October 7, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the latest violent mob assault against a 7-Eleven franchise AND a new report that lists the cities with the worst drivers in America…PLUS – A look at how the “National Do Not Call Registry,” can put an end to you receiving those annoying campaign calls and text messages - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Six forty yes later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. I tell you, rainy days and
Mondays always get me down. Something about this particular Monday.
I'm a little bit slower than usual. I'm a little
bit more sluggish. I'm a little bit more antsy. Some
Mondays are more difficult than others. I hope you had
a great weekend. I had a great weekend. It was full,
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though it felt like I didn't have a weekend. I
was doing something all day each day of the weekend.
But I'm glad to be back here with you. So
much to talk about given the events of the past
two three days. You know that violent mind which assaulted
the seven eleven clerk. They've been showing that video on
loop all day long. They ransacked that seven eleven. Well,
(01:08):
I have some thoughts about that, and I think I've
figured it out as to why seven eleven not AMPM,
not Circle K, not Joe's Convenience Store. Why seven eleven.
I'll give you those thoughts next segment. And we have
a list of the cities with the worst drivers in
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the United States. Mark Ronner is going to be listening
intently because these are the cities for him to avoid
if he does not want to give people the double
bird or even the single bird.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I only do it when it's an absolute necessity and
it's a public service and a courtesy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I do not doubt you at all. But if we're
doing the list, you know it's connected to southern California
somewhere along the way. And of course we all know
that there is a presidential election coming up, but that's
not the only election that people are talking about. And
if you're like me, hopefully you're not, but if you're
like me, you're getting campaign calls, these robo calls, these
(02:08):
text messages, emails every single day. I'm talking about from
both parties. They just somehow figured out how to find me,
and they probably found you as well, and you just
get bombarded with all these messages. Well, the question is,
can you stop at least the phone calls and texts.
We'll talk about that before the hour's up. And we
(02:31):
have a pair of Circus Vargas tickets to give away
for October eighteenth at the Delamo Fashion Center. So we've
got a pair of Circus Vargus tickets for October eighteenth,
that's coming up soon at Delamo Fashion Center. They could
be yours, but you're going to have to listen in
as to when we're going to give them away. So, Stephan,
I didn't getting to get a chance to say hello
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to you this evening. How you doing, brother?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hear you, sir? I'm doing all right. Did you drive
for anyone this weekend? No? Not this weekend. I had
a lot of stuff take care with the pops. But yeah,
otherwise it's pretty relaxing. Okay, what about you, Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You don't even want to know the depths of nerdism
I sunk to this weekend. But I'll just give it
teeny tiny little adam of it. You know. I'm a
James Bond fan, love the old ones. There were some
commentaries on Criterion collection editions of the first three James
Bond movies that were banned in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I found them, Did you pay for Him? I found them?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I found okay, and I also found like a summary
of the best dirtiest bits from him. They were banned because,
like Kubby Broccoli, who you recall is the hauncho behind
those earlier Bond movies, he was offended by them, and
there was some kind of salty language and some insults
and some unflattering remarks made about assorted people in the
cast and crew, very entertaining.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
All right, all right, and what about you, twall? What
did you get into? I did not do much. There's
this g I.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Joe comic relaunch coming in November, and it looks very,
very exciting. So I went around to a bunch of
different comic shops to get a hold of some of
the prequel series from four of the main characters in
the Giagro commic. They have like prequel series that are
coming before this major relaunch. I just went around to
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a bunch of shops to stock up. All right, Yeah, Well,
my weekend was just full. It was just full.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I was doing something all hours of both days of
the weekend. How was the Blue Door Bat. It was fantastic.
They raised a lot of money. I'm not at liberty
to say how much they raised, but they raised a
lot of money. We were going to help out a
lot of kids across southern California, more specifically in the
Carson area, and it was just a well received event.
(04:43):
I heard a lot of great feedback from the multiple
interviews we had with participants here on later with Mo Kelly,
and I look forward to doing it in future years.
It feels really good. And I try to say this
not to gloat, but to be clear, I don't get
paid for that. I'm doing it because I feel that
it's important to do and I would rather give my time.
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And it's a fundraiser. I'm not trying to get money
from a fundraiser. It's just weird to me. Other people do.
I'm saying I don't. That's one of the things that
I look forward to every single year because I like
to be able to say I had a hand in
helping raise money a lot of money to help a
lot of children. I'm all about children and I'm all
about education. Kind of works together, so it's a It's
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a perfect fit for me. Shout out to Kim Richards,
who is the CEO for the Boys and Girls Club
of Carson putting on a phenomenal event. Nina Patel as well,
the vice president of development. Can't wait to do it
next year. And they always have a great I want
to take a moment here. They always have a great venue.
One year they did it at Dignity Health where what
(05:51):
used to be what do they call it wherever the
Chargers used to play in Carson? Yes, thank you, I'm
come to Depot Center. It's now Dignity Health. They did
it one year at Bemo Stadium, which is where the
LA Football Club plays right off the one ten Freeway.
They did it at the Porsche Carson Carson Porsche Experience
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a couple of years there. They always have these fantastic
venues and this year it was you know, it was
one of the same at Sofi Stadium. It was just great.
Great for the venue, a loan saying nothing of the cause,
and also the contributions, A great turnout. It's a great turnout.
It's about maybe three hundred attendees. Wow, because it's maxed
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out at a certain point because they have tables and
seats and dinners off Saturdays. Oh yeah, good cause that
is a great turnout. But it wasn't a long evening.
You know, the evening starts at seven o'clock. We were
done by nine oh five. Wow, now was there since three?
Because they had like a run through and rehearsal everything,
But the event itself it flows so oh. I will
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say this shout out to Marathon Patrol who donated one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Let me just say that,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars one donor. That's how
we got down. So it was a great weekend in
that regard. Busy but great. It's Later with Mokelly. We're
going to talk about seven to eleven and that latest
ransacking and mobbing when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By now you've probably seen. If you haven't seen, just
turn on your TV. It's on loop. You've seen the
footage of the mob which attacked a seven eleven store
in Orange County yesterday. It left the store clerk with
a bloody nose. That goodness, he wasn't more seriously injured.
And you could tell there was footage by the surveillance cameras.
(07:47):
There was footage obviously by people who were there and
were stupid enough to upload it to social media. They
will be caught. So I don't think that is an issue.
But I did come to some realization and I'm not
saying that I'm the only one who started this. I'm
not saying this at all. I'm saying that I think
if there is a common thread woven through all these
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flash mob ransackings and seven elevens, it's this and Tuala
and I did not tell you this before the show,
so tell me what you think of it. We were
always theorizing out loud why was it always seven to eleven?
And I said it had to be something with the
setup of configuration or something, because it's only seven to eleven.
It must be a more attractive target. And then I
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kept reading back to the old stories, and then it
hit me. The lottery tickets. If you go into a
seven eleven, the lottery tickets are on the counter more
times than not yet available to the hand. It may
be behind a little bit of a plastic, but it's still,
you know, available to someone's going to come in the
store with bad intentions. Now, if you go into most ampms,
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they have like a lexand wall. Yeah, you're not getting there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The all all the lottery tickets in seven eleven. I
know this because I go to seven eleven in the morning.
They give them a coffee, grab a little lottery ticket.
All their scratchers are right there under a little glass
like partition on the counter for you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On the counter.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But if you go behind the counter, you can just
pull all those things off and.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There's nothing keeping you from hopping the counter.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Nothing, no, nothing, absolutely nothing, not even the older individuals
that are there for some reason another. Every time I
go there during a morning shift, it is usually an
older individual working there. Later on the afternoon, maybe it's
the sun, maybe it's the nephew, the brother coming in.
It's typically an younger gentleman.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But still it's those either one guy. There's usually one
guy in there. But see, there are two things I
would say to that. One. We always say like, hey,
it's seven to eleven, you know, it's not worth your life.
And I would say like, it's probably a family operation.
So the people working in there, they feel much more
connected to it than the average employer, you know, working
at any convenience store. That's the first thing. Second, when
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I was watching this video again, it's been on loop
all day long, and you see a guy. All of
them are like hoodies and sweatshts. They're very conscious to
cover even their arms. They don't want you to know
even their ethnicity or anything which might be identifiable. Going
back to the kids who are identified by their parents,
there's an escalation. Now, before it was just a ransacking,
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they would leave the clerk alone. This time they engage
the clerk. They threatened him with a big rock and
he ended up with a bloody nose. I'm not asking
for this to happen, but i do know how things escalate.
If the violence from the would be criminals escalate, those
who are running the businesses are going to respond in kind.
They're going to protect themselves. They're going to protect their property.
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And if I were an owner of a seven eleven,
if I were an employee at a seven to eleven,
each time I walk into that place, I have to assume,
especially in southern California, I would have to assume that
I'm a potential target, a likely target, and there may
be some fifty individuals now who don't have any reservations
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about harming me as well as ransacking the store. So
having nothing to do with trying to protect the store
and protect the property and protect the product, I have
to protect myself. I think this escalates even more because
even though in credit to the police and law enforcement
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by arresting a lot of these individuals who are involved,
it's not dissuading other groups because they said, it's like
fifty people that it's not dissuading them. These are now
the copycats. I don't believe it's the same group. When
you're talking about Orange County and you're talking about in
the Wiltshire area, these are not the same kids. It
just not. So these are copycats and it can happen
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then anywhere any neighborhood, presumably because I don't think that
Orange County neighborhood was the same demographic, economic demographic as
the Wilshire area. I might be wrong, but I don't
think it was. You're going to see most likely an escalation,
and God help us when it does.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I am going to put out a theory only because
at one point in time, I was one of those
kids that are out in front of you know, supermarket,
selling candy right with the fake story of made up
this that or the other. I'm out here raising money
for whatever team, whatever, whatever whatever, selling chocolate bars that
we go get at the nine to nine cents store
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and go out and try to sell them to you
for like five dollars. That was me, right, And I
know there was an individual in Pasadena who would organize
all of us put like nine ten kids in the
van and we and drop us off in front of stores.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't believe that these attacks are as rand as
we are made to believe because it's kids. I believe,
just like with the ransacking in Nortrum's Mall this same
past weekend, that was organized and they've caught damn near
all of them, I believe that there is some level
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of organization where there is someone who is gathering these
kids together. I don't care if it's two or three
individuals gathering together and saying we're gonna hit this one today,
because it is too similar for it to be just
some kids texting and saying, hey, we're going to do this,
let's go. I don't believe it's that that loose in planning.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Let me let me probe that even further, and I
would then ask what is the end game? Because if
I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, the lottery tickets,
especially the scratch offs, they have serial numbers, I don't
know if you can redeem them, because I'm quite sure
they're gonna catalog that which is stolen in the serial
numbers thereof of the lottery tickets. So I don't know
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if they're usable in any real form and outside of
the lottery tickets. I don't know that the financial upside
from the candy bars and you know, the knickknacks which
are being solen. We don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And to me, it's about if it was just one
seven eleven and say an ampn But there's something about
all of the things that they're gathering that by themselves. No,
but in great numbers. Then you start to have something.
Then you start to have a supply where you can
do something else with it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, it's not a coincidence. Yeah, it's I just don't
believe it's a coinci. Yeah, I'm thinking, I'm going up
and down the aisles with my mind. Is are there
like pseudo fat tablets in the aisle where they can
use for the creation of other drugs since they've locked
those down in most write aids and drug stores, I
don't know if it's a misdirection for something else. No,
when you're only hitting seven elevens, it's not a coincidence.
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It's a pattern. It's just a matter of what's behind
the pattern. And I'm surprised, honestly that seven to eleven
on a corporate level has not stepped in and done
something statewide to better protect them, or at least go
through some sort of motion to increase level of security,
even if they had temporary security members there or something,
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because there's city ducks and they're being used as targets
just about every single week. Yeah, Yeah, it's Later with
mo Kelly. Can if I Am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we
will tell you the cities with the worst drivers in
the country, and California is represented somewhere in there, probably
because of Mark Runner and his antics.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't quote me on that, but probably you will not
scapegoat me. I forbid it.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And maybe your city is on this list, the list
of the cities with the worst drivers in the country.
And I'm not saying this to be funny. We're talking
about the number of fatalities per one hundred thousand people,
crash fatalities and fatalities involving a driver with a positive
blood alcohol content above the legal limit per one hundred thousand, okay,
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And they little it down to a crash score. And
this is a research team of a Consumer Affairs Group
study and these are their findings based on NHTSA, the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations latest data, which is twenty
twenty two. Didn't have twenty twenty three. But we can
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give you the twenty five worst cities, but we're not.
We'll only give you the top ten of the worst cities,
coming in at number ten. As far as fatalities and
also drunk driving driving under the influence fatalities, Saint Louis
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with a crash score of fifty two point three per
one hundred thousand, coming in at number nine, Midland, Texas
with a score of fifty two point eight coming in
at number eight. As far as the worst drivers are
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most dangerous drivers actually in the United States backpons number eight,
fifty three point seven, Number seven, Wichita Falls, Texas, not
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to be confused with Wichita, Kansas, fifty four point six,
number six of the worst drivers in the United States
with respect to fatalities and also fatalities connected to driving
under the influence. Tucson, arare Zona number five. In any
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list of the worst, Mississippi must be represented. Jackson, Mississippi
checks in at number five with fifty six point one
crash score, coming in at number four. California hits the
list with San Bernardissippi. Yeah, sanm Bernissippi. Travel to the
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sam Bernissippi? Do you mark?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And I guess I won't be at this rate. Number
that was number four, So number three Macon, Georgia sixty
three point four. If I were to make any type
of grand generalizations, mostly in the South and Southwest, mostly
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number two, I said mostly, And here's why not completely Victorville, California,
which is kind of like the South. If you've ever
been to Victorville, it is very South esque South Adjason. Yeah,
it's you could close your eyes and then open it
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with like, is this Mississippi? Is this Arkansas? No, it's Victorville.
It's one of the same. I know they do not
like that, but it's true. If you've been to Victorville,
I mean, ooh, it's ooh, love you Victorville not really
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coming in in number one of the worst drivers in
these United States with respect to fatalities and drunk driving fatalities. Memphis,
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Tennessee must be all on Beal Street. Memphis. I've been
to Memphis, but I haven't really spent a lot of
time to assess it. But you know that I can
see it, but it doesn't seem more dangerous. Maybe they're
just much more permissive. Everyone's loaded. I actually thought LA
would have been on this list. I really did. Sam
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Bernardino is not LA, but close enough to LA where
I thought LA would also be on it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The only reason LA's not on it is because of
the fatalities and the fatalities due to impair driving. We
do have some of the worst driver's hands down. So
if this was just worst drivers that cause like road
rage or double mark Ronners, then yes, this is absolutely
on the list. But our drivers they drive really bad
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and they try to kill you.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They're not but they're not. You know, They're kill rader
is not very high. They deserve a round double Mark Ronners.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. You should
be proud. No, let's let's make this one still born. Okay,
cool golle. No, Let's give it a double runner. I
like it. I don't like the bird anymore. I love
a double runner. That's what you're getting. Let's fill in
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the list only Monday. What's wrong with you too?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We got a long way to go. A long week
for you. Let's fill in the list. Number twenty five
on the list was Knoxville, Tennessee. Twenty four was Dallas.
Here you go, Mark, tell me where this is. Number
twenty three is Everett, Washington.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Oh. That's north of Seattle about half hour. I think, okay,
that's surprising. I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Twenty two Detroit, Michigan. Twenty one Little Rock, Arkansas. Yeah,
twenty Dayton, Ohio. Nineteen Richardson, Texas. Eighteen Odessa, Texas. A
lot of Texas. Yeah, it's not a coincidence, evidently. Number
seventeen bird manham My bye Ba. Number sixteen Waterbury, Connecticut.
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I don't know where that is, but Connecticut is not
a big state. Number fifteen Davy, Florida. Never heard of Davy, anyone, anyone?
Pueler No. Number fourteen, North Charleston, South Carolina. That alone.
Number thirteen Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I believe that. I believe
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everyone's drunk all the time in Florida. Number twelve Pompino Beach, Florida.
Old and drunk. Yeah. Number eleven Pueblo, Colorado. And you
know the top ten, but still no la. I really
am surprised that they were anywhere that weren't anywhere near
this list.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Nah, not surprising a lot again, bad drivers versus uh
driver fatalities and people drinking and driving California, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Mean bad and death or not too far apart. When
I see the people just driving recklessly down the five
Freeway we even in and out, assuming that I see
them motorcycles and actual cars, I'm thinking like, oh, we
have to be racking up the fatalities, if only because
southern California, especially in LA, we have so many freeways.
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I'm thinking that there are more fatalities per day than
other big cities, but the data doesn't support that. I
passed by this morning.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I was running late to work because there was a
three car pile up at two ten one to eighteen
five four or five entertains right around there, and it
was horrible. But all three passengers are outside their car
yelling at each other.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Look, I count my lucky stars every day I make
it to work, make it home from work. I do
not take it for granted. There's more distracted driving than ever.
They're more a holes than ever, they're more impatient a
holes than ever. People are just angry all the damn
time on the road and it's like, I don't want
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to make eye contact with you. I don't. I'm definitely
not doing a Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
A double mount. Don't ever do that. Now, leave that
to the professional.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I don't do that because I'm not trying to
escalate anythings, because I'm just I'm trying to keep that
portion of my life behind me, and there's always someone
who's younger, dumber, with more to prove and less to lose,
so I try to stay steer clear of that.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I've been trying to find a place walking distance to
work for roughly three and a half years now, because
if I legitimately feel like I've cheated death thousands of
times coming in here.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All I'm saying, though, with all that being said, if
I should happen to be in front of a seven
eleven or near a seven eleven and I'm between them
and the door, I don't know how I'd respond. You
might just have to fly into it like the homelander. Look,
someone may catch one that night. I'm going to get
more catch one. What elbow men infection? Oh no, no,
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they're gonna catch one. An inflection. Yeah, they're gonna have
to make a decision either gonna rob seven to eleven
or they're gonna deal with me. It's not gonna be both.
It's not gonna be both. And I will potshot on
the way in, pot shot on the way out, taking
free shots at them fearsome. Look, I mean, it's hard
for me to stand by and do nothing. If I
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if look, if I know that they're kids and they're
most likely not carrying any heat, let's go. You're gonna
give them a fist full of tough love. No, I
want to kick them in their kneecaps. So I'm gonna
do a foot of a shoe full of tough love. Yes,
absolutely absolutely, It's just it's not my makeup to just
do nothing. I don't like bullies and I don't like criminals.
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So it's hard for me to do absolutely nothing, especially
if there's not a threat of death involved. Then maybe
for them, because I believe this, someone's gonna get shot
they keep doing this, I really do. I'm not condoning it,
I'm not advocating it. I'm just saying, if you keep
escalating it, that's the likely outcome. And that's also you know,
advice for you, Mark, stop escalating. No, I wouldn't dream
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of it. I live in mortal terror of you and
your shoes, not me. I'm talking about when you're out
there giving double runners.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh well, my statement, Hold are you like?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Are you? Are you robbing seven eleven's two? Look at
the time, I am six forty. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Are you also being bombarded with all these Well they're
not supposed to be robo calls, and I'll tell you why.
But these phone calls of an automated nature, these texts
from all these different political candidates or propositions or super packs.
(26:50):
How is it to get our number? I didn't sign
up for these lists. Well, let me give you some
information about what you can or can't do to stop
some of these annoying calls and texts from political campaigns
and also political operatives. Because sometimes many times it's not
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for a particular candidate. It could be for an issue,
could be for a proposition, it could be for any
number of reasons. Because a lot of this information is
shared between organizations. Give you an example, I'm on a
press and media list. These different publicists and organizations. They
will send me emails of everything they're doing. It may
(27:32):
have absolutely nothing to do with my show. It would
never be a fit for my show to Walla's autumn
as well. We get all the spam and email and
we've never given our email to any of these people.
But you end up and this includes voter data on
these lists and you're spammed incessantly. Let me give you
some of the law and what you can and can't
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do and where a lot of these organizations and businesses
they're running a foul of the law because there are
no consequences. Registered telemarketers are not legally allowed to contact
anyone on the Do Not Call registry. Remember that National
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Do Not Call Registry that was supposed to help alleviate
some of this. Well, their limitations to it. Because registered
telemarketers are legally not allowed to contact anyone on the
National Do Not Call Registry list for sales purposes? Did
you get that? For sales purposes? And they can be
(28:35):
fined if they're found in violation of sales purposes. Political
calls and texts are exempted. Campaigns or affiliated groups can
legally contact you and me through calls or texts, regardless
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of whether you and I have consented. And that's according
to the FCC. So it doesn't matter how they got
your number, it doesn't matter where they got your number.
Yes you can block the number. Yes you can reply
if it's a text saying to opt out or to stop.
We all know that I do it every single time,
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and they don't stop. They keep going, and it keeps
happening almost every single day. And I'm here to tell
you I'm the bearer of bad news. There's really not
anything you can do about it. There's not a lot.
It's not that it's only illegal, it's excuse me, it's
not that it's illegal, it's legal. And there's really nothing
(29:42):
you can do to prevent it from happening again from
more different places. So the next political campaign season you
will have more texts from different candidates and different super
PACs and groups supporting different propositions. There's really no way
to to prevent this outside of just changing your number
(30:03):
or and this is something I can't do and I
don't want to do. Some people have their phone set up,
if you know how to do it, where if there
is a number which is not in your contacts, it
will automatically route those calls to your voicemail. I don't
do that because I do enough businesses with do enough
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business with enough places where yes, there are people and
professionals who are actually going to call me or contact
me who may not be in my contacts. There are
times where like BBC will call me from Scotland and
it will show it up as unavailable as far as
the caller ID, and I can choose not to respond
or I can pick it up and I don't have
(30:46):
my voicemail. I don't have any identifying information on my voicemail.
If you know it to me, you know it's me.
You're not going to get a message saying Hi, this
is Moe Kelly. Please leave a message with your name
and number. Not get back to you. No, it won't
be into that. I will call screen like a mother father.
You know I will find out if I can't if
it's you. But still there are those people who manage
(31:09):
to find my number, usually give it out by Mark
Ronner because he doesn't like me and he thinks it's funny.
You see how Tawala gives out my social media because
he thinks it's funny.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I enjoy giving out your social media as well. I'll
admit it right.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Now, And since you do have my number, I firmly
believe that you have something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, Actually, my gift to you most weekends is that
I don't call you. I think I sent you a
link to something I want you to read on Friday.
But I think you're a little bit like me in
the respect that you just don't want to be called.
I don't want to be called ever by anybody, even
people I know. And if you have to call me,
I want a text telling me you're gonna call. We
are one hundred percent the same in that regard. I
(31:47):
don't want to hear your voice. I don't want to
talk to you because I'm doing something. I'm always multitasking
in life. If I'm even watching TV, i'm multitasking. I
can carry on a text conversation and not miss the
show that i'd like to watch. I cannot carry on
a conversation and talk to you on the phone. I
(32:09):
try to return all phone calls and make all phone
calls when I'm either on my way to work or
on my way home, because I have a good hour
to hour and a half of attention that I can
give to you and whatever it is executive time, right,
But if you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Do text me, damn it. Tell me what you need.
If you need to get on the phone with me.
Don't text me saying hey, give me a call. We
need to get a chance. No, I will not because
if I'm going to call you, I need to know why,
so I can rank it in importance. Is it urgent?
Is it less an urgent? Anyhow, I'm getting off the topic.
But as far as the political texts and phone calls,
(32:45):
there's really not a lot you can do about it.
It is within the law. It has nothing to do
with the National Do Not Call Registry. That's the bad news.
The good news is there are a lot of apps
out there, and there are a lot of settings that
you can on your phone, and maybe this might be
a great topic for me and Marsha Callier to go
over and really drill down on this and tighten up
(33:06):
your settings so fewer of those calls get through. I
can automatically block and I won't get a notification for
a message. They will not be allowed to text me,
they cannot leave a voicemail message. That's how I cope
with it. But as far as getting your number removed,
and this is the real takeaway, there's no way you
can get your number removed from these different lists. It
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is legal for them to get the number. However, they
get the number, and it is legal for them to
contact you, and they're annoying as hell, and there's nothing
you can do about it. I'm just full of good
news tonight. If I am six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app, what the hell is going on? Well,
(33:48):
we're about to tell you. K f IHD two Los Angeles,
Range County Live everywhere on the radio app
Six forty yes later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. I tell you, rainy days and
Mondays always get me down. Something about this particular Monday.
I'm a little bit slower than usual. I'm a little
bit more sluggish. I'm a little bit more antsy. Some
Mondays are more difficult than others. I hope you had
a great weekend. I had a great weekend. It was full,
(00:45):
though it felt like I didn't have a weekend. I
was doing something all day each day of the weekend.
But I'm glad to be back here with you. So
much to talk about given the events of the past
two three days. You know that violent mind which assaulted
the seven eleven clerk. They've been showing that video on
loop all day long. They ransacked that seven eleven. Well,
(01:08):
I have some thoughts about that, and I think I've
figured it out as to why seven eleven not AMPM,
not Circle K, not Joe's Convenience Store. Why seven eleven.
I'll give you those thoughts next segment. And we have
a list of the cities with the worst drivers in
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the United States. Mark Ronner is going to be listening
intently because these are the cities for him to avoid
if he does not want to give people the double
bird or even the single bird.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I only do it when it's an absolute necessity and
it's a public service and a courtesy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I do not doubt you at all. But if we're
doing the list, you know it's connected to southern California
somewhere along the way. And of course we all know
that there is a presidential election coming up, but that's
not the only election that people are talking about. And
if you're like me, hopefully you're not, but if you're
like me, you're getting campaign calls, these robo calls, these
(02:08):
text messages, emails every single day. I'm talking about from
both parties. They just somehow figured out how to find me,
and they probably found you as well, and you just
get bombarded with all these messages. Well, the question is,
can you stop at least the phone calls and texts.
We'll talk about that before the hour's up. And we
(02:31):
have a pair of Circus Vargas tickets to give away
for October eighteenth at the Delamo Fashion Center. So we've
got a pair of Circus Vargus tickets for October eighteenth,
that's coming up soon at Delamo Fashion Center. They could
be yours, but you're going to have to listen in
as to when we're going to give them away. So, Stephan,
I didn't getting to get a chance to say hello
(02:52):
to you this evening. How you doing, brother?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Good?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hear you, sir? I'm doing all right. Did you drive
for anyone this weekend? No? Not this weekend. I had
a lot of stuff take care with the pops. But yeah,
otherwise it's pretty relaxing. Okay, what about you, Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You don't even want to know the depths of nerdism
I sunk to this weekend. But I'll just give it
teeny tiny little adam of it. You know. I'm a
James Bond fan, love the old ones. There were some
commentaries on Criterion collection editions of the first three James
Bond movies that were banned in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I found them, Did you pay for Him? I found them?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I found okay, and I also found like a summary
of the best dirtiest bits from him. They were banned because,
like Kubby Broccoli, who you recall is the hauncho behind
those earlier Bond movies, he was offended by them, and
there was some kind of salty language and some insults
and some unflattering remarks made about assorted people in the
cast and crew, very entertaining.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
All right, all right, and what about you, twall? What
did you get into? I did not do much. There's
this g I.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Joe comic relaunch coming in November, and it looks very,
very exciting. So I went around to a bunch of
different comic shops to get a hold of some of
the prequel series from four of the main characters in
the Giagro commic. They have like prequel series that are
coming before this major relaunch. I just went around to
(04:18):
a bunch of shops to stock up. All right, Yeah, Well,
my weekend was just full. It was just full.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I was doing something all hours of both days of
the weekend. How was the Blue Door Bat. It was fantastic.
They raised a lot of money. I'm not at liberty
to say how much they raised, but they raised a
lot of money. We were going to help out a
lot of kids across southern California, more specifically in the
Carson area, and it was just a well received event.
(04:43):
I heard a lot of great feedback from the multiple
interviews we had with participants here on later with Mo Kelly,
and I look forward to doing it in future years.
It feels really good. And I try to say this
not to gloat, but to be clear, I don't get
paid for that. I'm doing it because I feel that
it's important to do and I would rather give my time.
(05:07):
And it's a fundraiser. I'm not trying to get money
from a fundraiser. It's just weird to me. Other people do.
I'm saying I don't. That's one of the things that
I look forward to every single year because I like
to be able to say I had a hand in
helping raise money a lot of money to help a
lot of children. I'm all about children and I'm all
about education. Kind of works together, so it's a It's
(05:30):
a perfect fit for me. Shout out to Kim Richards,
who is the CEO for the Boys and Girls Club
of Carson putting on a phenomenal event. Nina Patel as well,
the vice president of development. Can't wait to do it
next year. And they always have a great I want
to take a moment here. They always have a great venue.
One year they did it at Dignity Health where what
(05:51):
used to be what do they call it wherever the
Chargers used to play in Carson? Yes, thank you, I'm
come to Depot Center. It's now Dignity Health. They did
it one year at Bemo Stadium, which is where the
LA Football Club plays right off the one ten Freeway.
They did it at the Porsche Carson Carson Porsche Experience
(06:13):
a couple of years there. They always have these fantastic
venues and this year it was you know, it was
one of the same at Sofi Stadium. It was just great.
Great for the venue, a loan saying nothing of the cause,
and also the contributions, A great turnout. It's a great turnout.
It's about maybe three hundred attendees. Wow, because it's maxed
(06:35):
out at a certain point because they have tables and
seats and dinners off Saturdays. Oh yeah, good cause that
is a great turnout. But it wasn't a long evening.
You know, the evening starts at seven o'clock. We were
done by nine oh five. Wow, now was there since three?
Because they had like a run through and rehearsal everything,
But the event itself it flows so oh. I will
(06:56):
say this shout out to Marathon Patrol who donated one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Let me just say that,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars one donor. That's how
we got down. So it was a great weekend in
that regard. Busy but great. It's Later with Mokelly. We're
going to talk about seven to eleven and that latest
ransacking and mobbing when we come back.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By now you've probably seen. If you haven't seen, just
turn on your TV. It's on loop. You've seen the
footage of the mob which attacked a seven eleven store
in Orange County yesterday. It left the store clerk with
a bloody nose. That goodness, he wasn't more seriously injured.
And you could tell there was footage by the surveillance cameras.
(07:47):
There was footage obviously by people who were there and
were stupid enough to upload it to social media. They
will be caught. So I don't think that is an issue.
But I did come to some realization and I'm not
saying that I'm the only one who started this. I'm
not saying this at all. I'm saying that I think
if there is a common thread woven through all these
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flash mob ransackings and seven elevens, it's this and Tuala
and I did not tell you this before the show,
so tell me what you think of it. We were
always theorizing out loud why was it always seven to eleven?
And I said it had to be something with the
setup of configuration or something, because it's only seven to eleven.
It must be a more attractive target. And then I
(08:33):
kept reading back to the old stories, and then it
hit me. The lottery tickets. If you go into a
seven eleven, the lottery tickets are on the counter more
times than not yet available to the hand. It may
be behind a little bit of a plastic, but it's still,
you know, available to someone's going to come in the
store with bad intentions. Now, if you go into most ampms,
(08:55):
they have like a lexand wall. Yeah, you're not getting there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The all all the lottery tickets in seven eleven. I
know this because I go to seven eleven in the morning.
They give them a coffee, grab a little lottery ticket.
All their scratchers are right there under a little glass
like partition on the counter for you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
On the counter.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But if you go behind the counter, you can just
pull all those things off and.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
There's nothing keeping you from hopping the counter.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Nothing, no, nothing, absolutely nothing, not even the older individuals
that are there for some reason another. Every time I
go there during a morning shift, it is usually an
older individual working there. Later on the afternoon, maybe it's
the sun, maybe it's the nephew, the brother coming in.
It's typically an younger gentleman.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But still it's those either one guy. There's usually one
guy in there. But see, there are two things I
would say to that. One. We always say like, hey,
it's seven to eleven, you know, it's not worth your life.
And I would say like, it's probably a family operation.
So the people working in there, they feel much more
connected to it than the average employer, you know, working
at any convenience store. That's the first thing. Second, when
(10:04):
I was watching this video again, it's been on loop
all day long, and you see a guy. All of
them are like hoodies and sweatshts. They're very conscious to
cover even their arms. They don't want you to know
even their ethnicity or anything which might be identifiable. Going
back to the kids who are identified by their parents,
there's an escalation. Now, before it was just a ransacking,
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they would leave the clerk alone. This time they engage
the clerk. They threatened him with a big rock and
he ended up with a bloody nose. I'm not asking
for this to happen, but i do know how things escalate.
If the violence from the would be criminals escalate, those
who are running the businesses are going to respond in kind.
They're going to protect themselves. They're going to protect their property.
(10:51):
And if I were an owner of a seven eleven,
if I were an employee at a seven to eleven,
each time I walk into that place, I have to assume,
especially in southern California, I would have to assume that
I'm a potential target, a likely target, and there may
be some fifty individuals now who don't have any reservations
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about harming me as well as ransacking the store. So
having nothing to do with trying to protect the store
and protect the property and protect the product, I have
to protect myself. I think this escalates even more because
even though in credit to the police and law enforcement
(11:36):
by arresting a lot of these individuals who are involved,
it's not dissuading other groups because they said, it's like
fifty people that it's not dissuading them. These are now
the copycats. I don't believe it's the same group. When
you're talking about Orange County and you're talking about in
the Wiltshire area, these are not the same kids. It
just not. So these are copycats and it can happen
(11:58):
then anywhere any neighborhood, presumably because I don't think that
Orange County neighborhood was the same demographic, economic demographic as
the Wilshire area. I might be wrong, but I don't
think it was. You're going to see most likely an escalation,
and God help us when it does.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I am going to put out a theory only because
at one point in time, I was one of those
kids that are out in front of you know, supermarket,
selling candy right with the fake story of made up
this that or the other. I'm out here raising money
for whatever team, whatever, whatever whatever, selling chocolate bars that
we go get at the nine to nine cents store
(12:38):
and go out and try to sell them to you
for like five dollars. That was me, right, And I
know there was an individual in Pasadena who would organize
all of us put like nine ten kids in the
van and we and drop us off in front of stores.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't believe that these attacks are as rand as
we are made to believe because it's kids. I believe,
just like with the ransacking in Nortrum's Mall this same
past weekend, that was organized and they've caught damn near
all of them, I believe that there is some level
(13:15):
of organization where there is someone who is gathering these
kids together. I don't care if it's two or three
individuals gathering together and saying we're gonna hit this one today,
because it is too similar for it to be just
some kids texting and saying, hey, we're going to do this,
let's go. I don't believe it's that that loose in planning.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Let me let me probe that even further, and I
would then ask what is the end game? Because if
I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, the lottery tickets,
especially the scratch offs, they have serial numbers, I don't
know if you can redeem them, because I'm quite sure
they're gonna catalog that which is stolen in the serial
numbers thereof of the lottery tickets. So I don't know
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if they're usable in any real form and outside of
the lottery tickets. I don't know that the financial upside
from the candy bars and you know, the knickknacks which
are being solen. We don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
And to me, it's about if it was just one
seven eleven and say an ampn But there's something about
all of the things that they're gathering that by themselves. No,
but in great numbers. Then you start to have something.
Then you start to have a supply where you can
do something else with it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
No, it's not a coincidence. Yeah, it's I just don't
believe it's a coinci. Yeah, I'm thinking, I'm going up
and down the aisles with my mind. Is are there
like pseudo fat tablets in the aisle where they can
use for the creation of other drugs since they've locked
those down in most write aids and drug stores, I
don't know if it's a misdirection for something else. No,
when you're only hitting seven elevens, it's not a coincidence.
(14:51):
It's a pattern. It's just a matter of what's behind
the pattern. And I'm surprised, honestly that seven to eleven
on a corporate level has not stepped in and done
something statewide to better protect them, or at least go
through some sort of motion to increase level of security,
even if they had temporary security members there or something,
(15:13):
because there's city ducks and they're being used as targets
just about every single week. Yeah, Yeah, it's Later with
mo Kelly. Can if I Am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we
will tell you the cities with the worst drivers in
the country, and California is represented somewhere in there, probably
because of Mark Runner and his antics.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't quote me on that, but probably you will not
scapegoat me. I forbid it.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And maybe your city is on this list, the list
of the cities with the worst drivers in the country.
And I'm not saying this to be funny. We're talking
about the number of fatalities per one hundred thousand people,
crash fatalities and fatalities involving a driver with a positive
blood alcohol content above the legal limit per one hundred thousand, okay,
(16:10):
And they little it down to a crash score. And
this is a research team of a Consumer Affairs Group
study and these are their findings based on NHTSA, the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations latest data, which is twenty
twenty two. Didn't have twenty twenty three. But we can
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give you the twenty five worst cities, but we're not.
We'll only give you the top ten of the worst cities,
coming in at number ten. As far as fatalities and
also drunk driving driving under the influence fatalities, Saint Louis
(16:52):
with a crash score of fifty two point three per
one hundred thousand, coming in at number nine, Midland, Texas
with a score of fifty two point eight coming in
at number eight. As far as the worst drivers are
(17:13):
most dangerous drivers actually in the United States backpons number eight,
fifty three point seven, Number seven, Wichita Falls, Texas, not
(17:37):
to be confused with Wichita, Kansas, fifty four point six,
number six of the worst drivers in the United States
with respect to fatalities and also fatalities connected to driving
under the influence. Tucson, arare Zona number five. In any
(18:08):
list of the worst, Mississippi must be represented. Jackson, Mississippi
checks in at number five with fifty six point one
crash score, coming in at number four. California hits the
list with San Bernardissippi. Yeah, sanm Bernissippi. Travel to the
(18:30):
sam Bernissippi? Do you mark?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And I guess I won't be at this rate. Number
that was number four, So number three Macon, Georgia sixty
three point four. If I were to make any type
of grand generalizations, mostly in the South and Southwest, mostly
(19:00):
number two, I said mostly, And here's why not completely Victorville, California,
which is kind of like the South. If you've ever
been to Victorville, it is very South esque South Adjason. Yeah,
it's you could close your eyes and then open it
(19:20):
with like, is this Mississippi? Is this Arkansas? No, it's Victorville.
It's one of the same. I know they do not
like that, but it's true. If you've been to Victorville,
I mean, ooh, it's ooh, love you Victorville not really
(19:41):
coming in in number one of the worst drivers in
these United States with respect to fatalities and drunk driving fatalities. Memphis,
(20:02):
Tennessee must be all on Beal Street. Memphis. I've been
to Memphis, but I haven't really spent a lot of
time to assess it. But you know that I can
see it, but it doesn't seem more dangerous. Maybe they're
just much more permissive. Everyone's loaded. I actually thought LA
would have been on this list. I really did. Sam
(20:24):
Bernardino is not LA, but close enough to LA where
I thought LA would also be on it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The only reason LA's not on it is because of
the fatalities and the fatalities due to impair driving. We
do have some of the worst driver's hands down. So
if this was just worst drivers that cause like road
rage or double mark Ronners, then yes, this is absolutely
on the list. But our drivers they drive really bad
(20:52):
and they try to kill you.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
They're not but they're not. You know, They're kill rader
is not very high. They deserve a round double Mark Ronners.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. You should
be proud. No, let's let's make this one still born. Okay,
cool golle. No, Let's give it a double runner. I
like it. I don't like the bird anymore. I love
a double runner. That's what you're getting. Let's fill in
(21:16):
the list only Monday. What's wrong with you too?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We got a long way to go. A long week
for you. Let's fill in the list. Number twenty five
on the list was Knoxville, Tennessee. Twenty four was Dallas.
Here you go, Mark, tell me where this is. Number
twenty three is Everett, Washington.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Oh. That's north of Seattle about half hour. I think, okay,
that's surprising. I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Twenty two Detroit, Michigan. Twenty one Little Rock, Arkansas. Yeah,
twenty Dayton, Ohio. Nineteen Richardson, Texas. Eighteen Odessa, Texas. A
lot of Texas. Yeah, it's not a coincidence, evidently. Number
seventeen bird manham My bye Ba. Number sixteen Waterbury, Connecticut.
(22:04):
I don't know where that is, but Connecticut is not
a big state. Number fifteen Davy, Florida. Never heard of Davy, anyone, anyone?
Pueler No. Number fourteen, North Charleston, South Carolina. That alone.
Number thirteen Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I believe that. I believe
(22:26):
everyone's drunk all the time in Florida. Number twelve Pompino Beach, Florida.
Old and drunk. Yeah. Number eleven Pueblo, Colorado. And you
know the top ten, but still no la. I really
am surprised that they were anywhere that weren't anywhere near
this list.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Nah, not surprising a lot again, bad drivers versus uh
driver fatalities and people drinking and driving California, I.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Mean bad and death or not too far apart. When
I see the people just driving recklessly down the five
Freeway we even in and out, assuming that I see
them motorcycles and actual cars, I'm thinking like, oh, we
have to be racking up the fatalities, if only because
southern California, especially in LA, we have so many freeways.
(23:18):
I'm thinking that there are more fatalities per day than
other big cities, but the data doesn't support that. I
passed by this morning.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I was running late to work because there was a
three car pile up at two ten one to eighteen
five four or five entertains right around there, and it
was horrible. But all three passengers are outside their car
yelling at each other.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Look, I count my lucky stars every day I make
it to work, make it home from work. I do
not take it for granted. There's more distracted driving than ever.
They're more a holes than ever, they're more impatient a
holes than ever. People are just angry all the damn
time on the road and it's like, I don't want
(24:00):
to make eye contact with you. I don't. I'm definitely
not doing a Mark Ronner.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
A double mount. Don't ever do that. Now, leave that
to the professional.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I don't do that because I'm not trying to
escalate anythings, because I'm just I'm trying to keep that
portion of my life behind me, and there's always someone
who's younger, dumber, with more to prove and less to lose,
so I try to stay steer clear of that.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I've been trying to find a place walking distance to
work for roughly three and a half years now, because
if I legitimately feel like I've cheated death thousands of
times coming in here.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All I'm saying, though, with all that being said, if
I should happen to be in front of a seven
eleven or near a seven eleven and I'm between them
and the door, I don't know how I'd respond. You
might just have to fly into it like the homelander. Look,
someone may catch one that night. I'm going to get
more catch one. What elbow men infection? Oh no, no,
(25:02):
they're gonna catch one. An inflection. Yeah, they're gonna have
to make a decision either gonna rob seven to eleven
or they're gonna deal with me. It's not gonna be both.
It's not gonna be both. And I will potshot on
the way in, pot shot on the way out, taking
free shots at them fearsome. Look, I mean, it's hard
for me to stand by and do nothing. If I
(25:23):
if look, if I know that they're kids and they're
most likely not carrying any heat, let's go. You're gonna
give them a fist full of tough love. No, I
want to kick them in their kneecaps. So I'm gonna
do a foot of a shoe full of tough love. Yes,
absolutely absolutely, It's just it's not my makeup to just
do nothing. I don't like bullies and I don't like criminals.
(25:46):
So it's hard for me to do absolutely nothing, especially
if there's not a threat of death involved. Then maybe
for them, because I believe this, someone's gonna get shot
they keep doing this, I really do. I'm not condoning it,
I'm not advocating it. I'm just saying, if you keep
escalating it, that's the likely outcome. And that's also you know,
advice for you, Mark, stop escalating. No, I wouldn't dream
(26:06):
of it. I live in mortal terror of you and
your shoes, not me. I'm talking about when you're out
there giving double runners.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh well, my statement, Hold are you like?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Are you? Are you robbing seven eleven's two? Look at
the time, I am six forty. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Are you also being bombarded with all these Well they're
not supposed to be robo calls, and I'll tell you why.
But these phone calls of an automated nature, these texts
from all these different political candidates or propositions or super packs.
(26:50):
How is it to get our number? I didn't sign
up for these lists. Well, let me give you some
information about what you can or can't do to stop
some of these annoying calls and texts from political campaigns
and also political operatives. Because sometimes many times it's not
(27:11):
for a particular candidate. It could be for an issue,
could be for a proposition, it could be for any
number of reasons. Because a lot of this information is
shared between organizations. Give you an example, I'm on a
press and media list. These different publicists and organizations. They
will send me emails of everything they're doing. It may
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have absolutely nothing to do with my show. It would
never be a fit for my show to Walla's autumn
as well. We get all the spam and email and
we've never given our email to any of these people.
But you end up and this includes voter data on
these lists and you're spammed incessantly. Let me give you
some of the law and what you can and can't
(27:54):
do and where a lot of these organizations and businesses
they're running a foul of the law because there are
no consequences. Registered telemarketers are not legally allowed to contact
anyone on the Do Not Call registry. Remember that National
(28:15):
Do Not Call Registry that was supposed to help alleviate
some of this. Well, their limitations to it. Because registered
telemarketers are legally not allowed to contact anyone on the
National Do Not Call Registry list for sales purposes? Did
you get that? For sales purposes? And they can be
(28:35):
fined if they're found in violation of sales purposes. Political
calls and texts are exempted. Campaigns or affiliated groups can
legally contact you and me through calls or texts, regardless
(28:57):
of whether you and I have consented. And that's according
to the FCC. So it doesn't matter how they got
your number, it doesn't matter where they got your number.
Yes you can block the number. Yes you can reply
if it's a text saying to opt out or to stop.
We all know that I do it every single time,
(29:19):
and they don't stop. They keep going, and it keeps
happening almost every single day. And I'm here to tell
you I'm the bearer of bad news. There's really not
anything you can do about it. There's not a lot.
It's not that it's only illegal, it's excuse me, it's
not that it's illegal, it's legal. And there's really nothing
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you can do to prevent it from happening again from
more different places. So the next political campaign season you
will have more texts from different candidates and different super
PACs and groups supporting different propositions. There's really no way
to to prevent this outside of just changing your number
(30:03):
or and this is something I can't do and I
don't want to do. Some people have their phone set up,
if you know how to do it, where if there
is a number which is not in your contacts, it
will automatically route those calls to your voicemail. I don't
do that because I do enough businesses with do enough
(30:24):
business with enough places where yes, there are people and
professionals who are actually going to call me or contact
me who may not be in my contacts. There are
times where like BBC will call me from Scotland and
it will show it up as unavailable as far as
the caller ID, and I can choose not to respond
or I can pick it up and I don't have
(30:46):
my voicemail. I don't have any identifying information on my voicemail.
If you know it to me, you know it's me.
You're not going to get a message saying Hi, this
is Moe Kelly. Please leave a message with your name
and number. Not get back to you. No, it won't
be into that. I will call screen like a mother father.
You know I will find out if I can't if
it's you. But still there are those people who manage
(31:09):
to find my number, usually give it out by Mark
Ronner because he doesn't like me and he thinks it's funny.
You see how Tawala gives out my social media because
he thinks it's funny.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I enjoy giving out your social media as well. I'll
admit it right.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Now, And since you do have my number, I firmly
believe that you have something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
No, Actually, my gift to you most weekends is that
I don't call you. I think I sent you a
link to something I want you to read on Friday.
But I think you're a little bit like me in
the respect that you just don't want to be called.
I don't want to be called ever by anybody, even
people I know. And if you have to call me,
I want a text telling me you're gonna call. We
are one hundred percent the same in that regard. I
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don't want to hear your voice. I don't want to
talk to you because I'm doing something. I'm always multitasking
in life. If I'm even watching TV, i'm multitasking. I
can carry on a text conversation and not miss the
show that i'd like to watch. I cannot carry on
a conversation and talk to you on the phone. I
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try to return all phone calls and make all phone
calls when I'm either on my way to work or
on my way home, because I have a good hour
to hour and a half of attention that I can
give to you and whatever it is executive time, right,
But if you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Do text me, damn it. Tell me what you need.
If you need to get on the phone with me.
Don't text me saying hey, give me a call. We
need to get a chance. No, I will not because
if I'm going to call you, I need to know why,
so I can rank it in importance. Is it urgent?
Is it less an urgent? Anyhow, I'm getting off the topic.
But as far as the political texts and phone calls,
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there's really not a lot you can do about it.
It is within the law. It has nothing to do
with the National Do Not Call Registry. That's the bad news.
The good news is there are a lot of apps
out there, and there are a lot of settings that
you can on your phone, and maybe this might be
a great topic for me and Marsha Callier to go
over and really drill down on this and tighten up
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your settings so fewer of those calls get through. I
can automatically block and I won't get a notification for
a message. They will not be allowed to text me,
they cannot leave a voicemail message. That's how I cope
with it. But as far as getting your number removed,
and this is the real takeaway, there's no way you
can get your number removed from these different lists. It
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is legal for them to get the number. However, they
get the number, and it is legal for them to
contact you, and they're annoying as hell, and there's nothing
you can do about it. I'm just full of good
news tonight. If I am six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app, what the hell is going on? Well,
(33:48):
we're about to tell you. K f IHD two Los Angeles,
Range County Live everywhere on the radio app
Later, with Mo'Kelly News
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