November 19, 2024 • 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on Spirit Airlines declaring bankruptcy AND the Long Beach Police Department’s decision to end patrols on LA Metro in 2025…PLUS – A look at California’s ranking on the list of the “costliest US cities to rent a house” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm back. Okay, if I live everywhere the iHeartRadio app,
I'm back from Washington, d C. I went out there
for a few days, took some meetings, some professional meetings,
and I also hung out with some fellow Georgetown alum,
had some meetings with them, hosted a gala on Saturday night.
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Came back on Sunday. And there's a point to all
of this. I was in the airport Sunday morning, as
in yesterday, and our flight was going to leave at
nine oh five Eastern Standard time. I was standing about
maybe two gates away, because if you get too close
to the gate, everyone's like milling around. There's no place
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to sit down. So I was two gates away so
i'd have room to stretch out, my wife, plugging my phone,
that kind of thing. Coming down the corridor and working
in this business, you recognize people rather easily, especially when
you're Washington, DC. You're more aware of politicians, famous people
who are connected to government and so forth. Coming down
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the corridor, I sent to my wife, isn't that that is?
That's the second gentleman, Doug Imhoff, And I'm thinking, like,
what the hell is he doing? Flying commercial? Okay? And
my wife wasn't sure to him, I said, look, this
is what I do. I know it's him. He's walking
down the corridor and they're at least six Secret Service
agents around him. There were a total of eight people,
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but I think one was probably like a press secretary
or or you know, a chief of staff, something like that.
You could tell they weren't a Secret Service and they're
walking down. They passed us in the core, and you
could tell because they all the Secret Service were kind
of equidistant around him to have enough space to protect him.
And then it kind of disappeared. Well, my wife and
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I go down to our actual gate where our flight
was leaving, and short enough, posted up against the wall
was Doug M. Hoff, the second Gentleman, and got all
these Secret Services and I said, what is going on?
Why is he flying commercial? And then I remembered that
he is a visiting professor at Georgetown Law. He teaches law.
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And also had to remind myself he's quasi from southern California,
went to a girl high school, went to cal State
Northridge undergrad got his jd from USC. One of his
practices I believe is out here in La as well.
I think britt was something like that. So there was
a reason that he would be going to LA at
the beginning of the week, but I didn't quite know
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or understand why he was waiting to get on board. Now,
our boarding time supposed to be eight thirty am. It's
it's significant because all that changed because Doug Imhoff evidently
was on our flight. It was on our flight. Then
we see the Secret Service go down the jetway. They
won't let anyone on. They haven't started the boarding, but
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we were supposed to board at a thirty The Secret
Service go down the jetway and when I could tell
they were clearing the plane. They're probably sweeping the plane,
making sure the plane physically was safe. And then they also,
and I've flowed enough you can kind of recognize some things,
we had some other people walk up who were clearly
air marshals. They were trying to be incognito, but they
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weren't fooling anyone. They were air marshals. So the air
marshals and Secret Service got on the plane. This was
before they started the boarding. That's how I know that
they were connected to that. There was also some DC
police at airport police, but they weren't getting on a
plane and they didn't get off, so I know that, okay,
they're positioning themselves where they're on the plane, which is
kind of odd because that means when I get on
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the plane, I know who's who. You're not fooling anyone.
That's the first thing they jumped out of me. And hey, Mark, hello, mo,
since I first, good evening, welcome back, it's good to
be back. And since you always want to remind me
how wealthy I am, well, of course, well, my wife
and I were flying first class, and that's relevant to
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the story. We get on the plane and I want
to say it's one of the air marshals. He's in
first class, seat one A, which means that if anything's
going to jump off, or if anyone's going to rush
the flight crew cabin, they're going to be right there,
all on it. Now we get on with like everyone else.
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They don't bring on Doug im Hoff until the very end.
They bring him on, and he's somewhere near the back
of the plane. I'm not trying to be like too obvious,
like that's Doug im Hoff. Let's everyone stare at him.
Half the people around us kind of figured it out
and I made eye contact. I like head nodded him basically, Hey,
I know who you are. I know you don't know
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who I am, but I know who you are. You're
an m Hoff groupie, aren't you. No, it's just I'm
a I'm a political nerd like that, and I can
see all this was transpiring in real time. This is
something I learned through further research. I can't say all
my sources, but from what I understand now, it is
common that when they are transporting people with secret service
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and what have you, they will buy all the tickets
in advance and they don't have to uproot anyone, but
they do it on their dummy names. So they have
Doug im Hoff I wanna say, maybe Row twenty four
or something. He's last on the plane and when they
see them, there's no way you can get near him.
They got the row in front of him, the road
behind him. He's like against there are only two seats
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per side, so he's against the windows, so you're not
you're not going to get near him or anything. Let's
because it would.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Be unseemly for the first gentleman to get in a
pushing match over somebody reclining their seat all the way
into his lap.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You can't have that, Yeah, And it was one of
those things. No one approached him for a selfie, no
one tried to get an autograph or anything. And I
understand that and never would I for anyone in those situations,
because when you have secret service, it's not oppressed me. Okay,
he's not greeting the public. They are transporting someone in
a relatively unsecure situation. Yes, we all went through the
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security and everything, but still he's exposed to the public.
And I'm quite sure before they even got on the
plane they knew everything about everyone on that plane, of course,
from the pilot on down. So as far as I'm concerned,
they did a background check on me, my wife and
everyone else. It was probably. And we talk about airlines safety,
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we talk about these fools getting liquored up and harassing
the flight attendants. There was none of that on this flight.
Everyone stayed their asses in their seat. They didn't even
let you go to the bathroom at the back of
the plane. They were sending everyone up to the front
of the plane. I just said, well, f and I'll
hold it the whole flight because I wasn't gonna go
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in the bathroom after like forty five hundred other people.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, the Secret Service doesn't want anybody crop dusting the
first gentleman. Oh yeah, he's a second gentleman. Okay, sorry, sorry,
my mistake. Now I'm gonna get aut it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But it was one of those things where you think
about air traveling a different way. I was starting to
text my sister, and if you didn't know, she just
recently retired from LAX. She would handle ground transportation for
dignitaries people just like this, and we knew not to
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really text each other any specifics because all communications were
gonna be monitored on that flight. Believe you me, so
I just texted her. You'll never guess who's on the
flight with me. I'll tell you when I land. Left
it at that Now, Look, they've already done all the
background checks and everyone, but they're going to be super safe.
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The flight was inconsequential, and when we got off, they
put everyone off the plane first before they moved him.
And when you left the jetway you could see down
on the tarmac they had a motorcat of three or
four of those bulletproof SUVs ready to take him. Beasts. Yeah,
it was, it was. It was an insightful look at
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how regular it can be an extraordinary in other ways,
if you wonder like he wasn't Kabla, Harris, from what
I understand, had some sort of LA event and it
was it was moved, so it could have been in
connection with that where they're both planned to be in LA.
But since she wasn't going to be in LA, he's
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not going to be on airport air Force two. So
if if he's not with the Vice present, he's not
traveling on air Force too, which probably had something to
do with why he was flying commercial. I'm just trying
to piece all these things together. But it was kind
of cool because if you don't know, when you're in Washington, DC,
it is very common to see a congress person. It's
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very common to see a senator. You go to any
bar in downtown DC, you'll find them, usually with their concubine,
their mistress or someone like that. I'm not being funny
because it's kind of open like that. Wait what, oh yeah,
you see it's concubine city. Oh yeah. I was trying
to tell people when they found the like the cocaine
in the White House that he said, oh, it's got
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to be hunter Biden. It's like, you don't understand DC
is a party town in such a way it could
have been anyone, including a secret surface the officer. Wow,
so yeah, you. I say that to say you will
see prominent political figures of both parties anywhere and everywhere,
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and if you are accustomed to seeing it, you will
know what those black suburbans look like if they're carrying
someone who gets out, how they're carrying themselves, and oh
this is something else. Everyone connected to his detail was
armed on that plane.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You can see the bulges a lot of passenger fifty sevens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, they weren't. They're wearing like Hawaiian shirts and regular clothes.
They weren't fooling anyone. They're trying to be I guess
less conspicuous. But they were most definitely one hundred percent
packing on that flight. Because they're walking up and down
the aisles and you can see the bulges in their hips.
It's like, look, dude, I know you're not trying to
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fool anyone, but you're not fooling anyone, you know, So
you know, if you're gonna shoot anyone, please don't blow
out a window because I don't want to be sucked out. Noah,
they gotta be better shouts than that betting two in
the chest, one in the head. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
All the Secret Service people have seen gold Finger. They
know not to shoot right if you know the Yeah, yeah,
it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I just want to start off the show with that
story because in telling my story of going to DC,
which is a great time, I didn't even get to
meet up with all the folks that I wanted to.
I was supposed to have dinner with Megan McCain because
we're close friends on Wednesday night, but our schedules got
mixed up. But it was a fun, fun time in
the city, and it was just weird because I'd never
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been in a situation where he had Secret Service and
Air Marshals on the same flight as me. And I
started thinking about all the things that I've done in
my life, which probably came up in that background check
of me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think you were thinking, someday, I, O, Kelly will
have that kind of protection.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I would never know. One conversation with my wife
and I did have is who wants to live their
life like that? Where everywhere you go, every movement that
you have, you have this traveling cavalcade of Secret Service
agents with you everywhere all the time, because and it
may dissipate after Kamala Harris leaves office, but at least
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for right now, he's still the sitting vice president. Her
the detail is going to be inclusive of her family.
That would really suck everywhere you go. I wouldn't want it.
I wouldn't want it. What airline were you on? Alaska? Alaska?
Alaska Airline? He flew commercial on Alaska? Oh, and sit
and sat in coach? Wasn't I use the first class?
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He was in coach. What's a little street cred right there? Yeah.
So if you're wondering, like, are they wasting the taxpayer dollars, well,
I don't know who paid for it. I know they
paid for the Secret Service. The government pays for the
Secret Service protection. But as far as the flight, they
didn't spend a lot of money on the flight. Let
me look, I've flown Alaska coach. It ain't nothing special.
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He was uncomfortable. At least you weren't on Spirit. We'll
get to that next. Since they filed bankruptcy today, I've
never flown Spirit in my life. Emphasis on life.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (12:57):
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And that's all was saying last segment. My sister who
used to work at LAX, she worked there for thirty
four years, recently retired. And half the stories that she
would tell me, I should say, half the truths she'd
tell me I couldn't relay to anyone else because you know,
there was a safety issue. She wasn't allowed to divulge
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some of that, or at least not to the general public.
But now that she's retired, I can go ahead and
tell some stuff that I know some of the behind
the scenes. And part of the behind the scenes was,
as I was talking about last segment with Doug im Hoff,
not even the airlines would know if a person above
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a certain security level was flying. They did not let
the airlines know. So I'm quite sure Alaska Airlines didn't
find out that Doug im Hoff was traveling yesterday. They
didn't find out not long before I did. There's a
protocol in place, but they're not going to give it
he heads up for obvious reasons and something else that
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my sister told me in her many years of working
at LAX and she was in charge of guest services,
and part of that is ground transportation. So you get
to hear all the horror stories of what is happening
on the different flights, and the police which need to
be called to meet the airplane either on the tarmac
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or at the jetway, and the stuff that you don't
hear about. Ooh, it would really change your whole view
of flying and what happens. A lot of the stuff
just is not reported to the media. Some of it
will slip through, but a lot of it is not.
And she told me, and to this day, I've always
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followed the advice she told me. And I'm not trying
to slander anyone. I'm just I'm just relaying what was
said to me. She said, don't ever fly Frontier airlines
and don't ever fly Spirit that however you want. I've
never flown Spirit Airlines. I don't believe in discount danger.
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You get what you pay for in the air. I'm
not paying for a discount surgeon. I'm not going to
hazard discount laser eye surgery. I'm not going to do
discount heart surgery. And I'm not going to do any
type of discount airline ever. I've never flown Value Jet,
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and if you know Value Jet, you know how that
turned out. I've never flown Frontier and I've never flown Spirit.
And when Spirit announced that they were filing for bankruptcy,
you really wouldn't be able to get me on a
Spirit airline right about now because they have nothing to lose.
There is nothing they can do or say or offer,
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let's say, going into I don't know, a ninety nine
seentis store when they're going out of business. Okay, product
quality is not their main concern. Making sure you get
what you paid for is not their concern.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We begin with breaking news. Spirit Airlines has officially filed
for bankruptcy. The mounting losses, debt, and increased competition has
left the airline with little choice. In a statement, the
airline company says guests can continue to book and.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Fly without interruption.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
All tickets and loyalty points can still be used as normal. Said,
I answered your question you had at the top of
the show there joking, yeah, all right. Spirit has lost
more than two point five billion dollars since the start
of twenty twenty and it faces debt payments of more
than a billion dollars over the next year.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Let's think about this rationally. Let's think about this logically.
If an airlines has been trying to offer discount tickets
and cut every imaginable corner in the effort of solvency,
much less making a product, I'm just talking about solvency,
you know, stop the bleeding. As far as the money
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that they're losing, it's reasonable to believe that that has
also included cutting some corner somewhere regarding maintenance, safety or
quality of machinery.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think it's reasonable to connect the two. There is
ample historical precedent to assume this.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yes, So if you know that a company is going
out of business, and that means you know that a
bunch of people have already lost their jobs, or on
the precipice of losing their jobs, or the people who
are still there are in process of looking for another
job and maybe not as dedicated to doing their job
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right where they are, I would err on the side
of caution. I couldn't in good conscience get on Spirit Airlines.
I don't care if they're offering five dollars t it's
to France round trip. Have your house in order if
you're gonna get on board. And look, there's no guarantee anywhere,
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at any time in life. I'm just talking about playing
the percentages. I'm talking about making an informed decision which
at least diminishes or decreases the likelihood of you ending
up in the side of a mountain. Oh, it's speaking
of side of a mountain. It seems like whatever I travel,
I always hear about these horrible things. Either they're shooting
at plays. Did you hear about the American Airlines plane
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which was leaving Honolulu and almost hit the side of
a mountain only the headline it is funny, Yeah, that
was plenty. I don't care if it was pilot error
not paying attention. I don't care for its traffic controller
giving incomplete or incorrect instructions. That's the kind of stuff
that happens more often than people know and is just
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not leaked to the media.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, and I don't know if this is anecdotal or
but it seems to be happening more lately, and I've
been seeing more than a little bit of conjecture that
there's a suspicion that there's some COVID brain damage at
work here.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It could be any number of things. I look, I'm
not going to go conspiracy theory, but there have been concerns,
given the outages that we've had with various airlines, that
there is a cyber terrorism component to it. There's a
concern that capitalism is doing the capitalism thing and airlines
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in their effort to make as much money and greed
that these corners. We've seen what has been happening with Boeing.
That's just an airplane manufacture I'm talking about that also
corresponds to the greed of airlines. Maybe we've been lucky.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I do know in
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the quest for the almighty dollar, there are a lot
of things that we don't know about, and we may
eventually find out when something bad happens. All I'm saying
is I would never get on Spirit Airlines because of
all those things that have been floating around in my
head and some stuff that I know that I still
don't feel comfortable talking about. Things that happen that are
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just not revealed to the public.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
A mountain is really not a smaller obstacle to avoid.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that's part of the reason. I believe it it
was leaked out to the media. It's later with mo
Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and we have a Long Beach Police and
Metro update. It seems they're getting a divorce in twenty
twenty five. Will tell you who is at fault and
who's going to get the dog.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Maybe Long Beach PD just said we've had enough, can't
take it anymore, don't want to have anything to do
with La Metro. It's just too damn dangerous and we're
not gonna put up with it any more. What I'm
talking about is Long Beach Police Department. It will not
patrol the La Metro in twenty twenty five. Yeah, for reals, Long.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Beach Police Department is ending its patrols of Metro trains
and stations. Officials for La Metro say the department's contract
ends next month. The agreement does provide the opportunity for
month to month service through March of next year of
both sides agree. The Long Beach PD says it will
not be engaging in a new Metro contract and once expired,
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the department will not have officers on trains or at
stations unless dispatched in an emergency. In a statement, the
Long Beach Police Department says the decision follows significant deliberation
and analysis of crime statistics, staffing considerations, and contractual obligations.
The LBPD is committed to the safety of Metro ridership
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and its employees.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
End quote. I'm not a security or safety expert. I'm
self aware in that regard. I wouldn't allege to know
all there is about policing or protecting the public. I
wouldn't say that at all, But I would say it's
a stretch if anyone is going to argue that La
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Metro will be unaffected by the absence of Long Beach PD.
If Long Beach PD says, hey, we're not doing this anymore.
We're not going to have officers available either on the
trains or buses or on platforms and they're only going
to be dispatched in an emergency. That says to me
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that a rider in that portion of LA County, and
I can say I used to be one of them.
I would get on La Metro in the Long Beach area,
Long Beach Compton area, and I would do it every
morning's six or six thirty in the morning. And when
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I did, there was either a Long Beach Police Department
officer or the La County Sheriff's Department, usually at the
base of the platform within you know, yelling distance. As
they say, I don't know how their absence is going
to make anyone safer. I don't know how that's going
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to limit the likelihood of someone being victimized on La Metro.
I have been saying since day one that La Metro
needs to have its own dedicated police force. And let
me just say this when I just was in Washington,
d C. This weekend. If you ever want to see
an exemplary mass transit system, if you want to see
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I would say the shining the example of what a
subway should be, go to Washington, d C. And ride
their Metro. There is no graffiti, there is no sanitary
unsanitary concern, there's no homelessness, there's no crime to speak of,
not in regard to the LA excuse me, the DC Metro.
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Comparatively speaking, it is a place where you will see
going back to what I was saying before, it's not
uncommon common that you'll see people working in the federal
government riding the Metro. It will get you everywhere, including
to both airports Washington Dulles Ied and Reagan National DCEA.
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You can get just about anywhere important in the DMV
that's DC, Maryland, Virginia. It is a great subway and
it's real easy to figure out. It is everything that
La Metro is not, which goes back to what I
was saying. I don't know what people are gonna do
in the Long Beach area when it comes to writing
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La Metro. I just know, as someone who wrote it,
you're gonna want a Long Beach PD there. Maybe it
will still be canvassed by La County Sheriff's Department. Maybe,
but it seems to me that there's more to this
than just Long Beach PD saying you know we're going
to pass. In fact, in a statement to KTLA, La
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Metro confirmed that his contract with the Long Beach Long
Beach Police Department ends next month. So you're saying that
no real negotiation has been going on up until now,
or are you saying you knew it and you just
did not want to add to the bad press out
there about La Metro. But here is the statement, and
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the statement is clear that the partnership between the two
agencies is ending. Quote. We value our partnership with the
Long Beach Police Department, one of three contracted law enforcement
agencies that provide service to Metro. We will continue to
work closely with the Long Beach Police Department to ensure
the safety of our stations and customers in alignment without
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our other law enforcement resources. That says to me that
Long Beach is out and done. And I'm not exactly
surprised because it has been a cluster truck as far
as trying to coordinate these various agencies and making sure
that La Metro is safer for folks like you and me,
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and all the things that they've done have not been
able to make anyone feel safer. I would say, by
and large, because you and I both know not a
week goes by without someone getting assaulted, be it a
bus operator, be it a rider, be it someone who
might be just on a platform or near a platform,
and it's not going to get any better when you
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take out I'll say, one quarter of the law enforcement equation.
It's later with Mo Kelly. We want to tell you
about the most expensive mid size cities to rent a house,
and you bet you're ass there's a California connection. KFI
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rental Meters third quarter report looked at rents in seven
hundred and fifty seven US cities for three bedroom, single
family residences. We're talking about actual houses if you're going
to rent a three bedroom house and rentalmeter. Their study
had two top ten rankings, one for big cities places
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with more than two hundred and fifty thousand residents, and
one for mid size cities with one hundred to two
hundred and fifty thousand people. We're going to talk about
the latter, the mid sized cities. So which are the
most expensive US mid size cities to rent a three
bedroom house? And away we go. Coming in at number
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ten Sunny Veil with an average rent of forty six
hundred and fifteen dollars per month. This is for a
three bedroom house. Coming in at number nine to Wallaw's
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own pass Adida with forty eight hundred and ten dollars
per month on average for a three bedroom house. Again,
this is not apartments, These are actual single family homes.
Coming in at number eight. My old stomping grounds torrents
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at forty eight hundred and seventy six dollars per month
on average to rent a three bedroom house number seven, Oxnard,
I wouldn't mind driving through it. I'm not so sure
i'd want to live there. I wish you could see
everyone's faces. Everyone furrowed their brows like Oxnar. Yeah, Oxnard,
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that's a little bit of a shocker. Yes, forty eight
one hundred and eighty one dollars per month on average
to rent a three bedroom house number six. Now we're
getting into the big boy country San Mateo. Fifty one
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hundred and ninety six dollars per month for a three
bedroom house. And remember this is on average. You might
find something for forty nine hundred or fifty three hundred
or forty two hundred and sixty two hundred. You know
it's going to be up there. Coming in at number
five of the ten most expensive mid size cities. If
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you're trying to rent a three bedroom house. Not too
far from here, Glendale comes in at number five with
fifty two hundred and eighty three dollars per month on average.
To rent a three bedroom house on average fifty two
hundred dollars per month. I would just like sleep in
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my car for four months, then you get a down
payment on a house somewhere. That's free advice for you
if you don't and if you don't want to sleep
in your car, I understand sleep in. I don't know
a park, sleep on a metro. They always got open beds.
Number four Carlsbad at fifty two to ninety two per
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month fifty two hundred and ninety two dollars per month
on average to rent a three bedroom house, come again
at number three. We're sitting in the middle of it. Burbank,
good old Burbank, where iHeartMedia is so mark. If you
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wanted to rent a house closer to work, as in
like right outside, it's going to run you four hundred
and fifty seven dollars per month on average. Oh is
that all? That's all?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I could just skim that right off the top of
what I make. That's nothing, I laugh at. Would you
say fifty four hundred bucks?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yes? On average. It's like it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In Russia when they were sending wheelbarrows full of cash
to buy a loaf of bread.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
This is insane, is that? And as ever, for a
three or a one, there's a three bedroom if you
want to rent a three bedroom house, not even an apartment.
Let's say you need a backyard for the dogs, or
you know, you want to live the American dream, or
at least seem that you have all the trappings of
the American dream. If you want a three bedroom house,
rent it. It's probably going to cost you, on average,
(31:38):
fifty four hundred and fifty seven dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I may have confused Russia with Weimar Germany. I hope
you'll forgive me.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You're so funny marking up my idea number two. Now,
this one actually surprises me. I didn't know this city
had trended in such an upward direction, but haven't been
there for a while. Coast to Mesa fifty four hundred
and seventy one dollars per month on average to rent
(32:08):
a three bedroom house Coast to Mesa. Does it come
with an au pair or any any extras? That's just
I guess. There's four walls and a floor. A missus
per three bedrooms, and yeah, I'm thinking if you're going
to spend fifty four hundred dollars for a house in
that region, hell, I'd live in like Santa Ana or something.
You want a pool boy, Well, put it this way,
(32:29):
Irvine's not on this list. That's in the you know,
relative vicinity. That's another shocker, right, Irvine's not in the
top ten. I'm thinking Irvine would be. Well, it probably
means that I would rather live in Irvine because it's
one of the safest places in California and it costs
less than Coast to Mesa. It was just really good
(32:50):
club back in the day called Deja Vu, which was
out in Coast to Mesa at the end of the
fifty five Freeway. There's some hot looking women back then,
but it was nineteen ninety two. I don't know if
there's still hot, but there were.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Every major city have a strip club called Deja vud.
It wasn't the strip club. It was a nightclub where
people went to dance. Well, it was you talking, so
I assumed it was a strip club.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You have such such low expectations of me, and you
wouldn't be wrong on most occasions, but on this occasion,
you are wrong. It was a nightclub and Coasta Mason
cause all right, I had to look it up and
see what happened.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wasn't the original show you pitched here Make It Rain
with Mo Kelly. No, that was not the original show.
It was one of them. Nice okay.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They had a three to choose from the other one
was like drop it like it's hot with Michell. Come on,
you can't let my joke. That's gonna not give me credit.
Mid thank you and coming in and number one in
terms of the most expensive mid size city to rent
(33:53):
a three bedroom house in all the country. It wasn't
just California. We're talking about the whole country. It just
so happens that all these cities are from California, number one.
(34:16):
Not Newport Beach, not Seal Beach, not Long Beach, not
Redondo Beach, not Black Speech the Nude Beach, but Huntington Beach. California.
Average rent for a three bedroom house five thousand, seven
(34:39):
hundred and twenty four dollars per month every thirty days,
and it's probably more than fifty seven hundred. There's probably
like some I don't know if if it's a house,
there might be an hoa attached to it. Who knows
that's not encountering like utilities. These seven hundred dollars each
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month just so you can have a Huntington Beach zip
code and three bedrooms. Damn, damn, damn damn.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
At that point, those they're just numbers. They mean nothing.
They're out of the range of a normal human being.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
But I'm thinking, if you're spending almost six thousand dollars
a month on rent, you might as well go ahead
and get a house, like a real house. We'll go
ahead and get a castle. No, no, But my point is,
if you're spending fifty seven hundred dollars a month, and
we talk about how they can raise the rent just
about every month or every year at least to the
tune of eight to nine percent, that fifty seven hundred
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dollars is going to be more than six thousand the
next year, as opposed to a thirty year mortgage, which
is going to be you know, it is what it is,
with the exception of your property taxes, which may fluctuate.
Fifty seven hundred. Oh my goodness, but you know you
didn't vote for rent control, so too bad, So said
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I'm back. Okay, if I live everywhere the iHeartRadio app,
I'm back from Washington, d C. I went out there
for a few days, took some meetings, some professional meetings,
and I also hung out with some fellow Georgetown alum,
had some meetings with them, hosted a gala on Saturday night.
(00:44):
Came back on Sunday. And there's a point to all
of this. I was in the airport Sunday morning, as
in yesterday, and our flight was going to leave at
nine oh five Eastern Standard time. I was standing about
maybe two gates away, because if you get too close
to the gate, everyone's like milling around. There's no place
(01:06):
to sit down. So I was two gates away so
i'd have room to stretch out, my wife, plugging my phone,
that kind of thing. Coming down the corridor and working
in this business, you recognize people rather easily, especially when
you're Washington, DC. You're more aware of politicians, famous people
who are connected to government and so forth. Coming down
(01:27):
the corridor, I sent to my wife, isn't that that is?
That's the second gentleman, Doug Imhoff, And I'm thinking, like,
what the hell is he doing? Flying commercial? Okay? And
my wife wasn't sure to him, I said, look, this
is what I do. I know it's him. He's walking
down the corridor and they're at least six Secret Service
agents around him. There were a total of eight people,
(01:49):
but I think one was probably like a press secretary
or or you know, a chief of staff, something like that.
You could tell they weren't a Secret Service and they're
walking down. They passed us in the core, and you
could tell because they all the Secret Service were kind
of equidistant around him to have enough space to protect him.
And then it kind of disappeared. Well, my wife and
(02:10):
I go down to our actual gate where our flight
was leaving, and short enough, posted up against the wall
was Doug M. Hoff, the second Gentleman, and got all
these Secret Services and I said, what is going on?
Why is he flying commercial? And then I remembered that
he is a visiting professor at Georgetown Law. He teaches law.
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And also had to remind myself he's quasi from southern California,
went to a girl high school, went to cal State
Northridge undergrad got his jd from USC. One of his
practices I believe is out here in La as well.
I think britt was something like that. So there was
a reason that he would be going to LA at
the beginning of the week, but I didn't quite know
(02:54):
or understand why he was waiting to get on board. Now,
our boarding time supposed to be eight thirty am. It's
it's significant because all that changed because Doug Imhoff evidently
was on our flight. It was on our flight. Then
we see the Secret Service go down the jetway. They
won't let anyone on. They haven't started the boarding, but
(03:16):
we were supposed to board at a thirty The Secret
Service go down the jetway and when I could tell
they were clearing the plane. They're probably sweeping the plane,
making sure the plane physically was safe. And then they also,
and I've flowed enough you can kind of recognize some things,
we had some other people walk up who were clearly
air marshals. They were trying to be incognito, but they
(03:40):
weren't fooling anyone. They were air marshals. So the air
marshals and Secret Service got on the plane. This was
before they started the boarding. That's how I know that
they were connected to that. There was also some DC
police at airport police, but they weren't getting on a
plane and they didn't get off, so I know that, okay,
they're positioning themselves where they're on the plane, which is
kind of odd because that means when I get on
(04:02):
the plane, I know who's who. You're not fooling anyone.
That's the first thing they jumped out of me. And hey, Mark, hello, mo,
since I first, good evening, welcome back, it's good to
be back. And since you always want to remind me
how wealthy I am, well, of course, well, my wife
and I were flying first class, and that's relevant to
(04:22):
the story. We get on the plane and I want
to say it's one of the air marshals. He's in
first class, seat one A, which means that if anything's
going to jump off, or if anyone's going to rush
the flight crew cabin, they're going to be right there,
all on it. Now we get on with like everyone else.
(04:44):
They don't bring on Doug im Hoff until the very end.
They bring him on, and he's somewhere near the back
of the plane. I'm not trying to be like too obvious,
like that's Doug im Hoff. Let's everyone stare at him.
Half the people around us kind of figured it out
and I made eye contact. I like head nodded him basically, Hey,
I know who you are. I know you don't know
(05:05):
who I am, but I know who you are. You're
an m Hoff groupie, aren't you. No, it's just I'm
a I'm a political nerd like that, and I can
see all this was transpiring in real time. This is
something I learned through further research. I can't say all
my sources, but from what I understand now, it is
common that when they are transporting people with secret service
(05:28):
and what have you, they will buy all the tickets
in advance and they don't have to uproot anyone, but
they do it on their dummy names. So they have
Doug im Hoff I wanna say, maybe Row twenty four
or something. He's last on the plane and when they
see them, there's no way you can get near him.
They got the row in front of him, the road
behind him. He's like against there are only two seats
(05:53):
per side, so he's against the windows, so you're not
you're not going to get near him or anything. Let's
because it would.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Be unseemly for the first gentleman to get in a
pushing match over somebody reclining their seat all the way
into his lap.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You can't have that, Yeah, And it was one of
those things. No one approached him for a selfie, no
one tried to get an autograph or anything. And I
understand that and never would I for anyone in those situations,
because when you have secret service, it's not oppressed me. Okay,
he's not greeting the public. They are transporting someone in
a relatively unsecure situation. Yes, we all went through the
(06:28):
security and everything, but still he's exposed to the public.
And I'm quite sure before they even got on the
plane they knew everything about everyone on that plane, of course,
from the pilot on down. So as far as I'm concerned,
they did a background check on me, my wife and
everyone else. It was probably. And we talk about airlines safety,
(06:50):
we talk about these fools getting liquored up and harassing
the flight attendants. There was none of that on this flight.
Everyone stayed their asses in their seat. They didn't even
let you go to the bathroom at the back of
the plane. They were sending everyone up to the front
of the plane. I just said, well, f and I'll
hold it the whole flight because I wasn't gonna go
(07:11):
in the bathroom after like forty five hundred other people.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, the Secret Service doesn't want anybody crop dusting the
first gentleman. Oh yeah, he's a second gentleman. Okay, sorry, sorry,
my mistake. Now I'm gonna get aut it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But it was one of those things where you think
about air traveling a different way. I was starting to
text my sister, and if you didn't know, she just
recently retired from LAX. She would handle ground transportation for
dignitaries people just like this, and we knew not to
(07:48):
really text each other any specifics because all communications were
gonna be monitored on that flight. Believe you me, so
I just texted her. You'll never guess who's on the
flight with me. I'll tell you when I land. Left
it at that Now, Look, they've already done all the
background checks and everyone, but they're going to be super safe.
(08:09):
The flight was inconsequential, and when we got off, they
put everyone off the plane first before they moved him.
And when you left the jetway you could see down
on the tarmac they had a motorcat of three or
four of those bulletproof SUVs ready to take him. Beasts. Yeah,
it was, it was. It was an insightful look at
(08:32):
how regular it can be an extraordinary in other ways,
if you wonder like he wasn't Kabla, Harris, from what
I understand, had some sort of LA event and it
was it was moved, so it could have been in
connection with that where they're both planned to be in LA.
But since she wasn't going to be in LA, he's
(08:53):
not going to be on airport air Force two. So
if if he's not with the Vice present, he's not
traveling on air Force too, which probably had something to
do with why he was flying commercial. I'm just trying
to piece all these things together. But it was kind
of cool because if you don't know, when you're in Washington, DC,
it is very common to see a congress person. It's
(09:14):
very common to see a senator. You go to any
bar in downtown DC, you'll find them, usually with their concubine,
their mistress or someone like that. I'm not being funny
because it's kind of open like that. Wait what, oh yeah,
you see it's concubine city. Oh yeah. I was trying
to tell people when they found the like the cocaine
in the White House that he said, oh, it's got
(09:35):
to be hunter Biden. It's like, you don't understand DC
is a party town in such a way it could
have been anyone, including a secret surface the officer. Wow,
so yeah, you. I say that to say you will
see prominent political figures of both parties anywhere and everywhere,
(09:58):
and if you are accustomed to seeing it, you will
know what those black suburbans look like if they're carrying
someone who gets out, how they're carrying themselves, and oh
this is something else. Everyone connected to his detail was
armed on that plane.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You can see the bulges a lot of passenger fifty sevens.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, they weren't. They're wearing like Hawaiian shirts and regular clothes.
They weren't fooling anyone. They're trying to be I guess
less conspicuous. But they were most definitely one hundred percent
packing on that flight. Because they're walking up and down
the aisles and you can see the bulges in their hips.
It's like, look, dude, I know you're not trying to
(10:42):
fool anyone, but you're not fooling anyone, you know, So
you know, if you're gonna shoot anyone, please don't blow
out a window because I don't want to be sucked out. Noah,
they gotta be better shouts than that betting two in
the chest, one in the head. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
All the Secret Service people have seen gold Finger. They
know not to shoot right if you know the Yeah, yeah,
it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I just want to start off the show with that
story because in telling my story of going to DC,
which is a great time, I didn't even get to
meet up with all the folks that I wanted to.
I was supposed to have dinner with Megan McCain because
we're close friends on Wednesday night, but our schedules got
mixed up. But it was a fun, fun time in
the city, and it was just weird because I'd never
(11:22):
been in a situation where he had Secret Service and
Air Marshals on the same flight as me. And I
started thinking about all the things that I've done in
my life, which probably came up in that background check
of me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think you were thinking, someday, I, O, Kelly will
have that kind of protection.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I would never know. One conversation with my wife
and I did have is who wants to live their
life like that? Where everywhere you go, every movement that
you have, you have this traveling cavalcade of Secret Service
agents with you everywhere all the time, because and it
may dissipate after Kamala Harris leaves office, but at least
(11:59):
for right now, he's still the sitting vice president. Her
the detail is going to be inclusive of her family.
That would really suck everywhere you go. I wouldn't want it.
I wouldn't want it. What airline were you on? Alaska? Alaska?
Alaska Airline? He flew commercial on Alaska? Oh, and sit
and sat in coach? Wasn't I use the first class?
(12:19):
He was in coach. What's a little street cred right there? Yeah.
So if you're wondering, like, are they wasting the taxpayer dollars, well,
I don't know who paid for it. I know they
paid for the Secret Service. The government pays for the
Secret Service protection. But as far as the flight, they
didn't spend a lot of money on the flight. Let
me look, I've flown Alaska coach. It ain't nothing special.
(12:41):
He was uncomfortable. At least you weren't on Spirit. We'll
get to that next. Since they filed bankruptcy today, I've
never flown Spirit in my life. Emphasis on life.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
CAFI Mo Kelly Live everywhere in the Icart Radio app.
And that's all was saying last segment. My sister who
used to work at LAX, she worked there for thirty
four years, recently retired. And half the stories that she
would tell me, I should say, half the truths she'd
tell me I couldn't relay to anyone else because you know,
there was a safety issue. She wasn't allowed to divulge
(13:19):
some of that, or at least not to the general public.
But now that she's retired, I can go ahead and
tell some stuff that I know some of the behind
the scenes. And part of the behind the scenes was,
as I was talking about last segment with Doug im Hoff,
not even the airlines would know if a person above
(13:40):
a certain security level was flying. They did not let
the airlines know. So I'm quite sure Alaska Airlines didn't
find out that Doug im Hoff was traveling yesterday. They
didn't find out not long before I did. There's a
protocol in place, but they're not going to give it
he heads up for obvious reasons and something else that
(14:03):
my sister told me in her many years of working
at LAX and she was in charge of guest services,
and part of that is ground transportation. So you get
to hear all the horror stories of what is happening
on the different flights, and the police which need to
be called to meet the airplane either on the tarmac
(14:24):
or at the jetway, and the stuff that you don't
hear about. Ooh, it would really change your whole view
of flying and what happens. A lot of the stuff
just is not reported to the media. Some of it
will slip through, but a lot of it is not.
And she told me, and to this day, I've always
(14:46):
followed the advice she told me. And I'm not trying
to slander anyone. I'm just I'm just relaying what was
said to me. She said, don't ever fly Frontier airlines
and don't ever fly Spirit that however you want. I've
never flown Spirit Airlines. I don't believe in discount danger.
(15:10):
You get what you pay for in the air. I'm
not paying for a discount surgeon. I'm not going to
hazard discount laser eye surgery. I'm not going to do
discount heart surgery. And I'm not going to do any
type of discount airline ever. I've never flown Value Jet,
(15:31):
and if you know Value Jet, you know how that
turned out. I've never flown Frontier and I've never flown Spirit.
And when Spirit announced that they were filing for bankruptcy,
you really wouldn't be able to get me on a
Spirit airline right about now because they have nothing to lose.
There is nothing they can do or say or offer,
(15:54):
let's say, going into I don't know, a ninety nine
seentis store when they're going out of business. Okay, product
quality is not their main concern. Making sure you get
what you paid for is not their concern.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We begin with breaking news. Spirit Airlines has officially filed
for bankruptcy. The mounting losses, debt, and increased competition has
left the airline with little choice. In a statement, the
airline company says guests can continue to book and.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Fly without interruption.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
All tickets and loyalty points can still be used as normal. Said,
I answered your question you had at the top of
the show there joking, yeah, all right. Spirit has lost
more than two point five billion dollars since the start
of twenty twenty and it faces debt payments of more
than a billion dollars over the next year.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Let's think about this rationally. Let's think about this logically.
If an airlines has been trying to offer discount tickets
and cut every imaginable corner in the effort of solvency,
much less making a product, I'm just talking about solvency,
you know, stop the bleeding. As far as the money
(17:00):
that they're losing, it's reasonable to believe that that has
also included cutting some corner somewhere regarding maintenance, safety or
quality of machinery.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think it's reasonable to connect the two. There is
ample historical precedent to assume this.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yes, So if you know that a company is going
out of business, and that means you know that a
bunch of people have already lost their jobs, or on
the precipice of losing their jobs, or the people who
are still there are in process of looking for another
job and maybe not as dedicated to doing their job
(17:47):
right where they are, I would err on the side
of caution. I couldn't in good conscience get on Spirit Airlines.
I don't care if they're offering five dollars t it's
to France round trip. Have your house in order if
you're gonna get on board. And look, there's no guarantee anywhere,
(18:08):
at any time in life. I'm just talking about playing
the percentages. I'm talking about making an informed decision which
at least diminishes or decreases the likelihood of you ending
up in the side of a mountain. Oh, it's speaking
of side of a mountain. It seems like whatever I travel,
I always hear about these horrible things. Either they're shooting
at plays. Did you hear about the American Airlines plane
(18:31):
which was leaving Honolulu and almost hit the side of
a mountain only the headline it is funny, Yeah, that
was plenty. I don't care if it was pilot error
not paying attention. I don't care for its traffic controller
giving incomplete or incorrect instructions. That's the kind of stuff
that happens more often than people know and is just
(18:55):
not leaked to the media.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, and I don't know if this is anecdotal or
but it seems to be happening more lately, and I've
been seeing more than a little bit of conjecture that
there's a suspicion that there's some COVID brain damage at
work here.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It could be any number of things. I look, I'm
not going to go conspiracy theory, but there have been concerns,
given the outages that we've had with various airlines, that
there is a cyber terrorism component to it. There's a
concern that capitalism is doing the capitalism thing and airlines
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in their effort to make as much money and greed
that these corners. We've seen what has been happening with Boeing.
That's just an airplane manufacture I'm talking about that also
corresponds to the greed of airlines. Maybe we've been lucky.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I do know in
(19:55):
the quest for the almighty dollar, there are a lot
of things that we don't know about, and we may
eventually find out when something bad happens. All I'm saying
is I would never get on Spirit Airlines because of
all those things that have been floating around in my
head and some stuff that I know that I still
don't feel comfortable talking about. Things that happen that are
(20:18):
just not revealed to the public.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
A mountain is really not a smaller obstacle to avoid.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that's part of the reason. I believe it it
was leaked out to the media. It's later with mo
Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app and we have a Long Beach Police and
Metro update. It seems they're getting a divorce in twenty
twenty five. Will tell you who is at fault and
who's going to get the dog.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Maybe Long Beach PD just said we've had enough, can't
take it anymore, don't want to have anything to do
with La Metro. It's just too damn dangerous and we're
not gonna put up with it any more. What I'm
talking about is Long Beach Police Department. It will not
patrol the La Metro in twenty twenty five. Yeah, for reals, Long.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Beach Police Department is ending its patrols of Metro trains
and stations. Officials for La Metro say the department's contract
ends next month. The agreement does provide the opportunity for
month to month service through March of next year of
both sides agree. The Long Beach PD says it will
not be engaging in a new Metro contract and once expired,
(21:31):
the department will not have officers on trains or at
stations unless dispatched in an emergency. In a statement, the
Long Beach Police Department says the decision follows significant deliberation
and analysis of crime statistics, staffing considerations, and contractual obligations.
The LBPD is committed to the safety of Metro ridership
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and its employees.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
End quote. I'm not a security or safety expert. I'm
self aware in that regard. I wouldn't allege to know
all there is about policing or protecting the public. I
wouldn't say that at all, But I would say it's
a stretch if anyone is going to argue that La
(22:17):
Metro will be unaffected by the absence of Long Beach PD.
If Long Beach PD says, hey, we're not doing this anymore.
We're not going to have officers available either on the
trains or buses or on platforms and they're only going
to be dispatched in an emergency. That says to me
(22:41):
that a rider in that portion of LA County, and
I can say I used to be one of them.
I would get on La Metro in the Long Beach area,
Long Beach Compton area, and I would do it every
morning's six or six thirty in the morning. And when
(23:03):
I did, there was either a Long Beach Police Department
officer or the La County Sheriff's Department, usually at the
base of the platform within you know, yelling distance. As
they say, I don't know how their absence is going
to make anyone safer. I don't know how that's going
(23:25):
to limit the likelihood of someone being victimized on La Metro.
I have been saying since day one that La Metro
needs to have its own dedicated police force. And let
me just say this when I just was in Washington,
d C. This weekend. If you ever want to see
an exemplary mass transit system, if you want to see
(23:49):
I would say the shining the example of what a
subway should be, go to Washington, d C. And ride
their Metro. There is no graffiti, there is no sanitary
unsanitary concern, there's no homelessness, there's no crime to speak of,
not in regard to the LA excuse me, the DC Metro.
(24:11):
Comparatively speaking, it is a place where you will see
going back to what I was saying before, it's not
uncommon common that you'll see people working in the federal
government riding the Metro. It will get you everywhere, including
to both airports Washington Dulles Ied and Reagan National DCEA.
(24:32):
You can get just about anywhere important in the DMV
that's DC, Maryland, Virginia. It is a great subway and
it's real easy to figure out. It is everything that
La Metro is not, which goes back to what I
was saying. I don't know what people are gonna do
in the Long Beach area when it comes to writing
(24:53):
La Metro. I just know, as someone who wrote it,
you're gonna want a Long Beach PD there. Maybe it
will still be canvassed by La County Sheriff's Department. Maybe,
but it seems to me that there's more to this
than just Long Beach PD saying you know we're going
to pass. In fact, in a statement to KTLA, La
(25:17):
Metro confirmed that his contract with the Long Beach Long
Beach Police Department ends next month. So you're saying that
no real negotiation has been going on up until now,
or are you saying you knew it and you just
did not want to add to the bad press out
there about La Metro. But here is the statement, and
(25:38):
the statement is clear that the partnership between the two
agencies is ending. Quote. We value our partnership with the
Long Beach Police Department, one of three contracted law enforcement
agencies that provide service to Metro. We will continue to
work closely with the Long Beach Police Department to ensure
the safety of our stations and customers in alignment without
(26:00):
our other law enforcement resources. That says to me that
Long Beach is out and done. And I'm not exactly
surprised because it has been a cluster truck as far
as trying to coordinate these various agencies and making sure
that La Metro is safer for folks like you and me,
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and all the things that they've done have not been
able to make anyone feel safer. I would say, by
and large, because you and I both know not a
week goes by without someone getting assaulted, be it a
bus operator, be it a rider, be it someone who
might be just on a platform or near a platform,
and it's not going to get any better when you
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take out I'll say, one quarter of the law enforcement equation.
It's later with Mo Kelly. We want to tell you
about the most expensive mid size cities to rent a house,
and you bet you're ass there's a California connection. KFI
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Speaker 3 (27:01):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rental Meters third quarter report looked at rents in seven
hundred and fifty seven US cities for three bedroom, single
family residences. We're talking about actual houses if you're going
to rent a three bedroom house and rentalmeter. Their study
had two top ten rankings, one for big cities places
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with more than two hundred and fifty thousand residents, and
one for mid size cities with one hundred to two
hundred and fifty thousand people. We're going to talk about
the latter, the mid sized cities. So which are the
most expensive US mid size cities to rent a three
bedroom house? And away we go. Coming in at number
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ten Sunny Veil with an average rent of forty six
hundred and fifteen dollars per month. This is for a
three bedroom house. Coming in at number nine to Wallaw's
(28:14):
own pass Adida with forty eight hundred and ten dollars
per month on average for a three bedroom house. Again,
this is not apartments, These are actual single family homes.
Coming in at number eight. My old stomping grounds torrents
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at forty eight hundred and seventy six dollars per month
on average to rent a three bedroom house number seven, Oxnard,
I wouldn't mind driving through it. I'm not so sure
i'd want to live there. I wish you could see
everyone's faces. Everyone furrowed their brows like Oxnar. Yeah, Oxnard,
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that's a little bit of a shocker. Yes, forty eight
one hundred and eighty one dollars per month on average
to rent a three bedroom house number six. Now we're
getting into the big boy country San Mateo. Fifty one
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hundred and ninety six dollars per month for a three
bedroom house. And remember this is on average. You might
find something for forty nine hundred or fifty three hundred
or forty two hundred and sixty two hundred. You know
it's going to be up there. Coming in at number
five of the ten most expensive mid size cities. If
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you're trying to rent a three bedroom house. Not too
far from here, Glendale comes in at number five with
fifty two hundred and eighty three dollars per month on average.
To rent a three bedroom house on average fifty two
hundred dollars per month. I would just like sleep in
(30:07):
my car for four months, then you get a down
payment on a house somewhere. That's free advice for you
if you don't and if you don't want to sleep
in your car, I understand sleep in. I don't know
a park, sleep on a metro. They always got open beds.
Number four Carlsbad at fifty two to ninety two per
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month fifty two hundred and ninety two dollars per month
on average to rent a three bedroom house, come again
at number three. We're sitting in the middle of it. Burbank,
good old Burbank, where iHeartMedia is so mark. If you
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wanted to rent a house closer to work, as in
like right outside, it's going to run you four hundred
and fifty seven dollars per month on average. Oh is
that all? That's all?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I could just skim that right off the top of
what I make. That's nothing, I laugh at. Would you
say fifty four hundred bucks?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yes? On average. It's like it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In Russia when they were sending wheelbarrows full of cash
to buy a loaf of bread.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
This is insane, is that? And as ever, for a
three or a one, there's a three bedroom if you
want to rent a three bedroom house, not even an apartment.
Let's say you need a backyard for the dogs, or
you know, you want to live the American dream, or
at least seem that you have all the trappings of
the American dream. If you want a three bedroom house,
rent it. It's probably going to cost you, on average,
(31:38):
fifty four hundred and fifty seven dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I may have confused Russia with Weimar Germany. I hope
you'll forgive me.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You're so funny marking up my idea number two. Now,
this one actually surprises me. I didn't know this city
had trended in such an upward direction, but haven't been
there for a while. Coast to Mesa fifty four hundred
and seventy one dollars per month on average to rent
(32:08):
a three bedroom house Coast to Mesa. Does it come
with an au pair or any any extras? That's just
I guess. There's four walls and a floor. A missus
per three bedrooms, and yeah, I'm thinking if you're going
to spend fifty four hundred dollars for a house in
that region, hell, I'd live in like Santa Ana or something.
You want a pool boy, Well, put it this way,
(32:29):
Irvine's not on this list. That's in the you know,
relative vicinity. That's another shocker, right, Irvine's not in the
top ten. I'm thinking Irvine would be. Well, it probably
means that I would rather live in Irvine because it's
one of the safest places in California and it costs
less than Coast to Mesa. It was just really good
(32:50):
club back in the day called Deja Vu, which was
out in Coast to Mesa at the end of the
fifty five Freeway. There's some hot looking women back then,
but it was nineteen ninety two. I don't know if
there's still hot, but there were.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Every major city have a strip club called Deja vud.
It wasn't the strip club. It was a nightclub where
people went to dance. Well, it was you talking, so
I assumed it was a strip club.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You have such such low expectations of me, and you
wouldn't be wrong on most occasions, but on this occasion,
you are wrong. It was a nightclub and Coasta Mason
cause all right, I had to look it up and
see what happened.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wasn't the original show you pitched here Make It Rain
with Mo Kelly. No, that was not the original show.
It was one of them. Nice okay.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They had a three to choose from the other one
was like drop it like it's hot with Michell. Come on,
you can't let my joke. That's gonna not give me credit.
Mid thank you and coming in and number one in
terms of the most expensive mid size city to rent
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a three bedroom house in all the country. It wasn't
just California. We're talking about the whole country. It just
so happens that all these cities are from California, number one.
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Not Newport Beach, not Seal Beach, not Long Beach, not
Redondo Beach, not Black Speech the Nude Beach, but Huntington Beach. California.
Average rent for a three bedroom house five thousand, seven
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hundred and twenty four dollars per month every thirty days,
and it's probably more than fifty seven hundred. There's probably
like some I don't know if if it's a house,
there might be an hoa attached to it. Who knows
that's not encountering like utilities. These seven hundred dollars each
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month just so you can have a Huntington Beach zip
code and three bedrooms. Damn, damn, damn damn.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
At that point, those they're just numbers. They mean nothing.
They're out of the range of a normal human being.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
But I'm thinking, if you're spending almost six thousand dollars
a month on rent, you might as well go ahead
and get a house, like a real house. We'll go
ahead and get a castle. No, no, But my point is,
if you're spending fifty seven hundred dollars a month, and
we talk about how they can raise the rent just
about every month or every year at least to the
tune of eight to nine percent, that fifty seven hundred
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dollars is going to be more than six thousand the
next year, as opposed to a thirty year mortgage, which
is going to be you know, it is what it is,
with the exception of your property taxes, which may fluctuate.
Fifty seven hundred. Oh my goodness, but you know you
didn't vote for rent control, so too bad, So said
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