November 13, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the official launch of Waymo Robotaxis in Los Angeles AND the Los Angeles Unified School District's decision to delay the district-wide policy banning student cell phones on campus until February 2025…PLUS – Thoughts on the “California Exodus” coming to an end - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's later with Kelly k If. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have so
much to cover tonight. Oh a programming note.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hey twelve. I don't know if you know this, but
I am going to be in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The rest of the week because President Elect Trump has
asked me to come out and they're gonna interview me
about some I don't know, maybe a cabinet level position
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What But I will be in DC the rest of
the week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
See if I can slide over and talk to some
of the people in d C on the Trump team,
in the Trump transition team, see what's up.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Maybe you can be Secretary of Wokeness because I saw
that you were proclaimed, Oh you saw that in the
world you oh Man always woke.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is funny, and I talked about this on the
air before. How people say, oh, you're so woke or
they want to tell me what I believe you it is.
It's so funny. It's like, wait a minute, It's almost
like I'm gonna have a conversation with Mark Roner.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Good evening, Mark Ronner and say.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mark, you know how you always believe that climate change
is not important, and Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Will say, like, what the hell are you talking about? I?
Mark Ronner know what Mark Ronner believes? Like this keeps going.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It was really strange because someone wanted to argue with
me about me, and I said, what are you gonna
argue with next?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My favorite color? You know what type of shoes I
like to wear? Some things are not that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
This is where we are in America, where everything is
a supposed debate. There's what you believe, what I believe,
and then maybe we'll just agree to disagree.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, we're talking about me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm the only one who's been a part of every
single show I've ever done. I'm the only one who's
in my head. How arrogant of you? And no, what
could I be thinking? The only reason, oh and Mark,
you love this. The only reason that happened was because
I came out and came from behind the curtain on
Twitter to see what was going on. In a general sense,
(02:20):
I was defending some of our colleagues for various reasons.
I'm not going to get into that, but I was
defending them, and I saw that Twitter was twittering and
this person on a KFI person's feed had this that
to say about me, and I politely correct, was like,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That? That's not me?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You having confused with someone else. They couldn't give any specificity.
They said, I had gone hardcore woke, whatever that's supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I've just about had it with your hardcore woke.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, I I have no idea what that is, and
he she I don't know because it's a random profile.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know what it is. So it's probably even
a bot. You're probably arguing with the bot and wasting
your time. Probably probably that's why I left Twitter in
the first place. Was determined to tell me that I
got hardcore woke? Can I say, well, can you like
give me an example?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, no, you know it was more funny than anything that,
you know. We were at a place in America where
what I believe is enough. Even though I'm talking to
the very person who knows him or herself more than
I ever will.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
It's really strange. I think it's kind of rude of
you to argue with a listener about me. The customer
is always right. Didn't you ever hear that I'm not
selling anything? This ain't norsetrum. I know of no such rule,
and if it's a drive through, you're giving him the special.
But speaking of driving, we have to start with this.
(03:47):
As of today today.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Mark Ronner, anyone in.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
LA will be able to digitally hail a way More ROBOTAXI.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, I can digitally hail anybody just to watch. Oh
not that not a middle digit?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, not like a practology which are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Way More announced it will begin way Mo one service
in La County today, but will limit its vehicles to
surface streets for the startup, owned by Google's parent Alphabet,
has been testing the sensor laden cars for months. The
service can be accessed twenty four hours a day on
the app, twenty four hours a day just surface streets.
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Can't use it to go to work, or if you do,
it's going to take you a lot longer from where
I live. At least, here's the thing, Mark. LA officials
have been skeptical, skepticals just like me, seeking more safety
oversight of the vehicle as future growth looms and unions
raise concerns about job loss. We talked about that in
regard to Lift and Uber quote. Now it's an exciting
(04:57):
time to welcome everyone in LA along for the ride.
This is the CEO of Weymo. Our service has matured quickly,
and our writers are embracing the many benefits of fully
autonomous driving.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The company estimates that more than seven hundred vehicles have
completed over one hundred and fifty thousand rides weekly where
it's estimating that it will with its vehicles operating in Phoenix,
the Bay Area and LA so far. So far, weymo
has about one hundred robotaxi serving riders here in LA
and it will incrementally increase as it grows. Now Here
(05:33):
you go twelve, This is for you. Nearly three hundred
thousand people have signed up for the Waimo one waitlist
in La Yekay, Yes, and they're all going to die.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Look every single way, We're all gonna die. This is
what is wrong with your report. You are not acknowledging
the fact that Weymo has passed every test needed and
has been verified as one of the safest modes of travel,
and that is why it is now rolling out in
full force.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, but you forgot the part where DMV records shows
since March twelfth, Waymo crashes plural have been logged. They say,
they're all minor, with the exception of the freeway incident.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We want to talk about the freeway incident. Look, you
don't know if the freeway incident is. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They said, it's all minor, with the exception of the
all freeway incident.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh my god, one freeway incident. And it probably gave
another driver of the runner.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You don't know what. We don't know what that automobile did.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Someone probably was driving crazy and they said, oh, you're
getting a runner today.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
A DMV report showed on May thirteenth, during one of
their tests, a way more riding on the ten eastbound
freeway near the Bundy Drive overpassed.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I know exactly where that is. I used to work
over there. Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Was it involved in a quote unquote moderate crash?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay? Moderate?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, if Mark right now looks up the number
of crashes that happened on the freeway right now, we
would never finish this show. Okay, right already banned it
from the freeways because that's not it is coming to
freeway soon right now. Surface streets are enough. I was
almost ed on the freeway the other day. I was
living almost killed today on the freeway. You don't how
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long it took me to get twenty miles an hour
and a half. I do know what that's like. That's
my life. Yeah, I don't want to wame on the freeway.
Take me on the surface streets please, way.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Mo quote our vehicle appears to have been driving correctly
in its lane when it was hit, and after the collision,
our autonomous specialists manually drove the vehicle to the shoulder.
In other words, it could not even drive itself to
the damned shoulder.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It needed human interventions. Oh my god, the car was hit.
What is this victim? Blame me the way more was hit?
Do you not hear the victim blaming it coming out
of your mouth?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Where either it's autonomous or it's not. It can't be
a victim if it's a Thomas.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It was hit and the vehicle needed assistance.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I saw a bus, a metro bus that was broke
down on the street the other day, and you know what,
it needed a big, giant, big rig to come and
tow it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But it's a bus.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How come he couldn't just roll itself back to the station.
It needed a tow truck?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
To do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It didn't say that this autonomous vehicle needed a toe.
It said it needed human intervention. Yes, and that's why
they took its ass off the freeway. It was not safe.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
It was safety. You're reading way too much more.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Wait wait, if it has nothing to do with safety,
why aren't they allowed to go on freeways.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The rank with the wey Mo was hit. It was
almost victimized. Witness is not answering the question. Weimo was
victimized and it needed a person to be talking.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
About it like this SVU.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
And you know what, when you say you're hoor that
sounds like my name. So I will happily judge this situation.
First of all, Mo, have you noticed Tula wearing a
new Rolex or anything today.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's got a bright blue jacket that I don't remember seeing.
You have some fancy mother purchases. Okay, okay, clearly did
you get a new car recently? That is true.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's hard for me to imagine an autonomous vehicle company
giving away a car that you drive yourself as a bribe.
But I'm sure that Tauala is a wash in bribes. Also,
I think they're gonna regret regret. I think They're gonna
regret calling it way mo because the obvious question for
anybody who wants to drive one of the get into
one of these things is so do they get in
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as many crashes as regular cars?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
What's the answer? Way moo way moo.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh my god, that was dry as the funny. Oh
way mo crashes way moo way moo. It's the leader
of Mo Kelly filth. We got to talk about those
student cell phones when we come back. KFI AM six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Then you've heard us discuss a number of times about
LAUSD and its attempts to ban student cell phone smartphone
use during school hours, and we know that they were
trying to implement this policy at the beginning of this
school year, and we went back and forth. I was
talking to Twala, who's an administer, excuse me, administrator at
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a school. He's a parent of two teenage kids. Well,
his son is now an adult, and it makes you
wonder how realistic is it to have kids today go
to school and not have access to their phone.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's one thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
If you're going to say you can't use it in
class or during class. It's another thing if you're going
to say, well, they have to turn in their phone
and they won't be able to retrieve it until the
end of the school day. Because all the parents that
I talk to, all every single one, and I know
this is anecdotal, every single one was of the opinion that, hey,
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I need to be able to get in touch with
my child in the event.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Of an emergency.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And I remember we were talking about it, and we
had a school mass shooting in and around our discussions,
and it kind of highlighted the reality that parents want
to be in touch with their children. And to that end,
LAUSD has moved back the date for the implementation of
this policy to February of twenty twenty five, and the
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implementation is going to vary from campus to campus. But
there are some minimum minimum standards and expectations. First, students
may not use cell phones, smart watches, and earbuds on
campus during school hours. Let me stop right there. How
are you going to manage the use of smart watches.
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Let's be real now, I can understand if you're saying, hey,
you can't use it to take a call. But I
have a smart watch on and there's really no way
for you to know what it's doing if I turn
off the volume for notifications.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's not like I'm gonna take a phone call in
front of you.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But I imagine these these kids are very technologically savvy.
They know how to use these things. Are you saying
they can't have a smart watch? Are you gonna say
you gotta take off your your Apple Iye watch, you
gotta take off your your pixel watch?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But it says students may not use cell phone, smart watches,
and earbuds on campus during school hours. Devices must be
turned off and stored. Again, it's gonna vary from campus
to campus. But what does stored mean? Do you get
to take it from classroom to classroom during the day?
You start at homeroom and you make your way around
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the school from period to period, and you put it
in a little cubby when you get to.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Your next class.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is that stored or they're gonna take it at the
beginning of the day and then you have to get
it at the end of the day. I don't know
if the latter is going to be acceptable for most parents.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Or even any parents.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thirdly, students can use devices before and after school and
must have access to their phones in case of an emergency.
What we were talking about, but what does access mean?
Is it down the hall, is it within arms reach?
Is it going to be in the same classroom as
the students? And I think that is where the middle
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ground is going to be, where if you have a
phone as a student, you're probably going to be able
to possess it, but you're going to have to turn
it in at the beginning of each class and get
it at the end of each class, because that's the
only way that you can ensure that it won't be
used during class, and you can also ensure that it's
available in case of an emergency, that the phone is
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in the same room as the student, because if a
mass shooting were to break out, that way, students would
have access to their phones and parents would have access
to their children. That's about the only way you can
do it. And they also say there are exceptions, including
for students with disabilities, translation and health bay based needs.
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The LAUSD board voted to expand the district's existing technology
restriction restrictions back in June, citing rising concerns about the
impact of the technologies on youth mental health, bullying, and
distraction from classroom instruction. I agree with all of that. Yes,
it impacts their mental health. Yes it increases the likelihood
of bullying. We see how text messages and social media
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can be used against kids all the time. And yes,
most definitely it's a distraction from classroom instruction. But parents
care more about actual safety and access than anything. And
if we go back, we remember California lawmakers voted in
August to require all districts to band student cell phone
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use by July twenty twenty six. They're going to try
to implement this in February of twenty twenty five. It's
going to be piecemeal. It's going to differ by campus.
I'm quite sure it's going to differ by district. Some
districts will probably be more lenient than others. And also
what's the enforcement mechanism. And I'm just gonna pick on
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school districts because I happen to know them. It's nothing personal.
I just know the district, so it's fun to talk
about them. I was a kid who went to the
Torrents Unified School District Torrance, May do it one way.
They think, well, we may not have a problem with
student cell phone use, so we're going to be a
little bit more you know, liberal, small l with it.
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We may allow a little bit more access to phones
and their students and maybe Los Alabido's school districts can
say no, no, no, we cannot have kids having any access
during the day in at least in terms of school time.
They can get their phone before and after class, and
they're going to be a little bit more rigid, a
little more restrictive when it comes down to it. But
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it's supposed to happen February of twenty twenty five, and
this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the
first time in which something happens and the school is
not adhering to what is expected to be the statewide policy.
What is the enforcement provision? Are you going to somehow
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sanction the school or you're going to take money out
of the school's budget. What is there to say or
what is there to say that there is any type
of i'll say oversight to make sure that this policy
is going to be adhered to, because I don't know
if there's any school district which is going to be
going to take this to the nth degree and make
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sure that kids can't have access to their phones. So
it's one thing to have the policy, it's another thing
to enforce it. I really wish I had a phone
back in the day. I really do, because the only
time that my parents could get in touch with me.
And this is kind of weird because they always taught
at the school I attended. But hypothetically, if they couldn't
walk down from the administration building and physically grabbed me
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while I was in class, the only way someone could
reach me was to call the administration office, and then
they would send some sort of counselor or some student
from the administration building down to the class where I
would be, or any other student and have them come
to the administration building. Those days are long gone, but
I can only imagine what an a hole I would
have been if I had a smartphone when I was fifteen.
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These kids have smartphones. My nephew had a smartphone when
he was like seven. Some are even younger. I don't
even get that. I don't even understand that to have
that much what I would call power and freedom, Yes,
I would have been looking at porn in class.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, let's just get that, there's no question. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Can I be honest? Can I tell the truth? For
teen fifteen years old, your body's going through all sorts
of changes. I remember we couldn't even find a playboy
back then. It was very, very difficult. Went through a lot,
a lot of hard work and asked a lot of
friends and dads in the neighborhood if they could hook
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us up. You asked, oh no, absolutely, you didn't have
that cool dad in the neighborhood. Who's who you knew
had to stash either magazines or videos.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Well, nobody that we would ask. I mean, we found
the stuff, but we weren't going to ask.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well, they're always the quote unquote cool parents, ones that
would kind of look the other way if they were
going to have a party and there might be alcohol.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Look, I would go to my four age parties. Now
I don't want to say which house it was in Arcadia,
the Beard Dolls. We'd have alcohol, we were teenagers, and
the cool parents would look the other way as long
as we didn't go to Buck Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And so saying there were other cool parents who would
procure pornography for you.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm saying that some parents were more lenient than others.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh Man, we didn't have anything like that.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
A fragment of a playboy blowing in the wind on
a field was a treasure.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
No, it was it was like money. It really was
like money back then. And now, going back to the
whole idea of smartphones in class, yeah, I would have
been looking at that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What do be free porn all the time? All the time.
It's too too much, it's too dark. Kids can't handle it, No.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
They can't, which goes back to the whole mental health
aspect of it. I agree in principle with all of this.
It needs to be limited. You need to curb access.
But also I know, realistically I don't know if you
can do it.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Here's the thing, though, you seem to me like the
kind of person who enjoys a good prison movie. I'm
looking forward to pat downs, shakedowns, cavity searches to be
unfunny for a moment. They were kind of doing that
at a lot of inner city la USD schools. Yeah,
not surprising.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So you know it's going to be new to some
schools and not new to others. It's later with mo
Kelly caf I AM six forty live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app and it's the California Exodus over. We keep
hearing about how people are leaving California and how this
place is just so horrible, can't.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Wait to go.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We got to go to Texas, we got to go
to Florida. Is that whole phenomenon over? We'll discuss it
when we come back.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
When we hear time and time again that people are
leaving California, can't wait to get out of here. Must
be the high cost of rent, it must be the
high cost of living. Must be eggs or milk, or
it must be gas. It's something like that. Taxes. Reason
after reason, people will tell us that I got to
get out of California. And the numbers did support that
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the people were leave more than people were coming to California,
at least up until twenty twenty three or so, but
the trend seems to be slowing down. Saw this in
the Orange County Register and it was pretty intriguing. Census
Bureau shows that one hundred and twenty seven thousand fewer
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Californians left the state in twenty twenty three for any
other state in the US compared to twenty twenty two,
one hundred and twenty seven thousand fewer people left. Then
came New York, which was down sixty four thousand from
its previous year, and rival Texas had about fifteen thousand
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fewer people leave. Conversely, Florida was the state with the
nation's largest increase in departures, with exits growing by twenty
one thousand residents. In other words, the numbers for Caliblifornia
are decreasing and the numbers for Florida are increasing. And
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check this out, Mark Runner, you may get a kick
out of this. Where it's true that California saw the
most residents leaving the state for another state in twenty
twenty three, and it's a big number, six hundred and
ninety thousand. But when you have forty million people, you're
not going to miss them. But second was Florida at
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five hundred and eleven thousand people as a percentage of
total population. More people are leaving Florida than leaving California.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And don't say you have about half our population. That's correct.
You're a student gold star for Mark, Thanks mister Kelly.
Wait wait, and there's more.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Third was New York at four hundred and eighty one thousand,
leaving New York for some other state.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Guess who was fourth? Fourth?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Hmm, let's see someplace. Okay, Florida is going to be underwater,
so that accounts for that. Uh huh? What other places
they're facing natural disaster? A Gulf state? How about that?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right? Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
For all the conversation we had about the people leaving California, statistically,
Texas is fourth with the most departures at four hundred
and seventy nine thousand, and again, as a percentage of
total population, it is a higher percentage of Texas residents
leaving than California residents are leaving.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, they probably want to go to a state with
an electrical grid that they can rely on in severe weather.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, maybe they're leaving because they want higher gas prices.
I don't know. I can't give you a specific reason.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
All I know is for as much as we hear
about people are leaving California, and specifically leaving California for Texas,
the numbers don't support that, or they less and less
support that idea that people are leaving California for Texas.
More people are leaving the state of Texas for whatever reasons,
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be at the electrical grid, be it the weather in general,
the hurricanes. More people as a percentage of total population
are leaving Texas and leaving Florida than leaving California. Now
what this means, I couldn't tell you. But if you
were to just analyze media coverage, you would think that
California is losing six million people a year and they're
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all going to wear Texas and Florida, where the data does.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Not support that. Now, the grass is not greener there.
I hate to break it to everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I can understand why no state income tax would be attractive.
I can understand that, and for some that would be
an allure, But for me weather it is more important.
I don't like humidity, I don't like one hundred and
twelve degree heat.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I don't like hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, and that impacts both Texas and Florida.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Would you say it negatively impacts them? Yes, it does negatively. Adversely,
how about that perfect perfect? So where you want to
live is where you want to live. But I'm always
intrigued with what I hear from people and of course
anecdotally what I see on social media and whether that
actually aligns with what is happening. I could throw a
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rock and hit a complaint about California. I'm leaving California.
I'm going to Texas, so I'm going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And that's not the reality at this point. Maybe in
previous years, but it's decreasing in frequency. Yeah, but you
got to understand, and I'm sure you do, Mo, that
it's an article of faith among some people just to
dump on California no matter what. And when you throw
things back and I'm like, you know, it's the world's
fifth largest economy, right, we're not doing that bad. They
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don't have anything to say. I don't know if people
understand what that means. When you say fifth largest economy,
that means GDP growth, It is doing well. Is it
expensive to live here? Absolutely, I don't think anyone can
deny it. But as far as it's economic health is concerned,
when you're the fifth largest economy, that's better than Russia.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, yeah, by just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, we're just talking economic facts. Just because something is
expensive doesn't mean that the economy itself is failing. Hell,
Dubai is expensive. There are a lot of places which
are expensive. It doesn't mean that their economy is failing.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Certain industries may be struggling more than others. We talk
about restaurants. Comfort food industry has been struggling. I don't
know if that's a function of California or a function
of our consumer habits.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When it comes to dining.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
We don't go to those spots like we used to
in previous decades. We don't spend, we don't go to
let's say, I don't want to pick on any particular chain,
but just think of your favorite comfort food chain like
we used to, you know, three or four times a month.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, COVID's also got something to do with that, but
rising prices. I mean a lot of restaurants had to
boost their prices after COVID, which you know, you're in
a death spiral there because your prices are higher, and
that makes fewer people want to go there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And how do you get out of that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Maybe move to Texas. Yeah, go to Texas. Everything's bigger
there too, I hear. Not every grass.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Is greener, No, Nope, Nope, some has been or in it.
It's Later with Mo Kelly, ca if I am six
forty damn it. USC is in trouble again. The football
program is in trouble again. And it'd be different if
they were winning and in trouble. But they're losing and
in trouble. We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And My Trojans. My Trojans are in trouble once again.
It wasn't enough that they've been mediocre or sucked for
the past I don't know, fifteen years. Now they are
back in trouble. Just in case you haven't heard the news.
It's not big trouble. But oftentimes when there's a little trouble,
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there's probably more trouble around the corner. If you are
in trouble for the small things, you're probably skirting the
rules on the big things. That's what the history of
college football has taught me. The USC football program presently
has been fined fifty thousand dollars and you think, well,
that's no big deal, but it's also been placed on
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a one year probation due to a violation of quote
on and off field coaching activities close quote on and
off field. After the NC two A conducted an investigation,
it found that USC exceeded the permissible number of accountable
coaches by six during the twenty twenty two in twenty
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twenty three seasons.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I don't want to get two.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
In the weeds, but there were some rule changes as
far as the number of coaches. You could have the
people who are officially on staff and held the title
of coach, and that's changed in recent years, and USC,
to be fair, may have been caught up in that.
But this is something that I have learned in my
fifty plus years of being a sports fan. When you
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find a program playing around the edges, playing fast and
loose with the small things, more times than not, there
are probably some more major violations there which either happened
and stop, or they're continuing to happen and they'll eventually
be uncovered. Because when you put on that one year probation,
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you're going to be watched and you're going to be
scrutinized more than other universities and programs. And given all
the controversy which has been going around with USC and
it's not just a football program. Remember how we talked
about how modern day and its relationship to the university
raised eyebrows and basically was fraud about bringing in students
(30:12):
the children of wealthy donors who academically did not qualify
to be at the institution, and how did they get
them into the institution via the sports teams, via the
walk on status. So all these things, even though they
may seem disconnected, they're very much connected.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Eight analysts for the football program engaged in on and
off field coaching activities during spring twenty twenty two, Fall
twenty twenty two, and spring twenty twenty three, resulting in
the football program exceeding the permissible number of accountable coaches
by six for two academic years, exceeded by a lot
over I would say a fair amount of time two years,
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going back to the quote. As a result of the violations,
the parties also agreed that football head coach Lincoln Riley
violated head coach responsibility rules. This is what I always believe,
especially if you've ever been to a school with a
big time sports program, be it basketball or football, or
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even baseball. Even though there may be some eighty five
scholarship athletes for a football program, the head coach knows
what's going on. He may not know every detail of
every situation with every player, but he damn sure knows
what's going on with his coaching staff. He knows every
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single rule. Why, because it's a head coach's job to
protect the institution, to protect the program the name the endowment,
protect it from not only bad press, but from violations
and probation.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Just like this, we're all old enough.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
If you're listening to this show, you're old enough to
remember the hell that USC football went through because of
either what Pete Carroll did or what Pete Carroll knew
about and didn't do anything to stop in regard to
the impermissible benefits with Reggie Bush. And when it all
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started to come crumbling down and they took away scholarships
and they put the team on probation and rescinded and
vacated one of the national championships, Pete Carroll was out
the door, and he went to the NFL and became
head coach of the Seattle excuse me, Seattle Seahawks. I
hope that this doesn't turn into that. I hope that
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this is not the beginning of something worse. I hope
this is not a classic example of my roach theory
where you see this one issue, and while you're looking
at this one issue, you realize that there are another
twenty going on out of view. You hope that this
is the only thing where USC has crossed the line
in the past two years, you hope, But history suggests
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that's never the case. It's never the case. Oh, this
was the only time that they stepped across the line.
This was the only thing that they did that was
a little bit out of bounds. They weren't really playing
fast and loose. They were just a little unclear about
the rules, and it was an honest mistake.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
How often does that happen? Never?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Absolutely never. I hope whatever that was dirty my word
going on in the background has now been cleaned up
for the sake of the program, for the sake of
the institution, because we've been through this we as USC
football fans, rather recently, and it crippled the program for
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at least a decade and three different coaches. I hope
history is not about to repeat itself. No pun on Pete,
that'sen Carol. Never mind, it's.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Later with Mo Kelly caf I AM six forty. You
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It's later with Kelly k If. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We have so
much to cover tonight. Oh a programming note.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hey twelve. I don't know if you know this, but
I am going to be in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The rest of the week because President Elect Trump has
asked me to come out and they're gonna interview me
about some I don't know, maybe a cabinet level position
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
What But I will be in DC the rest of
the week.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
See if I can slide over and talk to some
of the people in d C on the Trump team,
in the Trump transition team, see what's up.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Maybe you can be Secretary of Wokeness because I saw
that you were proclaimed, Oh you saw that in the
world you oh Man always woke.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It is funny, and I talked about this on the
air before. How people say, oh, you're so woke or
they want to tell me what I believe you it is.
It's so funny. It's like, wait a minute, It's almost
like I'm gonna have a conversation with Mark Roner.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Good evening, Mark Ronner and say.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Mark, you know how you always believe that climate change
is not important, and Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Will say, like, what the hell are you talking about? I?
Mark Ronner know what Mark Ronner believes? Like this keeps going.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It was really strange because someone wanted to argue with
me about me, and I said, what are you gonna
argue with next?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
My favorite color? You know what type of shoes I
like to wear? Some things are not that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
This is where we are in America, where everything is
a supposed debate. There's what you believe, what I believe,
and then maybe we'll just agree to disagree.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, we're talking about me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm the only one who's been a part of every
single show I've ever done. I'm the only one who's
in my head. How arrogant of you? And no, what
could I be thinking? The only reason, oh and Mark,
you love this. The only reason that happened was because
I came out and came from behind the curtain on
Twitter to see what was going on. In a general sense,
(02:20):
I was defending some of our colleagues for various reasons.
I'm not going to get into that, but I was
defending them, and I saw that Twitter was twittering and
this person on a KFI person's feed had this that
to say about me, and I politely correct, was like,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That? That's not me?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You having confused with someone else. They couldn't give any specificity.
They said, I had gone hardcore woke, whatever that's supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I've just about had it with your hardcore woke.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, I I have no idea what that is, and
he she I don't know because it's a random profile.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know what it is. So it's probably even
a bot. You're probably arguing with the bot and wasting
your time. Probably probably that's why I left Twitter in
the first place. Was determined to tell me that I
got hardcore woke? Can I say, well, can you like
give me an example?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, no, you know it was more funny than anything that,
you know. We were at a place in America where
what I believe is enough. Even though I'm talking to
the very person who knows him or herself more than
I ever will.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
It's really strange. I think it's kind of rude of
you to argue with a listener about me. The customer
is always right. Didn't you ever hear that I'm not
selling anything? This ain't norsetrum. I know of no such rule,
and if it's a drive through, you're giving him the special.
But speaking of driving, we have to start with this.
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As of today today.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Mark Ronner, anyone in.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
LA will be able to digitally hail a way More ROBOTAXI.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, I can digitally hail anybody just to watch. Oh
not that not a middle digit?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, not like a practology which are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Way More announced it will begin way Mo one service
in La County today, but will limit its vehicles to
surface streets for the startup, owned by Google's parent Alphabet,
has been testing the sensor laden cars for months. The
service can be accessed twenty four hours a day on
the app, twenty four hours a day just surface streets.
(04:32):
Can't use it to go to work, or if you do,
it's going to take you a lot longer from where
I live. At least, here's the thing, Mark. LA officials
have been skeptical, skepticals just like me, seeking more safety
oversight of the vehicle as future growth looms and unions
raise concerns about job loss. We talked about that in
regard to Lift and Uber quote. Now it's an exciting
(04:57):
time to welcome everyone in LA along for the ride.
This is the CEO of Weymo. Our service has matured quickly,
and our writers are embracing the many benefits of fully
autonomous driving.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The company estimates that more than seven hundred vehicles have
completed over one hundred and fifty thousand rides weekly where
it's estimating that it will with its vehicles operating in Phoenix,
the Bay Area and LA so far. So far, weymo
has about one hundred robotaxi serving riders here in LA
and it will incrementally increase as it grows. Now Here
(05:33):
you go twelve, This is for you. Nearly three hundred
thousand people have signed up for the Waimo one waitlist
in La Yekay, Yes, and they're all going to die.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Look every single way, We're all gonna die. This is
what is wrong with your report. You are not acknowledging
the fact that Weymo has passed every test needed and
has been verified as one of the safest modes of travel,
and that is why it is now rolling out in
full force.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, but you forgot the part where DMV records shows
since March twelfth, Waymo crashes plural have been logged. They say,
they're all minor, with the exception of the freeway incident.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We want to talk about the freeway incident. Look, you
don't know if the freeway incident is. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
They said, it's all minor, with the exception of the
all freeway incident.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh my god, one freeway incident. And it probably gave
another driver of the runner.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You don't know what. We don't know what that automobile did.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Someone probably was driving crazy and they said, oh, you're
getting a runner today.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
A DMV report showed on May thirteenth, during one of
their tests, a way more riding on the ten eastbound
freeway near the Bundy Drive overpassed.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I know exactly where that is. I used to work
over there. Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Was it involved in a quote unquote moderate crash?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay? Moderate?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, if Mark right now looks up the number
of crashes that happened on the freeway right now, we
would never finish this show. Okay, right already banned it
from the freeways because that's not it is coming to
freeway soon right now. Surface streets are enough. I was
almost ed on the freeway the other day. I was
living almost killed today on the freeway. You don't how
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long it took me to get twenty miles an hour
and a half. I do know what that's like. That's
my life. Yeah, I don't want to wame on the freeway.
Take me on the surface streets please, way.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Mo quote our vehicle appears to have been driving correctly
in its lane when it was hit, and after the collision,
our autonomous specialists manually drove the vehicle to the shoulder.
In other words, it could not even drive itself to
the damned shoulder.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It needed human interventions. Oh my god, the car was hit.
What is this victim? Blame me the way more was hit?
Do you not hear the victim blaming it coming out
of your mouth?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Where either it's autonomous or it's not. It can't be
a victim if it's a Thomas.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It was hit and the vehicle needed assistance.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I saw a bus, a metro bus that was broke
down on the street the other day, and you know what,
it needed a big, giant, big rig to come and
tow it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But it's a bus.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How come he couldn't just roll itself back to the station.
It needed a tow truck?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
To do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It didn't say that this autonomous vehicle needed a toe.
It said it needed human intervention. Yes, and that's why
they took its ass off the freeway. It was not safe.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
It was safety. You're reading way too much more.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Wait wait, if it has nothing to do with safety,
why aren't they allowed to go on freeways.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The rank with the wey Mo was hit. It was
almost victimized. Witness is not answering the question. Weimo was
victimized and it needed a person to be talking.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
About it like this SVU.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
And you know what, when you say you're hoor that
sounds like my name. So I will happily judge this situation.
First of all, Mo, have you noticed Tula wearing a
new Rolex or anything today.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's got a bright blue jacket that I don't remember seeing.
You have some fancy mother purchases. Okay, okay, clearly did
you get a new car recently? That is true.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's hard for me to imagine an autonomous vehicle company
giving away a car that you drive yourself as a bribe.
But I'm sure that Tauala is a wash in bribes. Also,
I think they're gonna regret regret. I think They're gonna
regret calling it way mo because the obvious question for
anybody who wants to drive one of the get into
one of these things is so do they get in
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as many crashes as regular cars?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
What's the answer? Way moo way moo.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh my god, that was dry as the funny. Oh
way mo crashes way moo way moo. It's the leader
of Mo Kelly filth. We got to talk about those
student cell phones when we come back. KFI AM six
forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Then you've heard us discuss a number of times about
LAUSD and its attempts to ban student cell phone smartphone
use during school hours, and we know that they were
trying to implement this policy at the beginning of this
school year, and we went back and forth. I was
talking to Twala, who's an administer, excuse me, administrator at
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a school. He's a parent of two teenage kids. Well,
his son is now an adult, and it makes you
wonder how realistic is it to have kids today go
to school and not have access to their phone.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's one thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
If you're going to say you can't use it in
class or during class. It's another thing if you're going
to say, well, they have to turn in their phone
and they won't be able to retrieve it until the
end of the school day. Because all the parents that
I talk to, all every single one, and I know
this is anecdotal, every single one was of the opinion that, hey,
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I need to be able to get in touch with
my child in the event.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Of an emergency.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
And I remember we were talking about it, and we
had a school mass shooting in and around our discussions,
and it kind of highlighted the reality that parents want
to be in touch with their children. And to that end,
LAUSD has moved back the date for the implementation of
this policy to February of twenty twenty five, and the
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implementation is going to vary from campus to campus. But
there are some minimum minimum standards and expectations. First, students
may not use cell phones, smart watches, and earbuds on
campus during school hours. Let me stop right there. How
are you going to manage the use of smart watches.
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Let's be real now, I can understand if you're saying, hey,
you can't use it to take a call. But I
have a smart watch on and there's really no way
for you to know what it's doing if I turn
off the volume for notifications.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's not like I'm gonna take a phone call in
front of you.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But I imagine these these kids are very technologically savvy.
They know how to use these things. Are you saying
they can't have a smart watch? Are you gonna say
you gotta take off your your Apple Iye watch, you
gotta take off your your pixel watch?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
But it says students may not use cell phone, smart watches,
and earbuds on campus during school hours. Devices must be
turned off and stored. Again, it's gonna vary from campus
to campus. But what does stored mean? Do you get
to take it from classroom to classroom during the day?
You start at homeroom and you make your way around
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the school from period to period, and you put it
in a little cubby when you get to.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Your next class.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Is that stored or they're gonna take it at the
beginning of the day and then you have to get
it at the end of the day. I don't know
if the latter is going to be acceptable for most parents.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Or even any parents.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thirdly, students can use devices before and after school and
must have access to their phones in case of an emergency.
What we were talking about, but what does access mean?
Is it down the hall, is it within arms reach?
Is it going to be in the same classroom as
the students? And I think that is where the middle
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ground is going to be, where if you have a
phone as a student, you're probably going to be able
to possess it, but you're going to have to turn
it in at the beginning of each class and get
it at the end of each class, because that's the
only way that you can ensure that it won't be
used during class, and you can also ensure that it's
available in case of an emergency, that the phone is
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in the same room as the student, because if a
mass shooting were to break out, that way, students would
have access to their phones and parents would have access
to their children. That's about the only way you can
do it. And they also say there are exceptions, including
for students with disabilities, translation and health bay based needs.
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The LAUSD board voted to expand the district's existing technology
restriction restrictions back in June, citing rising concerns about the
impact of the technologies on youth mental health, bullying, and
distraction from classroom instruction. I agree with all of that. Yes,
it impacts their mental health. Yes it increases the likelihood
of bullying. We see how text messages and social media
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can be used against kids all the time. And yes,
most definitely it's a distraction from classroom instruction. But parents
care more about actual safety and access than anything. And
if we go back, we remember California lawmakers voted in
August to require all districts to band student cell phone
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use by July twenty twenty six. They're going to try
to implement this in February of twenty twenty five. It's
going to be piecemeal. It's going to differ by campus.
I'm quite sure it's going to differ by district. Some
districts will probably be more lenient than others. And also
what's the enforcement mechanism. And I'm just gonna pick on
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school districts because I happen to know them. It's nothing personal.
I just know the district, so it's fun to talk
about them. I was a kid who went to the
Torrents Unified School District Torrance, May do it one way.
They think, well, we may not have a problem with
student cell phone use, so we're going to be a
little bit more you know, liberal, small l with it.
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We may allow a little bit more access to phones
and their students and maybe Los Alabido's school districts can
say no, no, no, we cannot have kids having any access
during the day in at least in terms of school time.
They can get their phone before and after class, and
they're going to be a little bit more rigid, a
little more restrictive when it comes down to it. But
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it's supposed to happen February of twenty twenty five, and
this is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the
first time in which something happens and the school is
not adhering to what is expected to be the statewide policy.
What is the enforcement provision? Are you going to somehow
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sanction the school or you're going to take money out
of the school's budget. What is there to say or
what is there to say that there is any type
of i'll say oversight to make sure that this policy
is going to be adhered to, because I don't know
if there's any school district which is going to be
going to take this to the nth degree and make
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sure that kids can't have access to their phones. So
it's one thing to have the policy, it's another thing
to enforce it. I really wish I had a phone
back in the day. I really do, because the only
time that my parents could get in touch with me.
And this is kind of weird because they always taught
at the school I attended. But hypothetically, if they couldn't
walk down from the administration building and physically grabbed me
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while I was in class, the only way someone could
reach me was to call the administration office, and then
they would send some sort of counselor or some student
from the administration building down to the class where I
would be, or any other student and have them come
to the administration building. Those days are long gone, but
I can only imagine what an a hole I would
have been if I had a smartphone when I was fifteen.
(17:37):
These kids have smartphones. My nephew had a smartphone when
he was like seven. Some are even younger. I don't
even get that. I don't even understand that to have
that much what I would call power and freedom, Yes,
I would have been looking at porn in class.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, let's just get that, there's no question. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Can I be honest? Can I tell the truth? For
teen fifteen years old, your body's going through all sorts
of changes. I remember we couldn't even find a playboy
back then. It was very, very difficult. Went through a lot,
a lot of hard work and asked a lot of
friends and dads in the neighborhood if they could hook
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us up. You asked, oh no, absolutely, you didn't have
that cool dad in the neighborhood. Who's who you knew
had to stash either magazines or videos.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Well, nobody that we would ask. I mean, we found
the stuff, but we weren't going to ask.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well, they're always the quote unquote cool parents, ones that
would kind of look the other way if they were
going to have a party and there might be alcohol.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Look, I would go to my four age parties. Now
I don't want to say which house it was in Arcadia,
the Beard Dolls. We'd have alcohol, we were teenagers, and
the cool parents would look the other way as long
as we didn't go to Buck Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And so saying there were other cool parents who would
procure pornography for you.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm saying that some parents were more lenient than others.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh Man, we didn't have anything like that.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
A fragment of a playboy blowing in the wind on
a field was a treasure.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
No, it was it was like money. It really was
like money back then. And now, going back to the
whole idea of smartphones in class, yeah, I would have
been looking at that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What do be free porn all the time? All the time.
It's too too much, it's too dark. Kids can't handle it, No.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
They can't, which goes back to the whole mental health
aspect of it. I agree in principle with all of this.
It needs to be limited. You need to curb access.
But also I know, realistically I don't know if you
can do it.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Well.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Here's the thing, though, you seem to me like the
kind of person who enjoys a good prison movie. I'm
looking forward to pat downs, shakedowns, cavity searches to be
unfunny for a moment. They were kind of doing that
at a lot of inner city la USD schools. Yeah,
not surprising.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
So you know it's going to be new to some
schools and not new to others. It's later with mo
Kelly caf I AM six forty live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app and it's the California Exodus over. We keep
hearing about how people are leaving California and how this
place is just so horrible, can't.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Wait to go.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
We got to go to Texas, we got to go
to Florida. Is that whole phenomenon over? We'll discuss it
when we come back.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
When we hear time and time again that people are
leaving California, can't wait to get out of here. Must
be the high cost of rent, it must be the
high cost of living. Must be eggs or milk, or
it must be gas. It's something like that. Taxes. Reason
after reason, people will tell us that I got to
get out of California. And the numbers did support that
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the people were leave more than people were coming to California,
at least up until twenty twenty three or so, but
the trend seems to be slowing down. Saw this in
the Orange County Register and it was pretty intriguing. Census
Bureau shows that one hundred and twenty seven thousand fewer
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Californians left the state in twenty twenty three for any
other state in the US compared to twenty twenty two,
one hundred and twenty seven thousand fewer people left. Then
came New York, which was down sixty four thousand from
its previous year, and rival Texas had about fifteen thousand
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fewer people leave. Conversely, Florida was the state with the
nation's largest increase in departures, with exits growing by twenty
one thousand residents. In other words, the numbers for Caliblifornia
are decreasing and the numbers for Florida are increasing. And
(22:07):
check this out, Mark Runner, you may get a kick
out of this. Where it's true that California saw the
most residents leaving the state for another state in twenty
twenty three, and it's a big number, six hundred and
ninety thousand. But when you have forty million people, you're
not going to miss them. But second was Florida at
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five hundred and eleven thousand people as a percentage of
total population. More people are leaving Florida than leaving California.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And don't say you have about half our population. That's correct.
You're a student gold star for Mark, Thanks mister Kelly.
Wait wait, and there's more.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Third was New York at four hundred and eighty one thousand,
leaving New York for some other state.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Guess who was fourth? Fourth?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Hmm, let's see someplace. Okay, Florida is going to be underwater,
so that accounts for that. Uh huh? What other places
they're facing natural disaster? A Gulf state? How about that?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
All right? Texas.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
For all the conversation we had about the people leaving California, statistically,
Texas is fourth with the most departures at four hundred
and seventy nine thousand, and again, as a percentage of
total population, it is a higher percentage of Texas residents
leaving than California residents are leaving.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, they probably want to go to a state with
an electrical grid that they can rely on in severe weather.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, maybe they're leaving because they want higher gas prices.
I don't know. I can't give you a specific reason.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
All I know is for as much as we hear
about people are leaving California, and specifically leaving California for Texas,
the numbers don't support that, or they less and less
support that idea that people are leaving California for Texas.
More people are leaving the state of Texas for whatever reasons,
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be at the electrical grid, be it the weather in general,
the hurricanes. More people as a percentage of total population
are leaving Texas and leaving Florida than leaving California. Now
what this means, I couldn't tell you. But if you
were to just analyze media coverage, you would think that
California is losing six million people a year and they're
(24:29):
all going to wear Texas and Florida, where the data does.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Not support that. Now, the grass is not greener there.
I hate to break it to everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I can understand why no state income tax would be attractive.
I can understand that, and for some that would be
an allure, But for me weather it is more important.
I don't like humidity, I don't like one hundred and
twelve degree heat.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I don't like hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, and that impacts both Texas and Florida.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Would you say it negatively impacts them? Yes, it does negatively. Adversely,
how about that perfect perfect? So where you want to
live is where you want to live. But I'm always
intrigued with what I hear from people and of course
anecdotally what I see on social media and whether that
actually aligns with what is happening. I could throw a
(25:24):
rock and hit a complaint about California. I'm leaving California.
I'm going to Texas, so I'm going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
And that's not the reality at this point. Maybe in
previous years, but it's decreasing in frequency. Yeah, but you
got to understand, and I'm sure you do, Mo, that
it's an article of faith among some people just to
dump on California no matter what. And when you throw
things back and I'm like, you know, it's the world's
fifth largest economy, right, we're not doing that bad. They
(25:52):
don't have anything to say. I don't know if people
understand what that means. When you say fifth largest economy,
that means GDP growth, It is doing well. Is it
expensive to live here? Absolutely, I don't think anyone can
deny it. But as far as it's economic health is concerned,
when you're the fifth largest economy, that's better than Russia.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Okay, yeah, by just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, we're just talking economic facts. Just because something is
expensive doesn't mean that the economy itself is failing. Hell,
Dubai is expensive. There are a lot of places which
are expensive. It doesn't mean that their economy is failing.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Certain industries may be struggling more than others. We talk
about restaurants. Comfort food industry has been struggling. I don't
know if that's a function of California or a function
of our consumer habits.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When it comes to dining.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
We don't go to those spots like we used to
in previous decades. We don't spend, we don't go to
let's say, I don't want to pick on any particular chain,
but just think of your favorite comfort food chain like
we used to, you know, three or four times a month.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, COVID's also got something to do with that, but
rising prices. I mean a lot of restaurants had to
boost their prices after COVID, which you know, you're in
a death spiral there because your prices are higher, and
that makes fewer people want to go there.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And how do you get out of that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Maybe move to Texas. Yeah, go to Texas. Everything's bigger
there too, I hear. Not every grass.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Is greener, No, Nope, Nope, some has been or in it.
It's Later with Mo Kelly, ca if I am six
forty damn it. USC is in trouble again. The football
program is in trouble again. And it'd be different if
they were winning and in trouble. But they're losing and
in trouble. We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (27:55):
And My Trojans. My Trojans are in trouble once again.
It wasn't enough that they've been mediocre or sucked for
the past I don't know, fifteen years. Now they are
back in trouble. Just in case you haven't heard the news.
It's not big trouble. But oftentimes when there's a little trouble,
(28:17):
there's probably more trouble around the corner. If you are
in trouble for the small things, you're probably skirting the
rules on the big things. That's what the history of
college football has taught me. The USC football program presently
has been fined fifty thousand dollars and you think, well,
that's no big deal, but it's also been placed on
(28:38):
a one year probation due to a violation of quote
on and off field coaching activities close quote on and
off field. After the NC two A conducted an investigation,
it found that USC exceeded the permissible number of accountable
coaches by six during the twenty twenty two in twenty
(29:00):
twenty three seasons.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I don't want to get two.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
In the weeds, but there were some rule changes as
far as the number of coaches. You could have the
people who are officially on staff and held the title
of coach, and that's changed in recent years, and USC,
to be fair, may have been caught up in that.
But this is something that I have learned in my
fifty plus years of being a sports fan. When you
(29:25):
find a program playing around the edges, playing fast and
loose with the small things, more times than not, there
are probably some more major violations there which either happened
and stop, or they're continuing to happen and they'll eventually
be uncovered. Because when you put on that one year probation,
(29:47):
you're going to be watched and you're going to be
scrutinized more than other universities and programs. And given all
the controversy which has been going around with USC and
it's not just a football program. Remember how we talked
about how modern day and its relationship to the university
raised eyebrows and basically was fraud about bringing in students
(30:12):
the children of wealthy donors who academically did not qualify
to be at the institution, and how did they get
them into the institution via the sports teams, via the
walk on status. So all these things, even though they
may seem disconnected, they're very much connected.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Eight analysts for the football program engaged in on and
off field coaching activities during spring twenty twenty two, Fall
twenty twenty two, and spring twenty twenty three, resulting in
the football program exceeding the permissible number of accountable coaches
by six for two academic years, exceeded by a lot
over I would say a fair amount of time two years,
(30:55):
going back to the quote. As a result of the violations,
the parties also agreed that football head coach Lincoln Riley
violated head coach responsibility rules. This is what I always believe,
especially if you've ever been to a school with a
big time sports program, be it basketball or football, or
(31:16):
even baseball. Even though there may be some eighty five
scholarship athletes for a football program, the head coach knows
what's going on. He may not know every detail of
every situation with every player, but he damn sure knows
what's going on with his coaching staff. He knows every
(31:39):
single rule. Why, because it's a head coach's job to
protect the institution, to protect the program the name the endowment,
protect it from not only bad press, but from violations
and probation.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Just like this, we're all old enough.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
If you're listening to this show, you're old enough to
remember the hell that USC football went through because of
either what Pete Carroll did or what Pete Carroll knew
about and didn't do anything to stop in regard to
the impermissible benefits with Reggie Bush. And when it all
(32:19):
started to come crumbling down and they took away scholarships
and they put the team on probation and rescinded and
vacated one of the national championships, Pete Carroll was out
the door, and he went to the NFL and became
head coach of the Seattle excuse me, Seattle Seahawks. I
hope that this doesn't turn into that. I hope that
(32:41):
this is not the beginning of something worse. I hope
this is not a classic example of my roach theory
where you see this one issue, and while you're looking
at this one issue, you realize that there are another
twenty going on out of view. You hope that this
is the only thing where USC has crossed the line
in the past two years, you hope, But history suggests
(33:05):
that's never the case. It's never the case. Oh, this
was the only time that they stepped across the line.
This was the only thing that they did that was
a little bit out of bounds. They weren't really playing
fast and loose. They were just a little unclear about
the rules, and it was an honest mistake.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
How often does that happen? Never?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Absolutely never. I hope whatever that was dirty my word
going on in the background has now been cleaned up
for the sake of the program, for the sake of
the institution, because we've been through this we as USC
football fans, rather recently, and it crippled the program for
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at least a decade and three different coaches. I hope
history is not about to repeat itself. No pun on Pete,
that'sen Carol. Never mind, it's.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
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don't think that was funny? Mark, No rim shot for that. Sorry.
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