March 22, 2025 • 35 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Tawala Sharp filling in with a look at Los Angeles parking enforcement problem…PLUS – a tsunami could flood sizeable areas of coastal Los Angeles County AND FEMA is extending the deadline for Wildfire Disaster Assistance - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Km AM sixty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
This is Later with mo Kelly and I am Twala
Sharp filling in for mo Kelly. Happy to be with
you for the next three hours. The crew is here,
Foosh is in the building. What it do Ronner t
(00:30):
any middle fingers today? Not for you, Bear, see here
we go, Here we go, Here we go. You knows
sporting of Ronner is going to stay because if you'
that quick to call you Tola bear? What that's a
term of affection. It is a term of endearment. Yes,
(00:50):
that uh. Super producer Kayla, who is producing for me tonight,
introduced to the building and Ronner just wants to make
sure that you all know well. I maybe we're unaware
of the influence she has over me. She's here today.
She isn't often when we do our show, and I
think it's because of her, her powerful presence that I
had to say, Touala Bear.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I appreciate that, Ronor.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's very true.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I am pretty powerful and Twala is the best mayor
in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I understand, best bear in the world. I love it.
We are off to a fun start. And interestingly enough, Ronner,
you came in and you were in very good spirits.
So I take it that your trip in was not
crazy or insane. No, I don't need to remind you
that we had the Batan Death Drive there two ago
(01:39):
and we I had to call and tell Krozer to
be ready to do seven o'clock because I didn't think
I was gonna make it. But and you had something similar, No,
I had the exact similar. I literally thought I was
going to have to just turn around and go home
because I thought that there was no way on earth
I would get here. And I thought the same was
gonna happen today. I was ready for because not all
(02:00):
schools are out on spring break yet, but at least
my school where I work, we are on spring break,
and I thought maybe there's some more schools that are
off or not on the LAUSD calendar as well. So
I was like preparing for spring break madness. But no, no,
it's just me and it's actually not really a spring break.
Because when I was thinking about it this morning, because
I was dropping my daughter off, I said, wait a minute,
(02:21):
wait a minute, wait a minute. If your spring break
is not the same as mine. That means all next week,
while I'm off, I'm still gonna have to be getting
up early in the morning to drop you off. Lucky
you love that, don't man?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Look, let me tell you you're an early morning type.
Not on any planet. There isn't even a planet that
we know of in our solar system where I would
get up in the morning. That planet doesn't exist, and
it's sure enough doesn't exist on this year plan we're on.
I am not a morning person. I ab whore getting
up in the morning. I abhor the neighbors roosters that
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go off. What you have neighbors with roosters, I don't
know where it's at, but you hear it in the distance,
and it's when it's like real, real quiet out there,
and you hear that in the distance. I feel like,
is that on purpose? I don't want to initiate anything
that's going to get you into trouble, but I'll just say,
you know, those roosters are some good eating and if
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they if they if they go missing rooster meat, I
don't know, Yeah, try it, try it with some some
breading and uh and and and deep trying a nice
rooster meat sounds well, the neighbors try the neighbors pets,
is what I'm suggesting. Neighbor does come up missing, we
all know that it was by way of the suggestion
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and supreme influence of Mark Rona. My hands are clean. Okay,
talking about the roads, I was looking at a few
stories on the way in that has to do with
our drive, our commute, and just being in veal here
in southern California, because this is not the East Coast
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where you can hop a train and get anywhere you
want without the use of a car. No. Out here,
we rely on cars. And it's interesting because in a
state where at one point our sunsets were beautiful only
because of the small caused by cars, it seems here
in California, California's clean air vehicle detail program could soon
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be coming to an end. So my question, first of all,
is will that mean that people are just no longer
going to care about clean air vehicles? Who knows, but
the clock is running out on California's clean air vehicle
decal program. You may have seen these colorful stickles stickers.
They're on the back of vehicles that are riding in
the HOV lanes. Well, the program allows vehicles that meet
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specific emission standards to use the car pool lanes regardless
of occupancy if you have that sticker. Now, it seems
that with the passing of AB two sixty seven, a
bill authorized by someone who hates driving and hates cars,
a similar member, Greg Wallace, who must be from the
East Coast, they are going to be bringing this program
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to an end. Now, look, it may not be mister
Wallace's fault all together, but really and truly, this is
something I think to myself, mister Wallace, if you want
us to continue to have clean air and really abide
by these clean air standards that have to be maintained
by getting those stickers, then you need to keep the
program going. Good sir, You need to keep the program
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going or it's going to be back to us having
those beautiful deep red smoggie sunsets. Now, they used to
be beautiful growing up, they really were. I did not
know that we were literally breathing in tar. I didn't know.
And that's gotten better since we started practicing clean emissions
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and all that kind of good stuff. So whatever that
may be coming to an end, but also also also
So California is exploring getting rid of the gas tax
and replacing it with a road charge program. And I know, Mark,
I saw your eyebrows furrow a little bit. Well, I
was thinking, have you seen these side by side photographs
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of the sky in La then and now and then?
How insanely different it is? Yes, yes, I don't want
to go back to the Then why would anybody? Because
there are certain people who just they they can't see
the force for the trees going to be able to
and you're you're not gonna be able to see the buildings,
for the cement or the bricks. Because if you get
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rid of these programs and say you want to take
away all the incentives for car sells and all those things,
that's going to change and that's going to change the climate.
When we start exploring ways to get rid of the
gas tats and instead put charges on roads, making it
where because we are driving everywhere where. This also is
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going to add to this thing called small and it's
gonna make it really really hard to drive. But the
biggest thing, the biggest story that I saw having to
do with driving, and it's actually more having to do
with parking. And this is a story. When I saw it,
I said to myself, big whoop. You deserve it if
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your department goes under. And I'm sorry if you are
a meter person. But right now in Los Angeles, there
is a huge issue happening within the meter collection realm okay,
right now, meter collections are down, and it has a
lot to do with the COVID programs which said, like, look, man,
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park wherever you need to, We're not going to be
sending meter people after you. Yes, and a lot of
money went away. But right now, right now, it seems
that the collection of parking fines and giving out tickets
has gone down to the point where now department, the
department is in danger. There's a lot of meter people
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who are retired, rightfully, so get out of here. Meter people.
You can't call you meter maids anymore. No, they're meter people,
meter humans. They're meter humans. They are no longer maids
because they are not serving us unless they are serving
us a healthy dose of blank. You you blank, and
meter person, let me tell you not stand Look. I'm sorry,
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look meater people, I'm just telling you that you have
quite possibly the most hated position on planet Earth. You
are exactly right You've got to have some healthy self
esteem to go into the meter human profession, because is
there anybody on earth that people are less happy to
see when you show up. Apart from like a dentist
or a process server, nobody's happy to see you. They
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are awful people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I was leaving Target actually yesterday, and a guy was
scanning my license plate and I said, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm leaving. He's like, I'm not stop you. You're going
to get a.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Ticket in the mail.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You. This is why when I read that they are
are are suffering financially and that you know the meter
department is under danger. Look you know what, Take the
whole building and demolish it. Okay, take all those little
white cars and put self driving taxi signs on the
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top of them, and let's get more cars on the
road taking us to and fro and maybe won't have
to park. Because I promise you this. The very next
time I hear someone tell me I'm sorry, I'm already
in the process of writing it. The tickets got to go.
I won't lose my mind. I do. I cannot stand
the meter profession. I don't even know why they created
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other than to piss us off here in southern California,
because I don't know anywhere else in the country where
anyone faces this level of meter harassment. You have to
wonder about the psychological profile that they look for in
meter patrol people, because you know, with like Delta Force
or CIA or something. They you know, they look for
orphans that kind of thing. What kind of person becomes
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a meter human. They probably look for people who have
on their resume. I'm okay with kicking puppies. You're so,
Lord Mercy. It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere all
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Speaker 1 (10:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (10:33):
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This is Later with Moe Kelly. I'm twilet sharp in
for bo Kelly. And if you think Mo has an
issue with beaches and the water and whatnot, hold my
beer because Mo is someone who would get out on
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a cruise over the open water. Me, up until going
on my first cruise with Moe and his family, I
would not get out over dark water for anything. I
don't even like getting into a swimming pool and looking
down at the deep end. I don't know if it
was a traumatic Jaws watching when I was a kid.
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I have no idea where it came from. But I
don't like deep dark water. I don't like deep water period. Okay,
And no, I can't swim, so that could have like
some sway in my feelings. But even still here in
southern California, the notion of getting in this poop filled
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water is next to insanity. Okay, next to insanity when
you are dealing with poop tides and all the filth
that is in our water here. The water here in
southern California is not brown because it's dirty. It's brown
because of what's going down, all the wasted bacteria that
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just flows into our ocean. How do we know, because
once again, this is almost every weekend where health officials
are warning us against ocean water at several beaches across
southern California, Los Angeles, Orange County. All that you might
as well just say stay out of the water. Don't
say this beach and that beach, but this beach over
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here is okay, No, just stay out of the water, okay,
Believe it or not, The ocean water isn't supposed to
be a dark, opaque, filthy color. Okay. I've been to
Miami and I've seen the blue green beaches. I've been
to islands in Puerto Rico and Jamaica where the water
is clear you can see down to the sand all
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the way through, and it's like, that's what ocean water's
supposed to look like, nothing floating in it? Is that
the official Noah term for it. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration poop tides, poop tides. Yeah, poop tides. Okay, they
have adopted poop tides. And it's not seaweed that's catching
your leg concern. It's the filthy poop beach. Okay. The
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La County Department of Health has issued warnings for beaches
from Mother's Beach of Marina del Rey all the way
over to Los Floria State Beach is Santa Monica. Look,
just all of the beaches. Stay out of the water.
Now for me and my beach water conspiratorial mind, that
there may be something else going on in the water
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because these blue green waters that people are like, oh
my god, the water is blue and it's green and
it's glowing, glowing, beach water is not a good thing.
I know. People say, no, it's it's the it's when
the algae and the after effect of the water. No, no, no, no,
keep your scientific reasoning out of here. I don't want
to hear it. If you want to go out and
get in that blue green algae water that's obviously obviously
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having a connection with all these seals and sea lions
that are coming up on the shores and just see
and literally they're staring at the water. Okay, when you
have sea creatures on a beach and they would rather
sit on the beach rather than go back in the water,
I don't want to hear your rational because you know what,
if you don't speak actual seal, all you're doing is guessing. Okay,
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these are guesses and a hypothesis of why the seals
and all these creatures along the beaches right now are
staying out of the water and we're having all these
deep fish, deep water fish floating up and all this
kind of stuff. Welles getting beach because they're choking on
the filth in the water out here, and they don't
like it. It is grotesque. Okay, they still don't even
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know what to do with all these beech seal lions
and mountains or sea lions and seals that are Huntington
Beach and Manhattan Be's. They're all over in the beaches
over in Orange County. It's where they're all hanging out,
and they're looking at the water and they're barking saying
hell no, you hear they're saying, hell no, that's what
they're saying about the water. Okay, but imagine this. Imagine
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this here in southern California with our water where the
bacteria levels pure bacteria, which is way too high for
any human to go into. Imagine that water coming at
you one hundred plus miles an hour. Imagine a tsunami
of poop. Keep your mouth closed, keep your mouth closed,
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and your cheeks tight, because when a tsunami hit Southern California,
it's not gonna be poop tis. It's gonna be a
poop nami. A poop nami. Yes. Right now, officials are
cautioning residents to check whether they live in a tsunami
zone ahead of Tsunami Preparedness Week. Yes, there's actually a
week starting tomorrow all the way through next week is
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Tsunami Preparedness Week here in southern California. And yes, the
chances of a tsunami hitting us anytime soon are probably,
you know, next to zero. But but but all these
little mini earthquakes that we've been having that everyone wants
to laugh at, Oh twalla, the earthquakes. What if we
have one in the water that we just can't feel,
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all right, our little meters don't go off, and that
water sets off the tsunami, okay, and sends that poop
coming at you one hundred plus miles an hour, a
liquid code brown. Nobody wants this. Nobody wants it. Mark,
I mean, there's no way you're gonna want to clean
up the beaches. California will be done if we get
hit with the tsunami. And it's interesting that they say,
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you know, make sure you are monitoring and checking if
you live in a tsunami area, because what are you
gonna do. What are you gonna do for tsunami week?
Are you gonna pack up and move somewhere? No, No,
go inland the beaches.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You see the waves going the opposite way, You get
in your car, you head to the there there's.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No places to stay right now, right now, those of
us who've been impacted by eating in the palisades. Were
already staying everywhere, so there's no order for people to go. Okay,
that's fair. Well, remember when you were a child and
you would make fun of relatives who kept the plastic
covering on counches. Ye, leave it on, Just leave it
on if you're if you're in the area, if you're
in one of these areas. Yeah, yeah, but now you
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can go on and check. I did not grab the website,
but you can go on and check if you do
live in one of these tsunami areas. I believe it's
not tsunami dot Com. It's not. It's not our uh producer, Kayla,
it's not. I thought it was, and I think I
accidentally deleted it where you could go and check. I'm
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talking and stalling so I can give you time to
look it up. If you didn't know that, Kayla, Yes,
I know you're taching it. Did somebody rush right in
and hog tsunami dot Com so that the legit people
couldn't have it? Maybe? Maybe because it's If Kala says
that is tsunami dot Com, I will fall out. Got
this great idea for a restaurant. Guess what we're gonna
call it.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It is conservation dot c a dot gov slash CGS
slash unami slash maps. Boom bam, that's kind of a
mouthful tsunami dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So I'm sure I'll take you there as well. Love
it camfi AM six forty. We are live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And yesterday we talked about possibly moving
to Disney's Villa in the Coachella area and no, none
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of us can afford it. But but but thanks to
Fanny May, we may actually be able to get ourselves
into a condo right now. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong,
but with the way I'm looking at this where it
says that Fanny May's blacklist has four hundred and thirty
eight California communities with availabilities, I'm thinking that we may
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have something. So we'll look into that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
On the other side, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tawala Sharp filling in for Mo Kelly. Mark, I know
that you are are in the market for a place. Well,
I'm kind of looking in when the right place comes
along that I can afford and live indoors, and then
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I'll jump yeah, super producer, Kayla, are you still looking?
Are you comfortable where you're at?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, I love my place. I'm very comfortable for now. Yeah.
What about you, Foosh? You comfortable yet comfortable? Yeah? Yeah,
you see that that response was a little uncomfortable, that
I'm comfortable, a bit lackluster. Yes, in fact, he's lying.
I'm declaring in the hostile witness that that was not
a comfortable response, like to get I'd like to be
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a homeowner. But okay, comfortable, Okay, okay, okay, cool, cool.
I figure that you and I know hell Uh, being
from and growing up in and and living in the
Pasadena altad the area, I can tell you this, every
single person that I know growing up UH is looking
for a place right. There are many who would like
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they would love the opportunity to stay in Altadena. And
there are so many different initiatives, so many different groups
working within the Altadena area to help rebuild the city,
to help people stay in their homes with everyone who
wants to that can I mean, I went to a
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kind of a town hall so to speak put on
by none other than Beyonce. Beyonce and her mother they
have an organization that they have started called be Good,
and this organization right now, they have been doing God's
work here in southern California. And while acknowledging the need
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in Palisades, what touched Beyonce and her mother the most
is the destruction of Altadena and the history of Alta
Dina and it's relevance in southern California for black home
ownership and the like. And neither of them are from Pasadena. Yes,
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they're in Texas, and there is a Pasadena, Texas, but
neither of them are from the city. All right. But
when they saw the destruction and they saw what was happening,
they came together and they said, we are going to
put our own money. We are going to use our pool.
No one is telling Beyonce no. Okay, they may tell Twalao,
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but no one is telling Beyonce no. So Beyonce's gonna
go out and get the money. She's gonna go out
and get the money. She's gonna go out and get
the resources, and she's gonna have people coming together and
we are going to help this city. Every which way
that we can. And what I saw them do just
for this town hall and for everyone that was in
there was nothing short of miraculous. Okay, I've seen a
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lot of politicians on the West Coast talk about what
they're going to do for whether it be Eaten or
the Palisades, and I've seen little to nothing happen. The
movement has been slow as far as what it should
be in my estimation. But to see someone like Beyonce
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and her mother come out and say, here's what we're doing.
We are going to keep our word and we are
going to take care of all of you. What I
saw again in there was nothing short of amazing. And
I've met Beyonce. I don't know how many times Microraft
had her on concerts, had it on shows and off air.
I'll even tell you a funny personal Beyonce story. But yes,
I can never say anything bad about Beyonce, not because
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of what she did for my family. And this is
non sponsorship, this is not getting paid to say anything
good about beyond just just hit my mind. As I'm
looking at the availability of condos by way of Fanning
made it just hit me about what Beyonce has done
for or us in the Altadta area and what she's
doing here in southern California. I'm like, she doesn't know
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any of us, She doesn't know any of us, doesn't
have to do anything, but still it's stepping up to
do so. So I never had anything bad to say
about Beyonce, but you will never hear a crossword come
out of my mouth ever about her or her mother,
because they are about it. And they didn't have cameras there,
They didn't have, you know, a bunch of press there.
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You know that Tina knows. She came out, she said, hey, look,
Yonce wants to be here, but she is preparing for
a tour where she is. But here's what we're doing
right now. And it was like one of those like man,
everyone in there was crying because of what they did.
And So when I think about that, and I think
about how how hard it is right now for just
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those of us here in southern California to even fathom
owning a home, it's almost as if this this state
is set up for us to not own a home.
It's almost set up for us to stay in an
apartment forever, because apartments, most every apartment is on a
monthly basis, it's costing you what you could be putting
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towards a house, but none of us can get together
enough to put down on the house to get out
of the apartment in the first place. So it's like
this rat race that we're in this this situation where
it's just it is rubbing two nickels together. Here in
southern California is rough, And I get it. I know,
I know cost of living is a lot cheaper elsewhere.
When when I was in Eerie and they were charging
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US nine hundred and fifty dollars a month for a
palatial estate, it was like one of those like every
time I pay this year, I was like, I feel
like I'm gonna get in trouble, Like the police are
gonna come and say you've been living in a drugg
den and you know this house is being uh they're
using this to funnel money through. I just I said
to myself, this is crazy how much it costs to
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buy a house in southern California. And yes, Fannie May,
they have this blacklist where where good news there is
an inventory of available properties for sale, and that inventory
list has grown. The bad news again is that these
properties are still touting their highest prices ever with the
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highest interest rates ever in heavy buyer competition, because land's
is finite here in southern California, all the deserts are
not build it out there. They're just building up in
areas like that. So yes, fat he may have more
places in and they may have places available. But Mark,
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if you had the opportunity right now to move into
a place that could cost you some six seven thousand
a month, are you doing that tomorrow? Or I'd be
living in my car. And in fact, do you remember
when we spoke last night off the air, I told
you that I'd been looking into people living in their cars,
and more and more people who are working full time
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are forced to live in their cars because of how
insanely expensive how and you can't rule out the factor
of a private equity buying up real estate and houses.
In LA nearly twenty thousand people are living in their
cars right now, right now, right now, people who have
full time jobs, well that's not all full time job,
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but it's nearly forty percent of the homeless. There are
people living in their cars in LA. Cars. I'm telling
you that there are people that I personally know who
have full time jobs. Okay, these are not you know,
don't hear what we're saying and think, well, they got
to do better than working at McDonald's. No, no, no, no,
no no. I know people who are working within the
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high fives and the low to mid sixes and they
have decided to just tough it out, live in their car. Yeah,
membership and that's what it's going to be. And there
are no accidents. This is not a thing that just
happened by accident. Going ahead. I just I'm reading multiple
things at the same time here, Yeah, trying to wrap
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my head around this. But the fact that you work
a full time job and you can't live in a
house seems absolutely through the looking glass insane to me. Yeah.
And it's like when I saw this list of condo availabilities,
you know, published by La Daily News and the reporting
on what Fannie May's organization is put out, and I'm like, hey,
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this is great, this is great, but this information is
literally it's not even worth the paper that is printed
on because not a single one of us who all
work full time jobs. I work two full time jobs,
and it's one of those things where still here in
southern California. We cannot go out and buy a house. Well,
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here's the thing. We know that roughly sixty five percent
of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, which in and of
itself is a little hard to swallow, not that I
don't believe it, but that it shouldn't be. And so
you get into this trap where let's say you have
to move into a place where the average rent here
is three grand a month. That doesn't leave a lot
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of working people a lot of money left over to
save and put away. And then when you factor in
that a huge percentage of Americans don't have an extra
thousand dollars for an emergency expense. You're not buying a house.
You're not buying a house. And if you do, then
that's all you have. You don't have anything in that house.
You're no longer driving your car. You are walking to
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work because every dime you make is going into the house.
And and n you talking about a small house three
thousand a month, you're talking about a very very small house.
And most apartments right now like they're looking at like
thirty five hundred force for a one bedroom, one bath.
I'm like the ooh, almost made me curse, all right,
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don't do that. No KFI AM six before I gotta go.
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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This is Later with Moe Kelly. Tuil a sharp producer
of Later with Mo Kelly holding it down for Mo.
He will be back on Monday. I hope he gets
a rested weekend after filling in for Bill Handle and hopefully,
hopefully it's knock on some wood here he is not
(29:26):
called to fill in on Monday or the rest of reason.
I think Chris Merrill is filling in, or maybe Savadra
one of them. Look, someone will be will be in
for Handle and Mo will be back on Monday, and
we'll be back to it next week. We will have
the name that could classic movie game tonight. We do
not We do not have a run a report, We
(29:48):
do not have a Friday Nights with Nautica. We just
have you and me together for the next couple hours intimate, yes,
touch your radio yourself all right, look and talking about
housing and the situation. Now to Dina. I almost forgot that.
There are a couple of things I did want to
(30:09):
make sure you were aware of. One is that FEMA
has extended the deadline to apply for wildfire disaster assistance
up until Monday the thirty first. All right, Monday, March
thirty first is the absolute ind date deadline to apply
(30:30):
for FEMA assistance. To apply for an SBA loan, find
yourself a FEMA help center and make sure you apply.
If you are a victim from either the Palisades or
Eaten wildfire, or any of the wildfires that ran through
southern California in January, please please please apply. You can
(30:54):
go online and at Disaster Assistance dot gov, which is
the fastest option. You can use the FEMA app available
at the App Store or at Google Play. You can
call the female helpline at eight hundred six two one
three three six two. Once again, the FEMA helpline is
eight hundred six two one three three six two. Or
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you can visit a Disaster Recovery center and for locations,
you can visit DRC location or DRC locator. I would
say visit the Disaster Recovery center in person so you
can have someone help you navigate the process because it
is a lot. There's a lot of red tape, a
(31:41):
lot of bureaucracy, and if you don't have someone on
the inside helping you find your way out, it can
be daunting. Also, one more deadline before we end this hour.
The deadline is approaching for fire victims to choose debre
removal methods. A residence impacted by the Palisades and eat
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wildfire have until the same FEMA date, March thirty first,
to decide how they will remove debried from their properties. Now,
our Mayor Karen Bass is urging all homeowners impacted by
the Palisades fire to opt into debris removal through the
US Army Corps of Engineers, which is free. Bass is
also announcing a new emergency Executive Order to help expedite
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the rebuilding process and to protect against future disasters. And
that's great. Whatever you do, make sure you choose a
method now. We do not want you to be stuck
trying to take care of that yourself. I promise you
it is. It is insane. And I am happy to
announce that I was recently in in my neighborhood. The
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other day. We were going about and trying to help,
not help, but we were going through our place and
cleaning out stuff or really throwing away a lot of stuff.
Had to go through that kitchen, and god, that was
a task. And that's just the first room, going through
and clean out that fridge with all that stuff that
had spoiled, all the stuff, and it was it was horrible.
And so that was a thing. But while there, I
(33:11):
saw trucks moving NonStop. These big trucks were hauling debris
up and down the street, and it was really amazing
to see. And there was construction crews around the corner
from but I can see, I can see all the
way around the corner, and now I can see all
the way onto the next block over them excavating and
(33:31):
digging out the debris and getting rid of it. And
I believe right now on our block, I believe there's
what four maybe five houses that have been cleared away.
And seeing that and seeing these places just stripped away,
I wish I had just had a time lapsed camera
that could just put in just sitting and it could
just record all of the taking away and then you know,
(33:51):
eventually the rebuilding. But it is an amazing thing to
see just make sure you're not the one paying for
a debris removal. Contact the US Army Corps of Engineers
and set your date to have them come and help
you with that remove or not help you, but get
rid of it because you don't want to do it yourself.
I promise you that I'll have some information on that
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in the newscast at the top of the hour. Is
it true in your observation that things are going faster
than predicted? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, shockingly shock The first I
thought it was going to go super slow, just looking
at the landscape and what they had to do. But
seeing how quickly they've gotten through these houses, even just
r street, it is amazing. It is amazing how quickly
they are moving. That's impressive and a little scrutiny will
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tend to light a fire under your seat. Yes, yes,
right under your ass. Thank you, Thank you for that.
This is KFI AM six forty Life Everywhere on the
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The more you know, the easier it is to avoid
the idiots around you. Ks Im kost HD two Los Angeles,
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You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Km AM sixty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
This is Later with mo Kelly and I am Twala
Sharp filling in for mo Kelly. Happy to be with
you for the next three hours. The crew is here,
Foosh is in the building. What it do Ronner t
(00:30):
any middle fingers today? Not for you, Bear, see here
we go, Here we go, Here we go. You knows
sporting of Ronner is going to stay because if you'
that quick to call you Tola bear? What that's a
term of affection. It is a term of endearment. Yes,
(00:50):
that uh. Super producer Kayla, who is producing for me tonight,
introduced to the building and Ronner just wants to make
sure that you all know well. I maybe we're unaware
of the influence she has over me. She's here today.
She isn't often when we do our show, and I
think it's because of her, her powerful presence that I
had to say, Touala Bear.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I appreciate that, Ronor.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's very true.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I am pretty powerful and Twala is the best mayor
in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I understand, best bear in the world. I love it.
We are off to a fun start. And interestingly enough, Ronner,
you came in and you were in very good spirits.
So I take it that your trip in was not
crazy or insane. No, I don't need to remind you
that we had the Batan Death Drive there two ago
(01:39):
and we I had to call and tell Krozer to
be ready to do seven o'clock because I didn't think
I was gonna make it. But and you had something similar, No,
I had the exact similar. I literally thought I was
going to have to just turn around and go home
because I thought that there was no way on earth
I would get here. And I thought the same was
gonna happen today. I was ready for because not all
(02:00):
schools are out on spring break yet, but at least
my school where I work, we are on spring break,
and I thought maybe there's some more schools that are
off or not on the LAUSD calendar as well. So
I was like preparing for spring break madness. But no, no,
it's just me and it's actually not really a spring break.
Because when I was thinking about it this morning, because
I was dropping my daughter off, I said, wait a minute,
(02:21):
wait a minute, wait a minute. If your spring break
is not the same as mine. That means all next week,
while I'm off, I'm still gonna have to be getting
up early in the morning to drop you off. Lucky
you love that, don't man?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Look, let me tell you you're an early morning type.
Not on any planet. There isn't even a planet that
we know of in our solar system where I would
get up in the morning. That planet doesn't exist, and
it's sure enough doesn't exist on this year plan we're on.
I am not a morning person. I ab whore getting
up in the morning. I abhor the neighbors roosters that
(02:59):
go off. What you have neighbors with roosters, I don't
know where it's at, but you hear it in the distance,
and it's when it's like real, real quiet out there,
and you hear that in the distance. I feel like,
is that on purpose? I don't want to initiate anything
that's going to get you into trouble, but I'll just say,
you know, those roosters are some good eating and if
(03:21):
they if they if they go missing rooster meat, I
don't know, Yeah, try it, try it with some some
breading and uh and and and deep trying a nice
rooster meat sounds well, the neighbors try the neighbors pets,
is what I'm suggesting. Neighbor does come up missing, we
all know that it was by way of the suggestion
(03:42):
and supreme influence of Mark Rona. My hands are clean. Okay,
talking about the roads, I was looking at a few
stories on the way in that has to do with
our drive, our commute, and just being in veal here
in southern California, because this is not the East Coast
(04:03):
where you can hop a train and get anywhere you
want without the use of a car. No. Out here,
we rely on cars. And it's interesting because in a
state where at one point our sunsets were beautiful only
because of the small caused by cars, it seems here
in California, California's clean air vehicle detail program could soon
(04:25):
be coming to an end. So my question, first of all,
is will that mean that people are just no longer
going to care about clean air vehicles? Who knows, but
the clock is running out on California's clean air vehicle
decal program. You may have seen these colorful stickles stickers.
They're on the back of vehicles that are riding in
the HOV lanes. Well, the program allows vehicles that meet
(04:48):
specific emission standards to use the car pool lanes regardless
of occupancy if you have that sticker. Now, it seems
that with the passing of AB two sixty seven, a
bill authorized by someone who hates driving and hates cars,
a similar member, Greg Wallace, who must be from the
East Coast, they are going to be bringing this program
(05:13):
to an end. Now, look, it may not be mister
Wallace's fault all together, but really and truly, this is
something I think to myself, mister Wallace, if you want
us to continue to have clean air and really abide
by these clean air standards that have to be maintained
by getting those stickers, then you need to keep the
program going. Good sir, You need to keep the program
(05:33):
going or it's going to be back to us having
those beautiful deep red smoggie sunsets. Now, they used to
be beautiful growing up, they really were. I did not
know that we were literally breathing in tar. I didn't know.
And that's gotten better since we started practicing clean emissions
(05:54):
and all that kind of good stuff. So whatever that
may be coming to an end, but also also also
So California is exploring getting rid of the gas tax
and replacing it with a road charge program. And I know, Mark,
I saw your eyebrows furrow a little bit. Well, I
was thinking, have you seen these side by side photographs
(06:16):
of the sky in La then and now and then?
How insanely different it is? Yes, yes, I don't want
to go back to the Then why would anybody? Because
there are certain people who just they they can't see
the force for the trees going to be able to
and you're you're not gonna be able to see the buildings,
for the cement or the bricks. Because if you get
(06:38):
rid of these programs and say you want to take
away all the incentives for car sells and all those things,
that's going to change and that's going to change the climate.
When we start exploring ways to get rid of the
gas tats and instead put charges on roads, making it
where because we are driving everywhere where. This also is
(07:02):
going to add to this thing called small and it's
gonna make it really really hard to drive. But the
biggest thing, the biggest story that I saw having to
do with driving, and it's actually more having to do
with parking. And this is a story. When I saw it,
I said to myself, big whoop. You deserve it if
(07:24):
your department goes under. And I'm sorry if you are
a meter person. But right now in Los Angeles, there
is a huge issue happening within the meter collection realm okay,
right now, meter collections are down, and it has a
lot to do with the COVID programs which said, like, look, man,
(07:47):
park wherever you need to, We're not going to be
sending meter people after you. Yes, and a lot of
money went away. But right now, right now, it seems
that the collection of parking fines and giving out tickets
has gone down to the point where now department, the
department is in danger. There's a lot of meter people
(08:09):
who are retired, rightfully, so get out of here. Meter people.
You can't call you meter maids anymore. No, they're meter people,
meter humans. They're meter humans. They are no longer maids
because they are not serving us unless they are serving
us a healthy dose of blank. You you blank, and
meter person, let me tell you not stand Look. I'm sorry,
(08:30):
look meater people, I'm just telling you that you have
quite possibly the most hated position on planet Earth. You
are exactly right You've got to have some healthy self
esteem to go into the meter human profession, because is
there anybody on earth that people are less happy to
see when you show up. Apart from like a dentist
or a process server, nobody's happy to see you. They
(08:53):
are awful people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I was leaving Target actually yesterday, and a guy was
scanning my license plate and I said, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm leaving. He's like, I'm not stop you. You're going
to get a.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Ticket in the mail.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You. This is why when I read that they are
are are suffering financially and that you know the meter
department is under danger. Look you know what, Take the
whole building and demolish it. Okay, take all those little
white cars and put self driving taxi signs on the
(09:24):
top of them, and let's get more cars on the
road taking us to and fro and maybe won't have
to park. Because I promise you this. The very next
time I hear someone tell me I'm sorry, I'm already
in the process of writing it. The tickets got to go.
I won't lose my mind. I do. I cannot stand
the meter profession. I don't even know why they created
(09:47):
other than to piss us off here in southern California,
because I don't know anywhere else in the country where
anyone faces this level of meter harassment. You have to
wonder about the psychological profile that they look for in
meter patrol people, because you know, with like Delta Force
or CIA or something. They you know, they look for
orphans that kind of thing. What kind of person becomes
(10:10):
a meter human. They probably look for people who have
on their resume. I'm okay with kicking puppies. You're so,
Lord Mercy. It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere all
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Kfive AM six forty Live everywhere all the iHeart Radio app.
This is Later with Moe Kelly. I'm twilet sharp in
for bo Kelly. And if you think Mo has an
issue with beaches and the water and whatnot, hold my
beer because Mo is someone who would get out on
(10:56):
a cruise over the open water. Me, up until going
on my first cruise with Moe and his family, I
would not get out over dark water for anything. I
don't even like getting into a swimming pool and looking
down at the deep end. I don't know if it
was a traumatic Jaws watching when I was a kid.
(11:18):
I have no idea where it came from. But I
don't like deep dark water. I don't like deep water period. Okay,
And no, I can't swim, so that could have like
some sway in my feelings. But even still here in
southern California, the notion of getting in this poop filled
(11:42):
water is next to insanity. Okay, next to insanity when
you are dealing with poop tides and all the filth
that is in our water here. The water here in
southern California is not brown because it's dirty. It's brown
because of what's going down, all the wasted bacteria that
(12:03):
just flows into our ocean. How do we know, because
once again, this is almost every weekend where health officials
are warning us against ocean water at several beaches across
southern California, Los Angeles, Orange County. All that you might
as well just say stay out of the water. Don't
say this beach and that beach, but this beach over
(12:24):
here is okay, No, just stay out of the water, okay,
Believe it or not, The ocean water isn't supposed to
be a dark, opaque, filthy color. Okay. I've been to
Miami and I've seen the blue green beaches. I've been
to islands in Puerto Rico and Jamaica where the water
is clear you can see down to the sand all
(12:45):
the way through, and it's like, that's what ocean water's
supposed to look like, nothing floating in it? Is that
the official Noah term for it. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration poop tides, poop tides. Yeah, poop tides. Okay, they
have adopted poop tides. And it's not seaweed that's catching
your leg concern. It's the filthy poop beach. Okay. The
(13:09):
La County Department of Health has issued warnings for beaches
from Mother's Beach of Marina del Rey all the way
over to Los Floria State Beach is Santa Monica. Look,
just all of the beaches. Stay out of the water.
Now for me and my beach water conspiratorial mind, that
there may be something else going on in the water
(13:29):
because these blue green waters that people are like, oh
my god, the water is blue and it's green and
it's glowing, glowing, beach water is not a good thing.
I know. People say, no, it's it's the it's when
the algae and the after effect of the water. No, no, no, no,
keep your scientific reasoning out of here. I don't want
to hear it. If you want to go out and
get in that blue green algae water that's obviously obviously
(13:53):
having a connection with all these seals and sea lions
that are coming up on the shores and just see
and literally they're staring at the water. Okay, when you
have sea creatures on a beach and they would rather
sit on the beach rather than go back in the water,
I don't want to hear your rational because you know what,
if you don't speak actual seal, all you're doing is guessing. Okay,
(14:15):
these are guesses and a hypothesis of why the seals
and all these creatures along the beaches right now are
staying out of the water and we're having all these
deep fish, deep water fish floating up and all this
kind of stuff. Welles getting beach because they're choking on
the filth in the water out here, and they don't
like it. It is grotesque. Okay, they still don't even
(14:36):
know what to do with all these beech seal lions
and mountains or sea lions and seals that are Huntington
Beach and Manhattan Be's. They're all over in the beaches
over in Orange County. It's where they're all hanging out,
and they're looking at the water and they're barking saying
hell no, you hear they're saying, hell no, that's what
they're saying about the water. Okay, but imagine this. Imagine
(14:57):
this here in southern California with our water where the
bacteria levels pure bacteria, which is way too high for
any human to go into. Imagine that water coming at
you one hundred plus miles an hour. Imagine a tsunami
of poop. Keep your mouth closed, keep your mouth closed,
(15:20):
and your cheeks tight, because when a tsunami hit Southern California,
it's not gonna be poop tis. It's gonna be a
poop nami. A poop nami. Yes. Right now, officials are
cautioning residents to check whether they live in a tsunami
zone ahead of Tsunami Preparedness Week. Yes, there's actually a
week starting tomorrow all the way through next week is
(15:43):
Tsunami Preparedness Week here in southern California. And yes, the
chances of a tsunami hitting us anytime soon are probably,
you know, next to zero. But but but all these
little mini earthquakes that we've been having that everyone wants
to laugh at, Oh twalla, the earthquakes. What if we
have one in the water that we just can't feel,
(16:04):
all right, our little meters don't go off, and that
water sets off the tsunami, okay, and sends that poop
coming at you one hundred plus miles an hour, a
liquid code brown. Nobody wants this. Nobody wants it. Mark,
I mean, there's no way you're gonna want to clean
up the beaches. California will be done if we get
hit with the tsunami. And it's interesting that they say,
(16:25):
you know, make sure you are monitoring and checking if
you live in a tsunami area, because what are you
gonna do. What are you gonna do for tsunami week?
Are you gonna pack up and move somewhere? No, No,
go inland the beaches.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You see the waves going the opposite way, You get
in your car, you head to the there there's.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No places to stay right now, right now, those of
us who've been impacted by eating in the palisades. Were
already staying everywhere, so there's no order for people to go. Okay,
that's fair. Well, remember when you were a child and
you would make fun of relatives who kept the plastic
covering on counches. Ye, leave it on, Just leave it
on if you're if you're in the area, if you're
in one of these areas. Yeah, yeah, but now you
(17:04):
can go on and check. I did not grab the website,
but you can go on and check if you do
live in one of these tsunami areas. I believe it's
not tsunami dot Com. It's not. It's not our uh producer, Kayla,
it's not. I thought it was, and I think I
accidentally deleted it where you could go and check. I'm
(17:25):
talking and stalling so I can give you time to
look it up. If you didn't know that, Kayla, Yes,
I know you're taching it. Did somebody rush right in
and hog tsunami dot Com so that the legit people
couldn't have it? Maybe? Maybe because it's If Kala says
that is tsunami dot Com, I will fall out. Got
this great idea for a restaurant. Guess what we're gonna
call it.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It is conservation dot c a dot gov slash CGS
slash unami slash maps. Boom bam, that's kind of a
mouthful tsunami dot com.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So I'm sure I'll take you there as well. Love
it camfi AM six forty. We are live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. And yesterday we talked about possibly moving
to Disney's Villa in the Coachella area and no, none
(18:16):
of us can afford it. But but but thanks to
Fanny May, we may actually be able to get ourselves
into a condo right now. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong,
but with the way I'm looking at this where it
says that Fanny May's blacklist has four hundred and thirty
eight California communities with availabilities, I'm thinking that we may
(18:39):
have something. So we'll look into that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
On the other side, you're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tawala Sharp filling in for Mo Kelly. Mark, I know
that you are are in the market for a place. Well,
I'm kind of looking in when the right place comes
along that I can afford and live indoors, and then
(19:09):
I'll jump yeah, super producer, Kayla, are you still looking?
Are you comfortable where you're at?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, I love my place. I'm very comfortable for now. Yeah.
What about you, Foosh? You comfortable yet comfortable? Yeah? Yeah,
you see that that response was a little uncomfortable, that
I'm comfortable, a bit lackluster. Yes, in fact, he's lying.
I'm declaring in the hostile witness that that was not
a comfortable response, like to get I'd like to be
(19:40):
a homeowner. But okay, comfortable, Okay, okay, okay, cool, cool.
I figure that you and I know hell Uh, being
from and growing up in and and living in the
Pasadena altad the area, I can tell you this, every
single person that I know growing up UH is looking
for a place right. There are many who would like
(20:03):
they would love the opportunity to stay in Altadena. And
there are so many different initiatives, so many different groups
working within the Altadena area to help rebuild the city,
to help people stay in their homes with everyone who
wants to that can I mean, I went to a
(20:29):
kind of a town hall so to speak put on
by none other than Beyonce. Beyonce and her mother they
have an organization that they have started called be Good,
and this organization right now, they have been doing God's
work here in southern California. And while acknowledging the need
(20:54):
in Palisades, what touched Beyonce and her mother the most
is the destruction of Altadena and the history of Alta
Dina and it's relevance in southern California for black home
ownership and the like. And neither of them are from Pasadena. Yes,
(21:15):
they're in Texas, and there is a Pasadena, Texas, but
neither of them are from the city. All right. But
when they saw the destruction and they saw what was happening,
they came together and they said, we are going to
put our own money. We are going to use our pool.
No one is telling Beyonce no. Okay, they may tell Twalao,
(21:36):
but no one is telling Beyonce no. So Beyonce's gonna
go out and get the money. She's gonna go out
and get the money. She's gonna go out and get
the resources, and she's gonna have people coming together and
we are going to help this city. Every which way
that we can. And what I saw them do just
for this town hall and for everyone that was in
there was nothing short of miraculous. Okay, I've seen a
(21:59):
lot of politicians on the West Coast talk about what
they're going to do for whether it be Eaten or
the Palisades, and I've seen little to nothing happen. The
movement has been slow as far as what it should
be in my estimation. But to see someone like Beyonce
(22:22):
and her mother come out and say, here's what we're doing.
We are going to keep our word and we are
going to take care of all of you. What I
saw again in there was nothing short of amazing. And
I've met Beyonce. I don't know how many times Microraft
had her on concerts, had it on shows and off air.
I'll even tell you a funny personal Beyonce story. But yes,
I can never say anything bad about Beyonce, not because
(22:44):
of what she did for my family. And this is
non sponsorship, this is not getting paid to say anything
good about beyond just just hit my mind. As I'm
looking at the availability of condos by way of Fanning
made it just hit me about what Beyonce has done
for or us in the Altadta area and what she's
doing here in southern California. I'm like, she doesn't know
(23:05):
any of us, She doesn't know any of us, doesn't
have to do anything, but still it's stepping up to
do so. So I never had anything bad to say
about Beyonce, but you will never hear a crossword come
out of my mouth ever about her or her mother,
because they are about it. And they didn't have cameras there,
They didn't have, you know, a bunch of press there.
(23:25):
You know that Tina knows. She came out, she said, hey, look,
Yonce wants to be here, but she is preparing for
a tour where she is. But here's what we're doing
right now. And it was like one of those like man,
everyone in there was crying because of what they did.
And So when I think about that, and I think
about how how hard it is right now for just
(23:45):
those of us here in southern California to even fathom
owning a home, it's almost as if this this state
is set up for us to not own a home.
It's almost set up for us to stay in an
apartment forever, because apartments, most every apartment is on a
monthly basis, it's costing you what you could be putting
(24:06):
towards a house, but none of us can get together
enough to put down on the house to get out
of the apartment in the first place. So it's like
this rat race that we're in this this situation where
it's just it is rubbing two nickels together. Here in
southern California is rough, And I get it. I know,
I know cost of living is a lot cheaper elsewhere.
When when I was in Eerie and they were charging
(24:29):
US nine hundred and fifty dollars a month for a
palatial estate, it was like one of those like every
time I pay this year, I was like, I feel
like I'm gonna get in trouble, Like the police are
gonna come and say you've been living in a drugg
den and you know this house is being uh they're
using this to funnel money through. I just I said
to myself, this is crazy how much it costs to
(24:50):
buy a house in southern California. And yes, Fannie May,
they have this blacklist where where good news there is
an inventory of available properties for sale, and that inventory
list has grown. The bad news again is that these
properties are still touting their highest prices ever with the
(25:12):
highest interest rates ever in heavy buyer competition, because land's
is finite here in southern California, all the deserts are
not build it out there. They're just building up in
areas like that. So yes, fat he may have more
places in and they may have places available. But Mark,
(25:33):
if you had the opportunity right now to move into
a place that could cost you some six seven thousand
a month, are you doing that tomorrow? Or I'd be
living in my car. And in fact, do you remember
when we spoke last night off the air, I told
you that I'd been looking into people living in their cars,
and more and more people who are working full time
(25:55):
are forced to live in their cars because of how
insanely expensive how and you can't rule out the factor
of a private equity buying up real estate and houses.
In LA nearly twenty thousand people are living in their
cars right now, right now, right now, people who have
full time jobs, well that's not all full time job,
(26:17):
but it's nearly forty percent of the homeless. There are
people living in their cars in LA. Cars. I'm telling
you that there are people that I personally know who
have full time jobs. Okay, these are not you know,
don't hear what we're saying and think, well, they got
to do better than working at McDonald's. No, no, no, no,
no no. I know people who are working within the
(26:39):
high fives and the low to mid sixes and they
have decided to just tough it out, live in their car. Yeah,
membership and that's what it's going to be. And there
are no accidents. This is not a thing that just
happened by accident. Going ahead. I just I'm reading multiple
things at the same time here, Yeah, trying to wrap
(27:01):
my head around this. But the fact that you work
a full time job and you can't live in a
house seems absolutely through the looking glass insane to me. Yeah.
And it's like when I saw this list of condo availabilities,
you know, published by La Daily News and the reporting
on what Fannie May's organization is put out, and I'm like, hey,
(27:25):
this is great, this is great, but this information is
literally it's not even worth the paper that is printed
on because not a single one of us who all
work full time jobs. I work two full time jobs,
and it's one of those things where still here in
southern California. We cannot go out and buy a house. Well,
(27:46):
here's the thing. We know that roughly sixty five percent
of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, which in and of
itself is a little hard to swallow, not that I
don't believe it, but that it shouldn't be. And so
you get into this trap where let's say you have
to move into a place where the average rent here
is three grand a month. That doesn't leave a lot
(28:06):
of working people a lot of money left over to
save and put away. And then when you factor in
that a huge percentage of Americans don't have an extra
thousand dollars for an emergency expense. You're not buying a house.
You're not buying a house. And if you do, then
that's all you have. You don't have anything in that house.
You're no longer driving your car. You are walking to
(28:27):
work because every dime you make is going into the house.
And and n you talking about a small house three
thousand a month, you're talking about a very very small house.
And most apartments right now like they're looking at like
thirty five hundred force for a one bedroom, one bath.
I'm like the ooh, almost made me curse, all right,
(28:49):
don't do that. No KFI AM six before I gotta go.
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housing and the situation. Now to Dina. I almost forgot that.
There are a couple of things I did want to
(30:09):
make sure you were aware of. One is that FEMA
has extended the deadline to apply for wildfire disaster assistance
up until Monday the thirty first. All right, Monday, March
thirty first is the absolute ind date deadline to apply
(30:30):
for FEMA assistance. To apply for an SBA loan, find
yourself a FEMA help center and make sure you apply.
If you are a victim from either the Palisades or
Eaten wildfire, or any of the wildfires that ran through
southern California in January, please please please apply. You can
(30:54):
go online and at Disaster Assistance dot gov, which is
the fastest option. You can use the FEMA app available
at the App Store or at Google Play. You can
call the female helpline at eight hundred six two one
three three six two. Once again, the FEMA helpline is
eight hundred six two one three three six two. Or
(31:20):
you can visit a Disaster Recovery center and for locations,
you can visit DRC location or DRC locator. I would
say visit the Disaster Recovery center in person so you
can have someone help you navigate the process because it
is a lot. There's a lot of red tape, a
(31:41):
lot of bureaucracy, and if you don't have someone on
the inside helping you find your way out, it can
be daunting. Also, one more deadline before we end this hour.
The deadline is approaching for fire victims to choose debre
removal methods. A residence impacted by the Palisades and eat
(32:02):
wildfire have until the same FEMA date, March thirty first,
to decide how they will remove debried from their properties. Now,
our Mayor Karen Bass is urging all homeowners impacted by
the Palisades fire to opt into debris removal through the
US Army Corps of Engineers, which is free. Bass is
also announcing a new emergency Executive Order to help expedite
(32:25):
the rebuilding process and to protect against future disasters. And
that's great. Whatever you do, make sure you choose a
method now. We do not want you to be stuck
trying to take care of that yourself. I promise you
it is. It is insane. And I am happy to
announce that I was recently in in my neighborhood. The
(32:49):
other day. We were going about and trying to help,
not help, but we were going through our place and
cleaning out stuff or really throwing away a lot of stuff.
Had to go through that kitchen, and god, that was
a task. And that's just the first room, going through
and clean out that fridge with all that stuff that
had spoiled, all the stuff, and it was it was horrible.
And so that was a thing. But while there, I
(33:11):
saw trucks moving NonStop. These big trucks were hauling debris
up and down the street, and it was really amazing
to see. And there was construction crews around the corner
from but I can see, I can see all the
way around the corner, and now I can see all
the way onto the next block over them excavating and
(33:31):
digging out the debris and getting rid of it. And
I believe right now on our block, I believe there's
what four maybe five houses that have been cleared away.
And seeing that and seeing these places just stripped away,
I wish I had just had a time lapsed camera
that could just put in just sitting and it could
just record all of the taking away and then you know,
(33:51):
eventually the rebuilding. But it is an amazing thing to
see just make sure you're not the one paying for
a debris removal. Contact the US Army Corps of Engineers
and set your date to have them come and help
you with that remove or not help you, but get
rid of it because you don't want to do it yourself.
I promise you that I'll have some information on that
(34:13):
in the newscast at the top of the hour. Is
it true in your observation that things are going faster
than predicted? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, shockingly shock The first I
thought it was going to go super slow, just looking
at the landscape and what they had to do. But
seeing how quickly they've gotten through these houses, even just
r street, it is amazing. It is amazing how quickly
they are moving. That's impressive and a little scrutiny will
(34:36):
tend to light a fire under your seat. Yes, yes,
right under your ass. Thank you, Thank you for that.
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