September 28, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A conversation with ‘The Wake Up Calls’ very own Amy King, who joins the program to invite you to join her alongside the ‘Fork Reporter’ Neil Saavedra and Union Rescue Mission go “Over the Edge” with the ‘Just Help 1’ challenge in an effort to get “one more person, family or child off the street for good” … PLUS – Thoughts on comedians Cheech & Chong suing California over new marijuana regulation AND a look at Joby Aviation’s mission to bring an all-electric air taxi to SoCal in the near future - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
K I six Kelly. It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have a huge
show tonight. We're giving away stuff, a lot of stuff.
We're giving away passes to Disneyland, We're giving away passes
to the Exclusive Later with Mo Kelly, pre Halloween sore A.
We're just giving away stuff because we love you. Before
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we get to all of that. Joining me on the
line right now is Wake Up Call with Amy King's host. Accordingly,
Amy King, who's doing something that I would never do,
doing something that Tula Shrup.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Would never do. Amy King, how the hell are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm great, and I want to know about this pre
Halloween tory and why I didn't get an invitation.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh no, no, no, no, you're already you're pre invited.
It's oh, you're automatically invited. We're just letting the rats
offer tonight. No, no, no, need not worry. October thirtieth at
the Honda Studios, Amy Key, you better be in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh fun, Okay, all right, I might be in bed,
but we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I can do after all that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I know there's this rumor going around that either you
have or you're going to be running down the side
of a building like Spider Woman.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Okay, so it's sort of both. So this afternoon I
went over the edge to raise money for the Union
Rescue Mission. I repelled twenty five stories down the Universal Hilton,
and I will tell you I survived. It was terrifying,
exhilarating fun, and it was for such a good cause.
(02:02):
And so the reason I wanted to talk to you
tonight is to one say I made it, and two
because we're still raising money. They're going to do this
event through tomorrow, so there's more event to go. And
in fact, they do have some spots left. They have
like seven spots left. And if you want to repel
down the building, all you need to do is raise
(02:25):
All you need to do is raise or donate a
thousand dollars for the Union Rescue Mission, and then you
can go and repel down the building too. If it's
something you're afraid of, Oh my god, they took such
good care of us. They were so thorough. It was
safe and it was wonderful. And like I said, it's
for such a good cause. And if you're not familiar
with the Union Rescue Mission, well I got to tell
you there. We are so dated here in Los Angeles
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because homelessness is just so stupid out of control. I mean,
there's like seventy five thousand people in LA that don't
have a home, and there's so much that's not being done,
and there's so much money being thrown at a problem
that's not getting better. Well, the Union Rescue Mission is
actually doing things to make it better. They have transitional housing,
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they get people who actually want to help, and then
once they get into their program and they want to help,
they help them get their ged, they help them do
job training, they help them get their life back on track.
So again, it's not the people who don't want help,
it's the ones who do. And one of the reasons
it's important to donate to the Union Rescue Mission is
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they don't get any government funding. You hear about these numbers,
like I just did a story today about a billion
dollars is to be spent on the homelessness program in
California and Governor Newson's taking a lot of heat for it.
These guys are privately funded, and ironically it's because they
don't allow drugs and alcohol into their shelters. If you
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want government funding, you have to let them have drugs
and alcohol. And they said that's not good. And when
we were talking to one of the vice presidents, he said,
we have family and we have children in there, and
we have elderly people in there. You don't want people
high and stoned and drunk in that environment. And so
the Union Rescue Mission doesn't allow that in their programs. Again,
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it's another reason that their program is different and they're
actually helping people. That's why we got behind it, and
that's why I jumped off of the building.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Amy King, I gotta I have to salute you because
I've been to the Universal Hilton many times and each
time I went there, there were perfectly good, working elevators inside,
but you decided to go outside and take the i'll say,
the windy way down. Was there any moment in the
process where you thought, you know, maybe I should have
chosen another way to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh, yeah, absolutely, I don't. I am afraid of heights.
I don't like them, but you know, they they have
such great people there to help you, and they do
like ten safety checks and they show you what to
do and you're very comfortable and once you get actually
over the edge and start repell down. It's just plain fun.
So it's really a cool experience. In fact, it's so
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much fun that I'm going to go over the edge
again tomorrow. We're going to try to raise some more money,
and I'm going to take Nick Poliochini with me.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Does he know that that's traffic with Yes, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
He agreed to it. So if you listen to wake
Up Call, you hear him with wake Up Call with
me every morning from five to six am, and I'm
taking Nick over the edge. So we're going to ask
you to if you can, because we know it's your
hard and money, and we know that you Things are
not great right now and people are struggling. But if
you can donate twenty bucks, or you can donate a
hundred bucks, or if you want to go and do
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the repelling yourself and donate a thousand dollars, we would
love to have you join us. But whatever you can do,
we would appreciate it because it is for a good cause.
And the way to do that is go to just
help one dot org. Just help one. It's the number
one dot org and there's a button on there that's
Team iHeart and then just look for me and click
on me and make the donation. And the other reason
(06:00):
MO that I really want your donation. I mean, let's
be honest, I want to beat Neil Savedra because he
went over the edge too, and he's raising a lot
of money, and so we're kind of going back and forth,
and he has a whole show tomorrow, the Fork Report
from two to five, where he can be asking his
lovely listeners to make donations.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'll tell the truth. I got that did Neil?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Did Neil your data's pants when he went down? That's
not a note.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
He was really funny though. Before he went over He's like,
I'm not scared. And then when I was texting back
and forth with him after, I said were you scared?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And he goes, well, heck yes I was scared.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So in front of the cameras he was very tough,
but we hear he was a little a little bit
too scaredy cat when he was going over. But he
had a blast. I had a blast, in fact, so
much so we're going to go over again.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay, paint a picture for me very quickly. It's not
like when you're jumping out of an airplane and you
have a buddy with you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're doing this yourself. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They actually have three lines, so you're repelling with three people.
So I got to repel with Tim and I got
to repel with Kelly. Both of them are with the
Union Rescue Mission, so they kind of flanked me today
and so there's three of us and they've got walkie
talkings on you, so they're communicating if anything goes a
little wonky, which they have all this safety stuff built
in that nothing's going to go wrong. And again once
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it gets started, I was like, well, this is so
much fun. I felt a little like you know, Batman
and Robin when they used to walk up the walls,
and I was like, I love this. I was terrified,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, Amy King, I salute you for what you are
doing for a wonderful cause. Go to just help the
number one dot org. Just help one dot org and
make your donation and help do your part wherever we
can to help in homelessness in the Los Angeles area.
Amy King will make sure we'll be shouting this out
all night long. And congratulations again, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Thank you so much, and again I expect to hear
more about the pre Halloween s worret Oh. I'm gonna
try to make it well.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All you need to do is listen to Later with
Mo Kelly all night long.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You know, I do?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know I do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I love y'all.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Talk to you soon, all right, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's Later with Mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
We are live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. When we come back,
we're going to tell you about the latest attempts to
stop some of these seven eleven store robberies and maybe
you can help as well.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Forty KFI mo Kelly Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And we have been covering these extensive, now extensive robberies
of seven and eleven. And I said, this can't be
a coincidence. It's always seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What's also not a coincidence at least according to LAPD,
these spate of eleven robberies by a single group, or
it's thought to be a single group of quote unquote
youthful males between the ages of maybe fourteen and twenty
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years old. They're estimating of varying ethnicities. And here is
the thing which I think is going to help police
narrow down who these individuals might be because they're always
on bikes, so they're limited as far as how much
ground they're going to cover, and they're doing it within
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a small radius. This it's like in the Rampart area
where all of the robberies have happened between the times
of six and eight pm, and always on a Friday.
They seem loosely coordinated. Outside of that, there is a
continuity as far as how it's done. They're right up
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on the bikes usually between now and eight o'clock in
a certain area, and then they all run in the
seven to eleven stores, taking as much as they can
and then running out without paying, then getting on their
bikes again and riding away.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But if there's any pattern to it, that is it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And police said thirteen of the fourteen robberies occurred on
Friday nights, with the exception of there was one on Wednesday,
and that was the only time where it went outside
their usual pattern. And I could read the list to you,
but they're all within a small, small area, a small
radius in the LA area, and if you're next to
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a seven to eleven right about now, and you see
about fifteen sixteen seventeen kids on bikes rolling up, probably
covering their faces. Yeah, that's probably that's a hint and
a half that it's about to get robbed, So you
may need to call someone. I don't want anything violent
to happen to them, but this needs to stop. And
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if police can at least scare them into stopping that,
I'm okay with that. If not, then the police are
gonna have to do what they need to do to
stop these robberies. From what I can see what I've read,
no one has been hurt or harmed up until this point.
But there will come a time in which either someone
who is also in the seven eleven or someone who's
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working there may fight back, and then what that happened.
When that happens, obviously, an escalation leads to unforeseen outcomes.
I don't know what I would do, And I thought
about this, Not that I ever go in as seven eleven,
but if I were in a situation, let's just say
AMPM CIRCLEK getting gassed somewhere, and I saw fifteen to
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twenty kids riding up on bikes, clearly trying to hide
their identity, so you know what they're about to do.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's not just you see a bunch of kids you're
gonna assume.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, they're obviously up to something because they're hiding their identities.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I would definitely call the police, but I don't know
if I could stand idly by and do nothing if
I saw about twenty to thirty kids running into a
seven to eleven or some sort of convenience store. I
don't know, And you know, part of me says, hey,
don't get involved. Part of me says, hey, you know,
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you don't want them to turn on you. But part
of me says, I just can't do zero? Can I can? I?
I don't know is there a civic responsibility on my
part other than just using my phone to call the police,
which most likely the person working inside has already done.
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They've already hit a paddic button, they've already called police,
and they'll be there probably in five or six minutes,
long after the kids are gone.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know what the right thing to do is.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I know I could pull out my phone and start filming,
just for evidence sake, but I don't know if that
helps anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't know if that prevents the next robbery.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You know, they're covering their faces, so it's not like
I'm going to run up and try to pull off
their ski mask unless I want to fight thirty five
kids at once, and I really don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know, I don't know what their intentions are. Now.
Maybe Mark Rutter would, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I just figured that you'd strip your shirt off, pull
your numb chucks out of your pants, and just take
them all out at once.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
No, no, no, no no, Because here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I remember what it's like to be fifteen and sixteen.
I remember what it's like to not have a care
and thinking you're invincible and not considering the consequences of
your actions. I'm not that person anymore. I got a
lot to lose, like my life.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I think it's incumbent upon you to let those children
know that they are not, in fact invincible, nor are
their teeth.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Look, don't get me wrong, that's a part of the equation. Yeah,
if I could just get one, just get one, just
hit one in the throat real, real hard, so he
stops breathing for about five ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
That's right, Just.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Fly into action, show him, show him how a man
handles the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Even though you're going to goad me into a really
bad situation, I'm not going to allow you to. But no,
there is an internal dialogue that I'm having about what
I would do, because I've been in situations. Like I
told the story when I was at Rauf's in the
Torrents area about a year or so ago, and I
saw these two youths or as they said in the
movie utes Utes, walking around and they were stealing bottles
(14:30):
of alcohol, and they seem like they're maybe twenty three,
twenty four years old, big as a minute, they weren't
physically imposing. Part of me was saying, call them out,
you know, call them to the store's attention. And another
part of me said, for what, the store probably already
knows there's video. If they want to pursue what they will,
(14:52):
they probably have already seen them, and they're not going
to stand in front of them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What's the point. I don't gain anything but that.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's my internal struggle because I don't like it if
it's happening right in front of me.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Also, you probably wanted that booze. They were taken.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
No, no, no, I already had booze in my hand. I
was getting ready to buy I see it, So I
was fine in that regard. They couldn't do anything for me.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
And that's why they even tell the employees that they
work there, just don't even don't interfere because it's not
worth your life for minimum wage, which, by the way,
I don't know if you've gone either of you've gone
to best Buy recently, But now they have armed security,
not just the guy.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Who makes it really uncomfortable by the door greeting you
every single time you go in.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And here's here's my question. When when is he going
to use that gun or she going to use that gun?
What are the circumstances. Look, let's say I'm in there
and I'm trying to steal I don't know, a computer,
you know, one of the laptops and I'm running to
the front. Is he going to shoot me? I doubt
Best Buy is going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Maybe that's the next relations scare tactic. Maybe maybe it's
a determ because they don't hide it. I mean it's flaunted, right.
You can see their gun, but there are repercussions to
all this. For example, I was at Boston Market in Torrance.
I'm over in Torrents a lot and it was on
Hawthorne Boulevard around Torrents boulevardish and it's now closed. And
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I think there's a correlation, and that's the point of
the story. I was in there getting some food to
go and a homeless person just came in, walked straight
in and just took all the bake goods on the counter,
put them in his coat. They cupped it and then
walked out. That's impolite. It was very impolite. It was rude.
Other people were waiting. He could have at least waited
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his turn in line, but he didn't. And I looked
at the people behind the counters, like is this usual?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Are you supposed to intervene?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And before I could get a word out of mouth,
young lady behind the counter said, oh, he does that
a lot that was maybe a year ago.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The place is now close.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I know they've been closing down Boston Markets all over
the place, but I don't know if trinkage theft is
good for business.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I don't think it is grand theft. Cruller well, I
think they're like tasty cakes, you know, it's just like
the brownies and stuff at the front. I'm still in polite, yeah,
but I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But if it happens around me and I'm near seven eleven,
I might like try to trip one as they're running away.
I might take one of their bikes and push it
down the streets so they can't get it. I would
do something like that, just like James Bond would have done.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It'd be one of those things where they have to
make a decision are you gonna engage me or are
you gonna try to get away?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Because you're not gonna be able to do both.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And if you're gonna engage me, well, it's gonna be
more work than just a little bit. I'm not just
gonna let you just walk over me. And that's without
even Tuala being there to get into his trunk. No, no, no,
Tuala would do something I don't even have to ask him.
Tuala would try to beat the crap out of as
many of them as possible. He's not even around the
studio I can answer for him. So the answer to
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this is, never go to a seven eleven without touala. No,
I'm not going into a seven eleven at all for
any reason, under any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I could see him blocking the door, not letting them out.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one man leave. He's not
locked in there with him. They're locked in there with him.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
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Speaker 4 (18:25):
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Speaker 1 (18:30):
Pop Quiz Pop Quiz, Stephan or Mark or Twalla, whoever
may know the answer to this. I didn't know this
prior to today. What is the difference between hemp and marijuana? Now,
if you're a weed smoker, you probably know a hemp
is not the drug part. You can actually make material
(18:50):
out of hemp anyone else, Yeah, I took them anyone else.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I believe hemp is is just the plant, It's not
the stems, which are the actual marijuana.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, according to a number of sources, hemp is used
to describe cannabis that contains zero point three percent or
less THCHC by dry weight, while marijuana or weed is
defined as any cannabis that has more than point three
percent of THCHC.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So it comes down to the level of THCHC much
more clinical than the way I put it. Yeah about this,
but no, but you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I'm just trying to, you know, actually give a mathematical benchmark.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The reason I'm talking about this.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Cheech and Chong, they have been consistent for the past
forty five years all things weed and marijuana.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
They are advocates for.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now they are together suing the state of California over
this emergency ban on hemp products containing any detectable level
of THHC.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's why we wanted to start off.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
With just the definition of what is hemp versus marijuana,
and at least in the clinical sense. So there's this
emergency ban on hemp products containing any detectable level of THHC,
and Chiech and Chong have filed a lawsuit against the
California Department of Public Health over this emergency regulation. Quote
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in action over the last three years hardly serves as
a sufficient basis for declaring a sudden emergency and circumventing
the meticulous procedures of regular rule making. It's a can
to requiring candy to stop containing sugar starting tomorrow close quote.
And this lawsuit comes after the full band which was
(20:48):
proposed by Governor Newsom, which went into effect earlier this
week on Monday. And yeah, that was less than three
weeks after he pitched it to a temporary status on
September sixth, So it moved to that point. It moved
through the process real quickly. But you know me, I
personally don't have a dog in this fight.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Isn't that a bit of an oversimplification though to say
it's a kin to taking the sugar out of candy.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I think there are better now, There are better analogies
to make, And I think that's a bad one to
make when you're talking about a drug of any kind.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I mean, if you wanted to get high eating say
some hemp rope, it wouldn't be possible, or right, a
hemp blanket.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You couldn't need enough.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, And I think it sends the wrong message to
people who may be ambivalent, maybe on the fence, maybe
feel a certain type of type of weight like me
about marijuana. When you try to liken it to candy
and sugars, as if it is as innocuous as innocent
as unseerious as candy and sugar. Then you're you're you're like,
(21:59):
you're insulting intelligence, Like, no, it's not like that. It
really isn't like that. You know, you can say that
it's not a schedule A drug, but it's still a drug, Okay.
It is still something which is going to be regulated regardless.
It is still something which is not for kids, whereas
candy and sugar are.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I think it was just a very poor analogy. But
I give them credit.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They have been consistent for the past forty five fifty years.
Everything they've done, everything they've said, all their comedy bits,
all their movies have centered around either glorifying or protecting weed, hemp,
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
To call it. Did you not listen to Teaching Chong
albums when you were a kid?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I did, But they weren't. They weren't like super funny
to me. Not that they are unfunny. I'm just saying
they weren't super funny to me because I never had
any real fascination with weed, and growing up, their fascination
with weed seemed more strange to me than funny.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh I could have worn those records out.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I thought they were hilarious, and obviously as a child,
I didn't care about weed, but it was just, you know,
the idea that they were getting away with something they shouldn't.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It just seemed like the same joke to me over all, Mark,
because because I wasn't meant to be there and I
wasn't into weed, and then like weed, I didn't like
the smell of it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So I'm thinking I.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Was a kid, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you said we
were kids, right, you're not younger than us, Mark, But
I think I can promise you that I was not
a big pothead as a child. But you were into
those albums heavily. You wore them out. You said I
thought they were funny. Yes, because because you had a
fascination with marriage, you wanna you're trying to make something
(23:39):
out of this, and we're trying to make something out
of this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You're trying to make a slander suit.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Out of it, going to the nuts up their records.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's well, they were funny.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
There were comedy albums just like I'm sorry, were you
busy listening to Bob Newhart and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Stead listening to Red Fox and Richard Pryor? Okay, well
I like those too. They were they were all in mix.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
It's maybe not so much Cosby Well, we were too
young for Dolomiter, like Blowfly or any of the.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
How could you be too young for Rudy ray Moore
but not Richard Pryor.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I'm not sure I have an adequate answer to the
word question. I mean, because they're both were vulgar. Rbe
ray Moore was very very vulgar.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I would say Richard Pryor, depending on the album, was
vulgar vulgar.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Richard Pryor was much more part of mainstream pop culture
than Rudy ray Moore. I didn't learn about him until
I was much older. But that's only because you're half black. Yes,
you see, if you're all black, you would have learned
about him in the early nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Now you're right.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I forgot today that I was half black. Thank you
for reminding me of that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We'll see, the white half always wants to get rid
of of the black half.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
That's why I was oppressing myself earlier. It was really awkward. Oh,
you'll get used to it. This is what I hear.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Has that you have a different internal dialogue than I have. Clearly,
when we came come back the air taxis. They're still
trying to get it done here in La. Another air
taxi has been proposed. They keep talking about the jets sens.
I don't think it's actually going to be happening in
my lifetime, but they think they are.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And you know they're in the.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Pocket of Talla Sharps, so I'm quite sure he will
advocate for them when we come back.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Where is he gonna come down on this one? I wonder.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
A California startup name Joby Aviation is developing an all
electric air taxi that will be used in the skies
above cities worldwide. That's in a perfect world and this
world is city thing but perfect. And also they had
an aircraft on display. It couldn't fly, there was no demonstration,
but it was on display at the Grove in LA recently,
(26:02):
so you can see. It looks very cool, looks futuristic,
looks like Airwolf, real sleek in design, and supposedly it
flies at the sound of a whisper, so it could
be only one thousand feet above you, but you would
not hear it. According to its owner, quote, it frees
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you from the traffic in a way that you just
can't right now with any other technology. And that's the
chief product officer, Eric Allison. He was very enthusiastic, as
the story reads, the fully electric aircraft, and his is
the thing which, look, I'm not real good at math,
but this is problematic to me. The fully electric aircraft
(26:43):
can cruise at two hundred miles per hour pretty fast,
but only has a range of about one hundred miles.
That's not a lot, that's not a lot. One hundred miles,
so to be safe, you got maybe forty miles this.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Way and forty miles to get your ass back. That's it.
That's it. You can go real fast, but you can't
go real far. Quote.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It could fly really quietly, So if it was flying
over here at about one thousand feet, which is like
low even for a helicopter, it would basically be silent.
You wouldn't hear it as it flies over. But they
did not have a working model to demonstrate this. This
is only what they are telling us, and I have
to imagine. Okay, it's full of rich folks. If you
got money, you would get something like this, But how
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feasible would it be unless you have a helipad where
you live, which is possible, and there's the helipad where
you're going. Now, there are people like Kobe Bryant. When
he was alive, he would fly to Laker games and
other places in private helicopters. So I'm quite sure there
are uses for the very wealthy. But I don't know
(27:57):
in terms of traffic, because they're talking about this being
an alternative to traffic. I don't know how this could
address that well. As you have to say, fully disclosed,
I've been paid for this adverts.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Hey, hey, hey, let's see what we're talking about right now,
we're talking about of this amazing technology. The fact is
that sooner than later the infrastructure will be fully realized
here in southern California, where there will be more charge ports,
(28:33):
not just for personal jobee's, but also for electric cars,
self driving cars and the like.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I disagree with that because you can see the evolving
infrastructure when it comes to electric cars. You can even
see the evolving infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. You can see
one here or there. Out on the streets, you find
electric cars everywhere. There is no real world exam of
these flying taxis as of yet, and there's nothing which
(29:03):
has been built to accommodate them. And we haven't seen
the technology in action, even in a demonstration video.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Boston Dynamics.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
They have dancing robots, they have demonstration videos, but it's
nice to see a picture of this at the grove.
It's almost like when you go to the car show
and you see the cars of the future and you think,
maybe one day they'll be out there, but they're just
for demonstration. We need to see an actually working prototype
to get an idea of where this would work in
(29:32):
our day to day society. Isn't just for the five
billionaires in southern California and that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
If so, then whooped to do great for them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
They've already had access to helicopters for the past twenty
five years.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
No joby as we have discussed in the past, let
me remind you, job is working with the FAA, They're
working with LAX, They're working with several different business locations,
they work with several established the landing ports, except Love.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It couldn't afforded Joby. They couldn't afforded Joby.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
Look, this is something that is coming in the mirror future,
because we know this is coming in twenty five five.
Twenty twenty five is when they said they were going
to start with the soft launch. And what did they
say about the neuralink. No, this isn't this isn't killing monkeys.
(30:26):
That's not what they're doing to test Joby's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Look, look, I need to see one in the air
and see how it's going to be able to maneuver southern.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
California without running in.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The buildings, you know, running into other helicopters and power lines.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
This is where I remind you that you had the
same argument against robot taxis and self driving ubers and
the like.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And now guess what.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
As the rollout has continued to grow, you know, we've
heard less of mo you know, we've heard less of
any stories about accidents. Naysayers in the Bay Area are like, well,
look at them, they're beeping all night. That's all they got.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's all. You got some beeping all night.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
But you haven't had any more reports of grandmother's being
run over, because I've had.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Any Because they're suppressing that information, they're hiding it from
the public. You don't want to let that out.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
You wouldn't hide it if the news was available, you
would be the first one to rub it in my face.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I would, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And then you know, you don't know how many grandmothers
are sitting in the hospital right now because of an
autonomous vehicle ran them down.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Like that. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
As far as you've seen them, you've seen them, I've
seen them. I don't know if Mark has seen them.
He's very quiet. He's trying to hide and suppress the
fact that he's seeing them out there just driving doing
what they're doing, taking passengers to and fro.
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K I six Kelly. It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have a huge
show tonight. We're giving away stuff, a lot of stuff.
We're giving away passes to Disneyland, We're giving away passes
to the Exclusive Later with Mo Kelly, pre Halloween sore A.
We're just giving away stuff because we love you. Before
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we get to all of that. Joining me on the
line right now is Wake Up Call with Amy King's host. Accordingly,
Amy King, who's doing something that I would never do,
doing something that Tula Shrup.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Would never do. Amy King, how the hell are you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm great, and I want to know about this pre
Halloween tory and why I didn't get an invitation.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh no, no, no, no, you're already you're pre invited.
It's oh, you're automatically invited. We're just letting the rats
offer tonight. No, no, no, need not worry. October thirtieth at
the Honda Studios, Amy Key, you better be in the house.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh fun, Okay, all right, I might be in bed,
but we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I can do after all that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I know there's this rumor going around that either you
have or you're going to be running down the side
of a building like Spider Woman.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Okay, so it's sort of both. So this afternoon I
went over the edge to raise money for the Union
Rescue Mission. I repelled twenty five stories down the Universal Hilton,
and I will tell you I survived. It was terrifying,
exhilarating fun, and it was for such a good cause.
(02:02):
And so the reason I wanted to talk to you
tonight is to one say I made it, and two
because we're still raising money. They're going to do this
event through tomorrow, so there's more event to go. And
in fact, they do have some spots left. They have
like seven spots left. And if you want to repel
down the building, all you need to do is raise
(02:25):
All you need to do is raise or donate a
thousand dollars for the Union Rescue Mission, and then you
can go and repel down the building too. If it's
something you're afraid of, Oh my god, they took such
good care of us. They were so thorough. It was
safe and it was wonderful. And like I said, it's
for such a good cause. And if you're not familiar
with the Union Rescue Mission, well I got to tell
you there. We are so dated here in Los Angeles
(02:48):
because homelessness is just so stupid out of control. I mean,
there's like seventy five thousand people in LA that don't
have a home, and there's so much that's not being done,
and there's so much money being thrown at a problem
that's not getting better. Well, the Union Rescue Mission is
actually doing things to make it better. They have transitional housing,
(03:09):
they get people who actually want to help, and then
once they get into their program and they want to help,
they help them get their ged, they help them do
job training, they help them get their life back on track.
So again, it's not the people who don't want help,
it's the ones who do. And one of the reasons
it's important to donate to the Union Rescue Mission is
(03:29):
they don't get any government funding. You hear about these numbers,
like I just did a story today about a billion
dollars is to be spent on the homelessness program in
California and Governor Newson's taking a lot of heat for it.
These guys are privately funded, and ironically it's because they
don't allow drugs and alcohol into their shelters. If you
(03:50):
want government funding, you have to let them have drugs
and alcohol. And they said that's not good. And when
we were talking to one of the vice presidents, he said,
we have family and we have children in there, and
we have elderly people in there. You don't want people
high and stoned and drunk in that environment. And so
the Union Rescue Mission doesn't allow that in their programs. Again,
(04:13):
it's another reason that their program is different and they're
actually helping people. That's why we got behind it, and
that's why I jumped off of the building.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Amy King, I gotta I have to salute you because
I've been to the Universal Hilton many times and each
time I went there, there were perfectly good, working elevators inside,
but you decided to go outside and take the i'll say,
the windy way down. Was there any moment in the
process where you thought, you know, maybe I should have
chosen another way to make a difference.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh, yeah, absolutely, I don't. I am afraid of heights.
I don't like them, but you know, they they have
such great people there to help you, and they do
like ten safety checks and they show you what to
do and you're very comfortable and once you get actually
over the edge and start repell down. It's just plain fun.
So it's really a cool experience. In fact, it's so
(05:05):
much fun that I'm going to go over the edge
again tomorrow. We're going to try to raise some more money,
and I'm going to take Nick Poliochini with me.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Does he know that that's traffic with Yes, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
He agreed to it. So if you listen to wake
Up Call, you hear him with wake Up Call with
me every morning from five to six am, and I'm
taking Nick over the edge. So we're going to ask
you to if you can, because we know it's your
hard and money, and we know that you Things are
not great right now and people are struggling. But if
you can donate twenty bucks, or you can donate a
hundred bucks, or if you want to go and do
(05:38):
the repelling yourself and donate a thousand dollars, we would
love to have you join us. But whatever you can do,
we would appreciate it because it is for a good cause.
And the way to do that is go to just
help one dot org. Just help one. It's the number
one dot org and there's a button on there that's
Team iHeart and then just look for me and click
on me and make the donation. And the other reason
(06:00):
MO that I really want your donation. I mean, let's
be honest, I want to beat Neil Savedra because he
went over the edge too, and he's raising a lot
of money, and so we're kind of going back and forth,
and he has a whole show tomorrow, the Fork Report
from two to five, where he can be asking his
lovely listeners to make donations.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'll tell the truth. I got that did Neil?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Did Neil your data's pants when he went down? That's
not a note.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
He was really funny though. Before he went over He's like,
I'm not scared. And then when I was texting back
and forth with him after, I said were you scared?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And he goes, well, heck yes I was scared.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So in front of the cameras he was very tough,
but we hear he was a little a little bit
too scaredy cat when he was going over. But he
had a blast. I had a blast, in fact, so
much so we're going to go over again.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay, paint a picture for me very quickly. It's not
like when you're jumping out of an airplane and you
have a buddy with you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're doing this yourself. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They actually have three lines, so you're repelling with three people.
So I got to repel with Tim and I got
to repel with Kelly. Both of them are with the
Union Rescue Mission, so they kind of flanked me today
and so there's three of us and they've got walkie
talkings on you, so they're communicating if anything goes a
little wonky, which they have all this safety stuff built
in that nothing's going to go wrong. And again once
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it gets started, I was like, well, this is so
much fun. I felt a little like you know, Batman
and Robin when they used to walk up the walls,
and I was like, I love this. I was terrified,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, Amy King, I salute you for what you are
doing for a wonderful cause. Go to just help the
number one dot org. Just help one dot org and
make your donation and help do your part wherever we
can to help in homelessness in the Los Angeles area.
Amy King will make sure we'll be shouting this out
all night long. And congratulations again, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Thank you so much, and again I expect to hear
more about the pre Halloween s worret Oh. I'm gonna
try to make it well.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All you need to do is listen to Later with
Mo Kelly all night long.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You know, I do?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know I do.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I love y'all.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Talk to you soon, all right, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Mo.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's Later with Mo Kelly caf I AM six forty.
We are live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. When we come back,
we're going to tell you about the latest attempts to
stop some of these seven eleven store robberies and maybe
you can help as well.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Forty KFI mo Kelly Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And we have been covering these extensive, now extensive robberies
of seven and eleven. And I said, this can't be
a coincidence. It's always seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What's also not a coincidence at least according to LAPD,
these spate of eleven robberies by a single group, or
it's thought to be a single group of quote unquote
youthful males between the ages of maybe fourteen and twenty
(09:13):
years old. They're estimating of varying ethnicities. And here is
the thing which I think is going to help police
narrow down who these individuals might be because they're always
on bikes, so they're limited as far as how much
ground they're going to cover, and they're doing it within
(09:34):
a small radius. This it's like in the Rampart area
where all of the robberies have happened between the times
of six and eight pm, and always on a Friday.
They seem loosely coordinated. Outside of that, there is a
continuity as far as how it's done. They're right up
(09:55):
on the bikes usually between now and eight o'clock in
a certain area, and then they all run in the
seven to eleven stores, taking as much as they can
and then running out without paying, then getting on their
bikes again and riding away.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But if there's any pattern to it, that is it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And police said thirteen of the fourteen robberies occurred on
Friday nights, with the exception of there was one on Wednesday,
and that was the only time where it went outside
their usual pattern. And I could read the list to you,
but they're all within a small, small area, a small
radius in the LA area, and if you're next to
(10:35):
a seven to eleven right about now, and you see
about fifteen sixteen seventeen kids on bikes rolling up, probably
covering their faces. Yeah, that's probably that's a hint and
a half that it's about to get robbed, So you
may need to call someone. I don't want anything violent
to happen to them, but this needs to stop. And
(10:56):
if police can at least scare them into stopping that,
I'm okay with that. If not, then the police are
gonna have to do what they need to do to
stop these robberies. From what I can see what I've read,
no one has been hurt or harmed up until this point.
But there will come a time in which either someone
who is also in the seven eleven or someone who's
(11:18):
working there may fight back, and then what that happened.
When that happens, obviously, an escalation leads to unforeseen outcomes.
I don't know what I would do, And I thought
about this, Not that I ever go in as seven eleven,
but if I were in a situation, let's just say
AMPM CIRCLEK getting gassed somewhere, and I saw fifteen to
(11:41):
twenty kids riding up on bikes, clearly trying to hide
their identity, so you know what they're about to do.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's not just you see a bunch of kids you're
gonna assume.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
No, they're obviously up to something because they're hiding their identities.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I would definitely call the police, but I don't know
if I could stand idly by and do nothing if
I saw about twenty to thirty kids running into a
seven to eleven or some sort of convenience store. I
don't know, And you know, part of me says, hey,
don't get involved. Part of me says, hey, you know,
(12:19):
you don't want them to turn on you. But part
of me says, I just can't do zero? Can I can? I?
I don't know is there a civic responsibility on my
part other than just using my phone to call the police,
which most likely the person working inside has already done.
(12:41):
They've already hit a paddic button, they've already called police,
and they'll be there probably in five or six minutes,
long after the kids are gone.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know what the right thing to do is.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I know I could pull out my phone and start filming,
just for evidence sake, but I don't know if that
helps anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't know if that prevents the next robbery.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You know, they're covering their faces, so it's not like
I'm going to run up and try to pull off
their ski mask unless I want to fight thirty five
kids at once, and I really don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know, I don't know what their intentions are. Now.
Maybe Mark Rutter would, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I just figured that you'd strip your shirt off, pull
your numb chucks out of your pants, and just take
them all out at once.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
No, no, no, no no, Because here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I remember what it's like to be fifteen and sixteen.
I remember what it's like to not have a care
and thinking you're invincible and not considering the consequences of
your actions. I'm not that person anymore. I got a
lot to lose, like my life.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I think it's incumbent upon you to let those children
know that they are not, in fact invincible, nor are
their teeth.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Look, don't get me wrong, that's a part of the equation. Yeah,
if I could just get one, just get one, just
hit one in the throat real, real hard, so he
stops breathing for about five ten seconds.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
That's right, Just.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Fly into action, show him, show him how a man
handles the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Even though you're going to goad me into a really
bad situation, I'm not going to allow you to. But no,
there is an internal dialogue that I'm having about what
I would do, because I've been in situations. Like I
told the story when I was at Rauf's in the
Torrents area about a year or so ago, and I
saw these two youths or as they said in the
movie utes Utes, walking around and they were stealing bottles
(14:30):
of alcohol, and they seem like they're maybe twenty three,
twenty four years old, big as a minute, they weren't
physically imposing. Part of me was saying, call them out,
you know, call them to the store's attention. And another
part of me said, for what, the store probably already
knows there's video. If they want to pursue what they will,
(14:52):
they probably have already seen them, and they're not going
to stand in front of them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What's the point. I don't gain anything but that.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's my internal struggle because I don't like it if
it's happening right in front of me.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Also, you probably wanted that booze. They were taken.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
No, no, no, I already had booze in my hand. I
was getting ready to buy I see it, So I
was fine in that regard. They couldn't do anything for me.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
And that's why they even tell the employees that they
work there, just don't even don't interfere because it's not
worth your life for minimum wage, which, by the way,
I don't know if you've gone either of you've gone
to best Buy recently, But now they have armed security,
not just the guy.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Who makes it really uncomfortable by the door greeting you
every single time you go in.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And here's here's my question. When when is he going
to use that gun or she going to use that gun?
What are the circumstances. Look, let's say I'm in there
and I'm trying to steal I don't know, a computer,
you know, one of the laptops and I'm running to
the front. Is he going to shoot me? I doubt
Best Buy is going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Maybe that's the next relations scare tactic. Maybe maybe it's
a determ because they don't hide it. I mean it's flaunted, right.
You can see their gun, but there are repercussions to
all this. For example, I was at Boston Market in Torrance.
I'm over in Torrents a lot and it was on
Hawthorne Boulevard around Torrents boulevardish and it's now closed. And
(16:21):
I think there's a correlation, and that's the point of
the story. I was in there getting some food to
go and a homeless person just came in, walked straight
in and just took all the bake goods on the counter,
put them in his coat. They cupped it and then
walked out. That's impolite. It was very impolite. It was rude.
Other people were waiting. He could have at least waited
(16:42):
his turn in line, but he didn't. And I looked
at the people behind the counters, like is this usual?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Are you supposed to intervene?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And before I could get a word out of mouth,
young lady behind the counter said, oh, he does that
a lot that was maybe a year ago.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The place is now close.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I know they've been closing down Boston Markets all over
the place, but I don't know if trinkage theft is
good for business.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I don't think it is grand theft. Cruller well, I
think they're like tasty cakes, you know, it's just like
the brownies and stuff at the front. I'm still in polite, yeah,
but I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But if it happens around me and I'm near seven eleven,
I might like try to trip one as they're running away.
I might take one of their bikes and push it
down the streets so they can't get it. I would
do something like that, just like James Bond would have done.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It'd be one of those things where they have to
make a decision are you gonna engage me or are
you gonna try to get away?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Because you're not gonna be able to do both.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And if you're gonna engage me, well, it's gonna be
more work than just a little bit. I'm not just
gonna let you just walk over me. And that's without
even Tuala being there to get into his trunk. No, no, no,
Tuala would do something I don't even have to ask him.
Tuala would try to beat the crap out of as
many of them as possible. He's not even around the
studio I can answer for him. So the answer to
(18:00):
this is, never go to a seven eleven without touala. No,
I'm not going into a seven eleven at all for
any reason, under any circumstances.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I could see him blocking the door, not letting them out.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one man leave. He's not
locked in there with him. They're locked in there with him.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
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Pop Quiz Pop Quiz, Stephan or Mark or Twalla, whoever
may know the answer to this. I didn't know this
prior to today. What is the difference between hemp and marijuana? Now,
if you're a weed smoker, you probably know a hemp
is not the drug part. You can actually make material
(18:50):
out of hemp anyone else, Yeah, I took them anyone else.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I believe hemp is is just the plant, It's not
the stems, which are the actual marijuana.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, according to a number of sources, hemp is used
to describe cannabis that contains zero point three percent or
less THCHC by dry weight, while marijuana or weed is
defined as any cannabis that has more than point three
percent of THCHC.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So it comes down to the level of THCHC much
more clinical than the way I put it. Yeah about this,
but no, but you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I'm just trying to, you know, actually give a mathematical benchmark.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The reason I'm talking about this.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Cheech and Chong, they have been consistent for the past
forty five years all things weed and marijuana.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
They are advocates for.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now they are together suing the state of California over
this emergency ban on hemp products containing any detectable level
of THHC.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's why we wanted to start off.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
With just the definition of what is hemp versus marijuana,
and at least in the clinical sense. So there's this
emergency ban on hemp products containing any detectable level of THHC,
and Chiech and Chong have filed a lawsuit against the
California Department of Public Health over this emergency regulation. Quote
(20:25):
in action over the last three years hardly serves as
a sufficient basis for declaring a sudden emergency and circumventing
the meticulous procedures of regular rule making. It's a can
to requiring candy to stop containing sugar starting tomorrow close quote.
And this lawsuit comes after the full band which was
(20:48):
proposed by Governor Newsom, which went into effect earlier this
week on Monday. And yeah, that was less than three
weeks after he pitched it to a temporary status on
September sixth, So it moved to that point. It moved
through the process real quickly. But you know me, I
personally don't have a dog in this fight.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Isn't that a bit of an oversimplification though to say
it's a kin to taking the sugar out of candy.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I think there are better now, There are better analogies
to make, And I think that's a bad one to
make when you're talking about a drug of any kind.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I mean, if you wanted to get high eating say
some hemp rope, it wouldn't be possible, or right, a
hemp blanket.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You couldn't need enough.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, And I think it sends the wrong message to
people who may be ambivalent, maybe on the fence, maybe
feel a certain type of type of weight like me
about marijuana. When you try to liken it to candy
and sugars, as if it is as innocuous as innocent
as unseerious as candy and sugar. Then you're you're you're like,
(21:59):
you're insulting intelligence, Like, no, it's not like that. It
really isn't like that. You know, you can say that
it's not a schedule A drug, but it's still a drug, Okay.
It is still something which is going to be regulated regardless.
It is still something which is not for kids, whereas
candy and sugar are.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I think it was just a very poor analogy. But
I give them credit.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They have been consistent for the past forty five fifty years.
Everything they've done, everything they've said, all their comedy bits,
all their movies have centered around either glorifying or protecting weed, hemp,
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
To call it. Did you not listen to Teaching Chong
albums when you were a kid?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I did, But they weren't. They weren't like super funny
to me. Not that they are unfunny. I'm just saying
they weren't super funny to me because I never had
any real fascination with weed, and growing up, their fascination
with weed seemed more strange to me than funny.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh I could have worn those records out.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
I thought they were hilarious, and obviously as a child,
I didn't care about weed, but it was just, you know,
the idea that they were getting away with something they shouldn't.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It just seemed like the same joke to me over all, Mark,
because because I wasn't meant to be there and I
wasn't into weed, and then like weed, I didn't like
the smell of it.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So I'm thinking I.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Was a kid, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you said we
were kids, right, you're not younger than us, Mark, But
I think I can promise you that I was not
a big pothead as a child. But you were into
those albums heavily. You wore them out. You said I
thought they were funny. Yes, because because you had a
fascination with marriage, you wanna you're trying to make something
(23:39):
out of this, and we're trying to make something out
of this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You're trying to make a slander suit.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Out of it, going to the nuts up their records.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's well, they were funny.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
There were comedy albums just like I'm sorry, were you
busy listening to Bob Newhart and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Stead listening to Red Fox and Richard Pryor? Okay, well
I like those too. They were they were all in mix.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
It's maybe not so much Cosby Well, we were too
young for Dolomiter, like Blowfly or any of the.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
How could you be too young for Rudy ray Moore
but not Richard Pryor.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I'm not sure I have an adequate answer to the
word question. I mean, because they're both were vulgar. Rbe
ray Moore was very very vulgar.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I would say Richard Pryor, depending on the album, was
vulgar vulgar.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Richard Pryor was much more part of mainstream pop culture
than Rudy ray Moore. I didn't learn about him until
I was much older. But that's only because you're half black. Yes,
you see, if you're all black, you would have learned
about him in the early nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Now you're right.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I forgot today that I was half black. Thank you
for reminding me of that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We'll see, the white half always wants to get rid
of of the black half.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
That's why I was oppressing myself earlier. It was really awkward. Oh,
you'll get used to it. This is what I hear.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Has that you have a different internal dialogue than I have. Clearly,
when we came come back the air taxis. They're still
trying to get it done here in La. Another air
taxi has been proposed. They keep talking about the jets sens.
I don't think it's actually going to be happening in
my lifetime, but they think they are.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And you know they're in the.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Pocket of Talla Sharps, so I'm quite sure he will
advocate for them when we come back.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Where is he gonna come down on this one? I wonder.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
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Speaker 1 (25:42):
A California startup name Joby Aviation is developing an all
electric air taxi that will be used in the skies
above cities worldwide. That's in a perfect world and this
world is city thing but perfect. And also they had
an aircraft on display. It couldn't fly, there was no demonstration,
but it was on display at the Grove in LA recently,
(26:02):
so you can see. It looks very cool, looks futuristic,
looks like Airwolf, real sleek in design, and supposedly it
flies at the sound of a whisper, so it could
be only one thousand feet above you, but you would
not hear it. According to its owner, quote, it frees
(26:23):
you from the traffic in a way that you just
can't right now with any other technology. And that's the
chief product officer, Eric Allison. He was very enthusiastic, as
the story reads, the fully electric aircraft, and his is
the thing which, look, I'm not real good at math,
but this is problematic to me. The fully electric aircraft
(26:43):
can cruise at two hundred miles per hour pretty fast,
but only has a range of about one hundred miles.
That's not a lot, that's not a lot. One hundred miles,
so to be safe, you got maybe forty miles this.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Way and forty miles to get your ass back. That's it.
That's it. You can go real fast, but you can't
go real far. Quote.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It could fly really quietly, So if it was flying
over here at about one thousand feet, which is like
low even for a helicopter, it would basically be silent.
You wouldn't hear it as it flies over. But they
did not have a working model to demonstrate this. This
is only what they are telling us, and I have
to imagine. Okay, it's full of rich folks. If you
got money, you would get something like this, But how
(27:33):
feasible would it be unless you have a helipad where
you live, which is possible, and there's the helipad where
you're going. Now, there are people like Kobe Bryant. When
he was alive, he would fly to Laker games and
other places in private helicopters. So I'm quite sure there
are uses for the very wealthy. But I don't know
(27:57):
in terms of traffic, because they're talking about this being
an alternative to traffic. I don't know how this could
address that well. As you have to say, fully disclosed,
I've been paid for this adverts.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Hey, hey, hey, let's see what we're talking about right now,
we're talking about of this amazing technology. The fact is
that sooner than later the infrastructure will be fully realized
here in southern California, where there will be more charge ports,
(28:33):
not just for personal jobee's, but also for electric cars,
self driving cars and the like.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I disagree with that because you can see the evolving
infrastructure when it comes to electric cars. You can even
see the evolving infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. You can see
one here or there. Out on the streets, you find
electric cars everywhere. There is no real world exam of
these flying taxis as of yet, and there's nothing which
(29:03):
has been built to accommodate them. And we haven't seen
the technology in action, even in a demonstration video.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Boston Dynamics.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
They have dancing robots, they have demonstration videos, but it's
nice to see a picture of this at the grove.
It's almost like when you go to the car show
and you see the cars of the future and you think,
maybe one day they'll be out there, but they're just
for demonstration. We need to see an actually working prototype
to get an idea of where this would work in
(29:32):
our day to day society. Isn't just for the five
billionaires in southern California and that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
If so, then whooped to do great for them?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
They've already had access to helicopters for the past twenty
five years.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
No joby as we have discussed in the past, let
me remind you, job is working with the FAA, They're
working with LAX, They're working with several different business locations,
they work with several established the landing ports, except Love.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
It couldn't afforded Joby. They couldn't afforded Joby.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
Look, this is something that is coming in the mirror future,
because we know this is coming in twenty five five.
Twenty twenty five is when they said they were going
to start with the soft launch. And what did they
say about the neuralink. No, this isn't this isn't killing monkeys.
(30:26):
That's not what they're doing to test Joby's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Look, look, I need to see one in the air
and see how it's going to be able to maneuver southern.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
California without running in.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The buildings, you know, running into other helicopters and power lines.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
This is where I remind you that you had the
same argument against robot taxis and self driving ubers and
the like.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And now guess what.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
As the rollout has continued to grow, you know, we've
heard less of mo you know, we've heard less of
any stories about accidents. Naysayers in the Bay Area are like, well,
look at them, they're beeping all night. That's all they got.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's all. You got some beeping all night.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
But you haven't had any more reports of grandmother's being
run over, because I've had.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Any Because they're suppressing that information, they're hiding it from
the public. You don't want to let that out.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
You wouldn't hide it if the news was available, you
would be the first one to rub it in my face.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I would, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And then you know, you don't know how many grandmothers
are sitting in the hospital right now because of an
autonomous vehicle ran them down.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Like that. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
As far as you've seen them, you've seen them, I've
seen them. I don't know if Mark has seen them.
He's very quiet. He's trying to hide and suppress the
fact that he's seeing them out there just driving doing
what they're doing, taking passengers to and fro.
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