August 28, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Chris Merrill filling in ‘Later, for Mo’Kelly’ with thoughts on the Minneapolis Catholic Church Mass Shooting…PLUS – A look at the plan to split California into separate states AND California’s ranking on the list of “dirtiest U.S. cities - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey friends, Chris Merrill in for mo Kelly, then I
can't if I am six forty more stimulating talk.
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ever meet, and Mark Ron Art president and accounted for
Let's do it. And I got to give you full credit.
You open your newscast by saying, do you like ice
in your port? And I got what you were saying there,
My friend, that's because you're no vulgarian. I'll have you
to know.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well done, Well done, I little play very much. What
a disappointing morning. As I woke up and I started
getting all these breaking news alerts about the the shooting
in Minneapolis. And I don't know about you, guys, and
I feel kind of guilty about this, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I get these breaking news alerts and I go, oh,
another mass shooting, and isn't that horrible.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I've become desensitized to it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, they happened so often, but I'm not quite desensitized yet.
I'm still horrified each time it happens.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm horrified that it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But to what end.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean, no one's giving up their guns, no one
is changing any laws. Nothing is going to happen except
for the obligatory thoughts and prayers. And we see even
today that everyone is tired of the thoughts and prayers.
People want something done, and at that point, when you
say we need something done, everything stops. So, yes, Chris,
When I saw the message this morning, I said, huh okay, yeah,
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not that my heart tries to go out. My child
goes to us, to a Christian academy. Yeah, right, this
hit scared me, like I'm like, oh my god, I
need to go down there and pick my daughter and
take her home.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right. It hits close to home. And it's funny you
mentioned the thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The mayor of Minneapolis said, don't just say this is
about thoughts and prayers. Right now, these kids were literally praying,
and so that's so useless. That the the thing that
drives me bonkers. And it's my first observation anytime there's
a shooting but this one especially, and I think this
one rose to the top because there have been other
mass shootings even this week, We've had mass shootings that
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have gone on, right, and that is that's the that's
the tragic reality of the world that we're in, Like,
this is not the first mass shooting of the week.
And so what strikes me is you made mention nobody's
changing any gun laws. And I'm not for taking guns
away from everybody. I'm not somebody who's all about banning firearms,
but I am about things like are there reasonable compromises,
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For instance, if you are a gun owner and you
like to use it for sport, I'm all about that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I grew up in a very rural area.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Firearms were tools and they were also used for sport, Right,
That's what I grew up with. That's my background, that's
my understanding, and that's kind of in my core. So
I'm not somebody's like there's no point and I know this.
There's a big divide between people that grew up in
rural areas and people that grew up in urban areas.
And urban areas firearms seem to be all about doing
damage to other people or intimidating others rural areas. They're
a tool, and they're they're a sporting good. Okay, so
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I come from the latter. However, I don't think it's
unreasonable to say that we don't that we should have
limits on magazine sizes.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Again, if you are.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A sports shooter, or if you're shooting, if you want
to have a friarm for defense, I don't know that
you need to have large capacity magazines for either one
of those things. Well, you might run up against a
really badass deer and you need a lot of a
lot of AMMO. You're not kidding. So they're very violent sometimes.
Let me just add one thing to the thoughts in
prayers things. If you're if you're sincere about having recourse
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to prayers, the Bible says faith without works is dead.
If you just have prayers but don't do anything about it,
it's absolutely meaningless. I mean, how do you disagree with that?
I mean, I'll stop you when you tell a lie,
right yeah, no, lies told right on. So the other
thing that I think really catches me and frustrates me
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to no end is that you have people that go
you can't impede on any firearms rights. And the concern
is is that if you give an inch, somebody's gonna
try to take a mile. And I understand what where
that concern comes from. I absolutely do. So I say, look,
let's limit magazine sizes, and people go that, you know,
it starts with magazine sizes and then it turns to this,
and then it becomes this, and then it becomes this.
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So they're making the slippery slope argument. But we've also
seen slippery slope things happen in the past in other
not necessarily firearms, but other place. So I understand where
the fear comes from. However, what we have too is
on the other side to go it's not the firearm,
it's the individual. And the problem here is mental health.
We keep hearing about how it's a mental health issue,
it's a mental health issue, it's a mental health issue,
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and then we cut funding for mental health services, we
cut funding for mental health education.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We do everything we can to undermine the things.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That could be potential solutions to a mental health crisis
going on here in the United States.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That just frustrates me to know when.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We literally have someone in charge of the department that
regulates medicine for individuals that are suffering from various mental
health crises, cutting funding to meds and research and all
of that. So to me, it's a joke. When I
hear this. It upsets me to no end when I
hear these reports and oh, we got to do this,
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we got.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Stop the performative radio or television talking because you don't
really care. Because if we cared, we would actually fight
to do something about it, and we're not. We're not
demanding more of our politicians. We're not demanding more of
local and state government. We're just not we wanted. Oh
my heart, I don't hear about your heart. You actually
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don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Again, I'll stop. You want to hear a lie?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Also, if you don't mind me adding this just objectively,
the problem is not mental health because the United States
doesn't have any worse mental health issues than every other
country on the face of the planet.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean all I'm doing in my point and I
don't want to even go down too far down that road.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Mark. I mean, again, you're not wrong, but if one aren't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
With one political argument, as we have to remove firearms,
and the other political argument is no, no, no, it's a
mental health issue. We're not addressing either one of those things.
And that's where I get so freak and frustrated. It
doesn't matter which party is in charge, which leads me
to believe that as callous and as heartless as this
is going to sound, politicians don't want to solve this
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issue because solving this issue takes away from their performative opportunities,
and it takes away from their chances to fundraise, and
the last thing they want to do is find solutions
to divisive issues. Look if we were in a situation
where we said, okay, the real the problem is kids
are dying, and I'm willing to try anything. Then you
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try one thing or another or a combination of things,
and you say, okay, we are going to limitaine sizes,
We're gonna we're gonna put stronger laws around you know, access,
whatever it is, right, you'd say, okay, we're gonna do that,
even if I don't like it. We're gonna try that,
and if the if the numbers don't come down, then
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we're gonna try something different. But we don't try anything,
and then we end up with this situation. But why
did this one rise to the top First of all,
you had seventeen people injured.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Two kids were dead.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But we have mass shootings far too often where two
kids dying doesn't really even make the front page. This
one had a number of other elements attached. First of all,
it was attack at a religious facility while services were
going on, right, So that's that's one. Okay, So these
are all these are all compounding factors that make this
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click baity. Two, the shooter was born Robert, was going
by Robin. So now all of a sudden, we go, oh,
my goodness, the threat of the trans community is here.
And now you've you've just amplified the boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Three.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The shooters seem to have a number of notes written
on the magazines that said things like kill Trump or
Trump must die or whatever the the verbiage was, and
where is your God? And so this becomes oh, this
was this was all politically motivated. And boy, if the
politicians weren't performative before, if they weren't trying to fundraise
off this this disaster in the past, they've got every
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every reason to do it now because we're being targeted.
So now not only do you have actual victims of
gun violence, you also have performative victims. We're being attacked
for our beliefs, and now we can amplify it even more.
Now we can talk about how our lives are under
threat because we support this politician or that politician, and
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then the next shooter that comes out.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Is gonna be somebody who's on the other side of
that of that political aisle. It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Somebody who decides that they are that they are going
to wipe out a gay night club because they're doing
it in the name of God, and they're doing it
because America has become full of sodomites. And then everybody
goes to their corners, nothing gets done, and it's the
same nonsense, round and round and round and round and round.
It's a merry go round. And the victims here are children.
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In this case in Minneapolis, it was an eight year
old and a ten year old, as well as the
seventeen other people who were injured in the gunplay. It
just frustrates me to know when I wanted to make
sure we were able to opine on that to start
the program tonight, and thank you for taking a moment
and letting us vent on it. I just I'm just
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incredibly frustrated, and I know for a fact I'm not alone.
I know that the rest of the country feels this way,
and I also know that an awful lot of people go,
I don't even want to hear. If it isn't in
my neighborhood, was it my kid, then nobody's gonna do
anything about it. And it doesn't affect me personally. Let
me get on with my day. And that's the sad
thing about where we are. The apathy has taken over
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with the rest of the country because the politicians have
turned this into such a kabooki display of their own
bravado and insincere. Performative that's the best word to Walla,
you nailed it. There's just this performative sympathy that's out there,
just absolute trash. Either do something or quit taking a microphone.
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Oh oh, there was one other thing. The Democratic National
Committee is meeting in Minneapolis this week too, so it
adds one more layer of the political debate back and forth.
It also means that we had a number of national
news crews that were already in the city, which means
that getting the word out on this horrendous shooting is
even easier for the national news media. Speaking of performative,
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We've been assured it is not this is not for show.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Because it's been I think it's been almost like six
months since the last time somebody tried to split California
into multiple states.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh, and it's happening again. Why this time next?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
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Speaker 2 (11:22):
Mark was looking up some stats there. I was looking
up some stats too. I was looking at the mass shootings.
Let's see, mass shooting is anywhere there were more than
four victims, right, isn't That's what defines it correct. So
I'm looking at this so obviously this one this morning
in Minneapolis, two children killed, seventeen victims, which is pretty sizable.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Suspect took his own life as well. Let me see, we.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Had one in Minneapolis as well, yesterday one killed, six injured.
We had won in La yesterday five people injured. Had
one in Kansas City three days ago, two killed, three
injured Maryland, New York. It goes on and on and on.
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That's just this week, just this week, and none of
them involved any trans shooters. Mark, you were looking up
some stats on the violence from the trans community. Who
seem to be people like to blame the trans community.
What is that about, Well, it seems to be about
scapegoating and punching down because the trans community is responsible
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for less than one tenth of one percent of mass
shootings according to information that I've been able to find.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I think the only other one that I can even
think of, there was one in Nashville where it made
it made national head You're gonna make national headlines if
the shooter is someone who is already a targeted member.
So if you have a shooter who is undocumented, all
of a sudden, it's gonna make headlines. It's gonna get
picked up. If the shooter is trans, it's gonna get
picked up. And someone is going to try to connect
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the dots and say that being trans leads to mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Of course, as you just pointed out, it doesn't just know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
As far as I can tell from the information that
I have at hand. SIS males are responsible for about
ninety eight percent of mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
How dare you? I just I just outed myself. Don't
do that. Sorry, it's the matter with you. I feel
like you're coming at me. You're coming at me. Yeah,
I didn't mean to threaten you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Is that a microaggression or just a plain old aggression,
which which one? Okay, that's what my wife says. My
wife likes to say, you're coming at me. You're coming
at me. Get out of my grill. Man, Yeah, you're
coming at me.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I go, honey. Are we gonna meet up with friends
this weekend? Like you talked about? Why are you putting
this on me? Why are you coming at me? Dude? Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The magic of matrimonial bliss is something that you really
convey well. And you make me sorry that I never
got married.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, Oh, you'll be sorry, all right, that's true, you
will be sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
If you haven't noticed, the political divide is more than
just when it comes to big national divisive issues and
the death of children. We have a great deal of
political divide here in California. It might be news to you,
especially when we start talking about remapping the congressional districts,
and the Republicans are p owed in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And so now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They've got a plan, and that is cal Exit. Where
have I heard that before? Every year for the last
twenty years, Republicans in California were from NBCLA.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
We're not happy with Governor Newsom's plan for redistricting that
would take congressional seats away from Republicans here in California.
So one leading Republican in the State Assembly said, forget
about your redistricting plan.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
We want to leave your state completely. And he came, I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Believe it's called a forfeit.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, if one team decides they don't want to play
the other team and so they leave the field, that's
a forfeit.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So forfeit.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Come up with a map, and his interview used a
resolution in the state Assembly to separate California into two states.
Let's take a look at that map. Here's what it
would look like.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I can't see it. This is radio.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Basically, California would turn into a very much smaller state. Geographically,
it would mainly be the coastal areas, all those inland areas,
and part of the California to the north near the
Oregon border. That would all now be a separate state
comprised of about thirty five counties and more than ten
million people, still making it one of the biggest states
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in the country.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But wait a minute, So the the Democrats get all
the coast, and they get the they get the economic engines,
and the Republicans get the agricultural economic engine, but a
lot of desert and mountains.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Kind of surprise, it didn't go for more in order.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
To accomplish matt to that, there are some hurdles.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This has been try before, no has not worked.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
What and one of the big hurdles is.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
The US Constitution ah and always gets in the way.
Show you what the United States Constitution says you have
to do to create a new state. It says no
new state. This is Article four, Section three. It says
no new state shall be formed or erected within the
jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed
by the junction of two or more states or parts
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of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the
states concerned, as well as of the Congress. Well, the
problem for Republicans here in California is Democrats in the
legislature have a super majority. Here's what one law professor
had to say.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
In other words, they're trying to forfeit, but the team
that's winning won't let them.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Requires a petition from the legislature of any state to
the Congress, and the way they do that is by
adopting by both houses joint resolution. It's unlikely that that
will pass either house of the legislature, and so if
you don't have the consent of the legislature, then there's
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nothing for the Congress to act on.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, James Gallagher is the Republican in the state Assembly
that wants to split it up.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He's proposing to.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Split the state in two and he called it a
two state solution. Now, the Republicans won a two state solution,
and that interesting.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
A spokesperson for Governor Newsom put out this statement that'said,
a person who seeks to split California does not deserve
to hold office in the Golden State.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
This is a stunt that will go nowhere.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Well, this is what the Republican leader of the Assembly
who put out this proposal had to say about the
governor's state.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I assure you it is not a stunt. Yes, it
is This is the real feelings of people in my
district and throughout the state, of people who feel like
this government does not look out for them and does
not address their issues.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And so the solution to that is a two state solution.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
When in the course of human events that happens, sometimes
people make decisions to move in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I mean it almost sounds he's not advocating violence or
anything like that, and so good. I mean, he's trying
to do it legislatively. It's not going to go anywhere.
It is a stunt, but it is divisive. I mean,
he's gonna say, well, the Democrats made a divisive I mean,
imagine the Democrats did this in Texas. Then they would say, well,
the Democrats are being divisive, and you go, well, no, no,
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the Republicans did it when they redo the map.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You see what I mean. I mean, it's like, this
is just this left right nonsense. It goes on and
on and on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And Tawalla sent me a note here earlier he was
talking about the shooting of Minneapolis. As we were discussing
the politicians. He says, we are stuck in a lunacy loop. Well,
I could not agree more. At first when I heard
that he was proposing a two state solution for California,
I thought that James Gallagher was trying to make a point.
I thought he was trying to make the Democrats say no, no, no,
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no two state solution would ever work, so that you
could say, look, okay, then why are you posing it?
You know, why are you proposing an Israel that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But he didn't. No. I thought at first his stunt
was to draw some sort.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Of a hypocrisy with stances on what's going on in Israel.
But no, that's not what he did. I thought he
was going to He didn't missed opportunity. Why is somebody
always trying to break up the state? What do you
what do we always hear after the election if you
don't like the way America is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Get out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We were already seeing migrations in some cases, although it's
overblown in media in some cases because.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Of political affiliation.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
But it's all a part of the plan though, Chris, Oh,
it's a plan. I mean when you think about think
about how all of these nuts that keep coming up
with this plan to break up California, they're all tied
to a specific party. I have yet Mark, do the
research if you want, But I have yet to see
a Democrat come up with a plan to break up California,
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to break up, as you called it, Chris, the super majority, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Was it. Haven't there been some independence that are proposed,
like there was.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
A couple of really right leaning independence because yeah, the
one multi billionaire that had that plan, yeah, he turned
out to be very, very very on the right. And
I'm not blaming him, and he had great and he
had great. To me, it's just interesting how it's one
specific party or individuals who subscribe to one party's idea
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that one hand, on one hand trash California. California is
the pits, it's anss whole people are moving out of California,
get out of there because of the crime, the robbery.
And then it's no, no, no no. But if we
break it up and we cut it up into pieces
and we get some of it, and man, yeah, that's
just weird.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
In fairness, why would anybody on the left ever propose
that when they have the super majority? I know, and
I mean it's all these proposals they're always going to
come from somebody on the right because they're the ones
with something to gain.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's it's it's like it's like if.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There's a close call at home plate, the team that
gets the call should never argue with the umpire you
know what I mean, Like, if you're winning the argument,
shut your mouth. Yes, So there's really no reason for
the Democrats to argue it. So in fairness, it is
likely to come from the right. All right, California is
getting dirty, super dirty, in fact, the dirtiest. You'll find
out why next time. Chris Merril, I AM six forty
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in from Okelly tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (21:43):
From O Kelly and KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk.
You're a dirty state. You're a dirty, dirty little state.
You the state are very dirty. If we were to
take a look at one of the dirtiest we are
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well represented in the top ten, way too represented in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
From KTLA.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
A new study is ranked the dirtiest cities in all
of America, and unfortunately for California, the rankings did not
go in our favor.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
We have more than anybody else. What do you mean
it didn't go in our favor. That's very good.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Nobody's as dirty as us. Many people are very surprised
to see it. No one's ever seen any kind of
dirty like this. We're very dirty, more dirty than anybody
ever expected.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
The rankings come from the national lawn care company lawn Starter.
They analyzed cleanliness and categories such as pollution, living conditions, waste, infrastructure,
and resident dissatisfaction with the environment. Sam Bernardino was ranked
the dirtiest city both in California and in America.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
There you go, seeing bernard Do you know number one?
We could get here, but we did it. We got
to number one, number one. I don't know what you've heard,
but number one is pretty good.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Los Angeles ranked number two on both the state and
national list. Detroit, Michigan placed number three, followed by reading Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I thought Detroit was cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I get a lot of information from Detroit because I'm
originally from Michigan. My parents still live there, and and
so I keep I keep seeing all these things about
the revitalization of Detroit. I thought I was getting cleaner.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Two more California city is placed in the top ten.
Ontario was ranked as the fifth dirty of city Corona
rounded out the top ten at number ten.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow, San Bernardino number one, La number two, Ontario number five,
and Corona number ten. Let's see who else got in there? Newark,
New Jersey, Therey Dude, Phoenix, Arizona. Well they get dust storms,
New Jersey. It was a Jersey City, New Jersey. And
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then Las Vegas, NEVADAAAA was in a number nine niner niner.
Oh yeah, I was saying it wrong. No, I said
it right. I said it right. You're saying Nevada. Yeah,
you know you're saying niner like g Gordon Liddy used
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to is is that one of your yeah nin niner?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (24:30):
No, it was in Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Who doesn't belong on that list? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Again, I thought Detroit was getting cleaned up. Hold on
pollution rating pollution, They've just got cleanliness. Okay, what does
that mean? Cleanliness?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Does that mean litter? Does that mean graffiti? Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Pollution, living conditions, waste infrastructure, resident dissatisfaction what yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I mean, I mean, I haven't traveled that much, but
I've been to some places that are absolute filth bowls
that aren't in California. So I'm just like, what on earth?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, well, you know I was talking about Detroit, But
how is Flint not on that list. We all know
Flint has terrible waste infrastructure, right we do, Yeah, we
absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh, they're not on that list. There's a number of others.
Chicago's not on that list.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
That's what I'm saying, Like the automatically list should be
just thrown out because of that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I love Chicago, but Chicago is especially depending where you are,
it can be very filthy. And the closer you get
to Gary, Indiana, the worst it is. Gary, Indiana should
be the top of this list. That is the dirtiest
city in America. Oh, Gary's rough.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I have driven through Gary.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Indiana so many times because again I family in northern
Michigan on the west side, so I go up through Chicago.
Sometimes I fly into Chicago and drive up the Lake
Shore and Gary is just a it is an asshole.
When you drive through Gary, you do so with your
doors locked and your windows up.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You do not stop. You have a full tank of gas.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I mean Alabama with their drive through liquor stores, you know, uh, Mississippi,
that is just pretty dirty. And I'm not talking about
the dirt roads. It's just pretty damn dirty. What's happening here?
Who wrote this list? First of all, don't despairge drive
through liquor stores.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah they start there, bucko, my bade No, so they
go Jersey City?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And I apologize.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I've only been in New Jersey once and it was
just because I was I was in Philadelphia and I
was staying in New Jersey. But uh, how close is
Jersey City to Atlantic City? I honestly don't know. You
know my geography better than this, but I always think
of Atlantic City as being.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
A real dump.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I did not like Atlantic City at all. It was gray,
the beach was filthy, the water. I was just like,
people come here, Yeah nice, the boardwalk is rickety. Yeah,
I'm looking at my my Google now. Yeah, Jersey City
is not really close to Atlantic City. So those are
two different things. So how does how does that? How
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does Atlantic City avoid that?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Lawn Starter's list is garbage. Oh plus, there's nobody in
Ohio on there. Ohio is trash. Yeah, hey, no, seriously,
there's the whole state.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Look when I lived in Erie and used to have
to drive down to Cleveland, to go to the Cleveland Clinic.
Uh huh, there were places in Ohio where I'm like,
people actually live here.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
Ash tabula Ohio whoa whoa is right? In fact, I
think Ohio hang on. I think Ohio has actually become
like a gen Z term for like something really gross. Okay,
Jen alpha is ok Okay, said Jen Alpha term? Okay,
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what does Ohio mean? Ohio means bad. Ohio means bad.
So basically you can you can use Ohio as a
synonym for the word bad. And yet somehow it's not
on It's not on the list of dirty cities. It's
literally it means bad. So I don't know how they
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avoided that. Farcical is an understatement.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Meanwhile, we do have something else that we can crow
about a little bit here in California that we are
atop another list. Yet again, I always think of it
as being just a nice place to be. But Santa
Barbara another list. We'll tell you why. That's next.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
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Speaker 2 (29:09):
O Kelly Show, Chris Maryland from mo Tonight KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk. Congratulations to my friends in
Santa Barbara. Just a nice place to be, What a
lovely town. Santa Barbara is. Santa Barbara beat out USC
Santa Barbara beat out Tulane. Santa Barbara beat out fly
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at a State. Santa Barbara is America's party school destination.
UCSB number one party school in America.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Again, everybody I'm in, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Can honestly tell you that when I woke up this
morning and I did not think I would be playing
that song in the radio, So.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Feeling pretty good about that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Breaking is based on students surveys, access to bars, restaurants, athletics,
and Greek life at all the schools. If I'm being
completely transparent, I went to YouTube to try to find
audio for this story and when I looked up effect here, I'll.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Just do it you UCSB party it is.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I am telling you like a good jillion videos of
parties happening at uc Santa Barbara. They're like, this is
an average night and it's just people getting messed up.
And then you've got dil Topia, the biggest party of
the US, the UCSB school school yard Duiltopia. Others are
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making complete vlogs for the college parties, the frats, the
Greek life. So if you are a parent who feels
like your kids really need a social outlet and you
really don't need all that money, send them to UCSB.
At the very least you'll have a nice reason to
visit Santa Barbara to go see hi to your kids,
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because why else would you pay.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The money to send them there. H mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It's funny when you look at other colleges. Harvard is
not on that list, Princeton not on that list. I
was surprised, though, because I'm looking at the top ten.
I've got it in front of me. In fact, let
me see, I'll just pull up the full report. I
was surprised. When you think of party schools, what do
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you think? Because I always think of Arizona State. Isn't
that like the one that comes to people's mind. Maybe
it's because I lived in in Arizona that it has
that reputation, But I always thought Arizona State was like
considered a party school. San Diego State's on the list
number twenty two. Trying to see if there's any others
in California. Why don't we, uh, why aren't we so
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bad at partying?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Here. Anybody have thoughts on that? Anybody want to jump in?
Are we?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I thought every college was essentially a party school and
some just kind of a little more and a little less. Yet, well,
and we're looking at the ones that are a little more.
Let me see San Diego State. I mean, if you
have trouble finding a party at any college, that's kind
of on you, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Usc Is? Oh? I told you usc Is at number four? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Kinda yeah, because I went to one of those directional schools,
and I mean, we don't have any trouble finding parties.
You can go find trouble if you wanted to. I
think some of these get a bit out of hand, though.
Let me see who else is uh? I would love
to see one of those like Religiou schools. Wouldn't it
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be great if you saw TCU on there or BYU?
Oh my gosh, wouldn't be great if we saw BYU
on the top part party school list?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah? I mean we know that somebody hijacked the data
if that happened. Right now.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I have some former Mormon friends and when they went off,
they really went off.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Really.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Oh yeah, alright, so the Mormons like to party? Well,
what's the place to be the lapsed ones?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, I got you, Okay, all right, very good. Now,
you know, if you have too much money, send your
kids to UCSP. They might not get the best education,
but they will definitely get the best experience. So there
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Let's do it. And I got to give you full credit.
You open your newscast by saying, do you like ice
in your port? And I got what you were saying there,
My friend, that's because you're no vulgarian. I'll have you
to know.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well done, Well done, I little play very much. What
a disappointing morning. As I woke up and I started
getting all these breaking news alerts about the the shooting
in Minneapolis. And I don't know about you, guys, and
I feel kind of guilty about this, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I get these breaking news alerts and I go, oh,
another mass shooting, and isn't that horrible.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I've become desensitized to it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, they happened so often, but I'm not quite desensitized yet.
I'm still horrified each time it happens.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm horrified that it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But to what end.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I mean, no one's giving up their guns, no one
is changing any laws. Nothing is going to happen except
for the obligatory thoughts and prayers. And we see even
today that everyone is tired of the thoughts and prayers.
People want something done, and at that point, when you
say we need something done, everything stops. So, yes, Chris,
When I saw the message this morning, I said, huh okay, yeah,
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not that my heart tries to go out. My child
goes to us, to a Christian academy. Yeah, right, this
hit scared me, like I'm like, oh my god, I
need to go down there and pick my daughter and
take her home.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right. It hits close to home. And it's funny you
mentioned the thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The mayor of Minneapolis said, don't just say this is
about thoughts and prayers. Right now, these kids were literally praying,
and so that's so useless. That the the thing that
drives me bonkers. And it's my first observation anytime there's
a shooting but this one especially, and I think this
one rose to the top because there have been other
mass shootings even this week, We've had mass shootings that
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have gone on, right, and that is that's the that's
the tragic reality of the world that we're in, Like,
this is not the first mass shooting of the week.
And so what strikes me is you made mention nobody's
changing any gun laws. And I'm not for taking guns
away from everybody. I'm not somebody who's all about banning firearms,
but I am about things like are there reasonable compromises,
(02:34):
For instance, if you are a gun owner and you
like to use it for sport, I'm all about that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I grew up in a very rural area.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Firearms were tools and they were also used for sport, Right,
That's what I grew up with. That's my background, that's
my understanding, and that's kind of in my core. So
I'm not somebody's like there's no point and I know this.
There's a big divide between people that grew up in
rural areas and people that grew up in urban areas.
And urban areas firearms seem to be all about doing
damage to other people or intimidating others rural areas. They're
a tool, and they're they're a sporting good. Okay, so
(03:06):
I come from the latter. However, I don't think it's
unreasonable to say that we don't that we should have
limits on magazine sizes.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Again, if you are.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A sports shooter, or if you're shooting, if you want
to have a friarm for defense, I don't know that
you need to have large capacity magazines for either one
of those things. Well, you might run up against a
really badass deer and you need a lot of a
lot of AMMO. You're not kidding. So they're very violent sometimes.
Let me just add one thing to the thoughts in
prayers things. If you're if you're sincere about having recourse
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to prayers, the Bible says faith without works is dead.
If you just have prayers but don't do anything about it,
it's absolutely meaningless. I mean, how do you disagree with that?
I mean, I'll stop you when you tell a lie,
right yeah, no, lies told right on. So the other
thing that I think really catches me and frustrates me
(03:57):
to no end is that you have people that go
you can't impede on any firearms rights. And the concern
is is that if you give an inch, somebody's gonna
try to take a mile. And I understand what where
that concern comes from. I absolutely do. So I say, look,
let's limit magazine sizes, and people go that, you know,
it starts with magazine sizes and then it turns to this,
and then it becomes this, and then it becomes this.
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So they're making the slippery slope argument. But we've also
seen slippery slope things happen in the past in other
not necessarily firearms, but other place. So I understand where
the fear comes from. However, what we have too is
on the other side to go it's not the firearm,
it's the individual. And the problem here is mental health.
We keep hearing about how it's a mental health issue,
it's a mental health issue, it's a mental health issue,
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and then we cut funding for mental health services, we
cut funding for mental health education.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We do everything we can to undermine the things.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That could be potential solutions to a mental health crisis
going on here in the United States.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That just frustrates me to know when.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We literally have someone in charge of the department that
regulates medicine for individuals that are suffering from various mental
health crises, cutting funding to meds and research and all
of that. So to me, it's a joke. When I
hear this. It upsets me to no end when I
hear these reports and oh, we got to do this,
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we got.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Stop the performative radio or television talking because you don't
really care. Because if we cared, we would actually fight
to do something about it, and we're not. We're not
demanding more of our politicians. We're not demanding more of
local and state government. We're just not we wanted. Oh
my heart, I don't hear about your heart. You actually
(05:43):
don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Again, I'll stop. You want to hear a lie?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Also, if you don't mind me adding this just objectively,
the problem is not mental health because the United States
doesn't have any worse mental health issues than every other
country on the face of the planet.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean all I'm doing in my point and I
don't want to even go down too far down that road.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Mark. I mean, again, you're not wrong, but if one aren't.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
With one political argument, as we have to remove firearms,
and the other political argument is no, no, no, it's a
mental health issue. We're not addressing either one of those things.
And that's where I get so freak and frustrated. It
doesn't matter which party is in charge, which leads me
to believe that as callous and as heartless as this
is going to sound, politicians don't want to solve this
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issue because solving this issue takes away from their performative opportunities,
and it takes away from their chances to fundraise, and
the last thing they want to do is find solutions
to divisive issues. Look if we were in a situation
where we said, okay, the real the problem is kids
are dying, and I'm willing to try anything. Then you
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try one thing or another or a combination of things,
and you say, okay, we are going to limitaine sizes,
We're gonna we're gonna put stronger laws around you know, access,
whatever it is, right, you'd say, okay, we're gonna do that,
even if I don't like it. We're gonna try that,
and if the if the numbers don't come down, then
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we're gonna try something different. But we don't try anything,
and then we end up with this situation. But why
did this one rise to the top First of all,
you had seventeen people injured.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Two kids were dead.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But we have mass shootings far too often where two
kids dying doesn't really even make the front page. This
one had a number of other elements attached. First of all,
it was attack at a religious facility while services were
going on, right, So that's that's one. Okay, So these
are all these are all compounding factors that make this
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click baity. Two, the shooter was born Robert, was going
by Robin. So now all of a sudden, we go, oh,
my goodness, the threat of the trans community is here.
And now you've you've just amplified the boogeyman.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Three.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The shooters seem to have a number of notes written
on the magazines that said things like kill Trump or
Trump must die or whatever the the verbiage was, and
where is your God? And so this becomes oh, this
was this was all politically motivated. And boy, if the
politicians weren't performative before, if they weren't trying to fundraise
off this this disaster in the past, they've got every
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every reason to do it now because we're being targeted.
So now not only do you have actual victims of
gun violence, you also have performative victims. We're being attacked
for our beliefs, and now we can amplify it even more.
Now we can talk about how our lives are under
threat because we support this politician or that politician, and
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then the next shooter that comes out.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Is gonna be somebody who's on the other side of
that of that political aisle. It's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Somebody who decides that they are that they are going
to wipe out a gay night club because they're doing
it in the name of God, and they're doing it
because America has become full of sodomites. And then everybody
goes to their corners, nothing gets done, and it's the
same nonsense, round and round and round and round and round.
It's a merry go round. And the victims here are children.
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In this case in Minneapolis, it was an eight year
old and a ten year old, as well as the
seventeen other people who were injured in the gunplay. It
just frustrates me to know when I wanted to make
sure we were able to opine on that to start
the program tonight, and thank you for taking a moment
and letting us vent on it. I just I'm just
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incredibly frustrated, and I know for a fact I'm not alone.
I know that the rest of the country feels this way,
and I also know that an awful lot of people go,
I don't even want to hear. If it isn't in
my neighborhood, was it my kid, then nobody's gonna do
anything about it. And it doesn't affect me personally. Let
me get on with my day. And that's the sad
thing about where we are. The apathy has taken over
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with the rest of the country because the politicians have
turned this into such a kabooki display of their own
bravado and insincere. Performative that's the best word to Walla,
you nailed it. There's just this performative sympathy that's out there,
just absolute trash. Either do something or quit taking a microphone.
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Oh oh, there was one other thing. The Democratic National
Committee is meeting in Minneapolis this week too, so it
adds one more layer of the political debate back and forth.
It also means that we had a number of national
news crews that were already in the city, which means
that getting the word out on this horrendous shooting is
even easier for the national news media. Speaking of performative,
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We've been assured it is not this is not for show.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Because it's been I think it's been almost like six
months since the last time somebody tried to split California
into multiple states.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh, and it's happening again. Why this time next?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
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Speaker 2 (11:22):
Mark was looking up some stats there. I was looking
up some stats too. I was looking at the mass shootings.
Let's see, mass shooting is anywhere there were more than
four victims, right, isn't That's what defines it correct. So
I'm looking at this so obviously this one this morning
in Minneapolis, two children killed, seventeen victims, which is pretty sizable.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Suspect took his own life as well. Let me see, we.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Had one in Minneapolis as well, yesterday one killed, six injured.
We had won in La yesterday five people injured. Had
one in Kansas City three days ago, two killed, three
injured Maryland, New York. It goes on and on and on.
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That's just this week, just this week, and none of
them involved any trans shooters. Mark, you were looking up
some stats on the violence from the trans community. Who
seem to be people like to blame the trans community.
What is that about, Well, it seems to be about
scapegoating and punching down because the trans community is responsible
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for less than one tenth of one percent of mass
shootings according to information that I've been able to find.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I think the only other one that I can even
think of, there was one in Nashville where it made
it made national head You're gonna make national headlines if
the shooter is someone who is already a targeted member.
So if you have a shooter who is undocumented, all
of a sudden, it's gonna make headlines. It's gonna get
picked up. If the shooter is trans, it's gonna get
picked up. And someone is going to try to connect
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the dots and say that being trans leads to mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Of course, as you just pointed out, it doesn't just know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
As far as I can tell from the information that
I have at hand. SIS males are responsible for about
ninety eight percent of mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
How dare you? I just I just outed myself. Don't
do that. Sorry, it's the matter with you. I feel
like you're coming at me. You're coming at me. Yeah,
I didn't mean to threaten you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Is that a microaggression or just a plain old aggression,
which which one? Okay, that's what my wife says. My
wife likes to say, you're coming at me. You're coming
at me. Get out of my grill. Man, Yeah, you're
coming at me.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I go, honey. Are we gonna meet up with friends
this weekend? Like you talked about? Why are you putting
this on me? Why are you coming at me? Dude? Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The magic of matrimonial bliss is something that you really
convey well. And you make me sorry that I never
got married.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, Oh, you'll be sorry, all right, that's true, you
will be sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
If you haven't noticed, the political divide is more than
just when it comes to big national divisive issues and
the death of children. We have a great deal of
political divide here in California. It might be news to you,
especially when we start talking about remapping the congressional districts,
and the Republicans are p owed in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And so now.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
They've got a plan, and that is cal Exit. Where
have I heard that before? Every year for the last
twenty years, Republicans in California were from NBCLA.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
We're not happy with Governor Newsom's plan for redistricting that
would take congressional seats away from Republicans here in California.
So one leading Republican in the State Assembly said, forget
about your redistricting plan.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
We want to leave your state completely. And he came, I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Believe it's called a forfeit.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, if one team decides they don't want to play
the other team and so they leave the field, that's
a forfeit.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So forfeit.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Come up with a map, and his interview used a
resolution in the state Assembly to separate California into two states.
Let's take a look at that map. Here's what it
would look like.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I can't see it. This is radio.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Basically, California would turn into a very much smaller state. Geographically,
it would mainly be the coastal areas, all those inland areas,
and part of the California to the north near the
Oregon border. That would all now be a separate state
comprised of about thirty five counties and more than ten
million people, still making it one of the biggest states
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in the country.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But wait a minute, So the the Democrats get all
the coast, and they get the they get the economic engines,
and the Republicans get the agricultural economic engine, but a
lot of desert and mountains.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Kind of surprise, it didn't go for more in order.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
To accomplish matt to that, there are some hurdles.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This has been try before, no has not worked.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
What and one of the big hurdles is.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
The US Constitution ah and always gets in the way.
Show you what the United States Constitution says you have
to do to create a new state. It says no
new state. This is Article four, Section three. It says
no new state shall be formed or erected within the
jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed
by the junction of two or more states or parts
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of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the
states concerned, as well as of the Congress. Well, the
problem for Republicans here in California is Democrats in the
legislature have a super majority. Here's what one law professor
had to say.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
In other words, they're trying to forfeit, but the team
that's winning won't let them.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Requires a petition from the legislature of any state to
the Congress, and the way they do that is by
adopting by both houses joint resolution. It's unlikely that that
will pass either house of the legislature, and so if
you don't have the consent of the legislature, then there's
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nothing for the Congress to act on.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, James Gallagher is the Republican in the state Assembly
that wants to split it up.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He's proposing to.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Split the state in two and he called it a
two state solution. Now, the Republicans won a two state solution,
and that interesting.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
A spokesperson for Governor Newsom put out this statement that'said,
a person who seeks to split California does not deserve
to hold office in the Golden State.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
This is a stunt that will go nowhere.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Well, this is what the Republican leader of the Assembly
who put out this proposal had to say about the
governor's state.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I assure you it is not a stunt. Yes, it
is This is the real feelings of people in my
district and throughout the state, of people who feel like
this government does not look out for them and does
not address their issues.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And so the solution to that is a two state solution.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
When in the course of human events that happens, sometimes
people make decisions to move in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I mean it almost sounds he's not advocating violence or
anything like that, and so good. I mean, he's trying
to do it legislatively. It's not going to go anywhere.
It is a stunt, but it is divisive. I mean,
he's gonna say, well, the Democrats made a divisive I mean,
imagine the Democrats did this in Texas. Then they would say, well,
the Democrats are being divisive, and you go, well, no, no,
(18:37):
the Republicans did it when they redo the map.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You see what I mean. I mean, it's like, this
is just this left right nonsense. It goes on and
on and on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And Tawalla sent me a note here earlier he was
talking about the shooting of Minneapolis. As we were discussing
the politicians. He says, we are stuck in a lunacy loop. Well,
I could not agree more. At first when I heard
that he was proposing a two state solution for California,
I thought that James Gallagher was trying to make a point.
I thought he was trying to make the Democrats say no, no, no,
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no two state solution would ever work, so that you
could say, look, okay, then why are you posing it?
You know, why are you proposing an Israel that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But he didn't. No. I thought at first his stunt
was to draw some sort.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Of a hypocrisy with stances on what's going on in Israel.
But no, that's not what he did. I thought he
was going to He didn't missed opportunity. Why is somebody
always trying to break up the state? What do you
what do we always hear after the election if you
don't like the way America is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Get out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
We were already seeing migrations in some cases, although it's
overblown in media in some cases because.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Of political affiliation.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
But it's all a part of the plan though, Chris, Oh,
it's a plan. I mean when you think about think
about how all of these nuts that keep coming up
with this plan to break up California, they're all tied
to a specific party. I have yet Mark, do the
research if you want, But I have yet to see
a Democrat come up with a plan to break up California,
(20:09):
to break up, as you called it, Chris, the super majority, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Was it. Haven't there been some independence that are proposed,
like there was.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
A couple of really right leaning independence because yeah, the
one multi billionaire that had that plan, yeah, he turned
out to be very, very very on the right. And
I'm not blaming him, and he had great and he
had great. To me, it's just interesting how it's one
specific party or individuals who subscribe to one party's idea
(20:39):
that one hand, on one hand trash California. California is
the pits, it's anss whole people are moving out of California,
get out of there because of the crime, the robbery.
And then it's no, no, no no. But if we
break it up and we cut it up into pieces
and we get some of it, and man, yeah, that's
just weird.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
In fairness, why would anybody on the left ever propose
that when they have the super majority? I know, and
I mean it's all these proposals they're always going to
come from somebody on the right because they're the ones
with something to gain.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It's it's it's like it's like if.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There's a close call at home plate, the team that
gets the call should never argue with the umpire you
know what I mean, Like, if you're winning the argument,
shut your mouth. Yes, So there's really no reason for
the Democrats to argue it. So in fairness, it is
likely to come from the right. All right, California is
getting dirty, super dirty, in fact, the dirtiest. You'll find
out why next time. Chris Merril, I AM six forty
(21:35):
in from Okelly tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty Chris merriland.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
From O Kelly and KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk.
You're a dirty state. You're a dirty, dirty little state.
You the state are very dirty. If we were to
take a look at one of the dirtiest we are
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well represented in the top ten, way too represented in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
From KTLA.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
A new study is ranked the dirtiest cities in all
of America, and unfortunately for California, the rankings did not
go in our favor.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
We have more than anybody else. What do you mean
it didn't go in our favor. That's very good.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Nobody's as dirty as us. Many people are very surprised
to see it. No one's ever seen any kind of
dirty like this. We're very dirty, more dirty than anybody
ever expected.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
The rankings come from the national lawn care company lawn Starter.
They analyzed cleanliness and categories such as pollution, living conditions, waste, infrastructure,
and resident dissatisfaction with the environment. Sam Bernardino was ranked
the dirtiest city both in California and in America.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
There you go, seeing bernard Do you know number one?
We could get here, but we did it. We got
to number one, number one. I don't know what you've heard,
but number one is pretty good.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Los Angeles ranked number two on both the state and
national list. Detroit, Michigan placed number three, followed by reading Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I thought Detroit was cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I get a lot of information from Detroit because I'm
originally from Michigan. My parents still live there, and and
so I keep I keep seeing all these things about
the revitalization of Detroit. I thought I was getting cleaner.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Two more California city is placed in the top ten.
Ontario was ranked as the fifth dirty of city Corona
rounded out the top ten at number ten.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow, San Bernardino number one, La number two, Ontario number five,
and Corona number ten. Let's see who else got in there? Newark,
New Jersey, Therey Dude, Phoenix, Arizona. Well they get dust storms,
New Jersey. It was a Jersey City, New Jersey. And
(24:04):
then Las Vegas, NEVADAAAA was in a number nine niner niner.
Oh yeah, I was saying it wrong. No, I said
it right. I said it right. You're saying Nevada. Yeah,
you know you're saying niner like g Gordon Liddy used
(24:24):
to is is that one of your yeah nin niner?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (24:30):
No, it was in Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Who doesn't belong on that list? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Again, I thought Detroit was getting cleaned up. Hold on
pollution rating pollution, They've just got cleanliness. Okay, what does
that mean? Cleanliness?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Does that mean litter? Does that mean graffiti? Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Pollution, living conditions, waste infrastructure, resident dissatisfaction what yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I mean, I mean, I haven't traveled that much, but
I've been to some places that are absolute filth bowls
that aren't in California. So I'm just like, what on earth?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, well, you know I was talking about Detroit, But
how is Flint not on that list. We all know
Flint has terrible waste infrastructure, right we do, Yeah, we
absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Oh, they're not on that list. There's a number of others.
Chicago's not on that list.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
That's what I'm saying, Like the automatically list should be
just thrown out because of that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I love Chicago, but Chicago is especially depending where you are,
it can be very filthy. And the closer you get
to Gary, Indiana, the worst it is. Gary, Indiana should
be the top of this list. That is the dirtiest
city in America. Oh, Gary's rough.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I have driven through Gary.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Indiana so many times because again I family in northern
Michigan on the west side, so I go up through Chicago.
Sometimes I fly into Chicago and drive up the Lake
Shore and Gary is just a it is an asshole.
When you drive through Gary, you do so with your
doors locked and your windows up.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You do not stop. You have a full tank of gas.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I mean Alabama with their drive through liquor stores, you know, uh, Mississippi,
that is just pretty dirty. And I'm not talking about
the dirt roads. It's just pretty damn dirty. What's happening here?
Who wrote this list? First of all, don't despairge drive
through liquor stores.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah they start there, bucko, my bade No, so they
go Jersey City?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And I apologize.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I've only been in New Jersey once and it was
just because I was I was in Philadelphia and I
was staying in New Jersey. But uh, how close is
Jersey City to Atlantic City? I honestly don't know. You
know my geography better than this, but I always think
of Atlantic City as being.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
A real dump.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I did not like Atlantic City at all. It was gray,
the beach was filthy, the water. I was just like,
people come here, Yeah nice, the boardwalk is rickety. Yeah,
I'm looking at my my Google now. Yeah, Jersey City
is not really close to Atlantic City. So those are
two different things. So how does how does that? How
(27:27):
does Atlantic City avoid that?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Lawn Starter's list is garbage. Oh plus, there's nobody in
Ohio on there. Ohio is trash. Yeah, hey, no, seriously,
there's the whole state.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Look when I lived in Erie and used to have
to drive down to Cleveland, to go to the Cleveland Clinic.
Uh huh, there were places in Ohio where I'm like,
people actually live here.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
Ash tabula Ohio whoa whoa is right? In fact, I
think Ohio hang on. I think Ohio has actually become
like a gen Z term for like something really gross. Okay,
Jen alpha is ok Okay, said Jen Alpha term? Okay,
(28:18):
what does Ohio mean? Ohio means bad. Ohio means bad.
So basically you can you can use Ohio as a
synonym for the word bad. And yet somehow it's not
on It's not on the list of dirty cities. It's
literally it means bad. So I don't know how they
(28:40):
avoided that. Farcical is an understatement.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Meanwhile, we do have something else that we can crow
about a little bit here in California that we are
atop another list. Yet again, I always think of it
as being just a nice place to be. But Santa
Barbara another list. We'll tell you why. That's next.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
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Speaker 2 (29:09):
O Kelly Show, Chris Maryland from mo Tonight KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk. Congratulations to my friends in
Santa Barbara. Just a nice place to be, What a
lovely town. Santa Barbara is. Santa Barbara beat out USC
Santa Barbara beat out Tulane. Santa Barbara beat out fly
(29:32):
at a State. Santa Barbara is America's party school destination.
UCSB number one party school in America.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Again, everybody I'm in, I'm in.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Can honestly tell you that when I woke up this
morning and I did not think I would be playing
that song in the radio, So.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Feeling pretty good about that.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Breaking is based on students surveys, access to bars, restaurants, athletics,
and Greek life at all the schools. If I'm being
completely transparent, I went to YouTube to try to find
audio for this story and when I looked up effect here, I'll.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Just do it you UCSB party it is.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I am telling you like a good jillion videos of
parties happening at uc Santa Barbara. They're like, this is
an average night and it's just people getting messed up.
And then you've got dil Topia, the biggest party of
the US, the UCSB school school yard Duiltopia. Others are
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making complete vlogs for the college parties, the frats, the
Greek life. So if you are a parent who feels
like your kids really need a social outlet and you
really don't need all that money, send them to UCSB.
At the very least you'll have a nice reason to
visit Santa Barbara to go see hi to your kids,
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because why else would you pay.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The money to send them there. H mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It's funny when you look at other colleges. Harvard is
not on that list, Princeton not on that list. I
was surprised, though, because I'm looking at the top ten.
I've got it in front of me. In fact, let
me see, I'll just pull up the full report. I
was surprised. When you think of party schools, what do
(31:46):
you think? Because I always think of Arizona State. Isn't
that like the one that comes to people's mind. Maybe
it's because I lived in in Arizona that it has
that reputation, But I always thought Arizona State was like
considered a party school. San Diego State's on the list
number twenty two. Trying to see if there's any others
in California. Why don't we, uh, why aren't we so
(32:08):
bad at partying?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Here. Anybody have thoughts on that? Anybody want to jump in?
Are we?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I thought every college was essentially a party school and
some just kind of a little more and a little less. Yet, well,
and we're looking at the ones that are a little more.
Let me see San Diego State. I mean, if you
have trouble finding a party at any college, that's kind
of on you, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Usc Is? Oh? I told you usc Is at number four? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Kinda yeah, because I went to one of those directional schools,
and I mean, we don't have any trouble finding parties.
You can go find trouble if you wanted to. I
think some of these get a bit out of hand, though.
Let me see who else is uh? I would love
to see one of those like Religiou schools. Wouldn't it
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be great if you saw TCU on there or BYU?
Oh my gosh, wouldn't be great if we saw BYU
on the top part party school list?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah? I mean we know that somebody hijacked the data
if that happened. Right now.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I have some former Mormon friends and when they went off,
they really went off.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Really.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Oh yeah, alright, so the Mormons like to party? Well,
what's the place to be the lapsed ones?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Okay, I got you, Okay, all right, very good. Now,
you know, if you have too much money, send your
kids to UCSP. They might not get the best education,
but they will definitely get the best experience. So there
you are. Chris Maryland from Okelly kf I AM six forty.
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