November 8, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the effect Daylight Saving Time is having on LA traffic AND an update on the “Mountain Fire” that’s ravaging Ventura County…PLUS - Thoughts on LA County supervisors approving “lower annual rent hikes” for Angelinos - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This later with mo Kelly k if I am six
forty WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It seemed like a good idea. When I got in
my car, I turned on the GPS and I said,
about an hour and twenty minutes my normal route to
get to the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It seemed like a good idea, said, well, why don't
I try a different route.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Why don't I just go ahead and take my time,
embrace the horror and maybe take surface streets. Usually I
go to the one ten to the five to the
one thirty four, and they said it was all bad,
all bad, bad, bad, bad bad movie mount he So
instead I just decided to drive north on Western take
the surface streets. And I've done it many times, and
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usually it's like a one to one trade off, it's
about the same amount of time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Not today, Not today.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I should have trusted my instincts and just sucked it
up and took the hour and twenty five minute commute
that Google Maps was telling me on the freeways. Instead,
I ended up with a two hour surface street drive.
I was going up Western and then I noticed that
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and I think it's connected to standard time. There are
far more people on the roads in the three thirty
to four thirty hour now than a few weeks ago.
There's just far more people. So it just made it
a ridiculous drive. Motorcycles were zooming in and out. I
was honking at people.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I almost flipped off someone, and I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you can't do that. Yes, you can embrace the dark side.
It's different when you're on a surface street. There's nowhere
for you to go.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's when someone in traffic so bad, someone could get
out the car and walk up to your car and
shoot you, as opposed to on the freeway where you
might be able to zig and zag and get away.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I wouldn't have had that opportunity. I feel like you're
moving in the right direction. Mo. You will embrace the
mark runner away soon. No, I won't discuss better part
of valor. But as I was going down Western.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
If you know Western, and you cross the other side
of like First Street, you getting ready to get into
the Hollywood area, you pick up the one on one freeway.
As I was getting ready to get on the one
on one freeway for this hour and twenty minute drive.
Police had shut down the one oh one North. I
could see it as I was getting ready to turn
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on because I don't know, maybe they were chasing someone.
I think there was some chase on a one on
one today and they shut down the one o one freeway,
so they were precluding anyone from getting on the one
on one at West. So I said shoot. No, I
didn't say shoot, I said something much more vulgar. And
then I got I said, got off the freeway entrance,
and I said, let me just keep going up north
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on Western, and then I made a left onto Fountain,
if you know that basic path, I'm weaving my way
through Hollywood. And then it just came to a complete
standstill because the people who were stuck on the freeway
were being forced off the one freeway onto the surface
streets right where I was, and the people who were
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going straight on on Fountain couldn't go any further because
a lot of those people were trying to get back
on the one on one freeway.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was a cluster truck high and low.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Short version of this story is it took me two
hours to go twenty two miles in southern California when
I left, the sun was out. When I arrived, the
sun was down. Stop fighting it feel the power?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fight what I look? I had given up. I was
in my car.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's like, look, at least I had some good stuff
to listen to. It had some relaxing music. I wasn't stressed.
It was like, I can't do this every day. I
just can't do two hours in the car one way
every single day.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I know they were extenuating circumstances whenever. It was happening
on the one oh one at four point thirty today,
but it was one of those things where this for
someone who drives every day, even for me, it was like, damn,
this is a lot to deal with.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
For like four point three seconds, I considered getting on
Metro going forward, but.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It was like it was like gas. It passed shortly thereafter,
and I was fine. After that, it was a fleeting thought.
It didn't linger, and I said, well, well maybe the
maybe the metro whip No.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Never mind, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So how was your commute? Mark?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I was horrible, Well, it was pretty bad until I
heard you describe yours.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, yours was bad as well.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh yeah, it was terrible, but I'm picturing you like
an elderly gunfire. Just unsheathing the gun from the holster,
whipped that middle finger out and use it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, it was one of those things.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There was this Tesla who was driving erratically and dangerously,
and Westerns only has two lanes going north, and it
was one of those things where he was going to
hit someone. More importantly, he might have hit me, and
I didn't want to escalate, so I was trying to
just get out of his way.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you see a crazy driver, just go, Just just go, because.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's no point in you messing up the rest of
my day because you're not thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Sometimes you have to think for the other driver as well.
I didn't even call it a defensive driver. I just
call it like survival skills. Okay, well, I can tell
you this as a rule of the road, and this
is the authoritative rule here. If it's a Tesla cyber truck,
you were actually required to give it the finger.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, it was just one of those sedans, it was.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It was okay, well yeah, No, it was one of
those things where I'm getting ready to install my dash
cam in this car. It would have been perfect for today,
perfect for today, but all I could do was just
memorize the license plate if in the event, if further escalated.
But I was thinking about you, Mark, I really was.
I said, is this the time to let him have it?
(06:18):
Is this the time you break glass? It's gonna feel
so good when you finally do it. Just trust me, Well,
I've done it before. I just haven't done any years.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's like, you know, something I did when I was much, much,
much younger.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It'll feel righteous.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I remember some guy when I was driving the five
north getting ready to get on the one thirty four,
and I decided to keep on going north on on
the five. This guy, I guess I did something to
make him mad, or we made each other mad. This
guy flipped me off and then quickly went over to
the one thirty four. What's the word I'm looking for
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is off ramp? Not the off ramp, but just the
interchange where you were you switch over to the one
thirty four on the five, and then he made sure
that he was on safely on the other side of
that medium to flip me off.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was so mad. I was so mad.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's like with your batch ass, I just oooh oh,
if you're.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Gonna do that, at least make yourself available to me.
At least be a man and deal with the consequences. Boy,
were you planning to return the gesture or or were
you ready to go the whole nine yard? Well?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I was ready to escalate at that point.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I was ready to escalate it, Like, how are you
gonna flip me off when you know that you're safely away.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
See that's where I draw the line. You have to
have some restraint. But the finger itself is a thing
of beauty.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Twala, I need you to pop your trunk on him,
just one good time. Yeah, that's the trunk, not the trunk. Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
So that was my comedian twiller real quick, How was yours?
It was horrible all day. I was running errands and
all I ran into was bumpers and tail lights, and
it was horrible. On the streets of the what is
this North Hills all the way through to the other
side of the valley, it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I fell on the streets.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I really believe traffic is going to be worse for
the foreseeable future because people are leaving work earlier, because
the sun is going down.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's almost like we're programmed.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
My workday is over or I want to be able
to beat the sun home if at all possible, where
you're not driving home in the dark.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, because all of our communities got real bad today.
We're coming from really different areas.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But one of us has some sort of vested interest
in big air taxi.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, that's t Waala because he gets paid my just you.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Know, I hate to have to be the reminder here,
but that would save a lot of us a lot
of trouble if we were all in air taxis, yes,
or or self driving vehicles.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That wouldn't save time. If we're in self driving, it
will save the stress. You could do so much if
you're in a self drive vehicle. Yeah, that's like riding metro.
There's no one in the vehicle with you to mug you.
Oh have you seen those self driving vehicles with the
people stand in front of the car and harassed them,
the riders and everything, and they've been drawing graffiti on
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the car and everything.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Even you know what it is, you're bringing up stuff
that's that's no.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
There was a woman in one of those self driving
taxis and they had these guys who were sexually harassing her.
So they stood in front of the car, so they
knew the car was not going to hit them, and
so they kept harassing her and they held it for
like an extra twenty thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It wasn't twenty thirty. Oh so you're familiar with the story.
I am familiar story.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But you didn't want to bring that up. You didn't
give you that story to talk about on the air.
Why is that toalla?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Because that's not pertinent to the expansion of self driving technology.
That's a one off. That's that's uh.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So tell me was her commute shorter or longer because
of being in that taxi. We don't know where she
was going. She might have just been heading to the
that was in the bay or something like that. Let
me shed some light on this situation for the two
of you. I pulled this last night knowing that we
were going to talk about this. I was pre cognitive
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on this subject. Study finds self driving waymos are more
expensive than taxis, take twice as long to get to destination.
Across fifty samples, the average human driven ride hail price
was twenty eight to fourteen, while an identical ride with
a Waimo robotaxi cost nine to fifty more. Sorry, Tuala,
You're you're really backed the wrong horse on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Dude, Hey, there's nothing else to say.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hey, talk to her. Really puts paid to all of
this too. Let's talk about some serious business. We've got
to give you an update on the fire when we
come back.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We have an ongoing discussion.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We talk about what may be happening around the country
as it relates to natural disasters. Where we had the
hurricanes in the southeast in previous weeks, and people were
talking about, like Twala was talking about the swarms of
earthquakes we were having, and I said, I would rather
be in California because the earthquakes largely largely don't create
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any damage or destruction, and no one is dying from
the earthquakes, I think I said back then, Yes, in fact,
I remember I said that the better correlation is fires.
Here in California, we have to deal with fires every year.
They are seasonal in the way that tornadoes, in the
way that hurricanes are seasonal in other portions of the country.
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But fires are something which have been doing far more
damage in California than anything else, and this Ventura County
fire is a perfect example. Unfortunately, and I mean that unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oftentimes we may have fires and they don't necessarily lead
to destruction of home, bombs or changing people's lives, but
this is a little bit different. We've had the Santa
Ana wins and they have helped this fire expand to
over twenty thousand acres in just the past day. It's
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destroyed homes, we've had massive evacuations, and it has remained
out of control. It's not close to being under control.
In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom you might have heard by now,
has called has declared a state of emergency regarding this fire.
If you were listening to KFI earlier, we had an
update on the number of structures and the degree of
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destruction thus far. And when I was talking about the
state of emergency, it was specifically in relation to the
Ventory County fire because firefighters were struggling to gain any
advantage on that mountain fires it's also called and it's
destroyed an undetermined number of homes since starting near the
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town of Cama Rill just affecting Chemo Real, but also
more park and other surrounding areas. The National Weather Service
has issued red flag warnings for Ventura and Los Angeles Counties,
and it's going to remain in effect at least through
Friday morning. Yesterday, we were under the impression that they
were going to remain in effect just through today in
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the afternoon, but they've now been extended into Friday morning.
And I was watching I think it was ABC earlier today,
ABC seven, and you could see the aerial footage of
the destroyed homes, and you get a better sense of
the degree of destruction and the path of it, and
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how large it is and how it's almost it's hard
to describe how quickly people's lives have been changed by
this fire. It's hard to describe the degree of how
quickly it has spread and how it's firefighters have struggle
to get any type of control of it, and it's
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not like it's going to change in the next day
or so. My question is whether we will get a
break from any of the winds. If we can get
a break from the wind which would slow it from spreading,
then that would help firefighters. Of Course, I'm always pulling
for people, and I'm pulling for the firefighters but there
are things that are working against them in this situation.
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And as I always say, if you get an evacuation order,
do not wait, do not see if you have to evacuate.
Sometimes they're voluntary and sometimes they're mandatory.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Don't wait for the voluntary to become mandatory.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You have to trust that you have to use the
time which is available to you to make sure that
you are safe, your family members are safe, your pets
are safe. Unless something else is extenuating and you don't
have that opportunity to leave, immediately, leave as soon as
you can. If you get the sense that it might
be moving in your direction, do not wait. And that
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goes back to the winds. Because of the winds, it
is so very unpredictable where this fire may lead. It's
unpredictable as far as how quickly it's going to continue
to spread.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And let me just come to you, Mark Ronnerd just
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Is there any new information that you have received in
the past half hour.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No, but we're going to be hearing live from Chris
Adler at the bottom of the hour very since.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Okay, so Chris Adler will be updating everyone in just
a moment, and beyond the structures which have been burned,
a number of people have been taken to hospitals. They've
been treated for smoke inhalation, and some victims became trapped
in their cars because they were racing from fast moving flames.
In other words, people were trying to get out and
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then we're trapped by the flames, trapped by the smoke,
and then had to be taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So this is something that is very very serious.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's very very dangerous, and you can find yourself in
a predicament where you will not be able to save yourself.
So if the fire is anywhere near where you might live,
this is the time where you have to act in
advance and protect yourself and protect your family before it
becomes too late. And as Mark Runner said, we'll have
an update in just a moment from Chris Adler. It's
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Later with mo Kelly I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I got to tell you California voters, they are
funny to me. They are hilarious to me. They talk
out of one side of their mouth, and then they
turn around and talk out the other side.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Here's what I mean. And I know Mark Runner is
going to get a kick out of this. The La
County Board of Supervisors, when they're not buying two hundred
million dollar buildings, they approved lower annual rent increases for
many ten and unincorporated areas. If you're in an unincorporated area,
you're not You're not the City of La, You're just
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the County of La. Like I'm in an unincorporated area.
If I call the police, the county sheriff, LA County
Sheriff comes, not LAPD. We don't get to vote for mayor.
These are areas without their own police department, areas without
their own city council. Little areas like Harbor City or
you know, they're no guardians. Seratone city have their own
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police department, but unincorporated they don't have any of those things.
So you're governed by the county in most instances. And
when it comes to services, what they're going to do is,
beginning next year, rent increases will be limited for units
already under rent control. The sixty percent of the annual
change in the consumer price index. Put another way, the
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consumer price index rises about three percent, so your rent
can only be raised about sixty percent of that, maybe
like one point eight percent. Now, if you think about that,
that is less than the annual rate of inflation, which
is about two point four percent. I know it's going
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to get complicated, but hear me out, Mark, what is
the biggest expense for just about everyone?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I thought you're going to give me a math problem
there for a second. No, No, not at all. Oh,
the biggest expense for most people is their rent? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
If your rent can be raised some two percent every
year and the annual rate of inflation is around two
to five percent each year, wouldn't it stand the reason
that since rent is your highest cost, that it would
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be your greatest priority to be able to keep under control,
not eggs and milk.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well, I told you yesterday that I hate story problems,
but I think I get where you're going with.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Can you see where I'm moving this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If you were concerned about how everything costs so much,
and the largest expenditure you have every single month that
is going to go up regardless every single year, is rent,
wouldn't it behoove you behoove, would it behoove you yes,
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to do everything you can to limit the increase of
that expenditure. Right, one might think, okay, So if you
are a voter, going back to voters talking out of
both sides of the mouths, and I'm talking about this
very slowly because I need you to get this. If you,
as a voter went to the polls on Tuesday and
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you were concerned about the economy, and you were concerned
about the cost of eggs and milk, because we heard
that everywhere eggs and milk, eggs and milk. I can't
believe it costs five dollars for a carton of eggs.
I can't believe it costs seven dollars for a carton
of milk. And you voted because you were worried about that,
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and you did nothing to help control your rent.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Your largest expenditure.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
As a percentage of your expenses every single month, and
it can be raised annually.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You don't see the disconnect there.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, since here, since you're using old school like grade
school teacher talk with Behoove, if you don't do something
that behooves you, will you rue the day. I don't
know if you're on my side or not man either. Honestly,
just keep going. No, it's very very simple. We're supposedly
supposedly concerned about the account.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We're concerned about how much things cost. And you had
the opportunity. You had the third opportunity, I don't know,
maybe ten years or so, to at least do something
to limit the amount that your rent can be raised
on you in a given year.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And you did nothing. You voted it down again.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But you're still complaining about inflation, don't you know? Rent
is also a function of inflation, the cost of living, the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Cost of housing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Listen, if you want to have real talk about this,
and I'm kind of reluctant to, but you got to
bear in mind that we've just been having months of
historic low unemployment. Stock markets have been breaking records right
and left. Inflation has been getting down toward two percent.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And people still thought that the economy was terrible when
and everybody from most credible economists to the Economist magazine
said the United States has been having the world's greatest
economy with the world's strongest bounce back from COVID. So
what do you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Make of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Insanity, if only because the numbers are the numbers.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And I understand, and I said this with Tim Conway Junior.
For most people, most Americans, the economy in people's minds,
is a local issue. In other words, if I personally
don't have a job, the economy is horrible. That's not
the definition of an economy, but that's how many people
may view it. If I have to pay more money
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for eggs and milk, in my mind, that's the economy.
In other words, the individual's mind.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's not an economic indicator of the health of the
nation's economy. But many times people perceive the economy in
those very micro personal terms, and unfortunately it's not true.
And then you find people acting and voting in a
way counter to their own interests. If the economy was
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your number one issue on Tuesday, then how in the
world can you justify legitimately say that not doing something
to help control the rent, which is the largest expenditure
for just about everyone who is not in a mortgage.
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How can you say I'm worried about eggs and milk
but not my rent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
How can you.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Fix your lips to say that, hey, you know what
the economy's bad, But you know what, just go ahead
and f me over and raise my rent as much
as you want. I think a lot of people really
didn't understand well. And let's be honest, we've also been
hit fire hosed with disinformation about the economy. I had
a friend of mine from grade school on Facebook post yesterday, Man,
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this air outside just smells more affordable today, and so
of course I promptly posted an article from CBS News
that said Trump's win could lead companies to push up prices,
which is what economists are saying. I don't know if
people know that because of how well the stock market
has been doing all time high. That means the large
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majority of Americans who do have a job. We point
to the unemployment numbers, they are what they are. The
large majority of Americans who do have a job have
some sort of investment account like a three fifty seven
or a four to h one K, and they do
as well as a function of how the stock market
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is doing. And if you wanted to look at your
portfolio in January of twenty twenty one and compare it
to now, well, the math is the math. And I'm
not trying to talk about this in the political sense.
I'm only talking about economics. Yeah, some things are either
true or not regardless of where you stand on the
politics spectrum. And that's why I study this stuff so much,
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because I don't have any formal college schooling in economics.
So I read as many vibes as I can. No, no, no,
I do, so you know exactly what I'm saying. And
so when all the experts are saying something, but people
are trying to tell you that vibes or this, and that,
you know who to listen to. You listen to people
who live and die by their bottom line, like change
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it to a different subject like climate change. I don't
care what you believe or who you listen to. Look
at people like the Pentagon and insurance actuaries. They can't
afford to screw around. They don't care what radio pundits say.
They care what people who are experts who have spent
their lives gaining expertise in these subjects say. They don't
screw around, and the same with economics. All I know
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is my four oh one k has done wonderfully over
the past four years, and it has outpaced the cost
of eggs and milk and if you are concerned about
your grocery prices and not concern about the cost of
living as far as your abode, your home, I don't
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know what to tell you. It's hard for me to
take you seriously.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
If because the overwhelming majority of people are renters in California,
why because the cost of living is so damn high,
so damn high. And if you are living paycheck to paycheck,
what sixty percent of people are you beat me to it.
I'm sorry, no step on your back.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No no, no, you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Didn't step on it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But I'm saying you knew exactly where I'm going with this.
And if you're living paycheck to paycheck, and you know
that rent is going to be your highest cost every
single month, and we can talk about it should only
be like thirty percent of your net income whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Most people can't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Most people don't have that luxury because they're paying more
than three thousand dollars a month on average. Because we
talked about it, just to live in California. But if
you're more concerned about eggs and milk than you are
about that three thousand dollars a month rent, which is
going to go up as we talked about before eight
to nine percent basic math here.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Every single year, eggs are.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Not, milk is not, but rent can Why because we
keep voting down rent control.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You don't see the.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Problem with that, California. I can't help you help yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I can't want you to do better for yourself more
so than you wanted to do better for yourself. If
you're going to complain about eggs and milk and not
do anything about the rent, well, you're on your own.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You might be eating them outside. It's Later with Moe
Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
The fourteenth annual CAFI Pastathon is coming up, and it's
coming up fast. On December third. You can come by
the Anaheim White House on Giving Tuesday and see the
live broadcast. You can donate on site and drop off
pasta or sauce.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You know how we do it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We do it every single year, but this year we're
celebrating a significant milestone. Ten million meals served to disadvantage youth,
all courtesy of Chef Bruno and your generosity has been
instrumental in reaching this goal, and we're so grateful for
your continued commitment. And even if you can't attend, I
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know it's sometimes difficult on a workday, middle of the
week to get all the way down to Anaheim to
see either Wake Up Call or Gary and Shannon or
Johnny Kin or Bill Handle or Tim Conway Junior Show,
or even later with Mokelly. I know it's a long drive.
(28:57):
We're talking about our commute into work tonight. It can
be real difficult.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So if you can't attend, you can always participate in
other ways. You can spread the word to friends, family, colleagues.
You can check out the fantastic auction items on their
website Anaheim white House dot com, and more importantly, starting
November twentieth, you can donate in store at checkout at
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all I Set, All Smart and Final stores in California, Nevada,
and Arizona. All you got to do is just tell
the cashier you want to donate to the Cafi pasta
thought or you know, you can round up your purchase
to an even number to donate as well. And also
on November twentieth, Wendy's Restaurants in southern California will be
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offering coupon books for a donation to Katerina's Club in
store and at the drive through. It's really really simple.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Just find yourself a Wendy's, find yourself a Smart and
Final and you can go from there. So let's all
get ready for kfi's fourteen annual pasta Thon and you
forget any of this information.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know I gave you a lot. You can just
go to pasta Thon dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Can't be more simple than that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Now, looking forward to it, December third, had a great
time last year.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Mark Ronner came out the drive down there was quite
an adventure, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh, it's always an adventure at that time of day.
Since we're on at seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Let's say I'm leaving the house at four thirty five am.
You're not wrong, you're not wrong, but it is always
an adventure to get well, it's even worse for you
and Tuala because you're coming from north of downtown trying
to get down there.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's that's oo.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I thought i'd take some side streets and uh, I'm
happy to be here alive today. Well, look, I took
some side streets as I got closer to Anaheim last year,
I do remember, and it was it was, it was.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It was real difficult.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But but I know that the people who will be
coming on December third, they love KFI. They usually show
up every single year, and I don't want to disappoint them.
So I make it a point to leave very early
so I can get out there and see all of you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Let's sleep in the parking lot this year. No, that's okay.
I'll get a hotel. It's like the Airs Hotel, like
right across the street.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I see.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, they call it being bougie. You're making that host money.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
No, no, no, no, I'll just like do a barter
and trade.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I'll just say, hey, you know caf I, Well, you know,
we'll give you some shout outs of the air. Oh okay,
I didn't know we could do that. I guess I'm
going to start doing that everywhere. I need you to
explain to him. When you have a problem, especially when
you come from the music industry, you just make it happen.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You do make it happen. Boy.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Radio ethics are so much different than unethical. I'm just
saying you have to put that much more energy and
thought and creativity into it. Okay, everything is above board,
good sir. Yeah, this is you is talking about No no.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, no, no, no, you can barter.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Look Whitney's bartered with us for the Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay. Well I was the beneficiary of some of that. Yeah,
it's a donation.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Judging by how tight my pants are this week. I'm
not speaking for any particular hotel. I'm just saying, if
it came down to it, that's what.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I would do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Okay, Yeah, I think we should have later with Mo
Kelly r V or like a tour bus for me.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, but none of us.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I don't know, me, me, me, me me, hmm. Boy,
I'd hate to have been on the Titanic with you
when it crashed, you and the life boats.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No, no, no, no, that's that's different.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
When we're when we're talking about comfort, it's I'm a
me first type person. When we're talking about life and death,
it's women and children first. Oh well, sure, I guess
we'll find out, won't Well, we're gonna be on the
Titanic anytime soon. Well, we're gonna go on one of
those little submersibles and get imploded. You never know what's
gonna happen. Just go off your sauce and let's be
done with it. It's just so spec drop some sauce.
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Oh but oh, let me say this.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
If you missed any of those pearls of wisdom last segment,
any of those nuggets, and you didn't quite get it,
you need to go back and get it. And I
highly recommend that you listen to the podcast that to
Walla Sharp carefully assembles every single night, because we were
giving a lot of math, a lot of statistics, and
(33:29):
you know, there were a lot of scenarios you may
not have just understood at just the first time I
said it, and it may have been a little convoluted,
But go back and get that from the podcast, because
I know if I were to put to a vote,
can we limit the price of eggs and milk, probably
all the hands will go up. It's the exact same
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damn thing, except we would be doing it with people's
largest expenditure every single month. Eggs and milk are not
going to go up eight percent per year. Even in
the worst inflation, it was only what four percent?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Was was it?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Mark? I think it was like four percent? I don't
know it might have been higher than that, but let's
say was six. Let's say was seven. It wasn't, but
let's say it was. Okay, your rent is going to
go up at least eight or nine percent. I still
have trouble convincing some of my friends that the high
prices for groceries were the result of price gouging, no
(34:29):
matter how many articles I send them with the corporations
admitting to price gouging, get out of my Instagram.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I was dueling with someone today who was convinced that
I didn't know what I was talking about and clueless,
and I said, look, read this is Kroger executive. He
is admitting that their company was price gouging. I was like,
what is it you want?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah? I mean, what do I have to gain from
telling you something that's not true about this? The evidence
is right here. What do you have to gain from
not believing it? Well, here there's this. Some people don't
want to believe be because then it deconstructs their worldview.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I'm only passing on this information because.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I want to help you. I would rather you have
lower rent. I'm not a politician. I'm not asking for money.
I don't get anything out of this. I'm just saying
it's good economic and good business sense if you spend
less money or you limit how much your cost of
living will increase from year to year.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
What is so bad about that? You know?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
And I'm speaking to the same people who are upset
about eggs and milk, but not the rent. Eggs and
milk and gas. I forgot eggs, milk and gas. Oh yeah,
I think we'll go to break now.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Maybe we should k if I am six forty We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Nothing gets past us. Sweet are on it.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
And the KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Live everywhere on the radio.
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This later with mo Kelly k if I am six
forty WeLive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It seemed like a good idea. When I got in
my car, I turned on the GPS and I said,
about an hour and twenty minutes my normal route to
get to the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It seemed like a good idea, said, well, why don't
I try a different route.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Why don't I just go ahead and take my time,
embrace the horror and maybe take surface streets. Usually I
go to the one ten to the five to the
one thirty four, and they said it was all bad,
all bad, bad, bad, bad bad movie mount he So
instead I just decided to drive north on Western take
the surface streets. And I've done it many times, and
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usually it's like a one to one trade off, it's
about the same amount of time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Not today, Not today.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I should have trusted my instincts and just sucked it
up and took the hour and twenty five minute commute
that Google Maps was telling me on the freeways. Instead,
I ended up with a two hour surface street drive.
I was going up Western and then I noticed that
(01:36):
and I think it's connected to standard time. There are
far more people on the roads in the three thirty
to four thirty hour now than a few weeks ago.
There's just far more people. So it just made it
a ridiculous drive. Motorcycles were zooming in and out. I
was honking at people.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I almost flipped off someone, and I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you can't do that. Yes, you can embrace the dark side.
It's different when you're on a surface street. There's nowhere
for you to go.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's when someone in traffic so bad, someone could get
out the car and walk up to your car and
shoot you, as opposed to on the freeway where you
might be able to zig and zag and get away.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I wouldn't have had that opportunity. I feel like you're
moving in the right direction. Mo. You will embrace the
mark runner away soon. No, I won't discuss better part
of valor. But as I was going down Western.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
If you know Western, and you cross the other side
of like First Street, you getting ready to get into
the Hollywood area, you pick up the one on one freeway.
As I was getting ready to get on the one
on one freeway for this hour and twenty minute drive.
Police had shut down the one oh one North. I
could see it as I was getting ready to turn
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on because I don't know, maybe they were chasing someone.
I think there was some chase on a one on
one today and they shut down the one o one freeway,
so they were precluding anyone from getting on the one
on one at West. So I said shoot. No, I
didn't say shoot, I said something much more vulgar. And
then I got I said, got off the freeway entrance,
and I said, let me just keep going up north
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on Western, and then I made a left onto Fountain,
if you know that basic path, I'm weaving my way
through Hollywood. And then it just came to a complete
standstill because the people who were stuck on the freeway
were being forced off the one freeway onto the surface
streets right where I was, and the people who were
(03:31):
going straight on on Fountain couldn't go any further because
a lot of those people were trying to get back
on the one on one freeway.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was a cluster truck high and low.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Short version of this story is it took me two
hours to go twenty two miles in southern California when
I left, the sun was out. When I arrived, the
sun was down. Stop fighting it feel the power?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fight what I look? I had given up. I was
in my car.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's like, look, at least I had some good stuff
to listen to. It had some relaxing music. I wasn't stressed.
It was like, I can't do this every day. I
just can't do two hours in the car one way
every single day.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I know they were extenuating circumstances whenever. It was happening
on the one oh one at four point thirty today,
but it was one of those things where this for
someone who drives every day, even for me, it was like, damn,
this is a lot to deal with.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
A lot.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
For like four point three seconds, I considered getting on
Metro going forward, but.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It was like it was like gas. It passed shortly thereafter,
and I was fine. After that, it was a fleeting thought.
It didn't linger, and I said, well, well maybe the
maybe the metro whip No.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Never mind, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So how was your commute? Mark?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I was horrible, Well, it was pretty bad until I
heard you describe yours.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, yours was bad as well.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh yeah, it was terrible, but I'm picturing you like
an elderly gunfire. Just unsheathing the gun from the holster,
whipped that middle finger out and use it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, it was one of those things.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There was this Tesla who was driving erratically and dangerously,
and Westerns only has two lanes going north, and it
was one of those things where he was going to
hit someone. More importantly, he might have hit me, and
I didn't want to escalate, so I was trying to
just get out of his way.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
When you see a crazy driver, just go, Just just go, because.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There's no point in you messing up the rest of
my day because you're not thinking.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Sometimes you have to think for the other driver as well.
I didn't even call it a defensive driver. I just
call it like survival skills. Okay, well, I can tell
you this as a rule of the road, and this
is the authoritative rule here. If it's a Tesla cyber truck,
you were actually required to give it the finger.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, it was just one of those sedans, it was.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It was okay, well yeah, No, it was one of
those things where I'm getting ready to install my dash
cam in this car. It would have been perfect for today,
perfect for today, but all I could do was just
memorize the license plate if in the event, if further escalated.
But I was thinking about you, Mark, I really was.
I said, is this the time to let him have it?
(06:18):
Is this the time you break glass? It's gonna feel
so good when you finally do it. Just trust me, Well,
I've done it before. I just haven't done any years.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's like, you know, something I did when I was much, much,
much younger.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It'll feel righteous.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I remember some guy when I was driving the five
north getting ready to get on the one thirty four,
and I decided to keep on going north on on
the five. This guy, I guess I did something to
make him mad, or we made each other mad. This
guy flipped me off and then quickly went over to
the one thirty four. What's the word I'm looking for
(06:55):
is off ramp? Not the off ramp, but just the
interchange where you were you switch over to the one
thirty four on the five, and then he made sure
that he was on safely on the other side of
that medium to flip me off.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was so mad. I was so mad.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's like with your batch ass, I just oooh oh,
if you're.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Gonna do that, at least make yourself available to me.
At least be a man and deal with the consequences. Boy,
were you planning to return the gesture or or were
you ready to go the whole nine yard? Well?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I was ready to escalate at that point.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I was ready to escalate it, Like, how are you
gonna flip me off when you know that you're safely away.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
See that's where I draw the line. You have to
have some restraint. But the finger itself is a thing
of beauty.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Twala, I need you to pop your trunk on him,
just one good time. Yeah, that's the trunk, not the trunk. Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
So that was my comedian twiller real quick, How was yours?
It was horrible all day. I was running errands and
all I ran into was bumpers and tail lights, and
it was horrible. On the streets of the what is
this North Hills all the way through to the other
side of the valley, it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I fell on the streets.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I really believe traffic is going to be worse for
the foreseeable future because people are leaving work earlier, because
the sun is going down.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's almost like we're programmed.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
My workday is over or I want to be able
to beat the sun home if at all possible, where
you're not driving home in the dark.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, because all of our communities got real bad today.
We're coming from really different areas.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But one of us has some sort of vested interest
in big air taxi.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, that's t Waala because he gets paid my just you.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Know, I hate to have to be the reminder here,
but that would save a lot of us a lot
of trouble if we were all in air taxis, yes,
or or self driving vehicles.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That wouldn't save time. If we're in self driving, it
will save the stress. You could do so much if
you're in a self drive vehicle. Yeah, that's like riding metro.
There's no one in the vehicle with you to mug you.
Oh have you seen those self driving vehicles with the
people stand in front of the car and harassed them,
the riders and everything, and they've been drawing graffiti on
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the car and everything.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Even you know what it is, you're bringing up stuff
that's that's no.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
There was a woman in one of those self driving
taxis and they had these guys who were sexually harassing her.
So they stood in front of the car, so they
knew the car was not going to hit them, and
so they kept harassing her and they held it for
like an extra twenty thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It wasn't twenty thirty. Oh so you're familiar with the story.
I am familiar story.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
But you didn't want to bring that up. You didn't
give you that story to talk about on the air.
Why is that toalla?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Because that's not pertinent to the expansion of self driving technology.
That's a one off. That's that's uh.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So tell me was her commute shorter or longer because
of being in that taxi. We don't know where she
was going. She might have just been heading to the
that was in the bay or something like that. Let
me shed some light on this situation for the two
of you. I pulled this last night knowing that we
were going to talk about this. I was pre cognitive
(10:12):
on this subject. Study finds self driving waymos are more
expensive than taxis, take twice as long to get to destination.
Across fifty samples, the average human driven ride hail price
was twenty eight to fourteen, while an identical ride with
a Waimo robotaxi cost nine to fifty more. Sorry, Tuala,
You're you're really backed the wrong horse on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Dude, Hey, there's nothing else to say.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Hey, talk to her. Really puts paid to all of
this too. Let's talk about some serious business. We've got
to give you an update on the fire when we
come back.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We have an ongoing discussion.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
We talk about what may be happening around the country
as it relates to natural disasters. Where we had the
hurricanes in the southeast in previous weeks, and people were
talking about, like Twala was talking about the swarms of
earthquakes we were having, and I said, I would rather
be in California because the earthquakes largely largely don't create
(11:17):
any damage or destruction, and no one is dying from
the earthquakes, I think I said back then, Yes, in fact,
I remember I said that the better correlation is fires.
Here in California, we have to deal with fires every year.
They are seasonal in the way that tornadoes, in the
way that hurricanes are seasonal in other portions of the country.
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But fires are something which have been doing far more
damage in California than anything else, and this Ventura County
fire is a perfect example. Unfortunately, and I mean that unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oftentimes we may have fires and they don't necessarily lead
to destruction of home, bombs or changing people's lives, but
this is a little bit different. We've had the Santa
Ana wins and they have helped this fire expand to
over twenty thousand acres in just the past day. It's
(12:15):
destroyed homes, we've had massive evacuations, and it has remained
out of control. It's not close to being under control.
In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom you might have heard by now,
has called has declared a state of emergency regarding this fire.
If you were listening to KFI earlier, we had an
update on the number of structures and the degree of
(12:37):
destruction thus far. And when I was talking about the
state of emergency, it was specifically in relation to the
Ventory County fire because firefighters were struggling to gain any
advantage on that mountain fires it's also called and it's
destroyed an undetermined number of homes since starting near the
(12:58):
town of Cama Rill just affecting Chemo Real, but also
more park and other surrounding areas. The National Weather Service
has issued red flag warnings for Ventura and Los Angeles Counties,
and it's going to remain in effect at least through
Friday morning. Yesterday, we were under the impression that they
were going to remain in effect just through today in
(13:20):
the afternoon, but they've now been extended into Friday morning.
And I was watching I think it was ABC earlier today,
ABC seven, and you could see the aerial footage of
the destroyed homes, and you get a better sense of
the degree of destruction and the path of it, and
(13:41):
how large it is and how it's almost it's hard
to describe how quickly people's lives have been changed by
this fire. It's hard to describe the degree of how
quickly it has spread and how it's firefighters have struggle
to get any type of control of it, and it's
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not like it's going to change in the next day
or so. My question is whether we will get a
break from any of the winds. If we can get
a break from the wind which would slow it from spreading,
then that would help firefighters. Of Course, I'm always pulling
for people, and I'm pulling for the firefighters but there
are things that are working against them in this situation.
(14:24):
And as I always say, if you get an evacuation order,
do not wait, do not see if you have to evacuate.
Sometimes they're voluntary and sometimes they're mandatory.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Don't wait for the voluntary to become mandatory.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
You have to trust that you have to use the
time which is available to you to make sure that
you are safe, your family members are safe, your pets
are safe. Unless something else is extenuating and you don't
have that opportunity to leave, immediately, leave as soon as
you can. If you get the sense that it might
be moving in your direction, do not wait. And that
(15:02):
goes back to the winds. Because of the winds, it
is so very unpredictable where this fire may lead. It's
unpredictable as far as how quickly it's going to continue
to spread.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And let me just come to you, Mark Ronnerd just
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Is there any new information that you have received in
the past half hour.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No, but we're going to be hearing live from Chris
Adler at the bottom of the hour very since.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Okay, so Chris Adler will be updating everyone in just
a moment, and beyond the structures which have been burned,
a number of people have been taken to hospitals. They've
been treated for smoke inhalation, and some victims became trapped
in their cars because they were racing from fast moving flames.
In other words, people were trying to get out and
(15:48):
then we're trapped by the flames, trapped by the smoke,
and then had to be taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So this is something that is very very serious.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It's very very dangerous, and you can find yourself in
a predicament where you will not be able to save yourself.
So if the fire is anywhere near where you might live,
this is the time where you have to act in
advance and protect yourself and protect your family before it
becomes too late. And as Mark Runner said, we'll have
an update in just a moment from Chris Adler. It's
(16:20):
Later with mo Kelly I AM six forty. We're live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I got to tell you California voters, they are
funny to me. They are hilarious to me. They talk
out of one side of their mouth, and then they
turn around and talk out the other side.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Here's what I mean. And I know Mark Runner is
going to get a kick out of this. The La
County Board of Supervisors, when they're not buying two hundred
million dollar buildings, they approved lower annual rent increases for
many ten and unincorporated areas. If you're in an unincorporated area,
you're not You're not the City of La, You're just
(17:08):
the County of La. Like I'm in an unincorporated area.
If I call the police, the county sheriff, LA County
Sheriff comes, not LAPD. We don't get to vote for mayor.
These are areas without their own police department, areas without
their own city council. Little areas like Harbor City or
you know, they're no guardians. Seratone city have their own
(17:32):
police department, but unincorporated they don't have any of those things.
So you're governed by the county in most instances. And
when it comes to services, what they're going to do is,
beginning next year, rent increases will be limited for units
already under rent control. The sixty percent of the annual
change in the consumer price index. Put another way, the
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consumer price index rises about three percent, so your rent
can only be raised about sixty percent of that, maybe
like one point eight percent. Now, if you think about that,
that is less than the annual rate of inflation, which
is about two point four percent. I know it's going
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to get complicated, but hear me out, Mark, what is
the biggest expense for just about everyone?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I thought you're going to give me a math problem
there for a second. No, No, not at all. Oh,
the biggest expense for most people is their rent? All right?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
If your rent can be raised some two percent every
year and the annual rate of inflation is around two
to five percent each year, wouldn't it stand the reason
that since rent is your highest cost, that it would
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be your greatest priority to be able to keep under control,
not eggs and milk.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well, I told you yesterday that I hate story problems,
but I think I get where you're going with.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Can you see where I'm moving this? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If you were concerned about how everything costs so much,
and the largest expenditure you have every single month that
is going to go up regardless every single year, is rent,
wouldn't it behoove you behoove, would it behoove you yes,
(19:31):
to do everything you can to limit the increase of
that expenditure. Right, one might think, okay, So if you
are a voter, going back to voters talking out of
both sides of the mouths, and I'm talking about this
very slowly because I need you to get this. If you,
as a voter went to the polls on Tuesday and
(19:54):
you were concerned about the economy, and you were concerned
about the cost of eggs and milk, because we heard
that everywhere eggs and milk, eggs and milk. I can't
believe it costs five dollars for a carton of eggs.
I can't believe it costs seven dollars for a carton
of milk. And you voted because you were worried about that,
(20:17):
and you did nothing to help control your rent.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Your largest expenditure.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
As a percentage of your expenses every single month, and
it can be raised annually.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You don't see the disconnect there.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, since here, since you're using old school like grade
school teacher talk with Behoove, if you don't do something
that behooves you, will you rue the day. I don't
know if you're on my side or not man either. Honestly,
just keep going. No, it's very very simple. We're supposedly
supposedly concerned about the account.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We're concerned about how much things cost. And you had
the opportunity. You had the third opportunity, I don't know,
maybe ten years or so, to at least do something
to limit the amount that your rent can be raised
on you in a given year.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And you did nothing. You voted it down again.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But you're still complaining about inflation, don't you know? Rent
is also a function of inflation, the cost of living, the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Cost of housing.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Listen, if you want to have real talk about this,
and I'm kind of reluctant to, but you got to
bear in mind that we've just been having months of
historic low unemployment. Stock markets have been breaking records right
and left. Inflation has been getting down toward two percent.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And people still thought that the economy was terrible when
and everybody from most credible economists to the Economist magazine
said the United States has been having the world's greatest
economy with the world's strongest bounce back from COVID. So
what do you.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Make of that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Insanity, if only because the numbers are the numbers.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And I understand, and I said this with Tim Conway Junior.
For most people, most Americans, the economy in people's minds,
is a local issue. In other words, if I personally
don't have a job, the economy is horrible. That's not
the definition of an economy, but that's how many people
may view it. If I have to pay more money
(22:44):
for eggs and milk, in my mind, that's the economy.
In other words, the individual's mind.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
That's not an economic indicator of the health of the
nation's economy. But many times people perceive the economy in
those very micro personal terms, and unfortunately it's not true.
And then you find people acting and voting in a
way counter to their own interests. If the economy was
(23:16):
your number one issue on Tuesday, then how in the
world can you justify legitimately say that not doing something
to help control the rent, which is the largest expenditure
for just about everyone who is not in a mortgage.
(23:38):
How can you say I'm worried about eggs and milk
but not my rent.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
How can you.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Fix your lips to say that, hey, you know what
the economy's bad, But you know what, just go ahead
and f me over and raise my rent as much
as you want. I think a lot of people really
didn't understand well. And let's be honest, we've also been
hit fire hosed with disinformation about the economy. I had
a friend of mine from grade school on Facebook post yesterday, Man,
(24:08):
this air outside just smells more affordable today, and so
of course I promptly posted an article from CBS News
that said Trump's win could lead companies to push up prices,
which is what economists are saying. I don't know if
people know that because of how well the stock market
has been doing all time high. That means the large
(24:30):
majority of Americans who do have a job. We point
to the unemployment numbers, they are what they are. The
large majority of Americans who do have a job have
some sort of investment account like a three fifty seven
or a four to h one K, and they do
as well as a function of how the stock market
(24:52):
is doing. And if you wanted to look at your
portfolio in January of twenty twenty one and compare it
to now, well, the math is the math. And I'm
not trying to talk about this in the political sense.
I'm only talking about economics. Yeah, some things are either
true or not regardless of where you stand on the
politics spectrum. And that's why I study this stuff so much,
(25:13):
because I don't have any formal college schooling in economics.
So I read as many vibes as I can. No, no, no,
I do, so you know exactly what I'm saying. And
so when all the experts are saying something, but people
are trying to tell you that vibes or this, and that,
you know who to listen to. You listen to people
who live and die by their bottom line, like change
(25:34):
it to a different subject like climate change. I don't
care what you believe or who you listen to. Look
at people like the Pentagon and insurance actuaries. They can't
afford to screw around. They don't care what radio pundits say.
They care what people who are experts who have spent
their lives gaining expertise in these subjects say. They don't
screw around, and the same with economics. All I know
(25:57):
is my four oh one k has done wonderfully over
the past four years, and it has outpaced the cost
of eggs and milk and if you are concerned about
your grocery prices and not concern about the cost of
living as far as your abode, your home, I don't
(26:19):
know what to tell you. It's hard for me to
take you seriously.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
If because the overwhelming majority of people are renters in California,
why because the cost of living is so damn high,
so damn high. And if you are living paycheck to paycheck,
what sixty percent of people are you beat me to it.
I'm sorry, no step on your back.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No no, no, you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Didn't step on it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But I'm saying you knew exactly where I'm going with this.
And if you're living paycheck to paycheck, and you know
that rent is going to be your highest cost every
single month, and we can talk about it should only
be like thirty percent of your net income whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Most people can't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Most people don't have that luxury because they're paying more
than three thousand dollars a month on average. Because we
talked about it, just to live in California. But if
you're more concerned about eggs and milk than you are
about that three thousand dollars a month rent, which is
going to go up as we talked about before eight
to nine percent basic math here.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Every single year, eggs are.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Not, milk is not, but rent can Why because we
keep voting down rent control.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You don't see the.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Problem with that, California. I can't help you help yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I can't want you to do better for yourself more
so than you wanted to do better for yourself. If
you're going to complain about eggs and milk and not
do anything about the rent, well, you're on your own.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You might be eating them outside. It's Later with Moe
Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
The fourteenth annual CAFI Pastathon is coming up, and it's
coming up fast. On December third. You can come by
the Anaheim White House on Giving Tuesday and see the
live broadcast. You can donate on site and drop off
pasta or sauce.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
You know how we do it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
We do it every single year, but this year we're
celebrating a significant milestone. Ten million meals served to disadvantage youth,
all courtesy of Chef Bruno and your generosity has been
instrumental in reaching this goal, and we're so grateful for
your continued commitment. And even if you can't attend, I
(28:36):
know it's sometimes difficult on a workday, middle of the
week to get all the way down to Anaheim to
see either Wake Up Call or Gary and Shannon or
Johnny Kin or Bill Handle or Tim Conway Junior Show,
or even later with Mokelly. I know it's a long drive.
(28:57):
We're talking about our commute into work tonight. It can
be real difficult.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So if you can't attend, you can always participate in
other ways. You can spread the word to friends, family, colleagues.
You can check out the fantastic auction items on their
website Anaheim white House dot com, and more importantly, starting
November twentieth, you can donate in store at checkout at
(29:23):
all I Set, All Smart and Final stores in California, Nevada,
and Arizona. All you got to do is just tell
the cashier you want to donate to the Cafi pasta
thought or you know, you can round up your purchase
to an even number to donate as well. And also
on November twentieth, Wendy's Restaurants in southern California will be
(29:45):
offering coupon books for a donation to Katerina's Club in
store and at the drive through. It's really really simple.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Just find yourself a Wendy's, find yourself a Smart and
Final and you can go from there. So let's all
get ready for kfi's fourteen annual pasta Thon and you
forget any of this information.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I know I gave you a lot. You can just
go to pasta Thon dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Can't be more simple than that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Now, looking forward to it, December third, had a great
time last year.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Mark Ronner came out the drive down there was quite
an adventure, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh, it's always an adventure at that time of day.
Since we're on at seven o'clock.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Let's say I'm leaving the house at four thirty five am.
You're not wrong, you're not wrong, but it is always
an adventure to get well, it's even worse for you
and Tuala because you're coming from north of downtown trying
to get down there.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's that's oo.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I thought i'd take some side streets and uh, I'm
happy to be here alive today. Well, look, I took
some side streets as I got closer to Anaheim last year,
I do remember, and it was it was, it was.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It was real difficult.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But but I know that the people who will be
coming on December third, they love KFI. They usually show
up every single year, and I don't want to disappoint them.
So I make it a point to leave very early
so I can get out there and see all of you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Let's sleep in the parking lot this year. No, that's okay.
I'll get a hotel. It's like the Airs Hotel, like
right across the street.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I see.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, they call it being bougie. You're making that host money.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
No, no, no, no, I'll just like do a barter
and trade.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I'll just say, hey, you know caf I, Well, you know,
we'll give you some shout outs of the air. Oh okay,
I didn't know we could do that. I guess I'm
going to start doing that everywhere. I need you to
explain to him. When you have a problem, especially when
you come from the music industry, you just make it happen.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You do make it happen. Boy.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Radio ethics are so much different than unethical. I'm just
saying you have to put that much more energy and
thought and creativity into it. Okay, everything is above board,
good sir. Yeah, this is you is talking about No no.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, no, no, no, you can barter.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Look Whitney's bartered with us for the Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay. Well I was the beneficiary of some of that. Yeah,
it's a donation.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Judging by how tight my pants are this week. I'm
not speaking for any particular hotel. I'm just saying, if
it came down to it, that's what.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I would do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Okay, Yeah, I think we should have later with Mo
Kelly r V or like a tour bus for me.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, but none of us.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I don't know, me, me, me, me me, hmm. Boy,
I'd hate to have been on the Titanic with you
when it crashed, you and the life boats.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No, no, no, no, that's that's different.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
When we're when we're talking about comfort, it's I'm a
me first type person. When we're talking about life and death,
it's women and children first. Oh well, sure, I guess
we'll find out, won't Well, we're gonna be on the
Titanic anytime soon. Well, we're gonna go on one of
those little submersibles and get imploded. You never know what's
gonna happen. Just go off your sauce and let's be
done with it. It's just so spec drop some sauce.
(33:06):
Oh but oh, let me say this.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
If you missed any of those pearls of wisdom last segment,
any of those nuggets, and you didn't quite get it,
you need to go back and get it. And I
highly recommend that you listen to the podcast that to
Walla Sharp carefully assembles every single night, because we were
giving a lot of math, a lot of statistics, and
(33:29):
you know, there were a lot of scenarios you may
not have just understood at just the first time I
said it, and it may have been a little convoluted,
But go back and get that from the podcast, because
I know if I were to put to a vote,
can we limit the price of eggs and milk, probably
all the hands will go up. It's the exact same
(33:51):
damn thing, except we would be doing it with people's
largest expenditure every single month. Eggs and milk are not
going to go up eight percent per year. Even in
the worst inflation, it was only what four percent?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Was was it?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Mark? I think it was like four percent? I don't
know it might have been higher than that, but let's
say was six. Let's say was seven. It wasn't, but
let's say it was. Okay, your rent is going to
go up at least eight or nine percent. I still
have trouble convincing some of my friends that the high
prices for groceries were the result of price gouging, no
(34:29):
matter how many articles I send them with the corporations
admitting to price gouging, get out of my Instagram.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I was dueling with someone today who was convinced that
I didn't know what I was talking about and clueless,
and I said, look, read this is Kroger executive. He
is admitting that their company was price gouging. I was like,
what is it you want?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah? I mean, what do I have to gain from
telling you something that's not true about this? The evidence
is right here. What do you have to gain from
not believing it? Well, here there's this. Some people don't
want to believe be because then it deconstructs their worldview.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I'm only passing on this information because.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I want to help you. I would rather you have
lower rent. I'm not a politician. I'm not asking for money.
I don't get anything out of this. I'm just saying
it's good economic and good business sense if you spend
less money or you limit how much your cost of
living will increase from year to year.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
What is so bad about that? You know?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
And I'm speaking to the same people who are upset
about eggs and milk, but not the rent. Eggs and
milk and gas. I forgot eggs, milk and gas. Oh yeah,
I think we'll go to break now.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Maybe we should k if I am six forty We're
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