September 6, 2024 • 38 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the various SoCal beaches that have been issued health warning by the L.A. County Department of Public Health due to high bacteria levels…PLUS – Thoughts on the Santa Barbara School District’s early success at enforcing the pending California phone ban in schools AND California’s crack down on schools that sell snacks like Flamin' Hot Cheetos, and Takis - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's still hot. It's still very hot. It might even
be hotter today than it was yesterday. Okay, if I
am six forty O Kelly, We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And here's the unfortunate truth.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Not only is it hot, it has ruined our air quality.
We have the fires. And you think, well, that's all right,
I'll just go to the beach. No, you won't because
the beaches are as nasty as ever. Because if you're
hoping to hit the water during this triple digit heat wave,
La County once again has been course, as has been
(00:58):
the course for the whole summer. There's warning people to
avoid swimming, avoid surfing, and avoid playing in the ocean
at nearly a dozen beaches.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Why the same old reason.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The bacteria levels have exceeded health standards when last tested
and could cause you to get sick. You know, fecal
water everywhere. Everywhere you turn around, there's more fecal water
which beaches And I have always been of the opinion
it really doesn't matter which.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Beach, just assume it's all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
If I tell you twelve different beaches, does it really
matter if it's twelve or fourteen or if it's only
eleven of fourteen, well let's talk about it. Mother's Beach
and Marina del Rey. The entire swim area. I don't
even know how large the entire swim area is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I just know it's all the water in the beach.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
At Mother's Beach, Los Florida's Creek at Lost Florida State Beach.
I don't know what that is, but I do know
it's the entire swim area. Everywhere that you can swim.
It means, do not swim Walnut Creek at Paradise Cove.
Say it with me. Say it with me, touala. The
entire swim area. Enter Cabrio Beach in San Pedro, not
(02:12):
far from I used to live.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The entire swim area.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Just say the entire swim area from San Francisco all
the way down to San Diego. Don't go in the water.
Why because you'll choke on fecal water. Solstice Creek at
Dan Blocker County Beach, wait for it, the entire swim area.
Marie Canyon, storm Drain at Puerco Beach. I don't know
(02:38):
where that is, Perco.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
One hundred yards up and down the coast from the
public access steps Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, one hundred
yards up and down the coast from the Paradise Cove pier.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And let me think about this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If they say one hundred yards up and down, are
they actually trying to suggest that if I go one
hundred and five yards I'm safe up or down?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is that the line of demarcation is that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Where I am allowed to swim, I can go on
the water and not have to worry about ross switch
going in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Is that what they're trying to suggest.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, okay, how about Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu, one
hundred yards up and down the coast from the lagoon.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We all know where that is, one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the pier. Pana Creek at
Las Tunas County Beach, one hundred yards in each direction
of the outfall. So if you want to swim anywhere
anywhere of those places, any one of those places, just
know that the bacteria levels are once again, say it
with me, higher than safely recommended the entire swim area. Now,
(03:47):
not that I was going to actually get in the water,
but I do know that once again, just about every
single beach in southern California is unsafe to swim in.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So, Stephen, are you going to go to the beach
this weekend? Probably not? What do you mean? Probably? I
was waiting for it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Definitely, Mark Runner, are you gonna go to the beach
and get in the water this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I've really been trying to cut down on swimming in
poopoo water.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay and tilet shrup.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I need not even ask you because you don't go
to the water for anything. You're probably afraid of take
a bath because you might drown in the bathtub.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Look, I'm not getting in the poopage.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not poop is in the water, raw raw foodge
So if they cooked it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Will be a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I mean maybe if they distilled it, if they put
some chlorine in our waters.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We need something. This is the part of the show.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I usually go to Mark Rotter and say, hey, Mark Runner,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Tell us about the weather.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But we already know it's hot as hell and it's
gonna be hot to sell tomorrow. There is no chance
of precipitation. There's no chance of rain. There is no chance.
And say with me, hell, that's gonna be anything less
than one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And five tomorrow, one hundred and five degrees.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Oh, it's gonna be up to one hundred and eighteen
in the valleys. So your use of hell is appropriate.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, So we are presently in the valley, are we not?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No, no, no, no, Because it was cooler here in
Burbank than it was in Chatsworth when it was one
hundred and eleven, and I think it was like one
hundred here in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't know how hot it is in the studio
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm sweating, no upstious, No, I'm burning up here in
the studio. Usually they have air conditioning on just to
keep the equipment cool, but no, they have the black
men come on and then they turn off the air issue.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It was just racist. No, no, no, I wasn't trying
to be funny. That's not funny. Don't laugh at they
turn off the air conditioning. There's humor and the truth.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There has never been a day which I've come in
here in the air connditioning was not working except for today.
Now I'm used to it when I was working on
the weekends, because when I was working on the weekends side,
they don't care about any the shows on the weekends,
So just turn off the air condition It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's just a mo Kelly show, you know, they don't
care about that. But now it's later with mo Kelly,
what do they do?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They turn off the air conditioning on the hottest day
of the year, no exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Oh, I'm with you as somebody who's half black. I
want half reparations for this. This is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You'll get all of no reparations. You think I get nothing?
You get nothing, you get half of nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't think I like this deal. Welcome to being black.
You're not supposed to like it. Let's focus on the upsides,
can we? Okay? Well, fall is coming? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Seriously, Mark, So how long do we have to last
in this heat? Is it a week? A week and
a half, half a week? Do we have to wait
till the weekend?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The weekend is going to be hotter than hell. Yeah,
it's going to stay just hot like this through Monday.
And we've got a heat advisory through Monday evening. It'll
come down maybe five degrees Tuesday, so you know, from
one hundred and five to one hundred, then maybe a
couple more by Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's going to be hot for a while, all right.
I was looking for some good news and you had
absolutely none to give.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I gave you all I had. Sorry, well that's not enough.
Story of my life. Okay, Look, yet we're not even dating.
You can't say that to me. You had to make
it weird every time you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, let me ask you this, because I remember you
were complaining about either the heat or the cooling capabilities
of where you lived.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
How are you functioning in all this heat?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I can barely move. It's incapacitating. I'm not kidding you. Well,
it's kryptonite.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It was weird.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I actually sat on my bed and it felt like
there was a heater under it, like, and I'm like,
are you kidding? And then I wonder why I get
up and my back is like I'm all wet. It's
like sweating just sitting there, like yeah, yeah, I had
night sweats. And I thought I was like dying from
some disease or something. And then I realized, oh, it's
one hundred and five. That's all all right, So what
(07:39):
about this?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
What about when you step outside for the first time
from your air conditioning such as it is in the house,
and you get that first blast of hot air.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I yelled. I yelled out.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Loud the only time it hit me because I was
very very I planned everything out. I mapped everything out.
I made sure that I got to my car, and
I I opened the garage and then I turned on
the engine.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I didn't want to like die of carbon monoxide.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I opened the garage and I turned on the
air conditioning and I went back in the house for
like two or three minutes, because I wanted that car
to be nice and cool by the time I got
my ass in it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
That I've learned, that's why I like having a price.
I did the exact same thing. I could it on
like ten minutes before. It's like blasting the AC. I'm
not waiting for the car to cool off.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I could do this in my thirties. I could do
this in my forties, no problem. I'd look at old
people to say, what's wrong with you? Just get the
car and go. Now, it's like that car needs to
be seventy three degrees before I sit in it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'll tell you this, the effort of talking right now
is making me sweat in the studio.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I wish people thought, or I actually I wish people
could come by this studio and see we're not exaggerating.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
No, you've literally been the entire time you've been here,
You've been wiping your forehead, serious, getting the shine because
it's like you are about to start just dripping in
here for photos right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thank goodness, they weren't taking fleet what I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I was like, really the hottest day ever, and I
sweat on a regular day, and this is the day
they picked. By the way, it literally says it's one
hundred and two right this second, right now, right now,
this second, right now, this second.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So really, I don't know the office casual policy. But
what about those shirts that formerly were referred to as wife.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Beaters that we can't call that anymore. I don't know
what you call them. They are person beaters, beaters, the beaters.
Can we wear those in the office? Yeah, you can?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think only the night people can wear them. No, no, no,
we can wear them. We just can't do an Instagram
live to them. We can wear them, I mean who's
here to complain. Look, they can't even turn on the
air condition and they're not checking for well, they could
actually check it see what we're wearing. But you know,
they don't care about us like that. They don't. They don't.
Let me just still check Stephane is still one hundred
and two, one hundred and two right now?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Well me, let me wait still hundred two. Yes, okay,
let's wait still one hundred and two.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yep. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
This is a part of an ongoing conversation. We talk
about safety. We talk about the danger of the metro.
We talk about feeling safe wherever you are. And I
always talk about this through the lens of martial arts,
not fighting, but being aware of your surroundings, making smart
decisions before you find yourself in an a volte overt
(10:32):
dangerous situation. And I always say, look, I do not
go to ATMs if I can avoid them at all,
I do not go to ATMs. If maybe I'll go
get money at the grocery store, you know, like cash
back or something like that. If I can't, or I
will go to an ATM inside a branch.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'm not going on to it ATM out on the street.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why because I am putting myself in a vulnerable position.
Obviously I'm there to get money and my back is turned.
I am just opening myself up to crime. At the
same time, I do not go get gasoline at night.
When I say I don't go get gasoline, that means
(11:18):
I don't go to gas stations. I don't go there
to get something from the convenience store. I'm not there
to say hello to friends. You know, I'm not doing
anything at a gas station after sundown. Can something happen
to me at a gas station in the middle of
the day. Absolutely, But as a general rule, I'm going
to lessen the likelihood of something happening to me by
(11:42):
just not going to a gas station at night. And
if I can recommend to anyone how to make yourself safer,
get in the habit of getting your gas during the day.
Whatever you need to do, just do it during the day.
Because when I read this story, I think, hmm, this
probably would not have happened.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
At two pm.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
A man was hospitalized after being attacked and stabbed with
a sword like weapon outside a gas station in the
Van Ey's neighborhood early this morning. It happened around two am. Yeah, yeah,
of course it happened at two am. It probably would
not have happened at two pm, or if it does
(12:24):
happen at two pm, you are more likely to have help.
Happened around two am at the Arco near Suppola the
Boulevard and Satakoy Street.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I know exactly where that is.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Video showed the victim being treated at the scene with
blood spilling down his left arm and leg. A sword
like weapon was recovered by a LAPD Vanny's division, and
the unidentified victim was transported to a local hospital with
serious injuries.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We don't know a lot of what happened. We don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
In fact, the victim, who knows, could have been just
walking through the gas station. But we know the assailant
was there at the gas station at two am with
a sword like weapon.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They did get him though.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The suspect, an unidentified man, was taken into custody at
the scene.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The motive for the attack was unknown. I don't need
to know the motive.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I don't need to know whether the person was high,
they were just desperate, or they were drunk. But I
do know at two am there is a higher likelihood
of someone being on drugs and alcohol because it's two
am as opposed to two pm. There's a line of
reasoning here in logic. I just don't go to gas
(13:38):
stations at night. And that's something I think I made
the conscious decision not to do in the past, maybe
ten years or so, I guess when I was younger.
You don't think that there's danger around every corner, but
we live at a different time now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
For as much as we talk about.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Crime here in La County, specifically in La County, but
it's not only La County. There are some issues in
Orange County as well. So don't think that because and
I think that's another thing. That's how you get in
trouble because you assume you're in a safe neighborhood. We
talk about the burglaries which have been happening in like Ensino.
(14:17):
People wrongly assume because they're in a certain neighborhood that
they're less likely to become a victim.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now, that's when you become a victim.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Why, Because you get comfortable, you get really comfortable, and
you're not aware of your surroundings. You're not aware of
of just a neighborhood anything. You should always be on
the lookout for someone who's going to do you harm.
And maybe that's because I've always had a big city mentality,
even when I went to college, when I went to
(14:48):
Georgetown and Washington, d C. If you go back to
the late nineteen eighties, Washington, d C. Was like the
crime capital of the United States back then when they
were literally killing kids for their shoes. So I'm like seventeen,
eighteen years old, and my parents made it very clear
you have to have your head on the swivel. There's
(15:08):
certain places you didn't go in the city, and you
always have to be on the lookout. You always have
to be aware of your surroundings. And that's something that
I've always adopted. And this story maybe about one person
who was stabbed one time at one gas station, but
I promise you if you were to look at the
totality of crime which happens at a gas station, including carjackings,
(15:35):
including stabbings, it's gonna be at night. And I can't
speak for anyone else, but I have some general rules.
If you've heard this before, bear with me. You're gonna
hear it again. I have some general rules when I
go to a gas station. This could be at two
pm in Beverly Hills. These rules do not change. Number one,
(15:56):
I don't engage or let homeless people engage me. If
they have a question they want to ask for, hey,
can you spare some change, they're going to do it
from a distance. I don't let anyone get close to
me because if you're within arms distance, that means I'm
within harms distance, assuming there's not a weapon in their
hands and I can see their hands.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm not on my phone at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why because that's how you get victimized, because you're not
paying attention here. You are, your car is stopped, most
likely unlocked, door open, and you're on your phone. They
know you're spending money. Because you're there to spend money,
you're making yourself a more likely target. So I'm never
on my phone. I don't engage people. I don't allow
(16:42):
people to engage me. Well, what if it's a kid
selling candy or something, case by case basis, but I
try to keep them at arms distance. I'm not trying
to have a monetary transaction at a gas station because
sometimes and you may not know this. Sometimes they are
the distraction for the actual criminal. You didn't know that,
but I know in my neighborhood they would do that.
(17:02):
They'd have someone distract you and then someone else will
come up behind you. I can't speak for you, Tuala,
but I know you know something about this.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I know for a fact that that's how it goes.
I can't tell you how I know, but I'm telling
you for a fact that that's exactly what happens. You
have told no lies when it comes to gas station safety.
And this for me, when I first start driving, I
practiced this because I know of situations where individuals in
my neighborhood did things like jack people at gas stations,
(17:31):
at coming out of a mini mart or something like that.
If your head's out on a swivel, don't be out
of night. If you don't have that sensory awareness where
you are paying attention to everything, don't make stops tonight.
I'm talking going to the grocery store late at night.
Don't do it if you're not going to be safe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And there is some conflicting thoughts about whether you should
intentionally make eye contact with someone.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I make eye contact because I want that per person
to know that I'm aware of your presence. Some people
think if you make eye contact that you're something like
escalating a situation. No, I'm just seeing the person and
letting the person know that I see him or them.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Some people like they want to, you know, to have
blinders on.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
They act like if I don't look at them, they
won't look at me and there won't be any.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Type of situation. No, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
If anything, that may think that you're unaware because you're
or you seem timid or afraid because you don't want
to make eye contact. No, I'll make eye contact almost
like just it's not confrontational. It's just an acknowledgment. Yes,
I see you. But that's how I am in the
(18:43):
big city. And I know if you were to look
up carjackings, you'll find a bunch of them at a
gas station. A bunch of them. I wouldn't say the
majority of them, but a bunch of them. Why because
the cars unlocked, maybe the engine's running, it's easier access.
Think it's a criminal. Where are you most likely to
be hauled, armed or to be victimized? When you're most vulnerable, you.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Know, your point about being aware of your surroundings is
so good because I've never understood how people wear earbuds
or those big ass headphones in public. You can't hear
somebody approaching.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You, right.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Not only that, and I don't know people may not
know the story of the NFL player, of the San
Francisco forty nine ers player who was recently robbed or
tempted robbery where they were trying to take him of
his Rolex and he was shot I think twice in
the chest. He did survive, but it reminds me. I
don't wear jewelry at most. I wear my college class ring,
(19:40):
which is, you know, very bland and dry. I don't
wear jewelry, fake or real, because I'm not trying to
attract attention to me. I drive a beatter car, you know,
and it's stick shift. Good luck carjacking it okay. If
you can drive stick have it okay, because the car
is not worth my life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, if you're wearing jewelry, rolex, anything fancy, you're essentially
giving them window shopping.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right, And I'm not going to blame the victim, but
damn it, I'm going to blame the victim, especially when
you have some sort of control in advance, don't put
yourself in a situation where you're more likely to become
a victim.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No otherwise, just to why not walk outside with like
a big old Max Julian fur coat and a fedora,
because it's the same thing if you're wearing an expensive
watch or something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yes, you're wearing a thirty five thousand dollars watch or
more on your arm, that's going to attract the wrong
attention every single day.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yesterday, the dominant story the talker ssay, of course, was
the school shooting in Georgia, And we started yesterday's show
talking about how that school shooting may at least change
the conversation regarding legislation which is already been passed, legislation
which is going to require schools here in California to
(21:06):
enact some level of cell phone smartphone ban in schools
in all the school districts. And I was wondering out loud,
given what we knew about yesterday's school shooting, how law
enforcement was able to contact students, how parents were able
to contact children, students and get information and how that
(21:29):
impacted how that whole situation unfolded and evolved because they
had information from inside and parents could find out the
status of their children much quicker. And I thought that
this may change this legislation. But beyond that, it got
me to do a little more digging, and I see
(21:50):
that there's at least one school district which has already
implemented something along the lines of a cell phone small
phone banned, and that is the Santa Barbara School District.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Santa Barbara, though, took the tact of not all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They said that there has to be a managed process
where kids would have possession of their phones, but they
would not have use of their phones, and they'd be
penalized for using their phones. And for them, they've had
it for about a year. Santa Barbara School Districts has
said it has worked for them.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't know all the details of what the penalties are,
but that seems like that would be the best compromise
because if you take everybody's phone, then you're not going
to be able to avoid situations like this. And if
you don't take anyone's phone, or you don't have some
(22:54):
sort of measures in place, it's just going to be bedlam. Well,
this is what the Santa Barbara Assistance superintendent said, quote
all or nothing is never good policy talking about taking phones.
It's always progress and not perfection. So we protected the
places where we wanted kids to be most engaged, which
was the classroom. What we've seen from it it then,
(23:18):
is this huge increase in engagement from our kids. And
that's the San Marco's High School principal, their Holdron said,
when they're not trying to sneak their cell phones around
and figure out how to use them for this or that,
they're actually working with material and engaging with material. It's
made a big difference. You Know what's interesting is today
(23:41):
was back to school night at my daughter's school, you know,
high school now, and one of in the first classroom
that we as parents stopped in first period, one of
the first things that the teacher laid out was to
let us know about my daughter's high school's plan for
or the cell phone ban, and she went into details,
(24:03):
saying every school will have their own policy and right
now their school is working towards some type of comprehensive plan.
But right now she has a thing on her board
where she says, I will allow for time where they
can have a phone, and they know if the phone
is in this section, that means they can have it
out if now it's over here, and they have a
(24:24):
kind of a point system. You know, the first time
you're told to put your phone away, it's warning. Second
time the phone has to be taken and put on
the desk. Third time, you know, parents are called. Fourth time,
it's a whole intervention with the principal, counselors, all of that. See,
that's more strict than what Santa Barbara's doing, because in
Santa Barbara is saying that a student called using a
cell phone in class, the student is set to administrators
(24:48):
and then the administrators call the parents.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's after the first violation. Dam the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Future violations could result in losing the phone for the
entire school day.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Not the school.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's not like they're going to confiscate the phone and
you get it back at the end of the semester anything,
but future violations you could lose it for the day.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And so that what would mean.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's it's person or student specific. It's not just school wide,
whereas everyone's going to turn in their phone at the
beginning of the day and they'll pick it up at
the end.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I know, in a Pollyanna sort of way, that's what
you would want, but that's not realistic in the world
that we live in now, not with the concerns and
the worries that parents have. Look, I don't know what
the what the the expectation was for that Georgia school yesterday,
but I know that every parent thanked God that they
(25:40):
were able to at least get in touch with their child.
Let's say they didn't know and they heard about it
on the news, and you're calling frantically or at least
texting because you don't know the status. You don't know
if they're they're they're hiding, they're covering, you don't know
if it's still an active shooter situation. In fact, the
police didn't know at least in the beginning, but they
(26:00):
at least had a reference point and can find out
some information from inside.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
It's interesting because even after this first period teacher was
were laying out the plan, there did not seem to
be any buy in from any of the parents that
were in the room. No one was like, oh, yeah,
that's great, everyone coming.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Huh. I don't know, Uh, huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well, the whole point is I remember with my nephew,
my sister's son who's now twenty two. You know, she
made it very clear early on, and he was going
to have a phone, albeit a very simple phone where
you can only.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Call mommy or grandmomy or daddy. That was about it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You can only make three calls and it could receive calls,
but he couldn't be misused because he was a very
young child at the time. We have a generation now
where parents expect to be able to get in touch
with their children at a moment's notice, and I don't
know if you could ever draw back from that. I
don't know if you can go from being able to
contact your child to not being able to over the
(27:00):
course of six hours or even hours at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I don't know if that's gonna fly.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
And it seems even as I made my way through
the various classes that each teacher had something to say
about their cell phone policy, as if this is such
a pervasive situation on campus that they've had to really
really start buckling down, and they have on the board.
There are points to merits whatever it is. Each classroom
(27:28):
had a different plan for cell phone usage, but it
is top of mind on campus, and I didn't want
to be, you know, the blank hole and say, okay,
but what about the shooting yesterday?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
The blank hole? What's a blank hole?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It's a dairy airhole, a dairy airhole, a donkey hole,
a hole, man, just a hole.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They have holes in for air and dairies. I didn't
know that daries milk has a hole in it. Interesting keys,
cottage cheese, dairy dare.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Every night here.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I've never heard that term before. I don't, I don't,
I don't understand it, but I've never heard of it,
and now we have a new one. Okay, continue please
you blakes. Blakes, did you just call me a blank hole?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes? I did. It's later with mo Kelly. When we
come back. We have more California legislation to discuss. And
now they're at it again.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The California legislature is trying to prohibit schools from serving
snacks that contain certain synthetic food dyes.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
They've gone too far, They've gone too far. They're freaking
blank holes.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly, on demand from
KFI Am sixty cereal.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Don't have to be spicy.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I know you think they it's a good idea, but
like everything, don't have to be flaming hopscot flaming everything.
Get just to just be what it's been and that's okay.
Nobody asks for spicy, said, you know what spicy cereal
is soup? You know, Cheetos starting it was a good
idea we had. We had spicy Cheetos and then and
(29:14):
then Doritos, and then we had Lais and then and
then the pretzels started getting all fire and spicy hiding
and the ruffles and they got fungions.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
There's too much spice. You ain't got to flame everything.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Every time you go in the grocery store, everything is
just flaming and it's on fire.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The damn flato after I thought Oreos was bad, But
no sweet heat.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Starers sweet heat just cause some crime don't mean you
got to put it in the same package. What happened
to just putting the hot sauce in your pocket and
sprinkling it on this ship that you wanted to be spicy?
Look look at all this No no, no, uh uh no,
dock it how is a marshmallow spicy? And who put
(29:59):
Cheetos in charge of macaroni? Are tiger that makes snacks?
You are not ready to handle macaroni. Your damn show
can't make it flaming hot? If you drink flame and
hot Mountain, do you deserve whatever happens to your When
does it stop?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
K if I'm over, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
That'll never get old. Courtesy of broy Wood, Friend of
the Show, Assembly Bill twenty three sixteen. It was sent
to Governor Gaven Newsom last week, and it would require
snack makers to remove the dyes from their products if
they want them served in California schools. The additives are
(30:38):
used in say with me, flaming hot Cheetos, tackis, and
other snacks like that. And we had talked about this
bill as it was moving through the state legislature. Now
it's been passed, it's sent to Gavin Newsom to be signed.
And I don't know how I feel about this, if
only because I have more of a problem with the
(31:02):
snacks in general, which are available in schools. You know,
it's not the dies per se it's the fact that
you can get Cheetos at school. That's what I'm more concerned. Yeah,
I know, it's different from when I was in school.
When I was in school, we had vending machines. You
can get cookies, and I was about it, and sodas,
cookies and sodas.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
But now you can get just about everything.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I'm more bothered by that than the specific dies
which are used on Cheetos and other candies and that
kind of thing. Does it make any sense, I mean,
it just seems like we're worried about the wrong thing.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Evan, it does. And I did see two or three
venning machines of my daughter's school, and they would load
one was drinks, one was like chips and things, and
another one I think was maybe like energy drinks, like
gatorades and waters and stuff like that. Said sodas, gatorades
of waters, and I think chips, cookies, pretzels, gum came
(31:58):
to all that kind of stuff. But here's the thing,
and this is something that I took note of when
I saw those vending machines. I said, Okay, they're going
to go to the vending machine get a snack, or
they're going to take advantage of the open school policy,
and they're going to walk down the street and get
something at the gas station. And today my daughter she said, okay,
(32:19):
so daddy, So I was going down to the gas
ca so I wanted to get some chips in a drink.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And I said, uh huh, okay. And she said, but
when I was.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Approaching the gas station there was caution tape and police
cars all in the parking lot. And I talked outline. Well,
she didn't see that, but she said, you know what,
this doesn't seem like a good idea. So she said,
you know, I just went back to school and got
something at the vending machine. And I said, maybe I'm
not as mad at the vending machine as I thought.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, but there's no but there are decisions which can
be made by the schools. I think if you mandate
the schools can only sell X, Y or Z. As
opposed to trying to outlaw certain dies. We're talking about
six synthetic dies that this bill is targeting. Yellow number five,
yellow number six, blue number one, blue two, green three some.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
It's like we'll playing football blue three, green three, red forty.
Just these are all the things that make stuff good.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, I get that, But tell the school these types
of goodies and treats are inappropriate or shouldn't be allowed
in the school vending machines. As opposed to telling the
manufacturers you can't make this and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Sell this in the school. No, hold the school accountable that.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yeah, I hear you one hundred percent, because why are
you telling TAKEI, who sells their stuff everywhere everywhere, that
you can't have it in the dit No, just outlawed
in California.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Period.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
If it's that big of a concern, right, Governor Batman,
you need to go further. Why is it allowed to
be sold in California?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Period? If you're that concerned about it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
If I'm flaming hot cheetos, like, I'm just selling a product. Now,
if you want to sell it, if you want to
then make it available in schools, then that's the school's fault. Yeah,
you know you're basically saying that shouldn't be allowed in schools.
Then fine, make sure the schools can't sell it then,
As opposed to trying to tell these manufacturers or you know,
(34:19):
these product manufacturers that you can't make.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It that way. That if if I'm flipping hot cheeks like, no,
we're gonna do what we do. Yeah, the vending machines
aren't like preloaded with.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
If they're not there choices ch yes, And usually the
vending machine is not owned by the school, and the
vendor gets to decide what they're gonna put it in,
because it's usually like our vending machines here, it's whatever
sells well. If it sells well, they'll bring more of it. Well,
then if you don't want that on your campus. And
I'm thinking that schools can actually control their campus what
(34:53):
happens on their campus.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Look, put it this way.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
If the vending machine want to sell liquor, I'm quite
sure the school because they no, no, no, you can't
do that. I'm quite sure the school has some degree
of control as far as what can be sold in
the vending machine on their campus. Their vending machines is
sell cigarettes. You think that's gonna allow that?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No, No, think it too much sense, Mom.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
It just sounds like an overreaction because I remember when
I was in school, when I was like middle school,
and that was like six years ago. Yeah, sure, my
mom prohibited SODA's in my house. So when I got
to a stage where, you know, I had a little
bit of you know, allowance money I would get you know, coke, sprite,
(35:36):
lift and brisk all all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Not good for me.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
But I mean it's like it's it's also if they
didn't want it, they just they can just push it away.
They don't have to outlaw it, right, you know, right.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And I think a lot of this legislation, I'll say legislationeering.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
It's not like you're engineering.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
These bills to laws for political grand standing and you're
not really addressing a problem. Is there a problem, Let's
get to the heart of the matter. Is there a
problem with the types of food which are available to
kids on campuses. I think we can all agree yes,
it's not very healthy. It's not good for them. They're
in their formative years and their growing years. They shouldn't
(36:18):
be eating that stuff. Then most likely you know, they're
not eating it. They shouldn't have the availability to eat
it at school. Now, what they do outside of school,
that's up to mom, dad, whomever. But as far as
inside of school, they shouldn't be eating it. You're mad
at the wrong people, and you're penalizing the wrong people
(36:41):
instead of trying to outlaw certain dies. Just keep them
out of the schools.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's all you need to do. You can't sell flaming
hot cheetos at a school. Leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hate those things too. Look, I can't eat those.
I'll never try to eat those.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Look, I can't say for certain that there is a
direct connection, but at one point my son was eating
those damn takies like his life depended on it, and
a short time later he got a stomach ulcer. I
don't something that that dies your fingers to the point
where it looks like you've been playing with paint and
(37:22):
and it has a concentration of different hot ingredients. Chemicals
are yes, this is a chemical sprayed and then dyed
blue or green or whatever.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Look, I despise those things, but we have them in
our fitter machine. You know that down the hole in
the kitchen, right, you know what? Right? Oh? You know
that right? Yeah? Yeah, we even having our food drawer.
I think we have some playing hot cheatos. Yeah, there's
something close to that.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
And think it's different with that we're making decisions for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, we can't stunt our growth anymore. We're allowed to Nalthy.
It's later with Mo Kelly. K if I AM six
forty Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
App, untangling the mess until it makes sense. K f
I and k ost H D
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Two Los Angeles, Orange County Live everywhere on the eart
Radio app.
It's still hot. It's still very hot. It might even
be hotter today than it was yesterday. Okay, if I
am six forty O Kelly, We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And here's the unfortunate truth.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Not only is it hot, it has ruined our air quality.
We have the fires. And you think, well, that's all right,
I'll just go to the beach. No, you won't because
the beaches are as nasty as ever. Because if you're
hoping to hit the water during this triple digit heat wave,
La County once again has been course, as has been
(00:58):
the course for the whole summer. There's warning people to
avoid swimming, avoid surfing, and avoid playing in the ocean
at nearly a dozen beaches.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Why the same old reason.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The bacteria levels have exceeded health standards when last tested
and could cause you to get sick. You know, fecal
water everywhere. Everywhere you turn around, there's more fecal water
which beaches And I have always been of the opinion
it really doesn't matter which.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Beach, just assume it's all of them.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
If I tell you twelve different beaches, does it really
matter if it's twelve or fourteen or if it's only
eleven of fourteen, well let's talk about it. Mother's Beach
and Marina del Rey. The entire swim area. I don't
even know how large the entire swim area is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I just know it's all the water in the beach.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
At Mother's Beach, Los Florida's Creek at Lost Florida State Beach.
I don't know what that is, but I do know
it's the entire swim area. Everywhere that you can swim.
It means, do not swim Walnut Creek at Paradise Cove.
Say it with me. Say it with me, touala. The
entire swim area. Enter Cabrio Beach in San Pedro, not
(02:12):
far from I used to live.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
The entire swim area.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Just say the entire swim area from San Francisco all
the way down to San Diego. Don't go in the water.
Why because you'll choke on fecal water. Solstice Creek at
Dan Blocker County Beach, wait for it, the entire swim area.
Marie Canyon, storm Drain at Puerco Beach. I don't know
(02:38):
where that is, Perco.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
One hundred yards up and down the coast from the
public access steps Ramirez Creek at Paradise Cove, one hundred
yards up and down the coast from the Paradise Cove pier.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And let me think about this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If they say one hundred yards up and down, are
they actually trying to suggest that if I go one
hundred and five yards I'm safe up or down?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is that the line of demarcation is that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Where I am allowed to swim, I can go on
the water and not have to worry about ross switch
going in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Is that what they're trying to suggest.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yes, okay, how about Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu, one
hundred yards up and down the coast from the lagoon.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We all know where that is, one hundred yards up
and down the coast from the pier. Pana Creek at
Las Tunas County Beach, one hundred yards in each direction
of the outfall. So if you want to swim anywhere
anywhere of those places, any one of those places, just
know that the bacteria levels are once again, say it
with me, higher than safely recommended the entire swim area. Now,
(03:47):
not that I was going to actually get in the water,
but I do know that once again, just about every
single beach in southern California is unsafe to swim in.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So, Stephen, are you going to go to the beach
this weekend? Probably not? What do you mean? Probably? I
was waiting for it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Definitely, Mark Runner, are you gonna go to the beach
and get in the water this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I've really been trying to cut down on swimming in
poopoo water.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay and tilet shrup.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I need not even ask you because you don't go
to the water for anything. You're probably afraid of take
a bath because you might drown in the bathtub.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Look, I'm not getting in the poopage.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not poop is in the water, raw raw foodge
So if they cooked it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Will be a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I mean maybe if they distilled it, if they put
some chlorine in our waters.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We need something. This is the part of the show.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I usually go to Mark Rotter and say, hey, Mark Runner,
how are you doing this evening?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Tell us about the weather.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But we already know it's hot as hell and it's
gonna be hot to sell tomorrow. There is no chance
of precipitation. There's no chance of rain. There is no chance.
And say with me, hell, that's gonna be anything less
than one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And five tomorrow, one hundred and five degrees.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Oh, it's gonna be up to one hundred and eighteen
in the valleys. So your use of hell is appropriate.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Okay, So we are presently in the valley, are we not?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No, no, no, no, Because it was cooler here in
Burbank than it was in Chatsworth when it was one
hundred and eleven, and I think it was like one
hundred here in Burbank.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They don't know how hot it is in the studio
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm sweating, no upstious, No, I'm burning up here in
the studio. Usually they have air conditioning on just to
keep the equipment cool, but no, they have the black
men come on and then they turn off the air issue.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It was just racist. No, no, no, I wasn't trying
to be funny. That's not funny. Don't laugh at they
turn off the air conditioning. There's humor and the truth.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There has never been a day which I've come in
here in the air connditioning was not working except for today.
Now I'm used to it when I was working on
the weekends, because when I was working on the weekends side,
they don't care about any the shows on the weekends,
So just turn off the air condition It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's just a mo Kelly show, you know, they don't
care about that. But now it's later with mo Kelly,
what do they do?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They turn off the air conditioning on the hottest day
of the year, no exaggeration.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Oh, I'm with you as somebody who's half black. I
want half reparations for this. This is unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You'll get all of no reparations. You think I get nothing?
You get nothing, you get half of nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I don't think I like this deal. Welcome to being black.
You're not supposed to like it. Let's focus on the upsides,
can we? Okay? Well, fall is coming? Okay?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Seriously, Mark, So how long do we have to last
in this heat? Is it a week? A week and
a half, half a week? Do we have to wait
till the weekend?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
The weekend is going to be hotter than hell. Yeah,
it's going to stay just hot like this through Monday.
And we've got a heat advisory through Monday evening. It'll
come down maybe five degrees Tuesday, so you know, from
one hundred and five to one hundred, then maybe a
couple more by Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's going to be hot for a while, all right.
I was looking for some good news and you had
absolutely none to give.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I gave you all I had. Sorry, well that's not enough.
Story of my life. Okay, Look, yet we're not even dating.
You can't say that to me. You had to make
it weird every time you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, let me ask you this, because I remember you
were complaining about either the heat or the cooling capabilities
of where you lived.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
How are you functioning in all this heat?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I can barely move. It's incapacitating. I'm not kidding you. Well,
it's kryptonite.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It was weird.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I actually sat on my bed and it felt like
there was a heater under it, like, and I'm like,
are you kidding? And then I wonder why I get
up and my back is like I'm all wet. It's
like sweating just sitting there, like yeah, yeah, I had
night sweats. And I thought I was like dying from
some disease or something. And then I realized, oh, it's
one hundred and five. That's all all right, So what
(07:39):
about this?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
What about when you step outside for the first time
from your air conditioning such as it is in the house,
and you get that first blast of hot air.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I yelled. I yelled out.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Loud the only time it hit me because I was
very very I planned everything out. I mapped everything out.
I made sure that I got to my car, and
I I opened the garage and then I turned on
the engine.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I didn't want to like die of carbon monoxide.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I opened the garage and I turned on the
air conditioning and I went back in the house for
like two or three minutes, because I wanted that car
to be nice and cool by the time I got
my ass in it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
That I've learned, that's why I like having a price.
I did the exact same thing. I could it on
like ten minutes before. It's like blasting the AC. I'm
not waiting for the car to cool off.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I could do this in my thirties. I could do
this in my forties, no problem. I'd look at old
people to say, what's wrong with you? Just get the
car and go. Now, it's like that car needs to
be seventy three degrees before I sit in it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'll tell you this, the effort of talking right now
is making me sweat in the studio.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I wish people thought, or I actually I wish people
could come by this studio and see we're not exaggerating.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
No, you've literally been the entire time you've been here,
You've been wiping your forehead, serious, getting the shine because
it's like you are about to start just dripping in
here for photos right.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thank goodness, they weren't taking fleet what I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I was like, really the hottest day ever, and I
sweat on a regular day, and this is the day
they picked. By the way, it literally says it's one
hundred and two right this second, right now, right now,
this second, right now, this second.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So really, I don't know the office casual policy. But
what about those shirts that formerly were referred to as wife.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Beaters that we can't call that anymore. I don't know
what you call them. They are person beaters, beaters, the beaters.
Can we wear those in the office? Yeah, you can?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I think only the night people can wear them. No, no, no,
we can wear them. We just can't do an Instagram
live to them. We can wear them, I mean who's
here to complain. Look, they can't even turn on the
air condition and they're not checking for well, they could
actually check it see what we're wearing. But you know,
they don't care about us like that. They don't. They don't.
Let me just still check Stephane is still one hundred
and two, one hundred and two right now?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Well me, let me wait still hundred two. Yes, okay,
let's wait still one hundred and two.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yep. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
This is a part of an ongoing conversation. We talk
about safety. We talk about the danger of the metro.
We talk about feeling safe wherever you are. And I
always talk about this through the lens of martial arts,
not fighting, but being aware of your surroundings, making smart
decisions before you find yourself in an a volte overt
(10:32):
dangerous situation. And I always say, look, I do not
go to ATMs if I can avoid them at all,
I do not go to ATMs. If maybe I'll go
get money at the grocery store, you know, like cash
back or something like that. If I can't, or I
will go to an ATM inside a branch.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'm not going on to it ATM out on the street.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why because I am putting myself in a vulnerable position.
Obviously I'm there to get money and my back is turned.
I am just opening myself up to crime. At the
same time, I do not go get gasoline at night.
When I say I don't go get gasoline, that means
(11:18):
I don't go to gas stations. I don't go there
to get something from the convenience store. I'm not there
to say hello to friends. You know, I'm not doing
anything at a gas station after sundown. Can something happen
to me at a gas station in the middle of
the day. Absolutely, But as a general rule, I'm going
to lessen the likelihood of something happening to me by
(11:42):
just not going to a gas station at night. And
if I can recommend to anyone how to make yourself safer,
get in the habit of getting your gas during the day.
Whatever you need to do, just do it during the day.
Because when I read this story, I think, hmm, this
probably would not have happened.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
At two pm.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
A man was hospitalized after being attacked and stabbed with
a sword like weapon outside a gas station in the
Van Ey's neighborhood early this morning. It happened around two am. Yeah, yeah,
of course it happened at two am. It probably would
not have happened at two pm, or if it does
(12:24):
happen at two pm, you are more likely to have help.
Happened around two am at the Arco near Suppola the
Boulevard and Satakoy Street.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I know exactly where that is.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Video showed the victim being treated at the scene with
blood spilling down his left arm and leg. A sword
like weapon was recovered by a LAPD Vanny's division, and
the unidentified victim was transported to a local hospital with
serious injuries.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We don't know a lot of what happened. We don't
know why.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
In fact, the victim, who knows, could have been just
walking through the gas station. But we know the assailant
was there at the gas station at two am with
a sword like weapon.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They did get him though.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The suspect, an unidentified man, was taken into custody at
the scene.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The motive for the attack was unknown. I don't need
to know the motive.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I don't need to know whether the person was high,
they were just desperate, or they were drunk. But I
do know at two am there is a higher likelihood
of someone being on drugs and alcohol because it's two
am as opposed to two pm. There's a line of
reasoning here in logic. I just don't go to gas
(13:38):
stations at night. And that's something I think I made
the conscious decision not to do in the past, maybe
ten years or so, I guess when I was younger.
You don't think that there's danger around every corner, but
we live at a different time now.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
For as much as we talk about.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Crime here in La County, specifically in La County, but
it's not only La County. There are some issues in
Orange County as well. So don't think that because and
I think that's another thing. That's how you get in
trouble because you assume you're in a safe neighborhood. We
talk about the burglaries which have been happening in like Ensino.
(14:17):
People wrongly assume because they're in a certain neighborhood that
they're less likely to become a victim.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now, that's when you become a victim.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Why, Because you get comfortable, you get really comfortable, and
you're not aware of your surroundings. You're not aware of
of just a neighborhood anything. You should always be on
the lookout for someone who's going to do you harm.
And maybe that's because I've always had a big city mentality,
even when I went to college, when I went to
(14:48):
Georgetown and Washington, d C. If you go back to
the late nineteen eighties, Washington, d C. Was like the
crime capital of the United States back then when they
were literally killing kids for their shoes. So I'm like seventeen,
eighteen years old, and my parents made it very clear
you have to have your head on the swivel. There's
(15:08):
certain places you didn't go in the city, and you
always have to be on the lookout. You always have
to be aware of your surroundings. And that's something that
I've always adopted. And this story maybe about one person
who was stabbed one time at one gas station, but
I promise you if you were to look at the
totality of crime which happens at a gas station, including carjackings,
(15:35):
including stabbings, it's gonna be at night. And I can't
speak for anyone else, but I have some general rules.
If you've heard this before, bear with me. You're gonna
hear it again. I have some general rules when I
go to a gas station. This could be at two
pm in Beverly Hills. These rules do not change. Number one,
(15:56):
I don't engage or let homeless people engage me. If
they have a question they want to ask for, hey,
can you spare some change, they're going to do it
from a distance. I don't let anyone get close to
me because if you're within arms distance, that means I'm
within harms distance, assuming there's not a weapon in their
hands and I can see their hands.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm not on my phone at a gas station.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Why because that's how you get victimized, because you're not
paying attention here. You are, your car is stopped, most
likely unlocked, door open, and you're on your phone. They
know you're spending money. Because you're there to spend money,
you're making yourself a more likely target. So I'm never
on my phone. I don't engage people. I don't allow
(16:42):
people to engage me. Well, what if it's a kid
selling candy or something, case by case basis, but I
try to keep them at arms distance. I'm not trying
to have a monetary transaction at a gas station because
sometimes and you may not know this. Sometimes they are
the distraction for the actual criminal. You didn't know that,
but I know in my neighborhood they would do that.
(17:02):
They'd have someone distract you and then someone else will
come up behind you. I can't speak for you, Tuala,
but I know you know something about this.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I know for a fact that that's how it goes.
I can't tell you how I know, but I'm telling
you for a fact that that's exactly what happens. You
have told no lies when it comes to gas station safety.
And this for me, when I first start driving, I
practiced this because I know of situations where individuals in
my neighborhood did things like jack people at gas stations,
(17:31):
at coming out of a mini mart or something like that.
If your head's out on a swivel, don't be out
of night. If you don't have that sensory awareness where
you are paying attention to everything, don't make stops tonight.
I'm talking going to the grocery store late at night.
Don't do it if you're not going to be safe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And there is some conflicting thoughts about whether you should
intentionally make eye contact with someone.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I make eye contact because I want that per person
to know that I'm aware of your presence. Some people
think if you make eye contact that you're something like
escalating a situation. No, I'm just seeing the person and
letting the person know that I see him or them.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Some people like they want to, you know, to have
blinders on.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
They act like if I don't look at them, they
won't look at me and there won't be any.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Type of situation. No, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
If anything, that may think that you're unaware because you're
or you seem timid or afraid because you don't want
to make eye contact. No, I'll make eye contact almost
like just it's not confrontational. It's just an acknowledgment. Yes,
I see you. But that's how I am in the
(18:43):
big city. And I know if you were to look
up carjackings, you'll find a bunch of them at a
gas station. A bunch of them. I wouldn't say the
majority of them, but a bunch of them. Why because
the cars unlocked, maybe the engine's running, it's easier access.
Think it's a criminal. Where are you most likely to
be hauled, armed or to be victimized? When you're most vulnerable, you.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Know, your point about being aware of your surroundings is
so good because I've never understood how people wear earbuds
or those big ass headphones in public. You can't hear
somebody approaching.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
You, right.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Not only that, and I don't know people may not
know the story of the NFL player, of the San
Francisco forty nine ers player who was recently robbed or
tempted robbery where they were trying to take him of
his Rolex and he was shot I think twice in
the chest. He did survive, but it reminds me. I
don't wear jewelry at most. I wear my college class ring,
(19:40):
which is, you know, very bland and dry. I don't
wear jewelry, fake or real, because I'm not trying to
attract attention to me. I drive a beatter car, you know,
and it's stick shift. Good luck carjacking it okay. If
you can drive stick have it okay, because the car
is not worth my life.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, if you're wearing jewelry, rolex, anything fancy, you're essentially
giving them window shopping.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right, And I'm not going to blame the victim, but
damn it, I'm going to blame the victim, especially when
you have some sort of control in advance, don't put
yourself in a situation where you're more likely to become
a victim.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No otherwise, just to why not walk outside with like
a big old Max Julian fur coat and a fedora,
because it's the same thing if you're wearing an expensive
watch or something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yes, you're wearing a thirty five thousand dollars watch or
more on your arm, that's going to attract the wrong
attention every single day.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yesterday, the dominant story the talker ssay, of course, was
the school shooting in Georgia, And we started yesterday's show
talking about how that school shooting may at least change
the conversation regarding legislation which is already been passed, legislation
which is going to require schools here in California to
(21:06):
enact some level of cell phone smartphone ban in schools
in all the school districts. And I was wondering out loud,
given what we knew about yesterday's school shooting, how law
enforcement was able to contact students, how parents were able
to contact children, students and get information and how that
(21:29):
impacted how that whole situation unfolded and evolved because they
had information from inside and parents could find out the
status of their children much quicker. And I thought that
this may change this legislation. But beyond that, it got
me to do a little more digging, and I see
(21:50):
that there's at least one school district which has already
implemented something along the lines of a cell phone small
phone banned, and that is the Santa Barbara School District.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Santa Barbara, though, took the tact of not all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They said that there has to be a managed process
where kids would have possession of their phones, but they
would not have use of their phones, and they'd be
penalized for using their phones. And for them, they've had
it for about a year. Santa Barbara School Districts has
said it has worked for them.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't know all the details of what the penalties are,
but that seems like that would be the best compromise
because if you take everybody's phone, then you're not going
to be able to avoid situations like this. And if
you don't take anyone's phone, or you don't have some
(22:54):
sort of measures in place, it's just going to be bedlam. Well,
this is what the Santa Barbara Assistance superintendent said, quote
all or nothing is never good policy talking about taking phones.
It's always progress and not perfection. So we protected the
places where we wanted kids to be most engaged, which
was the classroom. What we've seen from it it then,
(23:18):
is this huge increase in engagement from our kids. And
that's the San Marco's High School principal, their Holdron said,
when they're not trying to sneak their cell phones around
and figure out how to use them for this or that,
they're actually working with material and engaging with material. It's
made a big difference. You Know what's interesting is today
(23:41):
was back to school night at my daughter's school, you know,
high school now, and one of in the first classroom
that we as parents stopped in first period, one of
the first things that the teacher laid out was to
let us know about my daughter's high school's plan for
or the cell phone ban, and she went into details,
(24:03):
saying every school will have their own policy and right
now their school is working towards some type of comprehensive plan.
But right now she has a thing on her board
where she says, I will allow for time where they
can have a phone, and they know if the phone
is in this section, that means they can have it
out if now it's over here, and they have a
(24:24):
kind of a point system. You know, the first time
you're told to put your phone away, it's warning. Second
time the phone has to be taken and put on
the desk. Third time, you know, parents are called. Fourth time,
it's a whole intervention with the principal, counselors, all of that. See,
that's more strict than what Santa Barbara's doing, because in
Santa Barbara is saying that a student called using a
cell phone in class, the student is set to administrators
(24:48):
and then the administrators call the parents.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's after the first violation. Dam the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Future violations could result in losing the phone for the
entire school day.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Not the school.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's not like they're going to confiscate the phone and
you get it back at the end of the semester anything,
but future violations you could lose it for the day.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And so that what would mean.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's it's person or student specific. It's not just school wide,
whereas everyone's going to turn in their phone at the
beginning of the day and they'll pick it up at
the end.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I know, in a Pollyanna sort of way, that's what
you would want, but that's not realistic in the world
that we live in now, not with the concerns and
the worries that parents have. Look, I don't know what
the what the the expectation was for that Georgia school yesterday,
but I know that every parent thanked God that they
(25:40):
were able to at least get in touch with their child.
Let's say they didn't know and they heard about it
on the news, and you're calling frantically or at least
texting because you don't know the status. You don't know
if they're they're they're hiding, they're covering, you don't know
if it's still an active shooter situation. In fact, the
police didn't know at least in the beginning, but they
(26:00):
at least had a reference point and can find out
some information from inside.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
It's interesting because even after this first period teacher was
were laying out the plan, there did not seem to
be any buy in from any of the parents that
were in the room. No one was like, oh, yeah,
that's great, everyone coming.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Huh. I don't know, Uh, huh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Well, the whole point is I remember with my nephew,
my sister's son who's now twenty two. You know, she
made it very clear early on, and he was going
to have a phone, albeit a very simple phone where
you can only.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Call mommy or grandmomy or daddy. That was about it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You can only make three calls and it could receive calls,
but he couldn't be misused because he was a very
young child at the time. We have a generation now
where parents expect to be able to get in touch
with their children at a moment's notice, and I don't
know if you could ever draw back from that. I
don't know if you can go from being able to
contact your child to not being able to over the
(27:00):
course of six hours or even hours at a time.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, I don't know if that's gonna fly.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
And it seems even as I made my way through
the various classes that each teacher had something to say
about their cell phone policy, as if this is such
a pervasive situation on campus that they've had to really
really start buckling down, and they have on the board.
There are points to merits whatever it is. Each classroom
(27:28):
had a different plan for cell phone usage, but it
is top of mind on campus, and I didn't want
to be, you know, the blank hole and say, okay,
but what about the shooting yesterday?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
The blank hole? What's a blank hole?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It's a dairy airhole, a dairy airhole, a donkey hole,
a hole, man, just a hole.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They have holes in for air and dairies. I didn't
know that daries milk has a hole in it. Interesting keys,
cottage cheese, dairy dare.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Every night here.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I've never heard that term before. I don't, I don't,
I don't understand it, but I've never heard of it,
and now we have a new one. Okay, continue please
you blakes. Blakes, did you just call me a blank hole?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes? I did. It's later with mo Kelly. When we
come back. We have more California legislation to discuss. And
now they're at it again.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The California legislature is trying to prohibit schools from serving
snacks that contain certain synthetic food dyes.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
They've gone too far, They've gone too far. They're freaking
blank holes.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly, on demand from
KFI Am sixty cereal.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Don't have to be spicy.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I know you think they it's a good idea, but
like everything, don't have to be flaming hopscot flaming everything.
Get just to just be what it's been and that's okay.
Nobody asks for spicy, said, you know what spicy cereal
is soup? You know, Cheetos starting it was a good
idea we had. We had spicy Cheetos and then and
(29:14):
then Doritos, and then we had Lais and then and
then the pretzels started getting all fire and spicy hiding
and the ruffles and they got fungions.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
There's too much spice. You ain't got to flame everything.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Every time you go in the grocery store, everything is
just flaming and it's on fire.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The damn flato after I thought Oreos was bad, But
no sweet heat.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Starers sweet heat just cause some crime don't mean you
got to put it in the same package. What happened
to just putting the hot sauce in your pocket and
sprinkling it on this ship that you wanted to be spicy?
Look look at all this No no, no, uh uh no,
dock it how is a marshmallow spicy? And who put
(29:59):
Cheetos in charge of macaroni? Are tiger that makes snacks?
You are not ready to handle macaroni. Your damn show
can't make it flaming hot? If you drink flame and
hot Mountain, do you deserve whatever happens to your When
does it stop?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
K if I'm over, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
That'll never get old. Courtesy of broy Wood, Friend of
the Show, Assembly Bill twenty three sixteen. It was sent
to Governor Gaven Newsom last week, and it would require
snack makers to remove the dyes from their products if
they want them served in California schools. The additives are
(30:38):
used in say with me, flaming hot Cheetos, tackis, and
other snacks like that. And we had talked about this
bill as it was moving through the state legislature. Now
it's been passed, it's sent to Gavin Newsom to be signed.
And I don't know how I feel about this, if
only because I have more of a problem with the
(31:02):
snacks in general, which are available in schools. You know,
it's not the dies per se it's the fact that
you can get Cheetos at school. That's what I'm more concerned. Yeah,
I know, it's different from when I was in school.
When I was in school, we had vending machines. You
can get cookies, and I was about it, and sodas,
cookies and sodas.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
But now you can get just about everything.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And I'm more bothered by that than the specific dies
which are used on Cheetos and other candies and that
kind of thing. Does it make any sense, I mean,
it just seems like we're worried about the wrong thing.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Evan, it does. And I did see two or three
venning machines of my daughter's school, and they would load
one was drinks, one was like chips and things, and
another one I think was maybe like energy drinks, like
gatorades and waters and stuff like that. Said sodas, gatorades
of waters, and I think chips, cookies, pretzels, gum came
(31:58):
to all that kind of stuff. But here's the thing,
and this is something that I took note of when
I saw those vending machines. I said, Okay, they're going
to go to the vending machine get a snack, or
they're going to take advantage of the open school policy,
and they're going to walk down the street and get
something at the gas station. And today my daughter she said, okay,
(32:19):
so daddy, So I was going down to the gas
ca so I wanted to get some chips in a drink.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And I said, uh huh, okay. And she said, but
when I was.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Approaching the gas station there was caution tape and police
cars all in the parking lot. And I talked outline. Well,
she didn't see that, but she said, you know what,
this doesn't seem like a good idea. So she said,
you know, I just went back to school and got
something at the vending machine. And I said, maybe I'm
not as mad at the vending machine as I thought.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, but there's no but there are decisions which can
be made by the schools. I think if you mandate
the schools can only sell X, Y or Z. As
opposed to trying to outlaw certain dies. We're talking about
six synthetic dies that this bill is targeting. Yellow number five,
yellow number six, blue number one, blue two, green three some.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
It's like we'll playing football blue three, green three, red forty.
Just these are all the things that make stuff good.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yeah, I get that, But tell the school these types
of goodies and treats are inappropriate or shouldn't be allowed
in the school vending machines. As opposed to telling the
manufacturers you can't make this and.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Sell this in the school. No, hold the school accountable that.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yeah, I hear you one hundred percent, because why are
you telling TAKEI, who sells their stuff everywhere everywhere, that
you can't have it in the dit No, just outlawed
in California.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Period.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
If it's that big of a concern, right, Governor Batman,
you need to go further. Why is it allowed to
be sold in California?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Period? If you're that concerned about it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
If I'm flaming hot cheetos, like, I'm just selling a product. Now,
if you want to sell it, if you want to
then make it available in schools, then that's the school's fault. Yeah,
you know you're basically saying that shouldn't be allowed in schools.
Then fine, make sure the schools can't sell it then,
As opposed to trying to tell these manufacturers or you know,
(34:19):
these product manufacturers that you can't make.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It that way. That if if I'm flipping hot cheeks like, no,
we're gonna do what we do. Yeah, the vending machines
aren't like preloaded with.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
If they're not there choices ch yes, And usually the
vending machine is not owned by the school, and the
vendor gets to decide what they're gonna put it in,
because it's usually like our vending machines here, it's whatever
sells well. If it sells well, they'll bring more of it. Well,
then if you don't want that on your campus. And
I'm thinking that schools can actually control their campus what
(34:53):
happens on their campus.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Look, put it this way.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
If the vending machine want to sell liquor, I'm quite
sure the school because they no, no, no, you can't
do that. I'm quite sure the school has some degree
of control as far as what can be sold in
the vending machine on their campus. Their vending machines is
sell cigarettes. You think that's gonna allow that?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No, No, think it too much sense, Mom.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
It just sounds like an overreaction because I remember when
I was in school, when I was like middle school,
and that was like six years ago. Yeah, sure, my
mom prohibited SODA's in my house. So when I got
to a stage where, you know, I had a little
bit of you know, allowance money I would get you know, coke, sprite,
(35:36):
lift and brisk all all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Not good for me.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
But I mean it's like it's it's also if they
didn't want it, they just they can just push it away.
They don't have to outlaw it, right, you know, right.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And I think a lot of this legislation, I'll say legislationeering.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
It's not like you're engineering.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
These bills to laws for political grand standing and you're
not really addressing a problem. Is there a problem, Let's
get to the heart of the matter. Is there a
problem with the types of food which are available to
kids on campuses. I think we can all agree yes,
it's not very healthy. It's not good for them. They're
in their formative years and their growing years. They shouldn't
(36:18):
be eating that stuff. Then most likely you know, they're
not eating it. They shouldn't have the availability to eat
it at school. Now, what they do outside of school,
that's up to mom, dad, whomever. But as far as
inside of school, they shouldn't be eating it. You're mad
at the wrong people, and you're penalizing the wrong people
(36:41):
instead of trying to outlaw certain dies. Just keep them
out of the schools.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's all you need to do. You can't sell flaming
hot cheetos at a school. Leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I hate those things too. Look, I can't eat those.
I'll never try to eat those.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
No.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Look, I can't say for certain that there is a
direct connection, but at one point my son was eating
those damn takies like his life depended on it, and
a short time later he got a stomach ulcer. I
don't something that that dies your fingers to the point
where it looks like you've been playing with paint and
(37:22):
and it has a concentration of different hot ingredients. Chemicals
are yes, this is a chemical sprayed and then dyed
blue or green or whatever.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Look, I despise those things, but we have them in
our fitter machine. You know that down the hole in
the kitchen, right, you know what? Right? Oh? You know
that right? Yeah? Yeah, we even having our food drawer.
I think we have some playing hot cheatos. Yeah, there's
something close to that.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
And think it's different with that we're making decisions for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, we can't stunt our growth anymore. We're allowed to Nalthy.
It's later with Mo Kelly. K if I AM six
forty Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
App, untangling the mess until it makes sense. K f
I and k ost H D
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Two Los Angeles, Orange County Live everywhere on the eart
Radio app.
Later, with Mo'Kelly News
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.