August 29, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at some good news regarding L.A. Metro for a change’ with a new report that highlights an increase in ridership for the 20th consecutive month in July…PLUS – Thoughts on California Senate Bill 1061, which aims to “remove medical debt from credit reports and prohibit debt collectors from reporting patients’ medical debt information to credit agencies” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Mo Kelly here KFI iHeartRadio app, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you
get your podcasts at you can find me. Hope your Thursday.
Excuse me getting ahead of myself. I was ready to
get into the weekend. Hope your Wednesday was great. Okay,
So actually leads to what I was going to talk about.
I am looking forward to this weekend like nobody's business.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So Thursday is my Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So typically I should say instead of you know, a
normal week, this would be my Thursday. This is my
next to last day of the week. As you know.
Mark Ronner, good evening, Mark. He's gonna be filling in
in the big chair on both Friday and Monday. Looking
forward to it, and I'm looking forward to listening. Like
the movie stuff ready to go. We're gonna do mostly
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what you would normally do. All right, it's up to you,
your captain of the ship, and you will go down
with the ship if it should go down.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, thank you for that. It's it's been fun, all right.
Are you more like Pike or Kirk?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You have to Jay, I can't even have this discussion
with you. It's Kirk or go home ome on? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, Well, the reason why I'm talking about this is
because I rarely rarely pack in advance. I usually just
you know, do it the night before because everything is
then fresh my mind. I don't have to worry about
forgetting anything because I have laid eyes on it, I'm
aware of it. For some reason, I started packing today
and I had a full on OCD fit. We've talked
(01:54):
about this a few weeks ago, where I read the
story about people who may be on the spectrum just
not diagnosed as an adult, and I talked about all
the hang ups that I have, and all the non
doctors in the studio felt that I probably exhibited serious OCD.
(02:14):
They're not wrong, but that was the diagnosis. Well, today,
getting ready to go on this cruise to wall Sharp
is going to be going on as well. It'll be
about ten members of my family, so it's not like
it's very relaxed. I should not be uptight about anything.
But I stood at least for an hour in my
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closet staring at the array of clothes to get on
a cruise in which I have to take no suits,
no formal clothing, not even jeans, and I was paralyzed
because I could not get together what I was going
to wear on Friday to get on this ship.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When I was going to wear Saturday, When I was
going to wear.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sunday when it uh we were in port and en Sonata,
and what I was gonna wear just for Monday morning
to drive home because the ship gets back into port
early Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I want to help you come out of the closet. Mark.
He waited Mark up from the beginning. Yeah, yeah, because
we knew you were waiting there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now I'm here, He's see and Stephan is not even
gonna reward you for that lack of effort.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't need that, Yes you do. I mean i'd
like it. But as I was saying.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
A literal hour, and I turned around and I looked
at both dogs staring at me, and they were looking
at me like, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude, Because.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
As far as they can tell, I'm just staring at
a wall.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But I'm looking at clothes and I'm paralyzed because I
can't decide what I'm gonna wear. It's like, all I'm
gonna do is put on some sort of sweats and
a T shirt or shorts and a T shirt, or
it's gonna be maybe one pair of jeans in the
evening and a T shirt. And oh, you don't know this.
(04:05):
I almost never wear T shirts. The only time I
do wear T shirts is on vacation. Outside of that,
I usually wear a polo, some sort of collared shirt.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's just what I do. When I come to work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
If you see me in a T shirt, I'm either
at home doing housework or I'm on some sort of vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I just don't wear T shirts.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, I have like one hundred and fifty T shirts
at home, because when you work in this business, you
get all sorts of free T shirts from here there, everywhere.
You go to an event, you go to a convention,
you go to an alumni reunion, you get a T shirt,
and I just throw them all in the closet. Well,
I was looking through all those T shirts and I said,
what am I gonna wear on Friday? Well, I can't
I gotta wear this. Well, I can't wear that, or
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I have to wear this. And I was just paralyzed,
and I realized, there's something wrong with me. There's really
something wrong with me. I mean beyond what you say, Mark,
I mean, there's something completely different from what you say is.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Wrong with me.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You can call me at these times. I can talk
you through it. I don't even have your number. Go
ahead and mock, but I want to help you. So
it's just it's OCD. How about some MPD? What is
that narcissistic personality disorder? Oh, I think you said MPD.
I'm just going down the alphabet to figure out what
you got.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, No, I wouldn't consider myself a narcissist. But I
will say I have a very healthy ego, but not
at the expense of other people. And a narcissist, well,
there's no limitation to it's all about that person. I
would like to believe that I think about other people
in my decisions, how I work with other people.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I see. So you're stuck in the closet and.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You can't We're back and the dogs are giving you
the stink ey Yes, yes, because.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I would not play with them, and they don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm just motionless in the closet, my head going left
and right, looking at various things to wear, and I
just I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I couldn't move past it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's like what I had to lay out what I
was gonna wear, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And then I made some twenty five different decisions and
I said, am I gonna wear these socks or those socks?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And it was it was a self realization moment where
it's like you need help.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And you have from a backups too, backup shirts because
you know you're gonna get something on at least one
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's true. No, that's that's why.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Like I could have an outfit for Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
but I know I'll probably go work out or something,
or I'll get something on them, as you were saying,
or I'll want to change my mind. And I have
to think about all these scenarios in advance. And I
was just frozen. Let it go, frozen could move? Am
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I the only one that that happens too?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I get that sometimes sometimes I can't choose between black
T shirts in the stack and my place before I
come to work.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I got like four different black polos and I said,
am I gonna do a B or CD?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
And to the trained eye they look identical. Well, those
people don't understand, they don't. Are you mocking me? Or
you're agreeing with me. Well, actually quite a bit of both.
From column an, a little from column B.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I literally I do the same thing, and I've I've
got OCD with books and every other thing in my life.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I understand exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh, you mentioned books, all my books, that they're on
a shelf, the binders. The text has to be reading
in the same direction, and they have to be organized
by height.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But not color.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Don't say color, No, not color, because that's going to
drive that's my that's my closet. I have to put
all the shirts of one color together. It might be
black shirts and blue shirts and toilet. Get serious, get serious, and.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I wow, he's my wife about her OCD, and hers
is ten times worse than me. I'm not a neat freak,
but the things that I need in order have to
be in order, and sometimes I get locked up. My
brain will get locked up and I can't get past
asked certain moments. Out Look, I give away an hour
of my day when it should have taken me ten
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minutes at most.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm wearing shorts and a shirt.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It ain't that freaking complicated on the surface, but for
me and It's not like I need the perfect outfit
because I'm trying to woof someone on the ship.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No, no, no, no, I just need to be comfortable. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Do you wear Do you wear the little ankle footy socks?
They're called quarter thought there were footies?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The footy ones that don't Those don't cover the ankle.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
These cover the ankle. Okay, I like the low rise.
But have you had the discussion with your wife that
those have to match? And she's like, just get two
out of the drawer. Nobody sees them anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, no, oh, I'm glad you said that. Okay, I have some.
They're really inexpensive, so don't think they're expensive. They're routh
Lorene socks. But the logo is on the outside of
the sock. So if I get two right socks, that
means the logo will be on the right side on
both of the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Socks, and I can't wear those. I have to have
them match.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You where the logos on the right side on my
right foot and the logos stop laughing at me stuff,
And the logo has to be on the outside.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Of the left This pain is real. Cut it out. No, no, no,
this is for real.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I can relate to almost everything that you said, except
when it comes to the socks.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Because there's been days.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Where I was late and I will have two different pairs,
completely different pairs, and do that.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I will drive my ass home.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There's one time I've actually going to the store and
gotten some socks because it bothers me. And when I'm
seeing karaoke or singing in the church choir, I always
need my socks pulled up all the way up.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I can't feel them dropping.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's part of the reason why I wear low rise socks,
so I don't feel them drooping.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But you like the filling of pants around your ankles touching?
Oh my that No, no, it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Doesn't touch my ankles because the socks are I have
like dress socks all today because I did spectacle.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
They come above the ankle, yeah, not to the not
below the ankle.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Like for example, you can't see me, but I always
wear a white undershirt. Yeah, and that has to be
tucked into my underwear because I don't like the shirt
touching my skin.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can dig that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I mean, you've never seen me without an undershirt under
a teeth or something, right, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, am I weird? It's not Mark's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No, No, you just crossed the line. That's kind of sick.
I know we're late real quick, but go ahead get
some of this.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You talking about tucking your your shirt into your underwear.
I have always had a thing where if I'm like
laying down and I have even if it's a PJ shirt,
I can't have it touching my neck, so I always
have it around my mouth and what and my eggs
was like, what are you talking about? And after like
a long time of just sitting with me, She's like, oh,
I kind of get it now. I don't like it there.
(10:55):
It just bugs me, So I get I get that. Yeah,
I don't like certain material touching myself.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Can hell, I'm trying to decide between a duffel bag
and a suitcase. I mean, I mean, I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I already got that worked out, see that that thing
I planned ahead. I'm down to a just a backpack.
I know how to do this. I'm gonna master with this.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So well, if you want to provoke people, bring your
stuff in a plastic grocery bag. It's might it's a
real icebreaker. I promise you. I mean, don't let Mark
outside anymore. Take away these privileges.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This lady with mo Kelly if I am six forty,
we have a Metro update and actually it's good news.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well they think it's good news. I don't know if
it's good news. We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, last time I talked about Metro, I got out
in front, and I got ahead of myself, got over
my skis. As they say, I said, Hey, no one
got stabbed today, no one got shot, no one got
assaulted on Metro today, And unbeknownst to me, yeah, they were.
All of that was happening in the previous days because
I got caught up in coverage of the DNC and
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miss some of the assaults on Metro. So it maybe
look real, real, real bad or worse than usual. So
this time I'm not going to make any such pronouncement.
I'm just going to go with the story I have
in front of me. La Metro has great news that
they are sharing, or at least that's how they're positioning it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
July.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
As in last month marked the twentieth consecutive month of
year to year ridership growth for the La County m
t A La Metro. The agency had twenty five point
five million boardings in July on its bus and rail services.
You would think that's great news, right, That's how they're
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positioning it as it's great news. But here's reality. You
need context, and here's the context. It was reaching eighty
one point eight percent of its July twenty nineteen pre
COVID ridership level. So despite the twenty months of consecutive
year to year, twenty months of consecutive growth, it's still
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only at eighty one point eight percent of what it
was pre COVID. So you can spend this any number
of ways. You can talk about, yes, ridership is growing,
but the fact is, maybe it would have gotten back
to one hundred percent of pre COVID ridership level if
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there weren't so many stabbing, shootings, sexual assaults, maimings, or
any of those things. Because I tend to believe that
probably the crime, the homelessness, all that kind of stuff
probably has a negative impact. That's for you mark a
negative impact on ridership. I'm quite sure someone decided not
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to get on Metro today, yesterday, last week, last month
because of the safety issues bus ridership. Let's go inside
the numbers. According to Metro Bus Ridership, in July I
saw nineteen point seven million rides taken for a nine
point eight four percent year over year ridership increase compared
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to July twenty twenty three. Well, okay, mo, what does
that mean to in relation to pre COVID. Well that's
only eighty two point nine percent, so still you are
far below what was on buses prior to COVID.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Let's talk about trains or rails.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
In July, the agency says rail boardings were five point
eight million, reflecting a gain of three point three point
two three percent versus July twenty twenty three. Wow, that
sounds like it's up right. Well, let's compare it to
July twenty nineteen. It's only seventy eight point four percent
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of July twenty nineteen. Still a long way to go,
and we're well passed. I would say the pandemic living
limitations of ridership. Let's go to leisure leader ridership. Excuse me,
leisure ridership, Leisure travelers roade La Metro to concerts, festivals,
sporting events, you know, leisure stuff. MPa says July twenty
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twenty four had more weekday events, which were a driver
of overall ridership growth during the month, with weekday bus
ridership up seven point four percent and weekday rail ridership
up two point three percent. Wow, there's more good news
coming out of Metro. How about the fare programs, the
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agency's reduced price transit pass programs such as the Student
Go Pass program. We told you about that that offers
free transit passes to K through twelve and community college students.
We told you about that, and we also told you
about the Low Income Fare Program, which provides free rides
and reduce fares to low income customers, helping those who
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may need the most.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In July, LA's Metro's Go Pass program had four hundred
and seventy nine thousand boardings, a nineteen percent year over
year increase compared to that same time last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And you would think.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All these increasing statistics, that is just great news that
you can see people are flocking back to Metro when
in actuality they're not.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They're not. But check this out.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
At the end of the report they put the public
safety They buried it at the end because you would
think that should be upfront, but no, no, no, no,
they don't want you to know that first. Here is
what La Metro is also celebrating, quote a new pilot
program that would create taller faregates and up to three
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rail stations to quote deter gate jumping.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This is all a part of their public safety plan.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Expansion of the Tap to Exit program that requires writers
to tap fair cars to enter at exit to all
ten end of line stations to discourage fair evasion. We
talked about that, and get this, this is really important.
Expansion of the elevator open door pilot from twenty one
elevators to fifty seven elevators.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I didn't know what the hell that was, still not sure,
but this is what it is. It leaves the.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Doors open until called upon and dissuades non transit elevator use.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That should help a lot or not at all.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Also, expansion of the smart restroom pilot from ten stations
to sixty four and transit centers and you get a bathroom,
and you get a bathroom, and you get a toilet
there's more a new pilot program to test two weapons
detection technologies at two transit hubs on the rail system.
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That's all a part of this master public safety plan.
But wait, there's more. Keep its employees and customers safe
and ensure they feel safe through an increased visible presence
of uniformed personnel. It didn't say law enforcement. It just
said uniformed personnel. It could be a janitor for all
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we know. Station improvements and improved bust safety measures. They
don't tell you what that they are. What does improved
bus safety measure? Are you saying that the bus drivers
are going to be carrying knives? I don't know what
that means exactly. It's very vague. Ensure the system is
being used only for its intended purpose of transit through
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faregate improvements and removal of trespassers. And they're going to
continue to partner with the County of the Cities and
regional agencies to address societal issues such as homelessness, untreated
mental illness, and drug addiction. What in the hell does
that mean? They're going to continue to partner. But wait,
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there's lastly this. I know we got to go to break,
but this is very important La Metro Ambassadors, and I'm
reading straight from the press release. La Metro Ambassadors are
also out in force on La Metro's six rail lines
and five of the busiest bus lines to provide support
to customers. If that doesn't make you feel better about
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Metro and make you want to go, get a fair
card and take the Metro from one end of the
line to the other, I don't know what will. I
don't know what people are so upset about. I don't
know what you want. They're giving it all to you
right here. Metro Ambassadors, more bathrooms, elevators with doors that
stay open, and taller gates.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Damn it, it's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Can if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Lapam, Lapam natam.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You may not know this, you may not even believe this,
but you are one diagnosis away from being bankrupt one
not two one. And if it doesn't apply to you,
then God bless you. But let's just say it doesn't
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bankrupt you, mister mo Kelly here KFI. You may have
tons and tons of medical debt which you may never
crawl out from under. And if you haven't been listening
to me for many years, over the years when I
was hosting the mo Kelly Show here on KFI on
the weekends, to walla Shark producer, and I would often
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detail the cost of just the seemingly trivial procedures.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
There's a point to all this, So bear with me.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just getting a blood test, just getting any type of labor,
just staying in the hospital for a night can run
tens of thousands of dollars. And imagine you don't have
medical insurance or sub significant or sufficient insurance, you could
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have one hundred thousand dollars worth of medical debt inside
of a week. And I don't think I'm exaggerating, am I?
Am I to allow am I in the wheelhouse now.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
You're being very generous, Okay, very generous.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So the politics of universal healthcare aside. Just know you
are one diagnosis away from being bankrupted, most likely, and
if you survive it, you have tons of medical debt
that you probably won't be able to pay in a
timely fashion and your credit is going to go straight
to hell.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, let me tell you about Senate Bill ten sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
One, which would remove medical debt from credit reports and
prohibit debt collectors from reporting patients medical debt information to
credit agencies. It would pertain specifically to debt ode to
a medical provider, such as a hospital or doctor's office.
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It's passed the Assembly, that happened on Monday, and it's
heading to the state Senate for a final vote. And
you may think like, well, yeah, of course, Well it's
been a long road to get to this point, and
because healthcare has been so politicized, sometimes you can't see
the forest for the trees. And if you've ever dealt
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with credit, let's say you want to buy a car,
you want to buy a house, and you have you
didn't pay your phone bill on time. That can sit
on your credit for five to seven years and it's
difficult to get out from under it. Now, imagine having
two hundred thousand dollars worth of medical debt, which is
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very reasonable and quite conceivable.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
How do you move forward with your life?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
In other words, you beat cancer, but how do you
move forward with your life because your credit has been
shot to hell? Because you're spending all this you could
to keep from ending up homeless and to stay your
ass alive. Now you have all this debt, you ruin
your credit. You can't get that car, you can't get
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that house, you can't get the next credit card you
may need to get you to the next point in
life because of all this medical debt. That's where this
bill comes in. And I'm not telling you what to
vote for. I'm not telling you what to support. I'm
not saying that you should get behind this. I'm saying
that if you have yet to deal with a serious
medical issue, as my late pastor World always tell me,
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just keep on living.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh it's coming, Oh it's definitely coming.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And you will have to make a financial decision as
far as how are you going to pay for it
or not pay for it. And if you don't pay
for it immediately, well it will or at least prior
to now, it may end up on your credit report
and you'll never get out from under it, or you
could die.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Because you can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Because let's say your credit is not good as it
is and you can't get credit to help pare.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It's all bad.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Because that's the state of health care in America, you know,
because universal health care is socialist who.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Said that, Look, I can tell you for a fact that.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I'd say just over half of all of my debt
is absolutely positively medical debt. Not to let's go beyond
the transplant. Let's go with just the cost of which
am I maintenance? Just maintenance, just the fact that I
have to go and see the doctor every two months,
and the fact that all the different hospitalizations and I
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have insurance. Look, I was literally picking up a prescription
the other day, and you know, for a month, this
prescription is forty dollars. At first, they said, well, here's
your three months, apply for one hundred and twenty. And
I'm like, well, let's just do the month right now.
Let's just take care of that month right now. I'm
about to go on the cruise, just got a new car.
Let's hold back on that one hundred and twenty dollars.
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And then I said, well, what is it without the insurance?
They showed me that price without the insurance. I almost
had to choke the damn pharmacist. I'm like, if you
don't get that ungodly price away from me.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
How can anyone pay that?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
No one?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
And you need this to maintain your transplant, and you're
telling me this could be some thousand plus dollars for
a month's supply.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Without insurance, and you could theoretically, hypothetically wouldn't wish it
on you. You could lose your job and then lose your insurance,
because that is something your maintenance on your transplants for life.
It's not like if you can hold on for another
year or so, you're good something you would need for
the rest of your life. Yes, you could theoretically lose
your job, lose your insurance, and then be held to
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pay that amount just to keep yourself alive.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Just to stay alive, just to keep this transplant functioning,
or risk possibly going back on dialysis. And let's not
talk about the cost of dialysis.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It can be very easy for you to end up
bankrupt inside of a year.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Is that fair? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Absolutely, And to have something like this not have to
hit your credit report anymore, to just be able to
pay on these bills without being buried. We're talking about
people who may not even have super super insurance, who
may have to suffer look dialysis. The number of people
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in California that aren't Dallasis, and each Diallasis treatment can
run you at a minimum twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Look, let's just stop the game. So let me throw
another wrinkle in this.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
We all know that there are some employers who will
check potential employees credit and use that as a parameter
for potential employment.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So if your credit's already messed.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Up because of your medical issues, and you need the job,
so you can get the insurance to help deal with
the medical issues, and saying nothing of the payments. It
is where they say a vicious cycle. No, it's not
a cycle. It's just going straight to hell. It's just
you can't wait, you can't get out from under it.
So if anything, you know, someone has said it long ago.
I think it was maybe Ted Kennedy said good policy
(27:13):
is good politics, and if we're going to politicize healthcare,
then at least get good policy out of it. This
on its face, without going into all the minutiae, is
good policy because it helps people. It's later with Mo
Kelly can if I am six forty live everywhere on
(27:35):
the iHeartRadio app And when we come back, we're going
to go down to the Orange County area and talk
about the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
You're listening to. Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
When I first cut the cord, I needed to have
live sports. That was my concern, and streaming was very new.
There weren't many places that I could find live sports
other than going to a bar. And as a hockey fan,
a Kings fan, specifically sorry Ducks. As a hockey fan,
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it was even more difficult because the NHL did not
have the type of television deals that the NBA and
the NFL and Major League Baseball had. It was much
more difficult to find Kings games on TV, and especially
in an online or a streaming sense. Well, all that
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is changing. Let me tell you how and why. The
Anaheim Ducks are moving their local broadcasts to a free
streaming service. And if you're a Ducks fan, this is
so very cool. If you're a Kings fan, you should
be jealous. And the Anaheim Ducks they're not the first
team to do it. They're just the latest team to
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move their local broadcasts from a regional sports network to
a common of direct to consumer streaming and local broadcasts,
meaning you'll be able to still watch it on your
local broadcast channel, but it will also be offered on
a streaming service for free. The Ducks announced yesterday that
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sixty five games next season will be broadcast over the
air here in the LA area. They're also partnering on
a multi year deal with Victory Plus streaming service, where
they would stream all games free of charge. Of course,
they'll probably be commercials with every type of sports broadcast,
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but as if you're watching it over the air broadcasts,
I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I would love to have.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
This for all my sports teams, but it's almost impossible
the way the economics work. But if you're a Ducks fan,
this is significant. The Ducks are the third team in
the NHL to announce a change to their broadcast model
and also the third team to use Victory Plus streaming service.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I've never used Victory Plus.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I have to check it out to see what else
they offer, and I'm not sure whether you'll be able
to watch the Ducks games if you're out of market.
Let's say, let's say you're on a business trip to
Seattle or something, or you're a Ducks fan and you've
relocated to Amarillo, Texas or something like that, you're living
out of market. I don't think, just like the other
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sports streaming services. I don't think you'll be able to
watch the games. It would just be for people in market,
but that's still half the battle. The over the air
games that I was telling you about. It will be
on Fox eleven Plus, which is channel thirteen out here.
I don't know why they call it Fox eleven plus.
I know KTTV and KCOP they kind of share stations
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and bandwidths, but they say it's going to be on
KCOP channel thirteen for the Ducks games. They haven't announced
to broadcasters for the streaming service, but I guess they'll
be choosing a new team broadcast team and the streaming
app from Victory Plus is not available as of yet,
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but it will be available for your smart TV, for tablet,
smartphones obviously desktop computers starting next month. And if you're
in the regional territory of Orange County, Los Angeles County,
Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Diego, Imperial, Santa Barbara, Ventura Counties,
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as well as Hawaii. Oh okay, that's out of market,
but you'll be allowed and able to watch the games.
It will be a free, ad supported streaming service and
if anything, you always want to take notice of how
an industry is moving, and this may be something that
more and more, at least NHL teams may jump on
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this man wagon. And some months ago we talked about
some of the expiring deals in Major League Baseball, like
with the Padres and other teams, where I'm thinking, I
don't know this to be true, but I'm thinking that
possibly Major League Baseball may move in this same direction.
So this will be interesting to see as we watch
the evolution of the streaming market, whether there'll be more
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and more sports broadcasts available. It's later with Mo Kelly
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
We have zero bliss, completely blissless ks.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I'm m KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County Love
Everywhere on the radio.
Mo Kelly here KFI iHeartRadio app, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you
get your podcasts at you can find me. Hope your Thursday.
Excuse me getting ahead of myself. I was ready to
get into the weekend. Hope your Wednesday was great. Okay,
So actually leads to what I was going to talk about.
I am looking forward to this weekend like nobody's business.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So Thursday is my Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So typically I should say instead of you know, a
normal week, this would be my Thursday. This is my
next to last day of the week. As you know.
Mark Ronner, good evening, Mark. He's gonna be filling in
in the big chair on both Friday and Monday. Looking
forward to it, and I'm looking forward to listening. Like
the movie stuff ready to go. We're gonna do mostly
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what you would normally do. All right, it's up to you,
your captain of the ship, and you will go down
with the ship if it should go down.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, thank you for that. It's it's been fun, all right.
Are you more like Pike or Kirk?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You have to Jay, I can't even have this discussion
with you. It's Kirk or go home ome on? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, Well, the reason why I'm talking about this is
because I rarely rarely pack in advance. I usually just
you know, do it the night before because everything is
then fresh my mind. I don't have to worry about
forgetting anything because I have laid eyes on it, I'm
aware of it. For some reason, I started packing today
and I had a full on OCD fit. We've talked
(01:54):
about this a few weeks ago, where I read the
story about people who may be on the spectrum just
not diagnosed as an adult, and I talked about all
the hang ups that I have, and all the non
doctors in the studio felt that I probably exhibited serious OCD.
(02:14):
They're not wrong, but that was the diagnosis. Well, today,
getting ready to go on this cruise to wall Sharp
is going to be going on as well. It'll be
about ten members of my family, so it's not like
it's very relaxed. I should not be uptight about anything.
But I stood at least for an hour in my
(02:35):
closet staring at the array of clothes to get on
a cruise in which I have to take no suits,
no formal clothing, not even jeans, and I was paralyzed
because I could not get together what I was going
to wear on Friday to get on this ship.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
When I was going to wear Saturday, When I was
going to wear.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Sunday when it uh we were in port and en Sonata,
and what I was gonna wear just for Monday morning
to drive home because the ship gets back into port
early Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I want to help you come out of the closet. Mark.
He waited Mark up from the beginning. Yeah, yeah, because
we knew you were waiting there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Now I'm here, He's see and Stephan is not even
gonna reward you for that lack of effort.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't need that, Yes you do. I mean i'd
like it. But as I was saying.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
A literal hour, and I turned around and I looked
at both dogs staring at me, and they were looking
at me like, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude, Because.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
As far as they can tell, I'm just staring at
a wall.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But I'm looking at clothes and I'm paralyzed because I
can't decide what I'm gonna wear. It's like, all I'm
gonna do is put on some sort of sweats and
a T shirt or shorts and a T shirt, or
it's gonna be maybe one pair of jeans in the
evening and a T shirt. And oh, you don't know this.
(04:05):
I almost never wear T shirts. The only time I
do wear T shirts is on vacation. Outside of that,
I usually wear a polo, some sort of collared shirt.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's just what I do. When I come to work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
If you see me in a T shirt, I'm either
at home doing housework or I'm on some sort of vacation.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I just don't wear T shirts.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, I have like one hundred and fifty T shirts
at home, because when you work in this business, you
get all sorts of free T shirts from here there, everywhere.
You go to an event, you go to a convention,
you go to an alumni reunion, you get a T shirt,
and I just throw them all in the closet. Well,
I was looking through all those T shirts and I said,
what am I gonna wear on Friday? Well, I can't
I gotta wear this. Well, I can't wear that, or
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I have to wear this. And I was just paralyzed,
and I realized, there's something wrong with me. There's really
something wrong with me. I mean beyond what you say, Mark,
I mean, there's something completely different from what you say is.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Wrong with me.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You can call me at these times. I can talk
you through it. I don't even have your number. Go
ahead and mock, but I want to help you. So
it's just it's OCD. How about some MPD? What is
that narcissistic personality disorder? Oh, I think you said MPD.
I'm just going down the alphabet to figure out what
you got.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, No, I wouldn't consider myself a narcissist. But I
will say I have a very healthy ego, but not
at the expense of other people. And a narcissist, well,
there's no limitation to it's all about that person. I
would like to believe that I think about other people
in my decisions, how I work with other people.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I see. So you're stuck in the closet and.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You can't We're back and the dogs are giving you
the stink ey Yes, yes, because.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I would not play with them, and they don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm just motionless in the closet, my head going left
and right, looking at various things to wear, and I
just I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I couldn't move past it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's like what I had to lay out what I
was gonna wear, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And then I made some twenty five different decisions and
I said, am I gonna wear these socks or those socks?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And it was it was a self realization moment where
it's like you need help.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And you have from a backups too, backup shirts because
you know you're gonna get something on at least one
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's true. No, that's that's why.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Like I could have an outfit for Saturday, Sunday and Monday,
but I know I'll probably go work out or something,
or I'll get something on them, as you were saying,
or I'll want to change my mind. And I have
to think about all these scenarios in advance. And I
was just frozen. Let it go, frozen could move? Am
(06:44):
I the only one that that happens too?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I get that sometimes sometimes I can't choose between black
T shirts in the stack and my place before I
come to work.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I got like four different black polos and I said,
am I gonna do a B or CD?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
And to the trained eye they look identical. Well, those
people don't understand, they don't. Are you mocking me? Or
you're agreeing with me. Well, actually quite a bit of both.
From column an, a little from column B.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I literally I do the same thing, and I've I've
got OCD with books and every other thing in my life.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I understand exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh, you mentioned books, all my books, that they're on
a shelf, the binders. The text has to be reading
in the same direction, and they have to be organized
by height.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But not color.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Don't say color, No, not color, because that's going to
drive that's my that's my closet. I have to put
all the shirts of one color together. It might be
black shirts and blue shirts and toilet. Get serious, get serious, and.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I wow, he's my wife about her OCD, and hers
is ten times worse than me. I'm not a neat freak,
but the things that I need in order have to
be in order, and sometimes I get locked up. My
brain will get locked up and I can't get past
asked certain moments. Out Look, I give away an hour
of my day when it should have taken me ten
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minutes at most.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm wearing shorts and a shirt.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It ain't that freaking complicated on the surface, but for
me and It's not like I need the perfect outfit
because I'm trying to woof someone on the ship.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
No, no, no, no, I just need to be comfortable. That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Do you wear Do you wear the little ankle footy socks?
They're called quarter thought there were footies?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The footy ones that don't Those don't cover the ankle.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
These cover the ankle. Okay, I like the low rise.
But have you had the discussion with your wife that
those have to match? And she's like, just get two
out of the drawer. Nobody sees them anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, no, oh, I'm glad you said that. Okay, I have some.
They're really inexpensive, so don't think they're expensive. They're routh
Lorene socks. But the logo is on the outside of
the sock. So if I get two right socks, that
means the logo will be on the right side on
both of the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Socks, and I can't wear those. I have to have
them match.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You where the logos on the right side on my
right foot and the logos stop laughing at me stuff,
And the logo has to be on the outside.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Of the left This pain is real. Cut it out. No, no, no,
this is for real.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I can relate to almost everything that you said, except
when it comes to the socks.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Because there's been days.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Where I was late and I will have two different pairs,
completely different pairs, and do that.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I will drive my ass home.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
There's one time I've actually going to the store and
gotten some socks because it bothers me. And when I'm
seeing karaoke or singing in the church choir, I always
need my socks pulled up all the way up.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I can't feel them dropping.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's part of the reason why I wear low rise socks,
so I don't feel them drooping.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But you like the filling of pants around your ankles touching?
Oh my that No, no, it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Doesn't touch my ankles because the socks are I have
like dress socks all today because I did spectacle.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
They come above the ankle, yeah, not to the not
below the ankle.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Like for example, you can't see me, but I always
wear a white undershirt. Yeah, and that has to be
tucked into my underwear because I don't like the shirt
touching my skin.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can dig that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I mean, you've never seen me without an undershirt under
a teeth or something, right, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Okay, am I weird? It's not Mark's weird.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No, No, you just crossed the line. That's kind of sick.
I know we're late real quick, but go ahead get
some of this.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
You talking about tucking your your shirt into your underwear.
I have always had a thing where if I'm like
laying down and I have even if it's a PJ shirt,
I can't have it touching my neck, so I always
have it around my mouth and what and my eggs
was like, what are you talking about? And after like
a long time of just sitting with me, She's like, oh,
I kind of get it now. I don't like it there.
(10:55):
It just bugs me, So I get I get that. Yeah,
I don't like certain material touching myself.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Can hell, I'm trying to decide between a duffel bag
and a suitcase. I mean, I mean, I don't know
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I already got that worked out, see that that thing
I planned ahead. I'm down to a just a backpack.
I know how to do this. I'm gonna master with this.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So well, if you want to provoke people, bring your
stuff in a plastic grocery bag. It's might it's a
real icebreaker. I promise you. I mean, don't let Mark
outside anymore. Take away these privileges.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
This lady with mo Kelly if I am six forty,
we have a Metro update and actually it's good news.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well they think it's good news. I don't know if
it's good news. We'll talk about it next.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, last time I talked about Metro, I got out
in front, and I got ahead of myself, got over
my skis. As they say, I said, Hey, no one
got stabbed today, no one got shot, no one got
assaulted on Metro today, And unbeknownst to me, yeah, they were.
All of that was happening in the previous days because
I got caught up in coverage of the DNC and
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miss some of the assaults on Metro. So it maybe
look real, real, real bad or worse than usual. So
this time I'm not going to make any such pronouncement.
I'm just going to go with the story I have
in front of me. La Metro has great news that
they are sharing, or at least that's how they're positioning it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
July.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
As in last month marked the twentieth consecutive month of
year to year ridership growth for the La County m
t A La Metro. The agency had twenty five point
five million boardings in July on its bus and rail services.
You would think that's great news, right, That's how they're
(12:40):
positioning it as it's great news. But here's reality. You
need context, and here's the context. It was reaching eighty
one point eight percent of its July twenty nineteen pre
COVID ridership level. So despite the twenty months of consecutive
year to year, twenty months of consecutive growth, it's still
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only at eighty one point eight percent of what it
was pre COVID. So you can spend this any number
of ways. You can talk about, yes, ridership is growing,
but the fact is, maybe it would have gotten back
to one hundred percent of pre COVID ridership level if
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there weren't so many stabbing, shootings, sexual assaults, maimings, or
any of those things. Because I tend to believe that
probably the crime, the homelessness, all that kind of stuff
probably has a negative impact. That's for you mark a
negative impact on ridership. I'm quite sure someone decided not
(13:46):
to get on Metro today, yesterday, last week, last month
because of the safety issues bus ridership. Let's go inside
the numbers. According to Metro Bus Ridership, in July I
saw nineteen point seven million rides taken for a nine
point eight four percent year over year ridership increase compared
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to July twenty twenty three. Well, okay, mo, what does
that mean to in relation to pre COVID. Well that's
only eighty two point nine percent, so still you are
far below what was on buses prior to COVID.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Let's talk about trains or rails.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
In July, the agency says rail boardings were five point
eight million, reflecting a gain of three point three point
two three percent versus July twenty twenty three. Wow, that
sounds like it's up right. Well, let's compare it to
July twenty nineteen. It's only seventy eight point four percent
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of July twenty nineteen. Still a long way to go,
and we're well passed. I would say the pandemic living
limitations of ridership. Let's go to leisure leader ridership. Excuse me,
leisure ridership, Leisure travelers roade La Metro to concerts, festivals,
sporting events, you know, leisure stuff. MPa says July twenty
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twenty four had more weekday events, which were a driver
of overall ridership growth during the month, with weekday bus
ridership up seven point four percent and weekday rail ridership
up two point three percent. Wow, there's more good news
coming out of Metro. How about the fare programs, the
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agency's reduced price transit pass programs such as the Student
Go Pass program. We told you about that that offers
free transit passes to K through twelve and community college students.
We told you about that, and we also told you
about the Low Income Fare Program, which provides free rides
and reduce fares to low income customers, helping those who
(15:59):
may need the most.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
In July, LA's Metro's Go Pass program had four hundred
and seventy nine thousand boardings, a nineteen percent year over
year increase compared to that same time last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And you would think.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All these increasing statistics, that is just great news that
you can see people are flocking back to Metro when
in actuality they're not.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They're not. But check this out.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
At the end of the report they put the public
safety They buried it at the end because you would
think that should be upfront, but no, no, no, no,
they don't want you to know that first. Here is
what La Metro is also celebrating, quote a new pilot
program that would create taller faregates and up to three
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rail stations to quote deter gate jumping.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
This is all a part of their public safety plan.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Expansion of the Tap to Exit program that requires writers
to tap fair cars to enter at exit to all
ten end of line stations to discourage fair evasion. We
talked about that, and get this, this is really important.
Expansion of the elevator open door pilot from twenty one
elevators to fifty seven elevators.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I didn't know what the hell that was, still not sure,
but this is what it is. It leaves the.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Doors open until called upon and dissuades non transit elevator use.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That should help a lot or not at all.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Also, expansion of the smart restroom pilot from ten stations
to sixty four and transit centers and you get a bathroom,
and you get a bathroom, and you get a toilet
there's more a new pilot program to test two weapons
detection technologies at two transit hubs on the rail system.
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That's all a part of this master public safety plan.
But wait, there's more. Keep its employees and customers safe
and ensure they feel safe through an increased visible presence
of uniformed personnel. It didn't say law enforcement. It just
said uniformed personnel. It could be a janitor for all
(18:18):
we know. Station improvements and improved bust safety measures. They
don't tell you what that they are. What does improved
bus safety measure? Are you saying that the bus drivers
are going to be carrying knives? I don't know what
that means exactly. It's very vague. Ensure the system is
being used only for its intended purpose of transit through
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faregate improvements and removal of trespassers. And they're going to
continue to partner with the County of the Cities and
regional agencies to address societal issues such as homelessness, untreated
mental illness, and drug addiction. What in the hell does
that mean? They're going to continue to partner. But wait,
(18:59):
there's lastly this. I know we got to go to break,
but this is very important La Metro Ambassadors, and I'm
reading straight from the press release. La Metro Ambassadors are
also out in force on La Metro's six rail lines
and five of the busiest bus lines to provide support
to customers. If that doesn't make you feel better about
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Metro and make you want to go, get a fair
card and take the Metro from one end of the
line to the other, I don't know what will. I
don't know what people are so upset about. I don't
know what you want. They're giving it all to you
right here. Metro Ambassadors, more bathrooms, elevators with doors that
stay open, and taller gates.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Damn it, it's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Can if I am six forty live everywhere on the
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Speaker 7 (19:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Lapam, Lapam natam.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You may not know this, you may not even believe this,
but you are one diagnosis away from being bankrupt one
not two one. And if it doesn't apply to you,
then God bless you. But let's just say it doesn't
(20:24):
bankrupt you, mister mo Kelly here KFI. You may have
tons and tons of medical debt which you may never
crawl out from under. And if you haven't been listening
to me for many years, over the years when I
was hosting the mo Kelly Show here on KFI on
the weekends, to walla Shark producer, and I would often
(20:45):
detail the cost of just the seemingly trivial procedures.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
There's a point to all this, So bear with me.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Just getting a blood test, just getting any type of labor,
just staying in the hospital for a night can run
tens of thousands of dollars. And imagine you don't have
medical insurance or sub significant or sufficient insurance, you could
(21:15):
have one hundred thousand dollars worth of medical debt inside
of a week. And I don't think I'm exaggerating, am I?
Am I to allow am I in the wheelhouse now.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
You're being very generous, Okay, very generous.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So the politics of universal healthcare aside. Just know you
are one diagnosis away from being bankrupted, most likely, and
if you survive it, you have tons of medical debt
that you probably won't be able to pay in a
timely fashion and your credit is going to go straight
to hell.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, let me tell you about Senate Bill ten sixty.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
One, which would remove medical debt from credit reports and
prohibit debt collectors from reporting patients medical debt information to
credit agencies. It would pertain specifically to debt ode to
a medical provider, such as a hospital or doctor's office.
(22:13):
It's passed the Assembly, that happened on Monday, and it's
heading to the state Senate for a final vote. And
you may think like, well, yeah, of course, Well it's
been a long road to get to this point, and
because healthcare has been so politicized, sometimes you can't see
the forest for the trees. And if you've ever dealt
(22:34):
with credit, let's say you want to buy a car,
you want to buy a house, and you have you
didn't pay your phone bill on time. That can sit
on your credit for five to seven years and it's
difficult to get out from under it. Now, imagine having
two hundred thousand dollars worth of medical debt, which is
(22:56):
very reasonable and quite conceivable.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
How do you move forward with your life?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
In other words, you beat cancer, but how do you
move forward with your life because your credit has been
shot to hell? Because you're spending all this you could
to keep from ending up homeless and to stay your
ass alive. Now you have all this debt, you ruin
your credit. You can't get that car, you can't get
(23:21):
that house, you can't get the next credit card you
may need to get you to the next point in
life because of all this medical debt. That's where this
bill comes in. And I'm not telling you what to
vote for. I'm not telling you what to support. I'm
not saying that you should get behind this. I'm saying
that if you have yet to deal with a serious
medical issue, as my late pastor World always tell me,
(23:44):
just keep on living.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh it's coming, Oh it's definitely coming.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And you will have to make a financial decision as
far as how are you going to pay for it
or not pay for it. And if you don't pay
for it immediately, well it will or at least prior
to now, it may end up on your credit report
and you'll never get out from under it, or you
could die.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Because you can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Because let's say your credit is not good as it
is and you can't get credit to help pare.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It's all bad.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Because that's the state of health care in America, you know,
because universal health care is socialist who.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Said that, Look, I can tell you for a fact that.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I'd say just over half of all of my debt
is absolutely positively medical debt. Not to let's go beyond
the transplant. Let's go with just the cost of which
am I maintenance? Just maintenance, just the fact that I
have to go and see the doctor every two months,
and the fact that all the different hospitalizations and I
(24:45):
have insurance. Look, I was literally picking up a prescription
the other day, and you know, for a month, this
prescription is forty dollars. At first, they said, well, here's
your three months, apply for one hundred and twenty. And
I'm like, well, let's just do the month right now.
Let's just take care of that month right now. I'm
about to go on the cruise, just got a new car.
Let's hold back on that one hundred and twenty dollars.
(25:07):
And then I said, well, what is it without the insurance?
They showed me that price without the insurance. I almost
had to choke the damn pharmacist. I'm like, if you
don't get that ungodly price away from me.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
How can anyone pay that?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
No one?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
And you need this to maintain your transplant, and you're
telling me this could be some thousand plus dollars for
a month's supply.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Without insurance, and you could theoretically, hypothetically wouldn't wish it
on you. You could lose your job and then lose your insurance,
because that is something your maintenance on your transplants for life.
It's not like if you can hold on for another
year or so, you're good something you would need for
the rest of your life. Yes, you could theoretically lose
your job, lose your insurance, and then be held to
(25:51):
pay that amount just to keep yourself alive.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Just to stay alive, just to keep this transplant functioning,
or risk possibly going back on dialysis. And let's not
talk about the cost of dialysis.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It can be very easy for you to end up
bankrupt inside of a year.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Is that fair? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Absolutely, And to have something like this not have to
hit your credit report anymore, to just be able to
pay on these bills without being buried. We're talking about
people who may not even have super super insurance, who
may have to suffer look dialysis. The number of people
(26:29):
in California that aren't Dallasis, and each Diallasis treatment can
run you at a minimum twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Look, let's just stop the game. So let me throw
another wrinkle in this.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
We all know that there are some employers who will
check potential employees credit and use that as a parameter
for potential employment.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So if your credit's already messed.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Up because of your medical issues, and you need the job,
so you can get the insurance to help deal with
the medical issues, and saying nothing of the payments. It
is where they say a vicious cycle. No, it's not
a cycle. It's just going straight to hell. It's just
you can't wait, you can't get out from under it.
So if anything, you know, someone has said it long ago.
I think it was maybe Ted Kennedy said good policy
(27:13):
is good politics, and if we're going to politicize healthcare,
then at least get good policy out of it. This
on its face, without going into all the minutiae, is
good policy because it helps people. It's later with Mo
Kelly can if I am six forty live everywhere on
(27:35):
the iHeartRadio app And when we come back, we're going
to go down to the Orange County area and talk
about the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
You're listening to. Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
When I first cut the cord, I needed to have
live sports. That was my concern, and streaming was very new.
There weren't many places that I could find live sports
other than going to a bar. And as a hockey fan,
a Kings fan, specifically sorry Ducks. As a hockey fan,
(28:12):
it was even more difficult because the NHL did not
have the type of television deals that the NBA and
the NFL and Major League Baseball had. It was much
more difficult to find Kings games on TV, and especially
in an online or a streaming sense. Well, all that
(28:33):
is changing. Let me tell you how and why. The
Anaheim Ducks are moving their local broadcasts to a free
streaming service. And if you're a Ducks fan, this is
so very cool. If you're a Kings fan, you should
be jealous. And the Anaheim Ducks they're not the first
team to do it. They're just the latest team to
(28:54):
move their local broadcasts from a regional sports network to
a common of direct to consumer streaming and local broadcasts,
meaning you'll be able to still watch it on your
local broadcast channel, but it will also be offered on
a streaming service for free. The Ducks announced yesterday that
(29:17):
sixty five games next season will be broadcast over the
air here in the LA area. They're also partnering on
a multi year deal with Victory Plus streaming service, where
they would stream all games free of charge. Of course,
they'll probably be commercials with every type of sports broadcast,
(29:40):
but as if you're watching it over the air broadcasts,
I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I would love to have.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
This for all my sports teams, but it's almost impossible
the way the economics work. But if you're a Ducks fan,
this is significant. The Ducks are the third team in
the NHL to announce a change to their broadcast model
and also the third team to use Victory Plus streaming service.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I've never used Victory Plus.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I have to check it out to see what else
they offer, and I'm not sure whether you'll be able
to watch the Ducks games if you're out of market.
Let's say, let's say you're on a business trip to
Seattle or something, or you're a Ducks fan and you've
relocated to Amarillo, Texas or something like that, you're living
out of market. I don't think, just like the other
(30:33):
sports streaming services. I don't think you'll be able to
watch the games. It would just be for people in market,
but that's still half the battle. The over the air
games that I was telling you about. It will be
on Fox eleven Plus, which is channel thirteen out here.
I don't know why they call it Fox eleven plus.
I know KTTV and KCOP they kind of share stations
(30:56):
and bandwidths, but they say it's going to be on
KCOP channel thirteen for the Ducks games. They haven't announced
to broadcasters for the streaming service, but I guess they'll
be choosing a new team broadcast team and the streaming
app from Victory Plus is not available as of yet,
(31:16):
but it will be available for your smart TV, for tablet,
smartphones obviously desktop computers starting next month. And if you're
in the regional territory of Orange County, Los Angeles County,
Riverside County, San Bernardino, San Diego, Imperial, Santa Barbara, Ventura Counties,
(31:38):
as well as Hawaii. Oh okay, that's out of market,
but you'll be allowed and able to watch the games.
It will be a free, ad supported streaming service and
if anything, you always want to take notice of how
an industry is moving, and this may be something that
more and more, at least NHL teams may jump on
(31:59):
this man wagon. And some months ago we talked about
some of the expiring deals in Major League Baseball, like
with the Padres and other teams, where I'm thinking, I
don't know this to be true, but I'm thinking that
possibly Major League Baseball may move in this same direction.
So this will be interesting to see as we watch
the evolution of the streaming market, whether there'll be more
(32:21):
and more sports broadcasts available. It's later with Mo Kelly
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
We have zero bliss, completely blissless ks.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I'm m KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County Love
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