta bonus on top of what you make.
So if you make let's say,two hundred dollars in any given week
and you did thirty trips, theymight throw an extra one hundred dollars or
fifty dollars, depending on how faryou go. But now that I'm here
and I'm kind of like taking careof my dad a little bit more,
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I can't really do it as much, so I'm going to try to go
back. It'll be Fridays and Saturdays. And that's what I always told people.
If you want to do part time, that's the time to do it,
because that's when you're going to makethe most money. If someone was
out of work, someone who hadno employment but they have a reliable car,
and if they were willing to drivelet's say ten eleven hours a day,
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it's best you could guesstimate how muchmoney could they conceivably be making a
week if they Because mine was Mondaythrough Saturday, I always took Sunday off,
and depending on if there's a holidayor not. But average, I
would say I made somewhere around betweenone thoy thirteen hundred a week. I
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because I did most, I dida lot of hours, and plus Friday
and Saturday nights, I stay outreally late. Okay, so let's just
say if you lose your drop joband you're willing to commit to uber,
you could bring home gross at leastfour thousand a month, yeah, give
or take. Yeah, And ofcourse I know there's cost of gas,
there's a cost of maintenance. Butyou could survive, yeah, in most
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instances, especially because if you havea really fueled like it was a good
car and gas, like a Priusor just a four door sedan that'll go
far and doing it, especially becauseif you're waiting around for trips, you
don't have to worry about shutting theengine off all the time. Stuff like
that. How many miles did youdrive on an average day? Monday through
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Thursday was about a one hundred andfifty, and then Fridays and Saturdays was
like three to three fifty. Okay, so if you had the electric vehicle,
conceivably you could do it. Ohyeah, you could do it.
The only thing that held me backfrom that was it's especially on Fridays and
Saturdays. I've worked so long thatI'd have to stop to get gas halfway
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through. So if you'd have anelectric cart, it takes longer to charge
it. Right, just filling upquick in ten minutes and you're off.
So let me just ask you this, given this story that y'all are going
to remain as independent contractors instead ofemployees plus or minus, is that good
or not so good? I wouldthink it's better for drivers. Oh yeah,
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it's one hundred percent better. Theythey kind of try to brainwash some
of those people into thinking that itshould be hourly pay, But people don't
realize they're gonna cut half of theworkforce there. You're not gonna be able
to work when you want. You'regonna have caps, you're gonna have a
schedule, and that defeats the purposethere you have it. Yeah, it's
later with Mo Keller k if IAM six forty were live everywhere on the
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