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July 15, 2025 36 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on a SoCal man the died after falling into a meat grinder at work…PLUS – A look at the 10 best Lakes in the Country AND the East Coast garbage strike will impact the Southland - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
I am six forty. It is later with mo Kelly.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's Monday, and we're live everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app. Had a great weekend, went up
to Pleasanton and they said, where's Pleasanton? Well, it's about
maybe five hours drive north of here. It's equidistance between
I would say between San Francisco and Oakland. And went
up there for a Martial Arts Conference World Keto Summit

(00:48):
in pleasant I had a real good time representing my
dojeon and also region Southern California. So you might see
a picture of two of that that I've been posting
on social media. There's some other videos and things I
needed to upload. I had a live video that I
had over the weekend. But it was a really really
good weekend. But it's also good to be back miss
you on Friday, and it's good to be back with

(01:10):
you here on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Mark Ronner is good to see you again.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I'm glad you brought up martial arts because last night
I was up late watching five Shoulin Masters on the
Arrow app.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Was it good? It's terrific. It's a classic. Are you
kidding me? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, I know you've recommended, I just have to
get around to seeing it.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
We both grew up doing martial arts and you still
are much more active in it than I am. And
I never really gauged if you were into the movies.
But let me just put in a plug for Arrow,
the streaming app. They have prints, these beautiful pristine Prince
of Old seventies, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers things. They
are just eye opening, their magnificent.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was because of martial arts cinema that I became
a martial artist.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And I've said it before.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
People wrongly ascribed the Karate Kid as the origin of
my desire to be in martial arts. No, it's the
last Dragon loved the Karate Kid. But the last Dragon
was the one that said, Okay, I want to do that.
I want to see if I can do some of
those things. Okay, Well you would love this stuff. You
should fork over like.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
The five seven bucks a month it is for an
Arrow video subscription.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think I can handle that, you think, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And speaking of good cinema, to Walla Sharp Saw Superman
not once but twice this weekend he saw it for
a second time. He cheated on me. Yes, yes, and
I had to go late last night.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I had to because we had quite possibly one of
the most divisive, divided episodes of the legendary Nerd around Table,
and because of the the vibrant back and forth, I said,
damn it, I'm gonna go and see it again.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, I want to see it again to Actually, we
know that Twalla loved it, We know that Mark loved it.
I was a little less than that. But it has
had a profound impact on the box office that cannot
be denied. And it's also spurned what will be the
James Gunn universe. There are already TV shows lined up,
and DC is planning it's one hundredth anniversary in twenty

(03:21):
thirty five.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
There's so much to discuss in.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And around that movie and its impact on the industry,
all positive so far. That's coming up in the third hour.
We have to tell you about some bad news. A
man fell into a meat grinder here in California. Oh damn,
that's a really bad way to go. And Stephan, I'm
telling you right now, I don't want any inappropriate sound effects. Okay,

(03:46):
please please be respectful. I promise, so no sounds of
like a grill cooking meat. No, no, no, grinder sounds.
It's a pretty grizzly story. I would tread lightly it is.
You know, let's have a little respect. Okay, we're going
to talk about going to get burgers tonight. No, no, no,
we're not no burder. No, it's a meat grinder, not
a human grinder. No, one's trying to be accountable.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
How will we know though, and would any burger joint
out here let us know if they accidentally got some
dearly departed gentleman burger.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, here's the thing, given what was thought to be
a scandal in the nineteen seventies with Jack in the Box. Yes, right,
it was both kangaroo meat and also horse meat depending
on the conspiracy theory. Yes, but there was an incident
at a meat packing plant and there was concern whether
some of that meat got into this meat. It's not

(04:39):
unheard of, but I'm not going to mix my meats here.
We were just talking about an unfortunate individual next segment,
come out, next segment, who lost his life falling into
a meat grinder, which has been described as an industrial accident.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
So we're going to take it very seriously.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Hey, Stefan I gave you specific instructions and you couldn't
even wait three minutes.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I hit my handslip.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Sorryish, we gotta tell you about the ten best lakes
in the in the United States, and I think I've
been to three of them twelve. I think maybe you've
been to two of them, depending on your how close
you were in Eerie. I assume that you might have
gotten a one that microphone.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, definitely, okay.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
And I assumed that Mark Ronnery, given his proximity in
the Midwest, he might have been to a couple of
great lakes.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Uh, not so much. But I mean, you know, what's
the one next to Chicago. That's the one Michigan. I
think it's like Michigan, Lake Michigan. Yeah, we'll talk about
that in the best one I know. I don't want
angry letters from people giving me geography lesson. You're gonna
give angry letters no matter what I knew it was
Lake Michigan.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Get off my back. We got to go beyond the
boss Coo re jaciar.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
We have to get into that John Way incident where
he was riding in a golf cart and all of
a sudden, his close friend Air quotes and former agent
ended up dead. It seems that John Elway will not
be charged, but there's still some questions around that event.
You have to talk about that and if you happen
to be a boxing fan or a female boxing fan.
Laila Ali, the daughter of the late Muhammad Ali, who

(06:20):
former undefeated world champion, says that she might come out
of retirement if the money's right to fight Clarisha Shields.
I would pay money to see that. The only problem
is it couldn't be a real fight, if only because
Layla's forty seven, and you know that turns into like
a a Jake Paul fight.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Really that was my first thought.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I want to see it, but I would want
to see it like ten years ago. There you go,
not now, not now, because I want to remember Laila
Ali at.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Her fighting best. Oh and she was one of the best.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh yeah, And I believe Laila Ali in her prime
walks through Clarisia Shields, no disrespect, but I just.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Do yeah, her prime, Yes, absolutely, even though CHRISA. Schieltz
she is magnificent. Magnif she's magnificent.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Remember we told you about that sex story with Fox Sports,
how Joy Taylor was rumored to have slept her way
into her show. He's sleeping with an executive allegedly. Well,
they've canceled her show and other shows, and he makes
you wonder if there's any direct connection. We'll get into
that as well. And KFC is supposedly making a comeback.

(07:31):
Don't get me wrong, I prefer KFC to Chick fil A,
but KFC has fallen far behind the pack when it
comes to chicken and maybe they need to check their
meat grinder.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh man, just because I use the.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Word meat grinder, Stefan does not mean Q play meat
grinder sound effect after I told you please don't use
sound effects because we're going to have a modicum of
respect in this next segment when we talk about the
unfortunate tragedy.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
That ship sailed.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
And did you know that Las Vegas is going to
be unveiling a new Uno experience?

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Who know's going to Vegas? That makes sense?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I'm actually surprised of all the card games that
we have that would lend itself to a Vegas treatment.
I don't know why they haven't done more of that
beyond just Uno.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Yeah, because that is so easily playable and it's it's
really easy to get competitive.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, it's easy to get competitive. It's a game that
people like to play, would be enthusiastic to play. And
if you put some money on the line, I'm question
and you could do it. Vegas, they've got card games,
so why wouldn't you do it? And no surprise, it
is Monday night, so we have your horoscope. Hopefully we
won't be talking about anyone's anus this week. Hopefully it's
all up to Mark to ask me to Tuala because

(08:51):
Tuala gives me things and sometimes he thinks they're funny.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't think they're funny, but you know we are
not going all the way to the planet you're anus.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Okay, we have to talk about Superman and its big
box office win. The controversy supposed controversy with Fox News
and how woke Superman supposedly was now as opposed to
previous iterations, did not impact the result. Well, actually, you
might even make the argument that it helped out the

(09:18):
movie in terms of promoting it so more people who
are aware of it and curious about it. We'll talk
about that in the third hour and so much more.
It's later with mo Kelly Kfim six forty We're live
everywhere on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty when moo Kelly.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
One K.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Six Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, Live on YouTube, Facebook,
and Instagram.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And this is a very very sad story.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Just in case you didn't hear about it, There was
a nineteen year old man they've not released his identity
and that could be for any number of reasons, who
was killed when he fell into a meat grinder at
a Vernon food processing facility last night. Vernon, as in
the city of Vernon. Supposedly, this man was a member

(10:17):
of the sanitation crew at Tinis Burritos, which is at
the twenty six hundred block of Vernon Avenue. And this
is according to the Vernon Police Department. It happened around
nine thirty pm where he fell into a meat grinder,
which is being described as an industrial accident. He fell,

(10:40):
I said, he fell stephan into to the meat grinder.
I don't know if it sounded like that, but it
probably was a thud. The California Occupational Safety and Health
Administration is expected to be at the facility today.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't know what they found.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I don't know what they worked out, but I think
of it this way, Tinas Burritos is going to be
shut down for quite some time, absolutely quite some time, because,
from the way that the story is told, he fell
into an active meat grinder. It wasn't like you just
fell into a vat and empty vat and came up
with superpowers or something like that. He fell into the

(11:19):
meat grinder where it seemingly was grinding meat. That's really inappropriate, Stefan.
I'm not going to tell you again, okay. I could
barely stand the fact that you did a body drop
sound effect.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I don't know who told you that. Maybe was Mark,
maybe it was Twala.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Your geniuses are on your own with this stuff. I
will not take part. You got standards.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
I I feel for this young unnamed man. I think
that this Brita place should name a burrito after him.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
So when you bite into the burrito, you think of him.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
No, it's just that that when you see, when you
think about all that was.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
At Stella's, it's Tina's Burritos.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
When you think about all that Tina's Burritos does, and
you think about this young man and how he lost
his life going into the grinder, even after you clean
every bit and piece of him out of there. I
think that there should be some type of memorial, like
a burrito named after I think Tina should have whatever.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
This young man's name is, burrito on their menu.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
The creamy one on the Mometo's Motown chat. Mobigle's chat
says too soon, Twalla too soon, too soon, too soon. Oh,
Aaron Eaton says, I hope his name was Chuck.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Aeron.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm trying to have an adult, serious conversation and you're
making ground meat jokes.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Look, no, look, I get Look, my son is nineteen,
and if my son fell into a meat grinder, I
would never ever eat a burrito again.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Charger fifty five says the best jerky in five counties.
Come on now, ah, come.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
On, they don't make jerky there, they make brito.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know, carne. It's not a steak.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I is somebody cooking something?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Could human flesh be considered the other white meat? A
la pork?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I'm just asking that there's some questions that I have.
I don't know why this individual they you rest in peace,
was anywhere near the opening of the meat grinder. It
says that he was a part of the sanitation.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
It was cleaning it.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I assumed that he would be cleaning the outside. Not
like have you ever Okay, I've had to clean a
toilet before. Hopefully everyone is clean a toilet before. All right,
you don't need to like stick your whole body in,
you know. Just it's almost like falling off a cruise ship.
You have to work really hard. I'll tell you this, mom,
I used to work at Taco bell. Never once did

(14:06):
I ever put my body inside of the oven to
clean it. You have a long scrubber and you scrub
around inside there and get all in the nooks and crannies.
You don't open that bad boy up, at least back
in the day. You don't open that bad boy up
and try to get inside. Well, it's still not too late.
This is a hateful individual we have in the news.

(14:28):
This is just hateful. You have no respect for human lives.
You're gonna turn this back on me. Yes, I'm trying
to have a serious conversation here. I have questions that
need answers as far as how this happened.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now, not all three of your monsters.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Not surprisingly, they've withheld the name because there's an ongoing investigation.
You're making assumption that this they're calling it an industrial accident.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
It might have been intentional. I mean, might be booking
at a murder here.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Think about it from my understanding, and I'm just going
back in my mind of how meat grinders look. They're
not on the floor. There's no vat that's on the floor.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
You got to climb up. You have to climb up
to get into it.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
And it's almost it almost looks like almost the ones
I actually looks similar to like a cement mixer, right,
you know, a portable cement mixer. You do have to
kind of get now for this thing to be going. Okay,
it was actively grinding, what were you cleaning? If it's
actively grinding, what were you cleaning?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yes, it's like that that goes back to the oven
is on. You don't clean it while the oven is on.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
The way I understood the news report was that he
was cleaning it fell in and it somehow turned on accidentally.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, that's now we're talking about a murder investigation. Murder.
It wasn't off.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
He fell in and then all of a sudden it's
on because it is there's like a weight trigger.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yeah, his foot did not hit the ons which when
he went in.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Well, since we got Colombo and Jessica Fletcher in here
on the case at the bottom of it. Just except
I mean, Mark, Mark, look at a meat grinder and
you tell you falling into a meat grinder, then can
you bring up a picture of a meat grinder.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Okay, wait, let's let's take this step by step.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
He climbed up on some sort of steps elevated platform. Okay, yes, somehow,
some way he fell into the meat grinder which was off.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, he is.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Laying prone and all of a sudden it just clicks
on by itself like his determinator.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
That's no.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
And look at this, Look at look at this right here.
You saying you can't fall into that thing. Most meat
grinders that are industrial strength at a restaurant are not
actually large enough for you to fit your whole body
in and also accidentally turn it off, it says.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Fell into Okay, So I'm looking at it like it's
like a it's a very large opening. Okay, it's not
like one of the traditional ones that you see grinding
like a you know, just a slab of beef or something.
It's much larger to handle a human body. I think
that he was he was murder I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
But even still most most industrial meat grinders. I'm looking
at several pictures here, these things are no. The switch
is nowhere near the mouth of the meat grinder. Mark,
there's nowhere near the mouth. It's on the side. You
would have to actually fall in and then reach out
and hit the button.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Now, I'm Mark, something happened to this man. And there's
a reason why they have not released his name. They
haven't released any of the particulars because the Vernon Police
Department they're doing their due diligence and they're investigated, and
they can see that this was some sort of homicide,
not an industrial accident.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
And I thought you, as.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
The former police blotterer reporter, would know better.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah yeah, Mark, Yeah, come on, Mark, do you think
you hate America?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
What's wrong with you? What happened to you guys over
the weekend? Did Superman have no effect on Did it
make you even less moral? What is wrong with the
three of you? We are advocates for the deceased. Yeah,
you're the Sherlock. Homes of meat grinders are are you saying.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
You buy this story as it's being presented. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
I bet it's what, don't you know, Mark, He fell
into a meat grinder that was off, and a mysteriously
it turned on that that's not how meat grinding works.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
This is not.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Jeffrey Epstein level. This is real simple here, Okay you think, yes?

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I think I think he was getting ready to spill
the secrets on Tina's magic burritos.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Probably there was something the fairy is going on in
that establishment. I don't know for Satan, but for certain
but I think that there's there's a question of whether
he fell, whether it was actually off, or whether it's
connected to some other circumstance made death.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Maybe they're wrapping up more than burritos at Tina's. Maybe
they're wrapping up some drugs. I don't know, Mark, I
don't know why you kill a young man hypothetically. I
don't know why you would a young man would mysteriously
lose their lives cleaning. I mean, it's it's almost like, hey,
can ahead it needs you to clean the meat grinder today.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh it, don't worry about it. It's off. In the
name of God, can we go to the.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
News that was really inappropriate stuff in.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Man, you got to focus group this stuff. K IF
I am six forty.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app, and when we
come back, I want to tell you about the ten
best great lakes in the US.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (19:37):
Mister Kelly, here, I am six forty Live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app. And speaking of YouTube, you ought
to check it out. Go to YouTube dot com look
for my page at mister O'Kelly. If you like and subscribe,
it's easier to find. But our video technical director Daniel
has put up all these new shorts and added content
where if you missed a portion of the show, you

(19:58):
can find previous show the whole video podcast, and you
also have these short vignettes, bite sized morsels that you
can digest and just take in some funny moments or
poignant moments of the show. And it's really cool. Daniel's
putting a lot of work into it. He needs to
be recognized for it, so be sure. In fact, you know,
you ought to just check it out right now while

(20:18):
you're doing the live show at mister Momo Kelly on YouTube.
Let's find out what your next vacation spot should be
in terms of the lakes, and this is from USA Today.
The ten best lakes in the United States, according to
USA Today, coming in at number ten, Lake have a Suit,

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which obviously borders California Arizona. Arizona is home to massive
spans of bone dry desert, but that doesn't mean it's
totally devoid of water features. A prime example the sprawling
Lake have a Suit, a massive reservoir located on the
californ border. Developed in the nineteen thirties, is hugely popular
for bass fishing, and even played host to a large

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population of introduced white sturgeon in the nineteen sixties, coming
in at number nine of the best lakes in the country.
Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont, Vermont is renowned for
its sprawling mountain ranges, as the state is no stranger
to gorgeous water features either case in point, Lake Champlain
is a massive body of water that runs one hundred

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and seven miles along the New York Vermont border. In
terms of urban exploration, Burlington is a particularly popular drinking
and dining destination on the shore, while there is a
wealth of parks and islands for nature lovers to explore
as well, coming in at number eight of the best
lakes in the country. Lake Cumberland in Kentucky. Catch up,

(21:56):
there we go, Daniel Ketchup Lake Cumberland. The southern reaches
the Kentucky play host to Lake Cumberland, one hundred and
two square mile reservoir that split between five counties. Though
originally created as a source of hydro electric power, the
body of water has become a top spot for outdoor
recreation over the years, providing ample opportunity for both boating
and fishing. Now number seven of the best lakes in

(22:19):
the United States according to USA Today, Lake Superior, and
it lives up to its name, measuring and a staggering
thirty one thousand square miles. Lake Superior has the largest
surface area of any freshwater lake on planet Earth, and

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it crosses Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, coming in at number six.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
What do you think.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Tuala Lake Erie? It traverses New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
I love Lake Erie. It is beautiful. Of the ice
fish was great. It's just beautiful. Go down to the
water and hang out. It was the main attraction while
living in.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Erie, coming in at number five for the best lakes
in the United States.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
This one I have been along the border of Lake Michigan.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Perched along the borders of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan,
the aptly named Lake Michigan serves it's the largest lake
on earth to reside solely in one country. In addition
to gorgeous natural sites like Indiana Dunes National Park and
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake, Shore, Lake Michigan Coast is
lined with dazzling cities like Green Baby, Milwaukee and Chicago,

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offering visitors an opportunity to blend outdoor adventure with urban
exploration exploration during their trips.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Coming in at number four. Marion Lake in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Sorry, I haven't been there, don't plan to go there,
but it draws residents of Minneapolis and with its incredible
potential for fishing, well.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Maybe I've driven by it.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
During a day on the water, anglers can catch a
wide range of creatures spanning from bluegill to largemouth bass.
The lake is also popular for swimming, boating in a
wealth of other water and shore activities, coming in at
number three of the best lakes in the United States.

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Lake George in New York, on the southern edge of
New York's Adirondacks. Lake George has been a popular vacation
destination for well over a century, drawing both aristocrats and
outdoor adventures to it chores Visitors can marvel at the
architectural wonders along Millionaire's Row, while water activities span from
sunset lake cruises to parasailing to taking a leisurely dip

(24:45):
at one of the lake's many beaches. Number two of
the best lakes in the United States, Elkhart Lake in
Wisconsin is known for its christal clear waters that glisten
in a gorgeous blue green shade.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
The sandy bottom adds to the lake's appeal, making it
an ideal spot for swimming, boating, kayaking, paddle boarding, and sailing.
Take some time to explore the lake's hidden coves, abundant
fishing areas, and the scenic shoreline. Boasting historic lakeside resorts
and now coming in at number one of the best
lakes in all the United States. Big Bear Lake right

(25:39):
here in California. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Whether you visit during peak summer or the most frigid
depths of winter. There's a massive array of activities to
enjoy across Big Bear Lake. We all know, and it's
the largest recreational body of water in Southern California. During
the snowy season, the region is particularly popular for skiing
and snowboarding, while summer brings top tier fishing opportunities with
anglers gathering to search for rainbow trout.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yes, Big Bear Lake.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
I've been to a few times, so I am kind
of partial biased.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yep, California favoritism.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Absolutely the best lake in the United States, found right
here in California, Southern California.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
To be exactly, when we come.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Back, we've got to tell you about this East Coast
garbage strike which is impacting Orange County.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
How does that work out? We'll tell you in just
a moment.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Forty KFI Later with mo Kelly Live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
and the iHeartRadio app. And this next story is pretty
intriguing because you think of what may happen on the
East Coast is not directly going to impact the West Coast.
When you're talking about labor disputes, but this is what
we're having right now. There is an ongoing, or has

(26:58):
been an ongoing trash strike in Boston, and if I'm
reading this correctly, because of that strike in Boston, greater
attention was being paid to what was going on with
trash collectors here in southern California, specifically Orange County, and
the strike then carried over to what was happening here

(27:21):
in southern California. And it started out on some level
as a show of solidarity, and then it turned into
a full blown strike here in southern California. If you
have Republic Services, you probably are not alone because it's
one of the largest waste hall or residential wastehulers in
North America. I have Republic Services, but it has not

(27:43):
directly impacted me as of yet, and I'm in Los Angeles.
But the trash collection delays are impacting multiple Orange County
cities right now, including Anaheim, Brea Gard Grove, Fullerton, Huntington Beach,
Santa Anna, Placentia, Seal Beach, and Yorba Linda. And the

(28:04):
strike officially began back on July first, with over four
hundred sanitation workers walking off the job and their union
Teamster's Local twenty five says that their employees deserve better
benefits and pay from the public services, and they're supposed
to go back to the table tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
And if you've.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ever been around long enough to deal with a waste
collection strike, it can disrupt a city or your neighborhood
almost instantaneously.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
We take it for granted.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
You know, my trash is picked up on Thursday, so
I usually put out the cans Wednesday, late afternoon Wednesday night,
so I don't have to get up early. And you
just expect that it's going to be picked up, and
you go on with your life. And then on Friday
you can start all the way over. And you know,
when it gets around the holidays, you got more trash
than usual, and you think of if it's missed just

(28:53):
one week, just one week, it'll completely throw your life off.
You don't know what to do with it. It starts
piling up, the is horrible. You think, well, if it
smells bad in the house, I'll just take it outside
and drop it in one of the trash cans. You
can't do that, I mean, because your trash is already
just spilling over. And then you have to find somewhere
else to take it. And I've had situations where you

(29:15):
have to put your trash in the car and take
it to some dumpster somewhere, maybe like a grocery store,
when they have a dumpster outside somewhere, you can dump
it off, dump it off, and you take it for granted. Unfortunately,
how important wastehaul and collection can be. And this is

(29:38):
something which it doesn't seem like is going to come
to any conclusion anytime soon. Like I said, the union
and company are due back at the negotiating table with
a federal mediator on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
We don't know when.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Trash collection services are going to be restored here or
elsewhere around the country. We don't know whether this strike
here in Orange County is going to spread to Los
Angeles and beyond. We don't know if there's going to
be one deal which is going to serve all around
the country. What I said is a federal mediator, So

(30:15):
maybe they're looking to have just one comprehensive plan which
will satisfy all of the employees across the country. But
if this should expand, and this strike should spread across
the various places in which Republic Services does serve, this
could be very disruptive for everyone, you know, and you

(30:38):
don't think about it, but then you realize republic Services
covers a large area and Stephan, I don't know if
your Republic Services or not, but I know it's most
of the area around me. They cover everything. I think
it's I think I'm waste management. Your waste management, I
think so. Yeah, I'm definitely Republic Service, okay. And I

(30:59):
haven't had a real problem with them. The only time
I deal with them is like whenever we have a
holiday that I know it bumps me to the next day.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, I like, I hate those.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Days, yeah, because I forget and then my trash is
like sitting out there next to twenty four hours. And
that's a big deal because that means I have to
be extra vigilant with the coyotes because there's more available
food for them.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Those are the things that I worry about. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Actually, just a quick side note, I thought of you,
because we are not we. I was doing uber and
I ended up over in flint Ridge and that's where
there's a lot of hills and stuff, and I saw
a bunch of coyotes and man, they are not scared.
If you just try to like, I think of you,
because you're like, no, just get rid of them, and

(31:40):
I just kind of I don't have a prier, so
I can't rev my engine, but I just went as
fast as I could. They don't move, they don't move,
they don't care. They'll just look down right at your
headlights and they will stay right there. Now I've seen
them here in Burbank. I know we're digressing, but it's
still kind of tangentially related. We have a den of
coyotes here around the station because when I walk out

(32:02):
at night, every once in a while, I'll see a
younger one or an older one. But they're like writing this,
iHeart media complex.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I don't know where, but I think we're gonna have
a misunderstanding at a certain point because they're not scared
of anyone. And I think that there is some sort
of trash to tie it back together. There's some sort
of trash food source. And oh and also they have
the squirrels, which serve as a as a as a
rodent food source which they might be chasing.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
That might be what they're going after because they hang
around here, especially because Tim likes to feed the What
is it Pinnacle Peete.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh he does.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, I don't feed anything anything. I'm not gonna feed
those squirrels anything. But we also we have raccoons. I
know a raccoon attacked to Walla once threatened to kill him.
Oh really, no, no, no, no, you heard him tell us? Yeah, here,
what is leaving a station? I just know you encounter
encountered coyotes. We've encountered coyotes. We've encountered raccoon. I've seen

(32:58):
the raccoon. It didn't give me a problem, I guess.
I don't think it saw me, but I could see
it moving away in the distance. But yeah, there's a
lot of stuff running around here, and I do think
it has to do with the available trash sources. Mark,
you leave later than all of us usually I do.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
And there's some big ass coyotes that I've seen, like
the size of horses. They look terrifying. So you've seen
the den basically, I don't know. There's a big lot
directly across the street and also across from the Whole Foods,
and there must be a bunch of them that live there.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well, I think that's part of it, because the Whole
Foods there obviously they have a trash store somewhere, because
I did see the coyote cross literally cross the street
from where our students are, right by Morton's, running towards
Whole Foods. So I don't know where all their trash is,
but the coyotes probably know.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's what I.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Assumed was that it was a food source for them.
And they're absolutely fearless. They'll stand right there and stare
you down and to tie it again all back together.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
If this trash strike should expand, you will have all
these unintended consequences and disruptions that people don't even think
about because we just take it for granted that our
trash is going to be picked up with a degree
of regularity.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Could we please circle back to Tuala getting attacked by
a raccoon.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, that's his story to tell. But you didn't know that. Seriously, No,
I didn't know that. I think it was a family
of them and maybe they felt threatened.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Oh whole family. Maybe he just looked tasty coming out
of the building. He's not here to defend himself. He
had to go do something.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
But I'll let him know that you were making fun
of him being attacked.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I would never say something in bad taste like that,
like you guys did the first segment.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
But we don't reporting the news.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, we are talking about local news. And it just
so happened that an unfortunate incident happened to a nineteen
year old man who fell in a meat grinder. I'm
not and Stefan took it upon himself to play those
unnecessary sound effects.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Very disrespectful, very disrespectful. I would never do that.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
I should have known that saying don't play it meant
automatically you will be sure to play it well.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
But I didn't do it. How do we know that
you did? You could play sound, You play sound in
the news.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
How do we do How do we don't know that
you didn't play the sound effects because in the.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
News, I don't play sound effects for a punchline.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
We don't know that. Okay, how do we know that
you didn't do that?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
If you can play sound, you can play sound effects,
and we all know you have questionable judgment.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, clearly, as this conversation has proven, you're the one
who wanted to circle back. I wanted to circle back
to Tuala nearly being devoured by a cute little raccoon.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh, now they're cute. They're adorable. They're adorable. And he
must have with rabies.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
He must have been wearing something provocative like a skirt
to bring it on.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Oh he was asking for Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Maybe some like short gene cutoffs all the time.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
But we're inappropriate, disrespectful, right, that doesn't sound very professional?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
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