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September 24, 2025 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’ Kelly’ presents: A look at a robbery at a 7-Eleven in Long Beach, where the suspect vanished… PLUS – Thoughts on the expanded use of A.I. cameras across California AND the top-ranked bars in Orange County - on KFI AM 640… Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I guess we're still here. No, no, no, no, let me
be clear. I guess I'm still here. I call my
mom today. It's like, hey, Mommy, you're still there. He's like, yeah,
why would I be? Where would I be? He's like,
just making sure you didn't get raptured without me. I'm
still here. You're still here. Mark still here? Sam, I

(00:43):
think is still here to Walla's walking around, So none
of us have been raptured so far. It's later with
Mo Kelly ca if I am six forty five, everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app, we're still here. I don't know
if everyone is checking with their family. Mark, you checking
without all your loved ones.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I have no family, but I had stuff to do
and I couldn't leave, So I I was against being raptured.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Okay, but what about the people around you that you
might care about? How about your landlord? She'd noticed when
the rent came due. Otherwise she probably wouldn't care, so
she wasn't raptured at least.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I saw her on the way out today. She's still there.
So I guess I don't know anybody who got raptured, Sam,
anyone get raptured in your circle.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
No, no, I almost did, but I got lured back,
but with an offer for free food.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
What do you mean? Wait? Where's the free food? I
was and someone said, hey, would you like a hot dog?
I'm like, I'm actually kind of hungry. Yeah, did you
bring us one? It was a hot dog? It was one.
What does that have to do with that doesn't help us,
right us? Yeah? I think that's why I was I
got sent back. Was really I just I wanted a

(01:54):
hot dog.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I didn't know what was happening for a second because
I was on the phone with Tuala.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
He was driving in.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We were talking at the show, and all of a sudden,
my line went dead and I said, oh, hell, did
did Twilet get rappered?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Or did I get raptured?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And I didn't know it because the phone just went
dead and I couldn't do anything. And I said, is
it beginning? And I said no, my just phone just
locked up.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
That was it. I was almost like kind of disappointed.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I wanted to be part of history, like either I
get raptured or I could talk about Twala getting raptured,
but neither happened.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
So wait, wait, wait, why do you want me to
get raptured. No, what I'm saying. I was asking, did
everyone checking with their loved ones? Did you check make sure?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I mean, obviously you're still here, but it doesn't mean
that everyone else is still here. I was calling friends
on the East Coast, checking in on social media. It's like, hey,
you're all right there, and everyone responded to me. So
I don't know. Either everyone was sub rapture status, you know,
we didn't qualify, or the rapture did not happen as now.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Because I was driving in and as I was about
to get on the freeway there was a jacket that
was just on the corner.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I set myself. Damn it, someone got raptured. Were their
pants with it? You know? It was just a jacket.
Maybe the pants went with them. I don't know. See
that's the thing. I'm not exactly sure.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
If you get raptured, do all your clothes and jewelry
go with you?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Or do you go bucket ass naked? No, some stuff
has to go. It's like the Jedi, how they go
and their robes go with them.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't know if this is a Jedi thing or
it's a Thano snap thing. I don't know if the
rapture fits within those parameters. Yeah, we don't get to
be forced ghosts, because that would be cool. Do you
get the temperature on the way up?

Speaker 6 (03:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I haven't been raptured yet. When, if, and when that happens,
I'll let you know.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Because I would I if I was going to get cold,
I'd at least want a coat and a clean change underpants.
Shrink into the thing.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, I don't think you have to use it anymore
if you, you know, been raptured. I don't want to
be naked raptured though. Well that's the thing. That's what
I was talking about yesterday. I said, I need a
two minute warning. I want to make sure I'm not
sitting on the jahn or in the shower.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
That's all I want. Yeah, yes, I'm asking. Okay, if
you can't tell me when, give me a little heads up.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
I think you get rapture clothing when you go because
the rapture takes you to a spiritual plane and these
are physical things, so they can't get it from the gap. Well,
I mean it's kind of like you're you're giving silken robes.
I guess to go with the rivers of milk and honey,
which is weird because milk and honey in a river.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's kind of weird, right, raw milk? Do you have
to drink the raw milk? If it's raw and unpasteurized,
it's gotta be dunk.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't think they have milk wherever the rapture takes us.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
We really need some clarification on the rap I thought
rivers of milk and honey.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
And you know, streets are paid for gold.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
I mean gold, which again that's a physical thing, but
still it's gold.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I don't know if maybe they're looking for words to
best describe the indescribable.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
That's the only thing I can think of, which is.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Why we will have silk and linen or some type
of raptury gear by rapture ones for.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
The rest of us who are actually still here and
not raptured. We have a seven to eleven update, and
it's not good because of course it's seven to eleven.
It's kind of redundant. If I mentioned seven eleven is
probably negative, Yes, it is negative. Seven eleven got robbed
in Long Beach. There's a standoff, and arms standoff will
tell you how it turned out. And AI cameras are

(05:22):
now being put to use to spot wildfires across California.
It's not much of a leap. If they're being used
to spot wildfires, they're probably being used to spot other
things something considerable. Talk about that and we'll tell you
about the top bars in Orange County, according to the
OC Register.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Of course, tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is back.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
It was probably pre recorded today around four thirty five
o'clock the show, but nothing has leaked out.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
They usually do the late.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Night shows earlier in the day and then they're airing
later in the evening. Nothing has leaked out, at least
as far as the press and trades, as far as
what Jimmy Kimmel has said.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
The monologue usually hits YouTube pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, but it but it won't hit until after it
airs on the East Coast, which is probably coming up.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean at least an hour and a half.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
So so if something drops, we'll play it for you
live uncut so we can find out what Jimmy Kimmel did.
We have that and so much more. It's later with
Mo Kelly k IF. I am six forty live. Everybody,
I Heart Radio app.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six fortyfi Its.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Later well live on YouTube, live on the iHeartRadio app. Okay,
If I told you that there was a seven to
eleven which got robbed, you'd probably say, of course, is
there anything else which gets robbed in the form of
a convenience store?

Speaker 3 (06:53):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
If I told you that the robbery suspect was unable
to escape and then barricaded himself, I presume it's a
him barricaded himself in the seven eleven for hours, you
probably say, hmm, that's probably different.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
We haven't heard about that before.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
If I told you this same person who allegedly robbed
the seven eleven barricaded himself and he's armed now, barricaded
himself inside the seven eleven for hours, Swatt was called
and somehow managed to get away, you probably say, no, way,

(07:35):
it's not possible that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
And I have questions. I have a lot of questions. Now.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
This seven eleven, which is near First Street and Broadway,
I don't know what it physically looks like. I don't
know if it was a standalone seven eleven. I don't
know if it was a part of a strip mall
connected to other buildings.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's important. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Police got to the seven to eleven just after two
am this morning, so it was going on for a
long time. There was a robbery. The employees were able
to escape. They called police, but the suspect barricaded himself inside.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Now let me stop right there.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I always have to wonder how much real money or
things of great value are there in a seven eleven.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I'm not thinking a lot of things. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Maybe there's some vate pens. Maybe you can steal some
cartons of cigarettes. Maybe there's a couple hundred dollars of
change in the drawer and the cash is draw I don't.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Know about the safe.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
They always say the safe doesn't have a lot of money,
but I'm thinking it's a seven eleven. There's probably not
a lot of money there. So I don't understand the
fixation with seven eleven other than it's probably easier to
rob than other places. Nonetheless, he barricaded himself inside. He
refused to surrender. That's around two am. Twelve hours later,

(08:56):
at two pm, SWAT officers made their entrance. I don't
know if they use flashbags or whatever. But they they
entered the store and they found it empty. But they
did look in the storage room, and according to public reports,
they were missing ceiling tiles in the storage room, indicating

(09:19):
how the suspect likely exited the seven eleven.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Of course, Okay, so he went into the ceiling.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
So I'm this is my question, and this goes back
to the layout of the seven eleven. Is it a
stand alone because we have the video up right now
on our YouTube, but I can't see the full building.
If it's a stand alone he's obviously not going anywhere,
He's just in the ceiling. If it's like a strip
mallel connected to other buildings, something like, well does that

(09:46):
really connect? Does that allow you a way to get
into the neighboring building? Okay, I can see it now.
It's a corner seven eleven, so it's not a standalone building.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I don't know how he got away.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
If he went up into the ceiling and waited and
through the ceiling was able to make it to the roof,
which they're probably not looking for. They're probably not looking
I don't know if there's a helicopter above this. I
know there's a news copter above it. This is a
night though from when he went in. Yeah, I'm not
talking about still darkness. Ye's still darkness. They don't know

(10:18):
where he's at, you know, while he's up in there
hole morning, but yeah, he's and so there's no telling
at what point in time he went up into the roof.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Very slick.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
This guy's obviously been watching some movies and has learned some.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Things straight out of movies. Straight out of a movie.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Went into the ceiling inside man mate right and just
probably just chilled, said I'm gonna take some tiles down. Misdirection.
He's in the roof. I'm already gone. I'm not the
hot gone. I'm looking at this on television.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I just have to wonder, like, not to blame the police,
but I have to wonder what they were looking at
or what they were focusing on, because there's no way
he should have gotten away. There's no way he should
have gotten away unless he walked down with one of
the employees. M you know, in the in the rush

(11:08):
and the commotion of the employees running and remember there's
there's only one or two employees in there. I don't know,
it's like maybe where you're gonna go. I mean, he's
not Houdini. And clearly he was able to get away.
We assume through the ceiling, but it doesn't have to
be through the ceiling. He could have exited some other way.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
For all we know. He's in that ceiling right now.
He could still be in there.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
They say that he might have gotten away, but you know,
according to Fox eleven, they said, it's unclear if the
suspect was ever located. No, that means they haven't located him.
He's gone. He's in the wind. And my thing is,
if you're smart enough to evade police in this way, no,
to evade Swat.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
He got raptured.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Right in the middle of committing a crime he was forgiving.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Oh my gosh, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
That's not the state possibility. I mean, that's that's real,
because that is more believable than he being able.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
To outwit an outsmart Swat.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Now, there is a movie coming out starring Channon Tatum
called roof Man, where he starts as a criminal who
was able to evade the police all throughout the States
or wherever he was going, and he finally before he
was caught. He lived in a toys r us in
the roof for the longest and then came down poses
and employees. It's a wild store. It's a real story

(12:36):
based on a real guy. But that's what it did.
He would break into places and hide out in the
roof and wait till they were closed and rob them.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
I wonder, we don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I wonder if they actually did, like, uh, a thorough
enough search of the building for like, you know, because
swat they usually have like a heat sensor for body heat.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
I wonder if they've done that for the building.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Because I made mention of the movie Inside Man Spike
Lee star Dentel Washington Clive Owen, and it tells the
story about a bank robbery that Clive Owen and his
crew does.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
He never leaves the building.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
He lives in the walls of the bank for like
a few weeks or something, and then just walks out
with other customers many weeks later. I would not be
surprised if this dude is doing something like that, because
it's still it seems more unlikely that he was able
to get away either by the roof or the back door,
as opposed to just remaining in the structure for some

(13:38):
inordinate amount of time and waiting because most seven elevens
are like twenty four to seven, aren't they?

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So he'd have to come out when.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
There's a you know, there's normal business going on.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
And again because this is a roof. You know, the
roof of our house has a small little cross base
that you can get up into. So what if there's
a cross base up there. He's up there with the
toils and the insulation, just waiting and he can make
his way into it on all the SWAT's gone and
the people are back in the shopping he's looking down

(14:10):
through a little peepole that he's made. Oh, people getting coffee,
a lot of tickets are right, I'm gonna go up
through the roof and make my way across the building.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Look, if you're this smart to do this on the
fly and evade police, you should be smart enough to
think of something better than robbing a seven to eleven.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Maybe he's doing it for the thrill. Maybe he wants
to be on later with Mo Kelly.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Maybe he's just really pure of heart who was a
true believer and got raptured, Like.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Tim Conway Junior would say, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's later with mo Kelly CAF I have since storted
Alive Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We got to talk
about AI cameras being used to spot wildfires. That's great,
but you also know that opens the door for the
AI cameras to spot other things.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
We'll tell you about that next.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Later with mo Kelly Live Everywhere on YouTube and the
iHeartRadio app. And if you're watching us on YouTube, you
may notice that the cameras will move. If I were
to get up and walk over here, walk over there,
watch the cameras will follow me to wallet talk for
seconds second, watch me.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
No okay, mos getting up? Oh no, yeah, and the
cameras following them all around. Look at that. Look at
this smart camera? What is this AI?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
It is AI.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
And that's part of the reason why I mentioned that.
Because AI cameras are everywhere. You can buy them for
your home, use personal, use zoom, use high. But this
is something that Mark Ronner probably is going to hate
to hear. But there is an ingenious use of AI
in the sense of preventing and identifying fresh fires. It

(16:15):
started as a small research project at UC San Diego
twenty five years ago. Twenty five years ago, that's how
long it's been in the works. Now it's going into
this powerful network of twelve hundred cameras constructed on peaks
and hilltops across the state from north to south, with
millions of dollars in state funding and oversight from CalFire.

(16:36):
So those are the folks who believe in this and
are utilizing this. The cameras are built on towers, observatories,
and buildings, and they're part of this system called Alert California.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Check this out. They turned three hundred and sixty degrees every.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Two minutes, taking twelve photos with each pass, twenty four
hours a day, obviously exceeding the capability of any human.
Upgraded with artificial intelligence software two years ago, they can tilt, pan, zoom,
detect smoke, and alert fire dispatchers automatically, usually quicker than

(17:15):
humans can.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Each camera Mark.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Can see sixty miles away on a clear day, and
with near infrared technology can see one hundred and twenty
miles out on a clear night.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
What's my rule about technology? Mob sucks? It's going to
kill us all.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
I don't remember which which one whatever is the worst thing.
You can imagine that it would be used for it.
It's being used for that, No, it probably is.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
But I'm saying that there are genuine, legitimate uses which
serve to help us all, protect us all to our
mutual benefit.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Sure, but they need to be watched, over regulated at
the ying yang and just monitor for abuse.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Now I think that you're looking at this from the
wrong angle. Oh am, I yeah, I'll tell you why,
because this is a great use of AI and cameras
and being able to watch I mean, we're talking about
brush areas for for the most part.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Now I'm going to take a bold position against wildfires.
Are you prepared for that? Okay, go for this?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Sure? Yeah wow. Let me just talk to Twala. Turn
off turn off is mike? Turn off is camera? Oh
dare you? But my point to Wala is.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Hey, we should be able to see that this is
a great application of AI. AI does have a place
in society. But I also know this is going to
like sort of jump what Mark is probably going to say,
these cameras have this capability and are used in a
positive and a worthwhile way here. But we can also

(18:52):
assume that it's not a large leap that this type
of technology will be used in a monitoring sense for
people and our behavior twenty four to seven, And these
cameras will be everywhere and also used as a way
to like we always we already have the AI cameras

(19:12):
on the bus, which we're gonna give us tickets if
we're a car is parked in the bus lane. Is
it a large leap that these AI cameras will be
used for all moving violations? Is it a large leap
that these AI cameras would be used for all sorts
of violations behavior, criminal, civil, whatever, and be used against us?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Now, this is where I would agree with Mark.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'm just saying there are positive applications, and there are
the unintended consequences and also the intended consequences of nefarious
uses of the technology.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
I feel violated already.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
Well, I mean, look, I'm gonna go full runner here,
and I think that these cameras are already up and
have already been monitoring that. I love the idea that
they want to report this as Oh it's a wildfire cameras,
It's gonna protect California and everywhere else. No, these cameras
are already. We probably just don't see them. They're probably

(20:07):
already monitoring us. But when we do see them, what's
the first they were in the Think, man, these wildfire
cameras are everywhere.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I have to assume in the way that they have
cameras like this on the freeway reading license plates. I
have to assume that they're everywhere around the city. Why
would you not put them in an urban environment when
you're already using them in a suburban and wildfire environment
for those purposes.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
All you need is some type of leader, some type
of person in charge, someone who would go so far
as to claim that there's some Patriot Act level disturbance
in urban cities across this country and they need to
be monitored.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Now, that's all you need.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, I don't think you even have to make such
a declaration. I think it's already being done as a
function of cameras which are already in place. There are
cameras just about on every street corner. The only difference
is that these would be automated AI and can also
send back information twenty four to seven three sixty five.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Oh yeah, No, we're not talking to stop like cameras. No,
we're talking cameras that are monitoring where you go, zooming
in on you and looking at anything you walk out
of a store with whatever. These cameras are going to
be everywhere. I mean, why would they not use them?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Because we already have talked about on this show about
the use of drones and the unintended consequences or how
they can be used in a way to the detriment
of our Fourth Amendment rights.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
This is probably more the same.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when you're
out in public, and why wouldn't these cameras be used everywhere?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, you know what they always say, Oh, if you're
not breaking any laws or doing anything wrong, you shouldn't
have any problem living in a total surveillance police state.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
And you know what I say, just because I'm not
hiding anything in my ass, it doesn't mean that I
automatically want to submit to a cavity search.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
I'm gonna take your word on that. That's my point.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Just because we're not necessarily doing something, it doesn't mean
that we're okay with any and all surveillance or any
and all searches.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Where were you when Doge got all our information and
Pallenteer got all our stuff. I was in the same
file as you.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Trust me. Oh, I got my information too. I promise
you all that.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Information they got from Health and Human Services that my
information was in there too.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, look, we weren't doing anything with the Fourth Amendment anyway,
We probably didn't need it.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, we haven't done anything with it since I don't know,
maybe the Patriot Act.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
We still got the second one. That's all we need,
right according to some people. Yeah, Sam, what were you
going to say.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
I'm just saying we have that with like the surveillance
on wheels with Waymo, Well that too.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Look, there's surveillance in various levels and forms. Hell, you
can talk about the whole Google car which is going
down the street and mapping for Google Maps and the
street level view and everything. You think it's only being
used for GPS purposes.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
It's for entertainment purposes. There's a lot of people who
really pose for funny pictures on that.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, it is funny, but whenever you're mapping to that degree,
there are alternative and other uses.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, for that data and information.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
And look, don't you think that law enforcement would have
would like to have all the mapping of everyone's house
and everyone's street and.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Everyone's information.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I guess we just have to trust they're going to
do the right thing, don't we. No, I don't think
we have to trust. I'm saying we have no choice
in the matter. Yeah, we don't have to trust.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
I'm just saying it it is going on because we
know law enforcement already uses the ring camera technology and
the neighborhood app and sharing all that information.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Jeez, the wheeze, where's the rapture? At it here yet?

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Oh? Oh? It's here? I mean I along with the rapture. Oh.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I actually had some hate mail last night because someone
was seriously was mad at me that I used the
Blondie rapture as opposed to Anita Baker, because Anita Baker
has a song caught up in a rapture of love.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Oh are you? Are you? Mother? Fathers happy now? Golley.
They get mad about the smallest things. It's like, how
did you skip over Anita Baker.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Just to get the blondieture. I will tell you how,
because Blondie clearly says the word rapture by itself. For
me to use Anita Baker, I had to use a
whole damn phrase of caught up in the rapture of love.
I couldn't even isolate it, so it didn't make sense.

(24:59):
Y'all have now, Okay, I got them both in there.
I like Blondie's I'm Still Here.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I know Still Here. I Am six forty with didn't work.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
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And let me just ask Sam, you like a good
bar mark when he leaves the house, which is not often.
He probably would like a good bar twilette you used
to drink many years ago, so you have an idea
of what a good bar is. I think of a
good bar as somewhere I don't have to look over
my shoulder. That is not the likelihood of a fight

(25:58):
breaking out. Bar has a bartender who knows me, knows
what I like. I don't have to like if they're twenty.
People reused to say in bartender bart I just have
to walk in and make eye contact with the bartender
because I'm a regular, and he or she will take
care of me.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
We don't need to have a conversation. That for me
is a good bar. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I've got a couple of those around town, karaoke bars
that I frequent where. Yeah, I just walk in the
bartender a couple of them, but one of them in particular,
I've known for like twenty years, and she'll as soon
as I walk in.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
She'll just pour me the drink. It's right there. Same.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Before I moved here, I lived around the corner from
the best dive bar in all of Seattle, and I
would go in for the last hour. Sometimes I'd bring
my laptop in work on a comic script or something,
and they would just slap down the usual you in
front of me. Yes, And if anybody came in, who
is skiv or nobody knew the eyes were on him.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's what I like. Swallow what about you? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:57):
I can't remember the bar that we used to go
to as on Wills Boulevard, but me and a bunch
of you know, the Innerscope folks, Marlon Grandberry, Troy Marshall,
big Lez, a lot of us will go to this
one bar and every time I would go. They knew
for a fact I was there for the Goldschlager. Shots Goldschlager.
You don't strike me as a Goldschlager. Tell yeah, smooth,

(27:19):
I like to burn, you know, nice smooth buzz.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
It wasn't the sparkly stuff in it. No, not the flex.
Not the flex.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
The reason I bring this up because in the OC
Register they had the Best of Orange County twenty twenty five,
the best bar.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
They just listed to top three.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
But I was going through some of the reasons that
they were listed as the top three, and.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
I was thinking, like, that doesn't appeal to me.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So I just want to get your thoughts on this
coming in number three, and this is according to the
OC Register. I'm not passing any judgment because I haven't
actually been to these locations, but it's interesting. What was
highlighted as a feature coming in number three is O'Connell's
Sports Pub and Grill, which is one nine zero four
seven Bouchard Street and Huntington Beach and the bar, according

(28:06):
to this takes sports seriously with more than thirty TVs
with both direct TV and spectrum at every sports package
available come game day, forget trying to squeeze your way
into the overcrowded sports bars along the touristy beach side streets.
I guess it's it's pretty big for me. That would
be a turnoff, instant hard pass sports bar.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
It just seems like a sports bar is not the
type of bar I'm looking for now.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
It could be a dive bar, a hole in the wall.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
And if they have one or two TVs and showing
the game, I want to see.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's good enough. Like you know, me going to what's
the what's the place?

Speaker 5 (28:48):
The uh oh, well they do the drinks and the
games and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, it's it's what's the Buffalo Wild Wings? Forget that, right,
And that's what it reminds. But when you say you
got like thirty TVs, I'm thinking Buffalo Wild Wings, I'm thinking, like,
way too much going on. I can't see the game,
I can't hear the game. There may be a fight
that's gonna break out. It's just not my cup of tea.
That's all I'm saying. No disrespect to O'Connell's, I'm just

(29:16):
saying that's not what I'm looking for coming in. And
number two is Johnny Saloon and Pizzarea, which is one
seven four two eight Beach Boulevard and Huntington Beach. Established
in two thousand and three, Johnny Saloon and Pizeria is
a dive bar known for an award winning whiskey selection,
craft pizzas, and both punk and country vibes. Yeah, now

(29:36):
this sounds more my speed because you say whiskey bar.
I can sit on whiskey for most of the night.
And it seems like is I guess not too large?
And you called it a die bar, something like maybe
two or three TVs, not more than thirty forty people
in there.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'm looking at photos of it right now. It looks
good and sleezy and inviting. I would, I would have
some drinks. That's the type of bar I'm looking.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, like pizzeria right oh yeah, because I'm gonna get hungry,
so I get some food there as well.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
That's my kind of spot. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
The Spy we used to go too. It wasn't necessarily
a dive bar, but it was really small, couple of TVs.
They they only served or derve type dishes, but it
was quiet and they played you know, smooth jazz, you
know shade the Nita Baker's that like was playing.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
So it was always a good vibe in there. Yeah,
I don't need put its this away from me. A
good bar experience doesn't have everybody. It just has like
maybe thirty forty buddies. But we might have to have
a field trip to Johnny's. This place is looking good,
all right, then that means you have to leave the house, though, we'll.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Talk about it. We almost had no coming in.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Number one is Swallows In, which is three one seven
eighty six, Camino Capistranto and of course the sund On Copistranto.
The bar presents a lineup of both local and national bands,
including country rock and alternative genres. Events include Taco Tuesday,
Wine Whiskey, and Wing Wednesday, Happy Thirsty Thursday, all Day,

(31:08):
Happy Hour, line dance lessons, karaoke, and more.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
It sounds like it's a huge place. Hard pass on
the country music and the line dancing.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Yeah, but and I also don't really like bars that
have bands that are tracting crowds that are gonna test
out to rambos.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah. I don't like bands and bars because bands I
just always think of roadhouse and I think of fights.
I think of not a place where I can go
to relax. I don't have any problem with the line dancing.
I mean, I don't mind that, it's just as that's
not what I'm looking for in a bar our.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Traffics are Pedro says, swallows gets too packed and it's
kind of small.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
We're down to Johnny Salute and Pizza Rita. We're gonna
have to like do a road trip out there. Maybe
we'll broadcast live. I'm done for some pizza, all right.
Then it's later with Mokelic Caf. I AM six forty.
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