January 28, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the latest measure being proposed to “make California an independent country” AND another senseless Waymo Robotaxi attack…PLUS – A look at the latest SoCal warnings to stay out of the water at local beaches due to extremely high traces of bacteria and raw sewage - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Rainy days and Mondays usually get me down if I
am six forty We're live everywhere at the iHeartRadio app.
But I was kind of pleased to see the rain
not only on Sunday but Monday. Originally I thought we
were going to have rain all through the weekend into
the beginning of this week, because different reports said rain
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possibly Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Saturday he got day, and then
maybe onder Monday. But instead we only had rain, or
at least where I was living, we had rain. I
was going out Sunday early day. That's when it really
started raining. There was some rain overnight Saturday night into Sunday,
but it didn't really start raining where I was living
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until Sunday day, and then it rain for the most
part of that day or so into Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stephen, where were you this weekend? Did you see as
much rain? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
For me, it started around i'd say Saturday night, like
around seven or eight o'clock, and then it had like
a quick, really hard downpour.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, and then it let up again.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But it kind of just it was on and off
the rest of the night for where I was anyway,
and then Sunday it was like clear for a good
amount of the day and then started raining again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now Mark was all over the place because he was
not home. He was here in the studio Saturday night
doing a fantastic Saturday evening show, sitting in for Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We need to see and hear more of Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I have fun doing that, and I was really flattered
that you guys were even listening. I got some texts
from all the crew during the show, and I would
just want you to know that meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All I know is I can't believe you got away
with some of them jokes.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I don't think I said anything that would get the
station's licensed yankeous.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, you lucky, were not pulling out the tape, just.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A couple of wise cracks in the moment with uh
my guest was from a comedy charity.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So how did you know what we were talking about? Mark?
At the time, I think it's time to go to
the news.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No no, I was just just trying to have some fun,
take a break from all the heavy news of the week,
and I hope we did that.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh no, at I had a great time listening because
it's weird to listen and to know listening, knowing that
you're sitting in the seat, probably some of the things
you had to worry about before the show even starts.
The difficulty of trying to keep it all together and
sound like nothing is ever difficult.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's it's you know, it's it's it's it's theater.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
When people listen, they only know what they hear, and
you go through a great deal. I mean, we had
an exchange throughout the day about a phone call that
caused all sorts of ripples. There's all sorts of things
behind the scenes that listeners don't know about, and so
if you watch movies like Network News or things like that,
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or that movie the Paper, you get a little bit
of an idea. Some of that's not really an exaggeration, no, no,
but you handled all of it beautifully. I just know
I had a.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Cocktail in my hand with my feet up, thoroughly enjoyed.
I was refereeing earlier in the day, so I finally
got a chance to sit down and just listen, and
I got in the house right as you were coming
on the air, so thoroughly enjoyed. You would want to
hear more and more of you, not just in a
news kind of responding capacity, but you getting to flesh
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your own thoughts and feelings about anything which you find important.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I really appreciate that. It means a ton to me
coming from you. So when are you coming back on
the air in your own you know? I don't know,
you know, it's just fill in for whoever. You know.
It's whoever is gone and whoever happens to be on
the premises. And I never go anywhere. I have no
family and my pets are dead. So it's like the
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guy in an officer and a gentleman. I've got nothing else. Wow,
I mean, it's why my plan. I didn't have a
plan to evacuate. We were kind of watching fires from
three different places creep up on us the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
My plan was to come here.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Okay, did you get any rain where you were this
weekend when you weren't in the studio?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Tons of it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Tons of it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It gave me an excuse to blow off my back
porch workout Sunday night. I was looking for an excuse
to make a dent in a bottle of Hornitos instead
of lifting weights.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Are we in the safe zone? Now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Can we say that we got through the rain without
mud slides.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Is it too soon to tell.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You know, Mo that I am not the least bit
superstitious in any way have said that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you want to jinx this? Are you trying to No?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was just wondering, you know, can we can we, like,
you know, start celebrating that we got through one nearly
missed natural disaster startedly just one okay, so nothing started
sliding as of yet. Oh and I know Tuala is
checking the news right now. I was looking for that
all day to day because the reason I started off
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with the rain was I thought we got a really
decent amount yesterday, but it wasn't across the whole weekend.
And since it wasn't across the whole weekend, maybe we
could have sidestepped some of these mud slide issues.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, we thought it was gonna be Friday as well,
and I don't think we had much or if any
at all on Friday. But Sunday last night was a
deluge where I lived.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, nothing Friday where I was, nothing Saturday where I
was for the better part of the day, not until
maybe late Saturday night. As Stephan was saying, because we're
relatively in the same area. It was wet everywhere where
I was Sunday, and then when I was going out
to officiate, put up one short video when I was
officiating in Manhattan Beach. I used that as a location reference.
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It was pouring, It was pouring, but outside of you know,
those spots in which it was pouring, it was pretty
evenly dispersed.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
What about you, twalla?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh, I was like right there next to Noah waiting
for ARC to get ARC to get built because it
was coming down non stop, as if all of the
rain had to come down. And I'm surprised you didn't
get much mark because you're not that far away fro
where I am.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's horrific. No, no, I'm not. I don't want to
downplay it. It was so uh severe last night that
I put off also my late night Ralph's trip with
the hookers.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh man, yeah, okay, So then the well hookers got
rained out too, well, I don't know if they did.
I didn't go.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They have they have like parkas and special gear that
they wearing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I wonder because when I'm driving down Figaroa as I
want to do every now and then. Okay, legitimate reasons.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She just needed a ride.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was just wondering if they had different uniforms.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Eddie Murphy please, Oh, he knows where the button is.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But it is funny that you brought that up because
I had to drive down the same area and right
before because it was kind of like drizzling. When I
started driving down, like drown figure and they I saw
a couple of them, and then once it started picking up,
then you see them throwing their jackets and they're running.
They're running wherever they have, wherever they live. So, yeah,
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they were they still worked it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
To be serious. Yes, they have a rain gear.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's usually just a coat over whatever they're wearing, and
then if you get too close to them then they'll flashy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Let you know that they're soll listening. I'm serious. Hooker's
got to eat.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
You know that there's a I was about to go
to Hollywood shuffle Mo.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know I was about to.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was getting ready to go. Was it Friday? An
ice cubes line? The standing the line for food? Yeah,
I can't say that. Yeah, I just want to.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
IM about to say garden tools got to eat too,
right exactly? Garden garden cakes, garden cakes. Nice Oh yeah, Now,
I'll say.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Look, at the time when we come back, we're going
to talk about this effort to have California seceed from
the Union.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Here we go again.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Kelly six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app And sometimes
you may want something, you may think you want something,
but truthfully you really don't. You haven't really thought it through.
You don't understan all the ramifications, the implications, the consequences
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of that which you supposedly want. There is another ballot
measure asking whether California should be its own country. The
gathering signatures right now. This is according to the California
Secretary of State. According to the guidelines, if at least
fifty percent of registered voters participate in that election and
at least fifty five percent vote yes, it would constitute
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a vote of no confidence in the United States of
America and it would lead to elongated process. But that's
the first step for California to become an independent country,
but would not change California's current government or relationship with
the United States. Yeah, should the measure pass? A commission
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to report on California's viability as an independent country would
be created. The initiative estimates one time election related call
and forming a Commission on National Sovereignty and Independence would
cost ten million dollars. Estimates also showed that operating the
commission would take another two million in annual state costs.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Let's skip to the end. Let's play hypotheticals.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's say all of these steps we succeed.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I should say succeed as.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
An succeed, and then succeed secede from the Union.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Have you really thought about what that means?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, I know California is like the fourth and fifth
largest economy in the world, but does it really Does
it ever really explain to you what it means to
be an independent country. You have to then negotiate all
your treaties with all the other countries. You'd have to
have your own standing military to protect your borders, because
the US of A could still then invade you the
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next day and then occupy you once again because your
own independent sovereign nation, and you probably would not be
a member of NATO, so no one's coming to your aid.
Do you understand what it means to be an independent
sovereign nation. That's why we have fifty states, not fifty
different countries.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Federalism, yes, I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
California pays out a lot of money to other states
as far as federal tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But for California to exist independently, there are thirty five
million steps you have not considered or consequences you have
not considered, which probably would make succession.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
A horrible, horrible idea.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And look, I get the thought that, hey, we could
be our own country and we don't have to deal
with Donald Trump and we don't have to listen to
anything that the federal government tells us. Okay, then what
if Mexico wants to invade you because they could you're
just a little independent country. You're gonna have to negotiate
all your border and your trade deals with everyone. You
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know how badly that's gonna go, probably very badly. But
there's always a year, an election a state. How many
times has Texas talked about succession?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Thirty five they.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Can't even keep their power on. That's not even serious
when they mentioned that, all.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Of that, all of that, think about if California were
an independent country today today, and we right now need
the federal government to bail us out with respect to
the fires. You know what happens when you're an independent country.
Nobody's coming to help you. Nobody, nobody.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
There's no one gonna meet you on the tarmac and
shake hands and throw you two point five billion dollars.
There's gonna no gooda federal aid that's gonna help people
get back in their homes. There's gonna be no one there,
absolutely nobody and nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Because you would be an independent country.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I know it sounds like a oh yes, we would
be the United Republic of California or some stupid stuff
like that, and then we could run California however we wanted,
except we would be on our own.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What would our military be. You think we're gonna have
four branches of military? Were gonna have an army and Navy. Now,
you can't take the National Guard with you. That's the
United States. You don't get to keep the military here.
You'd have to start that from within all of California.
You have to take all the surfer boys and the
potheads and somehow maybe conduct their draft for them to
become part of the standing military. Because you would need
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a standing military, otherwise we would get invaded like I
was talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I don't want to get to pedantic here, but didn't
we at one point have a huge war over something
kind of like this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah we did, Okay, thank you here we did. I
think that's how it became part of the United States.
If I'm not mistaken, correct me if I'm wrong, Am
I wrong?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, I'm ready to move on.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I just.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is just weird how people don't know first general history,
they have no desire to learn American history, and they
haven't really thought the whole process through.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
A lot of us are really tired of the federal
government as far as not doing the things it should
or not doing the things as well as it should.
Federal government possibly overreaching, as far as invasion of privacy,
federal government trying to enact laws and policies that we
don't agree with. I get all that, But separating from
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the United States of America is all bad for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It really really is.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You would do better to just move to another country
than hoping that California becomes its own country. Would it
be interesting to see what was the capital of the
United rep Public of California be not Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh hells no, oh haills. No, they would obviously make
it Beverly Hills. Yeah, that would be right, Beverly Hills. Yeah,
that would be the capital of New Cali.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So cow listic. What will we name it?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, not only that, what would we would we have
like provinces California like Canada does, or will we have
states in California?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Los Angeles Los Angeles County could be its own.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
State, yes, and everyone else would be a province or
maybe a annexed in any state.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't know. Will we have a king? Will we
have a president or prime minister or both?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because there's some countries which do have a prime minister
and president, like England for example.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'm looking at comparisons on maps to California. We're about
the same size is Uzbekistan. Yeah, yes, Now we.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Economically are on the par with these other countries. But
as far as infrastructure, oh no, oh no, we would
be worse off than Ukraine. In a heartbeat. In a heartbeat,
I'm quite sure. You're the fourth largest economy. You have
no standing military, okay, you have no protections. It's not
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like you have anything or you have control one of
the most important ports in the world in Los Angeles,
and you have no protection from the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That ends badly. Ninety nine times out of ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
We don't get to keep any of the military bases
and all the stuff that's there. Nope, that all goes
back to the States. That's that's federal, that's federal land.
A's in like United States. Well, maybe they could establish
a consulate like at Edwards. That would be like a U.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
No, they'll have an embassy and everything, but it doesn't
afford us any protection. Yeah, if all of a sudden,
for some reason, I don't know, Columbia, since Columbia's in
the news, Columbia decided to attack the United Republic of California,
then we would have to defend ourselves against Columbia or
any other nation.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Who's the president of California. Then well, we'd have to
organize our own government. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We have to choose whether we're going to have states
and provinces, whether it's going to be organized in different
districts depends.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's our Cola City Council can't even organize. What are
we talking about here, Well, we're talking about foolishness.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's the whole point. It's Later with mo Kelly. No,
go ahead, Mark, go ahead, go ahead. Well no, I
was ready to go.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I just if you're going to have a war with Columbia,
you want to take into account that their soldiers might
have a little something extra going for them.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know, look they have they have an army, a
standing army. How about that. You know we wouldn't be
able to stand up again nic Arrogua at this point.
A standing army with a lot of that Bolivian marching powder.
Absolutely absolutely KFI instance forty We live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we have an
update to the whole Weimo conversation. Another Weimo has been attacked,
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and I'm here to tell you I predicted this.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I did predict this. I did and you're gonna see
more and more of these. No, no, no, save it
Save it to Walla. Save it. Look at the top.
You'll get your check on the other side of the break.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
At the time you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on Demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Forty, Waimo has been attacked and vandalized.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It was without a driver or a rider.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And when I say without a driver, there are times
you'll find these Waimo cars being driven by technicians around
the city as they work with it and watch it
and navigate different obstacles and situations. This waymo Robotaxi was
in the La neighbor hood of Beverly Grove and was
targeted by a group of vandals. The incident unfolded around
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four am at the intersection of Los Enaga and West
Third Street Friday night turning Saturday morning, and LAPD took
a vandalism report, but no arrests were made. The vandals
are still at large. In footage posted on x slash Twitter,
a person could be seen on the roof of the
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car while another person was in the driver's seat. A
third person was seen kicking the back passenger door as
the passenger front door had been completely ripped off its
hinges and was lying on the hood of the vehicle.
And if you've never seen these up close, they're actually
nice subcompact cars. They're made by Jaguar. They're pretty decent vehicles.
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They're not cheap, to be sure. All the windows, including
the windshield were shattered and it's not clear whether this
was a part of a street takeover, or it was
near a street takeover, and then people just saw the
opportunity to vandalize the weyma or something else. But this
relates back to a previous conversation I had, and I'm
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not against the technology. I'm a firm believer that we're
all moving in the direction of this technology. But I
also said that we people are not ready for the
technology ready because it's not the technological element, it's the
human element. And yes, the cars might be safer than
a human driver, it's just the cars cannot respond accordingly
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to all the human variables such as vandals. Like if
I were in an uber or a taxi, the driver
knows how to get out of that situation ostensibly, you know,
drive away, quickly, move away. It's not just going to
sit there. These cars sit there in perpetuity. So I
don't know what the answer is to criminals. I don't
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know if you you do it like Deathrays two thousand,
where you put I don't know, a fifty caliber gun
on top of it with a laser sight. I don't
know if that's the answer. I'm just saying something needs
to be done for the cars. To be able to
protect themselves or this is going to happen again and
again and again. And I'm actually surprised that there isn't
some other, not self defense mechanism, but some sort of
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emergency mechanism to prevent this.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
There should be There should actually be laser guided turrets
on top, or at least a batmobile style incapacitor where
if you touch the batmobile you are shocked, damn near
to death. Something should be done to dissuage these hoodlums,
these these I dare say, scumbags from attacking innocent waymo. Wow,
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such strong language, very very strong language. Let them be
gatling gunned. Look, I to be serious.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I'm surprised it doesn't have some sort of air horn
something which would be almost painful to the ear to
get people to disperse.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
At least a bear spray release something or something that's right,
not for an innocent weymo, at least a bear something
to disperse bear spray, not pepper spray, because you know
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I could take the pepperpray, you can't take the bear spray.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Let there be some type of bear spray dispersement that
if you are warned you get one warning, please back
away from the way mo and this you know blank
you wai moh.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Bear spray to be serious.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I don't know how Weimo moves forward if they can't
address this on somehow, some level.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's bad press for the company, even though I'm not
blaming Weimo for this. If you're in the news repeatedly,
and now we're at the stage of repeatedly where your
cars are being attacked and being destroyed, it's not good
for business at all because me as a writer, that
would make me feel even more unsafe if I feel
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that I'm in a car which is a target for
vandals and hoodlams.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, I feel you on that. That does make it
harder to want to get into a WEYMO. Weimo does
need some type of and I say this is all serious,
some type of RoboCop esque defense mechanism where you know,
there was that ED two O nine which had a
mechanist said back away, and of course ed to on
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nine went a little crazy and shot up to But no,
I'm just saying there's got to be something on that level,
something on par where there is an AI system implemented
within weymo that allows it to defend itself. Did you
Tula clear these remarks with your superiors at Weimo. I
speak for myself. These comments do not reflect the good
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people at Weimo.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Although I'm not sure not being compensated.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I am not being compensated in any way, shape, fashion,
or formed by Waimo. I just love technology and love
the fact that Weimo is at the forefront of trying
to bring us closer to the world of at least
at least total recall, if not Johnny Cab, Yes, at least,
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if not close to Blade Runner.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
This is the thing, and let's try to kind of
compare apples to apples. And I think Stephan may have
some feeling about this. I know Stefan as someone who
has driven for Uber. There was a time where people
questioned the safety of Uber getting into the car, not
only the safety of the rider, but safety for the driver.
There were more incidents that I think then people were
comfortable with with the whole ride share experience. Then Uber
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made some changes and their protocol and screening of drivers.
They added some safety features to the app itself. For writers,
Waymo is going to have to do the same thing,
because we know that the Weimo cars are going to
be targeted. I can't in good conscience put myself or
anyone else in a.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Car like that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yes, I know this is the exception, but it also
proves the rule. It's not about how often that it happens,
it's the fact that it happens. This is not a
natural occurrence. This is not a fluke where Weimo took
the wrong turn and all of a sudden it ended
up in the middle of a gang fight. No, the
car itself was being targeted, which means that it'll properly
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happen again some other weekend where a crime of opportunity.
Here's a Weimo, here's twenty houthlums. Oh my gosh, let's
vandalize the Weimo.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Now, from looking at the videos that were posted, it
does appear that this it is in Weymo wandered into
the middle of a street takeover, was trying to make
its way through and didn't understand that vandals and Huligians
and there do wells had taken over that intersection with
their donuting and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But the Uber driver, let's say, Stephan, Uber Driver's gonna
be like, let me just back my out of.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Here, now, you they you may.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
But there is also a story don Longo about uh
ride share driver who tried to go through that intersection
and for some reason I thought like, hey, I'm gonna beep,
and his car was attacked. Yes, so it does happen
to actual drivers too, So watch yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Foosh, don't be beeping, you said, is like backing up. Oh,
I'm not gonna drive into Oh this is a street takeover.
Let me see if I can just drive through and
interrupt the legal activity in the street takeover. Now we
will find another route reroute it. That was like a
kind beep, like a boop. No, No, like man, man,
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get out the way, a holes trying to get through
nos to make things worse. Okay, you're gonna get double
ronderd and worse.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We've seen in at least one Billy Jack movie how
that works out if you honk the hornet at ruffians.
You mean it doesn't work out. You get to live
in daylights beaten out of you. That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, and that's what happened to the weimo here
because they tried to proceed through the street takeover. I
still haven't gotten in one yet, and I have every opportunity.
I'm reminded of it every time I go to Culver
City because they're everywhere in Culver City. I see one
every time I'm in Culver City, so they must be
doing a lot of business there. And I thought about it,
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maybe I should do it, and then I get a
story like this, like no, okay, I'll wait just a
little while longer.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
It's a little while longer until they iron out those kinks. Yeah,
I just people destroying them.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't want to be caught up in the news
radio hosts attacked.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're waymo No, I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I just dated myself film at eleven. There's no eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I don't film filmy where your children are.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh my goodness, it's Late with Mokelly can'f I AM
six forty. We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and
we have a beach update.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What do you think it is? Yep, more feces, more
feces in the water.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Other than Matt mney Smith of AM five seventy LA
Sports and the voice of the Chargers other than him
and maybe Joe Kwan of Spectrum News. Who is in
the water with any regularity in the winter, anyone?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, who is out there.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's not Tawala, It's not me, and it's it's not
Mark Runner no way, and it's not Stephen and I
don't believe most of the people listening right now on
KFI and the iHeartRadio app not them either. I'm trying
to figure out who would be in the water in
late January, early February when it's maybe forty five degrees
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fifty degrees, you know, rainy, bad air quality, bad water quality.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Who is in the water? Jellyfish? That's it. Well, they're
definitely in the water, stigging people up.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Beachgoers in La County are being urged to avoid any contact.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
With the water.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It didn't say, you know, It didn't say it was
safe to dip your toe in. You didn't say it
was okay to go out to your waist and just
wade in the water. It didn't say that, hey, maybe
you could like put your head under and maybe go
boogie boarding. It said avoid any contact with the water,
particularly near storm drains. I wonder why that is creeks
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and rivers, because there's a lot of feces slowing down.
The ocean quality Rain advisory is expected to remain in
place for all county beaches until Thursday. I'm not even
going to be able to read you a list of
some of the beaches. You know, at such a beach
one hundred yards up and one hundred yards down there,
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none of that. They said, no contact with any of
the water at any of the county beaches. If you
can name an LA County beach, it's on the list.
Do not go in the water at any beach in
La County. Quote ocean and bay recreational waters, especially near
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discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers can be contaminated with bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash,
and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain
areas after a rainfall. Now to be fair, to be fair,
a lot of this debris from the fires is likely
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flowing in the storm drains as well, So it's not
just the typical garden variety, average run of the mill feces.
There's some other debris which is in there which must
be taken into account, but still ask the question. I
feel like Tim Conley Junion, I gotta know who is
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actually in the water right about now. I know, I know,
I tend to be one of the people who does
not like going in the ocean for just about any
reason at any time of the season, but especially right now.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Did you think that.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You know what, I think it'd be a good day
to go for a swim at Cabrile Beach. And as
a matter of fact, maybe I'll even go to Hermosa
Beach or a Dondo Beach or I don't know what
about Dacwaller. None of them, none of them do not
have any contact with any beach in Los Angeles County.
And now I can't speak for Orange County, but this specifically
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is about La County. I don't know if the nasty
ass beaches stop right at the county line. I don't
know for a fact one way or the other. I'm
inclined to believe that the water, if it's nasty right
near Orange County, it probably is nasty in Orange County
as well, because water just has it like that, they
just go, so it just goes where it wants to.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
You know, there's something else that's that's not as highlighted
as I think it should be in this report. It's
not just the poopage in the water, but with these
recent rains that we just had, all that runoff, all
that toxicity that's coming down from eating through the drains,
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and especially in the Palisades and Malibu area, all that
runoff is now going into the store down. So it's
not just poop, it's now toxic poop.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That's toxic square because poop is inherently toxic inherently, so
it is square.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I mean, if it's bacteria contaminants, yes, the poopo
lola is enough. But now when you throw it all
in together into a big stew, yeah, it's just like
a like a cast roll of crap. Yes, in the
water that gets in your mouth when you like serve
thing choke win all your orifices.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Stay out of the water.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They say, do not touch the water, do not come
in contact with any of the water. Remember we had
that story about how there was a certain water treatment
plant which was overwhelmed because of all the poopage yep,
and that was used to filter our drinking water. What
do you think about never mind, you are what you drink.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
K if I am six forty. We are live everywhere
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Speaker 6 (33:39):
I k OST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, everywhere
on the radio
Rainy days and Mondays usually get me down if I
am six forty We're live everywhere at the iHeartRadio app.
But I was kind of pleased to see the rain
not only on Sunday but Monday. Originally I thought we
were going to have rain all through the weekend into
the beginning of this week, because different reports said rain
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possibly Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Saturday he got day, and then
maybe onder Monday. But instead we only had rain, or
at least where I was living, we had rain. I
was going out Sunday early day. That's when it really
started raining. There was some rain overnight Saturday night into Sunday,
but it didn't really start raining where I was living
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until Sunday day, and then it rain for the most
part of that day or so into Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stephen, where were you this weekend? Did you see as
much rain? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
For me, it started around i'd say Saturday night, like
around seven or eight o'clock, and then it had like
a quick, really hard downpour.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, and then it let up again.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But it kind of just it was on and off
the rest of the night for where I was anyway,
and then Sunday it was like clear for a good
amount of the day and then started raining again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now Mark was all over the place because he was
not home. He was here in the studio Saturday night
doing a fantastic Saturday evening show, sitting in for Michael Monks.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We need to see and hear more of Mark Ronner.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I have fun doing that, and I was really flattered
that you guys were even listening. I got some texts
from all the crew during the show, and I would
just want you to know that meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All I know is I can't believe you got away
with some of them jokes.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I don't think I said anything that would get the
station's licensed yankeous.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, you lucky, were not pulling out the tape, just.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
A couple of wise cracks in the moment with uh
my guest was from a comedy charity.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So how did you know what we were talking about? Mark?
At the time, I think it's time to go to
the news.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No no, I was just just trying to have some fun,
take a break from all the heavy news of the week,
and I hope we did that.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh no, at I had a great time listening because
it's weird to listen and to know listening, knowing that
you're sitting in the seat, probably some of the things
you had to worry about before the show even starts.
The difficulty of trying to keep it all together and
sound like nothing is ever difficult.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's it's you know, it's it's it's it's theater.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
When people listen, they only know what they hear, and
you go through a great deal. I mean, we had
an exchange throughout the day about a phone call that
caused all sorts of ripples. There's all sorts of things
behind the scenes that listeners don't know about, and so
if you watch movies like Network News or things like that,
(03:14):
or that movie the Paper, you get a little bit
of an idea. Some of that's not really an exaggeration, no, no,
but you handled all of it beautifully. I just know
I had a.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Cocktail in my hand with my feet up, thoroughly enjoyed.
I was refereeing earlier in the day, so I finally
got a chance to sit down and just listen, and
I got in the house right as you were coming
on the air, so thoroughly enjoyed. You would want to
hear more and more of you, not just in a
news kind of responding capacity, but you getting to flesh
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your own thoughts and feelings about anything which you find important.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I really appreciate that. It means a ton to me
coming from you. So when are you coming back on
the air in your own you know? I don't know,
you know, it's just fill in for whoever. You know.
It's whoever is gone and whoever happens to be on
the premises. And I never go anywhere. I have no
family and my pets are dead. So it's like the
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guy in an officer and a gentleman. I've got nothing else. Wow,
I mean, it's why my plan. I didn't have a
plan to evacuate. We were kind of watching fires from
three different places creep up on us the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
My plan was to come here.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Okay, did you get any rain where you were this
weekend when you weren't in the studio?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Tons of it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Tons of it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It gave me an excuse to blow off my back
porch workout Sunday night. I was looking for an excuse
to make a dent in a bottle of Hornitos instead
of lifting weights.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Are we in the safe zone? Now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Can we say that we got through the rain without
mud slides.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Is it too soon to tell.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You know, Mo that I am not the least bit
superstitious in any way have said that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you want to jinx this? Are you trying to No?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was just wondering, you know, can we can we, like,
you know, start celebrating that we got through one nearly
missed natural disaster startedly just one okay, so nothing started
sliding as of yet. Oh and I know Tuala is
checking the news right now. I was looking for that
all day to day because the reason I started off
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with the rain was I thought we got a really
decent amount yesterday, but it wasn't across the whole weekend.
And since it wasn't across the whole weekend, maybe we
could have sidestepped some of these mud slide issues.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, we thought it was gonna be Friday as well,
and I don't think we had much or if any
at all on Friday. But Sunday last night was a
deluge where I lived.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, nothing Friday where I was, nothing Saturday where I
was for the better part of the day, not until
maybe late Saturday night. As Stephan was saying, because we're
relatively in the same area. It was wet everywhere where
I was Sunday, and then when I was going out
to officiate, put up one short video when I was
officiating in Manhattan Beach. I used that as a location reference.
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It was pouring, It was pouring, but outside of you know,
those spots in which it was pouring, it was pretty
evenly dispersed.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
What about you, twalla?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Oh, I was like right there next to Noah waiting
for ARC to get ARC to get built because it
was coming down non stop, as if all of the
rain had to come down. And I'm surprised you didn't
get much mark because you're not that far away fro
where I am.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's horrific. No, no, I'm not. I don't want to
downplay it. It was so uh severe last night that
I put off also my late night Ralph's trip with
the hookers.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh man, yeah, okay, So then the well hookers got
rained out too, well, I don't know if they did.
I didn't go.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They have they have like parkas and special gear that
they wearing.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I wonder because when I'm driving down Figaroa as I
want to do every now and then. Okay, legitimate reasons.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
She just needed a ride.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was just wondering if they had different uniforms.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Eddie Murphy please, Oh, he knows where the button is.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But it is funny that you brought that up because
I had to drive down the same area and right
before because it was kind of like drizzling. When I
started driving down, like drown figure and they I saw
a couple of them, and then once it started picking up,
then you see them throwing their jackets and they're running.
They're running wherever they have, wherever they live. So, yeah,
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they were they still worked it.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
To be serious. Yes, they have a rain gear.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's usually just a coat over whatever they're wearing, and
then if you get too close to them then they'll flashy.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Let you know that they're soll listening. I'm serious. Hooker's
got to eat.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
You know that there's a I was about to go
to Hollywood shuffle Mo.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know I was about to.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was getting ready to go. Was it Friday? An
ice cubes line? The standing the line for food? Yeah,
I can't say that. Yeah, I just want to.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
IM about to say garden tools got to eat too,
right exactly? Garden garden cakes, garden cakes. Nice Oh yeah, Now,
I'll say.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Look, at the time when we come back, we're going
to talk about this effort to have California seceed from
the Union.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Here we go again.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Kelly six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app And sometimes
you may want something, you may think you want something,
but truthfully you really don't. You haven't really thought it through.
You don't understan all the ramifications, the implications, the consequences
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of that which you supposedly want. There is another ballot
measure asking whether California should be its own country. The
gathering signatures right now. This is according to the California
Secretary of State. According to the guidelines, if at least
fifty percent of registered voters participate in that election and
at least fifty five percent vote yes, it would constitute
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a vote of no confidence in the United States of
America and it would lead to elongated process. But that's
the first step for California to become an independent country,
but would not change California's current government or relationship with
the United States. Yeah, should the measure pass? A commission
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to report on California's viability as an independent country would
be created. The initiative estimates one time election related call
and forming a Commission on National Sovereignty and Independence would
cost ten million dollars. Estimates also showed that operating the
commission would take another two million in annual state costs.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Let's skip to the end. Let's play hypotheticals.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's say all of these steps we succeed.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I should say succeed as.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
An succeed, and then succeed secede from the Union.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Have you really thought about what that means?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yes, I know California is like the fourth and fifth
largest economy in the world, but does it really Does
it ever really explain to you what it means to
be an independent country. You have to then negotiate all
your treaties with all the other countries. You'd have to
have your own standing military to protect your borders, because
the US of A could still then invade you the
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next day and then occupy you once again because your
own independent sovereign nation, and you probably would not be
a member of NATO, so no one's coming to your aid.
Do you understand what it means to be an independent
sovereign nation. That's why we have fifty states, not fifty
different countries.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Federalism, yes, I get it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
California pays out a lot of money to other states
as far as federal tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I get all that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But for California to exist independently, there are thirty five
million steps you have not considered or consequences you have
not considered, which probably would make succession.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
A horrible, horrible idea.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And look, I get the thought that, hey, we could
be our own country and we don't have to deal
with Donald Trump and we don't have to listen to
anything that the federal government tells us. Okay, then what
if Mexico wants to invade you because they could you're
just a little independent country. You're gonna have to negotiate
all your border and your trade deals with everyone. You
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know how badly that's gonna go, probably very badly. But
there's always a year, an election a state. How many
times has Texas talked about succession?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Thirty five they.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Can't even keep their power on. That's not even serious
when they mentioned that, all.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Of that, all of that, think about if California were
an independent country today today, and we right now need
the federal government to bail us out with respect to
the fires. You know what happens when you're an independent country.
Nobody's coming to help you. Nobody, nobody.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
There's no one gonna meet you on the tarmac and
shake hands and throw you two point five billion dollars.
There's gonna no gooda federal aid that's gonna help people
get back in their homes. There's gonna be no one there,
absolutely nobody and nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Because you would be an independent country.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
I know it sounds like a oh yes, we would
be the United Republic of California or some stupid stuff
like that, and then we could run California however we wanted,
except we would be on our own.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What would our military be. You think we're gonna have
four branches of military? Were gonna have an army and Navy. Now,
you can't take the National Guard with you. That's the
United States. You don't get to keep the military here.
You'd have to start that from within all of California.
You have to take all the surfer boys and the
potheads and somehow maybe conduct their draft for them to
become part of the standing military. Because you would need
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a standing military, otherwise we would get invaded like I
was talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I don't want to get to pedantic here, but didn't
we at one point have a huge war over something
kind of like this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah we did, Okay, thank you here we did. I
think that's how it became part of the United States.
If I'm not mistaken, correct me if I'm wrong, Am
I wrong?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, I'm ready to move on.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I just.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is just weird how people don't know first general history,
they have no desire to learn American history, and they
haven't really thought the whole process through.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
A lot of us are really tired of the federal
government as far as not doing the things it should
or not doing the things as well as it should.
Federal government possibly overreaching, as far as invasion of privacy,
federal government trying to enact laws and policies that we
don't agree with. I get all that, But separating from
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the United States of America is all bad for you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It really really is.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You would do better to just move to another country
than hoping that California becomes its own country. Would it
be interesting to see what was the capital of the
United rep Public of California be not Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh hells no, oh haills. No, they would obviously make
it Beverly Hills. Yeah, that would be right, Beverly Hills. Yeah,
that would be the capital of New Cali.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So cow listic. What will we name it?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, not only that, what would we would we have
like provinces California like Canada does, or will we have
states in California?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Los Angeles Los Angeles County could be its own.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
State, yes, and everyone else would be a province or
maybe a annexed in any state.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I don't know. Will we have a king? Will we
have a president or prime minister or both?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Because there's some countries which do have a prime minister
and president, like England for example.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I'm looking at comparisons on maps to California. We're about
the same size is Uzbekistan. Yeah, yes, Now we.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Economically are on the par with these other countries. But
as far as infrastructure, oh no, oh no, we would
be worse off than Ukraine. In a heartbeat. In a heartbeat,
I'm quite sure. You're the fourth largest economy. You have
no standing military, okay, you have no protections. It's not
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like you have anything or you have control one of
the most important ports in the world in Los Angeles,
and you have no protection from the United States.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That ends badly. Ninety nine times out of ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
We don't get to keep any of the military bases
and all the stuff that's there. Nope, that all goes
back to the States. That's that's federal, that's federal land.
A's in like United States. Well, maybe they could establish
a consulate like at Edwards. That would be like a U.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
No, they'll have an embassy and everything, but it doesn't
afford us any protection. Yeah, if all of a sudden,
for some reason, I don't know, Columbia, since Columbia's in
the news, Columbia decided to attack the United Republic of California,
then we would have to defend ourselves against Columbia or
any other nation.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Who's the president of California. Then well, we'd have to
organize our own government. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
We have to choose whether we're going to have states
and provinces, whether it's going to be organized in different
districts depends.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's our Cola City Council can't even organize. What are
we talking about here, Well, we're talking about foolishness.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's the whole point. It's Later with mo Kelly. No,
go ahead, Mark, go ahead, go ahead. Well no, I
was ready to go.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I just if you're going to have a war with Columbia,
you want to take into account that their soldiers might
have a little something extra going for them.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know, look they have they have an army, a
standing army. How about that. You know we wouldn't be
able to stand up again nic Arrogua at this point.
A standing army with a lot of that Bolivian marching powder.
Absolutely absolutely KFI instance forty We live everywhere in the
iHeartRadio app and when we come back, we have an
update to the whole Weimo conversation. Another Weimo has been attacked,
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and I'm here to tell you I predicted this.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I did predict this. I did and you're gonna see
more and more of these. No, no, no, save it
Save it to Walla. Save it. Look at the top.
You'll get your check on the other side of the break.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
At the time you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on Demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Forty, Waimo has been attacked and vandalized.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It was without a driver or a rider.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And when I say without a driver, there are times
you'll find these Waimo cars being driven by technicians around
the city as they work with it and watch it
and navigate different obstacles and situations. This waymo Robotaxi was
in the La neighbor hood of Beverly Grove and was
targeted by a group of vandals. The incident unfolded around
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four am at the intersection of Los Enaga and West
Third Street Friday night turning Saturday morning, and LAPD took
a vandalism report, but no arrests were made. The vandals
are still at large. In footage posted on x slash Twitter,
a person could be seen on the roof of the
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car while another person was in the driver's seat. A
third person was seen kicking the back passenger door as
the passenger front door had been completely ripped off its
hinges and was lying on the hood of the vehicle.
And if you've never seen these up close, they're actually
nice subcompact cars. They're made by Jaguar. They're pretty decent vehicles.
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They're not cheap, to be sure. All the windows, including
the windshield were shattered and it's not clear whether this
was a part of a street takeover, or it was
near a street takeover, and then people just saw the
opportunity to vandalize the weyma or something else. But this
relates back to a previous conversation I had, and I'm
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not against the technology. I'm a firm believer that we're
all moving in the direction of this technology. But I
also said that we people are not ready for the
technology ready because it's not the technological element, it's the
human element. And yes, the cars might be safer than
a human driver, it's just the cars cannot respond accordingly
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to all the human variables such as vandals. Like if
I were in an uber or a taxi, the driver
knows how to get out of that situation ostensibly, you know,
drive away, quickly, move away. It's not just going to
sit there. These cars sit there in perpetuity. So I
don't know what the answer is to criminals. I don't
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know if you you do it like Deathrays two thousand,
where you put I don't know, a fifty caliber gun
on top of it with a laser sight. I don't
know if that's the answer. I'm just saying something needs
to be done for the cars. To be able to
protect themselves or this is going to happen again and
again and again. And I'm actually surprised that there isn't
some other, not self defense mechanism, but some sort of
(21:22):
emergency mechanism to prevent this.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
There should be There should actually be laser guided turrets
on top, or at least a batmobile style incapacitor where
if you touch the batmobile you are shocked, damn near
to death. Something should be done to dissuage these hoodlums,
these these I dare say, scumbags from attacking innocent waymo. Wow,
(21:54):
such strong language, very very strong language. Let them be
gatling gunned. Look, I to be serious.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I'm surprised it doesn't have some sort of air horn
something which would be almost painful to the ear to
get people to disperse.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
At least a bear spray release something or something that's right,
not for an innocent weymo, at least a bear something
to disperse bear spray, not pepper spray, because you know
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I could take the pepperpray, you can't take the bear spray.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Let there be some type of bear spray dispersement that
if you are warned you get one warning, please back
away from the way mo and this you know blank
you wai moh.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Bear spray to be serious.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I don't know how Weimo moves forward if they can't
address this on somehow, some level.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It's bad press for the company, even though I'm not
blaming Weimo for this. If you're in the news repeatedly,
and now we're at the stage of repeatedly where your
cars are being attacked and being destroyed, it's not good
for business at all because me as a writer, that
would make me feel even more unsafe if I feel
(23:07):
that I'm in a car which is a target for
vandals and hoodlams.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, I feel you on that. That does make it
harder to want to get into a WEYMO. Weimo does
need some type of and I say this is all serious,
some type of RoboCop esque defense mechanism where you know,
there was that ED two O nine which had a
mechanist said back away, and of course ed to on
(23:34):
nine went a little crazy and shot up to But no,
I'm just saying there's got to be something on that level,
something on par where there is an AI system implemented
within weymo that allows it to defend itself. Did you
Tula clear these remarks with your superiors at Weimo. I
speak for myself. These comments do not reflect the good
(23:57):
people at Weimo.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Although I'm not sure not being compensated.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I am not being compensated in any way, shape, fashion,
or formed by Waimo. I just love technology and love
the fact that Weimo is at the forefront of trying
to bring us closer to the world of at least
at least total recall, if not Johnny Cab, Yes, at least,
(24:21):
if not close to Blade Runner.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
This is the thing, and let's try to kind of
compare apples to apples. And I think Stephan may have
some feeling about this. I know Stefan as someone who
has driven for Uber. There was a time where people
questioned the safety of Uber getting into the car, not
only the safety of the rider, but safety for the driver.
There were more incidents that I think then people were
comfortable with with the whole ride share experience. Then Uber
(24:48):
made some changes and their protocol and screening of drivers.
They added some safety features to the app itself. For writers,
Waymo is going to have to do the same thing,
because we know that the Weimo cars are going to
be targeted. I can't in good conscience put myself or
anyone else in a.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Car like that.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yes, I know this is the exception, but it also
proves the rule. It's not about how often that it happens,
it's the fact that it happens. This is not a
natural occurrence. This is not a fluke where Weimo took
the wrong turn and all of a sudden it ended
up in the middle of a gang fight. No, the
car itself was being targeted, which means that it'll properly
(25:33):
happen again some other weekend where a crime of opportunity.
Here's a Weimo, here's twenty houthlums. Oh my gosh, let's
vandalize the Weimo.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Now, from looking at the videos that were posted, it
does appear that this it is in Weymo wandered into
the middle of a street takeover, was trying to make
its way through and didn't understand that vandals and Huligians
and there do wells had taken over that intersection with
their donuting and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But the Uber driver, let's say, Stephan, Uber Driver's gonna
be like, let me just back my out of.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Here, now, you they you may.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
But there is also a story don Longo about uh
ride share driver who tried to go through that intersection
and for some reason I thought like, hey, I'm gonna beep,
and his car was attacked. Yes, so it does happen
to actual drivers too, So watch yourself.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Foosh, don't be beeping, you said, is like backing up. Oh,
I'm not gonna drive into Oh this is a street takeover.
Let me see if I can just drive through and
interrupt the legal activity in the street takeover. Now we
will find another route reroute it. That was like a
kind beep, like a boop. No, No, like man, man,
(26:50):
get out the way, a holes trying to get through
nos to make things worse. Okay, you're gonna get double
ronderd and worse.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
We've seen in at least one Billy Jack movie how
that works out if you honk the hornet at ruffians.
You mean it doesn't work out. You get to live
in daylights beaten out of you. That's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, and that's what happened to the weimo here
because they tried to proceed through the street takeover. I
still haven't gotten in one yet, and I have every opportunity.
I'm reminded of it every time I go to Culver
City because they're everywhere in Culver City. I see one
every time I'm in Culver City, so they must be
doing a lot of business there. And I thought about it,
(27:29):
maybe I should do it, and then I get a
story like this, like no, okay, I'll wait just a
little while longer.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
It's a little while longer until they iron out those kinks. Yeah,
I just people destroying them.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't want to be caught up in the news
radio hosts attacked.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're waymo No, I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I just dated myself film at eleven. There's no eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I don't film filmy where your children are.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh my goodness, it's Late with Mokelly can'f I AM
six forty. We live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and
we have a beach update.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What do you think it is? Yep, more feces, more
feces in the water.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Other than Matt mney Smith of AM five seventy LA
Sports and the voice of the Chargers other than him
and maybe Joe Kwan of Spectrum News. Who is in
the water with any regularity in the winter, anyone?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I mean, who is out there.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's not Tawala, It's not me, and it's it's not
Mark Runner no way, and it's not Stephen and I
don't believe most of the people listening right now on
KFI and the iHeartRadio app not them either. I'm trying
to figure out who would be in the water in
late January, early February when it's maybe forty five degrees
(28:56):
fifty degrees, you know, rainy, bad air quality, bad water quality.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Who is in the water? Jellyfish? That's it. Well, they're
definitely in the water, stigging people up.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Beachgoers in La County are being urged to avoid any contact.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
With the water.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It didn't say, you know, It didn't say it was
safe to dip your toe in. You didn't say it
was okay to go out to your waist and just
wade in the water. It didn't say that, hey, maybe
you could like put your head under and maybe go
boogie boarding. It said avoid any contact with the water,
particularly near storm drains. I wonder why that is creeks
(29:39):
and rivers, because there's a lot of feces slowing down.
The ocean quality Rain advisory is expected to remain in
place for all county beaches until Thursday. I'm not even
going to be able to read you a list of
some of the beaches. You know, at such a beach
one hundred yards up and one hundred yards down there,
(30:00):
none of that. They said, no contact with any of
the water at any of the county beaches. If you
can name an LA County beach, it's on the list.
Do not go in the water at any beach in
La County. Quote ocean and bay recreational waters, especially near
(30:21):
discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers can be contaminated with bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash,
and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain
areas after a rainfall. Now to be fair, to be fair,
a lot of this debris from the fires is likely
(30:44):
flowing in the storm drains as well, So it's not
just the typical garden variety, average run of the mill feces.
There's some other debris which is in there which must
be taken into account, but still ask the question. I
feel like Tim Conley Junion, I gotta know who is
(31:04):
actually in the water right about now. I know, I know,
I tend to be one of the people who does
not like going in the ocean for just about any
reason at any time of the season, but especially right now.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Did you think that.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You know what, I think it'd be a good day
to go for a swim at Cabrile Beach. And as
a matter of fact, maybe I'll even go to Hermosa
Beach or a Dondo Beach or I don't know what
about Dacwaller. None of them, none of them do not
have any contact with any beach in Los Angeles County.
And now I can't speak for Orange County, but this specifically
(31:41):
is about La County. I don't know if the nasty
ass beaches stop right at the county line. I don't
know for a fact one way or the other. I'm
inclined to believe that the water, if it's nasty right
near Orange County, it probably is nasty in Orange County
as well, because water just has it like that, they
just go, so it just goes where it wants to.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
You know, there's something else that's that's not as highlighted
as I think it should be in this report. It's
not just the poopage in the water, but with these
recent rains that we just had, all that runoff, all
that toxicity that's coming down from eating through the drains,
(32:24):
and especially in the Palisades and Malibu area, all that
runoff is now going into the store down. So it's
not just poop, it's now toxic poop.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
That's toxic square because poop is inherently toxic inherently, so
it is square.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
So I mean, if it's bacteria contaminants, yes, the poopo
lola is enough. But now when you throw it all
in together into a big stew, yeah, it's just like
a like a cast roll of crap. Yes, in the
water that gets in your mouth when you like serve
thing choke win all your orifices.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Stay out of the water.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They say, do not touch the water, do not come
in contact with any of the water. Remember we had
that story about how there was a certain water treatment
plant which was overwhelmed because of all the poopage yep,
and that was used to filter our drinking water. What
do you think about never mind, you are what you drink.
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