June 18, 2025 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A positive update on securing an interview with Eddie Murphey…PLUS – Good news for Waymo & bad news for Tesla ‘self-driving’ mode AND thoughts on the Los Angeles Times ‘Letters to the Editor’ from Dodgers fans expressing their disappointment over the organizations silence on the ICE raids in the Los Angeles area - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
K if I am sixty It's later with Moe Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, We're live on
YouTube and guess what, guys, I haven't Eddie Murphy update,
we're still in the running. We got a response from
(00:43):
Amazon Prime today. Stephan did you see it? I did
see it?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Mark? Did you see it? In fact? I did.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're still in the running, sort of yeah, no, no, no,
we're no. If you're you're either in the game or
out of the game. We're in the game. We're at
least being actively considered. That's the way I'm going to
spin it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You have not been completely dismissed yet, not completely.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They haven't said no, We've gone on to the next
round of the competition. All right, Well, it's semantic difference
going no, no, no, it's being evaluated. It's all right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I always say it's easier to say no outright. It's
always easier to just say no and be done with it,
unless you have a stalker.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow, we're not there yet, are we sure we're not stalking? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, all right, what's the next step below? Stalker like? Persistent?
Extremely persistent?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Would I would say I'm extremely persistent.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, but very respectful, yet obsessed, not quite obsessed.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Come on, no, nobody's no, no, not quite obsessed. Okay, it
is very important to me. It is a dream. It
is a career highlight if it were to happen. But yes, well,
he heard back from Amazon Prime today. Gave him a
little nudge and he said, oh, okay, we're gonna have
you talked to our agency.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yes, let's run this up the flagpole. They're running up
the flag pole. I am not going to let you
steal my joy, Mark No, No, I'm here to enhance your joy. No,
you know you're here to harass me. No, No, just
add to the joy. That's that's my job here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So all I'm saying is it's not a no. It's
not a no.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
We have been acknowledged, and it's now going up to
chain and we're getting some more consideration and we have
other people to bug now.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But it wasn't a note to Wally. You saw. It
wasn't a no.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
In all of our years of doing this, you and
I both know that once you get a response in
the affirmative of we are looking at it, that's right,
it's going down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's right. Nine times out of ten, it goes down.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Of all the times that we've ever reached out to
Arnold Robinson, we have never gotten this far ever, ever,
ever a it's usually a no in in side of
thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's like you've already won.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Then he ever played that video game where you always
get killed off at the same point and then or
if you see the game, but see see the movie.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Edge of Tomorrow and after a certain point you realize, well,
what happens next? I don't know. I haven't gotten this far.
I don't know what's going to happen next because we've
never gotten this far.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We are on at least step two of getting Eddie
Murphy on this show. It's like we master the cheat
code and have gotten to the next level, and it's.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like, now we may get a straight up no tomorrow.
Who no, no, no, no, let's stay in the affirmative.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But it was a good morning. It was definitely a
good morning where we are still in the game despite
the naysayers, Like Mark, despite the naysayers, I get your messages,
he said, like, you're not gonna ever gonna get them
on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I know I read what you say.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean I see that look on Mark's face is full.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Of doubt, no doubt it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I am blissfully happy for you because we're a team here,
and if you're happy, I mean no, no more power
to you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Other stuff we have on the show tonight we have
a way Mow and a Tesla's self driving update. One
is good, one is bad. I'll let you figure out
which is which. And the LA Times they had a
blistering editorial late last week on the Dodgers, and now
other readers have weighed in. This is becoming more and
(04:25):
more of a thing because this is too glaring to
be ignored. I mean, if you know anything about the
history of the Dodgers, if you know anything about what
is still going on in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They had the raids in Santa Fe today.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Two thousand more National Guard members Mark Ronner will probably
be talking about that at some point have been sent
to LA. Don't know when they're going to arrive, but
I'm saying we may go through this again this coming weekend.
Still the Dodgers haven't said anything, and yes, people are
taking notice of it. So I'm gonna read some of
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the letters that were sent to the LA Time time
to give you a sense of the temperature right now.
And remember that guy Edwin Castro who won two billion
dollars in the lottery. He's still buying property and I'm
not so sure I'm okay with it. We're gonna tell
you about how he's been buying up property in Altadena
(05:19):
and it doesn't quite sit right with me. But we'll
get into that before the hour's over. And no, Tael,
we're not doing this story. We're gonna save this for Thursday.
We're gonna save that one for Thursday. It's better suited
coming behind, I mean, through the Sex Doctor.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We'll talk. I don't want to give it away. I
don't gonna give away, but I will say.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
My final thought tonight is going to have to do
with Amazon and a memo which was released to its
employees today earlier today, where the president of Amazon basically said,
a lot of you won't be with us next year
because we're firing most of you due to AI.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You have been replaced.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe he didn't use those words, but he pretty much
used those words.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's the translation I got.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh, absolutely can't wait to talk about that and make
Mark really mad before the show's over, because it proved
everything that we've been saying.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Everything looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's ai is inevitable, and you're not gonna like it. Mark,
You're gonna go kicking and screaming into the twenty first
and a half century.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well, you know why I don't like it, because no
rational person likes it. No, don't. I don't hate it, I.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Said, rational person. Hey Stefan, do we need to have
his mic on during the news break?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Can he do it? Just yelling from a different studio?
Fair enough?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, it's Later with Mo Kelly if I am six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Mister m'kelly, he wants a song. This is atonomous vehicles
might be on the ball. Mombing Tumola comes on, cleaner tone,
under control. He says m kelly is wrong with Mo.
(07:25):
Thinks he's on the PAYROLLO, miss.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Wamo be bad? Fuck you open Wamo be bad? Run
over Runnagoba bad? You over Wamo be bad?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He is a.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Lost can't I am sixty is mister m kelly. We're
live on YouTube We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have a Wayble update and also a Tesla update.
It is good news for Tuala, bad news for Tesla.
Waimo announced that they're expanding their service further into Los
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Angeles and San Francisco. Starting today, Waimo will roam more
than one hundred and twenty square miles of La County,
from Santa Monica downtown to West Hollywood to even Inglewood.
The expanded service area will include Plia Del Rey, Ladera Heights,
Echo Park, Silver Lake, and the entirety of Sunset Boulevard.
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So if you plan the cruise in Hollywood, go up
and down the strip, you will start seeing Waimo taxis
anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's moving in a good direction for him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And also, Waimo is poised to expand to Miami, Atlanta
and Washington, DC. And starting today, Bay area riders will
have expanded access to the San Francisco Peninsula, Mountain View,
Palo Alto, and Menlo Park.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And if Weimo is.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Expanding, you would think that Tesla would be on that
same trajectory. Since Tesla has been in the self driving
aspect of car technology longer than Waimo, which started off
as part of the Google Slash Alphabet project.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, what's happening with Tesla.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, we haven't heard too much about their self driving
technology as far as their taxis go. But if I
told you that a Tesla private owner was using it
on self driving mode, it directed him to a train track,
got stuck and then got hit by a train. A
Tesla Model three got stuck on a train track and
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was hit just it was more like grays but it
wasn't self driving mode. The Tesla driver reportedly claimed that
the vehicle was in that self driving mode and that
was the reason why it got stuck, So he is
completely blaming it on the car not being able to
navigate appropriately. Tesla has been selling a quote unquote full
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self driving package for up to fifteen thousand dollars. Wait
a minute, Wait wait, I buy the car and I
have to spend another fifteen thousand dollars for a quote
unquote full self driving mode. But it still requires me
as the driver to supervise the driving. It's not fully autonomous,
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and I'm still responsible for the car at all times.
I get that from an insurance standpoint, But if I'm
paying fifteen thousand dollars for full self driving. That isn't
really full self driving. Not that I want to be
in the car, like in the backseat like a way
mow while the car is driving. But how are you
going to charge people fifteen thousand dollars for an upgrade
to your car which is not even.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Good as a wayvo. Well.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now, I have a friend, my man Caesar, who has
a Tesla, and when he did have his self driving mode,
he used it all the time and he absolutely loved it.
It would take him exactly where he's going. You do
have to be in the front, but he was like,
I didn't have to have my hands on the steering wheel.
I could be you know, tecking text messages, doing whatever
you do want to monitor and keep your eyes on
(11:08):
the road while it's in self driving mode. Yeah, with
Tesla it is no.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
No, is it legal for you to be checking your
text messages while it's in self driving mode?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I guess look, you know, hey, look Sees, I'm sorry
for busting you out.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's not legal, but.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
All right, look, I'm just saying, like he absolutely loved it.
It would take him exactly where he wanted to go.
It knew all of his you know, personal routes and
things like that avoided traffic. He loved it, but that
extra you know, fifteen on top of the cost.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He was like, well, I don't love that that much.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I have to wonder. I'm just thinking out loud, beyond
just texting. If you were in the backseat and you
were having a drink and the car is driving, how
liable are you as far as d Why interesting because
(12:04):
you are not yet you're liable for whatever happens to
the car driving. But could they bust you for DUI
if you're not actually driving the car and you're in
the back.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Seat, or even if you're in the passenger seat right now,
I'm wondering that, and I will ask him. I think
with Tesla's self driving mode, you still have to have
a body in the driver's seat. I think that's part
of their self driving. The car will drive itself, but
you have to be in the driver's seat almost to
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reassure the car that if anything happens, you can take
a hold of the staring wheel.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh yeah, I gotta wonder, though, I mean, I don't
know where the law begins and ends. We're in this
really great area, and maybe the law is, well, you
are still responsible for the car. You are quote unquote
driving the car, even though it may be in self
driving mode, so therefore you're operating it under the influence.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Ergo, you're driving under the influence. I don't know, but I.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Would love to hear from like a lawyer as to
how much culpability, whether they could actually stick that to someone.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I wonder if you can. Then in that instance, can
you drink in a weimo? Like say, if you're going
to a ball game or you're going to a concert
or whatever, and you and your friends want to, you know,
get some beverages on the way and you want to
just drink while while you're in the car.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, if I can't drink it a weimo, then what's
the point that is true?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What is the point Why am I getting someone to
drive me somewhere? Obviously because it's the third party, it's weimo,
it's not me, and it's clear that I don't control
the car and I'm in the back seat.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You're saying I can't have a beverage. You have to
be able to have a beverage.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean, look, if I have a weymo picking
me up from Dodger Stadium, for example, since we were
talking about the Dodgers a little bit earlier. When we
were talking about the Dodgers in the next segment, I'll
be damned if I'm gonna get in a Weymo or
even an Uber for that matter.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And Stephan is driving.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
There's no way Stephan's gonna tell me, excuse me, you
can't have alcohol in this car while I'm driving.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Bump that, Stephan, how many drunk people have you had?
Too many to count? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How many had an open container in your car? I
could probably count on one hand. But it is not
actually allowed unfortunately, No, not allowed by Uber, not allowed
by the law. But well according to Uber and the law,
because one time I had a girl and she had it.
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It was just a cup and we hit a bump
and it spilled. It was just one girl, one cup, which.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Yeah, y'all got that joke, huh, I got that one anyway,
So yeah, it's it's so she spilled part of her
drink and she got out it smelled like alcohol, and
I'm like, I can't pick the next person up because
then they might think I'm drinking, And so I just
reported it because it was like staining the because it
was like a red like I forgot.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I don't know what she's drinking, but is really had
a rich color to it, so I had to scrub
it out, and then I guess they then they told me.
Uber replied to me and said, Okay, we'll let her know,
like this is going to be a warning for her
because you're not allowed to have it. And I'm like, oh, okay,
I didn't want to get her in trouble. I just
needed the money to clean up the car. Oh. Jonathan
hits us in the Motown Chat on YouTube and says,
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you can't have alcohol in a moving vehicle. Maybe not
in California, but I know that there are other states
in which you can. I'm almost positive because I know
we did some of those stories, like the drive through
liquor store. Yeah, so I plus, where did now I
see what you're talking about. Where does it begin and end?
Because limos right? Party buses?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's a movie vehicle.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I don't know that is it with access to
the steering wheel maybe that might be the difference. Well,
I mean even in the party bus, I mean you
can reach out and touch the driver, depending on the
driver a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You say, hey, driver, you want something? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I mean you could some partition yeah, with a limo
and a party bus.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't know, man, Look, I.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Need some lawyer to hit us up in or what
somebody's passed the bar police to hit us up in
the Motown chat. Everybody's a lawyer these days. I googled it.
It has said this. I don't want your Google. I
want someone who has a bar call. According to Carnecia,
you can drink in Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
In the car.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's what she said on the chat. She's not keep
telling us, she's telling the momigos. Carnacia, you need to elaborate.
I mean, are you doing it legally or you just
do it and no one stopped you. This because I'm
a lot of friends who do stuff they just assume
you can do. Like for example, you'll see people with
like earbuds in the ear driving and so I do
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it all the time. That's illegal. You can only have
one earbuddy in driving. So sometimes people just think they
know the law. Carnasia says, yes, you can, okay in Louisiana.
I'm just have to look that up because you know,
I know doubt South they have different laws when it
comes to drinking and driving, because, like we're talking about
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the drive through liquor stores, I just don't know what
it might be in California if I'm in the back
of an uber or the back of a Waimo. And
of course, you know, if I'm just like in Santa Monica,
if i just have my solo red cup, how are
you gonna know? How are you gonna know? My little thermos?
You know, it's Later with mo Kelly. Let's talk more
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about the Dodgers when we come back and see how
LA is feeling about its team.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1 (17:45):
KFI Later with Mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube and
the iHeartRadio app. And there was this editorial by Dylan
Hernandez in the La Times on the fourteenth, and the
title pretty much said, at all cowardly Dodgers remain silent
as ice raids terrorize their fans. And it's a long piece,
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but I'll give you just some highlights and then I
want to go to some of the responses. It goes
on the Dodgers boast that more than forty percent of
their fan base is Latino, but they can't even be
bothered to offer the shaken community any words of comfort.
How ungrateful, how disrespectful, how cowardly. Don't expect this to change.
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And according to Hernandez, the Dodgers sent a statement over
saying quote, we're not going to comment, and that's attributed
to Dodgers executive vice president and chief marketing officer Lon Rosen.
It's going to get to be critical mass after a
certain point for the Dodgers. I don't know how they
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will be able to navigate this moment because ice rates
are still going on. We have two thousand more National
Guardsmen coming to southern California. This is You're not going
to be able to just look away for any length
of time. But here are some of the letters that
were sent.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I would like to thank columnists Dylan Hernandez for his
piece on the Dodgers. YadA, YadA, YadA. This is it.
This is an abomination. I say this as a native
Angelino and lifelong Dodgers fan, like Dodger Stadium itself, I
was born in nineteen sixty two. I attended games before
Fernando Valezuela's arrival and can say unequivocally that he changed
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the Dodgers for the better, making it a team for
the whole city and making the fan experience far more
vibrant and entertaining. For forty five years, the Dodgers have
benefited from the spirit and income stream that the Mexican,
American and immigrant communities have given them. During last fall's
victory parade, we heard a lot about how the Los
Angeles fans, without exception, contributed to the World Series win.
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Hernandez is a exactly right. The Dodger's silence is a
terrible betrayal of their fans dedication and support. My heart
broke a little Saturday to see so many Dodgers caps
and apparel at the Wittier No King's rally. In a
better world, the Dodgers would encourage the use of their
caps as a sign of solidarity among Angelinos and against
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the forces trying to destroy our city. And that is Lori,
Davies and Brea. Here's another one. I want to sincerely
thank Hernandez for his recent column. His words cut through
the noise, calling out the hypocrisy that many have chosen
to ignore for far too long. But I also write
to ask that we remember this violence didn't begin with ICE.
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Before federal agents targeted our neighborhoods with raids, and before
the Dodgers' organization chose to visit President Trump at the
White House. This same corporation played a direct role in
the forcible removal and destruction of three thriving Mexican American communities,
Palo Verde, Laloma and Bishop My Family. The Arechigas was
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among those violently displays to make way for the stadium.
Talking about Chavez Ravine, this wasn't just a corporate land grab.
It was a coordinated acts between the City of La
and the Dodgers organization. Together they demolished our homes and
erased our communities. The Dodgers continued to profit off the
land through promotions and nostalgia. She goes on, but it's
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Melissa Arechiga of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
She'd get the gist of it, and this from Rob Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The Dodgers could make an impact by marching up to
an ICE facility in their team uniforms and demanding that
ICE and the Marines and National Guard leave. Such a
demonstration would be impossible for Trump to ignore and could
help lead to the withdrawal of the forces now terrorizing
our community.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't agree with that. I don't, no, no, no,
but it goes on.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
At the very least, it could help restore the tarnished
image the Dodgers now have Rob Jacobs in LA I
don't I don't get too much to symbolism, but I
do say this has tarnished the image of the organization
and after a certain points they're not going to be
able to buffet out as they say, just one more
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real quick. As a lifelong Dodgers fan, I sadly have
to agree with the shocking silence of the club's management
in terms of support for its community of loyal fans,
especially those of Latino heritage who have been unfairly demonized
and terrorized over the last several weeks. Is gutless and cowardly.
The team of Jackie Robinson and many courageous others must
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do more. I for one, will do my part by
not attending any games this year. Rather, I will forego
spending one hundreds of dollars that I annually spend on tickets,
parking and concessions, and will donate those funds to local
charities and community organizations that will better use the support.
History is still watching, and that's William W. Carter in
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Newbury Park. And I didn't think for a moment that
I was the only one thinking this. I didn't think
that I was the only one talking about this, But
I think that I might have been the only one
who was highlighting that this was not going to go away.
This is not something that you can release a statement
and that will be the end of it. This is
not something where you can, I don't know, pay for
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a commercial and say the Dodgers stand with the community.
You can't do that because the Dodgers heretofore, always took
a stand. The Dodgers here to four always had something
to say, and after a certain point, your fans expect
you to have something to say in moments just like these.
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Does it mean that they'll lose season ticket holders? Does
it mean that they will have gone too far and
they won't be able to get these fans back.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but I do
know that people are going to remember this and remember
this for quite some time. It's not too late for
the Dodgers to release a statement and at least acknowledge
the importance of a moment.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And it may not be enough for everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I'm quite sure fans will want him to say, you
need to pick a side, you need to support those
who supported you for the past forty years or so
since Ferdad Domania. I get all that, I get all that.
It's not for me to figure out for the Dodgers
how to navigate this moment. I do know that if
they don't, they will do irreparable harm to the Dodgers' name.
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It's Later with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app and on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Remember Edwin Castro won to barely over two billion dollars
and he started buying up all this property, bought like
a twenty five million dollar mansion on Now he's buying
up properties lots in Alta Dina, And I'm not so
sure I'm good with that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI ams.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
With Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Sixty. We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. I
gotta tell you I'm usually not a hater, but I'm
a hater on this one.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I am a hater.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I'm just telling you up front, I am a hater
when it comes to Edwin Castro. You may remember he
paid two dollars for a lottery ticket, and you know
he hit the jackpot, the literal jackpot back in twenty
twenty two. He won two point zero four billion dollars.
He took a lump sum of like six hundred and
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thirty million after taxes, which meant he had like probably
like one point three millions about fifty percent tax rate,
and he immediately started making huge purchases. He spent twenty
five point five million dollars on a thirteen thousand square
foot mansion in the Hollywood Hill. A week later later,
he paid four million dollars for a five bedroom house
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in Altadena for his parents. And that's key in Alta Dina.
So he has a connection to Alta Dina. His real
estate company, Black Lion Properties LLC. Just want to put
it out there, just in case you have to be
looking for it. His real estate company recently purchased twelve
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different Alta Dina lots. How they say houses, I'm just
talking about the lots ranging from five hundred and thirty
thousand to nine hundred and fifty thousand. Now, if you've
ever driven through Alta Dina, you could not buy a
house at five hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So he's
getting this dirt.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Cheap pennies on the dollar, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I suspect it is what they call it is a
land grab, and he's a vulture preying on this community.
And from what I understand his fam he's already familiar
with the community because he's already brought property prior to
this moment. Like he it lists all the addresses, but
the range is like, there's one property for nine hundred
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and fifty thousand, I should say one lot of and
listen to the size of this lot twenty three thousand
square feet, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He could
put a tiny home on it, and he could sell
it for one point six million. There's one for twenty
one thousand, seven hundred and forty square feet. Purchase it
(27:29):
for eight hundred thousand, sixteen thousand square feet. Purchaser eight
hundred and seventy eight thousand. So I don't know other
than seeing an opportunity and is taking advantage of people.
And you can say, well, they sold it to him,
but Twala, you could you know better than I do
the dress and stress that people are selling these properties
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or just walking away from them.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Absolutely, because one thing about Altadna people need to remember
is that a lot of the home ownership and altade
and a lot of these homes are owned by our elders.
A lot of these are owned by individuals who when
I say they've lost everything in the fire, I mean everything,
all paperwork, all everything, anything that they had. A lot
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of these residents don't have things backed up in digital
files and this, that and the other, and a lot
of them they don't have or did not have the
proper insurance. And so the idea of being in your
late sixties, seventies and eighties and rebuilding a home it
does not make sense. So he's taking advantage of individuals
(28:34):
who really aren't seeing many options, especially in the city
where so much help that's supposed to be there, so
many resources that are supposed to be there helping individuals
navigate this, they don't exist. There are very few organizations
still around. A lot of the work that I'm seeing
being done is being done by individuals in the communities.
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Zir Calvin, who we've had on the show before, has
become a spokesperson for they of Altadena, constantly trying to
tell people, Hey, here's where you have to go, here's
where you have to go, here's where you have to go.
But he does not work for the city officially, so
it's just people in the community helping out. Individuals like
an Edwin Castro who's using this money, who may see
these homes for sale signs he's coming. He's getting these
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homes for pennies on the dollars. He's giving them what
they're asking for, not what the properties are worth.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
But let's make that the station.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yes, they may ask for nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for example, and when you just lost everything, that
may seem like a good idea. But like I said,
you can put a tiny home on a lot of
these lots and you can sell them for one point
five one point six million easily.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
A lot of the properties on my street alone are
valued at one point eight and high. Okay, then all right,
I was undervaluating and this isn't even higher up in
Altadens and some of these addresses he's buying in places
where these properties are arguably worth closer to two millions.
So it's like he's getting over right now.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Bothers me and Twala, you can put it in your
words however you want. What bothers me is he is
specifically profiting off the pain of people in this moment.
And if you can say that, I'm just using Rick
Caruso as an example, I'm not pointing at him. You
can any any developer could come in and feasibly have
done something similar, and the motivations are same. It's a
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profit motive, but you're taking an advantage of people when
they are most desperate. Look if you've lost everything and
someone's going to dangle let's say, five hundred and thirty
thousand dollars out there, as opposed to having to go
through all FEMA and all the other hoops that I
know that Twala you've been jumping through.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But you're taking advantage of people when they are at
their fundamental weakest point, and that bothers the stuffing out
of me.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
He is no different than those same vultures that were
coming around at the early onset of people going back
and assessing their property, and you had individuals walking up
with business cards to people who are looking at the
smoking husks of their once you know, beautiful homes and
now it's just a burnt pile of ash and saying, hey,
(31:12):
if you're interested in selling your property, here's my card.
Trying to prey on people when they're at their week
is when they don't see a way up. I absolutely
stand against moves like this, and look, he can do
whatever he wants to do with his money, but being
from allegedly Altadena, he should know better. He should know
(31:32):
that this is not the way that you should be
doing things in the community of Altadena.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
This goes back to what Mark says, and I hate
I hate quoting him.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You know, it's it's never enough. It's never enough.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You got six hundred and twenty eight million from the
lottery and you're just buying up property for the hell
of it when you could be helping people on some level,
on some level, but no, it's more a profit making
opportun tunity. And then you know, all I know is
(32:05):
if I had that money, I would never do anything
like that. And unfortunately, it seems like the people who
do win that money never seem to be of the mindset,
the mindset of helping anyone but themselves. And you know,
and I hear the stories. You've heard the stories about
how much money he spends on personal security. Well, he's
maybe created his own prison for himself because he's not
(32:26):
making over he's not winning over people at this point.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He's not making new friends, not at all.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, We're live on
YouTube and guess what, guys, I haven't Eddie Murphy update,
we're still in the running. We got a response from
(00:43):
Amazon Prime today. Stephan did you see it? I did
see it?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Mark? Did you see it? In fact? I did.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're still in the running, sort of yeah, no, no, no,
we're no. If you're you're either in the game or
out of the game. We're in the game. We're at
least being actively considered. That's the way I'm going to
spin it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You have not been completely dismissed yet, not completely.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
They haven't said no, We've gone on to the next
round of the competition. All right, Well, it's semantic difference
going no, no, no, it's being evaluated. It's all right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I always say it's easier to say no outright. It's
always easier to just say no and be done with it,
unless you have a stalker.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow, we're not there yet, are we sure we're not stalking? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, all right, what's the next step below? Stalker like? Persistent?
Extremely persistent?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Would I would say I'm extremely persistent.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, but very respectful, yet obsessed, not quite obsessed.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Come on, no, nobody's no, no, not quite obsessed. Okay, it
is very important to me. It is a dream. It
is a career highlight if it were to happen. But yes, well,
he heard back from Amazon Prime today. Gave him a
little nudge and he said, oh, okay, we're gonna have
you talked to our agency.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yes, let's run this up the flagpole. They're running up
the flag pole. I am not going to let you
steal my joy, Mark No, No, I'm here to enhance your joy. No,
you know you're here to harass me. No, No, just
add to the joy. That's that's my job here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So all I'm saying is it's not a no. It's
not a no.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
We have been acknowledged, and it's now going up to
chain and we're getting some more consideration and we have
other people to bug now.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But it wasn't a note to Wally. You saw. It
wasn't a no.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
In all of our years of doing this, you and
I both know that once you get a response in
the affirmative of we are looking at it, that's right,
it's going down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's right. Nine times out of ten, it goes down.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Of all the times that we've ever reached out to
Arnold Robinson, we have never gotten this far ever, ever,
ever a it's usually a no in in side of
thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's like you've already won.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Then he ever played that video game where you always
get killed off at the same point and then or
if you see the game, but see see the movie.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Edge of Tomorrow and after a certain point you realize, well,
what happens next? I don't know. I haven't gotten this far.
I don't know what's going to happen next because we've
never gotten this far.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We are on at least step two of getting Eddie
Murphy on this show. It's like we master the cheat
code and have gotten to the next level, and it's.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like, now we may get a straight up no tomorrow.
Who no, no, no, no, let's stay in the affirmative.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But it was a good morning. It was definitely a
good morning where we are still in the game despite
the naysayers, Like Mark, despite the naysayers, I get your messages,
he said, like, you're not gonna ever gonna get them
on the show.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I know I read what you say.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean I see that look on Mark's face is full.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Of doubt, no doubt it.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I am blissfully happy for you because we're a team here,
and if you're happy, I mean no, no more power
to you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Other stuff we have on the show tonight we have
a way Mow and a Tesla's self driving update. One
is good, one is bad. I'll let you figure out
which is which. And the LA Times they had a
blistering editorial late last week on the Dodgers, and now
other readers have weighed in. This is becoming more and
(04:25):
more of a thing because this is too glaring to
be ignored. I mean, if you know anything about the
history of the Dodgers, if you know anything about what
is still going on in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They had the raids in Santa Fe today.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Two thousand more National Guard members Mark Ronner will probably
be talking about that at some point have been sent
to LA. Don't know when they're going to arrive, but
I'm saying we may go through this again this coming weekend.
Still the Dodgers haven't said anything, and yes, people are
taking notice of it. So I'm gonna read some of
(04:58):
the letters that were sent to the LA Time time
to give you a sense of the temperature right now.
And remember that guy Edwin Castro who won two billion
dollars in the lottery. He's still buying property and I'm
not so sure I'm okay with it. We're gonna tell
you about how he's been buying up property in Altadena
(05:19):
and it doesn't quite sit right with me. But we'll
get into that before the hour's over. And no, Tael,
we're not doing this story. We're gonna save this for Thursday.
We're gonna save that one for Thursday. It's better suited
coming behind, I mean, through the Sex Doctor.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We'll talk. I don't want to give it away. I
don't gonna give away, but I will say.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
My final thought tonight is going to have to do
with Amazon and a memo which was released to its
employees today earlier today, where the president of Amazon basically said,
a lot of you won't be with us next year
because we're firing most of you due to AI.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You have been replaced.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Maybe he didn't use those words, but he pretty much
used those words.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's the translation I got.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh, absolutely can't wait to talk about that and make
Mark really mad before the show's over, because it proved
everything that we've been saying.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Everything looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's ai is inevitable, and you're not gonna like it. Mark,
You're gonna go kicking and screaming into the twenty first
and a half century.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Well, you know why I don't like it, because no
rational person likes it. No, don't. I don't hate it, I.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Said, rational person. Hey Stefan, do we need to have
his mic on during the news break?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Can he do it? Just yelling from a different studio?
Fair enough?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, it's Later with Mo Kelly if I am six forty.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Mister m'kelly, he wants a song. This is atonomous vehicles
might be on the ball. Mombing Tumola comes on, cleaner tone,
under control. He says m kelly is wrong with Mo.
(07:25):
Thinks he's on the PAYROLLO, miss.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Wamo be bad? Fuck you open Wamo be bad? Run
over Runnagoba bad? You over Wamo be bad?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
He is a.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Lost can't I am sixty is mister m kelly. We're
live on YouTube We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We have a Wayble update and also a Tesla update.
It is good news for Tuala, bad news for Tesla.
Waimo announced that they're expanding their service further into Los
(08:09):
Angeles and San Francisco. Starting today, Waimo will roam more
than one hundred and twenty square miles of La County,
from Santa Monica downtown to West Hollywood to even Inglewood.
The expanded service area will include Plia Del Rey, Ladera Heights,
Echo Park, Silver Lake, and the entirety of Sunset Boulevard.
(08:31):
So if you plan the cruise in Hollywood, go up
and down the strip, you will start seeing Waimo taxis
anywhere and everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's moving in a good direction for him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And also, Waimo is poised to expand to Miami, Atlanta
and Washington, DC. And starting today, Bay area riders will
have expanded access to the San Francisco Peninsula, Mountain View,
Palo Alto, and Menlo Park.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And if Weimo is.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Expanding, you would think that Tesla would be on that
same trajectory. Since Tesla has been in the self driving
aspect of car technology longer than Waimo, which started off
as part of the Google Slash Alphabet project.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, what's happening with Tesla.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, we haven't heard too much about their self driving
technology as far as their taxis go. But if I
told you that a Tesla private owner was using it
on self driving mode, it directed him to a train track,
got stuck and then got hit by a train. A
Tesla Model three got stuck on a train track and
(09:41):
was hit just it was more like grays but it
wasn't self driving mode. The Tesla driver reportedly claimed that
the vehicle was in that self driving mode and that
was the reason why it got stuck, So he is
completely blaming it on the car not being able to
navigate appropriately. Tesla has been selling a quote unquote full
(10:03):
self driving package for up to fifteen thousand dollars. Wait
a minute, Wait wait, I buy the car and I
have to spend another fifteen thousand dollars for a quote
unquote full self driving mode. But it still requires me
as the driver to supervise the driving. It's not fully autonomous,
(10:24):
and I'm still responsible for the car at all times.
I get that from an insurance standpoint, But if I'm
paying fifteen thousand dollars for full self driving. That isn't
really full self driving. Not that I want to be
in the car, like in the backseat like a way
mow while the car is driving. But how are you
going to charge people fifteen thousand dollars for an upgrade
to your car which is not even.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Good as a wayvo. Well.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now, I have a friend, my man Caesar, who has
a Tesla, and when he did have his self driving mode,
he used it all the time and he absolutely loved it.
It would take him exactly where he's going. You do
have to be in the front, but he was like,
I didn't have to have my hands on the steering wheel.
I could be you know, tecking text messages, doing whatever
you do want to monitor and keep your eyes on
(11:08):
the road while it's in self driving mode. Yeah, with
Tesla it is no.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
No, is it legal for you to be checking your
text messages while it's in self driving mode?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I guess look, you know, hey, look Sees, I'm sorry
for busting you out.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's not legal, but.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
All right, look, I'm just saying, like he absolutely loved it.
It would take him exactly where he wanted to go.
It knew all of his you know, personal routes and
things like that avoided traffic. He loved it, but that
extra you know, fifteen on top of the cost.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He was like, well, I don't love that that much.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I have to wonder. I'm just thinking out loud, beyond
just texting. If you were in the backseat and you
were having a drink and the car is driving, how
liable are you as far as d Why interesting because
(12:04):
you are not yet you're liable for whatever happens to
the car driving. But could they bust you for DUI
if you're not actually driving the car and you're in
the back.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Seat, or even if you're in the passenger seat right now,
I'm wondering that, and I will ask him. I think
with Tesla's self driving mode, you still have to have
a body in the driver's seat. I think that's part
of their self driving. The car will drive itself, but
you have to be in the driver's seat almost to
(12:33):
reassure the car that if anything happens, you can take
a hold of the staring wheel.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh yeah, I gotta wonder, though, I mean, I don't
know where the law begins and ends. We're in this
really great area, and maybe the law is, well, you
are still responsible for the car. You are quote unquote
driving the car, even though it may be in self
driving mode, so therefore you're operating it under the influence.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Ergo, you're driving under the influence. I don't know, but I.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Would love to hear from like a lawyer as to
how much culpability, whether they could actually stick that to someone.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I wonder if you can. Then in that instance, can
you drink in a weimo? Like say, if you're going
to a ball game or you're going to a concert
or whatever, and you and your friends want to, you know,
get some beverages on the way and you want to
just drink while while you're in the car.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, if I can't drink it a weimo, then what's
the point that is true?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What is the point Why am I getting someone to
drive me somewhere? Obviously because it's the third party, it's weimo,
it's not me, and it's clear that I don't control
the car and I'm in the back seat.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You're saying I can't have a beverage. You have to
be able to have a beverage.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, I mean, look, if I have a weymo picking
me up from Dodger Stadium, for example, since we were
talking about the Dodgers a little bit earlier. When we
were talking about the Dodgers in the next segment, I'll
be damned if I'm gonna get in a Weymo or
even an Uber for that matter.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And Stephan is driving.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
There's no way Stephan's gonna tell me, excuse me, you
can't have alcohol in this car while I'm driving.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Bump that, Stephan, how many drunk people have you had?
Too many to count? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
How many had an open container in your car? I
could probably count on one hand. But it is not
actually allowed unfortunately, No, not allowed by Uber, not allowed
by the law. But well according to Uber and the law,
because one time I had a girl and she had it.
(14:28):
It was just a cup and we hit a bump
and it spilled. It was just one girl, one cup, which.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Yeah, y'all got that joke, huh, I got that one anyway,
So yeah, it's it's so she spilled part of her
drink and she got out it smelled like alcohol, and
I'm like, I can't pick the next person up because
then they might think I'm drinking, And so I just
reported it because it was like staining the because it
was like a red like I forgot.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I don't know what she's drinking, but is really had
a rich color to it, so I had to scrub
it out, and then I guess they then they told me.
Uber replied to me and said, Okay, we'll let her know,
like this is going to be a warning for her
because you're not allowed to have it. And I'm like, oh, okay,
I didn't want to get her in trouble. I just
needed the money to clean up the car. Oh. Jonathan
hits us in the Motown Chat on YouTube and says,
(15:20):
you can't have alcohol in a moving vehicle. Maybe not
in California, but I know that there are other states
in which you can. I'm almost positive because I know
we did some of those stories, like the drive through
liquor store. Yeah, so I plus, where did now I
see what you're talking about. Where does it begin and end?
Because limos right? Party buses?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's a movie vehicle.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So I don't know that is it with access to
the steering wheel maybe that might be the difference. Well,
I mean even in the party bus, I mean you
can reach out and touch the driver, depending on the
driver a drink.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You say, hey, driver, you want something? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I mean you could some partition yeah, with a limo
and a party bus.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't know, man, Look, I.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Need some lawyer to hit us up in or what
somebody's passed the bar police to hit us up in
the Motown chat. Everybody's a lawyer these days. I googled it.
It has said this. I don't want your Google. I
want someone who has a bar call. According to Carnecia,
you can drink in Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
In the car.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's what she said on the chat. She's not keep
telling us, she's telling the momigos. Carnacia, you need to elaborate.
I mean, are you doing it legally or you just
do it and no one stopped you. This because I'm
a lot of friends who do stuff they just assume
you can do. Like for example, you'll see people with
like earbuds in the ear driving and so I do
(16:43):
it all the time. That's illegal. You can only have
one earbuddy in driving. So sometimes people just think they
know the law. Carnasia says, yes, you can, okay in Louisiana.
I'm just have to look that up because you know,
I know doubt South they have different laws when it
comes to drinking and driving, because, like we're talking about
(17:04):
the drive through liquor stores, I just don't know what
it might be in California if I'm in the back
of an uber or the back of a Waimo. And
of course, you know, if I'm just like in Santa Monica,
if i just have my solo red cup, how are
you gonna know? How are you gonna know? My little thermos?
You know, it's Later with mo Kelly. Let's talk more
(17:25):
about the Dodgers when we come back and see how
LA is feeling about its team.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
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Speaker 1 (17:45):
KFI Later with Mo Kelly, We're live on YouTube and
the iHeartRadio app. And there was this editorial by Dylan
Hernandez in the La Times on the fourteenth, and the
title pretty much said, at all cowardly Dodgers remain silent
as ice raids terrorize their fans. And it's a long piece,
(18:09):
but I'll give you just some highlights and then I
want to go to some of the responses. It goes
on the Dodgers boast that more than forty percent of
their fan base is Latino, but they can't even be
bothered to offer the shaken community any words of comfort.
How ungrateful, how disrespectful, how cowardly. Don't expect this to change.
(18:32):
And according to Hernandez, the Dodgers sent a statement over
saying quote, we're not going to comment, and that's attributed
to Dodgers executive vice president and chief marketing officer Lon Rosen.
It's going to get to be critical mass after a
certain point for the Dodgers. I don't know how they
(18:54):
will be able to navigate this moment because ice rates
are still going on. We have two thousand more National
Guardsmen coming to southern California. This is You're not going
to be able to just look away for any length
of time. But here are some of the letters that
were sent.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I would like to thank columnists Dylan Hernandez for his
piece on the Dodgers. YadA, YadA, YadA. This is it.
This is an abomination. I say this as a native
Angelino and lifelong Dodgers fan, like Dodger Stadium itself, I
was born in nineteen sixty two. I attended games before
Fernando Valezuela's arrival and can say unequivocally that he changed
(19:36):
the Dodgers for the better, making it a team for
the whole city and making the fan experience far more
vibrant and entertaining. For forty five years, the Dodgers have
benefited from the spirit and income stream that the Mexican,
American and immigrant communities have given them. During last fall's
victory parade, we heard a lot about how the Los
Angeles fans, without exception, contributed to the World Series win.
(19:59):
Hernandez is a exactly right. The Dodger's silence is a
terrible betrayal of their fans dedication and support. My heart
broke a little Saturday to see so many Dodgers caps
and apparel at the Wittier No King's rally. In a
better world, the Dodgers would encourage the use of their
caps as a sign of solidarity among Angelinos and against
(20:20):
the forces trying to destroy our city. And that is Lori,
Davies and Brea. Here's another one. I want to sincerely
thank Hernandez for his recent column. His words cut through
the noise, calling out the hypocrisy that many have chosen
to ignore for far too long. But I also write
to ask that we remember this violence didn't begin with ICE.
(20:40):
Before federal agents targeted our neighborhoods with raids, and before
the Dodgers' organization chose to visit President Trump at the
White House. This same corporation played a direct role in
the forcible removal and destruction of three thriving Mexican American communities,
Palo Verde, Laloma and Bishop My Family. The Arechigas was
(21:02):
among those violently displays to make way for the stadium.
Talking about Chavez Ravine, this wasn't just a corporate land grab.
It was a coordinated acts between the City of La
and the Dodgers organization. Together they demolished our homes and
erased our communities. The Dodgers continued to profit off the
land through promotions and nostalgia. She goes on, but it's
(21:23):
Melissa Arechiga of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
She'd get the gist of it, and this from Rob Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The Dodgers could make an impact by marching up to
an ICE facility in their team uniforms and demanding that
ICE and the Marines and National Guard leave. Such a
demonstration would be impossible for Trump to ignore and could
help lead to the withdrawal of the forces now terrorizing
our community.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't agree with that. I don't, no, no, no,
but it goes on.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
At the very least, it could help restore the tarnished
image the Dodgers now have Rob Jacobs in LA I
don't I don't get too much to symbolism, but I
do say this has tarnished the image of the organization
and after a certain points they're not going to be
able to buffet out as they say, just one more
(22:13):
real quick. As a lifelong Dodgers fan, I sadly have
to agree with the shocking silence of the club's management
in terms of support for its community of loyal fans,
especially those of Latino heritage who have been unfairly demonized
and terrorized over the last several weeks. Is gutless and cowardly.
The team of Jackie Robinson and many courageous others must
(22:36):
do more. I for one, will do my part by
not attending any games this year. Rather, I will forego
spending one hundreds of dollars that I annually spend on tickets,
parking and concessions, and will donate those funds to local
charities and community organizations that will better use the support.
History is still watching, and that's William W. Carter in
(22:58):
Newbury Park. And I didn't think for a moment that
I was the only one thinking this. I didn't think
that I was the only one talking about this, But
I think that I might have been the only one
who was highlighting that this was not going to go away.
This is not something that you can release a statement
and that will be the end of it. This is
not something where you can, I don't know, pay for
(23:21):
a commercial and say the Dodgers stand with the community.
You can't do that because the Dodgers heretofore, always took
a stand. The Dodgers here to four always had something
to say, and after a certain point, your fans expect
you to have something to say in moments just like these.
(23:43):
Does it mean that they'll lose season ticket holders? Does
it mean that they will have gone too far and
they won't be able to get these fans back.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but I do
know that people are going to remember this and remember
this for quite some time. It's not too late for
the Dodgers to release a statement and at least acknowledge
the importance of a moment.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And it may not be enough for everyone.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I'm quite sure fans will want him to say, you
need to pick a side, you need to support those
who supported you for the past forty years or so
since Ferdad Domania. I get all that, I get all that.
It's not for me to figure out for the Dodgers
how to navigate this moment. I do know that if
they don't, they will do irreparable harm to the Dodgers' name.
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Speaker 2 (24:36):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Remember Edwin Castro won to barely over two billion dollars
and he started buying up all this property, bought like
a twenty five million dollar mansion on Now he's buying
up properties lots in Alta Dina, And I'm not so
sure I'm good with that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We'll tell you about it next.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
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Speaker 2 (25:02):
With Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Sixty. We're live on YouTube and the iHeartRadio app. I
gotta tell you I'm usually not a hater, but I'm
a hater on this one.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I am a hater.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I'm just telling you up front, I am a hater
when it comes to Edwin Castro. You may remember he
paid two dollars for a lottery ticket, and you know
he hit the jackpot, the literal jackpot back in twenty
twenty two. He won two point zero four billion dollars.
He took a lump sum of like six hundred and
(25:41):
thirty million after taxes, which meant he had like probably
like one point three millions about fifty percent tax rate,
and he immediately started making huge purchases. He spent twenty
five point five million dollars on a thirteen thousand square
foot mansion in the Hollywood Hill. A week later later,
he paid four million dollars for a five bedroom house
(26:04):
in Altadena for his parents. And that's key in Alta Dina.
So he has a connection to Alta Dina. His real
estate company, Black Lion Properties LLC. Just want to put
it out there, just in case you have to be
looking for it. His real estate company recently purchased twelve
(26:25):
different Alta Dina lots. How they say houses, I'm just
talking about the lots ranging from five hundred and thirty
thousand to nine hundred and fifty thousand. Now, if you've
ever driven through Alta Dina, you could not buy a
house at five hundred and thirty thousand dollars. So he's
getting this dirt.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Cheap pennies on the dollar, I promise you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I suspect it is what they call it is a
land grab, and he's a vulture preying on this community.
And from what I understand his fam he's already familiar
with the community because he's already brought property prior to
this moment. Like he it lists all the addresses, but
the range is like, there's one property for nine hundred
(27:07):
and fifty thousand, I should say one lot of and
listen to the size of this lot twenty three thousand
square feet, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He could
put a tiny home on it, and he could sell
it for one point six million. There's one for twenty
one thousand, seven hundred and forty square feet. Purchase it
(27:29):
for eight hundred thousand, sixteen thousand square feet. Purchaser eight
hundred and seventy eight thousand. So I don't know other
than seeing an opportunity and is taking advantage of people.
And you can say, well, they sold it to him,
but Twala, you could you know better than I do
the dress and stress that people are selling these properties
(27:51):
or just walking away from them.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Absolutely, because one thing about Altadna people need to remember
is that a lot of the home ownership and altade
and a lot of these homes are owned by our elders.
A lot of these are owned by individuals who when
I say they've lost everything in the fire, I mean everything,
all paperwork, all everything, anything that they had. A lot
(28:13):
of these residents don't have things backed up in digital
files and this, that and the other, and a lot
of them they don't have or did not have the
proper insurance. And so the idea of being in your
late sixties, seventies and eighties and rebuilding a home it
does not make sense. So he's taking advantage of individuals
(28:34):
who really aren't seeing many options, especially in the city
where so much help that's supposed to be there, so
many resources that are supposed to be there helping individuals
navigate this, they don't exist. There are very few organizations
still around. A lot of the work that I'm seeing
being done is being done by individuals in the communities.
(28:54):
Zir Calvin, who we've had on the show before, has
become a spokesperson for they of Altadena, constantly trying to
tell people, Hey, here's where you have to go, here's
where you have to go, here's where you have to go.
But he does not work for the city officially, so
it's just people in the community helping out. Individuals like
an Edwin Castro who's using this money, who may see
these homes for sale signs he's coming. He's getting these
(29:18):
homes for pennies on the dollars. He's giving them what
they're asking for, not what the properties are worth.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
But let's make that the station.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yes, they may ask for nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for example, and when you just lost everything, that
may seem like a good idea. But like I said,
you can put a tiny home on a lot of
these lots and you can sell them for one point
five one point six million easily.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
A lot of the properties on my street alone are
valued at one point eight and high. Okay, then all right,
I was undervaluating and this isn't even higher up in
Altadens and some of these addresses he's buying in places
where these properties are arguably worth closer to two millions.
So it's like he's getting over right now.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Bothers me and Twala, you can put it in your
words however you want. What bothers me is he is
specifically profiting off the pain of people in this moment.
And if you can say that, I'm just using Rick
Caruso as an example, I'm not pointing at him. You
can any any developer could come in and feasibly have
done something similar, and the motivations are same. It's a
(30:23):
profit motive, but you're taking an advantage of people when
they are most desperate. Look if you've lost everything and
someone's going to dangle let's say, five hundred and thirty
thousand dollars out there, as opposed to having to go
through all FEMA and all the other hoops that I
know that Twala you've been jumping through.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
But you're taking advantage of people when they are at
their fundamental weakest point, and that bothers the stuffing out
of me.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
He is no different than those same vultures that were
coming around at the early onset of people going back
and assessing their property, and you had individuals walking up
with business cards to people who are looking at the
smoking husks of their once you know, beautiful homes and
now it's just a burnt pile of ash and saying, hey,
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if you're interested in selling your property, here's my card.
Trying to prey on people when they're at their week
is when they don't see a way up. I absolutely
stand against moves like this, and look, he can do
whatever he wants to do with his money, but being
from allegedly Altadena, he should know better. He should know
(31:32):
that this is not the way that you should be
doing things in the community of Altadena.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
This goes back to what Mark says, and I hate
I hate quoting him.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You know, it's it's never enough. It's never enough.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You got six hundred and twenty eight million from the
lottery and you're just buying up property for the hell
of it when you could be helping people on some level,
on some level, but no, it's more a profit making
opportun tunity. And then you know, all I know is
(32:05):
if I had that money, I would never do anything
like that. And unfortunately, it seems like the people who
do win that money never seem to be of the mindset,
the mindset of helping anyone but themselves. And you know,
and I hear the stories. You've heard the stories about
how much money he spends on personal security. Well, he's
maybe created his own prison for himself because he's not
(32:26):
making over he's not winning over people at this point.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He's not making new friends, not at all.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
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