September 3, 2024 • 32 mins
Opening / Happy Labor Day / You can get more American than Costco
3 cars trying to start street takeover slam into Metro bus in South L.A. // More power shutoffs slated for Rancho Palos Verdes on Monday amid landslide crisis // Disney Entertainment channels went dark on DirecTV Sunday night after the sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement / Labor Day Weekend Box Office
3 cars trying to start street takeover slam into Metro bus in South L.A. // More power shutoffs slated for Rancho Palos Verdes on Monday amid landslide crisis // Disney Entertainment channels went dark on DirecTV Sunday night after the sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement / Labor Day Weekend Box Office
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
K f I Am you're listening to Later with Mo
Kelly on Jamay on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is Later with Mo Kelly on KFI AM sixty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Ronner in from
Mo with Tiffany Hobbs. Thanks for being here with me again, Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to share the
airwaves with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You, allowing Moe. We'll be back with Tawala tomorrow. We
will hear all about their cruise and their assorted adventures.
Adventures is the word that I can say on the air,
because I'm excited to find out about all the filth
they got up to, all the drunkenness, all the key
swapping parties, whatever else people do on cruises. The only
thing I know about cruises is from the old Kulshak
(01:07):
the night Stalker episode where Carl Koleshak has to go
to a feature on a cruise ship and it turns
out there's a werewolf on the cruise ship. And I
don't think that's the experience Mo and Tuala are having.
Do you know the episode I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't, but I do think that if anyone were
to have that experience. It would be Mo and Twala
on a cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well here's a spoiler if you haven't seen it. There's
no silver bullets on the ship. So Coleshak has to
sneak into the cabin's the captain's cabin and cut the
buttons off his dress uniform and melt them down into bullets.
But there's no priest aboard to bless them, so he's
got to get a rabbi to bless them so that
he can shoot the werewolf. And it still doesn't go
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as planned. So I'm excited to hear how this went
for Mo and Tuala. We got some good guests tonight.
We have Jackie Ray, of course, coming in on her
normal night to talk about sports, which will be funny
because I don't know anything about sports. Also, a really
really cool guest one of the first people I thought
of when I found out we were going to be
(02:09):
hosting the show, Alison Martino, a vintage LA is going
to be here at nine o'clock. She seems like a
terrific person. I'm a terrible judge of people, but she
seems like a lot of fun and I know we're
going to have a ton to talk about hope you
had a relaxing labor day, Tiffany. You said you went
swimming today.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I did. I was off today from my day job teaching, thankfully,
and I was able to go swimming before work. That
never happened.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But you didn't grill anything? And did nobody grill anything? Food?
She grill anything? Nothing? Not today? Nop, Eileen, you don't
look like a griller. No, she's shaking her head. We've
got Eileen guns.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You'd be surprised. I want to be a vegan really badly,
but I just can't. I like steak too much, and
I do try.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I eat vegan most of the time, but I do
love barbecue and a good steak, I should tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And I do admire vegans. And I told Mark Thompson
I would like to get some information about him because
the couple times I've tried to go vegan in the past,
I thought I was dying, I had no energy, I
thought my hair was falling out. But what I strenuously
object to on vegan foods is the fake grill marks,
like either do it or don't do it. Don't don't
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try to pretend like you've got some tofu that's secretly
meet that you've got the grill marks on. I was thinking,
you know, it's Labor Day, and I don't want to
spend a ton of time on this. If you're against
labor unions, I hope you worked today. I hope you
didn't take the day off like people who don't get
to celebrate Labor Day. Howard Schultz, I hope you're I
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hope Howard Schultz of Starbucks is working the counter there today.
You don't get to take Labor Day off work if
you're a union buster. I didn't get to grill anything
today because my car engines light came on and I
didn't get to go to Costco, which I do most weekends,
believe it or not, because because I'm a Patriot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Bill Handle Bill Handle goes to Costco all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I believe that's the one thing that we have in common,
because is there anything more American than Costco? Is there
anything more American than bolt? Consumerism and no judgment. They
don't have any judgment. Like here, when I go to Ralph's,
I always have to explain myself to the checker when
I have like five packs of cookies to get the
sale price that's insidious. By the way, you can get
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just one packet of cookies for five bucks like a Schmo.
Or you can get them for two dollars if you
buy five of them and you don't want to get
caught without cookies if we have a pandemic again or
a zombie apocalypse. So five it is. But I'm always
explaining to the cashier. I hope you know I'm not
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just driving straight home and eating these five things of
cookies like a filthy animal. Right, you got to buy
five to get the sale price, And they're just looking
at me like, just get through the line, buddy, Just
or like soup, No, ma'am, I haven't just had my
jaw wired shut and I can eat other things. But
to get this soup for one dollar, I had to
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buy eight of them. Otherwise they were four dollars a piece.
Nice to meet you. By the way, my name's Andy Warhol. Now,
because I was a bag boy a little while in
high school, you better believe we used to profile people
by what they bought. I mean, that's what they all
do and what they always have do, Like how could
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you not like box of tampons and some ice cream?
Hope your evening goes okay, many easy, easy, honestly, best
of luck. I'm not going to get in your face
about anything. This was before every single person who watches
network TV knew what an FBI profiler was. People who
work at grocery stores they should be called in to
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solve crimes because they've been little consumer sherlock homes forever
and they judge you. I'm not going to say we
judge you. It's been a while since I did that.
So let me see champagne, a couple of lobster tails,
box some magnums, too easy, give me something more challenging.
They don't do that at Costco, though, is my point.
I went through the checkout at Costco a few days
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ago with a couple of gigantic bottles of vodka because
they're dirt cheap there. You're insane about them? Why sure,
it's an insanely good deal. Why wouldn't you? And then
I was in the aisle and I saw a killer
deal on tequila, big gigantic bottle of Hornitos for like
twenty five bucks, approximately a small barrel of it. When
twenty five bucks it gets you maybe maybe two shots
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of it at a bar but I'm feeling self conscious
when I get to the front of the line. Maybe
they slip a pamphlet into your stuff when they see
these kinds of purchases, like do you need helps or
do you have a drinking problem? No, I do not
need help unless you're going to suggest a mixer for
all of this. So preemptively, I say to the cashier,
got a stock up for emergencies. No one wants to
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get short, you know, a month into the purge, you know,
and I know this might seem like a lot, but
without hesitation, the cashier is like, nope, we're on the
same page. Now I may be imagining this, but I
seriously thought she wanted to high five me. She was
encouraging me, she was validating me. She saw me, and
she was not repulsed. Now, all that said, I love Costco,
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but you'd think they could use a PA system. And
when the store is closing, instead of the cutting edge
technology that they do use, which consists of a woman
at the back of the store shouting at people to
get the hell out of the store, Costco is now
they heard employees to the front of the store. Have
you been in a Costco when they're closing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I have not. I try to stay away from things
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, it's just short of turning the hose on people.
I would almost rather have the hose turned on me.
And since this labor Day, I did a little googling
and found out that Costco has something like a ninety
four percent retention rate with employees. They offer medical dental
benefits even to part timers, and so I do feel better.
I feel more patriotic opping at Costco than walmartin I
don't know why more people don't talk about this and
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don't seem bothered by it. Walmart pays their employees so
little that it's one of the employers with the most workers,
along with McDonald's. I think on public benefits, food Stamps, Medicaid,
and guess who pays for that, US taxpayers, while the
Walton family keeps getting richer than oil Sultan's. Anyone who
tells you that that's a right or left issue, I
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think they're gas lating, gaslighting you. It's a getting soaked issue.
I mean, people right, left and center pay taxes, and
Walmart and pays its employees so little they got to
go on public assistance and we have to take up
the slack for that they can afford to pay better,
but why should they when they can fleece taxpayers into
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footing the bill For all that seems like the opposite
of patriotic. I get the feeling that some people aren't
crazy about hearing that, But you have to explain to
me why because they sell red, white and blue stuff
in this story. You got to tell me how you
can possibly defend that. Something to think about on Labor
Day when we come back. We are going to stay
in the mo Kelly Show Later with mo Kelly tradition
(09:07):
of covering Metro incidents. But let's make it a surprised you're.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Forty, Mark Ronner in for mo Kelly and Tuala with
Tiffany Hobbs here with me as well. It is a
day ending in why so, of course there's been another
Metro incident, but Metro doesn't seem to be the one
to blame in this one though. Still maybe time for
the people who run Metro to burn some sage on
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some buses, do an exorcism, start some hazard pay for drivers.
I'll give you the highlights here three cars attempting to
start a street takeover crashed into a Metro bus in
LA's Vermont Vista neighborhood overnight. Video from the scene shows
the mangled vehicles, including one that had been turned on
its side in front of the bus, at the crash site,
located near the intersection of South Figueroa Street and Century Boulevard.
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After the crash, off th drivers fled the scene. The
Metro spokesman said the bus was stopped at a red
light when the collision occurred. Here's what happened. A Metro
Line eighty one bus was waiting at a red traffic
signal behind a vehicle when a third vehicle attempting to
make a left turn, collided with the vehicle, pushing it
in front of the bus. My god, these guys can't
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get a break.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They can't. And it's really funny that you say. This
is a story that somewhat atypical. Usually Metro is in
the victim position, or rather the victimizer position, and in
this case they are the victim. So we have a
bit of sympathy for them.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And sympathy for the drivers. What do these guys say
to their spouses, men or women when they leave the
house for work every day, it's Lazarus like, it's been
a good life. You're the love of my life. No
matter what happens, never forget that. And if I come home,
what are we having for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
The interesting thing about this story, too, Mark, is that,
and we were speaking about this off air, typically Labor Day,
Memorial Day, these weekend long weekends are synchronous when it
comes to the volume of high traffic incidents, DUIs, things
like that, and there were no shortage of these incidents.
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There was another one that has kind of flown under
the radar at this point, it hasn't been picked up
by the local TV outlets, but it is all over
kind of these social media local blogs that follow crime
and also report to the TV stations. And what happened
was there was an incident in downtown LA's Santi Village.
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And if you're familiar with that part of downtown LA,
there are lots of old factories that have since been
converted into lofts and it's a very trendy area if
you will. Eighth and Los Angeles Street right there, and
there's this little area that houses multiple develops and they
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share this parking garage. I say all of this to
say there were YouTubers there filming, because the area itself
is very picturesque. They've used it for lots of movie
backdrops and whatnot. And these YouTubers where they're getting content,
and they got content. Oh did they? They were able
to somehow catch a crime in action? And I say
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somehow kind of ingest because it's LA and you can
probably catch crime if you just look out of any window.
There's probably crime happening right outside of our studio right now. Well,
LA one can hope. Well they did, and they were
able to catch this person driving erratically and this person
was on Eighth Street, crashes into this gate of this
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apartment complex, these multi development area, knocks down, this gate, reverses,
goes backwards down the street, the makings of everything you
could imagine good newscasts might include. Except these are YouTubers
catching this all on their cell phones.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well they catch everything. Listen. If you had had these
YouTubers with the camera phones back like when The Fugitive
was on TV, Richard Kimball would have been busted after
one season. He wasn't gonna make it multiple seasons because
they see everything it's like the CCTVs and that old
five show. We have no privacy anymore. Anything you do
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is going to get filmed, right, So.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They film this guy and this guy again is driving backwards.
Then the person goes forward hits a fire department truck
which is in pursuit of whatever. So there's all this happening,
this huge kind of cacophonists just crime center right there,
involving this one person who is clearly drunk. So that's
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where the dui thing comes in or in some way intoxicated. Well,
they pursue, these YouTubers pursue this guy. They get in
their cars, they follow them, they call the police, and
in the interim they decide that they're going to corner
this person, who then gets out of the car, runs
runs into another parking lot. They find him with his
little legs sticking out from behind a car, trying to hide.
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And you know, if you've ever had too much to drink,
your ever rationalization is always off. He probably thought he
was really well hidden. No, and this is all on
video so you can see it. But they catch him
and they use a cell phone charger, a portable charger,
and they hold it and kind of conceal it to
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make it look like it's a weapon of some sort.
And this is a YouTuber who then approaches this guy
and makes a full on citizen's arrest.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So this is the twenty first century equivalent of holding
your index finger in the pocket of your coat and
pretending like you got to hear around there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yet absolutely except now we're using digital devices. And so
they hold this person there, they put the person's arm
behind their back, and the police do show up and
they hand off this person to the police who this
person was in booked for dui and causing all of
these things. And again this has flown under the radar,
but it really speaks to kind of the chaos that
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happens over these three day weekends, including the situation with
the Metro and this attempted street takeover with these cars
crashing into a bus.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen all the Fast and
Furious movies. Is there one of the more Vin Diesel
gets taken out by a Metro bus.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
If it hasn't happened already, it's probably in the works.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I just can't imagine. Like when I was say, I
don't know. Charlie Brown, age eight nine ten years old.
I went everywhere on city buses, and I went alone,
and nobody cared. Nothing ever happened. But could you imagine
letting your kids do that at this point?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It for some it's a necessity, and it does not
come without that paranoia and that anxiety. It's very volatile,
it's very unpredictable. I think what you can predict is
that there likely will be something to happen surrounding and
in this case, they are the innocent ones.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah. I mean we as long as we were home
in time for dinner. Nobody cared where we went because
it just this kind of stuff never happened before. So
like I would imagine a kid today coming home and
the parents like, so, anything happened today's son? Oh, just
an attack on the driver and oh a street takeover crash.
Oh is that all? Let's pass the meat loaf.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I that's kind of where it's going.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I just can't like there. You could make an argument
now for sending your kid everywhere in an uber, driving
them yourself, and having them chipped like a pet until
they're at least eighteen years old.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I like to end on a dystopian positive note like that.
So when we come back, we're going to talk a
little bit about the landslide in Rancho Palace Verdes. It
is getting worse fast and people are in a pretty
serious position, not sure what they can do.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
You're listening too Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mo and Twala will be back tomorrow and they'll tell
you all about their ordeal, I mean, their fun cruise.
We have some actual news to talk about tonight, and
it seems like a situation in Rancho Palace Verdes is
getting more and more dire. Give you a little information here,
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then go to a news report on it and additional
one hundred and five residents is will lose electricity today
as Southern California Edison continues implementing safeguards amid worsening landslides
threatening areas of Rancho Palace vertis Fush will you played
the news clip please?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Gas power generators are now the main source of power
for nearly one hundred and forty homes in the Portuguese
ben community of Rancho Palace Verdes after Southern California Edison
shut off the electricity due to safety concerns with the
shifting land.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
We got the one day notice just this weekend, during
a holiday weekend about Electric City, that that has been
just unreal, to be quite honest with you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Kevin Cross rushed out to buy a generator Saturday night.
He says, it's been frustrating to be given less than
twenty four hours to prepare.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It's crazy just driving all over the place. Still a
lot of unknowns. I have no idea how long the
generator works with a tank of gas. I'm trying to
feel that out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This power shut off comes one month after the gas
was shut off. As the landslides in Rancho Palace Verdes
continue to worsen. It has been shifting since the nineteen fifties,
but it's now moving at an accelerated rate of more
than a foot a week in certain areas. The increase
in heavy rains last year sped up the movement, damaging
homes and roads.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Just did this just to reinforce it. Didn't want the
garage coming down here.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
CHROs has been making adjustments to protect the foundation since
purchasing the property to deal with the crisis, which he
says is manageable but feels continuously running. The loud generator
is not an ideal salution and moving forward like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
This cannot be long term, Like I'm already losing my mind.
It's been a couple of days. I'm making constant adjustments.
I don't want to run the generators really loud at night,
so I have to turn it off, and there's no
power in the mouse, you know, I got to decide,
you know, when it's ready for time to go to bed.
I really don't need that much power. But if an
emergency happened and I need, you know, now, I need
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to have lanterns, flashlights, I need to have all these
things prepared.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And it's also expensive. Crow says. A generator of this
size to run a home that's about four thousand square
feet costs around twenty five hundred dollars and about seventy
five dollars a day worth of gas just to fill
it up. I did reach out to the city to
see if there's any plans to reimburse or to help
with paying off the generators are paying for gas.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I still not heard back.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What on nightmare and running a generator indefinitely indefinitely is
no plan at all. So the latest shut off was
scheduled for seven to night in the Seaview area. That
comes a day after residents and one hundred and forty
homes and the Portuguese ben community lost their electricity. They're
under an evacuation warning some other highlights, although that's not
really the word you want here. Forty seven homes without
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power for twenty four hours, forty properties without power for
one to three weeks, twenty properties without power indefinitely. They've
got vehicles, community care vehicles set up throughout the day
to give people some help. I don't know what they
can do though. Without gas electricity service, many residents may
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choose to seek alternative housing arrangements for the foreseeable future.
The cities identifying hotels and other accommodations that can offer
discounted rates for residents. Again, a hotel, how long can
you stay in a hotel?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It assumes that people have this sort of emergency fund
to be able to furnish this sort of disaster relief.
And I know janis Han supervisor. Han is asking for age.
He's appealing to Governor Newsom to try and get somewhere
upwards of one billion in aid. But until that happens,
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people are going to be footing the bill individually, and
again these are this is a community that is not
necessarily wealthy. They have really expensive homes, and yes, there
are people there who are wealthy or do have a
lot of money, But then there are other people who
got in a long time ago, lot of seniors who
are living right at their means, and this is their home.
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This is their home, this is their savings, this is
their retirement. And now all of this is in peril
and they're saying indefinitely how the open endedness of this
is insane, and right at the beginning of a heat wave,
and at the coast at Portuguese Been, which I'm very
familiar with. Yes, it is typically cooler than inland, but
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it can get really warm, and when you're dealing with
all of this, it's just adding insult to injury.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I see here the land movement in Rancho Palas Verdes
has accelerated across six hundred and eighty acres following heavy
rains in the spring of twenty twenty three, which caused
more damage to homes and roads and utilities. So I
guess there's a climate change component to this, but there's
more to it than that. Oh and by the way,
the fear of looters. For God's sakes, can you imagine
a lower life form than somebody looting a home that
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people have had to skid daddle out of because they're
afraid it's going to slide into the ocean.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And it happened before, which is why they're issuing these
warnings to residents and to the local law enforcement. Because
back in May, back in March, back in these other
you know, in the past previous months where they've been
dealing with these evacuations, they absolutely had looting activity.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And arrest too. So I see that Sheriff Luna has
authorized drones to help guard against possible criminal activity. But
what good is a drone going to do if somebody
just gets in and out? I mean, I guess maybe
help identifying them there. But there's more to the situation
than the rain. Though. This is pretty interesting. It was
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ancient landslide that goes back thousands of years, which was
activated by more recent tunneling involving a section of Crenshaw Boulevard.
You get that some of this or some unspecified portion
of a percentage of this awful landslide that's inconveniencing displacing,
losing the homes possibly of countless people. This was from
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something that could have been avoided. So tunneling through something
that really got this going. Who is responsible for this?
Who pays? And I gotta tell you, this is so
dire that it sounds to me like something out of
one of those seventies disaster movies? Are you too young
for these? The ones in sense around that shook the
seats like you would have Charles Charlton Heston warning somebody
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you can't do this, or X Y and Z is
going to happening, going to happen, and this is the
X Y and Z. So it seems to me like
if this is true that it's at least partially the
result of tunneling, somebody's got to answer for this. Somebody's
got to pay, somebody's going to make these people whole again.
Like I don't really understand engineering at all. Of all
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the stuff I try to school myself on, engineering baffles
me more than almost anything. So, Like there's sometimes late
at night I'll have a nightcap and I'll turn on
YouTube and watch documentaries about these skyscrapers in New York
and it gives me anxiety attacks. I'm not kidding y,
So the prospect of building in an area like this
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that might be a little dicey to begin with, and
then just kind of doing the whole gopher routine in
networks that destabilize all the ground underneath. That seems insane
to me.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's a huge part of the city of this region
that is going away and forcibly violently, some might say
it really kind of We thought peeked with Wayfarer's chapel
back in.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
May remind people what happened with that. If you can recall.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
The details, maybe we can do that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh is it time to break? Now, let's move on,
but we're gonna stay on top of this story at KFI,
so stay tuned. When we come back from the break,
we are going to talk about sports fans getting cut
right off and the weekend box office and after that
Jackie Ray, Allison Martino Full Night Ahead. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Mark Ronner in from the newsroom from O Kelly, who
is off on a cruise with Tuala Tiffany Hobbs here
making sure I don't burst into tears or stuff for
about of incontinence here in the host with different share
but same cru you got Foosh in the air mix.
We've got okay, not fully the same crew. We've got Eileen,
who is new in the news department. Welcome aboard, Eileen.
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I you know what did I say to you the
first time I trained you? You don't remember? You said
run okay. Apart from that, I said, your learning curve
is frightening me, and you're going to have my job.
I just didn't think it was going to be quite
this fast. We've got Keana, and I think we're good
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to go. The story that we're going to do right
now is hilarious because playing the sports theme before I
talk is about the most inappropriate thing in the world.
Not only do I not follow sports or know anything
about most sports that people watch. I did all the
crappy ones that nobody likes like. I wrestled, and I
had to wear the singlet, which honestly rather unflattering no
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matter what kind of shape you think you're in the singlet,
I ran, I did kickboxing, and these are not real
crowd pleasers of sports. But I'm gonna start off with
a story here and then you're gonna understand why this
is interesting to me. The statute of limitations has run
out on this. It's been decades one time, and I
really wasn't into sports. One time, when I was living
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in Indiana working at my first newspaper and not barely
making enough to make rent and have a nightcap after
my police beach shift. At the end of the night,
I had no money whatsoever, dirt poor. I heard there
was going to be a Wild Wild West TV show
marathon on one of the cable channels. I didn't have cable,
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so what did I do. I got a ladder out
of the landlord's garage and I started hacking into my neighbor,
Hippie Jim's cable. And I had a splitter that I
bought for like a buck and a half at the store.
And I'm up on the ladder. I've cut it in half.
I've got half of it in my mouth and the
knife in the other hand, and I look down and
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I see Hippie Jim and his wife standing there looking
up at me like they're going to kill me, like
it's one of those standiard ground states. Because apparently I
had cut off their cable right in the middle of
an important sports game. They're watching to watch the Wild
Wild West. They were within their rights to take my
life at this time. And so what's that I got
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to do with this is that ESPN's gone off the
air on a major carrier for the second straight year
during the US Open Tennis tournament and in the midst
of the first full weekend to college football. Disney entertainment
channels went dark on Direct TV Sunday night after the
sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement. The
move angered some sports fans. You think, I bet seismologists
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here at the university probably picked up the tremor from
people yelling that one word that starts to see.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You know, who was playing yesterday when this happened.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Football wise, college your side, don't who? Who?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
USC my alma mater and LSU, which was a hugely
anticipated game watched by so many people, and it was
held in Las Vegas, and there was a lot of
interest because this is kind of the foray into SC
being a part of a whole new division. Yeah, and
we won, but it was interrupted in the very beginning
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by this.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This it's not funny, I don't know, but on the
Ski one to ten of just absolute outrages that would
make you want to get on somebody with a baseball bat.
What is this with eight, ten, eleven?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
This is a thirteen. Really, when you're watching the game
now that we're calm, it's a one. It's a two
because you're looking at these two huge conglomerates arguing about money.
But during your game, during the you know, the US Open,
during college football's first weekend. No one wants to you
wait all year for these things.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
No, And apparently this is the result of unresolved negotiations
between DirecTV and Disney, resulting in the loss of access
to ESPN ABC owned stations in La San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno,
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh. They also got cut
off last year. Disney and Spectrum, which is the nation's
second largest cable TV provider, we're involved in a nearly
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twelve day m pass until coming to an agreement hours
before the first Monday night NFL game of the season.
Like there's a white knuckle finish for you. DirecTV says
Disney offered an extension to keep the channels on the
air and exchange for listen to this direct TV having
to waive all future legal claims that its behavior is
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anti competitive. And even if I don't know much about sports,
I can tell you waving all future legal claims tends
to be a bit of a red flag, wouldn't you think?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh yeah, so I can understand DirecTV not wanting to
enter into that type of agreement.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
What's extra funny is that the Direct TV people are
getting into some smack talk here against old Uncle Walt.
Here's the chief content Officer, Rob thoone of DirecTV, the
Walt Disney companies, once again refusing any accountability to consumers,
distribution partners, and now the American judicial system. Disney's in
the business of creating alternate realities, but this is the
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real world where we believe you earn your way and
must answer for your own actions. Honestly, this sounds a
little biting, it's a little bureaucratese. But this is thrown
down in language. This is like saying, you know, here's
a middle finger for you, Uncle Walt, and here is
Disney's response. Well, I'll read the response and then we
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can interpret it. While we're open to offering direct TV
flexibility in terms which we've extended to other distributors, we
will not enter into an agreement that undervalues our portfolio
of television channels and programs.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
They want more money, they do Disney. They always want
more money.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
But honestly, after the acolyte, shouldn't you be a little
bit humble about what you're asking people to cough up?
I mean, really, really, so the direct TV guy really
goes for it again down here, He says Disney Disney's
only magic is forcing prices to go up while simultaneously
making its content disappear. I mean, they might as well
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just say it's not the happiest place on Earth Disneyland.
Go there and kill yourself. They're really pulling out the
stops here, or like Disney the happy place on Earth
for me to poop on? If it for a triumph
the insult comic dog, we blew right through the box
office results for the weekend. Maybe we'll get to that
later in the show, like say, for instance, if a
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guest stiffs us tonight. But we're gonna go to a
break right now, and when we come back, Jackie Ray
is going to come and school me about what's going
on in sports this week. Mark Ronner with Tiffany Hobbs.
Later with Mo Kelly live on Wait a MI I
soon five. I have like four different things written down
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and I can't read my own handwriting, but by this
point it should be imprinted on my cortex. Kf I
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
He did you've been listening so later with mo Kelly.
You can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty seven pm to ten pm every Monday through Friday,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is Later with Mo Kelly on KFI AM sixty
Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Mark Ronner in from
Mo with Tiffany Hobbs. Thanks for being here with me again, Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to share the
airwaves with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You, allowing Moe. We'll be back with Tawala tomorrow. We
will hear all about their cruise and their assorted adventures.
Adventures is the word that I can say on the air,
because I'm excited to find out about all the filth
they got up to, all the drunkenness, all the key
swapping parties, whatever else people do on cruises. The only
thing I know about cruises is from the old Kulshak
(01:07):
the night Stalker episode where Carl Koleshak has to go
to a feature on a cruise ship and it turns
out there's a werewolf on the cruise ship. And I
don't think that's the experience Mo and Tuala are having.
Do you know the episode I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I don't, but I do think that if anyone were
to have that experience. It would be Mo and Twala
on a cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well here's a spoiler if you haven't seen it. There's
no silver bullets on the ship. So Coleshak has to
sneak into the cabin's the captain's cabin and cut the
buttons off his dress uniform and melt them down into bullets.
But there's no priest aboard to bless them, so he's
got to get a rabbi to bless them so that
he can shoot the werewolf. And it still doesn't go
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as planned. So I'm excited to hear how this went
for Mo and Tuala. We got some good guests tonight.
We have Jackie Ray, of course, coming in on her
normal night to talk about sports, which will be funny
because I don't know anything about sports. Also, a really
really cool guest one of the first people I thought
of when I found out we were going to be
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hosting the show, Alison Martino, a vintage LA is going
to be here at nine o'clock. She seems like a
terrific person. I'm a terrible judge of people, but she
seems like a lot of fun and I know we're
going to have a ton to talk about hope you
had a relaxing labor day, Tiffany. You said you went
swimming today.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I did. I was off today from my day job teaching, thankfully,
and I was able to go swimming before work. That
never happened.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
But you didn't grill anything? And did nobody grill anything? Food?
She grill anything? Nothing? Not today? Nop, Eileen, you don't
look like a griller. No, she's shaking her head. We've
got Eileen guns.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You'd be surprised. I want to be a vegan really badly,
but I just can't. I like steak too much, and
I do try.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I eat vegan most of the time, but I do
love barbecue and a good steak, I should tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And I do admire vegans. And I told Mark Thompson
I would like to get some information about him because
the couple times I've tried to go vegan in the past,
I thought I was dying, I had no energy, I
thought my hair was falling out. But what I strenuously
object to on vegan foods is the fake grill marks,
like either do it or don't do it. Don't don't
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try to pretend like you've got some tofu that's secretly
meet that you've got the grill marks on. I was thinking,
you know, it's Labor Day, and I don't want to
spend a ton of time on this. If you're against
labor unions, I hope you worked today. I hope you
didn't take the day off like people who don't get
to celebrate Labor Day. Howard Schultz, I hope you're I
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hope Howard Schultz of Starbucks is working the counter there today.
You don't get to take Labor Day off work if
you're a union buster. I didn't get to grill anything
today because my car engines light came on and I
didn't get to go to Costco, which I do most weekends,
believe it or not, because because I'm a Patriot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Bill Handle Bill Handle goes to Costco all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I believe that's the one thing that we have in common,
because is there anything more American than Costco? Is there
anything more American than bolt? Consumerism and no judgment. They
don't have any judgment. Like here, when I go to Ralph's,
I always have to explain myself to the checker when
I have like five packs of cookies to get the
sale price that's insidious. By the way, you can get
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just one packet of cookies for five bucks like a Schmo.
Or you can get them for two dollars if you
buy five of them and you don't want to get
caught without cookies if we have a pandemic again or
a zombie apocalypse. So five it is. But I'm always
explaining to the cashier. I hope you know I'm not
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just driving straight home and eating these five things of
cookies like a filthy animal. Right, you got to buy
five to get the sale price, And they're just looking
at me like, just get through the line, buddy, Just
or like soup, No, ma'am, I haven't just had my
jaw wired shut and I can eat other things. But
to get this soup for one dollar, I had to
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buy eight of them. Otherwise they were four dollars a piece.
Nice to meet you. By the way, my name's Andy Warhol. Now,
because I was a bag boy a little while in
high school, you better believe we used to profile people
by what they bought. I mean, that's what they all
do and what they always have do, Like how could
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you not like box of tampons and some ice cream?
Hope your evening goes okay, many easy, easy, honestly, best
of luck. I'm not going to get in your face
about anything. This was before every single person who watches
network TV knew what an FBI profiler was. People who
work at grocery stores they should be called in to
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solve crimes because they've been little consumer sherlock homes forever
and they judge you. I'm not going to say we
judge you. It's been a while since I did that.
So let me see champagne, a couple of lobster tails,
box some magnums, too easy, give me something more challenging.
They don't do that at Costco, though, is my point.
I went through the checkout at Costco a few days
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ago with a couple of gigantic bottles of vodka because
they're dirt cheap there. You're insane about them? Why sure,
it's an insanely good deal. Why wouldn't you? And then
I was in the aisle and I saw a killer
deal on tequila, big gigantic bottle of Hornitos for like
twenty five bucks, approximately a small barrel of it. When
twenty five bucks it gets you maybe maybe two shots
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of it at a bar but I'm feeling self conscious
when I get to the front of the line. Maybe
they slip a pamphlet into your stuff when they see
these kinds of purchases, like do you need helps or
do you have a drinking problem? No, I do not
need help unless you're going to suggest a mixer for
all of this. So preemptively, I say to the cashier,
got a stock up for emergencies. No one wants to
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get short, you know, a month into the purge, you know,
and I know this might seem like a lot, but
without hesitation, the cashier is like, nope, we're on the
same page. Now I may be imagining this, but I
seriously thought she wanted to high five me. She was
encouraging me, she was validating me. She saw me, and
she was not repulsed. Now, all that said, I love Costco,
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but you'd think they could use a PA system. And
when the store is closing, instead of the cutting edge
technology that they do use, which consists of a woman
at the back of the store shouting at people to
get the hell out of the store, Costco is now
they heard employees to the front of the store. Have
you been in a Costco when they're closing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I have not. I try to stay away from things
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, it's just short of turning the hose on people.
I would almost rather have the hose turned on me.
And since this labor Day, I did a little googling
and found out that Costco has something like a ninety
four percent retention rate with employees. They offer medical dental
benefits even to part timers, and so I do feel better.
I feel more patriotic opping at Costco than walmartin I
don't know why more people don't talk about this and
(08:03):
don't seem bothered by it. Walmart pays their employees so
little that it's one of the employers with the most workers,
along with McDonald's. I think on public benefits, food Stamps, Medicaid,
and guess who pays for that, US taxpayers, while the
Walton family keeps getting richer than oil Sultan's. Anyone who
tells you that that's a right or left issue, I
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think they're gas lating, gaslighting you. It's a getting soaked issue.
I mean, people right, left and center pay taxes, and
Walmart and pays its employees so little they got to
go on public assistance and we have to take up
the slack for that they can afford to pay better,
but why should they when they can fleece taxpayers into
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footing the bill For all that seems like the opposite
of patriotic. I get the feeling that some people aren't
crazy about hearing that, But you have to explain to
me why because they sell red, white and blue stuff
in this story. You got to tell me how you
can possibly defend that. Something to think about on Labor
Day when we come back. We are going to stay
in the mo Kelly Show Later with mo Kelly tradition
(09:07):
of covering Metro incidents. But let's make it a surprised you're.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Forty, Mark Ronner in for mo Kelly and Tuala with
Tiffany Hobbs here with me as well. It is a
day ending in why so, of course there's been another
Metro incident, but Metro doesn't seem to be the one
to blame in this one though. Still maybe time for
the people who run Metro to burn some sage on
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some buses, do an exorcism, start some hazard pay for drivers.
I'll give you the highlights here three cars attempting to
start a street takeover crashed into a Metro bus in
LA's Vermont Vista neighborhood overnight. Video from the scene shows
the mangled vehicles, including one that had been turned on
its side in front of the bus, at the crash site,
located near the intersection of South Figueroa Street and Century Boulevard.
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After the crash, off th drivers fled the scene. The
Metro spokesman said the bus was stopped at a red
light when the collision occurred. Here's what happened. A Metro
Line eighty one bus was waiting at a red traffic
signal behind a vehicle when a third vehicle attempting to
make a left turn, collided with the vehicle, pushing it
in front of the bus. My god, these guys can't
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get a break.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They can't. And it's really funny that you say. This
is a story that somewhat atypical. Usually Metro is in
the victim position, or rather the victimizer position, and in
this case they are the victim. So we have a
bit of sympathy for them.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And sympathy for the drivers. What do these guys say
to their spouses, men or women when they leave the
house for work every day, it's Lazarus like, it's been
a good life. You're the love of my life. No
matter what happens, never forget that. And if I come home,
what are we having for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
The interesting thing about this story, too, Mark, is that,
and we were speaking about this off air, typically Labor Day,
Memorial Day, these weekend long weekends are synchronous when it
comes to the volume of high traffic incidents, DUIs, things
like that, and there were no shortage of these incidents.
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There was another one that has kind of flown under
the radar at this point, it hasn't been picked up
by the local TV outlets, but it is all over
kind of these social media local blogs that follow crime
and also report to the TV stations. And what happened
was there was an incident in downtown LA's Santi Village.
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And if you're familiar with that part of downtown LA,
there are lots of old factories that have since been
converted into lofts and it's a very trendy area if
you will. Eighth and Los Angeles Street right there, and
there's this little area that houses multiple develops and they
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share this parking garage. I say all of this to
say there were YouTubers there filming, because the area itself
is very picturesque. They've used it for lots of movie
backdrops and whatnot. And these YouTubers where they're getting content,
and they got content. Oh did they? They were able
to somehow catch a crime in action? And I say
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somehow kind of ingest because it's LA and you can
probably catch crime if you just look out of any window.
There's probably crime happening right outside of our studio right now. Well,
LA one can hope. Well they did, and they were
able to catch this person driving erratically and this person
was on Eighth Street, crashes into this gate of this
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apartment complex, these multi development area, knocks down, this gate, reverses,
goes backwards down the street, the makings of everything you
could imagine good newscasts might include. Except these are YouTubers
catching this all on their cell phones.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well they catch everything. Listen. If you had had these
YouTubers with the camera phones back like when The Fugitive
was on TV, Richard Kimball would have been busted after
one season. He wasn't gonna make it multiple seasons because
they see everything it's like the CCTVs and that old
five show. We have no privacy anymore. Anything you do
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is going to get filmed, right, So.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They film this guy and this guy again is driving backwards.
Then the person goes forward hits a fire department truck
which is in pursuit of whatever. So there's all this happening,
this huge kind of cacophonists just crime center right there,
involving this one person who is clearly drunk. So that's
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where the dui thing comes in or in some way intoxicated. Well,
they pursue, these YouTubers pursue this guy. They get in
their cars, they follow them, they call the police, and
in the interim they decide that they're going to corner
this person, who then gets out of the car, runs
runs into another parking lot. They find him with his
little legs sticking out from behind a car, trying to hide.
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And you know, if you've ever had too much to drink,
your ever rationalization is always off. He probably thought he
was really well hidden. No, and this is all on
video so you can see it. But they catch him
and they use a cell phone charger, a portable charger,
and they hold it and kind of conceal it to
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make it look like it's a weapon of some sort.
And this is a YouTuber who then approaches this guy
and makes a full on citizen's arrest.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So this is the twenty first century equivalent of holding
your index finger in the pocket of your coat and
pretending like you got to hear around there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yet absolutely except now we're using digital devices. And so
they hold this person there, they put the person's arm
behind their back, and the police do show up and
they hand off this person to the police who this
person was in booked for dui and causing all of
these things. And again this has flown under the radar,
but it really speaks to kind of the chaos that
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happens over these three day weekends, including the situation with
the Metro and this attempted street takeover with these cars
crashing into a bus.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen all the Fast and
Furious movies. Is there one of the more Vin Diesel
gets taken out by a Metro bus.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
If it hasn't happened already, it's probably in the works.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I just can't imagine. Like when I was say, I
don't know. Charlie Brown, age eight nine ten years old.
I went everywhere on city buses, and I went alone,
and nobody cared. Nothing ever happened. But could you imagine
letting your kids do that at this point?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
It for some it's a necessity, and it does not
come without that paranoia and that anxiety. It's very volatile,
it's very unpredictable. I think what you can predict is
that there likely will be something to happen surrounding and
in this case, they are the innocent ones.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah. I mean we as long as we were home
in time for dinner. Nobody cared where we went because
it just this kind of stuff never happened before. So
like I would imagine a kid today coming home and
the parents like, so, anything happened today's son? Oh, just
an attack on the driver and oh a street takeover crash.
Oh is that all? Let's pass the meat loaf.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I that's kind of where it's going.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I just can't like there. You could make an argument
now for sending your kid everywhere in an uber, driving
them yourself, and having them chipped like a pet until
they're at least eighteen years old.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I like to end on a dystopian positive note like that.
So when we come back, we're going to talk a
little bit about the landslide in Rancho Palace Verdes. It
is getting worse fast and people are in a pretty
serious position, not sure what they can do.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
You're listening too Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Mo and Twala will be back tomorrow and they'll tell
you all about their ordeal, I mean, their fun cruise.
We have some actual news to talk about tonight, and
it seems like a situation in Rancho Palace Verdes is
getting more and more dire. Give you a little information here,
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then go to a news report on it and additional
one hundred and five residents is will lose electricity today
as Southern California Edison continues implementing safeguards amid worsening landslides
threatening areas of Rancho Palace vertis Fush will you played
the news clip please?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Gas power generators are now the main source of power
for nearly one hundred and forty homes in the Portuguese
ben community of Rancho Palace Verdes after Southern California Edison
shut off the electricity due to safety concerns with the
shifting land.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
We got the one day notice just this weekend, during
a holiday weekend about Electric City, that that has been
just unreal, to be quite honest with you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Kevin Cross rushed out to buy a generator Saturday night.
He says, it's been frustrating to be given less than
twenty four hours to prepare.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
It's crazy just driving all over the place. Still a
lot of unknowns. I have no idea how long the
generator works with a tank of gas. I'm trying to
feel that out.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
This power shut off comes one month after the gas
was shut off. As the landslides in Rancho Palace Verdes
continue to worsen. It has been shifting since the nineteen fifties,
but it's now moving at an accelerated rate of more
than a foot a week in certain areas. The increase
in heavy rains last year sped up the movement, damaging
homes and roads.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Just did this just to reinforce it. Didn't want the
garage coming down here.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
CHROs has been making adjustments to protect the foundation since
purchasing the property to deal with the crisis, which he
says is manageable but feels continuously running. The loud generator
is not an ideal salution and moving forward like.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
This cannot be long term, Like I'm already losing my mind.
It's been a couple of days. I'm making constant adjustments.
I don't want to run the generators really loud at night,
so I have to turn it off, and there's no
power in the mouse, you know, I got to decide,
you know, when it's ready for time to go to bed.
I really don't need that much power. But if an
emergency happened and I need, you know, now, I need
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to have lanterns, flashlights, I need to have all these
things prepared.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And it's also expensive. Crow says. A generator of this
size to run a home that's about four thousand square
feet costs around twenty five hundred dollars and about seventy
five dollars a day worth of gas just to fill
it up. I did reach out to the city to
see if there's any plans to reimburse or to help
with paying off the generators are paying for gas.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I still not heard back.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
What on nightmare and running a generator indefinitely indefinitely is
no plan at all. So the latest shut off was
scheduled for seven to night in the Seaview area. That
comes a day after residents and one hundred and forty
homes and the Portuguese ben community lost their electricity. They're
under an evacuation warning some other highlights, although that's not
really the word you want here. Forty seven homes without
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power for twenty four hours, forty properties without power for
one to three weeks, twenty properties without power indefinitely. They've
got vehicles, community care vehicles set up throughout the day
to give people some help. I don't know what they
can do though. Without gas electricity service, many residents may
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choose to seek alternative housing arrangements for the foreseeable future.
The cities identifying hotels and other accommodations that can offer
discounted rates for residents. Again, a hotel, how long can
you stay in a hotel?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It assumes that people have this sort of emergency fund
to be able to furnish this sort of disaster relief.
And I know janis Han supervisor. Han is asking for age.
He's appealing to Governor Newsom to try and get somewhere
upwards of one billion in aid. But until that happens,
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people are going to be footing the bill individually, and
again these are this is a community that is not
necessarily wealthy. They have really expensive homes, and yes, there
are people there who are wealthy or do have a
lot of money, But then there are other people who
got in a long time ago, lot of seniors who
are living right at their means, and this is their home.
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This is their home, this is their savings, this is
their retirement. And now all of this is in peril
and they're saying indefinitely how the open endedness of this
is insane, and right at the beginning of a heat wave,
and at the coast at Portuguese Been, which I'm very
familiar with. Yes, it is typically cooler than inland, but
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it can get really warm, and when you're dealing with
all of this, it's just adding insult to injury.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I see here the land movement in Rancho Palas Verdes
has accelerated across six hundred and eighty acres following heavy
rains in the spring of twenty twenty three, which caused
more damage to homes and roads and utilities. So I
guess there's a climate change component to this, but there's
more to it than that. Oh and by the way,
the fear of looters. For God's sakes, can you imagine
a lower life form than somebody looting a home that
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people have had to skid daddle out of because they're
afraid it's going to slide into the ocean.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
And it happened before, which is why they're issuing these
warnings to residents and to the local law enforcement. Because
back in May, back in March, back in these other
you know, in the past previous months where they've been
dealing with these evacuations, they absolutely had looting activity.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And arrest too. So I see that Sheriff Luna has
authorized drones to help guard against possible criminal activity. But
what good is a drone going to do if somebody
just gets in and out? I mean, I guess maybe
help identifying them there. But there's more to the situation
than the rain. Though. This is pretty interesting. It was
(23:00):
ancient landslide that goes back thousands of years, which was
activated by more recent tunneling involving a section of Crenshaw Boulevard.
You get that some of this or some unspecified portion
of a percentage of this awful landslide that's inconveniencing displacing,
losing the homes possibly of countless people. This was from
(23:23):
something that could have been avoided. So tunneling through something
that really got this going. Who is responsible for this?
Who pays? And I gotta tell you, this is so
dire that it sounds to me like something out of
one of those seventies disaster movies? Are you too young
for these? The ones in sense around that shook the
seats like you would have Charles Charlton Heston warning somebody
(23:45):
you can't do this, or X Y and Z is
going to happening, going to happen, and this is the
X Y and Z. So it seems to me like
if this is true that it's at least partially the
result of tunneling, somebody's got to answer for this. Somebody's
got to pay, somebody's going to make these people whole again.
Like I don't really understand engineering at all. Of all
(24:06):
the stuff I try to school myself on, engineering baffles
me more than almost anything. So, Like there's sometimes late
at night I'll have a nightcap and I'll turn on
YouTube and watch documentaries about these skyscrapers in New York
and it gives me anxiety attacks. I'm not kidding y,
So the prospect of building in an area like this
(24:28):
that might be a little dicey to begin with, and
then just kind of doing the whole gopher routine in
networks that destabilize all the ground underneath. That seems insane
to me.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's a huge part of the city of this region
that is going away and forcibly violently, some might say
it really kind of We thought peeked with Wayfarer's chapel
back in.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
May remind people what happened with that. If you can recall.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
The details, maybe we can do that when we come back.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh is it time to break? Now, let's move on,
but we're gonna stay on top of this story at KFI,
so stay tuned. When we come back from the break,
we are going to talk about sports fans getting cut
right off and the weekend box office and after that
Jackie Ray, Allison Martino Full Night Ahead. Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Mark Ronner in from the newsroom from O Kelly, who
is off on a cruise with Tuala Tiffany Hobbs here
making sure I don't burst into tears or stuff for
about of incontinence here in the host with different share
but same cru you got Foosh in the air mix.
We've got okay, not fully the same crew. We've got Eileen,
who is new in the news department. Welcome aboard, Eileen.
(25:47):
I you know what did I say to you the
first time I trained you? You don't remember? You said
run okay. Apart from that, I said, your learning curve
is frightening me, and you're going to have my job.
I just didn't think it was going to be quite
this fast. We've got Keana, and I think we're good
(26:07):
to go. The story that we're going to do right
now is hilarious because playing the sports theme before I
talk is about the most inappropriate thing in the world.
Not only do I not follow sports or know anything
about most sports that people watch. I did all the
crappy ones that nobody likes like. I wrestled, and I
had to wear the singlet, which honestly rather unflattering no
(26:29):
matter what kind of shape you think you're in the singlet,
I ran, I did kickboxing, and these are not real
crowd pleasers of sports. But I'm gonna start off with
a story here and then you're gonna understand why this
is interesting to me. The statute of limitations has run
out on this. It's been decades one time, and I
really wasn't into sports. One time, when I was living
(26:51):
in Indiana working at my first newspaper and not barely
making enough to make rent and have a nightcap after
my police beach shift. At the end of the night,
I had no money whatsoever, dirt poor. I heard there
was going to be a Wild Wild West TV show
marathon on one of the cable channels. I didn't have cable,
(27:11):
so what did I do. I got a ladder out
of the landlord's garage and I started hacking into my neighbor,
Hippie Jim's cable. And I had a splitter that I
bought for like a buck and a half at the store.
And I'm up on the ladder. I've cut it in half.
I've got half of it in my mouth and the
knife in the other hand, and I look down and
(27:32):
I see Hippie Jim and his wife standing there looking
up at me like they're going to kill me, like
it's one of those standiard ground states. Because apparently I
had cut off their cable right in the middle of
an important sports game. They're watching to watch the Wild
Wild West. They were within their rights to take my
life at this time. And so what's that I got
(27:54):
to do with this is that ESPN's gone off the
air on a major carrier for the second straight year
during the US Open Tennis tournament and in the midst
of the first full weekend to college football. Disney entertainment
channels went dark on Direct TV Sunday night after the
sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement. The
move angered some sports fans. You think, I bet seismologists
(28:19):
here at the university probably picked up the tremor from
people yelling that one word that starts to see.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You know, who was playing yesterday when this happened.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Football wise, college your side, don't who? Who?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
USC my alma mater and LSU, which was a hugely
anticipated game watched by so many people, and it was
held in Las Vegas, and there was a lot of
interest because this is kind of the foray into SC
being a part of a whole new division. Yeah, and
we won, but it was interrupted in the very beginning
(28:55):
by this.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This it's not funny, I don't know, but on the
Ski one to ten of just absolute outrages that would
make you want to get on somebody with a baseball bat.
What is this with eight, ten, eleven?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
This is a thirteen. Really, when you're watching the game
now that we're calm, it's a one. It's a two
because you're looking at these two huge conglomerates arguing about money.
But during your game, during the you know, the US Open,
during college football's first weekend. No one wants to you
wait all year for these things.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
No, And apparently this is the result of unresolved negotiations
between DirecTV and Disney, resulting in the loss of access
to ESPN ABC owned stations in La San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno,
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh. They also got cut
off last year. Disney and Spectrum, which is the nation's
second largest cable TV provider, we're involved in a nearly
(29:51):
twelve day m pass until coming to an agreement hours
before the first Monday night NFL game of the season.
Like there's a white knuckle finish for you. DirecTV says
Disney offered an extension to keep the channels on the
air and exchange for listen to this direct TV having
to waive all future legal claims that its behavior is
(30:11):
anti competitive. And even if I don't know much about sports,
I can tell you waving all future legal claims tends
to be a bit of a red flag, wouldn't you think?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh yeah, so I can understand DirecTV not wanting to
enter into that type of agreement.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
What's extra funny is that the Direct TV people are
getting into some smack talk here against old Uncle Walt.
Here's the chief content Officer, Rob thoone of DirecTV, the
Walt Disney companies, once again refusing any accountability to consumers,
distribution partners, and now the American judicial system. Disney's in
the business of creating alternate realities, but this is the
(30:49):
real world where we believe you earn your way and
must answer for your own actions. Honestly, this sounds a
little biting, it's a little bureaucratese. But this is thrown
down in language. This is like saying, you know, here's
a middle finger for you, Uncle Walt, and here is
Disney's response. Well, I'll read the response and then we
(31:09):
can interpret it. While we're open to offering direct TV
flexibility in terms which we've extended to other distributors, we
will not enter into an agreement that undervalues our portfolio
of television channels and programs.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
They want more money, they do Disney. They always want
more money.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
But honestly, after the acolyte, shouldn't you be a little
bit humble about what you're asking people to cough up?
I mean, really, really, so the direct TV guy really
goes for it again down here, He says Disney Disney's
only magic is forcing prices to go up while simultaneously
making its content disappear. I mean, they might as well
(31:51):
just say it's not the happiest place on Earth Disneyland.
Go there and kill yourself. They're really pulling out the
stops here, or like Disney the happy place on Earth
for me to poop on? If it for a triumph
the insult comic dog, we blew right through the box
office results for the weekend. Maybe we'll get to that
later in the show, like say, for instance, if a
(32:14):
guest stiffs us tonight. But we're gonna go to a
break right now, and when we come back, Jackie Ray
is going to come and school me about what's going
on in sports this week. Mark Ronner with Tiffany Hobbs.
Later with Mo Kelly live on Wait a MI I
soon five. I have like four different things written down
(32:34):
and I can't read my own handwriting, but by this
point it should be imprinted on my cortex. Kf I
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