January 22, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at a list of cities with traffic that is worse than Los Angeles, a new study that reveals “12 of the best locations in the U.S. where the weather is perfect for living” and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
KFI, mister Mokelly here, were live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And so the President he's going to be coming to
Southern California, Los Angeles specifically, I think on Friday. President
Trump is coming to tour southern California wildfire devastation this Friday.
And this is what I'm looking for. I can't speak
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for in if you. I can't speak for Stephan, can't
speak for Twala or Mark Ronner. I don't know what
they're expecting when the new president comes to Southern California.
But for me, I look at it to get a
sense of what the next four years are going to be.
Live in this quasi adversarial relationship between Governor Gavin Newsom,
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Mayor Bass, and President Trump, because there's going to be
a lot of fighting over just about everything. We know
that Governor Gavin Newsom has presented himself as the Democratic
opposition to President Trump. The political meaning of that is
Gavin Newsom is still getting ready to run for president
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and he wants to build his national profile. The intrinsic
reality of that is I still need you to serve
as governor. I need you to make sure that California
gets everything it needs. And since President Trump knows that
Governor Newsom is going to be that thorn in his
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side that's burden this behind, I wonder how all that's
going to play out. I wonder if the President is
going to dangle federal aid over California slash Los Angeles
one to possibly make Newsome look bad on the world stage,
two to put a finger in his eye. And also
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Los Angeles clearly neither Los Angeles nor California with large
voted for Donald Trump. And we know that President Trump
is very keen on making sure that he reciprocates support
to those who supported him. And I want to see
how this is going to play out. I want to
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see if it's going to be four years of at
least a working relationship or is it just going to
be four years of chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's going to happen?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And basically that question was asked of Mayor Bass earlier
today as far as the invitation for President Trump to
come to California and Los Angeles and whether Mayor Bass
would be open to it and how she looked pond
such a visit.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Absolutely, I joined in the invitation to the President along
with the governor and Catherine Barger. So it's certainly my
hope to meet with him. I know it's going to
be a quick visit. I'll say welcome to Los Angeles
and immediately go into what we're facing right now and
how we hope to continue the federal partnership, which we
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already have, so it's not like things cut off from
one day to the next. You know, the FEMA representatives
that we have here, Army Corps of Engineers, I mean
that has continued, and you know, it is my hope
that he will he will be a very.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Supportive I need my government to work during disasters. When
I say my government, that means locally, that means on
a state level, that means on a federal national level,
Los Angeles. And I say Los Angeles in terms of
LA County, not just the city, because again Civics mayor
Baths is responsible for the city of Los Angele. That
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has nothing to do with Altadena, which is a county
of Los Angeles. I need my government collectively to work.
And when President Trump does come to Southern California, I personally,
again I can't speak for Tawala, Mark or Stefan.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm just speaking for myself.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
When the President does come to California, I don't want
to hear jack about what the President doesn't like about
the governor or what the governor doesn't like about the President.
I need the President to come here and then be
as helpful as possible for the people who are hurting
and who have lost everything here in southern California. That's
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all I want to hear. Now, maybe I'm hoping against hope.
Maybe there's more likely that it's going to be a
lot of political grand standing, name calling, insults, and FEMA dangling.
I hope it's not that, because I know of at
least now ten people, ten people who've lost houses or
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some degree of just about everything. And whereas it may
be enjoyable, it may be entertaining to see the back
and forth. I'm not looking for that. I particularly don't
even desire that. But if you're wondering, hey, Mo, what
did you think about Trump's first day as president? Is
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in like the Trump administration two point zero? Well, glad
you asked. You can always go to at mister Mokelly
on threads or or Instagram and you can check out there,
because I was interviewed on that this morning. Yes, it
was a long ass day. It started at like five thirty.
I got up and got to a spectrum at six
point thirty and did an interview at seven am, and
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then I haven't stopped since then.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's been a long day. But I say that to say.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
If you're wondering where I come out on the first
day of the Trump administration, there's a video and everything.
You can check it all out on threads and Instagram
at mister mo Kelly and then you can leave your commentary.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh oh that was alongside MO.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I mean, look, I appreciate your youthful optimism. I really
really do. I expect there to be nothing but gnashing
of the teeth, name calling, absolute disrespect of those within
the fire zones, the evacuees, and talking down to those
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of us who have been impacted by the wildfires, and
blaming us for voting for Governor Newsom as he already has.
I expect more of that because the cameras will be
on him and it will be his opportunity to go
full on President Trump as he always has.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I think you have.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
A better leg to stand on than anyone because you
have been directly and personally impacted by the fire in
other words, what I'm talking about in my hopes and
the needs of Southern Californians that directly includes you. And
I hear from a lot of people who are just
watching this on TV. I hear from a lot of
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people who are not even in the state and have
no point of reference.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You are literally in the middle of it all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Maybe I am being naive and hoping that we can
rise above the moment and be a little bit more
than what we've been in years past. But I and
there's no denying the lack of relationship between Newsome and
Trump and how the politics of the moment and the
politics of the future are going to coincide, or I
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should say collide on Friday. But it would sure be
nice if they could just go ahead, and I mean
this literally shake hands at the airport, which is customary.
The president comes in, the governor meets the president, they
shake hands, and they go on about the doing the
business of the country, the state, and the city doing
what needs to be to get done, as opposed to
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trying to score political points. I am going to reserve
judgment until Friday happens, and then we will respond with
respect to what is said, what is done what is
not done? Because I care most about the people, not
the politics. I'm not thinking about twenty twenty eight or
who might be running. I recognize that it's going to
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be a variable in the equation of how these two
are going to interact with each other. I just hope
that the people come first. It's Later with mo Kelly
k if I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and on the other side of the break,
we're going to talk about the cities with worse traffic,
if you can believe it, than LA, Worse than LA
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worse what And I'm like, what what?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Hey, Stephen, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But if you have ever lived in LA or even
visited LA, you know that traffic is absolutely horrible, with
the capital horrible. It is always bad. It doesn't matter
if it's a holiday, Sunday, any day that ends and wide,
the traffic is horrible in Los Angeles. But you might
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be surprised to know that it's not the worst in
the country. According to navigational guide company tom Tom, they
have a traffic index ranking of the worst traffic in
the United States, and it's long story short, it's about
the average travel time per six miles, average travel time
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per six miles.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We'll give you the top ten.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But Los Angeles as bad as our traffic is, and
I assume this is Los Angeles City. I don't know
if it's considering it to be Los Angeles County in
the unincorporated areas, but Los Angeles as it's listed is
number fourteen. We didn't even make the top ten. I
know Mark is kind of suspect.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah, based on my ride in here this evening, it
seems like we should be way up there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Anecdotal anecdotal.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I gave a couple anecdotal fingers on the way in plural,
all right, LA was at number fourteen.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Number ten Miami with seventeen minutes and three seconds. That's
average time to drive six miles. And if you're wondering,
Los Angeles was fifteen minutes and fifty three seconds. Miamis
at number ten with seventeen minutes three seconds. Number nine
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New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana was seventeen minutes and thirty
seven seconds on average to travel six miles.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Number eight.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I can confirm yes, this city should be in the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Seventeen minutes and fifty six seconds to travel six miles.
But the difference is, and I can say, LA is
so spread out. It's not the same type of type
of travel you may be on the roads in DC,
but everything is so compact. That's part of the problem.
LA has more cars on the road period DC. Everyone's
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trying to get to these places which are maybe i'll
say a five mile radius downtown coming in at number seven.
Regarding Tom Tom's Traffic Index ranking for twenty twenty four, Columbia,
South Carolina average travel time across six miles is eighteen
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minutes twenty five seconds. I've never been to Columbia. I've
never been to South Carolina. I don't think that they're
dealing with the amount of traffic. Maybe the roads are
just narrower, two lane highways or something each way. I
don't know, but they couldn't possibly have as much car
traffic as LA because just for population density coming at
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number six, the worst traffic in America, LA was number fourteen. Yeah,
we need to make a distinction as far as population density.
New Haven, Connecticut eighteen minutes and thirty eight seconds on
average to travel six miles. But it's New Haven. I mean,
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how many cars can be in New Haven, Connecticut? I've
been in Connecticut.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Don't they all just drive those penny Farthing bicycles with
the giant front wheel there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Not only that LA is bigger than Connecticut, I should
say so, coming in at number five and TWELLA might
have something to say about this. So the worst traffic
in America for twenty twenty four. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the worst,
Top five at least.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yes, it's pretty bad, Okay, pretty bad?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Number four. I can definitely say something about this. I
was just there days ago. Chicago, Illinois nineteen minutes and
ten seconds to travel on average six miles.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, look, no one should argue that Chicago shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
On this list.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Take the l It is definitely top three, even they
have it at number four, but I would put it top.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Three worse and deadliest. I don't know Chicago has to
be on worse and deadliest because there's a lot of
car to car shooting action and jumping out of car
shooting action. Well though, LA as well, I'm just saying there,
I think there should be some caveats to this list.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If you're putting it as worse than LA.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's just about traffic and speed time to get from
A to B. There's no category for catching a bullet
along the way, all right. Number three of the worst
traffic not dangerous, but worst traffic as in flow in
the United States for twenty twenty four. I can't speak
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on this. I've never been to the state. Honolulu, Hawaii
nineteen minutes and fifty six seconds on average to go
six miles. Give me some comparison, some a comparing contrast.
Honolulu nineteen minutes fifty six seconds, LA fifteen minutes and
fifty three seconds. So Honolulu is drastically worse than LA
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according to Tom Tom's metrics.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
But everybody who moves there loves it. Jack Lord moved there.
Who's the guy in the Paladin Actor? He moved there.
He loved it. They all find that trade off.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Exceps.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
If you're moving there, most likely you are not moving
there and having to deal with a nine to five
and dealing with traffic on an everyday basis.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
So unless you are the star of have Gun, will
travel forget about it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, I don't have that type of money. But you know,
I hear it's beautiful. Coming in at number two the
worst traffic index ranking in America according to Tom Tom.
And this is average travel time per six miles.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I left my heart in San Francisco. That was number
one too. That makes sense.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Yeah, I would have put it in number one. San Francisco.
The traffic was god awful. And this is coming from
someone who hates LA traffic.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, just to let you know before we let you know.
Number one, Number twelve was Seattle. Mark, Number thirteen battles
traffic is terrible, awful. Number fifteen mark is Boise, Idaho. No,
there's only one road, there's only four.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Road.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Lots of traffic here. Is there like a gang of
Nazis standing in all the roads?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I done? Possibly? Yeah, quite possible. That makes no sense
to me.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Lots of yes. No, to Walla had a good point.
It's one lane and if even lane highway, both directions,
both city. It's not like the places up north, which
are all you know, like white supremacist camps.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
You got to get around the cows, you got to
get around the tractors.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Boise is a normal city. And see I don't get this.
They have Atlanta at number thirty five. Atlanta has really
bad traffic. I heard. That's really I mean really bad.
If we're just talking about flow and time to get
six miles. Atlanta's coming in at number thirty five at
twelve minutes and forty five seconds on average.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Green put that right under La.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I would they're comparable cities as far as traffic, and
that's the city I've driven in and been in many times.
Did you know that Long Beach came in at number
fifty one with eleven minutes and twenty seven seconds. Long
beachink that damn big?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah? Really yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean if you're going from point A to point
B in Long Beach, you're staying in Long Beach. Yes,
maybe the traffic isn't that bad getting too Long Beach. No, yeah,
I don't go to Long Beach for any reason because
the traffic getting there is god awful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I refuse to go to Long Beach. When you tell
a lie, I will jump in. Fifty six was San
Diego eleven minutes and eighteen seconds, Anaheim fifty nine, ten
minutes and fifty five seconds. Bakerfield came in at number
sixty one and Sacramento seventy two, Riverside River Tucky came
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in at seventy nine, Fresnow at eighty four, Ventura at
eighty seven, and all those were over nine minutes. But
coming in at number one the worst traffic according to
Tom Tom. Now, I don't know, you know, this is
just Tom Tom. It's not Momo. But Tom Tom any guesses.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
New York.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
TWELLA, it's got to be New York. I don't even
have the listener that was that was gonna be mine.
New York is number one worst track. But but the
difference is, if you've ever been to New York, you
don't need to drive anywhere. You can get on a
subway and go anywhere in all the boroughs or walk
right right.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
But anytime I've been in New York, especially Manhattan, the
streets look just like they do in the movies, where
it's just seven rows of cars all hitting one direction
and no one going anywhere fast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, it's a it's traffic. It's locked at every intersection
in New York. Yeah, always always were. People are just
you know, they're not going to make the light, The
traffic isn't going to way, so they just go ahead
and block the intersection.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I always wondered why you have a car, But it's
probably someone going through the city to get like further
up or somewhere else. Yes, yeah, they're not, they're not.
They don't live there. Yeah, you're trying to get to
Brooklyn or something. But even still you can get on
the train and get there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But it's primarily caves, town cars taking business folks and
ubers and lifts. It's not really passengers driving around because
anyone who drives into New York you go to one
of those ridiculous uh stackamo car spots to park your
car on the outskirts. Once you get inside, again it's
town cars picking up business folks. It's calves and it's
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like ride hill services, and that's what's blocking up every intersection.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Now I wouldn't want to live there for the weather,
not for the traffic, not for the cost of living.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It has no upside as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Aliens always attack you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
In every movie. Yeah, there is that. The Kaiju problem
is not to be ignored. I almost moved there. I
almost got a job with Comedy Central out of grad school,
and I got so Closter just on a trip there,
I realized like I couldn't hack it.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And also, you know what really turned me off to
New York. I know, we gotta go to break just
to smell. And I'm only speaking of Manhattan. That city
smells awful and I have almost no sense of smell.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's smell.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The smell, yes, trash, garbage, rancid ccs Urine twenty four
to seven. I'm just walking down the street in Manhattan.
It's like it's smells. It's horrible, every single day, all day,
especially in the summer. Especially in the summer. Yeah, it's
like you're walking through people passing gas. It's horriffic. That's
not the analogy or a metaphor I we use, but
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it's afperate. It's appropriate. It's darker, Come get crop dusted.
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Speaker 6 (20:46):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And according to Mark Ronner and some other folks, we
might get some rain before the end of the week.
But it not begs I'm not allowed to say begs
the question. It calls for the question, It raises the question,
lifts the question, it exposes of the question.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It requires the question. Yes, yes, Which.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
City in California or around the country has the best weather?
You know, we talk about the fires, Not to be funny,
but we talk about the fires and how they have
been made worse due to the dryness and lack of rain.
But we talk about how the weather is so great
here in Los Angeles, California, more generally. Then, I came
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across the study ten of the best places in the
US to live for the weather, and it's taken into
account extreme temperatures either too hot or too cold at
different times of a year. Let's see if and where
Los Angeles ranks on this list. Top ten cities in
America according to the weather. Number ten Nolans, Louisiana. You
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get two hundred and twelve sunny days a year, and
when it rains the other one hundred and fourteen, it
usually clears up quickly.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Number nine Mobile La La Labama.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No, No, you'll enjoy two hundred and twenty sunny days.
Probably one hundred and eighty of them will be humid
and hot as hell, and it has one hundred and
twenty rainy days, one of the rainiest in the Gulf
Coast location as in the Gulf of America.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Also, three hundred and sixty five of those days will
be spent in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Correct, that's the trade off? Miss that Who's how did
you miss that job taking? I'm taking it away from him. Man,
that was funny talking about current events. And that's on
the fly.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
No, no, no, there's no makeup. Okay, it's like an apology.
Four days later, I'm still mad.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Number eight Charleston, South Carolina. But it's South Carolina. You
know again, I go back to the humidity. You know,
they say southern charm and the weather. Okay whatever. Number
seven Salinas, California. It's a small farming hub down south
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of the Bay Area. Just in case you didn't know.
You get three hundred and five rain free days a year,
and the temperature stay between forty two degrees fahrenheit and
seventy two degrees, rarely dipping below thirty four or rising
above eighty four.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Number six.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
San Jose Day, California, two hundred and fifty sunny days
each year sixty two rainy days, but you can enjoy
outdoor activities just about year round.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Number five.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
San Diego two hundred and fifty sunny days and only
forty rainy days. And if you're tired of jury winters,
San Diego has you covered with beautiful parks, beaches, hiking trails, lakes,
and even golf courses. Yeah, it's like La, just not
as sexy. Number four. I won't sing this time. San
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Francisco two hundred and ninety eight rain free days a year,
but at San Francisco when you go to when you
live in La San Francisco is not a better option.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Number three, Yay yay the Laho, California, two hundred and
fifty sunny days a year and temperatures hover between forty
eight and seventy degrees, eighteen inches of rain mostly in
winter and coming in at number two. I love La
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number two in the country. As far as weather, I
can't really argue with it. I was hoping for number one,
but we got number two. Two hundred and eighty days
sunny that is, and only thirty five rainy ones. And
that might be high I think it's fewer than thirty five. Yeah,
you'll notice cooler breezes by the ocean and warmer sunnier
days inland. The city of angels has parked with earth,
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packed with urban parks, wild canyons and iconic beaches. I
don't know if LA has one iconic beach, not one.
I love La, but let's be honest. There's nothing iconic
about any La beach.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, no, no, no. They didn't say anything about poop in
the water.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But iconic Venice Beach is the most iconic beach in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Board walk I wouldn't even call it a beach walk WORKUS.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Beach and the Santa Monica Pier I eat on the beach,
those are iconic. Those are tourist destinations.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, if you live here, it's not impressive. But otherwise,
like Tualla, say, that's yeah. I think if you have
an abundance of feces in your beach water, they.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Don't get ports of thea in the South iconic. They
don't get poop in the water reports, they don't get
those iconic.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Number one the number one place to live in the
US for the weather, at least Saint Barbara Santa Barbara, California.
They say one word perfect. Santa Barbara's weather is never
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too hot or too cold. Tuck between the Pacific Ocean
and a protective mountain range, This southern California gym offers
over two hundred and eighty sunny days a year and
stays around fifty to five to sixty five degrees year round.
I've been to Santa Barbara. I don't say maybe a
handful of times, maybe five times in my life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I haven't stayed there for any ordinate amount of time
to say, yeah, I would like to live here, but
it's cool.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You know, it's definitely retirement area. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Maybe that's it, Maybe because I didn't perceive it as
fast enough for me. Yeah, the weather's not enough for
me to move up there. I need more than that.
I need some sort of nightlife. I need some hookers
on the avenue. I need, you know, loud blaring music.
I need Mark Roner flipping off people. I need something
other than just beautiful weather. Just a few, not a lot,
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not a lot, just here and there, some street takeovers
now and then, not all the time, just to remind
me that I'm in southern California. I'm not asking for
a lot. What are you gonna says? What are we
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Would Santa Barbara be like our like the West coast
version of Florida when people go to retire. I don't
know if people retired to Santa Barbara from La We
more so to Arizona. I should Santa Barbara? True, it's
kind of pricey. It is expensive. What are you gonna
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say anything else?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's it? Be sure, it's it all right.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I was gonna give you as much time as possible
because you don't give a damn about giving me a
rim shot when I deserve one.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I just wanted you to speak for yourself. Oh quit
work in the ref.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I know this directly impacts Mark Runner. This is going
to change his life. Cost Co workers what might even
impact my life because my wife swears by Costco. Costco
workers authorize their own strike on Sunday. We're talking about
thousands and thousands of workers across the country and their deal,
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their current agreement, which covers more than eighteen thousand, to
be exact, expires on January thirty first, and we all
know that when you have the announcement of a strike authorization,
it's being used as a negotiation tactic to leverage management
into coming to the table, hopefully securing a quote unquote
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better deal and getting everyone back to work. The Teamster
state that Costco posted a one hundred and thirty five
percent increase in that profit since twenty eighteen. And I
say that to Mark Ronerd because this is an ongoing
conversation we have as far as corporate profits growing out
of control, you know, exponentially, where workers' wages have remained
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relatively stagnant, and that's part of the reason why profits
have spiraled out of control.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I would say, also, don't forget the cheap hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, if anything, my father, when he was alive, he
was trying to subsidize all of Costco by the amount
of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He was no true story.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
My father would go to Costco to say, four or
five times a week just to get a hot dog.
Now he may get something else, but he damn sure
was gonna get at least a hot dog while he
was there.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
They are hard to resist.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I found it hard to resist the hot dog or
the pizza, because when my wife would take me to Costco,
it was going to be one of the other or both,
and I usually ended up.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
With the pizza. The pizzas are insanely cheap. They're just
kind of average. But again, for what ten bucks for
a large pizza, how can you walk away from that
hot I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Going to Costco to get food for the quality. I'm
getting it for the price and convenience.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Volume, volume volume.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's the only place where you can get socks and
shoes and fried chicken rolls, whatever you want. They have
it at Bulk.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I actually go there quite frequently because it was my
understanding that Costco treated their employees as well. So this news.
I just saw this news this evening and it was
kind of shocking to me. You never hear anything bad
about the way Costco treats their people, if not like
Walmart or McDonald's where they pay them so low that
the taxpayers have to pick up all the slack with
public services. Costco has a good reputation and I felt
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okay about going there.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, I'm trying to be fair. This is obviously from
the side of the workers. And fair as far as
a contract agreement is relative.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
This is what the Teamsters had to say.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Our members have spoken loud and clear. Costco must deliver
a fair contract. You know, we don't know what that
means yet, or they'll be held accountable. Costco's greedy executives
have less than two weeks to do the right thing.
If they refuse, they'll have no one to blame but
themselves when our members go on strike. Close Quote that
was a very very subtle and nuanced letter from the
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Teamsters General President Sean M.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
O'Brien.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Well, I don't want to cross a picket line to
get a tube steak over the weekends.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I honestly don't think or believe, and I may be wrong,
but I don't get the sense that this is actually
going to head to a strike. Costco probably will. They
have what a week and a half or so. That's
not too long. I mean, that's not too short of
a time in which to iron out a deal. I
don't think Costco wants to have a strike. I'm pretty
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sure they would rather avoid a strike than have a
protracted labor stoppage in which they lose even more money.
Than presumably they would if they were to just sit
down at the table and hammer it out some sort
of deal.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
And they've got the thing where you scan your card
at the door. I wonder if it's an issue that
they have like one less employee now because of that.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Maybe. But see that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It didn't go into the specifics like we're asking for this,
we want that we have been been cheated out of this,
or we should be getting that. It's been very vague,
and that's why I get the sense that I don't
think they're actually going to go on strike. This is
just a public threat to embarrass the Costco name, because,
like you said, Mark, we don't hear about Costco mistreating
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its workers. It may happen, but I'm saying it's never
risen to my level on a public level where I
heard about it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
I'll tell you what should be the main bargaining issue
with Costco is when they're closing up, the lady at
the back of the store shouting at people to get
the hell out, bargain that away, somehow, get invest in
a PA system or flick the lights on and off
or something, because that's just one step shy of turning
the hose on people.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Get the hell out. They are not subtle with closing time.
You don't have to go home, but you can't get here.
Get out of here with your palette of stuff. We'll
follow the story and see where it leads. My bed
is they won't go on strike. We'll see if I'm
right or wrong. Okay, if I am six forty live
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Speaker 6 (33:45):
Common Sense left California a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
We're bringing it back.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
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Speaker 4 (34:00):
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And so the President he's going to be coming to
Southern California, Los Angeles specifically, I think on Friday. President
Trump is coming to tour southern California wildfire devastation this Friday.
And this is what I'm looking for. I can't speak
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for in if you. I can't speak for Stephan, can't
speak for Twala or Mark Ronner. I don't know what
they're expecting when the new president comes to Southern California.
But for me, I look at it to get a
sense of what the next four years are going to be.
Live in this quasi adversarial relationship between Governor Gavin Newsom,
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Mayor Bass, and President Trump, because there's going to be
a lot of fighting over just about everything. We know
that Governor Gavin Newsom has presented himself as the Democratic
opposition to President Trump. The political meaning of that is
Gavin Newsom is still getting ready to run for president
(01:29):
and he wants to build his national profile. The intrinsic
reality of that is I still need you to serve
as governor. I need you to make sure that California
gets everything it needs. And since President Trump knows that
Governor Newsom is going to be that thorn in his
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side that's burden this behind, I wonder how all that's
going to play out. I wonder if the President is
going to dangle federal aid over California slash Los Angeles
one to possibly make Newsome look bad on the world stage,
two to put a finger in his eye. And also
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Los Angeles clearly neither Los Angeles nor California with large
voted for Donald Trump. And we know that President Trump
is very keen on making sure that he reciprocates support
to those who supported him. And I want to see
how this is going to play out. I want to
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see if it's going to be four years of at
least a working relationship or is it just going to
be four years of chaos.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What's going to happen?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And basically that question was asked of Mayor Bass earlier
today as far as the invitation for President Trump to
come to California and Los Angeles and whether Mayor Bass
would be open to it and how she looked pond
such a visit.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Absolutely, I joined in the invitation to the President along
with the governor and Catherine Barger. So it's certainly my
hope to meet with him. I know it's going to
be a quick visit. I'll say welcome to Los Angeles
and immediately go into what we're facing right now and
how we hope to continue the federal partnership, which we
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already have, so it's not like things cut off from
one day to the next. You know, the FEMA representatives
that we have here, Army Corps of Engineers, I mean
that has continued, and you know, it is my hope
that he will he will be a very.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Supportive I need my government to work during disasters. When
I say my government, that means locally, that means on
a state level, that means on a federal national level,
Los Angeles. And I say Los Angeles in terms of
LA County, not just the city, because again Civics mayor
Baths is responsible for the city of Los Angele. That
(04:00):
has nothing to do with Altadena, which is a county
of Los Angeles. I need my government collectively to work.
And when President Trump does come to Southern California, I personally,
again I can't speak for Tawala, Mark or Stefan.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm just speaking for myself.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
When the President does come to California, I don't want
to hear jack about what the President doesn't like about
the governor or what the governor doesn't like about the President.
I need the President to come here and then be
as helpful as possible for the people who are hurting
and who have lost everything here in southern California. That's
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all I want to hear. Now, maybe I'm hoping against hope.
Maybe there's more likely that it's going to be a
lot of political grand standing, name calling, insults, and FEMA dangling.
I hope it's not that, because I know of at
least now ten people, ten people who've lost houses or
(05:01):
some degree of just about everything. And whereas it may
be enjoyable, it may be entertaining to see the back
and forth. I'm not looking for that. I particularly don't
even desire that. But if you're wondering, hey, Mo, what
did you think about Trump's first day as president? Is
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in like the Trump administration two point zero? Well, glad
you asked. You can always go to at mister Mokelly
on threads or or Instagram and you can check out there,
because I was interviewed on that this morning. Yes, it
was a long ass day. It started at like five thirty.
I got up and got to a spectrum at six
point thirty and did an interview at seven am, and
(05:44):
then I haven't stopped since then.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's been a long day. But I say that to say.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
If you're wondering where I come out on the first
day of the Trump administration, there's a video and everything.
You can check it all out on threads and Instagram
at mister mo Kelly and then you can leave your commentary.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh oh that was alongside MO.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I mean, look, I appreciate your youthful optimism. I really
really do. I expect there to be nothing but gnashing
of the teeth, name calling, absolute disrespect of those within
the fire zones, the evacuees, and talking down to those
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of us who have been impacted by the wildfires, and
blaming us for voting for Governor Newsom as he already has.
I expect more of that because the cameras will be
on him and it will be his opportunity to go
full on President Trump as he always has.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I think you have.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
A better leg to stand on than anyone because you
have been directly and personally impacted by the fire in
other words, what I'm talking about in my hopes and
the needs of Southern Californians that directly includes you. And
I hear from a lot of people who are just
watching this on TV. I hear from a lot of
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people who are not even in the state and have
no point of reference.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You are literally in the middle of it all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Maybe I am being naive and hoping that we can
rise above the moment and be a little bit more
than what we've been in years past. But I and
there's no denying the lack of relationship between Newsome and
Trump and how the politics of the moment and the
politics of the future are going to coincide, or I
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should say collide on Friday. But it would sure be
nice if they could just go ahead, and I mean
this literally shake hands at the airport, which is customary.
The president comes in, the governor meets the president, they
shake hands, and they go on about the doing the
business of the country, the state, and the city doing
what needs to be to get done, as opposed to
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trying to score political points. I am going to reserve
judgment until Friday happens, and then we will respond with
respect to what is said, what is done what is
not done? Because I care most about the people, not
the politics. I'm not thinking about twenty twenty eight or
who might be running. I recognize that it's going to
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be a variable in the equation of how these two
are going to interact with each other. I just hope
that the people come first. It's Later with mo Kelly
k if I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app and on the other side of the break,
we're going to talk about the cities with worse traffic,
if you can believe it, than LA, Worse than LA
(08:44):
worse what And I'm like, what what?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Hey, Stephen, you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But if you have ever lived in LA or even
visited LA, you know that traffic is absolutely horrible, with
the capital horrible. It is always bad. It doesn't matter
if it's a holiday, Sunday, any day that ends and wide,
the traffic is horrible in Los Angeles. But you might
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be surprised to know that it's not the worst in
the country. According to navigational guide company tom Tom, they
have a traffic index ranking of the worst traffic in
the United States, and it's long story short, it's about
the average travel time per six miles, average travel time
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per six miles.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We'll give you the top ten.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But Los Angeles as bad as our traffic is, and
I assume this is Los Angeles City. I don't know
if it's considering it to be Los Angeles County in
the unincorporated areas, but Los Angeles as it's listed is
number fourteen. We didn't even make the top ten. I
know Mark is kind of suspect.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah, based on my ride in here this evening, it
seems like we should be way up there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Anecdotal anecdotal.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I gave a couple anecdotal fingers on the way in plural,
all right, LA was at number fourteen.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Number ten Miami with seventeen minutes and three seconds. That's
average time to drive six miles. And if you're wondering,
Los Angeles was fifteen minutes and fifty three seconds. Miamis
at number ten with seventeen minutes three seconds. Number nine
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New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana was seventeen minutes and thirty
seven seconds on average to travel six miles.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Number eight.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I can confirm yes, this city should be in the
top ten.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Seventeen minutes and fifty six seconds to travel six miles.
But the difference is, and I can say, LA is
so spread out. It's not the same type of type
of travel you may be on the roads in DC,
but everything is so compact. That's part of the problem.
LA has more cars on the road period DC. Everyone's
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trying to get to these places which are maybe i'll
say a five mile radius downtown coming in at number seven.
Regarding Tom Tom's Traffic Index ranking for twenty twenty four, Columbia,
South Carolina average travel time across six miles is eighteen
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minutes twenty five seconds. I've never been to Columbia. I've
never been to South Carolina. I don't think that they're
dealing with the amount of traffic. Maybe the roads are
just narrower, two lane highways or something each way. I
don't know, but they couldn't possibly have as much car
traffic as LA because just for population density coming at
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number six, the worst traffic in America, LA was number fourteen. Yeah,
we need to make a distinction as far as population density.
New Haven, Connecticut eighteen minutes and thirty eight seconds on
average to travel six miles. But it's New Haven. I mean,
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how many cars can be in New Haven, Connecticut? I've
been in Connecticut.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Don't they all just drive those penny Farthing bicycles with
the giant front wheel there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Not only that LA is bigger than Connecticut, I should
say so, coming in at number five and TWELLA might
have something to say about this. So the worst traffic
in America for twenty twenty four. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the worst,
Top five at least.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yes, it's pretty bad, Okay, pretty bad?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Number four. I can definitely say something about this. I
was just there days ago. Chicago, Illinois nineteen minutes and
ten seconds to travel on average six miles.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, look, no one should argue that Chicago shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
On this list.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Take the l It is definitely top three, even they
have it at number four, but I would put it top.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Three worse and deadliest. I don't know Chicago has to
be on worse and deadliest because there's a lot of
car to car shooting action and jumping out of car
shooting action. Well though, LA as well, I'm just saying there,
I think there should be some caveats to this list.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If you're putting it as worse than LA.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's just about traffic and speed time to get from
A to B. There's no category for catching a bullet
along the way, all right. Number three of the worst
traffic not dangerous, but worst traffic as in flow in
the United States for twenty twenty four. I can't speak
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on this. I've never been to the state. Honolulu, Hawaii
nineteen minutes and fifty six seconds on average to go
six miles. Give me some comparison, some a comparing contrast.
Honolulu nineteen minutes fifty six seconds, LA fifteen minutes and
fifty three seconds. So Honolulu is drastically worse than LA
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according to Tom Tom's metrics.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
But everybody who moves there loves it. Jack Lord moved there.
Who's the guy in the Paladin Actor? He moved there.
He loved it. They all find that trade off.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Exceps.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
If you're moving there, most likely you are not moving
there and having to deal with a nine to five
and dealing with traffic on an everyday basis.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
So unless you are the star of have Gun, will
travel forget about it.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, I don't have that type of money. But you know,
I hear it's beautiful. Coming in at number two the
worst traffic index ranking in America according to Tom Tom.
And this is average travel time per six miles.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I left my heart in San Francisco. That was number
one too. That makes sense.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Yeah, I would have put it in number one. San Francisco.
The traffic was god awful. And this is coming from
someone who hates LA traffic.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, just to let you know before we let you know.
Number one, Number twelve was Seattle. Mark, Number thirteen battles
traffic is terrible, awful. Number fifteen mark is Boise, Idaho. No,
there's only one road, there's only four.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Road.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Lots of traffic here. Is there like a gang of
Nazis standing in all the roads?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I done? Possibly? Yeah, quite possible. That makes no sense
to me.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Lots of yes. No, to Walla had a good point.
It's one lane and if even lane highway, both directions,
both city. It's not like the places up north, which
are all you know, like white supremacist camps.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
You got to get around the cows, you got to
get around the tractors.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Boise is a normal city. And see I don't get this.
They have Atlanta at number thirty five. Atlanta has really
bad traffic. I heard. That's really I mean really bad.
If we're just talking about flow and time to get
six miles. Atlanta's coming in at number thirty five at
twelve minutes and forty five seconds on average.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Green put that right under La.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I would they're comparable cities as far as traffic, and
that's the city I've driven in and been in many times.
Did you know that Long Beach came in at number
fifty one with eleven minutes and twenty seven seconds. Long
beachink that damn big?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah? Really yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean if you're going from point A to point
B in Long Beach, you're staying in Long Beach. Yes,
maybe the traffic isn't that bad getting too Long Beach. No, yeah,
I don't go to Long Beach for any reason because
the traffic getting there is god awful.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I refuse to go to Long Beach. When you tell
a lie, I will jump in. Fifty six was San
Diego eleven minutes and eighteen seconds, Anaheim fifty nine, ten
minutes and fifty five seconds. Bakerfield came in at number
sixty one and Sacramento seventy two, Riverside River Tucky came
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in at seventy nine, Fresnow at eighty four, Ventura at
eighty seven, and all those were over nine minutes. But
coming in at number one the worst traffic according to
Tom Tom. Now, I don't know, you know, this is
just Tom Tom. It's not Momo. But Tom Tom any guesses.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
New York.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
TWELLA, it's got to be New York. I don't even
have the listener that was that was gonna be mine.
New York is number one worst track. But but the
difference is, if you've ever been to New York, you
don't need to drive anywhere. You can get on a
subway and go anywhere in all the boroughs or walk
right right.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
But anytime I've been in New York, especially Manhattan, the
streets look just like they do in the movies, where
it's just seven rows of cars all hitting one direction
and no one going anywhere fast.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, it's a it's traffic. It's locked at every intersection
in New York. Yeah, always always were. People are just
you know, they're not going to make the light, The
traffic isn't going to way, so they just go ahead
and block the intersection.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I always wondered why you have a car, But it's
probably someone going through the city to get like further
up or somewhere else. Yes, yeah, they're not, they're not.
They don't live there. Yeah, you're trying to get to
Brooklyn or something. But even still you can get on
the train and get there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
But it's primarily caves, town cars taking business folks and
ubers and lifts. It's not really passengers driving around because
anyone who drives into New York you go to one
of those ridiculous uh stackamo car spots to park your
car on the outskirts. Once you get inside, again it's
town cars picking up business folks. It's calves and it's
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like ride hill services, and that's what's blocking up every intersection.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Now I wouldn't want to live there for the weather,
not for the traffic, not for the cost of living.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It has no upside as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Aliens always attack you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
In every movie. Yeah, there is that. The Kaiju problem
is not to be ignored. I almost moved there. I
almost got a job with Comedy Central out of grad school,
and I got so Closter just on a trip there,
I realized like I couldn't hack it.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And also, you know what really turned me off to
New York. I know, we gotta go to break just
to smell. And I'm only speaking of Manhattan. That city
smells awful and I have almost no sense of smell.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It's smell.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The smell, yes, trash, garbage, rancid ccs Urine twenty four
to seven. I'm just walking down the street in Manhattan.
It's like it's smells. It's horrible, every single day, all day,
especially in the summer. Especially in the summer. Yeah, it's
like you're walking through people passing gas. It's horriffic. That's
not the analogy or a metaphor I we use, but
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it's afperate. It's appropriate. It's darker, Come get crop dusted.
It's Later with mo Kelly if I AM six forty.
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Speaker 6 (20:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And according to Mark Ronner and some other folks, we
might get some rain before the end of the week.
But it not begs I'm not allowed to say begs
the question. It calls for the question, It raises the question,
lifts the question, it exposes of the question.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It requires the question. Yes, yes, Which.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
City in California or around the country has the best weather?
You know, we talk about the fires, Not to be funny,
but we talk about the fires and how they have
been made worse due to the dryness and lack of rain.
But we talk about how the weather is so great
here in Los Angeles, California, more generally. Then, I came
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across the study ten of the best places in the
US to live for the weather, and it's taken into
account extreme temperatures either too hot or too cold at
different times of a year. Let's see if and where
Los Angeles ranks on this list. Top ten cities in
America according to the weather. Number ten Nolans, Louisiana. You
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get two hundred and twelve sunny days a year, and
when it rains the other one hundred and fourteen, it
usually clears up quickly.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Number nine Mobile La La Labama.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No, No, you'll enjoy two hundred and twenty sunny days.
Probably one hundred and eighty of them will be humid
and hot as hell, and it has one hundred and
twenty rainy days, one of the rainiest in the Gulf
Coast location as in the Gulf of America.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Also, three hundred and sixty five of those days will
be spent in Alabama.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Correct, that's the trade off? Miss that Who's how did
you miss that job taking? I'm taking it away from him. Man,
that was funny talking about current events. And that's on
the fly.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
No, no, no, there's no makeup. Okay, it's like an apology.
Four days later, I'm still mad.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Number eight Charleston, South Carolina. But it's South Carolina. You
know again, I go back to the humidity. You know,
they say southern charm and the weather. Okay whatever. Number
seven Salinas, California. It's a small farming hub down south
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of the Bay Area. Just in case you didn't know.
You get three hundred and five rain free days a year,
and the temperature stay between forty two degrees fahrenheit and
seventy two degrees, rarely dipping below thirty four or rising
above eighty four.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Number six.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
San Jose Day, California, two hundred and fifty sunny days
each year sixty two rainy days, but you can enjoy
outdoor activities just about year round.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Number five.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
San Diego two hundred and fifty sunny days and only
forty rainy days. And if you're tired of jury winters,
San Diego has you covered with beautiful parks, beaches, hiking trails, lakes,
and even golf courses. Yeah, it's like La, just not
as sexy. Number four. I won't sing this time. San
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Francisco two hundred and ninety eight rain free days a year,
but at San Francisco when you go to when you
live in La San Francisco is not a better option.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Number three, Yay yay the Laho, California, two hundred and
fifty sunny days a year and temperatures hover between forty
eight and seventy degrees, eighteen inches of rain mostly in
winter and coming in at number two. I love La
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number two in the country. As far as weather, I
can't really argue with it. I was hoping for number one,
but we got number two. Two hundred and eighty days
sunny that is, and only thirty five rainy ones. And
that might be high I think it's fewer than thirty five. Yeah,
you'll notice cooler breezes by the ocean and warmer sunnier
days inland. The city of angels has parked with earth,
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packed with urban parks, wild canyons and iconic beaches. I
don't know if LA has one iconic beach, not one.
I love La, but let's be honest. There's nothing iconic
about any La beach.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
No, no, no, no. They didn't say anything about poop in
the water.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But iconic Venice Beach is the most iconic beach in
the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Board walk I wouldn't even call it a beach walk WORKUS.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Beach and the Santa Monica Pier I eat on the beach,
those are iconic. Those are tourist destinations.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, if you live here, it's not impressive. But otherwise,
like Tualla, say, that's yeah. I think if you have
an abundance of feces in your beach water, they.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Don't get ports of thea in the South iconic. They
don't get poop in the water reports, they don't get
those iconic.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Number one the number one place to live in the
US for the weather, at least Saint Barbara Santa Barbara, California.
They say one word perfect. Santa Barbara's weather is never
(26:38):
too hot or too cold. Tuck between the Pacific Ocean
and a protective mountain range, This southern California gym offers
over two hundred and eighty sunny days a year and
stays around fifty to five to sixty five degrees year round.
I've been to Santa Barbara. I don't say maybe a
handful of times, maybe five times in my life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I haven't stayed there for any ordinate amount of time
to say, yeah, I would like to live here, but
it's cool.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You know, it's definitely retirement area. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Maybe that's it, Maybe because I didn't perceive it as
fast enough for me. Yeah, the weather's not enough for
me to move up there. I need more than that.
I need some sort of nightlife. I need some hookers
on the avenue. I need, you know, loud blaring music.
I need Mark Roner flipping off people. I need something
other than just beautiful weather. Just a few, not a lot,
(27:34):
not a lot, just here and there, some street takeovers
now and then, not all the time, just to remind
me that I'm in southern California. I'm not asking for
a lot. What are you gonna says? What are we
gonna say?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Would Santa Barbara be like our like the West coast
version of Florida when people go to retire. I don't
know if people retired to Santa Barbara from La We
more so to Arizona. I should Santa Barbara? True, it's
kind of pricey. It is expensive. What are you gonna
(28:15):
say anything else?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's it? Be sure, it's it all right.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I was gonna give you as much time as possible
because you don't give a damn about giving me a
rim shot when I deserve one.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I just wanted you to speak for yourself. Oh quit
work in the ref.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I know this directly impacts Mark Runner. This is going
to change his life. Cost Co workers what might even
impact my life because my wife swears by Costco. Costco
workers authorize their own strike on Sunday. We're talking about
thousands and thousands of workers across the country and their deal,
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their current agreement, which covers more than eighteen thousand, to
be exact, expires on January thirty first, and we all
know that when you have the announcement of a strike authorization,
it's being used as a negotiation tactic to leverage management
into coming to the table, hopefully securing a quote unquote
(29:18):
better deal and getting everyone back to work. The Teamster
state that Costco posted a one hundred and thirty five
percent increase in that profit since twenty eighteen. And I
say that to Mark Ronerd because this is an ongoing
conversation we have as far as corporate profits growing out
of control, you know, exponentially, where workers' wages have remained
(29:42):
relatively stagnant, and that's part of the reason why profits
have spiraled out of control.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I would say, also, don't forget the cheap hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, if anything, my father, when he was alive, he
was trying to subsidize all of Costco by the amount
of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He was no true story.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
My father would go to Costco to say, four or
five times a week just to get a hot dog.
Now he may get something else, but he damn sure
was gonna get at least a hot dog while he
was there.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
They are hard to resist.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I found it hard to resist the hot dog or
the pizza, because when my wife would take me to Costco,
it was going to be one of the other or both,
and I usually ended up.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
With the pizza. The pizzas are insanely cheap. They're just
kind of average. But again, for what ten bucks for
a large pizza, how can you walk away from that
hot I'm not.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Going to Costco to get food for the quality. I'm
getting it for the price and convenience.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Volume, volume volume.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's the only place where you can get socks and
shoes and fried chicken rolls, whatever you want. They have
it at Bulk.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I actually go there quite frequently because it was my
understanding that Costco treated their employees as well. So this news.
I just saw this news this evening and it was
kind of shocking to me. You never hear anything bad
about the way Costco treats their people, if not like
Walmart or McDonald's where they pay them so low that
the taxpayers have to pick up all the slack with
public services. Costco has a good reputation and I felt
(31:11):
okay about going there.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, I'm trying to be fair. This is obviously from
the side of the workers. And fair as far as
a contract agreement is relative.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
This is what the Teamsters had to say.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Our members have spoken loud and clear. Costco must deliver
a fair contract. You know, we don't know what that
means yet, or they'll be held accountable. Costco's greedy executives
have less than two weeks to do the right thing.
If they refuse, they'll have no one to blame but
themselves when our members go on strike. Close Quote that
was a very very subtle and nuanced letter from the
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Teamsters General President Sean M.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
O'Brien.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Well, I don't want to cross a picket line to
get a tube steak over the weekends.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I honestly don't think or believe, and I may be wrong,
but I don't get the sense that this is actually
going to head to a strike. Costco probably will. They
have what a week and a half or so. That's
not too long. I mean, that's not too short of
a time in which to iron out a deal. I
don't think Costco wants to have a strike. I'm pretty
(32:19):
sure they would rather avoid a strike than have a
protracted labor stoppage in which they lose even more money.
Than presumably they would if they were to just sit
down at the table and hammer it out some sort
of deal.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
And they've got the thing where you scan your card
at the door. I wonder if it's an issue that
they have like one less employee now because of that.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Maybe. But see that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It didn't go into the specifics like we're asking for this,
we want that we have been been cheated out of this,
or we should be getting that. It's been very vague,
and that's why I get the sense that I don't
think they're actually going to go on strike. This is
just a public threat to embarrass the Costco name, because,
like you said, Mark, we don't hear about Costco mistreating
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its workers. It may happen, but I'm saying it's never
risen to my level on a public level where I
heard about it.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
I'll tell you what should be the main bargaining issue
with Costco is when they're closing up, the lady at
the back of the store shouting at people to get
the hell out, bargain that away, somehow, get invest in
a PA system or flick the lights on and off
or something, because that's just one step shy of turning
the hose on people.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Get the hell out. They are not subtle with closing time.
You don't have to go home, but you can't get here.
Get out of here with your palette of stuff. We'll
follow the story and see where it leads. My bed
is they won't go on strike. We'll see if I'm
right or wrong. Okay, if I am six forty live
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Speaker 6 (33:45):
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Speaker 2 (33:49):
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