ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the 4.9 earthquake that “shook” Southern California AND a man who was electrocuted and died on the Metro Red line tracks near Universal City …PLUS – A look at San Francisco’s plans to launch an aggressive homeless sweep AND California’s first woman’s sports bar opens up in Long Beach - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kf I Am sixty is later with mokel A live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And at least we didn't
have major breaking news which you're just up in the
whole country over the course of the weekend. It was
nice to have a semi normal weekend. I said, semi
not completely normal, but it was semi normal. And I'm
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praying for to Walla Sharp right now, producer of the show.
He's not in tonight. He is actually in Catalina, I'll
tell that much. He talked about it on the air.
He went out across the water and if you don't know,
twala Is is reticent to do anything which involves water
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deep water, and got on the boat to go over
to Catalina today and then I saw the news of
an earthquake, and I thought, did the earthquake happen when
he was on the boat, before the boat or after
the boat? Be guess twala can be very sensitive to earthquakes.
And you know the story by now. It's four point
nine magnitude. You know how I feel about that. It's
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not a five point zero.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Do we have a betting pool on this, like whether
or not Tuala vomited or anything.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know what, I think if he did, he would
have let us know in the way that you let
us know when you got COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You made sure we all knew it's our fault.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
If we didn't have you out in this public event,
you wouldn't have caught COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Let's not make this about me.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're taking all the sport out of whether or not
Tuala vomited. That's all I want to know. Look, I
have not heard from him.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I did not text him, if only because I didn't
want to jinx him in any way. If something bad happened,
I think we would have heard about it. If something
off putting happened, he probably would have let us know. Well,
I guess we'll find out soon enough. No news is
good news from where I sit.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But if you wanted to start a betting pool, I
think he did find a couple bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, no, no, I would bet that he did. Fine.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think his his fears were completely unfounded, and I
don't think he would get seasick. And it's like, what
maybe a twenty twenty five minute boat ride at Catalina,
if I remember correctly, well.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Long sometimes those can hitch it kind of hard.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I gotta tell you and they can. I think he's
going to be just fine. Oh yeah, that's fine, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But I was talking about the four point nine Mattitude earthquake,
and if Twela were here, he probably would bring that
up and I would say, in response, it's not a five,
So what do you want me to say?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I didn't feel it. I honestly didn't feel it. If
it happened, it says.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It happened about fourteen miles east northeast of Barstow at
one pm today. According to the USG originally was listed
at a four point seven, and then they upgraded it
to a four point nine. There were some aftershocks, which
were three point five and two point seven, respectively, and
according to CBS, the shaking was felt as far west
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as the LA area, including Burbank, Pasadena and Studio City.
I from what I understand, folks here in the studio
did feel it. I heard Duke of Sports Eric Sclar
said he felt it when I live where I live.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I didn't feel anything, nothing at all. Stephan, did you
feel anything? Didn't feel one thing, and I was like
sitting still.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The only reason I even knew was because my mom
texted me about it, and I'm like, I didn't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
See, there's a reason why we don't talk about these
things if it's less than five, because it's less than important.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
There was no damage, nobody got hurt, no one died.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We had two people in up dead near Metro facilities
this weekend. It's far more dangerous, far more dangerous. Much
rather talk about that than an earthquake at which no
one was impacted, nobody at all.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Mark didn't feel it. Stephan didn't feel it. I didn't
feel it. Producer Canna, did you feel it? I actually
did feel it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay, get off the mic. Producer Canna doesn't count, says
she felt it. And outside of that, by and large,
you know if you felt it, okay, all right? Yeah,
and I felt the truck driving by my house today.
But do you hear me talking about it here on
KFI AM six forty where we're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app. No, not at all, not at all. But
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some other things we are going to talk about before
the night is through. Yes, we're gonna get to Metro next.
There was a shooting at the Lahmert Park station on Saturday.
There was a dead body on Metro tracks evidently electrocuted.
The person reportedly was running from police on Sunday. If
you want to talk about death, you gotta talk about Metro.
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They kind of go hand in hand. And before I
get to that, there are other things that we need
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't talk about Metro just to say that La,
the city of the county, is falling apart. But you
have to talk about these things which are happening time
and time again.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
All Right, If you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Went to think of your favorite grocery store. I don't
want to call anybody name because then they think I'm
picking on them. Think of a favorite grocery store, and
if every time you turned around there's a story of
someone getting stabbed, shot, or electrocuted at your favorite grocery store,
might that change your perception of it? Might that change
your travel how you would probably do your grocery shopping
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if every single day at your various grocery stores, I
don't want to say Albertson's, Vaughn's, Ralph's, Pavilions, Gelson's, Trader Joe's,
any one of those. If it happened all the time
at the same one, wouldn't you say after a while. Well,
maybe that's not the safest place to do my grocery shopping.
That's all I'm saying. We're gonna go beyond the box score. Yes,
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if the beyond the box score was meant for anything,
it was meant for a night like this. We'll talk
about the opening ceremony at the Olympics, and don't be surprised,
I'm a Christian and I'll be weighing in and I
have an informed opinion. We will talk about the opening
ceremony and also some of the other issues which have
been transpiring at the Olympics. We'll also talk about how
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ESPN and Amazon are trying to secure the show inside
the NBA. Remember I told you about that with Charles Barkley,
Ernie Johnson and Kenny the Jetsmith.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How popular it is.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, ESPN and Amazon they're trying to get the rights,
so they keep that story. Excuse me, the show going.
We have your weekly horoscope. I will give my non
spoiler review of Deadpool and Wolverine, as will Mark Ronner.
We both saw it. If you want the spoiler filled
profanity Leiden version, you can find that on our podcast
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at Kfiamsincs. Forty dot com, the Later with mo Kelly
Show podcast, and also the neuro Roundtable podcast. There's also
a visual one. You can find that at mister mo
kelly my Facebook page. You can actually see our faces
and watch us cuss at each other and argue about
this and so many other important things. We got to
get into Comic Con. That's an extension of that. Some
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major announcements were made at Comic Con. You may know
some of them, but you probably don't know all of them.
So much to discuss after a very very busy weekend
when we come back, we'll get into Metro and talk
to you about those two dead bodies.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Back in the mid two thousands, my last job, I
used to work down in le Mert Park and it
was an area which was changing drastically very quickly. They
had just at that time when I was working in
that area, just announced plans to revitalize the area, bring
in a new metro stop. They were going to have
an above ground train running up and down Crenshaw Boulevard,
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and it's going to be a massive project. It's going
to be. It's going to be tremendous for the area.
It's going to bring in a lot of new businesses,
which it did. It completely transformed the landscape. If you
were there maybe two thousand and eight and two thousand
and nine and you looked at it then as opposed
to what it is right now in twenty twenty four,
you would not even recognize it. It totally changed it.
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But at the same time, some of the problems still remain.
And when I saw the news that a man had
been killed in a gang related shooting on a metro
station platform, then I said, yeah, yeah, certain things are
not going to change. And this happened late Friday night,
early Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
This is still inactive scene here in Lamber Park where
a shooting happened. Let me move out of the way
so we can show you laped is still inside of
there of that parking lot where that shooting took place.
It appears that the body is still in there as well.
We did just see a tow truck leave from the
scene taking a black Chevy Malibu.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now take a look.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This is what the scene looked like earlier when the
shooting happened. Now the one man is dead following the
shooting here at the Lahmer Park Metro stop. Again, this
is a homicide investigation. LPD says it found a man
suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot. This
happened just after midnight. As of now, no word if
there were any arrests made, but the victim died here
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at the scene. We do know that Metro has had
a history with safety concerns. ELI Metro is looking for
ways to crack down on fear evaders by implementing a
tap in and tap out system across his entire system.
And of course this is stemming from serious crimes on
the transit system. Again back out here live. As of now,
no information on the suspect description. Of course, this is
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an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's the first body that dropped this weekend. The second
one ended up on the tracks and it seems he
was electric. There have been conflicting published reports as to
why or why he was down there. Some have said
that he was trying to flee from police. That hasn't
necessarily been confirmed, but I think that's a reasonable reasonable assumption.
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And the man died Saturday after falling onto the Metro
red line tracks in a tunnel between Universal City and
North Hollywood. That's the same North Hollywood which supposedly was
down forty percent in violent crime since late May. Officers
were called to the fifty three hundred block of Lancasham
Boulevard at about two fifty one pm on Saturday. And
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this is a thirty year old man who was pronounced
dead at the scene. Here is a little more information
on that from ABC seven.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Meantime tragedy on the Red Line subway tracks in North
Hollywood in your Universal City the LAPD's equipment.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Is it a tragedy?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is it if you start running into tunnels and you
get electrocuted? Is it a tragedy? If you drive your
car in front of a speeding train and you get
clipped or hit broadside? Is it a tragedy because you're
not supposed to do either?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Because there's a possibility, a high possibility, that you might
end up on the wrong end of the business of
a train.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
The meantime tragedy on the Red Line subway tracks in
North Hollywood in near Universal City, The LAPD says a
man was found unconscious and not breathing yesterday. They believed
he touched the third rail and was electrocuted. The thirty
year old victim was not a Metro employee, and it's
unclear how he wound up on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He walked his ass down there. That's how you get
to the tracks. No one picked him up and carried him.
He walked down there or ran down there, touched.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
The third rail and was electrocuted. The thirty year old
victim was not a Metro employee, and it's unclear how
he wound up on the tracks. Train service has returned
to normal.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Did you hear that? Wasn't that nice to them?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That let them know that train service had returned to normal.
Beyond everything it was all about.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Train service has returned to normal.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Got to make sure everyone gets there on time. Here's
the serious point about all this. For all the discussion
that we had last week about the whole tap in
tap out answer that they have, which is going to
be going system wide, I said it. Then the tap
in tap out presumes that it's going to be in
one of those fully contained, usually underground subway stops. You
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can't protect the parking lots, It doesn't impact the platforms,
it doesn't impact anything which is outside of You've never
been on the subway before. Usually you have to go
down some one hundred steps or so. It might be
an escalator, but you usually go down in to the
terminals like a tunnel, and when you're down there then
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you get to get your fare card that have like
these vending machines, and then you can use your fare
card to get into the actual area where the trains are.
In other words, the tap and tap out will have
no impact on anything other than exiting one particular location.
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And if they implement it everywhere, it's only going to
impact people who are trying to leave. It doesn't protect
the station anyway, and it doesn't make it safer for people. Now,
does it make it possibly more difficult for people to
get on and off the trains?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Does that make it safer for the people getting on
and off the trains?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And that's what I don't understand why Metro won't get
to the heart of the matter. It's not keeping fair
jumpers from getting off the train. It's about providing an
environment which is considerably safer than what it is right now.
It's not the fair jumpers, which are directly connected to
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the influx of bodies ending up on tracks or people
getting shot.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That doesn't connect.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There is no connection in there because the person who
got shot probably wasn't trying to ride the train and
the shooter probably wasn't trying to ride the train. But
where these incidents keep happening is in and around the trains.
And yes, you may want to protect just the riders,
but the danger is not only to the riders.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's to the passers by. It's to the people who
may be in the vicinity and the just proximity of
this Metro system.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We can talk more about making sure people can't get
off the train, but that's not going to make people safer.
It's not going to make Mark Ronner safer. And I
know he thinks about this daily. I know that he
has deep seated concerns about riding the Metro train.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, you mentioned tap out, and I was just wondering
did they focus group that. Well, you know that's a
great question tapped out.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, no, no, because the connotation does say something, certainly does.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And also who do they ask about this.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I know they have ambassadors and they have these surveys
that they send out, but who is giving them the
information or is making the decision in the marketing meeting
that's pushing them in a certain direction.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, a little a little bit more focus grouping on
the whole tap out thing might be money well spent.
I think you think they've named it something different in
the system known for uh violence, maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Because okay, for if you didn't catch that, tap out
has a direct connotation and connection to MMA violence. How
a fight ends, It's called tapping out if you didn't
catch that. So to call it tapping out invariably makes
people think of violence. And for you to name your
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new program that is going system wide, to name it
something which evokes imagery and iconography, is it better or
worse than KO? I don't know. I don't know, but
tap out is probably not the best idea or naming
convention for your latest plan to curb violence.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
That's all I'm saying back to the drawing board. No
one said it out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
No one in the meaning said, you know what, maybe
we want to call it something else. They may they
may call it tap to exit or something like that,
but people are going to call it tapping out.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You know, you're tapping to get out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's the colloquial lig Like I surrender with my ticket
in little letters afterwards, like small letters in parentheses, I
surrender my ticket. Please don't shoot me a little on
the nose, but tap no, no, it's fair.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Obviously, California has an ongoing homelessness problem, and there are
different ideas about what we need to do to solve it.
I think it's multifaceted. It's not just about getting homeless
people off the streets, but getting them somewhere in which
they are less likely to be homeless again. And also
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saying nothing of the people who are presently homeless, to
people who are one paycheck away from homeless, the people
who are going to be homeless next week. It's not
a static number, it's not a static community. It's not
like there's a finite number of people who are on
this treat who are going to end up on this treat.
That number fluctuates for a number of variables in the equation.
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Last week we told you about how California Governor Gavin
Newsom had signaled to cities and communities through his executive order,
which is going to require state agencies to remove homeless
encampenents from state property. And I said, Okay, don't get
too excited. It only has to do with state property.
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All Gavin Newsom can do is basically send a message
of encouragement to cities and counties saying, hey, why don't
you follow suit?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
London?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The mayor of San Francisco, is going to do just that.
She has also embraced the ruling. She said last week
that armed with the High Court decision, talking about the
US Supreme Court decision which reversed the reverse the rulings,
saying that cities in California and the West may enforce
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laws restricting homeless encampments on sidewalks and other public property.
Because of that ruling, it has inspired Gavin Newsom and
now London Breed and actually other mayors in the Bay
Area to follow suit. She said last week that being
armed with the High Court decision, she will spearhead a
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quote unquote very aggressive effort to clear homeless encampments beginning
next month, which is only a couple of days away.
She also said the effort would include criminal penalties for
refusing to disperse. And that's what I want to focus
in on. I think everybody, I think, I started to
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say everybody. I don't think I know of anyone who
disagrees with homelessness being an issue which needs.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
To be addressed.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I personally have always said that there is a health
and safety issue. You have the hepatitis, alphabet AB and
C you have to worry about. There are other safety
aspects to homelessness that are also connected to it, not
just the general public safety, but the safety of homeless people.
We know that they all often victimized while they are
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living on the street. There is that aspect, but there's
also what are you going to do to enforce this?
London Breed is saying that there will be criminal penalties
for refusing to disperse. Well, what does that mean? Does
that mean that if I'm homeless and I don't move
my tent from a certain location.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're going to put me in jail?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Then?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
What are you going to send me a notice to
appear in court? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay, to what address? And if I don't show up,
what are you going to do? Arrest me the next
time you see me? And after you arrest me and
I can't afford bail, whether we do honor the no
cash bail system, or not. There's nothing I can do
to accommodate the process of a civil charge or what
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if it's just a citation? Are you going to charge
a homeless person a fine of fifty dollars for not
moving their homeless tent? These are the things that we
need to actually be serious about and work through because
I know it says I should say. I know it
sends a message to the media, and I know it
sends a message to constituencies and political opposition that we're
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getting a tough on homelessness, that we're getting aggressive on
fighting homelessness. But in actuality, you're not really doing either,
because you can't enforce any criminal or even civic penalties
for being homeless. How are you going to tell someone
who's living on the street they have to move under
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the threat of citation or imprisonment? What is that supposed
to mean? Who is that supposed to encourage to move?
How does that actually address homelessness? And if I and
I have been on I've dealt with foreclosure, so I
know what it's like to wonder where you're going to
live next. I know what that's like, and I remember
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what I was thinking and feeling at the time. Now,
I don't know if I would have ended up homeless,
but I do know there was a great period of
uncertainty as far as what I was going to do.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And a person who was desperate on that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Level really does not care about the threat of imprisonment,
does not care about some three hundred dollars fine when
they couldn't even pay their rent or they're desperate to
find their next meal. I don't know what the answer
is to homelessness, and I look to you, Mark Roner,
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because I think you may have a thought or two.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, in all the discussions about it, two things. First
of all, you get the idea that they'd really just
prefer to appoint David Copperfield to make all the homeless
people disappear, and they don't want to deal with the
roots of the problem. But the second is this lack
of acknowledgment and a lot of the discussions about homelessness
of how close so many people are one emergency a way,
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you know, losing your job away just you know one,
or a series of medical issues away, or raising your rent.
We have constant stories here on kfive about how buying
homes is increasingly out of reach for more and more people,
and you just have to Context is important in this discussion.
I don't think it's about context.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I think people want to and I say people that
includes politicians and lay people, have no desire to actually
address homelessness. They don't want to see homelessness anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Right, They just wanted to go away. And that's not
how things work in the real adult world. You have
to deal with it, but no one is trying to
deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I know it's cool to talk tough about it,
and that's why I talk about Gavin Newsom and London Breed.
They're going to be more aggressive regarding homelessness. But I
have yet to see any real solution to it. And
it may not be a problem you can solve. It
could be like you know, world hunger. It's not something
you can solve per se. It's something you can manage
and deal with and incrementally make a difference. But I
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don't think in this capitalistic society, and it does go
back to capitalism, that we have any real appetite or
real desire to solve homelessness.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, it goes back to greed, not just capitalism, but
specifically agreed. I mean, we've got countless places to live
sitting empty. At the same time, we've got jillions of
homeless people. And I got to tell you, I really
bristle it some of the language that's used in these descriptions,
like getting tough on homelessness? Who are you getting tough with?
What are you punching down on?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Because in many ways it has been equated to crime
and lawlessness, and if you put it within those that context,
it's easier for people like you and me. When I
say you and me just lay people to accept whatever
the government chooses to do with human beings.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It really is sometimes the language of punching down. And
as a person and a journalist, that really whips my
head right around.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't like that, no, And that's why I talk
about it through just through my terms, where I know
how close I was to being homeless, and I think
people overestimate how close they are not to being homeless.
I think they assume that it's those people over there
and it could never be them one medical diagnosis away.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, what's the phrase there? But for the grace of God,
there was There's been quite a few years in a
row where statistics show that like something like nearly half
if the population would be destroyed by a four hundred
dollars emergency expenditure.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And so a little humility on this subject would go
a long way.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I think, Well, I don't laugh, but almost like I
giggle inside in a way, because people don't see or
hear themselves when someone has a medical emergency or someone passes,
invariably the god Fundme goes up or the Kickstarter and
they're asking for money. Is like, don't you see this
is another example of the problems that we have, and
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that delves into the whole issue of universal healthcare and
being able to find affordable healthcare. But I'm quite sure
that people who are homeless, it's disconnected on many levels.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh, there's no question. And in my mind, you can
boil it down to don't live your life in such
a way that you could ever be mistaken for the
bad guy and at Charles Dickens novel okay, And so
that's what I think of when I hear some of
the ways that homeless people are talked about and dismissed
and just hugely disrespected. When any of us could become
homeless anytime, Well, I bristle when I hear, and this
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is something I hear commonly when I hear, well, if
you can't afford to live in California, you need to
move somewhere else. Okay, if you're homeless, what do you
want them to do? And I'm not talking about working homeless.
I'm talking about the folks who may not have a car,
who may be living in a cardboard box. You want
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them to walk to Nevada. Yeah, when people have a
series of misfortunes that winds up with them being homeless,
what do you want them to do?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Again?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
How far?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
How many steps ahead would you like them to plan?
When they've experienced a catastrophe that's landed them on the street.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And I know it's not one size fits all, it's
not a monolithic community. Some are dealing with mental health issues,
some are dealing with drug addiction issues, all of that.
It's not a single issue. It's much more comprehensive. But
to your point, Mark, we can do a better job
of how we discuss and not try to marginalize them
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as less than human or other than Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, and I've been I've had some some brushes with misfortune,
just like you have, Like Oh boy, somehow suddenly freelancing
looks a lot like being unemployed. Things are really slowed
down here. What are we gonna do? And that could
happen to anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Oh, it can happen to anyone, and you will have
a different outlook if and when it happens to you.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And it may not be right now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It may be five years from now, it may be
ten years from now, it could be next week. But
the problem is you don't know when it's going to happen,
despite all of your planning, all of your preparation. And
although I think all of us would like to see
the end of homelessness, I don't know if all of
us are ready to actually deal with the human element
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of homelessness.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's Later with mo.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Kelly, can if I am six forty We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app And when we come back, we're
going to tell you about this femininenomenon. I know it's
a word, but that's what they're calling it, a feminin nomenon,
California's first women's sports bar watch me it is called
and it's opened in Long Beach.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
If you've listened to it later with mo Kelly, you
know I do genuinely appreciate women's sports. I prefer women's
tennis to men's tennis. I love watching the WNBA, I
prefer I wouldn't say I prefer women's soccer, but I
enjoy women's soccer just about as much as men's soccer.
And I've always had that affinity for women's sports. But
(28:37):
I know intimately if I were to seek out a
sports bar to watch the WNBA or something like that,
it'd be virtually impossible to find it. I would have
to go to a bar where I knew the bartender,
or a sports bar where there are not a lot
of people there, so you can ask whoever's man the
(29:00):
TVs to turn it to a WNBA game, but you're
not going to have a place which is exclusive to that.
A couple of years ago, and we talked about it
on I think we talked about with later mot Kelly.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I definitely talked about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think with the Mo Kelly Show talked about this
bar in Portland called the sports Bra, which was an
all female women's sports sports bar. They had nothing but
female employees. You walk in, they have nothing but women's
sports on the TVs. I visited it my nephew was
graduating from Lewis and Clark College in Portland. I had
(29:35):
a chance to go by there. It was great food,
great ambiance, great people there. It was just a typical
sports bar. The only thing different, honestly, was what was
on the TV screens. And maybe you've noticed the jerseys
were all of female athletes. But a sports bar is
a sports bar, nothing real different. And I knew when
I went into the sports Bra in Portland that there
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was potential for that to that I d at least
it's not connected with the idea to expand. And now
we have something very similar here in Long Beach called
Watch Me.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Powerful.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Hey, the we're Long Beach from La Sparks to Angel City.
That's right, we're representing because they're representing a brand new movement,
the first and only one right here in California. Watch
Me all right, we're watching you, Jackson.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
What is this all about?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Here?
Speaker 9 (30:32):
We are predominantly women's sports. We're here to celebrate women's sports.
We're here to make an inclusive space that anybody and
everyone who loves women's sports can come in.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
Look at all these big screens. How many screens are
we looking at? How many games are going to be
shown here? And how much energy is going to be
right here in this room?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
A boatload of energy, twenty six TVs just to make
sure that everybody's catching what they want.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Why is this so important to create a space like this?
Why do you feel like women's sports is still underrepresented?
Speaker 9 (31:03):
This is a decades long dream for me to create
a space where women could go to watch sports and
feel one hundred percent fine about what they're doing. Anybody
and everybody should be able to watch whatever they want
and not feel that they're sort of shamed, or they're
not smart enough, or they don't understand strategy. We will
be packing this place with people who get that and
who understand that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
All right.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
When people said this is a crazy idea, it's never
going to take off here, what did you say?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
In short?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Watch me? That's right.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
This area is full of people who love women's sports.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Young people can come in here after their sports games
and hang out and see who they can be later.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
If all right, chef, that looks delicious. What are we
serving up here here?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
We have a half barbecued a chicken with a secret
parpague sauce.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
What do you think the secret sauce of this whole
place is, because it's definitely a vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
No, as soon as they told me what they were doing,
I was one hundred percent on board. I was so
excited that there are more people that care about antutivity
in the world and representing and representation always matters.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, definitely I plan to go to watch me in
Long Beach because, as I told you earlier, if it's
anything like the Sports Bra in Portland, it ought to
be a great time. And this is actually starting to
become a trend where you're going to see more and
more bars just like these popping up around the country
because obviously they've identified an underserved segment. I know women,
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not all women, but some women who don't necessarily want
to go to a traditional sports bar because they don't
want to deal with all the male testosterone and the
ignorance of a drunk man.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I get that, I really do.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And if you offer a somewhat different environment but one
in which you can enjoy sports and also women's sports,
I think there's something there. In fact it if you're
listening right now, and you're connected to the to watch me.
Give us a call and so we can have you
on the air. Jack Stener would love to hear from you.
It's later with Moe Kelly and along those lines, we're
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going to go beyond the box score next with Jackie Ray,
talk about this Olympics opening ceremony and I'm going to
weigh in from the perspective of a knowledgeable Christian. So
if you want to come for me, you can come
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Kf I Am sixty is later with mokel A live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app And at least we didn't
have major breaking news which you're just up in the
whole country over the course of the weekend. It was
nice to have a semi normal weekend. I said, semi
not completely normal, but it was semi normal. And I'm
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praying for to Walla Sharp right now, producer of the show.
He's not in tonight. He is actually in Catalina, I'll
tell that much. He talked about it on the air.
He went out across the water and if you don't know,
twala Is is reticent to do anything which involves water
(01:06):
deep water, and got on the boat to go over
to Catalina today and then I saw the news of
an earthquake, and I thought, did the earthquake happen when
he was on the boat, before the boat or after
the boat? Be guess twala can be very sensitive to earthquakes.
And you know the story by now. It's four point
nine magnitude. You know how I feel about that. It's
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not a five point zero.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Do we have a betting pool on this, like whether
or not Tuala vomited or anything.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
You know what, I think if he did, he would
have let us know in the way that you let
us know when you got COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
You made sure we all knew it's our fault.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
If we didn't have you out in this public event,
you wouldn't have caught COVID.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Let's not make this about me.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're taking all the sport out of whether or not
Tuala vomited. That's all I want to know. Look, I
have not heard from him.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I did not text him, if only because I didn't
want to jinx him in any way. If something bad happened,
I think we would have heard about it. If something
off putting happened, he probably would have let us know. Well,
I guess we'll find out soon enough. No news is
good news from where I sit.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But if you wanted to start a betting pool, I
think he did find a couple bucks.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, no, no, I would bet that he did. Fine.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think his his fears were completely unfounded, and I
don't think he would get seasick. And it's like, what
maybe a twenty twenty five minute boat ride at Catalina,
if I remember correctly, well.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Long sometimes those can hitch it kind of hard.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I gotta tell you and they can. I think he's
going to be just fine. Oh yeah, that's fine, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
But I was talking about the four point nine Mattitude earthquake,
and if Twela were here, he probably would bring that
up and I would say, in response, it's not a five,
So what do you want me to say?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I didn't feel it. I honestly didn't feel it. If
it happened, it says.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It happened about fourteen miles east northeast of Barstow at
one pm today. According to the USG originally was listed
at a four point seven, and then they upgraded it
to a four point nine. There were some aftershocks, which
were three point five and two point seven, respectively, and
according to CBS, the shaking was felt as far west
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as the LA area, including Burbank, Pasadena and Studio City.
I from what I understand, folks here in the studio
did feel it. I heard Duke of Sports Eric Sclar
said he felt it when I live where I live.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I didn't feel anything, nothing at all. Stephan, did you
feel anything? Didn't feel one thing, and I was like
sitting still.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The only reason I even knew was because my mom
texted me about it, and I'm like, I didn't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
See, there's a reason why we don't talk about these
things if it's less than five, because it's less than important.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
There was no damage, nobody got hurt, no one died.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
We had two people in up dead near Metro facilities
this weekend. It's far more dangerous, far more dangerous. Much
rather talk about that than an earthquake at which no
one was impacted, nobody at all.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Mark didn't feel it. Stephan didn't feel it. I didn't
feel it. Producer Canna, did you feel it? I actually
did feel it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Okay, get off the mic. Producer Canna doesn't count, says
she felt it. And outside of that, by and large,
you know if you felt it, okay, all right? Yeah,
and I felt the truck driving by my house today.
But do you hear me talking about it here on
KFI AM six forty where we're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app. No, not at all, not at all. But
(04:34):
some other things we are going to talk about before
the night is through. Yes, we're gonna get to Metro next.
There was a shooting at the Lahmert Park station on Saturday.
There was a dead body on Metro tracks evidently electrocuted.
The person reportedly was running from police on Sunday. If
you want to talk about death, you gotta talk about Metro.
(04:55):
They kind of go hand in hand. And before I
get to that, there are other things that we need
to talk about.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't talk about Metro just to say that La,
the city of the county, is falling apart. But you
have to talk about these things which are happening time
and time again.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
All Right, If you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Went to think of your favorite grocery store. I don't
want to call anybody name because then they think I'm
picking on them. Think of a favorite grocery store, and
if every time you turned around there's a story of
someone getting stabbed, shot, or electrocuted at your favorite grocery store,
might that change your perception of it? Might that change
your travel how you would probably do your grocery shopping
(05:34):
if every single day at your various grocery stores, I
don't want to say Albertson's, Vaughn's, Ralph's, Pavilions, Gelson's, Trader Joe's,
any one of those. If it happened all the time
at the same one, wouldn't you say after a while. Well,
maybe that's not the safest place to do my grocery shopping.
That's all I'm saying. We're gonna go beyond the box score. Yes,
(05:55):
if the beyond the box score was meant for anything,
it was meant for a night like this. We'll talk
about the opening ceremony at the Olympics, and don't be surprised,
I'm a Christian and I'll be weighing in and I
have an informed opinion. We will talk about the opening
ceremony and also some of the other issues which have
been transpiring at the Olympics. We'll also talk about how
(06:18):
ESPN and Amazon are trying to secure the show inside
the NBA. Remember I told you about that with Charles Barkley,
Ernie Johnson and Kenny the Jetsmith.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How popular it is.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, ESPN and Amazon they're trying to get the rights,
so they keep that story. Excuse me, the show going.
We have your weekly horoscope. I will give my non
spoiler review of Deadpool and Wolverine, as will Mark Ronner.
We both saw it. If you want the spoiler filled
profanity Leiden version, you can find that on our podcast
(06:51):
at Kfiamsincs. Forty dot com, the Later with mo Kelly
Show podcast, and also the neuro Roundtable podcast. There's also
a visual one. You can find that at mister mo
kelly my Facebook page. You can actually see our faces
and watch us cuss at each other and argue about
this and so many other important things. We got to
get into Comic Con. That's an extension of that. Some
(07:12):
major announcements were made at Comic Con. You may know
some of them, but you probably don't know all of them.
So much to discuss after a very very busy weekend
when we come back, we'll get into Metro and talk
to you about those two dead bodies.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Back in the mid two thousands, my last job, I
used to work down in le Mert Park and it
was an area which was changing drastically very quickly. They
had just at that time when I was working in
that area, just announced plans to revitalize the area, bring
in a new metro stop. They were going to have
an above ground train running up and down Crenshaw Boulevard,
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and it's going to be a massive project. It's going
to be. It's going to be tremendous for the area.
It's going to bring in a lot of new businesses,
which it did. It completely transformed the landscape. If you
were there maybe two thousand and eight and two thousand
and nine and you looked at it then as opposed
to what it is right now in twenty twenty four,
you would not even recognize it. It totally changed it.
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But at the same time, some of the problems still remain.
And when I saw the news that a man had
been killed in a gang related shooting on a metro
station platform, then I said, yeah, yeah, certain things are
not going to change. And this happened late Friday night,
early Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
This is still inactive scene here in Lamber Park where
a shooting happened. Let me move out of the way
so we can show you laped is still inside of
there of that parking lot where that shooting took place.
It appears that the body is still in there as well.
We did just see a tow truck leave from the
scene taking a black Chevy Malibu.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Now take a look.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
This is what the scene looked like earlier when the
shooting happened. Now the one man is dead following the
shooting here at the Lahmer Park Metro stop. Again, this
is a homicide investigation. LPD says it found a man
suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot. This
happened just after midnight. As of now, no word if
there were any arrests made, but the victim died here
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at the scene. We do know that Metro has had
a history with safety concerns. ELI Metro is looking for
ways to crack down on fear evaders by implementing a
tap in and tap out system across his entire system.
And of course this is stemming from serious crimes on
the transit system. Again back out here live. As of now,
no information on the suspect description. Of course, this is
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an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's the first body that dropped this weekend. The second
one ended up on the tracks and it seems he
was electric. There have been conflicting published reports as to
why or why he was down there. Some have said
that he was trying to flee from police. That hasn't
necessarily been confirmed, but I think that's a reasonable reasonable assumption.
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And the man died Saturday after falling onto the Metro
red line tracks in a tunnel between Universal City and
North Hollywood. That's the same North Hollywood which supposedly was
down forty percent in violent crime since late May. Officers
were called to the fifty three hundred block of Lancasham
Boulevard at about two fifty one pm on Saturday. And
(10:37):
this is a thirty year old man who was pronounced
dead at the scene. Here is a little more information
on that from ABC seven.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Meantime tragedy on the Red Line subway tracks in North
Hollywood in your Universal City the LAPD's equipment.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Is it a tragedy?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is it if you start running into tunnels and you
get electrocuted? Is it a tragedy? If you drive your
car in front of a speeding train and you get
clipped or hit broadside? Is it a tragedy because you're
not supposed to do either?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Because there's a possibility, a high possibility, that you might
end up on the wrong end of the business of
a train.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
The meantime tragedy on the Red Line subway tracks in
North Hollywood in near Universal City, The LAPD says a
man was found unconscious and not breathing yesterday. They believed
he touched the third rail and was electrocuted. The thirty
year old victim was not a Metro employee, and it's
unclear how he wound up on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
He walked his ass down there. That's how you get
to the tracks. No one picked him up and carried him.
He walked down there or ran down there, touched.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
The third rail and was electrocuted. The thirty year old
victim was not a Metro employee, and it's unclear how
he wound up on the tracks. Train service has returned
to normal.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Did you hear that? Wasn't that nice to them?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That let them know that train service had returned to normal.
Beyond everything it was all about.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Train service has returned to normal.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Got to make sure everyone gets there on time. Here's
the serious point about all this. For all the discussion
that we had last week about the whole tap in
tap out answer that they have, which is going to
be going system wide, I said it. Then the tap
in tap out presumes that it's going to be in
one of those fully contained, usually underground subway stops. You
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can't protect the parking lots, It doesn't impact the platforms,
it doesn't impact anything which is outside of You've never
been on the subway before. Usually you have to go
down some one hundred steps or so. It might be
an escalator, but you usually go down in to the
terminals like a tunnel, and when you're down there then
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you get to get your fare card that have like
these vending machines, and then you can use your fare
card to get into the actual area where the trains are.
In other words, the tap and tap out will have
no impact on anything other than exiting one particular location.
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And if they implement it everywhere, it's only going to
impact people who are trying to leave. It doesn't protect
the station anyway, and it doesn't make it safer for people. Now,
does it make it possibly more difficult for people to
get on and off the trains?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Does that make it safer for the people getting on
and off the trains?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And that's what I don't understand why Metro won't get
to the heart of the matter. It's not keeping fair
jumpers from getting off the train. It's about providing an
environment which is considerably safer than what it is right now.
It's not the fair jumpers, which are directly connected to
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the influx of bodies ending up on tracks or people
getting shot.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That doesn't connect.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There is no connection in there because the person who
got shot probably wasn't trying to ride the train and
the shooter probably wasn't trying to ride the train. But
where these incidents keep happening is in and around the trains.
And yes, you may want to protect just the riders,
but the danger is not only to the riders.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's to the passers by. It's to the people who
may be in the vicinity and the just proximity of
this Metro system.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We can talk more about making sure people can't get
off the train, but that's not going to make people safer.
It's not going to make Mark Ronner safer. And I
know he thinks about this daily. I know that he
has deep seated concerns about riding the Metro train.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, you mentioned tap out, and I was just wondering
did they focus group that. Well, you know that's a
great question tapped out.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
No, no, no, because the connotation does say something, certainly does.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
And also who do they ask about this.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I know they have ambassadors and they have these surveys
that they send out, but who is giving them the
information or is making the decision in the marketing meeting
that's pushing them in a certain direction.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, a little a little bit more focus grouping on
the whole tap out thing might be money well spent.
I think you think they've named it something different in
the system known for uh violence, maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Because okay, for if you didn't catch that, tap out
has a direct connotation and connection to MMA violence. How
a fight ends, It's called tapping out if you didn't
catch that. So to call it tapping out invariably makes
people think of violence. And for you to name your
(15:45):
new program that is going system wide, to name it
something which evokes imagery and iconography, is it better or
worse than KO? I don't know. I don't know, but
tap out is probably not the best idea or naming
convention for your latest plan to curb violence.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
That's all I'm saying back to the drawing board. No
one said it out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
No one in the meaning said, you know what, maybe
we want to call it something else. They may they
may call it tap to exit or something like that,
but people are going to call it tapping out.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You know, you're tapping to get out.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's the colloquial lig Like I surrender with my ticket
in little letters afterwards, like small letters in parentheses, I
surrender my ticket. Please don't shoot me a little on
the nose, but tap no, no, it's fair.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Obviously, California has an ongoing homelessness problem, and there are
different ideas about what we need to do to solve it.
I think it's multifaceted. It's not just about getting homeless
people off the streets, but getting them somewhere in which
they are less likely to be homeless again. And also
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saying nothing of the people who are presently homeless, to
people who are one paycheck away from homeless, the people
who are going to be homeless next week. It's not
a static number, it's not a static community. It's not
like there's a finite number of people who are on
this treat who are going to end up on this treat.
That number fluctuates for a number of variables in the equation.
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Last week we told you about how California Governor Gavin
Newsom had signaled to cities and communities through his executive order,
which is going to require state agencies to remove homeless
encampenents from state property. And I said, Okay, don't get
too excited. It only has to do with state property.
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All Gavin Newsom can do is basically send a message
of encouragement to cities and counties saying, hey, why don't
you follow suit?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
London?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The mayor of San Francisco, is going to do just that.
She has also embraced the ruling. She said last week
that armed with the High Court decision, talking about the
US Supreme Court decision which reversed the reverse the rulings,
saying that cities in California and the West may enforce
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laws restricting homeless encampments on sidewalks and other public property.
Because of that ruling, it has inspired Gavin Newsom and
now London Breed and actually other mayors in the Bay
Area to follow suit. She said last week that being
armed with the High Court decision, she will spearhead a
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quote unquote very aggressive effort to clear homeless encampments beginning
next month, which is only a couple of days away.
She also said the effort would include criminal penalties for
refusing to disperse. And that's what I want to focus
in on. I think everybody, I think, I started to
(19:03):
say everybody. I don't think I know of anyone who
disagrees with homelessness being an issue which needs.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
To be addressed.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I personally have always said that there is a health
and safety issue. You have the hepatitis, alphabet AB and
C you have to worry about. There are other safety
aspects to homelessness that are also connected to it, not
just the general public safety, but the safety of homeless people.
We know that they all often victimized while they are
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living on the street. There is that aspect, but there's
also what are you going to do to enforce this?
London Breed is saying that there will be criminal penalties
for refusing to disperse. Well, what does that mean? Does
that mean that if I'm homeless and I don't move
my tent from a certain location.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You're going to put me in jail?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Then?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
What are you going to send me a notice to
appear in court? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay, to what address? And if I don't show up,
what are you going to do? Arrest me the next
time you see me? And after you arrest me and
I can't afford bail, whether we do honor the no
cash bail system, or not. There's nothing I can do
to accommodate the process of a civil charge or what
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if it's just a citation? Are you going to charge
a homeless person a fine of fifty dollars for not
moving their homeless tent? These are the things that we
need to actually be serious about and work through because
I know it says I should say. I know it
sends a message to the media, and I know it
sends a message to constituencies and political opposition that we're
(20:40):
getting a tough on homelessness, that we're getting aggressive on
fighting homelessness. But in actuality, you're not really doing either,
because you can't enforce any criminal or even civic penalties
for being homeless. How are you going to tell someone
who's living on the street they have to move under
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the threat of citation or imprisonment? What is that supposed
to mean? Who is that supposed to encourage to move?
How does that actually address homelessness? And if I and
I have been on I've dealt with foreclosure, so I
know what it's like to wonder where you're going to
live next. I know what that's like, and I remember
(21:26):
what I was thinking and feeling at the time. Now,
I don't know if I would have ended up homeless,
but I do know there was a great period of
uncertainty as far as what I was going to do.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And a person who was desperate on that.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Level really does not care about the threat of imprisonment,
does not care about some three hundred dollars fine when
they couldn't even pay their rent or they're desperate to
find their next meal. I don't know what the answer
is to homelessness, and I look to you, Mark Roner,
(22:02):
because I think you may have a thought or two.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Well, in all the discussions about it, two things. First
of all, you get the idea that they'd really just
prefer to appoint David Copperfield to make all the homeless
people disappear, and they don't want to deal with the
roots of the problem. But the second is this lack
of acknowledgment and a lot of the discussions about homelessness
of how close so many people are one emergency a way,
(22:25):
you know, losing your job away just you know one,
or a series of medical issues away, or raising your rent.
We have constant stories here on kfive about how buying
homes is increasingly out of reach for more and more people,
and you just have to Context is important in this discussion.
I don't think it's about context.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I think people want to and I say people that
includes politicians and lay people, have no desire to actually
address homelessness. They don't want to see homelessness anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Right, They just wanted to go away. And that's not
how things work in the real adult world. You have
to deal with it, but no one is trying to
deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And I know it's cool to talk tough about it,
and that's why I talk about Gavin Newsom and London Breed.
They're going to be more aggressive regarding homelessness. But I
have yet to see any real solution to it. And
it may not be a problem you can solve. It
could be like you know, world hunger. It's not something
you can solve per se. It's something you can manage
and deal with and incrementally make a difference. But I
(23:31):
don't think in this capitalistic society, and it does go
back to capitalism, that we have any real appetite or
real desire to solve homelessness.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, it goes back to greed, not just capitalism, but
specifically agreed. I mean, we've got countless places to live
sitting empty. At the same time, we've got jillions of
homeless people. And I got to tell you, I really
bristle it some of the language that's used in these descriptions,
like getting tough on homelessness? Who are you getting tough with?
What are you punching down on?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Because in many ways it has been equated to crime
and lawlessness, and if you put it within those that context,
it's easier for people like you and me. When I
say you and me just lay people to accept whatever
the government chooses to do with human beings.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It really is sometimes the language of punching down. And
as a person and a journalist, that really whips my
head right around.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't like that, no, And that's why I talk
about it through just through my terms, where I know
how close I was to being homeless, and I think
people overestimate how close they are not to being homeless.
I think they assume that it's those people over there
and it could never be them one medical diagnosis away.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, what's the phrase there? But for the grace of God,
there was There's been quite a few years in a
row where statistics show that like something like nearly half
if the population would be destroyed by a four hundred
dollars emergency expenditure.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And so a little humility on this subject would go
a long way.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I think, Well, I don't laugh, but almost like I
giggle inside in a way, because people don't see or
hear themselves when someone has a medical emergency or someone passes,
invariably the god Fundme goes up or the Kickstarter and
they're asking for money. Is like, don't you see this
is another example of the problems that we have, and
(25:30):
that delves into the whole issue of universal healthcare and
being able to find affordable healthcare. But I'm quite sure
that people who are homeless, it's disconnected on many levels.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh, there's no question. And in my mind, you can
boil it down to don't live your life in such
a way that you could ever be mistaken for the
bad guy and at Charles Dickens novel okay, And so
that's what I think of when I hear some of
the ways that homeless people are talked about and dismissed
and just hugely disrespected. When any of us could become
homeless anytime, Well, I bristle when I hear, and this
(26:04):
is something I hear commonly when I hear, well, if
you can't afford to live in California, you need to
move somewhere else. Okay, if you're homeless, what do you
want them to do? And I'm not talking about working homeless.
I'm talking about the folks who may not have a car,
who may be living in a cardboard box. You want
(26:24):
them to walk to Nevada. Yeah, when people have a
series of misfortunes that winds up with them being homeless,
what do you want them to do?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Again?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
How far?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
How many steps ahead would you like them to plan?
When they've experienced a catastrophe that's landed them on the street.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And I know it's not one size fits all, it's
not a monolithic community. Some are dealing with mental health issues,
some are dealing with drug addiction issues, all of that.
It's not a single issue. It's much more comprehensive. But
to your point, Mark, we can do a better job
of how we discuss and not try to marginalize them
(27:02):
as less than human or other than Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, and I've been I've had some some brushes with misfortune,
just like you have, Like Oh boy, somehow suddenly freelancing
looks a lot like being unemployed. Things are really slowed
down here. What are we gonna do? And that could
happen to anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Oh, it can happen to anyone, and you will have
a different outlook if and when it happens to you.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And it may not be right now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It may be five years from now, it may be
ten years from now, it could be next week. But
the problem is you don't know when it's going to happen,
despite all of your planning, all of your preparation. And
although I think all of us would like to see
the end of homelessness, I don't know if all of
us are ready to actually deal with the human element
(27:49):
of homelessness.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's Later with mo.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Kelly, can if I am six forty We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app And when we come back, we're
going to tell you about this femininenomenon. I know it's
a word, but that's what they're calling it, a feminin nomenon,
California's first women's sports bar watch me it is called
and it's opened in Long Beach.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
If you've listened to it later with mo Kelly, you
know I do genuinely appreciate women's sports. I prefer women's
tennis to men's tennis. I love watching the WNBA, I
prefer I wouldn't say I prefer women's soccer, but I
enjoy women's soccer just about as much as men's soccer.
And I've always had that affinity for women's sports. But
(28:37):
I know intimately if I were to seek out a
sports bar to watch the WNBA or something like that,
it'd be virtually impossible to find it. I would have
to go to a bar where I knew the bartender,
or a sports bar where there are not a lot
of people there, so you can ask whoever's man the
(29:00):
TVs to turn it to a WNBA game, but you're
not going to have a place which is exclusive to that.
A couple of years ago, and we talked about it
on I think we talked about with later mot Kelly.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I definitely talked about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think with the Mo Kelly Show talked about this
bar in Portland called the sports Bra, which was an
all female women's sports sports bar. They had nothing but
female employees. You walk in, they have nothing but women's
sports on the TVs. I visited it my nephew was
graduating from Lewis and Clark College in Portland. I had
(29:35):
a chance to go by there. It was great food,
great ambiance, great people there. It was just a typical
sports bar. The only thing different, honestly, was what was
on the TV screens. And maybe you've noticed the jerseys
were all of female athletes. But a sports bar is
a sports bar, nothing real different. And I knew when
I went into the sports Bra in Portland that there
(29:57):
was potential for that to that I d at least
it's not connected with the idea to expand. And now
we have something very similar here in Long Beach called
Watch Me.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Powerful.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Hey, the we're Long Beach from La Sparks to Angel City.
That's right, we're representing because they're representing a brand new movement,
the first and only one right here in California. Watch
Me all right, we're watching you, Jackson.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
What is this all about?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Here?
Speaker 9 (30:32):
We are predominantly women's sports. We're here to celebrate women's sports.
We're here to make an inclusive space that anybody and
everyone who loves women's sports can come in.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
Look at all these big screens. How many screens are
we looking at? How many games are going to be
shown here? And how much energy is going to be
right here in this room?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
A boatload of energy, twenty six TVs just to make
sure that everybody's catching what they want.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
Why is this so important to create a space like this?
Why do you feel like women's sports is still underrepresented?
Speaker 9 (31:03):
This is a decades long dream for me to create
a space where women could go to watch sports and
feel one hundred percent fine about what they're doing. Anybody
and everybody should be able to watch whatever they want
and not feel that they're sort of shamed, or they're
not smart enough, or they don't understand strategy. We will
be packing this place with people who get that and
who understand that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
All right.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
When people said this is a crazy idea, it's never
going to take off here, what did you say?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
In short?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Watch me? That's right.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
This area is full of people who love women's sports.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Young people can come in here after their sports games
and hang out and see who they can be later.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
If all right, chef, that looks delicious. What are we
serving up here here?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
We have a half barbecued a chicken with a secret
parpague sauce.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
What do you think the secret sauce of this whole
place is, because it's definitely a vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
No, as soon as they told me what they were doing,
I was one hundred percent on board. I was so
excited that there are more people that care about antutivity
in the world and representing and representation always matters.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, definitely I plan to go to watch me in
Long Beach because, as I told you earlier, if it's
anything like the Sports Bra in Portland, it ought to
be a great time. And this is actually starting to
become a trend where you're going to see more and
more bars just like these popping up around the country
because obviously they've identified an underserved segment. I know women,
(32:38):
not all women, but some women who don't necessarily want
to go to a traditional sports bar because they don't
want to deal with all the male testosterone and the
ignorance of a drunk man.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I get that, I really do.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And if you offer a somewhat different environment but one
in which you can enjoy sports and also women's sports,
I think there's something there. In fact it if you're
listening right now, and you're connected to the to watch me.
Give us a call and so we can have you
on the air. Jack Stener would love to hear from you.
It's later with Moe Kelly and along those lines, we're
(33:10):
going to go beyond the box score next with Jackie Ray,
talk about this Olympics opening ceremony and I'm going to
weigh in from the perspective of a knowledgeable Christian. So
if you want to come for me, you can come
for me at your own peril. K IF I am
six forty We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
An independent voice in a world full of retweets ks.
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