December 19, 2024 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on California Governor Gavin Newsom declaring a state-wide “Bird Flu” emergency…PLUS – A look at the LA Metro bus crash that left several passengers with injuries, one critical AND the decline of USC’s Daily Trojan newspaper - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's later with mo Kelly Care if I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I have
a new routine, not that you care, but I want
to share it with you anyway, got a new routine.
I usually come to the office anywhere between three thirty
and four thirty, and I usually bring my lunch with me.
It's healthy ish on occasion, not straight out fast food,
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junk food, but healthy ish, healthier. As I get a
little older, I try to eat a little better. And
as I eat a little better, I am not eating later.
I probably won't have anything to eat for the rest
of the night, so I try to have my last
meal unless like Nick POLLIOCHINNI comes in the studio with
pizza like you did last night. I tried to finish
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eating by five o'clock. What that has allowed me to do,
and there is a point to this is I get
to sleep at a decent hour and my body's not
trying to digest food. And from what I read, I
get longer rim sleep. I get to sleep more deeply.
And when you have longer rim sleep, it is more
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satisfying for the body, and you find yourself dreaming more vividly,
and you'll have longer dreams.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I had this dream last night. It was so vivid.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I think I'm going to go to Vegas and put
one thousand dollars on this bet.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No lie, no exaggeration.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had this dream last night, and I say this
looking at TV because the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing right now.
I had this dream that the Rams and the Steelers
would meet in the Super Bowl and as of halftime
or late in the second half, Pittsburgh was up twenty
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four to seven. I don't know if I've had a
more vivid dream ever, Like someone just dropped the lotto
numbers out of heaven for me. So I'm calling my
shot right now. It's going to be the Rams and
Steelers in the Super Bowl, with the Rams most likely losing.
Reminiscent of nineteen eighty. I think they were at the
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Rose Bowl where the Super Bowl was that year, where
the Rams did lose to the Steelers. Have you ever
had a dream that was just so vivid that you
have to believe it. I think I'm gonna go make
myself be rich and then start off twenty twenty five
with not a care in the world, because the truth
has been shown to me, and I can see the
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future just like Back to the Future of part two.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's the first part. The second part is I.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Had this dream that the United States was going to
go through another pandemic allah COVID. And it's not like
something I wanted, but it was something that was in
my dream.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Don't know why, it was just there.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And then when I woke up in a few hours
into the day, I see the news the California Governor
Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency due to
bird flu, and it got me thinking. It actually got
me thinking about yesterday's commentary where no one wants to
believe the government when it has to do with the drones.
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The government has to be holding something back from us.
They have to be hiding something from us, they have
to be hiding the truth. And then you have this
news today, not the federal government, it's California's government. And
I know we have a real complicated history with Gavin
Newsom and any type of infectious disease. Whether he's telling
us the truth, I'm not pushing that aside, but this
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is what we do know. Having nothing to do with
Gavin Newsom, bird flu or avian flu, first being detected
in Texas and Kansas back in March. At least this year,
the virus has spread in sixteen states among dairy cattle,
including California, but no person to person spread of bird
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flu has been detected as of yet here in California, yes,
in other states now. According to Newsom's office, nearly all
infected individuals in California had exposure to infected cattle. So
unless you're like in four h like me, living on
a ranch, you shouldn't have anything to worry about in
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the immediate future. But you know, it gets you thinking,
since we've been through COVID, how these things can escalate quickly,
Because even though we were told about COVID originally we said, ah,
it's in China, we don't have to worry about it,
YadA YadA, YadA, blah blah blah, And next thing you knew,
history happened. And if you're unsure, what in a state
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of emergency declaration is. It's not like we're on the
verge of lockdown or we have to go start buying
toilet paper and paper towels and acting the fool. No, no, no,
it's not that at all. If anything, it's almost putting
the state on notice. Not people like you and me,
but state officials and also state resources on notice to
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be ready if they need to shift or make any
type of decision, be aware of it, be on the lookout.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
For it, be prepared for it. That's all.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I just thought my dreams just had a little
too much accuracy for me to just push it aside
to Will at first, Good Evening. Have you ever had
any real, vivid dreams where it's like, this has gotta
be real, this has gotta be a message or a
sign from somebody somewhere, maybe in the afterlife or another
dimension or something.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
All the time, I've learned to tap into my dream
cycle and really try to decipher and allow that to
help guide certain things that I may come across.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Mark, Ronald, Good evening, Mo. Hello.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If we're later in the show, I would be talking
to George Noorry about this. He would be the agreed
upon expert regarding dreams and interpretation. But since he's not here,
you'll have to do I can fill in for George.
In fact, I plan to do that at some point.
He doesn't know it yet, but I plan to do,
you know, I always have extremely unsettling, realistic, disturbing dreams.
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But last night my dream was that I was at
a fun house party that had magnificent food, and I
had a big plate of food gathered and ready, and
I spilled a little bit of wine and I left
to get something to clean it up, and when I
came back, my whole plate of food was gone and
I had nothing. And I woke up thinking, well, that's
the story of my life. It had been an analogy
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for something. Yeah, I don't have straight up nightmares, like
someone's chasing me, trying to kill me type thing. My
nightmares are always, i should say, my dreams are usually unpleasant,
like the rams losing or there's going to be some
sort of a worldwide pandemic. But it's something which is
quasi real. In other words, it could happen in my
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waking life. It's not it's not something which is way
over the top. It's not something like I'm I'm in
a plane and all of a sudden the plane blows
up and I'm falling up. There's nothing like that. It's
something which could happen in my day to day life.
So that's part of the reason I think I'm not
a lucid dreamer. As far as I'm concerned. All my
dreams are real, and I don't think, Hey, this is
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too ridiculous. I must be dreaming. I don't have that
self realization in my dreams.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So you've never had the great God Cthulhu or any
of the elder gods appear in your dream and threaten
to eliminate all of humanity? Well, I remember when I
was a kid. There are some dreams which stick with
me and twell them. I get a laugh out of this.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I did have a dream in which the incredible Haull
bit off my big toe that I died. I bled out,
you would wow. But I'm being serious. That was a
real dream that I had. I remember a dream when
I was a kid, about five six years old. I
think this is one of the earliest dreams that I
can remember. That's weird because Hulk doesn't operate like Mike Tyson.
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Hulk Smash don't make sense out of nonsense. Okay, I
remember a dream and my mother used to go on
these trips to Las Vegas with their church group.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They would go for the weekend. I know, church group Vegas.
I know. Don't read them to it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But in this dream, she was going to Las Vegas
and I wanted to go, but I couldn't go. I
had to stay home and take care of the pet
Ostrich we had. Don't ask me why we had a
pet Ostrich. Who doesn't love a pet Ostrich? But in
the dream, it was an evil Ostrich. It had these
red eyes. I can see it as clear as day.
And then when my mother left, I don't know where
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my dad was. Maybe he was out at the horse
track or something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But then the Ostrich, which I would lead around the
house on a leash, got tired of being around on
the leash, and then it attacked me and I died.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Does the Ostrich's eyes shoot laser beams?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
No, it didn't shoot laser brings, but we were like
there were like uh luminescent red.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And then the floor opened up like stairway to hell. No,
that's not a cuddly Ostrich. I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But outside of those two dreams, I don't have over
the top dreams. They're usually something like I have the
recurring dream of I'm late to the studio and I'm
getting ready to miss the start of my own show
locking in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's a recurring dream.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm stuck on the freewhere It's something like that, and
I'm calling to Walla and I'm saying, look, I'm almost there,
can you like start the show for me? Or there
was one dream I started the show on my phone,
just calling in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Would I ever be late for my own show?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Probably not, because I'm always here early, but it's it's
reasonable enough it could happen in real life.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think everybody in radio has had dead air nightmares,
especially going back to the d when you had to
physically grab records or carts or whatever you had and
have them ready to go or CDs whatever, like, oh god,
I don't have anything to play.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh, we've all had those.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And you and I have talked about the other recurring
dream that I have, where for some reason, I find
myself on a toilet in public. Oh yeah, it could
be like in a movie theater. Don't ask me why.
It could be in the middle of a mall. Don't
ask me why. And my predicament every time is how
am I going to extricate myself from this situation. The
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toilet paper is to my right, but everyone's looking at me.
Trying to see how I'm going to do this because
I'm the only one on the pot.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, public pooping nightmares are some of the worst that
you can have. We've all had those. Not if you
get that new portable super diaper that we talked about
last night, you mean the official later with Mo Kelly's
super y, Yes, you can go put in public that
would erase your fears.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Mo, I didn't have a fear of it. I'm saying
I have a recurring nightmare. If anyone knows nightmares, I am,
I'm just like one of the people's like, Look, I'm
not an exhibitionist, but I don't have a problem with
all that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't care what people think after a certain point. Yeah,
but look, nightmares don't come out of nowhere. They reflect
things that are either on your conscious or subconscious mind
throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I agree, but I just can't find the connection. What
the subtext is? Well, there's no subtext. Do you have
a giant poop phobia? Hi, Robin, who's in for stuff tonight?
Not gonna dignify that with a response. Okay, so now
we have it on record. Okay, we know that bird
flu is coming for my dream and was ratified by
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Governor Newsom in the state of emergency. We know that
the Rams and the Steelers are going to be in
the super Bowl, with the Steelers most likely winning. Why
because I had the dream and I'm probably going to
take a poop in public?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Why because I had the dream? Are we clear? Real? Quick? Note?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Conspiracy theory on the bird flu. Coyotes can spread bird flu. Oh,
don't do that, Twala, They actually can. Coyotes can spread
bird flu. Yes, So if you have a dog that
goes outside that's maybe sniffing some unfamiliar poop and you
pick it up, that is how you kik bird flu.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Alright, Twalla, go home. You're just just a bastion of
bad dudes. I just need to know one more thing
before you break. Sure.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What was Towala wearing in your dream? I'm calling him.
I didn't say I was looking at him. I was
a documentary. You have no idea what a six live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI am SI.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We had a good run, I don't know, maybe three
or four weeks in which there was no really bad
news to report regarding metro be it metro bus, metro rail.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
We didn't have any reports. Doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm just saying we didn't have any reports of metro
bus operators being attacked. We didn't have any reports of
someone a rider being attacked on a metro train platform.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Didn't have any of that. No one was shot, no
one was stabbed.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And then all good things must come to an end,
because at least twelve people were injured this morning in
a metro bus crash outside a lumber business in South
el Monty. For some reason, the big gas bus could
not see the big ass lumber truck and they met
head up.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Seven people were taken to the hospital, one with critical
injuries after a metro bus hit a truck in Almonte.
This happened around six this morning outside the Ace Lumber
on Rosemead Boulevard. Firefighters say there were fifteen people on
the bus when the driver swerved into the truck that
was carrying lumber. La Metro says one of the people
taken to.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The hospital was the driver.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
No word on the driver's condition or what led to
the crash.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Wait a minute swerved into the truck.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Swerved into the truck that was carrying lumber.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I saw a picture of it. It was a really
really large long truck. Really, it was a big truck.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't know why the bus didn't see it or
why the bus swerved into it. All I do know
is one person is in critical condition. Because of course,
if you're on the bus, it's not like they have
seat belts or anything. You can easily lose your balance
or be thrown from your seat in an accident like that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But it is stranged.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The word choice that the bus swerved was it to
avoid something and then ended up swerving into the truck,
But that wasn't explicitly said.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But I would want to know why it swerved into the.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Truck swerved into the truck that was carrying lumber. La
Metro says one of the people taken at the hospital
was the driver. No word on the driver's condition or
what led to the crash.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We talk about all the time, how you don't have
to worry about, or I should say, you just don't
have to worry about only the person who may be
on the bus who may try to harm you, or
on the trainer on the platform, or to someone who
may be outside the bus getting ready to shoot into
the bus. We've talked about all those types of incidents,
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but we've also talked about how, seemingly increasingly, with greater frequency,
the buses specifically are getting into accidents. Yes, we talk
about the trains, how they may try to there's a
car that might try to beat the metro train across
the tracks and then you have an accident there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm not blaming metro train.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Metro trains going through a clear intersection and then this
car wants to be an idiot trying to beat the
train across the tracks. Not talking about that, but it
seems like they're more than just a few examples of
metro buses colliding with cars with lumbers with people.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Just seems way too much.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It just seems like you're taking your life in your
own hands every single time when you're getting on a
metro bus. Either someone on the bus is going to
try to kill you, or there's gonna be another car
out there that might end up killing you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It just seems too much.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It shouldn't be this hard, should be this hard to
get on public transportation and get safely from one side
of the city to the other maybe twenty twenty five
will be a better year for Metro.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh and twelve. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I still have not heard back from anyone at Metro
to offer anyone to come on this show. They've gone
behind my back to speak to Kfis, Michael Monks. They've
sent messages to other people. I put it out there
through Michael Monks and others, like hey, why don't you
come on the show. Tell us something that we don't
know about Metro, something that you're doing behind the scenes,
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something that you're trying to do to increase the safety quotion,
something that you're trying to do to decrease the amount
of homeless. Tell us, just tell us something. I cannot
get one person out. They have emailed me on occasion,
on two occasions to quote unquote correct me, and then
I said, I give them a link to the podcast, like, no,
I did not say that. This is what I actually said.
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You're incorrect. Never hear from again, not like, hey, you know,
I'm free to come on and talk about this new
technology of this new door panel with nothing, nothing, it's
radio silence. But they will talk to other people trying
to get messages to me to influence what I have
to say.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I think Metro is scared to face some hard questions.
They can't handle the truth in the statements and the
things that you are saying. Your analysis is too real
for Metro.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
But it's not like.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Look, anyone who's been interviewed by me, I would like
to believe that I am fair.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't sandbag people.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I don't bring people on here to just somehow embarrass
them or to ask them off topic questions or or
put them in a place where it would be dishonest.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The truth in the questions that you would ask, mixed
with Metro having no real answers, it's only bad for Metro.
You can't ask Metro what are you doing to help
prevent some of the violence on bus lines? That right
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there is already a loaded question for Metro because they
have no answer. So why would they come on? I
understand why Metro is afraid, I really really do.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's an open invitation.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, it is still an open invitation if Metro
you would like to come on, And it's not like
I'm asking you to present your side of the story,
if you can add something to the conversation that has
not been covered, then broached, not been readily understood by
all means, by all means, But in the absence of
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your contributions, I'm going to go off what I know
personally from my history, what I know, what is in
the public record, and what other people have been told
have been telling me who have been in contact with you.
I'm not completely going off the top of my head.
I mean I am listening to people that you're talking to.
You know, Michael Bunks will tell me what you're saying
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to him. Why you won't say it to me. I
just don't have any idea, But maybe twenty twenty five
will be different. Oh, Mark Runner coming up in the
next segment, and this tease has to do with you.
We're going to talk about the USC newspaper, the Daily Trojan,
where they're basically moving away from an actual print publication
because the university is no longer willing to subsidize it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Evidently they have.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
They're running at a deficit about one hundred thousand dollars
per year. And I want you to think about that,
if only because maybe there's something that I'm missing or
Is this a precursor to all print journalism.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I don't know if you've heard mo, but newspapers are
going a little bit extinct couple decades they have.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But I do think that the campus periodical, whether it's
digital or paper, serves a purpose above and beyond what
I think what we have normally. I think it serves
a greater importance. And we'll get into this next, a
greater importance on a college campus as they learn about
democracy and so forth.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If you didn't hear my T's pre conversation with Mark
Roner last segment, I was previewing how the staff of
the Daily Trojan, the student run newspaper for USC, will
no longer be paid and we'll have the printing schedule
reduced next year. I was going to make the argument,
and I was setting it up that I look at
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this a little differently from other newspapers, if only because
student journalism is the breeding ground, it's the training ground,
It's is the flashpoint where you have your great journalist.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
How they are created, how they are.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Trained, where they learn, so where they get out into
the world. Then you can have some great journalism. This
is what the Daily Trojan released. I said, quote. Due
to a large budget deficit within student publications and other
cuts across the university, student life said they will not
be able to pay anyone on staff for their work
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during the spring twenty twenty five semester. Additionally, our print
schedule in spring twenty twenty five has been cut from
five days a week to three days a week.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My initial thought is that's some bs because USC is
one of the wealthiest universities in the world.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's the first thing, you know. They can find the money.
They can find the money.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Their deficit is about one hundred thousand dollars a year,
which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's the first day. Secondarily, none of us is naive.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
None of us thinks that actually students or campus needs
a physical newspaper. But that doesn't mean you can't have
serious journalism. That doesn't mean that you can't have ongoing
reporting of not only what's happening on campus, but in
the immediate world around them. And this is what the
editor in chief, Stefano. Let me see, Fendrick had to say,
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Stefanie Fendrick.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
My understanding, it seemed that in other years the university
was able to help the Daily Trojan out, but I
guess there seems to be budget crut cuts across the
university now, so it seems, you know, they've been a
little less generous to helping us out. So we've just, yeah,
I've been running out of deficit, and it seems, yeah,
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the past three years that definitely we have not been
making We've been making very few, if at all, sometimes
losing some money, never quite to this extent.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Of course, you can't pull twenty thousand from here, twenty
thousand from there, twenty thousand from there, I don't know,
fifty thousand from the football team and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Are you saying you really can't do that?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Before we get to Mark Ronner, I need either one
of you to let me know why I, who may
be in charge of the budget at USC to fund
the Daily Trojan, would put money into something like the
Daily Trojan that is probably dying. We are living in
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the world with these college kids. There are may be
three kids who are showing up for journalism class. Everyone
else is in there trying to get that's not true. No no, no,
that's not true. They have a damn journalism school. No no, no, no, no, no,
I get that. What I'm saying is why am I
putting money into something that is dying?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, Mark, I'm turning you loose.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Go get them. Because you live in a democracy. Why
don't we start with that't have a democracy without a
free press. And newspapers are the basis of the free press.
Now here's the irony of the situation. These cutbacks and
stiff and all the workers at the student newspaper, this
is preparing them for what it's going to be like
in the real world better than any lesson plan could.
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I've been in newspapers since high school. I think I
was bred to be a newshound from the cradle, practically,
And I was lucky enough to start my major newspaper
career as a professional when they still had budgets and
you could travel, and you had a cafeteria and you know,
everything that a prosperous business would have. And I just
saw one round of cutbacks, layoffs, buyouts after another, and
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that's just the way it is now. And you know,
you certainly can't have the people at USC looking to
the La.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Times hell of journalism at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hello, yeah, yeah, I don't think those two points.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The last point about La Times is in content addiction.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I do know when they're trying to claim poor that
they can't fund one hundred thousand dollars using their numbers
to fund what has already been going on, I don't
know if that pays. Everyone only pays a few of them. Look,
I mean they have work study jobs. There are ways
that they can fund this. I just I reject out
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of hand the belief that USC can't find one hundred
thousand dollars to keep the student newspaper, the Venerable Daily
Trojan in business. And I put business in air quotes
because it's not a profit generating venture.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And you should reject that because it's a choice, and
it fits into the bigger picture of actual legit journalism
being dumped on and attacked across the country.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I hear you, guys.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What I'm saying is when we look at the trends
in business, When we look at the trends in business
and how more and more businesses are working away from
say something like a newspaper. If you tell me, I'm
putting my money into a new whose paper. I'm saying,
you're all fired if you say that you have a
nice digital platform. Okay, that's something else, But do you
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need all of the money to go into something that's
that's almost archaic and extinct.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
But I didn't say anything about I had a problem
with them reducing their printing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I have a problem with them saying that they're.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
One not paying anyone and reducing their printing and the
menial my word, menial amount of one hundred thousand dollars,
which could end this conversation altogether.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, they could pay that, but they don't want to.
They've deprioritized it, like it's being deprioritized all around the country.
And I keep telling people, you know, without a free press,
all you will ever know is what people with more
money and power than you want you to know. And
we're starting to get a glimpse of what that's going
to look like.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I say this against the backdrop of what's happening
with the La Times. I say this against the backdrop
of Jeff Bezos going down to mar A Lago this weekend,
and he is the owner of the Washington Post. Don't
think that that meeting won't have some sort of influence
on the editorial direction of the Washington Post, which goes
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back to what Mark was saying, a free and independent
press not an arm of propaganda from the White House.
When you have the owner of the news outlet sitting
down with the President ostensibly to craft coverage which is
more favorable or more palatable, that you don't have a
free press anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And that's really not even up for debate.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, the free press is for holding the powerful accountable,
not cozying up to them.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I just don't know if there are enough outlets who
at one point in time supported the free press are
interested in doing so anymore. Well, let me put this
into some perspective for you. Think about it like you
think of the post office. It's a service. It's a
necessary service that Americans count on, and the free press
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and the USPS are two of the only businesses in
the constitution.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And our founding fathers weren't morons. They did that for
a reason. They are necessary for a democracy. I hear you.
Guess what's guess what's got a bullseye on us back
right now? The US Postal Service. That's why I Broughte
that up. I mean, it's it's this is just where
I'm just saying, like I hear you, I hear the
moral argument, I hear what's right and all that. I'm
(28:23):
just saying, I don't hear an argument for why USC
crying broke.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Same as McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
McDonald's could easily pay their employees without firing let people go.
They could, they could afford the wage increase easily, but
they don't because.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Of all the priorities.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Why we know they don't want to. So I'm saying,
if they if they're telling you outright, we don't want to.
I'm not hearing an argument for why they would say,
you know what, you're right, because they obviously don't care
about the things you're saying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No, no, no, agreed, Yes, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
If in my slight conspiratorial way, I do believe that
this is connected to what happened on campus with the
protests last year, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I think you're probably right.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And how do you convince somebody to start at ground
zero that we need a functioning free press If you've
got to explain that the conversation's pointless. Let me just
do one thing before we go to break. Which one
of the last arguments I had with the big authority
figures at the Seattle Times before I left there was
you got to get with the Times. Stop calling it
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a newspaper. It's an information portal. Call it whatever you want.
But the actual physical wood pulp paper that you delivered,
we're gonna outlive that by a good deal. And so
it doesn't matter, you know, whether it's on people's computer
screens or on their porch in the morning. The paper
part is going to be gone sooner or later. That's irrelevant,
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but the journalism must remain.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Absolutely you're listening too later with Moe Kelly on Demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I just want to find you residence California residents
who purchase gas in southern California between February twenty to
twenty fifteen and November tenth of twenty fifteen. And no,
I'm not expecting you to remember the specifics of that time.
I don't even remember ten days ago, so neither will
you have to remember. But if you most likely purchase
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gas in southern California between February twentieth and November tenth
of twenty fifteen. You can submit a claim by January eighth,
the deadline for a payment under the state's antitrust settlement.
We told you about this some months ago, and this
settlement resolved a lawsuit filed back in twenty twenty by
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the California Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And if you don't need to.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Know all the specifics, you can just go ahead and
go to their website and.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Fill out your information. I did it. It took me
about maybe five six minutes. They're not asking a lot
of information.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You don't have to remember exactly where you purchase gas
or how much you purchase it's really bare bones.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You can go to.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
CALG dot cal Gaslitigation dot com. That's cal and then
the letter G dot cal Gas Litigation dot com and
you can input your information and if you're eligible for
this cash excuse me, eligible for this settlement, you have
to submit a claim by January eighth, twenty twenty five. Now,
(31:30):
if you were me, or if I were you, I
would just fill it out anyway. I mean, even if
you lived in Nebraska, you probably visited California.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
At that time.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
If you're listening to CAFI, you're probably in southern California.
And you probably purchase gas during that time, so you
might as well get a cut of the pie. I'm
not gonna be selfish. I'm not going to try to
keep you away from your cut. It's not gonna make
my cut any higher. And I'm curious to know if
anyone gets any money out of it, whether you get
like five dollars or twelve dollars, maybe you get one
free tank of gas. That would be enough for me.
But visit calg dot col gaslitigation dot com and do
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so before January eighth of next year. If you want
to get a piece of this settlement. There's some fifty
million dollars in the settlement pool which is available is
going to be dispersed to all the people who want
to be part of this settlement, assuming that you apply
and your information is in order. Here's what the news
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release had to say back in July. Quote, when companies
conspire to unlawfully raise prices for consumers, my office steps in,
just as we did with our litigation and settlement against
two gas trading firms that's Rob Bonta. As part of
this settlement, I am proud to deliver money back to
Californians who may have been impacted by the gas price
manipulation closed quote, Hey, Mark, heaven forbid, we actually have
(32:54):
an honest conversation about price gouging by gas companies.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Bite your commie pinko tongue.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Because anytime we say it before, it's like no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I know twenty twenty four, this is twenty fifteen. But
we're always told to lie that know, it's because of
it's a cost of oil, or you know, it's inflation,
or it's having to do with these policies that whoever's
in office. Back then it was Barack Obama. Where now
is Joe Biden? When it's like no, no, no, no, the
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cost of oil, oil poor barrel has been relatively stable
for a number of years now.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The cost of gas has not.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And you can't blame it all on the gas tax
because we're talking about wild fluctuations.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
We're talking about dollars and dollars more.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It doesn't take Hi more than a few seconds just
to google say exon mobile profits twenty twenty four or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You mean the record profits. You can get an idea
of it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes, And we try to always let people know when
we say record profits.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
We're not talking about revenue.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We're talking about after expenses, after they've already paid all
their employees, after they've already done everything they need to
do to make sure they've covered their expenses.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We're talking about that money on top of.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It, the profits, the good stuff, record profits.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And it's not just the oil companies. I mean, you
can apply this across the board to anything that's in
the news where you're hearing people complain about, say yesterday
it was Disneyland having to pay a wage theft settlement
while they were making record profits, or McDonald's and paying
people an increased minimum wage when people are like having
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when corporations are having stock buybacks, most people don't want
to hear them complain about having to pay enough for
their employees simply to live indoors.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Okay, I'm not even trying to go that deep. I mean,
I'm just trying to talk about the simple stuff. Where
these corporations have raised their prices beyond the amount they
had to raise them to cover inflation, there's no question,
and they are being rewarded handsomely, and we want to
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act like we don't see what's going on. I mean,
the royal wee. I mean, I see what's going on.
I think you probably do. Use the royal video lot
to you. I wish Stephen was here because then we
can see him. Ignore your bad jokes. Robin's not gonna
get anybody in your rim shots all night. Oh no, no,
(35:26):
that's not her job.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, that's not in her Bailey Wick, it's later with
mokelk IF I AM six forty lives everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
App, untangling the mess until it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
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Speaker 1 (35:39):
Two, Los Angeles, Orange County lives
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Everywhere on the radio.
It's later with mo Kelly Care if I am six forty.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I have
a new routine, not that you care, but I want
to share it with you anyway, got a new routine.
I usually come to the office anywhere between three thirty
and four thirty, and I usually bring my lunch with me.
It's healthy ish on occasion, not straight out fast food,
(00:45):
junk food, but healthy ish, healthier. As I get a
little older, I try to eat a little better. And
as I eat a little better, I am not eating later.
I probably won't have anything to eat for the rest
of the night, so I try to have my last
meal unless like Nick POLLIOCHINNI comes in the studio with
pizza like you did last night. I tried to finish
(01:07):
eating by five o'clock. What that has allowed me to do,
and there is a point to this is I get
to sleep at a decent hour and my body's not
trying to digest food. And from what I read, I
get longer rim sleep. I get to sleep more deeply.
And when you have longer rim sleep, it is more
(01:29):
satisfying for the body, and you find yourself dreaming more vividly,
and you'll have longer dreams.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I had this dream last night. It was so vivid.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I think I'm going to go to Vegas and put
one thousand dollars on this bet.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No lie, no exaggeration.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had this dream last night, and I say this
looking at TV because the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing right now.
I had this dream that the Rams and the Steelers
would meet in the Super Bowl and as of halftime
or late in the second half, Pittsburgh was up twenty
(02:09):
four to seven. I don't know if I've had a
more vivid dream ever, Like someone just dropped the lotto
numbers out of heaven for me. So I'm calling my
shot right now. It's going to be the Rams and
Steelers in the Super Bowl, with the Rams most likely losing.
Reminiscent of nineteen eighty. I think they were at the
(02:32):
Rose Bowl where the Super Bowl was that year, where
the Rams did lose to the Steelers. Have you ever
had a dream that was just so vivid that you
have to believe it. I think I'm gonna go make
myself be rich and then start off twenty twenty five
with not a care in the world, because the truth
has been shown to me, and I can see the
(02:54):
future just like Back to the Future of part two.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That's the first part. The second part is I.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Had this dream that the United States was going to
go through another pandemic allah COVID. And it's not like
something I wanted, but it was something that was in
my dream.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Don't know why, it was just there.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And then when I woke up in a few hours
into the day, I see the news the California Governor
Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency due to
bird flu, and it got me thinking. It actually got
me thinking about yesterday's commentary where no one wants to
believe the government when it has to do with the drones.
(03:40):
The government has to be holding something back from us.
They have to be hiding something from us, they have
to be hiding the truth. And then you have this
news today, not the federal government, it's California's government. And
I know we have a real complicated history with Gavin
Newsom and any type of infectious disease. Whether he's telling
us the truth, I'm not pushing that aside, but this
(04:02):
is what we do know. Having nothing to do with
Gavin Newsom, bird flu or avian flu, first being detected
in Texas and Kansas back in March. At least this year,
the virus has spread in sixteen states among dairy cattle,
including California, but no person to person spread of bird
(04:23):
flu has been detected as of yet here in California, yes,
in other states now. According to Newsom's office, nearly all
infected individuals in California had exposure to infected cattle. So
unless you're like in four h like me, living on
a ranch, you shouldn't have anything to worry about in
(04:43):
the immediate future. But you know, it gets you thinking,
since we've been through COVID, how these things can escalate quickly,
Because even though we were told about COVID originally we said, ah,
it's in China, we don't have to worry about it,
YadA YadA, YadA, blah blah blah, And next thing you knew,
history happened. And if you're unsure, what in a state
(05:07):
of emergency declaration is. It's not like we're on the
verge of lockdown or we have to go start buying
toilet paper and paper towels and acting the fool. No, no, no,
it's not that at all. If anything, it's almost putting
the state on notice. Not people like you and me,
but state officials and also state resources on notice to
(05:30):
be ready if they need to shift or make any
type of decision, be aware of it, be on the lookout.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
For it, be prepared for it. That's all.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And I just thought my dreams just had a little
too much accuracy for me to just push it aside
to Will at first, Good Evening. Have you ever had
any real, vivid dreams where it's like, this has gotta
be real, this has gotta be a message or a
sign from somebody somewhere, maybe in the afterlife or another
dimension or something.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
All the time, I've learned to tap into my dream
cycle and really try to decipher and allow that to
help guide certain things that I may come across.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Mark, Ronald, Good evening, Mo. Hello.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If we're later in the show, I would be talking
to George Noorry about this. He would be the agreed
upon expert regarding dreams and interpretation. But since he's not here,
you'll have to do I can fill in for George.
In fact, I plan to do that at some point.
He doesn't know it yet, but I plan to do,
you know, I always have extremely unsettling, realistic, disturbing dreams.
(06:37):
But last night my dream was that I was at
a fun house party that had magnificent food, and I
had a big plate of food gathered and ready, and
I spilled a little bit of wine and I left
to get something to clean it up, and when I
came back, my whole plate of food was gone and
I had nothing. And I woke up thinking, well, that's
the story of my life. It had been an analogy
(06:58):
for something. Yeah, I don't have straight up nightmares, like
someone's chasing me, trying to kill me type thing. My
nightmares are always, i should say, my dreams are usually unpleasant,
like the rams losing or there's going to be some
sort of a worldwide pandemic. But it's something which is
quasi real. In other words, it could happen in my
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waking life. It's not it's not something which is way
over the top. It's not something like I'm I'm in
a plane and all of a sudden the plane blows
up and I'm falling up. There's nothing like that. It's
something which could happen in my day to day life.
So that's part of the reason I think I'm not
a lucid dreamer. As far as I'm concerned. All my
dreams are real, and I don't think, Hey, this is
(07:39):
too ridiculous. I must be dreaming. I don't have that
self realization in my dreams.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So you've never had the great God Cthulhu or any
of the elder gods appear in your dream and threaten
to eliminate all of humanity? Well, I remember when I
was a kid. There are some dreams which stick with
me and twell them. I get a laugh out of this.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I did have a dream in which the incredible Haull
bit off my big toe that I died. I bled out,
you would wow. But I'm being serious. That was a
real dream that I had. I remember a dream when
I was a kid, about five six years old. I
think this is one of the earliest dreams that I
can remember. That's weird because Hulk doesn't operate like Mike Tyson.
(08:17):
Hulk Smash don't make sense out of nonsense. Okay, I
remember a dream and my mother used to go on
these trips to Las Vegas with their church group.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They would go for the weekend. I know, church group Vegas.
I know. Don't read them to it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
But in this dream, she was going to Las Vegas
and I wanted to go, but I couldn't go. I
had to stay home and take care of the pet
Ostrich we had. Don't ask me why we had a
pet Ostrich. Who doesn't love a pet Ostrich? But in
the dream, it was an evil Ostrich. It had these
red eyes. I can see it as clear as day.
And then when my mother left, I don't know where
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my dad was. Maybe he was out at the horse
track or something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But then the Ostrich, which I would lead around the
house on a leash, got tired of being around on
the leash, and then it attacked me and I died.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Does the Ostrich's eyes shoot laser beams?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
No, it didn't shoot laser brings, but we were like
there were like uh luminescent red.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And then the floor opened up like stairway to hell. No,
that's not a cuddly Ostrich. I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But outside of those two dreams, I don't have over
the top dreams. They're usually something like I have the
recurring dream of I'm late to the studio and I'm
getting ready to miss the start of my own show
locking in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's a recurring dream.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm stuck on the freewhere It's something like that, and
I'm calling to Walla and I'm saying, look, I'm almost there,
can you like start the show for me? Or there
was one dream I started the show on my phone,
just calling in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Would I ever be late for my own show?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Probably not, because I'm always here early, but it's it's
reasonable enough it could happen in real life.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I think everybody in radio has had dead air nightmares,
especially going back to the d when you had to
physically grab records or carts or whatever you had and
have them ready to go or CDs whatever, like, oh god,
I don't have anything to play.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh, we've all had those.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And you and I have talked about the other recurring
dream that I have, where for some reason, I find
myself on a toilet in public. Oh yeah, it could
be like in a movie theater. Don't ask me why.
It could be in the middle of a mall. Don't
ask me why. And my predicament every time is how
am I going to extricate myself from this situation. The
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toilet paper is to my right, but everyone's looking at me.
Trying to see how I'm going to do this because
I'm the only one on the pot.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, public pooping nightmares are some of the worst that
you can have. We've all had those. Not if you
get that new portable super diaper that we talked about
last night, you mean the official later with Mo Kelly's
super y, Yes, you can go put in public that
would erase your fears.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Mo, I didn't have a fear of it. I'm saying
I have a recurring nightmare. If anyone knows nightmares, I am,
I'm just like one of the people's like, Look, I'm
not an exhibitionist, but I don't have a problem with
all that.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't care what people think after a certain point. Yeah,
but look, nightmares don't come out of nowhere. They reflect
things that are either on your conscious or subconscious mind
throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I agree, but I just can't find the connection. What
the subtext is? Well, there's no subtext. Do you have
a giant poop phobia? Hi, Robin, who's in for stuff tonight?
Not gonna dignify that with a response. Okay, so now
we have it on record. Okay, we know that bird
flu is coming for my dream and was ratified by
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Governor Newsom in the state of emergency. We know that
the Rams and the Steelers are going to be in
the super Bowl, with the Steelers most likely winning. Why
because I had the dream and I'm probably going to
take a poop in public?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Why because I had the dream? Are we clear? Real? Quick? Note?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Conspiracy theory on the bird flu. Coyotes can spread bird flu. Oh,
don't do that, Twala, They actually can. Coyotes can spread
bird flu. Yes, So if you have a dog that
goes outside that's maybe sniffing some unfamiliar poop and you
pick it up, that is how you kik bird flu.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Alright, Twalla, go home. You're just just a bastion of
bad dudes. I just need to know one more thing
before you break. Sure.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
What was Towala wearing in your dream? I'm calling him.
I didn't say I was looking at him. I was
a documentary. You have no idea what a six live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI am SI.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We had a good run, I don't know, maybe three
or four weeks in which there was no really bad
news to report regarding metro be it metro bus, metro rail.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
We didn't have any reports. Doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm just saying we didn't have any reports of metro
bus operators being attacked. We didn't have any reports of
someone a rider being attacked on a metro train platform.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Didn't have any of that. No one was shot, no
one was stabbed.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And then all good things must come to an end,
because at least twelve people were injured this morning in
a metro bus crash outside a lumber business in South
el Monty. For some reason, the big gas bus could
not see the big ass lumber truck and they met
head up.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Seven people were taken to the hospital, one with critical
injuries after a metro bus hit a truck in Almonte.
This happened around six this morning outside the Ace Lumber
on Rosemead Boulevard. Firefighters say there were fifteen people on
the bus when the driver swerved into the truck that
was carrying lumber. La Metro says one of the people
taken to.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The hospital was the driver.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
No word on the driver's condition or what led to
the crash.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Wait a minute swerved into the truck.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Swerved into the truck that was carrying lumber.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I saw a picture of it. It was a really
really large long truck. Really, it was a big truck.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't know why the bus didn't see it or
why the bus swerved into it. All I do know
is one person is in critical condition. Because of course,
if you're on the bus, it's not like they have
seat belts or anything. You can easily lose your balance
or be thrown from your seat in an accident like that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
But it is stranged.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The word choice that the bus swerved was it to
avoid something and then ended up swerving into the truck,
But that wasn't explicitly said.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But I would want to know why it swerved into the.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Truck swerved into the truck that was carrying lumber. La
Metro says one of the people taken at the hospital
was the driver. No word on the driver's condition or
what led to the crash.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We talk about all the time, how you don't have
to worry about, or I should say, you just don't
have to worry about only the person who may be
on the bus who may try to harm you, or
on the trainer on the platform, or to someone who
may be outside the bus getting ready to shoot into
the bus. We've talked about all those types of incidents,
(15:24):
but we've also talked about how, seemingly increasingly, with greater frequency,
the buses specifically are getting into accidents. Yes, we talk
about the trains, how they may try to there's a
car that might try to beat the metro train across
the tracks and then you have an accident there.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I'm not blaming metro train.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Metro trains going through a clear intersection and then this
car wants to be an idiot trying to beat the
train across the tracks. Not talking about that, but it
seems like they're more than just a few examples of
metro buses colliding with cars with lumbers with people.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Just seems way too much.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
It just seems like you're taking your life in your
own hands every single time when you're getting on a
metro bus. Either someone on the bus is going to
try to kill you, or there's gonna be another car
out there that might end up killing you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It just seems too much.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
It shouldn't be this hard, should be this hard to
get on public transportation and get safely from one side
of the city to the other maybe twenty twenty five
will be a better year for Metro.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh and twelve. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I still have not heard back from anyone at Metro
to offer anyone to come on this show. They've gone
behind my back to speak to Kfis, Michael Monks. They've
sent messages to other people. I put it out there
through Michael Monks and others, like hey, why don't you
come on the show. Tell us something that we don't
know about Metro, something that you're doing behind the scenes,
(16:50):
something that you're trying to do to increase the safety quotion,
something that you're trying to do to decrease the amount
of homeless. Tell us, just tell us something. I cannot
get one person out. They have emailed me on occasion,
on two occasions to quote unquote correct me, and then
I said, I give them a link to the podcast, like, no,
I did not say that. This is what I actually said.
(17:10):
You're incorrect. Never hear from again, not like, hey, you know,
I'm free to come on and talk about this new
technology of this new door panel with nothing, nothing, it's
radio silence. But they will talk to other people trying
to get messages to me to influence what I have
to say.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I think Metro is scared to face some hard questions.
They can't handle the truth in the statements and the
things that you are saying. Your analysis is too real
for Metro.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
But it's not like.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Look, anyone who's been interviewed by me, I would like
to believe that I am fair.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't sandbag people.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I don't bring people on here to just somehow embarrass
them or to ask them off topic questions or or
put them in a place where it would be dishonest.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The truth in the questions that you would ask, mixed
with Metro having no real answers, it's only bad for Metro.
You can't ask Metro what are you doing to help
prevent some of the violence on bus lines? That right
(18:25):
there is already a loaded question for Metro because they
have no answer. So why would they come on? I
understand why Metro is afraid, I really really do.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's an open invitation.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, it is still an open invitation if Metro
you would like to come on, And it's not like
I'm asking you to present your side of the story,
if you can add something to the conversation that has
not been covered, then broached, not been readily understood by
all means, by all means, But in the absence of
(18:56):
your contributions, I'm going to go off what I know
personally from my history, what I know, what is in
the public record, and what other people have been told
have been telling me who have been in contact with you.
I'm not completely going off the top of my head.
I mean I am listening to people that you're talking to.
You know, Michael Bunks will tell me what you're saying
(19:17):
to him. Why you won't say it to me. I
just don't have any idea, But maybe twenty twenty five
will be different. Oh, Mark Runner coming up in the
next segment, and this tease has to do with you.
We're going to talk about the USC newspaper, the Daily Trojan,
where they're basically moving away from an actual print publication
because the university is no longer willing to subsidize it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Evidently they have.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
They're running at a deficit about one hundred thousand dollars
per year. And I want you to think about that,
if only because maybe there's something that I'm missing or
Is this a precursor to all print journalism.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I don't know if you've heard mo, but newspapers are
going a little bit extinct couple decades they have.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But I do think that the campus periodical, whether it's
digital or paper, serves a purpose above and beyond what
I think what we have normally. I think it serves
a greater importance. And we'll get into this next, a
greater importance on a college campus as they learn about
democracy and so forth.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's next.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If you didn't hear my T's pre conversation with Mark
Roner last segment, I was previewing how the staff of
the Daily Trojan, the student run newspaper for USC, will
no longer be paid and we'll have the printing schedule
reduced next year. I was going to make the argument,
and I was setting it up that I look at
(20:51):
this a little differently from other newspapers, if only because
student journalism is the breeding ground, it's the training ground,
It's is the flashpoint where you have your great journalist.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
How they are created, how they are.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Trained, where they learn, so where they get out into
the world. Then you can have some great journalism. This
is what the Daily Trojan released. I said, quote. Due
to a large budget deficit within student publications and other
cuts across the university, student life said they will not
be able to pay anyone on staff for their work
(21:27):
during the spring twenty twenty five semester. Additionally, our print
schedule in spring twenty twenty five has been cut from
five days a week to three days a week.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My initial thought is that's some bs because USC is
one of the wealthiest universities in the world.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's the first thing, you know. They can find the money.
They can find the money.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Their deficit is about one hundred thousand dollars a year,
which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's the first day. Secondarily, none of us is naive.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
None of us thinks that actually students or campus needs
a physical newspaper. But that doesn't mean you can't have
serious journalism. That doesn't mean that you can't have ongoing
reporting of not only what's happening on campus, but in
the immediate world around them. And this is what the
editor in chief, Stefano. Let me see, Fendrick had to say,
(22:26):
Stefanie Fendrick.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
My understanding, it seemed that in other years the university
was able to help the Daily Trojan out, but I
guess there seems to be budget crut cuts across the
university now, so it seems, you know, they've been a
little less generous to helping us out. So we've just, yeah,
I've been running out of deficit, and it seems, yeah,
(22:49):
the past three years that definitely we have not been
making We've been making very few, if at all, sometimes
losing some money, never quite to this extent.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Of course, you can't pull twenty thousand from here, twenty
thousand from there, twenty thousand from there, I don't know,
fifty thousand from the football team and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Are you saying you really can't do that?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Before we get to Mark Ronner, I need either one
of you to let me know why I, who may
be in charge of the budget at USC to fund
the Daily Trojan, would put money into something like the
Daily Trojan that is probably dying. We are living in
(23:33):
the world with these college kids. There are may be
three kids who are showing up for journalism class. Everyone
else is in there trying to get that's not true. No no, no,
that's not true. They have a damn journalism school. No no, no, no, no, no,
I get that. What I'm saying is why am I
putting money into something that is dying?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, Mark, I'm turning you loose.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Go get them. Because you live in a democracy. Why
don't we start with that't have a democracy without a
free press. And newspapers are the basis of the free press.
Now here's the irony of the situation. These cutbacks and
stiff and all the workers at the student newspaper, this
is preparing them for what it's going to be like
in the real world better than any lesson plan could.
(24:18):
I've been in newspapers since high school. I think I
was bred to be a newshound from the cradle, practically,
And I was lucky enough to start my major newspaper
career as a professional when they still had budgets and
you could travel, and you had a cafeteria and you know,
everything that a prosperous business would have. And I just
saw one round of cutbacks, layoffs, buyouts after another, and
(24:43):
that's just the way it is now. And you know,
you certainly can't have the people at USC looking to
the La.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Times hell of journalism at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hello, yeah, yeah, I don't think those two points.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
The last point about La Times is in content addiction.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I do know when they're trying to claim poor that
they can't fund one hundred thousand dollars using their numbers
to fund what has already been going on, I don't
know if that pays. Everyone only pays a few of them. Look,
I mean they have work study jobs. There are ways
that they can fund this. I just I reject out
(25:21):
of hand the belief that USC can't find one hundred
thousand dollars to keep the student newspaper, the Venerable Daily
Trojan in business. And I put business in air quotes
because it's not a profit generating venture.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
And you should reject that because it's a choice, and
it fits into the bigger picture of actual legit journalism
being dumped on and attacked across the country.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I hear you, guys.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What I'm saying is when we look at the trends
in business, When we look at the trends in business
and how more and more businesses are working away from
say something like a newspaper. If you tell me, I'm
putting my money into a new whose paper. I'm saying,
you're all fired if you say that you have a
nice digital platform. Okay, that's something else, But do you
(26:08):
need all of the money to go into something that's
that's almost archaic and extinct.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
But I didn't say anything about I had a problem
with them reducing their printing.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I have a problem with them saying that they're.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
One not paying anyone and reducing their printing and the
menial my word, menial amount of one hundred thousand dollars,
which could end this conversation altogether.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, they could pay that, but they don't want to.
They've deprioritized it, like it's being deprioritized all around the country.
And I keep telling people, you know, without a free press,
all you will ever know is what people with more
money and power than you want you to know. And
we're starting to get a glimpse of what that's going
to look like.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I say this against the backdrop of what's happening
with the La Times. I say this against the backdrop
of Jeff Bezos going down to mar A Lago this weekend,
and he is the owner of the Washington Post. Don't
think that that meeting won't have some sort of influence
on the editorial direction of the Washington Post, which goes
(27:11):
back to what Mark was saying, a free and independent
press not an arm of propaganda from the White House.
When you have the owner of the news outlet sitting
down with the President ostensibly to craft coverage which is
more favorable or more palatable, that you don't have a
free press anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And that's really not even up for debate.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, the free press is for holding the powerful accountable,
not cozying up to them.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I just don't know if there are enough outlets who
at one point in time supported the free press are
interested in doing so anymore. Well, let me put this
into some perspective for you. Think about it like you
think of the post office. It's a service. It's a
necessary service that Americans count on, and the free press
(27:57):
and the USPS are two of the only businesses in
the constitution.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
And our founding fathers weren't morons. They did that for
a reason. They are necessary for a democracy. I hear you.
Guess what's guess what's got a bullseye on us back
right now? The US Postal Service. That's why I Broughte
that up. I mean, it's it's this is just where
I'm just saying, like I hear you, I hear the
moral argument, I hear what's right and all that. I'm
(28:23):
just saying, I don't hear an argument for why USC
crying broke.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Same as McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
McDonald's could easily pay their employees without firing let people go.
They could, they could afford the wage increase easily, but
they don't because.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Of all the priorities.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Why we know they don't want to. So I'm saying,
if they if they're telling you outright, we don't want to.
I'm not hearing an argument for why they would say,
you know what, you're right, because they obviously don't care
about the things you're saying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No, no, no, agreed, Yes, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
If in my slight conspiratorial way, I do believe that
this is connected to what happened on campus with the
protests last year, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I think you're probably right.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And how do you convince somebody to start at ground
zero that we need a functioning free press If you've
got to explain that the conversation's pointless. Let me just
do one thing before we go to break. Which one
of the last arguments I had with the big authority
figures at the Seattle Times before I left there was
you got to get with the Times. Stop calling it
(29:29):
a newspaper. It's an information portal. Call it whatever you want.
But the actual physical wood pulp paper that you delivered,
we're gonna outlive that by a good deal. And so
it doesn't matter, you know, whether it's on people's computer
screens or on their porch in the morning. The paper
part is going to be gone sooner or later. That's irrelevant,
(29:50):
but the journalism must remain.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Absolutely you're listening too later with Moe Kelly on Demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And I just want to find you residence California residents
who purchase gas in southern California between February twenty to
twenty fifteen and November tenth of twenty fifteen. And no,
I'm not expecting you to remember the specifics of that time.
I don't even remember ten days ago, so neither will
you have to remember. But if you most likely purchase
(30:20):
gas in southern California between February twentieth and November tenth
of twenty fifteen. You can submit a claim by January eighth,
the deadline for a payment under the state's antitrust settlement.
We told you about this some months ago, and this
settlement resolved a lawsuit filed back in twenty twenty by
(30:40):
the California Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And if you don't need to.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Know all the specifics, you can just go ahead and
go to their website and.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Fill out your information. I did it. It took me
about maybe five six minutes. They're not asking a lot
of information.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You don't have to remember exactly where you purchase gas
or how much you purchase it's really bare bones.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You can go to.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
CALG dot cal Gaslitigation dot com. That's cal and then
the letter G dot cal Gas Litigation dot com and
you can input your information and if you're eligible for
this cash excuse me, eligible for this settlement, you have
to submit a claim by January eighth, twenty twenty five. Now,
(31:30):
if you were me, or if I were you, I
would just fill it out anyway. I mean, even if
you lived in Nebraska, you probably visited California.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
At that time.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
If you're listening to CAFI, you're probably in southern California.
And you probably purchase gas during that time, so you
might as well get a cut of the pie. I'm
not gonna be selfish. I'm not going to try to
keep you away from your cut. It's not gonna make
my cut any higher. And I'm curious to know if
anyone gets any money out of it, whether you get
like five dollars or twelve dollars, maybe you get one
free tank of gas. That would be enough for me.
But visit calg dot col gaslitigation dot com and do
(32:06):
so before January eighth of next year. If you want
to get a piece of this settlement. There's some fifty
million dollars in the settlement pool which is available is
going to be dispersed to all the people who want
to be part of this settlement, assuming that you apply
and your information is in order. Here's what the news
(32:28):
release had to say back in July. Quote, when companies
conspire to unlawfully raise prices for consumers, my office steps in,
just as we did with our litigation and settlement against
two gas trading firms that's Rob Bonta. As part of
this settlement, I am proud to deliver money back to
Californians who may have been impacted by the gas price
manipulation closed quote, Hey, Mark, heaven forbid, we actually have
(32:54):
an honest conversation about price gouging by gas companies.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Bite your commie pinko tongue.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Because anytime we say it before, it's like no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I know twenty twenty four, this is twenty fifteen. But
we're always told to lie that know, it's because of
it's a cost of oil, or you know, it's inflation,
or it's having to do with these policies that whoever's
in office. Back then it was Barack Obama. Where now
is Joe Biden? When it's like no, no, no, no, the
(33:23):
cost of oil, oil poor barrel has been relatively stable
for a number of years now.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
The cost of gas has not.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And you can't blame it all on the gas tax
because we're talking about wild fluctuations.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
We're talking about dollars and dollars more.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It doesn't take Hi more than a few seconds just
to google say exon mobile profits twenty twenty four or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You mean the record profits. You can get an idea
of it.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes, And we try to always let people know when
we say record profits.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
We're not talking about revenue.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We're talking about after expenses, after they've already paid all
their employees, after they've already done everything they need to
do to make sure they've covered their expenses.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We're talking about that money on top of.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It, the profits, the good stuff, record profits.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
And it's not just the oil companies. I mean, you
can apply this across the board to anything that's in
the news where you're hearing people complain about, say yesterday
it was Disneyland having to pay a wage theft settlement
while they were making record profits, or McDonald's and paying
people an increased minimum wage when people are like having
(34:35):
when corporations are having stock buybacks, most people don't want
to hear them complain about having to pay enough for
their employees simply to live indoors.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Okay, I'm not even trying to go that deep. I mean,
I'm just trying to talk about the simple stuff. Where
these corporations have raised their prices beyond the amount they
had to raise them to cover inflation, there's no question,
and they are being rewarded handsomely, and we want to
(35:04):
act like we don't see what's going on. I mean,
the royal wee. I mean, I see what's going on.
I think you probably do. Use the royal video lot
to you. I wish Stephen was here because then we
can see him. Ignore your bad jokes. Robin's not gonna
get anybody in your rim shots all night. Oh no, no,
(35:26):
that's not her job.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, that's not in her Bailey Wick, it's later with
mokelk IF I AM six forty lives everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
App, untangling the mess until it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
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