July 10, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Chris Merrill filling in ‘Later’ with thoughts on the DOJ handling of the Epstein files, California’s failed Bullet Train project, the tragic Texas floods AND the latest Gen Z trend of “micro-retiring” - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Three, Chris Marrilyn Mokellity to Night KFI AM six forty
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So that's my shameless plug for myself. It wasn't that
long ago. July first, a surprising statement from the Attorney
General Pam Bondi as a Trump administration promised to release
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more files from their sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
The FBI, she said, was reviewing tens of thousands of
videos of the wealthy financier with children or child porn.
Now this weekend, President Trump's justice depriminent FBI have concluded
that there is no evidence that convicted sex offender and
disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures or kept the
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client list or was murdered that according to a memo
detailing those findings, So we have tens of thousands of videos.
The file is sitting on her desk. People last, are
you going to release the files? And she said yeah,
And now the DOJ is like files. Nah, you guys
must be mistaken, and mag is going nuts right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The Trump administration pushing back against calls to fire Attorney
General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
talked about for years.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
A Justice Department report this week revealed the accused sex
trafficker did not keep a secret so called client list,
seemingly contradicting Bondi's statement earlier this year that she had
Epstein's list in her office.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bondi now clarifying that statement, saying she was taken out
of context.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
My response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed,
meaning the file along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I always love it when the politicians are backed into
a corner and they speak down to you, like I said,
I said, it was on my desk, meaning the files,
not the client list.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
How could you all be so dumb?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The Justice Department report also confirming Epstein died by suicide investigator,
saying the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide. Is further
supported by video footage from where Epstein was housed, but
some critics raising questions about that footage, pointing to a
jump in the timestamp from eleven fifty eight to fifty
nine to midnight. Bondi, when asked about the missing minute, said,
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the videotape glitch happens every night and is not a
sign of tampering. Still, some Trump loyalists not happy with
these explanations.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Now, that's interesting that he knew exactly what the minute
was when he should off himself.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Weird.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
The only other explanation I can think of, again, maybe
I love this is from Tucker Carlson. Now this is great.
Tucker Carlson's like, nah no.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He said, I'm gonna give you a little context here
before I get the money line. Tucker Carlson says, there's
only two possible explanations for why Pam Bondi is covering
up the Epstein list. So Tucker Carlson is still maintaining
that there is an Epstein list when the DJ says
there's no list. When you've got Cash Pttel and Dan Bongino,
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two guys who when they were on the outside criticizing
the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Were damn sure that there was a list that was
gonna bring down the world.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We were gonna see cuffs being slapped on every major figure,
Bill Gates, the Royal family. Cuffs, We're gonna go on
everybody except Donald Trump. He obviously was very innocent. Now, granted,
he's been in a number of videos and and and
he may have been seen in those videos doing some
untoward things, but that was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Just guys hanging out, just guys.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Doing guy things an Epstein Island. But he was in
no way a client. But you know who definitely was
Bill Clinton. And we need to see that list so
that we can stick it to Bill Clinton and probably
Hunter Biden. In fact, his laptop was probably on the island.
His laptop is probably housing that list. I mean, they
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were damn sure. And then all of a sudden, Cash
Mattel was named head of the FBI, largely because of
his criticism of the Biden administration. And then Dan Bongino,
who was the former Secret Service agent turned talk show host,
became the deputy director of the FBI.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know, I guess being the I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
If it was his talk show experience or his Secret
Service experience that somehow made him qualified for the job.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But there it is. He's there, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Now both of them are like list. I don't remember
saying anything about a list.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So Tucker Carlson on the outside looking in, Tucker Carlson
said this, you know, for what? Sorry, let me do
this more. Tucker carlsony, you know, for whatever reason his sis.
I don't think that guy actually, I don't think he
likes creepy sex stuff. That's just my view speaking of
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Donald Trump. That's pretty on point. Thank you, I appreciate it,
he said. More convincing, I'm not gonna do the voice anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's my nose.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
More convincing is that this is all information that the
Biden administration had, And if there was evidence that Trump
had been involved in illegal sexual activity, you think the
people who made up Russia Gate would have leaked it.
Come on, now, all right, So that's I'm gonna give
him a half point. If Trump were on the list,
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wouldn't the Biden administration have tried to.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Make hay out of that?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Wouldn't that have been pretty damning in a presidential election? Now,
who knows how that would have been spun. You could
probably say, yeah, Biden didn't want to release the list
because maybe Biden had people on that list that he
didn't want out.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Maybe it's maybe Hunters on the list. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But if there's a list and Trump was on that list,
why didn't Biden release it? And Tucker Carlson says, well,
he would have. Now I can think of a number
of reasons that he wouldn't have, but I'll give him
credit for at least thinking, Look, Biden administration had access
to this list, So if Trump's on it, why not
release it?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Okay, good question. But then Carlson says, so Trump's not
on that list. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So why in the world would the Trump administration then
cover up the list? And there's only one possible alternative explanation.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Here's Tucker Carlson, op, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Play the only other explanation I can think of, again,
maybe you've got another.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is the only other one he can think of.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Is that Intel services are at the very center of
the story.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Elon Musk also Intel services are at the very center
of this story. Intel services are Now what does that mean?
Does that mean that Tucker Carlson believes that the FBI
and the CIA are in the middle of the list somehow,
that they were operating Epstein Island. He goes on the
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rest of the quote. Is the only other explanation I
can think of, Again, maybe you've got another is that
Intel services are at the very center of this story
US and Israeli and they're being protected. I think that
seems like the most obvious, says Tucker Carlson. Or is
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it possible that maybe for the same other reasons that
Biden might not want.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
To release the list.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Maybe Hunter Biden's on the list. I don't know, Maybe
Eric Trump is on the list. Maybe there are reasons
that Trump administration doesn't want that list to come out.
Maybe other people who are associated are on that list.
Maybe high dollar donors are on that list. Maybe the
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same high dollar donors that were benefiting the Biden administration
are benefiting the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
These are I'm just spitballing here, But.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I can think of a multitude of reasons that either
administration wouldn't want to release an Epstein client list.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So, when when Tucker Carlson is sure that there is
a list and he can't possibly reckon why Trump wouldn't
release the list. It's only because there's some sort of
a deep state, a deep state US intel at the
very center of it, which somehow has now influenced Trump.
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Or is it the deep Israeli state, as Tucker Carlson
points out, Or is it possible throw this out there?
Is it possible there is no client list? Is it
possible all of this MAGA conspiracy theory about a class
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that was going to bring down Hunter Biden, Bill Clinton,
Bill Dates, the Royal family, everyone else, but leave Donald
Trump lily white? Is it possible that there never was
a list, that it really was just a conspiracy theory
made of whole cloth revolving around this creepy guy who
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did have flight logs to his creepy island. Is it
possible there was no client list at all? Mag is
so sure there's a client list, and now they're divided.
We don't know what to believe. Do we believe Trump,
do we believe the DOJ or do we believe what
we've believed for a while now, Elon Musk has decided
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to believe that there is more afoot. So Elon Musk
was not happy that he was not invited to the
most recent cabinet meeting, and so Trump was speaking of
the cabinet meeting month. Musk then went on to X
and started ranting with Rogers Stone, one of the President's advisors,
about Jeffrey Epstein. So Stone writes on X, why would
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Jeffrey Epstein associate Steve Bannon try to help Robert Muller
send me to prison by perjuring himself at my trial? Random,
I'll get up, Musk replies, Bannon is in the Epstein files.
Although Steve Bannon is also saying he needs that the
client list should be released. But one ex user says
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the Epstein list will never be released. We've been had.
Musk says, yes, the government is deeply broken. Maggo didn't
know what to think. Maggots just confuses.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'll get up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Is there a list that condemns all of those pedophiled
the QAnon centered Democrats or not? I mean, it's an
existential threat, an existential threat. It has been the biggest
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boondoggle in California, and we are fighting tooth and nail
to keep spending billions more on it. I can't wait
for nobody to ever ride the bullet train to nowhere.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (11:22):
Chris Maryland for Moe Kelly KFI AM six forty listen
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. I've told the
story before that when I first came to California in
twenty twelve, I found out about this bullet train and
how the.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Voters had approved.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know, like eight billion dollars or something at
the time for the bullet Train, and we were gonna
get started, and we were gonna have this beautiful bullet train,
and we were gonna be on par with Europe and Japan,
and we were gonna have this high speed rail that
was going to go from eventually go from San Diego
to Sacramento, but initially it's gonna go La to San Francisco, right,
and it was supposed to connect the Bay Area to
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southern California. And this is going to be it's gonna
be super duper, and it was going to be it
was gonna be fast transportation, and it was going to
be less expensive, and it was gonna be more environmentally
friendly than flying. Of course, we've got a lot of
flights that fly between lax and San Francisco all the time.
So this bullet train was going to be a big deal,
and we were kind of told, well, wouldn't this be
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a crown.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Jewel of the West coast?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right, So initially when this passed, the idea was that
it would cost thirty three billion dollars total and it
would be operating by twenty twenty. I don't know if
you're familiar with calendars, but we are well past twenty twenty.
I also don't know if you're familiar with numbers, but
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we are well past thirty three billion dollars so right now.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
And this is fun.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I make mention of this because when I moved here
in twenty twelve, we were hearing, well, it looks like
it's going to cost over fifty billion dollars now. And
I made the prediction at that time. I was doing
ready in San Diego and I said, mark my words,
this is going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
I said, you watch what's going on here. This is
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government inefficiency. It's going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
And I will tell you that at the time I
made that prediction, I was a little bit nervous. I
thought I just said it was going to be three
times the original cost. I don't know, I might look
like a real boob. But by the time this is
done in twenty twenty, it'll be eight years later. Maybe
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nobody will remember I said it. Now it looks like
I was way underestimating the overages, because currently they say
it could cost as much as one hundred and twenty
eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And when will it be done. We don't really know.
We just don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
In fact, the initial segment, which is the Central Valley
segment it's going to run from Bakersfield and Or said,
is now going to be thirty five billion dollars. The
segment that no one will use, that runs through farmland,
that is the easiest to build, is now projected to
cost more than the initial projections for the whole project.
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So the Trump administration took a look at what's going
on in California and they went, wait a minute, We've
got four billion dollars in grants that are earmarked for
California for this bullet train, and they said, we're going
to pull those grants back. California is not happy about
this and so California officials said that the project is
in compliance with the federal grant requirements and that the
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bullet train will indeed meet the twenty thirty three deadline
to start limited passenger operations within Central Valley. We have
gotten to the point where we are now arguing that no, no, no,
we are going to be able to do the first
and easiest section, the most the simplest thing to a
accomplish that will get done just thirteen years after it
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was projected, and at only a budget that is more
than the whole project was supposed to cost to begin with.
So you can't take our grants back four billion dollars
in grants. I should also point out that we are
well short of being able to pay for the thirty
five billion dollars to start with. We don't have the
money to complete the project in the Central Valley. We're
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short by eight seven billion dollars for the Central Valley section.
Who is going to ride a bullet train for Bakersfield
and Merced? How much how much traffic goes on between
those two places, how much business traffic is happening that
we go, wow, we have to have that bullet train
there I don't know, those are the two destinations. You're
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not wrong, No, that's exactly That's where they started because
they went, this is going to be the easiest to finish.
If we can just finish this sect, this section, then
we can build momentum, no pun intent, and we can
show people that it's it's viable and it's being done.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's then yeah, yeah, I wasna say it's easier because
no one goes there it's farm land. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And they it'll be limited passenger service between these two
really as California goes remote areas once they try to
bring that into the metro areas. They talked about how
they're going to connect this to trains with the BARK
system in San Francisco, and the amount of money is
going to cost to try to bring.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
This through San Francisco is astronomical.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So when they're now saying it's going to be one
hundred and twenty eight billion dollars to complete, figure two
hundred billion, and the idea that you and I will
ever ride a bullet train from Los Angeles to San
Francisco probably not realistic.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I mean, I'm I'm in my late forties. Right now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I probably have maybe another thirty years in me. I
don't see it being done in the next thirty years,
and certainly not for the one hundred and twenty eight
billion dollars that they're projecting. It's just not going to happen.
So we just keep throwing good money after bad on. Honestly,
what is a giant boondoggle? I mean, we ought to
just set up a museum of failed initiatives and have
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this be the highlight of it, and then just stop
throwing good money after bad on it. Just be done
with it, all right, flashes of flooding. It is a
terrifying situation going on in Texas. But good news we
found out from the governor of Texas. Everyone there cares
about football. That's what he said at the press conference
about the flooding. You'll find out why next Chris MERRILLFI
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Speaker 1 (17:36):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (17:41):
Merriland from O Kelly and i KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk listen to anytime on demand of the
iHeart Radio app. Uh Well, what's the latest total in Texas?
We got the one nine. I think I saw one
nineteen earlier. Oh my gosh, one hundred nineteen people died
in the flooding. I can't think of think of a
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more horrible way for a massed number of people to go,
Just terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
The death toll rising in Texas. As officials announced more
than eighty five bodies have been recovered in Kerr County alone,
more than one hundred dead statewide.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
To put this into perspective, just in the Kerr and
Kendle counties alone, there are far more fatalities than there
were in Hurricane Harding.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
A lot of those are kids, you know, those girls
of that camp Mystic, that Christian camp that was built
on the river of a.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Getting difficult terrain and armed with a walking stick, hiking
boots and a lot of faith. Robert Brake Junior has
been desperately searching for his missing parents since front. Oh
my gosh, your cabin washed away in the floods.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And the Grimes funeral Home which just setup and they're
says a war.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
We checked it with them hourly, walking up to them
giving my parents information the pictures you were hoping not
to see anything and hear anything, and when you did,
you had an out of home.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But this morning, yeah, realized they weren't coming back home.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Oh man? Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Is that something like for every corner you turn and
you don't find the bodies of your deceased parents or
in some cases someone's child, hope remains alive.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Right.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Oh but if my parents being gone in the world
got to be a better place, got to be a
better place. One day, people kind each other, kind with
kindness and love, and people prayed a little harder and
bonaplus their faith.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I won't accept that loss.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
At a press conference earlier today, officials pressed about the
timing of notifications during the flash flooding.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Right now, all.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Right, this has been a big question about notifications during
the flash flooding, right like, what was the National Weather
Service doing?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Why weren't people alerted? Why wasn't there a better warning system?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Right now, this team up here is focused on green
people's focus. All those questions will be answered, but the
already right now, you're just bringing people home, all.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Right, So officials don't really want to answer it. They
don't want to answer those questions. I kind of understand
why they don't want to like save all of your
who's to blame stuff for later we're still trying to
find bodies of children.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
During his cabinet meeting, President Trump confirming he plans to
visit Texas on Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
We don't want to get in anyone's way, because you
know that's what happens when president goes and everyone's around
focused on I don't want anyone to focus on us.
I wholeheartedly agree with his decision one hundred percent. Now
people will criticize him for not being there, just like
they criticize every president who stays out of the way
for a week after a natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Oh, why didn't Bush go to Katrina right away? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Why didn't Obama show up at the blizzard? Or why
didn't Biden? You know, you name it? One hundred percent
back to the President on this one, stay out of
the way.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Yeah, more no, no, because he was literally criticizing Biden
for not being in California for the fires.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But my thing is, if I'm standing up for Biden
for not being in the way on the fires, do
not have to stand up for the for Trump.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
I'm saying, but but Biden would not have criticized Trump
or any other president.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Trump is the only president to criticize other presidents or
governmental leaders for not doing something that he doesn't do.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's why you're pointing out the past. Yeah, I just
don't give him the past. That's okay, So because he
didn't extend that courtesy to others. Yes, yeah, see, I
just want to be consistent in my criticism. Oh yeah,
you're fine, You're fine. I'm I'm great with you pointing
out the hypocrisy. Yeah, that's yeah, one hundred percent agree with.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You on that.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
And we're learning more about the victims. Eight year old
Mary Grace Baker died in the floods. Thirteen year old
Blair Harber and eleven year old Brook Harbor staying with
their grandparents when the flash flooding hit. Their bodies found
together fifteen miles down the river the next day.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Fifteen miles even if they were struggling for the first
mile or who imagine the horror that they experienced while
they were struggling to breathe, trying to keep their heads
above water, maybe getting hit by branches. They're in the dark,
the debris pummeling them, not knowing where they're going not
even knowing which direction to try to swim to get
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to a bank, and eventually they just can't keep up.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And the man you heard from earlier who was missing
his parents says he will continue searching, but also to
help others find their loved ones.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
All right, thank you appreciate that report.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Now, Governor Abbott was speaking out now when we talk
about the politics, and I'm glad that. I'm glad you
talked about this, Twalla, because there are a lot of
people who are saying, you know, what's going on here.
In fact, we had local officials were blaming the National
Weather Service. Then you had you had the geop officials
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in Texas blaming the National Weather Service. Then you had
Democrats who were blaming the Trump administry for cutting funding
to the National Weather Service. But you got to keep
in mind, is this The National Weather Service was prepared,
they were staffed, they were putting out alerts, they were
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putting out the warnings to the best of their ability
that night. And now what we have here is a
lot of people going who do I blame, in other words,
dodging accountability. And what I'm finding is that in today's society,
we are we're so worried about blame that we ignore accountability.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
There used to be a time in this country.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'm gonna sound like an old fuddy duddy now, but
there was a time when you had leadership that said
the buck stops here, and they would say there were
failures and we are going to take a good hard
look at this and we're going to improve upon this.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Instead.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now what you have is, well, there were failures, but
it wasn't me. And then you have supporters that say
that's right, you can't blame my person.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Look at them, they're fighting the critics.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And we applaud the leadership for not taking accountability because
that shows that they've got moxie. They're willing to stand.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Up and fight. Fight what.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Fight against accountability, fight against a basic tenet of leadership.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yes, that's exactly what we see. And the governor spoke.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
The governor addressed concerns over who is.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
To blame Texas every score inch of our state.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This is Governor Abbott talking about who's.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
To blame Texas every score ench of our state? Cares
about football?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What dead kids? Floating bodies fifteen miles down the river?
And talk about Friday night lights you.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Could be in Hunt, Texas, Huntsville, Texas, Houston, Texas, anty
size community that care about football, high school, Friday night lights,
college football, are pro and know this. Every football team
makes mistakes. The losing teams are the ones that try
to point out who's to blame. The championship teams are
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the ones to say, don't worry about it, man, we
got this. We're going to make sure that we go
score again, that we're going to win this game. The
way winners talk is not to pull out fingers.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
They talk about solutions.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Govina Abbitt also said helping the affected areas recover will
be on the agenda when lawmakers convene for a special
session in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I feel like he was almost close to having a
good answer, but he couldn't help but to say, anyone
who is looking to find accountability is a loser.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I'm a winner. I'm gonna find solutions. You all are losers.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You all trying to find out where the failures were
your losers. So aren't we just playing politics when we
do that? Yeah, here's what championship teams do. If there's
a problem, if you have a player that keeps dropping
the football, you stop handing him the football. You don't
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go out and yell at the cheerleaders for not cheering right.
You don't go yell at the referees for calling the fumble.
You go figure out how to hang on to the
dang football.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I'm gonna shift away from this because I start to
get frustrated when we talk about kids dying and nobody
wants to take accountability.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Kids, the kids these days, they're not even children anymore.
Now they're adults and they're in the workforce. And gen
Z has cracked the code. They figured out what none
of us ever knew before, and they're gonna tell us
how to have a better understanding of our work life balance.
(26:59):
You're gonna be blown away by this brand new concept
that no one's ever thought of before that gen Z
came up with.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It is next you're listening to Later with Mo Kelly
on Demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Can't wait until tomorrow, Mark, It's gonna be a day
older by that.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Pete's sake.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I gotta have my fountain of youth now, Chris merrill
in from O'Kelly KFI AM six forty. Listen anytime on
demand of the iHeartRadio app. Can I just say thank
goodness we have gen Z around, because, let's face it,
until gen Z came most of us didn't know our
heads from the hole the ground. They discovered things about
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the world that we didn't understand, we had no clue about.
For instance, prior to gen Z, when you went to work,
you busted your tail all the time, and you never
thought about slacking off, and never did you work with
anyone that about mailing it in. Never did that happen
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until gen Z came about and they introduced us to
something called quiet quitting.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You see, gen Z knew that quiet quitting meant that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You were doing the bare minimums at work just to
keep your job and fly under the radar. No one
had ever done that before. But then gen Z figured
it out and they gave it a name, quiet quitting. Sure,
I understand that there may have been a very popular
movie that came out when the vast, vast majority of
gen Z was not even potty trained, called Office Space,
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which was all about not really doing much at work
for the entire day and getting by and the bare minimums.
But we didn't even know that that was a thing.
Until gen Z told us quiet quitting. And now gen
Z has done it again. Thank goodness for the new
generation and TikTok, because they have now introduced us to
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something a concept no one had ever imagined before. Here's
your story. While retirement typically occurs after completing a career
and saving and investing for it, a new trend is
emerging among gen Z career professionals called micro retirement. Micro
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retirements involved taking a one or two week break from
work every twelve to eighteen months. Why didn't we think
of this? Why didn't any of us ever contemplate in
the past that we needed a break from work?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
My god, we.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Are not as smart as our children. Oh so that's
what I think. Sometimes it has to be, because there's
no way this generation has outsmarted us yet has not
lived nearly a quarter of our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
But obviously they did. This is just how much smarter
they are. I mean some people. My understanding is some
people now these are forward thinkers. Now, these are basically futurists.
Had worked with their companies in the past to ensure
that they got one to two week breaks built into
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their yearly schedule. Some places would even offer three or
even four weeks of break in their schedule. Now, in
the past, I had heard about a concept that some
called a vacation, but this was a very rare, anomalous event.
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Fortunately gen Z comes around and they have invented micro retirements.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
My mind is blown.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know if I'm more upset at gen Z
for thinking that they reinvented the wheel, or if I'm
more upset at the older generations that are writing the
stories about how novel gen Z is. I mean, it's
it's incredibly frustrating when I see an article from fast
Company that describes a vacation and presents it as though
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it's an absolute new life hack that was developed by
the incoming generation.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
But I think that Fast Company, I think that they
are also a gen Z slash millennial run site.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh you think so, yeah, kind of like the Economists
for younger generations or Forbes for younger generations or something.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Even though this generation knows everything about looking stuff up
on the Internet, they don't know how to look up
the fact that this is not a novel concept not new.
We've been taking vacations for centuries.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
There are a few things that are a little bit different,
but Again, they're not new ideas. They say that the
micro retirement could involve quitting a job, then finding a
new job when you're ready to work again. Again, not
a new concept. Although most of us try to have
a new job lined up because we're not dumb. So
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we create an emergency fund and then if we need
to quit a job, we do. I know people that
have said enough, I'm out, I'll find something later. I
just can't take this anymore. They've got an emergency fund
built up, they're ready.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Or you find a new job and then you give
yourself a couple of weeks in between gigs. We've all
been there before. This is not a new concept. They
also and this is the one that just drives me nuts.
Setting up a plan with your employer that allows you
to take unpaid frequent work breaks. It's just an unpaid vacation. Man,
that's unpaid time off. Again, not a new concept. Or
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if you're a business owner taking breaks from your business, well,
I gotta tell you. If you're a business owner taking breaks,
that's called a vacation. My wife runs her own business.
I had a vacation a couple of weeks ago, and
she didn't work for a week during my.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Couple of weeks off. That's just vacation. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
When you're a small business owner and you're not working,
you take a vacation and you're not gonna get paid again.
Not a new concept, but thank god, we've got gen
Z to introduce us to this. Not a new concept,
but we give it a new name, so it must
be new. I blame TikTok for this crap, is what
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I do. Like all of a sudden, they're like, Oh,
I thought about this thing. I'm gonna describe it to you.
I just saw this brand new thing online. It's never
existed before, trending now. Yeah right, Oh it makes me crazy.
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So that's my shameless plug for myself. It wasn't that
long ago. July first, a surprising statement from the Attorney
General Pam Bondi as a Trump administration promised to release
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more files from their sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
The FBI, she said, was reviewing tens of thousands of
videos of the wealthy financier with children or child porn.
Now this weekend, President Trump's justice depriminent FBI have concluded
that there is no evidence that convicted sex offender and
disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures or kept the
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client list or was murdered that according to a memo
detailing those findings, So we have tens of thousands of videos.
The file is sitting on her desk. People last, are
you going to release the files? And she said yeah,
And now the DOJ is like files. Nah, you guys
must be mistaken, and mag is going nuts right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The Trump administration pushing back against calls to fire Attorney
General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
talked about for years.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
A Justice Department report this week revealed the accused sex
trafficker did not keep a secret so called client list,
seemingly contradicting Bondi's statement earlier this year that she had
Epstein's list in her office.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Bondi now clarifying that statement, saying she was taken out
of context.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
My response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed,
meaning the file along with the JFK MLK files as well.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I always love it when the politicians are backed into
a corner and they speak down to you, like I said,
I said, it was on my desk, meaning the files,
not the client list.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
How could you all be so dumb?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The Justice Department report also confirming Epstein died by suicide investigator,
saying the conclusion that Epstein died by suicide. Is further
supported by video footage from where Epstein was housed, but
some critics raising questions about that footage, pointing to a
jump in the timestamp from eleven fifty eight to fifty
nine to midnight. Bondi, when asked about the missing minute, said,
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the videotape glitch happens every night and is not a
sign of tampering. Still, some Trump loyalists not happy with
these explanations.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Now, that's interesting that he knew exactly what the minute
was when he should off himself.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Weird.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
The only other explanation I can think of, again, maybe
I love this is from Tucker Carlson. Now this is great.
Tucker Carlson's like, nah no.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He said, I'm gonna give you a little context here
before I get the money line. Tucker Carlson says, there's
only two possible explanations for why Pam Bondi is covering
up the Epstein list. So Tucker Carlson is still maintaining
that there is an Epstein list when the DJ says
there's no list. When you've got Cash Pttel and Dan Bongino,
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two guys who when they were on the outside criticizing
the Biden administration.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Were damn sure that there was a list that was
gonna bring down the world.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We were gonna see cuffs being slapped on every major figure,
Bill Gates, the Royal family. Cuffs, We're gonna go on
everybody except Donald Trump. He obviously was very innocent. Now, granted,
he's been in a number of videos and and and
he may have been seen in those videos doing some
untoward things, but that was.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Just guys hanging out, just guys.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Doing guy things an Epstein Island. But he was in
no way a client. But you know who definitely was
Bill Clinton. And we need to see that list so
that we can stick it to Bill Clinton and probably
Hunter Biden. In fact, his laptop was probably on the island.
His laptop is probably housing that list. I mean, they
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were damn sure. And then all of a sudden, Cash
Mattel was named head of the FBI, largely because of
his criticism of the Biden administration. And then Dan Bongino,
who was the former Secret Service agent turned talk show host,
became the deputy director of the FBI.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know, I guess being the I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
If it was his talk show experience or his Secret
Service experience that somehow made him qualified for the job.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But there it is. He's there, and.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Now both of them are like list. I don't remember
saying anything about a list.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So Tucker Carlson on the outside looking in, Tucker Carlson
said this, you know, for what? Sorry, let me do
this more. Tucker carlsony, you know, for whatever reason his sis.
I don't think that guy actually, I don't think he
likes creepy sex stuff. That's just my view speaking of
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Donald Trump. That's pretty on point. Thank you, I appreciate it,
he said. More convincing, I'm not gonna do the voice anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's my nose.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
More convincing is that this is all information that the
Biden administration had, And if there was evidence that Trump
had been involved in illegal sexual activity, you think the
people who made up Russia Gate would have leaked it.
Come on, now, all right, So that's I'm gonna give
him a half point. If Trump were on the list,
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wouldn't the Biden administration have tried to.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Make hay out of that?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Wouldn't that have been pretty damning in a presidential election? Now,
who knows how that would have been spun. You could
probably say, yeah, Biden didn't want to release the list
because maybe Biden had people on that list that he
didn't want out.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Maybe it's maybe Hunters on the list. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But if there's a list and Trump was on that list,
why didn't Biden release it? And Tucker Carlson says, well,
he would have. Now I can think of a number
of reasons that he wouldn't have, but I'll give him
credit for at least thinking, Look, Biden administration had access
to this list, So if Trump's on it, why not
release it?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Okay, good question. But then Carlson says, so Trump's not
on that list. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So why in the world would the Trump administration then
cover up the list? And there's only one possible alternative explanation.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Here's Tucker Carlson, op, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Play the only other explanation I can think of, again,
maybe you've got another.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is the only other one he can think of.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Is that Intel services are at the very center of
the story.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Elon Musk also Intel services are at the very center
of this story. Intel services are Now what does that mean?
Does that mean that Tucker Carlson believes that the FBI
and the CIA are in the middle of the list somehow,
that they were operating Epstein Island. He goes on the
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rest of the quote. Is the only other explanation I
can think of, Again, maybe you've got another is that
Intel services are at the very center of this story
US and Israeli and they're being protected. I think that
seems like the most obvious, says Tucker Carlson. Or is
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it possible that maybe for the same other reasons that
Biden might not want.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
To release the list.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Maybe Hunter Biden's on the list. I don't know, Maybe
Eric Trump is on the list. Maybe there are reasons
that Trump administration doesn't want that list to come out.
Maybe other people who are associated are on that list.
Maybe high dollar donors are on that list. Maybe the
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same high dollar donors that were benefiting the Biden administration
are benefiting the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
These are I'm just spitballing here, But.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I can think of a multitude of reasons that either
administration wouldn't want to release an Epstein client list.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So, when when Tucker Carlson is sure that there is
a list and he can't possibly reckon why Trump wouldn't
release the list. It's only because there's some sort of
a deep state, a deep state US intel at the
very center of it, which somehow has now influenced Trump.
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Or is it the deep Israeli state, as Tucker Carlson
points out, Or is it possible throw this out there?
Is it possible there is no client list? Is it
possible all of this MAGA conspiracy theory about a class
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that was going to bring down Hunter Biden, Bill Clinton,
Bill Dates, the Royal family, everyone else, but leave Donald
Trump lily white? Is it possible that there never was
a list, that it really was just a conspiracy theory
made of whole cloth revolving around this creepy guy who
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did have flight logs to his creepy island. Is it
possible there was no client list at all? Mag is
so sure there's a client list, and now they're divided.
We don't know what to believe. Do we believe Trump,
do we believe the DOJ or do we believe what
we've believed for a while now, Elon Musk has decided
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to believe that there is more afoot. So Elon Musk
was not happy that he was not invited to the
most recent cabinet meeting, and so Trump was speaking of
the cabinet meeting month. Musk then went on to X
and started ranting with Rogers Stone, one of the President's advisors,
about Jeffrey Epstein. So Stone writes on X, why would
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Jeffrey Epstein associate Steve Bannon try to help Robert Muller
send me to prison by perjuring himself at my trial? Random,
I'll get up, Musk replies, Bannon is in the Epstein files.
Although Steve Bannon is also saying he needs that the
client list should be released. But one ex user says
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the Epstein list will never be released. We've been had.
Musk says, yes, the government is deeply broken. Maggo didn't
know what to think. Maggots just confuses.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'll get up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Is there a list that condemns all of those pedophiled
the QAnon centered Democrats or not? I mean, it's an
existential threat, an existential threat. It has been the biggest
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boondoggle in California, and we are fighting tooth and nail
to keep spending billions more on it. I can't wait
for nobody to ever ride the bullet train to nowhere.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (11:22):
Chris Maryland for Moe Kelly KFI AM six forty listen
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. I've told the
story before that when I first came to California in
twenty twelve, I found out about this bullet train and
how the.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Voters had approved.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't know, like eight billion dollars or something at
the time for the bullet Train, and we were gonna
get started, and we were gonna have this beautiful bullet train,
and we were gonna be on par with Europe and Japan,
and we were gonna have this high speed rail that
was going to go from eventually go from San Diego
to Sacramento, but initially it's gonna go La to San Francisco, right,
and it was supposed to connect the Bay Area to
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southern California. And this is going to be it's gonna
be super duper, and it was going to be it
was gonna be fast transportation, and it was going to
be less expensive, and it was gonna be more environmentally
friendly than flying. Of course, we've got a lot of
flights that fly between lax and San Francisco all the time.
So this bullet train was going to be a big deal,
and we were kind of told, well, wouldn't this be
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a crown.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Jewel of the West coast?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Right, So initially when this passed, the idea was that
it would cost thirty three billion dollars total and it
would be operating by twenty twenty. I don't know if
you're familiar with calendars, but we are well past twenty twenty.
I also don't know if you're familiar with numbers, but
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we are well past thirty three billion dollars so right now.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
And this is fun.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I make mention of this because when I moved here
in twenty twelve, we were hearing, well, it looks like
it's going to cost over fifty billion dollars now. And
I made the prediction at that time. I was doing
ready in San Diego and I said, mark my words,
this is going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
I said, you watch what's going on here. This is
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government inefficiency. It's going to be over one hundred billion dollars.
And I will tell you that at the time I
made that prediction, I was a little bit nervous. I
thought I just said it was going to be three
times the original cost. I don't know, I might look
like a real boob. But by the time this is
done in twenty twenty, it'll be eight years later. Maybe
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nobody will remember I said it. Now it looks like
I was way underestimating the overages, because currently they say
it could cost as much as one hundred and twenty
eight billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And when will it be done. We don't really know.
We just don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
In fact, the initial segment, which is the Central Valley
segment it's going to run from Bakersfield and Or said,
is now going to be thirty five billion dollars. The
segment that no one will use, that runs through farmland,
that is the easiest to build, is now projected to
cost more than the initial projections for the whole project.
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So the Trump administration took a look at what's going
on in California and they went, wait a minute, We've
got four billion dollars in grants that are earmarked for
California for this bullet train, and they said, we're going
to pull those grants back. California is not happy about
this and so California officials said that the project is
in compliance with the federal grant requirements and that the
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bullet train will indeed meet the twenty thirty three deadline
to start limited passenger operations within Central Valley. We have
gotten to the point where we are now arguing that no, no, no,
we are going to be able to do the first
and easiest section, the most the simplest thing to a
accomplish that will get done just thirteen years after it
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was projected, and at only a budget that is more
than the whole project was supposed to cost to begin with.
So you can't take our grants back four billion dollars
in grants. I should also point out that we are
well short of being able to pay for the thirty
five billion dollars to start with. We don't have the
money to complete the project in the Central Valley. We're
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short by eight seven billion dollars for the Central Valley section.
Who is going to ride a bullet train for Bakersfield
and Merced? How much how much traffic goes on between
those two places, how much business traffic is happening that
we go, wow, we have to have that bullet train
there I don't know, those are the two destinations. You're
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not wrong, No, that's exactly That's where they started because
they went, this is going to be the easiest to finish.
If we can just finish this sect, this section, then
we can build momentum, no pun intent, and we can
show people that it's it's viable and it's being done.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's then yeah, yeah, I wasna say it's easier because
no one goes there it's farm land. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And they it'll be limited passenger service between these two
really as California goes remote areas once they try to
bring that into the metro areas. They talked about how
they're going to connect this to trains with the BARK
system in San Francisco, and the amount of money is
going to cost to try to bring.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
This through San Francisco is astronomical.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So when they're now saying it's going to be one
hundred and twenty eight billion dollars to complete, figure two
hundred billion, and the idea that you and I will
ever ride a bullet train from Los Angeles to San
Francisco probably not realistic.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I mean, I'm I'm in my late forties. Right now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I probably have maybe another thirty years in me. I
don't see it being done in the next thirty years,
and certainly not for the one hundred and twenty eight
billion dollars that they're projecting. It's just not going to happen.
So we just keep throwing good money after bad on. Honestly,
what is a giant boondoggle? I mean, we ought to
just set up a museum of failed initiatives and have
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this be the highlight of it, and then just stop
throwing good money after bad on it. Just be done
with it, all right, flashes of flooding. It is a
terrifying situation going on in Texas. But good news we
found out from the governor of Texas. Everyone there cares
about football. That's what he said at the press conference
about the flooding. You'll find out why next Chris MERRILLFI
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Merriland from O Kelly and i KFI AM six forty
more stimulating talk listen to anytime on demand of the
iHeart Radio app. Uh Well, what's the latest total in Texas?
We got the one nine. I think I saw one
nineteen earlier. Oh my gosh, one hundred nineteen people died
in the flooding. I can't think of think of a
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more horrible way for a massed number of people to go,
Just terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
The death toll rising in Texas. As officials announced more
than eighty five bodies have been recovered in Kerr County alone,
more than one hundred dead statewide.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
To put this into perspective, just in the Kerr and
Kendle counties alone, there are far more fatalities than there
were in Hurricane Harding.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
A lot of those are kids, you know, those girls
of that camp Mystic, that Christian camp that was built
on the river of a.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Getting difficult terrain and armed with a walking stick, hiking
boots and a lot of faith. Robert Brake Junior has
been desperately searching for his missing parents since front. Oh
my gosh, your cabin washed away in the floods.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
And the Grimes funeral Home which just setup and they're
says a war.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
We checked it with them hourly, walking up to them
giving my parents information the pictures you were hoping not
to see anything and hear anything, and when you did,
you had an out of home.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But this morning, yeah, realized they weren't coming back home.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Oh man? Is that?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Is that something like for every corner you turn and
you don't find the bodies of your deceased parents or
in some cases someone's child, hope remains alive.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Right.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Oh but if my parents being gone in the world
got to be a better place, got to be a
better place. One day, people kind each other, kind with
kindness and love, and people prayed a little harder and
bonaplus their faith.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I won't accept that loss.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
At a press conference earlier today, officials pressed about the
timing of notifications during the flash flooding.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Right now, all.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Right, this has been a big question about notifications during
the flash flooding, right like, what was the National Weather
Service doing?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Why weren't people alerted? Why wasn't there a better warning system?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Right now, this team up here is focused on green
people's focus. All those questions will be answered, but the
already right now, you're just bringing people home, all.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Right, So officials don't really want to answer it. They
don't want to answer those questions. I kind of understand
why they don't want to like save all of your
who's to blame stuff for later we're still trying to
find bodies of children.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
During his cabinet meeting, President Trump confirming he plans to
visit Texas on Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
We don't want to get in anyone's way, because you
know that's what happens when president goes and everyone's around
focused on I don't want anyone to focus on us.
I wholeheartedly agree with his decision one hundred percent. Now
people will criticize him for not being there, just like
they criticize every president who stays out of the way
for a week after a natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Oh, why didn't Bush go to Katrina right away? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Why didn't Obama show up at the blizzard? Or why
didn't Biden? You know, you name it? One hundred percent
back to the President on this one, stay out of
the way.
Speaker 12 (20:52):
Yeah, more no, no, because he was literally criticizing Biden
for not being in California for the fires.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But my thing is, if I'm standing up for Biden
for not being in the way on the fires, do
not have to stand up for the for Trump.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
I'm saying, but but Biden would not have criticized Trump
or any other president.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
Trump is the only president to criticize other presidents or
governmental leaders for not doing something that he doesn't do.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That's why you're pointing out the past. Yeah, I just
don't give him the past. That's okay, So because he
didn't extend that courtesy to others. Yes, yeah, see, I
just want to be consistent in my criticism. Oh yeah,
you're fine, You're fine. I'm I'm great with you pointing
out the hypocrisy. Yeah, that's yeah, one hundred percent agree with.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You on that.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
And we're learning more about the victims. Eight year old
Mary Grace Baker died in the floods. Thirteen year old
Blair Harber and eleven year old Brook Harbor staying with
their grandparents when the flash flooding hit. Their bodies found
together fifteen miles down the river the next day.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Fifteen miles even if they were struggling for the first
mile or who imagine the horror that they experienced while
they were struggling to breathe, trying to keep their heads
above water, maybe getting hit by branches. They're in the dark,
the debris pummeling them, not knowing where they're going not
even knowing which direction to try to swim to get
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to a bank, and eventually they just can't keep up.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And the man you heard from earlier who was missing
his parents says he will continue searching, but also to
help others find their loved ones.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
All right, thank you appreciate that report.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Now, Governor Abbott was speaking out now when we talk
about the politics, and I'm glad that. I'm glad you
talked about this, Twalla, because there are a lot of
people who are saying, you know, what's going on here.
In fact, we had local officials were blaming the National
Weather Service. Then you had you had the geop officials
(22:51):
in Texas blaming the National Weather Service. Then you had
Democrats who were blaming the Trump administry for cutting funding
to the National Weather Service. But you got to keep
in mind, is this The National Weather Service was prepared,
they were staffed, they were putting out alerts, they were
(23:12):
putting out the warnings to the best of their ability
that night. And now what we have here is a
lot of people going who do I blame, in other words,
dodging accountability. And what I'm finding is that in today's society,
we are we're so worried about blame that we ignore accountability.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
There used to be a time in this country.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'm gonna sound like an old fuddy duddy now, but
there was a time when you had leadership that said
the buck stops here, and they would say there were
failures and we are going to take a good hard
look at this and we're going to improve upon this.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Instead.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now what you have is, well, there were failures, but
it wasn't me. And then you have supporters that say
that's right, you can't blame my person.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Look at them, they're fighting the critics.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And we applaud the leadership for not taking accountability because
that shows that they've got moxie. They're willing to stand.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Up and fight. Fight what.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Fight against accountability, fight against a basic tenet of leadership.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yes, that's exactly what we see. And the governor spoke.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
The governor addressed concerns over who is.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
To blame Texas every score inch of our state.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This is Governor Abbott talking about who's.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
To blame Texas every score ench of our state? Cares
about football?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What dead kids? Floating bodies fifteen miles down the river?
And talk about Friday night lights you.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Could be in Hunt, Texas, Huntsville, Texas, Houston, Texas, anty
size community that care about football, high school, Friday night lights,
college football, are pro and know this. Every football team
makes mistakes. The losing teams are the ones that try
to point out who's to blame. The championship teams are
(25:14):
the ones to say, don't worry about it, man, we
got this. We're going to make sure that we go
score again, that we're going to win this game. The
way winners talk is not to pull out fingers.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
They talk about solutions.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Govina Abbitt also said helping the affected areas recover will
be on the agenda when lawmakers convene for a special
session in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I feel like he was almost close to having a
good answer, but he couldn't help but to say, anyone
who is looking to find accountability is a loser.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I'm a winner. I'm gonna find solutions. You all are losers.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
You all trying to find out where the failures were
your losers. So aren't we just playing politics when we
do that? Yeah, here's what championship teams do. If there's
a problem, if you have a player that keeps dropping
the football, you stop handing him the football. You don't
(26:15):
go out and yell at the cheerleaders for not cheering right.
You don't go yell at the referees for calling the fumble.
You go figure out how to hang on to the
dang football.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I'm gonna shift away from this because I start to
get frustrated when we talk about kids dying and nobody
wants to take accountability.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Kids, the kids these days, they're not even children anymore.
Now they're adults and they're in the workforce. And gen
Z has cracked the code. They figured out what none
of us ever knew before, and they're gonna tell us
how to have a better understanding of our work life balance.
(26:59):
You're gonna be blown away by this brand new concept
that no one's ever thought of before that gen Z
came up with.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It is next you're listening to Later with Mo Kelly
on Demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Can't wait until tomorrow, Mark, It's gonna be a day
older by that.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Pete's sake.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I gotta have my fountain of youth now, Chris merrill
in from O'Kelly KFI AM six forty. Listen anytime on
demand of the iHeartRadio app. Can I just say thank
goodness we have gen Z around, because, let's face it,
until gen Z came most of us didn't know our
heads from the hole the ground. They discovered things about
(27:40):
the world that we didn't understand, we had no clue about.
For instance, prior to gen Z, when you went to work,
you busted your tail all the time, and you never
thought about slacking off, and never did you work with
anyone that about mailing it in. Never did that happen
(28:04):
until gen Z came about and they introduced us to
something called quiet quitting.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You see, gen Z knew that quiet quitting meant that.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You were doing the bare minimums at work just to
keep your job and fly under the radar. No one
had ever done that before. But then gen Z figured
it out and they gave it a name, quiet quitting. Sure,
I understand that there may have been a very popular
movie that came out when the vast, vast majority of
gen Z was not even potty trained, called Office Space,
(28:37):
which was all about not really doing much at work
for the entire day and getting by and the bare minimums.
But we didn't even know that that was a thing.
Until gen Z told us quiet quitting. And now gen
Z has done it again. Thank goodness for the new
generation and TikTok, because they have now introduced us to
(28:59):
something a concept no one had ever imagined before. Here's
your story. While retirement typically occurs after completing a career
and saving and investing for it, a new trend is
emerging among gen Z career professionals called micro retirement. Micro
(29:20):
retirements involved taking a one or two week break from
work every twelve to eighteen months. Why didn't we think
of this? Why didn't any of us ever contemplate in
the past that we needed a break from work?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
My god, we.
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Are not as smart as our children. Oh so that's
what I think. Sometimes it has to be, because there's
no way this generation has outsmarted us yet has not
lived nearly a quarter of our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
But obviously they did. This is just how much smarter
they are. I mean some people. My understanding is some
people now these are forward thinkers. Now, these are basically futurists.
Had worked with their companies in the past to ensure
that they got one to two week breaks built into
(30:13):
their yearly schedule. Some places would even offer three or
even four weeks of break in their schedule. Now, in
the past, I had heard about a concept that some
called a vacation, but this was a very rare, anomalous event.
(30:34):
Fortunately gen Z comes around and they have invented micro retirements.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
My mind is blown.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know if I'm more upset at gen Z
for thinking that they reinvented the wheel, or if I'm
more upset at the older generations that are writing the
stories about how novel gen Z is. I mean, it's
it's incredibly frustrating when I see an article from fast
Company that describes a vacation and presents it as though
(31:08):
it's an absolute new life hack that was developed by
the incoming generation.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
But I think that Fast Company, I think that they
are also a gen Z slash millennial run site.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh you think so, yeah, kind of like the Economists
for younger generations or Forbes for younger generations or something.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Even though this generation knows everything about looking stuff up
on the Internet, they don't know how to look up
the fact that this is not a novel concept not new.
We've been taking vacations for centuries.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
There are a few things that are a little bit different,
but Again, they're not new ideas. They say that the
micro retirement could involve quitting a job, then finding a
new job when you're ready to work again. Again, not
a new concept. Although most of us try to have
a new job lined up because we're not dumb. So
(32:07):
we create an emergency fund and then if we need
to quit a job, we do. I know people that
have said enough, I'm out, I'll find something later. I
just can't take this anymore. They've got an emergency fund
built up, they're ready.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Or you find a new job and then you give
yourself a couple of weeks in between gigs. We've all
been there before. This is not a new concept. They
also and this is the one that just drives me nuts.
Setting up a plan with your employer that allows you
to take unpaid frequent work breaks. It's just an unpaid vacation. Man,
that's unpaid time off. Again, not a new concept. Or
(32:43):
if you're a business owner taking breaks from your business, well,
I gotta tell you. If you're a business owner taking breaks,
that's called a vacation. My wife runs her own business.
I had a vacation a couple of weeks ago, and
she didn't work for a week during my.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Couple of weeks off. That's just vacation. That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
When you're a small business owner and you're not working,
you take a vacation and you're not gonna get paid again.
Not a new concept, but thank god, we've got gen
Z to introduce us to this. Not a new concept,
but we give it a new name, so it must
be new. I blame TikTok for this crap, is what
(33:23):
I do. Like all of a sudden, they're like, Oh,
I thought about this thing. I'm gonna describe it to you.
I just saw this brand new thing online. It's never
existed before, trending now. Yeah right, Oh it makes me crazy.
Chris merrill in from O'Kelly tonight k IF I am
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