August 24, 2024 • 31 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage Inc., over accusations of an illegal ‘rent hike’ scheme in California AND the City of Los Angeles’ $20.8 million settlement for discharging over 12 million gallons of untreated sewage into Santa Monica Bay…PLUS – A look at the LA Metro crash that left eight people injured - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, it is Friday, k if.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am six forty mister bo Kelly here lot everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. I don't know about you, but
I am so ready for this weekend. Well, because my
weekend's probably going to be cooler than yours.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's part of it. This is gonna be a little
bit of a humble brag.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, just want to take a little victory lap before
the show gets started. Saturday, I'm gonna be at Disneyland
all day, and then Sunday I'll be at California Adventure
all day as a guest of Disney. They're having a
media day for a celebration of Coco Plaza de la Me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah. So I'll be out there Saturday and Sunday, hanging
out in.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The heat, having a great time with the family, not
thinking about Mark Ronner, not thinking about Stephan.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You can't stop thinking about me. Don't try to fool
everybody here. I don't recall getting an invitation of this.
By the way, well you have to take it up
with the higher ups. Of course, they just reached out
to They said we got to have mo there. I
was gonna say I could. I'm sure Amy King's head
is exploding somewhere. She might no, she might even be there, right, Yeah,
So she gets an invitation and I still don't well,
(01:34):
I don't even know if I want to go.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm just pissed that I didn't get asked.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, you know, she's she's better looking than you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh boy boy, start the evening with denial right off.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The back, and away we go tonight on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Remember how we told you about how it's not anything
other than capitalism being capitalism when it comes to rents,
and how you didn't vote for rent control, and how
in California they can raise your rent eight or nine
percent depending on accounting, which, remember we had that conversation.
Did you hear the news today about the DOJ filing
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suit against this company doing business in California and other
states colluding to raise rents.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That has nothing to do with whomever's president, has nothing
to do with whoever is governor. It has everything to
do with un checked, unfettered capitalist I remember a song
came at me on on social media a couple of
weeks ago when I had that rant, and they called
me a comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
What are you talking about communist socialists. They're kind of
catch all words. They are, they are. It's just I
don't like you. That's just where you're asking, you know,
and they'll just throw in it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, you're communists, you're a socialist, you hate America.
Don't forget Pinko's that's what you say.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's like an archie bunker word. It is. It's it's
very nineteen seventy five. We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And also remember how we would talk about how nasty
our beaches are. Where every single week in this summer
there was some sort of a fecal warning, don't go
into water.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're more like litter boxes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, well there's a reason because Los Angeles was intentionally
dumping sewage into different portions of different oceans.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Like if you're causing the health alerts and then you're
making the health alerts, it's like, you know, La County
Department of Public Health says, don't go in the water. Oh,
by the way, La Counties is dumping into the beaches,
Like come on, get it from both ends, no pun intended.
Oh wait, wait, damn a wait, keep him waiting. It's
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almost Esperando. Oh, and you know I got good news
and I got bad news. The good news is, to
the best of my knowledge, unless you're getting stabbed right now,
No one got stabbed on a metro bus today. No
one got shot or stabbed on a metro platform or
trained today.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did you not hear what I led with at seven o'clock?
What happened? Seriously, I'll do another one later.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Police amana used of sexually assaulting a woman at a
metro station in Culver City may have attacked others, but
it's okay, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm sure it doesn't damage your premise of Well, technically,
no one got shot or stabbed.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, let's go with technicalities here. That's that's all we
got some times.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, I was trying to look at the bright side
of things.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I was just going to say that there was only
only air quotes a metro bus crash today. But now
you're telling me it doesn't matter. No, No, it really
does matter.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
We got to find it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter. That changes the show all together.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh crap, Okay, if I'm just going to talk about it,
why would I talk about a metro bus crash and
step over a sexual assault. Well, let me see what
I got for you here. Okay, give me a couple
of minutes, no show, look it up. We can wait.
The audience will wait.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's some good radio there. Do we have, like any
elevator music or some kaiser music?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, if you could move on to something else while
I'm looking this up, that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Look at the time, we're at the break. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was getting right to tell Yeah, Metro driver attacked
on a bus in sam Pedro.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sexual assault suspect arrested after woman is attacked.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Wait a minute, there's Metro madness going on today? Mayhem.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, okay, this looks like Sunday, but it looks like
there's more possibly connected with it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm gonna go see now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I was under the impression that Metro had a halfway
decent day, and you're telling me, no, Metro had an
average day where people are getting harmed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yes, well, every day is a little bit of a
crap shoot on Metro, wouldn't you say at this point?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I would say every day usually someone gets harmed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I thought it's just a shoot, not a crap shoot.
Never mind, I take that back.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's later with mo Kelly can if I AM six
forty we are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And some time ago, it's actually an ongoing conversation. I
was talking about how most of us would think that
the rent is too damn high here in California and
around the country, but especially here in California.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And when I would get on my.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Soapbox, I would say, hey, you Californian, and you had
multiple opportunities to vote for some form of rent control.
You decided not to on either occasion. You'll have another
chance coming up in November, but you decided not to
on previous occasions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And now you see the results of that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
In part, the rent spiraled out of control, and along
with inflation and along with other things going up, the
cost of living here in California is more expensive than
just about anywhere else in the country on a state level,
and you think, how did it get here? How did
we get to this point? What do we need to
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do about it? And I was saying, like, look, we've
had opportunities to do something, and I try to remind
folks there's only so much that government can do to
control prices. There are things that we can do to
help prices stay reasonable. There are things that we can
do to help rent stay reasonable. But and this is
something that me and Mark Ronald go back and forth
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all the time about the nature of capitalism and and
price gouging. How there's another component to this, There's another
variable in the equation. Because of the free market, you
will have landlords charging as much as they can to
get as much as they can. The problem is when
the landlords are colluding or conspiring, working together to set
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certain prices and ensure that there's no competition and keeping
all rents high. And today, if you didn't see the news,
the DOJ, the Justice Department, filed an antitrust lawsuit against
a real estate software company.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's software. This is computerized.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's not like you go meet the landlord down the
street and that person will put up his or her price,
and then you go three cities over and that landlord
will have a different price. No, they were conspiring through
this software company to set recommended rental prices for apartments
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and making sure they were all in a certain range
so no one would be too low and you could
have a consistency of higher rental ass The algorithm allowed
landlords to align their prices and avoid competition that would
keep rents down. So if everyone is having their rents
I'll say five to ten percent above the national average,
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then there's no competition and there's no reason for anyone
to have there's no chance for anyone to have the
opportunity to pay a price which is reflective of actual demand.
You're just having the landlords setting the price and it's
not reflexive to demand. Now, according to this, it's not
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just here in California. This retate real estate software company,
real Page was doing business in California, North Carolina, and
other states, but predominantly here in California. So if you
realize that rents were high everywhere, there's a good damn
chance that was connected to this software real estate company
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that most of these landlords were using.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You had thoughts, Mark, I have a question, mo, I've
been wondering about. Something. Is cheating capitalism?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Cheating is capitalism, It is okay, But but not all
cheating is legal. Interesting because something can be I would say,
in bad faith, something could be against established norms or
even against the rules but breaking rules doesn't mean that
it's against the law.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So price gougea price fixing, those are kosher. It depends,
It depends.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think it's I don't know the law exactly, but
I believe it's your gut feeling as a human being. Oh,
it's probably Well, when it's egregious, I know it's against
the law. Interesting, yeah, okay, And that's not a natural
function of market forces. That's not the free market.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How do you feel about a giant, a venture capitalist
corporations buying up residential houses and jacking them up.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, I don't know if that's illegal. That's a great question.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't know if it's illegal, because it is legal
for venture capitalists or investment groups to buy property and
then also raise the price and rent on those properties.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I am aware of some movements to make that illegal, right,
But that's just a perfect example of answering your question.
Is that cheating?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I would say, yes, yes, you don't have a monopoly,
but you're controlling some of the factors of the market.
But the DJ is saying this is antitrust, where you've
gone now into breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
In a related question, can I move in with you?
I don't know if my wife would have don't. I
don't know if.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
She's met you, and I don't know, I don't know
that'd be great. I mean, you can, you can take
the dog's room.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I guess it's probably bigger than the one I have
right now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
But you know, sometimes, or I should say, rarely, do
you have this proof? This, I would say, just an
example of what we've been talking about for months, where
people complain about interest rates, so the people will complain
about the cost of living or how rents are so high,
and you're saying, this is not natural. This is not
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because of someone in the White House, This is not
because of someone in the governor's mansion. This is because
people are greedy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You're performing a valuable poet service, or, as I like
to call it, be mad at the right people.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And if it's a function of people being greedy, then
you have to be aware of things that are being
done that are working against you. That not everything just
because it's the free market is in your best interests.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's not such a free market. People conspiring together to
keep your prices as a consumer high, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Not so free. Well I'm for us. Well, yeah, yeah,
it's not free.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But at the same time, I think it does give
us a window into why everything is so expensive here
in California. And you know what, check this out, Mark.
If they're doing this with real estate, what do you
think they're doing with petroleum and gas and GROCERI trees? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes, you know?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Do you know let's call names here. Do you know
how many grocery stores Kroger owns in California? I did,
but I forget. Do you have the number at hand?
I don't have the number. But it's it's food for Less,
it's rous. It's like it's a bunch of them. And
you think you're shopping at a different grocery store, for example,
but you're really not. And if you're wondering how these
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prices are being set, well, it's being controlled by just
a few. They have bakers, they have city markets, they
have Dyllan's Food for Less, foods company, fred Meyer Fries,
not of course, all here in southern California. Of course,
they have Kroger, which is in the Midwest. They have
Metro Market, pay Less, Pick and Save rows, Smith's Food
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and Drug Don't they have some say in the price
of milk?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm thinking that they do.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, and you should also note that when they post
record profits and stock buybacks. Think of that the way
you think of it. When you drive through Vegas and
you see all the casinos, all these palatial, massive, opulent places.
Your money paid for those.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I try to explain to people the difference between profits
and revenue. If you're having record profits, that means you
are expanding your growth margins, You're getting more money. It's
not that because everything else is expensive and it's trickling
down to you. It's they are charging more and also
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making more off of what they're charging you for.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Does that make any sense? I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
People understand that just because that you're paying more as
a customer, it doesn't mean that it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Costs more for the supplier.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, it means that their CEO is getting hundreds of
millions of dollars each year in pay and that's coming
partly out of your pocket.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah. But people are saying that this is a horrible economy.
Not really, not really.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Are you taking it more in the shorts, Yes, you are,
but that's not a function of the economy.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There's a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, No, I completely agree with everything you're saying I've
got a number of friends who can't get enough of
plaining about the cost of everything. At the same time
they screech at me that any effort of regulation is
just nothing but dirty pinko com communism. Right, I want
to complain about it, but they won't allow anybody to
do anything about it. And that confuses me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, it's confusing to me when people say the rent
is too damn high, groceries are too damn high. But
at the same time, I don't want the government to
do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
That invisible hand of the free market, it's it's there
to smack your ass. It's not there to help you,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
They say, let the market decide until I don't like
what it decides.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, it's a It may not always be your friend. No, no,
it isn't. But you know what am I?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm just a communist counting pinko please pinco all right,
and a socialist and a meathead. Oh you went all
in the family again, didn't you? Don't sit in my chair.
Kaf I A six forty one live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we're going to
go to the beach. The nasty, dirty, fecal beach, Santa
Monica Bay. As a matter of fact, Mark, you need
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a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Just a second, Okay, okay, okay, all right, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Los Angeles forced to pay twenty point eight million dollars
for discharging twelve million gallons of sewage into the Santa
Monica Bay hyperiod, LA's oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility collects, treats,
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and disposes of wastewater for LA and several other cities,
including Beverly Hills, Culver City, El Segundo, Santa Monica, San Fernando,
West Hollywood, and others. Hyperion service area includes more than
four million people.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's really important.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The facility treats an average of two hundred and sixty
million gallons of wastewater each day, of which two hundred
and twenty five million gallons are discharged through its five
mile outfall to the Santa Monica Bay and thirty five
million gallons are conveyed to a water recycling facility for
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advanced treatment and reuse. But back in July of twenty
twenty one, the headworks of the facility became inundated with
debris got stopped up, causing wastewater to flood the area.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hyperion's relief system.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was triggered and about twelve point five million gallons of
untreated wastewater. Hey, Mark, what is untreated wastewater?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
What can I say on the air here? Foosh?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, I'm thinking that untreated wastewater is just raw sewage,
just straight up feces. I think you're in the ballpark. Okay,
pretty close to that. But twelve point five billion gallons
of untreated wastewater was discharged through the facility's one mile
outfall into the Santa Monica Bay. That's aim Santa Monica
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Bay that you heard in the song you know by
the I think it's the ferris wheel by the by
the pier right there where people are swimming and fishing
right there. And we wondered, well, I don't wonder, but
you might have noticed we have all of these bacteria
alerts from the California Department of Public Health. Don't you
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know that it's probably connected? And here's also something to consider.
This was back in July of twenty twenty one. Do
you think that was the only time they dumped millions
of gallons of untreated wastewater. Was that the only time
that the headworks became inundated inundated with debris? Surely it
was just the one time, it was the only time.
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And and do you think that this is the only
treatment center in which it happened. It must be Please,
we would be very lucky if this is the only
treatment center in which had happened, and it only happened
once at that one treatment center. You are a fecal cynic. No,
I'm actually an optimist here. I think that'd be great
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if that were the only time that had happened at
the only place that had happened. But you look at
all these other bacteria alerts that we've been seeing all
summer long, and you have to wonder, is that what
really happened? Or I should say, is that the only
time that it really happened? Because I'm inclined to believe
when just about every beach in southern California has had
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a bacteria alert this summer, that you know we're dealing
with something which happened in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
twenty twenty four. Remember this is July twenty twenty one.
There's some other stuff which has been slipping into Santa
Monica Bay and all the other beaches in the years
since that's the only reasonable explanation why bacteria levels would
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be consistently higher than what is safe and also recommended,
And this settlement resolves the US Attorney's criminal investigation into
the incident. As part of the agreement, LA will invest
at least twenty million to improve Hyperiom's control systems, including
integrating advanced bar screens, sensors, and updated alarms. The city
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will also provide enhance operator training and improve emergency management protocols.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Additionally, Prosecutor said, the city will.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Fund a year long community outreach project with local official
schools and residents to enhance emergency communication and promote environmental education.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What is that supposed to do? How about just solve
the problem? I actually started hearing Charlie Brown's teacher halfway
through that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Seriously, the estimated costs to the outreach and expanded testing
is no less than eight hundred thousand dollars. Why does
the public need to be better informed about the job
which is not being done at Hyperion? Why is it
that I need to be educated. What is it you
need to tell me other than we're not doing our
job very well or consistently. Because back in July twenty
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two one, well we dumped about twelve point five million
gallons of untreated waste water.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What is it you need to tell me going forward?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I would rather you just go ahead and put all
of that money into improving the equipment and making sure
it doesn't happen again, because it's reasonable to surmise that
it has been happening again. Why, because we have these
bacteria warnings in our beaches almost every single month.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
So if I were to ask you if you wanted
to take a break from Disney this weekend and go
for a little swim with me, you're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm saying, why the hell would you want to go
swimming with me? Why? Why roll those those brown dice?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
No, No, I try to stay out of the ocean.
I tell people all the times that I'm not a
water person. I was as a kid, but I'm not now.
I'm not going to the beach to get in the water.
I'm not going snorkeling. You know, I'm not going surfing.
Love you jokewan, but I'm not going to be out
there surfing. That's just not me. And then with each
and every subsequent story about these wastewater dumps.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And also rising bacteria levels.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Why would I? How could I? Why should I? I'm
not getting out in that water. It's nasty. It's probably
from Stephen's bathroom or something.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You're suggesting that you might not be the only thing
floating out there. Go ahead, give it to him, Come
on for it. It's like pulling teeth around here or
something like that. Hello, it's Later with Mo Kelly KIM
six forty. We have a Metro super update.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I came into work thinking like I had a minor
Metro update, and then I was disabused of that notion
by Mark Ronner, who was letting me know, no, you
missed two or three major events in the past couple
of days.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You need to catch up. Well, entire hours have passed.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty, and I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Owe you guys a huge apology. I was wrong. I
know it's not often that I say that, but I
was wrong tonight. I came in thinking that, hey, it
was not a bad week for Metro and I got
on the air saying that it was not a bad
week for Metro. No one got assaulted, no one got shot,
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no one got attacked, no one got stabbed, or at
least so I thought, And I was gonna have some
fun and say, hey, Metro was at fault this time,
and it was just a bus crash.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That was the only thing bad which.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Happened connected to Metro this week. And then and then
and then everything got derailed, pun intended, and Mark Ronner
corrected me saying that no, no, no, no, no, you
missed some stuff, okay, And then he told me about
how a Metro driver was attacked on Thursday morning. The
thirty five year old woman bus driver, who was not
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seriously injured, thank goodness, was attacked near the intersection of
twenty second Street and Pacific Avenue at about eleven forty am.
A person described as only as a man in his
thirties was taken into custody, so that got the person.
Details are scant about what led to the attack. It
was not clear whether the man was armed with a weapon,
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and of course Metro had a statement that it released
quote Metro is outraged to learn about this senseless act
of violence against our operator and is grateful for all
of our operators who deal with societal issues while transporting
writers across our system.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Close quote, I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't know if I could do the metro job. Sorry,
we've had this conversation before. You have to know that
if you're a metro operator, bid bus, or trained, there's
a good chance that you might have to have a
fight with one of those writers, or one of the
homeless people, or one of the people who just happened
to be walking through.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It could be anything. You could be wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You just know that you have one of the most
dangerous jobs in all the nation.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, you go to work, you may not come home.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You go to work, you might get shot, you might
get jumped, you might get stabbed. Well wait, there's more.
And I didn't know any of this until it was
brought to my attention earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
In the week.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And I guess we missed this because we were covering
the DNC, so certain things might have slipped through the cracks.
There was a sexual assault that Mark was telling us,
and they did arrest the suspect. It had happened in
Culver City at the Metro station on Wednesday and the
attack excuse me, wasn't it Sunday?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It was Sunday and they arrested him on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It seems the attack occurred Sunday at the light rail
station near the intersection of Washington and National Boulevards. And
this is according to the La County Sheriff's Department. They
got the guy, Roderick Moore, thirty six years old, was
taken into custody same day and still was in custody
as of Wednesday. La County District's Attorney's office filed two
counts of sexual assault in the case. And this is
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all against the backdrup of that video which came out
of the pasta assault. I mean, you know, I really
thought that we got off easy this week. Would really
we didn't get off easy where we had a major assault,
a sexual assault, and that's not even counting the Metro
bus crash today. You think you're getting on the bus
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trying to worry if someone's going to attack you or
attack the bus driver. You're not thinking the bus itself
might get into a crash. Eight people were injured in
Studio City this morning. The bus crash happened around four
thirty am. Six of the passengers on the bus were
taken to a local hospital non life threatening injuries, and
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the bus driver was treated at the scene. And of
course Metro always has to come out with some statement
quote Metro extends well wishes for a speedy recovery to
all involved. Who is the person who is in the
press department who always has to come up with these
silly press releases each time someone gets stabbed, shot, or
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the bus hits wall extends well wishes, really, well wishes?
Is that going to keep me from suing if I
were on the bus well wishes? Who sends well wishes?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You seem a little short on gratitude on this front.
I just don't know if that's sufficient.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you can't protect me from the homeless, you
can't protect your own bus drivers, and you can't even
guarantee that I'm going to get to my destination safely.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And all you can offer in response well wishes.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, before we finish out the hour, I do have
to say station programming note, Next Friday, on this show,
I'm not gonna be here. I'm going to be doing
something else. I'll be on a cruise. Oh word, yes, word,
and Tawala's going to be on the cruise and his
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son's going on the cruise, and I have like ten
of my family members who go on a cruise. And
he said, well, well, who's going to be doing the
show next week? Well, it is my honor and privilege
to introduce to you the next host, at least for
the next Friday for Lady with Mo Kelly, none other
(28:18):
than Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Really calling out the benchwarmers, aren't they? Mark is going
to be sitting in a big chair, looking forward to it,
same cruise, same vibe, same show, just switching chairs for
the evening. Okay, So are you going to do the
movie game? I hope so, unless it's way too labor intensive.
I heard you talking about how much time it takes
(28:43):
with Tim Conway Jr. Well, you might want to start
now picking out the movies and clips. Oh I could
do that easy. But I'm going to need Foosh to
have my back. Tiffany Hobb's gonna be there. I hope
she can have my back. I'm gonna need some help.
I'm gonna need people to be nice to me because
I have feelings. I cry real easy, like Claire Danes
(29:03):
ugly crier Claire Danes.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Which one is Claire? She's the one who cries really
ugly Homeland? Come on? Oh, okayse in every single episode.
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't watch Homeland. Really, it's a really good show.
I think it was. It was on like Showtime, right,
I believe. So, yeah, I missed an episode. You should
put that on your Listka. Pretty good, but it is
a slow burn. Oh, for god's sake, how many seasons?
I don't recall four or five?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, it's good. No, I'm saying it's good. It's just
like you gotta takes a minute, is it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Episodic and chronological with the episodes.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It is serial, ongoing story. Okay, and it's very good.
It's a good like believable CIA espionage in the Middle.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
East type stuff. Very good.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Okay, all right, anyway, thank you. I'm looking forward to
next Friday. I think we'll have a lot of fun
and do whatever you want. Okay, careful what you offer. No, no, no,
it's you. They get to send you all the hate mail.
Do you have the ability to call in from your cruise?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, let me Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Ye I might be able to. Yeah, we shouldn't be
too far out because I might need a Tuala update.
Oh well, and worst I can text you.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't know about calling, but i'll at worst I
will be able to give you. I'll get information to
you about how Tuala is doing. Okay, photos too, please?
Oh of course, of course most we don't know what
drink number he's gonna be on at that point. He
doesn't drink, so he'll be one you. Oh, I'll be.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Seven, eight, twelve quitter. You can do more than that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, at that point, Okay, it's gonna be relatively early
in the evening. It's only like eight thirty or something.
At that point, I'm rooting for you. I appreciate drink
it all. It's later with mo Kelly Cafe. I am
six forty leave everywhere in my heart ready.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
WHT news without the skill of k f I and
the k os T HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
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Yes, it is Friday, k if.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am six forty mister bo Kelly here lot everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. I don't know about you, but
I am so ready for this weekend. Well, because my
weekend's probably going to be cooler than yours.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's part of it. This is gonna be a little
bit of a humble brag.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, just want to take a little victory lap before
the show gets started. Saturday, I'm gonna be at Disneyland
all day, and then Sunday I'll be at California Adventure
all day as a guest of Disney. They're having a
media day for a celebration of Coco Plaza de la Me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah. So I'll be out there Saturday and Sunday, hanging
out in.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The heat, having a great time with the family, not
thinking about Mark Ronner, not thinking about Stephan.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You can't stop thinking about me. Don't try to fool
everybody here. I don't recall getting an invitation of this.
By the way, well you have to take it up
with the higher ups. Of course, they just reached out
to They said we got to have mo there. I
was gonna say I could. I'm sure Amy King's head
is exploding somewhere. She might no, she might even be there, right, Yeah,
So she gets an invitation and I still don't well,
(01:34):
I don't even know if I want to go.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm just pissed that I didn't get asked.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, you know, she's she's better looking than you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Oh boy boy, start the evening with denial right off.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The back, and away we go tonight on the show.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Remember how we told you about how it's not anything
other than capitalism being capitalism when it comes to rents,
and how you didn't vote for rent control, and how
in California they can raise your rent eight or nine
percent depending on accounting, which, remember we had that conversation.
Did you hear the news today about the DOJ filing
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suit against this company doing business in California and other
states colluding to raise rents.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That has nothing to do with whomever's president, has nothing
to do with whoever is governor. It has everything to
do with un checked, unfettered capitalist I remember a song
came at me on on social media a couple of
weeks ago when I had that rant, and they called
me a comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
What are you talking about communist socialists. They're kind of
catch all words. They are, they are. It's just I
don't like you. That's just where you're asking, you know,
and they'll just throw in it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, you're communists, you're a socialist, you hate America.
Don't forget Pinko's that's what you say.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's like an archie bunker word. It is. It's it's
very nineteen seventy five. We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And also remember how we would talk about how nasty
our beaches are. Where every single week in this summer
there was some sort of a fecal warning, don't go
into water.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
They're more like litter boxes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, well there's a reason because Los Angeles was intentionally
dumping sewage into different portions of different oceans.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Like if you're causing the health alerts and then you're
making the health alerts, it's like, you know, La County
Department of Public Health says, don't go in the water. Oh,
by the way, La Counties is dumping into the beaches,
Like come on, get it from both ends, no pun intended.
Oh wait, wait, damn a wait, keep him waiting. It's
(03:49):
almost Esperando. Oh, and you know I got good news
and I got bad news. The good news is, to
the best of my knowledge, unless you're getting stabbed right now,
No one got stabbed on a metro bus today. No
one got shot or stabbed on a metro platform or
trained today.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did you not hear what I led with at seven o'clock?
What happened? Seriously, I'll do another one later.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Police amana used of sexually assaulting a woman at a
metro station in Culver City may have attacked others, but
it's okay, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm sure it doesn't damage your premise of Well, technically,
no one got shot or stabbed.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, let's go with technicalities here. That's that's all we
got some times.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, I was trying to look at the bright side
of things.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I was just going to say that there was only
only air quotes a metro bus crash today. But now
you're telling me it doesn't matter. No, No, it really
does matter.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
We got to find it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it really doesn't matter. That changes the show all together.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh crap, Okay, if I'm just going to talk about it,
why would I talk about a metro bus crash and
step over a sexual assault. Well, let me see what
I got for you here. Okay, give me a couple
of minutes, no show, look it up. We can wait.
The audience will wait.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's some good radio there. Do we have, like any
elevator music or some kaiser music?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, if you could move on to something else while
I'm looking this up, that's the idea.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Look at the time, we're at the break. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was getting right to tell Yeah, Metro driver attacked
on a bus in sam Pedro.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sexual assault suspect arrested after woman is attacked.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Wait a minute, there's Metro madness going on today? Mayhem.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, okay, this looks like Sunday, but it looks like
there's more possibly connected with it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I'm gonna go see now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I was under the impression that Metro had a halfway
decent day, and you're telling me, no, Metro had an
average day where people are getting harmed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yes, well, every day is a little bit of a
crap shoot on Metro, wouldn't you say at this point?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
No, I would say every day usually someone gets harmed.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I thought it's just a shoot, not a crap shoot.
Never mind, I take that back.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's later with mo Kelly can if I AM six
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Speaker 4 (05:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And some time ago, it's actually an ongoing conversation. I
was talking about how most of us would think that
the rent is too damn high here in California and
around the country, but especially here in California.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And when I would get on my.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Soapbox, I would say, hey, you Californian, and you had
multiple opportunities to vote for some form of rent control.
You decided not to on either occasion. You'll have another
chance coming up in November, but you decided not to
on previous occasions.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And now you see the results of that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
In part, the rent spiraled out of control, and along
with inflation and along with other things going up, the
cost of living here in California is more expensive than
just about anywhere else in the country on a state level,
and you think, how did it get here? How did
we get to this point? What do we need to
(06:58):
do about it? And I was saying, like, look, we've
had opportunities to do something, and I try to remind
folks there's only so much that government can do to
control prices. There are things that we can do to
help prices stay reasonable. There are things that we can
do to help rent stay reasonable. But and this is
something that me and Mark Ronald go back and forth
(07:19):
all the time about the nature of capitalism and and
price gouging. How there's another component to this, There's another
variable in the equation. Because of the free market, you
will have landlords charging as much as they can to
get as much as they can. The problem is when
the landlords are colluding or conspiring, working together to set
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certain prices and ensure that there's no competition and keeping
all rents high. And today, if you didn't see the news,
the DOJ, the Justice Department, filed an antitrust lawsuit against
a real estate software company.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's software. This is computerized.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's not like you go meet the landlord down the
street and that person will put up his or her price,
and then you go three cities over and that landlord
will have a different price. No, they were conspiring through
this software company to set recommended rental prices for apartments
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and making sure they were all in a certain range
so no one would be too low and you could
have a consistency of higher rental ass The algorithm allowed
landlords to align their prices and avoid competition that would
keep rents down. So if everyone is having their rents
I'll say five to ten percent above the national average,
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then there's no competition and there's no reason for anyone
to have there's no chance for anyone to have the
opportunity to pay a price which is reflective of actual demand.
You're just having the landlords setting the price and it's
not reflexive to demand. Now, according to this, it's not
(09:08):
just here in California. This retate real estate software company,
real Page was doing business in California, North Carolina, and
other states, but predominantly here in California. So if you
realize that rents were high everywhere, there's a good damn
chance that was connected to this software real estate company
(09:30):
that most of these landlords were using.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You had thoughts, Mark, I have a question, mo, I've
been wondering about. Something. Is cheating capitalism?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Cheating is capitalism, It is okay, But but not all
cheating is legal. Interesting because something can be I would say,
in bad faith, something could be against established norms or
even against the rules but breaking rules doesn't mean that
it's against the law.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So price gougea price fixing, those are kosher. It depends,
It depends.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think it's I don't know the law exactly, but
I believe it's your gut feeling as a human being. Oh,
it's probably Well, when it's egregious, I know it's against
the law. Interesting, yeah, okay, And that's not a natural
function of market forces. That's not the free market.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How do you feel about a giant, a venture capitalist
corporations buying up residential houses and jacking them up.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, I don't know if that's illegal. That's a great question.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't know if it's illegal, because it is legal
for venture capitalists or investment groups to buy property and
then also raise the price and rent on those properties.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I am aware of some movements to make that illegal, right,
But that's just a perfect example of answering your question.
Is that cheating?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I would say, yes, yes, you don't have a monopoly,
but you're controlling some of the factors of the market.
But the DJ is saying this is antitrust, where you've
gone now into breaking the law.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
In a related question, can I move in with you?
I don't know if my wife would have don't. I
don't know if.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
She's met you, and I don't know, I don't know
that'd be great. I mean, you can, you can take
the dog's room.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I guess it's probably bigger than the one I have
right now.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
But you know, sometimes, or I should say, rarely, do
you have this proof? This, I would say, just an
example of what we've been talking about for months, where
people complain about interest rates, so the people will complain
about the cost of living or how rents are so high,
and you're saying, this is not natural. This is not
(11:50):
because of someone in the White House, This is not
because of someone in the governor's mansion. This is because
people are greedy.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You're performing a valuable poet service, or, as I like
to call it, be mad at the right people.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And if it's a function of people being greedy, then
you have to be aware of things that are being
done that are working against you. That not everything just
because it's the free market is in your best interests.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's not such a free market. People conspiring together to
keep your prices as a consumer high, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Not so free. Well I'm for us. Well, yeah, yeah,
it's not free.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But at the same time, I think it does give
us a window into why everything is so expensive here
in California. And you know what, check this out, Mark.
If they're doing this with real estate, what do you
think they're doing with petroleum and gas and GROCERI trees? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yes, you know?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Do you know let's call names here. Do you know
how many grocery stores Kroger owns in California? I did,
but I forget. Do you have the number at hand?
I don't have the number. But it's it's food for Less,
it's rous. It's like it's a bunch of them. And
you think you're shopping at a different grocery store, for example,
but you're really not. And if you're wondering how these
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prices are being set, well, it's being controlled by just
a few. They have bakers, they have city markets, they
have Dyllan's Food for Less, foods company, fred Meyer Fries,
not of course, all here in southern California. Of course,
they have Kroger, which is in the Midwest. They have
Metro Market, pay Less, Pick and Save rows, Smith's Food
(13:33):
and Drug Don't they have some say in the price
of milk?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm thinking that they do.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, and you should also note that when they post
record profits and stock buybacks. Think of that the way
you think of it. When you drive through Vegas and
you see all the casinos, all these palatial, massive, opulent places.
Your money paid for those.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I try to explain to people the difference between profits
and revenue. If you're having record profits, that means you
are expanding your growth margins, You're getting more money. It's
not that because everything else is expensive and it's trickling
down to you. It's they are charging more and also
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making more off of what they're charging you for.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Does that make any sense? I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
People understand that just because that you're paying more as
a customer, it doesn't mean that it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Costs more for the supplier.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
No, it means that their CEO is getting hundreds of
millions of dollars each year in pay and that's coming
partly out of your pocket.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah. But people are saying that this is a horrible economy.
Not really, not really.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Are you taking it more in the shorts, Yes, you are,
but that's not a function of the economy.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
There's a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, No, I completely agree with everything you're saying I've
got a number of friends who can't get enough of
plaining about the cost of everything. At the same time
they screech at me that any effort of regulation is
just nothing but dirty pinko com communism. Right, I want
to complain about it, but they won't allow anybody to
do anything about it. And that confuses me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, it's confusing to me when people say the rent
is too damn high, groceries are too damn high. But
at the same time, I don't want the government to
do anything about it.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
That invisible hand of the free market, it's it's there
to smack your ass. It's not there to help you,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
They say, let the market decide until I don't like
what it decides.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, it's a It may not always be your friend. No, no,
it isn't. But you know what am I?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm just a communist counting pinko please pinco all right,
and a socialist and a meathead. Oh you went all
in the family again, didn't you? Don't sit in my chair.
Kaf I A six forty one live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we're going to
go to the beach. The nasty, dirty, fecal beach, Santa
Monica Bay. As a matter of fact, Mark, you need
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a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Just a second, Okay, okay, okay, all right, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Los Angeles forced to pay twenty point eight million dollars
for discharging twelve million gallons of sewage into the Santa
Monica Bay hyperiod, LA's oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility collects, treats,
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and disposes of wastewater for LA and several other cities,
including Beverly Hills, Culver City, El Segundo, Santa Monica, San Fernando,
West Hollywood, and others. Hyperion service area includes more than
four million people.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's really important.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The facility treats an average of two hundred and sixty
million gallons of wastewater each day, of which two hundred
and twenty five million gallons are discharged through its five
mile outfall to the Santa Monica Bay and thirty five
million gallons are conveyed to a water recycling facility for
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advanced treatment and reuse. But back in July of twenty
twenty one, the headworks of the facility became inundated with
debris got stopped up, causing wastewater to flood the area.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Hyperion's relief system.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was triggered and about twelve point five million gallons of
untreated wastewater. Hey, Mark, what is untreated wastewater?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
What can I say on the air here? Foosh?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, I'm thinking that untreated wastewater is just raw sewage,
just straight up feces. I think you're in the ballpark. Okay,
pretty close to that. But twelve point five billion gallons
of untreated wastewater was discharged through the facility's one mile
outfall into the Santa Monica Bay. That's aim Santa Monica
(18:00):
Bay that you heard in the song you know by
the I think it's the ferris wheel by the by
the pier right there where people are swimming and fishing
right there. And we wondered, well, I don't wonder, but
you might have noticed we have all of these bacteria
alerts from the California Department of Public Health. Don't you
(18:21):
know that it's probably connected? And here's also something to consider.
This was back in July of twenty twenty one. Do
you think that was the only time they dumped millions
of gallons of untreated wastewater. Was that the only time
that the headworks became inundated inundated with debris? Surely it
was just the one time, it was the only time.
(18:43):
And and do you think that this is the only
treatment center in which it happened. It must be Please,
we would be very lucky if this is the only
treatment center in which had happened, and it only happened
once at that one treatment center. You are a fecal cynic. No,
I'm actually an optimist here. I think that'd be great
(19:06):
if that were the only time that had happened at
the only place that had happened. But you look at
all these other bacteria alerts that we've been seeing all
summer long, and you have to wonder, is that what
really happened? Or I should say, is that the only
time that it really happened? Because I'm inclined to believe
when just about every beach in southern California has had
(19:27):
a bacteria alert this summer, that you know we're dealing
with something which happened in twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
twenty twenty four. Remember this is July twenty twenty one.
There's some other stuff which has been slipping into Santa
Monica Bay and all the other beaches in the years
since that's the only reasonable explanation why bacteria levels would
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be consistently higher than what is safe and also recommended,
And this settlement resolves the US Attorney's criminal investigation into
the incident. As part of the agreement, LA will invest
at least twenty million to improve Hyperiom's control systems, including
integrating advanced bar screens, sensors, and updated alarms. The city
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will also provide enhance operator training and improve emergency management protocols.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Additionally, Prosecutor said, the city will.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Fund a year long community outreach project with local official
schools and residents to enhance emergency communication and promote environmental education.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What is that supposed to do? How about just solve
the problem? I actually started hearing Charlie Brown's teacher halfway
through that.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Seriously, the estimated costs to the outreach and expanded testing
is no less than eight hundred thousand dollars. Why does
the public need to be better informed about the job
which is not being done at Hyperion? Why is it
that I need to be educated. What is it you
need to tell me other than we're not doing our
job very well or consistently. Because back in July twenty
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two one, well we dumped about twelve point five million
gallons of untreated waste water.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What is it you need to tell me going forward?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I would rather you just go ahead and put all
of that money into improving the equipment and making sure
it doesn't happen again, because it's reasonable to surmise that
it has been happening again. Why, because we have these
bacteria warnings in our beaches almost every single month.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
So if I were to ask you if you wanted
to take a break from Disney this weekend and go
for a little swim with me, you're saying.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I'm saying, why the hell would you want to go
swimming with me? Why? Why roll those those brown dice?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
No, No, I try to stay out of the ocean.
I tell people all the times that I'm not a
water person. I was as a kid, but I'm not now.
I'm not going to the beach to get in the water.
I'm not going snorkeling. You know, I'm not going surfing.
Love you jokewan, but I'm not going to be out
there surfing. That's just not me. And then with each
and every subsequent story about these wastewater dumps.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And also rising bacteria levels.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Why would I? How could I? Why should I? I'm
not getting out in that water. It's nasty. It's probably
from Stephen's bathroom or something.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You're suggesting that you might not be the only thing
floating out there. Go ahead, give it to him, Come
on for it. It's like pulling teeth around here or
something like that. Hello, it's Later with Mo Kelly KIM
six forty. We have a Metro super update.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I came into work thinking like I had a minor
Metro update, and then I was disabused of that notion
by Mark Ronner, who was letting me know, no, you
missed two or three major events in the past couple
of days.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You need to catch up. Well, entire hours have passed.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty, and I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Owe you guys a huge apology. I was wrong. I
know it's not often that I say that, but I
was wrong tonight. I came in thinking that, hey, it
was not a bad week for Metro and I got
on the air saying that it was not a bad
week for Metro. No one got assaulted, no one got shot,
(23:17):
no one got attacked, no one got stabbed, or at
least so I thought, And I was gonna have some
fun and say, hey, Metro was at fault this time,
and it was just a bus crash.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That was the only thing bad which.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Happened connected to Metro this week. And then and then
and then everything got derailed, pun intended, and Mark Ronner
corrected me saying that no, no, no, no, no, you
missed some stuff, okay, And then he told me about
how a Metro driver was attacked on Thursday morning. The
thirty five year old woman bus driver, who was not
(23:51):
seriously injured, thank goodness, was attacked near the intersection of
twenty second Street and Pacific Avenue at about eleven forty am.
A person described as only as a man in his
thirties was taken into custody, so that got the person.
Details are scant about what led to the attack. It
was not clear whether the man was armed with a weapon,
(24:12):
and of course Metro had a statement that it released
quote Metro is outraged to learn about this senseless act
of violence against our operator and is grateful for all
of our operators who deal with societal issues while transporting
writers across our system.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Close quote, I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't know if I could do the metro job. Sorry,
we've had this conversation before. You have to know that
if you're a metro operator, bid bus, or trained, there's
a good chance that you might have to have a
fight with one of those writers, or one of the
homeless people, or one of the people who just happened
to be walking through.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It could be anything. You could be wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You just know that you have one of the most
dangerous jobs in all the nation.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay, you go to work, you may not come home.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You go to work, you might get shot, you might
get jumped, you might get stabbed. Well wait, there's more.
And I didn't know any of this until it was
brought to my attention earlier.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
In the week.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And I guess we missed this because we were covering
the DNC, so certain things might have slipped through the cracks.
There was a sexual assault that Mark was telling us,
and they did arrest the suspect. It had happened in
Culver City at the Metro station on Wednesday and the
attack excuse me, wasn't it Sunday?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It was Sunday and they arrested him on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It seems the attack occurred Sunday at the light rail
station near the intersection of Washington and National Boulevards. And
this is according to the La County Sheriff's Department. They
got the guy, Roderick Moore, thirty six years old, was
taken into custody same day and still was in custody
as of Wednesday. La County District's Attorney's office filed two
counts of sexual assault in the case. And this is
(25:56):
all against the backdrup of that video which came out
of the pasta assault. I mean, you know, I really
thought that we got off easy this week. Would really
we didn't get off easy where we had a major assault,
a sexual assault, and that's not even counting the Metro
bus crash today. You think you're getting on the bus
(26:18):
trying to worry if someone's going to attack you or
attack the bus driver. You're not thinking the bus itself
might get into a crash. Eight people were injured in
Studio City this morning. The bus crash happened around four
thirty am. Six of the passengers on the bus were
taken to a local hospital non life threatening injuries, and
(26:39):
the bus driver was treated at the scene. And of
course Metro always has to come out with some statement
quote Metro extends well wishes for a speedy recovery to
all involved. Who is the person who is in the
press department who always has to come up with these
silly press releases each time someone gets stabbed, shot, or
(26:59):
the bus hits wall extends well wishes, really, well wishes?
Is that going to keep me from suing if I
were on the bus well wishes? Who sends well wishes?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You seem a little short on gratitude on this front.
I just don't know if that's sufficient.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you can't protect me from the homeless, you
can't protect your own bus drivers, and you can't even
guarantee that I'm going to get to my destination safely.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
And all you can offer in response well wishes.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh, before we finish out the hour, I do have
to say station programming note, Next Friday, on this show,
I'm not gonna be here. I'm going to be doing
something else. I'll be on a cruise. Oh word, yes, word,
and Tawala's going to be on the cruise and his
(27:57):
son's going on the cruise, and I have like ten
of my family members who go on a cruise. And
he said, well, well, who's going to be doing the
show next week? Well, it is my honor and privilege
to introduce to you the next host, at least for
the next Friday for Lady with Mo Kelly, none other
(28:18):
than Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Really calling out the benchwarmers, aren't they? Mark is going
to be sitting in a big chair, looking forward to it,
same cruise, same vibe, same show, just switching chairs for
the evening. Okay, So are you going to do the
movie game? I hope so, unless it's way too labor intensive.
I heard you talking about how much time it takes
(28:43):
with Tim Conway Jr. Well, you might want to start
now picking out the movies and clips. Oh I could
do that easy. But I'm going to need Foosh to
have my back. Tiffany Hobb's gonna be there. I hope
she can have my back. I'm gonna need some help.
I'm gonna need people to be nice to me because
I have feelings. I cry real easy, like Claire Danes
(29:03):
ugly crier Claire Danes.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Which one is Claire? She's the one who cries really
ugly Homeland? Come on? Oh, okayse in every single episode.
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I don't watch Homeland. Really, it's a really good show.
I think it was. It was on like Showtime, right,
I believe. So, yeah, I missed an episode. You should
put that on your Listka. Pretty good, but it is
a slow burn. Oh, for god's sake, how many seasons?
I don't recall four or five?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, it's good. No, I'm saying it's good. It's just
like you gotta takes a minute, is it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Episodic and chronological with the episodes.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It is serial, ongoing story. Okay, and it's very good.
It's a good like believable CIA espionage in the Middle.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
East type stuff. Very good.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Okay, all right, anyway, thank you. I'm looking forward to
next Friday. I think we'll have a lot of fun
and do whatever you want. Okay, careful what you offer. No, no, no,
it's you. They get to send you all the hate mail.
Do you have the ability to call in from your cruise?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, let me Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Ye I might be able to. Yeah, we shouldn't be
too far out because I might need a Tuala update.
Oh well, and worst I can text you.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I don't know about calling, but i'll at worst I
will be able to give you. I'll get information to
you about how Tuala is doing. Okay, photos too, please?
Oh of course, of course most we don't know what
drink number he's gonna be on at that point. He
doesn't drink, so he'll be one you. Oh, I'll be.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Seven, eight, twelve quitter. You can do more than that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, at that point, Okay, it's gonna be relatively early
in the evening. It's only like eight thirty or something.
At that point, I'm rooting for you. I appreciate drink
it all. It's later with mo Kelly Cafe. I am
six forty leave everywhere in my heart ready.
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